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back to normally where on the street to give you enough report on the inside. our cars funding was on the ground. tito, whose africa every friday, only w germany is sounding the alarm. the supplies of natural gas from russia continue to fall. the country is in the middle of a gas crisis as the minister in charge as he moves germany to leveled. and america's health regulate a benz vapor pens by jewel saying the company has failed to prove they were safe. can the company survive? we'll get that. the annual winter in berlin. germany has moved it's 3 step natural gas emergency plan from early warning to the alarm phase. it follows agnes and big businesses to cut back, saying the country is in the middle of a crisis. the situation has been rickson to make, but now russia,

germany is 3 going face to office emergency gas plan, which is only actuated when there's a high risk of long term supply shortages. german economies use gas is true, and gas is currently as cross committed to in germany. thus, when i say that, he windows the curt yost as of now, germany's gas storage level stands at around 58 percent. berlin is eager to get that figure up to 80 printer months. assess one key tactic, saving biggest, wherever possible, and ramping up air force to find more alternative, ga sources as a way to cut to be happy to slow walk supplies. with some seeing it as political retaliation to you. sanctions, germany has called his manners and a clean and economic dispute with russia. that's about where gas and energy is used as a weapon against germany. mit him, cd, das versus lunt. and in this but

a diety with you, great in height, and of course, as a leader, tit mit o'connor. whether or not germany will move to deter, than final phase of the emergency plot likely be a dark and cold one. let's big now to simon young from our parliamentary bureau simon, we're at level 2 now of robert consumers that use gas here will fir consumers i think will the government is doing is appealing to them to use less how in the summer or to use the less gas where possible or in the colder season. as far as large businesses are concerned, companies that are able to reduce their gases that they can sort of sell the, the gas they don't use to other companies. that is, the government is introducing is to avoid a collapse in the gas market, which could they say occur. a fir, the supply continues at the low level summer,

so consumers might not feel the pinch so much just yet. as you mentioned, big businesses really rely on gas their production. so how big the threat is, the current situation economy minister, robert har. beck has said that people should prepare for further price increases and he said that the situation could arise it. so if the gas prices remain high, keep going up, it is possible that gas supply, as he says, could go out of business, municipal gas suppliers might not be able to to have a gas to supply. and of course, businesses would suffer as well, particularly germany's industry. and you know, they could really struggle and that would have a much greater impact in the wider economy and how, because of course, fulfilling to really talk about the potential for triggering the next level of the emergency plan. and what that could me well, the yeah, the allow energy companies to impose unilateral price hikes

and you know that something they have not yet decided to do all the gas and he caught up to now the government saying, well, we're hoping the combination of measures reducing demand, but also looking for alternative sources, possibly wattage are can well, of course gems will be hoping that it doesn't come to that, but we'll wait and see simon young. thank you very much. now let's check in on some of the other glue applies from russia and a bilateral deal with moscow. it's biggest supplier, india band exports of the great last month to help contain local prices. an agreement with russia soaring food prices. german exports to the u. k. have fallen since breaks at 6 years ago, and according to a new study on partners, france, italy and poland continues to grow german dock workers are staging a one day strike on thursday. 6 ports are affected by the labor action,

including hamburg the country's largest association of seaport companies has condemned the strike dozens of cargo ships. b m w says the 1st cars are rolling off . the assembly lines at its newest factory in china is the car makers. 3rd chinese plant located in china is be of these most important market selling nearly 850000 cars there last year, but it's from u. s. shelves saying the company failed to provide sufficient data on their product . safety sales ban applies to both jewel vape in devices and it's flavored cartridges. able to take up vapor, which the company to night. well, let's check in on this story with more information gains court. is that what the hoping it will get to an appeal? does the company have any hope of keeping its product on us shelves? well then, you know that the company might try to appeal the ban,

basically because the ban is based on insufficient toxicological evidence that you could try to get a new application from the f d a for jewel to so, so to speak, for a new product and then also actually had some defend, so i guess the last word is not spoken. if a jewel products really have to leave a shelf here in the united states where manufacturer saying that it's definitely permanently pulling out of russia. is this a big step for the company? what so now they're closing it for good. it's not that harmful for nike. i mean, if you look at the sales that they had in the past in percent of its revenue from that region. i mean, the stock of nike has been down quite a bit in the past couple of months. 36 percent since the beginning of the year. but

that's problem with all the more casual where that we thought in the united states and all over the globe, so that trend is changing a bit. so that's hurting nike. but that ok, and speaking of being on a run, us indexes are up this week after difficult terrible losses recently. what's turned them around since march 2020. so now we have this rebound in this week. so it looks quite promising that we will have a positive for week 4. interesting to see what happens 1st earning season, that's going to kick off soon. okay, so it could still be a bumpy road ahead. dns quarter on the new york stock exchange. as always, thank you right to launch a satellite from its own soil for the 1st time later this summer. and now they've just announced what it's launcher will be taking into space. get this launching a mini realtor are impossible to make on us. the developer says microgravity allows the creation of lighter and stronger metal alloys and more efficient semiconductors

. and a quick reminder of the top business story we're following for you. germany has declared the alarm stage of its emergency gas plan, that as the country sees a high risk of long term service and you're up to date with dw business. thank you very much for watching conflict zone with harass vanity. russia and ukraine are taking heavy casualties in the don bus, but has ukraine or in bremo is a political scientist and founder of the eurasia group thing going to happen. and believe the russians had said will at all this and more on this week's ukraine to the point. strong opinions, clear positions, international perspectives. russian retaliation against western sanctions is driving millions of families world wide to the brink of famine. blockades have sent grain and gas prices to the point in 60 minutes on

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