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 NationalDisaster 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. 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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