this is deja vu news live from berlin officials in louisiana warn off a life threatening flooding as a storm barry moves through the state forces have already pushed possum davies and caught some pots putting everything in their pockets the reports from the hardest hit areas also coming up to french president to matthew mcconaughey meets the parade as he's country celebrates bastille day with the boss show military pageantry live to paris. we look ahead to today's wimbledon men's final wave to tennis titans splashes roger favorite takes on to know that jeff.

hello i'm christine wonder welcome to the program. forty's in the u.s. state of louisiana urging residents to stay vigilant as tropical storm barry pummels the state fears that could be inundated have so fall proved unfounded but other areas all still in danger of severe flooding 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 a hurricane strength only recently made landfall. i ask everyone to stay vigilant. and they say. this is always been projected to be

a rain event and it will be 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. 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. the humphrey has been to one of the places in louisiana hardest hit by a very small town

a little here's what she found. they say it 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 authours 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 states authorities in louisiana had 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 own 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 then humphrey there it's to france now we have president emanuel kronwall showcase you have to fence capabilities by putting your pin ministry copper ation at the heart of the best day parades at a time of growing tensions with the united states. beaches of meeting him a chance to get a metal joint across to watch the annual parade down the champs in the say that mocked the beginning off the french revolution. and. it was at the best day parade in paris joins us now hi lisa good to see you we can search via that process behind you but tell us a little bit more about what this is parade is highlighting. well the topic of this year's parade is as young song act together and president in iraq was very much as shaped casing european defends cool peroration now he launched the new european

intervention initiative about a year ago and 9 countries have a year to that initiative since then from these countries spain portugal germany there are truths that are marching here today there are planes that are participating in the plane parade that was here the happen earlier today and you know the initiative is to bring together to bring forward a common strategic culture when it comes to warfare now imagine a call will face some headwinds when it comes to that because at the approach couldn't be more different for example between france and germany france is taking my course hoping to launch common interventions in the future with this initiative however germany is very much longer to do they do so and they rather pay for a common approach when it comes to the management of existing interventions. that mean is this a showcase of president across policies on. a

very much says he actually chains tragedies when you look at what he sat in his famous so bones speech in september 27th team that was a long speech on his europe plans he was very much pushing for a euro zone budget a common euro zone management and also a common fiscal policy but in his latest op ed earlier this year is the head of the european elections he dropped these 2 points and was very much for saying on defense and on security you know when it comes to security he wants to reform this change an agreement which allows for no good as we've been in saw it the schengen area and he says that member. sweden have to enforce the is security at the outside borders of shannon and agree on common principles for their side of policy cause of the hoping to ride on

a wave of support that he's being benefiting from over the past 2 months his rating has slightly gone up to 25 percent after dropping strength of one percent during the month long yellow vests protests that happened here in france and also the european elections were rather successful with him he came 2nd by was his 1st his party's 1st european elections so that was seen as it's assessed success and also when it comes to the top jobs the nominates of of which the candidates of which have been nominated recently that was also seen as a large success for him in a console use really trying to depict himself as the european leader here at this parade. ok so. very simple very quickly before you go i mean journey back into this conversation we know that chancellor angela merkel is in paris today tell us about the state off french german relations. well i think it's sad to say that a man mcconnell america get along quite well but that doesn't mean that they agree

on everything that might agree on the common stones stance towards the u.s. as and none of them is of that happy that u.s. president but no no trump decided to leave the paris climate agreement and to. leave the iran nuclear deal but when it comes to european cooperation in myanmar cause hoping for a much closer cooperation that angle a merkel seems to be willing to agree to so that's where their cooperation actually has their limits and where they don't agree really all right at state level is lisa lewis reporting in paris thank you. and it's now some of the other stories making news around the world chore actual rains fashion many areas in southern china on saturday with many urban areas hit by severe flash floods the deepest borders reach to the hof meters hundreds of people have been evacuated emergency services also watching for people stranded by the

floods power has been restored to new york city off to a blackout affected more than 50000 people stopped subway trains in their tracks and shut down businesses new york's utility company is investigating because. egypt on saturday opened to the engine harriman's of the capital cairo and then failed a collection of newly found south of fakey some containing well preserved mummy is the finds were made during excavation work on the west bank of the nile river and rather in an area with some of egypt's oldest permits. the un is due to hold a conference tomorrow on the worsening outbreak of the bold outbreak in the democratic republic of congo the current outbreak in congress is just being called the 2nd worst in history and it continues to spread due largely to mistrust by people they have both taught health workers and he called police on me which is struggling

against multiple insurgent groups hundreds of people have already died in the area during the current outbreak which off the fires which has been raging for nearly a year. maybe rain is the least of the troubles for north korea and his team again they're on their way to pick up a corpse and the people in this small village near the east congolese town of potential suspicious they've heard many disturbing things about the bowler. and his team here to make sure that those who died of the abode of virus of buried correctly. a family member in a protective suit is allowed into the house to bring out the body of a young woman simple really did we do this to avoid rumors the family needs to see that everything is done correctly it is like the. rumors and superstition are only one of the obstacles in the fight against a bowler. but we always hear that the organs of the dead are stolen to make money

that's why they hidden in the sacks but i saw that my sister's body was intact and . the body is now taken to the nearest mortuary here the body of a child is also being readied for burial another ebola victim the boy's father is filming he wants to ensure that it's his son that will be buried later on today. the recovery team tirelessly clears things up you mustn't touch the sick not even the dead explains lord and the one that i am to safely bury it bola victims they need the congolese army that's because there's fighting in the area around. even treatment centers are attacked by rebel groups. but the people don't trust the government soldiers either. haziest does it all attentions are one reason we

have problems with local people in dealing with ebola. last year the elections were postponed because of ebola and then rumors spread that ebola was invented in order to prevent the election and civil diggle poorly designed. 7 but it is far from an invention it's a bitter reality with almost $1500.00 deaths so far in a region that's already one of the most troubled in africa. the young woman can now be buried with dignity under the protection of the soldiers a tiny success for the funeral team her there are very rude of that there where they are ok since for years and in tennis simona halep has defeat at serena williams to win her 1st wimbledon singles title williams was the overwhelming favorite for the match but failed to find her best as the romanian native illustrates josh well number 7 kept the momentum in the 2nd set of seeding

his 2nd grand slam victory in commanding style the score 6262. at the men's tennis final now and after taking down his rifle rafael nadal in the semifinals roger federer now has a chance to win and 9th wimbledon crown in sunday's final at her has well established credentials on the cross but this was legend hasn't base and he's next opponent novak djokovic on any surface in 3 years. roger federer's name has become synonymous with wimbledon. not merely a player who is a night time champion at the all england club but a man that espouses the values santa tradition of his most special place. many considered his semifinal match with rafael nadal the premature final but that would be to undersell novak djokovic his own achievements in south london the serbian is

after all number one seed defending champion and a 4 time winner at wimbledon in fact to those tennis fans who prefer the simple a few that the battle for all time tennis supremacy is a roger raffa 2 holes rice novak could prove to be the inconvenient truth yes a win for federer would mean a glorious 21st grand slam victory but of the famous trophy lands in the hands of joke of each he would be just 4 titles behind the swiss maestro with the serbian being 5 years younger. federer will be the clear sentimental favorite for a crowd that has grown to adore him. djokovic who on the other hand has a good record over his shoulder and no cue for sentimentality. that's bound to be a shirt on and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you new orleans appears to have been spared the worst as tropical storm barry handles louisiana horses have already pushed past levees in other parts of the u.s. state flooding everything and therefore. it watching the news there's more

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