What you need to know

• Economic experts expect cuts to industrial production due to reduced cargo shipping on the Rhine river
• Wildfires caused the temporary closure of a major autobahn in northern Germany
• The number of children involved in road accidents has increased

Join us as we cover these and other stories hitting the headlines in Germany on Tuesday, August 8.

Welcome to our coverage

A warm guten Tag from DW's newsroom on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn!

And, as has so often been the case recently, that very river is at the focus of our reporting from Germany as low water levels cause major disruption to cargo shipping and thus potentially to the industries that depend on it.

Another main topic is the threat to national security from hybrid forms of warfare, as reflected in recent drone incidents at sensitive sites.

The government is moving to give intelligence agencies new powers to combat this threat, something that some see as a danger to civil liberties.

And we also take a look at statistics showing that road accidents involving children are on the rise again after a reduction during the coronavirus pandemic.