city. migrants your platform for reliable information. this is the deputy is coming to you live from berlin a prominent chinese human rights lawyer has gone on trial one a supporter scuffled with undercover police one from jiang is charged with subverting state's power he could freeze fifteen years in prison and as he has described the trial as a sham also coming up. in japan is to resume commercial whaling to accuse says most wish p.c.'s are no longer endangered but andy willing activists are outraged we'll

hear from greenpeace. a warm welcome to you i'm under thought she in china on the trial of a prominent human rights lawyer has begun in the northern city of tinge in one wish one junk is being tried for subverting the state's pile he's one of the two hundred fifty human rights lawyers or activists dog did by chinese authorities since they launched a crackdown three years ago we have this exclusive report for you three hours before the trial starts lee when juices if you lost messages supporters and poets 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. 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. she has been told the trial is not open to the public because state secrets will be discussed in court. state security locker paff and indeed my husband disappeared three and a half years ago i am his wife i want to see his trial. is prevented from even leaving her apartment complex they tell her to go back to. the dog you have not enjoyed here then the journalists are pushed back as well. all of us thought. the war. without lee went to we travel to the courthouse which is

being closed off journalists and foreign diplomats are banned on a force to wait on the other side of the street. here as well there are undercover police there is a sudden flurry of activity the pro-democracy activist protests against the trial and demands wang's release for the 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. that report by. burning not indonesia authorities have issued an extreme weather

warning in areas where the tsunami killed four hundred and thirty people the giant wave is thought to have been triggered by the. well keno which is still erupting risky teams are searching for both survivors and the dead they're 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 a falling ill as clean water and medical supplies run out. d.d. abuse correspondent ana santos is in han in western java once one of the was affected areas she sent us this report. a tsunami brought by the eruption of the volcano crocodile is nothing this cools 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 this debris 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 banded hunt couldn't withstand the force of the giant wave that. now but 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 fairyland one has baby go is still missing.

in this one behind me is where hannah and fairy reunited with two of their children . 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. we wanted to go to a family gathering but when the waves came i couldn't hold onto her tight enough. and if i lost her. meaning. to the tsunami left hand fairies family with only the clothes on their backs and for now all they have is this picture of a nice on the hope that she will be found.

indonesia is also paying tribute to victims of another catastrophe today it's been fourteen years since the earthquake in two thousand and four that triggered a massive tsunami killing more than two hundred thousand people across the indian ocean most of them in indonesia in the city of banda achi which was hardest hit survivors and families of victims gathered at the site of a mass grave to remember their loved ones it's close to the site of the original earthquake that unleashed the massive waves the so-called boxing day tsunami is ranked as one of the worst natural disasters in history. let me know when you're up to date with some of the stories making news around the wasn't an earthquake triggered by the eruption of mt etna joe to the east in sicily before dawn at least ten people were injured and churches and homes were damaged the quake registering five point one of the rishta scale struck north of tanya the

largest city in the east of the italian island. thousands of pilgrims trying to st peter's square in rome to hear the pope deliver. a prayer on what is celebrated as st stephen's day pope francis called on the faithful to practice forgiveness as the saints did according to christian beliefs st stephen was told to death for professing his faith in jesus. russian president vladimir putin says russia will begin to deploy a new hypersonic weapon next year this off to heathrow final tests of the new intercontinental of unguarded system an absolute success has said the nuclear capable missile could fly at twenty times the speed of sound and maneuver up and down in a blink it's to breach defense systems. japan has announced that it will resume commercial whaling starting next july government officials say japan will

only hunt whales in its own territorial waters an exclusive economic zone it's also pulling out of the international reeling commission the move has been strongly condemned by anti whaling activists. it's a centuries old tradition one that japan is intent on keeping a life. 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. 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. by. 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 from their. cabin 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 a draw in a lot from greenpeace in hamburg to what appears that there's no great demand for way needs in japan so what's behind the country's decision to stop commercial whaling again. well in japan was a horse commercially hunting weapons in the past and back of the gospel sometimes to move the japanese government not to 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 to string together and the stockpiles of. meat and cheese that. greenpeace wish that the japanese government decides not to have the international whaling

commission back to step out of waiting ration. and they have been a moratorium in place since the nine hundred eighty s. on commercial whaling but japan claims that really stocks are recovered enough to resume commercial hunting what do you make of that. well only when it stops if you look at the populations or more 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 times you would have to realize that there's more in demand for weight meat so why. try to establish an artificial market that nobody needs with the decision the charities 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 you cite a mid two thousand and ninety two state within the international commission because

that's possible and. and you ban says it'll only contrails in its own territorial waters as we heard and it's also said it will set cortez for the catch from took his perspective it could argue it's being responsible in dealing with this issue. well jim has been hunting and whale century indians arctic. in the him on the high seas beyond the exclusive. exclusive economic zone japan and beyond his now to be the owners of the horses however it doesn't help the weapons because whales just doesn't accept the international orders and way because hunting of the guts of science with international mission instead as good as whether there is one should not exclusive economic zone. so tell us more about it what impact will japan's decision have on

protecting whales internationally. as long 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 to hunt whales for scientific purposes this is something that the japanese government now would have to give up and the japanese way less capital 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 w. . finally the end in sydney to hobart yacht race is begun in australia it's the seventy fourth edition of the competition which cause 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 first or professional female crew led best kit but stacey jackson the same has been raised throughout the night and i expected to reach hobart on the island of tasmania on thursday. that's it for me and with that shima back. how about taking a few risks could even take a chance on one. don't expect our pm to i. guess. i'm not often. but sometimes i am but i stand up in which the privilege of an exam

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