of the this is due to the news line from berlin, us, secretary of state anthony, blinking makes an unannounced visit to ukraine. the trip signals the us is ongoing support for keith to repel. the russian invasion is expected to assess the counter offensive and announce the new package of us. the systems also coming up to rental rain is causing chaos across southern europe, greece, turkey, and bulk area, or being a non dated with floods. as climate changes held responsible for the recent routes and fires in the same regions reassess the impact of the devastating dance and

africa's climate summit closes in nairobi with assigned declaration to appeal to industrial nations to help in transition to green energy the a warm welcome to our viewers around the world, unlike locate us, secretary of state antony blinking has arrived in keys for a previously unannounced visit. it's a show of support embed, ukraine's 3 month old counter offensive, which has so far shown only modest gains. we met with 4 administered to meet truck labor and is expected to meet with president full ottomans zalinski. later, america's top diplomat will announce a new military aid package of up to $200000000.00 during the visit. while a further aid package is expected later this we dw max xander is

in ki, i asked him what's behind the business michael? so this is in fact, the 4th visit of us secretary of state has been blinking through ukraine since the beginning of russia's full scale invasion. and more than anything his visit is about showing ship support showing confidence in the ukrainian fight. we are more than one and a half years into this war. ukrainians are tired of fighting it. and this is also affecting the allies. the supporters, including the largest and part of the united states, which has pledged roughly $46000000000.00 us dollars since the beginning of the war . and we are expecting us next year state asked me blinking to announce further a package. you said it already, $200000000.00 us dollars here in person and ukraine, and pro, and most likely and a nother a package in military and humanitarian aid later this week, which could amount to a total of up to $1000000000.00 us dollars. but it's not just about pledging, it's not just about money,

it's also about exchanging positions and for the american gathering until the americans will likely try to find out from the ukrainians how the counter offensive is going, what the ukrainians are planning and what they need from the americans, as partners, as our viewers might remember over the last couple of days and weeks, there has been criticism by us officials that the counter offensive funeral cream is moving to slowly something that the ukrainians, especially the 40 minutes to commit to a clip. i have taken offense and the ukraine is have been working very hard and trying to get past heavy fortifications that were um, constructed over many months by the russian side. so they will likely exchange positions on that and see how the americans can assist with materials with the military 8th to get past that only of half a minute. but i do want to know whether, as far as you can see, there's been any reaction from mosca. right,

so um there have been a missile attacks here in care of. uh, thankfully, all of them have an interest half of the head of the visit. but there also has, apart from actions, there has an official announcements by the kremlin spokesperson in which a pass gulf who said these are the rush, i believe the u. s. which supports ukraine until the last recreating those are his words. and that the rush, i believe that this support, by the, by the united states would not affect the, the war or what he calls it, as he calls at the special military operation, ex sandra, and keep many things. dest devastation and disruption storms and flooding, which authorities are pending on climate change, or wreaking havoc on both sides of the globe in south america and in south east europe with fatalities on the rise in europe. storm daniel has battered greece, turkey and bulgaria, causing landslide, and further damage with the de luca 11 people confirmed to have died so far.

that is no column after the storm. kentucky rescue is have that what cuts out is trying to reach people trapped in flowed scores by storm. daniel, this pass and seen through the trees, one of the lucky ones to be carried out of danger, military vehicles and helicopters have been brought in to help the rescue efforts farther north in bulgaria. similar to themes of despair. several results along the black sea coast have been hits with flat rock is rising to more than 2 meters. people have been to find high, a grounds, easiest set and done for those at sea level. having to endure a bumpy ride from across the boss or in greece, they've gone from one extreme to another. wild fires have been replaced with rain water drivers and cause that can still be driven,

have been to stay off the roads. the mattress by the effective vote on support city was filmed, raging of people for still being outside the locals here trying to save what they can of the storm. daniels, trane of destruction. often without success. they say they've never seen anything like it too before to see that the rainfall was very intense and an unprecedented. this has never happened before. here. there was a loss of water, a lot of volume, and for many, many hours. for 24 hours it was non stop. there was a lot of water. it was unbelievable. what's in italy then? obviously 3 co star to use put the blame family, the face of climate change saying extreme events like these. and now the new normal it is now official meteorologist say this summer was a global record breaker. in terms of high temperatures in the northern hemisphere,

i asked birth system scientists rather than that, a good who is currently a professor at the indian institute of technology. and one bye to get a sense of what this announcement really means. yes, so it is a unique situation because of global warming has been happening, especially since 1980 or so. and of the scientists of warm climate scientists w i might say to have won this, that we're going to have extreme years yet. you will leave headlines that many scientists, the left surprised by just how warm the ocean has been, for example. and this is julie storms, and this is purely wild fires and combinations of them. but something unique is that this is also in. so what was not expected and what the left scientists wondering why it's so warm is that immediately superimposing on global warming and illegal ease and many global warming read the ocean heath is released. but there is

also something very unusual about the amino itself that when illegal happens, what does nias galapagos for example, you really be one. but what does that on indonesia already? because indonesia should be dry and having white bias. but global warming is actually producing walmart, this right across the entire tropics. this is changing wins and allowing the global ocean to get much warmer than we expected. so in that sense, we are really caught by surprise at how these combinations can happen. and of course these, why fi us have added several 100000000 tons of c o 2 this year. and he went activities such as deforestation. 7, i've ation adding to the roles as well. so multiplicity of things are happening now . is it likely that 2023 becomes the hottest year ever recorded to an instrument the records? it's very likely to be one of the warmest of we shouldn't emphasize that too much

because next the line you know, may come along and we again the back. so we have to just see where the global mean temperature of goals and where the ocean, a mean temperatures go and what it means in terms of extreme events, because ultimately everybody lives in a low temperature, not global temperature. so after i understand what the low pay manifestations, why did wildfires sprayed all across the northern hemisphere? why is it flooding in the lease? so these are the more interesting important things to understand. what are the local manifestations of global warming? this is what they have to watch out for earth system scientists rather than much of good, thanks for your insights. thank you. a brief look now at some of the other stories making news around the world at this hour. german transfer little of charles has outline plans this for economic growth. he says bureaucracy needs to be caught. the

conservative opposition leader says the government's budget plans will not meet germany's commitments to data. the british government will officially designate the russian wagner mercenary group as a terrorist organization. the band will make it illegal to belong to or support wagner in the u. k. it would put wagner in the same category as al qaeda and the so called islamic state. a dan, it's well charge visitors 5 zeros a day to enter into storage center from next spring. you tell in cities trying to stand mass tourism unesco wants to add vendors to its list of world heritage sides threatened by over tourism africa's 1st climate stomach is wrapping up in kenya, delegates have signed the so called nairobi declaration, calling on industrial countries to help fund africa's transition towards mean energy, though responsible for less than 4 percent of global emissions. africa is especially

vulnerable to climate change in our east africa corresponded mariel. miller told me more about the declaration. a. yeah. is this a african leaders have to say that of government they have just signed and adopted that declaration. the most important part of it is probably the push for global action for climate action. they are pushing for more capital to be freed up for green energy projects. so that comes more concretely that calling on, for example, multi natural development banks to provide that capital to incentivize more new investments sale. so calling for a, for example, the debt relief measures. so to include atanya grace period to add to seek for measures how to pre em stats in the past days. also, they want to extend that time 10 years. they also, um, calling on the international community to increase their renewable energy capacity from 56 gigawatts. that's the number from last year to actually at least 300 to go

watch and by 2030 this very, very ambitious talk of them now. so calling for the international communities, especially for countries from the global knows that african resources are being process t on the continent rather than somewhere else. and that also also one of the most important elements. actually, they're quoting for a carbon tax, global carbon tax that would tax both of the fuel trades, american transportation and vision. for example. many of you, you took the word right out of my mouth, ambitious. how realistic is it that these resolutions will actually be implemented? of the yeah, that's a question now, because if you look at the commitments that had went down in the past from countries of the global north, for example, that commitment to invest $100000000000.00 us dollars annually for countries in the global south for countries here on the continent that are suffering the most under a time of change impacts. so these commitments,

they didn't hold up to reality. so now i know the say, well, that's a, you know, a good separation. that would be great to see all these results. but let's see if this remains the declaration of intent. you're monitored the event the past 3 days . does the declaration live up to the high expectations that were voice ahead of the sun? well, that's difficult. i mean, of course i could do it. as i just mentioned, all of these calls, all these expectations now. um, you know, for example, the push for more capital, it's really remains to be seen if this will actually be you know, be implemented. but we've seen some, some really tangible result in kind of president william root has also things uh, you know, about african leaders here or not. yeah, i'm not only african need us to, for example, um the u a. e has committed to pledge $4500000000.00 us dollars at to invest in green energy projects. that's a huge number. of course,

that's the biggest investment here on the summit. also germany, for example, has announced the debt swap with kenya. european union is also made a deal with kenya, the u. k is also announced that they will free up $62000000.00 for green investments here on the continent. so that some results that and you can, you know like these beside that nobody can take tests from the summit even though it remains to be seen. what else will be no real, no to east africa. buick g. thank you so much. you're watching dw news coming up next in dw news, a to a landmark or decision for same sex couples in hong kong. but it's only a partial victory and why wildfire is running rampant in central indonesia. all this and more up next with my colleague rash advantages for more news, go to our website, dw, dot com. you can find those on social media as well handled. there is predictably,

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