tv DW News - News Deutsche Welle December 26, 2018 8:00am-8:15am CET
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the i mean. this is deja vu news coming from an extreme weather on a highway that the latest warning for people living around the erupting volcano in indonesia on saddam has already killed more than four hundred people now a second disappears look at the latest from a western chopper also coming up. tonight an exclusive report on the homeless crisis in the indian capital delhi and why so many people to brave the fish are winter nights rather than stay warm and a shelter. and on rest in today's yeah over the death of this monster in an echo
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off the arab spring he committed suicide in protest against the country's economic problems. me. i'm out of you for joining us indonesian authorities are warning people around the are saying. to expect extreme weather and high waves urging people to stay away from coastal areas that have already been devastated by a tsunami that killed more than four hundred people desperately needed aid is being delivered to some areas hit by saturday's tsunami more supplies are still in the jets for the peasants of displaced people living in makeshift camps just say children are becoming ill with a lack of access to clean water and to into the magical supplies counties have used correspondent ana santos is in the born and western job which is one of the worst
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affected areas and she sent us this report. the tsunami brought by the eruption of the volcano cutout does nothing this pulls the religious wildland that out of nine in rubbles it is in this rubble that a young father hopes that he will find his dream fairy cooney our one fisherman as her father he lived with his wife anna and their three children near the water's edge they have banned the hunt couldn't withstand the force of the giant wave that . this is all that's left of our house my mother asked about the strange sounds outside and when i looked around i saw three big waves one after the other i panicked and woke up my wife we ran out with the whole family this is where i got hit by the big wave but we kept running over there came the second wife we fell again and that's when i was torn from my wife's arms we still looking for. the most
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out of us. in this movie about fifty residents three people were unaccounted for two bodies have been found. but fair and one has baby go is still missing. in this one behind me is where hina and fairy reunited with two of their children instead of three. my baby was just wearing the new clothes i'd bought for her. she had some new toys too and she was just starting to smile and giggle. we wanted to go to a family gathering but when the waves came i couldn't hold on to her tight enough. i lost her. meaning. the tsunami left town and ferries family with only the clothes on their backs and
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for now all they have is this picture of a nice on the hope that she will be found. a lab reports with by days of you correspondent on a and she joins us now from western java which is one of the worst affected areas and it was a very tough reports to watch very very sad story that one family praying for america what kind of help is being provided for those with i think friends and relatives. all right now local authorities and organizations like the indonesian red cross. to provide aid and relief to those who have been evacuated or those affected by the tsunami told us this morning the engine asian red cross that the most immediate need was to provide food and clean water to those in the evacuation centers which are that the boss or those have been sharing the homes with relatives
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but as of this morning also they had to contend with a notice from the local government to momentarily suspend these relief operations because of the torrential rain that has been hitting this part of the area since last night and since this morning there was a lot of sunder and there's been a lot of floods so the red cross has had to suspend these operations especially in the areas of the coastlines where there is a higher risk of rising rising waters and there are fears of another tsunami want is the feeling where you are. the threat of another tsunami over us you know i told her is over us quite literally as we continue to hear the rumbling and a crocodile from the other island next to us but we the residents told us this morning that they had to wake up to another kind of threat which was the floods the torrential rains from this morning brought thunder and we woke up to this thunder
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and when we went out into the streets today we saw that the roads were flooded up to knee high and in some places up to waist high waters in some villages when we ventured out even further we saw that the floodwaters had reached the roof tops of these homes the residents told us that you know during this time of the year they've grown accustomed to this kind of weather and have prepared themselves for flooding but the twin disasters of a tsunami having hit them last saturday plus these floods from this morning is something that they could hardly prepare for and they're not just buckling of course with the floods they're also worried about aid what do we know now if there are any more aid on the way. aid has been on a slow but steady trickle into the communities that have been affected the local government authorities and aid agencies have told us that there are some areas that remain inaccessible like for example there are islands off the coast of western
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java in the middle of this one stretch and these are these remain to be inaccessible and we hear sometimes helicopters flying over us and these are deployed by government agencies to airdrop much needed aid and relief to those areas that cannot be reached by. we also over here that because of the rains and the floods from this morning the roads that have been blocked by debris from last saturday and then by flood this morning really rain inaccessible and this will be this will further slow down relief distribution local authorities have also said that they've deployed their volunteers and their officials to different parts of the areas you have to remember that the affected areas not just western java but also all part of sumatra and now they have to scramble to these parts that have been flooded thank you that amazon toes and loved one in western java thank you very much for that report. now to some
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of the other stories making news around the world. japan says it's withdrawing from the international whaling commission and will resume commercial honks beginning next july it says a winning movie limited to its own territorial waters and economics though in japan has long good docs of so-called scientific whaling. syrian state media the country's air defenses last night intercepted fired by israeli warplanes it released images of surface to air missile at the cottons a mosque as several soldiers were reportedly injures independent observers say israel is targeting and arms death by hezbollah forces. in mexico a vigil has been held for the governor of state's martha erica alonzo who died in a helicopter crash on christmas day her husband a prominent senator was also killed and an investigation into the incident has been carried to acts. of u.s.
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immigration authorities say an eight year old guatemalan by boy dies it costs today the second death of a child immigrants and u.s. detention this month the boy was taken to a hospital in new mexico where he was diagnosed with a cold and fever is given medication but his symptoms became worthless and he was readmitted to the hospital where he died as a few hours later. while the child's death combs during an ongoing dispute over border security in the u.s. a partial government shutdown is underway over president donald trump's demand for border wall funding from congress democrats say there is no support for a bill that would help pay for the wall its construction of the shutdown will last until agreement on funding the wall has been reached. i can't tell you where the government is going to be open i can tell you it's not going to be open until we have a wall fence whatever they'd like to call it i'll call it whatever they want. on
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internet is it protesters and police have clashed on the streets of the capital tunis and other towns following the death of a journalists objects around six thirty was buried yesterday his suicide on monday in protest against the country's economic problems has sparked on arrests across the country. once of deborah sachs georgie's death became public some of the residents of his hometown of kasserine took to the streets blocking roads and throwing stones police then used tear gas to disperse them sort of he had spent years trying to find work in custody in on monday he posted messages online describing his desperation and calling for open opposition to the government. a cold to all the unemployed people in kasserine we will revolt and anyone who would like to join in support to join. will demonstrate on my own and i will set myself on fire because. he did and did exactly that
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a spokesperson from the tunisian interior ministry said several people were injured and arrested as a result of the demonstrations tunisia's journalist union is considering holding a general strike citing the state of the country eight years ago a tunisian street vendor set himself on fire in protest over poverty that death sparked what became known as the arab spring with demonstrations that then spread across the arab world kasserine was also one of the first cities where people took part in those protests. temperatures fell last and the indian capital delhi at this time of year so for thousands of people with as a roof over their head the city authorities have opened more than two hundred nights out areas but many still prefer to brave the cold sleeping on the streets he has the threat of a force. every evening to a two year old audacious sits in this watching television this is not his home he does not have one but debbie's cold and polluted winter nights are
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a bit easier to bear in this government shelter for the homeless. it's comfortable here i come here watch t.v. fall asleep. i came to delhi because i can earn more here i can work hard all day in the village but earn very little. right here we're going. to delhi when he was just fourteen years old to try to earn money for his father's to this treatment now he's the sole wage earner in his family of three making dollars a day working odd jobs on construction sites as the night wears on the shelter starts filling up with migrant laborers like are there some spots to lie empty. but this does not mean there are no more people out in the cooler. as temperatures dip and the city passes them by thousands of homeless people in delhi try to find a corner for the night. just
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a five minute walk from. this bridge is a. sealed off portion under it is a home for many families. fifty year old eleven has been coming to delhi for two decades the youngest of his six children lives with him here in the day the shelter nearby serves as a makeshift school but she and her mother cannot spend the night there as the shelter is only for men and women here. alcoholics and addicts stay in the shelters they fight they do other things how can i take my little children here. we don't have a home to live with our kids to educate them keep them clean. where's our place under this bridge that's all for the last twenty years we've been lying here. last month look to cough because of the pollution and coolant he on stand to twenty
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two peas roughly twenty five cents for every engine he runs but missing a day off work means missing crucial way just to support his family of eight. none of lalan so-called me boys believe there is a better alternative some don't know about the government shelters others find them insecure. his children have grown up under this bridge but london still dreams of a better future for them. we don't want our kids to end up like us we want them to get good jobs good homes and want them to become good human beings. for the coming months however the only goal will be to stave off. that fit for nay from day to day's thank you for joining us and we will leave you with pictures i'll be on pandas having fun in the snow at washington d.c. national.
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