this is deja vu news live from berlin the true scale of disaster of the earthquake and tsunami in indonesia starts to emerge. at about the time of. the survivors beg to be airlifted out of the area as food and medicine run out some say they haven't eaten for days the government is trying to rush aid to the stricken region but it's facing many obstacles also. to do all of the troops were. to follow. the stroke

during the trial and to. ensure. the nobel academy honors two scientists for their groundbreaking work on cancer therapy we explain why their research marks a landmark in the fight against the disease. and it's a good day for canada says prime minister justin trudeau after his country agreed to a new trade deal with the u.s. and mexico the u.s. and mexico canada agreement to start to replace what used to be known as nafta. any . time soon it's almost gone it's good to have you with us indonesia's government is struggling to cope with the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that hit the region of sulawesi last week authorities are rushing to get aid and rescue equipment to the area the. didn't has now called for other countries to pitch in

and help more than eight hundred forty people have been confirmed dead so far and tens of thousands of people are homeless. thank the moment disaster struck first an earthquake then this tsunami. indonesia is no stranger to natural calamities and the government has been keen to show it was ready for this one but the region at the center of the disaster around the city of palu is remote so the rescue operation has been slow to get off the mark. this woman is begging to be airlifted out of the region are responding to the distress president joke over dodo help distribute emergency food supplies he also authorized international aid agencies to enter the country to help struggling local authorities. we didn't expect it to be like this we hope and pray for the communities affected and asked them to be patient we know that there are still a lot of things to do urgently but with conditions as they are that's not possible

right now. the aid agencies may have permission to enter the country but they still face huge difficulties the biggest problem right now i think it's access a lot of agencies like ourselves struggling to get to that location so most affected. gallery's one of. the most affected area desperately need to get into that location with other agencies and try and understand what's happened. gradually people are being rescued this woman was pulled alive from a collapsed restaurant her condition was described as critical but she is one of the lucky ones the piles of concrete slabs are sometimes into precarious the stakes for rescue teams to operate they hear the cries of those trapped under the rubble but can do little to help. almost fifty thousand people have been evacuated from the worst hit areas destroyed and fearful of aftershocks all they can do now is wait for a truly international sources and from the international aid agencies to get

through. let's begin to get these boston heartache is on the ground in poland he joins us on the line hi boston thanks for joining us now with people still believed to be trapped under the rubble bring us up to date on rescue operations. well so we were in one place here in fallujah city today where. a landslide or what can be described as a landslide people were saying. to them it feels like the earth just opened up and swallowed up a whole whole neighborhood and it's a landslide that's two kilometers long and they're saying that there's still five hundred people buried in the rubble and in the mud there only in that one bottle oh and they're pulling out bodies every day new bodies every day. the death toll is is definitely said to rise also here in pa and you know let alone the outlying areas and what we also saw because we heard in the report the people who are desperate to

get out at the airport today the indonesian air force of course bringing in all these all these all these goods all these relief goods and on their way back they're taking these people and we met people who told us that they've been waiting for days just to get out these are predominantly their old people or people who were injured also women with young children wasn't pregnant women and they just can't be cared for here in pa though because there's not enough food there's not enough water and there's not enough you know medical aid to care for the people so they're really desperate to get out and the authorities are trying to get them out but of course it takes time and there are many people who want to go. that was did have these boston heartache speaking to us from a short while ago and let's get more on those rescue operations we're joined by international red cross cord nader who's nice he joins us from carter good to see you now how are your rescue workers getting on. we have had around one

hundred stuff and volunteers from the indonesian red cross it's been there since the onset of discuss this because of the road that it's really difficult at the moment we haven't been able to mobilize a large number of teams and we have had only iran would train one hundred volunteers and stuff from neighboring province he would travel by. land wrote and they're helping the government we have. search and rescue and just like this morning we heard the report from our teams underground that wall traveling through villages they've blown thirty dead bodies. of the construction and also. some water inundated around the community it's ok so access is a big issue how have you been able to get aid into some of the most affected areas

. we've been trying our best to provide support and do more to the with affected area though it hasn't been easy for know because even transporting relief items from outside of still i think if it's really difficult now and we're still coordinating sending relief tons of really i thought. to the affected areas by ship that might take three days to get there so we have been providing more support on. health basis by sending you know medical experts from the red cross who say what would you say are the biggest challenges facing survivors right now. well they have immediate needs all the food and save water to drink but that's really hard for know to. get in the affected areas and like from the right cross we've been doing

our best to transport relief items to defected areas but access again is the main issue at the moment and also. some people have been treated kind of the hospital because you know their hospitals have been damaged and also there's no enough electricity to treat people as well. all right international red cross corps of nato whose need thank you so much for joining us on our program . thanks for having me. let's catch up now on some other stories making headlines around the world two people have been killed and dozens others injured as a powerful typhoon swept across the japanese mainland high winds and heavy rainfall battered regions that are still reeling from a series of extreme storms this latest thai food left hundreds of thousands of homes without power. in catalonia demonstrators are marking the one year anniversary of

a failed referendum on breaking away from spain independence supporters marched through the streets and some forced their way into a regional government building others barricaded major regional roads and blocked the tracks of a high speed rail way in the northern city of seattle no. this year's nobel prize for medicine has been jointly awarded to two immunologist for their work on therapies to combat cancer announcing its decision the karolinska institute in stockholm said the prize would be shared by japan's honcho and james allison of the u.s. now allison studied a protein that functions as a brake on the immune system and just discovered protein on immune cells led to effective treatments in the fight against cancer. and we have derek williams from didn't you side with us to tell us more about the nobel committee's decision thank you for joining us the nobel committee said this is really a landmark in the fight against cancer why is that traditionally and there's always been three different approaches to kind of getting rid of cancer and they all came

from outside the body there were surgery there's radiotherapy and there was chemotherapy so we were always trying to trying to destroy it from the outside now those all of those approaches together generally were not always effective or often weren't effective or they didn't get all of the cancer especially in patients where it had been task and so for a very very long time doctors have wanted to harness the body's own immune system to attack cantrips so but there are a lot of problems involved in doing that and these researchers managed to overcome those problems ok can you break down the key findings here in lay terms. the immune system is is an extremely complex system it's the immune system has to recognise cells in the body that are self that belong to your body and cells that are or invaders that are non-self now otherwise because otherwise if they're not able to do that and you get what's called an auto immune reaction you have these you have the immune system attacking healthy cells in your own body which obviously you don't want either now. what these researchers managed to do is there

are there are cells called t. cells within the system that are responsible for identifying these invaders the problem with cancer cells is that because they stem originally from your own cells they're very good at hiding inside of the body and so they were they were able to fool they're able to fool t. cells very often and tell them we're not bad we're not dangerous what the what these researchers managed to do alison under a minute managed to do was turn off some of the brakes turn off some of those checks and balances that are within that system and cut those t. cells loose and make them able to recognize the cancer cells which is often with very spectacular results so is their research already having an effect on treatment of cancer patients well for many patients for example with advanced melanoma or met a static cancer disease is that they really had no other options until now and they as i said they have had very very dramatic results that said on the other hand releasing these breaks on the immune system does carry dangers as well of side

effects but generally more and more doctors think that we're going to be able to manage those and so really the future of this particular immune therapy is it's got a very very bright future ahead of it the future is going to involve combining it together with more traditional forms of chemotherapy radiotherapy surgery and possibly with other types of immune therapy and really giving people a longer term a longer term vision of of possibly healing these things long term very important research being done there dark williams from science thank you very much. staying in sweden where a court has handed down a two year sentence for rape to a french national in a scandal that's rocked the nobel literature prize award body cloud are noways an important cultural figure in sweden and married to a member of the swedish academy awards the prestigious prize last year a swedish paper published allegations of sexual misconduct by eighteen women against our no this year's nobel literature prize has been postponed while the

academy quote regroups and restores trust. six men have been arrested in germany on suspicion of forming a far right a terrorist group in the eastern city of chemists a federal prosecutor said the men planned to carry out armed attacks against foreigners and left wing activists and former violence flared in candidates in august after a local man was killed in an altercation with several migrants. let's bring in our political correspondent who is tracking this story for us good to see you what more can you tell us about these people who are arrested. well there are six of them they're all between twenty and thirty years old they are meant to have already started trying to get fire weapons trying to get weapons to execute some kind of. plan that they were meant to have had possibly in the next few days and on wednesday on the third of october which is the german national

holiday the day of german unity so in a sense this was also some kind of preventative attack they were already involved in an attack two weeks ago where foreigners were attacked by these people and the leader of the group has been under arrest since that time the other five people now all rested in the last twenty four hours and how that we've been looking at pictures of those very large right wing protests that took place in cabinets in august now these arrests is there a connection. there's i think there is a canvas has become some sort of symbolic symbol for right wing activism in germany in the last couple of months that there was a very significant political dispute about right wing groups in cannes that's which involved the interior intelligence chief in germany who in fact lost his job because in the past few weeks he seemed to downplay the seriousness of rightwing activism in the tom now with these arrests and with the alleged formation of

a terrorist group on the right wing. those are the geishas by the interior intelligence chief seem to be counteracted seem to be disproved so in a sense all of these discussions about ken that's in the last couple of months are coming to some kind of conclusion in this arrest and there seems to be some real problem in that area our political correspondent hans thank you for that update. today is the international day of older persons as designated by the united nations it recognizes the. there are many more older people in the world than there used to be thanks to people living healthier lives and in many parts of the world more prosperous lives one radio station in the south of england caters to their needs let's listen in on one of the angel radios top presenters arrives at the studio in the southern english town of haven't. eighty six year old mildred french spins

discs here the best of the thirty's forty's and fifty's. her. we can call their selves d.j.s. be of age a percentage d.j.'s a people talk a little record which is something we can do. if people have requested something and they need to hear it intently. mildred is one of eighty volunteers at the station most of them are over seventy she's played music here for eighteen years that when we were off air that time when we had to fire somebody let one of our is this in a row haven't you and he said then he said i know what it's like to have my life support turned off and it means that much to. say this is why we sit here and do it the receptionists takes on requests from listeners they often have long conversations with loyal fans in southern england and thanks to the internet around

the world tommy smith founded angel radio in one nine hundred ninety nine when no other station was playing his favorite songs it became about more than just music. what did very quickly discover were the lonely people were phoning asop and asking for record requests bartz they really just wanted to chat it's just really nice to do something unique for people. maybe seven year old made a smith is one of them aside from the songs she requests she enjoys listening to local news general advice and good conversation. and never lonely when i've got the lady alone and the fact that you can interact and talk to somebody that means a lot because otherwise you know when you're around for hours and hours and not talking to a star or now. in the big angel radio family top across seventy one is new blood he plays sixty's music for the younger fans. bob destroys them by.

nothing to ruckus topic plays dulcet tones that convey intell radio's motto life really starts at sixty six. to but it's like a football now and i expect managed and important to win over fiber largely thanks to their star striker alfredsson bogus on his return from injury came at the perfect time for the bavarian side and a four one victory. i was booked to delete inside twenty nine times to put it header simeon midfielder coyote applying the finishing touch then they doubled their lead in the thirty fourth minute to free her that if were to come back alfredsson bogus and with the finish not just any finish either sensational back here where they were good going forward were less the power base defensive

model allowed freiburg back into the match and goal by jonathan schmidt of the most famous for writing. a foul on alfredsson bogus and then gave out by the chance from the sport in the sixty minutes and he himself stepped up to do the honors. he wasn't done they either poking home i third in the icy third minute to seal a four one win with twenty five goals patrick heroes in borgerson is now out buds all time top scorer in the bundesliga. let's take a look at the season's bundestag a table is taking shape after six match days a dortmund's win over the weekend combined with biron's loss to hatha means dortmund are on top of the needs of the top three club back bremen and lives that are all on eleven points down at the bottom had over now in last place and still winless after six games shaka finally moved up but only one rock. lewis hamilton

has extended his lead in the formula one driver standings after winning the russian grand prix the british driver took 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 well terry potter set a record breaking lecturing qualification and was on course for victory in the main event but this ladies chief toucher wolf ordered him to allow hamilton's a past that extended the british championship lead of us about seems vettel a president of the fins hopes of glory post-race a visibly disappointed boathouse was comforted by a triumphant hamilton who admits it is a victory of the season owed everything to his teammate sacrifice i mean about he did a fantastic job all weekend and it was a real gentleman through to let me biopsy 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 got to be but ready to find test it up today and enough to do to win

a couple times lead over ferrari special now stands at fifty points with just five races remaining and almost on a sale of lead. champagne all round from a sadie's thanks to both houses team spirit. are telling us here with business news now and hell no we're finally seeing a breakthrough on trade finally talk about the eleventh hour see me of course that breakthrough coming with the united states and canada agreeing to a deal to replace what was known as the north american free trade agreement has according to a u.s. administration official who said it will now go buy a new name the united states mexico canada agreement canada had risked being frozen out of a deal reached an organist between the u.s. and mexico to update now after but our talks between auto and washington guaranteed that all three members will be in the new version of the trade pact. there's a predator is it good is it did you ever get it for canada welcome 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 sign of an agreement on tariffs on canadian steel and. canada says the deal is good because the country can also go to an independent referee when it has a trade dispute with the u.s. and 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 and the government in washington says it's been able to negotiate a much better deal for american farmers as canada gave in to u.s. demands to open up its highly protected market something american politicians have pushed for a long time in mexico the government was relieved that the new free trade deal

comprises all north american countries we are very pleased to announce now that this remains a trilateral agreement an agreement in which mexico the united states and canada have successfully renegotiated and modernize the disciplines that were in the north american free trade agreement or nafta. the us and mexico had already agreed to a new deal in august mexico accepted that more industrial production will take place in the u.s. to protect american jobs all three governments are relieved that a last minute compromise has been reached as the three economies are highly into. the deal just in time production in many different industries is now safe. i'm joined now by my colleague aaron tilton aaron cho is hailing this deal as a success is it well certainly from his perspective i would say it is a major success you have to remember donald trump has always prided himself on

being the deal maker i mean if you really look at his political career short as it may have been up to now he's always expressed extreme skepticism when it comes to international organizations and multilateral agreements you know he came in on a policy saying that he was going to eat the throat nafta or completely rewrite it he was going to do it on his own terms so in terms of a policy standpoint this really is a success for him because basically he went to canada he went to mexico he gauged or his peers people engage in direct diplomacy and he managed to get individual deals which kind of circumvent the multinational free trade agreements that have always been kind of a thorn in his eye so i suppose the question is really how different is this new deal from nafta well that kind of remains to be seen i mean not a lot has come out so far we haven't seen the official text of the deal being published up to this point but as we heard the report right now is some of the canadian markets will be open for american farmers especially in the dairy industry which has long been protected by by canadian government policies we've also seen

some some acquiesces made in comes to cars and how many cars will be able to be sent to the united states free of exports actually raise that slightly but when it comes down to the really nitty gritty we're going to have to wait and see exactly what is in this in this deal when it's really so congress leader well right and you will be covering that story for us aren't tilton from d.w. business thank you very much thank you. for months maines of owners of diesel cars here in germany have been concerned that they could be prevented from driving in city centers in the future that's off the courts ruled cities could ban polluting diesel engines in the wake of the diesel gate scandal john the government's now working with the to make is to find a solution to the crisis this evening a committee will rule on whether retrofitting diesel engines to make them more environmentally friendly could be the solution german drivers are fuming especially the ones who drive diesels they have no idea if their cars will soon be allowed on city streets of the fifty six million cars in the country almost one

third to use diesel fuel some car makers have already recalled vehicles and reduce their emissions by retrofitting diesel engines usually with a software update so far the industry isn't saying how many cars still need retrofitting diesel drivers are also in the dark about what comes next. yasmina for me my family is already thinking about buying a new car. and i don't really worried in fact i'm outraged. the new cars that they're making at least they ought to be clean. it's been three years since the diesel emissions cheating scandal broke despite this new diesel cars are still being sold whose emissions far exceed european limits on nitrogen oxides the chemicals that cause smog test show folks flagons diesel models put out nearly twice as much nitrogen oxide as is permitted b m w's diesels emit three

times the limit and opel models exceed those pollution limits on average by a factor of ten. diesel has been popular in germany in recent years because the fuel is cheaper than gasoline cars are also significantly more fuel efficient. even last year more than one point three million new diesel cars were sold that compares to nearly two million gasoline powered cars that were registered. the share of diesel vehicles in new registrations has fallen since diesel gate and the value of used diesels has plummeted if they find a buyer at all. you're watching news from coming up at the top of the hour you can always get the latest on our web site of course that is. thanks to washington and c.c. .

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