the, the, this is the, the news coming to live from berlin. central europe is bracing for more heavy rain after being inundated by severe flooding. at least 17 people have died so far and authorities are warning, but the worst may not yet be over. also coming out on the 2nd day of a visit to caustics, the german chancellor, although schultz attends as some of the 5 central asian leaders, he's hoping to boost trade with the region despite its friendly ties with moscow. plus commission, president bar slip on the line prepares to fund bail, her new leadership team. we take a look at how it works. and the

freedom from codes are dw visits of children's cancer clinic and 11 on funded by private donations with threatened by economic crisis. and regional con, the hello, i'm terry morris, and thanks for joining us. so we are flooding is wreaking havoc across central and eastern europe following days of terrestrial rain. floods triggered by exceptionally heavy rainfall in central europe have caused at least 17 deaths across poland, austria, romania and the czech republic with southern germany effective as well. the flooding is the worst. some reasons i've seen in more than 20 years. tens of thousands have been forced to flee the rising waters. the situation in many areas remains critical, has more rivers burst their banks. it was in this

chinese restaurant in the austrian town of the home cushion, starting to clean up the flood damage the water in the cellar, submerged furniture and produce as it rose to a meta high set on see if it's on your side. i'm with the guys, have it ready to continuously for 4 or 5 days. set this phone in the for everything has been on the roots of things yesterday morning's date. i've got some vision with also falling from the, from over there to hoover that the was, that came up. it's a new level. so pursuant to me, when it came to the water and drowned, well, it's not it. every seller soft is on the status 10 over the go for just nearby residents. also assessing the damage to the homes from the historic floods associated with them and the, it's on the top, it's not the same of my parents told me about the similar identity and it's 1957 of

on, but the amount of rain and 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. during fatigue shows the extent to flood damage to the neighboring check for public for an entire district. if the city of us drop a flooded off to a dime bust in a river nearby ports of poland have also been submerged by days of torrential rain. prime minister donal task announced a move in a quarter of a 1000000000 euros in funds. 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. yes, i but with more heavy rain full cost for parts of central and eastern europe. cities like good let's and eastern gemini, the bracing themselves, preparing floods, barriers around the city. as the river rises. while some communities continue to clean up the mess left by the floods, others are preparing for the worst with some rivers, still spilling over and dikes threatening to burst as they are in parts of poland. our team coverage in uh, continues on the ground with our reporter, marta sore in the police city, brought swamp, which witnessed disastrous flooding of the late ninety's and evacuation is

continuing. eastern austria where our correspondent julia so daily has been visiting towns inundated with water. the government has declared the entire region of lower austria, a disasters. let's start with you and poland. i know it's a struggle just getting to these places in the flood zone. what have you been with us? a, a good morning to berlin. it is not as good as a morning for the residence of the suburban area, very close to for all 12 actually, it is already in the city of roswell, because in the night they have released the water from one of the biggest retention, dams. and now the water came through the river of bitch itself, and um, it already started flooding the area and there are more areas getting slotted. some smaller villages are getting completely flooded because they're in a retention area. and right now, many people are in the military came,

many people are helping out with building and constructing more damage to secure the city and the, the infrastructure. and julia, you're in austria. how critical is the situation where you are while we're currently in the small town on most of the a bomb and uh, as you can see behind me, this is one of the main streets of the town and it is currently completely flooded . now residents have told me that a damn a few kilometers down that way 1st, and that led to all the water coming in flowing here. they told me that the water was up to about 50 centimeters and it went into people's a sellers. it went into people's houses, those houses over there, the ground floor, people living there. so their ground floor with their kitchens and their living rooms have been flooded and they can't, yes, really, a start cleaning up. because as you can see,

there is still water here on the streets and they don't have any power to be able to bring and pumps pump out the water from their home. so they're kind of waiting now to see how that evolves. and over there, that's the main train station of the town. the tracks are completely covered in water. the train traffic has been stopped and slowly firefight years and people are coming into the town to try to start helping with the clean up here. the flooding is impacting huge parts of central and eastern europe. what are you hearing about developments further downstream in slovakia, hungry and romania, julia. yeah. well, here we're quite close to the daniel river, which flows then east towards, towards those countries. and the river here, authorities are seeing the level is going down, but that big flow of water is now moving down river further east. and we've heard from, for example, the mayor of budapest, the capital of hungry,

that they expect the high levels of water to reach the city tomorrow and towards the end of the week. and there they are preparing for water to overflow. go into the keys that are on the edge of the river. so the city is down there preparing also and brought as lava the capital of slovakia. and we know that one of the countries that has been most effective by the flooding is romania where the majority, a lot of the depths have occurred in these floods. and they're especially rural areas towards the east of the country have been effected with many farms hits heavily by the floods and rural towns where residents have have to climb to the top of their building. so try to escape the flooding merger. we've seen heavy rains in recent days. what are weather forecasters predicting for the coming hours and days to actually it's going to be pretty sunny. so this is a good news because it means the situation was worse. but the city of mr has

already is already facing the worst flood for about i think decades many cities are going to be flooded. so a lot of cities like a photo which is a or a web, which i'm very close to what i'm supposed to, they are already waiting for the waste, which is going to happen probably not tomorrow as predicted, predicted previously. but it will happen probably on friday. but this gives more time to secure the dams and already um, the city of drops off the mayor has announced that the flood will probably affect and be effective. the city with 6 meters high, which is less, less tragical. then it was in 1997. but it is still alarms situation, so every area here is alerts and military's helping out. so we're waiting. what is going to happen next to next? the situation changes like every few hours so we will see the w's, martha,

martha thor, in, poland and julia sel. dally in austria, thank you very much. the bye that let's catch up on a few other stories making headlines around the world. the death toll from flooding in myanmar has doubled to over 220 and that's according to state media. dozens of people are also missing following a tie food that swept through the region last week. united nations says more than 600000 people have been affected by the flooding. metals has issued a total ban on russian state media outlets setting for an influence activity that is, platforms include instagram and facebook. it comes after the us justice department charged employees from r t rushes, state broadcast or laundering money, and producing content to influence the us presidential elections. us tech company

intel has announced that it's delaying plans to build a mega chip making factory in germany. it's blaming the 2 year hold up on a slump in growth. the 30000000000 euro project would be the largest foreign direct investment in german history. for land had agreed to provide 10000000000 euros in subsidies. now 211 on where children with tensor are among the most vulnerable in the country, being battered by political stalemate and economic crisis and conflict on the border with israel. the children's cancer center of 11 on ebay root has treated more than 5000 children in the last 2 decades. but as the, the use mohammed tread said to discover the hospital faces serious disruption as private donations trial. it is 9 years old. she's fighting cancer. so have like all the other children to you for 7 that i enjoy the activities and i

draw and paint. well, i love coming here. do you want me to do you prefer it to be home? oh, i like it to you better than her. and yes, when she was for, she was diagnosed with cancer in her blood and bone marrow and came here for treatment us to relapse in the last year. her 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 money for these children. the treatment is completely covered by donations. this is the hens of hope was covered with the names of those who have donated money to make the center work. but the trouble is,

depend on is an economic loss 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 where the local currency and have therefore lost 90 percent of the advisors building because he has had so many challenges from this evaluation of the code and see to the crisis for the war and the, all of the got a blind us to of kansas, some of our events. and that affected the budget that we need 3 days. and so pretty some face time to this year. we adrea, we have a that's just a 50 percent of the needs. it's a month and this we 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 yet it's important because for almost half of the childhood cancer patients independent

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into the future. if the center is too funny, when he's older, perhaps people tend to support others. european commission, president european union commission presenters live on the line is said to unveil her new team of commissioners today. they will guide the blocks policies over the next 5 years and they're different policy areas. the announcement has been delayed for a week already as the tassel over candidates and jobs has continued. dw brussels correspond to jack parent explains how it all works. she's already positively to secure her own job for the next 5 years. but not your opinion, commission president, sort of on the line is a 9 thing which positions she's hunting, i commission is something like ministers might be and then national governmental to them. so they will face a vote for members of the european parliament in order to secure that roles on the 27 e u. countries put forward that candidates. so i'm have been proposed for

a 2nd time from the line choose is which of them gets the juiciest roles and fantasy is titles. the most desirable positions are the ones covering trade economic policy, competition, migration, things b, e u coordinates. some of the less a rows of focused on things like sports and education, which the you doesn't control. instead that dealt with by the national governments . some of the commission is majorly boost the power they've had nationally before. these roles like former deputy prime ministers demo margaret to invest a part of who's imposed huge terrace on us giants, the breaching youth play rules. over on says terry brett, on until his surprise resignation. when he find died, he wasn't to be re appointed. he was in charge of the use internal market and was in public bottles with tech giants like ex, demanding. they abide by e u rules. one things already set to that wouldn't be agenda balance involved,

the lines, new team governments snob to request that they each put for the mind. and a woman for her to choose from from the line has moved. paul scott's mission is to consolidate to power by appointing commissioners who work with a brussels bureau. chief, alexander phenomena is covering the story standard. before we get to the new commission, i wanted to ask you about one of the outgoing members chile for a ton of friends. we saw him in that report, instead of waiting for his termed and he resigned rather dramatically. what messages that sending well, he's announcements and the way how he did its open leads on the social slots media platform x. that was said palm show on the highest level of the your opinion. and of course an unexpected twist. and that transitional for power of to all, she was

a, he was a very powerful politician and brussels in charge of the internal market. somebody who was also in charge of organizing the delivery of artillery shows to ukraine. somebody who didn't know shy away from taking on such a problem and then speakers such as a, along the musk, for example, a and she accused was the funding i in front of going behind the speck of negotiating with the french presidents. how to replace him. so at that friends could get a better portfolio so that we baton, he seems quite mad at fund deadline. and so there was not much left a lot left between the 2 who had in the past repeatedly been clashing in a private and publicly however, the fact that he pulled the plaque and that the friends gover. the french government was quick in normally made things somebody for the commission instead of

him, i think can be considered a when funded lying of tool. she reached her goal. okay, let's move on to the composition of the new condition we. we heard in the report there that funder line has failed to come up with a gender balanced team. how well she managed to balance out the geographic and political factors that have to be considered as well. indeed that's through that she has not been successful in achieving a goal sheets known for the drive for gender quality. and at the moment it seems like we will have said 10 fema commission is out of a $26.00. uh and uh, that is not a big so sex successful funded line on of course it is also showing us that her position may not be as powerful as it used to be doing the 1st time in office.

and this is also showing us what's going on behind the scenes scenes. how big nations such as a friends, utilities, and span of course, fighting for bigger, more important footfall use. and this is also, we have to say not the easy job to form a commission that will raise up to the challenges the your p and union is facing. but also that will find the approval of the european parliament. so we're still waiting for the new commission to be introduced, but we've got an idea of uh, many of the members, what does the choice of new commissioners tell us alexander about the direction that the was headed in? so i think that's the new commission will reflect the big challenges that the you a p n union is facing right now. a big priority will be the topic of security of

till old. there is still a war raging on the european union's doorstep. so we will see a new commission of for defense, for instance. and then there is also the topic of competitiveness that you are p. any union is lagging behind its competitors, such as us and china and according to a new report, they really need to invest more in their competitiveness. otherwise they will uh, slow down and, and slow into agony. according to this report, and of course the topic of climate action is still high on the agenda. so i think that the new commission that was the fund a lie and it's about to present with it's portfolios and members will need to reflect those big challenges that the european union is facing at the moment. no shortage of challenges in europe. dw,

use brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena, thank you very much. i as well german chancellor of schultz isn't causing exxon wrapping up a 3 day visit to central asia with the aim of strengthening relations with countries in the region. shots attended a summit with the leaders of all 5 central asian countries. see also held a one on one meeting with causing sounds present cause same drama to kind of cause it's done is germany's 3rd largest supplier of oil. while it talks focused on boosting, fuel deliveries and increasing cooperation and knock on the ukraine war to kind of warrant schultz, the russian military was what he called invincible. and said it was time to make a peace deal. some former soviet republics do have close ties to russia. let's cross over to our chief political editor, me k, the coast though it was following the story for us in the concept capital estimate

. we had watched the focus of this summit between germany and those 5 central asian countries, as well on the agenda, its trades, trades and trades. and as you already point is out, particularly because i've done is a key provider of oil. it's pretty much filled. last part of the gap that ross are left when it attacks ukraine. there is also keen interest in red us here, and also the energy sector across the board in the future. there's a hope that green hydrogen could be produced here and it transported to europe. so this is where the future lies, but also for people here in the region, lee does have a skilled labor append to young people are planned to exactly what europe needs. and that was very much the focus of a by last or 3 months that would have sold a did with was big. it's done is into your, i'm going to sign it, but there's a keen interest. it's here to make that new show. but then there's

a do political reality as well. this entire region protecting cause of son is wedged between russia. it has one of the longest non folders in the world. it is the 2nd longest with russia and china on the other side. and both are huge players, so whatever is decided, see, they may get to us that economically, politically, it's a lot more tricky. give us a sense of the significance of this summit make head of for both germany and sense the central asian countries that are involved. how important is it for them? so well, it's key for central asia to have another option to intensify those trade relations and to offer their own people is to, to it's very much important to hear between what is being said between the lines for the german chancellor, particularly in view of so called do use goods and there are indications that clear indications that they are being shipped through this region,

2 votes and russia. so these are parts used in the attack against a crazy that is something from the europe wants to see. and in exchange that could be more integration it towards the europe. more investments can be attracted here in the region. but one thing is clear, we so a press conference at scraps of by the cars that president very short notice was a diplomatic, a demonstration of how it was rude to say the very least. so please at this country, tons of sound, but the entire region is also key and to send a signal towards the rest. so that is not affecting what 0 which is simply cannot do geographically. so these are the 2 complicating factors. and somewhere in between both sides, a treading on excels at to make this move projective, particularly when it comes to the economy, an energy rent

a room material security center in europe because of a thank you very much. as always, i was dw is chief political editor, me, kate, a customer in a spot a. the bell. china is marking mid autumn festival. a time when families come together to take part in traditions and indulging traits. and a wildlife park of the southwest is making sure everyone gets a taste of the action. animals came from high and low to feast on moon cakes, and other specialties tailored to their dietary needs. all those who were feeling flocked together for the occasion. no picky eaters, or even psyched on the you're watching the w news. just reminder, the top story we're following for you. severe flooding is wreaking havoc across central in eastern europe. following days of trench will reign,

at least 17 people have died and many are missing across poland, austria, romania in the czech republic with southern germany effective as well on terry market. thanks for watching the

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