receive for your data. we explain how things, technologies work, how they can go for and how they can also go terribly with this deed of the news life on berlin, eddy mike a junior is the name coming up south in europe. swelled, has under the record breaking, he to waive destructive wildfires, blaze across all to go friends and spain. the heats kills hundreds including fire fight. this also in the program ukraine, like he uses russia of using

e captured nuclear power plant to store weapons and shell targets. the negro and other cities come on the via the joe biden tells our leaders, the us will not walk away from the middle east. at the regional some, it's the also tacos, the saudi crown friends go by the medical journalist, jamal consulting ah, hello, and welcome to the program. southern europe is suffering a record breaking heat wave firefighters in spain. frans and portugal also agrees bottling destructive forest. blazes that he has killed hundreds of people in spain . 1000 small have had to leave the homes. scientists blaming manmade climate change and warning. there will be more extreme weather events in the future. the summer

skies are blotted out by smoke, as wild fires burn across southwest europe. in france, portugal and spain, high winds and dry conditions make tough work for the fire fighters. several of whom have died. battling the blazes. thousands of residents have been evacuated in all 3 countries. oh yeah, mikaela. we haven't slept all night enough to have a social worker came to see me and pick up my elderly uncle, emily unable to make it up. we spent the night in a nearby town, but we didn't sleep at all happen on look and among them, you know, i did that even away from the fires. there's no relief from the heat. a wave of record breaking temperatures has killed hundreds and spain where thermometers have hit 45 degrees. to compound the misery soaring energy prices mean many are forced to choose between keeping cool and their bank account

address on media voice. whole families have to be frugal when using air conditioners and electric fans because electricity bills have surged. what you see more weather agencies say it won't cool off for days. authorities or urging people to drink plenty of water, stay out of the sun and to check on those at risk. johnny, me now from the spanish capital my very as dw correspondent nico these, i don't eco. so when spain are the fires heads in the most, well we have a several of wildfires that are really huge. one of them is just 40 minutes away from my la guy. you can actually also their pictures online where you can see it from the beach. there's huge smoke coming up. we're talking about roughly 3000 people that have been evacuated and 2000 hector's that are in flames. but it's even more severe if you go to the west to expedite my laura. but it has been a fire for days now and it's raging through landscape. it has

a so far already burned around $7000.00 hector's. and there's just another fire just below that that has popped up further in the south west. that is also very frightening. hundreds of people have been evacuated firefighters and the emergency aids that are on site yesterday just told me that they're really exhausted what they're doing, everything they can. what obviously with the wind and the very high temperatures in that region and extreme of where you're looking at around 46 degrees, i've been there on wednesday. it's very impossible at the moment to really get your grip on these planes. yeah, it definitely sounds severe, but experts are wanting, there could be what are these i had. so how are people trying to deal with it? well, this is the 2nd time this year that we having a heat wave and it's not in the normal range of heat waves. you know, the 1st one came very early in june. the 2nd one is lasting for already a week. it might cool off a bit at the beginning of next week,

but we're looking at maybe then here in madrid at 38 degrees instead of like at the moment in the shadow. it's around 40 degrees. so it's just just a little bit of pulling off, it might help for the fires, for the people, it might help us. well, we tried to set up a life just earlier with you guys, but it was not possible because of the heat. so we needed to switch locations, go into the shadow, and that's what everybody needs to do. you need to go into the saddle. you need to stay in, you need to, but you know, you're flat in the darkest place where you're sitting in a cave. basically during the day or where there's air conditioning, and the thing is summer's now, our life to 6 weeks longer than they used to be in the eighty's and heat waves in the past 10 years have doubled also in length. so it's quite a struggle for the body. and now we have just also received some numbers that 360 deaths just in this current, keep waste here in spain. so it's really taking a toll on the body and on the life people to people. i really don't know how i would have dealt with that. nicole res. thank you. now you green says

russia is using e cops had nuclear power plants to stall weapons and attack targets. the national nuclear agency says hundreds of russian troops have taken control of those upper region sites in southeast, in ukraine. it accuses moscow of using the planned asset base to shell, this around and region. one of the alleged targets is the city of april. you're the government says this video shows a ration strike. a regional government says 3 people were killed. thousands of people up died and the attacks on urban areas in recent days did abuse next. spicer, choice me from ukraine's capital key. hello nick. tell us more about what's happening as upper region nuclear plant. well, it's europe's largest nuclear plant plant, with 6 reactors inside of the soldiers and 500 soldiers had been there since close to the beginning of the war,

which you are getting reports of heavy artillery shells shelling and possible rocket attacks coming from the plant according to ukraine's director of atomic energy targeting, denise rose, you said were some people have been killed as well as the town of nicki paul, which is just across the denise pro river, where there is a bit damage to civilian buildings. there are pictures of that on the government telegram channel, the local telegram channels. and look, i mean, this is a situation where you have an inability of ukrainians to repost to fire back, because they could set off a true noble style meltdown a disaster that couldn't actually be dealt with in war time. so it's a grave concern, and that's why the director of ukraine's nuclear agency called on the international atomic energy agency to get involved and to inspect the situation. but they won't do so while there are russian troops there. so the ukranian minister i've been talking about has says they have to stop walking a tightrope and do something about the situation. yes. what's confusing?

some people rush hour wilkerson its efforts in the state ukraine, but there have been reports of attacks across the country in recent days. what seems to be moscow's game plan here? yeah, we're big picture wise. moscow has been shelling an awful lot, 50000 shells a day, some days. but since the beginning of may, they've only taken 5 percent more territory. and they haven't been able to take parts of the don bass region, which they plan to with the speed with which they intended to simply because they don't have the manpower to do. so that's why they said they're going to have an operational pause. we know their units are, have been disbanded decimated, they've got to put groups of men back together and teach them to work together. so the answer as it were for now was just to continue shell and continue shelling and, and hitting civilian targets. it's hard to see what the military objective is, of course their military targets as well. but so many civilians being injured is in the words of the united nations human rights. people, you know,

a war crime are possible, work harden, you can't have that many civilian casualties in a war. you're not targeting properly. yeah. did of use and expires. same key. thank you. now take a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world. the head of germany's biggest archer has resigned after an exhibit with anti semitic elements from ted protests, the organizers of document ass 8 i've been showman, is stepping down by mutual agreement. the shoe takes place every 5 years in the city of castle lawmakers in north macedonia. how fast the deal is that settling a dispute with a while guerria to clear the way for e u membership talks. that proposal includes amending the constitution to recognize the algerian minority in exchange while gary i will allow sculpture to stop talks with brussels so long as parliament has begun. choosing the success that to the

post president caught up by the pox, lawmakers will select a new leader to serve the rest of it right of access. then he fled into exile as mass protest. you wrapped it about in national economic crisis. it's a brand new day in colombo, the family dentistry. that's ruled tre lanka for decades is gone, and lawmakers, a meeting to choose a new president after months of protests. gotcha, by a roger pox or fled to singapore and formerly stepped down from the presidency on friday. his resignation letter read out in parliament, showed little remorse made up law one mo, be mother margaret. i want to stress. i have always done my best for my motherland video that i thought you booted my utmost to the country and in the future to i would contribute to the country. already loaded up, done was do me lawmakers will vote for

a new president next week. the chosen candidate will then see out roger pucks as tom until elections in 2024 of the 3 candidates expected to stand. one is ronald v grimacing head, the current interim president and former prime minister. a long time ally of the ousted president protestors want him gone to for a fresh start for the country. then on part of the year, middle of the 3 candidates, if we support them, a student person, things will be all right for going on. i'm not the only one the position, then things will get worse, log and all the dominant never be able to move forward. i can only say that it end of it. the odd timber further, what we have to tell them you elected president is please rescued the economy. i think it would have gone to the my fiancee, roger pox a has left sri lanka in the midst of its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948 in particular. fuel is in desperately short supply. security has been

tightened around the parliament amid fears that the law makers choice for president may not be enough to com. protesters or u. s. presidents job i and has wrapped up a visit to saudi arabia for original security and energy summit bite in toad arleada's america would maintain its commitments to the middle east. he says, washington will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by china, russia, or iraq in talks with a saudi conference bite and also raised the matter of the dissidence journalist for jamal gotcha rule based order, charge and christian. i am now joined by dw correspondent to call you not shamore in washington biden raised his concerns about the meadow jamal casual chief with a saudi crown prince. but after that, it was business as usual, called by it, and have done more. of course he could have done more. definitely. yes,

but that was not his main concern. president biden himself, he said before this trip, it started that this trip is mainly about promoting you as interest, especially of course economic issues, but also on security. and what we're seeing here is a huge you turn into biden's foreign policy, and it's a real re calibration of his relationship to saudi arabia. so as we saw this morning during the gcc summit, what by them is trying to do here is to reset this relationship. he wants to see if the united states and saudi arabia can work together in different issues. like for example, energy, but also infrastructure and food, food security. and, and the question remains, how do they start over again after bite. and one said that saudi arabia is a pariahs tate and toward the eagle. from here, i mean we have an idea what the us one spot, what does the middle east expect from the us? all the countries in the middle east, they know that the united states,

especially interested in their all projection and also in the position or an international politic so biden has made clear that he's also there, as you said, to strengthen relations with them. and in his own words, he doesn't want to leave a gap in international relations for russia or china to feel he wants to avoid a stronger ties between saudi arabia or the middle east and russia or china. but the truth is at that to region already maintains relations with these countries, russian and china and, and now they know what they are, the ones who can choose who they want to cooperate with saudi arabia wants to at present itself again as one of the most important partners for the u. s. m, on an international level, and that has been their main message from this a visit, and biden is supporting this message with this historic visit and the pictures we saw. ok, d, w correspondent cowley, not shimaya washington. many thanks. a reminder of our top

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