here's the w's, alexandra for non. you can see behind me, this ideally scenery here. it's tense in star contrast to the pressing issues that the leaders are going to discuss, that we'll talk about sanctions on russia. they will talk how to further help ukraine. the german chancellor proposed a reconstruction, a plan that he leading to the that he likened to their marshal planet helper. reconstruct the western germany and other european countries after the world war 2 . and they are also going to speak about the economy situation about to soaring inflation and energy crisis and the threats of the recession. and of course, a climate change and how to tackle climate change is also on the agenda. dw alexander from numb and reporting from southern germany. now norway has raised its terror alert to the highest level. this comes after 2 people were killed and more than 20 wounded in a shooting rampage during pride week in oslo, saturday's prize parade. and the city was cancelled, but a protest march was stage instead, a lease of arrested one suspect, or treating the incident

that was d, w. alexandra phenomenon reporting that from the town of garnish pot and cation in southern germany, no way has raised its terror alert to the highest level after 2 people were killed and more than 20 wounded and a shooting rampage during pride week in oslo, saturday's pride parade in the city was cancelled, but a protest march was staged. instead, police arrested one suspect and are tracing the incident as an act of islamist terrorism. oh, protests on the streets of our slow in support of l. g. b t q writes, following an overnight shooting near a gay bar in the country's capital. gunfire erupted at around one a. m local time in the cities busy night life district. a 42 year old man is in custody. believe say, the suspect a norwegian citizen, originally from iran, was known to them young, especially when a li perpetrator has a long history of violence and threats. the new age and police security service has known him, dating back to 2015. when there were concerns that he would be radicalized and joined an extreme islamist contract network in norway, miss disk clintock networ

i put that to d. w's alexandra phenomena who's in the town of comma, a garnish pot, and cushion as close to where g 7 leaders will be meeting. that's of course dict. key question here. however, we have to say that russia, us war looms very large over there, sir. g 7 meeting and anya, what you can see behind me this ideally scenery here, it's tense in star, conscious to the pressing issues that the leaders are going to discuss. there will talk about sanctions on russia. they will talk how to further help ukraine. the german chancellor proposed a reconstruction, a plan that he leading to the that he likened to their marshal planet helper. reconstruct her, the western germany and other european countries after the world war 2. and they are also going to speak about the economy situation about to soaring inflation and energy crisis and the threat of a recession. and of course, a climate change and how to tackle climate change is also on the agenda. so quite a lot on the agenda to put it mildly. now of course it's not just the leaders of the g 7 nations meeting here. several other countries h

with turnbull come leaders, he w, alexandra phenomena in brussels. thank you. russian troops are intensifying their results in ukraine's east and on bus region. the regional government says ukrainian troops may need to retreat from the front lines that he jumped to avoid. encirclement and russian troops of captured to settlements to the south of the city. and now less than 3 kilometers from the city limits. they've already seized almost all the neighboring city of severity, yet russian forces and also resumed pounding ukraine's 2nd biggest city hall, keith, which was located near the russian border nightly address ukrainian president. vladimir, let's get described the situation in don bath and renewed his call for foster alms shipments. madame bison muscle when the thing massively air and artillery dragged down. but fine, give that to me. the occupiers goal isn't. he hasn't changed the group, they want to destroy the entire danverse weight and step by step way was a chance all of it was a jan sk slugging on both crematory game. if you want to make ev

, that time for the g 7 to right wrong, these protesters say is now and her back now with alexandra phenomena d w. so brussels bureau chief, who is covering the g 7 summit for us in bavaria, alexandra ah, seeing this, these pictures of those protests. can we expect more such a protest to day? well definitely that was actually a reason why we have to get up at 5 o'clock in the morning to get to the castle of alamo to be here because the police were telling us that they expected huge protest and the city of garbage apart and kitchen. so far, however, we have to say that what we are, so for instance, yesterday in munich, i protested there, there were less people den as anticipated. but of course this is just at the beginning of for long g 7 summit. and of course we can expect that for many g 7 critics want to be here to protest against what they are calling a summit. that it's just a very costly issue. very expensive issue. and dad is not living up to the expectations are i did w bureau chief, alexandra phenomena in a southern germany, whether g 7 summit is going to start. oh, fort lee. and of cours

w. 's alexandra for non reporting from southern germany. norway has raised its terror alerts to the highest level. this comes after 2 people were killed and more than 20 wounded and a shooting rampage. journey prior to week in oslo, police of arrested one suspect and not treating the incident as an act of islamist terrorism, saturdays pride parade in the city was council. but a protest march was stage instead. oh, protests on the streets of our slow in support of l. g. b t q, right. following an overnight shooting near a gay bar in the country's capital. gunfire erupted at around 1 am local time in the cities busy night life district. a 42 year old man is in custody. bully say the suspect a norwegian citizen, originally from iran, was known to them young, especially what a li perpetrator has a long history of violence and threats. when the wage and police security service has known him dating back to 2015, when there were concerns that he would be radicalized and joined an extreme islamist contact network in norway miss disk contact me to ask, you know, you authorities or calling it an isla

w. 's alexandra phenomenon is in the town of garnish pot and cushion close to where g 7 leaders will be meeting what you can see behind me. this idyllic scenery here it's tense, in stark contrast to the pressing issues that the leaders are going to discuss. there will talk about sanctions on russia. they will talk how to further help you. queen the german chancellor proposed a reconstruction, a plan that he leading to the and that he likened to their marshal planet helper. reconstruct the western germany and other european countries after the world war 2 . and they are also going to speak about the economy situation about to soaring inflation and energy crisis and the threat of recession. and of course, a climate change and how to tackle climate change is also on the agenda. that was d. w is alessandra anom and reporting from the town of garnish, pot and cation in southern germany, and no way has raised its terror alert to the highest level after 2 people were killed, and more than 20 wounded and a shooting rampage during pride week in oslo, saturday's pride parade in the city was cance

but in the meantime, let's bring in w brussels bureau, chief alexandra phenomena who is add to the g 7 summit venue in the bavarian after you hello to yasandra. and with me in the studio is the w political correspondent, thomas farrah. hello to you both. so alexandra, the g 7 leaders are going to speak to the press shortly. what do you expect them to talk about? well, they are going to speak about a global infrastructure and investment initiative. this is a project that is in particular very important for you asked president joe by it because it was to you asked at that had this initiative. and it was for the very 1st time launched during the last g 7 meeting in cornwall. when the leaders for the very 1st i time and we were there to report on that, i decided to introduce this plan to help plus, developing countries invest more in infrastructure. and, and this plan is meant to be an alternative to china, spelt and rolled initiative them all teach william dollars program that critics say, or has the only goal to advance china's influence. thought that g 7 leaders are saying we would lik

w. brussels bureau chief, alexandra fun. nomine. alexandra. so it's sounding like, there's really no chance that keith won't get candidate status. you're right, it looks like that. and i think that it's so difficult to imagine that there could be a members state ready to do a, the whole summit and ready to block this decision on ukraine. even though we have to say that the discussion is taking longer than anticipated. the leaders started discussing the situation in ukraine, but some of them felt apparently that it is important to inter length this discussion with her the situation of the western balkans because they felt that the meeting with those countries to day some of them already have a candidate status, some of them are potentially ready to get this status. so the leaders, some of them felt that the said meeting in the morning was not successful. so they wanted to have those discussions going on about in the and i think that we will have a does. this is a decision on ukraine today because it's so important to show unity. i had a chance

w. brussels bureau chief, alexandra von nomine channel, will start with you for those of our viewers who haven't been following this sir summit closely. what have the most important developments been so far? while we had here 2 major developments, i would say 1st of all of all, of course, the strategic concept dads and nato leaders way were able to agree on and in this strategic concept to russia is not seen as a strategic partner. any more russia is now considered to be the most significant and direct threats to nato's security. and then other things that needs to be said here is that for the very 1st time, china is also mentioned in this strategic concept. china as a source of systemic challenges and maybe one more word on that. a climate change is also being mentioned that there as a defining threat of challenge. i'm sorry of our time. and another major development here is that nato is determined to boost it, sir. high readiness forces, promising to increase their number from 40000 right now 230-0000 julia. there's been a lot of criticism of germany's response to proteins invasion

and for more in this, i am now joined by the w. brussels bureau chief, alexandra fond. amen. alexander was this step, an easy one for leaders to take i think it was not an easy decision, and we saw it initially. there was a lot of 1st kept to says martha and some members state saying they cannot lads, are you? queen anne jumped the cue and arguing that this is a country, of course at war, occupied in many areas are by russian forces. and her this decision was a risk for the european union. and that defiance itself as a piece project. but i think that the whole discussion then change of to france, italy and germany through their weight, behind this idea convincing the avarice that it is important to send this a signal. this message of solidarity to key of and it is also important to rebut the kremlin effort to recreate the soviet sphere of influence and alexander it. but by european union standers, i think it's safe to say this decision was taken quite quickly. does that mean that ukraine is now on the fast track to membership? well, we have been asking this question a lot here in bruss

i nearby gosh, pa, concurrent, but very of, for us, is the w's, brussels beer chief, alexandra con. nomine. good to have you both with us. we're going to be going through the summit. hopefully we'll get some uh, live pictures there from the final conferences, kronos from at the summit was start with you alexander of final statements from g. 7 leaders will be made shortly. the declaration was just released. what's the bank take away from this summit? well, i think indeed that that be can take away from this summit, is that the g 7 leaders remains united. not only when it comes to des, support for ukraine and condemnation of russia's brutal war there. but also when it comes to the pressing issues that we're on the agenda with regards to the state of the global economy. even though we know that they were different proposals on the table with some countries pushing for full bold measures, others being more restrained. we now have them all united and saying that they are ready to study price caps for instance, on russian oil and gas. and we know that the final communicate also mentions a ban on

and with me in the studio is d w. political correspondent, thomas sparrow. alexandra, why don't we begin with you? we know that germany has been criticized for not doing enough to support ukraine after russia's invasion, but today we actually heard the u. s. president, calling germany one of the fastest and closest allies in the world. what do you make of these comments? well, i think that 1st of all, of course, we have to stress that germany is one of the closest you asked allies. and this a brief and well orchestrated exchange also showed how important it was for you as president to praise all of shoulds leadership. despite the criticism that the german government has been facing for doing can now sir, to support ukraine for being too slow with providing ukraine with lethal weapons or something that is happening now. but i think it was obvious that of course you as understands that germany is a heavy weight in europe. it was germany together with friends and e to lee they threw their weight behind the idea of granting ukraine you membership candidate said with and of course they were s

and that was our brussels bureau chief, alexandra on nomine in madrid. now let's go to d. w as kilian buyer. he's been following the latest developments from riga lat via a welcome at kelly. and i'm guessing the baltic states have been watching closely as nato has announced, plans to reinforce it's eastern flank. what has the reaction been there? well, i think the nato's, the reaction to nato strategic plan and it, the plan really didn't come as a surprise to the leaders of the baltic states because we, as we heard from the latvian foreign minister yesterday evening, there had been intensive negotiations going on in the weeks leading up to the summit, but at the baltic states, i think they managed to get quite a bit of their ideas into this document. they have been calling out for a long time, demanding more troops on the ground. and we actually heard this as well. and our trips to lithuania, for instance, we spoke with defense politicians who said exactly that they, they would wish i'm an increase of a nato troop presence. they said a brigade strength force would be a signi

our bavaria, for us is d w's, brussels bureau chief, alexandra for now and there she is in the summer. let's start with you. can you give us an overview of this year's partner countries and the international organizations taking part in this so called outreach session? well, one official told me that it was a very smart move of from a german perspective to invite those key swing states that are very important in a very competitive environment. we are talking here about the leaders of indonesia and india. the current and the upcoming presidencies of their g 20 for instance, we are talking here about their argentinian president fernandez, who is the cheer of the community of 1st south american and caribbean states and south america. and we are talking, he about 2 very important african nations, senegal, that is now holding at the presidency of their african union and south africa. also a very important partner in africa for the german government. i. we are seeing a live pictures there of the family, photos of the g. several lead us together with the outreach a countries, a 1000000 of th

w. brussels bureau chief, alexandra phenomena. alexandra, tell me it was a step, an easy one for the leaders. i think it was not an easy decision for you leaders and initially some of them were quite skeptical, saying that they cannot let ukraine jump the queue, that there are other potential candidate countries a waiting for years. and of course, we have to stress that we are talking here about a country actively at war occupied in many areas by the russian forces. and it was a remarkable risk for the european union to make this decision because the u is defining itself as a project of peace about i think that the whole discussion change of to friends, italy and germany through their wage behind this idea convincing others that it is important to send the signal of solidarity to kia and it is crucial to rebut the kremlin claims that ukraine is their sphere of influence. and that ukraine is not allowed to make their own decisions about the future or by you standards though this decision was really fast. are. does this now mean that ukraine is on some kind of fast track to membership?

w, brussels bureau, chief, alexandra phenomena that i, after that historic step was taken. i asked her how difficult the path was to achieve it. it was quite a difficult, i would say, and initially we saw that some members states were very skeptical, even reluctant, saying that it's not fair to that. so ukraine jumped the q because there are other potential candidates states who have been waiting for years. and of course, it was also a remarkable risk her for the european union to grant or ukraine a country actively at war occupied in many areas by the russian forces. a candidate state to the because of course, the you understands itself as a peace project. however, i think that the discussion change after france, italy and germany, and they threw their ways behind this idea convincing others to follow. and we had a chance to chat with the latin prime minister, who was one of the vocal supporters of this a decision. and i asked him, what was the significance of granting ukraine candidate status? let's have a listen it it. it literally extends the hand of friendship and of o

w in brussels bureau chief alexandra phenomena followed the press conference and joined us now from madrid. i think sandra thornburg saying russia is the most significant and direct threat. how significant of a change in this or the alliance? well, clara, the says as fundamental change of nato security assessment in the euro and plan tick area. and we just need to remind ourselves that russia was mentioned as a strategic partner in the last strategic concept that was approved in 2010. and at this time to meet him at video that then president of the russian federation was even invited to participate in a nato a summit. so you understand that this is a fundamental change. and now nato is saying they understand that russia is seeking to establish fears of influence using annexation, aggression subversion. and of course, the reason for this different assessment is the war in ukraine, and we had a chance to speak with some officials after ukrainian president zalinski addressed to the leaders. and they told us that the nato leaders in the room. they really had this understanding that ukraine is

and here with me and the students, thomas ferro to w political correspondent, welcome to both of you, alexandra. i'd like to begin with you. we know that germany has been criticized for not doing enough to support where she is, alexandra, that germany has not been criticized for not doing enough to support ukraine. but so today we heard the u. s. president, calling germany one of the fastest and closest allies in the world, very warm boards fair. what do you make of it? well, the meeting was apparently very friendly and very warm. and that is how it's being described by the u. s. administration by you asked officials, they're saying that you as president not only praise the german chancellor's leadership, but he also expressed his trust in olive shoals. and they also stressed that there was brought alignment on all of the issues that they discussed. and of course, we have to say that germany is one of the closest u. s. allies. despite all the criticism that the german government has been facing for, not supporting ukraine enough for not being quick enough and determined enough to provide the co

w. brussels p. richie alexander phenomena. alexandra, it's an historic step and it's done. but how difficult was the path to achieve it? it was quite a difficult, i would say, and initially we saw that some members states were very skeptical, even reluctant, saying that it's not fair to that. so ukraine jumped the q because there are other potential candidates states who have been waiting for years. and of course, it was also a remarkable risk her for the european union to grant or ukraine a country actively at war occupied in many areas by the russian forces. a candidate state to the because of course, the you understands itself as a peace project. however, i think that the discussion change after france, italy and germany, and they threw their ways behind this idea convincing others to follow. and we had a chance to chat with the latin prime minister, who was one of the vocal supporters of this decision. and i asked him, what was the significance of granting ukraine candidate status? let's have a listen it it. it literally extends the hand of friendship and of openness to

w. brussels bureau chief, alexander fun. nauman. alexandra, all eyes are on ukraine right now. is there any chance at all the keys won't be granted candidate status? well, honestly i don't think so, and everyone we've been speaking with all the leaders are quite confident that this is going to happen today that ukraine and will dover as well, will be granted to candidates standards. the lease, when a president that was laid out, he told us that he expect expect this to be a very happy day for ukraine, for moldova, but also for lee through any on all those members states who have been supporting you extended. of course, we are talking here about the european council with 27 members states 27 leaders. so you can never rule out that in the end, out of the blue one member state could to raise some objections. but i don't think that this is going to happen in this case because everyone here is a word that this is a highly geopolitically significant decision. and everyone here is expecting a powerful signal of solidarity with ukraine. now before coming together for this summit, elite

w. brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena who's in madrid for that nato, somewhat alexandra, good to see you. so, russia's vladimir putin says he has no problem with sweden and finland joining nato . but that he will match any military build up on russia's borders. what's the reaction been from nato leaders in madrid? well, nato officials that we've been speaking with her, are not very concerned in the moment. there are saying that russia does not have her, the capabilities and the world to launch any military action against nato, a territory or for that matter against finland. and sweden, debt is at least for the moment, but of course they are watching very closely or what kind of for threats are coming out of the kremlin and what they expect to, to possibly happen with regard to finland and sweden is that they could be, or a space for violations, they could be cyber attacks, or dis, information campaigns launched by the kremlin, but that is actually what is expected right now. as a reaction. now, alexander, the u. s. has promised to increase the number of its troops stationed in

now let's bring into w brussels beautiful summer for now and she has more. from outside you headquarters? alexandra. we now have the commission's recommendation that ukraine be granted. candidate status for you. membership. tell us more about the significance of this moment and where your credit application goes from here. well, it's definitely a very, a symbolic moment or this decision that was expected today, that the european commission recommended ukraine to be rendered big rendered. you candidate status or the press conference with or the last on the lion, the european commission chief is still under way in the building riots behind me were the commission is seated and was it a funder lion stressed already at that or the assessment of the merits? of ukraine's application has been concluded in a very careful way that they came to the closest to the conclusion that ukraine is already on its way to be a part of the european family. she said that ukraine has a very active civil society. so this is definitely a plus and that the election system an ukraine is free and fair. and she even went so far

w. t political correspondent, melinda crane, and on location in bavarian, near the summit venue is our brussels bureau chief, alexander fun. naaman, alexandra, 1st of all, how close are we to this final news conference? sorry, can you repeat it again? i didn't get the question. yeah, we're just waiting for that final news conference. i was wondering if you can tell us when it might begin. yeah, i, well, i really don't know because actually they should, they should have a, started this a press conference a while ago. but of course, assa discussions are still ongoing as always at the normal thing to wait for the host of the g 7 meeting to start his final conference. so i think that we will see him soon and giving us a summary alpha, how this whole meeting and went and, and so what kind of concrete solutions and they were an able to achieve. yeah. okay . we're seeing some live pictures from the venue there. we, the podium is being set up and we've got so we've got an audience forming now, so perhaps it won't be too long before that gets underway at schloss elmo, which you're seeing there in southern germany. i mishondra the ukraine, the war an