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william blue croft though at least 15 people have been killed during violent protest against the united nations in the democratic republic of congo protestors and un staffer among the dead. critics say a longstanding, un peacekeeping mission has failed to protect civilians from militia violence. the people of the democratic republic of congo have had to live with conflict and violence for decades. now, some have turned against those assigned to protect them from it. the troops in the blue hats are from anesco. the un peacekeeping force, which served in the country for more than 20 years. but some believe they have failed to deal with the militia violence which has long brutalized, the eastern part of the country. protests against the you and forces this week, organized by a youth wing of the countries ruling party, quickly turned deadly in the cities of goma on dutempo. at least one un peacekeepers and 2 un police personnel were killed along with several protesters. the death toll is still rising. we add our voice to the acting head of madness. go cassim gen, to condemn the killing of o

well d w william blue croft has been out and about end berlin with plenty of ice felonies on hand. he told me how the german capital is coping. i don't know about any ice follies we haven't quite so much time for that, especially with our equipment giving us problems. that's how hot it is getting these those delicate equipment to actually work. if you look at my, my much simpler thermometer here. we're looking at about 373839 degrees depending what number you want to look at in, depending on the exact conditions where that's not quite a record of person or to wait to see what the officials say with the official temperature is. but that is still very hot for berlin to put that in perspective. if you live in a place like lagossi or televi ber, cairo, or delhi places that are known for being very hot, you're having about the same temperatures that we're having today. and these are been and these are temperatures at berlin, that northern latitudes like where, where from where we are in just we're not accustomed to those kinds of extended abouts of heat. and you've been talking to peopl

country near the border with the check republic, pfizer threatening a national park d w report of william blue croft is in batch hondo. close to the german cheque border grau and to show you right now, what's happening on the ground is actually what's happening in the air we've been seeing all day. now we've been here for at least an hour helicopters, both of the federal police and the german military been coming to the elbow river. this one the most important biggest rivers in europe. they've been filling these massive containers dangling under the helicopters from the river and flying into the mountains nonstop. just on a round robin. here comes another one. now, we're just surrounded by a fleet of helicopters, a few from the german military, a few more from the german for the german federal police. and they're trying to get into the mountains to put out this fire. and this is a common site. these kinds of helicopters at wild fires it out in the mountains, but they're especially important here because as you can maybe see behind me the rocks that the terrain here is extremely difficult. it's very

the w correspondent, william blue croft is close to bard shan dow, on the german cheque border where those wild fires are raging. welcome, william. what's happening there? now? i fell. yeah, i'm standing here. one of the central coordinating area is a staging area for firefighters. really all around this region, the state of saxony, who have com, converged here to try to put out what a spokesperson told me is one of the largest fires in this areas. history. we're right here on the check german border in this beautiful pur, steen natural world in this natural national park. that's a huge draw for tourists of all kinds who want to come for a wellness for santa, for extreme sports outdoors. those outdoor sports now off limits as they're fighting this fire deep in this mountainous, rugged region of eastern germany. and what's being said about the cause of the fire? well, of course it's still not confirmed spokesperson said to me that he suspects it could be a cause that a human activity may be someone being careless, someone leaving a fire on someone, you know, flicking a cigarette onto v