i travel extremely worth a visit. ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from bo, then russia reduces gas supplies to europe, even further flows through moscow's biggest pipeline to the continent, to down to 20 percent of noble capacity. germany calls the move a power plate. mo wildfires burn across europe. one of germany's most popular national parks is threatened by a place which spread across the border from the czech republic. a strike my ground staff forces looked at to cancel flights across germany. tens of thousands of

passengers, a leg stranded. and we meet farmer encountering, searching for creative solutions to africa's food shortages from small beginnings. he's now running more than $100.00 green house farms. ah, i've been fissile and welcome russian energy company gas from has got its gas supply to germany through the north stream pipeline. germany network operator says flows have dropped to just 20 percent of their normal volumes. the cuts will make it difficult for germany to fill its reserve tanks before the winter and further reductions could trigger emergency plans to ration gas. but the french government now says it could help out to a certain extent supplying 2 percent of germany's needs over the winter for your business, for foreign foreman, moscow correspondent, our tilton is here. aaron, how would that little offer of help from the french help in this huge problem for

germany? well, it is very little offer, considering the huge hole that be cut in germany's energy budget. should rush actually turn off at star gas taps. you have to remember germany, which is the europeans economic heart land, its industrial art lead. it depended upon russia from 50 percent of all its gas. so, you know, getting to percent is only a drop in the proverbial bucket. but to be honest, it does help the german government to a certain extent, because the situation we're in right now is mosque. i was attempting to put pressure on berlin to remove its support for the war and ukraine. that's what this is really about. it's not about businesses and political pressures, they're using gas as a political weapon. and by getting this promise of support, it at least shows that the governments of europe are willing to stand together to face this political pressure. so it helps in that regard. but it really doesn't get at the heart of the issue. and the fact that russia, germany rather, is dependent entirely upon russia for its energy needs, but is

a complete cut off in moscow's interests. i mean, there's a, a huge amount of money. it's making from high energy prices right now. you're right . actually, they're making more money right now than they were before the start of the war in ukraine. i don't know if trying to go for a false cut off that actually depends upon how we react right now. and by we, i mean the public at large in the politicians in the european union react to this threat. i mean, moscow's already said that they're most likely going to start pumping more gas through other pipelines to europe. we're seeing right now is a little bit of a push i like in it. quite often to judo. of course, vladimir putin is a high ranking judo player, and i do think that that experience informs his on foreign policy. he likes to push people, see which, where they're going to tumble, and then go in for the real attack. so right now what they're doing is they're pushing politicians, the pushing consumers basically saying, look, we can make prices go even higher than they did before. and they want to see how they react. and that, and how we react to that situation is really going to determine whether or not we

face a long term gas cut. moving to the future, moving into the winter, when jude, or you need to have a strategy. don't cheat does, does germany or europe have some sort of strategy should not come to an attack? well, you know, if you ask the european energy ministers, they say that they do, you know, they said that they're gonna cut gas by 15 percent. and today we're so even that small isn't, that's incredible to drop in the bucket again, it's not really going to do that much. and at the same time, germany said that it's going to focus right now on encouraging owners of buildings to do some type of energy or energetic reconstruction to buildings for the use less energy. but that's all kind of a distraction. i mean, energy prices are spiraling up. i mean, right now in, i'm just moving house. my old gas contract use a cost $50.00 a month. now if you get a new contract for heating gas, you're talking about paying $31991.00 euros a month. it's shot by a factor of 8, and unfortunately, they don't really seem to have a good strategy to deal with that pressure right now. until to thanks for bringing

us up to date. i'm sure we'll have you back in here very soon. thank you. the warren ukraine mains global energy prices, a surging consumers in germany are being told to use less gas or face possible rationing this winter. the job of economy minister in germany is a tough one. at the moment. the energy supply is under threat, industry is bracing the pe. the government is even telling ordinary citizens to use less gas at home. a gloomy picture of robert hubig minister for economy and climate action as to spell out to the public. isn't an answer to us. you were in a serious situation. it's time 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 to 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 babel to try for the chance the ship didn't. 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 quote, 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 the 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 that 4 times too many,

robert back is a good communicator who is willing to speak even uncomfortable. truths pose often play same as one of japanese most popular politicians that could be useful as he try 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. turkey has opened a new coordination center to oversee exports of ukrainian grain. russia and ukraine have signed a deal to unblock shipments from ukrainian ports. the 2 nations jointly supplied nearly a 3rd of the world's wheat before the war. the blockade had seen global food prices such dw, dorian jones was at the opening of the new coordination center in his sample and explains how it'll work. well, this center is key to the implementation of this deal. those signed on friday between russia, ukraine, united nations and turkey. this will be the harp where all the activities will be

monitor 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 are led by ukrainian pilots who will guide them through the heavily mine waters. from there, the center will then monitor the ship that they progress across the black sea, the estoppel, and then on to well markets. the center also plays 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 be ensuring that, that doesn't happen. ah, this is all, there is a great deal of, of skepticism about this operation. the fact that a short launched a missile attack on saturday against odessa, a diesel port which was seen so violation. but at the same time, there's a recognition that this agreement, really the only hope at the moment of averting

a major global famine. did of his dorian jones in his sample and with this new coordination, st. robin running in turkey, i asked dw mathias, boeing i in odessa when we can expect the for shipments to leave port that's hard to say. but sir, there would the corridors um will basically according to the ukranian side, open already within the next few days, maybe already tomorrow. everything is ready here in or you can is getting ready. the pause have been reopened in order to proceed with these shipments. that's what the ukranian side says, and now we need, of course, the turkish ships to leave assemble and get on the way here they will travel in a column or together. that's what we have been hearing so far. but of course this, this strike on the port that last week, and that of course is adding to the insecurity. and we will see probably one of the

next few days, whether this is really happening or not. in other developments, ukrainian artillery have struck a bridge crossing the nepa river in there has on region, which is a part of a crucial supply room full russian forces. can you give us more details on that? yeah, it's not only a crucial supply road, it's the main supply road. so the nip is very broad there. this is very close to where it enters the sea and her son is on the north side of the deeper and the supplies they're coming from crimea that is south. so all the supplies will have to cross this river. and there's only this one bridge near here on the next possibility to cross the river is a damn near nova hoffa is also one of the regions where ukraine has a fired quite a few messiahs, but not rightly at the damn. that would of course be a possibly dangerous. so there's basically one place at the whole line among

hundreds of kilometers left where russian convoys can cross the river. so this is a significant blow to the russian defense of these occupy terry trees, the latest stair on the developments in ukraine from the w, spontaneous building reporting from odessa. thank you very much. 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, land injuring dozens. major traumas damage buildings in the province of opera, and forced evacuations in the capitol. many of them, it is the strongest quake to hit the philippines in years. tenicia has approved a new constitution in a referendum mot by accusations of fraud and low voltage on out. the changes grant unchecked powers to president chi saeed. that his critics accused the electoral board of falsifying turn out figures 3 united nations peacekeepers and at least 12 civilians have been killed and dozens injured during 2 days of clashes in the

democratic republic of congo. the protest was spurred by complaints that a un mission in the country that failed to protect civilians against militia violence. police and mexico city of made a major drug bust authorities seized 1.6 tons of cocaine and hidden compartments into trucks. the drugs believe to come from columbia, they have a st value of around $20000000.00 u. s. dollars. the us state of california is hit by while fi as every sama fight, as they're making progress in containing a giant blaze in yosemite national park. the fire was threatening join sequoia trees and endangered animals. favorable weather conditions have slowed its advance, but the place has already destroyed dozens of homes and force thousands of residents to evacuate. just some of the destruction after fi rip 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 3005 fight is battling the arc fire. read a really good day today. we got a lot of work done this morning. we reported 10 percent containment on the fire to night were reporting 16 percent continuum. 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 erupted 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 blaze smouldering from space. not far south west from yosemite national park officials were concerned. the fire was heading towards the reserve. but now by 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. d w correspondence stefan siemens is at an evacuation center in california. we asked him whether the fire is now under control. 26 per cent contain now that is a huge sum for 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 fi as 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 seemed to be positive that the fire is drifting away from you. so many parked by this can change. this fire is erratic, it jumped so fast and made so many acres, jumps in days, thousands of acres that 3000 fire fighters are now necessary to battle it. much of europe is also struggling with drought and extreme heat, which of course wildfire across the continent from spain to norway. here in germany, military helicopters have been called in to help battle places, hundreds of fi fi. it is also battling a fire on the border of the czech republic and east in germany. it's threatening a national park wildfires, and not unusual in germany. a global warming has made them more common and more intense in recent years because of the dry conditions. a dw corresponded wouldn't glue, croft is close to, but shanda right at the german cheque border where the heavy wildfire region

william could you phyllis him on what's happening on the ground round a show you right now. what's happening on the ground is actually what's happening in the air we've been seeing all day. now we've been here for at least an hour helicopters, both of the federal police and the german military been coming to the elbow river. this one, the most important biggest rivers in europe. they've been filling these massive containers dangling under the helicopters from the river and flying into the mountains nonstop just on a round robin. here comes another one. now, we're just surrounded by a fleet of helicopters, a few from the german military, a few more from the german for the german federal police. and they're trying to get into the mountains to put out this fire. and this is a common site. these kinds of helicopters at wild fires it out in the mountains, but they're especially important here because as you can maybe see behind the rocks that the terrain here is extremely difficult. it's very difficult for firefighters to actually get in there on foot on the ground. so in some cases,

the helicopters are the only way to actually try to douse the flames of this fire. it also looks extremely dry way. you why usually germany is so green in summer. do we know more about the exact cause of these places? ah, yeah, we don't know the exact cause, come back with me. we can see how low the water level is here. look at these rocks here coming up over, you know, above the water level, we can see just how low the water is. something ironic because these helicopters need the water to put out the fire. we don't have an exact cause yet, but we've been seeing all around europe, dry conditions, drought conditions, historically dry conditions, historically hot conditions, which scientists say climate change is playing a role. and that may be one of one part of this fire. one cause of this fire officials around germany have have the, the warning for the risk of forest fires of wildfires at a very high level almost all summer were right at the checked german border. this is the old border crossing during the cold war. the fire started on sunday on the

check side and spread due to winds into the german side. the checks i, we hear is actually in a more difficult situation. but fortunately, winds have died down a little bit today, and firefighters are cautiously optimistic. they may be slowly getting the upper hand on this wildfire. and william, can you tell us any more about germany's efforts in keeping these places under control or what we can expect the days ahead are looking at least another few days trying to get this fire under control. they are not making any predictions yet. it will depend on rainfall on temperatures, on the wind. as i said, the wind has died down a little bit according to officials. this is a very serious situation. the entire this entire national park is an important national park, not just for taurus, but also for wild life for nature. it's about 95 square kilometer. so for just on the german side, about about 2 and a half square kilometers have burned so far is about 3 percent of the entire area. and as said,

it's very hard to get access these parts. the good news about being hard to access and here comes another helicopter right now german l. a journal to helicopters, gonna come get the water done it so far, not affected the towns and the residents of their self. i not have that in any evacuation. i think we're maybe going to the helicopter. i want to a problem william blue cross, or is that the latest on that blaze of republics ordered to germany and we update now to symbol will use stories. flash flooding in the u. s. state of missouri has killed at least one person and left 100 stranded reco rainfall has caused widespread damage across the area. authorities of declared a state of emergency with more storms expected. later this week. fi works and boat races have might be opening of a new bridge linking the southern tip of croatia with the mainland. long away to project will allow commuters to bypass the narrow strip of bosnian territory. the

croatian prime minister has called it an historic day. the german government is announced, it will compensate the families of those who died in the 1972 olympics terror attack in munich. surviving relatives of the 11 is by the athletes and a german police officer already received 2 payments, totaling about 5000000 euros. a strike in germany has ruined the holiday plans of a whole lot of unaware travellers. ground staff calling for a pay raise forced them, made airline hill concert to cancel over a $1000.00 flights. some 130000 passengers facing disruptions in the next few days . holiday plans and business trips put on hold. no one left to work. the counters would be looked 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 them by, by chance, and by, by phone, but a or nothing. they're not coming through. oh, we have to stay in line and see if we get a flight back and hope we gotta quite back because we're going to start school soon . and then also our parents, they're traveling to nigeria. so it's like we would 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 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, india shaft is denied. lufthansa has pointed the finger at the workers for demanding too much and putting a burden on travelers. 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, a correspond kristy plots in is at frankfurt airport and explains why this strike may not be the last. well, what we know is that a love tanza and though latan the union do plan to continue negotiations 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, for a, with the most recent offer, from the of 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 will of

basically mean that if they, if they aren't profitable than these employees won't get 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 this this post coven summer season. and that's just not acceptable to them. they said they are willing to strike again. we 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 earlier. said as much himself. he said, this is not just an issue for a lift tons, it's an issue for the whole industry up. so our worth in the thick of the european and a vacation season right now, and it doesn't look like his issues are going to be clearing up anytime soon.

climate change, the war in ukraine and corruption are threatening global food. security across africa shortage is a forcing farmers to search for new solutions to improve output, dw correspondent place the young traveled to the village of the bomb bowery in cameroon. to meet a businessman and farmer whose promoting smart agriculture using greenhouses 10 years ago, rule on for monday returned to come room from the us to start greenhouse. for me is a method of every quarter door remains new. come, rude. rolanda has more than 100. the house forms across the country, jeroen, 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 belt the best because prior to are doing bad purpose, they were actually been imported. so we've actually been able to substitute the

importation of bell peppers into the country. one of the things we've been able to do is to shore, to the communions that less than the things that are normally been imported or grown abroad could also be grown here. do you agree? no war does limit us away. as we get a price, i can fully cover rude, like a rest of the continent. sorry, food prices are making it harder for many families to afford a complete meal. the steps are good, i can carry on for land, thinks african farmers can learn from the crisis. and better is, of course, you're 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 seats are the very core of that in a bit to share knowledge and contribute to food security. cross cameroon, rollin is now offering classes to teach young people how to set up greenhouse bombs

like this. take home soon. it are 29 is currently among daughters of young people. on the rollers year long mentorship. she'll be here for 6 mars lennon. all it takes to set up are on a greenhouse form. before coming here, i didn't have any clue. maybe i had just the busy knowledge about fun, but i cannot have the real knowledge about greenhouse. so i was just delighted when i saw it on facebook. ruling it's pushing for sustainable on organic food contribution. we water saving techniques and efficient land use. his smart innovation could happen to us on the cameras and coach or whatever. and a reminder of our top stories ross, an energy company gas problem has reduced gas supply through the notes stream pipeline flows dropped to just 20 percent of their noble volumes of wednesday. germany's government called to move a power play by moscow. and mo, wildfires

a bony across europe, one of germany's most popular national parks is threatened by a blaze which spread across particular border. scientists say global warming is making droughts and heat waves, more intense. coming up after the break, i'll have our business weekly made. and i'll have more news for you with with

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