the, the, this is david with the news lie from bullet flood them in flooding. they have put an address as the russian public following a short lived for a 1000 the weekend following the biggest single challenge, if he's already, the russian president attempts to project a sense of national unity and says he acted to avoid serious flushing. also coming

up, gemini, foreign minister, is heading to south africa on a trip where she'll appeal, full stronger commitment to ending the boy and ukraine. any report shows, nations of filing to help and with this deforestation. it's also the site that the planet is losing and important in width and, and it's optional for finding the level of wyoming and following a long running trial relating to audis, diesel emission scandal, a suspended sentence for my audi, c e o. or if it stops the anatomy, how it welcome to the program. russian president vladimir thurston has sought to project or authority in an address to the nation following the weekend. and rebellion by far the most and res. it said the rebellion freight and russia's very existence and promised to punish those behind us. it didn't mention any precaution deleda at the mesmeric group by 9 and his own statement,

precaution denied the revolted bane. i'm that of a throwing electrical star. he's never the less, the incident has left the kremlin battling to regain control the narrative. after a weekend of may head management votes, operations save face has kicked in at the criminal and it started with the speed the i released on russian state tv with defense minutes. this guy showing front and center seemed to commonly visiting the front line and ukraine. it's his 1st public appearance since the bach and have a vote. undeclared signal that he's still in charge. so which is the little guy, was the police again and then came a call for unity from russia's prime minister, going to be praise president pollutants leadership with the junior 11th faith cabinet meeting here in moscow along the way through before the under these circumstances, it's important to ensure the solvency and independence of our country for the safety and wellbeing of our citizens. so we need to act together as one team

maintain the unity offer or forces by lining up behind the president and take calculated joint decisions to implement task given by the head of statements that is showing you the effects you know, bonding as others get the best only go with this with us to the us and others have described. so today's result which is a direct challenge to the russian presidents, leadership to the bottom to lead on to support us is that safe? fall face no punishment despite putins. clear wrong. good, boy, you have any precaution himself. be supposed to be in bed abuse after pulling out with his troops on saturday nights. whether he's the right to yet it's still unknown, but he has released an 11 minute or 2 your message in which he explains his reasons for taking action. not somebody said, you don't know where that was. there were 2 important factors for our decision to

turn around at the for the 1st when you did it is that we did not want to spill russian blood battery fox that are the 2nd is that we were marching. you mom to show our pro, tell you what, but idea, but not to overthrow the government of the country. a severe the yeah, well i skipped that idea that was followed a few hours later. why i promise from president booted to wagner fighters in the late nights address you're new with us about today. you have the opportunity to continue your service with us or by signing a contract with the defense ministry of the military and law enforcement structures . people to go back to your family and loved ones. those who want candidates for bella very still have the promise that gave will be fulfilled to you and you were just pulling in. but there was no mention of the instigator in chief handbook and the leader, you have good, the precaution, his life on future may still be on the line. oh,

the are aspect to date w, russia, analyst, constantine it in the lifting by any and capital vilnius and ask him for his key take away from flooded me and putting stress. well, the key takeaways dots puts in that was actually expected to say something historic that is waltz, he's uh, pressed x ray uh told uh in a different sort of telecom chat with messages and speaking to the agents about nothing really he storage happens. so my key take away is that everybody in the crime and is in panic and doesn't know what to do. so instead of the putting said, well, we kind of softly disband the wagner group. so if you want, you can go home. if you don't want, you can go to bill, it was, why should you go to bill? it was, that means that you kind of go to russia, you're not welcome to rush anymore, but definitely it's clear, put in is panicked and you've seen these faces of the russian cabinets in the

report. they don't look very sort of bright and cheery um, i suppose there is a lot of care snow in moscow and i think the main kills uh oh, the reason for the caves is that puts them, did not expect people in the stalls and the news to receive the broadening group as heroes as liberates as, as an alternative assault. again, i think this is the main question now in russian politics they put in has been seen as very weak. and she is now trying to show up his authority whether he will succeed, frankly speaking, i'm not set. so knowing that constantine um and now knowing the deal that precaution, that we're a to is it fate aside the wagner boss blinked? yes, it did. and his explanations, that's uh, we're also in the report differently lines,

but the put is rush. it is an inquiry wise, but this is an exceptional thing with absolutely everyone lies and everyone knows it. definitely something went wrong for precaution. my suspicion, that's all the suspicion don't want to conspiracy arise. yeah, that's he expected some help from within the machine. and this how didn't come for some reason and because of that, he had to turn back and pretend that everything is going. all right, and he's just so generous person to 1000 want to spill russians love, although he was prepared to do it. so i suppose that this is not the end of the story and frankly speaking, i do not believe he would stay long in bell. it was issued, if you ever even went there, because it will not be safe for him. there russians think it is a security services operating bellows as they wish. this is a defacto sam. i caught. busy them the over russia, so uh, for precaution to stay there will be very, very weird to either have to go to africa where he was, you know,

conducting his mastery operations or find in other ethic. yeah. what about the wagner flight has been uh, some of the most for feed and feed fighters in russia. by contrast, russian soldiers unknown to be ill treated on the train, somewhat side unoccupied. what would most invite? the wagner followed has been to join the russian army. now, not much, but at the same time i would say that the ministry products is the bit exaggerated. they're good at the so called hybrid where you have to law and kind of uh, in senior rates yourself into a bankruptcy, your anything. but look the bottom right, so we're not very useful when they were fighting near buffalo trying to storm a small town even by your brand, in standards and all the russian ones for 10 months. so i think the military pro is exaggerated. i think somebody joined the army, so this illusion that will go home and somebody try to find new employment. because

i do think the told to put him is scared of pretty guardian and his troops, but using the so called private misery companies, using mercenaries is not at all excluded for the rational received. i think that's their lifeline. still, if they want to continue fighting and the green russian army turned out to be not as good, but probably not as bad as many people expected. so i do think they will not be able to do away with the mercenary armies. a tool they to police come to the thing it thank you so much. i or a gemini, foreign minister, angelina. bad bulk is visiting south africa today, where is expected to try and get stronger commitment from leaders there to help in rushes vote on the credit for tory is claim of neutrality has come on the scrutiny, not least of the us claims. it's applied to russia. president serial rema pulls the as launch the panel to investigate those claims. recently he visited both russia

and ukraine on a mediation mission, an african piece mission to russia. earlier this month, the delegation of 7 after the nation was met by south africa trying to persuade vladimir putin that the ukraine bull must. and before they got bad, they visited ukraine to plead for peace. but with no need to keep nor moscow winning to budge. this visit to accomplish sniffle. the west is already suspicious of south africa's claim that it's playing a new to role in the conflict. in february pretoria team jump with most go in beijing. the whole joint naval exercises 3 months later, a us diplomatic queues, south africa,

of delivering alms and munition to this sanctioned russian ship south africa has had a long friendship with russia. most goes top diplomat sanjay lab prof visited the country in january relations, dates back to when the soviet union helped south africa's freedom fighters invest, struggle against apartheid that history is part of the reason pretoria refuses to condemn moscow for the invasion of ukraine. but it's not just south africa where russia has been cultivating relations. most goes influence extends across much of the african continent. did isn't just about politics. it's been giving minute 3 support on sending equipment and alms in return for access to energy and

natural resources. rushing most memories, including the infamous wagner group, have also been operating in several countries on the continent. they include molly libby, a sudan, and central african republic. and despite recent events in russia, it doesn't look like countries such as south africa will change their relations with moscow anytime soon. all right, let's take a look. now, some of the, of the headlines from around the world, new french president, below to me is the landscape says, troops have made advances on all fronts as keeps counter offensive continues. according to defense officials, 130 kilometers territory have already been re taken from inviting russian forces in southern gig, right? he said it is still in the early stages of its campaign as well as far rock government has approved the construction of golden $5000.00 additional housing

units, but jewish settlers in the occupied west bank. the plans are going to hit the spot pressure from the us, which sees the expansion as an obstacle to pace with the palestinians to international monetary funds says, rising corporate profits. i've done more to dr. europe's inflation crisis. then the energy pressure caused by the boat and you try, according to the ins, profits accounted for 45 percent of price increases since 2020, to more than double. the impact of labor costs into a severe flooding has left at least 2 people date and several others missing. hundreds of last they himes days of ab bring full have caused rivers to best they. banks in the center of the country will side to side stream weather events like canada as wild pfizer being fueled by climate change. tropical rainforest play a vital role in containing global warming. but the study is found that the world's forest scale disappearing at an alarming right. the spot international pledge is to

help and reverse deforestation. almost half of the loss is happening in brazil. it's new president, set a goal of ending deforestation. the question thing, can he achieve this ambitious goal? this patch of lab may not look very tropical, but it's actually part of the world's largest rain forest. seems like these have become more and more common in the brazilian amazon millions of hector's race. donnelly agreed to make space for cattle pastures and so fields among other things . almost half of the tropical primary forest last last year was in brazil. that's according to a new study by the world resources institute, a global research organization of the report found that on a global level reinforce lost an area of roughly the size of switzerland in 2022. that's 10 percent more than the year before. and it means we're rapidly giving up on one of our best tools to combat climate change. because tropical forest absorb

massive amounts of c o. 2. in brazil, environmental experts blamed the last 4 years of soaring deforestation on former president charitable. so now his administration weakened the agencies monitoring environmental crimes by shrinking their budgets and pushing out stuff. during the last 240 years, amazon was a place without law, but really master lula, desilva who took office the senior, wants to end illegal deforestation in the amazon by 2030. and he has a good track record. when he was president 20 years ago, his government reduced deforestation, and this reinforced by 80 percent, it expanded protected areas and strength and authorities to crack down on these spots. now let's administration has further developed that's action plan. what was your plan? the plan is to relentlessly combat crimes such as the illegal occupation of public lands. mine will be logging for illegal hunting and fishing and indigenous

territories and to give environmental protection aries to the amazon as a whole. but challenges remain. not lisa powerful agri, business block in congress that could hold back new environmental laws or to be reached at 0 or the 1st 7 years. and on the other hand, is important to set the initial goal and people around the world will feel the climate of consequences if these goals are met. so that report was by beatrice chris, the photo from the d. w environment. who's here in the studio to talk more about it? good to see the last line of your report. lance heavily. we will feel the consequences of climate change. if we don't stop the 1st thing of rainforest, what exactly does that mean? well, ideally when we're not destroying large slots of rain forest, these tropical force act as mass of carbon sinks. so that means they absorb or c o

2, then they end it. but for example, in the kids of the amazon, scientists have found that it's now a carbon source as opposed to a carbon sink. because of all the trees we've been destroying. but also because of the fires which have huge emissions. and these are often said intentionally for cow, pastures and plantations. so what that means is that there was more c, o 2 in the air that heats up are apples here, and that makes extreme weather more common and more severe, so, floods, droughts, heat waves, all these are intensifying because of this should be on the measure of global climate change, what effect is deforestation have on these localized areas and clients. so what the expert from the was resources and so to that brought up this report. stressed several times is that what happens in the forest doesn't necessarily stay in the forest. so for example, the further we move in there, more contact we have with wildlife, and the more likely it is that, you know, viruses from that wildlife might spill over to a few minutes and cause another pandemic. or if we go in there to mine that

contaminates local rivers. so for example, in the case of gold, that's a lot of mercury that's going in the water and contaminating fish. and obviously that's terrible for the indigenous people eating that fish. and beyond that, when we have fewer trees that mix surrounding areas hotter and dryer, and that just compounds the effects we're already seen for climate change. but so clearly there's a lot to be worried about. a one, the other, any developments to be helpful about? yeah, i know that was a lot of doom and gloom, but the report also highlighted some positive examples. so for example, countries like indonesia or malaysia saw a reduction of how much forest last cover in the last last year compared to 2021. and in the case of individual, that's really important because it's a major player and it's our reduction of 60 percent. and so there were several measures in place. one was that they have a permanent ban on home on a grand thing license as to clear primary for us, for logging issues, for also monitoring fires, preventing them. but experts are saying, you know,

globally, the trend is still not good. and we need to be treating or world leaders need to be treating those as the emergency that it is beatrice christopher from delete environment. thanks so much to hear. gemini echoed us handed down a sentence against phone, the audi, c e o reboot stats. it live the company while a carried out a program to hide the true emission levels of its diesel engines. meaning the district court gave him a suspended sentence of one year and 9 months is also been find $1100000.00 euros. earlier this year, the upgrade to a plea bargain with prosecutors to avoid harshest sentence methods. he was aware that audi had installed a legal software which allowed the vehicles to manipulate emissions, test the joining need to tell us more about the court verdict and audi. see a roof instead of the is my colleague chip on to kimberly from the w business. good

to say southern what does the vedic name or the verdict means that for a lot of people who've been waiting for some sort of justice, something has happened finally and something that is involving major, you know, a major manager like a high ranking manager. he's the 1st high ranking manager to be, you know, found guilty because he confessed to me that people bargaining obviously and obviously to be held accountable for his involvement in the diesel emission scandal in 2015. and he wasn't just the ceo of audi. he was also the board chairman of full spyglass, which is germany's biggest comic or so this is, this is a big deal for a lot of people. at least someone within the board within the upper management of that company has been found responsible for the initial scandal, st found responsible such a massive scandal. so then people are probably wondering is the punishment and not yes, that is the other issue here. of course, you know,

he's been find 1100000 euros for someone who is earning millions. that's not a lot just to put it into context. so we take the average german probably, you know, upwards of, you know, 2 decades to earn that much money. but for him with concern that he earns millions, it's not as much a big deal, however, this case could have dragged on in the courts. for years, the prosecutors had evidence against him, so the case was stacked against him, which is why he made that plea bargain admitting guilt admitting his involvement, which he hadn't done before. but he also recognized that in his lawyers obviously advised them to potentially make that agreement. but that agreement he made because he also wanted to avoid a high sure jail sentence. you know, of course the suspended sentence is not as bad. he can walk freely. you can move around freely to some of its conditionality to it, but he is pretty much a free man and now he has the funds to put the potential to move forward with his life is

a 6th year old man. and i'm sure he wants to put this behind him. so that's one chapter close. but what's next then in the visual in the days emission, scandal know, broadly speaking, well with him. the fact is that they, we don't know if there's gonna be any civil court cases against him. this is a criminal court case. however, the civil court cases a, we don't know is going to happen. the likelihood that something's going to happen is highly unlikely because there's not too many car owners involved just because volkswagen to buy those vehicles from all the following the emission scandal. so that has been sort of taken care of more or less. so we'll have to watch and see if there's anything that happens in terms of civil cases against that are going forward. however, um, because of the 5 of the people, the lower ranking individuals involved in the case and round slide 5 individuals. and as also the case against of the format, volkswagen ceo martin with vincent cohen and his case has been put on hold though, because he is 75. and he submitted

a medical certificate from his doctor is uh to the court saying that he is not healthy enough to stand trial. so that case is unfortunately for the people waiting for some justice or more justice pending chip under jim miller from date of the business. thanks so much or the sports now and the gym and women's national football team is training with less than a month to go to the will copy in australia and new zealand. germany considered one of the favorites. i will need to get pos, not only defending champions to the united states, but other european teams like england, sweden and france at the teams. media di there was told that this could be time for the moment and for the cameras there cruising with the intensity will bill is july 20th, approaching the opening of the world cup and july 24th. germany's 1st match against morocco. the thing is they've proven that their championship material what with for

example, the runner up finished to england and last year's european championships losing only an extra time class. ok. it's clear that we have pressure and just to confirm what we showed last. yeah. but it's a positive kind of pressure, oppose it to you about this team also knows that germany has won the world cup before twice. yeah. not to really get stuck on words. it's a big we missed a when the will talk to, to, we know that there are a lot of favorites this year and the many teams have the potential to compete for the title limits experience. define the, tim, you're going that to win the title. that's clear with the team, it's possible with the quality it's possible. get ready to discuss nicholas beyond the challenges facing the players. fans may face challenges as well, with the time difference for matches played in australia and, and new zealand is how for the world cup branch will be a thing this year. yeah, i'm aware that it's not that easy and many people will have to work. but i believe

that with as a well as a way. so that's a big thinking that also applies on the pitch as the german team looks to will its way through 7 matches for a world cup title. now the some of the news from the world of sports and the european games to run the way in paula the offerings many athletes a chance to directly qualify to compete at the paris 2024 lympics for us to do so. germany's table tennis jewelry den she and nina middletown. they won the 1st type of channels go on monday night 3 sit fun football. so this dolly knew missy was the special guest at the fed will match for round women become a one of the brazilian club book, the junior pride, the styles on sunday. and i see you took the pictures captain of the odds and to me and legend stain announced his transfer from paris such amount to him in west club into miami. this month manchester city started. okay, good one. as my did the official,

he's moving to etc. barcelona german international health city when it's 1st day of a trip of last season, including the champions league trophy, the english premier league, and the if i come in 7 years that matches the city, going to one help the club when a total of 14 tri fees by somebody that has now signed a 32 year old to a 2 year contract on a free transfer. hollywood south ron reynolds, in broad mcelhanney, has already found success after investing in an english football club. now they've trained the thoughts on formula one racing style is a part of an investment group that is bored about a one 4th share in the f one teen l. p. adults 2 young drivers. last football season. reynolds and mcelhanney sold their investment in club bricks and hi off handsomely with a dramatic change championship 50 when english lee with that your up to that this morning, he's coming at the top of the album before i go. hundreds of thousands of muslim worship is making their way to mount or fed and saudi arabia today for the to day

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