start in south east asia and things are looking rather wet and windy for northern areas of the philippines. and that's thanks to tropical storm loop that's moving its way across the south west of china. but it is gonna throw some powerful winds and some flooding rains to the most northern islands of the philippines. and we have got some severe flood warnings out there. elsewhere across indo china, those monsoon lanes continue to inundate me in mont and southern areas of thailand . as we move further south, it is looking a lot more settled across indonesia and malaysia that we will have some showers and of course, plenty of sunshine as we move further south to australia. it is looking rather fine and why high pressure keeping things rather settled. but we will have the arrival of wet weather to the west, a weather system coming in, and that's bringing rain to perth for the south though, we are expecting a few showers and the cloud cover to remain. but for the weather and windy weather we have to look to victoria and to tasmania, particularly on sunday, and the hope across the tasman. see, this is where we're seeing the rather unsettled whether we go to whether assisted bringing a win

west bank with israel's defence minister. his office said it all president he would take measures to strengthen the palestinian economy. heavy rain has led to the flooding of four rivers in south—west chinauated. heavy rain is expected to continue until tuesday. the european union is recommending that its member countries reintroduce travel restrictions on unvaccinated travellers coming from the united states. that would mean quarantines are testing for those who have not received the jab however, these are recommendations and they are not mandatory. eu member state imposes its own covid guidelines and restrictions. the regulators in china have imposed restrictions on online video gaming. stopping anyone under 18 from playing more than three hours a week. they have been told they will only be allowed to access the games are between eight and nine in the evening on fridays, saturdays and sundays as well as on public holidays. beijing says it wants to protect the and mental health of young people. well, the bbc�*s china correspondent is in beijing and has more foreigners. ii correspondent is in bei'ing and has more foreigners._ has more foreigners. if you have real — has more foreigners. i

the land root of the soak road and as the ancient root of the south road connects china to eastern and western europe through central asia and west asia. and the countries of chris extend cause expand is becca, stand around in turkey, ukraine. it includes poland, belgium, france, and finally italy. right. and you know, things are happening quickly in that rate, and you've got the new pipeline nordstrom to going where i from russia to germany. so we can see a direct link there. and as you point out those european countries on the eastern side of europe falling into the new land mass economics down, which will be bigger than the e u, which is currently the biggest economic sound in the world. so this would eclipse the considerably. and you know, as horace greeley tall young man in america go west young man. i think today the monitor should be go east if you're looking for opportunity. got a cruise, becker stem. i. well this is what mckendry said. yeah. a 100 years ago. more than 115 years ago. so this has been the goal for the entire time of geo politics. he found a geo politics. we have a whole geo politics thing. tank industry an

of china. but it's not only here. it's also in the south and west. we've seen land slide to the destroyed buildings there because of the torrential rain. you can see that happening that we could see more seems like that as those rains continue to fall. it's the may you front that's pushing. those pulses of torrential rain out to the east and by the time we get into wednesday, it's going to be the korean peninsula that gets a real focus. we will still see the heavy rain, however, across he non province and pushing out to those eastern coastal areas of china. by the time we get to thursday, it's going to be japan that sees a lot of that. what were the han shoes going to be drenched? in those down ports and look what that does to the temperature in to code is going to get a lot cooler by the time we get to thursday, but the temperature will pick up on friday though the wet weather remains. now for south asia, we've seen some severe flooding affecting north eastern areas of india and bangladesh. the rain full of ease is here, but it is going to pick up on

west in areas of india to similar story for china. we've got tropical storm news moving across the south east. that's bringing some really powerful winds and heavy rain to few jan province. and that's going to affect parts of taiwan as what we could see up to $300.00 millimeters, potentially $500.00 millimeters in areas. and we could see flash flooding here for japan. we've got tropical storm mirror, ne, working its way to the east, and that's likely to bring wet and windy weather to tokyo as the lympics wrap up this weekend. sponsored call cut on airways. my manager is my manager is on my my job, my plan, abusive branch to that point, if you will, if you can usually just just grab a manager. i've only got mine on mine. i do on august the ah, ah, the me again, you're watching. i just did a reminder on top stories. this down, firefox has become the 1st confirmed victim of the wildfires in greece. the intense blazes of force more evacuations near the capital after the un special envoy, ganesh. bonnie's warning, the conflict has entered a dangerous new faith. speaking in a security council meetin

careful that the fight betwe east and west and north and south do not get in the way of collaborating to vaccinate the globe. we have to see russia, the u.s., chinak together to vaccinate the globe or we won't be able to get there. we have to get to the origin of this virus. sometimes it takes decades, as it has with prior viruses. the chinese are notably secretive. we have to break them of that. but the same time, we have to fight the existing battle that people are depending on. today, there are people dying across the world. that should be job one job two is to trace -- that should be job one. job two is to trace where it started. laura: thank you for joining us. andy: thank you. laura: superstar cristiano ronaldo is headed back to manchester united. the club agreed to pay $17 million for him. the deal is subject to personal terms, a visa. he left manchester in 2009 for real madrid. he has won over 30 trophies in his storied career. people in the u.s. state of louisiana have been preparing for the arrival of hurricane ida. it is do to make landfall this weekend with potentially devastating wind, rain, and storm surge. the mayor of new orleans

start to pull away from south island, heavy falls for the north island, particularly toward the west, impacting auckland, off to southeast asia and rounds of weather for indo china. and you know, a southern areas of thailand scooped up almost $200.00 millimeters of rain over the past 24 hours. and i think an area will for see abundance of rain is across the yangtze river valley on saturday with our plum rains. but check out on sunday, it goes to the yellow river valley is young joe getting hit with some of this white weather incense for the east. it's about the heats. we have heat illness alerts in play for most of the major islands in japan. so chicago q issue and horseshoe, including tokyo, so you're at $34.00, but with that heat index, it will feel in the low fourties. but we've got some relief. come in to stay with some brain and suddenly gonna feel about 34. enjoy. that's it for me soon. a bit. the who's with the cushion sit to ride on the cookie, paralytic guy. when he investigates japan's problem history of caring for people with disabilities on i'll just 0 i l g 0 is a whole ah, the me again watching out 0, remind about top stories is the death toll from

west baseball is back for the 1st time. 2008. i the weather in china moment is all focused around the south. in this clump of cloud here is circulation and i've been named as tropical storm new fit. it's heading towards the coast of properly for jan. might just catch grand on and it may were high on to that coast for another day. so high, dangerous is it, it's not going to categorize as a tie. food wins about 5 can be suppresses or be some wind damage that stops severe . it's moving roughly speaking northwards at the point of makes contact. the lamp shall be during thursday, so it will bring the a storm surge on a big $15.00 me 2 ways. yeah, they're quite big, but this is probably not that unusual. on the coast. 27000000 people have a will be impacted by this wind and more especially i think by the amount of rain or fall in glendora and food jeff, he's already quite soaking on the ground, has going to be widespread flooding. the edge effects may well cause more funding in tie one as well, more likely during friday that on thursday. now beyond that, we have another tropical depression for me and the other 3 c

of china and japan. and we seem to be flooding, not just in those central areas, but also in the south west. as those torrential rains have been pumped across. thanks to the may you front. now we are going to see some exceptional rain fall on tuesday, not just across those eastern areas, but also into japan as we move across. we've already had record rain for in northern parts of key issue island, and we've seen severe flooding here. we've had more than a meter for since wednesday, and we are expecting more to come on monday. you can see the yellow peaks there. we are going is going to be in on dated with rain. and we have, we've had the highest alert issued for mud slides and flooding with more than 4000000 people urged to leave their homes as mudslides are expected to continue. we've seen some in nagasaki and here russia as well as in hong soon as we go into tuesday, there is more of that weather to come for horseshoe. now as we move to south asia for india, it's going to be the north east that sees those heavy. one soon rains with the disha seems pretty heavy falls as we go into monday. t

of east asia . and there's more weather to come for china and japan. and we've seen flooding, not just across the central and south west in areas, but also up in the north east. and we are expecting that rain to continue to fall. it's going to be heaviest around those south eastern areas. so food jang, and when dong expected to see some torrential rains over the next few days. and as for japan, we'll have a look at that. we've got the may, you for continuing to post those pockets of to rental rain across can you show island down into honshu. we have got the highest alert remaining here for possible mud slides and flooding. and it's not only here that we are going to see those incredible amounts of rain fall, but also in the korean peninsula, we could see more flooding up in north korea. now we moved to south asia. it's in the northeast that we're seeing those monsoon rains for heaviest dishes, likely to see some flooding as those rains kick in. and they're fueled by a tropical low in the bay of bengal. it's kicking a lot of rain up into bangladesh and pole. and bu, time, we could see flooding here, but for the hotter,

of afghanistan over here that borders china. about a 70-mile border. above afghanistan are the and down here at the bottom south is pakistan and over here on the west is where you are, ali arouzi, iran. it's a muslim theocracy run by shia and they believe they are sunni muslims. what is iran's take on this? what are they thinking on this? they share a big border with what will be the taliban government. the only two theocracies as serious as they are when they form a government. what is they perspective from iran? >> well, ali, the two sides are idelogically opposed to each other. one is shia and one is sunni. they've never gotten along particularly well with each other. iran is talking to the taliban and let me tell you throughout the whole 20 years since 9/11. iran hedged its bets in afghanistan despite being, iran was giving money to the government and they were arming the taliban just to see who takes control in that country to have half decent relations at least with them because they share this very long, porous border. as things have been unfolding recently in the last few days in afghanistan, iran has been recognizing the taliban there. they i