ah ah ah ah, this is the w news ly from berlin b. e, you agreed to reduce gas consumption and prepare for a total cut off. and as a sign up to production targets to safe reserves for the winter. russia says it's flashing it's deliveries. germany's energy minutes nichols at economic war russia

launch is renewed missiles, strikes along new planes, black sea coast, it in vital infrastructure and casting fresh down from a deal to export ukrainian grain to the world. and russia announces a timeline for its withdrawal from the international space station. it plans to build its own instead. ah, i've been fas all and welcome the european union has agreed to count back on natural gas at an emergency meeting in brussels, roswell, slashing deliveries. moscow saying it needs to carry out maintenance work on a key pipeline and that a complete stop. it is not on the cards. you officials don't believe i. the 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 a result of the text agreed by the member states has multiple compromises. dairies no other option, then gas savings, unless the all gets rate of dependency on russian gas, the price is room in high. if we succeed, that prices will drop. proposed cuts of 15 percent are now 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 shall industrial production, change a completely interdependent if there are problems with chemical from germany, than the whole of european industry can stop. and that is what is at stake. that shows that europe stays july checks, 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 and 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. the social democrats parliamentary spokesperson for energy. nina, she joins us here in germany. you're calling on all of us here to help save energy

consumers like you and me, but that's not going to be enough. is it? if, if there's a complete cut off it's, it's not a complete cut off at the moment, but it's a serious situation because it will send off if it's is big. if, if this does develop into a complete cut off at some stage, i'm asking whether or not it's going to be enough. all of us banding together to try to reduce our energy consumption. it will come to cut off completely. it will very serious situation because then our staff will not be fooled and then to the winter and then all the european union will have a problem because of the stores are also for the who you can

union. so 20 percent less is also in signal. we have to say ok, now it's saving the gas is the best we can do now. and it is very necessary that we will have is this using in gas and to, to, to, to be able to have and to be able not to pay for. so much for gas, we have to know every, every gas we, we will buy for the next weeks or months is very, very high price. and this will make the gas consumption in the risk for private people will be able to pay for. so we have to save energy, now it's very su, history, very strong,

50 percent be able to arrive maybe also more than 50 percent. and it's the same time. we also realize it just absolutely necessary to switch to, you know, we have to switch fast and we can meet people what to do before. and this is, this is the 2 things we have to do. and maybe the 3rd thing that we get that there's something, maybe i can we have also to be careful about the people that they get more help. some people the not be able to pay for the energy and they need more help we get gave them before. exactly. that's what i wanted to ask you. what is the strategy that's in place by the coalition? how is the government going to help?

not only consumers, the companies as well, which is gas cards, could mean it could ruin their businesses and mean layoffs. the helps are rehab in the last month with 30000000000 euro with that big packages and they continuously arrive the people and bed battery it. we know that it is not enough, so we have to help with men money. but we have also to help us with subsidies to, to save energy. and there are also some ideas that can help to reduce and maybe also with m. it also says that you're you're getting some some money back when you were successful with

saving energy and something like this we have to do. and we have also to and to, to realize that the 50 percent which are now coming february percent electricity, which is coming from gas, we have to reduce very seriously. and for this reason, mit also some acts which will hold and the next month that more coal power plants will go instead of the the, the gas power plant. so that we, we can reduce the gas consumption of also there and other things. we can also do for the in the tree, how profit, interest, threes. ok, they are able to do that. i think maybe over the next one thing. maybe

it's also necessary to say with out we're all in the room can union same as in, in our members state germany, the best protected place are they concealed, was they reducing of a gas and regular act is saving the country and was at the best. i can hear on your hopes, energy challenges, sorry about that. we're having troubles with the line. they're good to have you on the show today. thank you. ukraine says russian forces have launched new missiles strikes on the coastal towns in the southern regions of odessa. and nikolai of keith as released footage of what it says is the aftermath of the attacks which here private buildings and port infrastructure on the black sea coast . marsha redacted as its border, the weekend casting down on a breakthrough deal to resume grain exports to the world.

the w. matthew spelling it joins us from key for more mathias. what's the situation in the odessa region after those miss on the tax? so odessa has been hit several times in the, in the past few days, odessa and the neighboring, michel, i, if, and this is a clear sign that russia has not given up on these regions. if you remember, in february and early march of russia was able to capture some large part of the south, but there were stockton mach alive on their march on to odessa. and as are fighting seems to have been stalled in the east. they seem to renew their claims on these 2 cities. however, it's doubtful that they can really advance in that direction as an ukranian counter offensive is going on. so this is the message they are sending, and of course it has to do with the grain deal. the, the,

not this strike with the strike that was just a few days earlier, hit a port in odessa, and this one was aimed at critical infrastructure. so definitely there is tension there now and worries in the region dr. there might be other more strikes for might be following an end strife. the could and mean that these brain shipments are go ahead they could, they could, it's hard to say ukraine is still preparing for these shipments some and is still determined to reopen these 3 ports under this very special agreement that will allow for these grams grains to be shipped out by turkish vessels that will buy turkish own vessels that will her have a safe passage into ukraine into these ukranian. pause the passage being guaranteed by the russians who have said that the would not attack these vessels and are the ukrainians who would open a lane through there through the sea. elaine,

that is without mines am and the hope is, of course, that russia would not dare to the tech turkish vessels. but the, that the weak point is of course, the supply lines behind the ports. theoretically russia has excluded attacking port a ports in this agreement. um, but a trust of course, in russia's action is not very high. so the preparations are going on. but whether it will happen or not, we will know only after m. it is. we've also heard the, again, the writers ready to hold talks with ukraine or ending the war according to russian foreign minister. so gay laughter of how is that are being seen in ukraine for there are few reactions to what mr. lover of says here in ukraine, just because people do not take him seriously any more. a few days ago, just a few days ago, he said that negotiations would be impossible and are excluded. now he's saying that they might be possible, but his blaming the west on them before he has been blaming ukraine on them. so

this messaging, bye bye mr. lover of in here in ukraine, it's seen as a messaging to the west trying to find the weak spots of the west may be that these people who still dream about negotiations about an end to a quick end to the war via diplomatic path. also right, open letters auditoriums in the west, but clearly nobody gives anything about what mr. love says here in ukraine, ukrainians aren't willing to give up their own country either. either use but he is building a reporting for key for us there. thank you. let's take a look at some of the other stories from around the world. a protest has been held outside me at my embassy in the tie capital bank arc after the execution of 4 democracy activists, members, 1st executions in decades prompted an international outcry. the military regime accused the men of aiding so called terror attacks, or acts by as of it, resistance movement. japan has executed

a man who killed 7 people and attract ramming and stabbing in 2008 authority say to my hero cartoon had carefully planned the attack on a crowd of pedestrians as my international criticism of the death penalty. japan's justice minister insist that the punishment fitted the crime. russia has confirmed its pulling out of the international space station after 2024. earlier this year, rushes space agency announced the pullout. now the agencies director has provided president vladimir putin with a timeline for the move. he says russia will meet all of 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 m u. s. with 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 are 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 playing with the idea of not content tending it's work on the i assess why doesn't nasa know about this though? well, i'm pretty sure they know the new about russia. you know, playing with these ideas and the rest of the former 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. or what may be different is that a ross cause most of 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, ros in the formative said before that they might not continue working the i s s f 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 one your crane started. so and yet because the station is old and the partners we're thinking about if it's worth it to operate it further now, so pushed to operate it further 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 and you cry. so when you say,

um yeah, it's hard to say because i guess that the one ukraine can 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 effects 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. there 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. 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 kept seals 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 though just down here on earth. but also up in space was lately i vice from dw science. thank you very much. thanks for having me. firefighters in northern greece have been trying to put out a flyer blazing in a national park for the 6 consecutive day. volunteers from a wildlife protection group are trying to rescue animals. the daddy forest is one of the most important protected areas in europe. vast areas of pine forests already been lost to the fire, dw correspondent, still he and smith is in the village of daddy if ross region where the fires raging . so and how is the situation where you are? well, i'm actually not in the village. i'm right next the village shop, but the where as you mentioned, the fire has been burning for almost

a week. now what you see behind me is the current main buyer, ron, to 320 fire fighters from all over brief tried to contain this fire, which is extremely difficult because of the weather conditions right now. it's not windy fortunately, but it's very hot. just below the 40 degree mark, and we're talking about kinda dry conditions here to things make this fire extremely difficult to contain. i'm the 1st is that it's basically it is. we'll be talking about pine trees that are very playable, and pine cones explode in this read the fire. and the 2nd is that we're talking about a protected forest year, so there is no axis there. no road. so it's very hard and almost impossible for the fire fighters to penetrate the deeper forests. so we see helicopters and app lanes dropping water from the air on

a regular basis that brought to the fire. it seems to be stronger. it was raining a bit yesterday, but that was only some, some drops into the desert. i'm looking actually right now at a hill where it burned the past couple of days. and the only the only thing that the flames were left behind. it is ashes. basically about a 3rd of the of the protected area seems to have been affected by the names on a more positive note. the big blazes and less post and in pair bonded those that we were worried about the past couple of days seemed to be under control. what started the file i talked to some locals and i read some, some local newspapers, and there is a rumor that refugees started this buyer. now, as we mentioned before, i'm here at everest the ever river, which is right right next to this area. the natural border between greece and

turkey, where red p, jeez, tried to cross into europe on a regular basis. once they reach european ground, they hide in the woods because they are scared of the authorities. they are scared that they would be illegally deported. back into turkey, so they hide it in the words and try to make it a leaky, which is the bottom of 4 and a half hour drive away from here. you actually, when you, when you walk through the woods, you see traces off refugees. but there are dozens of reasons why this buyer could have broken out the anti migrant sentiment in this region. it's extremely high. right now. these are just rumors and there's no, that's not been any official statements regarding the reason so far. the w corresponding fil henchmen. thank you very much for bringing us up to date. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines. germany's largest airline lufthansa

will cancel really oh flights at its domestic hobbs, frankfurt, munich on wednesday. ground stuff, a striking is good impact over a 130000 passengers. in the coming days, union negotiators want a pay rise for stuff. thousands of black brazilian women have rallied in the city of south polo to protest against racism. they accuse president julia both an arrow of doing little to help marginalize women of color. the protest was held to mock and to national, afro latin american women state sports news now and at the women's euros in england. the 1st and the final will be played this evening . almost england, sweden, in front of the full house in sheffield. the controversy has struck again jude to the lack of video, assistant referee cameras at the tournament. england, all the slight favorites to win tuesday semi final against sweden in beth made they have the tournament top scorer and coached athena, vic mon,

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 especially lose thought we raised in the atmosphere in some of that so far has been outstanding. the support when people become watching at home and the messages up against sunny and they not sound in my seat grateful for that ball . i think it shows the growth of the game, 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 a for a using far fewer via cameras than at the men's euros last year. for fidel, throughout the lease, if 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 fall. we have one game though, when they make mistakes, they make a mistake in the cost to draw the line on the wrong side and allow what we heard a handle from the same cameras. and for me, it's not the acceptable in the, in, in the euro. sweden, we'll hope not to face another contentious decision. while england's lionesses attempt to bring football home by munich have signed french teenager matisse tell from ren, for a reporter, fee of up to $13000000.00 euros. the fort made 10 appearances for the club without scoring a single goal. at his performances as a youth play a helping win the european on to 70 championship. as captain brought him to the attention of europe's biggest clubs. germany's famous by white festival is underway,

showcasing the operas of ice havoc. no. it takes place in a purpose built opera house in the composes full of hometown. but the start of the event has been made by allegations made by several women of what place sexual harassment the by rote festival is back. former german chancellor angle immacule headline, the long list of german v. i. peas and opera, lovers, and 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 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 that we are groped and otherwise sexually harassed while at work. so by the end of it, as soon as there is a complaint, we look into it here, we take it very seriously. we're very interested in clarifying such incident immediately and with the necessary severity of hot react, vanhorn, with energy at alpha pierre. again, the allegations have very 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 there. and then by hoyde can shine again, would you like it shows like the stones or wagner may be back on center stage this year. but scandal and pandemic concerns are certainly waiting in the wings. ah, and a reminder of the top, sorry,

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