ah, ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, ukraine, cause on its allies to seize and hand over russian assets. russia must be politically economically, but also financial. ukrainian, foreign minister was addressing g 7 foreign ministers meeting in germany, where the e. u has pledged an extra half a 1000000 euros in wetland spending. also on the program, north korea reports what it says is its 1st cove in 19 debt state tv says hundreds

of thousands of people are showing symptoms. experts say it's unlikely the isolated regime is equipped to manage the outbreak. and the clear favorites to win this she is eurovision song contest, o ukrainian coupon bonds channels, the emotions of a nation. this year's contest, culture and politics have become ah i'm so gale. welcome to the program. the european union has pledged another half a 1000000000 euros to help ukraine by weapons in its fight against russia's invasion. you foreign, the 1st chief joseph burrell, made the announcement on the sidelines of a meeting of g 7 foreign ministers in northern germany. ukraine is at the top of

the agenda and its foreign minister is amongst the invited guests, richer caliber urged his colleagues from some of the world's largest industrialized economists who overcome that differences and adopt an oil embargo on russia. but that's just what. and today i asked g 7 countries to adopt legislation and put in place all necessary procedures needed to seize russian sovereign assets and give them to ukraine. give them to ukraine for ukraine to use this money to rebuild our country to reconstruct our country. after all the damage inflicted in us, russia must be politically economically, but also financially as to entry for international correspondent richard walker, who's at our vice and house in northern germany, where that meeting of g 7 foreign ministers is taking place. welcome,

richard. so we have a clear message there from ukraine at what else did that mister collab, i have to say yet. so send it to labor. they're picking up on a flip plan that was actually put forward by canada's government to the end of april or to seize russian overseas assets clearing the assets of russian oligarchs, and in the canadian plan is to then provide that as compensation to victims of the war. and ukraine, so ukraine now taking a plan rather like that to the g 7 and to the rest of the world and saying it would like to see every country implement something like that. but also in terms of imposing costs on russia in trying to make sure that russia does not profit from this war. a labor underlining the importance of, of western countries breaking their dependency on russian energy, particularly oil and gas. now he talks, in particular about the european union's efforts to bring in a ban on russian oil import imports or which are currently being held up by hungary,

hungary, a country that is blocking that so far. this can be important meeting on that in brussels on monday to labor is going to be there. and he said is absolutely essential for the e. u. a to retain unity on this, not to be split on this issue of oil imports. and he describing the fact that russia was still earning a lot of money on oil and gas, or from western countries as a ridiculous situation. a dmitri caliber also address the global food security crisis. this war has sparked yet. that's right, phil, this has been quite a major focus of this pharmacist ministers meeting up here in northern germany so far, and alina bell. but the german foreign minister, drawing attention to this herself, are talking of 25000000 tons of grain that a held up in a ukrainian port say, can't get out of major ports if you like, odessa, and because of a russian blockade. dmitri caliber saying that russia has to live that lift that

blockade. and because otherwise, once the next harvest come in, they'll be a huge breakdown and the entire sort of flow of a ukrainian agriculture and thing that grain outs of markets around the world. and this mass is not just you train, this matters to many countries in the world. the world food program itself is wanting that some $40000000.00 people could be on the brink of starvation. if that grain doesn't get out into world market. ok, so what else can we expect to hear from today's meeting? yet we'll ukraine is absolutely dominating the agenda, roughly half of the sessions have some a reference to ukraine, but it's not the only thing that's going on in the world. of course, climate change, the major priority for the foreign minister here, a member of the green party. there's going to be a session on that tomorrow morning. and also china, very much the elephant in the room. as it had been early before this crisis erupted in europe. and there's going to be a couple of hours session talking about china. talk about the endo pacific, also talking about north korea. ok. also, there is just to try to remind

a g 7 member states that although the war is gripping the world's imagination, of course, the world keeps turning. and the rise of china in the, in the pacific, particularly presenting a major challenge to these western democracies that they want to keep discussions going on here and to, in northern germany today. ok, folks about richard richard walker at the do 7 meeting in the vice in house, in northern germany. i don't remember britain's defense ministry say ukraine's force is a water russian advance and the dog bass region. russian troops are facing several setbacks as ukrainian forces. i put up a strong counter offensive in the east cities that are under heavy bombardment with russia. fighting for control, ukraine's military says moscow's army storming 2 villages near the city of back. let's see if we can get an insight into the thinking of the russian president with mckayla cassini off. it was russian prime minister under president putin,

between 2002004, a form of putin ally. he became a leading political opponent and our lives in exile, joins us from an undisclosed location. and you are welcome to the w. can we start with where you stand on ukraine's on russia's war and ukraine? yeah, it's absolutely clear, absolutely fusions my original was absolutely clear from, from the beginning just in the region. go to georgia. and i'm a, i was one of the organizers all those who brought us marchers in moscow against, against the graeme. and of course, today's war is absolutely brutal, undertaken by mr. william them to keep just every normal russian, just in different beliefs. we absolutely can them this criminal like you don't miss you. it's interesting. you make the link back to georgia at georgia,

3 to go through crimea, and of course not to, to ukraine. do you see this as being, do you see the war rushes war? and you create as being part of our long term strategy that vladimir putin as being pursuing i wouldn't say just long term strategy with long term just patients or for of, for the western world and germany particular. and i think just like i'm going to remind you that in 2008 after just book each are providing. so just to answer your math or just throw a plan for you. great and georgia and the major, it was a and april 2014 right after that mr. we'll arrange the publication in georgia in bay, georgia, but the western walls are reacted ready when it comes to just to see months after they're just business. and he was all that was the relationship

including germany and that additional grammy of was that was just a major step of germany. first go. i remember america that she just was who impose sanctions against him. as a result of an occasional grammy and the war and done but, but it was not so missed a now. and so, just, just to be clear, you believe that we are here now with russia invading ukraine because the west did not act resolutely enough. right, to start this process, perhaps even going back as far as georgia. exactly. that's exactly the case, mr. put you as a result of those reaction western reaction, mr. put your take on this took this as i was, it took me to behavior and that's why he believes that by lation of international law that allows him to do this by west wall. all right, let's, let's,

let's see if we can back pick your brain as it were, given your knowledge of the man. let's, let's turn to he's, he's read public appearance. the may, 9th victory day parade. there was no declaration of war and no national mobilization as had been expected. why do you think those announcements weren't made? i didn't expect that would be announcement war and mobilization because of the reason if we don't want to thank them. we'll do this. we've done this with demonstration of his weakness, that special operational fail and just keep call for the whole russian. russian will help him to get out of the situation and that's why it wouldn't happen at it. but he actually missed a speech was upset of the week and he is, i would say it was a little bit nervous. i would say, i would say just wait to stop and thought i was losing the school, especially after all those demonstrations. so european union,

great region and united states, jo decisions on delivery of military equipment that is already just creating a some kind of, i've not yet, but some kind of advanced decisive advantage will be great in the future. i believe i am the father of russia is doing so badly in this war, perhaps not as well as would have been expected. what do you make of the fear that one of the reasons it's prosecuting this war so badly is that president putin isn't getting a full picture because he's generals and he's in a circle of scared to give him bad news. yeah, i'm sure he was misled. he believed that he is in great shape and he would undertake those efforts. these are great unless he goes within 35 days, one week maximum. and we'll get jones, my son, he wanted to change it in the us, the one that you can, you can remember she called for a minute, or it's just to change the resume by there. and that was, he's,

he is his goal. and why just south and east is from the prayer, but now he failed to achieve these. and that's why just i'm saying right now we're going to go to another stage. this can be decent. all right, a good about themselves. and that's why that's so important that united states made a decision to provide a land lease program. it means just a great, a potential for your brain and that that will be just lost a wall for a few months, i guess for, if we don't just take advantage of if you're not at all of the mind. having worked closely with vladimir putin early in the early years of his presidency, and indeed before that, how would you say he has changed? yeah, i worked with him 20 years ago. it was completely different. awesome. it was company, different situation that we have parliament and the problem with independent media

. we had to reduce through today's completely different poll mr. and destroy all features of democratic states. and now just we have absolutely offered a veteran. and originally and moving to dependent on this completely different person, completely different situation, right. good. talking to you. thank you so much feel insights, mikayla's cassini of a former russian prime minister, not political exile and coaching opponent. thank you. thank you. there is of northern ukraine where russian troops have retreated, face of massive and dangerous cleanup. security teams are trying to remove rockets, munitions, and mines as funny. fisher reports a broken leg. an injured spine will let em. your volume barely survived a land mine explosion. but you see you need time, much needed, come for it from his wife, while at amier was an assignment,

restoring electricity in the key phrygian when it happened. just when were you homeless? when we were driving in the car with my colleagues, there were 3 of us, the driver image, myself of and my boss. so are going to, we were talking about our plans for the next day. and then i don't remember anything from the, from a blue. that's when the car drove over a land mine value only survived because he was in the middle seat. he's colleague sitting next to him. died demining teams like this one work against a clock here in the churn have region. sometimes they're able to remove about 40 explosives per day. it's not nearly enough. like a kid you my it's a 3 amount of work is huge and now because the grass is growing and everything is blossoming, it makes it impossible to work faster than what's harder. for instance, to see booby trap was to rydner, rusty oscar booby traps are banned. by international law, the team's task today,

a controlled explosion of this hurricane rocket, full of cluster munitions, indiscriminate weapons that can cause many fatalities before the war, people came here to walk. now even that has become risky. after we throw all of russian forces. as you can see, they have left behind a lot of land mines, unexploded munitions like this one. and now they pose a threat to farmers who need to work on their land, but also to all the civilians who simply accidentally happen to step on one of these here in the forest or in their backyard. it will likely take yours to the mine ukraine, as the war ages on me, how yellow explains philosophy statistically one month of war equals one gear of d, mining over civilians get blown up by these traps. words those who have nothing to

do with any of this and never wanted to be part of this war in the 1st place. it wasn't brought to part. one of them here, physical injuries were, he'll say, but he must cope with the mental impacts to go with the bouquets. what can i say when you speak to a person is and a minute or 2 later, you understand that this person is not alive anymore. this is the very heart just, but someone needs to know the child. a woman. mother's comes with 2 of these by the hidden danger of minds and other explosives. he wants to continue this dangerous job and bring electricity back to the people. clashes of broken arch in jerusalem ahead of the funeral of a prominent palestinian american journalist. israel time security ahead of the service for sri and i will actually expecting thousands of horns to return the call to 0. 4 to was shots during i'm is re the, i'll be right on the janine refugee camp and the occupied westbank, israeli,

and palestinian authorities of traded accusations over who was to blame israeli army sent an interim investigation could not determine who fired the fatal bullet. well i jerusalem correspondent tanya cremmit joins us at nash, my side. the hospital mushroom apparatus, coughing was a welcome atanya of what's going on of her. we just witnessed some very violent and very sad scenes. i'm standing here right in front of the hospital here in 6 or are in east jerusalem. ah, where there was supposed to be in the beginning of a very, a quiet, you know, possession, taking the body of sharina. we're actually from here to it's the old sit in on the buddy has been moved now, but when the 1st try there was a crowd inside the courtyard of the hospital here. and then he saw some very violent scenes police coming in there also some apparently were standing outside

some a tear gas fired. there were a lot of palestinian flags that were waived that were possibly the reason are for the police to going in. we can't confirm that yet, but we are, the body has now be moved. so she is been taken now to the old city where there will be a church as service. and then she will be laid to rest just outside the old city and the cemetery along a side of her parents. and to tell us about the investigation into sharina, blacklist that death. how is that proceed? well, there has been no conclusive for result yet. and i both sides are excuse accusing each other. so it started on wednesday morning with the news that our sharina, our actually was a short in the head and also another, a 2nd, a journalist. it was

a group of palestinian journalist in the jenin refugee camp. that's and the northern part of the occupied westbank covering an israeli rate. so another journalist was also a shorter in back and to read about actually was shot in the head and killed there . so idea is really a military said in the beginning on wednesday morning that it might have been possible or likely that there was a that there was fire by a palestinian gunmen that there was cross fire palestinian jealous down the ground . have disputed this account late on wednesday, the israeli army chief of staff has said it is at the moment, are not possible to determine who are fired the so there's of course, a lot of pressure by the international community also by the u. s. administration to get to the bottom of what happened there. there was even there were also my israel for joint investigation, but to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas. it said yesterday,

there was an official memorial service for people in ramallah to say goodbye because most of them cannot come here to jerusalem and also an official memory. so he said he is refusing to do so and wants to take the case to the i. c, c. thank you so much for that type of crime in jerusalem. that in north korea, which has reported its 1st official death from covey. 19 a day after ordering a lockdown in response to which 1st confirmed outbreak, the country's leader kim jo own was a brief that the emergency epidemic prevention headquarters. st. media say 6 people have died from fast spreading fever, but one testing positive for the corona virus omicron variant. north korea claim to have had no coverage, 19 infections during the pandemic on your studio. some of them are john, the main came is her correspondence at m k muse, which monitors north korea from us, the south korean a capital. so as she told me more about the situation in the north this is

a all in all very concerning situations, it seems that right now, around $200000.00 are under quarantine after fever. and so far, it seems that more than $350000.00 north koreans were likely under quarantine after fever as well. it seems under the reason why they're referring to this as a fever. it could be coming from the lot of coven 19 test. good. but all in all, it seems that because also seeing this is infection was in tongue, but there were like more contact starting from wherever the virus came from. and because they have no vaccine administered across the country. the situation is very grave right now for the north koreans. so let's pick up the point about the course of this outbreak of what's being speculated. there are multiple

possibilities, but because north korea does not release any contact tracing information. it's tea leaf reading right now. but i think the major possibilities, april 25th military parade, there were people not rearing masks dancing, holding a very grand ceremony incoming young. and there were people flown to the capitol from the border region and other areas. and it seems that that may have been a super spread, or if we look at the state, nita saying that the fever across the country, it was since late april and other possibilities could be smugglers across the country. china north korea border but then the border was largely locked down bud. so to me it seems that the april 25th has a large biggest possibility of being able to source of the infection. ok, so we have this isolated country with this outbreak over. i'm a mixing to no coded vaccines of the country still under sanctions. how do i get out of this?

i'm just going to say they will have to change their direction of their policy of just bored or locked down. they have been very confident about trusting their entire, put them in system, which they have changed to maximum and yeah, for the new system right now. but they have not been allowing the kovacs vaccines. so there are 0 vaccines that says it needed to north korea. right now, so they will have to show more willingness to take the foreign aid in order to resolve this situation for the north korean people. ok, thank you for that. joe men came from and can use and so fun to pop music are looking forward to the eurovision song contest, fine. oh, this weekend. it's of the hosting, what's become one of the most popular tv events in the world, with maybe 200000000 viewers having entered tomorrow's final into room one song, there's a clear favorite. oh ukrainian

for hip hop and candles. orchestra is riding a wave of good will at the eurovision song contest this year. while i am the contest top prize. there songs tiffany of fuses, traditional ukrainian folk music with hip hop, underscoring the importance of ukrainian culture and tradition. it's a tribute to frontman alexio's mother and although written before the war, the song has come to symbolize the mother of an entire nation with the ukrainian band field, huge responsibility representing their country. at a time when fellow citizens are defending their homeland against russia's continued assault with on them on this is so important for us because these days they're trying to destroy our culture. and we're here to prove that ukrainian culture and ukrainian music are alive. they exist and have a unique signature on

a fortune. 41 countries qualified for this year's contest at russia was excluded from the event in the wake of its invasion of ukraine in february, a clear change of tune for a contest that has always maintained its not a political event. but politics are everywhere, even if ukrainian fancy the music does offer some comfort and respite arisen with like a breach of normal life that we have before the war started. and may be like for a couple of units for an hour day work or just to save money on my, my best friends or my, my girls that are in kyo, from where you while. and i also where this causes them from him. because i know what they built. so the the things in the words i, i don't want anyone in europe to insurance,

so it needs some work and needs or want to understand what's your credit is going through right now. everyone is affected and that could happen to everyone in the europe at rehearsals, ensure in the members of color orchestra are doing their best to keep the momentum . oh no. barbara mauricio cransberg. any victory in any aspect would be very important for ukraine these days. because winning the eurovision song contest would lift the spirit of ukrainians, and it would be very good news because we don't have much good news these days on the la. on often that i bought the hospital in boston, just culture and politics, clearly inseparable at this year's eurovision song contest. an event that holds more significance than most europeans can ever remember. his reminder of our top story. at this hour, he was announced another half a 1000000000 euros to buy weapons for you cried as g 7 foreign ministers gather for

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license to work as a swimming instructor dish and now i teach children who don't stick with. what's your story? take part. share it on info, migrants dot net ah at the recent annual parade to mark russia's war time. victory over nancy, germany. vladimir putin looked like a man pushed close to the limits of his forces, and indeed he faces serious setbacks. the russian invasion of ukraine, which he ordered has lost nearly all of its momentum, with the ukrainian side, putting up south resistance, a russian victory like the warning world war 2 appears far from likely. so on to the point where you ask parade without victory is potent leading russia into disaster.