it's hitting toward the southern philippines and moving across the area bringing heavy downpours. this is also enhancing the easterly wind and flowing all this moisture as rain dumping it heavily in the heart of the philippines but for the next few days this will be an ongoing event which will be easily triggering further flooding situations and also worsening the land slides and mudslides in these areas. south western china will see mixed precipitation. eastern china is where dense fog is still in store for you. please take extra caution if you're driving in these vicinities. out towards north eastern china and the low pressure system will be bringing snow. it will be dripping down into seoul. seoul you'll probably see snow on your saturday. north western japan this is where blizzard condition, blowing snow. this is still in store for us in the morning hours. that will be dissipating by the afternoon. very dry across the pacific side. it's been the same picture for quite a while with single digits for the lie for us. in sapporo dipping down to minus 4or your high. snow will be ac

thunder showers will be on southern philippines. tokyo we have the strong winds remaining. a lot cooler than the actual temperatures. here in seoul two degrees but on thursday dipping down to minus 2. across north america this cold front stretches all the way down into the deep south. this is where we have flash flood warnings, flood warnings in the lower mississippi valley. ice warnings are in place. we don't usually hear ice accumulations make traveling really dangerous or impossible. if you must travel bring flashlight, food and keep water in your vehicle. it's a roller coaster ride. with the temperatures across the denv denver, chicago, all these areas where we seen mid teens last week. chicago is back to their norm. houston down to just six. here across the mediterranean in europe thunderstorms, gusts and hail. these are going to be in store here. the british isles we'll see heavy snow. in paris we'll see scattered snow. keeping yourself in the double digits. here is the extended forecast. >> that's all for this edition of "newsline." thanks for joining us.

al jazeera in the southern philippines. >> let's hear from the aid agency world vision. the children are suffering the most. >> you have probably been hearing in the news the figures in terms of the number of deaths and missing people. one month on, we would like to focus on the plight of the survivors, especially children who are the most to suffer. we have been receiving reports on disrupted schooling of children. about 95% of the area schools are damaged. you can imagine how the children are trying to find ways for them to go through a normal routine. we coordinate with the local and national government in terms of how we can complement the efforts of the authorities. we are providing child family spaces. it is a flexible program designed for children. it can be school based or facilitated in evacuation centers. we develop programs designed for children to help them bring back their routine to normal. >> wildfires had destroyed homes in southeastern australia. the bushfires are sweeping across the state of south australia, victoria. the island of tasmania has been the

further toward the south we were talking about widespread flooding in portions of the southern philippines. while the rain that caused that persistent just days of rain that caused the flooding is going to be tapering off tonight. there still will be the chance of scattered thunderstorms. manila 30 forecast for thursday. up to 15 in chongqing. 11 forecast for tokyo thursday. ulan bator minus 15 is your forecast high. australia, we were talking about that tropical cyclone oswald last week. it's now a remnant low but it's still causing a problem, bringing heavy rain, picking up all that moisture from the coral sea and dumping it here in the northeastern coast of queensland. you can see where the heaviest rain is going to be following that pink blob as it heads further south. in the worst-hit places you'll see about 400 millimeters of rain. enough to cause real damage with flooding. on we go into the americas. and once again, we are going to be finding pretty dry skies across much of the continent. that will change across the west. we have this cold front getting ready to move in which is a v

farther south than that, still remaining rather tropical to the southern philippines and as far south as indonesia. you are still seeing that very moist monsoonal flow. actually, in jakarta a very significant and serious flooding there. unfortunately, it does look like the monsoonal flow remains in place, but specifically for jakarta it should lighten up. but you still have afternoon storms continuing to blow up here. temperatures remaining in the 30s for the high in bangkok and manila. overnight lows cooler than that. seoul here at zero for friday. let's take a look at the meshes. the big feature is this storm system now moving off to the east from the southeast. that has been lingering here for some time already bringing heavy snowfall, actually seeing in portions of mississippi several centimeters of accumulation. now farther north into the appalachians you're seeing upwards of 20 to 40 centimeters expected into the next 24 hours as that system just continues to push overhead. now the good news is that it's going to start to rush off there towards the east going through your friday

philippines. the typhoon killed thousands as it ripped through central and southern parts of the country. u.n.more than 6 million people have been affected by the storm, some 200,000 homes have been destroyed. at to a million people still need food aid. -- up to a million people still need food aid. >> there is still so much to clear of the typhoons devastation. in one of the worst affected areas, life for survivors is far from getting back to normal. this 45-year old has been living in the evacuation site for a month now. she says she estimate the most of the water truck visit as it does not come by every day. >> it has not been easy. it is exhausting. he of had to collect rainwater to use for cooking, and there is no word to do laundry. people are come to gather and people are falling sick. >> many of these survivors are still here. the typhoon was the first of its kind they had ever experienced. and now they are either awaiting relocation or wanting to return home to rebuild, but too afraid the continuing rains may lead to a fresh calamity. the only ones returning here are visitors from nei

showers moving across southern japanese islands will be heavy at times. heavy rain also down here across the philippines. they've been hit hard the last 24 hours. by midweek, another round of heavy rain making its way through as another low develops and heads to the west. temperaturewise, 11 degrees in tokyo. that's not too bad for this time of year. 1 degree in seoul. minus one in beijing with a very frosty minus 21 for the high. 6 degrees in shanghai. bangkok, 30 degrees and perfect beach weather here. let's go the americas. we're seeing a snowstorm move through the northwest. it will be rain showers at the coast. not too bad this first round. by tuesday, expecting more moisture. that is going to be stronger. watch out for the snow piling up in the upper elevations through to the middle of the week. we're also watching the gulf for some development. it looks like we're going to have severe thunderstorms for southeastern texas and also potential for really heavy rain right along coast in towards central portions of the gulf states. now 50 millimeters likely. you could even see 100 to 118 in some places

fairly weak tropical storm moving through the philippines dumped a lot of heavy rain there and now moving west at 15 kilometers an hour. sitting in the southern portion of the south china sea over these warmer waters it has the potential to develop further now. at the moment the winds are sustained at 70 kilometers an hour with gusts over 100 kilometers an hour. still a significant storm and we'll be keeping a very close eye on its progress. let's go now to somewhere that's certainly not in fear of warm waters. frigid across northeastern japan. northeastern asia i should say japan included in that as well as the korean peninsula and northern china in the grips of icy weather. as for the snow, well the sea of japan side of the country has been getting some fairly heavy snow as is usual this time the year in the last 36 hours or so another 30 centimeters of snow has fallen. that will wrap up on saturday. there's potential to see snow on the pacific edge of the country which is unusual, 50% chance we'll see in yokohama. if it does. >> it's the first snow of the season. let's look at temperatures. 5 degrees in tokyo. low is around the freezing po

special forces, different branches of our military, afghanistan to very far reaches in the southern part of the philippines, wherever, iraq, won't be going back to iraq, prime minister maliki didn't like dana rohrabacher and i questioning him about repaying some of the u.s. money that we spent to give him the opportunity to be elected, especially since they now have all that oil revenue, and he also didn't like us bringing up the fact that they promised the united states when they took over, the government, that they would protect the people, the refugees from iran, and that actually the military had gone in and killed some of those people that he and the u.s. had pledged would be safe. and he didn't like that. and apparently sent word that we were not welcomed in this country anymore. we are ok with americans dying so i can get elected here in iraq, but we don't want anybody making us keep our promises here in iraq. i have seen our military in the kurdish areas of northern iraq, all around the world, i was in only for four years, and one thing that they are very concerned about that they can't talk about

philippines throughout the day today. the western side of the country will be quite unsettled due to a strong northeasterly wind flying into the center of the storm. down in the southern hemisphere in australia is hot. melbourne you're expecting highs reaching 41 degrees. that's about 15 degrees higher than seasonal. 44 degrees about also 15 degrees higher than average. a low humidity of only 5%. concerns will get back to normal across these key cities. up towards january pan we're ta about snowy conditions. it's 40 centimeters of snow with gusts up to 108 kilometers into tonight. that's going to be accompanied by very high waves up to five meters. the good news is conditions will gradually improve on your saturday. moving into the american continent. it's fairly dry across the american continent from the west coast into the east coast. there are a few things to talk about. we're seeing winter storm conditions across new mexico and the panhandle. the snowfall could reach 25 centimeters. that's quite a lot for this region. snow will continue into friday morning. snow showers can be found across south eastern canada. conditions are not too bad across the west coast toda

southern yemen and has launched several deadly attacks against the military. >>> investigators just identified six more victims of that hostage ordeal in algeria as workers from the philippines are among the 81 confirmed victims following the siege at a natural gas complex. the death toll may rise as security forces continue to search that facility. at least one american is dead and the fate of two more is now a growing american. >>> four mountain climbers who died in an avalanche this weekend in scotland never had a chance. rescuers say the avalanche unfolded in a split second, sending them into a 1,000 foot fall and burying them under 6 1/2 feet of snow. the blizzard-like conditions have virtually crippled travel across europe. cancellations and delays are still affecting european travellers today. and a blast of bitter cold air is sweeping across the northern half of the country fueled by dangerous arctic wind. as temperatures plunge, heavy blowing snow is closing roads and knocking out power. abc's clayton sandell has more. >> reporter: a weekend weather mess across the plains and midwest. >> this year is definitely the worst i've seen. >> reporter: around fargo, north d