this is news coming to you live from berlin internees here raises the threat level from m a car through a red alert erupting volcano triggered a tsunami on saturday which killed over four hundred people authorities are now rerouting plights and warning the public to stay away from the already devastated coast nearby also coming out u.s. president donald trump makes in the above and else visit to iraq to meet troops in the combat zone for the first time the president also made

a brief stop here in georgia. hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program authorities in indonesia have upped the alert level for the volcano that caused a tsunami hit last weekend they warned that fresh activity from the. truck a volcano like calls another tsunami and they've ordered all flights to steer clear of the area saturday's deadly waves killed at least four hundred thirty people since then heavy rains have caused rivers to burst their banks flooding streets and submerging some homes our correspondent on the sun tell us has this report. on. these villages thought they were safe after escaping the tsunami that tour into the western coast of java but now they've returned. they face

a new problem. in the long before land around six in the morning when the water began rising. i went out to get some food and when i came back the water was almost chest high our village has never been flooded like this lawyer. johnny moved his family because of the risk of another tsunami. i'm not here he is leaving behind me with white three other children and twenty five other individuals it's a tight sorry sister but at least he's living with a hundred of my opinion here or the account i work great now on his feet his family . attorneys wife may sorrow remembers the moment she had to leave. but i'm wondering when i heard talk of a second tsunami coming i grabbed my children and ran to my sister's house people were panicking and fleeing screaming run run because the wave was coming i couldn't

think of anything else the safety of my children was my only priority my youngest children eight and three years old they're in a bit of a shock and have trouble sleeping at all i don't buy that but. although the tsunami spared this family the flood still threatened the lives. of other santos who filed that report for us joins us now from the krakatoa lauder trying post in western jobber good to see you tell us how difficult is it for authorities to get aid through to the tsunami victims given the flooding and an active volcano. there are two challenges that face local authorities and aid agencies first is the problem of access or weather conditions like rain from yesterday have flooded roads that are already choked by

debris that were blocking them and secondly the volcanic activity that continues limits where search and rescue operations can be done for example they've been asked temporarily yesterday and today to stay away from coastal areas and these are still the areas where they have to search to see if there are people that still need assistance and secondly there is also the problem or the issue of tracking the evacuees some in. becky rees stay with their relatives rather than evacuation center is making it difficult for authorities to determine who exactly the evacuees are and what their needs are and how to reach them what about the crack a toe a ball kaino we understand that it's still causing headaches there what more can you tell us. through our society as a raise that very few level today to level three that's the second highest level and they did this because of the continued and heightened cannick activity cracka tower has been shown to be spewing more volcanic ash and hot clouds into into the

air so flights have been rerouted they catch like over the volcano or within its periphery authorities also told us earlier that they would have been able to determine from satellite images that a collapse of the volcano is what caused the tsunami it was sixty four hectares of the volcano fell into the ocean that's the equivalent of about sixty four football fields crashing down into the ocean now it's not possible to determine if another collapse what happened though krakatau remains fragile so authorities are saying that yes there is the possibility of there is another tsunami but they can't tell when and how and how strong it may be are the best they can do now is to tell everyone to exercise extreme caution and to stay away from the coastal areas ana thank you so much for bringing us up to date there did overuse of a santos in western java. now to some of the other stories making headlines around

the world today a cleanup operation is underway on the italian island and obsessively after an eruption of the melt kaner triggered an earthquake a four point eight magnitude tremor struck just north of tanya injuring several people and building. a court in austria is just is set to rule on how much it was birth. place is worth so after the state offered to buy the apartment in brown now in for three hundred thousand tourists the current owner is demanding one point five million judges are expected to decide the matter in january and demonstrators in tunisia clashed with the authorities there for a third day after a journalist killed himself to protest economic problems in the country several regions were affected the military has been deployed to help police tackle the ongoing violence. is present double trouble donned his

commander in chief bomber jacket for a few hours on wednesday making an unannounced visit to troops stationed in iraq he and first lady malani a trial and made a brief stall at the ramstein air base here in germany it was the first time trump had gone in person to a conflict zone where u.s. forces are deployed. donald trump's nocturnal mission to iraq came on the heels of christmas and of pushing out to matt says defense secretary george w. bush and barack obama both made multiple furtive visits to troops in harm's way this was trump's first from the u.s. air base in iraq he told reporters arriving under tight security was like nothing he'd ever experienced you would have seen when we had to go through. with the door to the plane with all windows were those with no lights or whatsoever anywhere. laughter to see that didn't really there are all types and shapes and sizes not

just this is. more handshakes and selfies we're awaiting trump in western germany with air force one refueling he and first lady malani a trump greeted troops in the predawn hours at ramstein air base. now it's back to washington where the government remains largely shut down house democrats are about to take power and trump faces bipartisan criticism for pulling out u.s. troops from syria and preparing to do much the same in afghanistan. and donald trump is considering banning u.s. companies from using telecommunications equipment made by the chinese companies hallway and is that. the administration claims the tech suppliers work on behalf of the chinese government and that their equipment could be used to lie on americans an executive order would invoke the international emergency economic powers.

germany is exploring the idea of a so-called mosque attack say it would be loosely based on the existing tax which funds catholic and protestant churches here in germany the idea is that levying a charge on practicing muslims here would make german mosques less dependent on financial support from abroad lawmakers from gemini's ruling center left center right coalition want to end foreign financing of jam and mosques like this one to do that they're proposing a so-called mosque tox. a society i believe it's important that mosque associations in germany and islam are independent of foreign influence from currently the fact is that most of the money comes from foreign states and that's not good for our society or islam in germany beat of. no foot in islamic law which went towards the t.v. . the muslim council of germany is open to the idea based on the islamic teaching

of giving for the needy. for example you could indicate on your tax return which institution you want to pay this mosque tax to and if you sign up for it you can make the appropriate contribution. or going to some courts come in and. talk gemini already has a church tax which could be applied to mosques as well. if people are really serious about securing more influence in muslim communities in germany then they're going to have to recognize them as legal entities under law that's what's required and should be the first step. that the ministry is no planning to discuss the idea with geminis muslim communities. for more on the story we're joined now in the studio by saying she founded a liberal lost in berlin where men and women pray together and women can also lead prayers as in a mom she also initiated the idea of the so-called mosque tax thank you for being

with us this morning saturday why do you think the funding model model in germany for mosques should be changed should be changed because they have a huge influence from outside from foreign countries what kind of islam is educated in germany this influence has to be kept the influence is controlling all the education this controlling the mosques controlling the way how they teach islam here now we have is that this is bad because we have this influence mate that muslims a lot of muslims are not able to integrate themselves or their families here in germany no europe we have all this problems all over europe it's not only a german problem we have a big influence here in germany especially from turkey or from the muslim brotherhood so we have to cut this influence to give the muslims a chant

a chance to have to call germany as their home country and to sing about new ways of education this is the motivation behind the idea of the text the motivation is to cut influence from outside when it comes to the imaam education and to teach them already that comes to the prayers in the mosque. so looking at germany's muslim community as a whole it's sizable is there a lot of support for reforming the way most are funded within that community as a whole i think a lot of muslims are not happy in the situation what we have. when we talk about islam so we talk mostly about weiland or terrorists so there is a need that we have to change the spic chirps that some reason why in my opinion

people start singing about new models we have to start to sing about the integration of islam in germany in another way than the as associations did in the past they say to change to change the way muslims are perceived in germany is that what you're referring to most things one one side. we have to change and the way how people look to islam and how the muslims themselves have influence here they have to stand up themselves they have to take care about their own religion here in germany so muslims in germany should do something for islam in germany so do you see a consensus building long term for for your position on this how do you go about convincing germany's more conservative muslim community to support your idea the first step should be and to cut the financial influence and the next step would be to bring

together the purity of islam on one table and discuss about something like a text we cannot take the idea of the church text what we have in germany know and put it on islam this is not possible so we should take it as saying about new models and my opinion would be oh my four will be talking about a kind of you know we have the five pillars of islam and one of the pillar is the social text so we should name it different maybe then the public can understand it better so thank you so much for talking with us today pleasure. and just for we go a reminder of the top story that we're following for you here today on t.v. news indonesia has raised the alert level from the erupting. and warned aircraft to steer clear of the volcanic area it's also told the public to stay away from the

devastated coast nearby in case more if any triggers another is you know. you're watching news we'll have more for you at the top of the next hour and of course you get all the latest news and information. on our website that's at d w dot com thanks for watching. nico he's in germany to learn german. language from the. why not learn with him online on your mobile and free from the w e learning course nikos freek.