ah ah ah ah, this is the w. news lies from berlin. warnings from ukraine of potential disaster, europe's largest nuclear power stage. ukranian officials say some plant workers are being kept away, raising new safety fits. we hear from an engineer from the facility ball to struggle to keep it running under russian occupation also on the program. a tornado

fire. that's how i would this is dry places that have killed thousands in algeria. survivors wonder why authorities didn't do more to stop the plan. and it's an action city facing a very modern problem. climate change means athens is getting hotter and dryer, but the greek capital is finding ways to adapt to rising temperature plus could all up cost be catching up with the german chancellor prepared to take a witness that proven to the country's biggest scandal. but he says, he can't remember the crucial details. ah, i'm good. how else has well come to the program? media report say, an air field russian occupied crimea has been rocked by

a series of explosions. the port of sebastopol is home to russia's black sea fleet report, say, the a blast. we're near a military airport, north of the city, where dozens of combat aircraft were parked russian occupation authorities are quoted as saying that anti aircraft force is down to ukrainian drone and that no damage was done. this came as united nation secretary on general antonio. a gutierrez was in the western ukrainian city of levine for talks with duke cranes, president wrote him, his lensky, and the turkish liter wessa type ada, one who parish called for all troops to be withdrawn from iran. ukraine's parisha nuclear power station plant is under russian occupation and has come under repeated shelling. the lead is also discussed exchanging prisoners of war and increase of ukrainian grain exports,

millions of tons of which are still stuck in black c ports. there is repeated his calls for a safe south zone. around zapora, asia, military equipment and personnel should be withdrawn from the plant. further deployment, the forces or equipment of the sites must be avoided. the area needs to be didn't really set eyes. and we must tell it as he sees any potential damage who's up what it is suicide. earlier, i talked to dubuque respondents when he has bullying. i in the v. f was covering these talks for us and asked him if any concrete steps had been taken to protect those opposed to our power plant. well, what steps could be taken? the power plant is occupied by the ration. so you crank and not take any steps to ensure the safety that is, if it's not ukraine, selling the power plant, which the russians are accusing ukraine of which would of course, be something very dangerous ukraine in its turn to saying that russia is selling

the power plant and that is preparing something, there are some kind of off an incident what, whatsoever the intelligence that they have presented to support this claim is that russia seemingly has told all the work as well. not on urgent shift who are not running operations directly, not to come to work today. we don't have confirmation for that from the russian side, the russian side. and it has accused ukraine of a staging publication or preparing a publication today in that power plan. it's a very muddy situation and what ukrainians are saying is that and have had and similar incidences. when rhetoric uses ukraine of doing something, it's often people here read it like in like an announcement of something that the russians are preparing. so it's very, very difficult situation. what we know is from sources

context into the town of and now with the power plant is and into the power plant is that the situation seems to be very chaotic inside the power plant, with munitions and weapons and military equipment. stock, they're close to the reactors or even inside some facilities and the russian. so which is putting pressure on the employees. so it's a very 10. it's a very dangerous situation. now that plan to declaration was occupied by russian forces back in march, but it still operated by ukrainian stuff. but we come back to you in a moment, but 1st i did have you got to speak with an engineer who's get the plant? that's a look. olga is worried. she has not been able to reach her colleagues for days. until recently,

the engineer worked at this up. what is she a nuclear power plant, which olga managed to escape? she tries to communicate with employees still on site, but it's becoming increasingly difficult so no moved out front of him. i would say that 70 percent of my colleagues no longer show up for work. they're simply too afraid. you can imagine what that means for the ongoing operations, and especially for security precautions on site. that the hub yoke. olga doesn't want to be recognized for fear of retaliation. russian troops seized the nuclear lens and the 1st weeks of war. since then, ukraine says, though russians have been turning the facility into a military fortress, but have been several accidents and shelling of buildings on the premises. on one occasion, the emergency power system had to be activated abuse than you could lush on portia. they use this site to put pressure on the ukranian,

governmental to blackmail them, that goes away. now the power plant is currently a big trump card in the war, but gosh, it for the towns mayor, there's only one solution, a complete withdrawal up the russians from the plant. we reached him by phone in his makes of office and a neighboring town. upon the, the occupiers are currently breaking all the rules that have been established for nuclear safety, with the even fire multiplying rocket launchers right from the grounds of the power plant. i hope they will find a solution on an international level to demilitarised the entire site. hopefully, we've gotten responsive, sometimes over received cellphone videos from colleagues showing the dangerous situation around the power plant here, a bunch of recreational center close to the facility. memories of the channel abilities, thus dark, come to her mind. double don't know yet. i'm afraid that this could turn out to be 10 times worse local ins, parisha. we have 6 reactors and a storage facility for nuclear fuel. compared to that, no chernobyl was

a miniature version. in the meantime, olga has found to drop in here 400 kilometers in wartime. nowhere is completely safe yet for the prose reporting them at his billing us still with us. in a v for the situation at a, as a parisha, a plant dominated the talks. but according to the turkish thought, the meeting was actually meant to be about finding peace was anything achieved there? well, that's what add on to saying he wants to start a piece process and he wants to be the mediator, the broker of this piece. this of course, is something that has a lot to do with his personal ambitions. he has obtained a firm rejection from the lens. he's ill and pointing out that russia is still shelling residential areas and civilian infrastructure with messiahs and that we can not see any he does not have any trust and the russian side would

be any. how interested in p is that also is in line with what russia has been saying so far, though they have said that they would be ready for peace talks. they have also said that a piece would be on the condition that you claim basically surrender ukraine landscape has said yesterday that he thinks the precondition for where people support about how the 2 countries could co exist in the future. would be russian troops leaving ukraine, and that's not something that's going to happen anytime soon. gutierrez vincent visit is not obvious. is it? no, he's continuing to desa this. it was another big topic, of course. go ahead and add on. how made a big diplomatic, how to big diplomatic success and brokering that great deal that allows grain from ukrainian ports to be shipped out via the boss for us to put all over the world.

and the 3 have of course talked about that. they have agreed that they would undertake fir, the diplomatic efforts to speed up the grain shipments. and this is probably more than like, if we, if we talk about further diplomatic options, then deals on specific issues like this. one would be the more probable way than to start some kind of piece talks pulling of their reporting from the live east and west and ukraine. thank you much. yes, that's a look not some of the other news headlines. security forces insur, dawn of use tear gas to disperse thousands of demonstrators calling for civilian rule the army stage a coup last year and military leader after theater. bullhorn has pledged to step aside for a civilian government, but protesters do not believe torrential rains have caused flooding. and landslide

and so on. new zealand, south island, some 400 homes were evacuated and the state of emergency declared and 3 regents after the receipt more than double the average rainfall for this rains are forecast to continue as far. 5, as in portugal, brought one massive want far to control. another one broke out near by. first fire in the sara dies trailer natural park burnt for 2 weeks. now firefighters are battling a new blaze on the parks. northern edge, just as new, heat weight is forecast and fire fighters and algeria managed to bring a series of forest fires on the control, but not before they killed at least 38 people and left hundreds more with bonds are respiratory problems. survivors are taking stock of the tragic consequences and are asking why more wasn't done to stop the flames. it was in miss scorched past

the 12 people suffered death, terrifying last night. as the flames of algeria as wildfires drew closer, it was suddenly surrounded. they couldn't get away in time when i on the road was closed and there was no escape. you can see for yourself, the fire covered the whole region. young children were among the victims who died inside the boss. they died holding on to each other. a wave of wildfires has swept through algiers, forest, killing dozens, and injuring hundreds of others. blistering temperatures of up to $48.00 degrees celsius has turned large areas into a tinderbox climate change is turning this into an annual event. jeff, last year over a 100 people lost their lives in massive wildfires. despite this many algerians feel that lessons from that disaster will not land authorities have been accused of

not being prepared and lacking fire fighting aircraft. one contracted by such aircraft from spain was torn up over a diplomatic dispute in june ramos. oh no, no more people died and nobody came on the island where are the plains to combat the fires children and babies died here. they went to god. we had to wait 3 hours for help to arrive to do that. yeah, an image. i know lou that bless you. i bet joan prime minister amen enough to run an assured victims and their families that the state would support them and said the government had ordered for new fire fighting aircraft. not, not collision. with the climate heating up, algeria will no doubt face catastrophic wildfires. again, the question that remains is if thou be prepared for them powerful storms of hid several countries here in europe after weeks of very high temperatures. at

least 12 people have died across the continent due to the bad weather. the extreme conditions have brought climate change back into focus. in our next report, our correspondence gonna coordinate travels to the greek capital athens to see what authorities there are doing to adapt and reduce the effects of extreme heat. alaneese mirror villi always has her water bottle with her in summer. she's used to the dangerous heat waves in her home city. she is the 1st chief heat officer in athens and across europe. it's her job to get the greek capital fit to face the challenges of climate change. she's on her way down into the depths of the city with someone from athens waterworks. it's also a journey back in time. the subterranean tunnel, almost 20 kilometers long, was built by the roman emperor hadrian. in the 2nd century,

mira really is planning to have water flowing along hadrian aqueduct. again, engineers are already working on her idea. they are planning to grieve. 20 specific points where the, where they tap into the water into the green new parks. a green belt across athens is intended to make the city cooler and the pleasant mere villi once more parks. she is particularly proud of these japanese style space. she is friends with the landscape gardener who created it. we don't have a lot of barks and, and green spaces. and we have a lot of old people. the fact that the surfaces are, are we have a lot of surfaces append to heat up. we have a lot of cars that produce even more heat and air conditioning and produces even morrissey. so it's actually a pretty deadly mix enough in greece, extreme heat waves with highs over 40 degrees are almost always accompanied by

forest fires. and they also threatened the capital. in mid july fire reached athens in northern city, limits dozens of homes with gutted experts, fear that large parts of the city, home to 4000000 people could be uninhabitable in a few days. studies already showed that heat waves are responsible for a rise in mortality among the elderly. in particular, the chief heat officer is seeking advice from the red cross, red cross representatives from australia explain, they have their own emergency plan. when temperatures reach up to 50 degrees, we are preparing people to be able to help her people before they get really sick. so that we can tell them what to do and if they start having symptoms, somebody is there that can answer a phone or can be next to them to help them. so they don't end up in the hospital. but not all athenians see it as

a life threatening problem. and i don't know if i feel dizzy or think i'm going to vomit. i just stick my feet in cold water or carry on it all by unit. yeah. things is more and more unbearable in summer. we don't have any rivers and the surrounding area has usually already been scorched. near valley is planning to stick by her home city. after all, she says it's hardly the 1st crisis that the city has faced in its practically 4000 year history. that's bringing alexandra kashmir. chuck, she's a climate change adaptation expert at the european environment agency. johnson of copenhagen and denmark, alexander, we heard in our report about the plan to build more green spaces in athens, to help citizens deal with extreme heat. what other solutions are there to adapting to higher temperatures? good morning and thank you for the invitation. yes, indeed. green spaces are one of than great solutions to adapt to higher temperatures. that we have to remember that in europe we tend to spend about 90

percent of our time in buildings. not outside, therefore, acting on the built environment is one of the ways to adapt to to climate change. for example, are providing shading for south and west. facing windows are providing passive calling solutions are also an improving then installation of buildings, painting the roofs and walls white to improve their reflect reflectivity and of their buildings. but also there are some innovative solutions such as this trick cooling systems, which pump their wall turn into gun and systems useful cooling or heating and using the sea or river water. and in this way, avoiding the use of air conditioning, facing the temperatures, furthering the city where adapting to a to heat is one thing, but a heavy rainfall on flooding are also part of climate change. the what can be done

about that? indeed again, green solutions can help to kill 2 birds with one stone, so to speak. so both at up the heat but also deal with the excess water acting as, as aunt hoping to infiltrate the water into the ground. and in this way, not only dealing with flooding, but also recharging that ground waters and therefore helping to prevent the droughts in the future. but also protecting that filter environment through. for example, provision of flood gates. although flat billions measures, as well as early warnings, the same as in the case of he twice providing early warnings do that to the population. is one of the most effective ways of avoiding the impacts on people's life and health? are you confident that humanity can actually,

with the stuff that you've described earlier, that humanity can adapt to rising temperatures? it's a very big question. i'm not sure if i can speak about then and piety of humanity. but sir, that in europe there's been a lot of progress on the other patient in then in the recent to yes, all of the member states now have a national adaptation policies in place. and many of them are taking action to, to, to actually implement the measures that are included in them, in the policies with local government, the government being at there at the need of that. so i'm hoping that turning this strategies into action will help us to adapt to the climate change and avoid the loss of life the loss of has and, and help us maintain that the european standard of living. so climate change is not really anything new is, has been an issue for a long time, while most governments and in the, the, you,

i've taken so long to react well, adaptation has been on the political agenda in europe since 2013, whether adaptation strategy was 1st put in place, but indeed for many as the main focus has been on the mitigation actions on reducing the levels of c o. 2 in the atmosphere. and many other patients are focused on other patients, almost as defeating as, as a meeting. that that, that, that the feet that we are not doing enough on mitigation and that we have to adapt to climate change. however, it's changing now and the person is much more coming to the fall. we hear all the time, the reports about the why fi is he twice for flooding? and even if we stop the emissions today, we still need to add up to that to the changing climate you to that in that area. i guess also and that climate change for many has been a future risk and something

a bit vague and not an immediate political priority compared to the economic situation compared to the geopolitical situation and so on. so i think that the extreme, whether events can really bring the urgency of acting to the fall and, and make it a political priority. alexandra major, there climate change or the adaptation expert at the or p, an environment agency. thank you. thank you. now germany, chancellor, all of shows is preparing to testify for a 2nd time in an investigation into a scandal that has on the mind crossed in germany, financial institutions, companies and investors, defrauded the german state of billions of euros in the comics of scandal, which came to light, 5 years ago when shoals was mayor of hamburg, investigate, just want to know about meetings here with one of the banks back then. but so far he says, he doesn't remember. what did she know when for years now,

will of charles has not been able to shake off germany's biggest ever tech scandal when he was mayor of hamburg? he met with officials from warwick bank. it with the city of hamburg, $47000000.00 euros for claiming refunds on texas. it never paid after sholtes met the banks. officials humbug authorities dropped their demands at 1st shoals falsely claimed. those meetings didn't happen but was proven wrong. now he says he cannot remember what was discussed and has been keen to stress. there is no connection between his meetings and the city, backing down this growing mistrust. in his version of events, it is unlikely that he cannot remember anything from this meetings. during those meetings or phone calls, it was about nearly $50000000.00 euro for his city in tax revenue. the whole

aspect of working here with the salami tactic of just admitting what he has to admit and once more has been proven, he will admit more obviously makes it that much more doubtful that there is just no memory at all. so far, prosecutors do not see any breach of the law. the scandal is hitting the headlines again. now, because a former habit m p from charlotte's us party, had stashed away 200000 euros in cash. and that and peace district had received money from warwick bank before as yet. nobody knows where the cash came from. and shaw says denied any knowledge. what do you know about the cash in the former and p safe deposit box? nothing. next question. where do you think it came from? jacqueline? i no idea. i guess you know better than i do. at today's hearing, we may finally get some answers. i'm joined by our political hooker correspondent,

nina, as anita, how much more we likely to know once chancellor shows as testified later this afternoon again, has i am afraid not very much. all our shots will have to stick to what he's been saying, all along that he can't remember the details of the conversations with the officials from the bank and that he doesn't have any further knowledge that he didn't play an active role. and you do have to remember that some 50 witnesses have been heard so far. and so far there is no evidence that he knows more than he's saying that he even played an active role now. so that the, the isn't, he is not the target of this investigation is just appearing as a witness. but still this is dangerous for him. politically is no. well look, there scandal is about a very complicated story. not many people in germany really understand even just how this tax fraud model work, let alone who could have stopped it. how and when and yes,

it's correct. choice is not the target of investigation himself. he's a witness regarding something that happened while he was mayor of hamburg. but come x didn't just happened in hamburg. it went on for years. german taxpayers, last billions of euros and still to this day, no politician and germany has assumed responsibility for this biggest tax fraud tax ice in germany, history. and so now pressure is mounting on the left side because he's no longer just the mayor of hamburg. he's now the chancellor and of course trust and transparency of vital assets in that position. and some members of the opposition are saying that his handling of this story now that he says he can't remember meeting those officials, et cetera, that he's not taken an active part in trying to shed light on the story is not worthy of his position as chancellor some i even demanding that he resign and there are no, sorry, a couple of things that he could do. he could, for example, demand in public that his fellow as p d member, tell the public where those 200000 years in cash came from. so far he hasn't. so it

is very likely that he will have to come back a 3rd time because this is just an ongoing story need out of the political correspondence. thank you very much, dana and that's, it's from me and the news team do not go out. next off panelists whether either side can break the stalemate and the war a you, brian, that's on to the point right after this got office and berlin with a, with

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ended glistening place of long mediterranean sea. he had almost roar at your fall, a dual career drift, along with more modern lifestyles and mediterranean meeting people on hearing their dreams, a determined journey this week on the w 6 months and to rush as attack on ukraine. both sides are suffering heavy casualties, yet seem unable to gain the advantage. at least until you look behind the front lines. ukraine is increasingly striking. russian targets deep in brush an occupied territory and may have been responsible for huge explosions at an ammunition depot and an air field in crimea. fresh shelling of europe's biggest.