w. . this is the w. news coming to you live from berlin japan is to resume commercial whaling to kill says more species are not endangered anymore but there is outrage among anti winning activists really here from greenpeace also coming up extreme weather and high waves that's the latest warning for people living near the erupting on the dock at the well we can know in indonesia this as fears grow of another tsunami

after the one last weekend which killed more than four hundred people and. the volumes that survived the holocaust working again and playing moving music. and. putting the warm welcome i'm on the thai cheema japan has announced that it will resume commotion whaling starting next july japan says it only hunt whales in its own territorial waters and exclusive economic zone it's also pulling out of the international reeling commission the move has been strongly condemned by anti willing activists.

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 before we will. focus exclusively on the protection of whales would not take concrete steps towards reaching a common position. at the international whaling commission meeting in september it became clear that it was not possible for state with different views to co-exist and that led to this decision. and those who work in the industry have welcomed the announcement. on the new season political 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. company look at that 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 draw in a t.v. a lot from greenpeace in hamburg to do it appears that there's no great demand for we need in japan so what's behind the country's decision to stop commercial whaling

again. well in japan most commercially hunting weapons in the past and back of the gospel sounds the move the japanese government not to look at this is just a transparent step if you want to look at it that way too obviously i don't commission however. it is. the market for me distributing in japan and the stockpiles of. meat. so greenpeace would wish that the japanese government decides not to go out of the international whaling commission back to step out of waiting. and they have been a moratorium in place since the nine hundred eighty s. on commercial whaling by japan claims that whale stocks a recovered enough to resume commercial hunting what do you make of that. well only when it stops if you look at the observations all of the stocks have

not recovered in a way that it would allow a promotion. and if you look at it from this year called economical acts you would have to realize that there is money in the mom for weight meat so why. try to establish an artificial market that nobody needs with the decision to check raise government has taken by the end of this year to step out of the international waiting commission this is a slap in the face of international to diplomacy and if it might be that the government decides a mid two thousand and ninety two state within the international went missing because that's possible and happens. and japan says it only onto whales in its own territorial waters as we heard and it's also said it said cortez for the cats from tokyo is perspective it could argue it's being responsible in dealing with this issue. well japan has been hunting and whale

century indians arctic. monkeys in the him on the high seas beyond the exclusive. exclusive economic zone to japan and beyond his now to be the owner of the waters however that doesn't help when it's because whales just doesn't accept international oldest and a whale of a function of the got some signs in international mission instead as good as wave that is hunted and 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 waiting laos members to the international whaling to mission two hundred waivers for scientific purposes this is something that the japanese government now would have to give up

and the japanese way less capital waiting in international war office anymore but they have to restrict the waiting to the exclusive economic zone of japan. tito mock from greenpeace thank you very much for talking to did you. not indonesia issued an extreme weather warning in areas where the tsunami killed more than four hundred people over the weekend the killer wave is thought to have been triggered by the cut that the well leaking which is still erupting rescue teams are searching for both survivors and the dead they're warning people to avoid coastal areas 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. 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 a 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 of people have lost their loved ones and their homes what's maybe a 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 some 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 real a real difficult challenge we've gotten a lot of good support from our member including german red cross as one of our supporters right steve mcandrew in jakarta thank you very much for that it's. not a stick take a look at some other stories making news around the world syrian state media says the country's and defense is last night intercepted missiles fired by israeli warplanes it released images of surface to air missiles near the capital damascus seven soldiers the reportedly independent observers say israel was taunting and oms death 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 to being admitted to a new mexico hospital with

a cold and fever is the second death of the church. immigrant in u.s. detention this month. in china the trial of a prominent human rights lawyer has begun in the northern city of tianjin one kwan jiang is being tried the subverting state power did it is belinda sent us this report five am three hours before the trial starts lee wenzhou sends a few last messages to supporters was on how we don't want yesterday there were five cars from the state security department in front of our house i don't know what will happen when i step out of the door. together with a friend she plans to go to the trial of her husband human rights lawyer wang quantifying wang defended political prisoners which resulted in him being arrested himself three years ago the charge undermining state power and a maximum sentence of fifteen years since then his wife hasn't heard from him she

protested repeatedly demanding answers. and if you have seen situations like this often but each time it's a little different today the sentence will be announced i'm very worried about his health as well. the trial is not open to the public she is told that this is because state secrets will be discussed in court and indeed my husband disappeared three and a half years ago i am his wife i want to see his trial. that doesn't matter to the security men who they blog lee when she was passed she didn't tell them that they were going to ask you how to enjoy here when the journalists are pushed back rather than have her thought the arrow you have the door. the courthouse has been blocked off journalists and foreign diplomats are bound and

they're forced to wait on the other side of the street. here as well there are undercover police. there's a sudden flurry of activity a pro-democracy activist protest against the trial and demands wang's release her father if i want you so scared of that you won't even allow people to protest in shouts of the officials. you have in your this is or don't know that you don't know if you are over here or come for the you know but his protest is short lived the secret service take him quickly away. now to a unique music project called violins of hope it's about the storing violins that survived the holocaust and israeli vada naked brings the instruments back to life for performances at concerts around the world we have this report from the german city of. their witnesses of history these violins belong to european jews who were murdered in the holocaust

during world war two the nazis forced jewish musicians to play in concentration camps while other prisoners were sent to their deaths for members of the tristen philharmonic even just for her sing with these instruments is an incredibly intense experience. 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. it says heil hitler nine hundred thirty six here and there is 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 silenced by the holocaust. monica jones will have business news coming up for you short. great yourself with interior design channel on. every journey begins with the first step and every language is the first word

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