until a year long undercover operation finally took him down. when he goes inside the billion dollar bust on his ear. scavenging for food in the indonesian city of paolo aid is slow coming and the government now says there is a desperate need for body bags. alone welcome on peter w. watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up the big sell on her plan u.k. prime minister to resign may is about to deliver a crucial conference speech trying to convince her party she's got it right. as an end in sight to iraq's months of political uncertainty there's finally a pick for prime minister. easy prey for political promises how poverty in brazil

is impacting potential voters before the election on sunday. indonesia has put out a plea for more body bags as fear of disease to the world is on the island of some the way see more than four days after the earthquake and the tsunami the authorities say scores of unaccounted for people are likely to still be buried underneath collapsed buildings the death toll has now reached more than fourteen hundred eight supplies are now starting to trickle out around the island where we live with correspondent wayne hay he's at the palo airport in just a moment but first his latest report. there is an exodus taking place from central sulawesi thousands are leaving their quake and tsunami ravaged communities boarding military planes from palu all with traumatic memories oh. it was so

crazy i wasn't conscious for a long time because the ceiling fell on me. the airport was severely damaged in the quake and inoperable for a time but the military has taken over allowing the indonesian air force to come and go aboard one plane was the president who made his second visit to the disaster areas this time his first stop was just outside the cracks terminal building where hospital ward has been set up with the sick and injured wait to be a lifted just tell us what the priority is and then the recovery of course to that is if i wake up at that they have asian and they will get action here. among the patients. who gave birth three days before the quake she and her family lost their home and walked for four days to get help now they have no choice but to leave. everybody was running from the houses when the quake happened my home is

completely destroyed and we had to sleep on the street. for now the remains of the airport offer some comfort that one chapter of their ordeal is drawing to a close for those who choose to stay help is gradually arriving at least to the airport as well as getting people out of here the military planes have been bringing in but getting it from the airport to the communities the people that need it most seems to be a slow process. much sits at the airport awaiting distribution but for an increasing number of people the wait for a place on a flight to safety is over as they leave they perhaps contemplate an even longer wait before they'll be able to return home. well the indonesian military has taken over control of palm city airport where you know he is the force the way in or all the supply is beginning to move and get to where they need to get to. it doesn't appear that that is the case peter there's certainly no shortage of aid

coming in it has been arriving throughout the course of wednesday we're seeing medical supplies water food body bags which you mentioned earlier that the government says they're in desperate need of more well we've seen a pile of body bags sitting right beside the runway here apollo airport throughout the course of wednesday and they have not gone anywhere much of the day doesn't seem to be sitting at the airport and not getting out fast enough any way to the areas that need it most the community so badly affected by this earthquake and disaster that occurred on friday now the government is saying that they have managed to communicate barely with all affected areas now but they still have not been able to reach all of those areas to get aid to them there are still areas particularly in. the north which was very close to the epicenter of the earthquake a population of almost three hundred thousand people there initially when communication was completely cut off there was great concern for the people living

there and there is still concern for some communities because they haven't seen a single piece of food water or medical equipment since the disaster struck a similar case in other areas including just to the south of where we are in the city so clearly there is a lot of work to do and a lot of that aid still needs to be cleared from the airport get out to those areas a lot quicker the president talking about sending in reinforcements not if but when do we know where they would be going and how they will operate. well there would be going here and further afield to the areas that i mentioned particularly the indonesian president joko widodo as you sort my piece there is in the affected areas right now he's due to leave in fact from the airport here any moment now one of the areas he went to was. because the citizens there are saying

that they have basically felt like second class citizens because they feel they're not getting the same level of support that the residents in city to receiving. food water medical supplies again so on tuesday the indonesian president made a call he said yes we are not getting everything right we're getting there slowly we do need more search and rescue personnel we do need more military and police personnel and all of those people that come in there are plenty of people hanging around at the airport we're not sure exactly again if those people are going out into those communities as fast as perhaps they should have been in the numbers we're talking about here when i mean they are pretty staggering one of the aid agencies yesterday was telling us here on al jazeera that they need to double check the location of the well being of five hundred thousand people ok the death toll is at fourteen hundred we don't know where that's going to go to but the logistics the long term logistics of dovetailing what the government is trying to do with what

the aid agencies feel these should be doing a huge task. yes it is and you know i think there's no doubt that the death toll will go a lot higher than what it is at the moment just over fourteen hundred or so because as we mentioned that there are some communities they simply haven't been able to reach yes they've been able to get some basic communication there but exactly how many people are unaccounted for in some of these communities including by the way in polish city where we are when some entire neighborhoods have disappeared beneath it. they still just don't know exactly how many people have been directly affected by this and again getting back to the government there does seem to be a bit of a disconnect even between what the president is saying including in the last few hours to what is actually needed on the ground here in an interview he gave in part of the city when he was visiting visiting one of the severely damaged hotels he

said that the main priority is getting the economy restarted in these areas no one would argue that that's a very important thing to get the economy restarted but there are some more basic needs that the people need in the first instance to enable them to then start focusing on things like rebuilding and restarting the economy and those are as we mentioned getting some basic services some basic supplies to those areas when thanks very much some breaking news for you the international court of justice in the netherlands has just ordered the united states to temporarily lift sanctions on iran related to humanitarian goods and civil aviation that follows a case filed by to iran against washington the u.s. is penalizing companies trading with iran after it re imposed sanctions earlier this year lawyers for america argued the i.c.j. has no jurisdiction in the matter the trumpet ministration withdrew from the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal in june zone both robbie joins us live from tehran zain

what does this mean. well it certainly sounds like a really dramatic decision but in essence it's not exactly what the iranians wanted nor is it exactly what the americans wanted certainly the iranian delegates the iranian lawyers there would have wanted a lifting complete of all of the sanctions pending a final decision about this lawsuit against the united states for placing them back on iran in the first place the court didn't do that exactly it focused on humanitarian issues the united states would have wanted this thrown out of the court entirely which has happened in the past when this treaty based upon which the iranians have made a complaint in one nine hundred fifty five friendship treaty has been brought to the court before now let me give you a sense of exactly what the court said it said on humanitarian grounds the u.s. must remove by means of its choosing any impediment to the free exploitation to iran of goods for humanity involving humanitarian concerns now he talked about medicine and medical supplies that have a life saving value to them they talked about parts equipment and services for

civil aviation civil aviation has been a source of of a lot of strife here iran civil aviation is not as modern really as it could be and they also talked about making sure that licenses for those kinds of parts and services would be allowed in banking to. carry out payment for things like that should not be interrupted by the united states that we have to make very clear that even though this court's rulings are cannot be appealed they are binding there is no policing mechanism and the united states has left this court it does not recognize the authority of this court whatsoever it was present there there were lawyers representing the united states would give you to give you sense of how seriously they take this ruling in america they only had two lawyers present whereas on the iranian side there are at least half a dozen people seated on their side of the court so again a ruling that takes into consideration iran's humanitarian needs but of course is not in forcible by this court in any way zain thank you. u.k.

prime minister's syriza may get her chance to convince her party the governing conservative party she's on the right track with bricks and plans in just over an hour's time she'll deliver the closing speech to the governing conservative party conference in the city of birmingham in the english midlands on tuesday her former foreign secretary boris johnson laid down his challenge she urges the government to chuck. plans and so-called chuck checkers paul brennan joins us live now from the venue of the party conference in birmingham paul what do we think we'll be hearing from mrs may. there are a few snippets that have been released as preview to mrs may speech of the full text hasn't been released not even under an embargo basis just yet and i have to say that the three bits that we've been given don't actually mention rights it's all what she is outlining is first of all is some domestic tax policies she's freezing fuel judy for the night here in a row that means tax on petrol and that's effectively tax cuts she's put it forward

as a reason for that helping to alleviate the pressure on the crest motorist as far as the plans goes nothing from the previews that we've seen instead what she's going is for is for big picture kind of motivational stuff she's talking about the concept is representing decent the moderates and the patriotic she says people want to support the party which is comfortable with modern britain in all its diversity a dig there i think that some of the right wing conservatives who've made immigration a real central issue for their campaigning and she's expected to conclude that speech by saying the conservatives are not for the few or the many reference to labor's slogan but for everyone who is willing to work hard and do their best but she goes from this speech which we assume will be spawn by her spin doctors as having been a huge success because she will get the round of applause of course but she'll go from the party conference to a meeting in a week or ten days with other e.u.

heads of state she'll return from the house of commons and she's got to pass those seven tests that the labor party opposition were talking about in their party conference this time last week. yes and i think that's one of the reasons why the expectation from this conservative party conference at the relatively low that's the impression is that in fact the fact of the matter is that that the real negotiation the real nitty gritty is actually happening elsewhere it's happening in the negotiations that are happening with the you you've got that e.u. summit coming up in a couple of weeks that said to the impression of the prime minister on the ropes which certainly is an impression that boris johnson was keen to put forward yesterday the membership here is actually trying it seems to rally around the prime minister you can see because of our vantage point but boris johnson's address yesterday was the best attended so far of the conference the main all the tory and three rather sparsely attended the audiences have been very low and yet can tell

you now for the prime minister's speech there is a queue stretching as far as i can see all the way in that direction there will not be an empty seats in the house for the prime minister's speech and you get the impression that the finale of this concept that body conference they're going to rally around the prime minister at least in a short time will carry it live here on al-jazeera in the meantime paul will talk to you later i'm sure thanks so much. still to come here on al-jazeera for you. a pay hike at amazon the online retail giant has been condemned over its labor practices in the past now it's raising its minimum wage. hello little general change weather wise a lot of clouds around fair amount he would see not a lot of rain to be honest apart from the big showers that show up every now and again in places like sort of iraq or sudden parts of vietnam and southern thailand

and again northern sumatra is pretty prone to fairly regular repeated showers which sometimes hit or singapore and they are still in the forecast not so much in the philippines you know it is not so much further size siller ways he still looks relatively dry passing share is all you like to get and that's true throughout jakarta jakarta east was to be honest through java and bali and beyond and so real changed next couple of days shasta was saying to the north of sulawesi it's rather active weather in australia we've seen this since the start of the changes this season spring has brought in windy and wet weather was quite vicious changes in temperature this is the wet there's a big system straightaway back towards western australia so the new south wales maybe victorian a.c.t significant rain is likely of the system likewise that circulation not far away from perth would suggest the same for western australia so significant rain for both not a drought breaker as you might say but worthwhile or possibly dismal.

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let's just have a quick reminder of our top stories so far this hour in the last few minutes the international court of justice in the netherlands has ordered the u.s. to temporarily lift sanctions on iran related to humanitarian goods and civil aviation it follows a case filed by tehran against washington u.s. penalising companies trading with iran after we imposed sanctions earlier this year . indonesia is appealing for bodybags more data found on the island so the boise aid supplies are starting to trickle out more than four days after the quake and tsunami efficient death toll now stands at more than four thousand nine hundred soldiers have been placed a petrol stations and supermarkets to stop an illusion. the u.k.'s prime minister to reason may will have her chance to convince her party she's on the right track with brooks it's in a few minutes from now roughly about forty five minutes from now she is due to deliver her closing speech to the governing conservative party conference yesterday her former foreign secretary laid down

a challenge boris johnson there he is urging the government to chuck plan. a prominent journalist and critic of saudi arabia has gone missing in turkey the washington post newspaper is saying contributor jamal khashoggi was last seen entering saudi arabia's consulates in istanbul to pick up some paperwork it doesn't know if he's being detained. commentaries and criticism of the crown prince mohammed bin cell none have been published by several western newspapers that saudi arabia just over a year ago iraq finally has a plan on a new prime minister after months of political wrangling the former oil minister abdul netty has been asked to form a government is in fact that. i mean after all five month long delay they're up finally has a new president. of the post real tick union of kurdistan one two hundred twenty

votes from the two hundred seven to three lawmakers haughton to tuesday's session saga held various ports in their out big government of the of saddam hussein including as the petition prime minister and the former prime minister nuri al maliki saleh was among twenty kind of dates for the post including one from the arrival of his time democratic party fought hossain 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 is an acceptable to us we will give the full response later and i'm on the official agreement dating back to the two thousand and three us led invasion it out'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 topped off former oil minister other lobdell madded to form the next government other log is considered an independent candidate but he will have to win the support of made the shia are brooks in parliament to get conformed to the post of prime minister. two shall lead blocks of a mud since may elections both of which claim to have most sits in parliament and therefore their right to form a government one is led by the current prime minister hi there and it group supporters of the populace shocked cleric said that whose fault was awarded the most votes in the election the blocking kluges put on groups led by former prime

minister nuri al maliki any for the rumbling among the shia brooks and other factions could further delay the process of confirming the prime minister designate mohamed are the world is either. a new set of questions for donald trump this time about his taxes new york state is to investigate tax fraud allegations of 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 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 quotes misleading president from postmarked the testimony of the woman 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 it. was the from brian through a list of what he described as holes in christine ford's testimony she testified to

the senate committee last week cavanaugh denied all the allegations but the f.b.i. has been given a week to make further inquiries the level of poverty in parts of brazil has left some potential voters in sunday's election easy prey for politicians looking to literally buy votes extreme poverty and unemployment rates are rising and not being able to read and write is a big issue you see in human reports now from the states of go us. sixty five year old mother. can't read or write or even sign her name but what she does know is how to work. i started working in tobacco fields when i was nine my father had died and my mother couldn't make ends meet. the story is repeated in the nearby sugar fields generation after generation men work under the merciless sun of northeastern state. i started when i was stand

i'm forty four now i couldn't find any better job my father did decide we never went to school but my son does. i hope he will be able to get a better job because this is no way to live. in northeastern brazil is heavily populated which makes it a magnet for politicians seeking election help in this slum there's no sewerage running water or other basic services sixty percent of the people here now live in poverty their needs are so great and their pockets so empty that they are easy prey during election time for politicians they can come here and buy their votes for as little as ten dollars. wilton via that is a catholic deacon who works in the slum appropriately named after the virgin of the poor seventy percent of residents are illiterate. of course if i'm a politician and i give culture an education to people i'm impairing them and if i'm

impairing them they may not vote for me so that's why it's in their interest to keep things as they are because then they can just keep coming back here at election time with empty promises that people grasp onto in the northeast as in the rest of brazil blacks and mixed race are the most disenfranchised. it's a vicious circle of inequality aggravated by a severe recession and government will step. that's left thirteen million brazilians unemployed and even more living in extreme poverty. this economist says a chronic structural problem is to blame i lost them. medium and long term development goals for our country investing infrastructure held education and job creation that requires political coordination that always eludes us no matter who is in government. and even if the next government can start the recovery process those living here at the bottom of the social ladder will be the last to benefit.

you see in human al-jazeera brazil. ship's captain who rescues refugees in the mediterranean has had his trial in malta and close peter russia's ship is called the lifeline is one of three ships now being held in port barca explains the lifeline is in limbo. the refugee rescue ships been 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 mines from the long central mediterranean rates that she 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 the maltese government wanting to send

a european message to n.g.o.s. because they're not welcome so they're picking on a legal technicality to send abroad a political message with the support of their opinion makes me very angry. if this is europe. i had another impression from europe before but. just a bit was. on the reasons why the people escaped from their homes this wrong way the lifelines not the only private aid ship impounded in malta 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 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 must say 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 these but now there are fewer and fewer vessels on the water able and willing to say. 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. and. two fellow travelers 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. al-jazeera malta.

back to the states one of america's biggest employers is giving a pay rise to its workers web giant amazon has been facing criticism for many of us labor practices pretty cool 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's due to stick might soon see a bump one of america's largest employers amazon has announced that everyone who helped send the smiling 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 we can afford the raises i was low unemployment it 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 thinks pay workers more. it 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. it'll be here in doha a quick reminder of our top stories the international court of justice in the netherlands has just ordered the u.s. to temporarily lift sanctions on iran related to humanitarian goods and civil aviation and follows a case filed by tehran against washington the u.s. is penalizing companies trading with iran after it re imposed sanctions earlier

this year lawyers for the us argue the i.c.j. has no jurisdiction in this matter washington does not even officially recognize the u.s. body indonesia appealing for more body bags today as more on the island of sort of wasting aid supplies are starting to trickle out more than four days after the quake and tsunami the official death toll now stands at over fourteen hundred. u.k.'s prime minister to resign may will have her chance to convince her party she is on the right track with bricks it's in about half an hour from now she'll deliver the closing speech to the conservative party conference on tuesday former foreign secretary boris johnson laid down a challenge in the government to chuck quote plans. she a politician. has been chosen as iraq's prime minister he was chosen by the newly elected president the kurdish politician. it's hoped this will end political deadlock in the country that's been in place since the disputed elections in may

new york state is to investigate tax fraud allegations against the u.s. president donald trump after reports the new york times says he helped his parents avoid paying tax which helps enrich his own fortune by more than four hundred million dollars the white house says the news report is quote misleading president trump has openly mocked the testimony of the woman 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 mr brown through a list of what he described as holes in christie testimony she testified to a senate committee last week he has denied all the allegations but the f.b.i. has been given a week to make more inquiries up next is the cure revisited then it's on you will see very soon.

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