ah ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. you countries agree to reduce gas consumption and prepare for a total couple minutes to sign up to gas reduction targets to save reserves for the winter. that's up to russia says it's flashing it's pipeline deliveries. germany's energy minutes. the colds that economic war also coming off at travel chaos that

had fall off tons of passengers traveling through germany. the airline cancels more than a 1000 flights. it's frankfurt and munich hobbs due to it strike by the airlines ground stops starting wednesday. workers are demanding higher wages due to inflation. and emotional response is called francis apologizes to indigenous communities in canada begging forgiveness for evil abuse suffered by children as residential schools run by the catholic church. ah, i'm glad of as 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 off the russia announced it would slash gas apply to the you. energy

ministers struck a deal at an emergency meeting in brussels. the plan is expected to see most states count at least 15 percent of their gas use. the coming winter. some e u members, including germany, are still yet to fill their reserve facilities in preparation for a possible total russian gas cut off. the agreement was announced by the check republic as host of the use rotating presidency check, industry minister, joseph simila said the agreement would save ordinary europeans money and bring the european union closer to energy independence. there is no other option then gas savings. and i believe that today's decision will result in sufficient once the derogation ensure that all of us pay a fair share in a short term, european customers will not have to take drastic measures in case of gas disruption

in the winter. in the medium term, all of us will benefit unless the all gets rid of dependency on russian gas, the price is room in high. if we succeed, that prices will drop. those more will are joined from brussels by w respondent a. christine won't work or kristen, you just attended that press conference. what more can you tell us while they are dead, the pin units eaters are being taken to task over the issue that the steel that they are announcing that they're brandishing as the the tested european solidarity and is filled with exemptions at any given point. any country can basically step up and apply are for an exemption, so they're being taken to task as to as to why that is the case. and whether that undermines the effectiveness of this. but for its part,

the commission is insisting that even if all of these exemptions that were being used with people would apply all of these and searches of as the member states would do, that they would still be enough storage at to see europe through the what would be an average winter now, in the event that you have a longer winter with more extreme cold spells, while the calculation changes. but on the budget of it's an average winter. if, if, if this plan goes according to what the commission hopes it will. even in the event that all of these exemptions are exercised and that these apply to, to, to certain industry circumstances. as i say, they have a broad range of circumstances. the commission insists add that this plan would still be and sufficient. bearing in mind, the idea here is of course to save as much as possible right now in the reserves in e use, storage is 67 percent capacity and what the european union is aiming for is to reach 80 percent or by november. so saving gas, the commission says, is the only option right now to secure

a safe winter. now will this deal prepare and also fully protect european households and economies? well if, if you have someone off what they call an average winter ride, where the temperatures are manageable and the winter doesn't go on for too long. the commission is confident that this 15 percent reduction in demand by all member states would suffice. but of course, the calculation changes, if the weather circumstances are different to what i would be classified as an average winter. what is clear is that households are going to have a difficult winter that is that they're going to see their energy bills rise. because if moscow continues in the way of reducing gas supply weights, trickling gas apply to the unit that makes at gas prices more expensive. so for example, if you look at the difference between energy prices and gas prices between verb

before the decision to reduce the supplied by nordstrom, when the prices have already gone up. so households will still feel that, but what this is about is basically saying in the event that moscow i decides to cut off gas entirely. but the european union isn't left scrambling without any storage reserves. and that is why the emphasis now is to save as much as possible now, so that we're not at 0 in crisis hits. of course, if you're looking at from a prospective of an average at winter, it is likely that this will suffice according to the commission. but the energy prices that we've long been warned about here by european leaders is coming. and it probably is going to be a cold winter at with those measures to, to reduce demand. continuing throughout the winter to dubuque was one of christine among while they're reporting from brussels. thank you, christine. now this e u gas reduction agreement follows russia's announcement that it is slash and gas

delivery starting tomorrow. the company gas prom says it will send only 20 percent of its normal gas volumes through the note stream. one pipeline which runs on the baltic sea between russia and germany. gas palm has a blamed maintenance work and sanctions, but germany's energy minister rejected that excuse and called it economic war. germany says it will prioritize supply to households if any rationing becomes necessary. is how business is preparing for possible gas shortages. this is back a shimmy. the german multinational employs around 60000 people and is just one of the many companies in the so called chemicals triangle, in germany. southern state of bavaria cracking furnace is like these require massive amounts of energy and draw much of their power from russia. natural gas, without gas flows in the proper amount. the company will struggle to keep production going. visit her opinion from yet. gus is often 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 massive, challenging demand of i think thickened as well as if really 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 shimmies energy demands will increase, forcing it to generate heat, with oil shipped from italy, li the limb, and those are the steps would have to take to deal with the challenge. but if a gas stoppage come, suddenly, it will be very difficult to switch production methods. so 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. russia says it is pulling out of the international space station after 2024. it plans to build its own space station. earlier this year, russia space agency, ross cosmos announced it would pull out of the isis now the agencies newly appointed director. as put a timeline on that move after 2024. he said, russia will meet all its obligations to mission partners before quitting the session, getting ahead of the station. sonata look at some of the other stories making headlines. to nicholas president chi psi had celebrated the almost certain adoption

of a new constitution which would strengthen the powers of his office. 27 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots in a referendum on monday. say it's critic, say the new charter could tip the country back into dictatorship japan as executed a man convicted of killing 7 people in a vehicle crash and stabbings free in 2008 authorities say to my hero, cattle had carefully planned the attack on a crowd of pedestrians, despite international criticism for maintaining the death penalty to pans, just as minister insisted capital punishment was appropriate for the violent thousands of black brazilian women have rallied in the city of south apollo to protect against protest against racism. they accused president able to narrow off doing little to help marginalize women of color, a demographic that lags behind on the countries socio economic scale that protest

was held to mark the international after latin american women's death. germany sla carrier loved trans, i will cancel nearly all slights at its domestic hobbs, frankfurt, munich, starting wednesday, due to a ground staff strike a cancellation, so expected to impact travel plans for more than a wonder 130000 passengers in the coming days. lufthansa will also shut its service countess and has asked effect the traveler seeking customer support to not show up at airports. union negotiators are seeking a pay rise 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 d. w. business. rob. just how disruptive are these strikes guarantee? yeah, you mentioned every 130000 passengers if i to. that's because it is over a 1000 flights across munich and frank fit airport. so the main see that and very important have for us because they are f was not only the 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 going have to find another way. or we're going to try and find another way to get to 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 finishes on thursday morning. but also there's knock on destruction. so some of these flights are being canceled on tuesday ahead of the strike, but also thursday and friday can see cancel that cancellation as well. so disruption is significant. so house 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 that cost of living is going up the lufthansa for its parts as well. now this is a strike is unreasonable though, because there's only been 2 days of negotiations so far as jumping the gun somewhat is how they were put. 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, although that he wants $350.00 or is per month or so look down to says it's, you know, it's, it's, it's little bit too much too soon. ok. so the only strikes facing the ation sector in europe right now. what's brought us to this point, is it just inflation? know what it is, is pandemic is over at the depth of the pandemic. and you remember airlines articulated of dance, it would have to be bailed out by the government. lots of p for now very caused this center 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 no. so here it is not fast enough. lufthansa don't just lufthansa though. i mean, we were saying airlines all over the continent of your, of and add ports as well. so short staffed. and so because of this resurgence of demand not being met by that being enough staff and that gives those staff a lot of leverage to push for extra wages if they want robots to w business. thank you for this explanation. pope frances has apologized in person to indigenous groups in canada for the abuse suffer, but children at residential schools wrong by the catholic church. he called the force assimilation of native people, a disastrous error that led to cultural destruction. the long awaited apology through an emotional responsible survivors of the 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 to day beeville verizon. but of 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. this yep, go pretty me and i look woozy. 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 welcome the paypal visit. others have mixed feelings. didn't visit is long overdue. something had happened many,

many years ago. really the start of vacant. so she would have started again, young frances 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. mia mas ruling military has it defended? it's the execution of for activists saying they were given a fair and lawful trial. it's the 1st time me and my is officially carried out executions in decades and the action as prompted international outright in thailand, hundreds of pro democracy protests is gathered outside me and mars embassy and bankcorp to condemn the punishment which is broad, is seen as a politically motivated move before men were tried, convicted and sentenced by a military tribunal with no option to appeal se on the

association of south east asian nations has also condemned myanmar strongly. earlier i asked journalist m and 10 age. this rise and regional condemnation means the hunter has crossed a line. so we've seen condemnation from after the executions, but just last week and boy was tasks i think the block for being too harsh on the hunter. and this test placement happened despite the fact that the had announced that they were planning to hold these executions. not to mention that over 2100 people have already been killed by the military, including protesters who were peacefully demonstrating as well as prisoners who were killed during interrogation. so i think that while this is obviously a new development and the use of the penalty is definitely a new development. it's difficult to say that this has crossed the mind given how much, how many deaths have been here occurred under the hunters. now this,

despite the military's tight grip, there have been protests inside me. i'm up to what can you tell us about those? yes, so local media has reported that a group of inmates in general, present states the demonstration. they were pretty much immediately dragged out of their cell and beach in the protest was washed. but i think what this really shows is that despite the brutal repression, despite the fact that these new essentially that they were going to face by violent repercussions that the spirit of the revolution remain strong and member. we also, people were also protesting in various unspecified locations throughout the country and they were posting about the social media. and in the end, there were reports that residents began making pots and pans again at 8 p. m. last night, which is a form of protest that had become popularized since the now the usa department has said that no country has the potential to influence the trajectory of bombers next

steps more so than china. so why is china refusing to do something? so the chinese states has that vested interest in me are likely to extract that industry. so lot of this is jade. they as well as cheek oil and other natural resources. they also happen to working with my government to use my as a sort of gateway to the indian ocean. and as far as analysts can tell, the chinese government is mostly interested in maintaining good relationships with whoever is in charge of me and my. and so the chinese state seems to have made the determination that for the foreseeable future, at least, that the military will be the government essentially be the government id m r. and that this is the organization that they need to work with in order to maintain their interest abroad. just m n 10. thank you very much.

let's have a look at some of the world news now. cruise in the u. s. state of texas battle to save homes after a grass fire broke out in dallas suburb. several houses were engulfed by flames in the town of bolts springs. local officials say the blaze was probably spark accidentally by lawn mowing equipment. glaciers of the european alps vanishing at the fastest rate in 60 years. that's according to new research from scientists in the region less than usual. so 4 followed by sweltering temperatures. as accelerated, the decline, most of the world's mountain glaciers are in retreat due to climate change. fires, i've been raging european countries under heat wave conditions and enduring droughts. the mediterranean region has been most effective, but the impact of climate change is also being felt for the north forest fires, also raging. here in germany, in the state of brahman book, particularly along its eastern border,

part of that region were once known for its swamps. and lakes, but it is now suffering from drought and its waterways are disappearing. there should be water flowing down this river bed. but the black ellis 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 time hu bye works for a state run company that re cultivated this former mining landscapes. he regularly monitors the block ester as i was, but i thought i was part as dried up repeatedly during hot summer spells. in the past 3 years, 201720182019 were already very dry years. a general precipitation deficit has built up. this means that we've lost an average years supply quality 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 rich managers discourse resource in local lakes and rivers, sending it where it isn't that most every drought season makes his job harder since escalade hulu. manor is not to lose your 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 here 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 burn 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 burned more than $1000.00 hector's vocal ish end. the situation was in part

life threatening, and he pushed experience firefighters to their limits at yahoo. some even had to run for their lives in with new york list. however, on the 11th then, police have launched an arson investigation. firefighter said that the blaze could only has spread so quickly due to this year's extreme drought, months it earth that's a spoke to should. you can see that it's really dry, the sim out. 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 heat earth cal toggle. he and his colleagues are now training to fight even more intense forest fires than they are. you still at us had seniors in other countries like southern spain or southern france where serious wildfires are more frequent. you can watch what's happening there right now on the news firefighters. they're familiar with it overnight. we've never seen anything like it here until now. all of the senate for over time huber brandon book is in the race against time to adapt

to the fast changing climate. as this mixture, it's unpleasant, but we must deal with it. climate change won't spare us here either. our scientists say we're facing possible desertification here in the next 20 to 50 years. was it from the general false. as brandon books, welters, it's clear that climate change is here. and here to stay. germany is famous by a wide festival is underway, showcasing the operas of a chart wagner. this takes place in a purpose built opera house in the composers former home town. but the start of the event has already been marred by actors asia's of workplace. sexual harassment by several women, including the festival director. the by road festival is back. former german chancellor angle immacule headline, the long list of german via peas and opera lovers in attendance. while most guests

went masked this 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 road 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 that we're 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 react van on identity 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 means 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're watching t w's as a reminder of the top story we're following for you. bizarre european energy ministers have agreed on a deal to reduce gas consumption, unsafe supplies. that's off the russia set. it will cost gas flow through it's an old stream pipeline to just 20 percent of the normal capacity. germany's energy minister cold that decision. economic world ob,

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