managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape. the death toll on soloway sea tops eight hundred thirty as indonesians are warned thousands may be dead from the earthquake and tsunami. and sam is a than this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up to refute saudi and u.a.e. allegations of supporting terrorism as accusations fly at the u.n. . the changing faces of afghanistan's election more women candidates more biometric machines for the upcoming poll. and celebration time for south africa's

rasta community is the top coal rules it's ok to smoke cannabis in private. now the death toll from the tsunami and earthquake on the indian asian island of solo se has reached eight hundred thirty two but the deputy president is warning it could end up in the thousands most of the confirmed dead are in the city of there's been little contact with the town of dung gala around two hundred seventy thousand people will be live in jakarta in a moment but first also jabari reports the difficult task of looking for survivors this is what is left in the city of hollow after friday's magnitude seven point five earthquake and tsunami. rescue workers frantically trying to find those who may still be alive. search efforts are being hampered by blocked roads and

a collapsed bridge rescue teams dug by hand to free twenty four people trapped in the rubble of this hotel the owner told local media people could still be heard crying out for help but no heavy lifting equipment was available dozens remain missing in the city of over three hundred thousand those who did survive the quake and tsunami that followed now have to try to live off anything they can find scenes like this of people looting local shops and siphoning petrol from cars are becoming the norm as aid is very slowly coming in. many injured are being evacuated by the red cross estimates that more than one point six million people have been affected there are particular concerns about the nearby town of dung where the impact is still unclear the gol is home to over two hundred seventy thousand people but there has been no communication with anyone there since friday afternoon the indonesian

president is visiting palo to assess the damage and reassure the people that more help is on the way but for now bodies continue to fill the streets of palo an anxious survivors are being warned not to return to their homes as aftershocks continue door such a al-jazeera. journalist told me so jim who is live for us in the indonesian capital jakarta good to have you with us we understand more rescue workers have been coming in does that mean they're getting now into some of the cut off areas like. we're starting to see some we are starting to see some more information coming out of the. we have received information that the. two helicopters from the indonesian red cross have been dispatched to tonglen bringing a merchant. emergency supplies now from the eight hundred thirty two the numbers of the latest. number eleven is actually coming from the angle of what we don't know

is whether rescue officials have managed to respond via road because due to the heavy damage conditions. we don't know either is the extent of damage we're starting to see. as we starting to see the utter destruction of dongola from a couple of local t.v. stations here but again there is no official assessment in terms of the number of of houses and building. that's been damaged. earlier we heard that the vice president one of the of this disaster could reach thousands and the forecast is not without any reason because the vice president if you remember was the first was the official who visited. in two thousand and four so he has the experience of seeing the structure of tsunami so he has the experience and memories

so i'm afraid. vice president use of color is forecasting. carries a lot of truth in it. reports about people having to scavenge through petrol stations and supermarkets and polo just one area where rescuers of course have reach why have people been left to such desperation. i thing is the issue is whether there is not so much has not been reached eight has reached to those needed but unfortunately they're not being reached. in widespread area and bear in mind at this very moment. the security officials are capacity are being stretched to the limit for example this morning we saw footage is rife with riches of. the looting that happened in the. in the center of power lou and yet there was

no presence of security and that's because all of the person is were. are being deployed to find victims among the rubbles also we see in teachers of some looters taking out raiding. raiding couple of million mark. now we have to distinguish i would have to question whether these matters are in terms of of general victims of earthquakes or whether they're a group of people but having said that. the real situation is majority of people particularly in the hardest hit area have not read have not been given the most but it's alright thanks so much tom even now the gulf crisis has led to exchanges at the u.n. general assembly between catherine countries imposing the blockade the foreign minister again accused of supporting terrorism or causes representative blind the

u.s. for creating instability in the region hashim a bar is that the u.n. in new york. there have been heated exchanges between qatar and its neighbors saudi arabia the united arab emirates and behind accused qatar of sponsoring extremism and destabilizing the region accusations strongly dismissed by qatar which said that the emirates is and the saudis are the last one to prescribe about peace and stability referring to the past track record of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates when it comes to war in yemen and its ability in libya and also united states congress inquiry into nine eleven which basically blame saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for lax finest regulations and also for providing safe havens for extremist let's listen to what the qatari diplomat had to say about the

allegations made by the united arab emirates saudi arabia and bahrain and then with you know you step on our and then at night you do what is cause for suspicion is that we find these states target allegations of us and they don't practice what they preach we do not practice respect for state sovereignty and interfere in affairs of other states in fact they terrorize civilians and violate human rights and interfere in domestic affairs of other states in a manner that undermined international and regional peace and security and this has become evident in the repeated attempts by these states to destabilize security and stability in qatar they have plotted and finance an unsuccessful coup attempt in qatar now in her response the u.a.e. is representative accused qatar of fabricating information. it is deplorable that carter as usual has adopted political maneuvers in order to exacerbate the crisis instead of respecting its international obligations and settling the crisis has added an international dimension by discussing legal

matters that were taken by the united arab emirates and cooperation with bahrain saudi arabia and egypt kushner is trying to disseminate false iran used information about the measures taken by our countries these measures were in response to the destabilizing attitudes of the decades. of votes on the way in the former yugoslav republic of macedonia on whether to change the country's name in the hope of ending a dispute with neighboring greece voters have to decide whether to accept an agreement to change the balkan nation's name to the republic of north macedonia greece insists but only its province of macedonia can claim that name my ability jeffco for us in moscow joins us now live from scott pierce so any indication of which way the referendum will actually go what are the expectations. so nine hundred thousand people needs to go two days for this referendum to be successful but macedonia country with without census for sixteen years and there

are some estimates that maybe million people in this time left the country is so question about the. turnout can be really questionable today but let me remind you that these referendum today is not legal part of the agreement between republic of macedonia and republican greece and it's just a political deal of the main political parties in macedonia so and the government said that if citizens are there's no successful turn out to dead the institution will make the decision in the name of the people. let me say that this is a very emotional question for ethnic macedonians but a rational aspect of this problem in. solving this problem macedonia can go

further to the nato and european union integration so what happens if the term does end up to be too low what does the government mean when it says as you explained it will make the decision in the name of the people. as government said it's very important for people to go out and to to vote but if there is not successful turnout then government said we'll count how many people would say for disagreement so anyway institution will continue reading implementation disagreement that means that parliament till the end of this year and beginning of the next year needs to make the constitutional change. the biggest change she is adding geographic reference to a name republic of macedonia geographical reference north to the republic of macedonia and also in this constitutional changes there will be changing

for other and once or a final point how soon can we expect results to come in excuse me can you know yes when do we expect how soon can we expect results to come in. if there is no. turnover as i said people we'll institution we'll continue with the implementation we disagreement after. the. greek parliament ready ready for ideas agreement with greece let me say that this is. the this country is very divided to do this question for example. the government is leading the yes campaign from the other side there is

a precedent he van of who said he will boycott referendum and the opposition who said dead. the people should decided how or will they going to vote today on the referendum so today we will see how the outcome will be and this night leadership of this country to say. next step will be all going to be right will be looking out for it thanks so much my blood loss in moscow where polls are open in iraq's northern semi autonomous kurdish region for parliamentary elections the vote comes a year after a failed bid for independence it was rejected by a bank that plunging the region into economic and political turmoil security forces in the region voted earlier on following day. still ahead on al-jazeera tens of thousands monch in brazil against

a presidential candidate who says he won't take cept the results if he loses and they don't mask steps down as chairman of tesla as part of a settlement with the u.s. financial regulators. we've got some more lively showers across much of southeast asia as per usual they are well scattered good have a try with a lot of sunshine coming back in behind the heat of the day showers of course be a scattering there into the philippines was there into northern parts of borneo much of malaysia will see one of two afternoon showers but i suspect more sunshine than showers looking pretty good along the potential of up towards the march or the shows gather a little bit as we go on through a shoes day further south generally try now into indonesia jakarta at around thirty four celsius and very dry that same across much of australia that does include the

east coast they've seen some very lively storms recently the area of her disturbed weather just rolling through the bite not too much on that will be some showers there just pushing out of western australia into south australia a little cloudy there is see just around adelaide twenty one twenty two celsius for melbourne and adelaide a similar temperature there for city the temperatures just not up a notch as we go on through choose de laski try and settle but a fair bit of cloud just pushing into the interior by this date cloud and really making its way towards new zealand over the next couple of days north of the system operates as well as we go through monday but the fine and dry for tuesday. so proud of booming city a city with a drug problem. in a neighborhood consumed by trafficking giulio transforms despair into. giving

children whose and reclaim their street and its will. on the street to the goo find a latin america series now this is. you're watching our time now to recap our headlines indonesia's national disaster agency says the death toll from an earthquake and tsunami has more than doubled to eight hundred thirty two people most of the confirmed dead are in the city of the island of. rescuers are still trying to make contact with residents in the town of

dongarra. votes under way in the former yugoslav republic of macedonia on whether to change the country's name in the hope of ending a dispute with neighboring greece voters have to decide whether to accept an agreement to change the name to the republic of north macedonia greece insists that only the province of macedonia can claim that name. the gas prices featured prominently at the un general assembly on saturday with tough talking between carter and its neighbors the u.a.e. is foreign minister again accused of supporting terrorism carter's representative blamed the u.a.e. for creating instability in the region. campaigning is under way in afghanistan for next month's parliamentary elections the vote is more than three years overdue and is seen as a test for presidential elections next april tony berkeley is in kabul. they can never be described as boring conflict corruption intimidation and fraud afghan

elections have it all but the parliamentary election is due to take place on october twentieth or at least promising something different. new government measures hope to put an end to the problems of previous elections election fraud is now a criminal offense voting systems will be cited in public buildings monitored by professional people and a new advanced voting system will be used even so doubts still linger the afghan government has bought more than twenty thousand biometric devices for facial recognition and fingerprinting to prevent voter fraud but only four thousand have so far arrived in the country and operators have not yet been trained many believe there is insufficient time to get the system up and running meaning a return to manual counting and the possibility of irregularities we are worrying about a post election crisis the losing candidates will not accept that and the political parties will use that as a force to rescue and also to. target the government

voters disheartened by past elections see the biometric system as a big step towards a transparent election process just by a bit extended by metric system is good because many national ideas are fake and there's fraud boats can be bought the elections are three and a half years overdue but because of the uncertainty over the new technology there are concerns that it could be postponed yet again this election is being seen of the next april presidential election then as now the main issue will not just be transparency but it will also be think curity and that is a very delicate situation of the moment with the taliban controlling much a rural afghanistan. the taliban doesn't take part in elections and in the past has had fingers cut off people who have voted the group is making almost daily attacks against the security forces this trend of the taliban is. in the weakness within the afghan government in this is certainly something that has emboldened.

there in the past couple of years. most of afghanistan's population is a literate these men waiting for poorly paid daily work in kabul don't care who is elected they care about survival. right now if i still came here with a truck offer in work all of his i would go with them all of those because we don't have money and we need food. politics can often be seen is about power and money but for the poor life can be defined by the food on their plate and in afghanistan today many people are hungry tony berkeley al-jazeera kabul north korea's foreign minister says continued u.s. sanctions are deepening its mistrust of america really young ho address the united nations general assembly on saturday he said pyongyang has taken significant goodwill measures without a corresponding response from the trumpet ministration mark fitzpatrick is the

director of the nonproliferation program at the international institute for strategic studies. you north koreans have been insisting that the united states make a declaration of the of an end to the korean war this is not something that is really too hard for the united states to do they could do it while maintaining sanctions i think they should do it in exchange for a north korean real gesture there where north korea has done to date has been without verification there is no legal connection between ending the war and the presence of u.s. forces there under a bilateral treaty with south korea and kim jong un himself said that ending that war would not mean the troops have to leave it's just that there is a certain about political connection that the united states is worried about the north koreans think that they can overcome u.s. resistance by going into the soft spot that they see in donald trump and he so unpredictable and so inclined to withdraw u.s. forces that they may have reason to think that they make progress by dealing with

him first brazil's far right presidential candidate has been released from hospital in south powder three weeks after being stabbed at the political rally high and also not of flew home to rio de janeiro on a commercial flight he was both cheered and jeered by fellow passengers many to him to win the next month's election thousands of people been protesting against him and latin america tennesseean human planes why. it will follow brazil's largest city and what you see here just a week before brazilians go to the polls is an anti unelected campaign it's against the man that these people believe would turn the clock back to the dark ages if he were elected that was in every major city and town in brazil and even abroad opponents of ultra conservatives. are taking to the streets. their campaign symbol is hash tag not him and this is why it was that he spews hatred

he's against minorities against blacks gays women in a world where that's not acceptable we can't allow him to turn the clock back. as the protests were taking place bill sinatra was released from the south pole a hospital and flew back to his home in rio de janeiro twenty three days after he was stabbed in the stomach during a campaign rally. also not all is leading in the polls tapping into widespread anger over corruption crime a deep recession and what many view as a loss of family values and a former army captain says he'd rather his son die if he turned out to be gay. but it is women including celebrities like madonna who are his most vocal critics. he's homophobic but then a phobia to add especially sex if he has no problem standing up in congress and

telling a woman opponent she doesn't deserve to be raped. others are more concerned about his overtly pro military stance and his praise for brazil's former military dictatorship or not or has vowed to fight crime and violence with more violence which most people here but it's one in plenty of support elsewhere. also not all is at least eight percentage points ahead of his nearest rival in the polls but he also has a forty six percent. disapproval rating the highest of any candid it wasn't a web page called everyone against bush for not all about work. and followers and that's been two weeks that was pushing the right when it was asked the battle for public opinion is this the most polarized election campaign in recent brazillian memory could not be strong. u.s. president donald trump has once again publicly backed his nominee for the supreme court has ordered an f.b.i.

investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by brett kavanaugh this means a confirmation vote by the full senate will be delayed for at least a week trump says he has complete faith in cavanagh the investigation. found the mosque has agreed to step down as company chairman and pay a huge fine and it's all because of a tweet i do joe castro reports forty million dollars is the dear price for these two hundred eighty characters mosques august seventh tweet may go down in history as the world's most expensive it announced he was considering taking tesla private at four hundred twenty dollars a share funding secured turns out according to federal investigators that was a lie within minutes of the first tweet tesla's own head of investor relations question whether the communication was even legitimate investors and journalists contacted tesla and asked whether the tweet was a joke and it was

a joke according to the government's lawsuit meant to amuse musk's girlfriend the four hundred twenty dollars price and apparent reference to marijuana culture which to mask was seen smoking marijuana on a live you tube stream earlier this month i mean it's legal right ok. i'm going to text messages for for an address and saying what the hell are you doing so i can read the display didn't break california law but did send tesla stocks tumbling now for the august tweet musk and tesla will each pay twenty million dollars to investors who suffered harm musk will also step down as chairman of the board for at least the next three years neither celebrity status nor reputation as a technological innovator provide an exemption from the federal securities laws one must denies he ever intended to swindle investors will remain tesla c.e.o. but under the oversight of new independent directors the f.c.c.

is requiring tesla add to the board the settlement is still subject to court approval but is a dramatic marker in musk's recent decline once admired as a maverick and brilliant thinker must also founded pay pal and space x. now the american billionaire is mental stability is in question and so to the future of his company's. castro al-jazeera washington south africa's roster community says a court ruling on cannabis is a victory for the cultural rights the nation's top court says that allowed to grow and smoke in private but experts say the new rules may be difficult to police for me the miller reports from cape town. well you know his loneliness five gareth prince is a qualified lawyer he's also rust a foreign he says that he's been prevented from joining the law society because of his culture and daily use of cannabis for twenty years he's fought south african

courts to get cannabis decriminalised saying that equality laws should also protect his way of life the greater victory is for the people of south africa in the sense that because russell far as always advocated that cannabis is for the yelling of not just the south african people but for all people in the world and our philosophy is that we must make use of what we have in order to get what we want and we have an abundance of cannabis. the rest of therion community in cape town says cannabis is a religious and cultural sacrament the people here say they were often victims of police raids in the past now they can smoke and grow what they call a religious herb while it will take up to two years for laws to be officially changed it's now legal to grow cannabis and consume it privately but still illegal to sell or buy it this is a long street in cape town it's known for its vibrant nightlife and as

a place to buy cannabis and other drugs if you're found with cannabis on you police contra's to because persisting small amounts of cannabis is legal but because this is a public area you can smoke it here nor can you buy it south africa's police minister says the new cannabis laws will make policing more difficult. police minister because they're less says that if it were up to him cannabis or da as it's known in south africa would still be illegal what a molecule that you're supposed to keep focus on should and do well because into a restaurant because you have an extra amount in your in your house so those are the things that will have to work but it's going to lead to work of the sort of the can produce absolutely difficult. but many in the rest of foreign community say the new law is just the beginning and that small backyard plantations should be expanded to allow for the proper farming and sale of cannabis they say it will help

the economy cannabis is a source of life for thousands of people in the ghetto and we don't apologize for that we as a matter of fact are not the coal face of the drug industry no it's not it's tobacco and alcohol prince says now that using cannabis is legal there's nothing stopping him from practicing law for me al jazeera cape town. and time to look at the headlines here now to syria now indonesia's national disaster agency says the death toll from an earthquake and tsunami has more than doubled to eight hundred thirty two people most of the confirmed dead are in the city of power on the island of soloway sea rescuers are still trying to make contact with residents in the town of dawn gulliver journalist thomas of jet blue has more from indonesia's capital jakarta only a we know that the indonesian rush brought this about two helicopters to the town

of dongola now it's not clear yet what the result of the of the trip. come from formation on the extent of damage but what we do in order only you know the red cross and the helicopter red cross carry emergency and medical supplies of votes on the way in the former yugoslav republic of macedonia on whether to change the country's name the hope of ending a dispute with neighboring greece voters have to decide whether to accept an agreement to change the name to the republic of north macedonia greece insists that only its province of macedonia can claim that name. polls are open in iraq's northern semi autonomous kurdish region for parliamentary elections the vote comes a year after a failed bid for independence it was rejected by baghdad plunging the region into economic and political turmoil dubai international airport says it's operating as

normal after reports yemen's philthy fighters launched a drone attack on the facility the claim was made by both iran must see a t.v. just last month visuals denied reports by who the media the group had targeted by airport with a drone the gulf crisis featured prominently at the u.n. general assembly on saturday with tough talking between culture in its neighbors the u.a.e. as foreign minister again accused of supporting terrorism but carter's representative blamed the u.a.e. for creating instability in the region and north korea's foreign minister says continued u.s. sanctions are deepening mistrust of america now it's time for viewfinder latin america. al jazeera is a very important source of information for many people around the world when all the cameras have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to

talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront.