the the, this is dw news live from ballad bottom at fulton office, some african countries, russian grain for free shipments would replace ukrainian expos, which he has blogs, boss. he blames the west for obstructing russian supplies. also on the program these as military backs the crew over throwing the government. the president is

very created inside his palace and tweets that he will defend democracy. north korea's ruler came john on mock 70 years since the end of the korean war with a visit from the russian defense secretary on the gold stages of the women's world cup. see a repeat of the 2019 final as the netherlands hold raining champions usa withdrawal the i'm gonna have office. welcome to the program. russia is offering free grain to 6 african nations and urgent need of supplies. president vladimir putin made the offer during talks with the african leaders in st. petersburg, russian grain would replace ukrainian expos that putting himself as blocked

a big smiles, handshakes, boom bugs, and a hockey helping a pump as african rate as touch down inside peach's bag. most go is on the car to the allies. and this to the summit is a critical part of that push. during his speech that it may appear tend reminded late as a rush, as importance as the world's largest export of wheat. he also took the jobs to set up some antagonism towards the west side of the school. the powers are nichol picture emerges, but on the one hand, western countries put obstacles in the way of deliveries of our grain and fertilizers. and on the other, frankly, they hippa critically accuse us of the current prices in the world, food markets in that it won't. but at that we spend the money in the summit. taller is russians withdrawal from the black sea grain initiative for a move, which was heavily criticized, endangering drive of food security,

and something alluded to by the child of the african union during his speech. and of course, the april 4th signed the agreement on green supplies must be reached to save thousands of people who are dependent on these imports and on africa's economic food security will be most risk a sort of, especially since the continent as little ready, badly affected as a good a my food price trunks are caused by the interruption of supplies, provo, kid fund instead of show their upward fee's a month. it's a say many hopes to have the how confident covered. he might have found the russian president's office somewhere. i'm to climb back, take it does, we'll supply 14 of us, those and bob way, molly somali of the central african republicans eritrea with 25 to 50000 tons of grain free of charge in the next 3 or 4 months. we will also provide free delivery of these products,

the consumer as to what they need to be approved. i go to the chamber bridge internationally. it was not quite so well received. it is clear that when taking out of the market, millions and millions of dollars of grains, it is clear that based on economic loss, that's who leads to higher prices. so it's not with the hands full of donations to some countries that we correct these. that emetic impact. so putin's grant and give her, why is a drop in the ocean compared to previous numbers, must go will be hoping it has bought some diplomatic credibility when it just so desperate they needed. bought to is foss, few african agent actually attending the summit to produce kitchens. critics, we'll see this as further evidence that he is continuing to later says,

go out of the clout will know by you will discuss to join me now is done. let's say he's a journalist and research on the russian back in a group activities across the african comes in and, and his book and box and will be published next year. first, let's start by asking, what does russia get out of this offer? i think i think the blood pressure gets out of it is an opportunity to, to show it it's goodwill to africa and specifically to as we mentioned 6 countries that brochure either has a very good working relationship with or, or is looking to court further. now important promised free grain to 6 countries, 3 of which have a strong wagner group presence. what do you make of this? hi, i'm, i'm not for the well, there are tied, but indirectly. i think wagner is obviously they're in the central african republic

. um, guy has a company presence in zimbabwe and a disputed, unlikely presence currently in burkina. so i think the relationship is a product of defense agreements, 1st and foremost of which wagner plays a part. and then those defense agreements play over and into kind of a larger relationship between russia and the specific countries and lessons. now do you think these do this deal come a with a comes with any strings attached it's, it's too early to tell at this point. but some of these countries, like the central african republic, already have such a good relationship in a way it feels like just a continuation or, or show of goodwill for, for what the country has done in the past. but i think that being said, i wouldn't be surprised if there is a tacit understanding at the very least that along with this grand deal, perhaps

a comes support at the united nations from these countries or, or something similar are now vac. i'm a boss. you have got any pre goes in was seen actually on the sidelines of this summit, shaking hands with the president of the central african republic, one of the countries with welcome to present that was bound to free grain. so does it, does that mean that we haven't seen the last of precaution as, despite the recent insurgency service? certainly not. i think that we're starting to understand slowly how everything is falling into place, following them you, me in, in june and, and, and what we're seeing is that you're getting pretty close and involved in are, most are, most likely will be keeping their operations in africa even if they're headquartered from billers, and that's for the simple reason that overtime, wagner, in africa,

has become more important to russia, it with regards to its relationship to the continent. and russia needs wagner in africa. more than wagner needs the russian states. now this, the shipment of free grain is nowhere near enough for advocates when described as a, as a drop in the ocean. now f, as in union chad, the commerce president, as early as sumani, has called on ukraine and russia to end that war. how much pressure come african leaders actually impose on russia? you think? i think at this point and advocacy group probably have as much ability as any other major power or country to exert influence on ending the war, which is unfortunately not much i think with what's happening. and what's interesting is that 2 things are true. as was mentioned in, in the segment previously, a lot of the grain that had come out of the initial grain deal was actually the most part was going to developed countries. and what effects of africa more than

this distribution of grain were, even the distribution beforehand from ukraine is the effect that it has on international prices for african countries looking to buy food. so thank you very much. so i'll let you know that these as military leadership has the glad it's support for the cool against president mohammed. but soon the head of the army says he's backing the takeover by the presidential gall to avoid confrontation between factions. the lead force has detained the president as his palace. gunshot outside the presidential palace in the army. soldiers fire into the year to disperse protesters. as members of the presidential guard said, they had over thrown the government and detained new year's president to all the institutions of the 7th republic,

constrained suspended system like london have orders are closed until the situation stabilize as a nationwide curfew is in effect from 10 pm. until 5 am until further notice. wow, just got to move it off. but on thursday morning came a promise from the president that democracy will remain intact hamlet, but soon seeing and his social media post. the hard one achievements will be safe, guarded, and the all new gerry ends who loved democracy and freedom will see to it. but that may be hard to achieve in reality. with the meeting, this group of soldiers calling on these years, external partners not to interfere. among them, the united states. we condemn any effort to seize power by force. we're actively engaged with the new here government, but also with partners in the region and around the world will continue to do so

until the situation is resolved appropriately and peacefully. like it's west africa neighbors. molly and working of also easier is battling extremism and is a key western ally in africa. it is experienced several crew times since gaining independence from france in 1962, those involving the current president and with instability threatening to take over the country again. western meters and the international community is watching on with concerns. no, that's pretty much a lily as an african specialist at the german institute for global and area studies in hamburg, mazda the coolie to say they act to do to verse and the security situation. i'm back governance is the description of news that you recognize and yeah, it is true that the security situation is abysmal. the islamic state has been to

arising the population for several years and the government has lost control in some areas are just unable to provide security for the population and like in other countries of the region. problems of corruption. and this functions exist at every level of government. however, that does not mean that the polishing, the civilian government would help in any way to improve the situation. it is also that the security forces themselves have failed at containing data science. and the reason why that failed is not that disability and government what some household exempt back. now, is there any doubt that president bus, whom is anything else but a democratically elected head of state? you know, there's no doubt in the sense that he won the 2021 elections and these elections were competitive. but winning an election does not automatically mean that the

president is accepted as legitimate by all parts of society. 2021. there were protests after the elections, the election loser, alleged brought some protesting violence that probably were some irregularities, but it's hard to tell if and how they affected the results were telling is the fact that such tensions even exist. you know, many people see in the zoo representative of the old electrical lead that has control the politics and economy for a long time and has been repressive of civil liberties. so when there is such political polarization, it's always um that there's always a risk that a porch in this, within the armed forces would seize the day and exploit that to their own advantage. for example, 2 days prior to president presumes inaji ration in 2021. there was another, a coup attempt that failed. but since then, the possibility of

a crew has been like a shadow over bedrooms, presidency and the risk has always been present. now is what is forces have been increasing their the influence in this whole region. to what extent could this coup attempt further on the mind, the political stability in the region? yeah, there is not so much political stability to begin with. and as the experience is up to the crews, and molly and booking, i also have shown the military governments have not accomplished any improvements in the security situation. in fact, the situation has become far worse since the cruise and g. how does have expanded their influence further, but it will be interesting to watch what this means for the western involvement in the fight against jihad of scripts. uh, mazda, briefly,

based on the foreign governments, especially friends in the us. so offering the support, do you think there will be a be an outside intervention? i think um, what's different about the situation in asia from previous cruise is that the equal was the west african committee has reacted very quickly, has sent the president of the name to the army yesterday to deep negotiations. and time is key with a cruise detox, and there is a lot of negotiation going on between different actors and the armed forces and the civilian government and civil society and international diploma. and so these negotiations will shape the political outcomes for the weeks to come and it will determine whether there is a past towards transition back to the democratically elected government, or whether the crew fletchers will be able to consolidate their power. the african

specialist month to the other. thank you very much for sharing your expertise with us. thanks for having me. start to being up to date on the some of the other stories making headlines today. its ukranian site, the fence on well tempting old car lawn has been disqualified at the world championships in italy after refusing to shake hands with her russian opponent on a smear. and about off to the about column had $1.00 to $515.00 to $7.00, under the rules of fencing governing body f i. e, shaking hands often with balance is mandatory many wells far as still burning across the mediterranean region on the greek island of rhodes . 55 is often battling flames for tense. successive day on the break, mainland was sized close. the busy highway near the pump port of valez and helicopters were deployed to put out a fire. in the outskirts of athens,

the un secretary general antonia good satisfies pleaded for immediate immediate radical action on climate change. he described the intense heat across the northern hemisphere as a cruel. some of the parish also said rec hold, shuddering july temperatures show us has passed from a warming phase into a quote, your of global boiling in related news. the international energy agency says global consumption of coal. i'll say the rec, hold high. and last year in the last year and is expected to stay at this level for now. according to the report, coal consumption room more than 3 percent palostio supports in 8000000000 tones, as due to strong demand from china and india. burning coal is considered to be a major driver of global war, smoke grey as need of kim's one has met with russian defense minister. so gay showing goal foot talks on close of military cooperation, state media,

se they agreed on several on specified matters of mutual concern. the us of uses north korea off supporting russia over the war and ukraine, which from young denies troy who was in north korea alongside a chinese delegation to mock 70 years since the end of fighting in the korean war between the north and the south. tensions in the region are running high, south korea and the u. s. have stepped up joint military exercises while the north has tested several ballistic missiles in recent weeks. the north korea says this is its most powerful missile, yet the flotsam 18 is the north, the intercontinental ballistic missile using solar fuel making foster and still if you have to deploy the deck in your own as to the purpose of these weapons is to deliver quick yuki account destroyed, state media, assess the loss on 18,

achieve their record, fly time of 74 minutes before folding into the sea, west of japan. why not fly far? it's too high. we think 6000 kilometers above the lower trajectory. experts say that michelle could reach the continental united states. north korea has markedly increase the frequency of its ballistic tests. in 2022, it launched more myself than any other year and its history. this year has seen few tests, but the big i miss out the country has also expanded the mobility of its weaponry. for decades, it carried out tests just to main sites. but in recent years, mean sales have been long from dozens of locations, the including from trains and submarines. the effectiveness of these new weapons is unclear. some western observers question if

they can carry heavy warheads for long distances. for now, their main purpose is to signal strength the u. s. and south korea also clustering with a rad visit this month of a nuclear power us submarine to the south. and increased joint military exercises. yeah, lies one to revise thought. diplomacy of the north nuclear stockpile that we were prepared to have to go see ations with north korea on the nuclear program with no pre conditions. we sent that message several times. here's the response. we got one missile launch after another came young in claims he's responding to aggression by the us in south korea and shows no sign of holding back his mission to boost his arsenal. for more on this, that's welcome. j. we shin from the open nuclear network. he specializes in

analyzing nuclear missile programs and joins us from paris now 70 years after the honest is why are the tensions between the 2 koreas increasing again or thank you and so on. both sides are sort of doubling down on mutual returns and uh, sort of in a transition to south re colored ratings as defense, policies and moist military plus drugs. costs both the conventional and neutrons because uh, quite frankly there are few more mos threatened by the other. um, a lot of apps has to do of costs where the more and more sophisticated and not create a new cap program as we just talked in your program. most importantly, perhaps most career revised. it's your k last year and it's open the, the cloud that it's new go, status is irreversible and that it is no longer interested in general conversation talks. at the same time, it is strengthening its relations with russia and china,

which we saw today in those very high profile visits to a, to what the north koreans call victoria day celebrations. so since last year, north korea has, has called for a strengthening of strategic and technical corporation with russia and china. so in a way, wherever turning into a sort of blog situation again in the region much slides, it has been a designing almost a 70 years ago. it's a journey on the has been testing miss out as we saw that is, claims could hit anywhere in the united states. is this possible and how dangerous is north korea's nuclear arsenal? really? this is a very important question. that's uh that, uh, a lot of, uh, analysts, uh, occupying themselves with um, but it sounded credible and that's, that's the kind of consensus that's,

that's going to be interesting and recent. yes. i'll estimation here at open. you can network of the size of this recent icbm, the awesome 18 suggest that it is at least capable of delivering one single re entry vehicle into the us homeland. and the, the launch on, on july 12th, was the 2nd successful flight test of, of the countries a solid proponent icbm. um, but uh, icbm uh, of, of all types. um, they're, they're tested at least uh, 9 different times. so they've accumulated quite a bit of experience already. launch footage that was released and that you've shown us as address that they've made mine. um what if occasions and improvements to the system. so they're continuing to improve. and the missile is likely, uh, reaching uh, is, is coming closer and closer to the actual deployment sometime in the future. now,

i'm sorry i to interrupt to that very briefly, please more voice. is it a south korea and i'll calling for that country to develop its own nuclear weapons? could this become a reality? i will see the ons raise their own career as it's i would say it's still fairly unlikely. now of course the president is. yeah. um, suggest of stats the country could quickly devolved in the future. uh, its own nuclear program if the situation to watch it as a detour ridge. and of course, the south couldn't public, has, has long been in favor with pulling suggesting, you know, a favorable numbers of 50 to 70 percent of the over the years buds. but this has not translated into actual policy. and the president has, has uh since then, since i hear this yeah, also back checked on his comments and, and, and uh, and in a summit just recently with the united states and the software as we come into to

its non proliferation commitment. its full confidence and existing extended returns . so funded for now it's it's, it's still fairly remote possibility. but, but for sure, interest is that the current policy is just an extended to turns deuce in the, from the open look in network. thank you very much for joining us here on the w news. thank us. as, as volunteers to the women's football woke up now i one of the favorites australia and have been shocked by nigeria who upset the co host 322, leaving a group be wide open. minutes before halftime, emily yvonne asked mont fired into the corner of and that's it. put us crazy. i hate the super falcons responded just before the break in the center kind of found the ball at her feet and leveled them. in the 2nd half nigeria added to my goal is to secure the victory. let us pray us for late in time. out of

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