useful logic. to most stores return to service dog. shit. load. the but. this is deja vu news last for burleigh the devastation of cycling kenneth unveiled homes are destroyed food is running out and families are struggling to rescue their last a long. time and. we are in mozambique where one week after a cycling chemist made landfall only now help is reaching some of the affected rural areas. also coming up deadly clashes in venezuela plunged the country deeper

into political crisis security forces loyal to president maduro break up protests as office issued legal forms by those calls for a series of strikes to oust the president we ask this germany and europe will continue to stand behind why those claims on power. france and germany join forces to make their mark on the battery cell market for electric vehicles production is currently concentrated the hands of just a few mainly asian companies. plus first she was his bodyguard now she says queen talons came marries the deputy head of his personal security forces just days before his official coronation. i'm sumi so must come to thank you for joining us. the destructive force of cycle

in canada starting to become clear a week after a tour through mozambique the government has confirmed that the death toll has reached forty one but that number is expected to rise a many parts of mozambique are inaccessible with remote areas and small islands still waiting for aid supplies our correspondent our travel to ebola an island in the north of the country that has been especially hard hit. we are onboard an eight flight headed towards the vacation 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 not a single house standing and you look at the trees most of them fell down just like toothpicks. now we're about to land on the island of e-books 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 ten you are glad to but they get 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. 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 cyclon hit. the fewer tells on the island we're all so hard hit it might be a while before that your wrists return. most 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 a little shacks like this one with many of told me they don't know how life will continue because they don't have the money to build new houses. 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 the only remaining bat and all eight of them sleeping under an improvised roof their food is slowly running out they still have some canadian 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. that report from adrienne krishna and he joins us for more on the story from the main line 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 later that day maybe a relative would come by bring them some food so that they had least 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 panama right now in front of one of the food trucks in front of the deliveries eighty livres that are here but they're needed outside and the organizations here are 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 where. 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 where 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 have 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 so this is a sign of hope i talked to a meter all just 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 to some other stories making news around the world indian authorities are evacuating hundreds of thousands of people as a major storm approaches the country's east coast sakhalin funny is packing torrential rain and winds of up to two hundred kilometers per hour it's expected to make landfall near the seaside resorts of koori on friday. britain's parliament has approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency it was put forward by 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 recognizes the need for action is urgent. julian assange has appeared before a london court for the first hearing over a u.s. extradition request washington wants the wiki leaks founder to face trial for

allegedly trying to hack a pentagon computer assad said he did not wish to surrender to extradition on wednesday he received a fifty week jail term for skipping bail in two thousand and twelve. german chancellor angela merkel is on a three day tour of west africa which will include a visit to german troops in mali on wednesday she promised millions of euros and germinate to help fight terrorism and support economic development in the g. five countries for mali are cheney and chad economies in the region are suffering due to poor security and conflict and poverty are driving migration to europe. the german chancellor has come to this to show solidarity in a region where countries like book enough. have to spend more than a fifth little their budgets on security. germany has some eight hundred fifty soldiers stationed in mali as part of the un force pledged support to continue to

build up the g. five own capabilities to tackle terrorism. but the joint meeting in what i do go to five leaders called on the chancellor and europe to help solve the political conflicts behind the violence. that this would likely be we talked about the situation in libya questions concerning algeria and sudan and also first and foremost the impact of the crisis in libya on security in the extended region. we were all of the opinion that it is important that europe's leaders and institutions make a plea in favor of the g. five so help for all of these issues since these are of course questions that concern us. because on the case on the question of. the fact that germany didn't agree with the two thousand and eleven bombing of libya that ousted moammar gadhafi gives it great credibility here macko accepts europe's joint responsibility.

it's the responsibility that also affects europe because if chaos gets the upper hand here which we would like to prevent that would also make itself felt in other areas also germany's message here is that while it won't deliver weapons it will keep up its support for the d. five in this region where the former colonial power france continues to do most of europe's heavy lifting in fighting terrorists. german chancellor angela merkel wants to reassure the region countries the g five that they're not alone in the fight against terrorism she's brought some fifty million euros in first funds for book enough aso and you say alone at the same time germany still stop sort of from missing anything beyond military advice and the eight hundred fifty soldiers currently stationed in mali as part of the east stabilization force for now france

will remain the big player here in the region. to venezuela now where opposition leader one has called for a series of strikes to oust president nicolas mahut all from power clashes yesterday in caracas between pro-government forces and opposition supporters left one woman dead and dozens injured why don't we spend trying to persuade the military to shift its allegiance but president my little says why those efforts at a coup has failed. a violent stole made in caracas on one side opposition protesters on the other the national guard still lives the low to nicholas madrone and his revolution the injured and 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 death of venezuela but they said that often since anti-government unrest

began in january. but in one go i though is still far from the presidential palace so from the streets he urged supporters to keep up the pressure. with what we have sector fires has not been in vain they thought all the protests would be over if the yesterday they were wrong let's keep protesting until we have freed than a sale of 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 made a rally. the other venezuela seemingly as defiant as ever. but i see this is a show of strength against us imperialism and its aggressive plans. and the duras message now that only he can defend the country against washington the venezuelan

lated nice he's going anywhere. yesterday's coup the skirmish that played out yesterday was personally directed from the white hose by don bolton. the 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 melinda crane is with us germany's foreign minister 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 long 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 maduro regime and 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 why do interim 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 guy do 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 in a whimper. 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 so melinda 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. 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 that where all right our chief political correspondent melinda

crane thank you so much. you're watching news still to come this berlin based afflatus challenging a new law that bans competitors from being named german champions if they're from other e.u. countries it's a personal fight for the italian born sprinter. but first 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 jumpstart the project and the french and german economic ministers are meeting in paris today to discuss the alliance the amos to make europe less dependent on batteries from asia and suppliers. electric cars are 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 com 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 and see it supplies nisson among others south korea's l.g. chem builds batteries for audi you die and forward china's b y d n c h e l supply home grown produces and market leader panasonic from japan builds batteries for testers vehicles. now germany and france want to spend up to one point two 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 johns from v.w. business has been looking into this story for us monica there has been plenty of criticism of this market 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 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 us china trade war relying on chinese battery cells for example could be tricky for european car makers 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 and going ahead with their own consortium 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 that if this allies were. 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 say 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 mite you know at the end of the tunnel so one could this joint project get down to business well everything takes time in europe as you know and. they basically apply to the us european commission to approve subsidies state subsidies that is tricky because they have to comply with you 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 monikers out some degree of business thank you so much. thailand's king maha what you know long court has married has official bodyguard just days before his coronation the king is a three time divorced say he married his forty year old fourth wife in a surprise ceremony that was aired on all thai television channels now the new queen will be called queen. yeah this was some weights we're now a relationship that love was a rumor few years now it's official the king annoying seeing 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

concert in la and back people will accept the change but they might be a little surprised by the fact that she went from being an ordinary person out to becoming queen but it lasted a lot of. the government think she deserves the position now i congratulate them and hope it will move the country forward but before joining the palace guard in twenty thirteen city to worked 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 varia even visitors to thailand have taken an interest in the couple in the u.k. one of the princes was married an actor. he can relate better to every day folks in the same thing grow up with the. king marco watch the random corns 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. german athletics has found itself at the heart of a legal dispute at the european court of justice sprinter danielle abyss she is challenging a role that bans people from other e.u. countries from being named german champions for men's one such titles in the past and wants to keep doing so it's a personal matter. italian born daniela biffy has lived in berlin for the past fifteen years he feels at home here is his life and his job as a fitness coach and his down time they feel is a dedicated athlete as an amateur he started the german championships winning numerous titles in the senior class all in accordance with the regulations of the german athletics association a u. citizens are eligible to participate in german championships if they are active members of a german club and have been so for at least a year. in two thousand and sixteen that passage was removed because of that

athletes like beefy can no longer be crowned german champions if he has slammed the ruling is discrimination and is launched a lawsuit which has led before the european court of justice the aim of the lawsuit is to ensure foreign athletes are treated on an equal footing and that they are allowed to compete in the national championships again. in the meantime the advocate general of the european court of justice has lent if he's case hope he believes the italians claims are well founded and the german athletics associations new regulations violate a new law if so that would mean serious changes for all amateur athletes in europe they would be clear to win championships in other countries in the future all thanks to the initiative of daniela biffy from berlin. coming up a conflict zone with tim sebastian but first these pictures from israel where people have been observing holocaust remembrance day.

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