ah, ah, ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, travel k or says over a 1000 flights through germany are cancelled as airline staff go on strike. passengers are left stranded in airports as loved ones are cuts almost all service through 2 major hubs. striking braunsdorf say they need higher pay to cope with inflation and an increased workload. also coming up russia cups, gas applies to germany, flows through the north stream pipeline are down to just 20 percent of the normal

capacity. germany's government calls it a power play by moscow. at least 5 people are dead after a powerful earthquake hits the northern philippines, toppling buildings and triggering lab slides, tremors force, evacuation of buildings in the capital. manila plus england moves closer to claiming that crown at the u. europe football tournaments, both nations team advances to the final after beating sweden, their opponent will be decided in a match today between germany and from ah, i'm good how both as well come to the program, ground staff, a germany's largest airline, and flag carrier loved turns up on strike, that is forced the company to cancel over a 1000 flights. nearly all this is sulu sons as hobbs and frankfurt and munich.

i've been scrapped starting today. the disruption is impacting travel plans for more than a $130000.00 passages worldwide in the coming days. workers are demanding a pay increase to cope with rising living costs. holiday plans and business trips put on hold. no one left to work, the counters would be left hansa passengers at frankfurt airport, or stuck with almost no ground staff to help them and their luggage reached their destinations. i got a cancellation message her this morning were traveling and her, but nothing more. i tried to reach a man by chance, and by, by phone what a or nothing. they're not coming through. ah, we have to stay in line and see if we get a fight back and help. we got a flight back as we're going to start school soon, and then also our parents, they're traveling to nigeria. so it's like we would in, if we don't get

a flight back in like a few days, then we won't be able to see them for like almost 3 months because we haven't seen them the, the striking workers say they have plenty of reasons to ask for higher wages, staff shortages have increased their workload as has the surgeon travel as pandemic restrictions loosen. but after 2 rounds of bargaining, they still haven't gotten what they wanted. does that song, a boy tell by the last offer, looked handsome, made it was not enough to stop. the strike had been. lufthansa also hasn't improved its offer in recent days. so the employees see the necessity to go on strike today . by video for weeks, we have seen an immense workload at airports across germany. so this is a clear signal from the employs ignited in the bush after 9. lufthansa has pointed the finger at the workers for demanding too much and putting a burden on travellers. organizers say the strike should last just over 24 hours, but they're prepared for further walk outs. if latan said doesn't meet their

demands. oh, business correspondence, christy johnson is at frank for that bought and i also little earlier if things had gotten any better on the line of people you can see behind me has thinned out to some degree. if you could see to my left, the end of the line is, is just to my left here by wires earlier today that line when all the way back to the bit through the terminal. i couldn't even see the end when i went to look for it. i'm so it is shorter, but i will say some of the people that i spoke to earlier this morning about 3 hours ago. i see that they're still waiting in line. still haven't gotten to speak to lufthansa. representatives are still waiting to find out when they can leave frankfurt when they can get home or get on to their next destination or destination . so there are almost all of tons of flights were cancelled today. there's very little wiggle room here in terms of re booking these people until of tons of flights. obviously, a very large amount of passengers affected over 90000 passengers here in frankfort alone affected by these strikes. so it's quite difficult to relocate them on to

other other flights. it seems this may not be the last of these stripes. what well, what we know is that a lufthansa and though latan the union do plan to continue negotiations and next week. but the union has said that if their demands are not matter that if they're not, if they're not offered a, an offer that they're happy with, they are willing to strike again one of their main sticking points for it. with the most recent offer from those lufthansa is that part of the pay raise that lufthansa is willing to offer is tied to the condition that the company is profitable. so that basically means that if they aren't profitable than these employees won't get a perez, we obviously know we're dealing with record high flayson here in europe as elsewhere . and for the workers who are just completely overwhelmed by the demand from the this post cove it summer season. and that's just not acceptable to them. they said they are willing to strike again because it just looked on the passengers who have

to worry about their flights. who should say this isn't the 1st strike we've seen the summer. we also saw a few weeks ago strikes from scandinavian airlines also strikes from airlines in france as well. and we also heard today that ryanair is planning a strike in august as well. it's been a very chaotic season for european air travel. pretty much the same issues that a lot of times as employees are dealing with and are complaining about our, our issues for the whole industry and actually a little of tons of spokesperson. we spoke to her earlier, i said as much himself. he said this is not just an issue for lift towns, it's an issue for the whole industry up. so i worth in the thick of the european vacation season right now, and it doesn't look like his issues are going to be clearing up any time soon. chris, about some bear meat of your business in frankfort for us. thank you for the russian energy company gas promised follow through with its plans to reduce its gas supply to germany through the north stream pipeline germany gas network operator confirm

that flows have dropped to just 20 percent of their normal volumes on wednesday morning. the costs will make it difficult for germany to fill its reserve tanks before the winter ant further cuts could trigger emergency plans to rush and gas. a german government spokesman rejected gas prompts claims that the shut down the slow dawn was due to maintenance calling the power play by moscow. well, it'll be a business reporter for moscow. correspondence tilton is with me. this is covering the story of force and how will this reduction affect germany now? well, it's not likely to have an immediate impact in terms of a business sense. i mean, you have to remember the kremlin has already made some noise that they're willing to make up for this, these gas deliveries from north stream one through another pipeline running through central europe. so it's not likely to have a huge impact in that sense. this is more about exerting pressure, both on the german government and the german people. they're trying to get them to lose their interest in supporting the war. new crane long term. i mean,

we're already in a situation where a lot of people are having kind of a price shock when, when they're looking at their gas bills. you know, i'm moving house right now in pain from i used to pay $50.00 a month to heat my old apartment. well, in the new apartment, it's going to be 272301000 euros a month for gas to heat my apartment. and of course, when people see that in here, the type of noise coming out of crime when they get a little bit of nervous, a little bit nervous rather. and that's exactly what the kremlin was. this is more a political move than it is an economic move. so currently the credit has caught a gas problem, has cost deliveries to 20 percent of noble capacity. is a company cut off likely will that and that is really dependent upon how the german government now the german people and also the uses more broadly react in the coming months. you have to realize that the kremlin is actually a fairly good position right now. there while it is actually full gas prices are up and they're actually making more money from selling hydrocarbons they did before the war. so that's kind of given them. i think the confidence to say ok,

we can use this as a tool to sort some pressure on the. remember they're known to have done that before. they did it in the early 2, thousands to crane several times. and this is all about kind of destabilizing germany, to a certain extent. i mean, you know, flattery. putin is a very high level. judo player in the, in judo, which i do think informs, is a approach to foreign policy. it's all about giving your opponent a little bit of a shelf and seen which way they're going to fall before you go in for the attack. i do believe that's what they're doing right here. they're giving the you in germany a little bit of a shelf, and now they want to see what the best policy can be moving forward. and i'm very interested, not that she actually now against the back of this impending gas shortage. the german government is also planning to focus on the refurbishment of existing building buildings, cladding, them insulating them better. is that gonna help in the short term? you know, i really think it's nothing more than a bit of a distraction because we're talking about a short term crisis right now. prices,

bio spiraling gas shooting up. and anybody who's ever tried to do any type of construction in this land of red tape and bureaucracy knows you can't get anything done in 6 months to a year, even if you try. right. so it wouldn't badly. yes. it's just a case everywhere in the country. so by saying, we're going to focus on, you know, on refurbishing the buildings, these like energy. i mean, that's not going to fix our gas prices in the next 2 to 3 months. the kremlin is thinking in a very short term here, thinking about short term ways to exert pressure on germany. and, you know, seeing that we're going to convert to solar in the next 6 months is just a way to distract from the larger issues at hand. in my opinion. good up until to thank you very much for this analysis on. thank you. turkey has unveiled a headquarters of a new coordination center, which is supposed to oversee the export of ukrainian grain shipments. it comes off to russia and ukraine have signed a landmark deal to unblock grain exports from ukranian harvest together. russia and

ukraine shipped almost one 3rd of global weed supplies abroad before the war began . but russia's invasion has drastically limited ukraine's ability to send out its brain stops. driving, fear is rising global food crisis, and i'm now joined by g. w. dorian jones, in istanbul, who's at the opening event at this coordination center, or how will this center that we can see behind you work? well, this center is key to the implementation of the steel that was signed on friday between russia, ukraine, united nations and turkey. this will be the harp where all the activities will be monitored, co say you'll have us. as you see behind me, there was a map showing the black sea and there they will monitor the convoys of ship cargo ships, leaving the ukrainian 3 ukrainian ports led by ukrainian pilots who will guide them

through the heavily mind waters. from there, the center will then monitor the ships as they progress across the black sea, the estoppel, and then on to well markets. the center also place a crucial role in terms of an alt searching all ship before they reach the ukrainian port. this is the key, the amount of moscow they fear that they, they ship to possibly used to carry weapons to the ukraine. and this center will being showing that, that doesn't happen. ah, this is all, there is a great deal of skepticism about this operation. the fact that on the chart launched a missile attack on saturday against odessa, a diesel port which was seen as a violation. but at the same time, there's a recognition that this agreement really is the only hope at the moment of averting a major global famine. oh, you said there is some skepticism about this center. do you know when the 1st grand export will start? well a, in fact, they were expect to the south within the next coming days underlining how important

this is to get these 20000000 tons of grain on to the well market. although you and officials that i have spoke to said that it will take a number of weeks before it reaches full capacity of this operation. the aiming to ex walton the regional $5000000.00 tons a month on to the well market. and in fact, the, even the announcement that he has seen the falling of price is initially this is seen as key to refrain down. those prices are permanently and to avoid a major well crisis in terms of food, a salvation good of his door. and joe's there in is stumble. thank you, dorian tom . now to have a look at some of the other stories making headlines. major fires have been burning across a national park in east and germany for several days. military helicopters have been called in to assist the blazes spread across the border from the czech

republic with hundreds firefighters. both countries still battling to contain it. denisia has approved a new constitution in a referendum marked by a low voter turnout and accusations of fraud. changes to the constitution have granted unchecked pause to the office of president chi sad. but his critics had accused the electoral board of 45 turnout figures of the rivals boycotted the vote . please and mexico have made what they say is the biggest drug bust in the city's history authorities seized 1.6 tons of cocaine in them, compartments and to freight trucks. the drugs are believed to have originated from columbia and would be worth about $20000000.00 us dollars on the streets. are now to the philippines where a powerful earthquake has struck in the countries north killing at least 5 people and injuring dozens more. major tremors triggered landslide and toppled buildings

at the epicenter in a mountainous abrupt province. the effects were also felt almost 300 kilometers away. the capital manila, force of the evacuation of hospitals and high rise buildings. authorities say some affected areas have been left without power or phone reception. it is the strongest earthquake to hit the philippines in years. well, here's how people in the philippines experienced this quick. oh my god, it's really very bother. the shaking is really strong. of course, i was afraid we haven't felt the stronger note creek before. the impact was really high, and i do a my colleague and i were working in a coffee shop. when he noticed that the chandelier was moving. we panic because it was so strong and it lasted for over a minute. i think more than one minute. that would be panic because it was the 1st

time we were on such a high floor when the queen struck me well earlier i asked if melner rog from the philippines seismology institute, how common so it's such earthquakes are in the region. well right now and almost every 2 years we experience i'm altitude, 7th grade here in the philippines. so we're not really new to the idea that earthquakes would affect certain areas in the to be. so we just, we just have a long term program of improving the awareness of people about their assets related doors. so with that, we always conduct several, several information dr. about what the status of our attention in the area, what kind of preparations must be done. and also. ready also want to improve the construction of buildings following the safety codes, properly,

properly implemented in the different regions in the for the teams. so of course they're saying sorry to interrupt you, that back in 2013, more than 200 people died and i was saying that the country has learned the lesson and is better prepared this time. well, i would see that in terms of preparing the country there, i of course certain certain challenges because there is a larger base or as often as i phones, for example, in this particular area. the last big, bigger, damaging, or big was way back in 1983 when i looked at the smaller, quick damage portion of portion of a loss. that's why i think most people are not really well. they are so price that, that there's a larger it's afford. so it's always important to regularly conduct information

about lowercase that have occurred in the past. so they, they would know what they would do in the future. and they're going, do you predict any further aftershocks, also known as oh, yes, in terms of after shock. so we've seen that for every, on the global average, whenever there's a larger big, we normally center around $1.00 of them are good of the magnitude of the main shop . so right now the magnitude of that estimated magnitude of the main shop it's might be can 7. so we would expect around 4 point, i'm a $5.00 our earth dog or, but this isn't the accord yet. so we're still expecting a very large after shot of me or anything any be from now. so it's important to assess what is the situation in there. yeah. where whether there are still buildings that are damaged, that will be further damage because of the major after shock. so there will be for

the high size. there may be cases of currently says that my in a landslide, so the see needs to be assessed earlier. so that people would that position themselves in as a display says this while the rocks who heads the earthquake and cinnamon monitor division of the countryside. village institute. thank you very much for your time and duncan alleys. 15 people have been killed during violent protest directed against the united nations in the democratic republic of congo. both protesters and un personnel among the dead. the demonstrators say the long serving un peacekeeping mission as fail to protect civilians from militia violence. the u. n. s strongly condemned the clashes, but it also faces accusations that it's peacekeepers shot and killed protesters. oh, the people of the democratic republic of congo have had to live with conflict and violence for decades. no,

some have turned against those assigned to protect them from it. the troops in the blue hats are from a no scope. the un peacekeeping force, which has served in the country for more than 20 years. but some believe they have failed to deal with the militia violence which has long brutalized, the eastern part of the country. protests against the un forces this week, organized by a youth wing of the country's ruling party, quickly turned deadly in the cities of goma on dutempo. at least one un peacekeepers and to you and police personnel were killed along with several protesters. the debts told is still rising. we add our voice to the acting head of monasco cassim gen, to condemn the killing of our colleagues and to express our deepest sympathy to their families and colleagues. mr. jang has described the violence against the un as absolutely unacceptable and counterproductive. given that the mission is in the country to work alongside local authorities, to protect civilians,

deter armed groups and build a capacity of state institutions and services. but monasco forces are accused of shooting protesters, a potential breach of their mandate. if you got up, i'm on the sun. oh, what has just happened here is peace keeper has killed one person here at their base and he has injured another. we don't want them here any more. best yet to let them go to their homes. i don't know if you black lined up. well, my son go with a reuters journalist has reported seeing un peacekeepers shoot to people dead as protesters through rocks and tried to set fire to you and building and goma the you and says it will investigate those claims. obviously if there's any, ah, if, if there's any a responsibility by un, no of forces for any of the injuries or, or any of the death, we will, we will follow up on that but, but yes, we do 1st need to get to the truth of what was happening on the ground, we should. what is clear on the ground is that there is opposition to monasco. much

of it directed by the country's government who have long wanted the you and force reduced or removed entirely. my mom because i'm up there, tear gassing us. because we came to say that anesco does not have both. must have been in congo for 22 years and nothing works. we came to demand our rights, but the shoot us with tear gas. well and up if we come up the mozy. oh, the fog of conflict in this country is dense. apportioning responsibility is a difficult task. but what is obvious to everyone on all sides? the piece is not being kept from sports news and football now. euro 2022 host england are through to the competition final. after beating sweden for nel, england's lion, i says kept their composure after a fiercely contested start to the game. in sheffield. forward beth made score to 6 goal of the tournament, giving her the joint most goals in

a single euros. england will play a play either germany or france, who face off later today. well, the u. s. i'm not john boss. sports reporter max merritt max. how did the english women pulled out well in bonds doing fashion for neal against the number to rank side in the world if sweden is not just anyone? absolutely not. busy and we were the better side for 20 minutes. at the very least we were on the back foot. really struggling actually seemed like the pressure maybe gotten to them in sweden had the better game plan. but then against the run of play, beth meet. got yes. another goal, the tournament top scorer, fantastic stuff from her and then the 2nd half the floodgates opened. and as sweden really have to look at themselves a bit, some bad defending that the goal people won't be happy with her performance as well . lucy brown scoring, but unless you're rousseau, as well for england coming on as a sub for the 4th time she scored from the bench. so just showing the depth that england happened, and frank kirby with another delightful go. so england are in the final,

at wembley, presumably a full house. it's going to be a really raucous atmosphere. they are arguably the strongest side in this competition. but i do support a few weaknesses that could be exposed in the final. so let's see who faces that. now that final is going to be very, very interesting, especially if it's of course, germany versus a man that has a lot of history, that pairing. now in this, in the final will, will, it will turn out. it's germany versus france today. how is that going to go? well, i think germany are going to do it. i mean, france are good side, but they're not great. and germany have been absolutely great in this competition. they came into this tournament, not being one of the firm favorites being a sort of outside favorite, which is somewhat surprising considering that track record out of 12 women's euros germany of $18.00. so they definitely have history on their side and they have the school to do it as well. the only real problem they have is the cloud blue. one of their starting forwards has cove it so she won't be playing at tonight. so i do

think still there's enough there to beat france and then if there was a final between england and germany, i think england have a slight edge and the coaching departments that in a week, month one, the euros with a native netherlands last time around in 2017, however, germany are an absolute pressing machine and having watched england closely during their last 2 matches against spain and now against sweden, they are a little bit susceptible when they are pressed effectively and germany are the best at that. and the competition. both teams have a lot of strength and depth and star quality, but yet last time they met in a final 2009 at the euro's germany, 162. so could be an interesting one. hope for us, you very much. knox maroe dw sports italian football club, rober not known for their creative transfer announcement, but they pulled out all the stops when presented their newest signing polo the bar . the argentinian forward was welcomed by around 10000 fast in the italian capital,

the bottom has joined on a free transfer from give answers. and his number 21 shirt has already become the fastest selling kit in italian or history beating out christiano. and all those from events is by wide mot. 6 you what you did you see as a reminder, the top stories were following for you. braunsdorf and germany's largest airline look comes up. i've gone on strike. the company has canceled more than a 1000 flights through its frankfurt munich hobbs disrupting travel plans for travelers worldwide. workers are demanding higher pay to cope. it wasn't inflation and russian energy company gas problem has reduced gas supply through the node stream pipeline to germany. gas flows dropped to just 20 percent of their normal volumes on wednesday morning. germany is government called the move a power play by moscow. that's it from me and the new steam

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