ah ah ah, the sustainable news line from berlin, a heat wave like never before the death toll in your arises and wildfires extend their trail of destruction across the south of the continent. in britain, houses burned as temperatures top 40 degrees celsius for the 1st time since records

began. also on the program, russian president vladimir putin arrives in iran on his 1st trip outside the former soviet union since starting the war in ukraine. he seeking to strengthen ties to the region and bolster moscow's challenge to the west. and in ukraine, russia target cities, including the port city of odessa where the brain remains blockaded. meanwhile, hopes are moscow, will actually restart gas flows to europe after completing pipe maintenance. plus the human cost us for a long as political crisis as lawmakers prepared to choose a new president. the economic collapse means that many are struggling to put food on the table. ah, i'm foolish to our viewers on p v. s. in the united states and around the world,

welcome europe's record breaking heat wave is fueling wildfires burning out of control across huge parts of portugal, spain, france, italy, and grease. hundreds of people have died most from the effects of the heat, but others have been killed in the flames. the heat wave has now also pushed further north into the united kingdom. authorities in london declared a major incident as flames destroyed homes and woodland to the east of the capital . the u. k. whether office recorded temperature is above 40 degrees celsius for the 1st time since records began. and france, tens of thousands of people have fled their homes to escape the wildfires. fires tore through these dry pine forests in the southwestern region of your owned strong winds. find the flames,

making them harder to contain fire fighters battled through the night, but still struggled to keep the fires under control. alt del do more. yeah, we have more than 2000 fire men working to reduce the fires to day, including more than 500 here in lattice to bush. we're only gonna do me. we will also be targeting the fires from the air during the day with water bombing planes, the flu of acre so don't and that you do see you people living in the nearby city of bordeaux woke up to a gray haze. and the smell of burning one londoner living in southwestern france is fearful of a fire that is spreading very close to his home. for the next 40 hours might be symbolic in our life. we hope the hump here working hard to protect her proper food like i have been doing for dyson dice now. maybe just

need a little bit of luck. the u. k. has recorded it's hottest day on record with temperatures of over 42 degrees celsius. officials warn people to stay hydrated and avoid traveling, if possible, since britain's infrastructure isn't built to cope with such conditions. usually busy hobbes are equally quiet. as most people remain at home or find quieter spots that provide respite from the overwhelming heat or corresponding barbara hazel is in southwestern france, and i asked her to tell us more about conditions on the ground there on the edge of the wheel and the town of la, case to which really has been struck by these horrific give forest fires. and we talked to the mayor into the head of the civil protection. a today here and they said in our lifetimes, we have never seen anything like it because these cars are going on for

a week. that is the fire trucks you see behind me that are coming and going like every minute they've been working and tried to contain these fires, which are still raging and the police won't let us get closer because they say it's too dangerous. we does it, which are still raging in the forest behind us. and they have been battling these fires for a week now. and they are hopeful that they can contain them, but they're not quite sure. and they don't even say they're under control. they're just trying to keep them in place and they're far from me extinguishing them because there's incredibly hot and dry weather for week now has really made to the forest go up like tinder. so there is a certain amount of hope that this is not going to get any worse, but it's far from good. what is the forecast for the next couple of days? the firefighters have been fighting for a week. now our conditions expected to get any better soon. they are really tired

too. and then they have been relieved. 5 firefighters from other regions of france . we see them coming in here from the door drawn near from the law these and they come from all over the place because after 3 or 4 days off of fire fighting in the syntax, pete, the heat, people are completely exhausted and they just need to rest the heat has led up a bit, it's moved north as you've already reported and even reach the united kingdom as so here it's during the day about 30, which is not that bad. it's not like the forty's as we still had yesterday, but it continues to be very dry and the wind makes the work of the firefighter see a really difficult fires move around. they jump, they, they, they, you can't really calculate where they go, where they might move and where they will would possibly carry on during the night . so it's still, it's still a dangerous situation, and it's sort of what they, the local people here. say it's like halfway under control,

they're hopeful that they couldn't probably get a hold and get a grip off this within the next days. but it's a really horrific situation. 20000 actors have burned to you of pine forests right up to the atlantic ocean beaches. and 40000 people had to be evacuated, are available in bordeaux. thank you so much and please stay safe. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world today. in britain, the res to replace or is johnson, as prime minister has narrowed with the field, whittle down from 4 contenders to 3. former finance minister rishi soon act remains in the lead. conservative and peace will reduce the choice to, to this week ahead of a party wind vote. in september, the european union has opened membership talks with albania and north macedonia, after each member bulgaria last week, resolved a dispute with north macedonia over language national identity. and it's bulgarian minority population award winning iranian filmmaker. jafar finale has

been ordered to serve a 6 year prison sentence that was imposed a decade ago over alleged to anti government propaganda, but never enforced. mister pin i one at the top prize at the 2015 berlin film festival and the reuters news agencies as russia plans to resume gas exports to europe through the north stream one pipeline later this week. or have been fears . russia would keep the tops closed in retaliation for western sanctions. on stream one accounts for a 3rd of russian gas exports into the european union. but a report and has been in iran on only his 2nd trip outside russians, launching the war against ukraine and february. the russian president held talks with the leaders of both iran and turkey. photon says there's been some progress on unblock ingrain exports from ukraine. though not all issues are resolved. some

observers say putin wants to strengthen regional ties to bolster moscow's challenge to the west or on analyst on non taba to by works for a near and middle eastern affairs thing tank. and earlier i asked him whether the jam packed agenda of the trilateral meeting might have been a little too ambitious. i guess it's not because obviously this war has unleashed and in the energy security crisis of food security crisis, geopolitical re, adjustments. so these 3 that's called empower houses of regional politics. wanted to meet again the austin, the process has existed before, but it's obviously also a bit of a response to a bite in visits to israel and the gulf states last weekend. exactly. let's talk about the timing of all of this. what you make of it. yes. in fact, i believe there is something to it that of course these countries one to show that there was also some sort of a bond between them. even if it's just a transactional,

short to mid term bond, some deepening of co operations, be it in the energy sector in the food sector, with the imports of weeds from russia that iran has been trying to work on the same goes for energy cooperation. syria was on the table so they have a lot to discuss among themselves anyway. but the timing of course, also matters. now, iran is leader, has stress that both and tear on and moscow are interested in a long term cooperation. but they're actually fierce competitor is when it comes to energy and production, which is their main source of income. what's in all of this for iran? yeah, i mean that they really have a good set of convergent and divergent interests. and depending on the overall geopolitical context in iran's neighbourhood, but also globally, those interests or in convergence can in fact pop up,

so to speak. now. and for example, this idea about doing trade, iranian russian trade and introducing the rubel as a currency for iranian russian trade is something that may not have happened not been on the table before. sanctions were maximized on russia in the same way that it was on iran. so the geopolitics, the geopolitical situation, brings these countries together closer right now. but as you already said, there are enough fields where they might also be a competitor as an energy being one of them, atlanta, what have i and as of now, thank you very much. my pleasure. but of course, this wasn't just a meeting between the leaders of iran and russia. turkey was at the table to and to talk more about ons role there. i can now speak to our correspondent dorian jones in istanbul. story, an art on when to tear and with an agenda of his own. didn't he? how did that go for him? yes,

president nerd one was looking for getting permission from both iran and russia for him to launch a major offensive into syria against syrian kurdish forces, which he says are linked to ox, insurgency. fighting in turkey and saying that he was determined to remove this what he called major terrorist threat to turkey. now it does appear though, and spite of his intense lobbying of both the leaders, it doesn't appear that he has got that green light. and in fact, uranium president racier at a press conference said that any such attack would lead to further problems of terrorism, of in his country. and equally, it appears, president putin also said that it does appear that we have an image to succeed, to agree on everything which it does appear to be what he was phone to. turkey's bid to launch an offensive into syria. now that this will be a major setback for one, but it has to be said ahead of this visit. all the signals coming from both her ron and russia was that they didn't want this operation to happen very. it would

further te, stabilized syria at a time when both countries are looking to stabilize syria given the impact is having but from the rain in economy. and also russia desire to move its forces back to ukraine. and turkey has been trying to broker a deal to allow grain exports from block in an ukranian. for instance, we see any advances on that today. well, we heard from president putin marla's meeting with her, his turkish counterpart, her. he's praised for his, i'm a nerd. one saying we're very appreciative of turkey's diplomatic efforts to seek a solution, saying that this was all in everyone's interest. and he said that progress at last week's meeting in istanbul, which saw ukrainian, russian, turkish, and united nations officials all sitting together and all saying the progress had been made on reaching a deal to export the 10s of millions of tons of ukrainian grain trapped in ukraine . which is urgently needed to reduce gloves soaring food prices. but i think crucially here from putin's point of view,

there was no timeline given for further progress or boar and put a conclusion of a deal when any deal could come into force. and i think a lot of people have seen this praise a vote on was to soften the year, the diplomatic blow he received from not achieving or their peers green like to launch an attack into syria. i think a key thing ever will be looking forward to in the coming days and weeks is whether there will be another meeting off of this for way meeting, although ukraine, turkey and russia and united nations where there is hope that deal could be concluded at the moment there's no news or when that next meeting will take place or ann jones and esther. well thank you very much. and any ukraine rash and missiles have struck a residential area of crime, a tourist in the eastern danielle greed, and killing at least one person. and at least reich was one of around 5 that hit the city, which is a nuclear. a target of the russian troops, cremmit hoist mer urged civilians to leave. those attacks came after a barrage of missiles head odessa from the black sea over night. the strength also

had residential areas and destroyed several homes. the poor any is crucial to exploring desperately need an ukranian grain to the rest of the world. some 22000000 tons remain stuck there because of the fighting and corresponding man he has building a isn't here for us. i asked him earlier to tell us more about those attacks. yeah, we've had several attack sir again to day in a crime at oscars. you have just mentioned, and in the odessa region, the odessa region has been a, has been several times in the past few days. it has been one of the target's main targets or of long, long range missiles or, or middle range missiles that were fired, met mostly from the black sea. and a city of mich alive has been also hit quite a few times that points a little bit to, to the fact that russia has not may be given up on the plan to conquer the whole

south. the same is true for trauma crematory, which is a main target of the russian army because the russian army has state russia has stated. and it's very clear that this is the next target that they want to conquer . so this is what unites or these 3 targeting these 3 places that have been targeted to day. lead rainy in parliament has backed president the landscape decision to dismiss the state security chief and the chief prosecutor. how is this scandal being perceived by the public in ukraine? well, i mean, if there was a problem that was as big as or as zelinski has said, then it's probably the right move to remove these heads. they are not under accusation themselves. we've also heard speculation from people close to zalinski, that vindictive or might be it might be a sent to a diplomatic post somewhere abroad. so it's not that they are under suspicion,

but they have obviously not handled the situation in these authorities that they had been leading very well. i mean, the cases are pretty severe. so i have not heard a lot of criticism of these decisions. we will see what happens next. we are see that are seeing maybe some indicators that purges in these organizations, especially in the as b u, the security service. the secret service of ukraine might be underway today. zalinski has said that he dismissed another 28 employees of our or that another 28 . and please of these authorities had been suspended so that it was clear, even before the war, that the that the russians had a lot of so called assets in the ukrainian security sector. and that is, of course, a big problem in the middle of a war. big problem, but not a huge surprise at martinez. it's 5 months now since russia 1st invaded ukraine.

where does the war stain? so we're seeing probably we're probably at another turning point at this moment, the 1st period was the quick russian invasion that was than quickly stopped by the ukrainians where the ukrainians were able to inflict a lot of damage on the russian army by these mo bile, her commandos was shoulder pads with these from a british and american anti tank weapons. and then the 2nd phase was the slow grinding advance in the dawn. bastard is still going on, but we are seeing indicators that ukraine might be able to do to the new weapons deliveries, especially the moat multiple rocket launchers to withstand these advance is much better than it has in the past few years. and of course, speculations are ripe about a and m a counter offensive. there would be a would gain back some of the territories. it's too early to tell whether this can

be successful. it has been announced in the south for, for don boss, for the moment. you crane is trying to hold their lines, but definitely the russian advance has lost momentum in the past today. so it will be very interesting. what's going to happen next. it'll be a corresponding mathias building. unclear, thank you so much. when the war started, thousands of young ukrainians joined the army to defend their homeland and hundreds have since been killed. w. m, on your chas reports now on the young people fighting for their future. mm hm. every day at 9 a. m de traditional song played a catchy sounds of my down for a while minutes after the u. m. i down resolution of 2014. it was played to commemorate to heavenly 100 processes who died in the fight to push ukraine towards a sat determined european future. now the same song echoes the death of thousands

of soldiers have died for the same cause. ukraine's young people who have always lived in an independent country are bearing the brunt of the will to keep it that way. pile total, 20 animals. ah, and i know people for a team and they are on the front line. actually i asked myself often, why am i not the just move is it because i feel very sorry because i feel touched by this war and i understand what's going on. you know this. so i hope that my city and my region can be freed from russia. i. those young people have been in relatively safe kia since the war began. ot is joined the armed forces and didn't make it back. rum on that. i totally 20 full was one of them. he was killed in june, the hockey fist and ukraine. his death was one which affected the entire nation. he had been a star of the euro. my dad protests when just

a teenager to days politicians recognized. he could have had a future in shaping the country. the past growing joy. hughes was representative school generation for him in griffin. politic gotta again to death from man that i totally east felt as a loss for his entire generation. the entire nation remains defiance. even though the swore hust costs ukrainians, parts of their to cheer. ah, said the wall, this war has made the youth a patriotic one and has made our nation proud,

proud that this generation was born little lives and will restore ukraine, visible door to ah, ah, makers ins for lanka are preparing to vote for a new president, amend a political crisis that has led the island nation into economic collapse, the current prime minister and acting president renelle wicker mas thing gay will face to arrivals in the parliamentary vote on wednesday. it will decide who will succeed, the ousted leader, who fled the country last week. i'm it huge. protests corruption and political mismanagement led to widespread public anger which oiled over into violence. ordinary people have been left struggling simply to put food on the table. we'll take a look at how some of them are trying to cope on. milton pereira cannot afford enough

food and it shows at age 74, he keeps his hair and neatly combed, but other features bear witness to long waits for the next small meal. i. it's very difficult to live, even a loaf of bread is expensive. we have 6 children in the family and one we have to meals. if we take one meal, we skip another. very difficult. 3 lumpkins are cutting back the world food program says 5 out of every 6 families are skipping meals, eating less or buying worse food inside his kitchen. pereira shows what his family can still put on the table, because my mom is we can only buy about 250 grams of fish. and sometimes that is only one fish. we have to cut it into many small pieces,

so everyone in the family can eat because we don't have much money. sometimes we give them to the children that can be and we adults only to grieving at a nearby vegetable shop. there is no lack of supply, but customers have to pay twice. what they did just 3 months ago. for many healthy produce is no longer affordable. military people are coming to buy food, but they aren't happy because they don't have money. the prices have gone up. the main reason is there's no way to transport those items because there's no fuel either, but that's why the prices have gone up. and then the amount of columbus made wholesale market still bustled with customers traders and tempting fruits and vegetables. but the vendors say business has gone down by half since march, because everything's more expensive now. only 491 liter,

one leader, diesel. also if i leave the high end, i guess maybe 1.7. all 4910 for the ones that i know the feeling for the 7900, the black margaret but at an anti government protest camp, one man is cultivating a different solution. not through buying and selling, but growing his own food. and then sharing it with others. free of charge. yeah, i'm have really happy, really, really, really happy. people are coming very happy. i get to it. we're thing here. 3. i'm not charge. like many reluctance. theodore roger puck so blames the country's former leaders for the current crisis. he believes that his work that the protest camp is a positive influence. oh, not going. who do people okay. gold after?

i am not going. i'm, here we go. so did she look and people need diesel? dare say lou lou so can hold me there. so i am coming my lawyer, joe, you want to do to put it's knowledge that many people in sri lanka may need to feed themselves and their families in a crisis that's just been growing and growing. and some football news before we go bar and munich have confirmed the signing of central defender. my ties the list from you benches for an initial transfer fee of 67000000 euros. the 22 year old dutch defenders deal runs until 2027. they left one multiple trophies while playing in italy and, and just 19 years he became the youngest captain to lead his side to the semi

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