the, the, this is the, the news coming to you live from berlin. russia look, set to ask north korea for weapons. us media, say north korean leader kim jong, will travel to russia for costs with vladimir putin. the 2 countries have so far denied that any north korean arms have been used in russia's war against ukraine. also coming up more migrant boats leaving to an asia, we made a man prepared to risk his life to travel to europe and a smuggler center profit from the dangers during the

hello. i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. the us says north korean leader kim jong own plans to travel to russia for a meeting with president vladimir putin to discuss providing moscow with weapons. us media said the visit could take place within the month, citing a named officials the pair last month and 2019 john young and moscow have both previously denied that north korea is providing russia with supplies board. warren crane, west and officials say both must go n t r, burning through huge amounts of munitions as the more entries. it's 19. steve w's former musket bureau chief, your, your shadow was covering this story for us from riga, as dw is banned from reporting in russia. i asked him what's behind control one's expected visit to russia. while the american yusef of new york times the reports of

the north korean lina is indeed going to visit the russia next week already to foretold with uh, the russian president at both fulton and kim joan own would take part in the eastern economic form, which will be held in vladivostok and sutton in the far east of the city is only the pacific coast near the width and north korea. and yeah, is it 2 petitions also methods f adults in april 2019, but maybe this time keeps on own could also visit moscow. it's that russia is one of the few countries that maintain contact with north korea 3 how likely is it your a, the protein would get what he wants from north korea? we're hearing reports quoting us intelligence sources, saying that food team wants to get weapons from north korea as well. yes. put an end king don't own that indeed caught this costs of his supply of artillery shells

and, and to tank. we saw it was from north korea to russia, according to a to a spokesman for the us national security council, north korea last year, despite its denials at supplies and fund treatment files and also besides the russian for used by the private army, wagner, russia and north korea are actively negotiating. it's set as a supplier for weapons, so that does it as an army could, could use in the one you create into uh, team joan own may help you with russia can provide north korea with food 8 and advance technology. a full set of lights and nuclear submarines we remember in july russian defense minister. so i guess i go visited north korea. that 3 was seen by us intelligence as preparation for adults that could take place next week between put an end in north korean leader in a lot of us talking maybe in moscow. now you're just wondering if you could tell us more about this. some of the reports we're getting here today, we're getting reports. a cuba hasn't covered

a human trafficking ring run by russia. it's it said to be an attempt to recruit cubans for the war for russia's war effort against ukraine. or what can you tell us about that? as well as there is an official message report from the minister of foreign affairs of cuba. it states that a group of criminals is said to have tried through human trafficking, to we cuban citizens for people in ukraine for the russian side, for the russian army. according to the ministry of 2, by the criminal network populated from russia. we've seen russia, it's participants, allegedly tried to recruit cuban citizens leading in production for the ration that even some living in the cube. i'd said in to the armed forces that up disappearing in milledgeville operations in new crated set. um, or what are some use engines to report to that? at the end of may, as it sounds like you've had the most use a regional use that,

but he, in russia, up part of it, several coupon citizens had signed the contracts to wizard osh. an armed forces and left for ukraine, where the message of the cuban informed me the street is connected with this information is unclear. it's a national sort of just have them to get to commented on have on us statement. very thank you very much, dw is your, your receipts are there in re go take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. talk soon. hi clay has made land, paul, and se china. the heavy rains and floods submerged vast areas of agricultural land . thousands have been evacuated from their homes. schools remain closed in some areas. authority say 5 people who are on the on board a fire truck are missing after a plunged into a river. leaders from the association of east of south east asian nations, or as you are meeting for a summit and the in the nation capital jakarta talks are expected to be dominated

by the ongoing crisis and beyond bar as well as china is continuing efforts to force its claims to much of the south china sea. so to the mediterranean, where the number of migrant crossings to europe is higher than it's been for years so far this year. more than a 140000 people have survived the perilous journey and the number who died. one hot spot country for departures is tunisia. from there, the journey usually goes to the autonomy in islands of lab, produce, or sicily. you has pledged hundreds of millions of yours to help the 2 nation governments stop people from making the crossing. but so far without much affect, dw is young philip shots and my brook a deer report now from spock's into an asia, which is the at the forefront of the migrant departures routinely. while the has been fishing out of this harbor near, sucks for more than 20 years. he says things change this spring. that's when they

started seeing boats full of people heading for europe. when the weather is bad, the fishermen try to warrant them to turn back. but he says they hardly ever do as a guy get them, we keep finding bodies in the sea and they get tangled in our fishing nets. and we call the coast guard when that happens, unless people, yukon with cause it is also a lot of the staff people just like us has the 7 i met with this time. and i tell you, most of the people who try to cross the mediterranean to get to europe, settle from this region. more than 2000 people are known to have died in the attempt. sometimes local authorities have trouble collecting all the bodies that wash up on the beach along the coast. thousands of people wait for their place on a boat so, so it's suddenly just from booking a file so he knows how dangerous it is. but says he's determined to try to get to

europe. he says he's good at repairing electrical appliances. seems fishy. my only hope is to get across the sea to your. i know i'm doing everything for my mom, beauty, so i want her to be a bit happy for the 1st time in her life in boot point. uh that's how the when boats sink the coast guard often bring survivors to this hospital. doctor robbie dolly says recently it's spelled like a war zone. when do we do? uh, we simply get too many people coming at once. we don't have enough doctors and nurses to take care of everyone, so we are short of everything. the medicines and equipment on this new little money, it's more than we can manage this for those whose plans are still intact. the focus is on preparation and securing a spot on a boat. the smuggler networks which stretch across the region have arrived here in fox. one smuggler is prepared to talk to us as long as we don't film his face

in a tunnel, kind of how the people, when i only do the job to make money, right. and everyone wants to make lots of money home. if we take them, i go to see europe. what they do next is up to them. often they'll squeeze 40 people into a small boat trip like that would earn them around $40000.00 heroes. they're not the only ones profiting. i really appreciate it. now i'm a 1000 hour people control the whole beach area, i'm sure, but i know some of our guys have direct connections with the regional security forces. i'm done with this. i'd be the, the, the, some of the basic they will tell us when it's safe for a crossing. is we pay up to $10000.00 euros for the service. but if you have what i say, you don't lose the middle. so sued doesn't care who profits from his trip. he still has to earn a few 100 zeros with all jobs and sucks. then they'll have enough to get on a boat and take his chances. i spoke

earlier with the w as christine moonlight in brussels. i asked her how the e use deal with tunisia. it's aimed at stopping and legal migration is shaping a terry the memorandum of understanding between the you and to shave, we'll see the european union pates and as he has something to the tune of a 1000000000 heroes. and the significant elements of this arrangement is the competing of the criminal games and the people involved in the human smuggling business. now, in assuming the deal that the reese with the j in 2016 we saw in missouri and on force is really going off to the syndicate, seizing their assets, breaking down these networks and also compensating in certain cases, people who are involved in the people smoking business, the understanding being that these people will suddenly be left without work to do . and so the idea is to drive them away from this business that is very,

very lucrative. in fact, we understand right now into news. yeah. that it's much cheaper for migrants to, to, to pay for crossing because they are just that many amounts of people, smugglers offering this service. now for the, you need, as, who were in tennessee or for the signing of this deal that you tell in 5 minutes to for example, they see this as the more effective solution. georgia malone, if, if he has. but it has been known to say that you're not going to solve the migration problem here in europe. we're not going to reach consensus. he has, if we've got to go to, to the hot spots to the countries where we're seeing the flows coming from and, and strike deals there. but of course, human rights groups are critical of such deals. they point out that civil society has been excluded from the consultation process, but also the human track record human rights track record of some of these countries courtesy to disease having an issue with its treatment of such sorry, migrants. often these people are lifting the deserts, having to be rescued without food or water. so these are some of the challenges right now, but as far as the steel goes, it has been criticized. but these deals happen seem to be effective. i pointed out

to you to see a dropping the numbers because you do see the on forces really going out of their way to stop people making their way and to get in in the way of the criminal gags. so the you clearly wants to curve, illegal migration, but large numbers of desperate people from the global south are determined to come any way we saw that no report. those think you have any alternatives other than paying countries like to an asian new share in turkey to hold the migrant spark entered just to your point um, just this morning the, the european union is assigned him agencies reporting that the number of applications that were received assign them applications and the 1st off of the top, 500000. and that 2023 is on track to exceeding a 1000000 asylum applications. the last time you had submitted numbers was at the height of the migration crisis in 2015. so this is, this is a real situation. those numbers appear to have picked up posts. the cove,

it depends image within but your opinion, there is trouble along the lines of what do you do with what, what the board of countries once are. these are the exception countries, but also what the indian countries would prefer. so for the countries like it to be a grease to an extent, they say that they are overwhelmed, that they are receiving weight. so many people in that the burden has to be shipped . but you've got other countries in countries who are further up north, who don't want to take on refugees. so they seem to be at this sort of the, some of propose something that works for something, not necessarily for others to say, okay, we've got to share the burden between us. and those countries who do not want to take receive well, then have to pay a full for that and, and then, but they don't all agree on the situation. so i think the model of the story here is the migration situation is still difficult in the sense that most european countries would prefer skilled migrants because there is a shortage of skilled labor here in europe. they before school migrants has come in through regular channels. and they're not necessarily able to agree on how to share

the burden of people who come in seeking basic prospects in the european union. christine, thank you very much. that was the w, as christine manuel in brussels. some sports now and at the us open tennis tournaments uh world number one, carlos alcatraz. as cruise past italy and my 2 i know the to reach the quarter finals. the 20 year old was dominant from start to finish and became just the 2nd man to reach free us open for the finals before the age of 21. so for us is now $115.00 of his 16 matches at the us open and is a strong favorite to defend his title. you'll face germany's of itself. that's better in order. fine. also with the us open. last year's runner up all is the shell book is out of the tournament after a straight sets to feet to china is can then can. the number 23 see gen

overpowered her to nation opponent with an aggressive baseline game that produced 21 winter force ever. it was a disappointing finish to the tournament after reaching the finals of 3 of the last 5 grand slam. and you're watching dw news. i'm terry martin, thanks for being with the i sorry, one on 6 times to increase the current g. more people than ever on the move worldwide in such a kind of one time. it is very hard to say very difficult john to find out about time on student info. my grands.