the universe of like a superpower, our series 40 to the answers almost every thing this week on d w ah, ah, this is b w. news live from berlin. a long awaited phone call between beijing and keith. the leaders of china and ukraine speak for the 1st time since the russian invasion. and a chinese delegation is to visit ukraine for talks on ending the war. plus, jo breaks in sudan the are a soft power military force, fries, prisoners,

including an alleged war criminal. ah, i'm glad off as well come to the program. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has confirmed he has had a long and meaningful call with the chinese president. she jin ping. it's the 1st contact between the 2 leaders since the start of the war and ukraine. state media reporting that she'd told zelinski, negotiation is the only way to end the conflict. the chinese foreign ministry also says it will send a delegation to ukraine to seek a political settlement to the war. china is seen as a key play and any piece process because of its close relationship with russia. so lensky has appointed a new ukranian ambassador to beijing the 1st in more than 2 years. i saw your way.

now let's get the very latest on this story from teeth and from bay gene from our corresponded roman launch. rankel and far beyond crouch, my roman. let's start with you. this call was initially expected at the end of march. why did it take place today? well, we do not know exactly much of what was before the score was this story round the remarks by the chinese ambassador to france, who seemed to questions, question ukraine's full independence and also did independence of former soviet republics. he was criticized for that by eastern can eastern european countries. ukraine restrained from harsh criticism, and now understand why because these phone call was over obviously, being prepared at that time. and, and this phone call also comes ahead of the much expected ukrainian offensive. and, and it is, it is now a question, how can we talk about it? cease fire?

or this is the word we're hearing today when ukraine is preparing a major offensive. this is a big question. fabia let's add turned to you and bridging that is this phone call . you think a sign that china definitely will not send weapons to russia. what, in my opinion, a china set off stage seating thing. he already gave their promise previously. namely when a french president emmanuel mccall and also a funder line, the u commission president were visiting badging. but i think this call am delivered to really concrete results. namely that china will sent a special envoy of the region of face towards ukraine. and i will try to help, you know, find a political solution towards the crisis. and secondly, china will send you an italian assistance, but the rest of the talking points and the rest of the rhetoric, i would say it's not really new. and the overall position of china that it holds a strategic alignment of with russia has not changed. and however,

i think that we can out can only understand this cause from a chinese perspective. and when you have to understand that in paging, there is a lot of fear that the relationship towards the european union will turn sour. and then m a china definitely wants to prevent or trans atlantic alignment between brussels and washing. so i think this call is really to improve ties with europe and which is still the biggest trading partner with china. roman and china is moscow's most important ally was zalinski was pushing for this phone call with she does ukraine c badging as a credit? credible partner to negotiate with, despite its close relationship with moscow. well, ukraine still hasn't, doesn't have a clear picture. how is the chinese se turned in this war? because we remember just a few weeks before russia and invaded ukraine in february 22. china and russia signed a very important document, stressing their, their close partnership,

then china refused to condemn russia for invading ukraine. m. china restrained during several votes in the u. n. a. so it is a very, a symmetrical approach, a symmetrical relations between china and russia, and china and ukraine. russia in china, both members in, in the un security council shall day. chinese leader visited moscow just a few weeks ago and had a 3 day state visit, which is very, very, a high level as a top level actually. and he just had a phone call with the lansky a weeks later. so our, and we remember the chinese and had a few weeks ago, china made public several proposals. kind of a kind of a plan and more than 10 points in it. a saying how this war in ukraine could be stopped. but are they major each year for ukraine? the issue of the occupied territories was not in those proposal proposals by

beijing. so 4 key if the big question is, how is paid there? begging em seeing this, this issue? how is it going to be resolved? because the ukraine is not ready to to agree to negotiations or to a peace settlement. and without lu earth or settling the question of the occupied territories, there is no, no agreement on that. here in keith father, an a china recently successfully broke a deal between saudi arabia and iran. does this grand bay ging extra credibility in this role? well, that's the message set and that baiting wants to convey and that this was really a diplomatic victory, but an in europe, there's a really different viewer in europe. people say that and you can compare the situation with the deal between the saudi arabia and iran. it was a win win situation abating, had common interest, but m towards ukraine. china is definitely aligned with russia because on the one

hand, it has a 4000 kilometer long border with russia and also it needs a strategic partner to challenge the west. so i think a china is not really seen as a neutral a play on this conflict. thank you very much. of a roman in a kia and 5 you there in beijing. to sedan are we are paramilitaries from a one of both boring factions, have broken into a number of jails and released the prisoners. the free detainees include suspected war criminal admin harun who the international criminal court says is he chooses accuses him of crimes against humanity. there are reports of sporadic fighting from the capital, khartoum on the 2nd day of the 3 day truce and thousands of residents of the city have been fleeing to neighboring countries. you might find some of the following pictures disturbing. this is what the current sees file looks like in

sudan. despite promises of a 72 hour pause in fighting more bloodshed, according to officials here at the our roomy medical center in on demand 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 on will in all the hospitals closed him and we were still working or thought of lisa. the business was running in a good way. ah, philip boots, 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. the many residences still fearful to leave their homes. they have 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 these each that if the decide this is the 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 completing claims of control over can storage. there is yet no unequivocal sign that either is ready to seriously negotiate, suggesting that both thing and securing and returning victory over the other is possible. 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 sedans, borders, leading to fears 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 with. let's brand coll shambria now he's the original media advisor for east africa and yemen of the norwegian refugee council. first at 72 hours is for will end wednesday or midnight local time. what can civilian expect from now on? while it is the real answer as we dont know, it's been there. the last 1112 days have been terrible nightmare as cease fire one after the other have been broken repeatedly. this one has largely held in different

areas, but still you never know when the next explosion has gone ahead. i've just heard from some of my colleagues seeing armed man going into houses occupying them, forcing people out, forcing them to flee a tax on hospitals as you've reported rightly just now, that the attacks on civilians trust that should have been tremendous. and it's a, it's an unfolding might of front of all of us. this will danny's and all those drabson saddam, or a very precarious moment. we're in our report, we just heard the special envoy say that he's not convinced that the 2 parties either of the 2 bodies is serious about negotiating a piece. how do you see that and these i think that's, that's a feeling we all share when, when you see the 5 humanitarian workers killed last week in the 1st

hours and days of all of this, i'm seeing this, these fires breaking in this way and both sides trying to instrument the eyes or whatever they want to see the little that they can see. and it is, it is extremely worrying. and we really hope that the international community governor to put more pressure on both sides so that my colleagues can get back to their work. we have a lot of pseudo nice colleagues anxiously waiting. they know there are millions out there in need of aid, and they feel really bad that they can get to them. at the same time, we'll have some of our colleagues to wrap them to fighting themselves. when cease fires when announced they could hear bombs and shooting outside their houses, doesn't the situation. they haven't been serious about this and it's about time they stop. they stop making a sham out of these announcements. now, thousands of sudanese have recently fled to the neighboring countries. what are the most relevant countries and how does that affect the situation there?

looking mostly at jobs, so egypt on that you'll be on all of them in various degrees and different kinds of des moines different their own monitoring crises. we've had actually refugees from these countries usually turn into saddam because it was a stable for, for them to see. because i know now they're probably being forced to retire. we don't have that much information about the actual figures that there's, it's not a very clear picture of how many are crossing into cell saddam into just a bit of a clearer picture in egypt. the truth is these, these people are fleeing to very hard difficult areas where to where they with these companies would need the support of the mission of communism. able to host refugees. our goal is for these companies to keep their boarders open. these are

general refugees fleeing from fighting, and they need and protection calls them. regional media advisor for east africa and yemen at the norwegian refugee council. thank you very much for sharing your expertise. let's have a look now at some of the other stories are making headlines around the world. the supreme court in iran has confirmed a death sentence against an iranian german dual national jumpsuit. tomorrow was convicted of being involved in the bombing of a mosque in 2008 and planning other attacks. his family and sis, he's innocent in afghanistan, the taliban have killed an islamic state leader thought to have masterminded the bombing of cobble airport. 2 years ago, the u. s. has confirmed the killing. 170 afghans and 13 american troops were killed in the blast. during the chaotic us withdrawal from afghanistan,

israel is celebrating us independent state marking 75 years since the state was founded. more than a 100 israeli air force planes, helicopters and drones, all taking part in the fly past the joint. but pilots from germany, the us and the u. k. that's it from me and the news team for now. i'll have an update for you at the top of the hour and i'll stay tuned for your business uptake with brought some golfers in berlin from me and the team. thanks for which i come had a g g t v highlights you every week in your in box subscribe. now what are the are 30 today? it's 10.