behind the benefits and why are they a threat to whistle o peak wolves this week on d w? ah, ah, this is the w news live from berlin, 100 days after the russian invasion began. ukraine is still holding out as the 2 sides battle for control of ukraine's eastern industrial heartlands. the red cross has the scale of destruction is beyond belief. we also look at why the war in ukraine is pushing up world food prices and how african leaders are pressing russia

to free up blocked grain exports. also coming up, there are at least 4 dead in a train crash in southern germany. dozens were injured. i've carriages overturned, rescuers pulled people to safety through the windows, and the u. s. president echoes the plea of many families bereaved by massive shootings. they had one message for all of us. do something. just do something. for god's sake, do show. as the nation more in the latest depths, a president of bite and calls for tougher gun control loss. ah. hello, i'm clare richardson. thank you so much for joining us. 100 days since russia's invade in of ukraine,

the war shows no sign of ending. the red cross says the scale of destruction defies comprehension. united nations estimate more than 4000 civilians have been killed. and it's not clear how many soldiers each side has lost. having failed to take the capital key, russia has scaled back its ambitions and is now fighting for control of ukraine's eastern industrial heartland. ukrainian president of already mer zalinski says he remains confident of victory. but it's been 100 days of wool. but life in the capital cave has returned to a state of relative normality. there is signs of the russian invasion everywhere. and though people are getting on with life, nobody thinks the war is over. miss susan doesn't need conflict. i think it'll be a long conflict with the war mind. stop and then start again. i'm preparing for 10 years. or can they suit all for you?

i'm not bringing my family back, but i would like to stay in ukraine myself. some with your bullish over so it's like kid, almost normal to you. i think the danger is still big. so we have, are gathering of the troops in the, in the border was with russia and, and in time it could come back. and also as everyone in ukraine, we are under the m constant possibility of strike from the air. a troop build up in ballard is just a few 100 kilometers to the north of hey, dance, have people on edge. and they are trying to make the most of the relative calm here . many fear that russian successes in the east could emboldened moscow to take another grab at the capital and so of yan skin ukraine's east. now, one of the epi centers of russia's invasion war is everywhere. much of the city has

been flattened by russian strikes. user to like you to know, is it really necessary to launch this rocket on this house and on this one and the one next door i'm with you. tell me dad, to let that damn persian think that russian missiles are coming. but really what, how much does it cost? is there a cost millions? what is this rocket designed for this house not, you know, ukraine's president for lauder may zalinski has said that victory will eventually belong to ukraine. colonel shallow griggs view craned armed forces. he here huddled, most importantly our people here. we have defended ukraine for $100.00 days already . the dish and victory will be ours. glory to craig. but it was a momma so great. even if residents share their president's optimism here in the dumbass, that promise feels a long way away. our correspondent and nick connelly who's in chief told us how life in the ukrainian capital is looking 100 days into this war.

while things here are outwardly kind of normal cafes are open. kindergartens, reopening there is life on the streets, but it is a shadow of the energy and just the sheer numbers of people that would have been here pre war. and basically, based on what you see in terms of people, in terms of traffic jams, it's less than half in terms of population compared to pre war. and there are people now who actually want to come back, but can't afford to come back because their savings have run out of to 3 months of war and lots of jobs, lots of jobs connected to tourism, connected to people having spare money to spend on the luxuries on the nice things life they are closing their doors and people don't have jumps to come back to their lots of ukrainians in poland, in other countries in europe, who are desperate to get back. now that they think the secure situation here is more or less tenable for now, but they can't. and this is now the real crux. after 100 days after 100 days with outside world was paying a lot of attention. lots people here worried that the outside world is going to get

ukraine fatigue is going to stop paying attention to this conflict. and that the support that's been forthcoming in the initial phase, this war is going to run dry. and that these people now gonna have to deal with the reality of an ongoing, kind of grinding contract with russia. russia with its huge oil reserves, huge oil earnings financing, that war, and an uneven battle in which ukraine really needs that foreign support and will have great problems with doesn't get that. let's turn to where much of that fighting is taking place. russian forces have been and trying to encircle, severity to nuts, and lucy chanced in eastern ukraine. could you bring us up to speed with the latest developments from their all the russians, happy making incremental advance in that part of ukraine. the cities are for now, especially sort of the nets, which is ukraine's last major city are in low hunts region. the rest of it has already been occupied by russia and its last bridge head on the north. the northern bank of that river am basically ukrainian controls about 20 percent of the city. the city is basically gone after weeks or to re fire and huge destruction to

housing, to infrastructure. extraordinary, or we are. and basically i'm led to believe that still about $15000.00 civilians are that's about 10 percent of the people population are still, they're still living in the seller's somehow surviving amongst the other fi, in spite of repeated calls from the ukranian authorities to get out to evacuate while they still could, but the cranes are holding out and trying to basically play for time because they think that as this western artillery western heavy weapons had been promised. finally, start, arrive on the front line that will give you crane the chance to fight back and basically go from defense to counterattack. and if you personally, you've been living in keep working for us as a correspondent for years before the fighting broke out and covering this conflict for us, i want to get your impressions of what has been the worst armed conflict in europe indicates extraordinary thing is that key if it was the capital has been the

capital of a city in conflict at war with russia since 2014 since russia and its crimea, and stoked those separatist conflicts in the east and dumbass. but for all that, the fact that this was just of 600 kilometer kind of short train right down the road cave with felt like a very relaxed, very oh, a place or people enjoyed life. felt like any other european capital, with maybe the exception that you'd see lots people uniform at the train station going off to serve in the east. but now this really brought things home. you had those weeks a month beginning where the russians were just 25 kilometers from downtown cave, where there was the threat of constant bomb attacks on the center of cave on the political harbor present. lensky is office and has a real fear and a sense that ukraine and its existence could be now or on the edge could be a basically at risk of being destroyed and busied corporate by russia. that really has brought it home. and i think there was just total panic as begin when people really weren't sure whether you crank could stand up to this overwhelming russian attack. i think now it's moved to a more, a phase of her pride that ukraine has managed to the gets all the expectations gets

all the predictions, the west keep this together, but i guess fear now whether it will be able to must the resources and keep those a western allies on side and providing support to really emp slug it out in the long economy. it for us in ukraine, thanks has always fair reporting. and the war in ukraine is pushing global food prices sharply higher. russia and ukraine produced nearly a 3rd of the world's wheat, and the conflict is disrupting supplies. russia says it's willing to allow grain exports from ukraine, but only if the west eases sanctions against s. united nations is looking for a solution to avert a looming food crisis. a friendly visit to vladimir putin, a rare sight as the best announces fresh sanctions. but santa gods president mackie tholl says it isn't right for africa to be caught in the cross hairs cut off from

crucial green and boards from ukraine and russia. a push on the left it fell. current chairperson of the african union fest button is willing to help them on the soft on the leaving here already a short and very happy without exchange michelle. it's not over yet. we must continue discussions with the other parties for that trade resumes immediately in the government. that is the catch. russia says it will let green shipment leave ukraine only it's sanctions i lifted. meanwhile, ukraine alleges russia is stealing green to supply its allies. the un says it's leading 10 stalks with duck shot to release the export with a ton of global lead supplies coming from ukraine and russia. the sticks are enormous. we, there are 1400000 people that could be affected because of the shortage of wheat and other grains. an american trade rules and the black sea must remain in priority

failure to open those boards that result in fannin destabilization, mass migration around the world with beat prices already sorting across africa. looming, global food crisis is fast becoming a reality for many and i'm joined now by jo, a global senior research fellow at the international food policy research institute . he joined us from washington dc. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. we prices have risen by 56 percent since this time last year, around the world that's translating into people seeing the cost of the food that they buy go up. but who is suffering the most from massive increases like that? well, as you say, these are globally traded commodities. the prices are being sold everywhere in the world, but clearly the, the pores are feeling the brunt and particularly those, those countries that depend heavily on wheat for consumption. so if you look at

countries of the north africa, middle east, central asia, those are countries that consume about twice that of what we, we consume in the us or in europe, into on a per capita basis. so it's a big part of the diet need. it's 35 percent of the calories come from weak products, like bread. and there you seen, you know, unsubsidized, we prices are bread prices rise astronomically, thankfully, there are targeted subsidies in egypt to try to address problems for the, the poorest households. but for countries that have very little resources to provide towards consumers and to help mitigate some of these price impacts, they're the ones that are suffering the most. now the kremlin denies that it is to blame for the blockade of ukrainian ports and the u. n. and the african union are pushing for them to be reopened. how optimistic should we be that we will see that happen?

i think it's very difficult. i would certainly hope that those ports would be reopened. it's difficult to get those sorts of assurances that i think the world's going to need. i mean, remember that these aren't necessarily countries the only the ships, these are private companies, they require assurances that that their, their ships won't be targeted. so insurance rates are extremely high right now. and right now it's just physically, they're unable to, to move into those ports because of the mines. and because of the threats, even before me, remember that russia actually was blocking those ports a week before the soldiers actually came across the border. so this has been a very big problem and it's expensive to move green any other way. so going out through the west, on rail or barge is just 4 times the cost of going down through the black sea ukraine spring re crop should be going into the ground already for harvest this fall. for example, how do you see that playing out in the long term?

yeah, we have, we have a bigger problem in the near term. we have the fall planted wheat that is coming there right now. people predict around 20000000 tons. remember that we have about 20000000 tons already stuck in ukraine from last year. that hasn't been marketed, which typically would be marketed before the new crop comes in. and so i think that that the challenge is going to be how to store that without losing it because it, it right now it just can't move in the volume that that typically would be needed. and so that means put it into storage facility, some of which has been damaged by the war. but the bigger problem is that they're already, i won't say completely full, but they are already far, fuller than they should be at this time of year. so that means storing green on the ground or finding temporary storage, all of which as cost. sho, glover from the international food policy research institute. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. thanks clara. and meanwhile,

that you had formerly approved new sanctions over the war, including an embargo on most russian oil imports by the end of the year. under this 6th round of measures, 3 more russian state media outlets are banned and russia, the biggest bank, spare bank is cut off from the swift payment system. the latest sanctions aim to squeeze the kremlin ability to pay for the war. and he hired critique in oil industry analyst and co founder of the roof. energy consulting agency told me earlier about possible consequences of the recent you sanctions for the russian oil industry. russian oil production is already a decrease in and just the recently there was in session over opec loss alliance. and this alone has allowed the rest of the produce more oil in the previous miles. but the rest of cannot read us as much oil as these

agreement, unless the country for 8 years and the oil production on there, i sent you already a falling. and by the end of this year, i expect that it will fall 20 or even sorts of percent. it's a devastating blow to the rest them oil industry and the rest of the economy. and just to clarify the role of opec in this has the oil cartel stepped in to make up for the lack of russian oil. yes, a really arrays which was planned before has been increased 50 percent and so the allies opec lewis is going to produce more oil than it was expected to do according to the scheme they approved several months ago . but unfortunately for us arrest will not be part of this game. it's oil production is not going to increase, but saudi arabia has declared that it's increase the oil production will help

alleviate some of the problems for the market of petroleum globally. and i do not think there is a danger of any acute shortage of crude oil might do in the world. and it seems for russia as one of the big questions will be whether it is able to find new markets for its oil exports. do you expect that to be possible? no, i don't know to expect to china or india to, to be able to replace the european market. the transportation, the roads to china, our fuel, to capacity and to insert maybe a couple of tam carriers which will go from the baltic sea to china all the way around the globe. i think it is not enough to replace the european markets in india to there is a very acute competition between the occasional reps and oil deliveries by

dancers. and there are additional deliver it from the person gals. countries such as iraq or saudi arabia, iow critique, and from the roof energy. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. meanwhile, the speaker of ukraine's parliament has been in berlin, hoping to convince and german leaders to send more arms to keith ross launched of unsure, urged germany to deliver promised weapons systems. without delay. after meeting chancellor, olaf sholtes, he visited the german parliament where he was given a standing ovation and the german parliament has also taken a step toward delivering on defend spending. promises prompted by the war with a change to the constitution, while makers approved a 100000000000 euro package for the armed forces. the boost will bring germany into line with its fledged to nato, to spend more on defense. chancellor sholtes has described the war as

a turning point for german defense and foreign policy brochure. and italy is chief political correspondent, explains the significance of constitutional change. on the hundreds day of the ukraine war, germany's parliament has taken a significant step toward making good on chancellor schultz. his pledge that the conflict would mark a turning point in germany's readiness to defend democratic values by passing a $100000000000.00 euros special fund to bolster the military. the use biggest member state can start building military capabilities commensurate with its economic weight. decades of under investment had called germany's competence and capacity as an ally and de question, which is why one of the statements made here today at the buddhist hog the got the most resounding applause was the foreign ministers declaration. that thanks to the fund in future, germany will be able to say it's there when europe needs it. and what's bringing up

to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. a protester has it been killed at a rally in the sudanese capital har. tomb activists were demanding justice for the victims of a crackdown during demonstrations that ousted president omar alba, sheer 3 years ago. a visiting united nations official urged authorities not to use excessive force and tesla chief ellen mosque once a 10 percent cut in staff and a hiring freeze. and the electric car maker mosque says he has a super bad feeling about the economy. tesla employees, nearly 100000 people, and a train crash in southern germany has killed at least 4 people and injured dozens of others. carriages, derailed and overturned near a popular holiday resort. in bavaria. authorities say 12 people are still unaccounted for. shocked passengers wander through the debris.

these packed regional train de railed as it was travelling from gom ish parting kitchen. in the bavarian lp's to munich several carriages over turned some slid down an embankment. it was and it seems young an investigation is now under way at the scene of the accident to clarify the cause as quickly as possible. you will lose. i glanced acronym. the 1st rescue workers arrived just 5 minutes after the call for help soon, firefighters, paramedics and police were all on the scene. some german army soldiers had been on board the train and provided immediate assistance. the whole msf dog removed you almost. they gave us lots of support. they broke window so the firefighters could climb inside. sticky. i felt like he was walking. you had had fag, emergency workers rescued dozens of injured passengers. there are also children.

yes. unfortunately, all ages have been affected. the injured have been taken to near by hospitals, but police believe there may be more people still trapped in the train. so unfortunately, there could be other fatalities in the wreckage to things. the regional line will remain closed as rescue as work into the night. earlier i asked our correspondent and julia so jelly what had caused the trained to derail it is still mostly unclear at the moment, although authorities are saying that it could have been caused by a technical fault, but investigations are going to have to continue in the next days and weeks, we know that a few of the carriages of the train overturned and went down and embankment, and that of the 4 people in town until now confirmed dead. 3 of them are under these carriages, so authorities fear that once these train carriages are removed from the spot that

they might still find more dead under under the wreckage, the train had the part of the station of gamez patting kitchen, and it was headed towards munich it's a regional train with commuters and it was quite full authority say up to $140.00 people were on this train and that includes also a number of students today was the last day of school before a holiday in the state of bavaria. so a lot of students had left school and were heading home before the holidays when this accident happened. can you tell us a bit more about how the rescue operation is going? so most of the passengers or actually all of the passengers who were on the train or we're a rescued from the wreckage. they were a pulled out from the windows. and some of them the most severely injured were than a flown too near by hospitals that were. 1 12 helicopters, a working at the scene and also just

a general big rescue operation up to 500 people involved in it from fire fighters to paramedics to police officers. and so now a lot of the work is going to be to try to remove these carriages and the wreckage of the train from the tracks. and authorities may want to do that as speedily as possible because of the g 7 summit is taking place in the area in 3 weeks. and a lot of people are going to be heading to the area for that and also for tourism reasons. and the fact that such a train line incurred and such an incident is quite a problem for the local authorities. are corresponded julia so daily many thanks for that update. and there has been a nother shooting in the us this time outside a church in the state of iowa, a man shot and killed 2 women before turning a gun on himself. a service was being held in sight in the town of ames. last week, 19 students and 2 teachers were killed in texas while president joe biden

is urging congress to act to restrict access to guns. but he acknowledged that without support from republican lawmakers. nothing will change. biden's plead, the american people was blunt and forceful. how much more corners you're willing to accept harmony more interested america large must be taken before we say enough enough. and he had clear proposals for what needed to be done. jill and i visited arlington that we need to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. and if we can't ban assault weapons, and we should raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21 strength and background checks and act safe storage law in red flag laws. repeal the immunity, the protect gun manufacturers and liability, but biden, who just days earlier,

visited the texas school when 19 children. and 2 teachers was shocked, dead last week. warned that republicans in the senate would likely block his proposals and implored americans to vote on the issue in the upcoming midterm election. he so wrote, i quote, congress fails. i believe this time a majority of american people won't give up either. i believe the majority of you will act to turn your outrage into making this issue central to your vote. enough enough enough. he ended his address with a passionate cole faction cross from a grocery store in buffalo, new york. let's meet the moment, let us finally do something and across the atlantic, britons, queen elizabeth the 2nd has missed a day to of celebrations for her platinum jubilee after experiencing while buckingham palace called discomforts. but other members of the royal family, including prince harry and his wife megan did attend the service of thanksgiving at

saint paul's cathedral in london. prime minister boris johnson was also among the well wishers the platinum jubilee marks the queen's 70 years on the throne. the queen will now enjoy events on tv at home, at windsor castle and where we go, let's get a reminder of the top story. we're following for you. 100 days into russia's invasion. ukraine says its forces are holding their positions in the strategic city of so bear don't go moscow claims. it's on the verge of taking control. any update at this hour after a short break, i'll be back to take you through the day. so don't go away. if you want more before, then there's always our website, d, w dot com with with

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