this is the news live from berlin an earthquake and tsunami leave hundreds dead in indonesia after powerful waves barrel into the island of sue the way sea officials are warning the final death toll could be much higher we'll get the latest correspondent also coming up a banquet in berlin for turkey's president turned sour budget type out of one unleashes 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 reigning bundesliga

champs by our munich suffered their first loss of the season at the hands of have in front of a sold out crowd in berlin. 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 palu on the island of pseudo way see hospitals 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. authorities say thousands of structures in the city of pallu and nearby areas were destroyed. the

tsunami washed away homes and businesses. as well as a large mosque in the city. communication lines and power remain cut in many areas. the tsunami was 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 as. 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. correspondent max walden is in jakarta for us he joins us now with more on this story max authorities have warned that the death toll could rise further what's the latest that you're hearing there about rescue efforts in the region yeah well certainly it's still very much an ongoing search and rescue mission members of the military and the disaster management a clue in straight off the disaster yesterday and the president has said he's following the situation very very closely i've heard from the red cross that on the ground there in dire need of food because water infrastructure has been damaged the water is also entirely man medical supplies and of course the ongoing to interest is the most urgent part. speaking of the rescue efforts in the preparation there there's been some criticism about the warning that was issued before this tsunami

or as a tsunami was expected can you tell us about that. yes so the major logic agency even in asia initially when the earthquake issue a tsunami warning this was cancelled just over half an hour afterwards and there have been reports of people in power on the. tsunami struck the pairing. festival they were having next and so the. agency has actually said that those people are still one of the missing so clearly they were they were not prepared for this strike this incident of course recalls the devastating in two thousand and four tsunami that killed more than one hundred thousand people in indonesia have authorities improve their response to these sorts of disasters since then. will certainly going to be known for disaster thankfully the scale of this doesn't appear to be nearly. tragic however. i think in terms of indonesia it's

a highly disaster prone country of course. these kinds of disasters tsunamis volcanoes basically are into to be struck by all of these i do think however if you go to any nation base you will see signs warning about tsunamis and indeed this particular area was struck by a tsunami back in two thousand and five. quite ready to play into higher areas however given the severity of this particular disaster it seems they went they weren't necessarily that well prepared a dire situation there. thank you very much. thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world facebook says a fresh data breach has exposed the personal to mation 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 you as feature in the last year are especially vulnerable. the lawyer for two journalists imprisoned in myanmar has urged the government to immediately pardon them amal clooney told an audience at the u.n. that history will judge defacto burmese leader aung san suu kyi on her actions reuters reporters while the one and old were sentenced to seven years in prison for their reporting on the first accused of was lawyers. and a singer marty balin who founded the u.s. rock band 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 ballons biggest hits including miracles and count on me came a decade later with the successor band jefferson starship the. turkish president's friendship wraps up his highly controversial state visit to germany

today the visit was meant to create harmony between berlin and ankara but it's been derailed by their differences over human rights last night germany and turkey's heads of state traded accusations at a v.i.p. banquet germany's president franco. accused everyone of jailing germans for political reasons everyone responded by accusing germany of hosting thousands of quote terrorists who are facing charges in turkey. d w political correspondent group or vitter vald is now joining us he's in berlin he's been following this state visit closely rupert what is the situation where you are right now. well i call i'm right here in the governmental district of build in and the security situation is still quite tense here in the governmental district especially around the hotel where the took the president has been staying there's still a lot of police but many of the space he has being called off although as the

president president's visit is about to finish at least here in berlin today things are smoothing up a little bit here you can see behind me that people can walk freely now back to back and forth to the brandenburg gate one of the main tourist attractions of the city which was impossible yesterday which is possible now again as the president has left the hotel and this has now been meeting with german chancellor angela merkel again this morning for breakfast and again probably the most debated issues are going to be how being the freedom of press in tokyo on the human rights situation turkey and i guess they will also have talked about the state bank that you have mentioned already where func like the steinmeier the german president told the turkish president which problems he has with turkey on the way president calderon is treating the freedom of press and just treating human rights issues in tokyo. the president will. will leave building

today and he will go on to cologne will be going to see another highly debated issues yeah you can watch to be expect from that trip to cologne. president out on one stew fishley open the great mosque of cologne a mosque which is run by the d.t.p. organization detail is the biggest islamic organization here in germany which is directly linked to the turkish government. preaches for instance are paid by the docks government they get their prayers directly sells directly sent from ankara and out one wants to open the mosque and he wants to do this in a very. open way he wants to have a big ceremony he wants to have thousands of people around it but already the security forces in cologne said no you know this is not going to out him because all of this is just too unsafe the nineteen protest marches have been registered with the police already all against out on and so that what we're going to see in

cologne today is probably another very highly disputed part of this very difficult state visit protests in berlin and also in cologne political correspondent is on this for on it for us thank you very much. you're welcome. u.s. president donald trump has ordered the f.b.i. to investigate allegations of sexual assaults against his pick for the supreme court brett kavanaugh the senate judiciary committee narrowly approved his nomination by eleven votes to ten but a key senator called for a week long delay before the full senate votes to decide whether he should sit on the court earlier a professor testified that kavanagh assaulted her at a party and the two were teenagers kavanaugh as they died the accusation. you want democracy a deal of high drama on roy motion in the u.s. capital protesters hitting the streets to object to the nomination of brett kavanaugh to the country's most powerful court. i asked to run

the same time the bets only divided u.s. senate judiciary committee was pushing ahead with a vote to proceed to a calvinist nomination the democrats who wanted an f.b.i. investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against cavanagh where few diest. and the corridors outside the atmosphere was feeble and then a moment that may alter history senator jeff flake who had just declared his backing for cavanagh confronted by a sexual abuse survivor me i didn't tell anyone and you're telling all women that they don't matter that these women think why do you want to talk to you don't tell me that my dil did not or don't want me don't think i did your you don't let me. down only. hours later the republican senator was back in

committee and had found his voice offering to back the controversial nominee under one condition. i think it would be. proper to delay the floor vote. for up to but not more than one. week. in order to let the f.b.i. . continue to do an investigation limited in time and scope. with not dramatic compromise another flare up in the room and perhaps the country had been a vast hint that it still needed the backing of one man i guess the vote was a positive growth but there seems to be a delay learn more about it goes the day goes on and i just heard about it because we would you have what you were ordered an f.b.i. investigation. board he left work for lake took the underground exit away from the public eye the end of the day of reckoning. lawyers

for football star cristiana were naldo are threatening to sue german magazine der spiegel after published allegations that he raped a woman u.s. citizen catherine may your god told their spiegel that bernardo attacked her in a las vegas hotel room nine years ago the ogress lawyer said his client had initially reached an out of court settlement with rinaldo but no longer felt bound by the agreement as she was still suffering from the after effects of the brain and all those lawyers call the accusations quote illegal. the bonus legal weekend kicked off with fourth place hertz of berlin hosting first place by munich and berlin came out on top giving the bavarians their first loss of the season and elevating berlin a nearly into the crowd into the clouds in front of a crowd of almost seventy five thousand people. that's a ballin almost never sell out the olympic stadium but they did on friday nights

the home fans perhaps sensed something special was on the cards and after a special say from bonds man well no you are a careless fell by to make sure i am boateng gifted the home side a glorious chance from the penalty spot. bit out of piece of it stepped up and his cool conversion dead fans to drain. just before half time valentino lazaro dance to the boy line and set up andre to die that's the fucking midfielder's fifth goal of the season and not to seal the famous two nil victory and head says phillips we know of a bind in not in years. for me but surely i was pleased with how the team played and that we took a deserve a two new lead going into halftime. and then in the second half they fought and defended together minds on. the win put hatter top of the standings alongside the varians byron's title defense may not be as straightforward

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