or sergio, economic instrument sir, to bypass to help russia by past western sanctions. and, and then there is this a question mark open question mark regarding the possibility of providing even little assistance to russia. if russia, once again start struggling her at the front lines. now tell us this, china's top diplomat were met with president putin in moscow on wednesday and the chinese eater, she, she being is expected to visit soon. so what's in this for china? well 1st and foremost, unit under send it to 8. the. the chinese perspective of course is our systemic one here. it's all about preparing for the beek systemic conflict that is emerging on the horizon. that means the mutual, the coupling cur, we do night at states, everything else or east, of course, of secondary importance in here. we have the 1st, her important component,

namely that nobody wants a russia to be part of for the rivals block. that means that russia is not the systemic player, but obviously isa still having significant influence, sir in i, and international relations, saw from china's point of view, avoiding a tree from scenario. that means a scenario in which it has to tackle the military escalation in south china. seed that military dangerous with india along the line of actual control and then a possibility of security. vacuum in the north of its border is an absolute no goal from the american point of view. of course, it is about preventing car far the preventing of 2 front scenario. that means tackling cur boat, russia and china simultaneously on the old continent. and then in the in the pacific. what lessons do you think she's in ping has taken from hooton's war

one of the lessons i think is that this cannot fha military conflicts. and in this particular case, it is a traditional war over territory, not just over population access to resources, but also the territories and imperialist war by all means. so the main conclusion is that it is linked to many, many risks, which i think is sir, a kind of a optimistic message that i don't see a military attack by china on taiwan in the short term. so this would be one of the key message. a 2nd important message i think is that are all 3 are observing is sir, obviously the emergence of a new cold war, 2.0 moment. that means a kind of systemic quite existence. mechanisms will need to be fine to, to be found in the future. and russia is certainly trying to position itself in a better way by actually succeeding in this war against the ukraine. it seeks to

get this ball position in the stem, a conflict between china and united states. i also think that of course, sir, decision being a sir. certainly going to travel to russia. this is going to be the fortunate meeting with the russian president in the role. and in fact, the west has a kind of over looked at the emergence of this, a modus vivendi of, for coordination in all relevant domains between moscow and beijing is going to be very heart if possible in the short term to actually somehow a cut off this ah, relations, this ties in all this relevant to this relevant if you could do you see a point at which support for russia would become untenable for china? yes, there is such a possibility, which is why i think that china wants to position itself in between that it means to show itself also as a constructive player that comes up with 2 proposals with piece proposals. and this

would be, for instance, the scenario in which russia continues losing up on the ground. oh, to truth, successful military counter offenses by a crane. there is this possibility where at some point of time in the future, the cost will be too high for china to continue supporting co, russia and the west needs to also increase the price of for china to support to russia in the future. thank you, villainous hacker, over the director of the austrian institute for european on security policy. thank you very much. while despite the war, russia is still involved in high profile operations involving other countries, notably the international space station. russian cosmonaut remain on board the craft and work closely with american astronauts. ah, virtually nothing has changed on a day to day level on the international space station. the crew still meets on

weekends to eat together at unity. the u. s. liaison node or the astronauts work primarily in the us segment, located at the front of the i ss in the direction of flight. the cosmonaut meanwhile, are responsible for the russian segment behind them. the space station is built in such a way that everyone involved has to work together manner because of the division of labor. they depend on each other. researched is carried out in the 3 liberal trees in the us segment. masses, giant solar wings power the entire station including the russian modules. in addition, nasa provide the data to keep the station on course as well as communications round the clock. russia provides and controls all the thrusters for the i assess. they come into play when the space station has the dodge space, debris, and during course corrections every day, the i ss fools bye up to

a 100 meters. the station is then always brought back up to the right altitude with proportion from the russian progress freighters. each crew trains the 2 years for their mission. astronaut, while the nasa colleague took off in a russian solias more so called cross of a flight like this, a plan through 2020 full. it's a sign of detente. good. for now, we are that over to him, it could working on extending the operation on the i assess, look, we don't know for how long yet it passed come into the printer form, but until 2024, the work will continue nominally. and in accordance release international agreements, the russians are developing their own station. but until it's ready, they want to work on the i assess so that they can maintain their capabilities in

man space flight. and in 2031, germany and countries across europe have honored the people of ukraine under military one year after the russian invasion, german president, frank advisor stein my lead commemorations here in berlin. remembering the 10s of thousands of troops and civilians who lost their lives in the last year, i emphasized the world admires the bravery of ukrainian people. and janelle do malay on from dw business is here shortly with an update on the economic costs of the war. ah, the human cost of the war and ukraine has been devastating, but the prospect of one day rebuilding after the war gives hope to many ukrainians . but the task will be monumental. so much has been destroyed and the economy is in ruins. and initial estimate by the ministry of economy of ukraine shows that the

ukrainian economy shrank by 30 percent in 2022 inflation head of keegan. october at 26.6 percent and has been persistently high for months despite the ongoing attacks from russia that that bill could be nearly $350000000000.00 for and more on the economic costs of the war. i'm joined by maxime, tim jenko. he's the ceo of detect, that's the largest private investor and the energy industry and ukraine. welcome. now, blackouts have become a fact of life in ukraine since the war. can you describe to us the state of ukraine's grid infrastructure at the moment? so 11 you goal really started all energy war and the next in the front line, obese flow and all that, that would, in the russians or has been defeated military front line. and they started physical

destruction of infrastructure, especially from tens october, but to be a fighting. and i think it's a good example keith regional when it was liberated in april last year, we managed to restore policy by 45 days. today. we don't have black college that they extend. we had 33 months ago. of course, we need billions and billions of dollars of investments into our agree at the moment. but what is the most important for us that people live? and he today at this moment, perhaps it can give us an indication how difficult is it to ensure that the systems come back on line is still bigelow because of actually software update it. and we managed to bring back the whole system, he'd been to for hours. so it's not easy but the he walk as a team,

thermal generation, nuclear hydro and you go all together so we know how to bring it back. it, of course, the baby, very price for that and talking about us. the bill is $141.00 in place. this is highest possible price so that people, we will have an increase to them. what's it like to work under these attack conditions? i would say this is, this is indication when he read all people civilians, all orange in years saw the go to paul station knowing that these ball station isn't that good or russian miss else. so this is, this is harry. i think the people just do their walk. adams are basically the mission of all companies to bring a light and wants to people. this is every day job was providing light and warmth. maxim, tim tank o. c, o, of detect the largest private investor in the energy industry in ukraine. thank you

so much. from looking at ukraine's economy, we turned to russia's over the past year, the russian economy has language more than 30 countries have imposed sanctions against russia in the year since it invaded ukraine, blocking financial transactions, halting crucial exports. and substantially reducing energy imports. the impact to russia's economy has been colossal. exactly how colossal is difficult to tell. russia says its economy shrank last year by just 2 point one percent, and ada out of russia. the has the i m f. the world bank won't tell you this, but they have no idea what rushes actual imports and exports are. why? because by q 222, they stopped reporting and yet we don't know about foreign direct investment. we

don't know about any of the metrics that are required to be a participant in the i m f in the world bank. all they're getting is invented numbers. president putin has used the growth figures to try and bolster his support and dismiss, isn't this community and labor communities. we insure the stability of the economic situation, protected citizens safe jobs, prevented market shortages, and propped up the financial system. what if you to, when you're pregnant, numerous companies have left russia since the start of the war, pledging to pull away from the country even if it affects their bottom line. brands like mcdonald, starbucks, and others have exited russia completely. but professors on and felt yale team has also tracked over 240 companies who are digging in, so to speak, and maintaining full operations in russia, among them, germany, siemens, health and ears, and air china. he says, this is one example where shutting down operations came with financial rewards.

for example, of royal dutch shell, or, or b v or not costing them anything. you don't look at an investment in terms of what it, what you, what it costs you.