Antarctica how Global Warming is giving us a green a tinge. Now a powerful fight has slammed ashore in eastern india and bangladesh forcing more than 3000000 people to seek shelter cyclon on point as the regions fiercest storm ever recorded and we can still play before making landfall that is still packing winds of up to 170 kilometers an hour Elizabeth Bronner reports from new delhi are. Sounding the alarm Indias National Disaster Response force ward people of the state of west bank gold ahead of cycling making landfall the storm brought heavy rain and strong winds are pushing trees. More than half a 1000000 people have been evacuated to emergency shelters in west bengal and another 150000 to the state of disarray bond with their issues of actuating around 2000000 people. Many people have come to the shelters since morning because the rivers banks have broken down here most of the houses made of concrete and bricks people here live in basic structures as of mud. The densely populated low lying areas around the bay of bengal are used to cyclers bottom urgency authorities they will be harder to manage as they try to stop the spread to the cove on a virus. Polluted disaster some law gets out of his we are dealing with 2 disasters for the 1st time the 1st disaster is ongoing covered 1000. 00 which you all know about and during this outbreak another disaster is now in front of us which is in the form of a cycle on. Emergency shelters only being jews did half capacity. And service for poor as you know. I mean you know. One day. While east india and bangor they show in the storms path heavy rain and flooding farm pond killed 2 people in sri lanka those living in coastal areas have been warned against leaving their homes until the cyclon passes elizabeth aljazeera new delhi. Well have more on this shortly from tangier choudhry in the bangladeshi capital but 1st lets go to prima rajaram who joins us via skype from calcutta and indias west bengal premier this has been a fast moving strong talk us through what the scene looks like there now how are people coping. People are trying to grapple with the situation as the song is now heading towards cloak of thought and the made this kick off. The wind speed is like it was mentioned earlier above once and. The gusting winds can go up to about one week if i can almost just fall off of it as all of you seem quite a bit of guy makes in the last few hours where we see trees having fallen in defiance of the city on so some have been uprooted we also see the devastation sticky isnt that simple its also the state. We bought all of one having collapsed because of which our child to fail to leave died according to the bill for me got it all out weve also heard its another death that having the somebodys vines cause theres more that needs to be. In but however the state administration has spoken about the state of the state he. Apart from that the state administration is monitoring the situation and the chief minister had set up a 24 sevenths until or go away she is monitoring the situation by the Disaster Management teams the national war was asked of the new management is out of the state of there are exhausted. You know we tested the action to see what they could do about the situation apart from that it was markets up close across the state to prevent any more disaster at some picky place also another measure that was taken by the chief minister west angle among the damage is that she had a fever we did they raced to stop later this hour with the still wesley way because another might think well were not making that we home jodie the overnight situation and of but getting the law down when you know the chance of us is the zooms by because of the sight not should request of the various to stop movement so that i grins im not going to be i off the stump right now at this present moment the coast of the us are facing the brunt of the cycling as well with heavy rainfall. Cycling has crossed the floor and solving one of the most districts and there has been some amount of disaster that is. All one collapses it. Probably fallen down but those are also reports that were going to tell. Us what that is not just a system primarily around there speaking to us from kolkata and indias west bengal stay safe thank you for that update well lets now go. Chad reed who joins us from the bangladeshi capital dhaka as weve been saying this is all taking place in the midst of a Global Pandemic if so many people are evacuating in such a densely populated country is it possible to social distance. Honestly speaking its not i mean the literally 2400000 people are now in the shelter. Accommodation for 5000000 people but a lot of the shelters are congested many of the School Buildings are used as shelters and the number of people in the coastal area quite dense so we have seen pictures of people being in one room crammed hundreds of people in piles of people in several shelters its going to be very difficult to maintain the social distancing as we know it thats a chance they have to take its a challenge considering the. Intensity of the storm theres no other option now as we speak the storm is crossing into bangladesh and southwestern Coastal Region hitting the shawn there been for us which is adjoining to india and should there be on forest we have got reports from somewhere far contacts in those areas saying there is water level rise in the low delta areas a lot of houses been washed away and we got a report from South Central bangladesh in an island one elderly gentleman died because of a fallen tree now we also have report off a rescue worker died due to drowning in the stormy sea now that we cannot independently verify this but knowing that fact of the strong will no after tomorrow probably when all the reports going to start coming towards communication probably going to be difficult power lines going to be snapped as i speak theres a heavy wind in even dhaka city you can see that pretty feel effect of that. Time there of course the hundreds of thousands of mahindra refugees who are stuck in clocks as theyve been told to stay in place and try to shelter given the severity of the storm that were talking about is that going to be enough protection for. Well if the storm actually hits its only 5 kilometer from the coast area and coxs bizarre now weve been there in 2017 when the storm actually hit the campaign hundreds of rooftops were blown away theyre made out of toppling wooden bamboo shelters the hardly can withstand any strong wind theres also a clear danger of flooding due to torrential rain as well as much light because a lot of these are in the slope in the hilly areas and much light is on one of the biggest danger we also are the target evacuated at least a 100 plus throwing are refugees from the island called pashtun char which is again on South Central bangladesh its in the middle of the ocean is highly vulnerable to cycle on they have been taken into sheltered torrie does have come from that but nevertheless its a clear danger to the nearly 1000000. 00 refugees living in a very congested very poorly structured camp all in all a major challenge for bangladesh as well as theirs and they cannot make fallout from the storm. For us on the ground in dhaka thank you very much time and also please do stay safe. Well we can now speak to our own meteorologist rob mccallum way hes here to tell us a little more about what will happen next weve now seen landfall rob we are we going to see things slow down from here mostly yes the winds of course pitt passed their peak because over land is not feeding itself and it was no more fuel for so when it went over and the official time of landfall was 18 minutes past 5 locally that was with winds about 155 kilometers from theyre not going to strengthen theyre not going to weaken because theres no more fuel to feed it over it is following a river for a while before it goes up towards calcutta the storm surge is the next thing to watch for is over he starts as you just probably heard the rain itself with the storm as it falls apart and i will move north of the next day and a half so across the top of calcutta quite likely then through Northern Bank toward the heights of northeastern india and then to towns thats the track of the storm as it slowly does way taking the rain with it now the next danger point is of course that storm surge it whips up the water anyway because the strong winds and theyre all funneled up to the top of the bay of bengal where what you have where you have mangrove swamps and it certainly helps to dampen dimed the flood but it could go 17 ks inland city 4 in the back in the river it looks like the Hooghly River which is more or less the past storm is still taking will not see much of a storm surge because the winds actually circulate in that way take in the water away from it but the next few hours this is the danger point after that well yes weve got strong winds for calcutta we have extensive rain so they will be flooding just to join in the study thanks very much rob well we will be staying across all of those developments for you but for now lets move to some other news forces loyal to libyan war out of Khalifa Haftar have pulled back 2 kilometers from the front line around tripoli theyre calling on the u. N. Recognized government to do the same to allow each holiday rituals Government Forces continue their offensive west of the capital and recently also enter the town of alice saba theyve also captured other towns as well as i would say airbase which was the western headquarters for have to forces. Now polls are set to close in brandys president ial election which is gone ahead despite the risk of coronavirus verges on choosing a leader to replace who is stepping down after 15 years in Power International observers were told they must quarantine for 14 days and that effectively balled them from working raising doubts over just how free and fair the poll actually is lets take a closer look now at the main players here 1st the outgoing president paren charisma hes a former rebel leader whos escaped multiple efforts by the International Community to try him for alleged human rights abuses the man with the best chance of replacing him is his ally and also a Ruling Party Leader everest. Hes been part of the former residents Movement Since 1900 to the key player in the peace deal to end burundis civil war his close the challenger is agatha thats the leader of the Main Opposition Party hes run for the presidency multiple times when our correspondent malcolm webb has been following all those developments for us from nairobi he says both front runners are already declaring victory. Both the ruling party and the Main Opposition Party have told their supporters that they will when people have turned up to the polling stations where weve seen no sign of social distancing some of them really quite crowded its been a similar story of political rallies held over the last few weeks for both the ruling party and the opposition where thousands of people have crowded together to hear their leaders speak now this is come under some criticism from Health Experts and from rights activists who saying that were indians right to health is being sacrificed by the government just for going ahead with this election and with inadequate protection for people officials from the World Health Organization including the National Director had criticize the government for adequate response to the pandemic theyve been recently expelled from the country so a lot of people rights activists journalists and so on saying this is not fair on rooney and is bringing them out to vote and a lot of them say that the motive for this is that the government just wants to push this election through irrespective of people right to health but the government on the other hand says that it is on top of the pandemic and that people dont have anything to worry about. Well still ahead for you on aljazeera bodies buried in a hurry at night nicaraguan government accused of covering up the size of its coronavirus. Reunited after 32 years a mothers fight to find her son who was abducted as a toddler. Hello so it was it could be in japan it will take 2 days for the job breeze chilly breeze to disappear but theres no significant rain in the focus a few showers on north coast the main rain is developing back in Southern China once again this is seasonal but this is one of the heaviest bursts weve seen so far this spring and it will take its time drifting slowly offshore existing through taiwan and who waters missing in japan will miss hong kong or even by saturday theyll still going to be thunderstorms or big showers only slowly die off through sunday and monday temperatures are on the way up and shes 30 degrees again which is above average the sort of course very humid that same line more or less hong kong science which is the active line through this part of the world so you got big showers developing in sort of way sea east and born your own probably the southern philippines on thursday or friday off the coast of sumatra the circulation it will stay in the open ocean but its not an indication of where the active weather is consistent with whats happening the bay of bengal where we of course got landfall of this Tropical Cyclone poor no longer the biggest ever recorded but still significant makes landfall late on wednesday it exists through thursday as a mass of rain running up through towards baton. As the world fights to corrode the time damage when learning more about this every day its a new that youre joining our Global Community its up to us on how we come together to fight im sorry your question can i just recently directly thats coming on on you tube as youre saying im concerned about the front line oh thats a great question but keeping you up to date i mean come back and be back to the stream on 00. 0 again if youre watching aljazeera lets remind you of our top stories this hour one of the most powerful cyclings in years has forced more than 2000000 people to seek shelter in eastern india and bangladesh the storm has weakened slightly but it has made landfall with wind speeds of up to 170 kilometers an hour. An election is underway in burundi despite the risk of the coronavirus verses on choosing a new president with a longtime aide appear and or is either stepping down after 15 years in power. And forces loyal to libyan warlord plea for help to have pulled back 2 kilometers from the front line around tripoli theyre calling on the un recognized government to do the same. Now in the u. K. The Prime Minister is promising to step up the countrys code than 1000. 00 tracing capabilities responding to criticism of an alleged failure in testing but as johnson says officials will be able to track 10000 new cases a day by the end of the month well lets now go to our correspondent and how he is in london for us john i hear there was quite a bit of action in parliament today. Boris johnson the Prime Minister i think coming off better than he has done over the course of the last 2 bruising encounters with the label edict here starmer over the past fortnight again facing forensic an emotional simply rendered questioning on perceived government failures during the. Coded 19 epidemic but seemingly better prepared able at least to push on from questions over the care home sector the crisis there that speeds so appalling and which the government really cant offer a satisfactory answers to quite why 40 percent of the officially registered death toll occurred among the elderly and most vulnerable but Boris Johnson able to reach into his bag and pull out numbers on the vastly enhanced Testing Capacity this country now has saying that 125 care homestar 1000 staff have now been tested and the death toll there is for all of the real thrust of labors attack though was on test trace and isolate mechanisms starmer wanting to know when these measures would be in place so crucial to lifting the lock down safely without risking a 2nd wave and wanted to know quite why the government had given up all efforts at testing traces far back as mid march he said this is nearly 10 weeks in a critical period without effective tracing a huge hole in our defenses he said heres how Boris Johnson responded. Today i am confident that we will have a test and trace operation that will enable us if all the other conditions are satisfied if only it is entirely provisional that will enable us to make progress and i can tell them also that by the 1st of june already we recruit 24000 trackers and by the 1st of june we will have a 25000 they will be capable of tracking 10000 keep the contact of 10000 new cases a day. So Boris Johnson not exactly overflowing with conviction there but able i think to redeem this session with a real measurable policy pledge 25000 tracers in place by june the 1st thats monday week able to deal with 10000. 00 new cases in terms of looking at new outbreaks and controlling them in the future is the lock down lifts its the sort of policy promise that will restore a measure of Public Confidence particularly since june the 1st is the date when the government hopes that primary schools will begin to go back amid skepticism in the Education Sector and a bunk parents and when these 2 leaders meet again in a fortnights time after the coming parliamentary recess whether either be able to look at the relative success of those measures or here starmer will again be able to challenge Boris Johnson on another perceived government failure turn how theyre for us outside westminster thank you very much joe. Well all business and politicians and nicaragua are accusing president Daniel Ortega and the government of covering up coronavirus deaths by ordering burials to be done very quickly and that night the Health Ministry has reported 1719 deaths but doctors warn that the true total is much higher. Reports. This wasnt the way we see arrow wanted to bury his father where. The local authorities ordered a rushed late night burial which luis on his boat already been taken to very quickly there were orders that the body must be buried and there was no turning back so the only thing i could do was try and stream it so that my friends on facebook could be there with me at the time because they forbid people to be close to the grave there were even police that kept people away luis is convinced his father a pilot for a nicaraguan airline died of cope with 19. Funeral directors say his familys trauma is increasingly common they say theyve been so busy in recent months theyve run out of coffins. The funeral home owners all communicate with each other and we learn each other vehicles and things like that weve buried about 200. 00 people a night so far without relatives without candles without anything. Their experience contrasts with the governments official figures for corona virus deaths which show very few so far unlike other latin american countries president daniel hasnt implemented social distancing measures he says the spike in deaths this year from pneumonia has little to do with the coronavirus pandemic. We have a normal cycle in mourning the deaths. The important thing is that in beating this pandemic there is no crisis in nicaragua. But doctors say hospitals are overwhelmed by patients suffering from or spirit 3 illnesses. And the pan american Health Organization said the correct he was government has refused to allow its staff into any hospitals adding to concerns that it is downplaying the effects of the pandemic victoria gave to be al jazeera. Now an Israeli Court has ordered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to appear in person when his corruption trial begins on sunday netanyahu his lawyers applied for dispensation but the attorney general demanded that he be present the Prime Minister has been indicted for bribery fraud and breach of trust for accepting gifts from wealthy businessmen and dispensing favors to get more positive press coverage netanyahu denies any wrongdoing now a key figure in the rwandan genocide 26 years ago is appearing before a court in the french capital felicien can google is arrested in paris last week and prosecutors want him to be transferred to a un court could be accused of financing whos you militias that massacres at least 800002 seize 1994. In south sudan at least 120. 00 people have been killed since friday and model for it is according cattle raids more than 100. 00 people were injured during those attacks which took place in oral county and state a staff member from Doctors Without Borders was also killed on the weekend forcing the organization to suspend its operations in the region well we can now speak to steve mackay hes the deputy head of the mission in south sudan for dogs without borders and he joins us now from juba steve firstly condolences on the death of your staff member can you tell us what happened there and. We have a primary Health Care Center in the town of sherry that. It was active at the time that so fighting broke out our team left from the care center and one of one of our our colleagues who lives in that area was killed during the incident over the weekend stephen very sorry about that i say that youve now suspended operations that you have a sense of when you might resume when it might be safe to do so. I think there has been some confusing communication around this in fact their activities have continued in jungly state throughout this period m. S. M. Runs a hospital in the town of lankin that has continued into its activities through this period and indeed the interruption to our activities in in the period when it was was very brief while the team took refuge during the peak of fighting however they returned very shortly thereafter to restart activities and indeed have been treating patients inside that facility related to this most recent round of fighting we do know that a large amount of people died and a large amount of people were also injured can you give us a sense of the kind of injuries that youll clinics been seeing and the numbers. At the facility and sherry we have received 16 patients and some of them have been discharged although the majority remain it treats about the facility and so several other patients were referred to your hospital and like you and were up to now we have received over 50 patients inside that facility most of whom continue to be treated inside inside the city predominantly being treated for gunshot wounds and other physical troubles and steve this has been an ongoing issue this issue of communal violence in john day and and in several other states as well do you as m. S. F. Believe that the government is doing enough to address this. Our greatest concern at the moment is that violence of this nature creates a significant barrier for the population affected to Access Health care runs as ive mentioned a facility interior as well as a hospital in lincoln and its incidents like this that create significant barriers for the population that it really really does need this kind of medical support to to be able to access and to show the stevan ive put you here i do also want to ask you about the coronavirus pandemic and the response thats taking place in south sudan it does seem that the scale of the outbreak there is potentially actually months or knowledge or an official figures would suggest what are you saying on the ground or facilities or in the process of and indeed have been in the process of preparations for report some to time we were doing really everything we can inside of overt teams all of our project locations to be to be prepared for a big deal breaker called 900. 00 if and when it takes place we we are of course aware of the current numbers inside the country and and are doing everything we can to occur so it used to start to receive some of those patients and earlier i was speaking to the u. N. Special representative and david share and he had knowledge that there has been a suggestion that people move out of these p. R. C. These protection camps for people whove been displaced in south sudan and potentially go home to villages or elsewhere so theyre not so close to each other in one place doesnt assess support is there enough protection for people to leave these camps. Our priority is certainly to focus on the provision of medical services to you or to asians affected by cope with 19 affected by the violence of the circuit we spoke about earlier and a variety of other medical challenges inside this country and many others with specific focus on the covert 1006 ration we recognize the importance of access to the hygiene measures isolation distance and these kinds of things but also that there are other challenges faced by the populations in question and that they need to maintain access to to the kinds of the kinds of medical systems that m. S. F. And many other actors are were to provide inside the country steve mackay the deputy head of the mission in south sudan for Doctors Without Borders speaking to us from geneva thank you so much for joining us at this time thank you. A chinese man has been reunited with his parents fatty 2 year after being abducted as a toddler have a look at this this was the moment that man again came face to face with his parents for the 1st time since he was just 2 and a half miles mother. Joined other volunteers and reunited 29. 00 children with their parents while her own son was still missing was found after a series of tips to the police now greenery is not something youd expect to find in the polar region of antarctica the coldest continent in the wild but scientists have found a vast quantities of green algae now living in melting snow it covers almost 2 square kilometers in a so dense it can be spotted from space the scientists claim Climate Change for the north of the northern peninsula becoming amongst the fastest warming regions in the wilds certainly what were seeing is in the warm. Moving. Is announced. I think it really be a story of whether theres an. d iraq or the really mom and i dont really see a good man in the house substantial amounts of nutrients transported in long to large groups. Say. On that one talk to question anything like that. But i think we will probably see more coverage on. And again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines a powerful fight current has forced more than 2000000 people to seek shelter in eastern india and bangladesh the storm has weakened slightly but also made landfall with wind speeds of up to 170 kilometers an hour correspondent choudhry has more from the bangladeshi capital dhaka the storm is crossing into bangladesh in southwestern Coastal Region hitting the show in the barn forest which is adjoining to india on their bun forest we have got reports from some of our contacts in those areas saying that water level rise in the low delta area has a lot of houses been washed away and we got a report from ball of South Central bangladesh in an island one elderly gentleman died because of a fallen tree now we also have report off a rescue worker died due to drowning in the stormy sea. Now polls are set to close and burundis president ial election which has gone ahead despite the risk of the coronavirus voters are choosing a new president with a long time either parent or is a stepping down after 15 years in power forces loyal to libyan warlord hafer have to have pulled back 2 kilometers from the front line around tripoli they are calling on the un recognized government to do the same. An Israeli Court has ordered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to appear in person when his corruption trial begins on sunday and as you know his lawyers applied for dispensation but the attorney general demanded that he be present the Prime Minister has been indicted for bribery fraud and breach of trust for except in gifts from wealthy businessmen and dispensing favors to get more positive News Coverage while netanyahu denies any wrongdoing and in south sudan at least 120 people have been killed since friday and what are it is according cattle raids more than 100 people were injured during those attacks which took place an oral county and state of stuff member from Doctors Without Borders was also killed at the weekend forcing the organization to briefly suspend operations there well those are the headlines and next up on aljazeera its the stream stay with us. The older sarah. Let me ask you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen really listen this is the moment you stop every 30 action this is the moment it also trades on fighting every night to meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the ground 0. 5 k. And youll be watching this in the home edition now one of the stories that continues to be underreported do you think more from china is the situation there in ethnic turkey group in mostly North Western parts of china now the reason we are doing this story is because one of our viewers one of our own like unity suggested is going to be the theme for all of these weeks or is this week the stories that you hear the discussions that we have that she suggested you see this is full of rand and and he says and he tweets was means of we get detainees at the
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