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the slicing social norms seeking their self determined lives. let's go from drudgery and abuse. stuff focuses on d, w. the . this is the, the news coming to line from berlin in greece, a massive blaze players up again west of athens. so it looks like they've lost control of the fire here. they're asking everybody to evacuate immediately. we report on the homes and livelihoods being destroyed by wildfires during an unprecedented summer of heat. also coming up after moscow's threats ukraine issues
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its own warning to ships and the black sea keeps as it could target vessels headed for russian control ports regarding them as potential carriers of military cargo. and the day after a lion is cited on the loose and berlin police expand their search, but there's still no sign the big cat prowling, the suburbs, the hello m. terry martin, thanks for joining as firefighters in greece had been battling to get wildfire back under control. after they rekindled on thursday evening west of athens, the blazes forced evacuations in an area that experience some relief. after 4 days of fires, dw corresponded in east of centers. this report from mondo near athens,
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where people are seeing their homes and livelihoods devastated in the hills near the greek coastline. and we followed the fire brigade to a hot spot, water bombing planes and helicopters of kept the situation under control until now . the regional commander wants to show us the progress they've made. the when we arrive, the situation has changed. another firefighter tells us, the commander can't talk. they have an emergency on their hands. a fire is threatening to spread into a family own summer camp. it's been evacuated, but the owners are still here helping as much as they can. of these companies from 1953 and so we have a similar issue that i was very young to them in 1995 and we monitor save the savings, then we help the savings. now we're very optimistic, the mornings dollar we are again the very think francis. they put out a call for help to the fire service to be packed the flames that are approaching
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the fence. several water bombers managed directed and the fire smolders 3 or 4 times. we've seen the fire simmer down because of the water being dumped from the sky, but then 3 or 4 times, the fire re kindled and we've seen them go back out it with hoses and even buckets of water. some of the firefighters have been working through the night in the morning and are exhausted. finally, the commander says he can speak to us because the flames are once again dying down . as long as they were trying to secure this camp here and we're doing everything we kind of, i don't, and for now we're monitoring. that's cool. that's good. but then there's a sudden commotion inside the gates. the camp fire has spread around the back in just seconds. the hope that prevailed has turned to panic. a wall of flames is coming in on a new front where they weren't prepared the,
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the heat is palpable and so was the sense of danger. the owners look on and disbelief and then make a last attempt to save the 10 step. welcome summer campers, for generations then just like that, it's all over the fire barrels down the 3rd side of the property. moving a 100 meters and 10 or 20 seconds opposite campus all but surrounded with only one way out. back to the parking lot as fast as possible. so it looks like they've lost control of the fire here. they're asking everybody to evacuate immediately. the family
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that braved the wildfires all morning has lost the fight and grief sets in front of the we couldn't do anything. it went up to us and it means i don't want to visit boston because again, it was all here 20 minutes ago and now and believably, it's gone. but everyone survived in with them the blueprints for how to rebuild show while ago i spoke with the w, i mean this of who filed the report. i asked him about ordinary people like the ones he healthy met, helping to find buyers themselves. sadly, it is very dangerous, it's also very common here. that's because the firefighters are stretched very thin . a local counselor for this town council here told us that it's the majority of people finding fires are volunteers. she claimed that the government was sending
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almost no help to fight the raging fires around here. the government, on the other hand, says that it's just because they don't have the resources to fire to fight all the fires blazing across greece at the moment. and they warn residents not to stay and evacuation zones and try to save their property as we saw this can be incredibly dangerous. things can change. and just the 2nd, even at this location, the summer camp, where we were, they were firefighters finding alongside volunteers. and even the firefighters were startled by how fast the spread within 2030 seconds it went from fire under control, almost to we have to get out to your as soon as possible in order to save our lives . so this is a conundrum for locals, either lose your property because the government doesn't have the resources to save it or lose your life. trying to do that yourself. uh, sadly, we saw family lose their property, but thankfully nobody lost their lives. i mean,
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those wild fires around athens have been burning for 5 days now. give us an idea of the destruction they've calls and where things stand in the effort to get the motor control as well. this area that i'm in right now is almost completely charged. houses are burned down. you can see a hill top that has no green foliage left on it, but just the hill across the way is still green and that's where the water bombers are still dumping water constantly. you can hear them in the sky as i speak just yesterday morning. authorities thought that they had this set up in a hurry, a fire under control. it's one of the biggest, if not the biggest in greece, but today they're back added a strong winds and increasing temperatures. have with that back up again. prime minister mits attack is said that the country remains on high alert because the seat wave just isn't letting up. $42.00 degrees celsius, it's a $108.00 degrees fahrenheit is predicted for sunday. so this weather is going to
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stay. and as we saw, it's probably not going to be the firefighters that get this under control. it's going to be the weather, a change in the weather that ultimately brings it to an end. and for the foreseeable future, that weather isn't going to change. man, thank you. so much dw, corresponding, i'm in, is if they're in just outside of athens. so you look at some of the stories making headlines around the world today. in south korea, one person has been killed and 3 more wounded in a stabbing in the capital. so police arrested the attacker at the scene and, and investigation is underway. the world's biggest rice supply or india has banned some overseas exports with immediate effect in a move that could push soaring global prices even higher. billy said it would hold the sales of some types of white rice to ensure availability and better prices and local markets. the band types of rice make up a quarter of india's rice exports. rescuers are still searching for survivors after
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a huge landslide killed at least 16 people in western india. more than a 100 others are feared to be trapped after their homes were flat and did a remote mountain village. heavy ray and has been hampering for us the less now to the war and ukraine. and keith has responded in kind to a russian threat to treat ships bound for ukraine as potential enemy targets. key says it will also consider vessels traveling to russian ports now or russian occupied ukrainian territory to be potentially carrying arms. this while moscow released footage of live fire exercise drills on the black sea, the claims to show and the ship cruise missiles carrying a target practice, the kremlin ended a deal that allowed grain to be exported through the black sea. earlier this week, the un security council will meet on friday to discuss the humanitarian, the impact of this decision. i still use. nick conley is in
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t a. i asked him if these threats from both sides to attack ships means that the black sea is turning into another battle ground in this war. i think it certainly is, has to be said that he has. what do you see it's fast share of mid attraction? remember, the flagship of the russian, lexi fleets must go out, was sunk by the craniums last year. we've single those repeated ukrainian attempts to destroy the crime in bridge. but now this, these threats against commercial shipping really imposes totally different economic price. and i think the interesting thing and all of this is how surprised the russian side was the ukraine just basically followed the russian threat with its own. when you're looking at the kind of russian state media, they just really didn't know how to report a list. there was some kind of sense of incredulity that ukraine was gonna up down to the same way that russia had. and i think were you creating perspective, what's kind of useful about this is here, we have to do anything to already impose
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a significant economic price. we're going to see the insurance companies probably most likely, refusing to insure ships heading to russian port. so we're gonna see maybe a ship bonus from other countries thinking twice about whether it's worth sending the ships towards rushing forward. so you don't have to even send any ukrainian worship. so drones to attack anything. and also the question of naval minds that even without any intent, usually travel quite a lot of distance off for a while. so you can create that kind of perception of safety being gone of danger. and that already means the russia has to face. i think costs and think about defending shipping in a way that it just the result really only even though because that was dw, that conway there and keep, well here in berlin, police are continuing their search for what's thought to be a lion on the lose a $120.00 police officers are taking part in the operation after a local resident caught the big cat on film in a wooded area in the south western suburbs. late on wednesday. veterinary experts
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and experts on animal tracking have joined the hunt. police are using helicopters, drones and infrared cameras in the search. dw is craig crowther has more, as it see on the outskirts of this wooded area in silent off in south west berlin way beyond fault. the missing login is now focussed. they've been several reported sightings over the costs of the day i'm into the evening though. none of these have yet been confirmed by the all far as he's now there's a large police presence on the perimeter of the wooded area indicating the scaling nature of the operation. now as well as the boots on the ground empowered as a huge amounts of technology which has been brought in to help find the missing lion that includes helicopters, drones and even an ahmed vehicle in terms of the residents. that appears to be a great sense of calm on the street suite, people laundry staying inside,
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although they're helping a few people out for an evening. so i'm a stroll, several bicycles, and even one or 2 people out walking that pet spots. despite the advice to keep them inside until the lion is found no longer on the loose, the, the, the, the women's world cup. they kicked off this week in new zealand and australia. canada missed an opportunity to join australia at the top and group be with nigeria holding them to a goal. this draw in melbourne. canada had the best chance of the match. but christine sinclair saw her 2nd penalty saved nigeria is deborah b. o. doing was then sent off an injury time after a video review. the nigerians were far happier with the results which leaves both teams, 2 points behind australia. after one day dw
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corresponded to him, you know, it was in melbourne to give us an over you where that leaves group be. and he also caught up with nigeria is goal keeping heroin, hoftedler tournaments 1st, 2 games last night in oakland and sydney ended with one new wings for the host teams in melbourne, leaving nigeria new canada. we're able to break the deadlock and decide this game in that ultimately it's nigeria who would be happier with the point of that. it was canada who had the better of the chauncey's, but even pick champions, rick, who would go with school rep for steam, sinclair was unable to conduct a sport take and secure her side of victory. just a moment ago we spoke to the woman who said that penalty, i'm rescued a point for nigeria. i only played against her last day. i never watched anything. even when they give the print out. tell was like, oh i should go starting. so i just, i just saw it myself. go go, you can do the same. i did it. so it wasn't the result we wanted, but then we're grateful for the self which we need. and i believe to keep working
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hard, we're not gonna relax and keep working hard on to, to get it to get in this game right. in switzerland, one of their 1st game beating the philippines in the need in new zealand after taking the lead from a penalty on the stroke of half times with double their lead in the 2nd half windsor, ryan, a few bo scored after some last is defending from the philippines and several unsuccessful attempts from 13 minutes watching dw news up next, the 2nd part of our documentary climate change of burden. catastrophe. i'm terry martin. thanks for the finale. for decades, she has thoughts peacefully for race of freedoms in the wrong nursing suit today. ready children should not inherit science from an age and if you look into.

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