gas from gas prom is scheduled to switch off. it's not it's largest natural gas pipeline running to germany to day siding annual maintenance. the question is, if it will switch it back on officials in germany and across the you are warning utilities and companies to brace for a possible complete stop to gas flows. even after the 10 day repair period. they fear russia will use maintenance as a pretext. moscow has already reduced flows and germany in recent weeks, cutting back supply to 40 percent of normal levels. again, siding repair needs. now the north stream stoppage also appears to be pushing the german government to undermine its own sanctions regime against russia. at berlin's request, canada has now temporarily waved its export restrictions on a gas turbine that the company, siemens was repairing its facilities in montreal, delivery and installation of that turbine, which russia says is critical to restoring gas flows, could force you to partially lift its own sanctions on russia, that in turn,

has drawn the higher of ukraine for let's take a further look into this. karen piddle leads the fo, center for energy, climate and resources. she joins me from munich and my colleague andrea emory is joining me here in studio at karen. i 1st want to start with you, we've been anticipating this day when maintenance begins, begins for quite some time. how alarmed should we be? do we have any idea? i mean, we don't know. i mean that's basically it. i mean, the maintenance is the normal that happens basically every year, 1014 days. the question is really whether there will be any excuses on the russian side to actually prolong that period until when it's anybody's guess. or one excuse that's been given to this point for pulling back on gas imports to germany has been a busted turbine under the german government is now trying to work with candidate to get a turbine in how problematic is this actually that they're sort of playing. i don't

want to be playing along with it. they're actually sort of working on this turbine, in essence with the russian government. what, what, what can we say about that? well, it's a big mess to you because what germany had to do was to convince canada, a strong ally to send back this turbine. and to do that they have to live sanction temporality. they say on a siemens, canada, they were repairing the turbine. another sending it back and then the bowl is in the u. s. field because we will have to also lift sanctions probably to lead germany deliver that turbine. germany is busting its own sanctions. in essence, that might be the thing that's going to happen because if we want this turbine to go from germany to gas pro men, so to let them install it on nor stream one, that's where it should go. well, we'll have to leave some sanctions, otherwise we can deliver it. really deliver the item to russia. and i'm in for germany is a really big problem. we are ready here on the strong criticism for what we've done so far for ukraine interview many with many things that we haven't been doing

enough. i love it. yeah, exactly. and the problem is, of course the ukraine is not amused. of the chief of gastron's mission network of ukraine cold is a very, very bad precedent for exemptions from sanctions and russia is already weaponized as for propaganda purposes, is there any guarantee that if the turbine were in place that supplies would return to the level to be honest no, because russia could already deliver more through all the routes right now. and so we might also end up lifting some sanction. so weakening the sanctions and in the end they will receive the turbine and not use it and claim that maybe it's still broken or whatever. they have many options under it. i want to ask you what, what, what kind of efforts have there been on the germans side to find alternative sources of gas if it's not coming in from the russian side? is germany not further along than it was when we can see that flows already diminish from russia? we went from 55 percent to 35 percent. most of the gas that did the change in to

mix of gas has been going towards the netherlands, belgium, and norway, especially. we're also trying to build this very big ellen g terminal on william southern and receive the green light recently. so it's still a very big struggle and it's not off the chart or off the page and we will have to fire up coal plants, for example, to actually have more electricity this winter. and a lot of talk about that, a lot of controversy around firing up coal plants. karen, we, we often talk about this possible gas stoppage in terms of the economic and household damage. we could see how can we sum this up for people who may not really be aware how critical gas is in terms of the german economy. can you sort of give us an idea me basically studies at the moment, all predicting that or if the north stream one pipeline and every other a gas from russia would be stopping right now that we might be facing basically

a gap with in comparison to previous years with respect to the gas supply of about 20 percent, and that is after the ellen g temp terminals, sinew elegy, terminals are up and running. so we would need to use our gas demand quite considerably. and that is something that is pretty unclear so far. how far that will be possible, where it will happen, and which to which extend actually rising prices will play a role here and how far actually enterprises a companies can pass on the higher gas price to customers. presumably, a lot of companies may have to scale back production if they're heavily dependent on gas. is that fair to say? that is fair to say, i mean, some companies might have the opportunity to switch, for example, to oil. some might be able to import things that they would need for their protection that would have been produced on a, on a previous level with,

with gas. so for example, chemical companies producing and then david using that production and import off that particular items could come from somewhere else. but they're still a pretty, a very good notion to which extent that will be possible. all right is a huge topic that will be following for the coming days. that was karen piddle. she leads the fo, center for energy climate and resources and joins us from unique and andrea now pre, my colleague here in studio, thank you both for joining us. and if you're looking for more on this topic now, you can check out our youtube special rushes throughout. to cut off european gas applies. our reporters go even deeper into some aspects of the story that we just heard there from andrea and karen. we also get into other parts, you may not be as familiar with. you can find it on the dw news channel alongside our other business reports.

are i moving on a joint investigation by d. w. and more than 40 media outlets has revealed how goober aggressively lobbied governments and potentially even skirted some loss as it expanded its ride sharing service. a trove of lea documents suggest the ride sharing firm hid information from investigators in the netherlands by remotely killing internal devices in its amsterdam office. another port also details the close relationship between ober and then french economy minister, a manuel milan at a time when the company was trying to avoid fringe regulations. moran mc wrong gave the company direct access to his staff or at least louis is our correspondent pair. she joins me for more on this lisa, i mean it, in some ways it's not uncommon for european capitals to mix very intensively into their own industries and branches and even pick favorite companies in paris after all owns part of carmel careno. so help me understand what is the scandal here when

it comes to uber? well, many people here feel it was not morally acceptable for an economics minister to stand by the side of an international company that they felt was a very capitalistic and want to take down french label or that's indeed what a some opposition politicians set today. they said, you know, he really became them on my car at the time economics minister as he said. and he became the lobbyist for a company that wanted to de rig regulate, regulate french labor law. and when you look at it, actually the situation of french taxes and even at the time was and it's still is very different taxi drivers about there, about 50000 licenses in this country. and one license can cost up to hundreds of thousands of years. whereas to become an uber driver, regulations are a lot, a lot less strict and they only have to pay

a few 100 years and over the people here were rebelling against that and said french are prime, min, eventually economics minister at the time. and now president m m i call should have done more to protect our friends jobs and good jobs here because they attracted rovers. have the, you are the possibility of becoming employees. uber drivers are only self employed . what have we heard from across camp about what's been reported in my call has answered to the reports he was obs contacted by those carrying out the investigation. he said it was just normal to help some companies that want to, to disrupt markets to, you know, help them make a lift barrier so that they can operate freely over the, at the time. he was part of a socialist government. but even socialist former president, of course, while on that he had pledged to bring down unemployment here, she said, you can hold me personally responsible and political way if unemployment doesn't go

down. and that was off obviously also what am i call? it was aiming act when he was a cooperating apparently, or helping ebara to, to develop the market here in france, he was hoping that thousands of jobs could be created. this is the conflict over over, over ober, as explosive, there to day as it was years ago when this was really a big issue. i think it kind of has come down. people here have eased into the situation. they still a judicial conflict going on actually, such as in other countries of court here has decided in 2020 that uber needed to give it it will employees that are not legal employees at the moment, the status of employees, and that they no longer have to work as independent workers, but that decision still needs to be implemented and it looks like it's very difficult to get in for able to implement that situation. so the, the main focus of the conflict today is on how these workers,

how the drivers of labor can work here in france and what conditions they would get as a worker for uber. alrighty, to be correspond at least lewis and paris. thank you very much. and finally, billionaire and hes lucio ellen musk says he's no longer interested in buying twitter. musk was in negotiations to acquire the messaging platform for $44000000000.00. he cited the number of spam accounts as one reason behind his decision. a twitter alternative. he says, a decision comes a little too late. it plans to challenge must, in court. experts say they will either compel him to buy the platform or pay a fee for backing out. and here's a reminder of our top business story. today marks the start of the annual maintenance work on the north stream. one gas pipeline during the operation which takes place every year in mid july. russia has to stop the gas low for about 10

days. this year, germany fears that it might not turn the tap back on. right, that's our show for more. you can check us out to check us out online e w dot com slash business. to check out our youtube channel or the d. w. news channel. very much ah ah, with

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oh, this is dw news live from berlin. fears over germany is energy supply. russia shots down to la just natural gas pipeline, to germany for 10 days of scheduled maintenance about berlin fairs. the cutoff could last much longer due to the war in you pray. also coming up ukraine, just civilians in the southern region of harrison to flee as its forces prepare counter attacks. a rush and asked for i've gone on apartment block kill the.