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and the prince, the hello, i'm christine wonder spain's government saves. it's deploying more than 7000 troops to the valencia region pots, of which were devastated by disney floods last week. and this comes in a response to rising discontent at the government, which many accused of inaction to the floods as often that on sunday that and the boiled of uh when the king and queen visits had the dissolves to region, is confronted with anger. and frustration explains king sleep, and queen leticia visit the town of fi port, the new valencia more than 60 people died here, after flash, not tons, it's streets into rivers. is it the same problem?

we have to deal with the anger and frustration of many people because of how they've had it. and also because of the difficulty in understanding how the mechanisms and the operation of the emergency response work, the november can see how spend crowd greeted them with cries of us to see new or killer in english. and some protesters who object and modest them laying their amounting sense of abandonment. the argos that know that the dead as soon as the road is i neighbors are looking for loved ones. we just ones have politicians to come and help. we just want help to cope. philippe, you should not feel proud of being the king. they should be proud. a few people who have accident stoneleigh dara. and without everyone except i'm own of you. more than 200 people have died in the floods and thousands have lost their homes

destroyed by the wall of water and want many people still don't have drinking water 5 days after the flock, strong health has been slow and reaching where it's most needed. and many believe the tragedy could have been avoided. if lot warnings had been issued in time of real stories of people that, that didn't even get the alarm when they were already drowning in their garage. and the same for me, made it alive. but, you know, surviving the said we didn't even have as the alarm until we got out and we got and we received. the alarms of the heavy rain was coming, but nobody was warranted. most of the clean up of the layers and layers of mont and debris has been done by residents and thousands of volunteers. the full extent of the devastation is still unknown. no problem. i've heard about the somebody say we

do not know how many people are still missing. i mean, we would also, and we have to be absolutely rigorous about that. the number of people who have died is already very high, and we will use our official channels to issue any new information we have. like i'm in the 15 of spain's prime minister visitors, scientists was meant to join the king. i'm the queen under valencia tore, but he slept the scene as soon as the angry crowd approach. let's get more from june this steven booth and who joins us now from boston or in this case have you on the program. stephen, just give us a sense of what people are still facing on the ground. um, well they're still facing the very, very basic needs of me that there's likely to a lot of people don't have drinking water. that's applies many of the roads around valencia is still

blocked. so food supplies, a wretched, and the clean up operation. and as you said, is mostly still in the hands of a volunteer. see, the antello responses has been slow and k altered and appears to be no kind of central come on. for example, we actually don't know how many people are missing because it doesn't seem to be any central point that people can give this information to. and this is, i mean, why people are so angry that nearly a week off of this stuff and they're still in this, this desperate situation. and, and the angles also been about the way the feel for us have responded to the disaster in general. but why is this now becoming a political issue? well, it's, it doesn't seem to be any other explanation for the way in which the valencia in government responded to this. of all those. i mean there's certainly no no

explanation of why they wait to 12 hours to issue the alert by which time it was found 2 nights and people were. ready already being swept away in the flood waters, but also they only issued an, an emergency level 2. and this means that they alone are responsible for responding to the situation. if they this, the government wants to intervene, they have to an issue and a level 3 alert, and they didn't do this. they didn't us the government for help until thursday afternoon. this began on tuesday night and the only possible explanation that anyone can come up with is that balance is ruled by the spanish conservative party . along with the far right books policy, where a central government is a, is a socialist policy. and it just seems that they actually auto political arrival rates did not want to ask the socialist, come with uh, how if others,

the categories that hits good or certainly should. and of just very quickly, stephen were hearing that boston on the way you, why is, is having sol, rachel, rains of people in other parts of the country also expecting it to stream with um was oh it mostly it's on here on the east coast where the rain just eased off at the moment, but there are no trains. the airports flooded. um there are many roads uh, completely flooded though it does vintage go of cause floating down the way. this is old, you know, very close to both lona: um, so the alert so far is just for this, this region of the northeast. all right, that is the, during the stephen beg and talking to us a from boston, and we appreciate that. thank you. and a quick look now at some of the stories making use around the wells is really a strikes killed at least 30 people in guys all over the weekend. according to

medics, israel's ministry struck targets in the southern area, or con eunice as well as in guys as most now kind of seeing an official se, atlantic administering polio vaccines. the children came on to fight. in india, at least 36 people died when a bus viewed off the road and crouched down ravine. it happened in the northern states of 2 to kind. rescue is searching for survive is india has a high number off road for tennessee's last year's crashes killed some 173000 people. ukrainian officials say several people were injured when a russian is striking. a super locked in paul t. c. attack struck the north eastern city, which is ukraine, 2nd largest, at nice official say, a blind on hip. the supermarket located next to a high rise apartment building germany's foreign minister in indiana bulk has arrived in keith in a show of support for ukraine. it's

a 8 visit to the nation level on that ukraine named small aid as it hits into it's the winter offload with russia. she is due to meet with president for a lot. i mean, savanski. now, ukraine doesn't have as many soldiers as it needs to keep up its defenses against russia. now it's in this thing. prison is to fill the gap, dw corresponded mex fund to met with convicts. 10 soldiers going to the front lines and exchange for freedom. up. not long ago, these men were locked up for often violent crime. i know they're being trained to kill. why? let's go, let's go attack. your brain is turning criminals into soldiers to try to fill the ranks and hold back the russians. yes. and they are set to have certain advantages around the sounds like a metal. these boys are already hardened by life. there's

a concept of what honor and dignity are and therefore these guys have a lot of motivation. maybe when they go to service soldiers, they make good soldiers. we sold them, just need to work with over decision. that's all about. all of them serve time and including their instructor. got the story. yeah, she was a soldier and the don bazemore before being sentenced to 8 years for aggravated battery. he served 5 and a half and got early release and returned for rejoining the military was forward. this is the man i showed you before. you need to lean on with your helmet glass doors of yours. as a fellow conduct, victor knows where these recruits come from. as a soldier, he also knows where they're headed next. now he is passing on what you learned, fighting in the trenches. the hood is just 23. you spent the last 5 years, his entire adult life in jail, from deal with neutral. there's nothing for me to do in prison. i ended up there

right of stupidity at all. i was young, i got into a fight and i ended up in prison in atlanta volunteer. he was never about redeeming himself. he tells us what about having a purpose in life and protecting others. now pretty much with them was right now i feel ready to go. but i know that this feeling might change on the battlefield is just my enemies were interrupted. so we just had to stop the interview. the instructor shouted to cover and now we're taking cover underneath these trees. here, it turns out this was a f p, a russian suicide role. this term though it didn't hurt using prisoners to fight the war was long found. upon hearing ukraine, the russians began recruiting and prisons early on. many ended up as cannon fodder . the premium prisoners are being given the same training as other recruits. some

say they seem to adapt faster and show more motivation than the average civilian. like most soldiers, these men will serve until the end of the work or until they're disabled or killed . we meet with men recovering from combat injury seals and realize of it all as well. a lot of i called him 11 to say if he's is more or less a person for any support it seems is welcome to come through. i saw for the concussion and the last 70 percent of my vision. and that's where people i'm completely deaf in one ear. yvonne is a father of 5. he's a veteran of the war and on the us he was jail for aggravated robbery. that was being off 10 years imprisonment. was confiscation of property in his classes. i

served 7 years, we had 3 levels because i understand that it wasn't worth it unless i wasn't keeping the right company. i didn't have the right friends side. this 1st line was hit by shrapnel and is recovering. it is time for theft and fraud. now he's fighting for me. no, so no, i've changed to terms with them, but i don't even want to talk about what's happening at the front with such a situation. the russians advance in advance and it's not knowing what will happen when we try to do something to stop and certainly us then we can stop all of them. but at least some of them because the village these convicts are taking a big risks for their freedom. but many seem to think it's a way to leave old mistakes behind and change the course of their lives.

and dw corresponded much send to who filed the report you just saw joins me now at the table. max ukraine now having to recruit prison is, is, is really a sign of how difficult it's becoming for the on need to enlist people to, to join the fight. just how bad is the situation focusing? i mean this, this time is seen as one of many, many indicators that the situation is very serious. now the russians, very early on and the war started recruiting heavily in their prisons and ukraine for a long time was seen as immoral like a russian thing to do. the printers didn't want to wanted to stay away from this. we took control this year in may, that there are in the, to the, the, you printing permit. finally passed a bill that would allow, allow the military to recruit from prison on a voluntary basis. now the situation is, has become like this because there aren't simply aren't as many volunteers, certainly not in, in numbers, that'd be seen in the beginning of the war where he had long lines or volunteers

lining up outside the recruitment center. some of them were sent away because to forward his were overwhelmed, didn't know what to do with more than 2 and a half years into the war. now the situation has changed. crane has begun, mobilizing ukraine has started to ramp up to mobile ization right now. they're looking into mobilizing another $160000.00 soldiers, but crane is also a small country and cannot draw endlessly from the population. it's very, very difficult. so they have to look less than right. what else can we do? and one of the solution they come up with is this to look at the prisons and they saw, okay, there are it's, they are men here, right? who would fit the criteria? who are willing to fight? so that's right. and and on that criteria, how are the ukrainians present? is one being selected and, and to being prepared to fight. right. so you have recruiters from the military going to the prison some to the penal institutions in the entire country. you have a prisoners applying to this program through their presence. now the court has to decide whether or not this prisoner is eligible to, to apply to, to join this program based on certain criteria. they are um,

sort of times that some of the prisoners would have committed that would exempt them, for example, multiple murder, rape, driving on the influence causing, causing, causing an accident. and there's a, there's a very long listing that once that's, once they're able to apply, they're being brought as prisoners to the recruitment centers. they receive a medical like every other soldiers, they do the paperwork and then they're brought to the trans facilities where they've been trained at this point. their soldiers just like their peers, who come from civilian life with the difference is that they are on probation. they have to have probation if they deserve 5 to 10 years are added to their sentence, but they receive the same, the same training and the same salary as everybody else. the difference is that during the 1st year of being in the force, they do not have their annual links, but this is the same. okay. you, you mentioned earlier that the rush has been doing this for awhile now. are there any differences with how the russian armed forces are using these for prisoners and how the ukrainian on forces all absolutely huge differences. now,

the russians have been doing this progressively since the very beginning of the war, a recruiting for the mercenary group back then. but also for the regular armed forces, which was a huge prison population, more than $400000.00 people. so they can, they can recruit a lot, a lot of soldiers and give them pay them incentives like high salaries. um, they can also print them freedom after 6 months, which has been done in the beginning of the war with the condition of the for example. the soldiers in the, the soldiers former converts and russia are using a very different way. and then the printers are planning or using their soldiers, they are usually not trained properly. they are brought to the fight very quickly. and they are used to their disposable. essentially they're being used often times and they need kind of tactic, which means soldiers are being sent to strongly printing positions knowingly that 80 percent of them are not going to survive. then based on in the next wave on the next life, just because they're able to, to get so many newsletters,

the brand new as the print size, a little bit there for the prison population was much smaller. it was less than $50000.00 at the beginning of the war, so they are lacking soldiers. so they have to be very, very careful. and they have to give them the best chances chances to survive. so the best training that can give them the best thing that can afford that a great time to this and also use them in a reasonable manner. also, the retraining and former prisoners are not being used to come in and they're, they're fighting alongside regular ukrainian forces and not in the penal for dates, for example, understood well next let's leave it there for the moment. um, but it was always thank you for that. incredible re reports of giving us that insights into this experience he had visiting that training camp and talking to these man that's database mac, send a day for us. thank you, max and now there's just one day to go until the us presidential election with polls showing it's an election to close to code. both commerce and the donald trump

for the republicans, are making a final push across key battleground states. harris made her closing fits on sunday at a rally in the swing states of michigan, she'll spend monday in pennsylvania and will hold a late night ready. they would send empties, including oprah winfrey trumpeting ball ended sunday nights at a rally in georgia. having already visited pennsylvania and north carolina early in the day, he will be back in north carolina on monday, before heading to 2 more swing states. now over and over during the campaign, trump has place to remove institutions and hollow out the civil rights in the us. even saying people would have to vote, wouldn't have to wait and we'll have to relaxing him. now let's listen to some of those moments and what comedy harris has had to say about them with you on my side and you've been on my side from the beginning. we will demolish to dave. say we like spell. we're going to expel those horrible, horrible warmongers from our government. they want to fight everybody. they want to

kill people all over the place. places we've never heard about people or places that want to be left alone. we will drive out the global as we will cast out. the government is marks as fast as we will throw off the sick political blast that hates our country. we will route the fact is video until they become real. nice talking about said he considers any one who doesn't support him or who will not bend too, as well as the enemy of our country. the answer is serious issue. he's a, he's saying that he would use the military to go after them. you won't have to do it anymore. 4 more years. you know what? it will be fixed, it will be fun. you won't have to vote at a more my beautiful christians. i love you, christians, i'm a christian, i love you get out. you gotta get out and vote in 4 years. you don't have to vote

again. we'll have it fixed. oh good. you're not gonna have to go. and we all remember how we got here. donald trump had selected 3 members of the united states supreme court, to overturn roe vs wade. they did. and now one and 3 women in america lives in a state with a trumpet board from van. many with no exceptions. rayburn says, you know what? let me say something about this, where here, because we're fighting for a democracy, the unfamiliar, let's bring in your hon is tim, he's political analyst at the german institute for international and security phase, and he joins us from berlin. it's good to have you on the program. is democracy at stake in this election as the democratic presidential hopeful comment of harris says that his, that i would agree that democracy it is at stake. and i don't think we're

going to see democracy ends on day one after trump election, but trump is showing that he has some authoritarian inclinations bed. he doesn't respect the rule of law and constitutional constraints. and he has made many threats against his political opponents. and i think we should take those threats seriously. your honest, donald trump continues to insist before the election that the voting process is riggs. what do you think could happen if you were to lose that this has been a consistent strategy of the republican party for quite a while now to cast doubt on the voting process on the integrity of elections. donald trump has done this in 2016. he has done it in 2020 and he's doing it again . i think if they come that harris, wednesday election,

donald trump the sure to contest the results. i think we can take that as a given. they have been some corrections made in the electoral process that give costs for help. also this time around donald trump is not in the white house or anything he wants to do. he has to do from outside the white house, which is more difficult. i don't think we're going to see a repeat of january 6th, 2021 when people storm the capitol hill. but that might be problems with the other tar process. all right, america's institutions robust enough to protect democracy, no matter who becomes president. i mean, who was speaking the office, norway donald trump, is, is mostly in the white house, but if this were a different outcome, as well as the, when's the election we're going to find out, i guess at the honest answer is that we don't know if the american institutions are robust enough. they were robust enough to withstand his assault during the 1st term, but he's much better prepared now. the republican party and project 2025 had

spent a last year recruiting people who could serve and governments were loyal to donald trump and to support the false narrative of a stolen election and who wouldn't necessarily stand up to him if he does anything that is legal you on is the right to bear arms, the abortion visa be hot. button issues that have a polarized the political debates in america over they is what is behind this trend? we have a clear trend of pull relation where um, partisan affiliation becomes more and more invest with identity and where the political opposition is much more of an ex is essential thing then, then it used to be and this leads to both parties for receiving the other party as a threats to the future of the country,

and that makes the states so much higher. so i would argue that the democrats do have a reason to fear that donald trump is in fact, this rich to democracy. republican feel that democrats are threatening their way of life. i think that's much more of a subject to subjective perception offset. so that is less justified. johan, assume we appreciate your inside 0 dw, thank you. welcome a and a which is now at some of the stories making news around the world. russia and indonesia has begun their 1st joint military training drills in the java. c. russian warships arrived in the port of pseudo by a head of the 5 to exercise indonesia, the new government to speaking close. the defense ties with moscow and 3 chinese astronauts have returned to us off to policy yet in all, based on the town going space station, they were doing maintenance,

luke and scientific experiments, beijing games to put chinese s. reynolds on the moon and establish an outpost day by 2030 and finally, the us music produced that and sunrise have quincy jones has died aged 91 jones is korea started in chicago and spend over 7 decades. he worked with stars including line on which he and stevie wonder and he purchased michael jackson's thriller. alban jones also produced the all star recording of we are the world that was a charity record for fan and relief in after the

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