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President of Russia Vladimir Putin:Friends, veterans, I would like to congratulate you on your professional holiday, Rescue Worker’s Day. The Russian Emergencies Ministry marks its 30 th anniversary this year. Throughout these years and at all stages of the Ministry’s development you had one invariable key task: to protect the country’s citizens, their life, health and property from natural disasters and man-made hazards, to prevent and try to thwart them, and to promptly and efficiently help those in trouble. This work is chosen and pursued by people of special ...

Captivated spain for nearly two weeks now. rescue workers found and recovered the body of a missing toddler. the 2-year-old boy had fallen down an open well january 13th. emergency teams and miners worked around the clock to reach him, but the well was more than 360 feet deep. that's more than 100 meters. extremely narrow and blocked with soil. tough one to read right there. >> it is. part of a town in brazil swallowed by mud and sludge. now, we are getting reports at least 200 people are missing after a dam at an iron ore mine burst. >> the death toll is seven but more is expected. we are m...

Toll stands at 7, but it is expected to rise much higher. >> reporter: a rescue worker struggles to pull a woman to safety. she is trapped in a atlantic, deep sludge, barely able to hold herself up. finally with some help, she is listed on to a helicopter, covered in mud, appearing exhausted. she is one of those rescued in a deadly disaster that is submerging homes, roads, cars, buses and people. it began when a mining dam burst early friday afternoon, near brazil's southeastern city of brumadinho. it sent huge piles of mud, trapping dozens of people. dozens of rescue workers have been deploye...

At least 22 people are dead and almost 200 more injured after a new faster commuter train in taiwan that derailed along the curve on a popular weekend route in northeastern part of the country. some passengers were reportedly crushed to death when five of the train cars turned over on their sides. rescue worker states unclear how many people might still be trapped in the train which runs slightly slower than so-called high-speed rail trains. no word yet on the cause of this derailment. a scary scene is partiers off-campus near clemson university of south florida had the floor fall out from u...

Is shut down. the next one is 10 to 12 hour drive. it is taking rescue worker some time to get to the devastated areas. waves smashed into houses, people found trapped under debris. there's a concern for aftershocks, that's why people are sleeping outside, being treated outside of hospitals on the ground. rescue workers doing their best to work quickly to get to those that may be trapped. but again, fredricka, an area with 5 or 600,000 people, and we expect it to be days before we know more about how many have been injured and how many may have been killed. >> devastating. all right. alexandra...