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Heading towards vietnam thousands of flood low lying areas in the capital hoshi min schools have been closed tembin made landfall in the philippines on friday causing flash floods and landslides and killing more than two hundred people and test reports. The scale of the destruction caused by Tropical Storm tembin is becoming clear as rescue workers reach remote communities heavy rains and winds of up to one hundred forty five kilometers an hour triggered landslides and flash flooding devastating to higher towns and villages on the island of mindanao the countrys second largest tens of thousands of people have been displaced and are spending christmas in emergency shelters. Are are you going to say you know. How. We have hundreds of thousands. With no hope at the moment and im sure that basically. The philippines is battered by around twenty major storms a year and tendin is one of the worst of two thousand and seventeen disaster Officials Say people ignored warnings to get out of coast
This is aljazeera. And this is the news hour live from london coming up hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated from the south in vietnam as authorities prepare for the rival of Tropical Storm intended. Place for jerusalem the pope francis calls for dialogue between israelis and palestinians in his Christmas Day message. The u. N. Says the world is now experiencing record levels of displaced people as thousands continue to make the dangerous trusting africa to europe. And spends all Emirates Airline flights up to the u. S. Aid to ninety two million women entry citing security concerns. Im tatiana all the days news including a look ahead to a Christmas Day rematch of last seasons n. B. A. Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the table and catalyst. Tropical storm tembin is heading towards vietnam after leaving a trail of destruction across the southern philippines about one Million People have been evacuated from vietnams southern areas where the government has warned mor
And im Maryam Namazie in london heres a quick roundup of you had lines on aljazeera authorities in vietnam a vast more than a Million People to leave their homes in low lying areas along the Southern Coast before Tropical Storm tembin makes landfall Officials Say seventy four thousand have already been moved to safety from vulnerable areas tembin is moving southward and is expected to pass the province of some our one choose day before entering the gulf of thailand well the storm has already killed two hundred thirty people in the philippines where it calls the devastating landslides and flash floods thousands of people are being forced to spend christmas in emergency shelters after their homes were destroyed while mcbride has this update from the worst hit island of mindanao. Here in the city of hillah again as darkness falls people here as elsewhere in parts of mindanao are assessing the damage from the storm that passed from the landslides that happened from the torrents of muddy wa
A president ial runoff that will see its first democratic transition of power in seventy years or more football star george way is taking on the countrys Vice President joseph book of candidates a promise to revive liberias struggling economy and kick start Infrastructure Projects awful storm ten ben has now been downgraded to a tropical depression after a failed to make landfall in vietnam ten has already caused death and destruction in the philippines are more than two hundred people have been killed robin pride has more from the island of mindanao in the philippines the area worst hit by the storm. This is the township of too bad its probably one of the worst affected areas of one of the worst affected provinces in mindanao we are down river that was the site of a surge of water that came through here if i can stand back and just give you a quick look at the kind of damage and trail of destruction that it left a torrent of water came down here leaving all of these boulders some of t