denise. this is g.w. news live from berlin and earthquake and tsunami leave hundreds dead in indonesia that's after a powerful waves barreled into the island of pseudo way sea officials are warning the final death toll could be much higher we'll get the latest from our correspondent also coming up a banquet in berlin for turkey's president turned sour such

a tie affair to one of the shows a series of accusations against his german hosts as he's angered by criticism of his country's human rights record. and the mighty have fallen draining the bundesliga champs spire munich suffered their first loss of the season at the hands of parents in front of a sold out crowd early. in the morning. i'm carl aspen welcome to the program a powerful earthquake has rocked indonesia triggering a towering tsunami officials now say at least three hundred eighty four people were killed waves as high as three meters hit the city of pudu on the island of sue the way sea bowls have been struggling to cope with the injured while rescuers are scrambling to reach the stricken region.

onlookers horrified as a huge wave swept over everything in sight. but already say thousands of structures in the city of palu and nearby areas were destroyed. the tsunami washed away homes and businesses. as triggered by a seven point five magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast just minutes before. this footage shows the quakes immediate aftermath many people rushed to the streets to escape the risk of being caught in a collapse. officials fear the number of victims will continue to rise as search and recovery efforts advance. i've instructed the security minister to coordinate resources the chief of the armed forces is hoping to handle the emergency situation including rescues and evacuations. authorities have urged survivors of the disaster to be wary due to the risk of

strong aftershocks. corresponded max walden in jakarta joining us now for more on this story max authorities have warned that the death toll could rise even further what's the latest that you're hearing now about rescue efforts there nirpal do. yes quite hit yesterday evening and. officials from the military and the disaster management agency flew straight from jakarta unfortunately the local airport has the runway there the damage making that planes it's very difficult and to land so i'm merely it's just military and disaster management agency helicopters that have been out to bring resources to the affected again. electricity and communications have been. caught more or less all in kampala and don't go to. the town closer to the epicenter of

the quake but certainly it's a very very bad situation. it really sounds a way where people living in the area near that coastline where they warned effectively about the tsunami. agency of indonesia has received some criticism because they did initially issue a tsunami warning soon after these seven point five. earthquake however that warning was subsequently released to nevertheless i do believe that people living in these areas are aware of the risks when when earthquakes occur so. i think as well given that these kinds of just asked to do to predict i'm not sure that there are parties can be people i'm for for the damage. this recalls of course the devastating two thousand and four tsunami that killed more than one hundred

thousand people there in indonesia have authorities improved their response to these sorts of disasters since then. well as we know of course nature is an extremely disaster prone and huge shock. many many places a highly exposed to all sorts of disasters like the quakes and and of course tsunamis fortunately the scale of these disasters doesn't seem to be anything like that that we saw and much of. however as well i do think probably. education around disaster management and how to respond to these kinds of events has certainly improved after two thousand and five apology to experience a similar bike and tsunami and there was a mass evacuation up into the hill so people are certainly more aware of what to do in these kinds of situations however as some of the footage we've saying. you know

people can't predict the severity of such you know natural disasters. and they're in jakarta for us thank you very much thank you. turkish president's ranch of tayyip erdogan wraps up his highly controversial state visit to germany today the visit was meant to create harmony between berlin and uncle but it's been derailed by their differences over human rights last night germany and turkey's as of state traded accusations at a v.i.p. banquet germany's franc germany's president franco valter steinmeyer accuse everyone of jailing germans for political reasons everyone responded by accusing germany of hosting thousands of quote terrorists who are facing charges in turkey. foreign affairs correspondent status sedaris here in studio with me say that we saw that unprecedented scandal at the dinner last night chancellor merkel president schedule to be having breakfast actually as we sit here right now will this be

a nother difficult meal while it should be another difficult meal because a lot is at stake there are many german citizens that are imprisoned in turkey they have to talk about that they have to talk about their economy ties they're going to have to talk about the human rights violations in turkey so this needs will also be also won't be easy for the two leaders when we look at last night's dinner that was also as you just mentioned very controversial what was interesting though after this back and forth between john president on are do want to also said oh i really regret having to talk about this here so basically he wanted to actually talk about these difficult topics behind closed doors for haps over a meal right why is everyone such a difficult guest for germany well he likes to provoke and when he provokes he wins back at home so he can play this good back at home and at the same time though both

countries need each other turkey and germany they're connected historically economically culturally so they have to find a way to talk to each other to find a common ground and that makes it hard to talk with. ok so let's look ahead we have this breakfast meeting now this morning president to everyone then on his way to cologne right so what can we expect there in cologne today well in cologne he's going to inaugurate a mosque they expect around five thousand people to attend of course which is very important for the turkish community but at the same time we see that germans will not be represented there and this is a very controversial mosque the organizers a very controversial they're being accused of helping the turkish government spy on turks living in germany so we see that this visit the rest of the visit is also going to stay controversial. will have to keep our eyes on that of course will be bringing more developments status they don't thank you very much for joining us thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world u.s.

president donald trump has ordered a new f.b.i. probe into supreme court nominees brett kavanaugh earlier the senate has delayed a vote on cavanagh's nomination to make way for the investigation this came a day after a hearing where a professor testified that kavanaugh assaulted her at a party when the two your were teenagers facebook says a fresh data breach has exposed the personal information of fifty million users the social media giant says it doesn't know who is behind the attack but the breach could allow hackers to take over facebook accounts users who have used the view as feature in the last year are especially vulnerable. the lawyers for two journalists imprisoned in myanmar has urged the government to immediately pardon them amol clooney told an audience at the u.n. that history will judge the facto ermes leader aung san suu kyi there on her actually reuters reporters walk on and she was so rude were sentenced to seven

years in prison for their reporting on the persecution of the school's. singer marty bolland who founded u.s. rock band a jefferson airplane has died at age seventy six the band was at the forefront of the psychedelic rock movement in the one nine hundred sixty s. in san francisco but ballance biggest hits included miracles and count on me and those came a decade later with the successor band jefferson starship. suspected poison victim and pussy pussy riot activist shelter there's a lot of as spoken to g.w. following his release from a berlin hospital earlier this week. says he was targeted by russia's secret service for investigating the killing of three russian reporters in the central african republic the kremlin critic fell ill in moscow on september eleventh the same day he was to receive sensitive information about their deaths there is love was later flown to germany for treatment. doctors here said it's quote highly

plausible there's a lot of was poisoned we asked him how does he feel today. well compared from last week when i was completely unconscious and nuts and standing what was happening was it was a huge jump for the direction of being better i'm still not completely well i can't i would probably want to run a five kilometer marathon or something like that and i had still have problems with my eyesight very weird part problems that. basically don't allow you to read with glasses or focus your eyes on so yes so my symptoms are still there but essentially this nerve agent it's. as everyone who is thinking about it speculated it's most likely had a very short term strong effect and then basically she's days out so and this is what we saw in my condition. your life was obviously in danger i refer to her as

trying to russia which. no are definitely not afraid in a few that are russian means courageous people who are not afraid of anything and. if in berlin maybe it would make sense to work with bodyguards in moscow does make sense because. the people who want to do something bad to be could still do it so it's just if you do opposition politics in russia you just have to be ready for kind of any course of action what was the main reason of your poisoning i believe the main reason was to give a warning sign that we shouldn't die for too much into uncovering what has happened in africa. and the agency who lakes who knows how to work with these poisons. it's kind of their language you know so. i believe that the african situation is more or less the main here. the bundesliga weekend kicked off with a fourth place hertz a berlin hosting the first place fire munich and berlin one giving the bavarians

their first loss of the season and elevating berlin nearly into the clouds in front of almost seventy five thousand fans. that's a bell in almost never sell out the olympic stadium but they did on friday night's hope parents perhaps sensed something special was on the cards and after a special save from buyers manuel neuer a careless fell by teammate your own boateng gifted the home side a glorious chance from the penalty spot. a bit out of piece of it stepped up and his cool conversion dead friends to drain. just before half time for limbs valentino lazaro danced to the boy line and set up andre duda. this the document filled his fifth goal of the season anough to seal a famous two nil victory and had his fierce win over byron in not in years.

for me because surely i was pleased with how the team played and that we took it deserve a junior league going into halftime. and then in the second half they fought and defended together. the win put hatter top of the standings alongside the varians byron's title defense may not be as straightforward as many first thought. and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you right now at least three hundred eighty four people are reported dead in indonesia after an earthquake triggered a tsunami on the island of c. the way sea officials warn the death toll could rise significantly as rescuers scramble to reach the stricken region. and diplomatic tensions rise during a state banquet in berlin the turkish president pressured to pay a fair to one unleashed a series of accusations against his german hosts. angered by criticism of this country's human rights record. and you're watching t.v.

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