edith: we're joined by dw correspondent ana santos in western java, which is one of the worst affectedreas. thank you for joining us, ana. it has been three days since the tsunami hit the area. how would you describe the current situation? ana: rigight now you will see tt therere is a lot of still fearad anxiety among the residents. many of them, even in the low-lying areas and in the homes thatat are far from ththe shore, they have fleded to higher grou. so they are ococcupying acaces d homes s up in the moununtains on the hillsisides. they say that this is the ononly place thatat can possibly keep them safe from the idea of ananother tsunami i coming and rising floodwaters again. let's look back at why there is this continued fear and anxiety. the tsunami that hit last saturday had no warning. usually residents expect there is an earthquake that comes before a tsunami. there was no such thing that happened last saturday. and the continuous rains from today and the continuous rumbling that you hear from the volcano, which is an indication the volcano is still active, feeds on this fea

for more on this now we're joined by correspondent ana santos is ended up one in western japhet which is one of the worst affected areas now ana how is the search for survivors going up the death toll there climbs. i spoke to the search command manager earlier today and he told us that right now it's really a race against time as they continue to search for those who have been reported missing i need to emphasize the word reporting because this area of western java where the tsunami hit this isn't really a residential area where you would have a record of how many people live here and where they live that would give search operations an indicator of where to start looking and how many just are looking for when the tsunami hit last saturday it was a period of holiday brevity in this mostly touristy town there are many people who came here to watch concerts to attend parties and whatnot and there is no record of how many people there were that were here for those events. and to us that's keeping that's a blind spot for our operations how many to go to what and where to start looking for

correspondent ana santos is in up one in western java which is one of the worst affected areas and she sent us this report. a tsunami brought by the eruption of the volcano cutout does nothing this cause the village 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 this debris fairy cooney our one fisherman is her father he lived with his wife hanna and their three children near the water's edge they have banned the hunt couldn't withstand the force of the giant wave that. 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 wave 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 o

we're joined now by correspondent ana santos and she's in love one in western java where it's one of the worst effect. area welcome and thank you for joining us we are hearing people fear another tsunami what's the feeling where you are right now . the fear of another tsunami certainly called bring over people's minds right now especially since we continued to hear the rumble of the volcano even that is cross from us but as of today the most immediate concern are the floods cause side of continuous rain yesterday that was continuous rain and this morning those things trying to run shall we woke up to the sound of sunday or this morning and a lot of rain we let out into the streets we saw that a lot of the roads and villages were flooded tonight lehigh waist deep if you see behind me this is when it's actually flooded up to the rooftops of their houses so this the combined threat of another tsunami plus the floods of today are really aggravating ready very dire and serious situation of another part of the problem as well as the fact that age is just trickling in there what more do we

but yes still very determined and resolute that their fates will see them through this disaster ana santos in west java thank you very much for that update. now just reeks of the resignation of his defense secretary jim motus u.s. president donald trump has made his first trip to meet american soldiers in a conflict zone along with his wife melania trump made an unannounced visit to troops stationed in iraq on his big back you made a brief stop at the base here in germany trying to spend just two or three oz in iraq. the reception was everything he could have hoped for it was donald trump's first visit to a u.s. military base in a combat region and just a week after a controversial move to pull u.s. forces from syria. first of all at ease at ease let's have a good time but what a job you have done what they have done i made it clear from the beginning that our mission in syria was to strip isis of its military strong halls were not nation building rebuilding syria will require a political solution. and it's a solution that should be paid for by its very rich neighboring countries not the u

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

the reports were sent to us by correspondent santos and she joins us from one and western java which is one of the worst affected areas ana we just saw your heartbreaking report there on the family praying for america what help is being provided for those with missing friends and relatives in general. families like ferry and hannah are using every means possible to find their missing loved ones ferry for example yesterday when we found him at the command post he had filed a missing persons report for baby and niece and that would signal. organize a search operation for her but before that he told us that immediately he sought the help of his neighbors and other loved ones in the village they were digging through the debris with their bare hands to see if they could find a nice up and then after that the military came to help them and again he asked for their help in finding them so we see that red to have some looking for their loved ones are trying every means possible within what's closest to them and what can offer the most immediate help and then elevating these concerns to the origins. so there are fears of another t

cross over to our correspondent emma santos who is been covering this story for days now she joins us from a field kitchen for a back we saw in the west java town of. ana how is the relief effort going in the wake of last weekend's devastating tsunami. well terry this is one of the relief efforts that are going on here in this field kitchen and this is one of the many field kitchens that they're around here and this is where dozens of volunteers are working twenty four hour shifts so that they can hot meals for the evacuees on my right. behind me women are chopping vegetables. and other protein like fish that could be packed to about two thousand five hundred evacuees we've talked to the evacuees and they say they're tired but tired of the canned goods and hot needles and in the cases like this one they've lost so much the warmth of comfort of a hot meal makes so much of a difference to them i'm sure. bracing for the possibility of another volcanic eruption which could trigger another tsunami how are people dealing with. it people are on high alert talk to locals you talk to people everybody around here says that they just have to be on high alert and

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