ah ah ah, this is d, they'll be a new sly from berlin, a record breaking heat wave in southern europe. huge wildfires blaze from portugal to grease. the extreme heat causes hundreds of death and forecasters say there's more to come. also on the program ukraine,

braces for an escalation of attacks on all fronts. as russia orders its forces to step up their operations and how authorities are abusing china's all powerful cove at night in warning, apt to control people's movements. we hear from one lawyer who can no longer get to court to defend her clients. ah, monica jones, good to have you with us wildfires a raging across southern europe from portugal and spain to france, italy and greece. an extreme heat wave with temperature soaring about 40 degrees celsius is fanning the flames. many of the blazes are threatening popular tourist destinations that we're just starting to recover from. the pandemic. awake long hate wave is scorching europe. fire 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, the quantity paved, we are sad and worried because our mountains are part of the joy of living here there. the lungs of the area are included him to perform. and we're also very worried for the residents because their homes could be in danger. it's a very difficult situation and more luminous to him. when you get a sports stadium has become an emergency shelter for the evacuation, we've just grabbed a few essential than just run really. and by that stage, everybody along the street, the car, yours was on the move cars and, and on, and the and street, the will of ambulances and fire engines, fires are 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. did other correspondent nicole recess in madrid and she's got the latest on the fires. 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 is burning down the landscape and also putting in danger of people living in the villages that hundreds happen that vacuum in this area. at least 3 blazes right now in the next 30 minute, which is very haunt 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 run breeding ground for, for fire, such as the whale serving. but obviously, if people intentionally put on a fire, this is also a 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 that hundreds of them on the ground all hands on deck. i spoke to an aide

worker 2 days ago and they're really, really exhausted after days and days of fire on 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 call ups as well here. right, well, nicole, what 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 certain studies that come from that spain and portugal haven't been as dry as this year in 1200 years. so that's already really a number there and it's longer heat waves. it started in june already we had a massive heat wave that was 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 humans. you know,

in this week we have in this week alone, we've seen 360 death related to the heat of up to 46 to 47 degrees. and the prius wanted was double that number. so that's one of the huge impacts. and obviously this is also in connection with the climate crises here. there are numbers that are quite shocking because heat weights now in the last 10 years have doubled up in intensity and also in frequency, the longer they're more often they're more aggressive than does the future. we're looking into right now, scientists already agreeing on that. and this is also something that they have all seen for years and have been warning about 4 years. and we have the sequence, of course, you also get a lot of wildfires because it's all somehow interconnected. unfortunately, and date it correspond. nicholas, they're reporting for us from madrid. thank you so much. and now the latest on the war in ukraine, russian missile have struck industrial facilities and the southern ship building.

city of nikolai moscow has stepped up. its attacks across ukraine in recent days, defend us via russian forces on preparing the next offensive. most of the fighting is in the eastern region of done it, with shelling along the entire front line. our next report is from a puck, rosco, a small city, and the path of rushes advance. mother, grieving the loss of a son. hello to me. i me washing mishenko died trying to stop the russian at vons on his home city of po, cloths. currently. the city's mayor has come to pay his respects is not for the 1st time. oh jim logo. oh, many citizens from the donuts region when to defend our country. there are many of our guys on the front line officer. he 10 have been killed since february 24th. and there are many people who are being drafted now,

when come on in longer visit equal with russian forces slowly gaining ground that was reaching people's lives here in other ways to indiscriminate bombardment of civilian targets, trademark of pollutants, invasion site. little footage built by the ukranian police shows the terror inflicted on po cost residence with the young and able bodied at the front, the elderly of been left to fend largely for themselves. food banks like these help, the most needy things could get worse. still. the mayor fears that a shortage of gas will make this city uninhabitable. once temperatures drop, you slip are you even at the fighting stopped where they are now and the front line does move. it will be very hard to survive. here in winter is what see me video would, would you wish in florida, if the russians advance further, it was full to my attribution to organize the evacuation of the city,

adding to the millions of ukrainians, already displaced by the war. dw correspondent nick spy, set in key if told me about the likely next stage of the russian offensive. and 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. i'm 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. there's been no proof of that 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 yonce, 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've, 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 it'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 last land, or 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 away from the

capitol. and that occurred on morale is high, i think 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 has taken since 2014. that changes the situation enormously. if 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, they're making some success in the south of the country. in particular, we're in her san 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. china's code 19 warning api,

the central to official efforts to hold back the corona virus, but an attorney in beijing believes the government is abusing the app to limit her movements. she can no longer get to court to defend her client's loyal wang. you hasn't been able to move freely, beijing for some time. her isaac, to take off the lodging. she has often been placed on the house or whatever. but recently, the government seems to have found a different method. do it in her chinese corona wanting app, mandatory every red in the country no longer works. that's why she can't even get into the shopping sheet when she wants to bring a sensitive case to court, her court dance yellow, even when she has multiple negative b. c, r t s l y danner. it leaves her helpless iowa and prostrate dana, hong kong am played maryland. yet there is no laws on the use of the ap did not be, but no regulations the restrictions imposed by the app. uh,

they're booked completely legal love that the city has become an obstacle course for hi. are you ready? even in the taxi that you are, court has to be scanned for the health department. fortunately, the taxi driver accepts it only one passenger logs in wherever you are not, what happens if someone doesn't scad that? do you have to it's the rules layer. now what, what if someone doesn't have a cell phone rather than don't take a taxi deal, but the green cord of the health app is also required for buses and sub is even access to the apartments is now monitored. everyone in beijing lives within a gated compound with the single access point. gods have set up, check posts everywhere. when you lift hill in the beijing suburbs, it takes

a heated argument with the security guards for them to allow her into her own apartment building without being scanned. with all visitors must login. you can then put it on you don't know what will happen to model. i mean, it may be then the god won't let me through. and i can break in here. and all of this is a legal law which hotly elia i want valley petty rober hill while we're there, do even to enter her building. she has to use her data again just to open the door at her home. one, you and her husband watch with yours, of protests doing the rounds on the internet. when customers are for trouble, bank tried to organize the protest, their headquarters to unread. as the result, many were unable to travel to them as punishment. a local official was later stripped of body membership gun when you were there fighting. yeah, the penalty is arbitrary lawyer how they had to find a scapegoat as the case,

but so much publicity when hundreds of solid the highly make it look like punishment annual. but the real problem, jemine's son, belinda feed on patio will sienna yaller to go as yet it will. and that is that the police have direct access to the health cord. oh and it isn't like one. you can leave china and all these troubles behind either of the chinese authorities confiscated her boss board 2 years ago. it was in d. w. news lab next our digital magazine shall shift after a short break you ah ah, what secrets my behind these walls discover new adventures in 360 degrees and explore fascinating world heritage.