market starts january thirteenth on t w. this is the day of the news coming to you live from berlin japan is to resume commercial whaling took your sails more species are not endangered anymore but there is outrage among anti really activists we hill from greenpeace also coming up people living near the erupting and knock go look up the well what kiddo in

indonesia award extreme weather and high waves they feel another tsunami after the one last weekend that killed more than four hundred people and. the vinyls that survived the holocaust working again and playing moving tunes. hello and welcome i'm on with that she my great to have your company. japan has announced that it revisit reeling starting next july it says it only halt the hunt the animals in its own territorial waters and exclusive economic zone but really activists are protesting loudly japan is also pulling out of the international whaling commission.

it's a centuries old tradition one that japan is intent on keeping alive. after failing to get the commission's approval to resume commercial whaling japan has announced it is cutting ties with the international conservation body. we will. focus exclusively on the protection of whales would not take concrete steps towards reaching a common position. the international whaling commission meeting in september it became clear that it was not possible for states with different views to co-exist and that led to this decision. and those who work in the industry have welcomed the announcement. because of it on the new season japan is a country that relies heavily on its fisheries and uses whales as a way to research limited marine resources so i think the government had no choice

but to resume whaling. cabin look. it is important to share the research data that shows that the number of whales is not decreasing in order to gain understanding from other countries. who contend. despite complying with the ban for decades japan continued to kill whales in the name of scientific research a program critics say has been used as a cover for commercial hunting. thirty years after signing a moratorium on the practice tokyo says endangered whales have had time to increase their numbers japan will limit whaling to its own territorial waters and economic zone but that's unlikely to stop activists from trying to end the practice altogether and for more let me a draw in a team from greenpeace in hamburg to do it appears that there's no great demand for way meat in japan so what's behind the country's decision to stop commercial

whaling again. well japan was always commercially hunting weapons in the past and back of the gospel sometimes the move the japanese government not to look at this is just the transparency if you want to look at it that way too obvious the commission however. it is it is a market for me to string together and the stock piles used to meet. greenpeace and we wish that the japanese government decides not to go out of the international whaling commission back to step out of waiting. and they had been a moratorium in place since the nine hundred eighty s. on commercial whaling but japan claims that real stocks of recovered enough to resume commercial hunting what do you make of that. well only way to

stocks if you look at the observations all of these stocks have not recovered in a way that it would allow a promotion. and if you look at it from this year called economic or active you would have to realize that there's no end in mom or wait meet so why. try to establish an artificial market that nobody needs with the decision the checklist government has taken by the end of this year to step out of the international weighting commission this is a slap in the face of its national diplomacy and if it might be that the government you cite a mid two thousand and ninety two state within the international what it can issue because that's possible and happens. and japan says it'll only contrails in its own territorial waters as we heard and it's also said it will set quarters for the catch from tokyo is perspective it could argue it's being

responsible in dealing with this issue. well jack has been hunting and whale century indians arctic. monkeys in the him on the high seas beyond the exclusive. exclusive economic zone japan and the hunt is now to be on the owners of the waters however that doesn't help when it's because whales just doesn't accept international oldest and away because hunting under the guts of science with international mission is dead as good as weather is hunted exclusive economic zone. so tell us more about it what impact will japan's decision have on protecting whales internationally. as well as japan has been at the international whaling commission it should use the article eight of the international convention for the regulation of waving laos members to the international whaling commission two hundred waivers for scientific purposes

this is something that the japanese government mao would have to give up and the japanese way less capital waiting in the international war office anymore but they have to restrict the waiting to the exclusive economic zone of japan. kilo mark from greenpeace thank you very much for talking to be done there. twenty nine thousand in easier with issued an extreme weather warning in areas where a tsunami killed more than four hundred people over the weekend the killer wave is thought to have been triggered by the. wind kaino which is still erupting risk your teams are searching for both survivors and the dead they're warning people to avoid coastal areas aid is reaching some of those affected but supplies are running short for thousands of displaced people living in makeshift camps doctors say children

are becoming ill as clean water and medical supplies are running out. steve mcandrew joins me now from jakarta he's the head of emergency operations for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies welcome steve could you describe for us what you and your teams have been seeing in the area hit by the tsunami what conditions then why well conditions there still remain difficult there's over one hundred fifty people still missing we still have multiple search and rescue teams and first state teams working round the clock looking for the people that are missing the there is rubble and debris still in the area but at the same time things are getting better so every hour to conditions get better there's a large governmental response that's clearly no roads and the debris so the access is improving so things are getting better but it's still

a full out emergency response operation and we're still going really hard at this passes the people have lost their loved ones and their homes what's being done to help survivors. so right right now what we're doing is we're distributing hot meals so we've distributed over five thousand meals we are doing first aid we treated hundreds of people in first aid we are distributing temporary shelter and relief items we're also distributing clean water so we have fourteen different wood or distribution mobile trucks and distribution teams that are going around and we're also now starting to get to the places that have been cleared and we're going to start pumping out some of the wells so many of the wells were infected when the waves came in so we're going to we're going to start cleaning out these wells and water sources so we can keep down the spread of diseases from from the difficult

what are situation at the same time we're still doing a full out emergency operation we are in the process of evacuating we've evacuated one hundred over one hundred people from say b.c. island and so we're just we're just doing everything at the same time right now every every hour it gets better but it's still it's still a real a real difficult challenge me and a lot of good support from our members and it's also danger i mean i cry is one of our supporters yeah it's certainly a race against time stephen you're looking at the saliva now this was a red cross and red crescent societies operating in do on the disaster regions in indonesia how does this latest devastation compared to those. well this let come comparatively you could say that this latest devastation is much less and smaller than the earthquakes we had in july and august and lombok and then we had tsunamis and earthquakes in central sulawesi palo in late september and knows disasters

were far far more extensive and the reason i'm here in my international team in including other members of the international movement we have german red cross we're all here working on those disasters and we were actually just going to take a few days of relaxed for this weekend when the tsunami hit the sunder straight so the effect that this is having is it's just one more strain upon the emergency response system that was already already under strain so i we're almost out of relief supplies and all of our all of our food supplies everything's kind of really running low now we were in a process of trying to restock from those other two disasters so it's just adding to our efforts but at the same time there's nowhere else me in my coworkers would want to be this is what we're trained for and this is what we do i mean red cross

volunteers all over the world and. they stay day love this work right steve mcandrew into account that thank you very much for that thank you grabbed me. let me now be up to date with some other stories making news around the world syrian state media say the country's defenses last night intercepted missiles fired by israeli warplanes it released images of surface to air missiles near the capital damascus several soldiers were reportedly injured independent observers say israel was targeting an arms depot used by hezbollah and iranian forces. u.s. immigration authorities say an eight year old boy from guatemala has died in custody he died a few hours after being admitted to a new mexico hospital with a cold and fever it's the second death of a child immigrant in the u.s. attention this month. in china the trial of

a prominent human rights lawyer has begun in the northern city of tianjin one question john is being tried for subverting state power the hearings taking place behind closed doors two activists have been detained for protesting outside the heavily guarded courthouse. not a unique music project violence of hope it's about restoring violence that survived the holocaust and is really violent make a brings the intra instruments back to life to be heard at concert halls around the world this report is from the german city of dresden. their witnesses of history these violins belong to european jews who were murdered in the holocaust or to the nazis forced jewish musicians to play in concentration camps while other prisoners were sent to their deaths for members of the tristen for monic even just for her sing with these instruments is an incredibly intense

experience. but i really enjoy playing these instruments i find it very moving. israeli violin maker amnon weinstein has devoted the last twenty years of his life to finding and restoring violins played by jews during the holocaust it's a way of giving a voice to the victims including hundreds of his own family members. in a big hurry it says heil hitler nine hundred thirty six here and there's the swastika . weinstein calls them the violins of hope they've been played in concert halls around the world as a tribute to the millions who were silence by the holocaust.

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