Forces of crimes against humanity. And Japans Parliament picks the next Prime Minister here she days to give priorities include fighting the pandemic and reviving the economy. Now a 2 pronged to whether assault on the United States has people fleeing wildfires in one part of the country and rushing to avoid severe flooding and another slow moving Hurricane Sally is unleashing heavy rain and catastrophic flooding on the while on the gulf coast and another powerful storm is also growing and in the atlantic hurricane teddy could head butt muda as early as this weekend theyre just 2 of 7 storms currently moving across the atlantic with 5 of them a categorized as tropical cyclones its only the 2nd time on record this is happening. The last time was in 1971 and on the other side of the u. S. In oregon a federal disaster has been declared as wildfires that continue to burn forcing people out of their homes jay gray is in mobile alabama. Were still getting a lashing from this storm keep the brain continue to fall here and will be a lot of damage and given your hurt them look at some of the other conditions here you can see the wind is really just think youve been throwing around pretty blue lamps here we know that trees are down across this city we also know that theres something to get damaged buildings and cold series to move down to mobile bay you can see the wind is pushing that water white obviously and different been going on for hours and will continue for several hours or were going to continue to see this driving rain across this region the National Weather service this one will likely see historic flooding in many areas as a result of Hurricane Valley its still a category 2 storm it does seem to be losing a bit a bit different but not enough to matter at this point and the real issue is it just broke through this to get up and move away it has moved across the shoreline but its been no with curry to clear this area and so that the kind of thing that were dealing with here right now and will continue to deal with for the next happened to 8 hours or so we know that powers out to more than 400000. 00 people across the region im afraid that number is going to climb as well again we just heard when you take a beating this really just the opening of whats going to be a long and very difficult right here. And as i was saying earlier storms on the only Natural Disaster affecting the u. S. Several states on the west coast are still battling record fires are again as the latest hot spot and present donald trump has approved its disaster declaration giving it access to more federal funds from s. T. K. To robins reports. Theres not much left of talent in phoenix in Southern Oregon the ferocious wildfires of recent days have reduced most of the 2 small towns to ashes the worst thing ive ever seen in my life. Its the same up and down the west coast near Boulder Creek california dozens of homes were incinerated heaps of rubble covered chimneys and burned out vehicles all that remain near los angeles the socalled bobcat fire is only minimally contained it is burning close to the famed mt wilson astronomical observatory and outlying suburbs 23000 firefighters are battling dozens of major fires in california and oregon more than 4000 houses have burned in california alone and tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate and drifting over it all a choking shroud of smoke and ash its making skies hazy as far away as new york Portland Seattle and San Francisco now have some of the worst air quality on the planet we started to read that and 95 rather than just that quatermass because that ash in s. T. K. To oregon 50 kilometers from Portland Police are allowing residents to return to their homes and assess the damage fires on this scale are unheard of in this part of oregon those have never happened i mean weve had fires you know open up in the national forth before theyve never been this close to us to canada and ive lived here 33 years theyve never been this close to me candy evacuated days ago but her home is a total loss has some stranger call you on the phone and tell you that your house is burning its a total loss is its not something you want to wake up to. Amid the destruction signs of strength and resilience this is another aspect of this terrible disaster people coming together to support one another with donations of free food water and other necessities organizers say so many donations have poured in here they can barely give it all away. People here say they all have to look out for one another. Well it is donating all of our fresh made birds that anything that we can do to help out families that are in need you know like you know with the fires and everything were going to need to make sure that were helping out as much as we can that some of the organs fires are now partly contained helped by the verbal weather that the trees will likely continue to burn until the autumn rains begin in earnest weeks from now rob reynolds aljazeera has to cater or. Moving on and the belorussian protest leader who disappeared after being detained by masked men has now been charged with undermining National Security kolesnikov is in jail and minsk after ripping up her passport to avoid being sent to ukraine by force before her arrest she played a major role in organizing demonstrations against long time data Alexander Lukashenko hes accused of rigging last months president ial election our correspondent step fasteners in the capital minutes she says almost all of the Opposition Leaders have either been locked up or forced to flee. These charges are actually quite broad to call for action aimed at undermining National Security instead of what the police earlier sat was a coup detat which was of course much harder to prove but still she is facing 2 to 5 years in prison she was indeed the last female Opposition Leader still in the country and because she ripped up her prosperous overreading being deported to ukraine she gets turned tear into a National Leader the Opposition Movement is not really relying on its leaders to be honest so it wont affect the protests that we have been seeing in the last couple of weeks in fact only one of the opposition members of the council that was sick created to have this Transitional Government by the opposition is now still free and here in a ballerinas and shes in fact being protected by european diplomats 24 sevenths so they come to our house to make sure that shes also not being arrested. Now Venezuelan Security forces have committed crimes against humanity with the knowledge and support of president Nicolas Maduro thats the finding of independent investigations commissioned by the uns top Human Rights Agency their report says police and military killed and tortured and human youre a poet protesters they also use tactics including arbitrary detentions the authors conclude the crimes were part of state policy and not isolated incidents thats based on hundreds of interviews with victims and witnesses and the report also says if it isnt one as well it failed to act the International Criminal court should open an investigation on paul sales as a member of the u. N. Fact finding mission on the ball of our own republican venezuela he says the evidence shows that president maduro and members of his government supported those tactics. The findings are i think very clearly what we said is that in addition to. Formal policies the new government since 20. 1 an allusion to. The martin crying under which many many people were killed due to the serial real association with 7 groups and the other policy in relation to mormons to political suppression and the activities that were carried no quote neutered organized in many ways only especially when theyre looking at things like Cultural Institution killings and some of the spontaneous we do find the president and minister of interior minister of defense and the directors of the relevant organizations of intelligence and more which are they may have no use and participated in these activities. And i do a situation where independent and impartial investigations by the authorities in venezuela. Its not for us to. Make amends to the i. C. C. For who should execute now mind you what we can see is that if you thought it isnt an assault on what youre going to do now quite clearly or those within the ice and since mind you so keep up those investigations. Underpants emperor has appointed a new Prime Minister yesterday so that as a longtime ally of former Prime Minister shinzo who resigned last month for Health Reasons robert pride has more from sell. Its the ultimate victory for a selfmade politician yasha he had a super who in a career spanning decades has finally risen to the highest Political Office in the land. In contrast to many of japans previous Prime Ministers his previous sessa shinzo are being included suger does not come from one of japans elite political dynasties hes the son of a strawberry farmer his elevation means a change in style but not in substance as a faithful right hand man to say he is expected to follow the same conservative economic policies while applying his acknowledged problem solving skills to the continuing covert 19 crisis and the ill fated Tokyo Olympics that the pandemic has delayed and now threatens to wreck. A well known figure on the domestic political stage it was super powerful chief cabinet secretary who heralded last years succession of emperors unveiling the name of the new imperial era. His appointment as Prime Minister was confirmed at an imperial palace audience with emperor and narrow hito while hardworking and reliable many believe he lacks the charisma needed for the job in particular in his dealings with other World Leaders i thats something that comes naturally to shinzo are they who leaves the office having set a record as japans longest serving Prime Minister at a time so much i would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the people who supported me in both tough and difficult times of it in a time when the next today the sugar in demonstration will be born i would like to ask for your strong support for the ruling l. D. P. Party suga as mission is to act as continuity Prime Minister for the next year before elections are called with japans mounting problems suga needs to prove he has the required leadership skills to do that rob mcbride aljazeera. Still ahead here on aljazeera find out what the u. S. Congress had to say about boeing and last years 2 crashes involving its 737 that killed 346 people. Are returning to flooded homes the challenge facing many people in sudan as they look to try to rebuild often unprecedented rains. Hello there very cloudy picture across much of north asia theres also been plenty of rain in the 4 calls for the last few days this code of cloud is an area of low pressure working its way through the northeast is beginning to ease a little bit now the heavy rain is further to the south working its way throughout say across these Western Areas of japans a very heavy amounts of rain this could produce some localized flooding it will continue to work its way across much of honshu up into her. Through friday but as it does that things begin to drive across central areas of china but a lot of that is also to do this mass you can see down to the south and that is the latest Tropical Storm that is heading towards vietnam taking the moisture on the rains with it then from there we head across into south asia again of course have seen some particularly heavy rains up into the pool for the last few days and they havent really eased off or got more of that as we go through thursday the northeast of india as well and very widespread throughout much of bangladesh not particularly heavy downpours but of course so much of bangladesh is still under water but meanwhile weve got through thursday more heavy rains across maharashtra and read it does mean for the next few days its going to stay very unsettled in mumbai those shows developing again generally late in the day and really through friday extending down the Western Ghats the right way down south into carola. A face can tell a story without uttering a single one that. Unknowing. Can guide us. To a simple time to inform us. The unconventionality of life witnessed through the lens of the human mind. Is what inspires us. Witness documentaries on aljazeera. Again. Lets remind you of our top stories this hour hurricane charley is unleashing heavy rain and catastrophic flooding on the u. S. Gulf coast more than half a meter of rain has already fallen in parts of florida mall a number of people have been rescued from damaged houses and alabama. The white house has approved oregons disaster declaration making it possible to access federal funds several wildfires there continue to battle out of control in the Western State hundreds of homes have already been destroyed. And japans emperor has only a point of the new Prime Minister. As a long time ally of former Prime Minister shinzo of who resigned last month for Health Reasons. The number of people affected by floods in sudan has risen to more than 650000 tens of thousands of homes have been damaged by the unprecedented rise of the revenue and as its waters reside received im sorry residents are struggling to clean up and make repairs correspondent have a morgan reports from. This is what the inside of a lattice house looks like now weeks of flooding has damaged or destroyed much of what he has he says hes got no way of treating the water out hiring a water pump is costly and hes lost too much already but he says moving elsewhere after the floods is not an option shadier than my house is about 3 kilometers away from the dial and ive lived here for a number of years. Getting a plot to move elsewhere is costly with todays economy and me and my family cant afford it so ill drain the water and hope this doesnt happen again next year. Abdellatif home is one of dozens that have been damaged in his village of kalac in the southern part of sudans capital hard to. Torrential rains caused the nile to rise to levels not seen in more than a century the resulting flood damage to well over 100000 homes around sudan most were just kilometers away as the river burst its banks wiping out villages and towns and displacing more than 600000 people it forced the government to declare a 3 month state of emergency some chose to stay in their homes despite them being filled with water the man waters have begun receding after nearly 3 weeks and people in the area are hoping to start the recovery but there have been problems with the drainage system and its weakness can be seen on the streets of a lot of them after rainfall since the start of the rainy season 2 months ago some of the major highways have been cut off schools and Health Facilities have either been damaged or destroyed its a site that repeats itself every year but meteorologists say this years rains are unprecedented so dans government says its focus is on helping those whove been displaced and preventing water borne diseases but more rains and floods are expected in the coming days and those displaced say the government needs to do more to help them or their model for how. We want the government to give us new plots so that this doesnt happen again really who live in the banks of the mire we dont have the ability to buy new plots it should be the government giving us a plot so that the problem is addressed by the root and normal houses collapse from rained off until he gets a new plot this house is all that out the lot he has he says hell do what he can to get the water out so that he and his family can return to their home and start rebuilding he will morgan algis there are hundreds and. Well refugees being moved into a new camp on the greek island of last boss must have their asylum claims processed quickly so they can leave thats according to the United Nations 12000 people were left without shelter when the morea cant burn down last week the u. N. Representative in greece has asked for european help to house them there are fears that the new camp will suffer the same overcrowding problems as the last one Stephanie Decker has moved from this boss. At the moment this is the only option that the greek authorities are saying where they can ensure that the refugees in the migrants have you know food shelter and most importantly where theyre going to process their paperwork a lot of people are still reluctant you can probably see them having bought some some things in some supermarkets ahead and then they pull them back to the street where theyre currently living those that are not in the camp because the conditions that moriarty counted for down were so desperate and weve had a visit here of the u. N. H. E. R. Head of the group office of the u. N. Agency that deals with refugees and i asked him you know they themselves would criticize morea camp whether you know he was satisfied with this one but this is what he had to say its not manageable to manage a camp with 5 times its capacity or even trying to the capacity that insomuch as we speak you need she are easy pushing the authorities. The process so that people do not stay too long i