this is deja vu news live from berlin eastern australia bottle's is worst floods in a century a relentless downpour leaves the outskirts of sydney underwater and dams are overflowing with no letup in sight authorities declare a national emergency our correspondent has the latest also coming up. poland enters a new lockdown as coronavirus cases increase the government closes bars restaurants and borders for 3 weeks as infection rates near record highs. and

polish football striker robert love and dusty closes in on the record for season goals in the bundesliga he keeps scoring as his team byard keep on winning. on exposer welcome to the program authorities in australia have declared a natural disaster after torrential rains caused some of the worst flooding in decades people were evacuated from near sydney as more than 30 centimeters of rain fell on the area in just over a day the record breaking rainfall has caused sydney's largest dam to overflow emergency services are warning of a life threatening situation more evacuations are expected as the downpour is set to continue for several days. and for more on this let's bring in correspondent

dieter hermann in sydney thanks for joining us senior the premier of new south wales australia's most populous state is calling this a one in 100 years of vent what did she mean by that. the i miss the spirit clown she is the premier of the state here i think she's absolutely right some people call it the flood of the century or a century flood it was never so much rain and such as in a time like this in only like 2 days and the level of the water levels are rising absolutely quickly they never had that before it knew so where it's at least not in the last 100 years and people have to cope with it and it seems to be a really a big big problem for everybody well exactly tell me if you would how well prepared worth or nice or could they have been and the population for this authorities unknown the very well prepared when it comes to flooding or when it comes to

bushfires. but no at the limits already there are asking for help from others other states maybe even other countries that's not for sure but a lot of people are not well prepared we have 3 big rivers here in the area and 3 of these are all these these rivers on overflowing now and a lot of streets on the water a lot of houses are in the water already and there are no ferry is no ferry traffic anymore possible so the population is not really well prepared and they have to commit convinced and sometimes one by one going from house to house have to be convinced to to let them self evacuate. do you know you're talking about bush fires last year we saw huge bushfires as you know this year having record breaking rainfall are people talking about a pattern of extreme weather here. people are talking about extreme weather more extreme than it was ever before and it is not so quite clear what's the reason for

that weather but most of the people think it's that they've got the global climate problem because we had a very very cold some of this year that strange would have had that before over the last couple of years but we have as much rain as we never had before in the area and that's really really strange for this place and this is really really strange for the time of the year normally we have a day or 2 days of rain now in order. week but no it's raining uninterruptedly for 2 days now and if the weather forecast is is right the rain will not stop until tuesday evening all right correspondent dieter herman in sydney thanks for that. code 19 infection rates are rising across europe as the continent battles a 3rd wave of the virus poland is one of the hardest hit countries and started imposing new lockdown restrictions on saturday much of public life will be shut

down for at least 3 weeks poland has experienced an exponential growth in cases in the past month its health care system is under strain as hospitals struggle to cope with a surge of new admissions. warsaw 1st responders are at their limits and one in every 3 calls they get is a covert emergency more and more young people are coming down with a virus like this 45 year old mother of 3. she's been sick with the virus for 11 days the condition is deteriorating polson her breathing and now irregular. after collecting their patient the 1st responders have to find a hospital that will take her it's becoming ever more difficult. in the hospital ward the feeling up as the infection numbers rise. more than

26000 new infections were reported in poland on saturday as many as juric november's peak to be 117 mutation has been spreading. the news bubbled and estimated 60 to 80 percent of cases could be traced to the british variant it's extremely aggressive in. the health system is under intense pressure including the hospital in ports in central poland there are 35 beds for covert patients and over 50 patients ill with the virus what . it would be easier for our hospital if we have more doctors we specially need more. but we're also lacking stop in almost every department. to fight the 3rd wave the hospital in ports could is trying to vaccinate as many people as it can as quickly as it can poland's rollout is amongst the most rapid in the e.u.

you know. it's really important to be here today i'm caring for my disabled son and i don't want to infect him i want to get vaccinated i haven't been sick with covered but my wife died of it. the government has now tightened its lockdown museums schools and shopping centers nationwide will close for at least 3 weeks but online opponents have been organizing against the measures hotel and restaurant owners from the group who are open are defying the rules even though they could be fined. if we shut now that. i've put years of my life into this place. but the authorities aren't giving in to community opposition the infection numbers are rising too fast for that. and here's a look at some of the other developments in the pandemic germany 7 day incidence rate has jumped up to more than 100 that means authorities could apply new

restrictions to stop the virus spreading pakistan's prime minister kan has become the latest world leader to test positive for the corona virus 2 days after receiving china's vaccine. the c.e.o. of german vaccine manufacturer biotech is optimistic that the pandemic will be under control by the end of the summer he says the latest lockdowns should be the last. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. turkish police have arrested a prominent pro kurdish politician who had been staging a protest in parliament for the past 5 days. ago had refused to leave the building after he was stripped of his seat and immunity as lawmakers. a state of emergency has been declared in miami beach after large crowds of revelers arrived for spring break it's the 2nd year in a row that authorities in the united states resort city have clamped down due to

fears that crowds could spread coronavirus. sunday is the international day for the elimination of racial discrimination one institution aiming to improve its relations with racial minorities is the catholic church in germany. spoke to pastor . asked him about his personal experiences and what the church in germany must do to overcome racist attitudes something i experienced again and again when i'm out and about in different church communities is that the 1st question is always where do you come from and i always say i'm from noise in germany and then there is silence. trigamy t. line a town is a catholic pastor in the archdiocese of cologne apparently many people in germany still find it a little strange when they encounter a minister who is not white to land a town is repeatedly asked about his origins or is and salted with racist slurs as

well from ca to little turk and leipsic. it was at the catholic convention and leipsic i was representing the archdiocese and i can still remember standing at the booth when 2 women approached the booth i went towards them in a friendly manner and put them wellcome on them and then one woman said which do gooder let you into the country without any emotion whatsoever richard would say then stop to listen to lana thomas mostly concerned by 2 things in the catholic church in germany it's too white and too euro centric attention i would feel them in the church into it again it starts with the fact that many teachers of german theology don't even take into account all the other theological points of view in the world it's only fashionable or to be taken seriously from

a scientific angle when it comes from the german speaking world and that's where the difficulties begin when you think you're the only one who is capable of interpret in the world and or the largest. of. the 38 year old is responsible for new trainees in his diocese he advises and supervisors theology students or those looking to serve in the church for whom he provides rooms in his apartment to lend out time even spoke to pope francis about his vision of a more cosmopolitan church that allows more space for global perspectives and less racism. he encouraged me to consolidate and develop this idea further to bring all scope into my teaching and not be bound by this small european world or to preach. its a blood. line

a time hopes others like him may 1 day no longer be constantly reduced to the color of their skin. time for bonus league or football now and robert leavened scored a 1st half trick as byron munich cruised to an easy win over stricker the polish striker now needs just 5 goals in his remaining 8 matches to equal the record set for the most goals scored a single bundesliga season byron striker dared managed 40 almost 5 decades ago no one has come near that record until now. robert never does he is closer than ever to the old time buddha's league goal scoring record heat already $932.00 times this season and ahead of this clash which took god's. hands afternoon started with a 6 pack when our phones 0 davies was sent off for this challenge and to call it what endo any hope that guests may have harbored of a shock result was dealt a blow shortly afterwards though when surge cannot pre-set up leventhal ski for his

foot of the afternoon. after the smooth passing move in the 22nd minute can operate himself doubled by n's lead the 3rd goal in the space of 5 minutes then followed when thomas crossed live a dusty who converted a perfect replaced. by owens 4th the striker complete a 1st half hat trick with his 35th bundesliga goal of the current campaign james left 11 though still looks a safe bet to equal or even surpass gets more as record of 40 goals in a single season. i don't want to think about it too much i need to stay patient and do my job how many goals i need to school that's a secondary concern at the moment that's the thing there's a man in tight that i as a quiet 2nd. accept their fate they stay in 7th place while league

leaders buy and maintain their 4 point question over light at the top of the table . and while he has been piling on the goals for young barely holland is tied for 2nd for scoring in the league and he added 2 more to his total against cologne on saturday 3 minutes into the match calendar managed to get control of the ball on a long pass and poked it into the net for an early. but 2 goals put cologne ahead until the 90th minute. last gasp slide made it to 2 there it is with the draw and remain 5th in the. have a look now at all of saturday's course as we just saw easily beat stuttgart life seagram a into 4 points of back with a win over bila felt frankfurt down on your own berlin 5 to 2 well spurred one and the last place she lost again sunday schedule includes her to berlin hosting later

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