this is deja vu news live from berlin and the devastation of cycled kenneth unveiled phones are destroyed and food is running out and families are struggling to rescue their last along it's. also coming up germany's chancellor merkel visits the other side of the continent and pledges to support west africa and its fight against islamist terrorism the conflict and poverty there are the main drivers of migration to europe. deadly clashes in venezuela plunged

the country deeper into political crisis security forces loyal to president of the widow break up crowds with tear gas and rubber bullets as opposition leader gone by those calls for a series of strikes to oust the president. plus first she was his bodyguard now she says queen thailand's can marry the deputy head of his personal security forces just days before his official cornish what do you want to do. i'm sumi so much kind of thank you for joining us the destructive force of cycle in kenya this starting to become clear a week after tore through most on beak the government has confirmed that the death toll has reached forty one but that number is expected to rise now many parts of mozambique are inaccessible with remote areas and small islands still waiting for aid supplies our correspondent adrienne krisha travel to ebo in the very north of

the country an island that was hit especially hard. we are onboard an aid flight headed towards david kay sion island of now for the first time we get an aerial view of the massive destruction up till now flights have hardly been possible due to the strong rain. i've never seen anything like this there's an entire village just 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 the first aid packages have arrived but 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 cyclon hit shows us what is left of it this is where she and her children lived. at being you are god 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 in the new but pay up as 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 it. 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. 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 hit. the fewer tells on the island we are also hard hit it might be a while before that your wrists return. most parts of the war are completely destroyed it looks as a bulldozer drove over this little city here a lot of people have no places 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 build new houses. and her

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 it 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. that report from adrienne krishna and he joins us for more on this story from on the mainland hi adrienne good to see you those images of utter destruction we saw there were so dramatic tell us more about what you've been seeing and hearing from people where you've been reporting. you know what i saw in these villages that are cut off from the outside world is really shocking and looked like a movie to me but it is reality for

a lot of people living there the families you have seen in the reports when i met them they haven't eaten the whole day they were hoping that late of the day maybe a relative would come by bring them some food so that they had least have one meal a day up until now and on this island they haven't started food distributions because only a few items could arrive the last days many flights were grounded because it was raining it was not possible to get aid there so that's why i'm standing in right now in front of one of the food trucks and one of the deliveries eighty livers that are here but they are needed outside and the organizations here just really trying to get them there what about the mozambique government's relief efforts is it on top of this well if you have a situation whereby islands like evil people haven't received any food aid after one week after the cyclon i don't think we can say the government is on top of it of course there were the weather challenges the president was yesterday he visited other communities as well you promised to help but now action is needed but what is

also clear is that the mozambican government alone can't handle this issue we've seen it thousands of people starting from zero again they've lost everything and they of course also hoping for international support and i mean what about the fear that more rain and flooding could be in the forecast. that's really a major concern also here in pember where several neighborhoods are still flooded but yesterday there was rain predicted heavy rain it did not rain at all the whole day today it rained just a little bit so far and so this is a sign of hope i talked to a material just earlier today and she told me well we're still expecting rains but most likely more moderate rain so this is reason for hope but of course she also said they can't guarantee that heavy rains will be starting again our correspondent reporting for us there in pemba thank you so much. now some other stories making headlines around the world indian authorities are

evacuating nearly eight hundred thousand people as a major storm approaches the country's east coast cycle of funny is because packing torrential rain and winds of up to two hundred kilometers per hour it is expected to make landfall near the seaside resort of puti on friday we can leaks founder julian assange just facing a british court hearing over a u.s. request to extradite him the u.s. says he allegedly tried to hack a pentagon computer on wednesday is so interesting to fifty we jail term for skipping bail he was arrested at the ecuadorian embassy in london last month after ecuador withdrew his asylum status. only britain's parliament has approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency it was put forward by the leader of the opposition labor party jeremy corbyn the declaration comes after weeks of civil disobedience by climate activists it does not compel the government to act but it recognizes the need for action is urgent.

israel is marking its annual holocaust remembrance day with twenty four hours of ceremony ceremonies commemorating the six million jews who died in nazi concentration camps. as a two minute siren rang out at ten am local time people across the country paused to honor the victims the day is one of the most solemn on the national calendar with memorial events taking place across israel t.v. and radio programs focusing exclusively on remembering the. german chancellor angela merkel is on the second day of a three day tour of west africa she is due to visit german troops in mali and will then travel on tunisia on wednesday she promised millions of euros in german aid to help fight terrorism and support economic development for kenya faso mali and share chad and mauritania are all in this a health region of churches and christian schools there are increasingly being

targeted by islamists which security in the region is also hurting local economies here's what merkel had to say about why that makes international aid so important. when. due to the very difficult security situation around fifteen percent of budget spending is on security because this 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 so that development can continue with those troops and provide speed. for a new. to venezuela now where opposition leader one way though as called for a series of strikes to oust president nicolas motherhood all from power clashes yesterday between pro and anti-government supporters left one woman dead and dozens injured while they always been trying to persuade the military to shift its allegiance of president maduro says why those efforts at a coup have failed. a violent stalemate in caracas on one

side opposition protesters on the other the national god still loves the low to nicholas madrone and his revolution the engine he carried away and then this violent game of cat and 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 that. the opposition called this a decisive die for venezuela but they said that often since anti-government unrest began in january. when one is still far from the presidential palace so from the streets he urged supporters to keep up the pressure. with what we have separate fires has not been in vain they thought all the protests would be over the yesterday they were wrong let's keep protesting until we have freed than a sailor with my. 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. at the lip but i see this is a show of strength against us imperialism and its aggressive plenty's. message now that only he can defend the country against washington the venezuelan they did nice he's going anywhere. yesterday's coup the skirmish that played out yesterday was personally directed from the white house done bolton. a day after venezuela lurch further into chaos it appears that neither the government nor a position is any closer to victory instead the country's vicious now might is

producing yet more suffering and yet more victims. well let's talk more about the role europe and germany in particular are playing in venezuela's crisis chief political correspondent linda crane is with us germany's foreign minister who is in latin america at the moment and he met with a group of venezuelan opposition figures about without and said that germany stands by its decision to recognize on why though as the interim president it was the task of organizing fresh elections how far is germany prepared to go to make that happen . if you mean would germany potentially support a military intervention as the us secretary of state has hinted the u.s. might consider definitely not but the foreign minister mr mouse did say yesterday after that meeting with venezuelan opposition figures that germany sees limited opportunities for dialogue to really achieve anything and therefore is looking at other options for exerting pressure now those opposition figures in bogota had

asked him to press for more sanctions against people associated with the montoro regime and heiko ma said that germany definitely would take a serious look at that option together with its european partners those would be targeted sanctions for example asset freezes travel restrictions and the like beyond that germany also said yesterday during the foreign minister's visit to bogota that it would increase its aid to colombia to help support the thousands of refugees who are fleeing the disorder in venezuela that comes on top of an earlier pledge of ten million euros well into we saw germany put its support behind one way though pretty early on and receive criticism for that how is that affected berlin's ability to influence the situation there. that's right germany was quite early to recognize one why don't president and in fact the response of the maduro regime to

germany was a little different than its response to some other countries it declared germany's ambassador persona non grata probably because he went to the airport to meet mr goh idea when he returned to venezuela and at that time gave some media interviews the fact is some critics do say that may have limited germany's room for influence and perhaps heard its ability to exert pressure but frankly many other countries recognized as interim. isn't it at the same time european countries latin american countries the u.s. and i think essentially germany is in the same boat as they are some wonder if the aim is to defuse the situation to break the stalemate in venezuela what role can europe actually play here well the venezuelan opposition clearly does believe europe has a role to play those targeted sanctions they say could definitely influence members

of the maduro's regime because they do own property and also have family members in europe so that's one option they also the venezuelan opposition is the opposition asked foreign minister moscow to look at trying to put pressure on russia that is a great deal more difficult as we have seen in the security council as you know germany and france were co-presidents of the security council during the month of april and they were able to achieve very little in terms of a common position on. all right our chief political correspondent linda crane thank you so much now france and germany are moving forward with their plan to build a joint battery cell factory for electric vehicles the two countries are asking the european commission to approve state subsidies to jump start the project and the french and german economic ministers are meeting in paris today to discuss their alliance the aim is to make europe less dependent on batteries from asian suppliers

. electric cars is still something of a rarity on the streets the same goes for charging stations last year just two million electric cars were sold worldwide but that's about to change all the major come makers have announced plans to develop electric models and that means batteries without which the vehicles simply can't budge. battery production is concentrated in the hands of just a few mainly asian companies the heavyweights include china owned invision a see it supplies among others south korea's l.g. chem builds batteries for audi young die and forward china's b y d n c a t l supply homegrown produces and market leader panasonic from japan builds batteries for testers vehicles now germany and france want to spend around one point seven billion euros in developing europe's battery production but some are warning

against using tax revenue to subsidize the sector the german center for automotive research says european batteries wouldn't be competitive due to the high cost of electricity needed to make them and because robots do most of the production work job creation would be no such critics say the subsidies would provide little benefit. monica jones from good of you business has been looking into this story for us monica there has been plenty of criticism of as much as too expensive no real impact on the jobs market so why are they pushing ahead with this well it is basically political economic independence from asian suppliers i mean that's the bottom line this press conference that you mentioned right at the start is still ongoing in paris with the german economy minister peter and his french counterpart there and when they're just said that this project is of strategic importance for

europe why is that so well currently all the european carmakers are sourcing their batteries for electric cars from asia now of course everybody things and expect that the number of electric cars models and the production levels will increase in the next few years that means we will need more batteries rapidly there are already assembly battery assembly factories in germany some of the car makers are doing that but we don't do the battery cells and there is the fear that especially also with geopolitical global trade tensions think of you as china trade war relying on chinese battery cells for example could be tricky for european carmakers i found it interesting quote of the french president emmanuel mccall he says that as the president of france i cannot be happy with a situation where one hundred percent of the batteries of my electric vehicles are produced in asia so this is probably the main reason why the two countries are going ahead with their own consortia a strategic move but what about the prospect of jobs here that could be created

well that is. yes i mean to some extent the criticism is right of course but that is not surprising when smart factories robotics artificial intelligence it'll just sort of creep into all layers of our everyday life and that will be with car production as well but just to give an example where it could maybe be of benefit there are media reports that say the. if this alliance was to go ahead there's the plan to convert the opel factory in kaiser's loughton in on the border to france in the german city of kaiserslautern into a battery cell production side remember that opel was in real dire straits still struggling they have about one thousand seven hundred employees they're currently working mostly on diesel engines that is not brilliant when you think about the diesel scandal about climate change the combustion engine maybe not that attractive anymore so maybe not all one thousand seven hundred will be working on battery cells but for some it probably is

a light you know at the end of the tunnel so when could this joint project get down to business well everything takes time in europe as you know. they basically apply to the us european commission to approve subsidies state subsidies that is tricky because they have to comply with the e.u. competition law so yes you can expect that this will take at least half a year for the real approval in the meantime the hope to get the provisional go ahead in order to start to those alliances are right monica johnson did have a business thank you so much. now italy's populist government has opened a minimum income welfare program fulfilling a campaign promise to try to reduce poverty and unemployment the new system for poor households provides more money than current unemployment benefits but critics say italy can afford it the country's debt load is the second highest in europe after greece. ferraro got the good news

a couple of days ago her application for a basic income has been approved she's just one of some seven hundred thousand to tally and citizens who will soon receive the new social benefit for years rafaela has been getting by doing odd jobs she's a single mom with a seventeen year old daughter. knows that a tenth of my hope is that from now on we won't be limited to just buying what's on sale we might sometimes be able to buy something better. rafaela finds out how much she will receive in the coming days the highest possible amount is seven hundred eighty euros but few will receive that much it depends on the recipients income and their assets rafaela receives three hundred euros a month in child support from the father of a daughter so she's hoping for about four to five hundred euros even before it begins the program has been heavily criticized by many in the e.u. italy currently has record levels of debt and many experts believe the country

can't afford a program like this with a price tag of about six billion euros but the criticism isn't deterring luigi demaio his five star movement wants to get the program up and running before european elections. it was one of their election promises very important ambition of this government specially for the five star which has come under increasing pressure in recent months. italian authorities have been busy with applications for weeks a lot to do with the payments will be strictly monitored money won't go directly into bank accounts rather on to special credit cards it's strictly forbidden for example to buy lottery tickets buy items online and book airline flights but experts doubt if the system will have the effect on the country's economy that the government promises. that's. the basic income is returned to states investment policies that were implemented by many european countries up until well into the one nine hundred seventy s.

and then bit by bit disappeared. rafaela ferraro says she will vote for the five star movement next time she goes to the polls she's grateful for the money but she would rather have a job. thailand's king maha what should i look or and has married his official bodyguard just days before his coronation the king is three time is a three time divorcee he married his forty year old fourth wife in a surprise ceremony that was aired on all thai television channels the new queen will be called queen. yeah this was some weights we're now it's a relationship that love was a room a few years now it's official the king annoying thing his queen with sacred water this elaborate ceremony was broadcast to the entire country and it was watched by leaders of the country's ruling military and other royal family members the couple finished the ceremony by signing their names in the marriage registry on the

streets of bangkok somewhat shocked the queen city does rise from commoner to consulate. i mean people will accept the change but they might be a little surprised by the fact that she went from being an ordinary person up to becoming queen but a lot of. the government think she deserves the position now i congratulate them and hope it will move the country forward over a bit before joining the palace guard in twenty thirteen city to work as an attendant for thai airways the pair reportedly met on a flight city to is the king's fourth wife they're said to split their time between thailand's and germany where the king owns a property in the various even visitors to thailand have taken an interest in the couple in the u.k. one of the princes is married an actor. he can relate better to everyday folks in the same thing will have will be. king ma who wants to run in korn's official

coronation takes place on saturday despite his father dying in twenty sixteen the new king had wanted a period of mourning now it's time to celebrate a new era for the tired royal family. now the presidents of france and italy are marking the five hundredth anniversary of the death of the artist and inventor leonardo da vinci france's amount of coal and italy's. are meeting in the our valley the town of m. boss event doesn't show of unity after the worst diplomatic crisis between rome and paris since world war two michael announced a joint commemoration in march in an effort to mend fences with italy as populist coalition party leaders have repeatedly sparred with the liberal french president. our minds are not our top story here on d. w. the death toll in mozambique following cycle in kenya has now reached forty one a week after the powerful storm hit some parts of most of the are still inaccessible and others are waiting for aid supplies. coming up next

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