ah ah ah, this is dw dues live from berlin. the un sounds v alarm about the world's growing water crisis. we all need it, but the un says safe drinking water is already in short supply and the problem is getting worse across the globe. also coming up german police carry out fresh raids

on an extreme right group, members of the so called iceberg were implicated in a fall plot last december to. busy overthrow the german government class french president of them are called the fence. his decision to force through a rise in the retirement age evening protests escalate across the country. ah, i'm gabelle f as well come to the program. it is the life blood of humanity, but it is in an increasingly short supply. now a new un report has reveal the scale of water scarcity across the world on world war to day. especially united nations conference has just gotten underway in new york. the 1st and more than 4 decades to specifically focus on water is being billed as a once in a generation chance to tackle

a worsening crisis. as un figures law reveal billions all across the globe do not have reliable access to clean water. and urgent action is not taken. the situation could spiral further out of control, cracked, land, and dried out trees. judge is becoming a devastating reality all over the world. increasing temperatures, having a major impact, making it more and more difficult for people to access clean water. we see people that needs to travel long distances to get access to some supplies. and of course the quality of the supplies is being also challenged. so we see people that cannot access safe order in many, many areas. currently, around 2000000000 people, globally, quarter of the world's population do not have access to safe drinking water. it's a number that's likely to rise without a boost and international cooperation. the u. n. has warned in our port release

today. lack of water is causing severe risks to livelihood damaging food security, and it's also having an impact on health. almost half of the global population lacks access to safe sanitation. so without water, there is absolutely no health and a lot of that actually is cause that water contamination if they are even able to get any sort of water is because of poor sanitation failing access to clean water and sanitation as a global problem, according to experts but it is the country's most vulnerable to climate change in africa and asia that are some of the worst impacted the you and aims to ensure access to water and sanitation fraud by 2030. but progress is falling behind. we would have to do 4 times as much as far as financial investments, infrastructure improvements and everything else. so clearly there is, you know, i would say catastrophic neglect for water and sanitation as governments meet to

discuss the water crisis to summit this week, the u. n. will be looking to turn that neglect into commitments that flow into action. that report was filed by louise osborne from the w environments, which ones is now. here in the studio is a new york negotiated meeting for you when water conference clearly important. i you mentioned in the report of what's really at stake. yeah. okay. so i mean, as we talked about before, there are almost 2000000000 people or more than 2000000000 people who don't have access to water. that's a quarter of the population that can't have safer, like the water to drink from. just imagine what that must be like. then there are people who are almost half of the population that don't have access to safe sanitation. so no clean toilets to use. also hand washing, i mean, think of their coven 19 pandemic. were washing hands with so important. think about not having water to be able to do that with these people are coming,

contact them with diseases. cholera diarrhea that are killing over a 1000000 people a year. actually die, people, i like to tell you exactly. and they, these are preventable deaths. this does not have to be happening. and that is obviously something that is going to continue to become a bigger problem as the population continues to grow. well, population growth is one thing, but why is it so difficult for many people to access it? well, we would just ask on the report, i think the issue of drought, which means obviously that the water isn't there. but there's also an issue when it comes to flooding as well, because this damage is more at water infrastructure. so the $1.00 to $2.00, it isn't it will it's flooding, there's less access to water. exactly. yeah, you wouldn't really think about it, but you're talking about dirty water washing into clean water reservoirs and things like that and contaminating that water. meaning that you are not getting access to

the, the safe water the people need. there are also issues of conflict. for example, which is driving people away, displacing people in areas like ukraine, as we know about where people are, then not able to access safe water in their homes and things like that. this is a big problem, but something that experts really try to hammer home to me as i was talking to them, was that this is an issue obviously in places that are vulnerable to climate change protect really, but also an issue in the global north and something that is really something we should be taking are thinking about globally as an issue. now that conference in new york, the 1st water conference in 40 years, clearly important. what are we going to see any real tangible effects outcomes? i mean, that's the, the question. when it comes to any of these kinds of conferences, the u. n. is really trying to push some things through because the sustainable development goals that it's put in place for action by 2030 includes safe water

access unfun notation for all by by 2030. at the moment they are feeling that, that we are not going to get there. so they are pushing for international cooperation . that is something that they've really talked about financing so that we can make financing for more investment in water infrastructure in different parts of the world. for example, one of the things that they have mentioned is, is so called water funds, which would see, you know, cities and businesses who are using water investing upstream to agricultural management and upstream habitat protection to protect the quality of the water results with that w environment thank you, louise. hours with just her billions of people around the world do not have reliable access to clean water. protecting those sources is a major priority. and one project in the middle east is offering a solution. israel is now using these seller native sea water to replenish

a dwindling fresh water lake. the sea of galilee did abuse rebecca rivers where the sea of galilee in northern israel. the lake has been. invite a water source for millennia, fed by the jordan river, which continues down to the dead sea. it's a place of pilgrimage for christians and it israel's main fresh water reservoir. with climate change and years of over use have been threatening its survival. israel was after 4 or 5 consecutive years of drought and we watched the level of the lake. i do lake near at sea of galilee drop every year, drop more and more until the level that we cannot pump from it any more. now in a world 1st project is round hopes to make that problem. a thing of the past by using diesel a night had water to refill the fresh water lake. the water for very here,

very for membrane which working out the big particles. ok. after that, the water going through their reverse more this membrane, which is the 2nd 3rd, and then the main process. israel has been desalination water for more than 2 decades. nearly all of its drinking water comes from the sea. so from the mediterranean, se, through that process, into his private, into my cop in one and a half hour, that's through the skirt. pretty good to in another one and a half hours. it can reach the galilee topping up this region. a water source. water has been an issue in the middle east for hundreds of years and has often been a source of conflict many here. now hope that this program will not only show up water supply here in israel, but also be away for israel to build and strengthen ties with once enemy states

like jordan water was an important part of the peace treaty between israel and jordan, signed in the 1990 s that deal to supply 50000000 cubic meters of drinkable water was doubled in 2021. water from the sea of galilee is brought downstream here through these grain pipes that you can see behind make it stored here in the last pumping station in israel. before it makes its way through those pipes over into jordan. last year israel agreed to double the jordan water deal again in return for energy that made putting the water in the galilee even more crucial. this was a, an excellent win win situation. we can bring water back to the sea of galilee and improve its quality res, a level and find a solution for x is a diesel elated water if the recess expert say this multi $1000000.00 project could make the galilee a sustainable water source the years to come here in germany,

police have carried out a series of raise or locations linked to the so called high spoke a group that's the extreme right network that was implicated in an alleged plot last december to overthrow the german government. one police officer was shot and wounded in today's operation. locations were also searched and neighboring switzerland, german authorities estimate the extremists have about $23000.00 support nationwide . for more of this last spring and our chief political correspondent, nina has a. nina, what more can you tell us about these rates in germany today? well, police raided objects in several of the 16 german states this morning. all of them related to the rice book and seen that is a far right extreme as seen. you said it, so it is a very big rate and it is apparently a rate that was in a way of follow up of the big raid back in december last year. and apparently in

december they since december they have found links to more potential suspects. so they're now speaking of 5 more official suspects, and that is in addition to the 25 who are arrested in december and altogether, they rated some 20 objects also in switzerland. by the way, not just in germany and the federal prosecutors office said that a member of the special forces was, had in southern germany because he was shot up by a person whose flat was searched. and that person had until then, not been known to authorities, was only being questioned as a witness, but then was detained on the spot for shooting about special forces. member and authorities had been expecting that some of the people whose objects was searched that they would be carrying weapons because amongst them are police people and active soldiers. and they are members of subversive groups. now some people say that i spoke just a bunch of right wing loonies another say they are closer to terrorist organizations. come to tell us who otherwise really well,

both is true because the circle ice burger consists of several different groups and not all of them ready to use violins, but some of them are now the so called guys figure that is literally translated as citizens of the right, they are a deeply anti democratic fall right extremist movement, where lots of different little groups gather under that umbrella. they do not recognize the authority of the demons state. they reject democracy in the system and many of them are willing to commit violent acts. and they're awesome. 21000 people numbers differ their force because it's difficult. and in december, police don't more than 100 objects arrested. 25 suspects. and they're now we're waiting that trial at the time, the network consisted of the political and military unit and they had planned to overthrow the government to enter the bonus tag by force. as the german interior minister at the time spoke of

a terrorist threat that's coming from the scene. and today's he said it was vital that this movement gets disarmed and the justice. minnesota has said that that was true. she political correspond, nina houser. thank you, nina. in france, a president obama mccaul has defended his decision to force through unpopular pension reforms, raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 in a television interview. my concert, the change was necessary and would enter into force by the end of the year. he said he had no regrets about pushing through the pension bill without a vote or add it hopes to prove relations with labor unions and in both them in the future. tensions remain high in france where there have been 6 nights of protests with hundreds of rests. and several cities protest is in paris as showing no signs of backing down in the fight against french pension reforms,

frustration to into fire and fury. after emmanuel marconi government narrowly survived no confidence motions. on monday, the votes only adding to public anger with strikes and demonstrations flaring up across the country. development you go little, it's not really just about pensions. it's about being fed up with everything else. they want us to work longer, while they are already reducing our salaries. they don't increase our wages, they increase all our charges, electricity, even food, and in the and why to work longer for nothing for a pittance. and to have a pension that i might not even get was remember, just over a little strikes and blockades that oil refineries are continuing, creating possible fuel shortages and the streets of paris remain strewn with rubbish after a 2 week strike by waste collectors. despite the fierce opposition microns,

rough time and change now looks almost certain to become law, nicole's, popularity has plummeted over his pension plans. his personal approval rating is now just 28 percent. it's a perilous position from which he must regain public confidence and restore. come amid furious french voters lockers for lisa lewis. as following developments in paris, lisa half macross, in words in this interview been received in france. members of the unions and of, of the opposition parties here, don't seem very happy about what he said. they said he came across as arrogant. he was shame, disdain, you know, in my, my coin is interview. he was trying to take things forward. he said, you know, i want to talk to the unions about other reforms. we're looking at an immigration reform. we're looking at increasing salaries,

we're looking at the health sector and the sector of education about what he did not say what people were hoping he would say is that he would maybe, you know, re shuffle the government to solve the national assembly or a calling for a referendum that was what opponents were asking for. and unless he said something like that, i don't think anybody would have been happy about his speech anyway. now we've heard this young protest to that, who said that he doesn't expect to get his pension anyway. but across the board, why has the reaction to raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, just 2 years been so strong and for us it's kind of what people feel as the heart of the social security system here. you know, the, they're really a very proud of their social security system in france. it's a question of identity. and also when talking about the reform, it's not the pension age, in general, is the minimum page pension age that's being pushed up. many people work longer

anyway. already, but it's about, you know, they see this, the question of social justice. they just feel that people have a very tedious job, should still be able to retire at a younger age so that they can actually spend some time in retirement. and, and people are just very angry about how the government is going about this to know that the government is now used as exceptional constitutional power to push the reform through without a final vote in parliament. and the read really feel that the government is to see what the government wants and is not listening and neither to the people, nor to any other parliamentarians. lisa, you've got to figure on the pulse there. where do you expect the protest to go from here? well this is really the big question over the past few days since thursday last week there have been protests every day he impairs but also in other cities. these were smallest protests now, 100000 people coming together and right away attacking the police of playing cat

and mouse with them. you know, putting a fire to certain it to the mountains of waste. they are lying on pave walks in paris because the waste collectors have been on stripe and all eyes are on tomorrow's day of protests. and where obviously a ponies are hoping that the millions will turn out. and the government is now betting on at these pray test is to go way after a few weeks. he could hear it in the interview. in man, a call clearly hopes that they can just pass this sequence, leave the sequence behind and go on to another reform, but the purchases of the art determined to continue to turn out to show that opposition to this reform. to dubuque, or one of lisa lewis, they're in paris, a thank you, lisa dollars, sir. have a look at some of the other news making headlines around the world. you her as president, follow them is zalinski, has paid an unannounced visit to the besieged eastern city of buckman,

the award of medals to ukrainian soldiers, and heard reports about the state of operations. in the heavily contest that city russia has wisely made some gains in advance on button for as he says, ukraine is determined to hold it. at least 4 people have been killed off to a russian drone struck a student dormitory, 80 kilometer south of the ukrainian capital keith. the attack took place at dawn on wednesday, hours after the japanese prime minister left keith, following an official visit. a school and 2 dormitories were partially destroyed in the attack. now across the you, the debate over my grace in his heating up again last last month, shipwreck in south and italy. more than 80 people are known to have died when a boat carrying migrants broke apart a few 100 meters from shore. our report on rosie birch had visited the scene of the disaster near cal, told him where the search for victims and for answers continues. weeks

after calamity struck the coast of calabria, strong wind spree, more bodies near shore. divers carry the remains to the coroner. a little girl is among the dead. her seed survived, he tells us he left afghanistan because his life was in danger. but more peril, lay ahead. a leather got you was about a mile. if the goods rocked, i will never forget dante in all my life. it was he conditions were even worse than they are now as he got on. but i thank god that i received, an i am alive, resorted, give out a more hold on was the owner of the one other that i was able to save myself by groping and holding on to a piece of root from the ship, filling them with the earth over laska, she brought all my life in the sand objects outlived their owners. the shore here is still strewn with destroyed clothing, shoes,

and even parts of the boat so many hoped would carry them to a safer or a better life. instead, dozens drowned before ever reaching italy and now what's left? are these broken bits and pieces of lives lost down the coast? we meet fishermen, vincenzo. after witnessing the rec, he's been advising search teams on the waters. he knows well, but his nets no lie empty. and his boat hasn't budged from dry land. when you'll land, i cannot go back out to sea. i can't handle it. images and those dead keep coming to my mind and i can't bring myself to cost on my fishing nets. i just can't insure such some say this tragedy was all too predictable. local volunteer francesca spends her evening serving up food to undocumented migrants and people in neat. she

thinks the shipwreck shed light on failed policy. and a lack of legal pathways into the european union will go by law got below, the government really needs to get better at welcoming migrants, quesada did on the immigration as a positive thing. the struggle now they say they need to a couple down migration flows instead of helping people arrive thought ada. gotcha . benita. in the cold light of day, italy's government says its conscience is clear. rome is forging ahead with controversial plans to restrict rescue ships operated by non profit groups authorities here blaine smugglers for deaths, etc. and insist more you support is needed. westhal problema vivia soldier. while this problem must at least become european problem that the others, all italy alone cannot bear all of this thought took it through italy lends itself more than other nations to vote arrivals on it. but it's clear that all these people do not want to stay in italy. that was, they want to move to other countries like germany, warriors will,

does to. the injured mother, hussy has come to this makeshift morgue in the local sports whole to pay his respects. his future remains uncertain, but he says he's lucky just to have one. calabria wants to draw a line in the sand under this catastrophe. but more migrant boats have already arrived since the wreck. and some fear that before long these waves may once again carry death and destruction to shore. a rosy birch it is our brussels corresponded and she fathers report and joins us now from brussels. rosie the jo commissioner, responsible for migration says, tragedies like this current can best or be prevented by creating legal migration routes to europe. what does she mean by that? will get hard. what's important to know is that migration on a silent policy is one of the most toxic political issues here in brussels. all the years i've been covering it,

you countries have been failing to agree on reforms that many say are urgently needed and not with even there were years of disagreement before that. the number of this issue is the current set of law under which people have to claim asylum in the country where they arrive. so has seep, who we met and not report he wants to live in germany, but he has to follow the documents a documentation procedure in italy. know that does a lot of pressure on countries like italy, but also other external e u countries including greece and cyprus and they say a more can distributive model should be put in place, not rates against that politically device that backdrop. the use home affairs commissioner is pointing to legal pathways. she's basically saying that people will keep getting on to both putting their lives at risk until there are easier ways to enter the european union through residents permits through legal work schemes. no work is only going to that effect. i've spoken to somebody, you officials who say there is some kind of momentum there and movement around this

topic and was almost 1000000 asylum applications to the europe in the european union and norway in switzerland last year. they are on the raw s, however, don't hold your breath for a deal. most that i've spoken to say that this reforms will be agreed until at least 2024 and be while of course, campaigner said they are urgently needed. now many countries have been hardening this dance on migration policy. has this most recent shipwreck than anything to change that briefly if you can, rosen well there has been a change in italy. of course, italian prime minister, ga maloney from the brothers of italy party considered by many as far right. she was elected on promises to clump don't on a regular arrivals. she plans to tighten the punishment to increase the punishment for smugglers who she accuses essentially, of trading aden, misery, but she's also pursuing some other con policies which are seen as more controversial that include restricting the activities of search teams,

led by non profit groups in the seas around italy, no, she says they essentially encourage people to make means perilous journeys. but critics say they could in fact, caused more deaths, etc. the w's rosie bush at that. thank you very much, rosie. and that's it from me and the news team here and the berlin don't go away. news asia is coming up next for you. don't forget best on you some websites add on all social media and all that is asked d. w. so i'm good. how old was in berlin from me and the team? i spoke with

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