[000:00:00;00] the, this is dw news live from berlin. north korea pledges it's full support for russia . kim, john holt talks with president vladimir putin in russia's far east. kim tells prove that north korea will always support moscow in what he called, fight against western imperialism. also coming up, a government minister in libya says that he fears the death toll from the flooding . there may double with more than 5000 bodies already recovered. much of the city of durn, i is destroyed after torrential rains, cost to dance,

to burst. thousands still remain on accounted for the sierra kelly. welcome to the program, north korea's leader kim jong and has pledged his full support for russia. at talks with president vladimir putin, kim told, put in that his country would always support russia, and what kim called moscow's fight against western imperialism food and says they came, will be given a tour of rushes, pacific fleet base. and saw the last 2 costs as part of a tour of defense facilities and bushes. far east. now north korea leader has held the summit as a start of a new era in fi lateral relations. sonya holland raising his loss to friendship for sure, because we would like to make it to is this is a future strengthening of cooperation and friendship between all countries between

the russian federation and the democratic people's republic of korea is the meeting between north korean leader kim jong on and russian president vladimir pretend wasn't able to meet 2 of appreciation to going to court together with comrade fulton, we've just had an elaborate discussion about the middle tree and political situation on the korean peninsula. and then you're going to have come to the conclusion that we need to further intensify strategic and tactical cooperation to ensure safety guarantee a long lasting peace, both in the region and the whole world. the 2 liters are each becoming increasingly isolated on the global stage. but looking to show that they have each of those back kim jones on the, on the line to ongoing support for russia, against what he called the thrust of

a german. this forces against its silver into the united states. as warns that north korea could be preparing to supply russia with military equipment to boost its capabilities in ukraine. the pen took a tour of rushes, the stuff me cost me dry and the country's most important real quick launch center . analysts believes that north korea wants the russian advice on how to improve its own real kits and reconnaissance satellites. 40 different russian officials down play the fact that the summit could be a cause for concern for other countries. but that will do little to come, west and fee is about this flourishing friendship. and earlier i spoke with found burger and expert on north korea and security policy at the german think tank. carp oh, i asked him if we are likely to learn any of the details of a potential armed steel between pollutant and can as well it's really depends on

the intelligence. i don't think they will publish the real detail, but i agreed on, but there's assumptions about what this kind of deals can include. and as a particularly transfer us on the side of north korea to russia in conventional munition. and it's for the turn conflict and the train and then the other direction that will be more tricky to find out. but also assumptions that there will be transfers of knowledge, perhaps in energy and also satellite technology. what arms and ammunition could moscow potentially procure from p on gang and, and what might impact the impact to be on the battlefield and ukraine? russia has been short and i munition, there's a lot of corruption inside the russian military. and the shortages has been come clear, very fast. so not a rush. i was looking for comfortable and munition from sight of its former

partners of the countries that have procured the material from the russian from russia and up basically wants to buy it back to prolonged a war. and your train came joe and sang today that he would make the relationship with moscow. and i'm quoting here, the number one priority of our foreign policy from now on. what could this mean in practice, or is it simply lip service as well? north korea doesn't have much of a choice since the talks and the approach met with the us under the trump administration has come to a 2nd hold on. north korea has been relatively isolated with the exception of china . so now north korea has a chanc to, to get back into business, especially with russia during the deal. there were a lot of different deals with russia in the pipeline such as energy deal. and

though they can resume these kind of project, how much do you think the west should be concerned about this visit? or do you think the optics are perhaps worse than the fact? well, it's usually the upticks worse, but we have to be concerned about what happens in europe. what happens in the ukraine and we have to be buried about what technology transfers to countries such as the teacher k would mean on the broader scale because the per k itself would probably also be a source to other countries. thank you for making the time security analysts batch background. we appreciate it. thank you. and share some other stories making headlines around the world. ukraine has staged what is thought to be its biggest strike on the home of russia's blacks. the fleet chief says that it struck a submarine and a landing ship as well as port infrastructure. russia said the to you printing and

missiles had 2 ships. 24 people reported wounded via the means media save at least 30 people have been killed in an apartment block fire in the capital, hanoi emergency cruise pulled dozens of survivors from the burning building, including many with injuries report said that the place has been extinguished. but that rescue operations are ongoing. firefighters and indonesia are battling large scale pete fires in the island of sumatra. lack of water has hampered efforts to keep the flames under control. such fires occur regularly in the summer at times, giving rise to protests from indonesia, neighbors such as malaysia and singapore when they are blanket and smoke. you chief are still a funder line, has underscored har commitment to the ambitious climate plan known as the green deal. she pledged to strike a fair balance between the needs of the environment and business from under line was speaking in her final state of the european union address before her term ends

. next year. in libya, the death toll from catastrophic flooding has risen to over 5000 people. and officials, se, but the number expected to climb even further as bodies that were swept out to sea wash back ashore. storm. daniel hit libya after barreling across the mediterranean . it cost floods which swept away entire neighborhoods in the eastern coastal areas . the destruction is worst and dare know where to dams collapse, wiping out a quarter of the city. thousands of people are still missing. and among the survivors, tens of thousands are now homeless. the european union says that it's sending a to libya, but relief efforts are being complicated by the fact that libya's internationally recognized government and tripoli does not to control the devastated eastern regions as the casualties in there in the amount locals are overwhelmed with the task of identifying and bearing the dead on

the funds are mine. we are mass burying bodies yesterday at the neighboring hospital on the she had area and it was about a $1010.00 people, including women, children come in and elderly and see if they're now was devastated when to downs collapse during the storm. it's an unprecedented disaster. and help has been slow to arrive back in uh, we call on all the young libby, and anyone who has a degree or any medical affiliation to please come and help us despite warnings that the storm was coming. presidents were not evacuated, but then we heard that the dam had burst, and water had flooded the area which had people were asleep. and no one was ready as a crumbling infrastructure and political divisions with rival factions controlling different parts of the country have made libya particularly vulnerable and official

from the eastern administration who visited the city said as much as 25 percent of their in a had disappeared. meanwhile, libya's internationally recognized government based in trip. we don't play the need for international aid, even though doesn't control the affected region. we had to postpone all demands for assistance with the exception of crucial cases. and we sort of when we, when we said we don't need food, water medicine or even manpower. and that's what we need to specialist. is it we need help for treating bodies from the sea into besides, if we spoke to some countries who will help us with the equipment search under the rubble of the month. several countries, including germany, have offered aid. but then the divided country,

there's so many obstacles in the way of getting help to those in need. and we can speak now with crossing my shoes, a relief worker with the red crescent society. here's an i'll buy that in the flood affected areas of libya. so bring this up to date on what the situation is there right now in this situation. easy. uh, the 1st day of the uh uh we saw my car 1000 people missing reason. 20000 people. the cavities, people. uh yeah. the problem is gonna be more than $25.00, so $3760.00 days, uh, on the round firefox. uh, unfortunately, the history with us uh,

from one of the b. that's what they're getting. what is it called a barn 2 is before the season in the eighty's, and it's even close to that. but right now a lot of people say is going to be the, the products, but the, the government, the agent that i see this as well. so be useful as we see right now. uh as far as the, uh, the, the additional, the task for the safety. but uh the uh the, the mileage was, uh, was very, very, so this issue sees, uh, hold on with the, uh, 400 meters approximate people, uh, came down on mondays. and we're looking at pictures now what, what appears to be absolute ruins the, the numbers of missing that you are highlighting. there are absolutely staggering.

can you just further put this into context for us and give us a sense of how bad the disaster is? tell us a little bit more about what you are hearing and what you are seeing. some of the personal stories when i say about 50000 people missing and that from the city that these properties are not more than 100. 50000 people. one of the cities is something big or something really sad because i'm the body, the it was the on the find it was a to be my life was to be completed as fees right now you for the, for the by the $50.00 the by the boss or having any issues or is it gives you more as because the city had

made for me has its own right now on one of those works. others were really damaged by his phone and the way passes no big progress when he wanted to be any of the time he's on the bus to get on file for, for 5 hours to get this out there. so we're expecting this on a da da com with, with the new techniques, new naz, bluetooth trying to submit a testing module. it would be red crossman society in libya. thank you so much for bringing us up to date on the the dire situation there. we appreciate it. thank you . and now we turn to some very different news. the pops are taylor swift. swift up the top prize a video of the year at the mtv video for her to actually has their $20.00

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