ah, where is india headed in? this is the moment to unleash on on violet bars. gandhi's legacy start august 6th on b, w. ah, ah, this is the w news live from berlin. b e u agrees to reduce gas consumption and prepare for a total cutoff. ministers sign up to production targets to safe reserves for the winter. russia says it's flashing it's deliveries. germany's energy minutes that calls it economic wall. rush announces plans to withdraw from the international

space station. it plans to build its own instead. and could things like these become the new normal and eastern parts of germany? look at the big scramble to adapt to a big dry as climate change tightens its grip. ah, i've been fissile and welcome. the european union is agreed to come back on natural gas at an emergency meeting in brussels, proseries slashing deliveries. moscow saying it needs to carry up maintenance work on a key pipeline. and that a complete stoppage is not on the cards. you officials don't believe either statement, member states reaching a deal to voluntarily reduce gas consumption by 15 percent from next month. as europe's energy ministers met in brussels on tuesday, the urgency of the challenge they faced had become increasingly obvious. russia's

announcement this week that it would cut supply of natural gas through its main pipeline to germany, to just a 5th of capacity meant a bad situation. had become even more dire. a collective agreement to reduce gas consumption has been long needed. but brussels initial demand for a mandatory 15 percent caught had caused uproar last week as results. the text agreed by the member states has multiple compromises. dairies, no other option, then gas savings. unless the or gets rate of dependency on russian gas. the price is room and high. if we succeed, that prices will drop, proposed cuts of 15 percent turn have voluntary. and if the target becomes mandatory, the list of opt outs is long. among the exemptions, island stay, it's not connected to the european grid, such as ireland, malta and cyprus. countries heavily dependent on gas for electricity can also opt out necessary flexibility ministers say to protect the european economy as

a whole. lot better than chicago industrial production chains a completely into dependent if there are problems with camco from germany than the whole of european industry can stop. and that is what is at stake. that shows that europe staged united, that europe is able to find union unity. and i'm giving a strong sigma also in the day where the flows of decimals to run or reduce them to another 20 percent to putting and to russia. you won't split us. so this is the important segment of the day. since the war in ukraine began 5 months ago. the need for europe to rid itself of its dependence on russian energy has grown by the day. governments are hoping that with winter on the horizon supplies tightening and price, a soaring, this compromise is enough for now a brussels corresponding christine. but when wives plain to us how the deal is going to work well,

then the commission says it will provide it that europe experiences what it cause an average winter, or even with all the exceptions. and the durham ations as they refer to within the steel the commission is confident that if the member states ad do their fair share in saving by reducing i guess usage. and instead of saving that at that, we would be able to give through the winter here in europe. i'm of course the, the intention is to store up reserves at to reach a level of 80 percent capacity by november. the reserves are currently at 67 percent. the message from the commission is save now and that will make a safer. i in the winter that the saving has to happen across the board and that everybody needs to pitch in and do their fair share. now in the event that the commission sees that there is an emergency as situation, and there is a mechanism that's been baked into the steel, which would allow, of course, at the heads of state of the e. u. member countries at to trigger. and that mechanism which makes this 15

percent at mandatory as opposed to voluntary as it currently is, according to you officials only hungry, opposed to deal well, that would be this particular deal or the deal in this form. this is about the 3rd draft from the commission's initial plan that was proposed over a week ago that really caused i have on that plan was rejected by a number of e u. member states. it would have seen the commission take control over the situation in a way, ab be in a position to, to mandate those cuts and dictates to, to you. members how to ration a gas supply at, in their own countries that was widely rejected by number of countries. and so this version and its current form has only been rejected or by hungry, but bear in mind to get yelled at these concessions. these exemptions that i talked about and have been baked in there, which effectively give a lifeline to, to any you member state at any given time to be able to exercise some level of

exemption. and so in terms of what the e u is, is showing today, it is of course, something that they can say were united over. but in truth, it was difficult getting to this point. and anybody can tell you, this is a significantly watered down version of what the commission intended christian this and war of course, are going to isolate russia long term, but short term it's european, solving, most absolutely and dead. ukraine's energy minister was here as a yesterday and he's meeting and having a number of fur settings with the people. he a brief the media here and he said, look, the energy war. so as he stepped, it began long before the invasion on a, on february 23rd 24th. and, and, and what we're seeing is, is definitely that, i mean, prices are going up and when red reduces the in the gas supply. and that takes the prices up, and this is what's also prompted the research that you saw by the international agency or for energy saying that in the months of the war is just the reduction of

supply has seen price a saw to the point that russia has essentially made 3 times what it would in energy sales than it would in a given winter. so in terms of rushes capabilities to continue restricting the flow of gas, well, it seems to be getting incentivized by that. and of course, that just means european households will see their energy bills rise at a time when cost of living is already high. in the block, it's going to be difficult winter and the commission is hoping that this plan will soften out. what is a blow that is certain to come from russia? whether or not there will be a total cut in that gas? how long the winter will be, how severe the cold weather will be. of course, these are all unknown factors are, but what the commission is saying is, let's save as much as possible. it will do us better. it will at least signal to the market that there is contingency plan. but this is no doubt going to impact are already hot his european households. exactly. and are all we do know is that winter

is coming the w for steamer hood, while thank you very much for the analysis. russia has confirmed its pulling out of the international space station after 2024. earlier this year, russian space agency announced to pull out now the agencies director is provided president vladimir putin with a timeline. he says russia will meet all its obligations to mission partners before quitting the. i assess from the w science sun joined by leah. i placed here just how significant is this announcement today? well, of course, it is significant as the ice, as was built upon the cooperation between russia and, and us that that's the basic block building block of it. imagine the russian side, for example, as responsible for the orbital corrections. they push the i s s into the right orbit, or once once in a while. where is the nasa the us sigmund is responsible for its energy supply with its solar panels. so of course, russia leaving the earth as will will change things about the i assess and it's

posed the question if it might be if it's still able to continue working. but it's not really in new announcement like it's not really new fact we knew that russia is playing with the idea of not content tending it's work on the i assess what, what doesn't nasa know about this though? well, i'm pretty sure they know they knew about russia, you know, playing with these ideas and the rest of the form of rush and see for goes and had it didn't make any mystery about him thinking about, you know, not continuing working and operating the station after 2024. so i'm sure that new maybe this is now the final decision. maybe it hasn't been communicated to the nasa so far. but there is no way they didn't know about them. and it's not the 1st time that you mention what's different this time. well, what's may be different, is that a cause? must the russian space agency has a new chief since mid july, so i guess this is a bit maybe a move for him to set up his position. but yeah, bro,

goes in the farm achieve said before that they might not continue working the isis of 2024. but we need to make clear that they never said that they would be operating the station after 2024. so it was even 2024 was already a deadline even before the ukraine started. so and yet because the station is old and the partners were thinking about if it's worth it to operated further, nasa pushed to operate 12 until 2030 in december 21 and the other partners, europe, japan and canada are thinking to, to continue as well. but no rush, i was the 1st to say they would step out for 24, but you can't pinpoint this through the actual war in ukraine. is that what you say? oh, yeah, it's hard to say because i guess that the one ukraine kind of maybe pushed things to, you know, maybe it pushed decisions to be taken quicker than they would have been. otherwise

. maybe russia would have continued as well as nasa will be. but that's all hypothesis, we can't really know for sure. so what are going to be the no one affects you mentioned some of the factors involved before. yeah. so i think the very big trend will be that there will might be more competition in space flight, it might be more separate parties being involved in space flight. i mean, russia plans to build its own station as china is already, they already build their own station at the moment. and now for the i s s, we will need to see if the, the remaining partners will be able to operate it after 2024 on their own. but there might be a chance, as they already developing techniques, for example and capsules who could push theirs as to its orbit. so there might be chance that the ice as could survive. but we are old and we are looking at a more splintered world just down here on earth. but also up in space was on

earlier i brush from dw science. thank you very much. thanks harvey. me. let's take a look now at some of the other stories from around the world. a protest is being held outside mere mozambie, c and the tie capital bank called after the execution of for democracy activists memos. first executions in decades have prompted an international outcry. the military regime accused the man of aiding so called terror acts by a civilian resistance movement. japan as executor, the man who killed 7 people in a truck ramming and stabbing in 2008 authorities say, tom are here or cartoon had carefully planned the attack on a crowd of pedestrians despite international criticism of the death penalty. japan's justice minister insist that the punishment fit the crime innovation presidential with total is in beijing for talked with chinese county punching. being that if it is pledge to enhance bilateral trade and cooperation, widow invited she to the g. 20 summit and barley this year is unclear. whether she

will accept the invitation, honestly, the hasn't left the countries since the start of the coven, 19 pandemic. and tunisia president chi saeed, 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. a referendum on monday. so each critics a, the new china could tip the country back into dictatorship. but francis has apologized in person to indigenous groups in canada for the abuse suffered by 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. the long awaited apology drew an emotional response among 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 be

little bit of dawn bowler money i asked 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 with lucy 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. something had happened many, many years ago. maybe the star vacant, so if you hadn't started,

dan 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 in european countries sweltering under a heat wave and drought. the mediterranean regions being mostly affected by climate change is also being felt for the north forest fights here in germany, in the state of brandenburg close to the capital berlin. the regions better known for its lakes and swamps, but it's now suffering from drought. it's waterways running low there should be water flowing down this river bed. but the black s during the germans head 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 stay thrown company that we cultivate this former mining landscapes. he regularly monitors the block ester as, as, as blood. so do i, as part, has 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 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 constant 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 it's comfortable. my nose not to little water shortages always increase potential

for conflict between users who need the river water. if there is a water 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 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. as vocalist in the situation was in part life threatening, and he pushed experience firefighters to the limited yeah, 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 said that the blaze could only have spread so quickly due to this year's extreme drought. once it earth thus

spoke to show that you can see that it's really trying to stick 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 he and her uncle. 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 or nor frequent, you can watch what's happening there. right on the news firefighters. they're a familiar with it overnight. we've never seen anything like it here until now. was presented, thought rush time, huber brandon book is in the race against time to adapt to the fast changing climate. isn't it true? it's unpleasant, but we must deal with it. climate change want spare us here either our scientists say we're facing possible desertification here in the next 20 to 50 years. why is it from the job for us as brandon bull sweaters, it's clear that climate change is here. and here to stay where any coma is an

environmental scientist with a health center for environmental search. thanks for being on the show. the regional round berlin has become dryer and dryer over the past few years. it is it now becoming a type of hot spot. yet according to our studies we, since yesterday we see that these reasons has experienced a multi year drought. indeed, it is the phenomena that we see in the central european reasons that the 201-8220 possibly now the 21 was little bit better. but $22.00 again the same trout happens and it is like a extensive drought. that is, that is covering the whole entire reason at the moment. how would you say it ranks historically? so according to our study, almost over the last 250 years, this particular event of 2018 to 2021, 22 ranks. first on did he caught that we have not seen such

a unprecedented level of dryness or the intensity through which this drought has developed over the time the ranks 1st? what can we do because you know, so many governments aren't putting this 1st at the top of their agendas and, and is only so much we as consumers can do well, the thing is that we have to work on both the mitigation and adaptation policies mitigate mitigation policies in order to corrupt the greenhouse gas emission and bring back to normal conditions back. and we as a scientist and keep on telling that one to the, our policy makers look, we have evidence. we have, we have conducting a several kind of his studies that is on the mitigation formed on the adaptation form. we have to walk again to understand that one that some kind of crops or other made me mitigation strategies or adaptation is that disease, cooperative heat,

resilient crops, or drought, resilient crops that we have to start. adapting for those in our environment. romania, they listen to your the policy makers actually hearing what you're say. well, we tried, and i sincerely hope that one that to that are we sincerely hope that one that with this doubt that has catastrophic impact on all the ecosystem, agriculture and other stuffs, forest trees, or of forest fires or the fires that we are seeing be hoped that one that, that is a wake up call for them in order to understand that we are now going under catastrophic situations. another question i have for you, because even if steps are taken to deal with greenhouse gases, the effects like these sorts of droughts and extreme where the patterns won't suddenly stop. i mean, we're, we're talking about knock on effects here that we're going to be dealing with for a long time before the effects of cutting back on greenhouse gas is actually not in

. right. it's. so that's why i told like we have 2 of we have to tackle this on to form like a one is the mitigation strategies that the greenhouse gas and others that has to be reduced and other is the adaptation is that is that we had to start dealing with the situations, we have to understand that the situation is also happening in our reasons. it's no more like south than europe or back in other other areas dryer areas that was traditionally seen as that dad, having the water is scarcity issues. but in central europe, we are facing those kind of situations for him to come out with the him, hold center for environmental research, thanks very much for being on the dog. and let's take a look at some other stories making headlines. germany's largest airline. lufthansa will cancel nearly all flights and it's domestic comes frankfurt and munich on wednesday. ground staff, a striking is could impact travel plans for more than $130000.00 passengers. in the

coming days, union negotiate his want, a pay rise for staff. thousands of black brazilian women have rallied in the city of south hollow to protest against racism. they accused president diable. so now to doing little to help marginalize women of color. the protest was held to mock international effort latin american women's day. at least 5 people, the dead and 50 wounded this 2nd day of protests against the united nations peacekeeping mission, in the democratic republic of congo demonstrated storm. the un office is in goma, demanding a withdrawal over it's perceived in effectiveness. that mid militia violence and clay c as in the european alps, vanishing of the fastest rate in 60 years. less than usual snow fall followed by sweltering temperatures, has accelerated. the decline. most of the world's mountain places are in retreat

due to climate change. some source is out and at the women's euros in england, the semi final will be played on tuesday evening. hosts england, faith sweden in front of a full house in sheffield. but controversy has struck again due to the lack of video assistant referee cameras at the time it england of a slight favorites to wind tuesday semi final against sweden. in beth made, they have the tournament top scorer and coach that in a vague man, one the euros with her native netherlands last time out in 2017. so far this squad has managed to juggle the expectation and pressure that comes with being hosts and speaks not potentially lose thought will embrace. and then the atmosphere in something that so far has been outstanding for support, where the people becoming watching at home and the messages up again sunday and they're not sound in their seat. we're grateful for that,

but i think it shows the growth the gave the direction that way. one is continuing . the tournament has shown a boost in the popularity of the women's game and the sell out crowd is expected in sheffield. however, semi finalists sweden have had several video, assistant referee decisions go against them. and now reports have emerged that you way for a using far fewer via cameras than at the men's euros last year. for fidel throttle visit, we have 50 percent fuel via our cameras. in our tenement than the men's game. and that's a catastrophe, because decisions can't be made with the same position at the sort of vault. we have one game though, when they make mistakes, they make a mistake in cost to draw the line on the wrong side. am allow what we heard. i have not the same cameras. and for me it's not the acceptable in the, in the euro. sweden,

we'll hope not to face another contentious decision. while england's lionesses attempt to bring football hope, a club in australia will become the 1st team in the national rugby league to wear a shirt featuring the pride flag promoting inclusivity at some place, refusing to wear it. 7 plays of the manly warren, gassy eagles, boy caught their upcoming match over the team's decision. they say they weren't consulted and some objects to the move on. religious and cultural grounds. they coach days has la, has issued an apology to the l. g. b t. community jersey was and reminder of the top stories way of following for you this our european energy ministers have agreed on a deal to reduce gas consumption and safe supplies. that's after russia said it will cut gas flow through its node stream pipeline to just 20 percent of normal capacity. germany's energy minister called the move economic war

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