oh recognized, where exactly was fun. i've learned a lot our culture history, all their d. w. travel extremely worth a visit with. ah ah, this is the w news alive from berlin in the united states. 4th of july celebrations marred by yet another mash shooting lease in the chicago suburb of highland park say at least 6 people are dead and 30 wounded after a man fired from a rooftop during an independent stay parade. police have

a suspect in custody. also coming up on the show, russian forces are a significant step closer to taking control of eastern ukraine. after claiming a victory in the loop on screeching, russian forces are now aiming to capture neighboring doughnuts. ukraine's president vowing to take back the territory and leaders talk about how to rebuild ukraine will need some of those were already trying. ah hello, i'm claire richardson, thanks much for joining us. at least 6 people have been killed and 30 injured in a shooting and a chicago suburb. a gun man opened fire during an independent stay parade in highland park in the state of illinois. according to officials, the perpetrator fired shots from a roof top, sending families fleeing. police have now taken

a suspect into custody. officials told a news conference that a high powered rifle was recovered at the crime scene. at illinois state governor a j b, prince car said he had spoken with president joe biden and told him that the madness of gun violence in the us had to stop. i'm furious that yet more innocent lives were taken by gun violence. i'm furious because it does not have to be this way. and yet we as a nation. well, we continue to allow this to happen. while we celebrate the 4th of july, just once a year, mass shootings have become a weekly, yes, weekly american tradition. and earlier i spoke with chicago based freelance journalist, amber gilmore. i asked her to tell us what the scene was like at this latest shooting. on the u. s. national holiday. there is the hundreds of people they were

just gather at this parade to pray was just literally just kicked off just 15 minutes when that suited that the shooting happened. and there was a lot of families that were there with their kids trying to enjoy afford of july. we know that a lot of the parades and fire was there were scheduled to happen around the approve of the suburbs in suburb of the nearby highland park where cancel just because of the severity of the massacre. then it just occur on time in the morning. i know it's still, you know, we know that some of these are victims of some of the numbers are going to be changing as the night progressed and bargain mar journalist, joining us from chicago. thank you so much for that update to crane now where advancing russian forces in the east have claimed victory analysts, he chanced your brains, military withdrew from the strategically important city, leaving the lou hans region under russian control. ukraine is now brace for further

attacks against the city of slow vianza, as russian forces continue to advance westwards. russia is expected to push to take control of the genetic region, which along with though hans makes up the wider don bass area, ukraine's president zalinski says his country will recover the lost territory. in earlier military analyst frankl, edwin explained the significance of the loss of this chance for ukraine. the codes, i think, had been expecting this for quite a while. and i think we need to put this in context that it says it's a success floor on propaganda grounds. caputo nicely recovery is he would say the invasion and taking as ukraine is rightly put of new hans. but what we've seen over the last couple of months is a, is a consumer defense and a balance of concession of land and infliction of casualties on the russian russians. and we, we've seen on the last few days as a brilliantly executed fighting retreat to, to our,

to assist the russians to flatten their front. one wrong to assist ukraine is to flatten the front on me. so we need to put this into context. remember the russians been trying to do this for 2 and a half months, taken thousands of casualties and so attempting. and meanwhile, international leaders have been gathering for a 2 day conference in switzerland to discuss how to plan for the massive reconstruction effort needed in ukraine. keith says it will cost some $750000000000.00 to repair the damage that's already been done to the correspondent, a man where chance spoke with some people in keith who are already confronting the difficult task of rebuilding. they did. ok, we met, cut her by chance on the site of that immediate main road that above we were filming the destruction caused when a missile hit her building. she was keen to show us inside. back in march, when russian troops were advancing on key. if fierce fighting took place in the area with hundreds of homes made an inhabitable of 30 the while,

everything is falling apart like here and here. and she or boy, here with brown were both that the water came. as you can see is dripping on the windows here. it's actually the same in the room. everything is destroyed with nothing left. there are no windows year talk or you catch are says local authorities assess the damage, not long after the strike, but she hasn't received any help since then boldly. as i paid for the repairs myself. i used all the money i had and i installed new windows to keep the crows in the sparrows from coming inside. lisa de la hughley, the girls only katya, is doing what we pers her can well, but some require qualified personnel here. so morton's little boy that we can fix the windows, ourselves, that we need specialists for the roof. whatever might be, you need to have special skills for the actual thumbs with it'll be pensioners, bob, old women and men who live here, like they can do it by themselves as in water. little bit,

send me the ability for the very val though she wasn't home at a time of the attack you will catch, i see really come to shock of the miss or strike norman, of all of the nipple. me. i just can't imagine how such a thing could happen when you love that the russians on. you are so called brothers more. you could launch a war on us. seem you the so much destruction with about it. oh christ. ukrainians will never forgive that. oh, no room the local authorities do what they can, the day to are overwhelmed nor do for what are offered war. there are 2 options. either people wait for payments from the regional or state government or we at the local level can also help problem. oh, we always had a problem finding people for such work. and now even more so, given the number of people went abroad. vicki, we, who from a recordable to city counselors says temporary housing is planned for the cold

amounts, but many vulnerable people in cattle situation. don't want to leave their homes, no matter how damaged they are, you will approve. when you book those, no, i will stay here because we need to fix everything. but i look, as you can see, i'm trying with our roof while it's still summer time will cut me because afterwards, the rainy season will come. she said middle whom you before. now, the russian troops may have left a key if area with the damage to have inflicted on civilian infrastructure will take months and you've not years to be repaired of it. let's bring up to speed now with some other stories making news around the world's protest have taken place in the us state of ohio, following the release of body cam footage, showing 8 police officers shooting at an unarmed black man. 25 year old jail and walker was found with over 60 gunshot wounds after he tried to run following a minor traffic violation. u. s. investigators have concluded that palestinian american journalist sharina abu ackley was likely killed by unintentional israeli

fire. but the ballistics test on the bullet that killed her has proved inconclusive . the prominent al jazeera journalist was shot dead in may, while covering and his railey military arc operation in the occupied. westbank. and italy has declared a state of emergency and 5 of its northern regions owing the worst drought in 70 years, the country has experienced only half its annual average rainfall so far. this year . major rivers are drying up and the lack of water is now threatening. summer harvests of fruit and vegetables and around a $30000.00 residents of australia's biggest city have been told to evacuate. as sidney faces its 4th flood in less than 18 months. emergency services have warned this could be the worst one yet. days of torrential rain have caused flooding across the country's east coast. some areas received almost their average annual

rainfall in just 24 hours. was trailer, has seen an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters like floods and bush fires. in recent years, the country's emergency ministers had this shows that climate change must be taken seriously. laura chung as a journalist with the sydney morning herald and i asked her for an update on the latest conditions. yes, because i think friday we sort of had these typically card flora hanging over the trailer, which has brought about really heavy rain and a lot of flash flooding vision of which we've seen for a lot of residences or the major flooding event that they've seen this year a line and i'm speaking to a lot of them, a lot of them just tired and exhausted and don't know how that would be able to rebuild after these events now. so i guess the main focus in what we sort of thing overnighted further evacuation or to come in for a lot of people around that. great to see me region. it means that we've got more than tens of thousands of people that are still out there. hines,

and while we're expecting the weather system to ease overnight and for the rest of today, what we are expecting to say is that the clean up and the recovery effort for the community going on for weeks and months on and so relentless for those still cleaning up from the last one, the new south wales premier has said there is no doubt these events are becoming more common to what extent is the government connecting this disaster to climate change? we certainly are seeing the connections happen and it's important to remember that we've just come out of a really wet summer. so we've had a linear weather system hanging over a trailer, which means that we've had above average range for quite some which has been one of the driving factor that a lot of the driven the same quite recently. and now we're coming into the cool months here in australia, which means that we do have our hipaa colo store season. but what we've also got behind there is a lot of climate drive in, which is sort of exacerbating the problem here. so we can stay without any sort of

argument. the climate change was we are going to see these types become more intense and multimedia and with wild weather becoming more frequent and intense. as you say, how well prepared is australia for future natural disasters like this. it's a great question and there's a lot of research going into this. i think sort of the main problem and challenge for us in the future. looking at interest structure and how we communicate with these types of communities in the flood zone. been in bush by a primaries, but it is a massive work in progress and it's not just a question that is trailer is roughly one, but certainly a questions that started around the world and looking at laura chung from the sydney morning herald. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us on deed of the union. with me. that as italian prime minister, mario druggie has linked the melting of an alpine glacier they killed at least 7 people with climate change. thunderstorms of hampered the search for more than a dozen hikers missing in the italian alps. after a huge chunk of a glacier collapsed on sunday, causing an avalanche rescue services say,

there is little chance of finding them a wife. the break left, a huge scar in the glacier. drone searched through the night for people caught in the collapse, but rescue teams had to pause their ground based search out of fear that more ice would full restore mental, competent dare to be clear. it's a difficult situation for the rescue. workers least working there is very dangerous at the moment we chair but equal. so it was early afternoon when a huge column of ice on the face of the mama, loud iglesia, broke off triggering an avalanche of ice and rock that hit at least 2 groups of high cause. the dead and missing from several countries, including italy, germany and the czech republic. it still unknown exactly how many mountain he has remained on accounted for. relatives have begun arriving to identify their dead loved ones, a gruesome task. the condition of the bodies makes it more difficult as one rescue

are described. they are torn apart the chicken with which trying to organize it in a dignified and sensitive way. done that, that's all we can do to help these people the last, the last that adequate to push them off of free lack of expert say, decades of global warming have likely we conflict leisha, italy is experiencing and especially hot summer this year this weekend. so record temperatures, lack of snow in winter, has compounded the problem, leaving the glacier without protection from the smithsonian southerners now and last weekend formula one, racing had to share the road and attention with another group of petrol heads, the annual lawnmower championships from types of the popular garden appliance went head to head at the race held in southeast england. it's thought that this was created in a british pub almost 50 years ago, when a group of motor enthusiasts wanted to race. and before we go, let's take

a quick look at our top stories at this hour. please have arrested a suspect jeffrey massey shooting left at least 6 people dead at a 4th of july parade in chicago suburb that she has update at this hour. coming up next is a documentary film, the long silence, about colonia digney. dad's notoriously linked to chillies dictatorship can also get more news and analysis on our website that's at g w dot com. i'm clear. richardson in for lynn for me in the team. thanks for watching. ah. leonardo da vinci's, mysterious masterpiece. that is perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece of the collection of the louvre. it is the virgin of the rocks. was there a.