well you. know. this is d w news live from berlin the desperate search for survivors of the earthquake and tsunami in indonesia rescuers scramble to save those trapped in the rubble of the government calls for international help as the scale of the devastation becomes apparent more than eight hundred are dead and thousands more injured. also coming up it's a good day for canada says prime minister just to ensure job after the country agrees to join a trade deal with the u.s. and mexico the us mexico canada agreement is set to replace what used to be known

as nafta. and macedonia as prime minister declares a referendum on changing the country's name a success despite failing to achieve the required turnout plus songs about suffering and exile but also joy. of the. syrian singer lay not sure mommy on plays her first ever concert here in berlin and explains why the city reminds her of the home that she was forced to leave behind. i'm sorry kelly walked into the program indonesia's government is struggling to cope with the scale of the disaster from the earthquake and tsunami that hit the region of soulive. last week the president has now called for international help to

bring aid to the region and to try and find survivors more than eight hundred thirty people have been confirmed dead so far and the fear is that that number could rise significantly as the rescuers reach remote areas. combing through the rubble for victims the dead and those who might have survived. this collapsed hotel in palos city has been one focus of the efforts dozens reportedly still trapped inside. but. meanwhile evacuations by plane of being under way for those fortunate to have survived this disaster some are injured as an earthquake sent buildings tumbling others as tsunami waves pummeled to shore. the destruction has left people without food and water and the areas hardest hit. by the authorities are attempting to provide

enough i and supplies. but the damage to infrastructure has slowed their efforts there was the seven point five magnitude quake left many survivors desperate. so like you said dad you are that we went to the beach because my daughter in law has a good still there we look for her but couldn't find her. so. it's only our house was still there we could go home unfortunately it was completely destroyed there was nothing to salvage from the ruins. most confirmed deaths so far from the city of palu a provincial capital on the sulawesi island. but reports main sponsors from outlying areas such as dongarra a region close to the earthquake's epicenter and home to some three hundred thousand people. people. we were expecting a rise in the number of dead even though we would hope the figures remain the same . considering the conditions out there that are still bodies on

identified as well as victims buried beneath the ruins but there are also remote areas yet to be reached even. now authorities are facing questions over whether disaster warnings were sufficient. intonations disaster mitigation spokesman tweeted this video saying it shows how people were at the beach as the tsunami waves rolled in with no sirens going off. officials are being criticized for allegedly lifting its tsunami warning too soon possibly leading to a greater loss of life along the coast. here and let's get more now on this disaster we are joined by journalist max wald and he has the very latest from jakarta and max i just like to pick up on something that we heard a little bit about in that piece on the fact that there is criticism over this apparent failure to warn people about the tsunami we saw people there on the beach

essential as it hit what went wrong. unfortunately. the. monitoring. that was. i think in terms of the agency it's. off through. the tsunami struck but. that. fact. of the sirens of course the. electricity was out however definitely. questions and now authorities are

calling for international aid. into these affected areas. the. president. in the military. including. the humanitarian response.

to them. and more effectively and max the survivors themselves. to. prevent this from happening.

from the. seven million. max walton with the latest from jakarta thank you. well now let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world dozens of people have been hurt as a powerful typhoon lashes the japanese mainland high winds and heavy rainfall are battering regions that are still reeling from a recent series of extreme storms this latest typhoon has left hundreds of thousands of homes without power iran's revolutionary guard says that it has launched missiles targeting the militants behind the attack on a military parade nine days ago state run television said that the attacks have killed and wounded militants in eastern syria there was no word from syrian state media on the strike. in spain hundreds of people have demonstrated outside

of a prison where cattle and separatist leaders are being held they were imprisoned after organizing an illegal independence referendum in catalonia last year separatists have called for a street protest to mark today's one year anniversary of that vote. the united states and canada have agreed to a deal to replace the north american free trade agreement that is according to a u.s. administration official who says that it will go by the new name the united states mexico canada agreement no canada had rest being frozen out of a deal reached in august between the u.s. and mexico to update nafta but eleventh hour talks between ottawa and washington guaranteed that all three members would be in the new version of the pact is the premise here is that a good deal for it is a good deal for going a good day for canada how come sir. justin trudeau was in good spirits after

a cabinet meeting in ottawa once the final stumbling blocks had been removed. there will be no tariffs on the two point six million cars that are made in canada and sold in the u.s. but there was still no announcement of a deal on canadian steel and aluminum exports canada says it's a good deal because the country can also go to an independent arbiter when it has a trade dispute with the u.s. and it does not have to subject itself to u.s. courts that part of the old nafta treaty survived the name however will not the acronym nafta is dead as u.s. president donald trump repeatedly called it the worst deal maybe ever signed the new name is the united states mexico canada agreement the government in washington says it has been able to negotiate a much better deal for american factory workers and farmers as canada gave in to u.s. demands to open up its highly protected dairy market further details of the deal will be made public later today but it's clear that the last minute agreement secures the just in time production in many industries as the three economies are

highly interwoven. still doubt now in some of those details we're joined by business reporter erin erin trump helling this success is that well from his perspective i definitely think it is a success i mean i don't really think it's important what exactly they agreed to the very fact that there was a deal made is good for trump it's something that he can sell to his voters back home you know when you're looking at trump it's often hard to find kind of a cogent policy that carries him through his entire political career what it's been in the last several years if there is one however it's his skepticism when it regards to international deals multilateral deals working within the world stablished order as we see it special it comes to free trade he always likes to portray himself as a deal maker somebody who will get rid of those a multilateral agreements and say we model country to country we will make a deal now he already got that when he came to mexico and now he again has a new deal like that a direct deal a kind of direct diplomacy style deal with canada so for him in his perspective

that alone is a win how is this different from nafta though because i mean there are still three signatories to this deal well that kind of remains to be seen there have been some measures that have already kind of leaked out but we haven't seen the full language of the deal so we don't really know we know that american farmers will get access to canadian dairy markets there was a new extended cap on how many cars canada can export to the united states so there's a little horse trading in both sides but it seems that while it's very very similar to the initial deal that was in place but like i said it doesn't the specifics don't really matter that much at the end of the day for trump what's big is that he got a new trade deal and a direct trade deal ok it's all about the headline indeed aaron telson from business thank you so much. in macedonia a referendum on a plan to rename a country in north macedonia has been marked by low turnout the prime minister had

hoped that the result would help secure parliamentary support for changing the name and a decades long dispute with neighboring greece although most voters gave the plan their backing the macedonian opposition says that the low turnout shows the non-binding referendum lacked legitimacy. it may no says being the exact result he talked for up with the help of his supports is a prime minister's zoran ziad made it look like a victory. we had a majority of more than ninety percent who voted in support of the name change and who engaged in that decision. not only have i no intention of resigning but i will continue until macedonian is a member of nato and the e.u. . my. campaign is against the referendum to rename the country to north macedonia have been

celebrating their own victory. there referring to them failed. this illegitimate government. everything so i think they should just quit go out of the parliament and there should be elections. with only around thirty six percent of the electorate voting low turnout month the results of boycotts against the referendum appears to have been a success many were angry at the name change deal reached between the government and greece which has a province also called macedonia back in june the two countries agree that if macedonia changed its name greece would drop its objections to the former yugoslav state joining nato and the e.u. . that many greeks oppose anyone else using the name

macedonia on sunday nights they too were celebrating what they see as a referendum sadia. the if in spite of the opposition the macedonian government is pressing ahead with its plans but it still needs to win over a parliament and that's where the real fight begins. syrian musician. was forced to flee her native country in two thousand and twelve she's now based in paris and brings a taste of syria to the concert halls of europe playing to sold out crowds of her compatriots and others on saturday night she brought her show to berlin for the first time. every artist has their own pre-concert ritual and prefers the company of friends and fans there's time there's always time for a few selfies she's excited to perform in berlin which in some ways reminds her of the home she left behind in damascus. from many

countries are here not just syrians lebanese or palestinians here i can meet people i otherwise would have found difficult to get to know as well. you know first a local radio station a soulful teaser ahead of the night's gig she's keen to reach anon our abode us with her music her fuses are main and arabic music elements of jazz. her songs often deal in love pain and exile but she shies away from politics there are ten year concerts try to conjure a different image of her war scarred homeland. people mostly talk about syrians as

refugees are divorced of irish people who had to make a fresh start but see my concerts you experience us as we really are as if we were in our homeland as if the war had not torn us apart as if the problems had never been there. even so as she takes the stage it is hard to fight the harsh reality her set includes songs about alienation and fear for the refugees in the room it must have felt like their story. was was was . from the start to patriotism tears turned into joy it is this mix of emotions that pulls syrians back to living a sham i mean i'm. going up right at the beginning but later celebrated in that. like i said i felt like deepest yearning for home but also happiness and i need i'm

going some songs i felt the sadness and pain of the syrian people and. afterwards the name of their star for these sounds lino is the embodiment of the syria they remember. and now thousands of people turned out in rio de janeiro for the city's twenty third gay pride parade on sunday. revelers jazz band played music in colorful costumes to celebrate and draw attention to the l.g. eighty population with brazil's presidential election just a week away the feed of the event was a vote on ideas not on people. here watching d.w. news still to come on the program after years years of turmoil german steel giant to some credit is set for a major restructuring the company splits into two parts and gains a new c.e.o. and we will talk with him live in just

a few minutes. but first in the butt to say got out of the managed and important win over five largely thanks to their star striker his return from injury came at the perfect time for the bavarian side in a four one victory. i was booked to delete inside twenty minutes thanks to put it better to be a midfielder coyote applying the finishing touch. then they double digit lead in the thirty fourth minute to free her they put the car back out fridge symbol research with the free. not just any finish either a sensation or back you know what they were good going forward i was but less so leaving them back because defensive model allowed freiburg back into the match and our goal by jonathan schmidt of the most famous for writing. a foul on alfredsson

bogus and then gave out but with charts from the sport in the sixty minutes and he himself stepped up to do the honors. he wasn't done they either poking home a third in the icy third minute to seal a four one win with twenty five goals patrick hero finn borgerson is now out bugs all time top scorer in the bundesliga. meantime lewis hamilton has extended his lead in the formula one driver standing after winning the russian grand prix the british driver to first place thanks to some help from his mercedes team mate. with miss avies taking pole and second during saturday's qualifying this was their race to lose red bulls next to stepan who was intent on stealing the headlines however a stunning drive saw him climb twelve places to eventually seal a fifth place finish. terry potter set a record breaking lecturing qualification and was on course for victory in the main event but the sadie's chief toucher wolf ordered him to allow hamilton suppose that

extended the british championship lead over sebastian vettel a president of the fins hopes of glory post-race a visibly disappointed boathouse was comforted by a triumphant hamilton who admitted his eighth victory of the season owed everything to his teammate sacrifice. yeah i mean about you did a fantastic job all weekend and it was a real gentleman too to let me buy a seat is now in the fighting for the championship is where we are usually you would be just elated but you know i can understand how difficult it was about three but ready to find us to talk today and it's up to two to win a couple times lead over for a respectable now stands at fifty points with just five races remaining and almost out of sight of the lead. champagne all round of us ladies thanks to both aussies team spirit. time now for business helena humphries here and we're talking about a crisis of verdant at a major german company seems so nevertheless are we looking at one of the biggest the most radical shake ups at

a massive german company in decades we're talking about which says it's managed to stay clear of a leadership and strategy crisis thoughts after a supervisory board filled two top management posts late on sunday and approved plans to spend the company into quito cow coffee was approved as the new c.e.o. for the next five years we will be speaking to him in just a moment find out where he plans on taking the company which has faced yes of turmoil. this is how german industrial giant corp likes to present itself you know of a tube with an eye to the future but the steel and industrial component producer is having to take drastic action to see that future come to pass. it plans to split its holding into two new companies to some group supervisory board approve the move and have a meeting over the weekend the plan will see one company inheriting to some crops elevator and automotive component production while the second will take over its

steel and construction materials manufacturing it's a drastic step but a much needed one if the company is to survive. european steel prices plunged in two thousand and eleven after cheap chinese steel began to flood world markets unlike many of its competitors to some cope didn't turn to mass layoffs and the low commodity prices have hit the company hard leading to liquidity issues and a twenty seven percent drop in its share price as part of his encrypts restructuring the supervisory board also confirmed care called as the company's new c.e.o. . for more let's go directly to s. and now and the new he appointed to sync up c.e.o. tito tao cough joins us thank you for joining us mr cat coughed so two new companies which are supposed to be more nimble does this new set up mean their job cuts to come. no out of this new

set up that will have been split in two companies we will not have major layoffs we have a lot of performance improvement programs that are in place and that we announced a couple of months ago that will continue but the split itself will not create additional job cuts which we have confirmed together with the unions that there will be no forced dismissals we've agreed with them but one why this move now because some major investors were reportedly the biggest proponents of the split saying it would well essentially unlock major value for shareholders so is this the right move for your fear employees and your customers as well. i think definitely it's the right move and it's continuing the change of the poll for your overall that we have already started seven years ago never forget we have already changed forty percent of our revenues over the last years with the deals on stainless steel joint venture and the exit of the steel americans now we will continue and focus more individually on the strength of the two businesses meaning

on the material side and on the industrial side and give them a proper set up that they can benefit from their strength and even perform better in their market environments i think it is a very good solution for all involved parties it's good for the employees because we create better and financially stronger companies that will give them a better outlook going forward on the other hand we're splitting the share into now former shareholders will have a material share and it was a group industrial shareholders will benefit from the value outside that is intrinsic in this as well so i think it is a very good solution for all involved parties but just to go back to your point i mean this is something that's been discussed for the past seven years and the company has seen years of turmoil i mean just encrypts managements faced a lot of criticism as well in the past of being too slow to act where do you see the main challenges coming now globally.

globally we have to see where the trends are but the global economic environment although carney people are talking about possible downturns in some regions we are still in a very positive and strong environment overall the u.s.b. of europe and even china is on good growth rates although people discuss that they might be lower in the future so we've seen a stronger development based on that we see mega trends towards more bigger cities and more transportation and traffic everywhere and this is where we definitely can participate with our elevator business with our components business for the older. industrial technology business overall being in cement plants being in right where else so we think we can participate here in a very good way in the new set up i just want to jump in to talk about those possible downturns though around the world because it's difficult to ignore them and with that in mind how soon can you as the new c.e.o.

help the company return to profitability. we are profitable first of all i mean if you take a look we have improved our profitability over the last year six star and we have a guidance of a significant improvement of our net income so we are on a good track i think it's rather concerns that people do have around the balance sheet on the strength of it and the financial situation but not so much on the profitability so we have seen improvements and we have given out profitability improvement programs that we launched two months ago where we clearly say how we want to continue and where we do see it going and much of that we have on our own happiness we don't depend on the markets because we have to have as it will get that competition i'm afraid we're out of time mistake ito capped off just encrypts c.e.o. but thank you very much indeed. this is a w nice lie from bad n.c.c. .

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