German TV reports. Thanks to readers FD and DZ for the links and translations. From DZ:

German TV channel "ZDF" video (in German):
http://www.heute.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/23/0,4070,2370903-5,00.html

It´s the video called "Verzweiflung in der Anarchie" ("Desperation in Anarchy"). Bush visit coverage in Biloxi starts around 3:15.

A short summary of her comments are also mentioned in this ZDF article:
http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/23/0,3672,2370967,00.html

starting with: "Raeumarbeiten nur für Bush?"
[My translation:] "Clean-up operation only for Bush?
Where the US President visited the disaster area, aid units cleaned up the area. But only there. Reporting from Biloxi, ZDF correspondent Claudia Rueggeberg cited desperate inhabitants [of Biloxi telling her] Bush should have transported aid materials inside his limousines instead of a bunch of body guards and media correspondents.

[Now citing Claudia Rueggeberg directly from the video:]
Along his [Bush] travel route aid units removed debris and recovered corpses. Then Bush left and along with him, all aid troops left too. The situation in Biloxi remains unchanged, nothing has arrived, everything is still needed."

(I don´t know if aid units is the right term. The German word "Hilfstruppen" could be literally translated as "aid troops" or "recovery or support troops/units". It means here units trying to help after a disaster.)

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German TV channel "ARD" video (in German):
http://www.tagesschau.de/video/0,1315,OID4700936_RESreal256_PLYinternal_NAV_BAB,00.html
with a good translation here:
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2005/9/3/22494/85287/77#77:

On the last state of things here's Christine Adelhardt live from Biloxi

2 minutes ago the President drove past in his convoi. But what has happened in Biloxi all day long is truly unbelievable. Suddenly recovery units appeared, suddenly bulldozers were there, those hadn't been seen here all the days before, and this in an area, in which it really wouldn't be necessary to do a big clean up, because far and wide nobody lives here anymore, the people are more inland in the city. The President travels with a press baggage [big crew]. This press baggage got very beautiful pictures which are supposed to say, that the President was here and help is on the way, too. The extent of the natural disaster shocked me, but the extent of the staging is shocking me at least the same way. With that back to Hamburg.

Both channels are public broadcasting TV channels. Independent of each other and competitors thus both have their own teams there. And both have a very good reputation for news reporting.

More coverage of international reaction from the Washington Post.

Tuesday Update: Rivka has an accounting of the differences between what my correspondent Frank Tiggelaar thought he heard on the German TV reports and what appeared to actually air.

Posted by Laura at September 4, 2005 10:13 AM