ah, let me take a policeman. follow with you. we are here is actually on fire made for mines. ah ah ah ah, 3 and a half 1000000 people about the population of berlin have already fled the war in ukraine. that's according to the united nations. many have lost their homes and their loved ones, and it doesn't, and they're experts say, now the risk of widespread famine is rising, both in ukraine and other parts of the world brush and ukraine, produced about

a 3rd of the world's wheat and both export their grain to the middle east and north africa and other countries where millions are already malnourished, could also be effected, such as somalia, chad, madagascar, or bangladesh. if the wheat price keeps rising, many may be unable to afford staples like brit. how much of a global burden will the war in ukraine become? that's our topic this week on made. i'm chris cobra book. war takes human lives, certainly in the most tragic sense. it kills people, but war also destroys hopes and dreams length to waste. what so many have worked so hard to accomplish? that's what's happening to the 2 farmers in our 1st report. russia's invasion of ukraine has forced them to leave everything behind. these 2 german farmers fled ukraine. now they were living in germany, in a village, outside of berlin. they'd spent a decade in ukraine managing

a big farm that grew wheat and corn. then the war came d as to that, so my 1st reaction when i left ukraine with all the others we drove away with was just sadness that i thought we all cried a lot and didn't understand what was going on. what had happened now or here, and we've switched into action mode, or newburgh, or gone, they've left their machines, fields their whole lives as they knew them behind fire internet. they keep in touch with their 10 employees in ukraine, a few or at the front. others are trying to keep the farm going. this is video from last year's harvest. it was a good one. the farm turned a profit. whether low even have a harvest this year is unsure it the course of hogs of your on the big question is whether we be able to get enough diesel fuel. if it was already nice and hot,

it looks bad right now as we run out in the coming days. and of course, we need to be able to plant the summer's crops and keep turning to the winter was in a mini mallet. if we get a minimal amount of diesel, we concentrate on what we've already cultivated and tried to bring in that harvest and to do it to billing or to do it all with them, which will even due to just a mild banos result, eat your food together, with their ukrainian friends, they're now organizing aim convoys to ukraine. several trucks are already on route. the donations come from ordinary germans, who have shown great willingness to help. are the bones investment of where we are in western ukraine. the supply situation is pretty good. there's food done. what we're bringing to ukraine now is going through friends and contacts into the war torn areas. their conditions are catastrophic. if kevin, mario polar encircled nobody, nothing there. so are people are driving straight into give voice to funnel vic

dish dietrich nike of one and as soon as it's safe to the 2 farmers plan to return to ukraine themselves. and that is where they are needed as supply conditions are worsening, not just in ukraine, but around the world. the wheat prize has risen by around 50 percent in recent months and is likely to go higher. ukraine usually supplies 30 percent of the world's wheat. now is the time when farmers should be sewing seeds, instead they are defending their country. and with the next harvest at risk, countries already struggling to feed their populations. a worried ah, nitrogen fertilizer is more expensive than ever. the war in ukraine is disrupting global supplies. sending prices skyrocketing dieter la, for is currently fertilizing his fields in eastern germany. but he's using far less than normal diesel fertilizer. everything has become extremely expensive. he can

only hope that the money he's invested in his wheat fields this year will pay off in the end as a feeling like many countries like moldova, alaska can no longer fault the fertilizer at all. hope to my life is good. many countries have no diesel, any mo ethan woods now clear that no spring cross are being song mixed up. every farmer who has stored wheat is now making money since prices are higher than they've ever bid. this company in northern germany is shipping wheat to north africa. the homburg and russ stuck dealers can hardly keep pace with demand, even though the price of wheat has nearly doubled in the last few weeks. to close it at about, depending on daily fluctuations, we'd cost somewhere around $450.00 euro's a ton of them has to be shipped to north africa, iran saudi arabia, egypt,

or algeria, which means additional freight costs of 40 or 50 euro's a ton. so the price is almost $500.00 euros per ton. thought in franklin, i mean many farms in ukraine are well equipped and rely on modern technology. that's one reason why the country has been able to sell wheat far and wide from indonesia to nigeria for a reasonable price. but the war has completely shut down ukraine's wheat exports. ya yet, shaw, according to the latest un report, the number of under nurse people already growing again and approaching 1000000000. the vixen with only sto, i'm in the yard mention when this fits the fears is that the explosion and commodity prices that we are currently seeing will mean a further increase and malnutrition nama, it won't. i. a nail stuck in this flower mill process is around 1000 tons of

wheat into flower for bakeries every day. the mills owner yon court is myer expects prices to increase around 20 percent. he's calling for a reduction in meet production in order to stabilize grain prices and also to ensure enough food for poorer countries. and so i sent a disorder in germany around half the wheatley produce is used to feed pegs and other livestock for the meat industry for them. but i need 7 kilos of grain to produce only one kilo of meat. why? and that's where you wonder whether it still makes sense to be using so much wheat for meet production flush at so long ago. but whether that kind of major shift in thinking will happen in the near term, all against the backdrop of war is questionable. for now, farmer deed allow for is hoping for enough sunshine and rain so that there sufficient weight to produce bread next year while things look rather bleak and

other economic sectors as well. western sanctions against russia are also hitting e u. countries like a boomerang in response to the kremlin aggression, many companies have put their business with russia on hold. and the war ukraine is adding more stress to already strained supply chains, which could make the prices of products we use every day. more expensive. these pallets will soon be headed to various destinations in asia, but here at europe's biggest freight hub in frankfort space for everything from pharmaceutical items to machine spare parts has become scarce on board. these planes. frankfurt used to see 20 russian cargo planes landing here every week. those aircraft are now out of the equation as are the 2000 tons of goods being loaded and unloaded. as a result, prices for air freight have gone up 4 fold. and it's likely just a beginning as t most roll from germany's freight forwarder association yamil. when a man,

we've seen a huge increase in energy prices and the record levels for crude oil mean intern higher transportation costs voided him home. garage love puns bought costing that natalie's toilet. a development keenly felt by stefan hot maya, ceo of a mid size see an air freight company. among with cargo space becoming a limited commodity, he faces a daily struggle to ensure his parcels find a place. then he offered a fucking pu when booking freight deliveries these days. though you can't assume they'll be space available right away him. as fish, there are changes happening constantly. you know, it's sometimes like at a bazaar, thus one, even every day you basically have to renegotiate prices and cargo capacity with the airlines. talked, talked no fonder. and airframe is not the only branch of logistics affected. a lot of the truck drivers employed in the european haulage industry are ukranian and are now unavailable due to the war. plus the usual road routes between western europe

and asia passed through russia, rendering them unusable for haulage and the immediate future. it's the same with rail links. freight trains from china normally make several trips a week to europe. likewise, by a russia the primary losers are small and mid sized freight forwarders, who have to compete with major global operators like d h l for space on freight planes. oh, frankfurt airport alone has seen a 20 percent drop in its usual air freight volume. if dylan federal means predatory competition where the big boys come 1st and for smaller operators, it's becoming increasingly difficult to find freight capacity to say that via purchasing long term cargo space is incredibly difficult of this is a when the airlines don't even know where things are going and how the market will develop over the summer shadel and of where the overflight rise will be reopened

and wouldn't, it's not easy. it's a neat info. meanwhile, see roots are for the time being, at least not a viable option either. the big container freighters are already running several weeks behind schedule. a consequence of 2 years of locked downs, closed ports, and other pandemic related conditions. keeping international supply chains, moving with air, freight alone is basically impossible. the costs are to hi to deliver boat goods that way and even the few cargo planes operating between asia and europe that are still not subject to restrictions. have to take d tours through saga ms. mason. ashley over the plains have to fly far greater distances, which means more fuel for going. ultimately, this means the logistics provider paying more transportation costs target on and that's passed on to the customer. so prices go up in the supermarkets in cuba, mark megan, requesting a home and goods deliveries become sporadic at best. that means for european

consumers, there is no longer an unrestricted supply of asian goods, ranging from cooking oil to consumer electronics. an empty store shelves could become increasingly common site the battle between russia and ukraine is not only being fought with guns, tangs and bombs. digital warfare is also being waged. hackers have been attacking targets in ukraine and russia. the power grid, water supply, government websites, or aid groups during the 1st days of the war, cyber attacks against ukraine's government and military rose by 200 percent. with an army of hackers is taking warfare to a new frontier. ukraine is fighting russia's invasion in cyberspace. 2 over 250000 volunteers, answered the cause of the country's deputy prime minister and minister of digital transformation. b. hi lo, fedor of and joined it's i t army their aim to launch cyber attacks on russia.

it kind of members that they have include sort of patriotic activists and on the type of attacks that doing. and while they might be disruptive and sometimes embarrassing. so taking off, you know, government websites offline and that, but then no city of n, a cyber war city of declaration, i would say much more of an embarrassment. the warn ukraine is mainly being waged with physical weapons. bombs are dropped on cities and homes are being destroyed, causing people to flee. but beyond these highly visible attacks, others are also being carried out online by both sides. when is the attack we impact access to water, access to food, access to energy, access to healthcare? and that's what we are facing 9 times of risk of is good. but hackers began

attacking ukraine even before russian tanks did. government and banking websites went offline and malware, whites the data on infected computer systems. in 2014, a major cyber attack was launched on ukraine's presidential elections. in the next 2 years hackers knocked out parts of the power grid in 2017 malware. not petula wiped hard drives and servers on what we saw in 2017. with notepad to attack, which was quite a large scale attack. was it impacted and many industries around the world, including the world, shipping and must shipping and mention. and so i think it affected and many industries and caused a global coast around $10000000000.00. so it was, it was quite large scale impact around the world. the series of suspected russians,

cyber attacks, continues to this day. everything from spyware to data fishing to digital attacks on infrastructure, including power plants, military communications are being targeted too. busy fortune. in essence, every tank, every aircraft as a computer pixels. one that's also connected to a network of these devices alone contain masses of cyber technology to ukraine also uses social media to fend off rushes attacks. we follow fed her off, has been actively tweeting for peace. he asked elan musk for starling user terminals to keep ukraine's internet up and running. and musk delivered, fed her off, and called on companies to boycott russia. many of now pulled out of the country, causing huge economic damage. that digital minister and mr. federal has been quite active on twitter and,

and sort of pressuring c o's of large companies, t boycotts and russian businesses. even though bombs caused more visible damage than computer viruses, traditional and cyber warfare can both have devastating effects. the ukraine war fall out and sanctions against russia have dimmed prospects for global economies. the keel institutes for the world economy has tried to gauge the impact of a long term economic embargo against russia. and according to these estimates, russia would lose around 10 percentage points of g d p growth each year, lithuania, around 2 and a half in germany, almost half a point. the u. s. and russia only have loose trade ties, so ramifications would be slim, and the chinese economy could even slightly benefit. now, with its attack on ukraine, russia has isolated itself from much of the international community. that's why

moscow is now increasingly turning to china for beijing. this means forging stronger ties with russia while not risking the one that has with the west a partnership without limits. that's what she and ping and vladimir putin promised each other time. and again, the chinese and russian presidents have demonstrated their solidarity. china and russia are strategic partners, even if they don't always see eye to eye. i spoke to china expert steve son from the university of london about the relationship between the 2 countries. after the russian attack on ukraine. in this strategic partnership between russia and china, china is now clearly the senior partner and russia, the junior one. except that is true, the a partner thus managed to get

a lot of things stunned. and therefore, it does get a lot of respect from the senior partner, but the reality is that the chinese economy is multiple times bigger than the russian economy. following the invasion, the west has distance itself from russia. governments have imposed sanctions, and companies are pulling out of the country. russia's economic dependence on china is growing, creating a difficult situation for the chinese partner. china neville wanted this watch to begin with. she campaign offered unlimited friendships to putin and clearly, with a mistaken understanding that whatever cuckoo tin have planned for you craned it will be quick. it will be surgical, it will be efficient and effective. and chinese interest in ukraine, which are quite substantial, will not be hom, china wouldn't much prefer to war and show no wanted than later. polite each,

the result will be that po tuned is not true. weakened. in 2021 russian trade with china rose to a rec. hi, $147000000000.00. russia is currently the 2nd largest supplier of oil to china, with more than 15 percent of in ports. and russia supplies 5 percent of china's natural gas. in 2019 china allowed the import of soybeans from russia. beef and wheat are also imported. china is also a large fire of russian timber, with imports worth 4100000000 dollars last year. chinese, russian economic lanes relatively small compared to, to kind of things. china has with the west or even with the e u, china's economic ties with uses. so it's, i think, 4 or 5 times that china's trade with russia, china cells, machinery,

cell phones, cars and consumer goods to russia. last year, exports increased by about a 3rd. russia is an important partner for china, but just one of many. china has strategic partnerships with many countries and doesn't want to jeopardize it's close ties with the west. the real chinese ambition and the shipping is global is not regional. and they have full shipping. does not want a returned to the cold war, with the woe being bifurcated into 2 blocks with china and russia on the one side and bench, the american mesh west being on the other side. china ones is to be a globalized well in which china is the top. oh, china really wants one thing to trade with as many countries as possible and

conflict in war, definitely stand in the way of that global. he can amik interest and a speaking of balancing acts, switzerland has long been proud of its political neutrality, which helped its economy prosper, even when war raged outside its borders. but am, if the outcry over russia's aggression, switzerland has joined the west and sanctions against moscow. freezing assets of russian firms, banks, and wealthy individuals, will this help head russia where it hurts a former swiss banker has his doubts. zurich is home to a host of luxury stores with the world super rich come to shop. many of them have accounts at swiss banks with russian oligarchs among the prime customers. and rudolph, elmer knows why he once had a job job at traditional private bank julius bear. but later came to international

renown as a wiki leaks whistleblower and critic of the world's financial sector in this might be guilt. angelique. the reason why oligarchs invest a lot of money in swiss banks is protection. they get from the secrecy laws, which are rigid and strength. ultimately, it's a system supported by the government and the courts because it's a huge source of revenue for the swiss state all mcclellan who then tried to stop, but pressure has been mounting on switzerland since rushes invasion of ukraine, which is probably why the country is supporting the sanctions against russian oligarchs. ideally, they'd be denied access to their assets. here to all of emma is skeptical the some tell them what the boss was were hesitant about introducing the sanctions that gave the oligarchs enough time to move their assets. plus, switzerland has a long history of consuming schemes and practices. the beneficial owner is so obscured out via came entrusts, and companies, or what have you,

that it's no longer clear who's really involved to help him. so for us, i up dasa, monique vice, very quick. the interstate, a claim rejected by the swiss bankers association, which insists it is complying with the sanctions. it's super stained of me thinks yawn, and it's important to appreciate that the sanctions also require bass to notify the authorities about russian customers as funky, highly thanking secrecy has never been absolute home. it can be subject to a statutory reporting requirements, which is the case with these sanctions. most nominal alcohol, russian banks are also affected by the sanctions. some of them have been kicked out of the swift international payment system, though not gas from bank, which as offices in zurich, nor spare bank those exceptions, enable e u. members like germany, to continue buying oil and gas from russia. fearing protests spare bank covered its

corporate logo, outsides zurich, premises, and left the shutters down during the day. swiss and g o. public eye monitors dealings on the raw materials market and knows how important the sector is for russia right now. does it's not to that it makes up a substantial part of latter mere putin's war chests long and was always integral to his calculations which presumed at least this money would continue to flow. we're talking about $1000000000.00 a day with 80 percent the the swiss commodities market as a substance. so one of swift data centers located near zurich security has been stamped up due to potential russian, sabotaged. though rudolph, elmer doubts complete exclusion from swift, would hit russia that hard is get to see the nucleus. there are various ways of circumventing this also via inter company accounting called banks own accounts, or semi official back doors and bartering too. or there are lots of options out cuz

thanks to the sanctions off the financial transactions business is now even more lucrative. a quote that knock look up the if we have all of called the thug tilden hood of emma now lives a quiet life outside zurich. but remains highly critical of switzerland, banks and government. he wants strict laws for more stringent supervision of the financial marketplace, but sees little or no political interest. and that wraps up our show for this week, for the, the latest developments on the fighting and you're crying. be sure to check out our website. that's d, w dot com for now. thanks for watching. cuz he has a, a, a

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