consign a little card to the devil and local. stores aug nineteenth t.w. . out of. this is did every news live from berlin barcelona remembers victims of the terrorist attack one year ago today the family members of the victims gathering past the memorial in the heart of that city sixteen people were killed more than one hundred injured one of em drove into pedestrians on the famed course rumbler school of art also coming up. more than one hundred sixty people have been

killed as a southern india struggles with this worst monsoon season in a century and more every crane falls expected to get the very latest from our correspondent. plus how safe are italy's bridges with anger mounting over the deadly genoa bridge collapse italians tell the w. they're worried about the condition of other bridges across the country. and fans pain tribute to the queen of soul around the world. last. is frank lennon died in her home in detroit yesterday at the age of seventy six will take a look at this cultural icon. i'm brian thomas thanks. so much for being with us people in barcelona are marking the

first anniversary of the terrorist attack that left sixteen people dead and more than one hundred injured families survivors and officials all taking part in a memorial service in the catalonian capital where an attacker used a van to plow into crowds on. the city's most popular street spain's king. prime minister of the country and the cattle on leader all attending this event but separatist organizations are also staging their own ceremonies and honor of the victims to avoid being next to the king. while journalist stephen bergen has just returned from that ceremony and joins us now stephen can you tell us what was the feeling at this memorial one year on. it was very solemn and very dignified compared to last year were thinking was booed by a large group of the sentence protesters there were two ceremonies basically one on the rumble of the point where they came to

a store. and there floral tributes were laid by by relatives of the victims and then by the mayor of the local political leaders he went with them moved on to the bus or got to live near where the main events like there were no speeches by any politicians there was a journalist that his name stayed and there was music and then a poem by a short poem by the english poet chong. begins no man has and was read out by various older languages spoken by the various victims. and there was. a choir drawn up of children from local schools who sang somewhere over the rainbow imagine the house and that was basically it there was no pooing of the king there was no plan because there were only a couple of flags there was

a big banner hung up on a building saying the king was not welcome but as he had his back to it the whole time he probably didn't say ok now stephen people were asked to keep politics out of this out of the main ceremony was that the situation was not the case that people managed to not do that at the main ceremony you were at. yet there was no there was no so. no politics no placards only a couple of. the king was not booed in fact he was applauded. and apart from as i said his brother here and another one down the long run. there was no notice of the. ok now the is in a cell that launched the attack one year ago was destroyed is spain safer today well we don't know i mean there in a way that i think from memory the bus load it was the site was the last of any

significance of this point the whole series of these in berlin the longer than elsewhere beginning in nice. though but you never know with the people who come up with something else i think both sort of feels pretty normal i think it's perhaps a slightly higher level of visible security but. basically did this city continued perturbs in normal very very often times stephen perry and thanks very much for bringing us up to date on a day when catalonia and barcelona barcelona remembers instead seoul from flooding in the state of carolina has jumped to more than one hundred sixty carillon located on the southern tip of india is a tourist hot spot known for its beaches the states hit by monsoons every year but this year's weather has been called the worst in a century hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless by the floods and

are living in shelters right now. if only cars following this story for us from delhi sunny what's the latest that you're hearing . well it remains a dire situation brian you know it's a catalogue remains on high alert in the last twenty four hours the state has seen really torrential rains large parts of the state remain underwater you know on social media of seen a few really heartbreaking videos of people really neck deep in water some in their own submerged homes you know appealing to the authorities for help so there are thousands of people who remain stranded in different parts of the state and there are entire districts that have been cut off from the mainland because the roads have either been washed away or destroyed by the landslides public public transport in many places virtually come to a standstill in a rail service is down bus of this is a dog in the commercial capital of courtship the international airport to shut to because of the flooded runway and coach is really the gateway to get our hospitals

in that city also according to reports struggling to cope with a surge of patients who are being brought in from clinics that have been watching logged and of course there's a massive relief and rescue operation on the way the indian navy and the army have rushed in the extra troops extra resources and boats to try and get help to people in flooded areas and prime minister narendra modi is also set to leave this evening to you know oversee that rescue effort sanyo monsoons are of course an annual event in india and across south asia what makes this one so is sectional and and so deadly. you're right i mean you know canada in particular is really no stranger to heavy rains you know given that it's location on the southwestern edge of the independents usually the first state to receive rain from the southwestern monsoon and can not really see as heavy rain throughout the months of paid and right until september but this time the rains have been unprecedented and severe

they're being called the worst in the idea century and i think what has made the situation worse is that this is really the cut time in this one season that this rate that the state of seen flooding and the flood waters of that second time had really not quite was seeded in certain parts of the state before this list if this disaster struck so that's made it really worse ok with all of this in mind. are more rains on the way what what do the days ahead hold for terrilyn. well that's certainly what the met department of the weather office is saying they're expecting heavy rains until tomorrow. the airport and that i mentioned is also officially closed until actually august twenty sixth now we're hearing so certainly the situation is expected to keep to be bad until the end of the weekend i don't know what things look like next week on your former car for us from delhi following the story for now sanya thanks very much.

now we have a look at some of the other stories making in the news at this hour venezuelan doctors and nurses have been demonstrating against low pay and tearing conditions and hospitals the country's economic crisis has led to shortages medicine and health care. the protestors intended to march to the presidential palace and caucus but they were stopped by riot police. u.s. defense of defense officials say a military parade requested by president trump is being postponed until at least twenty nineteen the parade was originally planned for veterans day weekend this november the announcement came just hours after figures were released estimating that the event would cost more than ninety million dollars. archaeologists in northern peru have on earth an ancient mural from the last cut all civilization the oldest in the americas murals believed to be about three thousand eight hundred years old it's thought to symbolize a period of drought and famine brought on by climate change.

the vatican has expressed shame and sorrow over a recent report on church abuse cases in the u.s. and says pope francis is on the victims side of the report by an american grand jury was released on tuesday it accuses three hundred priests in the state of pennsylvania of sexually abusing children over seventy years. while it's to italy now and that country's transportation ministry has opened an investigation into the collapse of that major bridge in genoa that killed at least thirty eight people the ministry is also calling on the private toll road operator to quickly build a new bridge not its own expense as rescuers work to find people who may still be trapped beneath the rubble there's growing anger d.w. charlotte telson pill spoke with the talons worried about the condition of the country's other bridges. this is a scene replicated across this region homes nestled in mountains in the shadow of

towering concrete structures living in one such home as retired construction worker johnny has been here for thirty years for him the branch had long just been part of the scenery but now he's looking at it very differently. i am a little more worried but first i thought they would have closed this bridge temporarily after the miranda bridge collapsed and that they would have checked it properly i mean this has happened and i believe this was careless. the mayor and the bridge is just a short drive from here its collapse is made reassess just how safe this is your insistence. because. i've been thinking for years that something could suddenly happen to this bridge because i believe that the pillars probably only have about sixty percent of the family. compared to where.

it's not just residents living underneath structures like this who are now concerned it's also the drivers who paul say that bridges like this every day everybody. there when you're driving across bridges like this one and then not just across general throughout the whole of it there are many people. that cannot happen to me like the ill fated brain chain many in italy were built in the fifty's and sixty's they would have designed to withstand the amount of traffic passing over them today and as one expert tells me many were only ever expected to have a fifty year lifespan. of a new construction in that we tend to forget that. becomes. yes and the situation should be control of the much better we have to allocate the

money from the beginning to be sure that we have the possibility of controlling volution of us that are in other countries viscosity is very very strong you need. he's growing but probably is not enough strong the company operating the marandi bridge insists its maintenance checks were up to date back on the outskirts agenda much yani says regular maintenance work is also being done here but for him that's now another reason to warry. but it doesn't factor that there's so much maintenance means it's not really necessary after so many years fifty sixty seventy years maybe we have to consider building a new bridge. experts say the safety of infrastructure across the country must be reviewed in many cases they maintenance work will only delay the inevitable the emergence of more bridges not fit for purpose. we have some

sports now and spanish football is coming to north america league is organizing body says it plans to hold regular season games in the united states and canada the league assigned a fifteen year deal with a multinational media group to promote football by bringing teams like real madrid and barcelona to play games across the atlantic there is no word yet on when the first match will happen but there is word from the spanish football players association which is highly critical of the plan. well just as they did at the chiang winter olympics north and south korea are combining sports teams and there isn't games to help bridge their political divide a combined women's basketball team is shaping up as one of the favorites for a medal. a single flag for a divided nation this young korean fan 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. nine south koreans and three north koreans make up this basketball squad asian games which start on saturday will see united korean teens in three further events as well. although we've had our differences in our past i think it's about time that we preside over 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 they were able to 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 teams here in indonesia inside and outside the country their travel rights are tightly restricted by kim jong un's regime the south koreans who are here have a privilege and a dream what it is you want. on the basketball court at least one korea is already a reality. let's bring in javier and now it looks like there's been a policy breakthrough that could ease germany's crowd a chronic shortage of skilled labor it's definitely an urgent situation to say the least brian german businesses say the country is losing thirty billion euros a year in g.d.p. . because of the lack of workers now the german government is finally doing something to help them fill job vacancies it will make it easier for nonnie you nationals to come here to work the new law focuses on people with vocational

training in the future they will be able to come to germany without a job offer until now that rule has only applied to those with a university degree people will be chosen on the basis of their job qualifications age and knowledge of german businesses want more workers especially in health care and the traits of germany's lack of qualified workers is especially critical in the geriatric care sector according to the federal ministry of health there are about thirty thousand vacancies there that means inadequate care for the elderly and heavy workloads for those who currently nurse them as germans are getting older the problem will get worse by the year twenty twenty five if the vacancies could rise to more than one hundred thousand that's why the government hopes the new legislation will help germany tackle the problem pilot projects have proven successful as the following reports show. it's coffee time at this care home outside of munich. this woman is being

served her cake in liquid form. most of the residents here are very old and many suffer from dementia they rely on help from foreign workers like mohammed ali nazi. he moved here from tunisia a few months ago for a job as a care worker at this red cross run institution. i was born i feel accepted by the residents here. we chant to each other and exchange the news. or enjoy ourselves. in the afternoon the team meets for a handover. muhammad whose nickname here is dolly learnt german when he was in tunisia the course was run and funded by the german government as part of

a project called triple when it's a was to attract care workers from abroad for dolly's team having foreign colleagues isn't anything out of the ordinary. i think it's really brave to go to another country to learn the language. especially in an area like elderly care where communication is about ninety percent of the job. in work to muster the written and spoken language i say respect. dolly's boss monica fortunate helps foreign stuff with their move to germany when dolly arrived she picked him up from the airport and helped organize an apartment for him. she believes this kind of treatment is necessary to attract skilled workers to the care sector. as course about how it really adds value to our institution and it's really hard to get skilled labor on the german

market so for us this is a huge guest we're glad to have them and we support them. dolly doesn't have much time for homesickness today he and his colleague him on are weighing the residence. does he like his job and is planning to continue learning german. he also has his sights set on an official government recognised qualification as a care worker in germany. there's a lot at stake for the german economy we want to discuss this further with vito guy as he is an immigration expert at the german economic institute in cologne thank you very much for joining us and welcome to d w. like to start with a pretty simple question germany has had immigrant workers for decades now one things of the turkish workers that came in the sixty's for example was the existing legislation just outdated or is there a significant difference and what we're seeing now we have

a significant change because of to change the mix you may be able to have many people. going out of the labor market because they become all talk and not enough people coming from the young ages so we need much more of august in the past and that's the reason why the need immigration law and i meet this in kaufmann's however we do know that this problem is not new and politicians here frequently said the refugee crisis that brought about a million people from african and middle eastern countries into germany was a great opportunity to fill in the gaps with skilled workers we heard that many times and he was that insufficient or why the necessity to change the rules now. there's a few cheat immigration the top to a certain to keep but we have to problem that many refugees those could come best we need high school because in. industries tight something in the industrial sector five sample to house and so on yet people aren't coming here and they have gaps in

the labor market which doesn't fit the actually also need. i probably thought i thought this is specially if unplugged occasion in the house. the cajun and investors that are here because he doesn't have so much as he hoped and two or three years ago now you of course in the institute have contact with many people from the business sectors do you see a general salutation of this new law or a rather critic voices. well everyone in the section says we need a new law to creation is. the new law is is the science and at the moment the don't know the concrete regular lation so everyone says you need this law it's good to have it but it's necessary to discuss the concrete points in the law now briefly if you can aren't there fears that this could somehow spur that far

right discourse that immigrants are taking away jobs. well there is a certain fear but the problem is not the urgency if we talk about the fight in current and we know we have a leg of this inhofe care industrial sector so we haven't a problem if you talk about your skirt. the situation is quite different. won't it because those could. really fight people before creation with paintings so i don't see this poem a problem at the moment or i'd veto guys at the german economic institute thank you very much for the insight you're welcome leave business behind now and fans have been paying tribute to soul legend aretha franklin who died on thursday at age seventy six from back we had a cancer or distinctive voice captured the heartbreak and determination of millions

around the world she also broke through barriers with power anthems demanding racial and gender equality here's a look at how fans are remembering the queen of soul. you know. they have. leverage this is a theory first so many of her fans remember setting things right when she's been done wrong. from the sidewalk outside her father's church in detroit's. back to the apollo theater in new york to the hollywood walk of fame in los angeles an outpouring of love for a music icon. she was our queen and made the cut of that is there was no way all years p.c.t. . agree that her music words her advocacy have always been at the front

of her songs gave you that power like that confidence to step out in the world. she was the first ever woman inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame credit where credit was due flowed in on social media from politicians and her musical peers. the british singer elton john tweeting this she sang and played magnificently and we all wept we were witnessing the greatest soul artist of all time. this from fellow american singer diana ross and sitting in prayer for the wonderful golden spirit of the wreath the franklin. former president barack obama also paying tribute in her voice we could feel our

history all of it and in every shape our power and our pain our darkness and our light our quest for redemption and a. hard won respects. his father said she would sing for kings. and she also sang for president. on the. street. on leave. it. was on the on current u.s. president trump also paid his respects to the queen of soul she was given a great gift from god her voice and she used it well people loved aretha she's special woman she's.

a diva divine with a voice for the ages. to funding. and before we go a reminder of the top stories we're following for you at this hour barcelona is marking the first anniversary of terror attacks that killed sixteen people and left over one hundred injured families survivors and officials took part in a memorial service on the city's famous last from glass boulevard where edgy hottest attacker drove a van into crowds of pedestrians. and officials in india say the death toll from a massive flooding in the state of corolla has jumped to more than one hundred sixty eight hundred so fallon's of people have been left homeless by the floods the worst the state has seen in nearly a century. you're watching news from berlin primarily back with you at the top of the hour to stay with us.

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