interior gresham ah, the chinese president believes that his way is for superior than that of western democracy. china's president changing paying starts july 30th on d. w. ah, ah, the thursday w news live from berlin. a heat wave like never before the death toll in europe rises and while flies extend across the south, the u. k. these temperatures reach of 40 degrees celsius for the 1st time since records began. also coming up,

we're seeing ample evidence in the intelligence. and in the public domain that russian turned to try to annex additional ukrainian territory. the united states was off, polished friends after accusing moscow of laying the groundwork for more illegal land grabs in ukraine. and that may have who to, in hold talks in iran, on his 2nd trip abroad, and starting the war in ukraine. the russian president says there's some progress on unblocked ukrainian grain exports. ah hello, then i'm really muhammad europe. his record breaking heat wave is fueling wildfires . across parts of portugal, spain, france, italy, and decrease. hundreds of people have died most from the effects of the heat, but others have been killed in the fires. further north, the u. k. has recorded the hottest day ever. mm hm. a

village outside london said to blaze by the searing heat was temperatures exceeding 40 degrees celsius on tuesday. much f u k. was a tinderbox waiting for a spark, the smoke was visible from the capitol. it's city center, usually bustling with tourists from around the world. quiet in the oppressive heat hot and. c c and you up with the heat also spread to other parts of england not normally known for sunshine and cloudless skies. well, everything's difficult of grudging hold unfortunately. i mean i'm involved in something at a church and this. busy organizations have a truck down because people don't feel comfortable coming out. so he's we normally

sell to the company. so what he's fitness, never the hottest. yeah, i don't think he said anything. it's a great privilege for us, but we just gotta get on with this. won't be the last time the mercury reaches record highs once a year when you see these kind of heat waves are becoming more and more frequent through the coming the case. then they got the trending climate. we'll continue, at least on the other with us on 60 sir, independent of our success in climate there mitigation. the heat wave has swept across the continent, beat a destructive path from western europe, where fires still raging near the french. did you have bought door over 900000 hacked, us of countryside have been scorched? forcing the evacuation of over 30000 residents. meanwhile, the heat continues its journey eastwards, belgium, and parts of germany up bracing for extreme temperatures on wednesday. the japanese barbara visa live in southwest france and has more on the conditions there. we're

on the edge off the veal and the town off la tests to which really has been struck by these horrific give forest fires. and we talked to the mayor and to the head of the civil protection at to day here. and they said in our life times we have never seen anything like this because these fires are going on all for a week. that is the fire trucks. you see behind me that are coming and going look 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 with us. we're just 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 just trying to keep them in place and they're far from extinguishing them because it is incredibly hot and dry weather for

a 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. well, let's take a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world. the us house of representatives has approved a bill to recognize same sex marriage at the federal level. the measure is in response to a growing concerned, the supreme court could nullify a previous ruley guaranteeing marriage. a quantity is unclear if the bill has enough support to pass in the senate. you are a secretary of state antony blinkin says roughly 25000000 people around the world. a currently victims of human trafficking. and according to the state department's annual report on the issue, the report also stressed that russia's invasion of ukraine has left ukrainian refugees, highly vulnerable to trafficking us judge has rules that

a lawsuit filed by twitter against a billionaire ill on mosque will go on trial in october, it was the 1st hearing in our legal tussle over mosque, dropping the $44000000000.00 deal to buy twitter. the social media company wants to force him to complete the buyout. for you. i says it has evidence that russia is trying to annex more ukrainian territory. white house, national security spokesman john kirby said. moscow is telling to organize sham referendums to formerly take possession of ukrainian territory under its control. he added that russia is targeting the regions of course, on the upper asia and all are done yet. and lou husk annexation by force would be a gross violation of the un charter. and we will not allow to go unchallenged or unpunished, who continued to provide ukraine with stork levels of se curious,

sisters. later this week, the administration will announce the next presidential drawdown, package of weapons and equipment for ukraine will be the 16th such drawdown to support ukraine since the president took off. now what to the latest on the ground in ukraine? at least one person has been killed and several others wounded in russian missile strikes. in the eastern city of chroma task, russian troops are wrapping up a tax on the city as part of their offensive to capture the entire don bass region . but their meeting fierce resistance from ukrainian forces or russian air stroke in the heart of grammar dos. this woman is praying for her son in law was severely injured in the attack. for the whole, yes, i felt a really powerful explosion, and i understood it was some way here. i called my daughter and she said that maxim was not picking up her phone. he must have been knocked off then. cuz then they

said i was unconscious at, in critical condition. i daughter said the doctors think the outlook is bad. we have a new the we said we were cardia lis mazin, we were walking out of the grocery store. and at that moment there was a blind should esteem in the 3 minutes later we walked into our yard and we saw this picture a majority of colors. our neighbor max was lying near our car. naturally we called the ambulance, but it only arrived 20 minutes later. seminole double. what is this green and breast involved? new zalinski condemned the strike in tramadol, along as well as the several others across the country. a goliath calling them atlas of detto ally, that i queerness villa. meanwhile, russian forces are keeping up the bombardments of cities across ukraine. isn't noticing them. all of the russians are more aggressive now, but it feels like they're firing with their eyes closed. they shall,

everything don't put before they at least try to hit certain targets. but now they are much more aggressive. there are many of them in them that we will manage and we have no other option. after days of heavy fighting, ukraine says it has managed to push back russian troops in bonds of done yet. this in russian forces have suffered heavy casualties. ukrainian lead us. it will be the timely delivery of western weapons and ammunition that will ultimately decide the course of the war. and kearney, and president of all at the marriage zalinski is continuing a purge of his nation security agency, s p u as fears grove that some employees could be collaborating with russia. and his lightly address zalinski announced the dismissal of one of the s p u as deputy

directors. it comes after he removed the agencies chief and fired the country's top prosecutor, the dismissals mock, the biggest shakeup in zalinski government. since the start of the war, russia president vladimir putin has held talks with the leaders of iran and turkey into iran. he said there's been some progress on, on blocking grain exports from ukraine. though not all issues are resolved. the ship is being seen as an opportunity for put in to help build bridges between leaders and shore up support in the region. to counter the west. russian president vladimir putin touched down into iran for 2nd trip abroad since launching his invasion of ukraine. putin and his arrange and turkish counterparts addressed the walls and syria and ukraine of as well as the impact on the rest of the world resilient nathan, my luther, a russian blockade is preventing millions of tons of grain from leaving ukrainian

ports, fueling a global food crisis with millions in developing countries at risk of going hungry, moscow is facing mounting pressure to find a solution. putin says one is now on the horizon. if you of, i would like to thank you for your mediation efforts for providing a platform for negotiations on food issues on issues of grain, transportation. we have moved forward thanks to your mediation, visit the world level. if you're not all the issues are resolved, but there is movement forward and that is good to 3 nations are divided over the decade. long conflict in syria, russia and iran who both support the assad regime, say they support a diplomatic solution. elizabeth marable, turkey on the other hand, wanted permission to launch a major offensive against syrian cards of cities. anchor reclaims, they are linked to an insurgency fighting turkey conflict. the of she's dead though

seldom is done. i hear statements from you are dear friends, that you understand turkey's security concerns. well, i'm, i'm grateful for that. under however words alone do not heal the wounds delma. the complete withdrawal of p k, k u, p y, d and y p g units at least 30 kilometers away from our border is a requirement of the agreements made in the past among them. however, this has still not been achieved. unzip while i go take this routes. but there was cooperation between iran and turkey on the economic front. the to pledge to triple their bilateral trade is set as the over to, to jury to sod even a go kish for this level of business that trade between the 2 countries to my is definitely not enough, considering the existing capacities that saturday ship. and it can go to a higher level fixed meconium chair, me tell on see $1000000.00 rule had of was we think we can reaches

$30000000000.00 that are cash racket, which is 3 times more than the current number. a tannery ran sarah f. so each quality of the 3 leaders standing together, but with their sometimes conflicting agendas, the true test will be whether that unity will last the reuters news agencies reporting that russia plans to resume gas exports to europe through the ignored stream one pipeline following maintenance. there have been fears, russia would keep the taps closed in retaliation to western sanctions. no $31.00 accounts for a 3rd of russia's gas exports to the european union. germany is heavily reliant on the pipeline. the ugliest political correspondent, lonely, yvonne hammerstein has morn whether russia is likely to follow up on the announcement. well, that's a very good question. but given the tensions and the backend back and forth and all over the last couple of weeks and months, you know, european leaders, i think,

will be very careful to rely on this piece of news just yet. you know, let's remember, even before this maintenance gas problem had already cut its flows through than what stream one pipeline. and it blames the absence of as humans, gas turbine and but many here including german chancellor shoulders and half rejected. that's a gas turbine argument and saying, you know, on the basis that it is basically just a pretext of what they think is really going on name the russia tightening its energy supplies to europe, knowing full well how much europe, especially germany, depends on them. in retaliation for western sanctions on moscow and, and reportedly the turbine is now on its way and to where it has to be. and yet gas from just yesterday told a customer that it could not as secure energy supplies, guarantee gas supplies, citing circumstances beyond their controls. so, you know,

bottom line is the situation is pretty volatile. it's very hard to tell whether how much gas will through flow through that pipeline on thursday, if any. and so your p meters here, i really preparing for the sort of worst case scenario, which is that russia cuts off all gas applies to europe. you're watching the w news live from berlin. stick around coming up next is dogville, looking at the famous says, it's a silly and a half the person resident, but host of the potsdam conference after world war 2. and one moment. thanks for watching. take care. bye bye. a man with the memories of a woman ah ali from syria is born in a female body forced into marriage. great.