the international federation of the red cross on the island of thank you. today now some of the other stories making news around the world greece has successfully exited is a program implemented to cope with the fallout from the debt crisis eight years international creditors provided almost three hundred billion euros to athens to recapitalize banks and support the economy greece will now rely on bond markets to refinance its day. italian rescue have ended their search for survivors from the genoa bridge collapse the official death toll now stands at forty three people off three more bodies were discovered overnight a section of the bridge gave way last tuesday with dozens of vehicles punching fifty meters to the ground but they're. both ortiz in india's flood ravaged carola state is trying to rescue thousands of people stranded in isolated areas flooding in landslides triggered by torrential rains have killed hundreds of displaced more than seven hundred thousand people. costs in the coming days. afghan president ashraf ghani has declared a provisional th

thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us through the international federation of the red cross on the island of mombasa thank you the. afghan president has declared a provisional three month ceasefire with the taliban he said the truce would hold only if the insurgents reciprocate meanwhile the taliban have said that they will free hundreds of prisoners for the forthcoming holiday the announcement swallowed a week of fierce fighting in which the taliban launched an assault against the city of gas knee near kabul. to the wall the woman. and journalist he joins us on the line now from kabul he's been following this story. this is not the first time they've gone he's offered a ceasefire this year and just last week we saw fresh fighting the taliban also announcing that it would be that would withdraw protection from the red cross so what has propelled me to offer this ceasefire now. well actually you're right two months ago during the first the festival can you all see it all for an unconditional actually offer proposal to the taliban but this time it's conditional he say that you

her sneeze on a long walk island in a western town called not on the works of the international federation also the red cross thank you very much for talking to us in what must be a very difficult time what's the situation like where you are at the moment. currently in my trumpeting longball and. another strong show happened. is evening around eleven pm local time and that was. wrong to show that we had. throughout the day as the tautologous had around the aftershocks that we quite felt strongly on the ground here sir the one that struck off at eleven pm it was quite shocking it was quite big and was together with my other colleagues when you were just. coming back from the field to the mortgage halls that were being in one block here and we were having a bit of rest and all of a sudden the power was gone and the ground with starting to shake and we rushed outside quickly. just really trying to stay away from the building in the dark i mean you say was very shocking as we can of course imagine in a series of aftershocks following the quake and of course a quake two weeks ago as well how are people reacting t

well joining us on the telephone is who he is in he's on a number of island in a western town called tom and works for the international federation of the red cross was there with me thank you so much for talking to us at such a difficult time so what's the situation where you're at at the moment. of been in my county in lombok for almost two weeks now. that been quite a few of the show strong aftershocks happened in the pa to read here. and we had the red cross calling we've been staying in a small get house in march on t.v. and we've had quite a few aftershocks going on today we had to be aftershocks that afternoon and then tonight it was just around eleven inches and we had just the wrong quake. measuring seven magnitude quake and we all just rushed to the outside of the building and the power was gone and it's still gone no and when i was there in that small small cam or on the roadside in the dark. please say that you haven't had any power whatsoever how exactly are you coping with energy supplies. we just don't have any an hour at the moment as so we're relying on phone to contact our families and friends. here and and it's just too dark. t

safety and joining us now on the line from lombok island is hosni hosni from the international federation of the red cross thank you so much for joining us we just heard there the earthquakes on sunday they knocked out the power across most of lombok including where you are we understand how are people coping. we'd like to know if you have power we've heard that you don't and how you might be coping with that and how people in the in the region might be coping. yes the there were two other quick yesterday starting in the afternoon. with the point pretty much knew to quit and followed likewise off the show. at night at eleven pm local time here in long haul we had quite a big one. point nine magnitude quake and the tram are working well the one strong here will cause a problem box and i'm in my power at the moment and was not just the other with my right close colleague we rushed outside of the building quickly as the power went out and we were just like in the dark couldn't see anything trying to get out of the building was not and you're with the red cross as we mentioned how are the relief efforts progr

july the twenty ninth killing sixteen people damaged dozens of homes let's speak to rosemarie north she's the asia pacific communications manager for the international federation of the red cross as well as red crescent society is joining us from kuala lumpur thanks for speaking to us you recently came back from just tell us what you saw there and describe the operation one week on is it still an emergency response operation or has it moved on to become a recovery operation. thanks for having me on it's very much still an emergency response operation i came back today and what we're seeing in the field and what i'm hearing from the red cross teams is that they're still discovering people who haven't been reached with assistance and at the same time they're delivering very basic emergency assistance food water medical care shelter of course we're starting to make plans further ahead but the focus right now is on reaching people in real need we know that the north was pretty much destroyed what be the worst affected area or are there other areas that are still unreachable. i heard today from a team that went out in the north to a community that hood was badly off but no one had

now earlier we spoke to who's the who's the who works for the international federation of the red cross he's on lombok island and to listen about the relief effort in the area. you know at the end foreign money critic was wondering right you know knowing that. there's been a lot of. aftershocks recorded hundreds of them by and. to some remote areas has been really challenging in the sense that there's a lot of local land like going on and edgewater couldn't get through somebody on our air and we've been focusing on targeting more remote areas because we keep hearing reports that many people out there in remote areas have not received a report and this last week out i joined the distribution team to one of the dinar at the north one time gas and we were able to find one remote area and that was the first time where local communities. were receiving aid from even in some red cross at the time we were adults organized quite some distribution through motorbike and that's our priority really to get into more rural areas but we more shocked at the moment. bring our work over the jury to more

the indonesian island of lombok thousands of people there homeless and rescue teams struggling to get to some areas tiffany low is asia pacific operations coordinator for the international federation of the red cross and less crescent societies she's just driven to the north. she joins us now on the phone from there thanks for being with us so tell us what you saw there and at this point are you getting a clearer picture of the damage on the island i thank you for having me yes but we've traveled the country for a month we are right for the morning and we. get closer to the epicenter of the earthquake. increasing and didn't do it active duty damage rule. and as well as damaging destroyed a big building well. here's where it could be quiet because the people who was evacuated are you afraid to return. and what is the what is the most urgent need right now i mean we we're reporting there about to fact so many people are having to do to sleep wherever they can tonight what's what's the biggest challenge for your organization right now. definitely for a. look at urgent need for the community our emergency shelter clean water. and access to emergency health care especially first aid for those who have

international sanctions could also worsen the situation in the country where millions are already vulnerable to malnutrition were just as the program director in north korea for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies he says the situation is dire if they don't get to work with what it means is that there is a reduction in food production or from the fields and it will be. naturally that we have an effect on the food that is taken in the home and what are most of the vulnerable. mothers in the communities so it is important because like you take is used both for oil and therefore cooking is eating is part of the staple food so if all of these feelings are more or disbelieve. what are their feelings naturally there will be a reduction in ford introduction in food means also actually enough in effect on the nutritional of the dust of the home all of the people getting the food. u.s. filemon a building value is to try and contain a slow moving wildfire that is still raging in southern california well the twenty one thousand people are being told to leave their homes a state of emergency has been declared so that more resources a made available to fight the flames police have

of five is stunted from chronic malnutrition for more on this let's speak to joseph my own bo he's in pyongyang and is the program director in north korea for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies thanks very much for taking the time to speak to us so what is the situation there it sounds very much like a drought. yes good evening it sounds very much like a drug because the heat has affected crops which i have to tussling time like maize which opcodes tool now having them really corpse so the he has a twenty i'm soaked all the west on the ground and believes i've dried in so it missed the crops cannot really grow very well in that way. they will produce very little fruit not only maize but also say a prince and not on a nice way of business but also derisive been affected was this goodly to lead then since july that need to light and up to now haven't had any effect on prince the temperatures average in twenty five and up and in the food in stock you know going up so. how do you know the temperatures are around forty degrees and up above and that alone affects the growth of the crops and the communities what they have done is to what we like themselve

of people are expected to stay in makeshift tents for weeks if not months having lost their homes rosemary north is the asia pacific communications manager for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies she says there are many remote villages still waiting for help to arrive. they're still discovering people who haven't been reached with assistance and at the same time they're delivering very basic emergency assistance food water medical care shelter of course we're starting to make plans further ahead but the focus right now is on reaching people in real need i heard today from a team that went out in the north to a community that hood was badly off but no one had reached them yet they had to stop the vehicle two kilometers away from the village and they had to proceed on foot they took with them some limited food and rice and the medical team so this is another group of people who hasn't been reached and probably hasn't been accounted for the damage hasn't been assist we think there are other communities like that and i've also been talking to people and one woman told me now that she knew her son was safe her next priority was a toilet because they havin

of four people in the islands rural north have been without power since sunday's earthquake. the world's largest disaster relief network is warning of catastrophic effects of a heat wave in north korea international federation of red cross and red crescent societies says there could be a full full blown food security crisis the agency warns international sanctions will worsen the situation no rain falls as early july has led to crops withering in north korean fields in says one in every four children under the age of five is stunted from chronic malnutrition protests by members of china's quite a ethnic minority have halted the planned demolition of a mosque where grand mosque was set to be destroyed for what the government said was a violation of planning regulations most recently opened after two years under construction a local county head says now says no action will go ahead without the agreement of the townspeople. the corruption trial of malaysia's former prime minister will take place between february and march next year the date was set up and attended a herring at the high court on friday the former leader had been charged with abuse of power criminal breach of trust and money laundering he's been investigated