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this is g.w. news coming to you live from berlin some big things the rules are for giants. have high winds and heavy rain have destroyed homes and forced thousands inland seeking shelter cycle kennett's comes just six weeks after psycho died or death and devastation to the country but also coming up she longo says the suspected mastermind of that these just on the bombings died in the attacks but the gulf one warns of more possible stripes this is a call to significantly reduce the deficit filling in last sunday's attacks on six
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details and churches plus china promotes as belgium and drooled initiative as a goodwill summit in beijing the multi-trillion dollar project is a source of much needed investment for some countries could others see it as china's real expanding it's been put in the mud. of a warm welcome to. a muslim because being kicked in by a massive cyclon cyclon kenneth made landfall focused on the comoros islands before turning its rules on the south african country mozambique assume reeling from the author of facts off cycling. this is the first time in recorded history that two cycles of it mozambique in one season and over the next ten days decide to dump
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twice the amount of rainfall than the previous one. holidaymaker dares to confront nature at its most extreme. case a resort in northern mozambique as the eye of the cycling passes through kenya barreling into a country still reeling from a deadly storm just weeks ago. he waged war on the comrades islands remnants of a night of ferocious winds and pounding rain drivers and cyclists navigate the leftovers. several are dead here but authorities say the fill picture is yet to emerge. it is difficult to get access because many trees fell many electrical and telephone poles fell so for the moment we are clearing the roads so we can make an initial assessment.
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as kenneth cut its path of destruction residents found refuge in a marriage and she shelters like this one. and a place to sleep but no rest bite from the reality of water which them at home. it's a huge disaster that we not used to seeing you know thank god we escaped the worst but we really need her one of those and it. said. their problem was that there was a strong wind that demolished the houses but the rescuers found us shelters while we slept low nobody was injured and we didn't suffer thank god. for now many here grateful to be counting the cost in terms of chaos rather than casualties. i was still clear with cullen money and. she's with the wild food program we asked her what she was hearing from the teens in the field
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. two nation is quite worrying as we heard a few minutes ago with many people being affected and some districts of course more than others not the whole province of kabul to look out the districts such as mommy and evo area and. and panama city itself has also been quite badly damaged and we are already mobilizing to respond to their requests for assistance as we heard a few minutes ago as well. to be has already pre-positioned food is there. and some of the districts already as well as an account which is a bigger house close by and we are ready for netting to start distributions inspections and it's possible so how difficult is the situation with people because as we had the u.n. says this is the first time that the country has been hit by two cycles in one season. yes it is very very. it's
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a huge challenge and especially both sides die was extremely strong as well and brought a lot of destruction and this one as we're seeing now is also very strong and what we are concerned about not only this acts just like the one passage itself but the fact that it's bringing a lot or ainslie will be a lot or days of two three four days of heavy rains in those areas and so the likelihood of for lots. and flash floods and as valuable storm surge as we've seen. and they were already getting reports about a couple of the rivers there already flooding and the ground already being it's the end of the rainy season so the ground of the rivers were already quite full and saturated so this is also a big concern with safety of people with the floodwaters that are that are already hitting us that will hit us with
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a difficult situation conmen to from the wonderful program in mozambique thank you very much for being us up to date on the situation there. let me now bring you some other stories making news around the wild north korea's leader kim jong il has accused the united states of acting in bad faith three talks on its nuclear program in february kim said the peace and security of the korean peninsula will entirely depend on a washington's attitude in future negotiations he made the comments today except to russia. police in the us of colorado have confirmed montevideo in a crash involving more than a dozen. it's happened on the interstate seventy in a suburb of denver police said a driver lost control of his truck and plowed into a standstill traffic meet the bridge. fires and explosions. a german russian woman who do you have to new york's elite into believing she was a billionaire heiress is facing up to fifteen years in prison and also the king was
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found guilty of multiple offenses afterthought in acquiring tens of thousands of dollars in bank she managed to fake a luxury lifestyle involving private jets and the hotel stays. turning out to china where a major summit is underway in beijing as china shows off the expansion of its key infrastructure projects known as the belton initiative leaders from some thirty seven countries are discussing the gigantic project with china's president xi jinping last five years ago it's set to boost trade between china and the. concerns of the project could lead to a locket monopoly by china. so what does sinus belt and good initiative in its new version called the silk road involve the one who grants to central asia in moscow all the way to true yest in italy it includes rows and
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railways as well as power stations telecommunication networks and pipelines and there is then the maritime silk road which is a great connect shina with europe africa and southeast asia that china has already invested billions in infrastructure projects along the way the critics are warning the president she is gigantic project is plunging its partners into debt given china increasing power i'll talk to our correspondent in beijing in just a minute but first this report. is an ambitious initiative a massive infrastructure project which aims to connect asia to europe and africa china's belt and road initiative is expected to involve trillions of dollars in investments and has already funded trains highways and ports in many countries. chinese president xi jinping open the belt and road summit on friday with more than thirty heads of state from across the globe despite his reassurances some attendees
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showed concern that they might become saddled with debt the chinese president sought to allay fears and promised operation transparency and zero tolerance of corruption as guiding principles. to belton road is not an exclusive club and it aims to promote green development. we are convinced that are more open china will further integrate itself into the world and deliver greater progress and prosperity for china and the world at large. speaking at the summit malaysian prime minister mohammed marketeers sought to raise doubts about his country's desire to take part just a week ago malaysia resumed the china backed rail link project. after the chinese contract agreed to cut the construction cost by a third to ten point six billion u.s. dollars but manhattan here did raise some environmental concerns.
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the straits of malacca and then the national route then the leisure community most assume responsibility for keeping the seas clear and polluted but so far there's been the falls on a little steam is the are the ones who suffer pollution. and the have them in force to clean this sea and their shores it does not seem fair that the poor little should be burdened with this responsibility others including the u.s. russia japan and india are worried that china is trying to build a trade and political network which expands its strategic influence russia however seems supportive so far. russia is willing to make
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efforts to create transparent conditions contributing to the development of cooperation and collaboration across the eurasian continent because it's important to find an effective response to the risks of the fragmentation of global political economic and technological space and to the rise in protectionism five years after the belt and road project broke ground china is doing its very best to persuade the global powers that its new trade routes will benefit the world. let me now go and did have a chorus line what is the linger in beijing what is this looks like a grid xander then what does china us hope to achieve with this summit. this is a display of china's new role of china's new power the burton road initiative is a signature project by cd and paying by the president who has been advocating or
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promising that he will lead in a sense of china as a world power now having all these word leaders traveling to beijing on a summit on a for a project that has been funded founded and is run by the chinese government is of course a display off this power. but not report they are critics of the belt road initiative as some say the project effects china's ambition to expand its influence and become a global superpower how does maging respond to such criticism. this yassin a lot of criticism on the belt and road project that you specially from countries that were previously kind of that were joining this project western countries have been wary for some time but a lot of countries in the global south have canceled projects have renegotiated projects governments that were embracing this project were voted out of office
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so china how to address this at some point they promised more sustainable ecologically and financially sustainable about android initiative in contrast to what we've seen so far we will have to see whether these are just announcements and what will really change on the ground there was nothing very specific to that yet so what you're saying is certain degree of ambivalence about as far as if so what can we expect at the end of this summit. this is not a summit like other summits where governments need to negotiate something something this is really a rather ceremonial summit we will of course see some kind of a declaration at the end we might see an announcement specific announcements of projects maybe we'll see a sum that is going to be invested within the last next few years. i don't think
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we're going to see any outcome that would be like a joint result of joint negotiations that would give this project a new direction. in beijing thank you very much. thank you to berlin now she lanka's pheasants is a suspected leader of the easter sunday attacks died in law at the hotel bombings address and journalists in colombo let's say policies enough also appealed for calm and warned against a backlash against the muslim community many muslims have fled their homes fearing retaliatory attacks today they have a subdued attendance in bost f.i.d. press authorities warn more attacks could be imminent police in the country are looking for about a hundred and forty people believed to have links with the so-called islamic state group on the lam from colombo i'm joined now by journalist jamila within jamila law
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details have emerged about the suspects including the leader of the national. suspected of having led these attacks what can you tell us. yes you're right today morning president mycoplasma face and i meet everything we touch on that day he said that the lead up this national salvi to mock them and call in the months ahead on he was the mosque the mind behind some give explosions and he has died he was apparently one of the bombers who had gotten himself at the shangri-la with the president also said that he's a high and have traveled to india a few years ago that he had if a seven ish link to be declared a state and when he returned back to the country he had used social media to get them all followers so now there seems to be some talk of. parents who say that they said my dad had been directly involved with the bombers but i know if you get his ongoing and we do get more information in the coming days and given that this move
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appears to be in the sky vista where this small mix to disappear is a police officer seen for a hundred pieces. yes you are right today president taylor santa set that seven of us hundred then saw the suspect in the country who are nice to be with a flag stand and several had been arrested seen some to fix those and he said that the massive manhunt was going on through and that the remaining in the coming days so seventy days seems to be getting more information that that this mother manhunt is on. to him will still have been attending friday prayers today because i'm most concerned for the safety isn't it. or secondly as in fact when i was on the street and i felt that they're mourning. the. death of so much of high security outside. well in fact the last name i mean is the
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many things i love mccain but there are fields of them of some really good not to work then. again. i have that grown from working in reading it feel like there's a little point of isolated incident them would have been a fact funding so not entirely going on very much at the moment. with dean in colombo thank you very much for bringing us up to date with that story and this to the great sense of shock and unease in sri lanka following those attacks and that is unsettling people to the extent that some of finding targets to vent their anger whatever their religion those sieved launched are coming under attack including refugees. just met some of them in colombo and sent us this report . natasha fled to sri lanka from pakistan four years ago. she left her home country with three young children and her husband because people prosecuted for
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being christian. her husband bears burn marks to prove it. but in a gamble where she ended up she could practice her feet freely last sunday she applied hair on her hands and feet to get ready for easter then the blasts hit. mobs descended on her neighborhood of pakistani refugees attacking homes and threatening reprisals even going on how many years will you let lord told us not to return don't even return to you're not safe here save yourselves and leave we can't offer you any protection but we're also a christian we're also grief stricken because our brothers and sisters were killed in this blast but we can't do anything mother in her lab where now natasha and over one hundred other refugees are hiding out in the parking garage of this police station women men children christians and muslims of dance and box.
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the all male one similarity they are not treat one can. give a jew almost a little one if you cannot imagine how they behaved after the blasts sixty six hours of people came into my house and attacked us. our landlady said i cannot protect you it will be better if you leave. according to refugees rights activists all over twelve hundred people have been displaced from their homes and the attacks. they have taken shelter in mosques and police stations refugees in the course to the city of nic gamble include minority m. of the muslims and christians fleeing persecution in pakistan and afghans fleeing insecurity in their own country now however they are all being threatened and displeased because locals view all foreigners with suspicion activist have begged churches and civilians for help but to norway that already life as
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a deputy treat onkar is extremely challenging and they cannot work so they undergo a lot of depression to do to decide because the children and children for. many years that are going toward the school and then people cannot work very talented people will professional people there live for jobs and commerce and we don't working in you know going on the two precious. mrs pakistan she's also grateful for her life in tree lanka but for now home is this parking garage and she doesn't know when back by land. that the both. the french president in modern mccoy has given a speech aimed at ending the months long for the so-called get over and look at all pledged to cut income taxes and make it easier to hold referendums but he also said that the no tolerance for a repeat of the volunteer tests of recent months. deciding moment for
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a manual mark on his address here in the elisa palace ballroom has been expected for months it was much awaited and much was delivered increase social spending more financial giveaways and expanded democracy on us and we simplify rules to allow citizens initiatives if a million citizens sign a petition and should be proposed as legislation and if it's not taken up by the national assembly it will go to a referendum. he pledged to provide more support for low income pensioners and above all. i want lower taxes for those who are employed by reducing income tax significant way such measures are aimed at appeasing the long standing yellow vest protest movement for months thousands of french citizens have taken to the streets to voice their anger at mccombs government with some demonstrations descending into violence. hope to show he understands their frustrations.
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spain is gearing up for still a general election in just four years this weekend a promise to president sanchez is leading the polls but neither his socialist nor the conservative people spotty are expected to get an outright majority that means they will need help in forming a coalition from smaller parties bitch enjoying the surge and support our correspondent visited some rural communities near the spanish city of terry where many feel forgotten by mainstream politicians the two big traditional parties scrambling to win back the. report. and i calculate mentor has decided to speak out for empty spain she grew up in this village with three hundred inhabitants one bar and a bakery only open for an hour a day now she's running for parliament in the province of parallel for the conservative people's party. and. representing tara well would make me really happy. every piece of good news is
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being celebrated by everybody here even if it doesn't concern all of us directly. we are like a big family. she takes us to a nearby village with one hundred thirty inhabitants the local people around government recently convinced someone to run the villages only shop and bar by not charging in any rent the village hadn't had a grocery shop for three years but that hasn't convinced everybody here to buy for the r.t. the. province is completely isolated we don't have proper infrastructure our trains are falling apart and are really slow the traditional parties have promised action and pledged millions of euros but they just haven't delivered from the trough from the government they now that we want to implement an action plan for the countryside and take special measures in terror
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well we have been fighting for people here for a long time even to the best of time every time there was something that i meant. by i just don't trust the political class anymore. they all talk about grand ideas but afterwards there are parts of spain that are just forgotten. you know desperate and disappointed people are putting their hopes in smaller more radical parties in the provincial capital we need model b.s. from the far left party who need us put their most promising by just a breath of fresh air and fresh start. to understand what it was and on the national parties have governed spain for forty years and they're responsible for the emptying of the countryside people should have the courage to vote for our innovative policies they will bring people back we will build new roads and train lines and create more jobs charities for women but it's. to me. like the smaller
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parties raquel says the p.p. also has a master plan to bring life back to the countryside she's promising better infrastructure and more support for pharmacy and better internet access a given that is that people should trust us to make the most of their votes but it's not to vote for the smaller parties because the us it's our party has the less it will be able to do for the country side i mean that was a debate with that. but the elections are expected to show that spaniards not just in rural areas but across the country are losing faith in the traditional parties and winning that back will take more than just promises. in a zoo in the mexican minister got a new pin in long today has unveiled three comes from a rare white bengal tiger just the two males and one female and they were born on
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a month ago why tigers are a genetic variation of the better known orange being gored taiga's only five thousand tigers that live in the world dung from the hundred thousand the start of the twentieth century poaching deforestation and over hunting off the national prey have impacted on the numbers but at least these three will be kept safe even though in captivity. that we know money is the stories that we're following. another sign that mozambique can obstruct with possible winds and storm surge just spoke to five meters this is just six weeks off to. die or death and devastation to the country. says a suspected ringleader of the easter sunday bombings died in the attacks with the government is warning of more possible strikes this is a touchy significantly reduced the death zone from the weekend attacks on the six details and churches. and president xi jinping of china has opened
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a deal with summits on multi-trillion dollar belt and group infrastructure project telling the world its leaders and it's not an exclusive club the number of the ten days of wary of beijing's huge investments in all sports pipelines and. that's a canal thank you very much for coming in. food.
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