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ukraine. braces for an escalation of attacks on all fronts. as russia orders its forces to step up their operations and a controversy over anti semitism that gripping the art world, the head of germany's biggest contemporary art show bowels to pressure to step down . ah, i monica jones. good to have you with us. wildfires are raging across southern europe from portugal and spain to france, italy and greece. their spread is being aided by an extreme heat wave with temperatures in excess of 40 degrees celsius, which is said to reach even britain in the coming days. many of the places are affecting popular tourist destinations that were just starting to recover from slow business during the pandemic. a week long hate wave is

scorching europe fires season. his heat earlier this year after an unusually hot and dry spring, which authorities attribute to climate change near the spanish city of malaga. a forest fire has forced thousands of people to evacuate when it was italian. no completely favor, we're sad and worried because our mountains are part of the joy of living here. there. the lungs of the area to include him to personally were also very worried for the residents because their homes could be in danger. it's very difficult situation. please listen to him, would you be a sports stadium has become an emergency shelter for the evacuation. we've just wrapped a few essentials and just ran really. and by that stage, everybody along the street, the car yos, was on the move cars and, and on the main street, the will of ambulances and fire engines,

fires burning across southern europe, filling skies with smoke. from here in northern italy to southwest in france, where fire fighters have been battling blazes for days. thousands of evacuated residents can only watch on and prey their homes are spared. on crete, strong winds are spreading several fires across the great island. temperatures throughout southern europe have already been reaching into the mid forties celsius and difficult conditions are set to only get worse as the record breaking hate sweeps across europe for another week. all over now to the spanish capital madrid where dw correspondent nicole reese is standing by and he called more than a dozen wildfires and now ranging raging in spain. what is the situation? well, the situation here in spain is tense because wherever you look there are actually

want 5 were at the moment looking at well over 30 of them in different regions of the country. very prominent example those days is the one close to my luck, which can be up there actually from the beach from beach go. i think the, the huge clouds coming off of the hills. but if you go further west to extend my buddha, it's actually a much bigger blazes that we're looking at. we're talking about at least $7000.00 tech stars in one of them burning down the landscape and also putting in danger of people living in the villages that hundreds happen and vacuum in this area. at least 3 blazes right now next to my food, which is very hot area in thing close to portugal and one of them actually has just been declared arson. so this is also something that is happening. it's very hot. it's very dry. and this gives a perfect feeding gram breeding ground for, for fire such as these that well serving. but obviously, if people intentionally put on a fire, this is also kind of, you know, very, very difficult because you cannot put them really out under the circumstances with

a trout and the heat. there is also wind and it's complicated for the firefighters and hundreds of them on the ground. all hands on deck. i spoke to an aide work or 2 days ago, and they're really, really exhausted after days and days of fire and fire. but that keeping on with that work, that the continuing to do the work because it's very necessary that they're there, but that close to the collapse as well here. right, well, nickel, when you're describing there is something that we see across the whole of southern europe, which is used to high temperatures. that is what you expect in those regions during the summer season. what is different this year? all? what is different this year? is that there are, there are certain studies that confirm that spain and portugal haven't been a try as this year in 1200 years. so that's already really a number there and it's long got heat waves. it started in june already. we had a massive heat weight, which is very unusual,

very unusual and early in the year. and now we have another long heat wave and basically also has a huge impact on human. you know, this equipment this week alone. we've seen 360 deck related to the heat of 24647 degrees in the previous one. it was double that number. so that's one of the huge impact. and obviously this is also in connection with the climate crises here. there are numbers that's quite shocking because he waits. now in the last 10 years have doubled up in intensity and also in frequency, the longer they're more often more aggressive and this is the future we are looking into right now. scientists already agreeing on that. and this is also something that they had foreseen for years and have been warning about 4 years. and we've the sequence, of course, you also get a lot of wildfires because it's all somehow interconnected, unfortunately. and dates in d t the eucharist on a nicole,

which they are reporting for us from madrid. thank you so much. and the heat wave is expected to bring unprecedented temperatures to britain in the coming days. and he could break the countries all time record high of $38.00 point to $7.00 degrees authorities issue their 1st ever extreme heat warning several days in advance. in an interview on sky t. v one a paramedic implored people to take that warning seriously. but we could see people who are taking who are vulnerable, young people, an elderly filed people, people living with dementia who really do suffer this. this isn't like a lovely day where we can put a bit of sunscreen on and go out and enjoy, you know, a swim in a meal outside. this is serious heat that could actually ultimately end in people's death because it is so ferocious and we're just not set up for that sort of age in this country to ukraine now, where

a military official says russia is preparing for the next stage of its offensive after moscow ordered its forces to step up military operations, russia is now focusing on the eastern region of don, yet ukraine says, russian forces are shilling along the entire front line as they prepare for the next ground. offensive on extra port is from across a small city right in the path of the russian advance and mother grieving the loss of her son who know to me and me wash. mishenko died trying to stop the russian at vons on his hope, sooty. of course, the city's mayor has come to pay his respects is not for the 1st time watching logo . oh, many citizens from a donuts greeting went to defend our country. there are many of our guys on the front line officer. you 10 have been killed since february 24th. and there are many

people who are being drafted now. when the market, which in longer visiting with russian forces slowly gaining ground that was reaching people's lives here and other ways to indiscriminate bombardment of civilian targets, trademark of pollutants invasion site. little footage built by the ukraine police shows the terror inflicted on pro cost residents with the young, an able bodied at the front, the elderly of been left to fend largely for themselves. banks like these help, the most needy things could get worse. still, the mayor fears that a shortage of gas will make the city uninhabitable. once temperatures drop, you slip, but you will even if the fighting stopped where they are now and the frontline does move, it will be very hard to survive here in winter. but zoom video would you wouldn't flores if the russians advance further, it will fall to my attribution to organize the evacuation of the city,

adding to the millions of ukrainians, already displaced by the war. the next spice a joints me from ukraine's capital key. if a nicky crane says it's preparing for the next stage of russia's offensive in the east and on bass region, what is the situation on the ground right now? well, monica, once again, not massive artillery, bombardments all across the front line. and particularly in that area, the defense minister survey shows who is said to have visited the front line and we're not sure what kind of footage or any evidence there is if that is occurred. but he said, i'm gonna just put pause here. he said that the objective is to stop the ukrainians from the shelling civilian areas has been no proof of actually occurring at somebody plausible as a by their own admission. they don't have enough artillery to properly fight the russians. but for the facts on the ground, massive artillery across that region,

the ukrainians have the most battle hardened fighters. they are confronting the russians. and i did manage to repel an attempt to take a key highway, which would allow the russians to approach sloth dance, which is their sort of operational headquarters in the region. and the russians have been trying for 2 months and they failed to do that. so the battle continues again with a great disproportion in artillery fire, but the ukrainians are putting up the fight that they, that they have had since the beginning. and just a final note. it's worth taking. note that, you know, since the beginning of may, despite all of this massive artillery bombardment, the russians have only taken 5 percent more of ukrainian territory. so it may be a big announcement, but there's been big announcements before. it's not an indication that there's going to be a big change on the ground. i talking of announcements, nika, president the ukranian precedent as a landscape is vowing that ukraine will recapture more of its lost land. oh, is that realistic or is he just trying to boost morale?

i think both hypotheses are possible. he's been talking about what seemed to be entirely implausible. first defeating the russians and chasing is from a capital and that occurred on morale is high. i think there are the ukrainians, you know, down to a man almost when it comes to the army. in any case, say they want to reclaim all of the territory, the russian, the 2nd since 2014. that changes the situation enormously. they do have that as an objective, not to mention crimea, which was annex as well because they're considered by the russians to be part of russia. and gardner thinking has always sort of threatened with not so many words the possibility of using nuclear weapons. if things don't go his way so the ukrainians are fighting back to making some success in the south of the country particular were in her song region, small advances there. but of course it's a 2 front war now, so where the russians are focusing on the east, the ukrainians are advancing somewhat in the south. right? dw isn't expire, so they're reporting from kia. thank you so much,

nick. what time to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. a cargo plane carrying munitions has crashed in northern greece shortly after the pilot reported engine problems. all 8 people on board were killed. defense officials said the plane operated by ukrainian company was on route from serbia to bangladesh, carrying 11 tons of serbian made mortar rounds to firefighters were taken to hospital after inhaling. toxic fumes. torrential rains have had central china causing widespread flooding that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people. at least 4 people have died and 13 are missing and gone to an sichuan provinces. this as neighboring regions are suffering from an heat wave. experts say the extreme weather is being driven by climate change. the head of germany's biggest ard show

has resigned after protest, oh, was resigned after protests, over and exhibit containing anti semitic imagery. the crisis rounding documentary has gripped the art world. months after the controversy erupted, the head of document is abena shore. mon is finally calling it quits. the arch shows supervisory board says it reached the mutual agreement with swarm on to end her contract. the mural by the indonesian artist collective terran patty prompted outraged, because of its anti semitic depictions, such as the jew with fangs and a forked tongue document. organizers were slow to react to protests and criticism from politicians. at 1st, the images were covered up, but later dismantled anti semitism expert marilyn mendo ended his collaboration with the art show after his advice was ignored. he said, shore, months resignation was overdue. chauffeured, thus he is us, as i know not, i hope this springs some relief. and from this moment on we can move forward and

worked through things and changed them with a view to the future when we do me that. but if not, phone, and that will allow document a to close on a positive note in september, but compton september, germany's cultural commissioner, also back shore months departure. it is correct and necessary to come to terms of how the exhibition of anti semitic images came about. so we can take appropriate action regarding the art exhibition. the city of castle on the regional government say they will review the way document is run, but 1st they need to find a new artistic director up next year and d, w. well, stories thanks to watching with people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. families.