[000:00:00;00] ah, it sounds like a scene from a dystopian novel, europe engulfed in flames. a devastating drought threatening harvests, while the brutal heat kills scores every day. and it's not a dystopian novel. it is to day europe's reality. it's a day of dangerous records in europe, with temperatures in the u. k. are reaching an all time high, but far from being a freak peak. experts believe these conditions are a new, frightening fact of life and a part of the world. utterly unprepared for these kinds of extremes, on nickel frilly him, berlin,

and this is the day ah, these heat babes are becoming more frequently the course of climate change. these with her, i always miss as you come back to read, i come from india. this would be ready could not live. i wish it would still be glad to. i need just still because of the unprecedented hey that would cover if i say all of the emergency services are covered under significant pressure with paul for all of us that they need to talk to the closest fiber g o. also coming up while his war and ukraine range is on russia, vladimir putin meets the leaders of iran and turkey. at this, be the birth of a new alliance of the aggrieved against europe and the u. s. i let mister brute speak for why he decided go at this particular time, it shows the degree to which mister proven and russia are increasingly isolated.

now they have to turn to iran for help. oh, to all our viewers around the world, it's good to have you with us. there is no denying the climate emergency in europe these days. severe heat is fueling wild fires and vast areas from portugal to the balkans that have been seen rain and months. the heat wave now reaches as far north as the united kingdom, where it pushed the mercury over 40 degrees celsius for the 1st time since records began. parents also hit the forty's to day with sizzling temperatures in other european capitals. the extreme conditions have caused hundreds of heat related deaths across europe. our coverage to night starts with the ferocious wild fires in france. fires tore through these dry pine forests in the southwestern region of your owned strong winds,

fanned 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 today, including more than 500 here in lattice to bush wiley, owner to me, we will also be targeting the fires from the air during the day with water bombing planes. they food av acre, so long a natural doses hear 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 may be symbolic in our life, we hope that pompey are working hard to protect her proper food lines. i have been

doing for dyson dice now. maybe just need a little bit of luck. his home country is also facing threats of forest fires like this one on the outskirts of south london. the u. k. has recorded its 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. it is hot at night though, because there's no air conditioning, and most of the buildings in i usually busy hubs are eerily quiet. as most people remain at home or find quieter spots that provide respite from the overwhelming

temperature records in the u. k. wildfires in western france here is more from d. w correspondence, either side of the channel, but it is probably right now at this moment. the hottest, it has ever been in this country. certainly, since records begun, this is the hottest time of what is predicted to be the hottest day that has ever been recorded in the united kingdom was we heard in the report across britain, there are temperatures ceiling over 42 degrees celsius. and while the advice is for people to remain at home, to stay hydrated, to avoid being in the sun, as you can see here on oxford street, london's main shopping street, there are still a lot of people out and about the fires or somewhere here behind us and they've even reach to the atlantic c coaster on the other side here, where there's a vacation paradise that's used by people from bordeaux in the summer, huge dunes and the far is right up to the war to have completely been raised down last night. so the fires are still not under control. we've seen huge evacuations

here. almost 40000 people in this whole area have been evacuated because the police are trying to are on the side of being cautious. and they're bringing people out and telling everyone to leave their houses. so no, some of occasions here in this region for this year. and esther me also deals with the heat wave. senior officials from around 40 countries have wrapped up 2 days of talks on tackling the climbed emergency. delegates were trying to lay some of the groundwork for the un climate summit in egypt later this year. term and foreign minister and alina babel called on all nations of the world to accelerate their transition to renewable energy. alongside her egyptian counterpart she sent the planets simply, cannot afford any further delays. you couldn't and equally pant hosting pony as the climate crisis converting and for that reason we can't postpone the fight against it under the other crises may seem more important,

but the climate crisis isn't just another crisis. it's a giant overarching measure crisis that impacts all others are like a fire accelerant. sylvie, i'm going to push roy niga a fire accelerant quite literally these days lead spring and clarifies. and she's the co head of the climate policy team at the non profit climate analytics clare. i good to see you. 40 degrees in london, southern europe, in flames. hundreds of heat related deaths. is this the new normal? well really what we're seeing shouldn't be normal at all, but it is increasingly so unfortunately, i think with the extreme events we're seeing now it's very clear that the climate crisis is already here. europe and other parts of the world. literally burning sin temperature records being broken one after the other. hundreds of people already dying from this heat wave alone. and this is already pretty early on in the summer . so there's still time the more to come to europe. and of course,

these heat waves are becoming more frequent and more intense as a result of climate change. they have done serve the last 4 decades also, and this will continue and less be rapidly cub are emissions. of course, what we're seeing in europe now is just really just a snapshot. we've got impacts hitting all around the world and all different types of impact. so extreme heat also has hit india and pakistan and we've seen devastation to weak cops. i'm outside of the world, but we've also seen extreme rainfall events and flooding in places like china, bangladesh, south africa, and lots of death. lots of devastating impacts the ecosystem. so yeah, this is really a very alarming state to be in. and climate change will only make these events more and more extreme. it's really a taste of, of potentially was the common. i would say this has to be a wakeup call that we haven't done enough. and that we need to start taking

warnings from climate science. much wanted to talk about waco calls because here in the northern hemisphere, climate change is often spoken about as a problem of a distant future or at least distant lands. do you think that this, this really brutal snapshot that europe is getting right now? will maybe add to a sense of urgency i really hope so. i think it has to be i think it's been very easy for a lot of developed countries so far to kind of sit back and and cross the thing is that things won't be as bad as a science predicted. i'm not see it. it's becoming clear that really the science was right well along that these warning signs of hitting us year on year. and i think a lot of countries in developing world who have been hit by these crises already for years and whose really existential livelihoods are threat. hoping that the government's governments come together incorporate to to really do something. and they all, all governments came to the cop last year,

the climate negotiations last year in glasgow and committed to reduce their emissions. but unfortunately, there's still a very big gap between where we are and where we should be. and what i find very worrying is when we look at how government the current in responding to the current, the ongoing energy crisis is the thing. a resurgence of gas going back to the use of social gas and coal in some cases which occur totally contrary to what needs to be done. exactly. it was there richfield, and hinting on that chancellor or left shots of germany said something very on. on that point. let's listen in and then keep talking then this is what's must not happen to us now is that we slide into a global renee so on. so fossil energy and coal in particular 9 sleep time. though, how can that be avoided? clear here in germany, there are even plans to reactivate retired coal plants to increase independence from russia. is this not

a renee on the release on that shells is warning from well we have this has to be temporary at the most. yeah. it's very clear that there's no space the continuing to burn fossil fuels. coal especially, needs to be phased out of our power systems by 2030 at the latest for europe. gas needs to follow closely behind. so we can't just switch from coal to gas, which a lot, lot of governments are anticipating doing. and that's not a solution because gas is also a fossil fuel. so this needs to be phased out, 5 to 10 years off to coal at the most. so we really need, but we have, we have the solutions available. so we seen a plummet in the cost of renewables in recent years. we know how to transform our energy systems. the technologies are available, the transitions understood. it's the case really of, of political will. and i suppose we have to hope that as these extreme events really hit us and we really feel them, that governments will start to take action and civil society will start to demand

more of governments in this regard. and talking about solutions in your organization argues that one way of making up for lost time in the process of reducing emissions could be carbon dioxide removal. that does sound like magic bullet, what's stopping us? there are definitely no magic bullets. so carbon dioxide removal does have a role to play. this is, this is clear from the science, but is absolutely not an alternative to cutting emissions as quickly as possible at the moment. carbon dioxide removal. technologies are expensive and uncertain as well as what extent we could rely on them. so really the, the key thing is to get emissions down to stop biting fossil fuels as quickly as possible. there are no get out of jail free cars and any company or government who claims that they can offset fossil fuel emissions with. for example, planting trees. that's just a fallacy, especially when those trees are, as we know,

growing up in flames as we speak. and pleasure speaking to you. thank you ah, to the war and ukraine now. and while moscow's ground offensive appears to be slowing down, russian missiles continued to pounce cities and villages in ukraine, south and east. at least one resident was reportedly killed and cram a tourist in the don units. region barely strike was one of around 5 to hit the city, which is a declared target of rushes operation in the east. the mayor of from a tours urged civilians to evacuate. those attacks came after a barrage of missiles was fired on the port city of odessa from the black sea, also hitting residential areas. odessa is crucial to exporting desperately needed ukrainian grain to the rest of the world. but his bowling as part of detail is team in ukraine, and he has more on the latest developments in the conflict there. yeah,

we've had several attacks, again today in a chromosome, cuz 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 off long, long range missiles or, or middle range missiles that were fired 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 through 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 stated 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 today. meanwhile, the mayor responsible for the war, rushes, president vladimir putin, has travelled to

a run. this is only his 2nd trip abroad since the conflict began. and hereon, he held talks with regional heavyweights, iran and turkey, as his country begins to feel the impact of international isolation and the costly campaign in ukraine futon is looking for allies. iran has long been the target of western sanctions. so moscow hopes to develop closer, military and economic ties. terran the tehran trip also offers bruton a chance for a face to face meeting with turkish president ridge of type ardon. turkey has stood opposite russia in regional conflict and condemned the invasion of ukraine. but the nato member also has its share of friction with the west. officially, the leaders are in tehran to discuss syria, but ukraine is expected to also a heavily feature in the talks. and ali via is, is the around project director at the international crisis group. he joins us now from washington. ali, welcome. let's start by talking about iran and russia to nations under severe

western sanctions to nations, essentially out looking for friends. how much closer does this shared circumstance bring them? well, it has turned the relationship between the 2 countries, which was at best over the past few years, a tactical partnership into a strategic relationship. and the reason, as you rightly pointed out, is that they don't have a lot of friends. they don't have a lot of alternatives. and so it's an alliance of necessity that has brought to 2 countries closer together. especially at this point in time that russia needs iran's experience and circumventing western sanctions. and iran season rushes depleting military in the bore in ukraine as an opportunity to basically sell its arms to a major war power. so it is a relationship that is growing by today. iranian leader has been talking about

a long term cooperation with russia that both countries could benefit from, but when it comes to energy production, they're fierce competitors especially now. so what's really in it for around so this is i think mostly signaling to the west that you know, these countries are not as isolated as the width wants them to be. they have alternative they can create a coalition of things and they've been basically trying to live and out live western sanction. but in practice, you know, there is a hard feeling to how far iran and russia can go and developing their economic relations because their economies are not compatible. they both export energy primarily. and you said they've now been competing in selling oil to china for instance. and i best trade between the 2 countries has reached about 4000000000

and i think that's probably the limit of it. whereas iran has a $40000000000.00 trade with china, for instance. so i think it's a lot of empty rhetoric that in practice, will not amount to much. now, the u. s. is watching this closely. what good runs cozying up with russia mean for the attempt to revive the nuclear deal? well, you know, the reality is that i think the iranians have realized what is on the table right now in terms of the deal to restore the original nuclear agreement. the agreement from 2015 is really not going to mitigate 2 key risks that the iranians view with, with the original agreement one as they political risk. that in fact, the next you as president in 2025, my re neg, once again in the, in the same way the president trumped it in 2018. and there is no guarantee that any us administration can provide that this would not happen again. and there goes on it can on

a risk from the perspective of the iranians that sanctions could be stamped back. and although their economy has now adjusted to sanctions, they might find themselves in a situation in 2025. that once again, they will suffer an economic shock that could be deeper. and this jojo in their economy is something that they don't like to see. and again, there is no way any deal can mitigate that risk for them. and so i do believe that they have moved beyond the tracy p. o a the nuclear deal and they believe that they can survive without it. and the coding up with the russian is giving even more credits to this sentiment. unfortunately, there is really not much that the u. s. can do about it. other than trying to put more pressure on iran, which is almost bound to backfire. when your government says iran is preparing to sell arm drones to russia for use in ukraine, will come back to you in a 2nd. but 1st, i want to show you what the us defense department said earlier tonight,

the iranians have a domestic production capability of drones. and those drones have lethal capabilities. we've seen that for ourselves in the tax that they have. they have perpetrated in iraq and syria, against our own troops and against our own facilities there. so we're watching this closely and we're taking it seriously. i do think iran will go through with the sale. i think it will. it has already proliferated, just as drones to non state actors in the region, from the hutus in yemen to its allies in iraq and syria. and i see no reason why they wouldn't provided to russia despite the rhetoric that they are neutral in the war in ukraine. i think they will go ahead, but these 2 are not the only ones meeting and in tear on today to get rid of time on is also there for talk. and he had an agenda of its own turkey planning,

a fresh military offensive in northern syria. how did that go down without not good . in fact, the supreme leader of iran, in a very public manner pushed back against the turkish plans to invade northern syria and board and the consequences. and i think the russians are also against the turkish incursion. and so, you know, this is not the only issue that is being discussed, but so far to the turks have received a pretty harsh pushback from the 2 other powers at the table. they are also going to discuss opening a quarter door for exporting a grain out of the black sea, which is obviously related to the, to the conflict in ukraine. but, but so far, i think president, one has been pretty disappointed by the reaction of iran and russia towards this

plans is very eyes of the international crisis group. many, thanks. thank you. well, and we keep talking about turkish president retired ardon because he has threatened to block sweden and finland bid to join nato. he wants to make sure they stick to the assurances day gave last month that they'd clamped down on kurdish groups in turkey groups. turkey views as terrorists for some kurds living and swing the future now seems uncertain. curds in stockholm or protesting demands from turkish president ret, up tie a bear to one for the swedish government to crack down on their presents especially demonstrations like this one with a prominent showing by the p k. k. a kurdish militant group officially designated as a terrorist organization by the swedish government for its armed attacks against turkey . heir to one is threatening to block sweden's pending membership in nato. if it doesn't take action. he additionally claims

a deal made with sweden and finland to step up counterterrorism cooperation and exchange intelligence means the swedish government has agreed to extradite dozens of people air to want accuses of terrorism. the trilateral memo, which is public contains no such pledge, but that's not enough to reassure belinda kenneth, a turkish newspaper editor sentenced to life in prison in ankara for criticizing the air to one regime. kennedy thought he was safe after escaping to sweden in 2016 . as a new life for me, i took a bitter breath and said that or to know the danger room in the hunt. but the danger didn't remain behind. in february swedish authorities informed kenneth turkey was demanding his extradition. he had to testify and says his case is currently in the supreme court. i am just fuels and i couldn't. i just could such oblong region on gra accuses him of many crimes,

including of being a gullet, nist, a follower of an exiled, religious leader, residing in the us whom air to one has labeled a terrorist. kennedy has found his name on lists of people. air to one says must be handed over before he'll approve swedish membership in nato. but you ever have imagined that you would be in this situation where you feel like your life is a bargaining chip on the move on the shells, i am sure that the sued the system are concerned to put me. i am a conduct process schubert, though he's not a own since air to one leveled. his demands against sweden curds who support groups considered illegal in turkey are nervous, even though the swedish government rejects suggestions. it's made any deals on x traditions with ankara, amina, cock, a bother is a swedish parliamentarian with iranian kurdish roots. the turkish government has also called her a terrorist and demanded she be sent to turkey. even though she says she doesn't support the p k. k. and she's not turkish. people are also very worried about my

security on their own security, of course, even in abroad. you know, if you have your name in sung live abroad, they come, yelled the turkish government in our that is very done. jose nato hope swedish membership gets quick approval from allies parliaments. but analysts are, as lynn says, he suspects air to 1 may well drag. this dispute out as he runs for reelection next june. this plays very well into the turkish narrative. i mean i, i think it's an attempt to shift focus from the very high inflation. that's a mix. it's very hard for people to, to move forward over to life and also for, for the upcoming presidential and parliament her election blunt kenneth hopes he won't have to wait that long to know his own fate dignified life, a counselor, and for me, if i be puzzled,

he's hoping to learn by september that he can stay in sweden as best time from all of us here in berlin. thank you so much for spending part of your day with ah, with innovation, bring it all new ideas in conventions are

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