[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. it is what worried european leaders have spent 10 days waiting for russia restart the gas deliveries through the key north stream one pipeline. but with latin, their potent using energy as

a weapon. is it too soon to breathe, a sigh of relief. also coming up, russia changes it, more goals in ukraine. the kremlin says it is now being forced to occupy more territory because of the threat posed by cubes. growing supplies of western weapons plus more casualties from climate change. rice farmers and northern italy are facing financial ruin as the region suffers its worst route in 70 years. and revenue become zynga is sworn in as sri lanka, new president. we ask about his plans to meet his country out of his economic and political term while ah, and i'm sarah kelly, welcome to the program. it has been a 10th at 10 days for european leaders,

but today the news came that russia has resumed gas deliveries to the continent by its biggest pipeline nord stream, one. the pipeline was shut down for 10 days for scheduled maintenance, and many feared moscow would not resume supplies because of tensions over its invasion of ukraine. but despite the fact that the gas is flowing again, it is expected to fall short of capacity on the outlook is uncertain. and we have team coverage of this development. we are joined by correspondent benjamin alvarez gruber, who is in the mean the where the north street one gas pipeline interest, germany and rob watts from d. w. business is with us here in the studio. benjamin. i'd like to begin with you there in the field. gas has started flowing again as we've heard. is this the sigh of relief that europe has been hoping for? it's a sort of relief, at least for now, but for the german government,

russia is very unreliable. german economy minutes and vice chancellor has repeatedly said that what russia is doing is using technical issues to take political decisions. you mentioned it saying that russia is using in energy energy . this crisis is for the, for an opportunity also for them. so for now, it is a sigh of relief. numbers could reach around 40 percent of the capacity. so quite similar to the numbers that we had before. this annual maintenance that happens every year. but the situation is very dynamic and could change in weeks or in months. ok, rob, economically at this point, at this stage, how dependent is europe on russian gas? well, even now it's still very dependent on russian gas, the big realization, the dawning realization. as soon as the russian troops set foot in ukraine for the was that it was too dependent on russia for its energy was getting them 40 percent of his gas. he was a whole. certain countries are getting much more than that. germany was getting,

you know, 55 percent of it gas from russia and likes of hungary for example, getting 85 percent. so that is why we've had over the past few months, leaders from the latest, from germany, leaders from the european commission traveling around, particularly in the middle east, trying to secure more supplies just this week. we got a new deal between the european union and as a by john, which was the other by john sibling. it's gast applies to the, but that was still only be a drop in the water compared with the amount of gas that the continues to get from russia. and it's still an enormous release that it has on russia for that. and we've had the i m f this week, submitting some research that it's done to the saying, look, if you do not find a way to replace russian gas this year, and you go into the winter without rush and gas, should russia decide that it doesn't want to supply it any more than your economies are going to take a hit, it looks at germany and it said, you know, it could be a 3 percent drop in g, d p for germany for hungry, which i already mentioned. it could be

a 6 percent drop in g d p because we could be looking at depending on the country's reliance between them on russian gas of shortfalls of up to 40 percent of the gas that they need to go through the winter. okay, so quite a lot are benjamin given that given what rob has just said, what are heavily reliant countries, for example, like germany doing right now to prepare for the fact that russia could choose, perhaps sometime in the future to cut off gas they're searching for other partners and would rob just mentioned there, we had the economy minister traveling around. he wasn't the czech republic, he was in austria, seeing that european solidarity is very important to tackle this problem. he was also in cut tassel. they'll turn it as the germany now has for the so called liquid natural gas to have new al in g terminals. it would be here in northern germany as well. they could then deliver this gas either from katara or also from the united states of america to search for new energy partnerships is also a french energy giant that said that by december of this year,

it could have been operating alan g terminal to have alternatives to the russian garza, germany, is trying to cut as much as possible. russia, of course, profit significantly from supplying gas to europe rather. how has that changed since the war in ukraine? well, it's as you say, an enormous source of income and fueling the war machine of russia. so the u has been trying to reduce its usage and it's done that by about a quarter. germany is gone from getting 55 percent of his gas to 35 percent of his gas from russia part. the reason for doing that was to check off the wall machine, as well as to reduce the reliance. but the problem is that by doing that, and also the fact that gas prices have been rising enormously, rushes actually probably making more money than it was before the war from oil and gas imports. if there was some research last week, it's just, it's making something like 93000000000. it's made something like $93000000000.00

euros since the start of the war from fossil fuels around a quarter of that is from natural gas. and the e. u remains. it's biggest partners, so you can argue whether or not these reductions in usage of russian gas are actually taking effect. and then you can look at what rush has been doing over the last month. and you can say clearly things that has the financial head dream to deliberately because of the amount of gas that it is selling to the right. wow. robots from did any business putting into context for us and benjamin alvarez gerber? joining us from lou mean with the view from the ground. thank you so much to both of you. so brushes, foreign minister, sergey laffer off, mean wise, meanwhile, says that moscow's military aims now extend beyond ukraine's eastern tongue os region. where fighting is heaviest. he blames western weapons suppliers for the change in strategy, and insist the purpose of the invasion is to deem militarize ukraine

heartache in the city of har heath. 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 on 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. what met at the walker 0 because the west pause, more and more long range weapons such as high miles in to ukraine in an impotent rage. or in

a desire to exacerbate the situation as much as possible because they were supported not main, same geographical tasks of these special operation will extend still further from the current law. in reger certain industry, leading sugar rushes pretext for war, was allegedly to liberate breakaway 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 we can not allow the parts of ukraine, that president florida me as a lensky, come to the new or whoever replaced the symbol control, go you to have a weapons that will pose a direct direct to our territory little foot started on the territory of those republics, but to declare that independence is got the route of you just doing is i use a mystery to to just 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 d, w, germany's foreign minister on atlanta burbock dismissed laptops claims as propaganda. we support a ukraine not only was selling 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 russia using every time a different argument. so, 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 a new propaganda from the russian side, and that was germany is foreign minister analynn about speaking with d. w. his chief international editor richard walker. he can watch the full interview on our d. w. news, youtube channel. in the meantime, earlier i spoke with d. w. correspond mathias,

ballinger and keir. he told us how ukrainians have reacted to laugh rocks, announcement of extending rushes, war aims. 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. the john boss, other than for short term strategic adjustments. russia was not able to advance further in the north and it has been stopped in the south before entering mich alive. and then further odessa, which are the most 2 most important port cities. so if you,

if love now 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 hasn't been much of a reaction to loves words because they're nothing new basically. and you just impose new sanctions on russia, ukraine's president 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 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 its war any further. meantime, what's the latest on the ground mathias? well, 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 a michael i if i'm her, which also speaks to the claim that russia is making to the south. um, what's ukraine has done is to intensify. it's attacks on the her son region and it seems to have hit the most important breach. there. her son is on the north side of

the nipper river and supplies from russia coming in from the south from crimea. and they're very few bridges across that. yep. a river one is this anton of bridge that has been hit by the ukranian, so they're targeting now the supply lines of the russians in order to launch their counter offensive. mathias ballinger in cave. thank you. and here are some other stories make nurse anti turkish. protestors have protest, excuse me, have broken out in iraq after missile attack in the countries north. iraqi government is blaming turkey for the incident that left a taurus stead a turkey which often launches, strikes in the region, denies responsibility, and is calling it a terrorist attack. your former finance minister, which he soon act and you k foreign minister list trusts are competing to become the next prime minister of the u. k. after winning support of members of parliament,

they will go on to face a vote by members of the ruling. conservative party, with the result expected by september you as president joe biden has announced a billions of dollars of funding to help the country deal with the impact of climate change, which he calls a clear and present danger. he says the money will help communities protect their infrastructure from extreme weather majority about was italy's prime minister mario druggie as expected to resign. today, after a bid to hold his garment coalition to get her failed, dragon did manage to win a vote of confidence in the italian senate. but his cabinet remains in peril. after 3 parties who are in his government sat out the vote. the imminent collapse of the government is not the only problem. italians are facing many rice farmers in the north or on the brink of financial ruin. as the region suffers from the worse drought and 70 years, the lack of water has destroyed much of the harvest. and

a moment we will look at the link between global heating and the drought. but 1st, this report from d. w is mac center. o marino full of stranded boats, fields of drooping some flowers and everywhere fountains with no running water, scorching temperatures of up to 40 degrees have been plaguing northern italy for weeks now and threatening some people's very existence like the regions. rice farmers is the advantage of these plants are completely dead. they won't produce anything. there will be no crop here through an apple 15 tons of harvest lost in this plot along the farmer simply couldn't provide enough water. stefano grip is the head of the code. it at the pavia association, which represents farmers in the region, italy, so called golden rice triangle makes up half of europe's entire rice production. the industry, which is highly dependent on water, is now facing

a financial and environmental catastrophe. and she might to our knowledge, nothing like this has ever happened in the last 70 years that all made according to the data available. a drought like this has never occurred that never. my northern italy depends on the po river. it's 650 kilometers, span the country from west to east. it is a source of life for all around it, but water levels have been dropping continuously over the last few years. so this summer, large parts of italy's longest river essentially are looking like this. i'm walking on what used to be the pose river bed, and if you have a close look here, you can see the bottom is actually covered in what is see shells, right? and this is dramatic for a number of reasons. some the people here in the region depend on this war for drinking water purposes to create energy and also for agriculture. areas are now

competing for the remaining water. a state of emergency has been declared in many reaches, experts say the situation is likely to occur again, but there are certain precautions that can be taken to alleviate future drought. it but as the money there is focus on increasing the water storage capacities, the vast meaning we're storing, walter in winter while in big or small reservoirs in fuel. man randy martini, that of course, depends on rainfall in winter, which has been scarce this year as well. but our model is reducing leaks is another big topic. initially the la both for drinking water and agricultural purposes in a group with abby they see up in the system. efficiency is currently around 50 percent. gina chances are at the corner medium, ethan donating quite a pertain to farmers like steph on. you're gonna be also know they will have to change this season. they have already lost 30 percent of their harvest. that i can put, i'm integer. we hope we get back to

a climate which allows for rice production at least otherwise we'll have to switch to other crops and adapt to a different type of water management charity yesterday was just not enough water for every one which in to perform. for now, all they can do was keep the pumps running and hope performing temperatures and above all for rain. and we are joined now by michael sing, our director, deputy director of the water research institute, cardiff university and wells. welcome to the program and thank you for joining us. tell us a little bit more about this link between climate change and water scarcity. why is that leading to shortages such as the ones that we have just on that report? you know, the main thing to remember is that under a warming atmosphere, more water is drawn from the land surface back into the atmosphere. and that is leading to a concentration climatic extremes such as drought and floods. and they don't always

happen in the same place. and they shift around the globe such as we're seeing right now in italy. the, when we have less rain, we have less sol moisture. we have less run off and less stream flow in river channels and also lower ground water tables. and this can lead to quite spread effects across the landscape. and how will the lack of rainfall impact the global food supply they think? well, it's really important to understand that most of the world is not an irrigating crops. only 20 percent global, our culture is irrigated. so there are, there are large swats the world that are under subsistence agriculture and struggling under range fed agriculture that where rains are failing. a recent example of this is in the horn of africa, where there are it is for fail, rainy seasons in a row, leading to wide spread famine and food insecurity. but we see this within the

developed world as well. i'm clearly in italy, we see a fail rainy season in the winter and low snow pack that has ultimately led to a very hot, dry summer. and then you see the po drawing up and the impacts on irrigation and agriculture there. so there are, will be periods like this across the globe that where agriculture really suffers. so given that agriculture, as if highlighted, there is the major user of water in most countries. do you anticipate that we're going to see increasing competition for water between countries? absolutely, there are, there are already major conflicts and discussions about water in places like e, p o, p s, who, down in egypt, there are conflicts between the u. s. and mexico and other places around the world as well. there is, it's often said that we will have future water wars,

but i hope that we can avoid this to stop in future by potentially discussing right now how we share this sensitive resource across the globe. what do you hope might materialize in such discussions? what can the world deal to safeguard its water supply? so the main thing is that there are many places in the world that have been suffering from this sort of circumstance. already. places like australia, california and the south western u. s. have gone through decades already of drought conditions and they've had to make lots of hard choices, imposing restrictions on water use and creating compacts between agricultural, municipal and societal interests to achieve a better outcome of sharing this precious resource. there are many solutions that have that could be implemented, but it requires

a deep conversation amongst interested parties. thank you so much. michael, singer, deputy director of the water research institute, part of university and wales. we appreciate your time. thank you. sri lanka thinks time prime minister ran meal wick, rama singer, has now officially become the country's new president. he was sworn in at a ceremony in the country's capital, columbo lawmakers elected him to the position a day earlier. the veteran lawmaker is a controversial choice for president. many voters believe that he is too close to the former president. go to buy about a pack, so who was removed from office after widespread protests? he w, south asia bureau chief, i'm right. a chima is on the soil for us. she joins us from sri lanka, capital, colombo, i'm rita at 6 time prime minister sworn in as the new president. hardly looks like the new beginning that so many sri lankan have protested for. what's the reaction

been you're very right sir. this is not the new beginning that people share wanted. they were looking for a change, but as unbecoming as decisive victory. and that to, with the support of the ruling party here with that, that is the party of the asked if president roger parsha was you, she disappointing for people here, but there is something new in the swearing in of done it become a singer. he's the 1st person who was sworn in parliament, you requested that. he said, i've spent 45 years in parliament. the parliament is my life. but he also acknowledged a sara, that he's got the message that people do not want the old politics. i need, they are looking for something new and he says, people want to parliament to work together. and that's what he's going to try and do. where does the economy go from here? i'm richer because, i mean, this is what people have really been concerned about. and he has quite an uphill battle when it, when it comes to negotiating with the i, m f and, and,

and improving conditions in the country. that's right. and he's acknowledged that himself. he talked in parliament about the daunting challenges facing the country. but he has a fair bit of experience. he was a, as a finance minister. and also he was leading actually talks with the international monetary fund just a couple of weeks ago on those talks are now set to resume because international lenders are going to be very important for the recovery of this country, which has been torn by economic misery. now, he's talked about no specific policy measures as yet, but there is talk that he wants to implement and populist measures like reducing the price of bread, reducing the price of fuel, which will go a long way and give a strong message that he cares about the hard times, people are going through. i'm going to, it's a little over a week now since we saw those extraordinary pictures of protest, storm in the presidential palace in the country. where does the protest movement now go from here?

said they were extra ordinary pitches at me. so last week right here, but i am standing at the presidential secretary. there were hundreds and thousands of people gathered. yet the mood here is quite different. yesterday, when the presidential result was announced, there were just about 200 people at this location. the express disappointment, the express frustration, but there was no sense of outrage that we saw last week. and today the did that the president has been sworn in there just a few people here. but it's worth remembering that this is the only place in the city which is still in the hands of protest as all the other bases which had been occupied by protest as a presidential palace. the prime minister's office had all been given back. but this little part of the presidential secretary, it remains a little hub of protests brit. thank like vanilla go home, a plaster on the columns. so there is a degree of protest here, but running victor. miss emma, i think i was also born to people that, occupying government buildings or take any unruly protests will be unacceptable.

and we be dealt with sternly. so i think that has obviously detail at the kind of last scale protests that we saw earlier, but that could still happen. dw south asia bureau chief, i'm richard shemelle in colombo, thank you so much. reminder of our top story. russia has resumed supplies of gas to europe through a major pipeline after a 10 day break for maintenance. european leaders had feared that moscow would refuse to restart deliveries, accusing the kremlin of using energy as a weapon of next focus on europe to stay with us. if you can for that. i'm sarah kelly and berlin. thanks for watching. ah,

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