the ukraine's when the also signed stops october 26 on dw the this is dw news live from berlin, a powerful hurricane of rams into florida. hurricane milton brings life threatening flood waters in from the gulf of mexico. many of already lost their homes as tornadoes ripped through communities, farther inland. also coming up, president biden slams what he calls an onslaught of lies spread by donald trump and his supporters about the disaster. including a claim that the government is manipulating the web and germany marks the anniversary of demonstrations in the east, which led to the fall of the berlin wall. we'll look at how the once divided nation

has developed since re uniting 35 years ago. the and david lab, it's good to have you with us. hurricane milton has made a land fall on the gulf coast of florida. the eye of the storm hitting the coast near sarasota earlier millions were ordered to evacuate. now, authorities are saying it's too late to get out. earlier to a nato struck the community of matlab, shay and other places in south west florida, leaving a trail of destruction and debris. a 1000000 people are now without power. it's only been 2 weeks since the area was hit hard by the last deadly hurricane. and let's bring in some live images. this is what it looks like right now in the town of fort myers. and as you can see,

it springing very strong winds and heavy rains. water levels rising quickly and coastal areas, the storm has been downgraded now to a category to. but authorities say it's still potentially very deadly and expected to do a lot more damage. i once pull in dw reporter stuff on z months and orlando, florida stuff. i'm millions of people were told to leave their homes along florida as west coast, the people who stayed despite those orders. what are they seeing now? the people who are who, who remain there, they're probably fighting for their life because it's done searches. tremendous. and this storm is absolutely historically powerful. even here, a 100 plus miles from the cost away, the wind picked up wind gusts, tremendous rain increased. it's going horizontally. vertical for many

a sites you get to pinched by the rain here. now it does down in about 2 minutes from now it's gone. start again, and you see those palm trees banding in the backend. those power lines waving in the wind. so it's a really, really, really fast and massive storm. those people who are on the west coast of florida in the bay or tampa bay area and south is that where the left, where milton make landfall are in dia, dia trouble, and who didn't leave at q a is really gambling with their lives. everybody else evacuees or here are hunkering down. nobody's on the street. there's a curfew. we just got a, a flash slot, a warning base, tornado warnings out there. there were 17 tornadoes. it had all the land fall recorded in this past of the of the hurricane. already people lost their lives because of those printers $91.00 plus tornado warning. so sorry number. and as you

see now, maybe a can hear it and see it really picking up every 5 minutes. you get a burst of massive winds. wind gusts here, increasing wind speed increasing, and the rain intensifying. so we'll have here in orlando where we are before we can head out and towards heading towards the tampa bay area. we have a flooding situation. so that's clear sense authorities, actually sex is that to happen at the coast at the coast itself and close to the coast. there is going to be water massive waters pushed inland. and with that, the massive flooding situation. and this is the danger, a storm surge or faced up to 15 feet even if it's just 10 feet of every child send us is 14 feet high. that causes major damage. and if you stayed there, people stay there. they are risking their lives or they gambled their lives away. no doubt stuff on did i hear you correctly? but you said there have already been debts reported. yes,

because of the tomatoes reportedly. um, uh there were some, some fatalities because of attorney to touch down. i can tell you the exact county and, and tell me the exact number, but that's what we are seeing and which is reported. now there's so many aspects to the storm. you talked about the tornadoes, that heavy rain, the flooding both from the rain, from rising waters. lots of electricity. what is it that authorities are worried about the most? well here, where we are, it's flash lots. it's lots. it's tremendous amounts of rain storage. come down here in our is that phenomena you get here in a month or 2 is coming down within an hour, inches of rain which, you know, sewer systems, they don't, they can handle that much rain concrete. if you have a, a city of urban area, the problem with that is, grounds are already saturated, where you have grass or any kind of of, of vegetation. the rest is cement,

baton. so it's a, you have a flood situation right? of the bed right when it, when the rain falls, that's here at the coast. it's a, it's a porch flooded flooding, houses and areas destruction of building wind gusts and wind speeds are tremendously higher. we are expecting this in about a few hours to be uh, uh, coming towards orlando again. and this will be still a category one hurricane here. and it's, it's going to get there here. and this is what they had at the coast where the categories free when it made land pool. so it's flooding, it's people being in dire need of rescue. but again, 1st responders and all those rescue to from fema or anybody else, they're not going out anywhere. doing any rescuing before winds don't die down to at least 45 miles an hour. and we can just see those seats of rain behind you there . step on this is the 2nd major hurricane visit, florida and just 2 weeks. how well is florida to deal with this?

how well equipped as part of the deal with this disaster thank goodness for for a party is federal, local state authorities. they had about 2 days, 3 days and saw this coming with mills and that milton explored it to a massive storm in size, the story proportions actually. so they had opportunity to prepare and those preparations, the pentagon, the us, the military department of defense is taken care of 1500000 meals to be this 1st and to be brought into florida. yet when, as soon as the winds are dying down, the storm is coming down little bit 2500000 gallons of drinking water fee. while the federal emergency agency is ready to deploy a 4th utility workers who fix power down power lines in the front line frontline people actually, you know, remove the trees which are felt who down to the power lines. is that correct? is that correct? all of those people see with the forest service or the cost and said,

border patrol authority, they bring rescue teams. and so this is a massive effort with thousands and thousands of people working behind the scenes and are ready states ready to get into the areas where people need the most health and there will be plenty of them. now i know that there's a hurricane is just happening now. it's really early to tell, but how much do we know so far about the damage? milton has done the we don't really, this is really too early. this is happening as we speak. now this is the middle of the night, it's 11 p. m local here. and at the cost of the west coast of florida, same time zone 11 pm. and this will be the next 234. my of hours will be crucial. and as soon as there's a light, you will see that this is where you can expect the, the, the really to see how brought and how devastating damage was done by milton. you know, your stuff on the months there, from orlando, thank you. step on well,

let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines. mozambique has begun counting votes and its general elections. daniel chapo is widely expected to win the presidency, preserving his for lima parties, half a century hold on power. the ruling faction has been accused of rigging past elections, which it denies it could take as long as 2 weeks for the final results to be announced. price on top of $1.00 of india's leading industrialists has died at the age of $86.00. his legacy includes pioneering work in indian aviation and expanding the top i group into a global business, foreign minister and arrange remotely praised ross on top to as a visionary leader and philanthropist. hundreds of students protested in buenos aires against president heavier malays. vito other bill to

increase funding for public universities in argentina and for teachers salaries the despite the mass protests, the lower house of congress failed to overturn the president's vida anyway, as implementing budget cods, as part of his austerity plan, which he claims is the only solution to inflation as uh at least 6 people have been wounded in a stabbing in the central is really city of head dera and what authorities have called a militant attack police via sealants stabs people in multiple locations before fleeing on a motorbike. here that you, the attacker has been arrest. well, here in germany, alarm bells are ringing over the economy. europe's powerhouse is heading for recession. the government is forecasting. growth will drop by a 5th of one percent. this year. officials had previously expected a modest expansion about the day for germany's economy. the new of show

estimates showing the country is still in recession. the german economy is not expected to contract 0.2 percent this year. as reversal of the previous estimate of 0.3 percent, which is consider, i'm getting the economy conditions or anything other does have smart story as a moment problem we will for you guys sell. so that's different and work our way out of house of i fact we are already working out the way out of these prop house, so i buy it and be visiting see to this lender. so the harvest, good time, how i'm looking at i am f productions this year along with the fresh forecast by the german economy ministry. here's how germany is expected to spark up against the us, china, japan, and india. germany is expected to be the only economy of those to contract. a repeat of what's happened in 2023. experts say much of this is due to germany,

its own inaction. specifically its lack of investment. is jeremy, that's in the midst and forgot to invest where you look at the german investment ratio over the last 10 years. it has pretty been one of the lowest in europe to germany. forgot to invest in digitalization, in infrastructure in education. and now with these very weak continued peak road forecasts, it is paying the price for it at once find hope for slight growth has what for right, for the 2nd here in that role, germany is economy is stuck in recession and at the risk of being left behind staying in germany, the country is marking the 35th anniversary of demonstrations which led to the fall of the berlin wall known as the peaceful revolution, chancellor or of choice spoken. leipzig were in 1989 thousands began gathering on mondays to protest against the communist regime in east germany. a show of light in

light to recall east germany's imagined spring darkness. the demonstrations in the city 3 and a half decades ago were a milestone on the road to re unification. addressing the crowds trouts the shields summed up their importance and they are stop these to them and stay with the owners and violence backed down. they liked it happened and that changed not only light sake. not only the ged on, not only germany and europe, the whole world was still going to hold up, i had nothing to be gone to bed. on october, the 9th 199970000 people took delight 6th street, the mounting freedom. with the slogan, we all the people that were fee is of a violent crack down the memory of join is giana men square. mexico was still fresh . but the with our two's didn't know to intervene in the weeks that followed.

protests grew across east germany. the movement became on stuff people as an official commemoration, some of those he took punch in those events and spoke of them meeting today as many . so a link between the peaceful demonstrations of that time and the current struggles for freedom in belarus and you cry. he left the dentist, you will cut many to 9 today that ukraine should no longer receive weapons from gemini, a little they supposedly out of love for peace. it reminds me of how the concept of peace was misused in the ged of health for the what happened in leipzig lead ultimately to the full of the communist regime and the bilingual, a testament to the belief in freedom and the power of peaceful protest. well that's it for now. from warners download the dw news app, you can also check out our website that's dw dot com. i'm david levitz. thanks for

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