Kolesnik over could go to prison for up to 5 years. Guilty of corruption the former head of welled up plastics lamine diac is sentenced 2 years in prison. Now a 2 prong to weather assault in the United States has people fleeing wildfires in one part of the country and rushing to avoid severe flooding and another slow moving Hurricane Sally is unleashing heavy rain and catastrophic flooding on the gulf coast another powerful storm is also brewing in the atlantic hurricane teddie could hit bermuda as early as this weekend and they are just 2 of 7 storms currently moving across the atlantic 5 of them categorized as tropical storms its only the 2nd time on record this has happened the last time was back in 1971 on the other side of the u. S. And oregon a federal disaster has been declared as wildfires that continue to burn forcing people out of their homes well jay gray is in may be alabama. Were still getting a lashing from the dorm keep the brain continue to fall here and well deal about much and given your hurt them look at some of the other conditions here you can see the wind is really just think youve been throwing around pretty blue lamps here we know that trees are down across the city we also know that theres something to get damaged that building and cold here if you move down to mobile bay you can see the wind is pushing that water white obviously and this has been going on for hours and will continue for several hours or were going to continue to see this driving rain across this region the National Weather service this morning will likely see historic flooding in many areas as a result of Hurricane Valley its still a category 2 storm it does seem to be losing a bit a bit different but not enough to matter at this point and the real issue with it just broke through this to get up and move away it has moved across the shoreline but its been no hurry to clear this area and so that the kind of thing that were dealing with here right now and will continue to deal with for the next step and the 8 hours or so we know that powers out to more than 400000. 00 people across the region im afraid that number is going to climb as well again we just heard when you take a beating this really just the opening of whats going to be a long and very difficult right here. Well as i was saying earlier storms are not the only Natural Disaster affecting the u. S. Several states along the west coast are still battling record phials oregon is the latest hot spot and President Donald Trump has now approved its disaster declaration that gives that access to more federal funds from estacado. Theres not much left of talent in phoenix in Southern Oregon the ferocious wildfires of recent days have reduced most of the 2 small towns to ashes the worst thing ive ever seen in my life its the. Same up and down the west coast near Boulder Creek california dozens of homes were incinerated heaps of rubble covered chimneys and burned out vehicles all that remain near los angeles the socalled bobcat fire is only minimally contained it is burning close to the famed mt wilson astronomical observatory and outlying suburbs 23000 firefighters are battling dozens of major fires in california and oregon more than 4000 houses have burned in california alone and tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate and drifting over it all a choking shroud of smoke and ash its making skies hazy as far away as new york Portland Seattle and San Francisco now have some of the worst air quality on the planet we started for the end 95 rather than just that quatermass because that. In s. T. K. To oregon 50 kilometers from Portland Police are allowing residents to return to their homes and assess the damage fires on this scale are on heard of in this part of florida those have never happened i mean weve had fires you know open up in the national forth before theyve never been this close to the canada and ive lived here 33 years theyve never been that close to me candy evacuated days ago but her home is a total loss haslam stranger call you on the phone and tell you that your house is burning its a total loss is its not something you want to wake up to. Amid the destruction signs of strength and resilience this is another aspect of this terrible disaster people coming together to support one another with donations of free food water and other necessities organizers say so many donations have poured in here they can barely give it all away. People here say they all have to look out for one another. Oh it is donating all of our fresh. Birds that anything that we can do to help out families that are in need or you know like you know with the fires and everything weve kind of need to make sure that were helping out as much as we can some of the organs fires are now partly contained helped by the verbal weather but the trees will likely continue to burn until the autumn rains begin in earnest weeks from now robert oulds aljazeera has to cater or. Better russian protest leader who disappeared after being detained by masked men has now been charged with undermining National SecurityMaria Kolesnikov is in jail in minsk after ripping up her passport to avoid being sent to ukraine by force before her arrest she played a major role in organizing demonstrations against longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko hes accused of bringing last months president ial election our correspondents to vasant of the capital minsk she says almost all of the Opposition Leaders have now either been locked up or forced to flee. These charges are actually quite broad to call for action aimed at undermining National Security instead of what the police earlier sat was a coup detat which was of course much harder to prove but still she is facing 2 to 5 years in prison she was indeed the last female Opposition Leader still in the country and because she ripped up her passport overreading being deported to ukraine to that store and tear into a National Leader the Opposition Movement is not really relying on its leaders to be honest so it wont affect the protests that we have been seeing in the last couple of weeks in fact only one of the opposition members of the council that was a created to have this Transitional Government by the opposition is now still free and here in a ballerinas and shes in fact being protected by european diplomats 24 sevenths so they come to her house to make sure that shes also not being arrested. Now refugees being moved into a new camp on the greek island of last boss must have their asylum chimes processed quickly so they can leave thats according to the u. N. 12000 people were left without shelter when the morea cant stand down last week the u. N. Representative in greece has asked for european help to house them there are fears that the new camp will suffer the same overcrowding problems as the last one how correspondent Stephanie Decker has more from last boss. At the moment this is the only option the greek authorities are saying where they can ensure that the refugees in the migrants have you know food shelter and most importantly where theyre going to process their paperwork a lot of people are still reluctant you can probably see them having bought some much some things in some supermarkets ahead and then they pull them back to the street where theyre currently living those that are not in the camp because the conditions in moriarty counted for down were so desperate and weve had to visit here the u. N. H. E. R. Head of the group office of the u. N. Agency that deals with refugees and i asked him you know they themselves would criticize morea camp whether you know he was satisfied with this one but this is what he had to say its not manageable to manage a camp with 5 times its capacity or even times the capacity to insomuch as we speak you need she are easy pushing the. Action of the process so that people do not stay too long in these places this is still our message we hope that any new camp does not go. Does not become overcrowded because its unmanageable so its overcrowded and its also having to do with allowing these people to leave the island the sense of speeding up their paperwork the other side of the story is that basically the islanders are fed up theyve been hosting this population for years now many people many of them want them to leave completely but certainly you know this camp is expanding still the army is expanding its certainly seems at the moment and even the message from the greek authorities is that people are not leaving the island any time soon. A horrific culmination of failures by boeing engineers and management thats the conclusion of a u. S. House investigation which blames the plane make if a 2737 max crashes that killed 346 people the report says a series of decisions by boeing employees led to the crash of a lion air and an Ethiopian Airlines find within 6 months of each other the report also places blame on the federal Aviation Administration for what it calls grossly insufficient oversight the entire 737 max speed is still grounded while the wind White House Correspondent can be healthy as has. Yet another report and there isnt a lot that is particularly new here in terms of isolation but what this report is is the most comprehensive to date in terms of outlining the failures not only on the part of boeing the manufacturer but also on the part of the federal Aviation Administration or the agency that oversees aviation in the United States often referred to as the f. A. A. What they say in this report by House Democrats in the Transportation Committee is there was a pattern of technical miscalculations management misjudgments an oversight lapses and also a severe lack of accountability when it came to the oversight now what this basically says is there wasnt one singular event that caused these crashes but instead it was the culmination of technical assumptions not only by boeing engineers but also by the lack of transparency by the management so this is a particularly damning report for the company but also it cites gross mismanagement on the part of the f. A. A. Still ahead here on out there. Japans parliament picks the next Prime Minister to his priorities including fighting the pandemic and reviving the economy. And returning to flooded homes the challenge facing many people in sudan as they try to dry out unprecedented rain. Hello there fairly cautious and calm picture across much of the middle east the winds are going to be faking up again in the next couple of days. Developing you say that the central Western Areas a soggy but this is what i mean about the winds we could well see some dust. Through the interior of iraq tom it is not faring too badly mid fortys celsius 39. 00 is expected to high in doha but of course it does tend to feel very humid when the temperatures come particularly when the winds are very light all coming from the east theres no real change on friday how much is still pretty high for the eastern end of the magic of these temperatures are above average for this time of year then down into Central Africa plenty of rain showers and thunderstorms becoming a little widespread and also typically for this time of year beginning to push a little bit further south because he wanted to show is across areas of angola and its a fairly catty picture as you can see staying mostly fine across much of south africa weve lost that run of the frontal system is coming through say damages in the high teens celsius where we have got some very warm air is across into both want to temperatures here above the average sunny for this time of year its going to be mostly fine for the next few days until much is getting up to about 36 certainly by sunday meanwhile feeling much cooler in cape town with showers on sunday. Frank assessments what are you seeing back in yemen. Like youve been through with these informed opinions is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown in many parts of the order me a region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate of that is a proxy because not the recent big interest the bill of your people indepth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on aljazeera. The. The in. And again i missed on the attack and lets remind you of our top stories here this hour Hurricane Sandy has swept ashore on the u. S. Gulf coast bringing the threat of record flooding the category 2 storm has already cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes and forced some people to evacuate. The white house has now approved oregons disaster declaration making it possible to access federal funds several wildfires continue to bat out of control in the west and stays hundreds of homes have already been destroyed. And by the russian protested a request to quiver has been charged with undermining National Security kolesnik over played a major role in organizing demonstrations against a long time view that alexander knew. About the british Prime Minister is refusing to back down over a controversial new legislation Boris Johnson says hes confident that britain and the e. U. Will not be forced into a no deal breaks it johnson has defended his proposed law which would allow his government to override parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the e. U. The government does admit the bill could break International Law the head of the European Commission says the chances of reaching a deal off fading but barbara is a nun than he says the british Prime Minister remains defiant. In the European Parliament the European Commission head of underlaying quoting. Margaret thatcher the previous conservative Prime Minister of course saying that breaking International Law is not in britains interest and not in the interest of future trade deals just a very young subtle hint Boris Johnson about how she feels about the way hes going about this internal markets bill which passed its 1st meeting here in the house of commons on monday which is coming back next week for a possible amendment by some of johnsons own conservative party are unhappy with the message it sending to the outside world over trust and over future trade deals in Parliament TodayBoris Johnson was told by the a senior representative of the Scottish National party that the proposed bill also snatches back devolved powers from scotland and the devolved nations johnson rejects that hes also hit by a car after theres been a stern warning from the u. S. Congress that this kind of move could really ward a future u. S. U. K. Free trade deal hes denying that it would damage the good friday Peace Agreement which is at the heart of much of the argument now japans emperor has approved the appointment of a new Prime Minister yes he is a longtime ally of the former Prime Minister shinzo rb who resigned last month for Health Reasons our correspondent Robert Bryant has. Its the ultimate victory for a selfmade politician yasha he had a super who in a career spanning decades has finally risen to the highest Political Office in the land. In contrast to many of japans previous Prime Ministers his predecessors shinzo are being included suger does not come from one of japans a lead to political dynasties hes the son of a strong briefed. Mama is elevation means a change in style but not in substance as a faithful right hand man to say he is expected to follow the same conservative economic policies while applying his acknowledged problem solving skills to the continuing covert 19 crisis and the ill fated Tokyo Olympics that the pandemic has delayed and now threatens to wreck a well known figure on the domestic political stage it was super powerful chief cabinet secretary who heralded last years succession of emperors unveiling the name of the new imperial era. His appointment as Prime Minister was confirmed at an imperial palace audience with emperor and narrow hito while hardworking and reliable many believe he lacks the charisma needed for the job in particular in his dealings with other world leaders. Thats something that comes naturally to shinzo of a who leaves the office having set a record as japans longest serving Prime Minister at a price i might i would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the people who supported me in both tough and difficult times i submitted in a timely next today the sugar and demonstration will be born again i would like to ask for your strong support for the ruling l. D. P. Party suga as mission is to act as continuity Prime Minister for the next year before elections are called with japans mounting problems suga needs to prove he has the required leadership skills to do that rob mcbride aljazeera. Now irans president has issued a warning to the gulf states after the United Arab Emirates and bahrain signed u. S. Brokered agreements to normalize ties with israel dubbed the Abraham Accords by the white house the deal makes the u. A. E. And bahrain the 1st arab countries to normalize relations with israel in more than 25 years Hasan Rouhani condemned the deal saying there would be consequences for the more terrorists of only about if you ask his father how could you reach out your hands to israel and then you want to give them bases in the region all the severe consequences that will arise from this or on you as you are the ones doing something illegal against the regional security. Now the number of people affected by floods in sudan has risen to more than 650000 tens of thousands of homes have been damaged by the unprecedented rise of the river nile and as its waters recede residents are struggling to keep it up and make repairs correspondent have a morgan has more from cotton. This is what the inside of a lot this house looks like now weeks of flooding has damaged or destroyed much of what he has he says hes got no way of treating the water out hiring a water pump is costly and hes lost too much already but he says moving elsewhere after the floods is not an option. Shadier than my house is about 3 kilometers away from the dial and ive lived here for a number of years. Getting a plot to move elsewhere is costly with todays economy and me and my family cant afford it so all drain the water and hope this doesnt happen again next year at the lost his home is one of dozens that have been damaged in his village of collateral in the southern part of sudans capital hard to. Torrential rains caused the nile to rise to levels not seen in more than a century the resulting flood damage to well over 100000 homes around sudan most were just kilometers away as the river burst its banks wiping out villages and towns and displacing more than 600000 people and it forced the government to declare a 3 month state of emergency some chose to stay in their homes despite them being filled with water the land waters have begun receding after nearly 3 weeks and people in the area are hoping to start the recovery but there have been problems with the drainage system and its weakness can be seen on the streets of out of tune after rainfall since the start of the rainy season 2 months ago some of the major highways have been cut off schools and Health Facilities have either been damaged or destroyed its a site that repeats itself every year but meteorologists say this years rains are unprecedented so dans government says its focus is on helping those whove been displaced and preventing water borne diseases but more rains and floods are expected in the coming days and those displaced say the government needs to do more to help them and all their model for how. We want the government to give us a lot so that this doesnt happen again really who live in the banks of the nile we dont have the ability to buy new plots it should be the government giving us a plot so that the problem is addressed by the root and normal houses collapse from rained off until he gets a new plot this house is all that out the lot he has he says hell do what he can to get the water out so that he and his family can return to their home and start rebuilding people morgan and does their own hearts and. Venezuelan Security Forces have committed crimes against humanity with the knowledge and support of president Nicolas Maduro thats the finding of independent investigators commissioned by the uns top Human Rights Agency their report says police and military killed and tortured and protesters they also use tactics including arbitrary detentions the authors conclude the crimes were part of state policy and not isolated incidents thats all based on hundreds of interviews with victims and witnesses and that report also says if it is in venezuela fail to act the International Criminal court should open an investigation will pull sales as a member of the u. N. Fact finding mission on the ball of our own republic of venezuela he says the evidence shows that president mature and members of his government supported those tactics. The findings are i think very clear that what we say is that in addition to. Formal policies the government since 24. 00 team won an allusion to. The martin crying under which many many people were killed due to the series of real association with several groups and the other policy in relation to what amounts to political suppression and the activities that were carried no not quite new to the organized in many ways on this nation in the looking at things like Cultural Institution killings and some of the spontaneous we do find the president and minister of interior ministry of defense and the directors of the relevant organizations of intelligence and more. We have no news and to submit it to the. And i do situation where independent and impartial investigations by the authorities in venezuela. Its not ours to. Make remains to the i. C. C. Important you can execute no mind what we can see is that if your thought is intense more than what do you want to do now quite clearly or those within your recent scenes minute so those investigations well Us Democratic president ial candidate joe biden has kicked off his campaign in florida he is seeking the support of hispanic voters thats ever both biden and president on trial florida is seen as a must win state and he got a report from miami. If joe biden wants to win in november as president ial election hell need the majority of floridians to back him including this states crucial latino vote is the former Vice President knows theres a lack of enthusiasm and deep mistrust of what the Republican Party calls his socialist agenda this then is a chance for biden to convince hispanic voters who make of 20 percent of flour does a lecture it that hes a man dont jump is fairly Spending Community time and time again and thats not a secret whether its in his heinous act of separating children from the families on our border or his repeated attacks on dreamers or neglected the people in puerto rico after Hurricane Maria or his repeated failure to make sure essential workers have the personal protective equipment they need im going to be good to go down as almost crested president s in American History republican attack ads have been hitting home in this battleground state many like bidens politics to nations latinos fled a message that resonates with conservative voters 5th will his administration will lean too far to the left the biden campaigns hitting back spending millions targeting voters with Spanish Language ads Democratic Party organizers say the Republican Party is playing with peoples emotions. When will pop into their ear. Meaning. President trump launched his latinos for Truck Campaign last year and hes continued to court hispanic voters across the country despite the fact that latinos historically vote democratic polls in florida show a tight race between the 2 candidates but many hispanic americans came here to pursue the American Dream right came we all want the america i want the American Dream we all want the American Dream just isnt if you look at what theyre asking for its like the american nightmare which many in the Democratic Party in florida have reportedly been urging joe biden to pay more attention to the latino. Vote for months Hillary Clinton narrowly lost to President Trump here in 2016 but beat the president in support from latinos by a large margin its long been said that all roads to the white house go through florida both candidates a keenly aware of the importance of this state and its latino voters in this president ial election latino voters may be the hardest force over and ultimately the most crucial and gallacher aljazeera miami florida. Now the former head of wild athletics has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to prison the case against him in d. X. Centers around a scheme which covered up russian doping in exchange for primes david stokes reports. I mean diac was the most powerful man in athletics for 16 years but on wednesday in a dramatic fall from grace he was found guilty of corruption at a court in paris hes been convicted of multiple charges including accepting more than 3000000. 00 in hush money from russian athletes in return for covering up their doping offenses the 87 year old from senegal was sentenced to 4 years in prison with 2 of them suspended and find nearly 600000. 00 his legal team confirmed they will appeal far to see if this is your this decision is unfair and inhumane unfair because we see that the judges have tried to be politically correct and of wanted to use mr jack as a scapegoat. Diac was originally charge 5 years ago hes been under house arrest in paris ever since and the case has attracted global attention it was a big question on the table. It was the 1st. One of the case involving. Leaders in the Indian Sports community so we understand that there was a big media team but it took a pressure its not the 1st time that a friend german english judge has difficulty trying to resist resist pressure. Diac was head of what was then called the r w f from 999 to 2015 his help in covering not russian doping and that many athletes who were cheating were able to keep competing at major events all at the expense of clean athletes to mask it says what i am a war you cant see the smile on my face with the mask but im very happy to have been recognised as a victim of the corruption by the leaders and im also happy for all the other athletes who are victims we need to continue to fight again. I dont think that the court had a guilty verdict of 5 other people including d. X. Son of a saturday ark who worked as a mock to consultant to the r w f when his father was in charge 15 1000000. 00 were funneled to his Companies Including commissions from t. V. Rights deals up of a subtle lives in senegal which is refusing to extradite him he was sentenced in absence to 5 years in prison and find more than 1000000. 00 as for his father the appeal keeps lamine diac out of jail for now he himself made no comment as he left the court david stokes 0. 00 again says al jazeera and these are the headlines Hurricane Sally is unleashing heavy rain and catastrophic flooding on the u. S. Gulf coast the storm has already cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes and forced some people to evacuate jay gray has more from may be an alabama. Were still getting a lashing from this storm in the brain continue to fall here in mobile alabama and given your parka look at some of the other conditions here you can see the wind is really nothing youve been throwing around pretty from here we know that these are down across this area we also know that theres never going to damage the buildings and homes here if you go down to mobile bay you can see the wind is pushing that water white obviously and this is been going on for hours and world can see him for several hours before were going to continue to do this driving rain across this region the National Weather service this morning the like we see his story wanting in many areas as a result of hurricane charley and the white house has approved oregons disaster declaration making it possible to access federal funds several wildfires continue to burn out of control and that western states. About a russian protest leader has been charged with undermining National SecurityMaria Kolesnikov is in jail in minsk she disappeared after being detained by maust men and ripped up her passport to avoid being sent to ukraine by force before her arrest she played a major role in organizing demonstrations against longtime need to add examine her sanka. And us house investigation blames boeings engineers and management for 2737 max crashes that killed 346 people the report says a series of decisions by the plane makers employees led to the crash of a lion and Ethiopian Airlines flight within 6 months of each other the whole feet the whole fleet to still grounded wild wind well those are the headlines next stop the inside story. Strikes in the telling of croydon values french unions thrust into all of the jobs they say now is the time to develop the rights and protection for their workers over the Global Economy struggling the governments response this is a thoughtful. Hello welcome to the program on iran call on the Economic Impacts of code 19 pandemic has been devastating looked around the world has forced many business