well you. see this is live from berlin eight deadly tsunami strikes the coast of indonesia it arrives in the dog and eyes without warning bringing devastation to coastal areas the death toll has climbed to more than two hundred and is expected to rise as rescuers comb through the rubble hundreds more injured. and christine will do

a welcome to the program indonesian rescue workers all searching for survivors in the off to math off a devastating tsunami which struck a busy tourist region on saturday nights the official death toll has risen to more than two hundred twenty two or all the to two hundred twenty two with more than eight hundred reported injured dozens more are in a concert for the tsunami swept the coastline along the sun and the straits between sumatra and java it was apparently treated by the eruption of an island would same to warn of water crashing onto shore. the place where someone used to live now destroyed by the powerful way. it's just one of hundreds of homes and buildings flattened by the tsunami along the coast. the water hit with such force that it lifted cars and other vehicles. one woman spoke of the

horror of the moment when the tsunami struck. and said it is a good example of that i was at home watching television at the time just one day when i heard a rumbling sound and i thought it was the wind and. the couch i opened the door water came in quickly one dragged me out when i saw outside the sea was receding i decided to run and go as the water came again for the second time this is all. one thing that many of the survivors say is that there was no warning and they didn't see it coming. i feel traumatized because last night when we were getting our supplies such as diesel already going over some logistics suddenly a huge wave came and we started running with all our family members was. the tsunami is thought to have been sparked by the nearby crocodile volcano which

has been erupting since june. rescues a finding out across the island to look for people still trapped or in need of help . but experts say it could take days or even weeks until the truth scale of the damage and the number of dead and injured becomes clear. right let's go now to a question i asked he's a freelance journalist in. question author thank you for being with us it's nighttime in indonesia now what all the authorities doing to get to people in need . yeah rescuer got it from mission also said ask you have been there since this morning so i was asked. you know about the. tsunami. already that and then. when then. specialist safe seoul and also the nation will

discuss the agency also in medical assess. the damage but so far. in a guess and a half away because in the midst of that the problem is. this is quite new or in nature because musically if that isn't a. this not me it's medicine oh wait before the tsunami but we stand this warning and no medicine on the way and that is no warning when it's not just coming . all right so it really does take a lot of people by surprise but tell us about the area where the tsunami hit. yeah. east coast of west yeah. well. if you did. why didn't you just beach from if that's you

feel that car theft so it's only about three i was driving through what i was driving along that coast along a long line of are. down south in part it's also that it's. a nation of. the sanctuary for critically and then don't lie and so miss. along the east coast is why people. will evade this nation most of the fifty amps is also the question and that is some events in. miracles that. that's all happened that night. so indonesia has had a quake this year as well as a tsunami and there has been an intimate of surprise with this one as you noticed in your previous onset have to responses from the rescuers and before he's improved . yeah i didn't. rest on so i missed

also we have to. do them a. few months as long and long what also in fallujah just play in the big scale over quick and not me and no. and. so the rest on the just under one great sigh i heard that a lot of. faults or maybe it was due to the size. nation of. what it was also that use some when you say she was dentist maybe hold up and. it's all right krishna estrada much a right to for us thank you and. that tsunami struck without warning as we've just heard from our reporter there and

we've got dramatic footage which has surfaced of the moment the war say hits joining an outdoor concert along the beach front. you can see the local group pop group seventeen performing as the wave suddenly crashes down on them and smashes into the audience. that video or the video rather off that indonesian bad seventeen being swept off stage is one of the most dramatic to image from the disaster zone it's put a human face to this unfolding tragedy in a country that has seen more than its fair share recently the lead singer posted an emotional message on instagram saying the band's bass player and road manager dave he said his wife and three other band members are still missing and he prayed that they would be soon follow. we lost our bassist benny and i road manager hammond

aki and andy. andy hammons new john haven't been found yet. and we asked field pres. that's right because we're. looking for hopefully my wife will be found quickly. so when i ask you'll soon see a prayer for benny and all she. would like to thank you for. joining me now from geneva in switzerland is very near ria been in from the intergovernmental oceanographic oceanographic commission this is the u.n. body that coordinates tsunami warning systems thank you so much for being with us this evening so we know that a tsunami warning was not issued before the waves of arrival why did the systems fail to detect the way. to an army wanted systems are

designed to warm. a store or to send people based on this seismic warning it means that if there is an earthquake and it is detected only opposite based on location depth and the magnitude of the earthquake we are able to anticipate the tsunami and warned authorities in the case of for others was on straight cricket go to nami the situation was not going to deprive the source of force related most likely we don't know yet what it is the ability or the volcano cricket oh ok you know a knock or a comparable working you know now this is a different source that cannot be unfortunately predicted and because of that the system was not intended was was unable to predict anything because there was no earthquake detectable earthquake. and what should all authorities he's in the region be doing to basically pay for the next tsunami. i need to

say that this type of two anonymous. most hard to predict. in real life it's just it's only the preparedness in general and assessment of the disks that is able to help in that dramatic situation so that will cain is actually the so-called sawing of crocodile volcano and these are also almost by half a kilometer during. during more than a century so it was a growing growing so there was actually a paper enjoy a logical survey the society of awful u.k. that was saying that it was the possibility of the. collapse of the orbit to volcanoes and and and so on i mean so that what it does have to study around the world the likelihood of such a landslide generated tsunamis and and be better prepared

in general but the warnings are hard to do but we have to work in science and try to develop some centers that will be able to detect the moment of the soil and one last question to you so very briefly if you will how much improvement has b.b.n. in the region's response to tsunamis since that the two thousand and four disaster . you know before two thousand despite the warnings or the in the governmental recognition of him as going to war snowsuits can do to deter it or he's going to to or were born abroad to along with a lesson was learned important it was a very hard lesson and after that we have a tsunami warning system basically to call or forty gins in the world at a prone to it's an obvious. even in the case of problems with i mean we managed to could you get to where the fuck all of the tsunami but unfortunately the height was

not that it could become this was also likely related to some unknown mechanisms like slum slides so i think there must be more investment into the systems and investment also saved into system service and probably we have to study. the assessment to make a certain assessment all the landslide. generated from arm around the world all right thank you it's a mist of lead to me we have been and he is representing the un body that coordinates tsunami warning systems now see some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump has named patrick shanahan as the acting u.s. secretary of defense shanahan is the current deputy defense secretary he also take over from jim bachus he resigned his post of his position citing key policy differences with places. and hundreds of interviews protesters have demonstrated in tel aviv israel against the cost of living and the latest government corruption the

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