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this is do w. news live from berlin this stricken cruise ship viking style i finally reaches shore the one hundred passengers and crew who were still on board survived a harrowing night in stormy conditions off norway's coast hundreds of people were airlifted to safety while the ship was still at sea also coming up is theresa may facing a revolt from within her own cabinet reports say the british prime minister a twenty push down amid dissatisfaction at her handling of greg said the details
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from our correspondent to. american evanston it's good to have you with us we'll get to those stories and more in just a moment but we begin with some breaking news just coming in the long awaited report from u.s. special counsel robert muller has not found that the trump campaign or associates conspired or a coordinated with russia in the twenty six thousand presidential campaign for the very latest we're joined now by washington correspondent helena humphrey helena what more can you tell us. marianna journalists here in d.c. have also just obtained that four page letter from the attorney general william barr essentially it was a summary of his principal findings from the so-called report it was
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a rather brief summary in which william bos a the mother of poor have now not found as you mention any evidence of collusion between russia and the twenty sixteen trump campaign and as with far as it goes with the president as well as his aides working with him so no collusion there now the matter report also stated that the his team had not decided to indict the president or exonerate him and that's what william bodies heinie general went on to say you said that this is not it's not going to be an indictment anyway sitting presidents are not usually indicted as post justice department policy but it's also not an exoneration so it'll be very interesting to see once we start to obtain more details for example but there are many calls for that were made public including from the house democrats who've so that they do subpoena power to do so if we start looking at more wrongdoing and of
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course wrongdoing can be impeachable and indictment a charge is not necessarily the way to remove the president but of course impeachment is and certainly many more investigations all still open particularly in congress among the house democrats and the activities of the president and we waiting to see what this letter says and what more they find out to seize upon that as they go forward. telling the humphrey will be staying on that story for us from washington d.c. many thanks for now. turning now to some other news and there are regional cruise liner viking sky has docked in the port of moldova after a close call at scene the ship sent out a mayday call on saturday after losing power and drifting towards dangerous reefs passengers and crew have been just barking from be huge shift police say seventeen people were taken to the hospital with injuries about the third of almost fourteen
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hundred people on board were airlifted to safety while the fighting star was still at sea. the others stayed on board as the ship was brought safely to shore. so if i can sky lights into harbor. the market cruise ship looks invulnerable but the passengers and crew like the sleepy put city of malta is a welcome sight. engine failure in the target waters off the norwegian coast to coast many of them to fear the worst. the roiling city had shaken the ship violently forcing passengers stuck study furniture and falling ceiling panels. norway's maritime rescue service intervened editing half of the passengers and it daring nighttime operation. most of the evacuees were shaken but unscathed after we arrived at the hotel where it just hit me the enormity and the potential disaster we came so close to having
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a. catastrophic event out there we were just in the room and things were just started violently flying across the room the furniture was sliding here and crashing into the wall and everything was falling around and we were being thrown around and it became very evident that there was something dramatically wrong one of the big hatches blew right out and about eight feet of water rushed in latin people flattened all of us i was pulling people off the ground and so and i was on just to my waist but i got up and i pull help people up other than a few bruises i was fine but other people hit chair tables and they got caught the worst thing i could say for me was them walking. joaquin to get in line for the helicopter had to walk past a lot of people and their faces and. that was the hard i did not want to go.
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through the relief of all the remaining passengers and crew arriving by late afternoon police say that seventy people on board had to be taken to hospital with injuries. british prime minister theresa may has been holding crisis talks with key members of her conservative party amid rumors of plans to oust her over her handling of bragg's it may some and hard line breaks and supporters of the prime minister's country residence checkers west of london among those attending the meeting are former foreign minister boris johnson who's been a vocal critic of may's policies of course that cabinet ministers plan to pressure me to resign come ahead of a critical week for break the decision making in parliament. all right let's get some more on this and for that we're joined by mohsin is in london so very good terisa may is now holding crisis talks again with members of her own party and
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among them are ministers who reportedly want to oust her so just how imminent is the threat to her leadership. threesome a's authority is really draining by the day by the hour almost we know that even backbenchers from her own party have said there is no way forward she called at the same time everybody knows how complicated this is because the clock is ticking there isn't much time the braggs a deal needs to be paul's but paul amended it's not a new solution a new consensus needs to be found a new way forward to change prime minister at such a crucial point in time is an incredibly dangerous as well so people will be also in themselves whether it's worth it and reason why has the a lot of storms so far and so far we haven't seen any sign of her giving up well it's dangerous if she resigns but perhaps still not impossible so what what actually happened if theresa
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may was forced to resign. well most likely some sort of interim prime minister would handle the next maybe days or weeks of bragg's it and then there would have to be. a leadership contest called us within the conservative party and that would be a crucial point in high because both brics appears and those who want to remain in the european union or maybe are going for a softer break said they would try and take the helm because this is withdrawing from the european union is just the first step after that is this crucial phase of the future relationship with the e.u. and all those details all those talks they have yet to before it's all be decided with the european union so another crucial phase is waiting. period meanwhile just yesterday we saw more than a million protesters marching across central london and today the electronic
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petition to cancel brags that passed that five million signature mark is any of this having an impact on the braggs the discussions. i think it has an impact on the general mood in the country those who are really advocating for a clean brags that a clean cut with the european union they will not be too much moved by oldish that's happening they would argue and the to have argued that seventeen million people roughly voted for brics those numbers have not been reached yet but i think a lot of them a lot of those m.p.'s who are more in the sort of middle ground section i think they would really see what is happening and also the opinion polls have shown over the last weeks and months as steady lead off of remain so the opinion seems to be shifting the question is what will actually happen in parliament because that's
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the really crucial phase next week bereket mass reporting from london thank you very much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world thailand's first election of the five years looks headed for a surprise outcome with most of the votes counted the military supported party led by a former army chief holds a slim lead over the whoi thai party linked to former prime minister taksin shinawatra final results are expected on monday while a political rally in istanbul by turkey's pro kurdish h d p party has attracted tens of thousands of people kurds hope to play a decisive role in local elections next sunday the governing a k party held a joint event with a nationalist party next week's vote is a key test for president trichet thai of the one. members of australia and new zealand's indigenous communities have come together in sydney to show solidarity with the victims of last week's going to tax on two mosques in christchurch new
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zealand has announced it will hold a national remembrance service on march twenty ninth for the fifty people who were killed in the attacks and the mozambique and government says half a million people have been affected by the devastating cycle and you die more than seven hundred have been confirmed dead after the storm raged across mozambique zimbabwe and malawi the true death toll is believed to be much higher efforts are still underway to assist survivors. well our correspondent has been in zimbabwe taking a look at the aftermath of cyclon there you sent us this report from some of the communities hardest hit by the storm and the severe flooding it cost. a once bustling village reduced to a rocky field cobo was home to more than three hundred residents and government facilities when disaster struck on the night of march fifteenth residents were
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sleeping. very few of them survived those who did have recounted the horror they experienced in that island that i was asleep and suddenly woke up to the house destroyed but that he when the house was full of water was the first thing we thought was to rescue the kids. then we realized our eldest child was already dead after that moment is when we all got swept away by the raging floods. that take this right here used to be a town that is now under rubble storms came up from the mountains and swept through the city and now a lot of people are believed to be under these stones and residents tell me that more than three hundred people could be under this rubble a lot of people want closure of knowing whether their relatives are still in this
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place or they were washed away by the river downstream. relatives of the victims have been using whatever tools are at hand to sort through the rocks and rubble they're hoping to recover their loved ones many still don't have final answers about the fate of their families what we're looking for right now is a scorcher if we know we are really like it would be it will be somehow because right now we don't know we still have that feeling maybe they're separating the sandwich. but recovering bodies can be extremely difficult and the emotional toll is amends. families with as many as ten members were swept away by the floods leaving few survivors. some of them discover crikey the boards are now on leave if you're under the beach and you know so we are feeling you begin as soon as . the we have some d.n.a.
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distance well it is then just you being baited you know and i didn't fight there has been extensive damage to the country's infrastructure and there have even been geographical shifts rivers have formed in residential areas a further sign of how much time recovery is likely to take. and a quick reminder now of the top stories we're following for you. the u.s. special council's investigation into president trump's twenty sixteen campaign has not found evidence that campaign officials expired or a court made it with russia to interfere in the election that's from a brief summary of robert muller for a fourth that attorney general william carr has submitted to members of congress. the stricken cruise ship fighting sky has safely reach shore after a harrowing night and stormy conditions off norway's west coast nine hundred
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passengers and crew were still on board but if the arrived in the town of malta more than four hundred people had been airlifted to safety earlier on the good you're watching news coming to you from for a land stay tuned for reporter looking to add to the growing greens in the arctic i'm going to have a statement thanks for watching. out for. earth. or saving google into those two stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world. to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions but it'll only do those beautiful series of global three goals and on deep.

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