3 hours for them to be rescued with some spoke of the trauma of having to escape before the water rushed into the houses with them. jimmy, we weren't given any warning here i had between 10 and 15 minutes aside as this minute, as i left my apartment, the water was up to hear. the 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, the of the report, okay. matter is in syncing a town south of cologne. kate, can you begin by telling us what happened exactly where you are now? so right. just behind me is this residential home for disabled people where sadly

12 of the residents here tragically died when the sad waters rose up just a few days ago. the house is actually, as you can see behind me, the water rose up very high just below just over the windows of the 1st floor and those residents, many of them were unable to get house in time due to the speed of the flood waters coming and the residential herm actually is in a ditch which is slightly lower than the rest of the house. that meant it was particularly hit hard by the side waters. i took a walk round them myself just earlier today, and you can look through the window in the rooms of some of the residents and what you can see that what i saw that was really sad. you can see, i saw this, this room with a bed and i had a keyboard with a keyboard on the floor. there was someone coat lying around it and it just the table with someone's like mug. maybe they had

a cup of tea before going to bed at night. and it's just really bring home. but this tragedy is about 12 individual people when it's not just is one shocking number. but each person that had their own story. and they were each passing that will be such a lot to this community, to the residential home care is as well people as the hours pass people attend from talking about what happens to naturally turning to asking how this could have happened. exactly, and that's the question that's been on everyone's lips. hey, in the village tonight and throughout the day as well. so people have been saying some people said who's lives on the street. some of the residents opposite who i spoke to. they told me that they were actually able to hear the screams of the people inside. and they wondered, they said themselves, they didn't receive no warning about being evacuated from the earth. and they think that was possibly also the case with this residential home. and other people have

said that they did receive a warning, but no one could really expect the level of flood water that came. and just how quick it came into this to this village and fled to the home. and they said that there was no way that everyone in this home could have been evacuated. but at the same time, at another question that people are saying is that these are some of the most memorable people in this village. why was no one thinking about them when the potential warnings about the flood came and why? why they left that in the 1st place, and this has been really a question everyone for instance, a question kate, how other residents coping? yeah, that's also the question i've been asking myself. and some people are here that many people are just very exhausted. they're just trying to get on with like cleaning up the houses. but one woman, she just said she just had an off. she was exhausted, she sat on the chair, opened

a bottle of water, said she herself, she's out of the ladies struggled with mobility and said that she had just had enough exercise. and she just wanted to also ask the normal question from, from john this, from the press from the media. this is you, she's such a small town and people acute and south themselves. but at the same time, that has also been a huge help from the community and not even just the nearby community that has been today in big around 50 young men who decide to take root together from about 200 kilometers the way to drive here. and they brought tools with them to come and help the efforts, and some of the residents here just couldn't believe that luck. they said, i just can't believe that there are people here who just have given up their free time to come and help us. she said there are strange that my house and i thought is that a bit strange for you and she had nor i love it. so nice to see that people can w

report a mother in since 6 nickel. i'm thanks so much. jim and president frank felt the stein maya has visited the town of f. stuff or a giant sink hole has caused a major damage. the stun maya was joined by state premier and lash at who's the front runner to succeed. anglin echoed, as chancellor president says, the scale of the loss is hard to comprehend. hillis is low and on, much has been lost and will not be easily replaced. it didn't happen. d. and again, to talk about the biggest loss is the one felt by those who have locked relatives in the flood tall on morning with the people who have lots of friends and acquaintances, and family members and your site is broken out with joining me in the studio as a political correspondent, amino shars, and i welcome a strong message from the german president. frank felt

a shy my. what more did he have to say while a strong method and he used the word heartbreaking. it is true that those stages absolutely devastating. he also said that for some people all that remained was hope and in that of course, it's a very grim prospect. but it's, he also pointed out the fact that the gym, the federal government would actually go america herself fed from the us would actually not abandoned all to abandon all those people who are affected. and so this was also a message of hope for the to the north run this fall, the state premier, unless it was who is also a conservative candidate for the chancellor, was there he was also enough that what role is he seeking to play here? well, you know, he's a faith premier of one of the west effected region. no one with father. so he's place is in his constituency in this hour of need. but of course,

we cannot ignore the fact that this situation best of very striking resemblance to what's happened nearly 2 decades ago when gal who was campaigning for his reelection, for a 2nd mandate of a german chance. hello. well, those flows in 2000 and 2nd read invited themselves in the latest campaign, and that's a very similar, it's very similar to what i mean last at the front runner in the next the next election is, is experiencing right now. he hasn't been very successful. so far and also he's a track record in terms of environmental policies in north one, west valia has been criticized. for example, he hasn't planned a coal exits, his face out quicker than 2038, even though he said in may that he might try to accelerate that process. but you know, so he ended the construction of new a wind turbines. so he does have

a lot to answer for in that environment of question in the region. if we're to view this through the climate change lives, could these floods shape the federal addiction in september while the climate change? a question definitely took center stage following a disaster. these natural catastrophe. and of course now that candidates program, especially when it comes to environmental questions, will be highly scrutinized, not only by a germans in the regions affected by, by those of flaws, but also by the rest of the population. because this is a country which is to very much reading after what happened this week. the w correspondent emotions, thank you very much. will meanwhile at least 24 people have died in belgium. the government has declared tuesday a day of national morning. cities of the age and belgium and fin low in the

netherlands have been devastated in fen low, 10000 people were told to leave their homes. 200 patients were moved from a hospital. in the age they swollen news that river burst its banks community say the flooding is the worst they have experienced. with the river still menacing the residence of pippins to begin the long hard task of cleaning up the floods have wrecked home, destroyed cars and ruined live. in this small belgian town, everyone. everyone is crying. everyone is only now seeing the real damage. most people have had no luck deductible that they call it is it's distressing because you were all your life to build something and, and 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 music eclipse with its residence still inside. the such scenes of devastation have unfolded across the country and are set to continue to new deliver gale and the extension of the weather related disaster. the national state of emergency was triggered yesterday afternoon. let us your situation is changing, minute by minute. all right, and in many places it remains extremely critical. as the sift through the wreckage pincers, residence can only hope that the worst is behind them. well, they w correspondent barbara available is near pinta barbara. the scale of the flooding

was overwhelming. more than 48 hours on now, do we have a clear picture of just how widespread and how serious the damage is? the picture is pretty clear, anthony, and it is total devastation wherever you look around here. all these small tributaries of the river moves who was carrying the masses of water. all you see is rubble. everything is covered in debris and water dirge. in front of people's houses. you see their furniture, you see everything they have owned that is, has been collected there. people know, just trying to clean out their houses, throw everything out here in the river, in the water a bit further down. we can see still cars that have been torn away by the floods and that's submerged in the order. so it will also be difficult to clean up the rivers that have really contributed to this devastating floods. never have people

seen anything for 200 years in this area within living memory, there is nothing similar as so often it is really the small things that touch you. most. some child lost, its toys lied to the floods as so many people have lost everything. they own up and down this river barbara, the belgian king and queen where they guess today to show support emotional support to the victims. aside from that type of support, i wonder what to people most need there in terms of tangible and practical help. in the bigger towns like inside of happens, a lot of heavy machinery has arrived. they're huge, big problems in order to clear out the the basements, and in clear out the some of the streets that are still submerged. they have j. c, d, 's. they have thing they need, but in the village is just a little bit further upstream. people have to just do self help,

what they use here, just structures and shuffles. and they of course, would need more machinery to come. there is no lack of money, of course, the belgian state has said that they will refund everybody that they will do financially. what they can. and the european union has said that they have put out in the emergency fund. neighboring countries like friends have send emergency troops, people to help out here. all 3 has and rescue rescue groups and the same is italy. so there is a lot of solidarity. there's also a lot of solidarity among belgians here. people. problem is food and water and coffee to help out locally. but this is a task that is simply beyond as wall plays like the one we are in. you look at it and you think this is impossible. how can they conquer this? barbara? clearly the last thing rescuers and those residents you speak of need now is more right. in terms of the full cost doesn't look like the town and the outstanding

areas will be speed more. ryan, incoming dates. not really. i mean, you see a standing here and brilliant sunshine, wood which only highlights the catastrophe all around us. but then the forecast is relatively clear. it's going to become there will be some clouds, but maybe a little bit of rain, but nothing is devastating as people have experience here. so the worst is over. but for many people who live in this area, the worst is yet to begin, because they, many houses can be rescued here. they will have to be torn down, people living in emergency shelters and their lives. they will really have to restart their lives. and many people here are still in total shock. w corresponded barbara fazel in pet been involved in many and let's take a look out some of the other store making headlines around the world. thousands of marston, france to protest against

a run of ours faxing pass announced by president for my mom. a call these if you will be needed to access indoor dining venues, retail centers and public transportation. it will also be mandatory for health syrian lead a bunch of other side has been sworn in as president for another 7 years. for the 2 main office, extensive families rule 2, almost 6 decades. germany and the u. s. have condemned the presidential election held in may not the free no faith present in president j. a. boston r. o has appeared on television from his hospital bed and sell palo also now or is being treated for a stomach problem. condition is related to a knife attack in 2018 doctor say he is making good practice. latin american governments has split along ideological lines of a recent protest in cuba. thousands took to the streets last weekend in the biggest demonstrations day in decades. july has urged cuba to allow pro democracy protests,

but not all children's agree with that. tension boiled over on friday when supporters and opponents of cuban government clashed outside the embassy into life . capital clashes on the streets of santiago cases, both for and against the cuban government traded blows with each other and with the police. emotions are running high after the largest anti government protests on the island. in decades. many cubans living in chile felt the need to show solidarity with protesters and their families back home 14, it's impossible to live in cuba. you can't do it anymore. my family is hungry, the new medicine, new phase. i have to spend the money. it's very, very hard on government protests says charge, keep in president media the as kind of running a dictatorship. they say people living on the island

a suffering under extreme economic and social hardships. meanwhile, across the street, government support is called for an end. the decades long us blockade of cuba de stress, the cube is problems should be for cuba alone to resolve one could someone support the government? we don't want an intervention. we want cuba problems to be solved in cuba. i think they do. the ivana is facing major purchased at home and abroad and that also means on the street of santiago. 7 african and government representatives have been holding more peace talks with taliban insurgents, the spot clashes continuing, continuing on the ground. the terror group is making gains in the power vacuum left by the potted international troops and fighting has now broken out of africa and forces tried to retake a key border crossing with pakistan. desperate and looking for way out,

a 100 gather at this close border crossing between afghanistan and pakistan with whatever they can carry. claire the hood, there's a war going on between the government and the taliban. on the other side, the border is closed. they have to stop fighting and let us go through. so we can go home. the bus 2 battles between afghan forces and television fighters have escalated across the country in recent weeks. there really challenges to cover this kind of story on friday award winning photo journalist denise should iq was killed, new spin bull dogs crossing. he was imbedded with special forces when the military attempted to regain control of the crossing. it's an economic lifeline for southern afghanistan. a crucial artery for exporting farm goods. controlling it would be an economic windfall for the taliban. insurgents, recent attacks seem tactical,

taking advantage of nato and us troop withdraw. us president joe biden has made it clear nation building was not part of the war on terror launch 20 years ago. he says it's time to leave afghanistan future to its people. russia foreign minister took a swipe by calling the mission a failure. because of some, we faced the truth as president biden had confirmed americans left because they considered their mission accomplished. obviously he tried to present the situation and the best way possible, but everyone understand their mission failed. even as districts topple to the taliban, afghan leaders look with optimism towards piece talk in doha, they say piece will only come from negotiating table and not the battlefield organizes of the tokyo olympics have reported the 1st confirmed case of covey 19 at the athletes village. c, e o, to shoot moto says

a visitor from abroad involved in running the game. so tested positive, the person's identity is being kept confidential, some of the, the, the delta variant has pushed up to one of our infections in bangladesh. but the government there has lifted the national, locked down because the eat, our festival starts the next week. and the residents just couldn't wait. this is getting out of town on an industrial scale. with locked down, lifted, the stack of residents rushing back to their home towns in time for each one of them. i'm taking the 1st chance to head home after lockdown if it's imposed again to soon up the east and i'll stay at home. if everything's normal, i'll return to deca. despite sore incurring a virus cases will star sees have eased restrictions that you cannot make reasons eat, represents a big source of income for many industries. industries that have been suffering. hearing the pandemic work on life has been very hard for us,

is knocked down for us to stay out of where we're waiting for people to cross the river with us. i don't know if we'll make any money, so we have to keep the boat going on. the lines like this is a country that's no stranger to overcrowded, ferries. bettina pandemic with social distance seeing, appearing to go out the window some health expert warning the a, the crowding will come with additional risks. local police, the vigilant lock down, you can see the amounts of passengers on the ferry lockdown listings. we've taken strict measures to make sure that very many passengers, again, when the health regulation goes off and on the water on the community for these people though, getting home is what matters. they're prepared to do whatever it takes pandemic or not. the count film festival is about to award its top on the palm door.

it's almost isn't it. as usual, despite the pandemic with prob days of red carpet premiers in the glamorous town in the south of france, there are some restrictions, but most stars have remained unmasked. with such an eclectic group of films in competition, spike lee and his jury had their work cut out for them when deciding who, when the sea is door to some of the front runners, the film director, you to call me back at conn and getting plenty of attention to, to tom, about his killer, to fix the car. my intention in the film is really to make the audience, except that's the question of gender is absolutely relevant. when it's, when we're talking about identity one's identity, one's journey in life, once choices and all this sense of director with anderson, delighted with his latest efforts long delayed by the pandemic. the french dispatch is an episodic tribute to old school journalism starring bill murray until the

swinton assembled a team of the best patriot journalists times parents in direct criminal robot. right? these are his people. just try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose . it's also reminder of the dignity of true journalism because that's a real thing. and i think it's possible for people to either have forgotten that or pretend they never knew that to know that the journalism and this is credibly dignified an important cultural endeavor. and we really rely on it. so yeah, it's just a reminder. i agree with tilda. we take the subject of the night lecture. mister moses rolls off suddenly lounges odyssey the voice of his rowdy generation from the naked cell block j. how do i want to buy and conduct director pool? the husband is known for mixing sex and violence. his laces, film, benedetto,

religion, that makes and just causing plenty of control the seat. it tells the story of an abbot. mother thing with another woman. for me, what was really important and the movie i think versus dr. i asked me what was driving me was in fact that it was way through that i was and that i was making a movie debts about events that is shown way has really happens. and this is the real rock opera by leon. correct. with adam driver and mario called, they play a glamorous deliberately couple whose lives it turned upside down by the arrival of the child. the can competition is back after you without you to the panoramic making the prospect

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