the, the, this is the, the, the news coming to live from berlin. central europe is bracing for more heavy rain after being inundated by severe flooding. belief 17 people have done so far and authorities are warning that the worst may not yet be over. also coming on russia's attacks on ukraine's energy infrastructure. leave millions vulnerable to the coming winter. as the cold cold closes in more ukrainians are switching to alternative sources of electricity, giving new meaning to the term sustainable energy. the

hello i'm terry morrison. good to have you with us. so we are flooding is wreaking havoc across central and eastern europe following days of torrential rain. floods triggered by exceptionally heavy rainfall in central europe have caused at least 17 deaths across poland, austria romania, and the czech republic. germany is also affected. flooding is some of the worst regions of seen in more than 20 years. tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee the rising waters. situation in many areas, remains critical as more rivers burst their backs. well, because 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 surface down and said,

i want the guy that is ready to continuously for 4 or 5 days, set this phone into for everything has been on the roots of things yesterday mornings date. i got some fusions of also falling from the, from over there to hoover that the was, that came up to a new level. most of the students name one of the name canada walter and drowned. well that's not it. every cell uh soft is on there to see it is kind of with a go for the nearby residents. also assessing the damage to the homes from the historic floods of succeeding women it's on the top is not since the most of my parents told me about assuming that even you didn't use 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 an entire district. if the city of us drop 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 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. yes, i but 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, barriers around the city. as the river rises, most of, excuse me as well. some communities clean up the mess left by the floods. others are preparing for the worst flight in parts of poland. our team coverage continues with our reporter march of 4 in the police city of one swamp, which witness disaster is flooding in the late 19 ninety's. and evacuations continue in lower its austria where our correspond to julia, assault valley has been visiting towns inundated by the storm. the government has declared the region of disasters. a lot of 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 and 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 danube river, which flows then east towards towards those countries. and the river here, authorities are seeing the level is going down, but the 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 and reason, days, water, 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 y by which i'm very close to what i was supposed to say 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 is helping out and we're waiting what it's 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. so dally in austria, thank you very much. the by to the quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world. the death toll from flooding in myanmar has doubled to over 220. that's according state media. dozens of people are also

missing following a type food and that swept through the region last week. the united nations says more than 600000 people had been affected by the flooding. european commission, president or slip under line has named her nominees for new commissioners who will lead the block for the next 5 years on the line and said women will make up 40 percent of the new e. u commission representing the 27 members search european parliament. lawmakers still have to sign off on the nomination that this is rarely prime minister. benjamin netanyahu has expanded his country's slated states and goals for the war in gaza to include enabling the return of residents to israel's northern areas. the decision was proved during an overnight meeting of the security cabinet. tens of thousands of israelis had to be evacuated in recent months. due to hezbollah attacks, pro level meta has issued a total ban on russian state media outlets. citing for an influence activity. med

is platforms include instagram and facebook is comes after the us justice department charged employees from r t rushes, state broadcast or laundering money, and producing content influence the us presidential elections. joe and foreign minister on the box says berlin will provide ukraine with an additional 100000000 euros and aid to help the war ravaged country through the winter energy experts estimate that ukraine has lost about half its energy generation capacity since the beginning of russia's full scale invasion, most of the countries, thermal and hydro electric power plants have been destroyed, leaving millions of ukrainians, vulnerable to what's likely to be a very harsh winter. as the cold closes in many ukrainians are searching for alternate sources of energy. and we're skyscrapers with dr.

hector, for the, for all of us gas trinity just keeping get these and restaurants, humming and the night streets plunged into darkness. barbara shortages in summer, regular in ukraine. but the post a more did you just in the window many ukrainians are preparing for the harsher winter rent energy consumption because even higher mode and more solar fine, those are bidding of site homes now. and one of them on your family has installed in, in their t confessing and the delights trip of the family has begun using an environmentally friendly system. alyssa, boy with gen factories and his work that switches between direct or the need think got an yep. so the you said before we bought a small 12 volt battery, which is very easy to turn on. i'll show you how our child even learned how to turn

it on, or it's like this. now look, if you turn on the light, the whole room is fully illuminated table. and this home is now completely disconnected from the great and genetics power. it fence the solar panel square with the system similar to on the us. yeah, i mean is my, well, i don't even know when it is lights and when there's no light, i have to air conditioning is working well. i have for the whole work, it was hot and there was no electricity. and in this heat, we had air conditioning working well for almost around the clock of almost split through all the credits on your one. yeah. getting the, the, the sun file was the house in charge of the batteries when there is no sun, the batteries, to book the charter. so at the heart of the system with the warrant in order the going towards that direct cut and from the bad news. and bad, reasonable into was there anything got an update appliances josh has cost

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