is this true nature conservation for only green washing? after all, there are billions to be made. our to push document tree deep sea greed starts to date on d w. the studio you know, is like from berlin. it only gets worse, southern ukraine reels from a burst stem as flood, water is rise. thousands of people are homeless, humanitarian and environmental, catastrophe, keys and moscow. blame each other for destroying the dam. also coming up is this

manhattan or marks? huge areas of the us are blanketed in spokane and stinky, small from well fires burning up in canada, plus a bed to avert a serious oil spill off. more than a 1000000 barrels are in this of band and tank are transferring it is risky. doing nothing. could be devastating the costs really. it's good to have you with us. authorities in southern ukraine are racing to evacuate. thousands of residents, the breaching of the cohort. got them, has flooded dozens of towns and villages. the united nations ac says it could be the worst damage to civilian infrastructure in this war. can you have claims moscow blew up the russian control dam, located on the front line to slow any counter offensive. russia accuses ukraine

a sabotage. well, torque is president of type, every one has told both leaders and phone calls that an international investigation is now needed. the volunteers and rescue workers use motorized continues to pick up people down stream from the destroy them trapped by the rising flood waters along with their pets. residents along the right bank of the dundee, pro river, controlled by ukraine, are being taken to temporary evacuation zones by road and by rail. one of them is in the city of nikolai, of 100 kilometers from the flood zone in has so and there are paramedics, as well as volunteers, to help the vacuum ease find food and shelter. the collapse of the dam has brought

further misery for tens of thousands already caught on the front lines of the war between ukraine and russia. 65 year old hon as a rude and yeah, emerged from a bomb shelter after 3 days of russian shelling to find her home submerged. a body shop where you could, your music to the city is like a ravine completely flaunted it's impossible to drive through the people who are trapped and what became like an island. i was taken away by my friends, i had to leave because having spent 3 nights in a bomb shelter, i just couldn't take it any more. but how does that route in the is luckier than most? her ordeal has ended on a bright moment. her sisters live in nicole. i have so she has a place to stay and shoulders to lean on of the

while. those living along ukraine's lower than the parole river are now dealing with the immediate consequences of the dams collapse. the impact may be felt for generations with thousands of homes and livelihoods swept away in the disaster. or corresponding sonya fall of car send an update from the flooded city of kirsten . risk unit by cation operations are still going on in the city of capes, on the inside of neighborhoods like this one that i completely underwater there. near the depot river, i'm not able to see teams here that are using rubber bullets and specially vehicles to, to get into the water and try and get the people out. do you printing all the is here on the ground that will include some volunteers? local official said we have set up a declaration of shelters for, for people who have had to leave the homes. but of course, the humanitarian operations. here it is also complicated by the fact that this is a wards on the deep sort of behind me that is the front line and even without the

slightest, oh, you know destructive flooding. a pencil in is a city that is related to sleep, shaded by the ocean forces on, on a daily basis. and the sound of author re file is, is, is very familiar to a residence here. and that really hasn't stopped even while this operation is going on. local officials have said that a russian forces have continued shedding the secret even as they try to evacuate the population from the west bank, which is under the creative control or the air. and much of the us northeast has turned into fake red smoke from hundreds of wild fires burning in canada. officials and many cities are urging residents to stay in doors as pollution levels turn hazardous. the white house calls the fires an alarming example of climate change. in upstate new york to a colleague is blanketed by the case smoke from hundreds of wild fires burning

neighboring canada. a few 100 kilometers further south. the smokers triggered unprecedented air health alarms in new york city, affecting millions of the but it sounds like them through the mid different difficult new yorkers or advice to where face masks went outside to filter out high levels of polluting particles found in near new york goose or smelled something that has never impacted us on this scale before we had dangerously high levels, a wildfire smoke from thousands of miles weighed thousands of miles away. the elderly and people of health conditions have been told to stay in doors. like today, i'm not going to go to the park. i usually go to the park every morning. i'm gonna stay home and now i have to go because i want somebody that's there. but otherwise,

i stay home with over 400 fires, still burning across canada, the pollution will likely continue to impact bordering us states. as canadians experience their worst of early season fires, many see the trail of smoke as a sign of the climate crisis, which can include more frequent and even more extreme wild fires. earlier i spoke to me or ologist, matthew computer, he's in washington dc and shared this update on the smell covering the us capital as most definitely as it was worth earlier on here in the nation's capital. i could actually smell the smoke about 3 or 4 hours ago. now visibility is improved a little bit. i can just barely see the washington monument in the background. really, ron, i couldn't. when disabilities were below about 3 to 4 kilometers in new york city, though a very different story, they're seeing their worst air quality ever observed in the biggest city united states. the big apple, up to about 379. that's the official number. remember anything over 50 because as

reduced anything over 100 is hazardous for the general population. so in new york, this guys are orange. you can hardly see the kilometer if that. and in fact, they have to ground airplanes because some golfer land given how bad the visibility is. now the area affected is, is very vague and it's very far away from where these fires are actually taking place. and how did we get here, and are you expecting for things to get even worse? yeah, i do think things will get worse before they get better. unfortunately, you know, about 4 or 5 days ago we had a big speed or a ridge of high pressure over central canada, that rocks hot, stinking air, and that's a breeding ground for fires. so a lot of fires propped up and like could back. but here's the thing. there was a counter clockwise swirling, low pressure over like alpax know bas boucher, it is rolling all this smoke south and as a result is spreading from the arctic down towards near the gulf of mexico and the carolinas. the united states and the status of it is walking over the most populous

portable of the us, causing really bad air quality concerns. so unfortunately, things will get worse before it gets better. i think until like friday evening we'll have more smoke pumping down only then when we start to ship the winds. come banner visibility. matthew, this is an unusually early and very intense. start to the fire season. how much of it can be linked to climate change here? yeah, most of the ways the fires every year, but just so many people are we to well it's pretty much i'm president. yep. how many have cropped up? about 3 and a half 1000000. hector so burned in canada so far this year, the copernicus, climate monetary service says that the northern hemisphere is had a record fire emissions and the conditions that give rise to these big fires. those details we talked about, well, they're getting more frequent in text. you to use climate change, we think a pretty big need them so far this year, and it's likely this kind of episode. well sir, again and again and urologist, montana computer in washington. thank you. always great speaking to you. thank you . and here's

a look now and some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. the italian coast guard says it's rescued over 1400 microns from overcrowded vessels in the mediterranean sea. in the last few days, dozens of people including 2 children, need immediate medical care. italy has been cracking down on an irregular migration which has increased significantly since last year. the vatican says pope frances has successfully under gone abdominal surgery to treat her knee and pain. it says the 3 hour operation passed off without complications. 86 year old pontiff is expected to remain in hospital for several days. the metal roofing and president has pardoned an activist who was arrested in 2021. sophia pago was pulled off a flight that was diverted to bella. ruth, along with her partner dissident journalists, rom on protests of it. he was pardoned last month. lease ends were long as capital

colombo have fired tear gas and water cannon ad student protesters. the demonstrators want the release of active is arrested, an anti government, raleigh's. the called for support with the rising cost of living in the country, which remains in the grip of its worst ever economic crisis. or the united nations as carrying out a delicate operation to drain over a 1000000 barrels of oil from a decaying tank or off am in the air for so staff or has been a band and for years threatening an ecological disaster. but after years of fund raising a salvage mission is finally getting underway. a roosting wreck of the coast of yemen. that ex, but say 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 human civil war breakouts 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 van pipes were leaking, and valves rusting through a smooth vault from space for stuff could have a big environmental impact a spilling the red sea would devastate wildlife, leaf fishing communities, destitute and disrupt trade. 3 of us who is canal you people have been talking about it and kind of been not doing anything about it . this group has been able to do something about it. i'm, if you will be successful, we'll continue to push forward or something. so we succeed. united nations raised money from establish operation for members, states private companies at even the public through

a crowd funding campaign use. so if it proceeds to bias, i intend to cooling to the north. fis on a nation show, use the plan for north it moves in close adults with the stuff the engineers board and gain access to its tanks. they low a pumps and transfer the oil to the nautica. 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 answer that 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. some sports now origin times superstar luna, unless he has confirmed he will join major league soccer as i enter miami after leaving paris under man, the world cold winter has turned down

a more lucrative offer from saudi arabian club of love. this is the 1st time the 35 year old will play for from outside europe since joining barcelona in the year, 2000 mfc, 110 league titles with far as that as well as for champions like trophies, you move to pay a say 2 years ago and one to domestic lake titles there as well. and dude, bellingham will be heading to ram 100 after the spanish club reached a deal with birth at dogwood. after spending his youth career at birmingham city this years, but is like a player of the season, move to dogwood at the age of just 17. and it's 3 years there. bellingham became a superstar on the radar of the top clubs in europe and a regular on the english national team. and we end tonight in australia, we're rescuers have managed to set free a hung back. well, that found itself trapped in shark net off the gold coast.

it was a delicate operation with rescue workers using special cutting equipment to free the 10 meter long. well, they also manage to cable, tie the net together to prevent other wells getting stuck. environmental groups have called for sharp nets to be removed during the migration season. when 40000 wells passed through the area. as our news updates stay with us because after a short break, rob watts will have all the latest from the world of business for you. i'm to go fairly, thank you so much for your company. the stay up to date don't miss our highlights. the t w program online, d w dot com highlights criminal.