i jewish in europe, the 2 part documentary starts july 5th on d, w. the in the news . this is d w. news line from berlin. wildfires, rage across western canada, rescue or search for the missing in towns forced to evacuate. the government is warning of a long and challenging summer ahead. also coming up a deadly mudslide clouds through a seaside town in japan authorities. here's the heavy rain could now trigger another disaster. and the shameful story of

a young germany fan locked on her team last to england and football, 02020 a fundraising campaign to make up for the abuse races. thousands ah, sites are welcome to the program. and we begin in canada, where military aircraft had been mobilized to help deal with more than 170 wildfires raging in the west. the country a record breaking heat where it is fueling the blazes. rescuers are now searching for missing people in little british columbia. at least $1000.00 people have fled the town, which was almost entirely wiped out. for many, it was a chaotic escape with just minutes to spare residents of leech and escape through thick smoke und dash 5 moved so quickly. they had almost no warning before

the town was engulfed in flames. so it looks like the fire went out over them, and it's about to get everyone that stuck on that side of the mountain. me and my dog just right. oh, but we could see the house. would it be in fire as i was leaving and i didn't even have time to launch the door. the blaze ignited a day after the towns swelled to through almost 50 degrees celsius. breaking canada's temperature record emergency workers is searching for missing residents as the smouldering town remains unsafe to enter. today, our thoughts are mostly with families that are grieving that are facing terrible loss. but of course, we also have to reflect on the fact that extreme weather events are getting more frequent in climate change has a significant role to play and that the unprecedented hate wave and wildfires have left the country reeling and worried. this will become the new normal way. even if

the world was warming, the pacific northwest and stuff of canada would be having an exceptional heap waiver now. but it won't be quite severe. it wouldn't be blowing past existing records. or if it did, it would not people and pass them by very much and so climate change less weights be much more severe than they otherwise would have been in a world without any change. more than 105 still burning across west and canada threatening other towns prime minister justin trudeau has conveyed an emergency response group and promises to help communities recover. we've been able to get in touch with our reporter and difficult communication conditions. e met a guy, he is in boston bar, canadian town, 30 kilometers south of little where the residents were evacuated. you've been covering this disaster for days. now. how has the situation developed in the past few hours?

while it kind of gives you an idea of how difficult it is to be where we are geographically with sort of cell phone and why fi connection issues? that not only are people on the ground looking to cover this fire, having but personnel who are in charge of emergency response have had trouble with communication. linton is a community of $250.00 people, essentially 90 percent of that is gone. so schools have burned home that have burned ambulance stations, hospitals, the fire has moved its way through the town and up to more forested hilde areas. so it is grown, but certainly the damage in human damage. it is already caused and the fatalities to have been confirmed. but i have sources that have responded on the ground saying

that there is potentially more the number is difficult to confirm because the town is very hazardous at the moment what's left behind in the town. so corners service of british columbia, the r c m p, the police agency, federal police agency of canada are standing outside but cannot go in until it is a safer place to be. and that's where some of the work essential work can be done. meanwhile, people who have been evacuated from the town are scattered. they are trying to find loved ones try to reconnect with people who they are accounted for. and we have got confirmation from officials and there are people on accounting for how many we don't know yet. okay, well, a lot of questions and i guess one of the big ones is i mean, weather wise and in terms of logistics and fighting the fires, how long can this go on? how long do people have to be worried for in british columbia?

behind me we, we live among the forest, a lot of community are built very close to heavy for a station. and unfortunately, this is just the beginning of our traditional wildfire season. and usually the season buried depends on the weather leading out to it in the month of june. and in the month of june, the entire south coast of british columbia and the interior had little rains and record high temperatures. give me an idea. the village of lit, which had been in the headlines because of the tragedy and the fire a week before the fire, only days before the fire really was making national headlines for breaking temperature records all time. canadian temperature records the day before the fire, linton b. c. registered a temperature of 49.6 degrees celsius,

which is the hottest canada has ever been. we've seen that and incredible, incredible temperatures and devastating pictures we're looking at. thank you so much for your reporting from the ground. he met a guy he, thanks so much. in japan, a powerful mudslide has swept through a seaside town flattening nearly everything in its path. at least 2 people have died. 20 more are missing. the military has been deployed to a tammy southwest of tokyo days of torrential rains triggered the disaster. the water locked ground, swallowed buses. the heavy rain swept top. com and then dumped them. the landslide destroyed homes and businesses. the big electricity pylons here was shaking all over the place and i didn't know what was happening then the mob slides were already there. and in the street below,

i was really scared somewhere amid all this devastation of the dozens of local residents who couldn't get away in time tea, while those have already been found, dead rescue was looking for more survivors. in just a few days, the area has seen more rain than it usually does in an entire month. as rescue efforts and evacuations get underway, officials want that more downpours are full cost. scientists say that the increased rainfall that led to this event is likely linked to climate change. so i'm going to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. rebel forces in northern ethiopia have brought more than 7000 captured government troops to the regional capital of mckayla. t great defense force took control of the city after

the federal government soldiers pulled out at least 8 people have been killed in the rebel stronghold of islam in syria. the syrian observatory for human rights says, showing from government control areas, had children and activists fighting between the syrian government and rebels has flared despite a truce. agreed to last year. a vatican judge has indicted an italian cardinal and 9 other people for financial tribes. the charges are related to a london real estate deal. prosecutors accuse a suspect of embezzling millions of euros from the whole received the former president of the european council, donald took staging a political come back and his homeland poland. just because taking over his leader of the main opposition party that he found at the liberal civic platform, he wants to challenge the ruling red wing law and justice party in elections in 2 years time. the government has clashed brussels over law reforms, l g, b, t,

and women's rights. and earlier i spoke to d, w, a correspondent magdalena goose palo out in warsaw. and i asked her what to come back is likely to mean for polish politics. could be dangerous for the ruling party for yourself. could she keep and we know that he happened to win the next election, which will take place in 2 years in poland and his ambition for now. yeah. and it's clear he will fight the get his aim. if it's gone it to happen, we feel that come years, so we have to do what was going to happen, but she came back to, you know, compete high school. he came back to the field platform when she called fondest predicted. oh. and she feel like home, hugh, which would be today, you were very positive. who are those self confidence and he's had, he will give courage to, to point to when the next election. well,

the football and denmark has continued their fairytale run at the european championship by reaching the semi finals with a to one. when over the check republic, casper goldberg grabbed what proved to be the winner. the surprise, 992 champions, had to deal with christian ericsson collapsing on the pitch in their 1st game. but his recovery has helped spur them on to the last 4. and england take on ukraine in the euro quarter final in less than an hour. garris southgate, england team, our hot favorites having beaten germany in the last round, looking to reach their 1st any final at the euro since $996.00 ukraine or full of confidence though, after scoring a winner in the last minute of extra time against sweden. and ukraine's president, believe me, zalinski has told the team the nation will be cheering for their heroes. chair

guided, it's too early to go home. all of ukraine will play with you. all of ukraine will root for you. and if god wills, all of ukraine will win and england booked their place in the quarter final by beating germany to nil at wembley stadium. in london, england fans were criticized for bullying the german national anthem singing inappropriate songs. and in particular for mocking a young german girl who has seen crying at the game, she was also abused online. now a british football fan is raising money for her to make up for the abuse hours for a wedding. join me now. alex, what do we know about this poor girl? we asked she didn't know very much about for a tool, but we do assume that she is german. now she was at wembley stadium on tuesday night watching the football. and you can see then in the, in this picture there she is looking distraught because she, her team is just about to be knocked out. so her team,

jeremy says she's very upset. but people who are watching this was life, which is being broadcast throughout the stadium. and also on various broadcast is around the world. and in the stadium found some fund started to last. but what was, was, was the online people started to then put abuse out, you know, trolling her saying terrible things, not just about her, but also about germany and a lot of english football players and english funds and british funds as well. we're very upset about last. that's horrible. but somebody is raising money for. yeah, that's right. it's actually a welsh football fan. his name is joe hughes. he was particularly frustrated and angry about the abuse and he put out a tweet saying, show the world and european friends and neighbors that the highly visible and highly vocal negative minority in the u. k. do not represent us all, and that that is good will left. so he has set up a fundraising campaign to try to raise money in the hope that her parents can give

her a bit of a treat. well, let's just find out what happened with that fundraising campaign, because he wanted to weighs 500 pounds. and as you can see there, he has a way, more 26000 pounds so far, that these all my 30000 euros. so quite extraordinary. you know, just to try and get people to, to prove that look, know, or english fund hate foreigners and say things like they have been saying about this. go to become a feel good story. i mean, i've seen it and the front page of some of the german newspapers have they tracked down them as anybody know so far? nobody's been able to track it down or have family. they've tried through social media. they've tried through through general media, but still no show what joe has said is, is to me as well that if they don't find them, that family, he wants to give the money to charity. and he wants to donate it to online, to

a chassis, tackling online abuse because he himself has also received abuse justice dancing this campaign. ok. alex for a wedding. thanks so much for, for that story which already seems to have had a happy ending. so it's and you are coming up to date coming up next. this reporter travels to china for chase, the world's best selling liquor on next. spicer, thanks for watching the news . we got some hot tips for your budget. lift the magic corner, check spot for me, and some great culture. memorial to boot w travels off, we go. how does the virus spread?

why do we panic by? and when will all this 3 of the topics that we covered and i weekly radio. if you would like any more information on the kroner virus or any other science topics, you should really check out more podcast. you can get it wherever you get your podcast. you can also find the game w dot com slash science. let me ah, this is the drink the grease, the wheels in china, the count of mental time is home to the world's most valuable liquor brand. will corrupt officials prefer it because they only drink the most expensive brand.

and the love of it enables the price to go up and down as an investigative journalist, your who has solved calling case. it's an exposed, corrupt officials. his work led to him spending a year behind bars. now he's come to mount time. home to china is most popular. liquor brand wants to go to region dollar. this is going to and enterprise has come china's most valuable company. it's only for the sake of the country's biggest bank in valley. well, well, i think there's a story here to investigate. pen wasn't guys from the

top. here's what i'm interested in. what this company suffers from all the hills. the chinese government suffers from when your rocker see eyes and all sorts of inefficient oversight. and michelle, doing what the story is. no tie. liquor goes back to china, civil war in the 1900 thirty's. when change checks, nationalist troops were pursuing the communists. the red army embarked on a one year long escape known as the long march in southern china. they came across the town of male, ty, home, to some fine distilleries. it was a thrilling experience as some soldiers later wrote home in their memoirs. when we opened the cell, it's the fragrance would fill nostrils. the owner was a well known reactionary. of course we confiscated to the liquor. those

soldiers who could hold their liquor drank all they could those who couldn't get apart. so 10 feet in it. the story of expropriation in excess. although the drinks official, history is rather different. shoot ya is a research assistant at the central committee's party history institute and paid for everything. they didn't install anything from the citizen last place. they were excited about trying to listen to what they had to find. so they didn't drink and not everybody likes to drink as much as those soldiers did. one american journalist famously refer to it as liquid razor blades in china.

spirits like now tie are called by jill or white alcohol. the american entrepreneurs, derek sans house has lived in china for a long time. he's written 2 books on chinese drinking culture. mount high is what's called a saucer rama bought style by joe. that tends to be very savory. it's got like all the sesame, not kind of like chocolate coffee and also like more kind of out there flavors like mushroom or even like fermented bean pays bite. show has been enjoyed for centuries as a cheap, effective drink. when the communist came to power, their priorities were clear. and the very 1st business license, the issue was to a badge of factory. the red star distillery and bridging they took a drink that had been up to that point very much like a peasant workers farmers drink. and they elevated it to

a position of prestige because they were looking to make drinks that were celebrated by the normal working people. and make those more popular than what the lease were drinking. so they began setting up by jo distilleries all over the country. it didn't take long for the communists to remember the small family owned distilleries in the town of mount tai your. they want to create a big stay tuned enterprise that would provide them with the code word. so they expropriated the owners to about one of them, didn't agree to hand over the factory was, so they executed all that. but it will be the leo who has published several articles about tie,

he searched through archives and talked to witnesses for him. it's not just history . military represents the vices of modern china. does he look to the liquor, the chinese bureaucrats. like for them? i don't drink any other liquor, she had, an entrepreneurs has to buy this liquor, do they feel it's expensive? how do they have to buy it? and it has to be this liquor i don't live otherwise. they won't be able to establish a relationship with the officials. the bad that the power of the chinese government is to be unique. the officials happy. otherwise you will have bad fortune. the chinese system of state controlled capitalism. bribes are often the only way to get things done. ah, the news, the count of mount tai his long become one with the brand that it hosts tens of

thousands of inhabitants have been moved elsewhere to make room for the distillery . as far as you can see in all the mount tai group, kind of family rooms, a private liquor factory within sight of the state of distillery. since china allowed private businesses in the 1900 eighty's, thousands of small distilleries had set up shop in town. the liquor is made from saga than wheat, fermented in pits in the earth. unlike western distilled liquors, this one is for men to dry smell the liquors frank, joe ha. for the distillation process, the grainy mass is piled into giants. steemer than water is boiled in the steam passes through the mash, releasing the alcohol from the fermented grain. it's

a technique that is unique to chinese spirit production. the liquor isn't age to earthenware jar. hope all of that what you're trying to buy. i can store it with us when later, when the kids get married. well, there's an anniversary. we bought it for them and send it over like g, like it doesn't matter how many this services or business model at the famous state own distillery, only top officials can get that treatment me by the late 1950. the drink had become so important to the communist that nothing would stand in its way, not even catastrophe at the time now t tongue, so called creek leap forward, lead to an economic disaster. the experiment and collectivist ation produced one of the biggest famines in human history. tens of millions of people starve to death.

yet the government is fine. grain quote is to make sure the mouth tiny factory wouldn't run out of stock. while farmers were starving in the field, the factory continued producing liquor for the party. li, it was chill in line, china's 1st premier who made mount tide, drink a state banquets well, and he was an experienced drinker. his ability to hold his liquor was well known. he'd been fond of it since the long barge now he served to foreign visitors, most famously to richard nixon on his 1st visit to china. tai became china's official diplomatic drink that made it even more prestigious for chinese

consumers. today the now tie company is worth almost 350000000000 euros journalist, yo who suspects that. the brand that fuels china's corruption may itself not be on the level. he's travelling to a nearby town michigan by margins. amount time company has registered in appellation of origin. the only spirit produced in the town of mild ty can be called, now tie them of the me produced elsewhere but here 50 kilometers for mental type. he discovers that the company is building huge production facilities to meet steadily rising demand. the firm has launched various products, costing between a few dozen to several 100 euros dio, who finds out that some of it is being produced here and not in mouth tie itself.

as opposed to then most sites are often operating the mirror in one cares when they do is if a supervisory agent don't exist, simpleton daddy the for you who the story is now tie is one of corruption. but for many customers, the brands, proximity to power makes it even more desirable. a few years ago when president cheech and ping started his anti corruption campaign, prices of mount i dropped. but today they're on the rise again. a bottle of it's

premium brand sells for more than $200.00 euros. and even the cheaper varieties do, well, the sender says this one has just risen by more than 10 euros. it was under 20. no, it's at 30. she says, how often are many people who collect smiles. you see it has an investment, they buy the bottles not to drink. to store the thing, count them, daniel, found them to them. it's not so much liquor anymore. as a financial product, which is milton is the spirit of the powerful in china deal. who intends to keep it in his sights? ah, ah, ah, ah. the,

the show that i told the issue is shaping the continents news africa was gone. med. what's making the headline? what's behind the way on the street to give you in the reports and insights, all the trans stuff to use next dw. ah, it's about 1000000000. it's about power. it's about the foundation of a new world border silk road. china wants to use the net worth of trade with to expand its influence,

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