ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, a security shake up and ukraine presidents lensky fires, 2 of his top officials saying they were not doing enough to stop their staff colluding with russia. also coming up a nation wide state of emergency is declared in sri lanka,

a move the new acting president says is needed to maintain security and address crippling supply shortages and 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, i'm sorry, kelly. welcome to the program. ukraine's president volota mayor zalinski has fired 2 senior officials, the chief of the domestic security agency, and the top state prosecutor polanski cited hundreds of criminal proceedings against their offices, employees, assuming men, including cases of treason and collaboration with russia. neither even backing off the now former spine chief nor arena vanity cova. the countries 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. and our correspond it funny for char is in key of there's talk of trees in there. funny how big of a shock is this? a very big shock because we are talking about top law enforcement officials and apparently members of their offices, hundreds of cases. in fact, apparently of possible treason and calibration, russia, the people asking themselves how is it possible that the state prosecutor, for example, it couldn't avoid this from happening if it really happened. because we have to see obviously how these criminal investigations we move on when it comes to the had of the security office. basically, he was already on the scrutiny from the beginning of the invasion. so people are a bit less surprised when it comes to that figure. but when he comes to the state,

prosecutor, really that woman is the face of a trying to make sure that justice will be served when he comes to all this atrocities that have been committed in many parts of ukraine, especially in boucher. she accompanied so many politicians just in may when i was here last time, she company to the german 4 minister bab walk through a bush and so many other journalists showing them. look, this is what happened to people here on the ground, and we need your support to make sure the justice will be served and those held accountable that stand accused of having committed these crimes. russia namely, now her office and members of office stand accused of collaborating with russia. so really people are wondering, really, is that rudy true and then again, why now? why is it now that president lensky? may this announcement 5 months into the wall? so what else is there to, to calm but also what else is there that ukraine in do not know yet? that may or may have not happened when it comes to potential calibration read to

russia? and if any, it also raises the question, what does that tell us that 5 months into this war, key of appears to be struggling with so many cases of its own officials working with the russians? is the country maybe not as unified against moscow as many believed this situation or this, these cases i, that, that as a lensky a spoke about, a possible collaboration. it certainly exposes a vulnerability, 1st and foremost, when it comes to the stability of this country on the security level. how information is shared, who has the power of sharing information, and actually basically a collaborating with the enemy. so it does expose a level of weakness where you see it's not just about supporting ukraine with weapons, but what about the domestic stability within the ranks of politicians within the ranks of law enforcement agencies? it exposes a weakness, they, because if this really was possible, that hundreds of cases approved to be true in terms of collaborating with russia.

it also says that russia really manages to infiltrate very important a offices of ukraine. and of course, it comes to the very delicate time when russia prepares their offensive in the don't bus region, stepping out the operations today, but also the hockey region and towards the south. whereas you cradle schools, it's trying to pull together make sure that that morale is booth that somehow still and soldiers are ready for a counter offensive. now this news is happening right now as ukraine is preparing for that counter offensive. so really, the question also is how soldiers on the front lines are going to react to it? wondering, okay, who do we trust? now if the office of the state prosecutor, for example, is accused of wrongdoing, funding for char and key f. thank you. and our next report now is a rare look at life in occupied areas of eastern ukraine. russian forces allowed

a group of western journalists to toward the don boss region, including the cities of less, he chanced and mar. you, paul. this dispatch 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's all weeks of fierce fighting. that trip is organized by the russian military, which now controls large areas of eastern and southern ukraine. lucy chanced lives 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 is russia, or sidney and see 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 webpage. 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 its support for ukraine won't succeed. the southern city of mario full gained notoriety during heavy bombardments. now russia is building a hospital and housing for 2 and a half 1000 people here. the apartments are being built 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 don't boss region and an end to the fighting is not in sight. residents face more danger in the coming months. and i'm

joined now by military analyst and former british army officer, mike martin, who joins us with the view from london. mike, what we saw there was essentially a p r pushed by russia to show it's in control of the dumb boss and the course of the war. does that reflect the military reality as you see it? i think the military reality is that they're having to pay offices and build hospitals because they destroyed those cities in the 1st place. i think this is fairly normal for occupying armies to do these sorts of activities. what i think we should do is view your recent reports within the context of the operational cause. the rush has been on for the last 10 days. so they have been regrouping, trying to get less supplies back together, trying to sort out their depleted manpower. they've suffered lots of casualties and because of that they haven't been doing any military offensives. so this gives them a chance to do some of the activities that you showed in your recent reports. the

other thing that i think are important is over this operational cause. over the last 10 days, we've started to see the ukrainians use the artillery, the rocker artillery that the west has donated to it over the last month or so. and that starting to have a real effect and hitting russian supply. and we've seen in the meantime, i just like to bring our viewers attention to the barrage of russian attacks on civilian targets in recent days. some far away from the front lines. what should we make of that? i think that if you are striking civilian targets, then you are not striking military targets. and so again, i think it fits into this idea that the russians have taken 10 days out of the war to regroup and restock. but of course, while they're doing that, they want to demonstrate that they are still relevant. and so

a fairly easy way to do that is to throw on guided missiles into civilian areas. but i think because they're hitting civilian targets, not military targets. these attacks will have absolutely no strategic consequence for the war whatsoever. so where do you then see the war going from here? especially considering that neither side has reported huge gains in recent weeks. so where we are now the races on until winter, we have about 3 or 4 months until the ground starts to freeze. it becomes muddy. it becomes very difficult to move. at the same time in europe, people are going to be turning on their heating because it is very cold outside. and of course that gives russia a great lever. so both sides are trying to capitalize on gains or, or to improve on gains before the winter. and for the russians. that means a further push in the east. they would like to take don, yes, which is the other is the 2nd province in the dumbass region. and,

and ukrainians announced that they were making a push in the south in curse on zalinski said last week he was putting together a 1000000 man army to retake the south. and so those will be the $0.02 of activity over the next few months. mike martin military analyst, thank you so much. thank you. despite ukraine's outward shell of strength and resilience, frontline trips suffer not only physical wounds but also psychological. once he w, as nic spicer, visited a treatment center and the countryside outside of the capital cave, that helps them recover from both kinds of war injuries. while oh, so rifleman, alexi shift jenko worked in construction before the russian invasion. within weeks he was on the front lines in the east, under constant massive artillery fire. he says he would fall to the ground for cover, take out his phone. and amid the deafening blast swipe to a photo of daniel, his 7 year old boy, back in the capital,

the bananas there was those boy blue. so what was it was when i looked at my fun before going to bed and understood that if the russian soldiers were not stopped where i was, they could reach key again was to the buddha, was that what i thought of my boy and asked myself, will someone else raise my son, is it possible as well? minimal a looks. he didn't want to go into details, but we'll say he suffered a concussion and had a nervous breakdown. he is one of a 150 patients of the rehabilitation center who's location we were asked to keep secret, so it wouldn't be targeted. some supper from post traumatic stress, a psychological problem, and others from traumatic brain injuries damage which can be caused by the blast, way of explosions. symptoms for both include suicidal thoughts, depression insomnia into anger, occupancy. a door slam or firecracker can trigger the terrifying feeling you are under fire again. alexi is here for 3 weeks of psychotherapy group discussions,

walks and massages. he says he'll abide by the doctor's decision about whether he should return to balloon when he got, we'll know what the hell us over history soldiers returning from war have described often feeling a sense of stigma from society, an inability to understand where they're going through and a rejection of what they're feeling, but that's not all the case here in ukraine, according to the director of this institute. unless he had only believe in victory in the power strength and experience of our soldiers. every loss will be in the heart of every ukrainian know that i think that helps them if well, the beliefs that we are here yet when were you standing behind them? so, as soon as there are people who respect them immensely, and are proud of them as a channel for which i, it is very important for them to know about this little and we constantly tell them we're seeing them horrible busting the medicine killed one thing,

but it is maxime is in explosives expert and has been fighting since 2014, when russia annexed crimea, and parts of the east. he likes looking at the murals at the center to lift his morale, that he suffers from combat related stress. this at home worth of toil on here we're working with psychologist helps a long period. if a person is whole, which has arms and legs, it does not mean that everything is normal with the person. so put out his psyche is disturb little's little shy of successmaker. maxime says he is burdened by many memories, like when his men moved into a town just occupied by the russians, who had shot people, attached explosives to their bodies, and buried them on the counter. this was a whore, them surrounded her daughter herbs, and the old one. afterwards. this local people wanted us to work faster. what of sir? they kept asking us to go from one yard lives to another. no, it took us 3 days to clean all the yards and gardens. in this village, sir, huddled we were lodging that we found

a total of 5 buried bodies. the theatre that were booby trapped system that you mr . maxime says, his men call him every day. they want to come back, he says he knows it will be hard to return, but that he must sri lanka is acting president, has declared a state of emergency across the entire country. he said the measure was necessary to maintain security and essential supplies. runny wick rama singer took over the sri lankan leadership on friday after the previous president was ousted by mass protest, shortages of fuel food and medicine. had provoked widespread anger. lawmakers are due to elect a new president on wednesday. and d, w se, asia bureau chief, i'm re, to chima, is entry lunk as capital colombo, and explained what the state of emergency means on this extraordinary gazette which was passed by the interior of acting president. james,

enhanced by i was to all the security forces and this means the police as well as the army police. and once i've been here and i present a lot of for just i would have been deployed. if you look behind me lurking in the shadows, not an army, so just me and is ready to avoid what happened last week. if you remember, the plan is just ugly scene stuffers broke out tear, gas was tired. now bad. i'm a senior, the acting president said she's going to stop just elements taking over these. and by that he met change elements, radical fringe elements, trying to keep things hijacked. what is essentially these project? and i'm marita, we understand security as tight as parliament chooses a new president. how high mean time is the risk of fresh protest that really just the outcome election?

embodiment if wanting to end this for the post president, the idea of was a unit you got given the situation at the moment. the opposition is both the same divided by the maximum number seats in volume. and right now is what i've checked in part. that makes the president new victim a single appeal favorite to wind up with. many of the test is i don't happy with that point, but the other 2 believe is the only one who has the will be going to pull the entry back from this brink of economic chaos because he knows how to deal with b i m f and i am have bailout, will be needed to secure the future. ok, so given that i'm marita, how are the events of recent days playing into the economic crisis? would you say pretty significantly, i've been deployed, take all these days. people are finding the economic bench very,

very strong. there is not enough fuel here. there's not enough food prices going, god going up. inflation is said to be 50 percent and it got the safe way to go up to 70 percent. economy is contracted by 6 percent. the situation is very dive for this. me put in the long it a for a government to come in power, which is able to actually put it on the policies in place. the more impatient people are getting, the reports at a new fuel shipment is arriving in the country that today or tomorrow people need the drop off fuel that they can get because it's impacting every aspect of their life. i'm ready to cim. i thank you so much. i'm rita is d w as south asia bureau chief. joining us with the view from the sri lankan capital, colombo, lawmakers in the us state of texas have released a damning report on the police response to a school shooting in the city of you valley. and 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 academically and agree justly poor. this is how lawmakers in texas described the police response to the you body school shooting that claimed 21 lives security video footage short, heavily armed officers standing by for 77 minutes. ah, even shot, sang out the investigative report, released 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 or in that building new or should have known there was dying in that classroom. and they should have done more active with urgency.

tried the door handles, try to go into the windows, trying 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, valley, 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 up to you. oh, the prob it's you. now protesters a demanding tight a gun. no. oh, look, fungus, dingy act to decent. my shootings, my adding restrictions on guns is the new duluth would not have stopped the shooter

at your body. any dina owned with nor reported history of violence. all the more reason these protesters see with that stricter action is needed. now, gunshot wound to the head, south africa is grappling with a surgeon, gun violence. the problem was put in the spotlight after 3 separate shootings in one week and left 22 people dead. and all 3 incident suspects opened. fire on people in bars before speeding off in vehicles. south africa has strict a 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 we, one of the recent tavin shootings took place. people are terrorized unless is it 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 would go about double up turned abominable middle. i would like her government to go door to door and collect all the legal firearms and arrest those found with the legal firearms that should work . day and night visit all the shacks and houses here and over because we often get mugged, nicole wasn't o'sullivan visiting the communities affected by the recent shooting attacks. the countries police minister promised more police presence to those on 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 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 wide problems in the country, including corruption in the police service. europe is feeling the likely effects of climate change as more scorching heat, hudson from the united kingdom. 2 points. further south temperatures are forecast to approach or exceed 40 degrees celsius. hundreds of people have already dived 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 and portugal, italy, and in greece. for a week,

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. it is an 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 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 we're just not set up for that social age in this country. but authorities 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. as europe witnesses, another summer of raging wildfires, a telecom company has pitched an idea to help detect and stop them faster. the world's 1st smart forest. the trees in the sardinian woods are outfitted with special sensors. they're designed to detect the beginning of forest fires. and the biggest things happening in climate change at the moment is forest fires across the

world. and ultimately, the solution which we're deploying will prevent forest fires from happening in the future. the smart technology provides a critical advantage over current fire detection system was really simple to and you can use satellite imagery so that can take up to a month for those satellite images to come back. or you can use cameras within a sort of forest area. so that can take hours before you notice the smoking fire. the detection is done here or at the smouldering state so much earlier on, and you can detect fi within minutes rather than with in hours those days. this region in southern italy suffered a series of catastrophic wildfires last year. the centers could prevent that from ever happening again. they talked to one another and to a cloud based alert center at the edge of the forest. despite being a vodafone product, they don't need cellular coverage. they run on solar energy and there's plenty of it here on the sunny italian island of sardinia. while it's hot here in the

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