Well buildings have been reduced to a tangled mess Rebecca Henschke He says people have moved up to higher ground for safety there are pockets as you travel along that there are touched people is sleeping in mosques others are staying in relatives houses those that can I leaving this area so a lot of the tourists that flock to these beaches at this time of year to spend Christmas and New Year and now checking out and getting out so in places it feels like a ghost town president Joker Widodo has visited the area and people have been warned to keep away from beaches amid fears that the Amica cricketer a volcano could trigger another tsunami Margaret from the aid organization one of the sea Indonesia is urging people to donate money rather than essential items to help rebuild local economies base area it s actually in Ireland where the market is available and all the wonderful also help the community to get in there a livelihood like this the coming if you will certainly lost their livel
Anticorruption court in Pakistan has sentenced the former prime minister now i Sharif to 7 years in jail on corruption charges the National Accountability Court handed down the verdict in a packed hall in Islamabad the court found him guilty of having overseas investments beyond declared sources of income the court acquitted him in a 2nd corruption case. The United States Treasury secretary Steven Minucci and has held a series of telephone conversations with the chief executives of the 6 largest American banks his talks are part of an effort by the trumpet ministration to assuage the fears of business leaders over the economy before market trading resumes on Monday last week saw the worst falls in u.s. Stocks since the financial crisis of 2008 investors have been alarmed by suggestions that President Trump wants to remove the central bank chairman after an interest rate rise Dominic O Connell reports Stephen minutiae revealed late last night that he d spoken to the bank chief executiv
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In. The as Indonesia s disaster agency believes the tsunami was triggered by an underwater landslide caused by an eruption of Mt Krakatoa Emperor Akihito of Japan has broadcast his last birthday message before he steps down next April he said he was relieved that his rain was coming to an end without Japan having at beaming again in Ghana engaged in a war 2nd order isn t that the lives of many were lost in the past World War We must not forget that the peace and prosperity of our country is built on this great sacrifice and also the old flag efforts of the people I have thought that it is important for this to be conveyed correctly to the people who were born after the war the head of a United Nations team of observers is due to arrive in the Red Sea port of data in Yemen later to start monitoring a cease fire that started there last Tuesday under the truce deal the Who fees are due to pull back from the port to allow the un to take over its administration Here s more now from our Ara
Mean for Syria. Or Russia for Iraq on the other hand Syria is a poison chalice and we have a special report from Kashmir where fighting is intensified between Indian forces and insurgents in his own forces. Fighting what I believe to be 2 perhaps 3 militants who are hiding in there that s all to come here we came. To the world news. Hello I m David Harper with the b.b.c. News a tsunami has hit the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra killing at least 62 people and injuring hundreds of others many people are missing Indonesian officials said the tsunami have been caused by an undersea landslide set off by the erupting crack a toa volcano has our Jakarta correspondent Rebecca Henschke seen images of these beach towns along the coast of West Java closest to the cylinder Strait this is an area that is popular with local tourist so it s thing images of water that rushed into hotels and restaurants on the beach last night a lot of the towns there are made of Ward and bamboo teen roofs so