this is deja news from berlin risky teams race to find survivors of the indonesian tsunami the official death toll has topped three hundred seventy and survive as a force to move to higher ground the volcano that holds the tsunami is still erupting and they're all because of the second giant wave also on the program. state and another battering on wall street off to prison donald trump launches a fresh attack on the federal reserve. and in the season of giving

needs though not a washington d.c. restaurant who is charitable. and christine one goal while come to the program. authorities in indonesia say continuing eruptions at the another crocodile bowl kaino could cause another tsunami like the one that hits without warning over the weekend people have been urged to avoid parts of the coastline more than three hundred seventy people lost their lives when a huge weight swept the coastlines of sumatra and java on saturday night destroy hundreds of homes and buildings nearly one hundred thirty people remain unaccounted for and more than a thousand have been injured. in. the child's cry a little boy rescued the giant wave left him buried in rubble for twelve hours.

on the western tip of java and in many communities like his on the cement translight of the cylinder straight the search for survivors continues. as does the recovery of the dead. hundreds of people lost their lives on saturday night most would have scarcely known what hit them. he said you are going to see all of a sudden the wave came and. i was here. afterwards i ran over there to a crowd of people who were holding a celebration. a motorbike even got swept over there. but the validity of that i came back here at two am to try and get my bike. but i couldn't because it was buried under the debris. of the week. this is

the second deadly tsunami to strike indonesia this year people are asking why the country's tsunami early warning system failed why coastal areas weren't evacuated indonesia's president joko widodo had no answer as yet. i've ordered an inspection of all the tsunami detection equipment and the replacement of broken ones. i think in the new budget i will order the replacements of old broken equipment that can no longer be used. in the. tsunamis a usually triggered by earthquakes experts say this one seems to have been caused by the eruption of the crack at oh a volcano in the sun distrait just fifty kilometers away from the coast of java even properly functioning systems wouldn't have worked the giant wave came out of the night snatching so many lives. all right.

found in hole is our correspondent in banda glen indonesia and he's joining us now from there hi call so you've been driving through the area what have you seen. well or although it's already two days since the tsunami struck the coastal area here in sumatra still quite a lot going on it's getting a little bit more quiet right now because it's at night people have to rest cures police security forces doctors and so long they have to they need to need time to for themselves now as well but as we were driving through your indeed the whole time like in every couple of minutes we saw i balance is bringing. deceased people as well as people to hospitals and so on so your curation zorro still in full operation here and it will take some time for. all right and which areas have been the worst hit call. as far as we are informed here right now.

this side has been worse it's like most of the highest number of casualties has been accounted for and. there's not as many apparently but information from there is not coming asked lee because. this is where. the capital of intonation is so here everything is going a little bit foster it's. quite a high number already of casualties and we hope it doesn't race much more ok so but people have been asked to stay away from the shoreline how big is the danger of a new tsunami. you know all the rocket krakatau has erupted it's a four hundred metre awful kanal which is actually not so big. of course did eruption and might have caused a tsunami but in directly it's most probably yes geologists here told us being

caused by a landslide which has been caused by the eruption so. such a landslide can happen again actually at any time so people have to be very aware of that. call what does the government of indonesia have been communicating to people. well actually yes because because of the of the eminent danger that this landslide such a landslide can happen again and cause a tsunami again at any given moment actually the government has asked the people or told to people to stay away from the coast stay clear from the coasts and of course during the day it was much going on there because people are still looking for victims but as far as possible the people have to stay away from the course that's actually the main the main thing what the government is asking from the people here in the west and up. all right that's call fundin hole reporting for us in

pentagon indonesia thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world in afghanistan at least twenty five people have been killed in an attack on government facilities in the compass will kabul officials say that several assailants have also been killed attackers detonated a car bomb before storming a government compound no group has yet claimed responsibility for the assault. israeli coalition leaders have agreed to hold an early general election in april instead of november local media are reporting a fallout within prime minister binyamin netanyahu says right wing government coalition parties are divided over a new law extending the military draft to ultra-orthodox jews. and of course in pakistan has sentenced former prime minister nawaz sharif to seven years in prison for corruption that's on top of a ten year sentence on similar charges he faced in july shareef denies any

wrongdoing and ses the charges are politically motivated. the u.s. military says president donald trump has now signed an order to pull all american troops out of syria trump maintains the withdrawal will be quote highly coordinated and he say's he's turkish counterpart to one has assured him that turkey will eradicate all remaining fight is off the so-called islamic state in syria. turkish forces are massing on both sides of the syrian border the question is who will they go after and when turkey has long wanted to crush the kurdish y p g militia in syria which it sees as part of a terrorist alliance threatening its territorial integrity the why p.g. however has been a key ally of the united states on the international coalition in the fight against the so-called islamic state but turkey now says it will take over the fight against i.a.s. militants. u.s.

president donald trump talked to his turkish counterpart yesterday and tweeted that president added one would rather kate whatever is left of isis in syria. the u.s. withdrawal will not be overseen by jim mattis since he was sworn in early last year the u.s. secretary of defense has earned the respect of allies around the world as a reliable partner his team often reassured the kurdish fighters in syria but then mattis resigned in response to trump's abrupt troop withdrawal announcement issuing a clear rebuke of the president those same allies have been left stunned on a visit to chad french president manuel mccall was pretty clear about what he thought. before they mounted this i deeply regret the decision taken on syria and i would like to pay tribute here to general mattis and to the words that accompanied his decision. so this is. an ally should be reliable and coordinate with other allies general mattis understood this perfectly. matters will

be replaced by his deputy patrick shanahan as acting defense secretary on january the first trump only brought shanahan into the defense department last year he's an engineer who spent most of his career at boeing a major supplier to u.s. forces he has no background in politics diplomacy or military affairs. stocks on wall street plunged on monday following a tweet by u.s. president donald trump attacking the federal reserve markets well all radio reacting to slowing economic growth and the government shutdown before trump launched his latest attack on federal reserve chair paul troung tweeted the only problem economy has is the fit they don't have a feel for the market if it is like a powerful gulf war because he has no touch she can't. trump has criticised paul for raising interest rates too quickly so he says the us

president has some sympathy on wall street for that position. well that is clearly charm trying to blame someone and who is currently easier to blame than the fed chairman and his monetary policy chum seems to have two wishes to ensure a strong economy and they're both not related to his policies how convenient he wants a low oil prices and low interest rates so when the opec are talking about cutting output to let the prize rice or when the fed is raising rates you can easily say that these are the reasons for a sluggish growth and the stock market is a with him on that one at least when it comes to powell in a tweet on saturday's treasury six secretary minucci in quotas trump is saying he disagrees with the fat but he never suggested firing the chairman so this might be off the table for this year. ok with the christmas holidays upon us many

people are reminded of the virtues of giving but for one restaurant owner in the us capital washington washington d.c. there is no off season for generosity abuse by a swede a paid 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 how can you use a christmas time is a beautiful you know time of year and the people that are in the street you know if

we come out 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. this is a big blast this to me is the most joyful moment i always cry and i have tears in my eyes sharing my love and i've seen people smile 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 cars a man on himself said he wants faced a similar situation living in extreme poverty and now that he's a successful business owner he wants to get back. to kenya 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

start again. like you used. the word. because you know like everyone else so you can make you feel privileged to come. 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 something about it. for. free. to the people who need it. and everybody. running a charity you're running a profit business you will see that i have a god who created me his creation create. love. me. it's been four years sakina grow is still operational and has given out more than eighty thousand meals

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