A change in style but not in substance japans new Prime Minister expected to continue his predecessors agenda. Thank you for joining us a slow moving storm is pummeling parts of the u. S. With torrential rain and winds of up to 165 kilometers an hour former hurrican and now Tropical Storm sally is the 2nd powerful storm to hit the gulf coast in less than 3 weeks and more are on the way 7 storms are currently brewing in the atlantic. Sally made landfall early on wednesday between alabama and florida flooding homes and streets along the coast half a 1000000 homes and businesses have lost power moving at an agonizingly slow pace of about 5 kilometers an hour sally will make its way to central georgia. Where forecasters are warning of serious flash flooding losing strength she is expected to continue on a curved pass across South Carolina before petering out on friday at the bottom of North Carolina alexy obrien reports. Early morning in mobile alabama brought a battering from Hurricane Sally. Trees uprooted splinted by the howling wind city streets piled with daybreak only a few braving the elements to survey the damage and stop what could be. Making landfall as a category 2 storm its not sally size thats the main concern but its speed moving so slowly its threatening days of rain with forecasters talking 3 flooding still to come jordan muse fled her home in pensacola florida to shelter in a hotel. As the storm moved in the wind packed a punch leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power the driving rain swamped streets and surges of sea water cools flash floods dozens of people had to be rescued from their homes. For you. Sally is the 2nd hurricane to hit the gulf coast in less than 3 weeks and one of the busiest Hurricane Seasons ever earlier this week sally was just one of 5 storms chanting in the atlantic hurricane tate is developing out at sea with forecasters predicting it could become a catastrophic catch agree for storm and. Well i mean gallagher is in Miami Florida for a sunday whats the situation like there now well it seems that florida has really borne the brunt of hurricane sali it came ashore in the early hours of wednesday morning in alabama but quickly turned to the east flooding the streets of places like pensacola youve got about half a 1000000 people across a couple of different states now without power thats typical of a storm d of this strength but the real key thing about Hurricane Sally and a lot of other hurricanes weve seen lately is that its moving at an agonizing pace as you said about 5 Kilometers Per Hour that means its lingering over the state of florida causing problems in louisiana as well and even as far west as mississippi so this is a big storm its a very powerful its what Climate Change scientists have been talking about for at least the past 2 to 3 Hurricane Seasons that hurricanes are in fact getting stronger getting wetter and getting slower remember hurricane laura just last month which hit the coast of louisiana was on the most powerful storms on record picked up a tremendous amount of speed in the last few hours before it slammed into that coastline now weve had no reports of any faith how it is at the moment the people across a wide swathe of the Southern United States are being told to watch this storm very closely indeed its now been downgraded to a Tropical Storm but still potentially dangerous. And dandy what about the several other storms there where hearing are brewing in the atlantic do we know the kind of threat that they could pose and also crucially where they could hit. Well we dont know that yet but i think the point here is that weve never had this many storms that have been named at one since the 1970 s. Every year the National Hurricane center in miami comes up with its designated names that uses most of the letters in the alphabet the next named storm is jew to be called wilfred and thats it thats the end of the designations from the National Hurricane center they will have to then move on to the greek alphabet that has only happened once before in a Hurricane Season back in 2004 so that just shows you what a big busy atlantic Hurricane Season we are having but i think the wider point is here the storms do seem to be in certainly in my experience get slower more powerful and wetter and potentially more catastrophic. And the l. A. With the latest there from miami in florida and they for the moment thank you well while the east coast of the u. S. Is battered by Hurricane Sally the west coast is battling massive wildfires 5 federal search and rescue teams have now been deployed to the state of oregon as part of a 1200000. 00 relief effort from the government but 800000 square kilometers of woodland in the states of washington california and oregon have been destroyed by fire with several small towns burned to the ground and at least 34 confirmed deaths all right reynolds joins us live now from portland in oregon a state at the center of the wildfire emergency as we were hearing well rob those fires have been raging for days now give us a picture of how the authorities there are coping. Well barbara the people of oregon got some welcome good news this wednesday morning the firefighters on the front lines are achieving a greater limit measure of control over some of the major wildfires that have been burning all across the state that includes the largest and deadliest fire the socalled alameda fire which burned down several towns completely in Southern Oregon the improvements are lucky that that fire is 100 percent contained now why because the weather has changed it is much less hot it is more humid and a lot of that is due to this incredible hall of smoke thats covering the whole area which you can easily see behind me looks like fog its not fog you can see the sun up above just a red guess meaning that there are no clouds in the sky this is all toxic smoke and despite the good news there are still tens of thousands of people who are either who are displaced they had to evacuate theyre sleeping in their cars or theyre bunking with friends and so on and as you mentioned so many acres have or hectors have been charred in this state and california its a different story it still wont dry and ripe for more fires and more fire growth is one fire the socalled bobcat fire burning east of los angeles its proving particularly troublesome and fierce for firefighters there. Has been trying to. Save the mt wilson astronomical absorber deserve atory its a Historic Building that is the site of many fundamental discoveries about the nature of the universe. And there have been evacuations in the san gabriel suburbs of los angeles with 24 People Killed in california and the until so really heavy rain start for early in the autumn months perhaps weeks from now these fires are likely to continue to Burt Reynolds of the latest there from portland in oregon rob us thank you. United nations investigation has accused Venezuelan Security forces of crimes against humanity backed by president Nicolas Maduro the independent Investigators Say Police and military killed and tortured and team of the protesters their investigation was based on hundreds of interviews with victim victims and witnesses they say the crimes were part of state policy and if the government fails to act the case should be referred to the International Criminal court wholesales is one of the investigators and authors of that United Nations report he says the evidence shows that president maduro and members of his government supported the tactics. The findings i think very clearly what we see is that in addition to. Formal policies the. Government since 20. 1 an allusion to. The martin name under which many many people were killed due to the serial real association with several groups on the other policy in relation to the governments to political suppression and the activities that were carried no newton organized in many ways nation when things went. On and the institution killings and some of the spontaneous we do find the president the minister of interior minister of finance and the directors of all the musicians of intelligence a move in the news and producer of the. And i do situation where independent and impartial investigations by the authorities in venezuela. Thats not what i was. Nicknamed to see for next week you know monday what we can see is that if you thought it is intense well what do you have to do now quite clearly those with an unison since 900 so those investigations a bell of protest leader who disappeared after being detained by masked men has been charged with undermining National Security maryalice think of is in jail in minsk after ripping apart passport to avoid being sent to ukraine by force before her arrest that she played a major role in organizing demonstrations against longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko hes accused of rigging last months president ial election that fast said is in minsk for us she says almost all of the Opposition Leader as of either being locked up or forced to flee. These charges are actually cried brought 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 prosperous avoiding being deported to ukraine she has turned 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 to create it 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 still to come on aljazeera south africa eases coronavirus restrictions opening borders to travelers with a negative covert 1000. 00 test a horrific culmination of failure as a u. S. Congress report slams boeing and regulators for 2 deadly crashes. Hello there still some nice warm sunshine across much of Central Europe also fairly clear on the satellite want to bits and pieces of cloud nothing more than that because the pentagon streaming in across these Northern Areas and still are all the stuff and are in a pressure just sitting here now slowly drifting towards the eastern end of the mediterranean but warm and sunny in paris and damages have been and will stay above average for the next few days. Not just in france as well across into germany as well temperatures have been a little bit above average but its the fire fine and sunny as well so people out about enjoying that nice weather now as we go through thursday theres actually a front sweeping across the region thats what this line of rain is here little bit cooler behind little bit of cloud around as well and some heavy rain really pushing across into Western Areas of russia but through thursday the rain beginning to push across into Northern Spain and portugal and really becoming quite widespread on friday some heavy downpours at times and the ground has been very dry so this could lead to some localized flooding Central Regions remain fine and dry so for london for the next few days too much is about the average but some a nice sunshine sunny to round out the week rather more cloud around on sunday and then in paris again touches actually do dip down by about sunday this cloud and rain showers there but it certainly bit cooler madrid and fairly unsubtle for the next couple of days. Destruction and despair a group of friends resist. Rescuing books from the rubble theyve built a refuge for freedom and democracy. A secret library of hope from which they endeavor to rewrite their story and that of their country. To witness. Bombs on aljazeera. Youre the the all. Of the back is a reminder of the top stories on aljazeera a powerful weather system is pummeling the United States gulf coast with life threatening storm surges and 165 kilometers an hour winds Hurricane Sally weekend to 12 Tropical Storm several hours after making landfall in alabama un investigators have accused the venezuelan government of crimes against humanity looting the killing and torturing of protesters a Fact Finding Mission found at reasonable grounds to believe president maduro or did the crimes to silence oppression. And the prominent protest leader has been charged with undermining National Security or realistic over has been held in jail in minsk since last week when she ripped the perp passports to avoid being expelled to ukraine. South africas coronavirus restrictions are being rolled back after a decline in the number of infections president serialism oppose us says the country will move to alert level one as of midnight on sunday curfew hours will be refused to between midnight and 4 am 100 people will be allowed to attend Funerals International travel will also be allowed from october we have with. Not by a storm. Now is the time to turn our country its people and our economy to a situation that is more normal. But more to zumba is the lives that we were living 6 months ago. It is time to move to what will become. What we call our new normal put as long as the cauldron of violence is with us welcoming to miller is in johannesburg for a set for me to south africa of course one of the worst hit places in africa by the coronavirus give us a picture of what the situation is there like they are now and what reaction there is being as well to the announcement by the government. Well about 2 months ago south africa had an average of about 12000 new cases every day thats now reduced to about 2000 cases and of course has a little government to ease restrictions that have been in place for about 6 months now in many instances for straightening South Africans in that this was one of the strictest lockdowns in the world now level one is the lowest level of the 5 have been imposed over the past months and the easing of restrictions is very much as the president has said previously around trying to boost the economy allow the economy to recover as far as possible to try to create growth as well as rebuild the economy really now the biggest the announcement for South Africans is that borders will reopen the president has says that it will gradually and cautiously the government will gradually incautiously ease restrictions on International Flights flights will only be allowed in and to south africa through 3 of the biggest airports in the country of course people traveling to south africa and from south africa will have to undergo corona virus tests and not more not less than 72 hours i beg your pardon from the time that they fly if people dont have a negative coronavirus result when interests of africa theyll have to observe a mandatory quarantine but this is really important for the economy in that the Tourism Industry has been you know almost decimated by the restrictions put in place you havent had a foreign currency moving into south africa hundreds of thousands of jobs in that industry have been lost in fact one study says there is many as 3000000 jobs have been lost across various sectors in south africa so this of course is the greatest concern and the hope is that opening the borders will allow for recovery of the economy South Africans really happy about this latest move but i think also key for south africa. Is that at the beginning of the corona virus pandemic or it reaching south african shores there was concern that so that it would be devastated by the outbreak and that there would be potentially a 1000000 deaths there have been about 16000 just under 16000 and about 8650000 people affected or infected by the corona virus and at this point and 89 percent recovery rate so this really has a boost his optimism in south africa in that its able to now ease those restrictions and stephanie hope that the optimism is justified for the moment for me to miller in johannesburg for me to think you know indias official tally of coronavirus cases is now past 5000000 thats the 2nd globally only to the United States more than 90000 new cases have been recorded in the past 24 hours and the true number of infected people though is thought to be much higher because of a relatively small Testing Program in a nation of more than a 1000000000 people more than 82000 people have died of covert 19 across india. 2 fatal air crashes which left 346 people dead have been blamed on the horrific culmination of failures by plane maker boeing and the Us Federal Aviation Authority the 737 max was grounded last yea