[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is the w, news ly, from berlin. a new front and 14th war, russia says it has halted gas supplies to poland and bulgaria. ukraine accuses moscow of black mailing europe over energy. also coming off a u turn from germany on sending heavy weapons to ukraine. after criticism violin now says it will deliver anti aircraft system to keen eyed explosions, destroy radio tower is in the break away regional. moldova,

that is backed by russia. fueling fears that the conflict in ukraine could spill over. ah! i'm galloped as it welcome to the program. rushes, state controlled energy company gas prom has announced it is cutting gas deliveries to both poland and bulgaria. neither of the nations have complied with a demand from russian president vladimir putin to start paying for deliveries in roubles several are that you nation, including germany also yet to comply and are heavily reliant on russian gas or his water polish prime minister mateusz. moreover, he had to say about the cutoff, like a no patricia, as i have emphasized many times,

a poland has prepared to diversify its gas supplies and to obtain gas from various sources. and even before the baltic, gas pipeline enters service, we will be able to protect our economy, stronger, protect our households, and poles. you again, such a dramatic step by russia and clock him as esther on her armor joined by a young polo cut. his journalism correspondent for german state bukasa, a r d a in war. so young, we had the polish prime minister there saying that poland will cope without russian gas. will it? well, officially, they can, and they have good reasons to say. so m giving the fact that the deposits here in poland are according to officials that are pretty much filled as to 2 thirds of its kept capacity. given the fact that the heating season is almost over and giving the fact that poland indeed built alternative routes, they built a terminal for liquid natural gas at the baltic sea. they are about to finalize.

the already mentioned here in the statement in baltic pipeline swats the baltic sea, and which could deliver norwegian gas, add to poland as for starting for october. so putting all these things together, poland can't cope, but of course l n g guess from overseas and norwegian gas is much more expensive than em, is much more expensive, excuse me, is much more expensive than siberian gas. so the real challenge may be even higher inflation, numbers and column is already a suffering high inflation numbers. now, many other european countries have refused to follow putin's demands to pay for russian garzon roubles. what does this step now mean for them? do they need to worry? i think really indeed that this is the point here. this seems to me rather a warning signal to other countries than to poland. there are countries that are much less prepared for the situation that is hungry. that is austrian,

that is last not least germany, which having its deposits rather rather lowly, at filled with having much less alternative routes. the jamal pipeline, which goes through poland in and in germany, is not the main root of russian gas to play. we still have not stream, we still have roots via ukraine, and if they would cut it all, then we could see shortfalls and gas supply all over europe and a real test for european solidarity since the gas system in the european union is very much interconnected. so the germans, germans, minister for economy and energy, robert harbert, promised that germany will help out poland. but then german gas reserve at the moment are at a very low point. how realistic is that? what maybe it comes to point when it polish aside could help germany at the could be interesting questions on the table. for instance, the question where the polish households would be ready to accept lower temperatures in depth in order at to keep german chemical industry running. but very interesting, the,

so yesterday german minister here promised to use it german national oil reserves, and in case that the refinery and sheet at the border river between poland and germany at the order would fail. this refinery is using russian oil at the moment. seems to be the main obstacle towards a full scale, all embargo em. and this is important here. this refinery delivers not only the greater berlin region, but also parts of poland was all products. last question briefly, if you can, or how has this latest moved by vladimir putin to cut off gas applies to poland, influence the mood in poland in the general public? well, this was of course, huge topic. yes, the day to day we're talking already about what i mentioned about inflation rates. so i think this step camps as a surprise for this very moment, but not so surprisingly, and, and putting hit a client that was already on the run was already about to go. because they are

prepared for other supplies. poland already said that they would not prolong the existing gas contracts, which would exceed any way until the end of the year. so it's a surprise, but not a huge surprise. i would say so very much a political move there as well by front porch and thank you very much. john pollock, are journalist corresponded for german broadcaster a r d for the un secretary general antonia good terrorist and russian president vladimir putin met one on one tuesday for the 1st time since russia invaded ukraine. the un chief criticise to russia's invasion as a violation of its neighbors territorial integrity. put in told the secretary general that he still had hopes for negotiations with keith smoking a booster, despite the fact that the military operation is ongoing, we still hope that we won't be able to reach agreement on the diplomatic track. this, the delay on the scene that we are negotiating,

we don't reject talks because i'm certain you put in guitar is also discussed proposals for humanitarian assistance and the evacuation of civilians from conflict zones, including the south eastern city of mario, pulled the terrace stress, the need to keep talking to the russians, to try to end the conflict. i know that her, we have a 2 day facing the complex situation. you can different interpretations about what's great that does not limit the possibility to, to have a very serious dialogue or now best we can work to minimize the suffering, create the conditions for effective dialogue, create the conditions for a ceasefire as soon as possible. create the conditions for a peaceful solution. a little earlier i spoke with our correspondent rebecca rich as in key. if i asked her if the meeting between un secretary general terrorists

and president putin as raised hopes of peace and an end to the war and ukraine. well, as me too much reaction to that meeting so far, and i think, you know, you couldn't even call it cautious optimism at this stage. but you're, there was some good news if you can call it that to come out of that meeting. some positive signs. a good hair saying that the you and would be willing to go in and assist in a humanitarian evacuation of those soldiers and civilians. and potent, at least in practice, agreeing to such a thing. but you know, everyone's waiting to see what potent will do. and in following his actions rather than his words, as we know, they often don't meet up. so from the ukrainian side, obviously that is what they wanted. they wanted agreement on humanitarian corridor coming out of that meeting. so the fact that as being positive science is of course being received well here, but that conversation will have to continue with the ukrainians. when antonio terrace comes to cave on thursday, maria paul,

of course on the agenda there in that meeting, what are you hearing from there? well, let him have who does come out and said that fighting is an ongoing and mary poll. but as of yesterday, it certainly was, it's hard to get real time information, so i can't tell you what's happening there right there at this moment. gerhard, but the fighting has been going on at as of yesterday is the latest updates that we have. and definitely with obviously a lot more involved that we need more than the fighting to stop to, in order for those evacuations to get under way in any kind of evacuation in that area would require such a huge amount of trust that clearly isn't being felt on either side, particularly not on the ukrainian side at this point. so actually on balance is unrelated, but it is worth noting that yesterday in the city here in cave, there was a monumental, there was a monument to the friendship between russia and ukraine. and it was dismantled, he, yesterday that's really showing

a symbolically at least how the 2 sides of fairing so i you know in, in mary paul hoping for some kind of ceasefire fed as we are. we believe it is a continuing, it is continued shelling in the area to w correspondent, rebecca just they're reporting from keith. thank you, rebecca. well, germany now says it will for the 1st time enough to weeks of internal strife and harsh international criticism, sent some anti i craft weapon systems to ukraine to help fight off rushes invasion . defense minister christina lambaste made the announcement at a meeting of defense and military leaders on tuesday in the ramstein here in germany. the u. s. air base in ramstein, germany. this is where the united states and its allies pledged new packages of ever heavier weapons for ukraine during meeting on tuesday. that was hosted by us defense secretary,

lloyd austin. we don't have any time to waste my briefings let today laid out clearly why the coming weeks will be so crucial for ukraine. so we got to move at the speed of war. and i know that all the leaders leave to day more resolve than ever to support ukraine in its fight against russian aggression. the day kicked off with a surprise in a notable policy shift. germany, which had been criticized for refusing to send heavy weapons to ukraine, announced it would now send capehart anti aircraft systems the ambient, i don't think we've made the decision that it's now important to support. and he, i craft, offends us that can be done with a good parts and is exactly what's on the list of what he crane needs. and that is what we coordinated with. others are now making possible will continue doing next slide for not everyone in berlin. well come to decision. since missing creatures, find

a problematic germany doesn't even have enough military equipment for itself in the case of protein totally losing control, loiter, i think it's important am i also think that what the german government is doing is good. but i am also not sure if offering weapons is actually going to stop the war as a if. and i don't like how hesitant they've been to the ultimately, i would actually be for aggressive weapons. if it's heavier machinery will, above other shrill cascade. in his closing remarks, austin said the gathering between the us and its allies will not be the last. once a month they'll meet to discuss ukraine's defense needs to help them fight. the russian invasion is not as brand that i have stigma is a member of the german parliament for chancellor hall of shaw's governing social democracy. mister stigma. finally, after weeks of reluctance, internal coalition dispute an unusually sharp criticism from its allies and from

ukraine. germany is now delivering a few heavy weapons to ukraine. what prompted this you turned by olaf shoulds now? well, i don't think that impression is correct. we always said that we try to support the ukraine with everything we can, which. ready is responsible in terms of political, economic, financial, and military. and we do that in very close consulting process with our allies. and so we did this way. ready we're talking about defense tanks and that was decided because new brand new need that to defend themselves. antiaircraft tanks, not offensive ones, and therefore i don't see a quality shift. and besides the 2nd part. ready we have to look at is that we have the ukrainians as best as we can,

but not enhancing. the risk of getting nato are germany being involved in the war as well. nobody else seems to be worried that nato gets involved in the war with, if nato members help ukraine with, with weapons. and also germany continues to import russian gas financing. a war. isn't that inconsistent? well, 1st of all, i don't think you're right. but you know, essentially because i understand that president vitamins as in my car or the exactly the same way as i was going very close. talked about that. and we need to get out of energy imports from russia as fast as possible. that's correct. but there are different situation. ready different countries, how fast that can go, because taxes should be a punishment for the other side rather than bringing down our own industry. so we do that as fast as possible,

but it cannot be done from one day to the other. how worried are you that off to now put a decided to stop gas deliveries to poland. bulgaria is on shaky ground there. if russia turns off, gas applies to germany. what then actually you're, we're preparing for that case, but we don't expect to travel. we see what happens factors that everybody knows that we have to get out of the dependency on russia and g m important as fast as possible, and that's what our government is doing. that was german parliamentarian alive state. now from chancellor all the shots of the social democratic party. so how important are these deliveries off anti aircraft tanks to ukraine? let's discuss that with frank to lead, which he's a former military intelligence officer. now, lectures in a military capabilities and strategy at the university of portsmouth in the u. k.

frank, you've been following this war closely. what's your reaction to germany? this is decision to supply heavy weapons. finally, very important decision concerning the weapons themselves. they get an old design, but they've been modernized, they've been out of service from in a german. i'm only about 10 years. and many are we still use an extremely formidable short range. but if you're a pilot, there's nothing you can do about them. if you get near same applies by the way, the british vehicles they sent, but it's not only directly affected, but the possession of it keeps, keeps, it keeps aircraft away, it's a deterrent. but what's significant gerhardt is that the most recent trying to weapons deliveries from the west, not only note or the suite as well, or interesting for another reason. all of these now nato standard items that different from the soviet stuff that east european nations been passing on and will continue to know. there's also training implications in this because you can't just hand over these, these gephart and, and expect people to use and their radar guided guns are quite complex. it will

take a few weeks to train on that. so i will be fairly certain, it will be a training package, but that's going to continue. so what we're seeing now, nato standard equipment being sent institutionally continually to the ukraine used to. and that, that does change things. i think because it winds nato even closer into the conflict. zooming out and get a more general picture of that conflict. russia claims it's making advances in several parts of eastern ukraine. what are you seeing a ukrainian forces losing their grip in the east? i don't think so for the 2nd time in a week, the russians declared that they captured christina, in the far east, of the se in the bus we're fighting is taking place because what they don't announce a little villages and towns the ukrainians, nibbling back out encounter attacks, i think from the russian perspective, quite

a disappointing 1st week or 10 days of this particular campaign. they've been pressing all along 500 or maybe 500 kilometer front. they've been looking for breakthroughs. that's what they do. it's ready, mom would do, but they simply don't really have to mass to exploit any breakthrough if they were to make it. and the problem they face now is that they're getting into heavily fortified ukrainian towns to barrow. don't ask those student well if they succeed they'll be getting towards chrome. a toss grade is know they've been coming. what ukrainians will do is create other mario polls. 4 to 5 times will take a lot of time, a lot of casualties even to come close to reducing. now the us sector of to friends said yesterday things ukraine can win this war. do you agree? as with everything else, go hunt. what constitutes women from the ukrainian perspective, because that be expiring, all the invading forces. what they certainly can do, i think at the moment,

absent any significant escalation is hold the russians off. they may have to give some ground there in the east. obviously that last that car go down to crimea. the issue is over the next weeks months and yes, as secretary blake and hinted possibly years is whether the ukrainians can gather enough force to retake the ground that they have lost. that's a very different matter. but what this is, as he said today, play concert today or yesterday. it's a long term prospect. now we need to look at it strategically. so we'll see the answers on the battlefield. we don't know yet. franchise lead was there. thank you very much. thank you. god the u. n. is calling for com in a separate is region of moldova for a series of bloss have heightened tensions there. the breakaway territory of trans mysteria is backed by russia and runs along the ukrainian border. it's been under the control of the separatist authorities since they fought a war with moldova,

some 30 years ago. around 1500 russian troops are based in that region. on tuesday, explosions knocked out to radio and tennessee which will use to a broadcast russian radio stations to radio towers used to broadcast russian news. now scrap metal, the blast site, and moldova is just 5 kilometers from the ukranian border. so far, no one has claimed responsibility, and that is elena red flags, as our analysis shows their attentions between various forces who are interested and destabilizing this region. this my booze, i doubt, sequences yet with the black did come back. so this is a complex and tens situation, but we will arrange vigilant, and we'll take all necessary measures to prevent escalation, to strengthen our security and to protect our citizens sitting there with we must

remain calm and he stay informed using verified sources and avoid distributing false information with the explosion of the radio towers was the 2nd unclaimed attack this week in the moldova separatist region of trans. nice tor. the 1st was on the state security ministry into rosabelle. tensions in the region have been high since russia invaded ukraine. moscow has suggested it wants to create a land corridor, a long southern ukraine between trans mr and the russian controlled territories and eastern ukraine. it's believed russia keeps around $1500.00 troops and trans. mr. and analysts say the area could be used to launch an attack on ukraine. the region remained pro russian after the collapse of the soviet union, but the international community considers it part of moldova. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski said he believed the recent attacks were orchestrated by moscow and that his country is prepared for any offensive from that direction. just a solution to change

a class for the russian troops that have been constantly stationed in the temporarily occupied territories of moldova, in particular and trans, mr. we know that they're in constant combat readiness, waiting for an order. his name must show only faustine hopefulness. g chika torch angel. now can we know their power and will you what ukrainian armed forces are prepared for them and are not afraid of them? nimbly, moldova authorities have raised the country's terror alert to its highest level. there worried the war and ukraine could spill across the border into trans nice her, and then to the rest of the country. the head of the u. n's, nuclear watchdog, has visited chernobyl on the 36th anniversary of the nuclear disaster. them i. e, a chief raphael, marianna grossey, said rushes, reasons, occupation have been very dangerous. he said. radiation levels went up during the takeover,

but an all back to pre invasion levels did abuse. mateus billing reports the world's most dangerous route, sealed under giant concrete hood, the chin nobody's hasta site is once again the focus of attention. now that russian occupation troops have withdrawn the head of the international atomic energy authority can assess its condition. the 1st ready must go to the or breaker to these people here because they carried on their work. in spite of all the difficulties, despite of the stress, in spite of the fact that they could not be working normally, they continue working as if nothing had happened. so they get the sedation stable, so to speak. and this, in this one, commence the worst at was of course about the 1st task is replacing equipment that was destroyed or stolen. just the 1st one you will have to push on a good cooking,

the starting. his teams doesn't, wasn't my vehicle. they weren't admitted to the critical parts of the structure meal, but they left a lot of chaos and they stole equipment from us, our computers as just unusual wrong, evans, if any of actually us 36 years ago, this nuclear block behind me exploded. it was the worst nuclear accident in human history. now, 36 years later, the war has brought back the nuclear threat. the russians took over the site on the 1st day of the war. hollow was cut several times putting the cooling system at risk . and ukraine says the russians, dark trenches in highly contaminated forests, releasing radiation from contaminated soil builder, lisa willard the overnight on the edges of the forest. we didn't go indeed, we found levels of radiation 50 times higher than the norm. well,

normally cameras will discarded food packaging suggests the soldiers spend time there possibly becoming contaminated in the process. rescue workers and other staff remained in the town of chernobyl during the occupation, hoping the russian forces would understand the danger they were putting the world in america. willy ocean rosalyn sourced nervousness, they were quite diverse and there were different groups, some understood where they were and some did not. there were so many of them. the 1st group arrived than another than a 3rd, and so on. some behaved reasonably, others less so. but i can't tell you what was going on in the heads anymore. homeschoolers shawnee will it, will it? chernobyl has escaped. another disaster now it's about securing the site for the future. some sports is now and a show of solidarity from one of germany's biggest football clubs. bowes, head off mont hosted ukrainian club dino keith and a char

t friendly match on tuesday evening to raise money for the victims of the war and ukraine. the mattress, acknowledge you do not. park attracted a crowd of 35000 and raised 400000 euros for humanitarian causes in ukraine, according to the host dynamo key if one the game 32 are playing a number of such friendlies on a european. so as they seem to raise money for the victims of the russian invasion of that country, you're watching. the w news is a reminder of the top story we're following for you. ukraine accused russia of black mailing europe over energy after moscow briefly halted gas. the pastor, poland, russia has threatened to hold deliveries to european countries unless they stop paying for gas in roubles, following sanctions against russian bats. and that's it from me are up to date. now don't go away though. up next is close up with a trip to the said shells, and they are taking

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