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jobs up for grabs. freaking use 1st ever defense commission the on. so. okay, well welcome to the program. lebanon's health minister says more than 2500 people have been injured. after pages used by the has bala i'm village militia group exploded singleton this way across the country as well as fighters and medics that are among the wounded. several best have been before to rain. you need your st. iran's ambassador to 11 on has been injured. as by law says, it's investigating the cause of the blasts. israel has declined to comment. makram a rabbit elect using the history of the american university of baby ruby to welcome to dw, i'm going on. what's going on there at the moment? slow. certainly people are realizing what just happened. all of

a sudden it was like a scene auto say hollywood movie, people who are part and parcel of his beloved community as well as lillian organizations weren't getting outdated feature to college. she had their devices exploded in a new, very weird way. i don't think that people expected that this would happen nationwide all the way even into adjacent syria. i think what the vendors were able to do is to follow and use this as a kind of for minute video or security strike. but the brother model, the psychological warfare which will be with everyone or parts. unfortunately, not that they can lose the limits for they can have the kind of a permanent scar, even though many people die. and this is very tragic. many of the people who are still alive already agree with the wounded. and many of them have lost limbs. all of this is sports and portion of it reminded what is really what is happening is

not the kind of a war game but tries to be partners and really going to okay, so no, no, israel has made no comment on this. but what we're presuming that this is israel behind this, well certainly as well in the past, even when everyone knew that they were responsible for some of the attacks, they never officially take responsibility. but we are more than sure that such a kind of a high tech security and municipal production could only come from the city. and the 1st half of tax has below, which has driven this organization to use. that's called low tech, a instruments including defensive and as you know, no one venue of the younger generation. don't really know what the picture is. so many of the new is the reporting was just gonna start, explain to us why it has the law is using pages anyway, as because technically

a page or is it kind of a closed circuit which is alternate to not by an operator like my and your cell phone works, but rather by his beloved. so i think that they have purchased a large amount of pictures because recently the land network and even the mobile upper it does have been hacked by israel, which has driven them to go any kind of for more low tech fashion. and by doing so, they have been exposed to the new type of danger. and what happened today is pulled up and this was, was, was very public, wasn't just people just walking down the streets and, and, and suddenly that was saying explosions. yes. for that, we have video footage to show people who are at the grocery store, picking up phones, or just people that were driving under mopeds, all of the sudden by a kind of a strange sequence. the pictures exploded under big as you are aware, these are instruments which are carried on your body. so many of the injuries also

happen because at the same time, there was a kind of a message that was sent out. so everyone fetched their device and took them up to their eyes. so many of the injuries are to the faces and to their limbs. in addition to the fact that many people, children of these fighters were playing around with these pictures. unfortunately, a child that lives in her life. okay, thank you for driving us through that to a maximum dropout with the university of bye. thank you. and at least 21 people are now not going to have died in flooding across central and eastern europe. major low pressure system in northern italy is that record of mine, so frightened across austria to check public poland, hungary and remain here. now this is right and these are bringing full full costs for the next few days. the heaviest precipitation is month in dark blue and with river levels still rising. evacuations continue. the 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. la strada 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 were 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 picture risk 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. the city looks like an apocalypse. i would call it a ghost town. yes, the wounded couple call you except that you all kept him last week. this me, i still reading with a couple of the parts of austria had been swamped as well. the village of most of the 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, the climate experts say the regions, worst flooding and decades,

didn't come out of nowhere. as the atmosphere warms can hold more water, which will return to earth. sometimes with disastrous consequences. less flood waters upstream received people downstream as far as poland, different pattern for the worst with the river level is expected to pay later this week. both a thought before it's not from the published town of a lot of or the situation. poland for now is seems to be stable. we are now in the city of o y, which is 30 kilometers close to but also have them a trophy off slower. so easy a and there the, the biggest floods has been happening. also, the water came down from the czech republic. in here, we're facing the biggest wave tomorrow by tomorrow. and right now the river of lava in the back, is already at the tide of 7 meters, and it will get critical tomorrow. so since yesterday the volunteers are helping

with bringing send back to uh to the river and also smaller communities. the don't have any help. they have already close down some dams. and in the night, some areas, smaller villages have been flooded. right now with me, there is so many ca, who's the coordinator in a while. but there's unique i. how is this situation right now in a while them? yeah, kind of supervisors 160. so we're trying to make it stable, terry leeks and some places. but we're trying to push the month as soon as possible . we signed by which people have been making his since this morning. i hope that we can keep the embankment says they are um on the day. is that with some of our like excel, how much sand and how many people have you been working with for the past past 2 days? honey. uh, nothing. mom. we have been operating here since yesterday, so i'm

a working with the goodwill of the people. local residents fall into senior sky. everyone who wants to help us here, cuz yesterday we made over 20000 signed bugs. here it was on this number is growing all the time. gaskin, we have spreading to places where the embankment to lee can give me a sort of like a korean for steve, just to kind of invalid. okay, so the situation here in alaska is already stable, but tomorrow no one really knows what will happened. the situation here is very dynamic and so is it is in the world swap as well. what's mother to reports and what's on, on what the situation is like here in germany. political correspondent, learning from homicide, can bring this up today to welcome them. any. where are you? what's out? we are there. it's to do. what's the latest? yes, i'm here in berlin. but the situation in germany seems to calm down for now. i mean, it's not as bad as and you know, the neighboring countries um,

that we saw on the report there. and as there were 3 rivers here in germany to that run through the eastern and south eastern drum regions of germany that have also seen very elevated water levels over the last couple of days. and you know, especially the, as a river experience sort of exceeded the 6 made her mark, which also triggered the 2nd highest alarm level. but they, they've been rising much lower than anticipated. and so the authorities half a situation under control for now the as a river is expected to rise a bit more um, you know, throughout the nights. but again, out of slower pace as an in the neighboring and the neighboring countries and then an anticipated. and now sex and these environment minister has said that the fact that sex me has come through this flooding relatively unscathed, also has to do with the resources and the preparation that have gone into. so i prevention measures over the last couple of years. give us, let's talk about those measures of 2021 was

a particularly deadly year 135 people. what, what killed when flood was swept through the valley in the west of germany. what did the country loan from that? i mean for as the dream i learned that you know more frequent floods are part of a new normal. as you know, the effects of time of change are being felt here in central europe to, i mean this country has seen several major flooding events already just this year, and as always september, and now the interior minister and 90 phaser who is responsible for the disaster response and has said that the country has drawn a lot of lessons from the obviously catastrophe. let's remember what went wrong that and you know, a lot of things went wrong, but just the main points that early warning systems failed. and i was through to sort of for communication failure, not only of technical communication failure, but also failure of communication between the municipal, regional and federal level and a lot of infrastructure and wasn't prepared at all for those type of flooding

events. now, you know, physically has said that your muse done, you know, loves things in all these areas, but there's still a lot of room for improvement. just to name 2 major points. one, you know, a lot of houses in the very itself are being built were rebuilds in the exact same spots where they were before leaving the river know, retention areas that as you know, it's something very so if necessary, foundational for any type of flood prevention and secondly, we've seen that a lot of states have seen major flooding. events have invested a lot of resources. you know, the and sort of civil protection is up to the federal level and, and other states have them. so the implementation varies when you look from federal state to federal state here in germany. ok, thanks for that. the w corresponded really fun, comes with the floods of also have the all stream capital of vienna, but the cities resisting them backs up and many. let's take

a look at the massive flood defense system. they built in the 19 seventy's and eighty's. austria is capital vienna wouldn't exist without the danube river. but over the centuries, the city has experienced a series of devastating floods. including in 1954 that inspired a mass of g o. engineering project, the creation of an artificial arm of the river. the so called new danube running parallel. still a body of water controlled by dams, that in times of trouble saves the day. the danube river is nearly 3000 kilometers long and flows through 10 european countries. when it gets to vienna, during normal times, it continues to flow along its ancient root. but if the water level rises to high floodgates northwest of the city, open up the new danube, which can absorb the huge volumes of extra water, southeast of the city. the new danube joins the river and the city stays above the

water. the project was controversial and took 16 years to pull off, but the city got a bonus. the danube island made of the earth if it was excavated for the new river channel. cheap grades here along side city dwellers out for relaxation. however, the city has not been completely immune to the most recent floods. a small stream has flooded in recent days, putting parts of the city under water. but nothing like what would happen if the daniel overran its banks. the new danube a win win situation for the city. one solution to buy time as climate change raises flood risk worldwide. i mean the space is a hybrid meteor, ologist who specializes in developing early warning systems, particularly for flooding. james blind. how van is

a flood defense system works during this most recent raft. yes sir. it's so it's kind of built on a massive slip planning. it should be a big moslem system. so when we're talking about a set defense system in vienna, we actually mean the reason the city to exist, they are told is because of civil engineering throughout history that has been able to city to grow up. uh, so we have some of the defenses on the river down you've itself, which include a must've been released channel them and done, you've island, which they've performed really well. it's not being bid for the, from the, during the but we have seen flooding from some of the smaller streams running through the city. i'm not sure. i think we started to have this conversation about how well the for the defense system is worked. and despite now you are paying commission present to us in the funds. the line has revealed nominees for the commissioners who will leave the block for the next 5 years. you will have a defense commission for the 1st time reflecting the new challenges facing the block nominations that have to be ratified by the repeating parliament before that

consent. she seems almost relieved. finally, on bailey and con, you team of 2 weeks of political horse trading and suspected backroom deals. what was the last on the line, acknowledge in stress poor could that it was difficult to please everyone, but she also made clear. this is a team she consider as well equipped to help the u. a. p. in the union navigate through to motor was times the key message is that wherever we come from is what ever our job title we must all work together. the only guiding star is the european interest. the new commission reflects the new challenges the block is facing with security and defense. top of the agenda, especially for a new queen, continues the u. wants to strengthen its defense industry, all base and invest more in arms production. and he is the man who is expected to

address those issues formerly. so in your environment is to under use could be a use who's been designated as the 1st ever you commission. that for defense is absolutely clear as a single markets in, in defense industries very much for recommended. and of course the innovation. so new technology, sol, so very much you need it to be brought back to our military. and this, the green transition of you industry is another priority for the incoming commission as well as the question of how to strengthen the blocks competitiveness in global markets. what is the phone? the line has tended powerful portfolios to friend spain in a totally, but d totally unknown. mean ne, in particular, is the one facing the most resistance from the european parliament. rafael ephito as the 1st fluoride candidates to be nominated as a member of the use executive buddy. he's said to be in charge of some forms

regional development and cohesion, italian government. they are not known for being very much in line with the policies of the european union when it comes to spending, for example. and cohesion is one 3rd of the budget. the of course commission, instead of deeply working uh not at least the tell them administer, but also several of this in the end. it's the members of the european parliament who have the final say they needs to approve fund alliance team and upcoming conformation hearings. only then the commission that european union's most powerful body will be able to take office law report from my brussels bureau chief, alexandra from not. who told me more about the new defense commission a role? well, i think what really matters is that he's home country lease way and yet has been from the start of russia's invasion of ukraine. one of the staunchest supporters of

ukraine, arguing the the, and convincing the other members of the european union to support ukraine to deliver more width. and i'm a nation. everything that you crane may needs and also view the 2 ania was the country who has been warning the others at that in a couple of years. as some experts say a, the kremlin may decide to attack me to territory. but i think what is more important in this case here is that he is a very experienced quotations. he was between his prime minister twice. he's very well connected here in the european parliament. and he also knows that in the defense area and defense policy, the u. a p n union has so far plates and mine or role, so he knows that he will needs to manage expectations. there were a bigger nations to be a countries, poland,

and friends. they were also interested in this portfolio, but they dropped away when they learned that this is not the core jump that is also about managing expectations. and so does this look like a was building up a power allows structure to nature? well, he told me, no, we had a chance to catch up with mr. values. and he said, a nato is responsible for defense plans for the european union. it's more about boosting the industrial base for defense for taking care of regulations. and indeed, in nato and many members, more than 20 members of the european union are also members of nato need to. it's a book about defense plants, but it's off to russia invasion of ukraine. they also focus on joint procure months on boosting the industrial base. so as experts say that could be a danger of parallel structures. however, the big question is, of course,

what is the future in europe when it comes to it's a security oh, who will be the next president in the white house, carmella harris, or don't know, trump, they both have different positions on nato and america's role in for the european security, so the, for the europeans, for many of them, it is clear that they will need to take on a bigger role when it comes to their own defense, regardless of who will be the next president in the white house. and what's happened to this, this green deal that see the funds a lot. it was so was pushing so hard when she was 1st introduced job, it seems to have dropped down her list of priorities. well, i think this is a rights of what do you indicate to, would you lose a lot from the alliance said here today that the green deal is still demetria, spectra of everything that her commission will be doing. but t o, she also stressed that is because of a rush of for a new crane. it's also now about defense and security. and also of course the now

the priority for her commission is the competitiveness of because the u. s. lagging behind it's rivals competitors. the u. s. and china, so it seems like define the deal is not so much on top of the agenda. i think you're alexandra, i dw specials bureau chief alexandra from a gentleman, a physician, need a frederick match, looks all my son to become the chance of the candidates for his christian democratic party in the federal elections next year. he leads the sense of right, c, b, u, and today the press conference in by the receiving doors when to have his closest rival opinion polls put the conservative block ahead of the ruling. 3 potted coalition. mister max is calling for a tough a line on immigration. that's a key issue of of justice team. the current ruling coalition, and that by the chance of my own actual is fighting for its political survival,

meant influencing the loss of both to support and feed knob. so here is friedrich mat speaking today's press conference to get to the phones. we're now looking ahead and in the federal election is in just over a year and so on september 28 of 2025. i you from of god. we know that we have a number of tasks. click another thing, but we're also looking at the current situation cuz me to park we have already achieved something. well, an oppositional host. it opens its own house. it's also a vice trunk easy look at migration policy. can we go to launch party take on without us ones that are 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 . we saw it to indeed our phone gave them how many 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're sticking to our clear position or clock and posing that it is necessary to turn people back at the borders of so at least for a time good enough we will continue to work this out with the federal government.

this way you'll invite are also talking about. so we'll frederick mats become chancellor, next yet. here's our political correspondent, hands brunt the way things look at the bottom. and that seems very likely, yes. as you said, the polls show that the cd us by far the strongest quality at the moment other on 30 percent. the next strongest party is the far right alternative for germany and any off to that is or not shows the tron. so this policy of 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, but it's almost a year. it's moving to. yeah. until the election is take place. that's a very long time in politics, as good as mass has just basically eliminated as politic, internal arrival from bavaria. but in the past election 3 years ago, the bavarian policy um to the lots to week and it's kind of the conservative candidate at the time. there'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 these madison. his personality is also somebody who is not exactly the most popular politician in germany. he comes off in the cross as a, as a bit arrow gun and he's impulsive. he can be quite scathing and his comments. so there's a long way to go. a long hill to climb or a mountain to climb sons. bronze is one of our top story is this. our lebanon's health minister says more than 2500 people have been injured after pages used by the has fall on munition group exploded. singleton is to be across the country as bill of 5 percent, maddox and i'm of the woods. and at least 21 people have been killed in severe flooding across central u. flooding to west some regions i've seen for more than 20 years. tens of thousands of being forced to fling the rising waters situation. a many address remains critical, smooth if this past impacts that sounds dw,

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