the, the, this is dw news, live it from berlin, thousands evacuating their homes, and the worst floods to hit central europe in decades. 19 people have now been reported killed into flooding. many more are missing and authorities. a warning of that the worst may be yet to come. also coming up from one extreme to the next severe droughts are fueling wild fires. in portugal in spain, at least 7 people have died and firefighters are raising to save people's homes. and could he be the next chancellor of germany? the countries conservatives are bidding on friedrich merits. they've chosen him to challenge chancellor, olaf schultz in next year's election. the

i bridge off is good to have you with this, we begin with the rising waters. you're in europe and the rising depths, total official, say at least 19 people have now been killed into flooding across the central and eastern europe from northern italy. a low pressure system has been keeping record amounts of rain across austria, the check republic, poland, hungary, and romanian. and this is the rainfall forecast for the next couple of days. the most severe in dark blue evacuations continue as rivers over spill and dykes threatening to burst storm forest dumped over a months worth of rain on a large swath of europe, leaving a deadly trail of destruction for people living near the regions, waterways. the deluge was disastrous. a pulse drama in the northeast check republic is that the confluence of 4 rivers. at least one dike failed flooding the

cities industrial center, as well as residential areas where hundreds we evacuated. helicopters, pulled stranded people off of roofs and vehicles. we had to move out as we were in a flood zone. we have to wait for the water to drop a little. there's no water, no electricity. it's bad. some people have it worse. in south west, poland, lumnick resident said, flood waters had knocked out all the bridges, leaving the town isolated. the once picturesque central plaza is now full of debris and mud. so many of the losses are unimaginable for the city. all the bridges are broken, asphalt is coming off. the town doesn't have the funds to repair it to the city looks like an apocalypse. i would call it a ghost town. yes, the wounded couple caught you except the key. yeah. you get to be honest with this

and you're still reading what the parts of austria have been swamped as well. the village of most be a bomb was evacuated after a nearby dam broke and we were afraid. it was scary. we didn't know what we would do if we had to leave. it was a catastrophe. i can't explain it. it's awful. while the water has receded in some places, others are bracing for more throwing up sandbag barriers and keeping an eye on fluffed gauges. as the build up of high water moves down stream, climate experts say the regions, worst flooding in decades, didn't come out of nowhere. as, as the atmosphere warms can hold more water, which will return to earth. sometimes with disastrous consequences. authorities, it saves the situation in eastern parts of austria,

remains dense officials of declared the region of disaster zone. the threat of failing dams in land slides is high. evacuations in the area continue. many people are still without electricity, areas, relief as flood, waters gradually recede in some communities, leaving behind masses of mud and destruction. dw is julia sold. daily reports are here in the town of most via bomb and lower all 3 of water has come into one of the main streets of the town. and residents have told me that a few kilometers down that way. a damn broken water came over flowing and came into the town and going into people's homes. and so there's sellers, but also onto the ground floor as now people told me the water level here on the street was pretty much up to me high now it is slowly going down. the problem is water is still there and there is no power at the moment. so people who are trying to clean out the homes and the sellers over there,

they don't have any power to be able to use pumps to get the water out of the building. and start to clean up. now here on this side, we have the main station of the town. and we see the train tracks also completely covered in water tree and traffic has been completely interrupted in this area. and we see now as the day goes on, the more firefighter is more people are starting to come into the town to check on the damage, but also to start working on cleaning up all the damage that has been cause here by the water. every party from austria. well, well one part of europe is under water. another is going up in flames. wildfires in portugal will have claimed southern lives and civil protection authorities to the 3 portuguese firefighters died tuesday with their vehicle was trapped by flames. in the northern part of the country, more than a 1000 firefighters in the central regions are racing to save homes from the blazes

more help as arrived from france, greece and neighboring spring of the hellish scenes on the edge of town central portugal is experiencing. and then usually try september this year. signed by strong winds, the wild fire flames reach the town of scott. several homes have been bend and the smoke is left residents joking. the daytime, smothered by acted black smoke, and the nighttime sky aflame in red. before it for you and for you, it was panic and i took refuge at home. i had never seen anything like that. the fire was all around the village. she knew, well, you've you. so firefight is special. how to tackle the blaze and local join then why they can watch the bombing planes were deployed

with more on the way from spain, france and pre owned a saw it to say they were using all the results is they have available thoughts. they have a full capacity this command took them to at this moment everyone who is available working as well. so they're making great efforts. let's get to be able to help out in areas where we are calling to protocol. so, but it will be a very difficult job if that device settings provide moving to the field. the and usually went out to be a meant to portugal. a neighboring stain recorded few fires in 2024. so fast. scientists believe such a rhetoric, weather patterns and likely to become more frequent due to climate change. a quick look now, some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world, the death toll from flooding and me and more has doubled more than 220. that's

according to stay media. dozens of people are also missing following and type food that swept across the region last week. united nations is more than 600000 people had been effected by the flooding. in france, the man on trial for the mass raven abuse of his wife says he's a rapist and has admitted to all charges. it's the 1st time dominique tellico has testified in court, is accused of drugging his wife and recruiting men online to reaper. molly's military government says it's foiled and attacked by terrorists on the outskirts of the capital bombing up. the armies as gunman tried to infiltrate a police school. the west african nation has been playing by violence from rebel groups for over a decade. but attacks in the capital r ray or the us tech company, intel has announced that it's delaying plans to build a mega chip making factory here in germany. it's blaming the 2 year. hold up on

a slump in growth. the 30000000000 europe projects would be the largest foreign direct investment in german history and the government in berlin, and had agreed to provide 10000000000 euros in subsidies german trans or what shows in context on wrapping up a 3 day visit to central asia, which included talks on boosting fuel, as well as increasing cooperation. he and the president of conflicts done also talked about the war in ukraine. epic signs president saying that russia's military is invincible and that it is time to make a peace deal in germany's opposition. christian and democrats have tabs of free drink merits, as their candidate for chancellor, inexperienced federal election merits. who leads this cd? you received an endorsement from his sister party at a press conference here in berlin earlier today. opinion polls but the conservative block, a head of the courage, ruling government coalition merrit just calling for

a tougher line on immigration. a key issue for voters transfer. lock shields is 3 way coalition, and finally, for its political, survive unlimited inside the loss of vote or support. let's listen in to watch the christian democrats candidate for chance to predict, man, it's what he had to say to day during that press conference meeting. it's not fun, we're now looking ahead in the federal election is in just over a year. on september 28th of 2025 w from of com. we know that we have a number of tasks. click another thing, but we're also looking at the current situation please me to talk, but we have already achieved something while an oppositional hosted up was its own house. it's also a vice trunk easy look at migration policy can be gonna jones party take on without us and send our clear position on these issues at the tone. and these are some of the federal government's decisions. so i probably would not have been made bu, sorry to indeed our phone gave them your help and people, we have persuaded the federal government to make one or 2 decisions. so to do

better now, who does it is still not good enough and is this, which is why we are sticking to our clear position or clock. and posing that it is necessary to turn people back at the borders of thought, at least for a time. good enough, we will continue to work this out with the federal government just with you invite to also talking about our political corresponded hon drive. he was at the press conference in berlin. i asked him, are we looking at the next chance or in germany? the way things look at the bottom, and that seems very likely. yes. as you said, the house show that the c d. u is by far the strongest policy at the moment other on 30 percent. the next strongest party is the far right alternative for jo. need any off to that is or not shows the tron. so this policy, the social democrats in the polls as around 15 percent. so the way things stand at the moment, the conservative look almost certain to win bonds. it's almost a year. it's more than a year until the election is take place. that's a very long time in politics. as good as mass has just basically eliminated his

politic internal arrival from bavaria. but in the past election 3 years ago, the bavarian party um did a lot to we can. it's kind of the conservative candidates at the time. that's hope that that will be avoid at this time wrong, but there's no certainty of that. so that could even be project internal criticism or problems still coming up. and then with the mouse and his personality is also somebody who's not exactly the most popular politician in germany. he comes off in the cross as a, as a bit arrow gun. and his impulse, if he can be quite scared, anything in his comments. so there's a long way to go, a long hill to climb or a mountain to climb. yeah, and the, the courage governing coalition is you said the, the parties, the 3 parties that make up the for, and government that they're, they're pulling numbers or dismal. how do you expect them to react moving forward now that they know who their main contender is going to be to?

well, we all assume the chance of the charlotte's will be the candidate of the social democrats. he was quoted today as saying that it's okay for him. that switch mounts will be the candidate of the conservative. so he's presenting a very um, relaxed a tight facade to this. so, so far the co edition government has been saying that they should just continue governing that should to pass the laws that they want to pause. they should show to people that think they can be reliable and governments that they can complete the plans that they have been laying for so many months, especially on the issue of migration with several agreements have been signed recently and so on. but obviously the coalition has been very fracture as in the, in the past 2 months since he is, has been, has been a lot of in fighting. it's done lots to describe that itself as it were amongst voters. so the question is really, whether in it's coming yeah, the coalition government will be able still to consolidate its way of,

of ruling of running the country. whether that will put swayed voters. but at the moment, it looks very much as though this coalition is not likely to re be re elected to win the election next year. our political corresponded with the ponds abroad with the latest right here in berlin. ponds, as always. thank you. and finally, china is marking the mid olden festival is the time when families come together and indulging treats, but it's not fully humans. take a look at this wildlife park in south west showing that animals have come from high and low to feast on moon k. and other specialties tailored to their dietary needs. and those who were feeling peckish, flocked together for the occasion. know picky eater, and we understand we're in site that's

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