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this is you know we news live from berlin mozambique bears the brunt of another giant cycle of tropical storm cannister unleashes high winds and torrential rains on this beleaguered nation restoring homes and pushing thousands of people inland just six weeks after psycho need to be submerged and devastated the country also coming out stronger police launched a fresh raid says the hunt for suspects behind sunday's deadly church and hotel bombings authorities say the suspected ringleader died in one of the attacks will
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have a live update for you from colombo. on my iraq it's great to have you along everyone. we begin in mozambique this ses african nation is bearing the brunt of an intense tropical cyclone this one's called kenneth it first made landfall on the camorra silence before hitting the mainland while mozambique is still reeling from the aftermath of cyclon each day last month and it's the first time in recorded history that two site close have struck mozambique in one season or the next sunday's the cycling is expected to dump twice as much rainfall as the previous one. a holiday maker dares to confront nature at its most extreme. less
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a resort in northern mozambique as the eye of the cycle on passes through kenya barreling into a country still reeling from a deadly storm just weeks ago. he waged war on the comrades island remnants of a night of for russia's winds and pounding rain drivers and cyclists navigate the leftovers. several are dead here but authorities say the field picture is yet to a marriage. 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. as kenneth cut its path of destruction residents found refuge in a marriage and she shelters like this one stayed and a place to sleep but no response from the reality of what awaits them at home.
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it's a huge disaster did we not used to seeing you and i stepped on god to escape the west but we really need one of those a neighbor that said. their problem was starts there was a strong wind to demolish the houses but of rescuers found a shelter. and we slept low nobody was injured and we didn't suffer. that. many here are grateful to be come join the cost in terms of chaos rather than casualties. and back here in europe spain is preparing for its third general election in just four years or prime minister president sanchez is leading the polls but neither his socialists nor the conservative people's party are expected to get an outright majority in this weekend's vote they will need help in forming a coalition from smaller parties which are enjoying
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a surge in support especially in sparsely populated rural areas. d.w. swiss louise is in madrid for us covering the various election rallies she's on the phone release of this is the last day of campaigning before sunday's vote who is leading. yes absolutely every day there's a lot of tension in the air hockey guy who did it again but based on the basis. of the next day we're going to live here and he. turned off the fight but that poll is actually from monday and then there's been no you know i don't we don't know if that is transient or that he's picked it then and it specially if it did it right what happened this week that's now a coalition of will most likely have to be formed in spain tell us about the new kid on the block the far right vox party is that resonating with voters. well the
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mock meetings here in spain have rally a lot of people actually they were packing over the past few days not to feed. are going to be regular and compared to before because that would be the first time they would get into part of my spot right party last december they got to greece not parliament in andalus here for the first time and then they're running on an anti immigrant and women platform and that's apparently healing for lots of people can not only done the main cause of the mind i kind of that i think what they're saying is true that trend they say that the people see if you. condone blistery with ketchup on the pentagon to go i just hope they also see if you can think further to the right and to get some of the very. boxes to be able to . form a coalition with them so that was the moment it's the elephant in the room for
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everybody saying these two fight the far right. how destructive is this for the spanish political landscape. but it's very constructive that would be the first time that five i've talked to you guys just out of it to the next the parliament in forty years and it's been the end of physics take a ship and as i said it's had a lot of things packed and what people have been saying to you. now to the baath party to use back by older members of the people's party you could argue that before and because they were members of the people coffee these people were kind of under control so that they couldn't really speak freely you know they can afford things and now that has been liberated in the right and has had an impact on what other politicians say and what people seem to be saying in the country well. you know we use the way for putting from madrid thank you so very much. and keep.
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and he says actually at a rally that's why you hear heard all that noise all right want to bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. today a russian woman who had made it to secretly infiltrating u.s. political groups for the kremlin has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison maria patino will be deported to russia after her jail term with the leader of a small russian gun rights group of pretty no use her ties to the national rifle association a firearms lobby to build a network of powerful republican contacts emergency responders in eastern ukraine say at least four people have been killed in a methane blasted at a coal mine explosion occurred in the new hans care region which is under control of russia backed separatists the mine closed because of hostilities that broke out in two thousand and fourteen and reopened just last year at least twelve workers are reported missing. thousands of indigenous brazilians are demonstrating against
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what they say is a government assault on their rights and territory leaders of the three day annual protests in the country's capital city events known as the free land encampment taken on new significance since for its far right president gyre also narrow took office in january. and we turn our attention now to shalako the military there says soldiers have exchanged gunfire with suspects as they attempted to raid a building in the east of the country a raid was part of the investigation into the easter sunday suicide bomb attacks on churches and hotels all there was heightened security and subdued attendance at mosques for friday prayers the authorities have warrant that there could be more attacks officials say the suspected leader of the attacks died in one of the hotel bombings the police are still looking for about one hundred forty people believed
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to have links to so-called islamic state. all right and on the line if in the colombo is journalist dina joining me right now for the very latest jim really we heard about a gun battle breaking out and more arrests being made what's the latest on the investigation the suspects that are still at large. why well according to the lancet who are making are the ones who are by going to carry the gun definitely still ongoing and only if they. get what they were unpacking for anyway i would. think thank you for that you know ok and then dave i'm talking to riyadh about i think that kerry. and our sincere apologies we lost jamila there but we'll try to get back to her in our later of bullets and so for now what we stay with because that country is on
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edge after the attacks there are fears that a wider backlash could emerge against anyone seen as not trolling can including refugees and you know the news met with some of those who are feeling threatened. natasha fled to sri lanka from pakistan four years ago she left her home country with three young children and her husband because they were persecuted for being christian. her husband bears burn marks to prove it. but i'm 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. mob descended on her neighborhood of pakistani refugees attacking homes and threatening reprisals even going on how many you have allah you landlord told us not to return don't even return to your not safe here save yourselves and leave
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we can't offer you any protection we are also a christian 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. the all male one similarity they are not tree long can. give a jewel in my eyes 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 refugee rights activists over twelve hundred people have been displaced from their homes since the attacks. they have taken shelter in mosques and police stations refugees
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in the course to the city of nic gamble include minority am of the muslims and christians fleeing persecution in pakistan and of guns fleeing insecurity in their own country now however they are all being threatened and displeased because locals have you all foreigners with suspicion activists have begged churches and civilians for help but to norway that already life president future treat onkar is extremely challenging and he cannot work so they undergo a lot to be patient due to decide because the children and children for. many years do not get to school and it and people cannot work build it and people will professional people jobs and looking you know going on that will go to purchase by latasha mrs pakistan she's also grateful for her life entry lanka but for now home is this parking garage. and she doesn't know when better by land. and we've
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got to rely on those reading again on the line up a muslims have been attending friday prayer city under very high security meanwhile catholic leaders have cancelled sunday masses indefinitely how afraid are people where you are. people that extremely afraid the right throughout the country at the moment because they fear that there may be more attacks in days to come just for their presentation and told us that there were all hundred forty suspects for links to the grammy and it was several had been arrested a manhunt was going on to such from all the people acting these cadmus conveying facts fearing that backlash us today must remain close to the border sixteen d. what does that says offices remain close schools you make those the people do not know what to expect in days to come but they are living in extreme fear stream fear
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and of course another very poignant remark also made by sri lanka's catholic leader and he said he felt betrayed by the government's failure to heed warnings about these attacks and we were getting a picture of a huge intelligence a failing so what more has the government been saying. but at this moment of time the government has accepted the fact that the that was a huge a blunder on behalf of the police force in fact today evening of priming the station and apologies to the nation over the last eight years and this said that they have to take a collective responsibility rather than costumes that fox but people that stream the angry and as the archbishop said he found the great in fact he said even if you had known just a moment the full depth of the station was going to happen he would send people home all right you mean one that was from doing in colombo where it's tensions are still very hard thank you so very much. thank you and coming up next in business
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news africa many african migrants looking for work in the middle east get trapped into a system of bonded labor a practice that borders on slavery. chanelle to allow we'll have that story for you coming right up and also going to talk to ya. dude. that people are all gone for g.w. on facebook and twitter to date and in touch. sleep. carefully. don't suit each you need to do good.
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