ah ah ah business d w. news live from berlin. the ukrainian president visits troops on the front line and saw the new cray quality with the landscape towards mc alive, where soldiers are fighting to prevent the russian advance along the black sea coast. also coming up a close vote expected en francais, parliamentary election president emanuel michael urges voters to back his centrist

movement party faces a strong challenge from a left wing alliance. we follow one of its candidates on the campaign trail and more extreme weather flooding and ne, india, and bangladesh. heavy monsoon raids have devastated the region, leaving dozens of people dead and millions homeless blue i'm all on soccer, a welcome to the program. ukrainian president, holiday mi zalinski has paid a revis. it's to troops on the southern front line, as well as defending a russian onslaught. and the don boss, the credit army, is successfully fighting off attempts by russia to seize the entire black sea coast, including the city of odessa, a rare excursion at sight of key for vladimir zalinski to meek,

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 seize for weeks. the russians have pounded the region with air raids, artillery and rockets. of thoroughly frightened rachelle and continues periodically every 10 minutes and as a pause for 20 to 30 minutes. and then again for 6 hours. during official, so better equipped, russian forces have made significant gains in both the lou hands and donnette

screens that make up the dumbass 3rd through either way in dumbass, the focus of the invaders is now on see if it i don't that's can back multiple order yet to improve the tactical position of the enemy tried to conduct assaults outside the city, but was unsuccessful spoon them all. it could ukrainian troops have pleaded for additional heavy weaponry to turn the tide in the east. oh yes. number driven. the city there moves of lovely. you need serious equipment and we need more tanks. right now, we're getting equipment for infantry, soldier or behold, ripple suitable. as a result, we have to fight a guerrilla go, or thought of the goose. the sub record deserves who were moved. a bedroom semanski brought his country one step closer to european union membership on the block recommended ukraine as a candidate on friday. but the bigger challenge for the ukraine president now remains securing heavy weapons needed to defend the dom bus. earlier

we spoke to d w. rebecca riches about president zalinski strip to mc alive? well, we use of this trip as we the all of his trips outside of cave santa 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 do believe that it was today. obviously these things do tend to drop on the same day, but of course he better 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 and still in solidarity with them at the season, his 1st trip out out of cave. it was quite surprising when he did make the 1st trips one does apparition 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 all the fighting in lieu, hans, so it's really, these trips are very brave and not taken lightly. there's huge security involved, as you can imagine. and of course, they kept really tightly on the raps, but incredibly important. he goes in, he goes out. but, but even though they're short trips, these are incredibly important. and everyone in you, crime really appreciates them. rebecca dresses versus the in keith has a round up of our stories making use of this. our 2 people have been killed in an attack on a seek temple in afghanistan. capital kabul, a taliban spokesman said a tech as tried to drive a car with explosives into the temple area, but it detonated before reaching its target. is not yet clay who was behind the assault. alice indians have held a memorial mass for al jazeera journalists, serene acclaim as

a jerusalem church. she was killed in majoring and israeli military operation in the west bank town of jeanine. her death box international outrage, palestinian authority accuses israel of deliberately killing the journalist. israel denies this. o. u. s. health officials have recommended coven 19 vaccines made by by intake pfizer and were turner for children as young as 6 months. this was the last group without access to the shoals. the government is gearing out for the roll out early next week with millions of doses ordered for distribution. now french voters go to the polls later today and the 2nd round, 2nd and final round of parliamentary elections. whole suggests president emmanuel macros. allies will emerge as the biggest party in the new national assembly and possibly short of a majority after a strong challenge in the 1st round from a brand new left wing alliance, which scored as well as microphones, ensemble coalition. and you face and

a new political force grabbing the headlines in france. i mean, that's an yeah, catchy. it's one of a number of flashbanc candidates who's made it to the 2nd round of parliamentary elections here. the parisian lawyer is part of a new leftist alliance called nip, which has shaken up the political landscape. but is people like me or needed to put for it ecological issues, social justice and democracy? it's those issues that broad green socialists the far left and communist together just ahead of the selections. g'night, the long divided left in france and to take on the business friendly policies of president emanuel. my call when he was re elected in the presidential pause as 2 months ago. my crawl was under no impressions about the reasons for his when. just so see, i know that many of our compatriots voted for me today or not because of my ideas.

this is a book, but me so prolonged those of the far right and was beds in these parliamentary elections. my cross main adversary is not the fair rides of marine la pen. it's the veteran, far left politician charlie miller shaw and the nip coalition. who could cause macro most problems. they garnered as many votes as macros. alliance, 26 percent. after winning a 2nd sermon april emanuel, my thomas, he would be president for all french people. but after the 1st round of voting for the national assembly, it's clear, not all friends people, one's him. he could lose his absolute majority here at the fence parliament. but the left scaling is here, don't necessarily mean a shift to the left for french politics. quite the reverse replied lego shall, as the weight of the left in the national assembly could push my calling to

negotiate with right wing m p was dizzy. this could even make him move his reforms to the right. and i run a cold consequent clinic delay stressful. i mean that's an yoga is confident, her lines will have another strong showing and sundays 2nd. and decisive frowned. and that they pick up more boats from some of the 50 percent of voters who didn't take part last time bow i had though i'm expecting to when i expect young people to vote people from working class neighborhood, people who are worried about their retirement age only by her vasa movie, they were thing whether the pressure comes from the left or right in manuel macro will have to be prepared to make more compromises to push through his policies in the coming parliamentary term. in the 1st round, france recorded a low turn out earlier we asked journalist and elizabeth will

t if that will change in the 2nd round. that's an interesting question because as my poems have sat in the quote in your, in your a film, he said, i know that people voted against other than for me. and this is going to carry you some. some people are going to be scant enough to buy the whole act, especially in economic matters, and also all the new leader to come and force themselves to hurt again. but i'm going to say a few houses and i'm still very rude. and every single study for a long time say that young people do not verges much older people to do those. all the rooms basically, and some of the gen x is much more than young people on the left has a majority of young voters and especially $18.00 to $35.00. they are the ones who voted the most for a new job. so that, that still sort of creates

a and yet an analyst, but to reporting from france. fife, i says in spain are struggling to bring raging wildfires on the control in several parts of the country. areas close to the border with portugal and in the center have been the worst hit in one region alone at least $20000.00 heck taste have already burned. numerous villages have been evacuated, an intense heat wave and a lack of rain has fuel the wildfire. dw nicole reese is in madrid and has more on the wild fires in spain, northwest, all the situation in that region in the north west of spain is really dire. we're looking at this year at a later $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, are 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 biodiversity, 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 such a severe situation in 30 to 40 years. nicole res reporting ne india and

neighboring bangladesh have been hit by heavier than usual monsoon range, causing widespread flooding. at least 9 people have been killed and 2000000 left homeless in the indian state. of some experts say floods following seasonal rains are increasing due to climate change. devastating floods unleashed by monsoon storms. millions of people in bangladesh and india saw their homes submerged under water. the floods have killed dozens in both countries. families are mourning the death of their loved ones. this man lost 2 of his grandchildren. let them 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, involves in the past few days. and the whole of us army in under and of the quantum depends of 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 on we're at this time, the flood is completely swamped the streets. i don't think any of them whatever was repaired after. the 2nd flood is now again in ruins. north of you didn't obviously 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 now it looks like mexico city has set a new world record for hosting the largest boxing class. just one shy of 14300,

that's how many people to punch in the massive lesson in the cities city central. plaza organizers was surprised by the turn out several professional books. this led to the session, the record smashed as the previous one set by moscow in 2017 way 3000 boxing enthusiast showed up. oh, that's it for me you watching. didn't use live from the lead sports. life is up next. here on the channel. i'm like ok, thanks watching. welcome to the dark side where intelligence agencies are pulling the strings. there was a before 911 and after 911 he says after 911 the clubs came off. were organized crime rules.