discovered new adventures in the 360 degrees. and explore fascinating world heritage site dw world heritage $360.00. now the this is dw news live from berlin, concerns grow over the health of hope. frances, the vatican saying that he will have abdomen surgery today in a room hospital where he is expected to stay for several days. also coming up, thousands are evacuated, desperate dam breach in southern ukraine. alicia's

a torrent of flood waters, fears mounts of a humanitarian catastrophe. as keith and moscow accused each other of destroying the cope cause down and there are warnings of the flooding, causing an environmental disaster to keep costs the dam breach eco side, saying that some parts of nature will be lost forever. tossed off the coast of the m in a bid to avoid a serious oil spill within a 1000000 barrels are still stored in the event in tank or transferring it to safety is a risky process. but doing nothing could be devastating. the i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program and we begin with some breaking news about pope francis. the positive is to undergo abdominal surgery today and has already arrived in the hospital where he is expected to remain for several days about it

and spokesperson has said that the 86 year old is suffering from a hernia, which was caused is causing painful and worsening symptoms earlier the pope appeared at his weekly general audience at the vatican. francis has been suffering increasingly health over health issues over the last few years and was forced to spend 3 nights in the hospital with bronchitis in march. for more or less bringing a religious affairs corresponded martin gas. martin, what do we know so far? we don't know a lot. we know the 2 days ago he had a checkup which got a lot of the media by surprise. so it was reported that this was actually more serious that apparently it was released on the same day. but then of course, 2 days later, we are actually facing getting another house. grace stuff starts and this seems to be something that required some urgent intervention. the reports so far as that is a nursing you know, which for a younger person of course would be

a minor surgery. but in any case, for an 86 year old, then it's something of a bit more serious as we are monitoring the situation, that those will fall, the money budget and the budget in stories. and obviously by taking this report, there will be today a briefing at some point, but has not yet been announce that what time that we saw today, he held his weekly general audience calling for peace in ukraine. were there any signs about his house, any indications? no, not really. uh which actually itself is quite telling. so i mean obviously she was in fairly good shape. uh, she has been dealing with different elements for our last couple of months. presumably this was something that was seen in the last couple of days and involved into this. but so far there are no signs that there is anything of any, any gravity. there had been a number of reports about his health in the past months. just just walk us through with the general state of affairs is and how the vatican might be preparing right now. i mean the, the pope has had different moving the prevalence over the last couple of buttons

having to do with his legs, having to do obviously with his advanced age. nonetheless, this is not really stuck to him. i mean the, the pope has been traveling and actually has had a very d c. agend including issues that have to deal with this any initiatives. and this is about to conduct fin very much engaged in international politics and, and base building. so this has no change. the fact is that a stage advance and he comes closer to the ninety's. most of these things actually are coming to light like the march. uh you know, brushwood, bronchitis that has him for 3. they seem to saw hospital. you know, i think that this is not a reason necessarily to be alarm, but very clearly is something that is keeping sort of the faithful. and obviously it also has to actually to follow the magic and keeping an eye quite closely because something pardons that only for the catholic faith, but also us. this is a major political if you're an international force, right? dw religious affairs correspond to martin dak. thank you so much. you're welcome.

and now let's turn to some other news because the dam breach in russia, in a russian hill area of ukraine, has sparked a growing humanitarian and environmental emergency with flooding, impacting dozens of towns and villages. the catastrophe is also now expected to reshape the battlefield. just as ukraine launches, it's counter offensive, or on that coming up. but 1st rescue teams are raising to evacuate areas inundated by flood waters. the united nations, a chief says that the breach of take a cosca damn could be the most significant damage to civilian infrastructure. since the start of the war, claims that moscow blew up the dam on the front line to slow ukraine's military. well, russia is accusing ukraine of sabotage. meanwhile, the united states says that it cannot say, conclusively, what happened with floodwaters rising,

people grasped what they could and fled of the supplies send me every thing is submerged in water. all the furniture, the fridge, food, all the flowers, everything is floating. i didn't know what to do. satellite images taken 2 days apart. so the extent of the damage to the car close could um most of my officials say up to a t townsend villages or at risk of flooding. thousands of residents have been told to evacuate. the dam lies in russian controlled southern new crane. and near the front line, want to show you ukraine blames most go for the breach president below to me is lensky claims that keith knew that russia had placed explosives on the time last year in 4 months or indeed. the information indeed came from our intelligence.

we chatted without partners and everyone essentially understood that the russian federation was together with 2nd collaborators had a mind them a call about optimism in the wall of dumble schumann, a little ukraine, just reached out to you in security council meeting to discuss the disaster. sure. again, pointing the finger of blame it ukraine. why with with to it. and besides, through canadians was threatening to doing the demo on thing, including of the united states representative counted this, i want to make absolutely clear. it was russia that started this. what it was russia that occupied this area of ukraine, and it was russian forces that took over the damn me legally last year and have been occupying, ever since. well, lee does have condemned what is being called a humanitarian, an ecological disaster. and we can go now to one of those affected areas in hair, sun city, we are joined by corresponds and ego igor. for the ego. thank you so much for

joining us. tell us a little bit more about the situation where you are of the okay . my apologies, as you can see, there are correspondent actually could not hear us. he's on site there. as i mentioned in ukraine, we'll try and get him a little bit later in the program. here's a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. us secretary of state anthony blinking has jetted into saudi arabia and held talks with the saudi chrome, chrome prints mohammed been some on the pair, reportedly discussed, a range of bilateral issues in an open and candid conversation, blinking it's in the kingdom to study washington's relationship with re i, after years of deepening disagreements in the us, former new jersey governor chris christy has launched his campaign for the republican presidential nomination. christy joins a growing slate of candidates and a race dominated by former president donald trump. opinion polls suggests trump

currently has the most support. christie worked on trump successful 2016 presidential campaign, but it's now a vocal trump critic us in the us to people have died in a shooting at a high school graduation in the state of virginia. a 19 year old suspects has been arrested. one of the victims was reportedly a graduating student. several others are being treated from gunshot injury. smoke from wild fires in canada is blanket in new york city and other parts of the northeastern united states. new yorks may or is urging people to limit outdoor activities. the canadian province of come back is at the epicenter of the fires. international firefighters are helping to battle the flames. now the united nations has begun an operation to drain over a 1000000 barrels of oil from decaying tank or off the yemeni coast. the so stay

for has been a band and then the port of who data for years threatening an ecological disaster. but finally, after years of fund raising a salvage mission is getting underway. a roosting rack off the coast of yemen, fedex. but site is a catastrophe. waiting to happen for stuff is coming, move in a 1000000 barrels of crude oil. and that's concerned. it could break apart at any moment for tank. it was being used as a floating storage facility for oil when the m and civil war broke out in 2015 since then is being left to rot. in 2019 a team went on board and took these photographs. they shaved the extensive and neglect even then pipes were leaking and valves roasting through a smooth adult, some space. the stuff could have a big environmental impact,

a spilling the red sea, would dep estates, wildlife leave fishing communities destitute and would disrupt trade? 3 of us who is canal you people have been talking about it and the not doing anything about it. this group has been able to do something about it and i believe will be successful. will continue to push forward until we succeed. if united nations raise the money for us, i wish operation for members states private companies at even the public through a crowd funding campaign used soon as it proceeds to buy his own tank to cooling, to the north dakota fis, on the nation shows the plan for north it moves in close adults with this stuff, the engineers board and gain access to its tanks below a pumps and transfer the oil to the north dakota. once its empty for tank,

it will be towed away to be scrapped the risk. so something going wrong are real, the palpable. and this is something where to go wrong. indeed, many questions would be asked the only way we could onset question as well. walking away is not an option. it wouldn't be easy, but the un saves you a ton to see if could be the biggest oil spill the world has ever seen. and we asked gillian by such a program director for green peace in the middle east and north africa. whether this un salvage mission is likely to succeed. we're hoping it's going to succeed. there's no other choice than a success because if it doesn't succeed because it can impact and you might in fact i'm gonna be very, very, very significant. and we have a trust and faith in the u. n. and split 1st that is which is published operator, was a lot of experience and had the equipment needed like continuum and boom to make sure

that this operation happened a safety as possible. i and let's go now back to uh, one of the main stories that we're covering for you today. thousands evacuated after a damn breach in southern ukraine. as you can see, our correspondent is live on the scene there for us. and i'm hoping he can hear us this time. i'm the spring and dw corresponding eager. where do you guys eager tell us what is the situation where you are close? are we on now inter so on a couple of 100 meters away from the river side and the local residents found the solve this money surrounded by water just yesterday evening. it was like a 500 meters down the street. but as you can see now from this morning, the water level grows up and the almost all of the for us because of the houses, hundreds of water. so the risk or services will get back from the,

from the morning the, using the bought the motor was the, the, the, when it's all of the now, is it kind of go so was just to help the local residents to live. they houses. yeah . we've been hearing you are the thousands are the back way to where exactly are they going uh, yeah, this is solvent and the house people was ever created yesterday. uh. they go into and as a booster, so this is of course an ard, so the neighborhood. uh, cds back. i'm glad for odessa or somewhere in the does not. we're also hearing igor reports of land mine you're mine, but planted on the river banks again, just to repeat, there were hearing reports of land mines that have been planted on the river. banks have now become loose because of the flooding. how is that impacting the rescue operation? no,

it seems like the rescue information became harder because of this mines, but i heard the suicide and the any explosions about the mines on the river side. but it was some 50 just some videos from the, from the video that address loading down the river. you are also a reporter of russian shelling in the affected ukrainian areas as people are trying to evacuate one more. can you tell us about that? yeah, there is, do you? i'm outside shoveling in the cdn. any like half an hour. uh there is not much i shall see to even see a decent size, especially here. it is in this place, close to the river side because of the there is both sides shuddering from the river side from the ride vancho deeply, graham signed from the left bank of the deep or uh, the direction control side. and so there is a huge risk steel with

a huge risk of uh, air bone being to uh, by russian uh during those days. so the, that people saw a very of, uh sorry, the sounds we actually uh on my break around the seo, the fewest raise. co fair bump and mount. uh, talking even me silence. ok. so the people i a little bit scared. now do i see how the blog that's uploading to the, to the, from the streets of the people and the mirrors make on their ways behind you? and, and we know, you know, at least on the government level there, in ukraine, the government has been warning about the threat of this damn being blown up as far back as a tobar of, of last year. we see those boats floating around where you are, talk with us about the level of preparation, you know, among the citizen tree, and also among the authorities for what we are now seeing taking place. you

know, so as a great is he says that no unexpected problem they did was um, scared through most and but a lot of people just uh get it like i read it. oh so i'm scared. it seems that the drum should, should be destroyed and it will be the way how the russian versus how they ever creation with how the how they moving uh, to gray me or, or something like the xbox. i know i, i hope you never, never get this for real and never respected it for real because it's good such as a risk. the rate is dizzy starting this 1000 frame, which is the cost, was that well, i'm driving for the right. oh, i was born in the for any of the care, some and never, no one. no, i'm never. now to expect, that's the situation like this. thank you so much. w, correspond ego, but you guys awesome. you're there in harris on city where thousands are being evacuated after dam bridge and in southern ukraine. thank you for your reporting

and now with huge swats of land under water. the flooding has sparks concerns about the environmental impact as well. with ukraine's deputy foreign minister describing the situation as the worst environmental disaster in europe since the turnover nuclear disaster. as you can see, i'm joined here in the studio by data view, climate correspondence, louise osborne. to put that into perspective for us to tell us a little bit more. i mean, we just saw there um a little bit more of the situation on the ground in one particular area. what sort of environmental impacts more broadly speaking? could we expect here? might we expect? i mean, it's hard to know exactly at the moment because there's been no assessment of the damage that has been made, but we're likely to stay the same kind of impact that we would see from flooding. so that will have been animals that are directly impacted. you know, as they were trying to escape the full to that would have died, that would also be damage to their, to the habitats in ecosystem instead of that. so,

so that is one of the issues. another issue is the report to the $150.00 leases of oil or more that has washed into the river. also chemicals from industry and agriculture in the area that could have floods to pollution and contamination of the water and not only for humans but for animals and, and other by address teeth that are living there. and up stream, obviously, where the rest of the rest of what itself was that would have been essentially a lake for fish and other aquatic life, which will now find themselves, obviously without the will to their strong words from the ukrainian government there, calling it an eco side, are we talking about a reversal damage here? in some cases? yes, i mean, and that lake water, those fish, i mean, thought some likely to come back unless, you know the dam is rebuilt. and that will obviously take a lot of time and that area is not going to recover as quickly. but there is also the damage from the chemicals, as i mentioned before,

that will kind of ocean to the foil and into a low speed, the food of krupps that are in the area that would have been damaged any way. um and then uh, those, obviously these destiny clear react to that is nearby. now, the international atomic energy agency has said that, you know, at the moment there is no problem. the pools that come from the water in the reservoir, a full and the that is there's the short term reality. but in the long term, there is the possibility that um, you know, if something happened to that could leads to wider environmental impacts. louise osborne, joining us to, to view climate correspondent. we appreciate it. and here's look at some other story is making news. a united nations court has ruled that were want in genocide suspect felicia and the cool buddha is unfit to stand trial. the criminal tribunal at the hague is calling for an alternative legal

procedure that would rule out a conviction. the 90 year old was arrested in 2020 after decades on the wrong german chancellor, all actual toasted french president, a menu of my calling. i'd a working dinner in the city of pops sam on tuesday. ukraine was understood to be top of the agenda at the meeting. schultz said that germany and france are linked by an inseparable friendship. and are tackling challenges together. police in paris fired tear gas on demonstrators protesting against president and menu of my cons, pension reforms. the bill raising the minimum retirement age to $64.00 was approved in march without a vote in parliament. riley is have continued despite little chance of rolling back the pension overall, which will take effect in september. in the past few months, had been seeing increased diplomatic activity between japan and south korea on a scale not seen in years south korean president unit. so y'all and japanese prime

minister for me, ok, she'd have exchange visits and senior defense officials met last week and single part of diplomatic engagement that appears to have sizable support. according to a survey, especially among young people and culture appears to be at the core of that engagement. rage pull tests, product boy coats a national trade disputes. relations between japan and south korea have been on the rocks in recent years. no, this from boy and korean comedian is leading a cultural turner road is a i just had a car that was put in a job. today's, in south korea, this is kim king, japanese alter ego tanika, has helped to lighten the mood between these 2 neighbors. doing it with psalms and jokes office, but also what he'd done was that i'm doing for young people like us. we don't think

about reasons to be friends. we just become friends. i never thought about those reasons. we don't become friends or someone because they have such a good qualities, but because with the same people i don't do any settings looking at it. the fish sympathetic portrayal has become an online here. he has a 100000 subscribers on youtube. turning in to watch tanika devour korean snacks and sellers in spain to see him live and pass in on state hill. i see his die hard funds see his success has done much to heal the historic rest. in recent years or the airborne will not have enjoyed the japanese cultural since i was young. i hope people on. so when i reminded about japan and hope it can be an opportunity to unite. and i couldn't hear about this. and as soon as i started

talking, so we got some, there is a social atmosphere that sort of encourage boycotting of japanese culture on. so i was reluctant to talk about japan, olga perez, or after time because therapy and you to the atmosphere is more of like how long it over to him as well go. prenatal programming will take the fall like between the 2 countries goes back to the era of japanese colonial rule. and in particular, the expectation of women, women like lee young soon to are forced into sexual slavery in the 1940. so as of use i have to lose them and when did, they must apologize and provide compensation by far, early examining the comfort women issue to humble who ran military process. so would you say this to you, depending on the, on the most city,

but turned into trade disputes at the national level and sweeping boy coats of goods via fashion. i'm tech brands, all in the firing line. that's changed. no. which depends. i saw hebrew back in favor again, much to the pleasure of being lovers. well, how about it and if there's something to apologize for, it's right to get an apology from japan, but i think we don't need to be hung up on that and treat them badly. as neighboring countries or young people hope that we will get along well with each other. if these polls are indeed becoming friends again, it's no small thanks to the healing power of culture. some sports news for you now and no back joseph. it has is through to the semi finals of the french open. the serve had to work hard for victory after losing the 1st set to russian. karen kept chopping off the pressure was on the 2nd set as well

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who spokes person has said that the 86 year old is suffering from a hernia, which is causing painful and worsening symptoms. he's expected to stay in the hospital for several days. even moscow are accusing each other of blowing up a major damn. and a russian controlled part of southern ukraine officials and the area around the nova controlled cosca damn had declared, a state of emergency evacuations are under way of presidents down river up next. it is the magazine close of taking a closer look at how architects are trying to react to climate change with new ideas, such as floating cities. the

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