this is. from berlin tonight the trunk of the tropics goes to washington u.s. president welcomes his brazilian counterpart. to the white house the two telling their mutual admiration with strong promising to support brazil's efforts to formalize talks with nato also coming up tonight aid workers sounding the alarm for survivors of cycle need day which tore through southeast africa last week floodwaters are endangering thousands of people and rescue crews are struggling to

reach remote areas and living with the scars of an acid attack she was fifteen when it happened to her now she's on a mission to help other survivors by lobbying the indian government to completely ban the sale of s. m bring our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome they are considered two of a kind two leaders of the americas and two leaders both with polarizing personalities u.s. president donald trump has welcomed his a brazilian counterpart. to the white house today trump telling the far right leader who's been dubbed the trump of the tropics that he's looking at nato membership for brazil he's also said that still discussing improving trade relations. increasing cooperation on resolving the crisis in venezuela thank you.

could be more on this i'm joined now by our correspondent in washington over. all over so we knew there was going to be somewhat of a leaders' love fest year we had two trumps in the room it sounded like how did that work out well the atmosphere was a very friendly one here in washington as you can imagine a narrow repeatedly called and declared donald trump his role model and he's now seeking closer relationships with the united states it was also both scenarios first trip abroad and that led or brought him to the united states and that is something that would have been unheard of just years ago if you take into consideration that the relationship of brazil and the u.s. used to be rather a complicated one but that might change after today's meeting also because paul because both presidents are on the same page in as so many issues and topic they're

both nationalists they cose multilateralism of also narrow today said she supports donald trump's migration politics he said that most migrants he believes come to the united states to do harm and that is exactly donald trump's rhetoric that we use in his election campaign that he continues to use and he certainly likes to hear that out of the mouths of someone that will now be one of his closer allies in the future we know topping the agenda today two big topics been swayed and nato here is what the u.s. president said just a short while ago about but it's where the take a listen. afternoon the president and i discussed many of our mutual prairie's including venezuela. brazil has been an extraordinary leader in supporting the venezuelan people's efforts to reclaim their liberty in a democracy brazil is help so much along with the united states brazil was one of

the first nations to recognize venezuela's regenerate interim president one quite. decided upon regarding been this way look what about the question of nato. all right so regarding venezuela we've just heard it in the sound by both sides here again on the same page they both want to regime change their donald trump put it again and reaffirmed actually that both that all options are on the table including the military option but that is something that is debated right now at the white house with the question of about how far donald trump should walk down that road. was there were discussions about nato donald trump said he would look into getting or helping brazil to get another closer affiliation

with nato the status of a so-called non nato ally perhaps and then also that the united states would support him. in becoming an o.e.c.d. member and that is certainly a major foreign policy win for the brazilian president also narrow is exactly right it was reportedly not expected by the delegation from brazil today our correspondent overselling on the story for us tonight in washington oliver thank you. well as we heard there both the u.s. and brazil support efforts by venezuela's opposition to oust president nicolas maduro as that country's economic and humanitarian crisis drags on millions are making the difficult decision to flee you called up with a group of its wailings a seeking refuge in neighboring colombia. these people have picked an unusual route out to venezuela. with the border to colombia closed their using water known as tall has. illegal trials that lead to right

through the river it's dangerous as a tossup controlled by criminal gangs and they demand a high price but such is that desperation that they're willing to take the risk around one million venezuelans have so refuge in colombia many say they have lost all hope. i think you know so i guess when i come from an agricultural zone the name of valley the state a lot of. it was once a very productive area with lots of small farms the us i'm a small farmer from there myself you know unfortunately i had to leave because we have nothing no seeds no fertilizer nothing somebody corruption is largely to blame for the situation. you can't find corn meal in the supermarket and what's in it but you can find it on the black market isn't that isn't there a cost two or three times as much on the issues that corruption is approaching booky that is corruption. then it's been reported says here on the left has been

investigating the causes of the crisis he spoke to opposition member a man who also says graft plays a big role but why is the country in the state it is because of the corruption it's not the sanctions it's not donald trump oh yvonne duca no it's because that's stolen everything. the crisis in venezuela has become an international issue with the u.s. russia and china all pursuing their own interests reports about outlines how he thinks it could come to a head. the first scenario is that maduro stays in power and rules over a land in ruins. and the second scenario is that there's a transition and initiated by the biggest whalen's themselves. in deaths. so a coup executed by the military but with a transitional government in which civil authorities would also take part. should

there be a coup in such a scenario would be the most successful one. but as yet no such as a nation is in sight and the struggle for power in venezuela that set to continue. and there's more to see there you can watch the entire feature online on d.w. dot com we're on our you tube channel d w documentary. where you're watching t w news live from berlin still to come harnessing the animal kingdom amazing powers of regeneration we'll be taking a look at a new study that aims to discover how animals were able to recruit body parts and how this might one day benefit us humans. or the devastation caused by a cycle on the day after it tore through zimbabwe and mozambique five days ago is becoming clear in mozambique alone eighty four people have been confirmed dead though the government fears the death toll will rise from more than

a thousand according to the red cross each day damaged or destroyed ninety percent of the buildings in mozambique support city of beirut meanwhile in neighboring zimbabwe around three hundred people are dead or missing tonight. survivors dig graves for the victims of psycho need i. ching money money is the worst hit district in zimbabwe. scores are dead and still many more are missing my mom my mother my father my two younger sisters including the one who had brought us food earlier and the one with the child the whole day. my house was destroyed in the floods and i was buried underneath my daughter who was in bed with me was washed away from me that one of the big a flood carried my father away. and that is going on foot and that is what we say. the cycle has wreaked havoc on zimbabwe's infrastructure

making it hard to assess the extent of the devastation. the human cost. i'm going to see my family i don't know how they're doing because there's no communication and the roads are inaccessible because of the heavy rains and i'm not sure how will find my way. rescuers are struggling to reach people in the afflicted areas. these boys were trapped for two days but they were among the lucky ones a boulder crashed through their school dorm killing three people. use privileged fan here he says many more lives are at stake. this situation in zimbabwe and was a movie in the aftermath of cycle and you day that affected the two neighboring countries is getting desperate particularly here in chile money money when people

are having to walk long distances because they've been cut out from essential services bridges have been washed away vehicles contant reach those areas where people need assistance in this area you can see in these modern cars composite these please be taking into mind we have spoken to. people along the way and we have doctors without borders while also trying to reach people we affected but they can't reach those areas because it's visually impossible. that was a privilege was for their reporting q it is a vicious type of assault meant to maim scar and even kill of talking about acid attacks and you hear about them happening in many places by one estimate more than fifteen hundred acid attacks take place around the world every year and women are the targets in more than eighty percent of the cases and again remember that's only

the cases that get reported it's a crime that india's been trying to address through stricter chemical regulations and tougher punishments but that cannot erase the scars that the survivors of such attacks will carry for the rest of their lives carmen meyer met one woman in the india who took her tragedy and transformed it into empowering. a comic with an unconventional heroine the story of a young woman who has been attacked. she transforms from being a victim to being a superhero and her mission is to help the survivors of acid attacks. videos of the comic show readers who's behind this story laxmi who suffered a real life attack in twenty zero five. and in the day after i refused his advances he and his younger brother's girlfriend turned up with acid in a beer bottle they poured the acid into

a glass and threw it on to my face. and i think they would if i fainted and when i came to again it felt as if i'd been burnt alive or me i think it would have been that. laxmi was only fifteen when she was attacked by a man seventeen years her senior. she had refused his advances so in a cruel act of revenge he attacked her and changed her life ever hundreds of acid attacks like the one suffered by laxmi a reported in india every year when the judge didn't kill me he attacked me so that i would have to live my life in agony he knew that society would accept him he did and that is same society would reject and victimize me in life. that likes me refused to be a victim and became an activist she's part of a campaign called stop the sale acid she's helped make great changes in india the sale of acid is now regulated and prosecutions of acid attacks have been made

easier but she wants a complete ban comic book focuses on male and female equality worldwide she hopes children will learn about the topic in classrooms lakshmi's aim is to give girls including her own daughter a different image of the world she's also a single mother which is far from the norm in india you see make believe me my dream hasn't yet come true but there has been a huge change these last few years. and that shows me that equality and the changes we're all talking about now what will happen if there were teens. laxmi wants to see an end to all violence against women and their future generations from the suffering she and others have endured how will she do it while the super heroine can help make it happen. you know this is definitely the story of

many heroines and one of those joins me right now her name is monica saying she's an acid attack survivor whose story also form the basis for the comic prius mirror she's also a fashion designer and co-founder of the interesting foundation which helps victims of sexual abuse acid attacks rape and domestic violence monkey it's good to have you on the show we appreciate you telling your story thank you so much for me well it's really it's an honor to have you here and i think everyone around the world when that when they hear of this story and they see you the first question they ask is when was it possible for you after the attack when did you say i can go out in public i can show my face again and it doesn't bother me anymore when did that happen i'm an honest this digging it took me a while because what happened is not all this time i was preparing myself i go i undergo a lot of multiple reconstructive surgeries as you can see on my face and i was like

slowly sort of preparing studying at the college and it took me a while to accept the fact that i'm ready to go out but i excepted what happened to me a long time ago because i know this this was something. i cannot like just deny and just move on and it was something gonna stay permanently so i had to accept a long time ago but then. and a public there people don't stare at me then don't they don't judge me because of my defilement young my face it took a lot of the family the attack left you fighting for your life if you would tell us what happened and what was the road to recovery like for you. and two thousand and fifteen when i was eighteen year old. boy was like attacked by one of the clintons i used to know and i refuse has a proposal of marriage in hand and i and i don't want to go you know mary and just

run away with him and something like that and he was it became kind of a big like i became his obsession he was kind of a stalker as well and then i denied that he hired a couple of goons don't throw a bucket full of acid all over my face and my body and it was and it happened two thousand and nineteen and i was hospitalized all over the whole year and then for eight and a half to nine years actually i've been hospitalized come and going had a fifty because dr surgeries on my face my body so that i can decode were so wrought off. progress in this thing it's like every time a went under the knife it was the moment i'm reliving the day it happened because it was on the yes man for the cure to get get me better but it was definitely the most painful thing is that i've died many times as well during those preparation

during those a surgery where you're the streets of it you have you know the to have film in yourself each time it certainly comes through now and i want to ask you about this comic three years mira tell us about that and i mean it's not something one would immediately associate with with acid attacks you know in comics how's it been received. it's been received really valuable via actually it's so of envy started doing this project. now and the creator of this comic book they have posed to me to become a good friend and they said it's like this is what we're trying to do because technology and new ways of new technology can all this hope the younger generation to connect with the social issue and they want to design the whole comic but are on my story because it was leading them to the. window and powerman side of the woman as well and when we designed everybody was reading of order books so it was not

just an interesting man for a comic book for a younger generation but it was getting to all kind of age group and the best part is this comic book because of the three d. augmentation reality technology the comic book becomes three d. so then people find it very fascinating to get the lay to if you can be part of that story as well while reading it so this will be got great reviews about that. looks so yes and he did what you know you don't so many good things you've got this comic and you're you know you're also studying fashion in new york. how were you able to take this this terrible thing that was done to you and turn it into something positive in how were you able to get up in the morning and not hate men because of what happened to you. honestly speaking. i don't believe in living in past i'm working on the present and i'm planning for

my future and the idea is that if i keep thinking about what happened to me is not going to take me anywhere and i realize one thing is like i understand being a woman the physical appearance is really important for every girl and woman and at the age of younger generation peter time and for ever actually but then you can't cry about that all the time right and you can cry but then there's a limit to it otherwise when i was in to when i went to a little bit into depression i was like oh my god i've wasted lake a whole year on crying over something it's not going to cure by crying so i have to find a solution and then it's also important for girls to realise that yes there is a physical damage happen to it but there is a certain level you can get it cured but if your brain is working get yourself an education because this is what makes you more powerful and empowerment and poet one man because you know what is happening out there there has to be a time when people started looking at you beyond your scars beyond your face and

this is the story this is stigma becomes only in your past you could not drive you were there so i told my dad that i want to continue to study and then i worked for seven years in indian fashion industry it was hard not everybody ready to accept a girl with a deformed face but then i focus on my skill that i want to be best in my work on at least a knowledgeable enough so that there is no question to not to hire me and i and i won't have a bizarre magazine as well in india and then a lot of exposure thousands and e-commerce company but then i decided after a certain time after my fiftieth surgery or something that i need to move further and need to go out and i need to learn from different country and different tradition and different culture as well then i got an admission of parsons when i got an offer letter of course it was a hard way to get into it was it was a dream come true because it was in new york and then. you can say that it was

a reboot of my life that i wanted to get out of the whole society of the thief. you know putting me into the box like oh she's a bomb and she she not going to get mad oh she's deformed or something like that something bad happens everybody looking at you right so i have to get out of it and one has to realize that you have to stop caring about the society because eventually nobody can get both nobody's feeding you forever if in fact after a certain time not even your family so you have to not b.s. out you know you well you know you're not only a beautiful person but you're also a wise woman monica we certainly appreciate you sharing your story with us and your thoughts tonight and we wish you all the best thank you thank you for months. well scientists at harvard university in the united states have released a new study into the way animals regenerate their bodies they've uncovered what they call a d.n.a. switch which might one day lead to humans being able to regenerate lost limbs now

there are plenty of examples in nature some species in salamander can regrow severed legs of some lizards and shed their tails to escape danger and then regrow the other animals go even further jellyfish for example can regenerate their entire bodies after being cut in half and him and he can do the same. or you want to speak now to one of the researchers behind this discovery i'm joined by andrew gallagher from cambridge massachusetts he's opposed doctoral fellow in the department of going to mimic and evolutionary biology at harvard university it's good to have you on the show so i mean does this study tell us that we're on the way to understanding and maybe one day being able to regrow a lost a limb and mean if i were to lose my arm one day maybe i would be able to grow a new one. yeah i think that we're still a ways away from applications to human regenerative medicine but i think the study

makes an important important step here because all of the that the genes that we've identified and this worm humans have all the same genes so we're starting to do is under some standard connections between these genes that sort of make it possible to regenerate something like an entire body so if we know that the the animals and humans we have the same gene do we know why some animals are able to turn this gene on whereas we at the moment are unable to do that do we know why there is a difference. yes i think that that's what makes this study sort of unique in that we didn't really focus on the genes themselves but sort of the rest of the d.n.a. so that the vast majority of d.n.a. which contains the switches that turns the genes on and off so my starting to identify and understand the switches that make these connections between really conserve genes we can start to understand you know how process is actually you know

the same or different and something like a human which can regenerate very well and something like this panther worm which can regenerate any missing cell it does it have something to do with the fact that when we're talking about a lot of these animals like jellyfish for example these are not vertebrates in the fact that we are vertebrates and that we're mammals does that play a role in our inability to regrow our limbs. as a passing question i think that it's the more sort of tissue types you have it's the harder probably history generate but with with with these animals they have sort of a constant supply of stem cells that are in their bodies so if we can harness the power of the stem cells quite understanding these control regions you know we should be able to regenerate any sort of missing tissue including ball but again that's sort of much in the future when we understand the process better and when

you talk about much in the future i mean i'm going to try to pin you down here because you give me a timeline are we talking about ten years down twenty years down to me what's a realistic time horizon here and i think it would be irresponsible of me to really put a you know specific timetable wanted certainly not we're talking probably longer than twenty years but it's important to i think continue to study these these more sort of strange and different organisms that are you know that maybe don't have backbones but can regenerate their entire bodies so by by continuing to look at these strange critters i think we can learn a lot about stem cells in regeneration or neuter for humans but we certainly wish you all the best with your research and the faster the better and you get her from harvard university joining us tonight and thank you thank you. and here's a reminder the top story that we're following for you u.s. president double trump as

a welcome to his brazilian counterpart joy your bows and arrows at the white house trump told the far right leader that he is looking at nato membership for brazil to also discussed trade ties and efforts to resolve the crisis in of its way. after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that will be right back.

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