ah ah ah ah, this is the w news ly from berlin e u. countries agree to reduce gas consumption and prepare for a total couple minutes to sign up to gas reduction targets to say preserves for the winter. that's after russia says it's flashing it's pipeline deliveries. germany's energy minister called energy minister colstat economic world,

also coming up at trouble chaos ahead for loose tons of passengers traveling through germany, the airline councils more than a 1000 flights at it's frank for them. unit clubs, due to the strike by the hour ground staff starting wednesday. workers are demanding higher wages due to inflation. ah, i'm go ahead office. welcome to the program. european union energy ministers have agreed on a plan to cut gas consumption and reduce the blocks dependence on russian gas supplies. that's after russia has announced it would slash grass applied to the e. u. energy ministers struck a deal at an emergency meeting in brussels. the plan is expected to see most states caught at least 15 percent of their gas used by the coming winter. some new members, including germany, still yet to fill their reserve facilities in preparation for

a possible total russian gas cutoff. the agreement was announced by the check republic as host of the use rotating presidency. check industry minister, joseph c. keller, explain the urgency behind the deal. the wind is coming ah, and 3 don't know how cold it will be, but what we know for sure that would be in the will continue to play his her not the games her in misusing and like mailing cur, by ha ha, ga supplies and her this is some seeing we have to prepare our households and economies for and we have to protect them. the recent order saw at their has shown that russia is not and no will, will be a trust, foresee her partner and jose, yesterday august prom and owns her additional. her cards on the gas

supplies which immediately cost and price increase. and this is just an additional evidence or prove that her we have to take the game or in our hands, and we have to reduce the dependencies on russian supplies as soon as possible. if we will manage this, sir, all you rob par ah, will profit. now to tell us more, we are joined from brussels by the w, correspond christine montoya. christine, what can you tell us about the deal ridged? so it is a 15 percent reduction in gas demand. that is a fossil gas consumption. if you will add a voluntary basis, i, it is up to member states to decide how they will do this sad. the guidelines only specify add that protected to mr. protected industries i be saved from feeling the

impact of this. and that would be households and all essential services like hospitals are, for example. so you will see member states taking the decisions to decide what they deem as non essential activity and going forward and reducing that supply. now, as voluntary is the key word here, this is in no ways mandatory. it will become mandatory in the event that a decision is taken at a council level. that is, the heads of state of the european union member countries deciding that it has to be mandatory, but for now it is our voluntary basis. and, and it is up to member states to decide how they will curb at that demand, by 15 percent, or by the winter now, cuz it will this deal. now prepare and fully protect european households and economies as have you just heard? well, what it will do is cushion the blow to an extent, as it's going right now,

if the gas continues to trickle in the way that it is, there is not going to be enough for the winter. so effectively what this plan about is about is about storing reserves, and then of course, a in the dramatic event will play out where russia completely cut or supply. where countries like germany would be really, really impacted. some of that guess that's been saved up could be redirected to countries that are hot, had like a germany for example. so it is unlikely that this will cushion at the entire blow . but it is meant to just provide some kind of a buffer so that you don't have 0 in the event that there is no gas. all that you run out because gas supply is tricking in so thinly. what is clear is that european households are going to feel this, and they're going to see it in their energy bills, which will be much, much higher in the winter. and, and potentially even restricts it in terms of the energy that they can access the steel by no means cushions. the entire blue gearhart was a difficult to reach an agreement there. absolutey,

you have member states or in the european union who don't rely on russia's guess as much as countries act, germany and at this do. and these countries made the point that they felt that it was unfair, that they have to do the same amount in terms of cat curbing demand that countries actually have to do. so for example, spain's energy been, as has been on the record to say it, it's unfair that spain has to cut at the same as germany when germany is demand on russian guess is significantly more. but the only way this works and is if you have solidarity, if everybody pitches in and it is effectively coming to the rescue of those who are more vulnerable, the likes of germany. and that's what this has come down to. what is clear is that member states rejected the commission's initial idea, which was that the commission would take control of the situation, dictating the mandatory cuts. a member states have opted to, to have sovereignty over. that is, you are basically saying they're not going to yield their energy supply over to the

commission's mercy. in the case that germany, for example, becomes vulnerable. so it was a difficult one to reach. and this is effectively something that the you can now show as a sign of unity that they have managed the greatest something that is not nearly what countries at jimmy, not least what the commission wanted. let me respond, christine won't, while they're reporting from brussels. thank you. christie. now the you gas reduction agreement follows russia's announcement that it is slash and gas deliveries starting tomorrow. accompany gas prom says it will send only 20 percent of its normal gas volumes through the north stream. one pipeline which runs under the baltic sea and connects russia and germany. gas prom has blamed maintenance work and sanctions. germany's energy minister rejected that excuse and called it economic wall. on germany says it will prioritize supply to households if any rationing becomes necessary. guess how business is preparing for possible gas

shortages? this is voc, a shimmy. the german multinational employs around 60000 people and is just one of the many companies in the so called chemicals triangle and germany. southern state of bavaria cracking furnace is like these require massive amounts of energy and draw much of their power from russian natural gas. without gas flows in the proper amount. the company will struggle to keep production going. visits are a pain from at cost 0 found, we're dependent on natural gas because we run on gas turbines that generate our power and take care of our heating as well. if the supply stops, will have to stop the gas turbine and get our power and heat from external sources . and that would be a mass of challenging the bam on the by the thickness barrels esvito, the russian gas for this region, transits over ukraine for storage in austria, where it can then be delivered to bavaria. but moscow has been cutting down on flows through this channel. should russia completely cut off supply?

vaca chemise energy demands will increase, forcing it to generate heat, with oil shipped from italy with him and those are the steps would have to take to deal with a challenge. but if a gas stoppage come, suddenly, it will be very difficult to switch production methods. so this with the company presents its new plans during a conference. it wants to pivot away from natural gas towards environmentally friendly hydrogen. this only requires water, but also green energy from wind and solar power. and electrolysis plants split the hydrogen and oxygen for use. in theory, it's a solution to using gas, but only in the mid to long term. and with considerable investment chemicals companies have made this part of bavaria, especially wealthy over the years. now they need to adapt to an energy landscape shifting beneath their feet. we have some breaking news coming in. russia says it is pulling out of the international space station after 2024. earlier this year,

rush of space agency announced it would pull out of the i s s. and now the agencies director, as provided president vladimir putin, a timeline for the move after 2024 he said russia will meet all of our obligations to mission partners before quitting this station for getting ahead of the station back here on earth, german flat carrier, lufthansa, will cancel nearly all flights at its domestic hops, frankfurt and munich, starting on wednesday, due to a ground staff strike. the constellations are expected to impact travel plans for more than 130000 passengers in the coming days. often double also shot had service counters and has asked affected travelers seeking customer support to not show up at airports. union negotiators are seeking a pay raise for $20000.00 employees and announced the one day strike after rejecting an offer made by the company.

let's get some more on this with robots from dw business. rob, just how disruptive are these strikes? go? energy. yeah. you mentioned over a 130000 passengers if i to. that's because it is over a 1000 flights across munich and frankfurt airport. the main hub, see that very important half or it's because they are f was not only that people fly to them to go to munich and frank that but also people fly to them to immediately fly back out to somewhere else. so that means we're not just talking about people being impacted to flying into or out of germany, but we're talking about people who are just flying to germany, to, to access europe, for example. that will be people in mexico, in the united states today who are getting emails through saying, oh, your trip across the atlantic. it's not happening. you're gonna have to find another way. or we're going to try and find another way to get you that. and also these cancellations, you know, they're not just during the period of the strike itself, which begins on wednesday morning and then this is on thursday morning, but also there's knock on destruction. so some of these flights being cancelled on

tuesday ahead of the strike. but also thursday and friday can see counseling, cancellations, as well. so disruption is significant. so how's union justify this, this kind of disruption? well it's, it's pushing for more pay for it staff which is what unions do is pushing for 9.5 percent just a lot. it is a lot, but you have to bear in mind that here in germany we have inflation of 7.6 percent . and so that's how fast prices arising here and what the unions that he says is that you know, it, staff need more pay to keep up with the fact that their cost of living is going up . but lufthansa for its part says, well, now this is a strike is unreasonable because there is only been 2 days of negotiations so far as jumping the gun, someone is how they will put it. and they also say that they have put forward of a reasonable pay offer of an extra $100.00 euros per month starting this month for the staff, or the very wants $350.00 or is per month or so lufthansa says it's, you know, it's, it's, it's little bit too much, too soon. ok. so there are only strikes facing the asian sector in europe. right

now. what's brought us to this point? is it just inflation? no, what it is, is, pandemic is over at the depth of the pandemic. and you remember airlines in particular of tons that would have to be bailed out by the government sacked lots and lots of people now very close to say no cost cutting craziness. but what happened is they sacked all these people and now they're struggling to get enough people back. now that the number of passengers is rising at the fastest rate that is just about so low. so it's not fast enough. lufthansa, don't just lufthansa though. i mean we, we're seeing airlines all over the continent of your, of, and airports as well, short staffed. and so because of this resurgence of demand not being met by that being enough staff. and that gives the staff a lot of leverage to push the extra weight if they want robots to w business. thank you for this explanation ton now to have a look at some of the other stories making headlines. danishes president chi psi, it has been celebrating the almost certain adoption of

a new constitution which was strengthened the power of his office. 27 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots in monday's referendum side trip sites. critics say the new charter could tip the country back into the dictatorship. japan has executed a man convicted of killing 7 people in a vehicle crash and stabbings free and 2008. though it is a double hero, cattle had carefully planned the attack on a crowd of pedestrians, despite international criticism for maintaining the death penalty to pass justice minister insisted capital punishment was appropriate for violent crimes. like this, thousands of black brazilian women have rallied in the city of south hollow to protest against racism. they've used president j bowles in our old doing little to help marginalize women of color. that's a demographic, lax behind the countries socio economic scale. the go to school help to mafia,

international after latin american women's day. but frances has apologized in person to indigenous groups in canada for the abuse suffered but children at residential schools run by the catholic church. he called the forced assimilation of native people a disastrous era that led to cultural destruction. long awaited apology drew an emotional response amongst survivors of that repressive system. the quest for forgiveness led the head of the catholic church to moscow. cheese were memories of one of the darkest chapters in the history of the church. still echo today be they'll verizon, for the money i ask for forgiveness for the ways in which many christians regrettably adopted the colonizing mentality of the powers that oppressed the indigenous peoples with dance yet company me and i look quivers, indeed mask, or cheese is the sight of one of the infamous residential schools,

church or on boarding schools, where it is estimated, 150000 indigenous children were forcibly educated, torn from their families and cultural context. many became victims of physical and sexual violence. thousands of them died from abuse within a system that lasted into the 19 ninety's. while many representatives of the indigenous communities welcomed the papal visit, others have mixed feelings. i think it is high, low, long overdue feeling. something had sort of happened many, many years ago. maybe the start of reconciliation would have started again. francis is traveling through canada until the end of the week. for some, the fact that the 85 year old is taking this journey on at all, is already proof of his sincere repentance. for others, the pope's pilgrimage is only just the 1st step.

fires have been raging. the european countries on the heat wave conditions and enduring droughts. the mediterranean region has been most affected by the impact of climate change is also being felt for the north. for as far as a raging here in germany in the state of brandenburg, particularly along the east and border parts of the region were once known for its swamps and lakes, but is not suffering from droughts and its waterways are disappearing. there should be water flowing down this river bed, but the black, as during the germans, tate of brandon book has dried up again, a consequence of heat waves and drought. water piped in from a nearby lake, replenishing the river at least a bit. which 9 hu bye works for us teeth run company that we cultivate this former mining landscapes. he regularly monitors the block ester as, as, as, but i'd so do i as plot, has dried up repeatedly during hot summer spells in the past 3 years. 201720182019

. we're already very dry years. a general precipitation deficit has built up. this means that we've lost an average year supply closet before the annual storage unit . many countries are already familiar with extreme droughts due to climate change. but low water levels like you in brandon book have become a concern in germany to in the nearby flood control center. mike, all which managers discourse resource in local lakes and rivers sending it where it isn't that most every drought season makes his job harder. as in scholar, i noticed not alicia water shortages always increase potential for conflict between users who need the river water. if there is a, was a shortage and this is more and more often the case than this potential for conflict worsens. put an awkward in other parts of brandon book, alto tis have already kept the amount of water for private households, but only 50 kilometers away from here. rows of burnt trees testify to another

danger. smutty. as bower and other volunteers fought wildfire in this brandenburg forest. one of the regions biggest fires this year, it's burned more than $1000.00 hector's vocal ish. and the situation was in part life threatening, and it pushed experience firefighters to the limits of yahoo. some even had to run for their lives. there was new york list, however, on the 11th then police have launched an arson investigation. firefighter say that the blaze could only have spread so quickly due to this year's extreme drought. and it earth that suspicious that you can see that it's really dry. in the other, if you dig up the soil here, you'll see that the top layer is totally dry due to the lack of rain sheets of hidden her gulf toggle. he and his colleagues are now training to fight even more intense forest fires than they are. you still at that us, at seniors in other countries like southern spain or southern france where serious

wildfires are more frequent. you can watch what's happening there. right. and on the news i, firefighters, they're familiar with it. i wanna, we've never seen anything like it here until now was the senate for over time. huber brandon book is in a race against time to adapt to the fast changing climate. is this mr. it's unpleasant, but we must deal with it in climate change. want spare us here either. our scientists say we're facing possible desertification here in the next 20 to 50 years, either from the job for us as brandon books, welters. it's clear that climate change is here. and here to stay on the same topic. glaciers in the european alps are vanishing at the fastest rate in 60 years of record keeping, as according to new research from scientists in the region there less than usual snow fall last winter followed by sweltering waves. this summer have accelerated. the decline,

temperatures flows to 30 degrees or recorded in some alpine village is this you side to say the retreat of places has accelerated globally due to factors linked to climate change. we are now joined by one of the way she ologist so made those findings and here's linds bala from switzerland and there's we've been following the record breaking temperatures across europe. this summer are the heat waves. the main culprit here is 33. this is an important issue because this is why the glacial mouth that another thing is that there is little snow after and last winter. so it is little snow has already melted early in the season in may was to her seat wave than we have in june. and july, next heat wave, so all the snow has already gone. and now it's the ice that is melting glaciers. so now we're getting bad news from glaciers all over the world, but it seems that in the alps they're especially vulnerable. why is that?

well the out there, not that high as any other mountain ranges and the glaciers can not go back to further altitudes anymore. so they are just unable to these climate changes into the rising temperatures. and there is not much ice left anymore as maybe the maliah or in alaska. so that's why we are, we have while ability see in the else. so what is than the impact of glacial loss for these ecosystems? why does this matter? well, 1st of all, this smithers in, in the water balance at the moment we have a lot of water that is stored in glaciers. and this water is released in summer time when there is not too much rain. so we have the water in the rivers, which is coming from the glacier melt, and for the next few years we have actually more water and those reserves are

melting. but once more, grace has begun. there is no storage function anymore installation. and in summer time, we are only the brandon and on the rainfall. and if the rainfall does not come, then there will be not too much water in, in the outs any more. and that means we have to think about storage of water. and so we have another hydro power stations production, and there that the water is sketched in dam lakes and we have to think about if we have to catch our water to different time of year while you speak, we are watching pictures of the glaciers in the abs, what he's saying, what is your gas, if the climate roughly stays the same as it is right now with heat waves in the summer? where are we in terms of glacial eyes in the alps in 10 years? let's say. well, and in 10 years that would be difficult to say well,

they will drink further on. i don't know if next year will be brief again like this year. i mean last year was not that warm as this year. so i guess this year will be a record here in melt when maybe next year, a little bit less record up to my column to be negative. so the glacial day will retreat over the next 10 years. even though is to stop can stop climate change. the glacial still react on the warm temperatures are not in the living state. now. the place else is on the s. lindsay. thank you very much for your time. you're welcome . thanks. germany's famous bicycle at festival is on the way showcase a b o press of which i'd wagner. it takes place and a purpose built up a house in the composer's former home town. but the stop of the event has been mauled by accusations of workplace sexual harassment. by several women, including the festivals director the by rote festival is back. former german

chancellor angle immacule headline, the long list of german v. i. peas and oper lovers in attendance. while most guests went mask, las festival staff took precautions. many workers including performers caught cove it in the run up to opening day. but the show went on starting with a modern staging of the tragic love story, tristan and he sold it. catherine foster and stephen gould, both veterans of the wagnerian opera shown in the premier. oh, but the disturbing drama was not limited to the stage. and by royd recent revelations of sexual harassment have thrown a different kind of spotlight on the festival. several female employees, including festival director, katerina wagner, the granddaughter of the composer, say they were groped and otherwise sexually harassed while at work to bite and it

was as soon as there is a complaint. we look into the kia, we take it very seriously. we are very interested in clarifying such incident immediately and with the necessary severity hot off the tree up then on the density hat alpha pierre. then the allegations have re serious concerns with lawmakers. does this of kind of fall? this is totally unacceptable. it does. will have to be cleared up, which bins, i'm sure this will be cleared up and then by hoyde can shine again. well, if you'd like, it shows i dish times, or wagner may be back on center stage this year. but scandal and pandemic concerns are certainly waiting in the wings. ah, you are saying dw news. he is a reminder of the top story we're following for you with the saw european energy ministers have agreed on a deal to reduce gas consumption, unsafe supplies,

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