Flee as a typhoon hits the philippines. It is 200 days and counting. Al jazeera staff imprisoned in egypt reach a grim milestone. And im robin adams with all the sports. Including. Its not that we found a reason to bash qatar, well find another reason to bash qatar. Qatar speaks about the criticism of their hosting the 2022 world cup. Tense of thousands of palestinians are fleeing their home, desperate to escape as israel intensified their assault on gaza. They gathered up their belongings as israel dropped leaflets about air strikes. Human rights watch has been watching. One israeli has been killed by a rocket fired from gaza. Palestinian death toll is rising, 208 have been killed. 39 are children, aged 16 or younger. So for on the ninth day of the assault, 1,530 palestinians have been wounded. We talk about the supposed military targets that israel has chosen, but the political targets, so if you take a look behind you you can show what the damage can be. This is what is left of a mans home, one of the 40 struck last night. Its part of an israely campaign. This is striking the home of military official, he was a toplevel political aid. The israelis hit his first house, killed one of his children, wounding him and his wife. Another son was killed in another confrontation. This is a guy who has a long and winding tail. Nevertheless the argument that you hear from people in gaza is that these are political officials. They are not targeted with air strikes. Israel called places like this military command centers. 400 homes have been destroyed. 4,000 like the one away from me destroyed. A new tactic increasingly used. Many people told to get out of their homes have moved down close to where they were, you were talking to some of them a few hours ago. What are the difficulties, if they manage to escape what is potentially a war zone. You are right. This is the notice many of them got dropped in the air saying by 8 oclock be out of your homes. We saw some in a local school. The problem is they were told to get out of their homes. They came downtown to gaza city, and there were ceasefire talks. They wept home, many of them, by the thousands, and told to leave again. They did. Then they came back. Now theres so many people coming here that there isnt enough room. A lot of them are staying outside. Here is a city where a lot of people are doing without water, some for two weeks. You only have eight hours of electricity a day. They cant pump the water up to the top of these homes. Because of the blockade around gaza, and the conflict, the banks are closed and people that have money cant get it out in order to get food. The United Nations and other groups are giving food to 80 of the population of this place of 1. 8 million. They warp this could humanitarian catastrophe. Undoubtedly, you are talking about self hundred, if not thousands of people. We are talking about tens of thousands fleeing their homes. Up to 100,000 are told they should get out. Where are they going to stay . That is the big question. You have asked it. Nobody here answered it. They are coming here. Many will stay at the schools. We saw two hours after the deadline people forced to stay outdoors. Lord knows how many days theyll do that. If this drags out well have people overflowing the outdoor areas, and who knows. Maybe theyll buping up in people bunking up in peoples homes or in the street. The problem is feeding them, giving them the water they need, especially at the end of a long ramadan day. None of these questions have been aped to date answered to date. You talk about the power and the water. In terms of the movement of the people, how are they getting down from the north into gaza city. Are you seeing roads jampacked with vehicles, people on foot carrying belongings. How is it working . We have seen pickup trucks, full of people and their belong oings, none have an illusion that much will be left. We talked to a woman whose home was levelled, she says, by an f16 strike. You are right, some of these people cannot afford the fuel, dont have the vehicles to get here. The leaflet the Australian Military sends out tells them to take a specific route to the nearby town. And the rest of them the lucky one, have come here to where they may have hope of getting a better treatment. Really there isnt enough room for all these people. Thank you very much, indeed, reporting live from gaza city on the exodus of hundreds if not thousands from the north of the gaza strip during the israeli bombardment. You can keep up to date on the development of what is happening in gaza on the website videos. Analysis behind the scenes. Reports by our correspondents and blogs. Thats all at aljazeera. Com. Syrias president Bashar Alassad is being sworn in for another seven years in office of the the inauguration which we see pictures of taking place at the president ial palace north of the capital damascus. [ music ]. The opposition condemned last month, three years into a civil war, calling it a charade, the election several thousands were unable to vote. The victory gives his leadership fresh legitimacy, and the president talking to the invited audience right now. Joining us in the studio, political analyst for the doha institute, arab center for research. This is a president who possibility a year ago could not have imagined he would be in a strong pos right now, no position right now, no matter what people say about the legitimacy of the vote. Is that right. His speech today was like a declaration of victory. He was telling everyone here i am, im still here. I survived what has happened over the past three years. You have failed to bring me down, ill serve as the president for the next seven years. I have a popular mandate. The election gives me legitimacy, and that was the main message in his speech. Is there any way he could find ims upseated from himself unseated from power. Its a rarer possibility. Today we know that most of the regional and International Players are getting less interested in especially im talking about the United States. Indeed, russia and iran, of course, are supporting the regime. The United States is becoming interested in having a desize ivictory by the opposition of the regime. President obama was clear when he said there should be no illusion that this fragmented opposition in a way would be would remove the regime of Bashar Alassad. And Bashar Alassad will say to the people, if he hasnt said so in his address this war shouldnt go on for this hang, i can offer you some stability, even if its more of what you had before. They are wary of the conflict. Most syrians would like the conflict to end. Theyd like to go back to stability. The president was trying to say that this is the end of the geneva process, therell be no talk about a Transitional Government formed from both the opposition and the regime as the geneva one declaration of june 30th, 2012, says. I think hes going to propose Something Like a unity government formed from, perhaps, what we call loyal potential in the country, in order to say that here is my plan to restore peace and order and security to the country. Thank you very much, indeed. We are looking at pictures out of damascus from the president ial palace in syria. The president Bashar Alassad now being sworn in, already sworn in for a third term as president. Worth perhaps listening to a few of his word before we move on. Translation we see in iraq and lebanon, and in syria and all the nations that this false arab spring, and its the credibility of what we warned about. We should soon see that all the arab nations that have supported terrorism will pay the price dearly, and many are backward and very late, and after so late. The battle of Syrian People are fighting to defend his sovereignty, will stand beyond the borders of many peoples who have suffered sooner or later this terrorism. President Bashar Alassad talking at this moment in the syrian capital damascus. Putting forward his vision three years into the countrys civil war, having been elected. Many said the election was fraudulent, a chaar ard, but having been elected for a third 7year term. Now, there are to be vigils in the next few hours for the three al jazeera journalists you saw on your screen who have spent 200 days in an egyptian prison. They have been sentenced for allegedly helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood. Charges they and al jazeera rejected. Peter greste and Mohamed Fadel fahmy from given seven years. Baher mohamed was given seven and three added on because he had in his possession a spent bullet casing which he picked up at a protest. Al jazeera continues to demand the journalists be freed. Well, on this 200th day thousands called for their release on social media. Here is a tweet from anthea 2 200 wasted days. We need them back. This is something of a command . And the uks channel 4 team in gaza, Jonathan Miller says the activist group has been campaigning for the release of our producer Mohamed Fadel fahmy, an egyptian and canadian citizen and pulled together 47,000 citizens calling on the canadian Prime MinisterSteven Harper to take urgent action. The executive director of the International Press institute joins us from vienna. You would expect us here to be partisan to call for their release. Why should the outside world be concerned . Well, if you silence the voce of a journalist, you silence a community. That is really not part of democracy. Thats not part of engaging the community in the political process. That is why its important. That is why you have a lot of citizens members of civil society, regular citizens joining in the International Solidarity among media, to call for the release of the journalists. And yet there are many hundreds of thousands of people imprisoned for what they describe as their conscience. That is what happened to our three. They dont get the headlines, do they . No, they dont. Unfortunately, not enough. There are a lot of people, as you mentioned, who are in gaol on a number of trumped up charges, or because theyve participated in a rally that is deemed antigovernment. And yet, you know, we focus at the weres institute on the meed press institute on the media, because we think the media holds a special pleas in society. We are aware, and add our voice behind those that call for people who are arrested because of their freedom of expression, what they expressed. We recognise that. And i am sure that there are a lot of people saying, you know, there are three journalists and they are in gaol around the world. Of course, we are encouraging all the people in the world, when they talk about freeing the al jazeera journalist to not forget all of the journalists in gaol in ethiopia and vietnam and the other major countries. 200 days is a long time. It is a very, very long time. Here we follow every twist and turn in this story. We know what is being said and rumoured. From your point of view, just give people out there an idea of what sort of noises are coming from the egyptian authorities about the possibility of their release. Yes, you know, we were encouraged maybe a little by what the president the egyptian president said recently, but, you know, of course, our comment has been lets pardon them, pardon them so they can be released. We understand from some of our colleagues that the appeals process might need to be exhausted before a pardon will be considered. Then, of course, we have heard from our media colleagues in australia, that the egyptian ambassador in australia had said that it is unlikely that they the journalists can expect a pardon. So we are not sure what to believe. This is why we think its important not just today, but every day to keep up the noise about the imprisoned journalist and to send out tweets and facebook postings et cetera asking for the release of these journalists, and bringing it to the attention of the public at large. I liked the tweet you read that said let my people go. Exactly. Let our people go. Dont forget fro hashtag free aj staff. We will not forget. Lets hope everyone remembers. Thats the three al jazeera journalist, 200 days in prison. More to come the worlds top five emerging economies agree to create a new bank. And why many are trying to escape honduras and start a new life in the United States. A man leading germany to a series of titles. Details coming up. China said it ended Drilling Operations near the parasol islands. They have been the scene of a number of clashes between the chinese and vietnam he is ships. Les go to rob mcbride. I should add that china ended it, having found gas and oil. Thats right. It says that its exploratory rig will be there for two months. Its two months. Its withdrawing its rig. It said it has found traces of oil and gas. What needs to be done is assess whether it will lead to deposits to make them viable. If they are economically viable. The next question is will china make the decision to place permanent rigs down there to create a new oil field in the disputed aparts. That would take the whole dispute to a new level. These are waters that vietnam claims it has seoul economic interest. If there are deposits, vietnam should exploit them. Its part of the process of making a permanent presence by china in the parasol islands. Last month they announced they were setting up a school for children of soldiers, and workme based on the island. And this group of islands has been turned into an effective Administrative Center for more remote groups of islands throughout the whole South China Sea. Help us with where the islands are in relation to china and vietnam. They are not very close to china itself. They fall pretty much equal distance between china and vietnam. They are pretty remote. They have been fought over for decades between the two countries, there was a bloody encounter in 1974, 40 years ago, when china asserted its control offer the islands and occupied them. Both vietnam and china claimed them for hundreds of years, vietnam saying its been demrating the islands adminize traiting them for hun dreads of years. As in all of these disputes, possession is nine tenths of the law and china is very much in possession. It seems difficult, hard to see a scenario when china would agree to withdraw from them. Theres oil, gas. China wants them, vietnam wants them, we have seen ugly scenes. Give us a sense of the confrontation that there is between the two countries over the islands. It has been very tough for vietnam, for various historical reasons. Vietnam is a country in southeast asia, finding itself with few friends. One of the biggest is bigger neighbour china, upon which it depends for trade. Vietnam has been exposed. It hasnt had an alliance with the United States to fall back on, which the philippines and jaban has. Theyve been isolated. They have taken their cause to the international media, they have invited foreign journal lifts like ourselves, to be embedded. They are in a weak position. Rather like a number of other countries, neighbours of the china, finding themselves the weaker partner in their disputes with and assertive china and their disputes throughout the South China Sea and east china sea. At least 10 have decide as a power of the typhoon moves across the philippines. Warnings of surges and floods has brought hundreds of thousands trying to find safe ground. The typhoon battered the area for a few hours. In that time it caused damage. Drng winds blue down the lines, leaving a third of the ski without power. Several areas have been flooded and roads closed. The government says it is working overtime to get life back to normal. Looep up operations is cleanup operations is number one. Restoration of facilities is a priority. Over 50,000 people have been told to evacuate homes and businesses. Many are stranded. Some people say the government could have been better prepared and should have learnt its lessons a long time ago. This is the biggest storm to hit the country since the typhoon last year. The government said it is improving the did asker prepare Disaster Preparedness programme. This is one of hundreds living in disaster zones. They are the most vulnerable in the philippines. This man says hes been through this many times before, so he braces for the worst. What else can we do, when a typhoon hits, we suffer, endure. When its over, we fix our homes. Its all right like that. People say help from the government is too slow in coming. So they rebuild on their own. Doing the best they can, with what little they have. As they were talking there, our meteorologist talking about the storm surge, rising waters. Is it as bad there as it was where the pictures were taken, or what . Its calming down. The worst is over. If we look at the satellite we see where its going next. You can see the storm working across the area. And its covering a huge area, and doesnt have a welldephotocopied eye. It gives you an idea that it was disruptive. The sea is the Energy Source. Once it goes across land it doesnt lose its strength. Having said that, it has not completely lost its strength. Sustained wind are 165 canadiens, making the the equif 165 k hr. What will happen now is it will run its way across the seas. This is the Energy Source so it can gain strength. Theres strong wened, stopping it gaping too much strength. It will strengthen, but only a fraction, and run towards land. Because it covers a huge area, when it gets near land well see it has for example. It will ease off again. By the time it makes land fall in southern china, it will have winds about the same as at the moment. The equivalent of a category 2 hurricane. Thank you very much indeed. A u. S. Missile strike in pakistan killed 18 suspected taliban fighters. It struck a down in north waziristan. The pakistani millry is involved in an offensive in that area. Drone strikes beginning in june. We go live to islamabad. The details are what. The details that we are getting is the u. S. Drone strike fired four missiles, one on a house. And the reports are coming from spell gent sources. It must be understood that there is nobody in that area except military sources. They are conducting a largescale operation. The military said its own fixed