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i am. this is deja vu news coming to you live from but it deserves to strike some africans because slaves more than a hundred passengers drowned as a ferry capsizes on victoria scores of people are still missing and officials expect the death toll to rise also coming up. maggie gets even bus as a new survey puts symptoms of the troops on the exposed region for twenty years the
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far right to return to for germany meanwhile and now the country's second biggest party. and aid organizations scramble to get aid into it live provinces that's a deal to delay fighting give civilians their moment of despite many have fled bottoms elsewhere in syria. hello and welcome i'm on with the cima more than a hundred people have died after a ferry carrying more than four hundred passengers sank on the victoria in tanzania in water as rescue efforts are underway a day off the disaster officials say chances of finding more survivors is low and the death toll is expected to rise a boss one hundred people have been rescued so far thirty two are said to be in a critical condition the ferry sank near the shore between the islands off and
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laura people in the region after taking to social media to express this sadness and anger over what many believe was an avoidable tragedy. for the very latest on the situation correspondent catherine bond joins me from nairobi katherine what's the latest from the disaster site and initial thoughts on the cause of the tragedy. now that the rescue mission has officially tended to a recovery mission the tanzanian navy doesn't expect to find any more survivors from here on out dozens of bodies have been retrieved within the last couple of hours and they expect to retrieve dozens more given that there was a market day there was a lot more people using the ferry and it's not quite still just the exact number of how many people were on this particular ferry and rita. as we heard many people are very angry about the frequency of accidents like this one why do we keep seeing
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disasters on lake victoria. well other than the fact that lake victoria has rough water the main issue is overcrowding of these particular ferries this particular ferry had a capacity of one hundred people but then it was carrying well over that local authorities put that number between three hundred and four hundred people on board and this is including livestock including mention dies including things like cement and you know maize bags of maize so it was it was overloaded it was carrying more than it's capacity and this is maybe the reason why a lot of boats go down on lake victoria and cats have been any attempts made to improve safety on the waters of lake victoria. well governments this is uganda kenya and tanzania have been looking into ways to maintain their ferries in fact this particular ferry had undergone maintainance in
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the last couple of months it had its two engines oval hold the issue is probably just implementation of the regulations that govern how many people get on board these ferries there are regulations that say that you shouldn't exceed the number of people required on the ferry but then now implementation down on the ground is one thing and that's probably what to governments are going to look forward or look into going forward how to implement so that these ferries are just carrying what they can bear. in nairobi thank you very much for that update. there's been i'll bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the bonds the death toll from a monsoon landslide in central philippines has risen to twenty two dozens of other people are still missing a party is forcibly evacuated people from five villages at risk of full of the landslides after days of heavy rains brought by typhoon court. the president of
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vietnam. has died at the age of sixty one state media says president kwang had suffered a serious illness and had been treated both at home and abroad he was vietnam's president since april two thousand and sixteen. authorities in peru have recovered more than seven thousand five hundred ancient artifacts which had been stolen from the country they include prehistoric relics from various lost civilizations in the andean region the items are repack created from europe the u.s. and other latin american countries. thousands of protesters have marched in guatemala city against corruption the protest comes after president jimmy let out list decided to end the work off the u.n. anti corruption commission it had led to high profile graft probes targeting dozens of powerful bottom olens including morales in south.
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america is under increasing pressure off the results of the new poorly here in germany only twenty eight percent of voters surveyed backed merkel's conservatives the lowest share in over two decades the survey also showed that the far right alternative for germany has overtaken the center left to become the country's second largest party for the first time ever with strife within the coalition with urgent opposition many are asking for how long can chancellor machall hold on. still be. this is usual at german chancellor angela merkel's weekly cabinet meeting yet the struggle to keep her coalition together is increasingly taking its toll. the latest germany trend by public broadcaster a r d again system ackles coalition government lose its overall majority the conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. drops to twenty eight percent its worst result ever social democratic coalition
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partner s.p.d. is down to seventeen percent while the far right e.f.t. party has become the second strongest political force for the first time polling for the remaining parties has remained the same. weeks of public wrangling over what really happened on the streets of chemists with the f.t. and the extremist right closed ranks in demonstrations and the constant power struggle between machall and her interior minister horses. have hurt the government the promotion of germany's chief spy hunter masson a medical critic as a compromise way to remove him from office also appears to be backfiring on the very man who had the idea. machall critic and interior minister horsy who his approval ratings have plummeted eleven points since april to twenty eight percent. the head of the various conservative c.s.u. party is facing increasing criticism from within his own party ranks this latest
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poll again suggests that coalition wrangling is a major problem and is playing into the hands of the far right f.t. . efforts on an assisted of his chief political editor joins me from up on i'm interested us as we saw gains for the far right if he according to the latest survey making is the second strongest party in the country what does this mean for the american. well it means that the pressure from the right is certainly growing and that is really. just an expression of the weakness of her own coalition government right now i'm going to market is used to pressure she's used to pressure from the right but with interior minister the wolf playing out in her own government and not being afraid of once again forcing upon her a potential government crisis which was now really averted i'm going to map sounds there we can and also very visibly weakened for her european partners as well she knows she needs to find something to tackle b. a d.
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from the right this latest poll puts it in second position but then again that's but a health warning on those polls we've learned that over the past two years and one of the reasons for these losses survey shows both the conservative blogs. and the coalition part of the s.p.d. have lost support. yes appears to be really a punishment by the voters who really thought it was rather an appetizing what they had to see over the past weeks this wrangling over chief spies somebody who clearly challenge machall somebody who's not in a political position makes political statements and is then promoted to get rid of him into a more political position is also sounds rather complicated but in the end it boils down to the coalition being busy with itself and that's something the voters don't seem to approve of and you put a health warning on this but we have to remember there has been
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a fair bit of infighting within the coalition government and within the conservative bloc if this goes on could the country be headed for fresh elections. well we certainly first of all have those recent elections coming up in bavaria anything could really happen after that but the expectation really is that hospital for who's also the head of the varian sister party might not survive those elections this would throw a lot of questions into the open but it could also then be a relief for german chancellor merkel i think where we stand right now were far way off fresh elections and we're certainly seeing a chance to use made it prime task together with the social democrats a coalition partner to avoid that pretty much any cost even if it means their own credibility. you see philip glenister we can accrue for thank you very much. the united nations has warned that a turkish russian deal to delay a major offensive in syria's live province may not prevent or fighting there the
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deal leaves room for syrian forces to take on terrorist organizations many of whose fighters live side by side with civilians is the plight of lives three million civilians many of whom fled fighting elsewhere in syria that has now become a priority organizations like the red crescent are desperate to get aid to them before the bullets start flying again. on reports from on the turkish side of the border with syria. how did this is urgent everyone time is short these aid packages are bound for the syrian border. but there are still empty boxes here at the red crescent depot in how tight. helps with packing even though it isn't one of his usual tasks he's the chief coordinator of his organization's aid to syria we're going to. use things we can
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care for one hundred twenty five thousand people from head to toe in the camps for displaced people and. but in order for all this to go smoothly it's crucial for the transport to go quickly and be well organized. in one corner of the warehouse there is a display of what the red crescent workers take across the border to shoes toys washing powder hygiene supplies food and cooking utensils for the it's in the the in the need in the most of the families there have been displaced in the province of it live alone there are more than four hundred camps and the people there have a very hard time getting by. most of them have lost absolutely everything they once had. turkey has taken in more refugees than any other country about three point five million syrians now live on this side of the border three years ago president out undecided the country could not host anymore and effectively close the border
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since then turkey has been trying to keep refugees on the syrian side and give them aid over there and to further its effort to prevent more syrians from crossing the border turkey has been building a wall it's more than eight hundred kilometers long and still expanding. and the red crescent truck arrives at the border crossing. i am not allowed to accompany me during journalists are not permitted at the moment to cross into it. but the aid workers have showed me this video from the red crescent it gives an impression of the scale of their mission. on the outskirts of bombed out syrian cities new tent cities are being built. sort of
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endless like and not all are as tidy as the camp filmed by the drones these images are from the syrian village of very close to the turkish border more than three million people are now living in the province of it house of them have fled fighting in other parts of syria. has returned from his eighth delivery and he says the people there are more optimistic since a feared large scale offensive by the syrian army was for now a very it's a glimmer of hope but no more. so they get a little we bring our aid supplies into the people there and we leave again but they are always there day and night for them explosions and bomb attacks have become a part of their daily reality for the children too that's very hard for me to take let's hope that this fighting truly comes to an end and all these displaced people can return to their cities because. the red crescent sends aid convoys
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across the border at least four to five times a week. makes his way back to her tie in turkey the next transports need to be prepared. that's a full on and she'll have more for you and businesses to work is economy has kept on growing until now really see what a slowdown could mean and that is. coming up for you shortly here watching the news live from berlin. is it germany to learn german. look from the. why not learn with him online along and free stuff from the w c.

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