the the, this is the, the we news line from berlin, russia's black sea naval headquarters in flames after a ukrainian missile striking process. defense ministry says one service man is missing after a long range missile hit the building and sylvester pool and the amex crime in peninsula also coming up. china and syria agreed to closer ties as syrian leader of bizarre. i'll also visit china for the 1st time, nearly 20 years will ask what the 2 sides hope to gain. and germany's men's football team has a new coach here we have

a lot of fun takes over the reins in troubled times for the national. so the really, it's good to have you with us. the headquarters of russia's black sea fleet were hits and then ukrainian missile strikes footage surfaced online shortly after the strike showing flames and black smoke coming from the building and the basketball on the crime in peninsula which russia alex illegally in 2014, mary. you can see the aftermath of the strike precious defense ministry said initially that one service man had been killed, but then amended the statement to say that the person was missing. went on to say that russian air defense systems shot down 5 of them. if you don't use an economy and keith told us more what we've seen images just in the last file. so of the sun

going down now is restful and the smoke continuing this fi, seemingly still not out. there's not much in the way of access the russian hill torches, neil spied stressful heavy to shut down the town center. it's so cold and off the locals can't go there. there's been lots of, i mean, so you see most of the day bruce, still strewn as for the casualty numbers as there's an expectation that those will rise. give them that. i'm the people that work in that building, but so far we don't have much in the way of hard facts with this when he comes up, as you're part of a string of attacks. recent days we've had a tax on a russian military fields in crimea, also come on points that have been that basically dug into the mountains that have been very heavily protected. but we're attacked using western built a christmas, also real sense now that crimea is under attack by you paying for most of the day of the day. and we can now speak to military analyst marina moran from king's college in london. and welcome good to see you again. now, why are we seeing you cream step up these attacks on crimea in recent weeks?

a good evening nicole wells, or have so many reasons for that. first of all, ukraine doesn't have the same naval capabilities as russia does. so what to crane is trying to do is degrade russia's black sea fleet capabilities. and specifically, there are 2 main aim smaller tree names for that matter. the use the black safely it was used to fire clipper of missiles on odessa. so it would be obviously important for ukraine to, to reduce the risk of an attack on the support that is connected with the other reasoning for that. and the odessa port is being used to explore, to cranium green. and the green has seen some difficulties, especially was a, there was a pool and, and some other countries imposing upon a new premium. great. and it's important for you print to sustain its economy. therefore, neutralizing, or at least reducing the capabilities of the black sea fleet. it wants to ensure

that it's vessels can get to their destination. and of course, it has some psychological effect as well. showing that, especially as the lensky is asking for a long range missiles from the united states, showing the capabilities also ukrainian armed forces to precisely strike the russians in crimea. despite the era defenses and the spies. the difficulty is that to creating an air forces having yeah, this was a strike, very much to the heart of russia as military operation in crimea. so how come russia is so vulnerable on a piece of land that is so important to them? that it is an interesting question indeed, because russia has claimed to have advanced air defenses, most notably as he asked 400, deployed to cry me out, deployed to send a stop, all that in order to protect as a peninsula. the reasoning could be, is

a fact that the premium, the air force used the store to shadow or count missile, which has a cruise missile, which has a different tragic story. and by itself is much more difficult to intercept than the one hand. on the other hand, we'll have to look at the terrain of the surface purple, and there are a mountains. so when the operator of the air defense system sees a missile on the radar when it comes from out of mount. and so to say it might be too late and, and they just don't have enough time to react on. the other option is of course, so to be your defense systems were overloaded. so it wasn't just one missile fired . and that is apparently what happened. so, taking all those factors combined, it becomes more and more difficult for russia to defend crimean to defend its black sea fleet headquarters, putting it on the defensive. of course, you know, we've spoken a lot about ukraine, slow counter, offensive out,

good dismissal strikes on russian hill territory. be another way to weaken the enemy. and if so, could it be successful? and we have to look at the counter offensive as a multi faceted operation. so what is happening in operational right now is not the only point of contact. we have to look at all the other sectors of the front um site just because she of kind of dream of covers. you create new forces, have some success, and they are trying to encircle the russian forces or partially and circles the russian forces environment. samuel tenuously, we have the brewing attacks. around belgrade we have thrown attacks aimed at critical infrastructure aimed at and munition depots. and in order to reduce rushes capabilities in the to continue was it special military operation. so called special military operation. and we also have those attacks on crimea,

which all in conjunction should create a synergies and should create a fact, especially on the rushes capability to assess that should make them also in, in a veil ability of rushes and munitions supplies. so i think am the integrated into this whole operation. these attacks are important, but the overall effect will be decisive. and right now it's just one portion which is successful. military. alice moreno moran from king's college london. thank you. thank you very much. i. let's take a quick look now at some other headlines from around the world, ukraine's president followed him is lempke, has told canada parliament that justice will prevail as his country fights russia's invasion. and addressing lawmakers in ottawa speaking earlier canadian prime minister justin true though pledged nearly half a $1000000000.00 in military 8 for ukraine. canada. the 1st shipment of grain have

left few cranes since russia reimpose the blockade and the black sea, the vessels left the board of 4 no more light and with cargo bound for africa and asian markets. you cream is testing a new shipping rounds. after russia withdrew from a deal allowing the safe passage of friendships nigerian government spokes person says gunman have kidnapped 35 people from the university in the northwestern state of them. far the region of seeing a search and kidnappings, by armed gangs and militants. and recent years, friday's abduction is the 1st major incident involving students this year. thirty's in eastern libya say they will host an international conference and during the next month aiming to raise funds for reconstruction efforts falling and catastrophic flood 2 weeks ago. or for water is washed away to dams and left much of the coastal city in ruins. nearly 4000 people are known to have been killed in

the region, but with many others still missing, the final death toll could be several times higher. this hospital and ben gauzy has been operating full capacity for nearly 2 weeks. most of its patients, a flood victims, a toughie. lisa was seriously injured when he was found by rescue. as in the port city of dunn, his house was destroyed and it was, i have injuries all over my body and including a broken arm and an inflamed wound on my leg. yet my doctor told me he couldn't put cost over my hand right away because of the wound was inflamed on with this beast. then how would this do you have the hospital, his also sent teams, if it's doctors a 150 miles away to dun or the city west affected by the storm.

torrential rain bus 2 dams which submerged huge areas under water and washed away buildings. in seconds before the storm, this hubbub was teeming with fishing boats and trade ships. now, a nice, smooth thing is out on the water. like 2 divers and friends at cruz trying to retrieve dead bodies and debris. local tug boat captains helped to rescue residents who had been swept out to see when the flash flood struck. at dawn, we heard a cry for help and rushed to provide assistance. it turned out to be an old woman hiding inside a refrigerator floating on the surface of the water. she was crying for help inside the fridge. she was asking, where is my sister? 2 of my crew men went to help her. she was completely naked.

piles of rubble, old, remain from and tie a neighborhoods. and then a once bustling port city washed away in an instant china is pledged to work more closely with syria as part of what it's calling a strategic partnership. the announcement came following talks between president changing thing and syrian leader bizarre all outside in the chinese to be of hung joe enjoying statement china calls for the removal of sanctions imposed on serial risk civil war. right. they saw more protests against the asset regime and the syrian town of the way the were demonstrators convincing their anger over worsening economic conditions. take a closer look at this and speak to professor of mary gallagher. she's an expert on chinese politics at the university of michigan in the us. welcome to the w and did

a side get what he wanted out of his trip to china. you think to it? so i think it's too early to tell. i think he needs economic aid more than anything, but you know, this is an important trip for him. he hasn't been to china in 20 years. and the strategic partnership i think is pretty significant. what is the strategic partnership going to look like? because it is a buzz word in china, is that yeah, it's a buzzword in china. it's also about squared in the united states. the united states is talking about vietnam. china is talking about syria. so i think it's a little unclear of what it will actually mean in practice for syria. i mean whether or not china wants to commit a lot of aid into syria. it remains unclear. syria is a little bit high risk for china. it's not a booming economy by any stretch and it needs a lot of reconstruction made due to the civil war. but again, a lot of this since about the symbolic moves that both the united states and china are making around the world by showing that in different countries,

are joining these, these different alliances. not, not full blown military alliances, but these different sort of teams that are competing to me yet. how does syria figure into china is wider, middle east strategy? as i think it's probably something that a china is doing to help the middle east in general, particularly saudi arabia and i ran after it. it's record of the piece still in, in march of this year, syria is an important country. it's been isolated due to the civil war and by bringing syria back into the full, not just in the middle east, but also with china will be really important. as a china has definitely taken a lead. now, in middle east of political relations, particularly these really difficult ones involving countries that have either been at war with each other or have been in a long civil war. it's, it's not necessarily easy for china to do this to. this is

a very big move on the part of a china presidency. been paying to really take a very different diplomatic profile than any other chinese leader since now. and in china is of course not doing this for charity. this is all about influence and an expanding its fear of influence in the middle. is there anything else in it for beijing, in this alliance with syria and particular? or there may be things going on behind the scenes regarding competition, also with russia. and i mean, we think of china and russia as closely aligned right now because of china is implicit support for russia and ukraine. at the same time, we know that russia and china have long had difficult relations. they're often in competition with each other. they share along the border. they've had territorial disputes recently put in a hosted kim john, i'm the leader of north korea. and china was recently in cuba and giving an

important speech a chinese liter. so what we see is a lot of a back room dealings where these countries, they're all together in a sort of access to of you know, autocratic countries. yeah. china is clearly the economic leader. but i think there's also some competition between china and russia in the middle east, where russia's bill harry's area of their area. i'm really sorry. that was marion gallagher from the university of michigan. thank you so much for your input. thank you. i'm trying has growing influence in asia has done a lot to bring countries closer together. even militarily, south, east asian countries are holding their 1st joint military exercises against a background of height and tensions with beijing. the ozzy and drills are taking place off the coast of indonesia near the non, to now islands. and it needs to move them from a part of the south china sea where there overlapping territorial claims. china says it has sovereignty rights to most of the area, but the waters border of many odds in countries. and they can test page things,

claims. this is where of the nation. so joining forces for the 1st ever block of schools, if nibble as a size, it comes at the time of rising tensions as badging of a china, as claim to most of the south china sea in china, is 9 dash line claimant. the saw china is the house cost $10.00 standoff with countries like that non malaysia per night, and the philippines watching us loud on any. and what about on there that a very some one to go to us? that'd be me. and that is the global spotlight is on the south china sea to do it's abundant, natural resources. silas dudley's, how many nations to a 3rd territorial claims in the area by our visa monk, blame relay. what id like enough left of the the indian, easiest prime. a huge active in its dealings with these nations is to maintain a neutral stance that i give them a sync up and about. but while the exercises are entirely focus on non combat activities, the drill is also being read by many as a cautious signal to china. is,

are trying to see is only 30 miles away and is one of the most disputed to your political hop squads of the 21st century. the 1000 members are all well aware of this and are being very careful not to prevent china too much with this 1st exercise. the 5th time initially planted the edge of assault china sea. indonesia relocated the exercise, often a tune, the islands to steer clear potential objections from being regarding the disputed region. it's important to note that conducting exercises in the south china seas prohibited it is critical to maintain a sense of balance. spending to do so could be perceived as aligning with the united states in the past of in countries had health joint exercises, but the u. as in brush of this members on the drill as intended to demonstrate audience neutrality in the us, china conflict. well, also showing unity against china in the summer was the hottest on

record. according to climate scientists still pain. countries like italy, spain, in greece on july temperatures of more than 45 degrees celsius and wells. far as ripped through southern parts of the content across the continent, average temperatures were points to 83 degrees above average mountain paris has come up with measures to deal with the heat and its hope. the plans will help the french capital become climate neutral by 2050 paris. the city of love has long been a tour a stream. but on hot summer days, it can be hard to brief, concrete roads and buildings turn the french capital into an urban heat island. that's why power is, is investing tens of millions of yours to help cool down the city. that you develop easy to review the pedal, the power is a very dense activity, so it's soaks up the heat to during the day and releases that there's no, it's not that. i mean, we will replace concrete with

a green stretches like this. and we will insulate the public buildings put on pulls on the end of us on the no, but smaller community. many squares have already gone green, like the plastic on us your in east and paris. this round about in the south of the city is being transformed into an urban forest. as trees cool down the air by several degrees. greenery is also being planted on school yards on the streets in front of schools. the river scent is equally helping to cool down the city. it's connected to a network of underground water pipes linked to over $700.00 buildings across the city called special to penny. this is one of the systems main ponds. the salty canada is. this is all these problems push the ice cold water through the system. the water is cooled by refrigeration units, which heat up in the process that he will be dissipated into this then it's water flows through a secondary circuit. this system consumes half as much electricity as

a conventional air conditioning unit us, and that electricity comes entirely from renewable energy. today the network has 90 kilometers of pipes, the company plans to triple that over the next 2 decades fresh all of the party is already helping to cool places like the lubricant museum and powers town hall. but the air conditioning systems that use river water cons be endlessly extended, says this experts on urban climate adaptation in any of your system of control default piece of it. systems like i showed the past, the warm up the river water. and that's only save up to a certain threshold to protect the local biodiversity of cold you, me fall signal. so the systems can't pull down an entire city. we have to choose the buildings, we connect to them before and you say like you mentioned that your sound, but small outside the city of paris is setting up new roof to provide shade like this one in a lower income neighborhood in northern paris. when i found $2.00 to $3.00 carried

out elizabeth tests and just a few minutes ago, and it's about 6 degrees celsius cooler under the suite, then it is under the sun. sometimes the temperature difference is even 7 degrees survey o box. then we are installing 24 routes like this across paris on top of our existing heat measures. now, heat plan includes, for example, regularly checking in on vulnerable people and offering spaces, such as in town holes where they can cool off on the side. of course, you may just like these will become even more important in the future. so i'm experts fear paris will have to do with up to 50 degree celsius one day or yeah. now this one is beneficially presented as the new coach of germany's men's and national football team. the 36 year old former coach of logic and byron munich has signed a contract until the end of the year being hit championship here in germany next summer. here a place is on the flick, who was sacked this month is

a look at not going to months career. so far. steve was the front of this leak is youngest of a coach of 28, a fresher size duty and novels minute hoffman heim, he got the top job after working his way through the ranks of the crops use academy . and most of a to, from the stats we've got, the guy now goes my med, huffman hines of the champions league for the 1st time before the light sick came cooling by now, he had the reputation as a tactical end of a to keen to make use of technology to get the best out of his play of the david deville. that'd be player's head, the ideas at least once every player has animated tactical instructions on that phone. and we're happy to help them out any time. and i'm thinking to run with don grossman pushing their way fluids out. light steak reach new heights independently

. and the champions league semi final, which in 2021. he left the club post again. this time by, by and munich, the team he supported as a boy. so i'm like, i wouldn't have left for any of the club concepts. please buy in pay 25000000 euros to release now. grossman from his contract that made him at the time the world's most expensive types. he started repaying the huge fee and his last season in charge, leading fines. yes, another, but it does make a tight. so between the 2nd season, things started to sour problems on and off the page. stop by and lose the everything disability and novice minimum sacks. back in march, age 36. he still has a lot to gauge which country not club. now the focus on saturday, china host the opening ceremony, the agent games, the multi sport events held every 4 years for athletes across the asian continent.

but farmers were making last minute adjustments ahead of the ceremony and the host to be hung jose, the presidents aging thing, is due to the 10 along with thousands of athletes coaches and volunteers included in the march of athletes. saturday evening video game players or east sports competition competitors, they will make history of the asian games because for the 1st time they are competing for medals. organizers have their eyes on the olympics next. not all that fire from the action on the streets of new delhi. there is action on a dimly lit screen in a dimly lit room where a site manger malik, is training. after like practice of many different champions, many different characters. how should i play then? how very should i be able to execute with my abilities on the chimes? fuse india is prime, metal hold full and a video game called lead of legends,

which is as much a part of the asian games as the 100 meter dash or the on even parallel bars. now like a certain to make his parents proud, even if they didn't always support his passion, sometimes they had to like title from them. i'm clear that go into minutes because a part i heard of something i meant to do so not far away my job id grew up in similar circumstances. he'll be competing for india in the game street fighter. this is kind of what i didn't did. and i used to use the leg with the dog gigs. uh and i use it that might be the end of that. i'm going to the fusion and i don't, i just never went to the end of just to go to the getting that. and i'd spend my life and died there with that and no project, but the 2 is going for the podium at the asian games where, you know, all, there are 7 east board categories, handing out real gold, real silver and real bronze metals. e sports is real sports at the asian games.

i think this is a good start moment for them not only the ation, he supports them their day. but the word way, doc, i'm there to, to, because this eventually really becomes a benchmark for a lot of other countries. uh, you know, the condition of the sports as a sports, the east sports competitors have their own venue at the asian games. and all $5000.00 seats for each session are reportedly sold out, making it just about impossible for players to stay hidden from their parents. you're watching the that what you knew his line from berlin and here is a reminder of our top stories. ukrainian missile strike is badly damaged, the headquarters of russia's blacks, the fleet and occupied crimea. precious defense ministry says one service member is missing in china as blanche to work more closely with syria as part of what is calling a strategic partnership as follows. talks between president changing,

paying and steering liter bizarre. all of a sudden hung joke is the thoughts 1st trip to china in nearly 2 decades. eco, africa is up. next, we'll look at how to better manage one of our most precious resources. water that's up after a short break and i will be back with more headlines at the top of the next hour. and i do hope to see if the,

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