[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, the leaders line from berlin, putting the brakes on europe soaring energy prices, your energy ministers agree to a price cap on natural gas. the decision comes after weeks of wrangling over the issue after germany drops its opposition to the plant. also coming up, russian president vladimir putin holds talks and bellow race with his ally, alexander lucas shank food and says he has no interest in absorbing beller road

while in ukraine. fears are growing that russia could be planning a new offensive from the north. and dutch prime minister margaretta offers a formal government apology for the netherlands rule in the colonial era. slave trade acknowledges the countries past actions were a quote, crime against humanity and delegates, and a un summit in montreal, reach a landmark agreement on saving nature. the deal aims to hold the loss of biodiversity that endangering life on the planet. ah, i'm nick off really. it's good to have you with us. we start in brussels, we're e u energy ministers have agreed on a plan to cap natural gas prices. the agreement comes after weeks of haggling over

way serene in europe. soaring energy prices, these biggest economy germany had previously blocked, efforts to limit natural gas prices. steering the move to disrupt supplies and global market reports say the gas cap is sent to come into effect in february and dw corresponded. bentley guide is in brussels following the story for us band. what more can you tell us about this agreement? but this is not really a full fledged price cap. it's not strict like a price cap. it's more a correction mechanism. what this is, what the ministers say, it's a, a kind of an emergency break that kicks in under certain conditions. the price of for natural gas has to be above $180.00 euros per megawatt hour in europe. and also it has to be 35 years above the world market price of liquor. it liquefied

gas, ellen gee and it has to be there for more than 3 days, and then this price, emergency break will kick in for $20.00 days and then end automatically. and if the commission, for example, sees that gas supply is in danger, because ellen g, a ships are just turning away from europe because they cannot sell their gas fun adequate prize. then this prize could not kick in it would be lifted immediately is a lot of safeguards to ensure that this sir, security of supply still and is there in this price gap, has nothing to do. it's a wholesale price. good. it has nothing to do with a consumer price caps that are also applied in germany and in spain and other european countries. this issue has been debated for months and germany was always staunchly opposed. what made the difference this time around? well, the ministers agreed today that they have to do something because the, the years coming to an end, they deliberated this issue for about 9 months. and they want to show that europe

is still able to act to, to limit or to try to limit these prices. there were concerns and they are still, the german minister said he's very skeptical that this price kept, can do the trick. and you also hopes that it will never come to fruition, but is really not be used because prices will not rise to that $180.00 your level. currently, they are only at 110 euros and ministers hope that will stay this way. you know, he has band, they get in brussels. many thanks. russia as president bla report. and i said he is not trying to absorb his neighbor and ally, bella rose. he made the comments during a meeting with his counterpart, alexander location, go in minsk food and went on to blame their enemies for wanting to stop the integration of the 2 countries. the trip coming warnings from keith that moscow may launch a new assault on ukraine from bella, rosie,

and territory. it's students 1st visit to the country since the 2019, so you can go and dw rational affairs. the analyst concerning the aga joins is now from vilnius constantine after the talks, didn't look at angle how the joint press conference. what can you tell us about that? well, it was very so the long on the rhetoric and clumsy jokes, and he called but not a moment on substances. pretty short term, frankly speaking, there was nothing that indicated that any kind of momentous decisions were taken. frankly speaking, it's in terms of rhetoric. it's a very standard attempt to show unity, and i'm also frankly speaking, put in doesn't have that many allies these days. so ah, flying to means can showing some kind of united front with another very isolated dictator is probably just one of the very few moves he can actually undertake. as

full hints of some kind of a military operation being launched from, from, from the terror. their ability was against you. cray, all the bill, russian army, actually joining the russian invasion or invading deliveries from the for a sorry for invading ukraine from the law. well, look, it's not something that going to announce the such a press conference. so for me, seeing that it was a pretty standard direction between the 2 and a what of my sources? uminski telling me is that yet another time i look ahead was talking about what he was talking about money. that's all the, the kind of thing he always talks about with put him this time about the stability of energy supplies to bail, or is from russian. he is regime is very dependent on the russian entity supplies, oil and gas. and it seems that he was discussing this and probably some discounts yet another time. it would depend and kind of put flush ankle in in a difficult position. right?

because fear is, are put, wants to pressure him to join a new offensive on ukraine. will look ash, angle b, able, willing in a position to resist this pressure? well, so far he managed to resist in dub diplomats of the region diplomatic sources. i talked in the region where they all say that are using the bill, russian army to invade ukraine to supplement the russian efforts. ah, will probably be a disaster for lucas ankle. the army is not. basically, it's not in a very good condition. number one and number 2, it will not be willing to fight the ukrainians. and i think that this is something that the question actually wants to prevent because this will reflect very battle of his regime and actually could lead speed up its collapse. so it seems that what we've seen over these latin last, whether

a 9 months neil in the nearly 10 months to today is taught in trying to pressure lucas franklin, to doing something concrete and specific in lucre shanker trying to give away as much as little as he can in terms of real, strategic or real strategic help to bruton today and the press conference. lucas shenker said that they started deploying russian new russian. ah, air defense complex's in bella was okay. oh, what does it mean? frankly speaking, no, that worked. so i think that it was yet another job. another conversation so far about not many specific see if there were any cause they wouldn't announce at the breast offers who constantine again in many a thanks, constantine. thank you. well, i had a phone stamped belarus, the ukrainian capital keith was attacked by a swarm of russian jones authority,

say they shot down more than a dozen repair crews are working to restore power after ukraine's energy grid was battered by last waste barrage. as myself, when the people of keys have gotten used to living in darkness, blackouts are a consequence of the seemingly never ending barrage of drone attacks from russia. there are no reports of fatalities from the latest wave which hit both energy infrastructure and people's homes. ukrainian air force claims its air defenses shut down 30 of 35 incoming missiles. them this couple aged in their mid eighty's were at home when a drone struck their house. yogi q i dish, i'm feeling like the rest of the people are feeling at home because i know that i am not alone. edlio, if this had happened and i had been alone, but every one is suffering, you know, deduction and every one knew. what should i do? scream,

help me to like he can scream or have an outburst. all you want. yeah. same. we're just like the whole world and our ukraine are screaming houllier. the attacks have caused huge damage. but they also appear to have stiffened the resolve of many people across the country. she knew appro rumble musician i sent my family to the bomb shelter. and i'm walking my dog. what's meant to be is meant to be fortunate which in person will die. all of them will die. we will live them. let's go through was nothing will repair everything, it will and we will live long and well. that kind of resolve as needed. air raid sirens continued to ring out across ukraine. on monday earlier ukraine's president urged his country's military allies to provide more support in the area of air defense. civil though the, this will be one of the most powerful steps that will bring the end of aggression closer,

christine. russia will have to follow the path of cessation of aggression when it can no longer follow the path of miss aisle strikes, will die for now. those missiles strikes remain, rushes primary way of hurting ukrainians. who are left to pick up the pieces and go on. dutch prime minister margareta has apologized for his country's role in slavery, calling it a crime against humanity. the netherlands once had an extensive colonial empire including at different times, areas in southeast asia, africa, and the americas. the dutch government is now planning to step up education and awareness efforts aimed at tackling racism and the netherlands, where reminders of slavery are still very easy to find. when jennifer tosh walks through amsterdam, she sees her history on the wall it's. she's a direct descendant of people enslaved by the dutch. now she takes people on walks to show them the past that is hiding in plain sight. well, it's everywhere. i mean,

where we're standing right now is at the heart of what's referred to as the golden benz, the wealthiest part of the city, where the founders of the dutch east and west india company, and society of serena's where they lived there. they had their mansions here, people like tosh, whose families come from enslaved. people has spent decades pushing for an official apology for the past and the damage. it did. the fact that the dutch only had a small share of the trans atlantic slave trade should not matter. she says, the dutch hath centered themselves so much as exceptional, not like the british, not like the french, not like the portuguese is given this impression that won't. we weren't so bad, you had 5 percent compared to world history. that's not that much. and it wasn't here. it was always somewhere else out of out of sight, out of mind that sort of nostalgic waiver, manta sizing history has left people thinking what, what's all this fuss about? reparations. the netherlands was among the last countries in europe to abolish

slavery. before they did, it is thought the dutch enslaved more than half a 1000000 people. to day dutch by minister michael to apologize for the pain and suffering. his country brought upon these people with their families and communities today. i apologize. our b meets up be the the scuba teeter. we vonnie ducky burton from that particular day and on behalf of the dutch government were i apologize for the actions of the dutch states in the past boston posthumously to all formerly enslaved people worldwide who suffered from those actions to their daughters and sons. and to all their descendants up to the present, built in at 11, along with the apology, who to promised a memorial year in the front of $200000000.00 euros that will pay for education.

that awareness project aimed at reducing races, thinking a front that is very necessary, says linda nightmare. everything that we does, we see around us that involves a racism. institutionalized racism comes from this last history. so in order to know what to repair, you have to study. you have to make amendment recession, because your parents are also involved. those countries where the system of slavery was, was, was brought to the official apology is a good move forward. says tosh. it is important step in the process, but we can't stop there in terms of education and real societal understanding. tosh says the journey has just begun as a lot to unwrap here and for that were enjoined by rhoda arrendale. she is the president of one essex and association from saint martin. an island in the caribbean, though,

is colonized by the french and the dutch. her association aims to promote greater unity among the people of saint martin. marco to d. w. your association has started a petition to ask the government of saint martin not to accept the dutch prime ministers apology. can you explain why? i'm good afternoon. thank you for this opportunity to bring to your voice from this side of the, of the world on the issue of primarily because we didn't expect the way it was pushed that the, the apology would be a sincere apology or a legal and valid apology as we have been asking for for years now, and after hearing it today, we are convinced that it does not measure up to the standards of what an official legal apology should look like. what should the netherlands to, to prove that this is a sincere apology, a legal apologies you say, and then they really do want to make amends. well, one of the things, if you,

if you study the carry compound point agenda that we've been suggesting to our governments in the region with regards to how we begin with apology. if you even look at that, one of the things that we recognize is that reparation ought to be part of the conversation, right? if we're speaking about with territory just in the mere fact of the netherlands, the man has already said that we will have a discussion about an apology, but we're not going to be discussing reparation. that's already a fall start. that means they're not sincere, they're not, they are not looking to repair, to restore or to compensate. and that the discussion that there's going to be $200000000.00 euros set aside for awareness says the us, it's almost uninstalled. and so where do we go from here? when should the next steps look like to include you and your community in the process and, and achieve something like reconciliation? if there can be such a thing? that's a good question. well, for us,

it's not up to the net month for the spider. as far as we are concerned, as far as one of them is concerned, this is a process that has been ongoing in the caribbean. in 2013 the carry come go heads of government set up their restoration commission. they might, may yet have an official reparations commission. one ethic m have a while to become an official member of the carry. com, reparations commission. that's what is a 1st step. we're busy doing our own research. we have employed our government to set up for reparations commission officially, and we've asked parliament to engage in discussions with the people in the mart. that's where we start. as far as we are concerned, and one of them we don't care what the network is going to do. what the medicines often does, you know, present an agenda in the interest of the net in that regard. this how it affects other people. this is why we're having this conversation today about reparations

and lee and apology have the netherlands not operated from a place of breed in the interest of the amendment. we would not be here having this conversation cities, but we're saying let the netherlands what a netherlands does all the time. we in saint martin in the caribbean are busy with our own study. with our own research. we do not wish to be rushed into it as it was done with the madman. there was no discussion within martin when the report was written. the report on which the netherlands has been seeing this apology, benevolence has not yet set up why the magical date of december 19th, which was just revealed within a few months that now this official apology. so didn't know where in the process will we engage in the conversation of what the apology should look like? or when it does come, how we are going to be involved in getting to reconciliation. as you mention, it's a one sided colonial approach. and we rejected rhoda arundel, president

a one ethics from st. martin. thank you so much for your time. dot com. thanks. it is opportunity apiece. packed with nature. that's how you and secretary general antonio terrace is describing a landmark agreement to protect the planets vidal, ecosystems. the deal reached at the un biodiversity summit, and mon trail will save guard some 30 percent of the world land and seas, and provide crucial financing to protect biodiversity and low income countries. after 2 weeks of often bad tempered talks, the conference president, china's environment minister, announced a deal at last low by. this is a historic moment, don't. yes. we are at the end of a long journey, which has taken in meetings around the world. thoughtlessly. we carried on our work, even at the height of the pandemic. what we're looking for. and now the day we finally reached our destination,

vienna's oh. and the deal is not before time. scientists say 1000000 of the earth's 8000000 plant and animal species are threatened with extinction. nearly $200.00 countries have committed under the so called couldn't ming montreal agreement to protect at least 30 percent of the world's land and seas. safeguarding these areas and their inhabitants from pollution, desertification and the effects of climate change. and they'll be funding to maintain bio diversity, which countries should help poorer nations, to the tune of $20000000000.00 a year? germany's environment minister welcomed the deal. the material decision puts a protective umbrella over the natural world. the threat to people and the

environment from pesticides and hazardous chemicals will be huffed by $23500000000000.00. an environmentally harmful subsidies will be faced out signing the deal is one thing. putting it into practice will be a lot more difficult. the agreement is not legally binding and many of its aims are only vaguely expressed. terminals foreign minister is on a 2 day trip to nigeria. today she visit at a region that's a stronghold of the terrorist group, vocal her um, and a lamp and walked toward a camp in the north. that is reintegrating former finders back into society. germany is funding the project aimed at stamping out terrorism in the stronghold, fairbanks. and the surrender of some 100000 vocal around fighters gives hope to the conflict torn region. and for more,

let's bring in the w corresponding florist shakera in the nigerian capital flourish . what more can you tell us about this area visited by the german foreign minister today? or the area that a minister or bear bog visited is called in garner. in mid inborn, new state, ne of nigeria. that's one of the areas that have been ravaged by book who her arm around 3000 residents were displaced and forced to move to the capital of me. do gallery and thanks to efforts are from the u. n. d p. born of state government and the e u. those communities, some of those communities have been rebuilt and are now able to go back to go back home. now these communities are also part of the m lake charge region, which is very, very prone to climate change. and of course, climate change is one of the root causes of some of the conflicts. so we're seeing around the region. how's the security situation there?

he's saying that people have started to return home. i'm like and like greece, we saw there the german minister was there to day in may. the secretary general of the united nations also his dad born knew so we've had some high level officials visiting. if anything that is signed that decline is getting a safer. not only that, we've also seen thousands and thousands of books, her arm fighters, surrendering themselves to the government. of course, there are lots of conversations about whether ideas should be, you know, react, reabsorbed back into community each of the community. but the are signs that, that the nigerian government is gaining ground, a guess book or her arm. the fight is not over yet, but graham still is in charge of some local government areas in nigeria, but it's clear that they are good grounds been made in garn, i'm is not the only community that has been rebuilt their or their communities is

to that are being rebuilt and people are able to go back to those communities and the government has also invested heavily in security indoors is as and also on to mentioned as one of the reasons why west sea we saw those conflicts in those areas is because of lack of development as so the f us from the e u and crunches like germany to reviewed those areas and make them basically developed hopefully is expected to increase the sense of security that people in that area feel the w correspondence, marcia cora in nevada. thank you so much. it is less than a week till christmas and people around the world are getting ready for the big day . this year. high inflation is affecting many people's holiday budgets. the w has been speaking to buyers and sellers in the egyptian capital cairo, which is home to a sizable christian minority. it's the busiest time of year for

a mot, silly man. he's been preparing these christmas decorations for months to sell in his store in cairo. it's been silly mines trade for over a decade, but he says this year things are different. it's been harder to import his supplies and the prices have gone up. i want them to send a message with him every year. people come to shop here. i think even in the worst of times they still come, we have, we spend like not what they say, we make the children and the whole house happy had better even if the parents put pressure on themselves when we try to help them and seller products at wholesale prices, medical malibu high prices and faltering economy have not stopped egypt. christian community from spending money on yuletide cheer that had looked at his mother. he christmas comes once a year. why? i think people buy more christmas decorations than anything else here about the there's time to buy all the things the rest of the year. apple fun happen. yeah, yeah,

yeah. but we celebrate christmas and our christian friends celebrate ramadan on it . we all celebrate shamela sim together. we take any opportunity we can to celebrate the i. every year, the christian church of all saints and cairo invites fenders to set up stalls at its christmas bizarre. they sell their wares at reduced prices and donate their profits to charity. some egyptians look forward to christmas all year long. others find it stressful to worry about holiday shopping during an economic crisis. but if they look in the right place, they might find shopkeepers offering a discount in the spirit of the season. and he is a reminder of the top story we're falling for you. you energy minister is meeting and brussels have agreed to impose a cap on the price of natural gas. the move is aimed ad raining in soaring energy prices in europe and comes after the use biggest economy. germany dropped its

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