that view of those talks are correspondent, nick conley joins us from keith. welcome, nick. so we have the chinese president in moscow to act as a peacemaker in this war, but he's not going to you. great. i think phil, this comes as little surprise or there is going to be a consolation prize. a little phone call between zalinski and she, but no more than that. i think since the beginning of this war, it's been very clear that china is no honest broker is not equidistant between the west and russia. in this, it has helped russia to get around sanctions get hold of western spare part has been buying huge volumes of russian energy at a big discount, helped russia to kind of deal with those western boycotts. and i think the major fear here in ukraine is that china will seeing how badly rushes doing fearful of a massive russian defeat here in ukraine. potentially even a change of regime in moscow to arranging that might be more western facing more friendly to the west. is now potentially going to supply russia with weapons on a larger scale and really helped keep rushes military,

nick conley sake looked out, some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. better and human rights activist and nobel peace prize winner, others via leanne ski has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by court in battle ropes. he was charged with smuggling od cash into bell rose to allegedly fond opposition activities. his supporters have called it a fake trial. thrown a cambodian opposition figure kim. so car has been sentenced to 27 years house arrest after being found guilty of treason cam. so car is a fierce critic of long time prime minister one sin the u. s. has condemned the case as politically motivated. you as jury has found prominence, south carolina lawyer, alex murdock. you're guilty of murdering his wife and son. the jury deliberated for less than 3 hours before finding him guilty of 2 counts of murder. he faces 30 years to life in prison. the trial drew worldwide attention. a global day of climate action has begun, including hundreds taking to the streets in australia. o unions, workers and other supporters of the fridays for future movements h

russian occupied maria pull straight to the ukrainian capital van, where we find the w correspondent, nick conley. welcome nick. at this is present, zalinski 2nd visits to the backwoods at region. why is he taking such a risk? i think all through this war volumes, lensky has been all about showing his willing sake risks to get closer to the action i was and had a song when the ukrainian came back in the autumn. and he was there, even though there was kind of artillery fire, very close. it's all about the implicit contrast with vladimir putin who, as will remember, likes to meet people, the end of a very long table. his roommate spelled out of time in a bunker and it move around russia in a special homage train. so he is that contrasts especially to christians, recent visit to marble there, which will happened at night with very little interaction with people on the ground . and i think it is also definitely about morale. i mean, buffalo is the center of actual front line. now, huge losses, although we don't have any real kind of data that would talk about the actual numbers. but certainly lots of

nick conley support for ukraine is expected to be a major topic during a visit by german chancellor, all of shots to washington. later today, talks between transfer shots and you as president joe biden will focus on russia's invasion and concerns that china is planning to provide russia with military assistance counselors. yester schultz last visited the white house shortly before russia invaded ukraine. unlike previous trips, no journalists are travelling with the chancellor and there will not be a press con rush after the meeting. the chance for her to day i am a senior german opposition mp has said the trip is needed to repair german us relations after recent disagreements about sending battle tanks to cry. of the trip is now a trip in order to fix all the damage we'd. we do have, in our relations that assert the deeper reason that that, and no journalists are allowed to go with the chancellor. and that he, they, they are not going to add to the, to the public. after that talks, it is very in a critical situation where a lot of damage is in our relations, of course, are in attempt

nick conley and keith. let's take a closer look event at those non ukraine ties between china and russia with d. w. china hollister, cliff couldn't. who's here to look at the the business aspect visit. welcome cliff . so let's start with the economic background between these 2 countries, china and russia. well, if ever you wanted evidence of just how china has risen in the last 3 decades and how russia has kind of slipped. and over the same period, this visit really highlighted when german mazda dawn went 2 months after the foundation of the people's republic of china. in 1949. you went to russia for 2 months to cease darlin and style and kept him waiting for 6 weeks for to get $300000000.00 which he needed. and he charged some interest in those days, which among socialist allies was, was unheard of am. so he's basically the situations that have been completely reversed or china is very much the dominant economic power is the 2nd biggest economy in the world. russia has slipped from being this great superpo

oh, nick conley. thousands of ukrainian civilians have been killed in russian missiles struck sir, leaving relatives to grieve and to look after a young children orphaned by the war. dw is funny for char reports from keith. this family portraits shows alive that no longer exists. the father died of a heart attack just before the war. now the mother is gone to you. grandfather gregory is now in charge of the boy who was left behind was anyway, a special. i heard the explosion, so i was downtown at the time. did it on last year and then video started circulating on telegraph. need your properties, you'll see more. yeah. much as i started calling or to nibble, but there was no connection. and i knew it was her root. she would take it of all the time. it was october 10th when a rush and rocket hit, oksana scoring keith grigory got to the scene quickly. security officers kept him away from the wreckage. this is good of shameless. they told me there's a burned car and human remains on the front seat and i asked, is there any one on the back seat? the answer was yes, everything is burnt in. it do

nick conley will support for ukraine is expected to be a major topic during a visit by german chancellor. all of scholes to washington later tech talks between chancellor schultz and u. s. pros and joe biden will focus on russia's invasion and concerns that china is planning to provide russia with military assistance shots. last is the white house shortly before russia invaded ukraine. unlike previous trips, no journalists for traveling with the chancellor this time by and there will not be a press conference after the meeting after short. so we've met before a senior german opposition. m p said the trip needed to repair german us relations after recent disagreements about sending battle, thanks to ukraine. of the trip is now a trip in order to fix all the damage we do have in our relations. but it's the deeper reason that no journalists allowed to go with the chancellor, and that he, they, they are not going to the, to the public. after their talks. it is very in a critical situation where a lot of damage is in our relations of cos, an attempt from from all of charles to come back to a

i so that nick and nick conley and keith let's get more on that. you summit now from i corresponding to rosie birch out who is in brussels of welcome rosie. the ears agreed to send ukraine a 1000000 rounds of ammunition in the next 12 months is more military support likely to be on today's agenda. it will be on today's agenda. and as we just heard, nick, alluding to, there are some fears that you countries may get a fatigue about this, but that's not what they say. brussels and the european union as a whole insist that they will stay by key of site for as long as it takes and part of making good on that promise. is this latest steel which you leaders will roberts down in this building here to day to jointly procure ammunition for you crate? that's important because so far, t of has been firing ammunition much faster than european arms production companies can actually produce it in order to backfill and keep ukraine's supplies up to the levels which key of says it needs in order to defend territory on the battle field . no, aside from that initial

thanks, nick. nay. conley and cram a torch. well, fierce fighting in the east of ukraine means casualties have been mounting on both sides. cave doesn't disclose its losses, but u. s. officials estimate more than 100000 ukrainians have been killed or injured during the war so far across the country made shift, graveyards, have been marked out to bury the fallen. followed me over a shank. ho was just 20 when he died. oh, later, butter. 20 sakes bo down palace go, was 21. they all thought for their country at this graveyard in hoc eve, there are hundreds of soldiers graves over each one flies, a ukrainian flag that sits in though the price is so high. do you see how many of our soldiers have fallen in this war union? i hope the sacrifice is not in vain your ship, so it's a novel on the durham in ukraine during lent relatives bring bread and sweets to the graves for the dead. irena is here with her son. her husband. it was a border guard club though we do that well, it looks you could a there are so many graveyards everywhere in u