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nuclear option of sanctions. now the u. s. and e, you are indeed moving to block some russian banks from the swift messaging system. we'll look at what the move might actually mean. walking to the show i'm seeing busy in berlin could have you with us. the russian invasion of ukraine continues to unfold. so does the response of western governments and even companies. oil giant shell now saying it's ending its cooperation with gas prom in key oil and gas projects. it follows b p which said it would abandon it's nearly 20 percent stake. russian oil giant ra, snuffed resulting in a hit of up to $25000000000.00. and across the west, companies are coming under increased pressure to in their relationships with russian oligarchs, or if mona's good against quarter in new york, yansa, exxon mobil and other oil major facing calls to divest of its projects in russia. what kinds of pressure are these western companies under right now?

well, i mean, if we talk about exxon stephen, they had already ended a joint venture resort. and if them a couple of years ago, but they still have the 30 percent mistake in oil and gas field. so i'm on the, the east of russia. so clearly they're called to and that, and then it really depends on the industry and on the cooperation. how big the connection to russia are a general motors, by the way, here on monday, announce to stop exports to russia. for now, the same is true for deliveries from u. p. s, for example, or federal express to the and i to, to russia. but over all, obviously, russia is closer to the reopen union and also the tycer are bigger than here. 2, most corporations in the united states. okay, so far more exposure to russia from european businesses compared to u. s. businesses. but what are we seeing from markets in the financial hub of the

world? frankly? well, i mean us, some investors clearly are nervous and jumpy at this point. but so far, lots of have been limited to. the best example is last week by mid last week that the s and p 500 had last about fife and a half percent within 3 for a trading date. and then all of a sudden we saw the biggest come back since september 2008. so since the midst of the financial crisis, and actually last week, the s and p 500 for the week even traded to the upside by point 8 percent. if you look at monday session, we had blue chips down by more than 500 points at some point at the end of the day . and only us talks, we're down in the dow jones industrial average by a good 160 points. so you see big moves that the us investors, obviously you do not really know at this point how important this war is going to

be for the us economy for us corporations. we shouldn't forget the us a is not a country that is exposed so much to trade. it really has its strengths in the us consumers. so that's the big thing. and to talking about the u. s. consumer clearly also here the united states, people feel the inflationary pressure of oil prices, for example, traded to the upside, but almost 5 percent here on monday in quarter in new york. thank you very much. will the prospect of western sanctions against russia are already taking a toll and the country's currency. the rubel has plunged to a record low dropping by almost a 3rd against the us dollar. russians have been scrambling to withdraw money from banks with long queues forming a cash machines in an attempt to prop up the currency. the central bank has doubled its key interest rate to an unprecedented 20 percent. export companies are meanwhile being told to sell most of their foreign reserves to drive up demand for

the rouble. one of those plans sanctions is an exclusion from some russian banks from the swift messaging system. or is run by a belgium based company and has become essential to the global economy by smoothing financial transactions. here's our works. what is swift? the acronym stands for society for world wide into bank financial telecommunication . a global network founded to process international financial transactions. it's been around since 1973. 190 countries used the standardized system as well as banks and commodities and securities traders. last year, some 42000000 transactions were handled best swift every day. each swift member is identified by its bank identifier, court or big. the big ensures that money transfers are paid into the correct account and a in germany to carry out transactions with money. shares of precious metals with

bank b in the u. s. ever big coat is blocked, the member is shut out of swift. barring rushes, access to the swift network would sever the country completely from the international monetary flow. rushes companies would no longer be able to pay for or receive foreign goods. rushes trade with the rest of the world would be suspended, but it means the trade in urgently needed goods from russia would also be interrupted. the result rising energy prices, world wide, and russia is not only a major exporter of oil and gas, but of iron and steel, to still being shut out of swift would harm russia most of all in the catalog of sanctions. it's the instrument that cuts the deepest me. olympus runs a consulting firm in berlin that's focused on payment systems. leo, it's good to have you on the show. i think the question that everyone is wondering is how serious is a cut off from swift as has been called the nuclear option for

a while? well, i think that it comes with require material level quite a material impact on the richly honey. i'm a could, in fact quite devastating when you look back about 10 years ago, when the iranian banks were cut off from swift outside of that crisis. iranian will exports decline by 50 percent and the running foreign trade plan with 30 percent. the potential for a very severe impact is there. in this case, energy is actually excluded from these transactions. that is, that there are, there will remain energy channels for making those payments. that suggest that they might not be as strong as even those is that fair to say. so my understanding of each of the curved rats of, of the, of the sanctions is that energy payments are cargo for a limited period of time to allow a transition within certainly colonies to other sources of energy. i don't believe those cards will persist over the long term. after all,

you are correct to know that they would in fact maybe make much of the impact much less severe. so i think the idea there is the cushion some of the western economies from higher energy prices in the short term as they transition over to other sources. but there's no doubt that in the long term, if you really want to, thanks to have maximum impact, they really do need to include those energy payments as well. what is a cut off from swift? going to mean for normal russians? how are they going to experience this? so it's the touch of just what i think about what it means, right? if you think about what a reduction of foreign trade would, would, would, would mean for the average russian. so it would mean a. busy more limited importance for it's mixed the entire import export business of getting things in and out of the country more difficult. so any kind of important that people might rely upon whether it's electronics, whether it's consumer goods or any other kind of equity products that are coming brought in from outside of russia. that would certainly be,

be impacted with those. those goods will become more scarce. that should become more expensive, but i think that for the average, everyday life, the average everyday russian, i would expect that the average cost they pay for housing for food and other sorts of things like that shouldn't be, shouldn't be materially impacted. it's less less. of course, those things are being imported. can we say anything about overseas credit card transactions? for example, i know a lot of this is still being worked out as a really interesting question because a lot of this is building, we're done as you know. so, but it to the extent that these russian banks are also going to be excluded from other kinds of financial transact networks such as a visa or mastercard. right, then certainly would be more difficult as well. or maybe it will be possible. russia has its own domestic card network for people that have failed to the russia . i would expect that that would continue to operate unaffected by all of this. over to the extent that russians have foreign credit cards are issued by russian

banks visa, or master quarter to the extent that there are ford is trying to use ford credit cards in russia. this is definitely, i would expect that that would be an issue as well. what kind of workarounds are there for russia is trying to work around the swift system. okay, so there are several things that could, that could happen, right? so. busy some of them are things like using other network, so russia that with an x, the currently in 2014 began to establish its own network to rival swift china to do something similar over a number of years. so well, they could turn to those networks to, to help process the payments and help with financial messaging. those networks have much less reach than swift us. after all, swift reaches over $11000.00 banks where the chinese and russian alternatives only reach hundreds of banks. no one knows exactly for sure how many, but what i would really expect to happen, the most obvious work around, is for russian banks to turn to under russian companies, excuse me,

to turn to unsanctioned banks. pro. it's only the top 3 that are currently in the draft list, but they were to turn to other russian names, or if they were to sort of show corporations that they would open it account with foreign banks to try and process those transactions. it's going to create real headaches for western european banks. then we'll have to do some due diligence to find out exactly what's what, who's behind this question for the corporation. is the one they're allowed to do business with is in fact, even a russian bank is lord knows what could be, and that's where i think it's going to create really headaches for some of the banks in western europe or north america. the olympus with lepus advisors in berlin . thank you very much. my pleasure. well, finally, fans of story. german soccer club chalka have cheered a decision to drop to drop russian state owned energy giant gas pump. as the team's main sponsor bands have been scrambling to buy version of the shirt without the gas

prom name and logo on it shall go. drop the gas from sponsorship in support of sanctions against russia and replaced and replaced it with the name of the club gas company sponsored shaka. since 2007. that's it for me. in the dw business team here, berlin, find out more align the v dot com slash business is water to the point strong opinions, clear positions, international perspectives. the warren ukraine seems even more frightening than before. many people have begun to think the unthinkable after russian president levy mapleton appeared to suggest that he could be ready to use nuclear weapons. is the conflict entering a new dimension to the point with on d w? ah,

they've had peace for, for decades. the people of iraq or country is devastated and there's no end to define how did it come to this key witnesses reveal and president story who they were freeze of the u. s. they knew what the consequences these sanctions are and they've lied to the world about says here, minute did was say is someone could kill his friends and associates ways and he was a really he behaved exactly like to have done.

and the poison spread their own. ah, much my as giving me a warning, the great documentary series destruction of a nation starts march 4th on d. w. civilians who have never touched a gun or taking up arms to defend their homelands. more than half a 1000000 others have fled ukraine following vladimir putin's unprovoked assault on his peaceful and sovereign neighbor in russia, financial carnage as the rubel tanks. thanks to unprecedented international sanctions. and the un secretary general warns nothing would justify the use of nuclear weapons. as russia puts its nuclear forces on high alert. i'm clear, richardson in berlin, and this is the day ah,

with diesel say it again. 4 and a half 1000 russian occupiers have been killed. these escalating violence which is resulting in civilian deaths, improving children, historically and accept nato is not a russia. this was started by russia and put a knife and stop play sworn any time. if you do not believe your commanders can not believe your propagandists, simply save your own lives, leave the law is enough. ah, welcome to the show and thank you so much for joining us. we begin the day with the ongoing battle for ukraine fighting between russian and ukrainian forces has been bitter and brutal taking place in heavily populated civilian areas. the number of people dying is mounting. as the ukrainian army does its best to hold off the

russian attackers. normal people are helping to resist the offensive in any way they can. viral videos show people across ukraine, stopping russian tanks in their tracks and angrily confronting soldiers in a town close to the border with russia. a group of ukrainians brought the russian advanced to him, grinding halts. this footage shows hundreds of unarmed people walking toward an armored column. the russian soldiers had stopped to ask for directions when they found themselves surrounded by locals. and that is just one of several instances of ukrainian civilians facing down russian tanks. others are taking up arms to defend their cities. many have never fired a gun in their lives. moves yet. we've already started issuing arms with them to protect our land. we will issue them to anyone who is willing to take them to anyone who's ready to protect our sovereignty. within that, a

yellow the, there are people with military experience war veterans. and then there are people who've swap their pens and keyboards for guns. all of them, because i was a good, really scared. but now we are a didn't quite like quite like i want to fight. i want to leave on my earth in my great, in my peacefully ukraine. we are doing this because someone has to do, it looped in a little higher and the are making as many multiple cocktails as we are asked by territorial defense forces. and we will do it until the when

mutual culture comes with let's cross. now to nick connelly, our correspondent who has been reporting from western ukraine, if you've been with us, you know, he's been covering this conflict tirelessly and we've just seen now footage of ordinary ukrainians blocking advancing tanks and soldiers. how wide spread is this kind of behavior in ukraine? while you look at the joke feat, clerical did years on social media, it seems to be pretty widespread. that was in ukraine far north on that, on the russian borders. you mentioned. there's another video that's been doing the rounds from his own region. mia, an ex crimea. we have an older man walking up to, to a very heavily armed russian soldiers, which is guarding what looks to be a bridge of some other kind of infrastructure. and his shots renting them, and he told them that they are not wanted here, that this is not where anyone wants to see them, that they should go home. this is not the land and it's not their business for

happens in ukraine. and then at the end of its onslaught, he tells them and they have no ability to talk back. they stimulated, shocked by his praise, unless he tells me that i am ethnically russian, but i missed them. ukraine and i don't want russia here in ukraine until certainly they haven't time again. yeah. nick, those are made for good viral videos. but i want to ask you how helpful is this actually in stopping rushes advance? well, i think it is actually doing a lot to undermine the morale of those russian soldiers, many of whom were not really ever told why they're coming here. we've heard from the russian leadership, they want to demilitarized and de notified they put it ukraine. but i don't think anyone's ever made any effort to explain that to ordinary russian soldiers what they're doing here. and there are lots of russians sold, abandoning that tank, that have run out of petrol that have run out of other supplies where they've had that ties and shot at. and you do get a sense that many of these,

especially very young recruits, have no clue why they realize that actually going to place don't resistance where they were told by the commanders that they would be met if not with flowers, but with by population that was brought happy to see them. so i think that is quite an important thing. and we've also seen the ukrainians now going into defensive targeting. russians on social media targeting soldiers were still in russia, targeting their families, basically why the russians thought to basically make the price for them coming here, caitlin, and for the credit civilians on the battle lines. i mean, where are their weapons coming from? does ukraine have enough weapons to equip them and enough time to train them? i mean depends what kind of weapon system we're talking about. i mean, the government here has handed out tens of thousands of rifles, of you know, 70 kind of basic equipment that was here. that was available in lodge in last apply in government storage units. they don't see there is the other kind of weapon coming in. now, from ukraine's international partners, posting an anti aircraft missiles, the javelin,

anti tank missiles. there is tool karen, ukraine, the if the military comes in the more pressing military units are basically disbursed by an irrational onslaught that those kinds of things that can be operate by single person to be can be carried on the shoulder that they will be handed out to people to take home and basically wage gorilla campaign against the russian troops and crania, and president val, ordinary landscape has also directed an appeal for more soldiers to the rest of the world. i wanna play some of what he said, and then we'll come back to you here. neck chief, the motor, those from abroad, who can defend ukraine, or do it purposefully. united lee or, and continuously, and all friends of ukraine who want to join the defense. come, we will give you a weapons and we the all the details of how to implement this will be announced in the near future. glory to all those who defend ukraine to day. you are heroes green when you flop away. so foreign fighters also being invited to join in do we know

how many have responded to the call? i think, but now it's pretty difficult to tell. we heard today that the french foreign legion we're going to allow it's ukranian members to come back to their mental heights. and this certainly seems to be a big box around this on social media has to be said, this isn't totally new. they're all foreigners fighting in dumbass. they have been since 2014 on the side of ukraine. americans, western europeans, a small in them back be said a foreign is those are fighting on the other side for those russian back separatists. but i think there is a real hope here in ukraine that the support and the awareness of this conflict is growing that finally, people in western europe in north america are taking notes or what's going on ukraine. the finally, they feel like the rest of the world is seeing rush and behavior towards ukraine and more broadly, the same way they have seen for a long time. they felt like they were just not heard, not listen to a not believed that. now with this attack on ukraine in the middle of the night, with no warning,

they feel like the rest of the world finally getting it. and they hope, apart from weapons apart from sanctions apart from money and also have that kind of personal own on the ground floor. even if you know, we know that nato is not going to send troops in official capacity, but at least they can hope that some people with military experience of fighting in nato trained armies would add, safely to bear, but defend themselves. correspond nick connolly and western ukraine. thank you so much for that update. ah. and will some stay and resist? others are fleeing the fighting. the european union is bracing for the arrival of millions of refugees from ukraine. more than 300000 people are already believed to have crossed the border into neighboring poland. authorities there have set up emergency shelters to house the new arrivals. some families are even opening up their homes to ukrainian families. but the situation in some places on the border has turned into a humanitarian crisis with limited access to food and sanitation. it is believed

that as many as 2000000 ukrainians have migrated to poland since the annexation of crimea in 2014. so poland is one of the main destinations for people fleeing fighting. but germany is also preparing to give refugees shelter around 2000 ukrainians. have already arrived here and when the war are expected, the training from war saw but some of its passengers have escaped hell. the 1st refugees and what is the largest war in europe? the century among the visa, who until just days ago, enjoyed a peaceful life and she told me a northwest ukraine. there's a certain plans in february 24th. it was very sudden saw on zix. my mother called me at 6 am and told me we are at war vida, the creek by sean,

the zix. everyone started panicking on lloyd to o'clock in the morning were still sleeping and laughing. a welcome committee has set up here at berlin central station to help you a rivals find their way. organizers use the messaging app telegram to coordinate offers of shelter, clothes, food, and language skills. there's like large telegram group where we can just shoot a message and ask if there's some kind of accommodation for 2 or 3 people and then somebody would say, yeah, here i can pick somebody up. it's all private right now. i have a lot of fruit of mostly bars, goodson nuts, just simple things that i could pass as people move to their next location. and the daughter of a somali and refugee was summoned to help by family history. an issue

that's pretty close to my heart. my dad and his family arrived in the u. s. s. refugees from somalia and i'm half german. and so i really felt as there was a christ. some people were coming that i was going to show up because someone did it for my own family. veto is now trying to re unite with her son and western germany. but the trauma we shouldn't days is impossible to forget. via haben would been actin. emma in we'd been sleeping in the basin in gena, her via hobbin. emma. we were constantly alert. emma boom, boom. there, well ways you all knew zonker tangs driving down the street. i'll just throw so it was frightening. i am terrible and people were panicking. it was really all for you . well, let to surprise then, that european governments are expecting many more desperate people to follow in

vito's footsteps in search of peace. ah, russians are scrambling to withdraw money from banks where the long lines forming a cash machines across the country. that's as the rubel plunges to record lows due to new western sanctions. it's now dropped more than 30 percent against the u. s. dollar. in an attempt to prop up the ruble, russia central bank has doubled its key interest rate to an unprecedented 20 percent. was take this chance to recap of some of the sanctions leveled at russia. the european union and its allies have agreed to block major russian banks from the swift global payment system. western nations have put other tough restrictions on russian banks. they've also caught the ability of the russian state to access capital markets, their asset freezes and trouble bands for a number of individuals, including russian president vladimir putin, himself, as well as politicians and oligarchy,

who are close to him. other sanctions target the technology sector, the e u will stop supplying high tech components and software to russia. and the u. s. says it will restrict rushes access to semiconductors. computers and telecoms equipment says right here in the studio now for more is stephen apparently from helping you with fitness. hi stephen of the rubel. it's a plumbing. does that mean that western sanctions are already having an effect? a response to the sanctions. we could say, right, we know that people don't want to be tied to a currency that's going to be incredibly limited, and that's going to be the case of the ruble. and so wants that currency starts being traded in such a heavy way then that the values it and then people want to get rid of even more they do that. and so that precipitates the fall, the thing is, we haven't even seen the full exposure perhaps because trading has actually been sort of limited today. so it has been a historic drop, but it could have been even worse. we have seen capital controls come into place. we have seen these efforts to try and prop up create demand for the rubel. but the,

i mean, the fact of the matter is these. this is an unprecedented level of sanctions. we've seen, we've never seen something like this for an economy as large as russia. the 11th largest economy in the world. sure, it's not china, it's not the u. s. but that's massive still. you know, the previously we've seen sanctions against iran, venezuela, economies of this size. so this is something that we don't really have a level of knowing what it exactly means, but the rubel is going to put a lot of pressure on people. now the sanctions, they're obviously meant to punish putin and the oligarchs around him. but they will also have an impact on ordinary people in russia. but how much is this going to affect them? whether you saw the lines for people trying to get cash, right? so they're worried about the cash in the banks. if there's going to be runs on banks, that's a concern. is there going to be a series of systematic bank collapses? what happens to people savings? these are the issues the people going to have a lot of loans and mortgages from what i understand in russia are denominated in other currencies. so what that means is that they just got more expensive

a lot more expensive, and now they perhaps can even pay them because there's a blocking system put on between their bank or between the swift messaging system between multiple financial centers. so they might not even be able to pay back what's become a worthless market in the 1st place. so there's a lot of these questions and then you also have the systematic question. if the state banks are felling failing and then the country itself is potentially in default, what happens to your state pension for example? and so this is the pressure that's being put on people. and he said the stakes are hi, amber. could these sanctions, i mean, could they actually be enough to change his mind to bring an end to this war? that's the question, right? no, and no one really knows. you know, you're looking at something that is going to undermine a state in society and such a way. you can only imagine that there would have to be a lot more pressure than there had been previously. and so i think that's the thinking here. obviously want to target the war machine itself. and by doing, by charging the reserves, for example, we both heard about the central reserves, the access that they're going or i should say,

the freezing of these reserves that are overseas. that means that basically taking securities and u. s. dollars, euros, put and can't just liquidate that into cash, that he can then use to buy more war machinery or whatever you want to call it. and so that limits his option. so there is that effect, but really that ruble, what's happening there? what's happening with a bank, what's happening, people, savings, that is going to rate a groundswell, discontent you can imagine. and the question is, what happens from there? we don't know, steven, there's a thank you for coming into the studio with that update. really appreciate your time. ah. when you put those that when you heard them, whoever tries to stop us and create further threats to our country, to our people, and they should know that russia's response will be immediate and lead to consequences. you've never seen in your history. certainly, it is a reference to the use of nuclear weapons wishes those officials from leading nato

countries have been making aggressive statements with government because of me through that is why i've ordered the defense minister and chief of the general staff to put our deterrent forces on high combat alert where israel, monsieur, this is another ex escalade, tore an unnecessary step that threatens us all. one cannot imagine some one able to say this kind of things. so i heard a president let me put in there announcing he has put his country's nuclear weapon systems on high alert. it's a reminder that russia is a nuclear superpower, and that the states could not be higher before his invasion of ukraine fruits and ordered a military drills involving his arsenal of nuclear capable missiles. few of her saw these drills personally joined in his situation room by a bela russian leader, alexander the shank of the kremlin exercises were part of

a regular training and denied they signals an escalation. and my next guest is considered one of the world leading experts on russia's nuclear arsenal. and very pleased to welcome that shoot the de hovel pod. vicki is an independent analysis analyst excuse me, based in geneva. and he runs his research project. russian nuclear force is a very warm welcome to you, put and he's put his nuclear deterrent on high alert. what does that mean in practical terms? oh well i think the correction is an order, in fact the president put the never to the high alert and it appears that what was done is not in fact of the raising the level of nuclear forces. and that was in fact confirmed just earlier today by the united states officials who said that the see

no visible signs of movements of any kind of a nuclear force related equipment. which means that basically the level of alert, in fact remain the same. just to clarify, the russian military previously did say that it's nuclear, to turn, forces were put on high alert in line with the previous order directly is not. is that not correct? well, the, the, the details of the, the phrase that was used was that the strategic nuclear forces were put under the special mode of combat duty. and that special mode largely reflect details some

almost a measures. for example, today the minister defense a reported from now on the cruise that service or has come out of centers or have been reading force. that means they go from like 2 to 3 shifts and a presence in the human presence. but again, the important thing is that the, the actual the actual forces, the more. ready not digitally brought to higher. hi. hi. stephen ford, which is very general, has expressed concern about what has happened. so i want to ask you, what is russia capability at this point? i mean, how, how dangerous is the situation in which we find ourselves? yeah, no, that's it. oh, this is not to say that there is nothing to be concerned about russia and to begin

with, russian forces, russia, strategic and core forces are on very much constant alert all the time. i think the specifically the intercontinental ballistic missiles that total carry more than 1000 warheads or higher degree for this all the time. what, what happened was that russia had to move. it's given a control system to us, a state where it is more protected, if you will. ready a more stable and basically sending a signal that nobody should even think about attacking our forces. because whatever you can do, we are prepared and russia would be able to respond adequately. and how likely is

it then that putting would actually order a strike? well, i think the probability that a russian president would order kind of a 1st strike is very much 0 only because russian forces do not have the ability to execute this kind of a strike effectively. at the same time, i think it is very dangerous about nuclear forces were brought to these very complex and very difficult conflict to begin with. and the, the, the fact that the russian president is willing to signal very explicitly, the forces are part of the equation here. i think this is a very,

very dangerous sign. and, and on some level, i think the reaction of the united states was particularly helpful. because instead of kind of raising the stakes and are responding in kind of the united states said that, well, we do believe that nuclear weapons should not be part. ready of this equation should not be part of the conflict. and i think this is the, exactly the message that the international community in general, just being at that stage should sent to russia that it is irresponsible and unacceptable to involve to waive your weapons like that. in sedation, like i problem like expert on russian nuclear forces, really appreciate you taking the time to join us.

the and the world of sports is moving to isolate russia after its invasion of ukraine football world governing body fee for. and it's your opinion, counterpart you way for have suspended russian teams from all competitions of a decision, ineffective bands. russia from the upcoming world called play off, and the 2022 world cup itself. if i had already said russia would have to play it matches on neutral ground without spectators, poland, sweden, and the czech republic and england then said they would not play against russia. that was the day as ever the conversation doesn't continue online. you'll find us on twitter under the handle dw news from us here in berlin to wherever in the world you might be. joining us from, thanks for spending part of your day with us and i. richardson in berlin a by thanks so much

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