the the, this is dw news live from berlin. central europe proposed with severe flooding. rivers rising dramatically after intense rainfall in austria, the czech republic, and poland summer, calling it the flood of the century. and the worst may still be yet to come as flood waters move down stream. also coming up anger and israel thousands and tele, via of march against the government's demanding and immediate deal to bring home hostages. still held in god and to astronaut, stuck in space,

speak for the 1st time about what it's like to be out of this world. the and david love, it's good to have you with us. flood alerts are in place in many parts of central europe in the wake of torrential down a rainfall that has caused many of the regions, rivers to swell dramatically. among the worst affected areas or austria of the czech republic and poland with rain continuing to fall and flood waters moving down stream forecasters warren, the worst may be yet to come. central europe is hung coming down from what summer, calling the flood of the century. thoughts of romania have already been invested back to until the ins and slash fridays. several people look hills and hundreds evacuated, or just one week ago,

firefighters in western romania battling blazes. now in the countries east, they're waiting. so for that to water, to the noise in power and residents arranged some bags and attempts to prevent more . so from entering that properties they're having thought about, i've prepared sand bags and pumps of value, but it's impossible to predict what's going to happen. that goes associated as any of that security, just 5 minutes. the don't know to ask, visited one of the towns threatened by the floods to show his support and some parts of neighboring check for public rivers have risen to the levels not seen for half a century. and it's not allowing speed. the very, it was very fast here an hour ago there was more or less no water flowing on. it takes a while and then within minutes it started to rise by tens of centimeters and started

to flow rapidly to somebody from. so there really wasn't much time to deal with it . so these are actually in the city of done a patients, the most of old brothers hospital who evacuated due to the high level threat. some communities in australia has been declared disaster areas as emergency services rise to provide added protection from the rising waters. we're now in stage one of the alarm plan. we're building up as much as we need, according to the forecasts. and we can then easily increase the amount within an hour or so from such a degree, hate to venture lightens in just 7 days scientist decided that his climate change intensifies these kind of a rustic weather pots. and i'd like to to become the new normal a quick look now at some other news from around the world. up to 1000000 people are believed to have been effected by devastating flooding in north eastern nigeria,

caused by a dam, collapse. authorities say at least 30 people have been killed, but that that is expected to rise. a search and rescue operations continue to peruse, controversial, former president alberto switching maury has been buried after 3 days of national morning. he died of cancer this week at age 86, to do more, a wed peru from 1990 to 2000. we spent most of the last 15 years in prison after being convicted of crimes against humanity. men as well as interior minister says half a dozen foreign nationals, including us and spanish citizens have been arrested for allegedly planning to overthrow president nicholas madura correct. has accused the us of leading the operation the claim, washington dismissed as categorically false. both of us and spain have strongly criticized him into his government over the disputed july presidential election.

russia and ukraine have carried out a major prisoner exchange repay treating a total of $206.00 prisoners. it's the 2nd such swap in as many days following negotiations led by the united arab emirates. moscow in cuba have carried out a number of prisoner exchanges since russia invaded ukraine in 2022. well, thousands of israelis are again protesting and tel aviv calling on their governments to secure a deal to bring home hostages still being held in gaza. the demonstrators say their government is not trying hard enough to bring home the remaining captives. there is still a $101.00 hostages in gaza, but israeli authorities say one 3rd of them are believed to be debt. the demonstrators are calling on prime minister benjamin netanyahu to reach an immediate deal with from us. the group that orchestrated the october 7th terror attack with these protests going on for quite some time now we asked journalist

valley sled dean and tell a view if prime minister netanyahu was taking notice. so yes, i actually just came back from this process. i was covering to get um, the dental that the 10s of thousands of his rays, a bunch of spacing in the process. this is that for the 2nd week in a row, that is no less rally, is that'd be where all the participants are now. gathering in the process that is organized to actually buy your organization's opposed to the government, which is a we're also a part of a part of the process even before october 7th. and now we can see that many processors that today for the fully, for immediate the deal with, i'm a, one of the mothers of one of the hostages that calls that were actually showing the video. we're actually, yeah, it was the audio recording for her son from the

a t p in the garbage trip. please for the government to release him as soon as possible. and this is happening after the beginning of the 6 hostage. it a couple of weeks ago. and also after what we've seen from the, the, as the strike and that's, it happened also about a week and a half ago. so we see that the pressure is continuing, but i don't think the all see that in consideration is still insisting on not investigating the car door and not giving up the option will fit is ready to return to the fight after the, the due start after the end of the 1st germany is set to allow in hundreds of thousands of young workers from academia. it comes as berlin grapples with how to attract skilled migrants from outside the you to fill

a labor shortage here. the deal between the countries was signed by president william router of kenya and german chancellor off shorts. it means workers from kenya will be allowed to fill job vacancies in germany such as bus drivers. the agreement also allows germany to deport canyons who don't have the right to stay in the country. a w new sat down with president william root so and spoke to him about the agreement. disagreement. we look with and look sorry at 250000 job opportunities for young people from that is a bilateral agreement between germany and k. it is a win win. you know, they is a big lip lip, but deficit in germany, they is a big lip lip but also supply inc. and how do you benefit can by giving them the opportunities in here on how do you remove the difference it here by a libertine?

can i? yeah, i'll happy about this. of course, we understand that you've just signed this document with all of our shows. but you also just resent the and launched a climate resilience project to x to create over 200000 jobs for young people. how do you reconcile that with the fact that you want to send these same skills to us as to europe in germany, to be present for your information? we, i injecting into the labor market, amelia young people every year. and even if we created half a 1000000 jobs in can, we would still have another half a 1000000. we're going to have this opportunities. that's why the opportunity to create resilience and jobs, which i did the last we can, can has no contradiction whatsoever. what i'm doing in germany because we have a huge about youth about we have a demographic dependent that we have to deal with and, and we need to create pathways and opportunities. we're creating opportunities in

our housing program. we're creating a button didn't not get to the market, we're creating opportunities, the next part of the market in that sort of labor, like the one we agree with germany. so these are different opportunities that solved the same purpose of making sure that we have and give our young people in can have the opportunity to walk. so you can watch the full interview with canyon president william rudo on the dw news channel on youtube. well, to ask for not stuck in space, have made their 1st public comments since their boeing star line or capsule arrived back on earth without them earlier this month now, so decided it was too risky for the bureau to take the space craft back home after it ran into technical troubles, the astronauts will now have to wait another 5 months to return, but they don't seem to be in any particular hurry to leave the international space station in space. and how does it come 3 months down 5 to go. and it was only

supposed to be a week long test commission of the boeing star line or calypso. so now the 2 extra knots have to return on a different craft in february. it's but which will more and sony williams are making the best of being stuck in space and i'm running. we're excited to fly into different spacecraft. i mean, we're testers. that's what we do. you know, we look at different aircraft spacecraft, whatever evaluate it. and that's a pretty unique opportunity will more i did, however, expressed regrets about not being able to take the star line or back to earth. touch down star liner is back on or we've been involved from the beginning through all the processes of assessing our space, craft calypso and it was a trying at times it was the over some top times all the way through. you certainly as a commander in the appeal to have your spacecraft,

you don't want to see it go off without you. but that's where we wound up. and hey there in space, which is exactly where astronauts want to be right. the serious business of being more than 400 kilometers from earth doesn't stop them from enjoying some silly times. this is my happy place. i love being up here in space. it's just fun. you know, every day you, you do something that's work quote unquote. you can do it upside down, you can do it sideways. so it adds a little different perspective. being in orbit doesn't mean they're shirking their earthly duties. both are planning to vote in the us presidential election. i set down my request for a ballot today as a matter of fact uh, and they shall get it to us in a couple of weeks and absolutely. yeah. so it's a very important role that we all play as citizens is to be included in those elections. and that's what makes it very easy for us to do that. so we're excited about that opportunity. well, more in williams will be conducting experiments with the 7 member crew and the international space station until they can return to earth is germany as

a country with a crowd horse riding tradition, that's home to renounce done to farms. it hosts the world's biggest annual equestrian championship, and it's equestrian athletes, one gold medals of the parents olympics. but what happens when you take actual horses out of the equation this weekend? it's germany's 1st ever hobby horse thing. competition settled up and ready to ride. these gym and hobby horse and through z is a galloping the way to go. while they wouldn't, stallions may look like toys. computer sits, i'm not here to his around here to hear him and this was some cool. so when you say it like that, it looks funny it fast thing. in fact it really is a strenuous, like, it's a mixture of athletics, gymnastics, and you need to be a really good shape for a hobby. hostings themes from a movement in finland where right is charleston through forest. sports has seen

a huge sewage since coveted. germany's association was established just a year ago and already has more than $5000.00 athletes compete. it has judged on various criteria, including precision, timing and elegant. i think it's incredibly fun um, it's a very versatile supposed to trains a lot of things. and you can practically live out your profession for voices without having to sit on real close. one of these are we used to be laughed at for it, but when you part of a larger group, it always works. and especially now when you see something like this, you can get a feeling of togetherness. this weekend's competition appears to have food interest and the fast growing sport with some speak. titus. jumping at the bit to join riders at the mixed equestrian event, bought the passion there. stay with the w. r documentary us and that m looks at the

increasing polarization between rich and poor. and of course, the more news you can download the dw news app, or check out d, w dot com. i'm david levitz. thanks for watching the we are all set. we are watching close to the to bring you the story behind the new the will on about come by as information for free might say do to and then the innovation, green trends, the.