3rd of our people were exterminated $6000000.00 jews, like microbes to be annihilated, even 77 years after the holocaust hatred towards jews is still pervasive. history that to summer, tucson starts july, 2nd on d w. ah, this is the w news live from berlin. the battle for your cranes don bass, drags on the region is left in ruins. as russian forces pound cities and kill civilians and ukraine struggle to hold off the onslaught. western europe is sweltering in the summer heat,

but fain is bearing the brunt of the heat wave fire fighters of battling to contain the flames, fanned by winds, drought and global warming plus more extreme weather. this time, flooding in north east india and bangladesh. heavy monsoon rains have devastated the region, leaving dozens of people dead and millions homes. ah and really mohammed welcome to the program. fierce fighting continues in ukraine's eastern industrial hot land. the don bass region. ukrainian forces are battling to prevent russia taking full control of the city of several don. yes. the regional governor says constant shelling is making it impossible to evacuate. hundreds of civilians trapped in a chemical plant that he crane has also reported strikes on several cities beyond

the don bass and president, amir zalinski went to see the damage in one southern city. a rare excursion at sight of key for vladimir zalinski to make alive in southern ukraine, where the ukrainian leader, normally running operations from the capital. keith could witness at 1st hand the devastation wrought by russian artillery. his visit comes a day after a russian strike kill 2 people and injure 20 in the city. it's been under constant barrage by russian forces since the invasion began on february 24th mich alive lies on the way to the key strategic black sea port of odessa. the fiercest fighting is in the dumbass region to the east, which moscow's forces have been trying to cease for weeks. the russians have pounded the region with air raids, artillery and rockets of thrill of our children shouting continues periodically every 10 minutes and as opposed for 20 to 30 minutes. and then again for 6 hours, during which official feel better equipped,

russian forces have made significant gains in both the lou hans and donnette screens that make up the don bass 3rd through either way in dumbass, the focus of the invaders is now on severe donetta. come back, multiple ordering to improve the tactical position of the enemy, tried to conduct assaults outside the city, but was unsuccessful spoon them all it ukrainian troops have pleaded for additional heavy weaponry to turn the tide in the east. oh yes. robert. the, in the city of the rule of lovely, you need serious equipment and we need more tanks. right now, we're getting equipment for infantry soldier because there was a girl. as a result, we have to fight a guerrilla war, thought of the goose, the sub local design school way more of a room. semanski brought his country one step closer to european union membership on the block recommended ukraine as

a candidate on friday. for the bigger challenge for the ukraine president now remains securing heavy weapons needed to defend the don bus will allow he spoke to d. w. rebecca ritters about president zalinski strip to make alive well, we'd news of this trip. as with all of his trips outside of cave, started dropping during the middle of the day, actually there were highly secretive these, these trips. as you can imagine, security is incredibly tight. we started learning that he had visited, visited, make alive. we're just starting to learn now at the moment that he's also visited odessa. we do believe that it was today. obviously, these things do tend to drop on the same day, but of course he didn't give any information as to when these trips are happening. these are, of course, a very important trips to try and boost morale amongst the brave boys and girls as he calls them at not just with them though, also with the whole country to show that he really does stand behind the,

the fighters that are at the front lines. a and really standing at solidarity installed in solidarity with them. this isn't his 1st trip out out of care. it was quite surprising when he did make the 1st trips one to separation and a hockey, which really was at the front line at the time. and, and even more surprisingly, a couple of weeks ago he visited lucy chance, which is now at the epi center of the fighting in lou hans. so it's really, these trips are very bright and not taken lightly. is huge security involved, as you can imagine. and of course, they kept really tightly under wraps, but incredibly important. he goes in, he goes out but, but even though they're short trips, these are incredibly important and everyone in ukraine really appreciate them. and meanwhile, the fighting in ukraine's east continues. just bring us up to speed on the situation that they will as i just mentioned, lucy chance that city it's a twin city of severed annette, which has been at the epicenter of the fighting for some weeks now. and it's sort

of slowly moving towards further towards lucy chang chance that city has been on the in pretty much constant indiscriminate shelling for some days on friday in particular. there was a high death total or the we're not quite sure exactly how many people that is continues on a dire situation for civilians in that area in several minutes that says the city that i'm talking about on, on the other side of the river, we know that russia pretty much controls most of the city. there is some 3 to sit straight fighting, still going on. and we know that there are more than $500.00 civilians holding out in that as ot, chemical plant, including $38.00 children under really constant shillings are really dire situation . they're running out of food and water medicines that kind of thing. evacuations, pretty much entirely impossible over it's out of the city has been cut off. so without some kind of cease file humanitarian corridor, it looks like no one will be able to escape out of that city. and we're also getting reports that ukraine plans to resume peace talks with russia moreno.

yeah, one of the chief negotiate is on the ukrainian side, said that today said that a they would be looking to resume talks by the end of august out. i've also heard of the mare of key if could go say that, that they wouldn't be willing to go into peace talks until there's no russians on the soil any more on the territory. so, you know, all, this is a very long way away. rahile us out remains to be seen whether or not these talks would actually be resumed, but i suppose the ukrainian side feeling bolstered after having the recent a you ladies visit rebecca, which is reporting from give. thank you. rebecca. in other news to people have been killed in an attack on a sick temple in afghanistan. capital kabul is all about spokesman, said attackers trying to drive a car with explosives into the temple area, but it detonated before reaching its target. it's not clear who was behind the assault. allison eons held

a memorial mass for al jazeera jonas serene acclaim at the jerusalem church. she was killed in may during and israeli military operation in the west bank town of gin, in a death hawked international outrage. the palestinian authority accuses israel of the liberty killing. the journalist. israel denies this rescue teams or bringing people to safety of the floods in india's northern states of a some the state disaster management agency says at least 9 people have been killed . and millions of homes have been destroyed. heavier rains cause a river to burst its banks and flood the surrounding region. one of the firefighters in spain are struggling to bring raging wildfires under control in several parts of the country. areas close to the border with portugal and in the center of the was hit in one region alone, at least $20000.00 hector's have already been burned. numerous villages have been

evacuated. an intense heat wave and a lack of rain has fueled from wildfire ex. this won't, but the extreme heat is being caused by climate change. the w nicole reese is in madrid and has more on those wildfires in that spain's northwest. all the situation in that region in the north west of spain is really dire. we are looking at this here at the local level. $20000.00 hector's at the moment, are burning and are probably going to be gone in the future. and it's going to be more because this strong winds and also the heat. of course i'm making it very difficult to get hold of these plans to put out that fire 5 for further villages have been evacuated at this afternoon. their emergency service is from portugal going there now to help tackle the fire, the military, the spanish military has also its forces there. it has increased the task force really looking at 200 to 300 people trying their best. but it's, it's very,

a difficult situation on the ground and looking at the images. i mean, we're looking at a natural reserve and we're watching ecological disaster. they are just by the sheer size of it because a 3rd of this natural reserve is effected. this is not only home to people, it's also a stronghold for by a diversity in particular, for the wolf, it's one of the la strongholds in the west of europe. so we don't know what will happen to these creatures living in this patch as well. but i've visited this area just a few months ago and it's, it's really heartbreaking to watch this and actually engineers on the ground. also saying that they haven't seen much at severe situation in 30 to 40 years. yeah, i mean, how unusual is it to see such a heat wave this early into the summer in europe? usually in june, you have temperatures that are 7 to 12 degrees a lower than now. now we're looking at uh, $44.00 to $45.00, depending on the region where you are. this is unusual. obviously we are in time of

climate change and climate crises. so heat waves have gotten more usual in these past years, but not in june. and this is also the perfect feeding ground of course for wildfires, this a dry and hot atmosphere. actually the one in sierra local libra is said to have been caused by dry thunderstorms. meaning that there's no rain coming down, but actually the fun, the end, the lightening and well then you have to ask yourself, of course, what measures, what preventions you can take when you know that there's a heat wave coming and actually on the left is unit you know union in this region of the sea rather collaborate is now claiming that the regional government has known about the weight, but they haven't taken sufficient action just to prepare for itself and that they don't operate on protocols that happen updated in the last years. that's protocols from the late ninety's and that this should be something to be fixed because actually maybe that could have been less of a surface being burned right now. and as i just mentioned,

it's at least $20000.00 hector's in that particular patch that are gone. ok, clarice in madrid for us. thank you so much. ne, india and neighboring bangladesh have been hit by heavier than usual monsoon rains, causing widespread flooding. at least 9 people have been killed and 2000000 have been left homeless homeless by the deluge in the indian state of a some experts say floods following seasonal rains are increasing due to climate change. devastating floods unleashed by monsoon storms. millions of people in bung lavish and india saw their homes submerged under water. the floods have guild dozens in both countries. families are mourning the death of their loved ones. this man lost 2 of his grandchildren. let him over. as wit,

relentless dream is making it harder for people to reach shadow in does not eastern state of us. um is also particularly hit by flooding and landslides. rescue teams have been raising to evacuate stranded villages. i heard on what the situation had been a little of him because there had been heavy influences, abbas food is and the whole of us army in under and the quantum depends of it. it varies from place to place. but extreme weather has become increasingly frequent in recent years, and many areas have had little time to recover before being hit again. 51, what is it? okay, this is the 3rd time that we're facing. floods offer on we're at this time, the flood is completely swamped the street on the can elbow whatever was repaired after. the 2nd flood is now again in ruins. north of you should not be sure no worries at all if y low line areas and bangladesh and india are more prone to such

disasters. many believe climate change is making. the situation was it was 80 years ago to day sir paul mccartney is celebrating a milestone birthday before a beetle is showing no signs of slowing down. he just finished a tour of the us and is due to play next weekend at the glastonbury festival in the u. k. after the breakup of the beatles in 1970, he went on to a successful solo career performing on stage with his 1st wife. linda, people around the world have joined in on social media to wish him a very happy 80. why couldn't adult and it looks like mexico city has set a new world record for hosting the largest boxing cost. just one shy of 15015300. that's how many people took part in the massive lesson in the city central. plaza organizes was surprised by the turn out. several professional boxes

lead the session, the record smashes the previous one said by moscow in 2017, when 3000 boxing enthusiasts showed up. oh, that's a fun that you what you did up dw news life from berlin coming up next is will stories the week and reports. reminder, you can find much more news analysis and video on a website that is d w got con. i'm really muhammad, thanks for watching. take care of bye. ah oh people and trucks injured when trying to see the city center more and more refugees are being turned away as the border families played on the tax in syria.