the, the, this is the w news. why, from berlin breeze to struggles to contain a mass and place. that's flared again, west of athens. locals battle in vain to save their summer camp livelihood. just one of many walks of wildfires during an unprecedented summer of heat. also coming up reports that rushes, wagner mercenaries are training soldiers and buildings from poland to redeploy more

units close to the eastern ford. poland. prime minister says wagner is growing, presence causes an ever blowing threat at the women's football role. tough spain dominate, closer we get into 3 mill when, as the goals finally start to flow after some stages, early games in australia, and using the a warm welcome. 12 use around the world. unlike look, firefighters in greece or battling to get wildfires back under control for the 5th day in a row, firefighters and water bombers from other european countries joining the efforts to battle the flames as temperatures or again, dozens of properties have already been burned down. our corresponded, immunizations was underground. as a family owned summer camp near athens was lost to the flames. 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 spot of these companies from 1953. and so we have the uh, similar to the i was very young to them in 1995 and we monitor saved savings. then we helped the savings. now we were very optimistic, the mornings dollar we are again the very think fontes. they put out a call for help to the fire service, to beat back the flames that are approaching 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 the river 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. the 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,

the heat is palpable. and so was the sense of danger the owners look on in disbelief and then make a last attempt to save the tents that 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 on the 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 are asking everybody to evacuate immediately. the family that braved the wildfires all morning has lost the fight,

and grief sits in front of the we couldn't do anything. events, all of us. and it means us, i don't want to visit boston because again, i'm certain about this. 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 the w's. a mean ease of who filed that report told us more about whether it was common for ordinary people in greece to be fighting the wildfires. unfortunately, it is. we talk to a town counselor here who is well aware of the situation of these people we saw and report. and she said that most of the people find the fires right now are actually volunteers and home owners who are trying to protect their own properties. she said the government has sent very little help and she's disappointed. the government,

on the other hand says it's stretched very thin. these are terrible. wildfire is burning all across the country. and they of course, have to allocate their resources no matter who was at fault here though. the truth is that a lot of homeowners and property owners faced the conundrum either lose their property because the greek government doesn't have the resources to save it or lose their lives, trying to save their own property. now we saw a family there who lost their property, but thankfully nobody lost their lives. greece has activated the so called e u civil protection mechanism, who has come to the rescue and are there now enough firefighters to get the situation under control. this this mechanism is very important because wildfire, straits, countries and regions in, during dry seasons and seed waves with such overwhelming force that you've been a country is well equipped as greece well trained firefighters. quite

a lot of equipment. they have here to fight fires. they just can't handle the size and scale of itself. countries like you, countries like poland, romanian slovakia. i've already sent boots on the ground firefighters who are fighting alongside greek firefighters. edaly and france have sent water bombing planes that you can see in the sky all around here. those are extremely important, a very good tool for fighting these giant wild fires. and that mechanism is definitely come to effect here. it's important to note that greece and when it doesn't need the help, also sends its own firefighters to other countries, like italy and spain, which are also very greatly affected by wildfire as. but right now, greece is the one and is one of the countries in desperate need. this sheet is just continuing. we're expecting a temperature as high as 42 degrees celsius. it's a 108 degrees on the weekend. there's fire is burning just south west of here. this is still one of the largest fires in greece just on this hill over here. that's one of the largest fires in greece right now. we've all seen fires on the greek island

of rhodes, so really stretched been the resources and the, the prime minister mits, a talk. you said the country remains on high alert as long as the weather doesn't change and it doesn't seem like it's going to do so for the foreseeable future. and that is our correspondent, a mean ease of many thanks for that update. and there's climate change worse ends. wildfires around the globe are becoming more intense and more frequent. even here in germany, scientists working on a research project called powerful looking at how burned for us can recover and what it takes to make them more resilient in the future. use emily guardian spoke with a member of the research team did happen every the wildfires and the german state of brandon bug as far as like this which are consumed by flames. the pine forest planted by people to produce wood,

pine timber is used in everything from chairs to roofing. i'm floor of the pine trees and these commercial forests are planted close together with nothing between them. this makes harvesting more efficient and lovely. piney smell. it's almost central oil than the tree oil, which a jaime flammable. all this means a fire on the plantation can spread quickly and to be difficult to put out. the results can be devastating. research as of the power of the project, have been studying such a bunch forest area outside bowling. they wanted to find out how force confessed recover and what we might do to help they started by looking at what's left over after a fire, but a 3 growth. i'm asking, so i'm after the 1st wildfire, we had a mosaic of tree trunks and they provide a bit of structure and

a bit of shade. and in this shade, that's where new trees can grow. and my of come cutting not being said firefighters, while ready the dead would, could fuel future fives. but if there are no more flames, new saplings grow. a common pioneer in such conditions is aspen. it can even survive fire as best we have to empty up to what we saw on this area is that even when there's a fire in the aspin burns a way above the ground, it's not as much of a problem to pop. it can read real little shoots through the root. the results can look like this. 5 years ago, this area bent to the ground. the forest manages, cleared the debris of the woods and planted pine trees. but few survived. instead, aspen trees established themselves in naturally and with the time

a more diverse selection of trees will develop. supply and forest of this will not replace what they've lost in the fire, but for the longer term health of the forest. it's this thought for yourself. hoffman is a member of the buddhist dog, the german parliament for the pro business free democrats. he's on the pile of entry agriculture committee, and he is also qualified forester who has worked for 25 years as a forestry management official in the german state of barton. talking about christoph, uh, what goes through your mind when you see these kinds of fires raging across your voice is terrible. i did. you can see though, as far as this drawing all the forest and um, there is nothing really you can do about it. i'm in the firefighter doing a good work, and the rest crew came in to a degree. so this is a good steps, but it will not be enough. you know,

it strikes me that the images that we constantly see or southern europe is it now inevitable that northern europe will see these kinds of wildfires eventually actually, uh, there was a big fire there in sweden uh a couple of years ago. so it can happen in those uh, places to it depends how drive the season is and how much were really in the forest guess. um, but germany in general is, um not we don't have much of a problem with forest fires. it's just small files because um we have so much mobile phones in the forest. everybody has the mobile phone, so fine is that detected very fast and can be suppressed very false because every bit of trouble fiber. good. so you are an expert in force re management and also a national politician is politics doing enough to ensure that these kinds of places are kept to a minimum and that communities are properly equipped to deal with them. i

don't think so. they have not done enough exercise and we haven't done enough preventions. like you have to have more than people within the for us to have to have stretches of bear sorrel. so you can stop, defy, i do stretches. we have to step up with a prevention program and it's a, it's going to touch us more and more because we have more dry season to have more extreme weather. and we have to get out the dead wood as we have it now from the bark. beautiful, devastating about 200000 impact of in germany. and then you have to get this without because it's a huge fire load at which this, this tim, but could try and get burned. it's going to be hell. i mean, we have to get this thing out, it's to, because it's just too dangerous all to a colleague, dislikes it, but this is to the interest you just talked about some prevention measures. what

generally do you think that germany and the entire european union should be doing right now? as i think we have already is put in place. um, uh virtual fire or fleet, uh, from a different countries. every country send a couple of claims. we got small kennedy here, but we don't have the big line so far, like a $747.00 or an big claim. we need those as well for your a p a your a p n level. so when does huge places like now in greece, you can send those big planes. they have some advantages, dance of disadvantage at the small pipelines they can target very well. and they can kind of close cooperation with the boots on the ground. whereas the big claims they can go to suppress a huge fire as a lot better, but they have a much longer rotation period, so it needs more time to fill them up. and do you have to land on my as a rental airport? and so they need more time to get from from and back to the fire. so this type of

prevention is where we have to have depots of water and deforest prevention prevention prevention, german lawmaker and forestry, expert christoph hoffman. many thanks for your time in your perspective. you're welcome. here's a look at some other news from around the world at this hour. in south korea, one person has been killed and 3 more wounded and a stabbing in the capitol, so police arrested assess back down to seem close to a busy subway station. the motivation behind the attack wasn't immediately clear, but an investigation is underway. the world's biggest rice supplier india has banned some overseas exports with immediate effect and a move that could push soaring global prices even higher. daily said it would hold sales have some types of white vice to ensure availability and better prices in local markets. the band types of rice make up a quarter of india's rice exports,

a inver land veteran re experts and animal tracking experts have joined the hunt for what's thought to be a lion. on the loose, more than a 100 police officers are taking part in the operation after local resident caught the big cat on film in a wooded area in the south western suburbs to the war in ukraine. now russia has carried out target practice in live fire exercises on the black sea. the russian ministry of defense released to this footage of the drill, all said claimed to show empty ship cruise missiles targeting mach enemy ships is comes a day after both moscow and keith traded threats to target any ships headed to the other's ports. they say they will consider any such ships to be potentially carrying weapons. earlier this week, the kremlin ended a deal that allowed green to be exported through the black sea. the un security

council will meet on friday to discuss the humanitarian impact of this decision. staying in the region and poland military is read a point more units closer towards border with billers. that's after reports of russia is wagner and mercenary group training, belushi and soldiers in the area. people in poland near the border said they could hear shooting, and helicopters also had already sent additional forces to boost security at the border with bellingers earlier this month. poland prime minister, one that wagner is increasing presence in billers, post an ever increasing threat to poland and nato. i miss this is the vanya, the drawing me, be just all provocations by look of shank. i'm better associate of that, but we know very well here that we must be vigilant as a whole by so this is control above all, because the roots and russia are working handed. comcast destabilized poland to

destabilize the eastern part of nato, but suddenly on the eastern part of the european union, they say in an attempt to expose our weakness y'all's coast. and for that reason, we will respond with the toughness gulf coast and national fight of those stems. that could i should for more, let's go to the polish capital also, where we can talk to michael bruno task a contributing editor at political poland. michael, it's nice to have you with us. uh, people there on poland. eastern border are clearly concerned about the build up of wagner. troops and neighboring builders. how big a threat do these mercenaries re the post opponent of knowledge? i would say, you know, you know, the key 1000 soldiers even if, if they are all trying to end the end. so i'm using the only light weapons. because wagner, it appeared to him in the literature without tongues and other,

in the strong weapons they, they, they cannot be any kind of threat depole and they are used by we'll get something called slash booting to increase of you know, emotions to create situation. and we'd sure which putting lops, which means, uh, doing a business from the position of, uh, i would say, excitement international excitement on the police side. of course the, there's some other override reaction. uh because it's good for the government to, to show of how, how brave and, and the visual and they are for any slides, the games, poland, i would remind the cold and we'll have collections and 3 unknowns. so this is understandable if they're not a thread, which is what i, i hear you say,

what's really going on here. then why would poland go to the trouble of moving all these troops? while it is not the trouble of, you know, the government can, can do it easily. uh, no. why do it, how, why do you, inc? hello is as i said, they want to create an impression of them being uh, vigilant and defending the uh, the nation against the threats from, from russia. um, similar thing usually. uh, it's a good idea for, for, for 14 and click on go to create uh uh, threats and increase tension on the boulder. it always helps them, but you always. so whenever they have a conflict, it's important for, for, for the restaurant from us. go to kind of increase the emotions while really on the ground. there is nothing uh dangerous happening. okay, there is

a michael bonia koski, a journalist with a little go in call and many thanks for your time. thank you. the at the women's football world cops, spain have won their 1st match, beaten coast rica, 3 neil and wellington new zealand. the wind puts them on top of group sea and they dominated from the store as they posted the biggest window of the tournament. so far, the spain looks threatening from the all and some, some she was passing preceded the open to an own goal from coastal because by the area they'll come to maybe one mill in the 21st minutes. and just 2 minutes later, spain double that lead to i sign up on my feet, who called up the smallest of spaces in the box and pull it up with the fantastic finish. saying continue to enjoy 3 rain on the white flag as more

terrible, defending from costa rica, opened the door for a 3rd. the dangerous cross was headed on to the, but it's the gonzalez was perfectly place to drive in the loose fuel. the referee then awarded a penalty for this, the optical full in the books. but spain's all time top school read jenny and most so was denied by costa rica. keep it done. us. the layer of the 2nd tough was go list, but this was still a statement with from spain and staying there at the capa, canada missed an opportunity to join australia at the top of the group. be with nigeria holding them to a goal is strong in melbourne. canada has the best chance of the math, but 15 sinclair silver, 2nd half, they don't the same. now jury is deborah, i'll be on the was then it said of an injury. time after video review, the nigerians were far happier with the result which leaves both teams 2 points

behind australia after one game. for more on the days action i'm joined by daniel barcelona from dw sports dani. it's good to see you. let's start in wellington with that spring game. how impressive, where's their performance? i mean, spain is a very impressive side, and this is a very dominant performance from spain, which is good because we've seen a lot of the top sides kind of not be at their best in norway, in canada, even australia, they didn't look like they were, their best the they could be and it's good because spanish, one of those teams that were coming into the tournament was a lot of noise off pitch. and we didn't see that today. i mean, spain is technically one of the most gifted sides in this tournament. a lot of their players come from real madrid and barcelona barcelona, of course, is one of the absolute best teams, if not the best team in women's football at the moment. and it's amazing because for example, i was playing in spain when they really started their development of women's football. they focused on possession based systems and,

and technical skill. and you really see that paying off today, which is amazing. so if they can keep the focus on the field, it will be a very tough team to play against the role in melbourne. there was that disappointing draw for your homeland canada against nigeria, which happens to be my original home. let me talk us through that one. okay, so canada will definitely be disappointed with this result. of course, they are the reigning olympic champion. so there was a lot of expectations on this side. but they do know nigeria very well. they lead the plate against him twice in the lead up to the world cups, the tide and the one. now they knew that nigeria was a skilled team and they were going to be very physical, very good in the counter attack. they will feel like they were denied a little bit because captain and legend christine sinclair, did miss a penalty shot on that actually would have made her the 1st player to support in 6 world cubs. i can see the payments. i know this, but i'm wearing they do you agree? and so,

but canada definitely is going to have to regroup because they are in the group of death. nigeria, ireland, australia. they're going to need something a lot more than that if they want to progress because all of the teams, a good candidate squad is one of a few that has seen some sort of off pitch issues. what are the, what's behind the players dispute here? i mean, this is really, unfortunately, unfortunate. so 9, at least of the women's teams coming into this tournament have been involved in our field disputes and kind of a fixed impulse right now is at odds with the federation over a lack of transparency regarding money, a lack of budget for the women's team. i mean, leading up to the world cup the biggest tournament for women's football, they had to cut friendly matches, can't. they weren't able to bring as many players into accounts as they would have liked to bring. and as a player, when you're playing on a, on a scale that big in the world cuts, confidence plays a big factor and a big place where you've got your confidence from his preparation. so if you're not able to prepare with friendlies with can't, having

a lot of competition with players come in, then you go into a tournament. missing a little bit of some of something. and when you're in a group as hard as canada is, for example, that can have a big effect. i mean, also nigeria is one of those teams that had also disputes regarding payments span, of course, as well. we didn't see that effects span so much of this game, but we don't know when forward it's, it's just too bad that in the tournament like this, we have the small issues that are affecting the players ability to concentrate on what's happening on the pitch. i have the impression you're really watching this world cup very closely. that's dw, use a daniel barcelona from our sports unit manufacture. thank you. or any reminder of the top story, we're following this. our firefighters in greece, by struggling to contain fires to the west of athens for 5th day. they are bracing for temperatures to shore again over the weekend and debris, capital authorities half shut the acropolis to taurus during p. c. 2 hours

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