ah, ah ah, this is the w news. my for then, russia reduces gas applies to europe even further flows through moscow's biggest pipeline to the continent, down to 20 percent of noble capacity. germany calls the move a power play ball while fi is burned across europe. one of germany's most popular national parks is threatened by a blaze which is spread across the border from the czech republic. strike by ground stop force is looked on set to cancel flights across germany. tens of thousands of

passengers the left stranded and deadly protests against united nations peacekeepers in the democratic republic of congo. critics say the troops in blue helmets failing to protect civilians from militia violence. ah, i'm painful and welcome russian energy company gas problem is canada gas supplied to germany through the north stream pipeline. germany's 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. the french government now says it could help out supplying 2 percent of germany's needs over the winter. but your business reporter and foreman, moscow correspondent aaron 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 because in germany's energy budget, should russia actually turn off the star gas taps? you have to remember germany, which is the europeans economic heart land, its industrial heartland. you know, it depended upon russia for on 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 moscow 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 of 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, i'm willing to stand together. they're going to face this political pressure. so it helps in that regard. but it really doesn't get at the heart of the issue in the fact that russia are germany rather, is dependent upon russia for its energy needs. but is

a complete cut off in most goes interests. i mean, is it a huge amount of money? it's making from high edgy 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 they're gonna go for a false cut off that actually depends upon how we react to right now. and by we, i mean the public at large and the politicians in the european union react to this threat. i mean, moscow is already said that they're most likely going to start pumping more gas or other pipelines to europe. what 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, you know, that that experience informs his foreign policy. he likes to push people see which way 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, they're pushing consumers basically saying, look, we can make these 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 your 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 say that they're gonna cut gas by 15 percent. and today, with even that small isn't as incredible as a drop in the bucket. again, it's not really going to do that much. and at the same time, germany said 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, you know, i'm just moving the house, my old gas contract used to cost 50 a month. now if you get a new contract for heating gas, you're talking about paying $319.00 on $191.00 euros a month. i mean, it's charlotte 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 more in ukraine means energy prices are searching across europe. consumers here in germany being told to use less gas or face possible rationing this winter. it's a tough message, but the minister responsible for delivering it is still one of the most popular politicians here. the job of economy minister in germany is a tough one. at the moment. the energy supply is on the threat industry is bracing the pe. the government is even telling ordinary citizens to use less gas at home. a gloomy picture of robert, her back minister for economy and climate action. that's to spell out to the public . isn't it? no 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 burbock. 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. 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, he travelled to ukraine and called for germany to rethink its opposition or providing weapons. you quote, some sort of a control the sea when you called for an on delivery to ukraine. would you repeat this demand to send time for war in ukraine in dunbar? it's the last thing 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 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. turkey has opened a new coordination, sent it to oversee exports of ukrainian grain. russia and ukraine has signed a deal to unblock shipments from ukrainian boats. the 2 nations jointly supplied nearly a 3rd of the world's wheat before the war. the blockade had seen global food prices search. d w 's. dorian jones was at the opening of the new coordination center in is temple and explains how it work. well, this center is key to the implementation of the steel. those signed on friday

between russia, ukraine, united nations and turkey. this will be the harp where all the activities will be monitor, cosi, you'll have it. 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 port 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 market. the center also place a crucial role in terms of an alt searching all ship before they reached the ukrainian port. this is the key, the amount of moscow they fear that they, they ship or 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 skepticism about this operation. the fact that alicia launched a missile attack on saturday against odessa, a decile port which was seems

a 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. and with this new coordination center up and running in turkey, i asked dw mathias bowinger, who's in odessa when we can expect for shipments to leave that's hard to say, but there would the corridors will basically, according to the ukranian side, open already within the next few days maybe you are 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 is stumble 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 nepa is very broad there. this is very close to where it enters the sea. and her son is on the north side of the nepa 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 possibly dangerous. so there's

basically one place at the whole line among hundreds of kilometers left. whereas 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 other stories from around the world. a powerful earthquake has hit the northern philippines, killing at least 4 people and injuring doesn't. major tremors, damage buildings in the province of opera, and forced evacuations. in the capital manila, it is the strongest quake to hit the philippines in years. tenicia has approved a new constitution in a referendum mark by accusations of fraud and low voter turnout. the changes grad unchecked powers to president chi saeed. but 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 classes in the democratic republic of congo. the protests were spurred by complaints that are un mission in the east of the country had failed to protect civilians against militia violence. much of europe is also struggling with drought right now and the extreme heat. which of course, while fires across the continent from spain to norway, in germany, military helicopters have been called in to help battle blazes. hundreds of firefighters are also battling a fire on the border of the czech republic and east in germany. that's threatening a national park. wildfires are not unusual in germany, but global warming has made the more common and more intense in recent years. the w report of william crossed is in bad shonda close to the german cheque boda with a fire raging, his his update on the latest from the grout. row and to 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 in your for at least in our 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 sight. these kinds of helicopters at wild fires out in the mountains, but they're especially important here because as you could maybe see behind me 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 are 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 fire fighters 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? oh, 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 wildlife or nature. it's about 95 square kilometer so far, just on the german side, about about 2 and a half square kilometers have burns 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, how a german military helicopters gonna come get the water. it's so far not affected

the towns and the residents of their self. i'm not have there been any evacuations? i think were my they are going to this helicopter, i want to park a problem william blue cross, or is that the latest on that plays on tape republics forwarded to germany to the united states where fire fighters in the state of california making progress containing a giant blaze in the cemetery national park. the fight was threatening giant sequoia trees and endangered animals favorable weather conditions of slowed its advance. that the place has already destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands of evacuations. just some of the destruction after fi ripped through mariposa county. the huge blaze has caused major damage in many areas. but more moist is moved into the region on tuesday. a huge help for the 3005 fight is

battling the oak 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 reporting 16 percent containment. so you know, it's not a huge number, but it's a pretty big percentage. um, if you look 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 of seeing its worst drought in 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 i 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 of the w correspondence that on siemens is at an evacuation center in california. we asked him whether the fire is now under control. 26 percent 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 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 is a crook at the moment, seems 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 firefighters are now necessary to battle it. and continuing with some more world news for you. flash flooding in the us state of missouri has killed at least one person and left 100 stranded reco rainfall is cause widespread damage across the st. louis area authorities have declared a state of emergency with more storms expected. later this week, the german government has announced the able compensate the families of those who died in the 972 olympics terror attack and munich, surviving relatives of the 11th re, the athletes and a german police officer have already received 2 payments, totaling about 5000000 euros. a strike in germany has ruined the holiday plans of a whole look of unaware travellers ground stuff cooling, full mo, pay, forcing the main airline. lufthansa to cancel over a 1000 flights. some 130000 passengers facing disruption over 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 shots and by my phone, what a job or nothing. they're not coming through. ah, we have to stay in line and see if we get a flight back and hope we got quite back as we are 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. lufthansa made 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 left hansa 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 lufthansa doesn't meet their demands, l corresponding christy plants and is at franklin airport and explains why this strike may not be the last. well, what we know is that a lufthansa and though latan the union do plan to continue negotiations next week.

but the union has said that if their demands are not met or 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 with the most recent offer from the 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 periods, 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 post coven summer season, a that's just not acceptable to them. they said they are willing to strike again. 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 earlier. 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 our 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. christy plants and reported for frankfort more now on the deadly protests in the democratic republic of congo over the u when both demonstrated and united nations stoffer among the 15 dead critics of the un say a long standing peacekeeping mission is failed to protect civilians from militia violence. 4 are the people of the democratic republic of congo of hut to live with conflict and violence for decades. no, some have turned against those assigned to protect them from it. the troops and the blue huts are from a no school. 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 madness. go 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. it's gone up,

i'm on his son. oh, what has just happened here is a piece keeper has killed one person here at their base, and he has injured another. but we don't want them here anymore. best yet to let them go to their homes. and then i took another do black lined up. well, my son go, is it? reuters journalist has reported seeing un peacekeepers shoot to people dead. as protesters threw 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 u. n. a 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 is i'm up there tear gassing us because we came to say

that no sco does not have bought out. well, that must have been in congo for 22 years and nothing works. we came to demand our rights, but there shoot us with tear gas. well and up we got mclamore said 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 to so can use ambrosia dope and strike as sebastian a layer will be out for a few months after having surgery on a testicular tomorrow. the ivory coast forward was diagnosed last week during the team's preseason training camp in switzerland. taught mon sporting director, sebastian kid, he said, the operation went very well, and aaliyah is on the right track. the 28 year old joined the buddhist league aside from ajax, for $31000000.00 euros earlier this month and was expected to be the main focus of docklands offense. up next d w,

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