greek national opera artistic program. 2020 to 2023 into the night with greek national stuff. those now who's foundation? ah ah, does the state of we news live from berlin? europe's looming energy crisis member states are told to use less gas to avert a squeeze this winter as brussels warns that russia is using energy supplies as a weapon. also on the program,

russia raises the stakes in ukraine. the foreign minister survey love rob says moscow military aims now extend beyond the eastern dawn baths regent scene of the heaviest fighting italy's prime minister. when's a confidence vote in parliament? but mario druggie may still be on the way out. 3 key coalition parties refused to back him. plus, scientists say europe's deadly heat wave is awake. of course, they warn the world dependence on fossil fuels means there's worse to comp. ah, i'm nick off really to our viewers on p b. s in the united states and around the world. welcome. in the midst of a sweltering heat wave, europe is already bracing for a looming winter gas. i says,

a new member states are being told to reduce gas consumption by 15 percent until next march. russian president vladimir putin is warning that supply sent through the north. true one pipeline which have already been reduced significantly, could be cut off completely. the european commission has asked you citizens to use less warm water, so which of the lights, and turned on the heat and air conditioning to prepare for a winter without rushing gas. russia is black mailing us. russia is using energy as a weapon and therefore in any and wet event, whether it's a partial major cut off of russian gas or a total cut off of russian gas. europe needs to be ready. and in order to be ready, ursula funder line had one big message. every one in europe has to save energy starting now. the u. s. asking all member countries to reduce their gas use by 15

percent. first on a voluntary basis. then in case of severe gas shortage is the measure it could become mandatory. it's a scenario that you commission hopes to avoid. if we do nothing, once things, sure, we will have shortfalls. and shortfalls will not just affect the countries where the shortfalls happen. they will affect every single member state because they will have serious consequences on our economy. energy solidarity among you members is said to become a big topic in europe once it gets colder. but it's not at all clear. all 27 states will get in line. they are not all equally dependent on russian gas and face different levels of emergency. we have seen ongoing, for example, closing down their energy market border. not, you know, allowing our floor out of the country of garza. if for these it becomes

sir an action. they cannot buy either governments if these countries start to close down their energy markets. we are going to be in trouble because the ear won't be able to draw on enough. and she sources to fully replace fresh and gas by the winter. despite efforts to build new terminals for a liquefied natural gas boost renewables and ramp up gas imports from other countries, like as the by john current gas storage levels are far below the ears minimum target of 80 percent. after a hot summer, a very tough winter is looming. so could this proposal see some e u countries shutting down some of their industries to secure gas supplies for households in others? i asked our correspondent bandit, he got in brussels rossi originally. this could be possible, but this is not the measure that the you is aiming for. the main focus now lies on

saving energy of 15 percent. every country has to save it and these guys should then be stored in the underground storage to use it in winter. to be prepared and to avoid any shortages, either households nor for industry and the priorities haven't changed in the plan households and vulnerable infrastructure like hospitals will get gas 1st, then industry. and they will cut off of the things like swimming pools, trade, furs and everything that is connected to leisure, to safeguards and guests sell shall also not be used to, to produce electric power. this should be done by coal, and also by oil, and also by nuclear energy. was left on the line says this plant heavily depends on the solidarity as member estate. we briefly heard as a victor our van from hungary and is that he and everybody else on board?

no, they are not on board to hungary excluded any exchange of care supplies with its neighboring countries and hunger is not the only one that is skeptical other countries that are not so dependent on russian gas ask why should we save gas? why should we the supply our gas we get from norway, or old algeria, or something like that to other countries? so this will be a big discussion or amongst the member states. but the commission is hoping that the scope of this emergency of the crisis will force them to cooperate and to act herb, similar to their, the way they acted during the pandemic. so come together and show some solidarity in the international monetary fund war. and yesterday that a complete embargo of rush and gas could lead to a severe recession in many countries. can you tell us who would be most mon ruble

and what preparations are being made? they're interested enough. it's also hungary. there is one the route here because it depends on the russian gas. it's the czech republic. it's slovakia, but it's also germany, austria and italy. a who'd knew who need this gas for the industries, if these industries shut down than the whole of the european union would be affected? the recession would not be or isolated in germany, austria, it would effect everything because supply chains and production lines are so intertwined in the you, in the internal market, you cannot separate them last year, they in you and port at some 40 percent of its gas and rush hour successful, have a 10th of diversifying away from russian energy supplies. been the, the commission is telling us that they are the shop around for a gust supplies around the road, actually from the united states to katara. and they managed to get the, the,

the reliance on russian goes down. hm. 40 to 30 percent this year. but still 30 percent is too much. so this has to be saved. it still amounts to a gap of 30000000000 cubic meters. to w correspondent, fancy got in brussels. thank you so much for that update. meanwhile, russia is expanding its military objectives in ukraine. foreign ministers are gay, love ralph says moscow's aims. now extend beyond the eastern dawn bath region we're finding is currently heaviest. he blames western weapons supplies for the change in strategy and insists the purpose of the invasion is to demilitarize ukraine, heartache in the city of har. heave as a father and prayer, niels over his lifeless son, the teenager was waiting for bus. when he was killed by a russian missile strike through 3 people have been killed including

a 13 year old boy. i'm 2 people wounded around among them is a 15 year old girl. she's been operated on right now. it was on a daily shelling, pummels eastern ukraine, killing civilians and destroying neighborhoods. no, there were 2 strikes, one had here and the other hit a grocery store on the other side of the street. and now the trajectory of violence is about to change. i met at the walker. zable has west pause, more and more long range weapons, such as high miles into ukraine in an impotent rage, or in a desire to exacerbate the situation as much as possible to claim submitted. that means same geographical tasks, of these special operation will extend still further from the current lying of certain, initially showed that russia's pretext for war was allegedly to liberate, break away regions in the east,

from nazi rule and accusation. ukraine and the west se is not grounded in reality. now the kremlin is expanding its attack, blaming the west port shift in military strategy. almost from when you move from that was we can not allow the parts of ukraine that president loaded me as a landscape company, or whoever replace a sim will control who you are to have a weapons that will pose a direct direct to our territory with started on the territory of those republics that have declared that independence got the route of you know, sir usa usa, misty to, to just he says at this point engaging in peace talks doesn't make sense. meanwhile, ukrainians are paying the ultimate price or corresponding money is burning. a isn't key of an earlier we asked him for his take on the russian foreign ministers, latest message. level of switch do not really come as a surprise here in ukraine. the russian propaganda has always adjusted its

narrative from time to time, framing it as a reaction to western behavior toward deliveries of weapons. but here in key of nobody has doubted that this focus on the dunbar was just an, a temporary adjustment. and the goal remains the same to take the parts of ukraine or subdue the whole country. in the past few days, russia has shot at, or desa and mc alive, the 2 main cities in the south and dirt that points to them or through the next go there might be approaching. this is the territories that they call new russia, that russian nationalists have been calling new russia since 2014 claiming there were an integral part of russia. and these rockets and these cluster bombs at these are at these 2 cities. arlene claims to them, however, it is not clear that russia would succeed at taking them. they were stopped there

in february and with all their or most of their equipment and soldiers concentrated in the don barza. now, it would be very difficult for them to make an advance there as to italy, a corresponding man, he has filling a reporting from keith. germany's foreign minister and alina burbock has announced plans for a new national security strategy. the scheme is being drawn up in a consultation with a range of civil and military experts, members of parliament and the public. babcock has been presenting her plans around germany and also spoke to our chief international editor, richard walker. and linda, by about many thanks sir, for johnny dodge vela, i would like to begin with the war and ukraine, which of course, is the backdrop to developing a japanese new national security strategy. your russian counterpart take a lover of his to said the russia is expanding its focus of from doing that can landscape in the east of the country or to harrison and other regions in the south

. this seems to confirm that the notion that russia is aiming to annex these territories, perhaps even cut off ukraine entirely from the black sea. what's your response to that? was the same as it had been in the last 2 months. we support j. ukraine not only was tele, dera t, not only by mentioning every day that this is a fundamental breach of international law by russia, but also with military support. so they can self defend their country, their territory, and russia using every time a different argument. so this time it's because of the military support they are saying, but they have been attacking key if another part of ukraine before. so it's just the new propaganda from the russian side. now the war has exposed because germany's very severe dependency on russian gas we be seeing that in particular, this very weak. when you launch the national security strategy process,

you said you highlighted the issues of dependency. so i would like to look at another dependency that germany has on china for its economy. this is one that could go very wrong. people are saying now you are developing these chimes. tracy is part of this process. how serious are you about tackling and reducing this economic dependency on china? very serious. otherwise, it wouldn't make sense to make just a strategy if you're not serious about strategies, shouldn't do one. so this is why we're looking intensively about our dependencies. but if you see also with russia, some things you can cut from one day to the other. and there are similar questions for many european countries. for example, if we are going correctly now to electric cars and to be in line with our climate to guild. so we need obviously, batteries, we don't have a better reproduction as we need for an extra cost and we are starting $1.00. but all the materials which are in the batteries, we have a dependency of

a 98 percent discount for all the cars in europe. so this is why our china strategy is also not an isolated german one, but because we an integrated internal market, we are doing it in line with our european partners with the commission, with ultimate very clear that china is not only a competitor in some of the economy question, it's all to partner fighting in climate crisis, but also system rival and because it's a system, right? well, we have to make clear that and nobody can black my last as we were with regard to our dependency to, to russia. and this is the baseline for new china as strategy working together where we can work together. but having also a sovereign european affinity of independence in critical infrastructure. and especially in line with our foreign policy. i was germany, foreign minister and bad luck. speaking to d, w as chief international editor, richard walker. and if you'd like,

you can watch the whole interview on our youtube channel. moving on to italy were prime minister. mario druggie has won a vote of confidence in his government, but his administration remains in peril after 3 parties refused to take part in a speech to the upper house drug. he demanded unity from the broad coalition, but failed to get the support of crucial factions. it's not clear whether he will resign or earlier. i asked italian journalist a little bit on it. if this was the victory dragon was hoping for. no, no it's. it's definitely not technically one device. but as you were saying, most members of 3 parties underpinning his coalition have walked out of the values . now dragging is not an elected politician. so he always made clear that he wanted the support of parliament and the government of national unity to deliver reforms to have some kind of legitimacy. and i guess today's events where an a mistake was

signed that he doesn't have that support in that majority anymore. now the later reports we've been getting a drug, he's not going to resign tonight by the chances are high that he will go and meet president mater marked to tend to his resignation. and now this wouldn't be the 1st time he tries to resign. will the president accept his resignation this time around? you think? yeah, you're right. that's one of the many grotesque i would say. ties of this lexical events would be witnessing. now we've got to tell it just that the 1st time that the president refused drug his resignation was mostly we've been told by clicking on the list due to procedural reasons. so he want to drug a to go to parliament, have a debates, and see what happens there. now i think this, this has happened today. and so this has been what happened today was surprising to manage. so there might be more surprises by the chances are that yes,

once this happens, this time the president is going to accept drawing his presentation. druggie came into the post of prime minister to bring some stability to italy. where does his probable departure or this crisis as a whole? leave italy what's an interesting question? i guess we're going to wake up tomorrow and see what happens. i think the media and political analysts will keep an eye on financial markets to see what happens that and yeah, i think the next step will be to see what the president does. he asked me 2 options . one is to consult with political parties and see as a new majority in parliament, but the most likely outcome is early elections after the summer in milan. thank you . and then the ok just to kind of it's are left battling down to take over from the outgoing british prime minister board johnson. the former conservative party leader

has said his goodbyes in parliament and he was forced to step down over a series of scandal. it has been clear for days that fresh is so luck. the u. k. is far more finance minister would be one of the last 2 standing i helped at this country for an incredibly difficult period over the last couple of years. i may show that we supported those who needed all help at every step with interventions not to follow. that's what people can expect from you going forward. but till the very end, what remained in suspense was, who would stand against him in the race? to day it became clear that that would be lis trucks. trust represents the right wing of the tory party and wants to come to new borders. johnson's confrontational approach towards brussels. i'm a loyal person. i'm loyal to boris jones. i supported all prime ministers, aspirations, and i want to deliver the promise of the 2019 manifesto. as for johnson,

he bid farewell to the house today looking pleased with himself. mission largely accomplished, who now mrs. because i love that everybody here and how some of the stuff, maybe he has president joe biden has called climate change. a clear and present danger that cannot be ignored. biden is using his presidential powers to invest billions of dollars to protect communities from extreme weather and to support wind energy. speaking at a former coal fired power plant and massachusetts, he said, the u. s. must said a global example while protecting americans from extreme weather, like wild fires. the president is plagued by a low poll numbers as environmental activist sour on his ability to make concrete changes on climate. but he says the fight isn't over. will not take no furniture. i

will do everything in my power, clean our air and water protect our people's health. when the clean energy future, which again shows like our we, our children and grandchildren are counting on us. not a joke. not a joke. if we don't keep a view, a 1.5 degrees centigrade, we lose it all. we don't get to turn it around and the world is counting on us. and for more i am joined now by our correspondent mikaela, if not in washington, mikaela biden's as the world is counting on him and as countries a why the stopping short of declaring a national climate emergency well, because he simply wants to get the chance to take this bit by bit i think he is in the process of giving up hope to avoid that know that he said that he won't take as an answer and that's one of his own centers. do mansion who's turned on him, and there's such a delicate balance currently amongst lawmakers that that one vote would be needed

and to implement his climate action, the whole build back better concept of joe biden. so this points to weakness in the u. s. president strategy and actually getting stuff done. and his climate adviser was actually off by done this on the plane that his somerset massachusetts why there was no declaration of emergency why. there was no executive order sweeping executive order today. and the she wouldn't go into details, but very much sounded like they're still working out the exact details on how they want to do this. but the announcement is that that executive orders will be issued on a whole host of climate policy. what he announced today is mostly focused on resilience and support for renewables. what impact will the action that he to day presented have? well,

the hope is that where you pledge more than $2000000000.00 as he has done today, more private investment will follow. and at that very much is the plan of action. also, monks, according to his key advisors. beyond that it will be about sticking to climate commitments. this is not necessarily something that is unpopular in the united states, but he needs to convey the message that this can be done while creating jobs. and that's also why he chose the scene where he was standing today. it was one of the biggest coal fired plants in the country. now there's a production of cables, spring also energy to the united states. that's what he wants to see in the future . but he really is failing to get that across the finishing line for now. does the public share biden's sense of urgency and tackling the climate crisis?

well, certainly 100000000 americans alone, all suffering from the acute heat right now. so there's a whole new audience. this resonates with right now. polls have also shown that that is a sense not just amongst republicans, that they are in favor of green energy. i'm particularly amongst his own democrats, more than 2 thirds feel that their own president is acting too slowly on this. so if that's not a mandate, i don't know. thank you very much. dw correspondent mikaela, cuz then washington europe's heat wave is causing more death and destruction. climate scientists are calling the extreme whether awake of call and warning that worse is to come because fossil fuels, like coal and gas, remained the world's primary energy sources. record temperatures and several countries are still fueling deadly. wildfires. french president minute mccaul, thank firefighters taking a break and one of the worst effected areas of western france. he says governments

will need to plan on what he calls a more structural level in the future. and the heat wave is making itself felt here in germany as well. thermometers have just recorded the hottest day of the year so far and many regions are suffering from a long term lack of rainfall. it's a sweltering summer in germany, even in the morning. it was 30 degrees celsius hilton frank vote. just about bearable, as is shown high, so it's already hot. so you have to go home early on. a house again via husband was staying in the shade and drinking a lot. and we just had ice cream on the woodside. the extreme heat is a big strain on people working outdoors at this construction site and berlin workers are struggling on this farm and germany is not relief comes from above. the heat is also hard on dairy cows. and they are enjoying the

water sprinklers at reserve, alphabet of it surprised me that the cows come into the barn on their home and very quickly to hug when the sprinkler system is on the few. quite comfortable with this water, cooling them down, they're likely to meteorologist say, at least some parts of germany. we'll see lower temperatures on tuesday. i'd arm com to night. you mm. the air will come in from the west, making it increasingly muggy, but then thunderstorms were roll in which could bring heavy rain hail and strong winds. that'll freshen the air. so while it will still be hot and ice and areas to morrow, western reason should have cooled down the crude sign. got that for now. the heater sparking files in many regions, 400 firefighters, have been battling this single forest file since last night. and before we go or is a quick reminder of the top stories we're following for you today, europe is facing a looming winter of gas crisis. european union member states are being told to use

15 percent less gap until next march brush, as president vladimir putin as warning that supplies sent through the north stream . one pipeline which have already been significantly reduced, could be cut off completely at all from the news for now, but stay with us after a short break. i'll be back to take you through the day. i'm nicole for late for me and the entire team and our newsroom. thank you so much for watching. a tooth with

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ah ah. ah, deaths injuries and evacuations mount in europe as a blistering heat wave keeps the continent in its grip. but while the record temperature is dominated conversations and headlines in many countries, european union leaders are already worried about a winter that.