this is the news live from the devastation of cyclists unveiled. one week after a cycle made landfall only help it's reaching some of defectives rural areas. also coming up on the show deadly clashes in venezuela plunging that country deeper

into political crisis security forces loyal to present the closed the door of dispersed crowds with tear gas and rubber bullets that is opposition leader long while ago called for a series of strikes to oust the president. and the court of arbitration for sport rules against south african olympic gold medalist caster semenya that's after she challenged rules forcing female athletes to reduce their natural testosterone levels. plus breaking into key pop we mean some of the young asian pop bands are moving to south korea and braving rounds of notoriously competitive all dishes all for a shot at stark. thomas thanks so much for joining us the destructive force. of cycling starting to become

clear a week after a tour through mozambique the government has now confirmed that the death toll has reached forty one that number though is expected to rise many parts of mozambique are accessible right now with remote areas and small islands still waiting for supplies our correspondent adrian creech travelled to evo that's an island in the north of the country that was especially hard hit. we are on board an eight flight headed to was david kay she in the island of the blue now for the first time we get an aerial view of the massive destruction up to now flights have hardly been possible due to the strong rain. i've never seen anything like business entire villages that are completely destroyed on a single house standing and if you look at the trees most of them fell down just like toothpicks. now we're about to land on the island of ebook the first aid

packages have arrived and this is by far not enough to help out the six thousand people living here. the island has been almost completely destroyed nearly all the houses have been torn down including that of. what they see is them trying to bring order to the chaos. warming in our beds our clothes we have lost everything we are doing our best to put things in order again at least the sun is shining at least dry the few clues that we have managed to salvage. it has been raining nonstop for nearly the entire week since the cycle hit shows us her house what is left of it this is where she and her children lived. in you are good to but they don't know the wind was so incredibly strong that it ripped away

nearly everything we lost everything now we don't have anything. i don't know if we will receive any kind of aid but nothing is left i don't have a job or field was destroyed. i am a single mother i have to take care of my children and i have to take care of my parents my mother is sick we have to do our best to make ends meet. if we. nearly everyone who lives here has found their way of life ripped away from them most of them are fishermen but many boards were washed away with the storm those that remained have to be repaired the mangroves were destroyed as well and the fish disappeared and have not returned since the cycle hits. the few tells on the island we're also hard hit it might be a while before that your wrists return. most parts are completely destroyed it

looks as a bulldozer drove over this little city here a lot of people have no place to stay anymore so they had to build little shacks like this one but many of told me they don't know how life will continue because they don't have the money to. children can't spend the nights in their own house anymore because the danger of it collapsing on them is too great. so they have to take their only remaining bat and all eight of them sleeping under an improvised roof their food is slowly running out they still have some fruit and vegetables but is only enough for one meal a day but she tries to stay optimistic nonetheless she wants her children to know that one way or another she will make things work. well report put together by krishna joins us now from pember that's on the mainland near you. we understand

some quarter of a million people have been affected by this second cycle in two months what have you been finding out on the ground where you are. well the situation and evil is terrible i've never seen destruction like this it looks like a movie but it is reality of course for the people living there the family you have seen they haven't eaten the whole day when i met them and they were just hoping that their relative would come by late to the day to bring them some food so that they would at least have one meal a day the food they'd reached there is not enough at the moment to start just tribute ing it because in the last days it's been raining strong and so helicopters and planes could not go there ok food aid is a top issue what about some of the other relief efforts that need to happen is mozambique's government on top of this well if you have a situation whereby thousands of people in a place like evil still don't receive food aid i don't think you can say the government is on top of it but the president was an evil as well yesterday to iran

through a lot of affected areas but now he has to act they can't blame it now on the weather any more that change fortunately now there has to be a quick response but it is also clear that alone can't do that all on its own it's a relatively poor country and you saw its people back to zero they have to start from zero so that means they need a lot of support not only from their government but also from abroad ok there are fears out there at this hour about more rains and possible floodwaters on the way what are you hearing about that what are people saying are they worried about more rains coming to where they are. sure that's definitely been the major concern after the site and it's been raining for days nonstop but yesterday the forecast predicted heavy rains it did not rain at all today also heavy rains predicted but you can see it behind me it is not raining again so this is very good news people are very happy about it and that they are they are hoping that it will remain like this so a place like pembroke can be the beautiful. nation that has been before that people

are coming back life will get back to normal but. it's also too early to say that there's no need for warnings anymore the forecasts us do not looking very good so people are still afraid that something else could happen adrian thanks so much for dropping in for this uplink this morning and for your report as well enjoy increased forest there near ebo who's on pemba right now thanks very much on the mainland. and staying in africa german chancellor all america was on the second day of a three day tour of west africa she's due to visit german troops in mali and will then travelogue. on wednesday she promised millions of euros in german aid to help fight terrorism and support economic development. and mauritania are all of the sahal region churches and christian schools there are increasingly being targeted by islamist fighters a week security in the region is also hurting local economies here's what the chancellor had to say about why that makes international aid so important. when.

this feeling is. due to the very difficult security situation around fifteen percent of budget spending is on security because the figure is increasing spending has to be cut back elsewhere that's why it's important for the international community to stand ready to assist said that development can continue with the streets and provide street amid the secure go for funding the german chancellor there now to some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. attorney general william barr has canceled plans to testify a second time i think the house committee on robert holder's russia report he exacted the attention to have lawyers question him democrats really control the house of representatives are demanding the release of a copy of the full report which investigated president trump's ties to russia. britain's defense secretary gavin williams and has been fired by mr trees and i

said he was responsible for leaked details of a national security discussion related to chinese tech giant and why. williamson has denied his the part was bald in that lee. the scandal plagued former korean airline executive heather cho as again face court she became torrijos after we're hearing a plane to return to its gate because she felt she wasn't being served an in-flight snack with enough to quarrel now she's facing accusations she'll legally employed filipino nannies by disguising them as airline trainees. israel is marking its annual holocaust remembrance day with twenty four hours of ceremonies commemorating the six million jews who died in nazi concentration camps . as a two million siren sounded out at ten am local time people across the country paul's to honor the victims the day is one of the most solemn on the national

calendar with memorial events. taking place across israel and t.v. and radio programs focusing exclusively on remembering the genocide. it's you venezuela now where opposition leader one wideout has called for a series of strikes to oust president nicolas maduro from power clashes yesterday between why those supporters in the military left one woman dead and dozens of people injured white house has been trying to persuade the military to shift its allegiances but president maduro says his efforts at a coup and failed. a violent stalemate in caracas on one side opposition protesters on the other the national guard still lives the low to nicholas mature and his revolution the injured he carried away and then this violent game of cat the mouse begins all over again. i want to be here fighting for my country it's better than staying at home in front of the computer. the

opposition called this a decisive death of venezuela but they said that often since anti-government unrest began in january. when one is still far from the presidential palace said from the straits he urged supporters to keep up the pressure. of what we have sector fires has not been in vain they thought all the protests would be over after yesterday they were wrong let's keep protesting until we have freed than a sailor was. but despite months of pressure nicolas maduro can still mobilize supporters to pro-government militias crowded in along side in a style just for the light chavez at a mayday rally. the other venezuela seemingly as defiant as ever.

but i see this is a show of strength against us imperialism and its aggressive plenty's. in the message now that only he can defend the country against washington and the venezuelan lated nice he's going anyway even to choose days military uprising. there yesterday school the skirmish that played out yesterday was personally directed from the white house by john bolton. a day after venezuela looks further into chaos it appears that not the government nor opposition is any. most of the victory instead the country's vicious now might is producing yet more suffering and yet move victims. let's get more on this now with ezekiel vista leddy political scientist at berlin's alice allman university an expert on but us well thanks for coming in this morning thanks for having a go at it was calling for more strikes until is forced out will the public back

him on this. i really doubt that because the recent why his attempt failed yesterday was basically because he did not receive the popular support of he was expecting his strategy is to keep things up to keep escalating bad so far it has not worked so i doubt that it's going to war now ok so you don't think this approach by gordo is going to be successful but what about madeira oh no how has he been able to keep the military on side a large portion of the public considering the shortages of food medicine and outflow of refugees out of the country and the mounting domestic political pressure the economy has basically collapsed over the last years however myler still holds the support of a. kind of big part of the even if for lump of relations specially among poor people because they still remember the good years of the president chavez when the

economy grew when the inequality and poverty decrease the government also these tributes social assistance which is very important especially among among poor people to make ends meet and the knitters supports him because of different reasons one of them is that they play a very important role in the us government and they have a lot of privileges that they do not want to lose how long a count on the positive sentiments left over from the chavez regime how long that lasts that's a very good question but it's what he can answer that it has worked so far but naturally his support is decreasing or has decreased over the years and next to that i think that the opposition with this strategy off escalating and trying to throw him out by allegedly this is not working so we have both. very

polarized radicalised cites year playing a part and none of them is really getting to control they can't really trust in power so so far that goes another strategy of go i dozed to break off a key element of the military leadership he hasn't been successful so far could he be successful in this area. i cannot foresee the future but so far that strategy has not worked even though yesterday's. something around one hundred military men participated but so for the higher officials just a few of them half. have left the government most of them still remain there what about the impact of the involvement of other countries especially from russia the united states how is that likely to affect the situation this is very important both countries are interested in venezuela because of the obvious fact that the nasrallah has some of the largest oil reserves in the world and next to that the

country that the big power that is pushing things for here which is the u.s. has many interests there one on one of the reasons why the u.s. is so bored and why they're so much the shift in its foreign policy towards latin america in the context of the trade war with china the u.s. since from came to power has hardened its political line towards venezuela the u.s. does not want any. opposition or real a position within the american continent continence this is one of the reasons why trump is recordings why though so much the other things have to do with internal political situation off of trump one of them off is that he's been accused of collaborating with russia so in the light of this like you say sions in two thousand and six sixteen i'm sorry it is very good for him to show that he's come from thing with russia and he's using russia lives as he's using menace well as somehow a proxy war to confront with russia putin is using this politically as well because

it paid off for him to come from with a us so we have a lot of interests there playing a part or ezekiel thanks very much for a common story. this is d.w. news live from berlin still to come on the show they're moving to south korea to learn a new language and a whole range of dance moves we meet the young k. pop fans giving it all up for a shot of stardom. but first football and barcelona v liverpool three no in the first leg of the champions league tie luis suarez opening the scoring for the spanish hosts and the twenty sixth minute that it was lino massi scoring the second fifteen minutes from time and he struck again just seven minutes later the second leg will take place in liverpool next tuesday to decide who will face either i.x. or tottenham in the final. with me now in the studio edward cambridge is ever welcome ed from the words. you know when we look at leo messi last night those two

goals he was certainly the standout was there well he's actually annoying. being that good at your job those are his eleven and twelve goals of this champions league campaign in just nine appearances which would be remarkable figures for anybody other than leo messi he makes the remarkable on remarked the way he does this all the time his first was a relatively simple top and he just reacted quicker than anybody else to double boss and his lead in the second half and then he scored so free kick you'd be proud to score a computer game it was one of the yards out and made it impossible for the goalkeeper to save it absolutely fantastic strike and it must be frustrating for liverpool because they kept him relatively subdued for the most part but i mean there's no stopping him and he found a way to get a couple of goals and now boston have got huge advantage in the second that you're going into that you know we talked yesterday about the game did we somehow underestimate barcelona do we over estimate you're going to blow up and liverpool i mean you called to what you were for or you were pretty close said feeling

a little bit smug because amid all the talk of how fantastic clubs difficulty is and what motivates me is i did think that possible in a wood would win simply because they have the best players now little pool will be kicking themselves up to decide because they actually enjoyed more position they had more shots they had more passes which is no easy feat when you played away against barcelona but they said you had few geniuses on the pitch when it came down to and with these big changes so often decided by who just has the magical moments and when you have a little messy around and if he was the one with magical moments last night but it's not over for for liverpool and field has been some wild fantasies in the past thousands of third tails as well where would coming back from three nil down against barcelona rank in the path the on of liverpool's european rights we're talking about the second leg next week i think it would be a huge task so i mean whether or not it ranks alongside the famous miracle of ystem . in two thousand and five when i also came back from three downs when that game is

is neither here nor there but they have a huge huge huge task if they can to make it to this funnel and you and i actually spoke yes the bow about the possibility of liverpool actually ending the season empty handed despite these great performances and domestically and phenomenal performances in europe as well we said there's a very good chance that the end the season with nothing and i sadly think last night's result means that they probably will end the season without any silverware it's well which is a very sad thing that would be a sad thing for your in club and for liverpool will have to see next week at his ever thanks very much in other sports news the olympic champion caster semenya has lost a landmark legal challenge against the international athletics federations regulations on testosterone levels for female athletes the court of arbitration for sport dismissing the south african's appeal now this means will have to take medication to lower her natural testosterone levels if she wants to compete. caster semenya became a sensation often if less six world championships in berlin in two thousand and

nine. she was only a teenager when she won the eight hundred meters the new world champion had been a virtual unknown. she was hailed as our golden girl back in south africa even meeting then president jacob zuma. i don't know what to say. it's pretty good. but a storm was brewing in the sporting world the idea the athletics governing body ordered her to take a gender test. servers worldwide speculated about whether the shyster manuf was into sex she was initially suspended but was eventually allowed to keep her gold medal and returned to women's races. but the debate about her agenda rumbled on. twenty eleven the idea introduced a testosterone limit it wanted athletes like semenya to take drugs to lower their

natural level of the hormones to be able to compete with women but in twenty fifteen the court of arbitration for sport ordered it to suspend the practice and less it could prove higher levels created an unfair advantage in twenty eighteen citing a study it had commissioned the idea introduced even stricter testosterone limits. the crew value for the r.w. the empowerment of girls and women through athletics the regulations that we are introducing are there to protect the sanctity. of fair and open competition so many appealed to cas arguing that a sports federation should not have the right to force athletes to control their hormone levels. in announcing the verdict today cas expressed their own concerns about the effect of the idea of a layoff rules and suggested delaying the implementation of the rules to allow time to gather more evidence. the panel found that the regulations discriminatory

but the majority of the panel found that on the basis of the evidence submitted by the parties in the procedure such discrimination is a necessary result of proportionate means of achieving the other beliefs objective of preserving the integrity of female athletics so many of herself has responded on twitter saying simply sometimes it's better to react with no reaction. the outcome of the case will have major repercussions on the future of sports and on society's understanding and interpretation of what defines gender. now to what's becoming the dream job for many k. pop fans young pop star wannabes from all over asia are leaving home and moving to south korea for a shot at stardom they spawn a huge industry of dance schools language schools and of course talent agencies.

meets you can she's seventeen and from japan and she wants to be a k. pop star that's why she gave up her schooling back home to move to seoul where she auditioned for the copia training school here she's taught the skill she'll need for hours every day. i'm going through strict training in taking my skills to a higher level to reach perfection that's what it takes to make your day be. the. u.k. we'll have to study hard if she wants to beat the estimated one million others in south korea and beyond trying to break into k. pop among them is one thousand year old now a neat suit of japanese students living in tokyo she may have the moves. and the voice but she'll also need to speak the language she's learning korean with a bit of inspiration from her favorite k. pop boy band b.t.s.

. paid for by her mother another diehard b.t.s. fan now has taken a flight to seoul for a round of notoriously competitive for dish and. well by helping you with this i'm nervous to be here in south korea but i also want to enjoy my audition it's as much as possible if i achieve my dream of becoming a k. pop star i want my story to be able to offer the same kind of hope to others that's in the set you know that he offers a ninety day. if she follows in the footsteps of her heroes like this band black pink she'll add to what's increasingly a cultural crossover between japan and south korea the three japanese members of the k. pop go group twice helped make them the second biggest selling act in japan the collaboration is being driven by a generation that seems untroubled by the diplomatic tensions of the past stemming from japan's occupation of career in the early twentieth century. as for now neat

her trip to seoul has been a successful one of the ten agencies shortish and four she was accepted by five. get your minder now of our top stories this hour the death toll in mozambique following kind of has now reached forty one a week after the powerful storm some parts of mozambique are still thanks us or others are waiting for aids was. a bright thomas for the entire news team thanks so much for joining us focus on europe is up next.

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theater in kenya was dubbed refugee camp. his life story may have ground to a. twenty seven years ago but there's no holding back his dreams. thank you for watching. cinema stars may twenty seventh on a double. yellow in a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe with me peter craig and we begin in northern ireland where tensions have been stoked by the ongoing uncertainty over brags the looming british exit from.