travels to africa and it's inspiring individuals who are fighting to remember its ideas it's like flying it's the end in sight. on al-jazeera. death destruction and desperation as the cleanup operation gets underway there's now a fear of disease heightening the crisis on the indonesian island of pseudo way z. . this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. the un's top court rules the united states should lift its sanctions on humanitarian goods to iraq and the u.s. responds angrily.

having the time of her life british prime minister may dunces onto the stage the tory party conference to back her bricks it plan the better days ahead. africa's deadly drug habit we meet the mother driven to kill her own son due to the addiction that has ravaged her community. traumatized displaced and starving survivors of an earthquake and tsunami that devastated the indonesian island of pseudo way z. a digging through debris looking for scraps of food more than fourteen hundred people are now confirmed to die of died hundreds more are feared to be buried under the rubble and are fears that disease will break out among the displaced we begin with this report commander thomas who's in palo city. the mosques are in part to hide the smell the white top all in is because liquid is dripping through

the orange one from the body wrapped inside there's not much dignity in this but in hollywood right now the reason a lot of meat at the row row hotel they're 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 grew 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 have mud but she has vanished. 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 but 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

simply getting out andrew thomas al-jazeera palu indonesia thousands of people are being evacuated from central soon away easy way in haiti has spent the day it how to add port which is now in the control of indonesia's 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 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 a in a number 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. un's top court has ruled that the u.s. should lift its sanctions on humanitarian goods to iran iran has hailed the decision by the international court of justice as a victory but washington says the i.c.j. has no jurisdiction in the matter when describing reports from tehran. 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 three key of economic relations and consular outright is shall remove by means of it choosing any impediment is arising from the measures announced it on eight may twenty team to the free exportation to the territory of the islamic republic of iran of medicine is on medical devices food stuff is going to cultural commodities spare parties equipment and associated services including one thirty maintenance repair services and inspection is necessary for the safety of. iran argue 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 the negotiating table that is the americans for those 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. where. sexist take my pompei or has just been speaking about the i.c.j. willingness. as a result what was said about it. well lauren first mike pompei i said what previous administrations have said is that the i.c.j. when it comes to matters of a country's national security does not have jurisdiction and so the u.s. essentially was going to ignore this ruling that was brought about by iran's laws and the secretary of state also said that since the one nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution in iran there really needed to be a rethink about some of the laws on the books anyway. i'm announcing that the

united states is terminating the one nine hundred fifty five treaty of amity with iran this is a decision frankly that is thirty nine years overdue iran is abusing the i.c.j. for political and propaganda purposes and their case as you can see even the decision lacked merit given iran's history of terrorism ballistic missile active in the other mine behaviors iran's claims under the treaty are absurd the court's ruling today was a defeat for iran. now of course the ruling basically said that the u.s. needs to make it possible for deliveries of humanitarian aid food medicine medical equipment as well as aviation sector equipment for civilian aircraft needs to be made need to be given to the iranian people and secretary of state pompei o said that sort of assistance would continue that the u.s. is very much interested in helping the iranian people however he did say that the

u.s. efforts to isolate iran because of its foreign policy objectives will continue it's the u.s. will not be rolling back the sanctions that were imposed earlier this summer and it still intends to impose a global blockade as it were on iran's. oil exports starting in early november first in jordan thank you very much indeed. there are still ahead i'm just in human in northeastern brazil the poorest part of this enormous country and coming up i'll explain why the hopes and needs of these people could determine the outcome of sunday's presidential elections. and the mystery of china's missing superstar newbie legend founding being strapped with a one hundred twenty nine million dollar tax fine.

howlers not much in the sky i know about china what walls and you save and stuff like picture brought some rain to sichuan some snow off in the higher ground it will stay up on the tibetan plateau for most of china apart from the occasional shower maybe in you not it's dry and still quite warm twenty seven who will have on and so you were in hong kong without too hard humidity are the so nice looking weather for a time whilst running at the eastern side they've just catching shanghai was slow and a few showers is the latest typhoon that sleeve charring go westwards to india where the receding monsoon is still allowing a few big fat we've seen something run up in german kashmir which has produced yet again some mudslides but the majority of forecast rain is down in kerala all further science. not much further north or north east and occasionally maybe in the

pole is still on the cards and it remains dr course the arabian peninsula there was a chance of a shero to the to kuli mountains of western society but that's not in the forecast anymore and so long as temperatures thirty one would suggest there longer afraid if there isn't so it was just basically warm and dry. capturing the moment in time snapshots of. the story providing a glimpse into someone else's world nice. 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 awards ceremony in december watch on rival coverage of the nobel peace prize on al-jazeera.

are going to one of the top stories here. indonesian president has made a second visit to the disaster struck soon away as the island as the cleanup operation gets underway at least fourteen hundred people are now confirmed dead from friday's earthquake and tsunami. meanwhile there are fears disease could heighten the crisis a survivors scavenge through rubble in a desperate search for food more than sixty one thousand people have been displaced by the disaster. the un's top court has ruled the u.s. must temporarily lift some sanctions on iran after they were reimposed earlier this year just eight light pompei responded by canceling and nine hundred fifty five

treaty of amity with iran. u.k. prime minister to resign may has taken a leaf out of the abba song book and she made the closing speech to have kids have to party conference may once again showed off her dance moves to an appreciative audience if she wants to a spirited defense of her government's breaks it's trashy virginie was watching. all those people who spend 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 unsure 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 something strange for the worse she didn't embarked 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 requisites 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 i believe that things like british ingenuity and black spirits 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 harder 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 gloriously al-jazeera burning in the russian president vladimir putin has denounced the poison double agent as

a traitor screwball and his daughter survived a nerve agent attack in the u.k. city of salzburg in march speaking in moscow putin says cripple was no longer of interest to the kremlin after he was exchanged in a spy swap in twenty ten. and he's just a spied a traitor to the motherland do you understand you're such a turn traitor to the motherland well he's one of the comedian is the he's just a scumbag that's it if the rebels have released two songs of yemen's former president ali abdullah saleh it's a move that signals an effort to break the deadlock in the ongoing conflict salah and madea and sally arrived in jordan after oman and the un envoy to net yemen negotiated their release the two had been detained since former president saleh was killed by the rebels in december twenty seventh teen when one yemen's prime minister says the who cannot be defeated while the country is under such severe financial strain and has called for the saudi led coalition to hold

a economic summit. you know the nations children's agency is suspending cash aid to nine million people in regions of yemen controlled by who the rebels unicef says it's because they were unable to set up a call center who recipients to confirm they were actually getting the money meanwhile security concerns forced doctors without borders to suspend their activities in the government control of delhi region and agency says some of its staff members were attacked on monday before stock was genuine aldor is denying accusations of rape after a woman came forward accusing him of sexual assault in las vegas in two thousand and nine around or took to twitter saying i firmly deny the accusations being issued against me rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything that i am and believe in keene as i may be to clear my name i refuse to feed the media spectacle created by people seeking to promote themselves at my expense katherine my yoga wants to avoid a three hundred seventy five thousand dollar settlement she says she was quote

coerced into accepting to keep quiet she's filed a civil lawsuit which alleges rinaldo hired a team of fixes to make the situation go away by olga asked nevada police to reopen the criminal case last month and is seeking two hundred thousand dollars in damages your spurs and donald trump has mocked the testimony of the woman who's accused 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 know where is the place i don't remember how many you know once it was. speaking to rally in mississippi trump running through a list of what he called holes and christine lies he folds testimony cavanagh is denied allegations he sexually assaulted lousy forty nine hundred eighty two but f.b.i. investigators have been given until friday to make further inquiries to other women have made similar claims. extreme poverty in some of brazil's most heavily populated areas is make people easy prey for politicians looking to buy votes many

of these places lack basic services like running water and sewage disposal but they're a magnet for political leaders who hope to win big in sunday's election one of them is the northeastern state of other gauss or latin america to loosen human corpse. 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 the 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 from where they are born 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 people killed or do they have. of course if i'm a politician and i gave 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 in mixed race are the most disenfranchised. it's a vicious circle of inequality aggravated by a severe recession and government just stare. that's left thirteen million brazilians unemployed and even more living in extreme poverty with this economist says a chronic structural problem is to blame them we will stop 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 decks 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 as african government is being urged to do more to tackle drug gangs where policing has increased many communities say it's

not nearly enough time to miller one mother in cape town who says she had to kill her own son because of his addiction. yes. you know you must suck it up but it was in a room in the small courtyard that ellen paki's killed her own son by strangling him a.b. 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 swore that all of this when i came with that her and then i just wondered to stop with what he was doing in our and resist ending with it or even just didn't want to do it but this one i put record is together and i put that off but i'm listening inside

a home ellen shows us where on one occasion her son used an axe to hack through a wall 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 there wasn't even the point of writing to kill him i just want to stop but at that x. eleven deal is a community plagued by gang violence and home and many others are often caught in the crossfire of gang shootouts a home is riddled with bullet holes 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 bar was sent to 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 or awake because it all felt the same you know you you in this bubble we the world goes on and the world will sort but used all. the sin to seize more than eighty percent of opioid addicts in the western cape province but people here say they need more help ellen paki's was given a three year suspended sentence and two hundred eighty hours community service for killing her son which she says she'll always regret doing some may say she got of lightly that this is for living and the people here. a form has been made telling ellen story highlighting not only her family's struggle with drug addiction but also a community is desperation yet a little has changed for ellen she has two other sons who are also addicts she continues to struggle financially she says kept prisoner in a community where drugs poverty and crime are

a way of life for me to miller al-jazeera in the cape flats malaysia's former first lady was milan saw has been arrested or was detained after being questioned by the anti corruption commission and will be charged on thursday her husband former prime minister najib razak is facing trial for money laundering and abuse of power are being prosecuted after billions of dollars went missing for a state fund known as one n.t.v. . a missing chinese superstar has been ordered to pay one hundred twenty nine million dollars in fines for tax evasion and being being hasn't been seen since june or the reports say she's been detained in a letter posted on one of her official social media accounts she said she's accepted the authorities decision and is ashamed of her behavior actresses appeared in the x.-men and iron man franchises just to be the face of kathy and mercedes benz in china. and brown has more. well this is sort to be the biggest ever fine

imposed on a chinese movie star eight hundred and ninety two million r m b that's almost one hundred thirty million u.s. dollars that's what the tax authorities say fan being being than they say if she pays this money back she will not face criminal prosecution fan being being says she hopes to be able to do just that now fan being being is not the best known actress here in china but she's certainly one of the best paid earning some forty three million dollars last year she vanished from public view in june and nothing had been heard of her until now she has issued a statement on way bow which is china's equivalent of twitter she says that she's been experiencing unprecedented suffering i'm ashamed of what i've done and she apologized to her many fans now it could well be that the chinese authorities who've been investigating other stars a sending out

a warning that this is what could happen to other celebrities who avoid paying tax it seems that in the case of fan being being she had been understating what she was paid in her contract and the authorities seem to say this is become part of a widespread trend that they're determined to deal with. and one of the top stories around here more than fourteen hundred people are confirmed dead and hundreds more are missing after friday's earthquake and tsunami on the indonesian island a city ways a tens of thousands have been left homeless and survivors are digging through debbie looking for scraps of food now authorities fear disease will break out among the displaced. iran's president has welcomed a ruling by the un's top court ordering the u.s. to temporarily lift some sanctions on iran the u.s. is penalizing companies trading with iran after it re imposed sanctions earlier

this year the i.c.j. has ruled washington must withdraw sanctions related to humanitarian goods and civil aviation is your sexual state my pompei responded by canceling a nine hundred fifty five treaty of amity with iran i'm announcing that the united states is terminating the nine hundred fifty five treaty of amity with iran this is a decision frankly that is thirty nine years overdue iran is abusing the i.c.j. for political and propaganda purposes and their case as you can see even the decision lacked merit given iran's history of terrorism ballistic missile activity other malign behavior iran's claims under the treaty are absurd the court's ruling today was a defeat for ron the russian president vladimir putin has denounced the poison double agent. as a traitor screwball and his daughter survived a nerve agent attack in the u.k. city of souls bree in march and he's just a spied a trying to the motherland do you understand you're such

a turn traitor to the motherland well he's one of them. looking like you mean he's just a scumbag that seat in the u.k. prime minister has once again shown off a dog's moves during the final day of a conservative party conference in birmingham in a closing speech to resume a made a spirited defense of her government's bret's its strategy saying the u.k. will be a champion of free trade if the rebels have released two songs of yemen's forward president ali abdullah saleh it's a move that signals an effort to break the deadlock in the ongoing conflict and media label arrived in jordan after oman and the un envoy to yemen negotiated their release. there's a top stories do stay with us here on his ear witness is coming up next that's watching ifa.

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