program 20222023 into a weakness and stuff. foundation. ah ah, this is the w use life from berlin. b, e u agrees to reduce gas consumption and prepare for a total of minutes to sign up to production targets to safe reserves for the winter rushes slashes, deliveries, germany's energy minister, calls it economic warfare. great. find his battle for a 6th day to down

a massive wildfire is consuming, vast stretches of protected forest endangering wild life, and they habitat and sweet and take on england. in the semi final of 2022 euros. the hosts are hungry for their 3rd european championship final. they have a sold out crowd in sheffield behind them. ah, i'm been visible and welcome. the european union has agreed to cut back on natural gas at an emergency meeting in brussels. russia is 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. e, you officials don't believe either statement. member states reaching a deal to voluntarily reduce gas consumption by 15 percent for 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 prices remain 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 out 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 into dependent if there are problems with chemical from germany than the whole of european industry can stop. and that is what is a steak. he thought it shows that europe stays july checks, that europe is able to find union, unity and term giving a strong sigma. also, in the day where the flows of decimals to run or reduce them to another 20 percent, to poaching 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 a brussels corresponding christine while explain 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, even with all the exceptions and the durham cations, 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 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 a trigger. and that mechanism which makes this 15 percent mandatory, as opposed to voluntary as it currently is, according to you officials only hungry, opposed to deal miss. 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 have that planned 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 in their own countries that was widely rejected by number of countries . and so this version and its current form has only been rejected at by hungry. but bear in mind to get you at these concession, these exemptions that i talked about and have been faked 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 will 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 christmas. and the war of course, are going to isolate russia long term, but short term it's european solving most absolutely. and a ukraine's energy minister was here as a yesterday, and he's meeting and having a number of 1st sittings with the people. he a brief 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 just wind rush said reduces v in the gas supply. and that takes the prices up, and this is what's also upon to the research that you saw by the international

agency or for energy saying that in the months of the war, 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 capability 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. i in the block, it's going to be a difficult went 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 faxes 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 household. exactly. and are all we do know is that winter

is coming, the w's were staying the hood while thank you very much for the analysis. let's take a look at some of the other stories from around the world. japan is executed, a man who killed 7 people in a truck ramming and stabbing in 2008 authority say to me. here to capitol had carefully planned the attack on a crowd of pedestrians despite international criticism of the death penalty. japan's justice minister insisted the punishment fit the crime. indonesian presidential, we thought all is in beijing, 4 talks with his chinese counterparts. teaching ping. the 2 leaders pledge to enhance bilateral trade and cooperation. we don't all invited sheet to the g. 20 summit in bali this year. it's unclear whether she will accept the invitation. the chinese liter hasn't left his country since the start of the coke in $1000.00 pandemic. germany's largest airline. lufthansa will cancel nearly all flights at its domestic obs. frankfurt and munich on wednesday, ground staff

a striking could impact travel plans for more than $130000.00 passengers. in the coming days. union negotiators want to pay rise for staff and archaeologists have displayed over 1850 year old coin found recently. it bears the zodiac, sign of cancer, and move good. as luna x would say the going was mentioned in alexandria, egypt under the rule of roman emperor. and to nina's pillars. the discovery was of stuff. the is right. the coast fighters in northern greece have been trying to put out a fire blazing in a national park for the 6th day. volunteers from a wildlife protection group are trying to rescue animals. daddy, a forest is one of the most important protected areas in europe. vast areas of pines, i've already been lost to, the fire dw corresponded fall. he on schmidt is close to the village of dalia in the everest region. florian, how is the situation where you are?

well, as you can see behind me, the situation in the remains very critical. you can see that have the smoke and i can actually see lanes and flames. growing up. the weather today has not been helping it was really hot. it was just a way to just be below the 40 degree march. and so yesterday it was raining a little bit, but not enough with just the drops in the hot water drops in the desert. what makes the situation here extremely difficult is the fact that this is the pine forest. in pine trees are very lame bubble and also pine cones explode in their transport to fire to, to, to other parts of the, of the forest. and also, since it is a protected forest, there are no roads. there's hardly any access the for the fire fighters to penetrate the forest deeper and,

and work on the ground. about 320 people are working day and night firefighters from all over greece. but it's been very difficult for them because of the different conditions to contain the spire on a more positive note, the blazes that we've been worried about in less boss and on the peninsula of the appellate upon it's those seem to be under control. are officials any closer to finding out the cause of this place? i've been talking to some locals to day and i've read, i have read the papers of the region and there's a rumor that refugees caused this fire. but having said that, the locals also use the term lateral mit or not is which are roughly translates into illegal immigrants and is a sign of the high anti migrant sentiment. in this region. we're right next to it

to the turkish water, where the river and process it well record you try to cross the river ever on a regular basis. then once they enter european soil, they try to hide in the woods because they're, they're scared of the authorities and of being illegally deported back to 2 turkey . so we can really only speak about rumors because there are, there are dozens of possibilities that that can cause such a fire corresponded, flinch minutes. thank you for bringing up the date sports now and at the euros in england. the 1st semi final is just minutes away. from kickoff, sweden faced hosts to england in front of a full house in sheffield, fans gathering hours before kick off, but alongside the excitement there's been controversy ahead of the game due 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 about potentially lose thought we raised in the atmosphere in some of that so far has been outstanding for support. other people who call me watching at home and messages up against my name and say not sound in my seat, grateful for that, but i think it shows the growth again 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 doctor

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 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. am allow food we heard a have not the same cameras. and for me it's not the acceptable in the euro. sweden, we'll hope not to face another contentious decision. all england's lioness is attempt to bring football home by music have signed french teenage m a t tell from brenn, for a reporter p of up to 13000000 euros. the ford made 10 appearances for the club without scoring a goal. but his performances, as a youth player, helping with

a european on to 17 championship, is captain, brought him to the attention of europe's biggest clubs. and remind her of the top story with falling for you this. our european energy ministers have agreed on a deal to reduce gas consumption and saved supplies. that's after russia said it will cut gas flow through it's not stream pipeline to just 20 percent of normal capacity. and you're up to date, next documentary chatting the history and prosecution of germany, cynthia and rhonda minorities and also go to our website anytime you want the w dot com to mark the like a would people have to say matters to us a.