jr. this is deja vu news laurie from berlin fears of a public health crisis in tsunami hit indonesia as rescue teams posed by various items of the local desperately needed aid has started to flow but humanitarian workers warn that clean water and medicine supplies are dwindling look at the latest from indonesia also coming up. pope francis come dancing human greens and consumerism the pontiff made to the remarks during the traditional christmas eve mosque the st peter's basilica in rome. honors the burden family trying to cut down

their carbon footprint as the find him and look back on some of the highlights of the job you see here you know always going to be easy. i'm out on a welcome to the program three days after a tsunami swept the coastlines of somalia and job killing more than three hundred seventy people concerns about a public health crisis are starting to emerge hasnt of survivors from the area are living in makeshift evacuation centers haven't lost their homes or being too fraid to return for fear of another tsunami access to clean water is now a problem raising the risk of disease and supplies of medicine are dwindling. and joining us now. carter in indonesia is do you know told the head of oxfam's

humanitarian operations in the disaster zone as we just mentioned there are reports food and water supplies are dwindling in the region what more can you tell us you know. how can you hear me. we still have to be there because and and i just said to you that there are reports that food and water is the flies are dwindling in the region where you are what more can you tell us. since nor are we we deploy our assessment team and based on our assessment in plumping and also in bonn. some. will be able to access the clean water for the month in but somebody else you know what there is. a soup and s.

must leave for. this. the government saving up to make programmes we do need. to rethink what there are those are the and and also it is in a lot of the for the way we. did it like eleven thousand people leave the camps and all now relief workers have been reaching in land areas what's the situation there have survivors been found. somebody has in lump on this facility that look this thing would go off so this why the how the government off into the shop and i will mobilize to have the equipment to look live at this nearly all of the human activists and be able to access those for all. some obvious and bunson always i see both so by the time you'll aware that the number of dead probably is so distinct because the government there are. certain and then you

and also military but some no one mother a significant number of. the dems. ok that mean all they did get up to the also predict that if some of the as it happens to be might. be might also plan. some of the dems as well i'm going to need to build it out. dean argentino from oxfam thank you very much for speaking with us yes thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. in mexico the new governor of her senator husband have died in a helicopter crash marta erica alonso was a senior opposition figure she took office in the central mexican states earlier this month to go home and says it will investigate the incidents. cicely's mount

etna of volcano has been erupting lava and ash after a new fracture opened up and the base of one of its craziest observers say that the fall kaino is displaying unusually high levels of seismic activity air traffic to nearby tanya airports was shut down for several hours yesterday due to the ash plume. hollywood star kevin spacey has been charged with indecency assaulting an eighteen year old man and twenty sixteen it's the first criminal case brought against the oscar winning actor since his career made a series of sexual misconduct allegations a year ago stacey is few in course very january. a u.s. federal judge has ordered north korea to pay the family of auto farm verifiable one million dollars five hundred one million dollars in a wrongful death lawsuit the u.s. college student died soon after pyongyang released him from months of captivity his

parents say he was tortured. well that's twenty eighteen comes to an end we're looking back at some of the highlights of the year one of our stories looks at how some families here in berlin are making a contribution to limiting climate change or taking part in a project to find they can reduce their carbon footprint and an environmentally friendly lifestyle and as we've found it's not always that easy. it's the start of a busy day kathleen bees and her husband are heading to work five year old hannah and mira who's three will go to kindergarten and nico who is nine is off to school . the family is taking part in a special experiment. there one of ninety households trying to reduce their c o two emissions over a period of one year a project headed by the potsdam institute for climate impact research.

for you doing what's going on. for them biking is the best form of transport to get to work and school rain or shine. driving produces too many greenhouse gases. by even take a bike if it's snowing or icy so long as it's safe for the children the let's go girls. they're trying to reduce c o two but even if they only shop organic this isn't easy. money is not on the windows perfect i tend to drink water or juice but if the children want to soft drink. we're not always as consistent as we'd like to be. it's about finding a balance if they try to buy produce grown in germany but sometimes they compromise

when it comes to bell peppers from spain for example. i like happy. yellow and red i like both right after the public has had peppers are quite healthy there's a lot of iron in them and because we didn't eat meat week more vegetables in autumn and winter pepper from spain isn't ideal but it's better than putting salami on a pizza. the whole family eats vegetarian they know that a kilo of beef translates to twelve kilos of c o two emissions sunday evening is set aside for the weekly c o two calculations they'll calculate how much carbon dioxide was emitted through their use of electricity their transport and food intake what's the result for the whole year likely to be. yes not bad twenty five point one eight tons as

a family that's five tonnes per person. if they continue living like this they'll go beyond the forty percent goal and reduce their carbon footprint by fifty six percent henry who was quite skeptical at the start says this would be a great success. the purpose of. this is changed over the years because i've become more ambitious and try to improve things. we have quite a high potential for saving on emissions without restricting our quality of life drastically. so i would say that i'm satisfied. with. the amount of holiday activities are also part of the experiment. calculated that less carbon dioxide is emitted while driving to sex and the then

taking the train. car in b. is a wants to live in a society where everyone tries to offset their carbon emissions as much as possible ideally it would be a climate neutral society there's a long way to go but she and her family has made a good start. just as it with said to have been two thousand years ago there's no room as back to him as this year tourism authorities say all ot out there fully booked and it's one of the busiest christmas those four years in the biblical town which lies in the west bank and scores of our visitors were treated to by pipe playing palestinians parading a giant christmas tree christians believe in the birthplace of jesus christ. time when many are focused on gifts and feasting but francis has used his christmas eve mass to urge people in the developed world to follow

a simpler life the leader of the catholic church told worshippers in the vatican that they should give up green may remember to share here's more. in front of some ten thousand followers in sin peter's basilica pope francis continued the theme of his papacy criticizing consumerism and its impact on humanity francis made his message direct and personal. let us ask ourselves do i really need all these material objects and complicated additions to live. can i manage without all these unnecessary extras and live a life of greater simplicity. condemning the widening gap between rich and poor francis encourage the faithful to give and share instead of devouring and hoarding . mankind

became greedy and for a shoes. in our day for many people life's meaning is found in positions in having an excess of material objects and insatiable greed marks all human history even today when paradoxically a few dine in luxury while too many go without the daily bread needed to survive. it's the sixth christmas eve service for the eighty two year old pontiff today he will deliver his christmas day message instant peter's square. may just be the most famous quest the thawing in the world thought and nice and now it's turning two hundred years old and it was for thought. german no one at a popular it will be called today in hundreds of language with and the thought of origin 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 played guitar and sang the bass line more sang the tenor part the original organ used to compose the melody is still functional the song was actually meant to be a piece song. the 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. and toasts. even today the song of a 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 unesco has put file a night holy night on the world's cultural heritage list. and to serve of the top stories that we're following for you. there are fears the public health crisis in the tsunami his region of indonesia desperately needed aid has. a monetary and workers for in that clean water and medicine supplies are dwindling. on pope francis has condemned human greed and consumerism made the remarks during the traditional christmas the same peter's basilica and. people in the developed world to me is a simpler life. there watching things coming to you from birth and we will have more news to get at the top of the hour meanwhile if you can get all the latest

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