make world who's behind the benefits and why are they a threat to us all over the world this week on d. w ah, ah, this is the w use lie from the ukraine stole greatest sports. could spock a global hunger crisis with millions of tons unable to leave black c ports, rushes foreign minister in turkey for talks on ending the blockade? and the kremlin claims, it's almost in control of your grades. east of the once region. a cave says it's

forces resisting the advance and that close to $300.00 russian soldiers being killed in battle every day. ah, i've been fizzle and welcome to the program. since the war began over 3 months ago, russia has blockaded ukraine's coastline, leaving millions of tons of grain, stock in silos and ports, including odessa. many of those hobbies are now heavily might russia's foreign minister. so gay leverage is in turkey to discuss how to get the grain to the rest of the world as the united nations once of a global food crisis. ukraine is a major supplier of wheat, corn and sunflower oil to many parts of the world. joining me in the studio is al, correspond, and emily show and also out is sample corresponded dorian jones, dorian, let's start with you. what can totally do to get those grain shipments moving so

so he is in a pivotal position just in front of me. is basra walked away, which is the gateway to world markets from the black sea. but on top of that, turkey has the 2nd largest navy in the black sea. and there will be crucial in a role of escorting ship sir through the black sea and into the international markets. but turkey's key role is diplomatic. it is probably now the only country that has good relations with both you, through crane and russia and building trust between these 2 sides is seen as pivotal to any successful deal and it's, it working out going forward. and in fact, the turkish defense municipally occur who is involved in this. so a process of developing a, a grain corridor admitted that there was major progress, but so truth still is to be achieved. yeah, the trust factor is huge. emily ukraine would have to d, mine are those harbors. russia would have to not only pull back, but hold back and not fire. absolutely,

and one question here is the guarantee of our, these ships for the, for the safety of the ship, leaving ports essentially. and letting me put in has said that he guarantees that russia will not attack odessa. for example, if there is a safe corridor for this grain, which is a concern on the ukrainian side, rush also yesterday said that 2 ports which are under russian control, are actually already operational 2 ports within ukraine, i should say mighty opal and also beds dance. so they're kind of setting up almost a blame game against you, grand they're saying just ukraine as essentially blocking this deal. but the problem of no trust, of course, is significant. and you can see that by the fact that a few days ago, the foreign minister neared the for the ukrainian foreign minister said that yes foot and has guaranteed the safety of this ships. but he also guaranteed that russia would not attack ukraine just a few days before a full scale invasion actually happened. so you can kind of understand the ukrainian side as well there. and meanwhile, whoa,

all of this is going on. dorian love roth is also with a military delegation, i believe in turkey to talk about another conflict, syria how, how does that factor it? well, that's right. turkey wants to launch a major military operation to syria against this syrian kurdish group, the y p g, which he calls terrorists linked to a p k, k. insurgency, which has been fighting the turkey state for decades. now this group is also an ally of the you, the y p g is also an ally of the united states and fighting these lamb extinct. i'll turkey is targeting in airy, which is on the russian control. and turkey will need russia to lift or is control of air space to allow turkish jets to support its operation on the ground. are now rock. moscow had initially said it was opened his operation, but in the last few days, it says it's now not so happy about this. and that is seen as a bargaining process by moscow and lateral. we'll be looking for something in exchange from turkey for any deal to what i'll took you to go in to syria and washington will be looking very closely at what turkey is offering. there are so

many issues here at stake that have been used as bargaining chips and emily turkeys also threatening to block native membership for fillin and sweden and, and my mom, something for that as well. of course. right? that seen as another kind of geopolitical bargaining chip on putin, of course, has said that russia, she has no problem at all with sweden and finland joining nato, even though they've been named neutral for so long. but he doesn't want military bases placed in those 2 countries. it's clear though, i think that going into this war. russia wanted less nato presents on its eastern flank and they've gotten more presents. turkey um has said that they are blocking this. they have a lot of reasons to block it, but i think one, this is one indicator of the kind of complicated and often strained. and you know, wrangling, relationship that we see between turkey and russia. where am that turkey, you know, is walking a fine line between the west and russia. they're off in this kind of alliance with

russia, where they're showing defiance towards the west. i'm and certainly, i think russia will be happy if nato membership of these 2 countries is walked on, you know, but i think it shows, once again, this kind of all, scratch your back if you scratch mine relationship that we also see as door and was pointing out in syria. elisha, one for us here in the studio. dorian jones in istanbul, thank you to you as well. the analysis ross and al claims control 97 percent of the once one of the 2 ukranian provinces that make up the combat. the kremlin has made talking or taking the eastern region. it's number one objective in this phase of the war and has been bombarding the city of center, the nets and surrounding areas ukraine's president. lot of his lensky says his forces are putting up a fierce defense and inflicting a heavy toll rushes military to smoke in destruction across soviet oh, don't ask the fight for the key industrial hub has emerged as

a pivotal battle in the wall. russia has claimed to have taken full control of all the residential neighborhoods there, but ukrainian officials say it's outnumbered groups are fighting on you greens. president zalinski says the russian advance has come at the cost of pauses of its troops. was a business the more than 31000 russian servicemen have already died in ukraine. the, just the since february 24th russia has been paying almost 300 lives a day for completely pointless war against ukraine. so that shut and still the day will come when the number of losses will go beyond the permissible limit. but even for russia, the listing alert yet gave what brought us to point. and this for valerie, most of the occupying contingencies already understood that they have no perspectives in ukraine lab,

but the vocal and we state the smooth and corresponding interceptions of the conversations. this is the mood prevail on the russian army. we are free people missile. we are not your slaves when there was horrible. about 65 kilometers west, the city of slow vianza has been hit by heavy shelling. as russian forces continued to advance farther and the don boss region. but many residents are refusing to leave. i am going to stay here for you, but i will not leave with that. my husband not for good. he works here. so we've decided to stay. it's tough, but it's easier when one is at home with the parents. we're going to stay now because it's too dangerous to move their shooting everywhere, but we hope all will be well for these people are

receiving essential aid. why, clinging on to hopes of survival? i asked how correspondent in keith yon phillips shots, how much longer ukraine can hold off the russians in the east? i don't think her that the fighting will answer anytime soon. in the danverse region. it's true that most 2 sources confirm that sir the russians have taken over most parts of the $200.00 region, but there is still intense. so street fights in going on. for example, in the key city of 1st, the better the nets. and we shouldn't forget that the don bus region is more than just bird ones, are robins in the neighboring donnette sco province. the russians are far away from controlling most parts of the region, and the russians are hoping that so the delivery of new weapons will help for launch effect of counter attacks. so i think we will still see long and intense

battles. we heard zalinski counting some 31000 dead on the russian side. can you verify that there's no way to independently verify this number. all we can do is conduct plausibility checks and compare it with other available data. the british defense ministry said some weeks ago that they think about half of this number of russian soldiers died. but since then, intense streets are fighting has taken place. and we all know this is very risky for all sides. also, president zalinski says that up to 100 ukrainian soldiers die on a daily basis, which also amounts to a huge number after more than 100 days of fighting. so the $31000.00 debt russian soldiers. this number could be a little bit of an over estimate, but it's not completely unrealistic either. okay, we'll rush claims. it's open to

a land corridor. in the mean time to rush unoccupied, crimea are allowing civilians and goods to pass through the east. what more can you tell us about that? indeed, the russian defense ministry says that it has opened tracks and roads to connect russia, the don bass region, and the crimea peninsula the occupied territories since 2014. this could also help the russians deliver goods to the occupied city of maria poll, whether unitarian situation seems to be disastrous. mario paul also has a very important harbor. so this a corridor could also play an important role. or from a logistic perspective, russia says it's ready to ship a grain supplies from maria paul. as you know, the russians have been accused of holding hostage millions of tons of rain supplies

meant for the developing world. but as always, it's impossible to verify the russian information and in the past a lot of times this information also turned out to be a lie in the end. thank you very much for bringing us up to date young philip shots for us there in the capital key. now to some of the other stories making use around the world. for the german chancellor anglo mantel has defended her policy towards russia during her 16 years in power. in her 1st big interview since leaving office, mattel insisted she had nothing to apologize for. she also called roches invasion. a few quite a great tragedy saying that vladimir putin had made big mistake belgium's king felipe is in the democratic republic of congo on the 6th day trip. it seen as a chance for reconciliation between the 2 nations under belgium's colonial rule. millions of congolese were killed, mutilated, or died of disease as the land was pillaged for resources. the former chiefs of

world and european football facing trial in switzerland, of a fraud and forgery challenges. prosecutors claimed the former fee for president supplies and made it an unlawful payment of $2000000.00 swiss francs to michelle teenie was then head of european footballs governing body wafer. both men deny the charges. at least 17 people have been killed after a trained derailed in east in iran. officials say the train collided with an excavator in a remote desert area before going off the rails. dozens of passengers were wounded in the crash with some of them in a critical condition. maybe me got horse some breaking news now. we're getting reports of a major car accident here in berlin, around the busy shopping area. of course houston dumb. i'm joined by d. w. michelle cook. now what more can you tell us, michelle? at this stage we have very little confirmed information. berlin police has tweeted

about this. they say there is a major operation under way after a man drove into a crowd of people on that busy high street in the west of berlin. it is at this stage unclear whether the man who is being held by police did this intentionally or whether this was indeed an accident. several people are injured. there are reports that one person is dead. and everybody is on high alert here over this news because it literally is at the crossing of 2 roads on the other side of but i tried plots where there was a terrorist attack in 2016. germany's 1st major terrorist attack in recent in memory. so the big question mark, hanging in the air is, was this indeed an accident, or are we seeing what was an attack on innocent people to simply walking down the street? of course, we'll keep you up to date on that, but that's the very little that we have confirmed at this moment in time. thank you

very much. michelle. yeah, that attack back in 201612 died in that 56 were injured and we're getting reports of around 30 injured. possibly one did will bring you up to date. as michelle mentioned, a banks that documentary on the volcanic past of germany's eiffel region. and if it could erupt to life again, for news, go to our website or follow us on instagram or twitter, and painful and feel gale will have your own use next out. with it is a secret war in the scene, endless one axis of the conflict between iran on the one hand and israel in the united states on the other for more than 40 years. the adversaries have been erect

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