this is news live from berlin rescue teams race to find survivors of the indonesian tsunami the official death toll rises to three hundred seventy three and survivors are forced to move to higher ground the volcano that cause a tsunami is still erupting and their fears of a second giant also coming up. israel's coalition government has agreed to disband and hold fresh elections in april the announcement follows months of reported disputes within prime minister netanyahu is quite green coalition. plus in the

season of giving meets the owner of a washington d.c. restaurant who's been charitable or year round. i'm edith q money thank you for joining us authorities in indonesia are urging people to stay away from parts of the coastline because there may be another tsunami this comes after a first tsunami hits within without warning on saturday nights authorities now say at least three hundred seventy three people died when the huge wave swept the coastline along the street hitting so much and java is believed to have been triggered by the eruption of an island volcano which is going through an active phase homes and beach side hotels were destroyed along the coast which is popular with tourists dozens of people remain unaccounted for and more than a thousand have been injured. search and rescue

digging with their bare hands looking for anyone left alive under the rubble but it's been since anyone has been discovered until saturday this was a beach resort now there are just the remains of what was once he. and boats those who survived a terrified. i don't know i'm afraid sometimes i ask my son in law to check our house i don't know what to say i'm really afraid i have not gone home in the last two days. to go back. to indonesia it's yet another natural disaster. president yoko we doto is yet again thrust into the role of consoler in chief as he visited the disaster zone was it pains to come and locals worried about the prospect of another tsunami. i advise

people to remain calm but be cautious not to be provoked by misleading information i've also ordered the meteorological agency to keep informing people about the situation including the weather conditions as soon as possible this is what scientists believe likely caused saturday's tsunami and that krakatau volcano explorer two of the rock did underwater triggering a landslide and the killer waves now authorities are warning indonesians to stay away from the disaster zone as the volcanoes eruption continues there's the risk of further disaster. fergus jensen a correspondent with the reuters news agency joins us now from indonesia fergus thank you for joining us so you obviously very familiar with this area of java can you tell me how hard hit or how hard the tsunami has hit the region.

and this is. a big impact for the area i mean. an economic impact. from medicare the water quality. recovery. it's a big impact now looking at the pictures of the aftermath it's difficult to imagine how people are coping how exactly a survivor story. well we saw a lot of families homes in. all that we visited earlier. they were sort of scrambling for aid that was being handed out so it seemed a bit desperate to be honest. there were other survivors sort of clambering through the mines of wreckage that is you know once been there households are sort of piecing together and shifting to trying to find things like that yeah it's

a difficult situation for them. and we'll see in this sort of coming days how. the rescue workers and the aid workers coming in and grapple with that challenge and obviously all eyes are now on those rescue workers because we understand that one hundred people are still missing what are the chances of they'll be found alive . well i i wouldn't rule out that there would be any more survivors. definitely a possibility at this stage the focus is on finding bodies and finding people finding the missing people and the death toll doesn't continue to climb from this event. at this stage there are very quite a long way out of range to being blocked by debris that restricted rescue workers civility to them so we may well see something like that happening but i

wouldn't i wouldn't. want to bet on that. i want to bring attention to this or you've been following about the indonesian. end of the musicians and the audience being swept away by the waves what have you found out today. we visited the site where bad were playing and we were i mean. it was quite alarming the. height of this is. the way it would have been at least part made it which was to me because authorities did previously said around to me it is. clearly in some areas this tsunami hit a lot harder and in that area i mean there were bits and pieces of. equipment you've got around. yeah it was just a sign of sort of a scene of total devastation about that gathering. being attended by at least two

hundred employees of the company. and many of those people died. and one of the band members as well so yeah it's a tragedy definitely a tragedy we'll say guest joining us indonesia thank you. thank you. it's now have a look at some of the other story. is making news around the world a court in pakistan has sentenced former prime minister nawaz sharif to seventy years in prison for corruption that's on top of a ten year sentence on similar charges he faced in july sheriff denies any wrongdoing and says the charges are politically motivated turkey has sent military reinforcements near its border with syria the move comes as the u.s. prepares to withdraw its forces from syria after talks between president donald trump and turkish president for egypt air go on kurdish groups in the region fia turkey may be preparing for

a fresh assault against them they've been fresh demonstrations in the sudanese capital of khartoum over the soaring price of bread protests challenging president omar al bashir is rule are now into their fifth day sudan's opposition says twenty two people have been killed in the so-called red protest. archeologists in italy have uncovered a petrified horse with harness and saddle in the ruins of ancient pay the remains of other horses were also discovered in what appears to have been the stables of rome of a roman general pompei was buried in volcanic ash in seventy nine a ten year option by the nearby mount vesuvius the israeli government has decided to call an early general election for april ninth the move comes after a dispute within the coalition of a controversial legislation affecting conscription the governing party is divided over a new law extending the military draft to ultra orthodox jews israel's prime minister

benjamin netanyahu says he'd like to see a similar right wing coalition following next year's vote. correspondent some so-called joins me now from jerusalem with more on this story thank you for joining us so many of our viewers might not know that jews are exempt from military conscription in israel why has that issue driven netanyahu to call early elections . well there we're talking about ultra orthodox jews known here as a higher rate of jews or hasidic jews these are the religious jews who after they just eighteen they continue in study in the us and then there are military service is the for every half a year and the supreme court has ruled that this is not constitutional because it doesn't give equality between different israelis and therefore the minister and

history of defense has compared special interests lation according to which these ultra orthodox jews will have to go and serve in the military in growing in numbers though this doesn't mean that all of them will be serving but more will have to be serving and those schools those of us where kids will not be serving they will be fined by the state so this is the law and what happened today is that there was a knock was dition party that was supposed to support this law and they said that they won't support this law and in a face the situation where he didn't have this make joran and he decided to call on early election so sammy can you give us some more context to this story as saying the opposition is against this but it's also happening against the backdrop of instability in the governing coalition. yes for sure when we would say that this is only an excuse to have early elections we know that

a month ago of the lieberman who was the defense minister he left the government and since then we've had a very vulnerable coalition of only sixty one members and it was very clear that they would not be able to pass new legislation and actually this issue of this kind of law is quite convenient for netanyahu to go and clear lections about because he's presenting here the position of the ministry of defense he's a he's saying that he's fulfilling all the supreme court has said and it is more convenient for him say that talking about what's happening in the gaza strip where israel has reached a ceasefire agreement with the hamas at the time when most of the israeli public was against this kind of ceasefire but right n.b.c. sami what in this now his chances of reelection in april. well. when you look at all the public opinion polls it's very clear that the israeli

public is still very much on the right and we don't see much chances of the more center left parties forming the next coalition and so it seems that there will be a similar coalition to the ship now we have to remember that they used it police investigation right there is that recommendations police that he will be tried and we're waiting for indictments so this of course overshadow the elections sammy suckle joining us from jerusalem thank you with the christmas holidays upon us many people are reminded of the virtue of giving but for one restaurant owner in the u.s. capital of washington there's no off season for generosity he is my street have paid him a visit. it's the season of giving for kasi manana this means going into overdrive

because he is an immigrant from pakistan who now owns a small but successful restaurant in downtown washington d.c. all of these scarves and warm clothes that he purchased are about to be given away . this is an annual gathering at franklin square park in downtown d.c. various charities and churches will give away food and goods to people in need just before christmas because he has been coming here for the past four years and has built up a small network of homeless people who know him. you know it's a it's a joy anything you can make another person happy is a christmas time is a beautiful you know time of the year and the people that are in the street you know it really as a community we show our love that you see that everybody smile and if you're going to put a smile on other people's face this is a big blast. this is causes restaurant called sakina grill it serves free meals to homeless people all day every day even when it's not christmas homelessness is

endemic in washington d.c. some estimates put the number of people who have to sleep on the streets above eleven thousand. on himself he wants faced a similar situation living in extreme poverty and now that he's a successful business owner he wants to give back. sakina grill now has many regular non paying customers besides the benefit of freshly made food one man told us it simply helps him feel accepted. it makes you feel. like normal still to be. like you you. were. as you know like everyone else so you can make you feel privileged because his generosity started from day one when he opened the restaurant seeing homeless people digging through trash cans broke his heart and he resolved to do so. something about it.

to the people who need it. it's been four years sakina grow is still operational and has given out more than eighty thousand meals a good reminder that. you. will be back at the top of an eighty thousand meals a good reminder that. you. will be back at the top of the thank you for watching. her first carmen was. her journey back to freedom. in our interactive documentary. return. to tanks.