Pope speaks Q & A - New York Times of Iraq and tsunami in the first TV

Rome - in his first question-and response TV appearance, shown by national broadcaster Italy on Friday, Pope Benedict XVI calls the Christian minority not to give up Iraq and offered his thoughts on euthanasia and the tsunami in Japan.

Included in a segment last week and one of the holiest days in the Christian calendar the Pope, dressed in white and sit out behind a desk in his library, responded to questions from seven persons selected among thousands of entries aired.

As the book-length interview published in November last year, which seemed TV appearance talk the Pope him directly to his followers, helps to the exactly one year after a sexual abuse crisis in Europe plunged the Roman Catholic world into a tailspin and revealed a profound problems of communication in the Vatican.

There were no curve ball questions among those of Italy's RAI State broadcaster selected - and nothing about the sexual abuse crisis. On Thursday, Benedict the crisis in a liturgy, "the shame we feel about our shortcomings" addressed to speak, but add that "it bright examples of faith," including his predecessor John Paul II., which is expected to be closer to Holiness to a beatification on 1 May to move one step mass.

In the TV question and answer session on Friday, which urged Pope, Christians in the war-torn Iraq "against the temptation to emigrate the very understandable in the circumstances, the it in life."

The program revealed a rich tension between the mysteries of faith and the limitations of the TV interview format.

Asked by an Italian man, "what is Jesus doing in the time between his death and resurrection?" replied the Pope: "This descent of Jesus soul should be presented to the other as a geographical or a spatial travel from one continent." "It is the journey of the soul."

Elena, a seven year old tsunami survivors from Japan, asked: "why children need to be sad?" "Please the Pope, I with God, speaks to me to explain?"

The Pope replied, "this suffering was not empty, it was not free, but behind it was a good plan."

"Can you be sure that God will help them," he added.

The Pope said a woman whose son had been in a vegetative coma since April 2009 that "certainly his soul in his body still exists."

The television interview was part of a talk show where a group of three experts discussed the crucifixion. A slogan at the bottom of the screen read "Answers, the Pope to questions about Jesus."

Later Friday, was to attend a good Friday ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica and then run the annual planned stations of the cross procession in close to the Colosseum Benedict.

The texts for the procession this year were of several nuns, who posted the first time, the Pope prepared by women will read texts.

On Friday, the Vatican also announced that Benedict would be the first Pope call space. On 4 may, he is expected at the contact binds with two Italian astronauts of space shuttle endeavour with the station in the satellite be board the international space station.

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California tsunami victims found in Oregon

Dustin Douglas Weber and two friends were caught in the tsunami were they photograph the California beach, but the two friends survived. Tsunami will wash expected Japanese debris on 11 March ashore along the West coast of the United States in the next 1 to 3 years.

The body of a man swept away by the tsunami waves, the California made the following, that the March 11 found Japanese earthquake was, officials said Tuesday.

Dustin Douglas Weber became the sea along with two friends swept, who survived. News reportedly had which was shoot three near the mouth of the Klamath River in Northern California, South of Crescent City, if you the tsunami waves struck U.S. West Coast.

Weber's body was found about 440 km North in the northern part of neighboring Oregon State, near the mouth of the Columbia River.

"Beach, found by some passers-by at the Oregon coast", Eugene gray of the Western US state's medical examiner's Office said, adding that dental had helped sets to identify him.

On 2 April in nearby Astoria on the coast of Oregon that 25-year old body was found, said gray, added that the cause of death listed drowning and returned the body of the family would.

Of eight feet (2.4 M) waves crashed along the California coast until 9.0 magnitude which killed left more than 13,000 people in Japan, lack more than 14,500 to 12 hours after the quake, and raised a large nuclear crisis.

According to the associated press, residue of Japan begins at the shore along the West coast of the United States wash in the next one to three years.

"The floating debris were likely is Oregon and California spin currents of Japan in the direction of Washington, in to Hawaii and back again towards Asia, circulation in the North Pacific gyre, called" the AP reports.

"Vessels or items which poke out of the water and tend to be influenced by wind, appear in a year, while the items such as lumber pieces, survey stakes and household items can take two to three years."

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CA tsunami victims washes up in Oregon

Dustin Douglas Weber of California was out into the sea by the tsunami of swept JapanHe photograph the surge of last MonthWeber was body on a beach was found in the vicinity of Columbia River in Oregon

(CNN) - system.UInt64 body of a 25-year-old northern California man swept out into the sea as the tsunami arriving from Japan last month photography on land some 380 miles away, in Oregon, washed it has officials said Tuesday.

Dustin Douglas Weber Klamath, California, as on a sandbank at the mouth of the Klamath River in del Norte County, California, when he March 11, was swept authorities said.

He was with two friends, who were captured by the storm surge but were able to return safely to shore, authorities, said.

Weber was identified by a Criptoportico dentist with dental records, said Eugene gray, forensic administrator in the Oregon State medical examiner Office.

His body where coast south of the Columbia River in Oregon beach was found on the April 2 by a person on foot, said gray CNN.

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Japan tsunami clean-up: so much to do

Ian Thomas ash, a freelance documentary filmmaker, who has lived for 10 years in Japan is originally from New York. When earthquakes hit the magnitude 9.0 off the coast of the north-eastern Japan on 11 March, Ian felt its impact in the capital of the nation, Tokyo. The impact of the quake, tsunami, and the ongoing threat of radioactive fallout from Fukushima knit is a nuclear power plant 150 miles takes revenge.

Documented in a recent guest article for discovery news was Ian effects, which have the ongoing crisis in the population of the nation's capital. He wrote about what he saw hard hit during a trip to the city of Ishinomaki, one of the many cities by the tsunami. In this article and video documents Ian parts of the journey by a group of volunteers led by three brothers, the trip to tsunami devastated Ishinomaki city.

You can see more of Ian's documentary work, Ian's YouTube channel. He also regularly updates his personal blog, Ian document.

Wide angle: Japan in the crisis

Only a week before, was a close friend of mine trying to convince me that was different this time. She told me that the earthquake and the tsunami disaster in Japan on 11 March people somehow had changed, that had affected people by the tragedy as never before.

I suggested to her that it is always so when a tragedy strikes first: the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean tsunami. Hurricane Katrina. At the moment we all swear that this grief-stricken people see us altered has and that we would be never the same? That she would never leave our thoughts, and that we do everything we can to the lives of these survivors returned to at least a sense of normality?

This week I found myself in thinking, another dear friend of mine who works in New Orleans to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. When I speaking the work it is, people often say: what could there possibly to do? Katrina was almost six years.

Yes. That's the point. Katrina was almost six years, and there is still so much work to do.

Travel with me as I go north with a small group of volunteers to the tsunami-ravaged City of Ishinomaki.

The events of 11 March may have already turned off the front pages of newspapers of the world, but for the countless volunteers, they are still very much on the front of their heads.

There are already three weeks since the earthquake and tsunami hit. And, Yes, there is so much to do.

More by Ian:
22 March 2011: despite radiation fears, 'I'm leaving no Tokyo'
28 March 2011: after the tsunami ' be alive is enough '

Video credit: Ian Thomas ash

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Indonesia lifts tsunami warning after Quake from Java - Reuters

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Tsunami victims: Rescued the dog after 3 weeks adrift [VIDEO] - Mashable

Check out this small tsunami victims, a dog, which somehow remained saved him alive on a floating pile of rubble with a roof on the top for three weeks before the Japanese Coast Guard.

If a dog under these conditions to the life, could no one? This is an important issue, because it lacks in Japan still 18,000 tsunami and earthquake victims, with little hope for their survival.

How are this dog alive? While dogs and people for three weeks without food can survive, they can go no longer than a few days without water. Floating in the Ocean off the coast of Japan, who was a dog surrounded by salt water, but like a human being in the same situation, which have kept him alive a scientist website would not - according to the Department of energy issues:

People can drink not salt water, because the kidneys can make only urine that is less salty than salt water. So get rid of, need to urinate you the excess salt taken by drinking salt water drank more water than you, so you die of dehydration.

It has been a rainy three weeks aboard this ragtag, where small accumulated pools of fresh water must have kept the dog alive.

It is probably too late for more survivors, but it is not too late for you to help earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan. Here is how.

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Search US Japan forces for missing tsunami victims - voice of America

VOA News-April 01, 2011 Japan self defense force members search for the victims of 11 March earthquake and tsunami in Miyako city, Miyagi Prefecture, 26 March 2011

Thousands of Japanese and American forces joined together Friday in a final three-day sweep for the still missing search for Japan the 9.0 earthquake and devastating tsunami three weeks ago affected.

The operation includes 120 aircraft and 65 ships and covers the three prefectures beat most of the disaster, the 11,400 people killed and more than 16,500 missing links.

The Quake and tsunami also cooling systems on the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, which you licking different forms of radiation.

In an address Parliament Friday criticised the plant operator Tokyo electric power company Prime Minister Naoto Kan, with inadequate defense against a tsunami.? But the Japanese leader the public that there is no risk of contamination outside the 20-kilometer exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant imposed.

Nuclear industry experts from the United States, are France and elsewhere in Japan Friday and it, heading TEPCO to provide support. Specialized robots are also helping, where it too dangerous for people is sent.

Radiation leaking crippled left nuclear power plant in nearby water, beef and even corpses Fukushima of Japan's earthquake and tsunami is detected.

Authorities are considering what corpses in the vicinity of the plant, say with 1000, it can be too dangerous to collect them, because of fears that the bodies with radiation contaminated are.? Police sources to warn that the families of the victims burned the body, such as the tradition in Japan is, it could publish more radioactivity in the environment.

And TEPCO says that radioactive iodine in the groundwater beneath one of the reactors at levels found 10,000 times higher than normal.? Japan's Kyodo News Agency says that this is the first time, the radiation in the ground water was found.

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