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high speed rail, but so far there is no sign of the coin in latin. america starts august 18th on dw, the w name is live from berlin. the us urges these years who tried to restore civilian rule. a tom official holds talks with the military rulers, but fails to reach an agreement to put present mohammed presumed back in power. also coming up on show, slovenia is the worst natural disaster in decades of 6 people die and devastating funding. 2 thirds of the countries to 1000000 residents have been effected and how
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hot is the ocean? well, record breaking temperatures are raising concerns about the knock on effects for the climate marine life and coastal communities, the hello, i'm clear, richardson, thank you so much for joining us. a top us diplomat has met with new jersey military leaders in a failed attempt to enter their crew, victoria newland acting deputy secretary of state and said she was denied a meeting with the detained presidents. both of global and west african leaders are hoping there's still room for mediation with the shares qu, leaders earlier this week. they ignore the deadline to reinstate the alice to president. the economic community of west african states or echo was, has set that military intervention maybe needed to restore democracy the only on
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thursday to decide on their next mouse. well, so we got earlier i spoke to our correspondent ali central oklahoma, who's been reporting from nigeria, and i asked him if the u. s. envoys meetings showed any signs of promise? well, i'm glad there's lots to read the incident meeting. i was surprised when somebody stopped us to envoy uh victoria newland. uh that was the secretary uh to the uh you know, a higher percentage of us that i bought. so in terms of the positives i gained from me to the fact that she was able, it's not true was able to, you know, it's a line in the j despite the close enough space. it shows that perhaps the what, how the us, i see i diplomacy. and i also negotiations on the sidelines with echo by side doing to make sure that there is some side. so 1st, a closure to the situation and at prices that i need a new se would it currently does. and this also comes up that we had that in our comments. so i'm so you know, why haven't spoken about a window of opportunity for the cooling desk to return to power and as any blinking
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new ed secretary of state also stating that the us bucks every efforts when it comes to echo as a engineer crisis. india is a so it only shows how close the us on serious us, i taking the situation and you say, hey, let's look at a cost as a efforts. their members have said that military intervention would be a last resort. what other options do powers have both regionally and globally to reverse disco? a welcome that they've already started with the likes of uh, you know, hot uh, bites and it could, i'm extension to get into a deadline process on sunday. so they'll be missing again and i just got to upgrade you on thursday to have uh, a more robust discussion said don't forget it. blitzer cheese has made it clear from echo as that monitoring dimension will be the last resource. so perhaps there will be other non miniature interventions to be used by echo was much of them coming on pressure. it's really kind of expansions on the add add me to june. yeah,
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tell us more about that. as you've mentioned, western and african countries have already imposed sanctions. they've also cut a, do we have a sense of how much this is going to hurt these air and the people who are living there? yes, it is. the bought up look at this with nigeria and really we're getting so he todd on. do you know the people who live and depend on this daily services with conscious back nigeria toga became unable to get grain and able to get food prices that sold in the, in the country. the bags of packs of rice are beginning to get so expensive, so people, but we will find out how to get food as the economy such as continents of byte. honda, don't forget this as a landlord country, but one of the products in the world aid from the likes of us already because i find is the country that has, you know, about 20 percent of his budget coming from paid for these sanctions will really buys hot already, as we see in the j to w correspondent, let me set you up on my thank you, as always for your reporting. well,
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extreme weather continues to rapid europe this summer. now in the form of severe flooding. at least 6 people have died after storms had slovenia on friday. flood water has forced thousands of people to flee their homes and authorities are putting the material damage more than 500 years. it's lavine is worse natural disasters since achieving independence and the early 19 ninety's roads have turned into rivers. bridges have collapsed. videos are being shared on social media, showing people fleeing the flood waters a french taurus, films. the moment her companion was rescued from their launching some current itself in north western slovenia. the flooding avalanche lines have caused enormous damage. of the entire communities have been devastated. the raging waters almost completely wiped out for volume in northern slovenia. have apparently it's an apocalypse, a total disaster o c. we. unfortunately,
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since we're dealing with the same trouble more there's nothing we can do. me is all, it's very sad. on monday residents, we're busy clearing away the mind revealing the full extent of the destruction. a to so what we've is looking severe damage of the enormous financial loss has ruined for the damage amounts of the 10s, if not hundreds of millions of years, it will take a large amount of money to restore everything. maybe all no error, even though the rains have lit up, rescue workers are now struggling with the threat of lance lines, not just in slovenia, but also here in the southern austrian village of south nick when i m. samsung. the risk of mud avalanches is now especially high sewage. i've sold them, asked me sigh collapsing, but we are powerless to stop it. it is hoped that plastic tarps like leaves will help prevent moorland slides. hundreds of people have been evacuated and brought to
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emergency shelters. just in case slovenia has asked the u. s. nato for aid, especially with technical devices and military helicopters, as well as several pre fabricated breaches up to 40 meters long to help access regions that are now cut off. or corresponded rosie birch or it is in the slovenia in town of pro volleyer in the north of the country. that's been hard hit by this flooding. she told us more about the situation there. absolutely seem. does remain dramatic behind me. that is an entirely collapse bridge. local authorities here are doing their best to try and clean it up and get it reconstruct too, and also to add other kind of improvise bridges further down the river. so that the other, your site is the bank, which is the most heavily impacted can be cross. now we've spoken to local officials here and they've told us, but no, as you see, the sun is shining in the light of day. their priority is to try and get these
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cleaned up, but there are also some other dangers of below me here. officials are trying to work to restore a gas pipeline. as you can see, the river is still flowing pretty fast, but there's also another risk which is still facing residents here, particularly a little bit further during this river. and that is the risk of mud slides. there are geologist on the scene monitoring the situation and some people have been evacuated for fear of the dangers that not me post still in the coming days despite the fact that the weather is not certainly turned more mercifully the previous weekends. yeah, just to get a sense of perspective, we understand that most of slovenia population has been affected in some way by this natural disaster. can you help put that into perspective for us? this is a small country, a relatively small european country, with a population of, of like 2000000 people in large swedes of the country were affected by the storms. but because of the small nature of the population, most people here were told,
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know somebody that impacted directly. and of course there's the impact also on the basis. there's no way that community sense there's a real sense of solidarity here. just in the past few minutes. we've seen a dozens of people arriving. we of bottles of fresh walter, which shovels ready to come and volunteer to try and help on authorities. if even had to issue a warning to say, you know, if you want to volunteer with the clean up, please make sure you're not too vulnerable. that you're not someone who is pregnant or a child because of the risk of infectious disease because more people are turning up to volunteer than these the infrastructure necessarily to help with. so this certainly is a sense of community seen a sense of solidarity here. and they towed onto this, all right, so right the ones people trying to clean up the mess they down there's that is the rule. that's why these floods out for an of how from falling chairs. but what about the official response? what have we seen there? so far, well, local officials, we've seen has had people just coming up to them saying look, we suffered this damage to our house or forward seeing what can we do and the
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government has been doing what it can we see military out here for example. but as a small country, lavinia has called on help from its neighbors from the european union on from nations. and we know that germany has a subordinate things, some pre fabricated creatures front is also going to be taking some machinery that we some helicopters on the way. so this will video has certainly been calling out for help. you are things you need. countries have answered on more help is expected to be nights in the coming days. thank you so much for reporting that is manufactured in volume. we can bring you up to speed now with some other global news headlines. electoral officials and the central african republic said over 95 percent of voters had approved a draft constitution that extends presidential term limits. it allows president foster shaun's to our data to seek a 3rd term in office. the referendum was boycotted by civil groups and the main office session party, a russian missile attacks on the city of have
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a post rough skin. eastern ukraine have killed at least 5 people and injured thousands. more to emergency responders are among the dead. the strikes targeted the ukranian health part of a region that's partially occupied by russian forces. the missile struck the city center damaging a residential area that includes hotels, restaurants and shops. thousands of people have march through haiti's, capital, porto prince, demanding better protection from gang violence. protestors gathered outside the prime ministers, residents where police fire tear gas to break up the crowd. experts a violent gangs of seas control of almost 80 percent of the capital since haiti's president was assassinated in 2021. and south korea's evacuating tens of thousands of scouts from a global festival as a country, braces for tropical storm cartoon. while the weather had already disrupted the world scout jane bery with several countries pulling out due to a severe heat wave. organizers say around 43000 people are leaving the camp site.
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well, this july was the hottest month ever recorded on earth. that has now been confirmed by the use climate observer tree. and the warming of the planet is have a massive impacts on our oceans. global ocean, surface temperatures also set new all time records last month, raising concerns about the consequences for the climate and for the communities most at risk. the masses of dying call off the coast of florida. within a few weeks, stretches of coastline here have been transformed from a surviving ecosystem into like underwater does it. and it's not just environment lists of all on the desk of the colors is, are you disastrous consequences? marine ecosystems fisheries, and local tourism. it's terrible shocking. i want to cry myself when i'm in the water snort thing to see this and i contacted some friends of mine and said, um,
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you know the reef is bleached, it's something that happened pretty much overnight. the reason for this call of bleaching extremely high water temperatures. the average surface temperature worldwide is now almost $21.00 degrees celsius. a new record, according to the european union's copernicus, climate service. it's only a few decimals, wilma, them the record temperature set in 2016. but such an increase in such a short period is having a huge impact culls of particularly sensitive to water, polluted by chemicals, all will cause its dramatically will not experts particularly concerned learn as the rain forests of the sea color. we support 25 percent of all 9 marine life without the fish ducks get deplete and devastate coastal communities and fisheries around the entire wealth. so a coral is an animal that secrete the skeleton that fuses with the skeletons of its
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neighbors. and inside those core animals live and out. and the algae gives the coral its color, brown, green, sometimes red or purple. when the water gets too high, that relationship between the coral animal and the algae breaks down the region t twice. it's taking place on land and not being followed by stream heat at sea. for example, in the cat would be um the newest atlantic x, but say this could lead to even more loss of fish and more intense stones. meanwhile, hollywood has lost one of its legendary directors with the death of william friedman who passed away on monday at the age of 87 freak and won the academy award for best director and 1971 for his thriller, the french connection. but you might know him best for his horror film. the exorcist which shocked audiences with its depiction of a possess 12 year old girl. it went on to influence horror film directors for
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decades to come. coming up next close up goes to mann mar to explore how beach inasmuch minority are fighting to defend their territory. i'm clear. richardson in berlin, that is all for now. thank you so much for watching the interest the global economy, our portfolio dw business be here's a closer look at the project to analyze the flight for market dominance. get a step with.

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