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this is the w.'s live from berlin a passenger plane skids off a runway in india and breaks into the air india express flight from dubai with nearly 200 people on board slid off the runway in conditions while landing in canada bring you the latest from india also on the program i prefer turns to fury anger at 11 on set leadership following the deadly blasts that ripped through the capital beirut a major protest is planned for saturday. welcome
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to the program we started and here when a passenger plane skidded to off the runway while trying to land an f. 14 cause he called a also known as cut a cut in the southern state of canada at least 16 people are dead and dozens injured according to reports the air india express flight was returning from dubai with nearly 200 passengers on board well straight to the indian capital from board d.w. correspondent many of the challenger he joins us from delhi i welcome an era bring us up to date if you would. well this incident took place lead to evening to day they were about 200 passengers on board including 10 in friends the flight was coming from dubai and right landing in carolina is when the accidents the crash took place the leaders of the of that all the people who were stuck in the flight
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have been evacuated and they are being treated in different hospitals. ok and who was only this plane because as i understand it international flights a day or even during the. well this was a repacked recent flight which are being run by the indian government to bring back stranded indians stuck in different countries amid the girl no wires outbreaks this was one of those flights. so we know that there have been deaths and casualties are all i said i think been said about of course at this stage well what we need to know is that caroline of the southern state of caroline has been experiencing heavy rainfall for the past few days there have been alerts being issued by the state government and you know even landslides have happened and what we need to know is this particular runway where the accident took place look tabletop runway with deep gorges on either side and the right conditions reportedly is what made this landing very risky and the reply looked aborted you also tried to land twice before the
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actually managed but the crowd always shot the runway and landed into the rugby so being v sorts of near misses in the past that. well the last truck crash that happened in carolina was about a decade ago but what we have been hearing off of this particular accident took place is that there have been air safety experts which are coming forward and giving interviews saying that this was a dispute on the one of the shortest run leads and also it becomes just keep 2 lines here during red conditions and they have been it's coming forward and saying that they have been warning a quarter to the local government that this is not and exactly the safest of round these but still the operations finding new happened without much changes in their child daddy thank you for that let's pick up that point about the runway with a professor of aviation at the temperance university in finland stephen writes and
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welcome to d w tell us more that about base after this runway. well as they the runway has been designed to eject under extreme conditions that's what they are making reference to. the short runway itself is going to be an added complication because. it's designed to take off and land on the normal conditions but we know that the weather can be very intermittent incremental from time to time and we then have problems across coming and then my attempts to land in really quite challenging conditions and if the weather is such that. dumps a large precipitation a lot of water on the runway itself if the aircraft trust landed not water then it just the way with the tires. they don't stay to the runway and they at cross will continue to travel even though the pilots will be trying to press brakes and so on
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and so forth and it's known as a runway explosion right so this is the when the time sort of plane as it were it sounds like the sort of conditions in which people are going to ask well why didn't they abort they they the landing trying to land with a different. well that is going to be some of the questions that will be raised and asked by the air accident investigation branch in india they will their investigation process will be to secure the maintenance records for they say croft and also look at all the background of the people flying make sure everything saif i'm done they look good the weather conditions because if. if there has been a receipt from ounce of rain and flooding and so on that we've heard this will be a significant factor in itself and i will then build it picked up a picture so explain what happens why this event has taken place and why it's
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called side very badly wrong these are the offices that we expect and that they will give us this is a boeing 737 i mean across the many of us are familiar with tell us more about that . well from what i understand it's a huge generation 737 and it's got quite a reasonable safety record this shouldn't be confused with a max aircraft that was grounded some time ago. this law is going to be a 7800 type aircraft there's not really a big story behind this because it's a good regional a croft doesn't have a bad record it's actually quite good. on briefing that when should we expect to know what happened when should we expect investigators to finish. well the investigation actually take place really quite quickly there's a lot of physical evidence available the immediate effect will my sense record sort
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of. taken by the investigators they will be removing the black boxes the digital flight data recorder the cockpit voice recorder analyzing i was immediately looking at the air traffic control communications because that's recorded. so it's going to happen really quite quickly good talking to you thank you for for that a professor steven wright from a top university now to lebanon where the leadership is facing growing anger over the deadly blasts that have killed more than 150 people and injured thousands of others opponents accuse the government of corruption incompetence and failing to avert an economic meltdown major protest is planned for saturday. an eruption of the anger that has been mounting in lebanon over the last few days police fired tear gas to disperse a small but enraged crowd on thursday night with some throwing stones at the officers. a return of the anti government demonstrations that had been ongoing
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before the explosion of beirut support their call for change has now even been acknowledged by lebanon's president a longtime member of the country's scorn delete. them. yeah we are reconsidering our system which is built on consensus because it is paralyzed and incapable of swiftly exit cute english citizens which have to be consensual and go through several are thora these but if there were some thought. there were 4. but the change president alone is willing to promote is not enough for lebanon's distraught people a major protest is planned for saturday in central beirut. as investigations into the cause of the explosion continue the leader of hezbollah has denied any involvement hezbollah is the main shiite muslim political party as well as
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a militant group and part of the lebanese government they're going to zation has been accused by different sides of bearing responsibility for the explosion. leave their house. said neither weapons nor explosives belonging to hezbollah were being stored at the port describing all such accusations as false. at the blast site rescuers are working in difficult conditions to try to locate those who are still missing likely buried under the twisted metal and broken concrete they are still hopeful of finding people alive 3 days after the explosion that shook beirut to its core. will take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world will start in hong kong of the united states as opposed to so many territories leaving carry law and other leading politicians that are the moves in response to china's recent introduction of a tough new security the u.s.
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assets of islam and named leaders will be blocked. so lanka's ruling party led by the powerful rajapaksa brothers has won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections with a 2 thirds majority the lp can now amend the constitution span president the powers a presenter go to buy a budget package and ensure that his older brother mahinda retains his job as prime minister. better russa's preparing to hold its 1st post be contested presidential election for years and there are clear signs that the government is seeking to control him quieten the media rights groups say several reporters have been arrested among them freelance journalist alexander protocol of who reports for d w he's received a 10 day sentence meaning he'll be unable to cover the election president alexander lukashenko facing a wave of dissent over his dismissal of the covered 19 pandemic and his human
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rights record. d.w. director general peter limbaugh expressed concern and irritation about alexander border coughs arrest and i left it to the belarusan embassy in germany heroes on behalf of dodger valor i protested phatic leon in the strongest possible terms against is clearly arbitrary measure by the state it blatantly disregards the internationally acknowledged feedom of the press at the same time i call on your government to investigate this matter immediately. that here in germany hundreds of students have been sent home from 2 schools in the northern state of metal blow western pomerania after a teacher and a student tested positive for corona virus in the 1st week of the new school year health officials across the country are concerned about an increase in infections that number of new cases in germany has topped 1000 for the 2nd day.
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summertime and the leavings a.z. the threat of the coronavirus is waning for many in the country. i don't think about it at all not at all. mind and how do you remember to wear your mask. but when you leave public areas it's easy to forget when you're old. discipline is falling to the wayside people are letting their guard down because the threat doesn't seem so serious anymore according to the psychologists. the stuff does evil people are out of point where they think of testing the limits some see maybe i can take my mask off here when it's actually necessary you just met another person sees that and then there's a snowball effect of people not wearing masks least. the numbers are rising germany's public health institute has recorded more than
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a 1000 coronavirus cases twice this week the highest number of new infections in 3 months officials are growing concerned. in shots being the virus in check is a marathon and a team effort we can only do it together you might see. an increasing number of clusters have emerged there's also the danger of people bringing back the virus from other countries frankfurt airport is offering free voluntary tests and starting this saturday returning to germany from high risk areas will be required to take a test free of charge if it's taken within 3 days. voiced i am very aware that this is an infringement on personal freedom but i think it's a reasonable one of. those who don't get tested in time face a fine of up to 25000 euros so will there be state fines for those who don't wear
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masks or practice social distancing this government official says yes. scriptures from what was current is there are states in germany that already have penalties in place and i have the feeling that people are becoming more aware of the importance of wearing masks but if it's necessary then tough penalties should be implemented so newton the carefree summer while trying to contain the virus a balancing act for germany this is the doubly news life from his reminder of our top story this hour a passenger plane has overshot the runway while trying to mind in the southern indian state of. the reports at least 16 people are dead and dozens injured boeing 737 was carrying the 200 passengers. i don't get you couldn't find all the latest information on our website that's right dot com and on the twitter d.w.t.
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