senate will keep it. this is david the news from berlin. you'll find more on our website. that's d, w dot com. ah, rich countries are suddenly in a world of sure such as the cost of living crisis was brought increased food and fuel costs, forcing more and more people to choose between heating and eating. a pandemic didn't help, of course. and now even baby formula is in such short supply in the u. s. president biden as invoked emergency powers to try and get it back on the shells. i'm fill gail in berlin and this is the day. ah no piers all across the country are worried about finding the infant formula to feed the babies. and i started to see that there was a formula shortage. i was telling my husband as a parent is grandparents. i know just how stressful that is. i said,

how do we go and find this one because this is a crisis today looking what they call the defense production act. the image is empty. shelf desperate parents are heartbreaking. i'm also announcing operation fly formula. all of this that we go to buy formula. everything is done best to be able to speed up the import of formula. these are babies. you know, they got to eat. also coming up, war in the world's bread basket is threatening a global food supply crisis. we find out what ukraine is doing to keep experts of grain going, despite the russian blockade. pretty much all of the corn that's coming in to the board. the concern is from ukraine at the moment. this vote is headed from here, though, to roth it. but many of the vessels go to north africa and the middle east in there, a real fear of an increase in food shortages. i'm famine if supply bottlenecks

arise. o. welcome to the day a u. s. president joe biden's facing mounting political pressure over a shortage of baby formula. the supply chain disruption began when the largest formula manufacturing plant in the u. s. had to close because of safety concerns. now the president has invoke the defense production act to be 5 domestic supplies. and to allay the fears of worried parents. while americans got used to certain products missing from supermarket shelves during the pandemic. the shortage of this product could potentially be life threatening baby formula. a nightmare, especially for mothers who are unable to breast feed late late junior. and i started to see that there was a formula sorted. so i was telling my husband, i said, honey, we got to go and find this formula because this is a crisis you. so it is gonna be all right. you know, all of us that a, we go to buy formula, everything is gone. it all started in february when top us manufacturer abbott

laboratories had to close their plant in michigan after recalling formulas. babies became sick with bacterial infections. after consuming the products, at least 2 infants died to battle. the shortage u. s. president joe biden invoke the defense production act. it requires suppliers, a formula manufacturers to fulfill their orders before delivering to other customers. he also authorized special flights to import supplies from overseas are directed the department of defense and the department of health and human services to send aircraft planes overseas. to pick up him from formula and meet us health and safety standards. so he can get on a store shelves faster. the shortage has sparked a search of interest at milk banks. mothers are increasingly coming here to feed their children with donated milk from other women. we were able to come here and get as many hours as we needed to keep her fed and keep her growing on this task,

friedman cod just wasn't any available. so it's been pretty scary to. she realized that you might not be able to change her baby. great. so it's a public health crisis that could easily turn into a political crisis for the by the administration. the u. s. president will be hoping his executive action will end the shortage and prevent further political fallout. oh, well start on that question. river amber phillips who's been covering this story for the washington post to welcome to d w. how is this playing politically for the president? yeah, well there was just a hearing today where the head of the agency that supposed to be monitoring baby formula and, and inspecting that plant in michigan and that had those potential safety bacteria infection problems. told congress we're investigating. we're working on this every

day. but the, that person was blasted by both members of congress, democrats and republicans saying you had a whistleblower report about this from october. you know, at least one member of congress said, i told you about an infant death in my community in september, in the, at the f. d. a didn't jump in to try to investigate this plan until december. in between that time, infants were hospitalized and died. and this is all exacerbated the food, the shortage of infant formula. so the point i'm trying to make here is that this government agency here in america has some tough questions, answer about why they didn't act sooner on this. and why didn't foresee a crisis coming if this major plant america major manufacturer, she had to pull formula from the shelf, so the biden ministration more broadly, has yet to answer questions about that. i think right now they're just focused in crisis mode, right? arguably month later, and our old mothers in the same boat on this or their geographical or social

differences. yes, a note about those questions. all mothers are in their same boat. it is very difficult, no matter your social economic level to find formula. however, there have been researchers who say it's more difficult for lower income women, and that's because a lot of them are lying coupons from the government to buy formula. they can only buy specific formula. so congress today just passed a bill that will change that and allow them to buy whatever they see on the shelves at rural areas. you also have reports and mothers driving hundreds him miles to a food bank where they hear that there's formula. and then it also affects women who don't have time resources or child care to take off to go to 8 different target, big box stores here in america to find formula. and you hinted it at the source. but the crux of, of this problem, it just seem odd that the closure of one factory can cause all this disruption.

yeah, there are 4 major formula manufacturers in the u. s. the united states does not if ever import formula, although that's changing now with this crisis as, as the military actually rushes to try to get formula from abroad over here to the u. s. and in addition, as i said, low income women in particular have to buy a certain formula in the government, restrict, salmon. there's no flexibility in times of crisis or natural disaster, our supply chain issues. and so these are all very systemic problems that i think the broader community here in america didn't think about until all of a sudden you heard the pain in that mother's voice moms can't feed there are they're scared, they can't. and doctors of course are warning against them, making up your own baby formula. the so called home my kids are just out of the formula stage, but i know from my mom community here here where i live in america. that when you

call your pediatrician and say, what do i do? there are no other options other than to go to the store and look for formula and, and deal with the rations and deal with the lines and deal with the time off work. there are no other options, as you just said, dr. say, don't make your own formula. don't when you're trad off this before there want. don't try giving them cow's milk alone figure out a way to get formula. and it's, it's like it's one thing after another, but with co written we have the cost of living crisis in inflation close to a full 2 year high and people struggling to afford food shelter and even fuel is not a good look for democrats ever going to talk about this politically and of course, president biden and his party are trying to keep control of congress and whatever governor's mansion and legit state legislatures, they still have control of november's mid term elections. it is not a good look when republicans can say, look in america and 2022. where's the baby formula?

especially when it points the timeline, as we know right now, it's still early in the story, points to the administration not responding quickly enough to this crisis or foreseeing it at the very least. so good a briefly, then, the but factory has not been cleared to restart. and between vos and the president's crisis measures of what is it predicted that by the formative will be back on michelle's we're hearing a broad range, which is frustrating for moms and dads trying to find formula. it could be weeks to even months ahead of this agency. the f d a told congress that the really hard part is going to be distributing formula to rural areas in particular. so those people who really need it could be the last to get it. i wish you well, thank you so much for joining us in explaining that to us on the phillips from the washington post. thank you. ah, and today the situation ukraine reminds us of the dark is days of european

history. and i must say that during dark times, it is great to be among close friends. la assess wins prime minister magdalena anderson, a speaking in the rose garden of the white house in washington. along with finland's, present at sallie and nearly sto. she just held talks with us president joe biden about the 2 nordic countries applications to join nato, president biden. so he welcomed bits to join that lives in the u. s. would be supporting them in the process. me, president, her name is still a said finland was open to discussing turkish concerns about their applications. he also said helsinki was prepared to commit to turkey. security. turkish government has said that it will oppose members for sweden and finland over receive support for the current will. here in germany, chancellor,

olaf sholtes is pledged to supply more weapons to ukraine to work quickly to make you were up independent of russian energy. he was addressing german law make as a head of an extraordinary european council meeting. later this month to discuss the war chancellor, sholtes and russian president of lot of your poaching was making a mistake. if you thought peace could be imposed on you crate by force. not emerg locked, quoting putin still believes that he can bomb his way into dictating the piece of it, but he's wrong of yes, he was wrong in judging the unity of the ukrainians. ok, now under the termination of our alliances, johnson it, russia will not dictate a piece because the ukrainians won't accept it and we won't accept as in the accepted or via of that session of the bundles target also saw german lawmakers decide that form a chance like gerhard schroeder will lose some of his special privileges as

a former leader. gertrude has been heavily criticized for his business and political ties with russia. european parliament is also called for sanctions against the former chancellor, left office in 2005 and immediately went to work for version state energy companies, including a gas problem and rosin f o u n. secretary general antonio terrace has expressed a hopes of reaching a deal with moscow to allow our millions of tons of grain to leave ukrainian ports, claims one of the world's leading producers of grain. but the war has hampered exports of by the black sea, and is exacerbating the global food security price crisis. now the remaining port of con, stanza has become a vital hub for grain shipments. dw jack parent reports on the challenges facing this. ukrainian cone 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. ah, actually we lenient problems that come on them where it got it and on we can manage over the mean and one in the, in green one. no, great in many, many schools but was not moving in what was this vessel leaves? port 210000 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 puerto consanzo is from ukraine at the moment. this vote 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 fish 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 skimming and the here everywhere? it's very easy to scream, i don't, i cannot do nothing. i cannot, this is showcase is her time. everybody. this is a special her situation and everybody must accommodate 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 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 2 tracks. oil

a bad 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 i along all ministers from the g. 7 group of lading, industrial nations, a meeting here in germany to discuss the impact of the war and ukraine on the

global economy. i'm there paying particular attention to the risk to food supply chains like a grain. i. d. w. 's at benjamin alvaros gruber caught up with canadas development minister who's been attending the talks. and he asked that hodges to sing as a john what the g seven's doing to alleviate food supply bottlenecks? mr. sachin d 7 developed ministers have been meeting here in billing. what do you mean takeaway of this meeting? first, will always want to say thank you to minister shoals for hosting us or to live for a very important g 7 meeting with the ah, putin's war against ukraine right now is exasperating on the food security situation around the world. so we focused on a lot on the food security for, for the developing our world and how the g 7 would like minded partners, are going to come together and how the leadership that venture shoals is personally shown on this topic. i is going to be very important on to galvanize a support so we can deal with the immediate food security crisis,

but also for the medium in the long term as well. g 7 minutes as agreed on creating a coalition for food security. what is this coalition about? so that is, coalition is about where i'm going to work with the world bank to as a coordinated body to bring together stakeholders from government, private sectors, multilateral organizations, all come together including scientists, to be able to all come together, coordinator work. and we, we use the word coordination kind of quite a bit. but in this case here it is. there's an urgency for it. if we coordinate or work with all the efforts that are currently taking place, we can create greater efficiency. allows us to analyze where the actual needs are, where we can get the best food production. but more importantly, rather than inventing anything new, we're talking about working with existing stakeholders. ah, current initiatives, especially with the african development bank and the african union as well. how would you define the relationship between d 7 and african countries when it comes to tack on this crisis?

first of all, we have a really good relationship. i am a minister hot was here from senegal, who i personally know as well, passionately represented on the african nations at all or at a meeting. and today we had many ministers for the after differing african countries and also the african union on to talk about what they're doing, what their concerns are as well. but i also want to highlight, this is not what they don't want is just it, but a handout. there are some very innovative work taking place in africa. we need to enhance that so that they can become self sufficient when it comes to food as well . or we also need to take a look at other crisis around around the world with us, whether it's bangladesh or through finger. and we also need in yemen as well. and let's not forget the crisis in the middle east and syria, mr. sergeant, canada's development minutes. so thank you so much for this interview. they w investigation as review of how collaboration between scientists in europe and china

might be having unintended consequences. together with partners from 6 other countries, d, w has been working on the china science investigation for months. the teams have been probing the extent to which european researchers have cooperated with china's national university of defense technology. and they've reveals some startling findings. they come to you julio. from about that to see this is a promotional video for one of china's top universities to meet you see my, who show or enter the journey of strengthening the military. and below that some bed of building a wild class family. the videos for the national university of defense technology will n u d t, a place it's deeply integrated with the chinese military. it's all part of what's called military civil fusion, as practiced 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 for 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 some one 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 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. the 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 or is as old as 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 any 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 bites 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?

let's take a closer look at this with that now me comrade from d. w investigative team. welcome naomi. so we are there in the report, no indication of anything illegal, a going all. and if you recognize it, pretty much any technology can be used for military purposes, people are bound to ask why any of this matters. right, and we're not saying that we should capital corporations with china entirely, obviously need to cooperate with china, particularly when it comes to important topics like climate change research. but what we're saying is that may be aware, you know, showing a picture that there's a lot of research going on in very sensitive fields with china's elite military university. so one study that we looked at basically identifies how to track groups of people. so you can imagine a direct application, namely you can track certain ethnic groups if you want. so we're just raising the question whether in fields that have potential military applications or direct

collaboration with research is from a military, from china's top military institute. honest, essentially what you're wants to do and we saw in your report that certainly sort of germany is concerned. this is very much a hands off approach. totally, absolutely. and it's quite interesting because there were researches or journalists part of this research where it's completely different in denmark, for example, it's changed completely within the last 2 years. there's been a reversal where denmark used to be very open. now a lot more thorough background checks, particularly when you look at you will use the technology. so technologies that can be used for civilian military purposes. universities are starting to conduct more background checks to check what exactly they're doing and what potential applications might be. so that the purity of, of academic research is one thing, but as you say, if you were we was what was research projects with this military university? is that okay? yes. go ahead. he just seems why do universities wants to collaborate with them at

all? well, i mean, this is china's top institute, obviously it has a lot of money and it has very qualified research. is that come with a lot of money. i mean, we have to remember that out of university than europe, a pretty cas strapped. so who would turn down a top research it with a lot of money. but there's also another aspect which is that in china, you have access to lot of data that you can't access in, in europe because of say, privacy concerns. now, china is a surveillance state. they have loads of data and to conduct good research. you need as much data as you can get. so it's very attractive to work with this university, which has the data that you may be can't get hold of here and has money. ok, now me, i come up from d w 's, investigatory investigative team. thank you so much on the day's almost done, but the conversation continues on line. you'll find us on twitter either at d. w news or go follow me at phil gail, i'm good with

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