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rush and gas for the winter as russia prepared to reduce flows through its gnawed stream pipeline again. ah, hello, i'm sorry, i'm noisy in london, you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. the end of an era in space diplomacy, russia says it will leave the international space station with plans to build its own orbiting outpost. fi fight is say they are starting to gain ground in the battle against the largest california wildfire this year. and demonstrations turn deadly in the democratic republic of congo as protest is accused, the un mission of failing to protect them. ah

known that programs, european union has agreed to rush in its gas usage as it braces for a further dip in russian energy supplies. brussel says that the new plan should see members through an average winter, even if the taps were completely turned off. members of agree to voluntarily reduce their gas used by 15 percent from august till march. the cuts could be made binding if the commission deems there's a risk of a severe shortage. europe's 1st test will come on wednesday when russia plans to cut flows through the north stream one pipeline to a 5th of its capacity. rushing energy giant gas prom says that's because it's holding the operation of a turbine. this is the 2nd tie moscow as blamed a turbine for output guts. gas flows were initially restricted last month when one was sent to canada for maintenance. the u is repeatedly accused, the criminal was resorting to blackmail and retaliation for sanctions over the war

in ukraine. abdullah 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 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 a stations, something even ministers dispute. you leaders say there is no picnic a reason for the last reduction, something gas prom disputes of the short national game. as of today, there is no solution to the ongoing equipment issues at the party or compress the

station. there is no solution whatsoever yet seem as, 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 wind is coming ah, and 3 don't know how cold it will be. but what we know for sure that the in the will continue to play his her da da games her in misusing and like, mailing her by ha, ha gar. supplies. russell, he grace president, one of the major lensky says, europe is already at war with russia just on a different front i see in his bride. 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 honest. nearly half of all the guys europe needs comes from russia. the supply is now down to our relative trickle. come when, if europe in countries don't have enough supply stored up in time, it means certainly almost, it will be a struggle to heat homes and powers cities. abdullah show me under the law brussels . russia says, is planning tell strategic military exercises in the east of the country next month, thousands of kilometres from the war. it's waiting. and ukraine on tuesday, moscow launched more missile strikes on ukraine's black sea region. the rockets hit the coastal village of taca graham present. rosamille zalinski says it's a residential area with no military presence.

the eastern city of harkey was also targeted. the russian defense ministry says it has destroyed 8 ammunition and missile depots in the southern blacks. the port city of mc alive, 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 ukraine. 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 odessa, the small town of ciocca was struck. that is, according to the president of ukraine va little mir zelinski who posted video, said that only residential areas were struck there and he says there were no military targets. despite the latest strikes, a joint center to monitor ukrainian grain exports is that the opening is down bull

tomorrow. the operation was set up after ukraine, russia, turkey, and the un signed a great deal. all fool will have representatives assent up the credit governments, as it hopes to resume grain exports this week for the 1st time since the war began in february. ah, oh sure, as announcer is going to quit international space station after 2024 to focus on building its own outposts that us face agency. nasa says it's not been informed about and those if russia does quit, the i assess, it would be the end of an era in space diplomacy. fenton monahan has more the future of this beacon of international cooperation may be in doubt when the war and ukraine prompted the west to sever nearly all ties with russia. the international space station was one of the few exceptions. 321. now,

after more than 20 years of partnership, russia says it's pulling out. one is not overseas custom, so of course we will fulfill 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 from euro and left off to many. this move was a surprise or well, spinoza and the russian space agency had only just signed a new agreement to ferry astronaut to the station, form it in may. the head of the european space agency said cutting type russia on the i ss with technically impossible core. both sides are responsible for different technologies on the station, and neither is train to operate. the others without assistance is going to cause problems. the russian sort of side of things is in charge of several key systems on both international playstation. probably one of the most key ones is it's propulsion system. so that's the thing that stocks it from it. it's just about in

us atmosphere. and over time, it's over, it does slowly degrade as it gets closer and occasionally needs to get this little bit boosted up again. and the russian segment is responsible for doing that. first through the hatch is denise match. since the war and ukraine broke out, even life in space hasn't gone untouched by the politics of earth. in april questions were asked about the russian crew, the choice of space suit was which matched the colors of the ukrainian flag and they denied any hidden messages. but many sort of a protest against russia's war in july, the russian crew made a much clearer political statement. but they posed for photos with the flags of hans and an ask to rush and back break way regions in eastern ukraine. it's unfortunate that the politics on the ground have now reached up into space before the i s. s. was the one common ground that we had where, you know, it was in everyone's interest that it work. and we never neither side use the i

assess for these kinds of political posturing for events on the ground. the i assess was 1st established back in 1998. research on the station has led to breakthroughs and battling cancer. all timers and heart disease monitoring natural disasters from space has also helped relief efforts here on earth. but with russia and china now planning to complete their own space stations in the coming years, a period of space cooperation may be giving way to a new era of space competition. since marin al jazeera or the international monetary fund has warned, the world economy could soon be pushed to the brink of recession. it's highlighted the war in ukraine and economic downturns and china and russia is important factors that have really put the brakes on the recovery from the pandemic. the i m f. projects that the global economic growth will slow to just 3.2 percent this year. i of food in energy prices along with supply chain bottlenecks, are expected to drive inflation up to 8.3 percent that's higher than previously

projected in the well 7 leading economies. the i imap says the probability of recession is now estimated to be nearly 15 percent at 4 times higher than usual. the i, matt says greater global corporation would help improve the global outlook. the outlook is darkened significantly since april. the world me soon be teetering on the edge of a global recession. only 2 years after last one multilateral cooperation would be key in many areas from climate physician and pandemic preparedness to food security and that distress amid gray challenge and strive, strengthening cooperation remains the best way to improve economic prospects fall and mitigate the risk of do economy fragmentation is ready, forces have rated the palace in village of cairo at bonnie hassan in the occupied west bank. they demolish the homes of 2 palestinians who have been charged with

killing a guard in april at the illegal israeli settlement of r. e l l. abraham reports knowing you'd old as a dean meadow, a 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. the matter he found that he says 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 i and his cousin usa policy in late april. both men are in the early twenties and these really made it 3 accuses them of killing a guard of an illegal is re sacrament in the occupied west bank. but after that arrest, the family was expecting the house to be demolished, so they took out some of their belongings. what they couldn't prepare for is to see their house and grew ins. oh b o. i wanted 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 didn't during ramadan, the events in the lock so particularly affected him that oxy, i'm going to sort of t m a lot earlier on tuesday is really forces demolished the house of use of all see as well homeless now the aussie family are staying with relatives that i got on, on imaculi's already these really this is shown 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. home 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 him, alger the,

into the occupied westbank results are expected shortly. antonio is referendum to approve the new constitution, which would grant nearly all powers to the office of president chi side. vote counting is still on the way but to opponents the president of already accused these side control the electoral board of fraud. critics say also say the turn out for the vote, which was little more than a quarter of the electro around or 25 percent has failed to achieve legitimacy. the vote was held a year off, the president sacked the government and suspended parliament. and we've been following developments in the democratic republic of congo. police are saying that 7 protest isn't. and 3 un peacekeepers have been killed in a 2nd day of protest against the united nations rallies have been taking place right across north kiva. profit province with demonstrator saying that peacekeepers have done nothing to protect them from violence in the region. catherine saw has

our port now another charged day in gama. in north cuba province. dot com. williams protested or demanding the un peacekeeping mission hold. will new school 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 a talked people from stones looted, office equipment, and other material. this is what was left of date was ransacked. other un bases have also been targeted, loses the filaments, oh, live. we've been watching you in mission since the start, they had the logistical capacity. they may have. 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 protested 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, monarchy came to protest against monasco. it has been years since the mission came to congo. many communities have been killed in the east people in goma offline again to say 4 areas until the situation gets better. many commonly seen, they are tired, they want peace and beef. the un cannot provide stability. and its forces need to leave catherine soil alter 0 without. is there a life? am landon much more still had on the program on of the ne contenders in kenya's presidential election boycotts a life tv debate accusing his rival, avoiding

a controversial topics. and schools reopening and shall anchor for the 1st time in 3 weeks. but a lack of fuel means many comp make it to class. ah, cal, i still now let up in that heat across southern parts of europe, some very high temperatures, continued. he lost clear skies as you can see, but look at this line of cloud rolling across central parts up towards the baltic. states. behind that we have noticeably fresh air. and on this sir, cold front, that blue line there, we will see some lively storms rumbling away. good old fashioned summer storms, helping to break that. he doesn't he ahead of that though, is still getting up into the thirty's, across a good parts of austria, hungary pushing down into romania, bulgaria. much of the balkans, italy stang,

by halters. well, in that heat, of course, spreading all the way across into spain and portugal, not as hot as it has been recently, but still plenty hot enough notice further north, rather more comfortable. 24 celsius there for london. and for berlin, those temperatures will grassy notch up over the next couple of days. but nothing about the extreme heat that we saw last week. there's that thunder break down with that re making his way into eastern parts ukraine, seeing some bacon foundry shouts for time. pushing down towards the black sea, still some re weigh whether they're just around check republic, sliding down towards the outs, scattering his showers into the med, but nothing too much to speak of. plenty of heat cause northern parts of africa, central africa, seeing those good old fashioned seasonal range, making the way for the west. ah ah, the shake hum odd award for translation and international understanding is

accepting nominations for the year 2022. from february 15th until august 15th this year for more information go to w, w w dot h t a dot q a slash e m lou ah, welcome back. look at the main stories are following. now. the european union is agree to ration it's gas usage, is it prices for a further dip in a rush in energy supplies from russia? russell says the new plan, chancey, members through an average winter, even if the taps were completely turned off. the newly appointed chief of moscow

space agency, a saying rush or quit the international space station after 2024 years. boris of toll president putin, the national space agency will shift its focus to building its own station. police in the democratic republic of congo, say 7 protest in 3. un peacekeepers have been killed on a 2nd day of anti united nations protests in the eastern city of gama activist. the peacekeepers have not protected them from violence in the region and they want them to leave. meanwhile, uncanny people are going to be adding to the polls in 2 weeks time to choose their next president and what is expected to be a close race. a tv debate is just wrapped up in the capital nairobi, but one of the main contenders write a dingo boy course at the event. he accuses his main rival, william, brutal, of trying to avoid certain topics which are important. for example, corruption, both veteran politicians. a promising change

out is there is michael. mike joins us live now from nairobi. and course he's been monitoring this debate, which was of course boycotted by ryder. it didn't go. what happened? did anyone emerge is the winner william roots. i was quiz by a panel of people on the stage just in here. corruption came up, the cost of living, which is crippling for many kenyans. at the moment the price of fuel pumps has gone up about 60 percent since the beginning of the food prices for some staples have doubled over about the same period. families, they were living on to me as of the meals a day now living on one meal a day. rita who was here and his main department rayleigh, who was not both promised to address the cost of living. but economists to critically these plans saying that these plans actually just amount to more

spending and that will worse and kenya's, ballooning debt foreign debt is a record highs. the m f says this will soon become a debt crisis. with that was an issue that was discussed in here as well, but the organizes and pro democracy groups had really hope that this event, by having the candidates face off against each other. he would bring in a level of accountability that's otherwise absent from, from the campaigns. a lot of the time that given the royal or in this case, the last debate didn't show up, then the face off didn't actually happen. is that likely to work against him then in the minds of voters? typically, if this is very much about improving their transparency around the process, i seem to have lost you apologies, malcolm, not sure if you can hear me. oh no. we do have a technical problem actually with malcolm when he's reporting on the election that

is taking place in nairobi, kenya after a debate that was boycotted by one of the main candidates, right. i think i will speak to him maybe a bit later on in the news. our coming up later tonight at 2100 g m t, but actually want to move to the united states now, because firefighters are saying that they are making progress in battling california. launches while fi this year with more than a quarter of the plays nearly certain it's m as the national park contained nearly $3005.00 fighters and $24.00 helicopters are at the scene. the oak fire started burning on friday and is destroyed in area half the size of san francisco, a heat wave, and long time drought conditions have filled the blaze. brannon has more now from mar, post the county. this is the aftermath of a fast moving powerful wildfire that swept through these sierra nevada foothills of california. the fire has scorched thousands of hector's leaving many areas. as you

can see, covered in ash with smouldering debris, still apparent in many areas of paul of smoke. as also drifted all away from this area to the san francisco bay in the west and into nevada, in the east making air quality hazardous for thousands of people. this is one of the dozens, if not more, of structures that have burned. this was a, apparently, a house we can see appliances in it and bits of broken roof and so on. the number of people who have been evacuated from this area is close to 4000 about 3700 by last count. and there are thousands of firefighters 2900 firefighters working on the fire. we've seen them all over this

area, heading out to the fire line, carrying their equipment, and also the fires being fought from the air, with drops of water and fire retardant. you can see here just get a, a look at how hot this fire was. this is molten, or was molten aluminum from some of the appliances and vehicles that are stored here nearby. so that was a lot of heat. there is some good news. however, the fire is now considered 29 percent contain that's up from 0 over the weekend. so that is very good news. firefighters are feeling optimistic and they even started to allow some people who had been evacuated to return to their homes. but no one is going to be returning to this house to live anytime soon. hundreds of people have

rallied in sedans, capital, demanding, and enter military rule. for testers, chanted sudan is a nation for all people while carrying the sudanese flag senior civilian civilian politicians are also at the demonstrations our team to see me a weekly protest since on the chief of the bar hon. lead a crew last october. protest is also blame the military for a reason, spike in tribal violence. and me and my at they've been actually protest held outside me in mas embassy and the tie capital bank cock condemning the execution of for democracy activists. all 4 were accused of helping a civilian resistance movement. that's for the military since last year's coo, the executions have brought widespread condemnation from neighboring nations as well as the us and the u. n. r g there is tony chang has worn out from bangkok. protests is her being out on the streets here in buying coke on tuesday. outside,

mira mas embassy expressing the shock and horror, the execution of 4 political prisoners over the weekend and condemnation, coming from the u. s. secretary of state, un secretary general, them peace, all across europe. here in southeast asia, malaysia's foreign minister said this was a crime against humanity. we condemn de section by to whom talk to execute the for activities. we feel that this is a crime against humanity. i believe to foreign ministers when we meet in non payment. on the 3rd of august, we'll look into this little reaction from the military government inside mamma. their spokesman held a press conference that they were he failed to address the issue at all. although when asked by local media, he said the executions were not because the military had any particular case against the men involved. they'd been given every opportunity to prove their

innocence in a court of law. many people would dispute that, given that these were charles that took place on the military rule by a military court and in secret you would, if yacht are genuine, any 2. we knew that there may be criticism and objections when the death penalties were handed down and conducted in accordance with domestic law. however, we did it for reasons of domestic stability for the rule of law and order and for security. georgia, it was not personal like the opposition groups have said it was done legally. but there has been reaction on the streets of mamma with flash mobs expressing their anger and calling her events. and the concern here is of the opponents of the coo and the military. both seem deeply entrenched in the further along this conflict goes more bloody good schools in reopened and shall anchor out the government said it would distribute fuel children haven't been able to attend classes for 3 weeks now schools were closed because of widespread fuel

shortage is caused by the worst economic crisis in the country for decades, michelle fernandez has worn out from colombo back to school, at least for now. she lumped as new president runner become singer and his 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 still shortage and economic crisis are still a major obstacle that a monday oppression, a diplomatic hannon this. i faced a lot of hardships due to the fuel crisis and the mother and a teacher. and i had to queue for 2 days to get fuel cleaner. the we have to wait 30 to 40 minutes for a 3 wheeler taxes. and even if we get one, we are helpless with unfair charges. i to day i paid double the usual fair. 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 are as a trade union. we don't want schools to stay closed because the longer that happens, my greater 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 drove 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 spared. the effects of sherlock has worst economic crisis. indeed.