shed light on the opaque world who's behind benefits and why are they a threat to whistle peak world this week on d w ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, ukrainian president visits troops on the front line and southern ukraine. low to mid lensky tours, nikolai, where soldiers are fighting to prevent a russian advance along the black sea coast. also coming up, a sizzling summer,

arrives early in europe as cities across the continent experience record high temperatures, forests from spain, to germany, to come to the destructive force of climate change. ah, i'm nick spicer, welcome to the program. ukrainian president, bellotta mars lensky has visited troops on the southern front line, while his army battles a russian on slot in the eastern don bass region. ukrainian forces have also been fighting off attempts by russia territory near the southern cities of nic, alive and odessa. with little change to frontline positions in recent days, the head of nato against stolberg said the war could go on for years. now inspecting the devastation with his own eyes, ukraine's president for low to mid and skiing on his 1st tour of the southern front

. in the strategic port of odessa and the embattled city of mc alive, the president awarded metals to the soldiers and doctors defending the front lines . his visit comes only a day after a russian strike killed 2 people. an injured 20 in mc alive. despite constant russian shelling in ukraine south, the main conflict remains focused on the don bass in the east through wild weary. the focus of the invaders is now on the cities of seattle dynamics combat moody shop to improve the tactical position. the enemy tried to conduct assault operations outside the city, gone, but was unsuccessful between them all. over the past few months, russia has taken control of almost all of the eastern lu hans province largely due to an overwhelming artillery advantage. outnumbered and outgunned, ukraine has repeatedly urged the west to send heavy a weapons to the front blinds was blowing a dye is not the we have good weapons,

but we need much better ones. we need artillery to choose further. our technology dates back to the eighty's, we take care of it often, but it still gets broken out of give, in fact, the work you western deliveries of heavy artillery have taken time. but some, including these you estimate how it's is already having an impact on the battlefield. you actually huh. isn't it's a mutual difference between the weapons we had before and the new one. so remember, so this canon is much more precise which nisha it use faster and a simple to operate your some i, because it's low to the ground, it's easier to camouflage it maliciously. does m deal? actually, you must go out there as the war increasingly becomes a battle of artillery. western military supplies are ever more critical. but for the ukrainian troops holding on in the don bus, the weapons aren't coming fast enough. and there are also reports that russian

troops are gearing up to move on har keith russian's 2nd biggest city. our correspondent rebecca readers told us more. mm. well, that's right. ukrainian officials say that russian force is a trying to get close enough to start shelling that cc. once again, they have been making some progress on that says, albeit slow, but ukrainian official saying that they want to open up a new front line there. now as you mentioned, hockey's county is the 2nd largest city in ukraine and the region that it's in harkey region above the russian border. it's the 2nd time we know that this is a t target city of president putin and the russian forces. and it was heavily sheldon, heavily bombarded in the early parts of the war from round about the 1st 2 months. amnesty international says even evidence, a cluster bombs were used in that any that is found to indeed be true that would constitute a war crime. we know that a residential areas we indiscriminate, they, sheldon has a really high death hole in that region. now this,

it would be the 2nd push. ukrainian force is managed to get russian forces pretty much all the way out of the region in the early parts of may, but we've seen renewed shelling in that area. and as i say, ukrainian force is now saying that russian russian forces are trying to open up a new front there. and i'd like just to go to the southern front again and then visit by president zalinski and his 1st to the southern front. what message do you think he is sending by going there? do you think while it's or is he a very big message of a solidarity? you know, as he has he says the brave men and women fighting down there. he wants to go and support them. he was handing out metals, going to say medical professionals visiting hospitals. i mean these are very symbolic, but very important visits. it's not his 1st, he's also being to other key frontline areas. he's been to visit his upper region. he's been to how to keep he's even been to lucy chance, where he's really just trying to show not just the they are on the front line,

but the entire country that he stands by the forces. these are incredibly high security visits. there are no details announced before and not until he returns that they announce that he's been there. but despite the security in the high, ah, yet the high security basically of the trip. so these are so very important. and they show that he's willing to take that risk, they're very risky, very dangerous. but, you know, by doing so, he's really standing in solidarity with the troops and just to get back, if you don't mind to that comment, we heard from the leader of nato general secretary jen stolberg, that the war and ukraine could last for years to people that feel the same and didn't really matter to them much. what foreign leaders say about the unfolding of the war. ah, well, i mean, people here i think have come to terms with that reality that this war is going to drag on for years a long time ago. i mean, as we know, there already has been a war in the east southeast of this country for 8 years. so it is

a reality that ukrainians are very aware of and they ever want to speak to. he does, you know, they're hopeful they're hoping, obviously that it won't last years and that they will be successful weed. there is still a real sense of hope that people, people believe that you will be victorious in the end. but that they are really aware of the reality that it, it may drag on for years. something else that changed alt berg said in those statements, of course, was that nato very well may announce at an upcoming summit that russia is no longer an ally of the alliance. and that would, of course, be very, very significant. that was d. w correspondent rebecca ritter's reporting from keith. germany is taking emergency measures to cut natural gas consumption and replace supplies because of lower russian deliveries. economy minister, robert havoc said the use of gas and industry and to generate electricity would be limited. instead, more, more, rather, coal fired plants will be used despite environmental concerns. germany will do its

best to replenish its gas storage reserves ahead of the winter term. russia has cut deliveries, blaming repair work a decision. berlin says is, in fact politically motivated, there is a round up of some of the other stories making news. at this hour, colombians are preparing to elect a new president. the polarizing choice is between leftist former gorilla fighter gustavo petro and business magnet rodolfo hernandez, who's been compared to donald trump. both men are neck and neck in the pools. french voters are casting their ballots in the final round of parliamentary elections. opinion polls suggest that president emmanuel mack close allies will emerge as the biggest party in the new national assembly. but it is not clear if you will get the absolute majority, he needs to push through his business friendly reform. agenda. ne, india and neighboring bangladesh have been hit by heavier than usual monsoon rains,

causing widespread flooding. at least 18 people have been killed in more than 2000000 less homeless experts a floods after the rainy season are more frequent because of climate change. europe is sweltering under an unusually early hot summer heat wave. record breaking temperatures have sparked forest fires in spain, and even here in germany and the hot, dry weather is putting pressure on regions already suffering from drought. hey raul and crackle of wild fire burning its way through northern spain. fire fighters are struggling to contain flames. that have already claimed over 200 square kilometers of woodlands. spain is sizzling under a heat wave that is swept across much of europe, with temperatures far higher than usual for this time of year. forest fires also near the german capital berlin. here,

unexploded munitions from world what to a complicating efforts to put out the flames. experts fear that was to come. he bounced inside him. yas, put the hottest time of year is usually between mid july and mid august or decides in the interim. if we already dealing with these temperatures now, there will likely be more days like this, or even hotter one salt later this year, hog at one class in salish, the man in nixon on france. 2 is feeling the heat like in spain. temperatures have exceeded 40 degrees celsius in some places. meet your own to say it is the earliest heat wave to hit the country in 75 years. as people look for ways to cool off, as you in paris is providing icy treats for its occupants. law. one and it only busting courtney. so here we have a frozen watermelon mix for the giraffes. and we have tops of blood for the carnivores. look. and then here we have blocks of ice mixed with meat for the lions

. let these unusual refreshments. a welcome relief from the baking heat. in italy, the early onset of summer is drawing up waterways. the pool river, the country's longest, has disappeared completely in some sections. a port out article is a glance at the situation can get even worse. it can kill animals affect agriculture. hum everything. well my, the river has already run out of water. i used go fishing, but now i can only fish for stones of buffalo. they are, but an ebay, upon debbie saucy signed to sworn that extreme temperatures. this early are caused by climate change and ether to become a regular feature in years to come. alexander, to me as a needy, real all media meteor, ologist, and climate specialist in northern italy. he describes how serious the situation is there. the non part of it seems on the worst draws and 70 years. it turns food

production and production. you don't know if you have a lot of industrial and cultural activities that are water, a region rises to produce 40. so, and this requires little more than 90 percent of the total italian resort to rise. production happens here in order to read this for a moment, right? that is very short of water and this will impact the result of rice with also all kinds of predictions. so from the shortest wondering like, who knows reading, find yours and food production for. when an estimated look up to 40 percent. this will impact the overall flu production result and the full price will increase the projection of electricity by high level electric power plants, which is about 50 percent of the country supply is done about 50 percent due to the shorts of water. also interesting to mention is that the rate as an energy phone

don't about it, which is really so striking. just can you tell us, i mean, as you were beginning to do that the story of this drought, i mean how, how did it appear? when did it beginning? did it come as a surprise? what, what to place? well, i had and background is assigned in a climate change. so for me, i live here in the northern part of italy and it hasn't rains or hardly rings into december of last year's only almost 46 months. we have seen very small amounts of rain on the water level friends and i live close to local and jordan and they like colin, got a lot of different dies and b. and i said before, is it not something new? scientists from a lower to walk, showing that climate is changing, their study showed it around a minute to re gets colder and dryer. so this is not

a long time you van. it's hard to like move future and animals and all the parts of europe in the world's let me just ask you a quick question. is there anything that people there or even the government of italy can do about this, or is it just a global phenomenon that requires global action? it white global action and we need to change our habits and using energy implement more and fossil energy, solar wind box. and this is what is really very urgent and i'm afraid. and the current data shows that the $21.00 parents agreement, $1.00 degrees celsius. you're not going to all right. alexander, to me in northern italy and the town of a raise a on the drought there. thanks so much. sports news now and in formula one red bull driver, driver max for staff and mastered wet conditions in montreal to take pull position at the canadian grand prix. the world champion leads the standings by 21 points and

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