the, the, you're watching the, the, the news coming to live from birth, thousands remain missing in libya, days after massive flooding. a libyan government ministers at the sears. the depths will meet double with more than 5000 bodies already recovered. much of the city of darren as it destroyed after torrential rains cost to dance, traversed also coming up on the show. your career comes on unplugged, his full support most golf during talks with president vladimir putin in russia's far east. the

clare richardson, welcome. in libya, the death toll from catastrophic flooding has arisen to over 5000 people. and officials say that number is expected to climb even further as bodies that were swept out to sea wash back ashore. storm daniel hit libby after barrelling across the mediterranean. it caused floods which swept away entire neighborhoods in eastern coastal areas. the destruction is worst in there now where to dance collapse, wiping out a quarter of the city. thousands of people are still missing and among the survivors, tens of thousands are now homeless. they are opinions as sending a to lift. the relief efforts are being complicated by facts that libya's internationally recognized government and tripoli does not control the devastated eastern regions as the casualties in there and the amount locals are overwhelmed with the task of identifying and burying the dead

on the headset, the funds are mine we are mass burying bodies yesterday at the neighboring hospital on the she had area and it was about a $1010.00 people, including women, children, i'm in and elderly, all of the of the there now was devastated when to downs collapse during the storm . it's an unprecedented disaster and help has been slow to arrive back in uh, we call on all the young libby, and anyone who has a degree or any medical affiliation to please come and help us despite warnings that the storm was coming. presidents were not evacuated. so that there is none, and then we heard that the dam had burst and water had flooded the area and people were asleep. and no one was ready. crumbling infrastructure and political divisions which rival factions controlling different parts of the country have made libya

particularly vulnerable. and official from the eastern administration who visited the city, said as much as 25 percent of their in a had disappeared. meanwhile, libya's internationally recognized government based in trip. we don't play the need for international aid, even though doesn't control the affected region. 7, we had to postpone all demands for assistance in wisconsin with the exception of crucial cases. and i think we should have when we said we don't need food, water medicine or even man power. and that's what we need to specialist, is it we need help retrieving bodies from the see how to do it in do besides, if we spoke to some countries who will help us with the equipment search under the rubble. well, several countries including germany, have offered aid,

but then the divided country. there's so many obstacles in the way of getting help to those in need. and you heard there in a report abdulla honda debate, but the libyan prime minister saying that he had postponed accepting international assistance. i asked olivia analyst and also the monte. what he made of that to it does struck me in many ways because it's, it's endemic of the systematic failures of governance that we've seen for a decade to rival governments that are perfectly happy to rule over the rubble walls that says it was late underneath it and i think it goes down to the core of what, what we've seen, the image is coming of done. the people today waking up, you know, tired faces, month, all over the place is 3 days without food, water and sanitation without the supply lines because of the supply lines that will keep. that's the, the 40000 that we 9 uh, displaced from the city, almost all of the population that will keep them getting. they need everything. of course, they need international search and rescue teams. they need technical experts that

are going to help them try to recover and identify some of those that are missing. but 40000 people need every bit of help that they can get. and so was the officials that we know particularly those that were responsible for the collapse of but there i'm going to be national. i mean, lots of those officials may have fail down there is, there may be courageous citizens that are in your program that haven't, because they're the ones that are driving the ambulances. the other ones that making the bread, that the ones that are trying to tie themself out, looking under the rubble, but they need all the help they can get. and so when it comes to what the, what the, what the level governments can do that presided over this crisis right decade. it's the man made negligence as the man made incompetence, inability to war. and there were in citizens when they had the time, the hours and days before the storm is the libya they had the time to be able to go in. one, evacuate, try and identify a way in which to give the lives of the citizens at that. now maybe not the city structures, but the lives a 2nd shots and they have and that criminal negligence means that the white people

to be the custodians of today's coordination efforts. that should be the red crescent, the expedited nivia that is operating with as courageous stuff. the active as the volunteer is the bright people that stood in the city. they need all the help they can get. yeah. and frankly, the local authorities, the why, the ministration in the west, they can step aside. they've done enough. well, well, let me jump in there. um, as you say, it's the ordinary citizens being left to pick up the pieces. do you think that there are, they're going to be political consequences for how this response has been unfolding? i certainly think that needs to be a place most, i'm figuratively and literally off of events. and i think, you know, we've seen this in the region before. we saw the pool last and payment a completely man made tragedy that didn't need to happen. this is the very same case. criminal negligence that goes back to the good definitely has him, hasn't maintain that, that, that damage of the 1980s, the l. n. a. that has also been involved only be much money that has been involved in gutting the public infrastructure in east and they'd be destroying the ro. busy woods, the strong buildings using it for scrap metal and they would sell for pennies on

the dollar and exposure to touchy for billions of dollars a year. that is the quality in the fiber of those individuals that today saying i'm here to help you and keep you safe when they spend the last 1010 years stealing from a lot of the public money, the public infrastructure and waging war against their incentives. and that's the quantity in the fiber of libya's unelected particularly. and if we had the elections or the several weeks ago, elections were blocked and then what could about elected council have done the experts i've done. so what i need is this to be an inquiry, the public investigation about what happened and then then the events that led to this. but that needs to be a drastic change. maybe the ones that elections for 10 years that have been blocked by you and process the is which is not designed to allow for elections is designed to the, to create on the pointed governments that will block elections. how do we know that? because we did have states of them in the last decade, each of them i promised that x rays and they never delivered. so there's criminal culpability. on the local level, there was international complexity of the national level. and libyans are the ones

the blameless victims of this. they're picking up the pieces and they have to build a tomorrow. and they need to do that without the kind of criminal accomplices that had been the custodians of the last 10 years. well, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us on the date of the news that is with the analyst, a nice of commodity. we really appreciate your time. so thank you. let's take a look at some other world news headlines at this hour. rescue efforts continue in morocco. 5 days after an earthquake, he'll be $3000.00 people. international crews have sent emergency responders into the mountains where bodies remain buried under dust and rustle locals are organizing a campaigns to help those affected ukraine has staged. what's going to be the biggest attack on the home of rushes? black sea fleet keeps as it struck a summary, a landing vessel and port infrastructure in the city of sylvester, full in crimea, which russia annexed in 2014. russia says ukrainian missiles had 2 ships. 24 people were reported wounded. north korea's leader kim jong and has pledged his full

support for russia. i talked with president vladimir putin. hooton's head came will be given a tour of rushes, pacific fleet base and valuable stock as part of a tour of defense facilities in russia's far east. north korean leader has held the summit as the start of a new era in bilateral relations. sonya holland raising his loss to friendship for sure. but i would like to make it because this is a future strengthening of cooperation and friendship between our countries, between the russian federation and the democratic people's republic of korea. the meeting between north korean leader kim jong on an russian president vladimir putin, wasn't able to meet 2 of appreciation to going to court together with comrade boot. and we've just had an elaborate discussion about the middle tree and political situation on the korean peninsula. and then you're going to have come to

the conclusion that we need to further intensify strategic and tactical cooperation to ensure safety guarantee a long lasting peace, both in the region and the whole world. the to lead is each becoming increasingly isolated on the global stage. a bit looking to show that they have each of those back. kim jones on the, on the line to ongoing support for russia, against what he called the thrust of german just forces against it silver into the united states as well on to that north korea could be preparing to supply russia with military equipment to boost its capabilities. and ukraine the pack took a tour of rushes, the stuff in the customer dry, and the country's most important rocha launch center. analysts believe that north korea wants russian advice on how to improve its own rockets and reconnaissance satellites. 40 different russian

officials down play the fact that the summit could be a cause for concern for other countries. but that will do little to come west and fee is about this flourishing friendship. and in russia, climate activists say they are so we may government over its carbon emissions. one of those activists told dw is russian service, that they had delivered their case the european court of human rights, after it was rejected by russia supreme court. the kremlin has, in the past labeled a number of environmental n g o's, as for an agents or undesirable organizations, forcing them to close down their rush or branches up. there are activists or still continuing the fights. environmental activist, ego just lucian thinks. and what are simple from our as a war in sensor, some 600 kilometers from moscow. he's wife sonya carefully notes, both it's color and it's smile. other activists carry out sport test on the samples

. it shows x is this level of chlorine ion and organic matter. the basis of waste water from a nearby paper factory. just a few kilometers from the historical center of venza. not far away, easily beach and locals. see here. we have to jo, impact which is do we do this every year? cuz why so you have a bar to monitor the composition of the war so much whether it is suitable for drinking or not. so the people who drink kids because they even, it's a fish from it to when they understand that the danger, if the whole situation that is resulting from this factory or is quite a 1000. so what do we call mainly equal active. this have had to leave russia since the beginning of the war several and you have been labeled for an agents or undesirable organizations and forced to close, including the w, w. s. m,

green peace. these activists are own teams, but they are well aware of the risks they are running. postpone with each other way of doing is harmless and legal, or tomorrow that could be labeled extremism or terrorism the extent, even winters. despite that last year and they to each of their own independent use, environmental organization echo stopped its founder and exceed fit can used to be part of the drug of a mental environmental movement, but good kicked out for testing the waters next to these paper factory run by a local politician. but that did not stop him. he continues to me until the local rivers and dumps us the cost as well to an added insurance plan. the owners of this dump, a high ranking officials in the pensa range that we're finding it kind of one that they chose, that cost cutting on waste and separation and proper waste disposal and about the

region. they're making huge profits on this landfill by minimizing that costs that you have to be. so the equipment and their actions have already had an effect. last year, 12 unauthorized dump sites were cleared in, depends the region. and the paper factory was find around $5000.00 and for students . so what's your treatment facilities? yes. oh gosh them. if every city, anything of every region had just one or 2 effective local environmental organizations solving local problems, outcomes train would be a different place. so we just little guy, they believe the future of the region lies in their hands, and protecting nature is worth fighting for despite the risks. you're watching the news live from berlin before we go quick reminder of our top story. at least 5000 people have been killed and catastrophic flooding in eastern livia. thousands

more are still missing. entire neighborhoods were swept away in a number of coastal towns, the city of dare not, the heavy rains cost to dance, to collapse. let's do something about this hour. thank you so much for watching. i'm clear, richardson and berlin many thanks the as these categories for thought, see what the, not just another day so much is happening all at once. we take time to understand.