not for god w.'s november focus. this is d w news live from berlin flooding initially leaves. as heavy rains claimed more lives across the country rescue divers and emergency teams are racing to locate survivors and officials a woman warning more extreme what could be on the way. also coming up islamists on the streets of pakistan are issuing fresh demands to see pakistani christians have been behind the insulting islam this up to pakistan's supreme court unanimously

a question for lack of evidence. and germany's fraud trial governing coalition gathers to confront its future as chancellor merkel prepares to give up her posse leadership the race to succeed is on but will have coalition partners so want to work the posse. mackinnon thanks so much for joining us. we started a silly west storms have killed at least twenty nine people this week the haas weather is battering sicily in particular a dozen bodies have been recovered from floodwaters one family lost nine members overnight and four cost as a warning more severe weather lies ahead. they were just trying

to enjoy the long weekend when the house was flooded nine family members including a baby in two children dead all my family is dead cries the father over and over again only this. two families had gathered in a sicilian country villa on a nearby river encouraged by heavy rainfall burst its banks. when the richer than it was so that when these tragedies happen they happen suddenly they do not give you any warning because until yesterday afternoon it was fine here we don't know i'm so sorry for these children it breaks my heart for these children knowing what happened three other people died on the island when their cars were swept away. after surveying the area from the air prime minister.

commented on the recent events or. already announced that next week in the cabinet will declare a state of emergency for all the regions that need it cicely has already requested we declare a state of emergency but i think this request will be updated in light of the recent tragedies. heavy storms have battered the whole of italy for a week with the country's north being hit especially hard thousands of trees like here in the vonetta region uprooted in just a few days. more than two hundred million euros have already been earmarked for relief but damage estimates are in the billions and warnings for extreme weather are still in place six italian regions remain on high alert for new storms. islamists in pakistan are renewing their calls for the death by hanging of a baby

a christian woman who was acquitted of to being sentenced to death of blasphemy angry protesters have states rallies since her acquittal was announced on wednesday next on supreme court said there wasn't enough evidence to convict bibi although insulting islam she says on death row for eight she is awaiting a decision her husband has now appealed to the u.s. and the u.k. to help the family leave pakistan citing fiz for their lives hundreds took to the streets of pakistan cities like here in karachi on sunday to protest against the acquittal of a c. a b. b. . yeah islam is fundamentalists have threatened to kill her if she is released and they threatened to kill the judges that's well if the ruling is not overturned. we'll keep protesting until a decision about hanging us here is made we're not going to be deceived by the government's conspiracies. on friday the government agreed with an islamist party to delay aasia bibi's release and stop her from leaving the country until the

supreme court makes a final review of its verdict. her husband aashiq masi says the family is in danger he appealed to several western countries including the u.s. to grant them asylum. requesting. the u.s. . as you. know the trouble in pakistan please help us. bring those of our sheik masi and its children are now living in hiding in the city of lahore early in two thousand and seventeen he spoke to a german television crew anticipating the current situation. but they received many death threats walks free they will kill us they also threaten to kill the judges that's why the case is taking so long everyone's afraid for their lives. now almost

two years later are sheik masi believes that amid the many death threats by extremists even his wife's distant relatives need to be brought to safety their attorney has already left pakistan citing fears for his life. earlier we spoke to. we asked him how likely it is that the family will be able to leave pakistan. he has appealed to a number of countries and we know that before that france and spain have offered asylum to the family to bibi but the question is what is the government going to do about the agreed to a deal in which to said that they would do. try to do big measures to ban bibi's departure from pakistan if that happens then it will become very difficult for bibi to leave pakistan and will remain under threat. and i was.

just speaking to us a little. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. fighting has escalated around yemen's key port city of the day yemeni forces backed by a saudi led coalition are launching a major ground assault to wrest the city from whose the rebels they have pounded rebel positions with air strikes and naval artillery officials say more than one hundred fifty fighters on both sides were killed over the weekend. iranians have staged mass protests against the united states a day before factions are reimposed sunday also marked the anniversary of the storming and seizure of the u.s. embassy during the one nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution in the capital terror on thousands chanted death to america. the pacific alcatel ago of new caledonia has voted against independence from france it was strong participation in the referendum and united nations observers and delegates from

metropolitan france said the vote was peaceful and orderly french president emmanuel not home welcomed the outcome. of the future of germany's governing coalition between i'm going to conservatives and the social democrats is topping the agenda too close to posse beatings in berlin today not full c.d.u. is holding their first session since the chancellor announced she would stand down as posse leader the social democrats debating whether they want to continue working with michael and her posse calls for an exit from the governing coalition have been growing louder up to the s.p.d. suffered bruising results in two recent state elections their leader under the analysis is under pressure to sharpen her policies profile or pull the plug on the current coalition. for more on this let's speak to w.'s chief political editor. who's in front of the c.d.u. party headquarters now the city used focus is now on finding

a new policy leader a success that's under machall tell us a bit more how this is going to work. well that's what's being debated in those party headquarters behind me what everybody walking into the building today seem to agree on is that there should be a whole series of regional party conferences this is all about listening more to the party grassroots something many felt that america had lost touch with recently and that's something these three lead candidates will most likely have to face to go into those regions introduce themselves and make the case that they can be both the new leader to reposition the c.d.u. in the middle and for it to rediscover its conservative roots something many here long for you mentioned that there are three main candidates but it is looking likely that will come down to a contest between the centrist natural allée ally and. the right wing conservative

just. is there a favorite between those too. well we see some polling coming out but these are very early days and now we have twelve candidates potentially in the race already with the party conference at the beginning of december the sixth seventh and eighth deciding the outcome there i'm going to come count of became secretary general of the c.d.u. because she got the support of the america that at the same time is a strength and a weakness she currently polls at some thirty nine percent in one poll i must stress that came out today matt seems seen as the other lead contend he was actually pushed out of politics essentially more than decade ago by none other than angela merkel herself he's polling at some forty four percent now there's an internal joke here at the c.d.u. that it's a bit like james dean he died the political death and that's what everybody kept

from member in him and kept talking about him so there's a lot of hopes pinned on him. on the health minister he's only polling at about eight percent so there's some expectation that he might be out of the race eventually but this is so used to be pretty much an open race something that is very unusual for the conservative c.d.u. that had so become an anglo-american party all right he doesn't use cheap political editor thanks so much. some culture news now and an antiwar performance by one of germany's top orchestras to mark one hundred years since the end of the first world war germany is ending the radio orchestra the fold and the war requiem last night english composer benjamin britten plea for pacifism. it's a condemnation of the terror and horror that conflict visits upon people. the war

recreate was written by pacifist composer benjamin britten and reprised in the german city of one of our own saturday. in a just tour of reconciliation the performance brought together musicians from britain and germany the countries once at war now peaceful neighbors. it's been a mess of undertaking and remains the conductor has been preparing it for two years . now to me about. the communication between two net nations now it's sort of a communication between now and the past that we must learn from the past let's face it we must learn from our mistakes. the war recreate them was composed after the second world war when the german left buffet bombed british cities. i'm far enough out of here that. the destroyed cathedral in

coventry england became a symbol of the war's brutality after the war a new one was a wreck to mix to the ruins its opening in one hundred sixty two was a grand occasion. britain was invited to write a piece for its consecration. yet she said if i am only remembered for one piece of music i think it should be. an orchestra is a very good metaphor for a society and to mix two nations in this way and to create literally create harmony in a musical way but also with a social way is a very good demonstration of how we can co-exist and we have how we can value in the end. the war requiem

a timeless warning for humanity and one for us all to heed. to the bundesliga now where borussia monchengladbach have overpowered promoted three to nil and a local dopy token hasn't scored twice to inspire informed minds braman and sunday's all the game and the day got a valuable game and when they were paired with in the german cup next round among the pick of saturday's bundesliga matches two thousand one at full spoke but by and munich were held at home by freiburg. and in tennis novak djokovic has suffered a surprise defeat by the russian car and in the final of the paris mall still has joke of it in blue beat roger federer instead of a semi final touch and dramatically ended his two winning streak of twenty two matches the world number eighteen one in straight sets seven five six despite the

defeat triple that will still take over as world number one zero on monday. it watching the news life from but there's more coming up few at the top of the hour and don't forget as always all website. thanks so much for joining us. scars cover don't forget women in russia have to live with violence sexism and depression.