[000:00:00;00] ah, was news this is got the news live from berlin. catastrophic flooding kills dozens in germany and belgium. hundreds more are missing after the worst flooding the region . in decades, days of heavy rains, washed away homes and damaged phone lines complicating rescue efforts. look at the latest from our correspondent on the sea. from her visit in washington, the la medical course, the disaster and national tragedy. she was in the us for a farewell tour, and during talks with president vine,

they agreed to separate on one big issue. also coming up south africa to voice thousands of troops to counter a deadly riot. but is it too little too late? people are arming themselves to send off the router. nearly a week of undergrad plus the quest to protect the weird and wonderful animal species found on the coastal plains of south korea. ah, i'm see me so much gone. that's good to have you with us. severe storms and western europe have triggered some of the worst flooding and decades. at least 80 have been killed in germany and many more. missing. belgium has reported at least 9 debt. in one german district, hundreds remain on accounted for authority, say they hope that these people are only unreachable due to cell phone networks. being down,

as the disaster struck chancellor anglo michael was visiting washington. she's called it a tragedy for the nation. and as pledge support for the victims, the small west german village of shield, devastated by the downpour. there's no electricity here, no drinking water and no phone service. many links with the outside world have been cut off. buildings lay in ruins, people's livelihoods in tatters. practically swept the floor boards out from under our feet. the river is usually 60 centimeters high in just a couple of hours with it. meters from throughout the region. evidence of the force of the flood, with everywhere. dozens of streets were completely under water, many calling it the flood of the century. object swain tons. we just tossed around by raging waters residence described how it rained without respite the night before,

had just needed. i could never have imagined it. i've never seen so much water that we've been here for 34 years. we've seen fighting before, but this is a catastrophe. had a full for the been thought. it was just so far because he tried to clear something up or move something and it was already too late to tune that spread. rescue crews had difficulty reaching many areas. bridges are blocked by debris or completely destroyed. the rhine and platinum state pay me areas promising financial support for those hardest hit the i'm hyper can the day to government has agreed to supply 50000000 euros in emergency aid for life that will mostly be spent on rebuilding infrastructure in class in the morning in some areas of run and classmate people stranded in their homes had to wait hours to be rescued. emergency crews evacuated many residential areas,

and even hospitals had to be cleared. it was really difficult. there was a power kept on the elevators, didn't work. patients had to be carried down the stairs. thousands of people have now been forced from their homes and many remain missing. while there are several areas across western germany affected by this flooding and dw julia, so delhi is on the ground for us in rhineland. platinum, she is in the city of port time at tracking the latest for us there. let's bring her in. now, julia, tell us what the situation is like where you are started here to move on from the initial shock of what happened then actually taking stock of the real damage that has occurred here. as you can see here, behind me, there is the breeze strewn all over the streets, mud inside the homes, it is filled with mud. windows have been torn away and people are slowly starting

to clean up. we don't see many authorities or firefighter is here helping clean up . there are a lot of volunteers who came to this town with track. there isn't other equipment to try to clean up the streets. a lot of them are farmers from the neighboring region, and we spoke to one of these volunteers and ask them what he saw when he 1st arrived here in the town. let's have a listen. i've been here when i arrived here, it was a catastrophe, and the entire road behind me was covered in branches and rex cars all mashed into one up to this hot links for me and he couldn't access the buildings left and right . and we didn't know what we'd find in the rebel license when we were warned that we might come across bodies and we should alert the fire brigade and the police as well as well as a sort of it was all very uncertain. and we were working with our own tools and we brought with us on emitted keep them with the julia. we hear there really is all

hands on deck deck and what is an unstable situation still and were heard reports that in the region, there are still 1300 people on accounted for. is there any update on the finding those people have? this is news we heard yesterday evening from the authorities here in the region and we haven't heard of an update since then. they of the authorities are hoping that these people that are accounted for, that it is because the communication via telephone and internet is very spotty, very difficult at the moment. and that's why they can't reach all these people. but there is fear that there will be more dead discovered and found in the, in the coming hours. julia, we see some of the destruction there behind you. can you give us an idea, or is there an idea already of how big the damages authorities haven't yet given

a number or an pounds for how much the damage amounts to in terms of money. but as we see here, it is a serious situation. there are entire trees and cars strewn across street mud everywhere the ground floor of homes are completely inundating with mud. and it's going to take time and money to clean up the town here. and to start rebuilding afterwards. d w julia. so deli reporting there with the very latest from about what time. thank you. now the deadly flooding in germany has overshadowed chancellor anglo miracles. farewell farewell visit to the united states. she will leave office in september after yours is one of your key political figures. talks with president biden celebrated the transatlantic alliance, but there was disagreement over security threats from russia and china. unlike his predecessor, president joe biden treated michael as a friend rather than foe. it's been

a long time since the german chancellor received a welcome this warm in washington to merkel back into the white house for she is available of us many times. she's been a great friend. consider a personal friend as well as my great friend, the 9 states, up to the 10 diplomatic relationship with former president trump, the president joe biden and chancellor angler. michael stressed, the friendship between that 2 countries we will stand up for democratic principles and universal rights. when we see china or any other country working to undermine free and open society as we stand together and will continue to stand together to defend our eastern flight allies at nato,

against russian aggression. but germany and the u. s. do not agree on how to deal with either russia or china. the plant gigantic north stream to pipeline will bring russian natural gas into europe. washington says the project makes the continent more dependent on russia and threatened the security of it's small and neighbors, like ukraine. merkel has long championed the project, but play down the differences. looks like we talked about russia and ukraine and in this context also about north stream to we've come to different assessments as to what this project can tail. but let me say clearly, our idea is and remains that ukraine remains a transit country for natural gas. ukraine, like any other country, has a right to territorial sovereignty. the chancellor farewell tour of washington began with a breakfast with vice president carmella harris. and

later the johns hopkins university bestowed an honorary degree on the former physicist the other medical time of german chancellor may be drawing to a close, but she has left a lasting impression on the us precedent. and if they are on a personal note, i must tell you, i'll miss seeing you in our summits. i would truly will with the bite and presidency us german relations, all comma. but big differences remain. d w reporter william glue crossed is following the chancellor's visit to the states for us by william. we heard in that report that differences do remain. so tell us more about how those differences were discussed in these talks. good morning to me there's so. busy many differences in this relationship that have no clear strategy for resolving as much

as they say, they want to resolve them and want to remain on a, a friendly, agreeable path. you have, you know, china, for example, the u. s. d as a, not just an economic threat, but also a strategic military one, germany and europe more broadly has basically, she's only as an economic opportunity. you have your opinion and common security in germany's role. they are in what it's ready to commit in terms of security and military and defense, of course covey travel americans can travel to the european union, but german and other europeans can't travel to the us. there was no clear resolution of that. and of course, the vaccine patent question, germany wants to go with the kovacs of the callback's route to get back scenes into lower income countries. and by the and already months ago said he's prepared to wave patent wavers. i assume the wave pat and to allow other countries develop them . so there's just so many things that just didn't really come out in a substantive way. in this meeting yesterday, we saw one of the largest disagreements is still the north stream to pipeline. and

we saw president biden and chancellor michael issue a warning to russia and not use energy as a weapon. but william, do they have a strategy there? if russia does choose to limit gas supplies, you're to europe, right. it's a great example of just how there may be goals and there's ideas and there is general agreement, but there's no strategy or policy in place for how to actually achieve those things . we know that the united states that yo bite and in many european allies are absolutely against nor stream to given each strategic a challenges to your energy security climate concern germany is pushing forward with it. after a very tense winter in spring where there is threat and impact some sanctions imposed bite and has backed off saying really it's too late to do anything about it . but the u. s. congress has no oh this, the sanctions are not optional. they are law and they are pushing biden to actually impose those sanctions. and so it really remains to be seen how that's going to be

worked out. but we knew going into this meeting in a background call with a senior white house official. he said already there be no concrete deliverable on the north string to issue. so we knew going in that nothing was really gonna come out of this in a concrete way. and william, given these disagreements after september's election, there will be a new german chancellor. how much could that actually change the us term relationship? it extremely interesting. what's gonna happen? come september. and after, when there's going to be a new government in place. you know, of course, don't know who's going to be in that government. polls are looking like it will either be or could be the green's or angular. michael's conservative the union a coalition or some combination of that. and each party based on their platform kind of aligns with jo biden's thoughts and agenda in different ways. the greens, more aligned with biden's ideas about climate, about human rights democracy approaching were confronting russia in china. and the conservatives are more align and more traditional aspects of nato,

a common defense of military spending, these kinds of things. but really, germany has a long history of not really stepping up to the plate to meet its global responsibilities as a major power and has disappointed the united states and many, many times in many ways. and that could be the result regardless of the party that wins were the goal coalition that comes together after september's elections. william blue cross reporting for thank you. but 2nd, on some other headlines now for around the world. several people have been injured after a tornado struck in the canadian province of ontario. the tornado ripped through. part of the city of barrie authorities reported extensive property damage and power outages, but they say no one was killed in the store. firefighters are battling a major wildfire in the u. s. state of oregon. the blaze is just one that doesn't raging across the west coast. the fire is marking unusually active. start to the annual fire season coming in mid stream li,

dry conditions and record breaks in the top, dutch crime reporter peter de fries has died after being shot in a busy street in amsterdam. more than a week ago, the journalist had been involved in a court case against a wanted drug bearing to suspect have been arrested question. in south africa, the death toll has risen to at least 117. after a week of unrest triggered by the jailing of former president jacob, zoom up, the military is called and thousands of soldiers to assist the police. it's one of the largest deployments since the end of apartheid. in some areas, the violence has decided including in johannesburg along the clean up to start. but the south eastern province of coolant town, which is jacob to my home province, remain volatile. and d w as christine wound, what is in the district of the welto in johannesburg with the latest on the story for us. hi christine. it's good to see you. we were mentioning that violence has subsided, and johannesburg,

but it remains volatile and was going to tell. so how widespread is the unrest in south africa today. while to me, i'll tell you a little bit about where i am right now. i am in that way. so that is the touch of software stuff your hand. and basically you can see by the deployment of the police and soldiers that the situation remains pen. i'm joined by one of the community leaders miss that friends who's really most just one of the local heroes in the story and in the absence of law enforcement and let them mobilize people to protect this is my point more what is now the last more info way told, standing i just want to bring him in mr. like you have been out here for 5 days straight. just tell us what that experience has been like the 1st day over with are low enforcement, just us in the community called the guys to do with the fire power to come and help us protect them all day they came. and on that day,

they tried to loot and vandalized the small and they were confronted by us. and we couldn't allow that to have and because as a law small standing, this is the biggest, more its employees, the most people around the way to as we speak right now. so i mean, if we just going to remain bystanders and take a back seat and look at external forces infiltrating on top of and we do nothing about it. that is say so much about us. so we took us tons and that led us into shootouts. we end up shooting at each other with these guys, but we, we won that battle because they retreated, they lived, but the 2nd night they've tried again. and luckily that night with sept and it was the, you know, they, they got it shifted. and the 3rd night the military came and the fire power became triple, and it was a different story. they, they knew that they couldn't take that. mr. lex, we talked about the fact that this is the last standing just picked us about the damage that's been done to just the weights of the damage is incredible because the looting, as a consequence, we have, we have

a serious food security crisis in so people can buy food anyway, the atm, the old rooted people, connie's draw money. you have good grannies that are, that are on chronic medication that needs food before they eat the medication. now, what are you saying to them? then let's continue eating the medication without having anything to eat. we literally saying, dig your grave in wasn't and that's how that is the other effects that province you now has an outbreak of inter camino violence. have you seen anything like that happening here? it hasn't started, but what i know is because what's been happening in that doe has influenced what's happening here. so from a leadership point of view that racism that's going on the black against indians that we are seeing now, that's disgusting, that i have so much will probably have in here. so even in to start putting measures in place for, for us to be able to contain that and manage it because that's disgusting. we're never allowed to have been in our community. okay, thank you so much, mr. like, thank you so much for that. so if so then you have it to me, absolutely at

a place like this remains on high alert because it appears that while there isn't any looting, there are people trying to penetrate this more make way. and of course, the masses when they see an opportunity to come and take, will probably do that. so there is a, a big contingency here. now we see police and soldiers assisting people like plants and ordinary members of the community armed by the way, who said that they're not going to allow this more to be taken down d w as christine were there. and so we're to thank you so much for your reporting. now, lebanon's a prime minister designate has the now see stepping down after failing to form a coalition government. that decision threatened to think loven on deeper into crisis. the country remained without a government for nearly a year. the last one was forced to resign after the deadly explosion that they were the court. political squabbling has repeatedly stymied efforts to form a government and sent the currency to unprecedented. lowe's imported medicine and

few are increasingly unaffordable. anger is rising off in beirut, one. by this time the relatives of those killed in last year's port explosion. taking the protest to the court, demanding that immunity granted to senior politicians is lifted show their loved ones can finally get justice. but not one of the immunity to be elected to get just untruth. that's all we want. we're not asking for the impossible. she stopped deadly day last summer. labor on problems have only got worse. long lines of cars. it gas stations tell the story of a country running out of money. unable to pay for fuel and forced to rush in it. and the people to are running low on hope they killed us live in

august for the bombs and they would 2nd the economic crisis. we want to like become some things and society, but like the whole damn thing is like pushing us down is all the poor people. how would they get money? how would they have so many ladies? a baby's walking down the street very sad pharmacists, a warning of medicine shortages as the state can't afford to subsidize them. going on strike on strike every week. just says the light about the crisis because we don't have enough quantities, 2 thirds of indication to the people that is sorted in medication power cuts or a regular feature of life. but no black coats like this or growing ever more frequent. casting the city and the country into darkness. you're watching d. w. still the come on our show why these south korean mud flaps are

a vital snack spot for rare species of fish and berg. that's coming up in a moment, but 1st let's get the latest on the corona virus pandemic around the world. a covered 1900 cluster, and tokyo has raised new concerns about the increasing number of infections. dozens of the brazilian olympic team members have tested positive along with staff at their hotel. the host city is recorded its highest number of new cases in 6 months . and the australian state of new south wales is reported 97 new corona virus cases . this comes as australia battles, a growing number of coven, 1900 clusters. australia has been relatively successful in containing cobra, 1900. but the recent outbreak, as seen the countries to largest city sydney and melbourne. go back into locked down. now argentina has registered at 100000 corona virus related death. the country has been one of the hardest hit in the region. and

although infection rates are falling, health experts are worried that a slow vaccine rollout could invite another outbreak. now just 11 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. that is compared to 44 percent of people in germany . now officials say many people haven't even registered for vaccination. now, the government descending mobile teams and to take their pro vaccination message to the people. when those iris has a problem, one in 5 adults has still not registered to be vaccinated. so daniel quinn tutti and his team are going door to door to find out why. what is all on one of the reasons for not registering. one of the reasons could be the lack of accessibility of the technology. then we register the person ourselves, or don all over the moment or what are the another important reason we found in the

last rounds is the fear of the vaccine. on our corner. daniela's keen to come back miss information and put the record straight about the vaccine side effects. and he is using some other methods to help convince people on the 24th, i have friends who have been vaccinated and have been sick for a week. i can't afford to risk being sick for a week. firstly, i'm alone. and then if i don't work, i don't eat no more. if you don't get enough to eat because you don't have a job, we can take care of it. a bag of food are you interested? this man is happy to take help and daniel asks for his details. it's a good result. the direct contact has paid off because despite the patients concerns, daniel is able to register him for the shot. one small victory in argentina's fight

against corona or the we a vast area of south korea's coastal plains known as a get bull flaps in the running to be awarded unesco world heritage status. the title flats are home to a huge variety of birds and animals, including some species that cannot be found anywhere else. this extraordinary expanse of land is located on south korea, southwestern coast. it covers more than 1000 square kilometers. and it made up of title mud flaps it home to a wide variety of animals. some of them read and a search is important for the bio diversity of the planet. just one of the reasons research is a pushing for it to be included on the world heritage list. can title flat to the ecological repository where several organisms co exist? is one of the most important habitat for the sake of the preservation of the diversity. therefore, it must be protected by humanity and inherited by the future generation. and it

deserves to be included on the let me get it to go to the system. it's also an important stopping off place and a breeding ground for millions of migratory birds, of which several species are threatened with extinction. the birds rely on the food hidden in the mud in order to be able to refuel and continue on their journey. but to feed off with the mud as its g, a logical basis, several organisms exist in the title plant and also it is playing a vital role. the food supply thought, i'm directing place for endangered migratory birds will tell you that. and there's another reason south korea is hoping the area will be added. see you next goes world heritage list. it could bring the much needed income from tourism that has been lost during the pandemic. as interest rises,

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