sierra leone is still burying its dead. god be with you...me of the other stories making the news. suicide bombers and gunmen have carried out attacks on a highway near the southern iraqi city of nassiriya, killing at least 60 people and wounding dozens more. 0ne attacker detonated an explosive vest in a restaurant, as his accomplices opened fire at people inside. a nearby police checkpoint was targeted with a car bomb. a second set of criminal charges has been filed against brazilian president michel temer. brazil's top anti—corruption president michel temer. brazil's top anti—corru ption prosecutor has charged him with obstruction of justice and racketeering at the supreme court. michel temer has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and earlier this week he angrily criticised the move to charge him. there have been disturbances at arsenal's emirates stadium in north london, after thousands of cologne fans turned up for a match without tickets. the europa league game was delayed by an hour when scuffles broke out between supporters and stewards.

sierra leone is still burying its dead.nes have fired a number of cruise missiles at so—called islamic state targets in syria, where the war has now been raging for six years. two years ago, russia entered the conflict on the side of president assad. since then, his government forces have been steadily regaining ground. meanwhile, kurdish forces backed by american air power, have been making gains against is in the north. 0ur correspondent, steve rosenberg reports from the syrian city of latakia. we're off the coast of syria with the russian navy. this is the admiral essen. the russians will show us something they've never let foreign journalists film before. combat alert. then, emerging from the sea, cruise missiles from a russian submarine. their target is hundreds of miles away. the so—called islamic state. there's a second submarine and another launch. it's two years since russia launched its military campaign in syria and the fact that the russians invited foreign journalists here today, shows just how confident they a

up to 1,000 people are still missing in sierra leone after a mudslide that killed hundreds last monthmembering the life and work of sir terry pratchett. a new exhibition that shows where he created his fantasy discworld. ed sheeran and stormzy among those battling it out to win this year's prestigious mercury prize, we'll be live at the ceremony coming up in sportsday on bbc news: arsenal's europa league match against cologne at the emirates is delayed with 20,000 german fans in london, but only 3,000 have tickets. good evening. exactly three months after a fire devastated grenfell tower, in west london, killing at least 80 people, the public inquiry has opened with a minute's silence for those who died. the retired judge heading the inquiry, sir martin moore—bick, described the blaze as a tragedy "unprecedented in modern times", as he promised to get to the truth. he said the inquiry would examine the cause of the fire and how it spread. it will look at whether the design, construction and refurbishment of the tower block complied with building regulations, as well as the response of

and they we re very landslides in sierra leone. and they were very underreported, those deaths. i will mention martin patience from the bbc right now. i will just throw that in. the guardian. the new league of brexit papers reveals fissures between britain and the eu? we have a brexit bonanza tomorrow, we have the bill having the second reading in the house of commons, questions to david davis to kick off and to make it more enjoyable we have michel barnier launching new position papers in brussels and doing a press co nfe re nce papers in brussels and doing a press conference and the guardian has an advance on some of those papers which he will put forward. david davis has persuaded, begged michel barnier to show flexibility and imagination and he will come back tomorrow and say, we are not being flexible and we don't have much imagination. we are playing hardball. this is what the guardian is saying. one suspects that a lot of people looking at these negotiations panning out, they might argue that the 27 through michel barnier are not saying anything that they had not telegrap

the other big flood story of the summer was in sierra leone, the lead story on the six 0'clock news on. the bbc one six 0'clock news. was on those bulletins, the six and ten 0'clock news four days out five that week with a correspondent in sierra leone all week. that is not a broadcaster that only looks in one direction when it comes to news coverage. the bbc expects you not to follow the rest of the market and do far more. they say that is not the case and they do believe it leaves an unfortunate impression that anything that happens in the states, in the west, you give more importance to perhaps because you feel that your audiences are more interested in that. of course our audiences are interested in stories that happen in the uk, and america, and in western countries. what has happened in houston, in texas this week, is a big story. it is a once—in—a—lifetime storm. i totally accept there are questions around proportionality and it is good that viewers and listeners have these concerns and raise these concerns. what i would say is this is not a broadcaster that only looks in one di

now, n ow, exa ctly now, exactly one month ago this month, this mudslide in sierra leone claimed theeverything, and they've been displaced. now, the mudslide took place in the capital, freetown. and it happened at the very top of sugarloaf mountain. completely smothering the community below it. a bbc reporter has been to the affected area and sent this report. the scale of this disaster is immense. no warnings, no time to escape. they all died. the whole family died. the whole family, each one. one month on, a steady stream of grieving people still return to the site. the photographs of those who were killed. the country had never seen any thing like it. it has rained for days. the mudslide was accompanied by flash flooding in several areas. with no proper emergency service, volunteers took the lead. chaos ensued. shouting ina shouting in a matter of minutes, on the 14th of august, thomas lost eight members of august, thomas lost eight members of his family. he takes me back to the pile of mud and rubble that was once his family home. the pile of mud and rubble that was once his fami

the scale of the humanitarian disaster after last month's flooding and landslides in sierra leone is overwhelming orphanages in the capital freetown or than a thousand people were killed leaving many children without parents nicholas hike reports. the chaos of august is landslide came a few miracles. nineteen months old sick was that is one of them rescuers found him with a neck deep in mud much to his mother's relief. when i saw him alive my heart melted but when i heard his father had died his body stuck in the mud my heart went cold in. the recovery effort has stopped. an eerie silence hangs over this vast terrain hundreds of bodies still lie buried deep in the mud. among the buildings destroyed were an orphanage with sixty children inside the church with seventy students studying and hundreds of family home this is a country still in mourning trying to come to terms with the sheer scale of the destruction. and. are some of the hundreds of children that have lost their parents in the months like they are now under the care of the don bosco orphanage in downtown freetown just like

also reporting from freetown on the children left orphaned by last month's deadly landslide in sierra leone. and in sports france dominating davis cup doubles. bangladesh's prime minister will use her speech at next week's un general assembly to demand more international help to deal with the range of crisis four hundred thousand refugees of now crossed into bangladesh in the last three weeks fleeing a violent military crackdown in myanmar prime minister shake has seen or is also expected to request more pressure be put on the government in myanmar. will hospitals in bangladesh are struggling to cope with the influx of people needing help tanveer challenge we went to visit one. i mean karts was our government district hospital every day dozens of rowing a refugees are admitted here with various animals including bullet injury mine explosion injuries this hospital is only two hundred bad and it cannot cope with the influx of refugees patients coming here it is overflowed you can see patients out on the floor that made temporary arrangement what the government need to do is set up a mobile em

fears for her future most young girls in sierra leone her age are married off i don't. know how. the others will stay here for another three months the government has promised to re house all of them by then but you homes will not take away their trauma after so much loss and destruction these are orphans who are uncertain with what lies ahead nicolas hawke al-jazeera freetown an entire police force has been fired in the philippines after allegations that were involved in the death of a teenager twelve hundred officers in the color concept the police force are to be replaced the department of justice has started an investigation into allegations that four policemen were linked to the murder of a seventeen year old student resident will be going to touch his crackdown on drugs which has left thousands dead eyes come under renewed scrutiny over recent months. you are still ahead in sports the son of one fighter takes it upon himself to defend his father's on it it is going to be here with the details. facing the reality the airspace that they have not does not belong to them it bel

fears for her future most young girls in sierra leone her age are married off i don't. know how. the others will stay here for another three months the government has promised to re house all of them by then. but you homes will not take away their trauma after so much loss and destruction these are orphans who are uncertain with what lies ahead because hawke al jazeera freetown. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories north korea has released new pictures of its most recent nuclear test of a listing missile was launched over the japanese island of the kaito on friday it's part of north korea's plan to achieve so-called a military equilibrium with the united states japanese prime minister shinzo lobbies says friday's launch went against the international community's strong united will for a peaceful solution the british prime minister has raised the u.k.'s terror threat level from severe to critical after an explosive device partially detonated on a london underground train on friday theresa may says she took the decision after advice from security officials twenty nine p

fears for her future most young girls in sierra leone her age are married off i don't. know how. the others will stay here for another three months the government has promised to re house all of them by then but you homes will not take away their trauma after so much loss and destruction these are orphans who are uncertain with what lies ahead nicholas hawke al-jazeera freetown. the urge to take a look at the headlines right now on al-jazeera north korea has released new pictures of its most recent nuclear test ballistic missile was launched over the japanese island of ikeda on friday it's part of north korea's plan to achieve so-called a military equilibrium with the united states japanese prime minister shinzo office says friday's launch went against the international community's strong united will for a police peaceful solution bangladesh's accuse me and mar ever paid leave violating its airspace further straining relations damaged by the ongoing ranjoor crisis as helicopters and drones cross into bangladesh three times in the last five days myanmar's military has been accused

tens of thousands of people in sierra leone whose homes were destroyed in a landslide last month still waiting to be hundreds of people were killed in the mud slides on the outskirts of the capital freetown from where nicholas hawke reports. i said and her husband were fast asleep when they heard the hill above them tumbled down her husband leapt out of bed and around for shelter leaving the rest of his family behind i said who stayed caring for her children. hundreds died in this landslide the army has now told residents to leave this area saying it's too dangerous fearing another disaster. but i said whose husband tells his wife they need to stay put their life is here he says if they leave they will lose everything. if we leave will the government actually take care of i'm here anyone working and supporting the family my husband depends on knowing he interrupts her he says i have a problem with my eyes i count toward this is my home and i want to stay here until i die. there are other families like them refusing to leave but seven thousand five hundred people have left some have los

one month after the devastating landslides that is occurred in the capital of sierra leone, about 1000r missing. more than one —— more than 500 people and to have died in the disaster and thousands more will force the leave their homes. in the weeks leading up to the disaster, the city had tripled its annual rainfall. two russian ships have fired targets at islamic state in syria. russia's defence ministry says several missiles were fired and all of the targets were destroyed. now on bbc news, it is time for a look back at thursday in parliament. hello and welcome to thursday in parliament. the main news from westminster... executives from gas say they were ashamed of revelations about abuse at their detention centre. if we were in anyway aware of that behaviour, we would have taken action. since the panorama programme, we have taken action. we have immediately suspended ten members of staff. a row over police pay — labour says there could be financial trouble ahead. the government has been on warning the police are nearing breaking point. today we are telling them this move may finall

in justice i would not be in politics now one month after a landslide that killed hundreds in sierra leone tens of thousands remain displaced in makeshift camps waiting to be rehabbed the government fears there could be more landslides and is called in residents to leave the area but many are refusing to do so as it was nicholas hock reports. i said to bangor and her husband were fast asleep when they heard the hill about them tumbled down her husband leapt out of bed and round for shelter leaving the rest of his family behind i said who stayed caring for her children. hundreds died in this landslide the army has now told residents to leave this area saying it's too dangerous fearing another disaster. but i said to her husband tells his wife they need to stay put their life is here he says if they leave they will lose everything. if we leave will the government actually take care of. working and supporting the family my husband depends on. he interrupts he says i have a problem with my eyes i count toward this is my home and i want to stay here until i die there are other families like the

across parts of west africa will see a circulation of low pressure developing so for likes of sierra leone also liberia there could be some heavy showers developing here. dozens are killed at a fire boarding school in kuala lumpur. hello again my name is peter w. watching al jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up north korea provokes more tension by threatening to drop a nuclear bomb on japan. syrian troops advance underoos or more talks to end the civil war. and i think that we're going to see we're going to see a scale up of the emergency very quickly and the un guarantees more aid for wreckage of muslims fleeing the violence in me and my. top story more than twenty people have died in a fire at a malaysian boarding school most of them were teenagers police say the blaze started on the top floor dormitory of the school on the outskirts of the capital kuala lumpur running o.t. as a story. it took more than an hour for firefighters to put out the flames at the daughter ana to school in kuala lumpur by then many people mainly teenage boys had lost their lives the fir

fears for her future most young girls in sierra leone her age are married off i don't. know how. the others will stay here for another three months the government has promised to re house all of them by then but you homes will not take away their trauma after so much loss and destruction these are orphans who are uncertain with what lies ahead nicholas hawke al-jazeera freetown. four people have been killed and ten others injured after a typhoon hit central vietnam typhoon duck sorry pound at six coastal districts with one hundred thirty five kilometer per hour winds the storm tore roofs off more than sixty thousand homes and damaged electricity poles causing widespread blackouts. a mammoth cleanup effort after hurricane arma head to u.s. state of florida it is going slowly with tens of thousands still without electricity largess atlantic storm on record hit almost a week ago that many people still have not been able to go home as robert also reports. big pine key is a study in desolation here on one of a chain of low lying islands that bore the brunt of hurricane earl mouth tree

the scale of the humanitarian disaster following last month's flooding and landslides in sierra leoneis overwhelming orphanages in the capital freetown more than a thousand people were killed leaving many children without parents nicholas hack reports the chaos of august is landslide came a few miracles. nineteen months old is one of them rescuers found him neck deep in mud much to his mother's relief. when i saw him alive my heart melted but when i heard his father had died his body stuck in the mud my heart went cold in. the recovery effort has stopped. an eerie silence hangs over this vast terrain hundreds of bodies still lie buried deep in the mud. among the buildings destroyed were an orphanage with sixty children inside the church with seventy students studying and hundreds of family home this is a country still in mourning trying to come to terms with the sheer scale of the destruction. and. are some of the hundreds of children that have lost their parents in the mudslide they're now under the care of the don bosco orphanage in downtown freetown. in mind for them it was. well k

fears for her future most young girls in sierra leone her age are married off i don't go to school i want. the others will stay here for another three months the government has promised to re house all of them by then. but you homes will not take away their trauma after so much loss and destruction these are orphans who are uncertain with what lies ahead because hawke al-jazeera freetown. to the philippines now where hundreds of protesters gathered outside the american embassy in manila expressing their anger over u.s. involvement in the conflict amended now president reagan that had there has imposed martial law on the island to deal with some linked fighters. protesters held placards condemning the government's use of america and the straightly and surveillance planes of the conflict and iran to please disperse the crowd without any arrests meanwhile an entire police force has been fired and the philippines after allegations they were involved in the death of a teenager twelve hundred offices in the city police force are to be replaced the department of justice has started an inves

fears for her future most young girls in sierra leone her age are married off i don't. know how. the others will stay here for another three months the government has promised to reach house all of them by then but you homes will not take away their trauma after so much loss and destruction these are orphans who are uncertain with what lies ahead nicholas hawke al-jazeera freetown. in zimbabwe the opposition leader morgan tsvangirai has been admitted to hospital he was airlifted from the capital harare to a hospital in johannesburg south africa party members said he was suffering severe after a meeting. nasser cassini spacecraft has plunged toward saturn after a twenty year journey and what the agency is calling the grand finale she pretends he looks at that point. and just like that it was gone i mean the mission. project manager that. tumbled into saturn's atmosphere no longer able to point its antenna towards earth to send back images in fact at this point cassini was already long gone its fatal plunge would be gone about an hour and a half earlier but such was the distance it

fears for her future most young girls in sierra leone her age are married off i don't go to school i want. the others will stay here for another three months the government has promised to re house all of them by then but you homes will not take away their trauma after so much loss and destruction these are orphans who are uncertain with what lies ahead because hawke al-jazeera freetown now tunisia's president has overturned a decades old band now allow women to marry non muslim men and move to base on both sides of the spectrum women's rights activists have held it a victory religiously to say it's a lie lation of islamic law. reports. this is to new zealand president baz subsea attending a gathering to commemorate national women's day. he says he said he was committed to lifting a decades long ban all women marrying on muslims on thursday he fulfilled that promise and overturned in one nine hundred seventy three law paving the way for women to choose whom ever they want to marry regardless of their partner's religion the decision is unprecedented in the muslim world we look at gend

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that's when the reasons why with ebola, liberia was hit harder than either sierra leone or guinea, butiberia came out of it much faster than either of those other two countries. and i think that is in large part because liberian people were not going to tolerate the kind of ineptitude that caused this to linger and linger. so i think the sort of free-for-all atmosphere that we have in liberia and the freedom of speech, the freedom to criticize something that liberians are not going to be willing to let go of. i think that something that causes me to get a bit more optimistic about our future. i am being shown a wrap it up sign, so i think this is all the time that we have today. i really appreciate all of you come in on this rainy saturday. thank you very much. [applause] >> booktv is on twitter and facebook, and we want to hear from you. tweet us, twitter.com/booktv, or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> and now booktv want to introduce you to author, professor and winter of a hayek prize in 2017, deidre mccloskey. personal who was friedrich hayek? >> it was

and the children who were orphaned after last month's floods and landslides in sierra leone. hello there the weather is generally quite quiet across the middle east at the moment on the satellite picture you can see a little bit of cloud there around parts of afghanistan and that's threatening to bring a few more showers around kabul but generally as we head through into sunday the shouts of pulling away towards the north and kabul should be draw it twenty seven degrees will be our maximum look at the temperatures in kuwait they have been incredibly high recently now they have eased finally we're down to forty one degrees and that's the way we're expecting them to.

and staying put victims of last month's month's slides in sierra leone refused to relocate despite fears of another disaster there. and in sport a band about racism disrupts a major league baseball game in the united states so i will be here with all the details a little later. representatives of the syrian government and opposition groups are meeting in kazakstan for a sixth round of talks aimed at ending the civil war the talks of a start up brokered by russia and iran it's take you live now to. stratford is there so what does this latest round of talks aimed to achieve. well it's the first day of two days of talks here in a star we understand that they have been piled actual meetings going on the smalling in the hotel behind me between the garance is all of this in this conference the russians the turks and the iranians participating also the delegation from the syrian government but we also understand that the opposition are staying in another hotel and haven't actually arrived here yet despite these talks having started a few hours ago very much the focus of these talks of these fou

or dad the horror of last month's deadly landslide is far from over for hundreds of children in sierra leone. or we can we begin here in london where police searching a residential address southwest of the city in connection with an explosion on an underground train on friday they arrested an eighteen year old man in the southern town of dover he was detained in the bourse area the main departure point for ships to the european mainland police are calling it a significant arrest ukase terror threat level was raised from severe to corsica all on friday night after a device partially exploded on the district line during morning rush hour twenty nine people were injured and the barber is following developments for us from new scotland yard what do we know about the raid on the residential prophesy. well merriam that place sunbury on tone as it lies to the west of london it's not far from heathrow airport in fact a fairly said a place and residents have been speaking on local media about how surprised they were to see a number of armed police officers raiding that that house that residential pro

. >>> the death toll is climbing significantly from the mudslide and flooding in sierra leone. the government thought the number of 1,000 now was only like 450. thousands of people have been evacuated and hundreds are volunteering to prevent crisis. >>> a judge ordered 12 members of a fraternity at penn state today to stand trial in the death of a hazing student. >>> a plane crashed trying to take off from an airport in st. petersberg. four people were on board, two swam to shore and the other two were rescued. >>> an appeals court ordered an oregon couple to have their dog de barked following numerous complaints from neighbors. this involves cutting the animal's vocal chords. neighbors say the dogs bark uncontrollably and for long periods of time. >> the defendants were the ones have the dogs de barked as an alternative to removing them. >> the hard about is it doesn't solve the problem, it just makes the dog bark at a lower volume. he's still stressed, still confused, still anxious. it doesn't stop any of those problems. >> it sounds like it hurts too. the dog's owners argued

fears for her future most young girls in sierra leone her age are married off i don't go to school i want. the kill and the others will stay here for another three months the government has promised to read house all of them by then but you homes will not take away their trauma after so much loss and destruction these are orphans who are uncertain with what lies ahead nicholas hawk al jazeera freetown a. very sad situation for those people not. as a program manager and he the international relief foundation and carrot us in freetown i hope to marry any said that while the government is doing its best with temporary shelter as conditions are dying for many survivors. well as it is right now the government be able to move people from the temporal immediate temporal shelters that they externalised. to different areas you know for those who are coming are mixed and shown and we ama and counting go you actually. to the august disaster to move into temporary shelters within schools schools and community services within the community and now those who are from that area have been relocated

tens of thousands of people in sierra leone whose homes were destroyed in a landslide last month still waiting to be re house hundreds of people were killed in the mudslides on the outskirts of the capital freetown let's take you live now to freetown al-jazeera is nicholas hawke is there some months on nicholas what is the situation in freetown. well the recovery situation that you had a month ago with with soldiers and residents going through the mudslide to recover body parts and belonging has seized the focus now is to try to reach the seven thousand five hundred people who are displaced and counts like this one right behind me here they're receiving food shelter and medicine medicine of course to ensure that this doesn't turn into a health emergency the fear is this there could be water borne diseases like cholera so so they're having medicine now a lot of the people i spoke to are still very much traumatized by what just happened you know freetown is a city in the hills there's no escaping this notion that there could be a landslide any time happening the world bank came bank team

he has roots in sierra leone. he is getting a lot of love these days for i had debut album called process. he joins us now to talk about the album and later in this program a special treat for you. he's going to perform for us and do you not want to miss this, i promise you. i'm honored to have you on the program, brother. >> thanks for having me. >> with k. i go straight to the album? i love lighter notes. i'm a fan of them. i pulled this thing out. i saw this photo of you and your precious mother. you dedicate the project to your mother. tell me about your mom. >> my mom and she's like -- she's someone who we kind vf a very similar nature. she was cry quiet and reserved and elegant and thoughtful. really like a career woman. >> did your mother have -- your mother and your father for ma that matter, did why you parents have any influence on your music? >> yeah. they d and that obviously has a huge infect on my life. my dad used to buy lots of music coming home from work. he would see a pickup and anything from hm

the other big flood story of the summer was in sierra leone, the lead story on the six 0'clock news oneek. that is not a broadcaster that only looks in one direction when it comes to news coverage. the bbc expects you not to follow the rest of the market and do far more. they say that is not the case and they do believe it leaves an unfortunate impression that anything that happens in the states, in the west, you give more importance to perhaps because you feel that your audiences are more interested in that. of course our audiences are interested in stories that happen in the uk, and america, and in western countries. what has happened in houston, in texas this week, is a big story. it is a once—in—a—lifetime storm. i totally accept there are questions around proportionality and it is good that viewers and listeners have these concerns and raise these concerns. what i would say is this is not a broadcaster that only looks in one direction. again, it is not a question of have you covered it, it is proportionality. another aspect briefly in terms of the american coverage that some liste

a special report from sierra leone, where 1,000 people are still missing — a month after a devastatings into syria and invites the bbc to come and watch. and after nearly 20 years in space, the cassini space probe will send back its last pictures of saturn before burning up in the planet's atmosphere.

time after time we're going underground as off to bangladesh nepal india sierra leone and texas it's today florida's turn to face climate change coming up on the show on the anniversary of the creation of north korea we. the chair of the u.k. all party parliamentary group of north korea who has the right strategy for peace putin and she jinping or donald trump but there's phadnis styles and would stormont be better used to how is oldsters homeless it's not being used for much else at the moment we offer the european gin fame it's the end of the line for the northern ireland peace process but it's the first pm queues of the season because drains are made channeling the do you believe she's buying them a billion to be prime minister ninety percent of deaths in the troubles with pools by terrorists and not by the city's golden civil coming up in today's going underground while the effects of manmade climate change manifested themselves in the caribbean already scarred by the monroe doctrine.

africa's sierra leone was hit by torrential rain on the night 01:14 august, with the ensuing mudslides freetown. then tropical storm harvey dumped the largest amount of rain ever seen from a single storm in mainland united states, with a record—smashing one metre, 30 centimetres of rain seen in houston, an unprecedented amount of rain. are there any links with these floods around the world? well, they all involve storms fed by rich, tropical, moist air, which in all cases came over oceans which are unusually warm, with temperatures in the indian ocean, the east china sea, the tropical atlantic and the gulf of mexico all warmer than normal. convergent winds locked the storms into the same location, and concentrated the extreme rainfall over just that area. then, of course, there is climate change. this graph of rain in the united states, using american weather service data, shows that extreme rainfall has become more common since the 1960s. the international panel on climate change expect such events to become more common in a warmer world. it is well—known that warmer air holds more wa

argument in court tanya page al-jazeera rustenburg a south africa tens of thousands of people in sierra leone are still waiting to be really how started their homes were destroyed in a landslide last month and estimated five hundred people were killed when a mountain collapsed on the outskirts of the capital freetown the government is now calling on remaining residents to leave in case there are more landslides but many say they have nowhere else to go. reports. i said to bangor and her husband were fast asleep when they heard the hill above them tumbled down her husband leapt out of bed and around for shelter leaving the rest of his family behind. i said who stayed caring for children hundreds died in this landslide the army has now told residents to leave this area saying it's too dangerous fearing another disaster. but the husband tells his wife they need to stay put their life is here he says if they leave they will lose everything. if we leave will the government actually take care of us i'm the only one working and supporting the family my husband depends on knowing he interrupts he say

because, when you look at the countries in the world, she could of got to the spec is then, congo, sierra leoner values. bad thission, josie -- vision, chelsea. vonnie: i pronounce you both winners. congratulations, chelsea. coming up, our global executive editor. ♪ vonnie: it is noon and you are at 5:00 p.m. in london, midnight in hong kong. i am vonnie quinn. >> welcome to bloomberg markets. vonnie: from bloomberg world takeovers in new york, the top stories on the bloomberg and around the world we are following. u.s. equities covering near records but a billionaire hedge fund manager tells bloomberg that a market correction could start very soon. rocky 2018 to bank profits as mifid kicks in, what their investment had of banking says about the expected tumult. the chief house tax writer says the release of a tax plan framework the week of september 25. julie hyman is here halfway into the trading day that is busy but you would not necessarily know it. >> not much change, a pause after the record" of the three majo

africa's sierra leone was hit by torrential rain on the night of the iath august with ensuing severes killing over 1,000 people in the capital, freetown. then tropical storm harvey dumped the largest amount of rain ever seen from a single storm in the mainland united states with a record—smashing 132cm of rain recorded at cedar bayou to the east of houston, an unprecedented amount of rain. are there any links with these floods around the world? well, they all involved storms fed by rich tropical moist air. this air, in all cases, had come over oceans that were unusually warm, with temperatures in the indian ocean, the east china sea, the eastern tropical atlantic and the gulf of mexico all warmer than normal. convergent winds locked the storms over the same location and concentrated the extreme rain over just that area. then, of course, there's climate change. this graph of rain in the united states using american national weather service data shows that extreme rainfall has become more common since the 1960s. the international panel on climate change expects such events to become a

fears for her future most young girls in sierra leone her age are married off i don't go to school i want. the others will stay here for another three months the government has promised to re house all of them by then but you homes will not take away their trauma after so much loss and destruction these are orphans who are uncertain with what lies ahead nicholas hawke al-jazeera freetown. and there have been protests in tunis against a controversial law. ministry to public officials accuse of corruption before the twenty eleven arab spring protests to say is a setback for democracy for targets and b. has more. of the protest through central genius was mostly by young people who say the amnesty law passed by parliament on wednesday is rewinding the revolution that took place nearly seven years ago. below gives amnesty to thousands of people who served in the government of former president dean aberdeen ben added . we are all here to say no to the amnesty law we will not forgive without accountability. to musial was where the so-called arab spring began when mohammed who is easy a frui

looking somewhat better circulation we've had here so easy but still some showers there for guinea sierra leone and the like but otherwise looking fine for bamako mali with highs of thirty four generally fine across southern portions of africa with highs of nineteen expected in cape town. perpetrator. a victim. of his past as an instrument of pinochet's brutal dictatorship a father tries to forget. but his son's quest for answers reveals there are often two sides to even the darkest of stories witness the color of the chameleon at this time on al-jazeera. the top story. government says one hundred seventy six range of villages are not completely empty after all residents fled the recent upsurge in violence. u.n. security council has issued a statement expressing deep concern about the situation in northern iraq and is calling for immediate steps to be taken to end the violence. continues to cause devastation across the caribbean and the u.s. in florida six more people have died during a power cut in the us in her. turn to our top story the plight of people the minimal government has been heavil

across parts of west africa we'll see a circulation of low pressure developing so for lights of sierra leone also liberia there could be some heavy showers developing here. russian filmmaker and travels across his homeland to discover what life is like under putin the russian economy is in question. and. the fluctuating currency of the country struggles to make ends meet. in times of war and. we don't want to think what will happen when the bank takes away our flag. in search of putin's russia at this time. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories at this hour the u.n. security council is urging an immediate end to the violence against muslims in me and i join second to general antonio who called the situation catastrophic twenty four hundred thousand people have fled to neighboring bangladesh in the past three weeks. in the united states a criminal investigation has been opened after eight people died in a sweltering nursing home during hurricane. the facility in florida lost power when the storm hit and the air conditioning failed. and more talks to end the war in syria are set to

a month after the devastating mudslide that hit the capital of sierra leone, around a thousand peoplere still missing. more than 500 people, are known to have died in the disaster. thousands more have had to leave their homes. in the weeks leading up to the disaster, the city had triple its normal rainfall. two russian submarines in the mediterranean sea have fired missiles at islamic state targets in syria. the defence ministry said seven cruise missiles were deployed and that all the targets, including command—posts and arms facilities, south—east of the city of deir al—zour, were destroyed. now on bbc news, it's time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. is the way we use words changing? most of us probably write less than we used to, read less than we used to, and spend far more time staring at screens and tapping out messages. does it matter to our relationships, our politics, our culture? well, my guest today is conviced it does. howard jacobson‘s meditations on life, love, jewishness, and a whole lot more have won him awards, including the man booker prize. but

time after time we're going underground is after bangladesh nepal india sierra leone and texas it's today florida's turn to face climate change coming up in the show on the anniversary of the creation of north korea we ask the chair of the u.k. all party parliamentary group on north korea who has the right strategy for peace jinping or donald trump but there's the missiles and would stormont to be better used to house ulster's homeless it's not being used for much else at the moment we asked for the famed if it's the end of the line for the northern ireland peace process but the first pm queues of the season but history's i'm a charming the do you know she's done them a billion to be prime minister ninety percent of deaths in the troubles were caused by terrorism and not by the. goal the civil war coming up in today's going underground reversed while the effects of manmade climate change manifested themselves in the caribbean already scarred by the monroe doctrine syria making gains against isis was bombed by israel that whilst moscow which has been at the forefront of the battle against

nigeria looking rather just gotta seeing some big showers and those showers stretch all the way into sierra leone. his past as an instrument of brutal dictatorship a father tries to forget. but his son's quest for answers reveals there are often two sides to even the darkest of stories witness the color of the chameleon at this time on al-jazeera. t.v. with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories north korean leader kim jong un has vowed to continue his country's nuclear program despite u.n. sanctions he said the final goal is to achieve an equilibrium of force with the united states can personally oversaw the launch of the hostile twelve missile. the united states is urging the kurdish regional government to call off independence referendum expected to be held later this month the kurdish parliament approved the proposal in its first session and to hear that comes despite opposition from iraq iran and turkey. and the terror threat level has been raised from some van to crash a hole after an explosive device detonated on a london underground train twenty nine people were injured in the inciden