the, the, this is dw, and use live from berlin after catastrophic wildfire as greece is reading from devastating floods. officials say it's as if greece has changed climate zones as severe storms and record rainfall kills at least 14 in the region, with more rain expected. also coming up a $1000000000.00 and the painted uranium weapons, the u. s. promises ukraine more help with a public display of support. a secretary of state anthony blinking visits key plus japan tries another noun shots, a rocket glass. so of carrying

a lunar lander hoping to join a short list of countries to successfully touch down on 1st satellite the unpopular fall. yes, welcome to the program. fires derived and now devastating floods all in a matter of months, greece has been battered by the forces of nature of nature unleashed by climate change. the north of the country has been badly effected around the port safety avalos. the storm. daniel has produced record rain for triggering land slides and sweeping dozens of vehicles away in muddy waters. athens too has also been effected . bulgaria and turkey have been hate as well, with at least 14 confirmed deaths across the region, a clearing out of to the record,

rain full. unfortunately for the shops owners much must be thrown away but cost us a, how does his efforts could be in vain with the rain that filled his shop with muds to return soon? it's been 2 days now, the talk been dealing with this problem. everyone had not just me. this small rid, the started the city of all us after a whole year's worth of rain fell in just a few hours. the city is still without water or power. residents are reliant on aid for a central's image or the i'm 33 years old and i've never seen so much right in my whole life. you're seeing of bummed out. so to be just didn't recognize any more of these many notice some of the money turkey has also been hit hard in his time. bo flash flooding, killed several people. others on this thing. the heavy rain

also brought misery to this camp. sites on bill gary is black sea coast. what caravan is narrowly escaped being dragged out to see who's got it? and we pulled people out to kind of items while the water dragging them to the sea that were drifting through the battery like boats. increasing warming of the mediterranean sea is thought to contributed to the extreme rain. july reco. temperatures were recorded, leading to high water evaporation, the normal. then suddenly cooler temperatures caused the water vapor to condense again into torrential rain. full greek officials say its zip grease has changed climate zones of the, the numbers that we're seeing now for writing for and want to for those a comfortable to what happens in southeast asia. is that gonna switch to another region here? cuz i live in that with the with flooding, forcing highways to close this yet more rain, full cost back in his shop. cost this is worried about wants to come.

we're closer, i think is inviting. what can i say? so cost us increase, waiting and hoping is unfortunately, the only option that's across now to greece, where our correspondence, sophia, cuz i've talked to a standing by 1st, she's been touring the port city of vols. sophia, great to see you. so give us a sense of how much damage the flooding has caused bear. what have you seen? pablo, the damage that storm daniel has cost is a catastrophic. i'm standing at the port of bottles right now or what used to be the part of all those you can see right behind me. the huge catastrophe the river of grass. keep on us. oh, the slow goods about 2 hours ago and cost this group of the street. so it's block. no one can pass here in front of me. there is the police checking on the people in

which cars are allowed to drive as the streets are full mouth. and it's really, really hard to get around. and there. a stones everywhere, other people's shop owners. that's trying to save what can be saved right now. and it looks really, really dramatic. also, it's stuff we stop. the rain continues for hours. now it says this every day and it doesn't look that it solve. it's really, really hard times uh for the people here in bottles. it sounds horrific. sophia has to be honest with you and what of people being telling you they're involved with as it does, it does. uh, we spoke to people, you and the residential goals, what, what they're telling us is it's really unbelievable. so they, the water supply is, is couple the 3rd the now. so they're telling us they collecting rainwater in order to wash their plates or um themselves,

they don't have water to drink. the water supply just started about half an hour ago. and yesterday, water prices went up to a to yours for 6 leaders of waters, which normally is less than $20.00. so people are even taking advantage of the situation, which is really crazy and really, really hard. also, electricity is not in every household. so people tells us that they reach out to the families of tried to stick together. and so whenever the conditions are better, they go to the other houses to stick together and to communicate each other on if they're safe and what they're doing, cells with the connection is really, really bad. so the only thing they can do right now really is, is pretty, is wade, is try to keep calm, which is not really possible. we saw so many people fighting with police man said, were insisting on costing specific cars that were block. so we

can see the operational over here. yeah. times very tough indeed for all the people who are still there. now as heavy rain full continues in different parts of the country, it looks like it's raining where, where you are at the moment. what are the greek authorities? what, what advice are they giving to people, as well as the advice of pablo, the greek authorities are given to the people is avoiding on necessary uh, transfers to stay in doors, if possible, to avoid a basement and basements and lower parts of the houses or the buildings, so this is the main um strategy off the authorities right now, which people are trying to follow. thanks if, if you're reporting dw correspondence, sophia left hockey involves. all right, well to better understand what is behind this extreme weather, hating greece, dw climb reporters. weeds. osborne is here with me in the studio, louise reading,

desperate conditions. their increase from lots of fear has been telling us. and of course, this is coming hard on the hills of a very hot summer in greece. in fact, they had the largest wildfire ever recorded in the u edge this summer, and the greek of mentor, blaming climate change. but is that necessarily? is that accurate? i mean, we can definitely say um, or, or almost certainly say with regards to the wild fires and the hot weather. but let's to that the whole conditions that helps spread, that scientists have told me that it's likely that was influenced by climate change when it comes to rainfall. it's a lot more difficult to tell, that they haven't done any studies on this yet. it's obviously an event that is still happening at the moment. the cause is unlikely to be directly linked to climate change says a whether putting the meteorologist to pointing to as having cause this event. but

climate change could be having an impact when it comes to the amount of water that we're seeing come down. we'll explain actually that to us a little bit more. so this exceptional rain full that we're seeing and on how climate change could be the reason for. so basically what happens is that when the us is warmer, as it is, the atmosphere is wilma, that means more water evaporates from water bodies like the oceans. also from the ground, and that is held in the air until it forms spring clouds. with a walmart mas via it means that there is moving. so that can be held in, in the app basically, which means that when we have these ram full events, they can be much heavier. now this is not always the way that it is. and like i said, scientists need to conduct the studies. but this is a possibility for 3. so the where things such large amounts to what's coming down is also being excess to pay to by the fact that, you know, with these hot weather events, the water having a rough race, it from the ground also leaves the ground. much dryer un,

unable to absorb the water that is coming, which can be also then this heavy flooding, which is what we saw actually just a few days ago in spain, which is it was related to that as well. exactly what you just said there. so just yesterday, the un confirmed that we enjoyed the hottest summer on record at some here in germany might say it wasn't the case, but in fact it is looking like it was with all these alarms, can we expect as a tougher political commitment to flight, to fight climate change. big big question here joyce. well, i mean this is not the 1st time that we've seen extreme weather of the extreme rain and heavy flooding that we store impacts on this year was attributed to climate change. the rain that we saw in west africa last year was also attributed to climate change. we've got the climate change being responsible for the hot weather as you just mentioned in southern europe. and yet governments are not acting quickly enough. experts would say they know what they need to do, they need to stop binding fossil fuels and start putting more carbon dioxide into

the atmosphere. now we have the cops, climate conference coming up at the end of this year. governments will be getting together then to discuss what they're going to do about these kinds of events that are taking place. and we can expect that the pressure is going to be much higher on them to take some action. thanks the ways, louise osborne, tito, view climb reporter moving on to years ago, mexico, his court ruled abortion was not a crime in one northern states and set off a slow chain of events to decriminalize the practice. no mexico supreme court has ruled that abortion is no longer a crime nationwide, while the decision does not grant every woman in mexico immediate access to the procedure. activists are hailing it as a significant step forward. the unanimous ruling by mexico's top court requires all federal public health services and institutions to offer

abortions to anyone who requests it in its judgment. the countries highest court declared the middle suitable condition. so when the federal criminal penalties for abortion unconstitutional as they violate the rights of women. oh yes, i see them to day next weekend society woman support networks. feminism are doing spectacular work in mexico. so that the only woman, if they so choose, have the right to an abortion in a safe way. that a, to a level the, the money that they were the decision is receiving a mixed reaction on the streets of the catholic majority. country. is it okay? i believe that we should not take anyone's life worse and then beans, and i think it portion it is not right. that'd be a problem. the landscape, for example, when a woman is raped when they don't want to have a child, i know that many people think, oh well,

why don't you give the child up for adoption? but they don't feel the pain they went through to have it. and that's why i am in favor of abortion. a lot of what is the, what about the court decision? extends a latin american trend of whitening access to the procedure, often referred to as a green wave in reference to the green bandanas carried by women protesting for abortion rights in the region. the ruling and mexico comes as the u. s. supreme court move to overturn federally guaranteed abortion rights last year. so you didn't look at it again, but we, we continue to do. i'll be, let's remember what happened in the united states. after for 2 years, the supreme court reversed seats abortion division. and we are not going to stop on to mexico, guarantees the rights to life from the moment of conception. the moment, the concept. yeah. the, for the ruling abortion was only permitted in 12 of mexico's $32.00 states. now the

remaining 20 states that still criminalize abortion will have to abide by the court's ruling activists say they'll continue their lobbying to ensure all penalties are lifted at the state level as well. that's take a look at what some of the other story is making use around the world. i didn't use in presidents as cold on world leaders to diffuse tensions as he wraps up a summit of south east asian countries under allies in jakarta. the meeting comes and made great geopolitical tension over russia's war on ukraine. i'm showing as assertiveness in the south china sea, in mark the 1st time the top officials from the us and russia met. in almost 2 months. the bonds newly installed the government has said as the president albano is free to leave the country, citing his poor health. bongo has been under house arrest since he was forced out of office in a military to last week. the 64 year old suffered a serious stroke during a 2018 visit to saturday ravia,

but left him physically impaired us, george has ordered the state of texas to remove floating bladed barriers placed on its river border with mexico. that's after the bite and administration sued over the barrier, saying it violated federal law and raised humanitarian concerns. texas as governor, installed the boy's complete width, so like blades and nothing in july to deter migraines crossings. now the us secretary of state has the names to more than $1000000000.00, an extra aid for ukraine. anthony blink, and gave details on the new agent during a surprise visit to keith hours earlier. a russian attack on a busy shopping area in eastern ukraine killed at least 17 people president for a lot of years the landscape condemned to strike as heinous. april

you have another attack on ukraine city. this time on a crowded market in crunch the underneath. at the 17 people were killed here by a russian missile says he craned among them the child on there since the deadly backdrop to us secretary of state entity blinking 4th visit. the keeps ends to start of rushes invasion. ukraine's counter offensive was at the top of the agenda . last week. can you rejected us media reports suggesting progress on the front lines was too slow, but there were no signs of tension during blankets, visit ukraine's president, instead of striking a grateful town. as usual around lincoln also met with prime minister denise me hall and foreign minister at the mutual coordinate body chain to show a united front to appraise that ukraine an effort to push the russians back. we see

the progress of the counter offensive. very hard. we want to make sure that the frame has what it needs, not only to succeed in the counter offensive, but as what it needs a long to make sure that it has a strong turn. strong sense capacity is blinking, pronounced a new aid package worth over $1000000000.00. the us has delivered or pledge more than $43000000000.00 to ukraine and military aid including air defense systems. wednesdays, brutal attack is just how important the support is agreeable or well. joining us now from keith is dw correspondent max is under max. great to see if so tell us more about this $1000000000.00 support package for ukraine. what exactly is in this to write, publish a $1000000000.00 us dollars quite a significant some. so you can imagine there's quite a few items on that list just to name a few. so the united states has pledge to provide ukraine with munition for its

highmark system. that is a rocket launcher system that was provided to crane last year and has proven very efficient and attacking russian positions munitions, depos a command post far behind enemy lines and other item um that the ukrainians are in dire need of and that the americans now will provide is further artillery, munition 105 millimeter and 155 milli meter rounds. this is the ukrainians have been depleting their artillery stockpiles, the munitions stockpiles and nato countries are you are being part of that particular have had issues of restocking and manufacturing enough to, to, to provide some ukrainians. and another item among, among others. the united states has pledge to bolster cranes, air defense capabilities. now we don't know exactly what that means, but it's certainly needed turn ukraine as just as i've seen. russia continues to attack various cities and ukraine with drones and cruise

missiles, almost on a daily basis. that mike's the package also includes depleted uranium weapons, so they're controversial with so i'm saying that they pose unintended health risk is ukraine's government. they're all concerned about this right, so some would say this is perhaps a further escalation in what type of weaponry is provided to ukraine. but this is not the 1st time that the depleted uranium weapons will be sent to ukraine. the united kingdom has provided challenger to tanks earlier this year, and alongside with uh, thousands of, of, of, of shelves with depleted uranium. now, um, just to give you a little bit of context, these weapons are made of a very heavy material that is intended to um, with mainly talking about tac shelves that are intended to pierce armor and ignite and impact. so they are very effective at long range is, and they are not intended to poison people, but rather pierce piers armor of tags. so this has been used by the united states,

for example, for decades. now, the pentagon says there are no worries. there shouldn't be any, any worries about this, but they haven't used in various stages of war such as the rock, for example. and because of what there has been limited research into hazards. they used to use depleted uranium. that is, that is correct. and there are some, some, some issues concerning, concerning the aftermath. so if it's trapped, well, for example, as being being handled, if this would most likely happen in a post war scenario. so it is, there are, there are concerns. but right now, the main concern would be getting past the russian fortifications. thanks much. corresponding mcsaunder and k for us. ukraine's western allies have voiced concerns about the slow pace of caves. kinds were offensive put in a speech to the european parliament in brussels. nato secretary general yeah, installed and berg said, allied support is making a difference to offer support has helped to enable the ukrainians to launch the counter offensive. the ukrainians are gradually gaining

ground and it is a proof of the importance of our support and also our ability and unwillingness to continue the support because this is heavy if i think difficult, if i think but the has been able to reach the defensive lines of the russian forces they are moving a moving forward to speak now with the courage followed her former us ambassador to nato and former special representative to ukraine, who joins us from keith. great to have you on d w that we just heard at their ukraine moving forward is nato secretary general? yeah. and felton burke has put a do you think the kind for offensive is going well, yes, i do. and i think people who had great expectations for swift recovery of territory didn't have their expectations in the wrong place. russia has created massive mind

fields and tank traps and other forms of defensive protections for their occupied areas and ukrainians are being very careful in this article. in going through this, they are protecting their people, they're not throwing people at the front line like cannon fodder. and as a result it is slow going, but it's very effective. ukrainians have increasingly attacked rushes, logistical support, chains, fuel food and nutrition, rail lines, road lines, depots, and they are in fact advancing their through the 1st layer mines in some areas. and they're continuing to proceed. and they are doing this one out here cover. they're doing this without modern aircraft. they're doing this up along the stranger tillery all things that we would insist on we were doing it. ukrainians are doing it without will tell us now a little bit about this aid worth. $1000000000.00 at the us, secretary of state antony blinking has promised can this be decisive?

it's very important. it's great. the tony blinking is in keys. i think he's one of the leading people in the administration supporting a to ukraine. i think it's very important that he refreshes, is relationships and understandings before going into a tough budget fight this fall. um, that being said, i want to be clear for your audience. this is not a new 1. $100000000000.00. last winter, the congress approved about $45000000000.00 and $8.00 for ukraine. and this is a drawing down against that us, or it is necessary equipment. it is needed equipment. we adjust what the mix is according to what's happening on the battlefield. as you saw, there are some additional de mining capacity here. there's more ammunition in here, but this is more of what we have been doing in incredibly important, essential, not new, and not enough for the long haul. just one more, one more slice along the way. what do i do?

you have no care where or when do you think there will be a crucial point for either ukraine or russia to make concessions? i think that the critical thing that is, is coming up that we're not there yet, but we will get there is ukraine will finally after this counter offensive, be able to interrupt rushes, supply ions coming across the land bridge from raw stuff to crimea and southern ukraine. where the timing is going on now, they cut that. they also cut off the current straight bridge, which is around a road line. and if they do that, russia has no way to continue to supply its troops in crimea and elsewhere and southern ukraine effectively. this is going to cause the crisis point for russia's military operations. former us ambassador to nigel and former special representatives here in ukraine. kirk vulgar thanks for being on dw. thank you very much. i to the race to find water on the moon is gathering pegs. several countries

are trying to stake a claim with an eye to establishing future lunar colonies. reasons russian and japanese attempts ended in failure. but india recently succeeded in landing at the moon sizable and have japan is trying again to the civic. did you enjoy to japan's luna exploration mission the moon's night? the deep is designed to land with high precision within 100 meters of its target sites. on the lunar surface, tokyo is hoping it's small land for investigating noon or slim mission will allow it to join an exclusive international club, making it the 5th country off to the us, china, russia, and india. to successfully land on the moon. its mission is to investigate rocks and deploy a small robot to take photographs. the country space agency says it should reach

its destination early next year. the launch comes just week south to india became the 1st nation to land on the luminous south pole. both india and japan are working together on a joint commission to explode, the permanently shaded lunar poles necessary in us companies are also preparing to more emissions in the coming months. all of this works as a prelude to the next big step. the 1st manned mission. since 1972, which in turn full shadows, the building of luna bases which are in planning by a number of different countries all hoping to gain a permanent foothold on now closest. so let's deal neighbors and to get ahead, stones on what could be the next frontier of geo political conflict. here's a reminder of our top story or catastrophic floods have devastated greece and its neighboring countries as severe rain storms and record rain full kills at least 14

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