the, the, this is deal of the news live from berlin, syria, rejoins the family of arab nations. president basher other side is welcome to back to the arab league after a 12 year suspension over syria's grinding civil war. he tells us so much in savior,

ravia. he's hoping for a new era of cooperation, ukraine's president for a lot of years, the landscape makes a surprise visit to jetta to meet regional leaders. he was closer ties with the arab world. and polanski is also due to meet g 7 leaders in japan. they've already agreed new measures against russia pledging to prolong access to equipment and services that could help the war against ukraine, the unpopular felicia as welcome to the program. siri, as president bosher aside, has been welcomed back to an arab league summit in saudi arabia, ending 12 years of isolation in the region. syria was suspended from the league in 2011 in the wake of the bloody repression of arab spring protests that sparked

a decade long civil war. so the crown prince mohammed been solomon had pushed for aside to join the talks in jetta. speaking out, the event side said he hopes closer cooperation will ensure peace in the middle east. all right, well for more on this, i'm joined by kristin hel bag, a journalist and author who has spent a 7 years living and working in syria. thanks for joining us. here in the studio, so the arab league says it wants an open channel of communication with aside, why are they now we're meeting syria? well, they don't want to see, oh yeah, to the influence of others, especially to a ring and, and friends to a restaurant. maybe even to talk to you because add on such as his opponent, conditioned old will, will reconciliate with a stop. so as they requested the question to bring, see we got a strategic, very important country back to the

a result and to make sure that the arrows themselves come some say and influence their then the different problems in the region. we have the refugee crisis. we have a cup that go in markets being smuggled. this isn't i'm set to mean that it's being smart. good from the student. have a nice portal for jordan to the gulf region. it's a $1000000000.00 business, controlled and used by the doctor's name. so they want to make, they want to start to control the business with the sondra z. and in the end it basically it's a so the success of associate diplomacy saying that, you know, they want to take care of the, are problems within the arab region. and this needs personnel also to be at the table from, from the some issues now aside, spoke earlier, what did you make of his remarks to the league? well, obviously he is aiming at financial support. he wants to, he needs to rebuild. so yeah, he wants to develop syria, this is what he said and he has high expectations, especially towards the saudi and the other goals countries. now, it's interesting because may be in the and he will even set conditions for his coat,

for his own cooperation. concerning the rest of the problem and the cup, the goal, it's margaret, you know, what? in the 1st place, it should have been the arrow key setting conditions for the re admittance of student. so he asked for financial support obviously, and to send this coming message that is very popular within the region right now. so things that, you know, we have a new world order has a multiple, a world order. we have to be effective play, guess within this a by re us, if you, we, you, and it's a kind of the, the arrow peak as well. and being a strong play. yelp following their own interest. the error of interest confronting even a took its influence even mention the ottoman empire, which is interesting because because these are the same time trying to establish some channels to come up. but this means that, you know, it's back to the arab nationalists times. it sounds very much as what we hear. some of the kids go, you know, calling for a united approach and

a united way of dealing with within this new world order. would you say that this is a huge victory for sad and, and how does this leave others within syria who are obviously against aside? well, it's very, a big try him for himself. definitely he controls to so it's a syria. by now we have the north areas that are controlled by turkey. proxies by is lemme scoops. we have a region in north sea. we are controlled by a jihad effects and higher authority of the shot. h t s. and we have in the northeast occurred as autonomous regions that is very much at risk because if the future tucker's president reconciles without thought, they will ask him to take control over the northeast as well. so definitely it's a high wind for him within the country, but what he needs is equal nomic help. he needs money. and unless this money comes into the country, he cannot deliver very much. and basically he will use this money for his own rule and not as much to take care of the people. so he

a big load to those opponents that were just mentioning that also you're told that the economic elements, he remains under sanctions as well from not only at the west, but also the arab league itself. right? so after today you're, we possibly going to be seeing that those sanctions will be lifted? well is only on the st just by the west. we have to do s and we have to europe in union that is still keeping these sections in place. we have in the u. s, we have the efforts to even made the sentence broader under the so called caesar act. so they will try to even sanction governments and companies that will now deliver financial aid to the same resume, which could stop the solely engagement that aside as hoping for basically. so in the end, i mean, what is the u. s. especially is trying to do is they try to limit this normalization to process to a politic a fee and to make it the symbolic victory rather than real. i'm a nomic victory for us thought that was so the strength and his position within the

country. what is very much puzzling for the refugees within the area is this normalization because they are very much afraid of being forcibly deported back to syria. and we have seen this live and then we have seen this even in turkey. so there is a high fear amongst to invest futures and we're talking about 7000000 refugees who have left the country. so they are really being afraid of, you know, the, the local governments could use this normalization process, fulfilled the cooperation with the secuity. ether rates is within the seo and government, and they're still energy will continue speaking in, in just a moment. but at ukraine's the mirrors the landscape also attended the meeting, as i mentioned before. so that's actually listening to what he told the delegates. ukrainians has never chosen the word our throats didn't go to other lands. we do not engage in next season's plunder of other nations resources,

but we will never submit or danny for and there's or go nicer. that's why we fight. and i'm sure all your nations will understand these our main emotion. and i'm also sure all your nations will understand the main goal. i want to live here in get on an oval call to all of you to help protect our people, including you create in mosley community. were here in studio with kristen, how berg, journalist and author has worked in syria for 7 years. and we've been discussing the issue of syria and that the landscape there has been calling for a we'll say supports at from the league. and. busy many countries we'll say have, who are there, how are and taking sides in the conflict? why is that? they are trying to stay neutral because they consider this was

a real pain problem. they are saying we have had our own conflicts, the new try to influence. no, you are having your will. we will not take sides because we want to make sure that we can make our own alliances with well powers and global powers that. so if that one interest, we're talking about china, we're talking about russia and they see especially specifically china and russia is important count the weights to westland, influence in the region. so they're saying we are not long or listening to orders from washington. we are no longer just following west an interest for the policy. we are having all own independence dance within this. you multi multi letter world order, while at the same time, which is interesting this, this ukraine war has affected the region. very defensive. we have countries who have benefited from the what you minutes be talking about high oil and gas prices, which means the saudi arabian, the gulf countries that you a has benefit a lot from the, from this war. what at the same time of us, how far very much egypt and live in the for example, from the high inflation rates, high prices. so now what you're seeing is sealants, good tony,

to the global self beginning in the arrow. well, it's trying to make his point asking for more support, but i very much doubt that he will get these areas, especially the goals countries will seem very of useful because of the financial power to take sides. they will make sure that they will balance the foreign policy as they just did during the last few years. they will listen to this. they condemned the aggressive of russia, but they will not take for the sides, although they will not isolate dresser, they will not join sanctions against russia. no. so maybe no new support and for the landscape from the lead you think? um, verbal uh supports definitely you know, diplomatic support. you know, a lot of the warm boards and talking, but i don't think that they would go that far like following sentence against washer or, you know, helping ukraine with weapons or something that they don't want to take 5 in this conflict, which they don't consider to be that one journalist and author at christine

hilbrick. thanks so much for your analysis. my present where leaders of the g 7 group of advance nations are meeting in japan. the war in ukraine is dominating the talk in the city of hiroshima. the world's biggest economies have promised tighter sanctions against russia a symbol of the catastrophic consequences of nuclear war. the peace memorial park and he drove shima were the 1st atomic bomb was dropped by the us in 1945, a compelling backdrop from the start of the g. 7 summit in japan on the top of leaders mines, was likely not only the devastation of the past, but also allow me to 14 and this continuous reminder of russia's nuclear ability. the g seven's host, japanese prime minister formula gives you the once the summit to be about a commitment to a world with no nuclear weapons. the sad reality hanging over this so much in

hiroshima. you said the ukraine war is on the school, that nuclear weapons remain as relevant as ever. not just because of letting me pushes thrice, but because of the history of ukraine's own nuclear weapons, which it gave up to russia in the 19 ninety's. leaving face a tunnel question of what's happening now would put in ever having faded if you train had kept those weapons of russia's war and ukraine has for a 2nd year overshadow the discussions that the g 7 leaders have announced further sanctions against moscow, including on the trade of russian diamonds and have promised, further unwavering supports the keys ukrainian president of all of the me is the landscape, is expected to join them at the summit on sunday. somebody pretty much, those are those very important things will be decided that the presence of our president is absolutely essential to defend our interests. so, so,

but the story with this, i'm a nice mostly impressed with on the sidelines of the summit. zalinski is also expected to meet some, the render moody part of an effort to convince the indian prime minister to shift his alliance from russia to ukraine. so perhaps the most hotly anticipated and even consequential meeting of this entire g 7 summit this weekend. maybe one between 2 men who aren't even members of the g. 7. laws you miss her lensky. underwriter, emoji. now data of new skills. mathis is also in hiroshima, covering the story for us. and earlier i asked him to walk us through the main takeaways from the 1st day of the g 7 summit. as i must say, really i've covered a number of, of these t 7 somebody. it's in the past and they've taken place in a brief time c side results in a remote mountain locations. but when it comes to speaking about nuclear disarmament,

there is really no better place than he rushing off. the very place where the 1st atomic bomb exploded 19. 45, a killing of 100. 40000 people in this very place where i'm standing. and that is a message that was sent to day by the leaders commemorating at the memorial aside here. and that is a message that is sent out at the very time when you have countries like russia who are playing with this idea of using tactical nuclear weapons in the war in ukraine . and where you have country slight go to north korea. that is expected to conduct another nuclear test only under 2 hours flight away from here. now, gail leaders at the g 7 of already decided to introduce further sanctions on russia . presidents, the landscape of ukraine wants to attend at the g 7 summit in person that's expected to be on sunday. so what is he actually hoping to achieve by attending the

uh, for the landscape. of course this is not only a show of solidarity if you stance here. um india rushing uh with the g 7 leaders. but it's also a commitment uh for the future. it's one thing to say, we tighten the screws, we focus on more sanctions. but it's another thing a to keep those sanctions in place if russia is, is not moving towards a piece. it's not, it's not ending this more. so that's one thing. then another thing is, of course, sideline events and a here at the key event will be um, that's the lensky meets the indian lead. a multi uh, one of the few people who is actually able to put a pressure on flooding me to put him in order to stop this war. and finally, there's always a room for zalinski to make new deals, for instance. so to get more weapons to the verge of from a g 7 nations to ukraine. derek g 7 power c china increasingly as

a threat to economic security. so how are they planning to reduce their dependencies on the world's 2nd largest economy? so that's interesting because when it comes to sign off of the g 7 are very much on one page and their assessment of the problems. so for instance, if you look at the pandemic, everybody agreed that the dependencies on china, whether it's semi conductors, window frames or cheap a technological goods is just too high on the, on the country. now turning that assessment does mutual assessment into action is another question here. for instance, you have you that very much favors the approach of the risk being rather than the coupling. in other words, not pulling investments out of china, but interesting in other countries. for instance, frontline countries here being vietnam and indonesia and we have also being invited to this summit so. so this is yeah, this is one option. uh, another one is trade agreements. so that is where the us is not on the same price.

and so overall, the answer is decreased dependencies by increasing cooperation with other countries . thanks galaxy to view asia pacific bureau chief scout mathis in harass my 4th here's what can i, what some of the other story is making use around the world. ukraine's military has reduced footage, which it says shows russian shelling of the city of blackwood, both ukraine and russia's mercenary wagner group, both ukraine and russia's mercenary wagner group. excuse me, have said that regular russian forces have retreated in recent days. the eastern city has seen intense fighting. for months. it runs through dish re says it is executed 3 man for violence against the security forces. the trio were convicted of drawing a gun during protests last year. the death of a woman being held for allegedly, failing to wear a head scarf according to the rules in

a run set of nationwide demonstrations is now at least 13 people have been killed in the worst floating in northern italy, in a century. rescuers are still trying to reach people trapped in the worst effected areas. photo waters show little sign of receding, dw correspondence. sonya found the current reports from the immediate romani, a region ship, the 4th, the adult weight danger from here. the sellers of mirrors have never seen anything like it, and my whole life pretty much must be most salvador hasn't been themselves ever since water level begins rising this afternoon in this village, you go in italy's northern flood to immediate romani, our region within was what does it consume the council and some of the neighbor middle course kitchen. outside the reading is stopped, but to rein should overflows from swollen rivers and controls. continue discussion

to villages in the region, wreaking havoc, and putting the stream on emergency services. such as the door, a mechanic who lives on the sea floor. upper floor says the strides and bean to contact the fire service for him, which is a bit to check your market right now. their focus is rightly on rescuing people from hoses lights are the worry about pumping out the water. the floods have also sparked outpouring a pin, a steam supporting t is quite to fill the gaps. edwardo, along with his friends, has been on his feet since 5 in the morning, helping with evacuation and rescue operations. he's from the area and isn't sure what does happen to his own home. that offers that's been helping to manage traffic, helping places in the country sites where the water rose to half a meter. it's the 4th or 5th time that i've had to change my clothes today. i don't have fresh thoughts left. i'm out of clothes. so if it's uncomfortable,

the dire situation in google has also drawn extra professional hands from other parts of the country. on amazon, the situation is quite desperate and know the whole region of emilio, ammonia is suffering from something really quite unimaginable. the resources are what they are, but we try to do what we can with what we have for residents, like valentina cody health is usually what she was walking this morning by not going to go for ground floor department by the police. i'm evacuated uninterruptible. she's now waiting with the family to be taken by the emergency services to her parents. know the so the federal, i hope to return soon, but i don't know when we live in the ground floor. all the wood is damaged. so is the kitchen. i just hope it's not too long for to ride. getting residents to safety

is the priority and it leaves flood total region. everything is can we in basketball, brittany griner is set to make her 1st appearance in the w. n. b, a since returning from detention and russia on drug possession charges this past april griner and anne's cheese working with bring our families home. that's a campaign formed last year by the family members of american hostages and wrongful detainees held abroad to brittany griner received a warm welcome. when she returned to the court in a w n. b a preseason game. it was the 1st time she'd been back since being arrested in february 2022 in moscow. authorities had discovered big canisters with cannabis oil in her luggage. greiner spent nearly 10 months in a rest in prison after she pleaded guilty to drug charges.

say return to the united states in december after a highly publicized prisoner exchange. the extra exposure has given greiner a new platform in april c, announced she's working with bring our families home. a campaign formed last year by the family members of american hostages and run. so, detainees held abroad, we're not going to stop, we're not going to stop by. we're not going to stop bringing awareness to everyone that's less left behind right now. she was already in l g, b, t q plus activist. and was the 1st openly gay asked me to be sponsored by nike. in july 2020 greiner said she didn't feel the national anthem should be played before w. m. b a games. but since her return from russia is he now says, hearing it quote, just hits different well to talk more about brittany bronner's,

return to the w n. d a on join from new york city by women's basketball reporter, ben pittman of the athletic welcome to d w. then so what is the reaction to brittany griner is returned to the court being like from around the w n. b i it's been overwhelmingly positive. you know, she played her 1st preseason game in phoenix just last week and she received a rousing of ation from the crowd, heading into the game, her head coach, vanessa knight, art of the phoenix mercury that she had shows, hearing brittany grinders name be introduced. and i would expect tons of joyce ovations throughout this weekend. and her 1st game back, which is tonight, eastern time tonight, back in the states against the ice sparks and then this weekend on sunday, she returns home to play her 1st regular season game. i since returning from roger, i would expect rising obeisance at those crowds, all of her teammates have been really welcoming about having her back and throughout the whole season, i would expect just overwhelming positivity about her return for being back in the league and just her being around the sport and the w and da ep. and we've heard

growing, there's comments on the us national anthem. and greiner has also said that she won't ever leave the us again except to, to compete at the olympics. how she's spoken much about the ordeal and how it's affected her and she hasn't spoken specifically about kind of her treatment in russia. um, one of the things she has kind of generally talked about is just the resilience and the sense of belief that, that she now has and is like, she can really overcome anything that is throwing her away. you know, she hasn't gotten into the specifics of their head about the treatment or, you know, citing security. she's also working on a memoir that i think gave set to come out next year. so that will be a big project for her. and i expect a lot more details to be revealed about, you know, her treatment and said in russia then, but you know, she has come back and her teammates talk about her having the same kind of like, same kind of energy that she's had in the past. and so she really has react for me to herself pretty well from the outside. it looks like and certainly as i said

earlier, people have buckland, her back in the basketball community. and i think she is super excited to be dr. part of it. well, we already know that uh cnn. she's working with our this campaign to bring our families home, which was formed by family members of america, hostages, and wrongful death tanny's has brought her mentions as well. what, how she plans on using her platform for, for causes as well. i think she's just going to continue to raise awareness in a number of different ways or we saw at that opening press conference, you played the clip in which she wore a bring her family's home short of that also had a mercury logo on it. she talked about how, you know, her agent or camp around her has been in contact with, you know, evan growth, which is gap. i believe, the wall street journal journalist who's currently being detained in russia. so, you know, she's continued to find ways to bring over and it should be that the met dialogue, the white house correspondents, dinner and recent weeks, you know,

asked about runcle detainees and, and, you know, the state of things going on abroad. so i think this is something that is just a nother cause that she is going to adopt and continue to push and bring awareness to as you know, the weeks and months and the years go on. it will go hand in hand with their basketball career from here right now. then pick men of the athletic. thank you for joining us on dw. thanks right. now let's check out some more news from the world of sports and basketball to denver nuggets. i've taken a to nail series lead against the los angeles lakers and the, and the a western conference finals. jamal murray scored 23 of his 37 points in the last quarter, helping his team to a 108 to 103. come from behind victory. the notes need 2 more wins in the best of 7 series to advance to the end w, a finals for the or and b. i excuse me, the finals for the 1st time in their history. a major league soccer has

awarded its 30th franchise to the city of san diego, which will join the league in 2025, a name, and a badge for the team have yet to be revealed. matches will be staged at san diego state snapdragon stadium. the addition of a 30th franchise sees the last balanced out of 15 teams per conference. all right, you are up to date of next these data. you can use asia with them physically. i'll be back again at the top off the next hour until then take care. the

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