and how the real. inside facebook. hundreds of people killed by a major earthquake and tsunami on the indonesian island of. why wasn't a tsunami warning with strong questions about disaster preparedness in the region vulnerable to quakes. and welcome to al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha with me and there's a problem also ahead another hurdle of the republican push to confirm donald trump supreme court nominee the president agrees to an f.b.i. investigation into sexual assault allegations against brett kavanaugh. and another

doctor breach gives hackers access to fifty million facebook account. earthquakes followed by a tsunami have devastated the central indonesian island of sin away seen nearly four hundred people have been killed in the city of fallujah alone rescue workers still haven't been able to reach many areas like to be badly hurt communication and power lines of cut off from coastal areas and the death toll is expected to rise as the reports. waves up to three meters high surges through the city of paolo on the island on friday the tsunami triggered by a magnitude seven point five earthquake. videos on social media show the panic as people try to flee. the dome of this mosque collapsed after the quake was then

washed away in torrents of water. popular tourists is home to more than three hundred thousand people in the nearby city of the gullah and the town of mahmoud you have also been severely affected but no one has been able to reach them yet rescue operations are on the way the communications have been down and the only runway in palo is badly damaged in a short video recorded in nearly pitch black environment the director of the city hospital appealed for how. much we hope to immediately establish field hospitals we need it's medicines medical personnel so appalling as blankets and more of a things i hope you can help us so we can give victims all v.a. they need. indonesia's president has called on the security minister to coordinate the government's response plus more on you i've already instructed the coordinating

minister of the political and security affairs 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 about you cargo planes carrying doctors and aid as well as the army are being sent to join the rescue efforts residents are urged to stay outdoors with more aftershocks expected indonesia is prone to earthquakes as it lies on the ring of fire the line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions that circles virtually the entire pacific rim last month a series of quakes killed more than five hundred people on the tourist island of lombok or such a bar al-jazeera. up to has the latest from jakarta. rescuers have not been able to reach the hardest hit areas we're talking about the

coastal town of dong are now listed below the number of the that all the number of casualties is only coming from one area we have yet to receive updated information as well the condition from other hardest hit areas particularly in the coastal town of dongarra now the latest information we receive in the eastern hour is the commercial airport in provincial to the of battle has just been reopened but only for humanitarian reasons the information minister early on held a press conference saying that he probably saying that he was for he first he'll be a commercial about to be reopened the evening but it's not clear whether he will in the open this evening or not now the reopening of the commercial airport for humanitarian proposal is expected to expedite the process to slow the process to the stand the logistical as well as the emergency aid that's been underway since

this morning and last night. now as cracks are common and because it lies on the song called ring of fire that is the line of frequenters quakes and volcanic eruptions that circles nearly the entire pacific rim friday tsunami happened less than a mom faster the southern island of lombok was hit by a series of powerful earthquakes more than four hundred and fifty people were killed and fourteen years ago one hundred twenty thousand people were killed after a magnitude nine point one earthquake off the island of sumatra triggered a tsunami which swept away entire communities around the indian ocean well jan gelfand is head of the indonesia office of the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies and he says rescuers are struggling to get to coastal areas worst hit by the earthquakes. it events like this i mean the whilst we hope that there would be no war it's not uncommon for those numbers to

route to rise as more rescue teams come in and more of the collapsed buildings are our search we haven't even got to all of the areas who interviewed situation from here on a cross the coast and not even getting into some of the more remote areas when you have it in. an earthquake that is that high a seven point seven in that shallow or ten kilometers it does significant damage some would not be surprised unfortunately and sadly not to say that those numbers will make them go all correlated we have people who is dealt with from the they do train wreck who are having to travel ten to twelve hours by vehicle on roads having a lot of dition. where you water trucks the shelter you know it's bringing tarpaulins all the cases and heard of need and will hopefully that the faster we can clear some about a way that's absolutely everyone in the humanitarian community really stuff to people that they need quickly and more efficiently let's move on to japan now and

eighty two hundred thousand tons of without power after a powerful typhoon that hit the southern island of okinawa hundreds of people have been evacuated typhon trama has made landfall on saturday and is expected to reach the mainland and twenty four allies western japan is recovering from typhoon jab even tore through the country this month. now funerals are being held for the seven palestinians including two children who were killed by israeli forces and on friday thousands of people were rallying along gaza's barrier fence israel as part of the ongoing protests which began in march demonstrators have been demanding the right of return for palestinian refugees and an end to the israeli blockade at least one hundred eighty nine palestinians have been killed so far let's go live now to our correspondent and he is joining us from ramallah so another somber day the mourners attend funerals of the latest people as we mentioned some of them just children

killed on friday. that's right those for those prayers took place in the funerals took place off the woods across the gaza strip in gaza city itself represents is from islamic jihad were present at least one of the funerals that very strong messages saying that they would not be bowed that they would continue to protest they would be behind the palestinian youth in gaza to protest the end of the israeli siege of gaza so although it was a very somber mood in gaza it was also very defiant saying that these protests would continue now it has to be said that there were some five hundred six people who also injured in on friday gaza's hospitals are actually already under pressure they were running out of money and medicines way before march thirtieth and some of them are under threat of closure and every friday since march this year they're having to deal with this influx of injuries and fatalities that are coming into

them and they are struggling to cope so this is proving to be a very difficult situation for palestinians in gaza but like i say they are defiant and they will say they will continue to protest until the lifting of these rating that's each and every friday and you know every other week since those protests began there have also been many calls from many countries international organizations asking israel to stop using excessive force on protest as have they made any difference. well clearly not seeing the same tactics being used every friday since march the thirtieth and the tactics that they use drones with armed with take us that they fly over the palestinian protesters heads and then release those gas canisters into the crowd they also use a gas canisters being fired from military vehicles which gives them slightly more reach and they're also using life eye which is why we've seen nearly one hundred ninety two palestinians who have been killed since these protests began now they

have been criticized by the international community but israel says it's merely defending itself against what it calls terra kites now these cuts exactly what i'm describing make kites they're being flung at both of these writings heads and they are armed with small condoms filled with flammable material that they set fire to the palestinians set fire to when they're over israeli territory they simply cut the string and that falls to the ground it's cost hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage to israeli crops on the other side the palestinians say well actually the israelis have been doing this all throughout the siege on our side they are using pesticides to destroy crops we find a way funny found a way of fighting back in israel these terror crites proving to be a big problem because of the damage that's being caused there's a huge talking point within israeli society itself how you deal with what they call terror kites. and ron thank you very much for that fernando does and rock on live and thank you. now in a dramatic turnaround u.s.

president has agreed to an f.b.i. investigation and to his supreme court nominee who is facing accusations of sexual assault the limited probe was awarded off to wonder public and senator jeff flake broke ranks in the senate judiciary committee and demanded a full investigation before a full senate vote was in jordan reports from capitol hill and you know what you're speaking 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 valuable truth on friday morning two women who call 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 several sexual assault charges against the nominee we ought to do what we can to make sure. that we do all due diligence with that in 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 glossy ford's allegation that kavanagh tried to rape her in one nine hundred eighty two democrats

said the panel was ignoring blazin ford because it wasn't demanding an f.b.i. investigation 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 miss 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's certain to set off a whole new world of arguments with the russian all 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 rosalind jordan al-jazeera capitol

hill. still ahead on the bulletin new law tronic of voting machines to be tested in democratic republic of congo ahead of december the next sions and legalizing but kroft the senegalese government to do plan to ease the burden on hospitals. hello japan is in the sights once again off a typhoon has already made landfall just greystock and now it's coming out to wreak you changes in this massive katty ahead of which there's already a lot of rain because the breezes coming in from the southeast which is the warm pacific waters so heavy rain anyway and three days without it and then a category two or three typhoon making landfall in q shoe or thereabouts jaring sunday and running up fairly quickly across home sure the speed of motion is

probably the good thing but there will be a storm surge into the by which osaka sits for example but then quickly the skies will clear and monday looks gorgeous thirty one degrees in tokyo twenty three has saka and the sun above you all the time we sort of avoiding it is a frontal system running out so the yellow sea and the korean peninsula getting some rain here temperate drop in temperature to beijing that most of china is in dry weather mode and i went from shanghai down to beijing blue skies in situ on this rather more obviously some green which suggests rain and snow not far away if you look up into the into the mountains the east of the himalayas that is first signs of winter but until that you get a beautiful thirty one degrees in hong kong and twenty five in shanghai. the environment doesn't know any boundaries what goes up into the environment goes

around the world. the sides are pushed on grounds that it's a very modern way to do poppy and we've made poisons the measure of progress. a little mystic relation. we're going to the man from act it should be your. circle of poison on al-jazeera. it's good to have you with us on our top stories to earthquake followed by a tsunami have devastated the central indonesian island of. four hundred people

have been killed in the. rescue workers still haven't been able to reach many areas likely to be badly hurt donald trump has ordered an f.b.i. investigation into sexual allegations made against his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh that means the full senate on his confirmation will be delayed for at least a week and funerals are being held for the seven including two children who were killed by israeli for on friday. along. with israel as part of protests which began in march. many u.s. communities are still dealing with severe flooding two weeks after hurricane florence made landfall more than forty deaths have been blamed on the storm and its aftermath many in the state of north carolina sandy gallagher reports from goals for some still waiting for help from the government hurricane florence has passed but the so-called storm of a lifetime is still being felt in the carolinas rivers continue to crest following

record breaking rainfall north carolina the cleanup is under way with. 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 to deal with me in terms of poisonous coal and bobby jones is long campaign to tighten laws around the coal industry and says every storm makes things worse. so i just sit back and let people be treated like this and. 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 being ignored there's not a lot of tension in brought with them into 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 it's a problem it's 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 . now a coalition of opposition figures from the democratic republic of congo is holding a rally in the capital kinshasa in the run up to presidential elections in december twenty one candidates have been approved by the exclusion of some key opposition figures as strong the vote votes fairness and to doubt outgoing president joseph

kabila is backing emmanuel. his main opponents are likely to be the leader of the largest opposition party felix chess a caddy and vitale committee who came third in the two thousand and eleven annex sion among those ruled out former vice president john pierre bemba was banned over a witness tampering conviction x. prevention the governor morris katoomba who's an exile was prevented from returning to register his candidacy let's get more on this now our correspondent catherine soy is joining us live from the can shasta so what are the opposition's concerns catherine about the new electronic voting machines that are going to be used.

it's not. courtney. and that. changes. we. anything memo book called are on their way to bond in the west of democratic republic of congo for three strangest 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 know and i have is my. 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 why then reject it because of security issues that made the call to hackers for russian votes is not. right because there is a in i will we we speak. out about the. electoral

commission officials deny suggestions the machines could be used for leaking 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 to ensure that the process is secure opposition politicians are going is 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 sport in the capital kinshasa travellers tell us that they are worried about the election in the new voting system but on many also say that they are more concerned about the basics food shelter security and better ways of getting home than this rickety boats. we are expecting an election in the country's most people.

with less than three months to go before the polls changing the system seems highly unlikely but opposition leaders are standing their ground. and questionable technology to the credit of the vote. so catherine the opposition coalition is going to come up with a consensus candidate. for that. right. and just might get a former. president. but they're going to be. how all this. was an act of will the openness and all the yes we can buy that everybody wants to be the face of.

that but i have spoken to the opposition of their president so i did realize that. i can. presidential that. they're ready to go back everyone. but i also think that this. very day. and right now the priority. that the electoral commission. and the playing field is not. the point. catherine thank you very much for that that is katherine sawyer live and. well protesters are gathering in the german city of cologne ahead of a visit by turkey's president pleasure it is day two of his first visit to germany since becoming president and twenty fourteen of the ones expected to attend the opening of one of europe's largest mosques in cologne. and german chancellor angela

merkel have agreed to mend a relationship that has been strained in recent years. police in barcelona have cracked down on prone dependents protesters in the city's downtown area local offices for the group which gathered to demonstrate against another march by spanish police demanding better pay the violence has reportedly triggered when a protest through paint on the man who was part of the police march tensions are high ahead of monday's anniversary of the independence referendum that was deemed illegal via madrid facebook says up to fifty million accounts including that of c.e.o. mark zuckerberg have been affected by a security breach the social media giant says are known attackers were able to take control of accounts through a vulnerability in a future known as few as it allows users to see what their profile looks like to others facebook says the security flaws have been fixed now senegal the government

is considering legalizing witchcraft as a traditional medicine politicians say the move will ease the burden on all of the crowded hospitals doctors say the move is responsible and dangerous but less hard is and the latest on our series looking at which kraft practices around the world. enters syrian army like us is first patient. from this first handshake the witchcraft tells him he can sense there's a bad spirit stuck inside his head no. there is not surprised he suffers from earaches and has gradually been losing his hearing. been hurting for four years he says. what follows is a treatment that is both illegal and dangerous. it's normally done behind closed doors but const allows us to film it. for twenty minutes the patient inhales fumes of an unknown substance dazed because then pours

a mix of herbes in his nose. for. a minute if only the government recognizes my work and the service i give to the community i could open a hospital and treat all people suffering in my country this practice is punishable with prison. and yet outside our queues of people waiting for treatment there were wouldn't allow us to film inside the waiting room where there are about eighty people inside a small room police officers in uniform men in suits women holding their babies all believing that they would. can do more to treat them than the medical doctor. with one doctor for fifteen thousand people hospitals are overwhelmed with patients there are not enough medical staff so the government wants to legalise witchcraft tree as traditional medicine the law will now be debated in parliament.

but the committee laughing because it is so common that we need to regulate it to protect citizens and alleviate hospitals. but conventional doctors like joseph many oppose the law in his surgery comes another patient suffering from complications from treatment administered by a witch doctor. you know it's dangerous there will be more sickness more people with disabilities and the law will cause unnecessary death you can't have people with any medical knowledge treating animals and yet people do advertises his services online promising healing furphy ranging from ten to five hundred dollars. for gary he made this hurdle. gives him a prayer wrapped in this belt. in eight days gary will regain his hearing he says telling him now go and tell your friends about me. and that last night with the second of al jazeera straight series looking at practices. around the world now.

jefferson airplane has died at the age of seventy six he was a kid figure and the psychedelic music when the one nine hundred sixty s. on the bands was popular songs and volunteers and somebody to love. thanks hello again i'm elizabeth problem and die hard with the headlines on al-jazeera to earthquakes followed by a tsunami have devastated the central indonesian island also the way see they live four hundred people have been killed in the city of fallujah alone rescue workers still haven't been able to reach many areas likely to be badly hit tommy suggestion has this update from the capital jakarta it has to be noted that the number of that that all the number of casualties is only coming from one area we have yet to

receive updated information as well the condition from other hardest hit areas particularly the coastal town of dongarra now the latest information we received in the region hour is the commercial airport in provincial the of power who has just been reopened but only for humanitarian reasons. president trump has ordered an f.b.i. investigation into sexual assault allegations made against his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh that means of the full senate confirmation they delayed for least a week funerals are being held for the seven palestinians including two children who were killed by israeli forces and. thousands have been rallying. as part of protests that began in march demonstrators have been demanding the right of return for palestinian refugees and an end to the israeli blockade but i have class independence protests in the city's downtown area protest gathered to

demonstrate against another march by spanish better pay tensions are high ahead of monday's anniversary of the independence referendum that was deemed by the government to madrid facebook says up to fifty million accounts including. have been affected by a security breach and social media giants his attackers were able to take control of accounts through a vulnerability in a viewer as it allows users to see what they like to others facebook says security have now been fixed. those are the headlines on the al-jazeera do stay with us inside story coming up next thank you for watching.

extending a hand of friendship the turkish president in germany on a mission to tie. the german chancellor recently peace to nato allies on this visit was still this. this is inside still. elegant i'm peter told me this is inside story from doha the turkish president is in the middle of a three day state visit to germany it is a critically important tool for wretch up top as turkey faces an economic crisis brought on by the crash of its currency the lira and german chancellor angela merkel could be part of the solution.