the, the, this is dw news line from berlin. last, the games begin, the paris 2024 olympic games kick off in the rain with a dazzling opening ceremony. olympic flame is lit, introducing 2 weeks of world class sporting action. thousands of athletes are gearing up and spectators are looking forward to with billed as the greatest show on earth. also, the

mariana evans, dean. it's good to have you with us. the 2024 paris olympics have gotten underway with a wet bond dazzling opening ceremony in pouring rain via olympic flame was lived in the basket of a hot air balloon. $7000.00 athletes took part in a waterborne parade down the river. send stars including lady ganga and celine, dion serenaded. huge crowns gathered around the french capitals landmarks, spectators face extra time security in the wake of a series of ours and attacks on the french rail network just hours before the festivities began. so with the opening ceremony over the games have now become an earnest and the w as lisa lewis is in the french capital. and a hinge that has been watching some of today's ellen big events or well, you know, as you said, the lived games really have kicked off properly here today in paris. there are lots

of different competitions going on. i saw some swimming, some just saw as well, some fencing a just a short while ago. and it's really on the way obviously as you saying it, but it's still, you know, the rain is still pouring down on that. have some impact on the competition. we understand that the man's st. skateboarding competition that was planned for today has been pushed back to monday. mind you this bad weather should go way by tonight or at the very latest by tomorrow. all right, well, i do have to ask you about last night. the opening ceremony, we just saw that report there, all those colorful images, the spines, the challenge of the weather is the opening ceremony being seen as a success for france. i will absolutely say that certainly is what i've been reading. you know, the headlines will say magnificent,

slim volume and the greatest show on it's, i've been talking to friends and i roof over and watch we, we, we were, we were collude to the television. really. i was watching the whole for our as it was really impressive. if you know, as you said and not report, there were lots of different aspects. you had a cultural aspect. we were taken to the move the to not to them. they were drag queens. that was a fashion. so there was something that was singing. it was just absolutely flabbergasting and extraordinary. and that is also what the international press seems to be thinking. and this is kind of the beginning of a moment to provide a happy bubble that will take place here in front of them for the next 2 weeks. and now we also know that there wasn't just the weather that was challenging. there was this massive disruption to the train network in france on friday. there was an attack on the rail system. lisa, what's the latest on that?

our services back to normal. do we know who's behind these attacks? there were several kind of similar tamiels acts of sabotage during the night of the 1st day to friday, which cost a lot of disruption on francis tc. the highest speed train now the railroad operates are the essence as looking into that they over the dispatch teams to these different spaces in places across fonts immediately that have been working to repair the network. we understand that at the, the trained traffic is not completely back to norma just yet, but it should be back to them by monday at the latest. that was the definitely is lisa lewis reporting from paris. lisa, thank you. let's get a check. now some of the other stories making headlines around the world. the gaza is how most ron health ministry says 30 people have been killed and more than 100

others injured. and it is really striking a school where displaced people were sheltering. israel's military says militants were using the compound as a hiding place to plant and direct attacks. a rear fire tornado name for its swirling vortex of flames has appeared in california and local authorities declared an emergency as homes were destroyed and thousands of people evacuated the area. a man suspected of starting the fire was a burning car, has been arrested. taiwan coast guard has evacuated crew members from 2 stranded ships there also continuing their search for attends and the a flagged cargo vessel. the thank off the south coast during the ty soon that hit the island earlier this former bolivia and president eva morales has said there is a real threat of political violence if he is barred from running for office next year. in 2019 he attempted to bypass the constitution and seek

a 4th term in office. what all this is currently blocked from standing for office by the constitutional court. you are a secretary of state anthony, blinking is in laws for the ozzy on gathering of south east asian countries. russian foreign minister as a gala. ralph is also a special guest at the event. saturday is the 3rd and final day of the tox onregional issues, including the ongoing finding in in mar. the us also confirmed that it help productive talks with china over what it calls beijing's provocative actions in that south china sea. to less unpack all of this with michael logic. keanta is he is the armed conflict mediator and he's a director of the center for humanitarian dialogue, and he joins us now from bangkok. welcome, michael. so we've been reporting that china and the philippines are

working to reduce tensions. how has that been reflected at the summit? i think the timing of the summit coincided with um a, a deal that was basically an agreement that was made between china and the philippines. just in the last week or so that is kind of significantly reduced the level of tension in and around. so i can tell the show which would become a significant flash point, not just between the philippines in china, but potentially between the us and china. the agreement, the details of which we're not really quite sure of was made at the diplomatic level and appears to have worked in the sense that there was the supply mission to the, the, um, the feature, the symmetric feature which the philippines has beach, the landing ship which wasn't interrupted by the chinese, which wasn't the case

a few weeks ago. so all this is well, time for the summit and the sense that china and the philippines appear to have managed to reduce the tensions between them. well, also, notably, the russian for ministers to the gala for off was at the summit as well. and we know that he did not speak directly to his us counterpart. there were, they were at least in the same room. is this symbolic in any way as well? what i think is interesting is that some us in members are using law problems presents . we use lab roles presence together with tony banking to remind the united states in particular that in addition to the ukraine war and the so the, the pressure of support for ukraine from the united states. in particular. it's important that the united states takes into account all the issues where there are a violation of, of human rights and, and of course atrocities,

namely the situation in gauze. this was a point made by very strongly by the engineers in foreign minister, reckoning my city, pointing out that while, you know, the united states has concerns about ukraine as concerns about china. it's also important to have concerns about israel and palestine. and so i think in that context, lab roles presence, even though the 2 liters, the 2 ministers didn't speak very much reminded this region southeast asia, that one has to strike a balance between the concerns of the west and the concerns of the global cells. that was michael about taking off his with the center for humanitarian dialogue. joining us from bangkok many thanks. indeed for your insights panama is foreign ministry, says a plane, caring for a former latham american presidency, has not been allowed to take off after their destination country venezuela. close as aerospace,

the former panamanian mexican costa rican and bolivian presidents were planning on observing sundays presidential election and venezuela. caracas however denies that it prevented the former leaders from entering president nicholas venturo is seeking a 3rd 6 year term in office and is facing his toughest electoral challenge. in decades of the advisors, these venezuelan bully bodies are not as a guarantor as much these days are due to us dollars that are in high demand. the days of food and petrol shortages may be behind them, but the franchise economy and the devastating impact on venezuela have been central to these elections. yearly said to be mentality is a social community leader. she, like many venezuelans experiences, the impact of the countries sky, high inflation. ok, well even though the dollar rate does not go up and prices go up constantly in

daily one day, you may have money for food and maybe you do not have money. the next day, one day i may have money to pay for transportation and the next day i may not. you have to decide between the bus that items all food. so that's the nature of the situation we live in. the economic concerns echoed by mcconick, carlos alamo. we used to have everything. now we'd like so much. it's pushed us to go out and look for money. and that has changed things a lot. but enough is enough. we have to give someone else the opportunity to see if they do it well or badly. they might, but i guess the change is dependent on president and the glass. my daughter who was ruled venezuela since 2013. since then, he's overseen and economic collapse. the mass emigration of millions of venezuelans crushed protests against him and survived international isolation and sanctions.

what's on clear is whether he would relinquish control in the case of a defeat in sundays or election. the i am the only candidate who has the support of the people's power and the communities. because i am the only candidate who has a strong support of the venezuelan military. the good polls showed the support of the majority of the electorate firmly tilted in favor of a wound of on solitude with the, the main opposition presidential candidate. the former diplomat has been attending rallies with opposition leader maria cody now much of the she was banned earlier this year from running for the job of president. their priorities are to restore trust in venezuela's institutions improve the country's economy, and welcome back. the medians who flats in his way to his financial collapse. they

needed this time to venezuela, to find reconciliation among venezuelans. yeah. but not shouting enough insults, it's time to come together now or then ring pointing through. challenges that venezuelans hope will be dealt with by the person who leads their country. after the elections, uncontrolled wildfires are causing widespread devastation in western canada and the united states. a rare fire tornado appeared in california and local authorities declared an emergency as homes were destroyed and thousands of people were evacuated from the area. a man suspected of starting the fire with a burning car has been arrested and available. nada is an environmental scientist at the university of waterloo in canada, and she told us earlier, what more can be done to prevent wild flyers? it's a very complex problem. so it goes all the way from reducing our greenhouse gas emissions

to lower climate change incidence. all the way to what we can do in our forest managements. so we do need to allow some of those smaller fires to burn. we need to have control burn. this is really changing in canada. we need to have more funding going towards preparedness. so we're, we're kind of a reactive country right now and we do a freight job by suppressing those major wildfires as they're getting close to our communities. but we need to use those months where we don't have wildfire to really prepare. so more funding going that way and strengthen our communities and our residents. there's a lot of guidance out there for what can be done at the home level as well as the community level to, to lower wildfire risk. there's a natural process to how that occurs, and at 1st we just kind of need to make sure that the land that's been burned is stable. and so there's a high chance of flooding after a while for occurs. so if we give a time, we keep an eye on it really, there are different plans that start to come in, that slowly lead to like the next succession and end up having bigger trees. but

that does take decades after an area has been burned. you're up to date on dw news, i'm marianne. i haven't seen all the back of the top of the hour with more headlines for you from me and the entire new team in berlin. thanks for watching the why do how many does not get drunk? why do gravitational waves squeeze all bodies? how much do we need per day? try stop, cons painful, help. find the office, good smudge on data. we use science and i'll take talk channel what to enough to fast.