legal action goals, all in all sorts of august 9th, here on the w finally. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, ukraine's president zalinski says his country is ready to help ease the food crisis in the world. ships loaded with previously blockaded grain are ready to set sail from black c ports. as elsewhere,

dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war are killed in a missile strike. also on the program, alaska is burning as to northern us state sees an unusual spate of forest places. we meet the cruise, but to save homes. ah, i am pablo fully as 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 matthew paul, russia and ukraine are accusing each other of shelling the prison in the eastern frontline town of lenny scott, which is controlled by russia back separatists. local officials say as many as 53 ukrainian prisoners were killed. and in the days other main development,

ukraine is ready to restart grain exports to help ease the global food crisis. ships are loaded and ready to leave 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 to sing, which outgoing, i'm standing in front of a turkish chevy. more? yes, been 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 months in silos and ships blockaded by russia on the black sea, sending food prices soaring around the world. according to a recent deal brokered by the u. s. and turkey merchant ships will be given safe passage in and out of key ukrainian ports. this agreement, as the,

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, they 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 separatist control region of eastern ukraine. the strike killed dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war. moscow and kiev. blame each other for the death while dw mateus billing. i was at the port of odessa during presidency landscape, visit these visits by his zalinski 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 wants these transports to go on there. a warning to russia not to obstruct the scheme. in

ukraine's forwards we have no 7 team ships that are ready to go and that are 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 great. 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 a 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. database mateus, billing or reporting there. well,

the u. s. has announced further sanctions on russian individuals and entities. it says or supporting the malign forces of the kremlin. this came following a call between secretary of state antony blinking and russian foreign minister, sergey lover of the 2 men, spoke by phone for the 1st time since russia invaded ukraine in february, during the exchange, lincoln told his russian counterpart that moscow's annexation of ukraine will never be accepted. all right, well let sir speak to dw correspondent in washington, me, kayla kirk. now good to see you. michela. so fresh us sanctions against russia. what more can you tell us? oh, it was made quite clear that statement that came from the secretary of state justice. so while after comments on that telephone conversation, that these were sanctions, in addition to those already imposed over ukraine, that they were very much separate and that they were because of russia's quote,

malign influence on elections, but also democratic institutions around the world. this goes back to the less meddling in us elections. and this is quite interesting because it wasn't raised in connection with that telephone conversation that was much more on close to home, matters for the americans who have put what they call a serious offer on the table to try and secure the release of to us citizen so this really is a wholesale condemnation of russia's influence on democracy's world wide. and that's why individuals and entities are targeted here in the united states who are seen as anti international anti democratic or it's so the sanctions come as the world weights to see whether those grain shipments out of ukraine's ports will actually resume. and despite the sanctions, you've mentioned some elements there. did anything positive come out of today's

discussion between blinking and lever off well the quite significantly there was no headway made when it came to us attempts for the release of personally gonna pull whelan those high profile hostages. as the american side cause them prisoners is how the russian side cause them. and there is a call on the west side to stick to commitments on that very export of grains out of ukraine. and there was a call by ross's foreign minister love to return to more quiet diplomacy as he calls it. after all, the russians are calling for the release of a convicted, alms trader, and then now reports that they also want to secure the release of a convicted murderer actually held in germany for political assassination years ago . and no headway is the short on. so the only good news really coming out of it is

that both sides did talk for the 1st time through their foreign ministers, since that russian invasion, ukraine, dw correspondence, mikaela because now in washington, d. c. thank you. the turkish and german foreign ministers have clashed that a tense meeting in a stumble in one of several points of contention. turkey accused germany of siding with greece in a dispute over energy reserves. lena bear book arrived in turkey with a packed agenda. the war in ukraine and the energy and food crises that flow from it. turkish military operations in syria and turkeys, human rights record. high on her list to was security in the eastern mediterranean, arriving from athens. the german foreign minister still had greek views on that subject, bringing in her ears when bare bulk into the turkish counterpart emerged from talks

. mamma chevy show lou clearly felt she had been influenced by greece. all night. in the past, germany has played an honest mediating role in this process with a balanced attitude. about had recent times, we see that this balance has unfortunately been lost. we have to listen to both sides years. athens is concerned about growing belligerents from turkey. like these recent military exercises, tensions between the 2 countries have been sharpened by the discovery of lucrative gas reserves in the mediterranean. anchorage has threatened to challenge greece's sovereignty over the islands. such tough talk between nato partners is alarming to germany is not a bad partner. i've been for partners in an alliance, in my view, it goes without saying that we respect each other's borders. it is therefore important to me that we do not drift apart politically at this moment also, and i'm not in the moment. and that was bad box key message. now is not the time

for discord, because division among supporters of ukraine would only play into the hands of russia. let's take a look in our some other stories making headlines around the world. ministers from algeria, nigeria, and new share have signed a preliminary deal to build a 4000 kilometer gas pipeline connecting the sahara desert. with europe join the project will cost about $14000000000.00 euros and could supply 30000000000 cubic meters of natural gas per year. believe is going to pope frances as mat survivors of abuse, a former residential schools in equal e lou, which in northern canada the school system which ended in the 1990 s isolated indigenous children from their families, language and culture. the pope has been touring canada apologizing for the catholic church as past crimes against indigenous children. thousands of young climate

activists have march through tour in northern italy to protest against a lack of policies to counter global warming. the rally followed a week of conferences in the city featuring speakers from countries most effective by climate change. torrential rains of triggered record floods in the us state of kentucky. authority say at least 15 people have died. tens of thousands are without power. floods have also hit the state of virginia and west virginia. the white have says destruction from wild fires and the u. s. 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, where unusually fierce forest fires are raging, t w's, kennedy that she might report 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. wildfires are not a new phenomenon here that 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 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 u. s. kate air

heart 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 deploy to help control one white 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 fair. 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 are 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 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. 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 return to the fire was under control. it was like kind of like surreal. 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.

well, here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you this hour. ukraine is ready to resume grain exports under a u. n. deal with keith and moscow. president lansky says ships are loaded and waiting for the go ahead from international partners to start exporting millions of tons of food supplies to the world. all right, you are up to date more world news at the top of the next hour. janelle do malone has your d w business updated in just a moment and i'll be back again at the top of the next event with red alert for the blood climate. ah, we're going to have some epic. moreover, water.