[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin. it is what is word? european leaders have spent 10 days waiting for russia, restarts gas deliveries through the key north stream, one pipeline. but with vladimir putin using energy as

a weapon. is it too soon to breathe a sigh of relief. also coming up, russia changes. it's war golds in ukraine. the kremlin says it's now being forced to occupy more territory because of the threat posed by caves. growing supplies of western weapons plus more casualties from climate change rise. farmers in northern italy are facing financial ruin as the region suffers its worst route in 70 years. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. it has been a tense 10 days for european leaders, but today the news came that russia has resumed gas deliveries to the continent by its biggest pipeline, north stream. one. the pipeline will shut down for 10 days for scheduled

maintenance and many feared moscow would not resume supplies because of tension over its warren ukraine. but despite the fact that the gas is flowing again, it is expected to fall short of capacity and the outlook is uncertain. and we have team coverage of this development. we are joined by correspondent benjamin alvarez grava, who is in the mean where the north street one gas pipeline enters 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 serv relieve, at least for now, for the german government, russia is very unreliable. as german economy minister 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. that's the was a whole. certain countries are getting much more than that. germany was getting, you know, 55 percent of its gas from russia and likes of hungary, for example, getting 85 percent. so that is why we've had over the past few months, latest 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 as a by john,

the billing it's gas applies to the you. 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 on 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. the alternative, the germany now has for the so called liquid natural gas to have new alan g terminals. it will 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 l n 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, is, 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 has 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 the 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 is 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 its 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 russia's been doing over the last month. and you can say clearly things that has the financial head dream to deliberately because 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 look mean with the view from the ground. thank you so much to both of you. ukraine's military has been holding training sessions to familiarize its soldiers with new weapons. systems arriving from the west cave hopes that the new anti tank rocket launchers and mortars arriving in the country will change the tide of the war. the training comes as washington announced that it was sending more precision rocket systems to ukraine. russia has criticized the move by the u. s. thing that the deliveries of longer range weapons to ukraine has changed moscow's goals in the conflict. i made it a woke zarbara. how's the west pause, more remote long range weapons, such as high malls, in to ukraine, in an impotent rage, or in

a desire to exacerbate the situation as much as possible to quote a brochure board of dogs, main seen geographical tasks of these special operations will extend still further from a current long ago, certain additionally showed good, almost them when you move from that was we could not allow the parts of your crane that president loaded me as a landscape company or whoever replaced the symbol control who you are to have a weapons that will pose a direct direct to our territory. it started on the territory of those republics. but to declare that independence group of you just for yourself and in an interview with stepping you, germany's foreign minister on alena bab bach, dismissed laughter offs 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 russia using every time

a different argument m. 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's foreign minister on a line of app oc. speaking to d, w as chief international editor richard walker. you can watch the full interview on r d w news, youtube channel. meantime, earlier i spoke with d. w, correspond, mathias ballinger and keith. he told us how ukrainians are reacting to laugh often spent of extending russian war goals. 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 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 lover of not blame the west or 2 for, for, for 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 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 rush us, or if it cannot finance it's war any further. meantime, what's the leave is 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 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 head, on region, and it seems to have hit the most important bridge there. her son is on the north side of that nearby 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 ukrainian so they're targeting now the supply lines of the russians in order to launch their counter offensive. mateus bollinger and give, thank you. yes. and here are some other stories making headlines. anti turkish protests have broken out in iraq after a missile attack in the countries north. the iraqi government is blaming turkey for

the incident that left 8 taurus dead. turkey which often launches, strikes in the region, denies responsibility, and is calling it a terrorist attack u. k. foreign minister lives trust and former finance minister re she soon ack are competing to become the next prime minister of the u. k. after winning support of members from the parliament, they go face to face in a vote by members of the ruling conservative party with the result expected by september 3rd, mother event. he was president joe biden has announced billions of dollars of funding to help the country deal with the impact of climate change, which he calls a clear and present danger war part. he says the money will help communities protect their infrastructure. the hook stream, whether i'm out west dow luciana, many rice farmers in the north of italy are on the brink of financial ruin, as the regions suffers from the worst route in 70 years. the lack of water has destroyed much of the harvest. in a moment,

we will look at the link between global heating and drought. but 1st, this report from des, max sander o marina 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, the panther of these plants are completely dead. they won't produce anything. there will be no crop here. soon. epa. 15 tons of harvest lost in this plot along the farmer simply couldn't provide enough water. stefano grip is the head of the colored at the po via association, which represents farmers in the region. italy so called golden rice triangle makes up half of europe entire rice production. the industry, which is highly dependent on water, is now facing

a financial and environmental catastrophe. and she, my, to our knowledge, nothing like this has ever happened in the last 70 years. that'll make, 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 spanned 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 water 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 boats at the mit there is focus on increasing the water storage capacities. the vast meaning we 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 will about a mortal, is reducing leaks is another big topic initially and the both for drinking water and agricultural purposes in a group of darby this. yep. in the system efficiency is currently around 50 percent . jealousy, chances are at the corner medium internet, it's quite a pertain to farmers like stiff on. okay. 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 every otherwise we'll have to switch to other crops and adapt to a different type of water management it yesterday was just not enough water for every one switch into bottle. for now, all they can do is keep the pumps running and hope performing temperatures and above all for rain. and michael singer is deputy director of the waterways. her institute at cardiff university in wales. he explained why climate change is causing water shortages, like those we just saw in 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 of 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 swabs the world that are under subsistence agriculture and struggling under rain 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. clearly in italy we see

a failed 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 u. p. s. who, down in egypt, there are conflicts between the u. s. and mexico and other places around the world as well. there it 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 you'll hope might materialize and 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 us 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 and we turn out to some breaking news. italian prime minister mario draggy announcing his resigning from office. dragging made the announcement after meeting with the italian president where he offered his resignation for the 2nd time in one week in parliament this morning. doggie said that he had tried and failed to gain the necessary support he needed to continue. in the post sri lanka, fixed time, prime minister ran neil wick from a singer, has officially become the country's new president. he was sworn in as a, in a ceremony in the country's capital colombo lawmakers elected him to the position one day earlier. the veteran lawmaker is a controversial choice for president. many voters believe he is too close to former president. go to buy of our to pucker who was removed from office after widespread protest. so

a 6 time prime minister sworn in as the new president. earlier i spoke with d w's south asia bureau chief. i'm re to cima, and i asked her whether that looks like a new beginning that so many sri lumpkins happened hoping for. you're very right sir. this is not the new beginning that people shall wanted. they were looking for a change, but as unbecoming as decisive victory. and that too, 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 money 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 the 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 talked 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 some populous 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? so they were extra ordinary pitches that we saw last week right here, but i'm standing at the presidential secretary. there were hundreds and thousands of people gathered here. 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 day that the president has been sworn in there just a few people here. but his words, 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 to the presidential palace. the prime minister's office had all been given back. but this little part of the president who secretary 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 victim a semi, i think i was also warned to people that, occupying government buildings or take any unruly protest will be unacceptable and will be dealt with sternly. so i think that has obviously deterred the kind of landscape process that we saw earlier, but there was still happen. d, w, south asia bureau chief armor to cima. in colombo, thank you so much. there has been a shock at the world athletics at championship and eugene, oregon, china's thing been has won a surprise. discus gold. he beat american olympic champion, valerie all men in her own back yard. there was also success for a runner who switched allegiances from kenya to cause exten just this year. shyness thing been was only 17th at last. she is tokyo olympics.

the world championships. she did this, an opening flow of 69.12 meters was a personal best. even with the raucous support of an american home crowd. olympic champion, valerie almon, could not compete with thank the chinese discus fro a could barely believe it. she is already being fated back home. oh milk. i say no, yes, i didn't imagine i could do that because the other competitors were so strong. i just wanted to try my bashed talk before you be over in the women's steeplechase, nor roger, brutal when gold in a championship record. with the 3rd fastest time ever. he was competing for cars extend this year. having previously been registered as a canyon runner. she kissed the ground in oregon and then

looked up to the heavens. oh and then here will my december 2nd i with this country. people say welcome jose william, didn't you and i am at the biblical so i am, it is a day of surprising. eugene, thanks to to root out and thing these will championship started last week and have been a slow burner without some of the major athletics names of old. but now the sport has some new stars. and with that now you're up to date anti diabetes. ah ah

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