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that ends it for good malaria must die so millions can live. from berlin the fresh earthquake shakes the indonesian island. a series of traumas caused panic on the island just two weeks after the quake killed nearly five hundred people there also coming out. hundreds of thousands of venezuelans gave their country in search of work but as the numbers grow in neighboring countries
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say no more one will come. and record floods installed in india displaced more than eight hundred thousand people emergency workers struggle to rescue the many still trapped with food and drinking water running short. i'm welcome to the show the indonesian island has been rocked by a series of powerful earthquakes one measuring magnitude six point three and another the island's northeast coast measuring six point line a strong quake earlier today had its epicenter in the island's north east now it caused a landslide and damaged buildings but have been no reports of injuries or face how these are the latest traumas to get to the most destructive earthquake in the island history two weeks ago where more than four hundred fifty people were killed
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. well joining us on the telephone is who he is in he's on a number of island in a western town called tom and works for the international federation of the red cross was there with me thank you so much for talking to us at such a difficult time so what's the situation where you're at at the moment. of been in my county in lombok for almost two weeks now. that been quite a few of the show strong aftershocks happened in the pa to read here. and we had the red cross calling we've been staying in a small get house in march on t.v. and we've had quite a few aftershocks going on today we had to be aftershocks that afternoon and then
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tonight it was just around eleven inches and we had just the wrong quake. measuring seven magnitude quake and we all just rushed to the outside of the building and the power was gone and it's still gone no and when i was there in that small small cam or on the roadside in the dark. please say that you haven't had any power whatsoever how exactly are you coping with energy supplies. we just don't have any an hour at the moment as so we're relying on phone to contact our families and friends. here and and it's just too dark. to resisting outside of our side of the building at the moment by the roadside. so the pictures we're looking at now with me with me just to give an impression are people running around in panic immediately after one of the
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quakes i imagine there is a lot of panic along volkow is a public reacting. well obviously people were scared from the aftershocks and the one that shook off the stop to new and our colleagues on the ground were able to document some. way they were. trying to evacuate some community members and people just ran out of their houses that weren't damaged by the press. and and also there were. community houses were damaged by the earthquake that shook the island. part of the island this afternoon. and there are could have been quite some. tonight but we haven't had any reports yet on the damages on the ground.
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who think would be given your time in long book and also you have experience with the red cross have you ever experienced so many a case striking in just one day. there's been quite a few aftershocks strong aftershocks design mentioned earlier. they were quite you know to the sharks a day all literally the record mentioned you know hundreds of the sharks have been already on this island but today we've had too many sharks and quite strong and we all failed on the ground here who say who say on the island of long books thank you once again for your time. afghan president ashraf ghani has been canned a provisional three month ceasefire with the taliban he said the truce would only hold dipping surges reciprocated meanwhile the taliban have said they will see hundreds of prisoners for the forthcoming either holiday the analysis follow week
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will see a fighting in which the taliban launched an assault against the city of guns any couple. as though isn't a half gunnies appeal to the taliban for peace. we call upon the leadership of the taliban to welcome the wishes of afghans for a long lasting and real peace and we urge them to ready themselves for peace talks based on islamic values and principles. now time for some of the other stories making news around the world italian rescuers have ended their search for survivors from the genoa 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 to the ground below. reanna will had. begun in saudi arabia two million muslims from across the world are expected during the
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five day event it's one of the world's biggest gatherings in the coming days programs will take part in a series of rituals including circling islam's most sacred shrine. 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 currency starts trading this week 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 powder a kind 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 it into brazil. chaotic scenes
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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
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maduro is 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 rule and did abuse ophelia homs a routine 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
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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 are unimaginable 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 sleep are imprecise it's believed to be from two million up 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 is less to say the truth is that most
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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 venezuelans 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 them as well and out of these improvised conflicts the one that was attacked on saturday but we do believe that these riots will become more common as we see xenophobia 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 i agree to earn lower wages from the locals and we have seen some petty crimes and this has become
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a reason for many to believe that venezuelans will be churning their towns into a more insecure place and we do see that the situation in the bordering towns everywhere is becoming worse. hooty joining us from both a thank you authorities in southern india 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 stepping up efforts to bring food and water to the many people still stranded by the high water 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
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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 re hospital. but we've 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 prefer him to stay on higher grounds. that want all. oh. 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 ladies have addiction.
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alone six hundred to eight hundred of these big reasonable and. as rescuers delve deeper into remote areas they make more grim discoveries with. areas completely submerged they fear the death toll will continue to rise. 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 opponents f.c. dynamo nine one with. grabbing all goals and hand over six goals past. there was one upset however as fifth a fifth kenny scored a late winner to defeat against the two one rb lives meanwhile defeated victoria cologne three one. in motor sports. the rally of
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gemini the thirteen year old had already started strongly in his. state taking a bit in the first stage and then he managed to maintain that advantage staying ahead of his rivals on the four day race to see you a second consecutive victory in germany it was timex the win of the season up to the running of argentina and finland. it watching the news live from berlin telling the how he will be coming up with small at the top of the hour and pushing. mr. icon. to really. going to talk. to these moments in the life of a great. start sept.
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