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germany is. chancellor shaw says he will not accept a piece dictated by vladimir putin in a speech to parliament. he also promises to help come to europe free from its reliance on russian energy. thus, a d w exclusive investigation poses the question, is europe helping modernize china's army? we joined a team of investigative journalists to uncovered links between european academia and chinese universities that are fostering a fusion between the military and civil society. ah, i'm good. how else as well come to the program? the united nation says the war in the ukraine could make a global food crisis much worse,

into hunger and famine that could last for years. speaking at a major un summit in new york sector, general antonio quoterush said, russia's invasion of ukraine was the latest factor driving global food insecurity on top of the pandemic and global warming. gutierrez said he was in intense contacts with russia and other countries to address the situation. there is no effective solution to the food crazes. without reading the grade, think ukraine's woods with action, as well as the food and fertilizer products produced by russian bellows into world markets. despite the war, russia must permit the safe and secure exports of grains stored in ukraine ports. alternative transportation routes can be explored, even if we know that by itself, they will not be enough to solve the problem. and russian food and fertilizers must have andrew steel excess to world markets without indirect impediments. earlier

marks, sundial correspondent give explain how important ukraine is for the global food supply chain. incredibly important get ukraine is called the bread basket of europe. for reason it's one of the world's largest and producers and exporters of different types of grains, different types of agriculture products such as weights are barley and corn. and in 2020 ukraine was actually the 5th largest exporter of wheat in the entire world. so this has huge significance for worldwide supply chains, and also a lot of humanitarian aid to some of the poorest countries in africa. and in little middle east comes from ukraine. so are so huge applications there. now in which way is the war currently impacting food production and exports? right, so farmers square conscripted, some farms couldn't operate due to a war activity going on in the region. the russians have in the past and still are

targeting a sidles, for example, in every cultural businesses. but that being said, ukraine produces a lot more agriculture products, and it can't domestically consume. and at right now, the country sitting on a huge stockpile that it cannot get rid of. it's actually running out of storage capacity at the moment. that is because the ports are blocked, the ports are the, the main exit point for, for these goods. in the southeast, around maria pull at the sea of oz off is controlled by the russians. and in that southwest, a port of odessa, as a blocked and ships cannot leave and enter at to take away the exports. and we're hearing that right now. roughly 90000000 tons of grain are stuck at cranium ports and cannot exit the country. and. and now what's being done to address these issues, right, so there are talks between the un and rush and other key key actors in this, um, these talks are intense and there's not much information coming out. so russia has reasons to keep the situation as it is at,

as it is profiting from the situation. the you, on the other hand, is trying to help explore other ways of trying to help find routes through europe. this could be, for example, river ports in the south west of the country, close to the remaining border, but they are nowhere near the capacity of the see ports and then the most feasible option right now what's being done now is grain is being load not to trains and is being brought to the you borders through the countries like poland, slovakia, and romania, 2 ports there. but this also takes a lot of time and there are some obstacles and in terms of this, but this is price now the best option to exports, agriculture products max under reporting from key of that for us. thank you must as the war in ukraine has drastically hampered exports by the black sea and is exacerbating the global foot security crisis. the romanian port of constantia has

now become a vital hub for grain shipments, but it's not smooth sailing there either as to w's jack parish reports. this ukrainian coon would never have been here at the port of con stanza, before russia's invasion. it would have been shipped out of the now closed port of odessa, 250 kilometers up the black sea coast. it's good for business for the operators here, but there are concerns about capacity. i see we do me wrong one. well, then we can manage over the me and one in the, in green one, no green in many schools. but we're not moving on the and what was this for? so leaves port $210000.00 tons of ukrainian corn will be shipped out since the start of april. but that's just one percent of the 20000000 tons of grain that

needs to be shifted in the next 3 months. before these ukranian fields are harvested to avoid major bottlenecks, which could cause it to rocked. pretty much all of the corn that coming in to the port of con thunder is from ukraine at the moment. this boat is headed from here though, to rotterdam. but many of the vessels go to north africa and the middle east, and there are real fears of an increase in food shortages and famine. if supply bottlenecks arise, the port authority says it's doing everything it can. we don't have out of choice. what are if i i screaming and the here hedrick where it's very easy to scream, i don't, i cannot do nothing. i cannot, this is showcase is hard time. everybody, this is a special situation and everybody must what they do in this situation. find solution . konstanz, a port has another problem though. 700 of these wagons lay rusting on the ports under used train lines held in judicial limbo, following legal battles between state and private entities. the countries transport

minister says a new 40000000 euro project will renovate 95 romanian train lines before the end of the year. partly to make switching wheels to accommodate trains. arriving from the east, which use wide tracks for 30 or 40 years is the tracks wore a ban. so now we invested in gelato in order to to modernize this line, the soviet type of 4 lines and to come directly in the hell harbor. this really is a graveyard of these old cargo carriages right now. we're few 100 meters away from the ports of can stanza, and the plan is that this won't only support with the ukrainian shipments that are coming in, but also that it will help rejuvenate this area for the future. but in the short term,

europe's approaching summer will only me more grains coming in and with no end to the war in sight pressure on the infrastructure. hearing cassandra, the only thing while on some of the other developments now connected to the war in ukraine, the red cross says it has begun registering hundreds of prisoners of war who surrendered at the ukrainian port of mario pub. fears are growing that russia could be organizing, shall trials for the soldiers, accusing them of war crimes. some russian lawmakers have even called for the prisoners to be executed. the 1st russian soldier on trial for war crimes in ukraine as ask for forgiveness in court and heave. he was addressing the widow of 62 year old civilian whom he admitted killing in the 1st days of the invasion. it's the 1st such case since the war began 3 months ago. european parliament has called for sanctions on former german chancellor. gerhard schroeder,

due to his business and political ties to russia, should've left office in 2005, and immediately went to work for russian state energy companies including gas problem, and rosen f. german chancellor. all of shaw says ukraine grants allies will not accept a piece dictated by russian president vladimir putin. he was speaking to parliament ahead of an extraordinary european council meeting in brussels at the end of the month, focused on the war in ukraine. shots also pledged to supply arms to ukraine and were quickly towards the european energy independence from russia. jeff eden is known, but he said there would be no shortcuts for ukrainian you membership saying it could take many years. 3 months after the russian invasion sold has been heavily criticized for not doing enough to help ukraine. he has yet to visit the country. unlike many of germany's allies, let's take a listen to some of short speech to the german parliament today. no, emma globbed,

quoting putin still believes that he can bomb his way into dictating the piece of it. but he's wrong via i think he was wrong in judging the unity of the ukrainians . or, you know, under the termination of our alliances it, russia will not dictate a pc because the ukrainians won't accept it. and we won't accept in the acceptance audio or earlier i asked w as chief political as i'm jayla christner to outline that the key takeaways from other german chancellor speech it can take away was that he simply once you have to stand united and to stand up to vladimir putin, there was an interesting nuance in his language though he said that that russia must not win. and that ukraine must withstand, he didn't st. they say that ukraine must win. so my interpretation there would be

that he is quite clear about the fact that he might have to sit down at the negotiating table with sliding uprooting. hopefully in the nearer than the further future. and calling on european unity that he spelled out a bit what homework that you still has to do, and that is the joint fund. it wants to set up for the reconstruction of ukraine. and on that key question of whether there can be a fast track. it was you membership, he clearly said no, but without really endorsing or rejecting what the french present a man or my call had suggested when he was talking about a community of political community of values that could exist on the road to membership, creating something like a fast track there, so. so a lot to talk about when he does actually sit down. now all of shorts has received a lot of flak. recently overs are perceived week response on ukraine. did he do enough with his speech today to silence his critics at home and abroad?

the so the answer is no, and it is always the right of the opposition. the definitely mats and who stepped into angular, michael footsteps there to criticize the chancellor and there was very clear criticism there. so is the impression that germany was too late to pledge the hardware, heavy weapons and it's too late to actually physically deliver it that the training that it's currently conducting an on how it says systems with ukrainian se should have started 10 weeks ago. now they would be ready and also on the financing because when it was for 3 days after the outbreak of the and now the site and vendor, this historic change of pace its history. really. he also announced 100000000 extra defense depending. well, he needs the opposition for that, and so far there decidedly not convinced that obvious chief political editor, michelle acoustic there, thank you very much, mckayla now on the more serious international repercussions

of the war and ukraine. it's my pleasure to welcome leading historian. so christopher clark, he joins us from arkan and west germany, where he's due to receive a prestigious charlemagne metal. later today for his work advocating united europe . welcome to d. w. so christopher, your book, the sleep walkers details, how europe went into world war one without even noticing what parallels do you see today with russia's warn you, crime. well before the, before the war had actually broken out i, i felt i could see some parallels. partial parallels the constant huge concentrations of troops along the ukrainian border reminded me a bit of what happened in the winter of 1911 to 12. and the russians and the austrians counter mobilized against each other along the austrian, the, that the border between the older and urine empire and the russian empire that sort of cat and mouse game of counter mobilizations. it was,

it was an echo of that. but now that the war is broken out, i must say, i think that the, the analogy with 1914 is looking less strong. firstly, we're not all sleep organs here. i mean, everybody is very much. we're gonna maps a little bit belatedly, but we have last woken up and the 1st one wouldn't break out with a frontal attack on someone else's territory. it opened with a very complex the structured crisis in the balkans beginning of course with the assassination of the art you in the alter of an astronaut duke in sorry, ever so it's very different inception, very different causation. and to me, it seems the parallels are strong with the 19th century. i mean, if you think of the, of how that saw, for example, in 1848, how he justified his intention to invade and occupy, we're late yet the country around what is today booker, as in today's romanian, he said, there are powers with whom one treats on an equal basis, and there are near territories into what into which one can go if they don't do it one once. and i think put in regards ukraine as a territory. the way back in the,

in the world of the 19th century, rather than in the world of 1914. ok. you say there's no sleep walking into award today. that's been much debate here over sending heavy weapons to ukraine. support to say, sovereign nation like you grant should be given the means to defend itself from attack. but others are warning that basil risks that it's drawing europe into another long war as its opponent claim. do you see that risk? well, there is a risk. whatever we do, i mean, if we do nothing, there's a huge risk naming that we affect the license this extraordinary breach of international law and of humanitarian values and principles. if we overreact of is the, we re risk, you know, provoking russia to further or not brush of a push into further escalations. the fact is put in, started this conflict. he's or he's already, i mean, you think of the, the argument he makes, these are the finland unsweetened way. he says, you know,

it's very bad for you to join a choice. i read that as a provocation, and i will respond in a very real and military technical manner. that's an absurd threat because i mean, for the last few years, russia has been conducting overflights over finish in swedish air space. there. the publications haven't just begun. they've been going on for years, so it really was time to draw a line. so many understandably asking how and why another conflict is happening in europe from a historic perspective. you have written that questions of how and why are logically inseparable but lead us in different direction. what do you mean by that? well, i think that's actually, i'm glad you asked that because it does seem to me, it's going interesting to think about how rather than why we got into this war, it's probably not hugely helpful to blame people. i mean, i think that the, the west didn't handle the situation after the collapse of the soviet union, particularly wisely or well. but there are lots of mistakes being made along the

way. and perhaps more could have been done to make space for russia in the future. world order than was actually done. but all that said, none of that cancels out the extraordinary brutality and the illegal criminal quality of the latest booting enterprise. this is proteins wor his, his now helping to run it personally. and so i think that the questions about how this all happened and the place of the west and the nato and the you and all the other actors in how we got into the situation. that's part of the story. but we also need to look closely at this naked act of decision which took place in in moscow and brought about is it the invasion of ukraine, the historian and recipient, although sharla my mattel, sir christopher clark, thank you very much for joining us here on the w news today. thank you very much for having me. d w. investigation has revealed how collaboration between scientists in europe and china might be having some unintended consequences

. together with partners from 6 other countries, d. w has been working with china science investigation for months. the team has been probing how european researchers have cooperated with china's national university of defense technology. now they've revealed some startling findings. they come here who knew too about their tools. this is a promotional video for one of china's top universities to meet you my, who should enter the journey of strengthening the military and below the champion of building a wild class family. the videos for the national university of defense technology will n u d t. police, it's deeply integrated with the chinese military. it's all part of what's called military civil fusion. as practice by china's ruling communist party, military civil fusion or m c. f is enormously important because it essentially

inserts the military into all aspects of the economy and vice versa. ok, so why are we talking about this? well, the new d t and other chinese universities like it have been getting help in their mission . from right here in europe. d. w in its partners in china's science investigation, have been investigating links between these institutions and european universities . and we've discovered a huge array of connections including almost $3000.00 scientific publications, co authored by both sides. someone highly sensitive subject. german researches have worked on more than 230 papers with the n u d t. so this is a big trove of papers. we looked at a lot of them and a lot of them seem quite a lot. yes. but we also find some papers that might have a dual use application. so that means they could be useful civilian,

but also for military purposes. one quite interesting example is a study that looks at how you contract groups of people. and china, of course, is the surveillance state that might have an interest in tracking. for example, a certain ethnic group like the week is so you can see this is an interesting example that could have civilian but also more nefarious military application research on dual use technologies is meant to be carefully regulated. so we talked to the head of one major funding body not to the list it was that was on the d. i must emphasize that the german research foundation doesn't fund any research with military relevance that is excluded from our funding for the home. and yet, as our investigation shows questionable, research projects have been happening yet not so he asked the junior minister, responsible why the government isn't preventing this. he pointed to germany's

constitution. one is the sort of in northern germany, we guarantee academic freedom. so research buddies and scientists decide for themselves, we can't do that centrally from belinda and we don't want to be mom. now there's no evidence at this point that laws have been broken. but both the european union and germany have declared china to be a systemic rival and authoritarian state. there's hushing for a very different kind of world. china expert dd kirsten tattler says doing the kind of sensitive scientific research with china. the we've uncovered is deeply complacent. there is a fang, don't bite the hand that feeds you and i would actually turn it around and say, don't feed the hand, the bytes you shoot. you. the national university of defense technology is clear what it's trying to achieve with the devotee the lives to the modernization of the national defense army. do question is do year a p and universities really want to help?

well, i'm no joined by a santa pit as much as the head of the w's investigative seems on. welcome to the studio. now, what's wrong with corporation was calibration? it was with, with china. why, what's, what's the big deal here? well, essentially get, we are looking at the grey zone of scientific corporation between chinese and european and scientists here. so what i mean by greys owing is it's not like european scholars are actively collaborating with their chinese partners to help china build the world's best army. that is clearly not, they are intention, but as one security source here in germany told us, scientists are living in their very own scientific bubbles. so they want to advance research. they want to progress and science, and that's as far as they think. now to give you a practical example, especially when it comes to basic research, you do that as a kind of blue sky research. so you don't really know what the application at the

end might be. you just plow ahead. and in doing so, let's say a researcher is looking at algorithms to coordinate objects. now that can be very helpful, for instance, when it comes to traffic, but it can also be very helpful if it comes to lethal drone swarms. and that is particularly the earned gray zone that we have been looking at. so why then corporate with chinese university anyway? a other supplying of funds or whatever is it's, it's different reasons for a science and technology, their advancement, it needs openness, it needs international collaboration. that's what everybody from the scientific site here in germany has been telling us where they're at universities or from the government site. and there are, without doubt, a lot of brilliant minds in china, and also if it comes to and the big question of mankind like the big scientific

questions that we need to solve, the rims climate change. for instance, you can't do it without the chinese. i mean, you really need to collaborate, but maybe you think you need to think more carefully about the field of collaboration just because there is something as scientific freedom enshrined in the constitution. do you really need to collaborate in every field? and if it comes to sensitive issues like quantum signs or, or artificial intelligence, maybe it's worse to think twice. i was just wondering do book. european research is realized that there may be abuse armoire to do have a feeling of being abused. it's not the impression that we got through all the talks that we had an obviously the european universities, some of them are catch strep now as well. i mean, we were just to need to keep that in mind. and china is very willing to invest in research and term scientists around the world. not only in europe, also in the united states are obviously contributing if it comes to international

collaboration with chinese fund now. or what does the chinese military want from these collaborations and what does it actually good? well, china has a very, very clear goal that stated, you can read it a very publicly. it wants to be the scientific global superpower by 2050. that is the aim and in order to get there, they have a concept what they call military civil fusion. so science essentially has to serve the state, the party, the military and scientists are in a way subjugated. and my feeling is that the scientists here in europe rather look at the individual which might be a nice guy, a nice woman, braille young collaboration. and they kind of ignore or are complacent about the system behind that. thank you very much. some a bit as one head of dw, an investigative team. thank you. ukraine's president vladimir

zalinski has address ukrainians in new video message. and this time he wasn't wearing his trademark t shirt with gotten embroidered shirts to wish his people a happy, vicious vanka day. that's the day to celebrate you, franz traditional shirts, which are part of its cultural heritage, despite the war. people have been wearing the official bunker around the country as a sign of patriotism. this maternity ward in odessa you. what's in the w news? that's it from me and the news. same with with

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