is the moment to unleash on violet to pause and read. imagine these teachings will relevance to us. gandhi's legacy starts august 6th loan b, w. ah ah, [000:00:00;00] ah . the sustainable news line from berlin, russia raises the stakes in ukraine. the kremlin says it's changing course because of western weapons being used by the defenders. moscow now wants to take over

territory beyond the disputed don bass region. also on the program. german foreign minister on alina bab walk tells d w about plans for a new national security strategy. she says, germany will continue its military support for ukraine, but reduce its economic dependence on china and sciences, they, europe, deadly heat wave is a wake up call. they warn the world's dependents on fossil fuels means there is worth to comp ah, i'm to cough really. it's good to have you with us. russia is expanding it's military objectives in ukraine. foreign minister survey love ralph says moscow's aims. now extend beyond the eastern dawn bass region we're finding is heaviest. he blames western weapons supplies for the change and strategy and insists the purpose

of the invasion is to demilitarize ukraine, hard, 8 in the city of har heath. as a father and prayer kneels over his lifeless son, the teenager was waiting for bus. when he was killed by a russian missile strike. through 3 people have been killed including a 13 year old boy. i'm 2 people wounded around among them is a 15 year old girl. she's been operated on right now. it was on a daily shelling, pummels eastern ukraine, killing civilians and destroying neighborhoods. you know, there were 2 strikes, one hit here, and the other hit a grocery store on the other side of the street. and now the trajectory of violence is about to change. what made it the walk, oak zarbara, caused the west pause, more remote long range weapons,

such as high miles into ukraine in an impotent rage, or in a desire to exacerbate the situation as much as possible to global should wooded dogs mean seen geographical tasks of these special operations will extend still further from the current line of certain, initially showed that russia's pretext for war was allegedly to liberate breakaway regions in the east from nazi rule and accusation. ukraine and the west se is not grounded in reality. now the kremlin is expanding its attack, blaming the west port shift in military strategy. some of them, when you more from that was we can not allow the parts of ukraine that president louder me as a lensky. come from you or whoever replaced the sim will control who are you to have a weapons that will pose a direct direct to our territory. it started on the territory of those republics. but to declare that independence is screwed up. if you just word user use misty to

do to chose, he says at this point, engaging in peace talks doesn't make sense. meanwhile, ukrainians are paying the ultimate price terminus. foreign minister and elena babbled has announced plans for a new national security strategy. the scheme is being drawn up in consultation with a range of civil and military experts, members of parliament and the public. babcock has been presenting her plans around germany and also spoke to our chief international editor richard walker and ladybug many thanks for joining deutsch villa. i would like to begin with the warren ukraine, which of course, is the backdrop to developing a japanese new national security strategy. your russian counterpart, safety level has to said that russia is expanding its focus of from doing that can lo, hunter, in the east of the country a to harrison and other regents in the south. this seems to confirm that the notion that russia is aiming to annex these territories,

perhaps even cut off ukraine entirely from the black sea. what's your response to that? while the same as it had been in the last 2 months, we support j. ukraine not only with sell a dera t, not only by mentioning every day that this is a fundamental breach of international law by russia, but also with military support. so they can self defend their country, their territory, and russia using every time a different argument. so, so this time it's so because of the military support they are saying, but they have been attacking keith and other parts of ukraine before. so it's just the new propaganda from the russian side. now the war has exposed because germany's very severe dependency on russian gas we be seeing that in particular, this very weak. when you launch the national security strategy process, you said you highlighted the issues of dependency. so i would like to look at another dependency that germany has on china for its economy. this is one that could go very wrong. people are saying,

now you are developing these chimes. trashy is part of this process. how serious are you about tackling and reducing this economic dependency on china? varied here is otherwise it wouldn't make sense to make it a strategy if you're not terry, this serious about strategy shouldn't do one. so this is why we're looking intensively about our dependencies. but if you see also with russia, some things you cannot cut from one day to the other. and there are some other questions for many european countries. for example, it's, we're going correctly now to electric cars to be in line with our climate to gills . so we need obviously, batteries, we don't have a battery production as we need for the cost. now we're starting one, but all the materials which are in the batteries, we have a dependency of 98 percent discount for all the cars in europe. so this is why our china strategy is also not an isolated german one,

but because we had integrated internal market, we're doing it in line with our european partners was the commission was also made very clear that china is not only a competitor in some of it so now my question, it's all to partner fighting in the climate crisis, but also system rival and because it's a system, right? well, we have to make clear that and nobody can black my last as we work with regard our dependency to, to russia. and this is the baseline for new china as strategy working together, where we can work together. but having also a several european strategy of independence in critical infrastructure. and especially in line with our foreign policy. that was germany's foreign minister and alina bab, oak speaking to d, w as chief international editor, richard walker. let's now take a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world today. italian prime minister mario druggie has won a vote of confidence in the senate,

but he did. his administration remains in peril offer. 3 parties were in government with him, refused to take part. druggie demanded unity from the broad coalition, but failed to get the support of crucial factions is now expected to resign. british foreign minister list trots and former finance minister richie sudak are competing to become the next prime minister of the u. k. after winning the support of members of parliament, they'll go on to face a vote by members of the ruling. conservative party with the result expected by september. and sri lankan m. p. 's have elected prime minister ronald wick, grimacing gay as the new president, despite widespread calls for him to quit politics. that is, the ex leader go to by our roger pox, a slit last week. after a series of protests, the new president must deal with so long cuz a worst economic crisis. u. s. presidential biden has called climate change

a clear and present danger that cannot be ignored by is using his presidential powers to invest billions of dollars to protect communities from extreme weather and to support wind energy. speaking at a former cold fired power plant in massachusetts, he said the u. s. month that a global example while protecting americans from extreme weather the president as playing by low poll numbers as environmental activists. our on his ability to make concrete changes on climate, but he's, as the find isn't over, will not take no for an answer. i will do everything in my power. clean our air and water protect our people's health. when the clean energy future, which again sounds like our purview, our children and grandchildren are counting on us. not a job, not a job. if we don't keep up with a 1.5 degrees centigrade,

we lose it all. you don't get to turn it around. and the world is counting on us earlier i asked our washington correspond mckayla, cuz now why biden's stopped short of declaring a national climate emergency. why? because he simply wants to get the chance to take this bit by bit. i think he is in the process of giving up hope to avoid that know that he said that he won't take as an answer and that's one of his own centers. do mansion who's turned on him, and there's such a delicate balance currently amongst lawmakers that that one vote would be needed to implement his climate action, the whole build back better concept of joe biden. so this points to a weakness in the u. s. president strategy and actually getting stuff done. and his climate adviser was actually off by done this on the plane that his somerset massachusetts why there was no declaration of emergency why. there was no executive

order sweeping executive order today. and the she wouldn't go into details, but very much sounded like they're still working out the exact details on how they want to do this. but the announcement is that that executive orders will be issued on a whole host of climate policy. what he announced today is mostly focused on resilience and support for renewables. what impact will the action that he today presented have? well, the hope is that where you pledge more than $2000000000.00 as he has done today, more private investment will follow and that very much is the plan of action. also monks, according to his key advisors. beyond that, it will be about sticking to climate commitments. this is not necessarily something that is unpopular in the united states,

but he needs to convey the message that this can be done while creating jobs. and that's also why he chose the scene where he was standing today. it was one of the biggest coal fired plants in the country. now, there's a production of cables, spring also energy to the united states. that's what he wants to see in the future . but he really is fitting to get that across the finishing line for now, does the public share biden's sense of urgency in tackling the climate crisis? well, certainly 100000000 americans alone are suffering from the acute heat right now. so there's a whole new audience. this resonates with right now. polls have also shown that there is a sense not just amongst republicans, that they are in favor of green energy. i'm particularly amongst his own democrats, more than 2 thirds feel that their own president is acting too slowly on this. so

if that's not a mandate identity, thank you very much. dw correspondent mikaela, cuz none washington. well, the heat wave here in europe is causing more death and destruction. climate scientists are calling the extreme whether awake of call and warning that worse is to come because fossil fuels, like coal and gas remain the world's primary energy sources. record temperatures and several countries are still fueling deadly. wildfires. french president of manion mccaul, thank to fire fighters taking a break and one of the worst affected areas of western france today. he says governments will need to plan on what he calls a more structural level in the future. and the heat wave is making itself felt here in germany as well. thermometers have just recorded the hottest day of the year so far and many regions are also suffering from long term lack of rainfall. it's a sweltering summer in germany,

even in the morning. it was 30 degrees celsius here in frankfort. just about bearable as a sean. hi sir, it's already hosted. so you have to go home early on the house again via houses, and she's staying in the shade and drinking a lot. and we just had ice cream on the website. the extreme heat is a big strain on people working outdoors at this construction site and berlin workers are struggling on this farm, and germany is not relief comes from above. the heat is also hot on dairy cows, and they're enjoying the water sprinklers at reserve, up above it surprised me that the cows come into the barn on their home and very quickly to hug when the sprinkler system is on the few, quite comfortable with the water cooling them down, they're likely to look meteorologist say at least some parts of germany. we'll see lower temperatures on thursday or dawn come to night. humid air will come in from

the west, making it increasingly muggy about them. thunderstorms were rolling, which could bring heavy rain hail and strong winds longer and that'll freshen the air up. so while it will still be hot and ice and areas to morrow, western reason should have cooled down the crude sign. got that for now. the heat is sparking files in many regions, 400 firefighters, have been battling this single forest file since last night. well, that's all for me for now. business with chrissy plasm is next. with more on the russian thread to europe. gas applies. i'm nickel really for me and the entire team here in berlin. thank you so much for your company today. making raring to read if there is any