ah ah ah this is dw slide from berlin. lot of insulin ski says ukraine can help feed the world again. president visits a black sea port where the 1st global grain shipments are ready to set sail and waiting for the united nations to declare it's safe funder a deal with russia despite the wall waste and sanctioned the hitting rush of hot.

that's what the european union's chief diplomat says in an interview with dw news. just also tells me the you cannot just cut off russian gas imports and some member states depend on them. and couldn't nasal spray vaccinate against covert 19 export say you needle free inoculations. could be a game changer in the fight against the disease. ah, i'm painful and welcome. ukraine says it's ready, global grain shipments could get moving again from to black. c ports today or tomorrow, under an agreement with russia drawn up by the united nations. officials, a waiting for the u. n. to confirm shipping lanes a d mind and safe to navigate. president flores lensky has inspected the loaded vessels in the odessa region, he says, ukraine wants to boost global food security by dispatching millions of tons of

wheat. keith claims a russian blockade is halted exports for 5 months. the ukrainian lead us as it is now up to international path as 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 you and we are waiting for a signal from them that we can start late because the law is on t w's. mathias bellinger is at the port of odessa and gave me this update a short while ago. yeah, there was that hope you originally that may be the 1st ships 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 west fears 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, 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 as, as to stockpile in ukraine. and 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, how 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, whether 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. are these $20000000.00 tons plus an additional $20000000.00 that are expected from this year's harvest? mathias overshadowing this story. dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war reported. they been killed in a miss. i'll strike moscow and keep blame each other. you tell us more,

you know what we know is that a facility where these prisoners were held, a prison 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 of steel plant. in maria, we do not really know what happened there. both sides are accusing of each other. russia is saying ukraine had fired the high mass 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. no, no. none of the sides has presented any proof for their version with the spelling

in odessa. thank you for the update. when russia invaded ukraine, western nation started helping their sanctions on the russian economy. bit by bit, almost 6 months into the wall. what measures are in place with a us announced an immediate ban on most russian oil imports and the european union said it would start phasing out it's reliance on russian oil by the end of the year . 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. has 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 breaking 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 or fresh and bangs from the biggest international payment system. and freezing the assets of fresh an oligarchy. wooden 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 end his war anytime soon. and not everyone in the you is standing behind the block sanctions marshall regarding fashion with the sanctions are not weakening. moscow and europe is in trouble in economic trouble. hormone. the quote off a boy bomb bomb was the shaggy boy, one. 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 various that they're 6 coming from lower levels of or from, from russia and the russian economy, suffering message, the other, the sanctions way more way, way more than, than the european saw, the fact that the you has not faced out whole russian energy immediately. hess, however, drawn a lot of criticism. this is the cache co russian budget and against the backdrop of record in high oil prices. russia has the ability to, to shield itself from any future sanctions. much well now, depends 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 perez, european union representative on foreign policy. i asked them if the e use refusal to cut off for us and gas and oil altogether meant the block was

financing rushes war. we will be cutting go brush shannon gas as soon as possible, but we are not going to court august night because it's impossible due to the high back end and see are some member state now have a blue plan in order to reduce this dependency. and nobody short time, it was 40 percent before the war. it's now 20 percent of our in bert, we've had divided by 2 now couple of months. but nobody can ask you to be in economists to got all the other night, a gas replies. you said the rubble is, are ready. hi, this is a mechanic effect. this is a mechanic of faith in russia and not in board because we caught exports to russia on the prices over energy is increasing heavy, where certainly in economy reserve, extern know, surplus,

and or rather those up what the road is, no longer convertible currency. so it's not very useful to have a high rate your current on convertible. note, the sanctions are eating betty hard to russian economy. they can side several examples, guard manufacturing, for example, 97 percent, almost 100 percent of the car production in russia stop 50 percent of the day, no logical appliances. russia is heavily depending on the neurological new growth from europe. 70 percent of the $2000000.00 fleet order crush, unknown blanks 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 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 dirty fuels instead of renewables. and you not, not going to rock me please. i would be useful in auckland. ok, so we'll go 5 minutes, but we've got another 2 minutes left. i'll let you go. ok, look i i told you. yes. certainly will continue paying for that. have you looked at the graph, what the price of oil, the branch of oil is started growing before and after our sanctions, it fragile has been decreasing. what do you mean? and we continue paying for the gas we buy? yes, certainly we're going to, you're paying for the gas be buy, but we have used to have the 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 debt. carter carter what the stride 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 will not be able to build another dangly days. so don't, don't look just at the money because the money doesn't bite in knology if this will blaze of technology don't sell it. to present economy is decreasing by 10 percent of the g. b is going to suffer the bigger recession on the last e as in the end, whether it was condemned to so to be a junior. and yet you continue saying it would you continue paying for the guy who can do paying for the guy to use in the russian. we provide those guys for free, but the board to reduce that 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 economist has been proposing the idea of putting data is all caps. but we decided to go put a much stronger decision, a stop by a stop 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 to 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 other any other ways that the a you can put real pressure on russia to stop this war in ukraine.

do you seeing that disagreement on we can be exported from ukraine has nothing to do with depression. that international community and due to be in to put in russia in order to allow them to explore a grain from your grain. you know, what we can do again for us here is to try to explain things, delay they are today. 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 putting pressure on all economic sectors frozen dash until they're already gas 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 continue paying, but this is going to be decrease quickly. and more important than that, if god billings are good russian economy with the rest of the world, modern economy can not be work. it deleted with the rest of the big economic power, big logic of ours like us and you, k and europe are caught. this is 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 you would 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, shows up ahead. thank you very much for your time and for debating those issues. your representative on foreign policy pleasure to have you on the let's now get you

up to speed on some other stories making headlines around the world. ministers from algeria, nigeria, and j. i have signed a preliminary deal to build a 4000 kilometer long gas pipeline connecting this a hard day's it with your experience. a project will cost about $14000000000.00 euros and could supply europe with 1000000000 cubic meters of natural gas every year. pipeline is constructed. listening authorities say a teenager has been shot dead by israeli troops in the occupied west bank. i was, indians had been marching against settlement expansion outside a village near mother when clashes broke out between them and settlers. israel's army says it responded with life parental rights and figured regular ones in the us state of kentucky authorities at least 15 people have died. tens of thousands of without power. floods have also hit the neighboring states of virginia and west virginia. as floods hit bots of the west, wild fires,

devastating other areas. white house says destruction exceeds the 10 year average scientist, one. this is driven by climate change. president joe biden has declared a major disaster for the state of alaska, which is experiencing unusually fee as far as fires dw scaffolding. she mo reports from the town of addison 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. wildfires are not a new phenomenon here, but they are changing. they're becoming more frequent and more intense. so much so that this year no co fire fighters here in anderson were 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 u. s. 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. 2 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 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 have had to evacuate their homes. among them, don and dorothy winks are a cellar 8 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 see they said right away, your house is safe. this time they were lucky, but there will certainly be wild fires. here again, an expert say global warming may make them more severe lea, a fix of climate change, or a parent around the world in wildfires. hate waves floods and rising sea levels. now ad lightning strikes to that list. they've killed thousands of farmers in just the last week in just one state in northern india monsoon season in india. all looks calm now. but mere days ago, 7 people died and the lightning strike, not far from where these farmers are planting their rice. many here saw at 1st hand no want, we were working in the field after people started shouting, we all started running because there was a very loud lightning strike. the state of utah's pro dish has recorded nearly

50 lightening deaths and just the past week. nationwide weather experts say almost 750 indians have died from strikes since the monsoon season began. there's a direct link to climate change. the head of india's center for science and environment says that the chance of lightening increases 12 times for every degree warmer it gets outside. that's bad news for indians who suffered through a record breaking heat wave this year. some families are permanently changed, so she'll lost his wife when lightning struck. his sister was standing right next to her. now she is disabled and won't thought the guy doesn't. she can't talk much . i'll make her legs and hands don't function any more than i thought. easy. india's government has released new guidelines on staying safe and lightning storms, but the storms themselves will only increase as the planet warms. as some science

news, what's the 1st thing you think of when you hear the word back st. most about them as in rolling up our sleeves for a shot at the arm? many researches believe there's a better way to protect against covered 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 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 the stars 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 vaccines have been approved 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 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, the 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 just taken 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 breaks breaking these, these chains of infections. 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 infect 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 exports are thinking more or less along terms of creating the

systemic immune response that we're getting from, from vaccines are getting the initial dose is the, the set of those is 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 is 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 boost when the nose sure 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 in the 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, and all my things. the company up next d w. news asia with this story. why a rights group describes life for afghan women under the taliban as a suffocating crackdown. that's after a quick break. i'm been facility. thanks for watching you again soon. here on the w next hour, actually i'll have one use void ah ah, [000:00:00;00]

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