w. . this is the deputy is coming to you live from berlin japan is to resume commercial whaling till coos is a most a real species on nor long the endangered with anti wing activists outraged we hear from greenpeace or. extreme brother and high reeds that's the media's warning folks

living near the erupting and not crack up to up in indonesia this amid fears of another tsunami after the one last weekend which killed at least four hundred thirty be printed and supporters of a prominent chinese human rights lawyer scuffle with undercover police as his trial begins he's being tried for the bullet in state power and could face fifteen years in jail. when the wind was continue. japan has announced that it would resume commercial reeling starting next july. japan says it is only housed in its own territorial waters and exclusive economic zone it's also pulling out of the international whaling 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 states with different views to co-exist and that led to this decision. that the move has been heavily criticised by countries such as australia which urged japan to reconsider one environmental organization accused japan of breaking the law. turns to day to be the international red ink is very grave and serious international whaling commission is

the global body agreed under international rules to be responsible for the conservation and management of whales japan is rejecting that international law what they will be doing is pilots waving and it should be condemned by the international community. but thirty years after signing a moratorium on the practice japan says endangered whales have had time to regenerate. 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. japan says whaling will be limited to its own territorial waters and economic zone. but that's unlikely to stop activists from trying to and whaling altogether. not indonesia where

parties have issued an extreme weather warning in areas where the tsunami killed four hundred thirty people the giant wave is thought to have been triggered by the . volcano which is still erupting rescue teams are searching for wood survivors and the dead they are warning people to avoid coastal areas it has reached some of those affected but supplies are running short for thousands of displaced people living in makeshift camps doctors say children are fooling ill as clean water and medical supplies run out. these obvious correspondent on a santos is in a lab in western java one of the worst affected areas she sent us this report. a tsunami brought by the eruption of the volcano cutout does nothing this pulls the willage called lend dad out in the wind 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 bring a ferry cooney out one fisherman as her father he lived with his wife hannah and their three children near the water's edge they have the hut couldn't withstand the force of the giant wave that. 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 wife 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're still looking for. the most out of us. in this movie ledge of about fifty residents three people were unaccounted for two bodies have been found. but farah and hundreds baby girl is still missing.

in this home behind me is where hannah and fairy reunited with two of their children instead of three. my baby was just wearing the new clothes i'd bought for her that it. would be a while she had some new toys to you 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 on to her tight enough. and if i lost her. meaning. the bird go. to the tsunami left hand faeries family with only the clothes on their backs and for now all they have is this picture of an isa and the hope that she will be found. 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 are conditions there like. 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 around the clock looking for the people that are missing the there is of 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 persons of people have lost their loved ones and their homes what's

a done to help survivors. so right right now what we're doing is we're distributing hot meals that we distribute over five thousand meals we are doing first aid retreated 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 affected 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 seven b.c. island and so we're just we're just doing everything at the same time right now every every hour 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 to including german red cross as one of our supporters dr steve mecca in jakarta thank you very much for that. mean what india is always a paying tribute to the victims of another catastrophe today it's been fourteen years since the earthquake in two thousand and four that three good a massive tsunami killing more than two hundred thousand people across the indian ocean most of them in indonesia in the city of london which was hardest hit civilizes in families the victims gathered at the site of a massive grave to remember their loved ones it's close to the signs of the original earthquake that unleashed the massive waves the so-called boxing day

tsunami is ranked as one thing one natural disaster in history. let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the wasn't italy has also suffered as a seismic shock and earthquake triggered by the eruption of mt it's now jolted east in sicily before dawn the quake struck north of the largest city in the east of the mediterranean island several people have been injured. thousands of pilgrims strong st peter's square in rome to hear pope the pope deliver the angelus prayer a lot of celebrated a st stephen's day pope francis called on the fates what to practice forgiveness as the saints did according to christian belief st stephen it was stoned to death for professing his faith in jesus. six people have died in warsaw after the wooden cabin in which they had a sort shelter fire firefighters say the abandoned shack on the outskirts of the

polish capital is sometimes used by the homeless the cause of the blaze is unknown . russian president vladimir putin says russia will begin to deploy a new hypersonic weapon next year this after he hit final tests of the new intercontinental system an absolute success has said the nuclear capable missile could fly at twenty times the speed of sound and maneuver up and down enabling its to breach defense systems. in china the transfer of prominent human rights lawyer has begun in the northern city of tianjin one question john is being tried to subverting state power he's one of around two hundred and fifty human rights lawyers or activists dogs had by the chinese authorities since they launched a crackdown three years ago. sent us this report. three hours

before the trial starts lee when juice and if you last messages to supporters and how would i want yesterday there were five cars from the state security department in front of our house so 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 john huang defended political prisoners which resulted in him being arrested three years ago the charge undermining state power with a maximum sentence of fifteen years since then his wife hasn't heard from him she protested repeatedly demanding answers and if you don't i've seen situations like this often but each time it's a little different today the verdict might be announced i'm very worried and about his health as well. one has been told the trial is not open to the public because state secrets will be discussed in court. state security locker paff in india my husband disappeared three and

a half years ago i am his wife i want to see his trial how do you mean when jew is prevented from even leaving her apartment complex they tell her to go back. to the thought you have not enjoyed here then the journalists push back as well. they all. go walk. without me when shoe will travel to the courthouse which has been closed off journalists and foreign diplomats are banned and are forced to wait on the other side of the street. here as well there on the cover police there is a sudden flurry of activity a pro-democracy activist protest against the trial and demands one's release well what are you so scared of that you won't even allow people to protest he shouts of the officials but his protest is short lived. the secret service take him quickly away. over here or. what all the.

information from inside the courthouse is scarce no verdict was announced we went to have to wait even longer to find out her husband's fate. the annan sydney to hobart yacht race has begun in australia is the seventy fourth year of the competition which covers more than eleven hundred kilometer has a total of eighty five boats began their journey from sydney harbor in ideal conditions the two thousand and eighteen race also features its finest or professional female crew led by skipper stacey jackson. will raise throughout the night and i expected to reach hobart on the island of tasmania on thursday. that's it for now from the dead news thank you very much for joining us and i'm to leave you with some pictures of young pandas in washington d.c.'s national zoo doing what they seem to enjoy most frolicking in the snow. her.

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