and its passion matters starts july 3rd on d, w ah ah, this is dw is coming to live from berlin. nato says russia's war on ukraine is causing a global food crisis leaders meeting in madrid or tackling food insecurity around the world. on the final day of their summit, they declared russia as their biggest strategic threat would get the latest from the talks. also coming up 3 foreigners captured while fighting with ukraine or awaiting a death sentence issued by russian back separatists dw,

meets the friends and family trying to rally support for their cause. and the son of a dictator takes office in the philippines, had unarmed marco's junior is sworn in as president. after winning a landslide election at his inauguration, he praises his disgraced father for getting things done. plus public gatherings for band and internet access is blocked to quell unrest in india. that's after muslim man boast of killing a hindu man. ah . hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. nato leaders are holding the final day of talk, sat there summit in madrid. they're addressing rising food prices and insecurity caused by rushes, warren ukraine. they told leaders, say rushes blockade of gain exports as sparking instability around the world. and

especially in the middle east and north africa. earlier at the summit alliance members announced a new strategic plan, naming russia as the biggest threat. sweden and finland have been formally enjoy invited to join nato and the u. s. has promised to bolster its forces station in europe. nato secretary general young stoughton bag, german chancellor, olaf shalt, and the u. s. president joe biden are expected to speak soon. we'll cross live to those statements as they happen are here to walk us through this pivotal nato summit is d w political correspondent, julius, how delhi, and on the ground in madrid is b. w. brussels bureau chief, alexandra von nomine channel, will start with you for those of our viewers who haven't been following this sir summit closely. what have the most important developments been so far?

while we had here 2 major developments, i would say 1st of all of all, of course, the strategic concept dads and nato leaders way were able to agree on and in this strategic concept to russia is not seen as a strategic partner. any more russia is now considered to be the most significant and direct threats to nato's security. and then other things that needs to be said here is that for the very 1st time, china is also mentioned in this strategic concept. china as a source of systemic challenges and maybe one more word on that. a climate change is also being mentioned that there as a defining threat of challenge. i'm sorry of our time. and another major development here is that nato is determined to boost it, sir. high readiness forces,

promising to increase their number from 40000 right now 230-0000 julia. there's been a lot of criticism of germany's response to proteins invasion of ukraine. ah, the german government, under all of sholtes, has been trying to counter that criticism. what's the mood now in germany regarding the war in ukraine and germany's role within nato in its defense posture? i think there has been quite a big shift in german as security in foreign policy. so the war in ukraine started and that could already be seen a few days after the war began. when i left shots in the german parliament pledged 100000000000 euros to spend on defense, something that he called the turning point. and after that, germany was maybe slow in delivering weapons, especially heavy weapons to ukraine, where that's where a lot of the criticism came in. and even though it was slow,

especially with the heavy weapons, they are slowly being delivered to ukraine and for a country like germany that had been in the years before now, almost reluctant to invest more in defense that had been criticized strongly also by former president, a u. s. president donald trump because of its reluctance to invest in defense for germany to make such a move, it is quite unimportant change. and we've seen that also the citizens of germany are going along with this decision to invest more in defense and focus more on the fence. they agree that heavy weapons should be delivered to ukraine. they agree that more investments should be put in the military. well, we'll be hearing more from chancellor shoulds later in the program. he is scheduled to give a news conference in about half an hour, 45 minutes from now. russian president vladimir putin used the thread of nato

expansion as a pretext for invading ukraine. he's stopped short of making a similar threat response to finland and sweden joining the military alliance. but he did issue this warning letter. kristen m. well, not yet. but we do not have the same problems with sweden and finland that unfortunately we do with ukraine over whose portal we have no territorial issues or disputes. full of we have nothing to worry about in terms of finland and sweden joining nato from the news. if that's what they want, that's up to them, but he will. but they need to understand that there was no threat to them before nibbling who girls than you. now, if military contingents and infrastructure are deployed there, russia will have no choice, but to respond in kind. so, present protein, they're saying that russia will respond in kind to further nato deployments along its border of excite her. what's the reaction been to proteins, comments?

their imagery i had a chance to ask this a question to the estonian prime minister kaya collins. and she told me that she is not very concerned about those threads because as she said, that's what russia does. they threaten as they avowed to take action. and she is a rather expecting that we might see cyber attacks coming out or launch being launch in russia or aerospace, a violation or a disinformation campaigns as a reaction to sweden and finland. i'm wanting to join nato, and that is what i've been hearing a lot from nato officials here. there are saying that they do not think that russia would right now have, for the capabilities are, and also the will to launch any military action against a nato territory. and against finland and sweden. now top

of the agenda in madrid today is the growing crisis surrounding food security, russia and ukraine in particular, big suppliers of agricultural products, particularly grain, sunflower, oil, what not to the rest of the world. this is a big problem for the world as a whole. we're seeing prices rising and, and access to food becoming difficult now. met germany is blaming russia specifically for causing this. ah, what is germany doing to try to solve the crisis though julia? well, there are common efforts between a lot of actor is going on trying to find a way to get this grain out of crane and be distributed to the countries that are really needed. a we'd heard, we've heard also from leaders at the g 7 summit that just happened now just before the nato summit. how important of an issue this is if we look, for example,

at security, even the lack of food in the lot of countries around the world can cause security issues. and that's why leaders really wants to, to address it. and we've heard, for example, from italian prime minister mattie o brown. he how he thinks there is some optimism in terms of these negotiations with trying to get the grain out of ukraine. there are different possible solutions . one would be to transport it out via a c, but there are still some security concerns regarding that possibility. the other is to try to get this grain out through land, through romania and the moldova. but there is a need for russia to agree to some security guarantees for this green to be transported out. so the negotiations are ongoing. but there is definitely a push coming from germany and other western countries to try to solve the situation quickly. because the next harvest in ukraine is coming. well, nato secretary general in stoughton bag is due to hold

a news conference at that nato summit. shortly. we'll cross live to madrid when it happens. julia alexander, thank you for now. meanwhile russia says it has withdrawn his forces from ukraine strategic snake island in the black sea of russia's defense secretary with french ministry called it quote, a good will gesture that showed it wasn't blocking ukrainian grain exports. ukrainian officials said that withdrawal followed its missile and artillery strikes on russia's garrison. snake island became a symbol of ukrainian resistance at the start of the war when ukrainian soldiers rebuffed a russian warships demand to surrender. and the audio went viral. a

spring in dw corresponding to manuel shaws who is in the ukranian port city of odessa. no matter what rushes hers, it's pulling out of snake island as a good will gesture. what do you make of that? well terry, i think fairly interesting to see the framing of what happens from the russian perspective. they said they had, they wanted to show the goodwill that rush, i wanted to show that they had no interest in blocking. for example, un humanitarian corridors. in the black, the black d r. that's what you paid, and i don't rush on, pardon me, perspective on the ukraine and side of course, if you go in volley, we take up the snake, ireland. you said, you said earlier, this had been one of the 1st victories for russia on the head of the war. this

island, where 13 gwyn in border guard, had told russia, well, where to go next to russian shape watch. it's harder to the island, including the moscow, the not far washy. if we had been, you know, since i've been in there at the bottom of the black sea, with no news from the russian sold it for one by so very significant though. so her huge morale for ukraine in tooth and for your finance here. sounds like you're really under a dealers with the rain falling. emma hope you can hear me. what can you tell us about the prisoner's swap between ukraine and russia that happened yesterday? well again, have very significant moments in that war. there have been those changes in the past, but usually it was about 121520 years from both sides. it's time we're talking about

a $144.00 soldiers on both sides, and it includes the ukrainian cyber. we turn off $95.00 as soldiers who fought in the other south sealed plans, including $43.00 soldiers from the hours of her battalion, a regiment of which there was a para military group which joined the ukrainian army the 2 years back. and the russian rhetoric is that this group is a far wide group and they had always stared before that. those soldiers would be tried on roach and territories. and that's really significant also because human ukraine don't. so these are considered as he wrote brain, sour dune left for the front lines with his childhood teddy bears trapped to his military kid for he came to you quaint from morocco to sturdy error spatial sciences. but last november swapped his student visa for a military one and joined the army,

much to the surprise of his friends who i was against that. and one of the main arguments he gave me was the fact bad news kind of feeling useless. so he wants to do something useful and find himself, but he didn't serve long. he 40 more, you pull and surrender to rush and forces along with over a 1000 fellow service men, mid april. but a separatist authorities didn't treat him like a ukrainian prisoner form. that argued, he was a foreign mercenary and put him on trial. along with 2 britons go down the 1st foreign fighters to be tried since the beginning of the war. at the beginning of june, all 3 was sentenced to death. ukrainian authorities and, and use those we checked is that it as a parent is caught in, dumbass is not recognized by kid or by the international community. it's her propaganda, her shawl and her in this case, 1st of all, the,

or an issue on the institution. so called court, ah, that pro provide this where do the, this sentence is sir, not so applicable and available on ukrainian territory. we are an ukranian territory. so we consider it like the action of terrorist organization and it's pure terrorist act that should be condemned. and her a severally punished the on international international level. we are dealing with the big terrorist group supported by terry state for growing family. the trial and death sentence came as a shock, and they say they haven't received any help from the american authorities. so far. the moment when i seen the video of his capture, which i tried to contact the american embassy and where i am right now and they

literally were like, what do you expect us to do? i tried to reach many other.