scavenging for food in the indonesian city of pallu aid is slow coming five days after an earthquake and tsunami. fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead the international court of justice calls on the u.s. to lift some of its sanctions on iran plus. i have treated the european union with nothing but respect the united kingdom expects to say. british prime minister to resubmit gets a standing ovation after laying out her breakfast at bottom line at her party's conference and is an end in sight to iraq's months of political uncertainty is

finally a pick for prime minister. thank you for joining us indonesia has put out a plea for more body bags as years of disease adds to the walls on the island of so no way c. five days after an earthquake and tsunami well authorities say it's callers of an accountant people are likely to still be buried in collapsed buildings the official death toll has topped fourteen hundred a third of those have already been buried but they often is that number will soar more than two and a half thousand people have been hospitalized with serious injuries seventy thousand have been displaced the united nations has expressed frustration at the speed of the response it says hundreds of thousands of people urgently require clean water food shelter and fuel there is anger thomas has this report from central paolo city. 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 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. 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 the ages 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 all 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

a simply getting out under thomas al-jazeera palu indonesia in other world news concern is mounting for the safety of prominent saudi joran is jamal khashoggi senior turkish government officials say he remains inside the saudi consulate in istanbul this spot saudi denials recently became a vocal critic of the kingdom's leadership. 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 to know who he does feel one and we are positive he is still inside it we are waiting with his fiance who is with us here we are staging a sit in here until he is released. once an advisor to the saudi royal family who showed he fell out of favor as he became increasingly vocal in his criticism of crown prince mohammed bin soundman i still see him as

a reformer but he used gathering all power within his hand and it would be much better for him to allow a bidding space for a critic for saudi 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 custodies website now declares he's been arrested but saudi authorities insist he left their consulate but this is the show's most of all is 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 an 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 you are talking to al jazeera in march because shogi 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. the international court of justice in the hague has ruled on an appeal by iran to suspend american sanctions while the court said he wants humanitarian needs must come first it stops short of condemning u.s. actions then he has an aide says 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 treaty of amity economic relations and concert a lot of writers shall remove by means of it shews in any impediment is arising from the measures announced it on eight may twenty thousand 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 t.v. 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 for 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 to do 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 who are not observing the international law that is the americans who have been ignoring they are is a listen by the united nations security council on monday iran in 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 zain but. let's get reaction now from jordan at the state department in washington was the secretary of state mike compare has been reacting to this. well essentially the big thing that mike pompei o said was that the u.s. was going to go ahead and get rid of one thousand nine hundred fifty five treaty which essentially was the reason why iran felt they could go to the i.c.j. here's more of what the secretary of state had to say this is a decision frankly that is thirty nine years overdue in july iran brought america's

case in the international court of justice alleging violations of the treaty of amity iran six to challenge the united states' decision to cease participation in the iran nuclear deal and to reimpose the sanctions that were lifted as part of that deal or on his attempt to interfere with the sovereign rights of the united states to take a waffle actions necessary to protect our national security and iran is abusing the i.c.j. for political and propaganda purposes. so does this mean that the u.s. is going to ignore the ruling from the i.c.j. and not provide humanitarian aid to the iranian people michael peo told reporters on wednesday no the u.s. will continue to provide aid it's going to be working with the u.s. treasury department to make certain that it is doing so without violating any of its rules but the important part here following is that not only has the u.s. decided to get rid of this nine hundred fifty five treaty that it had signed with

a previous iranian government but it's also going to ignore the i.c.j. ruling because it says that this was a case that impinge on impinged on the u.s. is sovereign right to handle its own national security and a lot of people will see this was as a u.s. further isolating itself from the international state but does the trumpet ministration even care about being isolated at all. it really does fall and that's part of the reason why i made such a forceful statement on wednesday and even said that the treaty as far as the u.s. is concerned is no longer in effect in fact one thing that you're also not going to see the u.s. do something which is already a lot of attention and a lot of criticism is going to continue its efforts to economically isolate iran in

order to compel it to engage in a new deal on its nuclear weapons program they're trying to get as many countries as possible to cut off purchases of iranian oil by november that's certainly something that has already put washington at odds with many other countries ross thank you very much for that reason jordan my forest in washington d.c. still ahead on al-jazeera russian president vladimir putin attacks a former spy but denies a crime in order to his poisoning plus one of china's top movie stars is find more than one hundred twenty nine million dollars in a high profile tax evasion case. has a flash flood risk is returning to the higher ground the caucasus or the southern caspian not much to the moment you see sometimes but i'm talking about the forecast

that's only twenty four hours ahead and we've got the first few showers showing up north to tear around something else maybe on the eastern side of the black sea eastern med look fine and clouds for you once again in for example the lebanon and syria but let me take you to friday and all of a sudden the green blossoms and the chances are that from maybe as much on science words you've got a prevalence of big showers thunderstorms possibly the courses months described and so fresh does seem quite likely as a result but that's it for the south is still quite humidities of especially hard there. last thirty i would suggest a riff or tea in mecca no real sign of clouds building in the sky either so almost cloud free can't say blue skies but least white skies some dust of course being carried in southern africa we expect to see more and more the way of rain certainly there has been some developments on this thailand of the frontal system around been the eastern cape and then maybe southern mozambique but once that's gone through we're back to the drawing picture and then cape town is warming up

a northerly breeze means twenty four degrees and probably blue skies.

you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories indonesia is appealing for body binds as more remains are found on the island of snow a see a surprise us starting to trickle out more than five days after the earthquake and tsunami the official death toll now stands at one thousand four hundred seven soldiers have been pay set petrol stations and supermarkets to prevent looting present djoko we doto says more fuel is being brought into the region but it has to be guarded because of security concerns. the international court of justice in the hague has ruled on the appeal by iran to suspend american sanctions while the court said iran's humanitarian needs must come first it stops short of condemning u.s. actions the u.s. says the i.c.j. has no jurisdiction in the matter. and who the rebels in yemen have released the sons of yemen's former president in a move that signals an effort to break the deadlock in the ongoing conflict. and my

john have arrived in jordan after oman and the u.n. envoy to yemen martin griffiths negotiated their release the two had been detained since former president ali abdullah saleh was killed by the rebels in december twenty seventh meanwhile yemen's prime minister has called for an economic summit to try to end of the slide of the ryal the country is now on the brink of financial collapse the resulting increase in the price of food and fuel are further worsening the humanitarian crisis. we have all confidence that by the support of the coalition led by saudi arabia we will be able to overcome the economic crisis that has cast his shadows on the yemenis we cannot triumph over the who things and their iranian allies amid the dire economic conditions you many citizens will have no faith in what we say or plan despite our actions on the ground i call on our brothers in the kingdom to streamline the use of the financial deposits granted by

them to the central bank in the yemeni businesses i call on all parties including the who sees to leave the country's resources of oil gas customs and taxes away from the conflict and leave it to the authority of the legitimate government and to deal only with the central banks of thora the in aden after months of political wrangling iraq finally has a new prime minister former minister adel abdul mahdi has been tasked to form a government to monitor door reports from baghdad. i mean of five month long delay iraq finally has a new president but home solid over the past deal to keep union of kurdistan one two hundred twenty votes from the two hundred seventy three lawmakers haughton to tuesday's session saga held various ports in there are 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 rival could this time democratic party fought for saying who withdrew from the u.s. during the second round election the monitor what happened in the iraqi parliament today is unusual and against past agreements particularly among kurdish pacifists that's why the vote she's an acceptable to us we will give the full response later and i'm on the official agreement dating back to the two thousand and three us led invasion iraq's presidency is held back while the prime minister's shia and the parliament speaker is sunni the delay in electing a president has meant it out this would it about the state of politics in that 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 logged in that is considered an independent candidate but he will have to win the support of mid to shia are brooks in parliament to get conformed to the post of prime minister. two shii lead brooks of the 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 why the lab and it group supporters of the populous shock clitic said that whose fault also warned the most votes in the election the blocking kluges put on groups led by former prime minister nuri al maliki any for the wrongdoing among the shia and other functions could further delay the process of confirming the prime minister designate mohamed i'll do i'll just read a book about. the british prime minister has made a spirited defense of her bracks it strategy to resume

a 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 close the conservative parties on your conference in birmingham honestly would say 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 some things changed for the worse i think she then 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 these ng with thousands 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 would have gone down extremely well with the party faithful but opinions of 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 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 in during may's speech she told her party conference that britain will not be held hostage by russia britain has charged two russian men at billy's boys and former spice and his daughter yulia on

its soil present that may be put in as course a traitor and denied any russian involvement in what happened. he's just a spied a traitor to the motherland you understand you're such a turn traitor to the motherland well he's one of them. looking at you know is the is just a scum bag that's it. rory chalons has more now from moscow. some context for vladimir putin's comments can be found in a documentary program that was shown on russian t.v. earlier this year now in that putin was asked by an interviewer whether he could forgive and he said yes of course he could but not everything when asked what he couldn't forgive putin's answer was betrayal so that suggests that a script how who have let him eat fruits in his called a traitor to the motherland and scum falls into the brackets of the type of

person that putin might not be able to forgive now putin of course is saying that russia had nothing to do with this and on stage he said that the whole script our case was nothing more than an information campaign that had been artificially blown up but still this is revealing language being used by the russian president u.s. president chompers mocks the testimony of the woman accusing supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh off sexual assault. how did you get home i don't remember. where is the place i don't remember how many years ago was it i don't know. the woman his referring to christian blondes he flew testified to a senate committee last week that she'd been assaulted by a great company when they were in high school cavanaugh denied the incident but the f.b.i. has been given a week to make further inquiries kimberly hunt kid has more from washington. as the f.b.i.

continues its investigation into the allegations made by christie and bossy ford with regard to the background in 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 blassie ford's testimony in fact saying that it is hurting men that they need to move it 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 kavanaugh 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 was the 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 their go. 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 seat as a supreme court justice given the fact that the president has come out so strongly

against christine blasio forward that vote in favor of that nomination may be more difficult for those two republican female senators. malaysia's former first lady rossmore months or has been arrested and will be charged with corruption on thursday rosmah was detained after being questioned by the anti-corruption commission has been former prime minister najib razak is set to face trial next year for money laundering and a piece of power it's over billions of dollars that went missing from the state funds known as one and d b. china's tax authorities have ordered one of the country's top actresses pay a one hundred twenty nine million dollars fine funding being hasn't been seen in public since june reports have emerged saying she's been detained by the authorities edge and brown has more. well this is sold 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 older than they say if she pays this money back she will not face criminal prosecution funding being says she hopes to be able to do just that now fund being being is not the best known actress here in china but she 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 bo 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. again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera indonesia is appealing for body bags as more remains are found on the island of soloway see a supplies are starting to trickle in more than five days after the earthquake and tsunami the official death toll not tops fourteen hundred soldiers have been placed at petrol stations and supermarkets to prevent looting a concern is mounting for the safety of prominent saudi journalist. senior turkish government officials say he remained inside the saudi consulate in istanbul despite saudi denials the washington post had said it wasn't sure if contributor jamal khashoggi was being detained or questioned it was last seen entering the consulate

to pick up paperwork to show his commentaries and criticism of crown prince mohammed bin salman have been published by several western news papers the united states has terminated its nine hundred fifty five economic treaty with iran it was the basis for which iran brought a lawsuit before the un's top court international court of justice has ruled that the u.s. should lifted sanctions on humanitarian goods to iran the u.s. is penalizing companies trading with iran after a three impose sanctions earlier this year the u.k. prime minister to resubmit says britain is not afraid to leave without a deal if it has to that is to leave the european union at the conservative on his annual conference may defended her plan for rex it which is due to happen in about six months time. no one wants a good deal more than me but that has never meant getting the deal at any cost. britain isn't afraid to leave with no deal if we have to leaving without

a deal introducing tyrus 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 she had politician ident abdul mahdi has been picked as iraq's prime minister he was chosen by the new t. elected president kurdish politician but how sunny. you have to say with the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next here it's inside story i hope we do stay with us thanks so much.

indonesia is overwhelmed in the aftermath of an earthquake and tsunami while regions from the u.s. to india and asia struggle to rebuild after powerful storms so why is the response often very different in poor and rich countries this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm a homage i'm joined in the wake of a disaster certain needs are obvious food medicine clean water and the restoration of power but as the last few weeks have shown getting all those things to devastated communities is.