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we spoke -- media spoke with one -- a woman who lives in the area who describes some of the situation. >> Animals, the livestock, buried. Everything was buried. They're appealing to our government, the NGOs, for food and shelter, temporarily. And then they also making -- they're trying to retrieve the bodies they are digging up. >> Reporter: one factor that is complicating the rescue efforts is that tribal warfare in the area. One aid convoy was reportedly delayed by one group. There is also an incident apparently unrelated to this, but caused some issues. 30 homes burned. Eight deaths because of a clash between rival clans. Emergency responders have been working to remove survivors to evacuation centres they set up on either side of that debris field. They've also been -- the government also has been considering whether to ask for international aid to assist with their efforts here. The U.S. and australia have already said they are willing to offer their support. I have reached out to global affairs canada to see where canada might stand on this, also to see how many canadians might be in papua new guinea. In terms of the number of missing, they are expecting -- they are expecting to update those figures as time goes along. So that number of dead could change in the hours and days ahead. >> Marianne: looking at the images, seeing the local residents scrambling to get the help to the victims. Thanks for the update, albert. >>> The findings are out in examination of the delay in an emergency alert in the deadly floods in nova scotia. We'll hear what went wrong ahead here on cbc news network. [ ] [inspirational] Michael j. Fox:From breaking on the streets to battling on the world stage. - -[crowd cheers] Meet the Melville's.They've had GlobalDecking vinyl on their deckfor over 3 and now they're readyfor a new look. By using global decking systemsdeck membranes. There'sno need to rip up the old deck and send to a landfill or purchase more lumberto rebuild a new one. Just pick one of our attractive prints and have it installeddirectly over the old one. Good for another 30 years. Global Decking Systems. The only decksurface you will ever need. Ram Power Days are here.The power to choose fromthe most awarded truck brand over the last five years. Like Ram Classic.As versatile as it is capable. Ram 1500, voted bestlarge pickup in Canada. Or Ram Heavy Dutywith a no-charge Cummins. And you don't pay for 90 days. The power is yours.The time is now. Get 20% off msrp on Ram Classic for up to $14,200 in discounts. Plus get 4.99% financing. Woman: My grandson can choose to be anything he wants to be. Which reminds me: I've got a few choices to make of my own. Welcome to Seniors Choice. How can I help? Hi, I'd like a quick quote, please. If you're a Canadian Resident aged 50-80, you can choose the right amount of coverage for you and your family up to $250,000. That kind of money would help a lot. You can choose to apply over the phone now in just minutes, with no medicals or blood tests, just a few health and lifestyle questions. Wow. That easy? Depending on the coverage you choose, it would be as little as $14.88 a month. That's just 49 cents a day. That's less than I thought. And that money could help my family cover my funeral costs, support my husband's retirement planning or even pay off the loans. I'll do it. Seniors Choice are the #1 Direct Choice for Canadians over 50. To get a free, no-obligation quote, call one of our trusted insurance advisors today at 1-844-834-2722. Or visit seniorschoice.ca. Amusement park in western india has killed at least 27 people. Officials say some of the bodieshave been burned beyond recognition. And that the fire has claimed the lives of "many children". The search continues for at least one missing person. Police have promised a swift response to the incident and have taken two people into custody for questioning.

>>> Another fire in india has claimed the lives of at least six newborn babies after a blaze broke out at a baby care hospital. The fire department did manage to rescue six children from the flames. They have been taken to another hospital, including one newborn on a ventilator. The owner of the baby hospital has fled, but legal action is being taken against the unidentified person. >>> A recent outline reports the failures that occurred during the flash flood in nova scotia year. The alerts that were meant to warn people exacerbated the situation. Kayla hounsell has more on the tragedy. >> Reporter: six-year-old colton was fast asleep when floodwaters began to fill his home. His dad tried to get him out of the area. >> The water had a strong current. I didn't know where it went. >> Reporter: colton was one of four people who died after being swept away in two separate vehicles last july. Now a new report says an emergency alert telling people to shelter in place was delayed. >> We had emergency alert put out for west hants. But it comes again and again. At 2:28. Colton's mom gets wind of the attempts and calls to wake his dad. And finally, nearly two hours after it was first requested, the alert is issued. >> By the time the alert was issued, colton was dead. >> What do you think went wrong? >> I don't think anything went wrong per se. It was an unprecedented storm. >> Reporter: the report says part of the problem was poor cell service. There was also no access to flood mapping. Though this after-action report has just been released, the intact centre on climate adaptation at the university of waterloo released a report in 2020 prior to the nova scotia floods raising similar concerns. >>, quite frankly, the more lethal outcome associated with the event could have been avoided. Tt >> Reporter: the municipality has created templates to alert faster and increase the number of people who can authorize them. >> I'm so disappointed. >> The ciscos want someone with an ability to do the alert on call 24-7. >> I don't think I could just stop knowing that a whole generation is going to have to face this. >> Reporter: she says her family's tragedy should remind her that the time for action on climate change is now. >> Marianne: violent storms and tornadoes are sweeping through the central united states and disrupting the memorial day weekend for millions of people. The extreme weather has damaged homes, overturned vehicles and knocked down trees and pour lines. It's unclear how many people have been injured, but hail, winds and possible tornadoes are also in the forecast for the region today.

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-We will always protect and defend all nato allies. -Some people have lost everything. Rosemary:Sundays, join me for Rosemary Barton live. [ ] >> Marianne: hello. You're watching cbc news network. I'm marianne dimain. We begin with the new push to get desperately needed aid into gaza from egypt. A convoy of trucks carrying supplies is entering the territory for the first time since israel stormed rafah earlier this month. Journalist irris makler tells us about the efforts that went into making the deliveries a reality. >> Reporter: some 200 trucks have been going in. They include food trucks and fuel trucks. And we have that from the head of the red crescent in sinai. I've seen footage from the egyptian television. The significance of this is these trucks were not getting in through the rafah border crossing. Egypt and israel blaming each other for that, but either way it took intervention by the U.S. president joe biden. He called the egyptian president. They agreed some of the trucks could be rerouted and that's great news because, you know, fresh food on the trucks was rotting. Nothing was getting through. Hundreds of trucks were just standing there. So now we see trucks go in. But there is a criticism for the U.N. agencies on the ground and that's about distribution. We heard from the head of unrwa and he said it's all very well it gets in, how do we get it to the people who have left rafah, the palestinians who have fled rafah to avoid the fighting? They're in an area on the coast, just tents, not much infrastructure. How do we get food to them safely for them and for us? You know, food delivery, any kind of delivery is hard in war-time, nevertheless, you do have to say this is an achievement today for washington and the for the palestinians in gaza. >> Marianne: that's journalist irris makler in jerusalem. For more, we're joined by the medical team leader in gaza for doctors without borders and she just returned from the region and joins us now this morning from paris. Thank you so much for talking to us this morning. First, I want to get your reaction to this new aid finally getting into gaza. >> Good morning. It's a very small drop in the ocean. Hopefully a start. But the closure of rafah has very, very significant impact. So whatever efforts to reopen it has to be the first priority so at least we can get some of the food, the medical supplies that are stuck on the egyptian side crossing it will help. Be the first priority to reopen rafah for all the reasons we all know. >> Marianne: once that aid does in in through southern israel, there are questions on the logistics of all of this, so as someone who works in the region, how big of a challenge will be it be once that aid comes in to actually distribute it >> So it's the flow of the aid and we heard about recently in one of the first one that comes to mind, because the resources are life-saving in gaza for everything and everyone. How do we prioritize W.H.O. has to make choices, difficult ones. And then we have three weeks or more of people not having receiving the aid they needed for the last three weeks. And they live in very, very dire conditions. No access to water. Limited access to food. Crowded places. So, of course, if we keep going that way, it's going to be the same, huh-uh -- if we don't get the food to the people, it's very difficult to get is distributed safely and in a sustainable manner. So that the task has to be open, very, very open, in order to prevent the distributions where people are fighting with each other to have access to basic needs. >> Marianne: of course, there are the concerns with the temporary measure right now,

whether enough aid is getting in. There is that continued push to reopen the border crossing to get aid in through the rafah border crossing. But you've been on the ground there. You just returned a few days ago. Give us an idea also of the frustration that aid workers are dealing with. We're hearing about food that was going bad, spoiling on board the trucks, aid that could have been used to feed people in desperate need there. What would that reality be like on the ground right now? >> So it's -- so it was something -- [indiscernible] this 700,000 people was terrible. It was a constant people being left with almost anything and ending up in -- they moved us back here, but then adjusted. They can't take it anymore. And every extra challenge like they were having access to food supply in rafah, this food supply disappears because there is not enough aid coming in. This aid is not reaching them because they -- it's still in kerem shalom. At any point in time -- it will not. So they just want the war to stop because they can't take it anymore. So it's extremely difficult on a daily basis to witness that, to know that we could change it. If we have rafah wide open, the aid will go in and we'll reach the people when they need, where they need. It's just a matter of -- [indiscernible] and frustrating for us to -- solution for the needs, across the board. So there is no process, nothing to eat. Just how do we get it in? And that is beyond our means in terms of humanitarian -- [indiscernible] but it's extremely frustrating to know we have the solutions, just not good in place from many, many people on both sides. So it's -- and on the medical side is the same. The medication, everything we use on a daily basis like gauze, et cetera, at some point -- [indiscernible] because their route was rafah, so the way -- egyptian side and inside we're lacking the basics because it's on the other side of the goa. It's an extreme situation. >> >>. Tt >> Marianne: hundreds of people have attended the funeral of an israeli hostage whose body was recovered on friday. Brazilian-israeli was killed by hamas in the october 7 attacks and his body was then taken to gaza. It was retrieved with two others. Pressure is mounting on the government of benjamin netanyahu to get the last remaining hostages home. Protests have become commonplace across israel with demonstrators calling for new truce and hostage releases as well as fresh elections.

>>> Now to russia's war on ukraine. Ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling on the U.S. and china to join an upcoming peace summit in switzerland. Dominic valitis joinsz us now. What can you tell us about the new appeals by zelenskyy? >> Reporter: well, marianne, this was a highly produced prerecorded video message featuring zelenskyy which was filmed inside the burnt-out remains of a canadian printing press which was destroyed on thursday. It's a direct appeal in english to U.S. president joe biden and china xi jinping to attend next month's peace summit in switzerland, which neither country has yet agreed to attend. Here he is. Take a listen. Here's the clip. >> And I am appealing to the leaders of the world who are still of the global efforts to president biden, the leader of the united states, and to president xi, the leader of china, we do not want the U.N. charter to be burned. Burned down just like these books. And I hope you don't want to either. Please show your leadership in advancing the peace, real peace, not just a pause between the strikes. >> Reporter: now the wider context here, the background, of course, is the situation on the ground over the last couple of weeks or so. Russian forces have been making some significant advances on the battlefield, especially with the new offensive north and northeast of kharkiv. And in this video address zelenskyy claims that russia is now forming another grouping of troops near ukraine's northern border, presumably preparing for a further offensive action there. Another sign zelenskyy says that putin doesn't want peace. Now russia, of course, hasn't been invited to next month's summit in switzerland and although dozens of other countries, including india, will be there, there is still no word if the U.S. and china will attend. Ukraine especially wants china to be there, because, of course, beijing has a certain amount of influence on moscow. It's worth mentioning that the zelenskyy address comes days after russian sources told reuters that putin was -- cease-fire he's reportedly offering would be nothing more than an opportunity for moscow, for russia, to prepare for future offensive operations. Marianne. >> Marianne: in the meantime, what can you tell us about the air strike on kharkiv? >> Yeah, this is a terrible strike yesterday on a crowded hardware store in >> Reporter: 150 is the number believed, and that number of dead has risen from friday when it was hundred or more. We have a map to show you where this is. 4,000 live in the village of yum ball -- yambali. The landslide hit burying dozens of homes. The rubble is said to be six to eight metres deep and the massive trail is estimated to be -4 soccer fields in size. So just a massive debris field. You can see some of it there.

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