[000:00:00;00] news the this is the, the news line from berlin. boating is underway in spain's general election. the left wing government of prime minister pedro sanchez appears headed for defeats, but conservative rivals may need for right health to form

a government. also coming up, houses, burned in thousands of evacuated from the wildfire ravaged greek island of rhodes. the country is headed for gets longest, sea wave on record. and russia launch is its biggest missile. but roger yet on central odessa, the attack on the premium port comes as develop lucian leader. look a shank, go visit the restaurant to discuss deeper military tasks. the greetings. unlike a look of voters in spain, or casting their ballots in a snap general electric. and they could see a significant swing to the right for the country. prime ministry pedo sanchez was among the 1st vote, as pulls open. the conservative opposition people's party have been meeting in the polls,

but they are likely to fall short of an absolute majority. the conservatives had said they would not discuss working with the far right box party ahead of the election. but now it's expected that their seats will be needed to form a government opposing them, or the social s n o you left wing movement called seymour being the and to dig a bit deeper into the story. i'm now drawing by dw reporter lever, movies. tradeoffs lever, what are we expecting from today's elections? so elias are on today's results to see whether spiny, ours go for the left or for the right blog. as you said, the pools in the past weeks have said that the right we main party, they can talk about the frontier to apply we late and we have most of the bullets, but they, we for the short to be able to for them government in this case, they might need the far right part of the bulk sports. and if this happens,

it would be the 1st time that then opened the fire right party gets into power in spain ever. seems fransisco franco, the detector died in 9075. this is a trend that we are seeing across the rope for the far right and gaining a lot of space. and that's why probably leaders suggest georgia maloney, the prime minister of easily have given public support to this far right. parking spain. the chocolate spin in particular in that regard, why specifically is the far right getting a foothold in spain. so there might be different factors to take into account, including the economy and the financial crises in 2008. but if we look at why this particular party and game votes and it started they, it was born 10 years ago. and there are 2 factors that we need to take into account . one is the logic of the bottom. on the other one is the beat for independence that had took place in catalonia, in 2017. so these,

the party that entered the spanish department in 2019, in the last election, the needs of party, that defense, the addition of values. it oppose this abortion if the policies and game aria, it, or it's very cathartic and it's also strongly unto migration. it also denies the fact that climate change exist, not on the other hand is very nationalist. the one more power for the central state . we need to take into account that space quite the centralized country and in the sense they go as far as saying that they would like to bond for independence party, is like the ones there are inc, catalonia or the best country. and we have seen this collision between the traditional right and the far right now in those ends of cities and 3 regions. because there's this a, the results of the local elections and meet these happen. and some of the measures that they have taken us or some of the 1st measures have been, for example,

the binding the rainbow flak from public buildings. so what would change? it's a long list. you get what, what would reasonably change if the far right would to get a foothold into this national government. so basically what would happen is that they, by philip apply would have to make some concession or still worth more extreme, right? so this is what, what can happen very quickly, why did the sanchez call the snap elections? if in fact there was a betters trance that he would lose. so the scientist took a very particular encumber. it was the taking everybody by surprise. the day after he socialist party lost these local elections in may, he decided that he had better chances to go for snap elections, rather than to wait for the elections that they would have to take place at the end of the year. by making this move, he hopes to mobilize left wing, both those and send creased voters. he's warning that if the far right enters and the government,

this would be like putting spain back into the time machine to obscure times. so he's trying to mobilize these voters that when, when i stepped back in more progressive flows and police lower, many, many thanks will be watching a wild flyers on the greek island roads have prompted a massive evacuation operation, almost 20000 residents. and torres had been moved to safety in what police describe as greece is biggest ever fire evacuation. major travel operators have canceled towards flights the roads because of the blazes which have engulfed houses and hotels. grease is facing is the longest heat wave on record and forecast predict even higher temperatures in the coming days. for thousands of vacationers stay on roads turns into a nightmare. as they are forced to flee

a wild fire burning out of control with flames, blocking roads many have to escape on foot to save for places. they receive emergency lodgings and schools, gyms, and even aboard passenger, fairies, coast guard vessels and private ships rescue. thousands of people who couldn't reach safety over land with temperatures over 40 degrees celsius and strong winds firefighters have been facing a tough battle. official se could take several more days to contain the blaze. in athens, civic tourist line up for different reasons. a slow march up, the steps of the acropolis during greece is hottest weekend in 50 years. he's good. here's the fan.

even though it's already $36.00 degrees by 9 30 am. the line here is longer than usual. visitors are in a hurry to get in before it's closed for the hottest part of the day. getting enough water where we can survive. i mean, it's quite a line and, and i'm sure it's going to be worth it at the end. i just threw up and i'm trying to collect myself again and waiting to see this. i wanted to see this my entire life. i hope i can make it like in many other popular sites across the country, the closures are meant to deal with a brutal heat in roads and other places affected by forest fires. more drastic measures are necessary. as the heat wave comes closer to becoming the longest on record, increase the misery for locals and visitors keeps dragging on a

brief look now at some other stories from around the world. canadian prime minister dressing trudeau is promising a to nova scotia as it faces it's worse flooding in 50 years. rescuers in the eastern province or searching for ford, missing people to have them children. a heavy rain storm began on friday washing away roads and swamping buildings. twitter owner, evil, in most success, she's considering replacing the bird logo and possibly the brand of the online messaging service. most of says it may be renamed x dot com. the domain he has owned for years, but not used. and its main color could change from blue to black. the russia has launched a new wave of missiles at the ukrainian port city of odessa official say one person was killed and at least 19 wounded. in the overnight attack, russia has repeatedly attacked a strategic port city since moscow pulled out of a green export deal almost

a week ago. trouble inside or the sides largest orthodox computer, which was among the targets of fresh stress and the strikes on the port city hall. and i telling had severely damaged or the thoughts historical center designated as an endangered world, edited by unit school. the destruction is enormous. half of the cathedral was left without a roof, and the central pilots and foundation were destroyed. all the windows and stucco moulding web blown out. there was a fire pot where i can send candles. i sold in a church quote for you. it was on fire burning. i was the 1st to come in, but after the ride was over, the emergency services arrived and think on. they put it all out. you create a new notification. see, these tries destroyed several presidential feelings,

leaving many people trapped in debt apartments. they also cause damage to power lines. we would sleeping without child on the bead when we suddenly jumped from the explosion. we lived near the cathedral. we flew up, ran to the toilet, and then there was another explosion. the house was shaking. then i went outside, i thought maybe someone needs help increase in days. pressure has increase its set x one or this size board and prospect. uh, you can see it comes after president blah dum. appleton refused to renew a deed which allowed the safe export of cream from ukraine's lexi boards. after saturday nights and these i love tags. can you canadian president, the med zalinski vote to retaliate? what do you want? a doctor say is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu. his health condition is stable after an overnight operation to implant

a hard pace maker netanyahu is expected to leave hospital later on sunday, but has rescheduled plan trips to cyprus. in turkey, the surgery comes head of a boat in parliament on a controversial judicial reform bill that has brought tens of thousands of protesters to the streets. a vote on monday will mark the 1st major piece of the legislation to be approved. the dw rebecca rivers is following the protests for us in jerusalem. hey rebecca, what's at stake here? what do the protesters for your will happen if the reform bill is in fact passed from michael when you speak to me for a test is whether today yesterday or any time over the last 7 months wouldn't have been coming out in the free se, se, so this is about the very essence of the country, the very essence of the democracy. you know, i had one protest later on the radio the other day saying this isn't about right or

left. this is about right or wrong. that gives you a little bit of a, an idea of the flavor of what these people feel that they are fighting for you is we saw in the last 4 days, upwards of 50000 people walking from tel aviv up to jerusalem to, to be here full this crucial bar take to show up to have their voices heard to show their presence and then joined by found thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of other people. last night. we were hearing numbers at around 500000 people coming out and protesting and were expecting similar numbers uh over the weekend. and of course again tomorrow when that part is set to take place. so it could be delayed. there is a chance the filibustering that is happening right now in the sense that the device is happening over this bill could make the final low run willing to, to stay with these people, not giving out. they say that they're gonna keep campaigning, that they are going to keep fighting for their democracy, as i said, see it being pulled from underneath them. not giving up,

but what are the odds of the bill passing? well, it's really hard to say it doesn't look at the bill will be pushed through. i mentioned that there may be delays as to potentially leaving a connected session, which is supposed to go into with some of the heights. this is summer vacation if you will, at the end of this week, and the tool could bypass, keeping it open a little bit longer to try and on the board of consensus. sarah cole from cole pops of society, really trying to, to get the coalition that are trying to push this bill through to try and find a broad consensus. here. we have people from the security establishment and the defense establishment saying that this is going to be at the that is also for the country security. that is, well the enemies could well take advantage of this. we say 10000 for the soldiers. and at more than 1000 pilot people from the apple saying that they will know if this gets tossed, they will not turn up for service. so there's a really, really tense time in the country. and the,

this traditional report was really lifting the country and hall. rebecca, thank you so much, dw is rebecca rivers in tourism. and reminder of the top story we're following this. our spain is voting in a snap election that could see a big swing to the right. the conservative opposition is expected to win, but may require support from the far right to form a government of an extra teenage skateboard sensation, who's heading for the olympics. that's after a short break. there's more on d, w dot com. and of course the check us out on social media active the news on michael. ok, thanks for watching. and by for now the let someone else through the c d highlights of selected for you. you every week in