[000:00:00;00] the news . this is news life from berlin, no let up. catastrophic flooding kills at least 120 people in germany and western europe. over a 1000 are missing, rescue or search for survivors in towns buried under mud and rubble. that's fine, minister declares a national disaster. belgium skills back national based deliberations and official day of morning will be held in neighboring european countries and rescue teams to

help search for survivors and mourners. grief over the shocking death of a dutch crime reporter, gung down in broad daylight in the family say he brought new life to cold cases. and the felt food on running thing who travelled earlier because your parents and again, i have started on their training for the tokyo olympics, 2 years on they're still there and finally, ready to raise ah layla her rock to her viewers on p b. s. in the united states and to all of you around the world, a very warm welcome. when we open this broadcast with the devastating floods which have killed at least 120 people in western europe. historic towns have been reduced to rubble in 6 countries. thousands of fled from their homes in the netherlands as dikes overflow. the prime minister has declared a national disaster. meanwhile,

here in germany, more than a 1000 people are missing in the city of cologne, in the worst flooding in decades. the disaster pushing climate change up, the political agenda and the run up to september's national election. another mock of these devastating floods a landslide collapses houses into the mud evacuated, residents had already started to return home. now many a few dead. in other towns, the clean up if it has already started invalid for time, residents peak through what's left of their home. they say they had almost no time to react before raging flood waters hit the town of mars and tv. all of a sudden the water breached the damn all the houses here, the same height. so when the water came up from the cell at lightning speed, we all jumped in our cars and drove up the mountain out of pocket of this often

back hawker farm. we had to get ourselves to safety. the hundreds of thousands of houses are without power of clean water. the internet is being caught and phone reception is down. fall into you could come from nearby areas, bringing whatever equipment they have to help clear roads and houses. yeah, i've been here under come. when i arrived here, it was a disaster. the entire road behind me was covered in branches and brick cars all mashed into one up to these heights and you couldn't access the building left and right. and we didn't know what we'd find in the rubble. we were warned that we might come across bodies and that we should let the fire brigade and the police, the police say him, all. many towns are still cut off. some major roads flooded or broken apart. germany defense minister,

his cold for the army to make rescue efforts a top priority. as late as share, the shock at the ferocity of the disaster. it's only good to get that. so it is a tragedy that so many have lost their lives. it leaves me stunned dimensions on them. land, many people in our country feel for those who are graving for their loved ones, is mercy. i'd like to express my sympathy to those families. and in my thoughts with the authority say overflowing dams could still bus threatening more homes enforcing residents to stay away while the weather has cleared in some areas more rainfall is expected or less checking. now with our correspondence, kate martyr, who is in of all ports of time, what's the latest where you are so it's been a really long day trying to start the clean up passage after the water seated.

everyone is kind of later in the evening now and ever and ever leaving the village because there's still no electricity. there's very little internet connection and all the villages, the village would normally be full of lighter people at this time. and it's completely a town this evening people. there were many people here in the village throughout the day who have come to help that family. so there were many relatives and friends as well. some had come from nearby cities such as bond in cologne to come and help people. and by the end of the day, everyone was really exhausted. one woman said to me, she was pleased how far they've managed to come today are in terms of trying to trying to clean that house. but really those are kinda authoration issues. huge, not just people, possessions, lying outside on the street like that. brooks and photographs or people is feds and

surfers either or lying out in the street. there's not just this, but there's so much debris lying around and everyone is just kind of has told me that they just really found that they don't. or who's actually when to come and collect the really big bits of debris and the huge trees lying and the cause of lying throughout the city. you know, certain kinds of please how far they've managed to take the teen up after today. but so it's still really amazed that and they're really know what to do about the cleanup efforts. right? now they've the houses, but okay, now that most of the water is gone, is there already an estimate of the damage? so or in terms of the financial damage, i spoke to some people today. one person told me that for themselves, possibly it would run up to the millions and millions of years just for themselves . and i spoke to some other people today. they were renters, and they said that they, they have rent,

they don't have insurance to cover the entire damage of that home has, has experience. and so for them, they say they're not even able to, to decide to even meet that costs or to cover all of the long things that they lost because they lost absolutely, absolutely everything. and that's just, that's just the financial damage as well. so people are still talking about the emotional and human costs to this. i mean, how traumatized are, are the people that you spoke to and who share their experiences with you? everyone i spoke to, they said that they found it really difficult to speak to john unless he was here because they said it's kind of possible a tragedy for them because it's something possible went back home and many told me that they just didn't really even have the was to describe the kind of last

experience i spoke to one woman and she told me that the house that got damaged was actually her grandmother's house. and her grandmother passed away when she was quite young for heart was like the 3 d pass know kind of connection to her grandmother that she lost. and she said she always felt her grandmother in the house when she was visiting. and she said, now she just doesn't really have that connection. that's with this kind of emotional connection to her grandmother. very agonizing, harrowing experiences there that people are sharing with you. thank you so much. d . w reporter kate martyr, a reporting from vol ports. heim and one of the organizations providing assistance in the floods is germany's technical relief agency, the t h w. it's a disaster relief agency made up almost completely volunteers. and the moments ago i spoke to b. m. o green from the t h w headquarters in bon and asked him how many people his agency is deployed to assist in the flood relief. because now we have, we have 2000 over 2000 volunteers that are dedicated to happen,

deployed through teach w. and they're, they're out in the, in the main areas essentially that, that were effected in north failure and, and ryan l time. and what are you most focusing on? especially if there's still a search and rescue operation. as you mentioned earlier, there are some towns that are still cut off, obviously the priority there to get to the people that have yet to be contacted. but at the same time, and especially the larger towns where most of the water has gone, at least from the street, there's a lot of clearing of rubble, steel lighting structures, building pumping on basement room, moving, removing rubble of private, providing just to the infrastructure. and then also looking to provide drinking water right now that really just the, the entire the basic necessities that are now obviously needed. again,

we understand we're getting reports that over 1000 people are still on, accounted for any progress in terms of locating these missing people. i'm going to say that i don't, i can't really provide you with any numbers at this point in that regard. so i know that they use the search is still ongoing, but it is, it is, it is a large list and some of it area is expected to be all related to the fact that cell phone coverage is really irregular at the moment. the affected area ongoing as insurance is ongoing and so many challenges in terms of just locating people having to do with connectivity as well. that's correct. really, tricity responded. exactly right now, how long do you think it's going to take too well to make the environment safe and habitable again? yeah, that's a really difficult question. that's what a lot of people might be wondering after the initial shock. so once the water goes away,

the full damage is actually going to become clear. a lot of the damage is not necessarily caused by the water, but rather by the mud and the degree that's taken down with it. and that, that really takes a long time to figure out exactly every little bit of infrastructure, every power line, every sewer that's been affected apart from the, the personal belongings and the, and in the personal property of the 1st of the fact that it's going to be a while before that, so that's a, that's a clear picture. now. gamma green from germany's the technical relief agency. thank you so much for giving us some of your time during this a tragedy. your greatly appreciate it sake. if widely's 20 people have died in another 20 are missing in flooding in belgium, national de facilities normally celebrated next week are being scaled back. instead . there will be an official day of morning with the rivers still menacing the

residence of pins to begin the long hard task of cleaning up the floods have wrecked home, destroyed cars and ruined live. in this small belgian town hall, everyone. everyone is crying. everyone is only now seeing the real damage of them on that. most people have had no luck deductible that they say it is. it's distressing. you were all your life to build something and then even with the water levels receding. the danger remains during an interview with the towns mayor, a tv cru captured the moment, a house partially collapse. that makes, that is just a minute. let's, with it's residence still inside. the

such scenes of devastation have unfolded across the country and are set to continue to new the scale and the extension of the weather related disaster. the national state of emergency was triggered yesterday afternoon. let's address your situation is changing minute by minute. it was on the right and in many places it remains dreamily critical. as the sift through the wreckage pincers, residents can only hope that the worst is behind them. on the floods in germany have overshadow chance. the anglo miracles farewell visit to the united states. she, due to leave office in september and talks with president joe barton celebrate at the transatlantic alliance. but there was disagreement over security threats from china and russia. all like its predecessor, president biden, treat a chance, a miracle as a friend, rather than a foe. it's been

a long time since the german chancellor received a welcome this warm in washington, harrison merkel back into the white house. she vailable of us many times. she's been a great friend. consider a personal friend, as well as a great friends united states and up to the tense diplomatic relationship with the former president, trump for president joe biden, and chancellor angler mac whole stress, 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 russia, aggression. but germany and the us do not agree on how to deal with either russia

or china. the plant joy can take north stream to pipeline will bring russian natural gas into europe. washington says the project makes the continent more dependent on russia and threatens the security of it's small and neighbors, like ukraine merkel has long champion, the project played down the differences. now what's and we talked about russia and ukraine and in this context also about nord stream to we've come to different assessments as to what this project entail. but let me say clearly our idea is and remains that ukraine remains a transit country from natural gas. i'm not 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 the lasting impression on the us precedent. if they are on a personal note, i must tell you, i'll miss seeing you at our summits. i were truly will with the bite and presidency us german relations, all comma. but big differences remain when i say now, but somebody other stories are making headlines around the world. a russian passenger plane carrying 18 people that went missing during a flight in siberia has been found. the anton off aircraft made a hard landing after disappearing from radar on its way to the city of thompson. authority say all passengers and the crew survived. more than 100 people have died

in a week of riots alluding in south africa, the army sent in thousands of soldiers to restore order. the unrest follows the jailing of former president, jacob, zoom up if the worst violence since the end of apartheid. the united kingdom is reported more than $50000.00 daily kona virus cases the highest mid january, while despite the massive search and warnings from british and international sciences. the authorities in england are to lift all non travel for restrictions on monday. lebanon is facing a deepening political and economic crisis. the prime minister in waiting that heavy duty is stepping down. after failing to form a new coalition, there's been no agreement, no government, rather for a year, the last administration collapsed following the deadly explosion at baker's port.

and the earlier we spoke to the correspondents at this lady and asked him why it is so difficult to form a government, thanks to the ignited or former prime minister. now in an interview last night with a look in the tv channel. he said that the reasons behind this take you to 1st of all, that the nice guy, presidents refuse to take the cup in at the, at the line of 44 minutes, which considered how do you by, how do you that it is the do you the best government for the best cabinets to do that. he wants to take the liberty of 2nd mind, the main obstacles, the president and his son in law under the minister of foreign affairs, refused to do that. how did he win the name of the christian minister, sir? that his will not yet use his law. how do you the actual interview last night? his will law that he did in enough question to for the new government. i'm so this is what they thought. how do you did? but on the other hand,

we have from other obstacles which is obvious that the current secure relations, the crises in the banner, it's still hard for anyone to take to have that it's so it seems like mission the slide, the speaking earlier from that they were now the netherlands is paying its final respects to the murdered crime journalist baker air. the free water is laid flowers, whether prominent reporter was going down last week. the family says he dies surrounded by loved ones in the hospital and spent his career reopening hold cases . feminist margaret this says his death is almost impossible to comprehend. mister, the freaks was involved in a case against a wanted drug baron, to suspect have been arrested. and the reporter jack park has been to the site and asked them where are the police was shot and he filed this update. when are in to the 2nd day of morning here in the netherlands for peter devries,

the investigative crime journalist died on thursday. his family announcing his death in a statement saying that he's to come to the fire gunshot wounds that had hit him 9 days in this very spot in central amsterdam that people have been coming down here to deliver flowers at the spot where he was shot to pay their respects, this was a journalist too, was beloved here in the netherlands. he was known for fighting for the little guys the trying to dig out corruption and trying to fight crime. people have been turning up from across the netherlands to come here today to pay their respects to pizza, to debrief and to his family. really. i'm, are you throwing about this? because he he helps so many people in his life and he stood up for, for all those people and for,

for the rights people had. and i know it's just, it's just such a big loss. so they saw unfortunately because it was, it was a very good money was already fighting for, for it. and i also fighting for muslim people. so and it was, it will is to the news. what is a very good man? that's why i came in, i guess, couldn't sleep. it was, it was showtime was feeling months ago. so i would like to come and pay my last respect while the tribute continuing to poor in here at the site where he was shot, the investigation into exactly what happened is obviously continuing. 2 men were arrested shortly after the incident. 10 days ago, one was camille e, a 35 year old polish national, and another man we know is delano g. a 21 year old dutch national. they appeared in court on friday. we understand from the media report so they will remain in police custody for at least 2 more weeks. now,

the dutch federation of journalist said that they are very sure that this case, this incident shooting is related to the, the work that peter de vries was doing. with a prime witness, who he was a confident of in a case related to redo on tidy. he is the leader of a mafia group here in the netherlands, who prosecutors does prosecuted. this had mercilessly does everything he can to achieve his goals. on top of that, the justice justice minister, has launched an investigation as to why someone who was doing the kind of delicate and dangerous work that piece of resist doing was able to was going around the city without security. they want to make sure, obviously, that incidents like this doesn't happen again. jack park and amsterdam wanna turn our attention now to japan where dozens of purchase theirs have marched against the tokyo lympics with the opening ceremony just

a week away. public concern remains high. despite the organizers banning spectators from venues. several athletes and staff have tested positive for covey. 19 officials are urging found to stay home and watch the games on television. well nonetheless, excitement is building before the opening ceremony in 2019 the self to don running team went to japan to acclimate train and pursue their olympic dream. 2 years later, they're still there. w chris branton has more. that's the the sell sudanese team got a head start when they came to japan and even low koby 19 put the games on hold for one year. the team never left. what's the reason why we have to see the mission we came for you to never come over the past year,

the team have immerse themselves in japanese culture. they've taken language lessons and are part of the local community, thanks to donations in tax revenue. the teams host city, my boss, he raised $300000.00 us dollars to support the athletes. some of it even came through this vending machine. but being far away from home, this challenging of things, something. then you have to be always ready to be no matter what the circumstances are. so tempting to do this for my country mean that i could find anything we've been my time with the family or watch it when she did. tokyo 2020 will be the 2nd appearance at the olympics for south sudan, the nation. only 10 years old. why you got this team is dreaming of olympic glory. the games will be groundbreaking for one fighter. catherine and i'm theory will make history by becoming the 1st woman boxer to represent you. got the

appealing makes passion is confident and obedient. that's how catherine nancy. it, it's coach. this card sir, the 1st female boxer to represent you. gander will create history for her country of the fix that follows the i'll see decision to allow women to participate in the gains in 2012, a full protein myself cause it's a prey over, but you could have prayed to go for the only begins and being, but just that, the flexible book, so it's it because given me a, be a good a good profile depending on the put on the future. the fly. wait books in 1st started look thing in 2015, but then dropped out of training to earn a living. it looked like she might follow the path of other you can than female book those who never for the early promise. but none the resumed her boxing kitty

and 2018. i'm with her ticket to talk. you know, it's pushing new boundaries. i'm a unique person, i think as my name is pure, it means period. so i love to be unique in sports or in the environment or own me. so i decided to dream book thing being that i wanted to know, like aspersion to the young ladies in school where i started books. and from due to the corona virus pandemic, the olympic qualifiers and patterns were cancelled by the i o. c, button and theory was a still look, she made it to talk you based on her war drinking of 12 and forth in africa. not about going for someone who only started competing internationally last year. they listed, i think, is my report call when i'm looked at by people they think i can book and that's very,

that's the weapon i use in during for gather 7 medals in the history of the games. how come and the ring and theory is hoping to snatch the 1st box in gold for her country? we were sure the best of luck you watching the daily news life from berlin. coming up next. i'll take you through the day and you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on demand by heading to our website. that's c w dot com. rock and i'll see you tomorrow. the ah, the news?

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