it's than previously acknowledged but this snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the carrots on the international list of threatened species . a city swamps and a town out of touch the death toll is now more than eight hundred and indy's ians have been warned thousands more may be dead from the earthquake and tsunami. alone will come on peter doubly this is al jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up who gets to officially use the name macedonia they're voting on the former yugoslav republic trying to end a long dispute with greece. donald trump remains loyal to his nominee for the supreme court. the long mask steps down as chairman of tesla as part of

a settlement with u.s. financial regulators. indonesians are being warned to get ready for a death toll in the thousands after friday's earthquake and tsunami in sort of the toll has more than double through sunday it stands now at eight hundred thirty two powerful aftershocks are still being felt rescue teams are arriving on so the way see which is about three hours flying time from the capital jakarta most of the confirmed are in the city of palo where six metre waves crashing ashore were captured on mobile phones but rescue teams are desperately trying to reach dongola which sits at the top of the bay there's been no communication from dorset jabari. the difficult task of looking for survivors this is what is left in the city of new after friday's magnitude seven point five earthquake and tsunami rescue workers

frantically trying to find those who may still be a life search efforts are being hampered by block roads and the collapse period rescue teams ducked 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 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 follow now have to try to lift off anything they can find things like this of people looting local shops and siphoning petrol from cars are becoming the norm. is very slowly coming in many injured are being evacuated but the red cross estimates that more than one point six million people have been affected but the killer concerns about the nearby town of dongarra where the impact is still unclear don the law is home to over two hundred seventy thousand people but there has been no communication with anyone in since friday afternoon the indonesian president is

visiting to assess the damage and reach a so the people more help is on the way but for now these continue to feel the streets of. anxious survivors being one not to return to their homes as aftershocks continue. to. be in hearing their many turns have been difficult to reach earlier we spoke to john head of the enduring sea office of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies. we have now been able to get over some groups into. which there is an eleven people that are confirmed dead this number sure arise within those eight hundred thirty two there was unfortunately the mayor and the ex mayor were both killed. there is a lot more destruction than we believed we're still trying to get into the areas that are more remote you know removed world communities and small towns that's

going to take time because communication is still a limit on bridges or roads are in bad shape the one way or. the has got a big crack in the middle of it sort of no limits the amount of weights and types of ways it can come in and if you know the people are right now without many things and they're traumatized as they're as the aftershocks keep coming so it's a it's as one expects as you get more in the days past and especially the first base was certified to the extent and this is a major disaster 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've been a team the job is to build the trains because the system the water systems are all been damaged we sent in tons of aid they range anywhere from tents to field kitchens to. to kids for hygiene kits.

figures for you know plastic sheeting mosquito netting and unfortunately we've also sent in. kids floor or the dignified disposal of bodies because there's a lot of people that have died. now there into the final few hours of voting in the former yugoslav republic of macedonia in a referendum on whether or not to change the country's name the country was one of the federal republics of what was yugoslavia declaring its independence in one nine hundred ninety one during the war in the balkans that broke up that country neighboring greece objected strongly to a new country called macedonia saying it implied a territorial claim on its own region of the same name the un and other international organizations opted to refer to it as the former yugoslav republic of macedonia greece also blocked macedonia's attempts to join nato ten years ago at the e.u. membership bid as the name dispute dragged on so

a yes vote in the referendum today would also clear a path to macedonia to join both the european union and nato which asked money is the republic of macedonia as deputy prime minister for european affairs earlier he told us macedonians understand there is no alternative to a yes vote. the decision is between black and white here is not about me answers of more good or 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 do 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 today will also whether we want to join nato and e.u. by implementation of the agreement signed 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 in the till 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 had 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 machine was all there is no alternative actually for macedonia in

terms of geo political orientation there are small parties n.g.o.s opinion makers that actually are exposing all reflecting the moscow view in the country they are small in number but they are trying to manipulate people through as they said fake news and. police propaganda and i'm sure that today people will know to make the distinction and make the right decision but we also spoke to phillip petrofsky who campaigned against the referendum he says the question on the ballot paper is confusing to the voters. citizens of must and only i would be and i ask at the same time three questions sorry for the agreement with the greeks are you for membership in the e.u. and out of full membership in nato but of course we don't have an invitation for european union yet so. our vice prime minister said

there is a fake news and propaganda but not from our side. on the contrary from their side today are trying to make people think that we will get into you and nato from tomorrow that is not correct the question is not asked to properly and people cannot our citizens cannot answer properly i think that russian influence is overestimated here and it's also part of fake news again they must donia a fake news again that it is sponsored by the government i don't see russians here on the streets i don't see russians visiting must have gone as official visits i see a miracle i see councillors of germany of european union made nato officials who are putting pressure of pressure on the voters of course we would like to join nato and utopian union but we would like that to be fair we would like to be respected and

on equal level on this question that we have to answer today we have not respected and we are pushed to change our current constitutional name because greeks want so so it is not acceptable for the majority of people here in macedonia to change the constitutional name and also in the question of the referendum it is not not asked. to be real change the name there asking are you for utopian macedonia of course that question implies that everyone is for utopian macedonia but not everyone is for constitutional change of name. britain's prime minister says those who refuse to back his so-called checkers plan for bricks quote playing politics to resume his critics say plans will compromise britain sufferance a governing conservative party gathering today for the annual conference in the city of birmingham with just six months to go until brooks it is supposed to happen

it's still not clear if a deal is even possible son joins us live this hour from birmingham sonia how much trouble is to resume a in here today. well toughest test starts maybe and strong as her words were in relation to urging her party to get behind her and she really is on very shaky ground there and really stands the fact that she is really caught between two elements of the party base not taking a look at those who are more for bracks at that yes there are those m.p.'s who are a pain how cool and you are uniting behind her and for her vision the so-called checkers plan as well but there is still that all the kaito of and he's those who want to more severe bricks and who are quite happy to crush out without a deal who are still making very tough talks while of course most notably course the former foreign minister barak johnson in an interview with the sunday times

even went as far to say that have plans were for posterous and to range really quite strong was he someone who has a very volatile relationship with the prime minister anyway but of course boris johnson has his own ambitions in that as well he has long been told touted as as a potential leader for those who are more in favor of a rexx a hard bracks in a no deal bracks and in fact he himself in this interview also said that he was campaigning for bracks it something that prime minister to recently did not do at the time on the other side is one of the more remain a pro you can there has been a warning already to resume a saying that there would be a somewhat polite rebellion if this breaks that deal if. it was handled in the way that it ought to be with minimal damage as possible people there are very wary about this saying this could be absolute disaster for the british alcon economy and of course for strategic strategic endeavors as well as the infrastructure as well

as exactly how that would happen if the u.k. crashes that would be something a scenario which they would not want to see a tall and her m.p.'s know that when they go back to the house of commons when westminster starts sitting again what next month the opposition the main opposition labor party have these seven tests and if to resume a dozen come back from meeting e.u. government heads with those tests possed they will vote against even those labor m.p.'s whose constituencies voted for brics it. that's right and it is coming around this whole idea of they don't want to have a rexx it which would in effect that mean more de regularization they would want to see a brics it that would actually be better for protecting the environment for example for being more economically balance not one of which poor people would be

more affected by this as well so that's what they're calling out for but there still seems to be a lack of exactly how to conduct this missile to resume a says that vision for breakfast is the one that makes the most pragmatic sense of full for the british economy this exchange in trade but not in services as well with the labor party they have their own ideas about that as well and still there is also this on the call for more program main members of the labor party that they want to try and see if they can if they if it does come down to the deal they want to have a second referendum a so-called people's vote is that putting it to try and see exactly how the countries want to affect this so really but from both parties really there is still this. details idea as to exactly what a breakthrough would mean for the u.k. sonia thanks very much. still to come here on al-jazeera at the u.n. general assembly cats are refutes saudi and u.a.e.

allegations that it supports terrorism. how low the weather is largely set fabric across eastern parts of china down toward the south as well as general looking pretty good over the next couple of days my weather action of course out into the northwest pacific with the typhoon trouble followed by typhoon a car right making our way towards japan so for china itself is dry presently warm as well and sunny twenty five celsius there for shanghai thirty one in hong kong some attempt as we go on through choose a somewhat weather towards central and southwestern parts of the country into china say some spells of rain some showers to just making the way to northern parts of the philippines want to see showers into in the air but essentially the monsoon

rains have been easing quite nicely over the past few days down towards the southwestern coast a few showers there into coulomb maybe into kind of tucker as well maybe a few showers into northern parts of under the dash and pushing up into edition but to the north of that it's generally fine dry and sunny the warp setting back in for new delhi temperatures at around thirty five to cories a touch woman that's across the arabian peninsula and he would say around thirty seven thirty eight here in doha over the next dial say well if you try and settle as you can see charles and wanted to show is just around the gulf of aden. i'm his story say for the birth of these people every week brings a series of breaking stories told through the eyes of the world's journalists these two voices journalists were one of the few journalists that were actually doing investigative work listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focus on

how they were caught on the story certainly to demand see buys their rights to those stories but then he never publishes those stories they're listening post on al-jazeera. welcome back this is al jazeera live from doha these are the headlines the death toll from the earthquake and tsunami in indonesia has more than doubled now to eight hundred thirty two most of the confirmed are in the city of palm on the other sort of rescuers are still trying to make contact with residents in the town of dongola. there into the final few hours of voting in the former yugoslav republic of macedonia and a referendum on whether or not to change the country's name the aim is to try to

end a dispute with neighboring greece voters have decided whether to accept an agreement to start calling their balkan nation the republic of moth macedonia. u.s. president donald trump has once again publicly backed his nominee to the supreme court he's ordered an f.b.i. investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by brett kavanaugh now this means a confirmation vote by the full senate will be delayed for at least a week can be held at joins us live from washington kimberly potentially what's the direction of travel when it comes to this new investigation. well we know that it's limited in scope it should take roughly a week usually they take longer but in this case and given the special exceptional circumstances the f.b.i. is devoting an enormous amount of resources to try and get this done what happens next is the f.b.i. will not issue any sort of conclusion but will turn over the results of its investigation to the white house who in turn will turn it over to u.s.

senators and of course ultimately what brett kavanaugh needs is a vote in the full senate in order to be confirmed to the nation's highest court the supreme court and that is going to be challenging peter given the fact that right now there are not the votes in the senate in order to make that happen there are a number of people not only including jeff flake who prompted this on the senate judiciary committee a republican from arizona but also two female senators that stand out susan collins from maine as well as lisa murkowski from alaska so all eyes not only on those senators not only on brett kavanaugh given these allegations and the fact that a number of people from his past who were allegedly in the room when dr christine bossy ford says she was assaulted by judge kavanaugh when they were both teenagers those people will be questioned as well but there are also two other allegations that have been made since dr blazin ford's name came to the public spotlight as presumably the f.b.i. will be looking into those claims as well is there

a chance with the midterm elections not very far away told him believe that this the central debates if you will gets lost in this turns into. political fighting. it appears in many respects that has already taken place we see the white house on the sunday chat shows in washington here on sunday morning in fact coming out not only echoing the statements made by donald trump on saturday where he said that he felt that judge kavanagh was a credible and compelling individual that he believes that in fact this is someone who still can be confirmed and possibly judge cavanagh can make it through the full senate but here's the issue peter and that is if he does make it to the highest court given the divisions that you've talked about and the fact that that has existed for some time now in the united states there are many that will feel that any judgment he does make as a supreme court justice would not be impartial has been tainted in some way and

certainly we will see this being an election issue come november when we have those congressional elections in fact if judge kavanah is not confirmed by the senate that they can see would remain open we've seen it before under barack obama with the appointment of mary garland so certainly this is something that could linger in fact donald trump has even said that he does not have somebody sort of waiting in the wings if you will if this nomination doesn't go through so there is the precedent that there have been eight supreme court justices instead of nine we've seen that under barack obama when republicans refused to confirm a third appointment by barack obama this could happen again in the case of donald trump if democrats take control of the senate in november to believe thanks very much. more than two hundred forty thousand people have been ordered to leave their homes in western japan as a powerful typhoon bears down there the storm has already injured dozens of people and brought heavy rain to parts of the country suck forecasters have warned time

from trami will bring record breaking winds possible landslides and flooding as well the storm has forced airlines to cancel more than a thousand flights and many train services have been suspended. as our correspondent joins us live from tokyo how are people been preparing for this. well certainly i mean normally at this hour this street behind me will be quite bustling just nearby there is one of the main train stations. tokyo well today it is quite empty and actually authorities have been warning people since earlier in the day to stay indoors shops and businesses have closed earlier than usual also the rail the railway system here has been closed down since eight o'clock in the evening tokyo time. the trains have also stopped in other areas of the country now the typhoon has is arriving as we speak now to talk here

and the area the degree to which a polity an area just standing here waiting to speak to you well the winds have picked up quite a bit it's not that it's not here yet in full blast but that's just it should be it within the next half an hour at the most and authorities as you said earlier are warning that they will be to rain rains and in some areas that rainfall could be at levels and i'm quoting here demitted through a logical agency that have not been seen in fifty years and what are the authorities saying holder when it comes to how they think this will play out in the coming hours and days. well. it should be transiting over tokyo and it's good food in north towards the east now as we understand it when it hit ok no on saturday wind gusts were as high as two

hundred forty kilometers per hour as it hit the mainland here mr only could return logical agency rather still can take a rise this typhoon as very strong that's the second get to this scale here but as we understand the wind gusts have slowed down a relatively this still quite high. continue throughout sunday into the night and early day early more monday thanks very much. people in iraq's northern semi autonomous kurdish region have been voting in 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 the security forces in the region voted early on friday morning from erbil. this is one of around six thousand polling stations across the kurdish region of northern iraq where voters have been coming through

fairly steadily so far today to cost their ballots there were fears certainly fears of a low turnout in this election the first parliamentary election since what was described as a disastrous attempt at a referendum on eventual secession last year many people here describing it as being that because of course the kurds were very much punished by the baghdad government for pushing forward in that referendum the sorts of issues that we're seeing here at play the economy playing a big role in voters' minds here as i say because the k r g the kurdish region on the rocks was punished by the baghdad government economically for pushing forward with that referendum and yet official statistics are saying that around ninety percent of households in this region i mean to survive on under one thousand dollars a day that been big reductions also in civil servants salaries of course the baghdad

government in march last year reduced the allocation of the federal budget for this region going to be interesting to see how the smaller political parties here in the k r g potentially capitalize on a lot of disillusionment with the two main parties the k d p and the p u k. so the arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solomon is expected to arrive in kuwait shortly he'll meet with the kuwaiti in me a. moment the two leaders are expected to discuss the ongoing gulf crisis period has played a mediation role since saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt imposed a blockade on cata in twenty seventeen accusing it of supporting terrorism denies those accusations. after five days waiting at sea fifty eight migrants have been transferred from a charity ship and handed over to the authorities in malta the deal was struck on tuesday to relocate migrants from walter to four other e.u. countries ending

a diplomatic route there the group was picked up by aquarius that's the last known governmental rescue ship operating in the mediterranean. brazil's far right presidential candidate has been released from a hospital in sao paolo three weeks after being stabbed at a political rally jaya both sinatra flew home to rio on a commercial flight where he was both cheered and cheered by fellow passengers many tip him to win next month's elections but thousands of people have been protesting against him the tesla found a deal on musk has agreed to step down as company chairman and pay a huge fine and it's all because of a tweet his highly jocasta. forty million dollars is the dear price for these two hundred eighty characters you are mosques aug 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 musk 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 a manager 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. 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 companies heidi castro al-jazeera washington. it was hamilton has won the russian grand prix to take a selfie a step closer to his fifth formula one world title the britain leads the championship by fifty points with five races left to ferrari sebastian vettel who finished number three hamilton started in second behind city's teammates well terry

porter who cave gave up the lead to hamilton on lap twenty five following team orders from there he went on to seal a seventy eighth career when hamilton who started second behind teammates valtteri bottas. last more news on the web site it's always there for you al jazeera dot com is the address you need you can also talk to me on twitter tweet me off we'll be back i'm peter davi was the headlines are next. ok let's recap your top stories so far today rescue teams are struggling to reach all the people who need help on the indonesian island of soon the way see more than eight hundred people have died following a powerful earthquake and tsunami the most devastating to hit the region since two thousand and four the country's presidential call widodo visited the city of palu which has seen some of the worst destruction journalist thomas are cheap to is in the capital jakarta. only oh we know that the indonesian rush is bad to

helicopters or the town of dongola now it's not clear yet what are the result of the of the trip. in formation on the extent of damage there but what we do in order earlier the red cross and the helicopter red cross are carrying emergency medical supplies. macedonians are voting in a referendum on the country's name in the hope of ending a long dispute with neighbors 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 that only its province of macedonia can claim that name if the name change is indorsed it could pave the way for nato and e.u. membership. people in iraq's northern semi autonomous kurdish region have been voting in parliamentary elections the vote comes a year after a failed bid for independence plunged the region into economic and political

turmoil tourism a has accused those who refused to back her so-called checkers plan for brics it quotes playing politics mrs may's critics say her plans were compromised u.k. sovereignty governing conservative party is gathering today for their annual conference in the city of birmingham with just six months to go less than six months until bricks it was supposed to happen it's still not clear if a deal is even possible. donald trump has once again publicly backed his nominee to the supreme court he's 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 for at least a week those are your headlines up next here on al-jazeera is the listening post i'll see you here tomorrow from ten g. by. getting to the heart of the matter the three big challenges facing human kind in the twenty first century nuclear war climate change and technological disruption

facing realities what is there to fear is not in me it is in the people of uganda hear their story on and talk to how disease. for centuries and they went to the scenic austrian fixit stuff i'm. rich. told her your class to tell stories. from a british newspaper just. the last. hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the stories we're covering this week brings out the worst in the british papers brussels does not approve but the satirists strike it rich. and mahathir the sequel journalists in malaysia wonder what's in it for them and the country's media space and more than two years after their publication the panama papers are still making news britain is.