the, the business, the views live from ballot off of central and southern europe. raffle extreme was on the chief halls about fund a line visit slovenia to see for himself the optim, off of severe flooding. while in spain and portugal was 5 as the southern europe fakes in a heat wave. also coming on,

one of germany's biggest weapons manufacturers buys thousands of old times, so we'll be giving them a call but, and then send to you. the gulf is welcome to the program, slovenia is cleaning up off the flash, flooding rabbits, the l. pine country and claim 6 knives. even chief elizabeth from the line is visiting slovenia today to offer support for the rebuilding assets and to see the devastation fast times. an estimate, it's 2 thirds of slovenia, has 2000000 citizens has been effected by the flooding. the chief pledge to help from both brussels and from individual member countries. as soon as the leading us government called for your pin support, we activated the union civil protection mechanism. 8th member states responded to

our call within 2 days. they have already made available 6 mo bile breaches for helicopters, fortune excavators, all with relevant cruise to help with the emergency today, for example, in turn i met with teams from austria, from croatia, from france, germany. wow. already working across the country, cleaning the deep breeze with the excavators and building emergency bridge is to reconnect isolated area. was it up on the line speaking then now the w as well as the budget is in stuff in. yeah. and met with some of those who have been hit by what's being described as the countries was natural disaster in decades. after the deluge dirt, debris and sludge coach, this will be in town of turn, the not quarters can local carpenter benedicts protests. nick is trying to save

what's left of his family home. them the for that i was i'm always there right now . we're living the day today. we don't know what's going to happen. i don't, i don't there think about the future. a man and somehow he takes us insight, his tools are ruined and he doesn't know how or when he'll work again. so they all say all of us set up the set up. the water came all the way up to here. it was all over the mountain. now we have the help of the firefighters. they're really doing an amazing job on them, but they're not the only ones upstairs. the clean up continues. neighbors drain mode from each other's homes with soldiers drafted in to be off for relief efforts near the center for the we are happy we can help people and do you

t. that's all that matters. and or we can do that for the task ahead is massive because bridges have collapsed and roads has been damaged. first of all, leading efficiency that's leading all of this down. it's really and that's why the small country has called on other nations for help. germany is sending prefabricated bridges. fronts has offered machinery and croatia is sending trucks. the president tells us that's only slain. i am happy that we are part of european union and you'd opinion and there are a lot of funds. so really i cannot get it. you know what we do, we do not have enough money to repair all the damage. we are aware of that fact. we do have courageous people hardworking people and we hope on solidarity. i know that all the damages could not be and will not be paid. but civilians are stubborn and

nation, you know, and then, and we are used to start from scratch 0. wish the sun shining over to in the locals . don't fear more flash floods for no thoughts. also ortiz are still keeping watch because up in the hills, the risk of land flights remains. um, we can now speak to the w, as well as the budget and files that we for from sylvania rosie. we are, those are funded line data. you commission, president, sang crews from different countries are already helping with the clean up. how else will the you be the supporting us living? yeah. is what we seen in those regions that were really hit by floods and we traveled a bit further. so it's now to this donation center. coordinated by the red cross for people would be showing up all day with food. we supplies, things like a shovels, the gear that people can use to clean up their house is toilet paper. all sorts

that people really need a need at this immediate time, those people that are hard to state. and of course, the immediate needs are what the chief 1st level underlying was initially focused on. she talks about those at teams from other countries that i've been here on the ground, the and machinery tools sent from germany from frosts, from croatia and others with the other countries helping, stepping off. and so i think we've spoken to a bit with volunteers by today. they've said, you know, well, this is an example of the european union working because in the past split video. and so, you know, helping other countries, for example, when it's, when he was plugged into the word, there was an earthquake in neighboring croatia and knows lavinia is the one elite and it's asking for help. i need help has been given the eu has also a night that there will be a 100000000 euros of funding available for solar directory funding mechanisms this year out of possible 300000000 next year. those. some of the volunteers here we spoke to said you funding can often come with a lot of burden, some bureaucracy attached. so they were a bit concerned about that. but overall,

a big feeling of growth to choose an are some of underlined coming with a message, say that you stand by your site or what was it? can you give us an update about the situation on the ground where you are right now? it's absolutely no where we are. people are gathering things for those hardest. tate and one of the things they are gathering most is fresh water. notice you can see here this all of these fresh bottles. walter was brought in just by normal citizens, oregon re residents. and i can tell you there is a dire need for that because in the time where we were yesterday and in many times near blocks us because roads have been damaged, we saw even helicopters are bringing in these types of supplies. and we've been told it might take days or even weeks to try and restore, not running well for. so we've been told that is a priority. there's also a priority or right and trying to protect, for example, types that have been damaged to try and immediately reconstruct those bridges. that's why those donations of prefabricated bridges are so important to try and

reconnect those most connected. and those most cut off rather by the damage that has been in the habit but has been reached by these floods, which we've been told are worse than anything. anyone here can remember in living memory, this, lavinia who doesn't as long as you by chance reporting from slovenia. thank you, rosie. that's out. take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. 41, my friends have reportedly died and then all the mediterranean shipwreck that's according to survivors pulled from the water. who arrived on the italian island of long to do some. it is not yet known. if this incident is connected to 2 separate migrant vessel tragedies over the weekend, near the producer, which left school is missing, document seemed to ron's president and save our human race. he has vowed to put a stop to women taking off the he job. many iranian women have defined,

the little man died in the head scoffs for almost a year. ever since, protest spock by the death of young a rainy enrollment in police custody, who was accused of not wearing a huge up properly wrong rather to police are now stepping up enforcement officer headscarf low. russia says it's shut down to drones and at most gall overnight, officials say one drone came down and they don't want they don't want the devil districts south of the capital. the other was near the men's highway. it falls separate drone attacks and recent weeks that hit most cost business, district rushes blends ukraine for the attacks and $1.00 of jeremy's biggest arms manufacturers has confirmed the purchase of 50 level one times from a belgian company, the time so old and will be refurbished in germany, they are expected to be sent to ukraine to strengthen supplies at the front line

that germany faced criticism and the war for being too slow to supply honesty, a crime. but it has since ramped up it's support delivering its 1st. let's have several times to ukraine in march this year. that's got some more on this from the w correspondence, simon young, simon. how's the government confront the purchase yet? it's not directly get hard, but this is a part of a package of support for you credit. and it was already announced earlier this year, re commissioning these old tanks and sending them onto ukraine. in fact, germany plans to deliver a 100 left with one's a be on the, the 10 that have already been delivered to ukraine eventually. now, many of them forces in europe have,

have been commissioned old equipments in recent years. like they said left with one tank at and which, which in fact was originally produced in the 1960 so i should point out. so it's a pretty old piece of kids. a lot of this hardware was bought up by private companies speculating that it might be of use at some point. so that's what's happened here. it's been, these tanks have been sold to the gym and as manufacturer, ryan metal, which is going to, uh, you know, fix them up at the end of the 50. so probably only about 2 or 3 tanks will eventually make their way to ukraine because some of them, of course, are in such a poor state that they can any really be use for spare parts. and so what are the timeline? can we expect to see these times and action anytime soon? i having to improve the announced a clear, uh, delivery schedule, but it does seem that it could take some months. is

a substantial role that will be necessary. the belgian company said in the costs that they think it would take months to make them battle ready for ukraine and probably cost up to a $1000000.00 euro per tank. so it will be difficult. but the other question is, what you said, these loved ones really going to be a, they are old tags, as i said, all for a power is welcome for from the point of view of the grain on forces. but what they really need is something with a bit more for a power and a lot more of it. if the counter offensive to push back russian forces is really going to work in the long run. so this will be useful, but it won't perhaps make this decisive difference to them is assignment. now they're following that story for us. thank you, simon. and i have some sports news for you, the former weld number 110 is plan caroline. both of the actually, uh,

successfully returned to the w t a to, for the 1st time in almost 4 years. the dane has given birth to 2 children since deposit from tennis, but says she still has a lot to give to the sport for 3 years. and 8 months after her last match, caroline plus new yak. so have a lot of to give to tennis and that's why i decided to, to come back after practicing for, for a little while, i thought, you know what i'm hearing about. well, i still feel sad, i still feel like i have a couple of good years to me. just straight sets when over. kimberly burrell at the canadian open was most of the axis, 1st match since retiring in early 2020, to start a family. and after giving birth to a girl and the boy the former, well number one is found a way to balance motherhood antenna. you know we've got our breakfast with them and

then that's ok. mama has to go to work and then i go, you know, for my hours of training and when they wake up from their nap in the afternoon i'm, i'm back and we have play dates and do whatever. wasn't yankee acknowledges. it's a big logistical challenge to travel with our children on the tennis tour box. so you wouldn't change it well though. yeah, the kids are doing amazing. they're so happy to be here and there, thriving so that also makes everything else kind of at ease for me and, and i can't wait to see them and give them a hug when the, when i come home, most of the axis, next goal of the us open next months where she was a to time find the list you want to do the news you as a reminder of all top story, the extreme, whether i'm is wreaking havoc in europe ways. the alpine nation of slovenia, cleaning up off the flooding, the plains of these 6 lines. meanwhile,

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