this is deja vu news coming to you live from bali and a massive disaster in laos with hundreds missing after a dam under construction collapses and heavy rains caused billions of cubic meters of australian water to the area authorities say several people have been killed since i left home this really good line for the region and. also coming up at least

sixty people have been killed by region find spreading a rapidly near athens the government has declared a state of emergency and there's also a european union for help. and here in germany the resignation of star midfielder posey from the national team is still making waves the german football association has rejected just strings of racism me take you to first use hometown of golden kishan to hear what people there are saying. cheema state media in laos says several people are dead and hundreds more are missing after a hydroelectric dam collapsed in the country's southeast the dam was under construction in the province of when it collapsed late on monday really. five

billion cubic meters of water over six thousand people are now reportedly homeless after several villages flooded many have been evacuated but thousands remain stranded the dam will shed you to begin operating later this year. and for the bailiff is just across a wooded journalists threaded exporter who is monitoring the situation for us from bangkok frederick firstly what can you tell us about the casualties and how many people have been affected by this dam burst well we don't have the full picture yet as you said several. deaths hundreds are missing and thousands lost their whole it's a pretty remote area and loss and it might take some time until the picture is becomes clear and we have your personal death toll and the number of victims but we see already the pictures and everything is indicating that this has been a huge disaster. it will have a big impact. on the our economy. we see the pictures five billion liters of

water have flooded the area and it was a very big project it cost one billion us dollar investment which is quite a lot for a small country such as laos so you see already the size of the project now the area has been declared. disaster relief zone all authorities are out there to help people to operate rescue missions. so just more fit because i think our government handling the situation you said has been declared as a disaster relief zone tell us more about the rescue operation. well to be honest i don't know how the rescue operations are going on you have to know that laos is kind of a. communist regime the information is coming very slowly out of this remote area so to be honest i don't know how the rescue operations go on but i know that laos has quite limited resources and this is

a huge disaster that will be a huge challenge for this country it seems that the building of dams is a big industry in the country what can you tell us about that yes and this is why i also think that this disaster might have bigger implications for the future because hydropower is one of the key development strategies of the country thirty percent of it exports are actually energy it's also called the battery of asia and in the recent years the power generation at the export of power has multiplied it's one of the few advantages that the our economy has and everything was concentrated on this so there was a lot of foreign investment coming in. this project was there korean tie the ocean project but also a lot of chinese investments are coming in and this was a big factor for the whole country and a big push for the economy of the whole economy and certainly this might come to

a stop because right now there are more than fifty dams dams being built all around the country and they must come under scrutiny now jim this is a federal for thank you very much for that assessment off the dam burst in laois turning now to greece which is declared a sea different agencies around the capital athens as wide fi's reach to address attention areas at least sixty people have been killed and more than one hundred seventy injured strong winds are fanning multiple fires across the country. they're the worst wildfires greece has seen in over a decade moving quickly and taking many by surprise strong winds and temperatures of up to forty degrees have stoke the flames several people died trying to escape and then they come. in coastal towns residents on holiday make

a scramble to the ocean the shock still visible on their faces hours after being rescued. or a little bit you know what can i say. to you it's over there alive you know preaching to you if the cause of any thought of the flames were chasing us all the way to the water it was like going to our backs and we dive into the sea it will help us. for others the fire move too fast. a state of emergency has been declared in the attic of region the deadliest fire sweeping three marty east of athens there are reports a grape of twenty six people were trapped by the flames in one house the images graphic to show. grace is in crisis mode. but everyone a must if it is to me we must all be in a constant state of alert we must be unified and make an effort to face an

exceptionally difficult situation for our country. for you because. athens has already asked for help and europe is answering spain is sending water carrying aircraft cyprus is dispatching fire crews but for many people the help is coming to light. earlier i spoke to john lewis of georgia. in athens and asked him for an update on the situation. the latest is that although the fire has been contained. and that we see no fresh flames around. keeps rising water into the dozens over that people are already saying that several people are still missing some of them at sea as they try to flee when the point to both. started streaming to avoid. the flames are currently being searched for at

the moment the local authorities have set up small squads going from house to house having to search through after one thousand two hundred buried houses into three hundred vehicles for any survivors and just this final stretch. there was a very strong southerly we. often. found the fire which started on the east coast over the capital and apparently it was fairly underestimated by the fire said if you do another fire on the west over the car because that was their priority at the moment so this destructive fire close to. took about thirty minutes to. sweep

across from the mountain on to the sea. clearly to have work to a. given the scale and the fervor also t. of these blazes how a residence that coping. well it's very difficult for the fire service to go even in our city over the phenomenon or groups bringing there weren't already speaking already learned proportions. we found the fire so it. was extremely difficult for the president's response you don't know very pretty standard which is a very you well. i think european union obviously has special has been we do hope that that head arrives in time to make a difference george again cocoa policy thank you very much for that update from athens. they've now been updated with some other stories making news around the

world several people are seriously injured after the rockets were fired at of qana stance capital kabul no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack it comes just two days after a suicide bomber blew himself up near kabul samples killing at least twenty three people that attack was claimed by the support islamic state. analysts in the u.s. north korea has begun taking down key facilities at a missile test site these satellite images reportedly show dismantling underway at the saw his satellite launch station north korean leader kim jong un had promised to dismantle the site at a summit with u.s. president donald trump in june. japanese officials in unprecedented heatwave has killed at least sixty five people in just one week more than twenty thousand have been hospitalized with heat related illnesses in the same period soaring temperatures have been blamed for at least eighty deaths since the start of

july the countries where the agency is now classifying the heatwave as a natural disaster. the german football association has hit back at accusations of racism made by football star masood zeal the organization says it supports diversity and has worked on integration in germany for many years there is made the claim over the weekend when he also announced he'd quit the german national team today turkish president john said he spoke to on the phone and praised his decision is in who's of turkish origin was photographed with the turkish president back in me he said he faced this is a and disrespect from the public and the media in the aftermarket following the teen's disappointing the world cup performance he was also criticized by the german football association. this is resignation from the german national side has also

been hotly debated in his own hometown of gessen kishan in western germany which has a large turkish community people there feel that his decision highlights ongoing problems with integration in the country. this is where a young message often had a kick about the training ground in the german city of guns and. today an amateur team is playing here about the resignation of the german national player is on everyone's mind. it's new to get some for him it's a brave move by him but as i see it he's only criticized others without accepting that he might have made an error in my view of his mistake was not to have spoken out earlier. as i'm going off and it's not all gone wrong to say it's over by resigning it's made things with integration even worse but for a while i had the feeling that we were all coming together as the chairman the turkish and spanish italian. it all began here at the club vest folliot zero four

as it was grandparents were coal miners who moved from the black sea coast to girls and kitchen he was the first footballer of turkish descent to play for germany after world cup marco langer used to play football with ozil in his hometown. he was quite introverted when we met his kids he was a very quiet boy always carrying a ball around always with his father near the pitch. and example to follow until recently ozil had been a proud poster boy for integration today many germans were turkish heritage can understand how one photo could change everything. he was sent by germany's own fans all because of a photo also took a photo with article americal it's his business takes a photo with her to watch the scope it's a catastrophe how bad things have gone and because of one photo for me it's treasures. turkish german all both integration research is from the essence center

for turkish studies say young people feel close to germany but also different from the non migrant population they say germans and german politics struggle with people who don't want to commit to just one nationality. research allow me a card or has called for a reasonable debate on identity she says the integration policy of the german football association has failed. the harmony we have a real racism problem in germany it's not something we can say is exclusively on the far right racism has long existed at the center of the society. she says those who have the interests of both sides at heart have lost the winners of the debate nationalistic turks and the german far right. six time when big madness ryan lochte he has been handed a forty man band for doping by the u.s. anti-doping agency locks he accepted the sanction for his use of

a prohibited intravenous infusion the us when i posted a photo on social media of him getting an i.v. drip which led to a visit investigation lucky said he wasn't too clear on the rules and hoped other athletes can learn from his mistake. you're watching the dog you knew was coming up ahead today or one of the symbols of sustainable energy would wind turbines are anything but green when it comes to recycling we visit the german companies that's hoping to change that that's of monica in business is coming up shortly. pakistan is heading to the polls amidst an unprecedented crackdown on the media. believe it tell you everything you need to do with live coverage and reports from islamabad and love all. to sleep on the wu.