congratulations on new members who will work at full scale next year. my state and book. and i would like to assure all, colleagues that we will continue the work that we have started today. and you'll look at what i to expand the influence of breaks actually in the well, well actually, and you really need a break. so those are 2 or 3 on breaks countries are all countries with important influence and shoulder important responsibility for world peace and development. joseph for you and you're getting these new members provide a new starting point for bricks, cooperation, john allen, genuine. you in such as into a cooperation mechanism. the hans, going into the summit. there seemed to be some disagreement among bricks members about who should be admitted, but apparently that found some common ground to somebody. put the foot down. and how does this work? i think in the end of what has to say china going forward wanted it has been pushing for this for a long time in order to try and build

a kind of content way to western influence. she didn't, thing has been talking about sol, numbers of countries ganging together and trying to set the rules for the rest of the world. he's talking about the g 7 industrialized countries, i think, and russia as well is interested in becoming the isolation caused by its attack on ukraine wills wides. so it to is interested in expanding this group and giving it more weight. and the can members that have come in, obviously a very diverse group for our countries like argentine that's a really require funding that are looking for new ways to fund the economy. a saudi arabia has, in the past, been very closely associated with the united states and was taking a step away from that and all brings a lot of money into this kind of association. so there's a lot of interest that has been covered here at the present 5 members. how not. the whole thing has been turned into having 11 members of course, their influence has been diluted. you spoke about money. there's also a talk of

a common breaks currency. what would that be good for? yes, we were talking on the one hand for about a political alliance account awaits to west and political influence. but we also have very much talking about a, an attempt to get away from western economic influence from the doctor, basically. and the scoping has its own development bank for a new development bank. they are trying to find a way of giving loans to its member countries that are not denominated can dollars is a very, very big project, very difficult to achieve. but it's something that's all of those countries, especially also china have been pushing it for, for a long time. so let's see if it works as people with money, like saudi arabia coming in, people with needs, like after the current argentine a, that's a very putting a lot of hope into this kind of development correspondent, homespun dest. thank you, hon. a sort of non, some of the other news stories making headlines around the world today in

moscow, a cold has extended the detention of the us journalists. evan gosh, coverage by another 3 months. the bull street journal report that was arrested in march on espionage charges which carry a 20 year sentence, gaskets and his employee deny the locations of the us government has declared him to be wrongfully detained. japan has stopped, is releasing treated the likely radioactive water from the damaged fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean. the international atomic energy agency says that the approved release woods have minimal impact on the environment as human health due to the vast dilution in the pacific ocean. protests have been held in several countries, nonetheless. china condemned schofield as irresponsible and banned all japanese sea

food impulse. 5 fighters in greece continue to battle while fast fuel by wind, heat and dry conditions. laces on the edge of athens destroyed several homes for evacuations, and threatened to national park and a historic monastery. at least $355.00 as have broken out across bruce in recent days, leaving at least 20 people that ends in bob poles have now closed after a general election mobs by delays and irregularities, police arrested thousands of full monitors as the election stretched into it the 2nd day, many of those detained from organizations that want to provide an independent vote count, position politics have condemned the arrests and accused the government of 90 pollution . often missing both papers, let us ortiz to extend the pole by 24 hours. now

knock city or from the global a think tank. chatham house told us what he knows about the rest of the poll monitors. yes, we believe it's the a box 41, good, arrested from maine from the to best known civil society election groups. they were arrested around the issues of the allegedly parallel votes tabulation with the preparatory to pass releasing results before the official results. the announced this is quite a common thing that happens more or less in every election. so that, that dispute continues. i think that the good news on that is that they have been given access to the lawyers and one hopes that they will be released fairly soon. but this is a, a predictable pattern which regards to, to elections ends in baldwin. so we also heard about the voters suppression. what

do you know about that as well? there's, there's, there's issues which uh, emerging in the legs. i mean that's the good thing is that the votes so far? yes that's, that's been pretty peaceful all around. but things around to do with the votes, as role of the, the, the votes as boost, opening legs and so on. and so for access to the votes as well, these are the ongoing issues. the opposition says that this is part of a general strategy to, to suppress the both of these and bobby lexical commission says that the issues for them has been the number of court cases which they've been facing and which has kind of distracted them from uh, from from jane, the bulk of the what? so there's 2 different perspectives on this. now, what are the main issues driving voters choices in this election?

well the key issue is, is the economies both the national economy and um, at the local level issues around terms of the national economy and things are in place that's behind station set cost of living and salaries the car and see we've had quite a lot of time time to load has stabilized to be fair, to have stabilized over the last couple of months and of course jobs. and then at the local level, it's, you know, it's the question with regards to has the all the empty over the past 5 years to live or not? has the city council over the past 5 years, believe it or not? so it's both national and local ac caught them. it's not a one issue election. they are on the issues and people will vote on on lines of party loyalty as well. but i think the keystone issue is the national and local economist dr. knox, toyota associates,

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time, surely, it has been branched by torrential downpours in the recent days leading to leading the president to declare a state of emergency in full regions. germany has express solidarity with ukraine on its 32nd independence day. here in berlin, drum and presidents on further stine, my eyes welcoming members of the ukrainian freedom of the group is made up of ukrainian refugees and nationals at us performing at the historic, showing housing palace in berlin. the orchestra says it's using music to send the message of peace during its european summer tour. and joining us now from showing housing palace is dw chief political correspondent and you know, has a, you know, why is it so symbolic? that the freedom all because tries playing and berlin today. so it's cause it's

symbolic because it's a, is a very symbolic say, is ukraine independence day. and it was by no means a given that they special orchestra would choose, fell in the capital of germany as the one capital, the one city where they would be playing. because of course, they say is no ordinary orchestra. this is a very special orchestra that is under the patronage of ukraine's 1st lady. and so this is something where they're bringing together musicians from ukraine, but also from a very highly renowned orchestra's from around the world. also from europe in belgium and in australia, but also from new york. the conduct to is a ukrainian canadian. so they want to send out the symbol that music can bring people together, the music kind of all to forward to deeper relationships. and that music can silence aggression. but of course, it's not a given that the here tonight, choosing berlin as the town for ukraine independence day. and they will go on to

own tour and to other european cities following this. and of course, we all know that the frictions especially off the rest is full scale invasion in february last year, between ukraine and germany because ukraine deemed jasmine wesson's deliveries too slow. also, uh, lots of given is to be introduced by germany's president. what can we expect from on 5, this done by today? the time for the stein maya will highlight the importance of such as special orchestra and the fact that music can indeed build bridges. it can fluids, relationships that's most certainly to be expected from the german president. and this is also something the fact that the, the general leadership on the training leadership showed themselves together on this very special day is of schools. and also given seeing that, hon. 5,

the stein my a himself is quite a controversial figure to this day in ukraine because of his performance as for in minnesota, in the time of the rest is an exception of crime, in many ukrainians today. still think that's why i wanted to invite her stein my on the then leadership of germany behaved wrongly and gave up. try me a way too soon. so this is all the time, every time one for those stein miles speaks about you. crane with ukraine is, this is something that is watched very, very closely. indeed. and you know, you touched up on this relations between germany and ukraine. have not always been totally friendly since the war began. there were a frictions between the 2 countries. uh, you mentioned a weapons deliveries what exactly what other sticking points the of the world countries like as tonia and some of the other baltic states. so countries that used

to be a pause of the soviet blog. they delivered the weapons and moving they had actually, in the very 1st days off the rushes invasion of ukraine, they set up a time in february or radio or in march. that to europe and ukraine's partners needed to throw everything they had and will at ukraine. so that ukraine could fight all for us is aggressive and not so much that that sentiment and took a bit longer to develop hearing gemini, every time you train us phone you weapon systems for ad defends full of full homage vehicles. for example, there was a long discussion that pre dated, that eventually always germany came to the conclusion that they had to follow suit that they had to join this and do those activities by the international community to help you train. and they have since developed into ukraine seconds, largest support. so overall, behind the united states, that is something that.