this is news live from officials in louisiana warn off the ice threatening flooding as strong battery moves through the state waters have already pushed in some parts flooding everything in the apartment reports from the hardest hit areas also coming up. process president unveils passport national defense and i'll just face a hit of this year's best field atash wanted to find out about the celebrations expected to be a show of high stakes military might just go. and deputy speaks with the president

of georgia about her country's renewed tensions with russia and its long time if it's to join the european. hello i'm christine want to welcome to the program. the 1st major stroll off the u.s. atlantic hurricane season has made landfall along the gulf coast tropical storm barry is a slow moving system with the potential to deliver record rainfall and flooding across the region officials they hope the improved the levees will hold up against rising water levels it's america's 1st major storm of the season. despite full costs new orleans has so far been spared the worst of it but tropical storm barry now no longer hurricane strength only recently made landfall.

i ask everyone to stay vigilant and be safe. this is always been projected to be a rain. the storm isn't as fast as it might have been and a slow storm means more flooding. so louisianians are bracing for rising rivers and storm surges after hurricane katrina in 2005 in which 1800 people died artificial defenses were upgraded but not all of them some levees like near the town of myrtle grove on the mississippi river are still sub par. for this sector of levee hasn't been done yet and it can't be done soon enough we're tired of going through this louisiana is no stranger to devastating flooding coastal towns and cities including new orleans a below sea level the area's wetlands should provide a natural form of flood defense but building and land use change mean that residents have to rely on levees and hope that they hold. it in the humphrey

has been to one of the places in louisiana hardest hit by perry a small town off michel here's what she found. this is the flash flooding brought by tropical storm barry some 40 kilometers south of new orleans the community of myrtle grove is now submerged and this is as far as we can go now all thought he's ordered a mandatory evacuation on the thursday telling residents leaf or go it alone and with good reason here the flood defense system simply just didn't hold off because barry lashings of rain and the storm surge poured over a levee just behind me now state authorities in louisiana has said that they will call for a dent in the storm defense system but here was the chink in their oma this is one of the levees that the government had promised to strengthen in the wake of hurricane katrina in 2005 which killed 1800 people 14 years on though

this levee still hasn't been reinforced and people in this community told me that they are tired of living through this kind of flooding once again and in the home for a day it's to france now we have president emmanuel crondall showcase your defense capabilities by putting a european military cooperation at the heart of a best day parade at a time of growing tensions with the united states. has including german chancellor angela merkel and british prime minister trees many are expected to join the cronje watch the annual parade down the shops in these mobs the july 14th 17189 storming off the best fortress in paris in the french revolution. and. who is at the best day in paris joins us now to tell us about what this year's parade is highlighting. well the theme of this year's parade is also

my act together and what i call the french president wants to show that he is indeed cooperating with a lot of european countries on a common defense policy this comes about one year after the launch of is of a new a european intervention initiative that he did in june 28 there are 9 other countries that have joined this initiative including the u.k. and that shows that the initiatives are actually working outside e.u. institutions now he wants to create a common strategic approach a common strategic culture amongst members that would be slightly difficult though if you look at the gaps the differences between you know the views in the views on on how to wage war especially amongst between you know france and germany for example france it's much more intervention savvy than germany and germany sees this initiative more as a an initiative to cooperate and to coordinate existing interventions really.

is this a showcase all of president that you will crohn's policies on your. absolutely he wants to depict him as the european leader really this comes obviously shortly after the european elections which was seen as a victory for him it also comes after the top jobs the candidates for the top jobs were named and that was seen largely as a victory for him and more calm he wants to say to show that he's really pressing ahead with new initiatives and also when you look at the home front actually he's slightly up in the polls he's at 25 percent of positive opinions now up from 21 percent during the months long crisis of the a yellow vests protests so he really wants to show that he's coming back really as a european leader. president mccraw and he announced the creation of a space i'm on the head of this year's event they say is this

a response to donald trump's announcement last year of a u.s. space. well absolutely it's quite a contrast really if you look back 2 years and 2017 dom from the u.s. president was attending the bothy day parade since then though the 2 leaders that have kind of fallen out this new initiative i mentioned earlier is seen as linked to nato and no longer as a compliment to nato so. is very clearly creating a parallel defense strategy to the u.s. if you look at what happened over the 2 years last 2 years emma cause of the very angry about the fact that the use us withdrew from the climate agreement the paris climate agreement but also from the iran nuclear deal and the u.s. won't be happy about the new tax on tank giants that was put in place by france so yes this can be very much seen as a strategy to you know to build a come

a base that is very much separated from the you u.s. defense policy but space policy ok and we've been looking at live pictures of those events in paris as my colleague mr lewis has reporting for us thank you now to some of the other stories making news around the world torrential rains have many areas and 7 china on saturday with many urban areas hit by severe flash floods the deepest waters reach 2 and a half meters and people have been evacuated emergency services are searching for people stranded by the floods. and power has been restored to new york after a blackout affected more than 50000 people being altered to stop subway trains in their tracks. coincidentally on the anniversary of the infamous $977.00 east coast blackout that left neil and dominance.

european council president donald tusk has criticised russia's decision to ban flights to georgia amid increasing tensions between the 2 neighbors during a visit to georgia on thursday pledged e.u. support for the country georgia has seen weeks of protests against russian president vladimir putin and the continued presence of russian troops in the 2 breakaway regions south and. russia and georgia forced a brief war in 2008 and since then diplomatic ties have been so if it now in addition to the flight then some russian no make a school for the banning of georgian products the idea hasn't gone down very well with ordinary people in the russian capital. a little slice of georgia in the heart of moscow a restaurant and the biggest wine shop in the russian capital in russia georgian wine is much loved to do to be just really people love georgian wine because of war may believe relationships that emerge around the table but would you go just for

one. there are more than a dozen georgian restaurants in moscow nowadays wine brands suck at r.v. and piddles money form an essential part of every wine list there but this week georgian wine turned into a hot political issue in the russian parliament the reason a georgian journalist scolded russian president vladimir putin on georgian television so lawmakers started to discuss banning georgian wine again as they have in the past along with mineral water that showed him that it's all temporary i think that in the making some noise now i will stop soon and just don't feel that what it was and it's funny it's all politics you know people are not a part of it i still love georgia and russia equally yes no no one thing's for sure arguments confrontations and scolding won't lead to anything. we need to learn how to live peacefully and agree with each other. people on the streets are worried about ties between 2 countries but president putin has already come out against one

sanctions in this georgian restaurant no one talks politics they hope that relations will warm again and that georgian wine will never disappear from their wine list in the meantime all the tables are still reserved. all the time is fatima a simple spoke with georgian president. we also bought a country's 15 year long if it's to join the european union. so there has been the 1st slow and then accelerated movement to steady movements towards european union that doesn't mean that we do not have challenges that we have had many challenges we have had the. frozen conflicts and we have had the war in 2008 we have 20 percent of the territory that is occupied and we have. the occupation line that is a constant problem and tension we have had the recent tensions with.

russia but in the way. minimizing say that we are used to that and that has never proved to be a deterrent for georgia to continue moving on its past towards the european union because again that's not only a perspective but that's something that is very in the hair and to the georgian nature the culture history georgia feels itself european so it's only going where he sees it should go to russian government because very concerned about the surfeit of the russian citizens recently the government becomes talk and so on that even stop the flights. would take everything gets a face value we've had since the war and that's very interesting and it's something that maybe we have not and resigned enough but we've had to last year i think 1700000 russian tourists in georgia and the war was in

2008 so it's very recent and we have an occupation line at 40 kilometers from the sea despite that there has not been a single incident involving any russian tourists in georgia on the country i think that the reaction of the russian population was that they wanted to continue to come to georgia and in a way i'm sure that they will come back to georgia because drug. the hospitality is for everyone we as a georgia are a country of exceptional stability in this region that is not a model and why does region where there are many issues that we have diluted between 20 and stability despite everything so i think that we need from our big neighbor is more respect for the stability and that's the message i think that all partners should be carrying to russia when they're talking

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