you seem to be has so much to lose shattering the glass ceiling women in architecture to suit it has to be really, really can start september 30th on d. w. ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin to night. russia and china and signs of a stressed relationship. president vladimir putin and she's in pain met today for the 1st time since the war in ukraine began. they talked about safeguarding their security interest, but there were hints of problems as well. also coming up the head of the european

union, ursula under lion, paid a visit today to ukrainian president, loaded me at zalinski in key for talks on integrating ukraine more deeply into europe and tennis star. roger federer says it's time to retire the 20 time grand slam singles winner describing his decision to leave the court as bittersweet after so many injuries. the swiss star says his body is trying to tell him something. ah, i bring gov to our viewers watching on p b. s. in the united states. he had to all of you around the world. welcome russian president vladimir putin and his chinese counterpart. she's in ping have held their 1st face to face talks since moscow's invasion of ukraine began earlier this year. i'll speak on the side lines of

a summit in whose deco stand putin. thank china for what he called beijing's balanced position towards ukraine. and he urged deeper charged with china putin and mister, she have met dozens of times over the years. but there, latest talks are meeting to date. it received particular scrutiny. vladimir putin is in some account to strengthen ties with the few allies. he can count on the shanghai co operation organisation of eurasian nations, has grown in significance for russia since it's invasion of ukraine, lead western states to impose sanctions on moscow. by far, the most important meeting for putin is with his chinese counterpart shaking pink. it's the chinese president's 1st foreign trip since the start of the corona virus pandemic, china has remained tight lipped over russia's invasion of ukraine. putin was clearly thankful for the tacit support when we highly value the balance to position

of our chinese friends when it comes to the ukraine crisis. russia and china are presenting a united front when relations with western states are going from bad to worse. the shanghai co operation organisation includes many of the former soviet republics in central asia, as well as india and pakistan. iran has expressed interest in joining turkey who's president is attending the summer. can summit is a full dialogue partner. putin an ad on our set to meet on friday, due to western sanctions. chinese products have replaced western ones in russia. well, china is russia's biggest oil, customer shooting, ping cease the global role of the 2 countries as much more than just trade cooperation. when they should be a china, together with russia, is ready to accept the part of great power even going on even to play a leading role in being a force for stability and positive energy in a world shaken by social unrest. georgia,

this is it true when being seen as the lead, as talking was pakistan, china and russia carrying out joint military exercises near the pacific coast. but theresa fallon, she is the founder and director of the center for russia, europe, asia studies in brussels. and earlier she explained this cryptic message from vladimir putin today that he is aware of beijing's concerns over the war in ukraine . i think it's important that he acknowledges that chinese economy is under stress because a food shortage is an increase in inflation. so i think that this is kind of put in acknowledging that nevertheless they've made really good deal because the oil is discounted by about 35 percent. so time is able to buy oil at a very cheap rate right now from russia. that's their way of supporting russia as well. we know that at the beginning of the year before the war in ukraine began,

these 2 leaders met and declared that their countries had a partnership with no limits. is that still true? well, that was part of many agreements and then signed before that was the most recent one before the invasion of ukraine. so it seemed that putin had gone to me, was she, they signed this incredible 5000 word document. and it pretty much allowed put into his truth from the far east, near the chinese border to ukraine. so that so that they had a great deal of trust. i don't think either one expected towards last as long as it has, i think that they perhaps expected is similar to what happened in 2014 and quickly competition and taking over crimea in when you consider what has happened in ukraine, particularly in the last couple of days, but when you add that to the economic sanctions, the fact that russia is now a political pariah, particularly for the, for the west. it, would you say that we're now looking at a relationship where russia needs china

a lot more than china needs russia? well, this is a really uncomfortable position for russia because they are starting to appeal, appear like a vassal status selling energy. and metals to chip to china. china is clearly the bigger economy right now, far stronger and, but china doesn't have that much influence over russia, and we have to zoom out of it and look at the big picture. russia, china prefers have russia in the tent that outside the tent because we saw what happened in 2014, with the war and crimea, that, that was kind of china strategy for the belgian road initiative. and so they realize that if they didn't include russia, that they would hamper their efforts for the big west for central asian strategy. so i think clearly she jumping, understands he has to work to put him, and it's a straddle both work because he has to kind of keep everybody sweet and to keep the european suite. but he's also close to russia. so they described as the closest relationship between russia and china and 300 years. so he has to kind of calibrate

his message so carefully even to the central asians that he'll be speaking to because they're neurologic when they hear, when they watch what, who just has done and you can and he's making messages or signs. you might do that again in the former soviet space. so the message that she jumping in kazakhstan, saying we support your sovereignty was a key message to say, to put in in code. you know, you're not going to do what you did in ukraine and causing a huge shift in the, in a relationship. and i'm, i would assume that children being, it has to be aware that whatever he does with russia is going to be watch closely by the european union. and also by, by the u. s. history. he's walking a tightrope, here is of the, i mean, he doesn't want to alienate the west by getting closer to russia. it's a diplomatic tap dance, but at the same time we saw very, very clear messages from number 3 in the chinese communist party stating that they will provide

a united front with russia and china to undermine sanctions of the west. so there is lots of messages being sent and there's a lot of very, very heating interpretations of this. but clearly it's a carefully calibrated message to try to please many, many audiences. but there's a danger that it might please none. but on the other hand, she jumping has the big october meeting, and this is all carefully calibrated for the domestic audience. he looks like a really powerful leader on the international stage, and he can only go outside. and the lens area in south is a lot more attention. so this is kind of a win win for she's in thing. he really looks like a strong international leader, and he's got lots of friends and allies. that's what i mean. she wants to present the domestic audience. and let me just ask you to speculate because 30 seconds here, when the doors are shut, do you think there she's being served of ultimate potent look. you've got to bring this war to an end, a new career. well, i would love to be a fan of that. i know what they ask because who has a very big ego,

it's in this is probably the worst optics for him, the timing of this as you know, meeting. so he really comes to a very week after the ukranian advanced 10 days ago. so i think that she didn't ping, it might try to encourage him. she could, you know, play the big peacemaker if you want. but i, it's also dangerous relationship. you know, they are sure huge border. russia has nuclear weapons. she jumping and putting are both kind of unpredictable leaders of mine. so i think he has very, very cautious and almost massage competence. ego perhaps and reassure him. yeah. yeah. to move to very bigger. that's for sure to reserve found the founder, director of the center for russia, europe, asia, studies in brussels to research. appreciate your time tonight. thank you. with the european commission president ursula on the lions, they travelled to ukraine to meet with president zalinski. it comes

a week after ukraine began a counter offensive that forced russian troops to retreat from large parts of the country's ne, wanting like a meeting between old friends on her 3rd visit to ukraine since the war began. also a funded line received a warm welcome from president vladimir zalinski and an award for her commitment to e. you ukraine relations. among the talking points, the $8000000.00 plus people who fled to you country since the war began in february . we want of course, to have our to give our ukrainian friends when they need help as much support as possible. but we also know that they are longing to go home again. thank you for will even as funder lines, night train made its way to cave russian rock had struck a reservoir dumb in creevy, re an industrial center and president zalinski hometown, the resulting flood,

inundate had several roads and houses, and the local drinking water supply was cut and the love yeah, there in the drains aren't working and we can't flush the toilet and was everything's flooded and there's been no one from the disaster protection agency here since yesterday evening. long jasmine us russian hill watch a little nab. woo, president zalinski said the russian strikes on the city so close to his roots had no military value. and zalinski said that fact shows russia is intent on attacking ukrainian civilians are keith is the 2nd largest city in ukraine, and despite being only 40 kilometers from the russian border, you crates, military has been able to keep the russians out, but the city had faced still faces relentless artillery fire and has since the war began. now what you're looking at right now is archives. regional council building . it was struck by a russian missile in early march, leaving only its facade standing of 6 months later,

reconstruction work is under wake. the rest of the city also bears the scars of indiscriminate daily shelly that and the intense or artillery battles that continued into the summer. they've all prompted thousands of civilians to leave a city that was once thriving. earlier i spoke to d. w correspondent, nick connelly. nick is following the latest development for us from har keith, and i asked him about the situation in that city right now. well, as you can probably see behind me, there is very little of her kids to be seen at pretty early evening hour because lots of people i, it's often feels and sense like the majority you have left and the ones who are remaining are sticking tool. the recommendations, keeping that curtains firmly shut and basically keeping off the streets critic, storage density of more than a 1000000 off, and occasionally only to see some cause passing a distance. a few very rapid estrogens, but it's a real contrast to the times before this war started. i was here in mid february,

when the u. s. government said that the war was imminent and people who just couldn't get their heads around it. they couldn't believe that this was on the cards, and this was a thriving city with also tens of thousands of foreign students coming here from around the world who also took their cue from the locals and were convinced that being for to come sway from russia. didn't necessarily mean that they were in danger. now since this ukrainian assaults, comprehensive in the east northeast of the country has done so well. we've seen some russian retaliation attacks. we've seen attacks on the energy infrastructure on the power system or the heating system rather. and a, nearly, it's proved pretty flexible and resilient and able to restore those systems. the most part, power is back, the metro is operating. and even though you know, as i mentioned, so many people have left those remaining are keeping the show on the road. but the question looking now to was next you months is even if russian forces are no longer in this part of the country, they austell learning, as you much their force comes away on their own territory. so the risk of attacks of missile attacks of loans,

the through that is still there much there. yesterday evening we heard a big explosion in the downtown, off of my hotel and the air raid sirens only came on at about 34 minutes off to itself. and it's so difficult to really tell when these things are coming in, they're coming from such short distance that distance. he just can't really give anyone a feeling of safety or at the, at the real chance to get to a position where they can yet be protected. from damage, so it is a very edgy situation. a city that doesn't really quite know yet whether to believe that the situation is generally safer and whether it's kind of time to go back something the multi those d, w 's nick connelly, they're reporting from the ukranian city of har keith. let's take a look now at some of the other developments connected to the war in ukraine. germany says that ukraine will need a 350000000000 euros in funds for reconstruction once the war is over and that's according to the country's economy minister. robert hobbit you see right there today, how because they said that germany will continue to support ukraine with weapons to defend itself against russian aggression. and staying with that,

germany says that it will supply a further to multiple roc launchers to ukraine, as well as 50 armored personnel carriers. in addition to that, ukraine will soon receive 40 soviet made armoured fighting vehicles from greece to be replaced by german equipment for the greek army, one of russia's last remaining independent news outlet. the nova gazette has been stripped of its media licensed by the country. supreme court of i agree that has founder the nobel peace prize, laurie at the beach, read your it off says that he plans to appeal the rule after ukraine's recent battlefield successes pressure is growing on the german government right here in berlin to increase its military support for ukraine, the former boxing star vladimir cliff cook has appealed to german chancellor sholtes to strengthen his position on the right side of history and to send more

heavy weapons eclipse closed, spoke at an award ceremony near berlin earlier today, where he accepted a prize on behalf of the ukrainian people, germany have so far, refused to send high tech battle takes to ukraine, saying that would weaken germany's own defenses are from we're going to pull in our political correspond. it either has or she has been covering these for comments from college co. nina, the former boxing champion, he has demanded more military aid from germany and did it today, did me that is correct. and that was a big surprise actually. and even mister clinico himself said that he until the very last minute wasn't sure whether he was going to turn up here in person, in potsdam, near berlin, or whether he was going to accept the award digitally from the war zone from ukraine. but then he felt that it was necessary to come to germany and to remind

the german chancellor and also the german people of the necessity to show solidarity. and more concretely, of course, to deliver those heavy weapons. those modern tanks that he says, ukraine desperately needs. he said we've shown that we can push back the rest military, but we'll need to seize this momentum and modern combat tanks would help us tremendously. and he addressed chancellor chose personally and said you are on the right side of history. you have shown solidarity with ukraine, but of course now you need to strengthen this position by delivering what we need and please let us do this together. this was his message and actually there was quite a bit of tension here in the room because the representative from poland and the us were also here and mr. glasgow. thank them explicitly. but he, at this message of warning to the germans, essentially because he said that he can tell that people here are beginning to get tired of the war in ukraine,

and that they're more worried about rising energy prices, et cetera. but that the people in ukraine don't have this luxury of getting tired of the war that's. that's a very good point there in the middle of a war zone. it. what about german chancellor showed me he spoke at this same ceremony. if i understand correctly, he spoke before clinico. but why did he say, do you say anything about weapons? well, you did, and he stressed again the fact that germany is one of the most important supporters of ukraine. and that is just a fact also in terms of military support, germany has been delivering quite a lot. and this is some something where you can also use the german government essentially back from an occasion because people look at the fact that germany is not delivering heavy weapons modern tanks. but of course they have delivered lots of other things. they're training, ukrainian soldiers, etc. and that sometimes does get forgotten, so all are so distressed that again, but also his defense minister announced today and you said it already and that

generally will, this will send, will send more weapons will send more rocket launchers will also send more and armored personnel carriers and then the 3 way exchange with greece is about to be finalized. so all i've, so i was told that he had some good news for ukraine. but of course when it comes to sending those leopard to tanks, that you train really does need those modern tanks. to push back the russian army or la shots didn't have any news here again. and so pressure has been mounting on germany to take the lead here to show some more leadership. so far the demo chancellor has said, we're not going to go it alone. we will add, deliver weapons em, but we won't go for the modern weapons, or other people have not to send those modern weapons either. so we're not going to do it. and so more and more people are now beginning to say, gemini, should reverse that and essentially say okay, we will send those modern tanks if other countries will follow suit. and we heard from the youth commission chief was left on the line today that he said,

if ukraine needs those heavy combat tanks, then let's deliver them. so if there were to be such a momentum where other you countries, for example, would also send these and the heavy combat tanks, then maybe that would put tom social's in a position where he could say, okay, let's do it together. yeah. because of the bridge of the question of what the transfer understands under the term leadership in this work, you know how that's always needed. we appreciate your reporting. thank you. la thirty's, in pakistan, now estimate that 1500 people have lost their lives in the devastating flooding there. hundreds of thousands more are said to be homeless as huge swain's of the country remain under water. many areas badly hit by the flooding are heavily dependent on agriculture, meaning many farmers have also lost their livelihoods sailing through what was

once it banana growth mohammed, eunice is counting his losses. flood water has swallowed up his entire plantation, a vast area of foreign land stretching nearly 15 football fields. it is now nearly fully submerged. hoping to salvage some of the crops, he instructs the worker to jump in. but the water has seep through the fruit. again, again, no trader is going to buy these bananas even animals. what 8 them because they're rotten inside like that eunice says that his yield was normally worth the equivalent of almost $3000.00 us dollars for every harvest. but it's not just his livelihood that's at stake. like it to the mean is anybody i own these lions and now they're all flooded. so my farm

hands are all out of work. now some of them over the lot of the time, most of the workers here have been jobless since to flooding their homes. have also been destroyed, leaving many living in makeshift camps or the single look down some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. at least 9 people have been killed. 20 injured in a stampede in western guatemala, the victims were reportedly called in a crush of people trying to leave a music concert celebrating independence day. thousands of mourners are wanting to pay their final respects to queen elizabeth the cue. to see the coffin stretches more than 10 kilometers along the thames. the united kingdoms longest serving monarch will lie in state in london's westminster hall for 4 days. her funeral is scheduled. this coming monday the 20 time grand slam

singles champion, roger federer has announced his retirement from top level tennis. the 41 year old will play his final atp tournament. and the labor cup in london, later this month, the swiss had not played a professional tournament since wimbledon last year after which he had a 3rd ne operation. 3rd, while that are said on social media that spoke my body's message to me, lately has been clear. i have played more than 1500 matches over 24 years now. i must recognize when it is my time to in my competitive career. in other words, mister, realize is he too is just a mere mortal, another mortal here is my colleague, dave brenda, from d w. sports, the roger federer, he's had problems before with his knees. right. i mean, this is nothing new. that's true. although so in 2016 and he came back pretty dramatically from a surgery on his left knee. and since that time he's actually won 3 grand slams.

but these 3 surgeries have been on his right knee and all within a couple of years. and so it's clear that this has been kind of significantly more intense. and although you know, in the last year, so we've known the likelihood of him lasting too long was, was ever shrinking. but it's still kind of hard to reckon with knowing this is really this is it? yeah. what me, he's 41. serena williams, she's 40, she's retiring. i guess that the big for was that threshold when you hit that, your body is telling you something, but i mean, he can look back and he can look at a career where he's had lots of highs. right? yes. i mean, he's at a truly incredible career and really unbelievable longevity. and i think in a lot of people's minds he sort of stands for tennis or, you know, at least men's tennis when serena was also doing something similar and just think he's been so good for so long. he won his 1st grand slam in 2003, he played in grand slams against pete sampras and andre agassi and stuff. so he's, he's span kind of an almost entire tennis generation. if we say he is one of the

best, are we telling the truth? i think we're certainly telling the truth and i mean if i wasn't such a coward, i would say he is the best, but i am a coward. so i use definitely one of them statistically of the kind of big 3 of the open era which includes rather than a dollar. and novak joke of which he actually is the lowest in the account for grand slams. but he has a versatility, a grace, a skill, a kind of superstar status, both outside of tennis and in the world of sports that i don't think they have. yeah, well he definitely will be missed and it just, it feels like a whole generation whole era is coming to an end. it is. it's kind of bittersweet. they thank you. the german film director then vendors in the chinese artist. i way way they are among the winners of this year's premium imperial awards . the global arts prizes bestowed by japan's royal family are given out in 5 categories. they've been dubbed the nobel prizes for the arts. film director them

vendors, is one of the winners of the premium imperial at 2022 american landscape. so like an extra protagonist in his film parish, texas. heritage stanton's wanting performance, made him an icon and, and hobby. so as a farewell film to america. so to speak, i actually made a european film that is a european film in america, ages and opaque from in america. vendors is also being honored for his photography and documentaries. his wayne, a vista social club about cuba, music culture was nominated for 3 oscars. his feature film wings of desire blurred the boundary between documentary and drama . he moved over in her. it's why i made wings of the sire 2 years before the fall of the wall. that's why it had a bit of a prophetic quality,

especially the angels being able to travel freely. but when we shot the film, we never dreamt we'll be able to go through the wall. today. the film is also a kind of historical document of this berlin that no longer exists. this pauline's verses only make it. the international belief that developed after the followed by the war was for a while home to another of the hears premium, imperial, a winners, chinese artist, activist, and filmmaker, i way way, is work of touches on hot political topics, including the refugee crisis. his work in his homeland china led to imprisonment and exiled you watching the w news after a short break. i'll be back to take you through the day. stick around. we will be right back with

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