ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, more ukrainian fighters at least the the as oh, style, steel plant and mariel. paul, under russian guard, moscow says more than 1700 soldiers have surrendered, but there has been no independent confirmation of where they have been taken. keith has yet to comment on how many fighters may still be there. also coming up an urgent plead from the united nations to moscow. antonio good terrorist tells russet

to allow the safe and secure export of grain from ukraine to prevent global food shortages and possible starvation. also on the program, the u. s. president offers his full throated support for finland and sweden, nato bits that show the nordic countries race to join the alliance. has russia, makes war on ukraine, but could turkey derail their plants? plus a d w exclusive investigation poses. the question is, europe helping modernized, china's army. we join a team of investigative journalists who uncovered links between european academia and chinese universities that are fostering and fusion between the military and civil society. ah, i'm nick spicer. welcome to the program. russia, as

a total of $1700.00 ukrainian fighters, have now surrendered at the as of style steel plant and mariel. paul boscoe says most have been taken to a prison colony in russian controlled territory. while the injured are in hospital, these images come from russia's defense ministry. here was the entire national red cross as it has registered hundreds of prisoners of war from the steel plant, including wounded fighters, keep hopes to get the soldiers back into prisoners swap mile. moscow has threatened to put some on trial for alleged war crimes. earlier i spoke to d. w correspondent, mathias billing, or i asked him, what else is known about the ukrainian fighters who left the as of south plant to day? ah, yeah, we've heard that the red cross has registered them as prisoners of war. so there is a record on who has, who is now in the hands of the russians. but of course it is not clear or what is going to happen. then we understand that the has been an agreement between ukraine and russia on are these on an exchange,

all of these fighters from the steel steel works for, for russian prisoners of war here in ukraine. but i'm, it's very unclear whether this is going to happen. you've just mentioned the news there, many people in russia inside the russian elite or inside the russian government, demanding that they will be somehow punished that there will be declared terrorists and so on. so russia has now something in their hands with that they can negotiate a very, very heavy, a negotiating power. and because ukraine has said that they want to see them back alive. the zalinski are said he, once he, he's trying to save every life of a ukrainian soldier that he can save. and that's an important thing because this is one of the things that are the narratives of the ukrainians in this war, that they don't treat their soldiers as cruelly as the russians. it's something they have been telling the people they've been showing the people how cruel

russians are treating their own soldiers. so it's an important, it's important for your crime to get them back. and that gives russia a lot of leverage. of course you're in caucasian now just to shifted to locale. what's the situation on the ground there? hawkins is still being sold, but it's now being shared like other cities with rockets, et cetera. the artillery is mostly out of range from the city, so this constant bombardment of several, some parts of the city we've been to one 3rd part to day. the northern at the very, very edge of the city where fighting was very close and there is virtually, it's, it's, it's a, it's a high rise. it's a, it's a settlement with a lot of high rise buildings. and virtually none of them is undamaged. many of them are burnt out, it's hundreds of thousands of, of apartments destroyed year in the city. it's a bit calmer. life is slowly returning,

but really slowly. we've also been in the shelter today. we've asked people in, in, in the metro station and they have said they are still afraid to god. and they actually want to stay in the metro station. although the city wants to get the metro running again to get back to a bit, a more normal functioning of the city so that they say no, they don't, they don't want to get are they're afraid of, of going back outside there that many of the houses have been destroyed, so it's very, it's so many people are still, but psychologically suffering from the past. they are still wary about what's the situation is now as we can imagine, of course, mathias billing a reporting for us from a car key. the united nation says the war in ukraine could make a global food crisis, much worse, leading to hunger and famine that could last year's speaking at a major un summit in new york, secretary general and co tony a good terrorist said rushes invasion of ukraine was the latest factor driving global food insecurity. on top of the pandemic and global warming. gutierrez said

he was an intense contacts with russia and other countries to address the situation . there is no effective solution to the food crisis without reading the grading 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 still accessed to world markets without indirect impediments. with a russian blockade threatening to jeopardize food supplies for millions of people around the world. alternative routes are becoming increasingly important. the romanian port of constantia is a vital hub for grain shipments. t w's jack park reports on the challenges it is

now facing. this ukrainian coon would never have been here at the port of constantia 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 looking at problems that we are going to be done done. we can manage over the weekend, one in green, one go green mandate. many store but we're not moving on. the reason why was this vessel 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 rot. 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 you for you? i screaming and the hear heddrick who it is 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 accommodate, with this situation. french solution concerns 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 projects 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. this 2 tracks wore a ban. so now we must the ingle arts in order to, to modernize this line, the soviet type of 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 approaching summer will only me more grains coming in and with no end to the

war in sight pressure on the infrastructure hearing concerned the the only that the pi along you as president joe barton, has given his full support to sweden and finland, applications to join nato biden met the 2 countries leaders at the white house. the nordic countries applied to join the defense alliance this week, in response to russia's invasion of ukraine. turkey has blocked the start of accession talks in the nato council, however, saying the 2 countries support kurdish militia groups that it views as a terrorist. organizations still in been stressed that sweden and finland need all the criteria to join the alliance, sweden and finland have strong democratic institutions, strong militaries, and strong and transparent economies. and a strong moral sense of what is right. they meet every native requirement and then some having to know nato members in the high north

or has the security of our alliance deepen our security cooperation across the board and did abuse washington bureau chief in his paul told me how biden is supporting sweden and finland in their bits to join nato. well, and nick, we just saw the press conference from president biden and the 2 leaders of finland and sweden and all 3 of them really wanted to celebrate this as a very historic moment. which indeed it is because we have to keep in mind that this, the nato membership of sweden and finland would kind of end a 200 years or so of military, none, alignment of these 2 countries. so both, all 3 of them i shall say, really try to put out a, a happy mood and a, especially a president biden. also kind of try to draw attention to the fact that he himself really sees him as kind of the builder as

a very strong and important force in this movements toward the extension with 2 members of nato. so it was a moment of celebration and the moment of unity. ok, but spoiling the celebrations, as we all know, is turkey, which has expressed skepticism about the 2 countries. joining me to howard our, the americans and president bun, hoping to overcome that opposition. very good pointed nick. it was interesting that a president biden did not mention turkey at all. it was only the finish a president who said that they are in good negotiations with turkey, that turkey will support the security of finland and sweden. and so would finland do, vice versa. and the, the point is that we hear the biden administration is in very close conversation with the turkish administration with the administration of president out one. but

we hardly hear any details. the major take here in washington is that our dumont won't really dare to stop native finland and sweden from joining nato. but that he really wants to make most of this very moment. and just a quick last question, if i mean is, what does it change to have 2 new countries in nato as regards the war and ukraine? well, 1st of all, both are really a powerful military forces. they have been working closely with nato and american troops. anyhow, and it's, it's, it's, it's a strong signal. the war in ukraine flooding me, put in, is not able to recon nato. it's quite the opposite. he made nato even stronger. ok in his paul in washington, thanks so much for that. the german parliament has rule that former chancellor gerhard schroeder will lose some of his special privileges as

a former leader. schroeder has been heavily criticized for his business and political ties with russia. the european parliament has called for sanctions against the former chancellor as well shorter, less office in 2005 and immediately went to work for russian state energy companies, including gas from and ross left with dw political correspondence. simon young explained to us what privileges were talking about. yeah, well as a form of chancellor, god should has an office at the buddhist dog and that's an office that has a full time staff attached to it as a driver. and he's also compensated for some travel expenses. so under this decision, he'll lose all of that decision that's been tabled by the governing coalition policies, including mr. hood is own social democrat party,

what he will apparently be able to keep is his pension. although the opposition christian democrats and called for him to leave that as well, and they will also keep his personal protection detailed with these entitled to it simon showed, has been criticized for his close ties to food. and for a long time, the war's been going on for some 3 months now, why is all of this coming to a head now? well, i think it's part of a growing course of criticism that to get through that has not broken links with vladimir putin despite the ongoing war in the ukraine. and within the s b d, the leadership of his party have been asking him to step down or leave the party if he's not willing to step away from russia. and there are even applications for him to be expelled from the party. we've also got a motion in the european parliament for actually to be added to

a list of people facing sanctions because of their involvement with russia. so i think there's just a growing, a feeling particularly here in berlin, that it doesn't, the right to be funding and supporting the activities of someone who is supporting the kremlin, particularly when the europeans, ah, adding ramping up sanctions against those kind of people the time. ok, simon young. our political analyst, thanks so much. a 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, dw has been working on the china science investigation for months. now the team has been probing how european researchers have cooperated with china's national university of defense technology. now they reveal some startling findings. they come to who you to through about the tools. this is a promotional video for one of china's top universities. to me is my,

who should enter the journey of strengthening the military and below that some head of building a while class family. the videos for the national university of defense technology will end u d t. a place that's deeply integrated with the chinese military. it's all part of what's called military civil fusion, as practised 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? will the n u d t and other chinese universities like it have been getting help in their mission? from right here in your d. w in its partners in the china science investigation, have been investigating links between these institutions and european universities

. and we've discovered a huge array of connections. including almost 3000 scientific publications, co authored by both sides, some on 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 kids, but we also find some papers that might have a jewel use applications. 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 causes 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 talk to the head of one major funding body not to and this is what that was and they must emphasize that the german research foundation doesn't fund any research with military relevance. that is excluded from funding for the home. and yet, as our investigation shows questionable, research projects have been happening. yes, no. so he asked the junior minister, responsible why the government isn't preventing this. he pointed to germany's constitution. well, it's a sort of endorse in 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 at 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 all sorry, tarion state, there's pushing 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 saying, 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 that the say that lives to the modernization of the national defense army do question is do your opinion, universities really want to help in, as you just saw in the report, know me conrad is part of the w's investigative team. earlier, she told me why these collaborations between the chinese military institute and european universities are problematic. so just to be clear on the legal like, you know, not alleging that anyone's broken in. but what we are saying is that in these

fields, the same technology, we just changed the really communicate lines crucially. and the way we all that maybe kind of deal e collaboration with like china, a very different political, ideal ideas and how to go to become the power in the coming decades. so raising the question whether maybe regulations should be different. but yes, to be very clear, for many going to view nothing wrong. and why do european researchers actually want to work with the chinese national university of defense technology in the 1st place was, was it for them? well, this talk, you know, that he has a lot of funding. so do research together with obviously very attractive.

a lot of these research is when they come to germany actually come with a chinese government. i mean with that. and then there's a reason to kind of be attractive to european me when that times have access to data data. because of a u. s. a around, say personal health, a basically monitors and got a lot of data citizens and is better than data. you have all these together making kind of be attractive to cooperate with research. and so i was taught military

institute and no me just briefly from a return to the chinese side of the equation. what's the chinese military want from this collaboration? and are they actually getting it was how to say what a 2nd they're getting from it and why they want contacts. they want research. a lot of research is conducted to know the research and find out it and maybe getting more more why is equal to research and it was w's now, me conrad reporting for us. she's part of our investigative team. looking at the links between the chinese defense institute and european universities time for a quick look now at some of the other news. more shanghai residents have been allowed to shop for groceries for the 1st time. in nearly 2 months, people were given passes, permitting them to leave their homes for 40 minutes. as part of the authorities

plans to gradually exit the harsh covert 19 lockdown. italy in sweden have joined a string of european countries and the united states in reporting the 1st cases of monkey pox. the rare disease normally only occurs in central and western africa, health experts, a people should have any unusual skin rashes examined the world health organization is calling for vigorous contact. tracy. germany's top court has approved rules requiring health workers to be vaccinated against coven 19. the constitutional court rejected complaints against mandate, which has been in effect since march. it said the importance of protecting vulnerable people in hospitals and care homes outweighed any infringement on health . workers' rights. the world meteorological organization says the last 7 years were the hottest on record. un, whether agency says impacts of extreme whether have led to deaths and disease, migration, and massive economic losses. the u. s. is earning,

urging broader use of renewable energy. time for sports and football, news, and wednesday night saw a thrilling conclusion to the europa league with an trash frankfurt, shooting in a penalty re pardon me, winning and apparently shoot out the bonus league aside. fought off scotlands rangers, and a tough final in seville. and an emotional reception awaits the team. back in frankfort, where fans have packed the city's main square to hail their heroes. coach oliver glassner has said he is going to party right through till saturday, and there might be a few fans here who will follow suit. let's take a look now at how frankfurt won their 1st continental trophy in 42 years. the funds from glasgow in frankfort drank in the beer and the euro police atmosphere before the game. amid a searing heat wave in seville, perhaps they would have placed themselves a little more if they'd known what lee in store in the final. as to retents,

1st half a slip from 2 to allow ju, i reboot, to give ranges the lead on 57 minutes. but raphael barry latched on to a great cross from phillip hostage to equalize and sparked bedlam in the frankfurt funds in seville. there was still make thereafter, and so the game went to penalties in frankfort keeper, kevin trump, safe from out in ramsey, brought to glasgow from event to some had much fun fair in january to give the germans. the advantage on columbia's boy made his 2nd big contribution of the night, keeping his cool, amid the heat, to give frankfort just their 2nd european trophy and their 1st since the u. f. a cup in 1980. no surprise. it went down pretty well back home in germany, and coming up next is dw news. asia looks at questions over a plane crash in china that killed all 132 passengers on board. last march.

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