they're probably a little bit exhausted from that, but they had a lot of arrest days now. the french as well. it is the very 1st semi final in the euros. so for france, it's obviously very new experience and germany. well, what can you say with germany with most successful, saw it in europeans history and the pizza austria comfortable in the quarter finals as well. so they will go in with their spirits very, very high. alexandra pop when she came back into the team, the captain. she's a massive different, she's course goals, she does everything for the team. and i think germany will get this one done in a very, very causing count on maybe an extra time. mathias bag of d de leon fights. thank you so much. i left her time. ah, we got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, magic corner hotspot for food and some great cultural

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the international monetary fund warns of a significantly darkening global economic outlook and in vietnam war time design is making a comeback, sustainable sandals with a smaller carbon footprint. this is the w business. i'm janelle dumas on welcome. european union countries have agreed to cut back on gas consumption by 15 percent from august to march. that's as fears grow that russia might stop already reduced deliveries altogether. but this feel is a much weaker version of original proposal put forward by the european commission, sparking concerns over the potency of these commitments are correspondent in brussels. christine mando has more for us on this story. her seeing a couple of things. so the targets are voluntary, you ministers, had to water and down the plan with exceptions in order to get the member states to agree. can these measures still be effective?

while the commission insists at this plan will be effective, even if all of these derogation, or these exemptions are exercised at any given point, and you're quite right. it has been watered down significantly. and at any stage in the game, virtually every single member state could, could claim an exemption or at a given point. but the commission is confident that even in the case of that would happen, that this plan would still be effective to get your through or what it is saying would be an average winter. now an average wind, of course, does not exclude along the period of cold weather, severe cold spells, but the commission says the messages this, that everybody's got to be saving right now. that is the best way to secure somewhat of a safe winter for europe or going into what will be a very difficult period our for, for europe, but a difficult period. but on the plus side, the seems like quite the show of solidarity within the block. you think that bodes well for e wide policy coordination when it comes to countering russia?

well, unity and solidarity is needed, but as a, as the months go, one, the as, as different, national interests, a conflict that unity is waning. and i'll have to point out here that this deal at was a desperate attempt to forge it will show a sign of unity because it is so far removed from what the commission initially planned. this is a significantly watered down version, the initial, the, the plan that the commission had was that it would take control over the energy decisions and countries effectively taking the decision to mandates. add those, those gaskets member states basically turned that down. they rejected it. and all of these compromises that have now been baked into this final deal is an attempt to show that unity of course, moscow or is, is, is, is relishing in, in, in, in, in, in the disunity that we've seen at times in terms of how difficult it's getting for the european union to agree on certain things. but of course, we have to point out that what they've agreed to today is

a very far from what the commission are initially planned. well, we can only hope as consumers that the plan isn't compromised to death and but what will the plan mean than for households and businesses in europe? well, what the, the, the commission doesn't dictates to member states how they should do this, a reduction of for gas consumption and demand. but it does say that bro trip protected our customers. that is, of course, essential services as well as your households and need to be safeguarded. that is they shouldn't feel at these cuts. but what european union and citizens cannot be shielded from the inevitable price increases that will come out with the winter. everybody's energy bill in europe essentially is going to go up and this is a, as a result of russia reducing ad that the supply of, of gas which makes the price go up. so this is going to be a painful winter at what this plan is trying to do is to avert

a scenario where the blow comes and there is no cushion. it is, of course a trying to get at those reserves built up to a certain point. so that if there is a decision by moscow to cut off the supply at that there is some reserve, at least to, to sort of cushion that blow, but at the costs are going to go up. and that will likely see this inflation that we're seeing continue to go up as well. general christine, when we're telling us what's to come. thank you very much. inflation locked down to the war in ukraine supply chain issues. in its new report, the international monetary fund has revised that global growth forecast downwards. this year the i am a project that the global economy will only grow by 3.2 percent or point point point 4 percent less than assumed in april, even less next year. in 2021 growth was still at 6 point one percent. the i m f, warns at the risks are currently increasing urgent task thing through getting inflation under control, supporting the vulnerable and combating climate change. joining me now is patch

a quiver brooks. she is the deputy director in the research department of the international monetary fund. patch, welcome. in your report, you outlined the risk of increased unrest as the problem of food insecurity worse and how are read should we be well, the outlook for the global economy is indeed quite gloomy and very uncertain. so we have revive down our forecast and that's part of the, the narrative. and one of the things that is worrying us a lot is the possibility that this sluggish growth and coupled with high inflation is a breeding ground for social unrest. as we know, foods of food insecurity is, is one of the, the factors that is quite important and is very much linked to our,

to address. so that's definitely one of the downside risk that we point out to in our report. well, in that report, you also lay out a few recommendations like cautioning government, against price controls for food and fuel. but why shouldn't food be kept affordable for everyone in this way? the biggest problem, the global economy faces now is hein, playstation and heinz, asian does take out from the income that people have. and the most important way of solving that problem is for monetary policy to tighten and to to restore price stability. so what are the components you can do is, is tried to push and to compensate those well, most vulnerable. but at the same time, doing to matching the very broadway just makes the job of monetary policy even more

difficult. which again, makes it even harder to solve the inflation problem. so, so that's, i think in a nutshell, it's where we're coming from, with our recommendation. you've talked about protecting the most vulnerable, but many governments of course, are low to raise taxes out of time where providing aid to these vulnerable people means needing to raise more funds or higher taxes and avoidable well, exactly how the provision of business targeted support to households would be done would very much depend on how much space the government have, but it's also a matter of preferences in a particular country. so in some instances, that could be, that could come with higher taxes. but in other words, it would also be reallocating the spending, which was, which was meant to be done in other areas. so again, we don't have

a one size fits all recommendation in that area. thank you very much patch. how clever broke she is, the deputy director in the research department of the international monetary fund. thank you very much for your insights today. now, grim economic prospects are bringing down the mood on wall street as well. the details from our financial correspondent, teddy austro. well, janelle, there's certainly some gloom on wall street. the growth outlook isn't looking to great as the consumer, it seems to be taking a hit by inflation. finally, we can look to retail. wal mart actually announced that it is marking down its profit outlook by over 10 percent. that's quite significant for the world's largest retailer. indicates that the consumer is shifting from discretionary spending to the a, central's food fuel which are leading the price increases across the economy. and

eating into people's paychecks. we can also look to the tech sector shop. a fi actually just announced that it is layer off 10 percent of the workforce. this is the largest, one of the largest in a round of layoffs in the tech sector coming after about 2 years of pretty significant growth. seems that the consumer is shifting away from e commerce and again, focusing on those essentials. teddy austro their to vietnam now, which is one of the world's top 4 countries for shoe manufacturing. much of that is down to factories pumping out pairs for big brands like nike and dust. but a fashion revival means some shoemakers are putting their hearts and souls into a revolutionary design. a new trend is gaining traction, rubber, sandals like these ones are becoming fashionable again. the sandals were 1st made in the 1940s during the indo china war against the french. they were crafted from

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