he had an emergency meeting with military and police chiefs and tweeted he would see injury enforcements the red cross is sending reinforcements to dropping forty body bags bandages and medicine at the main hospital charlotte dallas zero in with al jazeera live from london much more still ahead indonesians only of quick hit island all the longball prepare for a long rebuilding process more than four hundred thirty people are now confirmed dead and trouble is brewing for donald trump as a former friend an ex white house aide releases a tape phone poll of the president. hello and welcome back we have an area of low pressure just off the coast by hong kong at the moment it's not anything major in terms of wind but these little low pressure

system sometimes can provide a lot of rain over a quite long period of time and that's what we're seeing at the moment from the system and it's likely to move further towards the west here in the course of wednesday so hong kong looks like being wet northern parts of vietnam will be wet and this general circulation is over enhanced in the flow towards the philippines so heavy rain is certainly likely across lose on further towards the west again that's the same flow is helping to bring more showers in off the bay of bengal so i think for much of me a man looks pretty wet at times cross into south asia massive cloud no particular across north eastern areas as the monsoon pulses away so we're looking at some pretty heavy rain affecting kolkata harder about will see some downpours the western ghats could see another pulse of fairly heavy rain during the course of the day on choose day and delhi like to see some significant storms those continues ahead on through into when state much of pakistan should be dry and find just one or two showers likely across northern areas here in the arabian peninsula we've got

a bit of a picking up so the humidity is relatively low and temperatures here in doha expected to reach forty two. on counting the cost what the first wave of u.s. sanctions on iran means for you iranians and companies doing business there the world's biggest oil producers i'm a climate change was stamping out colombia's cocaine addiction counting the cost on a. go.

back a quick reminder of the top stories now turkey's central bank has eased the rules around how banks manage the lira and promised loans for any banks that need them it's to stop the current sea from falling any further it's lost more than forty percent against the dollar this year. funerals have been held in northern yemen for some of those who died in a saudi u.a.e. led coalition air strike which killed fifty three people forty of them were children many of whom were killed on board a school bus and afghanistan's military is sending special forces to help defend the embattled city of gaza and from a taliban attack more than three hundred people have died in four days of fighting . now zimbabwe's president elect is in the country to move on from last month's disputed election as it marks thirty eight years of independence amisom and i was supposed to be sworn in on sunday but the ceremony can only go ahead with approval

from the constitutional court harm which has more from harare. president elect him a similar guy got asked political leaders to remain calm it's his first public appearance since his inauguration was postponed after the main opposition alliance filed court papers on friday preventing it from going ahead zimbabwe is even more divided since last month's disputed election and post election violence we are of course. these are liars has heard violence post of me and there for our lives you see result. in years of what you know since citizens made their souls where did all these armies stood a commission of inquiry and. the first great murder. it is not. the lives. of. heroes day is one of the

most important national holidays is to remember those who fought in the civil war to end white minority rule in one nine hundred eighty some of those veterans are still in the government and opposition supporters blame the ruling party for the violence the main opposition to the genocide released. they say there is nothing to celebrate. he says his supporters are being systematically targeted by the ruling party he won last month's election. earlier this month six people were shot and killed when the army dispersed opposition supporters protesting against election results the international community has called for the military to use restraint zimbabwe is a liberal all people can do is wait the swearing in ceremony will only happen after constitutional judges give the ruling.

courts the only other implications that the decision. is final so politically it will be very interesting election. judges could declare the winner and he sworn into office within forty eight hours or they could order a recount or a fresh election within sixty days if political leaders refuse to accept the court's decision that could create more political and economic instability. well donald trump has taken to twitter to lash out at former white house aide on money go newman who was fired late last year the u.s. president described the former apprentice contestant as wacky and not smart i want house correspondent can really help it joins us live now and so kimberly this feud between the u.s. president and his former aide appears to be escalating. yeah it's really.

almost tabloid fodder typically except that involves the president of the united states and that makes the national news this what appears to be almost a bitter breakup after a fifteen year relationship these charges very very. in many ways very strong charges coming from what many americans refer to simply as as omarosa a former west wing staffer fired when chief of staff john kelly came into the white house and now we know secretly recording the president as well as the chief of staff when she was fired certainly the white house incensed by this donald trump taking to social media and a series of tweets to discredit her in many ways calling her both back wacky vicious even a loser the white house position here. talking to members of the administration at least one from the press office this morning who basically sort of characterizes

the white house position is this that they feel that this is an effort to sell books that it's very disappointing given the long relationship between. the president the fact that she was given an opportunity in the white house and was very much a visible minority as the only african-american in the west wing but instead of using that as a platform to influence perhaps he'll race relations in the white house she instead has decided to take another tact is doing a tell all book that comes out on tuesday that's right and it's no surprise is that all of this is coming just is she is looking to promote her new book do we how damaging might those revelations be for the president. well certainly. didn't have a lot of credibility even when she was in the white house she was often the target because of some of the acts of conduct within the white house even for example

violating security protocols by bringing her wedding party to the white house for photographs and some of the charges are pretty disturbing in her book particularly as he alleges that the president uses the drug or it tori term to speak about african-americans which many refer to as the n word but unfortunately that is already being discounted given the fact that she herself admits she never actually heard the president say that and the person she claims told her the president said that is now a social media saying i never said that so it seems that there are some very inflammatory charges within the book perhaps to try and sell the book but the problem being that there has always been a credibility issue for omarosa and that seems to be continuing but certainly the white house doesn't need this given the deep racial divide that exists in the united states that has continued under president trump this is certainly a missed opportunity many believe where there could have been healing but again it just seems to be a doubling down on division all right thank you very much from the white house

committee elke it now iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif has spoken explain exclusively to al jazeera about his country's relationship with the united states trumps decision to pull out of the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal has full of a strained ties of course between washington and tehran zarif is saying that the u.s. has proved its not trustworthy. we have no problem with dialogue but if mr trump really serious about talks if he is serious about talks without preconditions well the secretary of state put some conditions for talks two hours after trump's comments impossible conditions the first question is if they themselves have reached an agreement inside the u.s. about talks with or without preconditions our policies in the region are totally clear it's the us who needs to be accountable for policies in the region. well serious comments come as a supreme leader ayatollah ali hum and i refused u.s.

president on all trumps often at direct talks hummin i says he's banned iranian leaders from meeting with president trump saying the u.s. never follows through on promises it makes sharing talks common i also ruled out the possibility of more with the u.s. they must be has more on this now from. it has to be said there's nothing necessarily new in what the supreme leader of iran has said today but every time he speaks on any given issue with loans a certain amount of religious weight to the issue that he is discussing and so if you follow the arc of that logic now it is the islam law of the land of to not negotiate with the united states but as is the case with most of what officials in iran say there are cover yacht's the supreme leader later in that address said that if iran is in a position to resist economic pressure and if iran is strong enough to negotiate with the united states on more equal footing and if the united states becomes more human towards iran then then iran may enter back into negotiations with the united

states so there is a subtle nuance there but he said as far as the trumpet ministration is concerned there is no way that iran will ever negotiate with the current white house. indonesia's government says it will take a long time for people to rebuild their lives after this months of quake on the island of long bog at least four hundred thirty six people are now known to have died and the damage bill has risen to more than three hundred forty million dollars people morgan reports rescued alive from the rubble this boy is one of the lucky ones he's at least being treated for his injuries but his mother says even that was a struggle because the earthquake destroyed thousands of buildings including hospitals and medical centers at mabille and that the hat we didn't know if my son had fractures or not and there was no facility i was told to stay away from home remedies that's why i came to the military hospital where there are volunteers.

more than a week after the six point nine quake struck the search for survivors is drawing to a close more than four hundred thirty bodies have been recovered but many more remain missing treating the injured has also been a major challenge as many parts of the island are almost impossible to access now. volunteers have been doing their best to find out and it's a route through the destruction of the reason that patients with fractures come to us because we have five operation rooms and i doctors the volunteers who join the military team we have five operations day here but that's not enough for the thousands of people affected there still discovering people who haven't been reached for the system and at the same time they're delivering very basic emergency assistance food water medical care shelter the damage hasn't been assist so there's a lot of uncertainty about the future thousands of people remain displaced and

afraid to go home because of the fear of more earthquakes and aftershocks the already lost family friends in many cases their homes and most of their belongings they don't know how much more they can lose people morgan al-jazeera. north and south korea have agreed to hold a summit in pyongyang in september following april's historic meeting in the demilitarized zone a trip by the south's president moon in to the north capital would be the first such visit for more than a decade both sides say they are committed to a thaw in relations despite killing yang's continuing dispute with the united states over the terms of its denuclearization deal well now china is denying un allegations that it's holding a million muslim we goes in internment camps united nations committee says it has credible reports of people being held in secret jails in northwestern jiang province the government says it's clamping down on what it calls terrorists in the semi autonomous region but denies targeting ethnic minorities whites groups say many weak is have been held without charge. now can live vigil is due to be held in

freetown in the next few hours to mark one year since a devastating mudslide killed more than one thousand people it's ranked as sierra leone's worst natural disaster hundreds remain missing and some survivors are still homeless from freetown ahmed idris reports. seventeen year old mark to cut is returning to where her family who used to be for the first time since last year's disaster. but it reads of our father and mother four sisters two brothers and a brother in law are still trapped on that this must have rock like hundreds of other victims rescue workers one able to retrieve their bodies. i cry anytime i remember them live was file when they were around right now i must work for someone who pays me not with money but with food to eat and from what i

would is it a spoke to my to last august in hospital she was looking for an aunt she hoped was still alive she didn't find her. after three days of torrential rains part of sugarloaf mountain broke away and crashed onto a once vibrant community burying homes and people most could not be saved due to lack of equipment manpower and bad weather so my boss of the two thousand and seventeen tragedy still come here to get close to relatives they didn't get the chance to say proper goodbye to hundreds believed to be buried under the rubble the government plans to build a monument of salt here for the missing and the dead more than five hundred victims of the disaster were buried here their graves tones bare no names some contain just body parts i think kilometers from the cemetery i fifty two unit housing estate was

built by three local construction companies the houses were donated to the government for the survivors but it can only accommodate one hundred fifty of them . alveda style to eleven thousand people and this eleven thousand people not everybody in here lost it outs staying then for we stay here we found things difficult the survivors have now been asked to pay monthly rents on the houses sugarloaf mountain remains very unstable a few weeks ago huge boulders of rock came tumbling down causing panic among villagers the government has demolished more homes that are considered unsafe on the first anniversary of the disaster survivors including mcarthur still without a home are looking to the government for help and hope that they can get a new start in life how many degrees. freetown.

stargazers in greece got a rare treat when meteors st to cross the sky over the weekend the so-called pussy a meteor shower could be seen with the naked eye and appears around august every year people living in the northern hemisphere have a better chance of seeing the shooting stars or in an area where there is little light pollution or has everything you need to know al-jazeera dot com. just a quick recap of the top stories now turkey central bank has intervened to stop the currency the lira from weakening any further the currency has lost more than forty percent against the dollar so far this year and the diplomatic dispute with the united states over a jailed pastor has only field the crisis on monday the central bank ease the rules

around how banks manage the lawyer and promised loans for any banks that need them the announcement helped pull the lower back from a record low but there is still grave concerns about the state of turkey's economy in particular the president's opposition to raising interest rates but russia says that turkey is the target of an economic war and has accused washington of betraying its allies. on the one hand you are a partner but on the other you shoot yourself in the foot so for example the united states is a strategic partner with us in afghanistan in somalia you're one of our strategic partners in later years but then you go and stop your ally in the back is this acceptable. afghanistan is sending special forces to help defend the embattled city of gaza me from a taliban attack although three hundred people have died in four days of fighting thirty of them are civilians he is just one hundred fifty kilometers south of kabul on the highway connecting the capital and southern afghanistan. huge crowds have

been gathering in northern yemen for the funerals of fifty people killed in a saudi emraan t. as strike last week forty of those killed in the province with children many of whom were on a school bus at the time authorities are struggling to identify the remains of all of those killed in the attack some parents is still looking for their children among the dead bury. and zimbabwe's president elect is urging the country to unite and move on from last month's disputed election amazon gaga was speaking at an event marking the heroes day holiday it was due to be inaugurated on sunday but the swearing in ceremony was postponed because of a legal challenge to the election results mounted by the opposition. over the top stories and on the full bulletin coming up in twenty five minutes time do join me then coming up next on al-jazeera it's counting the cost.

you. can. tell i'm has i'm seeking this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics what the first wave of u.s. iran sanctions means for iranians and companies doing business there also this week big oil and climate change what are the world's largest oil companies failing to reveal about the future of fossil fuels. plus the economic stakes in the saudi can

of the spat. so a first round of u.s. economic sanctions on iran were slapped back into place this week they're being reimposed because u.s. president donald trump walked away from the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran a second round of u.s. sanctions targeting the country's oil and gas industry will hit in november we'll have a report from same bus ravi on what impact sanctions i have a inside iran in just a few moments but first practical hand reports from washington on what the u.s. wants to achieve by re-imposing penalties. 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 the partners in the nuclear deal are urging dialogue we really just encourage and united states to start talking to its partners in 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 new laws 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 trust of 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. at the edge of the country where iran meets in iraq human mules have carried smuggled goods across the border for years rugged routes like this one in kurdistan province import electronics phones beauty products medicine cigarettes the list goes on it's dangerous work as smugglers evade taxes and customs duties. the illegal trade represents a fraction of iranian imports but with more u.s. sanctions imposed the government is cracking down on the groups controlling these routes. iran has land and naval borders with fifteen countries we could never close all the borders for seventy to eighty years now local people have been trading with neighboring countries in the last two decades demands in the country have risen and the scale of the border trade has increased if you associate it to sanctions our government is against it and has made many obstacles for local people that are

involved in it iranian leaders are keen to stop illegal imports and promote made in iran goods it's part of the policy from the supreme leader himself to develop domestic production and become self-reliant in the face of american economic pressure despite financial struggle iranian consumers care about quality and what name brands some turned to secondhand markets to stay in fashion on a budget others are buying of gold and ironically american dollars to keep their saving safe from the impact of american sanctions things such as tires are being replaced only after being driven down to the room. and with the rising cost of replacement recycling is squeezing a little more mileage out of the stuff of life. has restored old furniture for years he says he's part artist part handyman and his customers with an eye for quality can be unforgiving. people want to keep the

originality of the work because nothing new can replace something old another issue is high prices many products are not made or imported anymore so people prefer to keep things it is about the cost in iran prices the main issue the economic pressure has provoked more street protests recently but in a small corner shop in the capital art is being borne out of the city. we're joining me now from stuttgart is andrea writes a managing director and co-founder of u.k. based on our general capital since two thousand and nine he's been in vising international companies targeting the iranian market thanks very much for being with us so donald trump has said that these are in his words the most biting sanctions ever our many of us will say that this is the kind of bluster that we've come to expect from the u.s. president but just how hard will these sanctions hit the iranian economy believe this is certainly one sure president by his.

intense blood he is doing here and you see the damage is already doing to the iranian economy there we are. you there you still might get q. which is not only of sector of the sayings of the world the way the government has a central bank has handled the foreign exchange situation to other cultural in order to improve their you you have high unemployment you have companies leaving so low slides and economy also president trump has also warned that anyone doing business with iran will not be doing business with the united states. who is he talking to here china or the european union and if he is would they risk their own economies by defying the u.s. . let's say his comments of from more addressed to europeans because the chinese.

are more independent to the sanction issue they will continue to buy oil. in india as well turkey makes noises saying they will stick to their own nation's them selves so terribly probably you could suppose from us sanctions but definitely european companies have a lot at stake in the us look at war bennett said they aren't trekking starting out is not delivering mass. and lorries so. the issue is with europe again so what do you expect the europeans to do i mean if you were advising them what do you what would you be telling them at this point if you are invested in this area and yet lies company and the whole area but definitely you have those who decide to leave because they are now rick strong in europe a pump and it's like siemens are the big companies who very much depend on the us

markets no question for them to be then you have those who are probably less exposed they will try to stay and they do stay and you have others who see this as an opportunity to have no us expose your and. it will emanate transaction and to buy businesses in iran much depends what it is your exposure on. to the u.s. economy if you don't have an iran is an opportunity if you have a lot of folks closer to the u.s. iran you're iran exposure can be a problem indeed or iran is already reacting to this they put in place. measures to emergency measures to stop the collapse of its currency which is slant to record lows against the u.s. dollar since the start of the year what impact is that having is it working the video only to say they started that on monday but sell. as we all know you can

stand against the market and iran was trying to stand against the forex market and by not allowing foreign exchange to have your creative panic. there really are. to assert of its value and now by allowing foreign exchange offices again and releasing to subsidize. to bring the official rate and the market rate closer to go along so you believe that this will work because at the moment at this rate the country can't even import just prohibitively expensive. what the americans haven't done you ran you know it's. been quite efficient doing it themselves so. they hopefully can repel and undo what they have done so far and this is only the first wave of sanctions against iran u.s. sanctions against iran being told there's going to be a second wave in november which is targeting iran's oil exports and of course iran

is boil rather is a is a big part of iran's economy what effect is that going to have made that is that their president. is having he wants to bring get oil explorer to nail which is probably not happening as i mentioned to chinese will buy indians will buy and are already very large buyouts then any way versus will probably not have in the past and i don't see why given that they've to situations they'll get to be well into and to. have to adjust again to the same measures have scaping learnt and the iranians are also rather well trained in handling same shoes andrea streisand thanks very much for being with us thank you. all right still to come on counting the cost a pledge to stamp out colombia's cocaine addiction. but first

the turkish lira has hit an all time low versus the dollar concerns about worsening relations with the u.s. sparked the latest sell off the currency has lost more than one third of its value this year analysts say concerns are growing as well the repayments on foreign loans won't be made for each credit rating agency said friday it is watching developments . now relations between saudi arabia and canada soured dramatically this week canada's foreign ministry had called for the release of a saudi women's rights activists with family in canada in a tweet and saudi arabia immediately drew its ambassador and ordered students and medical patients to leave canada to initially it was unclear how the dispute would affect the annual saudi canadian trade of nearly four billion dollars but on thursday saudi officials were quoted as saying oil sales to canadian customers will not be affected.