that was it dw correspondent jennifer polco, reporting from the student capital tollen. jennifer, thank you so much for that update. all right, let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news around the world. newly released drone footage shows a damage from russia's bombardment of the eastern ukrainian city abutment. pressure has been mounting on the ukrainian troops who are still holding out their intelligence. analysts say key of may be considering a controlled pullout, but mood is seen as a key staging ground for further russian advances. you as president joe biden has arrived in alabama to mark the anniversary of bloody sunday. the day in 1965, when white police attacked black protesters marching for voting rights. the protest in the town of selma led to the passage of landmark legislation, biden. we'll later join thousands of people paying tribute to the protesters. police in pakistan and say they've tried to arrest former prime minister in ron con at his home. in the horror they tweeted that they were unable to find him, but were instead meant

jennifer polco with the russian side account of events. very important to get in the store. jennifer, thank let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. sweden's prime minister says that his country will join nato, but most likely not at the same time is finland. the nordic neighbors. you may remember applying from membership together for the objections from turkey are the links sweden's membership did it all 30 that existing native members have to approve any new membership applications? any report on the state of germany's military says it has quote too little of everything. the situation has become even worse in the past year, despite a 100000000000 euro fund announced by the german government last year to upgrade the armed forces. clothing, weapons, and soldiers are all in short supply. syrian president bashar assad has arrived in moscow where he is scheduled to meet his russian counterpart for talks. vladimir putin is a key backer of assad's regime equivalent statement saying that the 2 men will discuss their political, humanitari

jennifer polco with the russian side account of events. very important to get in the story. jennifer, thank thomas. the gold is a military expert and journalist. i asked him whether this is the time when the white house in the kremlin should be in direct contact. not necessarily a 1st and foremost, it should be a d, conflicting contact on the military level. and as far as we know of as a direct line between, between you as you come, headquartered in stuttgart, germany, and the military authorities in russia. so this should be the 1st line of contact. meanwhile, as we just heard, it's escalated to the diplomatic level. so the u. s. foreign ministry state department is in contact with, it's a russian counterpart. so it seems that there is contact at the moment. and this means that the conflict is going off according to the americans. this type of incident that occurred today is not uncommon, albeit it's still very reckless. what we saw talk to me about the danger level of this type of incident. well, we've seen in the past, as the russian fighter aircraft had approached us man

and for the view from russia, we can now cross over to dw correspondent jennifer polco, who's covering the kremlin for us. she's joining us, of course, from the lobby and capital rica, because d w has been banned from reporting in russia. jennifer, the un secretary general saying it's critical that this grain deal is extended. but that obviously won't happen without moscow on board. how likely is it that we're going to get them on site to extend this steel well, about the renewal of the deal? it's still unclear. we don't know because russia is very quiet about its opinion from a western perspective. of course, it's pretty simple why the deal needs to be extended. it is because of the food prices and inflation rate that would remain stable if moscow is on board with this deal. but if russia will agree to it, we're still unclear about that. and can you tell us a little bit more about what demands russia has made it to agree on an extension? yes, in march or russian foreign ministers, yet a gale of off end, his turkish colleague met. and they discussed a policy possible extension of this

jennifer. i corresponded over polco. will mike martin is war study senior fellow at kings college london? i asked him about those fears of escalation. yes, i think that is a fear, although there are 2 points that i would, michael not firstly. it's quite difficult for this war to escalate all for the relationship between russia and america to get any worse. and secondly, i think we can see now from the comments, particularly of the, the russian ambassador that both sides are very keen to, you know, they'll make quite a lot of noise about it. but they're very keen to draw a line on the instance and, and move on. so if we believe the u. s. version of events, why would russia do this? so the u. s. and other major countries, right from the beginning of the war, have been trying surveillance, effectively, communications east, talking flights around you crying and russia. i think we can believe them when they say in the slide slide without transponders. so they would have sent up a fight to get to how to look at it. it's quite common for russia to shadow the values that they do it to the rural a