by pistol. shot of falls and also most of. it out there about two more to to salt sort of applause security says it busts our good fellowship that our blog article caught up and going to double our falls it is all down to fit the default they don't see it almost as if as you will. but france's absolute dominance did not last in the sixty's the discovery of huge oil reserves in the gulf of guinea attracted a new play at. the united states. over the value of that idea while also. sort of caught it off it got it all does dark or political give exhausted all the every drop that there are already days or the start there's little they're going to be caught up all. about. the united states made military as well as economic investments on the african continent africa

became a battleground in the cold war. to counter sylvia interests the americans secretly supported andro belly and it's an ethiopian and until. after the collapse of the soviet union the united states was the only superpower in the wilds. in one thousand nine hundred ninety two under the auspices of the united nations it launched a so-called humanitarian intervention in the city g. korn of africa. the us sent twenty eight thousand soldiers to somalia to help put an end to a civil war. but. the operation ended in disaster two years later after american soldiers were captured and killed images of their need to bodies brought. cast around the while.

for the u.s. it was a humiliating loss and they decided to withdraw. after somalia a new threats in may she now africa. in one thousand nine hundred attacks against two u.s. embassies raised the alarm in washington. massive car bombs in kenya and tanzania caused the death of over two hundred people and left thousands injured it's. a group called all kind it claimed responsibility for. its leader the little known osama bin laden became public enemy number one in the united states and the hunt to track him down it. was the to the attack on the world trade center reconfigured the geopolitics

of the world the united states launched a war in afghanistan a war that would soon spread far beyond what it was a post nine eleven the threat of terrorism is very real to the american public and from a policy standpoint we are looking for specifically at the threats were over at me when they show up. a few months after september eleventh the u.s. military returned to the horn of africa with plans to stay. there stablished their first military base in djibouti at camp a former french foreign legion fort. rudolf attala directed counterterrorism efforts in africa for the u.s. department of defense. the sal played a key role and. looking at. the movement of weapons the movement of potential

foreign fighters organized crime during that time period you also had an influx of cocaine flowing in through the saddle so all of this was was of primary interest and it in a continued to grow. piece the series of maps in two thousand and two bulking both this whole part of africa as a terrorist chordal corridor of terrorism and of course the official narrative from the pentagon and the white on is that these terrorists that come from afghanistan they've been driven out by american forces united they went that time was they've crossed through bin laden country i.e. sudan they're linking up with terrorists in north africa they've come through this sort of belts this but on a shaky area. jeremy keenan a british professor and author has spent fourteen years studying the. step the

military engagement of the united states in the region with about more than just security. there had been in america probably something much more important at the time than nine eleven that was the publication of the thing that's known generally as the cheney report the cheney report i think was the first executive order that president bush gave when he came into power which was to look at the crisis of the energy sector in the states in one thousand nine hundred seven imports of energy oil that's part of the fifty percent level that was psychologically sort of crisis level. in that report it focused on future american supplies of oil and of course it focused on africa has becoming the most important supplier of good quality oil that would fit the american internal infrastructure system. you know even more important in the gulf. suddenly africa comes of critical

importance to the little classes in washington. of strategic interests is a side to the north algeria and libya the largest oil reserves in africa and to the south those of the gulf of guinea. the vast untapped petroleum deposits in the sari itself where another temptation. in two thousand and three a dramatic kidnapping pave the way for the rival of the us military. in canton to. the men. wanted found. this was the first acts against foreigners in the sahara. a huge manhunt was launched for five months to kidnappers evaded capture in the end after

a ransom was paid by the german government the tourists were released. four days later a report is based in algeria received a fax a veteran of the algerian army patta a paratrooper claimed responsibility for the kidnappings. the so-called terrorists background was leaked by algerian intelligence officials such unsubstantiated evidence was all the bush administration needed to label a power osama bin laden's man in the sahara. certainly we have. officially speaking the extension if you like of al qaeda right into this part of africa. and that is what legitimized for america launching a new front in the war on terror in africa there was a big manhunt for the leader of the the head. kidnaper of the result in order to to

nab him because he was running around with approximately five million euro's and maybe a potential threat of the future so there was some thinking. on the department of defense side we came up with a program called p.s.i.i. the pads to hell initiative and in the pants a hell initiative basically was to work with countries in the sal like molly like. chad mauretania in order to give them some of the basics communication equipment where they can talk to each other across the border. just simple stuff to where they could help us find. any power i was eventually captured with the help of the united states the us armed forces now had a foothold in the south and. why don't we take this little thing called p.s.i.i. and make it

a little bit more robust where we start taking countries from within the region sally and region and became a trance a hell counterterrorism program and try to get them all to work on something that we all care about which is counter terrorism so we'll do training and equipping and all in this training and equipping then we come together bring those countries to do a live exercise. as we bring all these countries together we do this live exercise we flex our muscles in the region they cut to send a message to the bad guys saying don't mess around everybody's working together in concert true make sure that you guys are around so everybody in the pentagon said this was a success story. you know how can we make this even better. to turing in defeat. transnational threats preventing future conflicts supporting

humanitarian disaster relief efforts and protecting u.s. security interests. that's the mission of u.s. africa command. they decided that maybe they needed a separate command headquarters that would focus exclusively on africa's and so the bush administration under donald rumsfeld was running the pentagon at the time decided to do that set up a separate command just for africa. the united states is the only country to have divided the world into separate military sectors to monitor and patrol these are north com. south com you com cent com and now africa. under the stated goals of fighting terrorism and providing humanitarian assistance afrikan implanted itself on the continent conducting military exercises with

a growing number of african countries. but was this the only reason for africa repast create god i saw a little bit of the oil is that is out there are america sort of course you know or set up by variables up from utah is a notorious list therefore so who should ought to. security don't those also go to i don't they are us to praise or screwed up by going on just of all. beijing had firmly established itself as a counterweight to french and american interests on the continent in the first decade of the twenty first century china had overtaken the rest of the world to become africa's largest trading partner.

if she was alive is also going to go above all who don't vote to tape is so sexy don't doubt all about that you did it for say don't under don't need to do so it was a fake done on the zoe footage he fulfilled is that it so for the book i say it to yourself to your video that close is the most secure idea to defend you don't want john to share what i saw is old use of think up new over didn't bother to so also just by the it was a failure but bt they did to overdo it to duck zone for their borders those who don't those it trivializes on you did it it is all busted otherwise made you could do new video we don't do it in the home to see all. the local food fool trail discomfited fall said it is of c don't do it so then you don't want it because it's a big deal seven days like say i took a my job when you have to cut those. in this two thousand and ten us state

department cable made by wiki leaks the u.s. assistant secretary of state const china as their e aggressive and play nation economic competitor with no more. ultimately the aim of the united states amounts for is to develop mechanisms where access to resources that are strategic that are absolutely essential to several key industries in the united states as well as access to petroleum are secured that it also provides a counterweight to china china is also in somewhat of a race to acquire as many minerals and petroleum and other natural resources that it means for its industries the united states though it may no longer be a major manufacturing power its military industries are heavily dependent on minerals that can be only source then africa. the establishment of africa calm

was key for the consolidation of u.s. interests in africa but when the pentagon wanted to set up its headquarters on the continent things did not go as planned is america shipshape i don't believe. us you can see as you see one after week o'malley the problem sic the. imposition communicative more the refusal of that. this opposition forces us to set up a command of afrikaans thousands of miles away in stuttgart germany. african resistance to africa calm was spearheaded by a figure who had emerged as a major economic and political force on the continent and had been a thorn in the side of the west for decades from the beginning of his political

career as a leader moammar gadhafi was opposed to a foreign military presence in africa one of the first things a bit after coming to power in one thousand sixty my was to expel the british and u.s. military bases and libya itself. and the good ol faith had you know considerable political support across the continent for his position nelson mandela's view was almost identical to give us a sense that there would be no african forces commanded by foreign military officials and there would be no foreign militaries occupying any part of africa are operating with that offer. gadhafi had been playing a complex game with the west for a long time president ronald reagan had labeled him the mad dog of the middle east and had tried to assassinate him in one thousand nine hundred eighty six by bombing his palace. the libyan leader is independence and

influence flowed from the vast petroleum reserves the launches soon after account which he had nationalized when he took power. well starting in the in one thousand mind he is moammar gadhafi became a kind of luminary a leading voice certainly one of the loudest voices for a maximum version of african integration he was seen across as being the successor of kwame in terms of his vision of african unity and it wasn't just a matter of my sounding more it's good offie was eager to not only accelerate the process of african integration but of bankrolling the process. one suffer because wealthiest country held together with an iron grip libya is now torn up talks everybody wants to have his share of authority and all the money they

can not be ruled centrally just from one city like to put in the big picture that dissects the roots of the conflict and asks who is to blame in the last bolivia the only job of portsmouth used to be commission members. coming soon on al-jazeera. so proud of whom in the city a city with a drug problem. in a neighborhood consumed by trafficking julio transforms to square into a bunch of giving children the bleak flameless street and its. street of the viewfinder latin america series. jersey. we have a newsgathering team here that is second to their all over the world and they do

a fantastic job and information is coming in very quickly all at once you've got to be able to react to all of the changes and al-jazeera we adapt to that. my job is is to break it all down and we held the view on the stand and make sense of it. with your top stories from al-jazeera more than twelve hundred people are confirmed after friday's earthquake and tsunami on the indonesian island of so the way see figure includes dozens of children who died when mudslides hit a church they were sheltering in in the city of dongola people have raided shops in search of food water and medicine more than sixty one thousand people have been

displaced al-jazeera similar underground is in the port city of on so that we see all of. you look at the whole devastation no matter what strategies policy measures emergency response measures that are ab been put in place before the devastation everybody is affected as you know police officers rescue workers medical workers those from these communicating become victims themselves so the whole area is incapacitated basically there with a breakdown of order of the government you know and basically the emergency response all the help must come out from from externally and brought in cases of cholera in the yemeni city of data have nearly tripled the summer a save the children report says there were one thousand three hundred forty two cases in august many of them children under the age of five there has been intensified fighting in who data since june as the coalition battles fifi rebels.

hundreds of yemenis are protesting in the southwestern city of tire against the rising cost of living on the falling value of the yemeni ria the currency is expected to slide even further fuel prices have gone up and that increased transport costs yemen has long been one of the poorest countries in the world. at least twenty people have been killed and more than fifty were injured in a suicide bomb attack on an election meeting in afghanistan a suicide bomber targeted supporters of a provincial council member in one god province many of those killed are local elders a candidate targeted has previously spoken of increasing pressure on i saw in the region. in the occupied west bank the deadline has now passed for a village of palestinians to leave their homes under orders from israel bedouins in qana were told to pack up and leave by midnight on monday israel wants to demolish the village to make way for more illegal settlement building more news on the web site al jazeera dot com those are your top stories the news continues on

al-jazeera after a shadow war in the sahara i am back with the news hour in thirty minutes. the money from libyan oil allowed gadhafi to underwrite ambitious projects. three hundred million dollars for the first pan-african satellite calm. thirty billion dollars in the largest irrigation system in the world that draws on the vast reserves of fresh water under the sun to turn tens of thousands of hectares of libyan desert into farmland. gadhafi wanted to demonstrate that africa could develop without depending on the western banking system or the international monetary fund libya to the tune of tens of billions of dollars and each case was capitalizing a number of new african economic institutions of the african development bank of

the african monetary fund africa would then develop its own solutions and develop its own lending programs to address its own problems so africa was in good duffy's view. with gadhafi as a leadership increasingly becoming something of a bloc rather than a series of disparate individual nations that could be dealt with one on the one and set against each other. when gadhafi was elected chairman of the african union in two thousand and nine u.s. officials squared concerned in an embassy cables revealed by wiki leaks they noted that libya will seek to use a chairmanship to aggrandise him and promote his united states of africa proposal. u.s. multinationals were also unhappy with the libyan leader especially his decision to cancel it one billion dollars deal with the bechtel corporation the largest

engineering company in the u.s. with powerful connections in washington. the fact that an operator with bechtel's connections and deep pockets was ultimately unable to secure its contract serves as a caution airy tale for the many u.s. and western companies seeking to enter libya's booming market and for other u.s. companies considering major investment projects here. gadhafi also antagonize france after being courted by president nicolas sarkozy the libyan leader canceled major arms deals. and reacted. to the feel of the short. cut of. the call cost even shipping list of some more acquire if you don't bow to the. best you know you do with procope and shows bad

boys the economy. in march two thousand and eleven as the arab spring spread through north africa france and the united states decided to use. the united nations security council gave its approval protecting human rights provided the justification. for syrian. defeat. we had gadhafi as troops in neighboring niger beate allowing the opposition to drive them out. we hit it off these air defenses this was afrikaans first war and its commander in chief was the first african-american president in the words of the obama administration the u.s.

position in the war against libya was that of leading from behind what is really interesting is of course the fact that the war was opened and directed first by africa. and then the mission was taken over by nato. in other words people running the show me told are themselves being run by the maybe states which is formally in command of mates will not only that in one of his speeches obama after the bombing campaign had ceased and was praising the efforts of allies in libya revealed that even a number of french bombing missions were inside piloted by american it's. the intervention of libya is also always sending a message to other african nation states that should they pursue

a course of such radical defiance radical independence such a nationalist amounts him period us course that there could be ultimate consequences that are no longer hypothetical and. gadhafi is gone so a major obstacle in the way of american military penetration of us are as in fact we. came we saw he died in. the fall of gadhafi produce a shockwave that would be found far beyond libya. unfortunately there was not a very good handle on the forty thousand plus weapons that could off he had and so

quickly we find out that. over thirty five thousand of those weapons just atomized they just disappeared and so we discovered that some of those weapons made a made it into northern mali the southern algeria other in southern libya there are new shares are everywhere. some of those weapons fell into the hands of the libyan rebels others including anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles fan into the hands of tariq fighters who fought alongside gadhafi because he supported their demands for autonomy in the samarra. yeah it was really on your daughter is. that there's a way to go about it if you could have a clue to i to cause you to bill sudden community who just want to know about this also quite. made the. charge that it's a very. noble or citizens of the zone given that all the law would agree on the

boat agree almost all told it is all put off as they. who hope to tell the pride are yours to degrade gadhafi for good at a few feet of water or by the i enjoyed this volume that i saw tish's with or that i saw could i couldn't because as well as jail with all the men who consider to did this in the press it ought or is here with. the heavily armed formed a new fighting force and mentally and launched an offensive against the government in bamako in january two thousand and twelve that long held dream of creating a wad an independent tarik homeland that would stretch across the sahara finally seemed within reach. but the two are aches we're not the only find this in the desert small on groups which had emerge

a decade earlier were now well armed forces to be reckoned. with acme. and and sardine say they were fighting a holy war and when we could sing among the local population. islamists a wall. full of the police security or law is often resolved although not remotely rather think it is. lot of them illegal to screw. around with you have a. rule of. doctors or law over the past. but the islam preached on troops was nothing like the islam practice in this region for centuries the. good.

ones you know will be. deleted in the back of. it but. if you're going to spend it if you're going to. get all it thank. you so incisional. it's also one of the. two leadership of the syria buku it is also militant of syria kit want to start really calm but it certainly isn't yet to be in the summer and pull them into view in the. result. was the one putting aside their ideological differences the two are exam the armed groups forged an alliance of convenience. criminon arche them point of view you know he could put a mobile who. says he's at the bottom and the last

on the new cars are stars that i know don't go to them but it will take these guys a little report like that i know. it has a different morning and i don't know the circumstances of it in female all that some or all. united the rebel forces launched an offensive against mali and soldiers in several garrison towns in the north. these mannion troops had completed years of training by africa home but the training didn't pay off. for a bit but is it as you need to sort of build it richard is only a book of it and the effort must feel for some better call to go to maybe not so none of the local is unity. for me so sore disagree it's a song means so but if you're quoted

a bit. worse was yet to come when one thousand million soldiers were captured and summarily executed in a rebel attack on the offices in bamako mutinied against the government they say it was incapable of controlling the situation. the coup was led by one of afrikaans top pupils captain amadou sana book who was trained as an infantry and intelligence officer at the u.s. bases in virginia georgia texas and arizona. this was a guy the americans had trained and invested time and money and then he made things ten times worse and mali. and then more setbacks for africa calm. again other rebel forces invaded the major cities of northern mali they met little resistance

in just two weeks the country was split in two. despite years of training and millions spent the west's greatest fear became a reality a so-called islamic state was established in northern mali. lives organised a pseudo jihad least. up was you know with the only living do normally a god or two. because on the day the. rush to be sewn up to last year all. you novels you'll see get rid of it.

your ass are going to have you most if you fairly credit us currently to be go up the second but dungy i dissed i've also there you sure don't going to be thesz eric and i ponder. this one quite. a novel see the song for the new issue physical croissant then they're gone but they'll just idealists get upon the. envy of the community through all. as the rebels move south france came to the rescue into. forty eight hours the orlando government deployed four thousand troops to mali the americans remained in the background providing military intelligence and logistical support. your group could your personal vote. if it's also been our friends at

a dinner somewhere in the gulf because souls. potential of all of his also called on me can was of your of or will some. for left leicester billeted on the wall. the rebel advance was tops and in just two weeks the french regain the north the french army claimed to have killed hundreds of so-called terrorists the rest seem to evaporate into the desert the former colonial power was now the savior of the country. but was operation survival all that it seemed to be. dull sick with with us who normally the suddenness exact the most sypniewski early man drawing. the leg. don't demolish ought to sell going

to leave a problem if the. corner or what remains of it today the town is key to understanding what really happened during operation sarah vaughan it was a site of a decisive battle with the fighters of armed sardine who were surrounded here by friendships. a memorial in honor of the first french soldier killed during the clash was erected overlooking the only road in and out of town. but what has not been memorialized is the fact that on this same road a convoy of vehicles carrying hundreds of rebel fighters and their leader iyad gali managed to escape from right under the nose of the french. on the ground many witnesses of the conflict have questions.

but to do or. not cause he did it. in the house it will happen next it's just. this one story to see do not operate on the stock level said i was your kid if i say outlaw. don't disturb it is a bad idea the opioids like this jaunty soto's us see a pickup on the avenue or lawn the man didn't i will show. you a crucial load going to develop nor a difference see like a million i have ya know disposal really isn't that cept the dog is. in the most from pretty clear for the all said that i will see i won't get a present of dogs kurt let him or show me. in this shadow war what interests might the french have been going easy on the forces they were supposed to be fighting little said the father hardly recover yet i'm certain not

only is a serial do you normally get caught up or. by market. forces . accept the produced seal or dick that there are false. fiamma are a vast. exploit limine the hell it. left million of us do you know only my leader works eighty on vocally commune the coup is going to double shuffle says justice international so simple. he'll menthol should dilute your dinar machismo you exploded your on your own it went through the life force level on did you got a deal on mass you really was was do it on your arm. next brought bible no more. don't tell about daleks' put us your maple won't be she daughter there were accessible since. far from the

desert sands of the sahara the future of the region is being determined and france is not the only one with interests here. representatives of oil companies venture capitalists and african officials in charge of energy gathered in london the financial capital of europe and the world who she is the one. who. despite the chaos wars and revolutions the interests of europeans and americans remains high in what may be the largest un topped oil reserves on the continent the eldorado of the science the tao dany basin which extends to mauritania to algeria across north mali. is a distant source resource but in the vast vast area probably bigger than the whole of texas or. pocket of two thirds of europe for instance so you can imagine very few wells in this vast area not enough to test the realities it would take

a long time to put the space into for testing. despite a recent decline in the importers gas and african oil to the united states the interests of major u.s. energy companies in africa has not decreased the needs of asia and europe will not stop growing nearly two trillion dollars of investments in african oil and gas are expected in the next two decades. mostly to school. next year when it was hospital yeah i know. there are no good all sit on the ground by some. they tell you that fico vava bottoms croissant or field is and they. don't disappear position able experts on tools. in may two thousand and fourteen president obama announced that he would allocate an additional five billion dollars to the fight against global terrorism. but as we

move to train and advise mission in afghanistan or reduce presence there allows us to more effect of we address emerging threats in the middle east and north africa. earlier this year i asked my national security team to develop a plan for a network of partnerships from south asia to the so help. this strategy has been very persuasive an increasing number of african governments have signed on to the africa com program like in asia where the u.s. military brought together african forces composed of one thousand soldiers from seventeen countries for military exercises. footlockers and international exercises this year we could really have it in different areas of of africa as a tremendous opportunity for all work together and war from one another. during two

thousand and thirteen alone africa has organized ten exercises on the fin clock model fifty five other operations and four hundred safety seminars with forty nine african states. the united states has also established drone bases in djibouti. kenya ethiopia somalia south sudan. and this is shams. in september two thousand and fourteen the united states announced that they were sending four thousand troops to liberia as support during the boehner crisis and to coordinate other unspecified military activities. not to be outdone france also announced plans to increase its military presence in the saya with a redeployment of three thousand troops. the

increasing minutes her eyes ation of africa is a new profit center. covered by the military industrial complex with millions of dollars of contracts for arms manufacturers and private contractors. emersion of will see nearly a fifth in their stability though that initial. so digital corp so they do need a visual of their force book called the goods on the world the most original furcula vision for germany. surveyed you ludicrous. for theirs it looks or leave or it's all for naught. the united nations has established a peacekeeping force of twelve thousand troops to help stabilize mali among them the chinese military as well as african troops trained by africa on the arsenal of east peace keepers include surveillance drones and apache attack helicopters.

more than one hundred thirty years after the berlin conference a new division of the african continent is underway as new powers seek to ensure oil supplies strategic minerals arab oil land and even the water under the desert sands so difficult really do over all the problem so calm she looks at the regalia. if one has a seven month career to get equal can he get a police chief is a result just because of what. the so-called war against terror in the sahara is more than it seems the battle is waged a part of a not just struggle for influence and control in a world of shrinking resources this battle the fight for the earth's bounty is the

real endless war. through tranquil a radian can you guess. and in on can free will to use and if any should go on telling. how the right is coming if you are already there it's typical this time the you see more and more shouts of brazil in a line that runs down the higher ground the eastern and the easter. and off from southern brazil it's there and it's probably of developing the next day and so i also have a little bit of rain in northern argentina in chile recently this is drawing pictures this however is not so particularly for southern brazil i think the rain

will become quite intense for a while but you can still for the line up through bolivia through in the past where we've traditionally had some pretty big shows in spring but north of the continent in the middle of the caribbean this is an interesting development if you watch how the cloud forms it almost is like is trying to form a ring circulation which you always be suspicious all wrong for the next few days we're not suspicious of it doing anything other than producing a mass of shells which may well affect jamaica in particular certain if you take that line back to honduras and answer costa rica we have seen some for. any heavy rain recently but nothing too extreme however if you watch it beyond save three or four days something may come of this so we will oversee keep an eye on it bear in the us you have got two things happening basically in the southwest corner of the remains of a tropical storm producing a low right in the southwest i don't so winter just forming on the canadian side of the border. the weather sponsored by cattle and race.

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i got ventures and russia walls he served in the marine corps for mentioning to mention that five that just doesn't go away. a lot of trouble for the last couple years. his home was al-jazeera follows a group of u.s. army veterans traumatized by war. as they struggle to get their lives back. on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter dhabi this is the al-jazeera news hour live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the desperate need on indonesia's island of devastation petrol stations are drained by crowds still

waiting for aid. the death toll has now climbed to more than twelve hundred and hundreds of thousands of survivors are in need of urgent help. wondering where the next meal will come from now a jump in color of cases is adding to famine concerns for millions in yemen. also ahead breakfasting the boris johnson way the former u.k. foreign secretary delivers his verdict on where the e.u. divorce plan stands today. and awash with plastic or rubbish is contributing to a worrying cocktail in the capital of the democratic republic of congo. thousands of people are homeless and hungry a growing death toll and still not enough rescuers to search for the many who are missing four days after the earthquake and the tsunami struck the indonesian island

of soloway sea stories are now emerging of widespread desperation indonesia's disaster response agency has updated the death toll that now stands at one thousand two hundred thirty four including dozens of children killed when mudslides hits the church camp and more mass burials have been taking place too from the city of dongola pictures of emerged of people searching for food water and medicine and there are also reports of the police in palo firing warning shots and tear gas to scare off the crowds the military has taken over the airport to help to bring in aid and move people who've been injured. in a few moments we'll take you live to macassar where aid agencies are loading up supplies to take to the disaster zone but first this report from. rescuers on the engine asian island of sulawesi are using excavators and bulldozers to clear your brother they're trying to find survivors in collapsed homes and

buildings like this eight story hotel in a little. later on monday one team rescued a thirty eight year old who was still conscious and talking and. giving them hope that there are others who may still be alive but they're also bracing for the worst. indonesia's government is preparing mass graves to bury the dead and stop the spread of diseases. and the bodies of the victims having been exposed to several days the bodies give off a bad smell we must buried in boston some two and a half million people live in the areas affected by the seven point five magnitude quake and tsunami that followed these drone pictures show the devastation from the six meter wall of water that pushed inland many survivors have spent the last days desperately searching for loved ones there are reports of children showing up at

medical centers searching for their parents. before relatives are still missing or i hope the government can help find them the sun was shining and then it suddenly rose up and buried the houses in my heart i said if this is the time i die what more could i do i just pray to god some desperate survivors are looting shops for food and water indonesia's government is working with international agencies china the u.s. and e.u. to bring in eight experts say it will take weeks until the full extent of the devastation is known some of the areas affected are still not accessible and getting aid is now the first priority roads have been cut off by landslides major bridges broken down so physical access is a real challenge the other one is information i mean electricity is down telecommunications down many people the first process simply family tracing in two thousand and four

a tsunami struck southeast asia killing some hundred seventy thousand people in indonesia alone in the aftermath of the recent quake and tsunami many are asking why warning system set up after that disaster appeared to have failed. just a little earlier senses this latest update. experts here say just by looking at the devastation one must expect the number of those who died to rise in the coming days that is because many areas remain reachable and the full extent of the devastation has yet to be realized on the ground family members looking for their loved ones and they don't even know where to begin while the rescuers work overtime to try to get those who remain trapped hoping there is still alive in so many areas across by low and different surrounding towns now this is exactly what the focus of the indonesian government would be to send in basic fuel medicine and aid to those who

need and also additional personnel that is because security is becoming a major concern as more people become desperate for aids there have been foreign pledges of help but at this point the main issue here is logistics there is a need to clear the airport and to clear the roads that lead to these devastation areas in order for the humanitarian convoy for volunteers and for rescuers to get in and start working. says media manager for oxfam in the newseum he joins us live from the southern part of sulu we see island. what is your organization needs to achieve over the coming twenty four forty eight hours. we are going through it in order to access the safe place and down there as we understand by the way i guess from the report of the made government. that there are still many people survive with that need. water.

minerals food and. the difficulties buddhists there. or so i do now is trying to do is follow me out from arkansas where we are now trying to access the markets here in order to buy a farm supply that we need to bring a. lot of people back and what we are going to access is mostly the people that need. clean water facility the people on the ground with with. ochsner are going to find a good audience where they can access to the clean water and with we have said already that with the impact of the earthquake while by tsunami if

things don't. fall we are going. to up to five hundred thousand people of to live for there to be i think. we're going to say can when we have to fully work on the ground in the next few months five hundred thousand seems like a very very big number how do you get to them how do you get your people in and how do you get the supplies in there because we understand there are issues with the supply chain and also with the practicalities the logistics of achieving this. yeah you know if of course you know it's it's not only a one or made walking job it will be the next coming more a few months when people have already set for the at. and. we cannot at the moment we only have access yeah how many.

and then how many people leaving in cam in that. in. on that and one location at the moment now. as the government have that over sixty thousand of the. leaving our. i'm the guy. we are getting these reports i'm sure you've seen them as well when frustration is perhaps understandably turning into anger the local police reportedly using tear gas to keep people away to keep people calm does that make the job of your people on the ground difficult perhaps dangerous. i guess you know this is about a fact because it's gratian. the police you know they have their own sound in order how to control the people but. as far as our understanding here maybe.

that's the situation down there. of course you know it's petty. thing as badly need for whose work. i still cannot find or. was asked for or the last two days but the government has been working very hard that we are very i understand that the president has all the. bush way said and then sending food and water but we can see is that the government when if that grass back and forth they are lending the food and water that follows . when you talk about. social structure of the when you talk about evacuation that how easy or difficult is it going to be to q.h. the numbers you've just been discussing and. i'll close in on that of

course the. rescuers the government. was good or try to clean the rubble as well right into they are pressing difficult because the use of the day brings of this earthquake and tsunami. but. at least you're not underground we can see you maybe a report as well of the government you know and up the river. red again see that's born here on going. this time yesterday the national government put an announcement saying they were looking for help and aid and they were going to get it from eighteen other countries cannot be maintained should other countries step up and help out as well you know i guess this is a very good time at the end you know and it's a government well problem with the foreign as it's been in order to support the

full five point this is a very good find for either kind of the country beside those has been announced by the government or the people in fallujah as well it's in the. you know there are more people that are unaccounted for help but i guess this is a very good time ground for the people all over the world in order for them to help the people here on the island ok we'll leave it there. thank you very much. at least twenty people have been killed and more than fifty were injured in a suicide bomb attack on an election meeting in afghanistan a suicide bomber targeted supporters of a provincial council member in one go home province many of those killed were local elders the candidate targeted was previously spoken of increasing pressure on ice and in the region there is a new threat to the.