al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring new documentaries and live news on air and on. the death toll from indonesia's earthquake and tsunami has risen to more than eight hundred people and officials warn that figure could jump sharply as several large coastal towns still remain cut off. this is down to zero ly from london also coming up. macedonians celebrate as a low turnout invalidates a referendum to change the name of the country. counting is underway and elections in iraq kurdish region one year after a failed bid for independence. britain's prime minister accuses her opponents of

playing politics with bricks it as a party holds its annual conference. and it will begin in central internees year 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 yard and communication lines and 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 dungog thirty kilometers to the north which has a population of more than a quarter of a million people tommy said chip who has the latest from the capital jakarta. the difficult task of looking for survivors this is what is left in the city of 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 collapsed bridge rescue teams dumped 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 live 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. but the red cross estimates that more than one point six million people have been affected but the concerns about the nearby. where the impact is 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 these continue to feel the streets of. being one not to return to their homes after stocks continue. to karta. founders head of the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies in indonesia he says the situation is worse than was initially thought. we have now been able to get into some groups into. which there is an eleven people that are confirmed dead this number should arise within those eight hundred thirty two there was unfortunately

the mayor and the ex mayor were both killed there's a lot more destruction and we believed we're still trying to get into the areas that are more remote you know removed rural communities and small towns that's going to take time because communication is still a limit and bridges are out roads are in bad shape the one way i'm in the has got a big crack in the middle of it so that now the missing out of wayne said take some ways it can come in and if the other the people are right now without going to things are very traumatized as they're as the aftershocks are coming so it's a it's as one expects as you get more in the four days past especially the first days we certain point of the extension and this is a major disaster we have health teams we have a field clinic we have a surgical team and we have 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. there's 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 broken escalator with my daughter and we made it outside to safety. we were having some smarts when the big. quake i immediately ravaged i told my son in law to grab his children and someone told me. just after we successfully evacuated. i got my son and my mother she got washed away and stuck in a mango tree joining the tsunami with my other kids she was bleeding from. nearly half a million homes are without power in western japan after typhoon trami made landfall south of osaka 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 shut shattered by the driving wind and weather officials are warning of potential flooding and landslides i doubt that hamid has more from tokyo doesn't travel is expected to transit over tokyo and a great mix of volatile areas throughout the night authorities 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 area they could be rainfall that have been seen in about fifty years certainly people have taken that advice seriously usually just streets here would be bustling at this time well most of the people and the business is all around. people bracing themselves for certainly very strong words and

storm throughout the night. thank you saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salomon as visited kuwait for talks with the kuwaiti emir shakes up. the two leaders were expected to discuss the ongoing gulf crisis kuwait has played a mediation row since saudi arabia u.a.e. bahrain and egypt imposed a blockade on qatar and twenty seventeen accusing it of supporting terrorism though hard denies the accusations. has more from kuwait city. initially the crown prince's visit to kuwait was meant to start on saturday evening it was then post bond or sunday morning and then postponed again through 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 with the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain imposed a land air and sea blockade on 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 corporation 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 have been 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 heal some sort of 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 of which is that it was them who intervened during the night in one thousand gulf war when saddam had invaded kuwait that the saudis had helped the qualities of that time and therefore made. some observers would say were some solid critics would say that the riyadh doesn't maybe respect kuwait's 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 will wait and see if anything significant or tangible comes out of it a referendum to change the name of macedonia has failed to secure the fifty percent turnout required to make the vote valid macedonia's pro western government and the public to back the name change to republic of north macedonia as a way of resolving a decades old dispute with greece european union has called on all sides to respect the results of the vote i am has the latest from the capital scope here. outcome is showing that macedonia is a very deeply divided society and that the disc question about the naming 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 the whole position actually said that the people defeated agreement three degrees so i asked him to complain now the situation is very similar the people are here strongly divided seemed. for and against the agreement with greece chill the end of this year mustered only a shrewd fool 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 the opposition we do support the constitutional change in the country if not there will be early eric election in the country that means that you dare is the election the

terms for implementation of this agreement will be postponed that macedonia will not finish inspired of the job till till end of this year so reese cannot ratify these documents next in the beginning of next year. steve append dr skis the national coordinator for preparing macedonia to join nato he says despite the low turnout the result of the vote should not be ignored. because you have to declare the victory when you get only six percent of the votes six percent of the people said we are against the agreement and thirty percent have been on ballot ballots so huge measured it will be that once wanted to do percent has been our side why we have not reached as a country the legal threshold out 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 so-called traditional members and sympathizers of the main oppositional 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 agreement. still to come on al-jazeera as brazil tries to tackle a deep recession we meet the brazilians who are feeling the brunt of a cut in social programs. and we'll tell you why hundreds of people are swimming to form a slave island and cynical. hello again it's good to have you back well we start this hour down here in australia and if you look at the satellite image we have all these clouds pushing towards adelaide and this is our next storm system that is going to be brings a very windy conditions as well as a rain across the region so here in adelaide ahead of the system twenty four degrees we are going to be some showers maybe even up towards alice springs then as

we go towards tuesday that system pushes through and we're going to see more clouds making their way over here towards melbourne up towards brisbane twenty three degrees few in darwin is going to be a sunny thirty one degrees there where here across new zealand it is still going to be quite messy there is another system right there coming off the tasman sea that is also going to bring some clouds with it over the next few days and for christ church you are going to be seeing some rain in your forecast with a temperature there of sixteen degrees as well as auckland sixteen degrees there on monday and then as we go towards tuesday really not seeing too much of a change with rain and most of the major cities then very quickly over here as we make away towards the northern part of asia we are watching our tropical storm system make its way out of the picture leaving a lot of clear skies behind it but a lot of rain across much of the russian maritimes of lot of awestruck seeing fifteen degrees there getting a little bit better at seventeen and seoul a partly cloudy day at nineteen.

capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. other stories . providing a glimpse into someone else's world. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. with mace documentaries to open your eyes on al-jazeera. from one of the top stories here on ars 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. on two hundred forty thousand people have been ordered to evacuate their homes in western japan as a powerful typhoon bears down. and a referendum to change the name of macedonia has failed to secure the fifty percent turnout required to make the vote valid the government has to back the name change to republic of north west of a new. post of closed in a parliamentary election in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region has 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 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 week the kurdistan democratic party or k

d p and that union of kurdistan p u k a likely to extend almost three decades of sharing power but there are cracks within the p u k party since last year's failed independence and they've already said they won't recognize the results because fraud has been committed in the voting process charles trafford has more from that view. but we understand that this statement was made by a p u k spokes person i was the saudi peer 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 k.t. p.d.t. ship in the towns of sunni and 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 showed just how full these palm tree elections are indeed how the fall 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 on easy. leadership agreement if you like in this region and out of school nepal subsequent to that referendum the failed referendum that we saw last year and also the fact that the katif they blamed the p u k as being complicit with the baghdad government the baghdad army when the peshmerga the kurdish full season to withdraw from kirkuk last year. the white house has denied reports that is trying to limit the f.b.i.'s investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against us supreme court nominee

brett kavanaugh to allegations of a dam and as part of the probe but a third one is being left out as can be helped 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 to the probe will look at just current credible allegations bret'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 yale university party in the one nine hundred eighty s. where cavanagh 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 judge. as being part of a gang rape and the dragon 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 out. gay chanson 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 would 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 kavanaugh 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 or senators will then vote whether to confirm the controversy will judge kimberly help at al-jazeera the white house. because prime minister to resign may is accused opponents of playing politics with bricks it was just six months to go until the u.k. leaves the european union it's still not clear if a deal is even possible so you're going to get reports from a party conference in birmingham. 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 resign may was keen to point out that plan the so-called check is deal represented the best opportunity for orderly exit i do believe it 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 hot bricks it to leave the e.u. at any cost in his latest verbal volley he attacks to reason may'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 have been 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 directs it itself based on the principle there was nothing. but a lot of people who are very. regretted that this is not what we want being down this route we really do not want. or need a name or not then if it has 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 witch wing of the party will went out with no guarantee that prime minister may will still be leading the charge. a tense five day standoff in the mediterranean sea has ended with fifty eight migrants being transferred from a rescue ship and handed over to authorities in malta a deal was struck on tuesday to relocate the migrants from malta to four other european countries aquarius is the last non-government rescue ship operating in the mediterranean 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 an essential as has more for the city of going on

there in central brazil. they're back in business but barely one of the largest construction steel providers in the city of new is beginning to supply the national market again just over a year ago. he had to file for bankruptcy most of them 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 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 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 for helping the feel young who tried to make ends meet with a job that's forty percent of those work but they also don't contribute 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 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 invest you 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 in work of the political and economic instability continues and that means at any time they could also lose their jobs in a sun just i'm just going on here but as you and senegal hundreds of swimmers are racing from the capital dhaka to go island it's no ordinary competition it involves swimming five committees to a former slave trading port in honor of the many people who were sent from there to america nicholas hack reports. minutes away from the start

one final stretch. allows a bit of advice. and a few words of wisdom what. you need training devotion and peace of mind is not easy but it's possible if you give your heart to it first the professional swimmers 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 pain sets in. the swimmers battle crabs and exhaustion. he says my lungs are hurting. for many it's just about trying to complete it and get to goree island so i'm honorable. 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 a 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. enjoy are a soldier for senegal the navy. blue no need only no no it's a victory not just to may but for all people here in senegal and throughout the

world. then slowly when by one others come out of the water each pushing beyond their limits to make it to the other side breathless but happy and proud because hawke al-jazeera the car. thank. headlines rescue workers in indonesia are desperately trying to reach coastal communities after the earthquake and tsunami which are killed more than eight hundred people search efforts are being hampered by blocked roads and the collapsed bridge in the city of palo or thirty's or expecting the death toll to rise further as information filters in from districts close to the epicenter young girl found is the head of the indonesia office for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies and says some areas are proving very hard to reach. there is

a lot more destruction than we believed we're still trying to get into the areas that are more remote you know remote rural communities and small towns that's going to take time because communication is still limited so bridges are out roads are in a rather shaky when we. got a big crack in the middle of it sort of now missing out of waves it takes away as a community only half a million homes are without power in western japan after typhoon trami made landfall south of us aka fierce winds and torrential rains have brought transport to a halt as more than a thousand flights have been grounded and train service is suspended at least eighty four people have been injured and he had my windows shattered in the driving wind. a referendum to change the name of macedonia has failed to secure the fifty percent turnout required to make the vote valid macedonia's pro western government

today urged the public to back the name change to republic of north macedonia as a way of resolving a decades old dispute with greece the european union has urged all sides to respect the results of the vote polls have closed in the past 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 to be you keep k. party says they won't recognize the results saying fraud has been committed in the voting process saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin selman has been in kuwait for talks with the emir the two leaders were expected to discuss the ongoing gulf crisis kuwait has played a mediation role since the blockade against qatar began. there's the headlines to stay with us witness is next. growing up in the united states i learned that the first amendment is really key to being a good fit for freedom of the challenge is going to be tough for men and women to

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