this is deja vu news live from berlin the flooding in india claiming more than seventy lives at this hour drenching rain and overflowing dams are treating chaos in the southern state of carroll undeserved indian troops have been deployed to help in what the government says is the worst flooding in a century. hopes of finding any more survivors under a collapse french in italy are fading authorities say as many as twenty people are still missing and there's mounting hangers talionis try to understand what caused

this disaster. plus a malaysian court rules the trial of two women accused of assassinating the half brother of north koreans a leader and perceive the women were hoping to be freed today but the judge says they were part of a well planned conspiracy. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us we start this program in india where the death toll from flooding in the state of carola has risen to seventy seven officials fear that number will increase further with more trench all rainfall expected carola on the southern tip of india is a tourist magnet known for its pristine beaches coffee and spices the state is hit by monsoons every year but this year's weather has been called the worst than a century. prime minister narendra modi has ordered the defense ministry to step up

its relief operations. they've never seen flooding like this in carolina ten days of heavy rain combined with overflowing dams has and this state in water. in some cases homes have barely visible above the water line pretty steadily as all this looks most faiths hannity's have been caused by deborah for months lights. for those who survived the realisation they've lost everything. the last year has gotten to both floors of our high we went to her neighbor's place and stayed in the second floor of their house all those things have been destroyed by the water they are destroyed. more heavy rain is forecast in the coming days the priority is to get those in low lying areas to safety before it

becomes too difficult to reach them. with the will of this whole road was submerged under water and more than eighty families are stuck the people here came together early in the morning and helping to move these people to camps. being moved to shelters like this one tens of thousands of people have already been evacuated by the army. and there is another problem on the horizon people here could soon face a lack of drinking water after damage to treatment plants a cruel irony when the water from above is in anything but short supply. rescue teams in the italian city of genoa are still working to poll any survivors bodies from the rubble of a collapsed highway bridge local authorities say between ten and twenty. people

could still be buried beneath that debris at least thirty nine people were killed when a stretch of the iranian bridge caved in during busy midday traffic tuesday italian government initially put the blame part of it in a raid on the e.u. accusing it of limiting funding for infrastructure but the focus of criticism is now shifting to autostrada the motorways operate locals say there's a long history of concern about the bridges obgyn but autostrada insists its maintenance checks were up to date. or while the blame game has already started the investigation into the cause of this tragedy is bound to be a law. and. italian authorities are trying to understand what exactly happened to the mayor and the bridge how structural problems weren't spotted before it was too late and what to do now. when the maintenance costs reach the past the costs of restructuring then there are no intervals between maintenance works since

this bridge was under constant maintenance the time had come to consider replacement. only two other bridges in the world were built like this one in libya and one in venezuela bolivia bridge was closed last year due to safety concerns according to local media. still tragedy in general has governments around the world investigating their own aging infrastructure in germany like elsewhere in europe many large bridges were built over fifty years ago built for let's traffic and like the loads they need to be frequently monitored. when a bridge begins to lose its load bearing capacity we can usually tell this by for example cracks in the bridge or if sacking gets worse or if it starts to slow down it's. safety testing takes consistency expertise and constant repair and ad hoc tests need to happen after extreme weather events to. so what went wrong in

italy repairs were being carried out on the bridge at the time of its collapse but too late. it's a has some of the most expensive toll roads in the world but four of the country's bridges have collapsed in the last two years alone politicians are now calling for better monitoring. yes we've got to be clear that italy's structure plan was developed in the one nine hundred fifty s. sixty's and seventy's as time passes every bit of infrastructure just shows where in turn we need a monitoring system one that's constant more efficient and continuous. that movie will do more. but for those that lost loved ones or who were injured these demands come far too late. and as that investigation gathers pace the bridge operators autostrada are coming under intense scrutiny our business team will have more on that later in the show. now for some of the other stories making the news

at this hour molly's president abraham the car cost. has been officially reelected for another five year term after results show he gave sixty seven percent of sunday's runoff vote opposition leader somalia sissay says his party plans to protest the result the campaign was marred by accusations of fraud violence and low turnout. a former indian prime minister. has died he was a hindu nationalist who stoke fears of nuclear war with pakistan although he later began peace talks with the. unusually for many indian politicians he was never caught up in the fray of corruption scandals in the years the current leader to render modi said it was a personal loss. she residents in the afghan capital kabul have been holding funeral services for the victims of

a suicide bombing which killed thirty four people islamic state is claiming responsibility for that attack on an educational center just hours after the. bombing gunman besieged the compound belonging to the afghan intelligence services also called. thousands of people taking to the streets of nicaragua's capital managua to demand the release of protesters arrested since anti-government rallies began in april a number of high profile activists have been taken into custody the unrest was sparked by government plans to cut pensions. its two malaysian our two women accused of assassinating the a strange half brother of north korea's leader will face murder charges a malaysian judge has ruled that there is enough evidence for their file to continue and has told both of them to enter their defense the vietnamese and indonesian nationals face the death penalty if convicted of killing kim jong nam

last year illegibly smeared his face with a banned nerve agent as he waited to board a flight it to wall long poor international airport the women say they thought they were taking part in a prank or a t.v. show. let's get more on the story now from from kuala lumpur and correspondent sandra raso standing by for us a surprise in court this morning saturday to tell us what happened. well the local observers and definitely the defense had expected the woman the women to be free to be acquitted today because they just felt that the prosecution hadn't shown enough evidence that they cooper came down but the judge saw it differently he followed the arguments on off the prosecution saying moment off the crest of from this. that the two women also rushed. to wash their hands so they must have known so the judge that they have

a very dangerous product and you have to save this product you have to wash your hands like in ninety seconds otherwise it will penetrate skin and you might eventually die so it's all the arguments of the judge this was a band nerve agent that was used the defense team is saying these two women didn't even know what was happening where they say. yeah the defense said you have to look at the bigger picture and that this is a political act those two women they had no clue what was happening they were approached by those what they claim to be t.v. producers from china and japan to do to participate in this reality t.v. show that's what they said it turned out during the trial of those a man who approached them are the north korean nationals for south specs who are at large who obviously plan the whole case and they change their clothes every airport

and they fled. malaysia right after they are of the act and therefore helped by the way by the north korean embassy all that. leads them to save all those woman they just stayed in malaysia they continue with their normal lives so this is usually suspects or potential killers would behave. sorties are talking about an extensive conspiracy here why do they believe that kim jong nam was targeted. well you ask officials and equally south korean officials claim that was a political act committed by north korea it is known that kim jong nam was the hop . off kim jong un and. by his father and later on kim jong un criticized his younger brother and said he lacked leadership qualities so that was

enough motive. for him just to kill kim jong nam and also you have to say you have those four north korean suspects who fled the country and the north korean side has shown no sort of cooperation of willingness to corporate in this highly suspicious case and the quick question is if you will ever find out the truth ok it looks like this case is turning into an international thriller sandra rocks so for us in kuala lumpur thanks very much we have some sports for you now in the first world football rankings since the world cup are out and they show a massive drop for germany the team that went into this summer's tournament right number one here's what the new talks here looks like france of course takes over the first position by virtue of winning the world cup second belgium third brazil force is world cup runner up croatia way down number fifteen is germany this after the germans crashed out in the very first round of world cup matches

well just as they did at the junk chang winter olympics north and south korea are combining sports teams at the asian games to help bridge their political divide a combined women's basketball team is already shaping up as one of the favorites for a medal a single flag for a divided nation this young korean fran is watching history in the making. neither north nor south only korea that's who's playing and that's who these supporters are here to back. one south koreans and three north koreans make up this basketball squad to asian games which start on saturday will see united korean teams in three further events as well. although we've had our differences in our past i think it's about time that we present the differences and try to pursue

peace together so i think it's a very meaningful thing that both sides are able to get together and represent the korean peninsula as one instead of two separate flags so i think this is something to rejoice so to certainly is the team's success here in jakarta they thrashed their hosts. but for those involved this united front is less about the score than it is about the message. it was an honor to become the first unified korea team coach in history and i'm glad we won the first match so i think i'll play is all think the same thing. very few north koreans have the chance to support the united team is here in indonesia inside and outside the country that travel rights tightly restricted by kim jong un's regime the south koreans who are here have a privilege and a dream that one caught it all on the basketball court at least one korea is

already a reality. this is david is live from berlin we have more coming up after a short break. and with debbie. any time any place. we have on the back of our. songs to sing along to.