experience outstanding shopping and dining offers and try our services to be our guest at frankfurt airport city managed by from waterloo. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, ukraine's president lansky says his country is ready to help ease the world. food crisis. ships loaded with previously blockaded grain are ready to leave a black sea port. as elsewhere does the soft ukrainian prisoners of war are killed

in a missile strike. also on the program, u. s. secretary of state to antony blink and announce is fresh sanctions against russia. this, after telling his russian and counterpart, moscow's annexation of your brain will never be accepted. and political and economic turmoil take their toll in sri lanka. many of the country's best qualified citizens want to leave in search of a better life. ah, i'm pablo foley. yes, 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 mighty you pull. russia and ukraine are accusing each other of shelling the prison in the eastern frontline town of orlando isca, which is controlled by russia back separatists. local officials say,

as many as 53 ukrainian prisoners were killed in the days of their main development . ukraine is ready to restart grain exports to help ease the global food crisis. shapes 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 versus old numbers. this is the 1st vessel being loaded up since the war began to see which arc levine. i'm standing in front of a turkish chevy. more yesterday and 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 of 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 brokerage 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 the 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. but here now from dw mathias billing a, who was at the poor to of odessa, during presidency landscape, visit visits by a 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, once these transports to go on there a warning to russia not to obstruct the scheme in ukraine's forwards we have now 7 team ships that are ready to go. and that i hope for 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. seattle, he is mateusz filling a reporting. there. will 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 coal between secretary of state antony blinking, and russian foreign minister said a lover of the 2 men spoke by phone for the 1st time since russia invaded ukraine, and fabri, during the exchange, lincoln told his russian counterpart that moscow's annexation of ukraine will never be accepted with russian, foreigners will only or i spoke to dw correspondent mckayla casner in washington and asked her for more details about the fresh us sanctions against russia. what was made quite clear in that statement that came from the secretary of state justice. so while after comments on that telephone conversation, that these were functions 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 if 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 citizens. 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 and anti democratic or it's so the sanctions come of the world weights to see whether those grades 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 lover of well they quite significantly, there was no way head way made when it came to us attempts for the release of personally gonna pull whelan. and those high profile as hostages as the american side cause them prisoners, is how the russian side calls 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

a years ago. and no headway is the sort 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 . it since that russian invasion, ukraine, dw correspondence, mikaela cove, now in washington, dc. thank you. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. the turkish and german foreign ministers have clashed over a range of issues at a tense meeting. in a stumble, germany's anna lena bear book spoke out against turkey's alleged rights abuses, and urged anger not to press military action and syria, turkish minister, never loot, come so accused in germany of siding with greece in a dispute. over oil expiration. pope frances ended his trip to canada by meeting survivors of abuse at former residential schools. at e kalu, it,

the pontiff visited the country and a bit to make reparations for decades of sexual abuse committed at church wrong schools for the indigenous community. he asked for their forgiveness and thank those who were brave enough to share their stories. the u. s. house of representatives has passed legislation to revive a bond on semi automatic guns. however, it looks like he to pass in the senator, republicans have dismissed the measure as an election year strategy by democrats. years of mass shootings in the u. s. has led to a push for stricter gun controls. jack una mas. at least 16 people have died and many are still missing. after record flash flooding in the u. s. state of kentucky, torrential rainfall washed away roads and hundreds of houses and some of the poorest communities in the united states. authorities are warning the rescue efforts and the search for victims could take weeks in a flash, st,

stoned to sludge after unprecedented rain hit the mountainous region of eastern kentucky. little was left above water including its residence. we had his way out and it was good. it was over my head, so yeah, there was there's harry, you, my car stopped stalled out and then i didn't know what to do. i just kind of went into a panic. probably about a minute. 2 minutes at the max would start flooding into my car. that floods of this magnitude would normally, aka once in 1000 years. according to experts, the climate change is likely to make them more frequent. we're a local fireman said it's the worst damage he's ever seen. probably 95 percent people in this area here, lovers, like houses, gorge animals. it's. it's heartbreaking. it really is. the flooding

has got firewalls in several areas, making tens of thousands of people difficult to trace. more debts are being recorded of the hours pass for children from the same family, drowned in the fast flowing water. means we've got at least 6 dead children. and it's hard see even harder for those families and those community. so keeper, i am there still a lot of people out there still a lot of people on account of for we're going to do our best to find him. all rescue workers are trying to help people by boat and to spot them from the skies. but it may take weeks to find every one, if at all, especially as the ongoing grain submerges even more of what is left flank as economic and political emergency is seeing at citizens lose. hope that things will get better any time soon. many are now considering leaving for good t w's, many rotary reports from colombo. every single day, 100 q,

a pure at the passport office in sri lanka. pushed by circumstances they wish to leave the country. one of them is 50, do you, roy, germany, the victim? who has been coming here for 3 days now with her husband and son were to have a husband papa. i have come here with my husband and my son to get their passports made. and we want to leave for an acre. there's no work here for us. there's nothing bomb neo gemini has worked as a caregiver for years. and her husband as an auto rickshaw driver. both have lost a livelihood because of the cut in crisis, and she lanka. and are finding it difficult to even so wife. what she wants now is a better life for her 19 year old son, which she knows is a far cry in her country. germany says that it's not just her but boundless. others who are suffering. people here have been waiting for div,

standing in queues outside the department of immigration and immigration and colombo. many of them who have come from other parts of the countries had rented small accommodation in nearby areas to get their passports made or renewed. white people seeking to go abroad for opportunities is not a new thing. and she lanka, the number of people outside the bus would office have shot up significantly in the past few months. young people, especially phoebe, have no option but to leave. according to government statistics, the number of passports issued from january to mid june this year is over 300000, roughly equal to the total number of passport issued last year. the job market is alvis up and down, but in the currency to asia and as no job market right now. so as to why you wasting your time, there's no future here as far as reno, i mean, i tried as well, but yeah, there's no hope. so makes sense to make

a move pretty much that rotation is bad. the bill here as the queue inches forward slowly is granted. disappointed and exhausted. people continue to eat. they believe leaving is the only way they can at least have a chance of creating a better future for themselves. well, before we go, a rare bengal tiger was born a cuban national zoo in havana. it was enhanced on friday. the cope who is yet to be named was born underweight and as being cared for in the artificial breeding department. bengal tigers are classified as an endangered species with around 2500 women in the wild. very cute. well, here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you. this are ukraine is ready to

resume grain exports under a u. n. deal with keith and moscow. president zalinski says ships are loaded, i'm waiting for the go ahead from international partners to start exporting millions of tons of food supplies to the world. all right, well you are up to date, more world views at the top of the hour and up next a new addition of our news magazine world stories the week and reports. don't forget you can always get the latest headlines on our website, d, w dot com. i'm pablo for lillius. thanks for watching. take care with his goal is as.