the, the, you're watching the news coming to live from berlin. advert catastrophic wildfire is greece now really from devastating floods. officials say it's as if crease has changed climate zones, as the government sends and troops to deal with the disaster. the severe storms and wrecker rainfall have already killed at least 14 in the region with male rain expected. also coming up on the show and serial a peaceful protest to gather as momentum as thousands of demonstrators take to the streets, calling for an end to be asked the machine. and the slight strict regulations. most

europeans are still briefing bad air. we'll look at how the u was hoping to tackle it's pollution problem. the . i'm clear, richardson, thanks for joining us. fire is drought and now devastating floods all in a matter of months, greece has been battered by the forces of nature made worst by climate change. the north of the country has been badly affected around the ports, the city of bolos storm. daniel has produced record rein, fault for greenland slides and sweeping dozens of vehicles away in muddy waters. athens to has also been effected and will garret and turkey have been hit as well with at least 14 confirmed depths across the region. the clearing out of to the record, rain full. unfortunately for the shops owners,

much must be thrown away. but cost us a, how does his efforts could be in vain with the rain that filled his shop with muds to return soon? it's been 2 days now. the time i've been dealing with this problem, everyone had not just me. this small rid, the started the city of all us after a whole year's worth of rain fell in just a few hours. the city is still without water or power. residents are reliant on aid for essential humans. the. i'm 33 years old, and i've never seen so much right and my whole life, you're seeing of bummed out so to we just didn't recognize it any more. notice some of the moment. turkey has also been hit hard in his time. bo flash flooding, killed several people, others on this thing. the heavy rain also brought misery to this camp. sites on bill, gary is black,

sea coast white caravan is narrowly escaped being dragged out to sea. he's got it and we pulled people out to kind of items while the boat to be dragging them towards the sea drifting through the pay like boats. the increasing warming of the mediterranean sea is thought to contributed to the extreme rain july reco. temperatures were recorded, leading to high water evaporation, the normal. then suddenly cooler temperatures caused the water vapor to condense again into torrential rain. full greek officials say its zip grease has changed climate zones of the the numbers that we're seeing now for rainfall and water flowers, a comfortable to what happens in southeast asia. is that gonna switch to another region? to live in that with the with flooding, forcing highways to close this yet more rain, full cost back in his shop cost. this is worried about wants to come

we're costing, i think, is inviting. what can i say? so cost us increase, waiting and hoping is unfortunately, the only option we have a correspondence. sophia class talking reporting from the port city of a full us in greece. earlier. she told me more about the flooding their player i'm sending right now as the for me, biggest catastrophe, as i've seen today. we are in bowler since early this morning, and the fixture behind me is so real. and we're saying that we drove up the main street towards non stadium, which you can see behind me. and i'm sitting literally on the spot where the suite co op. so the sweet collapse and residents of all those are uh, come in here on the, on my left and, and trying to see what's going on there. their dogs are coming. * out we're projecting this out, it's really, really scary. and on my right side of the street the street even is going

a bit lower. so um it looks. 8 unreal, it is unbelievable. unbelievable. what is happening right now? so you can hear it. it's very, very loud. and as all the water that comes down, which is scary, down from the mountains uh, based on there's even a truck, uh threes. a lot of lots um it's uh, it's a picture that um, it seems like ethical if it gets really, it's a sly. i said i'm losing my words. yeah. the whole road. they're just washed away. people coming out and to take photos. um, you've also been speaking, i understand to people about their experiences with this. what have residents been telling you? indeed, we've been talking to residents all day. we even the claire had the chance about an hour ago to talk to the may or mr. bells to the mayor of the balls,

who literally told us, i'm quoting, i feel like crying. those were his worst. i feel like crying when i see the catastrophe that storm daniels cost and the red, the guns were telling us that they tried to be patient as this is the 3rd day without water, without electricity. the only good news is that for now they can buy water, which they couldn't yesterday. and also the mayor is given the way water for free at the city halls, which cost very um, due to a lives people are to a, in order to get some water to, to wash themselves, to be able to, to go through the toilets and to drink of course, yeah, that's really important. has there been other advice from greek authorities concerning how people should behave following this disaster sore? now as you can see, the rain stopped. there was even a bit of sunshine like a few minutes ago, which again, this is gone behind the very dark um clouds. uh people are starting to to come

outside there. hi. * this is how ever the authorities insisted on people to um, to be on alert, asked. c the full are fast as it can, can started raining, uh for minutes a minute and it can be uh, bad weather again to foreclose this until tonight and uh, so late in the evening. it can be, however, there's no call at least for the moment and the lease where i'm sending right now. well, thank you so much for your reporting. we really appreciate that. that is database correspondent, sophia class talked to return to serial. now, where anti government demonstrations in the southern province of suite to have now entered their 4th week. the peaceful protests are a show of civil disobedience in a province largely populated by people from the druids, religious minority. the demonstrations were sparks by economic measures enacted by president bush auto. i said now protesters that say they will not stop gathering on

sweetest. i'll cut on the square until they over throw the regime as the night stop, protest, day and night civil disobedience like this. aimed at president bush on an us a, in a government control province is the rear side. the people want to bring down the resume. people mentioned to you to kurama square dignity square to do mine freedom. most people who live here belong to the drew's community. up to now they have been relatively neutral and the war. but a recent decision by the president pushed hundreds on to the street. the saw double public wages and then lifted fuels subsidies leading to a 3 phone price increase. initially, the demands had to do with living conditions. i see the protest soon swelled,

growing thousands of demonstrators calling for an end to the sab regime. how the membership of this regime does not even have anything. it can also people, the bills are paid to be run and russia in return for the military assistance, destroyed the wealth of all of serious population and the right jamestone of the countries results has indeed an even leave 10 percent to the people to lead them dignity the human b. yes sir. in 2011 the slogan now being tempted by protestors and sway to was heard in several cities. a said responded to those demonstrations with brutal force. punishing defend with disappearances, imprisonment and torture. but despite the risk involved, thousands including women and children, are again forcing their opposition to look at what happened to sway the this is

what's pushing us to go down and down the street. we're not scared. what more is there to happen? organizers are urging protesters to remain peaceful to prevent any escalation. i'll focus now was to make dignity square a success to have our voices reach the entire world from here. after destroying cymbals abuse that families group on power. protesters set up a camp at the squared signaling that they're here to stay as earlier to syria and human rights activist omar. i'll show greg, he told us more about the drew's community and why we're seeing them protesting now, or this community. just as the rest of the syrians went out to the streets, asking for their basic rights and the soon regime after 12 years of flor have destroyed the recent resort of the country. this. busy every factory you could

imagine destroyed every possibility for people to generate some income. meant the trigger of, of their race to the street is they cannot make um, you know, crisis. however, the main reasons is the widespread corruption and all state institutions and from the presidency to the smallest governor department. um, you know, the regime as a combination you receive the combination of paid off from a military aid to oil and cash from you, ron. and now the resume has to pay back, and this money is coming from the money that will be paid back to this regime is going to come from the, from the backs of the so in people from the resources from their life. so they pay the highest cost. however, what people asking ave suite is for the change of the regime that the not only steal their wealth and resources, this regime has a rested, tortured and killed this place. so many of these people in both and sway dot and that are in the north and in the middle of the country. yeah. and how significant

is it that we are now seeing what is a relatively small minority group becoming so vocal? do you think that these protests are going to have a wider influence on the re ignite and the opposition to these protest or are very special considering the fact that there was the strongest lie that the sooner regime has been relying on has been protecting minorities and doors are one of these minorities and now when they, all of them are on the sweep under, it was a united leadership of the doors community because they are a small minority. they are united and because of that, they are outside of that was outside of the machine control and protesting the machine that that was you cannot just go bonding with airplanes. and with barrow bomb saying, hey, i'm killing terrorism because they cannot be close to 5. but there was you most terrorist because they are doors, they are not sending muslims, and they are minority. so it's, it's a weak spot for the receipt. that's why it's a moment for this 10 people to invest in it while people anzuedo. but this thing we

should all raise together and bring awareness about our cause. like we did in 2011, 2012. we have to renew it for for us in my hometown pen. yes, we could rise in 2011 in march and go out to the suite in when i to the, in, in, in the way down. they couldn't do that and now they can. so we have to support them in all possible ways because they have the right demands, the demands for dignity, and they out in the dignity square for a reason. they chose that square for a reason because they ask for their dignity for a life for democracy of justice and freedom can be respected and obviously the receivable committed so many crimes against humanity cannot provide them with that . okay, so you think that you may not see the kind of brutality that the elastic regime has been willing to exert to put down protests on this particular group. if i understand you correctly, how wide spread is this movement? is it just on what's known as dignity square or are we seeing it spread out further? so it's widespread,

it's you more likely to see the digging script because it's the biggest spot for you. what the progressives are gathering. however, there are over 20 different spots where people in slate are protesting, and that was him, is from my assumption, from my understanding is less likely to start with, with the military, by much rather, try to cj s way down to prevent any food from getting in however, so way data some more of a agriculture, you know, at the town making it easy. well, not easy or but difficult for the machine to break them down by seizing them. so if the international community does not keep talking about it and what does it and, and, and be active about and supporting. so i, that's the regime will definitely interfere militarily, like the didn't every other city at the origin does not care about killing allah wides. christian doors, the minority or majority, they don't care button if the world is picked attention there was you miss less likely to do a strong call. thank you so much for joining us on dw news. that is d as

a series human rights activists. omar, i'll show okay, we really appreciate your taking the time today. thank you. plan attentions between our media and as are by john, have risen again as the 2 countries accuse each other of planning cross border attacks. armenia claims as a buyer's not as preparing a military operation against it's by massing troops along their shared border. as are biogen rejects the accusation. the 2 countries have been in conflict or decades over the region of the corner car box inside as or by john, which has an armenian majority population. armenia, in the meantime, plans to host of joints, military exercise in the united states next week. do you know who you spoke to as sion of boyles. he's the representative for special assignments of as are by johns president. he commented on our meeting as a plan to military exercise. the solar and right are waiting country to decide which ones they do watch. but apparently, you know,

maybe even if it is something of assigned to us that you know, we are trying to do that in order to increase our military capability so that we can at some point, go back to the military scenario. i don't think that this is a reasonable scenario to follow, but in any case, we are following closely what our, our media neighbors are doing. if you wanna see that full interview with al cian, i'm a buy off. you can't find that on youtube. at dw news, now though we can take a look at some other world news headlines at this hour. a major rescue operation is underway in turkey to reach a cave expert trump thousands of feet under ground. the americans developed internal bleeding while exploring the more case turkey's 3rd deepest, and is unable to leave on his own. experts say getting him out will be difficult and could take several days. now you're in opposition. candidate a chico off of walk are says he will not acceptable when by the country selection court upholding president for that to new at new builds election victory. in

february, he had asked the court to invalidate the election alleging irregularities of a bach. her says he will feel the decision for nigeria supreme court and british police have launched a massive man hunt for a terror suspension escaped prison in london. on wednesday, the 21 year old managed to sneak out disguised as a ship. the suspect is a british soldier, accused of planting, steak bombs and a military base. the sprawling search has led to heightened security tracts of british ports and even delayed flights. well air cool air pollution continues to be a bigger killer across europe and analysis from our data journalism team has reveals that last year more people lived in areas where air quality fell short of standards set by the world health organization to tackle the problem the european problem into set to vote on tougher roles next week of the pollution through natasha's

life plans up in the air. she was once a cycling instructor, hearing brussels, about to all that time, spent in rush hour traffic tickets to on her long history. you have a, i was waking up at night and struggling to bring him out of the office. it happened several times. so i went to my doctor and he more or less told me it was linked to one of the service. i'm a really forced me to reconsider my jobs for the book here. natasha says off on a new career in education on no. take the scenic route. she's not the only one seeking a breath of fresh air. the dw researchers crunch the numbers and learns that last year. 98 percent of people in europe lived in areas where air pollution levels exceeds w h o recommendations. power sparse. lona and athens are particularly affected, plus parts of coal producing poland and the area of northern actually arrived to milan, industry transport, agriculture, and domestic heating, oil contribute to air pollution, which is linked to an estimated 300000 premature day in each year. and researchers

say that's not home, they are costs, own echo system. damage on property cuts, costs work days, loss varies, cost on florida. street damages. there is a cost on culture heritage damage the impacts on our heads and our finances are, you know, europe is trying harder to clean up its act. the european commission is proposing tighter legal limits on air, pollution levels and plants to make it easier for citizens to claim compensation for breaches. some of you pilot materials are pushing for even stricter caps when we bought one. it's uh, clean air, all lined up with the protection of the house of our citizens and then uh, follow up. uh the great door. yeah, of the wall. it's kinda gonna shoot you on a basically it's follow up the great deal. yeah. over the science april. she needs it like um, i'm this little motion pandemic. we are talking about these kinds of sites with

governments here have of poor track records. most e u member states have broken the blocks current air pollution laws in the past, and some have even faced half defiance. meanwhile, on to pollution, policies like binding older cars from cities or restricting farming emissions are sometimes seen as discriminatory and often face public backlash. all which means hoax for a switch to decisive drop in air pollution may remain out of reach. and it's likely to take years before your manager is to truly clear the air. well, the w h o recommends that the annual average concentration of fine particulate matter in the air shouldn't exceed 5 micrograms per cubic meter of air. but as we see here, milan is at 20. so 4 times the w h always recommended level. you can compare that to the wider chicago area in the united states, which is just 10 micrograms per cubic meter, but still twice the w h o guidelines. and if we look at lima, peru,

that's at $36.00 times the recommended level. jakarta, indonesia is $34.00, but one of the most polluted cities in the world is the indian capital daily, at a whopping $100.00. 14, almost at $21.00 times the suggested level. so 98 percent of people in europe live in areas where air pollution levels exceed w h o recommendations i spoke earlier to mark a new highest and he's head of the air pollution and urban environment program at i s global. the parcel and institute for global health and i asked him, what affects high pollution levels can have on people's health or yeah, thank you so much. so, i mean uh, yeah it's, it's very concerning the, we know that people die prematurely when they live in the areas for fire and pollution levels. we know that causes respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease. we know also that,

that has an effect on diabetes. my goal is diabetes. we also see for example, dementia coming up as well that we get more people suffering of dementia with higher evolution levels. but in particular, it's also tragic for our children. we know you know that that gets a s month. uh, but also that is affects the brain. i mean that the cognitive development there's actually much slower. so we see a whole range of different health effects that are easily preventable. lower the levels that we currently experience. yes. so if these connections are so well understood, why hasn't there been more progress in addressing this issue? a good question that i think the science is old there. i mean, we clearly see how the effects, but the implementing policies, the lower you need to have uh, many people on board, including the politicians, governments, etc. and that's where it's the bottleneck at the moment, nothing, nothing of action is taking place. even though it doesn't cost that much

a search compared to many other things to reduce the and pollution levels. yeah, we mentioned that he was going to be voting on new air quality rules. i'm still unclear exactly how strict they will be. and one of the arguments against tougher regulations has been that they will be too expensive. what is your take on that? i don't know. i, i think nothing is too expensive. is he can, you know, improve people's health so months, me and if you can prevent so many from a to a desk even uh, the use says that the benefits of, of cleaning up the many, many times bigger and uh, in money wise than actually the cost uh, and also the costs of achieving the w and so guidelines or uh, doing it twice the the guidelines were proposing at the moment. the difference is not that big. and so 1000000000 for a year or so. what is not big on a total cost of around $67000000000.00 zeros. so i think there is money wise,

there is no. so it's a strong argument against lowering the air pollution levels because we can save many lives. we can save money, hospital visits, doctors visits, work options and also disease, but cost a lot of money as well. yeah. so it sounds like the situation right now is not in great in terms of turning it around, even if you're a p and lawmakers vote to impose new restrictions on air pollutants. how quickly would we see a change? how, how soon would we see results from change policies like this, as well as when the overnight, that's what i'm saying for sure. i mean, it's very important that you have any peace on wednesday, approve the new proposals, or even uh, suggest that we go to the w t o a guidelines through that level. and then it's up to you or being counsel to do this. and you know, the sooner they approve a new guidelines,

the sooner we can actually take action and get new policies in place. but you know, it's also, uh, it's not always so easy because as what you said, some of the sources are residential. he thing to replace that kind of a non fossil fuels of if renewables. i mean it's not going to be so fast and we need to make a step. but it's, i mean, looking at agriculture, also changing death is not going to be so fast, but we need to do is transport. i think we could go in a bit faster because you know, we need to get people or say out of the cars going to cycling will with has additional benefits on people's health cuz people don't. 7, no physical activity often. yeah. if we get this kind of doing, you know, in particular in cities, we're the majority of people there for me. this will be easier method measures to actually achieve uh, i believe. yeah. and, and just quickly i, we don't have much time. but before we go for our viewers, we're watching from outside of the you can you put it into perspective for them? i mean, how does an air pollution problem is affecting europe also extends beyond

e. e. borders and affects the entire world? a yeah, no way, if you look at the rest of the world in a way, in europe, we're not doing that badly. i mean that, but still, you know, we need to improve in your but outside your, i mean a switch you mentioned to india, the levels are much higher. so there is much more activity you need it. uh, and therefore it's also important. you know that you set some example and shows what actually can be done so that also the rest of the world in this way can follow . many, many people die to you because of ab perusing throughout the world, estimates around $7000000.00 per year. and that's way too high. this is a bill. lots burden on people's life. yeah, thank you so much for joining us to speak about this important topic that is mark hyphen at the bar slona institute for global health. we really appreciate your time . thank you. or so before we go, let's get a reminder of our top story. catastrophic floods have demonstrated greece and its

neighboring countries as severe rainstorms on record rainfall to at least 14 in the region with rain expects that and what is your news of sour? i'm clear, richardson and franklin, thank you so much for watching. the

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