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welcome to the program. i'm jared read stolen. boris is washing, launch pots of central and eastern europe. torrential rains, high winds, and flooding have killed people. in romania, poland, and australia. thousands more have been forced to flee as water levels rise, washing away homes and livestock authorities in the czech republic site for people missing full cost as well. and the worst may be yet to come. it has been a sleepless night for residents receiving continuous warnings and the worst flight affected areas of eastern romania this producer destroyed everything. i don't have anything less of the beds. the pillows are filled with money. i have nowhere to sleep. nothing. nothing made me villages. austin, assessing the damage is fast loving floodwaters have destroyed homes and belongings

and washed away pets and livestock. no motive cleaning no more to pick. killed the dog because of the pig. it killed all the chickens under the crops. we have nothing less good. floods wreaking havoc across large pots of central and eastern europe. the west and decades. in the czech republic, the flood waters reached historic levels and full mass evacuations. so to silver, he says, i get ahold of what you see here is worse than in 1997. and i don't know what's still going to happen. my house is under water and i don't know if i'll ever be able to return the spot. well, these are in poland, rising most is close the river to best its banks, flooding streets and houses in the historic town as to why the power supply and

communications have also been cut off in some areas. full cost is a the heavy rains voted him by storm. boris could persist through monday and from what we can speak to, john was bruce penya in prague. bruce. hi there. tell us what's the situation like in the czech republic? it's been getting worse as the day goes on. i've been watching the news just in the morning. it looked like it was under control, but, but by the time the sun started going down, they showed various areas of the country that were under water. you know, at least a half a meter of, of water up against houses and people walking in the streets with big weight and boots. and so it has deteriorated quite a bit and they're expecting that is probably going to get a little worse. the northeastern part of the country seems to be the one that's giving it the hardest right now. your, your previous reporter mention, google losey. it's an all and apparently the dam burst of the stream from them and

that's flooded. the google allows the but there's places not very far away in the czech republic, one place called jessica, this and another one called your septic. and they are also the most recent photo show that they are inundated with water at the moment. and in fact we, there was even photo of a, a military having to come in and rescue one of the residents. so you sent it got the leap by helicopter, because apparently the whole town is now cut off because of flooding. just the incredibly deteriorating situation. as you say, bruce, tell us how our check authorities responding to all these to you know, give them a lot of credit. they took all the measures they could uh, before this. i mean, everyone's been warned since the middle of the last week that this was coming up. they cleared away debris from under bridges from canals they uh, fortified the banks of rivers. they had been doing pre emptive evacuations of people for the last more than 24 hours. now it was 10500 people evacuated. but i

can see from the news that i didn't want 200 more here. 33 there. so it's a, it's probably gone up quite a bit. so, you know, i do credit to check authorities with doing what they could mobilize in a 100000 byron and volunteer firemen at a time to the reality of the storm has been overwhelming. i think for everyone in the country and certainly for the authorities, they knew it was a once in a century storm, but um, you can prepare for everything that you're going to get until you see the reality. what happens that was to unless bruce penny and pride for us many thanks, bruce, appreciate it. thank you, jerry dw is julia sal daily is in the southern german city of paso for us, julia. hi there. what's the situation where you are as well? this is equation here is not as dramatic as we've seen in the kind of neighboring countries to the east, like the tech republic. uh there was a break in the wet rain up in the past few days. it was raining a lot. there was

a break yesterday evening and this morning it started raining again and rain throughout the afternoon, but the city is ready in case more water were to come in the next few days and i can show you how they've been preparing. for example here. this road which runs alongside the danube river has been closed. people can't drive their cars here. and as we see the streets here in behind, this area that has been blocked off is filled with water and is not really high. but the water had been coming from the down you from the river right there, but also from the drains. and the city is also started preparing by putting up sand bags at the ground floors of buildings and also putting up barriers in front of doors on the ground floor so that water might be able to stay out. so the city is waiting and preparing. but in the meantime, the really dramatic situation is right across the border in austria, which is very close to paso. now there, we've seen that, especially in the area of lower austria,

which surrounds the capital vienna. the situation is dramatic, and a fire man has died while trying to work in a home that had been flooded. and even in the city of vienna, where the vin river runs through the river is not completely overflowing, but it is very high. and in some parts of the city, some full invite bike paths along the river has been overflowed. so there is quite a state of alerts also in neighboring neighboring austria right now. and we've just been looking at some, some pictures of that julia. what can we expect in the coming dies? so we've heard from major ologist that the rain is expected to move to the west. so coming from the eastern countries compared to germany from poland for the tech republic, into germany, and experts expect that a possibly the highest level of the rivers here might only be reach tomorrow on monday or even on tuesday morning. so the situation is currently one of wait and

see there is an additional worry brought in by the experts. they say that the level of, of snowfall is going to go up. that means that there's going to be possibly more rain coming down instead of snow that will also contributes to rivers rising. and we're going to see that probably in bavaria, but also further north and the eastern state of saxony, where the elk river comes in from the czech republic and the high is expected very possibly tomorrow or on tuesday. the situation of white and see julia. so deli, impossible for us. thanks julia. let's get a quick round off now of some other global news headlines. german chancellor left schoultz is in some account is beckers done to kick off a 3 day trip to central asia is expected to sign several migration agreements. we think this big president, among them a deal to make it easier for skilled is big workers to migrate to germany. powers is among cities holding rallies to your rounds uprising to use

a guard. the protest was boxed by the king augustine and myself. i'm in need of the 22 year old guy doctor. she was taken into police custody for allegedly finalizing these lumnick dress code women prisoners amy rotten, have also started a hunger strike to mock that dice. india's federal police of charge, the full may hate of a medical college and co contact with the timeframe with evidence linked to the ranking murder of a junior female talk to the case tree. good weeks of nationwide protests, the central bureau of investigation also arrested. the office in charge of the police station that has jurisdiction or is that a college, as will russia and ukraine has completed a major prisoner exchange of $206.00 prisoners ukrainian president, load them is the landscape, says the swamps, ukrainian soldiers, border guards and police offices, for at least in part because of ukraine's recent incursion into russian territory. the swamp was mediated by the united arab emirates. emotions ran high

among these ukrainian sewage jars prepared for you to talk to russian captivity on mon mesa the last time. so happy to hear your voice is, don't worry, i'm in ukraine now on my land. look further the way the exchange involves 206 prisoners, all floor off going home to russia and the other. how do you clean the president, one of the bands and in ski credited you cleans a decent incursion into russia with captivating more russian soldiers to swap a human commodity because the exchange fund a general and i should go mind, i am grateful to our team that is involved in the exchange is and i think all our comment and brigades for their bravery and replacing the exchange fund and not for

countries out in the particular operation with the course of the region which provided the necessary. but we're still keeping the post. the russian defense industry also released a video of the offered service. man. that's really for out up in my heart, immediately i'm going home. everything is behind me. i don't want to worry anymore . i don't want to say a big thank you, but so we will ask about despite ongoing hostilities, gifts and law school have managed several president exchanges throughout the conflict. the united auto bandits broker, this most recent swap. and in keeping with zalinski is claim saturday's exchange for the tub. since euclidean troops poured into russia as coast region in early august. we'll spice takes us pull our as doing crew back on the following day 1st, if it could national spiceworks 700 kilometers

a bump the us now the capsule made it's re entry early on sunday. the splash down off the coast of florida and so successful. find a mission ending by for a splash down of the polarised on crew. and they're using the space x is drag and caps to arrive safely back on or after it's true. completed the world's 1st all civilian space. walk as our 1st check billionaire, jared isaac been paid an undisclosed some for the private admission with space 6 the 5 day trip took him and 3 amis, or astronauts higher than the international space station and the hubble telescope . the home we all have

a lot of work to do for from this look forward to surface was this wasn't a conventional free floating space was instead of 1000000000 air and space ex engineer sarah gillis took turns emerging only partially from the capsule while holding onto a ladder down the sky walker it's one big step for the future of space travel, which used to be reserved only for professional astronaut. the crew also tested out new space suits still not at the surface. it's the 1st of 3 missions under the pool layers program. and it brings space ex, closer to with the ultimate goal of sending humans to mars and beyond. this is and pull our as dough on lifted astronauts higher than anyone has traveled since nasa is moving walkers and 3 times higher than the international space station. keith cowan, who's the editor of nasa, watch, dot com in washington dc,

told us why they went back hi of what they're trying to do here. show that the drag and spacecraft which is phone to the international space station dozens of times, has much more capability of going higher in this case in much higher orbit surviving to minimum, but still important radiations out that if you're going to go to other worlds, you're going to need to take the spacecraft beyond the safety so to speak, low earth orbit, which is exactly what they do. uh, and instead of ex basics, why did they truly electronics work? so they took the electronics, put them inside of medical radiation device and zapped it as long as they could and to see what would still work. so this was, this was groundbreaking, not just for the people, but with the machine or case calling of nasa watch dot com. there is a reminder of our top story. stone bars is lashing lodge pots of central and eastern europe. torrential rains, high winds, and flooding of killed people, the remaining of poland and austria for missing him to check. the more on that

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