cherry aggression? ah, the chinese president believes it, his way is for superior than that of western democracy. china's president changing paying starts july 30th on d, w. ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, a period of uncertainty beginning again in italy as prime minister mario druggie resigned drug you took the step after losing the support of parts of his coalition . we look at what this means for the country. also coming up, russia starts,

or rather restarts gas deliveries through the north stream, one pipeline. but with vladimir putin using energy as a weapon. is it too soon to breathe? a sigh of relief and russia changes? it's more goals in ukraine. kremlin says it's now forced to take over more territory because of the threat posed by keeps growing supplies of western weapons . ah, i'm sorry, kelly. welcome to the program. italy's president has accepted the resignation of prime minister mario druggie after a week long attempt to unite his crumbling coalition failed. druggie went to sergio method at his office this morning to offer his resignation for the 2nd time in one week. the president accepted but asked druggie to stay on as caretaker until

a replacement can be found. earlier in parliament, drug told lawmakers that he had tried and failed to gain the necessary support he needed to continue in the job. a couple a to some journalist lsu, put on a who is joining us from milan in italy. so i mean this is drug the 2nd resignation in a week. how did it get to this point? well, it's difficult to say know why. and i think we should remember our audience that drug was always a broad coalition and support from a wide range of political parties behind him. and he was always bound to have new elections in spring 2023. i guess as we, in closer to that date, the actual campaign probably started some parties tried to make political games that started with a 5 star movement, which was the biggest part out of the 2018 elections. and they started making claims about ukraine about not shipping italian weapons that, that led to more bickering than the party splintered. and then all the parties

dropped down to the coalition. after yesterday there's that there's a real sense of disbelief in italy, media, and many wonder how much responsibility, tiny political parties come entrusted with. and all of that is italy, faces multiple crisis. we have to mention a severe drought and under primary performing economy in desperate need of reform, the timing couldn't be worse. good at. yeah, like you said. and like i said, the real sense of display is, is partly due to that, that reason, hearing the nose and milan, there's a severe droughts that's threatening crops. the economy is, isn't exactly the thriving rushes envisioning. ukraine is another talking point. but more than a box, it's really just received massive amounts of european money through the recovery fund. the government should decide how to spend it and how to direct that money. and more than that, italy had to early elections as it seems likely it will be the 1st time the

countries are in autumn and for the reason because the parliament should discuss the budgets in autumn. and if there's no government that does no parliament, it is going to slow down on that front. so. so what is next for druggie and the country? well, like you said earlier, drug has been asked to stay on until a k. a can be found. and now it's all in the hands of the president mozzarella. he can decide to hold consultations, but italian political parties to see if a new majority can be found about political notice saying by far the most likely outcome of this will be earlier, which is probably in a sober. and so we're off to the races and yes, i guess there might be more surprises by major talking points in the electoral campaigns will be migration with the far right part. is that to get a combined 40 percent of the boats in the polls like now likely to make the point russia will figure prominently in the campaign journalists lesson for on a in the line. thank you. thank you.

it's been, it's hence 10 days for european leaders. but today the news came that russia has resumed gas deliveries to the continent via its biggest pipeline north stream one the pipeline was shut down for 10 days for scheduled maintenance. many feared moscow would not resume suppliers because of tensions 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. correspond benjamin over as gruber is in the northern german town of mean where the north stream one gas pipeline arrives from russia. i asked him whether there is no relief in germany now the gas is flowing again. it is a sigh of relief, at least for now, but it's an unpredictable em situation. it's a very dynamic situation and we have the nominations that are rising. so that is a promise by russia saying we will send 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 chancellor holbert topic 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 there, 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 versus war. germany 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 l n. g terminals. it would be also here in luke, nina, germany's about ticket coast belt, ec see for them to have an alternative. but of course, that will take some time. we have at french energy jain 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 understand that european commission chief ourself 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 a, with russian gas or if it's the pool, stop with rush and gas and something that the german economy minutes distressed once again. and it's similar to the message that also a funder line have at europe needs to be prepared, the needs to be european solidarity and when it will, the topic visited at the czech republic, he visited austria as well saying that it needs to be connection between the countries to have a dialect to see how they can tackle the situation ahead of the winter months. so similar messages 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 gerber joining us from la mean. thank you so much. here's

a look at some other stories making headlines. sri lankan fixed 6th time prime minister vanilla with from a singer, has now officially become the countries the new president. he was sworn in at the ceremony and the country's capital colombo lawmakers elected him to the position a day earlier. the veteran lawmaker is a controversial choice for president due to his closeness to the previous president . anti turkish protests have broken out in a rock after a missile attack in the countries north. the rocky government is blaming turkey for the incident that left 8 taurus dead, but turkey, which often launches, strikes in the region, denies responsibility, and is calling it a terrorist attack. spain's prime minister pedro santoria says over 500 people have died as a result of the country's 10 day long heat wave. temperatures have been as high as 45 degrees celsius. in some regions, dozens of wildfires in spain have forced thousands of people to flee their homes.

a ukrainian official says that russian shelling has killed another 2 people in ukraine, 2nd largest city car heath. another 19 are injured, including a child elsewhere. ukraine's military is training. it soldiers to use new weapons. arriving from the west cave hopes that the new anti tank rocket launchers and mortars will change the tide of the war. earlier, washington announced it was also sending more longer range arms to ukraine. russia has criticized the us saying the move forces moscow too wide in the conflict and ukraine committed the walker, 0 paths 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 global should not remain same geographical tasks of these special operations will extend still

further from a current law in regards so from industry leading should good. it's almost them. when you move from that was, we could not allow the parts of ukraine that president louder me, is a lensky company, or whoever replace a symbol control who you are to have a weapons that will pose a direct direct to our territory. little bit, but still on the territory of those republics. but to declare that independence group of, of you just urges earlier i spoke with d. w correspondent mathias ballinger and keith. he told us how ukrainians are reacting to lab. rob's announcement 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 or 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 love not blame 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, but 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 to leave us on the ground mateus 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 her cluster ammunition and rockets on medical i, if i'm her, which also speaks to the claim that russia is making to the south. um or what does your grain has done is to intensify it's attacks on the hassan region. and it seems to have hit the most important bridge. 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 never, ever. one is this anton of bridge that has been hit by the ukrainians. 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 with that you're up to date on dw news. don't forget you can always get the w news on the go. just download our app from the google player from the apple app store.

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