to close off a lot of roads, it was hard for volunteers and rescued vehicles to come here and help with the clean up. and they also said that it made it, it looked like for them like a photo opportunity in the election campaign. and, but it didn't really mean that the government was really supporting the people here . is there anything truly that the chancellor could have said to ease their pain? one thing residents here have told me is that they want to see support in the long term. they don't want the immediate aftermath of the tragedy to be the only moment where they see the government's presence and matches did say that she is aware that this is going to be a long struggle to bring the pounds back to what they were. so this is something positive i would imagine for the residence, definitely a concrete pledges in terms of money would help. people here wants to know with certainty that economic health is going to come here. and that would be something that would bring some relief. we've mentioned, of course,

that the medical was shocked at the damage calling it terrifying. describe how bad it is there. well, it is hard to believe one's eyes while walking through the town of shewn here behind me. i walked through the town early this morning. there was nobody around and only destruction around me. some houses have been completely swept away. some have been gutted on the ground floor. there is nothing left there. there is the breeze through and all over the town. some roads have even been destroyed. there is almost nothing left and in some parts, and it is really, really tragic situation here. you know, i imagine some of our viewers have been seeing these images. i just can't imagine this happening where they live, how we're residents coping info. obviously many people here are tired, it's been a few days now that they've been left without a home. family members have died and they have been working hard to try to clean up

as much as they can. they're also distraught, but there is a sense of strong solidarity here. people are very grateful for the help they are getting from volunteers and rescuers. and there is a strong sense of community to try to make things better as quickly as possible. you talk about the cleanup effort that's been under way. who exactly is lending a hand in addition to some of those volunteers is a government providing the help that's needed. what we've seen here today, a lot of different institutions. we have the army helping the fire department, the a catastrophe protection service. but it has taken a while for a lot of these authorities to get to these towns. a people here told me that until yesterday they didn't really see a strong presence from, from the state and rescue workers. and instead, a lot of volunteers,

normal citizens who came from all across the country, brought their own tractors their own tools to try and help out as much as they could as cliche as it sounds. julia, it's certainly does look like a war zone there. and i'm curious what the town was like before this davis was a very charming town with many old houses and surrounded by beautiful nature, the river and forests. and just now a lot was going on right after the corona virus pandemic. we saw a family that had recently taken over a new city and was excited to see business booming again. and this, this new tragedy is really dramatic, and it's, it compounds what the town had already gone through before picturesque west germantown, reduced to rubble. julia showered deli in germantown fooled many thanks. as always

i'm joined now by our political correspondent, emmanuel as emma, along with inspecting the damage or angular medical was also examining the implications of this disaster for government policy. what was the message after the visit, while the main message angle america wanted to conveys that people affected would not be left alone that there would be measures taken 1st and maybe more urgently financial measures. a finance mister shows has already pledged 3, an initial 300000000 euros to people affected by the floods. and i'm going to america also had something to say about climate policy. maybe we could listen to what she said while she was addressing people affected. one can also you can not draw conclusions from one incidences, but the sum of all the adverse weather events that we're seeing and the impact that they're having suggest clearly if you believe the science and as you know,

i do believe the science that this is linked to climate change, we need to speed up the fight against climate change. by angle america, with a very clear perspective on climate change there. she only has 2 more months left as chancellor. how does her message compare with what her potential successors are saying? well, i mean nasa has the premier of one of the west affected region, ryan and know try and west valia had said the same that the temple had to accelerate in terms of reforms in terms of addressing climate change . but as you said, america only has 2 months left. that's us chancellor and lasha to contend with the frontrunner candidate for the conservative. well, he didn't really come a very, very strong figure, a very strong environmental defender in her him. he did stay for a mere try and respond so he pays in comparison and he was

a subject to some controversy yesterday when german present i'm talking about the time i was addressing his condolences to people affected and lush, who's running for elections was chancellor. well, he was laughing into the background and that didn't, you know, bode well for him to be taken seriously by the germans. great optics to say the least. you know, i'm curious, have to floods elevated climate change as the primary campaign issue, heading into the february federal elections september election? yes, i think definitely climate change took center stage in does it actions now a candidate of all parties can no longer ignore. that is going to be one of the major issues that have to address in the, in the weeks in the month and in the years to come. and we'll see what these crises will have an impact. india elections. you know, in september,

when that will take place, we'll see just how preoccupied the population each bite of issues and which programs of the candidates there was scrutinized inches. d w political correspondent, manual shares. thanks, emma. while some german towns begin to assess the damage and clean up, others are being hit by new flooding in saxony, near the border with the check republic roads and rail lines to close further south at the german austrian frontier, flooding and heavy rains or causing serious damage. in the town of holland, a flash flood has swept through the streets. people have been warning to stay out of sellers and basements. that's now take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. at least 25 people have been killed in landslides, triggered by monsoon range and mom buy in one area. several houses were crushed by a collapse wall. where would you say more people could be trapped under mud, and degree building collapses are common during india's monsoon season.

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ah, and every day jewish life in europe rarely shown away from politics, the middle east and anti semitism. it was important for us to spontaneously go over and capture what's going on with alice bona is one of the most significant jewish film producers in europe. i felt it was important to have this perspective to tell the story of europe, jewish communities as we traveled across the continent to eve kugal. mine has always played a big role in our family, to the editor in chief of the magazine. tactless and he's written so many articles that we discussed together over mealtime. so i was really keen to work with the. 2 news

the who's who's we're now meeting a woman with a very unique family history. she grew up in east germany in east berlin as a socialist in a family that vehemently rejected 2 days. and now she has a very strong jewish identity when they come to us and i my mother came from a very german family, a jewish family that had assimilated the emperor. and they couldn't get baptized

enough to get rid of the jewish. and so i wanted to belong on boys. i didn't want anything more to do with judaism and all the funny traditions. and i had a slight air of protestantism about it as, as of the what does. but actually victor klemperer, one of our more famous fellowship, wrote in his diary that he couldn't get rid of his jewishness. same article. what was the other one? so by the seminar and it was the same with my mother. my father came from glee in levine and the former austro hungarian. i mean, he didn't lived with his parents in berlin shown in seattle district. and he grew up at a very interesting time. he said to his father, i know what i think is the bar mitzvah is the last thing i'm going to do for you. and then you can stick it and get me on across the street. there was the central

committee of the communist party on bulow plus. that's now rosa luxembourg plot will just switch to the other side of the street. i liked it better there and decided to join the movement. and there were also many, many jews there. he went into exile in 1933 and then fought in the spanish civil war and the french resistance and so on with a gun in his and i send you the asked. and so when he came back to east germany, it was the question of cognitive resonances that he had to be on the side of socialism or everything he'd done, there would be meaningless. wonder in socialism, religion was seen as unnecessary, superfluous and reactionary. there was no longer a jewish culture, it was reduced to religion. so that meant when they returned to germany, they weren't allowed to be jews anymore. they had to leave the jewish community if they wanted to become some stuff. we also had relatives from west berlin,

who always came to our house for dinner on saturday. it was funny because as a kid, i only knew about judaism indirectly. for example, my mother would tell me and so on. you had just let the temper imagine greek, ample, him with columns and stuff them and clean fish. and i didn't know what it was. i didn't think it was anything bad. i just thought it was something they had their job and that fact and don't tell them there's pork in the goulash. there was always little things like that. so we didn't celebrate shabba, but it was a ritual that they would come to us after templeton. com. okay, so let's say you're having white white wine. yes. all the time i'm supposed to

log in and i are on our way to poland and, and feeling pretty queasy about it. that's totally understandable. your parents, a holocaust survivors from poland with a history like that. it's no wonder you feel that way. yes, it's painful response, but i finally found the journey very inspiring so far. as a journalist, i spent a lot of time grappling with a problem today hasn't been here. we've seen diversity being experienced in a totally different way, and those are all i know is today is them, it's a lot of us. it's vibrant,

broad listing. and it's something that really is all about every day. it's only when you physically ask people about it that you get into questions of anti semitism and debate about the middle is all about nice to that. i never would have thought that judaism could be live so openly. i really thought more say and even more so possible. and it makes me think, because the way i grew up was very different in berlin, and there was a huge presence everywhere outside the kindergarten school, outside the synagogue, and in the community center line, there were huge numbers. the security guards, mainly israelis class, and sure. there were a few in france to guarding the jewish site, but i didn't find it nearly as it was. it was very impressive

when we were in berlin, which is my hometown. we saw young israelis opening is this is an art launching startup and it's a cool thing to do. and they themselves are very cool. but i still think they don't have the confidence that jewish people in france isn't that. i don't think they can live that life will help stand up and i've capital a lot in poland and eastern europe. and i'm curious to see how things have changed in recent years, especially the building of new jewish community, all my stuff. and i hope to learn something by talking to the people. and that's what i'm most excited about at the moment what we could talk, we all know how poland has developed. and i suspect that there's growing right wing population of the tax on democracy and liberalism, or another movement that directly targeting today is gonna continue to shift. i'm

very curious about that. the use a lot has changed here in recent years in terms of jewish life and how it's programmed. well on our way to the jewish school and wants all that has 30 percent jewish and 70 percent non jewish children. yes, it's nice that there are jewish schools here again at all. cooking shows. it's nice to fair. they don't have to write on the prayers,

but we have somebody meeting so we have to do is and time on friday, went on forever forever. one, once we don't celebrate tunnel, we go through the jewish kind of, we are closed for jewish holidays and in the curriculum. and in the celebration we only have jewish. they learn 3 hours of jewish subjects, 3 hours to schedule. so it's additional 6 hours, which is the last person for small. so it's like significant amounts and they feed it, they know they're in school, the impossible to ignore the box. so and it's very important for jewish community and between among the children. is there any timing issue between on this level on jewish kids have problems with the other one saw? no, no, it's never tells me, i don't know why they grow up together. they know each other from being 3 years old

girls, they start in the kindergarten and usually, and they just grow into the next level. so that this model of p exactly are nation to show you days. and also because people from now they are in the high school and when they go to the, the may almost have nicer schools here than we do in switzerland. i'm impressed that the school have a totally jewish character. even though the majority of the children aren't jewish in our school, it's the complete opposite. we're now entering the only synagogue and was told that wasn't destroyed during the 2nd world war. so they were to and all of these, so as in full and a half a dozen times in the, in the 70s or eighties,

which wasn't the most popular thing to do as somewhat supposedly normal and american jewish way from when i went in by the late seventy's, the meeting young pulse had recently discovered the jewish identity, which really introduced me to a whole world, which certainly you know, 30 years, no one was talking about. that is how come there. and he just left him on september 1st 1939 world war 2 begins. at that point there are 3 and a half 1000000 jews and poland, the heart, the soul, dasheka nazi world, only 5 years later, 90 percent 90 percent no longer alive having been murdered. by trimmers and accomplices. the statement is over restrict most people will say, well, how many g survive? 10 percent survive? meaning that in poland after the shot after world war 2. there were still 350. that was in jews. and colon more jews in poland in 1946 in the

you and then the u. k. today. what are they? the vast majority of the polish jewish survivors let fall and the 25 years after world war 2. if you wanted to feel safe saying the statement, i image you a couple 100000 left. tens of thousands stayed a small proportion, but still tens of thousands who then had children and grandchildren. many times, not even telling them your efforts, you with this deep, dark family secret status cheek of 50 years. $39.00 to $8989.00 fall of communism. at which point the not so young survivors are confronted with the question. do i feel safe enough today to tell my children, grandchildren, feds, colleagues, neighbors that i'm really jewish since 1? 900. 89. we don't know how many, but since 989000, perhaps even some tens of thousands of polls have discovered they have to issues. and that's the story of jewish poland today. how many to still living here in

fossil and in point right now? so i could say that without a doubt the number of jews that live in warsaw, poland. nobody knows. because of the fact that people are still discovering. i spoke last week in the small town, not famous. and they asked me very much to come. there was a group of intellectuals, they wanted to hear about judaism, said, you know, i'm also go to a small place. i get in the car, the person picking me up. and he turns to me that says, you know, i am also something like jewish. my great grandmother was jewish. my mother's mother's mother was jewish. so i looked at what i said, you know, you're not something like jewish. you are jewish. and so how many jews are there? poland? i don't know, but it's plus one. ah,

yes, and here most part of the cemetery is where the resistance fighters of the 1942 warsaw uprising a barrier and he'll take leave unix dale. this is where the commander is buried, who died in 2009 on kelly monic, aidan and he was a doctor and a hero. there's no, there's not any of the resist.