Continued over the past Bowman to voting in 3 areas because of violence and an Ebola outbreak some African monitors are being allowed in but the government has refused logistical help from the un and Western countries and the European Union's representative has been thrown out research as examining satellite images of the collapse of Krakatau in Indonesia which caused last Saturday's devastating tsunami say the volcano has lost 2 thirds of its height and volume since the eruption Jonathan Amos has more details there is little doubt now that the cause of the tsunami was a sudden catastrophic failure of the western flank of an a crack Atar Europe Sentinel and terrorists are radar satellites have been able to pierce the ash and cloud in the area to allow researches to see what remains of the volcanic cone what was once a volcano reaching 340 meters high is now little more than 100 meters tall something on the order of 160000000 cubic meters of rock an ash of Garm more all of this would have entered the sun the strait in one go but it certainly explains the volume of sea water that must have been displaced to generate so destructive a set of waves a powerful earthquake of $6.00 magnitude has struck off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao the u.s. Geological Survey said the latest quake hit about 200 kilometers east of divine now they're in a details so far about casualties or damage the u.s. Environmental Protection Agency the e.p.a. Is proposing changes to the rules on how much toxic emissions can be released into the atmosphere Simon one call reports the e.p.a. Has said it will look at relaxing the limits on dangerous emissions from coal and oil burning power plants because the cost to the industry outweigh the benefits they were introduced during President Obama's time at the White House where he ordered power plants to install expensive equipment to cut Mercury output which can harm pregnant women and cause problems in the development of babies and children but environmentalists are worried they fair any move could lead to looser rules that favor the coal industry at the expense of public health world news from the b.b.c. . The Canadian government says one of its nationals since been released from detention in China and returned to Canada Sarah Makhaya a teacher from Alberta was held earlier this month for what the Chinese authorities described as unlawfully working in the country Canada and China are currently experiencing frosty relations following the arrest of a senior Chinese telecom executive Australia has stripped a suspected Islamic state militant of his citizenship officials say 27 year old Cash inspired and encouraged terrorist attacks in Australia film has more details caches Australia's most notorious Islamic state recruits the former rapper was born in Melbourne and has featured prominently in the group's propaganda videos it's believed he left for Syria in 2013 and is accused of using social media to incite a tanks in Australia is awaiting trial on terrorism charges in Turkey after he was arrested trying to cross the border from Syria he's the 12th jewel national to be stripped of Australian citizenship because of links to militant organizations. In the Galapagos Islands have banned the sale and use of phone. To protect its unique foreigner. That produce light but no sound have been excluded from the ban conservationists say that animals suffered from elevated halt rates trembling and anxiety to power a technique of events the family of Norman Gimbel the Oscar and Grammy winning songwriter has announced his death at the age of 91 Kimball wrote the English lyrics to the Brazilian bossanova melody the girl from. Killing Me Softly with his song. And this is the newsroom from the b.b.c. World Service and Danny Cox for environmentalists they have played a significant role in improving air and water quality across the United States and resulted in lower health care costs now over troubled ministration has declared its intention to relax the regulations limiting emissions of mercury from American coal and oil fired power stations but why Chris Butler reports from Washington Donald Trump promised to end what he called the War Room beautiful clean coal However the fossil fuel actually causes significant air pollution under President Obama standards were introduced that required coal burning power plants to install expensive equipment to reduce the output of Mercury which can harm pregnant women and cause developmental problems in babies and children but the u.s. Environmental Protection Agency has noise suggested that the costs of those regulations far outweigh the benefits although it's left the standards in place environmental campaigners believe the trumpet ministration is peeved in the way for looser rules in the future a recent Harvard University study found that cool fired power plants with a top source of mercury in the United States and while the coal industry has lobbied to get rid of the regulations electricity companies have already invested in billions of dollars in anti pollution technology one of Australia's most wanted man has been stripped of his citizenship on suspicion of being a member of the Islamic state group Neil prankish is currently being held in Turkey but senior counterterrorism officials say he encouraged and inspired terrorist plots in Australia for Mercer is our correspondent in Sydney where he's a former rapper who was born in the Australian city of Melbourne he's considered to be Australia's most notorious Islamic state recruit it's understood he left for Syria a few years ago in 2013 and has been implicated in a plot to behead a police officer. Here in Australia he's also accused of using social media to incite attacks in Sydney and in Melbourne and Darren Chester who's a senior government tempi here in Australia says it's important that the government takes a stand against violent individuals as a government we make no apologies for being tough on terrorism alleged terrorists the main we have been warning people now for many years do not travel to these parts of the world where conflicts exist in order. We've known terrorist organizations and I think the Australian people would expect their government to revoke the citizenship rights of people acting appropriately I mean the strength citizenship if your rights but also his responsibilities government employee down Chester what does this mean now that. Has had his citizenship stripped. Well we understand that he has Fijian citizenship through his father Neil Peart cash is the 12th jewel national to be stripped of Australian citizenship because of links to militant organizations overseas now Neil Peart cash was arrested in Turkey trying to cross the border from Syria a couple of years ago the Turkish government says that he must stand trial there for terrorism offenses and serve any sentence before being extradited back to Australia Australia is quite keen to have him back here because there is an Australian federal police warrant outstanding for him is there any word on how many other Islamist militants are of Australian origin. Well over the years we've heard various figures between 10200 Australians are suspected to have left this country to fight for militant organizations in the Middle East the Australian Government believes that homegrown extremism is one of the biggest national security threats this is a relatively new law in Australia is a popular I think it is with many Australians the Australian Government believes that although this is a fight far away from Australian shores it does have a direct bearing on Australia's national security and ministers will say that Neil Peart cash is a case in point that here we have a young Australian man who was born in Melbourne but was seduced by the group calling itself Islamic state he went over to fight there a few years ago and now it appears is paying the consequences for that film in Sydney it's exactly a week since Indonesia's and I crack a tower volcano collapsed creating the devastating tsunami that killed more than 400 people now a new radar satellite research has revealed more details about the cause of the disaster volcanologist Jenene crypto says the damage is clear to see where you can see that the majority of. The label is actually gone now and that is clearly the coarseness. These clips of these are relatively rare within Well history but they can be a lot larger think have not. Shown that was it meant to. Miss our science correspondent Jonathan Amos has been looking at the findings if you have seen recent video of the volcano erupting you'll know that the cone of the volcano is is invisible really to the naked eye but radar satellites can pierce some of that cover and it's from the images that they've been able to make some calculations about the height and volume lost from Cracker over the past. A week what we're able to say we think is that something on the order of about 2 thirds of the height of the cone has gone and also 2 thirds of the volume this was a volcano that was over 300 meters high so think of a very high skyscraper it is now just a little more than 100 meters tall and in terms of volume it was on the order of 150 to 170000000 cubic meters and it's now down to something like 40 to 70 cubic metres whereas all of that stuff gone or of that rock and ash Well a good proportion of it has gone into the sea and that freight is what kicked off the tsunami the deadly waves that we saw last Saturday when a large proportion of that volume went into the water some of the accounts that I've read of people had a reasonably good view of the erupting volcano and then at about 9 o'clock in the evening the volcano appeared to not exactly switch off but the light incandescent glow from the larva seemed to disappear and that may well have been the moment in which a lot of ash and dust was kicked up as the western flank of the volcano gave way the remarkable thing is that this very scenario was simulated by scientists about 6 years ago ran a simulation to suggest brought what would be the outcome if we lost a large portion of the western flank and if you read through the scientific paper that was published it's uncanny the arrival times of the waves the coastlines the height of the waves a very very similar with so much of the volcano destroyed does that mean the threat is now over while it is still are opting and from what I gather it's been going on since June this year I mean this is a place which has had a volcano for a very long time before we had an a crack a tad child to crack a tower we had the infamous cracker tower that was there before the blue. Itself apart in $883.00 so there is still material there that could fall away into the sea but obviously such a large proportion of the cone itself is gone that it would appear that a lot of the danger has been diminished our science correspondent Jonathan a mass You're listening to the news room it's coming around for 514 g.m.t. Now to Brazil where the 1st Israeli prime minister to visit the country has been welcomed with open arms by President elect Roh but countries have pledged to have a closer relationship which Mr Bowles morrow said would be mutually beneficial. More than your partners will be brothers in the future in the economy technology and anything that can bring benefits to both countries. By Mr Netanyahu reciprocated by saying Israel is the promised land Brazil is the Land of Promise Brazil has also promised to transfer a Demba sea from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem following the decision taken by the United States so how significant is this relationship when out of Russia as all Latin America editor this is very important because what it showed to people in Brazil and abroad was that both Sonando was willing to follow the diplomatic steps of the United States he has close links with Israel because of this link with the u.s. But also because of his religious views there's a very strong Christian evangelical community in Brazil that is very close to Israel in the same way that you have the Bible Belt in the United States but it marks a big change in Brazilian foreign policy for Israel it's very good because the move of the embassy to Jerusalem so far we only had the United States and we had Guatemala who gone ahead with the ethanol Brazil saying they will go Israel are willing to sell technology especially military equipment and also. Military technology security technology for Brazil to deal with the criminal gangs with the drug gangs but for Brazil the impact might be very serious economically Brazil has the biggest Lebanese community outside Lebanon Brazil has traditionally links commercial links with the Arab world Brazil exports a lot of chicken agricultural products in that they've said they will boycott Brazil and many people doubt their. Balls and I will be able to get very close to the United States Leonardo Russia now it's an annual tradition here in the u.k. That the achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people are recognised in the Queen's New Year honors list this year they include the Monty Python star Michael Pailin who's knighted along with former England cricket captain Alastair Cook the current England football coach Garrett Southgate receives an o.b.e. Order of the British Empire the model Twiggy is made a Dame while Handmaid's Tale novelist Margaret Atwood joins the elite companions of Honor there's also the Queen's commendation for bravery for a 14 year old boy who saved his father from drowning following a kayaking accident and awards for people in the health service for honors expert Richard Fitzwilliams it's these lesser known names that deserve the most credit you have here $43.00 or in response to the major terrorist incidents that's correct you're 79 and there's no question that both talk very very well deserved for example awards for those who are crying for example to curb gang violence life crime I mean bring those rewards when the tools to really remarkable things that I think that is always something the slimmest should reflect the other thing I like about it is the fact that our system has the various grades so in fact it encourages an issue to an incentive How does. Told all that 70 percent of the dollars I've got a link with a lecture that is significant because it's something that the system has got Dorothy right now I think all the public perception would agree that most of those who excel in a particular field or deserve another will have done something or should have done something for others and for the community the other thing I'm pleased about although it's lightly less of 47 percent women are stressed is that there is a great deal more gender equality not so much I feel in the hope of those yet but nonetheless it's rather 5050 and the list that we've had in recent years are also more black but are graphic but there's a point there's no question that that is tremendously important when a social worker in the u.s. State of Washington died he left a fortune to local children's charities Morgan has the story to those who knew him Alan Neiman was a frugal and thrifty man here along with being a social worker in the u.s. State of Washington worked multiple jobs saved and invested his money but what they didn't know was that Mr Newman had a fortune of $11000000.00 when he passed away in January 20th tain colleagues couldn't believe he had so much money but when they find out he was giving it all away to $6.00 local children's charities they said they weren't surprised by his generosity. One of those was tree house an organization that works with young people in foster care their chief development officer Jessica Ross said she couldn't believe that initially he left them I was absolutely shocked to hear that he had left us a gift of $900000.00 after court of absorbing the amount that he was receiving to then really understand what he was living for was truly phenomenal and living frugally in life with such attention so that he could make sure that he left a legacy that helped kids that's that's a phenomenal phenomenal thing other organizations include Make a Wish child he even and his death a bronze children's clinic Ms Ross says with the money they hope to expand their services throughout the state of Washington more than I With that good news story you're listening to the news I'm where it's coming around to 520 g.m.t. . And Egypt still no information on who detonated a roadside bomb which ripped apart a bus and killed 3 tourists from Viet Nam and a local tour guide inside the bus was heading for a light and sound show and was traveling close to the pyramids it's the 1st attack to target foreign tourists in almost 2 years the Egyptian prime minister Mustapha mobilise the bus or deviated from a secure route but the bus driver who was one of the injured told local media that he followed a standard tourist bus route Mr mobilise no country was immune from this sort of incident by the way here in. Sometimes attacks such as this one can occur it may even happen again with a future and the reason a country in the world that we can say is 100 percent safe from such attacks we are trying to contain the effects of this incident as much as possible but the most important thing is to provide medical care to all those who were injured we give our deepest condolences to those who lost their lives in this incident where they Gyptian tourists our correspondent in Cairo Sally in a Bill told me more we have 3 Vietnamese tourists killed as well as the Egyptian true God they were on a bus there was hit by an improvised explosive device that attack took place not very far away from the Premier and there are 10 others injured in the nearby hospital the prime minister has visited them and he said that the bus had gone off its planned Drouet and this is why it was hit by improvised explosive devices said that the plan troop was a well secured one but the bus for some reason had gone off this through to another one and they did not alert the security forces what in fact that the timing and the location of that pack of them be worth it took place near Egypt's most famous law. And Mark it happened at the peak of the tourist season and it also happened just days before the Egyptian Christmas which is celebrated on the 7th of January and police forces are already on very high alert getting ready for this important event and this raises actually a lot of questions about how tight the security plan is but on the other hand we have some security experts saying that you can't put security personnel in each and every road and each and every street around the tourist attraction areas but still in this raises a lot of questions how can such a pack happen at such an important and vital location and at such a critical time as well any word on who is behind this explosion. So far no no no group has claimed responsibility for the attack and neither did the government say anything about that but they just said we are still chasing the perpetrators the biggest concern actually is how this attack is going to affect the tourism industry which is a lifeline to the Egyptian economy winter season is the peak season for tourism in Egypt and the tourist sector has been hit really hard since the 2011 revolution and it has just started to achieve some improvement on some progress and now this attack is fear to have a very negative impact on the tourism industry in this country which really needs foreign cash to survive Sol in a bill with the latest now Rosemary has some of the stories from on Tuesday ask the Irish Premier says he expects to post legislation in the new year that allows a suspected mass grave of babies to be excavated the site into him county go away was a hang for unmarried mothers and their children and operated from 1925 to 961 it was run by the bones a crew assist as it comes also significa