zone or give village in central sulawesi was a home to around four thousand people little is left more than ninety percent of the village is obliterated it is hard to make sense of this devastation survivors here tell us it was as if came no erupted this mud surfaced fifteen meters from underground and then it started to drag homes and people in waves in waves of mud and rock four kilometers from their original location rescuers here tell us they don't even know where to start digging they fear half of the population here is dead homes schools mosques all swallowed by mud and rock hundreds of survivors are displaced here as well as many other areas in central sulawesi. we met a y. e insider in one of the mosques just outside the village wide tells us this was not his place of prayer the mosque in the village is gone his parents and brother died in the earthquake too but he says he is not alone with. his store lou on the nose humans like us never really know the real reason why this happened this disaster is a test for the fried food because the more faithful we are the heavier the tria

in central sulawesi a lingering sense of shock and despair is mixed with the beginning of recovery from a distance the bay and city a calm now but survivors will never forget the destruction unleashed a month ago and those they lost. so still so much work to be done still so many people in need including hundreds of thousands of children affected by this disaster with me now to talk more about this is. from unicef thank you for joining us what are you seeing out there what are the needs of the children specifically caught up in this disaster yes it's one month after the disaster and life for many children in central soloway see is still far from normal but it's a start. we know that there are three hundred seventy five thousand children in need of medical assistance clean water basic hygiene and sanitation and education and protection i've met with dozens of kids who say that they're eager to go back to school to meet their friends to see whether their teachers are safe but they still want to keep close to their family because of course the aftershocks are still occurring health seems t

village in central sulawesi was a home to around four thousand people.ittle is left with the ninety percent of the village is obliterated it is hard to make sense of this devastation and survivors here tell us it was as if came no erupted this mud surfaced fifteen metres from underground and then it started to drag homes and people in waves in waves of mud and rock four kilometers from their original location rescuers here tell us they don't even know where to start digging they fear half of the population here is dead homes schools mosques all swallowed by mud and rock. hundreds of survivors are displaced here as well as many other areas in central sulawesi. we met a y. e insider in one of the mosques just outside the village wide tells us this was not his place of prayer the mosque in the village is gone his parents and brother died in the earthquake too but he says he is not alone. he's the only one who knows humans like us never will know the real reason why this happened this disaster is a test for the fried food because the more faithful we are the

john all good village in central sulawesi was a home to around four thousand people little is left more than ninety percent of the village is obliterated it is hard to make sense of this devastation survivors here tell us it was as if a ball came no erupted this mud surfaced fifteen meters from underground and then it started to drag homes and people in waves in waves of mud and rock four kilometers from their original location rescuers here tell us they don't even know where to start digging they fear half of the population here is dead homes schools mosques all swallowed by mud and rock hundreds of survivors are displaced here as well as many other areas in central sulawesi. we met a y. e and sar in one of the mosques just outside the village wide tells us this was not his place of prayer the mosque in the village is gone his parents and brother died in the earthquake too but he says he is not alone with. his store lou on the gnomes humans like us never really know the real reason why this happened this disaster is a test for the fried food because the more faithful we are the heavier

of thousands of people are leaving from central sulawesi wayne hay spent the day it how do airport which is now under 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 a 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 vision 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 the

indonesian authorities have called for international help to get food, aid and heavy equipment to central sulawesil seek parliamentary approval to change the country's name, despite the low turnout in a referendum. now it's time to look at the stories that are making the headlines in the media across the world. we begin with the straits times and the sulawesi, indonesia earthquake, which has seen a huge surge in the death toll. cities and towns across the island were devastated by a 7.4 magnitude quake, which then unleashed a tsunami of up to three meters high in some areas. the independent leads with comments from one of the uk conservative party's biggest donors, who has accused senior tory figures of acting like political "jihadis", and accused them of tearing the party apart over its approach to eu withdrawal. meanwhile, the financial times says paris is emerging as the favoured trading hub for europe, as some of the world's biggest banks prepare for life after brexit by steering their eu operations away from london to the french capital. the telegraph business pages is saying the internationa

building that collapsed in the tsunami that follows recovery efforts are taking place across central sulawesi cronies eight hundred forty four people are confirmed dead international aids being sent to the region the u.n. says almost two hundred thousand people are in desperate need of help in some areas more than eighty percent of buildings have been damaged or destroyed when he reports from jakarta. three days after the massive earthquake and tsunami this is what is left of the city of palu much of the city of more than three hundred thousand people has been destroyed rescue was a trying to reach those who might still be alive. with hospitals damaged the injured are being treated in the open air port is doubling as a field hospital it was also badly damaged in the quake the military has secured it to allow aid to be flown in and the injured outs. so that is. what the earthquake was so powerful all of us run out in a big group we were shouting people was screaming god is great people were repenting. as more bodies are recovered graves are being dug for mass burials to try to prevent the spre

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. f

zone or give village in central sulawesi was a home to around four thousand people little is left more than ninety percent of the village is obliterated it is hard to make sense of this devastation and survivors here tell us it was as if a ball came no erupted this mud surfaced fifteen meters from underground and then it started to drag homes and people in waves in waves of mud and rock four kilometers from their original location rescuers here tell us they don't even know where to start digging they fear half of the population here is dead homes schools mosques all swallowed by mud and rock hundreds of survivors are displaced here as well as many other areas in central sulawesi. we met a y. e insider in one of the mosques just outside the village wide tells us this was not his place of prayer the mosque in the village is gone his parents and brother died in the earthquake too but he says he is not alone. he store lou on the nose humans like us never really know the real reason why this happened this disaster is a test for the feet food because the more faithful we are the heavier the

the central sulawesi administration has declared a fourteen day state of emergency while president djoko dodo promised to send in much needed supplies but these images are painfully familiar the two thousand and four tsunami killed more than one hundred seventy thousand indonesians after which the government promised to be better prepared so many question whether tsunami warnings and evacuation plans were followed small comfort for the people by lu were even those who are meant to help have become victims. al-jazeera our south sulawesi and. al-jazeera is under thomas's in this update on the situation in a around the devastated city in some ways it. that have been mass burials on tuesday but not all the bodies have been buried you can smell the composing flesh as you drive around it's not everywhere but it is frequent just like every building in this city has been very badly damaged you can see smashed windows caved in roof broken pillows and then the revotes where they shouldn't be a long way from where the sea has now returned to it took us sixteen hours to drive here from post to the n

sorry central sulawesi so it's been a very slow process and they are saying that the heavy machinery that has arrived so far is certainly not enough they need more as a day the most important thing is to speed up that search and rescue operation it is very slow going but they also acknowledge that there is some urgency here because clearly they feel that they could be many more people still buried alive beneath the rubble but as each day each hour passes the chances of them surviving of course diminishes quite quickly when it's looked to outsiders for a few days now like they do need help international help why as the president waited this long before saying yes i'll allow international help to come in. well i suspect unfortunately sami that domestic politics plays into the situations because we have an election coming up in april next year we're already into campaign mode it's an election of course that the current indonesian president joko widodo is part of that he very much wants to win and i think initially when this disaster struck on friday there was a sense that the government

swallowed by mud and rock hundreds of survivors are displaced here as well as many other areas in central sulawesi. we met a wide and sar in one of the mosques just outside the village wide tells us this was not his place of prayer the mosque in the village is gone his parents and brother died in the earthquake too but he says he is not alone. he's the only one who knows humans like us never really know the real reason why this happened this disaster is a test for the fried food because the more faithful we are the heavier the trials are given to test us survivors is wrong or give village a try to salvage whatever slept on their belongings some of them refusing to leave the devastated area the spite the danger and certainty an act of resistance they say because they know their suffering is it permanent. duncan al jazeera seek essential silhouettes see indonesian here's president donald trump's pick for the supreme court brett kavanaugh has narrowly cleared a procedural vote in the senate a final vote on his confirmation is expected in the coming hours is a live pictures from washington d.c. where

well under thomas sent us this update he is impossible in central sulawesi and he's on his way to palo. like so many others out same as trying to reach probably you can't fly there on commercial planes direct in any way once you get there there are no cars available no fuel most food no water all those things those supplies are things that we need to take in and we have power from the only ones those in this huge queue of traffic are trying to get a pretzel in a city that's a six hour drive away from poland where here in the nearest place that we could see all those in the vehicle the trying to get fuel to drive to probably because they're worried about relatives they want to take their own supplies in but this is just the starting point outspoken visions in that city well all day on sunday the military was digging big grades mass graves and many hundreds of people will be buried in dollars on monday indonesia's government meanwhile has early on monday said that this disaster is of such a scale that they now welcome foreign aid that is significant with a long book like the few weeks ag

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 you know in terms of the recovery and of course to that is if i point out that that they have they shown an. action you know. 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 o

the central sulawesi administration has declared a fourteen day state of emergency while president dodo promised to send in much needed supplies but these images are painfully familiar the two thousand and four tsunami killed more than one hundred seventy thousand in tunisia it's after which the government promised to be better prepared so many question whether tsunami warnings and evacuation plans were followed. small comfort for the people who were even still sore meant to help had become victims to get al-jazeera south sulawesi ginni. thomas is in college he sent this update on the situation in and around the devastated city that have been mass burials on tuesday but not all the bodies have been buried you can smell the composing flesh as you drive around it is not everywhere but it is frequent just like every building in this city has been very badly damaged you can see smashed windows caved in roof broken pillows and then the revotes where they shouldn't be a long way from where the sea has now returned to it took us sixteen hours to drive here from post to the nearest place that w

in central sulawesi a lingering sense of shock and despair is mixed with the beginning of recovery from a distance the bay and city a calm now but survivors will never forget the destruction unleashed a month ago and those they lost wayne hey al jazeera indonesia. nato forces are conducting their biggest military exercise since the end of the cold war around fifty thousand troops two hundred fifty aircraft and ten thousand tanks trucks and other vehicles are in norway practicing defending nato's northern flank and these war games are said to have angered moscow despite russia being briefed by nato and invited to monitor the event it held its own military drills with chinese forces just a month ago we go to kenya now where a new type of fishermen have formed the reef ranges is that commonly known less interested in catching fish than they are in conserving them this is all part of efforts led by the government to improve marine life and preserve vital fish stocks out as there is catherine sawyer reports now from island on the kenyan coast. meet the island's refrain just there were one fi

the central sulawesi administration has declared a fourteen day state of emergency while president dodo promised to send in much needed supplies but these images are painfully familiar the two thousand and four tsunami killed more than one hundred seventy thousand indonesians after which the government promised to be better prepared so many question whether tsunami warnings and evacuation plans were followed small comfort for the people by lu were even those who are meant to help have become victims. al-jazeera our south sulawesi and denise. thomas in palo he sent some data on the situation in and around the devastated city of some the ways it. there have been meth burials on tuesday but not all the bodies have been buried you can smell the composing flesh as you drive around it's not everywhere but it is frequent just like every building in this city has been very badly damaged you can see smashed windows caved in roof broken pillows and then there are votes where they shouldn't be a long way from where the sea has now returned to it took us sixteen hours to drive here from post to the

indonesian authorities have called for international help to get food, aid and heavy equipment to central sulawesinited nations resident coordinator in jakarta. welcome to the briefing. what more can you tell us about the rescue operation? thank you very much. let me begin by saying how sad and we are to hear about the loss of lives and the extensive damage that has taken place in the donggala and palu city area. we know there has been tremendous damage in terms of the loss of lives, in terms of the infrastructure. we know that access to some of the areas is very difficult. we have some figures which indicate that the loss of lives as of now stands at 832 persons. there are almost 17,000 displaced, another 541 injured. but we know that these numbers are going to rise, given that people continue to rise, given that people continue to be trapped, and given the fact that some of these areas, because of the damage to the airports and the roads, the access is not very easy. so we do expect that these numbers are going to rise. we also seeing that, in terms of the most immediate needs, these are actuall

the central sulawesi administration has declared a fourteen day state of emergency while president joke dodo promised to send in much needed supplies but these images are painfully familiar the two thousand and four tsunami killed more than one hundred seventy thousand in tunisia it's after which the government promised to be better prepared so many question whether tsunami warnings and evacuation plans were followed small comfort for the people by lou were even those who are meant to help have become victims. al-jazeera are south sulawesi and denise. and thomas is in part this updates on the situation in and around the devastated city. that had been mass burials on tuesday but not all the bodies have been buried you can smell the composing flesh as you drive around it's not a brain where it is frequent just like every building in this city has been very badly damaged you can see smashed windows caved in roofs broken pillows and then there are boats where they shouldn't be a long way from where the sea has now returned to it took us sixteen hours to drive here from post to the nearest p

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 start. of what we're trying to call the staff to get them to come back and then we'll be able to identify we're still here. and all we lost over to the disaster the democrats 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 n

dugan al-jazeera central sulawesi indonesia. western countries have denounced russia for cyber hacking attacks which they say are designed to undermine democracies and some of the strongest language use since the cold war britain warned russia to become a pariah state or the united states warned moscow must be made to pay the price for its actions russia has rejected the allegations calling them propaganda who has our report. the tools of the trade this spy equipment was found in the possession of four russian agents in a car parked outside the headquarters of the chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. back in april at the time the o.p.c. w. was independently analyzing the novacek used to attack script palin solsbury as well as identifying the substance used in an attack against civilians in the syrian town of duma on the g.r.u. operation was aimed at hacking in infecting the white fine network of the o p c w from close quarters we call that a so-called close access ack operation when they were discovered the russian spies trying

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 in terms of the recovery and of course to that is if i wake up and that we have they shown an. action. 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 t

in central sulawesi a lingering sense of shock and despair is mixed with the beginning of recovery from a distance the bay and city a calm now but survivors will never forget the destruction unleashed a month ago and those they lost wayne hey al jazeera indonesia. now the german army has sent its top brigade to lead nato his biggest military exercises since the cold war but fifty thousand personnel from all twenty nine nato allies taking part along with partners. let's go topless has more from trondheim. german artillery and soil the host nation always invited thirty countries to participate in the biggest military exercises nato has run in years and germany is the biggest contributor. with over nine thousand troops participating in the exercises overall the german army has sent his top armored brigade as part of the very high rate in this joint task force or a.t.f. . the contribution of germany itself is almost a mechanized brigade and expression in this exercise we have from the ninety brigade from germany about five thousand drum soldiers about two thousand vehicles and equipment and

in central sulawesi a lingering sense of shock and despair is mixed with the beginning of recovery from a distance the bay and city a calm now but survivors will never forget the destruction unleashed a month ago and those they lost wayne hey al jazeera indonesia. we're going to check in with paid enough to support an update on an earlier story we brought you about the helicopter crash at leicester city that's quite right come all that is where we'll begin with the waiting for confirmation as to whether the city's own of. was on board he's helicopter which crashed off today pretty game on saturday we can cross live to paul brennan who is at least as king power stadium now paul at the main any updates from the authorities. there has but it's not really a substantial want to have to say pizza the latest news that's been issued by leicestershire police is as follows we are working with a number of other agencies to get an update out to the public and press thank you for your patience and support that's the latest statements issued by the police in the last half an hour other than that no o

dugan al-jazeera central sulawesi indonesia. help is not arriving fast enough for some communities that have been largely cut off and sulawesi almost seventy one thousand people have been displaced many are in coastal areas north of palo and were among the first to feel the full force of the tsunami when he reports. the people of dongola have been largely left to fend for themselves their villages have disappeared and there's little else to do but search for anything that may be of value the tsunami swept down this coast destroying everything in its path for days there was no communication with this area meaning the fate of almost three hundred thousand people was unknown the main road to power lou the nearest city has been reopened but there's no sign of significant aid distribution. we need more food blankets and meal for babies because there's a lot of babies here and people have nothing to do because this is a fishing community and everything is gone and you know what i'm going to get and what will so far the government says

dugan al-jazeera central sulawesi indonesia or u.s. vice president mike pence is accusing china of trying to undermine the trumpet ministration it comes just a week after the president accused china of interfering in the upcoming midterm elections to help his democratic rivals beijing is employing a whole of government approach to advance its influence and benefit its interests it's employing this power in more proactive and coercive ways. to interfere in the domestic policies of this country and interfere in the politics of the united states the chinese communist party is rewarding or coercing american businesses movie studios universities think tanks scholars journalists and local state and federal officials and worst of all china has initiated an unprecedented effort to influence american public opinion the two thousand and eighteen elections and the environment leading into the twenty twenty presidential elections to put it bluntly president trump's leadership is working and china wants a different american president of the u.s. se

in central sulawesi a lingering sense of shock and despair is mixed with the beginning of recovery from a distance the bay and city a calm now but survivors will never forget the destruction unleashed a month ago and those they lost wayne hey al jazeera indonesia. well to kenya now where the sea is providing a new type of life he had fisherman less interested in catching fish than they are in conserving them so cool refrain just a part of a government initiative to improve marine life and preserve fish stocks algeria's catherine sawyer reports from island. meet the island's refrain just there once a fisherman in lima county's largest island on the kenyan coast depleted fish stocks pushed them to swap roles and become protectors of the ocean most islanders depend on for their livelihood they've learned the science of counting fish species and other sea creatures in protected areas and also telling if the ocean floor is in good shape they then take the information back to their villages and decide collectively what to do next. as fisherman down and realize that we have to protect our reso

in central sulawesi a lingering sense of shock and despair is mixed with the beginning of recovery from a distance the bay and city a calm now but survivors will never forget the destruction unleashed a month ago and those they lost. while it is certainly a very quiet down here on the waterfront right now the scene where those she. huge waves came crashing ashore a month ago we seem to be in a bit of a transition really since the end of the state of emergency waiting for that recovery and rehabilitation operation to really start much of the heavy machinery around the affected area seems to be sitting idle and once that really does start the clearing of debris that knocking down all those buildings there is no doubt that more victims of this disaster will be found at that official death toll at just over two thousand seems certain to rise adrian when many think such as it is way to hey reporting live from. the leaders of france germany turkey and russia have made little progress during talks on syria in istanbul they emerged with a joint statement saying they're committed to finding a po

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 it's operating with around ten percent of its original staff so what are we trying to call the staff to get them to come back and then we'll be able to identify we're still here. we lost over to the disaster the damage shows what the medical workers had to. deal with on the night of the disaster is thought 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 bein

in central sulawesi a lingering sense of shock and despair is mixed with the beginning of recovery from a distance that day and city a calm now but survivors will never forget the destruction unleashed a month ago and those they lost wayne hey al jazeera indonesia. fire has gutted a historic building in peru's capital lima one woman was rescued and no deaths have been reported it's thought to have been caused by a gas leak or faulty wiring a structure known for its classical european architecture was built in the early twentieth century or problems with documents and identity are making life even more difficult for many in south sudan the issues date back to when the country became independent seven years ago when morgan explains every morning james comes to work to make tea and serve in the office he says it's one of the few jobs he could find that didn't need paperwork proving his identity he doesn't have any but that was not always the case. over and over. i came to khartoum from the south in nine hundred seventy six and had sudanese citizenship and married from here to south sudan b

hundred eleven thousand displaced people have been forced to live in settlements and camps across central sulawesi province with large parts of the way the island still in ruins the focus is switching to rehabilitation and reconstruction the government says that it will look at the stability of the land before it decides where to rebuild is a serious way hey reports now from palo. symbols of pride and strength still flood amid vast wastelands of destruction it's been four weeks since the earthquake turned this suburb of power loose city into a muddy graveyard where many bodies are still buried when the earthquake struck these communities largely disappeared in a process called liquefaction when the earth beneath the surface turned to mud swallowing people and buildings it's an inhospitable landscape but as traumatized as survivors are some want to return to rebuild here even when they see that a hole in the ground is all that remains of their home. so i'm so terrified when i see this place my children said mom once the government clears up we should just move back in we don't have to build a perma

in central sulawesi a lingering sense of shock and despair is mixed with the beginning of recovery from a distance that day and city a calm now but survivors will never forget the destruction unleashed a month ago and those they lost. so the end of the government's emergency response phase means in practical terms of course that the search for bodies has come to an end as we mentioned there but with so many people still missing undoubtedly as the cleanup operation begins the effort to knock down those buildings clear away the rubble that they will find more bodies buried beneath those buildings and that official death toll will certainly rise it also means so that there is a focus now on getting infrastructure back up and running most of the roads reopened but they are in many cases in a pretty bad state so they are busy trying to repair those roads to make it easier to distribute construction materials heavy machinery and also an ongoing need for aid around some of those areas but also hospitals some forty five medical facilities badly damaged in this quake they need to get those back

in central sulawesi a lingering sense of shock and despair is mixed with the beginning of recovery from a distance that day and city a calm now but survivors will never forget the destruction unleashed a month ago and those they lost. well we talk about the health concerns going forward with the rainy season approaching that is made worse by the fact that so many medical facilities were affected by the disaster some forty five of them with around nine seriously damage so that is something that the government wants to focus on now rebuilding the infrastructure like schools health facilities getting the roading infrastructure back to what it was and they will be a lot of attention on on how they handle that the government saying they want to rebuild palu they want a better city they will take geological factors into consideration when rebuilding this city so clearly some mistakes have been made in the past that's been pointed out already in terms of where they have built certain facilities in this city that is something that will need a lot of attention going forward when her reporting fr

the central sulawesi administration has declared a fourteen day state of emergency well president dodopromised to send in much needed supplies but these images are painfully familiar the two thousand and four tsunami killed more than one hundred seventy thousand indonesians after which the government promised to be better prepared so many question whether tsunami warnings and evacuation plans were followed small comfort for the people of by lou were even those who are meant to help have become victims. al-jazeera our south sulawesi and. and all deserve is under thomas's in poller he said on the situation in and around the devastated city. there have been mass burials on tuesday but not all the bodies have been buried you can smell the composing flesh as you drive around it is not everywhere but it is frequent just like every building in this city has been very badly damaged you can see smashed windows caved in roof broken pillows and then the revotes where they shouldn't be a long way from where the sea has now returned to it took us sixteen hours to drive here from post to the nearest

in central sulawesi a lingering sense of shock and despair is mixed with the beginning of recovery from a distance that day and city a calm now but survivors will never forget the destruction unleashed a month ago and those they lost well it may not look like it from this vantage point but now that the government state of emergency has come to an end the. focus now is on infrastructure getting infrastructure back up and running as best they can most of the main roads around the affected areas have reopened some time ago some of them though still in a pretty bad shape so that does of course have an effect on getting some of the supplies out to those affected areas which is still very much needed in terms of food water medical supplies and shelter particularly when we talk about that rainy season arriving there we look at things like schools some two hundred sixty five schools damaged in the earthquake and tsunami so getting children back to school as quickly as possible also very important medical facilities around forty five medical facilities damaged nine of them seriously and that's w