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turned into tragedy. this is not the kind of. how did you become a deep way to islamist terror. who sees. an exclusive report from a destroyed city. philippines in the sense of buying. on d w. coming up in the next fifteen minutes. more than one hundred people things may get worse for the region. is on its way. from. the microphone. in nigeria choosing the new
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music. that you know. you're welcome to the show now nearly a million people have been affected. mozambique heavy rain started in the middle of last week. and. the seven hundred forty thousand people have felt the impact in malawi while one hundred forty one thousand people have been affected in mozambique and it's expected to get worse each. die is approaching and is due to make landfall in mozambique on thursday authorities there. for help. meanwhile malawi is also at risk of flooding the cyclon set to bring to
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have the wins over the coming days both countries absolute best weather into effect seen more than two hundred people were killed by flooding in malawi. joining me now is allison shagari freelance journalist who is currently in the flood affected areas in south in malawi hello allison thanks for joining us what is the situation like on the ground as we speak as we speak now the situation on the ground is not over that group. provision sure fifty seven people up to six people have so far die. ivan three. thousand of people are being evacuated the number of people each happy hour are stigma very very. controversial but maybe from tomorrow it could be some rain coming. now what's happening on the grounds now i mean there's still people being pulled to
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safety what's something key you can tell us now. government through the department over disaster management are deployed they are affected parts of fifty tripped. before being deployed to one of the more crucial areas in. the district where people who are white. women and children so the situation because like the government is. trying to rescue people who have been affected and are. talking about the government how well equipped really is it to handle this. it's very tricky because the government has been spending a lot of money already on organizing. telling people to move our plans before the
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flood can find the usual government like that of malawi hasn't got enough money budgeted sorely the same so it is dependent on the chinese are going to mind then since it is only coming in. now finally before you go i mean more wins i expected so code get where as i like you said many hmong being found dead does so what is being done to prevent that. escalating the situation. at the moment government has actually provided some camps in all the districts where people are being evacuated and are being given medical treatment and there's also some other line for id and otherwise there is much that can be done of them or moved people can be
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saved anywhere else for your information some people are coming as far as mozambique crossing into malawi because the flood also affected part of mozambique and saw the numbers like this in and i'm sure this will give them a lot of government tough time to find money to help these people who are being fitted. out of saying god generalists thank you very much for the time. as we've had earlier regions of mozambique have also been hit by flooding the government has declared in red unless due to the tropical cyclone he die a specter had to reach that country soon let's talk about what michael chiles from international federation of red cross and red crescent societies who is coordinating the response thank you very much michael for joining as that what exactly are you doing to help the people in mozambique so have you have you rightly said you know we're expecting a tropical storm to heat and it's going to hit
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a few provinces to find the provinces especially and we have our volunteers on the ground as you know the red cross is well and good based organization and in mozambique we have thousands of volunteers who are preparing who who are one in the community members who are trying to look at them to higher ground and ensuring that you know they safety within the communities fate of this cycle is not as brief as it should be. so a cycle is coming everyone is on a king what exactly can be done to survive a cycle of. well what exactly can be done is exactly early warning so we need to want one the community members we need to ensure that you know they can move to safer ground going to cycling comes we need to ensure that there is proper shelter for them and we also need to ensure that yes there will be diverse station and we have the red cross we're already preparing so we're pre-positioning our stocks and which is non-food items blanket shelter really preposition in that's closer to the
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site so that once the site really hates the floods the effects of the flood gates at least wait will to bring relief to the people that are needed to bring relief to the communities in terms of health education instance or safe water in terms of hygiene and the red cross as i said you know where we're at the ground really preparing the community members to be able to respond so there was a flood and we understand the nice to sustain six to six people have died from with that cyclists coming is going to be an even bigger impact what's the west case scenario well how big is this going to head well that the worst case scenario we're not sure off but we are prepared in terms of really engaging at the community level yes unfortunately sixty six people died but we're hoping that at least with the relief we're bringing in with the coach called initial mechanisms
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that are on the ground together with governments together with other humanitarian actors we as the humanitarian community can really come and support you know the people that will need us the most ok all the best michael michael chiles from international federation of red cross and red crescent societies thanks for your time thank you very much. to another tragedy now in the northwest of the continent in nigeria three story building collapsed in the commercial capital in latest local media and rescue officials see many children were trapped in the rubble this footage shows one of the children who was pulled free the top floor of the building the house the private and amenities school with about one hundred students. now for decades the oil rich niger delta in southern nigeria in bed of violence with viro militant groups fighting for a share of the region's natural wealth in cities like worry in delta state oil
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theft contributed to rum punch criminality and the number of environmental problems one man who got caught up in crime is thirty one year old at riga he was jailed for robbery oil theft and dealing drugs but i still have used funny things he's now embarked on a new path that successful musician. he has been filling concert halls and jumped to stardom in nigeria with his biggest hit so far. must be. every guy began playing music a decade ago here in warri this city brings the. worry is a city in delta state in the troubled self nigeria rich in oil known for what comes
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with it robbery large scale theft and trucks all we're part of life as an adult he spent time in jail his childhood he spent on the streets this was his neighborhood so. some rapping about it but i'm not supposed to be called doing you. put this down and pick them like now he has returned as a pretty. crime is often the only resort for a youth grappling with chronic unemployment many get into e-mail scams to make money musical form. but life took a turn once out of jail he met people who supported his music he's proud of what he has achieved. and never saw all i wanted was for my people to give up the voice
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because whatever it is basically the struggle is that every reboil everyone's adults and good to every day of their life they can say that reagan made it but for the majority here the daily struggle continues in warri this is not just a place for fisherman but i highly doubt the people involved in oil bunkering feel that the government is not. sharing profits evenly. and there are other consequences to nigeria's oil industry the pollution that comes with the production that that has fisherman and women bad the brunt of the environmental damage. here are down because of all the oil that isn't much fish and. also sings about their plight and he sings his songs in pidgin english to better tell the story of the people in his neighborhood these people deserve to be heard in a country that's seldom innocence. from africa
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you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page. with more music from nigeria. that's. featuring. that. i don't mind meet up with. him. there was two months he finished when i write the i'll try for my great if life get the never bloody tree when you grow up you should understand my i don't see how when i cry. i'm afraid. we're still. g.q. with. each
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series this week the old boxes tells us what piece of bread has to do with the greek economy. the dutch artist has to be one of the greatest painters who ever lived and the rights museum in amsterdam has the biggest collection of his works in the world now to celebrate the three hundred fiftieth anniversary of his death the museum has for the very first time put on display their entire collection which includes of course some of the most famous rembrandt paintings of all. let's go forward march this captain seems to be calling to the men of amsterdam civil defense and the group reaches for their muskets this painting is like a snapshot capturing the dynamic of men about to mobilize it's the most famous picture in amsterdam strikes museum the night watch by them come from high.

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