in china have been moved to higher ground because of some of the worst flooding in decades the yangtze river burst its banks in the city of chong ching and tributaries of china's longest river have submerged villages in such one province affecting around 60000000 people. it's good to have you with us hello adrian for going to here in doha the headlines from al-jazeera coup leaders in mali say that they will oversee new elections after ousting president abraham boubacar case a delegation of west african leaders is expected to arrive there in the coming hours speaking on state television military leaders said the acting in the country's best interests money and money and people of mali we are not holding on to power but we are holding on to the stability of the country which will allow us to organize within an agreed reasonable timeframe general elections to equip mali with strong institutions which are able to better manage our everyday lives and restore confidence between the government and the government in nigeria the armed group boko haram has launched an attack on cook in borno states th

china's southwestern such one province has issued its highest ever flood alert for years along the yangtze river tens of thousands of people have had to flee their homes after days of heavy rain authorities say this year's rainfall has been the highest since record keeping began in 1961. in belarus citizens angry at long time leader alexander lukashenko showed no sign of ending their protests there calling for the leader of the former soviet republic to step down country has been gripped by unrest since president lukashenko is widely disputed election when earlier this month. these protests these protesters gathered outside a prison in the capital minsk where many of the people arrested during the protests are thought to be held thing clue the husband of opposition candidates but. she fled the country after the election fearing for her safety. german chancellor angela merkel has urged the government in belarus to avoid violence and start a national dialogue with the opposition here's what merkel had to say about situation. tomorrow the european council will hold a video conference on bella reeve

southwest china are experiencing some of their worst flooding in nearly 40 years of water from the yangtze river burst their banks in sichuan province and in the city of chongqing but i just have been submerged among the 100000 people taken to higher ground was the headline stay with us here i'll just there up next is just straight. in late august joe biden and donald trump will finally become the official presidential candidate but the ongoing coronavirus pandemic sees the democratic national convention going virtual and the republicans being forced to rethink grand plans for a big celebration follow the u.s. conventions on al-jazeera. i am for the ok welcome to the home edition stream now typically in the united states and canada if there's a mental health emergency the police are caught but let me show you the worst case scenario that may well happen i'm going to take you to san diego saw years ago when the sister of alfred alang go call the police because her brother who had mental health issues was acting strangely this is what happens. for the ok so the police there. they shot another blac

now in other news china's yangtze river is expected to reach record high water levels in the next 24 hours after weeks of heavy rain dozens of people have died in the floods which have destroyed property and off threatening wild heritage sites katrina you reports from beijing. for more than 1200 years this giant put a statue has stood strong in china's lotion city now the world heritage site is threatened by the worst flooding in decades in southern china weeks of torrential rains have lashed the region causing devastating flooding in villages towns and cities asia's longest river the yangtze and several of its tributaries have risen to dangerous levels forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes in all around 60000000 are affected by the flood disaster the 3 gorges dam the largest hydroelectric project in the world is facing the largest flood peaks in 14 years ago engineers estimate the flow rate at the dam will be $76000.00 cubic metres per 2nd on thursday morning but they say they're confident the dam will hold that them can keep the water levels within a safe range relieving p

its vaccine comes to fruition the question is whose will hit the market 1st to china where the yangtze river has risen to dangerous levels after some of the heaviest rainfall in recent memory southwest and central regions have borne the brunt of flooding under the thousands of local residents have been evacuated from low lying areas. the mighty yangtze swollen to historic levels southwest and central china has been hit with some of its heaviest rainfall on record causing hundreds of rivers to burst their banks. for the 1st time sichuan province has declared a level one flood response the highest on a 40 year scale. emergency teams are battling treacherous conditions in men young city that were forced to abandon their trucks and move door to door on foot to risking trapped residents. there were scenes repeated in villages towns and cities across the region as tens of thousands flee the rising water. in many areas boats are the only way to navigate the flooded streets. it's a race against time to pluck stranded residents from danger. these men were found exhausted clean to a roadside. communit

china's southwestern sichuan province has issued its highest ever flood alert for areas along the yangtze river tens of thousands of people have had to flee their homes after days of heavy rain authorities say this year's rainfall has seen the highest has been the highest since record keeping began in 1961. california death valley has recorded what's believed to be the highest temperature ever measured in the month of august 131 degree fahrenheit or 54 celsius reading is just shy of the planet's all time high of 134 degrees which was measured nearby in july 913 death valley is the lowest spot in north america and surrounding mountains help to trap the heat. german chancellor angela merkel has urged the government in belarus to avoid violence and start a national dialogue with the opposition she made the comments in a phone call with russian president vladimir putin earlier today this comes as the standoff between belarusian president alyaksandr look and anti-government protesters enters a tense day a long time ruler has been resisting calls to step aside but angry citizens are showing they're n

china's southwestern sichuan province has issued its highest ever flood alerts for areas along the yangtze river tens of thousands of people have had to flee their homes after days of heavy rain authorities say this year's rainfall has been the highest since record keeping started in 1961. south africa pose one of the world's strictest coronavirus lockdowns 5 months ago today the country's easing its restrictions that includes allowing alcohol and cigarettes sales again which have been banned during the lock down schools will open in phases starting next week south africans are also allowed to visit family and friends for the 1st time since march with nearly $600000.00 and factions south africa has more than half of all coronavirus cases in africa and the correspondent is in cape town following the story for us hi adrienne good to see you so how are people feeling about the relaxation of lock on measures where you are. well so we just came back from a liquor store where already an hour before the official opening time people started queuing to get some alcohol and many i talked to where happy to

china's southwestern sichuan province has issued its highest ever flood alert for areas along the yangtze river tens of thousands of people have had to flee their homes after days of heavy rain authorities say this year's rainfall has been the highest since record keeping started in 1961. let's look now at some of the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic the world health organization says the spread of the virus is increasingly between being driven by people between the ages of 20 and 40 the organization says many young people don't even know they're infected and pose a danger to more vulnerable groups in australia an epidemiologist has testified that 99 percent of current infections in the state of victoria can be traced to 2 melbourne hotels where families returning from overseas travel have been staying in philippines president barbara go to terra to is further easing the coronavirus lockdown in the capital manila and surrounding areas shopping malls restaurants and churches are being allowed to open from wednesday on. south africa imposed one of the world's strictest coronavirus

southwestern special on its havanese has issued its highest ever flood alert for the areas along the yangtze river tens of thousands of people have had to flee their homes after days of heavy rain authorities say this year's rainfall has been the highest since record keeping began in 1961. several mortar shells have struck the afghan capital kabul on the country's independence day no injuries were reported and so far no one has claimed responsibility for the attack it comes as the afghan government and the taliban prepare to start peace talks. german foreign minister heikal mobs has paid a surprise visit to libya berlin has been trying to broker peace in the country mired in the civil rights since 2011 boss called the recent wall infighting a deceptive call and warns that outside powers are still sending arms to. to the united states where the democratic party has kicked off its 4 day virtual convention aimed at further solidifying support for its presidential candidate joe biden the event is normally packed with crowds of this year it's been held over mostly because of the coronavirus the convent

southwest china are experiencing some of their worst flooding in nearly 40 years of water from the yangtze river burst their banks in sichuan province and in the city of chongqing but i just have been submerged among the 100000 people taken to higher ground but the headline stay with us here are just there up next is just stream. in late august joe biden and donald trump will finally become the official presidential candidate but the ongoing coronavirus pandemic sees the democratic national convention going virtual and the republicans being forced to rethink grand plans for a big celebration followed the u.s. conventions on al-jazeera. hi i'm femi oke a welcome to the home edition stream now typically in the united states and canada if there's a mental health emergency the police are caught but let me show you the worst case scenario that may well happen i'm going to take you to san diego saw years ago when the sister of alfred alang go call the police because her brother who had mental health issues was acting strangely this is what happens. but for the way so the police did you know they shot

china's southwestern sichuan province has issued its highest ever flood alert for areas along the yangtze river tens of thousands of people have had to flee their homes after days of heavy rain authorities say this year's rainfall has been the highest since record keeping started in 1961. now in the united states the democratic party convention has kicked off with a rousing speech from michelle obama the wife of former president barack obama that this year's convention is unlike any other because of the coronavirus pandemic the event is being held online without crowds or confetti the democrats will formally nominate joe biden as their candidate for president to take on republican incumbent donald trump in the november election. he w. stacy bivins is with us to take a closer look at the convention hi stacey thanks for joining us what did day one tell us about what the democrats are trying to achieve here well they're trying to preach their candidate joe biden as an every man somebody that everybody can relate to and somebody who has enough big ideas where he has a big tent so we had progressive

southwest china are experiencing some of the worst flooding in nearly 40 years waters from the yangtze river banks since the schwann province and in the city of chong ching villages have been submerged more than 1500000 people have been taken to higher ground those the headlines when you see here and i was here after inside story next. previously untouchable subject in thailand angry protest says break the taboo by openly criticizing the king and also demanded wholesale changes to the political system is a possible and why is the monarchy being targeted this is inside story. oh it comes of the program. they've been running almost daily for the past month and 2 government protesters led by students out attracting different sectors of thai society their main demand is that change of the entire political system that includes the resignation of former army general now prime minister. one of the largest protests since the militarist seize power in the latest school 6 years ago was held on sunday as well as changes to the constitution and to the intimidation of political activists some are calling

unprecedented rains far away in central china sending surges of fresh water flooding out of the yangtze riverhere depicted in green reaching towards j juice coastline knowing that this year we have seen our president in the rainy front right across the korean peninsula and china we can assume the weather pattern will repeat itself in future years because of climate change. research is from this instituto been studying the changing sees as china's storms appear to worsen every year like many places in the world the island of jeju is having to adapt to the effects of a changing climate and that means in recent years the additional problem of rising sea temperatures it means some subtropical species are now better suited to jay juss water has to do with what is your land is becoming more stop tropical the surface temperature of the sea has risen by one and a half degrees so we are also looking into subtropical species of fish and helping farmers get prepared but for fish farmers like cho seung the already heavily invested in colder water species just surviving the present is the priority from th

still very high but here in particular they really are bracing for the 4th flood crest of the yangtze river so people are doing all they can to move their possessions to high ground and of course people have also been evacuated from their homes now the heavy rain and sunday's going to work its way across the korean peninsula but it trails right there back into these more northern and western areas over china and sunday 3 monday it begins once again to become really quite heavy so again the threat of flooding really just doesn't go away at the moment here conditions across the korean peninsula i want to shine and scott the thunderstorms across central areas of honshu plenty more rain still across into south asia very heavy rain to expected in bangladesh for the next couple of days but you can see will happen that across into iraq just on the rains really have just a pushed across this region the last few days the flood water really is very deep very not a good idea to go through this on a motorbike and ends up of course a very wet indeed we've got very heavy rains to go through sunday again

hello the big yangtze river is still being fed with monsoonal water as it's rain falling really in chengdu in sichuan which is the head forcing the course it goes across where the rest rivers in sunshine and probably slowly receding the heavy rain in the skies to forecast the next few days gives you some in beijing as you can see it stretches up towards the northeast of china and the line is trying to come down to north korea all this air is turned quite warm which. well heat wave warning out for a good part of japan has been enjoyable sunshine in south korea and it probably is in shanghai as well hong kong's back into the big shower wash out thing and the circulation trying to form in the south china sea which will and house the rainfall in fact the south china sea is the source of quite a few sun the stones which are tend to move in ways towards the philippines that catching some parts of borneo as you can see the increasing likelihood of showers further south in java in sumatra but not a huge number that just moving in that direction that's where the concentration is further north and p

now china's yangtze river is expected to reach record high water levels in the next 24 hours after weeks of heavy rain dozens of people have died in the floods which have destroyed property in a threatening world heritage sites katrina you reports now from beijing. for more than 1200 years this giant put a statue has stood strong in china's lotion city now the world heritage site is threatened by the worst flooding in decades in southern china weeks of torrential rains have lashed the region causing devastating flooding in villages towns and cities asia's longest river the yangtze and several of its tributaries have risen to dangerous levels forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes in all around 60000000 are affected by the flood disaster the 3 gorges dam the largest hydroelectric project in the world is facing the largest flood peaks in 14 years ago engineers estimate the flow rate at the dam will be $76000.00 cubic metres per 2nd on thursday morning but they say they're confident the double hold that them can keep the water levels within a safe range relieving pressure on the mid

unprecedented rains far away in central china sending surges of fresh water flooding out of the yangtze river here depicted in green reaching towards j juice coastline knowing that this year we have seen our president in the rainy front right across the korean peninsula and china we can assume the weather pattern will repeat itself in future years because of climate change. research is from this instituto been studying the changing sees as china's storms appear to worsen every year like many places in the world the island of jeju is having to adapt to the effects of a changing climate and that means in recent years the additional problem of rising sea temperatures it means some subtropical species are now better suited to jay juss waters to do with what is your land is becoming more stop tropical the surface temperature of the sea has risen by one and a half degrees so we are also looking into subtropical species of fish and helping farmers get prepared but for fish farmers like cho seung the already heavily invested in colder water species just surviving the present is the priority of the go

have lashed the region causing devastating flooding in villages towns and cities asia's longest river the yangtze and several of its tributaries have risen to dangerous levels forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes in all around 60000000 are affected by the flood disaster the 3 gorges dam the largest hydroelectric project in the world is facing the largest flood peaks in 14 years ago engineers estimate the flow rate at the dam will be $76000.00 cubic metres per 2nd on thursday morning but they say they're confident the double hold that them can keep the water levels with being a safe range relieving pressure on the middle in the lower reaches of the river president xi jinping told flood affected areas in adelaide province one choose day meeting residents and calling for better natural disaster response measures we must abide by and know the laws of nature at a we was a cowardly way our strong capability of resisting the last as last week china's leaders called on all chinese to reduce food waste this year severe flooding has wiped out so much time is most important farming regions the ext

which time it's china sees a bigger development in the 4 thunderstorms over the yellow river valley maybe the yangtze end of it for the south as well as an indication of significant action somewhere in southern china now you'd think that this curl of cloud here might be named but it's not been it's just a slow circulations under storms hitting lose all and going slowly northwards taking much of the energy with it but allowing now the formation the reformulation of thunderstorms those soloway seaborne your west papua and still not much over java or maybe peninsula malaysia but for thailand and increasingly for next 2 days we have significant rain. for. a story of financial scandal with billions lost in the united arab emirates i've never seen a story like this where 2 companies similar tiniest plea involving the same group of people have failed at the same time but where the money goes is the $1000000.00 question al-jazeera world investigates the dramatic story of the rise and fall of an indian tycoon to be our shetty and the missing millions on al-jazeera. we want to go on as a reminder of our top st

by which time it's china sees a big development in the 4 thunderstorms of the yellow river valley maybe the yangtze end of it for the south as well as an indication of significant action somewhere in southern china. now you'd think that this curl of cloud here might be named but it's not been it's just a slow circulation sunder storms hitting lose all and going slowly northwards taking much of the energy with it but allowing now the formation the reformulation of thunderstorms and so the way i see borneo west papua and still not much over java or maybe peninsula malaysia but for thailand and increasingly for next 2 days we have significant rain. for the progress. it's a serious mistake. artificial intelligence is slowly invading every aspect of our life. but very few of us really understand its capabilities for better or for or worse. in a new documentary al-jazeera explores the impact of they are accessing vast amounts of our personal data for data on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour protests have erupted in cities across bella who says president alexa

have lashed the region causing devastating flooding in villages towns and cities asia's longest river the yangtze and several of its tributaries have risen to dangerous levels forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes in all around 60000000 are affected by the flood disaster the 3 gorges dam the largest hydroelectric project in the world is facing the largest flood peaks in 14 years ago engineers estimate the flow rate at the dam will be $76000.00 cubic metres per 2nd on thursday morning but they say they're confident the dam will hold that them can keep the water levels within a safe range relieving pressure on the middle in the lower reaches of the river president xi jinping told flood affected areas in our province on choose day meeting residents and calling for better natural disaster response measures we must abide by and know the law of nature at a whim was a cowardly way or a strong capability resisting the last last week china's leaders called on all chinese to reduce food waste this serious of their flooding has wiped out so much time is more spent quarter farming regions the extrem

the mighty yangtze swollen to historic levels southwest and central china has been hit with some of its heaviest rainfall on record. causing hundreds of riverso burst their banks. for the 1st time sichuan province has declared a level one flood response the highest on the 40th scale. emergency teams are battling treacherous conditions in man young city they were forced to abandon their trucks and move door to door on foot to risk you trapped residents. there were scenes repeated in villages towns and cities across the region as tens of thousands flee the rising water. in many areas boats are the only way to navigate the flooded streets. it's a race against time to pluck stranded residents from danger. these men were found exhausted clean to a roadside. new. communities in the water low country side also face another has it. the street in long one city was turned into a raging torrent as of yet mudslides tore through southern gansu province. a nearby bridge was swept away in the search. those who couldn't escape in time had to be hoisted by helicopter from the rooftops . as well as the dangers to life and property china's cultural heritage is

heaviest rain now in shiner is further north out of the yangtze valley which is a lot of flooding to disappear to some degree so yellow valley the river valley it is yet to see and the korean peninsula where the witnesses and i would souls got to 3 days more of miserable weather i suspect heavy in places that rain in north korea at least but the chinese side it's quite dr in sichuan they're more than a shower to much of the heavy rain is a lot for the south over the water or edging towards hong kong or taiwan the orange center the circulations which provide provide big thunderstorms so flash flooding is definitely on the cards here which means there's not that much energy left of places further south i think we will see a good chance to showers for the southern philippines west papua than to sort of ways the eastern side of borneo but 1st up on satellite probably remain dry java or certainly most to sumatra and finished in malaysia not so for me and more on for thailand looking creasing the wetter of there. the monsoon coming in from the southwest it should of course affect the western ghats and it is that's where the heaviest rain is

but the river is rising a force crest so evacuations because they know it's coming there's company because the rain is in the forecast falling in chengdu which to say head waters of the yangtze but junkies farm for that that same sort of orientation does not change further west for cross a chunk and brother ways is fine for a couple of days then the rain gets in but it's only light rain to say the thought the orientation of the southwest monsoon over india doesn't change much we've had a bad year and bag 3rd of the country's under water these oversea drawing shots that the sky is blue here is affectively the brahmaputra one of the major rivers that goes falls out of the foothills of the himalayan comes out her back vision for cross the next day or so is that on the shore breeze right up through the lowlands now unfortunately testa powell the water of his dock with news but falling from above the rains of his heavy know that's further west bore less focus on the center of circulation in india which is taking the rain if you like to was roger standen in the heart of the next couple days is probably bhopal which has gone 3 days of heavy rain or thunderstorms. thanks very much r