because they like the office of government. but who will win the borneo case starts october ninth on g w. this is d w news live from the devastation on the desperate search for survivors of indonesia's earthquake and tsunami as people beg to be airlifted out of the area food and medicines are running out officials say the death toll will rise steeply over over the coming days also on the program authorities in germany's flashpoint city of cabinet say they have stopped planned attacks against foreigners and left

wing activists seven men have been arrested and accused of forming a far right terror group. i'm phil gal welcome to the program indonesia started bearing hundreds of dead in a mass grave following last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami the fish will death toll stands at eight hundred fifty but it's expected to rise as authorities reach areas cut off by the disaster tens of thousands of people homeless and many survivors say they haven't eaten for days d.w. correspondent bason heartache is on the island of so the way see on reports from palu one of the places his hardest. all they want is to get out. some of them have been waiting for days at the airport to get on one of the planes that are bringing in the eight. indonesia's on forces are constantly air lifting in

relief goods things that people here need most water food medication most of all and on the way back they're taking those who are desperately waiting to leave old people people or injured people who've lost their homes women and small children. and going to let you know me a little. bit on i'm a virgin and i'm about to give birth absolutely did not give a moment i heard that it's difficult to still get treatment at the hospital here so i have to go into a bigger city. in the city rescue workers find new body every day. the earthquake has extinguished entire neighborhoods. this is the end of a landslide that's about two kilometers long and that was caused by the earthquake and to understand the sheer force that was unleashed you just have to look at that building up there because that previously wasn't here but some one hundred meters

down in that direction it was swept here by the moving soil now there are still some five hundred people believed to be buried here and a lot of the people over here on this side have lost relatives right here and they're waiting for them to be found. there when lost his mother his brother and his nephew when solid earth turned into a swirling board. that. when the ground started moving i went outside. lawns and the whole street rose up and it was like a wave and we were swept away because the it was like a whole opening up and then slamming shut again. it would take its residents a long time to recover from what was destroyed in just a matter of seconds. and some. may never you. know indonesia is no stranger to quakes on the tsunamis they can cause which is why

this country of thirteen thousand islands had an early warning system but scientists and eyewitnesses are saying the system did not work well professor frederick till not as head of seismology at the helm said the potsdam g f is that which supplied indonesia's water system welcome to t w what went wrong. so we're trying to see i mean the warning system depends on many millions of the chain so the beginning of a seismic sensors would pick up a signal from the earthquake the drone shaking from the earthquake and then make a location and determine the magnitude of the earthquake and then based on that information within five minutes of your quake occurring the one sentence you need to have a beacon kedzie has to decide the issue of warning they did issue a warning for was of quake based on its size. and then it is up to in the way of local authorities in the different islands to evacuate people and get them off the beaches and it seems from the reports that at least in some places this last

element of giving the warning and locally failed so is as far as you can tell the system the you provided worked you say the debates that went wrong were out of your hands it was developed to give the indonesians and the technical part of a system work but of course for old system to work or the warning really needs to be to people on the ground and that seems to have not worked completely at least so how does one learn the lessons from this because this is an area that is the least prone to this sort of seismic activity so what. was the government that was that was well enough prepared. well a lot of good pay. version's been made one has also acknowledged that this was a particular tough challenge. time from the time of the earthquake to with tsunami hitting power new made peculations illness and this is only a quarter of an hour or so in other settings one gets half an hour for the first minutes of this particular tough one on the time scale and it was tough because

because of what because simply the proximity of the earthquake. tsunami science and so relatively small earthquake normally we get varied about earthquakes large of anything to seven and a half which was just hit by this earthquake which means that tsunami tends to be just local not really reach far shore slickness you know two four and four. but the downside is that it's often very close to to the affected center so this is what another criticism of the warnings that that would give a that not only were they insufficient but they they downplayed it they were they were warning of. a tsunami surge of up to three meters and in some places it was actually up to six years is very difficult thing to understand why the tsunami was that large the type of earthquake that happened on a fault or normally one wouldn't expect much vertical differ mation of the sea floor so no punch up or down of the sea floor and this normally is not expect to

create a strong tsunami so something else happened one can speculate that it's possible sometimes the earthquake the shaking from the earthquake will actually dislodge material under the sea and cause that marine landslide and then this landslide can be the reason of tsunami before in another quakes but it's a rare event it's too early to save seven deceive and. we have heard reports of people describing some some very strange phenomena listen to this. one after the earthquake i saw the ground here moving in a circle spinning. it wasn't water it was the ground that was spinning. after it stopped i called out to my daughter sarah. rock where are you. professor frederick what was that money experiencing so it's very dramatic and cone misconceptions have been this very strong shaking of soil that is water launched

and what happens is that the grains that normally hold together firmly by which they can get shaken loose which means then the water can flow freely and essentially the effect of it is that previously sort of grown turns into a liquid and this concerns be so dramatic that whole zinc into it or would be a scene that we get the swirling sea of mud so from what you said even if even for indonesia even for this this specific rim of fire this was a peculiar event that scientists don't quite understand yet. yes so the type of earthquake in a way is expected from one to twenty situation there but the size of the tsunami was much larger than would have been expected for that type of of quake what should and what should indonesia do now because if this is that this is a strange country as much as it's always thousands of violence and one wonders how you protect all of these these little territories against an event like this which

will happen again yeah it is a difficult challenge and i think i mean given the limited funds it is really important to concentrate on this last mile so how to get the warning actually to the people and then also prepare on the ground for possibility to vacate because sometimes it is very difficult the topography is such that people might not be able to get away from endangered so in a short time and so this is i think where if where indonesia should put its efforts there are ways one can make the technical part of the system better but that's sort of dotting the i's ok i think i understand that thanks so much for explaining that to us a professor frederick to with thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world this year's nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to two immunologist from the united states and japan james allison and that to sukkot home joe's work focuses on the way the body's natural defenses fight cancer the swedish academy says their discoveries have revolutionized cancer treatments. but they've

mostly nonviolent demonstrations and pass a law that has ended as thousands of cattle on protesters marked the first anniversary of a disputed independence referendum the vote was banned by spanish authorities in the year on catalan society remains deeply divided over the separatist movement. united states and canada have agreed a deal to replace the north american free trade agreement following an early us mexico deal negotiators had worked frantically to cobble together a deal before a midnight deadline imposed by the united states. police here in germany have detained to seven men on suspicion of forming a far right to terror group in the eastern city of can it's one of the man was arrested two weeks ago while seven more were taken into custody today federal prosecutors say they planned to carry out attacks against foreigners and left wing activists. under heavy security six of the suspects arrested today were

rushed to their arrest hearings a servant who was detained later on in the day so prosecutors say communications between the suspects indicate they were preparing an attack for this wednesday germany's unification day holiday. be calm when you could see one believe that there are still a communications indicates that the accused have joined together in order to carry out violent assault and armed attacks both against foreigners and against those who hold different political views for and there is nothing under the photo they also show that the accused had made intensive efforts to obtain firearms in their 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 glass bottles steel knuckle

gloves and tasers to attack an injured foreigners oh yes. this is very serious otherwise the police and justice department 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. with the political consequent. 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. foreigner protest germany who see you . get more from to w.'s chief political correspondent belinda crane welcome what more do we know about the suspects these men are all german citizens between twenty and around thirty years of age and they're known to the police to be associated with neo nazi hooligan and right wing extremist groups in the city of candidates

and apparently a number of them also they see themselves as leaders of the right wing movement in the larger eastern german state of saxony to which candidates belongs they were working together with a man named christian kay who is known as the ringleader of the group he has been in detention since the middle of september since one of those protests in cabinets and the group were as you said calling themselves revolution chemists and their aim seems to have been not only isolated attacks on foreigners or people of other political persuasion but in fact toppling the democratic system here in germany as a whole so big and so it does sound as though the risk of far right tara remains high in germany that's what german officials are staying both federal and at state level the interior minister said this these arrests were

a real blow against right wing extremism but he also did say yes the threat remains in the justice minister said that she is sure this group does not stand alone and in fact if we look at this region that's region of chemist's in the larger eastern german region of saxony it's not just since late august that we have seen right wing violence in fact this is the region where the movement against the islam is ation of germany known as piggy has held enormously in larger rallies ever since two thousand and fifteen it's also the region where eight people were convicted and sent to prison in. march of this year a group known as fry tell they had been attacking refugee centers so it is a region seen as a hotbed of right wing extremism and local authorities said today they are forming a new task group in saxony to look at the right wing of violence that is on the rise there and that they do see this as an ongoing

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