with business beyond the business, the w news live from berlin. north korea pledges is full support for russia. kim jump on hold. cox with president vladimir putin in rushes, far east. him telling me that north korea will always support moscow. and what he calls fight against the western imperialism. also coming up, a government's 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 dar night is destroyed after torrential rains, caused to down to burst thousands silver made on accounted for the . i'm sarah 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. tim told fruit, and that his country would always support russian what tim called moscow's fight against western imperialism. fulton said that came will be given a demonstration of russia's pacific fleet capabilities in vladivostok as part of a tour of defense facilities in russia's far east. the north korean leader has held the summit as the start of a new era in bilateral relations. sonya holland, raising his loss to friendship i would like to make a to exist as

a future strengthening of co operation and friendship between our countries between the russian federation and the democratic people's republic of korea. the meeting between north korean leader kim jong on and russian president vladimir pretend wasn't able to meet 2 of appreciation to go to court together with comrade colton. we've just had an elaborate discussion about the middle tree and political situation on the korean peninsula and europe. and i 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 german just forces against its silver into the

united states as well into that north korea could be preparing to supply russia with military equipment to boost its capabilities and ukraine, the pack took a tour of rushes, the stuff me cost me dry and the country is most important. rocha launch center on the list. believe that north korea wants russian advice on how to improve its own rockets and reconnaissance satellites. for russian officials downplay 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 is and frank smith, an independent journalist, reporting from sole, joins me now. frank conjunction appearing to be getting a full on tour of the russian far east. it appears like putting is pulling out all

of the socks here for the north korean leader. what are observers there? and so making of it well, uh, they suggest a rush. i may be getting a little bit desperate in and search for military uh, ammunition and other hardware for it to attack on ukraine. and north korea does have some expertise in terms of the munition, the artillery ammunition that the russian might be looking for with the $10000.00 artillery tubes. just north of the d. m. z largely trained on saw south korea providing north korea for with some degree of deterrent. but north korea is tour is probably related to, to satellites. as was mentioned in your report, north korea failed to, to launch a, a spice satellite twice this year. and would like to have that kind of technology to better observe so screen and us forces here on the peninsula. sarah,

just hours before came arrived for the meeting, as he was on his way north korea fire to ballistic missiles, toward the see it. as you highlighted there, what, what message is pee on young likely trying to stand with that as well. these 2 ballistic missiles were lodged from near peeling yang. at 11431153. just prior to kim's meeting with putting an observer suggest, there are literally designed to send a message to the west at north korea is going to continue with this missile development having launched more missiles in the past year than ever before. and is going to, you know, not really she, those threats, particularly, or, or warnings coming from the u. s. that it would have to pay a price if it was to engage in a military cooperation with russia. sarah coda wants weapons from kim. this is what we are hearing reported. what is the likely request? what does north korea have to offer? do we know?

well, it, as i mentioned, artillery is going to be at the top of the top of that list. it's also been suggested they might be able to produce small arms cheaply for russia, but primarily it's going to be emulation and perhaps perhaps in some long range artillery. what we need to also understand is with north korea, might want to do this in terms of some hard currency it because of united nations security council sanctions, north free. it doesn't really trade with the international community much. most of it straight is with china. it's also going to be looking for food. there's been reports of malnutrition in north korea. it's also could be looking for a nuclear submarine technology having launch would have called a tactical nuclear submarine just a few days ago. although most experts are just north 3 doesn't have the technology to, to power that type of submarine with any nuclear material. and then of course,

missile technology given the location of this summit between kim and proven smith and sol. thank you very much. i to a test to libya now where the death toll from catastrophic flooding has risen to over 5000 people. and officials say that that number is 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 eastern coastal areas. the destruction is worst and don't know where to dams collapsed, 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 is sending a relief to libya, but relief efforts are being complicated by the fact that libya's internationally recognized government and tripoli does not control the devastated eastern regions

as the casualties in there. now, mount locals are overwhelmed with the task of identifying and burying the dead on the mountain, we are mass burying bodies yesterday at the neighboring hospital on the she had area and it was about a 1000 dead people including women, children, man and elderly. all of the see it there 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 so that there is none, and then we heard that the dam had burst, and water had flooded the area kind of clear and people were asleep. and no one was ready. crumbling infrastructure and political divisions which 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 and triply downplay 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, i think we should have when we, when we said we don't need food, water medicine or even manpower. and that's what we need to specialist. we need help for treating bodies from the see how to do it and do besides, if we spoke to some countries who will help us with the equipment search under the

rubble. well, several countries, including germany, have offered aid, but then to divided country. there are still many obstacles in the way of getting help to those in need. and i spoke earlier about that with cassim module b relief worker with the red crescent society. he's in l by the, in the flood, effective area of libya and gave me an update on the situation there. now as the situation of the 1st day of the disaster response by 5000 people missing was increasing 220000 people. the people uh yeah, but the problem is is more than 25, so 30 to 60 days. uh on the final thoughts. uh,

unfortunately the sweetest boss from one of the b. that's what they're getting. what is called upon to it is before this disease and in the eighty's as even to 25. but right now, a lot of people say is going to be the, the products. but the, the government that we use the citizens of course. so be useful as we see right now as far as the, the, the, the single, the, each task of the city bought the, the, uh, the, the amount was, uh, was pretty, very exist. this issue sees a via box uh, 400 meters approximate. people came down 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, the uh, what do you say about 30000 people missing and the uh, from the city that is uh, probably not more than 100. 50000 people. uh, one of the cities is something big or something really sad because uh, on the body the it was the only find 2 sides. uh it was to be my you know, um like modern lead seats right now. even for the, for the body. uh, i think these are both on uh,

having any issues as long as because the, the city had made for me that is right now only one of those working hours were uh, really damaged and the only passes no big problem is when you want it to be any, any time he's on the bus to get on file for, for 5 hours to get this out there. so we're expecting the internet on a da da. com. and you need to define to a testing module. it would be red crescent society in libya. thank you so much for bringing us up to date on the the dire situation there. we appreciate it. and here are some other stories making headlines. ukraine has staged, what is thought to be the biggest strike on the home of rushes blacks. the fleet

team says that it struck a submarine and a landing ship as well as port infrastructure. bushes says the 2 ukranian missiles had 2 ships. 24 people were reported wounded. the data means media say that 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. youtube ursula found her line, has underscored her 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. on the line was speaking in her final state of the european union address before her term ends. next year is coming up on vw news. asia can a partnership between manila and come for the turbo shame in the south china sea

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