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bialik guest. managed by from. this is the w. news coming to you live from berlin disaster strikes on africa's biggest lake and dozens drowned as a ferry capsizes on lake victoria the death toll is expected to rise further tanzanian officials fear as many as two hundred people may have died also coming up the fight for affordable housing in big cities germany's leaders hold an emergency meeting after housing prices in berlin surged by twenty percent that's
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a bigger jump than anywhere else in the world. and while the of the world anti-doping agency lifts a ban on russia's drug testing laboratory despite widespread opposition russian track and field athletes haven't competed under their country's flag since two thousand and fifteen. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us dozens of people have died after a ferry carrying more than four hundred passengers sank thursday on lake victoria intensity and waters the death toll is expected to rise further as rescue efforts continue on friday about one hundred people have been rescued so far thirty two are said to be in critical condition the ferry sank near the shore between the islands of new korra and. the are. loaded vessel reportedly capsized when passengers
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clustered on one solid. correspondent catherine is covering the story for us from nairobi katherine what's the latest you're hearing from the disaster site well so far what we know is that rescue efforts have resumed to this morning. forty four bodies have been retrieved forty four people have been confirmed dead president did offer a statement condoling with the families of the affected or the fact of families of the tragically we also know that the death toll is expected to rise as a few rescue efforts continue ok so many people are still unaccounted for and hopefully the rescuers will find more people alive do we know why the boat sank.
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well the main reason or the main blame is over overloading of the boat the ferry actually has a capacity of one hundred people but there was so many more than that someone say there were three hundred some say four hundred so well over its capacity and it was also carrying heavy coghlan like cement and maize so that is what may be blamed on the incident but then dead those who say that you know make victorious known for its rough rough waters so the weather some people say the weather had something to do with it because so over crowding and possibly the weather contributed to this particular disaster understand that very disasters are purley common on lake victoria why's that. it is very common on lake victoria because of the rough waters and. this is not the first incident that we've had in one thousand nine hundred sixty times and you had the same incident where at least five hundred
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people were killed when their boat capsized as well in two thousand and sixteen another fifty thirty people. died after their boat capsized as well and in two thousand and twelve from the ugandan side we also have incidences of ferries capsizing in the indian ocean this one that sank off the island of zanzibar killing at least one hundred forty five people the common practice here is the usual need these ferries are overloaded and they don't carry more than their capacity so this is why there's a lot of these incidences. thank you so much do you ever use catherine and wonder talking to us from nairobi. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today meet me as president tran di qual has died at the age of sixty one according to state media president quang had suffered a serious illness and had been treated both of home and abroad he served as
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vietnam's president from april twenty sixth seen. thousands of protesters who marched in guatemala city against corruption the protest comes after president jimmy moralities decided to end the work of the un anti corruption commission it had led high profile graft probes targeting dozens of powerful kemal ins including morales and his family. authorities in peru have recovered more than seventeen hundred ancient artefacts which have been stolen from the country they included. historic relics from various lost civilizations in the and be a nation the items were repatriated from europe the u.s. and other latin american countries. former rap mogul marion show knight is set to face twenty eight years in prison for manslaughter after he ran over two men with his pickup truck in two thousand and fifteen knight founded the influential death row records and promoted hip hop stars including dr dre and tupac
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shakur. average and low income ers around the world are struggling with rising rents and a shrinking supply of affordable housing germany is no different and today a chance i'm going to michael and her ministers are getting together with property developers and lobby groups to address what has already become a pressing issue for many german families last year when it was the city with the past just growing property prices in the world prices here jumped by twenty percent in just a year three other german cities hamburg munich and frankfurt were also in the top ten or fordable accommodation is desperately needed. that's why the chancellor has pledged to invest five billion euros into housing and she's promised to build one point five million affordable homes over the next three years but unions and tenants associations say those targets will not be reached they accuse the
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government of not doing enough to create affordable living space for people with little income. and apartment viewing in the much hyped bilin district of nyc and we're only allowed to film the floor it's a two room flat on the ground level eight hundred fifty euros a month well included some of these interested tenants have been searching for months. is really really really really hard that your salary must to be treated as more than the rent. and we know that we believe is one of the most desperate city with a lot of an unknown employer. also the salary where when you work they are not so high they are into this what's my impression. it's on the ground floor. facing east. it doesn't get much natural light i find it expensive for what it is. but the demand for living space in berlin is enormous it's estimated the city
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needs an extra one hundred seventy thousand apartments that's forcing rental prices up those looking for a flat have few options for many home hunting is a full time job. i remember accountable in ten years ago finding an apartment was an easy one the first apartment i rented had two rooms and it cost only five hundred euro now prices doubled. in this house in the hip princella back neighborhood residents refused to accept the threat of higher rents for posters and protests they successfully campaigned against a new investor trying to buy the building. you have looking for a movie isn't quite going to be seen as it was in that expose we saw a group of possible investors they were walking through the house with investment brochures speaking in different languages that's when we thought here goes our
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hives let's get off and then we quickly organized ourselves internally we held meetings and discussions we knew we had to do some things it was because because we didn't want to sit back and wait in the year investors could buy the house and renovators away this year people want to hear that you better that we live here for dibley rosa goes to the school nearby this is where we have our community our friends we have to start thinking about moving our entire lives somewhere else. such worries brought the house together artists and freelancers live here they pay six euros per square metre a month and some nearby buildings rents are almost double if you here could afford such prices but now a public housing company has agreed to buy the building rents will still increase but only by a fraction it's a happy ending for these tenants but they want politicians to do more for the rest of their land. it's fundamental that housing isn't too expensive that people can
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have a roof over their heads and diverse groups of people can still afford to live in the city. the campaign posters are still hanging on the walls they're sending a message to other tenants about why it's important to join together and fight for their rights. they've out of cocaine produced in colombia is skyrocketing despite hopes that the twenty sixteen peace deal with the guerilla movement park would reduce cocaine production now the government says it's getting tough on cocoa farmers with the help of drone. cocaine cultivation in colombia has hit a new high according to the u.n. the acreage of coca plants the raw material used to make the drug increased by seventeen percent last year the u.n. says farmers have stepped up their use of fertilizers to boost productivity.
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in cultivation increased investment with agricultural inputs like fertilizers increased and productivity and plantations has improved plantations produce thirty three percent more leaves than in twenty twelve. in. this particular drug problem is an ongoing one for the colombian government the violence of the drug trade with rebel groups paramilitaries and gangs making billions of dollars from cocaine has plagued the country for years earlier attempts to suppress crops by spraying them with the herbicide glyphosate were halted after the w.h.o. linked it with cancer but there's a new result from the country's president do k. to get on top of the problem by using targeted fumigation deployed by drones which can fly low enough to limit the dangers associated with glyphosate he discussed a new strategy to tackle the problem. our goal within the next four years is to
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have strong results if you ask me we can set ambitious goals of eradicating more than seventy percent of the cultivation that we have today. look at that it was roy. whether using drones or forces on the ground. world anti doping agency water has voted to lift a ban on russia's anti doping agency the move paves the way for russian athletes to return to the track and field competitions and for the country to host major sporting events the ban have been in place since twenty fifteen. the biggest doping scandal in sports history might be coming to an end the russian anti-doping agency will be reinstated pending some final technicalities the decision has been heavily criticised by various athletes and national anti-doping agencies but is being celebrated in russia. the other sure this is a first step the important one it opens the way to our sportsmen and our
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federations to participate in sports competitions moreover it opens an opportunity to host international competitions on russian territory. just before the twenty sixteen rio olympics water investigates a richard mclaren revealed russia had adopted a state sponsored doping program in the lead up to the such the games he concluded more than one thousand russian athletes across thirty sports benefited from the program. very quickly we learned that there was a lot more going on than just what without it socially and once we learned that and it was early days in the investigation yes we were more than surprised to. the potential scope of what was going on. but water has now backed down from its demands for russia to accept the mclaren report in order for the ban on its look for a tree to be lifted and restart it has agreed to hand over its samples and historical
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data for further investigation by the end of the year with that key condition met the executive committee of water has chosen to place its trust in her saga but it may be a decision that puts the agency's reputation at stake. or for more on the russian doping story we've got mccambridge from v.w. sports here good morning what did you think when you heard that water had lifted the ban on russia's anti doping agency well i just find this completely unsurprising i think the right has been on the wall for this decision since june when the. b.b.c. uncovered letters between the water president craig reedie and russian sports minister is essentially offering a compromise on the previously agreed conditions for risottos reinstatement now you have to watch the software was the tough stance here they had an opportunity here to lay down the line and they've just totally missed it and anti doping experts
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have come out to speak about thursday's decision they've called things up the will to ring inexplicable premature and i have to say i agree with every single one of those. russia continues to deny the allegations of running a state sponsored doping program for some observers looking at this from outside this looks like a case of water just caving in to the russians is that what happened in my opinion absolutely they have i mean originally russia were given two to keep conditions that they had to be in order for risotto to be reinstated the first was to accept the findings of the mclaren report and the second was to hand over their laboratory to wada so that historic data and samples could be tested and you know athletes that were previously involved could be properly tested and punished in a retrospective lee if needs be now they've done neither of those things they never accepted the findings of the mclaren report instead they just admitted failings on their part and they get to turn their lap over to water so for me it's an
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absolutely baffling decision. after this decision i mean people we do want good athletics right will this be easier now for russian pleats to go forward to compete almost certainly i mean the international athletics federation is meeting in december to make a farnell decision on whether or not these russian athletes are going to be allowed to compete as a twenty nineteen but i think wada have just completely removed the justifications for any further ban so it would be stunned if these athletes weren't greenlit to carry on competing in future and what about hosting major sporting events is it now going to be easier for russia to do that i think it's extremely likely that russia is just going to carry on as normal they can to carry on. bidding for major international competitions just as they always would i mean let's be forget that actually hosted the world cup this year i mean it was an incredibly positive tournament for russia to host they've come out they look incredibly good light so of course they're going to want to bid for more things in future and now i don't think there's anything stopping them thanks so much cambridge from did every sports
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. football down the europa league group stage kicked off on thursday with much they won featuring three bonus league teams in the battle of the red bulls was all sport downed light six three two with a goal in the waning minutes both clubs are funded largely by the austrian energy drink company red bull leverkusen beat vulgar inside neutral go read three to hop out bag to brace in the come from a high end victory and earlier praying for grab the two want to one away win against marsay lukas toro and each hit target for untapped over to go hope no one turkey's worsening economic woes and terry turkey sharply cost is growth for cost in a half full this year and next the turkish finance minister is. in berlin today and he's carrying some heavy economic luggage the lead up has plunged by
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forty percent this year over concerns about president other ones influence on monetary policy and there's a deep rift with the united states inflation is now over twenty percent and the situation is getting was every day as our correspondent found out in istanbul. still have work to do but it gets harder by the day eight years ago he set up on his own as a silversmith in istanbul. each piece is hand crafted it's hard work and until recently it's paid off but the currency crisis has changed everything silver has to be imported and paid for in dollars as a result the cost has skyrocketed and with people worried about their finances they're buying less jewelry. to move you know if we're going to sink half as much as last year. under in the red in terms of profit. but other people are
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even worse off i've had people who've had to shut down their businesses coming to me to ask if i can take on some of their stuff. in one market for the new model but it's actually the question really is what i think you want to use will be your small businesses like nazar especially badly his but larger companies are struggling to the lure us to climb has made loans taken action dollars or euros far harder to pay back all over turkey people can see that the notes coming out of the a.t.m. are losing value. phones have become more expensive they now cost fifteen hundred two thousand lire more than before as well as food transport everything. to call it the truth which in all the chocolate i buy for the kids first it cost one lira and one fifteen now it costs to layer a market even at a discount supermarkets are no longer chief. market value in an elected government
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precisely companies are pretty much robbing us blind they put their prices up every month into the mic. carom alcan is an economist and business columnist at the pro-government newspaper sabah he admits that there are problems but he insists it's not the president's fault and that the conditions for recovery are in place. the model of the growth for the next one and the whole for years mostly be about the resume and export effects for the groups we will find the way to decrease the government expenditures and after the opposition period we will begin to see easily two point five four percent or higher than four percent for the turkish g.d.p. growth between two thousand and twenty two two thousand and twenty three for second twenty twenty three could be too late he's not even sure if his business will be
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able to stay afloat until the end of this year. plenty of problems there and we are now joined by customs union chief economist suffers ours in the bank and joins us from frankfurt cost the turkish finance minister alberich is in berlin today what does he want from germany what can he bring back what is an economic crisis so i think you need three sorts of support first from the turkish voters millions of which are residing in germany second economic supporter that their country needs very very much and germany is. a turkey's most important trading partner and third political supporter on an international level here is that that is something he does not have especially not from the us at this stage you mentioned the us turkey is blaming the u.s.
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for their economic crisis do they have a point. not at all the economic crisis is something of whole making it is being caused by latino policy said that they lead to the economy overheating by too low interest rates by two local currency reserves and by it to a high current account deficit to the sanctions the us has a post was just one little thing that added to all of this but it was not the root cause of the crisis how come berlin help in that. water i guess. is important for the way we still have the refugee crisis in europe or so or there is something where germany needs support from turkey while we are still in we are we are in
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a military alliance with turkey in a period where the wood and multilateralism is falling apart or so i think strengthening the lines or strengthening economic and political ties between germany and turkey are in their mutual benefit concert very briefly if you can how dangerous is the situation for southern european banks who is still have believed s'posed in turkey well some especially spanish it's dangerous for those banks that i believe our banking system is more robust so it wouldn't be dangerous for the system it's. constant use that thank you very much. the state of migration here in europe was high on the agenda at the e.u. leaders summit in austria on thursday the big challenge how can the millions of migrants who have arrived here be integrated into european societies most experts agree the key is to get them into work and quickly very often small businesses are
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leading the way in that field because they are having troubles filling vacancies example from the various shows. driving large amounts of beer around that's not mean sava nice main job. he's employed by the hallowed brewery. i'm sure proud about helen of this because of big news on the knowledge they how to walk. busy and deployable or show are so kind to me yeah sure fairly trivial got fried had they hired him three years ago he needed people for simple unskilled labor. just love it i mean seventy seven me has been working for the company since march of twenty fifteen is a good worker after him we hired three more refugees. the migrants are young and they learn quickly but for halle the social aspect also plays
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a role he pays for the refugees german classes and ensures that they find accommodation. all my stuff is all over the job is most important they have a structured day they have their own money that is important i talk a lot to the refugees and they all say that they do not want to depend on the payments they would get from the german state people meet the chamber of industry and commerce has established a network with the aim of integrating migrants into the labor market that there's this deposits are a fact there are two motivators for the companies to commit themselves socially and to contribute to society and the other is quite simply the lack of specialists many enterprises need people and they simply found an exciting target group a lot of young people who want to build something for themselves. and that means seventy and his colleagues grows between one thousand eight hundred
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and two thousand euros a month depending on how many hours they work and after being here so long the new one say they almost feel like they're from here. british luxury comic aston martin says it is seeking a valuation of five point seven. billion euros when it goes public next month the comic a famous as the value of luxury vehicles to the james bond franchise will become the only car makers will listed on the london stock exchange just martin says the i.p.o. will go ahead with or without and that it has stockpiled engines and components however and says restrictions on the free movement of goods could affect supply chains costs and recruitment most of aston martin suppliers are companies based in the. that's all your business here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you here on d w d m ferry has capsized victoria killing dozens of people officials fear the death toll could
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reach the hundreds. of. political leaders will meet in town planners and lobby groups later today in an effort to address the country's growing housing crisis the coalition government has promised to build one point five million new homes. you're watching news a live from berlin there's more news coming up at the top of the hour don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that is of course e.w. dot com thank you thank you very much for watching bye bye
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