this is news live from bergland desperation deepens in indonesia as the death toll surges to more than twelve hundred following last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami people wait for news of their loved ones and relatives and recalled the horror of the moment when the earthquake struck. one of the ground started moving i went i'm sorry. one from the whole street rose up in the bed it was like a wave of kind we were swept away you know we'll have

a special report from our correspondent on the ground also coming up honored for their groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics three scientists from three different countries are awarded this year's nobel prize in physics and our correspondent explains how their work has opened up revolutionary new areas of research. i did labor shortages loom germany's coalition parties agree on a new immigration law to try and attract skilled workers from other countries. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program indonesia has raised to more than twelve hundred the number of people who died in the earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of sue the island last week survivors meanwhile are beginning to grow ng. at

the government's response to the disaster they say authorities are being too slow to send aid to areas outside of the main town of palu and that they are running short of food fuel and other essential as hard to reports the government has begun airlifting though some survivors to safety. 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 just indonesia's on forces are constantly airlifting 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 stumble along iran i'm going in and i'm about to give birth absolutely beautiful but 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 bodies every day. the earthquake i think the english entire neighborhood. 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. irwin 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.

ones and the whole street rose up in the it was like a wave and we were swept away because a it was like a whole opening up and then slamming shut again. little bit. it would take its residents a long time to recover from what was destroyed in just a matter of seconds. and some. may never be. and we spoke earlier to a coordinator from the international red cross in jakarta he gave us this description of the situation on the ground. there were no doubt this has not been easy at all i thin defense days from good international red cross we have been supporting and crying to bring. relief items to affected areas but unfortunately the airport was closed and also in the land road was not

easy and there was a lot of local i've lent lives going on and these bikes go we shaved in a lot of relief items yes they did and it might have it might be a right being in the next couple of days from jakarta we have deployed more than two hundred volunteers on the ground no mobilized wrong neighboring proficiency is knowing that. their air flight is not easy. teams are providing two ports on medical so we have had a medical. doctor you know the day providing treatment to injured people and affected people on the ground and also our team dealt of providing water safe drinking water to the community if it effected our i know by sending. one truck to the f.a.q.

aria. a coordinator from the red cross speaking with us earlier this year's nobel prize for physics has just been announced by the royal swedish academy of sciences in stockholm it's been awarded in two parts with half going to u.s. scientists arthur ashkan and the other half to a team of two physicists the frenchman gerard maule roo and canadian donna strickland the three were honored for their research in the field of laser physics . and derek williams joins us here in the studio to tell us a little bit more about the nobel committee's decision and why exactly they've received this prize tell us a little bit more about laser physics and what they've accomplished these are two fairly widely divergent fields but what they do have in common is laser physics ashton's work involved what are called optical tweezers so they allowed us on a micro he created a tool that allowed us on

a microscopic level to to push around things like bacteria and viruses without actually killing them before them we had to actually kill them and fix them place in order to observe them so it allowed us to begin to observing these living systems which obviously had huge ramifications for fields like biology. on on the other hand the work done by more rw and and by strickland is it's about high intensity compact laser system so when you're creating a laser you have this problem with your amplifier the certain point the laser just gets so hot and so intense that it destroys it melts the fire they figured out a work around or on that called chirked holds with occasional let me say that one that allows you that allows us to create ever more powerful lasers and to do things like powerful enough to to do things like cut metals so to widely divergent areas but what they have in common is laser physics fascinating stuff and we see the practical application as you mentioned also some of the accomplishments of their work something that was quite interesting though is the fact that donna strickland

apparently is the first woman to win. this prize in physics for fifty five years in fact only only three women in total i understand have won the prize and she's joining us and it's really it's really i mean it's hard to believe she's joining a pretty exclusive club that if you have good includes marie curie. the nobel prizes in general women or dramatically under represented across the three for science prizes that are awarded but physics is really kind of the worst of the lot and i think. talking about that would go way beyond the scope of this particular conversation discussion as we're limited by time but i think it is changing and i think that we see it. in things like this in the award with the awarding of this particular prize because she really deserves it and i think it's going to we're going to see a trend in that direction more in the coming years especially because gender parity we know a conversation not only around the world but also within the nobel committee itself

very well but i don't think that they just gave her the prize because she's a woman her work really has vast merit and she did it back when she was a ph d. student in the late seventy's and early eighty's so it's fits in with actually the scheme of what the nobel prize is about which is awarding prizes to researchers who have done seminal work in their particular fields fascinating stuff derek williams breaking it all down for us thank you so much. let's get a quick check now some other stories that have been making news around the world japanese prime minister shinzo ave has reached his cabinet but he left the key foreign finance economy and trade ministry is in place the changes come as the country faces tough trade talks with the united states there was only one woman appointed to the new cabinet. u.s. first lady maloney a trump has touched down in gonna at the beginning of a four nation trip to africa it's her first major international trip without the president and she will be promoting her best initiative. her tour will also take

her to malawi kenya and egypt. soccer star christiane over naldo is being sued in the united states by a woman who claims that the portuguese player raped her nine years ago she says that she was assaulted at the los vegas palms hotel and that she was tricked into keeping quiet were naldo has dismissed the allegations as fake. british prime minister theresa may says that her country's immigration rules after broke that will favor skilled migrants over low skilled migrants and that no pressure until treatment will be given to citizens maid was speaking on the fringes of the annual conservative party conference taking place in birmingham this week. germany's coalition government has reached agreement on immigration reforms designed to make the country more attractive to skilled workers from around the world the government says that it is based on the canadian model and is a first step toward a more open migration law it will continue to treat asylum seekers and economic

migrants differently but could allow greater flexibility for refugees who successfully integrate in germany. and germany's economy minister paid to ultimate are spoke with kate brady about the new law. mr out my what exactly is the german government proposing when i say immigration based on the canadian model germany have a very pragmatic but modern immigration law the german economy as in an extremely dynamic state the labor market empty we need a qualified labor force this will be much easier and the future to recruit qualified people in decent comando for german language with a good educational and professional training is very important in order to to increase across potential of the german economy and to increase the welfare of our

country why is it certification for asylum seekers are rejected asylum seekers to stay here and what care if they've already integrated themselves well into german society well we have made a very clear distinction between asylum seekers on the one hand where we are ready and prepared to protect people in need for protection and people looking for integration in the labor market in germany and the basic principle that we bring we have however provided a possibility for people who have a very long history of integration in the labor market well integrated in the social environment to tuesday if certain conditions are met is that something that will be ruled out in the process. station and it's a pragmatic. choice but in principle the distinction between the two

ways of my creation will be maintained. and i was the german economy minister altmire speaking with. frankie earlier today now doping in sport has of all. solved dramatically in recent decades as cheating athletes and suppliers of banned substances find new ways to get around the rules but the methods of catching cheaters are also evolving one example is molly a dog with a single focus whether she realizes it or not catching doping cheats. in a swedish municipality just to the north of stockholm especially to train the dog is sniffing illegal substances out of sport. molly the springer spaniel is on patrol from the matches to swimming races and athletics meets. today we're told. and she's the world's first

though. only. trained for doping substances. molly has already discovered substances out on deployment she's cool several athletes out doping according to one hundred. the searches she conducts. we go through the locker room straining. even dress codes and bills were subsystems have been sold away. with mali already making sports more secure and it's no wonder that anti doping agencies across europe are thinking of following in sweden's footsteps. you're watching news still to come on the program the german government comes up with a plan to get dirty diesel cars off the road and broker a deal between maggie factures and customers facing driving balance in some of the

country's most polluted cities but is it really an offer to address the crisis more on that and a whole lot more with talent coming up in just a few minutes time my name is tara kelley you are watching news thank you so much for joining us here. i'm not laughing again well i guess sometimes i am but. thanks to you can trick them a culture of looking at stereotypes a question if you think the future of the country that i don't. think this crowd.