associates of trying to cover ra felice failure. this is dw news from berlin. you'll find much more on our website that is d, w dot com. ah, hundreds of people are dead and thousands have been evacuated from their homes as a ferocious heat wave burns up europe. what started with scorching temperatures and devastating wildfires in the south of the continent has now made its way north for the 1st time ever, the u. k has triggered a red heat alert warning of record breaking and life threatening temperatures. people in france meanwhile, are told to brace for what's being dubbed a heat apocalypse article for elation. berlin and this is the day ah, i'm protecting, so i'm used to reheat by real and we've been here for 25 years and we've never

known it like this yet. we're talking about temperatures that we've not experienced in this country. are going to stay inside the air conditioning or bodies, or houses or culture. a way of life is just not pure docked for it. more than 400 casualties here are being caused by this a heat wave. that is a sign of course, the calmness of huge concern for the future. this sort of president the repeat regular current again. oh, also coming up an hour of chaos, a damning new report into the police response to a school shooting and texas now backed up by hours of disturbing body. can footage really good in a distance child colon with the victims? ah, our viewers around the world. good to have you with us. europe is feeling the heat

on monday temperatures in many places, surpassed 40 degrees celsius. that's 104 degrees fahrenheit. the record breaking heat wave is putting nature, wildlife, and people at risk. hundreds of especially elderly people have already died as a consequence of the extreme heat. the soaring temperatures are also fueling intense wildfires, tearing through huge areas of france, grease, portugal, spain, and italy. many of these areas have also been suffering from severe drought, something affecting over half of each territory. at this moment, scientists say climate change is largely to blame for unusually hot and dry conditions. the united kingdom, better known for its mild summers, is on course for the hottest stay on record. in britain average temperatures in 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. full cost to say on tuesday, the u. k. o time record of $38.00, could be surpassed. to be honest and mutual to just to see the brutality of the heat that we're expecting tomorrow is quite astounding. and it does worry me a lot of my colleagues here in the back office that they sold present. it could be a regular current orient, 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. now, do all the things that you would think are all the sort of things you might do on 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 aware pfeiffer, just not gear doc for it. train operators have lowered speed limits, fearing the heat could walk rails with it, and that's disrupting services. among them to lead 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 say i'm cuz i don't want to get public transport because it's great going to work. air competing, you've still got to get home. but others are taking the heat in their stride. is this stuff and get excited about it? if they break city i the weather. he just didn't know what else to talk about doing

really well our d. w correspondence have been out in quite literally the hot spots of europe today . first up is jack paris and the okay. across different parts of the size of the united kingdom is going up well, pos, $35.00 degrees, $36.00 at heathrow airport. and the new record has been set in wales at 5035.3 degrees celsius, the hottest a ever on record in a 150 years in wales. so it's very, very hot. there's a red extreme heat warning across the whole of the country. i won't be would say a cool to protect themselves on to stay hydrated. well, it's really all hands on deck because where ever you look right now in the west, in the south, in the north, in the east there off fires and you never know when the next one is happening. so it's a very quick situation, and it's very difficult to tackle these spies under these conditions or that temperatures that are unusually high,

like up to the mid forties in some areas. and there's also wind and it's very dry. so the firefighters really have all of their stuff on the ground trying the best. the government is warning that people should stay inside, that they should drink a lot. they shouldn't do any intense sports. and everybody's obviously thinking of 2003. when you look back, that was a very, very intense heat way at the time. and at the time, more than 19000 people died here in france. and my view for one's actually france, please, a bit like great written the main topic here is no longer food, eats the weather. while europe swelter is envoys from around 40 nations are meeting here and berlin for 2 days of talks aimed at addressing the root cause of this extreme weather climate crisis. the talks are designed to build trust between rich and poor nations. ahead of the un climate summit in egypt, this november un secretary general antonia would cherish warned that the target

agreed of the 2015 paris climate accord of limiting global warming to $1.00 degrees celsius was slipping. further and further out of reach. germany's foreign minister to stressed that the time for action is running out in europe. we have 8 years left to almost half global emission. that's the commitment we made in glasgow. we need more renewables and energy efficiency to safeguard not only climate, but to safeguard our energy security. renewable energy is also freedom. energy. we continued to fee though a fossil fuel addiction. what troubles me most is that in facing these global crazes, we are failing to work together as a multilateral community. we have a choice collective action on collective suicide. while the german chancellor, olaf shaw's expressed concern over what he called

a renaissance of fossil energy because of the war in ukraine, germany is planning to reactivate old coal fired power plants to meet its energy needs. and we asked, will this lead to a setback for the climate here is global warming expert sonia's in of europe. yes, this is certainly a problem. i think it depends busy now long. this is saddening for us. so frances is just basically, is, is here because we now in a transition phase, while also of course we have a less gas available than it could be. okay. but if we were to be using coal for several years, and it's going to be to have really serious consequences on the climate i mentioned before he 3 of are becoming more frequent, more intense. so if we look at a number of days that we have a number of years when we ever hot is an event that would have happened once every 10 years or now 3 times more likely. and at $1.00 decrease, it would be 4 times more likely to live with happen 4 times every 10 years. and it

to degrees it with that and 6 times every 10 years. that means a majority of summer's would be extremes. ah, now moving on to ukraine, where president followed amir, the lensky has suspended the head of the security services and the chief prosecutor and launched an investigation into acts of treason, allegedly happening under their watch. the 2 close allies of the landscape were running agencies were staff stand accused of collaborating with russia in some 650 cases, also been bullied don't in his nightly address to the nation president, florida, muse lensky delivered a bombshell of 2 of its most trusted official, suspended for failing to wheat, collaborate as hundreds of subordinates charged with treason. but he monthly such an array of crimes against the foundations of the states national security and the links recorded between ukrainian security forces. officials and russians. special services raises very serious questions about their respective leaders, yoga bang,

w, but mean getting each of these questions will receive a proper response. now, liz moleed, today, i have taken the decision to dismiss the prosecutor general and the head of the ukrainian security service, all swooning. eloise limits play go great. even because of a childhood friend of the lensky added the s b. u, ukraine's powerful state security service. meeting of an antique tova was serving as the country's prosecutor general. she led the investigation into russian war crimes that followed from the atrocities in places like boucher and helping ukraine had long suffered from russian infiltration of his state apparatus. since the start of the invasion, politicians, officials, and ordinary members of the public have been arrested on suspicion of being spies of sabotage. this latest crackdown is the most severe, yet hinting at the scale of the problem with russia targeting ukrainian cities on

a daily basis. the fear of russia, the 5th column, is ever present. unless i go along to robin bargain, i gave the member of the german parliament for the green party and is currently in cave. mister wagner, you've spent the day speaking to m. p. 's and the mayor of keith. how worried are they about the danger posed by ukrainians, aiding and abetting the russians? yeah, of course the danger is present in the city and it's, it's very disturbing to see a city with a kind of sometimes a normal city life like it could be in burden or unique paris. and then around the corner we see the preparations for war. he and kia and some kilometers for, from here, the horse in butcher. and we have seen that. and of course it's, it's totally necessary that we as the western community and also we have germany is support ukraine against this russian war of elation. and this came totally clear from all departments. we spoke with you from parliamentarians,

from members of government and also from the mail that german had is necessary. and that would be very good for us to provide either they have to provide the hope on the way to european union, which was one of the topics we've talked about integration partnership. but in order for that to really work, we need to have ukraine defend their existence, and that means helping them military need. yeah, from what you are hearing there. do people think the international community is doing nearly enough to help push back the russian aggression? actually what we heard is that modern weapons that have been delivered in the last weeks really make a difference on the meta feel like multiple rockets launching systems. they are really helpful for ukrainians, but there are not enough of them. so there is the necessity to deliver more than we heard about. so just so i wound and kill on the way better feel because there is no

protection on the transport. so definitely better also necessity that needs to be provided by western allies. what are you in particular after you've been there after you have spoken to people think should be done and by, by your country, by germany in particular. i think we should definitely do 2 things. the one thing is to help you crane on its way to europe in union membership with integration partnership on all levels on municipal level, on level off the federal state of the state than germany, and also on national level between ukraine and germany. the one thing and the other thing is do as much as we can to supply ukraine, also with heavy weapons, which the one to talk voted on in to motions. and we should look every day for possibilities to support ukraine as much as we can on that you're traveling back to germany right after this interview. what new insights about ukraine and about cube, and about the situation the people you've met,

will you be taking home with you? yeah, we would, we would take this picture of a city that is definitely a european city. and one of us with us in the city that is in war here and a country that is in war. and that is up to us to support ukraine because they are fighting for democracy and also for our youth and our safety as well as it's necessary for us to defeat the rest of the aggression in ukraine in order not to have it spread all around other countries, so these are the messages that we take from from here, and we'll spread them as much as we can in talking in german society wagner. he's a member of the german parliament for the green party. thank you for your time and faith, trouble, and other ukraine news. british intelligence said today that russia was using the wagner mercenary group to reinforce its troops and ukraine. the private military contractor is meant to often save for high russian casualties and manpower

shortages on the front line. intelligence update also says wagner has lowered its recruitment standards, meaning they're now accepting convicts and other formally blacklisted individuals. as can talking about these intelligence reports. i'm bring in mar, can see, and he's a retired u. s. marine colonel, and now a senior advisor with the center for strategic and international studies. mr. canada, and welcome to the day. let's start with a bit of background. what is the wagner group and who's behind it? wagner group is a collection of organizations that provide mercenaries for the worship. government has begun by a fellow name. you've gainey, pig corrosion. he was putting chef after a life in crime spent some time in prison, but he's very close to putting an acts as an arm of the russian government, particularly the russian, russian intelligence services. and they have conducted operations all over the

world and dozens of places where the russians want visibility. deniability. yet they've been active in a number of countries. molly libya, syria, from experience, how effective of fighting force are they? will they make a difference in ukraine? well, like most contracted personnel and mercenaries, they, the personnel have traditionally had military training, so they tend to be quite effective. wagner also has a training camp located next to a russian special forces camps that improves their training. so as a result, they tend to be up in quite effective. what makes them particularly useful is their willingness to conduct a close combat. the russians have lost a lot of their best infantry. they were short on infantry from the very beginning of the infantry like paratroopers who were very i came about the units i had been

lost, vog 2 will provide some substitute for those losses. this report that came out. and today's the jest, that longer is lowering recruitment standards and reducing training time for new recruits. what do you think could be the implications of that? well, this just happened all military's when they started taking casualties for in long wars is not surprising that that might be true of wagner taking in some lower quality personnel, maybe some personnel who aren't terribly well trained. they may also be a victim of their success in the sense that the russian government has turned them in for help and they've expanded their operations. but that meant what tends to make them less effective. this also a problem about accountability that is, that contracted personnel tend to be less accountable because they don't work directly for the government. and when you bring in local the people, you're liable for atrocities. and fucker certainly accused those in the past. the

fact that russia is now resorting to the wagner group at what does that say about the state of the kremlin regular forces? well, the regular forces have taken a lot of casualties, and the russians could scrambling to replace those casualties. they've called up a lot of reserve, as they brought in personnel from units all over russia, and they've offered very large bonuses for personnel who will either stay on active duty or come back on active duty. this is a part of that effort. it brought in syria and say, brought in chechnya ins, and now there are increasing the number of law to personnel to try to replace the the casually toothache suffered or can't in of the center for strategic and international studies. thank you so much for your time and all those inside. glad to join you ah, lawmaker is that in the us state of texas, have released a damning preliminary report on the police response to

a school shooting in the city of your body. and may, the findings were presented to the victims, relatives who accused the authorities of trying to cover up police failures. hours of new camera footage have further highlighted the chaotic response of the elementary school were nearly $400.00 long foresman officers. some of them heavily armed, stood by while the gunmen continued his killing spree inside. it was more than an hour before officers finally entered the classrooms and killed the should. 21 people were found dead inside 19 children and 2 teachers. the report accused of law enforcement agents of putting their own safety before the lives of those under attack. you know, there is active shooting, active, killing, going on, or somebody is die. the standard is you have to continue to do something to stop that killing or stop that dial die that day. several officers in the hallway

or in that building new, or should have known there was dying in that classroom. the report also says that with so many officers from different agencies at the scene sticking to protocol and defining a clear leadership structure, could have prevented the loss of life in a number of cases. not all of them, the mayor of you've all the explained that it was still unclear. we're all of it went wrong. we have further questions as to who was responsible for taking command as each agency there, as senior level commanders on site. so we want to know which agency took what specific action to take command and where did the critical breakdown we keep talking about this with d. w corresponding shayla. griggs now who's in washington? mckayla, the preliminary report test a systemic failure by law enforcement in response to the attack. what are the biggest shortcomings that have been identified so far of to put it in

a nutshell. the biggest fold coming is that there was also a chaos just minutes after the attack that there was no real leadership and that the offices who arrived at the scene didn't adhere to the most basic principles of the own, the training that they had received. and this led to more than 5070 minutes passing . it led to utter confusion over whether they really are victims still at risk. and there were moments that were shared on the body counts that were released over the weekend. some officials released them against legal advice of doing so, including the mayor of alda at that showed that there was a sense of complete surprise that this was not a suitor who had barricaded himself inside the school. but who was actually in a classroom with children and even then precious time, still ticked away until that was help for these children. and while the report says

that there was no medical evidence that lives could have been saved by acting much faster, it did appear just logical that that indeed was the case. the report also reveals that the attacker was known by some of his peers as school shooter. at what else did investigators find out about him? yes, this goes back to reports by people who befriended him, particularly online that he had a fascination with school shootings. but he also googled words like so sue path. some felt that he was an angry man that he potentially had issues. there might have been some sense of recognition of that he lived with his grandmother, whom he sought and wounded before heading to the school, where he was a form of pupil. and there were reports that he had experienced bullying there for at the school a previously having said all of that, none of these individual elements really lead up to any kind of investigation him

really sticking out. because there was no political motivation or no religious motivation behind that, that would have raised alarms. how has this preliminary report been received? find the community in you valley where people are of course, still grieving. well, the father of a 9 year old killed in that attack called it disgusting. that is a huge sense of still grief, of course, and frustration that the police would have failed so terribly at all levels. including at the federal level that the whole oversight mechanism didn't work that there really was nothing to protect the children of that community. and that also means that these a relative certainly won't rest. this is an interim report a by lawmakers there. so more is to be expected,

more potentially will be revealed. and i would only expect this to be the beginning of a potential legal challenge to the authorities. although not necessarily to individual offices there because that's also something one finds in the report that there was no sense that there was malice or an in ill intent. but that was just simply a case that shouldn't have been gun rights advocates in the us often say all it takes to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. presumably in your volley there were 400 good guys with guns. how is all this being perceived by those who say guns are necessary for personal protection? well, the dust received backing for that theory because there was a shooting, of course, in the indiana in a shopping mall where several people were killed. but it could have been a lot worse unless a 22 year old who happened to be sitting there having dinner,

pulled out his own gun and stopped that attacker. so that is the counter example, but it's just simply apparent that lots of guns and few checks on those who purchased guns, particularly young men who seemed to be the main perpetrators in the shooting, simply cannot be a good idea. this is a highly politicized tough for here in the united states. we can keep that in washington. many thanks. on the day is almost done, but the conversation continues online. you'll find us on twitter, either at dw news, or you can follow me. nicole underscore for us tomorrow, we'll be back with more until then me and the entire team here in our newsrooms in berlin. he's so much for spending parts of your day.

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