this change doesn't happen on its own. make up your room, mind w. 4 minds with this is dw news life from berlin. lot of his lensky says, ukraine can help feed the world again. the president visits black sea port where the 1st quote, great shipments are ready to set sail and wait for the united nations to declare it saith despite the war on brit deal with russia. western sanctions,

a hitting branch of hot, that's what the european union's chief diplomat says in an interview with dw used joseph on file also tells me that you cannot just cut off brushing oil imports. it states to pendleton and could a nasal spray vaccinate against cope at 19 experts say new needle free inoculations could be a game changer in the fight against the disease. ah, i'm painful and welcome. you. crane says it's ready. global grain shipments could get moving again from to black, seaports today or tomorrow. under an agreement with russia drawn up by the united nations. officials are waiting for the un to confirm shipping lanes a d mind and safe to navigate. resident floyd ms. lewinsky has inspected the loaded vessels in the odessa region,

says ukraine wants to boost global food security by dispatching millions of tons of wheat. keith claims a russian blockade had halted exports for 5 months. the ukrainian leader says 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 u. n. and turkey regarding military guarantees and the security situation. the minister of infrastructure is in direct contact with the turkish side on the un. we are waiting for a signal from them that we can start late with on the t w's. matthias bowinger is at the port of odessa and gave me this update a short while ago. yeah, there was that hope you originally that maybe the 1st ship could already leave today. it doesn't look like it now, but it's maybe still possible. we're nearing the end of the day and a ukrainian and russian media are saying that the 1st ships might now leave. to

morrow the ports, the ships are ready, they have been loaded. and today there was quite a big delegation. visiting these ports, that was zalinski and there were also the ambassadors of the g 7 countries emphasizing how important this was. we also were there, we could get a glimpse and it was the 1st time that media was allowed to film in these ports. so it seems like they're really trying to create a to, to, to, to put pressure on russia, which everybody in the westfield might stop. these shipments at the last moment ukraine is trying to act as a guarantor of global food supplies at the same time as fighting off a russian invasion. as far as this huge backlog goes, how big is, is task for keith? it's a, it's a huge task. it's so your grain is one of the main grain suppliers,

it's not the biggest, it's not the only one, but it's one of the main grain suppliers. and this share of, for, we're talking about 20000000 tons of grain that are still in ukrainian stock, or as as to stock piled in ukraine of course, lacking on the world market. on the other hand, we have the russian fleet in the, in the, in the black sea we have, ukraine has also mind it's the entrances to its boards fearing a russian attack. so this had to be mitigated very carefully. and now the, the to say the 2 sides haven't agreed on it, but the mediators have agreed with each side that ukraine will allow for a g mind corridor where the ships can pass and that russia will not attack. that's what's written on paper. and we'll see what's going to happen whether it will be really possible to ship out these $20000000.00 tons plus an additional $20000000.00 that are expected from this year's harvest. mateus overshadowing this story,

dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war reported. they been killed in a missile strike. moscow and keith, blame each other. you tell us more. yeah, what we know is that the facility where these prisoners were held a prison. i was hit the barracks where these prisoners lived. it seems that many of them were members of the ass off regiment. that's and defenders of murray, you, paul, who have been taken prisoners in may when they surrendered from there as of style as of steel plant. in maria poll, we do not really know what happened there. both sides are accusing of each other. russia is saying ukraine had fired the high mars rocket on the facility. ukraine is saying this is ridiculous. we would never do that. and they're accusing russia of having intentionally fired on this facility to kill these prisoners of war. so it's

accusation against accusation. so far, none of none of the sides has presented any proof for their version, but he is burning a in odessa. thank you for the update. when russia invaded ukraine western nations up their sanctions on the russian economy. 06 months into the war, what measures are in place? while the us announced the mediate ban on most russian oil imports and the european union said it would phase out russian oil by the end of the year. the you also said it would reduce its reliance on russian gas. several russian banks have been cut off from the international payment system. and the u. s. is banned high tech exports like micro chips and telecommunications equipment to russia. overall sanctions could see russia's economy shrink by as much as 10 percent this year, but they haven't stopped the war in ukraine. russia's war in ukraine has been bridging for 5 months now. it's an unprecedented aggression. the european union has

tried to counter with unprecedented sanctions by facing out russian oil, cussing our freshman bangs from the biggest international payment system, and freezing the assets of fresh an oligarchy. putting has mobilized his armed forces. we are mobilizing our economic power with a powerful sanctions, and these sanctions are biting there, grinding their teeth into the russian economy. so far, russian president vladimir putin has shown no sign. he will bow to the pressure and, and his war anytime soon. and not everyone in the you is standing behind the block sanctions marshal regarding fashion. the sanctions are not weakening. moscow and europe is in trouble in economic trouble hormone. the quote of avoidable mom was the shaggy boy mom. energy prices have been soaring all over europe. but economists say the russian economy has been hit much harder if you look at traits,

statistics. if you look at a very statistics coming from lower levels of or from, from russia and the russia, me suffering mess the other sections, way more way, way more than the european. so the fact that you has not faced out who russian energy immediately. however, drawing a lot of criticism, this is the cash cow aggression budget and is the backdrop of record high oil prices and has the ability to shield itself from your sanction. much will now depend on how fast you countries can end their reliance on russian energy. and find alternative suppliers and how fast russia will be able to build new economic ties with countries like china and india. earlier i spoke to joseph burrell, european union, representative on foreign policy. i asked him if he use refusal to cut off russian

gas and oil altogether meant the block was financing brushes, war. we will be cutting russian gas as soon as possible, but we are not going to cut all the night because it's impossible. due to the high dependency on some member state, now have a blue the plan in order to reduce the step and she and nobody short time was 40 percent before the war. it's now 20 percent of all in butch. we've had divided by 2. now, couple of months, but nobody can ask you to be in economists to cod alberta overnight. a gas replies you said to rubble looser. ready? hi, this is a mechanic effect. this is a mechanic effect in russia and not in board because we cut exports to russia on the prices over energy is increasing every where,

certainly in the economy, reserve external surplus and or rather those up. but the trouble is no longer convertible currency. so it's not very useful to have a very high rate. you are currently not convertible. no, the sanctions are eating betty hard to russian economy. they coincide several examples guard manufacturing, for example, 97 percent, almost 100 percent of the car production in russia. a stop 50 percent of the day, no logical appliances. russia is heavily depending on the neurological name course from europe. 70 percent of the 2000000 fleet or russian node planes come from you to come from outside russia can, can i and bodies man, because that doesn't change the fact that oil and gas is still rushes. cash cow and

energy prices are surging. russia is making a huge amount of money, which means it can afford this war. we've known about this war for half a year almost. now. we've also known about the climate crisis for years, and yet we're still clinging to do he fuels instead of renewables. and you not, not going to rock me please. i would be useful in auckland. ok. we've got 5 minutes but we've got another 2 minutes left. i'll let you go. ok, look i i told you will. yes. certainly will continue paying for this. have you looked at the graph with the private volume, the branch of all the started growing before and after i was sanctions deprived of all has been decreasing. what do you mean? and we continue paying for the gas we buy? yes, certainly we're going to, you know, paying for the gas be buy, but we have, it used to have the, my amount delane porch. so yes, we can not do my locals. the war machine is going to read. not only working with

money is working with technology, have a look at a day. carter carter what destroyed russian tank. and you will see how many western companies electronic comp on a gene side there. they will no longer, no longer have it. they can have the money, but they cannot buy it, but they would not be able to build another dangly days. so don't, don't look just at the money because the money dos in bite and knology if this will . blaze of technology don't sell it to freshman economies. aggression by 10 percent of the g. b is going to suffer to begin recession on their last year and, and with a war war can daniel, the so does not be a junior. and yet you continue saying gas, would you continue paying for the guy who can do paying for the guy, but you're seeing the russian, we provide those guys for free. but the important to reduce the step and, and say, and we are reducing it very quickly from 40 to 20 percent in a couple months. what,

what, what about something like introducing tariffs on that russian oil, gas. i mean, for years germany has benefited from cheap gas from russia, keeping its economy competitive. yes, this is something that has been considered it. some economy has been proposing the idea of putting data is all caps. but we decided to go put a much stronger decision. a stop buying is to buying oil from day, from now to then the. and now we are in the process of the stock stop buying gas. maybe they deal of a tardy about a gap in your price could have been good to consider from the beginning of the war, but it was not unanimity. you know that to implement this kind of measures. but what we're doing is maybe more important. the booking a terry just for me then to import. are there any other ways that the you can put

real pressure on russia to stop this war? and you can do using the disagreement and we can be exported from ukraine has nothing to do with depression. that didn't your national community and due to be engine, or putting russia in order to allow them to explore it. grain from your grain. you know, what we can do against russia is to try to explain things the way they are today. in africa, for example, we need to do a lot of explanations in order to make african people understand that we are not for to be the expert foot, no grain, neither fertilizers from russia. because these are our sanctions. we have to continue to impression on all economic sectors, frozen dash of the oregon frozen das until the russian economy, whatever they are,

digital, what we can do, and stop buying gas as soon as possible. you are right, don't say that we're going to no pain, but this is going to be decreased quickly. and more important than that to cause deline or russian economy with the rest of the world. modern economy can not be work in with the rest of the big economic power to speak to the logic of i was like us and you k in europe are caught. did you something that will damage along to russia? i mean, not tomorrow, and we'll, we'll continue on happily, we'll continue. but the russian economy yourself a lot on what do we have to choose between having guns or having budget for their people? well, i know that he doesn't get a lot of other people. well, that's how we do find an end to this war sooner rather than later. joseph perhaps thank you very much for your time and for debating those issues. a representative

on foreign policy pleasure to have you on the j. let's get you up to speed on some other stories making headlines. palestinian authorities say a teenager has been shot dead by israeli troops in the occupied waste. bank. palestinians had been marching against settlement expansion outside a village near molla when clashes broke out between them and st. loads, israel's army says the responded with lie, fire officials in lebanon worn that a grain silo, boning, if they would support, could soon collapse. the store has been on fire for the past 2 weeks. blazes recalling memories of a devastating chemical explosion that is the port 2 years ago. the us state of kentucky is facing one of the worst floods in its history. heavy rains and mud slides have left 15 people dead and hundreds of properties destroyed. more rain is expected to hamp a rescue efforts. rhodes that dawned into rivers. holmes

washed away by deadly flash floods in eastern kentucky. many have lost their belongings and livelihoods belly, making it out alive. ever knowing like every thing is it going? oh love is good. we had to swim out and it was good. it was over my head, so yeah, it was very easy. a number of people remained missing. tens of thousands of homes were left without bar and many lacked water. at he's the kind that seem to drink. the governor of kentucky has declared a state of emergency and activated the national guard. let me start by mentioning that the challenges of the flooding in eastern kentucky only continue everything from power outages increasing to our 1st set of confirmed deaths in

a word. this event is devastating and i do believe it will end up being one of the most significant deadly floods that we have had in kentucky, and at least a very long time rescue crews vs to save people from rapidly rising flood waters. the u. s. national weather service, as maureen is expected in the coming days, which could make evacuations more challenging. authority said they still don't know the full extent of the damage. but the state governors, as it would take years for families to rebuild and recover from the deluge. we've got those floods than wild fires which a devastating other areas of the u. s. the white house says destruction exceeds the 10 year average scientist, one. this is driven by climate change. president biden has had a major disaster for the state of alaska, which is experiencing unusually fierce forest fires. t w's competent employee

reports from the town of anderson, where she met emergency crews battling the fires as well as residents fling 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. wildfires are not a new phenomenon here, but they are changing. they're becoming more frequent and more intense. so much so that this here 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. they but, but they're 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 fire fighters 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 fire behavior like this before. and so i would say this abnormal weather is the new normal. it's getting harder to fight fires, resources they're getting scarcer, and we're dealing with women 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 post a risk to this used to be a for is you can still see smoke up there. the fire fighters are still trying to get that high under control. we can strongly smell it. local people have had to evacuate their homes among them, don and dorothy winks are a cellar aid and the place when they returned, the fire was under control. it was like kind of 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, he, they said right away, your house is safe. this time they were lucky, but there will certainly be wildfires here again. and experts say global warming

may make them more severe. now, what's the 1st thing you think of when you hear the word vaccine? most of us imagine rolling up our sleeves for a shot at the arm of may were searches, believe there's a better way to protect against covert 19. and it doesn't involve a 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 bad 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 . james, 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. the boost to immunity doesn't involved getting jabbed with a needle. and derek is here to explain all of this to us ab, around a dozen, inject. the vaccines have been improved by the w h o. so far. why don't we have

these nasal once? well, for a couple of different reasons, i mean, 1st of all it's, it's more difficult in terms of collecting data because when you inject patients with a vaccine, then you, you have very farm date on exactly how much of the particular vaccine you put into them. it's a lot more difficult to judge that with nasal vaccines your, it all depends on how much of it you put in what's going on with a person's mucous membranes at that particular time. and so that's one of the reasons. one of the other reasons is that we just don't actually know really all that much about what's called the mucosal. because the mucus membranes mucosal immune system because it's slightly, it's going to be different in many ways from the systemic immune system. because it's what comes into contact with the environment. so if things work differently, we don't know that much about it. and last but not least, it's also just for the very simple reason that the nose is really close to the brain. so if you're testing and sporting substances up into your nose, it could potentially, for example, cause inflammation. that could be potentially dangerous. so they're just taking

more slowly and carefully. but you say that these nasal vaccines could break the actual chains of infections can, can you walk us through that might well within the systemic immune response that we're getting that we see with injected vaccines is, is a broad based response, but it's not been enough to to, to stop breakthrough infections and really the goal behind nasal vaccines would be then to just stop the infection from occurring at all. that's what, that's what's meant i break breaking these, these chains of infections. if you can stop the virus from infecting you yourself straight in your nose and if you don't get sick and you're not going to affect someone else. so that's really the goal behind it is called sterilizing immunity and it's kind of a, it's kind of an imaginary goal because you can never really get there. but that's you want to get as close to it as possible. it could, these types of nasal vaccines actually replace a jap? well, right now, i think the more experts are thinking more or less along terms of creating the

systemic immune response that we're getting from, from vaccine. so getting the initial dose is the, the set of those from those initial injections. and then in the long run then topping it up with booster shots that not, that aren't necessarily injected but, but are injected into the nose in that sense. it's the name of it, it's called, it's called prime and spike. so you prime the body, 1st of all with the immune response and then you spike it later on with the booster in the nose shore level. people would be encouraged to hear that. but when you reckon it happen, well, there are about a dozen different candidates in different stages of testing and it's going faster in some places than and others. 3 are in very late stage testing, phase 3, testing in india and china. so that we could see something coming out there sometime within the next 6 to 10 months or depends on how quickly the authorities decide to approve it or not to approve it. i think things are going to take a little bit longer in europe and then north america though, you know,

as me felt you said that you didn't expect to see anything for a couple of years. ok, great to hear something you in such an old pandemic, derek williams, an old maid. thanks for coming it. and reminder of the top story by following for you this, our ukraine is ready to start shipping grain again under a you, when broke a deal with russia president flor mesa. lansky says ships loaded and waiting for the go ahead from international partners to start exploring millions of tons of food supplies to the world. watching d. w. news i made facility next out. ah ah, with

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