ah, the news, the news lives from berlin hope said 4 more survivors after the collapse of an apartment building in miami, florida. i asked the search continues questions and merge over a structural damage reported up the apartment complex 3 years ago. nearly 160 people are still missing. also coming up with britain and health secretary stepped down over an affair with a colleague. hancock was pictured breaking his own corona virus rules by kissing an aide in his office. and here in germany, the medical era is drawing to

a close, the chancellor is not running again in september. the election for 3 would be successors now be count on foreign policy. ah, i'm fairly welcome to the show. how are fading to any more survivors will be found in the rubble of a collapsed apartment complex in florida. reports are now emerging about an engineer warning of major structural damage to the building 3 years ago. so far, officials have confirmed for death, but nearly a 160 people are still missing. a makeshift memorial has sprung up in the sub, at the side to the scores of people engulfed in the rubble of the collection department block,

search and rescue teams or working around the clock. probing they weigh agonizingly slowly through the shifting mountain of debris. fire, burning deep beneath the rubble is complicating if it's all of our deeply rooted onto the structure. so you've seen it in and out, and unfortunately we haven't flare up so that and this is not accessible. so those are the difficulties. that's another challenge that we're encountering. and you know, we're constantly going in aggressively trying to get as close as we can to, to extinguish that fire, open a fortune we haven't been able to get that extend was 100 per 2nd. but rescuers and the people of surf side refuse to give up hope full speed ahead on search and rescue. and you asked, why do we have hope? we have hope because that's what our search and rescue team tells us. that they have hope through and as long as they can do that. and as long as they have encouraging signs, like the knocking down that they've heard,

then we will continue volunteers at the safe side community center giving what helps they can just vipers as the tense wait for news of loved ones continues. people are starting to demand answers. the new york times is reporting that an engineering assessment in 2016 detailed structural failures in the building. the building managers were still shaping plans for a repair project that was fit to get underway, quote soon. but those trapped under the rubble that was not soon enough. well, joining us now on the phone as accurate as using a many, he's the director of the florida international university school of construction. we can't see him right now, but he is actually sending next to this collapse building in miami doctor is using the meaning, i'm going to start with what is perhaps the most obvious question. how could something like this happen? this is the one of those, you know, accident that happens. we do not know exactly what the cause or cause of this is

a day number 3. so more information is becoming available. but it's gonna take probably months, maybe yes, to put the pieces together. and so i, so i didn't find the main cause or cause at this point, you know, you have lots of information becoming available by all probably what the investigators onset them, that they're thinking, all those into our accounts. but you said it right now it's, it's pretty much what to say that exactly what the cause of cause. and we heard in the report just now that engineers raised concerns about major structural damages on the building years ago. does that mean in your opinion, that the collapse could have been prevented? that's one piece of information that has become available. i have not read that reports. very detailed, but i have seen parts of it. so that particular reports,

the part of the diagram was related to the swimming pool, but i do not know exactly where the swimming pool is located with respect to the buildings. again, that's just a one piece of information. there are some other pieces of information that the study was conducted. few years ago, the, the gong, the sampling has been reports of the very heavy construction must be stored on the roof of the building. that has the reports that has been happening. engineers have reported that the cracking in the basement and so on. so these are all different factors that you have to take a look at it. of course they can contribute, but you cannot at this point say any one of them were the main reason for, for this class that was altered as easy now meaning director of the florida

international university school of construction. speaking to us earlier to britain now where the health minister has resigned over an affair with a colleague mad. hancock admitted breaking his own coven 19 rules by kissing and embracing an aid in his office. the scandal enraged. hello, government minister, millions of britons who endured months of locked down at the height of the pandemic, were also angered. hancock has made regular appearances on television, telling people they must stick to the rules. earlier i spoke to our correspondent charlotte chelsea pill in london. i asked her why hancock finally decided to resign. well, to mate lay, there has been an enormous amount of backlash from the biggest problem. the british public in response to this story is not the issue, particularly whether that is of course, a scandal that has gripped the nation. but it's the fact that the man who made the rules, who repeatedly since the pandemic began,

has been on television preaching the rule, has now been found to broken those very same rules at the time. that those images all the kids which so many people now have have seen. c 2 dots took place, the rules one that you ones, men have intimate contacts with somebody outside your household. so it seems pretty clear here that the fact that the women in question and aids of the health minister wasn't in his household. it was a breach of that guidance, and it simply seemed, made his role as health minister, untenable questions indeed were being off about how he could in future all the british public to make the sacrifices. indeed, this pandemic isn't over when he himself wasn't able to stick to the rules. and indeed this wasn't the issue that blighted the health minister in recent

weeks and months. he has been attacked in recent weeks and months. he has been attacked by a former top government adviser. a who said that he made multiple mistakes during the course of the pandemic. they've been lead text messages, apparently from the prime minister himself questioning the health ministers ability to do the role to this really wants the, the spinal straw and what's in a very difficult few months for him. challenge house and film reporting there. here in germany, people will elect a new parliament and september chancellor. uncle america will be stepping down and the country is going to miss her experience and shore touch and foreign policy. that would be chancellors from the 3 main parties. have now put their foreign policy and security credentials on display in a televised debate. i mean, lots of macros, conservative c, d u, and the bulk of the greens and all of the shows of the social democratic. and they

are all relatively inexperienced compared to, to mca has it. and our political correspondent had planned to follow the debate for us hands. this was a debate centered around foreign policy. over the last days, a big debate has emerged here in germany about germany's military presence, and molly, a dozen soldiers were wounded in a suicide attack there with many people questioning why in germany's even part of me knows month, let's hear what vice chancellor shots of the social democrats had to say about that and then we'll get right to it. about 9. just kidding me. cannot be the case that when you embark on a dangerous mission, eat the moment you realize it's dangerous. say, we did not expect that. we have to say with a bowl clarity inconsistency in the this is a highly dangerous mission. so even if it's not very big of a mistake or says,

so what do you say that reflects the government's position and what it is counterparts? state of that? well, actually it's a fairly hawkish position from the social democrats saying, well, we have to stay there no matter what, more or less that is not quite the government position. i think if you look at what i mean last year of the conservative say who the major parts and partners in this government. he said one has to reconsider that commission. there is a sense that germany might get into a similar situation to the one enough canister and that you end up in such a mission. international mission, one has to say, united national mission for many years. and in the end, you have to withdraw without having really achieved very much. and the green's also saying something similar that this has to be reconsidered at that one has to look at the situation against the background of changing perspectives in molly and also in every chart. there was also a heated debate over relations with china. i mean last at the conservative candidate proposed a diplomatic approach. let's have

a listen. have clouded countries. what does a clear edge mean against china? but we are an ideological competitor in china. we have a completely different view in every area of life and they have an authoritarian system during the cold war. authoritarian systems weren't successful. now, they are also a competitor. can world markets yet, you have to address violations of human rights openly and very mag, nevertheless, and china is our partner in many areas of foreign policy means defining and altering common ground with that face, things completely different from our c 9 feet. and so what he proposes is basically a continuation of the current approach medical's approach. how was that received by has to be partners, isn't these macros approaches that in fact, the economic relations to china are more important that human rights issues are to be debated in the background as it were. the greens obviously have

a very different perspective to that. they say that the human rights issues have to be addressed upfront. that's the, some kind of a quid pro quo has to be done. and even if germany should lose economic advantage to human rights amble important that in fact, this is a position that is taken by a majority of germans or reasons. po has found that 3 quarters of germans would support such a position, a much stronger line against china. the social democrats, on the other hand, are in government and they support this approach of diplomacy and of putting the economic interests of germany at the front. equally controversial, the discussions about the gas pipeline north stream to the green fund to kill the project all together. so understandably analynn, i've ever given mentor words when talking about relations with china. let's listen to what you have to do from the old. we're of names, i must not be naive. and he,

mister bloodshed, pope to say, well, they will stick to the rules with regard to ukraine. president says dog and i will not do that again. and if you look at the reality, the point is that we are still dependent on russian gas. when your pipeline is built, the gas flow through their personal goal is to use this gap to shut down the guardian pipeline. a direct attack on mr. lasha there. how did he respond? yes, it's a good question or concerns relationship to russia and here again, the greens are very decisive. they want to stop this gas pipeline through the baltic sea. because russia, they feel is going to use that pipeline not only to pressure germany, but to pressure europe as a whole. and at the same time, it's going to have major disadvantages for ukraine. that is a position that's also taken by many eastern european countries, such as poland, for instance, or lack of lithuania and estonia position that is quite well supported in

europe. the conservatives and the current current government are trying to maintain the position that this is simply an economic project that gas is necessary for hold of europe and so on. it's a position that has become very difficult to hold over the years with criticism coming, even from the united states. so in this situation, as far as the relationship to russia is concerned, and this pipeline, i think the german government at the moment is in a fairly weak position. and the question is whether it's going to be able to maintain that position. once there is a new chancellor in this country, 90 minutes of discussion, what's your main takeaway? i think obviously the 2 representatives of the current government, the social democrats and the conservatives, basically are fairly close to each other in their positions because they have been carrying along this policy for many years. but as the greens need to make their position is very clear, they've taken very strong a position positions in many issues in foreign policy. in the end, you have to say,

germany is going to remain important on the international scene and matter who becomes trans. that's important is going to be determining how the new government how, what position that government holds in the world, the w and, and always a pleasure. and you're watching the w news. i'll be back with more headlines at the top of the hour. thanks for watching the news the interest, the global economy, our e w. business beyond. here's a closer look at the project. our mission. analyze the flight for market dominance . with the new business beyond on youtube.

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