on the register now and join us for this discussion at the 16th edition of d w's global media forum, the . this is the w news life from val in hopes fade. a huge search and rescue operation continues of grace and micro boats sinks in one of the worst disasters in the mediterranean. many a rice, cupid, thousands drowned, and then un fees hundreds more amazing. coastal regions in india and pakistan are on high alert as a fee, a sign closer to approaches. tens of thousands of residents evacuate

the bank visible and welcome at least 78. people have drowned in hundreds of thought to be missing off for a boat st. golf grace, the coast guard says they've rescued more than a $100.00 the among the people from syria agents pakistan and the palestinian territories. the recovery effort continued throughout the night and this morning it's feed many more people could have been trapped on the lower decks of the vessel when it capsized. it's one of your deadliest marathons as honest as invoice and cheese. recovering from a brush with deaf survivors of the ship rec rest at a warehouse. at the port of kyla mata 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 i might be choosing drug guns incorporation because we are talking about some very large number of ship direct people who i think is one of the most difficult and extensive. i've gotten this in terms of the numbers that the greek state is facing so far. so you're going to be a survivor, say the vessel left, the libby in port city of tub brook heading for italy. the ship sang some 80 kilometers from the greek coast near the town of p. los the greek 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 color. moto 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 showers. anything that is needed, including clothing a photo, i guess if i hear of the greek president, catarina sack, a lot of hulu, flew to the porch of color mata to assess the situation and to visit survivors and hospital. the united nation says more than a $70000.00 refugees and migrants have arrived so far this year in europe's front line mediterranean countries. hi aust, great journalist on the casala to tell us more about the rescue and recovery mission a site. 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 it,

said to me that it may even be extended beyond the usual 48 hours. despite the fact that finding a pretentious advisor as the hours continued is very, very slim. but all eyes are on this operation. so far a 104 have been recovered, old man. and the understanding is of course, that now from the initial reports coming out and testimonies from the survivors dot, there were at least a 100 women and children at the low jack. this is a, this is rick at a troll, refreshing down. so 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 apparel, low 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 best. so authorities are officially a cat, is putting the number just keeping the figures in the hundreds and the social accounts put them as high up as 700 and many of them women and children. i said

before, we're kept below deck, we understand even locked in some of these cabins and because the greek authorities have prevented this tragedy. i know the codes got did also help. right, absolutely. um, that was one of the key questions i put forward to one of the senior investigators . and they said that when they 1st went and saw this vassal 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, 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 to close caution and, and was not minding who's that. so after was approach. so they did 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 vessel intervene faster. one the tragedy occurred. the latest on this latest disaster in the mediterranean from general. this dante taught ourselves in athens. thank you very much. cheers. as tens of thousands of people of evacuated parts of india and pakistan, the head of the expected land full of a few sanklo meteorologist. se could devastate the coastal areas. at least 7 people have already been killed in powerful wind storm searches and torrential rains. cycling the padre named off to the big galley board for disaster is expected to hit a long stretch of the coastal border between india and pakistan. later on thursday . by our state over hughes, i'm ready to chiva. if the cycle include become as disastrous as some full cost as

a predictor. 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 couldn't even go up to 145 kilometers per hour. waves of 3 to 6 meters high. a full cost extreme and heavy rain is expected. low line areas have been given flood warnings and then look at it for sure said actually they are really on wolfowitz except putting all the effort to make sure that they can minimize any damage that this big stream severe storm can cause locate village volunteers, one or 2 groups of both are being mobilized. food packages had been to bed for those who might gets funded. they pulled some 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 will, the, all these measures that they are taking,

we minimize damage and very important be minimize loss of life. so okay, let's take a little look at some of the stories making news. kosovo has banned all vehicles with sodium license plates for mentoring causing loan to use that it's border moves in response to the rest of the 3 for the police spice of the invoices allegedly for entering. so the entire tree. tensions between the 2 countries have led to repeated confrontations in recent blades. brussels is hosting an international conference in support of syria where this is a quick, aggravated the di, plenty of people quoting the civil war since 2011 representatives of the a you, serious neighbors as well as the united nations are attending the outside regime will not be represented as it still sanctioned by the e u. land. otherwise the balance is the largest problem. entry inquiry is found that for the british prime minister, boss johnson, deliberately misled parliament about potties, held that his offices during the pandemic locked down. a committee has been

investigating the so called policy gave effect for over a year. johnson called the pro, a political assassination of the nato defense ministers, a meeting in brussels, to talk about ukraine as keys and box on its counter offensive against russia's invasion on the agenda. is a plan of action if most go expands, it's really treat can pain westwood during the 2 day event. ministers will also discuss that if it's to step out that countries on military supplies separate for general again, stilton bug says he's expecting commitments on defense production. then i to chief highlighted the importance of support for ukraine in the face of brush integration . ukraine has the longest account to defensive. uh, what do you see? its a pierce appli thing. it's still early days, but we also see that the ukrainians are making games and that

ukraine is able to liberate the occupied land. this is due to the courage, their bravery, the skills of ukrainians folders. but it also highlights and demonstrates that to the support nato allies have been giving to create and now for many, many months actually makes a difference on the bathroom scale as we speak. well, ukraine says renewed russian and strikes of hit civilian targets in several ukrainian cities. officials say there was a drug attack on the black sea help of odessa on thursday morning and russian. besides targeted the hodge of hassle and damaging an office building there, the mirror of central city of creat free, also reported major destruction after drawing to attack it to industrial buildings . meanwhile, processes its forces have brought down ukrainian drones over the unexplained medium peninsula. bosco claims,

they were no victims. flooded and put as dismissed. ukraine's counter offensive saying his forces every inflicting catastrophic loss is on ukrainian troops. the russian presidents also claimed ukraine would soon run out of weapons. but a prominent presents a on russian state television has said ukraine has achieved some successes. and one of the tough battles that 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 the nature of a let's the ukrainian army fighting with why do they make their own times? they focus on bradley's, you sure? sure. 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, but it's equipment is being supplied to them. everything is supplied. so that was

it. that will work for a long moment. you can put and if they did a question that was perhaps designed to be critical about whether the russian army would take that land recaptured by the ukrainian instead he choked with the journalist yet the mobiles. because then i can only tell you that in private pursuit of ships that were in general. but then so everything will depend on the potentials to remain was the so called counselor fund safe 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 you start 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 um, it's a tough battle roller. 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 on the gets portal, listen, it's 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 will, the decision to launch it was made for key except are based on the interest of the us. 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. as you'd be watching dw news on painful and coming out the rocks, most famous photography sized images of his countries in the 1950s get hold of it will have your work useful. he thinks down the discovery issues with a lot say what the

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