that again pretty much a similar picture but you can just see out in that western side of the pacific the first signs of super typhoon kong rain moving very close to shanghai that's going to be something as we head towards the weekend friday into saturday it will pass close i'm hopeful that it will not make landfall here at least for the south the showers continue across a good part of southeast asia there we go with kong a out there in the open waters legacy a cloud there just a rolling around spinning through the storm sudden and central parts of the philippines could see some shop showers and all the areas of malaysia again seeing some rather wet weather wet weather to across a good part of india china over the next couple of days cloud in the rain running right the way across into thailand places say it's looking pretty quiet now across much of south asia always a chance of one or two showers into the south of india so carol a tumble not to maybe into concert might just catch the odd shot to northern parts of other but that over the next but further north the temperature is not going up

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time is running out on survivors from friday's earthquake and tsunami until away zero four days after the disaster more than twelve hundred people have been confirmed dead mostly from the small city of. new york state officials say they're investigating allegations that u.s. president donald trump helped his parents avoid paying taxes the new york times newspaper says trump and his siblings set up a fake company died millions of dollars and gifts from the parents the white house and told the article misleading. and iraq's new election president has chosen his prime minister and asked him to form a new government the veteran kurdish politician. was elected president by the parliament and he's picked the shia politician abdul mufti seen on the left to be the next prime minister. of the u.k. is a former foreign secretary johnson is urging the british government to abandon its current regs that planned to leave the european union his speech on the sidelines of the annual gathering of the ruling conservative party was seen by many as

a direct challenge to prime minister to resign may's leadership all but in reports from birmingham. a queue outside a hole number one began performing more than two hours early some have doubts about boris johnson's political future others see him as a potential prime minister. there's no doubt he can draw a crowd like no other in the current conservative party and it was his defiant rejection of the prime minister's checkers plan for brics it which most excited his loyal audience think what we could do if we had proper free trade deals and that is why it is so sad and so desperately wrong that we are preparing to agree terms with brussels that would make it much more difficult if not impossible to do such deals. and that's why it was such a mistake of us two is such a mistake of us to lead the to leave on the the checkers terms locked in the

tractor beam i forest junction is the rock star of this thanks to this friendship thanks attracting with the audience is the very steamy thirty three was his appearance here was the line test of how divisive a character i just how deep the struggle for practice within this party tuesday's flagship policy statements on immigration and visa reform the total eclipse by bosses appearance and his totec status among bricks its supporters continuously undermines the prime minister with a crucial e.u. summit just a couple of weeks away yes police office again and there is some undermining of the pm but i think morris is absolutely pushing for what we need and i think at the moment the conservative party team needs somebody with a little bit more tests than it's a really pushing forward some of the key issues and i think boris is actually the person today that he raises some very good points he's heart's in the right place he's trying to challenge what's being done there always are doing it some of us

agree with him some of us don't agree with him most people actually think that what has become the of the annual boa show the iran issue a day he makes a funny speech and then goes again we trailed along with it by the world's media actually it's a bit of a distraction one of boris johnson's aides predicted he would hit this conference like a ninja but this was more smash and grab and stealth attack paul brennan al-jazeera burning in iraq's newly elected president has chosen his prime minister and asked him to form the next government but him sally has picked former oil minister abdul mahdi it marks the end of a political deadlock after disputed elections in may mama bear reports in baghdad. it will be a lot of e-mail of five month long delay they're up finally has a new president but home solid over the past deal to keep union of kurdistan one two hundred twenty votes from the two hundred seven to three lawmakers haughton to

tuesday's session solid how the various ports in there are big government of the of saddam hussein including as the petition prime minister under former prime minister nouri al maliki saleh was among twenty kind of dates for the post including one from the rival kurdistan democratic party fought the same who withdrew from the us during the second round election the monitor what happened in the iraqi parliament today is unusual and against past agreements particularly among kurdish pacifists that's why the vote she's an acceptable to us we will give the full response later under an unofficial agreement dating back to the two thousand and three us led invasion iraq's presidency is held back while the prime minister's shia and the parliament speaker is sunni the delay in electing a president has meant it out this would it about the state of politics in the country frustrating but but then again i mean this is this is iraq i really

shouldn't be surprised but i'm. optimistic in the sense that at least we are the progress seeing step by step moments after he was elected president saleh topped off former oil minister other lobdell mahdi to form the next government other than that is considered an independent candidate but he will have to win the support of mid to shia are blocs in parliament to get conformed to the post of prime minister. brooks of the month since may elections both of which claim to have most sits in parliament and then full the right to form a government one is led by the current prime minister who then lobby and group supporters of the populous shock clitic said that whose full sworn the most votes in the election now the brooking kluges put on groups that by former prime minister nuri al maliki in the fall the rumbling among the shia and other functions could

for the delay the process of confirming the prime minister designate mohamed on the list is enough. let's talk to christopher hill he's the former u.s. ambassador to iraq and joins us via skype from the university of chapel hill in north carolina how significant is the appointment of bought him sally as president i mean he's a veteran politician in iraq you know him well so what does he bring to the table first of all he's very comfortable feeling a lot of different people he does it come from the inside of structures he's been on top structures for some time he's obviously the sort of. true successor of talabani so it fits into the key u.k. that is that kurdish party or base civil but yes he has very good relations however with the other kurdish parties and most significantly i think if you asked it what he is he would he would certainly go also occur but he also calls himself or

joaquin understands modern economy and i think for americans that many foreigners it's a pleasure to deal with someone who frankly speaks english better than many of many of us on the new president his name the ship politician. the as prime minister and tossed him with forming a new government in your estimation mr hill how challenging is that likely to be to get this new government up and running and is the right man for the job. there's no question this is going to be a challenge ekti is also a very talented staff with a lot of international experience very well educated knows accommodate so he's an excellent choice the issue will be whether he can bring the various shia groups together and get them to support you he comes from a pretty small group she is not well. positioned within the ship so there's no question he has a lot of work out for him and how do you think in terms of the new political

appointments how likely are they to play into u.s. foreign policy going forward under the trumpet ministration i mean are these new iraq a need is people that washington can do business with do you think there's no question if you were to dream to rocky politicians that work with the u.s. you would know better than to choose these two gentlemen the issue they will have a horse is managing the whole fractured iraqi structures which are very very difficult at this point so i think it's normal last a very good beginning it's been quite a proper osas of some five months and they certainly have their work to. work to do but i think i'll go off go back to has the intellectual capacity to figure this out so i think it's a very positive sign for that very troubled country just a just a final thought from you christopher hill the appointment of the president and prime minister i suppose is a a critical a crucial step to end the five months of political deadlock since those elections

last may is that line to them to come political tensions in the country do you think. you know iraq has political tensions constant so it's going to be difficult but this is certainly a major step and i think the international community is going to be very place for this and i think many iraqis are going to be pleased with this these are people who will respond to many of the problems that the devil the iraq they're both technically very highly educated they will get on top of some of these electricity problems that it be deviled so a lot it will look for ways to attract the best but i think it's a very good start to end date in this current very difficult process christopher hill thanks for talking to al jazeera thank you now the washington post says one of its contributors a prominent saudi journalist and vocal critic of the kingdom of saudi arabia is missing the newspaper says jamal khashoggi was last seen entering the saudi

consulate in istanbul to pick up paperwork a post says he doesn't know if he's being detained questioned or when he'll be released to show his common treason criticism of the kingdom's crown prince mohammed bin soundman have been published by several western newspapers he fled saudi arabia just over a year ago now suspected cases of cholera in the yemeni city have had data have almost tripled this summer a report by save the children says they were moved thirteen hundred cases of cholera in august that's up from fewer than five hundred cases in june the port cities at the center of a battle between the saudi monarchy kind of mission and who the rebels people living there say fighting has damaged the city's water supply. france has seized assets belonging to iran's intelligence agency after being behind a failed attack on a rally in paris earlier this year diplomatic sources say the intelligence unit tried to bomb an exiled iranian opposition gathering in june the u.s.

president's moira rudy giuliani and several former european and arab ministers attended the event an iranian diplomat was arrested in austria a month later then was robbie has more from tehran. and it's certainly a damning allegation and the government here has issued an equally strong denial of any involvement in this in this attack the foreign ministry spokesman baron kasumi saying that this was all an attempt to damage the good and growing relationship between iran and france and other european countries and he suggested that it was the kind of thing that the united states and israel might actually carry out he also leveled against the. a group that they blame as being a terrorist organization working against iran let me read you a bit of what the statement said from the foreign ministry spokesman he said once again we reject the allegations and we declare our strong objection to the arrest of an iranian diplomat and we demand his immediate release and he went on to say

the evidence clearly shows the role of dissidents ill wishers and saboteurs in this farcical show so we asked french authorities to be realistic towards iran and once again warn about the evil hand of ill wishers that aim to ruin the age old ties between iran france and other influential european countries so a very clear message from iran that that all of this is just a show being put on by detractors against iran and europe at a time when iran is trying to push forward with internationalizing its campaign to keep the twenty fifteen nuclear deal alive trying to internationalize its campaign of making sure that it has support from european countries against more upcoming american sanctions. now armenians protested outside pollen. and over what they say is an attempt by the former ruling coalition to hold on to power. and he's passed a bill to delay elections that the new prime minister in the cold passion young has promised to hold by december and told his supporters to surround parliament saying

politicians are trying to reverse the revolution he took office are the leading on to government protests in april and may it forced out the former premier schools and medical centers run by the un in gaza have closed their doors for two day strike workers at the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees angry about job cuts the group is asking international donors to fill a multi-million dollar funding gap its biggest contributor the us announced in august that it will stop making donations one of america's largest employers is raising pay for its workers there and in the united kingdom the online retail giant amazon will pay staff at least fifteen dollars an hour for next month the company's been criticized for underpaying workers in the past but tickle hain reports. america has a problem the divide between those with the least and those with the most is growing and the gap is just getting wider the economy is doing well but wages are

not rising that statistic might soon see a bump one of america's largest employers amazon has announced that everyone who helped send these smiley boxes around the country will soon be paid more at a minimum fifteen dollars an hour more than double the national minimum wage it's not cheap it's going to cost them a billion dollars i think per year it's not that they're able to raise prices or pass it through to customers this is something their shareholders are going to fund but i think that a lot of amazon shareholders think this is the right thing to do that's what amazon said was behind the move it was the right thing to do but it's also facing a lot of criticism in large part because of its founder jeff bezos he is the richest man in the world worth one hundred sixty five billion dollars breaking that down he makes about two hundred seventy five million dollars each and every day and amazon is hugely profitable in the second quarter of this year it had

a profit of two point five billion dollars so it can afford the raises i was low unemployment it might have to pay more to get enough workers to move their merchandise still the race is being praised by amazon's toughest critics what mr bezos today has done is not only enormously important for amazon's hundreds of thousands of employees it could well be and i think it will be a shot heard around the world not every economist things pay workers more will actually help decrease income inequality on the one hand yes workers and amazon will benefit from this this increase in basic pay but in the longer than is exactly the type of company which we don't match and would invest in autumn. i would be much more difficult for other companies traditional retailers to match this kind of offer america can often seem like two different countries divided between the haves

and have nots economists will be watching to see if amazon's move does anything to heal the divide. al-jazeera washington. now this year's nobel prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists american frenchmen. and donna strickland of canada have been of the end of the joint winners in stockholm created what's called an optical tweezer which allows scientists to better examine molecules and measure forces in the ruined strickland developed a better way to design lasers to now them to alter matter including improve eyesight. for quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera rescue agencies in indonesia warn that time is running out to find survivors from friday's earthquake and tsunami on so louisiana and more than twelve hundred people are now confirmed dead mostly from the small city of aleut four days after the disaster the white house

has called the new york times article of a donald trump's tax is misleading and it comes as new york state is to investigate fraud allegations involving the u.s. president the times reports he helped his parents avoid paying taxes the newspaper says he set up a fake corporation with his siblings died millions of dollars in gifts from their parents from reportedly received at least four hundred thirteen million dollars ms father's real estate business iraq's parliament has chosen the kurdish politician but as the new president he's asked to share full addition. on the right to become prime minister and form a government it's hope this will end the political deadlock from the disputed elections in may. amazon is giving threaten fifty thousand workers a pay rise the company says its workers in the years paid fifteen dollars an hour from next month some workers in the u.k. who also get a raise company's been condemned for running low pay high pressure reception centers and using contracts critics say exploited. could mean is

no secret that i have been a harsh critic of the wage and employment practices of amazon and its owner jeff bezos it has been my view that the middle class and working families of this country should not have to subsidize miss the days i was the wealthiest person on earth because the wages he has paid his employees or so low are there many of them are forced to go on food stamps medicaid in subsidized housing and other governmental programs today i want to give credit where credit is due and i want to congratulate mr baseball for doing exactly the right thing suspected cases of cholera in the yemeni city have had data have almost tripled this summer a report by save the children says there were more than thirteen hundred cases in august the port cities at the center of a battle between the saudi and iran to coalition and who the rebels. well those

were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera up to inside story stations actually. one year after a controversial referendum on capital on secession there are new governments in both madrid and barcelona but how much has really changed on both sides this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm hamad jim june last year spain's government

insisted that catalonia as vote for secession was illegal and sent paramilitary police to stop it when the caught a lot of regional parliament declared independence a few weeks later madrid imposed central rule some cuddle on leaders fled to exile others are in prison spain now has a new prime minister but most of the issues raised by last year's vote remain unresolved and again this weekend there were huge crowds of protesters on the streets of barcelona we'll bring in our guests in a moment but first this report from paul chatterjee in. right police confronted hundreds of pro independence protesters at the main door of the catalan polman in barcelona late into the night. these demonstrations fall to marched up police say a truck of more than one hundred eighty thousand people earlier in the day tens of thousands marked the first anniversary of the failed bid for secession from spain bringing parts of their wealthy northeastern region home to seven and a half million people to

a standstill and i know that you know it today. it has already been a year from october first we voted regardless of all the obstacles posed by a fascist oppressive government that did nothing is it assault innocent people who want only with a ballot in hand today we go out to claim that we defeated the spanish state by being able to hold and when a referendum spain's constitutional court declared last year's referendum illegal on the day of the referendum spanish riot police stormed polling stations across the region and clamped down on protesters hundreds of people were injured the violent crackdown brought international condemnation the cattle and assembly officially declared independence on october twenty seventh but it was not internationally recognized the spanish government dissolved catalonia as parliament and imposed direct rule. a year on pro independence catalans want their declaration of independence to be recognized there also demanding the

release of jailed government ministers and civic organization leaders who are at the helm of the failed secession drive but if you know when i was it was important to do something today because throughout the sea it was not made much progress the catalan government hasn't done much to tend to make the catalan republic or to make an illegal referendum. madrid's direct rule of catalonia ended in june when petra sanchez replaced prime minister marianna wholly in a vote of no confidence sanchez is against independence but is approaches softer than that of his predecessor his government agreed to move jill carroll and politicians out of prisons in madrid to ones in catalonia this is below if you're in the real election at petrus and change is actually good news because he has a softer approach is open to dialogue but it's not clear if he has specific political objectives or he can result situation because he just doesn't have a parliamentary majority. the promise of talks between the spanish and catalan

leaders has yet to come to fruition so for these demonstrators the fight for independence remains in the hands of the people. al-jazeera. all right let's bring in our guests in barcelona jordan villanova he's the national secretary with the cattle a national assembly that's a grassroots organization supporting catalan independence in madrid tony rode on a member of parliament with the c.o. that honest party meaning the citizens party and in london gabriel government a researcher with kings college in london who focuses on conflict and nationalism gentlemen welcome to you all gabriel let me start with you how much or how little has changed in spain with regard to this issue in the past twelve months well the house change a great amount actually we've got changes in both governments we had a very difficult aftermath after the referendum with all the central government

taking power of the continent situations so yeah it has been very difficult yeah trying to both. but with access actually finding it a way to keep their own political political agendas i think we are in a kind of at that lock right now. jordi from your perspective what does it say that one year on there with these large demonstrations and that there were even some clashes that happened. well the issue here is that there's a lot of unrest here in catalonia because people are extremely unhappy with how things have turned out especially after the first of october twenty seventh. the people who protested yesterday throughout the day because it wasn't just the main them stray ssion in the evening yesterday it was also students demonstrations during the day several demonstrations from catalonia so there's

a general feeling of. really very serious. unhappiness with with. what's gone on the issue here of course is that after the first of october and the. the suspension of home rule. the government has been pretty much ham strung by. agrees with continuing limitations on the on the budgets without being able to carry on normal government besides the fact that. the although it's an illegal referendum. you know the respect for the opinion of how off the population at least i mean we don't really know that these whether it's forty seven percent or fifty two percent or how many there

are until we have a referendum and madrid is not helping at all i mean the new government in madrid was brought about in fact with the votes of caplin separatists within the spanish congress in the hope that something could come. but it's apparent that madrid's. hamstrung as well the madrid government is being limited by both feel the loss and the popular party who are shifting right because they're being pressured by vox which is on the extreme right bronte which is bringing cases prosecutions i guess the the parliamentarians who are in prison and the civically this so the situation really is in that lock is the of a guest said tony if you could pick up a little bit on what jordy was saying there he was talking about new governments now being in place does that go anywhere towards stopping this political deadlock

or is this going to continue for some time. but look i do think that the main problem we have. at the lonia. national used lot of them actually government have now. by a man called the doctor with the president simply does not respect the rule of the views that you have been given only him and that's the moment the problem these guy has written in the past that. people and those of these if we nationalism some sort of d.n.a. problems. he has got no hope and he supremacies people though are those of the mom actually it happens that we get along and i will miss having that group because i am also i got to learn this by nationally like. we are in we have got four regional elections over the last six seven years.

got selectional eason has never got more than fifty percent of the vote right so they have had their way to express themselves obviously and the constitution the spanish proposition like any other european constitution does not prevent nice the right of self-determination in their constitution it simply doesn't exist on the course and give them everything in the world. and but they've got their i mean you can change a constitutional right to a referendum but they may be happy we're going to get a say express themselves for four hundred times they didn't get the majority but when they decided to go ahead and declare you mean that it'll be independence from catalonia from the same right and these. is basically subverting the spanish constitution it's something extremely extremely great something so extremely

worried right that my rights as a catalan sees in the last of the spanish and wants to remain you to the end where brutally violated by the decision of the catalan parliament without provision by your. to go ahead with these lawsuits would go back to the constitution and creators like that underbelly that the imaginary and that does not have the democratic support and that was not approved through the democratic process right and this referendum they need i reject violence i think there were terrible images that they things are fairly managed. by hollywood but it's not true hordes of anything you would both three four times in that referendum was organized by the a.n.c. but on the bandstand piece ninety percent of those facts are basing both is that the s. there were no democratic and he's no comedy that's guaranteed there's any atrocity of the results show we see the absolutely in value. show we can talk about anything

that we need so we belong to me so we can. rule that we have a seventy. who are the last forty years to to talk not just when that will mean that they will use them and it's not very different from all that nationalist movement we've seen when you have an office movement with who knew what was a nationalist government had to come out jordy i.c.u. reacting to what tony is saying there's i want to give you a chance to jump in what are your thoughts what you were hearing from tony. well basically what they're playing at this catch twenty two in other words you can be in the pro independence but you can't have independence years ago the former prime minister of spain said you can talk about anything you like as long as there's no violence the issue is of course that with say that on this backing down the road dance party for the oppression that's been made obviously i'm using the word

oppression because that's was made absolutely clear in the police violence during the referendum even if it was considered a mark referendum and it was a legal or even illegal i mean what's the point of beating up old ladies and kids in you know people who just did not lift a finger in violent reaction i mean it's absolutely of the years that this is oppression that this is using a north korea terry and sons which is the full backing of our most throughout so i don't know you know it's pretty laughable on the it was done saying that unites the fault of. the p.p. government and that they had nothing to do with never he saw it happen the way. the oil has had constant support from feel of otherness as long as it

was concerning the kaplan movement for greater self-government whether that becomes independence or not that's another issue but there's been absolute stonewalling all the time. ever since twenty ten when the p.p. got the ruling that the former statute had certain illegal articles which absolutely. maimed that conflict kaplan. situation because that effectively the statutes and brain are effectively becomes that give reporting on this that you i'm sorry to i'm sorry i'm sorry interrupt but i just i want to go to gabriel for a question because i want to step back for a minute and take the wider view here when it comes to the region i want to talk specifically about the e.u. stance in the europe's leaders have shown little sign of budging from their position that catalonia is independence is a matter for madrid is that stance going to remain. well in my opinion there are

here couple of and of course related i'm in. the spanish state in itself and of course a spanish government house here a political problem and it's not sufficient just a throw nor as a as an answer because law has to be as well adaptive and shaper bill towards the political things going on and of course as a huge there's an important part of the governance society that wants to have a referendum maybe they want to vote yes maybe they want to vote no but there is a huge part of the cut and population that things that this political conflict has to be solved through a referendum so that's one of the dilemmas of the lem of course is within the pro independence ranks because if you want to have a unilateral referendum you need a huge majority and you need to conceive of the probability of coercion and

conflict being present so there is no there's not a magical formula as you eat you can get secession in a state with a forty percent of the electorate and without any kind of closure and so that's another dilemma that has to be solved there and then there's of course the whole european union situation. we don't have cause in the european union at least now any kind of any kind of jurisprudence in that regard there was a secession referendum also in the in the u.k. for for scotland the thing that's the one of the ways forward but the european union debate it's to me syria debate because what matters of these in the very moment is how in the spanish state you try to accommodate these different political these different political visions and how you try to articulate that because many people would deny but to me there's

a clear political problem here. that has to be solved of course both ranks try to bring things to their own political position and try to push for that but at some point a way just need to get an agreement here and try to find a way to solve it then if by any chance there's a proper referendum recognized by the spanish states and european union believes that. a succession is part of that state cannot they directly integrate the european union that would be another another another the bait tony let's talk about the nine cattle on leaders who are currently in jail and awaiting trial is there any chance that they could be released and is this the major obstacle when it comes to negotiations going forward. look. of these political leaders is something that was perfectly. predictable

in the sense that they were saying for a while look i'm going to go ahead with this new law that the name of in the benjamin's we don't care about what the constitutional court says. and they said it publicly in number of occasions they will. continue without were they the people that means. who go ahead and break spain was the. people that he's trying to repress and the rest of the preview from and they did once when. but the truth is that they were advised they were told look if you try to break the constitution and break up the country and throw the long outside of the e.u. and in the big concrete were spectacular economy crises and there will be obviously legal consequences right.