ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, spain's prime minister says climate change kills several countries including his own battle deadly wild fires. a record breaking heat wave is only making matters worse. also coming up another russian missile strike on

a key ukrainian court officials in odessa say several people were injured over night attack that could further complicate, getting ukrainian grain out of the country to feed the world. and the u. one is wrapping up it's response to get a 2 millions of sri lankan hard hit by the economic crisis. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. from spain to greece to the united kingdom, much of europe is sweltering under temperatures, more often felt in desert regions. record heat, strong winds, and drought conditions are stoking severe wildfires across several countries. on the iberian peninsula alone fires have driven tens of thousands of people from their homes. he has killed hundreds more. scientists say that climate change is

turning infrequent extremes into a more regular reality. spain is on fire. with more than $70000.00 hatches of land already going up in flames. this year. residence of this town in the north western province of zamora, were battling on monday to stop their homes being next. but an attempt to dig a trench to stop the approaching fire almost came to a deadly end for one local man. after his digger was engulfed in flames of you. fortunately he was able to make an hour with skate and was taken to hospital with serious burns elsewhere in the province, passengers also had a close encounter with the fires when their train made

a brief hair raising stop in the countryside. with emergency services battling fires all across the country. tens of thousands have been forced to evacuate. many, no, they will have little to come back to the particular shannon. we know, for example, that our house is completely born, but we also had a van arranged withdrawn rec law. we bought the van when i retired and now the stored use. bush tra, yeah, we have nothing from galaxy. chavez, picket visiting affected areas. next from a daughter, spain's prime minister petro sanchez, said climate change was to blame for the devastation. he should have it. but i want to see that evidently climate change kills. so it gives people, gives our ecosystem was to land biodiversity. yoshi stim unrestored beauty betsy up in france. 2 authorities struggling to deal with record breaking wild fires in the

south western gerald region. 2 fires of already burnt through molten. 17000 hectares of forest within the last week. strong winds have helped fanned the flames with fire fighters unable to bring them under control. the weather forecasts do offer some hope of respite with temperatures set to drop in western france. as the extreme heat wave moves east rushes president vladimir putin is visiting iran on tuesday. it is a rare trip outside of russia for puttin who may be trying to shore up support for his war in ukraine. he is holding talks with turkeys president recham, ty of ardon, and they're iranian counterpart on the official agenda is discussing the situation in syria. the u. s. beliefs. putin wants iran to supply russia with drones to use in the ukraine. the u. s. also believes iran will train russians on how to use the

device as, as early as this month. putin, an air to one are also expected to discuss a un backed proposal to resume exports, of ukrainian grain. or ukraine authority say that a russia missile, a russian missile attack on the southern city of odessa has injured at least 6 people, including a child. a spokesman for the local military administration said that russian forces fired at least 7 cruise missiles from the black sea. hitting residential areas and destroying several homes. odessa is home to ukraine's biggest port and is crucial to exporting desperately needed a grain to the rest of the world. some 22000000 tons of grain remain stuck there because of the fighting. to w correspondent, funny for char joins us from k. a funny. what more can you tell us about the attack? well, you really wonder, actually, how is it possible that a turkey and

a russia is supposed to talk about grain expos, trying to unblock those ports, or go forward with that while at the same time, a key put odessa is being shout. but by the way, odessa way is unclear just how many people have been injured in that attack is just one of the port towns that have been attacked. we experience at more intense attacks in recent days. michel, i for example, another key port where you also have silos full of, of it, plants, minutes of tons of grain has also been attacked. so it's really contradictory in a way that, in one way a last week we have seen you un secretary general was trying to mediate there between a ukraine, a russia trying to come to terms come to terms for to deal, trying to unblock the ports while at the same time you have a bomb being shelling more to attacks on going. so it is a very, very difficult as situation that there is. and you really do not know what else is to come, because we have seen so many indiscriminate shelling from russia forces over the

course of the past week. that you really wonder, what's the aim here? if you really want to unblocked, why you didn't keep shelling of these key infrastructure, these key ports in odessa, for example, and funny. i mean, it is just the latest in a series of intensifying attacks on ukraine's key port citizen, you know, as you've articulated there, it raises the question, even if you crane and russia should managed to reach a deal on exports. how big is the real risk that the fighting could still keep grain from leaving the country? it's not, it's not just a question of risk. what actual question of trust, how in the world should 2 countries trust each other? there in the mits, in the war with each other against each other. so one thing is, if you sign a deal this week, may be probably between ukraine and, and the russian officials trying to agree on something to establish safe corridors . they are. that's one thing on the piece of paper, but do you practically, i,

you practically able to actually put that in action. that actually means such as much mutual trust, but as some sort of a ceasefire. to practically go ahead and explore that grain. so this is exactly the question that really nobody believes the wants for quite spec, skeptical about this, the discount go ahead, because if you look back 5 months into the wall, how difficult it was to set up humanitarian corridors, we speaking day about human beings are trying to be evacuated from a russian control territories. how difficult is it going to be to expose grain while the offensive or from ocean forces in the south and also the eastern parts of ukraine is going ahead. and ukraine, on the other hand, is as wants to step up its cultural offensive, trying to retake a land it's been being occupied by russian forces. so it's a very difficult situation indeed. how, how is that counter offensive progressing? are they making any progress? ukraine maintains, or claim stats really, those

a long range missiles to have received from the us is helping quote, to stabilize the situation. on the other hand of who is if you look at the fact that about one 5th of ukraine is being controlled right now by russia and russia. continue with this massive shelling you really want those weapons that ukraine receives. is it really enough to turn the tide or is it just enough to stabilize a little bit, but not really able to turn to type in their favor? we have to really see how that contra offensive develops. because if both the ukraine and under russian forces are basically adding each other along that frontline, which is about 1000 kilometers long from the northern eastern part to the south. it's a long front line and you would just have to see how that's going to develop depending on how many weapons you great, he's going to receive you. officials yesterday actually agreed again on a 5 for 1000000 euro a support they with weapons. but one thing is, what you officials, for example,

pledge to do and the other things how many weapons arrive here that are desperately needed by the ukranian army funding for char in keith. thank you. here's a look at some other stories making headlines. turkish president wrench of ty, bear to one has once again threatened to freeze the nato membership beds of sweden and finland if they do not keep promises on counterterrorism made last month. turkey has accused both countries of being havens, her kurdish militants. the united states, however, has played down air to one's warmest. herd from the european union has agreed to open accession negotiations with albania and north macedonia. the step comes after bulgaria and north macedonia resolved a dispute over language and national identity. this had also stalled albania status as the you treat it as part of the package. russian broadcast her tv rain has

resumed operations, months after it was forced to shut down its moscow office. the t v station known to be critical of the kremlin, was taken off the air by authorities days after russia's invasion of ukraine. it says it will now be working from studios in latvia, france, the netherlands, and torture. on broadway forward as finance minister re, she suna has widened his lead a in the race to replace orest johnson as prime minister. he finished 1st and the latest round of voting to determine who will become conservative party leader. conservative m p. 's are narrowing the field to 2 candidates this week. i had of a party wide vote in september water, vast to sri lanka now where millions of people are in dire need of assistance due to the ongoing crisis. the united nations is playing a central role in the effort r u n team, and sir lanka led by risen coordinator honda finger humvee, is scaling up efforts to respond to the needs of millions of people impacted by the

ongoing economic crisis. also in line with the matcher needs and priorities plan. nearly 5700000 people are in need of life saving assistance. in the past year, the price of rice, a staple of the sir lincoln, diet has more than doubled. while the price of wheat flour is almost tripled, reaching unprecedented a high levels and affecting millions of sir lincoln's indeed happy his se shapiro cheese i'm richard cima is joining us from the sri lankan capital colombo. i'm return the you and help comes amid political turmoil after the president fled the country and resign last week. what's the latest 1st, politically similar to dave was the final day for presidential nominations to be filed did. and there was a dramatic twist this morning when the leader of the opposition sergeant prima dasa redrew his nomination from the race. now he said his party was support, other opposition groups within parliament, not didn't. now the danina victim

a single, the acting president, was the kill frontrunner to win this presidential risk because he has the support of the else did president roger boxes, party. but now there has been a split within the party. and one of the employees done, there's a laugh at rumor, says he's not going to be voting for his own party and he's joining the opposition . this means now the risk is going to be extremely tight and done and become a cigar. i cannot count that. you definitely win this election. so be a couple of things to bear in mind. the election is to morrow. it's going to be held in parliament. parliamentary members are going to be voting for the president . it is going to be very importantly or not, a majority of the empties in parliament, but the majority of the ballots cast and very significantly, it is a secret ballad. so anything can happen. wow. how a sri lankan coping with the term wyoming time and the economic fall out,

especially you know, still the people now here i'm waiting mode. the protest is free. let. they've got one of the biggest things they wanted. they wanted bought up by a large boxes out of office and he's gone. so they feel their bitchy bit 1st major objective. now the a, waiting to see what's going to happen next. the situation here it's, they die us. i'm standing a defective station. the energy ministry said that couple of shipments of fuel came yesterday more. i expected this week, but just had a look at the numbers of people standing here waiting to get federal. yeah, he was killing me to as long for people wanted to get us a little bit of fuel so they can, you don't get about their work news, what you mentioned up the united nations, providing some health is very welcome here in the country of 22000000 plus going to very tough times. i'm ready to cima, with a view from colombo enchilada. thank you so much. a newlywed couple

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