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ah, he's in 77 years after the holocaust hatred towards jews is still pervasive. a history of anti semitism this week on d w. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, a security shake up in ukraine. president the landscape fires 2 of his top officials saying they weren't doing enough to stop their staff colluding with russia. also coming up a nation wide, state of emergency is declared inch long. that a move, the new acting president says is needed to maintain security and address crippling
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supply shortages. plus, huge wildfires burned across the mediterranean fuel by a record breaking heat wave. hundreds have died from the effects of the high temperatures. and now the extreme heat is moving north ah, ukraine's president below to merge the lensky has fired to senior officials, the chief of the domestic security agency, and the state. the top state prosecutor, the lansky, cited hundreds of criminal proceedings against their offices, employees, including cases of treason, watch, and collaboration with russia. now neither yvonne buck, a nova, the now former spy chief, nor irina van
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d cova. the country's ex prosecutor general have commented. the decision comes as ukrainian and british military officials claim russian forces are regrouping and preparing for their next offensive in both eastern and southern ukraine. correspondence money for char has the view. now from key a funny there's, there's talk, as we've heard here, of treason in these 2 office says how big of a shock is this? it's quite big of a shock as she talked to people this morning who walk up to this new stance. zalinski already a she had yesterday via social media. last night. you're talking about top law enforcement officials the way it comes to the had of the security service. he was already on the scrutiny pretty much from the beginning of the invasion. but when he comes to the prosecutor general that so people are really shocked. i mean you have to know she's the one who basically became the phase 2 on earth injustice. for
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example, what happened in boucher, i remember myself in may the last time i was here. then she accompanied the german 4 minutes to babble through butch and so many other politicians and journalists and, and showing them. this is really the atrocities happens, that russia fence accused off. and no she herself. the general prosecutor of this country stands accused of collaboration with russia and allegedly prison. so this is a big news. a big shocking used to many people because they are wondering, 1st of all, why is this coming now? 5 months into this war? and what else is there and ukraine? these are gone to the government and potentially stability there, that people do not know. it definitely comes at a very, very delicate time. the lead, last thing that you pray meets now is instability on a domestic level within the political ranks where they need to fight off and fanned off what many comes to the russian ongoing aggression and the ongoing war against this country. and given that fund, i mean, what does it tell us that 5 months now into this work here appears to be struggling
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with so many cases of its own officials working with the russians? i mean, this is, this is not the country maybe as unified as has been expressed externally. you really wonder where the country stands? because if really this proves to be true, because of course, let's not jump to conclusions yet. however, people are asking themselves really, what does it say about other challenges other than the war being forward on the battlefield? what about the challenges when it comes to information and who is, who has the power over exchanging information that may backlash for the ukrainian as security apparatus per se? so it definitely exposes, if this proved to be true, assume level of weakness of, for ukraine when it comes to the level of infiltration. and if this proved to be true, we're talking about hundreds of quite cases alleges cases away i calibration, it may be the case, but russian forces, if, if this really proved to be true,
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then it says something about a level of weakness of ukraine. when it comes to infiltration by russia, that nobody may have expected. and as i say this coming 5 months into the wall really makes you wonder, what else is there to come? and now obviously, given the fact that russia is repairing and offensive every new offensive along the front lines from the don bus region to the south, but also the frontline towards hockey region. you want to what information do they actually have that is based on information that was allegedly given to them by your training authorities. so a very delicate situation coming at the problem of the worst timing that there is right now as ukraine analysis. if you're trying to start to counter offensive and make sure that they can take back a pause if you grade that are no currency controlled by russia funding for char in key of thank you. funny. she long as acting president has declared
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a state of emergency across the entire country. he said the measure was necessary to maintain security and essential supplies by mail with rama singer took over the 3 long in leadership on friday after the previous president was ousted by mass protest, shortages of food, fuel and medicine have provoked widespread anger. lawmakers are due to elect a new president on wednesday. and let's bring in dw south asia bureau chief. i'm right that cima, who is joining me from the sri lankan capital, colombo, i'm marita. what powers does this emergency declaration given the sri lankan authorities? extraordinary cause that which was passed by the interior of acting president, enhanced by ours to all the security forces. and this being the police as well as the army. the police said what wants to be and i present for just once have been deployed. if you look behind me knocking in the shadows, not if ami,
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so would just be an israeli avoid what happened last week if you remember. if i missed this ugly scene, stuff was broke out. the gas was fired and i bet, let me become a single, the active prejudice should go to stop elements taking over these. by that he bench strange element, the radical fringe elements who are trying to keeping hijacked, what is essentially a project. and i'm, or it's a, we understand security as tight as parliament chooses a new president. how high meantime is the risk of fresh protest that was really the outcome nixon in parliament if will contain this, the 1st rather than the idea was a unity. but given the situation at the moment, the opposition is divided with a maximum number insoluble right now. is that by shot in that makes
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them a senior appeal favorite when the edge of it. now many of the professors i don't happy with that poor, but the i'm going to believe is the only one who has to go to the country back them just bring back and. ready know how to deal with the i m f, and i miss bailout will be needed secure the future. okay, so given that i'm ready to, how are the events of recent days playing into the economic crisis? would you say pretty significant. been ripple take all these days. people are finding the economic french very, very strong. there's not enough fuel here. there's not enough food prices going got going up inflation. it said to be 50 percent, an economist, it's going to go up to 70 percent. it's gotta be on the same situation is very
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dive for the longer for government to come in power, which is able to actually put it on the policy in place. the more impatient people are getting. the reports of a new fuel shipment is arriving in the country today or tomorrow. people need to be dropped where they can get because it seems i think every i'm ready to tina. thank you so much. i'm ready to is d w. south asia bureau chief, joining us with the view from the sri lankan capital colombo. let's look at some other stories making headlines around the world. floods triggered by torrential rain, have killed at least 12 people in the south are for profits of sudan. at least 100 houses in camps for displaced, people are damaged or destroyed. the united nations refugee agency is coordinating 8 efforts french president. emanuel mach wrong,
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has been leading commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the round up of jewish residence during the nazi occupation. the 1942 french police carried out german orders to arrest some 13000 people. many were later deported to nazi death camps. serbia's foreign ministry has criticized croatia for refusing to allow the serbian president alexander voltage to visit a world war 2 concentration camp. pro nazi authorities killed tens of thousands of serbs at the janice and novak camps ought to be. 3 people had been killed. 2 others wounded in a mass shooting in the us state of indiana. the gunman opened fire in a shopping mall before caleb being killed by an armed bystander. police say the motive is still unclear. lawmakers in the us state of texas have released a damning report on the police response to a school shooting in the city of vall,
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d it 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 have accused the authorities of trying to cover up police failures, nadisa kill 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,
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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 spell the 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 said sir and thinks about this things cuz it doesn't happen to them. i promise you, i promise you, you do not want this to happen to you. out of province you. now, protestors are demanding date a gun noise. although ponderous, dingy,
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act duties and mast shootings, my adding restrictions on guns is the new duluth would not have thought the shooter at your royalty an 18 year old with nor reported history of violence. if you walk all the more reason these protestors see with that stricter action is needed, now gunshot wound to the head and let's turn now to some others. europe is feeling the likely effects of climate change as more scorching heat sets n from the united kingdom. 2 points further, south temperatures are forecast to approach or exceed 40 degrees celsius. hundreds of people have already died from the record breaking conditions, and they are also a factor for wild fires blazing across several countries. like it's burning in france, spain, in portugal, italy, and in greece for a week,
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wild fires have raged across southern europe. several firefighters have died in the line of duty, and thousands of residents have had to flee their homes with it isn't especially difficult summer. we are dealing with very considerable drought you to insufficient rainfall over the winter and 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
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these conditions. experts are warning that thousands could die. this is seriously that could actually ultimately ending in people's death because it is so ferocious which is not set up for that soul agent, 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 of next world stories. thank you so much for watching p w needs with ah, will you become a criminal m franklin? i already knows with pickers paralyze entire societies.

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