this is d.w. news line 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 and desperately needed aid has started to arrive but humanitarian workers want the clean water and medical supplies are running out to get the latest from the region also coming up. as attack libya's foreign ministry officials say at least two people are dead in the capital tripoli of the militants detonated explosives at the ceiling we'll bring you the latest from inside the country. in his christmas

message and germany's presidential front. just people to address tensions in society by engaging with each other and not drifting apart. thank you for joining us we stopped in indonesia where the number of dead has risen to four hundred twenty nine after a tsunami swept across the coast of java and so much for three days ago the death toll is expected to rise with more people still missing in remote areas almost fifteen hundred people were injured in the disaster we'll talk to a correspondent in the disaster zone but first this report. it's not easy returning to what was once finding the ruins of her life but you know from the town of much good to look in north west java survived. and that makes one of the lucky ones

along this coast of destruction. yeah i heard the volcano krakatoa erupting and i could feel the ground shaking. but i went to sleep as it's been active for days. but then i was woken up by the sound of the neighbors screaming there's a tsunami. so i grabbed my mother and children and we ran out. of. the death toll is rising as work is sought through the rubble some fifteen hundred people were injured when the huge wall of water knocked them off their feet rolling past beaches and into the coastal villages. like didn't have time to run earlier you know when the waves came i was tossed around in the water for two minutes. i continued to pray god have mercy

on me god help me. i held onto a cable i felt so i wouldn't get carried away by the waves. then finally i found a coconut tree and hung on to it. along with the physical damage there's the trauma and fears of another tsunami. folk knowledge just say i'm not krakatoa is likely to continue to erupt for months if not years to come. and we're joined by did of a correspondent on a santos's in chariots in western java which is one of the west affected areas thank you for joining us on a so it's been three days since the tsunami hit the area how would you describe the current situation. well right now you will see that there was a lot still fear and anxiety among residents many of them even in the lower

lying areas and in the homes that are far off from the shoreline they fled to higher ground so they're occupying places and homes up in the mountains or in the hillsides to see that this is the only place that can possibly keep them safe from the idea of another tsunami coming and rising floodwaters again let's look back at why there is this continued fear and the tsunami that hit last saturday had no warning usually the residents expect that there's an earthquake that comes before tsunami there was no such thing that happened last saturday and the continuous rains from today and the continuous rumbling that you hear from. and which is an indication the book you know still active feeds on this fear and nervousness of what could possibly happen next so in trying to deal with this situation and also the fear of something potentially happening how survivors coping. we

resisted a village earlier this afternoon it's one of the highest villages up on a mountainside and you saw many homes that were overflowing with people in one home for example there was as many as ten families living there and they said that there was comfort in the idea that they were at least living in a home with other family members rather than in a cramped evacuation center with strangers and was no privacy but still you know they were wondering until when can we keep up the situation where we're all scrunched up in one home and so when will our supplies and our food and our medicines see us through really was just very nervous about wanting to know when can they go back to normal life when can they go back to their homes is there stand up when can they go back to live in them all rebuild the ones that have been destroyed by the tsunami. and speaking of rebuilding is there enough aid that's coming in at this point and is it getting to these remote areas. aid has just

started to come in the continuous rains have delayed the operations in many of the remote villages so the roads here as we saw today you know they're. just about two and when you see. the more affected areas the debris becomes. more along the roads and so it's been harder to clear these up and. still an accessible. soup kitchen that has been set up today and trying the distribution of the but again this is still just starting to trickle through to the different villages. correspondent. thank you. that's now have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world officials in tunisia say several people have been arrested during protests in the capital tunis following the suicide of a journalist on monday. buried today he posted

a video calling for. fire to protest high levels of unemployment in the country. clashes in the sudanese capital have continued with police using tear gas and warning shots to break up protests the human rights group amnesty international says sudanese security forces have shot and killed at least thirty seven people in the past five days demonstrators a sudanese president omar al bashir to step down. opposition candidates in the democratic republic of congo have demanded cell phone operators deactivates and cards being used in new voting machines politicians say the electronic transmission of ballots could lead to inaccuracy in the country's presidential election on sunday some forty million voters will choose a successor to president joseph kabila officials insist counting will be done manually. at least two people have been killed after suicide bombers stormed

foreign ministry in tripoli three of the militants also died ten people were injured in the attack that began with a car bomb blast near the ministry libyan security authorities are blaming the attack on so-called islamic state fighters the foreign ministry is part of libya's internationally recognized government that is based in tripoli. a journalist working for the associated press now joins me from benghazi in libya rami thank you for joining us there any more details that have emerged about this attack. hello the attack was this morning around nine thirty when a couple on went to the ministry of foreign affairs in tripoli. signaling that. where three men over the fifty. five. exchange complies with the guards more and more at a later on they managed to get through the gates with info into the building to the

second where juanita. commits suicide bombing. in an exchange with five change with the. signal the end of it that gets i know you'll sing to me from benghazi where the rival government is can you tell me about the states with the internationally recognized government which is in tripoli where today the past. if there's a conflict of interest and it was an ethical differences between the two sides but the main issue is the who controls the state the use of violence coming up over the years a full. eastern part of the country is more unified where there is a central command of all the armed forces and the armed groups. like the the western part of the country at this is just the home of a country in control of the state and there have been in some instances and the conflicts between these missions so how secure is the chippie based in government's

hold on power. it is a shaky and. increasing number of as a vicious hardly all unified all. these different groups have different. loyalties and kipper not because they form a different political groups all the while he any centralized control over the security station shipping. joining us from benghazi thank you. in rome pope francis has given his traditional or be at christmas day blessing to the city of rome and the wider world the head of the catholic church people to put aside partisan interests and seek peaceful solutions to wars and conflicts tens of thousands from around the world gathered at st peter's square to hear the pope's message on christmas day the main subject of his address was communication and

togetherness. pope francis called for tolerance and cohesion in the face of global crises i wrote our differences should go tom i suppose danger we should see them as something that could enrich our lives . the pope said and indissoluble bond brings together people of different ethnicities languages and cultures the universal message of christmas he said is that we are all brothers and sisters. whether they kindred spirit that jesus bestowed on us we wouldn't have been cure and to continue our efforts for a more just world and our best projects would be in time jeff losing thank good spirit. the pope reminded everyone of the world's ongoing wars and conflicts especially in the middle east he expressed hope that israelis and

palestinians would resume dialogue to end their decades long conflict with international support and brotherhood he also hopes the civil war in syria can come to an end. may the international community work decisively for political solution that can put aside divisions and partisan interests so that the syrian people especially all those who were forced to leave their own lands and seek refuge elsewhere can return to live in peace in their own country. he then gave the traditional blessing known as or be at or be the city and the world but this. it's. it's.

carrying the german capital in germany as president funk. has urged people to address tensions in society by engaging with each other and his christmas message recorded at berlin's bellevue palace steinmeier said the nation must not be allowed to drift apart christmas for the german president and meyer is the time to talk to one another with family with friends and also with those who have political leanings other than your own. yard christmas is a time not only for carols but sometimes also for quotes i believe it's good for us to engage in debate it's good for us to talk to each other if i had one wish for our country then it would be let's have more debate. steinmeyer thinks germans are spending less time actually talking to each other and more time in their own social bubbles. however no matter how upset we are about others

or wish they just didn't exist one thing remains true we are all part of this country regardless of our origin skin color approach to life or favorite sports team. his christmas wish this year is that people enter into dialogue with one another other countries he says are showing us what happens when societies drift apart. we have seen burning barricades and powers deep political rifts in the united states and anxiety in the united kingdom ahead of threats it europe is being put to the test in hungary italy and other places we are in the heart of europe of course not immune against these developments the president is convinced german democracy is strong and to make sure it stays that way we all have to work together. so you're watching the news

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