>> this is dw news, live from berlin. the eu agrees to reduce gas consumption and prepared for a total cut off. and administers sign up to 15% reductions to save reserves for the winter. the reduction slashes gas delivery and generated energy and mark kyle whittingham. the international space station

past -- a great firefighter spent six days battling a wildfire that is consuming vast stretches of forest, endangering wildlife and their habitat. and nigeria's largest labor crew takes off education policy. we will look at why many nigerians -- i am phil gale. welcome to the program. the european union countries have agreed to cut gas usage this winter by 15%. moscow says the reduction is because of necessary maintenance work on this pipeline into germany. europe does not believe them.

>> as they met in brussels on tuesday, the urgency of the challenge they faced has become increasingly obvious. the announcement that it would cut the supply of natural gas meant a bad situation has become even more dire. a collective agreement to reduce gas consumption has been long needed. brussels demanded a 50% cut and that caused uproar. >> there is no other option in gas savings. unless this happens, the prices remain high. if we succeed, the rices -- prices will drop. >> if the target becomes

mandatory, the list of opt outs as long. among the exemptions are island state is not connected to the european grid. countries heavily dependent on gas for electricity can also opt out. >> our industrial production changed -- shades -- production chains are independent. >> europe is able to find unity and giving a strong signal in a day where the flows of gas are reduced to another 20%. you want split us, pollutant and russia -- pollution -- putin and russia. >> governments are hoping that

with with the horizon, this compromise is enough for now. >> let's look at this deal with benjamin schmidt. a former european energy security advisor at u.s. state department. what is your te on this deal? >> i think we need to look at what is going on. the eu i trying to pull together as much apossible. is really an offshoot of the work that has been going on at the eu for 20 years. this is a concept to build about the energy security, hardware and software. right now, this is where the rubber really hits the road. this is where we will see if all the energy security steps we have taken over the last eight or nine years will pay off.

this is a significant or even full gas cut off from russia by the eu. this issually weaponization of energy space, supply chains and food. >> in crude terms, i am going to ask your a question in just a second. we are in a situation where everybody loses from this. russia loses money through not supplying europe. europe loses a major energy supplier. europe -- who i going thurt more? europe who is largely dependent on russia or russia who is

losing a major placed export? >> it is a foot race. unlike oil, russia does not get as much revenue from natural gas. his ubs curtailed -- it should be as curtailed as possible. you can see that less fundable. -- it is not like oil. because of lack of different countries like carefully over the past several years, it has been in a strategic vulnerability. this is why putin is pulling the lever no in 18 or 24 months, he will have this leverage. >> this energy crisis has

accelerated to green energy. is tt happening? correct the problem we have is that you can't deploy large-scale renewables at scale to push back on this. is is why ideas like the econ ministry has come out with swap natural gas lies. that includes cutting off the nord stream 2 pipeline. when we look at these issues, hopefully we will talk deeply about the situation that is essential to all of th. we have toave a foreign policy that is based in capital reality.

we have seen statements from a myriad of german industries on this. >> we wi have to leave the talk of the siemens turbine to another day. but thank you. ukraine says russian forces have launched missile strikes in the southern regions. q has released footage of the aftermath of the attacks. russia attacked the poor this weekend, definitely -- >> ukraine is preparing for the shipment and it is determined to reopen these three ports.

after an agreement that will allow for them to be shipped out by turkish vessels -- these greens to be -- that will allow these grains to be shipped out by turkish vessels. and the ukrainians that will open through the ceiling -- sea lane. the weak point is the supply lines behind the ports. theoretically, russia has excluded attacking ports in this region. the preparations are going on but whether it will happen or not we don't know. >> ukraine's military says it has used u.s. weapons systems to

strike more than 50 russian military targets. it credits the multiple rocket launchers. ukraine has only a handful of these vehicles with him on the way but they are also a target for russian attacks. >> this is a high mobility artillery rocket system. the crown jewel in ukraine's growing arsenal of u.s.-made weapons. this is what it can do. it can pull up in the middle-of-the-road and fire off multiple rockets very quickly and their precision guided so they can accurately target russian munitions, combat centers and more. this is basically a truck carrying six missiles. it can be reloaded in three to five minutes.

they can get away quickly once it has fired off its payload. as the military term goes, it can shoot and scoot. it's missile ranges have any, -- the missiles have a range of 80 kilometers. this means the russians must move their sensitive targets like ammunition depots further from the front lines. analysts say this is the game changing part of all of this. russia says has destroyed at least two of these trucks. a claim that the u.s. denies. ukraine's ability to use them effectively will be in hiding these well, keeping them supplied with ammunition is up to the rest. >> tim ripley is a military and

defense specialist. we asked him if this gives them a military advantage. >> it is a question of scale in this war. we have heard about the russians firing 50 artillery shells per day. what they can return with these systems is a fraction of the russian capability at the moment. they don't seem to have turned on the russian front line trims -- troops yet. >> russia has confirmed it is pulling from the international space station after 2024.

the agency director has provided president biden timeline for the move. we can take a closer look from dw science. welcome to the studio. >> this was announced earlier this year. i am guessing this latest timeline is not much of a surprise. >> the former chief of the russian space agency has not made any mystery about his ideas of quitting the space station by 2024. they never said they would work on the station after 2024. there is no broken agreement here. i think this announcement is showing his strength. >> what will russia draw?

>> we need to see the iss's billing on the uss corporation. we see that in the construction, the u.s. segment is responsible for most of the energy supply. they were used for many years. they are the only ones who could set up people -- sent up people. -- the only ones who can send up people. russia leaving the station will definitely make an impact and we will need to see how the station is able to continue working but we also see that partners have been preparing for that. we see that spacex are able to send their people out there themselves. what is really important is that the iss is really old.

we see that there are more issues with things like that. the plan was to retire in the next years. what i want to say is that the station is ration the end of its time. >> -- the space station is reaching the end of its time. >> china is still building it. russia announced it will have their own station by 2028. there are others that want to bring up a station by 2030 like india.

nasa wants to bring up their own stations by private companies in the next year as well. parallel to the iss. there will be a lot of stations up there. if everything goes right. they are talking about how concrete can be made better. but they also make experiments on humans themselves. every astronaut and cosmonaut is an experiment in and of itself because they see how weightlessness changes their bodies for a flights. correct thank you. -- >> thank you. let's look at more stories making news around the world. japan is executing a man who killed seven people in a stabbing in 2008. he carefully planned the attack on a crowd of pedestrians.

the justice minister insisted the punishment fitted the crime. graham staff is striking. this could impact travel plans from -- for more than 130 passengers in the coming days. record rainfall is caused widespread flash flooding. multiple roads were closed and firefighters strained to from cars and homes. in northern greece, firefighters have been trying to put out a blaze. volunteers are trying to rescue animals. the forest is one of the most

protected areas in europe. dw correspondent is close to the village any everest region. >> you can see the situation is actually getting worse behind me. wind has been picking up. the people here -- it will be the seveh d tomorw. 320 firefighters from all over greece worked day and night to contain his claims. weathe conditions made it very difficult. it wilbe very hot and dry. just some drops in the desert. the situation here in this fore is especially difficult because we are talking about pine tes. th are very flammable. pinecones explode.

it is a protected area. firefighters don't have access. what we are looking at is the tuation out of control. we wilsee what happens tomorrow. there no rain and the ather forecast. the blazes that kept us worried for the past couple of days seem to be under control. >> how did it start? >> i have been talking to a couple of locals here and i read the local papers. it is rumored that refugees caused this fire. when i talk to these locals, they used a term that translates

to a very derogatory term. it shows the high anti-migrant sentiment here. we are next to the border with turkey. this suggests migrants and refugees tried to cross into europe on a regular basis and they go into hiding and they are scared the authorities will catch them and illally dept themo turkey. they go into hiding in these woods. until n, these are just rumors. we have seen this all over europe in the summer. there is no official statement from the government so far. >> thank you. the former philippines president

said that the war on drugs killed thousands. gail reports from some concern filipinos who are carrying out their ownnvestigations. >> each of these skeletons has a story to tell. the story of a war on drugs, the philippine government fought it the past six years. some 6200 people were killed by police for dealing with drugs. the true toll is certainly much bigger. examining the remains of some of the people who died, this forensic pathologist made a shocking discovery. in seven cases at a 47, the death certificates were false. they listed a natural cause of

death when people had actually been injured. the procedures for investigating dennis as the 60-year-old has always been flawed. >> here comes the bad thing about being president in 2016. itaseen happening before. in 2016, things actually escalated. >> many families in the philippines have experienced this kind of scenario. evidence of drug abuse is planted. she lost her father and brother x years ago. the father of three now hopes that the doctor of two will shed more light on this. >> money.

if you have a gun, fight back. that is the reason my father is killed. fight back. >> the poor were the primary victims of the war on drugs. of two 30,000 people, more than four times the official number were killed. many relatives now want to set the record straight. this catholic priest is doing his best to support. rafael villanueva fears that the killings are far from over. >> in the past two weeks, we have counted at least eight or nine killings to this very

present day. my point, there is no differen between back that and today. to make matters worse, i believe that the culture of killing has not only been ingrained but it will become in organized enterprise. >> the true toll of the war on drugs will never come to ght. too many of those who lost their lives remain unidentified. but she hopes that her discoveries will bring a semblance of justice to the families who remain behind. >> nigeria's labor congress has begun a two-day nationwide protest that -- protest to demonstrate solidarity. protesters are demanding the government allocate more resources to the education sector.

they send this report. >> singing and dancing in defiance. nigerian workers from all walks of life are taking part in a two-day protest to express their frustrations with the nigerian government. courts the nigerian labor congress is demonstrating -- >> the nigerian labor congress is demonstrating against the congress and nigeria. today, they are protesting at the same time in all six states in the country. >> public universities are closed because step has been on strike since the beginning of the year. the protesters accused the government of failing to resolve the disputes of salaries and teaching facilities. putting student futures on the line.

>> they went to school free of charge. where are our brothers and sisters? so they can take their children to other countries. we have had enough of this. >> it makes me feel very bad. i need to know why children are wasting almost a year. it is so bad -- >> it is so bad. there is no government. >> this protest was banned by the government. the workers refused to back down. using their collective voices to air their grievances.

they have given the government a two-week ultimatum to make them do with university staff so the students can return to their studies again. . >> an archaeologist in israel have showed off something recently discovered there. an image of the zodiac sign cancer. it was minted in the egyptian city of alexander. the roman emperor -- and left claim was discovered off this post here. i will be back in just a moment to take you through the big stories of the day in the day. stay tuned for that.

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♪ >> e.u. member states agreed to reduce consumption of natural gas to protect themselves against further supply cuts from russia. from despair to hope so says the president of tunisia after yesterday's referendum which looks almost certain to approve a new constitution. more deadly violence in the democratic republic of congo. at least three u.n. peacekeepers and 12 protesters have been killed.de