ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. disaster in afghanistan, a powerful earthquake leaves a 1000 people dead and many more injured. now it's a race to get a to survivors also coming up. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski urges allies to send more powerful weapons faster. he warned that moscow is trying to destroy

the don boss as russian troops close in on key cities in the region. and today's summit, the e u is set to put ukraine on the path to membership. there's frustration among western balkan countries who say they've been left for too long in the waiting. ah, i'm nick spicer. welcome to the program. a massive earthquake in afghanistan has left at least 1000 people dead and many more injured. heavy rain is happening. rescue efforts the taliban. that government is appealing for international aid, but delivering it won't be easy. since the taliban took control last year. many agencies have left and the country is already struggling with drought and food shortages. ah,

they survived the deadly earthquake and were taken to safety. hospitals and practical province near the pakistani border are filling up with the injured many of them, recount stories of horror and terrible loss at the moment because when the roof came down on me, i thought i had been shot with my body was in pain. it took me awhile to get up, but i lost feeling in my body when i saw the rest of my family under the debris uncle took with people digging with their bare hands through the rubber just up in the hopes of finding someone still alive or to recover their dead with houses and other buildings have been flattened by the powerful quake. it struck in the middle of the night when most people were at home sound asleep. the number of dead an injured is expected to rise as news slowly trickles in from these remote parts of afghanistan. rescue efforts have been directed towards the area,

but the need for support is huge. at least $50000000.00 will be required immediately to respond all the central reach. they're concerned about not just non food items and getting people to shelters and awaiting medical law, but also preventing waterborne diseases. the taliban lead government has called for international support, but it might prove hard to get since the taliban seized power last year, some international agencies have left afghanistan and billions of euros in development. aid were held back. more than 60 percent of the population relies on aid to survive the earthquake and only worse in their dire, tremendous, terry and situation. journalists of france, marty in campbell has more. i spoke to a taliban from barnum. all one of the rios, the most hate, he said they're old people to bear them. the injured have you been buried from

under the rubble bob to the burials off to death is still ongoing. given the large number of casualties have you rated fortunately? stopped. well, yesterday whether was a really bad and impeded 8 air force. now there are clear blue skies above afghanistan. i'm so this makes it a bit easier, more ambulances and some heavy cultures in addition to the ones that already were dispatched yesterday reached areas. ah, so the ada ford is ramping up. i've canister, as we know, as a country that is already on its knees. is the taliban lead government equipped to deal with such an emergency? not fully, as you rightly say already before it was a human humanitarian crisis. the polygon already did before of demanded a frauding smashing community. most public services have since

years already before the polygon took power, been funded by international aid and states of course and compounds. the situation now with, with these many people that lost their homes and are in other dire need of help. and the taliban are now calling for international aid or the aid agencies and the governments that stop sending money, perhaps inclined to change their minds and help out this time. do you think any indication of that as 1st of all, it has to be remembered. it is not that most agencies left off to the tale, vaughn takeover, so ride that to take over a load of programming of 8 agencies was really suspended. but this started already months ago. the u. n. has been pumping cash into afghanistan since to paul 78 mum. um. so aid agencies have already before because of the looping family and drought

expanded their program. so it's not that aid organizations have to start from scratch. of course this adds to the wood needs that are there across afghanistan. um, but it's not that it's that that 8 organizations would be completely unprepared. i'm the polygon today, for example, stated that top door and you don't already sent plains with aids to ask on a song, and that pakistan dispatched a convoy with aid material over land. so this is adding to the ada fords that were anyway already ongoing. ok, frank marty reporting force from a capital let's take a quick look at some of the other stores making headlines at this hour. major flooding has force the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in southern china with more rain expected water levels in the pearl river delta have reached their

highest level in almost a century. in parts of lang dung province. schools and offices have close to mid rising waters and the threat of land slides. bulgarian prime minister carol pet cove has lost a confidence vote in parliament over his fiscal and economic policies. had caused government took office in december after 3 elections in the space of one year visit . this interest party now has a 2nd and final chance to form a coalition. if not, there could be new elections. protesters classed with security forces in ecuador, capital, kito, on the 10th consecutive day of protest. thousands of indigenous ecuadorian have taken to the streets in response to a hike in fuel prices and the rise in living costs. at least 2 people died in previous cautious between soldiers and demonstrators. the police chief of val day texas has been put on administrative leave over his handling of a school shooting last month. he's been blamed for law enforcement delays and

confronting a gunman who killed 19 school children and 2 teachers. police waited for over an hour before storming the school. ukraine's president valadez lensky has renewed his call for faster arms shipments to his country. russian troops are intensifying their assault and the don bass region. they are closing in on the city of lucy chance in eastern on bass. russian troops are now less than 3 kilometers most the limits. they've already captured almost all the neighboring city of seattle, but that's the russian forces have also resumed pounding ukraine's 2nd biggest city har. keith, located near the russian border missile strikes there on tuesday, and wednesday were the worst in weeks. and his nightly address president landscape . describe the situation in dumbass mountain bike to muscle when you thing massively air in artillery. drag that down, but fine, give that to me. the occupiers goal is and he hasn't channels that group,

they want to destroy, entire don versus waste them step. by step way, was a chance all of it was a chance, sloppy on both crematory game. if they want to make every city look like mario, call him yet my completely destroy nice to speak. that's why we're repeating. always celebration of arms deliver enough or ukraine was genuine brewing no grain. earlier i spoke to d. w. rebecca ritters, who's in the training capital, keith, i asked her what we know about the humanitarian situation in the c chance. well, we know that is incredibly daya near carrying. you just have to hear it there. what's happening to that city? it's being completely bombarded, constantly people really having to live on the ground only being able to come up for air. you know, in the few moments between bombardment, between bombings from the russian forces. we know that little chance is really the last ukrainian stronghold in the hans as the service ever done. it,

as you mentioned, is already almost completely captured by russia. now there's just one small hold out in the as a chemical plant where russian for, sorry, c, b, ukrainian forces. and some civilians, including children, are still holding out there very unlikely to be able to get out without a complete ceasefire or humanitarian corridor. the situation in that city also pretty dire now. little chance lies on the other side of the river to separate on it. and it has been being bombarded for weeks. now we know there around about somewhere around 10000 people out of 100000 people still living there were trying to live, getting by. there's very little humanitarian, a being able to be brought in. they're struggling to find running water, drinking water. there's little medication. they're really running out of all supplies. they've been cut off from internet, from other utilities for weeks now they have only getting very little access to

information when people are managing to get in. we know that russia is now encroaching on that city from a couple of sides. and they're also trying to strike the supply route into their the back what road, which they're doing relatively successfully. i mean, ukraine have been holding out. they've been doing quite a remarkable job, considering how out a gun they are in, you know, completely in this war. and as you said, calling desperately for more weapons to try and stop the russian advancement. but at this stage, really doing all they can just to to stop them coming and ad. but yeah, for the civilians there, it's an incredibly tough situation. and rebecca just took her back to president zalinski. we know he's been talking to european union leaders about granting his country e u candidate status and their gathered and brussels to day to talk about that. why is joining the block so important for ukraine? if president husky has been holding these marathon talks with a you leaders one on one, not in person,

but on the phone for days now. and really trying to drum up support, which looks like he's, he's going to succeed in that. so we know that the european commission last week through their weight behind the candidacy status vote, which is happening today by that by, by the looks of things in the european council as part of this summit. and it looks like it's going to be successful. we also saw the leaders of the 3 biggest countries coming last week from germany, italy, they threw their weight behind the vote, and he's been getting a very positive response even from the few countries who weren't so certain. went so sure about it. this is a huge and symbolic move for ukraine. they've been torn between being on the side of russia, if you will, and the a you, for many years, this war has really been a very decisive moment. now, pretty much everyone in this country really wants to be a part of the a you, it would be a decisive. it would be a rather

a symbolic move at the moment with the war it would show up, you know, in certainly give a big boost for morale for ukraine in this fight. and definitely a huge day that has been a long time coming. could it abuse or vicar rigorous reporting force from keith? and as we just heard, european union leaders are meeting today in brussels. they're expected to grant ukraine and mold of our official candidate status for membership in the union. but the focus on russia's neighbor, because of the war, has caused frustration among another group of countries who say their pastor e. u membership is taking far too long. several western balkan states applied for candidacy years ago. now they're demanding real progress, not just promises. german chancellor will have shoals being well come to bear serbian president alexander vouchers in belgrade with a smile in mid june. but this week relations soured quickly which it

announced on twitter, serbia, along with albina and north macedonia. considered skipping a long plan meeting with their ear counterparts in brussels in protest of their store membership bits. the 3 leaders backtrack shortly after, but the thread shows how high frustration is in the west some boykin's. because despite summit over to summit, they are still in the waiting room. some in brussels are concerned as well. we risk losing these people because we can already see that russia, but also china are trying to, you know, to get her foot on the, on the ground that there are there influencing the hearts and minds as they say. the 6 western broken states are a different stages on their way to join that you, albina, bosnia and herzegovina. casa, though, montenegro, north, macedonia,

and serbia. the most recent irritant is that such as rule flow and corruption. this is very difficult to root out in this will take, obviously time, but this is again, you support in this direction will be key. some fear the western broadcast could be left behind with ukraine and molder, were expected to be granted. candidate status at this week's ears summit. but others say russian aggression makes it even more important to bring all these countries under the umbrella. the costs of non enlargement are may be a lot higher because we could face a bigger conflicts. we could face more wars, we could face more violence. the west them, balkan countries have already been in line for membership for more than a decade. and their hopes are not high that their decision to show up at yet another meeting will make a difference. and for more in this,

i'm joined now by the w correspondent, barbara vase, or in brussels, barbara before the actual summit. as you've been saying, you leaders are needing with the heads of government of the western balkan states who wanted join. what's the purpose of the meeting? the purpose of the meeting is of course, to sort of boil down the anger a bit to tell the western boy can stay one more time. now just wait, we are on your side, but trying to do our best. but i fear that more than words will not be at the end of this meeting, and the anger will keep on bubbling. and it's justified anger, particularly on the side of the country. like for instance, no, it's not done yet. they have been in the waiting room for 17 years. they have been bending over backwards to do everything that you demand, that they change the name even. they've tried to do all the reforms. everybody in russell says yes, of course they're ready to, to come closer for accession talks and to sort of really become human the relatively quickly. but nothing is because the gary is blocking it and as we have

seen last night, the government is sophia. and now the compromise that had been on the table and put on the table by the french presidency were obviously not happening because the prime minister is the caretaker and can't really make decisions. so this game's going to go on and everyone here talks about the candidacy for ukraine is a big geostrategic move. now the, the other side of this sailing the, the western balkans is the really big geostrategic failure. and let's look at the summit itself and the topic you just brought up. is there any chance that ukraine won't get candidate status? i'm not really. it seems, i mean there was a rumor that hungry in the wings was preparing another off. it's nasty surprises in sort of at the very last minute. jump out and said no, but we will only say yes to the candidacy status for ukraine. if also georgia gets

it. and if the, if also boston had to. gov now will be included in the, in the club of exception candidates, but probably it will not happen. we haven't heard any, any indications that they will really do. it was probably just the threat to make people nervous. so this is from all that we now going to go across the stage this afternoon. everyone talks about the winds of change a big historical moment because yes, this is a country on the very outer eastern borders of europe that will very firmly turn towards the european union and say, yes, we want to become a member of your block. we want to turn towards the west, we turn our back to russia under the circumstances served. that is obviously very clear. plus, we also do need your help and we don't need your help. only now with veterans and, and humanitarian support. we need your help in the future. we heard yesterday,

the german chancellor shall say they need to be big marshal plan for ukraine, and it is also support at money and the rebuilding of the country that is on the table to day. ok. the w's barbara. those are reporting from brussels. germany appears set to declare phase 2 of its 3 stage emergency gas plan according to journey media. phase 2 is an alarm stage plan for when the government sees a high risk of long term supply shortages of natural gas economy minister, robert havoc is due to speak on the topic in the coming hours. why should he put phase 2 into effect utility companies? would be allowed to pass on higher gas prices to customers with the goal of forcing down the demand for gas. for more in this, we can now talk to a political correspondent, hence brent hanson. tell us more about this phase 2. well,

as you said, they, the main impact will be on consumers of gas, or potentially will be on consumer consumers of gas because they will be allowed to pass on price increases directly. the regarding gas suppliers will be able to pass increases directly to consumers. that's not only households, but they especially large industrial consumers of natural gas. and so everyone there would potentially have to pay quite a lot more. and these price increases might continue over several months. but in fact, to be able to do that, another german institution, another german control institution, has to declare the need for that. and that is not likely to happen at the moment. so at the moment, the declaration of this alarm situation status of alarm simply means that the government has more room to play in terms of food dealing with the emergency. and in making plans, especially for the winter when heating will become central to many,

many households in germany. again, heating with gas and to ensure that that is possible. measures have to be taken now and has just yesterday we had reports about raising the emergency level to phase 2 and they were labeled as incorrect. now we may be seeing a you turn, what's going on? i think simply, yesterday the decision hadn't been finally taken yet. the german cabinet was meeting yesterday and i, i presume that the economics minister had to get cabinet approval to take this step . but today it has been taken amongst other things is a precondition for taking certain coal fired power stations out of the must bowl status, which was announced earlier this week that coal fired power stations will be going on line again. and to be able to do that, this alarm status has to be declared. we also have to remember that there's not only germany that is suffering under the gas,

the reduced gas supplies from russia. there countries all over europe that are in a very similar situation. so it is really a situation as several people have said, so if he cannot make war between russia and the european countries in western europe in countries, germany itself has said it regardless as an attack on germany by russia. ok to be a political correspondent. hence, brent, thanks for that. and we turned to africa. now we're nigerian motorists face long lines gas stations because of a route between oil companies and the government over prices. the oil firms want to hike prices, but the government refuses. dw correspondent flourish took was caro reports from legos, the long queue and frustrated matsuri. this is the 3rd, was courtesy legal experience in 6 months, and other parts of the country and not left out. this is on call for in the country

where we have plenty. i'll also relay this is not funny because when i'm supposed to be at the office, both sending good them off off on the, on the queue. so he's off on it is not for me. he's an indication of a failed government. the 3 that in the morning denise is more that is what it is close to 6 hours of 7 hours are not denied, are warped to by. i'm see on the q a, disputes between nature and few markets as and the government has affected the supply of petrol. in most parts of the country, the government is ceased that markets as must maintain a fixed price of $0.39 per liter. since it has subsidized petra prices for decades to protect nigeria as from flank treating international oil prices. but the market has argued that they must increase their own prices because global prices

have skyrocketed. and in spite of the government subsidy, they continue to run at a loss. this disagreement has led to many few seizures, holsen's seals and people panic. buying. many of these cars have been here for hours. people are rushing to buy as much petrol as they can. their fear that the government and well market has may not reach an agreement. oil and gas experts see that this is an artificial scarcity. few is available, but market as a refusing to sell using the ukraine war as an excuse to increase their own prices and pressure the government to stop regulating the local markets. one called i was 0. now there was a time when, when i was 0 dollar and borrow that was a in coven. well was 165. when last them crude is on read dollar. while borrow

it is 316. if i got something wrong somewhere, then we need to transfer it away from this source of the region is the dark hole all on accountability. we reached out to the national oil corporation, but they did not grant us an interview on seal the disagreement between the government and few markets as a settled citizens of africa's largest oil producer who continued to so far from his custody of pitcher that was to abuse butcher cora, return to sports and football news, senegal star saddle manet, has completed his move to byron munich from liverpool. and he is one of africa's most successful players having won the champions league. and pre, nearly, he also led senegal to african nations, kept glory last year. viral pay around $41000000.00 euros for the star. 30 year old could end up replacing robert living dorski. if the call gets his wish to leave the

german champions. 8 medical personnel will stand trial charged with criminal negligence. over the death of argentina, soccer, great jagow, marin donna the 60 year old, died of cardiac arrest 2 years ago while recovering from brain surgery for a blood clot. he had also battle cocaine and alcohol addictions, for decades, prosecutors accuses caregivers of causing his death by abandoning him during home. hospitalization. no trial date has been said. with a large walrus has been causing a stir in a norwegian coastal town. hundreds of kilometers from her home in the arctic circle . the walrus known as freya has taken a fancy to sunbathing on boats, and most of the vessels are at say on the smaller side for the 700 kilogram mammal . in an attempt to prevent further damage, local authorities planned to lure freya on to a floating dock and carry her to a new home along the coast. hi

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