and transform the very symbol of pasta question. you find in latin america liberating a prison on al-jazeera. the charges a piling up against will easy is prime minister now accused of transferring millions to his own personal bank accounts. and welcome my name's peter w. watching all to zero hour from our headquarters here in doha also coming up not enough hands to go around rescuers in indonesia say they don't have the equipment to speed up this search for quake survivors. banking on the u.s. dollars power donald trump warns other countries against trading with iran after he really imposed sanctions. and china prepares to strike back as the u.s.

finalizes its long list of new tariffs against its trade rival. money laundering charges have been laid against malaysia's former prime minister as the investigation into the disappearance of billions from a state investment fund intensifies nudgee braszczok was back in court early on weapons day where the three new counts were added he's accused of depositing ten point five million of state funds into his personal account and they've been laid under the anti money laundering and terrorism financing act he was already accused of an abuse of power and a criminal breach of trust for charges which could result in a twenty year prison sentence agencies from the us switzerland and singapore are also looking into the disappearance of four point five billion from one mt bay

that's the state fund he set up in two thousand and nine. florence louis is at the court for us those are the latest pictures coming to us from the courtroom in kuala lumpur florence b.c. still maintaining this line that he's not guilty. absolutely he's already pled not guilty to the three additional charges that were pressed against him on to on wednesday now these charges stem from as you mentioned the fact that he allegedly had deposited into his personal bank account ten and a half million dollars between the months of december two thousand and fourteen and february two thousand and fifteen now for this action as well he's already facing charges of criminal breach of trust and abuse of power and this money allegedly came from a company a state company that was under the control of the finance ministry and at that time not just was not only prime minister but also finance minister of the company this

is a company called s r c international and this is a former subsidiary of the state investment fund one m d b that knowledge it had set up and which he and his associates have stolen four and a half billion dollars from their using this idea of terrorism laws to get him into the court are they implicitly saying that he will be tried with terrorism funding issues or is that just a mechanism that the prosecutors have decided to use. no this isn't active the full name of the act is anti money laundering anti terrorism financing proceeds from illegal activities i think this is the name of the act so this is and this is these are the new charges that he faces now but he has actually been accused of receiving proceeds from illegal activities and as i mentioned the charges that he faces today and the charges that were followed against him last

month all stem from the same activity that he had received ten and a half million dollars into his personal bank account sometime between two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and fifteen if we talk top the figures it comes out roughly about seven hundred million u.s. dollars do your stories know we are all that money is as of right now. i think the department of justice and the u.s. department of justice rather they have they have filed an action to try and recover some of the assets that they say were used to that they say were bought with money stolen from one m. d. and in those filings they were legit but. his associates have bought items including expensive jewelry high end property in places like new york a two hundred fifty million dollar yacht these are the assets that were used that were bought with money illegally siphoned or misappropriated from one and be now

not to is also alleged to have to to have had seven hundred million dollars deposited into his bank account that however is not the subject of the charge and that however is not the subject of the charges that have been laid against him so far the charges so far only related to the ten it's ten and a half million dollars that he is alleged to have received from s.r.c international so there really could be more charges filed against him perhaps much further down the line and as well as the government's effort to recover assets that they believe were bought with money stolen from one and lawrence thanks very much. rescuers in indonesia you see there in need of better equipment as they continue the slow search for survivors from sunday's earthquake on the island of lombok much least one hundred thirty one people are confirmed dead and hundreds more are injured however teams are struggling to get to some of the worst hit areas entire villages have collapsed leaving more than eighty thousand people homeless or. my relatives

was buried under the mosque that's all i'm thinking about now that the heavy equipment has arrived i hope we can uncover the body. and at that time she was attending night class preez there were many people attending don't know the exact number ok let's take a live update on that story for you starve us and that is in stay. horse equipment do they need. well they need to have here quick when actually since today there's a lot more have here equipment in the area but of course there's a third day already this powerful earthquake so the chances of finding anyone alive of course are very very slim the death toll have actually been adjusted to one hundred thirty one by an hours which is thirty more bodies have been recovered since yesterday which means that this have whitman is only digging up that body so far there's no more signs that anyone is like alive under the rubble they have been

no more voices heard although a few days before this this major recovery operation started there were still voices heard so unfortunately also rescue workers have been complaining this have the equipment came in far too late and in the meantime of course we're talking about a third day after this orthe quake people are getting more and more hungry and thirsty aid is still yet has yet to arrive here especially in this remote area here in west lawn book right now most of the focus of this operation aid operation is on the north side of lombok this is the west which is also happily a fact that lots of people have come down from the hills their villages are destroyed we've just gone up there nobody has arrived there nobody knows what's going on there a few boxes have been donated to it is a villages here but they're still waiting for some substantial aid and i have to say people here are very self reliant if you can see behind me they actually built all these times they build them themselves with their own hands and they've bought

some material to to make these stands very improvised times because. as you can see you can actually not really hide from the rain in those kind of stands it's very very improvised but for now this is what these people have got sort of waiting for a lot more hopefully soon to come if this is no longer step a search and rescue operation is just a search operation does that mean that the authorities have got to turn their attention to keeping those people and making sure people are living in those twenty communities exposed to the weather there's not a spread of disease. get. exactly that's exactly what the government needs to do now and also let much aid come into lombok as possible just a few minutes ago during a press conference the head of the disaster agency has announced that international aid groups are not welcome at the moment they have no agreement to let them in to long book delivering goods it all has to be coordinated with the government. of

course that needs to be some really good coordination because what we're seeing now it's very sporadic aid people volunteers coming in very good willing people bringing in all kinds of food and drink water but it's not according to coordinate for the time you have to actually deal with this pretty large scale disaster step thank you. now the u.k. is calling for a dialogue between the u.s. its trading partners and iran to find a way forward often these sanctions were imposed several. ready pulled out despite e.u. officials calling for more trade the white house is counting on the power of the dollar to keep companies in lowering his tactical haint. the u.s. plan when it comes to iran hurt the economy hurt the people forced the government to agree to change much of its foreign policy the policy is not regime change but we definitely want to put maximum pressure on the government and it's not just to

come back to discuss fixing a deal that's basically not fixable dealing with the nuclear weapons aspect we want to see a much broader retreat by iran from their support for international terrorism their belligerent military activity in the middle east and their ballistic missile nuclear related programs all things around is unlikely to agree to still as the partners in the nuclear deal dialogue we really just encourage united states to start talking. in order to be able to find a route forward the european union. is trying to protect its companies taking the unusual step of issuing a blocking statement that says european companies should ignore u.s. sanctions but still car companies drug manufacturers and many other big names are leaving iran the reason if a company does business in the united states in chooses to do business in iran well the u.s. government can basically cut them out of the u.s.

market that is a much more important economic one government officials here say they will be watching closely and they plan to aggressively enforce the sanctions that have been put in place. still the u.s. is going this alone unlike last time the other major economies like china are vowing to continue to do business with iran and even though they technically will not be able to use the u.s. dollar the world's currency former state department official jared blog says they will find a way to work around that and that will hurt the u.s. in the long term the world's banking system is like a sewer and all of the plumbing runs to new york there's no law of physics there's new laws that says that has to be true it's just the way things have developed since world war two right now you've got the e.u. which is their economy is as large as ours you've got china growing to the point that they will soon be larger than us and if we abuse the power that we get from that central role if we could preciously apply sanctions without taking into

account the national security concerns of our closest allies and partners we're going to lose that position. the trusted ministration is betting the power of the u.s. dollars key to all economic growth all around the world around hoping that by the u.s. going it alone that will no longer be the case al-jazeera washington the u.s. government has announced the final list of chinese products to be hit by new tariffs they'll take effect in fifteen days' time a twenty five percent tariff will be applied to electronics chemicals and railway equipment donald trump already place tariffs on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese goods in a growing trade war china is about to match washington's moves adrian brown joins us live now from beijing from a fiscal point of view adrian is there any way that big can circumvent being on the receiving end of these terrorists when it comes to sort of mitigating its reaction perhaps. no i don't think there really is i mean this you know this latest round of tariffs peter had been anticipated it had

been well flagged china was expecting this because trump has been advertising it for so long i think china is trying to insulate itself as best it can it's doing that by focusing much more on the idea of becoming eventually self-sufficient you know just a few days ago for instance i was up in the northeast of the country which is soybean country and soybean farmers there are actually delighted that president trump has started a trade war with china because this is an industry that had been suffering in the past because of cheap imports of u.s. soybeans now china is governed destroying a lifeline to this industry and it's building up the industry because china feels vulnerable at the moment it realizes that if this trade war intensifies it will become vulnerable not just in the area of agriculture but also in the area of high tech and innovation so it's doing what it can in the short term to protect itself and china is doing actually what it always does at economically difficult times

it's simply pumping more money into the system and for the moment china has plenty of money to pump into the system china's economy peter is also becoming much less reliant on on exports as it seeks to remold its economy to change the direction of its economy from one that's less dependent on manufacturing and focusing more on domestic consumption getting chinese people to buy more chinese stuff but of course that's going to take time for that model to take hold in the short term china will still have to depend on expert exports and i think that you know the leadership is anticipating that it's going to have to take some sort of hit and you also get the feeling from from from analysts that you talked to is that china in many ways has been blindsided by it from when it comes to this trade war the leadership simply didn't think this trade war was ever going to happen so it's but it's possible that

they got the wrong advice from their economic advisers adrian thanks very much. now a highly anticipated race for a seat in the u.s. congress is too close to call just under one percent of votes separate the democratic and republican candidates for the seat in ohio but president trump has already congratulated the republican candidate troy bolton in a tweet election is being seen as a test of trump's presidency as he won the district resoundingly in twenty sixteen the result could offer clues to how november's midterm elections might go. still to cover for you here on al-jazeera including this one the utter destruction caused by the wildfires sweeping through california that story when we come back. hello and welcome to international weather forecast warm air is streaming up across

central parts of europe thirty five thirty six degrees on the cards for berlin on wednesday in the warm air extending all into southern parts of sweden on a warm day in stockholm some severe storms still around though across parts of eastern france through into the alpine region and space to continue as we head on through into thursday more westerners also seeing some heavy rain with a chance of some significant storms a much much cooler conditions for the u.k. nineteen degrees in london but those central areas still looking very warm indeed on the other side of the mediterranean sea weather conditions looking fine but thirty seven as a high in cairo rising to thirty eight as we head on through thursday but otherwise fine conditions we've lost all the showers that been across to nazir for instance into central parts of africa showers across the ethiopian highlands across sudan also but showers across chad and share mali still seeing some downpours bamako looking fairly west of the moment indeed some heavy rain likely across parts of west africa generally and then as we head down into southern portions of africa at

the moment it's looking largely dry and fine but by the time we get into thursday we could well see some snow across parts of the soton. oh firebrand. the approval thing when i was talking about the same people up for women's liberation. dream victory for anybody sexual assault continues an iconic feminist and seminal writer and waiting for solution yes we need to do something while to waste on game boy i'm not can we thought maybe he has sand goes head to head with jimmy i can't do anything else on algebra.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories so far this hour malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has denied three new charges of money laundering he's accused of stealing billions of dollars from a state investment fund which he set up in two thousand and nine has already been charged with abuse of power and a criminal breach of trust. rescuers in indonesia say they're in need of better equipment as they continue the slow search for survivors from sunday's earthquake on the island of lombok the death toll has risen to one hundred thirty one more than one hundred fifty thousand people have been displaced rescuers say the chances of pulling more survivors from the rubble alone. the u.s. government has announced the final list of chinese made products to be hit by sixteen billion dollars worth of new tariffs will take effect in fifteen days time

twenty five percent tariff will be applied to items from electronics to chemicals and even railway equipment mr trump has already placed tariffs with thirty four billion dollars on chinese goods. even to kate has been sworn in as colombia's new president he is the youngest leader to be elected there. the forty two year old former senator won the presidential runoff poll in june with fifty four percent he's promised to revise the peace accord with the fog rebels and curb the production of cocaine. saudi arabia is pulling all its people who are receiving medical care in canadian hospitals out of the country they'll be sent elsewhere for treatment now this is the latest development in a growing diplomatic row between ottawa and riyadh more than fifteen thousand saudi students in canada have been ordered to return home that could be difficult as the saudi national carrier is canceling flights between jeddah and toronto it's unclear how the dispute will affect existing trade with four billion dollars canada mainly

imports oil from saudi arabia with cars and defense equipment going the other way there are also questions over a thirteen billion dollar contract to supply the saudis with nine hundred armored vehicles kristen salumi has more from toronto. canada is a country that prides itself on promoting human rights at home and overseas now one country is determined to pay a steep price for that principle saudi arabia is suspending direct flights to canada demanding fifteen thousand saudi students and their families in the country leave and it's killing off the hopes of future trade deals it's all for speaking out on twitter against saudi arabia's arrest of two women's rights activists on unspecified charges one sam of the dow he is the sister of raif but dowie another imprisoned activists whose wife is now a canadian citizen i think saudi arabia has very aggressive reaction demonstrates how sensitive they are to this kind of criticism how much it matters to them and so

this really should be viewed by other governments as an important opening an opportunity to build up pressure but if canada was expecting the european union or the united states to come to its defense we have discussed it with the government of saudi arabia and it's up for saudi arabia and the canadians to work this matter out what it got from the saudi trading partners was lukewarm backing at best the dispute has given the government of prime minister justin trudeau a boost at home over support for women's rights but critics say canada has little to gain by putting the saudis on the defensive the big question is what is done in the thought for an effective way would it have been more productive to have you quiet diplomacy rather than a formal public shaming and was kamma prepared for the fall out trade between the two countries amounts to about four billion dollars a year much of it coming from the sale of canadian armored vehicles canada hasn't backed down from its position but now reportedly is talking to allies with

influence for help and pursuing quiet diplomacy after such an explosive spat presence salumi al-jazeera toronto. case shelters for girls across india being investigated some of them have been shot off to twenty three girls at once. shelter in the northern state of was a product allegedly sold for sex they were later rescued by the police four people have been arrested on suspicion of trafficking under thomas has that story from new delhi. these are some of the girls rescued from or police say was forced prostitution their home in northern india had to be in a charitable shelter for children without stable families but last year its owners lost their license the shelter should have closed it didn't instead say police its owners kept girls captive renting them out for six. we conducted raids at three or four places in two hours in rescue nearly twenty four girls and we are still

looking for fifteen more children. police found out about what was going on when one girl escaped she ran to a nearby police station and described how the woman running the home kept children captive she used to say that they would kill us she used to threaten us she took children to the office once and told us to hit the policeman our media it became. children being forced into prostitution is relatively common in india the government's national commission for the protection of child rights says care homes often hide it about a quarter of a million children live in one of seven thousand of them of which a fish are unregistered with little official oversight when such your balance is exposed the associated criminal cases are often poorly prosecuted first of all investigations are not done in the manner that reestablish the case in the court because scrutiny of the court most of the cases i'm not able to stand and then second thing in the time being in the cases so we've missed on so starting. there

is no proof that is everything gets lost by the dynamic is really comes to final. nationwide protests about women's safety a growing issue of children safety is increasingly wrapped up in those place here again to show that they are exposing and ending child sexual abuse but the truth in this case is that they got lucky one girl escaped advocates for children say the authorities need to be much more active in finding and then promptly prosecuting those who exploit children one rescue does little to address a chronic nationwide problem after thomas al-jazeera. a course in bangladesh has ordered police to bring a detained prominent journalist to hospital for treatment for photo journalist. alarm was arrested after an interview with al-jazeera on sunday his family says he's been tortured human rights watch wants the government to investigate reports that he was beaten in jail students have been demonstrating for nine days for

tougher traffic laws joining us live now from dhaka is the bangladeshi information minister housen or hark minister can you promise us that this reporter this photographer journalist will indeed today go from in effect caught slash police custody to a hospital. well. there are known photographs. gallery of photographs he is he had been picked up by the police the fact and the story here but. the other parties that are here they've been taken to the hospital but i don't think so he has been beaten up in the castrati but our last is that e.p. that we did in the custody the ones who are willing to talk is that it will be he prosecuted. does that. does that mean he'll be in a hospital today or not well

i'll have to check with the. ministry here i can't exactly give you the details but eve did the court order then the government will. comply with the court order to your country and to us an individual police free press that just let me finish the point sir if i may quote do you believe in a free press because looking at the tapes this man was doing nothing wrong he was standing at a distance he was photographing the teenage protesters that was the only thing he was doing. yes place a place in bangladesh it totally free but as you know the journalist provision of the hazard is that when there's a class going on in the particular area or in any plan place of the world sometimes the protesters. or they have fought against whatever it is sometimes done

a little became ice but is not part of the government plan the police cannot be done not least because we have a clear is that the donnelly's should walk independently for the provisional independence so beating up and down the list is condemned by the government i personally use credit. to being the building up of the donnellys and i wrote a. letter to the home minister. secretly minister to. those persons the sponsor will probably give the journalist to court and the justice given the bangladeshi social media even the final edition social media is as of now flooded with images of how your security or storage fees have been mishandling this because that's the central allegation has there been a point in the past week or ten days when you feel the government could have handled this better. well

there you could look at the moment of fear for roads or that has been clearly is. a very amicable about our prime minister thick i think to get a lead instructed the lawyer for thing it is too big. and if you look. at the past five days there is no thirteen see the end of the lord the little but there the police were protecting them helping them to to give a kills but did they pag and when the agreement was done. out of bed and the government had started the demands then of the pair get fucked and visited by two or die hard the moment. but for a living but i didn't minister minister being slightly disingenuous there you not just answered your you are being slightly disingenuous there because the reality of the situation is this you had a spontaneous leaderless movement calling for better road safety

being an act or in framing in terms of legislation because two people were killed by a speeding past that's an established fact but what happened then was one of your government ministers reacted to that and said well if this was in india it wouldn't be a problem and no one would react to it but he was a family relative of the person who runs the bus company so then the protesters felt they had to carry on protesting not so much against traffic legislation and traffic deaths on the road demonstrating against the government. a low a kind of hello hello hello minister can you hear a low i don't ok i got a yes yes now i can hear live beyond thought this course the fact is my colleague the ministers have done cunt did. smile at the acting to the killing of the

children by bus and immediately the next day he was ordered to say sorry and he said sorry for that publicly and went to the children's house and. to give condolences to the family so the point is that the children are four forty and the minister said forty and that has been set up so did the government then consented of the nine demands raised by the children for road safety and we think they are very good in demands and the prime minister did agree to comply and exude all the demands so they to learn nor confront dissent with the police forces the others wanted to get incidents and if he did even started part of the go as far as i remember in three parts one is even product of the ruling party i won't release all of these so there are these court front isn't confidence it is not

these court funders and. not it is the children it is this porter dick. said incited by his hutton visit quarters wide if you could just maybe even do it but as far as my report goes the the pastors who have been a deal on this side of that fight all have been to these up to giving posited ok i don't particular want to get into a conversation about who you think may or may not actually be behind this but i'm going to reach you a direct quote here from the ancient human rights commission accusing your government of hiding the actual death toll from the original bus accident because the government behind closed doors to a quality judgement here you wanted to shut it down because you felt the need the pressure to react to a situation that you and i used the word again you mishandled it from day one.

i don't think it was a large woman by the children the government never to be. the goal of the to live a happy they would back to the schools and the. birth and i think you've got. to the fact of the fact because all the children of all of the schools and they're happy and the government is going to get the bad one last final point minister in about thirty seconds can you react to can you react to for us one last claim over the last several months numerous incidents where peaceful protesters because they're also angry about the quota system that exists in your country yes or no have they been beaten up yes or no yes there is the question of course is that going to stoke i've got to stop you there were all the time we're waiting on the side to. it when they're on line it's undoubtedly chief. of again inequality in our society today or if you join

a sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to be the speakers for a change joining the colombo become the saints and announces iraq. it was a simple tweet about human rights that outrage saudi arabia the government has now suspended flights and ended trade ties with canada but is international criticism enough to improve human rights in the kingdom this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm a mage i'm joy in saudi arabia considers candidates come.