urgent assistance. starts turning. total you. this is deja vu news live from berlin the death toll in the indonesian tsunami rises to four hundred twenty nine as people try to salvage what they can from the rubble desperately needed aid has started to drop close humanitarian workers warned that clean water and medicine supplies are doing to look at the natives problems these are also coming up. on shopping christmas for the world's stock markets wall

street's down three percent on tokyo's nikkei index plunges more than five percent worst finish in almost two years. on pope francis condemns human greed and consumerism made their marks during the traditional christmas eve mass the tame peter's basilica in the. amount of you for joining us more than two days after a killer wave swept the coast of java and some ochoa the death toll from indonesia's tsunami has risen to at least four hundred twenty nine when the number continues to climb as rescuers reach more remote areas inland almost one thousand five hundred people were injured in the disaster and thousands more have been left homeless. a safe haven for these children some desperately needed

aid is reaching the evacuation centers bought with clean water and medical supplies now running low the fear of disease is looming thousands here a too terrified to return home. thank god they give us food here and water it's better than at home i'm afraid there. and their fears are well founded with the not crack until a volcano still erupting believed to be the cause of the deadly tsunami experts warn that more killer waves could slam into the devastated region. most of those who do return home to salvage what they can a faced with a wasteland of collapsed houses and corrugated iron. in order to survive people have no choice but to try and return to normal as

quickly as possible. but this market vendors sell the remnants of anything they can find. any good the money are only just opening now people are only coming in now as the last two days have been quiet we haven't made any money but meanwhile the grim recovery if it continues bought the true extent of the damage from saturday's tsunami is get to unfold with rescue was only now reaching areas that were previously inaccessible. for more on this now we're joined by t.w. correspondent on a thumb toss is ended up one in western joppa which is one of the worst affected areas now ana how is the search for survivors going up the death toll there climbs . i spoke to the search command manager earlier today and he told us that right now it's really

a race against time as they continue to search for those who have been reported missing i need to emphasize the word reported because this area of western java where the tsunami hit this isn't really a residential area where you would have a record of how many people live here and where they live that would give search operations an indicator of where to start looking and how many to start looking for when the tsunami hit last saturday it was a period of holiday revelry in this mostly touristy town there are many people who came here to watch concerts to attend parties and whatnot and there is no record of how many people there were that were here for those. events and us that's keeping that's a blind spot for operations how many to go to what and where to start looking for them. many people were caught off guard on and you travelled through the disaster zone today can you tell us what you've been seeing and what you've been hearing.

i'll go first to what we've been hearing we continue to hear the rumble of another cut away from here in western java where we are and that is an indication that the volcano remains active and those dorothea's have said that as long as the volcano remains active there will be a possibility of future action amin's and that's again a little bit of uncertainty and a point of anxiety here because the last number that hit last saturday there was no advance warning and. no has been active for the last couple of months. it wasn't even the strongest eruption so while people are like standing on their toes right now whether or not you know there's going to be a next to me while be continued to hear i'm not from that so a rumbling in the bottom. of the building in the background is the the only worry for indonesian food and water is also a growing concern how are the relief officials dealing with that ana.

the relief operations they told us earlier today had started to come and started setting up soup kitchens in the various evacuation centers but the concern now is are those the areas that remain isolated because they are very remote and the rains continue to did the hearing operations so some roads remain impassable just in that you know even for us as we traveled from one point to another it was almost like we were crawling through the traffic the streets are just mostly too remains and there's been continuous rain since this morning and. yes today that have to be here in operations making some roads continue to possible. have a correspondent on a console in the western java tsunami disaster zone pank you first day here with us . now to do the stories making news around the world. in mexico the new

governor of. her husband dies in a helicopter crash martha erica alonzo was a senior office ition figure she took office in the central mexican states earlier this month the government stays is will investigate the incidents. cicely's mount etna volcano has been erupting lava and ash after a new fracture opened up in the base of one of its crazy areas observers say that the volcano is just a unusually high levels of seismic activity air traffic to nearby airports was shut down for several hours yesterday she said the ash. hollywood star kevin spacey has been charged with indecently assaulting an eighteen year old man and twenty sixteen it's the first criminal case brought against the oscar winning actor since his career collapsed amid a series of sexual misconduct allegations and here we go stacy is chewing course in early january. a u.s.

federal judge has ordered north korea to pay the family of also a warm beer five hundred and one million dollars in a wrongful death lawsuit last year at the u.s. college student died soon after pyongyang released him from months of captivity his parents say he was torture it's. stock markets have plunged deeper into the red shares on tokyo's nikkei index are down more than five percent its worst finish and nearly two years after monday's nearly three percent fall on wall street investors day about the u.s. economy are growing on twitter president's donald trump lashed days at the federal reserve calling it the only problem the economy had to reset interest rate increases traders are also worried about rumors was planning to fire. power matter for american for more on the markets worries i'm joined now by lars how tear from our business death now usually we are thing a fan to close

a rally on wall street are not so sure if it's come to wall street this year and has childcare tomorrow he definitely have and with two big things that the basically the president has created two big problems one of course is the current government shutdown that you have just mentioned the budget standoff here he wants five billion dollars for his wall against mexico of course he's not going to get that money and now we have a government shutdown which is costly and it hurts the american economy and the other thing and that's even more important for the markets is his constant attacks against the federal reserve now the federal reserve has of course in twenty eighteen hyped up interest rates four times from a record low to the now more realistic rate and the president has made it very clear that he doesn't like that he keeps attacking the fed and that destabilizes the fed and the markets does he have a point though when he criticizes the fed he does not really because of course what

the fed does was hiking up interest rates is not necessarily good for wall street however and that's really important the fed's job is not to make wall street happy the fed has to jobs keep the economy strong enough to support full employment or at least as low unemployed. as possible and the other job is to keep inflation in check which means in this particular case under two percent that is the mandate that the federal reserve has the federal reserve's job is not to keep wall street happy to create a boom in the stock market was so so there is really no point in president trump's criticism here and there are also reports that the u.s. president has been privately difficult thing trying to fire the federal chairman jerome powell can he do that and would something like that happen he can't first of all he can't of course because the federal reserve is an independent institution

and the president cannot just go ahead and fire somebody and he has learned about that apparent in the last two days because he has said just yesterday that he apparently never even discussed that he doesn't want to fire him so he's backtracking from what the media has heard from sources inside the white house if you would fire drum paul of course that would definitely plunge the market into more chaos because it would be the ultimate step to completely destabilize an institution that is there to destabilize the economy so that would be technically it's aster but fortunately this is a hypothetical a very merry christmas thank you very much from the euro. well at the time when many are focused on gifts on faith pope francis how do you say it's christmas to urge people in the developed world to follow a simpler life that either of the catholic church told worshippers than the wasik and that they should give up greed and gluttony and remember to share here's more.

in front of some ten thousand followers in sin peter's basilica pope francis continued the fame 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 ratios. in our day for many people life's meaning is found in positions in having an excess of material objects and insatiable greed

mocks 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. and i think. well just said to have been two thousand years ago there's no room in this year tourism authorities say all hotels are fully booked and it's one of the busiest christmases for years in the biblical ten in the west bank scores of local and foreign visitors were treated to back by plane palestinians raiding cost of giants christmas tree christians believe bethlehem is the birthplace of jesus christ it's. just

a reminder of the top story that we're following for you. the death toll and the indonesian tsunami has reached four hundred twenty nine is almost one payers and five hundred injures desperately needed aid has started to rise humanitarian workers warn that clean water and medicine supplies aren't wind. and now we'll leave you with more christmas pictures from around the world bracing a day of feasting on for. thanks. thanks.

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