the, the, this is the, the we news line from berlin. it only gets worse, southern ukraine reels from a burst spam. as floodwaters rise, thousands of people are homeless, humanitarian and environmental, catastrophe, cube, and moscow. blame each other for destroying them. also coming no more concerns over

the health of health, frances, he's in the hospital for abdominal surgery and is expected to stay for several days and have been to avert a serious oil spill on pm and more than a 1000000 barrels are in this a band. and tank are transferring it is risky, doing nothing. could be devastating. the i'm the call for like, it's good to have you with us. authorities and southern ukraine are racing to evacuate thousands of residents, the breaching of the huff goddamn, has flooded dozens of towns and villages. united nations and chief says it could be the worst damage to civilian infrastructure in this war. keep claims moscow blew up the russian control dam located on the front line to slow any counter offensive. russia accuses ukraine

a sabotage of turkeys. president richard type erred on his sold. both leaders and phone calls that an international investigation is needed. the volunteers and rescue workers use motorized continues to pick up people down stream from the destroy them trapped by the rising flood waters along with their pets. residents along the right bank of the dundee, pro river, controlled by ukraine, are being taken to temporary evacuation zones by road and by rail. one of them is in the city of nikolai, of 100 kilometers from the flood zone in his son. 2 there are paramedics, as well as volunteers, to help the back you use find food and shelter. the collapse of the dam has brought further misery for tens of thousands already caught on the front lines of the war

between ukraine and russia. 65 year old hon as a rude and yeah, emerged from a bomb shelter after 3 days of rushing shelling to find her home, submerged a body shop or you could, your music. the city is like a ravine completely flaunted it's impossible to drive through the people who are trapped and what became like an island. i was taken away by my friends. i had to leave because having spent 3 nights in a bomb shelter, i just couldn't take it any more. but how does that route and yet is luckier than most? her ordeal has ended on a bright moment. you have company, your color to her sister's live and because i have so she has a place to stay and shoulders to lean on of the while. those living along ukraine's lower than the pro river are now dealing with

the immediate consequences of the dams collapse. the impact may be felt for generations with thousands of homes and livelihoods swept away in the disaster was bringing giuliano so keen advice. he's a rapid response coordinator with the international rescue committee. joining us from key to, to have you on the show, what are you hearing from your staff on the ground? currently we're at the international rescue committee are carrying out rapid needs assessment. we are focusing on the 1st phase of our response and mika lives. we're seeing that people are still being evacuated from the floodgates areas. so the numbers currently are around 3000 people who have left her son. what we're seeing is that medical i is that transits area and people are moving towards odessa and other central regions of you train. our teams in odessa are also preparing shelters to be able to receive people creating from her so on. now the russians and the ukrainians both say the collapse does not cause any civilian casualties,

but the fear dimension of the flooding makes that very hard to believe. can your people corroborate the official information? and what is it that importance to highlights here is that we're dealing with an emergency inside an emergency. this attack is yes, another very serious violation off international humanitarian law. we're very concerned that we are dealing with 16000 people directly affected by defrauding. we're talking about people's livelihoods, people's homes have been made in habitable. we're talking about an area of $650.00 square economics is that is not completely flooded. this is without a question, a infringe on an international humanitarian law. and that is why with the international rescue committee and other organizations in the in d u. n. organizations, we're doing our best to help the people evacuate thing. and also of course, what i like to highlight is not only we're not only going to take part in the

immediate evacuation part, but also as soon as these areas will be coming accessible again. the official news states that it's going to be about 10 days until the water will be up to this level, will be making sure that will be accessing to these areas and helping the people who remains in facilitating their safe return home. and it will be until then that we do not know the true extent of this. now this river is also a front line between russian and ukrainian control territories. how is that complicating efforts for your organization and others? or it's extremely complex and we are not only dealing with the fact that these areas have been under constant shelling for the last months or almost a year now. but also that these are my region territories. we have been receiving information also pictures from our calling because on the ground that now the minus the unexpected ordinances have been floating,

grounds making to be here. we are extremely dangerous for both the population and art seems on the ground. so access is a severe problem in this case, so we'll be good working closely together with the civil protection of unit of ukraine to see what is the best approach in evacuating people and accessing the areas once they become once the boards are, has retreated. that was diana stalking advice, the r c rapid response team. thank you so much for your time. so frances has successfully under gone abdominal surgery to treat hernia pain. he's expected to stay in hospital for several days now. earlier the pope appeared at his weekly general audience at the vatican, and when she called for peace in ukraine. frances has had several health issues in the last few years, was forced to spend several 9th and hospital with bronchitis. in march. during

hosting, my goal is following this for us from rome, theme of the hospital just held a press conference. what do we know about the pope's condition? yes, we had direct me from the doctor that was leading the team that conducted that operation . doctor said, joe, i'm 50, i mean, you centrally said that the pope is well, he's awake, he's a lot. and that he even joked with him asking him when if the operation might take place on that is because dr. ferry was the doctor behind the operation back in 2021. when some 33 sent to meet his other folks colon was removed because of a situation of constriction of that area in his abdomen. so this is the 2nd time that we're seeing, such an operation was essentially to repair a hernia in the abdominal wall, and that was necessary because this is an incision ok now, which is something is like it's like a bulge on the abdomen that can form on the site of what was

a previous surgical start doing the operation. the doctor said they removed the adhesions. the internal score. 5 during and that that this scarring had caused the pope a certain amount of pain in the last couple of months and then it prospected. mesh was essentially placed in the abdomen wall to repair the hon. yeah. the doctor also review the the pope had actually had previous adoptable g surgery back in 20 before 2013 back when he was in his native argentina. so we had some information that all these condition, and he said he centrally, he should be in post opportune recovery uh for some 5 to 7 days in the hospital. but the vatican has said as a precautionary measure, they're putting a pause on o audience's. uh for the pull right up to june. me the see what is the pope's health becoming a factor in how he's able to carry out his duties for the church as well. i mean,

he is 86 years old and we've seen a recent occurrence of lots of different health issues. uh, as you mentioned, uh, he was admitted to hospital earlier this year because of the to bronchitis. we do know that he has psychiatric uh, also has problems with his knee. that's why we've seen mobility issues using a wheelchair and a kid. and then of course, when he was a young man, he even had part of a long remove. so that is concerned as to whether this is going to impact him. he has sued in the past. he's not moved out the idea of resigning like what his previous tests did. but at the same time, he also believes that the role as pope and the role is positive is something that is a role that one takes on for life. so he has a differing views on that. but if you look at his schedule, the body couldn't, has issued his program for his trip to portugal in the month of august that he's expected to go ahead. and of course, he's also traveling to mongolia later on that same month. so maybe he wanted to

have this operation now so that they enough time to recover, but it was a 3 hour operation and use 86 years old. i think we'll all be looking to see how his recovery progresses in the next few days in the hospital or my cell, a journalist name, a group that was the latest from rome. thank you so much for that. and here's a quick look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. today . the italian coast guard says as rescued over 1400 migrants from overcrowded vessels in the mediterranean sea. in the last few days, dozens of people including 2 children, need immediate medical care. abilene has been cracking down on a regular migration which has increased significantly since last year. i the police industry long cars, capital colombo, have fired tear gas and water candidates. student protesters. the demonstrators want the release of active is arrested, an anti government rallies. they called for support with the rising cost of living

in the country, which remains in the grip of its worst economic crisis. how, why is the 2nd largest? okay, now your way has begun a rough thing after a 3 month break. it's one of the world's most active volcanoes. the option is currently confined to the national park, where the volcano is located and is not a threats to the public. the united nations is carrying out a delicate operation to drain over a 1000000 barrels of oil from a decaying tank or off am in the ssl staff or has been abandoned for years threatening an ecological disaster. but after years of fundraising, a salvage mission is finally getting underway. a roasting wreck of the coast of yemen. fedex, but say it's a catastrophe. waiting to happen for stuff is coming. move in a 1000000 barrels of crude oil. and that's concerned. it could break apart at any

moment. for tanka was being used as a floating storage facility for oil. when human civil war broke out in 2015. since then is being left to rot. in 2019 a team went on board and took these photographs. they shaved the extensive and neglect even van pipes were leaking and valves roasting through a smooth adult from space. the stuff could have a big environmental impact, a spilling the red sea with depth of states, wildlife, leaf fishing communities destitute and would disrupt trade. 3 of us who is canal a few people have been talking about it and the not doing anything about it. this group has been able to do something about it and i believe will be successful. will continue to push forward or something. so we succeed. united nations raised money

from establish operation for members, states private companies, and even of a public through a crowd funding campaign used sort of a proceeds to buy his own time to cooling, to the nautica fis on the nation show, use the plan for north it moves in close adults with this stuff, the engineers board and gain access to its tanks below a pumps and transfer the oil to the north dakota. once it's empty, the tank will be towed away to be scrapped the risk. so something going wrong are real. the palpable, and this is something where to go wrong. indeed, many questions would be asked the only way we could answer that question as well. walking away is not an option. it wouldn't be easy, but the un saves you a ton to see if could be the biggest oil spill the world has ever seen. and that

seems china ahead of the united nations development program we just saw in the report joins us now from new york. mr. stein a welcome to d w. now the risk you say is, yourself are huge and they are real. how confident are you that this mission is actually going to succeed? you probably are confident to have taken all possible steps to 1st or recognize the risk. secondly, to mitigate them and certainly to put in place the kind of measures from contingency plans to an oil spill occur. security plans in case somebody were to happen to one of the crew that is undertaking this operation. at the end of the day, we have done everything to be confident that we are wherever you can be, but you're not complacent. things can always go wrong and we try to be as prepared as possible. how are you preparing for complications or even a worst case? scenario here. well, right now, we're trying to eliminate the charges of a worst case scenario pairing. that's why the contract is one of the leading

salvage companies in the world. it is now with its technical vessel packed right next to the f as though stuff up for a number of days. now technicians have been just all assessing and the state and condition of the sort of software. i'm taking tests in order to measure the build up of explosive gases in the tangs, preparing the pumping of enough gas into the times to reduce the risk of explosion . i preparing essentially a series of steps that will make the ship to ship trumps. and maybe the pumping or do all from one restroom to another. as smooth as possible, there will be problems that will be inserted into each time individually. we will continue to monitor this operation. we have a number of international experts that are on the rest of right now, monitoring every step and validating all the precautions we have taken. and we don't want to be overly present mistake here. but i do want you to give us a sense of the magnitude of, of the ecological risks here. if something does indeed go wrong in this mission.

absolutely, and to this is actually the reasons why we are there right now in the red sea on behalf of the international community. the united nations took the decision to step in to a conflict zone and to try and facilitate 1st of all, to our un resident coordinator and his team. and you have an agreement with team deposit is technically to be able to do and to be to contract. that was the, the next steps to try. and i'm gonna take this operation. but the 1st i'm clear messages should be not do this. it is almost inevitable. that the worst case scenario will occur the breaking up of the tanka and with that over a 1000000 barrels of oil spilling into the red sea with catastrophic consequences. not only for marine life, but for hundreds of thousands of people for the tourism sector. for the southern nation plans for the fisheries industry, because fish dogs could take up to a quarter century to even begin to recover. so it just gives you a sense of the magnitude and again, for those and may remember one of the great catastrophes with an oil tanker,

the exxon valdez. this tank that has 4 times the amount of oil on board and therefore where it to break apart. it would indeed be a catastrophe, perhaps in terms of an oil spelling without precedent. yeah. so an unprecedented environmental catastrophe of possible global repercussions. why did it take until now to act and why did this rescue mission have to be ground funded a well, 1st of all, yemen tragically has been in a state of conflict for over 7 years now. which means that in such a situation where the internationally recognized government formerly owned, they all comes image on i $10.00, all talked about the tank itself is actually more off the cost of a part of human that is under the control of the district to authorities. as we refer to them, headquartered in the sign up, negotiating access in a very conceptual situation, took a long time. and secondly, trying to mobilize the international community to essentially funding

a major operation like this took longer than expected. and then in the midst of almost being ready at the war and your credit and suddenly led to a massive explosion of prizes fault um oil tank is because we had to purchase um, a very large crude carrier, as they're called in order to bring it along side of the sofa, so again, we have to go out and fundraise and as i speak to you and we took the very daring decision to actually proceed with this operation, we have still 14000000 showed off this emergency funding operation. so as i speak to you, we have a crew right next to the f as of software, and we're still working the phones in order to raise the remaining amount of money that i needed to be able to conduct this operation. an operation that isn't all of our interest, okay. understand ahead of the u. n. d p. thank you so much for insights and best of luck. thank q on the top of on take over of got us on nearly 2 years back. lead to

a flood of ask as leaving the country among the female soldiers who served in the ask an army alongside us troops. people like mine, us bari, evacuated to the united states in 2021. she's now finding a different monarch vari used to command of the tune to hunt down the tally bon for a better future for her homeland discount is done alongside u. s. military, her unit, the female tactical, to tune that the work that male soldiers could not do in a muslim country. but now she is fighting for her right to live in the nation. she wants to risk her life for because the you estimated through conduct like to nights rates and i've done this phones of because of culturally it was on an appropriate for means like anyway can. so just ask us. so just to thought i could ask him a female, i like or search the some. she's one of the $39.00 members of the female tax equal to tune, worry back a to to the united states during the chaos that followed the fall of couple in

august 2021. now she lives just my is outside washington dc. they'll allow the tools like they have in front of me, the vision cost. but the problem with that is with the employer that are not come forth of a to give us a better job because they don't know what's been happening for our a status. their form on us and to our fellow soldiers are on another mission. they're working to convince congress that their service has earned the right to stay in the u. s. permanency today manassas meeting. rebecca edmonton, the wall memorial in washington, both so if to gather enough con this to fine, it's nice weather to think that she was a commander of, of an all women, tactical pretend and i've got to stand. and then to see her is, is it's almost contradictory. she was calm and i, she made me come. rebecca now works for an organization which is lobbying congress

to pass a bill to help people like man, us, for the right to remain in the us. politicians on all sides of the house, both democrat and republican, need to recognize this as an urgent need and start working on it and make it make it happen from it. and members of congress has openly shown that support republican senator ted cruz, says brave adkins risk their lives to keep american soldiers safe. and we have responsibility to them. democrats sent to amy club shar says, these women are part of the 10s of thousands of athens who stood with our country, waiting in limbo gets harder for women like mine, us every day. she just wants to start doing again what she things she's best it is. so i guess, i mean, cause i really would like to answer for you to see the things that no one can say how long it will take before the 37 year old manassas and fellow

soldiers learn if they can stay in the country. they one's tight, their destiny to german defense minister forest. the story is, has completed a 5 day tour of asia intended to boost partnerships with countries in the region. and the indian city of them by the story is the 10 that the signing of a memorandum of understanding for a joint project to build up to 6 submarines. india is looking to reduce its dependence on russian made military technology, which currently makes up 60 percent of its equipment during his visit, the story is said he would push for more co operation between germany and india in the future. while he also gave this assessment of the wider significance of his trip, i came here thinking that germany and europe and the western world, and it's who should focus map more on this region as it, as i did before. what i learned here is that the concerns of the regionals or

countries inside regions, the neighbors of china and other countries are really remarkable. they're really concerned of what's going on regarding the freedom of navigations of freedom of training routes. and they are quite quite aware of what is going on as they need pod was reading the populace to achieve the security, safety and freedom of that. and therefore, this is a, from my point of view. the most important thing i learned, or i got confirmed here. so this is very important to come together, not against anybody, not to the couple anybody, but just to stick more together as those countries i want to defend who was based on. it's steve, at least a political correspondent, nina has as been traveling with the story as an agency are reflected on how this visit fits into germany's changing international roles since the war and ukraine broke out of the decades of thinking of asia as long as the meaning trade ties with

china. germany has now begun to actively look for more collaboration with other important partners in this region, such as indonesia, india, and singapore. now that also includes more defense collaboration on the gym and defense minister argues that germany needs to over hold. yet more of its longstanding principles, including the question of west germany, since it's weapons to in the world. and why that is necessary for is the story is, is calling into question some aspects of gemini is quite restrictive on export policy rules. and you will have to do some convincing. when he gets back home, or is the story, is once demons to see that russia's invasion of ukraine and the violation of international law has implications for how germany has to approach questions of do political strategy. in many ways the new gym and defense minister is beginning to turn into the tone if occasion of the site and then the

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