it's tracy ah, meeting legal hearing their dreams ready to meet this week on d. w. ah, ah, this is d w. news live from berlin. germany's president travels to ukraine and gets a war zone reality check. frank valdosta and my experiences firsthand life on the siege and sign ukraine. the german president is forced to take cover in a bomb shelter. also coming out at the major conference here in berlin world

leaders bout to continue supporting ukraine, including sharing the cost of rebuilding once the war is over. class gibbons both where giant adidas cuts ties with con. yeah. west saying the ramp as reasons anti semitic comments are unacceptable. hateful and dangerous. ah. i'm will on soccer. it's good to have you with us. german president, frank walter stein maya has made a surprise visit to ukraine. his 1st trip since the russian invasion began on february 24th. shortly after arriving stein my, i was directly confronted with the reality of life in a war zone. the german president had been in ukraine for just a few hours when he experienced the reality of war. as he spoke with local

officials in the northern town of kirk of car air raid sirens rang out with forcing his team journalists and the ukrainian hosts to seek safety in a shelter. thus, this was a dark reminder of the conditions of the people here have to endure every day. mention you live in monterey and we had the opportunity to talk to 10 to 15 men and women from korea. give her about these last 8 months of the russian war of aggression didn't revert these the, let's not more, not that this was as an under figures back in care of mary vitale. cleats call ford gave stain my tour of the destruction caused by the latest russian airstrikes on the ukrainian capital. and the consequences for its residence is up with the street. lights are off because we are saving electricity. many

regions now phase blackouts. their goal is to make civilians freeze our winters, our colon sometimes minus 20 or 31 fries of what well it will drive real. and finally, in the evening, ukraine's president welcomed stein meyer into his office, where talks began in earnest. speaking at a news conference stand my a sent a strong message of support is we are on your side. we support you and we will continue to support you that he cannot mclee politically, militarily, for as long as necessary. not a message that men ukrainians are eager to hear is russia's war in the country. takes yet another return. ukrainian president bullet miss lindsey cancelled stanley . i have planned trip to keep in april angry that the german president had taken

a soft line toward moscow during his time as foreign minister. so how was the meeting between the 2 presidents here is the dw much he has building in key. if you've just heard it, the german president pretty solid today. it was much more matter of factly. he just said what they had talked about that he was grateful but less and through the caustic and less solemn than the german president. and that's a little bit understandable if you look at the history of this meeting, stein might want you to come in earlier in this war and then he was not invited. he was already on his way, but he was told not to come because your crime was very unhappy. not only what was germany was doing. but also with stein. my i'm self who has been one of the architects of jim foreign policy was seen here in ukraine. this fatal for the

country and it took quite some time for the 2 sides to get together. and i've asked my about this today. you said like it's time to leave this behind. they had cleared, they had been clear on this to talk them on this and it's time to look forward and to stand firmly at the side of ukraine. at the conference here in berlin, delegates from the world fleeting economies have vowed to fund the massive reconstruction that will be needed in ukraine after the war. the conference host jim and chancellor will show said the ground had been laid for a comprehensive plan to rebuild the war is far from over, that the international community is already preparing the ground for reconstruction . hosting the conference in berlin, chancellor shalt said, now is the time to decide how to rebuild and how to pay for it. what is a stake here? nothing less than creating

a new marshal plan for the 21st century. a generational task that must begin now. the recovery, reconstruction of modernization of ukraine will indeed be a challenge for generations. one that will require the combined strength of the entire international community. the region to tax on ukraine have marked a new low in this war. this was make alive southern ukraine on monday, playground and residential neighborhood reduced to rubble by russian attacks. there's also been heavy damage to the power supply and levine to buildings and streets in kids and to civilian targets like the shopping center in zappa region. joining the berlin conference by video link presidents, lensky said billions would also be needed to balance the state budget in the coming year,

ukraine's prime minister then it's me house said he's country needs between 3 and 5000000000 euros a month just to keep going. but he told the conference why international help make sense. we need this money to recover infrastructure immediately. to help us survive this winter to save people from humanitarian, catastrophic. and to save the europe in continent from the immigration wave from the immigration for mommy. according to the world bank, the total bill for damage to ukraine's infrastructure will be $350000000000.00. the ukrainian government says it could be much more some worry about the lack of transparency when such amounts are discussed. that he, you commission, president lafond line, is taking a positive view. reconstruction linked with a dynamic work session process can function as a catalyst, as it was said today, here, for necessary reforms, and at the same time. and this is certainly true as

a strong motivator to implement these reforms because they, the goal you want to go to and therefore you understand why you have to do these reforms. b, e a will support ukraine for as long as necessary from the lion said, help likely to be work billions every month. it is clear that the human cost of the war in ukraine is immense. the financial cost is also huge. let's take a look now. are some of the stories making news around the world? britain's prime minister rashid soon i catch the point that his cabinet sooner cast kept jeremy hunt on as finance minister, bowing to fix the case economic crisis. soon i has also re appointed braverman as interior minister just days after she was supposed to resign or a security breach. at least rightly the georgia maloney has reaffirmed her support for the e. u. nato and ukraine. and her 1st speech of prime minister laid out her

government policy from the full parliament, lower chamber of deputies, ahead of the confidence, very lonely maloney said her priority would be helping businesses in household cope with rising inflation. a lank of clean water and a health system devastated by 10 years of war, fueling a deadly color outbreak in syria. united nations. there's more than 24000 people across the country, have contracts with highly contagious to see. with face it could spread across the medley. at least furniture people are dead after sy clone said, trying slammed into bangladesh. around a 1000000 people were forced to evacuate as the monster storm hit 10000000 people along the coast are without power. must summit's house in southern bangladesh have been badly affected by the flood? the water has still not completely defeated. she tries to protect what has been

left and damaged that ugly. we somehow managed to save our furniture from the water by creating a dam. but some $200.00 worth of fish from our pond floated away. we are happy that at least no trees fell on the house like that. and i thought you woke, 5th and tropical storm has left large swats of agricultural land under water poems of whom have been damaged, fish, leaf washed away. millions are without bobo and many, i still beat them for hip. the capital tucker is also flooded to hard drive with have to push that away. he goes through the water roy gonna noodle the storms and the really, really struggling global gothic all the she thought in a need to get off. so it's very difficult to drive at rehearsal. the felt ation

country is prone to natural disasters. thank afy. climate change is making storms more frequent and destructive. but people like ma summit fee, they have been left to faith, the devastation alone. adidas says it's ending as partnership with american rappa, kanye west over his anti semitic remarks. the demons, sportswear giant, cold tweets by the wrapper, unacceptable. hateful and dangerous. adidas says it will immediately stop production of its line of easy products which were designed with west, who now calls himself gay. at least 6 organizations have distance themselves from the rafa and raisins, months before because of his controversial remarks. for more on this we talk to jen this, ron say, a sang beta in washington dc offered you. this is arguably the most important partnership. it's made the company about $2000000.00 a year,

which is just under 10 percent of total running there is. ready no other partnership that compares and for car gates made will go in here. you know it's, it's, it's, he's gone for him. i mean, he's no longer billing here as if you are a current force. but as of march of last year's worth, $6600000000.00, and as largely because of the success of easy, he's not worth only $400.00, which is, i mean, more than i read. but yes. so unfortunately, he's made the site and paid speech part of this brand along for the anti semitism, those lots of anti black comments. 9 years ago he wore a jacket with a confederate flag stitching. so this is really not new. and this is now part of his brand, and i think she will be banished 2 fringes of hollywood and a public square. he will always have a falling, but it will be called falling. and she continued to be a useful idiot for right wing. alice jailed us basketball star, brittany griner has lost her appeal against her 9 year prison sentence in russia.

for anna was arrested as a moscow airport for being in possession of vape cartridges containing cannabis oil . in february, the substance is banned in russian. brittany greiner appeared fire video link from her prison south her appeal more out of hope than any real expectation of success. but addressing what she called her honest mistake, she asked the cause for leniency. i've been here almost 8 months and he was more severe drive less then. well, you do have to do with the whole day that was all day to well, i grind as mistake was being caught with cannabis oil in her back

age to moscow, airports back in february in august. she was sentenced to 9 years in jail, the drug smuggling and possession, the backdrop to this of course, is russia's war in ukraine. rhina, a us citizen, is one of the world's best basketball players. a 2 time olympic champion, a supporters consider her report in russia's political game. the us reiterated in school for her immediate, really nothing in the previous sentence, nothing in the result of today's appeal changes the fact that the united states government considers the screener to be wrongfully detain. this man could be grind as best hope of being set free pick to boot. a russian arms dealer serving a 25 year sentence in the u. s. has reportedly been muted as part of a potential prisoner swap, russia, there were apparently unwilling to negotiate while growing as corporate news. after the rejection of her repeal,

dinah was led away by prison guard should now be transferred to one of russia's notoriously hospital colonies to set the rest of her sentence. you're watching d. w. news alive from berlin up next is our documentary series looking at libya's collapse into civil war following the downfall of dictator mama, gadhafi. i don't forget to check out on you websites for the latest news and information round the clock. that's d, w dot com. i'm will launch like are invalid and for me and the entire team here. thanks for watching. bye bye. we're all set to go on field citizenship and we're all in. as we take on the we're all about the stories that matter to you.