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Death toll climbs to 32 in Indonesia volcano eruption

(CNN) -- The death toll from an Indonesian volcano that exploded this week has climbed to 32, medical officials said Thursday.

Rescue and recovery efforts continue to unfold, with the Indonesian government scrambling to help tens of thousands of residents displaced by the eruption.

The volcano erupted at least three times Tuesday, forcing residents to flee.

Mount Merapi, which looms on the horizon north of the major city of Yogyakarta, is one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes and lies in one of the world's most densely populated areas. The volcano has a summit elevation of nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 meters).


Hundreds of displaced residents have crammed a small government building in Yogyakarta. Many had fled with only the clothes on their backs.

Some residents refused to flee, holding out to watch over their crops and livestock. Some residents awaited word from the traditional gatekeeper of Mount Merapi. But Maradjin, the gatekeeper, fell victim to the volcano as well.

He is to be buried Thursday. He died in his 80s, after being appointed about two decades ago by the last Sultan of Java. Maradjin's father was gatekeeper before him.

"Merapi is a house of spirits, which also means a living mountain," Maradjin told CNN in a 2006 interview. "When Merapi emits smoke, we have to be respectful."

(www.cnn.com)

Premier League first as Indian owners to take over Blackburn

(CNN) -- Blackburn is set to become the first English Premier League side to come under Indian ownership, the club confirmed Tuesday.

Blackburn chairman John Williams told the club's website that a deal with poultry giants Venkys would likely be completed in November.

He said that after "detailed talks" with the Premier League and an "extensive due diligence process" that the way was clear for the groundbreaking deal.

Venkys chairperson Anuradha J. Desai added: "We expect to be the first Indian company to acquire a Premier League team and we are particularly delighted that the team is Blackburn Rovers, with whom we believe we have many shared values and ambitions."

The terms of the sale are yet to be disclosed, but Venkys joint managing director B Venkatesh Rao told CNBC the deal was worth £46 million ($72.97 million), with the full amount to be paid upfront.

We expect to be the first Indian company to acquire a Premier League team and we are particularly delighted that the team is Blackburn Rovers
--Anurdha J. Desai

Venky's is part of the £290 million ($459m) valued Venkateshwara Hatcheries (VH) group, which is listed on the Mumbai stock exchange.

The acquisition by the Indian conglomerate would take the number of English Premier League clubs with solely foreign ownership to nine, and comes in the wake of Liverpool's highly-publicized sale to New England Sports Ventures, who own the Boston Red Sox baseball team.

Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Chelsea, Fulham, Manchester City, Manchester United and Sunderland are also under exclusively foreign control while Arsenal, Blackpool and West Ham have influential foreign shareholders.

Blackburn's mooted sale would end a two-year wait for a buyer at Ewood Park, after the Jack Walker Trust put the club up for sale hoping to attract fresh investment.

In that time two other Indian buyers, Saurin Shah and Ahsan Ali Syed, have seen prospective bids falter.

With Blackburn currently languishing just above the Premier League relegation zone, manager Sam Allardyce needs a cash injection to strengthen his squad.

Venkys certainly has the financial capacity to oblige. The group posted a profit of $187 million last year and has an annual turnover of $1.58B.

Formed in 1976, the conglomerate has diversified in recent years to include nutritional supplements and healthcare products for humans alongside their mainstream poultry products.

Blackburn won the English Premier League title in 1995 as former owner Jack Walker ploughed millions into the club, but have not enjoyed comparable success in the intervening years.


(www.cnn.com)

At least 112 dead, more than 500 missing after Indonesia quake

Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- Relief organizations struggled to reach those in need Tuesday, one day after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off Sumatra, Indonesia, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 112 people, officials said. Another 502 were reported missing.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the quake generated a "significant" tsunami. Some of the missing may include people who are unaccounted for after fleeing to higher ground, said Henri Dori Satoko, head of the Mentawai Islands parliament.

Although communication with remote areas was difficult, some witnesses in West Sumatra reported seeing a wave 6 meters (nearly 20 feet) high. Other reports described the tsunami as being about 3 meters (almost 10 feet) high.

Satoko said at least one village with a population of about 200 people was swept away, with only 40 people recovered.

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Nine Australians on board a tourist vessel that had been feared missing were confirmed to be safe, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said. Those aboard the ship, the MV Southern Cross, were not aware that an earthquake and tsunami had taken place, it added.

The numbers of dead and injured were in flux because information was trickling in from remote parts of Indonesia, a country made up of myriad islands. The area believed hardest-hit was the Mentawai Islands, a popular surfing destination. In particular, Pagai Island was thought to have been affected, said Ita Balanda, a program manager for World Vision in Padang.

"There is no access for now," she said about the Mentawai Islands. "We want to get help to these children and their families as quickly as possible, but it's still too dangerous to reach the island by boat."

Large waves were keeping rescue crews and aid workers from reaching the area. An Indonesian Red Cross assessment team had set out for the island but was forced to turn back because of high seas and debris in the water, said Gayat, spokeswoman for the agency, who like many Indonesians only uses one name. She said the team will try again Wednesday morning.

The trip takes 10 hours, even under good conditions, Balanda said.

U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday he and and first lady Michelle Obama were saddened by the loss of life, and he offered support to the hard-hit region.

"As a friend of Indonesia, the United States stands ready to help in any way. Meanwhile, our thoughts and prayers are with the Indonesian people and all those affected by this tragedy," Obama said in a statement.

The quake struck at 9:42 p.m. Monday, triggering a tsunami warning that was later lifted when sea level readings indicated the threat had diminished or was over for most areas. Its epicenter was 240 kilometers (150 miles) south of Padang, at a depth of 20.6 kilometers (12.8 miles), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The magnitude was revised upward from a preliminary magnitude of 7.5.

"Big, slow, long earthquake last night, and a couple tremblers afterward," WavePark Mentawai Surfing Resort said on its website. "Turns out it was a 7.5 about 70 [kilometers] south of us." The resort said it saw "about six waves on the beach after about 20 minutes" but none was higher than usually seen during high tide.

"No damage here, but reports of damage to other resorts and charter boats further south," the posting said.

"The local residents in the Mentawai Islands reported seeing a tsunami as high as 3 meters [that] reached as far as 600 meters inland," said Mujiharto of the Indonesian Health Ministry.

The Perfect Wave, a surf travel company that said it had 32 clients in the area, also described the wave in a statement as about 3 meters (10 feet) high, and said it washed through a bay where two boats with clients on board were docked. One boat hit the other, which caught on fire, and all the guests jumped overboard. Nine guests and five crew members were washed into the jungle and took more than an hour to make their way to safety, the company said.

All those aboard were picked up by a third boat and were safe "apart from suffering some smoke inhalation and minor scratches," the statement said.

A surf guide aboard the third boat reported "there was a lot of debris floating in the water including bar stools and other pieces of furniture from Macaronis Resort," the company said. "No news on the state of the village at Silabu."

The resort, where six clients were staying, is "all but gone," the statement said.

"It's very difficult to access the coast right now because the sea is quite bad," said Gilles Bordessoule, owner of the Siloinak Surf Resort. He said his property was unaffected, but his staff was attempting to help the Macaronis Resort, which was "completely destroyed" along with two others. Two of the Macaronis guests are missing, he said.

He said the only means of communication with the affected area is by satellite phone, which is how he found out about the resort and received some other information. The fate of the other 130 kilometers (80 miles) of coastline is unknown, he said.

Bordessoule said he had been in contact with authorities and residents of the area and was told between 150 and 180 people are dead and body bags are needed.

World Vision's Balanda said her organization is working with the Indonesian government and the United Nations to figure out how to get to the hardest-hit area. Indonesian government resources have been sent to central Java, where Mount Merapi was erupting, she said, but said her group hopes one or two helicopters will be freed up to help with the quake and tsunami response. She said she is receiving information from a local nongovernmental organization as well as others in the region.

The city of Padang and the Mentawai Islands are at the meeting place of two tectonic plates, making them vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis.

On December 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake struck off northern Sumatra. A tsunami generated by that earthquake killed more than 225,000 people in 14 countries -- mainly India, Indonesia, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The Indonesian region of Banda Aceh was hard-hit: About 150,000 died there. 

(www.cnn.com)

Volcano erupts in Indonesia, forcing thousands to flee

 Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- The Mount Merapi volcano in Indonesia erupted at least three times Tuesday, forcing thousands of nearby residents to flee.

Indonesian media reported that 15 people were killed, including some journalists who were staying in a guesthouse to get close to the volcano. CNN could not independently verify those reports.

Mount Merapi, which looms on the horizon north of the major city of Yogyakarta, is one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes and lies in one of the world's most densely populated areas. The volcano has a summit elevation of nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 meters).

Christian Awui, a rescuer at the scene, told CNN that the first thing that residents heard were sirens from an early warning system announcing the coming eruptions.

Video: Volcano erupts in Indonesia

 

"There was panic," he said. "You could hear the rumbles of the volcano."

People ran to a refugee camp about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) away.

Because it was still dark, it was hard to tell how the eruptions compared with previous ones, Awui said.

Some nongovernmental relief agencies were poised to offer immediate help. One of them was World Vision Indonesia, a Christian relief and development agency.

"Right now, our biggest concern is the children," said Fadli Usman, World Vision Indonesia's rapid assessment team leader. "Children are always forgotten in the early moments of a disaster like this. My first task will be to assess the needs of the children and their families in the evacuation centers so our team can begin to help them."

Usman said about 1,500 people -- mostly women and children -- had found refuge at a four-building shelter about 7 miles (12 kilometers) from the volcano. The evacuees, he said, are worried about the men who stayed behind to guard their homes and fields on the mountain.

A dusting of ash covered motorbikes and cars at the shelter parking lot, the relief worker said. The heavy ash fallout also obscured any view of the mountain from his location, he said.

Usman had reported earlier that traffic was heavy as people left the region near the mountain. The traffic was not chaotic, he said, and the road was open and under control.

(www.cnn.com)

Hodgson: Torres happier now.

Roy Hodgson believes Fernando Torres is starting to enjoy his football once more following his winner in the 2-1 victory over Blackburn.

The striker found the net for the first time since August 29 to clinch the three points after a Jamie Carragher OG cancelled out Sotirios Kyrgiakos's opener.

But it was not just the goal Hodgson was pleased with.

"Fernando played well today, he played an awful lot better," said the boss. "That, in my opinion, was his best performance for the team this season.

"It's very nice - when you've had a good performance and caused as many problems as he did - that he actually put one in the back of the net. He'll be very happy tonight and we'll need him to score many more goals if we're going to get into the position in the table that we think we should be in."

Asked why Torres hasn't been able to find top form so far this term, Hodgson replied: "I don't know. He was down, very down when he came back from the World Cup. People do get a bit down when they're criticised right, left and centre.

"He obviously was affected by the amount of criticism he got during the World Cup. And of course the criticism that has then come to the club and the team, myself and everyone connected with Liverpool at the start of the season when we haven't got the number of points everyone expected us to get.

"Maybe he's just beginning to come out of that and find his joy of playing again - find his energy, his intensity.

"It's something we work on in training but you can't infuse that into a player. You can talk about it, demand it, ask him for it, but he's the one that's got to find it in himself when the match starts. Today he did that very, very well.

The victory does not lift Liverpool out of the relegation zone but it does mean they are just three points off seventh.

Hodgson was delighted with the application of his team in front of the home fans.

"There were elements of our play today which were quite visible in the matches we've lost or drawn," he said. "So I don't want to suggest that everything's suddenly hunky dory.

"But it was more than deserved and I'm very, very happy with the way the team played - particularly in the first 70 minutes.

"The confidence with which players passed the ball and moved was quite surprising given our table position.

"We made it clear to everyone: this is our game, we're going to take it to you, we're going to make certain we put you under pressure, we're going to be quick to pressurise when we lose the ball.

"I thought the passing and movement was as good, if not better than it's been but we were more incisive. We got in more crosses, got more bodies into the box for crosses, we had an enormous number of corner kicks and looked dangerous from those corner kicks, which is nice to see.

"It was a big ask for the players today. It's all very well having must-win games and saying 'This is the one we need to win', but there's an opponent out there that wants to stop you. And you can never get it out of your mind how bad it's going to be if you make a mistake.

"It's been a good week because it was a good performance in Napoli and it was important to back that up today, and I'm very pleased we were able to."

All three goals were scored in a crazy five-minute period, and Hodgson was thrilled with how the Reds kept going after conceding an equaliser.

"The manner of their equaliser is the manner in which we've conceded one or two of our goals this season," said the manager. "When it's in the back of the net you think, 'How on earth did it get there?'

"What pleased me was how quickly the players wanted to get on with the game. There was no hanging of heads and 'Oh my God here we go again'. Pepe Reina got the ball and raced up with it. That's very, very good for the future.

"We're not going to allow our heads to drop and we are going to have to continue battling because we've got ourselves at the start of this season into a perilous position, a very poor position in the league. It's nowhere near where we want to be.

"But it's going to take time because there are no games in the Barclays Premier League where you can relax and think, 'We'll win this one.'"

Hodgson admits he was anxious standing on the touchline in the closing moments of the game.

"Unfortunately in the last 20 minutes came the anxiety that comes to all teams that find themselves in a false position and desperate to move out of it," he explained.

"Victories by one-goal margins always bring a sense of relief. You know that, even though it would be terribly unjust to not win the game, football is not known for its justice. Things can happen. You can concede in the 93^rd minute against a team that hasn't had one shot at goal.

"You are anxious for that final whistle. There is no doubt that there was a lot of anxiety in our play in the last 15 to 20 minutes, and that's because we're lying in the bottom three and we can't get that thought out of our heads."

The boss was quizzed on comments in his programme notes about the rebuilding process at Anfield.

Asked by one journalist if he knew the extent of the job before arriving on Merseyside, he replied: "I knew everything wasn't as it should be, not least because of the worries that hung over the club in terms of who is going to own it and is there going to be money for new players.

"I also knew there were doubts about the size and the quality of the squad but you don't know whether those doubts are correct until you start working with the players.

"I've had experiences in the past where I've gone to clubs and people have told me not to worry because there are some fantastic players - then I get there and they're not very good.

"Then I've gone to clubs and been told they're poor, and X, Y and Z can't play, and then I've felt the players aren't bad at all.

"I came with my eyes open. I did come in knowing that the expectations on us could be greater than what we are capable of achieving immediately. And the only way I thought this could be dealt with is working on the field of play, trying to make sure we're organised and every player knows his job.

"We need to show a bit of humility and accept that if we're not the Liverpool of yore, we'll work hard to try and become it."

Thomas Werner and several other NESV representatives witnessed the victory, though principal owner John Henry had to watch on TV because of illness.

Hodgson added: "I'm sure he'll be happy tonight and let's hope we can give as good a performance when he comes next time, which I believe will be after our game with Bolton."

(www.liverpoolfc.tv)

Volcano puts Indonesian officials on high alert

This picture taken on September 16, 2009, shows sulphurous fumes curling from fissures in the rock on Mount Merapi.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• About 40,000 nearby villagers have started evacuating
• Seismic activity has intensified, signaling an imminent eruption
• Merapi is famously unpredictable, though

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• Indonesia
• Volcanoes

Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- Indonesian officials have gone on high alert and have started evacuations as they warily monitor Mount Merapi, a volatile volcano in central Java that might erupt at any time.
"The local government is coordinating to evacuate around 40,000 villagers to the pre-assigned shelters," Neulis Auliasari of the national disaster coordination board said Monday.
Seismic activity has intensified, signaling that an eruption is imminent, according to Indonesian volcanologists.
The 3,000-meter Merapi is famously unpredictable, though. A pyroclastic flow -- a fast-moving burst of blistering gases and rock fragments -- is a key concern.

One killed two people in 2006 and another killed more than 60 villagers in 1994. About 1,300 people died when Merapi erupted in 1930.

From Andy Saputra,(www.cnn.com)

Joe Cole : 'That's why I signed for LFC'

Joe Cole admitted the pre-match rendition of 'You'll Never Walk Alone' from Gerry Marsden inspired the team to a much-needed three points as Liverpool overcame Blackburn Rovers 2-1 on Sunday.

With the team on the field preparing to start the game, Marsden led the Kop in singing the famous anthem and the England star claimed afterwards that it provided a huge lift.
Cole told Liverpoolfc.tv: "That was brilliant because it lifted everyone and if we'd have scored in the first five minutes you would have had to give Gerry the assist!
"The supporters are brilliant and I can't wait to experience the atmosphere on a big European night in the future.
"The atmosphere was brilliant and that's why I signed for this club.
"It feels like a weight off our shoulders and the whole place has been lifted by this victory.
"I thought we played well. We should have won by more than the 2-1 margin. Paul Robinson pulled off some great saves but I'm sure someone is going to get a spanking soon when those chances start going in."

Cole provided the assist for Fernando Torres to net the winner and he has backed Liverpool's No.9 to push on and get back to his best.
"It was great for Fernando to get back scoring again," he added.
"We have been working on that all week, getting the ball into the box better from the wide areas and it was nice to give Fernando a chance.
"He is the focal point of our team so if he's playing well we know we'll be winning games.
"This was an important three points and it's a great confidence boost for us. We've got until next Sunday now to prepare for our next game against Bolton which will be similar to Blackburn.
"It's time we turned this around and start picking up wins now and that's what we hope to do."

 (www.liverpoolfc.tv)

Gerrard: It is still early days

Steven Gerrard has admitted "enough is enough" after Liverpool's poor start and has urged the team to rise to the challenge.

Sunday's 2-1 victory over Blackburn was only the Reds' second in the Barclays Premier League this campaign and, although it was not enough to lift them out of the relegation zone, it has put them within three points of seventh place.
Confidence has started to return to the squad, as demonstrated by the first 70 minutes against Rovers, and even Fernando Torres has started scoring again.
Gerrard knows the players now have to build on that performance, especially with four of their next five league matches being against Bolton, Wigan and Stoke.
"The three points will have done wonders for everyone," said the England midfielder.
"It is all about getting a sequence of results and we will find out now whether we are capable of doing it. That is the challenge for this team.
"If you do that, you will find yourself climbing the table really fast.
"Three or four wins on the bounce and you will find yourself in a very healthy position.
"It is early days and there are still plenty of games to play. If we play like we can at Bolton (next Sunday) we can do really well.
"Enough is enough - we want to put that sequence together."
After a run of seven matches without a win the players became understandably more edgy as the Blackburn entered its final phase.
Gerrard admitted that was because confidence had been affected by four league defeats in eight games.
"I think it's normal when you find yourself down in the bottom half of the table and it was just about the three points yesterday," added the 30-year-old.
"The performance wasn't important it was just vital that we got a win.
"It was a big bonus that we were terrific for 70 minutes - more of that and I'm sure we'll climb the table really fast.
"It was disappointing to concede the goal but we showed tremendous character to come back and get the second goal.
"A lot of individual players came away with their confidence boosted and it was great to see Fernando get on the scoresheet and Joe (Cole) set him up."
The ownership issue has dominated things at Anfield this season but, now New England Sports Ventures have completed their £300million takeover, Gerrard hopes it will signal an improvement on and off the pitch.
"We have got to use the last two performances (Blackburn and the goalless Europa League draw against Napoli) as a fresh start but the last thing the players have done is hide behind the fact we've had a bit of an issue off the field," he told the Liverpool Echo.
"We find ourselves where we are in the league because we haven't been good enough.
"Of course it is nice and refreshing to know things are sorted out off the pitch and the fans are happy."

(www.espnstar.com)

Hodgson: We are on the right track

Sunday's match at Bolton represents Roy Hodgson's 10th as Liverpool manager in the Barclays Premier League.

It is a marker, in light of their poor start to the season, he set himself as a point when he and his team could be judged.
But Hodgson has been assessing their recent performances and has seen an upturn in recent weeks, irrespective of what results have suggested.
A second league victory of the campaign at home to Blackburn on Sunday came on the back of an under-strength side securing a creditable goalless Europa League draw against Napoli in Italy.
And although the 63-year-old refused to highlight the last week as significant, he does believe the team is on an upward curve.
"I'd be lying if I said it felt like a turning point. That would be a facile thing to say," he said.
"I've got faith in the team and the way we played in several of the games. We were worse at the beginning but we have got better.
"Sunderland (2-2) was not that bad. Blackpool (a 2-1 defeat) was such a wretched first-half performance where we shot ourselves in the foot and couldn't get back in.
"Everton last week (a 2-0 defeat) I thought we paid a high price for the second goal, which shouldn't have been allowed.
"We allowed Everton to get on top of us in the first 20 minutes by passing the ball too short and never turning them round.
"I saw the statistics the other day from the Everton game and I've never in my Premier League career seen statistics as positive as they were in terms of passing, accuracy and tempo of passing, number of shots and crosses.
"Those statistics hearten you because you know you are not playing badly but they don't get you any points.
"We had the same level of passing and intensity against Blackburn but we were much more incisive, getting behind them down the flanks more.
"Jamie Carragher was bombing forward like Carlos Alberta of old.
"It was the right sort of performance; we've got to give another 29 like that and if we can do that then we won't go too far wrong."

(www.espnstar.com)

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