or experience outstanding shopping and dining offers and strongly alice services. be our guest at frankfurt and bought cd managed by from bought the . this is dw news live from berlin, syria rejoins the family of arab nations. president bush, her other side is welcome to back to the arab league after a 12 year suspension over syria's grinding civil war. she tells us so much inside of your ravia is hoping for

a new era of cooperation. ukraine's president for the mirrors, the landscape makes a surprise visit to jetta to meet the regional theaters he wants, closer ties with the arab world. as the landscape is also due to meet g 7 leaders in japan. they've already agreed new measures against russia, pledging to block access to equipment and services that could help toward against you christ. and we'll be bringing you a report on a russian pop singer whose change is to become a propagandist for president of the unpopular phone. any, as welcome to the program. serious presidents by charlotte side has been welcome to

back to an arab leak. some of the inside of your ravia 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 savvy crime, prince mohammed bin simon had pushed for aside to join the talks in jetta in the field. various renewed hope for arrow bearer, as well as the air of regional and international reproach meant, brought in by the summit, one of the item and i hope it will signal a new phase in airport nation and solidarity among us when you the diseases and prosperity in our region instead of war and destruction and all right, well for more on this i'm joined by kristin hell back, 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 a side. why are they now we're meeting syria?

well, they don't want to lose celia to the influence of others, especially to a ring and friends to a restaurant and maybe even to talk to you. because and one, such as his opponent, conditioned old will, will reconciliate with a thought. 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 province in the region. we have the refugee crisis. we have a cup that go in markets being smuggled. this isn't set to mean that it's being flagged from the student of the nice border 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 assad proceeding. and in the end it basically it's a so the success of so the diplomacy saying that, you know, they want to take care of the, are problems within the arab region. and this needs special also to be at the table

20 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 syria. 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 code for his own cooperation concerning the rest of the problem and the kept it going smug at, you know, while 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 of the of the entry sent this coming message that is very popular within the region right now saying that, you know, we have a new world order. we has a multiple, a work order. we have to be, um, effective plague is within this a by re units of you re, re units to kind of the, the arrow peak as well. and being a strong play, you know, following their own interest, the error of interest, confronting even a truck,

it's influence even mention the ottoman empire. and 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 case it go, you know, calling for a united approach and united way of dealing with, within this new world order. would you say that this is a huge victory for a sad and, and how does this leave others within syria who are obviously against aside? well, it's very, a big try and for himself definitely. he controls 2 thirds of syria. by now, we have in 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 highest custody of the shot. h t s. and we have in the north east 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 as you get big close to those opponents, that were just mentioning that also you're told might be economic elements. he remains under sanctions as well from not only at the west, but also the air of leech itself. right. so after to are we possibly going to be seeing that those sanctions will be lifted? well, he is only on the st just by the west. we have the u. s, and we have to your opinion that is still keeping these sanctions in place. we have in the u. s. we have the efforts to even made me think it is 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 vision which could stop the solely engagement the outside is hoping for basically. so in the end, i mean, what does the u. s? especially is trying to do is they try to limit this normalization to process to a political sphere and to make it a symbolic victory rather than real. i'm a economic victory for us thought that. 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 a 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 2 investigators and we're talking about 7000000 refugees who have left the country. so they are really being afraid of, you know, that the local governments could use this normalization process, fulfilled the cooperation with a security. ether rates is within the student government and their student. we 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, you granules has never chosen the word. our tools didn't go to other lands. we do not engage in next seasons, plunder of other nice us resources, but we will never submit to any for and there's or go nicer. that's why we fight. and i'm sure all your nations will understand this. our main emotion. and i'm also sure all your nations will understand the main goal. i want to live here in jetta and noble goal to all of you to help protect our people, including you create m mosley community. were here in studio with kristen, how berg, journalist and author has worked in syria for 7 years. we've been discussing the

issue of serious that the landscape there has been calling for a we'll say supports at from the league. and. busy many countries will 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 repeating problem. they are saying we have had our own from netflix, 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 world 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 as important count the ways to westland, influence in the region. so they're saying we are not long listening to orders from washington. we are no longer just following west an interest phone policy. we are having all own independence dance within this u. multi, multi natural world order. fine 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 immensity, talking about high oil and gas prices, which means the saudi arabian, the goals, countries that you a benefit, a lot from the, from this war, while at the same time of us for very much egypt and live in the fulton performed a high inflation rates high prices. so now what we're seeing is savanski tony to the global self beginning in the arrow. well, i'm trying to make his point asking for more support, but i very much doubt that she will get these areas, especially the goals countries will seem very of useful because of their 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 symptoms against pressure or of, you know, helping ukraine with weapons or something like 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. well, leaders of the g 7 group of advanced nations are meeting in japan. the war in ukraine is dominating the talks 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 heroes shima were the 1st atomic bomb was dropped by the us in 1945, a compelling back dropped 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 allowing me to 14 and this continuous reminder of russia's new, clear ability. the g seven's host, japanese prime minister for me. ok, shita. once this summit to be about a commitment to a world with no nuclear weapons, the sad reality hanging over this. so i'll mention who russian met. you said the ukraine war has 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 this a tunnel question of what's happening now would put in ever having vague gauge. if you train have kept those weapons of russia's war and ukraine has for a 2nd year, overshadowed the discussion that the g 7 leaders have announced further sanctions against moscow,

including on the trade of russian diamonds and have promised further unwavering support. the keys ukrainian president followed the news, the landscape is expected to join them at the summit on sunday. tumble. this is a, those are those very important things will be decided that the presence of our president is absolutely essential to defend our interests. so, we started with this, i'm a mazda mazda, is that actually, on the sidelines of the summit, the lensky is also expected to meet some that are under 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 won't even members of the g 7 larger. mr. lansky underwriter, emoji. well that was our chief international editor, richard walker in japan and also in her russian covering the story is, dw, is asia pacific bureau chief of gal mathis. and earlier i asked them to walk us

through the main takeaways from the 1st day of the g 7 summit there. 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 see 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 countries like north korea, that is expected to conduct another nuclear test,

only under 2 hours flight away from here. now, gail, good leaders at the g 7, i've 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 type in 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 a sideline events. and here at the key event will be um,

that's as 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 the landscape to make new deals, for instance. so to get more weapons to the verge of from a g 7 nations to ukraine. gail g 7 power see 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 been 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 w asia, pacific bureau chief scout mathis in harass my 4th. that's like looking at what some of the other stories making use around the world. the u. n says it leads to 800000 people in myanmar need emergency food aid after a powerful sites on the ministry's, on test as a 145 people have died. so media estimates are much higher. the storm has caused widespread destruction in rocky and estate. evacuation efforts are still underway

in northern italy following the worst flooding in a century. at least 14 people have died one more than 15, thousands of being forced to flee their homes. rescue efforts are being hindered by flood waters and line slides cutting off many roads in the area to ukraine's military has released the footage, which it says shows that russian shelling of the city of baffled both ukraine and russia's mercenary, both ukraine and russia's mercenary wagner. group of said that regular russian forces have retreated in recent days. the eastern city has seen intense fighting for months. prussia has declared green peace, an undesirable organization, effectively binding the environmental group from operating their authorities, accuse it of endangering national security and spreading anti russian propaganda. green piece is the latest organization to full file of moscow is cracked on

advocacy groups following the invasion of ukraine. while the war in ukraine is being forwarded out in the mass media as well as on the battlefields in our next reports, we profile a pop singer whose become one of the rushes, highest, paid entertainers. he's also, and susie ethic, propagandist for president vladimir approved as the lead time on this young senior star is on the rise in russia, things in large part to a powerful fan base the kremlin before the war and ukraine, someone's song sounded very different now he counts vladimir protein among his biggest fans, thanks to a drastic change in looks and blurred. someone whose real name is to get us off the

throne of has more from the talent show participants to russian superstar gone are the dread locks. his trademarks now include a wooden cross nicholas and the russian flag on his arm. and patriotic song, lyrics like i'm a russian in spite of the world to month transformation made him from lin darling in our country. a long and shame for tradition exists, of sponsoring and spreading state propaganda for popular think the city of so many people but some artists have chosen to leave russia rather than be part of the kremlin, is put back in the contains either because of political pressure or to signal the disagreement with a kremlin, what it can stand is one of them. the millionaire wrapper now lives in to buy

the car to the museum. in this video, he listens to music in a car, next to young ukrainian school place a voice message from his mother describing the house being bombed the weather out of to conviction or pragmatism. so i'm on and other artists have chosen a different route, a great to group. so why that is the hype around shem on is artificial. she is real popular. parity is not as big as russian states. media proclaims at the end of the explosion for everyone has listens to his songs. lots simply because you can't hide from that. just like you can't hide from pushing the space in the near that the shift to a more patriotic look in sound has been very lucrative for him on. he's often

invited to perform at state sponsored shows. the question is whether that popularity will last, once he's no longer needed to amplify more scales for time communication strategies . that's 5th line up. my t and go is an assistant professor of critical media analysis at the simon fraser university in burnaby, canada, and is currently joining us from the german city of luna berg welcome to dw. so 1st and foremost, i'd like to know what type of propaganda is used in russia. the highest thank you for having me. i've been observing a lot of types of russian propaganda you use duties this year and also years. and of course you can say is that it's very kind of, you know, the variety is quite impressive, but also the kind of arch, right? so here we speak about 4 people, a culture and popular culture,

one of the major sources and the rewards for propaganda. but also as a converge was news, i was also types of propaganda. and they all channel emotion channel, certain aspects in a similar way. so in this sense, i can say is that somewhere like a single shot mom can be really compared to marguerite, assuming young of head of russia today. and they are similar in house. the do is there is a lot of effect. there is a lot of kind of, you know, um, a particular warranty in the old function is this joined choir off of channels and measured message from the russian government. well let's break it down a little bit. so we're looking here at the sing or some on, for example, um and tell us about the cremeans attempts to win over young people. are there many

more examples like shrimp on and how did they go about it? say for a specific age group and like those who would that, who would like listening to some honest music a yes, a definitely a dress, a young people and are he has it kind of almost so little visual expression of come to culture. however, at the same time as a message is really contradict due to a real counter culture would kind of do mom the want to hear. and this has to be part of books ago, but they also want to note and that's a very important thing that has to do with the image or sharon for example. you know, i'm a specialist of uh on the topics upside before. and this information and propaganda and sinks, links is multiple to and culture and probably otherwise i wouldn't have noticed shamal if not um the name itself. so she actually came across my

attention precisely because of the name and here i find the degree of quite a program of it. and also kind of, you know, instrumental lies me because the name obviously comes from different regions of different cultures. ok, so called russia. right? from the indigenous people of russia hold being colonized and occupy. and besides, it's so much kind of new russian boys and a young man who sings the songs. that's a few mostly kind of almost for, for the older generation. not so much for younger people. but he is a combination, you know, like his age appeals to young groups. he's songs appealed to kind of some middle age and may maybe even older population. but at the same times, it is also attempt by using cultural appropriation to make

a link to other kind of a nice it is and the indigenous people of russia. what do we, how it's done? it's extremely logic and shows, again, kind of really embedded imperialism and colonialism. right? tell us how effective you think it is, or how you doing this. i mean, it's really difficult in fact, to evaluate and to measure the impact. because of you don't have enough information probably. and because also what we see is there is just the surface looking at the surface, looking at his dominance forms as soon as it falls, seeing it. but it may looks a fax to you, but at the same time as the question would be quite similar, why is the situation would be quite similar when you speak about the effect of russian propaganda? right. so even though it was a machine like it was in use,

even though it was the machine is definitely incredibly powerful and right and delete dominates. but if you look at it for you, we think of whether or not people in the deep believe it. right. yeah, it's be doing old on going to have the zip one. unfortunately we're running out of time. we could talk about this for quite a lot longer, but thank you for joining us on dw 5th line uh month, fee and go to well, you are up to date. you're watching the news. i'll be back again after the top of the house. the next take care of the

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