the, the, this is the, the, the news coming july from berlin, russian president vladimir putin, hales north, korea for supporting his war in ukraine. greetings, comments. com, just hours before with moscow was calling a friendly state visit to pyongyang for talks with leader kim jong on. also coming up, protests flaring is real over many mean that's and you know, who is handling of the conflict in gaza? the says israel's military, so it is control of rafa is within reach. and there's really hostage negotiator cautions against halting the war until all kept is far released. and if you don't mind creepy crawly, as well, we'll show you a very rare natural event. the great cicada invasion taking place across the parts

of the united states, the hello and terry market. and thanks for joining us. rushes present is on his way to north korea. just minutes ago vladimir putin arrived in rushes, far eastern city of the codes. from there, he is planning to fly to north korea's capital feeling young for talks with ruler kim jong on earlier putting praise north korea for its support of his war in ukraine. 15 also said the 2 countries would work closely together to circumvent us . lead international sanctions is to day visit is his 1st trip to north korea in 24 years. north korean leader, kim jong, and in russia last you shaking hands with his russian counts upon lot to my present

money, you know, fools and invincible. come read the notes for us as a do since trips in north korea and his fed meeting with came the latest demonstration of deepening toys between moscow and fuel. yeah. let's see about the series of the united states of june closest since russia lost its full scale invasion of ukraine finding friendship and growing global life selection. but it's the relationship that still concerns in the west. south korean and us official save in north has been feeding the russian blooms. she's sending millions of munitions to must go. they say russia in baton has provided most career with military technology. and the can only kate, in defiance of un resolutions sold in washington, have held in emergency cool to discuss the visit. but despite the western criticism, the kremlin said it has every right to develop ties with tongue yet, and shouldn't be challenged for doing so. this comes this tensions on the korean

peninsula, studley built the us and south career recently conducted joints era exercises between a b one strategic moment to allow us to think for you did the 1st precision guided building drill even 7 years south korea this month, scrapped and military packed with the north, allowing it to resume combat drills on that shared folder. the souls ritz pod said it was responding to a barrels of north cream balloons, filled with the season trash that was sent towards the south. earlier i spoke about all this with james trader, and to that, gosh, schuman lc dw, is correspondence for east asia and russia. i began by asking, greg, gosh, what intentions preteen has with his visit to north korea? well, terry, for vladimir, putting the main thing on his agenda these days is of course the word in ukraine. and this is also the reason why he's coming back to the north korea and he's coming

back, but it's his 1st visit in 24 years. he's been the only was as russians either and back in the year 2000. and as you've mentioned before, as she has praised this support that russia receives from north korea. and the he said that russia highly appreciate north korea support for the russian special military operation. and you creating, of course, his words for, for the war in ukraine. so a way of phone tends to ridiculous relationship. north korea really has was letting me put in and russian need at this point, which is a munition particularly to liberty munition, for the war effort in ukraine. and us and south korea have warranted that north korea, north korean war arms exports. the russia have are one to rise ever since that control visited russia, back in september of last year. and so putting is coming to north korea when a big delegation, the range of officials, including deputy prime ministers,

including the defense minister, heads of russian space agency of russian railway. so on the support for the russian war effort will be the main point on letting me put this agenda. james in taipei. what is north korea is ruler, kim jones calling, hoping to get out of this meeting of the well, of course, one of the really critical things that kim jo meeting is going to be looking for is simply legitimacy. remember, it's a very rare occurrence for a foreign leader to, to visit north career and for team jones to be able to receive an international leader on the scale of let them know the truth. and even if you only young sir, the symbolic significance of boxes is some things to be notices. of course, the minute tree and technological hardware is going to be front and center of the concern. so for kim, joanne, as we understand us and south korean officials have been talking about this over recent months,

that won't king joining is going to be really looking for as we believe in exchange for those weapons that we believe he is sending to russia is support with it's, for example, spy satellite program, i'm for its weapons program in contravention of, of un resolutions. but of course, the even broad a context will have a says that uh, the russia in north korea have the shed geo political belief that the us will be in different contexts as trying to him in that countries to, for us and that countries. and that's what we really see with this backdrop of, of lessening ties between the 2 credits between north and south korea, which is again the north korea believing that the us is trying to rain bringing satellites together in the, in the pacific. it's a threats in your career security, and we see even in, in the hours meeting up. so this arrival of periods and there's been an exchange of fire across the team with a choice or not between the 2. chris project gosh headed to visit the preteen said russia and north korea would be working together to overcome sanctions from the

west. how might they go about doing that as well? russia is the, is i pay my permanent defender of the united nations security council. and in that capacity, russia has supported and implementing in sanctions on north korea over its nuclear end. and mysa programs, particularly between 20062017. however, russia has a reversed course since then, and particularly after invading ukraine in 2022. russia, together with china have blocked the efforts to adopt strength, restrict their sanctions over north korea's ballistic missile tests. and to give you an example of this year, russia voted against renewing the mandates of a u. n. united nations. the expert panel, which was charged with monitoring the implementation of already existing sanctions

. and on a symbolic level, this, you're putting present it to conjunction with a high end. russian made lim was in with which experts say is in itself a breach of already existing sanctions, which russia has was supported. so we expect that that'd be a putting and kim jones when will work during this visit on more schemes to enhance traits and military ties. and the technology exchange a james, it's been only 9 months since the last meeting between putting in cam. if that alliance is growing stronger, where does that leave china? it's a key partner for both north 3 and russia, and the dominant player in the region here with this down. so you know, down the lines between rusher and north korea is growing of a stronger and that's the concern about will not try lot to access. if those 3

countries you mentioned, just say, well them deepening ties across the board meetings, 5 for western alliances in the region. but it was that internationally. i had of this meeting, we actually had a senior us on the list of the korean peninsula. writing about this summit describing this. somebody says the grades this transferred to us national security since the career and where the argument he makes there is that the roster is going to be able to support samuel cray as we've been talking about with its weapons program. but as it relates to china, china has historically sorts of rain in some of the move all this whole behavior or showing. yeah. remember, it's not in china's interest to see an escalation in the korean peninsula being into rights. and eva, all of north korea, but i think what we really seeing here is poor the trends and these deepening alliances between these 3 countries. remember, a person was given the right copy, welcoming badging. know, look, go, is really this deepening of ties between 3 powers which are deeply skeptical of the

us led to global or the, um and i'm, i'm really want to, i think the concern really in the west being that they could then spread that belief among countries that they influence around the wealth. james j gosh, thank you to you both. uh, was james trader in taipei and they're in rica. gosh schuman oki. so you look now to few other stories making headlines around the world. thailand's former prime minister, attraction sooner. what has been formerly indicted for allegedly insulting the monarchy back in 2015 tional walk only recently returned to thailand. he was jailed shortly after arriving on separate charges and then given the royal pardon a series of high profile political legal cases are ongoing in time. and this week, european union leaders have failed to reach agreement on who will be taking the top jobs in the block. european commission present worth of funded line is expected to

eventually secure backing to stay in her possession for a 2nd term, but talked in brussels, broke up in the early hours of tuesday without a deal. is they said, the secretary general, you installed max is a record $23.00 of the $32.00 members of the alliance are on track to hit spending targets of 2 percent of g d. p installed mac told us present, joe biden, that alliance members are spending more money than ever on us defense equipment. the surgeon line spending comes as a result of a rush as an invasion of ukraine. we israel's army has said it's on its way to meeting him us in the city of rafa and expects to gain full control of the area within a few weeks. meanwhile, thousands of antique government protesters clashed with police near the prime minister's residence in jerusalem on monday. officers arrested a number of people. the demonstrators were protesting. nothing. yeah. who's handling of the war and demanding new elections to replace them?

they're also calling for deal with some us militants to secure the release of hostages held in gaza. well, with thousands of israelis demanding the prime minister's resignation, i asked the w, corresponded rebecca richards in jerusalem, if nothing yahoo still has enough support to stay in office. terry and prime minister benjamin netanyahu, popularity and so hasn't been a very high at all since the beginning of the school since october 7, but support for his policies have been generally high across the board. and we all starting to see, of course, these protests gained momentum and gain a for us a t, but they are still very much a minority of the israeli public. even in the beginning of the what we was saying, people considered to be certainly on the left and even fall list who were turning their support towards what israel was trying to achieve in gaza. simply so shocked and horrified by the events of october 7, that they, too were on the side of completing israel, is military aims of ousting

a mazda and timing from the gallons a strip. we are starting to see the tied to noise entirely against the will, but certainly there is no more support for being hosted. his home is suddenly recent paulding suggests that a more his res, are in favor of, of reaching some kind of hostage deal. some kind of political deal to be able to bring the remaining hostages back alive and as well the bodies of the remains of those who are not no longer alive. and that is a more popular than completing the items in, in gall. so in terms of a mil military efforts, we're even starting to see that from these ready military, as you mentioned in the late in the, these are the mid of tray saying that they're coming to completing the tasks and rough or, and they're sort of angling for more targeted approach, more sort of special ops operations going in as, as the war increasingly moves towards a more realer insurgency. they're looking now course towards the northern border

with 11 on the site with hesper limits happening. and he competing out there. so, you know, support for the policies do remain though he is starting to lose the small of total support for the war. and yet there's massive pressure on nothing yahoo, both domestically and internationally. is there any indication, rebecca, that that pressure will cause this and yahoo to rethink his approach to the war is well known if history is anything to go by. and certainly all the pressure that has been placed, as you say, from both sides from within his coalition. the found right, members of his coalition and the from the united states, particularly with all the western allies that hasn't really changed the course of the will so far. and now we're starting to see slight divisions of fishes appear, even between the military and the pilot politic and benjamin netanyahu apparently

are seemingly very keen to keep this will going. he does not want to see the post gospel period. he has not given any plan for what will, what that will look like or what is around its fix. it has to see in the goals the strip, and that's one of the reasons why the most interest so called centers benny got stood down from the wood cabinet with a that was he was in with prime minister benjamin netanyahu because he said that there was no plan and he could no longer stay on that in that cabinet. so, you know, definitely we're seeing some changes potentially, but i don't think the pressure is really getting through to change benjamin that now his costs are making. thank you very much. that was our correspondent in jerusalem, rebecca rivers while the united nations has welcome these really military's announcement of tactical pauses in southern gaza, but said more needs to be done to get aid to people in needs, especially children. the world health organization says more than $8000.00 children

under 5 have been diagnosed and treated for acute mel, unit male, nutrition and gaza agencies also say children, there are luck, sufficient access to health care and are living in a constant state of fear. a james elder is a spokesperson for unicef. he joined us from rough iron southern gaza and told us how the humanitarian situation there has evolved over the past months. look, it's gotten so much worse. no one should be surprised by that since march. those same children have had to 3 more months of relentless, bombardments every not as it before as we were getting this sorted out over there at the bottom. and see now last night the night before. if it's not bombardments, it's drones either attack drones or drones of the, like a low mile or in your head. this continues to go on. i the right fear is that it's a normalized. there is nothing normal about children being deprived. so there's nothing normal about thousands of children being bone. there's certainly nothing normal about the constant fee of the people living. so people now physically and

psychologically shifted, they worried much, somehow they've held on, but they are literally now just holding on with a die like a water with nutrition, consistent denials of eyes, and on going indiscriminate, indiscriminate attacks. i've just come back from a hospital games. think children with liam is missing with our, with, with, without that being my blind in the last few days while sleeping in the home. that's 250 days. that's how things are compared to match. now returning to our focus on the european union, leaders meeting in brussels have delayed a decision on who should leave the block for the next 5 years. european commission present or slip on the line is seeking backing for a 2nd term, but talks in brussels broke up in the early hours of tuesday without deal w corresponded jack par cuz following the twists in terms of negotiations. everyone

turn died on 2070 you leaders came here to brussels, all of the journalist from across the you. but this summit, this been a, the lead is, didn't manage to come to an agreement on who would take the top jobs in the e u. that very powerful jobs for the next 5 years the time so president saw me. so he came out, i talked to him and said they never us. he meant to instruct the source absolutely clear from the beginning and not the surprised it, or the purpose to the wes notes to make a decision. and by the way, to make the decision you took the suppose to something different in terms of the legion process. uh uh, this explains the full next week. it was split into this meeting so that there was your keys in prison. this is central for use to be transferring to each other to share the concerns of priorities, the host, respect visions so that everyone can listen to everyone. now he might have been

done playing that, but there are lots of people in this room were expecting that names would be a nines during this informal summit here in brussels. it's widely expected that the european commission presidents, us live on the line will be proposed to keep her job. she has put the lots of effort into a campaign to try and make that happen. there are the names in the mix, but some of the other top jobs, the custodian pregnant, is to kind of call us the former portuguese prime minister, antonia acosta for some of the other jobs. but i've been hearing from some of my sources here in brussels that actually fresh names were proposed by some of the leaders in the meeting during the discussions that they had. all of this though, needs to come down to advice and there is a formal official summit happening in brussels next week right here, thursday and friday where they will vote on the people that are put forward. and then we will have a much clearer picture on who will be in charge of the you for the next 5 years as

well. a natural event of biblical proportions is unfolding. the biggest invasion of cicada is an over 200 years has hit the united states to so called bruins are emerging from the ground at the same time, creating massive swarms as loud as loans, more law more as they say. we'll hear from a cicada scientist in a moment, but 1st let's take a look at what's happening in the us. it's being called a cicada apocalypse, but although they have zombie red eyes, the insects in a group known as matches a k to or periodicals. and kate is don't bite transmit disease or pose a danger to eco systems. they are pretty loud matches cicada adults around only for a few weeks, emerging from under ground to meet and lay eggs on trees before dying. young insects, cold nymphs hatched from the eggs after several weeks fall to the ground and burrow in the num spend many years living in the soil. feeding on the roots of plants.

before all of them emerge at once. molten 2 adults and begin the cycle all over again. not all periodical cicada is emerging the same years. those that appear at the same regular intervals in the same geographic locations are called brutes. over a dozen broods are found in a range covering most of the eastern united states. 2 of the largest are now emerging simultaneously. it's the 1st time these 2 brutes have come out together since 18 o 3. that's because one of the brutes only emerges every 17 years, while the other emerges every 13 years to prime numbers and overlapping. emergence of both populations, therefore only happens every 221 years. sub to a trillion of the insects could appear in the coming weeks. then these 2 large

broods of cicadas, modem merge at the same time again until 2245. now get this. it's been reported that a mind controlling or zombie fungus has been infecting some of the cicadas further intensifying their sex drive. and so we simply had to ask an expert about that. and tamala, just p j. leach. yeah, so this sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but there's a very particular phone guess, masters for a sick, dyna and it has evolved with these insects. and what it does is it infects individuals, and if it happens to be a male cicada, it destroys some of their anatomy and essentially replaces their reproductive structures. those infected males then attempt to mate with both males and females. other cicadas and well this is going on, the fungus is producing some amphetamine like compounds which are likely involved

in altering its behavior. and so when they try to meet with other individuals akita, it's spreading the spores around. but in the grand scheme of things, it's a relatively small percentage of the population that's effected by this disease. is a entomologist petri police there. they'll stay in the us basketball fans and the city of boston are celebrating after their team, the celtics one. their 18th. n b a championship. the celtics claimed when after beating the dallas mavericks a 106 points, 88 during a home. fine, celtics shooting guard. caitlin brown was the most valuable player to win, set a new and the a record, the celtics of now. now have the most titles in championship history. 15 a previous tie with the los angeles lakers now to the euro.

2024 here in germany. as the prince managed to narrow window, when over austria french, captain clinton biopic came often in the 90th minute with a broken nose after colliding with an ostrich austrian defender. it's unclear what that means for friends when they face group the leaders, the netherlands on friday. monday i also saw the 1st match day for teams in group e. and it ended with the 1st major shock result of the tournament delivered by slipped vakio, who snatched an early goal against belgium and defended furiously to hold on for a one deal victory in the 2nd group. game romania play their 1st european championship game in 24 years and beat ukraine 3. now. the ukrainian team apologized for their fans after the final whistle saying they didn't show their best. but despite the result for some ukrainian supporters being able to watch some football was a welcome respite from the war from the battlefield to the football

field. ukrainian soldiers watching the match close to the front lines were hoping for swift victory. the same or less done by romanian side rank $24.00 places below ukraine's national team. this is the 1st major tournament for ukraine squad since russia's full scale invasion in munich, a friendly toast with rival supporters. but here to the excitement soon turned to anguish. after the match disappointed, you cream fans put on a brief face, but for others, the results didn't matter. so happy to be here. this is an incredible opportunity is so great, so grateful for the players who did their best and would also say thank them as

well as saying all the so just protecting create today the all united then all the pregnancy or that support because of a ride back home language show there will you're not, not far from the stadium seats at munich. serena, these dates are a reminder of that war built in 2012. when you cream, co host that the heroes and destroyed in an attack on har keys. in 2022. former ukraine, striker and ratio of tank who had a message of hope peace to patient of ukrainian team. you have or today it's very important message for us to do all that we can to not leave and we're getting a flight, but not only flight. we cannot do our normal law for the soldiers in your dream to football is a part of what makes life more normal for us,

but it's safe to rest, to drink coffee or to watch football vote for the read this. but soon the break is over and frontline duties are waiting along with hopes for victory in the next match. thanks for watching. it's the

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