they are nice some are almost. sure. couldn't hurt. more arms. for his family and also the loss of a true friend thank you david thank you so much for speaking to us david harris from the middle east side joining us there from london now after weeks of uncertainty about the fate of the missing interpol president china finally says it's investigating manhole re the anti-corruption watchdog says maying is being suspect investigated for suspected violations of law making a first public appearance area mangum ways wife told reporters that her husband sent her a picture of a knife signaling he was in danger mang disappeared while on a trip to china last month he's a former chinese minister of public security. the indonesian government says it

believes they could be around five thousand people still missing in some areas of palo city after last week's earthquake and tsunami it was one of the region's worst affected by the disaster which has cleese killed close to two thousand people in that number is likely to rise in the coming days this satellite imagery shows the speed and extent of the damage solid ground turned into rivers of mud sweeping away hundreds of homes and people another seven thousand five hundred houses were destroyed in just one area of borrower some sunk up to twenty feet underground al-jazeera as andrew thomas has more on what will happen next to some of the worst affected villages. if they say five thousand missing people did indeed lose their lives it would more than triple the overall death toll that we know about already now the estimate has been reached by talking to community leaders and local government leaders about who they think is still unaccounted for so the could be some double counting going on or it could be that people left the city in the

aftermath of the earthquake and didn't let anybody know so we have to be a bit cautious with that figure nevertheless it is believable standing here this is borrowed one of the two areas of the city most devastated by the earthquake here and elsewhere another part of the city but tobe over the other side the ground liquefied during the earthquake swallowing everything in on itself the government in this press conference also said that this area and the other will be for a state people will not return here will be big parks memorial parks to remember what happened here they've also revealed that back in twenty twelve geological surveys were carried out and they knew that this part of the city was vulnerable to liquefaction so there will be some questions asked there the government says the search will be scaled down significantly from the eleventh of october after then it's really the point at which bodies to compile used to the degree that you can't make identifications so this will essentially become

a mass grave and the government has said as well that they will allocate thirty seven million u.s. dollars to the reconstruction of this part of the way and wayne hay has more from palo on the difficulties medical professionals are facing in the aftermath of disaster. hospitals in central sulawesi is struggling to cope following the earthquake and tsunami many patients have to wait in stiflingly hot tents with limited medical equipment to treat them most of the doctors and nurses are gone this is one of the largest hospitals in palu and is operating with around ten percent of its original staff and its source of more. trying to call the stuff to get them to come back and then we'll be able to identify we're still here. and all we lost are two big disaster the damage shows what the medical workers had to deal with on the night of the disaster it's that there are around thirty people still unaccounted for inside this building including hospital staff and patients there

are so many bodies still buried in mud and beneath rubble around the disaster areas that it's increasingly becoming a health concern particularly for the search teams handling the decomposing bodies and body parts exposes the recovery workers to diseases such as tuberculosis and cholera the disaster has also left more than sixty thousand homeless many are living in the open where rubbish is not being collected and there are no toilets doctors say they are starting to see an increase in diarrhea and skin rashes the primary health clinic is. not working right now so you feel supported by the volunteers however in the fall and the media here so it's kind. of have to educate people to to go to the clinic or any. medical team that provide the health care but there's a constant risk of survivors suffering injuries so free tetanus shots are being

given many people spend their days making dangerous tricks across the rubble and debris to where they used to live more than a week on the scale of this disaster is still emerging and the number of casualties continues to grow the many potential health risks could make the crisis even worse wayne hay al jazeera indonesia. plenty more ahead on this news hour including counting the gains in cameroons presidential election will africa's own this leader get another shot at our. last scalloped on begins with a highly contested u.s. midterm elections in november we both we are live in the republican hawkman def texas. so there is hamilton storms to victory in japan and edges closer to a fifth woman or one title will have the details and says.

the u.s. president and north korea's leader have agreed to meet again as soon as possible for more talks on denuclearization secretary of state mike compared to live at the news to soccer in our eyes when he returned from his latest meeting with kim jong un in pyongyang the americans are pushing for the north to give up its nuclear weapons michael his meeting with kim jong un as a success. of course it is the it that is the only in the over the or. is it. rob mcbride has more from soft korea's capital seoul. secretary of state mike pompei o arriving in seoul sunday evening to brief president moon j.n. on progress made in pyongyang pump aoe was short on details but the presidential office here in seoul released

a statement later saying that pompei o and kim jong un did get into talks about steps towards denuclearization and about the subject of inspections also agreeing to set up working level talks to pursue those things and also at the earliest opportunity another summit meeting between us president donald trump and kim jong un this has been taken as a positive sign here in south korea the last time that pompei o went to pyongyang was in july when he was not received by kim jong un this time he was hosted to lunch also and early a visit was was planned for august which was canceled at the last minute so this has been read as a positive sign that dialogue is still on track and. i dearly hope that your leaders as well as the upcoming u.s. and north korea summit will signal irreversible and decisive progress in terms of

complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula as well as the peace process this is a busy time diplomatically pompei zero in one day has visited both north and south korea sunday monday his trip takes him on to china meanwhile north korea has been busy on the diplomatic front its deputy foreign minister is currently in moscow for talks with chinese and russian officials its thoughts to try to continue north korea's lobbying effort for a lifting of sanctions and they're just a few hours left to vote in brazil small step divisive and uncertain presidential elections in decades far right candidate vasa narrow cast his ballot wearing a bullet. festooned rio de janeiro support for him a surge in the polls since he was stabbed during an election ronnie a month ago his main rival fernando had died of the workers' party cast his vote in south today. so by the end of the good people of brazil want to get away

from socialism they do not want but his way was regime they want a liberal economy and depend only values all that is made people realize that brazil cannot continue in that way of socialism we don't want to be tomorrow what business whale is today. the important thing is that brazil will have a second round vote the second round is always there we need opportunity for people to compare the projects i've always been in favor of a second round because of this reason so people will have the opportunity to compare the proposals to compare the candidates profiles to compare each one's history to study what each one has done for brazil and what each one intends to do . that's going to have to are not an american agenda see a new man who is in rio de janeiro in one of the cities not just van as you see i understand tell us about the mood where you walk on election day. hello this is where i'm standing right now is

a pedestrian walkway where people are going from the or tool of the polling station that's behind me you know if the polls are going to close in the in about an hour and a half i'm still there are huge amounts of people out here and there are still people handing out little sliders with the names on the faces of the candidates desperate to try to get every last vote and i'm talking particularly about those who are homeless but also not all and that's because his supporters are feeling very very confident at this hour they're almost sure the polls will be elected president if not in the first round in the second round because even though he is on the solid genest he is that i hope he is homophobic he is racist his comments have supported . the dictatorships of the former dictatorships rather of brazil and of chile he supports torture and yet he has as we've been saying to support in the polls while those who oppose him and that want to vote either. any of the other candidates say

that they're frightened one person told me a short while ago you know you can always put a corrupt politician in jail but when you have a dictator he puts you in jail they really believe that the future of democracy in brazil is what is hanging in the balance here because this election is so so polarized slowly and many people have been crying in fact i've seen them when they come out of the polls both on paper and against right and you know how what is it that contributed to the rise in popularity of a narrow how did a man with such extreme views a minute political party and almost no budget for campaigning become the favorite to win. and that's a that's a very good question first of all because the society has changed here brazilians are tired of corruption they're tired of violence they're tired of their political parties and the system which they believe hasn't worked for them and of course that's only made worse by the worst recession in recent history but in talk of that

also not only has eight seconds of official campaigning allowed because that's proportionate to the amount of votes you got in the last election and yet he has made this campaign all of the social networks particularly here in brazil through lots more than half of brazilians use what's actually a fake news that have been bombarding that that particular form of social network hour of communication in the last few weeks and that has made in fact his popularity rise even further one last question before we let you go and that is about fernando had the workers party's candidate he came into the game bother me because the party i mean you know how to longtime deciding whether or not former president doing a would. and i wonder whether image of the workers' party and the fact that he's such been such a prominent figure of the workers' party is hurting or helping fernando dot.

both actually you're absolutely right he only came into the campaign twenty days ago that's no time at all in political another political campaign calendar and of course he was able to bring over some little hair and some of those votes that would have gone to the moon but those people who are undecided say that that is the worst possible thing the fact that his slogan is i am. a little leans on these a little taking on this widespread belief that it is a corrupt party a party that brought this country into the ground and so far there has been no mail cool but no you know recognition that the p.t.a. or the workers' party made any mistakes on the contrary his slogan is better times are ahead the happy days are ahead and people just don't believe it ok to see it thank you very much for a for a brand new c.n.n. and latin america is a live in rio de janeiro and here and counting has begun in cameron meanwhile for an election that's likely to see africa's oldest president remain in power will be

a is seeking a seven time after thirty six years in office the election has been overshadowed by a separatist uprising in the english speaking cameroon security forces killed three armed men in the northwest region hours ago saying they were trying to disrupt the vote him morgan has this update from cameron's capital the. voting is underway in cameron's presidential elections here in the capital but the same cannot be said in two parts of the country which is the north west in the southwest where the crisis has overshadowed the elections now those two regions the northwest and the southwest have been facing the insecurity and instability for a year because in you speaking fighters who have called themselves and don't use have been battling the government demanding secession they say that the government has marginalize them but they're not being represented enough and that they want their own. and then country that speaks their language which is english as a result more than two hundred thousand have been displaced and six hundred have been killed including security forces those two hundred thousand who have been displaced they are here in the capital your own day they're also into oil and many of them are in the bush they have no access to polling stations so they cannot cast

their vote for the candidate that they want to see become president for the next seven years the opposition also said that the elections are marked with irregularities i care more know who is the candidate for the opposition party called now said that he did not want to be part of this election as of two days ago so he did not want his name to be on the ballot but when he came to cast his vote for his support for the candidate of his choice maurice come to who he is supporting and he told his supporters to support to vote for he said that he found his name on the ballot and he thinks that is a joke and that is not fair concerning the fact that he is no longer a candidate the turnout for this election is not yet clear and more than thirteen million eligible voters but less than six million have registered to vote and because of the instability in the northwest in the southwest even less will actually vote. still ahead on this al-jazeera news hour more elections this sunday the polls have closed in bosnia all on one of the world's most complicated political systems where live in sarajevo and sports my kids names it to the final

corner to win thailand's first moto g.p. and move closer to the wild. hello once again the caspian coast has been catching shocks the biggest ones have gone through we've had lighter ones since and the systems clearly joined up and still developing further east so in two days worth of rain we've had over two hundred deliveries reports and one or two places this is north of the capital and it's the runoff from the high ground the mountains upon which to round sits now let's test them up you want to two more showers but the development i think is going to be over afghanistan and where rain or snow seem likely it's cloud to the west that i'm not much more the cloud i don't think temps just saying much the same we're just below forty now in baghdad and that's the sort of level that runs all

down through the gulf states no particular breeze out of it as well but coming into the coast of oman and yemen there will certainly be an increasing cloud shield ahead of what looks like a developing cycle they're not exactly sure where to go moment most likely it's going to pick in coming somewhere into the amman a yemeni coastline but it might go further north obviously will keep it all not significant rain is going to be the result and flash flooding of course. there have been a few showers recently running down the skeleton coast of namibia nothing dramatic but while it seems there want to see more to come for a day or so at least. were . i have didn't get it almost my entire professional life so they were mentioning fight against corruption and what i have heard is that we need champions we need

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you know again you're watching the news hour with me fully back t. bone are in mind of our top stories this hour take issue authorities believe a saudi journalist missing since tuesday has been killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul sanji arabia denies the allegations jamal disappeared after entering the building to pick up paperwork for his marriage to president ship type better wants his authorities are looking into camera records and monitoring or transits. into paul says france has received the resignation of making home way as the president with immediate effect china says it's investigating him for suspected violations of law mang disappeared while on a trip to china last month and they're just a few hours left before the end of brazil's most divisive and uncertain presidential elections in decades far right candidate shy of all snarled search in

the polls since he was stopped during an election a month ago is main rival fernando had died of the workers' party cast his vote early in sao paolo. and eyes on another election now in bosnia counting has begun in a vote that could send the fragmented nation in a new direction twenty three years after a peace deal is set up a complex power sharing system bosnia has three presidents and two regional parliament along ethnic lines among the leading candidates are a pro russian nationalists another famous moves towards the european union an unemployment rate of over twenty percent is adding to the ethnic tension david change is live for us now from sarajevo david the polls have closed about an hour or so ago one of the early indications. well yes we'll get the turnout at least in about thirty minutes from the electoral commission here and we're waiting for that turnout figure because it would be very indicative of who's going to win and who's going to lose but the initial results

did show that there were a large votes in the republican subscale which is the main serbian entity and it was higher than the vote turnout in here in the federation of bosnia-herzegovina so this could indicate that the the one man everybody is looking at who is the the serbian leader who wants to stand for the presidency the chopper tripartite presidency could be actually successful in gaining that position now here's a man who has led a highly divisive campaign he's praised the war criminal right of and care to change his heritage and he's also made it very clear he wants republika serbska to actually break away to secede to gain independence and yet he's actually going for the presidency here so that means it's a very difficult situation if that vote is is confirmed we'll know in about four hours' time but i have with me

a professor of sociology at the university of sarajevo a professor i want to ask you these results appear to be going along the same lines as before there's no real victor that people are going to win here they're going to be the losers once again do you think it's still because the shadow the haunting shadow in the burden of the hundred thousand dead and and the mass graves the genocide the ethnic cleansing it's so much to recover from is that why the political divides a so clear here certainly the social reconstruction and post conference societies such a mark of genocide war crimes the biggest conflict in the european so often war two needs to be taken into account however looking domestic politics twenty plus years . war ended with it and. i would say that there is a number of father correlating issues particularly who were related to the structure of this country also the internal divisions. among those but not only

those and in particular i would say the issue all something that you have to a fair as. we were basically out of the setting divisions are looking. best position and benefits for the few and minority majority still remains the. subject of social injustice is the subject of corruption which is parade. they are basically controlling the whole societal process including the. employment rates and so on and so forth so i would say all of this elements needs to be taken in account certainly not losing inside the fact that this is. if he reaches the tripartite presidency what effect will that have it is too early to know whether he will be the one but if that is happening you might notice the position that we hear from your leaders having in mind that he was. speaking very

negatively towards the joint institutions of this country but he's now running for that position it wouldn't be a first time to see the shift of it is very much depending of course on the situation in the neighborhood in countries and european union and other major partners as well plus he's so far proven to be opportunistic politicians who are basically gaining a lot of private benefits. in a leadership so i wouldn't necessarily looking only for the scenario to be. actually he might very consciously sitting for years and maintaining the negative consensus status quo in this country as we witnessed in past election results. professor i'm going to have to leave it there were short of short of time but we do have time for one more question the main issues that you would find in the western europe in such a real democracy would be unemployment to forty percent unemployment for youth

twenty thousand having left the last two years to get jobs in germany in the european union why hasn't that come to the surface i would say to these very complex again way controlling the societal process including the employment is basically the way in which are trying to secure the positions in particular political positions and when it's not to based on solid ground when dinner is a meritocracy and those who are supposed to get the position are not served as supposed to be but rather those who are basically in favor of this or that political party unfortunately people are voting for for for the very selfish every day every day positions and not for the future professor thank you very much for talking to us and very depressing hearing from the professor that there are ethical entrepreneurs here whose future whose money and whose position depends on keeping these ethnic divisions alive now back to you thank you for that david and i for us

in sarajevo. that's less than a months ago before america's midterm elections and one of the issues dominating the campaign is immigration a lot of that has to do with donald trump who has made it one of his signature issues first as candidate and now as president in two thousand and sixteen trump promised to ban muslims from traveling to the u.s. once in office several efforts to do that were blocked by the course but the supreme court finally upheld a version that limits immigration from several mainly muslim countries zero tolerance policy towards undocumented immigrants rips thousands of children away from their parents at the us mexico border after a public outcry and political uproar the administration said it would change the policy but many children some haven't been reunited with their families and then there is what some calls his big beautiful border wall he still talks about it constantly but congress has refused to approve most of the money needed to build it one state at the heart of this debate is texas it has long been

a republican stronghold but as rob reynolds reports from houston this year that might be changing. given from a friend on a steamy houston afternoon for an underdog camillus ago a kennedy are pounding the pavement at this largely let tino neighborhood urging residents to vote in november president donald trump's harsh immigration rhetoric policies have energized latino voters like eighteen year old elease soto who's enthusiastic about voting for the first time in deeply affected by scenes of family separation at the border i come from a family of immigrants so to really see. families be torn apart it's just really heartbreaking grass roots get out the vote efforts like this may make all the difference in this year's extremely tight race for senate here in texas

still actually republican texas has not elected a democrat to the senate in thirty years but liberal democratic congressman beto over ork is now running fewer than four percentage points behind incumbent republican senator ted cruz we need to bring people out of the shadows allow them to get right by law and yes there should be an earned path to citizenship my views on immigration are simple and i have some of them up many times in just four words legal good illegal bad o'rourke is gaining because people of color who often don't turn out in midterm elections are getting politically involved you see more enthusiasm of people who vote houston is the most diverse city in the us and nearly a quarter of all people here are foreign born you can see that on the streets and in the kitchens the city is a polyglot polychrome picture postcard of a future us when people of color become the majority

a few decades from now but this is not a good time to be an immigrant in usent says immigrants rights legal advocate tatyana obama though pamela residents were calm and say why do i do in wrong will i be deported sometimes is not. out of the ordinary a bit afraid that fear could lead to change if volunteers like these can convince let tino's and other people of color to head to the polls as fast as this machine can crank out tortillas texas may elect a democratic senator in november and possibly change the balance of power in washington to. and rob joins us now live from houston so rob tell us more about how the issue of immigration is playing out in texas a state with a notch population of nineteen yes. well that is of course the number one issue here in texas along with education and some of the more standard issues but

as you heard in our story a lot of people of let me know heritage in texas were really struck by the family separation policy in those pictures of children behind. chain link fences of children being taken away from their parents and so forth and that has to a certain degree energized the large latino population about forty percent of all the eligible voters of all the population that is in the state of texas is of let you know heritage let's talk a little bit more about this now with tony already yano tonio is the communications director for an organization called jolts which seeks to maximize let teano political power and tony there's been kind of a conventional wisdom in american politics that let tino's joat turnout and actually go to the polls in the numbers that really represent their demographic strength is that true why is it true and is it changing now you know rob that's

a great question it's changing and we're mobilizing the latino electorate here in texas at a great ide a great speed by two thousand and twenty two it's expected the latino demographic will be the leading demographic in the state of texas and we know that it's imperative to tap into this on top goldmine of john latino voters they're going to mobilize the future of democracy not just in the lone star state but in the united states but why up till now has there let the no vote been somewhat disappointing you know the disappointment comes from the lack of investment from both political parties they have overlooked the latino electorate and it's time for both parties to stop seeing that the nose as just a given identity. and you start looking at us as a conservative i'm sorry a constituency that needs recruitment so in other words they haven't asked for latino votes there has been very little in regards to the real genuine outreach to latinos what we've seen as a big big attack of latinos demo and the demographic in general and not a lot of support for amplifying the voices and the values that make latino families

want to go and mobilize behind in a candidate over the past couple of years some of the things we've talked about president trump's rhetoric on immigration his determination to build a border wall the separation of families zero tolerance there's this mean that the republican party is essentially lost to let tino's maybe for generations you know it's very difficult for you to try to recruit an electorate that you're constantly attacking and in the republican party has been on a constant attack about the most in the united states and specifically here in texas where we have now become synonymous with attention centers just blocks down the street from here there's a potential detention center that will be opening up for undocumented children this is all under the administration of a republican president with a republican majority electorate understands that and they will vote accordingly all right that's all we have time for our yano thank you very much so the of the voting will be on the sixth of november and texas will be one of the most closely

watched races in this midterm election folly back to you thank you very much for that rob reynolds live for us in houston in the u.s. state of texas and staying in the u.s. twenty people have been canned after a limousine carrying a wedding party can minded with a vehicle and crowding to pedestrians in upstate new york witnesses say the name is enough the road ends truck people in the campagna store in the town of school harry investigators are not trying to determine what caused the crash. online critics of lebanon's political need to say they're being increasingly send sent in specially when discussing topics such as politics and religion some social media users have been. tara gate is in jail for the content of their posts then a harder has the story from beirut. is back home after three weeks in prison his crime a post on his facebook page read one was charged with slander of public officials under lebanon's criminal code.