innovative solutions to global health care. make. sure. this is al-jazeera. headquarters here. coming up in the next sixty minutes the death toll tops eight. indonesians thousands more may have been killed in the earthquake and tsunami. of supporting terrorism as accusations fly at the united nations. what's in

a name well possibly. as the people who call themselves. to vote today. also had the changing faces of afghanistan's election more women candidates than ever before and biometric machines for the forthcoming pole. rescue teams are struggling to reach all the people who need help on the indonesian island of so the way more than eight hundred people have died so far it follows a powerful earthquake and the tsunami the most devastating to hit the region since two thousand and four the country's president joke over doto has paid a visit to the city of palm which has seen some of the worst destruction. perched on an arc of volcanoes unfold lines called the ring of fire indonesia is no stranger to earthquakes the national disaster agency says the death toll has more than doubled it now stands at eight hundred thirty two many of the bodies were

found along the shoreline of palm city disaster response units are struggling to get to the town of dongola communications to that area have been completely cut off more than a quarter of a million people live there the authorities fear many people in the area may have been washed out to sea we live in jakarta in a moment but first for the news hour dosage of body with the latest 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 so unclear that 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 bar al-jazeera. ok let's take a live updates on the developing story for you journalist tommy's his life for us

in the capital jakarta tommy welcome back to al-jazeera so the affected area we suspect is much bigger than was originally thought how big is that region. the region of the most affected region is the provincial city of palo that has a population of three hundred thousand people and the most. the hardest hit areas around dongle and three other agencies with a combined populations of around up to a million people now the biggest concern us as mentioned in what we saw in the package earlier is in the city of dongle and now the latest development is we are hearing some some early information coming out of don't gala we know that out of the total death toll eight hundred thirty two people eleven of those actually coming from don't call and that information is coming from the national disaster

agency and they got information from the first aid workers reaching dangler which is in an asian cross now what we don't know of course what we don't know is the full extent of damage and casualties in the angle of we are starting to see fixtures early pictures in local media of ground destruction in dongle and what we have been seeing is utter destruction. with. with reports that many of the residents have actually flat flat the town is not clear where the rest of the from the pictures we don't see any residents coming out of the buildings or it's not clear what the fate of the around two hundred thousand people residents of dongle are now in and it's a presidential call we don't have the follow the do and he has. the provincial the center part of provincial city of palo and he has called on

people there reassuring that the government is doing its best he has called people to be patient he is very keen to show to the nation that he is in control of a disaster this could be. one of the biggest political task for president your call we don't know who's facing. election next year so a lot of there's a lot of political. things at stake for president giacobbe other him but in the meantime our. efforts to ramp up the emergency aid are happening with the most difficult part reaching with the must be for the fact that we are officially reaching the. area so would it be fair to say it's all me this is still a search and rescue operation but it's also an operation of assessment they're trying to work out the areas worst affected before they can go from trying to do this by hand because we've seen those pictures as well and get the heavy lifting

equipment in because that's what they always need to do in this kind of situation. that's true because. much of the heavy equipment needed to clear their bridges to help are releasing victims from among rubble are not there yet a lot of them needed to be transported via ship of i arose and none of only. none of them have actually arrived what was has arrived is actually the electrical generators been fastballs the from the provincial city of macarthur but they have equipment such as africa vessels and so on none of them have arrived so. what we're seeing right now is. it's a scrambling effort whereby emergency of us are trying to racing against time to to rescue dozens of hundreds of victims trapped in buildings but at the same time trying to assess trying to assess the best way to reach the hardest hit area so in

that sense the capacity and the resources of the government is being stretched to the limit just bear in mind that over this disaster came just over a month after longbox earthquake which claim more than five hundred lives the nation is still counting the damage from the from the longer quake and then came this disaster in a much larger scale of course officials are already warning earlier yesterday that vice president has won that the death toll could be in thousands now his forecast is now without any valid reasons because vice-president use of color was the first official who visit that actually a province has just hit by the two thousand and four isn't tsunami so he saw of firsthand the level of the structures in there so base from his experience he came out with such. gloom predictions in terms of his casualties ok barry

briefly told me we understand as well we're seeing reports a. that local hospitals were in the direct line the line of contact with the tsunami that came in following this relatively shallow earthquake how are the hospitals how are the local medical authorities as far as we know how are they coping in a situation i guess of almost complete isolation we know for a fact that over three hundred. according to officials that are over three hundred hospital patients being treated that there are four major hospitals in palo now the four major hospitals in palo. have lead them it now there is a desperate need for that and also. a merchant the aid military made to the end person of the military has this back extra military extra military doctors from the surrounding provincial cities i waked back them to arrive in

in in palo any time and if thing so in shot in the heart hospital officials are. they were sort of literally strad to the limit tommy thanks very much ok let's move on some of the top stories for you saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin selman is expected to arrive in kuwait in a couple of hours. the two leaders are expected to discuss the ongoing gulf crisis kuwait has played a mediation roles in saudi arabia the u.a.e. grain and egypt imposed a blockade on cancer in twenty seventeen accusing it's of supporting terrorism denies those accusations well the gulf crisis led to exchanges of the un general assembly between cata and the countries imposing the blockade the u.a.e. is foreign minister again accused of supporting terrorism but councils

representative blame the u.a.e. for creating instability in the region. 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 says the emirates is and the saudis are the last one to preach 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 planes saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for lax finest regulations and also for four wide and 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 don't step on our and then at night you do what is cause for suspicion is that we find the states target allegations of us and they don't practice what they preach they 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 and the response the representative accused cata of fabricating information. god that we have this is deplorable and that cutter as usual has adopted political maneuvers an 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 kastner is trying to disseminate false in roni is information about the measures taken by our countries these measures were in response to the destabilizing attitudes of qatar for decades the polls are open in iraq's northern semi autonomous kurdish region for parliamentary elections today comes a year after a failed bid for independence it was rejected by baghdad plunging the region into economic and political turmoil security forces in the region voted early on friday kurdish unity is a central issue in this year's campaign the kurdistan democratic party ok d p has been sharing power with the pantry or union of kurdistan or p u k for more than twenty years they made a deal in one nine hundred ninety eight after a four year long civil war however the referendum last year exposed some splits the k d p blame the p u k for the loss of kirkuk they also blame each other for corruption and it's you that's led to economic stagnation workers complain about on

paid salaries and voter frustration is rising live now to my colleague from our correspondent following that story for us in erbil charles what were the big campaign issues here. well a campaign issue surprisingly certainly for the k d p which as you say has dominated the political landscape here along with the p u k for so many decades they very much campaigned on their ability to deliver very much proud of that referendum that was led by the k d p it's fair to say well ninety two percent will ninety two percent of people came out and voted in that referendum for eventual succession but it resulted in some some heavy punishments from baghdad meanwhile the p u k is coming out some is saying that same its campaign despite it being weakened because it was accused as being complicit with the baghdad government's way and federal forces reach of the oil fields around kirkuk the p u k s is

campaigning against corruption and campaigning for greater unity amongst the kurdish parties and then there's a whole host of smaller policies as well for example the policy calling itself new generation again focusing on corruption and graft and very much tired so their leaders say all that dominance of the the k d p and the p u k another policy goron is actually campaigning for promising parliamentary reform so there are a whole host of issues and let's not of course include the economy in that because the economy has suffered so drastically in recent years but you know the question is whether despite all these campaign promises certainly amongst the electorate that you speak to here very many of those promises have been heard before and there has been very little delivered certainly in recent is charles you mentioned the economy there that's been in such a bad way for so long now are any of the potential candidates talking about how

they might try to turn the economy around. well a lot of the candidates are talking about the economy and improving improving age but there's very little sort of concrete information as i say coming out in that campaign that the promises of new projects to be launched into a resume for example an industry promises of around forty thousand jobs in the next year being created the fact of the matter is is that certainly government statistics here official statistics here will tell you that around ninety percent more than ninety percent of households in the kurdish region of the iraq a force to survive on under a thousand dollars a day. there was also a cuts in the federal budget in baghdad money allocated to the kurdish region here in march cut from seventeen to thirty percent some of the civil servants salaries

have dropped in recent is up to seventy five percent so we are in a drastic situation here economically speaking to the voters there are three things that they really want they want an improved economy they want they job's they want security off the whole to see having suffered such tension such a such figuring the battle against eisel that we saw all the endl late last year but they also want good relationships a good relation with baghdad with the federal government and as we know that federal government in baghdad is still struggling to form itself off to those disputed elections in may charles thanks very much. dubai international airport says it's operating as normal after reports that yemen's who see fighters have launched a drone attack on the facility the claim was made by hoofy iran a set of t.v. just last month officials denied reports by hoofing media that the group are targeted to buy a port with a drone. twenty more ahead here on the news hour for you including these stories

a victory for south africa's rest of ferry and community as a top court their rules it's no longer illegal to smoke cannabis in private. tens of thousands march in brazil against a presidential candidate who says he won't accept the results if he loses. and in sport we'll tell you whether the italian champions could keep their perfect start to the season on track. campaigning is well underway in afghanistan for next month's parliamentary elections there the vote is more than three years overdue and is seen as a test for presidential elections next april twenty berkeley is in kabul they can never be described as boring conflicts 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 advance 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 able to post election crisis the losing candidates will not accept that and the political parties will use that as a force to risk and also to want and target the government voters disheartened by past elections see the biometric system as

a big step towards a transparent election process just very thick some don't have a biometric system is good because many national i.d.'s are fake and there's fraud votes 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 with of action is being seen as a test for next april presidential elections 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 week nice within the afghan government in this is certainly something that has emboldened it all about the 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 us 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 macedonians have begun voting in a referendum on the country's name in the hope of ending a long disputes with their neighbors greece voters have to decide whether to accept an agreement change the balkan nations name to the republic of north macedonia greece insists that only its province of macedonia can claim name if the name change is indorsed it could pave the way for nato and e.u. membership. has more now from scotland. nine hundred

thousand people needs to go on this referendum to the to be legally successful but must have gone without census for sixteen years and there's some estimates for showing that more than a million people left this country is seen as the last census so this turnout today can be very questionable in a way the government is saying that this referendum is not legal part of the agreement with greece but is the political real of the main political parties in macedonia it's very important to see the public opinion to check the mood of the people in macedonia so to the end of this year macedonia need to ratify the document to agrees that means constitutional changes in the parliament. so there will be changing called for amendments one of the them north to the name

republic of macedonia this agreement means that must must knew must have dhoni and constitutional name for domestic and international use it's going to be republic of north macedonia let me see the discounter is very divided by the. question of the referendum mean yes campaign was a leader by the government from the other side the president will boycott the referendum he said that this is bad agreement for macedonia national interest and the opposition the main opposition all parties said that every citizen every supporter can decide or didn't on their own should they be will be voting and how they be what. ok let's get more on that joining us here on the news last money he's the deputy prime minister of the government of the republic of macedonia for european affairs in charge of european affairs he joins us on the line from sculpey butcher us money it's not

a simple yes or no question is it's on this referendum ballot paper it's framed in terms of nato and e.u. membership so it's clear where the government where the administration wants this to go. well i would say it's quite to a question that reflects quite a contrast actually we are deciding for our future or for our past and all that so actually the decision is between black and white here is not about me answers solve more good or less good it's logical that it's behind this question of e.u. and nato membership because the reason why we have signed this agreement and why we have made these negotiations are to open and to pave the way for our nato and e.u. membership so the question is quite logical people to dave will answer whether we want to join nato and e.u. by implementation of the agreements signed with greece do you accept this is

a huge test for the country and for the voters given that just what two decades ago ethnic albanians in your country took up arms against the government. while a much shorter deal fog people in the all polls we had in the recent period more than eighty percent are in favor and they don't and and you also but the problem is that we are living also in the world of fake news and populist propaganda so people are under this attack of fake news that actually they are changing their identity and everything will be different after signing this agreement of course it is a challenge it is one of the most important decision the people of this country have made in the recent twenty five years after independence but is a decision that for certain will open a new chapter in this country that will provide the security and peace for the

hundred years to come but also economical wellbeing through nato membership and through human which was law so clearly your government your country looks to the west it looks to nato and looks to the european union. there are other people however to the east to the northeast of you who are saying look there is an issue here within this process over the reach of russia because moscow the kremlin doesn't like its previous its proceeding sphere of influence being limited being kicked back towards moscow well as they said eighty percent of our people favor nato and favor e.u. the small is the number of people who favor an alternative. so there is no alternative actually for mustard on your in terms of geo political orientation there are small parties n.g.o.s opinion makers that actually are exposing all

reflecting the most view in the country they are small in number but they are trying to manipulate people through as they said fake news and populist propaganda and i'm sure that today people will know to make the distinction and make the right decision this is a non-binding vote what happens if the ratification process is difficult what if it's difficult to the point of it doesn't actually take place. well today we need to fulfill two commodity of criteria one is the turnout should be more than fifty percent of the richest of voters and out of those who will vote fifty percent should be yes but having in mind as you said this is not or is this is consultative refer and then we need to see what is the political will of people and political will is seen on the those who voted yes it is if more than five hundred thousand people would vote yes today i think we have political legitimacy

to transfer this process into the parliament and then two thirds majority in the parliament to do the constitutional changes the problem with the turnout it's not the elect of political will to vote but rather a technical logistical problem with it because five hundred thousand people do not live in the country at the moment they are through european countries making their living so actually the voters that risk list do not does not reflect the current presidential population so it's more technical issues that are not rather than a reflection of political will when it comes to getting it through getting on to statute books doesn't that tend to over simplify the reality of the question the equation in athens as well because the greek prime minister mr sipress he has a problem and therefore you would have a problem because the opposition in the greek parliament will the people who oppose him one particular person has gone on record as saying no we will not accept this so if the greek parliament says no you may get the numbers you need the numbers you

want but then it still may not happen. the fact that both the position in both countries are opposing this agreement it shows that actually this agreement is a come from ice it's not an assume metrical agreement but rather is a win lose solution for both sides and i think this is good argument i'm sure the thing greece there is a firm majority to confirm the agreement but we should not delay too much with our confirmation process because next year in march greece will enter into a pre electoral process for the european parliament what for their own parliament as well and then in an electoral process usually you don't have rational rational decision making also here it will be a challenge to provide two thirds majority but i'm sure that the m.p.'s will reflect the will of the people today in the in the fund which as money thanks very

much for joining us here on the news hour we appreciate your insight and i guess we will talk to you again very soon thank you. know just a few moments we'll have the very latest weather for you with everton and also still ahead here on the news we'll have more on the earthquake and the tsunami in indonesia that's left hundreds dead also ahead elon musk steps down as chairman of tesla as part of a settlement with u.s. financial regulators. and in sport major league baseball's playoffs why not his set will tell you he clinched the last spot. from the waves of the south. to the contours of the east. we now have the typhoon typhoon trami making its way across southern parts of japan

you see the position of a storm a few hours ago at bear in mind the crowd really has suffered this year this is the scene in a soccer widespread destruction power outages the usual kind of thing we're also adding to that the flooding rains now in the process of sweeping across the country so that the situation with the storm you can see it is actually moving pretty quickly and that some saving grace as a position as we look at it right now it will sweep up right up bert's ward see the northeast in the coming hours sustained winds of one hundred forty five kilometers prowess a powerful enough gust seven hundred eighty five look at the movement forty five kilometers per hour that's quicker than you same bolt actually this really is getting a move on heavy rain two hundred forty seven millimeters of rain but at least now the system has really had that speed we are not expecting any heavy rain to stick around particularly long bright skies come back in behind us to go on into monday

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it not shine a light on your hero with your nomination for the international base award two thousand and eighteen for more information go to isa war dot com. welcome back this is the al-jazeera news on my name's peter dhabi these all your headlines been uneasy as national disaster agency says the death toll from the earthquake in the tsunami has now risen to eight hundred thirty two most of the confirmed dead are in one city the city apollo on the island of so that we see all the tons have yet to be reached. abodes underway in the former yugoslav republic of

macedonia on whether to change the country's name in the hope of ending the dispute with neighboring greece voters have to decide whether to accept an agreement change the name to the republic of north macedonia greece insists that only its province of macedonia can claim that. the gulf crisis featured prominently at the un general assembly on saturday with tough talking between cattle and its neighbors the u.a.e. is foreign minister again accused of supporting terrorism however casaus representative blamed the u.a.e. for creating instability in the region. let's go back now to our top story the devastation in indonesia after the earthquake and the tsunami that jungle found is head of the indonesia office for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies he joins us live on the line now on skype from jakarta jan gelfand just get us right up to speed what's the latest information what are your people on the ground telling you there. well the information is starting to come in

now as more people are rife we have been in the missionary crossbow has ninety volunteers there and what officials started to do their work you're correct when you said that eight hundred thirty two people have. been confirmed dead we have now been able to get over some groups into. which there is a leaven people that are confirmed dead this number should arise within those eight hundred thirty two there was unfortunately the mayor and the ex mayor were both you know. there's a lot more destruction and we believed we're still trying to get into the areas that are more remote you know removed rural communities and small towns that's going to take time because communication is still a limit on ridges or of roads are in bad shape one way or. the has got a big crack in the middle of it sort of not in the same out of waynes it takes ways

it can come in and it you know the people are right now without many things and they're traumatized is there as the aftershocks are coming so it's not it's as one expects as you get more in the horrors days pass and specially earth days we certify to the extent in this is a major disaster we're also being told that lots and lots of people fled understandably tried to flee inland do you have a suspicion about the areas that they would try to get to a one assumes high or high ground because they could find at least some sort of temporary safety that. i i have not directly heard of that i mean people would have done that right after the tsunami condition they may have stayed or going to higher ground but i don't think they're going too far in because people stay near their homes they tend to for a variety of reasons but it does show that people are traumatized and scared and

the aftershocks are are causing them to to make decisions that they think are going to keep themselves and their families safer for your organization was the main priority well there's a lot of priorities that we have we've just sent in fifteen water trucks we have health teams we have a field clinic we have a surgical team and we're sending water and sanitation people in we're going to team the sous jobs to build new trains because the system the water systems of our are called been damaged we sent in tons of aid that range and we were probably tensed field kitchens two. to tips for hygiene kits. things for you know plastic sheeting mosquito netting and unfortunately we've also sent in. the kids floor for the dignified disposal of bodies because there's a lot of people hadn't died is this comparable in your mind jan to the asian

tsunami the christmas tsunami back in two thousand and four no that was a much larger of it and i mean the size of the tsunami was a much bigger it into several countries but as i try to tell people understand is the size isn't you know is is perhaps bigger but for those people that were affected it doesn't really matter what size it is where families have been affected their communities will act it so but it's significant this is significant it's it's hard to compare disasters all both were terrible and this one is also done go fund the intercom to thank you very much. my pleasure thank you. turn your attention to europe now because the u.k.'s prime minister says those who refused to back a so-called checkers plan for brics quotes playing politics to reason may his critics say her plans would compromise your sovereignty governing conservative party is gathering this week for its annual conference in birmingham this now less than six months to go until it brazil's far right presidential candidate has been

released from hospital in sao paolo three weeks after being stabbed at a political rally. flew home to rio de janeiro on a commercial flights where he was both cheered and cheered by fellow passengers many people a tipping him to win the elections next month but thousands of people have been protesting against him latin america edison a c n human explains why. follow brazil's largest city and what you see here just a week before brazilians go to the polls is an anti other lecturing 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 the 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 a 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 the 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. though he's homophobic but then a phobic racist and especially sexist 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. vowed to fight crime and my links with. most people but it's. also not all is a 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 candidate one woman's web page called everyone against. three million followers and less than two weeks before it was forced to go by but when it was hacked the battle for public opinion in this the rise campaign in recent brazilian memory could not be stronger. the turkish president. has finished a three day trip to germany by opening europe's biggest mosque it was a visit intended to mend times but it exposed deep disagreements.

it's said to be the biggest mosque in europe shaped like a flower to signify openness funded by turkey. but openness is not what turkey represents to many germans and the visit by president wretched time to one to inaugurate the mosque in cologne at the end of his state visit was not welcomed by all in this liberal town on the banks of the rhine germans joined kurds in protest of the lack of we're going to have it. when i heard the receiver start reception on it was a pull a slaughter of kurds a warrior who invaded syria with the help of german weapons were imprisoned hundreds of thousands without court orders that someone like that is being invited with the state reception made me get up and come here. the thirty one supporters were delighted to have in their. all my ala i

emphasize that we should focus on our common interests with germany aside from recent events us as opinion. this is being no ordinary state visit undertaken grudgingly it seems by both sides the invitation made to president to one by a german government realizing perhaps that relations between these two countries with significant common interests had deteriorated simply too far since the failed coup in turkey two years ago but while they reinforced economic ties and agreed on a new initiative to end fighting in parts of syria there were no promises given to release german citizens in jail in turkey nor undertakings made to extradite those earlier one considers his enemies living in germany they will work together they will tolerate one another but this was not as it was sometimes billed beforehand the coming together of old friends jonah how al-jazeera cologne the tesla found it

on musk has agreed to step down as company chairman and pay a really big fine and it's all because of a tweet i think joe castro explained is forty million dollars is the dear price for these two hundred eighty characters you know on 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 an apparent reference to marijuana culture to mask was seen smoking marijuana on

a live you tube stream earlier this month i mean it's legal all right so the legal ok. i'm going to text messages for from her address and saying what the hell are you doing smoking weed 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 providing 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 heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington 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 now that means a confirmation vote by the full senate will be delayed by at least a week. they have been raised they're going to do whatever they have to do whatever it is they do they'll be doing things that we never even thought of. everything will be fine we don't really want. what we. do i think he's great i don't think there's ever been any person that's been under scrutiny like he has been i think it's been a very tough process but he's a good man he's a great great. highly respected for many many years at the top of the

list and i hope everything works out great south africa's rest affair in communities says a court ruling on kind of this is a victory for the cultural rights the nation's top court says adults are allowed to grow and smoke it in private but experts say the new rules may be difficult to police the manila reports out from cape town. millions globally was five gareth the 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 on 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 rest of our us 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 period community in cape town says cannabis is a religious and cultural sacrament but 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 conta wristy because possessing 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 becky

ellis says that if it were up to him cannabis or dhaka as it's known in south africa would still be illegal what amounted to that you're supposed to keep focus on cheap and you went to pick 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 is going to make the work of the south african police 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 together 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 princes now but using cannabis is legal there's nothing stopping him from practicing law. i mean al-jazeera capetown.

still to come here on the news hour lewis hamilton didn't qualify first but will be looking to take a step closer to a fish show military type show in russia has that story and the sports news when we come back. she's the head of four generations of family and the bearer of forty years of suffering fools a heart or a hinge a refugee in her ninety's has fled persecution in me and more three separate times in her life first in one thousand seventy then one nine hundred ninety one and finally in two thousand seventy. one the war they beat us they kidnapped as they detained as. ghoul and her family span almost a century in age bonded through blood and displacement they now all live in

a single hut located in the world's largest refugee camp in many ways what's happening to this particular extended family really mirrors what's happened to so many other rohinton who face decades of repression and abuse the range of aren't just the world's largest group of stateless people they're also among the world's most persecuted minorities. peter thank you so much play is underway on the final day of this year's ryder cup the usa will have to really dominate sunday's singles if they're to retain the title europe still have their ten to sixteen lead there will be twelve pairings in

total justin thomas and rory mcilroy got things going with the americans looking for their first ryder cup triumph on foreign soil for twenty five years and italy's syria leaders event his have continued their perfect start to the season they've made it seven wins from seven beating title rivals second place napoli evasive a flawless record looked to be in trouble earlier drees merton's giving the visitors to leave mario manzi you've a level with the first two goals for the croatian the second came early in the second half to after rinaldo went close to getting on the scoresheet and leonardo bunny cheese sealed it with his first goal since returning to uva after a season unless you've a win three one and lead syria by six points. roma got the better of lot c.-o. in the rome darby the pick of the goals this back from the runs of pelligrino also went on to set up a goal as they ran out three one winners to go fifth and ferry out. the hole

manager your gun club has admitted that mohamed salah has work to do to recapture his best form the reds dropped their first points of the season away to chelsea on saturday added hazard gave chelsea the lead in the first time during which salah missed to chances the egyptians failed to make a major impact after the break and was subbed on sixty six minutes daniel sturridge rescued a point for the reds we're now second level on points man city chelsea are in third it's like bicycle ride a bike. well they do or they govern them or you cannot finish many more going to ride a bike imo so that's that's all it is it's only you need to work for these moments when it's clicking and that's. that's the beauty is the problem is that. champions man city or top thanks to a to no win over brighton arsenal made it seven straight wins in all competition with a two no victory over watch furred and manchester united lost to west ham it's now

four e.p.l. defeats for united with just ten points from their first seven games it's their worst start to a season for twenty nine years as an offside goal. but. north korea last tuesday vs the world will be disallowed north of the lensman media is made his mistake and. we would punish we don't approve and i think the team felt it felt good to be around madrid are waiting to hear positive news from their medical staff regarding gareth bale the welsh international was sobbed at half time as rail during neil neil with city rivals that let it go picked up a muscle injury and will be tested on sunday bale has scored four times this season but is injured a tough time with his fitness last year and he missed the best part of october and november with calf and problems so formula one and valtteri bottas will race from pole position for sunday's russian grand prix which begins shortly the finish

driver did it with in record time at the sochi track where he celebrated his first victory last season and it's his second pole of the season his mercedes team mate and championship leaders hamilton dominated the first two qualifying sessions but mistakes in q three meant he had to settle for second but he's in front of his male rival sebastian vettel time is running out or the german ferrari driver is trying to make up a forty point deficit on hamilton and standings just six races left. ok that's nice not in the end i may still be improved a little bit and i don't know really about what happened i think you're part of the stuff but. if you screw it feel a little bit of sex you know it takes sometimes pressure but. it's a great track and the weather's fantastic great crowd and it was just it was intense naturally as it always is that is my last two laps were not special so you can always get it right and you know at least we're still in the fight for the rest

of the team did an amazing job obviously it was important to get as close as possible to them and then we see if it is true they've been very quick so we'll see tomorrow is a long race we've seen that the tires are very important so for today i think yeah it should have been a bit closer the gap but not not enough to be a threat to how the timing mistake in the last sector but i knew that i had to improve by half a second so i you know had to try didn't work but no i'm quite quite happy. the l.a. dodgers have clinched major league baseball's final playoff spot so manning cargoes r.b.i. trouble broken any title the dodgers to attend six win over the house san francisco giants l.a. have reached the postseason for the sixth season in a row the dodgers are now level with the colorado rockies on top of the national league west division after the rockies lost at home to washington. over in milwaukee brewers tied to charlotte hobbs for the lead in their division after beating the detroit tigers six to five christian delegation's children home run in

the third inning helping the swimmers to a six straight. and you zealand have won the rugby championship for the sixth time in seven years the all blacks beat argentina thirty five seventeen in one of cyrus on saturday they rebounded from shock loss to south africa two weeks ago to seal victory by five tries to two. knowing that you know they'll say beat us a couple weeks ago it's disappointing in the end of his but i guess our major motivator is that we want to be better than we were that we could for the game that we just perform the. next week we don't improve on what we've done so not next week being. that that's faded for us like we need to be growing day to day week to week and that's all useful for now more coming up later on she her back to you thanks very much more news on the website alastair dot com is the address you need sammy it's in the seat in about two minutes i'm back after that also use an.

environment doesn't know any boundaries what goes up into the environment goes around the world. pushed it's a very modern way to do. and we've made poisons the measure of progress the domestic population has become we're going to push them down from active enough to be to kill us. in the ideas of people who will kill people who are more vulnerable suckle of points on al-jazeera. i know lucy lives in fear

constantly looking over her shoulder she says she was threatened by armed men as they ransacked a home she knows who ordered the attack and why they want to develop on the community's land as you know we can't let them enter we need to continue they can kill me i'm not afraid of being killed i need to defend my people who've been here since fifteen sixty nine without any help from the government and now they want to destroy the forest that is part of. land ownership in brazil is among the most concentrated and unequal in the world those who ordered the intimidation the murders are rarely brought to justice. in recent years the sahil of north africa has witnessed the so-called war on terror. but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources.

shadow war in the sahara algiers. the death toll on soloway sea tops eight hundred thirty as indonesians are warned thousands may be dead from the earthquake and tsunami. i'm sam is this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a few saudi and u.a.e. allegations of supporting terrorism as accusations fly at the u.n. . wants an end possible nato and membership as the p.