[000:00:00;00] news, this is dw, use my front bullet, a huge search and rescue operation continues of grades a micro boat sink, same one of the was disasters in the mediterranean. many a rescue but doesn't, is drowned, and the un fee is hundreds more missing. coastal regions in india and pakistan are on high alert as

a cycling of functions. tens of thousands of residents evacuate. most of it continues to dismiss any progress and ukraine's counter offensive. but a prominent russian estate tv presented sales a very different story to president food and much of the arab world has begun normalizing ties with punch on assigned. so is it time for the west to william brace, the syrian dictate, the i've been puzzling welcome. 78 people have drowned and hundreds of thought to be missing after a boat sank of grace the coast. god says it rescued more than a $100.00 among them people from syria and egypt as well as pakistan and the palestinian territories. the recovery effort continued throughout the night and

this morning it's fee of many more people could have been trapped on the lower decks of the vessel when it capsized it. so many, one of us, deadly as maritime disasters in recent years. recovering from a brush with deaf survivors of the ship rec rest at a warehouse at the port of cullum, mazda in southern greece. it's unclear how many people were on board. but according to passengers, there were hundreds a massive search effort has been launched. but it might be, which is indeed a gigantic operation. because we are talking about some very large number of ship direct people who i think is one of the most difficult and extensive regardless in terms of the numbers that the greek state is facing so far as here. things you believe the survivors say the vessel left, the libyan port city of tub brook heading for italy. the ship sang some 80

kilometers from the greek coast near the town of pillows. the great coast guard claims, the passengers repeatedly refused an offer of help when they were spotted late tuesday. greece is one of the main routes into the european union for migrants from africa, the middle east and asia. then they are of colorado says they are well equipped to cope with the emergency we have shown like everyone in greece as many as additional. we have taken care of everything else. all the sites has been prepared. the toilet on the show is anything that is needed including clothing a photo, i guess. uh if i, if i hear thanks. the greek president catarina sacked, a lot of hulu flew to the port of cala mata to assess the situation and to visit survivors in hospital. the united nation says more than

a 70000 refugees and migrants have arrived so far this year in europe's front line, mediterranean countries from all way as joined by great journalist onto called us. how do you nice to see you again? what is the latest in terms of the rescue in brook humphrey? right. well the latest is that this operation is mazda of operation continues. it took place throughout the night, and in fact, a senior official i was speaking to who is involved in the said to me that it may even be extended beyond the usual 48 hours. despite the fact that finding a potential survivor as the hours continue is very, very slim. but o eyes are on this operation. so far a 104 have been recovered, old man. and the understanding is, of course,

the now from the initial reports coming out and testimonies from the survivors dot, there were at least a 100 women and children out below. jack, this is a, this is rick at a troll, refreshing vestal. um, but there is simply no way to reach and retrieve this vessel because it has sang to the base 10 of one of the mediterranean made mediterranean deepest points and we told no life jackets. and in some cases, i believe smugglers look passengers in it to keep things under control and we're talking about a lot of people below deck when a capitalized. absolutely, and in fact, we are now slowly entering also a parallel investigation which is to determine the causes of this harrowing accident. and one of the issues here we understand against speaking to senior

officials is that some of the survivors include the smugglers themselves. so they will be get, they will be proved and interrogated. and perhaps through there we may actually find out how many people are on board the rickety and extremely unsafe of that. so authorities are officially a cat. it's a putting the number just keeping the figures in the 100 unofficial accounts, put them as high up as 700 and many of them women and children. as i said before, we're kept below deck. we understand even locks in some of these cabins advocate, the greek authorities have prevented this tragedy. i know because god did also help . right, absolutely. um that was one of the key questions. i put forward one of the senior investigators and they said that when they 1st went and saw this and so in distress and their effort to the, to,

to reach out in the system that was rebuffed. and they see, or is that a that, that going ahead and forcibly assisting them would have caused more damage. and, and then even worse tragedy, the senior official i spoke to said in fact that even those $104.00 that were recovered would not have been recovered and had z authorities and the coast guard not kept a closed caution and, and we was not minding who's that so after it was approached, so they that their efforts to assist were rebuffed, but that didn't pull back the authority from leaving the scene entirely. they kind of cautiously minded this guy so and intervene foster when the tragedy occurred. the latest on this latest disaster in the mediterranean from general hasanti caught ourselves in athens. thank you very much. here's

a 1000 or 800000 people rather have been evacuated from parts of india and pakistan a hit of the expected land full of a few cycling media. urologist said could devastate coastal areas. at least 7 people have already been killed in powerful wind storm searches. and torrential rain, so i think the pod joy named off. so the big kindly, wood for disaster is expected to hit a 325, killing me to stretch of the coastal boat between india and pakistan later on thursday. a man. let's bring in detail we use delhi bureau chief and rita cima. nice to see you to i'm ready to tell us this cycle is showing across the northeast and already and see it has been since late last week is a going to pack is such a punch is full cost is do believe when the weather experts have been describing it as an extreme severe tied to the linux tool,

and it's been bearing down towards india's western coast for the past few days. as you mentioned. and you know, the winds have come down a little bit, but full cost to say they could increase again before it makes land for and go up to about a 130 kilometers per hour. and with wind gusts, good to even go up to 145 kilometers per hour. waves of 3 to 6 meters high or full, caustics, freeman, heavy rain is expected, low line areas have been given flood warnings and then look at it. for sure. said actually did really on roll force except putting all the effort to make sure that they can minimize any damage that this big stream severe storm can cause. will tell me more about the preparation before this side. clone impacts the coast. because i mean getting out that many people are loading that many people and getting them out safely. it's a huge task. or in fact, it was an astronaut band who took some images of this cycle and that they look

really got a written that the situation is quite bad. so a policies are doing only and the power to ensure that people are safe. the national and state disaster response agencies own hi lo looking village volunteers, $1.00 and $2.00 groups of both. so being a mobilized food packages admin to fed for those who might gets funded. and they also moved, as you mentioned, tens of thousands of people and they've evacuated them in land. so i think they're doing all they can. but they're hoping that this with the, all these measures that they are taking with minimize damage and very important be minimize loss of life. and that's how people are heating those warnings out daily bureau chief i made a team of thank you very much. look now at some of the stories making headlines, kosovo, his band, all vehicles with so being license plates from entering its territory,

causing long queues of trucks that it's for. the move comes in response to the rest of 3 costs of a border, police by serbian forces allegedly for entering. so the entire trait are continuing tensions between costs of a one. so the i have tried to repeated confrontations, embrace appointments, successful visited advisors. thousands have demonstrated invoice or, and other publish cities against the countries restrictive abortion laws. after a pregnant woman died of census, it's the licensed in a string of dance. since the bill was tied and women in poland now have the right to a bush. know the in cases of rape or incest, or straight to that mindful hills. police public prosecute has launched an investigation into alleged sexual assaults by the lead singer of the german rock. ben comes time that's according to the cities, justice center to several women have claimed they were recruited and drunk to engage in sexual acts with senior till the end of month. at optis robotics

ukraine says rushes renewed air strikes have hit civilian targets in several ukrainian cities. a 2nd day of this, all the tax on the black sea hub of odessa, as killed at least 6 people and damaged thousands of hops. the shelving goals, they've targeted the heart of hass on very early this morning damaging and the office building while the mirror of the central city has clearly reports, major destruction now for a drug attack into industrial buildings. roger is also claiming its forces that broke down ukrainian drugs of the antics climate and peninsula adding that there were no victims. the postman has dismissed new queens counter offensive saying his forces are inflicting catastrophic losses on ukrainian troops. the russian president also claimed to ukraine would soon run out of weapons, but a prominent presenter on russian se television has said ukraine has achieved some successes and born to tough battles, a head. after days of silence from the kremlin,

vladimir putin finally remarked publicly, a new cranes counter offensive in a question and answer session with selected journalists and bloggers. some of the play down the offensive and said the ukrainians weapons would soon run out of beautiful. and actually, what's the ukranian army fighting with? what do they make their own times? they focus on the bradley's issue. they don't produce anything. the defense industry will soon be nonexistent. or what do they produce? junior pruitt, i mean nation is being delivered to them, military equipment is being supplied to them. everything is supplied so that it was a whole work for long ago when you couldn't, evaded the question that was perhaps designed to be critical about whether the russian army would take that land recaptured by the ukrainians. instead he choked with the journalist. yeah, it was because then i can only tell you that in private pursuit of shifted with in general. but them so everything will depend on the potentials to remain was the so

called counselor defense if has ended. when you my good, i think the ukrainian leadership, whatever they may be like. okay, we'll have enough sense to make the right decision to given that catastrophic loss is the suffering as it based on russian state television, a daily show, normally laden with propaganda, gave a more serious assessment of the situation. when a studio guest appeared to ridicule, ukraine's counter offensive and jokes. but the fighting only exists on youtube. the tv anchor was also a member of parliament, was quick to correct him. you know, it's not just on youtube. we have to admit the ukrainians have had some successes. the coming months will be tough for us. we have one back, some areas, but we've also lost you. it's a tough battle roller, but but another propaganda show broadcast at the time time, firmly blamed the west, and it claimed the latest counter offensive as being controlled by foreign powers. it's as though you know,

this conflict has become borderless or new. it's portal isn't its goals and it's your graffiti and it's weaponry. it's absolutely obvious that keith, he's no longer making decisions for itself. and you put in the key this counter offensive is that if you were the decision to launch it was made for keith based on the interest of the u. s. and evidently the u. k. to say the annual next step, if i made it easy to make sure it really company thing. well, moscow is still keen to leave no doubt that it will succeed in ukraine. the kremlin does appear to be preparing lessons for a long drawn out conflict. the russell's is hosting an international conference in support of syria where this is of quite can provide at the di, applied to people quoting civil war since 2011. the outside regime will not be represented as it still sanctioned by the e. u. end of the western palace, but many countries in the middle east, including long standing

u. s. allies have recently normalized relations with the mask. it's the double use i every impossible with smiles and kisses. the air bleak spearheaded by saudi arabia unconditionally. welcome to charlotte. aside, back to the forward to be sure we know the diplomatic trans for the syrian president. after more than a decade of isolation, the western layers, including her in germany, still won't enter the same room, is aside, let alone shake his hand. a foreign minister animal in a bare bulk warrant against the warming of relations, seeing such should not be rewarded for the most serious human rights violations. adding that every step towards a side should be made dependent on concrete concessions. so why are error governments rushing to cozy up to a side? and does this mean the war is over? after more than a decade of intense fighting, the war in syria has reached sort of still meet and left the country divided.

the assad regime controls about 2 thirds of syria, including major cities like damascus and a level. kurdish forces also controlled parts of the country. sections of northern syria are under defacto turkish occupation. others like in the are controlled by estimates troubles humanitarian situation across syria. dire, according to the un 90 percent serious population lives under the poverty line in the northwest of the country. more than 10000 homes have been destroyed or partially destroyed because of the earthquake that had syria and turkey. earlier this year. we met with one man who lost his home in the earthquake and now lives in a kept any ship. and there is no work. i do not have food to feed my children. we spinning this 10 since our house was destroyed, very keen on bill came it actually on the, on the air of governments, but

a re established are relations with the side argue that this is the best way to actually help syrians in so many living an exile especially those who called for democracy during the air of spring disagree can insert the bombs in for whoever normalize this relations with this criminal is also criminal. so just like him type of i'm, we're disappointed that the world is still trying to uphold and maintain the rule of the criminal from the laws for him is a clear for the whole world. see on the i'm how really all national interests are also behind the normalization of relations with us side. first, there's the refugee question. large numbers of syrians leading the fighting now live in surrounding countries. ringback the care of governments are hoping that open communication with aside might facilitate the refugees, is return whether or not they would want to go back is

a different question. another issue is iranian influence. the aside regime was able to survive personally thanks to russian and iranian support. allowing to run to gain a foothold in the heart of the air of world. this may be threatening to regional super powers, like saudi arabia, given its rivalry with the ron. now the saudi, see a way to take back some of that influence air leaders also want to clamp down on the captain on trade. it's an addictive amphetamine type stimulus pill that is, flourished under the assad regime. 80 percent of the world's supply comes from syria. and large parts of that end up in countries like jordan and saudi arabia. so whether it is out of genuine concern for the serious people, or because of national interest. many and the error breach and have decided that the shuttle said will be part of his country's future. despite reservations from

the west as well. let's talk about this and serious ties with the west withdrawal as the middle east, expert guest and headed back. the german foreign minister, once concessions, if ties to be normalized. what concessions? well, that is a big dynamic really around this process conference because the donors, the big donors have realized obviously that would syrians need after 12 years of war, no longer foot boss goods and hand outs. but what they need is a perspective they would need resilience. they would need long term programs to rebuild their lives, to have a safe future for their children. so how to do this when you don't have partner on the ground? because the santa gene has weaponized humanitarian aid in the past. and as hodge himself would not be a good partner to do this, because we have seen how he has very effectively politicize the humanitarian aid that has gone through the u. n. so the idea would be, for example,

how to conditional lies. you went to tearing 8 or fairly recovery funds by telling him, you know, we would be ready to we built a pods off of the outskirts of stomach because for example, if you make sure that the original owners and inhabitants go back to the house as a supplement have agreed to this because he was the one who deliberately displaced these people in the 1st place because he doesn't want these people back. now he, they are his opponents. he considers everybody who's stood up against his role as a terrorist. people have left the country so he doesn't want these people even back . and this is what makes it very difficult to think about conditions, points, decision, but have not worked in the past. all the conditions that would work that would get both sides talking and perhaps improve the situation. facilitate it's very difficult and the official stance is actually have not changed so far. i mean, the u. s. been, teens, it's isolation. visa v aside. it's maintaining its sanctions. it's even trying to

hinder or to avoid an economic normalization by the arab neighbors. now with f r a t once they want to make sure that this normalization stays on a diplomatic and political level level, not making it and they cannot make one to not stabilize the machine even further. so they try to punish even countries in the neighborhood. they want to give money, large amounts of money to the regime directly. they use a bit, you maintains, as official point of view that says that without a meaningful politic of transition, without real reforms from the side of the machine, we are not going to pay for reconstruction. we are not going to normalize with this regime. but in europe, obviously, you have calls for a more pragmatic approach to dom us because especially in eastern europe, they have countries like poland, like hungry romania, austria that say, you know, we should somehow opt to talk to the regime or based. they are signaling

a certain willingness to reach an understanding with the regime. so within the e u, the mode has changed a little bit, but i would say that we have to dynamics. i mean, we have on the one hand, countries like germany, the netherlands, but you as friends that are trying to follow a path of accountability. they are trying to hold the resume accountable for the crimes that has committed during the last 12 years. the opening last you what's of the international court of justice, for example, like canada and the netherlands have just started one during the last few days. we have tried crimes against humanity in by the centers in germany. and on the other hand, we have this normalization process and people saying that we have to talk to us not to take care of the people inside the country. but as i said, assad has not been a part. now what would need to happen is that the u. n. we me impose their own principles of human and to you aids by deciding who is who other people need and by really give them access to all these people in need and not having assad's

controlling this human and tearing. 8 customers just put it into context for us. how would you describe this, this plan for demanding accountability for us that as demanding accountability as goals will national courts by now, because the past will be international court of justice is blocked due to a v 2 in the security council. and due to the fact that syria has never assigned to the international criminal courts last so that the aim is to really have national ports in europe and countries. for example, even in the u. s. mail and other places to hold certain figures within the vision upgrade just the count to people what is going on. and we don't have to forget that these crimes against humanity a continuously taking place, especially the system at a use of torture. within the regime prisons, we have one minute, one more than 100. 30000 people who are still disappeared. who are in the security

services presence, who are being tortured. so this is the agency in the office to, to, to at the same time, to not to block normalization, to make sure that this regime has to be held accountable before we can normalize. and to find other ways to help the people on the ground to help maybe people in north and see we have that in the areas that are outside the control, especially in northeastern syria, where you will have partners that you could at least talk to and try to build up infrastructure and to help people to really gain a more self sufficient lot you know, to come back on their own feet and not depending on foot baskets and a short term committed to 88 that we have seen for more than 12 years. now this is not a perspective for people. syrians ties with the rest of the world so much to take into account there and so much for someone to be held accountable for us. and just tell us last week how, how much hope do you hold for the people of syria?

i know people who slip the country under awful circumstances and who would love to go back, but not on the today's circumstance. i guess the problem, the big issue is security. and the big news of, of this normalization process within the region of the seo and refugees and the neighboring countries and live on in turkey, in jordan, in iraq, even in egypt, they are very much afraid the bill will be sent back for us by force, which is something that we've already seen and live in them, that i'm more than a several 100 people have been sent back against their will. that has been deported since the beginning of the year. so they are very much afraid of normalization with damascus will lead to forest deportations. they have to go back to a country, but they don't feel secure. they say it's not so much about the houses we can, we can do with that. you know, we can, we build our lives, we can search for, for help, but we are not safe within the country. they are being afraid and we have records, but you meant to 2 in organization, international energy. it was that we know that we have disappeared and they have

been put in prison after their return. so this is the big issue and put aside and power. that's not something to be sold very easily. customer has a big, it's been great talking to you about 2 is polite. my pleasure. now you're up to date on all the world news here on dw one bank visible, and i'll have

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