the o a was a this is the w news line from berlin. the numbers rides, by the hour, catastrophic flooding kills more than a 150 people in germany and belgium. rescuers are searching for another 1000 missing in towns, devastated by the waters. belgium declared stay a day of mourning for the victims and tens of thousands have been ordered to leave their homes in the netherlands. also on the show security situation in afghanistan worsens as taliban fighters, capitalize on the us troop withdrawal. people caught up in the fighting are just

looking for a way out. ah, i'm michael, look welcome to the program. record breaking floods have killed at least 150 people in europe. most of the deaths are in western germany. the disaster area stretches between the districts of hines berg air start and are viola near the border with the netherlands in belgium. a massive clean up operation is underway. as rescue cruise search for survivors within a 1000 are still missing. his torrent filmed on wednesday used to be a stream. it's a sight he would have thought possible in western germany. what comes next? it's even harder to take in the house adrift the

in many places the waters are starting to recede and clean up operations have begun, but the floods have left a trail of devastation and residence in shock. because i said that was my apartment. i'm trying to think about it, but it's, it's really dreadful. sting is if you don't run out of the sort of respect and it's not just property that has been destroyed. emergency work is a warning that as they come through the wreckage, more bodies could be discovered. many people are still stunned at the speed at which the water suddenly rose. 15 half inch so fast. we watched the water rise and insane current. i knew it was in your total damage. i meant we saw 2 people clinging to those columns over there. we shouted from above the hold on because it took 3 hours for them to be rescued with some

spoke of the trauma of having to escape before the water rushed into their houses. isn't chinese for bombs, rod, and we weren't given any warning here i had between 10 and 15 minutes besides as much money as i left my apartment, the water was up to here seen many communities are still without power and water. it for the damage could run into billions of euro's people say they have no choice other than to start picking up the pieces. but it's obvious that it will take a long time before anything can get back to normal here. the w reported julia jelly is on the ground for us in val. portside, julia. what's happening where you are and in the region in general as where we're standing right now. it's right by the river on which is the river that cause so much damage in this region in the viola. it went over the edge here along the

entire course of the river, where all these villages are in the, in the valley. it destroyed the bridge. you see behind me, but so many more that is also cause disruption to traffic in the area. it is very hard to reach many towns here, and the police have said that up the 90 people have been confirmed dead in the vital region that is a higher number than they had declared earlier and they expect the fatalities to rise. it's a very tragic situation here at the moment. julia, as if residents weren't facing enough problems. now we're also hearing about sink holes. what do you know about that? yes north from here, close to the city of cologne. gravel quarry collapse on itself. basically it's filled and filled and filled with water until it sunk and it brought with it some homes. and also, some cars authorities feared that

a nearby road where cars were, would have been really severely affected, that people would have not had, had enough time to escape. it seems like most people manage to get away, but it is really a difficult situation there too. we've had floods in germany before and yet this is a literally risen to another level which the country unprepared for this. we spoke of people here in port simon. what they told us was that they saw that there was a lot of rain and they expected it maybe to reach the water to reach the levels of the 2016 flooding which reached around the meter, a meter and a half here. so they were prepared for that, they had sandbags by the river and that's what they were expecting. but then what happened was this huge wave of water reaching 56 meters. and that really took them by surprise. and there are a lot of, there is

a lot of criticism being level that authorities and at the fire department for not warning people in time. hear people have told me the fire department said to leave, but it was probably too late, but it is hard to really assess whether more could have been done to prevent such a disaster, at least for people here on the grounds. we keep going this catastrophic and certainly seems to be appropriate word. that's a d w report, julius l deli, invalid for time much thanks. julia. german president frank volter stein meyer is in the town of aristotle, where as you just heard, a giant sinkhole caused major damage. stein meyer was joined by state premier armin lasha, who is the front runner to succeed anglo merkel. as chancellor, the president says, the scale of the laws is hard to comprehend. hillis is hello, no money has been lost and will not be easily replaced. it didn't happen

again. so talking about the biggest loss is the one felt my luck. relatives in the flood the tall on boarding with the people who have lots of friends and acquaintances, and family members. your site is had broken south san says house, at least 24 people have died in belgium. the government has declared tuesday a day of national morning. the cities of live in belgium and when law in the netherlands have been devastated in van low, 10000 people were told to leave their homes. 200 patients were moved from a hospital in the air. the swollen moos river bank burst its banks community say the flooding is the worst they have ever experienced. d. w corresponded barber, basal is there and pump on staff. barbara pep on stairs. it's right on the confluence of 2 rivers that ultimately inundated the town. what are you seeing

there on the ground where you are? we had to climb up on the hill, michael, in order to talk to you because down there in the town you see behind us here in the valley, there is no mobile network. there is no gas, no electricity, no, nothing to tell and was really inundating. it looks like a war zone. cars overturned? how is this broken down and it's just delivery everywhere. sick kid tests are catastrophic images and people are now on this day because the weather is turned. as you can see, the sun has come out. i know trying to start in slowly clean up the buildings, bought a lot of heavy machinery down the work in and pushing a broken down car, threes and everything together in order to at least clear the streets. because from where we are, there's only one way down into the valley and everything else is blocked off. it's a broken record from town or town and country to country in the west. the belgian

king and, and queen were there yesterday to win their support to flood victims. i understand there will be more visitors today. yeah. at this moment the president of the european commissioners lafond line as there was the belgian prime minister to cro. and they're trying to talk to the citizens and, and give some consolation in some sense of hope, the emergency services i would of course, now things are slowly getting back to functioning. but the european commission just this week has offered and published their big report on the environment, the big report on what we have to do to survive the next 1020 years with regard to climate change on divorce. so it seems so fitting that she has come here to see the immediate aftermath of one of these catastrophes. 1000 scientists say that this is clearly related to climate change. belgium has never in living memory, seen

a catastrophe like this. this is peaceful. there's not very much water around here, and it has risen within a few hours for several meters washing everything in its way away. w correspondent barbara basal in pennsville, belgium. much thanks. highlighting now some other stories making headlines around the world. syrian, the leader of allah has been sworn in as president for another 7 years. assad for the term in office extends, his families will to almost 6 decades. germany in the us have condemned the presidential election held in may as neither free nor fair. the funeral for a haiti is assassinated, president of indebted, luis will take place next friday. louise was shot dead in his home. 10 days ago is widow was injured. she's expected to return from treatment in the us to attend the

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