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WORLD NEWS Monday 5 SepteMber 2022

Energy problems in Ukraine and Europe take center stage

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — En- The 14-member delegation
ergy problems plagued braved gunfire and artillery
Ukraine and Europe as blasts to reach the plant
much of the Russian-occu- last Thursday after months
pied region that's home to of negotiations to enable
a largely crippled nuclear passage through the fight-
power plant was reported ing's front lines.
temporarily in blackout Without blaming either war-
Sunday. ring side, Grossi said his big
Only one of six reactors at concerns are the plant's
the Zaporizhzhia facility was physical integrity, its power
connected to the electric- supply and the staff's con-
ity grid, and Russia's main dition.
pipeline carrying natural Europe's energy picture
gas to Germany remained remained clouded by the
shut down. war in Ukraine.
The fighting in Ukraine and A Ukrainian soldier holds a watermelon and thumbs up as a Just hours before Russian
rocket launch system fires in the font line in Donetsk region,
related disputes over pipe- eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2022. energy company Gazprom
lines lie behind the electric- Associated Press was due to resume natural
ity and natural gas shortfalls gas deliveries to Germany
that have worsened as Rus- city of Melitopol, lost power main external power line through a major pipeline
sia's war in Ukraine, which Sunday. and one reactor was dis- after a three-day stop-
began on Feb. 24, grinds But it was later restored, connected because of page, it announced Friday
on for a seventh month. said Vladimir Rogov, the grid restrictions. Another that it couldn't do so until oil
Both issues will take center head of the Russia-installed reactor was still operating leaks in turbines are fixed.
stage this week. U.N. nucle- local administration in En- and producing electricity That is the latest develop-
ar agency inspectors are erhodar, the city where for cooling and other es- ment in a saga in which
scheduled to brief the Se- the nuclear power plant is sential safety functions at Gazprom has advanced
curity Council on Tuesday located. To the southwest, the site, as well as external- technical problems as the
about their inspection and power was also out in sev- ly for households, factories reason for reducing gas
safeguard visit to the Za- eral parts of the port city of and others through a re- flows through Nord Stream
porizhzhia power plant. Eu- Kherson, according to Rus- serve power line, the IAEA 1 — explanations that Ger-
ropean Union energy min- sia's Tass news agency. said. Russian forces have man officials have rejected
isters were slated to hold While Rogov said no new held the Zaporizhzhia facil- as a cover for a political
an emergency meeting shelling of the area around ity, Europe's largest nuclear power play. Dismissing Gaz-
Friday in Brussels to discuss the six-reactor Zaporizhzhia plant, since early March, prom's latest rationale for
the bloc's electricity mar- plant was reported Sun- with its Ukrainian staff con- the shutdown, Germany's
ket, which European Com- day, the effects of earlier tinuing to operate it. Siemens Energy — which
mission President Ursula von strikes lingered. IAEA Director-General Ra- manufactured turbines
der Leyen has said "is no The International Atomic fael Grossi said he will brief the pipeline uses —- said
longer operating." Energy Agency said Sat- the U.N. Security Council turbine leaks can be fixed
Much of the Zaporizhzhia urday that the plant was on Tuesday on a mission he while gas continues to flow
region, including the key disconnected from its last led to the plant last week. through the pipeline.q

China, Japan ground ferries, flights as typhoon approaches

BEIJING (AP) — Cities in Hong Kong Observatory.
eastern China suspended Evacuations and flight
ferry services and classes cancellations have been
and flights were canceled ordered in Japan's south-
in Japan on Sunday as ern Okinawa Island. The ty-
Typhoon Hinnamnor, the phoon is also expected to
strongest global storm this bring intense rainfall to the
year, blew its way past Tai- Korean Peninsula, bringing
wan and the Koreas with the possibility of flooding.
fierce winds and heavy China's National Meteoro-
rains.Shanghai ground- logical Center issued a yel-
ed ferry services and de- low typhoon warning at 10
ployed more than 50,000 a.m. Sunday, and warned
police officers to aid with of heavy rains in northeast-
rescues and guide traffic ern Zhejiang, Shanghai and Waves crash on the eastern coast of Jeju Island, South Korea,
away from danger areas. self-governing Taiwan. as Typhoon Hinnamnor travels toward the Korean Peninsula on
The eastern business hub of In Japan, the typhoon Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022.
Wenzhou ordered all class- lashed Okinawa and near- Associated Press
es suspended on Monday. by islands with heavy rain
Hinnamnor is forecasted to and fierce winds, threaten- on Japan's NHK national igaki Island was knocked
move gradually northward ing flooding and ground- television showed trees vio- down. On the main Oki-
into the East China Sea with ing more than 100 flights lently shaken by the storm, nawa island, two elderly
maximum sustained winds connecting the islands and with fierce rainfall hitting people fell down and were
of 175 kilometers (109 miles) parts of the main southern the pavement. A green- slightly injured, according
per hour, according to the island of Kyushu. Footage house for mangoes on Ish- to media reports.q