A Coronavirus Vaccine will be ready. Maybe is internationally recognized Prime Minister fires down to raj says he will step down by the end of october. And then the former head of world athletics is facing to me years in prison let mean john has been found guilty of corruption. Thank you very much for joining us the southern u. S. Is being hit with whats being described as catastrophic in life threatening flooding thats where Tropical Storm sally made landfall all richly as a category 2 hurricane hundreds of people have been rescued half a 1000000 people have lost power across florida and alabama and began again reports. Are concerned we came ashore in the early hours of wednesday morning slamming into alabamas coastline floridas panhandle also bore the brunt of 165 kilometer per hour winds as heavy rain and storm surges led to life threatening floods many residents were forced to evacuate to hotels as conditions worsened i mean theres theres kind of the people that were left in there in there are you know things like theyre just going out for the money. But. I just i feel for the people that are not here i have as much story here so heres now we can def to making landfall and continues to move at an agonizingly slow pace forecast to say that makes the storm extremely be. Your so much of the gulf coast daylight in alabama showed a scene of devastation with severe flooding and damaged homes logan is still was at home in gulf shores where sally made landfall just rode it out on the 1st 4 we started here over Windows Start up. By the roof sort of coming off and sun it was written i just rode it out last month louisiana was hit by one of the most powerful storms on record or again laura killed at least 8 people and cost the state billions in a Hurricane Season isnt over until the end of november in addition to sally there are several other named storms currently swirling in the atlantic that hasnt since 1971 meteorologists here in miami will soon run out of preselected names for this Hurricane Season and be forced to use the greek alphabet thats only ever happened on one other occasion floridas governor is warning residents not to be complacent as the storm moves across the state Hurricane Sandy is the full storm to make landfall this year Scientists SayClimate Change is making storms like this wetter and slower a potentially deadly combination and a gallacher aljazeera and a great is in mobile alabama where the storm has been more powerful than expected. Were on the west side of that storm and so we got an easing of conditions rather early and people have been out talking to them they say you know weve been through storms with this one was different popped up very quickly developed within a week and much more powerful than a lot of people thought let me show you an example of some of that this is being built where the park in the middle of downtown will be a huge oak tree these huge macnow you trees that survived hurricane ivan survived Hurricane Katrina didnt make it through sally some splintered torn apart others pulled from the wet ground laid on their sides these are massive trees and this is an area a lot of people enjoy this leaves a lot to a lot of people here unfortunately its a scene playing out really across the city right now their trees on homes here in the downtown area businesses have been ripped apart the on ngs thrown debris thrown from the front windows they have been shattered as well and so now the cleanup begins it was the wind on this side it was the rain and the storm surge on the east side the water that storm surge flooding low lying coastal communities and then rain in some areas more than theyve seen in recent history really swallowing entire communities and unfortunately those flood waters are not going to recede anytime soon all the creeks and lakes and rivers that usually carry that water out already over there edges and more water is pouring in and its just going to continue to push into a lot of these communities. On the other side of the u. S. Hot dry weather is hampering efforts to contain dozens of wildfires burning in all 3 west coast states small from those flames has caused some of the wilds unhealthiest equality rob reynolds for a force from portland in oregon. The noxious cloud of smoke and ash choking the west coast has drifted in the upper atmosphere as far away as europe but nowhere is the smoke as bad as here in portland its really bad we have never had an air quality of event like this since 1985 which is when the department of Environmental Quality started tracking our air quality our previous record for poor air was set in 2017 we are 7 times worse than that. This environmentally conscious city is normally proud of its clean and polluted air now it has the worst air quality of any major city on earth and portlanders are feeling it deep inside i am definitely having problems breathing i work outside so unfortunately i am really exposed to even with a mask it still gets to you. Major League Baseball games in seattle were postponed due to unhealthy air Alaska Airlines one of the regions big carriers canceled many of its flights and washington states governor said the file air is breaking all records the air outside right now is that historically polluted levels. According to our department of ecology. The consequences of breathing this filthy air can be done or portland hospital emergency room visits for breathing problems are 88 times higher than usual says county Health Officer andrea hamburg who spoke to us while wearing and in 95. 00 man asked causes a dry cough which is of course a concern during a pandemic i can cause shortness of breath it can cause chest pains couldnt cause an asthma attack so the effects range from mild irritation still very serious and life threatening meanwhile the fires continue to burn in butte county california a family that lost their home 2 years ago to the deadly fire in paradise are reliving a nightmare now their new houses burned we need to take care there are being told that every day with all these things happening on the outskirts of los angeles firefighters are combat enough dear splays its led to evacuations of hundreds of people from the towns of arcadia and sierra madre and threatens to engulf the historic mt wilson astronomical observatory. Thousands of homes have been destroyed tens of thousands of people have fled millions effect there is the forest have burned and the death toll is rising now tens of millions of people here in oregon california and washington are worried what the effects of breathing in this dirty air might turn out to be rob reynolds aljazeera portland oregon. U. S. President donald trump has contradicted a Top Health Official on the timing of a Coronavirus Vaccine the director of the centers for Disease Control says its highly unlikely one would be available to most americans until next summer but china says ramat red tailed is just confused and insists a vaccine will be ready before the election mike hanna reports from washington the c. D. C. Director period before a Senate Committee and emphasized the importance of wearing a mask and i might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against covert than when i take a covert vaccine because imminent unicity may be 70 percent and if i dont get an immune response to vaccine stuff and protect me this facemask will on the subject of a vaccine ridgefield said one could become available before the end of the year but only in a limited supply if youre asking me when is it going to be generally available to the American Public so we can begin to take advantage of vaccine to get back to our regular life i think were probably looking at 3rd late 2nd quarter 3rd quarter. 2021 but the president publicly disagreed with the c. D. C. Director on the issue of mosques and the time scale when available vaccine now i think you made a mistake when you said that its just Incorrect Information and i called him and he didnt tell me that and i think you got the message maybe confused but president maintain the release of a vaccine is imminent were ready to go immediately as the vaccine is announced and it could be announced in october could be announced a little bit after october the but once we go were already a president ial candidate joe biden says he would side with science rather than trust the president who he says has frequently misled the public one thing is certain we cant allow politics to interfere with a vaccine it anyway. Americans are trying to do endure present trumps incompetence and dishonesty when it comes to testing of personal protective equipment. We cant afford to repeat those fiascos when it comes to a vaccine when it occurs the stakes are too high. President trump has made no secret of the fact that he wants a vaccine in circulation before the november election hes repeatedly expressed anger at restrictions imposed on his campaign by the virus and is now back to holding full scale rallies with many including the president rejecting the use of mosques final Clinical Trials for potential vaccines have only just begun they involve tens of thousands of patients and importantly at least 2 doses have to be administered over a period of time its impossible for the test to be completed in the timeline envisioned by President Trump which raises the question of whether the president is considering cutting short protocols for the testing of new vaccines that have been established for decades mike hanna aljazeera washington. A saying with vaccines oxfam says rich countries have bought up more than half of the promised doses the nations account for just 13 percent of the waltz population the charity analyze deals made by the producers of the 5 leading vaccine candidates its warning even if all those trials succeed 2 thirds of the worlds population want to have access until 2022. U. S. President donald trump says hes not ready to sign off on a deal that will see an American Company buy chinese owned video take talk a day area head said ted giant oracle was very close to purchasing the yacht from beijing based bike dance but trump says he disapproves of by retaining a majority stake he order to talk seo last month citing potential National Security risks over beijings access to american data. Still ahead on aljazeera the venezuelan government is accused of crimes against humanity well hear from the relatives of victims and a horrific human combination of failing is a u. S. Congress record slams boeing and regulated for 2 deadly plane crash. Hello there all eyes the calls were made on the southeast of the United States is because of this hurricane sali of course coming onshore throughout wednesday will continue to work its way across alabama on into georgia as we head through thursday most likely still as a Tropical Storm but it will produce some to rental amounts of rain expectancy widespread flooding across much of the southeast and then meanwhile out across the west well still have a chance of one of 2 showers working their way along the Pacific Northwest coast maybe some heavier spells of rain the winds there could also increase as that system comes onshore so thats not necessarily a good thing and then by friday. The southeast should be looking a little bit dry but as you can see that rain really does push across into the mid atlantic so still some very heavy rain really embedded within that system surface seattle in the Pacific Northwest coast we have got rain in the fall calls for the next few days it should help of course but it doesnt actually come very far inland and its a similar scenario of a portland maybe friday and saturday wanted to showers and then by sunday its actually back to being dry temperatures and not too bad there are a little bit to below the average and then across into the courses no rain that falls south and instead were going to see mostly clear skies on a course that says smoke really just mix in the for the next few days. Aljazeera goes beneath the waves with a team of women determined to save the told fans we all share the same responsibility we need to do something to rebut that that may not involve using a variety of scientific techniques to study the behavior we can monitor them or if theyre going for photos and behavior were able to how theyre adapting to their new environment women make science dolphin sanctuary on aljazeera. Watching al jazeera live from doha with me fully back t. Bo a reminder of our top stories Tropical Storm sandy has caused a life threatening thrives in florida and alabama it made landfall as a category 2 hurricane now a slow pace means extremely high levels of rainfall hundreds of people have been evacuated. Small from wildfires on the u. S. West coast is causing some of the worlds unhealthiest air 10 percent of Emergency Hospital visits in oregon are by people with braving problems and u. S. President donald trump has contradicted a Top Health Official on wenneker on a virus vaccine will be available c. D. C. Director Robert Redfield says distribution wont be possible until next summer trump insists it will be this year. In other world news u. N. Investigators have accused the venezuelan government of crimes against humanity including the killing and torturing of protesters the mission found reasonable grounds to believe president Nicolas Maduro ordered the crimes to silence the opposition there is a ball has our report. Hootie ordeal and the lead up to many people have been demanding justice for over 2 years going. Through 20 year old son who was killed during protests in venezuela in 2017 he died after being struck in the chest by a tear gas canister. We have gone to every International Organization to denounce our sons execution because his death was part of the passion of excessive use of force by the state we need to stop this the fact that young men go out on a protest and a killed we want reaper ration and memory so that in venezuela never again a person is killed for fighting for their rights. Its been alleged that Security Forces were shooting directly towards protesters human Rights Groups say abuses have been on the rise in venezuela says the opposition started to take to the streets against president Nicolas Maduro in 2014. On tuesday the United NationsFact Finding Mission in venezuela accused of crimes against humanity these violations were committed directly by members of state Security Forces and intelligence agencies we have reasonable grounds to believe that higher level of thora g. s within these entities as well as political author origins words resized power and oversight over them including the president s and the ministers of interior and of defense were aware of these crimes and either ordered or otherwise contributed to them the un is asking nations and the criminal court of justice to take action for the abuses torture and extrajudicial executions that have allegedly taken place in the country since 2014 the report shows specific studies involving over 3000. 00 cases of violations and crimes we want to talk to included the amount of those things severe beatings psychological torture the doubt and lets go next usually sorry no more executions but thats an execution family members Sexual Assault really its a gradual notice usually. The u. N. Report comes out just as the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o travels to south america to step up pressure against my will. But while venezuela struggles to find a way out of its economic and political crisis victims saying only International Pressure will help them in their fight for justice and truth that is i will. But concerns have been raised in the u. S. State department that top officials could face war crimes charges for approving bomb sales to the saudi erotic coalition in yemen thats according to the New York Times which is reporting u. S. Officials had full knowledge of a pattern of indiscriminate civilian killings a newspaper is also accusing the trumpet ministration of systematically suppressing findings by internal watchdog sue prioritize arms sales clear finkelstein is the director of the center for ethics and the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania she says a recent deal with the u. A. E. May make the situation worse. The u. S. Has a long history of supporting both the u. A. E. On the saudis but particularly with respect to the war in yemen this is a murderous war numerous organizations have signaled the fact that there are war crimes being committed there are civilians and children being directly targeted in this war by the Saudi Coalition and the u. S. Is selling weapons to the saudis and the u. A. E. That are being used to the extent that we know in this war now the Inspector General report signals in the body of the report grave concerns about this and suggest that congress should have been notified of this a classified section of the report which of course i have not seen presumably sets this out in greater detail the current agreement with that has just occurred with the u. A. E. Involving weapons sales would presumably exacerbate these problems which have gone on for a while and indeed accelerate weapons sold to the u. A. E. May find their way to yemen and the u. S. Would then be directly complicit in war crimes and atrocities that are being waged against a civilian population. The head of libyas internationally recognized government says he will resign next month Prime Minister if i is authorized made the announcement in an address on National Television the stocks are due to start in geneva this week so russias tripoli based government will negotiate with a rival administration in the east of the country which is allied to warlord highly for have talked to russia says he will stay on until the end of october while i new leadership this chosin mom or dad general had has more from tripoli. Will not this his wish will come true that remains to be seen as you know that. The international mediations have been trying to bridge the gap between rival factions including the meetings in montreux last week and switzerland and also meetings in morrocco that gathered civil or evil factions in libya and that was sponsored by the United Nations support the mission in libya and the humanitarian sinter the center for humanitarian died so. Will remain in power until a new cabinet and you president ial council is chosen no one knows for certain when this will happen but we know that according to the montreux switzerland conclusions the rival factions agreed to extend the interim stage until 4 for 18 months so russia has been always calling for early president ial and parliamentary elections in march but no one of the rival factions has agreed. To hold early elections mileys new military rulers say theyve started the process of naming an interim president after west African Leaders threatened a total embargo on the landlocked country members of the 15 strong Economic Community of West African States gave the coup leaders 18 months to hand over power to a civilian government in exchange sanctions will be lifted but only if the military perceive their Transition Team within a week Nicholas Hytner reports from neighboring senegal. Well they have just a few days to try to find a president a Prime Minister and so they said just just as we heard that they are going to appoint a committee now that will decide on who will be the president and who will be the Prime Minister and who will be the Vice President now who will be members of that committee but we dont know will that be members of the military judge that will be appointed from members of Civil Society 5 or the opposition it seems that its an additional hurdle for the military leadership that seeking to gain recognition at stake here for the millions is to find a new leadership that will bring security to mali ins and to jumpstart their economy to reassure the population and to bring back the state where the state has so longer so so far been absent. 2 fatal anchor ashleigh as have been blamed on a horrific combination of failure by payne make at boeing and the Us Federal Aviation Authority a 737 max was grounded after 2 incidents within 6 months but it may soon fly again shabba tansey reports. 346 people died in to boeing 737 max air crashes one in october 2800 the other in 2019 after 18 months of investigation the democratic majority on the house transportation and Infrastructure Committee concluded they were the horrific culmination of a series of faulty technical assumptions by burns engineers and lack of transparency on the part of boeings management and grossly insufficient oversight by the f. A. A. The investigation confirms much of what was already known under pressure from rival airbus boeing rushed the 737 max to market promising greater fuel efficiency in order to achieve that efficiency boeing made major design and Software Changes with little oversight there were multiple warnings of problems from those actually working on the planes of potentially catastrophic consequences but they were ignored in the rush to sell and deliver planes the customers a main selling point was that there was no need for airlines to undertake costly pilot retraining if they bought this new model of the 737 but as sales went up so did executive compensation even after the 1st crash that killed 189 in the java sea and despite failing to share Key Information about the changes to the aircraft boeing executives profited from a 20000000000 dollars stock buyback testifying to the committee in july of 2019 paul in georgia who lost his entire family and the subsequent crash of Ethiopia Airlines flight 302. 00 said this is where the problem lies point should not be allowed to act like an Investment Company extracting weld to supercharge shareholder returns at the expense of safety and quality. As for the federal Aviation Authority it largely delegated oversight of the 737 max to boeing itself even after the 1st crash the f. A. A. Took out its word that it was compliant with federal safety regulations both boeing and the f. A. A. Insist theyve changed but as regulators move to recertify the 737 max grounded worldwide since march of 2019 victims families say once again things are moving too quickly however what has changed is the credibility of the f. A. A. One of the unprecedented things that happened was and other aviation authorities around the world said regardless of what the u. S. Says about whether the airplane is fit to fly it will have to go through with them as well thats something that typically doesnt happen nonetheless the 737 max is expected to be back in the air within months she every time see aljazeera. The former head of world athletics lamine jack has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 2 years in prison he was part of a scheme which covered up russian doping in return for bribes david still sasa story. I mean diac was the most powerful man in athletics for 16 years but on wednesday in a dramatic fall from grace he was found guilty of corruption at a court in paris hes been convicted of multiple charges including accepting more than 3000000. 00 in hush money from russian athletes in return for covering up their doping offenses the 87 year old from senegal was sentenced to 4 years in prison with 2 of them suspended and find nearly 600000. 00 his legal team confirmed they will appeal. This is this decision is unfair and inhumane unfair because we see that the judges have tried to be politically correct and of wanted to use mr jack as a scapegoat. Diac was originally charge 5 years ago hes been under house arrest in paris ever since and the case has attracted global attention it was a big question on the table. It was the 1st. One of the case involving. Leaders in the indian Sport Community to understand that there was a big media to put it to pressure its not the 1st time that a friend german english judge has difficulty trying to resist resist pressure. Diac who is head of what was then called the r w f from 1999 to 2015 his help in covering not russian doping and that many athletes who were cheating were able to keep competing at major events all at the expense of clean athletes to mask it says what am a war you can see the smile on my face with the mask but im very happy to have been recognised as a victim of the corruption by the leaders and im also happy for all the other athletes who are victims we need to continue the fight against doping. The court had a guilty verdict of 5 other people including d. X. Son papa saturday ark who worked as a mock to consultant for the audible f. When his father was in charge 50000000. 00 were funneled to his Companies Including commissions from t. V. Rights deals Popova Sutter lives and sun a goal which is refusing to extradite him he was sentenced in absence to 5 years in prison and find more than 1000000. 00 as for his father the appeal keeps lamine diac out of jail for now he himself made no comment as he left the court david stokes 0. Fresh auction house christies is repairing to sell one of the largest known 10 asuras rex skeletons the 67000000 year old dinosaur is known as dan and its named after the man who discovered his bones in 1987 in south dakota is nearly 4 meters high and 12 meters long kriss expects it to sell for between 6. 00 and 8000000. 00 the auction opened in new york in october. So again im fully battle with the headlines on aljazeera a Tropical Storm sandy has caused life threatening floods in florida and alabama it made landfall as a category 2 hurricane now and slow pace means extremely high levels of rainfall hundreds of people have been rescued jay gray has more from alabama. It was little. It was the rain and the storm surge on the water that storm 3rd world in one Coastal Community from the rain in some areas more than may be seen in recent history really swallowing entire communities and important we dont hold water theyre not going to recede any time soon all the creek lakes and rivers that usually carry that water out already over their edges and more water is pouring in it it is going to continue to push into a lot of these communities on the other side of the u. S. Hot dry weather is hampering efforts to contain dozens of wildfires burning in all 3 west coast states and the smoke is causing some of the worlds unhealthiest say 10 percent of Emergency Hospital visits in oregon are by people with breathing breathing difficulties u. S. Resin donald trump has contradicted a Top Health Official on when a Coronavirus Vaccine will be available c. D. C. Director Robert Redfield says distribution want to be possible until next summer insists it will be this year and says rich countries have brought up more than half of the promised doses of vaccine say account for just 13 percent of the worlds population a charity analyze deals made by the produces of the 5 leading vaccine candidates u. N. Investigators have accused the venezuelan government of crimes against humanity including the killing and torturing of protesters theyre calling on the International Criminal court to open an investigation top officials in the u. S. State department could face was crime charges for approving bomb say a city saudi and erotic coalition in yemen thats according to the New York Times the head of libyas internationally recognized government says he will resign next month Prime Minister. Made the announcement in an address on National Television those are the headlines coming up next on aljazeera its a documentary women make sides to stare at this. For decades criminals made millions trafficking drugs through thailand i wonder whether the east explored is where the country has now become the 1st in Southeast Asia to legalize medical marijuana. On aljazeera. Is going to be choppy baes ok so there i was going to need to do it james and then i want to experience and then within just. And when we observe we have to have a kind of as well but really it was because we were on the dole in 90 and it will give me a headache