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the and so gay, welcome to the program. spanish emergency services. at least 62 people have been count. torrential rains pumped flash, flapping in the country. south and east. severe weather warnings are in place for 10 of spain. 17 regents with valencia was defected. emergency services are working to reach areas where the flooding has hit. hobbies and the regions governor says many people stranded in inaccessible locations a vi slated in fast flowing flood waters. a stranded truck driver is saved by emergency services across the southern spain. monday torrance floods and flashed rain full cost habits. several people are reported missing. emergency services,

scramble to rescue those in danger. while others assess the damage from a deluge that fell in a flash. i talked with my neighbor and he told me that until mid day, nothing happened. but suddenly, in such a short time, around 300 or 400 leaders of rain came down from not just one hour ago, the water reached here to reach my ankles. but at some point it was up to here. you were not able to walk here. you couldn't even see the bridge and said there was a, has been going down. how similar or some storms have last, spain in recent years. the rain full has helped the country recover from the severe drought, which in turn increase the risk of flash bloods, like these scientists say these extreme weather episodes, a likely linked to climate change. the official death told has now reached at least 60 to

a correspondent nicole reese in madrid's telling me how bad the situation has become as well. so i think that the scale of the damage is yet to be seen in these next few days or even weeks. what we can say though, is that the motions here went from shock to morning. very quickly. yesterday night we already sold the pictures of the devastating torrential rains and the flooding and uh there were talks about and reports about missing people. but now we're looking at at least 51 people that i reported did. and some voices here already saying that this number will most likely go off the devastation is big streets have been washed away. bridges are of that have broken down. infrastructure is all destroyed very massively in some places. and actually the forward to so still calling on people not to go out, not to drive anywhere in the province of volunteer, for example. um the weather alert has turned from red to orange now. so and notch

down, but it's still very difficult to get through to people on the edge. you really caution everyone in the affected areas to just stay put and not to any movement towards any potentially risk risky area. a problem and tell a minute silence. what else is the government doing well, parliament is also considering to suspend its activities today as one problem and member today put it this a smell of the day for political debates. so we're still waiting for this confirmation. in the meantime, prime minister the sensors has also taken and taken to the stage and has a talk to people. he's sending a message of condolences to those will affect it. we already know that they have lost loved ones and friends. he's also cautioning people not to go out and he says that everything will be made possible for the rescue services all the support that

they need. we know that the 5, the grades for example, are working together with the military and that as deployment from other regions to what's the affected regions? he's also saying that it will take a mess of effort to rebuild infrastructure. he's seems to be counting on the help of you countries that because he mentioned that it will take the whole of you to actually support these measures. but in the meantime, he describes that spain today, the whole of spain isn't tiers. and what's being said about what tons, vis flooding into flash flooding, catching people. so on there when well we have a severe with a putting time here, which means that cold and hot air ok sort of, you know, coinciding in the same moment. this is why this massive torrential rains. they were much stronger than usually these areas around valencia in the province of funding. so for example, i used to these flash clothings,

usually with less damage though. and this time it was just much more more to end this toil, which is also and very um that soil because there were lots of droughts in the last to years cannot absorb the water. this is why we have floating and also the rivers cannot taken. so much for to the souls, they are not really used to it. and then this the other side, obviously people have known these phenomenons in the last year. they have known torrential rains. but i think nobody and really counted on this scale of damage of thesis scale also of the death toll at the moment. so this is why the shock and the morning here are very severe right now. and this is a climate change is, is on the political agenda that is it. nicole because, you know, young people will ask what the country has been doing to increase h resilience against these weather experience. which scientists tell us will happen . more often climate change is very much on the agenda off the spanish government, since this is a country business, which is heavily effected,

i just mentioned that drought structure very severe here. this also makes flooding more to the easy, i thought actually it will take also changing the cities of, from, from the very ground these cities that cannot absorb water. really. and this is the strategy that we haven't really to see if tear from the spanish government at the moment. it seems that all efforts and costs in being invested also in warning systems which, which usually work quite well. they're also there for the rescue effort. so being quicker, really taking care of the people, there's this old message. but as we see yesterday and today rescue missions at the moment i hindered because the infrastructure has collapsed because communication has collapse. and this is something that obviously you cannot really control and you cannot control climate change all these weather events. you can only prepare for the worst and hope for the best reading these scenarios at the moment as cities are like, they are made of segment made of

a steel. and this type of forwarder cannot be observed anywhere here in most of the spanish cities, at least. thank you. nicole, nicole reese and madrid. as most doors making headlines around the world will stop in georgia when i prosecute has begun an investigation into allegations and fold. drinking during sophocles parliamentary elections, opposition pauses, and pressed them, selling millions of abuse, fairly plain and full was falsified in favor of the routing pro russia georgia. dream international observer say the vote was mocked, find violations, but stop showing. some say it was re holds vote. the influx wireless, when voters deciding whether the building blocks want a democratic party, will extend its decades long will. the b, b has been in power since the country gave independence from britain. components been dominated by economic challenges including rising unemployment. germany's ambassador has left iran as a route over the execution of

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where he criticized his opponent and told walkers that if elected president, it would mark a golden new age for america. the german is because comic volkswagen is facing an existential crisis. the deputies net profits file a massive 64 percent in the 1st 9 months of the year. the company is planning to cut costs by closing at least 3 german plants unions and making managements of the company headquarters involves bug form waste negotiations, which will also deal with the overall prices. german chancellor schultz has indicated that the workers should not have to pay with that jobs before management decisions. in the past. i asked maddie see now from dw business about the move that vw headquarters as well, understandably, the mood is very gloomy in here this morning. we were standing at one of the main entrances to the factory and spoke to workers as they were heading to their shift that we spoke to one man who has worked at fox on for 35 years. and he said that

the mood and the situation has never felt as serious of a field right now. but we also spoke to a worker said, look, listen, crises, come and go. and company boards come and go, but the cars will continue to be manufactured here. so gloominess, but also a little bit of autism and it felt like there was a lot of whole pending on these talks, which just kicked off your advice book between employee representatives and the folks like management on wage contracts for a flex lines, workers, and what a work is representatives are saying ahead of the talks. right, so this morning, a task and glue guy, the chief negotiator for the very powerful in game, entire union told press that workers expects a future for all 10 plans, all 10 factories of folks log in here in germany. and should that future not be

safe, guarded by folks like management in that case, workers do not take strikes off the table, which would be potentially starting in the beginning of december. but overall, employee representatives showed themselves very open to negotiations and very curious in a way to see if folks like and finally has a plan for its employees future going forward in this country. now folks are and also how to representatives speak to the press of the chief of the personnel and the mice when could. and he reiterated that the german car industry is in a tough spot. that production costs and jeremy are simply too high. but unlike the employee representatives, he didn't open up the round for questions from the press. so folks aren't really showing a very close face here and thought it was smoke today. that's. i'm not joking. profit. so i mentioned 64 percent. that's huge. did tell us about the overall significance of that right. 64 percent,

as he mentioned is huge. you don't need to be an industry professional to understand the significance of such a big drop. it means volkswagen isn't doing well and the reason it's not doing well is it that it's facing many headwinds? actually the biggest one and it's whole market in china where a buyers are looking more towards homeless, thrown brands like d, y, d. but also here in europe or people's budgets are pressed by inflation and people aren't ready to spend larger sums on an electric vehicle from folks log then on a regular vehicle from another company. lastly, folks aren't as also closely watching the presidential race in the west where there is big talks of terrors, which of course, are worrying for an international brand like so, like folks are in so big worries across the board and therefore these historic moves this week, the 1st time in 5 songs, history that the company is talking about plans, closures, and that these jobs that floats. bog, which used to be a scene, a safe is safe to get into the middle class are no longer that. ok,

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