all other industries around the 5 years, often we remember when the world still stops march 8th on dw, the this is dw, knew it was live from berlin. donald trump threatens new sanctions and terrace on russia. the latest russian attacks on new frames support a strong reaction from the white house. for the us president says ukraine is making a peace deal difficult also coming up with ports of and bushes and executions, emergency area, more than 200 people are reportedly killed. the syrian government troops fights of borders of house to the former president bush are also the

. i'm aaron total in berlin. thanks for joining us. us president donald trump says he's strongly considering imposing new sanctions and tariffs on russia that after a wave of russian strikes across ukraine, you printing the air force as it shut down more than $67.00 missiles and 200 drones in the attack. which officials say target to do cranes, energy infrastructure president trump has called on both countries to move forward with peace negotiations. after more than 3 years of war. funding t natalie duff. scott fletcher own home in hard keeps frontline when it was destroyed. but the war has caught up with her here at her son's house. i don't know what to do now. i don't know what to do or what to say. just for a 2nd go, the weather is nice. it's boom. menu,

i'm 81 years old. it should have just killed me and it would all be fine. but as you can see, the rescue workers evacuated another elderly woman from a nearby building, the latest residential area to be hit by russian strikes recent drone and miss sila tax on ukraine's port city awful. desa also destroyed dozens of homes and targeted its energy infrastructure to leaving sways of the city without electricity. the latest round of air strikes by russia come after the us called all its military age to ukraine. on friday you as president trump said both the parties should come to the negotiating table, but also i ended up not being too happy with ukraine. we're doing very well with russia. but right now, the bombing the hell out of the crazy thing i'm, i'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with ukraine and they don't have the cards. they don't have the cards as,

you know, a meeting and saudi arabia on sometime next week, early. and we're talking like i find that in terms of getting a final settlement, it may be easier dealing with russia, which is surprising because they have all the cars admitted. and that bombing the hell out of him right now on his choose social platform. the you, as president wrote that to you, is strongly considering sanctions and tires on russia, in hopes of forcing a settlement to the war and ukraine, ukraine's president said that the communication with washington was ongoing. so with new ways, day to day, maybe throughout the day, the most intensive work to date has been ongoing with president trump's team at various levels. so base with many phone calls, i thought the agenda is clear, demonica is also a new piece as soon as possible and security as reliable as possible. yet ukraine is committed to the most destructive for promotional cost of the 1st time the us

president looks to such keep both ukraine and russia guessing as to his next move in the days to come. it was an old trunk. now talking of possible sanctions against russia, we asked dw porter stepan simons in washington. if the was president was changing his mind about relations with moscow. i think it's safe to say that the president is, is maybe playing games with the stick and the carrot and back to the stick. and then a little bit of a carrot. and depending on who he's trying to address or slash push a little bit closer to what he wants a ceasefire creek is pointed quickly as possible, then peace negotiations, peace deal. if you're absolutely right. first, this a post on to social, a threatening russia with additional sanctions. then in this impromptu press conference in the oval office, know his best friends with a lot of me put and they understand each other well. and if you create and that's

a quote to you, if your credit doesn't want to settle, we're out of here. meaning, you know, you come to the table work with us, work with the us president a do what he wants. that's referring to the meeting next week. and saudi arabia, which you have mentioned also what he has mentioned also is they'll know it's russia is still on the good side of the president. the ukraine is still on the bad side of the president. we turned to syria. now, were troops from the new interim government or battling forces loyal to allison leader, the chart all our side in coastal cities in the west of the country. the u. k. base syrian observatory for human rights, a more than 200 people had been killed since fighting broke out on thursday. as reported cases of mass executions, series new government has deployed more forces to be effective areas and impose the curfew. this video is set to so

classes between pro us document issues and troops loyal to the interim government voices, news agency, verified location, as homes in the countries know it's leave to taking place on thursday nights, syrian authorities say to violence began to spiral when pro a thought militias last attacks and government security forces on thursday, including an ambush on the motor way. the government deployed more forces in the coastal region, which includes the cities of low takia, tortoise, and surrounding villages. the region is the heartland of syria is allied sect to which form a ruler busha. alas, that belongs when friday, fighting in some neighborhoods of la talk here continued. while elsewhere in the city, government forces patrols the streets, asserting that everything was under control of the week. i've sent very launch

reinforcements to maintain security and safety classes. the code here in the tow area in look talk, you know, all areas have been brought under control. other things to go with. the pro facade forces presence in this area has been eliminated as a month to fall in some common areas of the city. daily life continues before a nicely coffee and takes effect. and the security campaign is important to us because we're one people with different groups. there's no discrimination between anyone we've all co existed for years and days. but the u. k based syria and observatory for human rights and other sources say to have been executions on both sides following the classes and verified online video. so bodies in the street believes to be otherwise killed by security forces in the talk, you have problems. otherwise, activist save violence. and the attacks against the group have searched since the form of the assaults machine. many fee of persecution and political exclusion. the

car and fighting is the heaviest since i saw was ousted last december. and the challenge to the interim government's efforts to consolidate its control. as, as the country seeks to recover from years of conflict. aaron's ellen is a series analyst at the washington institute for near east policy. we asked if the, as a little white solved lawyer was posed a serious threat for serious new government. i think it's hard to say at this point, especially because we don't have a good idea on if a rom is trying to help out with this at all in terms of bringing in weapons money, or even his bowl over the border. so there's a question, how deep of a reservoir it could this go if outside actors try and push this board. but at the end of the day, it is a self defeating endeavor, because the reality is, is the white population is only 8 to 10 percent. and not even all aloe. it's like

the former, establishing so they're limited numbers of people and in wall they can continue to do these hit and run attacks at the end of the day it's, it's unlikely to really change the reality on the grounds. it definitely hurts the stability as well as trying to, you know, bring in every part of the syrian society into one unit. one of the big things that the government hasn't been attempting to do is trying to expand out who is involved in the government as well as the new society, whether uh, you know, soon as or any minority group, obviously it's been done in fits and starts. and there's been a lot of slow roiling negotiations, but actions like this are clearly meant to inflame secretary intentions, so as to keep the little white community and fear and not moving forward into a new era. let's take a look down some other stories making headlines around the world. i think what story do you want to present from says he has written to a run supreme leader is seeking to negotiate a nuclear deal. you're also,

i totally always come in. his office hasn't commented so far back in 2018 during his 1st term president trump withdrew with the united states from a multi national agreement intended to prevent iran from developing a nuclear weapon. officials in the united states a after gene hackman and his wife both died of natural causes. betsy recall, one died of how to virus pulmonary syndrome. disease carried by infected rodents around one week before hackman is the cause of death has been ruled as cardiovascular disease, with advance all timers also contributing poems, prime minister has told parliament his government is planning to introduce military training for all adult man donald to success. he also wants to withdraw from a landmark treating band into using it as well as i personnel minus on the proposal comes as his government urges yours to increase defense spending against a future. russian friend modified populations and united states have collapsed by

more than a 5th in just 20 years. that's according to a 1st ever system. at a country wide analysis. researchers found that butterfly numbers dropped to 22 percent between 202020. many individual species saw even steam for declines. the studies authors, blaine habitat, los climate change, and insecticide usage for the decline. butterflies are important pollinators and indicators of environmental health and the insect world. let me know if i can to shed more light on this, i'm now joined by at least the can director of ecology evolution and behavior and the behavior program at michigan state university. so professor zip can, what do these findings tell us about the overall health of north america's ecosystem? yeah, i think that this is a really unique study because we are able to synthesize data from across the united states. and it really should be a wake up call to everybody out there about the status of insects and ecosystems

more broadly. now if butterfly and other insect spaces continued to decline, what would be the likely impact on the other sectors of the environment? yeah, that's a really good question. so insights comprising more math on the property on the earth than any other group. and so because of that, they play many different important roles in our ecosystems. so they are responsible for pollinating plants. they are a good food stores for many other organisms on the planet, including birds, and they're also helping responsible for other economic industries. for example, in the south eastern united states, they are responsible for about a $100000000.00 of cotton production each year. so if we receive these continue declines, i would expect that we might see other disruptions in ecosystems functions as well . all right, and so what exactly needs to be done to stop the decline across north america?

yeah, i think that's, that's important there. big picture things that need to be done in terms of our government making decisions to curb things like climate change at habitat loss and also reducing the use of pesticides. and it's particularly near net to noise, which are a type of insect that's our sorry, type of pesticide that's been banned actually in europe. but it's widespread uses likely causing some of this mortality. and we don't have to completely band pesticides, but we can reduce them without really reducing the yield on crops such as corn and soybeans. so i think there's kind of low hanging fruit there in terms of something that would have a big impact. but also there's a lot that people can do, you know, in, in the united states and everywhere planting, need of space ease in your, in, you know, when you're yards and regions and then also even small local areas, protected areas can make a big difference. and now we've talked about

a 20 percent decline so far. is this one of those climate tipping points that we've been hearing about from environmental scientist for years? or is there a chance that we could actually turn this around in the short term? so i am always an optimist. i mean my work is looking at, you know, what's going on with bio diversity and it wouldn't be really sad if we were just documenting declines and couldn't see changes. so i'm, i'm very much of the mind that things can be turned around. i mean, insects and like, you know, mammals where we produce one individual couple individuals a year. and then we put a lot of investment into them in sex, can really reproduce rapidly under the right conditions. we can see huge booms and populations. so you know, things can turn around for insects in a very short amount of time. so it's definitely not too late. there's still a lot that can be done. well, i hope you're right there. that was, i'm at least have can professor for ecology at michigan state university. thank you very much for joining us. thank you. and your up to date. stay tuned up next. the

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