[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is d, w is coming to live from berlin. a new period of uncertainty starts for italy as prime minister mario druggie, resigns druggie, took that stuff after losing the supportive parts of his coalition government. we look at what this means for the country. also coming up, staying in italy, the country is also home to the latest casualties from climate change. rice farmers in the north are facing financial ruin as the region suffers. it's worse drought in

70 years. plus russia restarts gas deliveries through the key nor stream one pipeline, but with vladimir putin using energy as a weapon. europe's supplies remain vulnerable and russia changes its wargol spin ukraine. the kremlin says it now needs to take over more territory because of the threat posed by cubes, growing supplies of western weapons. ah . hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. 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 schedule material his office this morning to offer his resignation. for the 2nd time in a week, the president accepted this time but asked druggie to stay on his caretaker until her replacement can be found. earlier in parliament, druggie told lawmaker, see,

had tried and failed to gain the necessary support. he needed to continue in the job journalist same a group to is in rome, covering italy's political crisis. i asked her why maria drug last the parliamentary support. he needs to run the country. essentially, you have to remember that when he came into this role from 17 months ago, he was given this mandate to lead a unity government, a national coalition involving the right, the left, the populace. so it was a really large group of people who very deferring ideas. and what we saw happen in that vote of confidence in the upper house of parliament in the senate on wednesday . is that the for say, the right we sent to right party as well as the far right lead party. and the popular fight movement essentially snubbed that vote the boy cost of it altogether . and so they made their decisions for different reasons. the 5 star movement

feeling that for months their priorities will being ignored. the push for things like a basic income in a minimum salary that they wanted to see, continue. the think they felt, among other things were not being listened to full force a colleague and the lead part, the, the conservative right wing parties, they said will support druggie. but that has to be a shake up of government. and we want to be in bed without the 5 problems, but so essentially for deferring these and the 3 major parties in this national coalition that they're not going to partake in that vote. so they just boy called it it. and that means for mr. drug he didn't have that national unity that he's been, i have the mandate to take part. so he went and make the decision to. 1 resign to the matter. i love this. collapse of the government. same comes as italy, faces multiple crises, a severe drought and energy crunch the prospect of

a recession. the timing couldn't be worse, could it? you're absolutely right terry. i mean, timing everything this government mandate was actually supposed to run out in the spring of 2023. so most italian from 2 thirds of them in recent polls said that he wanted drug to continue to maintain the stability. and there were please being made from various quarters in italy and outside as well. but as you mentioned now, when this situation really storing inflation high energy prices, you've got that drought as well with ridiculously high temperatures. the war in ukraine druggie was seen as a hands respected european leader dealing with that issue and not to forget also about italy trying to diversify its energy sources away from russia. so now you have this situation where the center left party leader and recollect made it very clear. all those that did not vote in base are responsible for the situation that very night now. and of course that, that europe in level,

they're wondering about those reforms that mean the drug was supposed to push forward in order to get that post and recovery fund monday. so what's next for druggie and the country fresh elections? i present. well, mr. martha rella has said he's taken note of the resignation. he hasn't rejected it like what he did the day 6 days ago. but eventually that he took notes the resignation drug. he will remain in a catholic a role. but yes, you're right. it's headed toward fresh election. he missed about the rela, had already announced that he will be sitting to the speaker of both houses of parliament later this afternoon. so consultations have begun. we expect that he may dissolve parliament and called for fresh elections as early as late september, early october, something unheard of in italy, a g normally that approved the budget in that period now is going or it towards fresh elections. so my thank you very much, that update journalist seem

a go to there in rome. let's get the view from brussels on draws his drug, his resignation for that were joined by a correspondent jack parrot jack. italy's european partners held mary a drug in high regard. what do they make of him now being forced out as prime minister? well i think terry, there's a big sense of disappointment, especially in brussels, mario druggies resignation. he was certainly seen as a safe pair of hands here. he was seen as an experienced european politician. he understands the european union, he was very pro european and he knew what was going on here, especially regarding his role as the, the president of the european central bank, which he held for many, many years and was seen as somebody that really understood how to get things working we've seen in italy, some pro draggy protest. people lives on the streets. obviously here in brussels, in the european union institutions they cannot say. or they cannot make comments on

this sort of machinations of national politics. but i think it's understood that he was seen as a pro european somebody who understood the workings and also on many of the big, relevant issues in brussels. he was on the same page as many of the leaders on in other capital, specifically, france and berlin. now, italy is an important you member stated, shaped european policy on ukraine and russia. druggie himself made a high profile visit to kit not long ago. could italy's position on the war now change under a new government? yes, i think that's very likely, especially when you look at the positions of the tennessee that you know, the league party, the far right policy. they have a very different position. you're right. he was a really strong proponent of ukraine and especially when it comes to the u. accession process. he was one of the 1st leaders to come out and say, listen, we need to offer ukraine a realistic pathway to joining the european union. he made that big trip along with

german chancellor la shows and the front president manual micron to keep it was a big, big sign of not only sort of support the ukraine, but a you unity in the support for ukraine. and what, what we've heard, even from that, it's these foreign minister imitate it to my luigi. demise gives me, he's been there saying, listen, having a caretaker government, and i will prevent many things. first, the, it's these sending of arms to support the war in ukraine. also do the potential for diversifying gas supplies as we had into the winter. and what that would mean. there is a lot of questions about exactly how nimble and how, you know, you know, deliberate italy will be able to be as they had into those elections, which we now expect in the autumn. jack, thank you very much. our corresponding jack park there in brussels. well, italy is one of the countries in europe that's been experiencing a heat wave in recent days. there's also been a prolonged drought in the north of the country,

and the soaring temperatures are making the situation worse. farmers there are facing the prospect of crop failures due to water shortages. the po river usually supplies enough water to farms, but it's severely depleted at the moment. d w max tundra traveled to the region to see how farmers are coping a marina full of stranded boats, fields of drooping sunflowers and everywhere fountains with no running water, scorching temperatures of up to 40 degrees, half in plaguing northern italy for weeks now and threatening. some people's very existence like the regions, rice farmers, just advantage on these plants are completely dead. they won't produce anything. there will be no crop here. so in epa, 15 tons of harvest lost in this plot alone. the farmer simply couldn't provide

enough water. stefano grippy is the head of the code it at the po via 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 poll 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 ellis, 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 one 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 and 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 as they might be there, is focus on increasing the water storage capacities. the vase, meaning we're storing walter in winter while in big or small reservoirs in fuel. man, randy basine, that of course depends on rainfall in winter, which has been scarce this year as well. but our mortal is reducing leaks is another big topic. initially. it both for drinking water and agricultural purposes . any durable darby this yep. the system efficiency is currently around 50 percent jealousy, j. instead of at equal medium,

ethan or nancy went up. pertain to farmers like stiff on or can it be also know they will have to change this season. they have already lost 30 percent of their harvest, erotic. and with what i mentioned, we hope we get back to a climate which allows for rise production of 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 ones with which end to perform for now all they can do is keep the pumps running and hope for falling temperatures. and above all, for rain. the spring in completely sliced. now here he is head of climate science, said climate analytic santa leading research berlin's holbrook university. thanks for being with us again, dr. suassa, how likely is it that europe will see even more severe water shortages in the future due to climate change? what we're seeing currently in particular,

the mediterranean to southern europe is very much in line with what our most telling us is to be expected as a result of climate change in europe. the mediterranean region is already one of the reasons the well that shows the strong, very strong drag trends because of climate change and be expecting to unfortunately it intensify in justification. office and in the future. taking a global perspective, what regions of the world do you expect to be most effective by changing water dynamics moving forward? if you look at, if it changes in the water cycle, that complex or not all the genes effect that equally, some regions may see more customization than the others may see trying trends. that doesn't mean also that in regions that drive, there's no risk or flash flooding, for example, because we can have extreme presentation still falling. so we also, you know, for the year it was still effected by flesh lots. for example. we are similarly in regions like like germany or northern europe, we can have jobs experiencing routes as for example,

right now even all the way up to the u. k. but we don't exactly see an overall what's a shortage over to you. but in terms of the regions that go really, the trial thing will be particularly concentrated in the sub tropical areas of the globe. so this comprises the mediterranean, but also for example, central america or southern center in africa. and the access to water is essential with countries that have shared water resources often clashing over that issue. do you see a growing risk of conflict over water, access and eat? i mean, the water water isn't it isn't area of active contact the lady today and even can be used as an, as a breton and complex to be seen best, for example, and my rac using access to water as a veteran in that horrible and sort of campaign in the region and yesterday,

i mean, it is the question of future water availability and access is, is a big source of potential conflict from the literature. what we, yes, evidences that routes i. one of the key risk factors for also local conflict outbreaks simply because they fundamentally affect lots of people and undermine that. that leads to potential customer regional outcomes as the also justine and in the video from, from obviously not saying that there is a conflict with eminence. but we do see how directly thomas and livelihoods are being affected and then regions. but this is all people can differ from, of course it needs to very, very existential conflicts. and that's something we need to be very, very about. what can the world do to assure that water continues flowing, where it's needed? well 1st and foremost, and it's most important and so we need to address things with climate change and we need to reach global and your mission as soon as possible in line, mr. goodman,

that's our best chance to limit the future. we are concerned about drugs to be experiencing today at $1.00 degrees of warming, p industrial levels. we can extrapolate how much weight the situations would, could be potentially if even crossing 2 degrees. and of course, essentially limiting want me to 1.5, basically avoiding diversity of climate change, the paramount importance kilowatts of resources in the next, that we also regionally and locally need to think about what we can do in terms of improving water management. also what needs to change completely if, for example, certain practices like right funding becoming increasingly challenged by the lack of water resources. yeah. did you also see that adaptation to climate changes is anything but easy, but requires that puts us in front of enormous challenges in particular for regional transformation and left the doctor's voice? no, thank you very much for talking with this. that was completely of climate analytics

. thank you very much for me. thanks. sketch. up on some other stories making headlines. round the world today, sri lanka is 6 time prime minister renelle big ram. a single isna has now officially become the country's new president, grimacing, it was sworn in at the, at a ceremony in the country's capital, colombo lawmakers elected him to the position a day earlier. the better in lawmaker is a controversial choice for president due to his closeness to the previous leader. and he turkish protestors have a 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 tourists dead. but turkey, which often watches strikes in the region, denies responsibility, and is calling it a terrorist attack. spain's prime minister petrovitch sanchez says over 500 people have died as a result of that countries 10 day long heat wave temperatures have been as high as

45 degrees celsius. in some regions of spain, dozens of wild fighters wildfires there have forced thousands of people to flee their homes. russia has restarted gas deliveries to the continent by it's biggest pipeline north stream one. but the flow is reduced, the pipeline was shut down for 10 days for scheduled maintenance. european leaders feared moscow would keep the pipeline close because of tensions over his warranty. in ukraine, russia denies using energy as a means to pressure the west on the kremlin. also blamed delivery problems on western sanctions. or for more on germany's energy was let's talk to lisa bottom from the governing greens. she's on the countries parliamentary committee on climate, an energy, thanks for being with us. so russian gas is flowing again to germany through the north stream one pipeline. is that a relief for you?

so be prepared for every scenario and we're still preparing for every scenario. so we don't know what to put in, we'll do the next month or what is next idea will be. so we are prepared to, to keep our energy system safe in any waste spot. what evidence is there to support concerns that russia could still cut off gas supplies to europe? this may happen. so we don't know if russia wants to keep the contract or they just. ringback want to act interest in the out of the contract. so we should not like, wait what russia is doing and prepare ourselves really for every scenario which is also might be a scenario without any russian. yes. we're talking about preparing for every scenario, germany and you are scrambling to diversify their gas supplies right now. that

means doing deals with autocratic regimes like alzheimer's on or cut her, your party, the green stand for democracy and human rights. how do you balance these interests and values? so 1st of all, the european union they agreed to to by get together so before it will separate, each kind of didn't separately. and it's not a good thing at the moment. so acting together is sort of their teachers very good and as democratic values are concerned. so i think this is for the whole industrial world for europe at all. our countries are dependent on other countries as energy concern, which are not falling democratic standards in every aspect. so we have to ask ourselves this questions in every way and we have to ask ourselves why this did not play any role in the last decades. so really the way is to have more in energies and to be less dependent on to credit regimes. this is the path we have to call.

well, that dependency on not just on autocratic regina, but also on turly sources of fuel is very much a topic. germany is set to return to coal and build new terminals for liquefied natural gas. how can germany's climate commitments be taken seriously? given these developments though, we do want to return to cold, but every who just for a short time span and extend the portion of coal and we need, we will burn. but in the midterms we have to cut even more. so you too, because we want to keep our promise. so, and we want to keep our climate goals, that's for sure because it's now solutions to the fossil energy crisis to support even more process in the long run. this will not help us out of the dilemma, and this is not our path, we will keep our force. now, russia's war against ukraine is highlighted her. how germany's economic success has

been built on cheap russian gas over the past couple of decades. how can germany maintain its economic strength without that she gas? yet, this is a big question and we are confronted with, i think the energy saving energy efficiency will be part of the solution. but also we want to have 80 percent renewable energy in 2030. and we want to compensate more gas with pretty so at that we need less gas. and for example, in the households, the heating and we don't need such a lot of gas in the households as we are doing right now. there are other, other possibilities, for example, to heat with electricity. and so there's a lot of things we have to do. we have to transform, but i think we have the technologies for that spot him. thank you very much for talking with us. that was liza bottom of germany's parliamentary committee on climate and energy. thank you to britain's defense

secretary ben wallace has announced that the u. k. will soon be sending scores of artillery guns and more than $1600.00 anti tank weapons to ukraine. this comes as ukraine's military is currently training and soldiers to use new weapons. currently arriving from the west, key of hopes, the new anti tank rocket launchers and mortars will change the tide of the war. washington has also recently said it was sending more longer range arms to ukraine . russia has criticized the u. s, saying the move forces moscow to widen the conflict in ukraine. i made it a woke 0, caused the west poles 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 a few more did not mean seen geographical tasks of these special operation will extend still further from a current line of certain,

initially should almost them when you move from the point, we can not allow the parts of ukraine that president low to me as a landscape company or whoever replace a symbol control. who are you to have weapons that will pose a direct direct to our territory? it puts that on the territory of those republics that have declared that independence is got the root of you just saying is i use it earlier. i spoke of g, w correspondent, mathias, boating and key. if i asked him what he makes of that statement, i russia's foreign minister, i think russia's aim has to be, has been from the beginning to subdue ukraine and to possibly destroy it as a nation to incorporate it into russia. they have attacked in several parts of ukraine that are far beyond the current front line. am of the made maley and the don boss and in the south. so there has never been any doubt here in ukraine that

russia might be aiming to restart offensives in nurse other parts of ukraine. the question is, are they able to and dance more important than what love says? and at the moment it doesn't look like they're able to to go far beyond where they are now. but to this can change, of course, and people here are aware that basically the country as a whole is a target. is there any sign mathias, that weapons deliveries from ukraine's partners like the u. s. are helping to turn the tide in. cubes favor very much. so especially the rocket launchers, the high mars, seem to make a big difference. we've seen several strikes on russian ammunition deposed behind the front lines far behind the front lines. um that are will considerably slow down the russian, her attacks and the in and, and it is changing already. ah, the situation on the field, if you remember a few weeks ago,

that main her situation could be described as having a russia that has overwhelming fire power over ukraine and using all this fire power to pamela, the ukrainian positions, and also behind the front lines. civilian objects, et cetera, um and these are multiple rocket launchers are making it much more difficult for russia to use this tactics of, of just using as much firepower as they want because it's more difficult for them to supply and they have to do more efforts to supply, ukraine's also hitting infrastructure bridge is that a vital to the russian or supplies and supply lines um and to the functioning of the russian army in these occupied territories. so it is making a difference. what we are not yet seeing is that they an able ukraine to conduct a counter offensive and take back some of these territories they might. ah,

but at the moment that's not what we are seeing. but here's thank you. as always, our correspondent mathias putting other in keep you are watching d w. those live from berlin, coming up next to its focus on europe. looking at sardine is struggle with locusts among other things. i'm terry martin from me and all of us here at the debate. thanks for watching. ah ah, ah ah

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on d, w. enter the conflicts own with tim, sebastian forest, johnson. counting his final days, busy side minister in disgrace, but still in office. my guest this week in london is american with funds and secretary. so what happens now to the former minister with officials who indulge jump booster is a little po flip. well, the tory party came out conflict in 60 minutes on d. w. o is establishing a new order. changing pain, president of the global powered china is part of a whole system which believes his time has come. he relies on an authoritarian

system of total surveillance on economic expansion without scruples and again and again, she provokes and threatens with the military aggression the chinese president believes his way is for superior than that of western democracy with china's president. changing pain starts july 30th on d. w with hello and welcome to focus on europe. thank you for joining us for this week's edition. let me begin by saying that i am really thankful this studio here is air conditioned because outside the sweltering heat wave continues across europe.