miss johnson with stafford is now who's foundation ah, this is the only news life from berlin, ukraine's president zalinski says he's country is ready to help ease the world's food crisis. ships loaded with previously blockaded grain are ready to set, sail from black sea port as elsewhere, dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war. i've killed in a mis. i'll strike also on the program. us secretary of state. and to me,

plain can says moscow's annexation of ukraine will never be accepted as or administer towns him. western arms apply to you, create prolonging the war and alaska is burning as the north, a new estate experience is an unusual spate of forest fires. we meet the crew struggling to say, ah, until gale, welcome to the program. we begin with the deaths of dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war, many of whom were victims of the months long siege of maddie up all russia and ukraine are accusing each other of shelling the prison in the eastern frontline town america, which is controlled by russia back separatists local officials say as many as 53 of the prisoners were killed in the dance other main development,

ukraine is ready to restart grain exports to help ease the global food crisis. ships are loaded and ready to sail from to black. see ports a cloud of dust or wraps, his grain is loaded onto a merchant ship. in the port city of odessa, ukraine's president is on hand to inspect the loaded vessels ahead of departure. but she soothed numbers of this is the 1st vessel being loaded up since the war began for child clothing. i'm standing in front of a turkish chevy. more justin of this means the board has started operating. what is the most important thing for us? is that the port is operating and that people are working on the partial millions of tons of ukrainian grain have been held for a month in silos in ships blockaded by russia on the black sea, sending food prices soaring around the world. according to a recent deal brokered by the us and turkey merchant ships will be given safe passage in and out of key ukrainian ports. this agreement, as a,

as the secretary general said, is not just important for ukraine and ukraine's economy. but these is important for the world because it will help to prevent a global food crisis. local officials say more than a dozen ships loaded with grain are ready to leave. a rare moment of good news and the 5 month long war, but it's being overshadowed by reports of missile attack on a prison in a separate his control region of eastern ukraine. the strike killed dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war. moscow and kiev. blame each other for the death like a responded mathias bullying. it was at the port of odessa during president's zalinski, his visit. these visits by the lensky and by the ambassadors of the g 7 countries, plus turkey and the representative of the united nations. the clearly a signal that the world wants these transports to go on and ukraine, once these transports to go on, there are wanting to russia not to obstruct the scheme. in ukraine's forwards,

we have no 17 ships that are ready to go. and that hopefully leaving in the next few days after that there will be a shuttle between istanbul and ukraine in order to bring out all these tons of grain. we're talking about 20000000 tons of grain that are now stored in ukraine storage facilities. and after the next harvest, another $20000000.00 tons are expected to add to that in order to bring all of them out. ukraine counts with the period of 8 or 9 months. so it is quite a long period. and there are many chances that this will be interrupted due to fighting in the black sea or due to obstruction by russia. so there is quite some extra anxiety here in ukraine whether this can really work. but he is pulling us no u. s. secretary of states and to be blank and has told his russian counterpart,

sir, gay loved rob, but moscow's annexation of ukraine will never be accepted. 2 men spoke by phone for the 1st time since russia invited ukraine in february. after the coal secretary blinkin said he'd urged mister oliver off to respect a deal to allow you cried ingrained shipments to leave. the black sea is to love rob is reported to have criticized the west supply of arms to you, cried and told him and told his us opposite number. the move was extending the conflict direct. we also discussed a u. s. proposal to secure the release of a to detainees being held by moscow that we put forth on the release. so will this conversation help the resumption of grain shipments out of ukraine? asti w corresponded behavior cooper in washington. that is the big question because it's certainly the wording of what we've heard. come both from antony blink in the u. s . secretary state, but also from the russian side. it doesn't really make anyone feel particularly

upbeat that this will go ahead without any complications because it's, it's not worth what we're not hearing when not hearing that the u. s. recognizing a willingness on the russian side to honor their commitment. the russian brokers and deal to in, facilitate these grain shipments. on the other hand, we are hearing moscow accuse at the west essentially united states and nato countries of prolonging the suffering by, as i quote, pumping weapons into ukraine and also with the russian side. blaming the west for the delays. ingrained shipments for the very problems that we're seeing also globally right now. so yes, both sides are talking until being and said that it was a very frank exchange, but there was no word of actual headway and that is very disconcerting. indeed, did i have a better luck on other topics?

well, the key issue, antony blinkin want to talk about is of course, proceed. griner and pull whelan, those to us citizens being held in russia arbitrary detentions is what the west sides calls them. and it has been talk for a couple of days now of what you is secretary brink and calls a substantial offer on the table. several sources. the thing is that this would be a potential prisoner exchange against victor, about who was imprisoned for 25 years. has a 25 year sentence for, for arms trafficking here in the united states. that would be a very substantial offer. indeed. well, the russian side, coming out of this very conversation, it has called on the us to return to quiet diplomacy. they don't want this particularly out of the open. so if anything this looks like an offer made by the americans, that isn't being answered right out for days now. and that just illustrates how

tense relations are. well, if you want to call it relations, the friction is how tense that conversation must have been. if it was frank and hasn't really produced a breakthrough, despite the fact that this american offer has been made so publicly. so no, this was not a successful telephone conversation. by any means, the coming days will show whether it produces at least some easing when it comes to grain shipments. but what it has done is, has exposed the depth of the rift. they're the only good news is that both sides, are she still talking? all right, good talking to you. thank you. throughout the w corresponded mckayla kristen in washington dc when russia invaded ukraine, western nations increase their sanctions on the russian economy over 6 months into the war, which measures are actually in place? well, the u. s. announced an immediate ban on russian oil imports. the european union

said it would phase out its consumption of russian oil by the end of this year. the you also announced plans to phase out the use of russian gas. the rest as imposed a ban on the export of high tech components. russia and several russian banks have been cut off from the international payments system. overall sanctions. i 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 warn 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, causing our fresh and bangs from the biggest international payment system and freezing the assets of russian oligarchy. hoodie has mobilized his armed forces. we are mobilizing our economic power with a powerful sanctions, and these sanctions are biting there,

grinding that 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 bathroom the sanctions are not weakening. moscow and europe is in trouble in economic trouble. hormones could eligible for boy bomb bomb was go shaggy boy, bon 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 various statistics coming from lower levels of or from, from russia and the russian economies suffering masses, the elderly sanctions way more way, way more than, than the european. so the fact that you has not faced out whole russian energy immediately. hess, however, drawn a lot of criticism. this is the cash cow aggression budget,

and against the backdrop of record with high oil prices. russia has the ability to, to shield itself from any future sanctions much. well, 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. we are so your opinions, external relations chief, joseph beretta, whether the you is in effect financing the war by continuing to buy russian energy . we will be cutting brush and gas soon. this possible, but we are not going to cut all night because it's impossible. due to the high dependency on some member state. now have a blue the plan in order to reduce dependency and nobody short time

was 40 percent before the war. it's now 20 percent of our input. we've had divided by 2 now, couple of months. but nobody can ask you to be in economies to got all the other night, a gas gleiss. you said the rubble is 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 heavy, where certainly in economy reserve external surplus under brother goes up. but the trouble is, 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. after our sanctions, the bridal goal has been decreasing. what do you mean?

and we continue paying for the guys we buy? yes, certainly going to, you know, paying for the gas be buy, but we have been used to half the amount the well in butch. 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 it a day. carter carter what the stride russian tank. and you will see how many western companies electronic company gene side there. they will no longer, no longer have it. they can have the money, but they can not buy it, but they would not be able to build and all that data base. 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. depression economy is decreasing by 10 percent of the gene b is going to suffer to begin recession on their last years and, and where they're 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

pay for the guy, but just in the russian we provide those guys for free, but the board to reduce the step and, and say, and we are reducing it very quickly from 40 to 20 percent in a couple months and so your external relationship jose up a bureau that the turkish and german foreign ministers have clashed over a range of issues at a bad temper. meeting in istanbul, germany's on a line of bab box broke out against, took his alleged rights abuses and urged anchor nuts to press military action in syria. turkish minister. my vote. java solo accused germany of siding with greece in a dispute over oil exploration d. w correspondent, dorian jones, in a sample, talk me through this test. the exchange well has to be sort of the beginning of this press conference here, both sides trying to strike the positive clone and crate to retain the brokering a great deal. that's why your training grain you want to be able to do well. market

great. see the differences between the 2 sides. very quickly. i'm calling to implement a european court ruling with a release. protect flying to pick up from a jail or an immediate response is missing and calling to book a couple standards. and then it went on to about book criticizing or anything of military operation. it's a theory theory and kurdish forces which are accuses of being paris course of a push back on the topic. and then the whole question is ongoing 3rd world dispute between tucking 3 d and c, which the by again so another point for a really strong respect between the 2 sides that did seem to be quite a list of, of topics on which they did. they disagreed. turkeys potential involvement in syria

was another issue that miss babcock brought up. yeah, that's right. and back to turkey has repeatedly threatening to launch another major offensive into threat. it already controls a large wave of nose and serial operations against syrian kurdish falls of y p g, which is claimed as linked to the p k. k terrorist organization, which is a q which is recognized paris organization by both the european unit and the united states. and, and chris says it needs to expand this military operation. balboa said the last thing that this country need is more violence. and again, we saw another major flash point was over about bulk defending grease over these ongoing territorial dispute between turkey and greece. which is centering over turkey, trying to search for energy in waters which greek greece claims its own box said

that this isn't the dispute between tuck increase this dispute between turkey and the european union. thank you. we're paying units out of frontier, have to be recognized. and then we saw very push strong pushback from troubleshooting, saying that this, the present german government is not like it's pre that sets up on the chance to under merkel, which he said was far more neutral, was listen to both sides. he said, this present government book was only listening to what he said was greek propaganda and this type of fuel. what was a very tense atmosphere at this press compress what we to make of that open animosity because these are a 2 senior diplomats who you would normally expect to to sort of high advance their differences if this becoming typical of each of them because adult burbock has been quite outspoken in the past. what has to be said to be frank about she did appear to be trying to be very careful in the way she phrased her criticism of turkey. she looked to be very careful in the use of what she was using,

but to be on it didn't pay a pay much back to pull folks for mister troubleshoot. he was very determined the one to send a message to berlin, but turkey wilson, good. the back down on these key issues, but it has to be tried to spike all of these tanks that was displayed both foreign minister bits tress. there are key key issues which unite these countries. there are 3000000 ethnic turks that are living in germany, while at the same time both countries are very important. trading bothers, in fact, germany is turkey, number one, trading partner. and also now the question of turkey's hosting of a 1000000 syrian refugees and volleyball construct today will be visiting syrian refugees and on cra is another key point which you definitely unites the 2 countries, particularly stuckey thing, this gatekeeper role for the european union for refugees seeking the end to the europe, that these factors also serve as the fact that by the whole, the differences these 2 countries need to work together. but this press conference

on the line is not going to be easy. thank you. darren. i think every correspond dorian jones and stumble is great. now are small stories making headlines around the world. ministers from algeria, nigeria amnesia have signed the preliminary deal to build a 4000 kilometer a gas pipeline connecting the sahara desert, with your project will cost around $14000000000.00 euros and could supply 30000000 cubic meters of natural gas a year. pipeline is digital. women have protested at a mass health by hope francis in quebec. i want him to reverse a catholic policy from the 15th century on seizing land from non christians. historian canada to apologize for the church is past crimes against indigenous children. palestinian authorities say teenager has been shot dead by israeli troops in the occupied west bank. honest indians were marching against settlement expansion. dear grandma, when clashes with settlers broke out,

israel's army says it responded with live. as of young climate activists of mart suture in northern italy to protest against a lack of strong policies to help counter global warming. the rally follows a week of conferences in the city featuring speakers from countries most affected by climate. i've got a stands taliban have systematically destroyed the rights of women and girls across the countries and seizing power. nearly a year ago, the militant is the mists of mostly excluded them from public life, ordered women to cover themselves from head to toe, denied them representation in the cabinet and routine the tortures and threatens. in the latest report leading rights group, amnesty international says taken together, these policies form a system of repression that discriminates against women and girls. in almost every aspect of their lives is suffocating. crackdown against afghanistan's female

population is increasing. day by day was visible, part of this crackdown is in the country is schools which girls are only allowed to attend up to primary level and it's a dig top that has crushed dreams every day. it's been more than $300.00 days since a law and l. hummer have been forced to study at home. the sisters have been waiting for their secondary schools to reopen, but their wishing has not come true against allowed to school and they will inclusion. but there's not to go now. i don't understand. only primary school goes are allowed to go to school under the taliban. while the regime keep st. secondary schools will re open. teachers believe it's just an empty promise. intended to keep women and girls quiet. a view shared by the un as, as all country. well, we're girl, the bag and a high school. we will,

our shit go from working out by the home except with he suppose i pretty loves there are no women, a cabinet and there's no military owner. this effectively removing women's rights political is haitian. the taliban has also ordered women to cover themselves from head to toe and told them they can only leave home with a male relative according to the latest report by human rights, which not amnesty international women who protested against tale by ruse, were threatened, detained, and tortured they also reported forced early and child marriage and the magnitude and severity of these rights violations are increasing month by month it's been $344.00 days. the carol

took power until. busy almost every one of these days has brought into g ration, right. their condition and their social and political status stuck at home and law and how, how much truth regularly assumed that it's only been one to see most. but every day, like this is a reminder to the sisters that life was not in their hands any more at the united states in the white house, as the destruction i from wild fires in the country is exceeding the 10 year average. and scientists say climate change is responsible, president biden has declared a major disaster in the state of alaska were unusually fierce forest fires are raging t w's. carolyn, achieve more reports from the town of anderson, where she met emergency cruise battling the fires and residents fleeing 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, 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, 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 firefighters deployed to help control one wild hire. 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 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 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 wildfires here again. and experts say global warming may make them more severe. before we go, lottery, hold our lottery ticket holders in the united states, a holding their breath as a jackpot for an upcoming drawer, reaches more than a $1000000000.00 organizers of the mega millions loss receive. the prize is the 3rd

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