juice like microbes to be annihilated even 77 years after the holocaust hatred towards jews is still pervasive. the history of anti semitism this week on d. w ah ah ah, this is dw news live 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 forecast to say there is more to come. also on the program ukraine,

braces for an escalation of attacks on all fronts. as russia orders, it forces to step up their operations. and how authorities are abusing china us all powerful coven? 19 wanting 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. while fi us are raging across southern europe from portugal and spain to france, italy and greece, an extreme heat wave with temperature soaring above 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. a week long heat

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, not only to say we are sad and worried because our mountains are part of the joy of living here. there the lungs of the area to include him to prison. and we're also very worried for the residence because their homes could be in danger. it's a very difficult situation. please listen to him. we'll give you a sports stadium has become an emergency shelter for the evacuation. we've just grabbed 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. over now to francesco bangarra, he's a journalist in italy and he joins us now from venice or francesco. good to have you with us. and of course, with brit reporting on northern italy, being in the grip of severe drought with her, its main river, the pole drying up. you're in venice now. oh,

what can you tell us about to people in the region coping? well, the solution reach not yet terrible, but it will get much worse in the next few hours. i mean, the big wait, wait is expected to arrive all of our children and start to meet them as well. so we're going to have points of $40.00 to $42.00 degrees in full caps, which means that with a drought which is really gripping that no. making major damage to the situation is not going to be easy and it's exactly what we didn't expect the traditional route and not all the while ours in the past few years. and of course, we've also had a just reports coming in that there are fi us now. also raging of further south in sicily, but also near florence with it's, it's beautiful sights of culture. what, what, what can you tell us about that?

well, they're starting going off like almost every year. i mean, when it gets hot, god knows why, especially around a big you start will see this will be there. and we are you big bars last weekend in row? and yet police are still investigating on the causes. i think that somebody just trying to make some food that you look money and make some business in this sort of kind of entry on some areas be close to the very rich sector. so the article she was recently, now you said to this that the fires now and with the forecasts of high temperatures, all of this could be expected. and we've seen fi as a burning all along the andree attic coast line, affecting tourism as well. is there any relief insight. 2 inside you find release, it leads to some release because you go up in the mansion. but the problem is that

the closer you get to that at the see them more dry, dig measurable individual ashley. and so the easier it is higher. and also the fact that there are so many people trying to find lee from the heat and back to the beach. that's really, yeah. for dixon, it wasn't for extinguishing the fires, which happened to start at the spot. every now and then. right, francesco, bon gara, they are reporting from then is a journalist in italy. of course, francesco, thank you so much for your time. i get an hour to the latest stir on the war in ukraine. russian missiles has struck industrial facilities and the southern ship building. city of nikolai moscow has stepped up its attacks across ukraine in recent days. defenders fear russian forces are preparing the next offensive. most of the fighting is in the eastern region of

donnette. with shelling along the entire front line, our next report is from a po crossed a small city in the path of russia's advance yet well, what a mother grieving the loss of her son followed me and me washing shanker, died trying to stop the russian at vons on his home city of po, cost, the city's mayor has come to pay his respects is not for the 1st time, which in logo or many substance from a donuts greeting when 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 come are question longer is a recall with russian forces slowly gaining ground that was reaching people's lives here and other ways to is from in bombardment or civilian targets,

trademark of pollutants invasion science, little footed foot by the ukraine police shows the terror inflicted on po cost residents with the young, an able bodied at the front, the elderly of been left to fend largely for themselves. from 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 easily, but you will even if the fighting stopped where they are now and the front line does move, they will be very hard to survive here in winter. with zoom, video, wood, wooden floors. 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. dw exparza is in key if he sent us this update on the fighting. the defense minister of russia segregation who is said to

have visited the front lines where he said that operations would accelerate and there would be renewed offensive on all of the fronts across ukraine in the genetic region. the ukrainians have managed to push back a russian attempt to take a key road, going to slow dance, which is their operational headquarters. it's seen of intense artillery showing. sure, you actually said that the purpose of the renew defensive isn't part to stop the ukrainians from firing on ukrainian civilians, which is a bit implausible, as the ukrainian struggle to have enough ammunition to actually fight russian soldiers. however, that may be there is a continuation of shelling and rockets landing inside civilian centers up further north in hard keith where the ukrainians managed to repel the russians from the gates of the city. weeks ago. new new reports of miss alice landing in the city and civilian casualties down in the south of the country the ukrainians are doing

slightly better. they're taking village by village and in the actual city of hair, saunders and underground movement. men undertaking operations blowing up railway lines to disrupt the flow of ammunition to the russian physicians. and that is, of course, an important city because it's a step on the way to the crown jewel of the conflict for the russians, which is the port city of odessa. you can the president let them here. so lensky said that there was every intention to take back land that the russians had captured. it's unclear how far that goes. he has said though, since the beginning of the war, that the objectives to take back all of the lands the russians have taken since 2014 let's look at some more stories now making headlines around the world. a cargo plane carrying weapons as crashed in northern greece. all 8 people on board were killed. officials say the aircraft was flying from serbia to bangladesh. the plane was transporting water ammunition. the pilot reported engine trouble.

floods triggered by torrential rain, have killed at least 7 people in the south daph. we're province of sudan. at least 100 houses. incomes are for displaced, people are damaged or destroyed. the united nations refugee agency is coordinating 8 efforts to rental rains and flooding, half at force thousands to leave their homes in western china. a dozen people have been killed at the same time. neighboring regions are suffering a heat wave, where the experts are blaming climate change. china's co night in warning up is central to official efforts to hold back the corona virus. but an attorney in beijing believes the government is abusing the up 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 lesion for some time, sir. as the critic of the lodging,

she has often been placed under house arrest. you were there. but recently, the government seems to have found a different method always 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 street . 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 frustrated. yeah. all of alamo failed 1000000 live and yet there's no laws on the use of the app. no paper, no regulations. the restrictions imposed by the app on there by completely legal love bought the city has become an obstacle course for hoshal either. even in the taxi that you are, court has to be scanned for the health department. fortunately, the taxi driver accepts, if only one passenger logs in, whatever you're not,

what happens if someone doesn't scad that? do you have to it's the rules laid out what you want. if someone doesn't have a cell phone rather than don't take a taxi deal. but the green code of the health app is also required for buses and subways. even access to the apartments is now monitored. everyone in beijing lives within a gated compound with a single access point. gods have set up checked 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 scan at all, visitors must login. you can then put it on, you don't know what will happen to mortal. i mean it may be then the god won't let me through. and i can't break in here and all of this is illegal. you know, to law,

we talked the elia, iowa valley, how you robert hill? what, what did you even do? went to 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 of a troubled 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. government for his f newton. yeah, the penalty is arbitrary lawyer ha ha. they had to find a scapegoat as the case, but so much publicity went in to the solid. be highly make it look like punishment annual. but the real problems remains sudden belinda, fit on body of all she daniel handler to go as yet it will. and that is that the police have direct access to the health court. 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 or it watching dw news. now there is more on extreme weather events coming up next in our documentary, which is looking at what climate change might mean in the future. and there's always more news on our website. that's d, w dot com. i'm monica jones for me and the team in berlin. thanks for watching and interest the global economy. our portfolio d. w business beyond here is a quote.