unleash along violet boston, and re imagine these teachings or elements to us. ah, legacy shorts. august 6th, phone b, w ah ah, this is dw news live from her land. it's what worried european leaders have to spend 10 days waiting for russia, restarts gas deliveries through the key north street, one pipeline. but with letter, we are putting, using energy as

a weapon. is it too soon to breathe? a sigh of relief. also coming up, russia changes, it's war goals in you praying and the kremlin says that it is now being forced to occupy more territory because of the threat posed by kids growing supplies of western weapons. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. commercial operators say the gas deliveries from russia to germany via the nordstrom one pipeline have resumed. the operator say, the amount coming through is comparable to what russia sent before. deliveries were halted. the resumption comes after a 10 day stoppage for scheduled maintenance. concerns were hi, within the european union that moscow would not resume deliveries amid growing tension over russia's war in ukraine just at spring and dw correspondent

benjamin alvarez. gilbert is an live men where the north stream one gas pipeline enters germany. tell us we are same gas has started flowing again. is it a sigh of relief for europe? it is a sigh of relief, at least for now, but it's an unpredictable him situation. it's a very dynamic situation and we have the nominations that are rising. so that's a promise by russia saying we will sent this amount of gas it to germany, but that could change pretty quickly. and the, the situation we are in is a combination of 2 things. on one side, the high dependency of germany when it comes to russian, oil and gas, and on the other side, a lack of trust. we have the german government repeatedly saying that russia is using energy as a weapon with economy minister and vice chance level. but topics saying that russia is using technical issues, usually it for this political decisions, calling this

a political maintenance. so now this process is over this $1011.00 days. it's an annual maintenance that happens every day for now. gas should be flowing at a lower amount, similar to the one that we had before the maintenance, but things could change pretty quickly as well. russia could, of course, still cut off gas applies on the coming months. as you've highlighted. bear how prepared are heavily reliant countries like germany, for example, stormy searching for alternatives, since it was clear that not true to would not go into operation. there was shortly before russia's invasion in a ukraine that chancellor will have shorts and withdraw is something that they needed to make it this pipeline em usable for it to transport gas as well. germany is searching for alternative partners. for example, katara, for example, the united states of america that they could deliver so could liquified in natural gas with allen g terminals. it would be also here in luke, nina,

germany's about ticket coast belt exceed for them to have an alternative. but of course, that will take some time. we have a french energy giant that would say that they could have this terminal operated by december to see if germany can indeed increase the amount the gas storage that is now around 65 percent and still needs to be increased ahead of the winter. and benjamin we, we understand that european commission chief ursula on her line. she has floated plans to ration gas. he is in the block. what happens to those plans now? she cultural countries to reduce their consumption of gas, saying that europe needs to be prepared if it's a partial is stop with, with russian gas or if it's the pool stop with russian gas and something that the german economy minutes distressed once again. and it's similar to the message that it was a funder line have in europe, needs to be prepared, the needs to be european solidarity and when it will, the topic visited the czech republic. he visited austria as well saying that it

needs to be connection between the countries to have a dialogue to see how they can tackle the situation ahead of the winter months. so similar message is by the german government and by the european commission. president said that europe needs to be prepared independently of the decisions that russia could take now in a few weeks or in a few months. benjamin alvarez group are joining us from love. mean, thank you so much. and rushes foreign minister survey law process that moscow's military aims now extend beyond ukraine's eastern don boss region where fighting is heaviest. he blames western weapons supply for the change in strategy and insist that the purpose of the invasion is to demilitarized ukraine heartache in the city of har heath. as a father and prayer, niels over his lifeless son,

the teenager was waiting for a 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 easton ukraine. killing civilians and destroying neighborhoods. you know, there were 2 strikes, one hit 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. what made it awoke? zarbara caused the west pause, more remote 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 not mean seen geographical tasks. of these special operation which will extend still

further from a current line 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 at blaming the west port shift in military strategy. some of them, when you more from the was he can not allow the parts of ukraine that president louder me. is a lensky, come from you or whoever replaced the same will control. who are you to have a weapons that will pose a direct direct to altera trailer. it started on the territory of those republics. but to declare that independence is screwed up either sir, usa usa, misty took it to chosen. he says at this point, engaging in peace talks doesn't make sense. meanwhile, ukrainians are paying the ultimate price. and in an interview with t w,

germany is foreign minister on alina burbock, dismissed, elaborate claims as propaganda. we support a ukraine not only was cell dera t not only by mentioning every day that this is a fundamental breach of international law by russia, but also was military support. so they can self defend their country, their territory, and rush us using every time a different argument. so, so this time it's so because of the military support they are saying, but they have been attacking key if and on the part of ukraine before. so it's just a new propaganda from the russian side. and that was germany's foreign minister on atlanta, burbock speaking with d. w as chief international editor of richard walker. you can watch the full interview on our d, w, news, youtube channel. now let's bring in d w correspondent mathias ballinger, who is joining us from ukrainian capital kia with the view from there. what is the reaction from ukraine today?

let's just put this a little bit into perspective. russia has, in february, attacked from 3 sides, including the capital of give and resume, put in has a, has heard a speech where he basically denied the existence of ukraine as a nation. so here in ukraine, nobody ever believed that these military actions will be limited to the don boss, other than for short or strategic adjustments. russia was not able to advance further in the north, and it has been stopped in the south before entering michel life. and then for the odessa, which are the most 2 most important port cities. so if you, if lover of not blames the west are 2444, expanding its military goals. that, of course, a propaganda cool that nobody here in ukraine force for because this is something

that russia has often done, it has often blamed its own or, or framed its own ambitions as a reaction to the west. so here in ukraine, there hasn't been much of a reaction to loves words because they're nothing new basically. and you just imposed new sanctions on russia, but ukraine's president's landscape and last night. but that's not enough. what does he want? well, he's always asking for the maximum, of course that's a reasonable thing to do for somebody who is in that position. and that would be to card russia off any income by from gas and oil, or, or, or nearly cut them off. and he's been talking a lot of course about the 2 north stream pipelines, one of which has never been operating, which was, which was suspended due to the war. and the other one, which has been operating already quite a few years north dream one which is going on,

which is delivering gas from today on again. so the, the, the aim of ukraine is, of course, to weaken the income of russia. russia cannot finance it's war any further. meantime, what's the latest on the ground mathias? well, um we've seen heavy fighting. we've seen shelling, we've just seen the pictures in the eastern regions in the past few days. there was also quite some activity in the south, mainly rocket attacks on odessa and a cluster ammunition and rockets on michel i if i'm her, which also speaks to the claim that russia is making to the south. um, what's your grain has done is to intensify? it's attacks on the head, on region, and it seems to have hit the most important bridge. there. harrison is on the north side of that nipper river and supplies from russia coming in from the south from crimea, and they're very few bridges across the napa river. one is this anton off bridge

that has been hit by the ukrainian so they're targeting now the supply lines of the russians in order to launch their counter offensive. mathias bellinger and kim thank you. stray lanka is 6 time prime minister ran neil lick ramos anger. has now officially become the country's new president. he was sworn in at a ceremony in the country's capital, colombo lawmakers elected him to the position one day earlier. he comes to office had a difficult time taking charge of a country grappling with a severe economic crisis. and food fuel and medicine shortages that have led to widespread social unrest. lake rama zinger is a controversial choice for president. many voters believe he is too close to former president go to buy about a packer, who was removed from office after widespread protest. shanker has a new president as ronald promising he

was being boarded in by sure, langon empties, protest does outside the bottom and giant and slogans against him. they were surrounded by heavy security. inside the new president, call for unity to tackle the economic crisis facing, shall uncle? i made that i, that the ne, i need not tell you which state this country is in that sort of the kid in terms of the economy. the young people in the country are demanding a system change. or we have many problems internationally, which we should navigate carefully let lyn that too. for all this, we have to create a new program we, i look at is that, that people are not expecting the old politics from atlanta partner. they, they expect us to work together. i mean, it could take up to a lot. here i'd like to talk to nathan leto, he also distance himself from disgraced former president, go to buy

a roger boxer in his powerful family on my own. from that, i talked to linda daniel, gonna give us maybe napoleon them or you think you'll come here to dan, did me i'm event, you'll notice but many remain unconvinced. they said they were led down by the outcome of the war. this election was a lie, a kind of a, a, a sure us a certificate for us saying that parliament periods have failed us there filled us because they have not listened to the p blows. the most people are struggling. they can't have food. they can't get us in, they don't, i guess they don't have the so they don't have but wrote george, it is a violent leg. we expected much more from the parliament radio slager, c visited the civilians who had been selected them for the parliament. we expected

them to acknowledge you are the people who had been asking brooklyn missing him may have cleared a major political hood. but dealing with the country's economic collapse will prove a much bigger challenge. and here is a reminder of the top story we're following for you. russia has resume supplies of gas t, here after a major pipeline, after a 10 day break for maintenance. european leaders had feared that moscow would refuse to restart deliveries accusingly. kremlin of using energy as a weapon and with that you have to date on pete. i mean is i'm sorry kelly and berlin, thanks for watching. ah ah, has gone.