strader business. from returns on al-jazeera. the arab. league. goals. and live from studio three a team here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha for the back to gold welcome to the news great time is running out for indonesia's quake and tsunami survivors five days after the disaster aid supplies are finally arrived on the island. but they're not getting fast enough to the areas that need them the most the death toll has reached more than fourteen hundred and is likely to go up we'll have a live report from. also on the great victory for the run as the world's top four dollars a u.s. to lift sanctions on humanitarian goods and civil aviation but what impact will the

ruling have since the international court of justice has no power to enforce it and the mysterious disappearance of a prominent saudi journalist. critical of his country's policies. visiting the saudi consulate in istanbul government officials say he still inside the building will be live in istanbul and plenty of online reaction to the u.s. president will trump mocking the testimony of the same class he forward is accusing his supreme court nominee bret's kavanah of sexual assault on the head of a homage to show using the hash tag they. are and they were the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and that's al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining us it's nearly five days since an earthquake and tsunami devastated the indonesian island. and ages finally saudi. to arrive but not fast

enough the death toll from the twin disaster has risen to more than fourteen hundred and time is running out to rescue survivors authorities of appeals for more body bags to try and prevent disease outbreak rescue teams are finding more dead bodies from the rubble of collapsed buildings we begin our coverage with andrew thomas who has been to some of the worst hit areas his report from palo. the mosques are in part to hide the smile the white tulle pool in is because liquid is dripping through the orange one from the body wrapped inside there's not much dignity in this but in pali right now there is a lot of meat at the row row hotel there searching for between fifty and seventy guests who were inside when it collapsed nearby one of hollywood's biggest shopping centers has been destroyed. elsewhere building damage is less obvious but the reality is worse with individual buildings it's easy to see the destruction from

ground level but this wasn't one building it was in a state of seventeen hundred homes and to appreciate what happened here you really need to see it from the air during the earthquake the pressures on the ground grow to such an extent that the soil liquefied collapsing everything in on itself hundreds of people i thought to still be buried here. by wednesday afternoon a search team had dug into an area of just four hundred square meters and had already found twenty five bodies there a square kilometers to go among those buried almost certainly is ricardi suffer rutins mother he's found the house she was in it was among those carried hundreds of meters by the way you. but she has vanished. gone missing in looking at all this i know really it's impossible that she's alive but i can't quite bring myself to give up hope. in his head of search and rescue operations

visited the site on wednesday he saw for himself the child on the sticking out of the debris but says there isn't yet the right equipment to bring her body out summer scout we are using all their resources but we are very spread out and we can't just focus here. repairs are being made and aid is coming in palu is not yet a functioning city in places some people a digging through the debris in search of food but now fuel is coming in far more a simply getting out andrew thomas al-jazeera palu indonesia or surprise have been trickling out to the tens of thousands in need but there's a long way to go wayne hay spent the day at power to airport which is now in control of the military. 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 all of. 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 in terms of the recovery and of course to that is if i point out that that they have they shown an. action. 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 wayne hay al-jazeera palu indonesia. to me linda gun is another of our correspondents in palo she joins us now live from the airport jamila is quite late way you are bringing us up to speed with the

latest is a finally getting to the people who need it the most i got it exactly well call everybody in the whole thing here i'm just here at the airport there's been a lot of the day we think it will be eleven pm here when things evening and planes continue to land bringing in volunteers aid workers both foreign and local here in indonesia hoping to reach far flung areas now indonesian president jokingly will go with your today and he visited several areas that have been devastated bringing in more personnel from the limiting standing a very strong message that the government is in charge that he's quite happy about how evacuation is being managed but it's hoping that logistically and of course all of the clearing operations will reach those areas that are yet to be reached by rescuers and that's exactly what it's difficult here to accept that there are so

many areas here that remain cut off where you call it remaining trapped where you know has not arrived the thinkers the police improve in the coming days and what the indonesian government promised to do yes the president talked about sending in reinforcements today on his second visit to me that do we know where exactly these reinforcements are going to to go. well we did back in the post to secure very critical areas wholly like for example the airport which is the life blood of all of the operations the roads leading up to follow in several areas need to be controlled because there are looters and those are being physically trying to find the billion who are trying to flee this area to look out for places where they can find shelter and that's number one number two person now . apologies for that we seem to have lost our connection with jimmy

linda again there was reporting live from palo airport in indonesia where rescue efforts are continuing five days after the earthquake and tsunami that left more than fourteen hundred people dead this indonesia disaster the top story on our website at al-jazeera dot com we've got a special page up with all the latest updates including the death toll which now stands at one thousand four hundred seven all the latest on the rescue efforts on there as well we've got several teams on the ground covering this story as you heard there all of their reports on al-jazeera dot com and we're getting quite a few comments from you on this story a top story on the news great today one here from the who says the world is in such a chaos and disaster at the hands of human beings and nature also a comment from mahmoud who asks rather. in the international community questioning the indonesian government and how they failed to evacuate civilians from coastal region despite the tsunami warning deaths could have been avoided he

says of course is a lot of controversy about this a tsunami warning was issued but lifted shortly afterwards and a lot of questions about how the government handled this is asa thank you very much for your comments you can keep them coming a.j. news grid on all of our online platforms on twitter handle is at a.j. english don't forget to use hashtag news group of course let's move on to other world news now and there's been a ruling from the un's top court that the u.s. should lift its sanctions on humanitarian goods to iraq the decision by the international court of justice in the netherlands is a victory for iran which had pursued the case but the united states says the i.c.j. has no jurisdiction in the matter he has this report from tehran. it's. in the case of iran versus united states of america the fifteen member bench of the international court of justice ordered the american government to make sure that sanctions against iran do not impact humanitarian aid or civil aviation the united

states of america in accordance with its obligation is under the nine hundred fifty five treaty of amity economic relations and concert a lot of rightist shall remove by means of it choosing any impediment is arising from the measures announced it on eight may twenty thousand to the free exportation to the detail utility of the islamic republic of iran of medicine is on medical devices food stuff is an agricultural commodities spare part of his equipment and associated services including one t.v. maintenance repair services and inspection is necessary for the safety of aviation iran argued that sanctions reimposed after u.s. president donald trump pulled out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal in may violate

a little known french agreement that predates the one nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution the court agreed but didn't call for the complete lifting of sanctions falling short of the resulting decision that iran would have wanted when judges did ask the us not to interfere with banking transactions related to food medicine and air safety. but even as the judge read the ruling its practical application remains a question mark and any history made here by the i.c.j. judges is likely to be symbolic at best both. refrain from any action which might a good heavy or extend the dispute before the court or make it more difficult towards so with no policing mechanism to enforce its decision in practical terms the court's judgment is more recommendation than ruling while the u.s. does not recognize the authority of i.c.j. judges it did take iran to court back in one nine hundred eighty when it was still a voluntary member in a case centered around the u.s.

embassy hostage crisis the i.c.j. ruled that the iranian government was bound to secure the immediate release of the hostages to restore the embassy premises and to make reparation for the injury caused to the united states government but after the court ruled it owed nicaragua war reparations in one thousand nine hundred six the united states withdrew from the court's compulsory jurisdiction iran has been arguing that the approach by americans to war to iran has been illegitimate as well as unlawful by taking the case to the core against the united states i think what you want wants to say that that is the americans who have left a negotiating table that is the americans who are not observing the international law that is the americans who have been ignoring the arisen lucian by the united nations security council on monday iran and america will face each other in court again for public hearings over two billion dollars in iranian assets frozen in two thousand and sixteen the latest world court ruling may seem like

a hollow victory to many in iran struggling under the punishing strain of american sanctions but it does help illustrate a point that leaders into iran are keen to make as often as possible given the chance they say america under donald trump does not respect international institutions. and the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei who has just been reacting to this ruling by the international court of justice he says speaking right now at the state department in washington michael bales says iran is abusing international court of justice is abusing the international court of justice for political ends and he also announced that the u.s. is terminating the one thousand nine hundred fifty five treaty of amity with iran for more on this now to speak to on a broad shoulders a partner at peters and peters a london based law firm where she specializes in european criminal law and sanctions very detailed you're with us on the news grid so this is being described as a symbolic and moral victory for iran on the international stage but as they mentioned

there the i.c.j. has no effective way to implement this ruling so what's the point of it and especially when you consider that both the u.s. and iran have effectively nord its decisions in the past cases that they've brought against each other i don't think the symbolism should be underestimate and i think it's important to remember that this small piece perhaps in a larger hole. when taken in combination with the other efforts being made principally by the e.u. but also by the other remaining participants to j. superior way it could potentially have more significance. might first the pair at first blush. so france is not afraid that it's an amnesty wait what does the ruling made sorry sorry to interrupt you from a practical standpoint what does this change. immediately very little.

it remains to be seen whether the united states will comply with the provisional measures that have been ordered. but it does pave the way for more ambitious. than we've seen so far to to account. merican strategy on iran and perhaps softer the previously quite aggressive stance of the us administration to. it it intends and for this these research actor sanctions. you may have seen the e.u. has been pushing for. some relaxation of u.s. sanctions particularly when it comes to e.u. businesses so far not successful but potentially this might be another piece

in the larger that might serve to break down the u.s. for assistance i was going to ask you just that in fact do you think this decision might encourage some european companies to reconsider doing business with iran again. not but i think the difficulty is. the choice between complying with the us sanctions or. two things. for the e.u. businesses comply with the e.u. blocking a just solution and relying on the protection conferred by. regulation to continue business in iran it's just too risky at the moment and i think apart from anything else the key to all this is the financial sector and for as long as the banks are not conducting the transactions then it doesn't really matter where you are you

come down in your own business decision making if you can't affect the transactions that you need to keep operations going and a brush i thank you very much for your insights thank you for joining us there from london now came the e.u. bypass us sanctions on iran an interesting discussion on inside story about this u.s. withdrawal from the twenty fifty nuclear deal and threats of punishing those who do business with iran has forced european leaders to figure out a way to protect their companies and save the agreement can they do it washoe by clicking on the show stab at al-jazeera dot com and then click on inside story that concern is mounting for the safety of prominent saudi journalist jamal khashoggi who senior take us government officials say remains inside the saudi consulate in istanbul despite saudi denials recently became a vocal critic of the kingdom's leadership natasha take has more. on

tuesday jamal khashoggi walked into this saudi consulate in istanbul to collect proof of his divorce so he could remarry he hasn't been seen since but you know not in the who does in the one month of the year we are positive he is still inside it we are waiting with his fiancee who is with us here we are staging a sit in here until he is released once an advisor to the saudi royal family he fell out of favor as he became increasingly vocal in his criticism of crown prince mohammed bin selma i still see him as a reformer but he used go that in all poll within his hand and it would be much better for him to allow a bidding space for a critic for the intellectuals for all your active sort of the media to debate the most important needed transformation going in the country because jodi left saudi arabia last year as the government began its recent crackdown on dissent arresting clerics intellectuals activists and businessmen in the absence of any reliable

information to show he's website now declares he's been arrested but saudi authorities insist he left their consulate but this is the most of all the contradiction in the saudi regime is claims that it is opening up that it is liberalizing we've seen a lot of talk a lot of statements from saudi officials heading in that direction but when you look at the actions of the government government we see something very different the washington post says it's very concerned about the whereabouts of one of its prominent commentators in a statement the newspaper said it would be unfair and outrageous if he's been detained for his work and we hope that he's safe and we can hear from him soon jamal let me start with you are you talking to al jazeera spoke of the changes in saudi arabia it is an important transformation that requires all of us to contribute to it to discuss it and no one should be jailed there is waiting for him

outside the saudi consulate in istanbul would agree. live not too obvious there are rules outside the saudi consulate in istanbul so soon and what's the latest on the whereabouts of jamal. sim can you hear me. this is all right we seem to have lost our connection for now with sin and we'll go back to in just a few minutes when we reestablish it in the meantime let's bring in our social media producer writer mohammed was going to tell us more about jamal khashoggi and the online reaction to his disappearance that's right funny but first let's take a look at why this case has been getting so much attention jamal khashoggi is a well known saudi journalist he's been living in self-imposed exile in the u.s. since last year because of fears of a crackdown on dissent is sodje arabia well he's written extensively about his

country including criticizing its war in yemen the diplomatic dispute in canada and the recent arrests of women rights women's rights activists also in saudi arabia an online campaign to raise awareness about his disappearance is also growing his personal websites has a banner saying that he was arrested at the saudi consulate in istanbul using the hash tag jamal khashoggi kidnapped in arabic and others all seasons the same hash tag online where they sharing concerns and also calling on authorities to announce his whereabouts others also directing this to turkey's president to take action and then you also have mohammad here who tweets freedom is not free well the disappearance of he comes just a few weeks after an attack on leading on a leading saudi dissident in london and sorry he has been showing pictures like these which just demonstrate some of the cases of other saudi dissidents who have been targeted and she says the crown prince's repression knows no borders as well

rights groups say the crackdown against human rights groups and saudi activists have also escalated in a statement earlier this year human rights watch says the saudi government appears determined to leave its citizens without any space to show even rhetorical support for activists jailed in this unforgiving crackdown on dissent. well as always we do want to hear from you to get in touch with us use the hash tag agent is great or you can to simply message me directly i'm after him khalid ibrahim thank you very much let's go back to see them to know who is outside the saudi consulate in istanbul so sin and tell us about the latest on the whereabouts of. well foley yes still there is no word from inside and you just have been hearing some denials by saudi officials that he wasn't and he didn't disappear he exited the consulate building after his paper paperwork were cast was finished but

speaking to his fiance here we have we have learned that he has never come out of the building goes so i spoke to some turkish security sources they have been telling me that the c.c. cameras the security cameras around the street around this consulate has no pictures of. exiting exiting out of the saudi general consulate building here so now we know that he's inside inside the consulate building but also it's very interesting because i have been hearing from his france here from his journalist friends that an expectation has emerged that he can be released in a couple of hours but of course this is just an expectation that we have been hearing from them but there is no official announcement by an aside what's the turkish government doing cinema to try and locate him. well fully you know inside the diplomatic mission of any country it is the it is

the boundaries territorial that's conferees so right behind us the saudi course that is the saudi territory and there is no investigation or interim geisha ongoing neither in turkey nor in saudi arabia against journalists. so if if there was an interrogation or if there was an investigation or a probate against him then the turkish government would have the right to say yes saudi officials you have to give it to us because it's our country but. turkish officials say they have they don't have anything on going against him like that and they didn't hear anything from saudi officials saying that he he has an investigation ongoing against him in saudi arabia so for now to solve the turkish officials have nothing in hand to do except from the turkish security forces and a policeman in investigating about this ok it's it for the art for now thank you for keeping us up to date this in him live for us in istanbul and as you saw

earlier. reports jamal khashoggi spoke to me he has on outfront just a few months ago in this discussion he criticized the saudi government's crackdown on intellectuals and journalists complaining that the kingdom will never become democratic and the conference mohammed bin salman you can watch entire interview on our website at al-jazeera doc all not in the u.s. and president donald trump has mocks the testimony of the woman accusing his 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 when i was the speaking at a rally in mississippi in the heart of a support base the president run through a list of what he described as holes in christine lahti force testimony she testified at a senate committee last week that she was assaulted by brett kavanaugh when they were in high school cavanaugh has denied the incident but the f.b.i. has been given a week to make further inquiries to me how kate has more from washington d.c.

. as the f.b.i. continues its investigation into the allegations made by christine blas and ford with regard to the background of the alleged sexual assault that occurred thirty six years ago by judge brett kavanaugh donald trump after days of first rate is now saying very strong comments and accusations about christine blousy ford's testimony in fact saying that it is hurting men that they need to movement has take me to movement is hurting men and also questioning some of her allegations given the fact that while she says she's one hundred percent sure that judge cavanagh sexually assaulted her donald trump pointing out that. admittedly christine ford says she cannot remember some of the other details of that evening so certainly donald trump is defending his supreme court nominee as he has denied these allegations for her part christine basi ford's attorney issuing

a statement calling the president's comments vicious vile and soulless and a profile in cowardice we can tell you that some polling reflects that the comments made by the president may not be playing well with some of his supporters particularly white college educated women new research and polling numbers suggest that an approximately sixty percent or more of women with that type of background believe the claims by dr ford and do not believe that judge cavanagh could be confirmed why is this important as there goes on to the u.s. senate moves towards a broader vote on this confirmation there are very key pivotal votes in the senate particularly lisa murkowski a republican senator from alaska and susan collins a republican a female senator from maine they will have to be convinced as a result of this background investigation before that confirmation can occur allowing judge kavanaugh to take a. see it is

a supreme court justice and given the fact that the president has come out so strongly gretz against christine blassie forward that vote in favor of that nomination may be more difficult for those two republican female senators well people have a lot to say about bret president tom's handling of the brett kavanaugh case or here that's right folly but let's listen to more about what presidential power to say when he was talking about christine blassie for testimony at that rally in mississippi. what neighborhood was it in i don't know where's. the upstairs downstairs where was i don't know but i had one beer at your living room. and a man's life is in tatters a man's life is shattered his wife is shattered his daughters who are beautiful incredible young kids they destroy people they want to destroy people

or traumas comments have generated a strong reaction including from politicians who are part of the supreme court confirmation battle here's republican senator jeff flake. there's no time and no place for remarks like that to discuss something this sensitive at a political rally is just or. just not right it's just right i wish we hadn't done it. just to say it's the start of a boeing. and many have come out in support of ford online some using the hash tag we believe doc to forward and we believe survivors and produce and the last hour says that the video of trump mocking dr ford made him feel physically sick as he says here for real and others like ari fleischer who was the white press white house press secretary under george w. bush defended the president saying that trump didn't mock professor afford it points out to many of the inconsistency is in her account if the press were balanced they would have raised the same issues trump raised him well now ford's

inability to remember all the details from the night she says she was sexually assaulted has been the focus for much of the u.s. media coverage most networks have been talking about how reliable her testimony might be considering this all happened in one nine hundred eighty two well writes about walsh blames the media he says up until now i thought that some of chums anti media rhetoric was overblown and potentially dangerous but the media's handling of the cabin a story has been dictated everything trump ever said about them while it is common for sexual assault victims not to remember and attack in great detail you may recall the case of anita hill in one thousand nine hundred one where she accused judge clarence thomas of sexually harassing her vox news spoke to some experts to explain this in more detail. we have this expectation that for an allegation to be credible the victim has to be able to recall exactly what happened to them in detail most of us think memory works like

a video camera accurately recording events we see and hear so that we can review them later so if a victim can't remember certain details we view them as suspicious after all if they can't remember everything how can they even for sure. but if you talk to experts who study memory they all say the same thing that's not how it works you tend to narrow your focus when you're in a traumatic situation there are certain parts of it you remember better and other parts that your brain said that's peripheral i got to focus on staying alive many survivors trying not to think about what happened to them and so when people start to ask them very detailed questions it is not unusual for there to be some inconsistency is details of that day before or after may not be clear in their mind but the part that they are clear occurred would be the violation i would like to get your thoughts on the story said to get in touch with us and it is tough forms is the hash tag aging is good right i thank you very much for that if you get a chance read this opinion piece by hamid dabashi of columbia university about

carbonyls testimony he says it expose not only his own lack of credibility but also the deep seated massage any of us politics interesting perspective we did on our website at al jazeera dot com let's not take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world this hour and who the rebels in yemen have released two sons of the former president saddam. have arrived in jordan after oman and the u.n. envoy to yemen martin griffith negotiated their release the two had been detained since woman president ali abdullah saadi was killed by the rebels in december twenty seventh teen that's going to have to burn a smith who is covering this story for us from djibouti so what might this move granted by the hootie suggests. well it looks like it could be some sort of a concession from the who thinks martin griffiths the u.n. special envoy to yemen is in abu dhabi today he is said last week on the back of

the u.n. general assembly that he wants talks to get going as soon as possible he said he believes the who these are ready to take part in talks so this looks from their part like some sort of a concession ahead of any talks that might take place only and as they release seven separatists are threatening again to take over government institutions why now well just to complicate the challenge for martin griffiths well who things might have made this concession the southern separatists they see they've always wanted a part of the table they've always wanted a part in these talks and i haven't been able to take part in the talks the talks when they take place have been planned to be between just the internationally recognized government of yemen and the who things but the s.t.c. the southern transitional council they want to restore southern the republic of southern yemen and they want a part in these talks because they say they represent

a lot of people in southern yemen they are taking advantage of the economic collapse of southern yemen they have some fifty thousand fighters involved they say we should be part of these talks of this could be a tactic by then to get them on to the table should get them around the table should these talks go ahead ali thank you for that ben is smith's life force in djibouti in other news malaysia's former first lady of rosmah months or has been arrested and will be charged with corruption on thursday rosmah was detained after being questioned by the anti-corruption commission her husband former prime minister najib razak is set to face trial next year for money laundering and these soft power it's over billions of dollars that went missing from a state fund known as one. thousands of armenians have protested outside parliament over what they say is an attempt by the former ruling coalition to hold on to power. m.p.'s passed a bill that would make it difficult for the new prime minister nichol passion to

hold parliamentary elections and lead on thai government protests that forced the former prime minister to resign in april the popular leader says he will resign to force upon a man to dissolve and for elections to take place by december china's tax authorities have ordered one of the country's top actresses pay a one hundred twenty nine million dollars fine for tax evasion and other offenses funding being hasn't been seen in public since june some reports suggest has been detained by the authorities the actress has appeared in the x. men and ion man franchises she's also been the face of cartier and received spends in china in a letter posted on one of her social media accounts she said she accepted the decision now the british prime minister has made a spirited defense of her bracks its strategy theresa may says she's not afraid to leave the e.u. without a deal and the u.k. will be a champion of free trade across the world as speech capped off the conservative

party's i knew a conference in birmingham lawrence lee was there and has this report. all those people who spent their time queuing for the speech might have been forgiven for being a little nervous this was a big moment for their party and their country and their prime minister often looks i'm sure a bit of a robot. so it was to everyone's surprise when sarees m a launched a cell phone to stage dancing queen the soundtrack all of it designed to offer her a charisma she's often accused of lacking plainly they loved it as well as being relieved last year she was paralyzed by a cough and the sec fell apart behind her doing all this at such an important time in the u.k. took some courage but in the last few years some sort something strange for the worse i think she then embarks on a speech which painted her as a much softer figure trying to bring together a country at war with itself over leaving the european union but when push came to

shove she indicated they would be no more concessions from in the endless negotiation with brussels britain isn't afraid to leave with no deal if we have to thank me even without introducing terrorists and costly checks at the border would be a bad outcome for the u.k. and the e.u. it would be tough at first but the resilience and ingenuity of the british people would see us through her friends and her enemies in government will both of found something in all of what she said never mind that she made no mention of every financial warning that the u.k. economy could fold in the event of a hard rex's this was rhetoric from the trenches of world war one we stand at a pivotal moment in history it falls to our party to lead our country through it. when we come together there is no

limit to what we can achieve compared to the robot she is often painted as this was a confidence passionate and at times very personal speech which will have gone down extremely well with the party faithful but opinions of things like british ingenuity and black spirit will do nothing to persuade the european union that she has a new plan if anything what this speech did was to make a no deal rex's much more likely the other thing this will be seen to have done at least for now is to shore up her leadership as prime minister but both she and the european union sharpening their knives lawrence lee al-jazeera burning him. and six months ago until breaks it happens and all you need to know about the process on al-jazeera dot com well breck's it actually happened will there be a trade deal what will happen to european citizens living in the u.k. all the important questions answered on that page at al-jazeera dot com now to

brazil and we're just four days away from the first round of presidential elections there campaigning is speaking as candidates make a last ditch effort to voters you see in human is a latin america editor she's covering these elections for us joins us now live on the news great from sao paolo luciana all the talk is about the right wing candidates boss narrow and how he's going up in the polls despite having not campaigned in weeks. yes it is quite extraordinary for only four years ago nobody could have imagined that also not all would even be in the running at all i mean he's often outrageous comments about women blacks his open admiration for chile's former dictator and pinochet and this country's former dictatorship as well as his support for torture for example would have you would imagine that that would have put him out of the

running but brazilians are so disgusted with corruption with rising crime that they have actually made him the front runner while his other opponents struggled to try to catch up and the fact that he was stabbed nearly a month ago which has made it impossible for him to campaign has actually helped him it's won him more sympathy he hasn't taken part in any of the debates and so he keeps going up and up in the polls and in the meantime the soaring number of poor people in this country are basically just watching from the sidelines as this goes on especially in northeastern brazil where we just visited. 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 are not 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. with india 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. that's left thirteen million brazilians unemployed and even more living in extreme poverty. this economist says a chronic structural problem is to blame. we will stop medium and long term development goals of all country investing infrastructure education and job creation that requires political coordination that always eludes us no matter who

is in government. and even if the decks government can start the recovery process those living here at the bottom of the social ladder will be the last to benefit. so we'll see how are the markets reacting to this and the possibility of a radical shift in brazil is political fortunes. you know in full initially the markets were very wary. and in fact we there were articles saying that he was going to make this country even more uncertain that they could increase the polarization which of course it is and make it more unstable but now just in the last forty eight hours we've seen the markets actually come around especially since has named a very very orthodox free market economists as his would be economy and finance minister while the other side the other the other leading candidate from

the workers' party. who would be replacing who is in prison as you know has not been specific at all about what he is going to do what his political. policies what rather what his economic policies would be and so this has made the markets actually tilt towards this extreme right wing candidate who appears to be winning at least so far thank you for that lucy in human life force in san pablo she'll continue to cover this important election for us in brazil throughout the weekend here on al-jazeera and a very good explainer of the presidential election on al-jazeera dot com how it will work who the top contenders are some very useful information on the upcoming election in brazil at al jazeera dot com. now the south african government is being urged to do more to tackle drug gangs although policing has increased in some areas many communities say it's not nearly enough. to miller went to cape flats in the eastern suburbs of cape town where she met a mother who killed her own son because of his drug addiction.

you know you must suck it up it was in a room in the small courtyard at elland paki's killed her own son by strangling him ab was addicted to crystal meth or took as it's known in the cape flats he's addiction began at the age of fourteen and continued for seven years ellen says he used to terrorize the family it was after yet another drug binge that ellen says she was pushed over the edge when i close the front door i saw that all of this when i came without her and then i just wondered to start with where the restoring are and really just standing with it or even just didn't want to do with but this one i put record is together and i put that out but i'm listening inside a home ellen shows us where on one occasion her son instant access to hack. she

says he was looking for money or anything he could sell for his next i know that the worst manipulate me in that way but that wasn't even the point of writing to kill him i just want to stop with at that our level deal is a community plagued by gang violence and home and many others are often caught in the crossfire of gang shootouts the home is riddled with bullet holes so we're now in hanover park just a few kilometers from lavender hill we want to keep a lookout communities like this one drug use and addiction is coupled with gang violence often due to turf wars people here say they're being held hostage in their own homes unable to move around freely and safely. here to a community troubled by drug addiction the suit on bags into treats about six hundred addicts every month for two must come here for help to kick her addiction to meth life was chaos i didn't know where that was coming or going with it i was

sleeping awake because it all felt the same you know you you. the world goes on the world will sort but you still. a sin to seize more than eighty percent of opioid addicts in the western cape province the people here say they need more help ellen paki's was given a three year suspended sentence and two hundred eighty i was community service for killing his son which she says she will always regret doing some may say she got of liking. for living and the people. a film has been made telling illin story highlighting not only her family's struggle with drug addiction but also a community's desperation yet a little has changed her and then she has two other sons who are also addicts she continues to struggle financially she says kept prisoner in a community with drugs poverty and crime are a way of life for me to mila al-jazeera and the cape flats. for

a story that's off the grid out of australia and they're getting rid of their tampon toxic that's right funny is quite exciting actually it's taken eighteen years of outrage from women's rights groups to get australia's government to agree to remove was a widely known as the tampon tax levy apply to tampons and other sanitary products which will not likely cost much less and many other products are already exempt from the ten percent goods and services tax including nicotine patches sunscreen and even via this move will cost the state thirty million dollars a year there's two stages to firstly we need to consult with the states in the territories as well as probably with the public on the definition of feminine hygiene products and we look to do that as quickly as possible then you also need to ensure that the system. and the transition is smooth and so the first of january

the tax will be removed and this will be good news for strain women. well a lot of women also talking about this online including longtime campaign is celebrating the change one user here says finally and to the most ridiculous tax ever congratulations to everyone to come paint and now to put all of this into perspective canada has done to some attacks in twenty fifteen after more than seventy thousand people signed a petition and the u.k. will scrap its equivalent tax on tampons from twenty twenty two well which country do you think will likely follow next tweet us is the hash tag eighteen is good thank you very much for that rocky life you're watching us on facebook live find out about a new initiative in taiwan way you can pay for your metro take it with trash and said ahead on the red we'll look forward to the new n.h.l. season as ice hockey is top league looks to enhance its global appeal.

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i don't find out what people are talking about its force today is far thank you so much folio hockey fans are very excited right now that's because the new n.h.l. season kicks off tonight that has been a lot of preseason action to tie people over all this was an exhibition match that was played by the new jersey devils against west side s.c. byrne in switzerland on monday the game is part of the n.h.l. global series races and games were also played in china for the second year in a row it's all here to talk all things and h l e sports journalists mike straw from buffalo new york for the n.h.l. is really desperate to take the game overseas even got wayne gretzky to go to china

to help promote it how did that go down and is there a market for the game globally right now the n.h.l. is a big thing it is expanding into southeast asia. there is a market globally but it's going to take some time in china with these chinese games they had about twenty two thousand fans total which left quite a. quite a few empty seats above ten to fifteen thousand in all but while the games were there it still felt like there were people really interested in joining the n.h.l. movement the hockey movement and china has made a big investment financially in growing the game there but it's going to take a bit we'll see really how this growth goes with players like legendary players like wayne gretzky going over there holding camps and clinics for young kids in six months and a year and a couple of years down the line how big it really does become down there. the

biggest question becomes is there enough talent making it to higher levels that the real that fans and can really grasp behind if you look at the n.b.a. the our main was a big reason for the n.b.a. becoming big in china and what chinese what the chinese people need is one chinese n.h.l. star to really make it big in order for the game to really grow and that's what the n.h.l. is hoping to accomplish ok i haven't ok so the big golden night surprised everyone last season their first season and existence but what do you predict from them this season honestly i think the sky's the limit for this team i wanted surprise me to see them right back where they're at yeah the last games neal and they traded away thomas to tara but getting paul stastny in the offseason was a big big big coup for them up the middle their team there is as deep as they were last year william carlson of one of the best goalscorers in the league coming back

and mark under a flurry backstopping there's really no reason even with the strength of the west getting better with teams like san jose there's no reason why you can't look at vegas and go yeah they can make another run of the cup finals and even win it this year as they came so close to a year ago ok i just want to know quickly are they ever going to ban fighting from the n.h.l. . it's hard to see it and see a lot of teams limiting the amount of the forces on the team even not adding them because goal scoring is obviously what wins games but i don't see it ever becoming banned there's just no reason to ban it. it's not as prevalent in the game as it has been in the past but it is still a part of the game thank you so much we'll talk to you a bit later thank you mike straw eric reid the player that kneeled alongside team a calling to protest against racial injustice has been signed with a new team but says he'll keep speaking out to whether or not he'll continue to

kneel during the us out there remains to be seen reid has said he is considering other ways to protest even though he signed with the ad the carolina panthers the twenty six year old is taking legal action after claiming he wasn't being employed because of his opinion read spoke during his panthers unveiling and it wasn't a typical press conference have a listen to this next year between one sing more forty years since the first ladies tell us the song this country. is forty years this do present slavery jim crow new jim crow mass incarceration. you name it going to prison they come out of the deal like people didn't have access to those government stimulus packages in the deal city of what is known as a modern day middle class we have assistance programs and. social security home. so this has been happening since more people have gotten here. and those

comments getting a lot of reaction on social media former san francisco forty nine ers teammate colin kaepernick one of the first people to tweet after that press conference my brother he says in support of eric reid there's also a lot of support from fans on twitter how can anyone here this and be against the peaceful prose has it's well said incredibly thought out and all true as i mentioned earlier read is still pursuing his collusion case against the n.f.l. and here's what an n.f.l. fan and california thinks read to resign by the pants or why waste your time and money continuing the collusions suit you're still going to lose so what do you think you can tweet me directly underscore is small i'll be back with more of eight hundred g.m.t. but for now i'll head to back to foley thank you very much for that fire that will do it for today's news great remember to keep in touch with us on social media at all times hashtag a.j. newsbreak from the fully back to bornholm team thank you for watching we're back

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