[000:00:00;00] the, this is the, the news coming to line from berlin. central europe is bracing itself for more heavy rain after being inundated by severe flooding. police 17 people have died so far and authorities are warning that the worst may not yet be over. also coming up, a man suspected of trying to assassinate donald trump, that his port a golf club is charged with federal gun crimes. court documents revealed that he camped outside the golf course for 12 hours waiting for the former president. plus the spring,

the ballast for freedom from 10, sir dw, visits of children's cancer clinic and 11 on funded by private donations. but the threatened by economic crisis and regional conflict, the hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. so we are flooding is wreaking havoc or across the central and eastern europe following days of torrential rain. the situation in many areas is critical. as more rivers burst, their banks, literally 17 people have died across poland, austria, romania and the czech republic. with southern germany affected as well. the flooding is the worst some regions have seen in more than 20 years. it was in this chinese restaurant and the austrian town of the home cushion starting to clean up

the flood damage the water in the cellar. so much furniture and produce as it rose to a meta high set the filters down side with the guns, have it ready to continuously for 4 or 5 days. set this stone in it for everything has been on the roots of things yesterday morning's day to doctor visual. also falling from the, from over there to the also came up to a new level and also pursuant to mean when it came to the water and drowned. well, it's not it every cell uh, soft is on there to see it as to where to go for to nearby residents. also assessing the damage to the homes from the historic floods associated with him. and the it's on the top is not since he, most of my parents told me about assuming that you've been eating is 1957 of on. but the amount of rain was less spect then and the water level hard for me to lower

and higher. i mean, i mean even in the areas where the rain has subsided, dangers still prevail. the ground is fully saturated, and the river is still close to overflowing. several points. drain fatigue shows the extent to flood damage to the neighboring check for public an entire district of the city of strive. a flooded officer down bust and the river nearby parts of poland have also been submerged by days of torrential rain. prime minister donald tusk, announced a more than a quarter of a 1000000000 euros in funds. so it means that if you know, so the minister of finance has a showed me that there will be no shortage of money. whether for immediate or long term a level,

you have that with more heavy rain full cost for parts of central and eastern europe. cities like good let's and eastern germany, bracing themselves, preparing floods. the bar is around the city. as the river rises, this bentley is chief executive of the royal media or logical society in london. she told us what lessons authorities could learn from the unprecedented levels of flooding. there's 2 things here we we know from our planet projections that these events so now likely more likely to happen then they have to have been before. we also have very good weather forecasts that this particular event was forecast. daisy not found. so we have warnings that can be put out days and not funds for local authorities to take action, but also for the public to, to take themselves away from these areas as bestbuy. com to,

to put themselves out of danger. so i think this initiative to have more with warnings, timely weather warnings because we can't stop these vengeful events from happening . but we can provide information to the public when the lot is to happen. but also as you cite plumbing for these things, we know we're going to get more of these events in future. so we need to have great, so the finances in place, but can coat with them. so for example, in poland at the great flips, they have the 1997, a devastating. there was a lot of funding wednesday in sit po, flip defenses in place. those are now being tested by this particular science. and it will be interesting. after we see the aftermath of the split into how much those flip defenses actually coped with this particular situation. spell that was lose bentley. there of the royal media illogical society in london. now the man suspected of trying to assassinate donald trump has been charged with federal gun crimes. prosecutors say additional and more serious charges could follow. court

documents revealed the suspect camped outside trump's golf course with food and a rifle. they said he waited for nearly 12 hours for the former president before a secret service agent foiled the potential attack with these party guns, but it shows the moment this expected gunmen design or is it is to investigate dispute. the 15 utilized man appears to have fitted near former president donald trump calls course for about 12 hours in an updated attempt assessing. meet him with the semi automatic rifle of the secret service agent spotted the rifle in the bushes and opened fire. the gunman slept, and shortly afterwards he was speaking into custody. as former president trump was moving through the 5th fairway across the course and out of sight of the 6 green, the agent who is visually sweeping the area of the search screen saw the subject armed with what he perceived to be

a rifle and immediately discharged his firearm the subject who did not have line of sight to the former president fled the scene. he did not fire or get off any shots at our agent's drum 1st on home. but the incident has, once again, brought the us secret service under scrutiny. one at the latest incident happened just 2 months after he was shot at this time, been ready in pennsylvania, us president, job items these, the agency needs more support. one thing i want to make clear service for help the dine are hasn't of this record spending tickets, including a charge of possessing an automatic machine gun and his 1st appearance in federal court. on monday, he was charged with possession of a fi as a felon. in possession of

a fi um with an updated serial number and a post under social jump tank, the secret service and others for keeping him safe. in an interview with fox digital trump blame to president joe biden, and his democratic rivals for the presidency, vice president, come on ahead, is for assessing this an attempt he claimed the suspected gunman was acting on the court, highly inflammatory language. the words that good once again raised the political temperature ahead of the us presidential elections. dw reporters defense simons has more on the charges, the suspect is facing well, the would be assessing and suspect here made his 1st initial appearance in federal courts today. and was presented with 2 charges that we just had in the piece. one is the eh, possession of a fly, i'm while be convicted as

a felon. so the man has a record from 2002 this felony, charge us then from there and was convicted as a felon, for a procession of a weapon of mass destruction. and that means he owned a or had a machine gun and this is not allowed in the united states. the 2nd is procession of a fi um with a obliterated serial number. meaning the prosecutor here. he said he did something to the serial number, which is on every gun. and this is also legal. you're not allowed to do this. this is a legal and this is the charge. now those charges are holding charges, meaning there will be a detention hearing coming next. monday, and until then there are more charge as expected. well, they include an s as a nation attempt or a terrorism charge for that matter, that is completely unclear and that's about to be see. so you a quick look at some of the other stores make you headlines around the world. now us rapper and producer sean derrick holmes has been arrested in new york city. the

federal charges against the rapper, formerly known as puff daddy, had not yet been disclosed. earlier in march, investigators rated combs mansions in los angeles and miami of a pipeline explosion in the us state of texas has caused a massive fire, forcing evacuations. near houston operators shut off the flow of natural gas, but the fires continued to burn as so much remained in the miles of pipeline. the cause of the explosions are still being investigated. police in peru say they have confiscated more than a 1000 kilograms of illegally harvested sharks. tends to discovery was made as an export company that wanted to ship them to asia. environmental groups say that up to 270000000 sharks are killed every year and they're fins sold for use as food or medicine. is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu, as it has expanded. his countries stated goals of the war in gaza to include

enabling the return of residents to israel's northern areas. the decision was approved during an overnight meeting of the security cabinet. tens of thousands of israelis had to be evacuated in recent months, due to hezbollah attacks from level well in the lab it on children with cancer or among the most vulnerable in that country battered by political stalemate and economic crisis and conflict on the border with israel the children's cancer center of 11 on in bayard has treated more than 5000 children in the last 2 decades. but as the w's mohammed tried to discover, the hospital faces serious disruption, as private donations try out. some of you right is 9 years old. she's fighting cancer, so we have like all the other children here for set of negative i enjoy the activities and i draw and paint when i was coming here. do you want me to you prefer it to be

home? oh, i like it to you better than her. and yes. and she was for she was diagnosed with cancer in her blood and bone marrow and came here for treatment. are asked to relapse in the last year. the mother has brought her back to the center, welcomed us once again and covered all the treatment expenses, st. god, we were able to overcome this again to shall fall. and i was, it wasn't for the centers, financial and moral support. we wouldn't have been able to make it through the hard times. there's no government's money for these children. the treatment is completely covered by donations. this is the 10s of whole pools covered with the names of those who have donated money to make the center work. but the trouble is, they've been on as an economic, lots and effectively as for. so if your people are making contributions,

putting this place at the risk donations are celebrated on the rules throughout the center. but many were in the local currency and have therefore lost 90 percent of the building. because yes, we had so many challenges from this evaluation of the currency to the crisis to the war. and the all of got a applied to us to of kansas. some of our events and that affected the budget that we need to days. and so putting some face time to this youth, we, adria, we have a deficit. a 50 percent of the needs is among and this will have a good basis of not being able to accommodate the number and enjoyed the new patients that are diagnosed with kansas. the center is struggling. and yes, it's important because for almost half of the childhood cancer patients in the bottom is if it's freedom of the center piece of ice cancer more than a decade ago. he's buck not because of his health,

but the support other patients and their parents. man, it's my safe haven member for them, but when i feel stressed, i visit this place where i grow up and let me see. i then realized that everything is sicily compared to what i went through. especially when it was a tough, but the beautiful experiences with my icons is over this place that makes me feel safe, even today. but i'm a lot of to my tells me this is free for its parts are just and this is the bell that children ring when they leave the center healthy. it's all these last course of chemotherapy is cleared of cancer. the into the future. if the center is too funny, when he's older,

perhaps he's begun to support others. you're watching dw news from berlin up. next we've got an exclusive dw interview with canyon president william root. so on using is new german immigration partnership to reduce use unemployment. i'm terry martin for me and all of us here at data being there is thanks for watching the d. w. travel over here. besides the history food. well, let's go through so when it comes to sustain dependency information and trends, executive on d. w. travel, you can have it. what about you and what's your opinion feel free to write your thoughts and the comment?