recognizes where exactly i learned a lot. our culture history. oh, d w, travel extremely worth a visit. mm mm ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin. pakistan's government calls devastating flooding . a climate catastrophe. relentless monsoon reigns kill more than a 1000 people critic say. poor planning and corruption are also to blame. but a senior minister tells us pakistan is facing a perfect store. also coming up,

pope francis visits an italian town that still rebuilding 13 years or not from a devastating earthquake. a speculation grows that the pontiff could soon step down . our religious affairs correspondent explains the options. plus, it's a very little, it is now impossible to stop a change that's happening here. melting away due to global warming, a warning over rapidly disappearing glaciers in europe's highest mountains. scientists are worried. they are losing vital climate data as the world loses. a key source of fresh water. ah, monica jones, good to have you with us. pakistan's climate minister is calling flash floods that have killed over a 1000 people, a climate catastrophe. the newest fatalities are primarily being reported in the northwest and down in southern st province. southern baluchistan province is also

heavily impacted by weeks of unrelenting monsoon rains. more than 30000000 people nationwide are affected, while vital infrastructure has been crippled by the flooding. the prime minister is appealing to other countries for help forced from their homes, with only the few belongings they could save from the flood waters. there just some of the 33000000 pakistani authorities say, have already been affected by this years flooding. bellagio, stan pakistan's, largest and porous province, is one of the worst affected some here feel abandoned. if i'm a let, i am called the got it. we're carrying our own belongings so our house is submerged . i think that it. how else are we supposed to save them? or you can see how we're carrying them on such a terrible situation. if there is nobody from the government,

nobody to how it will get to even ask about it. we put in a while i've been here to the north west in punjab. these foot victims at least are getting some official help already. but the scale of the task is massive. rivers swollen by unrelenting rains, have washed away bridges and roads across the country, hindering aid efforts. the cash trap government has launched an international appeal for funds to help deal with the devastation, but the cost of the damage is already estimated to run into the billions pakistan's climate change minister sherry raman has just returned from the west affected regions. she gave us a 1st hand account of the devastation. well, as you can see, the image is a hard breaking. it's not the sad part is it that it is not stopping. the rain is relentless. the waters coming down in buckets from

a merciless sky. and we have now in our 8 leak, in the south of the country where it is beginning, many districts are beginning to look like they're part of the ocean. our helicopter sorties are not finding dry land to drop new rations essential services. people on the ruined on bits of high ground. we had to deploy the navy for the 1st time to operate in india and pakistan because much of it looks resembles a small ocean. so yes, it's quite devastating. it is a climate catastrophe. i'm very clear because the whole of this year we have seen one after another gas kid of it, or one after another event, extreme weather events in a guest dime catastrophes. and that started literally in early march, late february, when we went straight from winter to spring pakistan became one of the hardest

places on the planet crossing 53 degrees in the south. right. and that it triggered a great deal of public stress. it triggered the forest a whole season, a far corner, which we had to bear to in areas where we already are. look, what is it? it's been a very stressful time, of course, because you haven't yeah, of course. i mean, he, me, you said it yourself that i mean pakistan is, is in the region that is actually used to my mom soon. rain a regularly comes in the particular season, but this year you say it's very, very different. and you say it's down to climate change and we've seen in our terrible scenes in other parts of the world as well. but critics still say that the devastation that we're witnessing has less to do with manmade climate change on what to do with poor planning. and corruption, what do you say to that?

will the poor planning really or the corruption then there alleging has been in built into that said planning would really have been infrastructure and urban planning that has been in place for years on end. if you remember in 2010 pakistan was hit by super floods, a lot of the planning after that, at least in being infrastructure like bridges was focused on building them higher because we all for the building back better. and now we have the united nations on the ground with us. i don't think they see it as anything but a claim with catastrophe. and while we are trying very hard to save lives and manage a sort of subsistence in areas where there's very little resource and the dying of water just keeps coming. now it's coming from the north and the garbled river region, in, in what is known as

a traditional river in blood. we are in the middle of a perfect storm. i don't know anyone that could have planned for 8 weeks of unrelenting monsoons in cities and in dire swedes. $77.00 districts, $72.00 districts now calamity it taking $700.00 and more water than ever. i don't think that's about planning. but having said that, of course we need to plan better. i've been at lee an advocate of climate resilient planning for a while. they're required and in dire and there was pakistan's climate change. minister sherry raymond, let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines. 6 people were killed when our truck crashed into a neighbourhood party. near the dodge city of rotterdam, 7 others were injured. the spanish driver was arrested. investigators are looking into why the vehicle ran off a dike. thousands of people gathered in the northern german city of rostock to

remember racist attacks that happened there. 30 years ago. in 1990 to crowds cheered as far right extremist attacked a center for asylum seekers under hostile for vietnamese workers. it was the worst violence of its kind in postwar germany. india has carried out its largest ever demolition project to 100 meter high apartment towers on the outskirts of the capital delhi were brought down in a matter of seconds. india supreme court order to demolition after it was discovered, the high rise is violated. numerous safety regulations. japan has staged its 1st fireworks display since the start of the pandemic, spectator numbers were limited to 60 percent of normal capacity visitors that summer was the same without fireworks lightening up the sky. thought frances, visiting a town in central italy still rebuilding in the wake of a huge earthquake. more than a decade ago,

300 people were killed and many of l'aquila finest buildings destroyed. the pope celebrated mass, but there's growing speculation that he may soon step down a 1st time tour of reconstruction work in l'aquila. the city's cathedral was among the buildings badly damaged in a devastating earthquake in 2009. but the pope's visit was closely watched because of one of l'aquila other claims to fame. the city is home to a pilgrimage church, that is the final resting place of pope celeste in the 5th or 13th century church leader who became the 1st pontiff to resign. at an open air mass outside the church, francis praised his med evil predecessors, modesty you only have in the eyes of man, the humble are seen as weak and losers. but in reality, they are the real winners because they are the only ones who trust completely in the law and complete them in their seniority. the reference is likely to add to

speculation about francis future plans after previous hints that he would resign if his health no longer allowed him to carry out his duties. before leaving l'aquila, the pope opened the basilica of coloma jose holy door as part of the annual pilgrimage tradition of a more i'm joined now here in the studio by dw religious affairs correspondent matching gac enter. that actually raises quite a lot of question. so could you perhaps tell us, i mean, during mass, the pope said that relinquishing power was a sign of humility. this is surely a somehow adding to speculation about his future. indeed. so there's been quite a bit of speculation quite a bit of rumor, particularly in specialized as special express load, was really of him, essentially stepping back, stepping out of the policy, the visit to l'aquila. they said self quite significant because actually in

l'aquila rests are that one of the only folks that actually has resigned his position and drink the homily he actually did say that relinquishing bower is indeed a form of humility. it is an expression of godliness. this will not help settle rumors as a matter of fact will boldly accelerate the rumor machine. and this comes directly in the heels of the sconces story, which is happening actually pretty much right now. it will continue to morrow and the day after, in which 20 new cardinals, many of them quite aligned with the bolt political and ideological. if not, theological intuitions had been actually brought into the fold of the church and become potential electors in the choosing of the next pope. so what does this tell us about the future of the church? it's actually a very good question. it's really quite difficult to sort of pinpoint what is that happens sort of from here on, particularly because there's been a very strong confrontation between very conservative sectors of the church,

particularly led by the anglo saxon world, the u. s. and australia play sort of a really significant role. and essentially the policy which has taken a much more integrative, if not sort of commitment committed to diversity. many of the people that were now made cardinals, or people that come from fairly unusual places. for instance, gore where there's been for 450 years sort of membership of the church, but actually no cardinal. and as a matter of fact, people that generally belong to the basis of the church and do not really came coming to the church as part of sort of its hierarchy. so it's very likely that the next conclave will see many of these voices were presented in ways that they had not been before or at martin gag dw religious affairs correspond, then thank you so much that you're welcome. temperatures in europe, highest mountains have risen by nearly 2 degrees celsius. in the past century, almost doubled the global average preceding glaciers and the alps are one of the most visible effects of climate change. glaciers are

a major source of fresh water and he'll keep whole ecosystems in balance. alpine farmer ernst bloss nick has been on glance at him for more than 70 years. he can see and feel just how radically climate change is affecting the austrian alps. assignment the glades, yes, have drastically shrunk particularly on the surface. so all the overflow there are very deep crevices everywhere and the ice and hardly any snow. ne, anyone visiting austria is most famous. glacier this year will be shocked. there are few places that show just how dramatically the glaciers are currently melting, like the past outside glacier. beneath austria's highest mountain, the gross glock now i know heat, sevilla with one heat wave after another. the rest of the snowfield on the upper stats is melting away and that interrupts the supply of the glacier system. yet, i'm with wonderful. this year there was little fresh snow and sand blown here from

the sahara in the spring created brown spots further speeding up the melting these of a metal now impossible to stop the change that's happening here in glaciers had been coming and going over the millennia with ice ages and warmer phases, but this is different. now there is enormously accelerated warming triggered by climate change. the rising temperatures are not just destroying the glaciers, like the shot and clays, glacier. they're also dangerous for some animals. speaking to the entire alpine foreigner, the rock tom again, for example, we'll have to shift to higher ground survey. at some point, all these diverse species will be up against the wool, get the want of on. when the ice melts, the risk of falling rocks and mud slips will increase. at zone blick observatory, they measure climate change. here what countries are trying to stop globally is

already reality. on average, it's almost 2 degrees warmer fletcher. the glaciers will disappear from the alpine region. here in austria, we have to say dear children, if you have the chance, please go and see the glaciers. now. if he wait too long, they'll be gone. the alps are changing dramatically in the summer. the mountains are brown and less hospitable for both animals and people. that's all from us for now. up next to reporter, explores mozambique driving ruby industry and asked, is it a blessing or a curse to stay tuned for that? monica jones from me and the team in berlin. thanks for watching. making, raring to read me. if there is any erotic friends between them, you'd have to find it between the lines.