ah ah ah, this is day w, news live from burly face to face in keith, the leaders of germany, france, italy, and romania say europe stands united with keith and are pledging support you crying to receive the youth candidate status as soon as possible. also on the show as

plotting rages on in ukraine's don best region, the ne stripe kills for civilians taking shelter at the cultural center in lizzie chang, also on the program western europe prices. pub blistering, hate this weekend. spanish fi fi has are already battling. blazes sparked by the latest teeth. ah, i'm anthony held, welcome to the program. you leaders from germany, france, italy and romania have traveled to ukraine's capital. keep to meet with president for lot of miss lensky. the for a you leaders told the ukrainian president, europe stands united in support of his country, and they also behind fast tracking ukraine for a u candidate status. the cities in the ruins of keith suburb, our pin, europe's leaders so for themselves, the devastation of the war,

impossible. the heads of france, germany and italy, met with romania as president to 2 of the suburb where heavy fighting and alleged war crimes. so many civilians killed their 1st visit to ukraine since russia invaded was a chance to show europe support and counter criticism over the speed and scale of their responses. lobby difficulty in europe is by your side of football. it will remain so for as long as necessary either until victory is achieved and label in the form of a return to peace in a free and independent ukraine. the opposite of the consequences of the barbarism that we have seen together this morning in airplane. in a joint press conference in keith, ukrainian president vladimir zalinski called for more heavy weaponry of positioning his country as europe's eastern flank in the war. did sure

a here near russia does not choose whom and when to threaten equally. who in europe to ground safety, you russian aggression against ukraine through is aggression against all of iraq, a very simple against the united. you're a granted she against every one of us, of them, against our values. noah's love brought in that speed seamlessly. our response of you must be united inertia via our president. the european leaders pledged more military aid and backed immediate candidate status for ukraine, joining the european union. okay, now go and thought ukraine belongs within the european family. i my, and a milestone on his journey toward the you would be to receive candidate status samples i, despite what's coming up, the e. u is set to discuss ukraine's candidacy on friday. but even if all member states a grey, it could still take years 15 to gain actual membership. they the

believe roman con to ranko, covered the highly anticipated meeting and told us how the visit went down in ukraine. very positively, it was very important than they came that the 4 of them came. so the western european countries, the biggest countries of the you are represented eastern europe, was presented by romanian president. so it was very important for them to come and not just a key of, but also to repeating, to a neighboring city where which was occupied for several weeks by the russian army. and to see what has happened there to talk to the people there. well, as to the, to the outcome of the negotiations, we're talk to the ukraine in person's landscape. i would say mostly they fulfilled was ukraine expected for key if it is very important to have that signal from germany in france, especially from germany, that ukraine should get that candidate status and, and, and can finally start this long way. long journey to become some day and you remember, maybe you can, must have been disappointed by they own. what with what has been said about weapons

deliveries, because ukraine needs urgently more weapons. and we've heard very little about new weapons on the, the president france said something about a decision to be to, to be em, to deliver some more, some more on howitzers to ukraine in the coming days and weeks. maybe germany made no new announcement, but just to reinstated that it's going to deliver what was discussed before. a russian air strike has killed at least 4 civilians sheltering at a cultural centre in the east in ukrainian city of lizzie chance. the original governor says 7 others were wounded in the attack. it's a gruesome task rescue workers look for survivors under the rebel at this cultural center in lisa chance. they come across some of the victims. the building sheltering dozens of people was destroyed in what de la hans criminal governor says,

was the russian air strike. a witnesses describe what happened after the attack. to click it, i heard some one cry. clicking terrible cries the upper room. i ran here and saw only ruins and bodies were you. they were carried away on stretches. i don't know in the fields, some were alive. some were dead. the woozy weeks. lisa chance is just the cross the river from several denounced the key battleground in russia's latest offensive in the dumbass region. and like his northern neighbor, the city is still under ukrainian control. but constant russians shelling and rocket attacks. mean the civilians here are in grave danger. authorities are trying to convince them to leave, but some refuse we study can we are old people. we do not have a place to go. where will i go? i am 72. they will dump me some village somewhere. where can i go?

chi certified for peace, let the peace come to zan will shovel us to feel, nor too many though decided to leave it believe less than a fif of the pre war. population of nearly 100000 people still remains in lucy chanced for many of them. destroyed houses. mean they can only seek shelter in basements like this one. when you buy it, people are afraid. this is war. it's scary. there's no communication. you can't go out anywhere me cussing. then there's no place to go with know where to go and no and to the fighting. inside. these people are praying, their lives shattered by the brutal conflict will be spared. meanwhile, nato has bound to bolster its forces along the alliances, east and borders in the face of russia's aggression, defense ministers, meeting in brussels disgust, how the alliance aims to reset it. strategic vision,

the medi comes ahead of a summit later this month that we'll seek to chat a new course for the coming years. speaking after the meeting secretary general again, stoughton berg said, rushes invasion of ukraine would change nato security strategy in the long term. rush us war against ukraine. pulse is the biggest threat to our security in decades . so we muster, set out naples response for the longer term. at the summit, we will take decisions to make, make thought, even stronger, and more ads are in a world that is more dangerous. aren't more competitive. early we spoke with our brussels correspondent, terry schultz and asked her what nato's response might be. given the new challenges that jen stoughton berg says, the alliance is facing the n stolen burn has repeatedly described the situation living with russia as aggression, as the new normal for nato. and says that the alliance has to adjust to this in ways that it didn't envisioned before. and that's why they're talking about

a new model for allocating nato resources. and that's going to include putting more troops in those eastern flank countries. also pre positioning equipment, pre positioning ammunition. now we've heard that perhaps all of the troops assigned to these countries won't be permanently on the ground there as the baltic states would like. but they will be training with local forces. they will be ready to integrate. should a territorial threat arise? and so this is where we're going to be hearing at this madrid, some at the end of the month, what other allies are willing to contribute to bolstering the eastern flank. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world, and the u. n. has said that more than a 3rd of sedans, population, and mili, $44000000.00 is facing food insecurity, political instability, climate change, and rising global food prices are said to have contributed to the crisis un toward food program has warned. the situation is likely to worsen if sedan doesn't get

food. shooting outside a church in the us state of alabama has left, 2 people did and one other injured. they say they detained the suspect, but declined to give further details. the incident comes as us lawmakers negotiate . you can't safety laws in the wake of recent mass shootings. a panel investigating the u. s. capital insurrection has said that former president, donald trump, tried to force form of vice president my, hence to overturn the 2020 election results. right. as i said, to have come with in close proximity to pence, who resisted the pressure and returned to his duties presiding over the vote county ohio. positively. and as congress holds hearings on the january 6th insurrection, and the role of president trump come to the anniversary of a scandal that led to the resignation of president nixon. it's been exactly 50 years since a night watchman at the watergate complex in washington d. c. notice something suspicious and called police. 2 journalist famously picked

up the case that some historian, se office timely lessons to die. the building complex that gave the watergate scandal its name still stands to day. 50 years ago, during the night of june 17th 5 men broke into the headquarters of the democratic national committee. apparently to install bugs and take photos of files. the men were caught, but others were involved in the scandal all the way up to the u. s. president journalists revealed that richard nixon, eustace power against political opponents, wife, buddy for a year earlier. nixon had told his chief of staff that he wanted the use to use wire tapping and a tailing and other shady to illegal forms of a intelligence gathering against the democrats. so while nixon didn't know about the watergate break in advance, he had he was morally responsible for the all beginning. these hank did nixon

commit a crime? that was an investigative committee, tried to clarify that, but he refused to testify or resign. then they stumbled upon oval office recordings of conversations. after resisting the probe, the nixon administration agreed to turn in the tape matter later it became clear that a crucial passage of the recordings was missing to watch. the one in which he ordered a cover up of watergate. but at this point, impeachment proceedings against nixon were already under way. when he was under the pressure became too much money to leave office before my term as completed as a horror. every instinct in my body, but as president, i must put the interests of america 1st. therefore, i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. nixon was later pardoned by his successor, gerald ford, and watergate became the epitome of political scandal. it's important to remember

watergate, because it reveals the vulnerabilities of our constitutional government and also the strengths ah, you there, it's very hard for a country to protect itself from a bad leader. a lesson that still stands true to day of parts of western europe. a pricing for crippling hate this weekend with some temperatures in some areas expected to rise above 40 degrees celsius. 5 fathers in spain are already battling a series of forest fires, brought on by the soaring temperatures. smoke rises over the spanish countryside as multiple forest fires erupt across catalonia. spain has been sweltering under severe temperatures for almost a week. the earliest, some a heat wave in over 40 years. the country is already battling severe droughts brought on by an unusually dry winter and spring. now,

surging temperatures have sparked a series of blazes that fire fighters of struggling to contain. and experts worn that the heat wave is spreading. neighboring france is bracing for weekend temperatures as high as 38 degrees. $10.00 to $15.00 degrees higher than the seasonal average. alyssa, but upon yeah, it's not the 1st drought, nor the 1st heat wave in southwestern france. but we've never seen such an early and intense heat wave in june. before going can you saw outdoor public events have been banned in frances south west. while a jump in the use of air conditioners has forced the government to import electricity from neighboring countries. all across europe, the summer heat waves are happening more frequently and lasting longer. shannon says it's a sign of global warming. this is obviously triggered by human activity and we now see that this new climate we're experiencing is becoming more intense and bringing

us the stifling heat. as the rest of europe, braces, the soaring temperatures, fire crews in catalonia, worked through the night, hoping for a break from the brutal heat. and that's all the news for now. doc film was next on the channel. a film looking at who controls libby as the migrant of tension camps. it's titled stuck in libya. don't forget the website as they approach the latest. the d. w dot com were also on twitter and in the app d. w. news. i'm anthony. how'd in berlin for now? thanks for watching and have a good night. i'm the green and then you feel worried about the planet me to on the old hosting the on the green fence post ghost and to me it's clear remains to change. join me.