Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us at least 16 people are dead and thousands of homes destroyed as of monday evening local time in the philippines officials continue to assess the damage typhoon goni is one of the strongest storms to make landfall there in years bringing winds of up to 200 kilometers an hour to parts of the country it mostly missed to the capital of manila but still hundreds of thousands of people have had to evacuate not just from the storm but from subsequent mudslides and floods. For a country hit on average 20 times each year by typhoons goni was the most powerful to strike the philippines this year. Rooftops were torn away debris flying everywhere as water rushed in one from the sea or downhill from mountainsides. Wind gusts reached above 300 Kilometers Per Hour and in some towns the red cross said up to 80 percent of the homes were destroyed. Goni rival typhoon haiyan which in 2013 killed more than 6000 people. But this time there were
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State of florida donald trump one that battleground state in 2016 but in 2020 his opponents are different their names joe biden and the pandemic and a big win for socialists in bolivia louies are saying is it is said to be the new president his interest rival carlos makes up his just conceded defeat will speak to our correspondent in the libyan capital. Im burnt off to all of you joining us on p. B. S. In the United States and around the world welcome we start tonight with the unraveling of another attempt at peace new clashes have erupted between armenia and i survived on despite a humanitarian cease fire that was agreed to last saturday in the disputed region of nagornokarabakh. Both sides accusing each other of violating the agreement just hours after it came into effect this was the 2nd attempt at a ceasefire in the past week. Far from the front line but not far enough a makeshift shrine in a Residential District of ganja. A community torn apart. They were my friends and close acqu