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October 01, 2018 ,

Indonesia tsunami: Desperate rescue efforts in Palu as death toll doubles in race to find survivorsResidents of Palu, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, turned to looting on Sunday as they struggled to survive in the aftermath of a deadly 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that has so far killed 832 people. Looters were spotted taking items from the badly damaged Ramayana shopping mall and plundering fuel stations. One earthquake survivor told the Telegraph that he had been woken by a noisy crowd ransacking his local mini-market. “Without justifying it, I understand why they did it,” said the man, who identified himself by one name, Suwanto. “My wife told me last night that our food supplies will last only two days, and we only have eggs and instant noodles. The big problem is clean water,” he added. Joko Widodo, the Indonesian president, who visited Palu on Sunday, urged residents to be patient. “I’m aware there are a lot of issues that need to be resolved as soon as possible,” he said. Electricity has been cut off and fuel is in short supply in the worst affected areas around Palu and the nearby town of Donggala. Damage to the runway and control tower at Palu airport has hampered both aid and the rescue efforts. Roads into the area have also been severely damaged. Masih banyak masyarakat yang berada di pantai saat tsunami sebelum menerjang Pantai Kota Palu (28/9/2018). Tidak ada sirine berbunyi. Masyarakat banyak yang tidak tahu ancamannya sehingga masih melakukan aktivitas di pantai. Akhirnya banyak korban akibat tsunami. #palutsunamipic.twitter.com/hwxw29UlBR— Sutopo Purwo Nugroho (@Sutopo_PN) September 29, 2018 Amali, a truck driver from the nearby province of Gorontalo, spoke of his terror in trying to bring in much-needed supplies along collapsed roads. “In one part, we have to go past the edge of a cliff. If the driver loses concentration for just a moment then the truck could fall over the side,” he said. “I’m thinking the whole time about the disaster victims. But what if I become a victim? I have a wife and three small children. I want to see them grow up,” he said. The full extent of the devastation in Sulawesi has not yet been revealed as rescue teams are still struggling to reach the worst-affected areas. Disaster management officials have warned the death toll could rise into the thousands. Questions over warnings Indonesia’s disaster authorities are now under scrutiny after scientists were taken by surprise by the tsunami, which reportedly reached 20 feet in height and hit the coastline at extremely high speeds measuring in the hundreds of miles per hour. The approach of the wave was caught in a chilling smartphone video that went viral on social media. Like a scene from a horror movie, a man screams desperately to warn people loitering on the beachfront street below of the approaching tsunami. From his standpoint a few storeys above ground, he can see the speeding surge of water but people are slow to react, their view of the sea blocked by a row of beach huts. Cars and motorbikes drive past with no sense of urgency, seemingly unaware of the coming disaster. The man cries louder, but as the murky waters hit with brutal force, submerging the huts and wreaking havoc, his voice breaks into sobs as those he tried to save run belatedly for the stairs. Noticeably absent from the video is the sound of a tsunami warning siren, which could have saved lives. Indonesia’s geophysics agency had initially issued a tsunami warning but lifted it 34 minutes later based on data available from the closest tidal sensor, around 125 miles from Palu. How Palu became a death trap - and why magnitude of waves was 'surprising' It emerged on Sunday that a life-saving early warning system had been stalled in the testing phase for five years. The high-tech system of seafloor sensors and fibre-optic cable was supposed to replace a system set up after an earthquake and tsunami killed nearly 250,000 people in the region in 2004. But delays in getting $69,000 to complete the project means it hasn't moved beyond the prototype phase. Palu’s catastrophe was made worse by the fateful timing of a cultural beach festival, which had drawn hundreds of people to the shoreline at dusk, the moment the tsunami struck. Digging for survivors Rescuers are racing to try to find survivors buried under the rubble of the double natural disaster, but lack heavy machinery. Some 50 people, including a South Korean tourist, are believed to be trapped in the wreckage of the Roa-Roa hotel. This aerial picture shows the remains of a ten-storey hotel in Palu Credit: AFP A young woman was pulled alive from the rubble of the hotel, the news website Detik.com reported.  "We've got information from people that their relatives are still inside, so we’re focusing on that, especially to find survivors," a rescuer identified as Yusuf, working at the ruins of the mall, told Metro TV. Evakuasi korban tertimbun gempa di Hotel Roa-Roa Kota Pqluterus dilakukan Tim SAR Gabungan dikoordinir Basarnas. Diperkiran terdapat 50 orang di bawah reruntuhan bangunan. Alat berat diperlukan untuk evakuasi. pic.twitter.com/LGWwp3OEhE— Sutopo Purwo Nugroho (@Sutopo_PN) September 30, 2018 Muhammad Syaugi, the head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency, said that he could hear people calling out from the collapsed eight-story Roa-Roa Hotel. "I can still hear the voice of the survivors screaming for help while inspecting the compound," he said. "What we now desperately need is heavy machinery to clear the rubble. I have my staff on the ground, but it's impossible just to rely on their strength alone to clear this." The Head of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), Willem Rampangilei, told reporters in Sulawesi late on Saturday rescuers were struggling in their hunt for more victims. "We are having difficulty deploying heavy equipment to find victims under the rubble of buildings because many of the roads leading to Palu city are damaged," he was quoted by the Kompas newspaper as saying. Indonesian earthquake and tsunami About 10,000 displaced people were scattered at 50 different places in Palu, he said. As more footage emerged of the moment disaster struck, one astonishing clip showed the carnage apparently being wrought by the quake alone.   Video footage showed trees, buildings and a communications tower being swept through a rural landscape by a landslide caused by liquification of the soil, according BNPB's Nugroho. Humanitarian crisis For survivors, the situation was increasingly dire. "It feels very tense," said 35-year-old mother Risa Kusuma, comforting her feverish baby boy at an evacuation centre in the gutted city of Palu. "Every minute an ambulance brings in bodies. Clean water is scarce." Residents were seen returning to their destroyed homes, picking through waterlogged belongings, trying to salvage anything they could find. Hundreds of people were injured and hospitals, damaged by the magnitude 7.5 quake, were overwhelmed. Some of the injured, including Dwi Haris, who suffered a broken back and shoulder, rested outside Palu's Army Hospital, where patients were being treated outdoors due to continuing strong aftershocks. Tears filled his eyes as he recounted feeling the violent earthquake shake the fifth-floor hotel room he shared with his wife and daughter. "There was no time to save ourselves. I was squeezed into the ruins of the wall, I think," Haris told Associated Press, adding that his family was in town for a wedding. "I heard my wife cry for help, but then silence. I don't know what happened to her and my child. I hope they are safe." Hospitals were overwhelmed by the influx of those injured, with many people being treated in the open air. There were widespread power blackouts. "We all panicked and ran out of the house" when the quake hit, said Anser Bachmid, a 39-year-old Palu resident.  'I heard people shouting, Water! Water!' Palu, which has more than 380,000 people, was strewn with debris from the earthquake and tsunami. A mosque heavily damaged by the quake was half submerged and a shopping mall was reduced to a crumpled hulk. A large bridge with yellow arches had collapsed. Bodies lay partially covered by tarpaulins and a man carried a dead child through the wreckage. Nina, a 23-year-old woman who goes by one name, was working at a laundry service shop not far from the beach when the quake hit. She said the quake destroyed her workplace, but she managed to escape and quickly went home to get her mother and younger brother. An aerial view shows bridge damaged by an earthquake and tsunami in Palu Credit: Reuters "We tried to find shelter, but then I heard people shouting, 'Water! Water!'" she recalled, crying. "The three of us ran, but got separated. Now I don't know where my mother and brother are. I don't know how to get information. I don't know what to do." It's the latest natural disaster to hit Indonesia, which is frequently struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis because of its location on the "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. In December 2004, a massive magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra island in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries. Last month, a powerful quake on the island of Lombok killed 505 people.




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October 01, 2018 ,

Indonesia tsunami: Appeal for international help as mass grave dug for 1,300 victimsSome 1,200 Indonesian convicts are on the run from three different detention facilities in devastated Sulawesi after the region was rocked by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, a justice ministry official said Monday The warning came as volunteers began to dig mass graves for the bodies of more than 1,000 victims in an attempt to prevent an outbreak of disease.  Four days after a 7.5 magnitude quake triggered a tsunami that slammed into the city of Palu, the country also appealed for  international help on Monday as it struggled to cope with the sheer scale of the disaster. At least 832 people so far are confirmed dead after the waves battered the Sulawesi coastline but the toll was expected to rise sharply as rescue workers reached areas that had been cut off in the disaster.  Authorities said prisoners had seized on the opportunity to break free. One prison in Palu city - built to hold just 120 people - saw most of its 581 inmates storm past guards and escape to freedom through walls collapsed by the massive 7.5 magnitude shake. Fears are growing of a humanitarian emergency as supplies of medicine, food and water run low. A shortage of heavy equipment has left rescuers struggling to reach desperate victims calling out from the ruins of collapsed buildings. President Joko Widodo opened the door to the dozens of international aid agencies and NGOs lined up to provide live-saving assistance. "Last night, President @jokowi authorised us to accept international help for urgent disaster-response & relief," senior government official Tom Lembong wrote on Twitter, asking rescuers to contact him directly via his account and email. Widodo said "there are many places where the evacuation couldn't be done because of the absence of heavy equipment, but last night equipment started to arrive in Palu". How Palu became a death trap - and why magnitude of waves was 'surprising' "We'll send as much food supplies as possible today with Hercules planes, directly from Jakarta, there are several," he said, referring to C-130 military transport aircraft. At Poboya - in the hills above the devastated seaside city of Palu - volunteers dug a 100 metre-long grave to bury the dead, with instructions to prepare for 1,300 victims to be laid to rest. Authorities have announced a 14-day state of emergency amid fears of a disease outbreak caused by decomposing bodies and In Balaroa, a Palu suburb once home to a housing complex, the scale of the damage was apparent. A wasteland of flattened trees, shards of concrete, twisted metal roofing, doorframes and mangled furniture stretched out into the distance. The national search and rescue agency said one woman was rescued overnight in the suburb, where houses were swallowed up when the earthquake caused soil liquefaction. Speechless ���� Doaku untukmu saudara ����#PrayForDonggala#PrayforPalu#PrayforSulteng#prayforindonesia#PALUDONGGALApic.twitter.com/UGJhoIiYxl— M.Antasena ♤ (@FigoAntasena) September 30, 2018 Rescuers are racing against the clock and a lack of equipment to save those still trapped in the rubble, with up to 60 people feared to be underneath one Palu hotel alone. Two survivors have been plucked from the 80-room Hotel Roa-Roa, Indonesia's search and rescue agency said, and there could still be more alive. Desperate survivors turned to looting shops for basics like food, water and fuel as police looked on, unwilling or unable to intervene. "There has been no aid, we need to eat. We don't have any other choice, we must get food," one man in Palu told AFP as he filled a basket with goods from a nearby store. Many have spent the last days desperately searching for loved ones while dealing with the trauma of the disaster. One woman was lucky to survive. Dwi Rahayu was working at a cafe stall near the festival on the beach with her husband and two boys when the waves struck.  Shortly after shrugging off the earthquake, the first wave washed around them and she heard her husband shouting: “Run! Run! Big wave!” She grabbed one of her boys and ran but she was too late. Swept several hundred metres away by the water, they were slammed into a wall which later gave way. She fell unconscious and woke up in hospital, with both legs broken. Miraculously, her family had all survived. Fandi, a 22-year-old who was also working on the beach, was not so lucky. There were 12 family members who went to the beach, including his parents, auntie and uncle, and brothers and sister and his new family, his wife and his only son. He took his son back home late in the afternoon, only to learn later of the tsunami. He has seen his mother's body in the hospital, while the fate of his other relatives is not yet known.  Indonesian earthquake and tsunami Others have centred their search for loved ones around open-air morgues, where the dead lay in the baking sun - waiting to be claimed, waiting to be named. As dire as the situation in Palu is, it was at least clear. In outlying areas, the fate of thousands is still unknown. Indonesia's Metro TV broadcast aerial footage from a coastal community in Donggala, close to the epicentre of the quake. Some waterfront homes appeared crushed but a resident said most people fled to higher ground after the quake struck. "When it shook really hard, we all ran up into the hills," a man identified as Iswan told the TV. Yenni Suryani, of Catholic Relief Services, said devastated infrastructure was hampering rescue efforts. "Humanitarian groups are struggling to get people into affected areas," she said. The main airport at Palu was damaged, landslides had cut off key roads while "power is out almost everywhere," she added.  




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October 01, 2018 ,

Kavanaugh hearing spurs sex crimes victims to come forwardNEW YORK (AP) — The high-profile airing of sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has led victims around the country to flood support center lines with calls, come forward with reports of rapes and publicly share long-held stories of their own experiences of being attacked.




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October 01, 2018 ,

Indonesia tsunami death toll nears 400, expected to risePALU, Indonesia (AP) — Residents too afraid to sleep indoors camped out in the darkness Saturday while victims recounted harrowing stories of being separated from their loved ones a day after a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that unleashed waves as high as 6 meters (20 feet), killing hundreds on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.




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October 01, 2018 ,

'How We Mourned' memorializes Las Vegas mass shootingInstead, they were among the thousands of items left by the grieving near the site of the largest mass shooting in modern American history. Stephen Paddock, 64, a retired real estate investor, poured gunfire from his 32nd-floor hotel suite into a crowd of 20,000 people attending the Route 91 Harvest festival last Oct. 1, then killed himself before police stormed his room. After the carnage, scores of Las Vegas residents and visitors placed an eclectic array of offerings in various areas of the gambling mecca, including the traffic island that’s home to the iconic “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign.




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October 01, 2018 ,

US court opens new legal 'Stairway,' overturns Zeppelin caseThe court in San Francisco overturned a 2016 judgment by a jury which found no proof the classic 1971 Zeppelin song breached the copyright of "Taurus," written by Randy Wolfe of a Los Angeles band called Spirit. Wolfe's trustee, Michael Skidmore, filed the case in 2015 on behalf of his late friend who long maintained he deserved credit for "Stairway" but drowned in 1997 having never taken legal action over the song. The case is "remanded for a new trial," the higher court panel ruled Friday in a 37-page decision supporting Skidmore's appeal.




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October 01, 2018 ,

Elon Musk steps down as Tesla chairman following deal with US regulators  Elon Musk has reached a deal over fraud charges that will see him step down as electric automaker Tesla's chairman of the board and pay a $20 million fine, US securities regulators said Saturday. "The settlements, which are subject to court approval, will result in comprehensive corporate governance and other reforms at Tesla - including Musk's removal as Chairman of the Tesla board - and the payment by Musk and Tesla of financial penalties" of $20 million each, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a statement Musk - who will remain CEO of Tesla - will be ineligible to serve as chairman of the board for a period of three years and will be replaced by an "independent chairman," while two "independent directors" will also be appointed by Tesla, the SEC said. The SEC had charged Musk with securities fraud, alleging that he misled investors when he tweeted on August 7 that he had "funding secured" to privatize the electric automaker at $420 a share, causing a brief spike in Tesla's share price. Things could ultimately have been significantly worse for Musk, as the SEC had sought to bar him from serving as an officer or board member of a publicly traded company. The fraud case had piled fresh troubles on Tesla and Musk as the brash CEO, often praised as visionary, faces increased scrutiny over his volatile behavior that has included smoking marijuana during a podcast interview and assailing a man involved in the Thailand cave rescue as a "pedo guy." more follows later  




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October 01, 2018 ,

North Korea, South Korea begin removing landmines along fortified borderProject details were agreed during last month's summit in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, between its leader, Kim Jong Un, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. In a statement, the ministry said the two sides agreed to remove all landmines in the so-called Joint Security Area (JSA) in Panmunjom within the next 20 days, with military engineers performing the hazardous task on the South Korean side. There was no immediate confirmation from North Korea that its troops had begun the process.




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October 01, 2018 ,

Indonesia quake survivors await help as death toll climbsThe confirmed death toll of 844 was certain to rise as rescuers reached devastated outlying communities hit on Friday by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami waves as high as six meters (20 feet). Dozens of people were reported to be trapped in the rubble of several hotels and a mall in the small city of Palu, 1,500 km (930 miles) northeast of Jakarta. President Joko Widodo told reporters getting those people out was a priority.




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October 01, 2018 ,

Paradise bay likely made Indonesia tsunami more dangerousJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The sun had just slipped behind the mountains, leaving a soft pink glow as the blue sea melted into the darkening horizon. It could have been a video postcard from a tropical paradise, except for the long white wave stretching the width of the bay — getting larger and closer with each passing second.




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October 01, 2018 ,

Musk escapes the worst, but Tesla still faces a bumpy roadTesla has promised to revolutionize the automobile, but the high-end electric car maker keeps hitting road blocks created by its founder Elon Musk's erratic behavior and considerable ego. The settlement, which will leave the 47-year-old overseeing Tesla's daily operations, provides at least a momentary reprieve from the company's many challenges -- including Musk's own sometimes counterproductive instincts. Tesla is at something of a turning point.




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October 01, 2018 ,

Elon Musk to resign as chair of Tesla board but remain CEOElon Musk has reached a deal over fraud charges that will see him step down as electric automaker Tesla's chairman of the board and pay a $20 million fine but stay on as CEO, US securities regulators said Saturday. The agreement eases pressure on Tesla's embattled CEO, who faced potentially being barred from serving as an officer or board member of a publicly traded company as a result of the charges, which stemmed from a tweet by Musk about taking the company private. "The settlements, which are subject to court approval, will result in comprehensive corporate governance and other reforms at Tesla -- including Musk's removal as chairman of the Tesla board -- and the payment by Musk and Tesla of financial penalties" of $20 million each, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a statement.




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October 01, 2018 ,

Elon Musk steps down as Tesla chairman following deal with US regulators  Elon Musk has reached a deal over fraud charges that will see him step down as electric automaker Tesla's chairman of the board and pay a $20 million fine, US securities regulators said Saturday. "The settlements, which are subject to court approval, will result in comprehensive corporate governance and other reforms at Tesla - including Musk's removal as Chairman of the Tesla board - and the payment by Musk and Tesla of financial penalties" of $20 million each, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a statement Musk - who will remain CEO of Tesla - will be ineligible to serve as chairman of the board for a period of three years and will be replaced by an "independent chairman," while two "independent directors" will also be appointed by Tesla, the SEC said. The SEC had charged Musk with securities fraud, alleging that he misled investors when he tweeted on August 7 that he had "funding secured" to privatize the electric automaker at $420 a share, causing a brief spike in Tesla's share price. Things could ultimately have been significantly worse for Musk, as the SEC had sought to bar him from serving as an officer or board member of a publicly traded company. The fraud case had piled fresh troubles on Tesla and Musk as the brash CEO, often praised as visionary, faces increased scrutiny over his volatile behavior that has included smoking marijuana during a podcast interview and assailing a man involved in the Thailand cave rescue as a "pedo guy." more follows later  




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