ah, analyze the fight for market dominance, east versus wes w to be on ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, a long awaited phone call between beijing and keith chinas. she's in pain and ukraine's president of the laudermill zalinski hold the 1st conversation. since the russian invasion, also coming up on the show, jail breaks in sudan b r a soft power military force fries detainees,

including an alleged war criminal. ah, my manuscripts, mccann, and welcome to the program. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski has confirmed his how to quote long and meaningful call with the chinese president. she's in ping, soleski wrote on twitter that he had hoped the call would give impetus to the development of bilateral relations. now this is the 1st call between the 2 leaders . since the start of the war in ukraine, chinese state media are a poor thing that she told zalinski talks and negotiation were the only way to end the conflict. china is seen as a key player regarding any moves towards peace because of its close relationships with russia. i'm out iraq from a poor. and we can get the very latest on this from keith where our correspondent

braylin gant's. ranko is standing by and from journalists, harvey untreated mom, who's in beijing roman and this call was initially expected to take place at the end of march as the 1st time we've been hearing, the ukrainian and chinese leaders have spoken since rushes of invasion. why did this call happened today? well, the can only speculate, but m ukraine has been actually waiting for the school for over a year since the start of the russian invasion in february 22. and there are 2 important events that are one life behind us, and one is ahead of us. one behind is that a scandal or criticism or um, no chinese ambassador to france who erb seemed to question ukraine's independence and independence of other former soviet republics. and there was a lot of criticism in central europe, of his remarks. and china distance itself distanced itself from those remarks.

and maybe china was trying to push forward and m a to not to lose its role. and in it's important role as, as a very big and important country are also in this conflict. and the 2nd event lies ahead of us and this is a much expected ukrainian offensive. and some experts here say that a to call for peace talks and the cease fire just ahead of a major offensive could be a bit problematic for ukraine, but nothing, nothing of that we hear from ukrainian authorities de stress that is very important . and it is indeed very important that a president lensky and the chinese new the have spoken. finally, i'm that we will see what we've got will come out of it. it is very important that china will said an envoy to ukraine. this is something that ukraine has been asking in calling for 4 months now. finally, and the u. s. has warned china clearly against providing lethal aid to russia. is

this phone call a sign that china won't now send weapons to russia. was seizing ping, china's head of state already made their promise relatively straightforward. when french president manama caught and are also a funder line, the president of the u commission visited beijing recently that was already quite credible. and i think to understand this call from the chinese perspective, it is a clear am signed towards the european union and to give them a diplomatic concession em seating ping has promised to am called with zalinski when the time is right actually several times. and notably, he did not give their promise towards the americans, it was according to the europeans. and this call has produced in my opinion to concrete results. one as already mentioned, is sir, special envoy, offer you ration affair, said a china was sent to the ukraine and which will also halt and yet in depth talks to work towards a political solution and for this crisis. and then secondly,

the humanitarian assistance that china was sent. however, some main parts off of china's positions have not changed. i mean, china still refrains from criticizing putin. and i'm also calling this a y in china still talks about the ukraine crisis. so the rhetoric overall has not changed fundamentally. roman that leads me nicely to the question i want to ask you . china remains. moscow is more, most important ally as 5 in was just saying it's refused to call russia's attack on ukrainian invasion. yet ukraine has been very careful not to antagonize china, and for lensky has been pushing for this call with g. can you explain to us how ukraine views china will china is very important for ukraine, m. it's a very important country comically, militarily it's a member of the security council in the u. n. and, and ukraine remembers m that just a few weeks before the russian invasion,

there was a declaration between russia and china, but very close partnership. ukraine also remembers china didn't condemn russia, so invading ukraine. and that a, during the voltage in the un, no china, or refrained from, from condemning russia of the war, several attempts. and erm. on the other hand, ukraine understands that if it was once russia to, to pull back to stop this war, it needs china or needs change any support. so ukraine was, was hoping for this conversation to happen. a ukraine had to wait for a very long time or, but now this happened and things could start moving in finally in the direction that ukraine would liked or would like them to move towards ease or stop. she said session of facilities, but ukraine is not ready for a ceasefire on russian conditions, and it will be very difficult to find a diplomatic solutions for that. me. we are may be at the beginning of

a very long diplomatic road, ran gunter anchor in cave and fabi annex h my reporting from beijing. thanks so much to you. this now paramilitaries from one of sedans, warring factions, have broken into a number of jails and have released prisoners. the freed detainees include the suspected war, criminal act, med harun, who, the international criminal court is accusing of crimes against humanity. now there are reports of sporadic facing from the capital cotton. on the 2nd day, the 3 day truce and thousands of residents are in the city have been fleeing to neighboring countries. a warning you may find the pictures in the following report disturbing. this is what the current sees file looks like in sudan is by promises of a 72 hour pause in fighting more bloodshed,

according to officials here at the our roomy medical center in om to, man. 2 shells fell on to the building around lunch time on tuesday, enjoying at least 20 people waiting in the seats here. among them, a pregnant woman, i awnings among, we'll have all the hospitals closed on. and we were still working a sort of lisa. the business was running in a good way of boats. a shell came in. as you can see. her flew up and exploded. hungerpillar's, hanover, all patients who was sitting on the seats were injured below the knees. you're in to federal law. the u. s broke a 3 day truce between the army and power military rapid support forces does however, appear to have brought some com to the sudanese capital car to him. but many residents are still fearful to leave their homes. they've seen previous attempts to bring stability to the country, largely fail since the outbreak of fighting more than

a week ago and out this time will be different. did it? this is that if the decide this is and at a meeting of the un security council on tuesday, the un special envoy to sedan race, further questions about the 2 sides commitment to peace is being released from it. so 2 generals continued trading accusations and issuing competing claims of control over can storage sir, is yet no unequivocal sign that either is ready to seriously negotiate, suggesting that both thing and securing a returning victory over the other is fossil. the shaky cease fire has allowed many countries to carry out mass evacuations like saudi arabia, which brought over a 1000 people from more than 50 countries by boat to jetta. the thousands are also fleeing across the dawns borders leading to phase of this crisis spreading into

neighboring countries. many of them arriving in makeshift camps and chat, desperate for food, water, and medical attention with the un warning of the urgent need for aid and resources to help deal with the growing influx of people. as we just heard that the 72 our sci fi in sudan has provided an opportunity for many countries to undertake mass evacuations by road and seen. this includes germany, which has now ended its evacuation operation. after helping more than $700.00 people flee the country that includes around $200.00 german citizens. according to the german defense ministry. i spoke to maximilian alaska earlier, who has 1st hand experience of being evacuated from sudan. he works for the german good institute and he was based in ha tune and i asked him about his experience of escaping the violence in the country. here the most difficult thing

was probably to overcome the fear of leaving the house for the 1st time after 8 days of hiding and sheltering. but l yeah, that they, the streets were relatively calm. so we were able to go to the assembly point, and from there it went from what smoothly. and we were able to go to the air strip and in law later on. take off jordan. so when you say that you were, you'd been hiding inside for 8 days. just tell us a little bit about that. i mean, when you were hearing, i presume gunfire outside, were you able to get out to get get food supplies for example? yes. well, 1st of all, we were sort of in a hot spot in america, which is also very close to the airport into the national airport. and of course we heard everything we heard the bomb shells. we heard the gun fights,

we heard the air strikes everything. we smelled the smoke and saw the smoke. but we did not see much because we were hiding. we're not, we're not allowed here to go anywhere near the windows and, and yet we were one of the lucky ones, my wife and i because we had enough supply of food and water throughout the whole time. so we didn't have to go outside, but most people are not in that situation and they had to go outside and that was just the life threatening. did you at any point thing that you weren't going to get out that you wouldn't be evacuated with a good question. i mean, of course we've been true. we try to not think of this scenario. i understand. can you describe to us the situation in su, dawn in past month you were living there? what was it? what was it like when the fighting 1st began?

i mean, everyone knew that there were some tension between the, the 2 conflict parties, but nobody would have ever expect that you know, a catastrophe that, that, that started on the 15th of april. i mean, people went outside in a morning to get some groceries and then came back and, and everything, you know, flipped upside down and we heard as tracy had gunshots, and you know this, this, this sort of immediate change was a surprise and shock to everyone. maximillian that come from the good to institute until recently, living in saddam. thank you so much for your time today. thank you. ok, let's take a look now. some of the other stories making news around the world. israel is celebrating its annual independence day marking 75 years since the formation of the

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