oh, this is the w news live from berlin. fresh fears over germany is energy supplied. russia shuts down its largest natural gas pipeline to germany for 10 days of scheduled maintenance. but berlin fairs that cut off good last much longer due to the war in ukraine. also coming off ukraine warn civilians in the southern region of her song to flee as its forces prepare counter attacks. rush, ne'er strike on an apartment block, killed at least $24.00 in the east of the country. and at uneasy. com returns to

sri lanka, activists say, though, occupy the homes of the president and prime minister until the discredited leaders are gone. meanwhile, a position parties look to form a new government. ah, i'm go have it as well. come to the program. jettas in germany today after the biggest pipeline supplying russian gas to the country, close for 10 days of annual maintenance work authorities, fear the taps may stay turned off to exert political pressure on the west of the war and ukraine. speaking earlier, germany, germany is economy minister, holbert, hobbit war, the you needed to be prepared in case shipments don't resume and he admitted germany had become too dependent on russian energy. lyndon, the entire german entered strategy was aimed at gas gall and the gas was to come

from russia, which is why the north stream one at north stream 2 pipelines were built on it. as you can see today, a serious political mistake which we are trying to heal and turn off as fast as we can. this dyna lighting until then of course we depend on the l. n. g terminals of the netherlands and belgium and france to work and supply us with gas . so gong, we need gas from norway. we need gas from the netherlands. we need imports in the southern european region via italy, for example, high, high speed. conversely, germany knows that it has to distribute the gas further off by that we can only get ahead in this situation if we help each other vita when you're skating site have let's bring in d w splitting the corresponding benjamin of ours gruber, benjamin. this is routine maintenance so far, how likely is it that the tops won't be turned back home?

the trade is a routine procedure that takes $10.00 to $11.00 days in it's made every year. it for this turbans. what all that, how big the economy minutes and vice chancellor said we just heard him there in prag, is that there is a possibility. he called it a political maintenance saying that russia, my create any argument and to not keep delivering air gas to germany. and it could be something technical as well, something that at the russian company has said when it reduced the em meters. so the amount of gas that russia sent over this pipeline to this very important pipeline, saying that it was due to a technical thing due to a turban that is now in canada and could be than send over back to russia over germany. so there is a big political amount of discussion still there to see if after this maintenance happened in austin, one will once again deliver gas to russia or if it will continue that way. but the

government is definitely taking this a very a carefully. it's saying that winter will be hard, that will be a european solidarity that will be needed for the winter month when it comes to gas air deliveries. and that the government is taking this a possibility. seriously. put this into perspective for us. how important is this pipeline, nordstrom, one for germany? it is the largest single pipeline carrying natural gas from russia to germany. it's very important not only for heating homes, but also when it comes to big industries. so that could be the ones that will need to pay the price in case a north stream warn is not connected. again, it's important not just for germany, but also for european country. so that's why it will. but having stress at this european solidarity is so important in case russia decide to not turn in this pipeline up again. but we have the political discussions on one side when it comes

to how can the european union react? how, what are the possibilities? what can other countries to when it comes to sending this gas? but this is a discussion that is not going only a here in berlin and in other european couples, but also with people saying what will they do with the soaring gas prices. and earlier today, we met some of them in berlin, and this is what they told us as i shall from you since i'm already thought about it, i will soon just cook with the microwave, which needs electricity and not gas. unfortunately, i have a gas stove, but i would say that, you know, i was born at the beginning of the war. we've already dealt with completely different things. i won't let myself go crazy over this one is left with sandy for as many long well, the worries are clear that a winter will be cold in the apartments and that had could hit the economy hard and i had to go visions in i think i would be quite worried of that right to happen. i have to say, i'm a training and don't have that much money either. i would have no idea what i would

have to do. i wouldn't know what to expect, and if that meant that i'm have to pay a lot more to get gas from somewhere else. that would be very, very difficult for me as a shooter, for me, i'm the exit. she has no 0.0, fear it will be expensive. so what then will earn a little more, save a little less vinegar, a missed all the doses in i believe that there will be a real bottleneck in the winter on, often probably even worse than what we're expecting. you to start to worry that will be extremely limited in the winter, ordered us, which is why we already increasing the running cost allowances on the plaza or the name causing it to log on. so i dial so benjamin, what kind of scenarios urban avi authorities preparing for they said they are preparing for the worst case scenario. we have soaring prizes, we have inflation, we have a difficulties with my test. this difficulty is also when it comes to autumn when it comes to winter. when it comes to heating homes with people that are paying

already far more, there is no sign that the german government would intervene with this. prices were german chancellor. all our shows along with his vice chancellor, an economy minister also met representatives, the board of management of several german companies to see how they can tackle on one side problems when it comes to supply changes. but also when it comes to this rising costello, they are taking this very seriously. they want to see what are the opportunities harvick has been traveling around. he was in katara trying to find his new alan g terminals. it could, so new deliveries, imports of gas from katara from other countries, see what other suppliers could take a, this role that russia has been playing. but what the new government is saying, and that's something that we heard. if all that havoc saying there is, well, there have been big mistakes that have been done by germany by this dependency on russian goal on brush and gas. we're just speaking about an old stream. one. it was another pipeline, no stream to that was halted. that is not will not be billed,

that has been stopped completely. so authorities are preparing for the worst, but still hoping that there is a possibility of still getting gas there are finding alternatives quickly. did of yes, political correspondent benjamin alvarez gruber. thank you. ben sher lancoste parliament says it will elect a new president on july 20th. that's after the country's current lead up to by roger pox are announced, he would officially step down on wednesday. shlang as president and prime minister are said to step aside of a violent turmoil spock by deepening economic crisis. but protesters in columbus are skeptical. they say they will carry on occupying the homes of both leaders until the 2 men formerly resign picking up rubbish in the garden of the presidential palace. indeed, ill bendara had taken part in protests for more than 90 days. he was injured so

severely during one of them that he's been in a wheelchair ever since. what as other the given me and i did this for my country. what happened to me is irrelevant. we protested for so long until we finally achieved our goal. and this makes me really happy. all of it did they, abby and even america. on saturday, tens of thousands of people filled the streets of sherland as capital colombo. they stormed government buildings and the president's palace. bowing to public pressure, most prime minister week remy singer and president go to buy a raj, epoxy announced their resignations like many others in the new bon. dora sees the president as the main culprit for this crisis. he owned a small fabric factory but was forced to close its doors when order stop coming in that left his family of 6 without the income they relied on. i them again a month and i meant i'm still living on my savings. i also donated to the protests,

but because of the accident, i still had to pay for an operation very, which also costs me a lot of money. in reality, the worries, fears and anger of the previous months are forgotten, at least for now. the presidential palace is usually sealed off and out of bounds for ordinary people. now it's become a tourist hotspot. thousands come he to see how go to buy a roger pox. i lived in luxury in his gym all by the pool. is lilian believe of eden in that that particular mission will come to us monday that finally come. and that is what we want that via info more than 90 days for this day. so i think this is a very excited as an oil up, as he london. we are very happy and very we are very proud. but even with the president and prime minister gone, the country's problems remain sri lanka is more than 50000000000 euros in debt.

many people have lost their jobs and barely had the money to feed themselves and their families. while i was didn't thought we now expect the country to be ruined by capable people, may we know that we have many talented young politicians here. they must now be given a chance and give hope back to the people of sher lanka. am i got that? i did. i love, i did a couple of them in an deal. hope that he'll be able to reopen his factory when the crisis is passed. but that's not lodge, he to be any time soon. no less for in their journalists. oliver maya from germany's public broadcast sadie, who filed this report. and although you joining us from columbus from inside the presidential palace as far as i understand now, there are unconfirmed reports that the p m has left the country who is running the country right now. yeah, that's

a very difficult question or mean on paper or prime minister become a single sister running the country year just said he's willing to resign but yes. resigned yet. and the same as serve for the president for good by era to pack. so he said he's gonna step down on wednesday, but he hasn't stepped on yet. as the, the constitution of c lanka says it's when the president steps down the prime minister's automatically getting the president. so from wednesday on the prime minister is taking the spot of the president, which is quite ironic because the people don't want m m as well. so it's going to be a really, really, so real situation in silicon is already know as in seen the back rod. it's a mixer between party and revolutionary. it's a really strange situation and see like a right now uses a mixture between party and revolution. but it doesn't make the appearance of a violence situation there. no, it's not actually, i mean the people are quite term quite a. com. actually it's

a quite an order here. there's a huge line in front of the presidential palace and people are queueing up. they are waiting for their turn, and inside here they are partying, but they are not destroying things, at least not that i am aware of. they are just celebrating that they, they're inside the gym of the president. they are in the courtyard and people are i actually as we just and saw in the report they are helping to clean up the space here. and this is quite extraordinary. so it's, it's quite com. yeah. and people are celebrating no violence, as of so far today. no, any update on the talks between the opposition parties on forming a new government. yeah, it's a quite tricky situation as i already mentioned. they want to form an all party government or they also want that got to buy our auto parts. and also the prime minister become a singer. resign right now, but it doesn't seem like that is happening. so what's gonna happen is probably

they're gonna buy or a trip access resigning on wednesday. then there will be no more talks on who's going to be elected as a new president. and it seems like on wednesday, the 28th of july, a new president is going to be elected. and only after that, a new government can be formed. oliver, another question. this is a situation where we've often seen the military step in. do you get any signs that the military is preparing anything? what happens on the street is that the military and also the police? they are present, for example, at the gas station where people are also queueing up for a kilometers or where they don't get fuel. and there's where the police and military are stepping in, but they are also year outside of the palace, but they are not hindering people to come inside of the palace. they are just making sure everything is going in order. so my feeling is they are rather on the side of the protesters than on the side of the politicians. so everything here is

going quite calm at the moment, but let's see how that plays out in the next few days here. oliver, my other reporting from columbus. thank you. that's have a quick look now at some of the other stories making headlines today. of course in the spanish city of barcelona, has authorized an autopsy on former long term on golden president. o z a to our da da santos. he was in spain for medical treatment and died after a cardiac arrest. last week to santa's family claim. there was a conspiracy to kill him. the euro is heading very close to parity with the us dollar. one euro is currently trading at $1.00 and $8.00 tenths of a cent. this is the lowest level in almost 20 years. investors are worried about the recession. for the eurozone as its energy security is at risk for the upcoming winter months. lease documents have revealed that oba regularly skirted laws and

secretly lobbied governments as it expanded. it's right sharing service. they show the support from then french economy, minister, m o m, i call to help the company brokering secret deals and giving over direct access to his staff. ukraine's deputy prime minister has urged civilians in the russian occupied the south to evacuate as ukraine force is prepared for a counter offensive there. meanwhile, the east, at least 3 people have been killed following shelling on residential areas around ukraine's the 2nd largest city hockey's. elsewhere in the east rescue was in the city of chas. if you are still hoping to find survivors on the buildings, it in russian air strikes the death toll there has risen to at least 24 did obviously calmly jones's from keys. now next, several civilians killed in khaki, dozens. and because if you are causing civilian casualties,

is beginning to look like a deliberate strategy by russian forces, isn't it? well, that's definitely what the ukranian government is sure of. that's the line they're pushing. they say this is an attempt by russia to so chaos and panic behind the front lines to get ukraine civilians to put pressure on their own lawmakers. they're in government to come to some kind of deal with russia, given that the russians are making particularly impressive progress through normal military combat. and the russians as ever, have claimed these were strikes against ukrainian military targets and west the weapons in particular being sent to ukraine. i think the kind of intention behind these russians strikes is less important than the reality that time and time again, civilians are being hit and that the russians haven't made any change to their strategy since that devastating tack on the shopping center in central ukraine. but 10 days ago they are keeping on doing this and basically what this means for ordinary ukrainians. living anyone at the front lines, the basically wherever they are have a far they are from a garrison or barracks or some other build shall get. they are not in safety and

they really should be making plans or you're thinking about leaving now because these target these targets are these civilian buildings are being talked to. tom tom again. now the attorney government is calling for russia to be officially recognized as a state sponsor of terrorism. what would that achieve? this is a particular kind of a highest level of us sanctioning and something that so far been reserved for the likes of iran. north korea basically puts extraordinarily tight limits on business that american companies can do with these countries. but also potentially for a 3rd countries trying to do business with the, with russia, if it were to be a designated state sponsor of terrorism, if they would then want to do business with us. so basically, this is something that would really limit russia's economic ability to engage with outside world in the long term. and here in ukraine, they're worried to as the cost living crisis really escalates and western europe in north america,

that there will be temptation in sir western capital trend road back some of those sanctions on russia. listen tip to really look in those sunk sanctions in the long term. wild world's attention is focused on this war. now the ukrainian government has urged civilians in the southern hassan reason. region are currently occupied by russian troops to evacuate, saying is preparing a counter offensive. will, can you tell us about that? what we've seen the ukranian forces really using the western weapons, very effective, especially american built rocket artillery systems. high mars are able to hit target 607980 kilometers distant. and that really has allowed them to start taking aim at russian logistics hubs. russian armament steppers, and really trying to basically even outs, that disparity was all along. basically ukrainian force happy outgunned by russia. russia has had basically an limited amount of ammunition as be able to basically when battle just by force of its artillery. so this is now really allowing ukraine to try and even the playing field. and especially in the south where few russian

forces are available. they're all focused on the east. now there's a chance now to really make some turturro gains to push the russians back. and that's now what prison soleski has asked his military to start doing good. um, disney connelly reporting from keith there. thank you. nick. now, within russia, expressing an anti war opinion can lead to serious consequences including intimidation in the workplace. some public servants have already lost their jobs. w correspondence, hughley, russia to spoke to one russian teacher from moscow who has refused to be silenced. just as you lost corrections before the summer holidays that you are not to have anchor hopes that she'll still have her job to come back to when the new school year starts. that yon us auntie of war stance has alienated her from this school management. which left the quote building slowly, but surely i'm being put under pressure even over trivial things. murphy,

for example, here a student scribbled something i have course, did you notice it, but i was still reprimanded by the director for allegedly not fulfilling my duties . i was told, i should have invited the student's parents to the school to discuss it, just because of these doodles that up. well, when russia launched, it's the one ukraine. hundreds of people talked of the streets that young at sher vanco was one of them. even though it was a peaceful protest she was arrested and find around $300.00 euros. some lawyer afterwards, the school director invited me in for a face to face talk to discuss my political views. he said they knew what i had done that it was prohibited or what i thought the rest of your court. yo, i asked why. it's my free time after all, you might you? she said yes, but the parents of your students are true to have a problem with it turns in a book. but what you're that young story isn't an exception across russia. public

officials are being intimidated. state employees criticizing that who are being forced to leave or recently threats aimed at high school brings the both came right from the into my itself. rush, us, lower house of parliament is used for prostate does up our this is about the security of office 8 order. she'll know about the future of our country though it, but if so, these honorable principles should be aware of their responsibilities of my what's where you ought to be. if they aren't, they should simply go when you might, why, why stand up? we walk away. thank you. we do is russian teachers association. the see us of that statement like this will set an example leading to critical teachers being silenced . it affect aleta, she, this is fatal for russia, for all of russian society. we are now experiencing a kind of cold civil war in russia. and society is divided, but i hope that there will still be people who carry on saying the truth, right,

until the end. yeah. got any problem. people like that. yeah. natur, vanco. recently she had to come for to one of her students who has relatives in the ukraine. the student was crying because she didn't know with whom she could talk to about it. it's exactly for moments like face that tatiana says, she's need it. i'm why do you mean i won't go, especially because of the children who i've gotten to know where her, who i'm raising them or educating them. oh sure what i should for now. tatiana is going on holiday. and should she lose her job when she comes back? she says she will take the school to court and fight until the end. oh, did i? because one on hearing rossetto her father report and he joins us now from reagan. you are the criminal increasingly creating an environment of fear and intimidation there. how difficult is it to fight back the way to tatiana, for example,

is well, even though it's dangerous, tatiana isn't an exception. there are many people in russia protesting wallace publicly against the war. ah, but we're talking about an atmosphere fear that wasn't true. it overnight guard. we are talking about years of intimidation, years of persecution, of dissidence, years lift in fear for people who speak out as this climate of fear means we can't really tell how many people actually support president putin. and many who take the polls are simply afraid to speak their minds because that they are not sure how anonymous, these polls really are. either ality is that many russians who are against the war are now so desperate that they simply retreat into their private life. so to speak, i don't want to hear or see anything because i am powerless. anyway. now in russia, it's illegal to call the invasion a war of let alone criticize it. so what did president putin mean when he warned last week that russia has barely gotten started?

or putting certainly beliefs that russia won't finish of the war quickly. i. but using the rest of literally fighting to the last ukrainian, he is saying, western military support will just prolong the suffering of the ukrainian people. there are 4, but it says that the west is to blame what is happening and not him and not russia . i. that's one of the kremlin narratives. russian people must stand behind putin. they're a leader because the russia is surrounded by western secret agents and other enemies . what put in is avoiding to say is that a lot of russian soldiers are also dying, and that, that this voice, also a tragedy for his own people in russia. a people who are so to speak on the dark side of history now and are being held hostage by his, our government's policies in some interesting point of what must regular russians prepare themselves for. now, what does their future look like? well, russians are already ceilings. the consequences of the western sanctions and of

course shelves in the supermarkets, us too full. but prices are rising enormously. of course, as there are still nice cars on the streets of moscow in saint petersburg. but almost all west uncommon factors have left russia and of course there are still more done, passenger planes flying, but these are western machines that are no longer being serviced and repaired by the west. so the question is, for how long can these planes fly safely? ah, more than 1000 western companies have left of the country. mcdonalds has gone ikea has left being b, b, m, w, i, siemens. and so one, you know, russians have become accustomed to good, reliable, stylish, comfortable, and chic, western goods and recent yes, but this western world, this standard of living is now disappearing more and more. and instead, slowly but surely, a war based economy is a merging during russia to reporting from reagan there, thank you you're and that's it from me and the new

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