standing shopping and dining office, enjoy alice services will be our guest at frankfurt. airport city. managed by frappe waterloo. ah ah, this is d. w. news live from berlin, ukraine's flooded me zalinski house, the turkish president, reggie type on meeting the secretary general for talk, says officials in ukraine, 2nd city hockey report. fresh russian strikes on civilian areas also on the program bombing to mosque in the afghan capital. kabul kills 21. people

a wound dozens more. it's the latest attack. sense of taliban seized power a year ago. frances law river all but vanished. there's an intense heat wife scorch . is europe with far reaching environmental and economic consequences. and those heat ways and dr. it's of course europe's trees to lose their leaves early. we have a special report on efforts to stay for little screen spaces. ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. we began in ukraine's western city of la viv, where president vladimir savanski is hosting un secretary general antonio. good cherish army turkish present budget type. early on 3 leaders are meeting to discuss a volatile situation at the russian controls operation. nuclear plant in southern

ukraine, which has come under repeated shelling of the recent weeks. also on the agenda, our efforts to increase grain exports with millions of tons of much needed wheat and corn, still stuck in ukrainian pools. or turkey has acted as a mediator during this war, and our correspondent julia han estoppel is covering the turkish ankle on this story. a welcome jojo. well, and neither turkey, neither ukraine nor russia seem to be ready for peace talks. is there any reason to believe that president erd one can get them around the table? well, it's actually add ons 1st visit to ukraine since russia began invading the country . so it's actually the 1st time he is talking, face to face with overloaded me as a lensky since a later february. some observer saith about time ed on finally went to ukraine, because he has already met twice with the vladimir putin in recent weeks. now

turkey is a nato member, but we also know that the turkish president is performing a delicate balancing act, where on the one hand, he supports ukraine. he has provided the country with modern combat drones. but he's also trying not to jeopardize his ties with russia. turkey has not joined western sanctions against moscow. now add on says this is actually an advantage. this helps him in this position as a key mediator in this war. and this is how he tries to cast himself. now the question is, we have seen a major breakthrough with this so called great deal that was broken by turkey and the united nations about a month ago. now, the question is, of course, will this lead anywhere else? a diplomatic efforts at ending the war are on the agenda today. that's according to add ons office. but as you mentioned, the situation on the ground right now does not suggest that any major progress will be made into the direction of peace talks or cease fire negotiations. right?

so. so as you saw president 31 i trudging this, this fine line has seen, made any comment about the likelihood of peace talks between these 2 sides who still seem miles apart. when it comes to talking, please. well present. edwin is making comments about this. so basically all the time because as i mentioned, he likes to be seen in his role as a power broker. and as a mediator, i think today the focus is very much on this so called a great deal, which is the major agreement that has been reached in this war. i think it's been a month now nearly all that this sir, this deal is in place. we know from official figures provided by the united nations, that about half a 1000000 tons of grain and other agricultural products have been shipped out of ukraine to world markets on about 20 vessels. but ukraine has a huge interest in speeding this whole process up. so they're probably going to

talk about how to possibly expand this deal. so i think right now the focus for the 3 leaders is, is, is the successes that have been made. but as i said, the, the, the question marks are, will this lead anywhere else? because after all, it is a un secretary general. it is latonia so lensky, the ukranian president, and the turkish president and russia, is not present at whatever happens today. right. a, mr once rolling, this is really quite interesting. how does he or how does turkey benefit from putting a mr. o, putting turkey right at the center of these mediation reference? well 1st of all, i think it's important to, to say, and to mention that to warn you crane has put turkey in a very difficult position because on cra, has close ties to both ukraine and russia. although those ties are much more complicated when it comes to russia and turkey is very dependent on russian energy

trade, on tourists from russia would add, one has been trying to do is turn the challenges into an opportunity to cast himself as someone who is or one of the few leaders, we're still able to talk to both sides in the end, i think for him this is about power. it is about leverage and international standing, not only here in the region or in the region, but also internationally. as i said towards the west and i, i believe he hopes that this will be helpful for him because he faces an election in 2023. thank you for that. you live unit hon. it is double the authors is searching for survivors of rush and sharing in ukraine's 2nd largest city hockey official. so at least 11 people were killed in a strike on an apartment building archives in northeastern ukraine. and it's been subjected to continue russian strikes since the start of the war. shoving the earlier in the south africa, a neighbourhood killed 7 people. or celtic guy is

a large district in the northeast of the kind of the nor in ne caucus are close to the front line and has been the target of russian showing nearly every day. the men of hawkins says that a 1000 civilians in the city have been killed since the war began. brigitte ashika was in a certificate a few days ago before the latest round of attacks and sent this report. ah, greg shops bombed out schools. no gas, no water. this used to be a vibrant neighborhood. months of attacks as the russians tried to smash hockey, f into submission had left south africa district like this. since the start of russia invasion felt if guy has borne, the brunt of moscow's relentless shelling were taught to 90. percent of the inhabitants have fled the neighbourhood. he has certainly feels like a ghost town. it's often the weekend poor who remained enduring months of her tax.

leona had tatiana boscoe are the only people still in there, block them miss? how life used to be a lot to get. there were many children running around it. it was fun living here to go really? yes, we are many kindergartens and schools. everything was there. we were there doing what they can to prepare for winter and use this basement to high tailoring air raid alarms, why we're down there. we're shelly in the distance. we're only with us, there is one of my biggest fear is still that the russians could come from a fashionable to felony. so we can survive with no water with no electricity from when you should. but this shooting the rockets hitting us the bulus that frightens me. despite the fear life is slowly returning to south america. next door workers fixed water pipes for the least them at apartments and patch up the smashed windows

to prevent rain and snow making the damage worse, but they are not ready to start. full renovation. a member of harkey housing committee tells me that both of these to justin had some whistler. there is no sense in doing it now because the war is still going on. most human hockey is being shelled every day of the day. and if for example, we were to replace the glass in the windows, we could even happy born an attack. jesus took one in the bulletin. i'm ordering her with reduced. but for ego or sadder arsenal, even basic repairs are a sign of help. he invites us to his home, after weeks living in the metro station he and his wife ali. now i really need to be bag. even though they have no windows, all running water. with me as we don't know what will happen in the winter and we hope there'll be some heating or we have to put more plastic in the windows. nothing eager says he's lucky. he's still being paid as

a professional football court. he proudly shows as his pediatric, nobody moves these are a lot of them are gone abroad or are now in western ukraine. they promote only 6 of the kids have stayed here, which is i missed them so very much. i really hope they come back soon. and so then he and the others we met here in south africa will concentrate on surviving and yellow, hoping the front keeps being pushed further away. bracing for the coming winter is looking for more storage, making headlines around the world will start in argentina where thousands of people have turned out on the streets of what a service to demand government help with the cost of living crisis argentina's battling on the walls, host annual inflation rates of around 70 percent to nearly half its population lives. poverty, they're calling for a wage increases more social spending rel, workers in the u. k. a staging another pay strike, leaving london's main stations empty will walk out supplies for the weekend,

which are likely to cause significant disruption. dockers are also prepared to take industrial action as high inflation erode spending power. taiwan air force has been showing off its anti aircraft weapons. china's carry out military exercises around the island, including over fly. it's offensive asian claims the island as its territory. tensions have been running high since the recent visit us. how speak a nancy pelosi and bombing at a mosque in the afghan capital cobble was killed at least $21.00 people, including a plumber. prominent cleric, dozen small were wounded. no one's claimed responsibility. the so called islamic state carried out a series of attacks in afghanistan. i since the time on return to power a year ago. oh, the mosque was crowded, and the bomb was powerful. dozens died and several children i believe, to be among the wounded casualty numbers are expected to rise.

security forces have now sealed off the blast seen. but this neighborhood is still in shock, and i thought the do of others on the i lost my cousin. he went to the mosque and then the blast happened. we only found out at midnight that he had lost his life. i've gone, a son has been hit by regular attacks since the taliban seized power in august last year. many of them have been claimed by the islamic state last week. the group claim responsibility for killing a prominent taliban cleric at his religious center in kabul. but so far, no one has taken credit for this attack. at the hospital, the families of the victims are waiting for news. larry that out of out of my driver's so many people were killed all the modem. i got some were even thrown out

of the windows of the moss. i'm out of the very bottom of that with my dilemma. the sword. but they know that i was brought to my family members here up of that they were injured in the blast. we are done before we le mars go. them is her the islamic state has primarily targeted minority communities such as she ight su, fees, and seeks. but their focus now seems to be widening just as the taliban celebrate their one year empower. straight to the afghan capital, our van cobble. we can join our journalist alley le tiffy. welcome our no claim of responsibility, but to who is thought to be behind this latest attack. if you look at it over the last year, there has been a string of attacks on places of worship. whether that be much it's belonging to people from the she effective to need access to the fact or even good wire belonging to seek population in cocoa. and these have happened to all over the

country and, and almost all of the cases claim responsibility did belong to the state. so far, no one has claimed responsibility for this specific attack. but it does seem to fall in line with their pattern. but the fact that no one is playing responsibility free a does raise some question. right. so we mentioned that are in the report this, this week or so. so the 1st anniversary of the taliban takeover of the country. a people reading anything into this timing on not necessarily because even leading up to the timing they were there was a killing of another religious leader. i think what it does prove is that the camera is having as much of a problem as the former small group public. in taking out an insurgency. the former sonic republic had to deal with the tele bond when they were the surgeon c,

as well as the so called a slum stage. and now the m are it, the total bon, you know, is only left with it for all the from estate, but they to have been unable to take on this group. because even if this specific instance isn't them, the truth is that they still pose a threat and that they are the biggest, they're the biggest threat remaining in the country at this point. right? why is it that these battle hardened 5 says seem so unable to provide the country with the one thing that you would have expected from the which is just security? well, i think it's just more proof that it is very difficult to govern, right? it's very difficult to govern, very difficult to provide security because, you know, yes, you came from the battle ground. but what experience do you have and actually you can destroy things. but what experience do you have in protecting? right? what exchange do you have in running things and making sure that they operate correctly? and then the other thing is that this, again, if it does turn out to be them, but also just in general,

the so called as long as it's moved from having specific bases and specific districts of the countries into having sort of the cell that operate. and live in certain areas for a while until they can plan and carry out and attacks. and then they move on. you know, another sect of the group will move on to another area and do the same thing over the course of weeks or months. so it's much more difficult to find them because it's clear where they are specifically they could really be anywhere with their covert. so i thank you for that. i mean, the chief and council i will take a look at most doors making headlines around the world. so it has caused to be flooding in new zealand. hundreds of families had to leave their homes. the state of emergency is in force rivers of birth that banks and roads have been washed away . more rain is forecast over the next few days. for 5 years have killed $26.00 people hundreds and will be not moved to safety. with many victims suffering

from breathing difficulties. helicopters have been used to put out the fires receding water that also revealed human remains in a lake near las vegas authority say 5 bodies have come to light in. they made reservoir and unprecedented drowsy sitting water supplies in the western united states. this is dw news life from berlin still to come trees all over europe or leave losing their leaves. much sooner than usual. here in efforts are underway to counter the effects of the hard drive. some general government says it is cutting sales tax on natural gas in an attempt to rain in inflation or the chancellor or last shots as the tax will drop from 19 to 7 percent as a temporary measure germany, due to see a fuel costs rise sharply at night of this year when an extra surcharge on natural gas comes into effect. my political correspondent need a has

a security covering the story. welcome, nina. so we're talking about cutting a value added tax on natural gas by more than a half, which sounds like a big step. it does sound like a big step and it is. and we just briefly have to look at why this is happening. it is happening, of course, because germany's massive dependency on russian gas supply still at this point in time and german gas importers are urgently looking to get gas from other sources. but russia at the moment. but of course, that is more expensive. that's just how the market works. so the government is trying to help those companies by introducing a special tax on gas to and the idea is that those companies can then pass on some of the higher cost to consumers. and that will start on the 1st of october and run for a year and a half a now. and that will be around 2 and a half cents extra per kilowatt hour for both normal households and also companies . so for an ordinary german family that will probably amount to hundreds of years,

and that is quite a bit of money. so germany had initially then try to get rid of the a t on that tax. but that doesn't work because if you rules, and so what the government is doing now is to reduce the a t on gas consumption altogether from 19 percent to 7 to help consumers, it's actually okay, and where, what else is the government doing to fight inflation and keep the cost of living down. well, all i've so said we're still talking about this tax and the reduction on v a t. m that he expects companies to pass on the reduction in full 2 german consumers. that's the 1st thing. and they are, the german government is working on the 3rd package of 8 measures, essentially for jim consumers, they've already handed out 8 packages worth 30000000000 years this year. for example, support for families with children, public transport nationwide cost. very little money this summer. and then they will also reform some of the aspects of the social welfare state of the next few months

. so they will change some of the criteria that more people can benefit from some of the measures that already exist. well, actually the chancellor has promised germans that this government will get them through what is certainly going to be a tough or similar wind. once temperatures drop in the gas bills were rise. and this is something that we'll just have to watch very closely over the next couple of months. this cost of living crunch is issued in countries all over the world. we're seeing strikes and demonstrations about this issue. i want to german consumers. think about what berlin is doing about it. well, phil, there has been a lot of talk about potential social unrest over the next coming weeks and months. germany is a rich country and that you know, the use help economy, but of course many people here, they get by on what they are, but they can't put money aside for more difficult days. so there have been some moments already when members of the government have been hacked,

killed at public appearances, and then the far right and the left parties of also said that they are going to go and take to the streets regularly starting in september will have so i said no, that will not be any social unrest this autumn, and he will definitely be measured by those words. eventually. thank you for that, nina. how's now some of your most famous rivers are running an extremely low levels this summer as a hot, dry weather takes its toll. the river was in france, trucks, visitors from all over the world. but this year there is enough water for us for the flat bottom barges to fairy tourists surround de la river and france is famous for the historic castles dotted along its banks. it's also famously a shallow river, but with water levels at mere record lows. even the locals are shocked, then it was some atrista. it makes me sad my place because it makes me sad because

i grew up in the village. emily, and i've never seen the river like this tornado. we used to go to the water holes over there with the children and fish, because the water wasn't too high or lunatic, but i should let no one. yep. now there's just algy and frogs. laughed is al g e. d conroy. the reduction in water has been disastrous from much of the areas ecosystem . many islands i now connected to the shore, cutting off various waterways. fish have been robbed of the space they need to survive and reduced to living and pawns. scientists say the current low water level is something of a wider wake up call. le jasminenewton under it at the low water level this year is quite exceptional. it's due to a major deficit in rainfall that began last winter g. it's led to many small tributaries of the lower to dry up on jessie roland dickory,

more with france currently facing severe droughts and several regions into rental rain and flooding. in others, many experts are calling for a rethink when it comes to the use of essential natural resources. monkey magic it on climate change is underway and it's undeniable, and it must encourage us to reflect on our rules for sharing water resources. we must understand that we're all affected and sydney and with extreme weather events only set to increase in the future. the issue is not going away any time. soon. one of our main climate protects as a trees. they remove carbon dioxide from the air, release, oxygen and cool our cities for the intense heat waves and drought across europe. this summer of put trees under severe strain, the w sophie kirby reports now and what's being done to save him here in germany. capital burnett. brown crumpled up and blanketing the ground. many

trees in germany's capital berlin are losing their leaves or are about to in some parts of iffy, it looks almost as if autumn has come early. except it has been in this department for the environment. told me the trees here suffering from climate stress, the feeling the effects of the extreme heat of recent summer and the ongoing grounds. and they're not the only ones. it's a similar story all across europe. even in typically went to places like england, scientists say this is climate change in action is a high probability. we haven't exceptional trap now because of the, the effect we have had on barre. oh, the climate change that we have. trees are responding to that drought by dropping leaps because without a squad or 2, they comfort a single slash. i'm so so the leaves are useless. it's an emergency response to

protect themselves against against the gratian consequences. julie loosely, as an ecologist, living in berlin several years ago, she noticed the trees looking sick and decided to help them. i realized how much they needed water and how dry the summer was. and i know it's supposed to be raining way more naturally, which is it's nice to have a sunny weather for the murder. but for the trees and the environment, it can be very hard for them. so same this type of weather over the years. she uses an open source app that maps out nearly all the trees in the city, some 800000 of them. it gives volunteers an overview of what trees have been watered and how much they still need. so just looking at this is incredibly detailed, i guess both makers and the uses of this app. really appreciate how important trees

are for us. yes, i think we're all realizing how important they are. they provide shadow that help cooling down the streets and also for pumping out oxygen deoxygenated. we're breathing. they also help absorb the carbon dioxide and the carbon dioxide, of course, being one of the greenhouse gases that contributes to global warming. yes, yes. certainly, there are many engaged citizens in berlin, but unfortunately no where near enough the watering the trees, the authorities also don't have the capacity even during mild a summers. but ins, department for the environment is looking at ways to support trees and the longer term they include making better use of rain water, planting more climate, resilient species, and working to boost public awareness of just how important trees are for our existence. so that more people start to look after them is reminder of our top story this our ukrainian president vladimir landscape hosting turkish president measure type or un secretary general antonio terrace innovative

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