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least 14 people are dead after california is hit by days of floods and muds life and the entire seaside community of monta. sita is told to evacuate bus friends, harry is long a weight of memoir, a finally hit the book, shouts, the release follows days of league revelations, about bitterest sibling rivalry. and the strange men from the british royal family . ah, i'm nicole really. he's going to have you with us german foreign minister, and helena babcock has made a surprise visit to the northeastern ukrainian city of har. keith, that's not far from the front lines. it's the 1st visit by a western politician to the region that up until recently was largely under occupation by russia. book pay tribute to what she called the incredible stamina

and courage of the ukrainian people as the sun rises in eastern ukraine, german, 4 minister, and the lena burbock is on her way to hockey if her ukrainian counterpart dmitri cra, labor wants to show her the impact the russian invasion has had on the countries 2nd largest city. often looking around the city center, where local officials described the rocket attacks that hit hockey historic corps. the 2 continued to the devastated eastern suburbs. these areas were exposed to artillery fire in the early stages of the war. when the russian advance encroached on the city. louisa zulu fabric promised to help rebuilding ukraine's battered infrastructure and weapons to help fight back the russians. those alligators shaken wouldn't have been hired to canal here on that. i'm here today to get an impression

of how important this military and humanitarian assistance is. so that people can live in peace here and everywhere. and ukraine in no cut. you know, you, i love it. and he leaned after western countries, including germany recently promised to deliver ahmed infantry fighting vehicles. ukraine. he's hoping that heavy main battle tanks will soon follow clearly by was explicit in his request for german leopard tanks on him. i assume you shall green. i have no doubt that ukraine will receive german leopard tags for ya. moreover, i think that the german government also understands somewhere deep in its sole mia that this decision will be approved in your book and the tanks will be given to ukraine or the green. it's a decision that could help determine the outcome of the war are corresponding max. santa accompanied angelina ban booking harkey, and he told us more about the purpose of the german foreign ministers as an so the

german foreign minister and on the la babcock followed the invitation of her ukrainian counterpart typically by to show a different part of this country. not just a capital keith, which many had the state and top level politicians have visited since the beginning of russia's full scale invasion of the country. but to hockey, a city that has been partially destroyed that has been laid siege to a city that has suffered a lot. the idea of her trip was to shine a light in particular on the situation regarding the critical infrastructure. at night. streets here are pitch black, many apartments are without heating, and many, many houses here are destroyed. and the german foreign minister came with a pledge to at least provide some sort of aid to the region, some sort of emergency aid, which includes transformers and at generators to deal with the consequences of default as well as 20000000 euros in funding for defining the point you're being

reconstruction cannot wait until the end of the war. it has to begin now. now, another controversial topic that was discussed during this trip was the delivery or potential delivery of german lepper. 2 tanks to you train. this is a topic that also is being discussed in berlin and the government coalition. up until this point could not make a decision to enable us to cut it to sent these german tanks or sent these german tanks themselves. now standing here at this train station, the german foreign minister stated that she is in favor of anything that helps the fights of you train of helps liberating territory including heavy weapons. so she promised to put pressure on to continue to do so and continue talks in berlin to make that happen. her you training counterpart was a bit more optimistic if you can use that word in that sense. he said that ukrainians do not want these tanks to drive up and down on them on the street,

but rather they need them. they are a necessity to liberate territory that is occupied by the russians to eventually win this war. he also said that he believes the german government knows this, and it's just a matter of time for them to come around. and eventually cindy's tax d w. correspond in less than that in harkey. let's now have a look at some other stories making headlines around the world today. the you and nato have agreed to step up co operation and concerns over russian aggression. nato secretary general against oldenburg european commission president was enough on the line of european council, had shown michelle selling the deal in brussels. they pledged to boost their political, economic, and military strength. the senior, utilizing an attempt at the 1st satellite launch from western europe into space has failed. the u. k. rocket took off from a modified boeing 747, but scientists said an anomaly prevented from reaching orbit. the mission by the

company virgin orbit was due to cent 9 small satellites into space. everything is nominal. so $24.00 humanitarian workers are on trial in greece for helping migrants . crossing the mediterranean, the activists face charges of espionage and forgery. and amnesty international says they could be sentenced to 25 years in prison if convicted, the accused rescue workers say they were trying to save the lives of migrants in distress. you scientists have confirmed that europe had its 2nd warmest year on record in 2022 temperature records were smashed in several countries on the continent and extreme heat waves caused tens of thousands of excess deaths. the e u climate service added that worldwide. the past 8 years have been the 8 warmest on record. days of heavy rains have caused rock slides and flooding in many areas of the u. s. date of california. at least 14 people have been killed so far

across the state and more than 200000 homes and businesses left without power. residents in the town of mont seato home to many celebrities including prince harry and megan markelle, have been ordered to leave. devastations caused by flooding. as far as the i can see streets out in and dated homes and cars damaged by the flood water. california is fighting a series of relentless and powerful storms. torrential rains and high winds have forced authorities to issue warnings for large parts of the state. infant or barbara county, alt and cousin residence of the star studded town of monte c took. my asked to leave the surprise of living as interviewed with one of the drug they did by during the day of a lot of people in fender truth,

this rock flight and flood water force, the closure of a highway scientist, 3 these powerful storms. i'd climate change induce disasters, dealing with this new reality. likewise, climate adaptation and climate resilient infrastructure parts getting a lot hotter dry is getting a lot of dryer, but the wet, skinny lot wetter as well. and as a consequence of this, not only in terms of our deeper understanding in our consciousness as it relates to our live realities, but also in terms of policy making, we are moving dramatically and different directions. tens of thousands of people remain without power and forecast with expect more rain on top of the heavy down bows. earlier i spoke to him in urologist mouth, jak approaching, he was in sacramento, california, and i asked him whether this kind of storm was typical for the state. most

definitely we talk about the wintertime weather patterns in california. it's either feast or famine. some winter's you see next to no precipitation whatsoever. other times you get patterns of atmospheric rivers. so what's an atmospheric grammar? basically this filament of moisture from the deep tropical pacific that just comes into the coast like a fire hose in the lowlands, the central valley, the coast on you see prolific rainfall rates in the mountains, you see tons of snow. also the sierra nevada recently. so one to 2 meters us know, in just the past 48 hour. but the big issue, the flooding someplace is seen $2.00 to $4.00 inches up to about 10, almost 12 centimeters and below cows up to 30 centimeters in the higher to rate of the santa cruz mountains. so rods, rocks slides, my slides, issues of flooding as well. and 14 people bid so far from this one in california seems to be very susceptible to extreme weather events. every year we talk about wildfire season. now these relentless storms, we just heard it in the report. the governor of california saying, you know,

the dry he's getting dryer and the went keeps getting wetter. how close is all of this linked to climate change? that's a really good coin, doc. not want to talk climate change and tell folks the boat route and flooding can be tied to with people say, how can opposites be related to the same thing? and it comes down to warmer airs. ability to hold more moisture when the temperature gets more by one degree celsius, the atmosphere can hold 7 percent more moisture when moisture is available in the winter time. that means more rain all because you have more water in the air. more comes down in the summer time when there's not as much moisture the airs dryer the area it's warmer, so it sets more moisture out of the ground and reinforces drought. so 2 sides of the same coin. now in terms of atmospheric rivers, we do sometimes get just coincidence, this is a coincidence or we're seeing a lot more b as a weather patterns favorite more rainfall. however, climate change kind of pushing that into record territory. so it's partially weather but also partially climate supercharger. and it looks like this is not the end of it. what will people have to race for in the coming hours in 8th?

most definitely. so you see sunshine behind you, right now we're getting a bit of a break in between 2 different weather systems, which it didn't a rinse repeat cycle for them. but overall it's been a very busy stretch of like 8 of these really bad weather systems since christmas. time deal, what we call a zonal pattern west, the east flow steering these weather systems right in the west coast. i think them last for another 10 days expect 3 or 4 more big storms. then finally, some relief for the beleaguer ears of california have been hit hard. matthew can put you always a pleasure. thank you so much for breaking this all down for us. thank you. prince harry's highly anticipated memoirs spare has finally gone on sale. after a flurry of interviews and a series of leagues added to the height, readers thirsting for british royal gossip wasted no time in getting their copies. it's already the you case, faster selling nonfiction book. ever. this shop in london's victoria station opened at midnight to be the 1st to start selling. one of

the most hotly anticipated books of the year mamma. after weeks of media hype, people here with keen to finally get the hands on a copy of prince harry's memoir. and make up their own minds about his story. i expect to be able to read about it more about the truth of what goes on behind the palace walls. i feel like counting they are, i do tore secret family. i want to be able to paint the picture my so see for my soul, when i hear his story in his words, because at this point, a few like the british media all radicalize in the british public against prince harry. according to the prince, the ghost written memoir is an attempt to tell his own story after he is of spin and distortion by others. the book made headlines long before its publication. it contains some explosive revelations about the royal family and that treatment of

the prince and his wife megan passages from the book were leaked before its release . in one of them, harry describes having a physical altercation with his brother, prince william, their sibling rivalry, something he also brought up in a string of interviews with british and u. s. broadcast as to promote the book is out. there is always been this competition between us, widely. they patch the whales is right, which came on him and on, on our, against the sa success man, my wife. they always pushed us against each other, a patch case made on against each other really way that i can protect also whether i can correct those mistress is by writing something the truth in one place, how much harry's truce will hurt the royal family and its image isn't clear yet. they have so far declined to comment on any claims made in the book. for now read

us, we'll have to decide whether the book that's been causing a huge stir worldwide before it was even published lives up to the hype. and a reminder of our top story, german foreign minister, and alina babcock, has made a surprise visit to the northeastern ukrainian city of harkey. not far from the front lines. she praised what she called, the stamina and courage of the ukrainian people have been watching the daily news from berlin. i'm nicole really, christy plans and we'll be here and just a minute with some insight analysis on the world bank warning about a global recession. a so much for your company today. ah, she's got issues with all se graham.