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hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the heatwave in southern europe is intensifying, with wildfires forcing thousands of people to flee towns and villages. a number of people have already died and temperatures are predicted to go well above a0 celsius in parts of spain and portugal. more than 11,000 people have been forced to leave france s southwestern gironde region, from where our europe correspondent jessica parker sent us this report. planes swoop in as they try to contain the fires raging in southwestern france. more people had to be evacuated from the landiras area today as flames ripped through the forest. a second blaze closer to the coast has seen 10,000 people evacuated. everything went so fast, and the fire, too, was big, big, big. and my friends woke me up and i was like, 0k, this is very serious, what do i take in my room? manon was working and living at a local campsite. for now, this conference centre is her home. 0thers waited
Losses that they wanted to hold on. ultimately though, russia with its equipment was able to take the city so now ukraine is in a more retreated position, but what it s been trying to do is probe around the outskirts to almost give russia a taste of its own medicine in that area where it has been trying to encircle russian troops. the endeavour is there but it hasn t materialised in a sizeable reclaiming of territory. this was a place that started symbolic. it was clearly somewhere russia dearly wanted to take, a trophy that the kremlin wanted. now it has it, ukraine has been quite focused in trying to take it back. you have to remind ourselves, we are talking about a once thriving city that has been reduced to almost nothing. it is simply a battlefield where a lot of people have lost their lives. thank you for that analysis. james
City of dnipro is interesting because it is only three hours from the front line but it is a place that has just really carried on as normal. i think the images of last night, another missile strike in the heart of the city, it s shown moscow s attitude that it is deploying in that it sees civilian casualties or areas themselves as acceptable collateral damage in its continued invasion or it is a deliberate targeting of a civilian area. we have heard from the kremlin saying it was targeting a ukrainian command post with what it called high precision weapons, but nevertheless it is a messy situation for people this morning. and as you say, president zelensky has been making another visit to front line positions. it was last in bakhmut at the start of the year when his forces controlled the city, which is now pretty much in ruins. now he has visited advanced positions on the outskirts where he has thanked his troops. he hasn t gone into detail
About what their plans are. he even posed with them in a petrol station having a coffee, which is a ukrainian pastime. you often see soldiers in petrol stations making long journeys from the back and the front. ukraine is attempting its counteroffensive, there are small hard fought gains taking place, and this is the political effort alongside that where he wants to be seen near the front to preserve that morale. we seen near the front to preserve that morale. ~ , , , . , morale. we were ust seeing pictures now of president morale. we were just seeing pictures now of president zelensky morale. we were just seeing pictures now of president zelensky meeting . now of president zelensky meeting those soldiers. in terms of where the ukrainians are in bakhmut, you have been there, what is the position at the moment? if have been there, what is the position at the moment? if you can imauine, position at the moment? if you can imagine. it s position at the moment? if you can imagine, it