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ukraine's president fires 2 of his top security officials saying they weren't doing enough to stop their stuff colluding with russia. and it's a nation wide, state of emergency is declared in sri lanka and moved the new acting president says is needed to maintain security and address crippling supply shortages. ah, i'm all azako. welcome to the program. europe is experiencing a huge way with record breaking temperatures while britain is bracing for a week of extreme heat countries. further south already feeling temperature is 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 fire fighters have been killed. it's

burning in france, spain, in 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. now, it is an especially difficult summer. we are dealing with very considerable drought you to insufficient rainfall over the winter spring, and especially dry months of may. and we now have 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, so that could actually ultimately ending in people's death because it is so ferocious and we're just not set up for that. so akins country 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. meteorologists, scott duncan in london, told us that the extreme heat is not only affecting europe. so this is very intense . the absolute for western europe is probably the most intensive currently. but

we've been seeing several events, throat not just the year, but the last, the years in partakes. there would be breaking record breaking records not by a small margin by enormous margins, and it's not confined to just europe like last year. for example, in canada, the record breaking he to me there, we've also had in 10 feet in japan and the last couple of months, which was shattering at long standing and very significant record is not just europe. we're seeing a lot of records tumble across the world. we are seeing cooler weather, for example. the southern hemisphere is a land condition at the moment. strayer has been seeing record rainfall. it's been quite cold. there often use dealing for example. but the main emphasis that there are far greater number of heat records following compared to any of these localized cold records. and this is all part of anthropogenic climate change. ukraine president quality means the lensky has fired his security chief and prosecutor general. he called into question their leadership saying, hundreds of cases of collaboration with russia had been found among staff and their

departments. the dismissal was come. as ukraine says, it's stealing itself for a new russian offensive. most of the fighting is currently concentrated in the eastern region. often yes, the russia has also been targeting other parts of the country with miss all strikes 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 in the war. it's video can't be verified, but russia insist it's finding and destroying those very weapons. we're going to do is just give us a little russian armed forces continue launching attacks at military facilities. a 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, as 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 to civilians who are at the receiving end of artillery fire 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. was 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 vanessia. the priest didn't mince words to the will these people who killed lisa and residents of vineyards 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. our next report is a rare look at lie fin occupied areas of east in ukraine. russian forces allowed a group of west and gen less to tor. the don bass region, including the cities of lizzie chan, scan mario poll. this report was compiled under the control and supervision 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 lies in 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, his russia, was against you. 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. but i'm afraid the war will return. the most important thing is peace and com. again. little of that goes with 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 mario full gained notoriety during heavy bombardments, now rushes building or hospital and housing for 2 and

a half 1000 people here. the apartments are being sold 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. residents face more danger in the coming months. let's look at the most dories making headlines around the world. floods triggered by torrential rain, have killed at least 12 people in the south. for province of saddam, at least $100.00 houses and camps were displaced. people are damaged or destroyed. the united nations refugee agency is coordinating aid efforts. 3 mass vaccination sites have opened in new york to provide shots against the monkey pox virus. the city in is the u. s. at the center of a global outbreak, that's mainly affecting gay men. but with vaccine doses limited authorities,

acknowledge supply currently cannot keep up with demand. 3 people have been killed and 2 others wounded in a mast shooting in the us state of indiana. the gunmen opened fire in a shopping mall before being killed by an armed bystander. police say the motive is still unclean. and me, my lawmakers in the u. s. state of texas have released a damning report on the police response to a school shooting in the city of you validate in may. the report goes as far as to say that lacking leadership could have contributed to the loss of life. the findings were presented to the victims, relatives who the accused, the authorities of trying to cover up police failures, mechanical and agree to sleep. or this is how lawmakers in texas described the police response to the valley school shooting that claimed 21 lives security video

footage short, heavily armed officers standing by for 77 minutes. ah, even i sought out the investigative report release, sunday, set close to $400.00 officials present, feel to prioritize rescue efforts over their own safety. moody person. just that day, several officers in the hallway are in that building, new, or should have known there was dying in that classroom. and they should have done more active with urgency. try the door handles, try to going through the windows, try to distract him. the report on so focused on poor security measures at the school, but the grieving families of the victims, reacting to the security video as an emphasized another key aspect, jiving gun violence and the failure of existing gun control laws spelled a texas. but there is one question that should be on the forefront of their minds.

what if the gunmen never had access to an assault weapon? i'm up here because i'm, i'm begging you to make a change. nobody sits here and thinks about this things because it doesn't happen to them. i promise you, i promise you, you do not want this up to you. out of province, you protesters are demanding tied to a gun noise. although fungus didn't react to decent mass shootings. my adding restrictions on gun feels the new ruth would not have thought the shooter at your body. an 18 year old with no reported history of violence. you are all the more reason these protestors say that stricter action is needed. now, gunshot wound to the head, south africa is grappling with a search in gun violence. the problem was put in the spotlight off the 3 separate shootings and one weekend left. 22 people dead. in all 3 incidents suspects,

open fire on people in boss before speeding off in vehicles. south africa has a strict gun control laws, but that hasn't prevented a large black market for firearms. packed in these bags on 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 way, one of the recent tavin shootings took place. people are terrorized among 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,

even 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 would go about develop it under obama vocal model. i would like our government to go door to door and collect all the legal firearms again 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 and nuclear wasn't oh, sellable. visiting the communities affected by the recent shooting attacks. the country's police minister promised more police presence. those are, would you saw it if it were going to try and increase police visibility in the streets of this place? if on the way towards a was just the 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 criminal id been able to log 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. for

lank as acting president, has declared a state of emergency across the entire country. he said the mesh, it was necessary to maintain security and essential supplies. preneel with grandma sing gay took over these for lankin leadership on friday after the previous president was ousted by mass protests, shortages of fuel, food and medicines have provoked widespread anger. lawmakers are due to elect a new president on wednesday. you watching the w news alive from berlin allows like up. thanks for watching the good morning. how can this passionate hatred of the people be explained to you? on a history of anti semitism is a history of stigmatization and exclusion.