this is deja vu news live from berlin venezuela's crumbling economy fuels a south american migration crisis hundreds of thousands of venezuelans field search of work but as the numbers grow neighboring countries say no more won't be welcome also coming up. record floods in south and india displace more than eight hundred thousand people and i just see workers struggle to rescue the many still trapped with food and water and drinking water running short. in a. welcome

to the show venezuela's president nicolas maduro has announced a series of economic reforms aimed at curbing hyperinflation which this year could hit one million percent and you can see it starts trading this week on the country's protracted economic crisis has prompted hundreds of thousands of venezuelans to seek a new life elsewhere in latin america but they're facing ever tighter restrictions on getting into other countries. brazilians in the border town of protocol and not turn on venezuelan immigrants forcing hundreds to flee back across the frontier violence flared after an alleged attack on a local restaurant owner but tensions have been building for years as huge numbers of venezuelans escaping turmoil at home have poor into brazil. chaotic scenes also on the border between colombia and ecuador which has tightened passport requirements for venezuelans wanting to enter the country like many fifty year old

gabriele malo volta wants to travel through ecuador and then into peru but the authorities there too are cracking down on venezuelans. i'm here with my wife we're hoping for some kind of humanitarian measure from the ecuadorian government that allows us to enter so we can continue our journey to peru. we really want to contribute. if we don't work our kids will starve. we're going to stick together until we get to our destination in peru so we can work and fight for our kids. that may now be more difficult but with the venezuelan economy in tatters and no guarantee president maduro his reforms will succeed there's little incentive for would be emigrants to return home. colombia is a transit country for the thousands of venezuelans seeking work on

a new life in ecuador and their rule is a fear homs or who teach joins us from the capital bogota affiliates good to see you let's begin with you giving us a sense of the conditions in venezuela that are really forcing these people from their homes what's it like. well the crisis has reached on presidents of levels you said it before hyper inflation is believed to reach one million percent this year i spent some days in venezuela earlier this year to cover the elections and you can literally see people eating from the garbage you have to stand in line for hours because of the shortages everywhere and it takes hours to just get one apple or a couple of eggs now to april of this year about eighty percent of the population was believed to to be living in severe poverty and hundreds more are at risk of starvation venezuelans have lost eleven kilos on average and just eating is

a struggle every single day ophelia you're describing what i can only say and imaginable scenes but what's life for the people who manage to feed venezuela they considered to be displaced. well definitely they have a really tough journey once they flee their country they have to walk or hitchhike for weeks it takes them hot thousands of kilometers to cross the region and the estimates of how many venezuelans have been able to flee are imprecise it's believed to be from two million to four million people and even though many countries are trying to help colombia here for example has granted special permission to eight hundred thousand of them as well as to say the truth is that most countries are overwhelmed with the situation and that's why they're tightening their borders asking for these. for prostitutes for example in peru and ecuador which many of it as well as don't have because of the turmel in their country and

we've actually seen a scene a tightening of those borders in brazil which says it's now sending troops to the border town where recent clashes occurred how explosive is the situation. well these troops that will be sent out on monday are supposed to drive in as well and out of these improvised cancer like the one that was attacked on saturday but we do believe that these riots will become more common as we seasonal for we are increasing in the region we saw protests in ecuador earlier this this week asking the government to solve the situation because many fear that venezuelans will be taking over they jobs they do agree to earn lower wages from the locals and we have seen some petty crimes and this has become a reason for many to believe that venezuelans will be turning their towns into will a more insecure place and we do see that the situation in the bordering towns

everywhere is becoming worse. ruthie joining us from bogota thank you the indonesian island of lomborg has been rocked by a series of powerful earthquakes one measuring magnitude six point three on another off the islands northeast coast measuring six point nine a strong earthquake earlier today had its epicenter in the islands north east and it's caused landslides and damaged buildings but they've been no reports of injuries or fatalities is in the latest from most. of the more destructive earthquake in the islands this week two weeks ago more than four hundred sixty people were killed that. authorities in south india are struggling to cope with some of the worst floods in over a century more than three hundred people are dead and hundreds of thousands have been displaced rescuers in the state of kerala are stepping up efforts to bring food and water to the many people still stranded by the high waters more rains are

forecast for the coming days. with the heavy rain easing off rescuers the seizing the chance to evacuate those stranded down below. this toddler and its mother in the try at last. on the ground boats is still the most effective way to reach remote villages these people have been stuck here for nearly a week their homes are uninhabitable so they've moved all their stuff up the hill camping out together in this fashion ri hospital. but with been here for the past six days about thirty five of us adults and fifteen children managed to get here we got trapped because of the floods. title supplies are being dropped in by helicopter to deal with the growing shortage of food and water but that in itself presents dangers some preparing to stay on higher

grounds. that want off. and this is still a delicate and difficult rescue operation fast flowing water and mudslides as well as being deadly have also abruzzi trees and blocked off key access to roads. and. the blazers that this lady's happened its. own six hundred to eight hundred please a big reason all and. as rescuers delve deeper into remote areas they make more grim discoveries with the ice and reachable areas completely submerged they fear the death toll will continue to rise. let's bring in our india correspondents on your folic acid it's good to see you so bring us up to speed has the situation in the southwest developed. well egypt earlier today the rains eased somewhat we're getting reports that the floodwaters have receded in some

places that has come as as a bit of a spite after these days of torrential rains the weather office has warned to pay the rains in the coming days and isolated pockets but regardless of that of course the rescue operation continues really in walking in what is still considered an unfolding emergency you know like you said in your report thousands of people remain stranded in the state and those who have made it into relief camps hundreds of thousands of these a lack of food and water even even basic toilet facilities there are also reports that there was a lack of fuel and medicines in certain areas because many gas stations and public pharmacies across the state remain under water and i think some of the biggest challenges now are really trying to avoid an outbreak of disease and trying to get clean drinking water to the population since many of the what if we can in the steves remain under water in the water the damage so sonia we've been reporting that rescuers are struggling what challenges are they facing. what i think the

biggest challenge remains in getting access to those areas that are that are flooded you know entire districts have been cut off on the mainland because the hordes of either been washed away or damaged in the in the landslides and so rescue workers have yet to reach many flooded areas some of them are considered too narrow for boats to navigate the hundreds of fishermen have of course the diligence of also joined the effort indian navy in the army has also pitched in the troops and resources and diving teams so also that operation continues the monsoon it is obviously a recurring event but sania why is a situation so dramatic this year. that's right and look at a lot really gets a copious amounts of rain throughout the entire season quite on to but this time i think the rainfall has simply been really unprecedented really heavy you know just to give you an example just two districts a lot of cattle have received as much we fall as the entire state scenes during this time so i think scale of the problem is simply massive and the government of

getting was also been forced to relieve you know water from about twenty five dangerously swollen downs and reza was because of high water levels and that has created for the problems downstream you know with villages. india correspondence on your phone a car thank you. a sound of some of the other stories making news around the world afghan president has declared a provincial a provisional three month ceasefire with the taliban meanwhile the taliban have said they will free hundreds of prisoners from the forthcoming holiday the announcement followed a week of fierce fighting in which the taliban launched an assault against the city of kabul. italian rescuers have ended their search for survivors from the general bridge collapse the official death toll now stands at forty three after three more bodies were discovered overnight a section of the morandi bridge gave way last tuesday with dozens of cars plunging

fifty meters to the ground below. the on your bill graham age has begun in mecca saudi arabia over two million muslims from across the world are expected during the five day event it's one of the world's biggest gatherings in the coming days pogroms will take part in a series of rituals including circling islam's most sacred shrine a. in football the first round of the german cup continued on sunday and there were some big scorelines for the top clubs cologne beats their fourth division their fourth divisions opponents p.f.c. dynamo nine one zero with someone to audit grabbing four goals and one a well put six goals bust calls for her there well there was one more upset however as fifty assigned leipzig scored a late we're not to defeat against will two one. defeat to victoria cologne three

one. in formula one motor racing ferrari sebastian vettel is trailing defending champion lewis hamilton in the driver standings but there's plenty of time left to bridge the gap the ferrari team is closer to the title this year than they have been for a long time. this year's ferrari is nothing if not fast be 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 all cars great stuff to come so plenty to look forward to but as of yet ferrari 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 grand prix when federal threw away the lead with a steering error and crashed out of the race eleven years without

a title have obviously ramped up the pressure at ferrari. this year is the first time in a long time that my sadie's 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 over them 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 knowing races left to run this season the jewel between these two is already heating up. a stunning as ot ten x. has won the rally of gemini the thirty year old estonian i decided strongly in his toilet on thursday taking the lead on the first stage and then maintained a lead of between twelve and fourteen seconds ahead of his nearest challenge as it

was soundex the victory of the season after the rallies of argentina and finland. this is the news from berlin thank you for watching. can be told. his work card is for tonight. entry. beethoven's twenty. we're going to unofficial estimates more than one point two million venezuelans here in colombia legally and illegally.