i spoke to did of his political correspondent benjamin alvarez gruber earlier and asked him whether the phone call between germany is chance. the olaf, shorts and rushes president vladimir putin will impact today's discussions at the g 7. indeed, it is a remarkable phone call. after several weeks of silence between the german chancellor re and the kremlin in russia, i don't think it's a coincidence that the talk happened today as the focus of the foreign affairs ministers who are meeting here in germany are talking of course, about a ukraine and the ukrainian foreign minister, we just saw the is it taking a part also in this conversations? i'm sure there was several phone calls between berlin and where the foreign ministers are meeting, but it will be seen if it will have any consequences in, in our statement or afterwards. if this will have any consequences and of course, if we look at these phone calls between leaders between president, in this case, president putin in chancellor shoals. of course we have 2 versions, one from the kremlin and one from germany. since point to look at th

a d, w 's are benjamin alvarez gruber caught up with canadas development minister who's been attending the talks. and he asked her hodges to sing, said jan. what the g sam's doing to alleviate food supply bottlenecks? mister, such an g 7 development ministers have been meeting here and billing. what did you mean take away of this meeting? first of all, i always want to say thank you to minister shoals for hosting us here. dave, for a very important g 7 meeting with putin's war against ukraine right now is exasperating on the food security situation around the world. so we focused on a lot on the food security for the, for the developing world, and how the g 7 would like money partners are going to come together and how the leadership that shoals as personally shown on this topic, is going to be very important to galvanize the support so we can deal with the immediate food security crisis, but also for the medium in the long term as well. just have ministers agreed on creating a coalition for food security. what is this coalition about lucas coalition is about where we're going to work

he polish part and hot spring in correspond benjamin alvarez gruber here, who joins us from that government retreat in mesa back. but in the general government has been talking a hard about thinking hard about ukraine and to our about berlin's next moves. what have we learned there today? as you already said, m chancellor. allah shall said that russian president vladimir putin miscalculated . he got a stronger nato. he got a stronger european union. and the chancellor once again underlined war germany is doing with the special fund for the bundle of this 100000000000 euros a special fund. also the pledge off giving this to percent of germany's g d p to defense and also is closed corporation that germany also once within the government . so that's why this retreat is, is so important for all the 3 a party. so the greens, the social democrats, and also the provisions f t p party who are meeting here to talk about several issues with the warring ukraine, of course, overshadowing everything else. well, you mentioned the green sir. we heard robert hubbard there, the economics minister, the green