and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. i'm wondering were. running in fear again the indonesians island of long balkans shaken by a new quake two weeks after hundreds died and thousands of buildings were destroyed . or without jazeera live from doha also coming up. floodwaters forced hundreds of thousands from their homes the rain is easing but the problems may be just beginning for the indian state of carolina. where u.s.

bombs used in the yemen attack that killed forty children the report causing a political storm. and desperate to escape economic and political crisis but venezuelans faced new restrictions from their neighbors. landslides have come down and several buildings have been badly damaged or another powerful earthquake on the indonesian island of lombok it was jolted by a quake with a magnitude six point five late on sunday morning it was a shallow one with a depth of lesson eight kilometers and it centered in the northeast of the island people ran into the streets in panic this trauma coming exactly two weeks after another one measuring seven cools widespread destruction a community hall in my. villages collapsed and

a mosque and other buildings have been badly damaged in this chapter but so far we've had no ripple to serious injuries more than four hundred thirty people in the quake two weeks ago died and thousands of buildings were destroyed scott hietala has small from the into the xeon capital jakarta yet another earthquake hitting the lombok island here in indonesia six point five on the richter scale in the eastern part of that small island now this island has been hit by a series of earthquakes over the last several weeks sunday's doesn't appear to be that that damage and we don't hear any reports yet of damages to the houses and other structures in the area possibly to some roads because this earthquake triggered some landslides a mountain range in eastern long block that houses an active volcano we know that there were some landslides could be seen on on local television here of some landslides around that area there assessing the possible damage to some roads

around there no reports either of casualties just yet now this comes just two weeks after a much stronger earthquake hit another part of the island seven point zero on the richter scale four hundred sixty people were killed on august fifth half a billion dollars worth of damage was done from that earthquake so obviously a lot of people already on edge lombok island here in indonesia again we hearing stories of panic people running out of their houses when this earthquake hit today but again right now it sounds like there's not too much damage and no reports yet of any injuries or casualties officials in the indian state of carolus a need more rescue equipment to help to save hundreds of thousands of people who are stranded in remote parts by heavy flooding the rain center continuing to batter the region although they do appear to be easing andrew thomas has more from caroline. i wonder whether. their.

homes nearly submerged in flood water people forced to leave their properties behind you know to to avoid the floods or landslides this has been the scene for over a week as the southern indian state of kara battles heavy rains. the subsequent floods are being described as the worst in nearly a hundred years. what the levels are rising since yesterday the rains have been heavy it's still ongoing people are worried. the floodwaters and mudslides have killed hundreds of people since the start of the monsoon season in june some parts of the state to receive nearly double the average annual rainfall. three hundred thousand people have been forced out of their homes. and that has not been easy as walters' flood access points in many areas leaving air evacuation is the only option for language. the rainfall has led to massive landslides where chunks of the

mountain of come down blocking the entire stretch although the clearance team is working to open the road it's unlikely it will happen people have been shifted to camps in the nearby areas. where the full cost is say heavy rains will continue over the weekend but will ease off the words but while that is good news for those affected in kerala the rains will likely be drifting to other states in the country . but it's for the future though right now the relief effort is in full swing here in the state capital which is far enough south of the spec the west lights are off farai collection points like this one each with hundreds of volunteers all sourcing for donations and putting them on the trucks to sign off. their biscuits rice medicines and toiletries and then the irony in carol right now what is needed most is water and to thomas al-jazeera to do that on top of karen.

katter's government has pledged five million dollars in assistance for carolyn's flood victims the amir shaikh tamim been hammered announce the aid package saying he had knowledge the special bond with india and the contribution the people of carroll have made to cata the state charity has also launched a campaign to raise funds israel has announced it's closing one of the key crossings into an already severely deprived girls a strip defense minister avigdor lieberman said the arabs crossing would be shut down in response to recent violence along the border fence on friday's reilley forces killed another two palestinians and wounded sixty others during the weekly march of return protests talks aimed at easing tension between hamas and israel continues in cairo. south koreans who

has been long separated from their relatives are preparing to travel into north korea for a rare reunion they've been getting ready at an orientation session before being allowed to cross the border on monday now this will be the first event of its kind since october twenty fifteen and only the twentieth time since two thousand and many korean families have been divided ever since the war of the one nine hundred fifty s. which split the peninsula. emergency workers in this in the air trying to secure what's left of the bridge in general which collapsed on tuesday firefighters captured this video of the efforts to stabilize a section of the bridge the death toll officially stands at forty one rescuers think no more people are missing meanwhile the company which is responsible for maintenance has pledged over five hundred million dollars to help rebuild the bridge and thousands of mourners gathered in general on saturday for

a state funeral for some of those who died when the bridge collapsed david chaytor reports from there. the whole country shared the grief of the families of the victims as they join together for a day of mourning in genoa some boycotted the ceremony because they blamed the state for the negligence that led to the tragedy but for those attending the solemn dignity of the service provided some comfort some relief from the pain as overwhelmed. the. collapse of the morandi bridge slash the heart of genoa the deep discourse the all by demand spain for those who lost their lives. and those wounds were everywhere a man with gas lost his brother henry he'd been taken by him to the airport for a flight to columbia when he landed he heard about the bridge collapsing the first

pictures from the scene showed his brother's car in the wreckage it was an article about the print will he will be remembered for the wonderful person he was he said was brutally tragic but somehow it wasn't painful because he never realized that the kiss of death was approaching someone the politicians and the dignitaries have now left only their friends and family of the victims are here to give each other support and watch each other and help each other as the victims make their final journey. on the key side of the port they were bid farewell with applause then a sudden downpour of rain came down much like the beginning of the violent storm that brought down the bridge and ended their lives soon after the senior executives responsible for overseeing it made their first public appearance. problem we have to do what we want to do and we will do whatever we can to alleviate the suffering

of. the company announced they would rebuild the bridge but this time it will be made of steel the italian president says joe was touring the site before the funerals the company said they would spend more than five hundred million dollars to help the families of the victims and find new housing for those who lived under the bridge but there was no apology. they said apologies came with responsibility and just who was responsible has yet to be established david chaytor al-jazeera general. the trumpet ministration is facing growing criticism at home over its role in the war in yemen u.s. media reports say an american made foam was used in an airstrike that hit a school bus only this month fifty one people were killed forty of them children and

a gallagher has more from washington. in northern yemen graves who recently dug for the victims of a saudi led coalition bombing that shocked the world but on august the ninth a school bus was hit in an attack the coalition called legitimate military action more than fifty people were killed at least forty of them children aged between ten and twelve dozens more were injured. the u.s. has provided support to the saudi led coalition with intelligence and aerial refueling now there are renewed questions about the weapons being used in the war reports suggest the bomb used to attack the bus was made by lockheed martin and according to c.n.n. supplied by the us government as part of a sanctioned on deal politicians in the united states are demanding answers senator chris murphy who's announced a measure to hold military assistance to the coalition tweeted the following last week the saudi led coalition in yemen bombed a school bus killing forty four innocent kids and they did it with us supplied bombs intelligence support in midair refueling democratic house and senate members

are also asking questions about u.s. involvement in a war that's been raging for more than three years the key concern is that the u.s. may not only be culpable but potentially violating international laws in two thousand and sixteen president obama banned the sale of precision guided weapon way to saudi arabia citing human rights concerns that measure was undone when the trumpet ministration came to power the us a since sold on to saudi arabia as part of a multi-billion dollar deal and gallacher al-jazeera washington. well after three and a half years of war little is functioning in yemen repeated bombings have damaged or destroyed water and sewage facilities and that's making people even more vulnerable to disease as mohammed atta reports. aiden's congested streets pulls over all see which is of the where heaps of garbage dump piled up in most neighborhoods in the city's developed publish area barefoot children trudge through human waste oblivious of the risks we face

a slope that says this. we are living very hard conditions diseases are rife from cholera to diarrhea clean water is a rare commodity here above all electricity is out all the time the government has not done anything to repair the sewage system government officials refuse to move unless they're given bribes. entire neighborhoods have been flooded by sea would spill starts in some cases of contaminated water supply as another i've got it i don't know about other diseases sewage garbage so what on earth is this this is shameful we cannot even walk around the neighborhood so we can waste have flashed into our home we are forced to scoop it out with our hands. yemen has long been the arab world's poorest country and all suffered from frequent conflicts. the current one started in two thousand and fourteen when all the fighters from the north

allied with parts of the yemeni military stormed the capital forcing the internationally recognized government into exile. in march two thousand and fifteen a coalition led by so did obeah on the united arab emirates launched a military campaign aimed at pushing back the old days and restoring the government . many coalition airstrikes not only killed and wounded civilians but also damage to water and sanitation facilities the world health organization is in the middle of a campaign to prevent a recurrence of all it'll. the destruction through human swore to show facilities has already caused a cholera epidemic which has affected more than a million people. who are. currently rates of contraction of cholera are still high according to the latest to sticks and infection rates across the twenty three provinces across the country is about ninety six percent in other words twenty two out of the twenty three provinces in yemen so we can say the country is playing

with the epidemic which is alarming. an acute shortage of food and the resulting look suisham is waltz and in what is already the world's last humanitarian crisis the. father. in the middle of the month crisis could intensify the situation in yemen ramadan the world visitor. still to come here there are thousands begin their hadzic pilgrimage cattery residents say saudi arabia is preventing them from making the journey. here is of haiti have statues of teaching history to younger generation. we've got the usual showers across many parts of southeast asia look further south

into jakarta looking absolutely fabulous for the asian games here so i thought an untried temperatures getting up into the thirty's over the next couple of days lots of warm sunshine but the showers will continue a little further north northern parts of borneo into the late peninsula up towards thailand some lobby showers here leave those showers that see into the philippines want to show is making their way across southeast impossible straightly is still we got the blustery conditions just out into the southeast of all set just pulling away from that eastern side of victoria tarty practice of some very windy weather will continue here with those lively showers heading over towards new zealand high pressure does come back aim behind his finding try for much of australia as a result of that adelaide twelve degrees cool southerly wind they're still in place for melbourne the great changing conditions as we go through monday and on into choose day but you can see whether the real weather action is taking place across the other side of the tasman heading over towards do you see in the system very

heavy rain continue to drive its way in here washington getting up to around thirteen degrees over the next couple of days that wet and windy weather continues pushing east. the economic heartbeat of a thriving brazil but boom times mean rising rents and the lack of public housing isabel is just one of thousands looking for a place to call. has no choice but to occupy one of the city's many vacant buildings facing an uncertain future. viewfinder latin america occupying brazil on al-jazeera.

the main stories here. have been landslides and a community hall has collapsed after another earthquake on the indonesian island of long ball. with a magnitude of six point five so far there's been no reports of injuries just two weeks ago a quake of seven killed more than four hundred thirty people. officials in the indian state of carolus say they need more rescue equipment to help save hundreds of thousands of people stranded in remote areas by heavy flooding the air force has been dropping aid to people. the monsoon rains appear to be less. salvage crews have been cleaning up what's left of the bridge in genoa which collapsed onto say the death toll of. the company responsible for maintenance has

pledged over five hundred million dollars to help rebuild the bridge. the turkish president. remains defiant after two major ratings agencies warned his country will find it even harder to pay its debts he insists the growing economic crisis is part of a plot against turkey has made the comments at a meeting of his ruling ak party the turkish lira has a forty percent of its value this year sonya guy a guy who has more from istanbul. a brisk business that's expanded along with turkey's middle class. act has been selling products made by turkey's largest home appliances company for twenty five years but lately his sales have taken a hit because. we've had to put our prices up because of the current economic situation and that's affected our sales. despite this he is optimistic that he and

the country kind of weather the current economic storm which began as a war of words with tuckey's nato ally the us over according to the president donald trump the arrest of an evangelical pastor andrew bronson sparking a trade spat between the two countries is the start of the holiday week ahead in turkey and despite the slump the shopping malls that bizarre as are all packed with people but prices have shot up in recent days and people are feeling the pinch too good to know it's affected us a lot of my pension is already gone because of this i don't know how all afford holiday presents for my family who we need money to shore because i do anything about it. this is about the games being played between global policy it's kind of a cold war the devaluation in the turkish lira may be good for exporters but the uncertainty and continuing antipathy with the us has rattled the economy even as

the current stabilized last week mark i'm going to come. of course the terrorists. in another financial times have affected turkey's economy it's borderline economic exploitation by the us as it's affected our sales president has placed much faith in an agenda of growth at all costs but that has had its own drawbacks billions of dollars have been borrowed and spent particularly in infrastructure and construction projects a tactic that could become unsustainable if there is further instability in turkey's economy so yeah go out jazeera istanbul. but israel and have been lining up along the ecuadorian border to try to leave their troubled nation but acquittals government has tightened entry requirements venezuela's now need a powerful to get in and previously that only needed their national id.

we want them to help us at least with processing the temporary travel card or something at least to facilitate it for us because it was too short of notice we were on the road already when they put out the news just like that boom on wednesday we left and all of a sudden they tell us that today well maybe it was saturday i think it's saturday because i'm still a bit disoriented so geez we would like them to at least facilitate that for us or that the ecuadorian institutions at least help us on that part. and more than sixty thousand migrants and refugees across the mediterranean sea to europe so far this year and many of them are heading for spain called penholder reports from terri for where burying the are no has become all too common. nobody knew their names and soon the letters spelling out on the migrant will peel away to you to give. you nothing but grave digger packer iglesias remembers where they're all buried a lucky few have been identified barely in you

a little hope. only that they know destiny we all have our own destiny we all know when we're born but none of us really know when we're going to die it's packo's work to the cemetery into reefer on spain's southernmost tip for fifteen years when a refugee or migrant dies mourners rarely come. i've got a heart and we're all human beings whether you know them or not you must treat them well if this ever happens to me i'd like to think somebody would help me to. as crossings to the spanish coast of surge this year migrant drownings have tripled spanish authorities spend months trying to identify remains and repatriate them if possible. calls these the pioneers twenty two moroccans washed up two decades ago. flower seller antonio velasquez has

a message for the mothers of all those buried here. they are here and where treating them well they are dead but if i can i will put a flower on there agree there are some people here along the coast it's a short distance to the town of a. grave digger claims shows me the tomb of the five year old congolese boy some well was swept ashore here his mother was found dead on the other side of the mediterranean in algeria. it's outrageous there's so much power and money in the world and yet the rich don't invest more in the countries where margaret's come from so they don't need to travel here like animals. until those in power heed that advice the grave diggers just help juggle the consequences. as i bury these migrants i told

them that they didn't find a better world down here but i'll ask god to give them a better life up there they have sacrificed everything and this is what is left another monument to a wandering son or daughter name another. culprit whole al-jazeera to refer spain. the world's largest annual pilgrimage the hardships began in saudi arabia's mecca but many muslims from catarrh say they are being stopped from getting there or bad manly reports. this small skin doha's education city suburb is famous for its architecture the impulse was of the car on the wall and a building that rests on five pillars representing the five requirements of islam. one of these is to attend the hutch pilgrimage in saudi arabia. abraham says since the saudi imposed blockade of kata he's been unable to do so i applied

last year just two days before the plane. and it happened that. i paid to get my passport to. the blockade happened just two days later so i was able to go. from france but lives in qatar and is attempted to gain a visa many times over but he's constantly told the same thing apply for me a country of origin. to see that yes we need them but. it was not if i was not able to get the visa lost his case isn't unique many worshippers here in qatar face the same difficulty it's not possible to fly anymore that is more like saudi arabia and a counselor at embassy is to apply from so it's not possible anymore this shouldn't happen and for any muslim anywhere in the world i don't think that that's a big something like this has to do with them political issues it's something

religious people attending this mosque live in qatar but have come from all over the walls many here say they'd like to apply to had but if found the ok mechanism to do so instead many said they have no choice but to apply for that own country something they say is time consuming costly and against the core principles of islam saudi authorities say that cesspool website to handle requests from countries who wish to go to hardship but his ministry of religious affairs says the border crossing remains closed there are no planes to. unsparing people from doha and there's no clearly defined way of applying the hodge agencies that organize hutch's travel from kata say that also be banned by saudi arabia and i've heard a lot of things about going back to another country and then applying for heads from there which is not very convenient for a lot of people prior to the blockade jasmine says she would simply drive to saudi arabia with her family it was almost like a family of the commissioner it like

a road trip said was really fine justin says she's more familiar with saudi arabia than her country of origin and since she live so close to the border she doesn't understand why it's become so difficult to perform hutch nor about manly al jazeera doha. the most countries have statues which on a glorious past but in haiti the images serve a different purpose is gabriel elizondo plains. he sits quietly overlooking the city his name is barry krzysztof a former slave who fought to free modern day haiti from the french ruling eighteen zero four he statue honoring him is in one of the main squares of the capital port au prince in many ways it's incredible it's still standing the two thousand and ten earthquake reduced much of haiti to rubble two hundred thousand people killed three hundred thousand homes destroyed after the quake hundreds of thousands of people

took refuge in parks and plazas right underneath the very statues that are still standing today through it all they remain unscathed and often overlooked symbol of the country's long history overcoming hardships like the statue of john jock vasoline who helped fend off incursions from the british and spanish before revolting against the french occupation the first ruler of haiti after independence the haitian. national anthem named after him subtle enough that. every time i look at this dessalines statue i feel like doing a second revolution to liberate our country a second revolution is needed today. but it's this statue that often resonates the most with haitians a runaway slave completed by haitian sculptor in the one nine hundred sixty s. it is one of the most important pieces of art in all of the caribbean it's full of

symbolism a broken heart five freedom a machete to fight a shell of his lips alerting the people to their freedom. the symbols represent the glory of the past generations when we look at them it's a reminder of what they have done for us and what we can accomplish for future generations. the statues unbreakable a trademark of the haitian people of today gabriel santo i'll just leave port au prince. take a look at the top story. has been struck by a magnitude six point five earthquake a number of landslides have been reported so far no injuries two weeks ago a quake of seven hit the island killing more than four hundred thirty people it

destroyed thousands of buildings. officials in the indian sate of carola say they need more rescue equipment to help save hundreds of thousands of people stranded in remote areas by heavy flooding the air force's been dropping aid to people who are cut off the rains they are beginning to ease andrew thomas has more from kara. this is the sort of scene that is being repeated right across tara the reason the river between where i'm standing and as far as you can see that's normally dry land but a river about a kilometer that way has spilled its banks to such an extent that the water up here is very very fast like and that's why the roads are right along the right hand side as people walk across with their bags of rice and with bottles of water there's about five hundred people over there most of them don't want to leave their homes are living on the upper levels but they do need help and this is a scene that's going on the want to cross the state's. cattle as government has pledged five million dollars in assistance for carolyn's flood victims the emir

shake tamim been hammered out phony amounts the package saying here knowledge the special bond with india and the contribution the people of carroll have made to katter emergency workers in this in trying to secure what's left of the bridge in general which collapsed on tuesday the death toll stands at forty one rescue is now think there are no others missing south koreans long separated from relatives are preparing to travel to the north for a rare reunion they've been getting ready as an orientation session before being allowed to cross the border on monday it will be the first event of its kind since october twenty fifteen and only the twentieth since the year two thousand roger today those are the latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming up next is viewfinder latin america. everything we can news cycle brings a series of breaking stories join the listening post as we turn the cameras on the

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