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the, the, this is deed of news live from bill in an anti corruption crusade. the wins was a mile as presidential election. fernado avalos searches to a landslide victory and a vote that many hopes could mock attending points to the 5 to both the democracy. in the country also on the program by the jets for ukraine. the netherlands and denmark agreed to supply cube with f. 16 at craft for the war against russia. president of dimmers landscape calls that an important motivational boost for ukraine's armed forces. southern california begins to feel the brunt of tropical
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storm hillary to the system makes landfill on mexico's northwest and coast the, until me a lot of a welcome to the program. we start in guatemala, where anti corruption candidate and political outside of bernardo valo has won a landslide victory and the countries presidential election. with nearly all the boat ballots counted or follow was ahead with nearly 60 percent on the boat. his rival. i'm a 1st ladies on that. i thought it was behind with 36 percent tackling poverty crime and corruption with top issues for voters as well as halting wants been seen as the erosion of democracy in the country. for more let's go to dw,
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correspond to nicole reeves in guatemala city. good to see you. nicole. now how does and outside like been out of out of have such a huge victory. so these preliminary results are really a landslide, even maybe a story, the ones that are model out a little wasn't even the picture 2 months ago during the 1st round of elections. he then came out as a surprise of presidency. candidates, a man from a left his party so he doesn't belong to the usual conservative elite that usually also um is pulling the strings here and watch them all in politics. and steering the lead up in the past few weeks, you had to overcome a lot of obstacles. one of them being that the for 2 in guatemala, tried to suspend him from the elections. and this, i think you're making just much most stronger and much more affordable candidate as many in guatemala are really appalled by the amount of corruption in the country,
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empty interference with the electoral campaign. so this might have been one fact that the other one is also that he's catering to the hopes for a change in the country, which many people here that i spoke to really want. they said i need profound change. and this agenda might have just been a much, a normal, a, a new option for them in comparison with another candidate that is pretty much the same, same, put different to them. you mentioned a huge change, but it wouldn't be easy for out of follow getting into office. what are these challenges he will face? so obviously huge challenges for him. first of all, we need to wait for the reactions also from the electro ford and see official announcements. but then since the country usually is a full size concept, might be a lot of count to actions against and up to come until we actually takes office. so this will be interesting to see also his party doesn't have
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a lot of experience in governing. so once they make it into the presidential palace, they will need to learn how to packed with other parties with opponent parties to make the changes that they want to achieve actually reality. and one of them is the fight against corruption. a very big topic in guatemala, as many as that you sit, are told by how deep corruption runs heroes and public institutions and politics. so this is something that you promised to tackle. there is also the promise for better job opportunities, but a health system instead of educational services for the people. and let's focus a bit on the, on the job market situation. he promised to open more public jobs for people. let's not forget that more than half of a watch them all in all below the poverty line. uh, this also means that this bolts of malnutrition among children. this is a very severe crisis here that he needs to confront. and he better do it quick because the expectation now expectations now are really high among voters that also
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songs celebration is going on here in the city already. because the whole is just a so big here in guatemala for that change to come. and it will be a challenge just to keep up with a few months and also to see how he makes reality of these promises in the future when he takes office. okay, don't use nicole for his in good amount of 18. thank you for that update. let's take a look not some of the other stories making headlines of the vote. counting is on the way in ecuador, as presidential election. any results show a lead for left his candidate, louisa gonzalez. the election has been overshadowed by fears of violence after a candidate was assassinated. a campaign event, any of this month depends for prime minister miyoshi that has visited the fema nuclear plant, which was devastated by this to nami. in 2011 with facility will release a 1000000 tons of treated. we do active was a into the pacific ocean officials and assist is completely safe. but the fisherman
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and some neighboring countries have protested the rest of the spacecraft and doing it $25.00 is crashed into the moon after spinning out of control. that's according to the russian space agency. rush cause most it's fast moving mission in almost half a century was a race deland of the lunar south pole head of india spacecraft. the netherlands and denmark have agreed to supply f. 16 fighters that's to ukraine to boost it's counter offensive against russia. ukraine's president followed him as an ask in the danish prime minister. mister frederickson paused in the confidence of an ass 16. denmark says it helps to provide 195 digits earlier that has to be met with dutch prime in his stomach. rosa, who said his country will deliver aircraft once the conditions are right. it's not clear how many will come from the netherlands. ukraine has long been asking is west and allies for the u. s. made 5 digit, so ascii says the aircraft will provide
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a come back edge to drive back to the russian invasion. the f. 16 fighter originated in the cold war, but still functions as a modern combat aircraft and the jet can engage enemy aircraft and targets on the ground. the f. 16 entered service with the us air force in 1980. more than 4600 have been produced, making it one of the most successful military aircraft ever built. to this day, it remains the backbone of many nato and allied air forces around the world. denmark and the netherlands are phasing out their aging f sixteens and replacing them with the brand new f. 35 to some danish and dodge f. 16. so extensive combat enough gotten this done. it is likely that the airframes being
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supplied to ukraine will be quite old. i need a lot of maintenance to stay in the air. training pilots and maintenance stuff will be the big challenge for ukraine. how the f 16 will actually impact gives war effort will depend on the weapon supplied with the jets. you brain will be hoping to receive modern weapons such as the us rum air to air. ms. sile which can shoot down enemy aircraft up to 180 kilometers away. but these have yet to be approved and could be deemed too sensitive to fall into russian hands. the president of the landscape spent months asking for 5 digits without getting them any of we lost the w corresponding to nato x. but terry shoulds and brussels. what's changed? the one thing we know didn't change is president zelinski is position and his tenacity on just hammering nato leaders to provide him with these weapons. we saw
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this happen with tanks, as you'll remember that he was told he would never get them to be sold. he would never get f sixteens and other fighter jets of that caliber. and here they are being ready to be dispatched. so i think that it's just one more example of how is the lensky goes into meetings with these leaders. he's made a big effort to meet them in person. as you've seen, he's just traveling to sweden, denmark, and now the notice, and he explains to them what a difference it would make on the ground. and i've been told in these meetings, he's very calm, he's very deliberate. he comes with facts, he doesn't get emotional. and they call it the zalinski effect. he walks out and lines are changed and we've just seen that happen again. as douglas, terry schultz and brussels tropical storm hillary has moved into the us state of california after making land full in north west and mexico. the storm has been battering the region with heavy rain, triggering flooding and months lives, and has been blamed for at least one desk residents and coastal towns clean off of
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the hurricane. hilary tourism mexico spa hawk, california peninsula. but this result didn't feel the full force of the hurricane business. the hurricane came in, it was like more like a storm. it was, you know, when, like 30 miles an hour, wasn't that bad? the towns went so lucky, heavy rain, 10 streets since a tolerance incense horizontally as the hurricane move. no one pass and drowned in the region. hillary has since we can to a tropical storm and is moving across the us states of california. full cost is worry that it could bring a years worth of rain full to deserts. areas like the town of palm springs, as roads flooded. authorities cancelled hundreds of flights out of airports in los angeles and san diego. in long beach,
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people are relying on sandbags to protect the communities to keep the stool from pushing the waves pulse, the beach respect. surgeries that are going to go beyond the 5. you know, are beaches that are going to come into the communities that really never seen this type of flight of before but just south of long beach, some brave this to me conditions this hillary approached some schools will be shipped on monday and there is a state of emergency in place, save a mock to southern california. officials of wanting people to just stay home is in sports. spain have won the football women's welcome for the 1st time they beat england one mill and the final in sydney, australia to become only the 5th nation to hoist. the trophy is the 1st time since 2007 that the winners have been european. spain were assured their 1st
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ever ruled gun metal, no matter the outcome against england. spain's captain olga carmona struck the 1st blow and the 29th minute caught him on the drill that passed mary hertz giving level her the lead at the break. spain had the chance to double their lead after england's kira was, was called for handle. the video assistant referee, took a while to decide to call, but eventually a worthy the penalty spans jennifer. her most stepped up with mary hurts, made the safe keeping england in the match. england had to choose to level in the waiting seconds of stoppage time, but the ball went straight into the arms of spain's goalkeeper cato cole with the se, spain, when the women's woke up for the 1st time in their history, dw spots correspond unto him. again, i in sydney offered his date on spain's victory. for the 1st time in the history of
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women's football, spain have been crowned champions of the wild win this tournament. go on the way in early july, so you consider them to be genuine content as part of the 32 teams who are here in australia and new zealand. competing for these types of it's spain who have gone the distance and they're the ones out celebrating hey, on the page behind me. the game plan in tonight's final here in stadium, australia in sydney was executed perfectly, understand, abrasions looked set to go on long into the business. just with been trying to imagine how it would be like to wait. and but i think we're still not aware that we are the champions of the down well where nobody winters. oh 1st i want to say that i dedicate this victory. what do we achieve today? to the mother of one of my best friends. she died recently and that's why i celebrated the gold with her t shirt,
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visits to all her family with all my life to the time in the off the false to a spectacular months of football in new zealand. and here in australia, it's spain who travel back to europe, wait a trophy to put in the cabinet, a stall to stitch on that crest. i'm a new title, champions of the wells. i'm just adding to that story. one of the plans we just had from the goal score olga come on a later land that her father had passed away as after she dedicated her goal to the late mother of a friend watching dw news live from. but then here's a reminder of our top story of the deadlock in the netherlands to supply ukraine with have $165.00 digits president for the merits. lensky is called an important motivation for ukraine's armed forces. he paused with denmark prime minister, frederickson f. 60 compliment.
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