to lead the to leave only the check is times locked in the truck to beam. boris johnson is the rock star of this thank you for your fans attracting the audience and boasting. that his appearance here underlines just how divisive accounts of. just how deep the struggle for practice within this party tuesday's flagship policy statements on immigration and visa reform a total eclipse by bonuses 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 he's obviously there was some undermining of the pm but i think morris says absolutely pushing for what we need and i think at the moment the conservative party teammate somebody with a little bit more tests now that'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 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 down to very very most people actually think that what has become the of the annual boa show the iraqis should 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 birmingham. still to come here on al-jazeera tax trouble for one of china's top movie stars will seek a live update from beijing. however wake up. yet more storms rumbling away across central parts of the mediterranean

you can see the cloud secularizing head just about mold sicily a further eastward so we're looking at the moment for grace most showers coming in as we go on through the next couple of days and that you know the wettest weather that just around the time of italy for the north it's not too bad for right twenty six hours just clear skies nice clear slot that twenty degrees celsius there for london nineteen ninety degrees celsius there for london twenty degrees celsius there for paris will see the most sunshine coming through the western side of here for the race very nasty weather there just around the baltic states. in the cloud and the rain we go on into thursday is cooler still winds coming in from northwest direction nine degrees celsius for moscow but there is guys to come back into central parts of europe that a chance of wanted to showers towards scrapes but the west the weather will once again just be around those central areas further west look at the temperatures they are bouncing up nicely twenty one celsius there for london it will fall away as we

go through the weekend that's one to watch out for what about weather continuing that around northern parts of africa just from the coastal fringes of algeria tunisia and maybe some wet weather still to come from libya.

welcome back here with al-jazeera live from the top stories today aid supplies are starting to trickle out to earthquake and tsunami ravaged city in indonesia the authorities say scores of people are likely to still be buried underneath collapsed buildings the official death toll on us now standing at one thousand four hundred soldiers have been placed a petrol stations and supermarkets to prevent looting. the shia politician. has been appointed prime minister in iraq he was chosen by the newly elected president kurdish politician. was elected by m.p.'s its hopes this will end the political deadlock from the disputed elections in may. a prominent saudi journalist and a vocal critic of saudi arabia has gone missing the washington post says contributor

jamal khashoggi was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul to pick up some paperwork the post says it doesn't know it could show he is being detained is a common freeze and criticism of the kingdom's crown prince mohammed bin sama had been published by several western newspapers he fled saudi arabia just over a year ago a new set of questions for the u.s. president donald trump this time about his tax affairs new york state's is to investigate tax fraud allegations after a report in the new york times the times says he helped his parents avoid paying tax which helped enrich his own fortune by over four hundred million dollars the newspaper says he set up a fake corporation with his siblings to hide millions of dollars in gifts from his parents the white house says the news report is quotes misleading. well president trump has mocked the testimony of one of the women accusing the supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual assault. how did you get home i don't remember

how did you get there i don't remember where is the place i don't remember how many years ago was it i don't know. if the trump run through a list of what he described as wholeness in christine blousy false testimony she testified to the senate committee last week mr cavanaugh has denied the incident but the f.b.i. has been given a week to make more inquires. one of america's biggest employers is raising pay for its workers there and also in the u.k. the company says its workers in the u.s. we paid a minimum of fifteen dollars an hour from next month workers in the u.k. will also get a pay rise in the past the company has been condemned over its labor practices including underpaying its workers patty cocaine explains. 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. in dollars so we can afford the raises i was

low unemployment in might have to pay more to get enough workers to move their merchandise still the raise 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 in amazon will benefit from this this increase in basic pay but in the longer term amazon is exactly the type of company which we don't match and would invest in automation 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 petticoating al-jazeera washington. the tax authorities in china have ordered one of the country's top actresses to pay a one hundred twenty nine million dollar bill she's spending binge she hasn't been seen since june reports of a missing she's been detained and being being has appeared in the x.-men and the iron man movies she's also been the face of and miss eighty's bands in china and a letter posted on one of her official social media accounts she says she accepts the decision adrian brown is our correspondent in beijing adrian if you tax bills one hundred twenty nine million us you've got some serious money socked away someplace. yeah that's about eight hundred ninety two million r. and b. that is a phenomenal amount of money and of course it tells you that china may be a communist state but its celebrities earn phenomenal sums of money in fact fan being being earned forty three million dollars last year but the tax authorities say that she had been involved in

a tax avoidance schemes so she had been declaring her earnings for a movie being you know say ten million dollars when in fact she was being paid twenty million dollars and the authorities say it's not just her who's been doing this this is an industry wide practice and there's an old saying here in china that you you kill the monkey you kill the chicken to frighten the monkey and this in many ways i think is a warning shot to other stars and celebrities here in china that the authorities are going to go after them as well and in fact the government has said according to the official should more news agency here that other celebrities have until the end of the year to to pay up now fan being being is not particularly well known outside of china pretty is a very big name in the country having appeared in countless t.v. series and films and she hasn't been seen until now for three months when she vanished in june there was feeble speculation on social media as to what had

happened to her she herself has now issued a statement on wave which is china's equivalent of twitter she says that i'm suffering unprecedented suffering i'm ashamed of what i've done i apologize she also says she's doing her best to pay this bill but of course you know how difficult it is to come up with one hundred thirty million dollars at short notice so yes she's not out of difficulties yet peter so she's alive and well so that box has been kind of ticked but there must be other people who are in a similar position because some of it surely it in comes down to this idea of having two contracts they have the actual contract for the work they do that generates a big income and then they have another contract that they go public with and that's the contract they pay tax on but in between those two ideas is tax evasion which clearly is not tax avoidance because one's legal and one's not. that's right essentially what she had been doing say the tax authority is

understating what she was paid for the various films and t.v. appearances she made not just her they say but also the companies she controlled she is personally being told to pay seventy million u.s. dollars that the balance will have to be paid by her companies but we don't know when she has to pay this back by or no there's a sort of undisclosed deadline so we don't know whether she has weeks months or years but certainly she must be a very worried woman adrian many thanks talk. back to europe france seizing assets belonging to iran's intelligence agency after accusing it of being behind a failed attack in paris earlier this year diplomatic sources say an intelligence unit tried to bomb an opposition rally by exiled iranians in june the u.s. president's lawyer rudolph giuliani and several former e.u. and arab ministers attended the rally and iranian diplomat was arrested in austria a month later russia has delivered an advanced missile defense system to syria

that's called the s. three hundred two weeks ago the syrians accidentally shot down a russian plane over the mediterranean moscow blames the israeli military for that incident israel and the u.s. have warned that the deployment could escalate syria's civil war of course and malta has postponed the trial of a ship's captain who rescues refugees in the mediterranean close peter russian ship the m.v. lifeline is one of three vessels run by n.g.o.s which are being held in port all of these sponsored rescue ships in the mediterranean have been stopped from operating need barca is there the lifeline is in limbo the refugee rescue ship speed impounded here for one hundred days. the volunteer crews played a vital role in saving thousands of lives but the maltese all thought he ses being

carrying out missions without a proper license there is simply no independent. long central mediterranean route specially bear witness to how many people are drowning. the ships german captain was in court on choose day he faces a possible prison sentence proceedings were adjourned to december this case is all about him or his government wanted to send a european message to n.g.o.s don't think if you see because they're not welcome so they're picking on a legal technicality to send a broader political message with the support of european union makes me very angry . if this is europe. i had another impression from europe before but. just a big voice. on the reasons why the people escaped from their homes this is the wrong way the lifelines not the only private aid ship impounded in baltar this is

the sea watch the crew say they're being held in arbitrary detention all the while more lives are at risk on sunday the multis or thirty's brought fifty eight people ashore including eighteen children and a pregnant woman they were transferred from another rescue ship the aquarius also no longer allowed to operate it's been stripped of its license and ordered to the french port of mass saying there are now no more private rescue ships operating in the area used for crossings from libya to europe smugglers are setting off from the coast of libya in increasingly flimsy vessels packed full of people often setting sail without any intention of making it to shore hoping that they'll be picked up by boat sight these but now there are fewer and fewer vessels on the water able and willing to save lives. rafique islam was rescued from the mediterranean by the maltese coast guard the end of a two and a half year journey from bangladesh via libya and you saw these people die. one

day and now board and on parts on dumping in water to fellow travellers died on route it's a journey many are willing to risk everything for for the promise of very little. their very survival hangs on help that may not. leave barca al-jazeera malta. welcome to just joining us peter davi here in doha you are watching al-jazeera these are the headlines aid supplies are starting to trickle out to earthquake and tsunami ravaged city in indonesia the authorities say scores of people are likely to still be buried inside collapsed buildings death toll now stands at one thousand four hundred and seven soldiers have been placed of petrol stations and supermarkets to prevent looting health officials say they urgently need more body bags to prevent the spread of disease from decomposing corpses. shia politician.

has been appointed prime minister in iraq he was chosen by the newly elected president a kurdish politician. who was elected by m.p.'s there it's hope this will end the political deadlock from the disputed elections last may. a new set of questions for donald trump this time about his tax affairs new york state is to investigate tax fraud allegations after a report in the new york times the times says he helped his parents of void paying tax which helped enrich his own fortune by over four hundred million dollars the newspaper says he set up a fake corporation with his siblings to hide millions of dollars in gifts from their parents the white house says the news report is quote misleading. meanwhile president trump has mocked the testimony of one of the women accusing the supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual assault how did you get home i don't remember how did you get there i don't remember where is the place i don't remember

how many years ago was it i don't know. from brown through a list of what he described as holes in christine block before testimony she testified to a senate committee last week mr cavanaugh has denied the incident but the f.b.i. has been given a week to make more inquiries a prominent saudi journalist and critic of saudi arabia has gone missing the washington post says contributor jamal khashoggi was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul to pick up some paperwork the post says it doesn't know if he's being detained kushal jeans commentaries and condemnation of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin cell man has been published by several western newspapers in flood saudi arabia just over a year ago. those are your headlines up next it's inside story with thirty minutes of al-jazeera will at the top of the hopefully so you that speculation is growing about who might win the nobel peace prize the twenty eighteen the nobel committee will announce the winner on friday al-jazeera has been awarded the exclusive

international rights to interview the window after the award ceremony in december watch on rival coverage of the nobel peace prize on al-jazeera. 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. last year spain's government insisted that catalonia is 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 so.