this is deja vu news coming from a land townsend's wait to be rescued from devastating floods in india the task is overwhelming local authorities in the state of their appealing to the government to send more over a quarter of a million people have taken refuge in emergency shelters and more rains are on the way also coming up. talks for the second time in three months all differences remain we'll ask our political analysts whether we could be seeing signs of a stall in germany. and it's a once in

a lifetime spiritual journey over two million muslims arriving back and saudi arabia to begin the five day hoshko grange but look at some of the challenges facing the program. on a welcome to the program authorities in southern india are struggling to cope with some of the worst floods in over a century more than three hundred people are dead and more than three hundred thousand have been displaced rescuers in the state of kara are stepping up efforts to bring food and water to the many people still stranded by the high water. with much of the states on the water. still waiting for rescue ten days of relentless monsoon rains have brought chaos to this popular tourist destination. landslides

and bridge collapses have left many areas cut off boats and helicopters the only way out but rescue is not always possible the water flow is very. very difficult to go towards there. to convince them. there is to provide food and water to them so that they currently so i don't know what water recedes a nationwide drive is underway to send relief equipment to carry. out a neighboring state to suffering a lot i need to give you all my energy and my time to do help them a lot. with parents communication lines down and essential supplies running short trains carrying clean drinking water and rice have also been pressed into service. after taking to the air to assess the damage for himself india's prime minister narendra modi has promised more than seventy million dollars in aid.

for more on the story now we're going to cross over to our india correspondent tanya fall in the carthon year how has the situation in aceh quest developed. well you know the reasons are please it's likely in catalogue this morning which is of course a particular site that off the last days of heavy rains but indeed with office have gone for continued heavy rain in isolated pockets and of course the rescue work there will continue going around the clock in what is still seen as months old emergency i mean as you said in your call causes the people remain stranded across the city and the hundreds of thousands of them have converged on you know holes belonging to schools and to improve churches and mosques and we're hearing that there are little local districts to see if there are some police can find it difficult to access and water and many people are also using traditional media to really great information and k'nex briefly to build to control them and that of looking to sort of a major like a few wouldn't need to because many asked ations and bomb these remain submerged

and i think the biggest challenge now for providing clean drinking water to rescue for the men go to trickle down to the states remain in the water. and the monsoon is of course a recurring event so why is this a particular one so dramatic. you're right that you know cattle particular is really no stranger to heavy rain due to the occasional india's fault western edge it usually gets extremely heavy rain throughout the entire monsoon season great until september but this time the reason to be unusually heavy really unprecedented and then a two districts in the state alone which is you know received almost as much rain as the entire state really expects to get in this time so i think the scale of the problem isn't the masses and what is kind of compounded it is the fact that the central government has still been so also open doesn't advance and was going green cross case as the waters reached danger levels and that ended up in undertaking many many villages downstream and the correspondence on if on the covering is up to

date on carla thank you. here in germany chancellor i'm going to america have held talks with russian president vladimir pearce and the crises and both syria and ukraine on a key joint energy projects were high on the agenda that he just released no statement after the talks but ahead of the meeting they both indicated a willingness to compromise on issues that have soured our nation thirteen that countries in recent years america emphasize russia's important as a global power a person called on europe to help rebuild war torn feria it was the two leaders second meeting in three months. and he deputy political correspondent time and young who father report joins me in studio now well confinement so do you think that the talks were assigned that there is an improvement in relations between germany and russia well a little bit anglo american says that she wants good relations with russia and vladimir putin is used to he other day about having a permanent dialogue. but of course contacts have dropped off

a lot since two thousand and fourteen when russia annexed crimea and so i think in a world in particular in which president trump has to the change the calculus of a lot of foreign policy issues you know maybe russia and germany feel the need to talkies greater than ever so also one of the things that impressed me was proposing was for europe to open its while us and help rebuild syria do you think he's going to get his wish yeah i mean that to me putin was saying yesterday that you know the reconstruction of syria is the next phase and of course the fighting there hasn't fully stopped yet. he was hinting that it's in europe's interest to pay op he was even talking about the possibility that syrian refugees could start to return back home from europe as well as from the middle eastern countries e.g. course i think he's getting ahead of himself a little bit of the same time there's the prospect of a summit with russia and turkey and germany and france you know as another way of

moving forward on paste. and america says she's open to all those ideas of the she wants to give us a peace process to continue as well and she said yesterday the important thing is to avoid a humanitarian crisis in live in northern syria but i think anything that could shorten the war there that would appeal to angela merkel and to other european leaders so there seems to have been progress on ukraine and the two leaders do have some common interests regarding energy what was that that they talked about yesterday we have as this know would stream to pipeline project would bring even more russian gas through the baltic sea to germany a very important project for russia putin said you know this would make russia an even more reliable energy partner for europe don't trump by the way says it would make germany totally dependent on russia so he's critical of it but merkel says that what she wants is russia to agree that even with nord stream two russian gas

will continue to flow through ukraine as a transit country because that's the strategic relationship there putin was very skeptical he said any such deal would have to make economic sense and his spokesman after these talks last night was quoted saying you know that russia was thinking of taking measures against the countries that were trying to block the nord stream project so there's a lot of differences on that key energy relationship as well plenty of discussion very little agreed ok thank you very much. next the the other stories making news around the world the indonesian island of lombok has been struck by a magnitude six point three earthquake its epicenter was in the island's northeast the quake caused panic and local damage is no word yet on casualties this is the latest in a number of quakes to his lombok the most severe on august fifth killing nearly five hundred people. the first family reunions between north and south koreans in

three years is set to go ahead and preparations have koreans have been gathering in a border town tomorrow to hundreds said the north koreans would have a rare chance to see family members the reunions program was put on hold political tension in twenty fifteen. london police say they charge the driver of the car which has been several people outside parliament this week with attempted murder sudanese foreign british nationals study comes here is set to appear at a london court on monday three cyclists were injured in the crash on tuesday. hundreds of people in argentina have signed a petition renouncing their ties to the catholic church organizers are also calling on the church to stay out of politics become paying combs off the country's senate rejected legislation that would have legalized some abortions are santana is the home country of roman catholic leader who promises.

well in some football news now on the german cup first friends continued on saturday and there have been some shock results reigning champions and trucks func for the first the biggest upset the forty year old and beating them to one stroke are also made an early exit losing two nil to homs are all stuck but by and munich managed to avoid embarrassment tickets and obs cure fourth division cope called drucker's then with a late goal from rupert everett handing by in the one nil victory. cliff divers impressed hundreds of spectators in crimea as they took part in the cliff diving world cup the boxing resort town of scientists provided a stunning backdrop while the three twelve competitors wowed the crowd lining the beach with diverse knowledge themselves off a twenty seven loser high platform and the winner with a familiar face champion gary hart from great britain once again one for

a surprise and took home six thousand u.s. dollars. well it's not just football it's getting back under way at the moment it's only a few days now until the second half of the formula one season begins and after twelve twenty one races. vettel trails defending champion lewis hamilton in the driver's standings but there's plenty of time to bridge that. is close to the title they have been for a long time. this year's ferrari is nothing if not. told the new chief technical officer has overseen the creation of an innovative machine the early results were positive ferrari started the season with two. we have all the reasons to be confident i think will cause great stuff to come so plenty to look forward to but as of yet for all we have failed to fully capitalise on their technical superiority sebastian vettel looks are usually vulnerable on four

occasions mistakes have cost him the win like the german cream when first of all threw away the lead with the steering error and stretched out of the race eleven years without a title have obviously ramped up the pressure ferrari. this year is the first time in a long time that missy these don't have the technical advantage but the team is making up for it with effort and ingenuity and of course they can rely on four time world champion lewis hamilton he's delivered a driving master class so far this season the spirit within the team is stronger than it's ever been and these experiences that we've been having and how we've been handling them have really united us more than any other year hamilton is currently top of the driver standings ahead of second placed sebastian vettel with nine races left to run this season the jewel between these two is already heating up.

the annual pilgrimage is getting underway in saudi arabia over two million faithful from across the world are expected to tour in the five day event and represents one of the five pillars of islam and is required of all able bodies muslims once and their lifetime. it is by no means an easy journey walking up to fifteen kilometers a day in more than forty degree heat but for the more than two million muslims taking part this year it will be the trip of a lifetime. this is the first time that i've performed the hajj and it's been one of my greatest wish is for a long time i prayed to allah to help me to perform the whole ritual i hope this year will be a good one for the islamic nations. he said so. the hajj poses a great logistical challenge for saudi arabia and twenty fifteen more than two thousand four hundred people were killed in

a stampede and subsequent crush authorities say they are prepared we have done everything possible to prevent any kind of a stampede and that the new oil john mara. project is just. one evidence of how much saudi arabia is willing to do to bring take the security and safety of polygamy and make up people flock to circle to keep shape islam's holiest site it's what ms thems all over the world turned towards cheering their five daily prayers and a place that all hope to see in the flesh at least once in their lives. and just her minder of the tough story that we're following for you. flooding in india. two hundred. more than three hundred fifty people have already died.

of the death toll could rise. that's it for me for now you are watching. more. news and information on. how to. the teetotal personally. with the plans to make the game so special. should hold true for. more than football.