is in a political country, missouri. i'm afraid i'll never see him again. when, oh, you lost under the stops december 18th, on d. w. the . this is the w news live from the land, french, a trunk sports race to the island of miles, or far as he's fair, hundreds of being killed up to the west fight clone and nearly a century hit the french overseas territory. the storm whites out neighborhoods and castle power. some survivors have not had horses for days. also coming up on the show, we are just hours away from the decisive moments of germany's and baffled lead up. well, i feel it's, he's facing confidence vote in parliament. one that he is widely expected to lose. if he does that will clear the pos, the,

the electra and reports of his writing strikes on serious touch. his region knew the mediterranean coast. this video footage shows the off them off of a massive explosion of weapons storage site. the time on youtube smoking in a very warm welcome to the program with our season the french overseas terrace for as my not say a hundreds, perhaps even thousands of people have been killed by the most destructive psych loan in nearly a century. the islands of the east african coast were already francis forest overseas region. before sikes loan chito flattened entire communities. frances interior minister has arrived to join crisis operations that the french military and deliberate 8 supplies as rescue as race to stave off. a humanitarian does often

of the 1st came the winds and rain from cycling chito and then came the next thread. the wind spread destruction left behind them. i don't wonder frances, poorest overseas territories rescue teams have already started to clear the debris left behind by the storm. and help is on the way from france in the form of emergency workers and humanity hearing aid a badly needed lifeline for those who have already lost everything. come to get something to eat for the kids. and for us adults as well. we've got nothing left. the wins taking it all the way we had stocked up at the wing, took it to pull up what date would be for you? cuz the one i probably would have had no water for 3 days now. so it's starting to be a lot. we're trying to get the bare minimum to live on, because we don't know when the water will come back in to do. the full scale of the

destruction is visible from the air. more than 3 quarters of the islands, 300000 people live below the poverty line. most were living in a mixture of homes in slums and shanty towns which have now all but been wiped out the throughout the hell the house was built. every thing here has been give a stay to it. i think you can see it all around me. i'm actually walking through debris is or people one day off to the saint clair not will really busy rebuilding the homes, but the work is going to be extremely long to model while some start to rebuild, others are left only to say their final farewells. as my young starts to recover after the war cycle and in almost a century, we can get more from the w correspondent, lisa literacy joins me now from paris. the. so what's the latest that you can tell

us about the situation there in mild as well, the situation is getting more die by the hour. really 8 west coast and lots of petitions have been telling the press that the hunger is mounting. obviously everything is lacking as we have just heard nowadays, and a water that has no food looting has stuff. so i'd like to start these are trying to protect supermarkets, but still getting more difficult. me was, the french government has set that and list as now in place through the island of re union, which is 2 and a half hours away by a plane. so the 3 planes are game there each day. meanwhile, the local authorities also watching on, you know, getting the airport the international airport in my own back up to speed. the control tower at the airport has been destroyed by the side side. and it only has limited capacity for now. so let's look forward to working in all these different thoughts with a hearing defrances interior in minnesota. is that right now?

you mentioned these lists, but what most specifically is from doing to address this awful situation in its own territory. the interior minister of who knows how you have said and repeated actually that it will be, it will take days or it's not weeks to find out how many people have died during this sikes line. and there are, for now we only know a few dozen box authorities expect to rise thoughts to go up to, you know, a few 100. so even if you sounds at the car to these are trying to get more age to the territories to that territory. there's also they also a single piece for a donation in place so that people spend money to finance or thought i, i'm tonight at the how is it that will be a crisis meeting slacked by am i am i call a to get a force isn't quite even more items coming days and weeks,

a report by the french poet holloman earlier this year, highlighted some serious issues with a does off the management and from says overseas terrace freeze. the question of course, is, could more have been done to prevent this? could this crisis have been prevented from happening? well, it's a very good question, but i think the main point here is not really if it dissolves to management, is it is struck to as a hoss and not report just now one size of combinations auction to tones in my old . and that's why the science and coaches swipe the way that a lot of large parts of the population lives below the poverty line, actually 3 quarters of them. so it's very difficult to protect these people from natural phenomenons like this one. so what the authorities need to be today is to think in the long run construct, construct more sustainable housing,

which can re re stand such weather phenomenon with an expert hoffman underlining that we've climate change, you know, temperatures rising such phenomena, such a site codes cuz happen more frequently in the future is especially because, you know, one fox, so that's just me, this was such a sight on to build is now water. that is, is that pricing as the ocean has been heating up, which is one factor that has led to this, this asta dw as mason lewis reporting from paris. lisa, thank you. just hours from now. the german trump slot will not show its will kickoff fight for his future choice faces a vote of confidence in parliament. one that he is widely expected to lose. and if he does versus will be going to the polls in a general election on february the 25th next year. for almost 3 years. charles has been dealing with divisions inside his 3 policy coalition. government made off of

the center left environments lists and pro business little make cuz that coat coalition collapsed last month. it was never going to be easy, but few could have predicted just how bad it would get. the traffic light coalition is history and the stages set for small collections. but how did we get here? the government face challenges from the start fairly 2 months in russia's invasion of you cream force to mass of about turn in german defense policy. yeah, i live in that site, we're living throughout walter, should you're the one that means that the world afterwards will no longer be the same as the world. as for the full energy policy needed to re think to after jeremy's reliance on russia, specifically for cheap gas was lead beer to the mix and economy disrupted by cooper 19 with the public deeply impacted by installation and the cost of living crisis.

the lake was bleak. and that's before the cracks began to show in the coalition. it all came to a head when the ftp bailed over the budget. late night crisis talks at the chancellor e led to f t p 5 months minister christy and ledner getting the sack. he's a me, so this is why was forced into the decision in order to prevent damage to our country. we need a government capable of taking action as the power to make the right decisions for our country to pass out the, the transformations on his loan. don't play the economic concerns of german terminals these days and talk a lot, shultz, cisco calling into question all the decisions needed for people to be proud of germany against on, on kind of this breakup had been in the works for quite a while, at least through a marriage to the ftp had a paper relating just to be hoped to orchestra their coalition exit. not with the election needing begins in earnest voters, main concerns or the economy. emigration made

a rise and support for the far right and populace parties. the one that's a bad is schultz will be on the ballot again as chancellor candidates caught on his heels, the man most likely to get his job. the old position conservatively there, friedrich mats, a busy winter of campaigning, lives ahead with just a few weeks for the candidates to meet their case. database chief political edison, mckayla kristen, that is following today's events in the buddhist talk for us. and we said isla, put this confidence vote into context for us because it's not something that's happened often in the postwar gem and politics hasn't. this was the 6th time that this is happening now and all but one time when, how much full and off for a vote of confidence. it was the social democratic policy of the current concept. when i sold to did this, always with the aim to strengthen their own government. and it's the 1st time that

this is actually used in the sense it was initially designed, which is to draw the consequences from a sales government have failed coalition that no longer has the majority and to avoid instability within the parliamentary system. that's why that is the method of choice. see for what i sold to even the way full for selections, which we expect to take place in february. so if things do go is expensive and germany's parliament does declare it has no confidence in shorts. where do we go from here? we would expect an for the soul to seek an appointment with his own president who usually has the last the ceremonial role, but which becomes pivots, although particularly in these moments that's it creates potential instability. and we expect fun quite that signed by the president to then have within. so while he has 21 days to do this. but we expect this very, very shortly afterwards to declare fresh elections to the sol holloman's. which

sounds a bit misleading because the parliament is still able to take decisions. the government does stay in place, but what it cannot do is sign new treaties and a really low and major policy that is old and potentially subject to change. once the new government, with a new mandate comes in off of these elections in february, that's right. the election date is already set. what topics unlikely to dominate the election campaign? so the campaign is likely to start very soon and run until the election in february . yeah, as well as germany has seen economic data pointing downwards for some time now. so this is or you must home people's minds. migration is another topic, notably that square footage matched the leader of the opposition cd. you see, you see who is currently doing best in the pulse, just above 50 percent. and that's where he and also failed to reach some kind of

agreement to take the issues migration off the table. which of course is now getting new crack the traction with events in syria. then we see, well, i've sold this policy promising and most social spending, when it comes to cad. here in germany is quite the offices as the sounds coming out of the conservative blog who are launching that policy program tomorrow, which we already have. and that we see the conservative size move backing on tax breaks to revise the economy and to inject new dynamism we see both sides accusing . he says of not having done the math and allegedly not knowing how to pay for that . let me tell you, i have to ask you about the populace policies on the rice and the left side that gaining an influence in germany. can you briefly tell us what role that i like for you to pay play in this coming up this coming election? well, the have been some speculation that they might want to

a seas account. so this is vote today and then it's not in favor of what a so they've announced and not going to do that, at least by them that own chancellor kind that says, and they will and vote against last holds. and, and what f up place migration takes in this election campaign that will be where the father at a if the policy has the most chances of expanding that base, which is has been very large and recent retail elections that we saw off with a 30 percent but at the national level, it's below 20 percent round about $1718.00. so they do have a chance because then that connect with what i felt is own hockey, the social democrats to potentially but some of the 2nd largest policy. but they have 0 chance of becoming parts of the government, whitfield, although the democratic policy saying they will not enter a coalition with them. and a coalition will definitely be needed for tensely, again, with 3 policies which has proven a very rocky road over these costs. 3 plus years mishita christmas

e w 's chief political edison, mckayla, thank you so much for putting all of that into the spectrum for us. and all of this will be happening in the coming hour. will of course, be pro, costing it live right here on the w news on youtube as well. so do stay tuned. if you can hear awesome all the headlines making use around the world today and rushes defense ministry has released footage, allegedly showing the recapture of a supplement in the countries coast region. this is where you cranes, military launched across the board a incursion in august. ukraine says at least fussy, north korean soldiers have been killed in recent weeks in cost while fighting alongside russian troops. the medical workers in gaza say at least 16 people, including women and children, were killed and then is riley strike on the shelves of the displaced people. and those are outcomes. gomez's civil defense agency said is riley strikes on sunday.

killed thousands of people across the strip, including analogy they are a journalist and 3 rescue workers. israel will close. it's embassy, an island. it's saying the irish government maintains extreme empty israel policies . dublin support a palestinian state and it backs south africa's international court case accusing israel of genocide. island rejects israel's claim, saying it's pay this piece and of holes human rights. now in syria, israel military has carried out hundreds of strikes since the collapse of the outside regime last week for sage, verified by the reuters news agency, shows an explosion early on monday in the coastal region of top to the syrian observatory. so human rights says these rating military attacks, ad defensive and missile storage sites. the, the region is also home to russia's only naval base in the mediterranean.

now, the lowest cost is watching to see how serious political landscape change is off to the fault of the side. regime the country is now in the hands of, of, of an islamist rebel group known as hyatt terrier alshaun, or h t. s. it is designated a terrorist group by several western nations. ac us is sudden rise to power. is enough governments around the world wondering how to respond. the european union's foreign policy chief kind of call us says the block is sending a senior diplomat to damascus to make contact with the new government. she made the announcements. after arriving at a meeting of foreign ministers in brussels and she said the diplomat will leave for damascus today. um the contacts with that's got more on this with dw correspondent rosie, but charles, who is joining us from brussels. rosie tell us more about the use 1st efforts

to establish contact with the serious new government. what. what more do you know? we'll look for it more than a week now or the spring facing something of a diplomatic dilemma here because we saw in the early hours of the jesus a nice we saw the repeating, you did it on its leaders welcoming the whole of us had the end of take, take your shit, but of course is a question mark for their diplomacy is really a road. what comes next? and that's because, as you know, says h t s. under that used cart roles is considered terrorist as a terrorist organization. that means that any of its assets is in the you are frozen under, there's a pro, have ation on any you actors for providing any funds to h t. s. and i can tell you that just a week ago, i asked that you in that use foreign policy spokes person in the press conference, whether they would be looking into having talks or establishing ties of each ts. and at that moment, the answer was clear. it was an absolute no, well, hasn't everything in these events and syria being just the less than how much

difference a few days can make it history and a few days can make big difference any policy to because none of the blocks foreign policy chief, us an ice that a, as a top, if not, we'll be heading to the west coast to make contact with what she called the new leadership, where the e u is stressing that there we sit, looking at actions and not just listening to words, but the message overall we heard here at these talks and brussels was that syria in the easy space is a positive future, but also still a very upsetting one. and what about the topic of syrian migrants and asylum seekers in the you can we expect to officials to, to address that? it's not officially on the agenda, but let me tell you it's in the background of every single kind of diplomatic discussion here. that's because of course, 2nd to those countries near syria, neighboring and the region such as turkey and living on the european union has been a big host of syrian refugees and asylum seekers. and we know that just a few months ago when our side was still in power, there was a push from

a handful of and you countries ledge by actually to consider re establishing ties with a side, with a view to being able to speed up the for patients a turn don't asylum seeking requests. now, with that kind of contact context, you can imagine that some of those same countries may know the key to, to establish types of h ts. with that same view in mind, trying to speed up the protections. there will be differences of opinions across this your opinion on that topic. but we've seen a already coming up in national debates. for example, austria has already a nice they will, it will provide for it, cause a bonus to syrian refugees who voluntarily decide to return. but given that we simply don't know what the conditions will be like for people in syria, in the future, the, in your official light is still there is no safe conditions in place to a to facilitate to for patients which means force returns. but they think that many people will want to return voluntarily, but like so many things in this bulk over the last few years, migration,

the silent policy really has been such a toxic and divisive topic. and i think we can expect that to continue with regards to how are the approaches extend its ties with h t s and the damascus and future raise the thank you so much for all of that. let's see w as rosie, but charter forcing from brussels. now, in southern lebanon, thousands of people were displaced by is rarely a tax during its will. with hezbollah, many have now begun returning home, following the ceasefire, reached between israel and loving on the end of november. and what left, finding our huge levels of destruction and a very long reconstruction process ahead of them on next report is from correspondence in tyler, in southern lebanon. this used to be not do you know, i mean living room where she and her family would eat and watch tv, but 2 months before have done this to her house in the coastal town of tyre.

israel messed with lee attacked the city in south lebanon. nadine says that there was no reason such as phone our members for her house to be destroyed that i'm looking for because i didn't expect our house to look like this and the nbc and there was nothing here. and i'm gonna put down like a lot of our house was destroyed because they bought the house right next to us and she and her family back. now, after spending the war and toys, old towns, the only area that wasn't heavily targeted, they were hoping to simply move back off the sci fi was announced 2 weeks ago. but that's clearly not possible. the phone, it was hard on the matt, matt, and we couldn't retrieve anything and even our clothes were trapped under the rubble of fashion. and they were my toys with

my pillow. look for some job. it's just not the school and my school to to of the as the ceasefire takes effect thousands of people like that. they are going back home and a shock by what they find a few weeks ago. these really ami hit the highest main water pumping station that left the entire provence without wondering what was the municipality officials say it could take up to several months to fix. meanwhile, some people on tyra getting on with it. they invited people from across lebanon to help them clean up. those came included, locals, go and then t. as in tom, on my coming back here again,

makes me feel grateful again. one of despite all of this destruction inside of it, i'm happy to come back to tired and to clean up my city, i'm ups full time and how long would it be to do on on of the best? i would love to help to restore tire, to how we know it's to bring life extra tyra and to us as well. and not the dean which system have destroy the balcony pairing her home. when the money the family doesn't have. she hopes that someone would offer her compensation sort of in that like everything will be all right, some of your dad will rebuild the house and will get back all your stuff or the materials will be fixed. but this also emotional loss and trauma. to deal with that's to the us now where a large number of mysterious drone size things have been reported over parts of new jersey on the east coast and recent weeks smoking speculation. i'm concerned about

who sent them and why president biden is being off to the offices. laura fisher enforcement officials, all saying the objects don't appear to be a threat to public safety. for these doing site things has been reported across the state of new jersey and even new york. you've got several over here now are flying around to they're flying. once hovering this new jersey does it in teams do have sent multiple tunes in the air. and with the naked eye, the video doesn't really do justice. but when you look at what i'm seeing with the naked eye, you can see it. it's not a normal aircraft this and we don't have this much uh, you know, traffic, you know, usually on any given night in this area. some stockett by what they are seeing and wondering what's going on. i don't know. it doesn't look anything like

a play. it's way too big and it's way too low in the sky and it's the middle of the night. then i think maybe it's a helicopter. no, it's not a helicopter. then suddenly, it gets closer and it's hovering right over the trees. and it looks like, i guess it enormous drone. i'm not even sure water. i've never seen anything like it. it's just a drone on steroids. the f b i is among the federal agencies investigating these joint site things for me to investigate the state. most of them have involved mand is draft. i don't believe there's a tech, but that has not stopped the dumont forget on some of it was that you are up to date, but then go away. coming up next we oscar what another trump presidency could mean for climate investment by the us government that is coming up on global off after a short break. i'm on youtube mccain and i'll be back at the top of the alex with

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