and e u. well i think that is, that is very important because what we need is the common goal of sustainability and to really meet the parents agreements needs working together. it is the global issue and the climate club between the us and the you could really already build the foundation for also future nations to join the club and have common rules when we talk about the carbon ovation pricing of field to and to further steps regarding new technology, so i think we would really enforce that as and gender many simone. i'm in a president of the american chamber of commerce in germany. thank you very much. thank you, steven. and here's a reminder of the top business story. we're falling for you this hour. the e u has approved and import van on russian cold as part of a new package of sanctions against moscow. it marks the 1st time brussels has targeted russian energy. the import, 20000000 euros of brushing coal daily. as a fraction of daily imports of coal and gas, meaning the debate over endi

when sola pledged that the e u would increase its assistance to ukraine. the maltese politician as the 1st top e u official to visit since russia's invasion the european union has called on china not to help russia a wage war on ukraine or sidestep western sanctions. the warning came during the 1st summit between the you and china in 2 years since russia invaded ukraine, beijing has stood by moscow and still refuses to condemn the attack. it was the 1st summit between the you and china in 2 years. the goal assurances that china won't arm russia or help moscow evade western economic sanctions. european commission president or ssl of fonder lion said afterward, she had made an appeal based on simple math. let me remind you that every day shine on the european union trade, almost 2000000000 euros worth of goods and services and income parisian trade between shine on russia's only 300, some 330000000 euros per day. so a prolongation of the war and the disruption it brings to the world economy is therefore in no one's interests, certainly not in china. china ha

the e u has emphasized that delivery contracts call for dollar or euro payments. a put in also said moscow was seeking new markets for its energy. as your tries to end russian imports. you're pretty much given, he said ok, we need to diversify the exports. visiting with it, we will assume that energy supplies to the west will decrease in the foreseeable future. therefore, it is important to seal the trend of recent years. to redirect our exports step by step towards foss, screwing markets in the south and east u. s. took. laurie debbie business reporter arthur sullivan joins me here in studio for more arthur put in there talking about directing energy elsewhere. where exactly is you referring to most likely and have we seen any effort so far to do just that now he mentioned stevens, the south and the east and roaches context that really means 2 countries, china and india, and really and truly rushes energy, alternative energy ambitions begin and end with china with i would say a more aspirational tales towards india. the reasons are obvious. those 2 countries toge

that was the mood at the e. u foreign minister summit. russia is thought to be planning a military offensive in ukraine's east. the eas response. a pledge of more arms deliveries worth an additional $500000000.00 euros. he okay enough ukraine needs more military supplies, especially heavy weapons. now is not the time for excuses. now is the time for creative solutions. c a t v t. that includes german weapons. after initial doubts about sending arms to ukraine, berlin has broken its taboo and agree to send leopard tanks and armored personnel carriers. it's already sent patriot missiles to slovakia, which is agreed into to provide some of its surface to air missiles and other hardware to ukraine. there was also agreement across the e u that the block will support efforts to investigate possible war crimes. how to make russia accountable for the gross gross regulations of international law. we will provide assistance assistance to the tune of 1000000 euros from germany alone amid so much agreement. the e u foreign mi

as part of an e u delegation. the visit was meant to send a strong message of support for ukraine, including for you membership bid. along with the blocks foreign policy chief joseph brow founder lion met with ukrainian president water mirrors the lansky in. keep earlier she had visited a mass grave in boucher, a town outside of the ukrainian capital. here is a part of what the european commission president had to say. i started my day to day with a visit to woodshop because being and boucher and seeing what has happened, you can tell that our shoe manatee was shattered in boucher and it is right and just that the world has voted to suspend russia from the human rights council, it is a war, yes, that russia unleashed against an innocent ukraine. but it's much, much more than that. on top. it is these big questions that will be decided in this war. so your fight is also our flight. and i'm here in kiff with you to day to send a very strong message that the european union is by your side. we stand by your side . thi

she jin ping was more subtle when addressing the e. u officials long day china has maintained the consistency and continuity of its e u policy. we hope that you can form its own perception of china, adopt an independent china policy and worked with us for the study and sustained development of china. you relations goshen, where russia's war has brought you closer together and shown how far away other powers, such as china or on foreign policy. every year, ukraine's 2nd largest city hard, keith hosts a classical music festival. musicians and organizers have decided to keep the tradition going. this here, despite the war but instead of concert halls, they're playing and bunkers and subway stations. d. w spoke to one of the organizers who was stranded in germany as the russian invasion began. o p. music fest in the middle of a wall to bombs may have destroyed the organizes plans, but the musicians refuse to be silenced. ah, artistic director vitale, alexey noch, was in germany. before the war started, he had to delegate the onsite organizin

we are now talking about an e. u. embargo on coal that'll come effectively in the coming months. that took some ragging among the u member states. they are some that particularly the baltic states calling for a total energy bogo. and those of course, like germany hungry and others who insist that this should be a phased out approach, as opposed to an immediate embargo. so you're seeing it as well. you'd, you talked about hungry. this is one member state that has, for example, broken rank a with the rest of the european union, i indicating its willingness to pay for its russian energy imports. and rubles, that is something that moscow had demanded. the european union took it united decision to oppose that, but the hungarians, for their part have said they found a way to do so in a way that doesn't necessarily go against the sanctions. today. you have the austrian chancellor visiting moscow. it's not a trip that was mandated at an eagle level. i was just speaking to the foreign minister of lexia who told me that he disagreed with such an approach. so you're starting to see the diffe

neither of the 2 e. u nations have complied with a demand from russia's president, the president putin, to start paying for deliveries in roubles. several other you nations including germany, also yet to comply ada, heavily reliant on russian gas. here's what polish prime minister mateusz. moreover risky, had to say about the cut off then like a no patricia, as i have emphasized many times, a poland has prepared to diversify its gas supplies and to obtain gas from various sources. and not even before the baltic gas pipeline enters service. we will be able to protect our economy, stronger, protect our households and poles, people against such a dramatic step by russia and clock in as is thrown at us. earlier i spoke to journalist young polo cut in war, so i asked him if poland will cope without russian gas asked. the polish prime minister says, well officially they can, and they have good reasons to say. so m giving the fact that the deposits here in poland are according to officials that are pretty much fi

some members of the european parliament. openly saying that block has become an instrument of nato e. u. instead of promoting peace and acting in the interests of the people, europe has become a tool of nasal and the military industrial complex onto 2 former heads all face. but nick, media news on clear have been detained by police in eskimiya claims. they didn't done here to recent the you financial functions on russian individuals ah, around the clock across the world. this is our t pleasure to help you with this for our news update this our, my name's, you know, new the siege of mario ball appears to be entering its final phase with ukrainian nationalists forces allegedly hold up in a steel plant in the city. russian forces, along with the yet military troops are currently evacuating civilians from a local hospital there. the russian defense ministry claim is more than a 100 people been held at the site by the neo nazi a's off battalion. russian troops conducted more than 10 trips to the hospital to evacuate all the injured, including 16 children. if i q e 's claim, the ukrainian uni

they broke recent e u. financial sanctions commission, individuals with one milla 6 in the evening in a month in ankara. here in moscow this thursday, april, the 7th i'm you know, neil, this is our t international. the siege of mario paula appears to be entering its final phase with ukrainian nationalists forces allegedly hold up in a steel plant in the city. no russian forces along with done yet. military troops are currently evacuating civilians from a local hospital. now, the russian defense ministry claims more than a 100 people have been held on the side by the neo nazi a self fidelity. russian troops can to fit more than 10 trips to the hospital to evacuate all the injured fitting. 16 children evacuation claim the ukrainian units, use them as human. she'd come also thumb, glanced. my wife told me that a ukrainian tank came and was shooting at a residential house. i have family there 2 kids. they were hiding in the basement. like my i know, i don't know where they are. my wife told me she would never go back to the hospital. she says people were shot there in their backs. mini to

the digital market act will apply to what the e u cause gatekeepers. those are companies where the market value of more than $83000000000.00 and with at least $45000000.00 monthly uses or $10000.00 business uses in the e u. the firms mice also have a core platform service like a social media, a search engine provider, or an app store. the group includes alphabet the owner of google, youtube, amazon, apple, microsoft, and mehta. the apple has raised concerns about privacy insecure, the vulnerabilities for its users, while google said some parts of the walls could affect innovation. the digital market act came hours before the u. s. and e. you agreed a provisional deal on cross border data transfers present. joe biden says the pact would facilitate more than 7 trillion dollars in economic relationships with the e. u. while to discuss all this am now joined from a st. galen university in switzerland by simon f. net is a professor of international trade and economic development at st. galen university and is also an expert in competition law. thank you ver

they get their oil from saudi arabia to get their oil from the u. e. they may see those more stable, stable sources, and they're not necessarily going to open those relationships simply to have a better relationship with the kremlin or with letterman putin. so no, it's it's, it's difficult to see it in the, in the long term sense. all right. it will be businesses, arthur sullivan, in studio. thank you very much. or arthur mentioned those recent purchases of russian gas by i'm so russian oil, i should say by india actions that have cause friction with western g 7 nations leading the sanctions against moscow. a delhi has thus far stock of struck a very defiant tone against warnings from the u. s. for example, but how sustainable is its position? india has maintained close relations with russia for decades. the asian countries, not just a key customer for russian consumer goods, but weapons are also high up on the list of imports, especially our craft tanks and frigates, 60 percent off in the us arms and ports come from russia. india hasn't sanctioned rus

e. u. cutting natural gas in wars and an oil in was from russia, looking for alternate sources and africa. hopefully she did a nachos choice, concluded capital should be coming from that market. right. so then how quickly do you expect that the gas is tight flowing north after years of under investment? it is also difficult. why did these gas flowing already for more dear the potential hooker ish that so sahara gas, which is looking at booking, i do are up connected that all jerry with potentials of more export into europe. right. and another up to 30000000000 cubic meter. but the true thing is how long. ready is it going to take to build that infrastructure and as the elephant in the room? and then i was going to ask you about that. that transparent pipeline, the share nigeria and algeria had said they've agreed a road map. but is this just a pipe dream do you thing how challenging is it going to be to get this project going either to the true position is the it's going to be challenging

as we heard from the e. u foreign policy chief at joseph burrell to assist at the international criminal court. i prob, at the war crimes that have allegedly been committed by the russians in a, in ukraine. i'll point out that joseph morale, it has just visited ukraine. he accompanied at the e. u. a chief was left on the line when he before going into the meeting today, the meeting that he had a foreign ministers. he talked about some of the things that he had seen of was he will know they visited butcher as well are. they also visited a number of sites are where they saw the bodies of people that had been killed in this war. that certainly left a big impression on him. and hence this conviction as he stares a foreign ministers to assist i. c. c, i. in terms of pursuing those war crimes are pro, and he also talked about the cost of this war. and, but i do want to point figures out that bureau has spoken of just last week. he talked about the fact that since russia's invasion of ukraine, the european union has

she jin ping was more subtle when addressing the e. u officials. long day china has maintained the consistency and continuity of its e u policy function. we hope that you can form its own perception of china, adopt an independent china policy. oh and work with us for the study and sustain development of china. you relations goshen, where she rushes. war has brought the you closer together and shown how far away other powers such as china or on foreign policy. let's get more detail because it bent rigate in brussels. a welcome banter, house china given any sort of firm indication of where it's sympathies lie. in this wall. just to 2 days ago, the foreign ministers of china and russia signed an agreement about eternal and limitless cooperation and china so far. and also in this, during the summer, has refused to criticize the russian aggression against ukraine. the you in china cannot even agree on the wording, of course, or the used is naming it of war, but the chinese side is still insisting that it is a situation or a conflict, a crisis in ukraine

these are the 1st e u energy sanctions on russia. how big a deal is this? well, as far as finance is not massive, the you imported about 4000000000 euros worth of court cold from russia last year. right? of $99000000000.00 ought of mineral fuels that they imported in total. so so less than 4 percent of the whole sector. but it is the 1st time that there's been a sort of sick tall rule sanction on the energy. and then it's the energy sector and also went on the line was announcing this. she said that they are now starting discussions to look at broad sweeping sanctions against oil. so it's sort of a baby step, but it's definitely a significant 1st step into starting to target the russian energy sector. interesting. me as well, steve. and what we've seen is that the wall street journal has come out and reported that as part of these sanctions that are targeted towards individuals. the, the wall street journal is reporting that 2 of vladimir putins own daughters might be on the list of sanctioned people. so while they're looking at these sectoral things, they'

she jin ping was more subtle when addressing the e. u officials, a long day china has maintained the consistency and continuity of its e u policy found home. we hope that you can form its own perception of china, adopt an independent china policy and work with us for the steady and sustain development of china. you relations goshen, where russia's war has brought the you closer together and shown how far away other powers, such as china or on foreign policy. well, with free speech heavily restricted in russia, the public there is only getting a very limited picture of what's happening in ukraine. still, many people no enough to know that they want to leave the country, especially highly skilled workers and the tech sector alone. it's estimated up to $70000.00 specialists, have already left russia in search of a better perspective abroad, with many more expected to follow. it's his neighborhood and his subway station. but maybe not for long for constantine or snows. in his mid fifties, he's been developing a smartphone app for a major rus

delhi and iran is trying to get past its own sanctions and return to mainstream oil markets might the e u. b, a future customer. welcome to the show. i'm seeking beardsley in berlin. credit ratings agency moody says russia may be in default on its sovereign debt, if it doesn't correct course, and make 2 recent payments in dollars instead of roubles. russia made the payments in question earlier this month. both were on dollar denominated bonds. moody said the settlement with rubles breeches, the terms of the contracts, and would put russia in default. the same payments are made in dollars by may. 4th, a currency is also at the heart of a dispute between russia and the e. u. overpayments for russian energy on thursday, president vladimir putin threatened again to turn off energy flows to the e. u. if member states don't pay for gas and roubles, something they so far have refused to do. they keep speaking at a televised government meeting on thursday potent said that european firms could be considered.

we cannot ignore the role of nato and the e u, instead of promoting peace and acting in the interests of the people of europe, ukrainians, d. u citizens. and yes, the russian citizens to has become a tool of nato and the military industrial complex class. they went on to describe the worn ukraine as unjust. but she also said that the sanctions, as a result of that would, that have been plastered on russia by the e. u and other western nations, or what is causing the high energy prices, inflation. and also she described what it is as being a catastrophic ad drop in living standards. and those sorts of warnings over concerns about things getting tougher also coming from some pretty top european politicians to market lecture, which i'm to pick her up, were facing tremendously high inflation. of course, it affects many people. we're all going to get a little poorer in the future. it's really going to happen. we have to be clear about it. their issues over the cost of living in the crisis surrounding that spilled on to the streets of athens or when say, so, 10000 people i took to the stree

some members of the european parliament, openly saying the block has become an instrument of nato e. u. instead of promoting peace and acting in the interest of the people of europe has become a tool of nato and the military industrial complex. ah . from moscow to the world, this is our take good to have you with us today. my name's, you know, new the siege of maria ball appears to be entering its final phase with ukrainian nationalists forces allegedly hold up in a steel plant in the city. russian forces, along with done yet military troops are currently evacuating civilians from a local hospital. russian defense ministry cleans more than a 100 people had been held out the site by the neo nazi a's off battalion. russian troops conducted more than 10 trips to the hospital to evacuate all the injured, including 16 children evacuation claim, the ukrainian units, use them as human shoes. omaha duncan glanced my wife told me that a ukrainian tank came and was shooting at a residential house. i have family there 2 kids. they were hiding in the basement like mice with me now. i don't know wh

threatened the days, fish to but adopt, including his hopes were echoed in a strongly worded tweet from e u commission president or sla fonda lion. i'm gas pens, announcement as another attempt by russia to blackmail us with guess we're prepared for the scenario. we are mapping out our coordinated e, you response europeans can trust that we stand united and in solidarity with the member states impacted by offering to deploy british british foreign minister liz truss, called on all of europe to cut off russian energy imports. a plan that is in the pipeline. although russia might try to preempt that move, it has just stated that it might hold the gas to other you countries. so germany is also racing to count its dependence on russian fossil fuels. it's economy minister, a warrant that berlin must diversify its energy supply all be left defenseless. does your, the solution? it would be cynical if big and powerful germany thought was, oh, well, you can beat up the little guys a little bit. this is, that's a warning for, you know, this is reality of, this is the reality where energy is used as a

the pledge that the e u would increase of assistance to ukraine. multi politician is the 1st top e u official to visit. since russia's invasion, hong kong authorities are asking the entire population. that's 7400000 people to self test for coven next week. chief executive, kerry lamb said a compulsory universal test was essential as the territory struggles to contain a 5th wave of infections. cooperation muslims worldwide will mark the start of the holy month of ramadan and kicking off the period of fasting before sunrise to sun down and down is an annual time of prayer, charity giving and self accountability in the fall from slapping chris rock at the oscars actor will smith has resigned from the academy of motion, picture arts and sciences, the body whose members vote on oscar award nominations? in a statement, smith said he would accept any further punishment decided by the academy. smith is facing disciplinary action after slapping comedian chris rock for making jokes on stage about smith, 2nd wife during the ceremony on sunday night. thank you. and for more on this let's go to r

the e u will also stop buying timber, cement, and alcohol from russia, and the u. k. and the use food industries are facing a supply crisis and sky high prices amid import shortages, including at britons, iconic fish and chips shops. so we're just experiencing some joint pricing very, very expensive. the smaller fuel for delivering the facial store in the fish as well. all the on the back of living for these that the fact to people spending hours. busy we heard from a german human rights lawyer who thinks the you should stop following washington's lead because the economic costs from the sanctions are too high. i don't believe in sanctions anyway because sanctions are not a measure to solve any problem. and these new sanctions as well, they will have a serious impact again on european citizens and on european states. i think it's a, it's a stupid idea. it's a stupid idea to have all sanctions to stop cool, import, stupid, to stop anyone who normally kill ties. and if you look at the history from the 99 to send late 99, he's never had been sanctions against any leading

she jin ping was more subtle when addressing the e. u officials long day china has maintained the consistency and continuity of its e u policy. we hope that you can form its own perception of china, adopt an independent china policy and worked with us for the study and sustained development of china. you relations goshen, where russia's war has brought the e you closer together and shown how far away other powers such as china are on foreign policy. if i'm all the summer now we want to go to brussels. our correspondent barrett rieger. he's been covering this forest good evening to you, barrett. so the question is, has the european union succeeded in getting china to commit to not helping russia in its war against ukraine? no, the you was only able to make its case said yearned the summit. but got no concrete answers from president. she in b jing the, you demanded that the china should join the you in the west in sanctions, again the aggressor, russia, or at least on circumvent the sanctions. but to president, she answered with a kind of

and this cannot be allowed as the e u debates the next round of sanctions. lithuania has already moved to ban russian energy in ports. it has long urged a tougher line on prudence. russia, how tough our allies willing to get now. and how far does he think hooton's war in ukraine could go? join me for all that more on conflicts out foreign minister, land baggage. welcome to conflicts own morning. we have seen the images of bodies scattered along the streets and boots on the outskirts of t, of some apparently shot with their hands tied behind their backs, allegedly by russian forces president the landscape. calling this a genocide is it. i think that we we can find a courage and then call it the genocide because there are so much resemblance of the events of 20th century that we thought that belong in their history books. and we keep have to remind ourselves on, on those events, compare them and find the exact exact wording for, for how to, how to form. but then again, i think it's also as important, not only to, to call it what it is, but also to find those who are responsible for them

that the e. u is the real object of this war. the united states is interested in severing ties between russia and europe, and also china. meanwhile, peace negotiations between russia and ukraine have stalled. the kremlin has confirmed the talks or ongoing, but leave much to be desired. last time, both sides have a face to face meeting at the end of march, in e stumble reported killings of civilians in the ukrainian town of butcher added to the impass. those allegations were dismissed by the russian side as a provocation meant to derail the talks. not within us interests, that's how the white house has reiterated that joe biden does not planned to send american troops to ukraine, to quote, fight a war with russia. the u. s. however, will keep providing ukraine with military aid despite moscow's warnings. the statement came in response to a suggestion by a high ranking democrat that the u. s. must act against russia to prevent ukraine from devolving into the next syria. i deeply worried that what's going to happen next is that we w

that is that in one sense, oil represents a greater source of revenue for the russian governments in e u. terms in terms of what's raj, the e, then it doesn't gas does. so that was an interesting development there, but let's be clear that talking about things. there is the suggestion about measures being drafted, but there isn't as yet a degree of unity of purpose about agreeing fresh sanctions. and we know that mr. barrell is saying that the issue of war crimes is something that the e u wants to help the ukrainian government with as far as possible. russia's foreign minister says statements by the ease tom diplomat on supplying ukraine with weapons or change the rules of the game. so gay love says, just a browse remarks, confirm that the e u is building a kind of collective military structure. manipulation, susan littles were also visual. this is a very serious turning point, even in the policy that the e u and the west on the whole, undeniably under the united states leadership has been pursuing since the start of our special military operation. this policy reflect and betterment and e