hulu. ah, this is d w. news live from berlin, credit key. hi, your electronic damn. b rushes. next. target ukrainian president brought him, his lensky warrens, hundreds of thousands of people, or at risk you ledgers. russian forces planted mines at the power station in the southern region of personal. the leaders of germany and france looked to put a simmering rile over energy policy behind the european leaders agree on a road map to contain sore in gas prices. fueled by the war in you've crap plus a new contest to become britain's next prime minister, fuel speculation of

a come back for boards, johnson list trust promise is a replacement within a week after leaving scores on the economy and her nations politics, inter mall ah, a michael ok, welcome to the program. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski has accused russia of planning to blow up a hydro electric dam in the hearse on region. he said, russian troops had mine the kafka power plant on the denise pro river to trigger what's the lensky called the catastrophe on a grand scale. his comments add to growing concern about russian attacks against energy infrastructure. there were reports this morning, a blast in huck eve and apparition,

monuments destroyed windows of homes blown in residents of the southern ukrainian city. of nikolai, of our once again, picking up the pieces after the city was hit by russian drones and miss isles. ukraine accuses russia of using hundreds of iranian drones in its attack in recent weeks. that something both moscow and 2 ran adamantly deny. but a remark from a military expert on russian tv who didn't realize he was already live on air suggests otherwise. we'll, we'll know the drills are iranian, that the government has not admitted to it. when full year of, with washington says that iran is actually training russian troops on how to use their drones or you avi's, we assess that iranian personnel, runny nose, hurry,

personnel were on the ground in crime. yes. and assisted russia in these operations . a russia has received dozens of these you avi's so far, and will likely continue to receive additional shipments in the future with russia's progress on the battlefield. stalling moscow has stepped up a tax on infrastructure like power plants. ukraine's president has accused his russian counterpart of wanting ukrainians to freeze to death over the winter, and appeal to citizens to curtail their energy use. in key the new energy saving guidelines are already being followed. more than half of the electric buses are no longer running. ukraine says russia has destroyed over 30 percent of its power stations in just a week. if that continues ukrainians are going to be in for a very cold and dark winter t w's mathias bell and go joins us now. some keith mathias, can you tell us more about this damn in southern ukraine that presidential

landscape so worried about it? we're talking about the dam by any inova kafka. it's a major power plant and a major. it contains a major water is of war as so if anything happened to that dam, a lot of water would be released and possibly the city of her son would be flooded into, in large part. so it's obviously something very dangerous. we're talking about. we don't really know where, how good the information is. we've been her talks about this. them being a dasia blown up accusations on both sides. russia has also been talking about it accusing ukraine about a false flag, accusation operation. and ukraine has now said that russia has minded, the dam is under russian control to have the strikes near the damn, because it's also one of the main ways to cross the dipper river in this area. the only 2 points where 2 bridges, one is the damn it. it's along the dam. there is

a roadway. and the other one is a bridge that has also been re or attacked repair repeatedly by a ukraine from ukrainian territory. it's important to disrupt or the for ukraine is important to disrupt the supply lines along them. that's why the dumb has been at the focus of attention for some time and the structure itself has not been hit on but yeah, the fear is a urine. ukraine. the fear is that russia might blow it up when it retreats or to the other side of the river, which is something we have seen. extensive speculation about that. russia might been planning to retreat from these areas, including the city of hassan. and what about it runs involvement in the war and the drones being used. the us now says it has hard evidence at that then really been a doubt about these drones being iranian since the beginning. first of all,

the have been reports about it coming from different sides of these drones, hard to be delivered to, to russia. we have also heard, uranian officials seemingly not, you know, openly but confirming to journalists that these deals have been on their accusations that iranians have traveled to crimea to train the russians the ukrainians have intercepted quite a few or shut down quite a few of these drones they are exactly what the ukranian model that is known are. so that's a very, very a beyond reasonable doubt that these a ukrainian drugs at d. w, 's mathias barely got in keith. the energy crisis triggered by russia cutting gas supplies has created a rift within the european union at a summit in brussels. e u leaders managed to agree on a road map aimed at shielding consumers from shoring prices. but key differences

have not been shuttle. most member states including france, a pushing for a cap on what they're prepared to pay for gas, but germany home to the use biggest economy fears such a cat could see suppliers seek alternative markets for more. let's go across to d. w. corresponded jack paris in brussels. jack uh, what are the highlights of this road map? right, so the e u leaders of a 9. so what they're calling a roadmap is a bit of a bit of a bell here in brussels. in other words, similar to that is framework essentially means they haven't managed to come to an agreement. so they want to look at the way in which they can come to an agreement on these issues after 11 hours on this energy topic. lossing, until about 4 am in the morning, they still couldn't get agreement on this energy price capsule. what they've done

is they've tossed the european commission, the executive arm of the european union to do basically a cost benefit analysis on that price cut. how much is it gonna cost? what can we do with it? essentially, for the $15.00 countries, including francis you mentioned that are in favor of it to try and persuade around the german government that it would be worthwhile that it is manageable, that it will bring consumer prices dine and it won't skew the market so that that becomes a lack of supply where as you say, energy produces decide to sell it in other markets where they can get more money if the european union has kept the prices they did manage to have some other agreements like agreeing of voluntary purchasing system for gas, that there's a number of other issues surrounding liquidity benchmarks on liquid natural gas imports, etc. what it did managed to get together, but this big outstanding issue of the, of the price cap that just wasn't resolved. and then we've had this classic fudge, as we say, a roadmap to get there. so burning the midnight candle and lots of coffee or t,

i imagine what's the likelihood, the leading powers, germany, and france will resolve their differences on these measures. it's really hard to tell at the moment i suppose that cost benefit analysis will be pretty important. we know that you energy ministers are meeting at the beginning of next week. they will obviously have a little bit more detail on these issues than the, than the lead as might have, obviously about being within that portfolio. as you say, the franco german access is really the crucial one in the european union. now, especially off the brakes. it, it used to be a sort of $33.00 big powers of the you. now it's only 2 which makes it pops a little bit more difficult to horse trade. that was meant to be big cabinet ministerial meetings between the 2 countries next week. but they were postponed over these issues likely to happen later on in the year if then it really is not a dime to that, to france and germany, so not heads and see if we can get through how to, how, how quickly or when that might happen okay, that's a d, w corresponded jack parrot. many things

well, a day after prime minister liz trus announced she was resigning from office. britain's top job is again up for grabs and the search is on to fill it. trust is stepping down after just 6 weeks in office, making her tenure, the shortest in british history. senior members of the tory party say her replacement will be found within a week's time. speculation is rife regarding who will take her place with many touting even a possible return of former prime minister boards. johnson we spoke earlier to bergen mos about how likely return is for the former prime minister boys. johnson is still and that might surprise many viewers. he's still the favorite within the party base. so he's remembered by and he's re cherished by many ordinary party members as somebody who, who is a vote when, when he was a vote very when he reached out to vegas that the conservative party were never

able to reach out before. and he delivered a huge majority in the house of commons, and he's really loved by many conservative faders. he's also loved why some people in the country but by others is hated. so he's really like a mom at figure, some love and some love him. and some hate him, he does have chances to go come back as a prime minister, it would be a surprise, a obviously if he came back after such a short time. but his chances are not that bad. however, if it did happen and would create more time, or that's for sure, because many conservative m p 's and they would have to cooperate with him. they remember him as somebody who are possibly misled parliament. there is an investigation as to whether he lied to parliament and also he was fined over what was will called party gate, where he was seen drinking and socializing with his colleagues during the cove. it locked down say many say some and p say i really wouldn't work with him. so he

would definitely not be somebody who would stabilize the country. and i think this is what a lot of british people are really craving. they want a stability, they want to stable government. i'm in the time of economic crisis. emergency services in nigeria say more than 600 people have been killed in 1400000 are homeless. following some of the most severe flooding in a decade range have washed away farmland and crops raising fears of a food crisis. climate change, but also poor planning or being blamed. the w correspondent, florist true, gra, centers this report. this is what the rainy season usually looks like. and i'm rusty's in southeast talmadge area. and this is what the same community looks like now. swollen weavers, have inundated numerous towels and villages across nigeria cause in 1400000 people

to flee their homes for camps set up on higher ground. 27 out of 36 states have been affected. alhambra state is one of the was heaps. one 3rd of the state is now on the water. we are suffering, but suffering is better than stealing. that's why we are here in this condition. the clothes that i'm wearing are the only ones i have left. the flood carried away all our belongings. hon. our schools have been destroyed by water, so our plea is anyone that can help us should help us. any one that you help us should help us please local and yields and philanthropists as crumbling to help where we can people here see the feel neglected by the government. the government many to haven't gone and not seen

any residency with key infrastructure swallowed by water. many of the flooded communities are without power, and people's generators have been destroyed. critical infrastructures such as schools, health care centers, police stations, and banks can't operate. the nigerian government says that thought they received only one in size of the float. they never foresaw, at this level of destruction, and with the number of farmlands that had been washed away, their icon says about foot scarcity in the coming months. south is st. ange area is at least of flooding, at least until the end of the rainy season. in november and reminder of our top story ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says russian forces have mind a hydro electric dam in their house on region and says, hundreds of thousands of residents could be at risk of rapid flooding. if the dam

is destroyed. this is the w news line from berlin, coming up, the german chancellor and the countries economics minister, or at odds over the sale of the homburg container terminal to a chinese state own company. the w business has the latest in just a minute. i'm michael, open for news at the top of the uh, ah, nico it is in germany to learn german pollution pinnacle. why not learn with him online, on your mobile and free the chest for c w e learning course. nickos vague. ah ah.