or hero with your nomination for the international peace award two thousand and eighteen for more information go to a piece of the world don't call. a desperate search for survivors after indonesia's earthquake and tsunami police say more than twelve hundred dead the final toll likely to be in the thousands. alarm has a stake in this is al jazeera live from also coming up what's in a name for macedonians of the ballot box it could be the admission fee to nato. polls close in elections in iraq's kurdish region one year after a failed bid for independence. elon musk's steps down as chairman of

tesla is part of a second woman with u.s. financial regulators. all indonesians are being warned to prepare for a death toll in the thousands that's after friday's earthquake and tsunami on the. police say more than twelve hundred people dead powerful aftershocks are still being felt more rescue teams are arriving on scene which is about three hours flying time from the capital jakarta most of the confirmed dead are in power lou where six metre high waves crashing ashore were filmed on mobile phones but there's been no word yet from the city of dongola thirty kilometers to the north it has a population of more than a quarter of a million people told me so just two reports from jakarta. the difficult task of

looking for survivors this is what is left in the city of new after friday's method to 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 stuck 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. 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 the reach is so the people that more help is on the way but for now this continued to feel the streets of. anxious survivors being one not to return to their homes as aftershocks continue. to cut. thomas howes is the director of program implementation for say the children he says rescue efforts are proving to be an enormous challenge. it's been a good development today with the or alou reopen and for humanitarian flights which is the big thing that will allow agencies in the government to really start to bring in the much needed stocks and equipment. that we need to kind of make things

make things work essential it yet there's a lot of roads a need to be cleared so this cracks in the road i was also landslides and it's very very challenge and an earthquake at seven point four seven point five magnitude it's quite a rare event and for than for that to be followed by a tsunami obviously that's particularly challenging and it's not you know not something that can really be prepared for to this extent and i think what we're seeing on the pictures unfortunately you know the about people who died. in the wind angara although we don't have much information from the gullible already and alou we're you know we're talking about eight hundred twenty three people you know that's around double of those who died in lombok just under that so it's obviously significantly more impactful earthquake than the long walk the earth quake specifically in terms of the epicenter and in terms of the impact of the tsunami that followed it so it is not a normal event it's extraordinary event and the challenges are also extraordinary

appalls of just closed in macedonia's referendum vote on whether to change its name an end a long dispute with its neighbor greece the poll asked voters if they would accept the name north macedonia only twenty two point six percent cast their ballots if the yes vote wins it could pave the way for macedonia to join the e.u. and nato as even a cd is a political analyst and host of a national television political show called program two hundred he explains what it would take for macedonia to qualify for nato membership. with this referendum macedonia should get the deadlock out of the way and get easily into your atlantic family if the referendum goes as it sees expected then all the international leaders secretary-general need to present that

have said that the road to macedonia for integration is really really open for the moment all the focus he says the referendum and the numbers. you may as well know it is important that more of fifty percent of the population should go out and vote and majority of them then should vote for this referendum and then everything will be much easier for macedonia for a public of macedonia as it's called here in macedonia right now to be member of nato or e.u. institutions for the moment everybody's anticipating and to see what is going to be the turnout after a couple of hours i one of the two main kurdish parties in northern iraq says it will not recognize the results of the parliamentary election voters votes are still being counted in the semi autonomous kurdish region but the patrick patrick arctic union of kurdistan r p u k says it will reject the final seat results because of

alleged voter fraud election is a year after the kurds failed to gain independence from a bank that traffic has more from l b. but we understand that this statement was made by a p.t. you k. spokes person was the saudi pira who said that the p u k was going to reject these election results subsequent to that statement being made the leader of the p u k list talabani has rejected this claim and said that it is far too early to come out with statements like that. rejecting results as they are still being counted meanwhile the k d p the katie p.d. the ship in the towns of sort of in the end how large or which a p u k strongholds of come out and make claims about election violations there also i mean i think these incidents obviously just show just how these parliamentary elections are

indeed how the a for the build up to them has been we have seen these increasing divisions between the two main political players in this region the k d p and the p u k there's always been if you like an on the easy. leadership agreement if you like in this region that is formed a part of subsequent to that referendum the failed referendum that we saw last year and also the fact that the k.t. they blamed the p u k as being complicit with the baghdad government the baghdad army when the peshmerga the kurdish forces were forced to withdraw from kirkuk last year a more than two hundred forty thousand people have been ordered to leave their homes in western japan as a powerful typhoon bears down the storm has already injured dozens of people and brought heavy rain to parts of the south forecasters of one typhoon trannie will bring record breaking wins with possible landslides and floods but i didn't need

reports from tokyo. tram is expected to transit over tokyo and a great mix of fall into the area throughout the night authorities have been warning people to stay indoors shops and businesses have closed earlier than usual and also the radio system has shut down since eight pm local time now authorities have warned that in some area they could be rainfall that have been been seen in about fifty years people have taken that advice serious the. streets here would be bustling at this time well most of the people and the business is all around i doubt people are bracing themselves for certainly very strong and storm throughout the night. i just need a meteorologist evident fox is watching the storm for us with typhoon try me is now making its way further north east was and it really is moving so quickly you can

see the position of the stall and easing off in that general ne the direction has already made landfall of rainfall totals we're looking at two hundred forty seven millimeters of rain in only twenty four hours now thankfully i suspect the numbers start to decrease because the pace of the storm has been tracking along at around forty five kilometers per hour so really really really quick moving system this one by the time we come to monday you can see how it's clear three prices caused to come back just not just a little further south as this is the next one to keep an eye on this is calm right that's going to continue making its way further north which over the next couple of days looks like a loss you try week four of japan when this does finally move out and i've been trying he does move out of the way but by the weekend this next system will move through and i think we could see further widespread destruction across the good parts of the main islands. u.s. president donald trump has again backed his nominee for the supreme court has

ordered an f.b.i. investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against brett kavanaugh this means a vote by the full senate on his confirmation will be delayed for at least a week kimberly halkett has more from washington. the white house is defending supreme court nominee judge cavanagh as the f.b.i. continues its probe it is limited in scope expected to wrap up on friday the white house is acknowledging that there is an investigation underway to claims against judge kavanaugh being looked at the first by dr christie and glossy ford who knew judge cavanagh when she was in high school alleges that he sexually assaulted her well the two were at a party as second claim now also being investigated one made by a yale classmate deborah ramirez but it is unclear whether or not a third allegation made by a woman by the name of julie sweat nic is also being looked at this probe again

expected to wrap up in one week it will be delivered to the white house and then on to the senate prior to the full senate voting on whether to confirm judge kavanaugh donald trump for his part has been defending his nominees saying that he believes that this will be wrapping up very quickly that he doesn't have another nominee waiting in the wings if there is not a confirmation of yes for judge cavanagh instead saying that he believes this will work out very well but democrats for their part on the sunday morning chat shows expressing concern even if judge kavanaugh has confirmed that he will not have that appearance of objectivity of being impartial given the seriousness of these allegations that many expect will linger in the minds of americans for years still ahead donna dizzied of the changing faces of afghanistan's election more women candidates than ever before and biometric machines for the upcoming polls. broken

promises an economic mismanagement leaving millions of brazilians struggling to make ends meet. how we still have some really lively shall was affecting. our recent storm in the mediterranean the medicaid it's been become known as that so i clone that spinning area of very wet weather storms possibility the tornado i was the next day or two so some very lively showers there pulling away from greece now yes but they are going to affect a good part of turkey as we go on through the next couple of days still a little bit of cloud to just around that the suicide of the medicine right is that a few showers as we go through tuesday we think should start to quieten down but still the possibility of some really really heavy rain and some flash flooding

we'll see temperatures getting up around forty forty one for baghdad but too far off that full kuwait city thirty four therefore karate warm dry and sunny will join sunny to across iraq as well would expect to get up to thirty eight thirty seven thirty eight here in doha at the next down to twenty nine therefore salada picking up a little as we go on into cheesed want to see that west and south of yemen just around the gulf of aden the pilots dry and settle sums it up don't settle too across much of southern africa want to see showers in existence you might just see the two angola but otherwise there's plenty of sunshine for all.

right. and again you're watching i just a reminder of our top stories this hour indonesians are being warned to prepare for a death toll in the thousands that's after friday's earthquake and tsunami on the island of pseudo police in the area saying more than twelve hundred people are now dead. polls of now closed in macedonia and a referendum on changing the country's name the aim is to try to end just as

disputed neighboring greece which has a province with the same name renaming the country north of macedonia would pave the way for e.u. and nato membership. a one of the main kurdish parties in northern iraq says it will not recognize the results of the parliamentary election ballots are still being counted in the semi autonomous kurdish region. britain's prime minister says those who refused to back checkers plan for breaks that are playing politics to recent critics say plans would compromise britain's sovereignty conservative party have gathered for their annual conference in the city of birmingham it is still not clear if a deal is even possible sagna got a go reports from birmingham. the prime minister to resign i had hoped that she would be able to unite the party ahead of the conference then she must be sorely disappointed once again voices of opposition against

a prison and none more strongly than that of the former foreign minister boris johnson who in an interview with the sunday times claimed that plans have plans for exits and you were ostracized and even do range whites. to someone who does have a very volatile relationship with the prime minister but this is really coming down to the wire here there are less than six months to go and there's still no guarantee of a deal being done those who want to see a more severe deal being done are quite happy for there to be a no deal situation but this is clashing with watch many who would like to see a softer version of the deal once and amongst that there is no cohesion between them nicely taking on the other side that the more remain approach you m.p.'s they have said said to mrs may that could be a polite rebellion if there isn't a recitation or

a deal made on this subject such as that mrs may is caught between these two camps both of them highly impassioned and her leadership is not guaranteed unless she can try and secure a deal with the european union ahead of bricks it campaigning is underway 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. 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 the new advanced voting system will be used even 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 mean. a return to manual counting and the possibility of irregularities. the post-election crisis the losing candidates will not accept the results and the political parties will use as a force to risk 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. have a biometric system is good because many national i.d.'s are fake and there is 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 this election is being seen as

a test for next april presidential elections then is now the main issue. and that is a very delicate situation of the moment with the taliban controlling much of 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 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. i still came here with the truck work all of those i would go with 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. fifty migrants have been transferred off a charity ship after waiting fifty eight days at sea and they've been handed over to authorities in malta the deal was struck on tuesday to relocate migrants from malta to four other european countries aquarius is the last non-government rescue ship operating in the mediterranean sea. in brazil the outgoing president michelle tam had promised to lift the latin america's largest economy from a deep recession although unemployment rates of fall in the cuts in social programs have affected many brazilians marianna sanchez reports from guyana in central brazil. they're back in business but barely one of the largest construction steel

providers in the city of gori anya is beginning to supply the national market again just over a year ago. he had to file for bankruptcy of g.m. bankruptcy was the only option to survive it was really sad i thought the fee that we have managed to recover part of our loss but we still have to work hard to pay two million dollars in debts and perhaps he says hire back the seventy workers he had to lay off. in this highly industrialized region in the heart of brazil nearly three hundred fifty thousand people have lost their jobs as a result of the economic crisis thirty million more brazilians are unemployed. although the country statistic agency says the unemployment rate has been consistently falling now it's more than twelve percent it warns it's because millions of brazilians gave up looking for jobs and joined the informal market to survive professor dyson is one of them her father i've worked as a teacher for more than twenty years but lost my job four years ago i managed to

get temporary positions but that isn't sustainable when you need to pay your bills i have children grandchildren so i decided to work selling food on the streets. one of the greatest challenges for the next president will be felt for a feel young fellow who tried to make ends meet with. forty percent of those work for the don't contribute to social security and who work without benefit of the national institute of statistics says the pressure on the government is growing. forty million are underemployed for example street vendors in formality has helped people survive the crisis that began in two thousand and thirteen but in formality is dangerous when people need to use the public services who pays for it. this economy crisis is in its fifth year the vice president of the state's industrial federation says recovery will depend on the measures the next president takes is

a vest he may have investors will only come back if they trust in the new president we expect a president with strength to negotiate with the congress to put in practice all the promises made during the campaign that is the way investors will return. back at the steel factory the employees say they are counting their blessings for being the work of the political and economic instability continues and that means at any time they could use their jobs in asuncion such a cd but as. a journalist in rwanda all raising concerns over a new law criminalizing anything that humiliates a government official those who break the law either with words or pictures like cartoons now face up to two years in prison and a fine but it remains unclear exactly how the law will be policed tesla found in on moscow has agreed to step down as company chairman and pay a huge fine and it's all because of

a tweet castro reports. forty million dollars is the dear price for these two hundred eighty characters 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 questioned 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 was 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 for

a moment around saying what the hell are you doing so if you read the display didn't break california law but did send tesla stocks tumbling now for the august tweet mask 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 companies. castro al-jazeera washington. south africa's ross the community says a court ruling on cannabis is a victory for their cultural rights the nation's top court says they are allowed to grow and smoke the herb in private but experts say the new rules may be difficult to police for me to miller reports from cato. when you know your father was garroted 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 those 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 eating 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 contraceptive because possessing small amounts of cannabis is legal but because this is a public area you can smoke it here 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 focus on should be a way politically into a restaurant because you have an extra amount in your in your hopes so those are the things that will have to work but it's going to lead to the work of the sort of that 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 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. al-jazeera capetown.

a lewis hamilton has won the russian grand prix to stake it take a step closer to a fifth formula one world title to britain now leads the championship by fifty points with five races left ahead of ferrari sebastian vettel who finished third and out and started in second behind mercedes teammate deval terry bought us who gave up the lead to hamilton on lap twenty five following team orders. this is going to round up other top stories indonesians are being warned to prepare for the death toll in the thousands that's after friday's earthquake and tsunami on the island of sooner police in the area say more than twelve hundred people are now dead powerful aftershocks are still being felt nearly a quarter of a million people have been ordered to leave their homes in western japan as

a powerful typhoon bears down storm is already injured dozens of people and brought heavy rain to parts of the country south forecasters have want typhoon trami will bring record breaking winds with possible landslides and floods one of the two main kurdish parties in northern iraq says it will not recognize the results of sunday's parliamentary election the p u k is alleging voter fraud ballots are still being counted in the semi autonomous kurdish region a year ago the first the kurds failed to gain independence from a bank that polls have closed in macedonia referendum on whether to accept a deal to change their country's name to north macedonia it would end a long running dispute with neighboring greece supporters say yes vote would pave the way for e.u. and nato membership greece had argued the name macedonia implied territorial ambitions over its own and blocked the country's efforts to join nato.

u.s. president donald chavez once again publicly backed his nominee for the supreme court has ordered an f.b.i. investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against brett kavanaugh that means a confirmation vote by the full senate will be delayed for at least a week britain's prime minister says those who refused to back a check is planned for greg's it up playing politics to recent days critics say plans would compromise britain sovereignty conservative party have gathered for their annual conference in the city of birmingham the u.k. is set to leave the european union in six months. those are the headlines we're back in half an hour right now it's inside story.

stepping up peace efforts in yemen the un's attempts to revive talks to end the three year civil war find support from key players but what will it take to stop the vicious cycle of violence death disease and hunger in one of the world's poorest countries this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian for the get the un's last attempt a few weeks ago to bring the warring sides in yemen to the table failed but who didn't make it to geneva blaming travel problems but the u.n. special envoy martin griffiths refuses to give up but he.