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that has called on people not to panic by food, saying there is no shortage of supplies. is pre, came after days of violence. they claimed more than $200.00 lives and led to looting of malls, supermarkets and shops from oppose, says the quote instigators will be found and brought to justice. me. the passengers of a russian plain that went missing during a flight to siberia have been found. none of the 18 people on board suffered serious injuries. the answer of aircraft made a forced landing after boat. its engines failed on the flight to the city of thomson. this is dw news from berlin. there's much more on our website. that's d, w dot com. the ah cruise fierce floods sweep

to germany with catastrophic consequences. rivers burst their banks. after relentless rain water races down small town roads inundating entire areas, lives lost home, swept away cars, piled on top of each other, and it could get a lot worse. the intensity of floods taking everyone by surprise crews frantically searching for those still missing, terrified residence era lifted the deadly deluge. bringing the climate crisis front and center with new urgency, little rock and berlin. this is the day the me when i arrived here it was a catastrophe. entire road behind me was covered in branches and wrecked cars who matched up together up to this height. damage couldn't be worth the place.

troy's guns we find the words is impossible. via the only react decisively in the fight against climate change. can we keep the extreme weather conditions we are now experiencing in check? ah, also coming up a lebanon in the throes of an existential crisis. clashes breakout after prime minister designate saddle had 80 calls it quits, almost a year after a catastrophic blast. 9 months of fill talks and a near 2 year economic crisis. the ruling class failed to put their differences aside. form a government lebanon's battery citizens running out of food, fuel and medicine. and they have no one to turn to the country is burning inflation. it's storing. there's no milk, no medicine, no fuel or no food,

not the poor. can't even afford pastor when you're good. what is that to be done? we should just shoot this country down and be done with it. we're all dead. any way i might be might begin the day with some of the worst flooding to hit germany into decades. severe storms in the west of the country, turn streets into rivers destroying homes and sweeping away cars. police have raised the death toll to more than 100 and over a 1000 people remain unaccounted for. we have this report another mock of these devastating floods. a landslide collapses houses into the mud evacuated residence had already started to return home. now many a few dead in other towns. the clean up effort has already started in volatile 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 all of a sudden the water breached the damn all the houses here at 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 the park itself in back walker farm. we had to get ourselves to safety. hundreds of thousands of houses without power of clean water. the internet has been cut and phone reception is down. volunteers have come from nearby areas, bringing whatever equipment they have to help clear roads and houses. yeah, i've been younger 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 types of things. you couldn't access the buildings 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, oh, many towns, it's still cut off. some major roads are flooded or broken apart. germany's defense minister had called to the army to make rescue efforts a top priority. as late as shed a shock at the ferocity of the disaster. this is time to try to get us. it is a tragedy that so many have lost their lives. it leaves me stunned dimensions on the land. many people in our country feel for those who are graving for their loved ones, is i'd like to express my sympathy to those families and my thoughts with in and the authority say overflowing dams could still boss threatening more homes enforcing residents to stay away. while the weather has cleared in some areas,

more rainfall is expected. my 1st guess tonight is a flood forecaster, someone who provides early warning of extreme weather events. i'm pleased to welcome to the de sean harrigan from the forecast department at the european center for media range, weather forecast, and you join us now from the united kingdom a very good day. is this a once in a generation flood, or has there been a slow build up of extreme weather? hello, good evening. this is indeed a very extreme event. this unfortunately is larger advancing and some of a generation for many people affected. and indeed, the reports from people on the ground, they have never witnessed this type of event that the intensity of the event was particularly extreme. unfortunately, we don't have to look too far back to see flow that was as specially extensive. and we think back to the summer floods and june 2013 effected the other part of gemini,

more to the east and the size. and the overdone your basin flood. know that was just 8 years ago. and we've seen something on that scale yet. again. this is a huge down poor, i mean it must be extraordinary what has caused this precipitation. indeed, this event has been extreme for a reason that it is such a large and slow moving event. so it began the jet stream, which is the one that steers a lot of our weather system tie in that the sphere was traveling across the u. k. area the at the, at the start of the week, we have an event known as the cutoff low. when a storm system kind of comes off the jet and travel more slowly towards germany, picked up a lot of moisture, the troubles across the north sea. and these events, these cut off loads tend to be very slow moving. that slow moving aspect,

that was the main problem and that when i arrived overland at them, had the opportunity to dump a muscle in my water on the growing and how to do that because it is the climate crisis making these areas, the more flood prone well it's very difficult to attribute any single event necessarily to climate change. there's so many possible factors, large body of evidence that we've seen, and that's been built up in the scientific community on flooding and europe, unfortunate this is the entirely consistent move. what we've, what we've seen, we've seen the floods are getting bigger. and this part of europe, we see the types of storms just in the ribbon. this event are expected become more frequent in future. and these, the size of floods that kind of fact multiple countries across central europe are also shown to become bigger and increasing between what i'm wondering do

authorities not have the technology to monitor the flooding. and precipitation causes in real time so that they can respond in a timely fashion. so the, the forecasting capabilities off many countries in europe in germany, belgium included and, and other countries, is very advanced. and some of the most advanced technology possible in the world. they've been doing this for decades, and indeed the technology we have super computers that are running these forecasts every single day and real time. and indeed, they're the forecast for extreme stuff. the nation was forecasted by many authorities across the world. but the translation from an extreme forecast and to events on the growing is a very complicated, complex chain of communication. and doc is probably going to be the biggest thing that will be thought over the coming days and weeks and what lessons cumberland.

right. and how can this be avoided in the near future? one hand, the communication on from, from the forecast point of view into the local household obviously, is something that's going to be looked at put in the longer term. and as, as the affected areas. that's been devastated. start to rebuild. there's a possibility of re rebuilding back better with floods in mind. unfortunately, flooding is not something going away. it's becoming something new. we're going to have to live with better. and so the short term planning of rebuilding those hoses and properties back to be more flood proof as well as a longer term planning and how it, where do we build or infrastructure hoses in future. so near the river and how to manage that is going to be something which is really going to be coming to for i think over the coming weeks for how scientists, sean harrigan. thank you for waiting and thank you very much.

the the me the dramatic scenes their 11 on right after prime minister designate the said hetty announced he is stepping down after failing to form a coalition government where the country remains without a government for nearly a year. political squabbling has repeatedly obstructed efforts to form a government and sent the currency to unprecedented. lowe's imported medicine and few are increasingly unaffordable. i go, is rising up in beirut,

one by this time the relatives of those killed in last year's port explosion. taking the protest to the court. 8 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. and to get justice untruth, that's all we want. we're not asking for the impossible since not deadly day last summer, live on problems have only got worse. long lines of cars at 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 can fly in august for the bomb and they would 2nd the economy 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 so many ladies, a baby's walking down the street. very pharmacists, a warning of medicine shortages of 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 to, to serve them 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. i like to welcome. now kareem too. yeah, but a lebanese, a journalist in beirut. he's also a non resident fellow at the institute for middle east policy,

a very good day. thank you for coming on. what is the situation right now while the situation continues to worse and, you know, as, as you saw earlier, the economical being of much of the patient can use continues to diminish and as well as their living conditions. but the resignation of prime minister doesn't have to means out a political deadlock will persist and any sort of viable reforms to unlock key developmental aid and to make the call me bible gun is nowhere near on the horizon . why is it so difficult to form a government 11 especially now when the situation is so dire? yes, exactly, that's, that's a very important question. we'll talk to matters. this is what we have learned. we learned that even with the country on its knees, with over half the population, living in poverty with food inflation,

about 400 percent loving physical leadership is focusing on their shares of power and government rather than the well being of their people. the political paralysis, we have seen the bickering between father had eaten present. michelle allan is very similar to the big scene between film and other political leaders for decades now. and this is a huge issue regarding that that's sort of reveals, well, it could lead on revive, economically with the leadership, the other that is hard for such a long time. and, and this is, this is a huge concern. labranz economic crisis is getting worse with nelson exec pencil, correct? at this point. and one can argue that where we are right now, we could be facing national security crisis. talk to us also a little bit about the lebanese people who have been really through so much i haven't been able to catch a break at all these the past 2 years. how are they coping? who can they turn to? who are they turning to so really i think the

last lifeline for so me. i love the news. people are friends and found living diaspora love. nice. people have a large sport population living around the world, from europe to north america, their goal to even australian and south america. and the summer, many lebanese, are visiting their families here and under suitcases. they're carrying things like power, banks, medicine, all sorts of things that are hard to find birth now and love and, you know, you go on social media, you see people asking if they know people could grab some real boxes of, of their, their mental health medication or other like did medications which have been cut short or had become part one affordable here? love and one. this is the last lifeline right now because people, you know, all the currency has lost 90 percent of the value for shortages. so people's purchasing power is complete, diminished the question is, is it stable? and the answer is no. but the people are coping right now. and now of course 11 on

it has been through a civil strife. it has been through a political assassinations. a dire economic crisis. is there still a way out of this crisis? i mean, we know the lebanese people, many are astounded by their resourcefulness and resilience. i mean is, do you see a way out of this current crisis? to be honest, i think with the existing leadership that love on has right now, the sector and political system which is based on power sharing rather than actual political meritocracy and direct democracy. i think it's very, very difficult for local to implement any forms of, of valuable reform. love means government has tried to appeal that or national community. it has failed to negotiate a deal with the i m f. it's a failed to even implement a single reform among the law of the laundry list of international community has

pushed and these reforms are not just economic structural reforms. what reforms like having a central bank called in to find out where all the looted public funds have gone. reform, including re, legislative reforms to make sure the judiciary is independent from the government that can operate without any sorts of political influence or very simple things. and let on, can't get any of these things done. and they've been trying to for years, which shows that there is a futile political system. and this is why there was a massive uprising. people realize that they're going to be stuck in this lock. john, if, if, if no serious changes happened the country in conclusion, i mean, could this be a turning point though? i mean, looking, looking a glimmer of hope here for the system to completely be overhauled and not to be based on secretary and support. i think, you know, i think the one thing that, you know, morale is very low right now. but you know, a lot of independent political parties of suicide. the groups are trying to bank on

the syndicates elections and parliamentary elections, which may or may not take place in 2022 to try and make a break through politically. but unfortunately, right now, because the constitution is so dire for a lot of people, that's a place in the protest in 2019 their priority right now. it's the survive and our probably the truck from sending a lot of time, but they would have spent probably organizing vertically and mobilizing and protesting and probably volunteering for different groups. so the, i think that the situation right now, and there isn't really much, a lot of people come, you don't get very hopeful and their priorities to survive. it's unfortunate, but this is how it is harry metro, a living he's journalist, and they root. and often, nonresident feller institutes for middle east party, thank you very much for doing and the message sort of world when you to stand up step up. but if you don't understand what's going on and you need to wake them up, cuba is a unfortunately,

and fail state and refreshing their citizens. they are standing up to cuba as authoritarian regime, their basic needs are not being met. and they are understandably exhausted. i'm tired of the mismanagement of the human economy, tired of the lack of, of adequate food and of course an adequate response to the cold. can demik communism is a fail system. universally fail system? not only is it's a kill vote event, so q, but then this is a world event. this isn't about politics, is about saving lives is about unity, not the vision. and bottom line is the by taking action. a selection of the voices this week reacting to events in cuba, which felt the biggest demonstrations against the communist regime. in decades on sunday, people across the island took to the streets to vent their frustrations at food and

medicine shortages and record code 900 infections. authorities came down hard on the protesters and exiled rights group says as many as 150 people were detained. my final guess tonight is under a sit there, tara, a historian, specializing in cuba, latin america and the caribbean. and it's very good to have you with us on the day, sir. welcome, cubans turning out on the street. extraordinary scenes that we've been witnessing just how significant is this open challenge a to the cuban government 1st, thanks so much for having me on. i think that this is largely unprecedented since 1959. there are some, some, some precedents sort of the crisis in 1980. but that was an immigration crisis, though with fossil fuel by discontent. 1994. you had the only post 1959 major street protests the government, the government. and that was several 100 people in havana. this was across the

island, thousands of people. we still don't know how many thousands, possibly tens of thousands of people across the island in what seems to be largely unprecedented protest. and it whether or not it will evolve into a systemic crisis. and that is whether or not as an extensive existential threat to the government is still kind of unclear because of how early we are in the protest . now, me will a canal, a d. s is taking a hard line against these protests. he blames the united states, how much pressure that the sanctions and the trade embargo, reimpose under the trump administration, add on the cuban economy and the hardships of cubans. i think that the embargo against cuba is a major factor in what we're seeing. although it's not the only factor, it's the, the sanctions under the trust machine government have made life much harder in cuba

. but it has also been a part of u. s. foreign policy and changes in latin america that have also made the cuban government position harder. for example, a major source of income for the cuban government had been doctors abroad programs . the foreign government pays and cuban doctors go get treatments and other countries both scenario expelled the brazilian one, expelled the salvador, and one's the bolivian ones were also exposed to i'm not sure what the new government is if they're, if they're back, those are also majoring income streams that have been cut off tourism with largely last overnight because of the kobe pandemic. and so you kind of just have this perfect storm of factors among which is a very brutal sanctions regime, which doesn't hurt be common cuban people most. it doesn't really hurt the government as much as it does, does everyday cuban people. and on top of all the shortage of medicine sort shortages, there are now rolling blackouts and in the middle of the brutal brutality that has

been the heat that summer. interest in a perfect storm of really bad situation. a bad situation politically, does president jo by in have room to maneuver because as you know, he was vice president under president obama, who tried to normalize relations with cuba, a kid, what should he do? can he do anything? so i think that if his interest is really to help the cuban people, one thing that he can do is to ease sanctions for humanitarian reasons. and to facilitate the supply that would allow for cuba to vaccinate its population has vaccine. but it needs to back back to the people. i don't think that those should be political issues. i think those are basic humanitarian issues, but politically, i think biking is in a very tough position because while his, his government had kind of put cube on the back burner so far and just been reviewing trumps keep

a policy and focusing on domestic matters because of these protests, i think the air has been sucked out of any kind of normalization. and there's a lot of pressure, especially from florida because of the political implications of florida in general, general election, national politics, presidential politics, to kind of go after, at least, maintain the sanction in order to make political gains for domestic reasons around cuba. and this is something where both the cuban american right and democrats cuban american democrats are both seemingly salivating to try and, and get the most out of this for domestic political re. now there is a viral song that you might have heard of by 3 or a v down by a group of miami base to musicians, which means homeland unless it has been described as an anthem for these protests, what impact are popular cultural influences having on the mood in cuba. so i think what's important to understand about q, how cube works is for a long time culture is a proxy space for political debate that,

nor would that can't really be channeled through normal park party politics. it's a one party state, your other spaces for those kinds of discussions. and so that song really did become a big hit. and i think it, well, it was written from abroad. there were look cubans, it living in cute, participated in it. and the, for example, and one of the, some of the participants were from head to this, one of which is a very popular musical press. so that helped to just become popular on a lexical, where this is where a very popular group we have to leave it there, unfortunately, and storing, specializing in cuba, latin america and the caribbean. thank you so much for joining us on the day and the day is done, but the conversation continues online. you'll find this on twitter, d, w dot news or you can call me as layla locks. thanks for sending

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