for it to collapse and part of that to fall back into down that cliff or down landslides part of the volcano or or parts underneath the water and that's what is apparent that's happened so from satellite images taken prior to the tsunami and post the tsunami it looks like part of the volcano or the side of the edifice is now gone so it looks like we have had some sort of instability part of the volcano has now collapsed into the water that's what caused the tsunami reaching the mainland in iran and indonesia and sunda strait and now what we're seeing is increased activity involved can't activity at the island largely because part of that island is gone what that does is release pressure on the system underneath so it can make it easier for the molten rock or magma to come to the surface and also it's interacting with the seawater which creates more explosive eruptions if you imagine putting up cooking oil into a coal plant of water there you're going to get quite an explosive reaction and

that's what's happening at this moment and the images you're seeing a lot steam is being produced where this hot rock is not in rock is interacting with seawater they now raise the level from level two to level survey and this is on a scale of one to four so they are seeing they they report that they're seeing increased visual activity of the volcano and also from their monitoring data so they'll be keeping a very close eye on it and people are encouraged kind of follow what the authorities are indicating is happening at the eruption mechanic caches a mixture of and gas and it's glassy rock fragments and minerals and volcanic glass and it's very very scratchy or can et so the dangers of that going up into the atmosphere for planes if there is a a larger option the ash goes high enough to where the planes are flying back and obviously be a hazard for airlines so they'll be every routed some of the planes now around the volcano just in case and it can interfere with engines or it can actually wind screen so. isabella but also that can and school actually the atmosphere and the

hobby reports that has been going around the region and people are gonna walk off that car windscreens and. she's on the internet the ashes all and. also to come here on the news hour including sudan's president is facing growing calls for justice after the killing of dozens of anti-government protesters and a health care meltdown how a shortage of staff and equipment is crippling greece's health system at its border right now that comes to the rescue for taliban leaders events as far as behavior that story a little bit like. how the postponement of sunday's presidential election and three opposition strongholds in the democratic republic of congo is provoking calls for antigovernment protests electoral commission is blaming the delays on the boehner virus and rebel attacks

on tuesday as malcolm webb reports in the capital kinshasa. the democratic republic of congo's election is already two years overdue and the electoral commission has announced the second postponement in a week in three areas this election on direct the elections the beni pretend bowen you may be initially planned for december thirtieth or no program from march twenty ninth and will be subject to a specific calender. the electoral commission said the three areas would have delayed parliamentary polls and provincial elections in march that means that we can see excluded from the presidential poll that's meant to happen on sunday the electoral commission said the reason was conflicts and then a bowler outbreak all three areas a key opposition strongholds. this is one of the reasons why hundreds of civilians have been killed in a series of massacres around the town of benny in the last four years it's not

clear who is behind them the government blames a rebel group called the a.t.f. . or outbreak started in august and spread to the area around benny more than three hundred people have died. campaign rallies were allowed to take place there. and its opposition candidates martin finally threw the biggest crowds i think this is the people that need change in this country most because the. war's war was a war of choice it is a must killing seized the kids also want their votes convince a lot in this country that was want to change. there are about one point two million voters in the regions that will be excluded many of them support fire leave . congress catholic church which has played a key role in campaigning for democracy they question the decision to do this is. with think this is a dangerous decision and also we don't see a clear motivation for it why did they not decide this during the campaign when

people were more exposed why only now i think there was a hidden agenda behind it. the elections being repeatedly postponed opposition then millions of followers now question its credibility too even if it happens it's result may not be accepted. malcolm webb al-jazeera kinshasa in the democratic republic of congo one of the parties forming the so the hands ruling coalition is calling for an investigation into the killing of protesters during a week of anti-government demonstrations members of the popular congress party say seventeen people were killed by security forces but amnesty international says at least thirty seven protest has died and there's been no reports of protests so far on thursday. about his from sudan's ruling national congress party he says protesters calling for the president's resignation must follow the legal process put out of course yes and there are really limited demands by the opposition for

bashir to step down over there were deemed to be a top and. a reason now that the head of a national reconciliation government that has included tens and tens of part is a small part is and these parties are all was with the sheer bush it has been bolted by the sudanese people to him today and the ones who want to stay down have to go through the right way which is elections in twenty twenty in a predictor and determined to be having elections and everyone has the right to be nominated and we will accept that. two alstead egyptian presidents have appeared in the same courtroom has testified in the reprisal of egypt's first democratically elected leader mohamed morsi of a jail break in the revolution that toppled mubarak seventy years ago on

a whole as a story. egypt's revolution may seem like a long time ago but its consequences are still unfolding those mother. and mother wanted the whole ability the information i'm requested to provide here is related to the trial and what happened before it such information was delivered to me because i was the president and supreme leader of the military forces in a car oh courtroom an extraordinary scene two former presidents adversaries in the events of early two thousand and eleven now appearing on opposite sides of the law the long time ruler hosni mubarak many called him a military dictator was deposed by the revolutionaries he gave evidence against egypt's first democratically elected leader mohamed morsi morsi who faced a death sentence until it was revoked is being retried on other charges along with fellow muslim brotherhood defendants they're accused of conspiring with foreign

groups including hamas and hezbollah to orchestrate a violent jailbreak in the early days of the revolution but it was some say a third president the current leader abdel fattah el-sisi attempting a show of strength here to wield more power you see that he's telling the former president mubarak you must come to court and so we're seeing this power play that sisi signaling to both mubarak and his people that i'm consolidating power and myself i am the eternal power in this state and the level of repression today's unprecedented and the economic situation is even worse the attacks on journalism and freedom of speech and pass and civil society egypt is quickly becoming governable. n.c.c. is afraid of. in two thousand and sixteen egypt's highest appeal court overturned a life sentence handed down to president mohamed morsi ordering a retrial last year mubarak's own conviction on charges of negligence in office was

overturned and he was released but it is president el-sisi who now faces the possible outpouring of public anger a stagnating economy and a repressive rule doctor almost eighty years egypt appears to have come full circle to own a home al-jazeera. the husband of a british iranian mother and prison in iran is calling for her release richard radcliff made the plea on his wife's fortieth birthday saying she needs urgent medical help pizza shop reports. the british iranian mother turns forty on wednesday but her birthday says amnesty international will be a day of anguish rather than a day of celebration nazneen zacari ratcliffe was arrested at tara an airport in april two thousand and sixteen the charity worker was later sentenced to five years in jail accused of spying charges that she and her husband richard ratcliffe vehemently deny he used her birthday to appeal for her release she is innocent he

says she's been wrongly detained for three years separated from her family in young daughter and she's broken no laws and he says she's now being denied urgent medical attention senescent probably about two weeks ago now found against lumps in the breast this time she went into prison doctors said yes you need an urgent referral and then she's not been able to have it so we've been battling with the rain of course is flat to happen i know she was pushing again this week as far as i know she's still stuck in prison or able to get. since obviously today today's her fortieth birthday that's been looming as a landmark for a very long time in that you know this is someone that as you say has been three years in prison and she's innocent on day one she said innocence in day nine hundred ninety eight which is what today is amnesty international's birthday present for nazneen is a simple one a promise that we will campaign for her freedom for as long as her family needs us peter shop al-jazeera. an earthquake has shaken the island of sicily in southern

italy several injuries were reported after the four point eight magnitude quake it's one of more than a thousand traumas linked to the eruption of mt etna the ash cloud from europe's most active volcano forced hundreds into emergency shelters on monday at an airport since reopened. now surgical supplies are running out of operations perspire and annan said their staff shortages doctors in greece of issued a dire warning about the chaos in some public hospitals al-jazeera has john psaropoulos reports the town of. it takes several pieces of equipment to install an intravenous line in the patient needles taps catheters and rubber gloves must be sterile and discarded after use these are the cheapest of materials for one of the simplest of procedures there are no apparent shortages here at the outpatient clinics of st and brass hospital in part that are but staff say appearances are misleading. and we had

a budget of sixty to sixty five million euros for the crisis today out which is fifteen to eighteen million this creates enormous problems back up at the bottom the hospital is also short staffed this doctor says there are just two nurses for the outpatient clinics serving the city of two hundred thousand. and most days this room is full of stretchers with a queue of more outside shouting and pushing to get in and they come from towns all over the region it can be as fixed we can barely walk in here shortages have shut down clinics in smaller regional hospitals so same town there is also takes in patients from the broader region of more than a million people with hospital one hundred twelve hundred before the financial crisis of two thousand and eight it is now down to thirteen hundred and fifty and at least fifty doctors are urgently needed these trends and personnel and materials reflect the broader cuts in government health and just. three years it has fallen

from seven billion dollars to four point two billion that means greece is spending less than ten percent of its budget on health care the european union averages over fifteen percent it's driven many who can afford it into private health care. where only here for financial reasons of course national health doctors are more experienced than private sector doctors but when the moment you arrive here you're tied up for hours patients get wary there are lots of people in line the dedication of the doctors and nurses who remain in the public sector has been rewarded with a forty percent pay cuts during the crisis and no government has tightened health spending more than that controlled by the city's a party which has made a point of producing even higher surpluses than creditors demand with which to repay the country's debt next year's budget contains a further reduction in salaries for hospital staff a move which will anger many jumpstart ople us al-jazeera. police in the u.s. city of baltimore launched a guns for cash campaign aimed at getting weapons off the streets it's hoped the

move will help curb gun violence in a city where more than three hundred people have been killed in each of the past four years but with gun ownership so widespread in america it's all good that such campaigns are nothing more than p.r. stunts is john hendren. you know if they stop if i get a job in one of america's deadliest cities police are trying to even. to reduce the number of weapons they face on the streets of baltimore they're buying them one hundred dollars for revolver and five hundred for a fully automated firearm no questions asked. i think i need to get rid of i think just great idea gets to street the problem. there is little appetite on capitol hill to change gun laws the national rifle association has opposed any effort to curb gun rights and remains the most powerful lobbying group in america so police here are taking weapons off the street one of

the few ways they can. one donor dropped off this rocket launcher with more than three hundred murders this year baltimore is one of the most violent cities in the united states and police say they hope with. just a little bit safer so the program is about getting guns off the streets of baltimore today is day number three of the program on the first day we took in five hundred seventy eight guns the second day five hundred. and we're only about an hour into the day and there's already a pretty long line inside with people turning in god's brazil managed to take more than a million guns off the street with a gun buyback from two thousand and three to two thousand and nine but with four hundred million guns in the u.s. more than one for every person the effect here is at best limited typically a very small number of gaza turned in fifty one hundred to have. you might have cities like los angeles when you get

a lot like two thousand but they're still small relative to the number of guns in the united states but at the end of the day i think most research suggests that it's actually simply p.r. for some bad p.r. like. damn. well can we keep. track. with about one hundred thousand shootings each year nearly a third of them fatal in more than three hundred mass shootings across the u.s. in two thousand and eighteen in little chance of new gun restrictions police here say they are doing what they can john hendren. baltimore now in a few moments we'll have all the weather with stats but still ahead here on the al-jazeera thousands continue to flee venezuela but they're facing an uncertain future in peru. historic gains after an unprecedented plunge we try to make sense of financial markets in the u.s. and in sports more on manchester united's first win at home under the new manager

and stay with us. from the waves of the sounds. to the contours of the east. hello there it is hot in australia at the moment these are the temperatures that we saw today forty two they're not delayed about thirty one in melbourne these temperatures are well above average adelaide would normally get to around twenty seven at this time of year very hot for us and it's expected to stay that hot and these pictures off for melbourne plenty of people on the beaches that we normally expect to get to around twenty four or so above thirty is certainly hot for us and as i say this hot spell is set to stick around for a good while yet here's a temperature chart for friday then you can see this red street kid that's where the. hottest weather is expected to be but really this whole swathe from western

australia all the way down towards the southeast is incredibly hot at the moment with the temperatures in adelaide knocking on the door of forty degrees once more or so very very warm for us the only real rain is in the far north that's in the northern parts of cleveland and a little bit over parts of the northern territory as well if you shop showers are likely here but elsewhere it's the heat that will be an issue and will continue to be so as we head through the next few days the exception really is perth down towards the southwest here it will be a good deal cooler could have a quick look at the philippines there because we have a storm looming towards us that will take twenty four hours to cross us and it's going to bring us a lot of very heavy rain and flooding. there with sponsored by qatar airways. as this year wrecks a good situation comes to an end. we examine what the top stories might be. chargeable. results. in the new year.

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and other top stories here al-jazeera donald trump has made a surprise visit to iraq the us president and first lady melania trump met troops of the al assad air base that's just west of baghdad he repeatedly defended his decision to withdraw troops from syria. and erupting volcano in indonesia has been widened on the alert level raised experts fear another massive eruption will cause a second. at least four hundred thirty people were killed in a five meter highway out of the coastal communities on saturday. we're getting breaking news out of the democratic republic of congo there have been protests in the towns of goma and but. these other three opposition strongholds where the government has delayed presidential voting to another three months we'll get more details in a little bit later. on as a turn to our top story on donald trump's unannounced visit to iraq in one can join

us live now from the iraqi capital in front so a very short visit by the u.s. president but he's left many iraqi officials unsure about exactly what is u.s. policy in the region. well he was only on the ground for about three hours at the al assad air base many concerning a simple photo opportunity he was criticized very heavily for being the first president in recent history to not visit a active combat zone and so he was very criticized for that so that's likely to be the impetus behind the visit now there was supposed to be a phone call or a meeting held between prime minister. and president donald trump they couldn't agree what they calling the parameters of that meeting so it didn't take place and we've been told by various iraqi officials that actually they're very concerned about the u.s. is tactics when it comes to syria pulling out those troops in syria because that

means iraq is going to have to shore up their border and they're very concerned that the fact that it may allow pockets of ice or fighters to regroup within syria become a problem for the iraqis but much more if you speak to iraqi officials here this simply confusion they don't know what president on the tram is promising and they were very confused about the fact he said that the u.s. troops would stay actually iraqi politicians have been debating what to do with the u.s. troops were the to ask them to extend their help or to ask them to leave the country so there's a lot of confusion. and in mind president trump says the u.s. could use iraq as a forward base if he wanted to do something in syria and how significant is that and how it's not going to work. well we've seen in the past hussein iraq being used as a forward operating base for a number of operations when it came against i saw supply lines a very key here within syria as well so always been

a place where you can use it as a base now that i still have been defeated here in iraq but you need the agreement of iraq's politicians and for that you need a very clear strategy and that's where the confusion is coming from the iraqis simply don't know what the current u.s. strategy is. thank you or is it time to our other top story now developments the democratic republic of congo where there's been protests in the opposition stronghold our correspondent catherine sawyer joins us on the line now from the capital kinshasa catherine so what more can you tell us about soldiers firing over the heads of anti-government protesters. yes daryn we've been speaking to some of our forces and leaks in this area and number one go ma. been protest but there's also very heavy deployment of police who fired tear gas at protesters they have now been the spots we're told the leaders of these protesters use group called have gone into meetings to reorganize and to regroup and they are

saying that they are going to going to continue with this protest and we're going to see bigger and bigger protests as we head to the election until the electoral commission rescind its position to put on elections in these three areas of benny temple and you can be in ben in beni we are also being pool's that there have been some protests people came out to the streets. put stones huge borders on the streets we just build a wall to bost by police using tear gas we are also getting information that police fired live ammunition on the in the add to. this group are also being told that these protesters tried to get to. the top by m.s.'s penny but then they went past waited i guess by their leaders but they're also saying they're going to

continue with this protest would tumble we're told it's basically a coast town people have not come on shore so close there was some process last night but quickly by police but again in this spending and with temple no one. here torsional so close people are staying home other than the protesters who were just out there looking on and police. claimants as well we're being told daryn and catherine a number there is as you say will not be able to vote in the upcoming elections because the government says the boehner outbreak and rising violence how's it's going down with the opposition who want to exactly united of a. you know they're not first off a lot of people especially in this area you're talking about one point two million voters from both areas of very angry they're saying that they feel disenfranchised now might include you leave one of the presidential candidates and that he's he's strong so he's going to be holding

a press conference today to give away for what he's got a lot of pressure perhaps to pull out of the election but again as we've talked to some of talks to some political analysts within that might not be ideal for him because of this speech you're talking about the been the opposition the opposition divided chief saying that they will continue whatever they can to make sure that the electoral commission rescinded his decision because this is the sense franchising he's always has but then we have another opposition coalition led by leaks to see keddie one of the major presidential candidates and they have to say that they will go on with the election regardless complicates michel because i think guided oppositions really push so much for the electoral commission to say to come back and say that if people have to go to the poll as well or a to conference or event in kinshasa come from thank you. now warring sides in

yemen battling for control of the port city of had data have been meeting face to face the u.n. has been hosting talks as part of the latest efforts to end four years of conflict a cease fire in the city has been in place since december eighteen but both sides accuse each other a breaking it reports. patiently hoping for peace the people of the yemeni city of hard data are putting their faith in a fragile truce as nearby a meeting is held between forces loyal to president abu months who are cloudy and who feel. the conflict is now in its fourth year more than sixty thousand people have been killed in the fighting. in two thousand and one thousand we want to see peace love and brotherhood among all yemenis we also hope for perspire ity we are counting on god and on our politicians we don't want more war. the united nations is coordinating the talks it's armored vehicles carrying members of the yemeni government have only been able to get through after rebel fighters

cleared mines from the road leading to where the meeting was to be held. the whole fees in the yemeni government which is backed by a coalition led by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. blame each other for repeatedly breaking a cease fire which has been in place in her data since december the eighteenth the city is a key port on the route for yemen's much needed supplies of medicines food and fuel millions are said to be close to starvation it's estimated as many as eighty five thousand children have died from malnutrition but the. next year we hope the city will enjoy peace and security we also hope that services such as transportation an oil will be available. delegates of wednesday's meeting are said to have agreed on a process for withdrawing pro-government troops from her data and handing control to a local committee they're also reported to have agreed to stop fighting in and around

the city the u.n. representative for monitoring the cease fire retired dutch general patrick come out says the meeting on wednesday has made progress but until the gun battles and the bombings and peace in her data still hangs in the balance rob matheson. displaced syrians and several refugee camps are dealing with the heavy flooding in the north of the country it happened in the wake of rain storms that triggered flooding in the african river high water levels last week cut of roads between several camps with water which in around one point five meters. many of the refugees affected by the rain know for dealing with significant temperatures dropping due to the winter months. russia says ass trucks by israel in syria threaten to passenger planes impairing to land in damascus and beirut moscow says syrian air defenses destroyed fourteen of the sixteen israeli missiles and israeli security official confirmed the airstrikes this so she added press saying they had

iranians storage and logistics targets being used transfer weapons to hezbollah well israel's prime minister says he has no plans to stop attacking what he calls iranian targets in southern syria and it will hurt emotionally we are not prepared to accept the iranian military intervention in syria which is directed against us we will act against it vigorously and continuously including during the current period i've said that would not be deterred from doing what is necessary therefore we are called upon and we act president trump decision to withdraw the american soldiers from syria would not change our policy no we are standing steadfast in our red lines in syria and everywhere else share prices in the u.s. have made a remarkable recovery two days after suffering the worst of the losses on christmas eve the dow jones the main index on wall street enjoyed its biggest of a single day gain rising almost five percent on wednesday the markets are expected to remain volatile investors are worried about a recession in the world's largest economy. what we're experiencing right now is

a is it period of extreme what we call volatility or highs and lows the market seems so you know you go from a very low one day to to bounce back the next i think what's more important is to keep our eyes on the trend. overall the market still is down several thousand points from just levels of just a month ago and to the year both the dow and the s. and p. five hundred off about seven and a half points seventy five percent or so that's a substantial loss of value of the course of a year. i think that reflects concerns about the risks of recession going forward we know that government spending is going to shrink in two thousand and nineteen the trade deficit is already rising and the i.m.f. has rejected as projected over the next two or three years the us deficit trade deficit could more than a nearly double that is nearly double in the next two three years and that those two factors together are going to greatly curtail growth in the united states could

be enough to push us into recession economists seem to think that's increasingly likely to happen the u.s. border protection has a lot of medical checks for every child in custody after a second watch them all and child died while in its cab eight year old philippe gomez alonzo died on christmas day just hours after being discharged from the hospital he was diagnosed with a cold and philippe and his father had been in u.s. border control custody since entering the country a week earlier a seven year old guatemalan go died earlier this month after being detained. i was of thousands of people have already fled venezuela another two million expected to follow them in the coming year they're escaping the collapsing economy shortages of food medicines and just about everything else more than two thousand a day are crossing into peru where they face strict immigration controls than ever before well in a sanchez reports from lima. i mean these guys are you has been selling coffee

on the streets of lima since she arrived from venice willing november the thirty two year old is qualified in food quality control but she's afraid she'll get in trouble for trying to work in an industry she knows well she missed the october deadline to apply for a work permit by just a few weeks i'm afraid we came here to work legally and to be in the country legally i don't want to do anything against the law to do so so-called foreign police along with immigration officials are conducting inspections across the capital to ensure venus will and half the required permits to work and i think as a by the immigration chief. said the briefly detained some than a swell and for security reasons. sadly some people have committed crimes and that makes us sad because it affects the way peruvians and it also makes peruvians afraid. of the immigration office and many are rushing to apply for.