this technology is worried how they can with how they can also go terribly with this is d, w. news live from berlin. russia steps up the tax and eastern ukraine. president zalinski says the cities of solid are and bach mood are completely destroyed, calling the situation their madness. meanwhile, germany is foreign minister makes a surprise visit to ukraine and comes under pressure to supply leopard tanks. also

coming up at least 14 dead and days of floods and mud slides in california. entire city side community of montecito is told to evacuate. and royal fever groups book stores, british prince harry, dishes, the dirt, and his memoir, flies off the shelf. but phoenix say after weeks of pipe enough already. ah, i'm almeni's of welcome to the program ukraine's president volota me as a lensky says, russian bombardments have destroyed the eastern cities of solid r and bach. mote. moscow's forces have stepped up attacks in the area in recent weeks. and russian commanders claim to be in control of the salt mining town of sola dar just outside of buffalo. so as he says, there is almost no life left in either city. separately the german foreign minister

island burbock has made a surprise visit the har keys in the northeast. ukraine is asking germany to supply heavy battle tanks in addition to armored entrance refining vehicles, which berlin recently pledged to deliver. as the sun rises, an eastern ukraine, german foreign minister under lena bab oak is on her way to hockey's her ukrainian counterpart dimitra co labor wants to show her the impact the russian invasion as had on the country's 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. louis zullie bab promised to help rebuilding ukraine's battered

infrastructure and weapons to help fight back the russians. those alligators shaken wouldn't. you wouldn't have been out here on that. i'm here to day to get an impression of how important this military and humanitarian assistance is. so that people can live in peace here and everywhere in ukraine in no i, you know, you, i liked it. and he leaving after western countries, including germany recently promised to deliver armored infantry fighting vehicles, ukraine. he's hoping that heavy main battle tanks will soon follow coolly about was explicit. in his request for german leopard tags. on him, i assume you shall green. i have no doubt that ukraine will receive german leopard tanks for ya. moreover, i think that the german government, you also understand 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. have looked now at

some of the other stories making headlines around the world cardinal george pal, the most senior member of the catholic church, convicted of child sex abuse as died, aged 81 according australia, sent and felt a prison for molesting to choir boys in the late 1900 ninety's. it's been more than 400 days in solitary confinement. territory tells conviction was later overturn. former executive ad donald trump's property empire has been jailed for 5 months on charges of tax fraud. alan weisel burg admitted dodging taxes on job perks, while he was chief financial officer at the trump organization. the judges said the offences were driven by greed, police and crime and activists have clashed in german village at the center of a battle over coal mining. protesters are trying to block the expansion of an open cast mine at the side authorities one, they'll evict anyone who refuses to leave. and scientists have confirmed

that europe had its 2nd warmest year on record and 2022 temperatures hit new records and heat waves cause tens of thousands of excess death european unions. climate service also says past 8 years, i've been the hottest worldwide leaders of the us, canada and mexico have wrapped up talks at the so called 3 amigos summit and mexico city. mexican president, andreas manuel lopez abra door said migration was extensively discussed as well as security and economic issues. 3 countries together may get a 3rd of the global economy. closing statements at the summit, focused on what all 3 leaders said was a spirit of cooperation. figures it could no longer be any question. none in today's interconnected world, we cannot wall ourselves off from shared problems. we are stronger and better when we work together. the 3 of us des, washington bureau chief,

in his pole, was at the summit, mexico city. she says, well, joe biden, and his fellow leaders presented a united front deep divisions remain. so you know, he and also the 2 other leaders really want to demonstrate unity saying that we can only be powerful if he stick together. obviously, they don't want to talk about all the things which kind of, you know, of cause some problems, for example, that each country for itself kind of a, you know, it focuses on its own a opportunity, for example, a bite and definitely does some america, 1st politics when it comes to his or her a subsidiary, a plan and also the same is true for lubbers abra door, the mexican and the president who kind of puts his own energy sector 1st. so this is something which they kind of want to mental over this like. huge statement,

we are all sticking together and this is when we can be strongest. now migration of course is one of the top agenda items and thousands of people are stuck in limbo. the u. s. a southern border, we've seen a lot of pictures in recent days of that. is there any movement on that issue there, right, i mean this is of the most crucial topics for all 3 leaders spec home, and they're facing a lot of criticism. more than 1000000 people tried to cross the poor border without a papers last year from mexico into the united states. so what joe biden, the president of the united states offered was a new will deal that he would be willing to take in 30000 a migrants if they apply before they enter the country on an app. and if they fly into the country, and if they have sponsors within the united states, this is 30000 people. and then then think about that it was a more than

a 1000000 people trying to cross over. so these figures are much more symbolic than really would change anything in the real world out there. i was did other use in his poll in mexico city, thanks for joining us. days of heavy rain have caused rock slides and flooding across california. at least 14 people have been killed and more than 200000 homes and businesses are without power. residents in the town of montes seato home to celebrities, including prince harry and megan markelle, have been ordered to leave devastation caused by slanting, as far as the i can see. streets adding and dated hans and cars damaged at the flat water. california is fighting a series of relentless and powerful storms to say to wrench rains, and high winds have forced authorities to issue warnings for large parts of the

state. in santa barbara county, all 10000 residents of the star studded town of monte c took. my asked to leave the surprise of living as interviewed of a boy. why? why the frog they did by day love a lot of people. in fender truth, this rock flight and flat water force, the closure of a highway scientist, 3, these powerful storms, add 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 dryer, but the wet skinny la, la, wetter as well. and as a consequence of this, not only in terms of our deeper understanding in our consciousness as 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 focused his expect. morning. on top of the heavy down booms meteorologist matthew capuchin watsonville california told me what's causing these latest storms. so we tend to see these kind of set ups, these atmospheric river, so to speak, every winter time. now what that means is basically low pressure systems. these big swirling storm systems in train filaments or strips of really robust moisture from the central truck pacific and rang out to the co sign like a fire hose that is very heavy rainfall to the lowlands. and prolific snows in the order several meters to the higher elevations in the mountains. now what we've seen lately though, has just been back to back to back atmospheric rivers like 8 of them since christmas time. and so, well we do see these every winter to see this many so closely packed together is a little bit unusual. and nowadays, even though atmospheric mirrors would happen anyway, they're a little bit wetter thanks to

a warming world. california seems to be quite susceptible to extreme weather events . i know a couple of years ago i was there reporting on wildfires which always make headlines . is there a connection here to climate change? yeah, that's really good when you bring the wild buyers because believe it or not, fire and drought and also flooding in california are both 2 sides of the same coin . i'll be exceedingly antithetical. being a war atmosphere holds more water. so for every degrees celsius, the air temperature warms the air can hold about 7 percent more moisture. that means in the winter time where the pattern fevers rainfall, you hold that much more rain in the air, and of course it comes down the form of heavy rainfall in the summer time when the air tends to be dryer anyway, you're basically warmer and so you suck all that moisture out of the ground because there's no moisture in the air anyway. and so you can reinforce trout and get those fire conditions. so believe it or not, both are very closely tied to climate change. and both, even though they're opposites are being made worse by unit wounds and with the

outlook there are people going to expect the bad weather to let up soon. so unfortunately when the chance and things of that we still have 3 more of these to deal with. but i think after about 8 or 9 more days, things will finally come to an end. and i were forecasting another $3.00 to $5.00 centimeters worth of rainfall over the next 18 hours north of san francisco. or i am in watsonville. things are winding down, but the rivers are still cresting because oftentimes across comes after the rainfall maximum. matthew caputo meteorologist and california after weeks of hype and leaks, the british prince harry's memoir, spare has finally hit the bookstores. this book is already a controversial sensation with one review recalling it the weirdest book ever written by a royal. but there's certainly a thirst for gossip about the british royal family. 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 their 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 either tory secret family. i want to be able to paint the picture myself see for myself 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 years of spin and distortion by others, the book made headlines long before its publication. it contained some explosive revelations about the royal family in their 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, this 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. weirdly, they patched the whales is right. which came when i went on on our against the sa success, me and my wife. they always pitched us against each other, a patch case made against each other anyway that i can protect us in whether i can correct those mistress is by writing something. the truth in one place. how much harry's truthful had 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. oh,

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