the, the, you're watching the news coming to live from berlin. north korea pledges it's full support for russia. kim jong and head starts with president vladimir putin in russia as far east. kim kelly fulton that north korea will always support moscow in what he calls to fight against the western imperialism. also, coming up on the show, a government minister in libya says he fears the death toll from the fleming. there may double with more than 5000 bodies, all ready recovered. much of the city of day or night is destroyed after torrential rains caused cube dancer 1st thousands. remain on account of for

the enquire. richardson, welcome north korea's leader kim jong and has pledged his full support for russia. i talked with president vladimir putin, kendall, putting him at his country, would always support russia, and what kim called moscow's fight against the western imperialism. so it is as came, will be given a tour of russia's pacific fleet space and a valuable stock as part of a tour of defense facilities in russia's far east. north korean leader has held the summit as the start of a new era in bilateral relations. sonya holland raising his gloves to friendship. i should because i would like to make it 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 is the meeting

between north korean leader kim jong on and russian president vladimir putin wasn't able to meet 2 of appreciation to going to court together with comrade wooten. we've just had an elaborate discussion about the middle tree and political situation on the korean peninsula and europe and 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 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 in the customer dry and the country's 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. 40 different from russian officials down play the fact that the summit could be a cost a concern for other countries, but that will do little to come west and fee is about this flourishing friendship for more. let's be to our correspondent jennifer paul. so she's joining me from the lobby and capital rica, as dw is banned from reporting and russia. hi jennifer. how do we know what kim and put in have been discussing? well, north korea and russia are set unreturned, leading their cooperation and discuss strategic and tactical ways to make it happen

. according to russian president vladimir putin, both leaders talked quite frankly to each other and noticed some areas of possible future ventures. these include the spheres of transportation as well as logistics. more concretely, this means the development of railways infrastructure for cars and trucks, as well as logistics of c ports. kim, joan was also quite interested in russia space expertise as well as satellite technologies. but 14 also stated that these topics were not the only ones that were discussed. apparently ecology also, and the environment also played a big role in these discussion. but he did not specify how exactly cremeans folks persecuted me, that he missed school said that there were also topics that both leaders did not discuss. and these topics included the deployment of north korean soldiers to rush as border with ukraine as well as the issue of nuclear war threats. now, it really seems like putting is giving him the full v i p treatment. here i'm

wondering how the kremlin has been portraying this visit to wellcare. that's the full v i. p treatment. indeed, north korea's leader kim joan is not expected to leave for us. so just yet, but it's going to tour the far east of the country. and the next days he's scheduled to appear in come somewhere on um, what ends, legible, stock income, some works on i'm where he will be visiting aircraft facilities for civilian and military aircraft. and legible storks he will be watching a demonstration of the capabilities of the pacific fleet by russian defense. some industry, all to symbolize that north korea's leader is quite interested in his relationships with russia only. then he is expected to return back to north korea, but also his visit has a big propaganda value for russia. first of all, to show that russia is not as international, isolated as the west is making it out to be. and 2nd of all, that with north korea,

by its side, russia has a loyal friend who's overly standing by its side against the west, no matter the consequences. well, thank you so much for your reporting. that is jennifer paul fest enrico for us and we can bring you up to speed now with some other world news headlines. ukraine has stage what's thought to be, it's the biggest strike on the who of russia's black sea. sweets keeps as it struck a submarine and a landing ship as well as port infrastructure. russia says to me, crazy and missiles a hit 2 ships. 24 people reported wounded is a u t for so the funder lion has underscored her commitment to the vicious climate plan known as the green deal. she pledge to strike a fair balance between the needs of the environment and business promises funded language speaking in her final state of the european union address before her term ends next year. why and rescue efforts continue in morocco. 5 days after an earthquake killed nearly 3000 people,

international crews have sent emergency responders into the mountains where bodies remain buried under bravo and dust and locals are organizing a campaigns to help those affected. and in libya, the death toll from catastrophic flooding has risen to over 5000 people. and officials say that number is expected to climb even further as bodies that were swept out to sea wash back ashore. storm daniel hit libby after barreling across the mediterranean. it caused floods which swept away entire neighborhoods in eastern coastal areas. the destruction is worst and there are no where to dance collapse, wiping out a quarter of the city. thousands of people are still missing and among the survivors, tens of thousands are now homeless. european union says it's sending a to olivia bought 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. and the amount

locals are overwhelmed with the task of identifying and bearing 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 $1010.00 people including women, children, man and elderly father of the of the 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, but then we heard that the dam had burst, and water had flooded. the area was that 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, olivia's internationally recognized government based in tripoli. down played the need for international aid, even though doesn't control the affected region. 7, we had to postpone all demands for assistance in wisconsin 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 visit. we need help for treating bodies from a seat and do besides, 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 a divided country. there's so many obstacles in the way of getting help to those in need of this is a situation is nothing short of horrifying. i'd like to bring in and also commodity a libyan political analyst. a joining us today from is tumble. thank you for taking the time we heard there in our report. i had a debate by the libyan prime minister saying that he had postpone accepting international assistance. does that surprise you given the magnitude of this tragedy? as it does struck me in many ways, because it's, it's endemic of the systematic failures of governance that we've seen for a decade to rival governments that are perfectly happy to rule over the rubble, whilst s as in sly underneath it. and i think it goes down to the core of what, what we've seen, the image is coming of done. the people today waking up, you know,

tired faces model all over the place is 3 days without food. water is on the station without the supply lines because of the supply lines that will keep. that's the, the 40000 that we know now displays from the city, almost all of the population that will keep them getting. they need everything. of course, they need international search and rescue teams. they need technical experts that are going to help them try to recover and identify some of those that are missing by 40000 people need every bit of help that they can get. and so was the officials that we know, particularly those that were responsible for the collapse of, of them going to be national. i mean, lots of those officials may have failed out. now, if they made the courageous citizens that were in your program, that happened because they're the ones that driving the ambulances, the other ones that making the bread, that the ones that are trying to tie themself out, looking under the rubble, but they need all the help they can get and so when it comes to what the, what the, what the level governments can do that presided over this crisis right decade. it's the man made negligence. it's the man made incompetence,

inability to war. and there were in citizens when they had the time, the hours and days before the storm is the libya they had the time to be able to go and warn, evacuate, try and identify a way in which to give the lives of the citizens at that. now maybe not the city structures, but i live a 2nd shots and they have and that criminal negligence means that the white people to be the custodians of today is cool of the nation efforts. that should be the red crescent, the expedited libya is operating with this courageous stuff. the active as the volunteer is the bright people that stood in the city. they need all the help they can get. yeah, and frankly, the local authorities, the why, the ministration in the west, they can step aside. they've done enough. well, let me jump in there. um, as you say, it's the ordinary citizens being left to pick up the pieces. do you think that there are they're going to be political consequences for how this response has been unfolding? i certainly think that needs to be a place most, i'm figuratively and literally off of events. and i think, you know, we've seen this in the region before. we saw the pool last and basement. i completely mind may tragedy that didn't need to happen. this is the very same case

. criminal negligence that goes back to the good that the resume hasn't maintained that, that, that damage of the 1980s, the l. n. a that has also been involved that will be much money that has been involved in getting the public infrastructure and use them to be a destroying the roads, the strong buildings using it for scrap metal and they would sell for pennies on the dollar unexplored kentucky for billions of dollars a year. that is the quality in the fiber of those individuals that today saying i'm here to help you and keep you safe. when they spent the last 1010 years stealing from the public money, the public infrastructure and waging war against their own citizens as a corner in the fiber of libby as an electorate. but it's a committee. and if we had the elections or the several weeks ago, elections were blocked and then what could about elected council have done the experts i've done so. but i knew that there is to be an inquiry, the public investigation about what happened and then then the events that led to this. but that needs to be a drastic change. libby's of once it elections for 10 years that have been blocked

by you and process. the is which is not designed to allow for elections is designed to the, to create on the pointed governments that will block collections. how do we know that? because we did have states of them in the last decade, each of them i promised collections and they never delivered. so there's criminal culpability. on the local level, there was international complexity of the national level. and libyans are the ones, the blameless victims of this. they're picking up the pieces and they have to build a tomorrow, and they need to do that without the kind of criminal accomplices that had been the custodians of the last 10 years. well, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us on the date of the news that is with the analyst, a nice of commodity. we really appreciate your time. thank you. and that is their news update at this hour. uh, we do have a reminder of our top story before we go north korea's leader kim jong and has pledged his full support for russia at talks with president vladimir putin. the 2 men at a space complex and rushes far east, cuz he said a wide range of issues were on the table, including all areas of military cooperation,

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