ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. the annual summary of the group of 7 leading democracies is underway. here in germany, on the 1st day of talks, the g 7 leaders agree to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in global infrastructure to promote sustainable development. they also agreed to increase

energy security will go live to our correspondent at the summit and also coming up explosions, rocks the ukranian capital in the 1st the parent russian attack on keith. in nearly 3 weeks, the cities may says the bloss shook a historic central district and the residential complex was on fire. we'll get the latest from our correspond ah i'm and you can, we can and thanks so much for joining us today. she suddenly does have agreed to invest $600000000000.00 and global infrastructure. the pledge came on the 1st day of their annual summit, which is being hosted by germany this year. they said the investment was crucial to sustainable economic development. the g 7 leaders also stressed their efforts to increase energy security. read

a meeting is also expected to focus on russia's aggression and how to keep up support for ukraine over the longer term. and climate change will of course, also be on the agenda for russia was once a part of the group, then known as the g 8. but it was expelled after invaded and annexed ukraine's crimea region in 2014. and we will now be joined by our chief political editor, mikayla christner, who's at the g 7 summit venue in alamo. in the bavarian out, what were the, the main points made to made today by the g 7 leaders? what was it stood out to you? i've just come from the press conference led by german chancellor sauls and joe biden at declaring a global investment and infrastructure program which sees $200000000000.00 euros pledge from the united states out of public and private money. and a total of $600000000000.00 to support countries around the world. the word

developing countries was also mentioned. and let's just take a look at what's behind that. because this means that the g 7 beyond helping countries is struck by climate change and also improving sustainable technology also wants to build a bridge to countries that could fall into the sphere of influence of russia. and china, for instance, india is just come back from a gathering of the so called bricks countries will china and russia a part of that group. now it's here as a partner country, as to the g 7. and clearly we're seeing do political, a towing of key states, particular democracies like india also south africa to bring them if in question on the side of the d 7, not on the side of russia or china. now there was a lot of talk today about the launch of the, the partnership for global infrastructure and investment. can you tell us

a bit more about, well, that is well, that's exactly this program. and joe biden said that there was already a dozen programs in place really were seeing a big umbrella of the g. 7 of different programs brought together. we'll have to see at which is or which of those that already existing programs already in that $600000000000.00 a pledge, but also the dry, fide, a german g 7 presidency for fair infrastructure programs that are for the greener economies of countries. that a threshold countries less developed countries to make sure that c, o 2 emissions can be caught while these countries also develop further to wealth levels that g 7 countries already enjoy. so a lot of ukraine symbolism, but also a very concrete stretching out the g 7 hand to countries who want to join

that umbrella of values after which the g 7 stand for as opposed to the g 20. where it's all about economics here. it's also about democracy, rule of law and toward values. lee and german chancellor will actually underlined the importance earlier of tackling the global energy crisis and inflation. massive challenges. how are the g 7 leaders planning to do that? yes, well they are video knocking their heads together here to find a way to continue sanctions to refine sanctions further. there was talk also of the u. s. proposal to have a cap on oil prices and we're still waiting to see whether we'll see some kind of concrete announcements sounded less so with the last conversations that i've seen, the aim is more and more to stop sanctions from hurting europe. the united

states, the rest of the world were prices of going through the roof on energy and rushes, actually earning a lot of money for potentially beyond previous levels. so it's essentially delivering less gas, less fuel and earning more because prices are going up. and that means finding more countries, senegal was also cited as an example. there could be some fresh gas exploration there. so we are expecting some language in the communicate which may see the different g 7 actually take a stance while having an emphasis on climate change at the same time, considering tapping into more traditional c o 2, emitting entities like a gas like oil for to bridge those crucial years that's something to buy in the u. s. present his stress time time again, that the decisions taken here will have an effect on the decades on the generations

to come. he does his chief political editor, mckayla, casner in m l. thanks so much and we can now speak to stormy anika. milton i, she is the executive director of the aston institute, germany, and she is currently in gardening patton, kirchen, where the g 7 summit is taking place. and miss milner. welcome to d. w. can you give us your take on this year's g 7 summit so far? ah, 1st of all, thanks for having me. and this is a summer term which shows a lot of solidarity on we saw a lot of bilateral meeting and also pictures which showed quite clearly how united the west and one of the big topics on the agenda today was to rush this war against the ukraine. sanctions, new financial contributions, but also the world economy, the lumen, recession,

inflation weights. so the agenda is really, really 4. but what strikes me as particularly noteworthy is the unity among the g 7 leaders. now, earlier today, america's president joe biden called germany one of the closest allies in the world . what does that tell us about the current german american relationship? it tells us that there is a, i would say transatlantic renaissance during the trump administration for transit and relationship was really quite struggling. i would say i'm in now. we're seeing really a revival of the the pictures we saw often by left for meeting then also biden's words are very important as into a signal to the world but also a signal to the german population itself. choices i know a lot of pressure and implies also lazy. so because of being

a little too slow with regard to weapon deliveries to the ukraine into, we heard a lot that the americans are quite unhappy with a speech and which germany as a moving, but fight and said quite clearly today, germany is an important life and he thanked chance for specifically what you did over the last month. so i would say again, there's great unity in the relationship. now would you say that that display of unity was also aimed at russian president vladimir putin? oh, absolutely. i mean, what he did not expect. i think when he year invaded the ukraine invaders ukraine is western unity. he looked over the past years where we had a lot of whisks on on many issues in the tentative relationship but also within the european union. also in the relationship of the you with the u. k. and greg said,

and i think he's, he saw that he would get out at a time of weakness. and the last month i clearly show that this is not the case that the west is united. certainly, i mean there are some differences with regard to interest and vulnerabilities and so on, but this huge unit to you with regard to the sanctions and financial contributions and, and also weapon delivery counseling questions. so i think the pictures and words we saw today and her today with these directors also to was put in saying, we are here and we are united now for the sanctions against russia to be more effective. the g 7 members need more countries on board. do you think we can expect countries like india, south africa, to support g 7 measures designed to punish moscow? for example, a capital the oil prices. mm. yeah, this is a really, really tricky issue. and the idea of putting a price on oil,

an oil price caps. so to say is a, is an idea which i've brought along to the 2nd comment. and it doesn't actually make a lot of sense for russians income. actually these come energy sales and it has very positive faith into current account balance. this year, the economy is going down in russia, but sanction could be a lot more powerful and forceful. if we imputed an energy in the packets of for, for a oil prices have to really work and it's not sufficient to have the you to pan at the united states on board. we also need india and also south africa. and that's why it was so important that these countries also here indonesia, for example, also one of the outreach partners. and i expect that in the course of the next couple of days, they will be a lot of meetings with these countries as well. if they can join the efforts against russia also with regard to sanctions. dr. still me on a committee,

the executive director of the aspen institute, germany. thank you so much for your time. thanks for having me. and while the g suddenly does meet for talks, are animal castle protests are taking place on the streets of the nearby town. demonstrators are demanding swift action on climate change and an end to the use of fossil fuels. they're also group calling on wealthy nations to tackle global poverty and inequality with russia's war in ukraine. dominating the talks, protest is a marching of peace and for cuts to military spending and dw correspondent benjamin alvarez group. is that a demonstration near the summit venue? benjamin ahead of the summit, police warmed the abs, he g 7 protest could turn violent. tell us about the situation right now. the situation hearing damaged parking chicken is pretty calm. as you can see behind

me, you can see bosses that are taking the protest says to other cities here in bavaria . many of them came from munich in the morning and now being escorted back to their cities. so the came for a day, the situation throughout the day was relatively calm. there were a few moments at a few tens, moments were police officers put on helmets, and once again asked, people were taking part in the rally to follow the rules that the police gave them to protest. young damage park and chicken far less people were here than the one. the water expected, a similar situation to the one that we saw yesterday in munich. we're organizes expected around 20000 people, but the were only around 4000 air. that's the number, the police estimate. so who are the people are protesting and what are they demanding, specifically? the several groups and it's not just 11 group of protest says there was a really interesting moment were one group of people was walking it towards

a little street in the center of garbage party and were met by another group of protesters waving ukrainian flags. and singing ukraine's national anthem, and what people were demanding in both relish on want. so to not forget ukraine to keep sending heavy weapons and will people in the other protests where demanding is asking d 7 lead us to take a real stance to take global problem seriously when it comes to hunger. when it comes to global change, to talk with the global south, they're criticizing that there's so many police offices and i've never seen so many police officers covering l being in a protest as i saw here today. $18000.00 are in damaged packaging around the area. securing in the all the summit it then you hear schloss, elma, whether d 7 leaders are meeting so the were protesting against is so many police officers in how expensive this summit is also for germany. all right,

it only correspondent benjamin alvarez group. i think so much against tend to the war in ukraine now, and multiple explosions were heard on the southern outskirts of the capital. keith, a came hours of the russian missiles struck the city center, severely damaging residential buildings there. and missiles strikes a key. the apartment blocked one of 40 in incoming rockets this morning. authorities say it's been 3 weeks since the last attack. but if key events were lulled into a sense of security, they are again alert to the russian threat. rescue as help a person stuck under the rebel as 7 year old girl is pulled to safety alive . cave mer baton. the credit goes said the strike was a warning to ukrainians ahead.