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a known heat like this? yeah, we're talking about temperatures that we've not experienced in this country. are going to stay inside the air conditioning, or bo days, or houses or culture, a way of life is just not being docked for it. more than 400 casualties here are being caused by these a heat wave is a song of course to calmness of concern for the future. they sort of president the groupie regular currents. 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? hold on, just with 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 wild fires, tearing through huge areas of france, greece, 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 day 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 folk off to say on tuesday, the u. k. all time record of 38.7 could be surpassed. be honest as a mutual 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 metal face that they sort of president, 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 there, do all the things that you would think of the things you might do on a very hot day on holiday overseas. how, thanks. but i reminding people that extreme heat can be dangerous. we have about balance where we might not see very much good weather and we want to enjoy it. but

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, our culture with life is just not geared up for. train operators have lowered speed limits, fearing the heat could walk rails and that disrupting services who are going for them to lease to day after day 2 and a half hour. looks like i might not get back to to, to day because of the heat. and i won't get back to mortal nutrients tomorrow. while some are preparing for the worst, i'm choosing to say, i'm because i don't want to get public transport because it's great. going to work . acorns on putting have story at home, but others are taking the heat in their stride. if this doesn't get excited about it, if it breaks it ain't the weather. is it?

don't know what else to talk about. joey wally. r d w correspondence have been out in quite literally the hot spots of europe to day 1st up as jack, paris and the okay. across different parts of the size of the united kingdom is going up well past 35 degrees, 36 at heathrow airport. and the new record has been set in wales at 5035.3 degrees celsius. the hot to stay 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 call to protect themselves on to stay hydrated. well, it's really all hands on deck because wherever you look right now in the west, in the south, in the north, in the east, they're off fires and you never know when the next one is happening or 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 staff 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 sport. and everybody is obviously thinking of 2003 when you look back, that was a very, very intense heat way time at the time. more than 19000 people died here in france and my view for one's actually france. it's a bit like great written. the main topic here is no longer food. it's the weather. while you're m 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 you and climate summit in egypt, this november un secretary general antonio, who terris warned that the target agreed. and in 2015 paris climate accord of

limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius was slipping. further and further out of reach, germany's foreign minister to stressed that the time for action is running out. you . 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 safe got 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 crises, we are failing to work together as a multilateral community. we have a choice, collective action or collective suicide. while the german chancellor ala 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 as that back for the climate here is global warming experts? sonya, in of europe. yes, this is certainly a problem. i think it depends basically all along this is softening forest. so frances is just basically this year 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 you 3 of are becoming more frequent, more intense. so if we look at a number of what is that we have fossils a number of years when we ever hot this 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 is live, will happen 4 times every 10 years and

a 2 degrees it with up and 6 times every 10 years. that means a majority of summers would be extremes. ah, now moving on to ukraine, where president volota mears, a 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 will still been bullied, don't in his nightly address to the nation, but for the president, florida me. zalinski delivered a bombshell or 2 of his most trusted of criminal, suspended for failing to weed. our collaborators. hundreds of subordinates charged with treason, but he must see such an array of crimes against the foundations of the states national security and the links quarter between ukrainian security forces. officials and russians. special services raises very serious questions about their

respective lead us yoga bang, w. bully, getting each of these questions will receive a proper response. now liz moleed to day i have taken the decision to dismiss the prosecutor general and the head of the ukrainian security service role. suna always elizabeth spangler great. even by con 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 hoping ukraine has 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's 5th column is ever present. unless algola to robin bargain, i gave the member of the german parliament for the green party and is currently in cave. mister wagner, you spend 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 sir present in the city and it's, it's very disturbing to see a city with a, a kind of a, sometimes a normal city life like it could be in berlin. om, uniglobe, harrison down around the corner. we see the preparations for war. he and kiff and some kilometers for him from here the horace in a boucher and yet we have seen that. and of course it's, it's totally necessary that we as the western community and also we as germany, is support crane against this russian war of any jason and just came totally clear from all the partners we spoke with here from parliamentarians from members of

government. and also from the mail that german have 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 me. 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 battlefield. like much of a rocket launching systems. they are really helpful for ukrainians, but there are not enough of them. so there is a necessity to deliver more and then we heard about so just so i wounded and killed us on the way to a better feel because there is no protection on the transport. so definitely better

also necessity that needs to be provided by western allies. what do 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. yeah, i think we should definitely do 2 things. the one thing is to help you crane on its way to a full europe union membership with integration partnership on all levels on municipal level, on level off the federal state of the state in germany, and also on national level between ukraine and germany. this is the one thing, and the other thing has to do as much as we can to supply ukraine, also with heavy weapons, which the one to talk voted on in 2 motions. and we should look every day for possibilities to support ukraine as much as we can on that traveling back to germany, right after this interview. what new insights about ukraine and about keith and about the situation the people you've met, will you be taking home with you?

yeah, we were, we were 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 the country that is in war. and that it's up to us to support ukraine because they are fighting for democracy and also for our various 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 when he's a member of the german parliament for the green party. thank you for your time and have 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 compensate for high russian casualties

. and manpower shortage is on the front line. intelligence update also says wagner has lowered its recruitment standard, meaning they are now accepting convict than other formerly blacklisted individual. let's keep talking about these intelligence reports and bring and mar can see, and he's a retired us marine colonel. and now a senior advisor with the center for strategic and international studies. mr. can see and welcome to the day. let's start with a bit of background. what is the walking or group and who's behind it? well, the wagner group is a collection of organizations that a provide mercenaries for the russian government has begun by a fellow name. you've gainey pig grogan. he was put chef after a life in crime spent some time in prison, but he's very close to putin and acts as an arm of the russian government, particularly divergent russian intelligence services. and they have conduct operations all over the world and dozens of places where the russians want

a low visibility deniability. yet they've been active in a number of countries. molly libya, syria and from experience, how effective of fighting forests are they? will they make a difference in ukraine? will 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 affective 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 a, came of the units have been lost. vog 2 will provide some substitute for those

losses. this report that came out and today suggest 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 tends to happen to all military's when they start taking casualties for in long wars. it's 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 to them and for help. and they've expanded their operations, but that meant what tends to make them less effective. there's 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 low quality people, you're liable for atrocities and buckner, certainly get accused of those in the past. the fact that russia is now resorting

to the wagner grew at what does that say about the state of the kremlin is regular forces? well, the regular forces of taking a lot of casualties and russians of been scrambling a 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 to active duty. this is a part of that effort. it brought in syrians. they brought in chechnya ins, and now they're increasing the number of wagner personnel did. try to replace that the casually to, they've suffered why can't in, at the center for strategic and international studies. thank you so much for your time and all those insight lead to join you. oh, well maker is that in the us state of texas. have released a damning preliminary report on the police response to

a school shooting and the city of you valgy. 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 shoot. 21 people were found dead inside 19 children and 2 teachers. the report accused this law enforcement agents of putting their own safety before the lives of those under attack. you know, there is active shooting act of 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 already 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 have senior level commanders on site. so we want to know which agency was receiving actions to take command and where did the critical breakdown keep talking about this with d w corresponding shayla. conf. now who is in washington? mckayla the preliminary report, a test, a systemic failure by law enforcement in the response, the attack. what are the biggest shortcomings that have been identified so far?

though to put it in a nutshell, the biggest shortcoming is that there was also a chaos just minutes after the attack, that there was no real leadership and that the officers 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 comes that were released over the weekend. some officials released them against legal advice of doing so, including the mayor of alta at that so 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 there was help for these children. and while the report says that there is 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 sociopath. 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 former pupil. and there were reports that he had experienced bullying there for at the school. or previously. having said all of that, none of these individual elements really lead up to any kind of investigation who

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 by 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 this 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 that because that's also something a one finds and the report that there was no sense that there was malice or an in ill intent. but that was just simply a chaos that shouldn't have been gun rights advocates in the u. s. often say all it takes to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, presumably, and you're 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 they just received a backing for that theory because there was a shooting, of course, in indiana, in a shopping mall where several people were killed. but it could have been a lot worse unless at 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 a parent that a 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. mikaela, 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 t w 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 part of your day with

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