light microbes to be annihilated even 77 years after the holocaust hatred towards jeworski's still progressive history. but to semitism starts to watch circuit on d w a ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, germany gears up to host a summit of g 7 leaders. but the idyllic setting at a castle in the bavarian ald might belie a brewing storm, asked, protest, a set up camp near by. what are their demands? we ask a leading activist also coming up

a major retreat ukraine. true to leave the city of civil don yet after weeks of fighting and relentless attacks by the russians. and the u. s. supreme court strikes down the constitutional right to an abortion triggering immediate abortion bands in several states. we look at what the ruling means were millions of women in america. ah, monica jones, welcome to the program. germany is preparing to host leaders from the group of 7 wealthy countries at a summit that opens in bavaria on sunday. securities titus. thousands of protesters gather in the state, capital munich, and a town near the summit venue to make their voices heard. activists are said to join marches, plant by green, peas, oxfam, numerous other non governmental organizations. that calling on g 7 lead us to take

a greater action against climate change and global poverty. and we're joined now by louisa lloyd bowers. she is one of the founders of germany friday for future climate movement, and he joins me online from berlin. now. welcome to the program. good to have you with us. so i get money for we talk about the g 7 summit. let's take a look at the broader situation because much of europe, of course, is now trying to break free from its dependence on russian oil and gas. the german economy minister, who himself is a member of the green party, decided to reactivate coal fired power plants. can you sympathize with his dilemma or, well, it's not his style. i'm not technically, it's a dilemma that you know, sizes everywhere and, and especially the, the german society as we're just so dependent on russian gas and oil. and yes,

they are 2 big questions now, how to pull the gaps in the, in the energy systems. but there's just a huge difference between filling and gaps and creating new, lengthy, long lasting dependency on fossil fuels. and that will to cracks. and when you know, minutes to say ok, you know, for now we have to dig around a bit and fill it with with some code that might be fair enough. as long as climate demands are still met, as long as we still sticking to su to budget, meaning maybe, you know, having an earlier coal exit than planned and, you know, fiddling and to, to fit it with our climate budget. right in the long run. do you have any idea, any alternatives that you could suggest instead of reactivating coal fired plan? so is this basically the only solution we have right now? i am not an energy systems expert and, and they have opinions on what they are saying and, and germany is that for now on for this year and especially for the next winter.

yes, it is crucial that we fill in our gas tanks. and that means for instance, for a short amount of time having more cola. but it must not mean that we open up, for instance, numerous new installed energy terminals on the german coast. we do new drilling and then recreate all these new dependencies, the drivers even further down the. a road our climate catastrophe. i mean 2022. it should be the turning point. it should be that moment will lead us everywhere decide to turn away from fossil fuels as box climate disasters. and wars should be the time of re look at the new book and understand they're at hand. they're, they're ready to be installed. as soon as the political will is there, right. i mean, it must be very frustrating because for many years the friday for future movement was gaining momentum. then came the pandemic, and now the war and ukraine. this upcoming g 7 summit was supposed to focus on climate change. now the focus is understandably on ukraine g. the feeling that

a political leaders have completely lost sight of the climate emergency. honestly i don't know what political lead us am i looking at and what not. but what it seems like from the outside is that obviously many of them don't want to or can not understand the emergency we're in. and that, that is, you know, that things are connected. that's a war cub shield and financed by fossil fuels is part of the, of the big fire of fossil fuel destruction that is causing that is causing, you know, the distractions of a likelihood. and so, reacting to fossil fuel with more fossil fuel issues doesn't make sense even on geological level. so for the take of the world we inherited that is there for us to save the future. that is, you know, in the hands of the leaders right now and in our certainly we must stop playing out these crisis against each other and understanding that, that, that should be connected. last question, final question,

because obviously we mentioned that there are protests preparing any way to go ahead what concrete decisions do you and the protest i want to see at the g 7 app. that's a really good question. so 1st of all, this, because i'm, it must be a turn away from fossil fuels. this means sticking to the agreement that i've already been made and namely ending for and funding for fossil fuels, which all of shows is about to crack down, which would be devastating. it must include committing to a call exit and 2030, which is 70 does. must be tied on the summit and of course my include actually, you know, consequent and honest commitments for loss or damage financing the global south. and of course, talking about ending the depth of the globe. this house to actually yeah. make proper and on this collaboration on a global level possible, loosen with one of the founders of germany fridays for future climate movement.

thank you so very much. thank you. while for germany, the sun, it will mark the high point of its turn at the helm of the rotating g 7 presidency . the groove includes the most advanced economy that the united states, canada, the united kingdom, france, germany, italy, and japan. their home to 10 percent of the world's population, but the account for a 3rd of global economic output germany holds the rotating presidency of the group . and this meeting will be dominated by a daunting set of crises with russia worn ukraine and climate change. topping the agenda, but as did obvious, richard walker reports these issues are nothing new for the g 7. germany's baltic, sea coast, 2007 angle immacule hosting. one of the 1st major summits of her career is chancellor. it's name the g 8. that's right, back then it was still the g 8,

a group of 7 rich liberal democracies plus russia also on board. vladimir putin was there and some of the photos even made it look quite friendly. seen from to day, it looks like a parallel universe. and yet all was not, well, putin was angry about us plans for a missile defense system. would it be just a year later he would in vain ga greg. i'm sure other challenges were mounting to the ga promised to tackle climate change, or at least it sort of did. in this final declaration, it promised to consider cutting emissions by half by 2050, fast forward to 2015. and this time michael hosted in the mountains, the g 8 was now the g 7 again, boot and was gone. the group threw him out of the annexation of crimea. this became the signature image. he had suggested a meeting of minds in

a group now coming closer together without the russians around. and yet russia loomed over things. as the final declaration made clear, it condemned the annexation of crimea and said that russia must respect ukraine's sovereignty. and there was a growing sense of time running out on climate change with calls for urgent and concrete action. fast forward again to, to day. and russia's war in ukraine will totally dominate this year's summit. a war destabilizing europe, and potentially the whole world. the g 7 will try to underscore west and unity in the face of all of this. and it will also try to tackle some of the fall out of the war like the food crisis and the energy crunch. and with forest fires already hitting near berlin. this year the climate crisis will be back on the agenda again . the new german chancellor ala sholtes will use his debut as host to push

a plan called the climate club that he says could make a difference. so looking back again at those photos from 2007, they may seem like they're from a parallel universe. but when you think about it, the challenges of then have become the crises of now. we'll have to see of schultz and his fellow g. 7 leaders can do anything meaningful about them to the war. in easton ukraine, our on eastern europe, brother and eastern ukraine as well. ukrainian troops are retreating from the eastern city of several don. yet, after weeks of years fighting against invading russian forces and regional officials said, ukraine's units would move to a stronger positions. recent days have seen russia make a significant gains around the strategic eastern city. russia is trying to and circle ukrainian forces and seized the entire don bass region. local ukrainian officials say the fighting is intensifying and nowhere in the east

a safe any more for residence. so is the withdrawal from a several don yet an admission of defeat. earlier i put that question to our correspondent and key ethnic connolly. i think it's definitely an acceptance that 7 . it was not a city that ukraine could hold on to with acceptable losses for any longer. these got extremely there how long ukraine has stayed in control. the city experts been talking about the city being taken by the russians for basically the best part a month now. and ukrainian just kept on holding on, kept on forcing the russians to basically lose huge numbers of soldiers to invest a huge amount of fire power pulling away or weapons and resources from other parts . the front lines just to gain a couple of streets at a time. and now in a situation where, so this is basically the only ukranian stronghold on the northern side of that 70 kids on its river, where the bridges behind them have been blown up. ukraine has now said that they

are going to try and pull people out how they're going to get them out without bridges, without a situation where they're pontoons. we don't know, but that seems to be the plan now. and yeah, it's a blow, but i think it's a situation where you created basically tried to do the same as it did with mary paul to turn this into a pyrrhic victory for the russians. a hollow victory where they basically invested more resources than that city is worth. but they obviously are desperate for some kind of victory, some kind of game because of rule. now, in our 5th month of war, the russians have pretty little to show, given the huge resources and given a huge, a security in fire power to show for all their efforts. d, w. next connelly, their reporting from kia, thank you so much. it's been described as a constitutional earthquake. the u. s. supreme court has ended 50 years. the federal abortion rights in a 6 to 3 ruling, the court overturned the landmark 1973 roe vs wade decision that enshrined

a woman's right to an abortion. you were states now have the power to set their own abortion laws and clinics have already closed in several republican run states that had anticipated the ruling. the decision triggered emotional reactions on both sides. i then march in defiance nationwide and americans have taken to the streets to protest the supreme court decision. overton reveal weighed with this ruling, american women will no longer have the constitutional right to an abortion. 2 i only know that what you're doing wrong, they know that what they're doing with wanting braylin's activists take it different stones to them this day is a cause for celebration. ah,

several states across the u. s. have already enacted immediate bands on the procedure as of this morning or abortions performed in oklahoma or solicited in oklahoma or illegal. this is not only a victory for unborn children. this is a victory for everybody who believes in our system of government. one of right on the other find the leaders, a 3 west coast states, california, oregon, and washington have promised to fight for a bush. and roy, why california oregon and washing building the west coast a technicians access to with will work with their legislator, with our providers, with a patient advocate. we will continue to protect patients from any state who come to our state of washing here in just one day. the u. s. supreme court has ended

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