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a meeting of g 7 foreign ministers in germany. also on the program, violence breaks out ahead of the funeral of an al jazeera journalist israeli police tried to disperse, more or less a cheering apple act less burial. al jazeera says it's raining, forces killed her while she was doing her job. israel says it's unclear who fired the fatal shot and the clear favorite to win this year's eurovision song contest. oh, a hip hop band channels, the emotions of a nation in a context in which culture and politics have become ah i'm feel go welcome to the program. german chancellor. all i've shown so spoken by

phone with russian president vladimir putin and called for a seat in a crate. as soon as possible, president putin is said to have responded by blaming ukraine for stalling negotiations. but at a meeting of g 7 foreign ministers in germany, ukraine accused russia preferring wars to talks. attending the summit as a guest, ukrainian foreign minister, demitra labor, a cold on the garbage representatives of some of the world's largest industrialized economists to step up arm supplies to his country and put more pressure on russia. this is a you for the 1st 2 jobs that burrell use, the meeting to announce another half a 1000000000 euros in military aid to ukraine. g 7 countries of promise to support you, cried until victory. let's go through these events with the w political correspondent, benjamin alvarez group here in berlin. and that chief international correspondent richard walker, is at the g 7 meeting in vice in house,

in northern germany. welcome both. let's start with you. benjamin. what else did president putin and chancellor sholtes discussed today? it was a long phone call. germany said that it took 75 minutes were chancellor ala shoals urged the russian president to end the war. as soon as possible. germany says that the address, specifically the situation in mario paul and something that chancellor shoulds it tweeted afterwards. he said that the claim that not this rule in ukraine is full, something that president putin and in russia is of course, seeing as a pretext for its invasion in ukraine or richard walker. a lot of people going to be looking at was wondering what the chancellor shops might as well have saved his breath. why would the president brewton change his mind as a result of a phone call? is there any significance to his call? when of course, all i should say is a pretty long history in recent months of trying to communicate with vladimir putin

also in the weeks leading up to the war. he was one of the leaders who traits through moscow sat very long table in moscow and tried to communicate with routine, try to dissuade him for from beginning this war. obviously the war is now been underway for a long time. this is the 1st communication that they've had in several weeks. so it's quite striking that this phone could phone call has taken place now and on such a scale, it's 75 minutes. i think, you know, one of the things to stress about this kind of phone call is, is partly about we'll have sholtes getting his message across to vladimir putin trying to display the unity that the west has been so keen to show up with other partners within the west, but also for the germans have, for other people have tried to keep up communication with putin. it's also about the communication the other way. they want to try to understand where he is in his head and is at this place in this context. in this conflict, how close he might be to, to some kind of serious attempt at negotiations. so it's

a 2 way communication is not just about getting messages across a to vladimir putin is also back trying to understand me putin, his position at this stage in the conflicts and how close a things could be there to trying to find it negotiated into it. i benjamin of ours group of, i mean the 1st call in 6 weeks between the 2 liters. why pick up the phone now? it will look at the current context. ukraine is of course, in the topic of ukraine. the situation of the was taking center stage at the g 7 for a ministers meeting here in germany, the foreign minister collab. i met with a german politicians both from the government and also from a v, a position. but germany is taking a more active role. there has been a lot of pressure not only from the position, but also by government parties. it for sure to be quicker when it comes to deployment of heavy weapons. and germany is not just,

we'll send these heavy weapons but has also recently started training. ukrainian soldiers here in germany, so that's of course taking a more active role and what they saying, what germany is saying is the german chancellor olaf showed spoke to the ukranian president only a few days ago. so he's trying to maintain the contact. but of course, sholtes imputed there was a long silence for several weeks. the last phone call was at the end of march before we got those terrible pictures out of the city of boucher close to the ukrainian capital. so now he's trying once again to communicate it to both sides. so richard, let's talk about the stalled piece talks, because once again we have for each side blaming the other for a lack of progress. yeah, that's right, phil and dimitra collaborate. the ukrainian foreign minister is here in northern germany at this blustery setting for these talks of g 7 foreign ministers. he was asked about this just earlier when he came out to give

a statement about what is the status of potential negotiations, not just on the overall potential route to an end to this conflict, but also on a specific issue is trying to get ukrainian grain supplies back on to the seas pos to russian located. and he said that in both cases that the russians would not responding favorably to ukraine's suggestions for holding talks and saying that essentially russia prefers war 2 talks. now of course, both sides will be blaming each other for a lack of progress here, but of course, the benefit of the international community is going to be with the ukrainians. after all, it was the russians who invaded ukraine, is that it's pretty rich. some might say for the russians then to invade and then to say to the ukrainians, why aren't you talking to us? i know our chief intellectual editor walker. thank you for that. i did of the political correspondent, benjamin elbows group. thank you. i'll get an update on

the situation on the ground in ukraine from the w report or alex forest whitening ukrainian forces are continuing their counter offensive against russian troops in the north east of the country, most notably in and around car keys now khaki vis ukraine. second largest city and has been a major russian target since the start of moscow's invasion. at the end of february, russian troops have had some success in capturing areas around the city, particularly to the north. but ukrainian forces are continuing to push them back, and they claim to have recaptured several villages to the north east of car keys. they're also said to be within just a few kilometers of the russian border. ukraine's pushback is also helping to alleviate russian artillery pressure on the city of car key,

which is protecting civilians from russian ground for set shelling. but there are still russian rocket strikes on the city with at least 2 civilians killed on thursday. their military experts, though are beginning to wonder if ukraine's counter offensive around car keith is actually looking similar to that around the capital key, which russian troops were driven out of at the end of march. now russia has already taken the city of it's a bunch appears to be struggling to advance south from then. that's partly because ukrainian forces have been trying to count off russian supply lines north of the city. moscow though, is still very much focusing its power on the don bus region, which includes the cities of lou hence. and don g ask. now remember that prior to moscow's february invasion, rushing back separatist held a significant amount of territory there. and russian forces have been trying to win

circle ukrainian troops in the region, and there has been intense fighting there this week. now, although moscow's advance has been slow, even ukraine has acknowledged that russia has achieved a partial success. they're, as they have advanced towards cities like sabera don, yet now military experts believe russia will launch a ground offensive on or around that city. in the coming days, although they stress, it is not at all certain. if russia will succeed, but ukrainian forces are still putting up a very strong fight in the region. and british intelligence reported on friday that ukraine stopped russian troops trying to cross a river west of sabera, john. yes and ukrainian forces are said to have destroyed a bridge there and also parts of a russian army column. alex forest whiting. i've been speaking with mckayla cassidy

off. he was prime minister of russia under bruton between 2002004. a former ally of the russian president even became a leading political opponent and our lives in exile. i started by asking him where he stood on this war. yet it's absolutely clear. so sort of the fusions, my pollution was absolutely clear from, from the beginning just innovation, go to georgia, and then a, i was one of the organizers all those approaches marchers in moscow against, against the graeme. and of course, today's war is absolutely brutal, undertaken by mister fortune to keep just every normal russian just in different ways. we absolutely come them this criminal act. you don't miss you. let's do that . let's see if we can back pick your brain as it was given your knowledge of the man. let's, let's turn to he's, he's read public appearance. they 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 were made? i didn't expect that will be announcement war and modernization because of the reason if we don't want to thank them, we'll do this. we've done this. it will be 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 behavior 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 reason 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 is 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. yes, i'm sure he was misled. he believed that he is in great shape and he would undertake this efforts. these are gracious people within 35 days, one week maximum and we'll get jones much so he wanted to change it in the us. the one that you can remember she called for a minute or it just to change the resume by there. and that was he's, he is his goal and why just south and east is on 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 do some, all right, a little bit about themselves. and that's why it's so important that united states made a decision to provide a land lease program. it means just to create a potential for your brain, and 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 out 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. that was company, different situation that we have parliament independent of independent media because with today's completely different poll, mr. couldn't destroy all features of democratic states. and now just we have

absolutely offered a garden and gradually moving to, to put it on this completely different person, completely different situation, right? good. talking to you. thank you so much feel insights. i lack cassini of a former russian prime minister, not political exile, and coaching opponent. thank you. to take a look at a couple of other stores making headlines around the world. a sweden's foreign minister as a country succession to later would prevent conflicts in northern europe. and linda was the presenting of parliamentary report on security as we consider applying to join the lines in the face of russia's invasion of you cry. and he'll a muscle says he's put his $44000000000.00 deal to buy twitter temporarily on hold . he tweeted that he's waiting for data about spam or fate uses of the new st shares almost in the social media platform. plunging, walking away from the deal would not cost him a $1000000000.00 and contract penalties. in another tweet, however,

the musk insisted he still committed to buy the plot. and to jerusalem, my clashes have broken out. the funeral of a prominent palestinian american journalist. israel had tightened security a heavy, serviceable shriek. i'm o'clock, inspecting thousands of mourners to attend, yelled as a reporter was killed during emmy's re the army right, that you named refugee camp in the occupied west back al jazeera. as his ray, the forces shot reporternews re, the army says an entering investigation couldn't determine who fired the fatal bullet. can join an correspondent tongue kraemer, who is set near the ceremony at the ceremony. the cemetery and jerusalem were serene ob atlas. funeral is taking a place, a welcome. what would just tell us, what's going on? yeah, we saw a very moving a procession actually here. a hundreds,

if not thousands of people here from east jerusalem, mainly paying their respect to sharina about or taking her from the church. them here just right behind the outside. the city walls, the all city walls to the cemetery where she saw a lay to rest alongside her parents that came after a very disturbing beginning of the funeral procession at the hospital. when paul barris actually dropped the coffin, i for a moment, then police as stormed in that there were some classes in east jerusalem at the hospital. there. there still a lot of police presence here, the streets. ah, mainly you know, toast off around just the area. but i have to say a lot of people came out today to pay their respects for very well known very loft and very of most experienced a journalist here from the region. notice locally she worked for 0 aerobic as

she was the face of i 0 arabic for over 20 years, reporting here on the conflict, but also on the impact on this of this conflict on a people here. you could always find her where things were happening in the field. so people, really, it was important to them to come out here. because yesterday, there was another memorial official memorial service in ramallah at the mill kata or at the presidential residence there, to pay a to say good bye to sharina alba, auckland. and how close all weeks and no in country i've met death while investigations are ongoing. that's what we are being told. the autopsy was performed on wednesday evening by the palestinian authority. the corona said that it's inconclusive. they retrieved a bullet. i'm,

she was shot in the heads we also received today. i initial findings of an initial investigation by the israeli army. they also said that it's not possible at this stage to determine the source of the gunfire which killed our colleagues to reno auckland. they said there were 2 possibilities. they're looking at that she was hit by a palestinian gunfire. they maintain that there was a cross fire in the area with that as she was that there was higher from the side or fed is very side. but they said, this is all not conclusive. this is yet to be investigated. there's a lot of pressure, i have to say also from the international community also from the u. s. administration to get to the bottom of that. what happened there? thank you for that to tonya tonya crime in jerusalem. and ever since russia invaded ukraine, that have been widespread fears of cyber attacks. experts are surprised that russia

hasn't taken down ukraine's power grid or other critical infrastructure. but ukrainian hackers have been busy mounting their own successful attacks and unlikely soldier balked at a vast go as a software developer. and now part of ukraine's i t armies striking russian targets in cyberspace. he helps hack official websites when of thousands of ukrainians who aim to show russians. what is really happening in ukraine, unfiltered by states, censorship. we try to disrupt the so propaganda machine and ah, infiltrate a different systems of russian government russian structures. this is a message to one of your group who, with all of us ukraine cyber warriors have been joined by the international hacking collective anonymous. it says it is not against russia's people or even its soldiers,

but against president putin and his apparatus. and it wants to keep russia's own cyber x, or it's busy. so they can't attack ukraine for the west. russia has a long history of alleged cyber attacks on ukraine and other countries. it's believe to have hacked into ukraine's presidential elections and taken out parts of its power grid, as well as trying to destroy internet connectivity. but russia has always maintained its innocence, claiming that criminal groups, not the government were responsible. now with people like boston and ukraine's hacker army against it, russia finds itself on the receiving end of these attacks with more likely to follow. let me take a closer look at this with the ws chief technology correspondent. gosh delco. welcome. yosh. as are 2 and a half minutes into this war, how much of an impact of cyber operations are having on it? well, they have an impact, but that impact is somewhat different from what many people expected, you know,

feel when, when that war broke out, a lot of experts predicted that that would be widespread attacks that could take down ukraine's critical infrastructure. now that kind of cyber apocalypse has not happened, but what we have seen is the emergence of a new form of cyber guerrilla warfare. if you will, you know, we're hacking as being outsourced. we have hackers from around the world involved in this conflict now. and what's really unprecedented is that the ukranian government is actively encouraging people to do that. and so who are the cyber go to this? yeah, that's something that we wanted to find out. so we track down some of them and talk to them. and there's no easy answer. i mean, you know, they have different motives. they have different sort of like expertise in hacking . they use different type of weapons. but when you look at the pro ukrainian side, it helps to think of them as 3 groups. there are cybersecurity experts, many of them,

based in ukraine than their activists around the world. but most prominently may be the collective anonymous. and then there's a 3rd group which are volunteers who have like little or no experience in hacking and who have become involved in this. i talked to a man in denmark for example, you know, as in like this a t guy in his mid forties who told me like a never before broken the law in his life. but now he spends like a couple of hours every day trying to bring down russian websites and good to have a hobby. but both of, you know, those and those attacks, they're not sophisticated hacking them or like online vandalism, but they do have an impact. and so who else gets involved than it has been involved in this type of war over you cry? you have criminals. and some where groups are who are in boston that and then of course there are state actors as well intelligent services. and the full truth there is that, you know, much of their work actually remains in the dark. when we look at those activists, they like to make, make it public once they, you know,

leak information that they obtain during a hack or once they brought down a website. intelligence services don't do that, usually because it could and you know, it's sort of like against the idea of attendance intelligence at the end of the day . so the hacking attacks that we're seeing might just be the tip of the iceberg. thank you for that yellowish elca chief technology course, like a pop music fans looking forward to the eurovision song contest final this weekend. italy's hosting what has become one of the most popular television events in the world with maybe 200000000 viewers. but heading into tomorrow's final into ren, it's clear that one song is the favorite. o ukrainian for hip hop and colors. orchestra is riding a wave of good will at the eurovision song contest this year. while i am the contests talk prize. their songs, tiffany:

a fuse is traditional ukrainian folk music with hip hop, underscoring the importance of ukrainian culture and tradition. it's attribute to frontman olive york's mother. and although written before the war, the song has come to symbolize the mother of an entire nation within the ukrainian band feels huge responsibility representing their country. at a time when fellow citizens are defending their homeland against russia's continued assault, adulthood on him 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 the bottom 41 countries qualified for this year's contest. but 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 is 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, they would just feel safe on my, my best friends or my, my girls that are in leo from my area well, and i also where this caused them from him because i know what they've been through at rehearsals, endure in the memo of callous orchestra are doing their best to keep the momentum. oh, the webinar more for 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 announcement that bothers collins austin. just culture and politics, clearly inseparable at this year's your vision song. contest, an event that holds more significance than most europeans can ever remember. or, well there's at the top, i'll be our parish manager has news asia in just a moment. tom, i'm good. ah ah,

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