player. this is the deadly news coming to you live from berlin and catastrophic flooding in venice much of the historic centers underwater off to the city was swamped by the highest tide in half a century the prime minister says the floods are a blow to the heart of it today also coming up. a fragile calm in gaza draw gets fined into southern israel just hours after the announcement of the cease fire with the palestinians removed was supposed to end some of the heaviest fighting in months along the gaza border. and the neo nazis are conducting

vigilante patrols in the streets of berlin and critics have drawn parallels with s.s. plus the right stream to say they just want to protect each other but. i don't have a warm welcome to you i'm. then this is in the grip of the worst floods a seen in more than 50 years and extreme high time to submerge the world heritage city center prime minister decepticon 2 has called the flooding a blow to the heart of italy the mare is blaming climate change and says the damage will run into hundreds of millions of euros. the tide has risen again on the same opposite square the basilica one of venice's most iconic

landmarks is among the worst hit by the flooding its crypt has been swamped by more than a meter of water. prime minister just epic on to rush to the city to assess the situation his government will strictly decide whether to accept the regional governors appeal and declare a state of emergency. stage i don't see any reason not to declare a state of emergency and begin allocating funds immediately. local authorities estimate that more than 85 percent of the city was inundated in the past days high winds and heavy rain drove the water level to almost 190 centimeters it hasn't been this bad since 1960 mayor. blamed climate change for the extreme weather and said venice was on its knees there is also plenty of anger here the most and undersea barrier system aimed at protecting venice from high water has

faced constant delays since construction began in 2003. been on it for 10 years but they've done nothing it's in total neglect doesn't work and if the least $6000000000.00 euros in italy unfortunately. our politicians are all thieves we should all be in jail. as locals take in the aftermath of fear. see the damage to the city could total hundreds of millions of euros. and for the very latest let's go live to venice and. delhi julia what's the situation in the city today many historic building seemed to have been badly affected by rising waters. yes so as you can see behind me we have currently reached a new high tide peak it is definitely not as high as

a record setting one from yesterday in the night before but we are now at around 120 centimeters so i would say it is slightly below my knee i'm standing in water at the moment and one of the most hit buildings is say marks basilica behind me the water entered the building broke the windows invaded the crypt underneath up to $165.00 centimeters and it covered completely the floor of the business. that may cause damage to the marble and the mosaic on the floor of the basilica and to the columns in the crypt the damage will have to be assessed in the future when the water starts to dry out but it looks like it's in the millions of euros country as we heard the reporters huge public anger in venice over the long delayed flood protection system what can you tell us. i've been speaking to people here in venice this morning and people have been telling me they are not

really hopeful about this big infrastructure infrastructure which was started to being so constructed in 2003 it was meant to be finished 5 years ago but it was controversial the work was slow and it was also marred by scandal it consists in a system of barriers and dams under water at specific points in the lagoon which are meant to rise up only when the level of the water reaches a certain a certain level so as more than that the. the water goes up the more the barriers go up but the works have been delayed people here also not sure whether once it's completed it's meant to be completed in 2 years it will actually work and it will actually block the high tides. the marriage the city has said venice is on its knees how are people there coping with this very difficult situation. people here are used to hardship they are used to high tides coming in every year

so they do have the stamina to cope with things like this but this tide that happened yesterday was exceptional people are frustrated they have to deal with a lot of damage not only in stores in hotels in cafes but also in their homes so it's going to take a lot of resilience a lot of money and a lot of work to read the bills and refurbish what was damaged so venetians are frustrated but they are ready to keep going. julia sunday in venice thank you very much for that update on the floods in the city of. israel says a series of rockets have been fired from gaza despite a cease fire that was agreed to with the militant palestinian group islamic jihad in the last 2 days have seen the heaviest fighting in months and on the gaza border israel says it is quiet with quiet but insists it will not stop a spawn a sea of targeting killings of militants. into the night sky above

gaza before being snuffed out by israel's iron dome missile defense system. brooke seem to beckon a fraud piece here. news of a deescalation in the. we confirm the decease fire deal was reached under the supervision of egypt. it went into effect on the ground at 5 am with islamic jihad conditions. the dealing kluge the occupy israel submission to conditions to stop this sasa nations protect the march of return demonstrators and to begin the procedures to break the siege of gaza. but the clashes began after is when the forces killed

a senior commander from the palestinian militant group islamic jihad the fought back firing hundreds of missiles towards israel destroying buildings and when doing resident striking panic into everyday life. 2 days ago i became a fossil but now the rockets called me in the hospital we don't get used to this. it was is really fire power which proved deadliest air strikes on militant targets in the occupied territory of gaza killed dozens many of them civilians and children as real says the ceasefire deal will bring an end to the bloodshed though not the grief. only i spoke to general. on the line from gaza he described the scale of the damage caused by this most recent fighting. well 3034 feet here where where carol.

you know talking about and off the air. our get it it's her. different feel. out. on the house where partly. and completely destroyed but we are talking about or a plea. 6 children with killed a month before we are talking about over a 100 were injured the minister of education in gaza mentioned 6 juden where i'm on the. 15th schools where were damage and affected by the strike. although the psychology field images really high goggles does are for 48 hours where where where a stock. in the fear of a new war. a long war and you after the experience of 3 wars and in the boston

10 years so that is the most effective and damage. has been so far hamas which controls gaza has stayed out of this most recent conflict do you think this is likely to remain the case. well hamas decided to form the early beginning i mean it was all of you that was not interested in being involved has its own political calculations have us understand the difficulties and the hardship of life in gaza hamas is ruling down that so many anything would i mean like a new war my my my role when it is that the laity or for holding so how many decided to not to interfere in this and left. the fire for our kids and the revenge. in the hands of islamic jihad even hamad was pushing islam jihad to

accept the ceasefire there were helping the aged boys we're talking. all the asli the hamas is pushing islamic jihad to accept a cease fire so i think come out at this level well will will will remain. i mean away from its collation. pollution in gaza thank you very much for this is this meant. now to some other stories making news around the world germany has naturally avoided entering a recession that's according to latest data which has been released experts had expected growth to grind to a halt in the 3rd quarter the u.s. china china disputes has had dr jim ski manufacturing sector into a shop downturn. students from mainland china and leaving hong kong universities as volunteer tasks effect campuses many classes have already been cancelled protests as have been barricades public life has been disrupted as the press demands for

more autonomy from beijing. new zealand lawmakers have voted in favor of legalizing euthanasia the final decision will not be put to the public in a referendum during next year's general election the bill allows for terminally ill patients to request a medically assisted death. renewed clashes have broken out of the bolivian capital as the under the senate leader and he has was sworn in as interim president the former head of state evo morales was ousted this week and has taken refuge in mexico. no way because in washington have begun public hearings in the impeachment inquiry against president donald trump the 1st in 20 years the televised hearings kicked off on wednesday with testimony from 2 top u.s. diplomats dealing with ukraine trump has called the process

a witch hunt he says he's too busy to watch the proceedings a historic day for the united states hours of testimony played out on television screens across the country on the war. good morning everyone. the inquiry centers on an alleged pressure campaign aimed at forcing ukraine to investigate the u.s. president's political rival joe biden and on wednesday one of the diplomats who testified linked donald trump more directly to those efforts the acting ambassador to kiev said a member of his staff overheard a conversation in which trump asked you ambassador gordon somnolent if he'd successfully pushed the ukrainians into a night sing the investigation following the call with president trump the member of my staff asked investor song what president trump thought about ukraine as the song responded that president front cares more about the investigations of biden

trump later said he did not remember the conversation. i don't recall not even a little bit. but democrats are hoping to build a case that trump did in fact abuse his power of office to pressure ukraine behavior they say would warrant removing him from office is this what americans should now expect from their president if this is not impeachable conduct. what is the republican say it's not rather than denying the mine evidence of a pressure campaign they are now focused on arguing that it is not crimes for impeachment it seems unlikely that fresh evidence will change that strategy when the next round of hearings begin on friday. the news coming to you live from berlin coming up ahead how politics is turning musical in uganda as a form of pop star emerges as a challenger for the highest office. but

1st here in germany authorities are growing increasingly worried about the appearance of vigilante patrols self-proclaimed virtual groups operating in some german cities they act as if they're responsible for law and order which is actually the task off police but the groups claim that state law enforcement is not meeting its obligations the interior ministry has found that these german vigilantes but shows are being set up by far right extremists who have their own agenda we accompanied a patroon in berlin. a vigilante patrol in the heart of berlin 3 men from the n.p.t. a neo nazi party the leader of this patrol is the boss. who has a criminal record for incitement to hatred is an avowed far right extremist. right wing extremism sounds very strange to me where people who love our homeland definitely who stand up for our people whether that's right wing extremist i

personally don't care what people call it we do what we think we should out of conviction if that's right wing extremist i don't care. you know i don't have any for. the appearance of the vigilante patrol evokes images of nazi propaganda the name shaft should go on and or make safe zones can be abbreviated with s. s. in german just like hitler's paramilitary organization would make safe zone sound strange and i think getting us from shock should zone is outrageous. but it's close shop should it's on an s.s. port make safe zones as a demand so lot of people see us assume that calling it protection zones would be boring the patrol has this 1st operation today the men call out to 2 young women collecting signatures the right wing extremists believe their scammers and pickpockets but they can't prove it that the troll follows them for a few minutes because when i come from eastern southeastern europe there are 17 years old and there holding these lists. is

a list and. it's often the case in this area these people so called gypsies indian roma they do those kinds of things here if you know the death strains in central berlin notice the patrols off camera a few welcomes the idea that someone is watching out they say there is too little police presence but most people we meet here are critical of the n.p.t. patrol. in the n.p.t. lein i categorically reject the n.p.t. in full and we don't need a safe zone because we have police and they do their jobs properly i think it's totally unnecessary that some people feel the need to take action themselves if you figure if lucic issued a mission off and then deny don't even feel threatened anyway in berlin. that i need protection so i don't think. the numbers don't support the need for a vigilante patrol the crime rate has been decreasing for years statistics say

local residents feel safe the government is alarmed by the spread of the patrols. the ensign in vigilante patrols are a worrying phenomenon that in germany law enforcement is soley the duty of the state as it has a monopoly on the use of force whenever so-called self-proclaimed vigilante patrols are supposedly try to create law and order instead of the state it lies outside of our legal order and we can't tolerate it which would include a good feel we also need to raise awareness among all police departments on how to handle such groups. the police are present and central berlin of they stopped the patrol someone called the emergency services because of the right wing extremists i.d.'s are checked and recorded but nothing else is done. but that's good to have a nice day same due to have a good day. but most. of the safe sound patrol moves on like it usually

does authorities don't have an effective way of dealing with the groups nor do they even know how many such groups exist in germany. so the exact figures on the vigilante patrol so how big is the problem with that question joe political correspondent marks a 1000000 a question. yes asked by d. w. the german domestic intelligence service has not been able to give any estimates of how big this phenomenon of vigilante patrols is in germany so far we've gathered reports that estimates that in about 30 cities across germany this problem has occurred over these patrols have occurred but of course on the 1st sign as you see in the report it doesn't necessarily look at up as a problem at 1st these groups look very civil they could be easily mistaken for a private security company moving around in a group of 2 in very official looking vests but they are not these groups do have a political motive they're coming with

a right wing attitude and of course there have been reports of these groups also intimidating people or harassing those that they deem foreign looking and what do you get on against these vigilante preachers know are they even legal because as we saw in our report the police seemed quite helpless when they faced one of these vigilante patrols. is what we see in the report is that these groups pairing an early groups of 2 just making citizens local people just aware of some a situation that is perfectly within the legal framework here in germany and that is nothing where they're becoming friends of a criminal but this is only something that we've seen in berlin so in other parts of germany where for example these groups have been patrolling refugee centers or homes or there have been incidents of intimidating that is of course not ok end of thora these are now encouraging citizens when they see these patrolling groups to at least alert authorities so that the authorities can now start to quantify this

phenomenon and can take note of how many groups are operating around and take notice and try to track it next few minutes go should thank you very much for that . now we've evolved to send him to politics inspiring young people in uganda the charismatic musician and actor bobby ryan has been a member of parliament for 3 years he's emerged as a serious challenger to present you very much of any initially dismissive of the threat from wine and most of any is now hitting back and as we hear in our report music is an important part of the battle for hearts and minds. the preparing for a performance for uganda's president yoweri museveni michael. is rehearsing. the artist also has a day job as a new late there's a committed presidential adviser and get off. presenting the 7 so the real man who

can bring love and peace in a ghetto. and to work for the people to bring them to bring them in a government of program to get to use them until they fill out a man was a friend of bobby one rumor all but the musician who is trying to unseat president most of any in the 2021 elections. that you're enjoyed more than a decade of successfully making music together. but just doesn't trust his former band mate to lead to their mission so butcher mine is backing with 70. i can't be so sure about what you earned in one was a politician no. ok i can't support these ideas and i never thing i was i and the president was 70 has

a record of using music to mobilize supporters even went to the recording studios himself i some say that this time getting up close to artists is a direct attack strategy on his new pop stop political point. but as more 70 florence's new musical roots will be winds not tired of releasing music that slams his government. through his music people about the goings on the current state politically and otherwise but is that our government is doing but also what people can do as citizens what they can do to contribute to the betterment of things and he's been doing that through music and so this city alone since this thing is very powerful. pop star polymeric has already started to divide to find this but some are wary of choosing trucks by their political affiliations. i can't follow him in his new

career of politics but i love his music. if he wants to do something to eat he's doing he's. what he's had trying his best to be what he wants when it comes to political parties and where the musician sings for the ruling party all the others it does not affect me because that's their choice and i can't be stopped from supporting my candidate when i got it but when the music is off ugandans demand more from their leaders being one of the youngest populations in the world issues like health care education and jobs. as the presidential elections drawing near. news now from the world of sport in the court of arbitration for sport will tomorrow hear a case on the conduct of a chinese limbic champion swimmer soon young young previously served as

a dog being banned in 2014 and was recently cleared of refusing to provide samples 482000 18 drugs test but that decision has been appealed by the world anti doping agency several athletes protested against young's inclusion at this is swimming what championships by refusing to share a podium with him young could miss out on next year's in lympics and loses world titles if the space court against him on friday. on the tennis and stefana city boss has secured a place in the final for the a.t.p. finals in london after a straight sets victory over germany's alexander said i have the 21 year old and it is the 1st greek ever to compete at this tournament he took the 1st set $63.00 against the defending champion 22 year old still has a chance to claim the group's final qualifying pace on friday city perhaps next

match in a side of this that he finals after completing a 6362 a big tree. here's a recap of the top story that we're following for you the prime minister basically says the serious flooding in venice is a blow to the heart of the country the highest tide in more than 50 years has left the city inundated. coming up next on news asia and i counted as a cup of tea this fine it became a national hero in india so why is he the star exhibit in pakistan. and sri lankans choose a new president this weekend as many minorities question rich leader is the safer bet for their future. that and more coming up on news asia and do remember you can always get all our news and headlines on our website dot

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