Police to keep a closer eye on vigilante groups after neo nazis claim to be carrying out patrols on the streets of berlin and why children are likely to suffer most from Climate Change well experts say the combination of rising temperatures and toxic air in the next generation is especially vulnerable to lifelong damage to help. Its great to have you along everyone what we begin our coverage in venice a World Heritage site and a jewel of a city battling catastrophic flooding priceless landmarks are submerged tourist stranded wading through water and at least Prime Minister now is declaring this disaster in the canal city a blow to the heart of the car. The mayor of venice says the very future of the city is now at stake. The tide has risen again on same azza square the basilica one of venices most iconic landmarks is among the worst hit by the flooding its crypt has been swamped by more than a meter of water. Prime minister just epic content rushed to the city twist sets the situation he promised his government will act swiftly to provide funds and resources. We will hold a Cabinet Meeting today where we will declare a state of emergency as requested by the regions governor. This will allow us to start allocating funds for rescue 8 and to restore services across the city. And. Local authorities estimate that more than 85 percent of the city was inundated in the past days high winds and heavy rain drove the water level to almost 190 centimeters it hasnt been this bad since 1906 mayor. Blame the Climate Change for the extreme weather and said venice was on its knees there is also plenty of anger here the most and undersea barrier system aimed at protecting venice from high water has faced constant delays since construction began in 2003. For the museum youve been on it for 10 years but theyve done nothing its in total neglect just doesnt work and its the least 6000000000. 00 euros in italy unfortunately. Our politicians are all thieves we should all be in jail enable bit of god. As locals take in the aftermath Officials Say the damage to the city could total hundreds of millions of euros. All right lets get you the very latest now we can take you to venice it is so deadly target to see a church saying by the backdrop youre standing at st marks place no water there anymore give us an update whats the situation like in the city. So as you notice the water has gone down we had a peak of tide this morning around 11 but it was definitely lower than it was on tuesday night the consequences however are still to be seen all over the basilica was invaded with water and it is still to be seen what kind of damage the water has created but its not just the landmarks that have been affected it is the People Living in venice and its the shop owners i spoke to a few shop owners today and they are trying to clean up the mess theyre trying to figure out how much money they have lost because of this and they are not very optimistic as to how much money they might get back that they lost my thing ill get help though to hear from the Prime Minister at least Prime Minister because he has gone on the record saying that he is going to the state of emergency what does that exactly mean and how will it help. Yes so this afternoon at 430 so in about half an hour the government is going to meet to finally signed the state of emergency thats going to mean more money to intervene directly more power to do things that might help venice recover from this has also pledged in the immediate some money for citizens and for shop owners which should help them get back on their feet after this flood. And whats the general sense among venetians i mean youve got the opportunity to talk to them how they feel that officials dealt with this flood. Venetians are used to hardship they are used to high tides but this was extremely exceptional they really did not expect this to happen and they are not particularly satisfied with how the government has dealt with it there is this big infrastructural project the most which is meant to create an underwater barrier that rises when the tide goes up but its been in the making for almost 20 years now its supposed to be completed in 2 years but it still isnt happening theres been corruption scandals so venetians are quite skeptical about what the government can do no right to the drooly so deadly reporting from st marks place venice thank you. Next we shift our attention to the middle east so israel says a series of rockets have been fired from gaza despite a cease fire that was agreed earlier with the militant Palestinian GroupIslamic Jihad well the last 2 days have seen the heaviest fighting in months along the gaza border 34. 00 palestinians were killed in israeli strikes on gaza. Misael soar into the night sky above gaza before being snuffed out by israels iron dome Missile Defense system. But as day broke it seemed to beckon a fragile peace here. News of a deescalation in the area. Also the walkway confirmed that to cease fire deal was reached under the supervision of egypt. It went into effect on the ground at 5 am with Islamic Jihad conditions. The dealing kluge the occupier israel submission to conditions to stop this sasa nations protect the much of return demonstrators and to begin the procedures to break the siege of gaza. The clashes began after Israeli Forces killed a Senior Commander from the palestinian militant Group Islamic jihad. The fought back firing hundreds of michels towards israel destroying buildings and new indian residents striking panic into every day life. Name of the earth of 2 days ago i became a fossil but now the rockets called me in the hospital we dont get used to this. It was is really fire power which proved deadliest air strikes on militant targets in new york tell a tree of gaza killed dozens many of them civilians and children israel says the cease fire deal will bring an end to the bloodshed though not the grief. As i know for some of the stories making news around the world. Turkey says it has deported 7 germans and one British National suspected of being Islamic State militants will the germans are believed to be a family from the central town of hill this time which has been the focus of anti terror raids turkey is expected to to deport 2 more suspected german is. Militants tomorrow. And germany has narrowly avoided entering a recession thats according to data released today experts had expected growth to grain to one halt in the 3rd quarter the u. S. China tariff dispute led to a slump in germanys key manufacturing sector. Where new clashes have broken out in the bolivian capital la paz the unarrest comes a day after the Senate Leader jeanine and yes was sworn in as interim president former head of state evo morales was ousted this week and fled to mexico. Sudans for main land china are leaving hong kong universities as violent protests affect campuses many classes have already been cancelled protesters have the barricades public life has been destroyed. As state press demands for more autonomy from a chain. Youre watching it every news still to come. Mel nutrition disease and pollution a new report says children could be hardest hit by Climate Change to bring in our science correspondent for a closer look at the warning. Here in germany authorities are growing increasingly worried about the appearance of vigilante patrols all selfproclaimed patrol groups are operating in some german cities in the act as if they are responsible for law and order which is actually the task of the police but the groups claim state Law Enforcement is not meeting their obligations while the interior ministry has found that these are german vigilante patrols are being set up by far right extremists with their own agenda we join to patrol and darlin. A vigilante patrol in the heart of berlin 3 men from the n. P. T. A neo nazi party the leader of this patrol is the boss stan schmidt who has a criminal record for incitement to hatred is an avowed far right extremist to me show that i think right wing extremism sounds very strange to me where people who love our homeland definitely who stand up for our people whether thats right wing extremist i personally dont care what people call it we do what we think we should out of conviction if thats right wing extremist i dont care. You know dont have any for. The appearance of the vigilante patrol evokes images of nazi propaganda the name shaft should go on and or make safe zones can be abbreviated with s s in german just like hitlers Paramilitary Organization would make safe zone sound strange and i think getting as us from shop should zone was outrageous. But its close shop shoots on an s. S. Port make safe zones as a demand so what people see as us in it calling it protection zones would be boring the patrol zeroes in on its 1st operation of the day the men call out to 2 young women collecting signatures the right wing extremists believe their scammers and pickpockets but they cant prove it the patrol follows them for a few minutes because when i come from eastern southeastern europe there are 17 years old and theyre holding these lists music is a list and on its often the case in this area these people the socalled gypsies indian roma they do those kinds of things here if you know pedestrians in central berlin notice the patrols off camera a few welcomes the idea that someone is watching out they say there is too Little Police presence but most people we meet here are critical of the n. P. T. Patrol. In the n. P. T. Lean i categorically reject the n. P. T. In full and we dont need a safe zone because we have police and they do their jobs properly. I think its totally unnecessary that some people feel the need to take action themselves so they figure if you seek it shouldnt michelle and then i dont even feel threatened anyway in berlin. Or that i need protection. I dont think. The numbers dont support the need for a vigilante patrol the crime rate has been decreasing for years statistics say local residents feel safe the government is alarmed by the spread of the patrols. With events in vigilante patrols are a worrying phenomenon in germany Law Enforcement is solely the duty of the state it has a monopoly on the use of force whenever socalled selfproclaimed vigilante patrols supposedly try to create law and order instead of the state it lies outside of our legal order and we cant tolerate it which would include a good deal dont we also need to raise Awareness Among all Police Departments on how to handle such groups. When the police are present in central berlin of they stop to patrol someone called the Emergency Services because of the right wing extremist i. D. s are checked and recorded but nothing else is done. So thats good to have a nice day seemed you have a good day. But more. The safe sound patrol moves on no one stops it authorities dont have effective guidelines to deal with such groups they dont even know how many vigilantes are patrolling across germany. A very worrying development lets get you some context now we want to bring in chief Political Correspondent linda cray melinda. Is trying to see if youre there there you are yes good to have you with us melinda very worrying development there just contextualize it for us if you well how prevalence are these are trolls and tell us a little bit about the numbers because there seems to be no clarity on that. Thats correct the federal interior Ministry Just issued a statement some tell us a little bit about the numbers because there seems to be no clarity on that. Thats correct the federal interior Ministry Just issued a statement some days ago in which it said that these groups now seem to exist in pretty much every single German Federal state and that the topic is of enough concern to the federal authorities that it has been on the agenda the focus of the joint to the Security Services joint terror Defense Center 8 times in the past couple of years i can give you some numbers from state level in one especially important federal state and that is north rhinewestphalia Authorities Say that the proliferation of these vigilante groups dates back to the new years eve 2015 when there was Mass Violence and molestation of women who were celebrating the new year near the cologne train station by people of migration background and apparently the vigilante groups began to proliferate after that now in that federal state of north rhinewestphalia the Authorities Say they now have a hardcore of right wing vigilantes of about 250 people but that 700 people could be mobilized statewide throughout north rhinewestphalia if if the vigilantes so desired melissa watching our report you know seeing the interaction between the Police Officers and this vigilante patrol here in berlin you know i was struck by how polite they approached their polite approach and and they seemed kind of helpless as to what to do with them. I dont know if i would call it helpless germany has a very strong system of rule of law with respect for individual rights and that does indeed limit the polices. Leeway in dealing with these groups but if you look for example at the eastern german city of chemists where theres also quite a strong vigilante presence the police there have done such things as confiscating t. Shirts with the logos of these safe zones and by the way there are 2 anti groups all over germany that just happened to have different names but all of whose initials add up to s. S. So its not only the ones in the report so theyve confiscated t. Shirts theyve filed charges for the assumption of a false uniform theyve also looked into charging such groups with a false assumption of authority with claiming to have an authority that they dont have theyve ordered them to leave certain streets and parts of the city and not returned so there are measures there they can take if germany manages to pass its new law on regulating hate speech online there would be additional measures because these groups do have websites that are backed by the neo nazi n. P. T. Party nonetheless as i say to some degree there are limits on this because of germanys constitutional protections for freedom of expression and freedom of movement in the crane reporting thank you all right well next up across the planet to Climate Change is having a huge impact on the environment and also on human health while a major study says now children are suffer the worst effects in our g. W. Science of reporter Derek Williams explains in our next report. Rising temperatures will have a major impact on agriculture and global yield potential for staple crops like maize and rice is already in decline if the downward trend continues while populations rise food prices will be driven up leading to more malnutrition among the worlds poorest and in children that can affect development dramatically causing Lifelong Health problems. And Climate Change is closely tied to another a key factor in Child Development air quality children born today will on average be breathing and more toxic air than their parents that will cause rates of respiratory diseases like asthma to rise and increase their long term risk of heart attack and stroke. The current generation will also experience more extreme weather related events than their parents the health of hundreds of millions of people worldwide has already affected by flooding heat waves droughts and wildfires if we arent able to keep temperatures from rising under 2 degrees celsius tomorrows children will be exposed to the hazards of extreme weather throughout their lifetimes. And as temperatures warm the conditions improve for diseases like dengue fever cholera and diarrheal infections the range from mosquitoes that carry viral pathogens is expanding and as their young immune systems havent developed fully children are much more likely to suffer later Health Issues or die if they contract those illnesses Climate Change is already having an effect on child health the report concludes and it will only get worse if the planet continues to warm up. The w. s there aquariums there are reporting and hes here with me in person good to have you here with us derrick what some of those dangers that you just mentioned in your report are the most immediate danger to Childrens Health well i think in europe at latest probably the question of infection and spreading infection as is it is really the major issue thats thats most pressing at the moment as temperatures rise you get the spread as i mentioned briefly in the report of a mosquito is that can act as vectors for diseases like think if youve heard or a west nile or west nile fever and thats slowly beginning to spread and in Southern Europe but the law as we have longer hotter summers that those numbers of maybe a couple 100 cases of west nile fever in there over the course of of a summer could explode its its set to do that and so then then it becomes a question of infrastructure and whether or not were going to be able to cope with that particular problem i would say that would be probably one of the most pressing things another aspect of it of course is there is the question of as temperatures rise it becomes they the environment becomes more conducive to the reproduction of what are called biblio bacteria which are the cause of of dire real diseases like cholera and as as temperatures rise theres going to be more and more of a problem with that particularly in places where they have problems with sanitation and clean water well that brings me to my next question i mean how much of a difference does it make where their child is born and raised well thats always made a difference to some extent i mean its clear the. You know if youre if you have a child growing up in these sort of toxic air conditions and valley that weve been seeing over the last weeks compare that to a child growing up on a mountain in switzerland theres going to be a major major difference in terms of respiratory issues just as theres going to be a question of malnutrition issues for a child in Subsaharan Africa compared to that child in switzerland that said though this is all about the question of development see its whether or not diseases become chronic in Development Children are very very vulnerable that particular point in their lives infants and small children if they develop problems while theyre developing they turn into chronic issues that can last for an entire lifetime or so theyre kind of doomed just because of being a lucky being born somewhere where the conditions are not optimum ok talk about Life Expectancy because that has been growing and growing and growing do you see a trend of that reversing because of Climate Change well its very difficult to say this report is kind of a warning shot i mean its looking at what would happen in particular if we continue with business as usual business as usual would mean that by the end of the century we would see climbs of 4 degrees celsius and of course with the Paris Agreement were trying to keep things under 2 degrees celcius even then we are going to have major major issues but this is you know trying to predict the Life Expectancy is going to be very dependent on how high the temperatures actually go and that of course is very intertwined with the politics of the whole situation on a global level if we manage to get things under control if we manage to use to harness these cleaner technologies and if we are able to stay under 2 degrees celsius the knock on effects are going to be much much less drastic than they will be if we hit 4 degrees by the end of this century but lets talk about the immediate future right now basically what can what can we do i mean can we doctor our way out of this with medication well theres no question that medicine has been advancing in leaps and bounds and tremendous pace i mean working in this field you read about the. New medical advances every day and it seems like at some point we should be able to take care of everything but once again returning to that question of the child whos in whos who has developed asthma a respiratory disease at a very early point in their life whether its from pollution or or from wildfires because theyre exposed to the side from wildfires. The question is you turn it into a chronic condition you might be able to treat that patient and they might live for 80 years but youre not going to get rid of the chronic problem the asthma thats lying at work and thats really the issue that this report is focused on is we need to keep the generation healthy while theyre young so they can lead healthy lives for the next decades absolutely we wish that for all children growing up Derek Williams from the science thank you so much greatly appreciate it max the court of arbitration for sport will tomorrow hear a case on the conduct of chinese world and olympic champion swimmer son yang while young previously served a doping ban in 2014 and was recently cleared for fusing to provide samples 4820000 drugs test but that decision has been appealed by the World Antidoping Agency while several athletes protested yangs inclusion at this years swimming World Championships by refusing to share a cody im with him yang could miss out on next years olympics and lose his world titles if the swiss court rules against him on friday. To tennis now as stephan else. Has secured a place in the final 2 of the a. T. P. Finals in london after a straight sets victory over germanys alexander verify the 21 year old is the 1st greek ever to compete at this tournament the 1st set 63. 00 against a spare if the defending champion 22 year old sara still has a chance to claim the groups final qualifying place on friday so he posts a next match in saturdays semifinals after completing his 6362 victory. This is due to the news these are top stories. The mayor of venice says the city is on its knees after the highest tide in more than 50 years left much of the city flooded damage to its World Heritage center is expected to run into hundreds of millions of euros. Israel in the militant Palestinian GroupIslamic Jihad have agreed a ceasefire to end the heaviest fighting in months along the gaza border israel said that despite the truce some rockets were fired from gaza. Turkey says it has deported 7 germans and one British National suspected of being Islamic State militants the germans are believed to be a family from the central town of hill this time which has been the focus of anti terror raids. And new clashes have broken out in the bolivian capital la paz the unrest comes after the Senate Leader jeanine and yes took power as interim president on tuesday livias a former leader evo morales was ousted on sunday and fled to mexico. This is you know we news from berlin for more follow us on twitter at the news or visit our website dot com. Coming up next focus on europe spotlights on people and in this edition restaurants of france are under attack from the militants of egoism iraq a growing thank you for spending this part of your day with me ill see you at the top of the hour. In. This republic if the digital lab lithuania and its 80 sector. Is a house for exciting new start ups. Young talents flocked to the capital flow investors back new firms. 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