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w. made for mines. this is the news live from berlin at least 14 feared dead in northern india as a glacier breaks unleashing devastating flooding a torrent of water broke through a downed carrying mother debris into areas below the search continues for more than 100 people still missing. also coming up thousands take to the streets in myanmar and the defiance of the military coup there demanding the release of ousted leader
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aung san suu kyi and the return of democracy. under the borders league of high flying frankfurt extend to their unbeaten streak to 9 games with a win over hoffenheim that moves them up to 4th in the league say. i'm going to head off as welcome to the program at least 14 people are dead and more than a 100 are still missing in northern india after part of a how lame glacier broke off unleashing a torrent of water that crashed into a down local authorities in otara constitutes say that rescue workers have begun recovering the bodies of the dead the flooding happened so quickly that people had no time to react search efforts for survivors on the way through. a short moment. hope. and then relief as rescuers pull this man out from the debris
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alive. he's one of the lucky ones. several people have been reported dead and dozens mainly employees of the regime guarding a power plant are still missing. this amateur video shows the moment the small dam was swept away after part of a mountain glacier broke unleashing an avalanche of water and debris. it then cut further through the area hitting the hydroelectric power plant in the valley below. what is it the government when i looked up and down but couldn't see anything but then after 5 minutes i saw something that looked like a scene from a bollywood film. $50.00 to $100.00 people running for their lives but couldn't be saved as the river engulfed them some argue optimism under. the tragedy happened in
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the top of an area of the state of bitter a current in northern india. this region in the himalayas is prone to flash floods and landslides. most notably what the situation here is still dangerous people are leaving their homes and are fleeing to the forest they're taking their belongings including their quilts and mattresses locals from neighboring villages are worried the dam near them could also collapse partly because i'm going to tell you that. while rescue operations are ongoing the government has told the local says shelter near the forest as they fear the disaster could strike again. our correspondent mr just joins us now from delhi lisa how are rescue operations going. but i have their own. standard looking continuously at the location where the disaster took believed that at the from the london police force the army the navy
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s. and i was to look for survivors of oil means and then of course the disaster response forces from the state and national level as well now while they have been out on 178 were there missing because they have to believe the lies from one off project from 2 different projects that was hit in the debris there is also was concerned that this dam b.b. got it flooded down could have caused more damage as houses have been evacuated and the search continues separately shopped with indictments as well 12 of these have been rescued but dozens more of us that the efforts on going to rescue dozens more . maybe have been foreseen and could people have been evacuated in time. like i have there was no warning right there for this particular incident to trap and so quickly that the glacial has led to an avalanche and to
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a massive not that people did not have to react as we can see from the initial strong yesterday how well that have been longstanding warnings by activists and journalists in my mental gotten pain i was seeing the construction of it on just what of what each is dangerous and that there isn't that is what we need to prevent such disasters in the long good on that retaining this construction in backing going to be never massive one school slides intervention which caused the loss of life of close to $6000.00 people which was a glimpse of mind about the conditions in the sea it logically sensitive easy out there what effort is made off of that is still usual to prove and for the construction however to be government has been criticized for rolling back some of these who ultimately is was when they came and are the 1st time back in 2040 initiatives in delhi for us thank you misha
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3 tens of thousands of people across have joined a 3rd day of demonstrations against the military's removal of the elected leader police used water coming in the capital as protesters gave the 3 fingered salute in the capital naypyidaw the it has come to symbolize the pro-democracy movement the protesters are demanding the release of their leaders including on sunset monday marks exactly one week since suchi and other elected lawmakers were detained. i'm joined from. a filmmaker in the economic capital young on the security forces are already reacting to the protests in the capital 90 door what is going on in young on right now. so yes that's true we also just received news from around the corner if you go and yan go so far there's no violence yet the
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protestors started shooting a.t.m. and police have been moving around the city to congested areas rather than have the station in one place and that today is monday and people are not going to work including stuff from public servants including investment and for economic minute streets they are doing that in their support for civil disobedience movement and then there are also protests in other states and region including minorities so we're not the only contest city that is protesting against military regime mandell what something interesting that i've seen today in the ngo something villian are offering food and water to the police in the hopes for for the security forces to cooperate with civilians rather than you know harming peaceful protesters and so on but some are some civilians are also against the idea because they're
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a bit problematic from the cost. so that one thing for sure we have a huge gap between civilians and security forces so they just interrupt you there for one second the internet is down across me so where are people getting their information from and how they are contacting each other right now. right so i'm talking to you from having internet for about 24 'd hours again before that we had an internet blackout for. some people are concerned that if the situation got escalated to a was the total from the internet again and if that happens we're going to need a lot of communication support and information support on top of the other support so for example people are going to need to get their networks and also. the internet down and we need to fill up our phone. bills so specially to get
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access to information especially in ethnic minorities who like to encourage international community to take action on that as well what do you think how long can protesters keep up the pressure. off of this bomb and everything is a bit unpredictable. we cannot rule out any possibilities but from the looks of the protesters they are not going to back down at any moment because what. we have seen since we have seen it at least double the last stand yesterday and there will just be more today. thank you very much for this update. thank you gary. well as have so many other stories making headlines around the world today south africa has suspended its rollout of the oxford astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine a small clinical trial suggested the vaccine offered only minimal protection
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against the new covert variant present in the country authorities say they will offer vaccines by johnson and johnson and pfizer in the coming weeks. leftist economists under as ours has won a 1st round victory in ecuador's presidential election early estimates gave him more than 32 percent of the vote he'll advance to a runoff scheduled for april 11th 2 candidates and they connect for 2nd place. iran's supreme leader ayatollah home in a has said the country will only return to the 2050 nuclear deal if the u.s. lift sanctions but the u.s. says it won't lift sanctions just to get iran back to the negotiating table the deal limit limited iran's uranium enrichment activity to make it harder for tehran to develop nuclear weapons. germany has been hit by heavy snow storms and icy conditions with disruptions to public transport across northern and central parts
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of the country authorities are urging people to stay at home road crews are reporting multiple highway accidents and forecasters are expecting up to 40 centimeters of fresh snow. in the tampa bay buccaneers have beaten the kansas city chiefs 31 to 9 so in this year's super bowl in the u.s. it's the 7th title for star quarterback tom brady who joined the buccaneers in 2020 . i am the the 5 fans gathered outside the raymond james stadium untampered to celebrate only $25000.00 spectators were allowed to watch the action inside because of the pandemic included thousands of vaccinated health care workers who were given free tickets by the n.f.l. . german bundesliga football now and trust frankfurt collected 3
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important points on sunday after completing a 31 win and hoffenheim frankfurt coach. as now faced 6 times during his tenure transfer and his one on every occasion sunday's triumph saw untaught extent a sparkling run of form and even more up into the champions league places in the german table. reach 16 points from a possible 18 this year frankfurt other informed team of 2021 every reason then for culture and he would start to feel relaxed ahead of his trash week often are. in the 15th many feel it cost each was $63.00 on frankfurt's left flank and the serbian had the back of the net in his sights he blasted his shot past all of our men and into the bottom corner to open the schools. hoffenheim drew level directly after the break when either a spare blue kept cool in position before finding the very same bottom corner with his finish. but just past the hour mark frankfurt hit back with 2
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goals in quick succession. first off a caustic free kick was not the home by defender evan. and 2 minutes later cost each provided another this time setting up on dry silver for the prolific portuguese strike his 17th league goal of the season. 31 the final score as frankfurt's exceptional run of form continues at the hooters side are now up to 4th in the been disney get table. at the results of the weekend's bonus they are not just trying to pass hoffman as we just saw earlier on sunday league leaders by munich have be towns i believe in 2nd place like take handle shock of both spoke maintained its good form with a went dormant lost again cologne beat rivals liverpool's beats stuttgart minds
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took a rare victory over on your own bellina and the weather forced postponement of the beautiful britain that. we're talking about as the table shows a buy in munich still leading the way by a hefty 7 points leipsic remain 2nd with both spoke 1st frankfurt are in 4th with leverkusen just behind the 2nd half shows at the very bottom shuckin minds in the automatic relegation places. now europe's most famous carnival has kicked off in venice where for a 2nd yeah events are drastically scaled back because of the pandemic and the throngs of tourists on sun mark's square this year but some locals. mostel the traditional variety of the business has launched a campaign encouraging the nations to rediscover their city without the crowds for all the fans i'm able to visit right now and some events are being streamed online for their viewing pleasure where have you and maybe. the. things you wanted
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but it was it took in the spine good. money well. that's it from me and the news stream for now don't go away the world stories the week in reports is up and so i'll have more news for you at the top of the hour until then can get all the latest news information on the website of course that's w dot com and follow us on instagram and twitter us a d w news gathers in berlin thanks for. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a new town with the painter she protests one to the shadow and if you newspapers when official information has attorneys that work on the streets of many cameras and there are all the.
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