and bring huge concerns attacks on people with albinism in malawi as the country prepares for a general election we'll hear from campaign is demanding. do small. i'm christine wonderwall come to the news africa i'm glad you're cheated in but on days government has forced the u.n. human rights office in the country to close off to twenty three years this is the latest step in what appears to be a crackdown on criticism by international observers the country's deepening political crisis began in twenty fifteen when president announced he would run for another disputed term that led to months of violence that the un has said killed more than one thousand two hundred people in twenty seventeen buendia made history by becoming the first country to withdraw from the international criminal court this year has already seen about thirty of the international n.g.o.s shut down their services in the east african country is the un's human rights folks person on the situation in but already we have very credible reports of human rights violations in abuses including killings forced disappearances ill

malawi forgive her for that. they gathered at connie's house and sometimes they played scrabble or watched a movie but mostly they drink gin. malawi added coke she likes being different. their coworkers malawi can ask connie with anything related to teaching. she made her decision to move to west palm beach worth it. as for the moment decision she worried was the wrong move but so far her new life was working out and she can imagine settling down make it home for herself. maybe even having a family with the right guy. malawi had driven to connie's house in greenacres calling her sister on the way there. they talked at least three times a week texted almost every day. malawi shared everything with donna even the real reason she reported. she did not reveal his name. that was a secret she took to the grave. donna had not talked to them in months. malawi understood why yes feeling like one of the tiny chocolate exit easter shifted gears stomach. recognition that the crack between the mall should not be left to grow.

we as people with albinism in malawi have no peace and we're not protectors devoted. following the boy's abduction in february demonstrators took their concerns to the streets of malawi stead's a district calling on the thirty's to address the issue. so far the response has been slow you know if you look at. this story here in our troop. in terms. of. victims of crime the evil practice has gone way down perhaps the same could work here it could be that. in an attempt to curb the killings the government is now offering a generous reward for information about attacks on people with albinism but some people say the move doesn't go far enough. ok deborah was in which hanna is regional director for amnesty international in seven africa he joins me now from johannesburg mr which anastacia have you od and welcome to news africa we know that attacks on people with albinism in malawi typically tend to spike around election period and election is coming up in may what's what is behind that. thank you very much for having me is generally true that there are moments in which atta

meanwhile malawi is also at the risk of flooding the cyclon set to bring heavy winds over the coming days both countries are flown to various weather into effect seen more than two hundred people were killed by flooding in. joining me now is allison shagari freelance journalist who is currently in the flood affected areas in south in malawi hello thanks for joining us what is the situation like on the ground as we speak as we speak now the situation on the ground is not over that proved a little provision sure fifty seven people up to sixty two have so far die. ivan three. thousand of people are being evacuated the number of people each happy hour. very very groups of countries for sure but maybe from tomorrow it could be some rain coming. now what's happening on the grounds now i mean there's still people being pulled to safety what something key you can tell us now. through the park mean over time management are deployed. to get parts. treated. for being deployed to one of the more crucial areas in. the district where people who are white. women and children so the situation the gr

and mozambique every rain started in the middle of last week in malawi and central and northern was on the at least seven hundred forty thousand people have felt the impact in malawi while one hundred forty one thousand people have been affected in mozambique and it's expected to get worse each cycle on the die is approaching and is due to make landfall in mozambique on thursday authorities there. for help meanwhile balawi is also at risk of further flooding. cycling set to bring heavy winds over the coming days both countries are prone to bad weather into into fessing more than two hundred people were killed by flooding in malawi. joining me now is allison sagar a freelance journalist with currently in the flood affected areas in south in malawi hello allison thanks for joining us what is the situation like on the ground as we speak as we speak now between the ground is not all of that group and latest information shows that fifty seven people fifty six people have so far died. i found and. thousands of people are still being evacuated the numbers keep increasing each passing hour

now is alderson segarra a freelance journalist with kindly in the flood affected areas in south in malawi hello allison thanks for joining us what is the situation like on the ground as we speak as we speak now the situation on the ground is not all about groups and this information shows that fifty seven people fifty six people have so far died. i find and if you think. thousands of people are still being evacuated the numbers keep increasing each passing hour as a stick now there really isn't that good. for sure but movie from to a lot of it could be some more rain coming and not what's happening on the ground nami in this asto people being put to safety what something key you can tell us now. currently government through the department of disaster management are deployed what is fun stuff they could parts of a city district and hundreds of being deployed to one of the most crucial areas in two thousand part of malawi sanjay a district where the people who are white. men women and children so the situation in the ground is like the government would be there trying to rescue people who h

who is currently in the flood affected areas in south in malawi. joining us what is the situation like on the ground as we speak. as we speak now the situation on the ground is not all of our troops and this information shows that fifty seven people to fix people have so far died. i found and that is sending. thousands of people have to be evacuated the numbers keep increasing each popping up on the stick now there really isn't that good a new head of a country so sure but maybe from too lot of it could be some more rain coming and not what's happening on the ground snobby and assessed ill people being put to safety what something key you can tell is not but if the government through the department of disaster management has deployed what a sudden vs i think it starts all live in a fifty districts and behave hundreds of being deployed to one of the most crucial areas in two thousand part of malarkey in science or district where it's heading people or white. men women and children so the situation on the ground is like the government visited busines

we as people with albinism in malawi have no peace and we're not protected. your see. following the boy's abduction in february demonstrators took their concerns to the streets of malawi stead's a district calling on our thirty's to address the issue. so far the response has been slow you know if you look at. this story as we're hearing our troops have implemented. in tanzania the murderers of. victims of the crime the evil practice has gone way down perhaps the same could work here it could be that. in an attempt to curb the killings the government is now offering a generous reward for information about attacks on people with albinism but some people say the move doesn't go far enough. earlier this year germany are rolled out a plan to tackle a shortage of care workers the government wants to increase trainee numbers by ten percent by twenty twenty three a bosnia as one country that's training doses and sending them to germany and other e.u. countries but a scandal is threatening to damage the nurses reputation in sarajevo wonderous is outraged at some of her colleagu

she ran now she and her five children and it is about curation center in southern malawi but there was another one well that did the floods have destroyed our crops in the fields we didn't have anything to harvest even all our clothes and belongings are gone we've had to come here with nothing have been destroyed. schilens more tell similar stories hundreds have been injured dozens of died survivors have no choice but to come to centers like bliss and wait for help and most of the people here are subsistence farmers they don't know much and they carried with them whatever they could this disused farm warehouse will be their shelter for tonight's for a bed to sleep on not much more than this. this is what happened to their homes and their farms after four days of heavy rain the river sheer a person its banks hundreds of thousands of people who live on the surrounding lowlands their fertile for farming but dangerous too it's not the first time this has happened broken bridges and washed away roads have made it hard for the government trucks to bring food and supplies. it will take long f

has also been hit hard by the soccer now joining us now via skype from malawi's capital in long way is now in young southern africa regional director of the international charity oxfam thanks very much for being with us or can you give us an idea of how bad things are. yeah the situation is quite dire and bad in malawi because the flooding did affect this southern part of malawi and a fourth in districts where affected the numbers that have been released a big government and have been the common theme to based on my system and done by the u.n. and by the agencies showing that we have seven hundred if it in one thousand people that are affected and the seventy five thousand displaced living in camps some my living in churches church buildings and other living in classrooms we have recorded fifty seven deaths but we worry that there could be more dates because we also do have over five hundred people that have been injured in the process so at the moment of the flood waters have gone but it has left so much destruction in different places so at the moment we are having to deal with pe

in neighboring malawi the rain spoiled the waters in a region already hit by flooding. now people are even more reliant on ain't. no one but my house and many other homes have been destroyed and my land and my kitchen utensils and my food everything's gone in the floods of the night. we've nowhere to go we can relocate as we are covered by and surrounded by water. here food is arriving elsewhere in the cycling he region high winds and dense clowns are still hampering rescue and aid efforts leaving communities to fend for themselves and prepare to bury their dead. africa's privileged needy is on the ground for us in many a province in was and b.k. sent us this report their effects of cyclon are most likely going to be felt for a long time i am here in the money cup province in mausam beaker or a bridge has been washed away most of the villagers now say they're going to field this for a long time because surprise i've been cut off there won't be having any supplies from across the river and there are pilling for things like for jane even showed up because some of the orms

so malawi we've had floods in the south of malawi for the last fifteen days the situation in malawi is under control that means that we no longer are searching for survivors we are now managing displaced families and displaced communities providing shelter water and food for those families who have lost their homes and have how to move to higher ground. and now the u.n. is describing this as the worst storm a disaster to hit africa in decades let's turn our attention to bahrain and mozambique it seems like whole communities must be devastated there i mean what we're seeing and what we're hearing coming out of by her and out of mozambique is is truly astounding i mean the size of the destruction and the size of the disaster is is is enormous and we shouldn't underestimate that over the coming days and weeks i think the numbers of those who are affected will go up and up and this is clearly clearly a huge humanitarian situation and it is compounded by the fact that we have very very core access into many of these communities so the roads and bridges account we've got weather still so get

malcolm webb al-jazeera in southern malawi. algerian veteran diplomat and statesman locked out brahimi has warned that the country needs more time for a successful transition after president. leaves office his warning comes as that one stray showers continue demanding new elections despite beautifully announcing that he won't seek a fifth term brahimi told state media are rushing to new elections or replacing the current system will create more problems he's called on all political parties to come together to work on a new constitution. the governor of california has issued a reprieve to more than seven hundred inmates on death row his executive orders stops any further executions while he remains in office how the fornia had put more people to death than any other u.s. states and gallagher reports in the last forty years more than eight hundred fifty people have been sentenced to death in california in that time period the state executed thirteen people the rest have remained on death row for years on end wednesday's executive

malcolm webb al-jazeera in southern malawi. i saw fighters are still holding out against us backed forces in eastern syria who are continuing their bombardment of the group's last shred of territory near the iraqi border earlier syrian democratic forces said as many as two and a half thousand fighters and surrounded within a twenty four hour period. at least eight people have been killed in a school shooting in brazil's biggest city cell paulo police say two gunmen targeted children and staff before turning their guns on themselves don't you assure me reports. for most brazilian with these were scenes normally only seen on news reports in the united states. government entered the professor old school in sudan or a suburb of law and opened fire with a revolver they were also reported to be armed with a bow and arrows and explosives you say you don't you don't they didn't look at anyone they just started shooting at anyone he was close by. they started saying that there were gunshots so we opened the kitchen door and started grab

in southern malawi more than one hundred schools have been forced to close in malaysia because of toxic fumes about forty tons of chemical waste were dumped in a river in the southern region of last week the chemical spills affected more than twenty seven hundred children teachers and others more than five hundred people were taken to hospital several of them are critically ill following the developments of florence louis issues joining us from us or goods on what more can you tell us about the situation there. while there were about seven hundred eighty new cases of people who needed medical attention and out of that number more than one hundred people were at mit at to hospital now we are at the possible good stadium that has been turned into a first responder center so if you can see behind me there are doctors including volunteer doctors who are treating people who show symptoms of exposure to hazardous materials now the symptoms range from dizziness to form attained to weakness and some people have even lost consciousness so the situation is quite serious the government was conside

thousands of feared dead in mozambique zimbabwe and malawi after the most devastating storm in twenty years. play this is al jazeera live from my courses in doha i'm fully back to go also ahead changing course we look at what the british prime minister's options are as the breck sit deadline looms plus he is a tear as he's a criminal he's an extremist but he will when i speak to one with new zealand's prime minister vows justice for the families of the victims of the christ church mosque attacks and brazil's president is you to meet donald trump in washington very shortly with trade on the crisis in venezuela expected to top the agenda. the united nations is warning that the cycling that's devastated mozambique zimbabwe and malawi is possibly the worst ever to hit the southern hemisphere almost two million people are in its path in mozambique is one of the hardest hit areas the president says more than a thousand people may be dead in malawi officials here at least fifty six people may have been killed with over five hundred others injured many are seeking food and shelter in camps an

unprecedented weather event that's affected one point seven million people most big zimbabwe and malawi declare national emergencies on to cycler. on the dow i have a cigar and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the british prime minister is expected to request a delay to praxis but the e.u. says the has to be a good reason as it would be costly and prolong the uncertainty plus. he is a terrorist he's a criminal he's an extremist but he will when i speak the name of new zealand's prime minister promises justice to the fifty victims of the christ church mosque. and bowing under more scrutiny over the safety of its seven three seven marks eight jets jets this time from the u.s. justice department. we begin with what's being described as the worst weather disaster to ever hit the southern hemisphere one point seven million people are estimated to have been affected by cyclists die in mozambique the sole first at the coastal port of bahrain last week bringing winds of up to one hundred seventy kilometers per hour and huge sea swells which flooded the city eighty four people

and the devastation caused by cyclonic day after it tore through zimbabwe malawi and mozambique five days ago is becoming clearer in mozambique alone nearly one hundred people have been confirmed dead the government fears the death toll will rise to more than a thousand according to the red cross today damaged or destroyed ninety percent of buildings in mozambique sports eighty but many of the devastated and severely flooded areas still cut off united nations is urging the international community to help. the situation is a very. important crisis and that must be seen as an impact on quizes a lot you just need it i don't think of the world yet the scale of the problem especially in mozambique we have a bit less information about zimbabwe in malawi in malawi some of the people displaced start to go back home to rebuild their own then the situation looks a bit better there before mozambique it's differently an impact on quiet there's additional funding is necessary for the human family and obviously for the world food court. didn't lose how the cleaver has been looking at the situation

zimbabwe and malawi affected. this is a great regret. prime minister criticizes her parliament on the brakes at. a three month extension from the e.u. . and the. one point seven billion dollars for blocking online advertisers google's third penalty in just two years. we begin with the breaking news out of new zealand and the announcement of sweeping gun control measures following last week's attack on two mosques in christchurch that killed fifty people. and has announced an immediate battle on military style semiautomatic weapons the measure comes and under an interim directive until long term measures lation has passed a law made the announcement a short time ago and short if every see me automatic weapon used in the terrorist attack on friday will be banned in this country these changes will require legislation that legislation is now being drafted and will be introduced under urgency. it's going to talk correspondent wayne hey he's joining us live from quiet keywords and wayne the band comes into effect three pm this afternoon thursd

the storm also hit zimbabwe and malawi. experts will now fly o over the area to try to find out more. at the same time, another group of expererts and volunteers will help the peoplple. d difficulties in providing food and the most flooded areas. we will organize airlift's from ships. some planes are grounded still. kenya is waiting for the airport to be operational. story, wee on this bring in matthew cochran from the red cross, joining us from geneva. just how bad is the devastation from this cycyclone? >> speakaking to cololleagues oe ground, ththere's a view that ts is t the worst humanitararian catastrophe e to hit mozambique in n 20 years.. sunday,am arriveded onn finding 90% % of buildings seseverely damaged or destroyoy. eveven outside the c city, the ---pact seeeems to bebe the wot floodwataters completely c coveg homes and trees and lightht pol. it is still unclear the full human toll of this disaster. >> it's unclear for now. what have your colleagues on the ground b been saying they need o despererately? >> thei

hundreds of dead in mozambique zimbabwe and malawi have to cycle and causes one of the worst ever weather disasters to hit the southern hemisphere. alone down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the first funerals get underway for the victims of new zealand's mosque attacks. further federal investigations in the u.s. and our boeing's seven three seven max airliners were cleared by regulators to fly with two deadly crashes in five months. and journalists feel the pressure from new tactics imposed by the government in indian administered kashmir. the un is describing the cycle and as one of the worst weather disasters ever to hit the southern hemisphere millions of people have been affected in mozambique zimbabwe and malawi at least a thousand people may have been killed in mozambique alone aid agencies are calling it the worst humanitarian crisis in the nation's history three days of mourning have also been declared well the storm then hit zimbabwe where tens of thousands of people have been cut off and in malawi the only a million people still need human a tarion ai

malcolm webb al-jazeera in southern malawi. and let's take you through some of the headlines here and al-jazeera the trial of it the maze woman charged with the killing of north korean leader's half brother has been adjourned until next month prosecutors in malaysia are pushing ahead with the trial after rejecting calls from the vietnamese government for her release the woman's lawyers say she's barely sleeping and is in no condition to testify florence louis has more from outside the courthouse the kuala lumpur. defense lawyer said he was extremely disappointed he said this was unfair to one just days ago the charges prosecutors had withdrawn charges against one of her kohak used the indonesian national city i shine city was able to walk out of this court a free woman now prosecutors then did not say why they were withdrawing charges against city but with since learned that the indonesian government had been lobbying the malaysian government. boeing has grounded its global fleet of seven three seven max aircraft after u.s. pre

it's the first step towards restoring human rights a psych load is forecast to hit mozambique and malawi early on friday morning threatening more devastation in places already in the grip of flooding more than one hundred people have been killed hundreds of thousands of others are displaced welcome what reports in the village of makino and malawi's districts. everyone in the village of mclean are sheltering in this half built hospital. they wanted to show us what happened to their homes. after four days of heavy rain last week when he thought of southern malawi were flooded dozens of people have been killed. thousands of homes were destroyed. this is all that remains of an does he own a car carnies by the name of and i learned about the rain started when we were sleeping when we woke up we found the water level was rising fast so we walked to higher ground and waited there until people came in both and rescued as. the water levels lower now more storms are forecast in the coming days the people here can't afford to wait and see if it will happen again some people have already started reb

coming up in the next sixty minutes hundreds of feet dead in mozambique zimbabwe and malawi off the most devastating storm in the region in twenty years. the first funerals get under way for the victims of new zealand. boeing as the u.s. transportation department called the plane. every day. would find. people in this country. survive. welcome to the program the u.n. is describing. as one of the worst weather disasters ever to hit the southern hemisphere millions of people have been affected in mozambique zimbabwe a malawi at least a thousand people may have been killed in mozambique alone aid agencies there are calling it the worst humanitarian crisis in the nation's history three days of mourning have now been declared well the storm then hit zimbabwe where tens of thousands of people have been cut off and in malawi itself million million people still need humanitarian aid but we have correspondents right across the region in a moment we'll hear the latest from zimbabwe we'll also have a report from malcolm webb in central mozambique but first the latest from mozambique sports city of.

she ran now she and her five children have accusations center in southern malawi. and there was never. the floods have destroyed our crops in the fields we don't have anything to harvest even all our clothes and belongings are gone we've had to come here with nothing have been destroyed. she wasn't as more tell similar stories hundreds have been injured dozens of died survivors have no choice but to come to centers like bliss and wait for help and most of the people here are subsistence farmers they don't own much and they carried with them whatever they could this disused farm warehouse will be their shelter for tonight for a bed to sleep on not much more than this. this is what happened to their homes and their farms after four days of heavy rain and rivers share a personal bank. hundreds of thousands of people who live on the surrounding lowlands their fertile for farming but dangerous too it's not the first time this has happened broken bridges and washed away roads have made it hard for the government trucks to bring food and supplies. it will take long for pe

still to come on al-jazeera we report from an evacuation center in southern malawi that flooding has killed thirty people in action as to make it two hundred thousand thirty thousand without shelter . and riding high why the political honeymoon isn't day of mexico's president. hello again to welcome back well here across parts of china we have seen a drier day than what we had seen last week but unfortunate that is not going to be lasting very long at all here on wednesday we're going to be seeing some more rain up there towards the north for shanghai down to fuzhou hong kong it is going to be a partly cloudy day few but enjoy it on wednesday because by the time we get towards thursday the heavy rain continues across much of that southeastern coast in taipei it is going to be a rainy day if you attempt to there into the low twenty's well here across parts of india not looking too bad across much of the area temperatures are still into the mid thirty's low thirty's for many locations there take a look at what we expect to see here neck per at about thirty eight degrees now we are goin

she ran now she and her five children have at this evacuation center in southern malawi one by one and there was another one well that did the floods have destroyed our crops in the fields we don't have anything to harvest even all our clothes and belongings are gone we've had to come here with nothing our homes have been destroyed. she wasn't more tell similar stories hundreds have been injured dozens of died. survivors have no choice but to come to centers like this and wait for help and most of the people here are subsistence farmers they don't own much and they carried with them whatever they could this used farm warehouse will be their shelter for tonight for a bed to sleep on not much more than this. this is what happened to their homes and their farms after four days of heavy rain the river sheer a person its banks hundreds of thousands of people live on the surrounding lowlands their fertile for farming but dangerous too it's not the first time this has happened broken bridges and washed away roads have made it hard for the government trucks to bring food and supplies it'll tak

we can all draw inspiration from the boy who harnessed the wind is a film about an innovator from malawi william. that just launched on netflix is small on the feature film directed by oscar winning access she westsail it's awful the rains came late this year and now the trees are gone. now it is actually very. easy. to live in a good example of your community but. i am not going to harness the wind is the true story of a young william newsman won't sit idly by and watch his village start to see if did with an inventive mind and a thirst for knowledge william takes his family's fate into his own hands he's. continued. to commute. to retell it geo forest directorial debut is based on a bestselling memoir of the same title it's the true story of william come pundit who at age thirteen don't win friends to irrigate fields and save his village from famine. others williams parents hope that sending their son to school will provide him a better future but natural disasters crop failure hunger and scarce funds make that dream impossible to some that seems to be. yes it's hard for the real willi

thousands a few dead in mozambique zimbabwe and malawi after the most devastating storm in twenty years. fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from the headquarters in doha also ahead the first bodies from the new zealand mosque attacks are released to families as the prime minister promises swift justice. changing course we look at what the british prime minister's options are as the breck sit deadline looms and was boeing seven three seven max approved to quickly the top u.s. aviation authorities under investigation after two fatal crashes in five months. thank you very much for joining us the united nations is warning that the site known that's devastated mozambique zimbabwe and malawi is possibly the worst ever to hit the southern hemisphere almost two million people are in its path in mozambique is one of the hardest hit areas the president says more than a thousand people may be dead in malawi official see at least fifty six people may have been killed with over five hundred others injured many are seeking food and shelter in camps and in zimbabwe roads and bridges are dest

million people in the path of the cyclon in mozambique and nearly a million have been affected in malawi as well give us some idea if you can of the kind of rescue efforts that are going on there at the moment. here on this side of the country it's been very difficult for any rescue operations to mobilize it so this town has been. connected to the rest of the country by only two roads and the bridge on one of them was washed away the other one the road also washed away so no help by road as the vines here are no help by hundreds of people in this district that their houses destroyed many of them a sheltering within schools in the town and then in the other parts of the district that are now being cut off the officials don't even know how many people are in need because there's no way of communicating with them among them were mentioning before is that there is a warning that there may be rain on the way are people concerned about that and it's around this thing they can do if it does come. it was raining a little bit right now but yeah there is very little people can do it we're told in

and this is why days of heavy rain caused the river to share a malawi south to burst its banks people living off the land surrounding it saw their homes and livelihoods washed away in an instant but in an area prone to flooding some think more could have been done. in the general situation as have been ready for. looking at the mud and sure doable disaster that if the district. with blocked roads complicating the aid efforts people back of the evacuation center have to make do with what they have and wait for more help to arrive. that's it for miles from d.w. new south africa you can catch all our stories on our website facebook page my colleague christine all join you tomorrow always. good bye. just how you get it terry in this germany. is work compensated family. and who decides how much it's worth. with the focus on. productivity. and the pressure from living in an increasingly on school society. made in germany next d.w. . quadriga international talk show for journalists to discuss the topic of the week. that is so necessary as today nor so endangered says french president. with h

rescue teams struggling to reach survivors after the storm slammed into mozambique zimbabwe and malawi there with you guys . first the e. u.'s donald tusk says that britian we'll be granted a short brexit delay but only if parliament approves prime ministerr theheresa m mays withdrawal agreement. that dale has already been rejected twiwice by and peace in the e. u. says it's not open to renegotiation.

we'll be reporting from southern malawi where floods have killed dozens and may thousands homeless. hello again and welcome back to national weather forecast well as we go into thursday we're going to be seeing some rain coming into play here across parts of shanghai on the forecast maps are going to definitely see this area of low pressure that's spinning across the area that means it's going to be a little bit windy the clouds going to be low as well as the temperature only reaching to about nine degrees to ten degrees there so going to be seeing that rain across the area on thursday but things really improve by the time we get towards friday we're going to be seeing some clearer skies we're going to be seeing the winds coming out of the north very gently but down here towards the south increasing some rain just to the inland areas of southern china before hong kong looks quite nice for the time to there of about twenty one degrees well here across the southern part of asia really not looking too bad across parts of vietnam we are going to see more rain across luzon over the next

also ahead on edge you know when we come back we'll be reporting from southern malawi where floods have killed dozens and made thousands homeless. time for more action i'm afraid from the weather giving a miserable day also to the levant this is it developing have a turkey and a bit further west that's the start of the low with a close friend well ahead so the picture between for wednesday and thursday is increasingly cloudy likely to be wet in lebanon and syria and indeed iraq that's a picture comes with the drape of the green which of course is rain snow high ground that goes all the way down through the eastern side of iraq and hits the mountains of iran where of course we generate even bigger storms thunderstorms on the darker green or indeed the white suggests an active system but tell me get to middle of friday this is the picture quite a cloudy with the north and the round still the potential a little bit of rain every now again northern syria and turkey but a generally better picture throughout the levant it's not all staying out found also will be i think a throwaway trough on

moving into mozambique people across the border in malawi bracing for the effects of the storm severe flooding back over the past eight days as already killing at least fifty six people and left nearly one hundred thousand displaced. who have been left homeless see more help is needed. and the familiar is trying to salvage what she can from the remains of her weakened by the floodwaters it fell down in front of her eyes. when i was out there we were lucky to have got out with only minor injuries many other people were killed and some were badly injured many more have not been seen since the floods came we had crocodiles have eaten some people i lost all my belongings along it was all as old as i will. people like in the fact have no choice but to come to evacuation centers like this one it shelter in its most basic form there are no real barracks here only floor space and food is in short supply. even when i got into bed under a bit of since we arrived here at the camp only received maize flour and beans most of which i'm shared among ourselves in the house. but the supplies are not e

and this is why days of heavy rain caused the river to shear a malawi south to burst its banks people living off the land surrounding it saw their homes and livelihoods washed away in an instant but in an area prone to flooding some think more could have been done. in the general situation as have been ready for it looking at the magnitude do a disaster that the their district. with blocked roads complicating the aid efforts people back to the evacuation center have to make do with what they have and wait for more help to arrive. that's it for now from d.w. news uppercut you can catch all our stories on our web site on the facebook page my colleague christine do i will join do tomorrow so i always do have to get a. goodbye. sarno just couldn't get this song out of his head. musicologist began searching for the source of these captivating sounds. and found that deep in the rain forest in central africa and the like to the left was able to look at the enemy along. the money live that. he was sent to buy their culture that he stayed. only a promise to his son made certain only the jungle

rescue teams struggling to reach survivors after the storm slammed into mozambique zimbabwe and malawi there with you guys . first the e. u.'s donald tusk says that britian we'll be granted a short brexit delay but only if parliament approves prime ministerr theheresa m mays withdrawal agreement. that dale has already been rejected twiwice by and peace in the e. u. says it's not open to renegotiation. earlier this week the speaker of parliament john backus said that may could not put the deal to the house again in its current form. person is usually the emu in nine days time let's take a listen to donald tusk speaking idea. in the lights of the consultations. not that i have conducted over the past days. i believe that the show to extension would be possible. bob said to the condition of on the positive votes on the withdrawal agreement. in the house of commons. the question remains open as to the duration. of such an extension. brussels correspondent dave casing it told us more about the recent turn of events. it's been an incredible day here at the european council we started the day

africa regional director for the international charity oxfam in malawi's capital a long way she says the main concern for aid workers is the spread of disease. i've the moment of the floodwaters have gone but it has left to so much destruction in different places so at the moment we're having to deal with people who have lost the house this is they have nowhere to go back to we are left with the fields that have been washed away people should have been have a sting in their maize this coming may but if they have lost all that and somehow move moved into temporary shelter where they have no fault what a point in must of the villages have been the contaminated and so at the moment people are having to use contaminated water our medical center at the moment is that we might have another wave of a crisis that will come out of water borne it diseases so there is a need for immediate to support immediate assistance for the communities that are affected still ahead on the program hungary's prime minister puts on a brave face after his party is suspended in the largest political bloc. and am

and this is why days of heavy rain caused the river to shear a malawi south to burst its banks people living off the land surrounding it saw their homes and livelihoods washed away in an instant but in an area prone to flooding some think more could have been done. in the general situation as have been. looking at the magnitude do a disaster and keep their district. with blocked roads complicating the aid efforts people back of the evacuation center have to make do with what they have and wait for more help to arrive. that's it for now from d.w. news africa you can catch all our stories on our website on facebook. my colleague kristie in the form to our joint to tomorrow always be a force goodbye. what secrets why behind the small. find out in an immersive experience and explore fascinating worlds cultural heritage sites. w world heritage three sixty. takes a person with wonderful people and stories that makes it so special are you waiting . for. him to do. d. w. . hello and welcome to news from arts and culture i'm karen homestead and behind me you can see the work of any not so easy