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you know. the answer. to. this is the news coming to you live from berlin extreme where there are entire waves that's the latest warning for people living around the erupting volcano in indonesia has already killed more than four hundred people now a second is fierce but it's an age that's for much job also coming up. we have a special reports on the homeless crisis in the indian capital sally and why some people braved the winter nights rather than stay warm in a shelter. and on rest in tunisia over
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a decade of this on an echo of the arab spring committed suicide in a protest against the country's economic problems. time out on a thank you for joining us indonesian authorities are warning people around the erupting on a cockatoo a volcano to expect extreme weather and high waves urging people to stay away from colds various the have already been devastated by a tsunami that killed more than four hundred people desperately needed aid is being delivered to so marius hit by saturday tsunami of more supplies are still need it for the thousands of displaced people living in makeshift camps just a children are becoming ill with a lack of access to clean water and dwindling medical supplies. news correspondent
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on a santos is in the one in western java which is one of the worst affected areas and she sent us this report. the tsunami brought by the eruption of the volcano cutout does nothing this cause the village called land that outlined in rubbles it is in this rubble that a young father hopes that he will find his three month old baby who has been missing since saturday. the baby girl's name is a niece and her body could be somewhere and they step three fairy cooney our one fisherman is 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. now bust through and 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
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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 out of us. in this movie eligible about fifty residents three people were unaccounted for two bodies have been found. but fairyland one has baby girl is still missing. in this one behind me is where hannah and fairy reunited with two of their children instead of three. in the round not yet and we are my baby was just wearing the new clothes i'd bought for her that it would. be a while she had some new toys too and she was just starting to smile and giggle and . we wanted to go to a family gathering but when the waves came i couldn't hold onto her tight enough for a man on the up and if i lost her. meaning. i
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don't know prego. this tsunami left hand fairies family with only the clothes on their backs and for now all they have is this picture of a niece or on the hope that she will be found. the reports were sent to us by correspondent santos and she joins us from one and western java which is one of the worst affected areas ana we just saw your heartbreaking report there on the family praying for america what help is being provided for those with missing friends and relatives in general. families like ferry and hannah are using every means possible to find their missing loved ones ferry for example yesterday when we found him at the command post he had filed a missing persons report for baby and niece and that would signal. organize
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a search operation for her but before that he told us that immediately he sought the help of his neighbors and other loved ones in the village they were digging through the debris with their bare hands to see if they could find a nice up and then after that the military came to help them and again he asked for their help in finding them so we see that red to have some looking for their loved ones are trying every means possible within what's closest to them and what can offer the most immediate help and then elevating these concerns to the origins. so there are fears of another tsunami on a walk the feeling where you are. well right now you know there have been continuous fears of another tsunami hovering over us especially since we continue to hear the rumbling of krakatau across from us and also at the say that as long as the volcano is active there might be the possibility of another tsunami but today residents have to contend with another
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more immediate concern which is the floods if you look behind me you'll see that roads like this have been flooded up to about need or waist high some villages have been flooded off to their rooftops this was brought about by the continuous rain which was torrential at this morning and brought these floods in. these roads which further is hindering access to for aid workers and relief goods to the affected communities so right now we see some kind of twin danger that our disaster that aid and residents have to deal with the possibility of another second tsunami and these floods that have been blocking access to roads and just making life a little bit more a little bit hotter yet again for the honest antos and one in western java thank you for that report. now just the other stories
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making news around the world. japan says it's withdrawing from the international whaling commission on resume commercial beginning next july it says whaling will be limited to its own territorial waters and i cannot mix own japan has long conducted so-called scientific whaling. of the syrian state media says the country's air defenses last night and just left of missiles fired by israeli warplanes released images of surface to air missiles near the capital damascus several soldiers were reportedly injured independent of service say israel was targeting an arms depo used by hezbollah and iranian forces. in china the trial of a prominent human rights lawyer has begun a northern. buying time is being tried for subverting state power in a hearing behind closed doors to activists have been detained for protesting at the heavily guarded scores. in mexico
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a vigil has been held for the governor of martha erica alonzo who died in a helicopter crash on christmas day her husband prominent senator was also an investigation into the incident is to be characters. u.s. immigration authorities say an eight year old boy from guatemala has delhi's in khost today it's the second death of a child immigrant and u.s. detention this month the boy and was taken to a hospital in new mexico where he was diagnosed with a cold and fever and given medication but his symptoms became worse and he was readmitted to the hospital where he died a few hours they served. well the child's death comes during an ongoing dispute over border security in the u.s. a partial government shutdown is underway over president. for border wall funding from congress democrats say there is no support for a bill that would help pay for the walls construction of the shutdown will last
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until agreement on funding the wall has been reached. i can't tell you where the government is going to reopen i can tell you it's not going to be open until we have. a fence whatever they like to call it of call it whatever they want. and today they have protesters and police have clashed on the streets of the capital tunis and other towns following the death of journalists. was buried yesterday if there was tight on one day and protests against the country's economic problems has sparked on rats across the country. once of deborah sachs zorg is 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 was ordered 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 would revolt and
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anyone who would like to join in support welcome to join. will demonstrate on my own and i will set myself on fire because. he did and did exactly that 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 was also one of the first cities where people took part in those protests. as twenty is being comes to an end or looking back at some of the highlights of the year one of our stories are porous is on a fleet of ships in nigeria that are no use to anybody because they've been
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abandoned the rusting hoax are talking of the sea waves and damaging the fisherman's nets. one of the largest and busiest ports in africa where boats and ships for space but over the years it has become a dangerous waterway. because. you. don't have to look for long to find. look at this rusty ship right there or rather what's left of it is one of hundreds of other ships that are behind . nigeria has become a graveyard for ships from all parts of the world the legal way to get rid of them is to dismantle and recycle them but that costs money no one knows the exact number of ships to be lowered to water the facts are far more especially by fishermen. who are working are nets get tangled in the metal below it damages and we can't
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fish until we replace the net. result almost and it's coastal communities thank you way to have already been hit hard by unemployment chief raymond gold is a community manager and the situation is untenable. when laws are enforced there shouldn't be any kind of shipwreck on our waterways they should be removed immediately. are not strictly enforced people feel very free to do what is wrong so why all those laws enforced i asked david who for years has been trying to raise awareness of the problem but he's had little success. because yearly we have. money going into the budget of the regulators and nobody seems to be doing anything about it he demands to have ships removed after a twenty day notice period to help save the environment. helps.
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destroy the. costs makes them unusable and pollution from oil spills chemicals on toxic substances that she waits but also the government started prosecuting the owner sort of assholes nigeria's armada of abandoned ships will just continue to grow. the annual sydney to hobart yacht race has begun at australia it's the seventy fourth year off the competition which covers more than one thousand one hundred kilometers a total of eighty five boats with their journey from sydney harbor and the ideal conditions twenty race features its first all professional female crew by skipper stacey jackson but the australian super. blackhawk also took an early. and just a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you. people living near the
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erupting. volcano in indonesia are being warned of extreme weather and highways once an army has already killed more than four hundred people and now a second is fear. that that for now are from thanks for joining us and we'll see if you know that with some pictures of a young panda playing around here. washington stay with us.
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