this would be that we remember our shared humanity and the shared history. hundreds of people now confirmed dead on for an earthquake and tsunami hit the indonesian island of sort of where you. are welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha with me elizabeth problem also ahead a delay in the confirmation vote for court nominee brett kavanaugh until the f.b.i. investigates sexual assault allegations. undermining world order big accusations of the u.s. for russia's foreign minister there was a scathing attack at the u.n. and another major datta breach more than fifty million facebook users may be

affected. the death toll from the tsunami and earthquake in central indonesia has risen drastically in the past couple of nearly four hundred people have been killed in the city of alone and hundreds of injured and the death toll is expected to rise but communication and power lines cut off from coastal areas worst hit by the tsunami. has the latest. waves up to three meters high swept through the city of power on sulawesi island early friday evening. this tsunami triggered by a magnitude seven point five earthquake that hit on friday videos like this on social media show the panic as people try to flee. the dome. this mosque collapsed

after the earthquake was then washed away in the torrents of water. palo is home to more than three hundred thousand people rescue operations have begun but communications have been down and power was knocked out to homes and hospitals the director of the biggest hospital posted a video using the light of his phone saying several of his doctors had been injured and asking for immediate help. we hope to immediately establish field hospitals we need tate's medicines medical personnel stuff poland blankets and more of other things i hope you can help us so we can give victims all the aid they need. meanwhile indonesia's president has called on the security minister to coordinate the government's response thus more on you i've already instructed the coordinating minister for the political and security if is to coordinate all resources including the national disaster agency and i've also called the chief of the armed forces to

work together in handling the emergency situation including the search and rescue operation evacuation and preparing basic needs to get by. cargo planes carrying doctors and aid as well as the army are being sent to join the rescue efforts the airport in the city of palo remain close for now residents are urged to stay outdoors with more aftershocks expected indonesia's problem to earthquakes because it lies on the ring of fire the line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions that circles virtually the entire pacific rim. al-jazeera. typhoon trami has made landfall along japan's southern island of okinawa on saturday strong winds and heavy rains forced the cancellation of nearly four hundred flights and caused massive power outages forecasters say it's now headed towards the mainland west and japan is already recovering after typhoon tore

through the country earlier this month that was the strongest typhoon to hit japan's mainland him over twenty five years. so the u.s. now a president trump has agreed to a limited f.b.i. investigation off his supreme court nominee a senate judiciary committee may the pride of the condition of its approval cavanagh and that delaying a vote by the full senate as roslyn joining reports from capitol hill they need to know what you're thinking another day of political drama intrigue and emotion on capitol hill only because of brett kavanaugh is nomination to become the next u.s. supreme court justice chief that eventually on friday morning two women who called themselves sexual assault survivors confronted arizona republican jeff flake a swing vote they called on flake not to allow a man accused of sexual violence to sit on the supreme court after that flake voted to send kavanagh's nomination to the full senate and he insisted the vote be

delayed by a week so that the f.b.i. could investigate the several sexual assault charges against the nominee we ought to do what we can to make sure. that we do all due diligence with a nomination this important. shockingly the republican party leadership agreed they had been stonewalling similar calls from democrats and survivor groups. what may have helped an apparent change of heart on friday from u.s. president donald trump who had also called such an investigation unnecessary i'm going to let the senate handle that they'll make their decisions and they've been doing a good job and very professional development comes at the end of a contentious hearing to recommend kavanagh's nomination with demonstrators getting arrested and senators walking out in protest the big argument whether the republican controlled panel was taking seriously christine bloggs the fords allegation that kavanagh tried to rape her in one nine hundred eighty two democrat

said the panel was ignoring blazin ford because it wasn't demanding an f.b.i. and us. when it came to these allegations they wanted to cut off that process and you have to ask ron i have to ask them but republican said kavanagh's previous f.b.i. background checks never found any signs he sexually assaulted women and so there was no need for a new investigation all i can say about ms ford i feel sorry for her and i do believe something happened to her and i don't know when and where but i don't believe it was brick cavanagh congressional republicans and president donald trump say this new f.b.i. investigation can only focus on what they call credible allegations that certain set off a whole new world of arguments with russian oil democrats what is certain though is that public pressure to find out whether brett kavanaugh ever assaulted any woman has yielded results at least for now rosalynn jordan al-jazeera capitol hill.

russia's foreign minister says the u.s. has undermining world order and that relations between the two are at an all time low. was addressing the u.n. general assembly he defended multilateral organizations and want against u.s. protectionist policy he also valid that moscow would do everything possible to save the iran nuclear deal. when the rhythm of the plane. we are observing it onslaught belligerent revisionism against the modern system of international law attacks have been launched against the basic principles of the middle east peace process the joint comprehensive plan of action on the iranian nuclear program the commitments within the world trade organization framework the multilateral climate agreement and many more baseless accusations of interference into internal affairs of certain countries are being made at the same time as overt endeavors to undermine and and topple democratically elected governments. and else that russia is big on

delivering a new missile defense system to syria russia as one of syrian president bashar assad's main allies a diplomatic editor james bays about the loss of rebel held stronghold in syria can i ask a question about syria and about the important deal that you did russia did with key there is a question in that deal which is what happens to the fighters from the group that used to call themselves. so can you explain to us how they are going to leave and if they don't leave who's going to force them to leave and where they're going to go. the girl is at the heart of the being transported out of the demilitarized build as well as heavy weapons yes indeed there is a question about what is going to happen next mixed turkey as you probably know if you have read the memorandum signed in sochi has taken upon itself an obligation to

separate the opposition which is prepared to take part in the political process from job at all nuestra this is not a simple task. the u.s. says it's going to close its consulate in the iraqi city of basra citing threats from iran secretary of state my pompei who has blamed iranian backed fighters from recent attacks on the consulate was inside the city as a fourth compound he says he'll hold a sponsible for any harm to americans or diplomatic facilities. caught the foreign minister has a proposal u.s. middle east security alliance won't be credible because of unsolved regional tension last year egypt saudi arabia the u.a.e. and behind reagan enforced a blockade on kutha cutting diplomatic economic and political ties of the country's foremost as did meet on the sidelines of the un general assembly. reports from new york. where gathering of golf rivals this is the first time qatar's foreign minister has come face to face with his

counterparts from saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt since the four countries imposed a land sea and blockade. in june last year. no handshakes. and no news conference at the end of the meeting that lasted almost one hour. two days ago saudi foreign minister. accused qatar of financing extremism adding that his country will be ok even if the crisis goes on for another fifty years but that can wait also but we have to address the challenges in our region first before we talk we talk about just by going like this diplomacy in these communications meaning is engaging and this is why did you feel like you said i was doing was going to ask you a question thank you very much but the war of words between gulf rivals but the

united states of america in a difficult position the trump administration is scrambling to put together a regional alliance of countries against iran which she sees as a growing threat in the middle east during the past few days the u.s. has ramped up its rhetoric describing to her as the world's leading sponsor of terrorism as far as america is going is a sions dishonest by iran and saudi officials blame iran for destabilizing the whole region and the whole how can she win to him and saudi arabia believes that in order to achieve peace and stability in the middle east what is needed is to deter iran in its subversive policies this is sectarianism and interference in the internal affairs of the region such aggressive conduct constitutes a glaring breach of all international laws and treaties with sergeant crown prince mohammed bin said and will meet on saturday with the i meet of kuwait who is trying

to mediate in the gulf crisis but there's no indication of a breakthrough anytime soon. the u.s. wants to address major challenges in the middle east including eisen wars in yemen syria instability in iraq and what it sees as iran's growing into ones in the region but its chances of building a united front remain slim as long as the g.c.c. quite. this is going to do is just the new york. facebook says up to fifty million accounts including that see. have been affected by a security breach the social media giant says unknown attack and so were able to take control of users accounts through a vulnerability in a feature known as their ads it allows viewers to see what their profile looks like to others facebook says the security flaws have now been fixed well jenny gephardt is the associate director of research at the electronic frontier foundation and she explains how it was possible for hackers to exploit certain facebook features. but

at this point technical details are slim but from what we can understand like you said it revolves around a view as feature which allows folks to see what their profiles going to look like from another person's point of view great for making sure your privacy settings are where you want them to be it was the view as future interacting with a few other kurds' of facebook interacting with a video uploading feature interacting with single sign on facebook like and and what happened the way it were kind of counter-intuitively if someone used to view ads to look at their profile from the point of view of another person that other person would be become rollerball so you know we have alice and alice is using the view as future to see what her grandpa looks like to bob and it's bob's account there's exposed and the thing the exact thing that was exposed is a thing called access to so and access token is kind of like a. control your logon information and keeps you've logged into facebook so

a massive token is the reason that you don't have to constantly logon every time you go to the app or visit the web site so in these exposed attackers get hypothetic we get into your account and do anything that you could do while you're locked in. seven palestinians including two children have been killed by israeli troops in gaza and the deadliest day there and moms thousands of people are rallying along gaza's barrier fence with israel and responds to calls by hamas the palestinian group which fills the territory israel says it was responding to people throwing grenades and explosive devices let's get more on the style we're joined by correspondent amman khan he's live for us in ramallah why was yesterday the deadliest amman some ron what happened. well as ever on friday the protesters went towards the border with israel and the israelis responded with heavy handed techniques they've been criticized for these heavy handed techniques to crowd for

crowd dispersal by not only palestinians but the international community as well they are using live fire they using drones they're using drones with tear gas to use against the protesters they say that the protesters using kites with incendiary devices attached to them the cuts are very big problem for the israeli army they can get across the border and when they're across the board the incendiary device which is basically a condom filled with some sort of explosive maybe in often cases it's actually just oil that they've set fire to that lens and burns the ground so the israelis are very fearful of these kites they call them terror kites they're so afraid of the damage they do the damage has in previous months went into the hundreds of thousands of dollars so they fired back using life are as i say and six sorry seven palestinians now have been killed it's not just about the people being killed some five hundred six people have been injured two hundred ten of those had to go

to hospital hospitals are already under an immense amount of pressure because they don't have the funding they need to deal with their regular hostile activity never mind these protests which have now been going on since march thirtieth. at enron we're expecting funerals to be held for those code later today and what those funerals can we expect more protests. well we might see new protests but what we'll hear is certainly very strong language from palestinians in gaza saying to them saying to the israelis that they're going to keep protesting a mouse who the defacto rulers of this strip issued a statement yesterday for the broom said that they would not be bowed they would not be broken and that they would continue to fight until the siege of gaza comes to an end so certainly expect to hear language like that from the leaders of the movement of last movement who say that they will keep these protests up and certainly these protests haven't dissipated in number there are

a stable level you know they haven't increased to the a huge amount of people but they are at a significant level certainly enough to worry the israelis and rob thank you very much for that for now that is live in ramallah thank you still ahead on the bulletin new electronic voting machines and democratic republic of congo are supposed to help produce far more than upcoming elections but the opposition isn't convinced. hell i was a thai food working its way through these smaller japanese islands has taken a lot of the energy of the atmosphere so again i've said this time and time again the line is these roads are spotting it's drifting slowly south of the sun so she got coaching right in in view feel like of the challenge same is true of singapore and kuala lumpur but to the science it's much drier still draws about india that

includes solar y.c. but there are so few showers quite possible in cambodia vietnam and thailand this is more is exactly what you'd expect at this time of year the showers are pretty well space because you're more like to be drawing than which are in the day. the active weather continues in australia this is one long frontal system that goes right across the continent the head of it the most active bit is near a person you see is in the cloud it's a circulation it could bring some pretty useful fairly heavy rain i think perth itself about twenty degrees the rain more likely inland and this will prompt a few showers in new south wales or southern queens and behind it things a woman got right into the low twenty's until this frontal system goes through adelaide said nice looking couple of days here with the sun returning through most of new south wales having allowed a little bit of rain to fall out of the latest front.

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earthquake in indonesia has drastically of the past few hours four hundred people have been killed and hundreds more injured in the city of alone and with communication and power lines can't rescue have yet to reach the coastal town worst hit by the tsunami. seven palestinians including two children have been killed by israeli troops in gaza thousands of people were valid along. with israel. by hamas the palestinian group which rules the territory israel says it was responding to people throwing grenades and explosive devices and has ordered an f.b.i. investigation into the sexual assault allegations made against his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and that means a vote by the full senate on his confirmation will be delayed for at least a week while the cabinet confirmation has gripped the u.s. and expose the deep divide in politics we have seen court nominations debate before

especially all of a sexual harassment claims. courts from washington for many people this is something new and it seemed everyone was watching it on planes and bowling alleys and bars in offices and homes and even at the doctor america was gripped by the scenes that played out over nine hours all of it on live t.v. everywhere this confirmation process has become a national disgrace the raw emotions on display in the hearing room seemed to spill out. out in seep into the people observing it including jenny zucker experience a lot it was very this rolls of physical. there would be words floating in my head that i. just either couldn't say or i couldn't get them together to say or just feelings that i have never really felt before that i cannot assign words to . i felt betrayed. as a woman betrayed enough to come here to the u.s.

supreme court a small protest that grew a number. that women and some men say this is simply too much enough just to give you a sense of how emotional it is they just asked if this impromptu protest here at the supreme court how many people have cried over the last twenty four hours it seemed every hand was raised it is having an impact during the hearing calls to a sex abuse hotline increased by two hundred one percent but the country is split there are many trump supporters who still support kavanaugh bro being a woman which is what is at eighteen i mean how many guys you know think that's no big deal even back then it was b.s. it's not a big deal it doesn't just take away from his character in his job to do what he needs to do this is the nation's divide on a clear display in congress and on the streets we've been building towards this climax now for over fifty years the level of partisan animosity is now greater than

i have ever seen and we certainly greater than it was during the clarence thomas confirmation in one thousand nine hundred one the clarence thomas confirmation hearing saw a brief spike of women in gauging in the political process it didn't last talking to people here many believe this is different this time it just might be. a certainly helps because if you don't have hope what you have. why would i be. and i hear it if i didn't have hope that tomorrow be different. iraqis to see if this time it will be here. washington. the u.s. federal judge has ruled a lawsuit against president trump can proceed from question of democrats are accusing trump of violating the constitution by doing business with foreign governments while in office the law is the third constitutional challenge to tribes

in business and trusts. to slovakia with three people have been charged with the murder of investigative journalist and his fiance in february there were detained in the house raid on thursday morning five others detained in the same raid have been released to c.-x. killings font the biggest protests in slovakia since the fall of communism in one thousand eight hundred nine and led to the prime minister's resignation. one of the world's biggest budget airlines ryanair has been forced to cancel about two hundred fifty flights because of a twenty four hour strike five days walkout has disrupted travel plans for forty thousand people stuff across europe and the irish registered airline issued local contracts which followed local employment laws ryanair has faced multiple strikes since it recognize trade unions for the first time in december. now many u.s. communities are still dealing with severe flooding two weeks after hurricane

florence made landfall more than forty people died in the storm and its aftermath many in the state of north carolina at a sandy gallagher reports from goals for us a still waiting for help. hurricane florence has passed but the so-called storm of a lifetime is still being felt in the carolinas rivers continued to quest following record breaking rainfall in north carolina the cleanup is underway and the fears of long term consequences toxic coal ash pits are scattered across north and south carolina the byproduct of the coal industry contains arsenic lead and mercury activists say storms like florence make contamination unavoidable but they still got a beer with a six million tons of poisonous cola and that's probably jones's long campaign to tighten laws around the coal industry and says every storm makes things worse i'm a christian so i just think sit back and let people be treated like this. and not

say or do anything about and call myself a christian important communities there are concerns about the rate of recovery many residents couldn't afford to leave when the storm came but now that aid is here some of being ignored there's not a lot of. a minority in the neighborhood other one of the problem that i'm hearing is that they're not get into service that day me and hopefully the word to get out and there will change but if if if the problem is estimated that the cost of hurricane florence could reach fifty billion dollars it's a storm that will long be remembered here and is still lingering hurricane florence may have long since departed but the threat from the storm remains in neighboring south carolina rivers are expected to crest leading to yet more flooding more evacuations and more suffering and here is the waters recede they're exposing potential environmental problems and a long slow recovery for the poor and gallacher al-jazeera goldsboro north carolina

. opposition leaders in the democratic republic of congo a concerned about the credibility of the upcoming presidential election they warrant that electronic voting machines which are being used for the first time in the country will be manipulated to read the result catherine sawyer reports. are on their way to baghdad and in the west of democratic republic of congo three strange is sharing this barge with many others on a two day journey home along the congo river. is the only way for them to travel cheaply in a country with crumbling infrastructure in december they go to the polls hoping that whoever the elect will improve their lives they will for the first time use electronic voting machines. i do not know anything about this machine. the only thing i have is my vote does count opposition leaders and other civil

society groups say the new system is not secure enough the technology was created by a south korean company which built similar machines while actions in argentina last year but the devices were then rejected because of security issues that made them to hackers for russian votes. in. we we speak. about. electoral commission officials deny suggestions the machines could be used for wreaking and say changing the system means delaying the election they have the support of members of the ruling coalition. every mission has been taken by the electoral commission of the process to secure. this afraid they will

lose. about one hundred thousand machines will be distributed across this vast nation the second largest in africa to be used by forty six million registered voters most people. in rural areas of this port in the capital kinshasa travellers tell us that they are worried about the election in the new voting system but on many also see that they are more concerned about the basics food shelter security and better ways of getting home in this rickety. we are expecting. this division in the country people are suffering. with less than three months to go before the polls changing the system seems highly unlikely but opposition leaders are standing their ground that are not for media and questionable technology with the credibility of the vote. al-jazeera.

not in china's guangdong province where a laser show has lit up the sky more than a million lives eliminate in buildings and sky scrapers in the center of shen sense . of the problem and the headlines on al-jazeera the death toll from the tsunami and earthquake and central indonesia has risen drastically over the past few hours nearly four hundred people have been killed and hundreds more injured in the city of. but with communication and power lines can't rescuers have yet to reach the coastal towns worst hit by the tsunami thomas or gypped or as a journalist in jakarta and he says there's been no information yet from the hardest hit areas. the death toll is only coming in from

only which is a worrying development because also. that are the areas have not we've not been able to get clear information from the areas now the hardest hit area and the most worrying part of course is the course took part in the town name. so far we haven't heard in the news in terms of casualties or damages coming up from dongle are. tough in trauma has made landfall in japan southern island of our on saturday strong winds and heavy rains forced the cancellation of nearly four hundred flights and cause massive power outages forecasters say it's now headed towards the mainland or western japan is already recovering after typhoon gebbie which tore through the country earlier this month it was the strongest typhoon to hit japan's mainland in over twenty five years donald trump has ordered an f.b.i. investigation into the sexual assault allegations made against her supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh that means

a vote by the full senate on his confirmation will be delayed for at least a week. seven palestinians including two children have been killed by israeli troops and gaza thousands of people rallying along gaza's barrier fence where israel and response of course by hamas the palestinian group which was the territory israel says it was responding to people throwing grenades and explosive devices. russia's foreign minister has accused the u.s. of undermining world order and says relations between the two are at an all time low so again warned against u.s. protection of policy and his speech at the united nations general assembly. well those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us counting the cost is coming up next. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera international bringing the news and current affairs that

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