the, the, you're watching need to be, your name was coming to you live from berlin, emergency crews, and battle wildfires threatening athens. greece asks me european union for help as firefighters warrants of places are spreading like lightning. thousands have been forced to flee to safety. also ahead on the program, us send a battle group to the middle east as fear is grow, that iran accrued attack israel is really defense minister jo, i've go on to says the country is vigilant and prepared to take a look at how events could on the

inquiry, richardson, welcome to the show. greece has asked the european union for health and bottling wildfire is a threatening the capital athens. thousands of people have been forced to flee as firefighters and military personnel use helicopters to tackle the blaze. strong winds are fueling the flames and the attic origin. north east of the capital warehouses have caught fire, and hospitals and schools have been closed. firefighters bottle abreast of wild fires as they sweep across forest and suburbs. newest of athens residents also doing that bit to help keep the blaze at bay phenomena. so most of the big randy hurts as far as this where we grew up. it makes us very sad and angry. the narrow veil risks to guessing to close the flight and surround it. man,

i could see i hit the pine tree and this happened to dry conditions and strong winds have helped the fire spread easily. it is already engulfed, largest waves of woodland and olive groves over night. police have been helping elderly, invulnerable people evacuate from the west, effected there is a blanket of smoke from the fire is covering this aston sub where residents are told to stay inside. with windows locked grease is currently experiencing the hold to someone on record, creating the perfect conditions for science to spread. this week alone off of the country is on the red deluxe. the wild soil has its let's get

across the athens and are corresponding to sophia class talking. you can see the smoke behind her there. sophia, you've been out reporting. you've seen this wildfire up close. what is the latest you can tell us? in this situation clear out where i'm standing right now is literally out of control. you can see the smoke behind me. it's very sick. it's extremely hard to breathe or even see as we're talking asher's are falling down, and everyone is on the alert. i am at a main road at the area of the show right now, just outside of the athens city center. now why the situation is so dangerous, this is the deepest, the fire has ever reached athens, so people and residents here, of course, on the nerd behind me next to me in front of me, people didn't leave. everyone is here in order to either connect with the people that stayed at their homes or trying to help in volunteer as this by us forces are

not enough. and as we heard as a report as well, french and the czech republic in italy, sounds help already and there's more help to come. now, greek authorities have told people to evacuate, but it sounds like many aren't taking here. can you just paint a picture for us? why this is so dangerous. so greta sorry to use urge everyone to a backyard. so since yesterday afternoon and it's throughout the day. there were a semester finding out in order to evacuate. but we, the people we talked here to mostly everyone stayed and for the reasons they wanted to stay until last minute, they didn't want to leave the properties we saw in front of us literally houses burning cars burning. so it was very dangerous as the fire was literally in the yard. so it was in front of us. however, they didn't leave. they wanted to wait until the situation gets even more serious.

but you can see and you can hear it the, the wind is still very, very strong. and um, the situation doesn't look like it will calm down in the next hour. indeed, a great authorities have warned that not as they are, but in fact half the country faces a high risk of fire is due to those strong winds. and high temperatures, still windy, where you are, but what are conditions looking like for the days ahead? exactly. the hi largest floor at how the country um from yesterday until tomorrow. so everyone is on a higher alert. um i'm sorry, the conditions are extremely hard for everyone as they tries to cold. as you fire drums are lighting up every every now and then. so they cannot really have all forces. that's why volunteers are extremely important. and also for these are people to follow the vacation orders and to follow also new updates on local media

in order to make their work easier to protect everyone and to help and how our efforts to get these fires under control going. are there any areas of particular concern that greek authorities are focused on for the next few days? it's so since the citizens, the outbreak of the fire at the knob, we have several arrows which are very much affected right now where i'm at is the most effective area. the area of the you see behind me is the mountain of the daily where it showed you the, the thick smoke ellia, which is also very important is, is the so called lines of athens, athens as a city know much green. so this is very important. those they proceed in comparison to, to last 2 years, 5 years or the previous years, and also what's upcoming when we think of climate change. so they try to call type a very dangerous, especially inside off, i'm sorry, you know, to,

i'm sorry, just outside i, athens and as the fire reach, so, so deep into those suburbs, those aren't melisha is a neighborhood in athens where people live. those are not summer houses and the things that people leave here and therefore everyone everyone tries to um, to bring sources to your. however, some people told us that they couldn't reach by forces. and that's why people have to stay and also um that's what makes it so important that volunteers state to you in order to help the residence or protect their properties themselves. so here, thank you so much for your report and you take care. now that is our correspondence . so click sophia class talkie us and we are going to take a look now at some other world news headlines, the leader of a canyon doomsday. sax has gone on trial over the deaths of more than $400.00 of his followers. and one of the world's worst coals related tragedies haul, mackenzie is said to have incited people to starve to death so that they could

supposedly meet jesus. he's now accused of multiple counts of manslaughter. more than 20 people have been killed and a rubbish dump collapse in view guns and capital con paula. at least 2 of the victims were children. the city is only land fill is located on a steep slope which was weakened by heavy rain, some locals, scavenged for plastic waste as a source of income. police and hands and you have detained several figures of from the opposition which i made a party including former presidential candidate to do this. so they also rounded up hundreds of activists before a planned raleigh for international use. day some, 10000 people were expected to attend a police band for gathering. and president vladimir putin has ordered his forces to halter craney and troops of que pushes on with its week long offensive in the course region. more than a 120000 russians near the ukrainian border have been relocated. fulton accused as

k of of trying it to for meant public unrest and to gain leverage impossible. peace talks as well is a stopping air force personnel from traveling abroad because of fears that an attack from iran or one of its allies is imminent. defense minister, you'll have the launch. a said israel is in a state of vigilance and preparedness. tensions have been mounting in the middle east over the killings of leading members of the hamas and hezbollah, militant groups. a public announcement by the united states that it is sending a submarine warships and fighter jets to bolster, as well as defense, is being seen as a warning to iran. a middle aged analyst as yours, jo. castiano joins me now from washington, dc. he is the ceo of golf state analytics, a risk assessment group. welcome cdw. we have not yet seen it runs promised

retaliation for those assassinations of homeless political leaders, nia, into ron. and a senior has block commander in late july to you think that this is now imminent. thank you. good to be on your program. i would have a very difficult time imagining the ronnie is not retaliating, considering the 2 very high ranking figures in the run, the lead access of resistance were killed last month. then of course, the killing of the hamas leader in the heart of the running capital, which shows familiar, eating, leadership and tier on definitely wants to establish what we often call quote unquote deterrence capacity. so i do think there is going to be some sort of an action from a ron or other actors and the axis of resistance. but i'm not so convinced that it will necessarily come so soon. i think that ron will be acting cautiously. they certainly don't want to do something that would give is real justification for

escalating this to a much higher level. and i think the runny is are also quite content to see everyone on the edge and certainly to see these railings very nervous. so again, i definitely expect some sort of any ronnie and response, but i don't think there's any reason to assume that it's going to come at some point in the immediate future at germany's chancellor. all off schultz has spoken to a ron's new president and my suit for that key on as called for restraint will not have any effect on the iranian leadership. you thank as i don't think so in light of the europeans responding to the way in which the us sabotaged the nuclear deal back in 2018 is left. the ronnie is viewing the europeans, is completely spineless. unable to stand up to washington, then also the conflict in ukraine has heightened tensions between western european

countries. any ron and then also everything in the middle east and is october 7th of lead to a further deterioration of ties between most e you members and iran. i don't think germany really has much influence here. let's keep in mind and germany has been a staunch supporter of israel throughout this conflict. i again, i, i just don't see the leadership in germany really saying anything that's going to have much of an effect on a ron, to be entirely honest. and what about the united states thinking on this? are you surprised to see them deploying a guided missile submarine to the region? no, not at all. i think obviously the united states is trying to send a message to israel and also all of israel's adversaries in the region that washington is going to have the israel's back. no matter what happens. and if these hostilities spiral out of control and turn into a full fledged war in the middle east, i'm positive,

the united states will go all in to support is real. and this flexing of military muscles is about sending that message out to friend. and so just before i let you go, i'd like to turn briefly to the gaza cease fire talks brokered by the us guitar and egypt that we are expecting to take place on thursday. i'm off as now rejected an invitation to a final round of negotiations. do you see any hope for these talks? so i'm not extremely optimistic about these high stakes talks set for later on this week. i, you know, late last month, presumably it was the israel that assassinated the lead, a mazda negotiator. you have to certainly consider how that makes some us look at the idea of negotiating with israel in a different way. and also the new a mosse chief. sin wire is

a lot less flexible than his predecessor is much more of a hard liner. i he is taking, he will be taking more maximum list positions as the hamas chief and i think it's going to be much harder with these new conditions. there's new leadership in home, us to imagine the palestinian group are being willing to make real compromises with he is released at the round table. not saying it's not possible, but i just want to stress that i think it's going to be much more difficult despite all of the hard work that we've seen from officials in egypt and costs are. well, thank you so much for joining us with those insights that as a giorgio coffee, aero, with gulf states analytics, we very much appreciate your time. thank you so much. i stuff just briefly before we go, a quick reminder of our top story. greece is requesting help from the european union as a wildfire burns out of control on the north and outskirts of athens, hospitals and homes near the greek capital are being evacuated. hundreds of

firefighters and military personnel has been battling the place. and that is our news update at this hour. i'm clare richardson in berlin, and thank you so much for watching the via do how many does not get drunk? why do gravitational waves squeeze all bodies? how much do we need to put a stop fund cream for help find beyond fis gets much on d. w science and i'll take 10 of the .