city's. margarets your platform for a little information. this is due to being news coming to you live from berlin the death toll in the indonesian tsunami rises to four hundred and twenty nine of people try to salvage what they can from the rubble desperately needed a has started to rife but humanitarian workers warn that clean water and medicine supplies are dwindling look at the nations from indonesia also coming off. an

unhappy christmas for the world's stock markets wall street's down to three percent and tokyo's nikkei index plunges more than five percent of its worst finish in almost two years. and pope francis condemns human greed and consumerism the pontiff made the remarks during the she dished christmas eve mass at st peter's basilica in rome. you. i'm out on thank you for joining us more than two days after a killer wave swept the coast of java the death toll from indonesia's the nami has risen to at least four hundred twenty nine that 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 with clean water and medical supplies now running low the fear of disease is looming thousands here are 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 cracker toa volcano still erupting believed to be the cause of the deadly tsunami experts warned 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. it in the monitor only just opening now people are only coming in now as the last two days have been quiet we haven't made any money. meanwhile the grim recovery if it continues bought the true extent of the damage from saturday's tsunami is get to unfold with rescue is only now reaching areas that were previously inaccessible. for more on this now we're joined by correspondent ana santos is ended up one in western japhet 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 reporting 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 just are looking for when the tsunami hit last saturday it was a period of holiday brevity 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 to us that's keeping that's a blind spot for our operations how many to go to what and where to start looking for them. many people were called 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 from here in western java where we are and that is an indication that the volcano remains active and dorothy's have said that as long as the volcano remains active there will be a possibility of future action on these 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 in a while be continued to hear and not from being in the back. building in the background is that 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 has started to come and they have started setting up soup kitchens in the various evacuation centers but the concern now are those areas that remain isolated because they are very remote and the rains continue to do in the hearing operations so some roads remain and possible 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 yesterday. that have to be here in operations making some roads continue to possible. have a correspondent on a hole in the western job as an army disaster zone thank you for speaking with us. now is the view of the stories making news around the world it's monday for track to go in and bomb attack on

a government compound killed at least forty three people officials there say it was one of the deadliest assaults on the afghan capital coming at the end of one of afghanistan's most violent here is no group has claimed responsibility for suicide bombers have attacked libya's foreign ministry in the capital tripoli one of the attackers detonated his explosives another was shot by guards before he could do so security officials say three people have been killed. in mexico the new governor of her senate her husband have died in a helicopter crash martha erica alonzo was a senior opposition figure she took office in the central mexican states earlier this month the government says it will investigate the incident. hollywood star kevin spacey has been charged with indecent di assaulting an eighteen year old man and twenty six it's the first criminal case brought against the oscar winning actor

since his career collapsed amid a series of sexual misconduct allegations a year ago spacey is you in course early january. world stock markets have plunged deeper into the red shares on tokyo's nikkei index are down more than five percent it's worth spending nearly two years this after monday's ninety three percent fall on wall street investors day the u.s. economy are growing on twitter president donald trump last day of the federal reserve calling it the only problem on the hog's after recent interest rate increases traders are also worried about rumors trump was planning to fire the fed chief. matter for more on the markets worries i'm joined now by lars how tear from our business deaths now usually we are seeing a santa claus rally on wall street's now not so sure of its color to wall street this year has scared him off 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 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 a now more realistic rate and the president has made 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 unemployment as possible and the other job is to keep inflation check which means in this particular case under two percent that is the mandate that the federal reserve has the federal reserve is job is not to keep wall street happy to create a boom at the stock market was so so there is really no point in president trump's criticism here and there are also reports that a u.s. president has been privately disco thing trying to fire a federal chairman powell can he do that and with 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 for the you're welcome. at a time when many are focused on gifts and feasting pope 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 childe worship or is it in the vatican that they should give of greed and closely and remember to share here's more. in front of some ten thousand followers in st 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 ratios. 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 peace service for the eighty two year old pontiff today he will deliver his christmas day message incent peter's square. just says that with that have been the two thousand years ago there is no where to heads and this year tourism authorities say all those hells are full of books and it's one of the busiest christmases for years in the biblical town which lies in the west bank scores of local and foreign visitors were treated by playing palestinian rating path a giant christmas tree. that is the birthplace of jesus christ. and just a reminder of the top story. that we're following for you. the death toll in the indonesian tsunami has reached four hundred twenty nine with almost one thousand

five hundred injures desperately needed aid has. monetary and workers war and cleaning and medicine supplies are dwindling. pope francis has condemned human greed and consumerism made the remarks during the traditional christmas eve. to people in the developed world. i will leave you with more christmas pictures from around the world. stay with us.

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