along cheryl, the 1972 olympic massacre, start september 3rd on d w. ah ah, this is dw slide from berlin warnings from ukraine of potential disaster. europe's largest nuclear power station. ukrainian officials say some plant workers are being kept away, raising new safety fit. we hear from an engineer from that facility about this struggle to keep it running under russian occupation. also on the program. it's an action city facing a modern problem. climate change means athens is getting hotter and dryer,

but the re capitol is finding ways to adapt to rising temperature. ah, i'm good. how else has welcome to the program? russian shelling continues to target her keeps ukraine's 2nd largest city. ukrainian officials say at least one person was killed when 5 rockets hit the city early on friday. on wednesday and thursday, 17 people have died in russian shelling in hockey. meanwhile, media reports say a russian air field in crimea as been rocked by a series of explosions. the blasts were reported near a military airport, north of the city of sylvester pole, where dozens of combat aircraft were parked russian occupation authorities. dara, quoted as saying, no damage was done and all this

comes as united nations. secretary antonio, a good cherish house talks with ukraine's president brought him his landscape and the turkish leader. where subtype added on in the western ukrainian city of levine, quoterush repeated to his coals for safe zone around the russian occupied zapora, z, a nuclear power station, military equipment and personnel should be withdrawn from the plant. further deployment. the forces on equipment of the sides must be avoided, the area needs to be didn't really set eyes and we must fail as he sees any potential damage. who's up what he is suicide. a little yeah. i talked to dw, correspond mathias bellinger, levine, who's covering these talks for us. and i asked him if any concrete steps had actually been taken to protect this apple regime power plot. ah, well, what steps could be taken? the power plant plant is occupied by the russian. so you crank and not take any

steps to ensure their safety. that is, if it's not ukraine. shelley, the power plant, which to russians are accusing ukraine of which would of course, be something very dangerous. ukraine in its turn, is saying that russia is shelling the power plant and that is preparing something there, some kind of a of an incident. what whatsoever, daddy intelligence that they have presented to support this claim is that russia seemingly has told all the workers well not on urgent shifts. we're not running debt operations directly not to come to work today. we don't have confirmation for that. from the russian side. the russian side, in its term, has accused ukraine off for staging a provocation or preparing a provocation today in that power plant. it's a very muddy situation and what ukrainians are saying is that and have sad and similar incidents that when russia accuses ukraine of doing something. it's often

people here read it like in the air, like an announcement of something that the russians are preparing. so it's very, very difficult situation. what we know is, from a sources it have contacts into the town of and now not whether the power plant is and into the power plant. is that the, the situation seems to be very chaotic inside the power plant, with ammunitions and a weapons and military equipment, stock the air and close to the reactors or even inside some facilities and the russian. so this is putting pressure on the employees. so it's a very tens, it's a very dangerous situation to w, her son mathias billing of their reporting from the fish. now let's get you up to speed on some of the other stories. making headlights today. australia has

criticized indonesia decision to reduce the sentence of a terrorist convicted in the 2002 bali bombings made. the man could be freed within days if he's granted parole. 202 people, including 88 australians died when militants attacked the tourist district in the body. apple has want of a major security flaw that could allow hackers to take complete control over devices uses of i phones. i pads, and macs are being advised to update their software. apple has not revealed how many of its customers are affected by the forest fires. in algeria have killed at least 37 people. hundreds more have been moved to safety, with many victim suffering from breathing difficulties. helicopters are being used to put out and swept across the french island. that's a popular tourist destination. several french towns have also been hit by thunderstorms and around a 1000 households are without power. it was fast,

and it was fierce, rushing flood waters since surprised french locals and tourist alike. racing for safety and the port city of mar, say. the abrupt thunderstorm dumped the equivalent of 6 months. rain fall on the city in just 24 hours. people who were sleeping at a nearby camp site where woken by thunder and falling branches. elbow was still, i thought the architect was completely destroyed. it was torn apart with shelter in the corner with the kids, within hailstones broke through. okay. and we had to jump into the car room. could you room? they still, if you you don't have which you to have. i'm all viewed on july, it was really violent. we knew it was coming and we were warned for that. we didn't expected anything on this scale. you lost by you was most up a julie on the island of corsica, violence storms,

kill the teenage girl. and several other people. france, like most of europe, has been experiencing a heat wave drought has left the river and the war so shallow that even flat bottom tourist barges can barely navigate along it. but experts say the storm is unlikely to help because the flood water will disappear through the drainage system as quickly as it came. well, large parts of europe have been experiencing a stream where the conditions in the form of heat wake for several weeks now. temperatures have been above the 40 degrees celsius mark in some countries. the extreme conditions have broad climate change back into focus. in our next report, our corresponded good. our current travels to the greek capital athens, to see what authorities they're doing to reduce the effects of the very high temperatures. and laney merely always has her wa possible 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 a hadrian. in the 2nd century, near a village is planning to have water flowing along hadrian aqueduct. again, engineers are already working on her idea. they are planning to greet 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 have a pleasant,

mere valley once more parks. she is particularly proud of this 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 that plan 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. it 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 feared that large parts of the city home to 4000000 people could be uninhabitable in a few decades. studies already showed that heat waves are responsible for

a rise in more towel 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's 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 found amok. a few of these here think i'm going to vomit. i just stick my feet in cold water. oh, are you on it? all the unit happens 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. but earlier i spoke to alexandra kashmir, chalk, caesar climate change adaptation expert at the european environment agency and denmark. and i asked her how else we can deal with rising temperatures? yes, indeed, green spaces are one of that great solutions to adapt to higher temperatures. that we have to remember that are 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, or providing shading for south and west facing windows are providing passive calling solutions are also an improving been an installation of buildings. painting the roofs and walls quite to improve their replica reflectivity and of the buildings. but also there are some innovative solutions such as this

trick cooling systems, which pump their wall turn into then, and systems useful cooling or heating and using the c or river water. and in this way, avoiding the use of air conditioning and facing the temperatures further in the city. well, adapting to a to heat is one thing, but heavy rainfall on flogging are also part of climate change or what can be done about that. and indeed again, green solutions sir can help to kill 2 birds with one stone, so to speak. so both adapt to 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 them and fiscal flooding, but also recharging, then ground waters and therefore helping to prevent the droughts in the future. but also protecting that filter environment. for example, provision of flood gates,

although not billions measures, as well as early warnings, the same as in the case of heat ways providing early warning students to their population is one of the most effective ways of avoiding the impacts on people's life and health. climate change is not really anything new, as has been an issue for a long time, while most governments, and indeed 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 how 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 her while high, 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 weather 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 or p, an environment agency. thank you. thank you. and that sits from me or the new steam of fun. i'll do not go away. up. next is all. documentaries, sir, is duck fill and they travel to armenia to meet to artists by exploring the

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