we have not attributed this to anybody yet. we are looking at the facts now and we do not know what the motivation is for this, but we are looking carefully into this and this is an attack on the international borders, under european infrastructure and it is something that we very seriously. that we take very seriously. the head of the european commission has warned of the strongest possible consequences if it emerges that sabotage is behind the gas leaks. the nord stream one pipeline stretches more than one thousand kilometres under the baltic sea from the russian coast near st petersburg to north eastern germany. neither it nor its twin pipeline, nord stream 2, are currently in operation, although they both still contain gas. this footage from the danish military shows one of the leaks in the baltic sea, which on tuesday measured an area of 100 metres diametres. sweden s seismological institute has
more than 30% of their energy needs. and that s still not enough., and by the way, despite all these measures, the state s grid is still overwhelmingly comprisee statesd. you got it. natural gas. this is the european model of green energy except europe exported its energy needs to russia. they re importing it from t fromrussia and putin just shun the nord stream one pipeline. and guess what? they re not getting anything.am! look at this from bloomberg today. households pipelin, the epicentf europeans of the european crisis saw august bills jump an1 average one hundred and 85%, compared with one year earlier. come winter, this insane spikecn is a expected to get so much worse. european families now are spending twenty or 30% of their entire incom 2e on monthl. heating bills alone. now, depending on foreign countries, huge price increases, energy rationing, rolling blackouts, brownouts, no air conditioning, no heat,
the plan includes extra payments to the most vulnerable. these are pensioners, students and people on benefits. germany s government is also planning to raise billions of dollars to mitigate energy bills, with a windfall tax on energy company profits. the measures come just two days after russia said it was suspending gas exports through the nord stream one pipeline indefinitely. here s some of what mr scholz had to say. translation: the third | relief package we have put together is larger in scope than the first two combined. if you add it all up, we are talking about 65 billion euros. it is 95 billion euros if you include the first two relief packages. that is a lot that we are moving. it is necessary, it is to help the citizens go through this situation together with us. european leaders have accused russia of weaponising energy supplies, causing the huge spike in energy prices that is driving
branded him a threat to american democracy. he s an enemy of the state. you want to know the truth? the enemy of the state is him and the group that control him. nasa calls off the planned launch of its new moon rocket for the second time in a week. officials say it s likely there won t be another launch attempt for several weeks. and police in the us have charged a man with theft and terror offences after he threatened to crash a plane into a supermarket. the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, has called for greater european unity in response to russia s use of energy as a weapon. speaking a day after moscow said it would not restart gas exports through the nord stream one pipeline,
to american democracy. the most vicious and divisive speech ever delivered to the people. he s an enemy of the state. you want to know the truth? the enemy of the state is him and the group that control him. chile prepares to go to the polls in a referendum on replacing the constitution, inherited from the pinochet dictatorship. and nasa calls off the planned launch of its new moon rocket for the second time in a week. officials say it s likely there won t be another launch attempt for several weeks. hello and welcome to bbc news. the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, has called for greater european unity in response to russia s use of energy as a weapon. speaking a day after moscow said it would not restart gas exports through the nord stream one pipeline, mr zelensky said russia aimed to intimidate and weaken