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as you to see the world, the subscribe. now to dw documentary the this is dw use line from berlin. questions grow over the latest migrant disaster in the mediterranean sea, greece extends its search for people missing. after an overloaded fishing boat capsized, but its fear, the effort was too light. some 500 people are presumed, round and watched being called
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a preventable tragic. also coming up. african leaders begin their piece mission, t crane and russia. but there's no lack of in russian missile strikes on keyboards . leaders hold talks with president for a lot of years, and that's a major rock slide in switzerland, narrowly missing some alpine village. now residents want to know if they continue, the risk to their community means they won't be able to return home the problem. finally, as welcome to the program, a top united nations official says the european union must do more to prevent migrant tragedies in the mediterranean sea. as anger grows over, this week's ship rack off greece, the response of the country's coast guard is coming under increasing, scraped knee,
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with hundreds of people thought to have been aboard the capsized vessel. grease has extended the search for survivors. many families haven't lost hope of finding their loved ones to live. searching for survivors of wednesday, shipwreck, even with little hope of finding more. most of those already rescued with transferred to this migrant camp in the athens on friday. mean relatives desperate for news of missing loved ones have also headed to the facility . my brother left olivia last friday for 3 days. i can't find him. no one will tell me. we came here and they said, give us your mobile phone number. and we will call you hundreds of kilometers away in syria. this father is also waiting for on says about
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his missing son was offered the seller. okay, we don't know anything about him. so one of those around a life a little i came that of you and that we don't know that greek authorities have arrested 9 egyptian survivors over the dissolves, to accusing them of involvement in people smuggling. but n g o, as in refugee groups, have to criticize the coast guards response a coast called vessel, scroll to the visibly overcrowded boat for hours before it sank. officials said they couldn't intervene sooner because people on board refused help wanting to sail on to italy. but experts say the coast guard was legally required to help passengers. so clearly at risk, greece is older than investigation into the tragedy, which looks likely to be one of the deadliest ever in the mediterranean. so calls for a re think of you,
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refugee policies are growing after this tragedy due to view corresponding jack park has been following the story from brussels and sent this assessment. or there's been a satellite of heat on the european commission today here in brussels. aust, lots of people asking them exactly what they're doing to try and prevent and coordinate to make sure that we don't see another tragedy. like we've seen off the coast of greece in a, in the last few days. now what they've said is they, they've been holding meetings of the search and rescue calm types group, which is a group of people that really focused on n g o bos was go out and try and save licensee. and those are private fishermen, ships and other private vessels that are involved in search and rescue. when they get the quote to go and save people. what we understand is the, that it doesn't involve the coast cause specifically the greek and italians. there's been also pressure because we know that the from tax, the use border guard was allotted to the conditions of this boat,
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but the smugglers wouldn't let the mom. and there's been lots of questions by why the boat guards on intervening, even though the smugglers on the left in the mon. now the in years current plan has been to try and prevent these kind of bows from leaving the north african shows by engaging north african countries. but we had last week, the 2 news in president case, i think he's not willing to become the used bought a god. that is something that the european union needs to do itself. but there are still very divided opinions amongst you countries about exactly what to do. they don't want to do too much of search and rescue because they fear it will encourage people to bode those bodies in those north african countries. knowing that they may be saved by the european coast guard agencies and then brought into the you to see that are asylum applications processed from, from an e u perspective though there is an understanding that they need to get going again to try and so they sides because as the mediterranean sea flattens,
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and as the waters got. com or it's expected that will be many more bodies like this, leaving they show us trying to get those people, those migrants who are looking for a better life, into the you or dw, correspond to jack park reporting for brussels there. okay. moving on to ukraine. hughes and a group of african leaders has been holding towards in the ukrainian capital with president of the mirrors, the landscape about a possible peace plan. the delegation will travel on to meet russian president vladimir putin in saint petersburg on saturday. delegates say they want to hear from both sides in the war and to ensure ukrainian grain exports keep flowing to hard pressed african countries. russia launched its latest drug on teeth as the group arrived in the city of paying their respects. african leaders visit food to the side of a legend atrocities against ukrainian civilians at the hands of russian soldiers
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live. he's really busy and we must protect the lives in printing and rough drives, russian lines, global lives. that's important to protect the nice and focus on the develop. the visiting leaders also inspected destroyed russian military equipment on display and central keys. a show of support from the south african presidents, serial rama, post as stress. it was not unqualified support and the 1st one is that we're here to listen to listen both to prison zalinski and tomorrow would have been listening to prison, ported and reduced. so with deep respect for the people of ukraine, which we have expressed to prison zalinski. we're going to also listen to prison
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and put in with regards to how he sees that rhodes to piece from a post that also stressed the urgency of keeping green and fertilizer flowing out of ukraine. as african countries struggle with price spikes and food and security in the wake of the russian invasion, the delegations visit was interrupted by repeated rushing airstrikes on the capitol region, causing the landscape to question why the african leaders were headed to saint petersburg on saturday. i have more, uh, uh, getting this sort of, she's russian strikes attached to the fact that putting is not in control of his own army. because they are striking us with missiles. now, assuming other nations have decided to visit the country that initiated the missile strikes today. to me, i'm not quite clear as to how logical this looks, lead them, but they are leaders of free countries. it's their choice. i see the same us. so lensky has ruled out any peace talks while russian forces are still in ukraine.
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let's take a look at some other stories making headlines. nato secretary general against dalton burks as members of agreed to move the frame closer to the lines and nato ukraine cancelled has to be formed with keys as an equal partner, stalls and berg was speaking. as nato defense ministers and the talks in brussels, swords full instead of a us jury has convicted a truck driver who raged against jews indicate things of the 11 synagogue worshippers in pittsburgh tours must neither decide if the sure if the shooter will face the death penalty or life in prison for hate crimes resulting in murder and attempted murder in the 2018 shooting. daniel ellsberg, the man who leaked the pentagon papers, has died of cancer aged 90. 2 ellsberg was a military analyst when in 1971, he released thousands of documents to the us media that showed successive administrations,
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line to the public about the vietnam war. universal music has suspended promotional activities for the german rock band. ramstein, prosecutors are investigating sexual assault claims against the groups lead singer . several women have come forward in recent weeks saying they were drunk and recruited to have sex with 2 leaves and one a football now and germany suffered a disappointing one. they'll defeat against neighbors, poland, and a friendly match in war. so on friday evening, after going behind to a go from yackel, give your with half an hour, replied germany, we are unable to flock to find reply. the defeat is the latest in a series of slip ups, 400 feet 16 with just a year to go until germany hosta european championships. pressure is now growing on coach and see. flick dw reporter max merrill was off that game and the publish
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capital and sent us this summary of what he saw while the nights to forgets for germany and nights to remember supposed into a box like fantastic fun support here and also and showed great determination and cohesion as a unit, all 3 things that germany currently solely lack. now with a year to go before the european championships in their own country, they don't look tournament ready and they can hind as much as they want behind the fact that these are friendly for the testing things out. anything they've tested so far, it just hasn't looked good enough. they crossed out of the group stages. euro 2021 crushed out of the group stage of the post world cup in cuts off. and now it looks likely in this coming form at least that they will do the same when they host the european championships in 2024. the question really is, how much leeway can you give hundreds if lake and from where i'm standing. there is very little counseling for him and a lot against him,
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and these performances in the friend lease a massive concern. don't use macs, merrill reporting from warsaw there in switzerland, caution and fate have averted a disaster. one month ago, the residence of the tiny alpine village of bookings were evacuated because of the risk of a devastating rockslide, the rocks of tumble down the mountain as predicted, but have miraculously missed missed the community by a few meters. this is a huge rock slide. the crushed down a switzer mountain in the early hours of thursday morning. and this is how close it came to burying the village of green's width is missing the houses nearest the mountain by a few meters. residents were evacuated a month ago, after geologist said long warned of the dangers of the rock collapsing. the mood after the rock slide was largely one of intense relief.
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the land slide is now no longer a danger. about 2 thirds has now come down. this is very good news because the change it to the village is now much less because especially force in the very large debris flow last night did not damage the vintage. we weren't expecting that an access road to the village has been completely buried, while other roads were closed by police bus for the near 100 strong group of residents forced to leave. that's the best possible outcome. they just want to return it as soon as it's safe to do so. the less cool. these would be the live, it gets released that it came and none of the buildings were affected. so that's as far as i can see. think ultimately, then we'll go back home,
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back to brains where we belong to hold of the worst has been avoided. experts say it is not yet clear. if the danger has fully passed, the safety of the village cannot be guaranteed at the moment. as of today, conclusively, you all's yourself. what could still happen is still the case that we have a large part of the mountain that's still moving. and we have to watch that closely . for now, though, the strongest sense in brains is that the village in the shadow of the mountain has had the most remarkable of escapes researchers in charity have discovered a new species of duck build dinosaur. the find is challenging, long held police about how and where the creatures left. the remains of the species known as gun call can not annoy were 1st find in 2013, sparking off
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a painstaking decade long investigation. scientists say the dinosaur was 4 meters long, weighed around a ton, and lived 72000000 years ago to find proofs for the 1st time that the build dinosaurs lived in what is naturally in patagonia near it says america's southern tip. that's all for me for now. okay. ferguson is up next with dw business and i'll be back again at the top of the next hour for me, the team here in berlin. thanks for watching and take the hello guys. this is the 77 percent. the platform for advocacy issues and share ideas the you know, or the side that will be a north of bridge and have.
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