In Sydney, the fire brigade tried to prevent wildfires with controlled fires. But the winds let smoke billow into the city. Now the authorities are warning.
Fires controlled by the Australian fire brigade hit the city on Monday Sydney Wrapped in a dangerous cloud of smoke. Due to the high level of air pollution, ferry traffic has been halted and residents are asked to stay home if needed. Some unions urged workers to stop work if the smoke was too thick. The air quality index was over 190, which is one of the worst in the world.
Authorities in Australia’s largest city have had to refrain from more controlled fires to prevent the worst wildfires in the summer months. According to the fire brigade, light winds and reflected night weather are responsible for the smoke in the lower parts of the city. The smoke should clear up as the day progresses.
Australia experienced the worst wildfires and bush fires in its history in the last months of 2019 and the first few months of 2020. They were particularly severe in the east and south of the country. More than ten million hectares of land and more than 3,000 homes have been destroyed. Kills 33 people and an estimated over 1 billion animals.
: Six dead and many injured after avalanche avalanche on top of the Dolomites
The bulletin shows the avalanche in the Dolomites. Photo: dpa / –
UpdatesTrevisoThe rupture of glaciers in the Italian Alps has killed at least six people and injured at least eight others. About ten people are still missing.
After the dangerous avalanche in dolomite With at least six dead, emergency services want to continue searching the side of Mount Marmolada on Monday. But they have little hope of finding more survivors among the blocks of ice, snow and rocks. This was said by Walter Cainelli of the mountain rescue service in the northern Italian province of Trentino, on Sunday evening.
Dozens of people were missing on Sunday evening, ANSA news agency reported. Sixteen cars were counted in the parking lot at the foot of the rocky mountain from which the climbing tracks whose owners have not yet been found. „We don’t know yet whether the cars belonged to the dead or missing or to people unrelated to the accident,” said Maurizio Fogatti, regional president of the city of Trentino-Alto Adige. As many as 14 climbers were injured in the mountain disaster.
Search and rescue work in Marmolada was halted on Sunday evening due to the risk that more ice blocks could explode. The area around the glacier was completely closed to the public. Prime Minister Mario Draghi expressed his condolences to the victims and their families and was informed of the rescue and investigation efforts.
Extreme mountaineer and ecologist Reinhold Messner argues that the accident was the result of climate change and global warming. „This is eating glaciers,” the 77-year-old said in an interview with DPA.
Messner explained that so-called ice spiers — called ceraxes — then form at the edges of the glacier, „which can be as large as skyscrapers or rows of houses.” He predicted that accidents like the one in Marmolada „we will witness more often,” because „there are more rocks and ice falling today than in the past.”
And these can have dire consequences, such as on Sunday on the massif on the border between the regions of Trentino Alto Adige and Veneto. Visibly shocked mountain rescuer Luigi Felicity reported on the mission: „When we arrived at the site, we were presented with an incredible picture. There were blocks of ice and huge stones everywhere.”
ANSA news agency quoted investigators as saying that an „unimaginable bloodbath” occurred on the mountain, after which „it will be difficult to identify the victims because the bodies are cut off” by ice and stone.
Open the tap and fill it with whatever you want – this is no longer possible in Verona and Pisa. Cities in northern Italy, popular with tourists, are rationing drinking water due to the ongoing drought.
Due to the weather conditions and their consequences for the water supply, Verona’s mayor has signed a decree „limiting the consumption of drinking water for private purposes,” the website of the city of 250,000 people said on Saturday.
Therefore, it is prohibited until August 31 to use drinking water to irrigate gardens and sports facilities, wash cars and fill swimming pools. Failure to comply with the ban may result in a fine of up to 500 euros.
Mayor Michel Conte also signed a similar order in Pisa: from July 11, drinking water may only be used at home in the Tuscany city popular with tourists.
Half a dozen districts have already asked the government in Rome to declare a state of emergency to allow for more aid and civil defense operations. Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced that appropriate steps may follow on Monday.
► Like other European countries, Italy has experienced an unusual heat wave in recent weeks, while at the same time there has been no rain. The agriculturally important Po Valley in northern Italy is experiencing its worst drought in 70 years. According to the country’s largest farmers’ association, Coldiretti, drought threatens more than 30 percent of the country’s agricultural production and half of the livestock in the Po Valley. Parma pork is mainly produced there.
The water level in Lake Maggiore and Lake Garda is much lower than normal at this time of year. The Tiber, which flows through Rome, also has low water.
Another consequence of the drought: Electricity generation from hydropower has dropped dramatically. Hydroelectric power stations are located mainly in the mountains in the north of the country. They usually provide approximately one-fifth of the electricity needed in Italy.
Fighting in Donbass: The military situation in the besieged Lyssychansk in the Luhansk region is approaching a peak. Russia is advancing Ukraine war Before.
Editor’s note: All news about The conflict in Ukraine Read this news ticker. Some information comes from the warring factions and cannot be independently verified.
+++ 1.30 pm: Klaus Kleiber, a former ZDF mediator and US reporter, commented on the possible further course of the Ukraine war. In Maybrit Illner, Kleber went on what US intelligence recently confirmed: Putin’s goal remains the occupation of all of Ukraine. Kleber named Moldova and Georgia as possible next targets. According to Kleiber, the Baltic states are the „Achilles heel of NATO”. On the other hand, an attack on Poland is not a possible scenario.
+++ 12.45 pm: Michael Podoljak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, described the Russian missile attacks on apartment complexes as „bloody terrorist tactics.” He was referring to the night bombing of a small town in the Odessa region, which killed at least 19 people. Dozens were injured. Attacks are not about errors, but calculations. Contrary to Podoljak’s assessment, a Ukrainian brigadier general assumes that The obsolete Soviet missiles are the cause of civilian casualties.
+++ 12.00 pm: It appears that Russian forces have captured the Lysychansk oil refinery. This was reported by the Russian news agency RIA, on Friday afternoon, citing the Kremlin Ministry of Defense. The information cannot be independently verified.
+++ 11.00 am: A new mass grave has apparently been discovered in the coastal city of Mariupol. News Portal Reports back Quoting Petro Andryoshenko, adviser to the mayor. There are more than 100 bodies in the tomb. This cannot be verified independently.
+++ 10.30 am: According to the news portal report back It is reported that the death toll from Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi rose to 19. The statement cannot be independently verified.
+++ 10.10 am: According to the Ukrainian army, the death toll from the Russian missile attacks on Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in the Odessa region has risen to at least 18. This was announced by the military governor of the Odessa region, Maxim Marchenko, on Telegram. Reportedly, at least 39 people were injured. The information cannot be independently verified.
Ukraine war: Apparently the 57th Russian colonel was killed
+++ 09.45 AM: The Russian army suffered great losses. The status report of the Ukrainian General Staff states that 35,750 soldiers have been killed since the invasion began at the end of February. There are also losses at the management level. report from independent According to it, the 57th colonel was said to have been killed. This is apparently Pavel Kislyakov. The 40-year-old was buried in Moscow on Thursday (June 30), according to the report. Kislyakov was the commander of the Russian paratroopers.
+++ 09.00 am: The British Ministry of Defense, citing intelligence, reported that Russian forces had captured the city of Previlia in the north of the Luhansk region. It is a small city with a population of only 7600. From a strategic perspective, the domestic oil refinery is more important. According to estimates from Great Britain, there is currently heavy fighting around the site. Prywillya is located near the city of Lysychansk, which, according to the regional military administration, is threatened by Russian encirclement. The city has been under siege for days, it was said several times. The information provided by the UK Ministry of Defense cannot be independently verified.
Ukraine war: At least 17 dead in Russian missile strikes
+++ 8.30 am: At least 17 people were killed in rocket attacks on the city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odessa region. A spokesman for the Odessa Regional Military Administration, Serhiy Prachuk, said on Telegram that three shells landed on a residential property. Among other things, an entertainment center was targeted. The situation on the ground is chaotic and the information cannot be independently verified. a videowhich from the news portal back Shows the extent of the damage. The residential area is like a field of rubble.
+++ 7.30 am: At least 14 people were killed in a Russian missile attack on an apartment building in the Odessa region of southern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian sources. Ukraine’s emergency services reported 14 dead and 30 wounded on Friday. Among the wounded were three children. Rescue work will continue, but it will be complicated by a fire. A spokesman for the Odessa Regional Administration, Serhiy Prachuk, said earlier that the missile hit a nine-storey apartment building in the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district, about 80 kilometers south of the coastal city of Odessa. The missile was launched from an aircraft flying over the Black Sea. According to Ukrainian sources, the apartment building was partially destroyed in the attack. Rescue workers initially reported six dead and seven wounded. The death toll later rose to 10 and then 14.
First report on Friday, July 1 at 6:30 a.m.: Kyiv – The situation in eastern and southern Ukraine remains extremely dangerous. As Russia displays its military supremacy in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv At least celebrate the restoration of Snake Island in the Black Sea.
The Ukrainian head of state stressed that the withdrawal of Russian forces would allow Ukraine to be in a better situation Volodymyr Zelensky. „Snake Island is a strategic point, and this changes the situation in the Black Sea dramatically,” he said in his daily video address on Friday evening (July 1).
Ukraine news: Snake Island retake – Russian army is currently restricted
Even if this does not guarantee security, the freedom of action of the Russian army is significantly restricted. According to the Ukrainian military, Snake Island allows control of parts of the Ukrainian coast and shipping lanes.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian authorities reported a missile attack on the coastal city of Odessa. As a result, at least ten people were killed. Serhiy Prachuk, head of the local military administration, said the missile hit a nine-storey apartment building. Kyiv believes the missile was launched from a Russian military aircraft over the Black Sea.
Ukraine war: Lysychansk threatened with encirclement
Fighting also continues in eastern Ukraine. In Lysychansk in the Luhansk region, defenders say they are threatened with encirclement. The General Staff said that the refinery, which is located seven kilometers west of the city, erupted into a fight. Russian troops were advancing on the city from the south, and fighting was also continuing on the city’s western and southern borders. The refinery has already been portrayed as completely occupied in the Russian media. The former city of Lysichansk is the last largest city in Luhansk not yet under Russian control.
In neighboring Donetsk, on the other hand, Russian advances near Sloviansk and Bakhmut were repulsed, the General Staff said. Along the front line, Ukrainian positions were constantly bombarded with artillery and aerial bombardment, she said. “The superiority of the occupiers in terms of firepower is very noticeable,” Zelensky said about the situation in the East. Russia depends on its reserves for this. (Cas/dpa)
