family used to live in an old building in south mumbai. until it partially collapsed one of. the governments and the president here to the so-called transit camp to wait till the building was demolished and rebuilt that certainly day when we moved in here we thought it would take a year or 2 at most but now 13 whole years have gone by we've just somehow continued living here in the hope that someday we will get our own home. where young is a much loved and dangerous place. option would be to get out and lead a much better life in a far flung suburb either way it's not much of a choice. in hong kong continuing protests have forced massive ganser versions of the territories international airport police had more than $5000.00 protesters out of the airport arrivals hall forcing the disruption it is the 2nd time in 2 weeks that airport operations have been hit as a result of the protests there began as demonstrations against a proposed extradition bill but have morphed into pro-democracy protests and now in their tent week they are getting increasingly violent. in the weeks of esc

sunday family used to live in an old building in south mumbai until it partially collapsed one. the government and the president here to the so-called transit camp to wait till the building was demolished and rebuilt that suddenly the day when we moved in here we thought it would take a year or 2 at most but now 13 whole years of come by we've just somehow continued living here in the hope that someday we will get out and. young isn't much and often dangerous place. option would be to get out and lead a much better life in a far flung sample either way it's not much of a choice. the end of our story for what used to be an infamous cold war landmark 58 years ago today work began on the construction of the berlin wall the barrier was intended to stem the population drain from communist east germany to west berlin and west germany the wall formalized west berlin situation as an island in otherwise communist territory the enclave was now surrounded by more than 150 kilometers of massive fortifications yet west berlin remained a magnet for those wanting to escape east germany at leas

family used to live in an 80 year old building in south mumbai. until it partially collapsed one of. the governments and the president here to the so-called transit camp to wait till the building was demolished and rebuilt. when we moved in here we thought it would take a year or 2 at most but now 13 whole years of come by we've just somehow continued living here in the hope that someday we will get our own home. for young home now isn't much of a dangerous place. option would be to get out and lead a much broader life in a far flung suburb either way it's not much of a choice. in football buying munich are through to the 2nd round of the german cup the defending champions won 31 against to play in the 4th tier of german of all by and kick off the bundesliga season on friday taking on how to berlin. today is international left hander's day of the day is designed to raise awareness of the difficulties left handed people face in a right handed world but for athletes like tennis star rafael nadal playing left handed maybe an advantage is one of the g

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family used to live in an 80 year old building in south mumbai. until it partially collapsed one of. the governments in the residence here to the so-called transit camp to wait to the building was demolished and rebuilt. in here we thought it would take a year or 2 at most but now 13 whole years of come by we've just somehow continued living here in the hope that someday we will get our own home. and dangerous place. option would be to get out and lead a much better life in a far flung suburb either way it's not much of a choice of 50 years ago today work began on the construction of the berlin wall the barrier was intended to stop people fleeing from communist east germany to rest and to rest germany the war turned red into a virtual island in the midst of communist china tree it was surrounded by more than 150 kilometers of massive fortifications at least 136 people were killed trying to get across a war and in total more than 600 people were killed trying to flee east germany into the west now the berlin wall stood for 28 years. then in 1909 a

gain a point 4 percent to close the trading week on friday moving from east asia to south asia the sensex index in mumbai breaks the regional trend posting a red arrow for this week a 1.4 percent drop on thursday also falling on friday making a run of 4 down days in a row to end the week in australia. for the week after a panicked 63000000000 dollars sell off last week interesting pattern over the week bouncing back from the sell off until stumbling on wednesday but still netting a green arrow by friday moving to africa and all shares that exchange is down for the week notably a board member of the troubled south african electric company ask warned earlier this week that even a point one percent growth and sunny out south african economy and consequent increases in demand for power. could cause widespread outages moving over to europe that cac is up for the week in france despite a loss of more than one percent on friday the vix index on the cat 40 they're taking a big leap of more than 7 percent to $18.00 a similar story at the dax in germany with a loss of more than one percent on friday notable weakne

south asia directorate human rights watch and she is joining us from the indian city of mumbai thank you for talking to us what are your particular concerns about what's going on in the region of kashmir given that it's been pretty much effectively cut off for an a whole week now. it is extremely concerning martin because you know the state might have the right to impose some restrictions because they have concerns over law and order but on one hand we have the state saying that come on the other all these restrictions now the thing is that. everything will become if people are locked up in their homes so it has to that is not just in a good situation there has to be a growth perspective which will handle the situation where people are able to speak to their loved ones have accessed communications have access to essential supplies and have access to hospitals be seen none of that instead what we're hearing are as one of your correspondent said a number of unconfirmed reports unconfirmed reports about protests unconfirmed reports about excessive use of force and confirmed reports abou

temperature of $32.00 degrees down towards the south though per that heavy rain is going to be across that region not only for monday but also for tuesday as well for mumbai though the rain comes back on tuesday and we do expect to see attempt a few of 30 degrees. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines as leaders meet for the g. 7 summit in berates france iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif has made an unexpected visit there are no plans for a meeting with the u.s. delegation the. g 7 leaders have agreed to help the countries affected by fires in the amazon as fast as possible tens of thousands of brazilian soldiers have begun heading into the rainforest to help fight the blaze this president jab also now rose says things are returning to normal. hong kong police have used live ammunition and a water cannon for the 1st time against demonstrators who staged a 3 month long protest they also used tear gas against other demonstrators police were trying to clear crowds of thousands who were blocking the streets. the leader of hezbollah. has called the crashing of an israeli drone in lebanon a very dangerous development the

south asia. muncie and an heavy rain to come, active monsoon in some areas especially mumbai.ut 10 million people affected by flooding. from what was a typhoon that swept northwards across eastern parts of the country bringing 300 mm of rain and places. that is no longer a typhoon, there's not much left of it, but if you look at the last pacific, there and another tropical storm, this may briefly become a typhoon as it makes landfall and thursday. around the main island of japan particularly. wind gusting 170 km an hour, reinforcing their rain we saw across the korean peninsula into other parts of china. going south, we see lots of showers for the philippines into hong kong. and across indochina, thunderstorms with downpours. here across australia, cool weather coming into western australia with the weather front moving down when the weather across tasmania. across south east where it's cold and snow, early on in the week it's warming up in the next few days. the weather improves briefly in new zealand. hello, i'm nuala mcgovern, this is outside source. hong kong airport has s

swathes of plough the south westerly monsoon driving those showers across the eastern side of the bingo also drive in the right up that western side of india through the western ghats mumbai seeing some rather wet weather central plains northern plains of india also seeing some really heavy rain and that really doesn't change too much as we go on through the next couple of days come wednesday we could see some flooding into the northeast of the country. counting the cost this week we're on patrol off the coast of west africa as nations deployed naval forces to counter the scourge of piracy on hostage taking off to 6 years of treading water gold prices will rise plus how iraq promise to cut its gas is. counting the cost on al-jazeera. paolo we're going to top stories on al-jazeera the ceasefire in syria as last rebel held province has collapsed the government is resuming its bombardment of it's accusing rebel forces of violating the cease fire it's also blaming turkey for not guaranteeing the troops. egypt's government is now saying a bomb was the cause of the blast that killed 20 people on sunday the interior ministry had initially said the incident in cairo was an accide

temperature of $32.00 degrees down towards the south though nagpur that heavy rain is going to be across that region not only for monday but also for tuesday as well for mumbai though the rain comes back on tuesday and we do expect to see attempt a few of 30 degrees. this is a dialogue let you decide not to have children to save the planet it's what the stake is really human survival everyone has a voice that has started to put our community because of course this is a debate and it's a he did want it to go will be asian literally be able to do a ph ideally join the global conversation with people i think if only they knew what is happening to labor muslims they will be with us and they will be outraged on out is iraq. hello again this is i was in this for much of the main news this hour as leaders meet for the g. 7 summit and pierrots france iran's foreign minister ahmed java serif as unexpectedly flow then there are no plans for leasing with the u.s. delegation french president. says the g 7 members of agreed on joint action to salvage the 2015 iran nuclear deal but us president donald trump says that he wasn't part of those discussions. peaceful march in

independence he was the chief justice in mumbai and initially had to put ghandy in prison but his last project was to write up the legalese for that half of south asia, if you like. >> right. >> it's really exciting -- really illuminating to me to hear your picture of if you like the other half of -- i mean not just the islands and the coastline, but obviously we do end up with two absolutely huge populations, a fifth of the world in india and fifth of the world in china. i wonder going forward -- i know you said you were a historian. but are there some things we shouldn't be doing next or some things we can be doing next? because i've mainly spent my life researching people's -- what people want in southeast asia. and my impression is that they are very much more sort of community-based. and actually they don't necessarily like any of the national leaderships that they have sometimes inhurted. they just want to get on with good stuff at the community level. i sometimes feel we don't actually quite understand just bha ordinary people want. i don't know if -- anyway any comment you'd like to add or if i just completely misunderstand. >> i don't

parts of the southeast, china has been quite dry, but the west, mumbai in particular has been very wet —— parts of the southbrella? it seems quite pointless. when you look at that it quite pointless. when you look at thatitis quite pointless. when you look at that it is pretty normal for some parts of the world. it is extraordinary. some parts of the west coast, maharaja, have seen over a metre of rain fell. 0ver west coast, maharaja, have seen over a metre of rain fell. over a metre and a half of rainfall in some areas. a couple of inches causes so much disruption and flooding here. can you imagine a metre? no, but it is that part of the world where the expense of every year. they do. it has been so intense in places that even the crocodiles had been sheltering on rooftops to get away. why do they not like all of the water? as a true tablet? because it is so widespread —— is it to turbulent? because they were to have been so widespread and flooded in some parts of the country, the cooked and has been sheltering on the rooftop because usually they will go in the water and then bask. the water is needed in s

mumbai yesterday. flooding is not unusual, it is the wet season. it's because of the south—west monsoon.ing so, we started drawing some fairly moisture laden winds right off the arabian sea. very warm, full of moisture. as soon as that hits the land mass, the big rain starts to fall. some of the wet spots come up to bangladesh in north—east india. also down along the western coast. some pretty high hills inland. that squeezes out the rain. mumbai is on the northern portion of that. and it is here where we have seen tremendous amounts of rain. look at these images from the weekend. this has become very common, this monsoon season. has become very common, this monsoon season. july was one of the wettest on record. the rain continues to fall. if you take june on record. the rain continues to fall. if you takejune and july together, they had over 1500 millimetres of rain. that's two and a half times what we see fall in york during the entire year. a huge amount of rainfall. there is more to come. put that in perspective, tell us come. put that in perspective, tell us what is on the way. i ha