al jazeera, new caledonia. >> there is more sports on our website. for the latest check out www.aljazeera.com/sport. we've got blogs and videos from correspondents around the world. that's all the sport for now. >> thank you very much, indeed. now the annual religious festival holy known as the festival of color has kicked off across india. people cover each other in pigment and women beat men with wooden sticks all in the name of fun. it ushers in the spring. it looks very fun indeed. more is coming up on al jazeera very shortly. i hope you do stay with us. >> tonight a climate emergency. >> so a species could not be here in ten years. >> nasa steps in to help protect the future of the planet. >> the tropics regulate our climate. >> "techknow" heads to costa rica to see how one rainforest is fighting back. >> wow! some of these are amazing. >> "techknow's" team of experts show you how the miracles of science... >> this is my selfie, what can you tell me about my future? >> can affect and surprise us. >> don't try this at home. >> "techknow" where te

isolating themselves from the families as they hone their skills to olympic standard and go to new caledoniacalled the new alcatraz. >> reporter: he is pushing his body just far enough to get a bit closer to the dream of olympic metal and doing everything his coach tells him. this is the oceana weight lifting institute akaalkatraz and they go to bed and do it again with thousands of miles of pacific ocean separating them from their homes but he says it's worth it and last summer won the first major sporting honor for the collection of islands taking gold at the common wealth games in glascow and had a couple of weight lifters until this man arrived in the 90s and now the sport is a craze and production line from places like fiji to be national heros. >> it mean as lot and like visiting obama and what it means to the people in the pacific because they know this is the best place to train and he is the best coach. >> reporter: athletes do their own cooking and cleaning and there is an out law on drinking smoking and relationships but few ever leave. >> i don't think other countries can cope wi

it's french from new caledonia. the help is welcomed. ships are on their way too after shelter cleared water and food of priorities. both are oner running out. al jazeera vanu ua atu. >> if shinawatra is found guilty she could be jailed up to ten years. >>> the tiger skins and rhino horns are openly traded in laos. illegal business was uncovered by an investigation of an environmental group. nick clark has the story. >> welcome to the so-called golden triangle special economic zone. it has a casino, hotel it has shops and restaurant with live animals on the menu. this bear cub was apparently available to eat. uncovering investigators filmed what was said to be ryan mow horn for sales. rhinos are an endangered species. so, too, are likers. but you can select between skins. stuffed tigers also available for sale. outside captive tigers are kept in cramped cages. the tiger farm here has plans to breed between 500 and 1,000. >> now captive bread tigers are legal if licensed. it's the export of their products that is illegal. either way the h

the storm over here to the northeast of the correlate coral sea it is moving to new caledonia.aledonia over the next 12 hours to 24 hours you will also be seeing some very heavy rain showers. heavy flooding and storm surge across that region as well. over the next 24 hours this is what we expect to see it's going to make its way over colder water. you won't see the devastation that vanuatu saw. >> washington state an average of 100 feet of coastline lost every year. many residents can't get insurance, as homes have literally fallen into the ocean. allen schauffler has that story. >> reporter: this is wash away beach. a stretch of pacific coastline whose most famous feature is that it's disappearing. and as the land goes so do the beach homes and camp cabins with the suddenly unwelcome ocean views. >> this is blue pacific drive another some have just stolen the sign i see. >> photographer fell in love with the area 12 years ago. >> not many people around you so walk for miles. >> she bought a get away place for $15,000. signing a waiver, that she understood all about erosion. >>

further north you see new caledonia, and vanuatu in much clearer conditions. the situation looks like it will improve, and we should find the weather system beginning to die away. >> thank you very much indeed. now, the indian prime minister is going to northern sri lanka for an historic visit to the islamic heart land. narendra modi departed colombo and is due to arrive later today. the region was home to a stronghold of the tamil tigers defeated six years ago. narendra modi will be the first indian leader to visit jaffna after a ding aids-long -- decades-long civil war. now we go live from jav yes. is this seep as an historic -- seen as an historic moment for an indian prime minister to go to a tamil dominated city? >> that's right. i do remember not too long ago there was basically a void in the north of the country, jaffna having come under government control before that. it was very much high security and thinking of an indian prime minister or leader for that matter visiting this area was unheard of. we had the indian prime minister. his chopper landed j

here is new caledonia, this is fiji this is the center of the cyclone. go forward in time this is the north island of new zealand zealand. al you can see the outer rain bands lashing the coastal areas of the north island. this is late sunday and into monday local time. it will be a much weaker storm. certainly not the wind gusts that we espned in the vanuatu islands. this will kick up surf across this part of the world and it wit create a wet end to the weekend and a blustery start to the work week. the storm is moving at quite a clip southward at 30 kilometers per hour. sustained winds at 250, that makes it equivalent to an atlantic category four hurricane. you can see very wet in auckland through monday. showers taking place across that part of the world. you can see the low pressure system around this cyclone that continues to wrap in very strong winds. the eye wall still well-defined this is nearly a picture perfect looking storm as destructive as it has been. the storm is currently located about 450 kilometers to the south and east of new caldoebedon

thereat the moment it looks like it's going to stay off to the east of new caledonia and weaken to cooler waters as it heads to new zealand. it's one to watch and hopefully it will track away and not do anyone any harm. we have separate system on madagascar and tropical islands on this part of the world. they've already had rain in recent days across madagascar. this does not come as a great surprise the most rainfall ever recorded in 24 hours was 1,825 millimeters. now if you think of half an inch of rain is a very wet day, they had that much rain back in 1966. there is still plenty of rain for the next couple of days, but the good news is that storm system should be moving away. >> a memory like an elephant. getting around in slums using a car is not easy. but some people in nairobi's neighborhoods have come up with a way to get medical assistance to people in need. >> moses is a different kind of ambulance driver. someone is sick, someone needs help. it's not easy getting his wheel barrel there. these narrow pathways in the slum are rough. but the ambulance team endures the pumps. even

. >> it bi-septembers new caledonia and fiji. look at the rainfall totals. 640 millimetres of rain in only two days. that has caused problems in and around the area. we make our way to the coral sea we have trouble with cyclone nathan starting to edge away from the eastern side of the cape york peninsula, and winds of 10km an hour. it will produce rain 300 to 500mm of rain. as we make our way to the western side of australia, here we have heavy rain pushing into the north western corner. this is actually tropical cyclone alwin, it will sink southwards and may have an impact on mining >>> back to australia. four years ago their economy was the envy of the world. now there are clouds horizon. unemployment is above the levels seen in the united states and europe. the australian dollar has fallen 30% from its peak. behind the change in fortunes is a collapse in the prices of commodity like iron or. we have this report from port hedland. >> this man is spending a lot of time in his garden. he was a geologist in the mining industry. as

paul reese, al jazeera mondor new caledonia. >> you can check out that story and much more on our website aljazeera.com/sport. more from me later on but that's sport for me now folly. >> thank you very much indeed. >>> the international festival of color has over india people cover each other with powdered pigment, all in the name of fun. holly officially starts thursday to celebrate the passing of winter and ushering in of spring. i'm folly bah thibault, and berra serra is next. please stay with us next. of the day's events. then at 8:00, john seigenthaler digs deeper into the stories of the day. and at 9:00, get a global perspective on the news. weeknights, on al jazeera america . >> stronger than ever, the israeli prime minister says, there's no strain in his country's relationship with the united states. >>> hello there i'm barbara serra, you're watching al jazeera live from london. >>> launching an operation to retake the city of tikrit from i.s.i.l. fighters. as the u.n. hux rights council human rights council meets in geneva,. >>> and you

at the moment it's about 300 kilometers east-southeast of new caledonia and continues to move 20 to 30 kilometers per hour in a southerly direction. when it made landfall near port vila this was the strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall since 2013 when we had super typhoon haiyan wreak destruction in the philippines. this is what we saw in port vila 12:45 in the morning local time. wind gusts of 325 kilometers per hour. that is equivalent to a category 5 atlantic hurricane. leaving scenes like this making it virtually impossible to drive on the roadways. you can imagine what this means to get some of the emergency personnel to certain locations and, of course people having to pick up after their lives, some of their houses destroyed completely. a lot of rain throughout this region. flooding is still a possibility. 230 mill meet ear reported in port vila. >> derek, thanks very much. keep us posted on any developments. let's switch gears now. israel voters go to the polls on tuesday. the zionist yoonl is expanding its lead over benjamin met net as a likud party. the zionist one pol

vanuata is north of australia and new caledonia is also affected. this is what we saw as it made its way over the region. the storm still had its eye. it has come down in strength, but we're talking about it is saturday afternoon early afternoon, and vaunata we're talking about 120 mph winds. take a look at the video of the port as the storm made its way through. unicef is saying that we're looking at catastrophic damage across the region. the death toll is over 40 people, but i expect that to go up because we're not out of this yet. we're going to be missing quite a bit of activity going on with this. as the storm makes its way across the region the rest of the islands are actually on the eastern side of the storm. tony, that is the worst side of the storm in this particular area. that's the side of the storm that's going to produce most of the winds and damage--it's still not over, we'll bring you more information. >> thank you. dallas police have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of an iraqi refugee. the 17-year-old is being held without b

in fact, it's about 300 kilometers or so to the east/southeast of new caledonia. i'll step back to show this is fiji on the right-hand side of the television screen. i want to show you the moments of when it passed over port villa. this is the projected path. by the early workweek late bond is monday, we have this skimming the eastern portions of the north island of new zealand. this is the track of the tropical cyclone. as it made direct landfall with port villa. by the way this is the second most powerful landfalling cyclone on earth ever recorded. that just second behind the supertyphoon in the philippines in 2013. it made landfall local time in vanuatu at 12:35 in the earning mompt about 9:35 -- in the morning, about 9:35 standard time. look at the eye. right over the capital city. unbelievable stuff. obviously leaving this kind of destruction behind on people's likelihoods being impacted by this. they've got months if not years to pick up from this devastating cyclone. george? >> derek, thank you. >>> a top u.s. military commander is raising concerns about wh

caledonia feeling some of the effects of that as is fiji and as we go into sunday you can see it's pretty close to newealand. the flooding will be there for quite sometime. we have already seen some flooding further west just around the cape peninsula, and this is as a result of a tropical cyclone. 184 millimeters of rain here in 24 hours. easing its way out into the corral sea, pulling away from the coastal fringes there. but sustained winds, 110 kilometers per hour so still pretty breezy. certainly feeling a bit of a breeze into parts of perth. this is all wind that has been affecting a good part of western australia. gusts to around 180 kilometers per hour. it will move through quickly. by the time it comes to sunday clearer skies gradually coming in adrian. >> many thanks indeed. >>> the u.s. secret service is investigating two agents after a crash at the white house. alan fisher reports from washington. >> reporter: nothing unusual here. all guards in place. the secret service doing its job, but just last week another embarrassment for the service which attracts scandal like the white house attra

caledonia. >> that's all the sport for now. >> thank you very much indeed. stay with us here on al jazeera. i'll be back at the top of the hour with another full bulletin of news. bye for now. see you in a minute. >> tonight a climate emergency. >> so a species could not be here in ten years. >> nasa steps in to help protect the future of the planet. >> the tropics regulate our climate. >> "techknow" heads to costa rica to see how one rainforest is fighting back. >> wow! some of these are amazing. >> "techknow's" team of experts show you how the miracles of science... >> this is my selfie, what can you tell me about my future? >> can affect and surprise us. >> don't try this at home. >> "techknow" where technology meets humanity. tonight, 5:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> the iraqi army begins a major offensive to retake sadaam hussein's hometown from isil. >> you're watching al jazeera live from doha. also on the program the u.s. asks meets his russian counterpart for the first time since accusing russia of lying about its role in ukraine's water. >> benjamin netanyahu arrives in the u.s. to give a controversial address which has hanged the white h