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charm gorbachev and the opportunity for peace wish to start october third d w. d w 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. officials are warning the final figure could be in the thousands also coming up. what's the name macedonians a vote on whether to change their country's title i guess votes would be the way
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for north republic for the republic of macedonia. and. don't musk is forced to pay millions in fines or step down as company chairman u.s. regulators have charged the billionaire with fraud saying he duped investors the preceding claims about the company's. i'm eating welcome to the program the death toll from a major earthquake that triggered a tsunami on the indonesian island of pseudo whiskey has risen to more than eight hundred the country's vice president has warned that number could soar into the thousands hospitals are struggling to cope with the injured a large parts of the city of are in ruins. combing through the rubble for victims and survivors. this collapsed hotel in palm city has been one
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focus of the efforts dozens were reported to be still trapped inside. meanwhile evacuations by plane have been underway for those fortunate to have survived this dual disaster some were injured as an earthquake sent buildings tumbling others a tsunami waves pummeled the shore. the destruction has left people without food and water in the areas hardest hit. authorities are attempting to provide enough aid and supplies but the damage to infrastructure has slowed their efforts. witnesses have described the moment the seven point five magnitude earthquake struck. and when the quake hit i was doing my shopping suddenly everything went dark and the walls started falling around us it was horrible. most confirmed so far from the city of palo
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a provincial capital on sulawesi island but reports remain sparse from outlying areas such as dongarra a region close to the earthquake's epicenter and home to some three hundred thousand people. we're expecting a rise in the number of dead even though we would hope the figures remain the same . considering the conditions are there that are bodies and identified as well as victims buried beneath the ruins there are also remote areas yet to be reached. now authorities are facing questions over whether disaster warnings were sufficient indonesia's disaster mitigation spokesman tweeted this video saying it shows how people were at the beach as the tsunami waves rolled in with no sirens going off. the officials are being criticized for allegedly lifting a tsunami warning too soon possibly leading to
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a greater loss of life along the coast. correspondent math weldon in jakarta now joins us for more on this story some lots of just heading our story that authorities are facing criticism over the apparent failure one people of the tsunami will anybody be held accountable. well that remains to be saying but certainly the mayor a logical agency has come in quite a lot of criticism due to the fact that it was mentioned that around half an hour after tsunami warning was issued it was then lifted as mentioned there was no sarin maining that there were still people on the base however this is because electricity had already been caught out of because of the earthquake now authorities in their defense are said that well actually this tsunami warning was lifted off of the tsunami already heat the problem being that the communications have pretty been cut out however perhaps so this speaks to
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a larger problem which is that. early detection systems in indonesia for the things that you know perhaps not equipped the boy that was used to monitor. two or three hundred kilometers away from. in actual fact it was it would have been difficult for authorities to determine the risk of of a tsunami anyways and max unfortunately the death toll is rising rapidly and so fight scenes of the confirmed deaths now all in the city of fallujah what do we know about other facts and areas. the update today from the disaster management agency. provided of. still predominantly from paul as far as we understand because access. and other more remote areas that were close to the epicenter of the earthquake and closer to where the tsunamis
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and. have been able to be accessed communicated with because of severe damage to infrastructure and communications infrastructure as well certainly as the search effort rescue efforts continue. and they would be increasing the casualties nevertheless there have been some reports that. two areas however as yet no official word from the disaster management agency or other authorities on this and briefly max it seems that focus is also shifting on what to do with the dead the government announcing that mass burials will be conducted to avoid the spread of disease what's the situation on the ground right now. so yes it does seem. fairly and still quite chaotic. scene reports of
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a prison outbreak which occurred as the tsunami hit. subsequently been a riot there is also. because people are so desperate for food and water as well as medical supplies. given the level of damage the military did step to just a few a hospital and parties are doing their best to people. face food supplies etc however of course it does seem to be an extremely difficult situation for authorities to manage and you know we're seeing some fairly shocking things like this emerging. thank you now to some of the other stories making news around the world a powerful typhoon is churning towards the japanese mainland threatening a region still reeling from a storm last month high winds and heavy rainfall have halted and train services in
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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 rightwing presidential frontrunner. also ron paul so narrow he has angered women in particular by making light of rape and seeking to justify the gender wage gap on saturday both an hour was released from hospital after recovering from a near fatal stab wound brazilians go to the polls in one week. to dhoni as a voting in a landmark referendum that could pave the way to e.u. and nato membership voters will decide whether to add the word north to the country's name making it the republic of north macedonia the government hopes to treat rather the vist week will settle a long running dispute with neighboring greece which itself has a province called macedonia. views borys ski is
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covering the vote in the capital's scorpio he said the result will shape the country's future. well basically the government here says that at stake is muscle tone yes future muscle tone european future if you like most of the euro 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 interracial 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 much of the union for the most lonely in government namely. parliament mr except the change in the next step with a two thirds majority so basically we this is not the final step but maybe this refer is the most important one. iran must founder of the electorate come make
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a test that will step down as chairman of the company approved by us securities and exchange commission concluded that must misled investors with tweets about the company's future tesla has 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 us 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 car company 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 a price of four hundred twenty dollars by assuming
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a twenty percent premium over tesla's then existing share price and then rounding up to four 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 pump because life on you tube in a deal with the commission he's agreed to stand down as chairman of tesla and pay a total fina forty million dollars but his legal problems don't and there he's also being sued for libel off to 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. work i'd like to.
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turkish president trichet go on has wrapped up a controversial state visit to germany the trip was meant to ease tensions between berlin and ankara but it was marred by their differences of a human rights it was final stop was in the western city of cologne where he inaugurated a mosque he was welcomed by a large crowd of supporters from germany's turkish community they were kept apart from critics of the president who staged a protest on the banks of the river right. hundreds of people gathered to catch a glimpse of the man they call their president match up type ads. many had waited for hours like butter elena and still are all born and raised in cologne and only here in their power. point we just want to welcome him and show him we stand behind him and he always has our support. look at all the people here even though
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we live outside turkey we really love him. but many people did not welcome at a once visit. critics of the turkish president were also itin force across cologne largely a mixture of left wing activists and kurdish groups. you have 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 without one and that has to stop from. my 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. the next tuesday we want to be here for our friends who don't have a voice because this 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 jap at germany accusing it of discrimination in its treatment of two
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turkish german football. bit your racism pasta and let me give you one example measured who was born and raised in germany and. were excluded from the society simply because they took a picture with me in england. along with president add to one's visit aims to improve ties after a series of diplomatic spat between germany and turkey but underlying tensions were still center stage and it certainly didn't lessen divisions between opponents of atta one and his many supporters in the turkish german community. coming up on d.-day of you will bring you all the highlights from this weekend's going to see the matches of the by and fumbled the ball on friday night and have the chance to leap to the top of the table to stay tuned to see how they fit.
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