1022023 into a commission staff who's, who's foundation ah ah . business d w. news live from berlin. fire fighters battle places from portugal to greece. huge wildfires burned across the mediterranean fuel by a record breaking heat weighed. hundreds have died from the effects of the high temperatures, and now the extreme heat is moving on the program or

a look at life in the cities that have fallen in east. the new crane. western journalists are given a toll by the russian military and lanka. marks 100 days of dramatic protest. people power united ethnic groups to for south the form of ruling class. we look ahead to the key vote which will decide the nations political future. ah, i'm will azako welcome to the program. europe is experiencing a heat wave with the record breaking temperatures of britain is brazing for a week of extreme heat. countries for the south are already feeding temperatures above 40 degrees celsius. hundreds have died from the effects of the extreme heat and strong winds are driving wildfires across a number of nations. several firefighters have been killed like it's burning in

france, spain and portugal, italy, and in greece. for a week, wild fires have raged across southern europe. several fire fighters have died in the line of duty, and thousands of residents have had to flee their homes. it is an especially difficult summer me dealing with very considerable drought. you to insufficient rainfall over the winter spring. and especially dry months of may and b know has particularly high temperatures. but there's another related threat sweeping the region. a heat wave that has already claimed hundreds of lives . temperatures have reached the mid forties for a week in some parts of southern europe and weather experts say it's moving north

to a place that's never before experienced heat like this. the united kingdom forecasters are predicting temperatures of 40 degrees in england where few homes can cope with these conditions. experts are warning that thousands could die. this is serious at that could actually alternately ending in people's death because it is so ferocious and which is not set up for that ssl agency but authority say there are steps people can take to protect themselves, drink plenty of water, stay out of the sun and check on those at risk meteorologist scott duncan and london told us that the extreme heat is not only affecting europe. so this is very intense. he absolute for western europe is probably the most intense currently, but we've been seeing several events throughout not just this year,

but the last 3 years. in particular. we're breaking ricker, breaking records not by just small margins, but by enormous margins. and it's not confined to just europe like last year, for example, in canada, the record breaking down there. we've also had intense heat in japan the last couple of months, which was shattering longstanding and very significant records. so it's not just europe, we're seeing a lot of heat records tumble across where we are seeing cooler weather, for example. the southern hemisphere is a land media condition at the moment. it has been seen record rainfall. it's been quite cold. they're also new zealand, for example, but the main emphasis that there are far greater number of heat records falling compared to any of these localized cold records. and this is all part of anthropogenic climate change. let's take a look now at some of the stories making headlines around the world. floods triggered by torrential rain, have killed at least 12 people in the south for provence of saddam. and it's

$100.00 houses and camps for displays. people are damaged or destroyed. the united nations refugee agency is coordinating 8 f. it's a deming report on the u. val. day. school shooting has criticized the nearly 400 police officers present for failing to prioritize rescue efforts of their own safety security. video footage showed heavily armed officers from local state and federal forces standing by for 77 minutes, even as shots rang out. the mass routing claim to $21.00 lines. french president emanuel macro has been leading commemorations for the 18th anniversary of the round of jewish residence during the nazi occupation. in 1942. the french police carried out german orders to arrest some, 13000 people, many related deported to nazi death camps. 3 mass vaccination sites have opened in new york to provide shots against the monkey pox virus. the

city is the u. s. at the center of a global outbreak that mainly affects gay men. but with vaccine doses limited authorities, acknowledge supply currently cannot keep up with them on ukraine's president quality miss zalinski has fired his security chief and prosecutor general citing hundreds of cases of collaboration with russia by staff in their department . i mean, while ukraine says it's expecting a new russian offensive after moscow warned, it would step up military operations. most of the fighting is currently concentrated in the eastern region of done. yes, the russia has also been using missile strikes to target other parts of the country . raining dead from the sky. this video from russia's defense ministry shows an air strike on a ukrainian position and don't ask providence russia claims. it struck a multiple rocket launcher system. one of the modern us made weapons ukraine hopes will turn the tide and the war is video can't be verified,

but russia insist it's finding and destroying those very weapons are running to give us the russian armed forces continue launching attacks at military facilities depot for anti ship missiles supplied to ukraine by nato countries was destroyed with high precision long range missiles for us made launcher. and a resupply vehicle were destroyed by ground base weapons in the dot net, the people's republic with the motor. and you know, was, you know, when the russians recently announced a pause in their military operations in the don bass region to regroup. but that's not what it seems like. the civilians who are at the receiving end of artillery fire like this. if you didn't get the missiles were coming all day long from their clustering, munitions were falling. we saw an explosion on our street and because i know the area, well, we knew immediately where the explosion happened. we rushed here for safety.

meanwhile, even those far from the front lines in the east aren't safe. a 4 year old girl killed in a missile strike was buried in the central ukrainian city of n. it's yeah. the priest didn't mince words. you do the with these people who killed liza and residents of vignettes. yeah. and generally kill ukrainian city. they serve the devil, one eternal hell awaits them, because there is no forgiveness for them to play. the theory alongside suffering and pain for a country that has seen more than its share since the war started. an extra thought is a rare look at life in occupied areas of east in ukraine. russian forces allowed a group of western generalists to tool the don bass region, including the cities of lucy chanced and maria pull. this report was compiled under the control unsafe edition of the russian army. heavily damaged roads destroyed

bridges and residential buildings. it's a journey into a region that saw weeks of fierce fighting. the trip is organized by the russian military, which now controls large areas of eastern and southern ukraine. loosely chance flies and ruins. those who stayed behind have no food, water or electricity. russian authorities are organizing humanitarian aid. the packages read, we are united. the messages that the future of don boss is russia, or cindy, and i don't care whether zalinski or putin is in charge. here is the terrible situation must not continue. we need peacefully, if not many here are expecting that they fear for their future, which i'm afraid the war will return. the most important thing is peace and com. again. little of that goes to both russia shows off captured weapons used by the ukrainian army, including system supplied by the west, a victory trophy, and

a message to nato that it support for ukraine won't succeed. the southern city of mar, you poor, gained notoriety during heavy bombardments, now rushes building or hospital and housing for 2 and a half 1000 people. here the apartments are meetings or by the russian defense ministry, though then be handed over to the authorities of the de nuts people's republic. it would take decades to rebuild the dumbass region and an end to the fighting is not in sight. residence faced more danger in the coming months. south africa as grappling with the surge in gun violence. the problem was put in the spotlight after 3 separate shootings in one weekend. let's 22 people dead. in all 3 incidents suspects. open fire on people in boss before speeding off in vehicles. south africa has strict gun control laws, but that hasn't prevented

a large black market for firearms. packed in these bags are nearly 25000 firearms, confiscated or handed in to police in south africa. on this day, these guns are all going to be destroyed. south africa has one of the highest violent crime rates in the world authority say illegal weapons in the hands of criminals are contributing to the problem. in less privileged communities, like this one, we, one of the recent tavin shootings took place. people are terrorized unless is is this is we don't feel safe because we don't know whether the people responsible for the shooting are still in our township or not. we're not safe if we can't walk in the street or even go to the shops without feeling nervous. we are afraid because these people could still be here with us and they were to abide by lap. you turned

obama local medal. i would like our government to go door to door and collect all the legal firearms it when of an arrest. those found with the legal firearms that should work. day and night visit all the shacks and houses here and oh boy, because we often get mugged, nicole, we was no salad visiting the communities affected by the recent shooting attacks. the country's police minister promised more police presence. those are what you saw it if it were going to try and increase police visibility in the streets at this place. if on the way towards a was just want to take them back, we want to saturate the streets here. hopefully she'll be off police ruling the streets here and not the criminals are b good been able to thought but act of his say gun crime in south africa is part of much wider problems in the country, including corruption in the police service. protests have not been going on for more than 100 days in sri lanka. the demonstrations have already

toppled the president's birth participants are demanding more far reaching political reform. the protests broke out over an economic crisis. blamed on former president got to buy a roger pack, so shortages of fuel, food and medicines have for both widespread anger. did abuse amrita cima is in this flanking capital, colombo. she has more about the dramatic events of recent weeks. i'm standing at the entrance of the presidential palace where last week at this time there were hundreds and thousands of people gathered here. they stormed to this entrance inside the palace. and then we saw some of them was defining images of this protest movement in an unprecedented shoe of unity. people gathered people from different religions and groups against a leader who that taught was corrupt and would brought the country on the verge of bankruptcy. in the face of such a demonstration of people's power, the president fled the country. when president good or by

roger boxer left the country, he left his prime minister in charge. janelle became a singer. the protesters were angry, they think vicar messina is too close to the roger box. a gang, they all gathered here to protest. outside the office of the prime minister. there were ugly scenes, deer gas was fired, a protest her was killed. and some felt radical fringe elements had infiltrated the largely peaceful protests. finally, the protest has got the news that they wanted to hear. present guitar by a roger boxer had officially resigned. his letter of resignation, sent from singapore was read out in parliament. and now parliament must decide what happens next. these barricades have been put out to stop either from getting to parliament. there's a huge police presence as well as the army has been deployed here. therefore,

contenders for the post of president. the secret ballot will take this on wednesday . the opposition is divided, and rancho bucks us party has a huge majority in parliament. rich means that done in victim a single is a clear favorite to win. but if he is elected president, it remains to be seen by the protest as will be satisfied or they will take to the streets again. watching t w's alive from berlin, coming up next doc film, the politics of climate change in the him. it asks that people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away as a border. families playing phone tags in syria to these current owners. we learned in this trade.