which ronald reagan wanted to sell the saudis billions and billions dollars worth of equipment but these really not be stopped it and congress wouldn't approve it because they feared arming saudi would threaten israel surround reagan handed the deal with are effectively to his political soulmate margaret thatcher un seen nothing yet. very effective. when we stumbled on the saudi arms. deal we really started to stumble on a central feature of british politics over the last thirty years. and a sprint has been at the heart of many of the great world events of the past thirty years i was always pleased to see him when i was prime minister because he brought

me extraordinary insight i'm bold proposal was. she informed us she considers saudi arabia as a strong friend and would be willing to support picking them with whatever the kingdom needs and of discussion from there on everything else was taken to get he explained to mr thatcher this was a deal with saudi arabia and therefore things were done differently. they wanted forty three billion pounds worth of weaponry that was six billion pounds in commission. the false majority what most people understand as bribes. we'll continue to work together against the terrorists who threaten the way of life pacifist. one day i started crying and it was a man. actually he said. i've been working for

a travel company and we had a kind of slush fund we used to distribute to saudis and other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help the path of arms deals. and he told us that sort restore is that when saudi military officers would come along he would present them with canteens of cut through that was something that they liked another thing they liked was girls so he would take about the town and get them girls. to be honest it seemed like quite small beer payments made some of them from rather on as manic activity is aiming chips to the talks about cooldowns that sort of thing there's only two things that count in business my friend money and sex the rest you can write as much as you like is absolute garbage you can measure weapon beautiful the president's secretary. because

they're more distracted looking at their secretaries the what the hell you are talking about. and that is sometimes all that is you need. i have to use an escort agency called launches because of the specialties of the chief of staff of the army like blowing bits of them. and. we had their secretary of the embassy come and review the photos she said i want this one i want this one i win this one i win this one i had the girls i arrived one day before and i said girls i know you will be paid handsomely for this but do me a favor if you get any people thought that is relevant please bring your cross because i could use it in for each interesting information i will give another two thousand euro bonus so with sixty grand i signed the contract with three million so it wasn't ideal. m m i phone rang again. it was another whistleblower and he said you have no idea what it is that you're getting into here. and he said this

slush fund is much much bigger than you realize our job was to look after the really high level people those who used to come to england who were being bribed essentially be a people of the level of the head of the saudi air force who was a royal prince. we would fly the two of us angelica's and they would buy cars dresses and it wasn't shopping like you would i would think in the end when they gather together all the shopping we would charge an entire jumbo jet to fly it all back to saudi arabia it was in the attempt to try and trace through the bank accounts who the ultimate beneficiary saw that the case became really very serious is the trail appeared to lead towards senior members of society royal family. the most outrageous example was that maybe eighty i don't want it to go the way with prince bandar at one point i made him a present of

a huge commercial airline had all of his very. which he promptly have painted in the gray and silver colors of the dallas cowboys who were his favorites a very good team i mean is the fly around in that quite cheerfully. the case centered on establishing the ultimate beneficiary of exceptionally knowledge amounts of money paid by big sharing space for consultancy said decisions. there's evidence that mark fashion of this is that your son got twelve million in cash for his work as a fixer. this is started all. this is well worth. the water it's a really beautiful weapon it's also made if you want to sell on the market and

you're looking probably about three thousand five hundred euros and why you keep it in the house because i have a song here and you can do that legally. yes or no but no more words you can't as long as it's in the house. it is oh sure the cut of the neighbor . i don't know the u.s. money i don't mind paying bribes to politicians it's part of the deal think about politicians is that they're very much like prostitutes but only more expensive. politics is it dated by the whims of the homes in the street politicians are nothing more than sales reps by their friend to have as much power as a middle ranking executive in the two martin ident of the day did with the tolls. when an executive goes to bribe a foreign official he says to himself look i've taken

a lot of risk to take this five million dollars that i'm paying to the prime minister of x.y.z. who makes an arrangement with prime minister of x.y.z. . i'll hand over the five million could you take half of that five million and you send it to the following bank account and switzerland will share in this floor. the first time an executive does that and he collects two point five million dollars he says wow this is a good business to be and within moments of that realization he is no no longer in the business of selling airplanes he's in the business of selling bribes and he is now scouring the world for somebody to find to bribe. we. had to feed. you can. chew through it. i. can't.

see what it's. out it's. my plan. each child to clean. each kid from the city. on foot by. i t's. with. them in the phone rang again. this was somebody who said you have no idea what you're getting into he said this whole be a thing is much much bigger it goes right to the very top what he had was something that you never see is this swiss bank records of international corporate payments going all over the world he showed me how be a set of a whole system with lloyds bank under which they channeled secret payments into

a british virgin islands offshore company called red diamond from red diamond the money went into this guy's swiss bank account and he then used it to distribute to the local politicians taking a big chunk of himself of course you know i can assure you we don't we and i believe most companies all to the business of labor's policy as you suggest a lot of sums up what they do employees of government it is just the way the business is done. we were actually able to publish what was the most dangerous story that prince bandar had been given not just the plane but over the years a total of one billion pounds we did not invent. corruption i mean i doubt many would have been and they had hanky panky and they had to go down to ed so i mean this is this is. i salute you prince of state run and

a friend. how do you agree. of course none of us are greedy it's only the other fellow who's greed. this the world runs on individuals pursuing their self-interest. all those people who believe that greed violence etc these primal so-called primal instincts other religions things and everything else is a social construction they've lost their mind and for the last fifty years at least policy has been made based on the assumption of greed and it's ruined the world. right. path towards believe there is no nature of society so you have to nurture individual is i don't accept that at all i think there are a very many good public policy initiatives for creating society. in the beirut there's a load to you. there's a comment isn't a k forty seven kalashnikov. a society that decides that the bulk

of its budget is going to go to arms manufacturing building of a military eccentric the have made a moral decision that militarism is more important then the creation of wellbeing for the population. this is not the world i want to live in i want to live in the real world and the real world is peopled by real emotions including love and generosity. my god if you want is freedom the freedom of human beings of individuals to pursue their own say is i think what they term freedom means is economic license and the economic license of those who control property and those who control capital has in fact been a threat not only to equality but a threat to the freedom of peoples all over the world and not only in europe and in the united states but nafta in asia and in latin america i want you to name me any

society in which you have any large measure of that freedom where capitalism and free enterprise has not been the predominant mechanism of the free enterprise system has spread through the force of all and send those on through wielded by governments that was government intervention under the name of the free enterprise system but a government intervention which destroyed the freedoms of many people not least of which of the people of chile. from the one nine hundred fifty s. all the way through the one nine hundred seventy s. the cia and the us military were engaged in covert actions throughout central med america throughout africa really throughout the world where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right wing military juntas funding and arming death squads like the contras in nicaragua or battalion three sixteen and under us

and i and there were these spate of assassinations across the globe. in countries like mine people have been killed to be quiet to know that any day any time you're going to be killed you don't know how but it's coming. we were fighting in the league and still we are fighting you know body guards mines that don't want to work going inclusiveness they just take a. action is not only about taking from india but taking from the people. even to dreams take the next. to last hostile what is called the cold war i don't know it to be a very hard war for many parts of the wood. from the standpoint of want it badly and would cause the victims or what i would think of really as of people trying to make their own futures. there was an attempt in the global south to

create an alternative imagination for people. but in the early one nine hundred seventy s. this attempt was destroyed and it was stopped through a real genuine attempt by the global lot to take over the institutions of the world including the world bank the i.m.f. . souls not simply that the bible of the south was incapable of carrying forward their dreams. it was a very strong word their dreams were assassinated. it's not just the one off killings the corrie other cool there. it's the entire dream that had to be killed.

to be sure to do us a real book on our own aren't going to or much else. going to them live by us him but are any mere mere holy orders true or a loser will be because the indian. looks e.u. and so does he not one to us got a pass on him us have a me by his. when i said kind of guy is here. the whole you know men team you julio what are the salmon. you know be your command be. isn't fit yet i'm and even. egypt then go to micio.

the joint hearings of the house select committee to investigate covert arms transaction with iran. and the select committee on secret military assistance to iran in the nec ragon opposition will come to order. the lights are on. and there's nowhere to hide is the easiest way to solve this to allow u.n. observers who you invited into the country earlier this year to finish their job i haven't said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy straight talking debate do you

think we're going to see some kind of sea change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia we have an obligation there is a journalistic integrity and then to that in this case it was betrayed totally up from its own al-jazeera. colleagues must much the same as now being held in pretrial detention for two years what is his crime. why hasn't he been tried yet why hasn't justice been applied in this case is he the ten because he's a journalist journalism become a crime have moles become a tool to silence wars of truth we will continue our news coverage with professionalism and impartiality our work will remain credible and accurate but journalism is not a crime incarcerating journalists is not acceptable we demand the immediate release of our colleague mahmoud to say and all journalists detained in a gyptian jails free mahmoud's and all his colleagues we stand for press freedom.

kidnappings and murders in crimea since russia's full stomach sation of the black sea peninsula. i don't understand why he was kidnapped. schools of crimea into tons have been arrested. and killed most believe by russian security forces. crimea russia's dirty secret on al-jazeera. hello i'm martin dennis in doha and these are the top stories here at al-jazeera indonesia's president has visited the survivors of saturday's tsunami disaster joko

widodo promised to update tsunami detection systems after more than two hundred eighty people were killed and more than a thousand were injured in india the second such disaster this year. that i've ordered a check of all the tsunami detection equipment and the replacement of broken ones i think in the new budget year of twenty nineteen early january the replacement of broken equipment or old ones which can no longer be used the us president has announced that deputy defense secretary patrick shanahan or take over from james mattis on january the first donald trump announced a change in a tweet pushing matters from office two months earlier than planned masses resigned on thursday over trump's decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria and just about an hour ago donald trump tweeted about that withdrawal saying president of one of turkey has very strongly informed me that he will eradicate whatever is left of isis in syria and he is

a man who can do it plus turkey is right next door our troops are coming home to reuters journalists about to appeal against a jail term handed down in september while. given seven years behind bars for breaking the official secrets act they've been investigating the killing of ten range of muslims in iraq state their lawyers say the pair was set up their convictions have been globally condemned with their trial regarded as a shadow. sudanese police have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters who blocked a road in the capital khartoum the protesters gathered in the center of the city after a soccer match several cities around emergency rule as protesters demand a change of government that really is a people across a democratic republic of congo should have been voting on sunday to elect a new leader the poll to replace president joseph kabila has been put off for

a week blamed on a fire that destroyed voting machines and ballot papers have been protests over this latest delay with the election already two years behind. is next. as this year i would expect to get c.h. comes to an end. we examine what the top stories might be to try to get a result. indeed you. join us. as we take a look ahead to twenty nine c. . on al-jazeera. the joint hearings of the house select committee to investigate covert arms

transaction with iran. and the select committee on secret military assistance to iran in the nicaraguan opposition will come to order congress began to address what they perceive to be an insanely out of control series of covert actions with little to no congressional oversight we have been supplying lethal weapons to terrorist nation involving the us government in military activities in direct contravention of the law and lying to the congress now i believe that democracy cannot survive that kind of abuse. and people like dick cheney and donald rumsfeld who are relatively new to government at the time did not like when congress said we need to step in and confront the national security state and what's become a very out of control kill program cheney then went on during the reagan years in the eighty's to serve in congress and when the iran contra scandal broke out into

the open cheney did not like congress being involved with anything that the executive branch was doing. and you had this is utter scandal that emanated from the highest echelons of power and the reagan administration was acting as though it had nothing to do with it i've told you all that i know and you know the truth of the matter is for quite some long time all that you knew was what i told you. to make. our witnesses morning is mr robert mcfarlane the former national security adviser to the president. mr mcfarlane will you welcome you to the committee and we look forward to your testimony. mr mcfarlane. did you have any discussion about the possibility. of in effect farming out the

whole contra support operations in nicaragua to another country which will call country run yes that's correct and did you in fact succeed in obtaining money from another country. which we'll call country toe. that's correct. i had a practice meeting periodic li who was the official from the country true about the systems we could provide some cases arms sales. and he intended to provide a contribution of a million dollars per months to the contras through the end of the year. you have no problem working with the cia we have no problem working with the united states government and unless the cia does not work for the government then i think we have a bigger problem there are many cases or some other question that you know well thank heaven. not in connection with.

i think that there was a substantial shadow government trying to run foreign affairs the united states. these events have been characterized by some pretty strong statements we've heard talk of a grave constitutional crisis and even been treated to talk about a coup in the white house not only does cheney sort of defend iran contra but he argues that iran contra is actually a model for how the u.s. should be conducting its national security policy he is a radical subscriber to this notion of the unitary executive effectively what you're doing is saying on certain parts of american policy we don't have a democracy we have a dictatorship as a matter of fact i was. very definitely involved in the decisions about support to

the freedom fighters my idea to begin with. in my opinion there is no justification for further restrictions on the power and flexibility of future presidents. the national security today is mostly composed of people who hit the revolving door multiple times during their long nomination of richard b. cheney to be secretary of the friends is a make a name for themselves in the private industry and then they come into the go. this revolving door keeps the national security leak very small and very wealthy. and increasing its wealth as it goes up the chain to the extent that then when you get to the top as cheney did then you can become a member of the plutocracy that runs the country to this is impressive crowd the haves. and the have more. money commissioned a study by halliburton to find out how much more of the defense department could be

privatized robert proud to serve our troops and was he laid to get this million dollar contract and of course returned a verdict that oh mr secretary lots more of it can be privatized. dick cheney leaves the defense department and goes and heads halliburton himself and he spends the entire nine hundred ninety s. building up the how important war empire well if we're going to talk about star wars we might as well invite darth vader i. am happy to accept. when he comes back into power as vice president and then they start hiring halliburton to you know in advance even if u.s. troops going into iraq personnel and equipment was being deployed to the gulf it's hard to look at this and not say these guys had

a very long term plan for how they were going to increase the powerful infrastructure of private companies. what we've essentially done is to create a network of corporations that have the fire. power of small nation states that could you know overthrow some small governments around the world. in essence we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function war. and i want to get out of the market right now even obama's of got a time with them like food. you know munitions as good as what you know so by the things. you can see.

in iraq that if this feels and i say t's where firing six million dollars within seconds coming back re army in going up again. there's no hope of any more because there's always a small cobble of people for wars really really good business. it doesn't matter that we're losing the war in afghanistan albertan could care less it's good for them good for profit. margins you know. as you have heard of the.

bailout was her choice really did. i know you. it. well we've undergone a corporate coup d'etat in slow motion. thirty five thousand lobbyists in washington they write the legislation they write the bills. all it takes is one phone call from somebody on the hill to someone in the pentagon saying hey turn on the dogs the hills out to get our program the guys in the senate are on board we need you to turn on the gucci shoes guys to straighten this thing out the guy's

been the lobbyist. and what this does is just lock the system up that's the whole name of the game it's it's called political engineering and i'm like political science political engineering is real. one of the most important things dunder stand it essentially creates what we call a self licking ice cream cone. and it's like perpetual motion machine for getting ever increasing defense budgets the way we do it is by downplaying the future consequences to start a new weapon we over promise as performance under promise it's cost we then systematically spread dollars jobs and profits to as many congressional districts as quickly as possible so that everybody has skin in the game. the people who are invested in this state or people like the largest defense contractor in the world lockheed martin they will die before they see it going to.

going to change the world. we're probably already working. good margin basically just similar as your last two posts. tickles you know in all branches of the government and the whole them and this is the grid that make them if you look like a bunch of schoolboys. fiscal year nine hundred ninety nine two point three trillion missing fiscal year two thousand one point one trillion missing the pentagon has claimed year after year that the reason it can't account for the money is because its computers don't communicate with each other one trillion one dollar bills stacked high would reach nearly sixty eight thousand miles into space one third of the way to the moon. i got a phone call from the f.b.i. saying that i was a target of

a death threat. and that's what happens when you go against the big boys who has the contracts today to make those systems communicate with each other and how much have the taxpayers paid for them there are times that corporations do things they should not do in which case they tend to be suspended for some period there are times then that corporations can get out of the penalty box it. was never in the penalty box if you could proceed to my second question please the second question. i forgot what the second question was. in the vigils operating in the shadows and never having their names called are able to leverage the power of the military and the foreign policy apparatus for their own personal pick uni ery in. what's now who's the enemy

how do we justify. what better our new other me. or. what was. worse with it being today minus eleven yellow mutinies was our unity back home by the i don't assist those for me without enough on by that to know but he deck years embodied on

a little bit dorian out of the many guys will know my dose of the new or let the analysis which you see mean this is tony then says and similarly i'm ok listening you know better you don't know either our foot on the dealer will. like going to rain a nary doubting. us it will be very dark even they let our money earned to that extent i am in a fabulous sadder motherless delusion my see what i want in a service and i live in assist those for me. is a see in more fundamental than a man whom honest sincere your. good to be we are now you back then didn't she on the get a second bit earlier her lack.

of i think of the most basic level when we realize how we've entered into. a permanent state of war. like would often proponents of. counterterrorism on a global scale think of as a long war but a war without end something like that. and i think that what we've accepted is a political regime that is stained by fear is a very old very old political tactic i mean machiavelli asin the prince is it better for the prince to be feared or loved and his conclusion is because the locus of fear the the source of fear resides in him in the prince it can be constant for his rule whereas the locus of love resides in the people it's in their

power and so for them could be constant long lasting i mean so much already opens a question that he probably doesn't provide us the answer with what would it mean to have our social arrangement like the basis of our social choices. be founded on love. i don't think one has to justify the cost and nature of the national security state one just has to keep the people fearful enough to support it but what i want to bring to your attention today is the potentially much more sinister nexus between iraq and the o. kind of terrorist network. every word in that speech was gone over by the director of central intelligence and his deputy director after so it was nothing that i made up it was nothing that i stuck in there and in fact some people tried to stick extra things in there that the intelligence community wouldn't verify with multi-sourcing and i said no powell grabbed me physically which was unlike him

and drug me into a space at the cia at langley and said throw all the material in my presentation about terrorism out cut it out out this amount this is just within an hour george tenet the director of central intelligence made a spectacular bombshell presentation we have just learned from a high level al qaida operative under interrogation about significant contacts between baghdad smoove our ot and al qaeda. this was devastating. here's the director of central intelligence telling the secretary of state that he has interrogated evidence well the secretary turned to me and said put it back in. continues to have a deep interest in acquiring weapons of mass destruction as with the story as the kawi in his network i can trace the story of

a senior terrorist operative telling how iraq provided training in these weapons to al qaeda later i learned that that was shake out libby that had to happen just instantly happened it happened months before that he been in water boarded in egypt twenty did this no u.s. personnel were present and he had recanted within a couple of weeks and we never were told about that every statement i make today is backed up by sources solid sources these are not assertions we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence we were indisputable we were lied to. at this hour american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq to free and some people and to defend the world from grave danger as karl rove famously said to this reporter you know you guys are reality based communities we make reality by the time you figured out you know

what's wrong with our reality we've moved on the creation of another reality digital cell or cause to come into the possession of saddam hussein weapons of mass destruction did the united states sell to him absolutely not. iran iraq was on such a scale that i was on the iranian side and i went down to the bottom i was actually given a gasket and so let me take the train back right away up to town and the carriages with crimes with iranian soldiers had been gassed some which is coffee gretchen and a one man who was reading the. it was so he put a handkerchief to blow his lips. gradually to cargo's became permeated with this sort of thirty six mile and i realized it was the smell of the gas they were coughing up from the lungs i was going around the car does open the windows and the night air is trying to clean the train out of the smell of obviously chemical.

after two thousand and three i was being attacked on radio shows especially from america you know complaining about the american invasion or you produce a dom and i said excuse me i was on the train of iranians gassed by the iraqis and the chemical components came from the united states at the very time that you'll rumsfeld was meeting saddam you were meeting with saddam hussein i think we have some video of that. of that meeting tell me what was going on during this is what did you get this video from the iraqi television is on the iraqi television when did they give it to you recently are we back then we dug this out of the c.n.n. library i see. isn't that interesting there i am. our war on terror. begins with al qaida. but it does not in.

this very phrase war on terror is a rational line saying. a war on war. when the serious fraud office launched its investigation into the crimes that we were covering it turned out that many of these arms deals have been forced through by tony blair personally he said there's a case you don't. once you start a war. you open a kind of pandora's box you don't control it it controls you in the. fog and you still atlanta my god my family and i man carragher and i am.

today there are good terrorists and bad the bad terrorists those in yemen who the united states deems to be a threat the good terrorists those who are in syria the joke here is we've been there before. i mean if you consider the of not to stunt story they have learned nothing. today if i say that the saudis are giving money to groups that are inside the un that are not only models so the. people who say you are a conspiracy theorist. american song review put one billion dollars each to give them training equipment we out of that was

so clear to all those people to go we had. peace that's what we want freedom and peace but no doubt. the doctrine that has endured from bush to obama is that the world is a battle field and that the united states has the right to go into any country around the world to conduct what they call kinetic operations lethal operations regardless of what international law says if you're a small state like we were for one hundred fifty years in in essence these are these spain france. russia you've got to be exquisitely good at diplomacy you got to be able to talk yourself out of lots of things and make deals and compromises and so forth but if you're the world's head human you don't deal with anybody you smack him you your military and you smack him.

they wanted forty three billion pounds with the weaponry that was six billion pounds in commission. there's no hope of a name off because there's always a small cobbles people for war really really good business. in essence we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function more shadow on al-jazeera. and then he pointed well on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of down to gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spent most of the looking forward to for the dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country haven't truly

been able to escape the war. there's plenty of quiet weather across the middle east at the moment we're seeing a little bit of path they drift its way down across parts of to key in that will continue its journey eastwards as we head through the next twenty four hours will say so some rate out of that in some snow as well but is the next system we've really got to watch because that one is a slightly more aggressive say for the northern policy of turkey and to current through into greece very very wet and windy during the day on tuesday with some heavy downpours and a fair amount of snow around as well a bit of of the chill of the south and here in doha it's become freezing i'm cool with a maximum temperature of around twenty two degrees on monday and it looks like there won't be a great deal of change as we head into cheese day either further south in so long that it is a little bit milder here on my some temperature will be getting to around twenty seven for the southern parts of africa more wet weather here and the rain is

looking particularly heavy from angola all the way across into madagascan this system is set to stick about as we head through monday and into choose day to the south of all of that there's a good deal of dry weather but still the risk of one of the two thunderstorms pop sparking off during the day thanks to the heat pretty hot of it around thirty two degrees deborah may see one or two showers as well twenty nine our maximum is cooler in cape town with a top temperature of twenty two. in the darkest of times brave men and women stood up. when oppressed they rose. together they forward for greater justice respect and compassion. they had a dream for a better future. today we are at

a turning point in the stakes are high climate change inequality. hate speech you may feel overwhelmed but there is hope for. you. we together can create the change we want. by speaking out by standing up by taking action. be the leader you are looking for stand up for human rights. fairs of most anomalies and into the zia is the volcano that triggered the devastation continues to erupt.

hello welcome to al-jazeera live from doha. coming up up. up calls for a general strike in sudan is under government protests continue into the night. a second phone call between the u.s. and turkish presidents as american troops prepare to withdrawal from syria. this christmas on the moon we look back at the first voyage around the satellite fifty years ago. the first arraf is of small tsunamis hitting the indonesian coastline as a volcano which triggered the weekend's devastating waves continues to erupt at least two hundred eighty people have died after the tsunami swept along the saundra

strait and crashed twenty meters in land without warning on saturday night rescue teams are working around the clock in search of survivors president has promised to upgrade tsunami detection systems on a honda ripple. the tsunami hit without warning and with such force that this is all that's left of the open e. stage with the band seventeen had been performing. the wave struck on saturday night at the tender listening beach resort and on a holiday weekend the wall of water sweeping the stage out from beneath the band and slamming it into the crowd the lead singer was reportedly script out to see the full being rescued he struggled to tell. hundreds of thousands of followers on instagram of the fate of his band members. we lost bonnie in our road manager ok and he and herman

a new jag not been found please pray that my wife dylan will be found soon that. it happened between sumatra and job or islands on indonesia's soon to straight waves hitting with such force the water traveled about twenty meters in length and and september more than two and a half thousand people died in the indonesian city of poly on the island of sunil way see from a tsunami caused by an earthquake but these waves appeared to be different experts believe they were caused by the end not krakatoa of all that has been erupting since june it's still to have triggered underwater landslides which displaced water to create the large waves there were no telltale trim as it came without warning that. i've ordered a check of all the tsunami detection equipment and the replacement of broken ones i think in the new budget year of twenty nineteen early january over the replacement of broken equipment or old ones which can no longer be used but expect say that

even with high end technology and round the clock surveillance there's no guarantee they'll be a warning of a volcanic tsunami to a certain extent you can take the volcanic activity i mean you can you can tell there's a bit of magma moving around and you can sense very very small earthquakes happening but can you predict there's going to be seen army generated by that no that's a completely different kettle of fish if you wish much harder to try and get a sense of whether any tsunamis are going to be generated by this volcanic activity . the death toll has risen quickly emergency workers not only searching for the dead and missing but now i'm backing on the grim task of identifying bodies. survivors have crowded hospitals and emergency shelters on higher ground many with nowhere else to go and fearing further waves. debris mallett is this once picturesque coastal area people and naturally drawn to the sea to create their

lives and livelihoods many will now be weighing the beauty against the three of these waters maybe on one hand al-jazeera we can go live now to our correspondent rob mcbride who's in an your district that's on the west coast of java and rob as the rescue and recovery operation continues to try to find those people who remain unaccounted for mornings that there could be even more tsunamis so to stay away from the coast. that's right martin the warning has been in for all day monday here along this stretch of coastline has to be said people are not on the beaches where we are at the moment about to not be because of that warning it has to be said is because we've just had a tarantula rainstorm blowing in from the sea for the last ten minutes or so before that we've been watching the teams police going. to going

a large cleanup in this district and the district is that the start of some fifty plus kilometer stretch of coastline that really was both a full brunt of these a tsunami waves over the weekend there was an awful lot of activity all along here we are seeing the cleanup operation continue there is as you mentioned there still a search operation in the hope of finding any more survivors but as we progress into the second day after these tsunamis then it has to be said it is now more sadly for bodies as the death toll continues to mount it approaches three hundred we also have of course the priority for many of the emergency services all the injured some thousand plus people injured with a number of injuries typically traumatic injuries from broken bones and cuts they are being treated at hospitals and clinics along this stretch of coastline there is a clinic just up from where we are here either coast djoko we don't know the

president of indonesia has been here visiting some of these survivors in hospital and seeing for himself just the kind of destruction that was ruled here over the weekend marty and also you mentioned the president's visit to the area and to the people who've been affected by this and he made promises that for the next year there will be more investment in this kind of equipment that can predict the kind of science to make activity that indonesia is plagued by and did that go down well with people who are suffering yes again from these natural disaster in this part of indonesia. i think people here do tend to look at the natural disasters that continue to face them on an annual basis here we're quite philosophically we're here at the northern tip of java just across the straits here is sumatra which of course you'll remember bore the brunt of what

became known as the boxing day indian ocean tsunami of two thousand and four which killed literally hundreds of thousands of people around the rim of the indian ocean so these are people who do live with this threat i think what was most terrifying for them even though they've been through these tsunamis and earthquakes before was just the lack of warning because of the nature of this anomaly it was the shift this landslide under the seas that cause they tsunami there was no indication of it or very little indication through seismic activity the usual indications that people get for example the water suddenly receding from the shoreline which is your warning that the tsunami is about to strike they didn't get that it was a night and i think that's what does concern people here marty the especially as we approach the second day and get into a second evening here whether people can return to live alongside the shoreline here can trust that they're not going to be struck by another wave coming out of

the sea that they have no warning about marty all right rob mcbride live in west java thank you very much indeed another of our correspondents. is andrew thomas and he managed to get a closer look at the damage in. this a little bit further along the coast from where. it's a pretty murky day but on a clear one you can see the volcano will be seven kilometers out sea and even now those low rumble because usually here underneath my voice vote you saw can occur ructions they've been going on for months and it was one of those saturday night. caused a landslide that then caused the tsunami that swept through this this is the garden of a hotel you can see the thrilling people there the child's body was found after the tsunami swept through we're told the wall of water was about a metre high off the surface of the water but with all that water coming in they

got over to me to see you all over there came through here presumably at a height of another metre or two smashed into some of these bedrooms you can see one there that's been really destroyed on the ground floor at least this hotel has an upper floor and people were able to run through that when they saw the water coming in to children though did die here now the water powered through here this is the reception area of the hotel where now about three meters above sea level and they carried on and went across the road smashing into the houses on the other side and people there tell us that the water came through their homes at a height of about a meter now we're talking to here because if another tsunami would hit we have somewhere to run upstairs in this relatively well built hotel but really around here it's just so flat people have nowhere to go and this is well built many of the holiday homes shacks really a very flimsy really built along this coast and those are the ones that have been

totally destroyed. right to sudan now world trade unions are calling for a general strike aimed at paralyzing the government doctors across the country they have walked out of their jobs as anti-government protests enter a six day on saturday night police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters in the capital khartoum they gathered in the city center after a football match chanting freedom songs and demanding president omar al bashir step down the protests were triggered by a shortage of bread and feel. well sarah of the valley is president of the sudan doctors union in the u.k. and she says so dan is heading for a total shutdown if there's no change in leadership i don't think people on the street will just think because of fuel because of rent now because there is over all the holes. for the medical sector there is complete

destruction of the infrastructure there is over all. year from the current government and therefore they have their own right hand over the. you know the the power to the power to a government that can lead and can provide a proper life for the people of. urban go live now to our correspondent him all the news in the capital hard to him and what started out as a protest against the increasing price of bread and feel of now turned from economic into the more of the political calling for a change in government yes martin now we've seen that last night after a football match when football fans walked out of the stadium and father protesting the police and the government have banned any kind of gathering so for them the football match was an opportunity for them to come together and be able to air out their frustrations with the.