This is al jazeera ah hi there. Im kim vanelle. This is the news ally from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes, that you consider it options after russia makes a drastic cut and gas applies to europe. Oh, rotate is the see me and mas embassy in bangkok is criticism of the dentist execution of for pro democracy activists rows. More homes gone forever. Israel destroys to palestinian houses in the occupied westbank. And protest is killed by peacekeepers as crowds forced their way into the un headquarters in eastern democratic republic of congo. Im devin ash, with sport basketball star, brittany griner, again appears in court. The hearing has resumed in russia as he faces at drug charges that could see a sentence up to 10 years in prison. Ah, we begin at brussels, where you energy ministers, a meeting to discuss how to deal with the major cars in russian gas. Russian firm gas problem is reducing supply through the nord stream, one pipeline to europe from wednesday. It will now be just 20 percent of capacity and half of what it was in june. Moscow says the disruption is because of maintenance issues and sanctions arriving at the meeting. The you commissioner for energy disputed that we know that there is no technical reason to do so. This is a politically motivated step and to have to be ready for that. And exactly, for that reason there preemptive reduction of our gas demand. You say a why is it a strategy . What ill 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, its 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. Thats 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 were 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 dont provide the emergency plans and the e u says it will have to enforce the 15 percent. It will be no longer something that countries can do on a voluntary basis at the same time. We hear in also that yesterdays meeting of the ambassadors of the e. U. There has been also a lot of trouble coming to terms with that. A lot of countries, c, germany been the 1st beneficiary of this proposal of the commission that was set on the table last wednesday. Now that the issue lies that and the e u has are been kind of phased air for, for a sudden period. With disposition, the u. R. Commission of energy this morning said that there they were at shocked and disappointed, but at the same time they have to come to terms with this issue. This meeting itself today is a one that is urgent. It was not a proposed up or, you know, as a regular meeting and at the same time there is, there are probably a lot of discussion this meeting could take lot longer than expected. Because if, if the russia really goes ahead with the decision to cut the gas supplies on the whole block, its, it already has 12 countries on the list. 12 countries are out of 27 of the e u that it has stopped. Act, you know, are giving Energy Supplies to on our partial beaches or on a full basis. So if this happens, the g d, p of the e zone will fall by 1. 5 percent at list and Energy Prices are rising as well. So that you find yourself in such a situation where it cannot really afford to, ah, wait for its members to come to an agreement. Because also the agreement has made with other countries outside of the block, like other be jane or egypt and israel at these agreements neither or at least till the beginning of the next year to have these alternatives to have supplies that it can use in instead of the russian supplies, but it finds itself at this moment really in a very critical point. And a lot of the you countries are really afraid that them at the block could not be it may not be able to actually, ah, you know, take advantage of the time. And it would find herself in one of the probably more stir, harshest a winters. It could see it in the years ahead. And at this point, i think the you will have probably to use its emergency mechanism to enforce this regulation because its is no other way to be able to save what is needed to a past the winter without or at least with minimal damage. And de la al shami there, thank you. In just while weve been speaking to abdullah, we had heard that the e u has in fact reached a deal about cutting our its gas consumption or as an emergency measure coming in to the winter. And se you meeting comes as hours after ukraines president vladimir lansky again accused russia of inflicting what he called terror on europe by restricting gas supplies. She wm, a bunch of h o v v. Ball to day we saw and you gas threat to europe despite the north stream turbine concession. Russia is not planning to resume gas supply to european countries, as it is obliged to do. All this is done by russia on purpose. There is an oakland gas ball that russia is waiting against united europe. They do not care what will happen to the people, how they will suffer from hunger to, to the blocking of ports or from winter cold and poverty, or from occupation. These are just different forms of terror him john henderson, twins may not live from cave. And john, as weve been saying it appears, the e u has now reached some sort of consensus around how it plans to deal with this news. But tell us a little bit more about what ukraine is saying on the matter where you heard it there from vladimir zalinski. He says, these are acts of terror. As matter fact, he had a number of terms to use about what russia is doing. City, call it blackmail, called it in open gas war on europe, despite the fact that russia says this has nothing to do with the wars lensky. It seems convinced that these are actually try to drive a wedge between ukraine and its european allies, who are now suffering from a shortage of gas. And thats about to get much tougher. He says that this is all been part of rushes effort to use energy as a weapon of war, a non kinetic weapon, but a very effective one. None the less so where ukraine in its allies have broad sanctions in order to target russia. They seem to believe that what russia is doing is using energy to counter all of those ads. And john, weve been hearing, mean all there been some more tax on nikolai is what can you tell us there . There were a series of Early Morning rush attacks all around 5 am. And yes, the port city of nikolai and odessa, both of those were struck in in harkey in the east, and the mayor of harkins says that a gas pipeline was struck in that attack. That will leave thousands of people without gas. He says, there are no casualty counts as of this time, but he said it struck a residential area and thats a theme we keep hearing in odessa loaded mirrors. Lensky re tweeted, video that someone else had sent out of the attack in a desk, and he claimed that that was a, a resort seaside resort that was destroyed there. And he said they will pay every one. The problem with hitting odessa is that it makes it difficult as one of the 3 ports where ukraine is trying now, under an agreement with russia, to have to use safe passage lanes to get grain that has been staying here in ukraine since the war began out. To those countries that need them, and theres a possibility of a critical food shortage in africa and elsewhere that that would resolve. But russia has twice hit the port of odessa since that agreement was reached on friday, drawn hendern there for us in key. Thank you. Glen dyson is professor of International Relations at the university of south east in norway and associate editor of russia in global affairs. He joins us now live from low. Thank you for your time. So roger is turning down the gas, it appears the e. U has now reached some consensus around cutting its gas consumption going into winter. But you believe both sides have a part to play in getting to this point. Oh dave, all so far, the economic or the sanctions to large extent, one side of the west puts more and more sanctions on russia. Now obviously this could be interpreted as a form of sanctions against the west. So for minutes, theyve been waiting for how russia will retaliate them, as always tends to be some surprise when russia retired. But that being said, i think russia opened sanctions in the Energy Sector and go to the dramatic extent, completely cutting off your guess because this could percent thrush as being an Unreliable Energy fire. And if youre one of the largest Integer Energy suppliers in the world, you have an interest in having certain trust and reliability. So for this reason, i think ross are more more relies on exploiting certain excuse and such as you know, if theres time for a for, for doing some repairs or innovation on pipelines. And this becomes a way of covering what is been the fact or economic sanctions against the dns. But that being said, i think also have to remember why the 100 Energy Prices. I merely because the west side pushes against the rest of the sectors. So this is important because after all these years, the think about russia using energy, a weapon that its russia cutting just by this time too much extend themselves by putting thanks justin rushman, gas and oil, which i did. Does that mean . Of course, they say that they had to do that as a response to the war and ukraine. I didnt want to be funding the war. And ukraine when, when, by many of those nations are in fact supporting ukraine. But i want to come back to the e u proposal, which appears to have been agreed on about cutting its gas consumption, i believe by 15 percent going into the winter months as a way to try and, and deal with those russian, those russian cards. What impact is that likely to have . Is it going to save europe . No, its not going to save you, but its of course, and the cost would help because youre getting towards huge crisis. This time of year running up the winter is the time to retail. All gas storage is prepared for winter. Now, as far as we see that you have to begin to their existing supplies and use this in order to only get by now. So when winter comes, theres going to be a huge crisis. So any cuts are good cuts but but that being said, i dont think its possible to do not because you cant cut reliance on Russian Energy at least not this far. So there will be a recession, there will be political crisis. But also theres a long term problem from all of this studies, even if the parents will be able to weigh enough thrashing gas and oil. The problem is in the long run and this is going to also we can you repeat governments even if it would be possible, which i dont think it is because now all this cheap Ration Energy is being shipped to asia and their peons will have to desperately replace it with more Expensive Energy from other places, which means that their industries will become less, less competitive in the ation industry so so they are being really need to find a way out of this because a lot of the industrial boom in europe, especially in germany, over the past 30 years has relied to large extent on cheap brush energy, so it appears that this has come to them. All right, hey, thank you very much for your time. Land dawson, the professor of International Relations at the university of south east in norway. And the tie capital bank called protests have been held outside me and mos embassy condemning the execution of the pro democracy activists or forward accused of helping a civilian Resistance Movement that is for the military. Since last year, the executions have brought widespread condemnation from neighboring nation. Us and the United Nations will try to change his life for us. Now in bangkok, tony tell us more about these protests there. Oh well they were quite spontaneous, but they were very vigorous, lots of shouting hundreds of people and there was a pretty torrential downpour going on and banker. So i think it was an illustration how committed people were wanting to make the point to the Embassy Staff inside that they were shocked and horrified by the events that were announced on monday inside mamma and those feelings. I think that her being reiterated, it was a small protest up in the northern town of chain. My other place where there is a Large Population of people from me and my in fact, where that population is got much larger since 2020 ones military coups. And all along the border, frankly, with with thailand, theres been more reaction as well from southeast asia, malaysias foreign minister holding a press conference with the special envoy to me on my way. He said this was a crime against humanity. And he said it was a real slap in the face for the association of Southeast Asian nations who have been trying to engage with the military. A murmur that a bit have created a 5 point plan to try and broker some kind of peace between the military and those people who oppose the military to. He said that at next weeks stm Foreign Ministers meeting in cambodia, there was going to be an awful lot of pressure put on me armor. Although at this stage its very hard to see what more they can do. Tony, how has the military joint have been reacting to this increased condemnation that they are receiving of these executions . Well, they held a 3 Hour Press Conference in the capital name theodore earlier today, hosted by the military spokesman. But what was fairly remarkable is the lack of time. They devoted to this issue, which has caused so much consternation around the world that they did answer one question from the local media about it. They said that these men had been responsible for many deaths. The spokesman said that the miniature johnson had no personal animosity towards these 4 men, but that they were criminals. And he said they had been given every opportunity to prove their innocence in a court of law. Well, given that they were tried under military law in a military court in secret, i think many people would dispute that and they didnt address the issue of any further executions in the future. I tiny thing, there are 4 st, bangkok. Thank you. That my head on the news are including celebrations for new tennessee in constitution that gives more power to the president. Holland say its another step toward one man will plus a 1000000 pounds of money. The 2 candidates vying to become the u. K is next Prime Minister tassel of the cost of living crisis. And well hear from the former best footballer in the world whos calling for more support for ukraines child refugees. Ah. Schools have reopened intro lanka, of the government said it would provide fuel so children can get to classes. But lessons will be limited to 3 days a week. Schools were shot nearly a month ago because of widespread shortages caused by the worst economic crisis in decades. Michelle fernandez is live for us now in colombo min now. So School Children obviously being hugely affected by this fuel shortage. What problems they facing thats right. One of the main things is how they get to and from school. I mean, im just outside one of shall anchors, a largest and are sort of best known government goals. Schools and you know, its door students as well as everybody right throughout the country thats really struggling with the fuel issue. Because those who have private vickers, either their parents are in cues, those who go in school vans again the same issue, even though the government has made a sort of arrangements this time round. Because schools started this week for a 3 day, a week to provide fuel to school vans and school buses that transport children. But essentially, what lot of the Service Providers are wondering is whether its going to be a long term thing because people just dont have the time to be cuing that long. So for, for students, its the mean sort of challenge their face is getting to school. If i can just show you how badly this a fuel thing has affected people, im just here. And just if you look down the road from me here is again another q. Its so bad that no matter where you go in colombo and in other parts of the country. 5 the fact that this kind of queue is the standard in every single fuel shed around the country, even though they have been systems means that theres a lot of time that has been wasted. Some one talked about, you know, shell anchors productivity being absolutely eaten into, because of this time wasted. So that some of the problems for School Children. This coming on top of almost 2 years of locked downs due to the pandemic. Its not a fun time. I am anal fernandez there for us in colombo, thank you. Un peacekeepers have killed several protesters in eastern democratic republic of congo. It happened on the 2nd day of rising at the Mission Space in the eastern city of goma. Demonstrate jose peacekeepers have not protected them from violence in the region. And i want them to leave catherine. So i reports this is what remains of a un logistics base. It goma in north cuba province. Thousands of comedies, protested, chanted auntie un slogans demanding the peacekeeping mission, leave the country. Through storms looted, office equipment, and other material. Even the peacekeepers stationed inside and local police could not control the crowd. Is beneficial. Some people are dying every day in the north. In benny and into the province in the presence of mon escalate, the peacekeepers have said they are able to keep people safe to ensure the continued implement. The Deputy Spokesman for the un mission says everything is being done to minimize disruption to its work. Of the mission is activating additional security protocols and advancing Contingency Planning to ensure the continued implementation of its mandate and the security, the safety and security of all un personnel. The relationship between sam congolese and