ah gandhi's legacy sorts of august 6th on dw, with, ah, ah, this is the w news live from berlin, a travel chaos as over a 1000 flights through germany all cancelled due to a strike. passengers. the left stranded in apple says lufthansa capsule, most all services through 2 major hubs, striking brown stuff, say they need higher pay to cope with inflation. also coming up, russia, cuts gaskets supplies to germany. flows through the north stream pipeline have

dropped to just 20 percent of the mobile deliveries. germany's cabinet is missing now to discuss the energy crisis. and us fire fights is res hopes of saving yosemite national park. a giant blaze threatening its ancient trees. ships, direction, evacuation orders are still in place to thousands of residents. ah, and i'm on your campus mckinnon. welcome to the show everyone. ground style sites, germany's largest airline, lufthansa carrying out a strike, which has forced the company to council over a 1000 flights. that he all flights through live tons as hubs in frankfort and munich have been scrap star thing this morning. now the disruption could impact travel plans for more than $130000.00 passengers. worldwide in the coming days,

trade unions representing groundwork is demanding a pay increase to cope with rising living costs. and he w correspondent christy plots and is at frankfurt airport. and she 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 the categories 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 canceled, they were here already at 7 a. m 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 frank, but 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 canceled 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 pi are people working on plans well, were laid off during the pandemic as 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 a, 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, pleasant in frankfort, thank you. the russian energy company gas problem has followed

through with its plans to reduce gas supply to germany through the nor to stream pipeline. germany's gas network operator has confirmed that flows dropped to just 20 percent of their normal volumes on wednesday morning. now the cuts will make it difficult for germany to fill its reserve tanks before the winter. gemini is already at the 2nd stage of a 3 level emergency gas plan for the cuts could trigger rationing. and germany's cabinet is expected to address the energy crisis. assets meeting in berlin today. robin good roman woman, and for more on this we can cross now to he w chief political correspondent, melinda crane, his out the chancery for us. melinda, give us a sense of what germany is doing in the face of this for the cotton russian gath applies well, it's working on a number of different fronts. germany's economy and climate minister,

robert ha beck, who is in fact leading the cabinet meeting today at the chancellor. just behind me . he has been working tirelessly to wean germany off of russian gas both by trying to diversify supply. a basically moving forward with the construction of floating liquid gas terminals to receive gas from sources other than russia ramping up cold production, something particularly tough for him to do as a green party, a minister, and also looking to reduce energy gas consumption. and to that end, he last week presented a energy security plan that would basically uh see the thermostats being turned down in public buildings and hallways and stairwells. and that also provides, in the event of a very serious gas shortage for rationing,

particularly on the part of gas deliveries to industrial customers. now we heard today from the head of germany's national gas transmission network, that they are seeing signs that both citizens, households and firms are in fact reducing gas consumption by 5 to 7 percent compared to last year. but the head of the transmission network says that is not going to be enough if the shortages in supply via the north stream one pipeline continue. and in fact, he said to that does look likely to be the case. so one crucial topic at today's chancery, a cabinet meeting is at the $14000000000.00 fund being proposed by minister havoc that would support citizens and firms that essentially renovate buildings by replacing windows or doors in order to become more energy efficient.

because energy efficiency absolutely is the low hanging fruit here. about that melinda have chief political correspondent, melinda cray. again, let's take a look now at some of the other stories from around the world. a powerful earthquake has hit the northern philippines, killing at least 4 people, and injuring dozens. major tremors, damaged buildings at the epicenter, an upper province and forced evacuations. in the capital manila, it is the strongest earthquake to hit the philippines in years. 3 united nations peacekeepers and at least 12 civilians have been killed and dozens injured during 2 days of clashes in the eastern democratic republic of congo. the protest was spurred by complaints that he un mission in the region had failed to protect civilians against militia violence. and to nature has improved 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. chi said that his critics have accused the electoral board of falsifying turn out figures of the rivals. we close it, the vote and fighters in the state of california say that 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, the blaze has already destroyed dozens of homes, and for thousands of residents to evacuate. just some of the destruction after fi rip through mariposa county. the huge blaze is caused major damage in many areas, but more moist air moved into the region on tuesday. a huge help for the 3005 fighters battling the fire. we had a really good day today. we got

a lot of work done this morning. we reported 10 percent containment on the fire. tonight, we're putting 16 percent containment, so, you know, it's not a huge number, but it's a pretty big percentage jump. if you look at it that way, the flames erupt last friday and quickly got out of control. the ferocious blaze was fed by tend to dry conditions, the region and 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 blades smoldering from space. not far south west from yosemite, national park officials were concerned. the fire was heading towards the reserve, but now they believed it won'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 wildfires in recent years. and

scientists believe that due to climate change, the situation here will only get more unpredictable in the future. there, i spoke to w correspondence, steph, and simon's his ass and evacuation center. in mariposa, california. and i asked him if firefighters have the fire under control? no, not at all, it's 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 evacuated. can you tell us more about the situation there and right now your 1500 structures and structures is the official speak for houses. ranchers, 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 recreation center, an old elementary school which is usa navigation 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 they're 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. i'm so sorry. understandable. now california has an experience larger and deadly wild fires in recent years. right now it's experiencing it's less droughts and decades. what's being done to plan for 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 has 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 is a year round event that fire fighters have to fight fire c. and that is climate change, global warming. and 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 at lashed out and simon's in mariposa, california. thanks so much. and before we go, archaeologists in israel have been showing off a rat and recently discovered roman era coin put to be more than 1800 years old, the coin best, the image of the zodiac sign cancer hind,

a depiction of the moon goddess luna, was minted in me, egyptian city of alexandria, the bronze coin was discovered off the coast of haifa. and is the only one of its kind ever found in israel. and you're up to date coming up next up. film looks at the place west german, cynthia and roma. up to world war 2. i manuscripts mckinnon. thanks so much for watching detail with a with interest in the global economy. our portfolio d w. business beyond. here's a closer look at the project. our mission. to analyze the fight for market dominance. get us to help with.