old, we can be the generation, the ends that so good. malaria must not so millions can live the this is the, the, the news coming to live from berlin after days of preparations and evacuations. hurricane milton is heading hard on the us gulf coast, wind gusts, over 200 kilometers an hour and heavy rain have knocked out power to more than 2000000 people. authorities are now pricing for a massive storm surge as the hurricane federals through florida. also coming up president bud slams, what he calls and on slot of lies spread by donald trump. and his supporters about the disaster, including a claim that the government is manipulating the weather and the leaders of the us and israel discussed israel's plans to retaliate for rand's miss of attack. as real

as depends minister warrants, retaliation will be lethal, precise and surprising. the hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. hurricane milton is pounding, florida with violent winds and potentially deadly flooding. it struck the states, gulf coast late wednesday as a category 3 hurricane with wins exceeding 200 kilometers an hour. the storms i came a short near sarasota south of its expected land fall in the heavily populated template bay area. it's cut power to more than $2000000.00 homes and businesses and spawns tornadoes that left a trail of destruction. millions of people were earlier told to leave their homes for safety. just 2 weeks after hurricane helene slammed into the area the

hurricane. milton has also become a hot political issue in the us just weeks ahead of the election. in an address from the white house president, 5 and called out republican candidate and former present. donald trump, for leading what he called the on slotted lies about the government's response to this hurricane. and the last one, trump trump's allies, have been making pulse claims, including one congress remote congresswoman who said the government was controlling the weather over the last few weeks has been reckless and irresponsible and relentless promotion of this information and outright lies about what's going on. literally there are, there are thousands of fellow americans are putting their lives at stake and putting on the line to do the dangerous worker needs to be done. and it's hard to those who most need to help. quite frankly, these lies are on american as well with me in the studio is dw,

as washington bureau chief in is paul strong words there from president biden. is yes indeed. you know, i was suppose to be here to cover him. his visits to germany and europe to fight a war and ukraine. nobody's really fighting a war at home about misinformation. it is, you know, ridiculous to listen to what people or politicians like major retailer green for example. but also donald trump, himself say that the government is able to buy a cut kind of during the storm is with losing space. lasers, for example, ended, might sound a little bit ridiculous, maybe even funny, but it's not because it has a major impact on the people on the ground. and of course, also in this upcoming election. that's what i wanted to ask you. i mean, arthur, indications already that this kind of misinformation, this information is actually impacting voters sentiment in the, in the run up to the election. you know, terry, this will be such

a small call. this will be so raise of fin. so really literally every, every vote counts and it's just like a couple of 1000 people will be convinced that by doing that, by dividing harris administration is not doing everything possible to help people out that really might change the outcome of the election. it's a little bit early to say, but donald trump also, for example, puts out that the bite and that ministration is not giving enough money to the people it needs. but giving money to illegal migrants. as donald trump puts it in, that indeed might have an impact. aside from complaining about it though, is there really anything that the democrats or anyone else can do about misinformation? very difficult. i think president biden is doing everything he can right now putting all to this message. but the problem in the united states, as it is, he and germany in many other countries that people only follow their own little and use bubbles. so it is very,

very important to get in there and put out the message. and also, i think for us as d, w as we are seeing all over the world, really report on what is really going on on the ground. and we have people in florida right now, my colleagues from washington and they show what fema what the government is really putting out there. and i think that is also very important. and then aunts are 2 kinds of cope with this misinformation. and there's thank you very much in his pull our washington bureau chief and now we can cross straight over to florida where the hurricane milton is slamming into the coast with us. now, joining us from sarasota in western florida is meteorologist matthew, pushy. matthew, are you with us? i am, and i know my shop. i look a little bit silly right now. when i tell you this is the only source of light around it. this was an emergency exit light that i found in the parking lot of the

entire building right now. the power actually, the entire region in florida is without power. several 1000000 people are in the dark. at this hour i encountered winds of 160 to 170 kilometers per hour where i was a bench from a roof top of a skyscraper narrowly missed my vehicle. earlier on we had traffic lights and roads signs and pieces of debris and even parts of people's roofs whipping by through the streets. and it was actually parked in a way to avoid the storm surge, but the water continued to rise in the streets. so again, a very severe storm. in addition, they were torn 8, it was early run across much of southern and eastern florida, including a killer tornado in for appears that locked in debris to get this roughly 10 kilometers high that killed at least one person in may be among the strongest, a tropical cycle and related to an 8 it was and respond in the united states and it's still not over yet. we've seen that pro is a grain fall, a tampa that that area st. petersburg at 5 point. oh,

$9.00 inches of rain in just one hours time to roughly 13 centimeters. they saw 9 inches and 3 hours, which is deemed a once in a 1000 year rain events. so pretty much every hazard has been maxed out on the scale. i understand the hurricane has now been downgraded to a category one storm. does that really mean anything given what you've just described? yeah. so that, that's a really good question. you know, the hurricane itself is weakening in terms of the wind speed on the tropical element. but one strange thing happening with this system is something called a sting jet. and i know that sounds like a made up term, but it's a real thing. basically, this thing is transitioning from a tropical cycle into a non tropical sites on. and what that means is that dry air is infiltrating the backside well as the dry air under cuts, cloud cover, and rain and moisture, all that random whizzer falls into the dry air. it dries up and so that kind of air . when that part of the storm dries up, dry, here is heavier, so it sinks towards the ground and it pulls down very strong momentum, very strong,

destructive winds with its helping that to reach the surface. so ordinarily the backside of the hurricane is not nearly as bad as the former side. in this case, we're seeing significant winds, hours after the eye has passed, largely thanks to this danger, which is incredibly unusual to happen at this low latitude. you have to get strong, transitioning into florida is very weird. many people are looking at the storm and remembering of course, the one that just hits this storm is expected to be the worst in a century. coming right after hurricane helene, to what extent math you can, we say that the storms are being fueled by climate change. and that they are increasing product. yeah, it's kind of a nuanced answer. i'll give it. it's tricky because it is p car can see as we didn't know, it would be a very busy season. a september, october are the peak months and we have had unlucky stretches before with back to back storms back in 2004. for example, we have hurricane charlie, which is

a category for in fort meyers, florida. back in august, the 13th of that year. then we had a gene and frances, all those terms hitting within about a 6 week period. so for it was hard to get back them and they're on lucky again, right now that said that stores are becoming wet or thanks. a human induced climate change their exhibiting much more fast, rapid intensification and the sea levels are kind of rising as well a little bit. and so all that can contribute to how bad a storm is. it's not going to make a storm, but it's going to contribute to the storm and we know the gulf of mexico right now is several degrees above average, which does appear the fingerprint of climate change. so part of water is more storm fuel and a stronger storm. extraordinary conditions, you're up against their math. you do take care of yourself meteorologist matthew, you can put you in sarasota, florida. thank you. i. let's catch you up on a few other stories making headlines today. taiwan jones, president olay ching tate offered a sometimes fiery,

sometimes conciliatory speech towards china. on taiwan and national day, he said he'll resist moves by china to amex or encroach on the islands territory, but added he's willing to cooperate with beijing on climate change, health issues and quote, maintaining regional security. mozambique has begun counting boats and its general elections. daniel chapa was widely expected to win the presidency for deserving his for lima parties have 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. brought down to one of india is leading industrialist has died at the age of $86.00. his legacy includes pioneering work in, in the, in the aviation, and expanding the topic group into a global business, prime minister and

a rand remote. he prays rough on top of as a visionary leader and philanthropist. c. hundreds of students protested in whether cyrus, against president hobby, and malays vito of appeal to increase funding for public universities and teachers salaries. despite the mass protests, the lower house of congress failed to overturn the president's veto light. is it limiting budget cuts as part of his posterity plan, which the claims is the only solution to inflation us present to you as president the is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu. i've spoken on the phone for the 1st time and weeks is really official. say the talks focused on plans for a retaliatory strike on a ren following its ballistic missile attack on israel last week. after the call is really defense minister york l on said the strike would be deadly precise and surprising. the dw chief international editor richard walker is

in washington. he told us more about the discussions between israel and the us regarding iran. what is clear from the us side is that they want to avoid israel's response of being escalade tree. this, if we will get into a tit for tat situation, which is the risk here. what's very important from the west coast back to visit those 2 for sat cycles. don't go, don't escalate, they don't get more serious. but rather that there was an attempt to kind of dial down successively if there was going to be a tit for tat cycle here. so that is very much the, the us perspective and bite and has even publicly judge these riley's not to go off to iran's nuclear program, which of course is a major concern of these riley's and also he suggested that he doesn't think it will be a good idea of for these, where i used to go off to iran, oil installations, so buying and kind of trying to, to, to,

to rain invest in yahoo that and i think it's gonna be a real test of how bad that relationship has got to see what these weigh your response is off to those warnings from bite and whether nothing yahoo respects those band reset bite and has set in public. but whether he goes ahead and mounts and attack on that kind of level in any way. and i mean, as you mentioned earlier, i mean, we know that the relationship has been in difficulties. these 2 men have not been getting on. they've had a difficult relationship for a long period. that's good. that's a pretty well reported. but i've, as we've seen of the periods the last few months over and over again, we've seen a process of the, the americans trying to say, let's deescalate, let's try and find a seas find gaza. let's try and find a seas 5 with his blog. and each time the next yahoo government overstepping, i'm pushing ahead and saying no, we need to take these over to, to use to,

to ensure our security. so real litmus tests, i think of the us is why the relationship is we see what happens in this strike, which we assume could be imminent at this point. now you've probably heard it before. here's the evidence of why is maybe a bad idea to feed wildlife. you could end up like a woman in washington states in the reps confronted with the plague. right coons video, shared by local police shows nearly 100 of the hungry craters and the women's yards eagerly waiting to be fed. the reckoning invasion forced her to flee her home and call for help. she told responding officers that she'd been feeding the creatures for 35 years, but their numbers explode is in recent waves. and then what, as you might expect, officials there are reminding the public not to feed the records.

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