ah ah this is d w news line from by land ukraine's vladimir lansky host turkish president, reggie type i wanna had a bad meeting where the un secretary general talks on the safety of a key nuclear power plant. this as officials in ukraine, 2nd largest city hall case report fresh russian strikes on civilian areas. also on

the program bombing at a mosque in the afghan capital, cowboy kills 21. people a wound dozens more. it's the latest attack since the taliban seized power a year ago. and hate waves and droughts cause europe's trees to lose that leaves and we have a special report on efforts to save berlin screen spaces. ah, i'm show gail. welcome to the program. we began in ukraine's western city of levin were present volume is the landscape hosting talks with un secretary general, antonio, good cherish and turkish present. ready type on top of the agenda is the volatile situation. that was that raise your nuclear power plant in southern ukraine, which russia now controls the plant has come under repeated shelling in recent weeks. also on the agenda,

a grain exports with millions of tons of much needed wheat and may still stuck in ukrainian pulse. with turkey emerging as a mediator between ukraine and russia, i asked our correspondent, julia han and it's tumble about the possibility of president about getting the warring parties around the table. well, it's actually ad one's 1st visit to ukraine since russia began invading the country . so it's actually the 1st time he is talking face to face with volota mias lensky since later february. some observers say it's about timer on. finally went to ukraine because he has already met twice with the of loud him you put in 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 most gonna 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 grain 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 effort 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 start prostituted among our trotting this, this fine line has been 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

a 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 media, 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 is the steel 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 of 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 of the 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. and a mr. once rolling, this is really quite interesting. how does he or how does turkey benefit from putting a mr. o putting took the right to the center of these mediation reference? well, 1st of all, i think it's important to, to say. and to mentioned 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. that univ uni hahn is double. meanwhile, authorities searching for survivors of russian shelling in ukraine. second city hawk. if official say at least 11 people were killed in a strike on an apartment building, situated in northeastern ukraine hawk, if has been subjected to continually russian strikes since the start of the war showing in the south africa and neighbourhood killed 7 people myself itself typically is close to the front line and has been the target of russian shoving nearly every day. the mare says a 1000 civilians had been killed in harker since the war began. brigitte ashika was insulted after a few days before

a few days ago before the latest 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 into submission have left south africa district like this. since the start of russia invasion salt, if guy has borne, the brunt of moscow's relentless shelling were taught. 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 in during months of attacks . leona had tatiana boscoe are the only people still in their block. them miss how life used to be a larger good, good. there were many children running around it. it was fun living you got to go? 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 hear shelly in the distance with with us. the reason of my league is fear is still that the russians could come from a best number to solidly. we can survive with no water, with no electricity from wonderful. but this shooting the rockets hitting us the bullets that frightens me. despite the fear life is slowly returning to south america. next door workers fix 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 the vocals with media used to jousting at 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 again. and if, for example,

we were to replace the glass in the windows, we could even humpy born and attack jesus joke running the bulletin. i'm older and you're with reduced. but for ego, i sat harshly. even basic repairs are a sign of hope. he invites us to his home, after weeks living in the metro station he and his wife all in our in 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 coach. he proudly shows as tv uh, no bolivian these weeks. 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. or small stores making headlines today. stony says it has repel the most extensive cyber attacks. for more than a decade, the russian hacker group kill net says it blocked, access to more than 200 state and private institutions is tonja has removed a soviet monuments in a region with an ethnic russian majority. taiwan air force has been showing off its anti aircraft weapons, and chimes carried out military exercises around the island, including over flying it's air defense. so asian claims taiwan has its own territory and tensions have been running high since the recent visit of u. s. house. speaker, nancy pelosi. thousands of people have demonstrated through buenos aires demanding help where the cost of living crisis. argentina is battling one of the worlds, the highest annual inflation rates of around 70 percent. really half the population

lives in poverty. protesters won't pay rises and more social spending. rail work is in the u. k. a staging and other pay strike, leaving london's main stations empty. more walk outs are planned for the weekend, which are likely to cause significant disruption. dockers are also preparing to take industrial action as high inflation, erodes spending power bombing at a mosque in the afghan capital, cowboy is killed at least $21.00 people, including a plumber. prominent cleric, dozens more were wounded and there's been no claim of responsibility for the so called islamic state has carried out a series of attacks in afghanistan. since the taliban returned 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. allen got warmer. 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, his 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 that out of out of my driver's so many people were killed all the amount of my some were even thrown out of the windows of the moss. i'm out of her bedroom, but on that with mamma, the sword,

but the low that i brought 2 of my family members here up was that they were injured in the blast. we are done before we learned was go with the missouri. the islamic state has primarily targeted minority communities, such as she i'd still fees and seeks, but their focus now seems to be widening just as the taliban celebrate their one year empower. last, a journalist, allie latifah, in kabul, who was likely to be behind these attacks. 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 academic to the fact or even gurgling 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 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, there were there was a killing of another religious leader. i think what it does prove is that the climate camera is having as much of a problem as the former small republic. in taking out an insurgency. the former sonic republic had to deal with to tell a bond when they were that urgency, as well as the so called a slavic state. and now the em are it. the total bon, you know, is only left with it for the, from the state, 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 grounds. but what experience do you have and actually you can destroy things. but what experience do you have in protecting, right? what experience 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 islamic state, it's moved from having specific bases and specific districts of the country into having sort of the cells that operate a and live in certain areas for

a while until they can plan and carry out in the tack. 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 i it's clear where they are specifically they could really be anywhere this like they're like covert cells. i thank you for that alley. i mean the t v and couple the leaders of kosovo in serbia have been trying to ease tensions or talks in brussels cause of oh, broke away from serbia in 1999 and later declared independence leading to a long simmering border dispute as month because of in government said it would no longer recognize serbian identity documents a license plight prevent delayed implementing the measure after the announcement triggered unrest. the affairs of open conflict could break out again. the correspondent marina strauss in brussels is following those talks welcome

marina. so talks have now happened to a you retrieved it, brought to joseph burrell, held a press conference, what did we look to put it in very simple, blind words and nothing. there were no results. we were waiting for this press statement for almost 4 hours was announced, or schedule a lot earlier. and when you set burrell the chief to a diplomat, appeared in front of the pets. a little while ago he basically said there were no resells and the cost of those and serbia leaders did not join this press conference. so yeah, we are not further in this conflict when what you're separate also underlined is that of course it's very important to find a sort of solution to the current tensions, especially with a war already looming in europe, the war in ukraine. right?

so reminders, if you would have the background to these long standing tensions. so and there's this fundamental conflict or you've already mentioned, it is the cost of all sorta or became independent from serbia in 2008. and a serbia never accepted this independence m. o crossovers, independence and so it still says their customer, it's part of its own territory. and this is because many service consider costs of of the region s or a, the birthplace of the serbian nation. so this conflict goes way back when ca civil and serbia were still path. a former serbian dominated yugoslavia. so in the early 1990 s crossover wants to become independent. but serbia did not accept that and brutally cracked down on this movement. and ever since this conflict has not been resolved. and i mentioned in the introduction of these latest proposals by cost of

not to recognize serbian license plates and document, or are the protests against that proposal likely to lead to escalate to anything more than an exchange of angry words? we may be not looking at a full fledged war, but of course, their fears all over europe. also in the united states that the violence, it could become a great dominant again in this region. and de, you've said it a, we've seen ad tensions or in the last couple of weeks over a license plate. this border a conflict shots were being fired, protest this war under street. of course, this was the 1st time we've seen attentions over the last 2 decades. in this region, and nato secretary general against oldenburg. interesting, the said yesterday, when both leaders arrived here in brussels, that the nature mission in class

a lot less still on a to mission, deployed in kosovo, is actually ready to intervene if they consider the situation or the stability to be in the streets and to be jeopardized, thank you about maria. marina strasser. russell's is a quick look at most or is making headlines around the world. will start in algeria where forest fires have killed 26 people. hundreds more have been moved to safety with many victims, suffering a breathing difficulties. helicopters are being used to put out the fire a storm is caused, severe flooding in new zealand to hundreds of families of hamper had to leave their homes of state of emergencies, enforce rivers of burst. their banks and roads have been washed away. moray is forecasting over the next few days. receding water levels of revealed human remains in a lake near las vegas authority say 5 brothers have come to lake in lake mead resume

have come to light in lake mead reservoir and unprecedented drought. sitting water supplies in the western united states, a trees, a one of our main climate protects us. i remove carbon dioxide from the air, release, oxygen, and call our cities for the intense heat waves and drought across europe. i have put trees on the severe strain. the w sophie kirby reports now what's being done to safe and here in the german capital. 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 hasn't been in this department for the environment. told me the trees here suffering from climate stress. they're feeling the effects of the extreme heat of recent summer and the ongoing droughts. 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 drought now because of the, the effect we have had no climate change. the trees are responding to that drove by cutting leaps because without quite water they counselor to shoot slash. i'm so so the leaves are useless. it's an emergency response to protect themselves against against the gratian consequences. julie luther as an ecologist, living in berlin several years ago, she noticed the trees looking sick and decided to help them. i realize how much they needed water. how dry the summer was. and i know it's supposed to be raining way more usually, which is it's nice to have

a sunny weather for the murder. but for the truth and the environment, it can be very hard for them. so say in 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 and make his 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 to help cooling down the streets and also for pumping out oxygen deoxygenated. we're breathing. they also help absorbed the carbon dioxide and the carbon dioxide, of course, being one of the greenhouse gases that contributes to global roommate. yes, yes. i think there are many engaged citizens in berlin, but unfortunately, no one near enough. the watering the trees. the authorities also don't have the

capacity even during mild summers, but in this department for the environment is looking at ways to support trees in 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. some of europe's most famous rivers are running out of water as the hot dry weather takes its toll and the river. the walk in france attracts visitors from all over the world. for this year. there's not enough water for the flat bottom barges to ferry taurus around delaware 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 m. m, i am, at least it makes me sad,

my place because it makes me sad because i grew up in the village. emily and i had never seen the river like this toy dog. we used to go to the water holes over there with the children and fish, because the water wasn't too high and wouldn't it. but i should let no one. yep. now there's just algy and frogs laughed. does al good declining the reduction and 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 in ponds. scientists say the current low water level is something of a wider wake up call. it changed no, didn't under it at the low water level, this year is quite exceptional. it's due to a major deficit and rainfall that began last winter g. it's led to many small tributaries of the lower to dry up or not. it's just your degree more with france

currently facing severe droughts and several regions. interracial rain and flooding and others. many experts are calling for a rethink when it comes to the use of essential natural resources. monkey meds, ye keep it on climate change is underway. 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, sidney and with extreme weather events only set to increase in the future. the issue is not going away any time. soon. paddle boarding is an increasingly popular way to exercise and get in touch with nature. but sometimes, well they to can come a bit too close for comfort. as a couple of paddle boarders in argentina found out, they were surrounded by a group of wales which swam right up to them. one of the men even got the marine version of a friendly little fist bumped to board as say the encounter was exciting. an

unforgettable is remind of our top story this our ukrainian president vladimir landscapes, hosting turkish president, reggie of time on a new on un secretary general antonio be terrace in the faith in western ukraine. they're discussing shelling out the russian control, just operation nuclear power plant in southern ukraine, and efforts to export all great. i'm next here on that dw focus on europe looking at stores of people escaping from russia. yes, i'll be back at the top of the act. i'm good with

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it's waters connect people of many cultures. seen of almost rock and to far bill korea drift along with exploring modern lifestyles and mediterranean. where has history left its traces, meeting people hearing their dreams editor during this week on d. w. hello and welcome to focus on europe. it is good to have you with us today. the warn ukraine has been going on for about half.