what drives them? to be nice to know what is happening. our series guardians of truth watch now on youtube dw documentary the this is the w news. why? from very late berlin. at least 260 people are killed in india as deadly as trained crash. in decades to passenger trains collide at high speed rescue teams race to free hundreds of people believe trapped in the records. also coming out the us defense secretary calls out his chinese counterpart for refusing bilateral talks at

asians top security conference and says, american won't allow its allies to be bullied by day train. and in the german comp final, it's tailored to french strikers as randall called him. one of mine for like frankfurt goes up against compatriots. christopher inclusive of harvey likes the unlike look of welcome authorities say at least 260 people have been killed in a railway accident in eastern india. hundreds more were injured to passenger trains were involved in the crash near the city of bellis, or 220 kilometers south west of coca to prime minister a new engine. modi is due to visit the disaster side later saturday. the army has also been deployed to assist at the scene of the countries worst will accident in

decades. disaster. somewhere along the end of the train tracks of india. here, 2 trains came to an abrupt told with deadly consequences. the passengers of pools to safety, 2 windows and doors rescue team. the overwhelms and locals are doing what they can to help with or to say that one of the trains derailed their breed, causing several carriages of the other train to over time. and those were left with no time to react. as i stepped out of the washroom, suddenly the train tilted. i lost my balance. i held onto something. i almost felt my body tilted my slippers, my bag. everything went flying so that people started falling on each other and i was in total shock. i couldn't understand what was happening with the mind, my mind stopped working. the whole coach was tilted. those trapped in the carriages

suddenly found themselves the life of death. struggle with us, one bad me with a 10 to 50 people around that on to me when the accident happened to drive me of those. but i was at the bottom of the pile to stay middle men meet at the beginning . i got hurt in my hand, but also the back of my neck. i love that. it's now look, i did when i came out of the train couch. so someone had left their hands that someone had lost their leg. if it was someone's face was mine rolled over, that'd be good. then i got out of there and i've been sitting here in the middle of the bus. i gave the others did not make it out alive. many of those who did on a lead of medical attention skills quickly flooded with survivors. some were taking

the whole ways for treatment rescue efforts continue. but the chance of putting someone alive on these costs of twisted steel diminished by the hour i ask who are responding sheller jada of indemnity for the latest from the crash i to well my to the scale of this tragedy is soon finding out as the rescue teams are still trying to extract bodies, extract any survivors intact from the twisted wreckage that you can see. you can still see line of, you know, all the tasks at the, at the site. the natural disaster response force and then drop reduction force, the police forces. they've all been working overnight to rescue the people from the sight of people that dispel in the process. and we can also see the hospitals being mobile that and on the sides with the number of she a number of people who are being brought in. since y'all state,

since the strategies of the state given 200 the ambulances that have been deployed at the c o at the moment to study any survivors, as you know, the chances of survivors are actually sadly dwindling by the oh, so you know, very much a rest of situation on the ground and at the hospital we can see desperate people trying to look for their loved ones. are trying to a certain whether they are life and not. do we know any more about what caused this the accident? so i just know the officials haven't said what the exact cause of this accident was . uh, but uh they have set up a high level, improved uh, insight into the incident a search and of course just accident department is domain wide, has quoted for the high level meeting this afternoon, or to speak to gustavo officials about the, you know, what could be the possible reasons behind this. he's also due to visit the, the, the, the side of the accident later this evening. but, you know,

these kind of accidents, michael, are pretty common in india, and this is believed to be the was in at least 2 decades. that india has seen most the, you know, these kind of accidents of being done. i the human error or, you know, 40 the signaling equipment. in fact, these crash, we hear the worst, the century. how our stories handling this? yes, you right michael. this is actually one of the was in a sensory officials are saying an interview for t c. absolutely. both of them on the ground of the national disaster response for steve, which is usually the 1st responded in such scenes. and i have seen them on the down booking. uh, you know, whenever disasters sites in any parts of the country does really well equipped, in fact, the examples that go down the wood up. but given the scale of this situation, they seem pretty old. that in fact,

it's taking the lucas as well. it will be rushing in at the side to test these of interest to workers to extract bodies out of the menu mess. that's out that the government in the meantime has announced compensation. so the families of those who the last end of the ones and those who are injured or they've announced has 9 numbers of you know, where people can calling from anywhere in the country to sort of find out the details of their loved ones. where the data at the hospital or if they bodies heavy duty. so yes of you know, everybody, all the processing is coming together to do you know the best that they can. but it's a hard curious task ahead of them that is corresponding shoulder yada, off in deli, on what is still in unfolding incident. many, many thanks to single point now where asia is top security summit, the stronger law dialogue is underway. front and center has been the chilly relationship

between the united states and china. the us secretary of defense of lloyd austin said washington would not stand any conclusion and bullying of its allies and partners by china. he added that the us remains committed to maintaining the status quote of ty, one austin, stress is preference for dialogue over conflict with beijing. despite china is national defense minister, declining an invitation to talk with. am i speaking at this summit? the senior chinese military official reiterated chinese indisputable sovereignty over the south china sea islands in the adjacent waters and stress. the taiwan is an inalienable part of china's software, and territory dw, chief political correspondent, nina has a ease at the stronger law of dialogue. defense meeting in singapore. i know you've been covering the german defense ministers delegation at the conference there. what's his position on the dispute over time on?

well, the official german government position is a one china policy when it comes to the issue of taiwan. so that means there are no official diplomatic relations with taiwan. are you seriously what it boils down to is the question whether stephanie send on china. and of course here germany is sending 2 different messages. now it wants to be seen as a, an interested, an active policy when it comes to doing its chat to maintaining peace and stability in this region. and in taiwan, in particular. but these 2 messages that they're sending to china are interesting. they say essentially we want to uphold our tape relationship. we want to continue talking to you. we don't call it the coupling what we trying to do, but we will try and reduce our economic dependency essentially the saying to the chinese look, we've learned our big lessons from our enrollment economic dependencies on russia

that were a huge mistake. so now we're trying to diversify, but don't take it personally, this is not against you unless, and this is the 2nd message, unless of course you violate international law. and in germany's eyes, that will be the case if china was in when they tie one. now want tell me would do exactly if that was to happen, that is something that the very tactful not to say in public because they want to keep those terms of communication with taiwan. anti not open, but of course the story is the german defense minister is here and single pull and he did meet with a chinese general lead time to and we'll probably hear from him later on in the day to hear what they discussed about meeting as you well aware, a record number you diplomats are attending these young reload, defense meeting this year. how do you explain the increased interest in security issues the nation? well, the netherland sweden is starting at germany. they both ends at defense ministers

here. the use of foreign affairs chief, joseph beretta, is also here, as is the case, been wallace. so yes, there are lots of european defense ministers and officials here at these meetings because europeans and not sisters with a colonial legacy in this region. they have understood just how vitally important this region is going to be for global security in the next couple of years. and zip case place is a very fast growing region when it comes to the economy, but also in terms of population size. so many of these countries here are becoming very important to a political class. and of course, europeans at home are busy dealing with versus war against the train. and they're also here to rally support for this funds to get as many asian countries as possible to help fight to uphold multi after elysium and international law and condemned russia's actions. dw chief political correspondent, nina hossa. thank you. a look now at some more

stories making headlines around the world at this hour us present. and joe biden says he'll sign a bill, raising the country's debt ceiling into law on saturday to divide and hailed the agreement this week in congress as quote, a crisis averted slight and spoke of compromise. and consensus in the deal, which has been criticized by some democrats, as well as republicans, if we would fail to reach. russia says it has evacuated thousands of people from areas close to the ukrainian border. after 4 people were killed in showing their hundreds have taken refuge in a sports arena. in the city of bell, google keys denies military involvement inside russia. at least one person was killed in 2 more are missing after heavy rain pounded parts of japan, remnants of type food in milwaukee which has been downgraded to a tropical storm, caused flooding and disrupted travel. thousands of residents were told to evacuate

a head of the storm. well, the german comp final is being hosted here in berlin later today with or be leipzig taking on, antoine frankfurt. lovesick, are looking to retain the trophy they won last year. well, frankfurt have a taste for silverware. after winning last seasons you wrote the league and this time around it's tripping up to be a tail of 2 young goal, scoring french man. it's being quite the 1st season in germany for rondell called him money. the young frenchman's goals 15 of them were instrumental in securing instruct frank but conference like football. and even he's surprised by how quickly he's become part of the furniture. no, it's not the but no, i didn't expect this. i thought i'd gradually find my feet here. it all happened very quickly and see that i adapted very quickly, but my teammates made it really easy for me. i think it's thanks to them that i played so well this season. they helped me and i integrated well into the team. you

could say they're like a new family for me, but just so you know that for me to lulu and e, one, the french cope with known plus season cleaning the pool called a german equivalent. we bump frankfurt up from conference to your roof leak. but colin mooney knows his team must be quite another goal, scoring frenchman to do so. christopher and concludes 16 goals made him joint talk in this league a score to most basic. um i think we did a good job on him in the 1st meeting this season. a little much on the call, and we kept him pretty quiet. as i said, we did very well defensively for table and they didn't score when to post. i think it's possible for us to play like that again on the defensive play, with the much them in my trust, my defenders, and this goes on the pulse period because i need the full. so let me conclude. we'll hope that trust is misplaced,

as he looks to sign off by helping his site retain the cup before his lately moved to chelsea and lights, a cutting boosted by the news that spanish international donnie almost as extended his contract until 2027. the red bills funds will be expecting their team to go into the final is favorites to do the business. once again, invalid the up next out documentary, and how chinese trawlers are killing a way of life for an african fishing village. i'll be back with more news at the beginning of the next gallon. runs loudest voice. my ceiling is out. she's the face of a protest movement. she's there motivator. and she won't give up no matter what, no matter where she is not like from how they took my brother hostage a few days ago.