ah ah ah this is the w news. why from berlin? you agree to reduce gas consumption and prepares for a total cut off energy minutes to sign up to 15 percent reduction to say reserves for the winter as russia slashes, gas deliveries and germany's energy minister accusers moscow of waiting economic warfare. also on the program, russia,

and i'm says it's withdrawing from the international space station and planning to build its own greek firefighters to spend the 6th day battling a massive wildfire. consuming vast stretches of protected forest endangering wild life and their habitat and more concerns of a police accountability in the philippines and medical examiner and the priest uncover evidence of execution style killings of people allegedly involved in the drug trade. ah, i'm from gail. welcome to the program. european union countries of agreed to cut das usage this winter by 15 percent says russia slashes deliveries. moscow says the reduction is because of necessary maintenance work on the north stream,

one gas pipeline into germany. and that a complete stoppage is not on the cards. of course, europe doesn't believe them. and if supplies fall to critical levels, the new deal should allow emergency transfers of gas to member states who face shortages 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. there is no other option then gas savings, unless the law 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 on a 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 shackle industrial production chains. 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. effect, keith, it shows that europe stays united, that europe is able to find union unity and am giving a strong sigma. also, in the day where the flows of decimals from run are reduced 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 of soaring, this compromise is enough for now or brussels corresponding christine mud was explained how the deals go to work. the commission is confident that if the member states add to their fair share in, 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. and 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 the trigger. and that mechanism which makes this 15 percent mandatory, as opposed to voluntary as it currently is. christine manuel. though, ukraine says russian forces of launched new missile strikes against coastal towns in the southern regions of a desert mic alive. cave has released footage of what it says as the aftermath of these attacks, which at several buildings along with port infrastructure. on the black sea coast, russia attacked the dressers port of the weekend casting doubt on fridays breakthrough deal to resume great exports to the world. o mathias bollinger is in cave and he explained what these missiles strikes mean for grain shipments from the port of odessa. 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 would buy turkish own vessels that were 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 their through the sea. elaine, that is without mines am and the hope is, of course, that russia would not dare to attack 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 what is pulling her in cave will, ukraine's military says it's used advance to you as weapon systems to strike more than 50 russian military targets in recent weeks and credits the multiple rocket,

launching trucks known as high mars with helping to destroy ammunition depots and bridges in russian held territory. ukraine has only a handful of these vehicles with more on the way, but they're also a target for russian attacks. this is high mars a high mobility artillery rocket system. the crown jewel in ukraine's grubbing arsenal of us made weapons. and this is what it can do. the high mass can pull up in the middle of the road and far off multiple rockets very quickly. and that precision guided, so they can accurately target russian munitions. combat centers and mall. the high mars is basically a truck carrying a pot containing 6 missiles. it can be reloaded in 3 to 5 minutes. most artillery is mounted on slower moving tread at vehicles or towed by trucks. but

a high mass get away quickly once it's fall off, it's payload. or as the military term goes, it can shoot and scoot. it's missiles have a range of 80 kilometers far more than most russian artillery. this means the russians must move their sensitive targets, like ammunition depots, further from the front lines. this makes it harder to supply its combat units. analysts say this is the game changing part of high miles. ukraine says it's rockets, have destroyed at least 30 logistics hubs and ammunition, depos. russia says it has destroyed at least 2 of the high mars trucks a claim. the u. s. denies that ukraine's ability to use them effectively will also mean hiding these precious systems. well, keeping them supplied with ammunition is up to the west or journalist at tim ripley specializes in the military and defense issues. we asked

him if it doesn't, high mars was enough to give you credit a military advantage over russian forces. you're right. it is a question of scale in this war. i mean, what we've heard reports of the russians firing 50000 artillery shells a day so that the amount of fire power the ukrainians can, can return with the high mile system is a fraction of, of the, the russian capability at the moment. now the high miles are proved to be quite effective at heating. as you say, i mention dumps and headquarters. they don't seem to been turned on the russian front line troops yet. so the actual battle in the, in the trenches in the town in the woods of east new crane has not been affected by them very much so far. now, russia has confirmed its pulling out of the international space station after 2024 . the country space agency and, and the pull out early this year. now the agencies director has provided president posing with a timeline for the move,

promising that russia will meet all of its obligations to mission partners before it quits the i assess her getting so we can take a closer look at this with that. lia alba from d w. science. welcome to the student leo. this would be the know, so the 0 thing, so i'm guessing this latest timeline, not much of a surprise. now, if not, if it's not a surprise, that's for sure. i mean, the former chief of ross cause most of the russian space agency, rosie, and he hadn't made any mystery about his ideas about quitting the stations by 24. and we also need to see that there was never, they never said they would agree or they would work on the station after 24 hours. so it's not there legally broken the agreement here. but now there's a new chief and officer ross cosmos. since mid july, and i think this announcement is kind of his means to set up his position to show his strength. right. or what difference will a russian withdrawal from me i assess project make?

well, we need to see that the ice as was built upon air, the russian and you as cooperation, right? i mean, after the cold was space raised, that was kind of a big thing. and we see that in the construction of the ice as we see that the u. s . segment for example, is responsible for most of the energy supply with its solar panels. whereas the russians are used caps yields, they were used for many years. they were the only ones that could send up people, actually astronauts and cosmo knots both to the i s s and they also were, am responsible to correct the orbit of the ice. it's as from time to time, which is needed. now of course, then russia leaving the station will definitely make an impact and we will need to see how the station is able to continue working. but we also see that a partners have been, we're preparing for that. they are now with space x and able to send their people up there themselves. um, but i think what, what is really important in with what we shouldn't forget is that the i, as, as is really old. i mean, it's 24 years old and the materials are worn off. we see that there are more issues

with the, you know, scratches and things like that. so the plan was any ways to tire the stations, the station and the, you know, the next years. and it was now so pushed the schedule further away in the future by announcing it would work on it after or through 2030 am. but yeah, what i want to say is that the station is anyways, reaching the end of the line, right? okay, so if russia launches, if russia does launch its own space station, i think that that'll be the 3rd one up there. what are they all doing? i mean, china has one up there as well. yeah, exactly. a china is one. it's already, it's still building it, but already have humans up there. now russia announced they will. they are planning on their own station as well by 28. their critics that say it's not gonna happen that fast. are there others who india, for example, they want to bring up a station by 2030 and nasa even wants to bring up their new and own stations by

private companies in the next years as well. so parallel to the, i assess, there will be lots of stations may be of them all these plans go go right now. what they all do is, 1st of all, they're doing science experiments and different fields and medicine and construction concrete. for example, how concrete bit can be made better also for earth constructions. oh, but they also may care experiments on, on humans themselves. so every astronaut, every cosmo, not just an experiment and in itself because they see how weightlessness changes their bodies for long time flights, for example. ok, thank you for that. let me, i'll run from d w. so thank you. thanks. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories from around the world. japan has executed a man who killed 7 people in a truck, robbins and a truck ramming and stabbing in 2008 authorities. say tom are, you know, carto carefully planned the attack on the credit, pedestrians,

despite international criticism of the death penalty. japan's justice minister insisted the punishment fit the crime. record rainfall has caused widespread flash flooding in the st. louis area of the united states. multiple roads were closed and firefighters rescued stranded people from carson homes. almost 30 centimeters of rain fell in some areas. germany's largest airline. lufthansa will cancel nearly all flights of its domestic hubs. frankfurt and munich on wednesday, graham staff are striking. this could impact travel plans for more than 130000 passengers in coming days. unit negotiators want to pay rise for staff. firefighters in northern greece have been trying to put out a blaze in the national park for the 6th day. volunteers for a while like protection group are trying to rescue animals. the at the forest is one of the most important protected areas in europe. vast areas of pines,

i've already been lost to the fire. the w correspondent fallen schmidt's is that close to the village of daddy in the f ross region. welcome flores welcome. i, florida. tell us what's, what's happening there now? well, as you can see behind me, the situation is actually getting worse. the wind has been picking up the seating these lamps. so the people he had ever braced for another very critical night. it'll be the 7th day to morrow, 325 fighters from all over greece work day and night to contain his names. but the weather conditions made to make it very difficult. it's been very hot and dry, drank a little bit yesterday, but just some drops in the desert. the situation here in this forest this especially difficult because we're talking about pine trees here in

pine trees, a very flame of pine cones explode and helps writing the fire that plant. also it is a protected area. that means there are no roads. the fire fighters don't have access, they don't that they can't penetrate the deep off of the forest them. so what we're looking at is a situation out of control still be we'll see what happens tomorrow, and there is no rain in the, in the weather forecast. so for on a positive note. so the blazes in the last post and in pitt upon is those that kept us word for the past couple of days seem to be under control. right. so the sick stay, this has been raging. what has been said about how it started i've been talking to a couple of locals here, and i've read the local papers. and there's this rumor that refugees cost this buyer. now when i talk to these to these locals, they use the term,

not the only time which translates into opus am going to vary you rogatories term. and that also shows that the high end time migrant sentiment in the region. we are right next to the border with turkey. the river at rows is just a couple of the kilometers away from me and my grants refugees try to cross into europe on a regular basis. and then they go into hiding. they, they're scared that utah argues will catch them and illegally deport them to turkey . so they go into hiding. they pass through these what's, in order to get this there nikki, which is 4 and a half hours away by car. but until now, these are just rumors, so they're, they're dozens of reasons why a fire like this can break out. we've seen this all over europe in the summer and last summer as well. and there is no official statement from a government so far. ok,

thank you for that florida fly. and schmidt's was his date of the news life from berlin. still come nigeria, logic labor group. i kicks off a nationwide strike over education policy to look at why so many nigerian so the government is failing. the country's young people who are so full of philippines present rodrigo to toys, of so called war on drugs kill to thousands. the government says that these people died in legitimate antique drugs. operations rights groups have a dispute. the claim of correspondent, diagnosis reports, not from manila or some concerned filipinos or carrying out their own investigations. each of these skeletons has a story to tell the story of a war on drugs. the philippine government fought over the past 6 years. officially some 6200 people were killed by police for dealing with drugs. the true toll is

nearly certainly much bigger. and the x ray showed all doublets with lemons. okay. examining the remains of some of the people who died forensic pathologist, raquel for tune made a shocking discovery. in 7 cases out of $47.00, the death certificates were false. here. they listed a natural cause of death when people had actually been shot rational. the philippines procedures for investigating death says the 60 year old have always been flawed. but here comes the bending as wrestling. yet he simply didn't like that happening. and then the 16 escalade, nancy black around somebody in many families in the philippines have experienced this kind of scenario. hitman approaching at night to shoot aloft one.

then evidence of drug abuse is planted, says grace. she lost her father and brother, 6 years ago. the mother of 3 now holds the doctor for tune. we'll chat more light on what actually happened by civilian blanton. my father ah gang. ah, don't be his uh damn cache. and my me, that's a lie. if you have a gun is bite buck, that's the reason that my father killed because it's button fight buck. the poor, where the primary victims of the war on drugs. the international criminal court estimates that up to 30000 people more than 4 times the official number were killed on former president to testers. watch many relatives now want to set the record straight. this catholic priest is doing his part to support the reference love yano

villanueva pays for the exhumations and for legal advice. he fears that the killings even with 2 tear to gone, are far from over. in the past the weeks we have counted at least 8 or 9 killings to this very present lay my point. there's no difference between that then. and to day. to make matters worse, i believe that the culture of killing has not only been ingrained, but it has also become sadly an organized enter price. doctor fortuna is convinced that the 2 toll of the war on drugs will never come to light. too many of those who lost their lives, remain unidentified and unclaimed. but she hopes that her discoveries will bring

a semblance of justice to the families who remain behind or take a look at some more stories. making headlines around the world. south in to near here were present the case. i aid has celebrated the almost certain adoption of a new constitution which would strengthen the powers of his office. only 27 percent of eligible voters participated in monday's vote. and the president's critics say the changes could tip the country back into dictatorship and archaeologists of display the 1850 year old coin that was discovered recently passed the zodiac sign of tanza and the moon goddess lunar expert st. was minted in alexandria in egypt, and the rule of a roman emperor antonius of pear pious discovery, was the 1st off the israeli coast, nigerian labor congress has begun

a 2 day nationwide to protest that demonstrating solidarity with the academic staff union of universities who have been on strike, since february protesters are demanding the government allocate more resources to the education sector. d w correspondent to flourish a chorus, and this report from lagos, la, singing, and dancing in defiance. nigerian walkers from all walks of life are taking part in a 2 day protest to express their frustrations with the nigerian government, the niger labor congress. unhealthy is demonstrating against the 6 month close our public university in nigeria. i now see is the main umbrella by the old meals of walk. i 9 tera on a day. they are processing the same time in all that big state in the country. public universities are closed because staff have been on strike since the

beginning of the year. the protest says accused the government of failing to resolve the dispute over salaries and teaching facilities, putting students futures on the line. the pre op doctoral, got sick. they went to school, feel tight, where our children were brought up. well, he's not what we've been deprived. robert educational know, so that's the contact to run. a daughter, countries i'm bring about to have about digital by over. oh that you would have had enough of these? i would say in north you said look, it makes me feel very, very bad. i've been to know that children are wasting almost a year out of the d. no market m a calendar does not to talk about the period. they had to stay at home because of course midnight you did to cushion as his term of nigeria. you saw but recovery compared to a new at our country cereals program is taught roger leave you not see there's no garbage. i know this protest was banned by the

government. but the walk as refused to back down using their collective voice to air their grievances. the protest as have given the government a 2 week ultimatum to make a deal with university staff. so the students can return to their studies again. and germany's famous by annoyed festival is underway. showcasing the offers of richard wagner. it takes place and a purpose built up rouse in the composer's former home town. but the start of the event has been overshadowed by allegations of workplace sexual harassment. the by rote festival is back. former german chancellor angle a miracle headline, the long list of german v. i. peas and opera lovers, and attendance. while most guests went mask, las festival staff took precautions. many workers including performers caught

covered in the run up the 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 rote 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 by the unabridged. as soon as there is a complaint, we look into that here, we take it very seriously. we are very interested in clarifying such incident immediately and with the necessary severity hot. oh, do you have that on identity yet out with yeah. and then the allegations have

raised serious concerns with lawmakers. this is of kind on file. this is totally unacceptable that i guess will have to be cleared up, which bins, i'm sure this will be cleared up there and then by void can shine. again, i do like it shows, i guess time zone. wagner may be back on center stage this year. but scandal and pandemic concerns are certainly waiting in the wings. ah, i said, show up to date, i have more world news at the top of the hour next on the w doc for looking at the historical prosecution of germany, says cindy and wrote with people. i'm good with

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