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russia put the squeeze on gas supplies to europe or the e. u responds with an action plan to curb it's energy use. ah, con, carry johnston. this is al jazeera, alive from joe, also coming up and of an era. russia announces it will stop sending its cosmonaut to the international space station, bringing the future of the project into question and unrest in a democratic republic of congo. 5 protested in 2. peacekeepers have been killed. the eastern city of goma, oblique global economic outlook. i'm f warns of an imminent recession because of the war in ukraine and the pandemic. ah! you member states have reached an agreement to rush gas aster russia announced yet

another cut to its supplies. the state energy, giant gas prom says it will reduce a gas flows through the north stream, one pipeline to germany, to 20 percent of capacity. russia blames the issue on a faulty gas turbine. the e leaders say the move is politically motivated until the al shami reports now from brussels. the energy crisis looming over europe dominated the meeting of u ministers in brussels, russian and gas ahead of winter, the best and only way to reduce the eas reliance on russian energy fortified b. a sam correspond stay 15 percent cut in our usual gas consumption to be in the beginning of august and the end of march. that's why we have pointed to this percentage as the target or member states should stay forward. russia is said to further reduce supplies through the nod stream pipelines, blaming a technical fault at one of the stations,

something you ministers dispute of the short national game. as of today, there is no solution to the ongoing equipment issues at the party or they are compress the station. near. there is no solution whatsoever yet. seems as saying nothing. they're trying to find solutions, but there are none, but come out as the west and russia exchange economic blows in response to russia's war in ukraine. european leaders say moscow is not a trustworthy partner. the width is coming ah, and 3 don't know how cold it will be, but what we know for sure that would be in the will continue to play his her da da games her in misusing and like, mailing her by ha ha gar supplies. so you, grace president, one of the major lensky says, europe is already at war with russia just on a different front, i seen is brighter. all this is done by russia on purpose to make it as difficult

as possible for europeans to prepare for winter. and this is an open gas war that russia is waging against the united europe. this is precisely how it should be perceived. and they don't cable happen to the people or how they will suffer from hunger g to the blockading of ports, or from winter cold and poverty, or from occupation. these are just different forms of terror yet. wellness does that. nearly half of all the gas europe needs it comes from russia. the supply is now down to our relative trick all come winter if european countries don't have enough supply stored up in time. it means certainly almost it will be a struggle to heat homes and power cities. abdullah shami elders era brussels. last week the european commission proposed a 15 percent reduction in gas use for all member states and suggested it might have to make those cuts obligatory. well, many countries resisted that, so the agreement just reached in brussels is a compromise with a voluntary,

a cut of 15 percent from august to march. the agreement includes opt out so that countries can cut less states that are heavily reliant on gas for electricity can avoid the reductions. and it's the same for countries exporting 90 percent of their gas capacity to other ease states. an e u official, said hungary, it was the only member state that oppose the gas reduction agreement. well, now a brenner is the executive editor for operations on energy intelligence. he says, europe is hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst. it's an a best case scenario where we have a warm winter, a short winter. this plan is really never put into full effect and that would be, you know, there's not an emergency declared where these cuts become more mandatory under that scenario. you know, certainly be, comes out of the winter with still having some gas in storage and without significant disruption to, to things like heating or, or needs to switch to switch fuel from gas to,

to fuel oil. things like that. now under worst case scenario, where we do have a colder winter where it does last for longer, certainly the disruptions are, are greater. but you know, they're preparing for this by, by activating plans to, like i said, switch from gas to fuel oil. they're making sure coal plants are available, potentially extending the life of nuclear plants. so those plans are in place, but it certainly looks like a much more draconian cut through the winter than, than we might see. other was addressing costs, was one of the major, talking points for the diplomats that were negotiating this agreement, whether you were impacted by russian gas flows or not. the idea was by cutting down on our usage. we would then have more gas and it was stabilized, right? that would take away this kind of the weapon is ation of gas that russia has been, has been forcing on the you. but the issue is, is that, you know, beyond that, i think that, you know,

we'll see that prices are incredibly high and they're simply going to be incredibly high, one way or the other. what we're looking for at best stabilization, not necessarily drawing them down to historical warms that we would have seen a year ago. but we also have to think the gas is just one of the energy commodities that russia sells to the world. i mean, in the grand scheme of things, oil and oil prices are at incredible highs as well as refined fuels, and those prices are incredible highest as well. so yes, russia probably receiving less revenue overall, but from the gas side of things. but i would say that it still has ample revenues coming in from these other commodities. russia has launched more michelle strikes on ukraine's vaccine region. the rockets hit the coastal village of a coca present volume. as lensky says, it's a residential area with no military presence. the eastern city of her kid was also targeted. john henry has more nor from keith. the russian defense ministry says it has destroyed the 8 in the nation and missile the bows in the southern blacks,

the port city of nikolai, it says it also destroyed port infrastructure in that case. and that was just one in a series of early tuesday morning. strikes by russian forces in the eastern crane town of harkey, a gas pipeline was hit that will leave thousands of people out of power. that is with the mayor there says, and also in odessa, in the region of a desa, the small town of toko was struck. that is, according to the president of ukraine's a little mir lensky who posted video, said the only residential areas were struck there. and just as they were no military targets. well, despite those mythos strikes, the joints tend to monitor ukrainian grain exports to open eastern boot tomorrow in softer ukraine, russia, turkey and the united nations assigned a great deal last week. or 4 would have representatives at the center monitoring the operation. the ukranian government says it hopes to resume

a grain exports this week. the 1st time since the war began in february. now the newly appointed chief of moscow space agency says russia will quit the international space station off the 2024. you'll be worse off said it's focus will shift to building its own station. but nasa says it hasn't been informed about the move. if russia does quit, the i assess, would be the end of an era of space diplomacy. the u. s. and russia have worked side by side on the stations since it entered into all that in 1998. because as you know, we're working within the framework of international cooperation on the international space station. of course, we will fill all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to leave after 2024 has been taken. i think that by that time we will begin to follow russian orbital station i believe or to the future of russian man space travel. first of all should be based on a balanced and systematic scientific program where the roy chow is a format,

nasa astronaut and international space station commander. he says russia may not follow through on the announcement. it's nice to think that they're going to build their own the space station, but frankly, they don't have the money for it. they don't have the budget. and even back when we began the asset program with russia fully financed by us, it still took them 7 years to develop and build their core module and put it into orbit. so, you know, i don't think you're going to get a space station up there in a couple of years. and even if they had the money, it would take a lot longer. so if they're willing to walk away from their human spaceflight program, then build with the i assess, but frankly, i don't think they're ready to do that. it's, it's unfortunate that the politics on the ground have now reached up into space before the i assess, was the one common ground that we had where, you know,

it was in everyone's interest that it worked. and we never neither side use the, i assess for these kinds of political posturing for events on the ground. so we've seen that change 1st with dmitri regoza and, and now in a softer level, maybe with the new director. but nonetheless, saying publicly that the intend to quit the i assess without notifying nasa makes this and especially kind of a hollow gives it a hollow ring. and you know, it's, it's, i, it's going to be a little less comfortable, of course, but frankly, everybody on board and everyone on the ground working on this program. they're all very professional and i think everything's going to keep working fine without any kind of technical glitches. so the only things that could happen, you know, negatively, would be if russia really does pull out if they do in the ice, this program is over. and you know, frankly, the russians will have nowhere to go in space. 5 protests and 3 peacekeepers have been killed during protest. sutter un base in the democratic republic of congo. it

happened on the 2nd day of rioting in the eastern city of goma demonstrates a se peacekeepers have not protected them from violence in the region. catherine sawyer reports another charged day in gama. in north keeble province, dozens of congo, least protested, or demanding. the un peacekeeping mission hold monasco, leave the country. the military and police have been called in to help contain the situation. un personnel are being relocated. the trouble began on monday, after a logistics base was attacked, people threw stones, looted, office equipment, and other material. this is what was left of date was ransacked. other un bases have also been targeted, did, loses the dilemma is oh, live whipping watching you in motion since this thought they had the logistical

capacity they need. what are they doing with that? this is why we need to kick them out. the relationship between some congolese and the un has been tense at best. the protest this said the un has failed to protect them from frequent attacks. the un peacekeeping mission in democratic republic of congo has heard a presence here for more than 20 years. despite this more than a 100 rebel groups in the east control, the vast region that is rich in minerals of a monarchy, they came to protest against monasco, who, it has been years since the machine came to congo. many kimberly's have been killed in the east. people in goma are fleeing again to safer areas until the situation gets better. many commonly see they are tired, they want peace and beef that you when cannot provide stability. and it's forces need to leave. katherine saw alters era still ahead on al jazeera campaigning in

kenya's presidential election enters its final stretch with the leading candidates . promising change. schools reopen in sri lanka, but a lack of fuel means students are still struggling to get to cause ah hello, we've got some summer storms in the forecast for parts of the middle east. over the next couple of days. you can see the pocket of clout here that's making its way towards i mom and we have seen some really nasty rain just around the southern end of the red sea. western parts of yemen have seen floods and mud slides recently. further showers here as we go through the next couple days, hopefully not as widespread, but the showers will be pretty widespread on the other side of the arabian peninsula was bright enough to reach share the you are ye pushing even here and

kata temperatures around 36 celsius on wednesday afternoon with a chart system fund readout. pause, and a similar pictures should go on into thursday. so the gulf seeing some wet weather . st flooding recently into southern western parts of iran, more showers running in here as well. so is looking a little more active than of late farther north help drive pretty much sums it up as is the case across much of north africa, particularly to northern areas of algeria and northern parts of america. again, temperature is very much on the high side. was the central belts, the usual heavy showers, making the way a further westwards over towards that western side of africa, some heavy down poles coming through here with a chance of some flooding. not terribly shouting to shut some parts of africa, but wanted to show it to the se. ah, frank assessments, it sounds like you don't expect anything to change the problem in lebanon. it's

actually structural lebanon needs, and you also contract in order for it to solve this problem. informed opinions, international communities on the goal was my security community. the government has no legitimacy in depth analysis of the days global headlines. this is going to be very hard to explain to the public that instead of pushing back, no, it's actually got 2 members inside story on al jazeera. oh, a a. without a reminder of our top stories. now this e. u member states reached a deal making emergency gas cuts this winter. europe is facing an energy crisis as the russian own gas from producers subsides from. the north stream,

one pipeline to 20 percent of capacity to new head of moscow's space. agency says russia will quit the international space station of the 2024. the bar off and its focus will shift to building its own station. vanessa says it hasn't been informed about the me. at least 5 protested, and 3, un peacekeepers have been hills and dozens injures during anti un protest peacekeeping base and democratic republicans. congress, i think on the 2nd day of writing the eastern city of the international monetary fund has released its report on the global economy. and it looks both gloomy and uncertain. the war in ukraine hired global energy and food prices. economic downturns in china and russia, just some of the factors that have put the brakes on the world's recovery from the pandemic. the i m f. projects that global economic growth will slow to just 3.3

percent this year. higher food and energy prices in supply chain bottlenecks expected to push inflation up to 8.3 percent higher than previously projected in the world 70 leading economies. the i m f says the probability of a recession is now estimated to be nearly 15 percent. that's 4 times higher than usual. releasing the report in washington, d. c, the m f. so the outlook is bad, but there are measures countries can take to mitigate the worst impacts. the outlook is darkened significantly since april. the world may soon be teetering on the edge of a global recession. only 2 years after the last one multilateral cooperation will be key in many areas from climate physician and condemning preparedness, to food security and that distress. i mean, great challenge and strife, strengthening cooperation remains the best way to improve economic prospects fall and mitigate the risk up to your comic fragmentation. of c have a tendency,

has more on it's not from washington dc. i'm if does project that worldwide inflation will reach pre pandemic levels by the end of 2024. so i mean that, that might be some cause the hope that the problem with this world economic outlook is, yeah, they, they come up with all those headline figures, notably 3.2 percent growth in 2020 to the global economy. but almost immediately afterwards, in the next paragraph, they add the risks to to that outlook are overwhelmingly tilted to the downside. they immediately undermine that outlook and say that if the war and ukraine leads to a sudden stop of european gas and port russia. if inflation is hard to bring down, if there are further cobra locked downs, if tightening monetary policy from central banks leads to enormous problems in emerging markets in particular, the balance of payments issues and so on, that actually their focus is even worse. in fact, they say it's a plausible alternative scenario in which the risk more risks materialize. and in

fact, them 2022 great goes out to 2.6 percent and 2023. great gays are the 2 percent. so, if, even grimmer than actually the figures you mentioned, because it's saying these are all headlines tickets. but in fact, if you were to buy global corporation, i think you've read little global corporation, or least from the, from the west and, and russia at the very least. i'm that suggestion is this could be actually a lot lot worth or canyon's head to the pose in 2 weeks to choose. the next president and candidates are facing often a debate. former prime minister or dingo and the deputy president william router or the main contenders, will both veteran politicians of promising change. how can web has more form contin gather? kenyans is struggling with rising food and fuel prices, but no expenses are being sped in election campaigns. deputy president william retail is one of 2 main contended political alliances, shifted dramatically after he fell out with his boss, outgoing president,

who kenyatta group says among the candidates talking about the cost of living. so they're not always explaining exactly how they'll address it. we will organize the economy and reduce the cost of living his main opponent while dinner has run for president for times before. many believe he's been breakdown of some past election victory. so my, this time the historically dominant political establishment is backing him or presenting. yeah. okay, good option is our number one, enemy canyon's money goes into individuals pocket going president who re kenyatta is among those backing. brian le activists say, can yet have government has been even more corrupt than those that came before it rail as promising change. retail held the 2nd most powerful of his in kenya for the last 9 years. so promising change many kenyon,

the not convinced by promises to tackle corruption, it's a card that the player subtle next to the public and get ported by was the power we have seen what they do when they have power. and none of that convinced me that they have any real desired rupture. some previous elections were contested largely along ethnic lines. this time, politicians are talking more about policy, especially compared to the campaigns in 2007. those poles followed by ethnically targeted violence. more than a 1000 people were killed, you know how the main site or represented in the coalition. so because every vote counts i, the parties do not have the luxury of demonizing any particular area. the pity impulse to retail, slightly behind railer, but with enough voters still undecided to swing it. a significant amount of money

is expected to change hands in the final stages of the campaign. kenyan the g to vote in 2 weeks time. let's go live now to malcolm web, who's at back in nairobi. now for a 2nd and more on this malcom, what are the main issues then as far as the voters and the candidates concerned as it is. so in the story that cost a living massive issue for tens of millions of kenyans at the moment, the price of fuel pumps has gone up by about 60 percent since the beginning of the and over the same period, the price of some staple foods is almost doubled global rises in food and fuel prices, the part of this, but also severe drought effecting the northern part of the country. the worst trial that the horn of africa region is seen in decades. that means that communities with, depending on hurting or losing masses of their lives, thought leaving them in, in poverty and destitution effecting crop yields,

which is further affecting food prices. sound on both of those main contenders. william retail, who's speaking in the debate venue. right now. he's promised to bring down the cost of living in a 100 days, his main opponent, while we're doing guy who hasn't showed up for this debate, he's not in the router, is on the stage alone. royal is said he will give stipends to families. so certainly something messages that may resonate with voters who are hungry, but economists have been critical of the promises it's far as they just promise more spending and fail to address another major issue which is kenya's. growing external death record high and over the last 10 years, the amount of money paid in repaying grow larger annually than the amount of money and from exports. and the i m f says can you will face at that crisis part of date

cross crisis. if this is an address, but part of the reason that led to this crisis is the widespread corruption government borrowing for major infrastructure projects as increased debt, but masters is money, according to anti corruption activist is solar and often projects cost as much of double as what they should and both of these 2 main contenders of health senior roles in previous governments that have been mod and enormous corruption scandal. so even though both of them are promising to psycho corruption not resonating with every voter. ok, malcolm web, thanks. pull that update life from nairobi now is rarely forces have rated the palestinian village of car wet bunny hassan and occupied westbank. they demolished the homes of 2 palestinians who been charged with killing a garden. april or the illegal is rarely settlement. i really need to abraham reports 9 year old as the dean meadow. he has been asking about his bicycle

since the early hours of the morning. with the help of a friend, he managed to find what's left of it. no matter, he found me. this is the only thing they were left with now is their memories of 25 years after is really forces blew up their house early on tuesday. these really military as of yet, mary and his cousin usa policy in late april. both men are in the early twenties and he is really military accuses them of killing a guard of an illegal is re sacrament in the occupied westbank. after that arrest, the family was expecting the house to be demolished, and so they took out some of their belongings. what they couldn't prepare for is to see their house and ruins. oh, i went to take my books, clothes and toys by they didn't let me. israel has long implemented the policy of demolishing houses belonging to palestinian suspects,

accused of killing his radio. mush aaliyah, my son is a hero. it wasn't easy for him to see what the occupation and during ramadan, the events in alaska, particularly effective temple oxy. i'm going to sort of t m a lot. earlier on tuesday is really forces demolished the house of use of asi as well homeless. now the asi family are staying with relatives, that i got on a min iraqi minutes already. these really decision is that we can't we bill here for 5 to 15 years in this line is confiscated. i'm sent away. i have a plot here for juice it will build on for now. we're scattered in relatives comb says all the homelessness in these really government says house demolitions. i meant to prevent future attacks. but you were rights. organizations say, since palestinian attackers are often killed or in prison, if their families who end up being punished me that but i mean, al jazeera, the occupied westbank protests have been held outside me in mos embassy and the ty,

capital, bangkok, they're condemning the execution of full pro democracy after this, or forward accused of helping us civilian resistances. that is for the military since last year's coo occasions have widespread condemnation from neighboring countries from us and united nation schools have reopened in shanker, the government said it would provide fuel. so children could get to classes, they were shot to nearly a month ago because of widespread shortages caused by the worst economic crisis. in decades. fernandez reports from colombo back to school, at least for now. she loved his new president, run the, become the thing, and he's government want to show things are returning to normal. schools have been asked to start on site lessons. 3 days a week. the other day students are taught online. but many said the few shortage and economic crisis are still a major obstacle that i'm at the impression that they come on my hand. and i faced

a lot of hardship for you to the fuel crisis. and the mother, i'm the teacher and i have to queue for 2 days to get fuel the. we have to wait for it to 4 minutes. 430, we'll attack. and even if we get one. yeah, helpless sit down, fare. told us today at a double the usual fare. the head of shall, anchors, teacher's union told al jazeera, its members are also having transport issues here, the government to declare education, an essential service, giving it the priority. it deserves parcel ro with dell laneesa. schools were closed because there was no fuel even today. that's the situation with endless. accused will r as a trade union. we don't want schools to stay closed because the longer that happens, my greater the impact on, sooner than nearly 30000 school vans operate around the country. drivers in other school workers are hoping the arrangement made this week will continue oper, elana before my grandmother grandmother expressed the fuel is continued to be

provided to us through the bus depots. that was, it's not possible for us to q overnight and then the drive children to school in the morning who love it. this is very difficult to see whether not fuel is not the only problem. skyrocketing prices have seen school transport fees double in recent months. and many families have been forced to look for cheaper options. students have not been spad. the effects of sri lanka has worst economic crisis in decades. but following 2 years of pandemic related locked down, it's not been easy. minette fernandez al jazeera colombo, german airline of cancer is canceling at nearly all of its flights from frankfurt and munich. g 2 at shuttled strike by its ground staff on wednesday around a 1000 flights will be scrapped starting from tuesday, impacting about a 134000 passengers. staff are striking to pressure management in ongoing stuttering negotiations.