ah ah ah ah, this is dw news lived from berlin, travel chaos as over a 1000 flights through germany, a council due to a strike. passengers are left stranded in airports as lufthansa cuts almost all services through 2 major hugs, striking ground stuff. say they need higher pay to cope with inflation. also coming out because russia flows, gas supplies to germany, energy minister, well about how back wants of was to come. we look at how he is gaining popularity

while delivering tough truth and us fire fights as res. hopes of saving yosemite national park giant blaze threatening its ancient trees, shifts, direction, evacuation orders all still in place to thousands of residents. class at the euro's football tournament, hosts england, all through to be final up to basing sweden bell play i the germany or france, the face of later today. ah, i man, you keeps mc an in welcome to the program. ground staff that germany's largest airline. lufthansa have begun to strike, which has forced the company to council over a 1000 flights. nearly all flights, 3 love tons of hubs in frankfort and munich. have been scrap starting this morning

and the disruption could impact travel plans for more than 130000 passengers worldwide in the coming days. trade unions representing ground workers and demanding a pay increase to cope with rising living costs and dw correspondent christy plots and is at frankfurt airport and told us how passengers are reacting to the cancellations morning on. yeah, well this line of people you can see behind me, they are all waiting to be re booked on other live love tons of flights. other flights have been cancelled a few hours ago. the line ended up behind me about what you see here, but now it wraps all the way around, back through the terminal. i couldn't even see the and a few minutes ago when i went to go find it, we got over a dozen counters here dedicated just to re booking these customers. they have been funneled into this cattle around that we all know so well from, from travelling through airports. and obviously people are quite frustrated. i spoke to one group of people, for example,

they were supposed to fly to barcelona for vacation at 1 pm today. the flights been cancelled, they were here already at 7 am told to come and figure out what's gonna happen there. 6 people, they're very skeptical that they're all going to get re booked on the same flight. i also spoke to a man from, from australia. he's trying to get back to dubrovnik where he lives. he actually slept in the terminal last night trying to catch an early morning flight and he said he expects he's going to have to sleep here again to night. he said he was very frustrated with the lack of information on love tonsils part. he had to go around asking a lot of different people getting a lot of conflicting information that these are just 2 examples. we've got hundreds and thousands of people here who are going to be dealing with the same issues to day. so a lot of frustration, especially for people trying to go on holidays. i can only imagine how frustrating it must be that, but it's not just frankfurt, is it? so i mean what, what, where else are we seeing the impact of what's happening? right. i mean here in frankfort alone,

over 90000 passengers have been affected by these cancellations. but that's absolutely correct. also the airport in munich. another major global airport hub has also been affected over 40000 passengers. there are also seeing their flights cancelled or delayed, but it's also important to take a step back and realize that those are just a just cancellations due to this lufthansa strike for weeks. now europe's airline industry has been flags by cancellation, by delays for various reasons. we've had a huge demand for travel, obviously in his post coven summer, people getting out there. but so much of the airport staff, a and empire. are people working on plans? well, we're laid off during the pandemic us. that huge labor shortages here. and a lot of the workers are just feeling overworked, especially with really high inflation. right now. they're also feeling underpaid. so we've also seen a cancellation delays also strikes from other airlines, scandinavian airlines, for example, also in france up. so this is just of the,

the next set of cancellations and troubles that the airline industry here has been dealing with christy plaids, and we'll have to leave it there. christy 1000 in front. thank you. a european countries are bracing for a cut in gas supply starting today. russian energy company gas problem is shortly expected to reduce supply through its mules, train one pipeline to just 20 percent of its normal capacity. the germans reduced supply means the soaring gas prices, which is affecting businesses and residence. many people are already worried about the cost of heating their homes in the winter, germany's economy and climate action minister, but how back is leading cabinet tools to day on making home heating more efficient? a hobbit, as the joint green policy leader is tasked with dealing with the energy crisis. and his popularity is growing even as he to live as harsh warnings and tough truths.

the job of economy minister in germany is a tough one at the moment. the energy supply is on the threat, industry is bracing for pe. the government is even telling ordinary citizens to use less gas at home. a gloomy picture of robert havoc minister for economy and climate action as to spell out to the public isn't an answer to you when we're in a serious situation. it's telling me everyone understands. we need to stop thinking . oh, well, it's summer now. it won't be that bad. we have to bring gas consumption down when i bring. in fact, hubig prefers a more easy going style of politics. before he ran for office, he was a full time writer. he published novels and poetry. in 2018, he became leader of the green party jointly with alina bear book ahead of the 2021 election. when it came to a bid for the top job, hubig stood back and allowed babylon to try for the chance the ship didn't. i'm he

campaigned hard speaking out on issues he thought were important in the summer of 2021 long before the russian invasion in february. this year you traveled to ukraine and called for germany to really think it's opposition or providing weapons . you call some sort of a control the see when you called for an on delivery to ukraine. would you repeat this demand to send i'm, it's clear that there for war in ukraine, in dunbar, it's lasting now. 7. yes, it's the longest since world war 2 in europe, and the attention is shifting away, but people still buying 4 times too many, robert, her back is a good communicator who is willing to speak even uncomfortable. truth pose often place him as one of germany's most popular politicians that could be useful as he tries to keep the government on track while chancellor sholtes he's on vacation. not, it won't change the fact that he has

a lot of bad economic news to deliver and we can cross. now to d. w chief political correspondent, melinda crane. his at the chancellor. a for us, where a vice chancellor cannot economy minister hobbit is leading at the cabinet meeting . and welcome melinda, now will but hobbit is guessing used to delivering bad news to the german people on presuming there's going to be more bad news on the agenda today at the cabinet leasing will. absolutely. that cut back in gas by the russian gas company, gas prom with the north stream, one pipeline delivering just 20 percent of its normal capacity. that is very bad news for germany. and he accused russia this week, essentially of waging economic warfare saying that russia doesn't have the guts to admit that that's what it's doing when it announces a cut back like this, that has no technical justification. so that clearly will be

a topic at the chancellor, where the cabinet will be meeting under his leadership in just about an hour from now. but he also will have a little bit of good news to talk about. namely, the m e use emergency gas plan that he help negotiate yesterday in a meeting with his e, u colleagues. and characteristically at that meeting, he admitted that germany had made serious mistakes in the past in allowing itself to become so dependent on brush and gas and said he is that much more grateful for the solidarity that other e u countries are now showing for germany and said that it is a message to protein, that protein will not divide us in his words. now, hubig seems to have become the government's main crisis management. yet his popularity seems to be soaring. and why is that? i mean, does that have to do with the sort of the honesty, the straight talking that you just mentioned there?

absolutely. i think it does. this is a minister who is willing to tell people that they need to take fewer and colder and shorter showers. he's a minister who presented a last week a detailed crisis plan for gas that would see public buildings turning down the heat in stairwells and hallways. that would possibly lead to lower temperatures for work places and a possibly could require companies to face rationing. and yet, as you say, he is one of the most popular and powerful vice chancellors. germany has seen in a very long time and i think that has everything to do with the fact that he is a very plain speaking. direct politician who lets people in on the way that the government sees a policy in the making basically. and i think at a time of great uncertainty that is greatly appreciated by many citizens. in fact,

one in 3 germans would like to see him as chancellor. his popularity currently significantly tops, both chancellor, olaf schultz and the conservative of leader, a fleet dish mats. and i think people have a sense that even though he delivers bad news, he also boost morale. as when he said this week, putin is trying to bring us down, but we will show him how strong we are. yet things aren't going to get easier. all they give us a sense of the challenges that he's gonna face going forward. i mean, including possibly a compromise on extending the lifetime of nuclear power plants and germany will ab . so absolutely, at one of the things he's already been required to do is it is see germany ramp up the use of coal power and also now looking towards building plans for liquefied natural gas. he's the menace turkey who came into office wanting to win this

country completely off fossil fuels and enormously boost renewables. and has found himself doing not only the coal and, and gas, but also now talking about possibly lengthening the lifetime of important nuclear power plants in germany, south where most of this country's heavy industry is located. heavy industry that could face very, very serious challenges. if in fact, gas is cut back, so none of that is comfortable and yet he says, nothing's off. the table chief political correspondent melinda crane. thanks so much. now to get the cranium perspective on this energy story i spoke earlier to d. w. nick, commonly who's m t z, and i asked him what me craniums make of this row over the notes train? one pipeline was certainly an element of we told you so that the ukrainians feel like they weren't believed when they warned western europe and particularly germany,

that russia would weaponized gas line from bill in all along. was that for all the political disputes, the disagreements, russia was a reliable supplier of gas of energy and wouldn't threaten the future of its energy exports to europe by playing these games. and now that has happened exactly the thing that you can experience in the past. as aaron mentioned, that is now happened weird enough in the short term. it looks like this can be more gas flowing through ukraine to western europe right now because of those, those reductions in the gas flow through the no stream pipeline. so yeah, a $150.00 plus days of war between russia and ukraine and still those energy flows going through ukraine in spite of the conflict. there was interesting moment just a couple of days ago where the russians suddenly without any warning up the pressure in the pipeline or something that could have caused a technical mishap, could have caused exhibiting damage to the gas pipelines here. and the cranes were able to avert in the last moment, but it was seen by the crank side in attempt to basically create further excuse for

gas delivery reductions to basically destroy some equipment on the ground here in ukraine and say, oh well sorry, we don't have the option right now and gas, so a lot, so for wearing us here about more attempts from moscow to try and come up with reasons to stop europe of gas. now, meanwhile, there's been fighting and the hockey, the region. can you give us a quick update on what's going on there? what we've seen russia use as 300 missiles, georgia and t and t missile anti aircraft missiles against land targets. that's really a sign that russia is running out of massage, running out of high tech equipment had keep it's ukraine, 2nd big city, but certainly 40 clumped away from the russian border city that kind of in between the middle of this war had felt a bit safer where people had thought they could get back some kind of normal life. and that now it's very much, once again on the front lines and suburbs of had keep being attacked almost daily. the real sense here that you know, any air raid sirens, any warnings really have to be taken very seriously because basically wherever you are, and especially if you're anywhere near those front lines in the country,

you know, as civilian always at risk of attack from those russian forces thanks about 8 net cuts net connelly reporting from keith as take a look now at some of the other stories from around the world. shanicea has approved a new constitution in a referendum mod by low voter turnout and accusations of fraud. changes to the constitution have granted unchecked powers to the office of president, ty said, but his critics of accused the electoral board of falsifying turnout, figures of the rivals boycotted the vote. a powerful earthquake has hit the northern philippines, killing at least 4 people and injuring dozens. major tremors, damaged buildings at the epicenter and abra province and forced evacuations. in the capital manila, it is the strongest earthquake to hit the philippines in years. and 3 united nations peacekeepers and at least 12 civilians have been killed. dozens injured during 2 days of flashes in the eastern democratic republic of congo. the protests

was spurred by complaints that a un mission in the region had failed to protect civilians against militia violence . and fire fighters in the u. s. state of california say they are making progress in containing a giant blaze on the edge of yosemite national park. the fire that's been raging since saturday was threatening the parks giant sequoia trees and many endangered animals. but now, favourable weather conditions have flowed the fire, and the blaze of the ready destroyed dozens of homes and for thousands of residents to evacuate. just some of the destruction after fi ripped through mariposa county. the huge blaze has caused major damage in many areas. but more moist air moved into the region on tuesday. a huge help for the 3000 firefight is battling the oak fire. read a really good day to day. we got

a lot of work done this morning. we reported 10 percent containment on the fire to night were reporting 16 was inconvenient. so you know, it's not a huge number, but it's a pretty big percentage. um, if you looked at it that way, the flames ruptured last friday and quickly got out of control. the ferocious blaze was fed by tend to dry conditions. the region is seeing its worst drought and decades. thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes, dozens of which have been destroyed. these images showed the blaze smouldering from space. not far south west from yosemite national park officials were concerned. the fire was heading towards the reserve, but now they believe it warn't reach it. at this point, the fire does not appear to be an imminent threat to yosemite. california has experienced increasingly larger and deadly. a wildfire in recent years,

and scientists believe that due to climate change, the situation here will only get more unpredictable in the future. as mentioned, w correspondence, death and simon's earlier, he's at an evacuation center in mariposa, california. and i asked him if firefighters are getting close to getting the fire under control? no, not at all, far from it. 26 per cent contain now that is a huge jumper and the p i o, the press information officer in the piece was very positive. and that is rightfully so. odd the firefighters who started battling this fires when it was really smaller just 3 days ago, or 500 fire fighters deployed. now 3000 battling a major fire. 18000 acres. big. this is humongous. the biggest fire in 2022 so far in california. so of course he's positive because they're making progress and they seem and there's the crooks at the moment to seem to be positive that the fire

is drifting away from you. so many part, but this can change, this fire is erratic, it jumped so fast and made so many acres. jumps in days, thousands of acres that $3000.00 fire fighters are now necessary to battle it. okay, now thousands of people have been evacuating. can you tell us more about the situation there and right now your 1500 structures and structures is the official speak for houses. ranchos, farms were in threat to be destroyed by this fire. so on all those you can count about 3 to 4 people on average for each of those structures. that means about all on to 6000 people were evacuated or were told to evacuate many, many did. and they are just down the street from me here, where we can film right now in the evacuation said an old elementary school, which is usa, america curation center. some are coming back now because the recreation orders have been lifted because the fire, as we reported rift. however,

most people here businesses had to close because of the evacuations of families left everything behind in just minutes. notice their devastated they lost lots of families. last, what they had 25 structures destroyed. and structure means ranch means house means people where people lived and made a living. they're gone. many left, something behind and frustration is of course ramped in multiple and i'm so sorry, i understandable. now california has an experience larger and deadly at wild fires in recent years. right now it's experiencing it's west droughts in decades. what's being done to planned for and to try to prevent more fires like this. well, a clean up or getting rid of the brush of the low a growing brushes under the trees, but you know, this is easier said than done because the california tried this for years. the

entire west of the united states, nevada, oregon, washington state, california. of course, those states in the west and even into the midwest. they are suffering from a mega drought 20 years plus no, not enough rainfall every year. the fire chief off a california fire last year said california is not fighting a fire season anymore. this a year round event that fire fighters have to fight fire c. and that is climate change global warming up. what can you do? you do the best more equipment, more money thrown at the problem and more people, more firefighters. all right, we'll have to leave it lashed at and simon's in mariposa, california, thanks a much our climate change and the conflict in ukraine are threatening global safety security. and that's particularly affecting parts of africa, or a record number of people are facing hunger farmers. they're searching for new solutions to improve output. d w correspondent,

blaze young traveled to the village of d. bombard and cameron to meet with a business man and farmer, his promoting smarts. agriculture is in greenhouses. dennis wiggle room on for monday returned to come home from the us to start greenhouse. for me, it's a method of every quarter, doremus new income, a rude loaner has more than $100.00 gillhouse forms across the country. year on he caught his clothes that i just guess in the market. oh, were traditionally available only in certain seasons. we grow based on what the market demands. we grow bell peppers because prior to are doing both up as they were actually been imported. so we've actually been able to substitute the in partition of bell peppers into the country. one of the things we've been able to do is to sure to, to come unions that less than the things that are normally been imported or grown abroad, could also be grown here. do you agree? no wor, toes of limit as a week, as we get a price cycle, fully cover rude. like

a rest of the continent. sorry, food prices are making it hard for many families to afford a complete meal. the stamps are good, they can carry on for learn things. african farmers can learn from the crisis and better as of course, you are offered by changing how farming is dawn with a dawson crisis. it is, of course, on a blessing at the same time. and i believe that it actually reminds us of the need of, you know, industrialized oil, the precision agriculture. and we took our presence on agriculture, greenhouse farm, and sits are the very core of that in a bit to shows knowledge and contribute of food security across cameroon. roulette is now offering classes to teach young people how to set up greenhouse bombs like this. take home soon. it are $29.00 is currently among those of young people on the rollers year long mental she should be here for 6 most learning. all it takes to

set up a run a greenhouse form before coming here, i didn't have any clue. maybe i had just the busy knowledge about fun, but i do not have the real knowledge about greenhouse. so i was just delighted when i saw it on facebook ruling. it's pushing for sustainable, undergone food contribution were water saving techniques, unofficial, and use his smart innovation could happen to us on the cameras, unquote or whatever. we've got some sports news for you now. and tournament host, england are through to the final of hero 2022. after beating sweden for nell, the lionesses kept their composure after a fiercely contested starts of the game. in sheffield, forward beth need scored her thick skull of the tournament, giving her the joint. no skulls in a single euros. are england will play either germany or france. his face off on wednesday. more on the years i'm joined by our sports reporter max narrow. hey max,

and tell us how england got this done yet in bonds, doing fashion for mill, but at the beginning it looked all about sweden, the 1st 20 minutes england were on the back foot, and sweden really should have scored. after about half an hour beth meet, as you mentioned, getting her 6 go the tournament top score just coming up again for england against the run of play. and in the 2nd half the floodgates open. but you have to criticize sweden here, the number to rank side in the world really showed some defensive frailty in the 2nd half, but goes from lucy bronze than lsu. russo who came on as a sub scoring her full goal of the tournament. she's only been a sub this whole tournament, so another weapon england have in their arsenal. and then frank kirby with another wonderful goal showing the depth and quality england have now setting them up for a final at wembley, which is likely to be sold out. and they are arguably the strongest side in this torment, but they do have a few weaknesses which could be exploited on sunday. so in wednesdays,

any final and it's going to be germany versus france. how do you see that playing out? well, i see germany as the favorites that they weren't firm favorites to win it pre tournament, which is quite surprising considering out of the 12 women jurors. we've had germany 18. so you can see they have the track record, but this wasn't necessarily seen as the best score they've had in a long time. i do think now they are the firm favorites in this game. one blow to them is clark blue. they're forward who is started, all for games is out with cove it, but they have enough depth to compensate. france have been good, but not great. so i really see germany going through to the final england would have a slight edge over them in the coaching positions that in a big man, england's coach, coached netherlands, her native country to europe when in 2017. and so has all the tactical now there. but germany are pressing machine in england. i've watched them closely over the last 2 games against sweden and spain. look a little bit susceptible to effective pressing, which germany are just fantastic at. would have

a repeat of the 2009 final between england, germany back then germany, 162. i think it's going to be closer. this time both teams have strength, depth, and star power, which is the combination every coach dreams of. so i think you'll be a cracking final, but 1st germany have to beat france making full attempt next merrill from d w. thank you. and you're up to date coming up next star environmental series eco india. i menu, could this mckinnon. thanks for watching. stay with us. with, [000:00:00;00]

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