pushing the destruction against not pulling the invaders came to present that thing, shut down the neck to government is trying to destroy the indigenous people in with a large scale version of a project lead to grabbers or exploiting the amazon rain forest. indigenous peoples are now briefly opposing them. a long term report from the heart of brazil, stuart to march 9th on d. w. ah . tiptoeing around a deadly conflict. india has been among the nations reluctant to call our russian aggression again you against ukraine. get analysis of what the motives are of the world's largest democracy and whether they are likely to change. also coming up from fox wagon to ikea from b p to mastercard. many companies have stopped doing business with russia to take a look at what experts call

a shift in corporate responsibility. i'm 1st cobra, welcome to the program, indian prime minister and remote, he has voided condemning russia for its invasion of ukraine. this week has country again abstained in a un resolution deploring russia's actions, and here is the likely motive. in december modi and russian president vladimir putin signed an armed steel worth billions. russia will deliver its s $400.00 advanced missile defense system. india wants to protect itself against attacks from china and pakistan for more, let's bring in dw correspondent charo cartucker in new delhi char. why does this arm steal? have such a significance for net render modi's government? well, chris, i think it's not just as of the, the entire gamut of this straight relationship with russia is very important for

india because these figures are confidential not released by the government. but a lot of analysts believe that anywhere from 60 to 85 percent of india's infrastructure is rushing back to do the weapons and goodness i to systems. and the most important trade me right now focuses around this f 400 messiah defense system that russia is selling to the us selling to india. india has already been to one unit and i think 4 or 5 or more in the pipeline that need to become. this is something that india went ahead when, in spite of the threat of american sanctions. and interestingly, you with it yet to enforce those sanctions, which has made india and got to go ahead with this be. so overall, this relationship is very important for strategic reasons, as well as for defense reasons, which is possibly why is this thing from taking a very clear cut stand against russia in international fora. taro many companies

from the west have been cutting their tires with russia. how has the indian corporate world been reacting to the russian aggression? i think christine didn't go very well if no waiting to take a cue from the government. and since the government is yet to take a stand against russia, indian corporate have also chosen to remain mom or remain questions about what time they would like to take on the russian economy and doing business in russia. so none of them have taken the stand, for example, like the standard british petroleum has taken. that is something that is missing in india right now. and i think that is largely because of the line that the government up into is doing right now. chris, now, as russia ties with the west are deteriorating, are they likely than to intensify with india as it is the goal of china for well, you interest us a $1000000.00 question right now that everybody is tracking from journalists to

analysts. that is pressure, of course, just 2 days ago, the german ambassador in new delhi, he gave this interview to a media organization in which he said that germany is hoping that it will change its voting back in the united nations. now that's a very clear good statement, but we haven't yet heard what human chancellor has or indian prime minister, for example, or what you wish by them. for example, has stolen prime minister very quickly the countries these western nations are also trying their best not to give up the image that they are. they are pressurizing, india to take a clear to stand. but yet the nudging india to take a clear, good job. they are indicating that they are not too happy with the standard has taken especially at the un nudging, but it's still a tightrope. walk that india and the width most of them appear to be doing chris w charo carter k. i knew deleon, tara, thank you. while india's neighbor tr lanka is already going,

so when economic crisis, fuel reserves are low as our foreign currency reserves to import it and rising all prices, i'm at the russia ukraine conflict are making a bad situation worse. it's one long line of trucks waiting to get fuel. but with the oil price skyrocketing to more than $110.00 a barrel, sri lanka can't afford much of it. and even when gas stations do get the delivery problems persist or not they are they now, you know, i've been here since 7 am. yesterday the fuel came, but now they said there is no electricity to come pick it up. might be under the, on the, on the, on the one. that's because power plants have run out of fuel to ask for hydrogen power. reza was dried up and with monsoon season, 2 months away, there is little hope for things to improve. soon, authorities have no choice but to cut power supply. the land guys i know,

experiencing live, then be about, got good on that signing up. i was, he is he still do a duty is and money's being the natural cost that we had a meeting out. he sawyer what delivers therefore we need a good database and of hydropower. the other one is due to non negligible your what ex though it in and be counting board the necessary for with the power off stores are serving customers in the dark. if at all street lights are out a $1000000000.00 credit line from india aimed to alleviate, the situation always re lancoste, lack of funds is getting worse by the day. and that again is due to the war. after all, through lancaster main source of income, a t exports and tourism for both russia and ukraine are important markets. and for now, sidelined many multinational companies are halting operations, expansion plans and cancelling services and products of russia. that is from some

to ask whether russia's invasion is recurring. marks, a shift to how firms respond to conflict. the exodus of firms of western multinational from russia is unprecedented. leading brands are taking cover to avoid a financial or reputational hit. many boycott of the country before sanctions targeted their operations. no industry has been spared from the auto industry to the tech sector. the tech platforms right now are really doing a delicate dance in terms of i think it's important for them to stay operational in russia as it's one of the few tools that russian activists can use. that is not controlled by state media. it's one of the few ways of trying to get information out to counter what is coming from the russian government. and so they are trying to both stand up to the country, but also not go so far that to and just pull the plug totally. and then being being

available. other companies are bracing for the impact of their exit on their balance sheets. b, p split from russian energy from ra, snuff, could result in a $25000000000.00 right off while potentially reducing its global oil and gas production. by as much as a 3rd. many other western firms have dumped the exact same thing. exiting the market or suspending some or all of their activities. brands are trying to send a clear message about where they stand and not just by boycott in russia. i had a conversation with their executive team over the weekend and you know, we kind of asked them a hypothetical question. imagine, you know, it was world war to an air b be was around, how would we wanted to have helped we have wanted to do. it's just a hypothetical exercise, but when you do exercise like that, you realised that you would regret not doing more. if you cut out, didn't there been, be plenty to offer housing to up to $100000.00 people,

faleen ukraine, and whether it's a boycott or philanthropy. major western firms want to highlight how they are taking a stand following russia's invasion of ukraine, showing there's no separating business from geo politics. for more of this, i am not joined by allison, stored alan founder and ceo of international marketing partners. welcome back to the show allison, how surprised are you by this pretty much united standard restaurant companies in reaction to russia's war on your credit? well, i think the list of companies leaving is massively growing and growing quickly . i think what is absolutely the right thing to do is for these companies to cease trading their, the real question is whether they are just the spending operations temporarily, or whether they are permanently withdrawing from the russian market. for some, the russian market is a significant source of their revenue, and this will be

a very damaging commercial decision. however, the upside of that is that they build trust with the range of stakeholders, their consumers, their suppliers, their employees, their investors. so no doubt these companies will have weighed this up before making such a decision. do you see this as a major shift when it comes to responsibilities that corporations have? well, it's certainly very interesting that so many companies are taking action. and the real test is going to be when we look back at these companies in 3 years, 5 years time to see if in fact the promises they've been making are still being honored at that point. or are these just temporary opportunities to get people like us to talk about them? hopefully it's a bit more meaningful than that. and we of course,

now expect companies to take a stand on things like this. now this war has changed a lot here in europe and comes to the perception of how things are going in this union. do you think that that companies will be more sensitive when it comes to doing business in countries with geo political risk? i mean, can we expect them to take a stand even, you know, if in markets that may be more important than the russian market is to them. well, i think they will. i think we expect them to. and you know, if you think back to column cap or neck and nike position saying no, we're going to back this football, american football player who took the knee. you know, that was a risky decision. you could say for nike to potentially alienate several of its consumers. in effect, what it's done is it is improved,

our perception of the mikey brand is a brand that has values that it honors. and so i do think companies are expected now and the leaders, it's not just the brands, it's actually the leaders now as spokespeople on. 5 geo political events and yes, this factors into their risk assessment when they do business in different parts of the world doesn't at the same time, companies have been declaring their solidarity with war torn ukraine. but the margin for error is really thin. here in german supermarket chain, for example, publish an ad would read freedom as a provision against the backdrop of a ukrainian flag that cost a lot of backlash. how far can i should companies go in trying to market their solidarity? well, i think the, the way it works is you don't market your solidarity, you just take the decision and you maybe don't need to make

a lot of noise about the decision. you do the decision because you're driven by the values and the ethics of that decision. not because you're hoping to grow market share as a result of it was stored allen, head of international marketing partners. thank you for your thoughts and that wraps up our show. i'm chris coburn. berlin, thanks with they've had no peace for it for decades. people of iraq entre devastated and there's no end to the violence. how did it come to this group this is reveal and unprecedented story. he behaved exactly like

sit down and the poison spread their own misery, the 3 your life the great documentary series iraq destruction of the nation. this week 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. sport takes a stand from the football page to the paralympics and motor racing benz implemented and events cancelled as the door slowly shut on russia.

i'm nick mechanic line. welcome to this special edition of d. w. 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 some of the outcomes 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 buddhist league as 1st and 2nd tears clubs and fans denounced president vladimir putin and his milk.