playroom and we sort of look after ourselves i don't remember the children's names but i'll never forget that canada's dark secret on al-jazeera. lazy is former prime minister in court accused of money laundering as the charges pile up over a state farm scandal. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from 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. china prepares to strike back as the u.s. finalizes its long list of new tariffs on chinese imports. and

a test for donald trump the ohio votes that could taint what lies ahead to november midterm elections. palacio former prime minister has been back in court today facing money laundering charges as a corruption probe picks up he denies moving money into his own personal bank accounts now it's all part of a wider investigation into the disappearance of billions of dollars from the state's investment fund set up by mist and jeep florence lou reports now from kuala lumpur. back in court to face more charges not former prime minister of malaysia has pleaded not guilty to receiving proceeds that stemmed from unlawful activities he's alleged to have received ten and a half million dollars from the state company called s r c international these three. meanings and the money laundering now and the money

laundering is a big is a big word but it's strictly mean proceeds of crime. they are in addition to the charges brought against him last month for criminal breach of trust and abuse of power s.r.c. international is a former unit of one and the state investment fund set up by not just when he was both prime minister and finance minister the us department of justice alleges four and a half billion dollars has been stolen from the fund for one m. d. b. it isn't just being investigated in malaysia at least six other countries including singapore and switzerland on vesta gasing of the fund over alleged corruption and money laundering. is alleged to have covered up irregularities at the fund when he was still in power sacking his deputy prime minister and replacing the attorney general with another officer who subsequently cleared him of any wrongdoing but since coming into power following

a general election in may the new administration led by mahathir mohamad has moved swiftly to uncover the true extent of the corruption scandal surrounding one m. to be the government who recently took possession of a two hundred fifty million dollars it was handed over by indonesian authorities who had seized the vessel on behalf of u.s. officials who allege the yacht was bought with money stolen from one and florence al-jazeera. the search for survivors from sunday's earthquake in indonesia is running into problems rescuers say they don't have enough heavy lifting equipment to dig through the rubble of the many destroyed buildings on the island of lombok at least one hundred thirty one people are confirmed dead and hundreds more are injured but teams are struggling to get to some of the worst hit areas entire villages have collapsed leaving more than eight hundred thousand people homeless. so. my relative 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 prayers there were many people attending don't know the exact number. step person is in the remote village of but a liar. the death toll have actually been adjusted to one hundred thirty one by now which is thirty more bodies have been recovered since yesterday which means that this happy whitman is only digging up the bodies 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 were told 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

long book right now most of the focus of this operation aid operation is on the north side of this is the west which is also have really affected lots of people have come down from the hill to their villages are destroyed we've just gone up there nobody has arrived nobody knows what's going on there a few boxes have been donated to this village is 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 stands because. as you can see you can actually not really hide from the rain in those kind of tents it's very very improvised but for now this is what these people have got. the israeli knesset is about to start a special session on the controversial new nation state law one of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu says it's unlikely he'll attend the law defines israel

as a jewish state and makes hebrew its sole official language the druze community and jewish activists have had big protests in tel aviv they're angry at how the law defines the country and downgrades the status of the arabic language or to understand the consequences of the new law it's important to trace israel's demographic changes priyanka gupta has that sparked by political zionism in europe jewish immigration into historic palestine began in the late nineteenth century but it was minimal at the beginning of the first world war there were little more than thirty thousand jews out of a population of over seven hundred thousand people but jewish immigration so just before and after the second world war with the persecution of jews in europe and different parts of the world when the state of israel was created in nine hundred forty eight its population stood at eight hundred six thousand that's close to the number of palestinians who were violently expelled from their homes to make way for

this new nation in the last seventy years is just population has increased by ten times largely because of state sponsored migration and a high jewish book trade israeli jews today trace their ancestry back to europe the united states the middle east africa and asia in contrast israeli palestinians now make up little more than twenty percent of the talker population are the minorities make about four percent that means according to the new law only about three quarters of his just population will have the unique right to self-determination a reminder on paper at least is dreads declaration of independence nine hundred forty eight guaranteed equal rights for all let's talk to my colleague stephanie decker who's live for us this from west jerusalem stuff good morning what's happening there today. well the israeli knesset that's behind me that's the parliament has been recalled from their summer recess just about two weeks after

that law was paulus the prime minister benjamin netanyahu very keen to get it passed before they went on their summer break while the controversy surrounding it now has led to them being recalled it's not going to be binding what is debated here today but we do expect it to be heated from what we understand the prime minister will not be attending he is not required to attend legally but the opposition has been saying well you pos this law so very quickly there's been a huge fallout about it you should be here to debate but certainly at the moment we don't expect that to happen but you know it's indicative of the wider criticism peter not just from israel's minority as you mentioned earlier from the druze from the palestinian israeli citizens also coming from abroad and from its jewish citizens saying that this law is a violation is a threat to what israel says its inherent democratic nature so we'll have to wait and see what is debated but certainly nothing binding will come out of here to change anything at the moment some people have been speculating over the past well

. that maybe benjamin netanyahu might have to come up with a new piece of legislation another law specifically talking about the druze how likely is that. well there was talk of another potential clause if that goes through well some of the jews will tell you it's not an offer they are divided as well on how they see it but you would also that have a three tier system peter where you have the jewish first then perhaps the jews second and then everyone else is third so you're becoming in very dangerous territory there is a petition that's been filed human rights group called to the high court the high court is now looking at this still what's significant is that the high court has never overturned any of these what they're called basic rules essentially almost making up what is israel's constitution the only time they can do that peter is if they deem the democratic nature of the state of israel to be under threat a lot of people will tell you that yes this is what's happening here and certainly we've seen tens of thousands of people come out on the streets particularly tel

aviv last saturday really marking the the issue that the druze have with it we're expecting again this saturday again in tel aviv a mass protest called for by the palestinian israeli community others will be attending israelis will be attending so there is this debate happening many people will tell you what this rule says is only putting into legal tool what has been a policy here for decades and decades but as one woman told me today in palestine israel she said the mosque is off the debate is on the table and we're going to have to wait and see how things move on from here and when we talk about the mosque being removed stephanie in this legislation has been around in various iterations now for several years just to be clear so why does benjamin netanyahu want to reheat it right now. well many people will tell you that the prime minister couldn't policy before because of the opposition from the americans from the obama administration the trumpet ministration viewing things far more favorably viewing this administration far more favorably not opposing it there

are no consequences to having paul stated so this is something that people will tell you is one of the reasons why he paused and also you know it is essentially talking to his right wing political bases particularly in his coalition there is a lot of pressure if you look at the laws this is just the latest peter in you know many laws that have been polished over the last couple of months you have a law that now operated a prohibited group called breaking the silence these are former military soldiers that speak out against you know how the military and how policy is made or will they are now banned from talking in schools that was a little another bill was passed here in the knesset which really you know lessens the access that palestinians have to high courts in terms of petitioning them when it comes to property issues land issues and people will tell you that's because the high court has often ruled in favor so there's a concerning trend of this government pushing through bills making into law issues that are pushing this country far and far further to the right and of course you

know a lot of people who live or don't agree with that stuff thanks very much pakistan's opposition groups are gathering in the capital islamabad in protest alleged vote rigging during the election that brought him to power has to wreak proxy was declared the clear winner two weeks ago come ohio is live for us in islamabad these protesters what do they want to see happening next. we will go back to come all hopefully before the end of this bulletin of al-jazeera world news we've got problems there with islam about we'll sort it out a little later i'm sure still to come here on al-jazeera. a new leading man for colombia the divided country celebrates the swearing in of its youngest ever president. abuse claims what next for the dozens of young girls rescued from care shelters in india.

hello there we've got lots of cloud of rain over the southeast in parts of asia the moment on the satellite picture you can see the cloud from samoa to really and then working its way all the way up towards the philippines and it's given us a very heavy downpours it's still with us as we head through thursday we'll see the heaviest downpours through parts of the philippines and then a little bit further north than it has been so over parts of vietnam and across into thailand as we head through into friday though what we'll see is the rains become slightly more subdued so more of us getting away with a draw a day yes still some showers just not as many of them but the south looks like it should stay dry throughout the day for most of us in java and across into bali now for australia the weather here has been pretty violent recently and there is more violent weather on the calls as well as one system that's working its way across

the southeast that brought to some snow and force in the southeast it's going to stay pretty windy over the next few days further west we've got another system working its way into western australia this is giving us some heavy rain and some strong winds as well in fact they could be some damage from the strong winds and they could be some flooding as well from those to wrench really heavy downpours the temperatures will be struggling under that wet and windy weather only seventeen on thursday but if we fast forward to friday behind that system it's even cooler maximum only fourteen. it's a story of survival. it's a story about how people learn to live in such remote last five pretty true to the way it did with the sheep and how that instinct help them recover from the financial crash i would continue as long as i can stand. this is

a story about iceland. on al-jazeera. welcome back here with al jazeera these are your headlines so far this half hour releases former prime minister has been back in court facing money laundering charges as a corruption probe intensifies he denies moving money into his own personal bank accounts all part of a wider investigation into the disappearance of billions of dollars from a state investment fund set up by him. 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 putting more survivors from the rubble are low. and the israeli knesset is about to start a special session on the controversial new nation state law the prime minister benjamin netanyahu says it's unlikely he'll attend the law defines his role as a jewish state and makes hebrew it so official language the druze community heard big protests in tel aviv. a closely watched special election in ohio for the u.s. house of representatives remains too close to call while the republican candidate does have a small lead about one thousand eight hundred votes there are around eighty five hundred absentee and provisional ballots that still need to be counted that could take more than a week john hendren has more now from ohio. the election wasn't even supposed to be close but after

a long election night it was too close to call republican troy balders and held the narrowest of leads over democrat danny o'connor in a special election for ohio's twelfth congressional district i'm going to promise to you but i'm going to work relentlessly really let us play for this well congressional district put. america on the right path and we're going to keep it going about well. in this heavily republican district o'connor and his party called it a win of sorts a way with his campaign claiming provisional in absentee ballots could still make the difference it was anything but a concession speech can you believe how close this is. we are in a tie ball game and you made this possible the grass roots individuals

who have been knocking on doors fighting for the future of our country. in this sprawling landscape of ohio farmland in suburbs just one democrat has won here since one thousand nine hundred thirty nine. republican state legislators in ohio redrew this district to make it more republican in two thousand and eleven so democrats say even a modest loss is a harbinger of a coming democratic wave in the november midterm elections this should have been a slam dunk for. the fact that it's not it's already saying their fight against president donald trump won here by eleven percentage points in two thousand and sixteen when polls show democrat danny o'connor in a dead heat with republican troy boulders in this year trump took notice and took to the road troy alderson is the guy is the guy that's going to do things so i got to work right side groups poured millions of dollars into the race most for in ads

but shows that we have a grassroots enthusiasm about our campaign we have folks across our district who are excited my opponent needs washington d.c. to come in and bail him out in a way that we don't democrats need twenty three seats to take over the house of representatives and each side has one more chance to win this district the winner only holds office until january now the two candidates return to the campaign trail to face each other again in the november midterm elections john hendren westerville ohio iran's foreign minister rejecting u.s. sanctions saying that they will be able to stop his country exporting oil. was corset in iranian media saying it was impossible to run off and that they would be consequences to u.s. actions turkey has pledged to continue buying iranian natural gas and china maintains its business relations with iran lawful meanwhile the u.k. calling for talks between the u.s. and trading partners over the sanctions president trump says anyone doing business

with iran will not do business with the u.s. . 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 are urging dialogue we really just encourage and united states to start talking to. iran 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 and then 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 jarrett block 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. 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. dollar is 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 in al-jazeera washington ok let's go back to that story we tried to bring you just a little bit earlier here on this half hour of al-jazeera will news big protests being planned today will they be big or not impossible to predict of course they are angry over allegations of vote rigging in the recent elections in pakistan which puts him around come in to government come on haida is live for us in

islamabad come on what do the protesters hope to achieve today. what they called a grand. have a humiliating defeat and. commission of. a new not far from. where the. political party. rigging india election. across the country. many highways have been blocked leading to traffic. now the. day will bring a large number of. however all weekend. just

a few hundred people that have been able to come here although they were. all. over and done with. well what the opposition parties are saying is that they're going to stand their protests not just outside parliament barred in parliament once the old taking ceremony takes place which is expected in about a week's time so they're not ruling out nor joining the parliament they're saying that they will continue to protest vote outside as well as inside our ever public opinion may turn against them because such protests cause a lot of difficulties for the people the government on the other hand saying that this was a fair and free election the opposition parties are ever out threatening that they

will continue with this protest not just outside but also inside the confines of parliament peter thanks very much. the u.s. government has announced the final list of chinese products to be hit by new terrorists take effect in fifteen days a twenty five percent tariff will be applied to electronics chemicals and railway equipment donald trump has already placed tariffs on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese goods and a growing trade war china says it will match washington's moves. from beijing. 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 a venture be 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's gotten 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. well first seltzer's in india are being investigated after twenty three girls at one in the northern state of water pradesh said they were sold for sex they were later rescued by the police four people have been arrested on suspicion of trafficking and retirement's reports now 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 fam. 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 sex. we conducted raids at three or four places in two hours and rescue nearly twenty four girls and we're 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 if they came . 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 a 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 case is so we've missed on so style there is no proof there is no everything gets lost by the time really comes to a final level of. nationwide protests about women 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 hopefully prosecuting

those who exploit children one rescue does little to address a chronic nationwide problem after thomas al-jazeera. even been sworn in as columbia's new president at a ceremony in bogota he is the youngest leader to be elected the forty two year old former senator won the presidential runoff back in june with fifty four percent of the vote he's promised to revise the twenty sixteen peace accord with the fog rebels and introduced new measures to curb the production of cocaine. but you're gonna. be out today colombia confronts enormous challenges we receive a country in which more than three hundred social activists have been assassinated in the last two years illegal crops have expanded and they have done so exponentially criminal gangs increased their capacity yearly in various regions of the country and promises and commitments have been made with social organizations without making sure they are financed what colombians expect are solutions and not

aggression i want to be the president that forges and achieves what was agreed upon and thinking about what colombia needs without falling into temptation up leading up lots. more news one of you wants it on the website it's always there for you twenty four seven for us have an al-jazeera call to the headlines in just a moment. updating our top stories so far today starting in malaysia where the former prime minister has been back in court facing money laundering charges as a corruption probe intensifies he denies moving money into his own personal bank account it's all part of a wider investigation into the disappearance of billions of dollars from a state's investment fund that he set up and the jeep has already been charged with abuse of power and a criminal breach of trust al-jazeera is florence louis is in the capital city kuala lumpur. 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 now 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 with not only prime minister but also finance minister of the company rescue is 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 are low entire villages have collapsed and emergency crews are struggling to get to some of the worst affected areas. the israeli knesset is about to start a special session on the controversial new nation state law the prime minister

benjamin netanyahu says it's unlikely he'll attend the law defines israel as a jewish state and makes hebrew its sole official language the druze community have led big protest in tel aviv. iran's foreign minister is rejecting u.s. sanctions saying they won't be able to stop his country exporting oil reef was quoted in iranian media saying it was impossible to cut iran off and they would be consequences to u.s. actions turkey has pledged to continue buying iranian natural gas and china maintains its business relations with iran all or for the u.k. meanwhile calling for talks between the u.s. and all trading partners over the sanctions donald trump says anyone doing business with iran won't do business with the u.s. those are your headlines up next a g e s. . as protests in nicaragua against the president continue and the number of those killed rises n.b.c.

someone says i'm staying in power no matter what the have to crash into all of reality that usually gets the english blood. sent here america's ortega's from a vice president talks to al-jazeera. led. to a. wreck of a city on the cusp of the arctic circle and often called one of the most pristine graphically striking places on earth but beyond the classiest and volcanoes liason intriguing story of survival that's beautifully captured an icelandic proceeding. from a mirror of society it brings us together traces of divergent histories.