remember that. this is. from the rescue teams race to find survivors of the indonesian tsunami the official death toll has topped three hundred seventy and survivors are all forced to move to higher ground the volcano that was the tsunami is still erupting and there are fears of a second giant wave also on the program. took a sans military of reinforcements to the syrian border this as the u.s. orders its troops to withdrawal from syria now could issue groups in the region.

could be preparing a fresh offensive against it. and then you'll strike exchange. poland it's christmas trucking the cost of the not crack a bad name brings the opening bell but wall street's proved a tough nut to crack as she has promised the new growth fields. last in the season of giving you need to be owner off the washington d.c. restaurant charitable or. i'm christine one while come to the program. authorities he is in indonesia say continuing eruptions that be and now crocodile volcano could cause another tsunami like the one that hit without warning over the weekend people have been warned to avoid parts of the coastline over three hundred seventy people lost their

lives when a huge wave swept the coastlines of sumatra and java on saturday night destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings nearly one hundred and thirty people remain unaccounted for and more than a thousand have been injured. in. a 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 sunda strait 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. for the mother to be to 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. because we. 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 answers here that. i've ordered an inspection of all the tsunami detection equipment and the replacement of broken ones. zamora i think in the new budget i will order the replacement of old or broken equipment that can no longer be used at all but is about. 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 a hole is our correspondent in pentagon indonesia and he's joining us now from their high call so you've been driving through the area what have you seen. well or although it's already two days since tsunami struck the coastal area here and in so much. still quite a lot going on it's getting a little bit more quiet right now because it's midnight people have to rest the rescuers police security forces doctors and so long they have to they need do need time to for themselves now as well but as we were driving through here indeed the

whole time like in every couple of minutes we saw bringing. deceased people as well as people to hospitals and so on so your curation zoro 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 if 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 me because the obvious side is where. the capital of indonesia is so here everything is going a little bit faster it's. quite a high number already of casualties and we hope it doesn't raise much money

ok so but people have an os to stay away from the shoreline how big is the danger and often new tsunami. krakatau has erupted it's a fall on that meter i fall kanal which is actually not so big. of course did eruption might have caused a tsunami but in direct 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 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 main thing what the government is asking them from the people here in the west. all right that's steve call fundin hole reporting for us in 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 capital kabul officials say had several assailants have also been killed attack us designated a car bomb before storming a government compound no group has yet claimed responsibility for the assault. a u.s. judge has ruled north korea should pay the family of five hundred million dollars

in a wrongful death lawsuit last year the former u.s. college student died shortly after north korea released him from months of captivity he's parents say he was tortured a course in pakistan has sentenced former prime minister novice sharif to seven years in prison for corruption that's on top of the ten year sentence on similar charges he faced in july shareef denies any wrongdoing and say's the charges are politically motivated. three u.s. military ses president donald trump has now signed the order to pull all american troops out of syria maintains the withdrawal will be quote highly coordinated and he says he's turkish counterpart richard typer to one has assured him that turkey will eradicate all remaining five of 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 white 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 at a 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 stand on a visit to chad french president emmanuel mccall was pretty clear about what he

thought. your good clip before him on it if 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 you. and allies should be reliable and coordinate with other allies general mattis understood this perfectly really 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. the war in syria has driven more than a million syrians to seek refuge in neighboring lebanon many live in poverty and child refugees often on the streets to help support their families in an exclusive

report i.e. bring him it's two brothers in beirut the boys sell flowers for a living when they would rather be at school. it is almost midnight but ahmed and use of the work day is far from over. the brothers from syria sell flowers in the streets of beirut three days per week from dusk till dawn. i work because my parents are sick i need to support them i wake up at five thirty or six in the afternoons. i go and buy the flowers i work work work and then i go home. with. syrian children working on the streets of beirut has become a common sight seventy percent of syrian refugees in lebanon live under the poverty line leaving many parents like almost and use of so with no choice but to send their children onto the streets to survive them are. almost as though our parents

are sick but i want to say something he should be able to stay at home even if my mother and father is sick they should work because they had us they should be supporting us and not the other way around just because. despite international. neither yousif nor his brother go to school on the streets they often experience violence. one time i was six i came to sell the flowers here at the bar they beat me and did not let me sell flowers i said in a corner and cried obama. facing this kind of abuse for prolonged periods of time causes what is known as toxic stress in children something and geo workers are growing increasingly worried about. the lack of advice let's say a kid spends four to five years on the streets if he stays in lebanon or goes back to syria the pressures he faced on the streets will remain with him he won't be

able to do his work properly you just know that you know we are talking about children instead of being at school they are being lost i've got about and this is affecting an entire generation and god that was the heat on god yeah nadine was as part of a team that runs the fund bus an initiative aimed at believe using the children suffering on the streets. for a couple of hours each week they can come inside the bus a safe space away from the gaze of the passers by to do arts and crafts. right. here on the set there it helps them released if you give a child a piece of paper cardboard and glue and then they can make something out of it the child gets to feel powerful which he normally does not get to feel yet they might but the bus is by no means a sustainable solution for syrian street children in beirut it can fit a maximum of fifteen children at a time. syrian children account for three out of four children living and working

on the streets of lebanon. resources to help them are overstretched leaving children like you said an almighty with no resort but to wish for a better future. pilgrims all gathering for christmas celebrations in the west bank city of bethlehem which is traditionally considered the birthplace of jesus thousands of locals and visitors all taking part in a parade and lining up to view the place where jesus is believed to have been born facilities will continue into the night when the catholic petry all of jerusalem will lead to midnight mass in the church of nativity before leading the traditional christmas position from jerusalem to beth to him he appealed for hope in difficult times christmas or easter the way with christmas it was so great these joy and hope that are very far from from us sometimes you have a very you see displays so. her third division is still prevails sometimes but we as christians we are committed to work for peace and that of all who is everywhere

without let the frustration to overcome our feelings. with the christmas holidays upon us many people are reminded of the virtues of giving but for one restaurant in the u.s. capital washington d.c. there is no off season for generosity. 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 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 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. himself said 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 except it. makes you feel. like normal

to start again. like you used. to do not like everyone else so you can make you feel privileged to cause 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. something about it i promise if i ever had to rest for. this for. my heart 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 need knows no season. all right it's over to jim now now and not. merry christmas on wall street not at all christine in fact the da lost nearly three percent on the day amid fears of slowing growth u.s. treasury secretary stephen the newton has been speaking to regulators on the

so-called plunge protection team to discuss to call markets he already following the heads of the country's six largest banks over the weekend in a statement they said that they have quote ample liquidity available for lending the moves follow us stock markets worst week since the financial crisis ten years ago uncertainty over the partial government shutdown has added to concerns have wiped out all their gains for the year. he is following the developments on wall street for us good to see you sophie so it doesn't seem as if we're able to call the markets what went wrong. no it did not come markets at all it kind of had the opposite effect it almost seemed like and vessels were suspicious statement as they wondered why you would ask these kinds of questions now as if something was up or as you know something we all don't know the broad market was

down with the dow dropping around six hundred points and also shares of mansfield bank of america with one point five percent i think there's just too much going on right now that is grouping investors with flag a scrope and a fat that is still going to raise rates two more times and twenty nine thousand so no sense a rally and not even a friday night here on wall street. and then of course there's the matter of trump's tweet criticizing federal chair jerome powell saying that the only problem the u.s. economy has is the fed now what do you make of. well there is clearly charm trying to blame someone and who is currently easier to blame than the fed chairman and his monetary policy 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 when the opaque are talking about cutting

output to let the prize rice or when the fed is raising rates he can easily say that these are the reasons for sluggish growth and the stock market is a woman him on that one at least when it comes to powell in a tweet on saturday treasury sic secretary minucci and quotas trump is saying he disagrees with the fact but he never suggested firing the chairman so this might be off the table for this year so three months q they're on wall street thank you very much. meanwhile a christmas surprise on european markets shares in the company that runs the london stock exchange fell nearly four percent on news the pan-european exchange operator euro next is in talks to acquire also bores the norwegian stock exchange for six hundred twenty five million euros the company is currently seeking the support of the board of directors and has already secured support for its offer from oslo for

shareholders representing almost half of outstanding shares operate several european exchanges it said it found also forces position in seafood derivatives and oil services and shipping attractive. and more hiccups for. europe's largest carmaker says it's alerted german authorities over irregularities and its emission software for diesel cars half a million vehicles fogs recalled for a fix may still be equipped with illegal software designed to cheat during emissions tests affected are diesel cars with one point two liter engines so far has spent more than twenty eight a billion euros on fines and car buybacks in the u.s. in the aftermath of the twenty fifteen emissions cheating scandal dubbed it this latest issue could add to the two billion euros that the carmaker is expected to spend on cleanup next year now what would christmas be without santa

claus and what would santa claus be without his reindeer there's indispensable helpers who pull the sled full of presents through the dark night so goes the tail at least but any potential santa claus can also keep up with the times he can equip his animals with a g.p.s. transmitter color and an app that helps him locate and protect them. seppo coitus those reindeer are far away in northern finland the breeder watches over hundreds of animals what was once a huge challenge is no longer as hard as it used to be thanks to the latest technology. and me as an end in some thirty years ago you had to follow the older reindeer herders for about five or ten years to learn the landscape the forests and all of the animals habits but nowadays you just pick up your mobile phone with a navigation app and from the first day on you can do it all yourself that that guide and it goes a long gotten. apart from agriculture and forestry there's not much money to be

made in this area but for about fifteen hundred shepherds the reindeer on the bases of life herders the meat milk and fur the animals are herded together for slaughter . since he invested in a g.p.s. collar it's been easier for sept because though to find his reindeer sail in all sectors of society efficiency is playing a big role it's the same with the reindeer herding we have less workers so the action should get more and more efficient all the time mean that network technology also helps to locate cadavers if an animal doesn't move for several hours every year five thousand reindeer fall victim to predators like the lynx this helps the herders claim the valuable state compensation. i think now we are facing the same kind of revolution like we had with this no school with terrorists forty or fifty years ago i think that these new. technology could do the same that we could take this new technology and use also in the hospital to save

a lot of time and money. all the herders need is a collar which costs not in the euros a battery which lasts up to one year and a cell phone simple tools that keep an entire way of life alive. it may just be the most famous christmas song in the world talking of course about silent night and how it's turning two hundred years old when it was first song eighteen eighteen and german no one could have guessed how popular it would become today it sung in hundreds of languages songs origins can be traced to austria. still enough to plotz silent night square this is where silent night was composed in the village of oberndorf near salt pork two hundred years ago the st nicholas church to be here now a small chapel has been built where the song was first sung in eighteen eighteen there's a small museum here as well the lyrics were written by use of more

a clergyman and the melody was composed bikes of a group or a school teacher at the premier gruber himself played guitar and sang the bass line more saying the tenor part the original organ used to compose the melody is still functional the song was actually meant to be a piece song. she left how do you know this is silent night holy night was written during a very difficult time two years before that war was still raging it was then that salzburg actually was returned to austria and we think that it was in this desperate time that the song was composed simply to give the people comfort and support. them for they think i'm toast sikkim on the heights even today the song of books deep emotions for the two hundredth anniversary a choir of singers from across austria are celebrating the composer on this city square inch tire in the meantime you know sco has put file and holy night on the world cultural heritage list.

and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you rescue teams are racing to find survivors of the intonation tsunami the death toll has risen to at least three hundred seventy three but a volcano that most likely triggered the destruction is still prompting and there are fears of a second tsunami. don't forget you can always get d.w. news on the go just download our app from google play or from the apple store they'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as a question notifications for any breaking news and also use the d.w.i. to send us photos and videos. you're watching news from berlin we will have more news for you at the top of the hour if you need to get up to date you can get all the latest news online at g.w. dot com or on twitter thanks for joining the w happy holidays.

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