issue is nevertheless, luncheon i said as a form of a european union as has become our fear during our meetings and want to see a bar doesn't decrease the hampton street. we're talking a good european capable of taking luncheon in times of crisis. the asked of hog. thank you, the form this brings us to our 1st question. a r d d micro, skyland is doctor took questions, translate i made the 1st film regarding the cat against my seeming human as you sat in the corner. yeah. i'm holding that her decisions ought to be taylor's are now unable to leave by dominion valley jaden bond. others say that a majority qualified to a v might suffice in that regard. if need be loved again, germany's burcham target is agreeing on a cap that germany would not want to seem to have. and now, with the port of hamburg the stake, nothing that ought to be your stomach shaft taken by a chinese company. at that time, there was a lot of criticism expressed in that regard. and now people say you're committing

to the same mistake. i would like to use to make leo gains in for an image to white bonds. we agreed that we wanted to act guardian mutual agreement that no single country ought to be our furniture. this is what we've agreed. we've done this, donald your occasions to didn't him versus we did from god would been convinced not been so the for and which might am i brought with the attention of the council if need be. that was an important element of our agreement of our discussions, and i think that we have reached a good agreement. it was really difficult to reach that agreement. it was a kind of pragmatic discussion, tried land, a protracted solution. now as regards the decision to be taken on the request submitted by the chinese consortium, no decisions have yet been taken. questions have to be clarified as is the usual case in such circumstances. and this is what procedures demand. well,

suppose we, chris is all set up in register being submitted under your question seems to be point the fact that the matter is called does not following usual procedures 0. we're not talking the poor being sold off here in m as in other cases we are talking about a mutual possible space in one terminal auto focus. and we have a similar home i situations in some west and the agenda ports. and we're talking about just one terminal of a very current, large port, but no decisions have been taken. yes, this is stephanie. look, i've him a if p microphone please. microphone, please. hi, guess she said, i saw the mike miss chilling sudden toward my colleagues. i had no food from your point of view is allowed because you still need to be reviewed. i think it's generally speaking. good idea to sell off what part of that port toyota against the bank run. thank you. once we're done, the man a little,

may i have other sponsorship, was it the french president would now says that he offered to you to visit china together with the huron, bringing a business delegation of voices. next, did he talk about this? won't you plan to talk about this next week? should not know what your position b, but thank you for your question. is he did you know what your colleague did and who you spoke of to him of the sale of the port. we're not talking about the assailant of a port. we have a long standing tradition here, and i can report in, ah, formal my own experiences when hamburger to hm. book i'm hoping by and large, belongs to the city of hamburg to the hamburg port authority for culture. we would never dream after selling in by signing an area and admirable enough lunch would not happen if we always tried tucson enhance that area and to increase the size of it, that is what makes this port so special. you have people who the rescue to the areas

that that prevents on that major harriann. i'm lucky and operate is if determiners are people who do different things there. for medium of men of allison, it has always been very important to me when i held the different office at the time to, to log in, fight the ministers of transparent port of germany. since i believe that to someone who has not grown up in hamburg has the slightest idea of the size of the port of hamburg francois. the man is in a position to assess his watch, r o, part of that i knew poor what area might actually be all about and how big or how small the proportions will be. now, as disc fast, this concrete cases concert asap. and i had to say that i sent a request has been submitted and it will be carefully reviewed by the authorities. yup. i know microphone plant. i've been to your planning affair since we for quite a while. we didn't remember to produce a visor and we're trying to find

a date for that visit to lincolnton under consul dahan moscow. she, i was talking about what is going to happen, but i said that would be my visit, your condo would have to on my 1st visit as chancellor of stuff before a since i took office. and before we have my letter in a governmental consultations, i have to do that. we would never say it is going to happen at the beginning of november says mister hep a's tried the question was inaudible yes, young, but she never does jonah no one as far as jane is concerned. if i may add issues another question, chance to meet the driver. what is the objective for the purpose of your visit? and will it take place before the t 20 summit? would it be right to do so? you're over of our time because you all to expect to presidential. he will also let okay. and let you 20 summit as well. president putin and a question regarding ukraine, ukraine and the baltic states have demanded that neighborhood of high tribunals is

to be set up with regard to the war in ukraine is what is your position in that regard? and would you let me begin by saying that it is important that we attend to our international relations that develop them for that you know that, that i should paid a visit to japan on purpose at that point in time. it was my 1st visit since taking office, and i had a in depth discussion with prime minister cuz she's a female. she died and his out government and we could prove i'm coming as far as the china trip was concerned. he could also have taken place after the g. 20 summit, addicted to melinda, this or can, we all have tied share joules term. and i took my visit to japan could also have taken place after the 20 some. but it's good that it has taken place. no fortune on good for 3rd number on van b for the all the way to the g. 20 summit, i will make a brief struck over. i stop her vain vietnam and i, i fly,

sink and poor and indian war. before i come to indonesia, perhaps this helps you as he was the general context of fraudulent of stuff. these marked good idea, since it's part and parcel of our general approach spoken kind of it provides is such a pilot with is it provides you with an opportunity for indefinitely discussion. and we have enough of topics on our agenda and as 5 wonderful organ. hardesty in china is concerned we all want to make sure that they invite liberal file of fidelity of food as is being mentioned, our discussions and importance. it has for us. yeah, no microservices because it's one be oxygen named justin. we support the positioned or from that that is reflected in the decision. take him today regarding an international crim, the international criminal court that has a mandate in that regard and which i highly found, u. f. j zed thomas called jca yet. so i pardon 2 questions if i may am brought to shield. so regarding china as we go through middle

name of the idea to take a business delegation on that visit to china is that's right. and so, and if yes, wild goose. and secondly, i know me, i would, i comes in, is there a lay joy or even a consensus amongst your pin council members ripping regarding a possible meeting of the t you 27 with the chinese. a leadership group is before anderson for good reasons. i am in a position to reply to the 1st question where we are for was taken business people with us one sunshine visit. so i would probably have to answer why, if we were not to do so this time around, it probably to mean to do as far as the european union agenda items are concerned and plans. this is something that the user should respond to. yes chance i will. thank you. i think we'll talk also from your news. i would like

a 1st 2 questions please. one needs about energy. so before the sa meets, ah, it seems that you were quite against i'm balls and bryce gaps on gas. and afterwards we had an agreement, so like to ask you what made you change your mind in the end as and if the bilateral meeting we saw the french president play, they're all there. and my 2nd question, it's a visit confirmed in greece next week. so can you tell us more about the content of the docs there? and the comment on the recent threads actually by durkee against greece of you may . thank you. thank you for your question 1st or that you may have realized that already on thursday morning, when i had a speech in my parliament on the upcoming council, i addressed the proposals of the commission. and there was this very, very good proposal of the commission, which is now part of our agenda. we agreed on seeing. we want to limit episodes of excessive gas prices. it's about spike's. it's not sir. a cat at has,

it has been discussed before. it's something that happens or between one and the other day if there is an excess of speculation in the day in between. or if it sometimes it take just place in 2 or 3 hours. and this made it feasible to find an agreement, and this was already there when the proposal from the commission was made to, to be to, to, to point out this very special question. we don't think that in a global market, we can't say unilaterally where the price should be. the only thing we can do is to fight against speculation in the market, which is giving the wrong information about the real prices. and so this is about spike's about to sir episodes of excessive gas prices, which is very great to formulate like this. and this was the reason why i already

announced the parliament that i'm very open to that proposal and all the others who were saying you cannot go in the global world and say we unilaterally, as we did in the 19th century, say what is the price? we have to deal with other other demands, like korea and japan. we have to deal with suppliers like norway, like united states, like african countries like asian countries, like the arabian countries, and this corporation, forgetting price. the style is also important and is part of the decision we made to day and what would be burg, but will be very, very helpful. is the agreement that that private companies that are trading with guess and supplying europe can cooperate, which would not have been feasible for them today because of her, of her competition restrictions. and they really did

rulings on competition. and now we make it feasible that they can do this, and this will be very helpful. and i think will also give us the chance to explore more guests. because we know that we need more gas exploration. it for just to tell it to you. 155000000000 cubic meter of gas, a vanishing from the european market that have been sent to europe from russia. this has consequences if we are not able to find new resources for gas supply. and this is what is part of the agenda we are working on. but i think this will be a very important visit that to discuss with the degree prime minister, who i know whom i know since a long time ago. and we are going through all the questions of bilateral relations, questions of for your pin aspects and also or

roz. i think you have been listening to a german chancellor. oh, love sholtes talking about among other things. are the countries and the european union that need to have access to energy sources, specifically gas, which appears to be of course, the big issue as we approach winter and the war continues in ukraine. the german chancellor, making it very clear that the german nation as well as the european union, has to continue to support ukraine. he spoke about a targeted attacks on civilians constitute war crimes. this appeared to be a direct ah, i was suppose warning to both russia and iran, which he specifically named. and he talked about visiting other asian countries ahead of the trip to the g. 2 g 20 summit to wrap it up altogether. let me

bring you up to date on the full story we're covering this hour. e leaders have wrapped up a summit in brussels, dominated by the energy crisis. they agreed on a roadmap for containing sewer and gas prices. they also discuss concerns about over dependence on china. the european council president chel, michelle underscored that the e was not looking for a confrontation with beijing. d. w. brussels bureau chief alexander vaughan nomine joins us now from the summit. alexander, did that sound like the e you has a clear way, ford well, i'm sorry, i didn't get a question. i in general, are you talking about the energy? no problem. alexander there. there are lots of issues covered obviously in those 2 press conferences. not only by the

e u leaders. ursula fonda line and shaw michelle. but also a we heard from the german chancellor, olaf shalt. and what i'm asking essentially is we heard a lot of issues. discussed everything from china to iran's involvement to their re commitment to continue to help ukraine. but what we didn't hear about was the issue of the day, which is trying to get through some sort of impasse on how they're going to deal with energy sources. specifically gas, have you heard anything in those press conferences or in the corridors about a clear way forward on that issue? now and we have to say that we, when we talk about the current energy crisis, answer, the measure, step to leaders. we're talking about to tackle this crisis. nothing is actually clear because this matter is so complicated and because every country has its own, i thought of a plan, how to move forward or wishlist if you wish. so a,

we have now a side of a kind of road mad with some measures that are on the table, and that we expect the energy ministers who are going to meet, meet next week to approve. for instance, they want to have a closer corporation to jointly buy gas. they want to have a look whether it's possible to prevent price peaks. there also wants to see whether it's possible to impose a price caps on gas that it's used to produce electricity. however, all this measures are still needs to be worked on. and we have to say that at least with regards to germany, germany with its opposition to far reaching measures on the energy at topic seems to be quite isolated here. what are the challenges still at this point? well,

the challenges is really to to come up with that detailed plan because of course now they agreed how to move forward, what to speak about next week. but they still don't need a concrete plan that could be in place to morrow or the day after. and of course, when we see what's happening, that we have seen protests in and some european countries with people angry and protesting against a soaring energy crisis. we know that some a leaders are under a lot of pressure to deliver, but we have to say that even after this summit, there may be moving closer to a solution, but they don't have it yet. the bottom line here is just to make it very clear for our viewers is france and other countries are one a cap on gas prices. germany does not for fear that suppliers might try to sell their, their, their products elsewhere. it seems to me that when you have these fines of discussions, there's usually a little bit of compromise made by both sides. this,

your shoe is very difficult to see either one or there's the, the, the players you're making serious compromises. where's of wiggle room is what i'm asked while in you totally. right? yeah. you totally right. and the problem here is that normally you would have friends and germany working together as a sort of dynamic do to try to work out a compromise, something that everyone can agree on. but the problem which regards to the energy issue is that germany and france are in opposing camps, and they didn't manage so far to agree, for instance, on the prize caps. however, i have to say that my impression is that the majority of the member states are really pushing for some solutions and we think we need to act now. so germany essentially now said that, ok, let's, let's just check whatever measure is possible. what could be accepted because essentially of course,

the author understand that they cannot continue to blockade those measures the needs to be some thought of understanding and, and concrete measures on the table to move forward. also to show, to the citizens of the european union that their governments understand how serious the situation is and that there are determined to tackle the crisis that so d. w. brussels bureau, chief, alexandra von, nomine. many, many, thanks. oh, john, ukraine's president vladimir zalinski is accusing russia planning to blow up a damn in the her son region. so lensky says, russian troops have mine the co half car power plant on the denito river and hundreds of thousands of people would be in danger of flooding. if the damage distort xanax, intimacy according to our information, the aggregate semi damn of the car, kafka hydro electric power plant, we're mind by russian terrorist. now every one in the world must act powerfully and

quickly to prevent a new russian terrorist attack. destroying the dam would mean a large scale disaster of know that the stove, our correspond mathias burlingame in. keith told me more about the dam. russia is allegedly targeting it. we're talking about the dam by any a nova kafka. it's a major power plant and a major, it contains a major water is of war. so if anything happened to that down, a lot of water would be released and possibly the city of his son would be flooded into in large part. so it's obviously something very dangerous we're talking about . we don't really know how good the information is. we've been her talks about this, them being a diesel, flown up accusations on both sides. russia has also been talking about it, accusing ukraine about a false flag accuse a operation of ukraine has now said that russia has minded, the dam is under russian control to urine ukraine. the fear is that russia might

blow it up when it retreats to the other side of the river, which is something we have seen. extensive speculation about that russia might be planning to retreat from these areas, including the city office on the united states. as it has evidence that iranian military trainers are inclined. mia helping russian forces operate drones to attack targets in ukraine. around involvement in ukraine threatened to raise the stakes in the war. the e u is imposing sanctions against iran for supplying russia with drones. 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 missiles. 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. well, we'll know the drills are iranian, but the government has not admitted to it. so one 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, harry personnel were on the ground in crimea, and assisted russia in these operations. a russia has received dozens of these you avy 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 appealed 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 per cent of its power stations in just a week if that continues ukrainians are going to be in for a very cold and dark winter. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. at this hour, the german parliament has passed the 200000000000 euro emergency rescue package to tackle the energy crisis. the package aims to protect companies and households from sworn gas and electricity prices. pakistan's, former prime minister in ron con, has been bored from running for political office for 5 years. the election commission says con was guilty of corruption by selling official gifts he received

while in office. he plans of legal challenges. loudecker security forces in trans have shot dead at least 60 anti government protesters. activists are demanding a faster transition to democratic government. france and the african union have condemned the crackdown a day after prime minister liz trust announced she was resigning from office. britain's top job is again up for grabs, and the church is on to fill. it truss is stepping down after just 6 weeks in office, making her tenure, their shortest in british history. senior members of the conservative party say her replacement will be picked within a week. speculation is rife over who will take her place with many touting even a possible return of former prime minister boys johnson. on the streets of england, many were happy to trust was leaving the job. but when asked if it was time for

a general election, opinions were divided, the people must decide now what, what they want. there is a danger that will get parish johnson back say anything to avoid that as far as we're concerned. i don't think so. i think we need to stabilize the country and picker pick a new leader. sama lagracia sooner. who can just stabilize everything? before we move on to a general election. i'm not sure if general, that action is the best way. but anything but boris. i just want stability and quickly absolutely. 100 percent. they've got no mandate. we need to. they need to let the people decide, you know, they're trying to keep in power when nobody wants them. d w corresponded bergen mos sent us this update from london on the possibility of aboard johnson return. the prospect of boris johnson coming back adds to the sense of political instability in the u. k. it was only a few months ago that he was forced to resign as prime minister. his critics are

saying that his time is prime minister was dominated by lies and chaos. and he still currently being investigated by a parliamentary committee over allegations that he misled parliament. but he was a vate winner, and he had delivered a huge majority for the conservative party. if he really did come back though, it would certainly create more turmoil in parliament. it's thought that there are several m. p 's. we're just not willing to work with him. so it's not the stability that the majority of british people are craving for at a time of economic crisis. reminder of our top story, the european union has wrapped up a summit in brussels. leaders have agreed on a show called road map to shield consumers and businesses from scoring energy prices. but member states, we're not able to reach a deal on an upper limit for wholesale gas costs. you're watching d. w news coming up next in d. w. news asia is china headed to war with the us,

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