dominic kane, al jazeera. mohammed: let's take a closer look at the river rhine.is one of the most important european rivers, flowing through six countries including switzerland, germany and france. about 300 million tons of goods move through it each year. the rhine is germany's most important shipping route, accounting for 80% of its water freight. officials say barges are now carrying only one quarter to half of the usual capacity. economists say the disruption could slow europe's largest economy. ♪ let's bring in our guests in berlin. a professor of political science at stanford university in berlin. in the hungarian city, nick, professor of public policy at central european university. and in cologne, the managing director and head of research at the german economic institute. a warm welcome to you all and thank you for joining us today. ulrich, let me start with you. if the rhine becomes too difficult to navigate, how big of an impact does that end up having in germany both politically and economically? >> what we are doing now is speculate to things no one

first auditor is dominant. kane has more from cologne. it could almost be a picture postcard of the rhine goods barges chug up and down the river, while children explore the pebbles on the bank. and yet a closer look shows something else. for in most summers, much of this area would be submerged. but months of high temperatures and little or no rainfall have changed things, or we see right now with a low or water levels in reverse is the new normal or it's even worse of the new normal will be even more extreme. we have seen a global temperature increase of 1.2 degrees on global average right now seen from overhead. the situation is clear, this satellite image of nearby dusseldorf shows the river. now, this one, how it was in the same place, 12 months ago, if the science of what's happening is clear, the practical application of it is causing problems for many different companies. the shipping ones in particular because they look at the rhine as it is now and have real concerns about how deep it is and how easily they can navigators. and c

and on dominant kane and cologne, where one of western europe, largest rivers, water levels, are running dangerously low. ah, a low on sammy's a band. this is al jazeera live from dell hall. so coming up, fire to weapons depot in russia, near the ukrainian border. and a number of explosions reported near a major airbase and crimea. crank down on street gangs in el salvador. the government extends emergency measures by another month. and a look at how the war, new crane is fishing, south korea's booming weapons industry to invest more in drone technology. ah, now countries around the globe or in the grips of intense summer heat waves, the world's biggest and mightiest rivers are drying up parts of europe from france to italy and germany rivers. a slowing to a trickle bats killing, harvest, halting marine traffic, and hurting factories and industries. millions of livelihoods are at stake and in the world's 2nd largest economy, china, asia is longest river is also shrinking as well after a heat wave that lasted more than 2 months. the longest since records began. patrick falk reports from c

a technology which madonna claims as its own. dominant. kane has more now from berlin. the essence of this law suit revolves around 2 specific allegations by materna that pfizer and biotech working together have appropriated or taken without asking 2 specific branches of research. the 1st being in the view of mariner that although pfizer and bio tech had worked on 4 separate m r n a chemical combinations, they ended up going with exactly the same one that more darren are alleges it already had patient for several years before the corona virus outbreak, we now know took effect. the 2nd revolves around an assertion from materna that they believed that pfizer and by on tech have adapted technology that were down as say they elaborated on when the mergers problem emerged in the middle east several years ago. now it is worth saying that pfizer and bon tech have said they will always contest these sorts of patent lawsuits. but one thing to bring into perspective about the uptake of mo, jonah and the uptake of pfizer and by on tech vaccines here in germany, at least in the cou

the you expect a call back will cost russia $4400000000.00 a year. dominant kane has more from berlin. the dependence on russian coal is not anywhere near as bad as the dependence on russian gas. that is something with the german government is struggling to get itself away from no question about that. they have declared aspirations, get out of russian. coal depends on coal by august, the 1st get out of dependence on russian oil by december the 31st. but in so far as gas is concerned, that is a very different matter. and that applies right across the e. u to be fer, there have been protests in parts of the occupied west bank in east jerusalem after israeli forces killed the commander of the palestinian group along some of his brigades. but a human sea and 2 others were killed. 2 days after a ceasefire took hold in garza between israel and other palestinian groups. the white house says he, us president joe biden was not given advance notice of an f. b. i search a former president, donald trump, florida home federal agents search trump motto law. go residence on monday, part of an invest

findings will be used to prosecute those responsible and hold government forces till account dominate. kane has the details. this is one of the last images mohammed zada hands of him with his brother and cousins in happier times before the civil war. but then 10 years ago they and their city, dia became a target for their country's military. they palms a city from every direction and so no one knows where to go. and we were like looking for somewhere to hide and muscle like hurt beside us. and then my father and my cousin died died. i had been a center of opposition to president bashar assad. and so when the free syrian army pulled out, government forces moved in. we were in the 4th floor and we saw like the soldier stealing properties like or what inside the apartment and taking people, arresting people are, and these people will never forget. hundreds of people were taken away. and this is what happened to many of them. either shots, or beaten to death, their bodies left in base months to be discovered later and buried in mass graves. when these images became known to the wider world, the

certainly in germany and the parts of france and the netherlands where the rhine runs. indeed dominic kane, thank you for that. or blazes in france, spain and portugal have already made 2020 to a record year for wildfires in southwest europe. the eas satellite monitoring service says fires in france have sent carbon pollution there to its highest level since records began. emergency crews are battling a fire in each around that region which was destroyed more than $7000.00 hector's of forest. more firefighters and equipment from 6 e you. nations arrived on thursday to help. but it smith has more from iraq in cross references in jeron. say that the fire has been contained overnight within a 40 kilometer perimeter firefighters have come from across europe. these guys have just arrived from romania, but there are also greeks, austrians, germans, and the polish fire fighters. here in total, across france, the ship, $57200.00 pac tears of land has been burned in wild fires. it's 6 times the full year average in the last sort of 16 years or so. the authority say we're here today, although the fi