the, the, this is the, the, is 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 that the worst may not yet be over. also coming up russia's attack, so new cranes, energy infrastructure leave millions of people born are both to the coming winter. as the cold closes in more ukrainians are switching to alternative sources of electricity, giving new meaning to the term sustainable energy. plus a commission present worth left on the line unveils her new leadership team,

will find out more from our correspondent in brussels and the ring the bell for freedom from cancer, dw visits, a children's cancer clinic, and 11 on funded by private donations. but the threatened to white beacon only crisis and regional conflict, the hello m terry martin. thanks for joining 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 to austria of romania and the czech republic. germany is also affected. the flooding is the worst. some reasons i've seen in more than 20 years.

tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee the rising waters. the situation in many areas remains critical. as 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 surface down inside them with the guns i did ready to continuously for 4 or 5 days set in stone in the for everything has been on the roots of things yesterday mornings date. i've done some visuals. i've also fallen from the, from over there to hoover that the also came up to a new level. most of your students mean when it came to the water and drowned, well, it's a lot at every seller shelf is on there to see it as kind of with a go for to nearby residents. also assessing the damage to the homes

from the historic floods associated with him in 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. during fatigue shows the extent to flood damage to the neighboring check for public an entire district of the city of us drop a flooded off to redone bust and the river. nearby parts 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. 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, while some communities clean up the mass so left by the floods, others are preparing for the worst. like in parts of poland, our team coverage continues with our reporter, marcia thor, in the polish city of watts, while which, with this disastrous flooding of the late nineties and evacuations,

continue in lower all street. where our correspondent julia, south valley has been visiting towns inundated by the storm. the government has declared the whole region a disaster. so 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 a release the water from one of the biggest retention dams. and now the water came through the river of vist should sell. 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 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 this lava the capital of slovakia. and uh, 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? 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 miss i has

already is already facing the worst flood for about i think the decades um many cities are going to be flooded. so a lot of cities like a porno 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 let's catch up on a few other stories making headlines around the world. today. the death toll from flooding in neon mar has doubled over 220 according stake media. thousands of people are also missing following a tie food that sweat through the region. last week the united nation says more than 600000 people have been effective by the flooding. their molly's military government says it's boiled and attacked by terrorists on the outskirts of the capital bomber co. the army says gunman trying to infiltrate a police school. the west african nation has been plagued by violence from revel groups for over a decade. but attacks in the capital are rare. german transfer all of shots isn't causing stun. wrapping up

a 3 day visit to central asia hill talks with cause. i present the same jo month of taught to kaya on boosting, fuel deliveries and increasing cooperation. the 2 leaders also talked about the ukraine war to kyle told sholtes that russia's military was invincible. and that it was time to make a peace deal. for minister emily to bel boxes, berlin, we'll provide ukraine with an additional 100000000 euros and a to help the war ravaged countries through the winter energy experts estimate that ukraine has lost about half of its electricity generation capacity since the beginning of russia's full scale invasion, most of the countries thermal and hydro electric power plants had been destroyed, leaving millions of ukrainians, vulnerable to what is likely to be a very harsh winter. as the cold closes in many ukrainians are searching for alternate sources of energy and warm skyscrapers without

electricity for august gas trinity test keeping got these invest runs humming and the night streets plunged into darkness. the fibers shortages in summer, regular in ukraine, but they both a more did you just in the winter many ukrainians are preparing for the harsher winter rent energy consumption because even higher mode and more solar panels are bidding of site homes now. and one of them on your family has in store has been in there to come stuffing and the, the light strip. the family has begun using an environmentally friendly system of a symbol with gen factories. and it is 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. it's like this. and now look, if you turn on the light, the whole room is fully illuminated table. and this home is now completely disconnected from the crate and candidates power. it says the solar panels work with the system similar to on the us. yeah, i mean there's my, well, i don't even know when it is lights and when there's no lights 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, we're almost around the clock of or most, but it's a while ago and it's a new one. yeah. during the day the sun file was the house and char, just about trees. when data is low, sun, the batteries look at the charter, so the heart of the system, right, it's going to want in order that going towards that direct got in from the bad news and battery. so into was there anything got an update appliances josh has

cost immense damage to ukraine in there. teen for us. stop to san fran. power plants have been destroyed in january. so weird winter weather lift more than $1000.00 towns and villages without electricity in a least 9 regions. exports caused distrust shots strategy of 50 nice and winter strategy, but ukrainians are hoping to be ready for that. come with me. that drops again european commission present worth left on the line has named her anomalies for new commissioners who will lead the block for the next 5 years. on the line said, women will make up 40 percent of the new commission representing the 27 member states. her picked for executive vice president, italy in politician rafael ephito is proving controversial. critics say it's likely

to meet resistance in the european parliament. lawmakers there have to sign off on the nomination shit into a brussels bureau chief ethics. other phenomena is covering this alexandra for the 1st time of far right politician has been nominated to the executive body. how much of a surprise is that of the world term? it was not a big surprise that detailed he was going to get one of the commissioner posts in the new commission because of to all of course utilities. one of the founding members of the european union is one of the most populous countries in the block. and to judge and maloney, it's her rights off the tale in prime minister and said that her party, brothers, or of utility the party would post freshest roots is ruling as part of the government in, in italy. so it was their rights to nominate

a candidate for that commission. however, what was discussed and is quite controversial is the fact that there are candidates missed fits. so it's getting a quite powerful job with the a powerful portfolio. who's not only nominated as a commissioner, but also as you mentioned, as an executive vice president. and he will be confirmed in charge of cohesion and reforms, and therefore potentially in charge of distributing a lot of money across the block. so that is why many here in the european parliament, the socialist and democrats and the greens are very upset. and so we are probably going to see some to be a lend to hearings in the european parliament. and when it comes to this proposal. what's the choice of new commissioners tell us alexander about the direction that

the use headed in as well. in general, it is showing us the new challenges that the european union is facing. and of course the new priorities of that. so it was about funded lion sees, therefore, the european union and for their commission, for instance, for the very 1st time we are perfectly going to see a new commission for defense because defense and security is such a big topic for the european union. with the warning ukraine raging on the use doorstep and here it is all about producing more emanation, more weapons, but also ending the fragmentation of the defense industry within the block. and then of course, when we talk about the green deal and the transition of industry here, one of the executive vice president is going to be in charge of that. then the topic of competitiveness, european union, it's lagging behind it's economic rivals, the u. s. and china,

so the wants to focus on that's the topic as well. and one of the executive vice presidents will be in charge of this for toil. so as you can see, all the new challenges and, and the priorities are being reflected. so it's in the make up of been you commission? well, the part of it now has to approve fund the lions nominees. uh. is it likely the part of is likely the problem will waive all the nominations through at least 100 or you know, i don't think so. we've been speaking with so many members of the parliament and we just mentioned the tell you know, many that is quite contentious. and last time, 5 years ago we know many needs of failed to secure the necessary approval by the european parliament this time. as i said, could be the tell you, i'm a candidate or hungry is candidates and mr. bar haley. he was a member of the commission in the last 5 years,

but he is not liked by many. he and the european parliament, once he even the rates and members of the u, a. p, and parliament as idiots. so it will be very interesting to see and the big how and if he's going to secure the approval by the european parliament and the problem is a bit that the whole process is it taking a lot of time more than anticipated? and it could be that the new commission will be not able to start working this year . so a very interesting times that had here for the european union and it's executive a body. alexander, thank you very much. our brussels bear chief alexander from them. thank you, terry. the man suspected of trying to assassinate donald trump has been charged with federal gun crimes. prosecutors say additional and more serious charges. could paula court documents reveal that the suspect camped outside trump's golf course

with food and the rightful. i say you waited for nearly 12 hours for the former president, for the secret service agent foiled the potential attack with these for the guns, but it shows the moment the suspected gunmen design are it's nice to investigate dispute. the 15, if you don't mind, appears to have feet it near former president donald trump golf course for about 12 hours in an updated attempt assessing. meet him with the semi automatic rifle secret service agents bucket that i put in the bushes. an open file. the gunman slip and shortly afterwards he was taken into custody. as former president trump was moving through the fit fairway across the course and out of sight of the 6 green. the agent who was 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 you 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 force on home, but the incident has, once again brought the us secret service under scrutiny. one are really, the latest incident happened just 2 months after he was shot at this time, been valley in pennsylvania. us president, job items these, the agency needs more support. one thing i want to make clear service for help. the dine hasn't addressed 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 filling on possession of a fi um with an updated cd,

a number in a post under social jump tank, the secret service and others for keeping him safe. in an interview with fox digit, the drum 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. what's that good? once again, raised the political temperature ahead of the us presidential elections. the 11 on were children with cancer are among the most vulnerable in a country battered by political stalemate and economic crisis and conflict on the border with israel. the children's cancer center of 11 on in baby root has treated more than 5000 children in the last 2 decades. but as the, the use mohammed trades have discovered

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