on the street. america's. bodies piling up in the city of nearly four hundred dead but rescuers fear the toll from friday's tsunami will get a whole lot worse so. you're watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters and. also ahead speaking out on sanctions north korea's foreign minister accuses the us of deepening mistrust between their countries turkey's president opens one of europe's biggest mosques in germany despite protests against

his visit opposition groups hold protests in the democratic republic of congo ahead of december as a presidential election. hello rescuers in indonesia still don't know exactly how disastrous the tsunami and earthquake have been on the central indonesian island of solo se nearly four hundred people have been killed in the city of palo alone and hospitals are struggling to treat hundreds of injured people communication as well as power lines are cut off in coastal areas reports. bodies lying on the ground outside a hospital in the city of paolo as the reality of the devastating earthquake and tsunami begins to become clear survivors looking for their loved ones among body bags on saturday. waves of up to six meters.

through palo on friday evening triggered by a magnitude seven point five earthquake video on social media show the panic as people try to flee halloo is home to more than three hundred thousand people but even more alarming now could be what emerges from the nearby city of dongola home to over two hundred seventy seven thousand people it has gone completely silent while rescue operations are underway in paolo there's been no contact with them since the tsunami waves surged in. valuations as the long going in and identifying the disease is still in progress and we estimate the number of accumulated casualties from both the quake and tsunami will increase further and. we also received reports that the tsunami waves reached as high as six meters and some people saved their lives by climbing six major trees. indonesia's president is said to visit paolo on sunday some eight along with military reinforcements has

been flown in but officials fear the worst is yet to come. prone to earthquakes as it lies on the ring the fire line a frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions that circles virtually the entire pacific rim door such a bar al-jazeera. now there's been criticism against indonesia's meteorological geophysics agency which issued a tsunami warning but lifted it thirty four minutes later all lines of communication and power supply collapsed leading to confusion in the first few hours this was the scene in jakarta airport where anguished relatives and passengers are still stranded pollo airport is partially reopened but only for humanitarian aid and some broke down as you can see after not being able to hear about their loved ones right there in their own belief. that it was my nephew has been found and. well in japan nearly two hundred thousand homes are without

electricity after a powerful typhoon hit the southern island of okinawa dozens of flights have been canceled and hundreds of people have been evacuated typhoon trami has made landfall on saturday and is expected to reach the mainland in twenty four hours western japan is recovering after typhoon gebbie woods tore through the country earlier this month. north korea's foreign minister has accused the us of deepening mistrust between their countries through sanctions on home made the comment during his address to the united nations general assembly he says it's unrealistic for washington to expect pyongyang to denuclearize while sanctions are in place and called on the u.s. to follow through on its promises shihab rattansi joining us from new york what else did he have to say. well he built a theme that we've seen throughout the week here at the u.n. general assembly the chinese and the russians also saying look the north koreans have dismantled their testing site they've ceased testing missiles or nuclear

devices it's now time for some reciprocal action from the united states to reward them in some way the north korean foreign minister also saying look we have more reason to distrust the united states than the other way around the united states after all is there any country in the world has ever used a nuclear weapon against another country and has consistently threatened to annihilate north korea using your play weapons so now is the time for us to show some goodwill to prove that north korea can safely denuclearize. the i did the china can bring us on our knees is a pipe dream of people who are ignorant about us but the problem is that the continued sanctions are deepening our mistrust the reason behind the recent deadlock is because the u.s. relies on chorus of measures which are lethal to trust building without any trust in the u.s. will be no confidence in our national security and to set circumstances there is no

way we'll unilaterally to cells first and is there any indication at all that the u.s. is willing to reverse its policy on sanctions considering the small between. this week at the u.n. general assembly certainly mike and ambassador nikki haley were very firm in stating what the u.s. position remains the same the need for maximum pressure on north korea and till it arises or in that order sanctions denuclearization then that north korea will see some sort of benefit however as you said donald trump has been very upbeat was very upbeat here in new york saying so much is going on behind the scenes that we will be revealed shortly that he's not worried about timeframes it is true however that i mean the person most invested in this process is donald trump and that those around him at the white house are very suspicious of north korea as they will be interesting to see whether another appeal like this from the north koreans will make donald trump think it is time to override some of the advice from my advisers

who frankly are pretty hostile to the idea of rapprochement with north korea right thank you. turkey's president. is in the german city of cologne for the opening of one of europe's largest mosques it's day two of his first state visit to germany since becoming president and twenty fourteen met with the german chancellor angela merkel on friday and the two agreed to work to mend the relationship that's been strained in recent years jonah how has this update from carlo. this is been a state visit unlike any other undertaken it was seemed at times grudgingly almost by both sides an invitation extended by the german government to president to one perhaps realizing that these two countries with such important common interests between them had led relations slide to such a degree since the failed coup in turkey two years ago that they were simply no longer cooperating on matters that really matter to both of them like the syrian

crisis and like the refugee crisis like economic ties between the trading partners while turkey and president are one battle through the worst economic crisis in fifteen years of course that's a big issue for the germans to that extent they have extended the hand of cooperation to one another they announced a new initiative on syria they've reinforced agreements on the refugees and they put up a good show of economic cooperation but it's been extremely difficult to hide the deep differences that exist between these two governments president to one inside that mosque there opening the biggest mosque in europe here in the german city of cologne outside competing demonstrations those in favor of his presence here and those many germans are extremely opposed and happy that their government has extended this invitation to a man who represents to many germans human rights abuses abuses of freedom of the press the backsliding of democracy in turkey unhappy about their government's

relations with him i think this has been a pragmatic visit it's been an effort to restore useful cooperation on important matters. these two leaders these two countries don't part at this point anyway as new friends or having rekindled any old friendship a coalition of opposition figures in the democratic republic of congo is holding a rally in the capital kinshasa twenty one candidates have been approved to take part in december election but the exclusion of some key figures has thrown the votes fairness into doubt and now some of the opposition are looking to agree on a consensus candidate catherine soy has more from kinshasa. these are supporters are some of the most popular opposition parties. homeboy to laugh each to get them together like this they have their flags fly and opposition the does have called for this joint friday to put pressure on the electoral commission of the lists and address some of the demands in one of the biggest problems of the years of the

senate for nicodemus opposition saying that it is not secure it does not provided for all in the know and it can be. and they also have a problem with some sixteen million dollars would have been registered without a single free to let me say this is the correct facts that electoral commission we sold i say that it is not a requirement for people to be registered using the saying that you know you have some people here. for some reason that fingerprints could not be taken by the machine the shooting going back south of the election that was catholic talk has been tried it was a candidate for the next whole party to. do that. and come to a consensus. ensues but that has not been possible let's hope on this and i said nothing is going to do well because the latest teachings are that

it's funny voting system to anything else and the lesson is going to carry on as scheduled backs. your police are obsolete there are a lot of these and not enough. credit wide out there like that one thirty minute ride that the flower still ahead on al-jazeera gaza in mourning funerals are being held for palestinian protesters killed by israeli forces on friday and teachers in morocco debate on which language is most suitable for students. hello weather off the wet type and snowy type is tumbling out of the tibetan plateau into world sichuan but for the rest of china nothing much is going on for the new satellite pictures right on the screen you will see the thai food working

its way up through the minor islands of japan at the moment soon to hit the major on and focus for sunday brings some rain in sichuan possibly a bit further south as otherwise a dry picture and quite a warm one hovering around the thirty mark from shanghai right down to hong kong i'm not especially she began to notice how the winds concentrate showers on the coast of vietnam once again that's going to be a wet couple of days i think in southeast asia not everywhere but certainly in vietnam and the retreating monsoon is trying to hold feel like just allowing showers to develop anywhere in the week and breeze likely through the west coast right up towards mumbai but also further east a very obvious line from the north of andhra pradesh the northeast it's towards the north east of india this is to be expected this time of the year everywhere else is dry and the humidity of course is now disappearing committees also not a big thing anymore around the gulf states normally see many big showers the western side of society so they have been big in the last couple days.

the president finding asylum in the us has become harder than ever i am putting in place a zero tolerance policy if you are doing. then we will prosecute you and maybe separate you thousands of families escaping violence and separation detention and deportation as the u.s. closes its doors. no shelter.

hello again the top stories on al-jazeera to worth quakes followed by a tsunami have devastated the central indonesian island of so the west and nearly four hundred people have been killed in the city of the well known rescue workers still haven't been able to reach many areas which are likely to be badly heads north korea's foreign minister has accused the us of deepening mistrust between their countries through sanctions or young home made the comments during his address to the united nations general assembly he says it's unrealistic for washington to expect to denuclearize while sanctions are in place turkey's president is in the german city of cologne for the opening of one of europe's largest mosques it's day two of his first state visit to germany since becoming president in twenty fourteen. let's return to one of our top stories and earthquakes are common in indonesia because it lies on the so-called ring of fire

it's the law and a frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that circles nearly the entire pacific rim friday's tsunami happened less than a month after the southern island of long. it was hit by a series of powerful earthquakes more than four hundred 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 with swept away entire communities around the indian ocean yang gelfand is head of the indonesia office of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies he talks about the challenges rescue workers are facing right now you know basically just i mean whilst we hope that there will be no war it's not uncommon for those numbers to route to rise as a rescue teams going to be in more of the collapsed buildings or are searched they haven't even got to all of the areas we're not into nation from who are all across the coast and not even getting into some of the more remote areas when you have an

. an earthquake that is that high a seven point seven in that shower ten kilometers that does significant damage i would not be surprised unfortunately and sadly not to say that those numbers. who are needed we have people who don't work for me. they're having to travel ten to twelve hours one of yours or one of those. water trucks being in shelter you know are. needed well hopefully the faster we can clear some of the better way everyone in the humanitarian community stuff to. work efficiently funerals have been held for the seven palestinians including three children who were killed by israeli forces in gaza on friday thousands of people were rallying along gaza's barrier fence with israel as part of protests that began in march m.r.

carney reports from rome on the. goals and warns its dead again seven palestinians two of them children were killed by israeli filed friday the the funerals took place across the gaza strip at this one in gaza city had a message of defiance. and a struggle and confrontation and i rejection to the siege has led to the world to listen to us because it is a great place and a great people because it is the one that goes for the jihad and no one is replacing the jihad of gaza. more than five hundred people were also injured many requiring hospital treatment gaza's hospitals already under pressure they're running out of equipment to medicines and are struggling to cope with the number of wounded arriving every friday that will come at home to let me shout a considered loud that i went to the border in the afternoon to take part in the demonstration i saw the israeli snipers shoot someone in the neck he was close to the border and i went to rescue him but when i got there i couldn't help so i ran

back as i run by it. i was shot in the leg i think that's why these radio me is killed at least one hundred ninety palestinians since the protests began on march thirtieth to demand the right of return to palestinians and an end to the israeli egypt's siege of the strip oh these radio has been criticised by human rights groups and some foreign governments they using heavy handed tactics to disperse the crowds as well as life the israeli army used tear gas on the drawings until it gets fired from vehicles. israel says the palestinians are flying what it calls tara kites over the gaza fence that are causing far as and damage to property. however in a statement on friday about the latest protest israel confirmed no soldiers were injured and local party damaged for a day was the deadliest day the protests have seen in recent weeks and despite that they show no signs of slowing down diplomatic efforts are

a standstill so there's no reason to doubt they'll come to an end anytime soon. well the state of palestine has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. with the international court of justice over the relocation if its embassy in december the trumpet ministration officially recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and move the u.s. embassy there from tel aviv in may the palestinian foreign minister says that move breached international law and has asked the i.c.j. to order the u.s. to move it back ralph wilde's is an international lawyer based at the university college london he says the case will partly hinge on the question of palestinian statehood. that has never been before the international court of justice however the un general assembly. made an important decision to recognize palestine as a norm member state which then the court will have to address in this decision

since the court's jurisdiction in this case will only be possible if it can conclude that palestine meets the international law test to for statehood as far as the court's jurisdiction relates to that there is a parallel situation with the nicaragua case that was brought against the u.s. in the one nine hundred eighty s. and in that case as perhaps will happen here the u.s. argued that the i.c.j. didn't have jurisdiction and when the court found that it did have jurisdiction the u.s. then withdrew from one of the particular ways that the court can exercise jurisdiction but what we might see is the u.s. arguing against this and it may take further steps as it did in the nick or argue a case for example within the u.n. security council to try to impede any decision of the i.c.j.

against it qatar as foreign minister says a proposed the u.s. and middle east security alliance will be credible because of unresolved regional tension last year egypt saudi arabia the u.a.e. raid in force the blockade on qatar cutting diplomatic economic and political ties but the country's foreign minister is did meet on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly has some had better reports from new york. where gathering of gold thrive will. 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 fall countries imposed a land sea and air blockade on qatar in july last year. no handshakes no smiles 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 for the better 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's concern is a sions dishonest by iran and saudi officials blame iran for destabilizing the whole region and the whole how could one do a month on 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.

quo. this is going to do is. new york. police in barcelona have cracked down on pro independence protesters in the city's downtown area local catalan officers pushed back the group which gathered to demonstrate against another march by spanish police demanding better pay the violence was reportedly triggered when a protester threw paint on a man who was part of the police march tensions are high ahead of monday's anniversary of the independence referendum that was deemed illegal by madrid. in a dramatic turn around the us president donald trump has agreed to an f.b.i. investigation into his supreme court nominee facing accusations of sexual assault the limited probe was ordered after one republican senator jeff flake broke ranks of the senate judiciary committee and demanded an investigation before a full senate vote jordan reports from capitol hill you need to know what you're

see another day of political drama intrigue and emotional 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 such will violence to sit on the supreme court after that flake voted to send capital is 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 would 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 capitols nomination with demonstrators getting arrested and senators walking out in protest the big argument whether the republican controlled panel was taking seriously christine blowsy ford's allegation that cavanaugh 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. investigation when it came to these allegations they wanted to cut off that process and you have to ask why it has to stand 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 round of arguments with the russians 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. 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 unknown attackers were able to take control of accounts through a vulnerability in a feature known as view as it allows users to see what their profile looks like to others facebook says the security flaws have now been fixed. teachers in morocco

are asking which dialect of arabic should be taught in schools some say it's classical arabic others prefer a more local version the mix of languages is also being blamed in part for high dropout rates and now educators want the government to make an official decision morgan has more. the academy here has begun in morrocco and students in the capital have returned to school to find words from the moroccan dialect added to their courses the language update is reviving the debate on the status of the main spoken language arabic specifically classic arabic known as and the locally spoken arabic known as that each of. the cities the application of moroccan dialects in teaching and public institutions is a violation to the constitution and a violation of the requirements of the law that puts the process of change and development within the whole educational system such an application will lead to

distorting the educational scene and the linguistic scene. speak a language that mixes arabic also known as and foreign languages such as french and spanish arabic is one of the two official languages but for the past fifteen years or so diary which combines arabic words with local dialects has been increasingly introduced the languages debate is sparking another about the kingdom's education system morricone schools have a high dropout rate only half of middle school students continue on to high school and less than fifty percent of them graduate the lack of trained teachers and low attendance rates are partly blamed and so is the conflict between director and classical arabic some say that reflects a confusion in the government's language policy and. those who defend the arabic language have to tell us what is the outcome of arab izing education since one thousand nine hundred eighty on the other hand what do we want from iraq and dialect in the field of education what is the function of foreign languages what is

the function of the language that is now in education. the debates may be old the language even older but it's feared if the government doesn't act more students will drop out without an education he will morgan al-jazeera. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera to worth quakes followed by a tsunami have devastated the central indonesian island of. nearly four hundred people have been killed in the city of power alone rescue workers still haven't been able to reach many areas which are likely to be badly hit. there has been criticism against indonesia's meteorological and geophysics agency which issued a tsunami warning but then lifted it thirty four minutes later all lines of communication and power supply collapse leading to confusion in the first few hours this was the scene in jakarta airport where anguished relatives and passengers are

still stranded the airport has partially reopened but only for humanitarian aid north korea's foreign minister has accused the us of deepening mistrust between their countries through sanctions were young home made the comment during his address to the united nations general assembly he says it's on the realistic for washington to expect young yang to denuclearize while sanctions are in place and called on the us to follow through on its promises. to. the i did the challenge is can bring us on our knees is a pipe dream of people who are ignorant about us but the problem is that the continued sanctions are deepening our mistrust the reason behind the recent deadlock is because the us relies on coercive measures which are lethal to trust building without any trust in the us will be no confidence in our national security and decide circumstances there is no way we'll unilaterally sells first turkey's president has called for

a united front against racism and says it's time to set the classify dia's aside most of the comments at the opening of one of europe's largest mosques in the german city of cologne he's on a two day state visit to germany his first since becoming president in twenty fourteen on friday he met the german chancellor angela merkel and the two agreed to work to mend the relationship that's been strained in recent years. funerals have been held for the seven palestinians including two children who were killed by israeli forces in gaza on friday thousands of people were rallying along gaza's barrier fence with israel a spark of protest that began in march demonstrators have been demanding the right of return of palestinian refugees as well as an end to the israeli blockade more than one hundred ninety two palestinians have been killed so far since the protests began six months ago those are the headlines faultlines is coming up next on al-jazeera.

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