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been under increased attack since moscow quit a crane build meant to prevent a global food crisis. russian future treated the mind that we're really our reporter shows why many ukrainians arbor watkins to return home dw travels to the front line villages in ukraine, south east that have been liberated from russia, plus more health warnings. as high temperatures scorch, southern europe. italy announced as the highest alert levels and many of his biggest cities and sends out volunteers in room to help those struggling with the, the hello, i'm quite richardson, thank you very much for joining us. south africa sides that russian president vladimir putin will not be attending next month's brick summit. enjoy this bird to

the annual meeting brings together the leaders of brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa and food. his attendance had raised difficult diplomatic questions for the host country, but the russian president, facing on arrest warrant by the international criminal show, criminal court. as a member of the i, c. c, south africa would have been obligated to arrest him if he showed up at the meeting . the kremlin now says boot and will instead of join the summit via video. let's get more on this from our correspondent privilege. was fun here in cape town for village there's been tons of specter of south africa come to this decision of the constant consolidation between more school and pretoria. i think so that the guy has been forced to come out to this decision after weighing the difficulties that the country was going to face different months ago in terms ofa

engaging in arresting, putting the, if he was going to be stepping on. so that's against, well, so i think the benefits of not having him to come to so that's the got out weighed um the price of that to you know, so that's the goal was having to have the country fixed the i c c, a race them then they decided to the truck to have him attend through it to the conference. yeah, indeed, the south african government had faced both internal and external criticism over its decision to invite, putting in the 1st place. do you think that that pressure effect, that the government's decision a indented to a large extent, the pressure that has been mounting in 10 or the and international ones. the last to go was too much. if you look at intentionally, the biggest old position party d a had gone to court and filed the court settings that so that's the go was

obligated to address for me if us to step or not. so that's again so, so there was so much pressure out once i've actually got 2 eggs on these and therefore this decision had to be made that we know that south african president run my post. i had also asked permission from the i c. c. not to arrest russia's president putting because to do so put them onto a declaration of war. what more can you tell us about the details here? i'm in president, run my process. so, um i, i think that means that you have filed in response to the court telling us that the da brought to court. he stated that it was going to cause a domestic national security to was at stake because of russia was going to have problems in terms of but i racing is present in handing it over him over to the i c c. therefore. so in this course,

deposit that we filed on the 27th of june. they then said that they were going to ask the i c c to invoke i took who 9 to 7. that's allows then it comes in not a racist or effect of the it's a request because of the problems that could be causative if they were going to ex on what the i c, c had requested. thank you so much for bringing us up to speed there. that is privilege was fun. harry, in cape town to a second's night of what you crane described as a hellish, aerial assault by rush on the city of odessa home to craze. primary grain shipment port in the black sea, according to the cities military administration, this recent attack was quote, powerful and very massive ukraine's of the ports green and oil terminal have been damaged. moscow described the previous attack on odessa the day before as a mass for revenge strife. in response, the keys attacks on the bridge connecting russia with crimea. error rates were also heard in other parts of ukraine, with

a drone attack reported on the capital. steve. so let's get more of a more course on it and make conway joining us live from keep next a bad night in odessa, that critical ports to be on the black. see how extensive is the damage? what are your thoughts? is that have said this is the biggest single me, so i'll check on it seems to be can we understand several different types of christmas cells? we use that we launch the same time and basically overwhelmed. the defense is in place. be fed from top your brain for so saying that if they have more in the way of western weapon systems, because the system is the oper, 2nd capital key of where i am now, then this could have been present, prevented. right now we are seeing reports of 6 locals wounded at no cost to yet, but in terms of that crucial great infrastructure shoes, damage to calls damaged and needing a year to repair some 50 percent of the terminal destroyed. and some of the crucial parts of the desk support. so this is

a real attack on kind of ukraine's you can always let them. yeah, indeed, this is the 2nd attack on the region. and as many days after russia pulls out of that great export due on monday, what do you think this is going to mean for ukraine's attempts to get it's grayed out to the rest of the world? well this is absolutely devastating loss to, even though there were lots of monks where basically the pulse was shocked. eventually they did manage to get this grand deal about 70 percent of ukraine's grain went out through this black sea deal. only 30 percent went through all the alternative routes that's rail, that's by truck cool by small barge to a neighboring countries remaining for instance. so this is going to be very, very difficult with real cents. now the rest of basically has given up on this deal that worse actually sees more benefits because i want to rush it is a main competitive. so the green markets worldwide. so russian farm is set to benefit. and also, in the sense that russia has tried to do direct deals with countries in the global south, it sees that he can do business with it can get support from to send them cheaper,

grangee progress, some grain to the sense that they don't receive as much as you need for them now that, that kind of diplomatic pressure that has full come to the table in the previous month. so that's now no longer relevant. and lots of ukrainian farmers are really feeling that to basically, they're gonna have to pay for this much more expensive transport and it's gonna be that mode is affected. and that crucial income, the import income export income that really is keeping these countries balance payments. but that is not gonna take a real hit and that russia has also reported a fire at a military base and an ice cream. yeah, that's forcing evacuations. can you give us an update on the latest there? so far we've seen some pretty impressive images of huge clouds of smoke of fire. this seems to be a munitions dump, a kind of place where weapons all stored before being taken to the front lines in the south of ukraine. what this thing though is lots of different. alice had points to the fact that this is the kind of far east of crimea pretty far away from the key of kind of government control territory. speculation that even your credit

might be using for his muscles that have a bigger range than those previously delivered. but this is more than 200. she comes away from anywhere, whether you credit is going to notice it from. so it's quite some excitement here and k of the ukraine has more advanced weapons than previously thought. and the sense that distressed you really trying to deprive versus troops and ukraine of results is, is now finding thing to work correspondent in economy and keeps many things as always, fear, reporting as ukraine's counter offensive enters a 2nd month. officials concede is going slower than expected, but some progress has been made. the biggest territorial gains for ukraine has been your valley cutting over, soak up south west of denette, square, inquiry and forces have liberated for villages dw special correspondent. abraham was one of few reporters given access to the area where she found out why people are reluctant to return this village is one of the 1st to create has taken back from russia, and it's counter offensive. it's called in this coaching

a which means not boring and you crania today, that feels like a cruel joke. this coach, they used to be home to about 700 people. now there's nothing for them to come back to the board. it shows it seems to be to feigns me to see this because they used to be live here because it just, you know, the united voters push the sometimes it's hurts even to see the land. the land is constantly being torn apart by showing no smoke out. the nature suffers, people suffer, the country suffers ever since that is a live stuff. is there ever since socrates the systems, the as we're filming, we experience why no one's coming back. as russian troops are treated the mind to really quick lane, we have to move fast. the russians are constantly firing. what i was about to say

was that the russians mind the whole village as well as their positions on the front lines. this strategy means every step of the territory ukrainian troops we gain is paid for with this is the town of villa kind of us. ok, the russians never got this far, but we're just a 5 minute drive from this coaching. here. a successful counter offensive can't come fast enough. this time of year this police would normally be bustling with life families and people just enjoying the sunny day. but now there's just absolutely nothing left. there's barely a building intact. the sound of artillery here is just relentless. it just does not stop. billy kind of a silica is one of the closest towns to the front lines, with civilians still living in it. it had a pre war population of about 7000. now locals, tell me there are just a few 100 left. tatiana is one of them who storms because the sierra july,

i was born here like this is where my story began. how can i leave all my ancestors abroad here? is this my city of which one? why should we give up ukraine inland as we speak? sounds of artillery. tatiana doesn't even flinch. be supposedly social. acosta, which we have a read adaptive somehow. like there is some kind of mutation in our board is we don't we have to explosions like that anymore. you know, she loves everyone loves celia to sure we. there's no electricity here. no running water, no shooting and no shops. this volunteer who brings food in twice a month is a crucial lifeline. over sneak with this, i'm here have nowhere to go. some have disabled people at home to some pen, shanice smith, who accepted it. they might be killed here. we kind of leave them to me. it all got left her hometown and the done bass in 2014 after rushing back separatists took

over. she later settled in really kind of a silica this is what remains of the house. she and her husband worked for 8 years to build. they finished it just days before the full scale invasion has been show twice. i'm sorry. it was the one to live 2 weeks with my husband did older pass it with his own hands . like you did advertising every week. you to on february 22nd too late. this law not on february 22nd, but we finished this room. little boost. the children's room was already done so that there's little and she made this last year with her 8 year olds. oh the oh it still works is that this is how we celebrated the year 2022 as

a family in our house because in the rest of our to closing those, every time i come back to this car on my hobb deepens in the city. but he has changed the trunk august says she believes she'll repair her house and that ukraine will rebuild. but for that to happen, they need victory on the battlefield. the sooner the better and our correspondent who filed that report. abraham joins me now in the studio to talk more as so many ukrainians have been driven from their homes by the russian invasion. but despite it all, some have chosen to stay behind. can you tell us what you found out by speaking to them? right, so in that area where we were, both villages are about 1015 kilometers away from the front line. and this coaching at the village where we started, the report was actually part of the russian front line until it was liberated by ukrainian forces. and in early june,

so these are very strategically important villages for both sides. they're filled with ukrainian or artillery positions. and that's why you hear these boom sounds in the background all the time. and because of that, they're also a target of a russian, a artillery and as you saw, we had to really, you know, kind of exit one of the villages as one. yeah. a hit pretty close to us. so the people that stay there, the 2 really important to emphasize are minority in village kind of a silica pre or population about 10000. we were told about 200 to 300 people. we mean, and these are usually old people who really feel that they have nowhere else to go, that whatever is waiting them outside can possibly be scarier than state than staying at home. there's also perception in larger ukrainian society that people that choose to stream these. um, you know, conditions are quote unquote, just waiting for the russians to arrive. i mean, there's certainly parts of that. i mean,

brushing propaganda is very strong. they are, there are a lot of russian speakers in that area and they get messages like the rest of ukraine doesn't like you doesn't like russian speakers from don bass. and so that definitely also plays a role. but i think mostly it's, it's a lot of fear. it's a lot of old people, what in their entire lifetime, never set foot out of their village. they've been through a lot of this questionnaire was, incidentally occupied by russia briefly in 2014, sorry, a by rushing back to for just in 2014. and so it's a, it's an area that's been through a lot and there's really a sense for people and, you know, if they've lived their entire lives there, where is there to go? i mean, all the volunteers that was the only young person that i had encountered throughout that entire reporting a trip. so a lot of fear that really drives that sense. so if i need to hold onto what i have, i don't know what's waiting for me. you know, outside. yeah, and you've really got a sense of the dangers they're facing from your reporting there. maybe we can talk about the counter offensive. we know ukrainian forces are inching forward,

taking village by village. can you tell us how that compares to say last years liberation of her son named major city? right. i mean, we remember these iconic images that came out of her son in november of last year, soldiers walking into the city, being welcomed with hugs. and, you know, enthusiasm by the locals, presidents of lensky, and visited there. and there were these sort of, you know, these images that really were turning points in ukraine's war effort for a lot of ukrainians. this is very, very different. when this questionnaire was liberated, this was announced, and i'm with, you know, of a phone video on social media with 2 soldiers carrying one ukrainian flag and saying, well, we've taken this village back in there as we saw. absolutely nothing left. and then in this coaching us specifically, there are no civilians left and that's because of russian troops really have had time to entrench themselves. they've had to be mind areas,

but ukrainian troops would need to cross out to be able to reading territory. i mean the soldiers that we have the soldiers that we spoke to ivan at the beginning of the report. i stepped on mine 2 days after we spoke to him and oh gosh for last i heard they were battling to save his legs and ukrainians are just not really willing to, you know, uptake these casualties. but why it's going slower? well, thank you so much again for your reporting and for joining us here in the studio to talk us through it. that is the special correspondent at you for him. us. and meanwhile, large parts of southern europe are sweltering in record. high temperatures. about 20 cities in italy have been put under red alert. people are being warrens efficient, could pose a serious risk to their health. rome, florence and bologna are among the areas most effective residents and for us has been asked to avoid direct sign it during the afternoon. forecast also suggests sicily could break europe's record for the hottest temperatures. by reaching 49 degrees celsius, the island set the record at 48.8 degrees in 2021. we

can speak now to francesca or metro pc is head of the european center for environment and health at the world health organization. joining us today from rome, thank you so much for taking the time. i'd like to ask 1st whether countries in europe such such as italy, are they adequately prepared for these record temperatures as well? you know, you know, come through. so have a head the set of years of experience, of extreme or weather events and extreme a huge setup. so you may, we should to, to remember that to already 2003 you would offer was affected by a major heat wave. the key to the time and estimated the 70000 people. so seems to them all the time to grow. we number of companies. so being, you know, getting a better prepared the and adapting it to climate change you 30 is among them. one

of the keys towards so that they have seen that using it as being the development of the circle. if she has the actual glass, these are, these have been develop it by now by more than 20 gone 3. so 20 countries are still low. we need to, more of them are to be pretty fast for the day because these are plants save lives and they save lives. so because they put it back the whole system from early warning, the systems identification of the most of all medical group and how to hyphen and pretty better prepared to respond because the ultimate objective. yeah, we have authority, then we have authorities then responding to these changes to these increasingly extreme weather events. is there anything though that can be done at the root level to stop and reverse climate change and what we are seeing in terms of extreme, whether it was the extreme so that we have seen and now are part of a global impact. and so these are,

she waved so they have become strong. good morning time. so and eating the, you know, for a long time in the, in the, in more places do you see some old pastor of climate change in climate change is a global, existential threat. that requires a global call you to, to, um, sort of the collector. this is why we play certain important things through events that i could, the un convention on climate change and policies. we need to make a shift. and this is also why a couple of weeks ago you would offer 53 member states where, you know, coming together who to face the meanest use of us and ministers of them bottom and the, and one of the key items. so the way to addressing the was that house we could use to our capacity to respond to climate change, including the by developing a new partnerships and working together to wish that the objectives were. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us on this really important story. as

francesco retro be head of the european center for environment and health of the world health organization, many thanks. bye. extreme temperatures aren't the only head in europe, north america, asia, in north africa are affected to. in some cases, the high temperatures are linked to something called heat stones. tom maxwell is in japan. they move in to status of the country has been issued heat striping that other countries across the world including the us, spain grease and it's lea, a suffering from the heat. the south west of the us is scorching because of a heat to the heat term is caused by mass of at building up and getting trapped by high pressure in the atmosphere. the high pressure then pushes the ad down, the area to the surface is squashed and gets even hotter. and the cycle continues.

scientists are trying to find out how much heat we can handle. the critical temperature has been observed in some animals strangely haven't really being nailed down to human beings. researches unless degrees of people resting for an hour in the mid 20 degrees compact and humidity at $40.50 degrees centigrade. they looked at that because you energy and metabolic rates spending an hour between $40.50 degrees centigrade. and a human environment was enough for the majority of those studies participants to show a note where the increase in the metabolic rate, domestic, violating rate increased and the high temperature is more than the scientist expected. such gains can be counter intuitive just to the point when the party clearly wants to be defending himself against increases in temperature. it is

generating more based on heat research as a working to find out whether the spike is dangerous. in the meantime, we can try to keep cool people underestimate the value of a so a fan will uh, increase the rates of in fact receive heat loss by making the immediately around 140 a little bit, draw a, it does seem to cool. so a ball says people go to balls, getting a cold shower, not too cold into swimming pool is a lucky enough to have access somehow to through polls. it's advice c. c, for the months of nathan has already taken sports in his now and in less than 24 hours. the women's football world cupcakes off in australia and new zealand. our sports correspondents took a closer look at the national teams of the 2 host nations. in auckland,

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