so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. eleanor untainted is the al jazeera news hour live from london coming up. the death toll from indonesia's earthquake and tsunami has risen to more than eight hundred people and officials warn that figure could jump shop late as several large coastal towns still remain cut off. macedonian celebrate as a low turnout invalidates a referendum to change the name of the country. counting is underway in elections in iraq kurdish region one year after

a failed bid for independence. i'm joined again with the sports including. best golfers beat the usa seventeen and a half to ten and a half to regain the right at. the beginning in central indonesia where the death toll from friday's earthquake and tsunami has soared to more than eight hundred people rescuers are still struggling to reach coastal communities cut off from help close to the epicenter of the quake on sooner ways the island communication lines are down and many major roads are damaged dozens of people are also reported to be trapped in the rubble of hotels and shopping centers in the city of palo and there's major concern for the city of don't go thirty kilometers to the north which has

a population of more than a quarter of a million people told me subject to his latest from the capital jakarta the difficult task of looking for survivors this is what is left in the city of battle after friday's make that the 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 a 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 as aid is very slowly coming in. but the

red cross estimates that more than one point six million people have been affected but the killer concerns about the nearby. where the clear. is home to over two hundred seventy thousand people the indonesian president is visiting to assess the damage and the rita so the people more help is on the way. i have seen directly the situation in the field the real conditions everything is still that an emergency status but the most important thing i would like to emphasize to all ministries military police and regional administrations is first to focus on all things related to evacuation but for now bodies continue to field the streets of. being one not to return to their homes after stocks continue. to. those affected by the earthquake and tsunami have been talking about their ordeal. struck i just finished my shopping i was at the cashier suddenly everything

went dark and the wall started falling around us it was horrible i rushed to the back with my daughter and we made outside safety. we were having some smarts on the. earth quake. i told my son in law to grab his children and someone told me. just after we successfully evacuated. i've got my son here and my mother she got washed away and stuck in a mango tree in the tsunami with my other kids she was bleeding from. and webb says the head of emergencies at the british red cross he joins us now via skype from hartford in the u.k. thanks for being with us your nose action is involved in the search and rescue to tell us about the particular difficulties they're facing at the moment. and years so the reports from colleagues in indonesia are coming through but they are having difficulties access in some of the communities affected you mentioned dongarra

which does have around three hundred thousand people living there so our concern is the numbers are still going to rise the fatal it is in the coming days which is why the search and rescue effort is so important at the moment as well as trying to get food water shelter into these affected communities and not just to go back to the search and rescue how much equipment do they have do they have what they need there i think initially it will be people use in hands and just manpower to try and lift rubble and get people out but obviously it's really important to get some heavy machinery in there to assist those efforts but it's really traumatic stage at the moment all efforts going into the search and rescue because we'll be running out of time as the hours and days go by so as i mentioned real efforts in the search and rescue and then we'll be looking at providing for people's immediate needs trying

to evacuate people who survived and bring assistance in and shelter in particular and what are the hospitals there how well equipped are they to deal with the kind of the scale of these kind of casualties. i mean some hospitals are still function in i'm sure the medical staff doing all that they possibly can to help those injured this sounds like there's a field hospital that's been established as well the military the police the government and local red cross colleagues will be working together to try and meet people's immediate needs but this is why we've launched an appeal as well today is the british red cross so that people can try and support the efforts in indonesia you know what you mentioned the river the relief effort what sorts of things have already arrived and what's on its way in. so top poorly in buying. some food or more to supplies will have already been. dispatched and there are some prepositioned stock in the area as well but that needs to increase significantly

now that the roads and the communication lines have been affected there needs to be some some rapid efforts to try and get additional support in before though the markets are up and running as well so yeah food water blanket shelter those will be the pro tools at the moment and trying to get the logistical supply chains up or running as quickly as possible and want to thank you very much indeed for your thoughts and some thank you nearly half a million homes are without power in western japan after typhoon trami made landfall south of us soccer fierce winds and torrential rains have brought transport to hold as more than a thousand flights have been grounded and train service is suspended at least eighty four people have been injured many hurt by windows shattered in the driving wind weather officials are warning of potential flooding and landslides would have

to have made has more from tokyo doesn't travel is expected to transit over tokyo and the great myth of volatile areas throughout the night or thirty's have been warning people to stay indoors shops and businesses have closed earlier than usual and also the railways system has shut down since eight pm local time now authorities have warned that in some areas there could be rainfall that have been been seen in about fifty years shooting people have taken that advice seriously usually discreet here would be bustling at this time well most of the people and the business is all around shutdown people bracing themselves for certainly very strong words and storm throughout the night. saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salomon has arrived in kuwait for talks with a kuwaiti amir shaikh subba. the two leaders are expected to discuss the ongoing

gulf crisis kuwait has played a mediation row since saudi arabia. and egypt imposed a blockade on qatar in twenty seventeen accusing it of supporting terrorism so how denies the accusations jamal child has more from kuwait city. initially the crown prince's visit to kuwait was meant to start on saturday evening it was then perspire own source sunday morning and then postponed again until the afternoon and finally he arrived late on sunday kuwaiti time now this is the first time the. man visits equates since his country together the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain imposed a land air and sea blockade on the quake his have been leading the efforts to mediate this crisis try and find a solution to what many view as an existential crisis for the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council the saudis have been reciprocated positively as far as many observers will point out the fact that this is b.s.

as he's widely known his first visit to kuwait since this crisis is an indication of that however some will be hopeful that maybe through these brief discussions that take place between the carbon some man and the emir of kuwait ships obama's obama maybe something positive will come out aside from this crisis the court has also tried to play a mediating role when it comes to the war in yemen they did try and host talks with the northeast a couple of years of all those failed but the emir of kuwait is widely respected as a mediator in the region he's known as the wise man of the gulf maybe he will try and use his influence and his respect to try and hold some sort of a resolution when it comes to a breakthrough rather when it comes to the war in yemen and obviously there is aside from the diplomatic crisis that. both these countries share an interest in there is economic ties between the two it is important to note however that saudi does or does view itself as the stronger bigger partner in this relationship they

don't lose an opportunity to remind the kuwaitis that it was them who intervened during the night in ninety gulf war when saddam had invaded kuwait that the saudis had helped the qualities of that time and therefore made. some observers would say you are some saudi critics would say that riyadh doesn't maybe respect kuwait attempts or overtures to try and find the resolution in these different prices as much as they should nonetheless this is being hailed your domestically in court as an important visit we'll wait and see if anything significant or tangible comes out of it the white house has denied reports that it's trying to limit the f.b.i.'s investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against u.s. supreme court nominee brett cavanagh to allegations are being examined as part of the probe but a third one is being left out is can really help it now explains. on sunday one day before the opening term of the u.s. supreme court justices and government officials like attorney general jeff sessions

were spotted heading into a mass designed to invoke god's blessing on those responsible for the administration of justice in the united states. but outside the cathedral protesters gathered showing the divisions that exist around the white house nomination to fill the vacancy on the bench of america's highest court u.s. president donald trump has ordered the f.b.i. investigate the charges against his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh following a ruckus hearing this past week the failed to advance his nomination of the probe will look at just current credible allegations brett's assault on meter actress sickly altered my life that means the f.b.i. will investigate dr christine blazin ford's claim kavanaugh sexually assaulted her well the two were teenagers and investigators will speak to witnesses at a yellow university party in the one nine hundred eighty s.

or cavanaugh allegedly exposed himself in front of deborah ramirez but the f.b.i. probe won't include the allegations of a third woman julie sweat nick who says she was gang raped at a party cavanagh attended the allegation that she makes is outrageous not one democrat mentioned it but martin judged. as being part of a gang rape drug and women will be asked did he ever see this happen or did see cavanagh last week cavanagh denied the allegations at a senate judiciary committee hearing but i have never done this but given the serious allegations and cavanagh's combative defense that he's the victim of a political smear campaign democrats are questioning kavanagh's temperament for the role of supreme court justice it was clearly a college aren't aggressive angry and he revealed himself as a partisan i. i think that if i were a democrat going before him i'd ask him to recuse himself president donald trump

says he has no backup plan when it comes to the confirmation of judge kavanagh the f.b.i. is currently investigating its report is expected sometime after friday it will be delivered to the white house and then will go on to the senate where senators will then vote whether to confirm the controversy. can really help at al-jazeera the white house coming up on this al-jazeera news from london britain's prime minister accuses her opponents of playing politics with bricks it as a party holds its annual conference. technology and transparency dominate afghanistan's upcoming parliamentary elections but find out why many are still not inspired to take caution. by teresa still don't know if it could be for you a difficult day for us let's discuss it afterwards a recorder a cup to get a little. extra. team orders make for an awkward miss avies victory at the russian roam free to have the details and support.

nationals so celebrating in macedonia after a referendum to change the country's name received a low turnout of cydonia as pro western government urged the public to back the name change to republic of north macedonia as a way of resolving a decades old dispute with greece it's widely expected or the vote has now been announced and not to reach of a fifty percent threshold needed to become binding but ninety percent of those who did take part in the poll have voted in favor of the name change by a president who has the latest from the capital scope here. outcome is showing that macedonia is a very deeply divided society and that the discretion about the name is should about about the name of the republic of macedonia is very emotional. question

especially about the ethnic must've gone on in the country even the prime minister is out on the side of said that these day was successful and that he was satisfied with the outcome and they did boycott was organized by the main political party from the opposition in the country though position actually said that the people defeated agreement with the greece so asked him to complain now the situation is very similar the people are here strongly divided seemed. for and against agreement with greece chill the end of this year macedonia shrewd full feel its own obligation on its own part of the agreement three degrees but what is happening now can postponed plans for implementation of these agreements. prime minister as i have said that he expected that said opposition

we will support the constitutional change in the country if not there will be early eric election in the country that means that you very is the election terms for implementation of this agreement will be postponed that macedonia will not finish inspired of the job till till the end of this year so risk cannot ratify these documents next in the beginning of next year. that's a good bit more what the vote is about or macedonia was one of the federal republics of the old yugoslavia declaring its independence in one nine hundred ninety one during the balkans war broke up the 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 yugoslavia public of

macedonia a yes vote in today's referendum would have cleared a path for macedonia to join the e.u. and nato steve opener of skiis at the national coordinator for preparing macedonia to join nato he joins us live from scott pierce so this vote is going against you what happens next with his possibility of joining nato even think if everything goes smoothly then in the first quarter of the twenty twenty we should be a full fledged member of the allows about what should happen before that so having in mind the results of today's lesson in them when my to two percent of the people approximately ninety two percent of the people have voted yes for accepting the agreement with greece and with that precondition for entering the alliance in the european union later on that means that from monday on we will start that we will enter the negotiations with the main opposition party to have the constitutional changes we have to search out of if there are then we are using your same

a majority voted for but actually the macedonia election commission she has as a referendum fails to hit the turnout threshold it is clear that the decision has not been made to change the name so you can't say that you that is the that is the that is the one component yes you're correct. you discard it but that's only one component of the holes think that this is the legal threshold for passing but until then the legal interpretation in such a case is that we are not reaching the legal threshold that means that the people had not brought forward the decision so we do not see a decision taken by the people to be that means that the government and the parliament are going to enter the field and from tomorrow on will start negotiations with the other parliamentary factions to change the constitution and i would like to emphasize the political argument of the whole being than the we have ninety two percent of the people who voted today that's a huge majority of the people who are in favor of disagreement and in favor of our where you are and so in this nation and we should spend a little with the people when you get political agreement to the spectacle of your

position of parties as well. as a conservative opposition party appears leaders decided to push for a boycott of this vote is it do that does it turn out not reflect that actually people have gone with his side of the position that they're not going to agree to the process in a parliament easy. you're not you know i hear in their their arguments the slide but is peculiar to declare a victory when you get only six percent of the board six percent of the people said we are against the agreement and thirty percent have been on ballot but it's so huge majority to repeat that once wanted to do present has been our side why we have not reached as a country the legal threshold of two components because we have one hundred we have four hundred thousand people who lead the country are not anymore physically present in macedonia and approximately three hundred thousand people who are of the sort of traditional members and sympathizers of the main opposition party who have been pressed to boycott the referendum so butt out of the people who have booked the day we have the overwhelming majority of them voted in favor of the idea so

what how much difference would it make to have nato membership for macedonia i mean if you need to go out and sell this idea to people or to other parliamentarians what would you say the biggest advantage of nato membership would be. you know we're still living in a bit to the individual and as you as anyone can remember in the past few months there again are circulating that horrible ideas about change in the peoples and territories about so-called question of the borders so we are building serbian cause or and we have been quite recently in an internal conflict being instigated in the early stages by why we're not so by being under the security umbrella of need or we will mean our definitely if i would like i would like i would say a stamp to the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country which means a lot for the country for me two million people being encircled by the much much my tyranny wrists tell me about to their relationship with greece i mean clearly they

were the ones who blocked. nato membership in the past where does this leave the relationship with them not with this agreement that that's but sabzi maybe doesn't it doesn't stand. that the agreement with greece up to twenty seven years of negotiations for one rather peculiar international dispute was equal to political me that miracle then finally on both sides of the borders we have the young because courageous leaders not being burdened by the by the pas by their motions by history and right now we are entering in one stage when we can say that the relationship between scorpion at and sees as never been before in our history so if we prop defy the agreement and after that the greek parliament will do the same then it will open a bigger door for both companies to have a fruitful cooperation in the near future stephen thank you very much indeed for taking time to talk to us and out there thank you. polls have closed in

a parliamentary election in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region it's been a year since it failed to become independent from iraq despite ninety two percent of kurds voting for it all three point one million people are eligible to vote in the kurdish region hundreds of candidates are vying for one hundred eleven seats in the regional parliament including five seats allocated for turkmen five for christians and one seat for armenians with opposition weeks the kurdistan democratic party or k d p and the patriotic union of kurdistan or p u k a lucky to extend their almost three decades of sharing power but there are cracks within the p u k party since last his failed independence and they've already said they won't recognize the results because fraud has been committed in the voting process john stratford has more. well 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 palm tree elections are indeed how the 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 a if you like an on the easy. leadership agreement if you like in

this region and that is form the 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 we haven't talked to that being that one who's an iraq analyst at the washington institute he's going to give us more details of the significance of this vote is joining us from. which is where almost three point one million benches and about accounts that ballots across three provinces. and i think you can join us now so we thank you very much indeed for being with us tell us about the significance of this vote given that it's a year since that region tried unsuccessfully to separate from iraq.

well these elections are to form a new kurdistan regional government. so and new government that will represent the. however while this election is taken place and while this is a very highly contested and very tense as night could this representatives in baghdad are also debating who will be iraq's next president a position that iraq sectarian and. politics is devoted to again by tradition and norm rather than by any constitutional or any any legal code so the kurds are trying to recover from the impact of last year's referendum the the outcome and the repercussions of the referendum that cost the kurds quite a bit in terms of territory or oil revenues as well as a level of international legitimacy or the image of the chaos in the eyes of the

international community and then of course our relationship due to that referendum because there was a standoff between the kurdish peshmerga and the iraqi security forces so the iraqi kurds are they participated in iraq's may elections in order to be more reengage with the iraqi politics on one hand and now they have a local regional election for a new government to to be formed these two are not necessarily in sync parties need to be united in baghdad vs every the sunnis in the shia while this election actually created more fracture within the kurdish house even used the word repercussions and one of the factors was the parliament reduced the budget quite significantly for kurdistan how much can they get some of that money back now and how critical is it that they do. so the game plan of the kurds is done is sadly to sit down and negotiate these

issues but rather to have the right people in the iraqi government and position them in positions of power so they can negotiate better deals. as the government is being formed so rather than negotiating on issues all the rhetoric of the kurdish politicians the negotiators is a question of you know we follow or interest and we follow all. we work with whatever party political party or blog that is going to give the kurds the most but actually on the ground the game is all about positions in the new iraqi government because then after the iraqi government is formed then the reality will sink in and whatever that government whatever promises that government is going to make that is what is going to count so the kurds had to know this game whatever promises that are being made in this horse trading phase is not really going to matter what about the international element that you mentioned briefly earlier i mean the iraqi kurds have been part of a partner of the u.s.

in the war against. i sold out how much does that give them a kind of you know some sort of leverage in baghdad. well that leverage was tremendous obviously the kurdish peshmerga the iraqi forces what together very closely with the help of the united states and the allied forces to liberate morsel but all of that goodwill went south when the kurds went for a unilateral referendum that ended up in a standoff between the fishermen and the iraqi security forces in iraq rolled tanks onto the kurdish peshmerga so that relationship was rising and then it fell to the troops very quickly and now politics is the way to mend that relationship because it became very clear that the kurds cannot have their independence without some approval and some understanding in baghdad and that's why the reinvesting in

relationship with baghdad and in the iraqi federal government on one hand and they also realize that however baghdad however we baghdad can be it strong enough for the k r g and of course the iraqi government to the central government also realizes that the not in a position to subject. the not able to rule the chaos alternately these two sides these two governments the federal and the the original government have to work together right now would basically seeing the future how that working together is going to look like thank you very much indeed for your analysis. much more to come on the program including as brazil tries to tackle a deep recession and we meet the poor brazilians befitting the brunt of a cotton social programs. that meet some of south africa's long marginalized rasta ferentz who are welcoming the government's decision to legalize cannabis. and jane will have all the sport including

a furious final at tennis is chengdu open that's coming up. hello again welcome back to your national weather forecasts we're here across europe watching that same system we've been watching here across the mediterranean now in the aegean sea bring some very heavy rains across parts of greece as well as into turkey now the low is actually weakening over the next few days which is a good thing but we're still going to be dealing with quite a bit of rain across that region and that means flooding could continue and we will be watching that as we go towards tuesday watch of that system makes its way up here towards the northern part of turkey so i'm sure he'll also be seeing some rain as well then here across the central part of the med we're watching an area of new circulation right here and that is expected to linger for the east from the mid

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a reminder the top stories here on out there are at least eight hundred people have died after an earthquake and tsunami in indonesia rescue workers fear the numbers will rise as they work to access districts closest to the epicenter. nationalists celebrating in macedonia after a referendum to change the country's name received a low turnout the government had urged voters to back the name change to republic of macedonia. and polls are closed in the parliamentary election in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region it's been a year since it failed to become independent from iraq. britain's prime minister to resign may has accused opponents of playing politics with bricks it comments come as a conservative party holds its annual conference in the city of birmingham so you've got to go has more. the buzz word of the conference written all over the

venue opportunity may be in the air but translating it into reality another thing altogether and when it comes to bricks it the u.k.'s departure from the european union the british prime minister to reason may was keen to point out that half plan the so-called check is deal represented the best opportunity for orderly exit i do believe that but crucially i believe in delivering bricks it in a way that respects the vote and delivers on the fate of the british people yet at the heart of her party the debate still rages over how to leave the e.u. lurking in the foreground the cheerleader for pro breck's it group former foreign minister boris johnson he wants a so-called hard breck's it to leave the e.u. at any cost in his latest verbal volley he attacks to resume a's plan as posterous and even deranged a new low in the discourse and a sign of just how bitter the quarrel has become within the party this could not

apply in the conference opening that prime minister may had hoped for the party was supposed to have united behind a vision for bracks it instead is more divided than ever with those who want of course a very divorce from the european union fighting her every step of the way. all this prefaced with an embarrassing data breach the day before the conference was due to begin an up recommended to delegates exposing personal contact details of senior government ministers and other leading figures all the while there are other voices angry at the government that breck's it itself based on the principle there was nothing that said. that a lot of people who voted. regretted that decision this is not what we want being forced down this route we really do not want. or need our neighbor not benefit us

in any way and. one thing is certain there are less than six months to go until it breaks it the u.k. is still none the wiser as to how rex it will happen but there will be a fight to the bitter end of a which wing of the party will went out with no guarantee that prime minister may will still be leading the charge. brazil's economy is dominating campaigning ahead of october's presidential election while unemployment rates have fallen significantly under current president michaud tema many of brazil's poorest say they're reeling from cuts to vital social programs are innocent as reports from central brazil. they're back in business but buried one of the largest construction steel providers in the city of he's beginning to supply the national market again just over a year ago. he had to file for bankruptcy most g.m.

bankruptcy was the only option to survive it was really sad i thought to feed it 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 my 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 is unsustainable when you need to pay your bills i have children and grandchildren so i decided to work selling food on the streets.

one of the greatest challenges for the next president will be to help these were feel young who tried to make ends meet with normal jobs that forty percent of those work but they 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 or 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 the this economic crisis is in its. fifty year the vice president of the state's industrial federation says recovery will depend on the measures the next president takes is a vest you may 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 in work at the political and economic instability continues and that means at any time they could also lose their jobs and innocent just. here but as you campaigning is underway in afghanistan for next month's parliamentary elections the vote as more than three years overdue and is seen as a test for presidential elections next april twenty but he reports from kabul they can never be described as boring conflicts corruption intimidation and fraud afghan elections have it all but the parliamentary elections due to take place on october twentieth are 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 candidate will not accept that and the political parties will use that 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 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 of the 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 weakness within the afghan government in this is certainly something that has emboldened at 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 i get in and right now if i still came here with

a truck offering work all of us i would go with them all of those clothes because we don't have money and we need food. politics can often be seen as 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. south africa's rest a fair in community has welcomed a court ruling on cannabis as a victory for their cultural rights the nation's top court says adults are now allowed to grow and smoke the drug in private having to reports from cape town. well. gareth prince is a qualified lawyer he's also rust a foreign he says that he's been prevented from joining the law society because of his culture and daily use of cannabis for twenty years his fourth south african courts to get cannabis decriminalised saying that equality laws should also protect his way of life the greater victory is for the people of south africa in the sense that because russell far as always advocated that cannabis is for the yelling of

not just the south african people but for all people in the world and our philosophy is that we must make use of what we have in order to get what we want and we have an abundance of cannabis. the rest of therion community in cape town says cannabis is a religious and cultural sacrament 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 group while it could take up to two years for laws to be officially changed it's now legal to grow cannabis and consume it privately but still illegal to sell or buy it this is a long street in cape town it's known for its vibrant nightlife and as a place to buy cannabis and other drugs if you're found with cannabis on you police contra wristy because persisting small amounts of cannabis is legal but because

this is a public area you can smoke it here nor can you buy it south africa's police minister says the new cannabis laws will make policing more difficult. police minister because they're less says that if it were up to him cannabis or da as it's known in south africa would still be illegal what a molecule that you're supposed to keep focus on should and you were a 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 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 princes now but using cannabis is legal there's nothing stopping him from practicing law. al-jazeera capetown. on the program we'll tell you why hundreds of people swimming to a former slave island in senegal. they were on and. they were brazen. and for nearly a decade they committed crimes with impunity. they were. decorated police officers. baltimore is once again at the center of a debate over how to police the police. they gang within on al-jazeera. one suffer because wealthiest country held together with an i am

great libya is now torn apart everybody wants to have his share of authority and all the money they can not be gold centrally just from one city like to put it in the big picture that dissects the roots of the conflict and asks who's to blame in the last for libya the only job opportunity is to become a mission member. coming soon on al-jazeera. in senegal hundreds of swimmers a racing from the capital dhaka to goree island it is no ordinary competition it involves swimming five kilometers to form

a trading port in honor of the many slaves sent from that to america it was hack reports. minutes away from the start one final stretch if it allows a bit of advice. and a few words of wisdom. you need training devotion and peace of mind is not easy but it's possible if you give your heart to it first the professionals whoever's with. then three hundred amateurs young and old jump into the atlantic ocean for the annual five kilometer open water race to the historic island of gori. as the hours go by the gaps between swimmers widens faced with strong currents paid sets in. the swimmers battle cramps and exhaustion. he says my lungs are hurting. for many it's just about trying to complete it and get to goree island . and. it's like

a marathon on water the goal is to get to go really which for us is a symbol of our history it's an important event. this stretch of atlantic ocean that separates deckard to grey is over historical importance the island was a major hub for the slave trade where african men women and children were captured boarded on ships to america some in chains tried to escape they were trying to swim to the mainland in what was then shark infested waters. this isn't just a swim race it's a tribute to those who remain defiant refusing their fate as slaves instead of swimming for freedom and so this is also a celebration of freedom resistance and the human spirit some ability to overcome adversity. here comes the winner. a soldier for senegal the navy. only only oh no it's

a victory not just for me but for all people human sanogo and throughout the world then slowly one by one there is come out of the water each pushing beyond their limits to make it to the other side breathless but happy and proud nicholas hawke al-jazeera the car shows him with. lauren thank you europe's golfers have been the united states to win the ryder cup fittingly it was francesco molinari here wrap things up for this fifth straight victory a golf national david stokes rounds up the action. live anything can happen on the final day of erotica and it looked like the u.s. comeback was on. the remark arroyo made a mess of the last hole to hand just in thomas' victory in the opening match and it was first blood to the americans thank you thank you thank you oh the u.s.

tails were up and more red points followed webb simpson got the better of justin rose five. when tony three now thrashed europe's super ricky tommy fleetwood the gap was down to just one point and it was getting really close lipped but then the tide turned in favor of the blues. was danish dead beat and told your no listen the jordan speech i and then follow ricky john rom did this was your youngest player taking down the mighty tiger woods by piece how to get another ryder cup to forget after four defeats in contrast in poulter comes alive at this event was he beat dustin johnson the world number one to put europe on the brink. and the winning moment came the sixteenth phil mickelson playing his twelfth and most likely final ryder cup so his ball sync with

it the u.s. challenge by he conceded to francesco molinari italy's open champion is the first european ever to win all five matches so only fitting it was his point to secure the cutted he lived there was still matches to complete out on course and europe and it up finishing seven points clear with an emotional sergio garcia replacing nick faldo. is europe's all time leading point scoring. for everybody is there just a trial. date or a way to a partner or something say there are no. problems there all you know they they were determined they were just set out to do a job themselves and for me if there's anything just. a comprehensive win for bjorn and his team europe's twenty five year unbeaten home

run continues david stokes al-jazeera so we still molinari make it five wins out of five but he couldn't have done it without tommy fleetwood after winning over four of their matches on the opening two days the pat being dubbed money would dome has been amazing. and i love him like a city under that so. we need to. spend more time together since. this is our way though he's a leader you're absolutely right i feel so far away. take my cap off thomas was a better captain and their team i'll play this and there's nothing else more you can say. they deserve to win you know there's been two years. in two thousand and six with tom lehman where. it breaks my heart a little bit more than others because those those two years we didn't execute while

we were given every opportunity to succeed i would gladly go in five every ryder cup my entire career if that means we win every single time that we put and. it's not a fun feeling there was how will someone the russian grown prayed to me fifty points clear of sebastian vettel in the race for the formula one title but only after a little help from his team mate paul terry bought us the finn was on pole in sochi he kept the lead at the start of the how milton held on to second to head effect all. despite a clean pit stops the pit stop for how most of the timing was all wrong as sebastian vettel managed to pass him while he exits the pit lane allison kept a cool head and he came back to overtake back home and reclaim second place. for the controversial bit sadie's told us to move aside he did and how milton took the lead on lap twenty five he went on to clinch his eighth victory of the season a fifth in the last six races it was also an old could radio conversation team bought us to save his boss toto wolff. by terry distort the difficulty for you

a difficult day for us let's discuss it afterwards every quarter cup to get through . expat. and still no win for both of us this season. yeah i mean that's he did a fantastic job all weekend and it was a real gentleman through to let me buy o.c. is now not fighting for the championship is where we are and. you know it's just been such a great weekend for the team the team does such an exceptional job to have this advantage on ferrari and have a one to use you would be just elated but you know i. i i can understand how difficult it was about three but really it is untested talk today and it's up to two to win but. championship wise as a team we're trying to win both championships and. i think today it was a real team effort going all losers not fighting for the championship. and we are fighting for the core structures so yeah we always have a plan but yeah today's you know it's always difficult to predict what's going to

happen in the road it's always going up. i was going to go but. for. it was russian president vladimir putin who handed hamilton the trophy it's his seventieth career when twenty one behind the record of michael schumacher hamilton is fifty points play with five races to go closing in on that fifth well title. spanish motorcyclists and i could ask oh has made history becoming the first female writers when a motorbike world title twenty one year old could ask oh clinched the world supersport three hundred title by a single point in the final round on sunday at my new court in france she starts the race in twenty fifth before her way back to finish thirteenth casco dedicated her championship win to a friend and fellow rider who died in a motor to accident last week while the. butter and cyclist alexandra velvet they has finally ended a long wait for his first world title at thirty eight years old the spaniard won

a thrilling elite men's road race in austria which ended with a four way sprint on the final stretch of the grueling two hundred fifty eight kilometer course valverde beat frenchman roman bad day into second he's finished runner up twice but this was bell that his first rainbow jersey and gold medal. i will finish with these pictures from the tennis final of the chengdu open has been atomic to confound be a funny while tomic is usually the one who gets the bad press over his behavior this time it was funny he lost his cool after losing a point in the second set italian got a code violation for smashing his racket and folding it in half he was also caught kicking it as he lost two sets to one for tomic this was his first a.t.p. title in three years. thanks and that is all the sport for now it's back to laura in london. thanks very much joe could run to catch up any time with our website address that is al-jazeera dot com and who watches back in on the line by calling a safe me for news hour on

a minute. jeanette morale is was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distant shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp so i'm going to be up at the gala the government raised our hopes and then abandon us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five

but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government failed. the consequence of war not ventures of russia he served in the marine corps for one shooting two hundred ninety five that just doesn't go away. for a living out of his truck for the last couple years. is homeless. follows a group of u.s. veterans traumatized by war. as they struggle to get their lives back shelter. when people need to be heard. he's been. told his lawyer it's not. sure and the story needs to be told we have. to make sure that the bad guys are the. al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring

new documentaries and news on and on and. the death toll from indonesia's earthquake and tsunami has risen to more than eight hundred people and officials warn that figure could jump shot plea a several large coastal towns still remain cut off. coming up. macedonian celebrate as a low turnout invalidates a referendum to change the name of that country. counting is underway and elections in iraq kurdish region one year after a failed bid for independence.