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creek national open artistic program, 2020 to 2023 into the night. a weakness staff whose foundation ah this is d. w. news live from burly in the world. leaders gather for climate talks here in the german capital as europe swell to us in a record heat. wife. wildfires across the mediterranean and hundreds die in the extreme 8 also on the program. a damning report. find systemic failures prevented
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police in texas from stop in one of the worst school shootings in us history. ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. from southern spain to northern britain, europe is sweltering an extreme heat wave. the heat and high winds are stoking massive wildfires. across several countries, and scientists say these extraordinary events, i like the threat of global warming, blazes of destroy property, and vast stretches of france, spain and portugal. hundreds of people died in the record breaking heat and forecast of se there's little prospect of rest bite, u. k not known for hot weather, but this week is proving exceptional. huge crowds are heading to the beaches despite disruption to travel networks. in britain average temperatures in
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july, or in the 20 se, anything approaching 30 counts as a heat wave with the mercury. now nearing 40 and extreme heat warning is in place, even for the north of england. forecast a say on tuesday, the u. k. o time record of $38.00 could be surpassed. to be honest as a meteorologist, to see the brutality of the heat we're expecting tomorrow is quite astounding. and it does worry me. a lot of my colleagues here in the metal face that they're sort of unprecedented. it could be a regular occurrence oriented. britons are not used to extreme heat. so officials are advising the public to take sensible precautions outdoors, in particular, take measures to be hydrated, stay in the shade, you know, do all the things that you would think are all the sort of things you might do on
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a very hot day on holiday overseas health experts are reminding people that extreme heat can be dangerous. we have that balance where we might not see very much good weather and we want to enjoy it. but it's, we're talking about temperatures that we've not experienced in this country if ever, never mind for a long time. our bodies, our houses are culture a, we're pfeifer just not gear doc for. train operators have lowered speed limits, fearing the heat could walk rails with it, and that's disrupting services. so we're going from london to leads to day after day robin looks like i might not get back to to, to day because of the heat. and i won't get back to model new trends to model. while some are preparing for the worst. i'm choosing to say i'm cuz i don't want to get public transport because it's great government work. air cons on putting it
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still going to get home, but others are taking the heat in their stride. is this that and get excited about it? if it breaks, it ain't that the weather is it didn't know what else to talk about. do we really? i correspond jack paragraph, the farmer asher and the south of england told me more about the situation there. so it is incredibly high. i see. so it might get a little bit cooler as the day wore on, but i've just come back outside from the nicely air condition media center i have into the i don't the airfield here and it is boiling. they were saying during the air show a bit earlier today that the runway was probably about 52 degrees celsius here. and indeed, we know that at luton airport, north of london, they've, in fact, closed the rum way because it is so hot and they need to do some repairs there as well. we understand that today is the hottest day in wales in the country of wales
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ever on records. his records began about a 150 years ago that it's 35.3 degrees celsius in flinch up in north wales. right. so we're talking about these record breaking temperatures affecting a normally temperate country, like the u. k, which is just not use and this is it's, it's melting runways and what not then effect infrastructure yet is indeed in the governance of vice. is that they should the people should not travel unless it is absolutely necessary. simply the trains, the buses, the transport infrastructure, but also people's homes and the buildings here in britain on accustomed to not be built to withstand this kind of temperature. these kind of heat that we're going to see for 48 hour period is what the prediction of the met office, which is the, the weather, sort of scientific organization here in, in britain, that's what they're saying that simply, people need to try and ease the pressure on those systems and also the health system because they're worried that for a lot of more vulnerable people,
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especially the elderly, that there could be real issues to do with this heat as well. bearing in mind, people who just don't have air on, in their homes, like in other parts of europe where it does reach these temperatures more frequently. right. so it does sound like some relief is inside but it doesn't need. yeah, like i said, it's a 48 hour period. they predict that on wednesday, that will be about a 10 degrees celsius drop off from $3637.00, which is the temperature as we've been seen throughout the day, even up as far as 40 degrees celsius. but they say that on wednesday i'll go down to somewhere near $26.00 degrees, which is a much more normal. is sort of temperature for, for this, for this part of the world at this time of year feel i can about jack. jack barocha the hombre air show in the south of england will europe's heat wave has brought added urgency to climate talks. hearing berlin un secretary general antonia butera,
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she's urging rich countries to keep their promises to help poor nations deal with global warming. they are here to build trust, the foreign ministers of germany and egypt. the 2 countries are co hosting the to day climate conference to prepare for the next big you and climate summit. in november, germany's alina be, our book says, countries need to redouble their efforts to hit climate targets. dick lee marquez her mats and the climate crisis does not stop at any border, and the climate crisis is now the biggest security threat to all people on this earth. this being the addon via so we will only be able to tackle it together. he came back his them up because the climate crisis does not stop at any border. the response to it must not either. we must intensify our joint efforts. intensive young officials from 40 countries gathered for the summit to disgusting, focused on fighting the increasing impact of climate change. addressing the
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conference in a video message, united nations secretary general antonio gutierrez, urged rich nations to keep their pledges to supply funds to countries hardest hit by the climate crisis. excellencies. this has to be the record of this size. if climate action, that means trust multilateralism and collaboration, we have a choice, collective action or collective suicide. it is in our hands. hope so high that the conference will lay the groundwork for a successful un climate conference in egypt this fall. while the meetings being co hosted by chips and present abdul father al c. c. a german chancellor, olaf shots, asti, w political correspondent in a hazard or what that said in their joint press conference. will they covered lots of ground, obviously, but the egyptian president is here also to attend those climate summit preparation talks. and of course, both countries ever talked
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a lot about the implications of russia's war on ukraine, on their respective countries. the egypt is feeling rising food price is extremely heavily it. it used to import lots of it's wheat from ukraine, that's no longer there. and germany sees egypt as one of the partners with whom it can potentially and diversify its energy supply. so egypt to day again stressed that it would be willing to deliver gas to germany and we're hearing that both countries are working on that very intensively. and that that might happen very soon. nina houser rushes monopoly energy supply gas. prom says it may not be able to guarantee gas supplies to parts of europe. the reuters news agencies reporting that the state controlled energy giant made the declaration early this month. gas prompts as it may be unable to fulfill its supply obligations to the north stream. one pipeline, because of what it said were extraordinary circumstances. gas bombs already reduced
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deliveries to germany. german politicians have dismissed russian explanations as a political gambit. president vladimir savanski has suspended the head of ukraine security service, and the country's prosecutor general of allegations of treason within their organizations says the pair failed to weed out russian collaborators in that department, and that more than 60 former employees in the prosecutor's office on state security services russian occupied areas working against ukraine with some 650 criminal proceedings related to treason, charges have been brought against law enforcement. officials take a look now at small stores or making headlines around the world. the european union has signed a deal to double gas imports from azerbaijan, as a block steps up efforts to find non russian energy suppliers, rushes opponents. a most goes increasingly using natural gas as well for the gauge, the you in response to your sanctions. you foreign ministers of
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agree to further 500000000 euros in military aid to ukraine and meeting in brussels to discuss a further timing of sanctions against russia. but it is a close to agreement to ban imports of russian gold, which is of moscow. second biggest export after energy. zebulon former chief strategies to u. s. president donald trump has gone on trial for contempt is accused of defying a subpoena from the congressional committee investigating the january sick assault on the capital. if convicted, he faces a maximum of 2 years and lawmakers in the united states are sharply criticized. the police responds to one of the countries worst school shootings report from an investigative committee of the texas house of representatives. as a lack of leadership may have contributed to the death of 19 children, and 2 teachers in the city of about a family members of accused authors is,
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are trying to cover up police failures academical 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 send out the investigative report release sunday, set close to $400.00 officials present. feel to prioritize rescue efforts over their own safety. just is 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. 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,
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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 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 to happen to you. oh, to promise you. now, protestors are demanding tight a gun noise. you. although congress did g act do decent mass shootings by adding restrictions on guns is the noodles 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 protesters see with for now that stricter action is needed. now,
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gunshot wound to the head, a head, cook ne washington told me more about the report. well, the, the really crossing message coming out of this is that there was failure at all levels reaching back into the structure of the police itself. and it paints a picture of utter chaos on the scene, almost $400.00 police offices. many of them heavily armed, were alerted, several dozen we saw on the scene in that security footage. and at the same time, a sense of paralysis. a lot of more than 70 minutes. this whole thing lasted just to illustrate of more than a 140 sorts. a 142 rounds fired 100 were fired by the a gunman. before the police actually entered, the room entered the scene, and the report concludes that although they don't have the exact medical evidence,
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there is a clear suggestion that out of the 21 victims 19 of them children. some could have survived if there hadn't been an hour of nothing happening. it points to us a chaos at the scene, and the police at the scene putting their own safety above the lives of the innocent victims. so really crossing condemnation of what happened while at the same time saying that there was no ill will detected. it was the assa chaos lack of leadership and information. because mckayla cooper in washington, that's it. europe with high school is establishing and she g, president of the poor join on any criticism of his regime.

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