and trips are in the black sea port as her song. but there are conflicting reports about whether they have complaint control of a large cities or also under heavy attack as the war and has its 2nd week. ukraine's president is calling on citizens to cape mount resistance. not to amuse update head of the time website d, w dot com for more coverage on russia's invasion of ukraine will be back next. with some are driven by the merciless greed, others are fighting the destruction organic. when the invaders came to preserve the short done one the next 2 days to get from and is trying to destroy the indigenous people. with the largest scale burton project planned grabbers are exploiting b, amazon rain forest. indigenous peoples are now briefly opposing them because it's

not only the earth's brains models that are dying to the rain forest. we cease to exist and or people die out. a long term report from the heart of brazil. start to march 9th on d, w. ah, this is a dw sport special. the sporting world reacts to the russian invasion of ukraine, coming up condemnation of russian president vladimir putin as well as sport takes a stand from the football page to the paralympics and motor racing bands implemented and events cancelled as the door slowly shut on russia. i'm nick mechanic line. welcome to this special edition of dw sports. for the 1st

time in recent memory, we are seeing the likes of fever. you eva, and other giants crumble under global pressure to take a united front. russian teams are banned from competition. sports events are moved or canceled altogether. sponsorships across all sports and divisions are ended. these are just some of the outcome so far as the international sports community moves to further isolate russia. for 15 years german football club shall co, played with the logo of russia's state owned energy company, gas prom on their shirts. now the partnership worth $9000000.00 euros a year to the club was abruptly cut short and players strode out in altered jerseys for the 1st time on saturday. across the bundles league as 1st and 2nd tears clubs and fans denounced president vladimir putin and his military invasion of ukraine. please for peace could be seen around the grounds. and all games were preceded by

a moment of silence. similar sentiments were expressed across the sporting landscape around the world. formula one abandoned, the russian grown pre scheduled for september in saatchi while allowing russian drivers to compete under a neutral flag this season. meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin himself a black belt. jude oka has been stripped of his title as honorary president of the international judo federation. the most senior official position he held in the world of sports and european footballs governing body. you a 1st stripped st. petersburg gas. prom arina of the hosting rights for this years . champions league final like shall kill you a for has also decided to cut ties with gas from the energy giant was one of the organisations key sponsors since 2012. the partnership were 40000000 years a year, had previously already attracted criticism. russia is being told clearly that at present it is unwelcome in the world of sports.

one of the 1st athletes to openly condemn vladimir putin aggression in ukraine was bloodiest love yet as if it's just weeks ago. you may have seen his face and his call for peace during the winter olympics in beijing. he's the ukranian skeleton athlete who put is no war message out there. after one of his runs at the games. as russia was amassing nearly 200000 troops on his countries borders that his life, he asked if it's dorothy now from north west ukraine. welcome to the w at the i a c and china both said the athletes shouldn't protest, but you did. so anyway, tell us about that moment. i will not fall. it's brought us, it's a quality quote because they're not mentioned any other cancer, just mentioned my country and that they want to be in my country. and i want to piece for people who lives in my country. and when you're back home now and

you'll get it out of bomb shelters, and you could even be asked to fight. have you heard anything yet? and they do explain for you is what the situation is like where you are now i am, it's now for mom to on the play button to your exposure, but i hear it that morning get yesterday evening. so it's absolutely terrible. see what i see. and i spoke with my friends around the rain and it's, it's terrible situation. they like rational ducks, kids that civilians it's, it's terrible. it's terrible that our all feminist in your current suffering. now because of this invasion and i hope it will and sure that's understandable. have you been spoken to about joining forces to help fight?

is that been a discussion you've had yet? i want to buy a new experience, you know, interesting and not a professional sold or i'm professional of that. and then so i fight on my lot for and i fight on my way to support their growth community. that's is that, that's the most important point. you are, of course, an athlete. and you were one of the athletes who was demanding that russia and bella roost, be suspended from competitions. i mean, despite the international paralympics committee is decision, very little is actually change for russian athletes. what did you think when you heard the news is unacceptable. it's very important to mention that russian audits, not only you know, the big sports, but the big sports also going to quality that they are members of military ration, you know, to so they have states connection to,

to the war what we have now. secondly, legs eventually crane is away the bridge in the need to know about the chapters. and they said they should have strong sanction. but now it looks like nothing's changed for them and they're ready to compete on their national park in june the games. and also like as we know, the face of the country in some way, some side view. so i like they use as propaganda. i already got a lot of messages from russia and i showed one of them in instagram my in. so russian are good to me, like get bumping my house so they, they mines are already in propaganda and it should be suspended from from the sport . thank you for that,

but i do say say thank you for talking to us for both the world governing body fee for suspended russian teams from all competitions. the decision bands, russia from the upcoming world cup playoffs, the women's heroes and the men's well cup. here is a look at a frantic few days in world football. as feature was convinced to take a stand. russia hosted the last men's world cup in 2018 russian president vladimir putin and fif abbas johnnie infant tino acted like best friends. even then, many in football were uncomfortable with russia hosting a world cup falling. it's 2014 annexation of crimea. now, after the invasion of ukraine through russia, out of this year's tournament, and qatar in november and december, has become the big topic for the globe's biggest sport. even if russia had not even qualified yet for condemns, as well. the use of force by russia, ukraine,

violence is never a solution fee for initially said russia could no longer hold any international matches at home with mutual venues used without any fans. no russian flags or anthems would be permitted, and the national team would be known as football, union of russia, rather than russia. but this was not enough of a punishment for the invasion of ukraine, according to poland, sweden, and the check republic. those nations were future or potential opponents for the russians in marches. playoffs for katara. after consultations with our players on the polish national team, the decision was made that it does not matter in what location we do not want to play against russia. and this way, we want to show our protest against putin's aggression against ukraine. you don't? okay. england followed suit in saying they would not play russia for the foreseeable future. this all gay fee for no real wiggle room when it came to russia,

playing at the world cup with the international olympic committee, also adding to the pressure. despite infantry nos close bond with putin, he's been left with little choice. let's get a global view now from the group global athlete. kara donovan is a former world champion kickboxer and now speaking to speaking to and for world class athletes around the world. thank you very much for joining us and welcome to the show. we're seeing some unprecedented decisions concerning how reluctant global sports has been in the past to punish russia. is it too little too late in your life? yeah, i think like, while there's been a huge amanda statements coming from different sports federations, i think 1st of all, we have to look at the plot, the detail as i like the lympics, for example, on monday they really did possible because they happened to actually sanction their limpid committees of russia and bella roost. and so we need to any go further and

it's definitely late in the day. and we have to see more sciences and start with the binding of oxy in russia, or from russia and batteries in the pilot. the game starts this week. some say the although this is part of sports washing machine, could you tell us what that is exactly and how it works? well, sports washing is certainly not a new concept. it is used by a lot of talk. tar. terry and regimes to cover up, for example, human rights abuses and i know spacing olympics, par lympics has been widely criticized for the use of sports washing. and sports has been an enormous part of russia's political agenda, both domestically and internationally. and so that's why we are calling on the very sanctions almosha. i'm by the way because they will use these games they will use for it to cover up to cover up on just actions at home. and to use this as part of

their agenda. and it's something that we are seeing more and more of because the likes of sports, the i o. c, in particular, they've been complicit in this. they've been very, very happy to sit by and allow these types of countries use forward for all the wrong reasons. you say they've been complicit? do you think it's national sport and bodies have actually left from this? do you think they will act differently when they host countries in the future? it's, you know, it's hard to answer the questions as part to me. that's a little optimistic, but i have heard people say that this is a huge. there's been a huge change now when we see all the sports federations come out with statements like they have with severe sanctions and we have to recognize that's not true. this is only the start, but i do think the fact that there has been so much public pressure. a lot of that pressure is come from our leads and that has forced a small piece of change. and i would be very helpful that our fees are going to grow from this and just put more and more pressure on for ventilation to make sure

that they don't get away with this. kero donovan from actually lead group global athlete. thank you so much for joining us. that's all from me in the sports team here in berlin for more check out our website, d, w dot com, forward slash sports. we leave you with images of solidarity across the different european football leagues. do take care. ah. ah ah

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