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i'm glad else as welcome to the program. rushes, state controlled energy company gas prom has announced that is cutting gas deliveries to both poland and bulgaria. neither of the 2 e. u nations have complied with a demand from russia's president, the president putin, to start paying for deliveries in roubles. several other you nations including germany, also yet to comply ada, heavily reliant on russian gas. here's what polish prime minister mateusz. moreover risky, had to say about the cut off then 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 not even before the baltic gas pipeline enters service. we will be able to protect our economy, stronger, protect our households and poles,

people against such a dramatic step by russia and clock in as is thrown at us. earlier i spoke to journalist young polo cut in war, so i asked him if poland will cope without russian gas asked. the polish prime minister says, 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. a 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 and baltic pipeline swap, 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 cope. but of course, ellen g gas 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 pollen is already a suffering high inflation numbers. now, many other european countries have refused to follow putin's demands to pay for russian guys in 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 austria, and that is last not least germany, which having it's deposits rather rather lowly, as 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 germany, gas reserves 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 and effect 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 and, and this is important here. this refinery delivers not only the greater bill in 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 camp's as a surprise for this very moment, but not so surprisingly, and the, 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 of the system. so very much a political move there as well by let me put in. thank you very much. john pollock,

are journalist corresponded for german broadcaster a r d. russia says it has made significant territorial against the east and the south of ukraine, claiming it has captured the entire have song region. meanwhile, and the capital keith authorities have dismantled a soviet era monument once a symbol of friendship, between russia and ukraine. this monument is now merely a reminder of the betrayal he is, has decided to demolish the statue. 2 months after russia invaded ukraine. freeform of the exam will resume this monument used to symbolize the friendship between ukraine and russia on but now we see what this friendship is. the destruction of ukrainian cities ruining the lives of ukrainians, killing tens of thousands of peaceful people, the shock give pieces, whatever worst comes you. i am convinced a monument like this has an entirely different meaning. now, ours whistle and me

a few kilometers away. president zalinski visited children at a hospital. they had been evacuated from the devastated southern port city of mary paul henkie that of many lost that parents in the fighting. we opened it as of the landscape has mourned. thus, attacks from the south will intensify with short today, russian troops kept launching missiles, strikes on our land, particularly in the odessa region, and they kept up their attacks in our troops near harkey. eve in don bass 5, i should say. and what does this give? russia only knew losses, roches, defense ministry says they have now taken control of the entire southern region of carson. but earlier, ukraine's military said, russia was not able to break through its defense line. meanwhile, fighting in the east and on bass region is ongoing ukrainian forces say that

russia has continued to show villages like here. and alex sentry fca. the army was able to evacuate many civilians from the area while it stays behind to fight un secretary general antonio. good terrace and russian president vladimir putin met face to face on tuesday for the 1st time since russia invaded ukraine. the un chief criticized rushes invasion as a violation of its neighbors territorial integrity. put and told the secretary general that he still had hopes for negotiations with keith. the 2 also discuss proposals for humanitarian assistance of the evacuation of civilians from conflict zones, including the south eastern city of mario fulton blue. now the w correspondent, emily sherman, is with me in the studio. and now a good morning, emily has the us or the general's visit to moscow, produced anything substantial,

or that makes an end of the war in ukraine. more likely, i'm not sure about the end of the war, but when it comes to concrete results, foot in n, good harish apparently agreed that the un and the red cross will be involved in evacuations of civilians. from the as of styles, steel plant and mar you poll. that's a huge steel plan that's been besieged by russia is almost like a city within the city. and there is an estimated 2000 soldiers in there, but also around a 1000 us civilians. apparently that would be significant if i'm an international organization is involved in the evacuation of civilians from mario, paul. but on the other hand, put in their claiming that ukrainian soldiers again, claiming that ukrainian soldiers were using our civilians as human shields. we've heard that quite a bit from other russians in recent weeks, so we have to kind of wait and see whether there are any concrete results. i would say there wasn't a breakthrough, but this was, you know, symbolically important, that garage even came to russia,

potentially dialogue could prevent things getting even worse in ukraine. that's true. or beverly, a good thing, but does the kremlin take the un sushi as, as a mediator? how much of an influence does guitars hefa? i would say that russia does take the u. n. seriously. as a mediator. the foreign minister, sergei lover of who also met gutierrez yesterday, is known to kind of, quote, whole articles from the un charter to justify russia's actions. um and also gutierrez got a meeting with putin himself even if they were at the long table again, far away from each other. but i think that garage was quite strategic in his meeting. first of all, as they said, he came to moscow, which is important symbolically. this is kind of one of the 1st really high profile diplomatic efforts meetings with, with put in himself. and also he said that the you and understands russia, security concerns that you might remember this all started over the fact that russia was saying, nato is getting too close to our borders. we don't want ukraine to join nato. so in

a way that's kind of him taking a symbolic step towards russia's interest. i think it was, it is a major headlines, of course, is russia holding a gas supplies to bulgaria and a poland while continue to supply others. germany, for example. what's put of strategy here, i think that this is put in essentially is throwing his weight around russia, throwing its weight around around a month ago, already put in, warned that countries on a list of so called unfriendly countries, which has an ever growing list, including basically the entire e u at this point we'll have to pay for gas in rubles, and poland in bulgaria are apparently not fulfilling that i'm condition at the moment, which is why they're halting in the supplies to those 2 countries. as with the russian side said, but of course it's clear, this is a political, this isn't just about contracts there making an example. i think of poland and ball . gary a, you mentioned germany just now. i think the timing of this move is significant.

just yesterday, germany announced that they would be us supplying for the 1st time, heavy military equipment to ukraine, and germany is a very important client when it comes to gas for russia. i think this is a clear warning to other e u countries and it's kind of rush and put in taking control of the narrative against the backdrop, of course, of the e. u threatening a gas and oil embargo against russia. emily show him, thank you very much, emily. time out. have a quick look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. a caught in myanmar has convicted the countries for corruption charges, all of which she denies. she was ousted by the army lost. you singapore has executed the man on drugs charges despite international plays to spare him on the grounds. he was intellectually disabled. the 34 year old malaysian national had been on death row for over

a decade or trafficking 43 grams of heroine into the country. singapore, her, some of the world's toughest narcotics laws thought his in china have expanded mass testing in bay ging to 11 of the cities. 16 districts. some areas have been put under locked down after another $22.00 cases were detected. since yesterday, china's largest city, shanghai has been under a controversial, citywide lockdown for 4 weeks now. holiday good agent, you know, in the future, and some sports is now a show of solidarity from one of germany's biggest football clubs, both at dot mont hosted ukrainian club dinner will keep in a charity friendly match on tuesday evening to raise money for the victims of the war in ukraine, the match attracted a crowd of 35000 and raised 400000 curious euros for humanitarian causes in ukraine, according to the house. you know, keep a one, the game 32,

and they are playing a number of such friendly on the european tour as they seek to raise money for the victims, the russian invasion of their country. he was in the w. c. as a reminder of the top story that we're following for you, ukraine has accused russia of blackmailing europe over energy after moscow halted. gas applies to poland. russia has threatened to hold deliveries to european countries unless they stopped paying for gas and rubles following sanctions against russian banks. and in a major policy, a reversal, germany says it will now deliver heavy onto acro systems to ukraine. the decision follows intense criticism that germany was taking too long to send key of the weapons it needs against the russian invasion. that's it from me and the news team, the called fully,

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