the, the, you're watching the, the unit was coming to live from berlin. fresh backend for ukraine from the us and its allies. presidents of a lot of years lensky and joe biden signed a long term security agreement. and a g 7 leaders agreed to fund ukraine using frozen russian assets, unlocking billions of dollars. also on the program dw follows and a lead to unit task defending ukraine's water waist as they contend with mines drones and equipment shortages and anticipation bills and just hours ahead of the euro. 2024 open or after several disappointing tournaments hosts germany are hoping

for a strong start against scotland. the i'm guy richardson. thank you so much for joining us. the us and ukraine have signed a 10 year bi lateral security agreement on the sidelines of the g. 7 summit in italy, ukrainian president will let them years the landscape said the password protect not just is concrete, but the world from russian aggression. and she's 7 leaders also backed a multi $1000000000.00 deal to use frozen russian assets to help ukraine springs and its defenses and pay for reconstruction. the need is that the weld 7 involves democracies and the european union sorted out and emergency power shoot for ukraine. on day one of the g 7 liter summit in italy.

they agreed to use the interest generated by rushes central bank funds that have been frozen in european banks to create to $50000000000.00 loan facility, full ukraine. nobody, we're not talking about the confiscation of these. i sent that in the interests of a cruise over time. the sample statement on our finance minister. so now looking at the mechanisms, one does the same cloud of size. it is a key assigned to the russian president. these is also, if he cannot simply sit to submit to out his comments, hope that he will be able to win this walk in there because of physical problems in some countries that are currently supporting your trains. and he won't. ukraine's president below him is lensky was invited to attend the 3 day summit. he signed a 10 year security agreement with united states, which includes greater intelligence, sharing, military training weapons manufacturing. our goal is to transfer

ukraine's credible defense in deterrence capabilities for the long term. a lasting peace for ukraine must be underwritten by ukraine's own ability to defend itself now and to deter future aggression. any time in the future, savanski calls the agreement historic and hates. it will secure ukraine's place in nato. the issue of the to is covered through the tax on the agreement is steve supports you raise future huge management needs and recognizes that ours is a reach to you. place manager matters. you of the g 7 lead as a standing firm against russia now, but it's not clear how united they will be. if nato as big as back to the us gets

a new president, one who is not so willing to support ukraine. we have our chief political correspondent, nina has a in vari, it'll late reporting for us. dina, give us the latest from the g 7 summit on what you're hearing about this $50000000000.00 loan, a low closet. is this being hailed as a big success all around? we heard the in the report and it is something where the g 7 things that they found a very good solution for the question that they've been asking themselves for very long time. now, how can we give more flexibility in terms of financial flexibility to ukraine and foss? how can we support them considerably? and so now the idea is to have $50000000000.00 worth of a loan, that the g 7 countries would take out from the banks and then give that money to ukraine. so once all those details are being spelled out by the countries at

finance ministers, ukraine will have access to that money and then the loan would be be paid back by the proceeds of from those frozen russian assets. and here this is also a political message that the g 71 to sense of letting the food in to say, we have a trump proof mechanism and it's a play that is something it doesn't matter whether any of us get thrown out of office or the joe biden has to make space for donald trump, for example, in the us, or whether any of the g 7 countries find themselves struggling financially. ukraine still has a lot of money that they can use. so it's a finer points on this and, and get into the financial details just for a minute. a moment. this money is a loan, as we've said, who exactly would ukraine pay it back to and, and who is going to take a hit if you crank, crippled by war, can't make payments. that is something that the

finance ministers now have to spell out and detailed just which funds they would go to, but it would be the individual countries that would take out that loan and ukraine has to pay it back over time. all those details are just what the deadlines are, etc. that is not something that we know the details of at the moment. the other important question to ask in this context is also of course, what happens is if the g 7 is around the wells, countries do decide to lift those sanctions on russian assets. now that would of course mean that russia would have access to those assets again. and then of course, the countries that have given you trains alone would have to pay that back out of the national budget. you know, has a reporting for us for vari, italy, thank you so much and we can hear more about this, the latest at the g 7 and also this 50000000000 dollar loan to create from cloudy

osh, mcgross, she's the head of the center for geo politics. you economics and technology at the german council on foreign relations, a very warm welcome to the show. we heard us president joe biden, he's called this historic. do you agree us? absolutely. it was very important for the to 7 summits to provide unity with regard to ukraine. because this is what everyone is looking at and they have been a lot of discussions of conflict about how to provide this kind of loan. i do have an agreement even before the, some, it started to politically payment. it was just said, we need to figure out the details and the legal details, but to have this unity to have a zone biology 7 summit, this is really historic and an important cigna to russia and to the ukraine. let's get a little bit into the details. if i may, somewhere watching this are probably asking why is this just the interest? why wasn't it possible to just hand over frozen russian assets at to ukraine?

would that have also been an option available? well, this topic was pushed a lot by the united states, but they have been disagreement between european countries and united states. the majority of the issue of, of the acid is in europe. the problem is that these are eager concerns. we cannot just size russian ethics, this would be the good and this is why european countries were so hesitant to do that. and this is why we have this kind of compromise that was taken to use the interest on the profits of pros and central bank asses. and this is something whether you p and countries can go with. so, so using the assets would have been illegal. i'm looking at this decision, it to just make the interest available. i'm wondering whether you think this step alone could perhaps in deep and distrust that you see, particularly among some countries in the global south that, that the west is weapon icing. the financial system a this is

a question that needs to be considered very carefully. and this is also why it was decided not to use the assets because the banking system was seen something that is neutral. that is, it cannot be weaponized. and this is why we have this kind of compromise, that we only use the interest on the profit as collectively about the dangers there . and you think that will put the minds at ease, that it's just the interest that's being used. i think it's a very good compromise, i'm not sure with these all the minds, but i think it's, it's the best that we can have. and it's important that we have this kind of agreement for the clean. okay, let's talk a little bit more about rebuilding. we, we know ukraine's recovery costs have risen. 824868 1000000000 euros according to the world bank. and we're now only talking about deal is addressing a fraction of that. where, where is money going to come to come from it to help rebuild ukraine?

you mean you come in coming from this low? and then we have also individual countries and, and having supporting the crate, we have in burden the claim recovery conferences. so countries are really trying to figure out how to support help support support your brain, but it's important to do 7 as a group also gives this kind of blown. okay, i want to turn now to the g 7. generally, we're seeing it increasingly in stable, fragile, insecure worlds. do you think formats like the g 7 with these world leaders meeting together in italy are, are the best way to deal with these pressing global problems? as did you said on a long time that the decision isn't important for the live in to do, it can only go up. we see more and more fragmentation and the g 7 disapprove of like minded countries, but she a common goals and values. so these have democratic countries,

these are countries that have market economies, and they share these goals and they want to support the ukraine. so it's important that you 7 come together, but as you mentioned, we do have folded problems that you 7 itself cannot solve anymore. and therefore, we need a lot of outreach it to be invited, a lot of countries to join the summit. we also need other forms. we still have to do 20, we have international organizations. so these have and cannot solve everything. but if this group is united, it can send a strong signal to conflicts or to global problems. this is already important. thank you so much for joining us with your insights today that is a claudia. she woke up with the german council on foreign relations. thank you so much. in ukraine, elite military units play a crucial part in defending waterfront lines such as those along the new pro river and the black sea. and it's more complicated than defending the front on land. it requires specialist skills and equipments. dw is a currently national android,

one maple unit during their training, as they were ambushed by a rushing drone with a little hide the boat. was this a foster village. they said they'll take covers a russian throne is threatening us. and if it's just in front of us, what started as an exercise has become now a serious situation. so we're tracking the we have to the restaurants, know how important piece training sessions are to ukraine's forces. ukraine has a nearly 600 kilometer water of order that needs to be defended against the russian aggression. this is why special units like this one are crucial for ukraine smooth terry. despite this being a training exercise conditions to simulate real case scenario. and given the fact that the countries of war are real attached can happen anytime these ukrainian soldiers are putting themselves into

a difficult situation. so they can react instinctively as a team without making a sound lazy to fit. the most difficult thing is saving the wounded, evacuating them, and delivering them to a medical facility on the enemy, drone an aviation, thrice the cobra to the evacuating. someone in the caustic environment is the worst case scenario for those of squabbling. this naval special force, this unit has to be able to do that as much more as part of its jobs defending ukraine's water borders or c on the 1st of most of the russian fleet could diss and box thousands of troops anywhere along the coast line. but i see that where we don't have appropriate weapons and pets, and now they could occupying the cities like odessa to odessa cartoon ukraine or from the black sea. okay. and then they will, they will come to the strategic route. so hoss 3, the see if the position is lexia was we can't win the war without access to the

black sea. best with the children, the homework we have to keep control of this region control. and the theater here on of the unit also includes diverse risk. their lives in walters, littered with mites, was not, not whole, but that the roof with lead generation is a challenge because of which i do, we often go in for us to check the bottom as the coast and part of the land area and the level to detect the enemy, observation posts, it's or avoid detection is because they should put the bin, says the so each location and job is new enough to could i shoot, you mean, is that what we dive is need better equipment? well, if it's a tech mines, but it will minimize underwater time in enemy territory, young bishop, when the current detection means are only short range for the requiring close proximity to the enemy war, we need tools for longer underwater travel to avoid putting up votes at risk sites and them through the with this would allow us to operate 10 to 15 kilometers from the enemy's shore on the do not be of much of the film at navigating their way

through mines when they get to shore. it's also crucial. some of these men were involved in liberating snake island and the fight for me are you pull. one told us he survived the mine fields, only to be caught by the russians. move on to bologna, and this valley it was a category for many months. we saw the russians knew everything about me and all my rank position in unit. that's the one that says all in another will assure you. i think because of this we were treated specially subjected to torture a couple weeks ago. what does it mean, shaw? i realize our enemy has no humanity or mercy in my know, you know, when i returned, i was determined to fight again because no knowing the human body can withstand incredible things and what the name of it and get a chance. and now he's fighting again, back with his unit. these men are young, committed, and extremely motivated, but they say they are not enough. they need the intervening name the same way. i

think it's impossible to change the course of the war with these tasks alone. me, but they've not necessarily to change the course of this large scale war of a much more effort is needed from the leadership of our country, these of clothing. you need to get him for example, a new law and mobilization. i know, i just don't know. people have nobody's going to be kicked, are not enough people. we have lots of solid and there was such, i know i'm no longer talking about our troops. only. what about the infantry? we have losses about it. these men might be the sharp tip of the ukrainian armed forces, yet the worry that without more and better weapons, at the more people behind them all, this could be in vain. we're going to bring you up to speed. now this other world news headlines, american journalist, evan gosh, conventional stange, trial and russia for espionage. the wall street journal reporter was in the concrete reporting on ukraine when he was arrested in march last year and accused

of spying for the c. i a. he and his publication have denied the charges, which the white house says have 0 credibility. the as riley army says it killed 2 people during a raid in the occupied westbank. it said soldiers surrounded a house in the town of combat to you and exchanged fire with gunmen inside palestinian medical authorities and said is rarely troops also kills a 3rd person. nearby. thousands of brazilians took to the streets to protest the controversial building, debated in congress. the law if passed would equate abortion with homicide. women who terminate the pregnancy off for 22 weeks could face of jail sentences of up to 20 years, including in cases of rape. and in the united states, the supreme court has unanimously rejected an effort to restrict access to the abortion drug for prestone. if a prestone has become more important in the us, since many states band abortions, it can be mailed to patients after being prescribed by telemedicine. the bodies of

45 indian migrant workers killed in a fire equate have now been flown home. families of the victims had kept a vigil at a southern engine airport, awaiting their loved ones, returned the inferno in a building, housing for and workers near quays. capital killed some 50 people. human rights groups have frequently raised concerns over living conditions for migrant laborers and the gulf states. we take a look now at how wednesdays tragedy unfold. us fire smoke and people screaming many of those sleeping ones, fire and gold, their building in the early august, the wednesday didn't survive. way to officials have reported the dozens of foreign workers living in the housing blog died. most of them reported the engine nationals do more for yeah, just a number of workers in this building exceeded 50 people, but it was found that the fire started on the ground floor with some violations

committed by the buildings owners. this contributed to the rapid spread of a fire. it was that the volume quite the officials say they will investigate the course of the fire trouble. we will address the issue of labour over crowding. i'm now going to see what violations were committed to, and i won't deal with the owner of the property because this it, i might what am i that over crowd that the residential building. so not on the usual in the one of the richest countries in the world. the 3rd so far away its population of migrants who are often low paid and leaving over crowded accommodations. something indian politicians called out in the wake of the fire of this tragedy is a reminder of a tube of privations. our margaret work has undergo in the efforts to support that families who when engine workers are sent abroad, they must have contractual assurances of decent conditions. of life, what pay and residence before they leave our shows. as the investigation into the

fires coast continues, the office of india's prime minister has promised payments of 2200 curious to fire victims next of kin. turning now to some other news here in germany, excitement is growing in anticipation of the opening of the europe in football championships set to kick off in unit with scotland playing the host of scottish fans. as you can see, had been preparing for the match by piping in their pride as their team that's ready to take on germany and fans elsewhere in the country, including and the capital. berlin are also waiting for the weeks long euro 2024 competitions to get underway. however, there is something of a shadow over the host team, after 3 disappointing tournaments, germany's head coach within it. now, guzman is aiming for a better performance of this time around. well, fans are hoping the home advantage will help them thousands of friends together towards germany at an open training session. it's exciting built around the country

. the head of the euro, 2024 goes on is going to reach the guy. so once the issue, germany is generally do the thinking about tournaments and how much bit seattle even more so one's on home. so it was a sense that we have a great responsibility for the mood in the country over the next few weeks. and then next and the role and of course we want to make sure performances on the fields the must have a positive impact. uh the gun system, especially after the last few tournaments systems. but see, i don't think that's into a new, the close who stepped back from the national team in 2021 is back playing for gemini, and is viewed as one of the key if he gets to his team. the 6th time attempting to the gwinnett is known to be a mentor for more experienced players like program visits or what others. both are playing the 1st it's investment. so in the minutes beyond that, you see this be the idea. we have a lot of players who haven't played it to people who are missing, let alone a home tournament, and us into those adults you own. and these are special situations. i think it's

always important to give them a certain amount of support and security and with your behavior on a hand off the pitch rate and also have fundamental health implants that is this one. so at the end of the day, there's no guns. we need enough players to function in order to be successful. could news be like defaults, and yet i'm, i flexible. both germany's defense and detective recently improved part of a to keep the money and know it has made mistakes and the reason, friend lease. but the message from his team is one of the unity and support this is always on the display of these posts. we all know that we're very spoiled in this position. that we have a certain class of choices on the and the man who is a player who else is go out and standing correspond with and gives every team incredible support for on this on the sheet i'm on self closing bonds includes a gift. jimmy looked like the on the way to becoming you will open

a scene despite the number of young players. they'll be hoping for an easy winning the opening game against government and friday evening and the successful summer football on home territory to and joining me here in the studio to talk about the start of euro 2024. we have heckled flores from dw sports. uh how about, let's start with the host. what do you think germany's chances are this year? well, usually you would think that the host will have that home advantage, right? you would imagine that they will be one of the favorites, but with germany is kind of tricky right now and it's been so for the past couple years, it's been quite tricky for them as a team has been under performing since the 2018 woke up. so it's been 3 big tournaments that germany have not really excelled and they've lost that support that they use to enjoy it back in the day from, from defense. but what jimmy does have is we just saw on that report. it's a mix of young tons of players like to mind we'll see all a and so and that's along with experience players and older players like 20 calls

to him as mueller and all. yeah. those 3 players that were part of the 2014 squad that won the world cup. so they, they do have the quality, they know what it takes to win a big tournaments. so maybe that that will be able to, to help them out. the opening match would really be the deciding factor really again, scotland tonight. there's just the, it will really set the tone and it's germany can get a positive result and they can build on that, get the support from the fans. and then we can see them probably get far if they do that, there's so much pressure on them then in this opening match to take things off to a good start. aside from germany, are there any teams that you have your island in this tournament? well, i'm not much of a gambler really what have you looked at the bidding houses? they are considering germany a but among the top 3, but along with them or, and even better on our friends in england, really. and it's not hard to see why am you friends being a finalist of the last woke up not really losing losing on penalties against argentina and friends have been producing world class players a year after year counting my pay who will be fees is $25.00 really he's quite

a young player, but he's one pretty much, almost everything with friends and he will be captain in front of this tournament and he's missing a year, the years your title, so you can expect him to be motivated for this. also england. they reach the last final of the last term of the, of the zeros in 2021. and a lot of the players that were part of that squad will be taking part of this tournaments. so they will have something to they will want to show the world, but they're made out of. so those are the 2 big favorites. friends in english as well as germany of mentions, of course is not just the games, right? it's also the on beyond, this has been such a long time coming so many people waiting. how big of a party do you think we're going to see here in germany? well, you got to take a look back at the last the major ments football tournament in germany, which was the 2006 woke up, which was a great success. it was a great party. and it wasn't really a great success for germany in the sense of winning the title, but that's kind of like the memory that's in

a lot of people's minds in the country. it was finally remembered. it's finally remembered as a great great party, great tournaments. and it was mainly because, you know, there was great weather back then. the football was great and there was a very relaxed atmosphere. and it really united the country ever since germany were given the height of the, the rights to host this tournaments in 2024. there's been comparisons, couldn't live up to the expectations of that term into in 2006. we live in different times now, politically, economically, especially in germany. it's a poor i society nowadays. so if football can't really unite the country, it's down to see, but you can always see that uh as long as the football, right. and if they can get the results, as mentioned, okay, talking about even more pressure building up on the german national team. i go thank you so much for breaking that down for us. that is echo for us from w sports . and before we go, a quick reminder of the top stories and following for you presidents, mr. white and as letting me as a lensky, have assigned a 10 year security agreement designed to bolster ukraine's defenses. it came after

g 7. leaders agreed to use the interest from hundreds of billions of dollars in frozen russian assets to help you frame purchase weaponry. and that is your design today at this hour to the point is coming up after a short break the

to the points. strong opinions, clear positions, international perspective. many areas in eastern ukraine, our influence in the midst of the war. the presence of wednesday is asking for financial aid and more weapons. germany pledges help load wants to avoid an escalation of the war. on to the point we ask between here and the parents and europe defend itself to the point taking next on

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scorched post, tactic farms and destroyed lights. what is the legacy of this wide spread races, depression? today, history, we need to talk about here the stories, shadows of german colonialism, the destroyed cities, power plants, and critical infrastructure. many areas an eastern ukraine are in ruins, and an end to the russian aggression is nowhere in sight. in the midst of the war, ukrainian presidents have a lot immersive landscapes lobbying for help to rebuild his country. he's asking germany for aid, but also for more weapons german, chancellor, or actually it's as promising further support, but wants to avoid an escalation of the conflict. germany and nato, however, must be ready to resist a work of things go wrong. on to the point we ask between fear empty tyrants can here up to defend itself.