time gorbachev and the opportunity for peacefully store to third won't do w. . bush this is deja vu news live from berlin the death toll climbs in indonesia more than eight hundred people are now confirmed dead after friday's earthquake and tsunami on the island of sue the way city officials are warning the final figure could be in the thousands also coming up what's in a name macedonians vote today on whether to add north to the country's title

a yes vote would pave the way for the country to be renamed the republic of north macedonia hopefully ending a decades long dispute with greece. and the test c.e.o. elon musk forced to pay millions in fines and stepped down as company's chairman u.s. regulators charge the billionaire with fraud saying he misled investors with tweets about the company. i'm carl aspen welcome to the program we start with some breaking news the death toll from a major earthquake that triggered a tsunami on the indonesian island of sue the way sea has risen to more than eight hundred the country's vice president warns the number could soar into the thousands large parts of the city of do have been reduced to rubble rescue workers are now scrambling to reach trapped survivors as hospitals struggle to cope with. injured

with power and communication networks down there still little news on the numbers of dead in more remote areas. we welcome correspondent max walden in jakarta for more on this story max we heard the death toll rising rapidly so far those confirmed deaths there all in the city of palooka what we know about other affected areas. yes today there was an update from the disaster management agency and it still seems that very little pretty from ation has come out of the city of three hundred thousand eight will the significantly closer to the epicenter of the earthquake and that's where the tsunami here. so. we've also heard that very little eye of communication has been able to be made with those areas so. this death toll that then provided is only for the city of kabul we would expect that that area is closer to the epicenter. we could see that

death toll rises fairly significantly. we're looking at pictures of the aftermath of bodies being removed from the rubble what can you tell us about the situation right now on the ground. has opened up again previously. and it was difficult for them to get across. that's a little bit of good news however. the need for food because water infrastructure. and also medical supplies. from. the red cross. reports of looting. that have hundreds of people. on themselves to go to. search of basic items. it's

a fairly dire situation a local resident. with communication what are the survivors the people that. are they facing now. will certainly not. they were told by. their homes. which had continued until late yesterday afternoon of course. the fear that they could collapse and we see further casualties. but yes. the president will fly in the search and rescue efforts will be the emphasis and and certainly as you mentioned in areas that are more remote and close to. the. apparently there were scores of people on the beach.

their fate. the ed is not significant update however there were literally hundreds on the cam. as mentioned by the disaster management agency there are indeed. meteorology couper agency has come in for a lot of criticism because of the fact that a tsunami warning was issued and then subsequently taken back after about thirty four minutes now it's unclear whether or not this didn't in fact cause confusion on the ground because of course communications were were fairly cut out any way in the earthquake however. including at least one parliamentarian his family are extensions of the way sea have called for the major logical agency to be held accountable so certainly they do have some very difficult questions to be answering absolutely and in jakarta thank you very much thank you.

now to some of the other stories making news around the world a powerful typhoon is hurdling towards the japanese mainland bringing chaos to a region still reeling from a storm last month high winds have halted air and train services in parts of the country three hundred thousand homes are without power and authorities have ordered the evacuation of more than half a million people. tens of thousands of brazilians have protested against the right wing presidential front runners are your bills and are oh a former army captain has angered women in particular by making light of rape and seeking to justify the gender wage gap on saturday both n.r.o. was released from hospital after recovering from a near fatal stab. nigeria's ruling party has nominated president muhammadu buhari to stand for reelection in february next year hari ran unopposed in a nationwide primary the main opposition the people's democratic party has not yet

selected a candidate. for turkish president's rush of tired everyone has wrapped up a controversial state visit to germany the trip was meant to ease tensions between berlin and ankara but it's been marred by their differences over human rights everyone's final stop was in the western city of cologne where he non-rated a mosque he was welcomed by a large crowd of supporters from germany's turkish community they were kept apart though from critics of the president staging a protest on the banks of the river rhine. there are hundreds of their do and supporters gathered to catch a glimpse of the man they call their president red chip tie affair. many had wasted since the early morning like elaine and de lara all born and raised in cologne. or in your own lonely here as we've been here since eight am we just want to welcome him and show him we stand behind him and he always has our support and look

at all the people here even though we live outside turkey we really love him. but said to us this is wasn't just reset with joy critics of the turkish president were also i was in force across cologne largely a mixture of left wing activists and kurdish groups to get rid of all my intention isn't to protest against the turkish people but against the ones visit deals are still being done with that one and that has to stop of awful awful from. i lived under the argentinian dictatorship for more than twenty years and i know what it means to live in a dictatorship with imprisoned journalists and teaches. we want to be here for our friends who don't have a voice because they're sitting in turkish jails the turkish president was in cologne to open the city's central mosque he used the last public platform of his

three day trip to throw a parting jab at germany accusing us of discrimination in its treatment of two turkish german football stars. racism has to and let me give you one example ms you do who was born and raised in germany an equal were excluded from the society simply because they took a picture with me in england. this is aim to improve ties after a serious of diplomatic spots between turkey and germany but the underlying tensions were still center stage especially the conflicted relationship between germany and its large turkish german community. macedonians are voting today in a referendum on whether to change the country's name the ballot asks people whether they're willing to add the word north they can a country the republic of north macedonia it's a change that could end

a decades long dispute with neighboring greece that's because next to the republic of macedonia is the greek province of macedonia athens is said that means the balkan country could potentially claim greek territory as its own. for more let's cross over to d.w. corresponded boris georgette ski he's outside the parliament in the country's capital scope or is this a dispute that is dog to macedonia senses independence from yugoslavia what's the feeling now as people finally go to the polls. well it's still tour through early to say actually because the polls opened like three hours ago but there are two key issues there that might decide the vote today and that is first president even office of only one president even of the side to boycott the referendum and maybe even more importantly will be the attitude of the main opposition party promoter up on monday and their attitude might. but from the

turnout we are still waiting to see if the opposition leader his meets prosecutor will turn out to vote today if he does that but that might be seen as a strong signal to his supporters to come out and vote regardless if they support or reject the name deal with greece and supporters looking for voter turnout of more than fifty percent this is a highly controversial issue in macedonia and in greece it's about more than just a name what's really at stake here with this vote. well basically the government here says that at stake is muscle tone yes future muscle tone european future if you like most of the year has been waiting for almost twenty seven years to have a chance to join both major way in the european union but it couldn't because of the greek blockade basically greek greece was saying without solving this name issue you cannot go further to your ear or atlantic its reach and now there is this

big chance if the name change is accepted that's might occur but there is still another big step for for most of the year for the most lonely in government namely the parliament needs to accept a change in the next step with a two thirds majority so basically we this is not the final step but maybe this referring is the most important one. is boris georgette ski and scope in macedonia thank you. ilan must founder of the electric car maker tesla will step down as chairman of the company a probe by the u.s. securities and exchange commission concluded that musk missiles investors with tweets about the company's future tesla's agreed to pay a multimillion dollar fine but musk will remain c.e.o. of the company. from being the driving force behind electric cars on earth to trying to launch rockets into deep space.

you know musk knows how to push boundaries but thanks to a lawsuit he's been forced to slow down a few weeks ago the billionaire tweeted that he could take his public can come pany tesla private for four hundred twenty dollars a share the u.s. securities and exchange commission charged him with fraud while leading tesla's investors to believe that he had a firm offer in hand we allege that moscow had arrived at the price of four hundred twenty dollars by assuming a twenty percent premium over tesla's then existing share price and then rounding up support hundred twenty dollars because of this is the significance of that number in marijuana culture and his belief that his girlfriend would be amused by a. backhoe and marijuana in there earlier this month musk was filmed smoking marijuana while being interviewed in a pub because like on you tube in

a deal with the commission he's agreed to stand down as chairman of tesla and pay a total fine of forty million dollars but his legal problems don't and that he's also being sued for libel often making allegations against this british diver who was involved in the thai cave rescue you know musk has recently announced plans for the first of a private commercial trip around the moon it's dangerous to be clear this is dangerous but this appears to be a man who embraces danger whatever the cost of the gulf now and in the ryder cup team europe has increased its lead over team usa to ten points to six europe won five of saturday's eight match ups to take a crucial lead going into the final day of play the pairing of francesco molinari and tommy fleetwood continued their excellent form they won both of their ties. coming up on the w.

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