the w business beyond. here's a closer look at the project. our mission. to analyze the fight for market dominance. if this is way, get it ahead. with the business beyond ah, 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. russia 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 re 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 of war takes human lives. certainly in the most tragic sense, it kills people, but war also destroys hopes and dreams laying 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 add to my sadness that i thought we all cried a lot and didn't understand what was going on. what had happened. now we're 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 and 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 to profit whether low even have a harvest this year is unsure it because 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 to go with them, which will even do to just on my own. on was result, eat your food together with your ukrainian friends there. now organizing ain't conference to ukraine. several trucks are already on route the donations come from ordinary germans who have shown great willingness to help us both investment of where we are in western ukraine. the supply situation is pretty good. there's food. 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 fondle, vic, dish dietrich mckee of and as soon as it's safe to the,

to farmers plan to return to ukraine themselves. and that is where they are needed as apply conditions of 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 selling 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, we'll pay off in the end as a feeling like many countries like moldova, alaska can no longer afford the fertilize at all hope to my life. this good many countries have no diesel, any mo ethan, which is now clear that no spring crops are being song mixed up. every farmer who has stored wheat is now making money cents prices are higher than they've ever been . this company in northern germany is shipping wheat to north africa. the a 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, if we'd cost somewhere around $450.00 euro's a ton, then it has to be shipped to north africa. iran saudi arabia, egypt, or algeria,

which means additional freight costs of $40.00 or 50 euro's a ton. so the price is almost $500.00 euros per ton thought in an function of the 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 that the number of under nurse people as already growing again and approaching one villians. the vixen with only still on the may yada 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 ahmed, at winter nails such in this flower mill process, is around 1000 tons of wheat into flower for bakeries every day. the mills owner

yon quarters meyer 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. endorsement is older in germany, around half the wheatley produces 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 dieter loafer is hoping for enough sunshine and rain so that there is sufficient week 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 and 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, the prices for air freight have gone up 4 fold. and it's likely just the beginning as t most roll from germany's freight forwarder association yamil. when a man, we've seen a huge increase in energy prices time and the record levels for crude oil mean

intern higher transportation costs voided him home course love, puns bought cost, and then natalie's toya. a development keenly felt by stefan hot maya c e o 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 that is our hoyde a fucking booth when booking freight deliveries these days, that you can't assume they'll be space available right away. am as fish, there are changes happening constantly or you know, it's sometimes like at a bizarre does one in every day. you basically have to renegotiate prices and cargo capacity with the airlines talked, talked and i founded an air freight 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 to russian, rendering them unusable for college in the immediate future. it's the same with

rail length. 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. frankfurt airport alone has seen a 20 percent drop in its usual air freight volume hippy owen feathering on it 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 with a overflight rise will be reopened. with that, 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 both goods that way and even the few cargo planes operating between asia and europe that are still not subject to restrictions, have to take detours through telecom is amazing. now the planes have to fly far greater distances, which means more fuel the don't ultimately, this means the logistics provider paying more transportation costs, so i get 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 rushes, invasion insider space 2 over 250000 volunteers, answered the call of the countries deputy prime minister and minister of digital transformation. b. hi lo, fedor of and joined it's i t. army, they're aim to launch cyber attacks on russia. it kind of members that they have

include sort of patriotic happy vests and the on the type of attacks they're doing . and while they might be disruptive and sometimes embarrassing, say, taking off in a government websites offline and that, but then no set of and a cyber war sort 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 other day we impact access to water access to food, access to energy access to healthcare? and that's what we are facing now in terms of risk of is good. but hackers began attacking ukraine even before russian tanks did. government and banking websites

went offline and malware, whites of 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 white hard drives and servers on what we saw in 2017 with the no pet your attack, which was quite a large scale attack. and was it impacted and many industries around the world, including the world shipping and mass shipping and matching? and so i think it affected and many industries and caused a global coast around $10000000.00. so it was, it was quite large scale impacts 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 is a computer place animals, one that's also connected to a network. these devices alone contain masses of cyber technology to ukraine also uses social media to fend off rushes attacks be halo fedor off has been actively tweeting for peace. he asked elan musk for starlight user terminals to keep ukraine's internet up and running. and musk delivered, fed, or off, then called on companies to boycott. russia. many of now pulled out of the country, causing huge economic damage. debt, 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 institute 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, and 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 can 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 song from the university of london about the relationship between the 2 countries. after the russian attack on ukraine is a strategic partnership between russia and china. china is now clearly the senior partner and russia, the 2 new 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 $210.00 and $4.00 you claimed 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 in the water than later. polite edge, the result will be that po tuned is not too 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 buyer of russian timber, with imports worth 4100000000 dollars last year. chinese, russian economic lanes relatively small compared to the condo mainland china has with the west or even with the e u, china's economic ties with uses. so it's, i think, 45 times that china's tre, with russia telling us sells 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 wheel chinese ambition and the shipping is global, is not regional. and they are full shipping, does not want a returned to the coal with the whoa being bifurcated into 2 blocks with china and russia on the one side and bench. the american mesh western being on the other side . china wants it to be a globalized well, in which china is that tall, tall. china really wants one thing to trade with as many countries as possible. and conflict and 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 where 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 wifi

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 just because it's a huge source of revenue for the swiss state. and all mcclellan few 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 hold of emma is skeptical to some tilden wouldn't 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 consume and 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 is really involved of 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. i think it's over stained of meeting talk soon, and it's important to appreciate that the sanctions also require bass to notify the authorities above russian customers. as funky, highly thanking secrecy, has never been absolute calm. 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 i monitors dealings

on the raw materials market and knows how important the sector is for russia right now. does it not to that? it makes up a substantial part of latter mere putin's war chests 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 of 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 the 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 to all. there are lots of options. pouch cas, thanks to the sanctions, off the financial transactions business is now even more lucrative. they knock look

up the if we have all of called cossack tilden, who of emma now lives a quiet life outside zurich, but remains highly critical of switzerland's banks and government. he wants strict laws for more stringent supervision of the financial market place, but sees little or no political interest. and that wraps up our show for this week, for the, the latest developments on the fighting in your cry and be sure to check out our website. that's d w dot com for now. thanks for watching casias with,

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