ok deborah was in which hannah is regional director for amnesty international in southern africa he joins me now from johannesburg mr much and it's good to have you on welcome to news africa we know that attacks on people with albinism in malawi typically tend to spike around an election period and election is coming up in may what's what is behind that. thank you very much for having me is generally true that there are moments in which a tux ticket spike and election mormons are one of them because of the existence of a deep seated culture of false beliefs that bourne's on body parts of a person with albinism give you lucky charms but there is a general problem in the country often talks of people are going to. people with albinism discrimination and deep seated feelings that the commune our justice system is failing so there is a culture of impunity to sawyer at all times you are likely to find abductions killings in the talks so it might not necessarily be a good elections but it's a general problem that requires decisive leadership all right and speaking about decisive leadership we'r

let's do business farmers across parts of southern africa where just about to harvest when the cyclon hit now it's all gone no food no medicine to treat disease as the floods recede you know we had for a structure a billion dollars worth washed away according to the united nations and that's a huge problem in getting to the survivors and bringing them help the disaster has struck almost three million people most of them in mozambique. a man on his motorbike apparently there used to be a street here the water still hasn't drained away not from the heavily overgrown fields which were just about ready for harvest everything the farmers in this area have to live off comes from this land. and know one. thing only god knows how i can survive here is nothing. the reconstruction will take years and how will they even rebuild if there's nothing to eat the farmers have lost their entire crop i'm talking about trees are gone for all types of fruits and vegetables and corn in maize and the list goes on so one entire year's worth of food for this community for this part of the world is gone and th

care for southern africa aid organization i thank you sir and good luck with your work thank you so much. all right let's bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world from the border to the u.n. court has a u.n. court rather has ordered former bosnian serb leader radovan kerridge to spend the rest of his life in jail for war crimes a panel of appeals judges upheld his original twenty sixteen conviction for atrocities committed during the balkans war including a massacre of bosnian muslims in seventy so the court said his original forty year sentence was too light. google has been fined one point five billion euros by the european union's antitrust watchdog the competition commission says the internet giant abused its dominant position to stifle competition in the advertising market the find takes google's total penalties from the european union to more than eight billion euros over the past two years a court in the united states has ruled that the weed killer round up was a factor in causing cancer in the seventy year old man well this is the seco

when you look at what is happening in southern africa, what do you think? what we are seeing a course is tragic, and we have seen this too often in recent years. storms that intensify more rapidly and produce far larger amounts of rainfall, flooding rain fall like we saw with this storm. we are warming up the planet, warming up the oceans. that puts more moisture into the atmosphere, puts more energy into these storms and we have seen unprecedented super storms and hurricanes around the world in recent yea rs hurricanes around the world in recent years and of course it is taking its toll in terms of damage and human life. do you expect much more of it? if we continue to burn carbon fossil fuels and put carbon pollution into the atmosphere and warm the planet, then, yes, these storms will continue to intensify and will produce larger amounts of flooding rainfall. in the us, we have seen the two worst flooding events during the last two years in the form of hurricane harvey two yea rs the form of hurricane harvey two years ago and hurricane florence a years a

rescue teams are struggling to reach survivors six days after cyclone idai hit southern africa. in the city of beira, aid workers say they have only two to three days of clean water left. and this story is trending at bbc.com. can you tell who it is? it's one of the many democratic presidential candidates. it's supposed to be a huge representation of beto 0'rourke. you're up to date. stay with bbc world news. and our top story here in the uk:

the devastation caused by cyclone idai in southern africa — we report from one of the worst affected areas. hello and welcome to bbc news. after almost two years, the special counsel's investigation into alleged collusion between russia and president donald trump's 2016 campaign has come to an end. robert mueller has delivered his report to the us attorney general. the reuters news agency is reporting that the main conclusions of the report will be made public, according to a justice department official. we've also heard from the justice department that there wil be no further indictments recommended by mr mueller. more than 30 people have already been indicted — or made a plea — in the course of the investigation so far. let's go to our north america correpsondent david willis labour is said to be a comprehensive report, ben, hand delivered to the attorney general, william barr, a man who only took up that office a week ago. he is reviewing it as we speak and said that he expects to be able to release at least the core findings, the top line is, if you like, two senior lawmakers

and zimbabwe is the latest country in the south in southern africa to feel the force of tropical cyclone addai thirty one people have now been killed and dozens are missing after flash floods swept away votes roads and bridges was to almost killed one hundred people in malawi and mozambique . ok let's go back to those attacks in new zealand and the suspect charged with the shooting is from australia our port to. his hometown in grafton that's in the state of new south wales and she found a community trying to distance itself from him. it's dawn in the sleepy provincial town of grafton is waking up to another day of reflection about the horrific events in christ church and its connection to it brenton tarrant spent at least the first twenty years of his life in grafton before travelling around the world he went to the local school and worked as a personal trainer in a gym his alleged attack on two mosques in christ church last week has deeply disturbed religious leaders in his home town we've got the inside to you now to set up you know a role we also carrying out all of the people that a

and hundreds of thousands of lives at risk across southern africa in the wake of cycling he died. rescue teams struggling to reach survivors after the storm slammed into mozambique zimbabwe and malawi there with you guys . first the e. u.'s donald tusk says that britian we'll be granted a short brexit delay but only if parliament approves prime ministerr theheresa m mays withdrawal agreement. that dale has already been rejected twiwice by and peace in the e. u. says it's not open to renegotiation.

the devastation caused by cyclone idai in southern africa — we report from one of the worst affected areas. at the inquest into the victims of the birmingham pub bombings almost 45 years ago, a witness names four ira men he says were responsible. exactly a week after 50 people were killed in two mosques here in christchurch in new zealand, the whole country pauses to remember the dead. commentator: sterling going for a hat—trick and scoring a hat—trick! and raheem sterling steals the show, as england thrash the czech republic in their opening euro 2020 qualifier. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news, birmingham city drop to 18th in the championship after they were handed a nine—point deduction for breaching profitability and sustainability rules. good evening. theresa may has written to mps tonight, spelling out the options now open to parliament and the government — as she comes under intense pressure to find a way forward on brexit. the uk was meant to leave the eu in a week's time — on march 29th. but after theresa may failed twice to get her withdrawal deal through th

this road is a trading lifeline for southern africa. survivors of the flooding have found a way across farmland that has become a swamp. they have told of many deaths in the countryside beyond. a lot of people have died in my village. we saw the bodies of 76 people and today, we found four more. we continued on foot. thanks to the kindness of locals, who want the world to see what has happened to their lives. 0n the other side, another driver to negotiate the battered road. where dozens negotiate the battered road. where d oze ns of negotiate the battered road. where dozens of taken shelter. little protection from the rains. now there are reports of cholera. disease is the inevitable consequence of so many living in such terrible conditions. this 76—year—old war vetera n conditions. this 76—year—old war veteran has come to fish. and while scientists assess the cause of the job — the cause of the weather, he says it is the worst he has known. job — the cause of the weather, he says it is the worst he has knownlj was born in s

rescue teams are struggling to reach survivors six days after cyclone idai hit southern africa. in the city of beira, aid workers say they have only two to three days of clean water left. and this story is trending at bbc.com. can you tell who it is? it's one of the many democratic presidential candidates. it's supposed to be a huge representation of beto o'rourke. you're up to date. stay with bbc world news. and our top story here in the uk: increases in the cost of food and alcohol helped to push inflation higher last month. the rate of price changes rose to 1.9%. now on bbc news, live to singapore for asia business report. the federal reserve on hold. the us central bank says it now expects no rate rises this year, as the world's largest economy slows down. denham is back on wall street, the iconic jeans brand levi strauss is set to make its return to the top market. good morning asia, hello world, how are you out there? glad you could join us for another exciting addition of asia business report, and rico hizon. now let's start off with the us in the country's central bank h

all right while we shift our focus now to southern africa where rescue workers in mozambique have widened the search for survivors of a powerful a cycling that ripped through southern africa one week ago causing devastating floods and turning mozambique's worst hit area of beirut in an inland as seen more than two hundred forty people are confirmed dead in the country and several thousand more still need to be rescued search efforts have been hampered by a broken infrastructure and more rain is expected in the coming days. we are now joined by solid butters he is assistant director for mozambique for the aid organization care he joins us from the city in the puto a very good evening sara working you tell us about the ongoing rescue efforts. they're all over. the water that was really hurting our. health and well saved by. the estimated size of the flooding is now under twenty five kilometers about twenty of them it was is a huge area where people are still stuck in traffic zones of groups and there's a limited help with helicopter capacity. received since i really could see the rebel doin

africa. how the weather is warming up and down in time for the spring equinox that's true most of europe there is still some stormy stuff just in the finals the british isles and debris down to the north sea and clearly in the midst raney's the what you call settled indeed the border of really quite strongly had a croatian is only just doing lng this is daylight on thursday but as you can see it's a big circulation so this is high pressure temperatures are in the teens quite happily even stockholm the eleven at least for a short while in london we're up to sixteen in paris warmer than that madrid's about the same but clearly it's not going to last with some variation and the cloud increases because cold read through stockholm eight degrees here but actually the heart of europe temperatures this movie rising and the winds dying down domination coast but you saw this happening in the western med did the warning out for the potential of this flooding rain in north korean tune into proper circula

let's move on now to other news and southern africa the number of people killed when fire climate i hit was m.b. has doubled and it's expected to rise further president felipe a new say confirms that more than two hundred people have died and close to three hundred fifty thousand are at risk the u.n. says cited it i could be one of the worst weather disasters to hit the southern hemisphere the destruction has made it hard for rescue crews and aid groups to reach victims and remote areas the storm has also left a trail of destruction and zimbabwe and. the city of beta and mozambique is one of the hardest hit places ninety percent of its infrastructure has been destroyed farming the military in beta and she met victims struggling to cope. traumatized but safe survivors of cyclonic die or rival pira airport one helicopter load at a time they come from boozy one of the hardest hit areas in so far province infants a mother and daughter this is the first dry land they've seen in days. another chopper lands filled with young children but hundreds of thousands more remain in desperate need. the

they've survived southern africa has ever cycle and the people of mozambique and then bought way must fight off cholera and malaria. lucky me. just sort of randomly shooting everyone. lucky to be alive survivors return to the christ church mosque where a gunman killed so many of their fellow washington's. u.s. backed forces in syria now claim they have complete control of who is the last i still held area in the northeast of the country they've made the announcement in the past hour you are now seeing live pictures from the center of bugaboos where the kurdish led syrian democratic forces have raised their flag there's been intense fighting over the past few weeks and just moments ago the press office of the syrian democratic forces tweeted syrian democratic forces declare a total elimination of so-called caliphate and one hundred percent territorial defeat of eisel on this unique day we commemorate thousands of martyrs whose efforts made the victory possible while our correspondent is in beirut and joins us now from there jamal there have been several declarations of victory in vario

the united nations warns cyclone idai has caused a "massive disaster" in southern africa. the authorities in mozambique fear the death toll there could be more than 1,000, while many have also been killed in zimbabwe and malawi. across the region, tens of thousands have lost their homes, with some victims trapped on rooftops and clinging to trees awaiting rescue. aid workers say there's also a threat of waterborne diseases. our world affairs correspondent naomi grimley reports. shattered buildings and water — that's all that seems to be left of the city of beira, which took the full force of cyclone idai. watch how the lonely figure in the centre of your screen wades towards what's left of a home. in a landscape where tree tops are now lapped by water, one man is precariously winched to safety by rescue workers. a swathe of land 50km wide is completely submerged. many have been left clinging to roofs, as these pictures show. thankfully, aid is arriving in the shape of food, shelter kits and cash assistance, but it will reach urban areas first. rural communities will have

the united nations says cyclone idai has created a "massive disaster" in southern africa. officials say the scale of it has yet to be fully appreciated, but they believe it may be the worst weather—related catastrophe that's ever hit the southern hemisphere. potentially, millions of people are affected. at least 1,000 are feared dead in mozambique alone. hundreds are missing in zimbabwe and malawi. aid agencies are struggling to reach communities that have been cut off. 0ur africa editor fergal keane sent this report from one of the worst hit areas of mozambique. whatever once lay here has been overwhelmed. now, the flooded land is an expanse of questions. what has become of those who lived here? only a silence below, and very occasional moments of reprieve. these survivors landing at beira airport, rescued from high ground near their submerged village. driving into the city, we saw how nature's full, awesome force had ripped through homes and lives. 90% of this city has suffered destruction, and you see it in the ruins, and in faces. because we were foreign, because we

more rescue operations to save thousands cut off in southern africa after floods caused by the cyclone there directs and stars and the white crow, the controversial life of russian ballet dancer. she what mark thinks of that and the rest of this week's releases in the film review. theresa may has spent the day meeting senior ministers in downing st — as she battles to get support for her brexit plans after yesterday's eu summit. the uk was originally meant to leave the eu in a week's time — on march 29th. but after two failed attempts by theresa may to get her withdrawal agreement through the commons, the eu last night agreed to an extension. it means if she gets her deal through parliament next week, brexit will happen on 22nd may — to give mps time to pass the necessary legislation. but if the deal fails again, the uk has to propose another way forward to the eu by 12th april and there are no new proposals, we could leave without a deal. and this evening, in a letter to mps informing them of the outcome of her talks in brussels, she has hinted that she might not bring forward a

the guardian carries a striking picture of the devastation caused by cyclone idai in southern africa, as the search for survivors continues. the metro leads on a letter that theresa may will send to the eu on wednesday, formally asking for brexit to be postponed. the prime minister's appeal to brussels, asking for a brexit delay, is also on the front page of the i. but the financial times says the eu is warning there's n0 guarantee of an extension, beyond the set departure date of march 29th. the telegraph reports on fractures in theresa may's cabinet, with eurosceptic ministers threatening to quit if there's a long delay to brexit. and finally, the daily mail bemoans, what it calls, 1000 wasted days , as it tallies up the number of days since britain voted to leave the eu. so, brexit dominating most of the front pages — lets see what our reviewers make of it all. but let us start, i think with the guardian coming into this devastating cyclone in southern africa. race to find survivors after deadly cyclone, and picture which i think it gives you some sense of how awful it is, but on

growing fears of sickness and disease in southern africa as the death toll from cyclone idai passes 700. and too hot to farm, too hazy to breathe. how thousands of mongolians are caught between climate change and an increasingly contaminated capital. a two—year investigation into russian interference in the 2016 us presidential election has concluded that there is no evidence of conspiracy with moscow by members of donald trump's campaign team. the details have been revealed in a summary of special counsel robert mueller‘s report. but the special counsel did not exonerate the president on a second allegation, that of whether donald trump interfered with other investigations into russia's role in the elections. in other words, obstruction of justice. but the attorney general who summarised the report has decided not to prosecute. president trump has always denied any wrongdoing, repeatedly denouncing the mueller inquiry as a witch hunt. speaking to reporters in florida, he insisted the report completely exonerates him. so after a long look, after a long investigation, after so many p

at least fifty seven people have died in neighboring malawi and earlier we spoke to in the southern africa director regional director for the international charity oxfam in malawi's capital a long way and she says the main fear now is disease. i've the moment of the floodwaters have gone but it has left so much destruction in different places so at the moment we are having to deal with people who have lost the house this is they have nowhere to go back to we are left with the fields that have been washed away people should have been have a sting in their maize this coming may but if they have lost all that and some harm moved into temporary shelter where they have no food water points in most of the villages have been the contaminated and so at the moment people are having to use contaminated water our medical center at the moment is that we may have another wave of a crisis that will come out of water borne diseases so there is a need for immediate to support immediate assistance for the communities that are affected british prime minister tourism am defending her request for an extension

while returning to the us to mouth of sight kind of diet that's destroyed parts of southern africa tony betty is live now in berra for us tony as we had in your package people are now considering how to rebuild but one of the more immediate threats of disease that. the main thrust now is to get a medicine food water to the people in the isolated areas that's being done by boat as much as possible and by air but that's only a limited amount of supplies that can reach the people what they really need to have to do is go by road that's where the majority of the aid has to come at the moment those roads are being devastated by the cycloid and it's impossible in many places so they're being hampered for the most of the government together with the aid agencies are concentrating on getting the roads and the destroyed bridges up and running so they can pass they're optimistic that can start to improve within two days but you have to ask the question if that doesn't happen and it takes two days what kind of situation will those people be who are stranded and vulnerable now the good news is that

africa. huge number of people need help especially in mozambique and zimbabwe. protesters in algeria have been out in force again for a fifth friday calling for president to flee and his supporters to step down they rallied in the capital algiers as well as in smaller cities across the country. a category four storm has made landfall along a remote stretch of the northern australia and coast most of the sparsely populated area was evacuated as a patient of cyclon trevor the storm is expected to weaken to category two by late saturday. it's critical. that we do everything we came to make sure everybody is safe we treat everybody equally there are a lot of volunteers and emergency service services workers and others right now busting their guts to make sure that everybody gets looked after elsewhere in western australia clone veronica is expected to make landfall in the coming hours what mcbride has the latest from port hedland this is being described as a massive where the revenge for which pe

africa regional director for the international charity oxfam in malawi's capital a long way she says the main concern for aid workers is the spread of disease. i've the moment of the floodwaters have gone but it has left to so much destruction in different places so at the moment we're having to deal with people who have lost the house this is they have nowhere to go back to we are left with the fields that have been washed away people should have been have a sting in their maize this coming may but if they have lost all that and somehow move moved into temporary shelter where they have no fault what a point in must of the villages have been the contaminated and so at the moment people are having to use contaminated water our medical center at the moment is that we might have another wave of a crisis that will come out of water borne it diseases so there is a need for immediate to support immediate assistance for the communities that are affected still ahead on the program hungary's prime minister puts on a brave face after his party is suspended in the largest political bloc. and am

it has triggered a massive disaster in southern africa affecting hundreds of thousands of people. challiss mcdonough is the senior communication 0fficer for the un world food programme, and shejoins us now from washington. the un is estimating that around a million people have been affected by this. how do you cope with such a huge disaster? it really is difficult to imagine. there are homes under water, people have lost their cloud —— crops, their livestock, the roads in and out of the port city are completely underwater, so that critical port city has been completely cut off by road, and the government estimates that at least 600,000 people are affected, and we have done satellite imagery that indicates that there could be up to 1.7 million people in mozambique alone might have been affected by the storm. it really is affected by the storm. it really is a catastrophe of absolutely mind—boggling proportions and it is going to be an enormous challenge for the people who are on the ground, facing those floodwaters, have climbed into trees on the tops of their houses to escape

let's get more the aftermath of storm idai, which has triggered a "massive disaster" in southern africa, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. challiss mcdonough works for the un world food programme. she says that the devastation in beira is hard to imagine. there were homes under water, people have lost their crops, their livestock. the roads in and out of the port city of beira are com pletely the port city of beira are completely underwater, so that critical port city has been largely cut off by road and the government estimates that around 600,000 people are affected, and we have done satellite imagery that indicates that there could be up to 1.7 million people in mozambique alone who might have been affected by the storm, so it really is a catastrophe of absolutely mind—boggling proportions and it is going to be an enormous challenge for the people who are on the ground, who are facing those floodwaters, who had climbed onto trees and the tops of their houses to escape them, but also for the government and humanitarian agencies are trying to get assistance to them because t

death toll in one of southern africa's worst natural disasters is continuing to rise more than a week off the sides only die swept across the region more than seven hundred people have died in mozambique zimbabwe and allowing australia is being hit by its second big storm in two days a site over on the cross is the north west coast of port hedland today earlier travel hits from remote part of the north coast. another vigil is going on in christ church remembering the victims of a gunman who shot and killed fifty people at two mosques the event is happening just across from the north mosque which was the first to be attacked on friday exactly a week after the shooting spree the call to prayer was broadcast across new zealand during national commemorations. andrew thomas is there we can say a lot of people have turned out what's going on andrea. chill. has gone away literally in the last few seconds and it's beginning with a call to prayer. as well. but really this is a chance for the broader. to come together and remember the. terrible events of so affected this city. as many as. expec

parser southern africa many people are still waiting to be rescued in zimbabwe their throats cut off communities and damaged roads making it hard for help to reach them travel to compound where many are still looking for their missing relatives. these rocks and boulders they never used to be here this used to be a busy bustling busy center and then cyclonic happened leaving behind all this destruction or this devastation and all the grief the water was so powerful it managed to drag parts of a bridge which was nearly a kilometer away from the area is shows you how strong the raging water was now people are trying to find out how many of their loved ones are dead and with the people who are who are missing we don't know exactly how many people are missing but what we seen throughout the day is people coming going through these borders walking through these parts trying to figure out was this the place where my house used to be if it was is a possible that maybe someone i think you may be missing may be buried underneath the boulders are buried underneath the mud if they know it's goin

two weeks after cyclone idai hit southern africa, there have been verified cases of cholera with more expected to emerge. in mozambique alone, it is estimated almost 2 million people have been affected by the floods. the un world food programme says the cyclone has write out a year's worth of crops in mozambique, malawi and in zimbabwe. i will correspond and is in mozambique. once a classroom of this school has become an open air shelter for over 2000 people. many are getting help, but not all. news spreads of the arrival of a few beds of donated clothes. we need everything. there is no food. we need everything. some have gone back to patch together their lives and their homes. this man lost nearly everything in the storm. the hardest part is finding money to build my house and food to feed my family because the water took it. the storm has passed but the danger hasn't. we on the food in bricks and mortar, people here need emergency health care. as the threat of disease hovers. so far, only a handful of cholera cases have been confirmed. thousands more have been treated for diarrhoea.

the warns of a worsening situation in storm ravaged southern africa with the death toll has passed seven hundred. i saw is forced out of its last scrap of land in syria u.s. backed kurdish forces those say the group still poses a threat plus. a terrifying ride for passengers on a cruise ship as its engines fail and rough seas push it towards the rocky shore. of thailand is voting in its first elections and symmetric who in two thousand and fourteen the leader of that coup cry you channel child wants to remain this prime minister through the ballot box his biggest challenge may come from poor thai the most prominent anti join to party it's linked to exiled former prime minister thaksin shinawatra he was ousted by the army in two thousand and six as was his sister eight years later when a third group is led by the anti tax in democrat party which argues that it can form a government that neutral is also the future of forward policy charismatic billionaire front man is popular among younger people all voters will decide the make up of the five hundred seat house of representatives of the se

the death toll from a powerful cycle that pummeled southern africa has passed seven hundred as disease a stock tens of thousands of survivors more than four hundred are known to have died in mozambique alone but officials there and in zimbabwe in malawi say the numbers will keep climbing as waters recede cyclery die on least flooding rain and fierce winds went ahead last friday the u.n. is asking the world to provide more help to aid agencies who say they're overwhelmed tony berkeley is a mozambique's port city of most of which has been damaged or destroyed. they are tired and traumatized but at least these victims of cyclon eat i are safe now each one has their own harrowing story about the time the storms came each day more of them come mostly from boozy district. home and back to sixty five years of age he had a small holding and lived to live he was rescued after spending four days stuck in a tree without food he says his life is changed forever by fellow give blood. i have nothing to go back to my farm my house all were destroyed there is nothing left i need to start afresh but i

hello the death toll from a powerful cyclone that pummeled southern africa has passed seven hundred as diseases start tens of thousands of survivors more than four hundred are known to have died in mozambique alone but officials there and in zimbabwe in malawi say the numbers will keep climbing as waters recede cyclonic die on least flooding rain and fierce winds when it hit last friday and the u.n. is asking the world to provide more help to aid agencies who say they're overwhelmed tony berkeley is an mozambique's port city a beer are most of which has been damaged or destroyed. they are tired and traumatized but at least these victims of cyclists are safe now each one has their own harrowing story about the time the storms came each day more of them come mostly from boozy district. sixty five years of age he had a small holding and lived alone he was rescued after spending four days stuck in a tree without food he says his life is changed forever by fellow good little blue wolf i have nothing to go back to my farm my house all were destroyed there is nothing left i need to start afre

africa. the death toll officially across the region is over 550, although the true number is thought to be far higher. hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced across mozambique, zimbabwe and malawi. fergal keane has travelled deep into one the worst affected areas, the district of nahma—tanda in mozambique, where many people have died and thousands more are still in need of aid. the bridge on the road towards nhamatanda now crosses a river that has engulfed the countryside and severed the road that is a trading lifeline for southern africa. survivors of the flooding have found a way across the farmland that has become a swamp. and they told of many deaths in the countryside beyond. translation: a lot of people have died in my village. we saw the bodies of 76 people, and then yesterday we found four more. we continued on foot, thanks to the kindness of locals, who want the world to see what has happened to their lives. 0n the other side, another driver to negotiate the battered r

africa the u.n. says there are no confirmed cases of cholera but the risk of that disease. and malaria remain high in mozambique and officials are warning of further flooding as dams and reverse threaten to break their banks more than seven hundred people are confirmed dead in mozambique zimbabwe and malawi aid workers say that number will rise and rescuers are still trying to reach thousands of people stranded many of them you know those who've been rescued are crowded into camps and desperately need aids the number of the executive director described the scene on the ground despite rate stating that the situation on the grown and i quote quoting her the situation on the ground remains critical of the reasons no electricity or running water or hundreds of thousands of children need immediate help the priority right now is to give them shelter food water education protection so the number of people killed in mozambique alone has risen to more than four hundred malcolm webb went to a district where so

death toll in one of southern africa disasters is continuing to rise more than a week. to cross the region more than seven hundred people have died in mozambique zimbabwe and. u.s. backed forces in syria say they've taken the last pocket of land held by. syrian democratic forces flag was raised in buchholz following weeks of fighting. with the clad caliphate now it raised there are questions over what happens to foreign fighters and their families who want to return home while many countries are turning them away is backing that trend and reports from its regional capital grozny. that was pregnant with her third child when she and her family crossed the border from turkey to join eisel she says they were lured by videos betraying a land of pure islam but found torture war and oppression instead fearing reprisals from eisel she doesn't want to show her face. there was a lot of injustice there a lot of evil they not only tortured others those who were not from my school they were torturing that we do schooling there that's why the place fell apart it cannot be called isla

and more than a week after a cycle in sweats across southern africa aid agencies say they're running ice have time to reach survivors and stop the spreads over disease the u.n. says there are no confirmed cases of cholera. but stagnant water and decomposing bodies raise the risk of that disease and malaria in mozambique more than seven hundred people are confirmed dead in mozambique zimbabwe and malawi but aid workers say that number will rise as floodwaters recede rescue workers are still trying to reach some fifteen thousand people who are still stranded those who have been rescued or crowded into camps and desperately need eight or malcolm went to sisson thank the districts where some of the villages were among the hardest hit it's not easy to get to armando jacoby's home. so i can only die cut off many parts of central mozambique he turned his mates fields to mud we find it left nothing of his house and it took his aunt uncle and two nephews and. those who managed to swim across the river others were washed away we climbed trees and stayed there for four days without food those w

a devastating storm is affecting tens of thousands of people across southern africa cycler began as a tropical storm earlier last week before intensifying off the western coast of madagascar it hit land in mozambique on thursday with winds of up to one hundred seventy kilometers an hour pounding the city of berra and then moved inland causing further destruction through the weekend and tracked west striking neighboring zimbabwe malawi also experienced severe rain flooding and damage from the high winds it flattened buildings and put millions of lives at risk rescue workers in mozambique are struggling to reach site victims trapped in flooded areas about fifteen thousand people still need rescuing hundreds of them have been stuck on rooftops and trees for more than three days the cycling has left a trail of destruction across southern africa more than three hundred people are known to have died but that number is likely to be much higher in a moment we'll hear from malcolm webb who's in in mozambique but fast this report from for me to in the port city of para. the roofs of buildings p

africa aid agencies say a huge number of people need help especially in mozambique and zimbabwe. and how to more is in zimbabwe is just being gay districts where locals have given up on getting help from the government. they say they can't wait any longer for authorities to help them find their relatives so they are digging themselves up a village and has completely changed. these boulders never used to be here the shops schools and government offices are gone. after cycling swept through the community it's now an early grave site my nephew. who was working at the clinic was now living. you see the stones. under structures this is my domain area and. he can see him. he's wife in which four children. among the four children. they all took an hour but people are saying under the stones where the people are. you community leaders say people climb trees in a desperate attempt to stay alive but a huge rolling boulders crashed into them throwing them down into the fast moving water below. it's frustrating a lot of people are missing they could be under the stones yesterday a child's bo

rescue teams are struggling to reach survivors six days after cyclone idai hit southern africa. in the city of beira, aid workers say they have only two to three days of clean water left. and this video is trending on bbc.com: can you tell who it is? it's one of the many democratic presidential candidates — it's supposed to be a huge representation of beto o'rouke that's all. stay with bbc world news. now it is time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. when it comes to brexit, the usual political cliches about end games and moments of truth are useless — theresa may has managed to turn brexit into the crisis that never ends. now she wants the eu to agree to a three—month extension to the departure deadline. it had been fixed for march 29. will the eu 27 agree? my my guest is the czechoslovakian foreign minister tomas petricek. what will they need in order to give britain in to sort out the mess it is in. tomas petricek, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. to describe what is happening in rich politics to date concerning brexit as chaos would be being very polite to

growing fears of sickness and disease in southern africa, as the death toll from cyclone idai passes 700. and soul searching in australia, as the mosque attacks in neighbouring new zealand put multiculturalism in the spotlight. a two—year investigation into russian interference in the 2016 us presidential election has concluded that there is no evidence of conspiracy with moscow by members of donald trump's campaign team. the details have been revealed in a summary of special counsel robert mueller‘s report. but the special counsel did not exonerate the president on a second allegation, that of whether donald trump interfered with other investigations into russia's role in the elections — in other words, obstruction of justice. but the attorney—general who summarised the report has decided not to prosecute. 0ur washington correspondent chris buckler reports. for almost two years, robert mueller scrutinised the actions of donald trump and his campaign to become president. the special counsel was asked to investigate whether russia interfered in the 2016 election, and whether t

and hundreds of thousands of lives at risk across southern africa in the wake of cycling he died. rescue teams struggling to reach survivors after the storm slammed into mozambique zimbabwe and malawi there with you guys . first the e. u.'s donald tusk says that britian we'll be granted a short brexit delay but only if parliament approves prime ministerr theheresa m mays withdrawal agreement. that dale has already been rejected twiwice by and peace in the e. u. says it's not open to renegotiation. earlier this week the speaker of parliament john backus said that may could not put the deal to the house again in its current form. person is usually the emu in nine days time let's take a listen to donald tusk speaking idea. in the lights of the consultations. not that i have conducted over the past days. i believe that the show to extension would be possible. bob said to the condition of on the positive votes on the withdrawal agreement. in the house of commons. the question remains open as to the duration. of such an extension. brussels correspondent dave casing it told us more about

more rescue operations to save thousands cut off in southern africa. all the board as people go surfing down the severn estuary. good evening and welcome to bbc news. theresa may has spent the day meeting senior ministers in downing street as she battles to get support for her brexit plans after the summit yesterday. the uk was originally meant to leave the eu in one week on march the 29, but after two failed attempts by theresa may to get her withdrawal agreement through the commons, the eu has agreed to an extension. it means that if she gets her deal through parliament next week brexit will happen on the 22nd of may, to give mps time to pass the necessary legislation. if the deal fails, the uk has to propose another way forward by april the 12th. if there are no new proposals, we could leave without a deal. jeremy corbyn said mps should be given a series of alternative options next week to vote on. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. how long now? how much longer before we leave? how much longerfor this prime minister? how much longer can