this is you don't reduce line for berlin keeping afloat catastrophic flooding in venice as residents scrambling to limit the damage done to their ancient city by the highest tide in half a century a precious iconic landmark submerged staggering levels of water swamping the sinking city at least prime minister calling the floods a blow to the heart of the country also coming up. at 10 u.s. troops alister new militants wind down their rocket attacks on israel after 2 days of violence that saw $34.00 palestinians killed in israeli raids plus thing in sherman going tells police to keep a closer eye on vigilante groups after neo nazis claim to be carrying out patrols

on the streets of orlando. and white children are likely to suffer most from climate change experts say the combination of rising temperatures and toxic air means the next generation is especially vulnerable to lifelong damage to help. iraq it's great to have you along everyone well we begin this broadcast in venice a world heritage site and a jewel of a city battling catastrophic flooding priceless landmarks are submersed tourists stranded wading through water all italy's prime minister the clearing the flooding disaster in the canal city a blow to the heart of the country the mayor of venice as the very future of the city is now at stake. on thursday the water rose and then

retreated on st mark's square the basilica one of venice is most iconic landmarks is among the worst hit by the flooding its crypt has been swamped. prime minister just said picante rushed to the city to assess the situation he promised his government will act swiftly to provide funds and resources. he we will hold a cabinet meeting today where we will declare a state of emergency as requested by the region's governor. this will allow us to start allocating funds for rescue aid and to restore services across the city you see the beautiful city that is in the. local authorities estimate that more than 85 percent of the city was inundated in the past days. high winds and heavy rain tribe the water level to almost $0.19 to me says it hasn't been this bad since 1966

mayor luigi burton yarrow blamed climate change for the extreme weather and said venice was on its knees there's also plenty of anger here since napoleon of altruistic and i have a small shop and we had around $15000.00 euros worth of damage i was prepared for a maximum of 60 centimeters of water but it was well over 70 we didn't have enough electricity and my pump wasn't strong enough to stop it. and on to see barrier called the moser is being constructed to protect venice from high water but it's not finished yet it has faced constant delays since construction began in 2003 as locals taken the off of the flooding city officials say the damage could total hundreds of millions of euros. are let's go take stock of what the situation is right now in venice did so delhi is standing by she's standing at st mark's place it looks like all the water has receded julia. yes it has

and venice has gone back at least for today to its normal tides in this time of year the moon and the sun and their effect on the earth's waters. influenced the high tide in venice so today we reached about 110 centimeters which is definitely lower than the record reached on tuesday night people however are still reeling from the high tide they are counting the damage they're trying to clean up their homes and their shops and they hope that they will receive some help from the government all right because what we've heard from the gulf and from the prime minister of italy basically saying he will declare a state of emergency what does that mean and how will it help venetians cope with the damage so the state of emergency would mean more money readily available and more power to help venice rebuild today.

the prime minister also promised some money that will be readily available for citizens and for business owners in the city in the hopes that that will help them kick starter and get back on their feet quite quickly after the problem and tell us a little bit about how the nation's feel about how officials authorities have been dealing with this record flood. so venusians are used to hardship high tides come every year but this one was exceptional no one was expecting it no one was prepared for it and venetians are tough but they are also a little skeptical of what the government has done and will be doing for example the most of this system of barriers that is meant to protect venice from the high tide has been in construction for almost 20 years it was meant to be finished 5 years ago but it still hasn't happened and the trust in the government being able to bring that to completion is quite low here our days of news. reporting from st

mark's place in venice so thank you for your continued coverage. next we shift our attention to the middle east where israel says a series of rockets have been fired from gaza despite a cease fire that was agreed earlier with a militant palestinian group islamic jihad well the last 2 days have seen the heaviest fighting in months along the gaza border $34.00 palestinians were killed in israeli strikes on gaza. messe l. soar into the night sky above gaza before being snuffed out by israel's iron dome missile defense system. but as day broke it seemed to beckon a fragile peace here. news of a deescalation in the area. also confirmed that

a cease fire deal was reached under the supervision of egypt and it went into effect on the ground at 5 am with islamic jihad conditions. the deal includes the occupier israel submission to conditions to stop this as a nation's protect the much of return demonstrators and to begin the procedures to break the siege of gaza. the clashes began after is really forces killed a senior commander from the palestinian militant group islamic jihad. the fought back firing hundreds of michelle's towards israel destroying buildings a new indian residents striking panic into everyday life. flame of the earth of 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 the not the grief. you'll want to say now about some of the other stories making news around the world. turkey says it has deported 7 germans and one british national suspected of being islamic state militants the germans are believed to be a family from the central town of hill this time which has been the focus of anti terror raids turkey is expected to deport 2 more suspected german i asked militants tomorrow. or new clashes have broken out in the bolivian a capital of the unrest comes a day after the senate leader janina and yes it was sworn in as interim president the former head of state evo morales was ousted this week and fled to mexico.

germany's parliament has approved a law mandating children be vaccinated against the measles virus of the measure requires parents to prove that their children have been vaccinated before they can even enter kindergarten or school measles cases have surged globally in 2019 the law takes goes into effect in the month of march this next year rather. and we stay in germany where authorities are growing increasingly worried about the appearance of vigilante for trolls self-proclaimed patrol groups are operating in some german cities and they act as if there was sponsible for law and order which is actually the task of the police but the group's claim that state law enforcement is not meeting its obligations while the interior ministry has found that these german vigilante patrols are being set up by far right extremists with their own

agenda and we joined a patrol here 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 dan schmidt who has a criminal record for incitement to hatred is an avowed far right extremist from a show that i think 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. if 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 shop shirts on was outrageous. but it's close

shop shoots on an s.s. to make safe zones as a demand so a lot of people see us us in it calling it protection zones would be boring the patrol zeroes in on its 1st operation of the day 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's true follows them for a few minutes because when i come from eastern southeastern europe there are noise 17 years old and they're holding these lists because it does a list and. it's often the case in this area these people so-called gypsies is 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. lean 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 so they figure of a new sick issue to michelle and i don't even feel threatened anyway in. all that i need protection. i don t. shirt. 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. look at the end. vigilante patrols are a worrying phenomenon that in germany law enforcement is soley the duty of the state it has a monopoly on the use of force whenever so-called self-proclaimed vigilante patrols 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. home we also need to raise awareness among all police departments on how to handle such groups. the police are present and central berlin if they stop to 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 seem to you to have a good day. but most. of the safe sound patrol moves on no one stops it authorities don't have effective guidelines to deal with such groups they don't even know how many vigilantes are patrolling across germany. well earlier i spoke to our chief political correspondent while in the crane and i asked her how big of a problem this really is because there are there's no clarity on the numbers involved. that's correct the federal interior ministry just issued a statement some days ago in which it said that these groups now seem to

exist in pretty much every single german federal state and that the topic is of enough concern to to the federal authorities that it has been on the agenda the focus of the joint to the security services joint terror defense center 8 times in the past couple of years i can give you some numbers from state level in one especially important federal state and that is north rhine-westphalia authorities say that the proliferation of these vigilante groups dates back to the new years eve 2015 when there was massive violence and molestation of women who were celebrating the new year near the cologne train station by people of migration background and apparently the vigilante groups began to proliferate after that now in that federal state of north rhine-westphalia the authorities say they

now have a hardcore of right wing vigilantes of about 250 people but that 700 people could be mobilized statewide throughout north rhine-westphalia if if the vigilantes so desired melissa watching our reports you know seeing the interaction between the police officers and this vigilante patrol here in berlin you know i was struck by how polite they approached their polite approach and and they seemed kind of helpless as to what to do with them. i don't know if i would call it helpless germany has a very strong system of rule of law with respect for individual rights and that does indeed limit the police's. leeway in dealing with these groups but if you look for example at the eastern german city of tennis where there's also quite a strong vigilante presence the police there have done such things as confiscating

t. shirts with the logos of these safe zones and by the way there are vigilante groups all over germany that just happened to have different names but all of whose initials add up to s.s. so it's not only the ones in our report so they've confiscated t. shirts they've filed charges for the assumption of a false uniform they've also looked into charging such groups with a false assumption of authority with claiming to have an authority that they don't have they've ordered them to leave certain streets and parts of the city and not return so there are measures there they can take if germany manages to pass its new law on regulating hate speech online there would be additional measures because these groups do how the websites that are backed by the neo nazi n.p.t. party nonetheless as i say to some degree there are limits on this because of germany's constitutional protections for freedom of expression and freedom of movement. in the crime reporting thank you united nations conference on

population and development in and yet has closed with a pledge to improve women's health all part of the issue is reproductive health and birth control a program in senegal is having a positive impact. every day goodness hour goes door to door visiting families in her darker neighborhood she's a buddy in gore a district godmother or empty and she wants to see change in her community. in the privacy of their homes she talks to women about sex and contraception. so not every woman is able to go to the clinic and choose a contraceptive method. she needs her husband to agree and sometimes also her mother in law some women come to the clinic and say my husband wants me to take

this specific method even if it's not saying so we go and speak to that has meant to raise his awareness our role is to media. 10 years ago the government launched this outreach program to make family planning a priority they hope to decrease maternal and new a natural death according to the world bank the 1st cd to rate dropped below 5 children per woman in 2016 it was a 1st time in senegal's history the birth rate is no at $4.00 lower than other countries in the region such as new share or nigeria in senegal around 95 percent of the population is muslim society here is conservative file is part of a growing young generation of religious leaders who promote family planning file has trained more than 2500 him arms across the country he insists that the koran

advocates breastfeeding and spacing out pregnancies but it was when you read a lot of the prophets you can clearly see that he was against good pregnancy. he had terrible consequences for the newborns and for the mother. more and more married couples are now you. using contraception but because 6 outside marriage is considered single young people are often excluded from awareness campaigns on sexual and reproductive health progress has been made but there's still a long way to go health workers hope that more women and girls will soon have full control of the decisions concerning that bodies. all across the planet climate change is having a huge impact on the environment and also on human health a major new study says children are likely to suffer the worst effects and science reporter derek williams explains why. rising temperatures will have

a major impact on agriculture and global yield potential for staple crops like maize and rice is already in decline if the downward trend continues while populations rise food prices will be driven up leading to more malnutrition among the world's poorest and in children that can affect development dramatically causing lifelong health problems. and climate change is closely tied to another a key factor in child development air quality children born today will on average be breathing in more toxic air than their parents that will cause rates of respiratory diseases like asthma to rise and increase their long term risk of heart attack and stroke. the current generation will also experience more extreme weather related events than their parents the health of hundreds of millions of people worldwide has already affected by flooding heat waves droughts and wildfires if we aren't able to keep temperatures from rising under 2 degrees celsius tomorrow's

children will be exposed to the hazards of extreme weather throughout their lifetimes. and as temperatures warm the conditions improve for diseases like dengue fever cholera and diarrheal infections the range for mosquitoes that carry viral pathogens is expanding and as their young immune systems haven't developed fully children are much more likely to suffer later health issues or die if they contract those illnesses climate change is already having an effect on child health the report concludes and it will only get worse if the planet continues to warm up. these areas there aquariums there are reporting and he's here with me in person good to have you here with us derek what some of those dangers that you just mentioned in your report are the most immediate danger to children's health well i think in europe at latest probably the. question of infection and in spreading

infection is is that is really the major issue that's the most pressing at the moment as temperatures rise you get the spread as i mentioned briefly in the report of a mosquito is that can act as vectors for diseases like thank you fever or a west nile or west nile fever and that's slowly beginning to spread and in southern europe the law as we have longer hotter summers that those numbers of maybe a couple 100 cases of west nile fever and over the course of of a summer could explode it's it's set to do that and so then then it becomes a question of infrastructure and whether or not we're going to be able to cope with that particular problem i would say that would be probably one of the most pressing things another aspect of it of course is there's the question of as temperatures rise it becomes they the environment becomes more conducive to the reproduction of what are called video bacteria which are the cause of a dire real diseases like cholera and as temperatures rise there's going to be more and more of a problem with that particularly in places where they have problems with sanitation

and clean water well that brings me to my next question i mean how much of a difference does it make where their child is born and raised well that's always made a difference to just some extent i mean it's clear that you know if you're if you have a child growing up in these sort of toxic air conditions and belly that we've been seeing over the last weeks compare that to a child growing up on a mountain and switzerland there's going to be a major major difference in terms of respiratory issues just as there's going to be a question of malnutrition issues for a child in sub-saharan africa compared to that child in switzerland that said though this is all about the question of development see whether or not diseases become chronic in development children are very very vulnerable that at particular points in their lives infants and small children if they develop problems while they're developing they turn into chronic issues that can last for an entire lifetime so they're kind of doomed just because of being unlucky being born somewhere where the conditions are. not optimum ok talk about life expectancy

because that has been growing and growing and growing do you see a trend of that reversing because of climate change well it's very difficult to say this report is kind of a warning shot i mean it's looking at what would happen in particular if we continue with business as usual business as usual mean that by the end of the century we would see climbs of 4 degrees celsius and of course with a paris agreement we're trying to keep things under 2 degrees celsius even then we are going to have major major issues but this is you know trying to predict the life expectancy is going to be very dependent on how high the temperatures actually go and that of course is very intertwined with the politics of the whole situation on a global level if we manage to get things under control if we manage to use to to harness these cleaner technologies and if we are able to stay under 2 degrees celsius the knock on effects are going to be much much less drastic than they will be if we hit 4 degrees by the end of the century but let's talk about the immediate future right now basically what can what can we do i mean can we doctor our way out of this with

medication well there's no question that medicine has been advancing in leaps and bounds and tremendous pace i mean working in this field you read about these new medical advances every day and it seems like at some point we should be able to take care of everything but once again returning to that question of the child who's in who's who has developed asthma respiratory disease at a very early point in their life whether it's from pollution or or from wildfires because they're exposed to the side from wildfires. the question is as you turn it into a chronic condition you might be able to treat that patient and they might live for 80 years but you're not going to get rid of the chronic problem the asthma that's lying at the root and that's really the issue that this report is focused on is we need to keep the generation healthy while they're young so they can lead healthy lives for the next decade it's absolutely we wish that for all children growing up derek williams from good of you science thank you so much greatly appreciate it. and some santas now for you. has secured a place in the final tour of the a.t.p.

finals in london after a straight sets victory over germany's alexander it's vera while the 21 year old is the 1st greek ever to compete at this tournament it took the 1st set $63.00 against 6 pair of the defending champ and 22 year old sara still has a chance to claim the group's final qualifying place on friday. meanwhile his next match is in the saturday's semi finals after completing his 6316 victory. and are running out of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour the mayor of venice says the very future of this city is that state after devastating flooding at least national government is preparing to release of millions of your own spin a. bit and up next is do w. news asia with my colleagues who is a misconduct i'm leyla her rock and roll and i'll have the headlines for you the

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