you talk about the perspective. of a good. news line from berlin the brutal scale of disaster of the earthquake and tsunami in indonesia starts to you manage. to. survive 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 coming up. german authorities in the flashpoint six year chemist say they've stopped planned attacks against foreigners and left wing activists seven men accused of forming

a far right terms few have been arrested. and the nobel academy owners to scientists for their groundbreaking work on cancer therapy explain why their research could mark the start of a revolution in the fight against the disease. i'm welcome to the show indonesia's government is struggling to cope with the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that hit the region of so no a c. last week now authorities are rushing to get aid and rescue equipment to the area the president 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. commitments disaster struck first in most quake 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 polo 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 djoko with 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 ask 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. is 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 a stage for rescue teams to operate if 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 homes destroyed and fearful of aftershocks all they can do know is wait for aid from the into new soon authorities and from the international aid agencies to get through. i'm now joined by helen bunn well indonesia country director for the relief group care helen thanks for making time to speak to us so what are you hearing about the conditions on the ground. today i

spoke to. who is a woman who lives there she she used to be one of our staff and she mentioned that . it's devastating of course yesterday she found out her brother was in one of the hotels that collapsed and he died she and her family fifteen that includes extended family are in a camp she said there is no clean water for food they have some dried noodles they are very afraid of what happens at night at night it rains there are tremors even when i was talking to her on the phone i could hear a rumbling sound and it was it was tremors in the background there were aftershocks . so helen with so many points of need and the situation being so desperate one of the top priorities for your people right now. well we aren't we are in we have an appeal outward hoping to raise five million dollars and what we will do is that we

will of course assist the victims we want to go to the long got there were two areas that are mainly hit it is paolo and the longer and the longer it is even harder to reach we don't yet know all the numbers there the most need is there we will begin with an assessment of the plan to do water sanitation and hygiene we want to if you know it tend to people's basic needs like drinking water we will give them. emergency shelter kits which will include tarpaulin blankets and sleeping mats and then we will look at a shelter more permanent type of shelter and livelihoods because what people want most when this happens they say we need we need our homes and we need a way to support our family and i should tell you that one of the photographs i was sent by is to my waty paolo is a is a photograph in the middle of devastation with

a hand written sign that says can we put a little number two on which means we need help and then in english please pray for us well that just. now but there are of course helen people who need to be evacuated isn't that right. yes there are people who are ill and and injured who are being evacuated the government has since in the hercules planes the army is supporting this and there are people being evacuated. but we don't know yet with all the neat things are. and these planes going to fly to areas beyond the efforts concentrated on that region at the moment. they are trying to get to other areas such as the longer but it is it is very difficult because road access is so difficult. your country director for the relief group care thanks again for making time to be with us. thank you very much.

in germany have detained seven men on suspicion of forming a far right terrorist group in the instance of kenya it's one of the men was arrested two weeks ago while six more were taken into custody today federal prosecutors say they plan to carry out attacks against foreigners and left wing activists. from the heavy security the six men arrested today were rushed to their arrest hearings state prosecutors say communications between the salzburg syndicate they were preparing an attack for this wednesday germany's unification day holiday. he. believed there's still a communications indicates that the queues have joined together in order to carry out violent assaults and attacks both against foreigners and against those who hold different political views for and there is nothing. they also showed that the

accused had made intensive efforts to obtain fire. in the communications also show that they had a clear plan. prosecutors say five of the suspects were involved in an incident on september the fourteenth allegedly intended as practice for a larger attack on unification day. the suspects used last bottle still knuckle gloves in tasers to attack an inch of foreigners oh yes. this is very serious otherwise the police and justice departments would not have reacted this is the effect of our zero tolerance policy on the right wing radicals and right wing extremism and that's why it's right that the police and judicial authorities are acting so resolutely it's the pulitzer consequent to. the terrorist cell the suspects are accused of forming is called revolution came and it's named after the eastern city where the fatal stabbing of

a german man in august prompted the angriest anti foreigner protest germany has seen in years. and for more i'm now joined by our chief political correspondent melinda crane so melinda what more can you tell us about these people who've been arrested. the six men who were arrested today are all between twenty and thirty they are german citizens and they belonged to the skinhead neo nazi far right scene different groups associated with that scene in the city of kemet they also apparently see themselves as leaders of the far right movement in the overall state of saxony which is in eastern germany now they were working together with a seventh man named christian k it's practically a practice here in germany not to use the last name for privacy reasons mr christian kay was detained in the middle of september after that attack you just heard about in the report on september fourteenth he was detained for violence

against foreigners and presumably some of the information we're now getting from the prosecutors it does come from the ongoing investigations with christian ok and what we also know is that this group the men founded apparently sometime around september eleventh shortly before those attacks on the fourteenth of september this group how does its goal not only isolated attacks on foreigners on prominent members of society on journalists but also actually toppling the democratic order in germany so many into what do these arrests tell us about the risk of far right tara here in germany. well we've heard a number of german politicians at both federal and state level state being the state of saxony in eastern germany saying that this is an important brillo against a right wing terrorism but germany's justice minister for example says that it also illustrates how high the threat is and she said this group revolution cabinet's

does not stand alone and clearly the authorities in saxony share that view they have now decided to start a task force on on terror and violence and we've heard politicians in saxony saying the threat of right wing violence in that state in that region is high and existential in the words of one green politician and it's important to remember that we have seen other anti foreign right wing initiatives in this region starting with ghida the movement against the so-called islam is ation of germany that was founded in the saxon state. and we also saw just in march of this year eight people arrested as belonging to a far right group called i tell that it also perpetrated violence against foreigners so it is definitely an ongoing threat d.w. chief political correspondent melinda crane thank you. time now for some of the

other stories making news around the world former ivory coast president. has asked the international criminal court in the hague to acquit him of crimes against humanity who has been in detention for seven years and on trial of the i.c.c. since twenty sixteen now he faces four counts of crimes against humanity for his alleged involvement in deadly violence after the country's disputed twenty to presidential election. rights groups in iraq sounding the alarm over a number of recent killings of high profile women the latest death was twenty two year old iraqi model and its instagram star tara foreigners who was shot dead in her car in baghdad last week iraq's prime minister has ordered elite intelligence units to investigate the murder. french thing shells of war has died at the age of ninety four often described as france's frank sinatra the sing a sold more than one hundred million records during a career that spanned seven decades the legendary crooner wrote his own songs which

often which often sing about marriage well my sexuality and male emotions he died at his home in southeastern france. you're watching the news still to come protesters in north and spain mark the anniversary of a band referendum on catalan independence one year on how united is a separatist movement. beneath the silver haired d.j.'s broadcasting golden oldie use and making the lives of other thing is a little less lonely. and will of very own. broadcaster. care how it is here to tell us about a new deal between the united states and canada that's why this new trade you have replays nothing. new name of the united states mexico canada agreement until today canada frozen out of the deal reached in august between the

u.s. and mexico to update them after part but eleven out talks between. that all three members will be in the new version. is a predator is it a good deal very is it did you ever get a good day for canada ok i'm certainly not 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 exports 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 dairy market something american politicians have pushed for a long time. tweeted it's a great deal for all three countries solves the many deficiencies and mistakes in nafta greatly opens markets to our farmers and manufacturers reduces trade barriers to the us and will bring all three great nations together in competition with the rest of the world. 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 found 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 interwoven the deal means that just in time production in many different industries is now safe. and u.s. president on trump's only tweeted about the new deal but also spoken in his auntie had to say just a few minutes ago so we have negotiated this new agreement based on the principle of fairness and reciprocity to me it's the most important word in trade because we've been treated so unfairly by so many nations all over the world that we're changing that. that's been. correspondent who's standing by in france and paul is easy ride where the u.s.

really treated unfairly previously and is that new deal better for the u.s. than nuff said. so you could argue that it's mostly better for the u.s. rather than the other parties and wall treated unfairly you could argue two hundred seventy five percent of duties on dairy products into canada is unfair it is protectionist also kind of funny that donald trump wants to get rid of it but yeah it's mainly a good thing for the us why did canada take it anyway because they really want to avoid any sort of chaos and trouble about trade one former nafta negotiator said it quite fittingly the us president can now and i quote go off and deal with china and other people he wants to trade wars with and we are out of his gun sight for the time being so they thought their piece. you mentioned a whole day we have products that trump has been very focused on following the manufacturing was that it's. there's two reasons really one is

voters and came pain promises these are the groups where his voters are in farming regions and among manufacturing towns and areas and the other is both of these sectors are going to be the most hardest hit by the u.s. china trade conflict and in fact a recent study has just found that. if you look at manufacturing there's electronic components that are rising and prices sharply that the u.s. uses to make products same thing goes for for cars and infamously soybean farmers have been struck with the problem that china china has raise tariffs on those and the u.s. has to support them by pumping money into into farming localism birds and i thank you. and that's all from a poll of me in the business teams but he does not think you can hide and we go

straight to space catalonia region where protesters are. marking the one year anniversary of a referendum on breaking away from madrid the vote was banned by the spanish authorities and plunged the country into a political crisis a year later pro independence demonstrators have been rallying in the streets demanding their voices be heard. i independence activists marching in the streets of the council on capital barcelona they also sat down on the tracks of the railway station in the town of hit owner while out in the countryside they temporarily blocked a highway was it's all come right to the events of a year ago when spanish police heavy handedly broke up an attempt to hold a referendum on catalonian independence spanish courts have declared the referendum illegal triggering the nation's drive is political crisis in decades huge crowds came out to call for independence. a year on and the castle an independence

movement is fractured its leaders in jail or in exile from belgium the most prominent leader colors pushed them on sent out this message. the victory of october first must stay alive in our heads and our hearts he. let us not stray from the only path we must follow in order to live in a full democracy that is a catalan republic and international recognition international was such that dialogue between the regional and national administrations has so far delivered some economic deals for catalonia but the demonstrators on bustling the streets know that the talks are mired amid internal discord between separatists and the socialist government in madrid that is weakened by having only a way for a thin majority in parliament. this is nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to to even all ages for their work on therapies to come back to cancer announcing its decision a short while ago of the current institute in stockholm said the prize would be

shared by japan's. and james alison of the us now i just i studied a protein that functions as a brake on the main system while hundreds discovery of a protein on immune cells left to effective treatments in the fight against cancer . and dairy koreans joins me now to tell us about the nobel committee's decision first of all thanks for joining us the nobel committee called this work a landmark in the fight against cancer why is that well it's a landmark because in the past the treatments that we've always used to fight again to fight cancer the traditional treatments conventional treatments involved chemotherapy or radiotherapy or surgery so you had the doctors basically from outside the body trying to get into the body and stop the cancer that was unfortunately it's ineffective way to fight cancer quite often cancer is able to avoid those those those therapies and so this particular therapy does is it harnesses the the immune system itself the body's immune system itself in order to

fight against the cancer which is what makes it actually a landmark a new paradigm if you will of this kind of treatment and where reporting that it functions as a brake on the immune system but what does it all mean explain it in late well the immune system the way the immune system works is that it has to be able to recognize what is the body's tissue what's its healthy tissue and what's in the invaders so it's there's this divide within you know the immune system between self and non-self and the problem with cancer cells is that they start out as self but then they go wrong somewhere along the way and so cancer cells are actually able to hide from the immune system very effectively which is why your immune system doesn't attack them because obviously within the immune system itself you have to have these sort of checks and balances you have to have. brakes that stop the immune cells these killer cells these t. cells from attacking healthy tissue if you have if that happens you end up with an autoimmune disease that's very common thing that you often see nowadays auto immune

diseases now what these researchers have done is they've gone in and they've they've found these molecular switches that stop these t. cells from attacking the cancer cells they flip them off and bang they go after it in some cases it's been with briley remarkable results and have we seen this research having an effect perhaps on cancer patients already know it is it is having an effect on cancer patients the problem is that we don't really know why if it works so well with particular patients around one in five patients they say the tumors just disappear almost completely they melt away like ice in the sun but with others it doesn't work as well and with some actually it causes fairly serious fairly serious side effects because what you're doing by removing these checks and balances is you're giving free range of these really veracious cells in your immune system so there's still a long way to go in order to understand how we need to use this particular therapy

and with which patients and when but it's definitely it's going to be a huge new tool in the toolbox for fighting cancer in the future derek williams thank you so much for that down. now today is international is the international day for the press and so we're going to take you to a radio station a thousand england that's run by the elderly for the elderly radio angels specializes in pre nine hundred sixty s. music and is run by dozens of volunteers most of whom are over seventy but for many of the first says around the world radio enjoy is about so much more than just hearing their favorite golden oldies watching 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.

we don't put ourselves d.j. to be radio presenters d.j.'s a people talk over the top of records is something we can. make people request is something they need to hear it in total. 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 we had to find. somebody that one of our listeners haven't seen and he said and he said i know what it's like to have my life support checked off it means that much to. say this is why we sit here and do it the receptionists take song requests from listeners they often have long conversations with loyal fans in southern england and thanks to the internet around the world tony 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 a degree quickly discover were the lonely people who are from the year saw up and asking for record requests bartz they really just wanted to chat this. just really nice to do something unique for people. in your old maid the smith is one of them aside from the songs she requests she enjoys listening to local news general advice and good conversation. never lonely when i've got the radio on and the fact that you can interact and talk to somebody that means a lot because otherwise you're on your own for hours and hours and not talking to us. in the big angel radio family top across seventy one is new blood he plays sixty's music for the younger fans. barbra streisand but nothing to rock this topic plays dulcet tones that convey enjoy radio's motto life

really starts at sixty six. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you rescuers in indonesia are scrambling to reach the five as of friday's earthquake and tsunami almost eight hundred fifty people are confirmed dead and authorities say that number is likely to brian the government is struggling to deal with the aftermath of the disaster that has appealed for international help. you're watching the news from berlin we do have another news update of the top of the hour but don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the park on our website that dot com we're also on social media we are at the news thanks for watching.

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