ah ah ah ah, this is d, w is my from berlin, russia cuts. gas applies to germany, again, flows through moscow's biggest pipeline, a dance or 5th, but normal capacity. germany describes the move as a power play. also on the program, more wild fires burn across europe. a blaze crosses a check border to threaten one of germany's most popular national parks. that we

protest against united nations peacekeepers in the democratic republic of congo. critics, a un troops failing to protect civilians from violent malicious and we meet a group of refugees in rome, cooking up new lives themselves by mastering the art of the perfect dis ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program, rushes, state energy supply. our gas problem has got gas supplies to germany through the nord stream. one pipeline. germany is network operators as flows have dropped to just 20 percent of normal volumes. and the cut means it will be difficult for the country to fill its reserve tanks before winter. and any further reductions could trigger emergency gas rationing,

but the french government says he could help by supplying 2 percent off. it said neighbors needs over winter. well d w has been speaking with you. energy commissioner, cadre, sim sol. as she said that europe should be able to make it through winter, even without rush and gas. we know that the russia is not to lie, a bit partnered, and any moment they can not introduce it fully deception of gas. despite the fact that right now with a at that event, gas fire 30 pipelines, but that we are prepared. and i know that there with the help of reliable gas suppliers and lisa storage level full enough. or do they provide turn a gas supplies or so many things season is it did speak and savings and this fuel switch. so or those are different aspects that help us through this mentor and,

and they will help us through this finter safely without emergency alert. let's look at this with professor andras marshall who's one of germany's top economic experts. he specializes in environmental economics and sustainability and choices from a german city of bo. hm. welcome to the w. a professor. we just heard a lot of ifs from the energy commissioner. what is your take on this situation? we shall stop, discuss the news. the commission is right, russia is no longer reliable against a lawyer. it actually is intention to create uncertainties to create fear along your european households. so we should focus on our mission. the most important one is we use the guess as far as quickly as possible, and we're using just dependency. yes, we're using gas in the household supplies for industry and in generation. this is

now really important, even with the lower deliveries off gas from russia. we can go through the winter if i guess the mon, you stop sensually. so it is. so if russian gas flows into germany through no stream on remain at the present reduced levels and you think germany can make it through the other end. here we just a new numbers from the german institutes of economic research showing that you are with low off gas to germany. 20 percent. yes, it is right now there is a relatively high chance to go through the winter, but it's clear that you emergency plans and the different legislation, the german government has to reduce cost. the mom will help us to really go through the winter without further problems. right. and that's a russia has fewer customers for its energy, but prices are going up. so is this, is this tactic making the money or losing money?

yeah, i think that's a rational strategy. if you're a dominant supplier, of course you're trying, you're trying to cut the supply in order to drive up the prices. but i think the european answer should be that we are asked for, for me, or using all american power on the demand side. euro is the biggest demand on 75 percent. busy off the pipeline market and i think now it's really been time to think about possibilities to step in and just dictate prices and not pay these incredibly high prices that have no attachment to reality. what. and if russia turns the tops off completely, do you see that as being a likely but this one possibility is that from the possibility that it's just opening up a tab and providing much more guess because the number one priority seems to me to

really create these uncertainties in europe. well, we should focus on our strategies, i think, for kia, for example, in germany, we are now bringing back our co plans our qualify and whole plans to actually substitute for a gas fired power plant over the winter. i think that is what we should focus on in really trying to do. thank you so much for joining us. address national expert to environmental, an expert on environmental economy and sustainability. thank you. look, yes, a secretary of state antony blinking is accused russia of expanding its war aims in you cried. he says moscow's laying the groundwork to take over more ukrainian territory and a separate development turkeys. opened a new coordination center to oversee the expert of ukrainian gray. and before the war of russia and ukraine supplied, nearly a 3rd of the world's wheat cave says it's been unable to export grain because

moscow's blockaded its port. global food prices of surged as a result, but the 2 sides of signed a deal to unblock shipments. getting the grain out, these officials have a challenging task. they need to figure out how to ship millions of tons of grain stuck in ukraine in ports, russia, ukraine, turkey in the u. n. have each cent 5 officials to this coordination center to make it happen. wumer hotel is on the staff working at the center aware that the eyes of the world are upon them. it's our hope that through collective and successful work, the center will make the maximum contribution to she monetary needs and to piece washer awesome, we got was all over. so the plan is to register and inspect merchant ships transporting food from ukraine and allow them to pass safely through the black sea to turkey. it was agreed by russia and ukraine during talks mediated by ankara last

week. under the deal, moscow would also be allowed to ship its fertilizer to world markets. what's unclear is house in the 1st vessel will be able to leave ukraine. i can say that the, the people here, all the parties here are committed to ensuring the success of the initiative. thank you. that's enough. i think it, i really, i can't speculate on that as well, or it will be very soon. ukraine accused russia of blockading. it's ports after the start of the invasion in february, and even stealing grain from the occupied territories in the south. russia denies both claim, seen the main obstacle for shipments at thousands of mines placed by ukraine near the coast. the russians tray on the port city of odessa, just one day after the deal was signed with the agreement at risk with ukraine and

president volume of zalinski st. moscow can not be trusted. this man, who has a farm near or dare, sir said he's running to huge financial troubles because he can't sell his grain or by seed for next year and is hopeful as he is. the deal will work. he has his doubts, or he thought his booth little little c. historically, it makes no sense to make a deal with russia. agreements with russia are not worth the paper. they're written on business. but for now, the port is preparing for the day. when the shipments will finally resume, bringing the much needed food to vulnerable regence of the world. there, let's pick this up with the w correspondent, matuse bollinger in odessa. welcome mathias. so how is your crane or preparing for the resumption of grain export? well, you translate that the 3 ports that are included in this agreement have resumed work. and that they have been preparing basically the grain that they have formed

columns of off trucks that were bring the train to the ships and that they are ready. and they're waiting for the arrival of the ships. the ships are run by turkish companies and they would leave from mr. bull sale into the sports get loaded and sail out. so we heard in the report there, the at the port is mind, but the turkish defense minister has said that at d mining, these ports isn't necessary. how are they going to ensure the safety of the ships? so yeah, that doesn't mean that the ships have to go slalom around the mines a corridor from these ports to the port of east and will or to to the waters or through the international waters or the romanian waters. and has been, has been freed of mines and, and, and, and it's free to sail through the ships after stay within this corridor that stir ukraine's way to ensure that

a russia will not use this opportunity to attack. because there's only this lane that's open and from other size you wouldn't be able to access these boards. and it's also not necessary to g mine all of the ports, but of course, where the ships will sail and where the ships will land. there will be no minds turning to the fighting or ukrainian artillery has struck a bridge crossing the disney per river in the house on a region as a crucial supply route for russian forces. and what else can you tell us about that? this bridge is crucial for the russian supply routes. it's not only crucial, it's the main supply route. so here on the city, of course, that, that, that russia was able to take in the beginning of the war and that ukraine wants to take back now is on the north shore of the near river. the nipper river is a flowing into the sea as close to there, so it's already quite wide there and so difficult to cross. and this is the only

bridge near the city that crosses the river. and there would be the link to crimea where the supplies come from and reinforcements and whatever the only other way to cross the river is 60 kilometers further north. there's a dam. inova oscar. so one of 2 routes across the river in these contested northern territories. north of the near po is now destroyed and that's a huge problem for the russians. we are seeing speculations, whether they can build a pontoon bridge there, but it's difficult because the river is wide. so we probably see some more images or information about how the russians are trying to bridge this river in that place. it's crucial for them to bring in supplies and to prepare for this counter offensive for this ukrainian counter offensive. that is on the way. but we do not know really when is the hottest phase of this counter offensive expected?

this is clearly a preparation for it. thank you for that is putting in odessa i will take look at some or stories from around the world. hundreds of iraqi protest, a storm, the national parliament in baghdad and protesting iran bent parties nominee for prime minister. they bridge security was seen walking on tables and rifling through documents. and many of them were portly, follows of the influential she eyed clerical target. al sadi, powerful earthquake has hit the northern philippines, killing at least of all people and injuring dozens. major tremors, damage buildings in the province of abra, unforced evacuations in the capitol. manila strongest quake to hit the philippines in years. flash flooding in the u. s. state of missouri's killed at least one person and left 100 stranded reco rainfalls caused widespread damage across the st . louis area authorities of declared

a state of emergency with more storms expected. later this week, german government has announced it will compensate the families, people who died in 1972 olympics that terror attack in munich, surviving relatives of the lesson of the 11 israeli athletes. and the german police officer already received 2 payments, totaling around to $5000000.00 euros. much of europe is struggling with drought and extreme heat, which of course wildfires across the continent from spain to norway in germany, military helicopters have been called in to help hundreds of firefighters battle blazes. wildfires are not unusual in germany. global warming has made the more common and more intense over recent years. in the eastern part of the country near the border with the czech republic, pfizer threatening a national park. the w correspondent, william blue croft is close to bard shan dow,

on the german cheque border where those wild fires are raging. welcome, william. what's happening there? now? i fell. yeah, i'm standing here. one of the central coordinating area is a staging area for firefighters. really all around this region, the state of saxony, who have com, converged here to try to put out what a spokesperson told me is one of the largest fires in this areas. history. we're right here on the check german border in this beautiful pur, steen natural world in this natural national park. that's a huge draw for tourists of all kinds who want to come for a wellness for santa, for extreme sports outdoors. those outdoor sports now off limits as they're fighting this fire deep in this mountainous, rugged region of eastern germany. and what's being said about the cause of the fire? well, of course it's still not confirmed spokesperson said to me that he suspects it could

be a cause that a human activity may be someone being careless, someone leaving a fire on someone, you know, flicking a cigarette onto very dry ground. that's of course not confirmed yet. we probably won't know for a while this fire started on the check side of the border, which is just steps away from here. and then strong winds sunday into monday drove the fire over the border into germany. so both countries are fighting this fire. i with everything the abs actually worse on the checks. i were there have been evacuations there so far, been no evacuation, sir, and the germans ins, because although the fire is not yet under control, it is contained deep in the wilderness far away from many of the idyllic villages, villages and towns that dot this landscape right so what is likely to happen over the next few days? well, again spoke 1st and i was speaking to earlier who's overseeing the operation. he told me that it could actually not just be days but weeks until this fire is really

under control until they really have a handle on things. it doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to spin out of control, that people will have to evacuate. it could happen, they say they're prepared for that up, but it does mean that the ground in the, in the woods in this mountainous area is very dry and also very hot. so even once you put out the fire, we've been told that fires can spring up again very easily. so could take actually weeks for this fire to come under control, which is something we've been seeing all around europe. and yet another summer that's been incredibly hot and incredibly dry. thank william william bluecross on the german cheque border while pfizer also effect in the u. s. state of california. and this happens every, some of the firefighters and making progress and containing a giant place. and some of the national park far was threatening john sequoia trees and endangered animals. favorable weather conditions have slowed its advance, but the place is already destroyed. dozens of homes and force thousands of people

to leave just some of the destruction after fire ripped through mariposa county. the huge blades has 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 reporting 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 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 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. and these 15 people have been killed during violent protest against the united nations in the democratic republic of congo, a protest as and un staffer amongst the dead critics. a longstanding un peacekeeping mission has failed to protect civilians from militia violence. ah, the people of the democratic republic of congo have had to live with conflict and violence for decades. now, some have turned against those assigned to protect them from it. the troops and the

blue hats are from anesco. 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 you and 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 2 un police personnel were killed along with several protesters. the death toll 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. have you done obama, 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. we don't want them here any more. best yet to let them go to their homes. i never took enough you black lined up. well, last didn't go, is it? 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 death, what's happening on the grammy judith? what is clear on the ground is that there is opposition to moscow. 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 moscow does not have bought so much that 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, 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. tackle of a small stories from around the world, no. fireworks and boat races of mafia opening of a new bridge linking the southern tip of croatia with the mainland. the long awaited project will allow commuters to bypass a narrow strip of bosnian territory. crisis prime minister described it as an historic day to the france when i jonas venga vinegar would have

received a hero's welcome. on his return to his native denmark, 25 year old was greeted by a cheering crowd at city hall in copenhagen his 1st days since 1996 to win cycling is biggest about the strike in germany has ruined the holiday plans of a lot of unaware travelers grounds f coral for more pay force the main am i love, tons to cancel $1.00, a 1000 flights. some 130000 passengers are facing disruption of the next few days. holiday plans and business trips put on hold. no one left to work. the counters would be loved hansa passengers at frankfurt airport are 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'll try to reach them by, by shots and by, by phone. but a,

they're nothing. they're not coming through. ah, we have to stay in line and see if we get a fight back and hope we got quite back as we're going to start school. oh, 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 lines 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 let's on board to how about 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 f dish nevada. 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 lufthansa doesn't meet their demands, a group of refugees in rome are making new life for themselves by learning to become desert shafts. the women worked as cooks in their homelands, but war persecution, or poverty force him to flee. victoria is from saddam. she's making a national desert. she is one of the many refugees who arrived in italy with personal stories of disadvantage and vulnerability. now a dozen of these women are rebuilding the lights from scratch, but not everything from back home is lost. they're all making sweets that represent

the country that they come from. i school and all that. yeah. so gradually, i have been living in italy for 5 years. i escape from war. my desert is called cut . i have home the ingredients or dried fruit. this, i got it. now making it buy it bangladesh, my country's name is bangladesh. i came to italy 8 years ago to stay here with my children. we believe it is. i am meaning. i came here to gast armando, to attend the pastry workshop because i really like it. and i like cooking very much like the hor, silver. she not a go for them if yes, but it isn't just the passion for making that's driving them. the chefs hoped to make a living out of this catarina game from ukraine before the war broke out. fair

. i hope in the future that i will find work in the pastry business, the city in the coming months, maybe meeting restaurant owners who the hope will collaborate with them and adopt one of the national desert creations. that's it. you're up to date, more world news of the top of the hour next on the w conflicts or tim sebastian interviews for my british foreign secretary, malcolm. i'm good with with

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