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volcanic activity in bali indonesia the parties fear a major explosion at mont agong is imminent one hundred thousand people have been told to evacuate and thousands of air travelers are stranded we get an update also coming up pope francis flies into controversy he's been given a warm welcome in myanmar but will the crisis over the first accused of the most enriching of minority there cost a shadow over his visit. and germany's chancellor is trying to deal her rival of the social democrats into another grand coalition with her conservative block so far the s.p.d. has resisted which as. i know i'm on the thought she might great to have your company. already alert has been issued on the indonesian hardy island of bali as fears rise of

a major volcanic eruption mt agong has been rumbling since august but now it's started committing smoke and lava forty thousand people have been evacuated would maybe more still need to move on with flights grounded because of the ash many travelers in the popular tourist destination are stranded. mount argonne possibly on the verge of a major eruption once again its alert is on the highest level. that thousands of local residents have been told to leave their homes no one is allowed to stay within a ten kilometer radius of the volcano straight or. the other level has already raced to his highest back in september before being lowered again in october. many evacuees are fleeing to centers like this for the second time i've got my son that we're coming back here because we are so afraid after seeing the huge thick black

smoke rising from the folk and no so those of us who live in the danger zone decided to leave. on. the. airports in bali and lombok have been forced to close leaving that thousands of tourists and business travelers stranded. pretty much to. get the. permission. to check it. so we don't know what's in. the country's geological agency says the alert level was raised again because the volcano is now spewing out lava that suggests a major eruption could be imminent. now this is the second red alert in bali since september so how worried are people that the volcano

will erupt this time but that question to photographer immediate floyd who is based in bali. i was definitely there must surely make. changes in the house. now that it actually have to say that it's certainly changed the way that the retards that's coming out of the government people are definitely a lot more scared than they were before. now what about the evacuees one hundred thousand need to move away from a tent konami to vote on a round the will cain will have people been complying and moving out as they a parties want them to. working to a councillor non-profits that are working in the area. they're saying that it's certainly didn't. get that many people away from that area it was obviously. you know it's been hard that that everyone's been sent harman and sent back again like told to leave again it's not easy for them to maybe find out if it's legal or not

but i think that they're doing everything they can and i really don't need much help. to make it happen and. all parties to deal with the possible major eruption because the last major one chemical reaction on the island was a nine hundred sixty what about of thousand people were killed yeah i've heard there's a there's a question going getting mosques out to people there's a lot of nonprofits now that are trying to work just to get just basic necessities like water and mosques to people are so there must be some sort of breakdown there with the government but i'm sure that they're doing everything they can to try to get it right away safely and you know keep them safe while the away from their arms and what are you going to be going on in for now what is the situation like there for tourists it seems many of them have been stranded and. yeah i can remember the exact yeah but i think it's that easy two thousand people now have. you know stranded in some way. it's in

a major tourist home certainly not as friendly as it would be closer. to miles away i think seventy kilometers from the volcano so it's definitely not as much of a threat for us but it is a threat to them you know you are a mess now that the airport shut i mean your cars are floyd and the strain photographer on bali thank you very much for talking to us and you can in that i'm in my pope francis has just arrived in the country becoming the first pontiff ever to visit man ma he's making the visit to encourage the country's small and catholic communities less than one percent of min ma identifies itself as catholic france is also expected to raise the looking a refugee crisis in meetings with civilian military and religious leaders. the hundreds of thousands of a still facing persecution and violence in myanmar many say his visit could bring more attention to their plight. papal souvenir is on sale in front of the st mary's

cathedral in young gone. this is the pope's first visit to me and. christians are a minority here just like the muslim or hindu who for months have been fleeing persecution in the country's west it's a sensitive topic that threatens to overshadow the pope's visit when we have so many conflicts in our country i hope the pope brings peace and strength for the christian minority. he shouldn't bring up the road. that would just anger the buddhist majority here they don't want him to get involved. i think it's ok if he just makes a general reference to the situation and that everyone should have equal rights. and they move well known many catholics are afraid of being discriminated against just like the right to injure. people refer to the muslim minority as bengali or illegal immigrants from bangladesh even mentioning that woodrow hinge or as the pope often hands is considered taboo and got in on himself his boss not only

requested her not to expect this work because in this time of history that something unwanted consequences may happen so he lost face forces possible loss last week me and mine bangladesh signed an agreement stating that for him to refugees will soon be repatriated back to me and. the details of the agreement however remain unclear advocacy groups for the british people say the agreement is too vague for just a minute that should be involved and involve them so that the donkeys. that it will get their citizenship know this that it will pass a patient and a future. but the question remains how political can the pope be and me and mom and how much. marla farty can he show because he won't want to offend the country's deeply buddhist population. joining me now is dave going to bomb these agendas

based in the man city of young gone welcome david this is going to be a tough balancing act for the pope what is expected of his visit there it will he's certainly going to have to address the plight of the right engine the question is how forcefully how firmly he addresses dresses that how much position is he take behind them and what they've been going through that's really what the question is here as you reported just alluded to before even just saying the word wrote him if he were to say that that would be highly highly controversial a lot of people would see that as going too far but then human rights groups are saying that he must say the word right into that by not saying the word he would just be playing into the hands of people who are against them and people who take away their human rights to a self identify as roy and just so we're really going to be seeing high if he's giving a speech tonight is that a day why is it down to him just so controversial that and why the lead is that prepared to use it. well most of you in this country refuse to use it or hinder our

state was muslim minority and people here reject that term for them identifying as were handed they say they aren't this this group that deserves its own unique name that way that's what people here who made most people as country that's what they would argue. it should be brought up that the pope tomorrow will be meeting with aung sang suu kyi the state councilor he will be giving a speech tomorrow evening in the capital naypyidaw and this can be really interesting to see what he says what does he say about the read into this the identify them by that name and how firmly does he speak in support of them he will also lead a mass hearing and ban on wednesday and also during this trip he will be meeting with the military commander in chief senior gentleman on along and keep in mind here the country's military is not controlled by the civilian government the head of the civilian government state council on some suchi she has no control over the military and the military's counter-insurgency insurgency campaign or a kind state has been widely popular with most of the people in this country you

know you've heard terms by the u.s. and the u.n. calling it i mean most people in the country reject that say it has not gone that far. david greene obama journalist based in young talking about the pope's visit to me and mom this is a look at some other stories making news around the wild a fringe party of the religious right in pakistan says it's ending its blockade of a major road into the capital islamabad after the law minister accepted its demand to resign all those arrested during weeks of protests refried in a deal which is viewed as a huge embarrassment for the government. chinese authorities say a septic tank was at the center of a huge explosion that dropped the port city of inning ball on sunday the blast killed two people and at least nineteen were injured two others are still missing highly flammable gases such as we think and build up in septic tanks. now here in germany the signs the country's post-election deadlock could be nearing an end

with signs a so-called grand coalition could be in the works chancellor angela merkel's conservatives now say a renewed coalition with the center left social democrats is the best option for the country that sort of talks to form a government with the greens and the pro-business free democratic collapsed earlier and the only alternatives to a grand coalition are new elections or forming a minority government. and keeping track of the story is political correspondent michelle acoustic she joins me now from our parliamentary studio series michelle only a third of s.p.d. members are in favor of running the so-called grand coalition one of their concerns . or their concerns are that they will have the same kind of abusive political relationship that they feel they've had in the past in a so-called grand coalition with chancellor angela merkel c.d.u. party they've been there twice before and the past election results say that simply

they couldn't cash in their political successes into votes that a lot of what they feel has been achieved like the minimum wage was in the end seen as a success for the chancellor who is from the c.d.u. the very party they really want to beat so that's why the s.p.d. initially ruled out having any talks on a potential continuation of the so-called grand coalition at all now after the german president intervened called in every single party leader here calling on them to do all they can before even thinking of going down the road of potential snap elections there is some movement is growing momentum within the social democrats to potentially head in that direction but whatever happens they would put it to a grassroots vote anyway even for the social democrats that have a strong bargaining position of this time michel is this an opportunity for them to put in some of the core issues on the agenda for example minimum very huge.

absolutely i mean they did secure the minimum wage they want to see that raises want to see a lot more social features that would actually mean some cash from the c.d.u. which is adamant that it really doesn't want any kind of increase in public debt the other question is how this would pan out towards him on mccall the french president's ground plans for the future of europe certainly is social democrat part in government would be good news for him certainly they will raise the price it will be a lot tougher for german chancellor angela merkel who is weakened to deal with these social democrats who might have lost in the polls but this certainly rediscovering a sense of pride a sense of not going in for government at all costs me schickel found a bottom interest to do this thank you and good news for the romantics amongst you a royal romance is headed for betting bells britain's prince harry has announced

his engagement to us actress meghan mochel of the have been dating for over a year but only made their first public appearance together in september at me event for wounded veterans in toronto a statesman statement from the kensington palace said the pair became engaged earlier this month the a set to wed in the spring you're watching the news coming to you live from berlin stay with us because first has business news coming up shortly and i'll see you at the top of the hour.