u. leaders accused moscow of playing politics. abdullah al shami reports from brussels. the energy crisis looming over europe, dominated the meeting of u ministers in brussels, russian and gas ahead of winter. the best and only way to reduce the eas reliance on russian energy fortified. b sam correspond stay 15 percent cut in our usual gas consumption between the beginning of august and the end of march. that's why we have pointed to this percentage as the target on member states should stayed forward. russia is said to further reduce supplies through the nod stream pipelines . blaming a technical fault at one of the stations, something even ministers dispute healey to say there is no technical reason for the last reduction, something gas prom disputes of the short national game. as of today, there is no solution to the ongoing equipment issues at the party or compress the station. near. there is no solution whatsoever yet. seems as saying nothing. they're trying to find solutions, but there are monotonous as the west and russia exchange economy blows in response to russ

it means certainly almost, it will be a struggle to heat homes and power cities. abdullah shami al jazeera brussels, united states has express regret over russia's decision to pull out of the international space station or the 2024. if russia does stop sending cause one ounce to the, i assess, it would mark an end to an ear of space diplomacy. you are state department spokesman net price as washington has been taken by surprise. it's an unfortunate development given the critical scientific work performed at the i s s valuable professional collaboration our space agencies have had over the years and especially in light of our renewed agreement on space flight cooperation. since monahan has more on rushes announcements, the future of this beacon of international cooperation may be in doubt when the war and ukraine prompted the west to sever nearly all time with russia. the international space station was one of the few exceptions. 3 to one. now, after more than 20 years of partnership, russia says it's pulling out. not only dancer, of course, we will fulfill all our obligations to our partne

what i'll do is there is, of de la al shami joins been alive from brussels. abdullah and we believe a you ministers have reached some sort of deal for emergency cuts for the winter. what can you tell us? well, it's not really an agreement or a deal so far because we have a different countries. we have countries in the north like poland and others in the south. this portugal not able to come to terms with most of the proposal because what the european commission has proposed is that there be a voluntary 15 percent cut by the mid of september, which would be able to save around 45000000000 cubic meters of gas. that's needed for this winter, which is expected to be very harsh as well as it has been the case for the summer, which has been as well very hot the are the problem now lies in that a lot of the countries that we're hearing about are exactly 4 countries are hungry, included as well. is that the, these countries do not want you to have it that the final say because by the mid of september, if these countries don't provide the emergency plans and the e u says it will have to enforc