ah ah this is d w y from berlin b a you agree to reduce gas consumption and for pass for a total cut off energy minutes to sign up to 15 percent reductions to say reserves for the winter as russia flashers gas delivery. and germany is energy minister accuses moscow waging economic warfare also on the program. russia and i'm from the

database withdrawal from the international space station and the plans to build its own agree, firefighters. spend the 6th day battling a massive wildfire that's consuming, vast stretches of protecting the forest endangering wild life and their happy tide . and nigeria lodges, labor group kicks off a nationwide strike over education policy to look at why many nigeria inside the government is filing the countries young people. ah, i'm from gail. welcome to the program. european union countries of agreed to cut gas usage this winter by 15 percent as russia slashes deliveries. moscow says the reduction is because of necessary maintenance work on the north stream,

want gas pipeline into germany. and that a complete stoppage is not on the cards. but europe doesn't believe them and if supplies for 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 a result of the text agreed by the member states has multiple compromises. there is 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 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 are 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 latasha. it shows that europe stays united, that europe is able to find human unity. and i'm giving a strong sigma also. in the day we're the flows of decimals to run or reduce them to another 20 percent, to putin 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 prices soaring, this compromise is enough. for now, let's take a closer look at this deal with a benjamin schmidt. he's a former european energy security advisor at the us state department. welcome to the w, and what's your take on the steel bullock? i mean, i think 1st feel we have to look at what's going on. ah, he was trying to pull together is as much as possible. and it's really an off shoot of work that's been going on at the level since 2015 through the european energy union concept. this was a concept to build out both the energy security hardware and software, meaning the diversification infrastructure and an anti monopoly legal regulatory models. that includes the 3rd energy package on gas directive and things like this . but right now, this is where the rubber really hit the road. this is where we're going to see if

all of the energy security steps that europe has taken over the past 8 or 9 years are going to pay off. because this is the scenario that we've been talking about for many years. a, a significant or even full gas cut off by russia on you to limit its foreign policy latitude to push back on russian aggression in particular in ukraine. but in terms of, you know, russian hybrid warfare elsewhere using weapon as ation of energy space, supply chains and food. so this is a really, really critical moment for you to see if that energy security preparation is going to pay off. i think it will right now and inc and cru terms of it. i'm going to your question in just a 2nd. i need to, to set it up because we're, we're in a situation where everybody loses from this. russia loses money through not supplying europe. and europe of course, loses a major energy supplier. but if gas supplies from russia stuff altogether, who suffers more? would you think a dependent a europe, which is heavily dependent on russia or russia,

which lodge lives off its energy exports? we're talking about a foot race here. you know, the, you has more or less than that. it's going to diversify rapidly away from dependence. and in importance of brush natural gas, unlike oil, russia doesn't get as much revenue from natural gas. still significant, obviously, it should be curtailed as much as possible to cut off, you know, financial lines to support rushes, gretchen, new crane. but you can see that the, the energy system is much less vulnerable on the natural gas side, meaning that although there's that wouldn't be shipped out there. it's not like oil in so cutting off natural gas to europe is in the very short term really a tool that, that because of lack of diversification in countries like germany over the past several years and building up projects like north street, one in north spring to it's been in a strategic vulnerability in terms of, you know, the situation it finds itself in. this is why hooton's pulling this lebron out

because in 18 month and 24 months, he won't have that leverage anymore. understood. so suppose the, the upside to this energy crisis, it's accelerating. they transfer to green energy. is that actually happening? i think there is, but the problem that we have right now feel is that, you know, you can't deploy grid scale, you know, large scale renewables at scale to actually push back on this immediate gas cut off . and this is why isaiah is like the eco ministry to come out with the basically swap natural gas applies by bringing in l. n. v from other sources. and that includes cutting off expropriating and then putting off the doors string to pipelines and, and reconnecting them to floating storage and gas station use these floating l g terminal to bring in l. n, v, from non russian sources or again, leveraging existing infrastructure. and again, when we look at these issues, you know, and hopefully we'll talk briefly about the, the steven turbine situation that's, that's, you know,

central to all of it. we have to have a foreign policy that is based in technical reality. and what russia is claiming on these turbines is completely false. we've seen events from a myriad of german ministry on this front. ok, we'll have to leave that talk of the siemens turbine to another day, but that's very clear. thank you for that. ben benjamin schmidt is a former european energy security advisor to the us state department. thanks so much, phil. ukrainian or russian forces have launched new missile strikes against coastal towns in the southern regions of death and mc alive. keith is released footage of what it says is the aftermath of the attacks, which had several buildings along with port infrastructure on the black sea coast, russia attack to dest, as porter, the weekend to casting doubt on fridays breakthrough deal to resume great exports to the world o mathias ballinger in cave explained what these vessels strikes mean for grade shipments from the port of odessa. it's hard to say ukraine is still

preparing for these shipments um and is still determined to reopen these 3 paws under this very special agreement that will allow for these grams grains to be shipped out by turkish vessels that will buy turkish owned 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 uh ports in this agreement. um, but term 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 that is falling out in cave. now you crazy. well, she says it's used advanced us weapon systems to strike more than 50 russian military targets. over recent weeks, a credits the multiple rocket launching trucks known as high mars, were of helping to destroy ammunition depots and bridges and 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 growing arsenal of us made weapons. and this is what it can do. the high mars can pull up in the middle of a road and far off multiple rockets very quickly. and that precision guided, so they can accurately target russian munitions combat centers and more. 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 could get away quickly once it's far off. it's payload, or as the military term goes, it can shoot and scoot it's miss aisles had a range of 80 kilometers far more than most russian artillery. this means the russians must move their sensitive targets, like ammunition depos, 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. well, journalist a tim ripley is a military and defense specialist, and we asked him if a dozen high miles was enough to give you crane and military advantage. you're right, it is a question of scale in this war. i mean, we've heard reports of the russians firing $50000.00 jewelry shows 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. timothy russia is confirmed, is pulling onto the international space station for after 2020 for the country

space agency announce to pull out earlier this year. and now the agencies director has provided president, posted with a timeline for the move, promising that russia will meet all of its obligations to mission partners before acquitting the i assess. so we can take a closer look at this with at leo alba from d. w. science, so welcome to the studio, leer. hm. this would be the no. so the was your 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 russ cause must the russian space agency, brokers in 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 globally 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 corporation, 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. there 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 repairing for that. they are now with space x and able to send their people up there themselves. um,

but i think with 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 down more issues with the, you know, scratches and things like that. so the plan was any ways to tire the stations, the station and that 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 as anyways, reaching the end of the line, right. okay, so if russia launches, if russia does launch its own spoken, i think that battle be referred 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 a humans up there. no rush 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. but they're also may care experiments on, on humans themselves. so every astronaut, every cosmonaut is 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. let's take a look at some more of the stories making news around the world. japan has executed a man who killed 7 people in a truck robbing and stabbing in 2008 or to say tom or hero. carter had carefully

planned the attack on a crowd of pedestrians despite international criticism of the death penalty. japan's justice minister insisted the punishment fitted the crime. germany is largest airline look hands. i will cancel nearly all of its flights. that domestic comes frankfurt and munich on wednesday, graham staff is striking. this could impact travel plans for more than 130000 passengers. in the coming days, union negotiators are looking for a pay rise for staff. reco rainfalls cause widespread flash flooding in the st. louis area of the united states, multiple roads were closed on firefighters rescued stranded people from cars and homes. almost 30 centimeters of rain fell in some areas quite the opposite problem in northern greece, where fire fighters have been trying to put out a fire blazing in a national park for the sick day. volunteers from

a wildlife protection group are trying to rescue animals. the data forest is one of the most important protected areas of europe. vast areas of pines has already been lost to the 5 d. w correspondent, florent schmidt's is close to the village of that year at the ever in the everett region. and has this update. well, as you can see behind me, the situation is actually getting worse. the wind has been picking up seating these lamps. so the people he had ever braced or 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 to some drops in the desert. the situation in this forest is especially difficult because we're talking about pine trees here in

pine trees, a very lame of pine cones explode and helps writing the fire that plan. 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 weather forecasts. so for on a positive note. so the blazes in less balls and in pit upon is those that kept us word for the past couple of days seem to be under control. right, so 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 caused this fire. now when i talk to these to these locals,

they use the term not that i'm into nasa, which translates into opus am going to vary you rogatories term. and that also shows that the high enzyme migrants sentiment in the regions. we're right next to the border with turkey. the river at rose is just a couple of the kilometers away from me and my grants refugees try to cross into europe a on a regular basis. and then they go into hiding they. they are scared that the authorities will catch them and illegally depart them therapy. so they go into hiding. they pass through these what's in order to get this that are 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 flying schmitz, a former philippines president rodrigo, to touch a so cold war on drugs killed of thousands. the government says they died in legitimate onto drugs, operations rights groups. her dispute that claim not correspondent, gail matters. reports are from manila west, some concerns filipinos, accounting on 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 expiration, oh let's. with that, i mean, 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 family as resident. yet he simply don't like that happening. i think that it's been given to me is colleen faith, black, around me. 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 woods had more light on what actually happened by

civilian bland then my father ah, dying ah, don't be his uh, damn cache and my knee. that's a lie. if you have a gun is bite buck, that's there isa 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 full legal advice. he fears that the killings even with to 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 enterprise. dr. 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 remained behind. nigeria is labor, congress has begun to today. nation, my protest to demonstrate solidarity with the academic staff union of universities

has been on strike since february. protesters are demanding the government allocate more resources to the education sector. the w correspondent flourished cora, sent this report from lagos, singing and dancing in defiance. nigerian workers from all walks of life are taking part in a 2 day protest to express their frustrations with the nigerian government denied year labor congress. elsie is demonstrating against the 6 month close our public university in nigeria. i now see is the main umbrella by the millions of work i, 9 area a day. they are processing at the same time in the state in the country. public universities are closed because staff have been on strike since the beginning of the year. the protest has accused the government of failing to resolve the dispute

over salaries and teaching facilities. putting students futures on the line. the pre op. got sick. they went to school, feel tight, why children were brought up. well, is that why have you been deprived robert educational now? so that the continued to run a daughter countries i'm bring them up to have a better job over all of us. we have had a lot of these. i would say enough is enough. it makes me feel very, very bad. i've been to know that children are wasting almost a year out of the the know market. the calendar does not to talk about the period. they had to stay out because of course, igniting dedication as his term of nigeria. you saw, but recovery compared to i knew what our country cyril's progress is tossed through. i don't live in. i see there's no go bit. i know this protest was banned by the government. but the work as it refused to back down using

their collective voice to air their grievances. the protest as have given the government a 2 week out to meet them to make a deal with university staff. so the students can return to their studies again. archaeologists in israel have been showing off a recently discovered rare roman era coin is thought to be about 1850 years old. the bessie image of the zodiac sign cancer behind a depiction of the moon goddess lunar. it was meant it in the egyptian city of alexandria rule, the jury, the rule of roman emperor and to 9 as fierce the coin was discovered off the coast of heifer. i'm is the only one of his kind of a found in israel. i'll be back in just a moment to take you through the big stories of the day in the day to stay tuned for that. ah,

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