ah ah ah, this is the w. news ly, from berlin, bracing for the worst case scenario. europe is planning to ask countries to cut gas consumption as fears grow, that russia will cut off deliveries. also coming up, europe deadly heat wave moves east. the death toll is rising as wildfire spread,

and many countries report the highest temperatures since records began. and with the nation in crisis, sri lanka, parliament is electing a new president. we will look at the candidates vying to replace the countries out did former leader. ah, i'm sorry, kelly. welcome to the program. concerns are growing that moscow may further reduce gas deliveries to europe in the coming months. speaking to the russian reporters in tehran, on tuesday, hootin said that the amount of gasoline pumped through the nordstrom one pipeline to germany would most likely fall to about one 5th of its capacity. e. u is concerned that russia may try and ric economic and political havoc in europe in the winter, in retaliation for its support of ukraine. it's now preparing for the possibility.

russia will cut deliveries completely. denote stream one pipeline where golf deliveries from russia have dropped to 0 to germany. since last week. russia has said this is due to regular maintenance, but your leaders are already gearing up for the worst case. lucy, prussia, due to the energy as it uses food as a weapon of war. i think we must today prepare for a scenario in which we have to manage completely without russian gas. and this is not the theoretical scenario. in 2021, the ear imported around 40 percent of its gas from russia, with some e. u. countries being especially dependent. namely germany, italy, and eastern european nations. in ports are now down to 20 percent. but should russia really hold all gas imports? experts only see one solution if we are to see

a full interruption of the rush and gas supply to europe, then we will have to decrease our gas demand in the residential sector in the industrial sector. so using less a warm water, turning down the heating and switching off the lights. well beyond the agenda for many in europe. for some more than for this, we and brew estimated that they're all they're only new or a way to cut to get them. and by 15 percent, but these will of national differences. germany, for example, is a country that might need to reduce more gas demand because of the limited. i'll turn at these germany has, at the same time, yearly does are rushing to find alternatives to russian energy. such as liquefied natural gas, for example, or ramping up gas imports from other countries, like aster by john, despite the nation's dubious human rights record,

this will help compensate for cuts and supplies of russian gas and contributed significantly to europe, security of supply. these alternative sources could help fill up gas storage facilities all over the block by the winter. for now, however, current storage levels are far below the minimum of 80 percent. so after a hot summer, many here in europe are hoping for a mild winter and joining you now from our brussel studios is d. w, corresponded marina strauss who filed that report for us. so marina tell us, it seems to be unclear at the moment if russia will halt, cut or resume gas applies to europe by the north stream one pipeline. what are e leaders? expecting? jo hannah's hand, the commissioner from austria found very key words. he told the wall street journal only yesterday that you commission,

so the executive arm does not expect russia to restart gas deliveries through the north stream. one pipeline, after thursday, thursday is tomorrow, and it's the official end of the regular maintenance. so he's also not the only you leader who has said that, for example, the front francis minister who the economy and fines minister. he also said that he things that are cato dual cut off a fresh and gas to europe, is the most likely scenario. and how is the preparing for that potential scenario so that your commissioner will actually present a energy winter plan later today. and they will ask each countries to cut demand to had their gas demands. you, you already mentioned it. we're still waiting for the details, but what we already know is that not all you countries, not all you industries will be happy with this plan, because the question is,

how much gas will they have to cut down? we are, we have you countries like spain and portugal, for example, are not very reliant on russian gas. and they say, why should we cut down a russian, gus of because we, we are, why should we cut down on our demand? if we don't import russian gas and then also the question is, which industries have to cut down their demand 1st, which industries are more important that you commission and also you countries will have to give answers to this question. and the international monetary fund, our husband warning that a complete russian gas cut or embargo would lead to severe recession in many you countries. how are countries preparing for that? your leaders are already looking for alternatives to ration guys. and they also tried to boost renewable energies, but it's clear with the ease dependence on ration guessed it won't be fast enough for this winter. so the commission that used executive arm again says cutting down

gas demands starting now, right. really starting in the summer, not waiting until the winter could contain economic impacts to cyril point 4 percent of its g d p. but if nothing is down, it could be way worse. and what could actually help is solidarity between member states. so for example, if one country faces a severe shortage at the countries could help. but of course, this will also be a very difficult decision to make because maybe such countries would want to would want to keep their gas to themselves in case of emergencies. how to deal with russian and gas and, and energy amid the russian invasion of ukraine has really been a sticky topic within the e u. what is the state of unity right now on the issue? well now it comes to now it comes all down to money at the beginning of was sol showing solidarity was sanctions that didn't really affect the european economy,

but now it comes down to energy. it comes down to a lot of money and energy prices are already rising in europe. we will see more soaring prices in the winter, and of course, citizens get more impatient. so this is definitely a very difficult topic, and we're looking for, we're looking at a very difficult winter in europe. marina straus in brussels. thank you. on another news, europe's heat wave is spreading across the continent with new record highs. expected in germany to day temperatures rose to 39 degrees celsius in parts of the country on tuesday. the hottest day of the year. so far, record temperatures were reached in multiple parts of europe exacerbating already deadly wildfires. scientists say this summer is a wake up call to the impact of climate change and that the worst is yet to come. if not 0 emissions are not achieved. in the u. k. temperatures reached over 40

degrees celsius yesterday. a historic high fires ignited on the edges of london forcing some residence to evacuate a village outside london, a set of blaze by the searing heat, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees celsius on tuesday, much of u. k was attended box waiting for a spark. the smoke was visible from the capital city center, usually bustling with tourists from around the world. quiet in the oppressive heat hot and. c when you walk down with the heat, also spread to other parts of england, not normally known for sunshine and cloudless skies. well,

everything's difficult of grinding hold unfortunately. i mean, i'm involved in something a church and it's all the organizations of a truck is down because people don't feel comfortable coming out. so we normally sell to the company. so what do you spend if never the whole team? yeah, i don't think it's anything. it's a great privilege for is, but we're just going to get on with it. this won't be the last time the mercury reaches record highs once a year when you see these kind of heat waves are becoming more and more frequent through the coming. the caves then they got the trending climate. we'll continue, at least on the other. what are some seeks? these are independent of our success in climate. the mitigation. the heat wave has swept across the continent, the to destructive power from western europe, with fire, still raging. near the french did your 4 door open, 900000 heck does of countryside have been scorched, forcing the evacuation of over 30000 residents. meanwhile, the heat continues its journey eastwards, belgium,

and parts of germany up bracing for extreme temperatures on wednesday. sure lancoste parliament is electing a new president after former leader. go to buy a ride to puck, so resigned amid protest over the country's economic crisis. lawmakers votes are now being counted. 3 candidates are in the race, but there are 2 main contenders. prime minister and acting president renea with ra, massena, and dulles. alamba oma, a former education minister, whoever wins will take charge of a bankrupt nation in the throes of its worst. ever economic crisis struggling with severe shortages of medicine, fuel, and food correspond at many or chowdhury as in the sri lankan capital colombo, monitoring the election. earlier i asked her who's likely to win plaza. this is a big day for a longer big day for the country, a big dipper, all the people who have been protesting for the past few months. there are 3

candidates in the fear right now in parliament is in session. what thing is in session right now, one of the 3 of them, of course, the 1st is of course under the messenger, who is the current prime minister and acting president at the moment. the 2nd candidate is dallas, alabama, who has a strong backing of the opposition and also the backing of some members of the ruling party, which is out did president waterbury roger boxes party as of phoebe. and the 3rd candidate is the left us leader. i don't know them are desinik, you know, we talked realistically, the risk is actually between the 1st 2 leaders under victor messenger and dallas, alabama. but i will be grandma finger hast support of gauss, president roger process party. but some of the members are supporting dallas as well, who also have the united support of the opposition. so it's a close contact at close contacts at the moment. so we have to wait for the water to get over. it's a charged atmosphere, of course, among the public. what is the mood life there? would you say ahead of this phone?

read the mood actually, if you can see behind me, this is the old parliament or the president presidential secretary, where i'm standing right now. there the large group of people who have gathered and there is a screen which has been put up here where the live stream of walking in the parliament is speaking. please. people are sitting here would be to bed watching. they are curious. they are concerned now of course the fact of the matter is that for the past week we are seeing that people are very anti down and become a singer after go to bed bugs of lead. when he was made the acting president, people have been very clear in the, in their demand that they want him to step down. at the moment, people are calm, dale waiting for the parliament wanting to be or what they are beating for the adult to be announced. and only then can you see what kind of action takes place on the ground and you are there the ground. i mean, what are people saying, and are they prepared to protest if they, if they don't mind the width is val goes well,

yeah. so with the past couple of days i've spoken to many people, some who were the bought of the menu. we're not that the struggle really carry on. many of them are saying that have done a victim of thing a comes to followed the are not ready to lead. the think of him as someone who has been in close contact with had blue link and history with go to better roger excited rather than the do not want him to come to follow. said they say that if he comes back to bali, if he's elected president, they will come out on the street again. but interestingly enough, if you talk to other people, many of them also see that we are tired of looking at the field leadership of our country. and what we really want is for the new leader to build trust and confidence with us. so we can finally go back home and leave the country and july and leave the country in the hands of the government in july on the government that it will do its job. and that was the w. corresponded. been here a chowdhury reporting from colombo and we'll go back to her as soon as we have it result on that election. in the meantime, the united states says russia is planning to annex more of ukraine white house

national security spokesperson, john kirby said that moscow intends to organize sham referendums to formally take possession of ukrainian territory. under its control, kirby said that russia was targeting the regions of her song supper routine and don't ask and the wants. annexation by force would be a gross violation of the un charter. and we will not allow it to go unchallenged or unpunished. will continue to provide ukraine with historic levels of security assistance. later this week, administration will announce the next presidential drawdown, package of weapons and equipment for ukraine. we, the 16th such draw down to support ukraine since the president took off on the ground, russian missiles struck a residential area of climate tours, a city and eastern ukraine on tuesday. at least one person died, several others will wound it. russian troops are increasingly targeting the city as they try to push forward into the don boss region

or russian air strike in the heart of rum dos. this woman is praying for her son in law was severely injured in the attack. i felt a really powerful explosion, and i understood it was some way here. i called my daughter and she said that maxim was not picking up the phone. he must have been knocked off then. cuz then they said i was unconscious in critical condition. i noticed that the doctors think the outlook is bad if any of the week, so, but we will ideally small resume as we were walking out of the grocery store. and at that moment, there was a blind shouldst terminal to 3 minutes later we walked into our yard and we saw this picture. a man ga clear, our neighbor max was lying near our car. naturally we called the ambulance,

but it only arrived 20 minutes later. csm and all of the val, are these ukranian president volunteers zalinski condemned the strike in from a dongle as well as the several others across the country. a goliath calling them atlas of detto ally, that i don't know. meanwhile, russian forces are keeping up the bombardments of cities across ukraine. noticing them, all of the russians are more aggressive now with them close to. it feels like they're firing with their eyes closed, the shell, everything some quick before they at least tried to hit certain targets. but now they are much more aggressive. there are many of them in them that we will manage and we have no other option. after days of heavy fighting, you green says it has managed to push back russian troops in bots of done yet this in russian forces have suffered heavy casualties. ukrainian leaders say it will be

the timely delivery of enough western weapons and ammunition that will ultimately decide the cause of the war. in correspond. mathias ballinger is in ukraine's capital t as covering the war and monitoring the potential annexations of ukrainian territories by russia. here's the assessment here, the is a, specifically the u. s. has warned that russia could hold referendums in these territories. that would mean the 2 territories offer don. yes, candle, hands, parts of which have been occupied since 2014 or by these self proclaimed drop republic. sir, and her newly conquered territories in her son, the region of her son and the parts of a patricia that are under russian control. so these coast lines that russia has conquered since february. um, the are that russia has been preparing to enact these terry trees or to

proclaim self the republic similar to those internet can launch in these 2 other territories. that something was going on. there is already clear. for a long time, russia has given out passports in the newly conquered regions, and russia has switched their mobile operators and the tv networks to the russians to the russian one. there have been attempts to introduce the ruble as a currency in these territories. so all these preparations have been going on. what they knew, warning of the us, is that they have given a timeline, a probable timeline for these things for these actions to happen that these leaders, these russia appointed leaders of these regions might hold a referendum already in september. although they have been already warnings or possible referendums or preparations for ever and them's before. but it seems that the russians so far have not considered itself is safe to proclaim these which also should not forget. there's considerable activity in the east, especially in the southern territories are the by ukrainian resistance fighters and

that it was not safe so far, but the privileges are going on. tell us a little bit more about the it is activity on the ground. i mean, we just heard about this attack and kind of toys, for example. yes. so, so increment horse residential area was hit, the same was the case in odessa and in michel live where they have the, where'd we create says cluster bombs have been applied. i think this is these attacks in this house are you odessa mc life are assigned that russia is not relenting from its claims to the region. rush out, what has tried to move on to odessa since the beginning of the war, but was stockton mc alive. and now, with the possible ukranian counter was offensive going on in the her son region. russia seems to be asserting its claims to the regional though they can not advance militarily at the moment. and in the dawn bus indiscriminate shelling off or is it residential areas has been going on for weeks in several parts

of the region that are within artillery range. plus rockets being fired on those places that are a little bit further. so this is actually sadly, nothing new. and of course, the, the, one of the tactics that we might suspect behind these indiscriminate and, and, and, and, and random showings of residential areas is of course intimidation of the population which has not really worked so far here in ukraine mathias bullying her. thank you very much and we want to bring you a quick update and breaking news and a story that we have been following for you here at the news, sri lankan law makers have elected 6 time prime minister. vania would run a singer as president. he will succeed, the ousted leader. gotcha. by out roger coxa who fled the country. the climate siena is seen as the establishment candidate. and we will see now in the next hours, this move has reportedly been opposed by many ordinary people protesting over the

dire economic crisis. we will see if they do indeed come out to protest. our correspondent ben nearer, is monitoring the situation in columbia, and we will go to her in the next hour. in the meantime, here's a look at some more stories making headlines around the world. the u. s. house of representatives has approved a bill to recognize same sex marriage at the federal level. the measure is in response to growing concerned that the supreme court could nullify a previous ruling guaranteeing marriage equality. it is unclear of the bill has enough support to pass in the senate. you a secretary of state antony blinkin says roughly 25000000 people around the world are currently victims of human trafficking. that's according to the state department's annual report on the issue. the report also stressed her book that russia's invasion of ukraine has left ukrainian refugees, highly vulnerable to traffic. a u. s. judge has ruled that

a lawsuit filed by twitter against billionaire ulan mosque will go to trial in october. it was the 1st hearing and illegal tussle over mosque. dropping the $44000000000.00 deal to buy twitter. the social media company wants to force him to complete. the bi aft versus leader leading female tennis player has come out as a lesbian and an online video. daria cut sakina, who is currently ranked 12 in the world, said she was in a relationship with a woman, but she also slammed homophobic attitudes in her home country. russia is considered one of the worst european countries for l. g. b. teach you, right. sudan has been in the headlines for months because of political on rest, but even though life in the capital cartoon is marked by crisis daily activities, so go on and for some of the city this means pursuing their love of classic cars,

especially german once corresponding adrienne crease reports by day fatima city works in a far missy, but after work she devotes herself to her favorite hobby. the folks wagon beaver with what do i like most about the 1st i can be to. it's the quality there last for ever, and there are so easy to maintain. i do most of the repays myself and now that i have my own beetle, i've fallen even more in love with this car as they also just are beautiful inside and out. i love them. they have very divine. she's not the only volkswagen fan in sedans, capital cartoon today, beetle collectors, gather in the city, along with other fans of german carmakers from the mercedes club.

club ben sudan has more than 7000 members. oakbrook me to mercedes music. my love to course my gracious because it's actually a lifestyle. after i graduation. i joined emerson through germany. shellman. i'm a cop mechanic and my love for pain saw when i was kid only love classic one. i got to know this lisa site in the community and i learned a lot from those sir, new friends of mine because of this one. we kind of say the club is also about learning from each other. how to fix these cars. and when no one knows what to do, this is the place to go in khartoum. they call this mercedes street. if you're mercedes, car has a problem. this is where you get it fixed. it's one workshop after another here. and you can hunt for spare parts in huge warehouses and shops

with sati. mohammad has been repairing mercedes cars for 50 years, ever since he was tan, a cousin taught him how to do it. and that's also a north. i love challenge and that's why i chose mercedes a little bit, but not everyone can fix them. they could be quite difficult. this car was built in 1976. no one knows how many kilometers it has on the clock. muhammad estimates that it is over a 1000000, and it will certainly clock up more kilometers when mohammed manages to repair the diesel pump, most parts here are repaired rather than replaced. hello. the biggest problem for us here is that there are hardly any good quality, spare parts. all the spare parts that are imported these days are of poor quality. it's a real problem. the beano belonging to fatima city is also temperamental with

traffic and cartoon me. so really bad in front of both spike and beetles. there is another problem. they don't have a radiator which is why the engine hover sheet to all the time that it doesn't matter. but city says she still wouldn't want to drive any other car can. with that you're up to date on t. v in is up. next it is close up. i'm sarah kelly and berlin. thanks for watching . ah, with

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