russia is a quite active economic in the arctic. if you see something that looked like james bond, it has to do with the military picking starts december 23rd on d, w. ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, cutting loose from russian energy. germany starts up its 1st liquid natural gas terminal built in record time with winter here berlin is scrambling to reduce reliance on russian supplies. but is it enough that in football,

croatia and rocco prepared to go hate to head in the world cups, 3rd place, playoff will get the latest from caterpillar as the tournament into its final weekend. ah. i'm showered right. thanks very much for your company today. germany has opened its 1st liquefied natural gas terminal. it's a key part of it if it's to wayne itself. off rush and gas, chancellor, olaf, sholtes, and other top officials took part in the official opening ceremony at the north sea port of his hens, half, and the new energy infrastructure is part of germany strategy to import gas from other parts of the world. sholtes praised the speed at which the project was completed. i did ask is our top when we announced our goal to build an g terminals before the end of the year to like this one here in villains hassan you most?

there were many skeptic saying that's not possible that will never work was good, but we proved the opposite. indeed, we managed to build such a terminal in just a few months ago. and now we can see this vessel that will take on the task of turning liquefied natural gas into gas that we can use for germany's energy grid does. but that's an important step for our energy security on. this is only guns, guns wish to go by plot rule will do w's political correspond. catherine lancaster is here with me in the studio. so catherine, tell us exactly what is an ill in g terminal and how is this all going to work? so, dairy or you have to imagine is, is essentially, it's a big ship. it's a big vessel that ducks on the shore of germany, north sea. and then this vessel is then able to actually transform this chill liquid gas back into the original state, back into gas is takes

a lot of energy. it takes a lot of technology. so it's really a big undertaking that's happening on those ships, which also means since their ships, they're much more flexible. so what we don't need right now is a pipeline, and that will help us diversify or help germany diversify away from russian gas. okay. flexibility diversity are aware, is germany going to be getting as gus from them. so for now it's still getting its gash from the european partners. b is spain, the, the netherlands, belgium. but that looks good on paper. as a matter of fact, much of that gas that goes into those ships that come from the european partners is actually of russian gas to, while we are trying to diversify way and to substitute the russian oil, we're actually also getting russian gas. and so it's very hard to not have rush and gas in the mix. and you know, to really get rid of this gas because it's fire, deter, come into germany anyway. and another thing which is on the horizon for germany is

also a deal with carter. they've signed a deal just a few months ago, and we will, germany will be getting gas from liquefied natural gas from cut our starting in 2026. which means that it's actually not helping germany for this winter, for the winter of 2023 or that winter of 2024. okay, so there's still a few more years to go until they can really fully or even more diversify away from russian go. so catherine, aside from this ellen g terminal that that's been inaugurated today, what else has the german government got planned to be far pets? energy infrastructure? so there are more terminals to be open this year to more even this winter. and in total they plan to have 11 l n d terminals on c and on land. and many critics say this is actually too much. we don't need that many terminals. we don't need that

much fossil fuel energy infrastructure anymore. the government says, well, some of those terminals will be able to actually also treat green hydrogen. but that might be a little more complicated than the government paints it to be. okay. these things always do turn out to be a bit more complicated than people think in the beginning, but that's a really great wrap up of what's happening today at this. ellen g terminal, catherine lancaster, dw political correspondent. thank you very much. thank you. we're going to go to ukraine now, where it's reported that air raid sirens have been sounding across the country to day. authorities of urge residence to take shelter after russia carried out large scale mythos drunk from the capital cave. on friday, ukraine is struggling to restore electricity and heating to residence in major cities after the bombardment. the national energy supply is said, these latest strikes, disabled half the systems capacity. and it warned that it will take longer to

restore power a food of key red cubes. residents still have no electricity and half have know he seen or these are not the 1st such attacks on ukraine. civilian infrastructure and winter is here is the rather russian strategy working hard to w correspondent and manual showers in keith has more. what is working as the damage inflicted on the infrastructure? what is not working? is that a it doesn't affect resilience of people here. people, you know, i get on life is almost as usual here. of course, it's really cold. of course, you know, it's a very, a dire or very annoying to not have water to not have electricity, but people are telling me when i speak, it ended up when at least russians are not here. and they are determined to keep it that way. they are determined to keep going, or regardless of the situation, of course, in the long run this winter, you know, is gonna last another few months in the long run. we could see

a moment of population going west are also trying, you know, to go abroad. eved a situation where son, but as of now i cannot see people here like telling me that he's discourages them in any way and they just want, you know, are russians to go away from the country. a money rochelle, there will more than a 1000000 ukrainians have settled here in germany since the start of the war. a new study shows many of them are actually integrating well and they're doing so quickly . our reporter emily gordon at met with a young family who came here in march, a life and safety. that's what dema and christina wanted for their daughter donna. they fled ukraine within hours of the war. starting back in february. christina was pregnant at the time. they made a split 2nd decision, and i was not ready to move to another country. it's really surprised for me. so

i, i can imagine that my baby, well born in ukraine, but i cannot imagine that my baby was born in another countries. but the russian invasion changed everything. their home was in the firing line. while the couple had friends in berlin, germany was still a foreign land. they faced the hurdles of bureaucracy and had to get used to the peculiarities of german life. and i thought okay, maybe broke through thumping like regular maybe within the same frame. but it's a bit different because like you mid to her book term incentives takes longer time to, to this by paper work her boss, her mail in there through the past it. so really surprise us because in ukraine we've done how all of this dema and christina both found jobs quite quickly. and

berlin d my is a designer and art director. christina wexel advertising. but she is also a musician. she even performed here in germany while pregnant. ah, yeah, lots of good moments also like others have like arguing girls, hero and medicine and like her berlin is amazing. the to the true just to give a walk all like what to parks here, thoughts of children. so it is fire arthur every day. yeah. and lots of for working with a realtor so found work quite easily. local lots of propositions. and yeah, we quite hebert, not all of the 1000000 refugees coming from ukraine has been this fortunate de mer . and christina have settled into their new life in berlin. and while they are keen to return to ukraine, they're determined to make the best of it until the war is over.

ok, let's take a quick round up of some other world news headlines now. china has seen a sharp rise in cove at 19 cases in the capital bay. jing i numbers of workers there have been testing positive shortly after measures were eased. following public unrest. funeral homes are also overwhelmed, and staff shortages are lead, leading to delays and cremation. people international going to the polls for a parliamentary election opposition parties of called for a boy caught saying new electoral laws have effectively new should the parliament the vote comes as president case i aid continues to tightened his grip on power after voters backed a new constitution in july to fort now in the world cup final between argentina and france takes place on sunday. and as if france didn't have enough to worry about in trying to stop leonor messy, a virus has now hit their squad. the flu like illness left at 5 plays,

including defensive linchpin raphael van, unable to train on friday. the barcelona attacker was mand m. bailey said he and his teammates weren't worried and that he'd even been providing a little medical treatment himself. but no, we're not afraid of the virus. the you dial pacano and audrey and rob you had a headache and a bit of stomach in myrtle. i made them a little tea with ginger and honey and they were better. but no, we're not worried about that animal. i hope every one is on the mend and will be ready for the final move it liberal policy. and the 2nd to last match at the men's football world. camp sees morocco take on croatia on saturday evening with 3rd place up for grabs. morocco will be looking to round off a historic performance of the tournament after they became the 1st ever african country to reach the semi finals, the opponents croatia for them. it's a chance to give captain lucas mondrey to win in what will likely be his final woke

up gain and for more on the final weekend of world cup action. let's bring in d w. sports correspondent done there. barcelona, who joins me from carter and danielle, great to see you there. let's talk about croatia 1st. what do you think? do you think that they're going to be motivated to give luca moderates or world cups? one song. i really don't think it's in this creation side to not be motivated . i mean, since they joined fever in 92, they've had incredible results in tournaments only finished 3rd in 98. and since $98.00, really only france and germany have had more final for parents is than croatia. of course. the fact that it is lucas, my judge is probably his last world cup game will be the action. one of the asian. i mean, luca mortgage is one of the best many others of his generation. the years past and lucan mothers, his contribution pretty much remains the same. he's got this incredible ability to dictate the tempo of the game,

of course is passing short ridge and long range is unbelievable. so of course, this crash aside will want him to and his world cock career with another 3rd place finish. absolutely. now done a, you've been seeing a lot of morocco fans during this tournament. i guess your gunner expecting them to be raring to go for the game today. yeah, of course morocco will be extremely motivated for this game there. ran in this tournament has been so historical already in the 1st era, the 1st african nation to make it to the semi finals. and if they could win, it be the 1st time that they would finish in 3rd place. of course it would be massive and they really have done so much in this tournament and they have not had it easy. they've had to be incredible opposition, like belgium, spain, portugal. so i mean, you can see behind me this is the stadium. the fans are slowly starting to arrive. i did talk to some on the way here. they said they're already incredibly so proud of this team. but if they could win 3rd place, it would really just be the cherry on top of an amazing performance from them.

absolutely, now let's talk about the old important final. we've just been hearing that the french squad has been hit by a virus. how important could this be for sunday's much it's incredibly important. i'm in, in the final other world cup. you want your players to be 100 percent healthy and 100 percent fit. so this virus, it started after the game against england, with some players coming down with flu like symptoms. then a couple more players have gotten it and they've been training a part of france, really doing everything they can to contain this in their team. of course they haven't really been giving so much information. they don't want to give argentina any tips on how they can approach the match. so we don't really know that much about it right now. but let me tell you for a player to mr. fun all the work up, they pretty much have to be dead or i guess you're right and i guess we'll see who is playing tomorrow that's. that's done. yeah. barcelona in canada. thank you for

your reporting. well, to newly completed squires on this, the graph amelia, but the liquor and barcelona have been lit up for the 1st time. the spy is topped by sculptures of an ox, and a lion representing the biblical figures of the evangelists. luke and mark construction of the cathedral began in 1892. it has been going on ever since up next on d. w is world stories. it's more and d, w dot com and on social media at dw news as well thanks a lot a issues with all se gray. he will, we will.