under the swastika documentary about the sounds of power and inspiring story about survival. music in nazi germany, watch now on youtube. d. w documentary ah ah, there's a dw news line from berlin. the european union's ambassador sudan is assaulted in car tube. you says irish diplomat, even though horror was attacked at his home in the capitol as a bloody power struggle groups, the country he winces, nearly 200 people have been killed so far. also coming up in the program, russia silence is one of the kremlin strongest critics. a journalist and tom

opposition activists receives a hefty jail turn after he's convicted of treason for publicly denouncing moscow's war in ukraine. plus russia's foreign minister stagger lovegrove, arrives in brazil for high level talks. we'll look at why the trip is likely to while the u. s. and western allies. ah, i'm here until in berlin. thanks for joining us. the european union's top diplomat says the use ambassador to sit on has been assaulted at his home in khartoum as a deadly power struggle grips the country. joseph burrell, called the attack on irish diplomat, eat no horror of violation of international law, but did not reveal more details about the attack in use. spokeswoman told news agency a f p that o'hara is quote ok. the un says at least 185 people had been killed in

3 days of fighting between saddam's army and rival paramilitaries vying for control of the country. fleeing the fighting in the streets of cartoons. those who can are leaving others like the university students or sheltering in place. but their supplies are running out of ordinary residents are suffering sedans, army and the powerful paramilitary group. the rapid support forces are r. s f. have turned their guns on each other. just months after signing a deal to restore civilian rule, the death toll continues to rise. the violence has left the cities, airport, hospitals, and top military buildings, badly scarred,

concern is mounting internationally about what the violence means for stability in sudan and the region. i strongly condemn the outbreak of fighting that is taking place in sudan and appeal to the leaders of the sudanese and forces. and the rapid support forces to immediately seize or still it is restore calm and begin a dialogue to resolve the crisis. situation has already led to end the loss of life, including many civilians. and the further escalation could be devastating for the country and the region. clashes or interruption of long simmering power struggle between the army in the recess, who 1st joined forces to oust former dictator omar alba, sheer and 20. 19 from her prime minister, abdullah hom doc worn of string from sudan, current political path. we have said goodbye to dictate that

ship forever. we can have the vested, we can have setbacks, but we'll never be defeating yourself in the army. blame each other for starting the conflict and both say they won't. back down. journalist and analyst met nash covers the region with a focus on so done earlier. he told us why this escalation and violence didn't come as a surprise. people that have been following to john, i'm sorry to say it's not a surprise for anybody. it's been quite well predicted, and i think that's a bit of a condemnation on the international community. why it's happening now? well, in the days leading up to the conflict, breaking out, there was a push from the international community and from civilian political leads to inc. final political deals that they believed would restore transition. the issue, however, was that by n king and rushing to the steel who was going to leave a number of issues left unresolved. one of those issues happening mainly being

security sector reform and the state of the army and the rest, each one which feared that they would be losing power at the expense of another one and a new political deal. despite those tensions clear evidence attention is building between them and the following. in the previous weeks of push to inc, this deal, in fact there was a dateline for april 1st. that's when we in a lease called for to be expected to be signed. and they have the security sector reform workshops, which typically would take months and months of sensitive negotiations and a lot of investments from the global community to ensure that things don't boil over between computers, computer security services. and they wanted to do that with couple of date. well, that didn't work out so well. and in fact, i think the point that i'm trying to say is that the rush to get a political deal to political stabilizer. john. actually,

the strategy accelerated the confrontation between the paramilitary in the army and the condemnation on the international community. western governments and human rights organizations have widely condemned the sentencing of kremlin critic bloody mercado morsa to 25 years in a russian labor camp. a musto court convicted the prominent russian journalist and political activists of treason and spreading dis information about the russian military. carmen waterside has denied the charges. there was a master to rush, has said that the sentence was a sign of moscow's weakness, not strength, and was clearly an attempt to silence to cent. carter morse's lawyer see that given his poor health, the deal term amounts to a death sentence. now, bill browder was one of the largest foreign investors in russia until he ran afoul of the russian government. he's also former colleague and friend of latin america morrison. and he had this to say about the sentencing a so called strict regime labor camp in russia. it's the kinds of prison in which

vladimir kind of mertsa may now spend the next 25 years of his life. the dual russian and british citizen is one of russia's laws, prominent opposition, figures. he's been behind balls since april 2022. russian authorities arrested canada after he did now. thrushes, so called special military operation and ukraine. during his speech to american politicians, he was 1st charge with spreading false information about the russian military. then russian, prosecutors added a charge of treason, the son of a soviet era journalist carol mertsa has worked as a journalist and political activists. since he was 16, he served as part of the coordinating council of the russian opposition. and the enjo open russia. he was also widely seen as a protege of murdered opposition. lead a bar as nymphs of was gun down near the kremlin. in 2015 car mother also alleges

he was the target of political violence. twice narrowly surviving. what talked it described as intentional poisonings long an outspoken critic of vladimir putin. kalamazoo remained defiant during his trial, saying he's proud of his statements and looks forward to the day when the people who unleashed rushes invasion of ukraine are recognized as criminals. and i will return to that statement by bill bauder. again, he was one of the largest foreign investors in russia until he ran a follow the russian government. and of course you will also a former colleague and friend of latimer cutter morsa. he told us this about the sentence in a little earlier. well, my main thought is just the absolute horror. vladimir is, again, a guy who is in ill health at the moment because they tried to poison him twice. he is losing the sensation in both of his feet because of the nerve damage of those poisonings, dead and he can barely walk. now he's lost about 20 kilos and as his lawyer said,

this is not a life sentence. this is a death sentence. they will, they will basically kill him in prison if he has to carry on with the sentence. and so i'm crying on the inside right now for my friend and my colleague because what they're doing to him is just truly and humane. so the 1st thing that we did myself and his wife, you have gamier after he was arrested was we went to different countries that had passed the magnet ski at the magnet ski at freeze of the assets and bands. the visas of human rights violators and vladimir was, was absolutely essential in getting this law passed. and we went to them and said you need to sanction the perpetrators who have put him in his persecutors essentially. and canada, sanction them the united states, sanction them. but britain, where he has got citizenship, has not sanction them. so britain is effectively doing nothing for their own

citizen while other countries where he doesn't have any connection or doing all sorts of things. and so it's quite remarkable how passive the british government has been in the care of more as a case so far. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. us prosecutors have arrested 2 men, suspected of establishing a secret police station in new york city on behalf of the chinese government. he was officials say that the outpost was used to target us base chinese dissidence. china has previously denied operating any secret stations calling them quote, service centers for nationals overseas. me and mars military genta has announced the release of over 3000 prisoners to mark the buddhist, 2000 in a bloody crackdown on dissidence since since it grab power 2 years ago. but it's not clear if political detainees are among those about to be freed.

french president manuel mccaul has said he understands the anger felt by the rise, the rising of francis retirement age from 62 to 64. speaking for the 1st time since signing the reform and to law, he said it was necessary to keep the system afloat as the population ages the union say that they'll continue protesting. germany's former chancellor uncle america has received the country's top honor in recognition of her 16 years as leader she received the grand cross of the order of merit for special achievement from president funk additional maya. she's only the 3rd ex leader to receive that distinction. ross's foreign minister 2nd lovegrove has arrived in the brazilian capital, where he was welcomed by his counterparts. mario vienna, ahead of the meeting lover of expressed gratitude to brazil's president for seeking to meet in ukrainian peace talks. the silver has proposed that a number of nations,

including brazil and china, could initiate peace negotiations. is approach included his accusation that washington is encouraging the war that has upset ukraine, and of course it's western allies. for more let's bring in journalist sam how we, who joins us from sao paolo so tell us what exactly is love of trying to achieve in brazil? well, i mean, this is a lot of real politic right. 3 at the end of the day reveal is and russia happening all trading relationship and was brazil want to bring it in to the war because of the war and excel of the brazilian economy and the highest, much of the economy of the global south and of the world in general you know, brazil typically plays, you know, has a history of not taking sides in conflicts,

didn't take sides in iraq, and he's not taking so as a new grain conflict. now there's a textbook brazilian foreign policy. the mission for mr. laboratory in brazil will be just bad, basically ensuring that brazil, which is an important trading partner and especially more important than ever now to russia that you know, things remain smooth basically. and so this is all about brazil trying to establish some dialogue with russia, and it's about russia looking on trade interest in general. this is a related, this is an al, seeing a visit that is about looking off the countries own interests. and with regards to this new axis of friendship, between brazil and russia, where exactly does it leave western powers? what is not new? it's all like. ready brazil and russia have been didn't have like

foreign policy in general for the last, you know, 195 years. you know, brazil is a big bile of russian alliances that contributes a lot to the russian economy. and it's essentially for brazil with economy, you know, 25 percent of brazil gdp comes from agribusiness and you know, fertilizes are, especially in a tropical country like brazil, they're essential to at least a big ad grow. so while a lot of these. 2 out books we can say from the president, from lula from president luda may annoy or irritates a loss of western american diplomats. and especially, you know, with good reason. it retains people in ukraine. this is not anything new from brazil is point to view, but it doesn't know though we have had these kind of out pretty deep volt condemned to the russian invasion at united nations. so i think we have to separate the board

. is that right? the talk from the action here, although of course, a lot of the law as, as, as i said, a lot of the you know, exclamations are present. lou to have, you know, we, we had a goddamn down by you, went to diplomatic, and then you chronicles. all right, i'm afraid we have to leave it there. that was german sam call we in sao paulo. thank you for your analysis. thanks very much. all right, and you're up to date the do. stay tuned up. next we have business with keep ferguson on. aaron took him berlin, thanks for watching. ah ah, time for a brain update because this orchestra called the brain continuously adapts itself. and so we ask a few questions.