ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. ukraine says it's grained shipments are ready to set. president lensky visits a black sea port where the 1st ships are loaded. they are waiting for the united nations to declare it's. it's safe for the part under a deal with russia. zelinski says ukraine can once again how to feed the world.

also coming off, alaska goes up in flames. stay northern us state is seeing an unusual spade the forest spots. we meet the fire cruise struggling to save hope, and don't play with fire. china's leader wants us president joe biden against involvement in taiwan and a phone call. she jumping issue strong words as a senior us politician considers visiting the art class. could a nasal spray may cove at 19 vaccinations, less painful and more effective? experts say the new needle free inoculations could be a game changer in the campaign against cove it? ah,

i'm gabel, says welcome to the program. ukraine says it's ready to start shipping grain again from 2 black c ports under the agreement with russia that was broken by the un. it's now waiting for the united nations to declare that c. c. corridors have been de mind and a safe to navigate on friday. president, well, them is. lensky visited a port in the odessa region where the ships have been loaded. he said ukraine was ready to again guarantee global foot security by dispatching millions of tons of wheat. and other grains exports have been hold it for 5 months due to a russian blockade of president vladimir zalinski said it's now up to international partners to get the grain moving. last on our side is fully prepared . we sent all the signals to our partners, the you and, and turkey regarding military guarantees and the security situation. the minister of infrastructure is in direct contact with the turkish side. and the un,

we are waiting for a signal from them that we can start late because the low dw martinez building is in odessa. and i asked him if it was likely that the 1st shipments would actually leave today. we've just heard it. ukraine says it's ready that ships are loaded and the security situation is also in place so that they can safely pass through these waters, these waters that were mine. and where i lay a path. elaine, through the sea ah, has been opened, according to the ukrainian side, but ukraine is awaiting the go from turkey, from istanbul, where the coordination center sit, start where the u. n. a, the turkish side, and also russia are coordinating their part of the deal. and that's what sir, we are waiting for at the moment. so ukraine is hopeful that it might be today, but there's no guarantee that it can happen. it can be delayed for whatever reasons . hm. we're waiting. and it's also a very complicated operation to get these shipments out. i understand

a walkways through this. how will it work? yeah, we don't have all the details, but the ships are they are now in the ports for this 1st shipment. these are ships that were stranded here in february, and they have been loaded, and ukraine has agreed to guarantee a safe passage through the mind seeds for the part of the see that they have mind as of course, also russian mines in the c. m. and they, and russia has agreed not to attack these ships. no russian warships will be allowed to enter the ukrainian waters, or russia is sitting in istanbul. they will inspect the ships once they return to ukraine or so they will come make sure that no weapons are stored in these ships when they sail empty into the ports. and om yeah, the, the grantor's turkey and the united nations as well as many other countries are

hoping to do that. this will work. that is that every or all the sides will commit to their, to what they have said. and yeah, we've been there today. there's the ambassadors of us, the g 7 countries were there today, also to see the situation on the ground. all of them have expressed hope that this will work, but we're waiting for the results. now away from odessa, there are reports of an attack on a prison in the east of a ukraine, killing 40 ukrainian prisoners about war. can you tell us? yeah, the prison was hit by the shell or rocket. we don't know yet, the barracks where the prisoners were staying. it seems that a part of them, or even all of them, were members of the as off battalion, the defenders. my report that had been taken by the russians in, in may. and the russians are saying that ukraine shell, this prison,

for whatever reason i ukraine, is denying this. they're saying it was a plot arranged by the russians to possibly that's what the armed forces of ukraine have say, have been saying to eliminate traces of mistreatment or even executions is accusation against accusation. we do not know for sure what has happened there. we w correspondent, but he has bellinger in odessa there for us. thank you. much. russia's war on ukraine is being partially blamed for a rise in the cost of food and fuel. but the economy in europe is proving surprisingly resilient. despite rising prices. official data shows the eurozone economy grew more than expected in the 2nd quarter by 0.7 percent compared the 1st quarter tourism boosted france and spain. but germany continues to be the worst affected by high inflation and fears of a gas crisis, triggered by russian restrictions. economy stagnated. the 2nd quarter of bringing

europe's largest economy to the edge of the recession of make sense of that are now joined by my colleagues. daniel winter from dw business, daniel at the figures announced today, what did they tell us about the state of the european economy? okay. okay. how do you want the good news or the bad news for the good news? all the good news is yes. yours or this was surprisingly resilient and, and it's because consumers assigned to spend more government still investing. that's all taking along nicely. but the bad news is under the surface, inflation is growing. we gotta figure out today an 8.9 percent. that's a few point percentage points higher than before. so the yours on is facing more rising prices. the prices mostly of energy is rising. that's contributed something like 40 percent to this price rise in total. that's a huge amount and so everything's going to get more expensive, not just the gas, which we saw leap, 25 percent just in this week. the price of natural gas rising. but all kinds of

everyday goods as well, including your wonderful expensive suits. perfect q a. germany of all places are on the brink of recession. wow. why? yeah, so johnny saw stagnation total 0.0 percent growth this quarter over the last quarter . and germany struggling with the official statistics agency basically said the balance of exports, it imports had a downward effect on economic growth. basically, germany's having to buy in more than it's exporting compared to the previous quarter. and that is difficult for a very export focus nation like germany, it's survives and indeed thrives on its exports. so when the balance of that changes is slightly, germany's economy gets the knock on effect, of course. and, but yeah, cover 19 pandemic supply chain interruptions. a war in ukraine, it's hitting germany hard and in particular, germany takes a lot more. russian gas prices risen um than most other european nations,

except for perhaps italy. now, where do we go from here? when will things start to improve? well, you know, i hope sooner rather than later, but it isn't looking great at the moment. i mean, we've already had to cut the forecast for g d p growth next year. but things aren't necessarily as bad as they could have been. if we look at the u. s, for example, they're in what's called a technical recession right now. so technically, they're in a recession, 2 months of, of, of negative growth. but still stocks rose when that news came out yesterday. why? because it wasn't as bad as feared. so perhaps we could get through this. we might enter a recession. but, you know, a soon as we've managed to solve this energy problems, that's when will really be able to get a handle verify ago that will take time. of course, it will take time. but, and you know, that it will not happen without us getting control of our energy sources in europe . daniel with her theory business. thank you for making sense of that turner to get

you up to speed on some of the other stories making headlines. indigenous women, half protest at a, at a mass held by pope frances in quebec. they want him to reverse a catholic policy from the 15th century. on seizing land from non christians. the pope historian canada to apologize for the catholic church as crimes against indigenous children. officials in lebanon warned that a grain silo burning at bay roots ford could soon collapse. the store has been on fire for the past 2 weeks. blazes recalling memories of the devastating chemical explosion that it the port 2 years ago. torrential rains have triggered record floods in the us, state of kentucky. authorities say at least 15 people have died. tens of thousands are also without power. floods have also hit the neighboring states of virginia and west virginia. as flood zone. hidden parts of the us wild fires are

devastating other areas. the white house as destruction exceeds the 10 year average . scientists warned this is driven, at least in part by climate change. president biden declared a major disaster for the state of alaska, which is experiencing unusually fears. forest fires the w carolina chima reports from the town of anderson where she met emergency crews battling the fires as well as residents fleeing from them. alaska is the largest u. s. seat, it is also the least densely populated among its great treasures, the untouched wilderness. but much of that is now being destroyed. wild fires are not a new phenomenon here at they are changing. they're becoming more frequent and more intense. so much so that this year no co fire fighters here in anderson,

we're unable to get them when a fire happens and they get bigger than the local unit can handle like so here in anderson they have some local volunteer firefighters bait but, but they are very small, so when the fire gets bigger than what they can control, they will call for outside help and tell pass come from all over the us. kate earhart from montana has been battling places, country white for more than 20 years. this is her 5th time in alaska. she's now supervising a team of 500 firefighters deployed to help control one wildfire. sadly, this property couldn't be saved. it's really when fires like this one. start in and around populated areas, even a lightly populated area like this that it becomes a problem. era. here you hear that i've never seen

a fire behavior like this before. and so i would say this abnormal weather is the new normal. it's getting harder to fight buyers, resources, they're getting scarcer and we're dealing with when it's like this, this summer, more than 264 individual fires have destroyed 1250000 hectares of land across the state. the blaze in anderson is now under control, that the damage is extensive, and the strong winds host of risk to this used to be a for is he can still see smoke up there. the fire fighters are still trying to get that high under control. and we can strongly smell it. local people half had to evacuate their homes. among them, don and dorothy weights are accelerating the place. when they returned, the fire was under control. it was like,

kinda like the real. there was smoke and fires were still burning in the trees out here. and the firemen were with us and i think they were with us because they maybe, you know, it would be traumatic to go and see. but we see they said right away, your house is safe. this time they were lucky, but there will certainly be wild fires here again. and experts say global warming may make them more severe. china's president, she can ping, use the call with joe biden to issue a stock warning against washing and supporting taiwan. china is outraged over a possible visits to taiwan by a senior us official biden says the west position has not changed. the president gigi and pangs warning to the u. s. made headline news in china. his message don't play with fire over taiwan. the to our conversation was said to be broad ranging. beijing describe the exchanges, candid,

and it's read out of the called. the white house said biden emphasized that u. s. policy anti one had not changed. and that it opposed unilateral efforts to change the status quo for tensions over a potential visit to taiwan by u. s. house speaker nancy pelosi dominated the agenda. beijing views the island nation as a break away, a state of the mainland, and announces any political engagement which i pay and it's democratically elected government. this is the to me. these remarks once again showed that such an u. s. politicians flew out of their selfish interests, want nothing but tensions in china. us relations turbulence across the taiwan strait and chaos in the wild hinge up leases. elling tensioned yet louis. earlier this week, taiwanese president shy ing when attended annual military exercises off the islands coast. although a potential visit from pelosi, the tard most senior u. s. politician wouldn't change the u. s. position on the one china policy. it

could further ratchet of tensions over the contested taiwan strait. should eager pelosi proceed with the trip. it would coincide with the 75th anniversary of the founding out the people's liberation army and china. and were likely, i think, to see an increase and in noticeable increase in chinese air space incursions in and around taiwan and the events that she proceeds with her trip. we may even see something called a median line incursion, and that's a breach of the maritime border that exists in the center of the taiwan street. when we are president, she has vowed the china's goal of re unification with taiwan must be fulfilled on washington's policy recognizes china sovereignty over the taipei governments, but bite and has made diplomatic waves by saying the u. s. would respond militarily, if china were to invade. and a high profile visit from

a senior figure like pelosi would likely add to the growing tension between 2 global powers. earlier i spoke to professor steve song from the university of london. i asked him what we can make of season things warning against quote, playing with fire overtime on well the chinese government and should be in particular are clearly very displeased with the prospect or speaker hello sequins to taiwan. what is of course interesting is that very wandering she issues through i should also applies to china itself is a highly dangerous situation that requires full size to be very cautious. what do you mean by that? the china needs to be less belligerent in its rhetoric. well, the rhetoric of playing with fire to result in one being burnt is

a warning for the americans. but it should also be a wondering where the chinese government because by increasing their kind of rhetoric they are putting themselves in a situation that when lucy is char taiwan, the chinese military may have to take some action which will be quiet, the americans to respond. and that was on an escalade to report that nobody ones not in anyone's interest. so this is being fueled, of course, by a possible visit by nancy pelosi to taiwan. what would that mean for us? china relations? well used relations are already very tens and poor at the moment. it will get a lot more tens and difficult. and there is a real risk that there will be increased mandatory activities by the chinese air force, which could potentially come across as threatening to the speaker of the united

states congress. and that may well require the united states military to give and hands protections to hello c, and that is where the kind of an intended escalations can happen. and so would you recommend a closer to, to stay at home is a very difficult one. i think she should not have planned for this message to begin with because it doesn't really add that much to taiwan or us one relations. but now that she has said that she was going to go or indicate that she would go. and the chinese government has come back in the united states. it becomes very difficult with the united states government to back off under chinese pressure because doing so a moral hazard. so she may well end up having to go stay somewhere in london for us . thank you. very much and other news

officials in hong kong are investigating the collapse of a giant screen onto the stage during a concert by the broadband mirror to dances were injured. one of them series spanish prosecutors. i see them a 2 year prison sentence against the pop star, secure up. she rejected the plea deal on charges of tax evasion over 2 years. she says she was not living in spain at that time. now what's the 1st thing when youth? oh is that you think of when you hear the word vaccine? most of us imagine rolling up our sleeves for shot in the arm. but many researches believe as a better way to provide protection against covert 19. and it doesn't even involve the needle. billions of doses of vaccines have been injected throughout the world over the course of the pandemic. and although the series of shots doesn't prevent people from getting coven 19 entirely, it does make the course of the disease generally much less severe. and that experts

say has saved millions of lives. some researchers have set their sights higher. their goal is to prevent infections before they can take hold at the place where the virus 1st enters the body, the nose around a dozen trials with different nasal spray vaccine candidates are currently ongoing in different countries. a few are in what's called phase 3 testing, which means they're being checked for effectiveness in larger groups of test subjects. they could help change the course of the pandemic because it's ours covey to is blocked from docking on to the cells in the upper respiratory tract. it can't invade them, so even after exposure, it's unable to replicate and the massive way that leads to full blown illness. that means blocking the virus with this kind of vaccine might also help break infection janes. the concept isn't

a novel one. nasal vaccines for influenza have been around for a couple of decades now. there have been a few problems with them over the years, but for lots of people, especially younger recipients, they have one major advantage than boost to immunity. doesn't involved getting jabbed with a needle. that reports voluntary glimpse who joins me now from the w science to break it all down. derek rather doesn't injected vaccines have been approved by the w way show so far. but no nasal ones. even though they sound really promising, why is the development taking so long? well, for a couple of different reasons. i mean they're, it's a little bit difficult, more difficult to control nasal vaccine than it has one that's injected when you inject the vaccine. you know exactly how much of the other vaccine is actually going into the person's body when you squirt it into their notice there are all kinds of other factors that can play a role in dosage if they're, if they have a runny nose on the day that they get it for example, but it also, the other aspect of it is that, is that the systemic immune response that these,

these vaccines cause is complicated. but it's not nearly as complicated as what happens with what's called the mucosal immune response, which is the immune response that's in your nose. it's no wonder that it's different because your nose is the 1st place to come into contact with the outside world. so the rules are kind of different and we just don't know those rules yet. and the problem with playing around with the nose and testing things in the nose is that it's awfully close to the brain. so if you have a problem with a substance that you scored into your nose and it causes, for example, inflammation that can very quickly become very dangerous. whereas injecting it into your arms a lot. so you mentioned in the report that nasal vaccines could help break chains of infections can explain. well, right now with the systemic immune response that we're getting from vaccines. we're seeing that we're seeing a lot of breakthrough infections because antibody levels drop after a couple of months. and the systemic response kicks in and it keeps people from getting really severe disease in most cases. but it's not really doing what we want

it to do completely, which would be what they call actually the to go would be what's called sterilizing immunity, which is that you prevent the virus from making acquiring a beachhead in your body right at the point where it enters, and if we can do that, if we can keep ourselves from getting sick, and we're not going to be infectious either. so we're breaking that potential infection chain. good nasal vaccines for coven 19 actually. we place injected vaccines in which why would that be a game changer? well, i don't think, i mean, so many people have already had injected vaccines. i'm sure you've had your full set of vaccine that as well. so we already have the systemic immune response. it's been kicked in with us and, but i think it be interesting, i think in the, as we go forward moving forward that more and more these vaccines once they're approved, are going to be used as, as boosters. it's a, it's a, it's a whole system that they call that they call prime and spikes a prime,

the body by giving injections at the beginning. and then you spike the immune response by giving a nasal vaccination then later in the process. so combining the 2 are combining the 2. ok. so how soon can we expect these nasal actions to the market? well, that's hard to say. there are about a dozen of them in clinical testing all over the world at the moment, 3 or 4 are in late stage testing. so it could happen, but they're also in china and india and things are not necessarily proved all over the world. at the same time. i'm saying, i think in europe in north america, probably a year and a half to 2 years. we'll probably see some of these for about williams d. w. science. thank you. and before we go, a lottery ticket hole is in the united states are holding their breath as a jackport tops $1000000000.00. the prize is in a mega draw. millions is one of the biggest in us history. it's only the 3rd time

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