A missile strike. Also on the program, u. S. Secretary of state antony blanket announces fresh sanctions against russia. This after telling is russian counterpart, moscows annexation of ukraine will never be accepted and alaska is burning. As the northern us state sees an unusual state of foreign places, we meet the crews battling to save homes. Ah, i am pablo foliage. Welcome to the program. We begin with the depths of dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war, many of whom were victims of the month long siege of mighty you, paul. Russia and ukraine are accusing each other of shelling the prison in the east frontline town of all. Any sca which is controlled by russia backed separatists local Officials Say as many as 53 ukrainian prisoners were killed in the days other Main Development ukraine is ready to restart grain exports to help ease the global food crisis. Ships are loaded and ready to leave to black see ports a cloud of dust or wraps. His grain is loaded onto a merchant ship. In the port city of odessa, ukraines president is on hand to inspect the loaded vessels ahead of departure vessels. Numbers of this is the 1st vessel being loaded up since the war began to see which alchemy im standing in front of a turkish chevy. More . Yes, the novel, this means the board has started operating. What the most important thing for us is that the port is operating and that people are working on divorce. Millions of tons of ukrainian grain have been held for months in silos and ships blockaded by russia on the black sea, sending food prices soaring around the world. According to a recent deal brokered by the u. S. And turkey merchant ships will be given safe passage in and out of key ukrainian ports. This agreement, as the, as the secretary general said, is not just important for ukraine and ukraines economy. But these is important for the world because it will help to prevent the global food crises, local officials, they more than a dozen ships loaded with grain are ready to leave. A rare moment of good news and the 5 month long war. But its being overshadowed by reports of a missile attack on a prison in a separatist control region of eastern ukraine. The strike killed dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war, moscow and key if blame each other for the death. Dw Matthias Bellinger was at the port of odessa journey presidency landscape, visit visits by a zalinski and by the ambassadors of the g 7 countries plus turkey and the representative of the united nations. That clearly a signal that the world wants these transports to go on and ukraine, once these transports to go on, there are warning to russia not to obstruct this scheme in ukraine sports. We have now 7 team ships that are ready to go. And that hopefully leaving in the next few days after that there will be a shuttle between istanbul and ukraine in order to bring out all these tons of grain. Were talking about 20000000 tons of grain that are now stored in ukraine storage facilities. And after the next harvest, another 20000000. 00 tons are expected to add to that in order to bring all of them out. Ukraine counts with the period of 8 or 9 months, so it is quite a long period. And there are many chances that this will be interrupted due to fighting in the black sea or due to obstruction by russia. So there is quite some extra anxiety here in ukraine, whether this can really work over his mateus billing or reporting that or the u. S. As an answer further sanctions on russian, individuals and entities, it says or supporting the malign forces of the crime. This came following a call between secretary of state and lincoln and russian. Foreign minister said a lover of the 2 men spoke by phone for the 1st time since russia invaded ukraine in february. During the exchange, lincoln told his russian counterpart that moscows annexation of ukraine will never be excited. Or earlier i spoke to d. W correspondent mikaela. Now in washington and asked her for more details about the fresh us sanctions against russia. It was made quite clear in that statement that came from the secretary of state just as so while after comments on that telephone conversation, that these were sanctions in addition to those already imposed over ukraine, that they were very much separate and that they were because of russias quote, malign influence on elections, but also Democratic Institutions around the world. This goes back to the less meddling in us elections. And this is quite interesting because it wasnt raised in connection with that telephone conversation that was much more on close to home, matters for the americans who have put in what they call a serious offer on the table to try and secure the release of to us citizen, so this really is a wholesale condemnation of russias influence on democracies worldwide. And thats why individuals and entities are targeted here in the United States who are seen as anti international and anti democratic or its so the sanctions come of the world weights to see whether those grains shipments out of ukraines ports will actually resume. And despite the sanctions, youve mentioned some elements there. Did anything positive come out of todays discussion between blinking and lever off . Well they quite significantly, there was no headway made when it came to us attempts for the release of personally gonna pull whelan those high profile hostages as the american side cause them prisoners is how the russian side cause them. And there is a call on the west side to stick to commitments on that very export of grains out of ukraine. And there was a call by rosss foreign minister love to return to more quiet diplomacy as he calls it. After all, the russians are calling for the release of a convicted, alms trader, and then now reports that they also want to secure the release and of a convicted murderer. She held in germany for political assassination years ago and no headway is the sort on. So the only good news will be coming out of it is that both sides did talk for the 1st time through their foreign ministers. It since that russian invasion, ukraine, dw correspondence, mikaela cove, now in washington, dc. Thank you. Lets take a look and i with some other stories making headlines around the world. The turkish and German Foreign ministers have clashed over a range of issues and a tense meeting. In the stumble, germanys alina bab oak spoke out against turkeys alleged human rights abuses, and urged anger not to press military action in syria, turkish minister, mary lou to cover. So lu, accused germany of siding with greece in a dispute over oil expiration. Pope frances ended his trip to canada by meetings, survivors of abuse at former residential schools in e kalu, which the pontiff visited the country, and it bid to make reparations for decades of sexual abuse. Committed at church run schools for the indigenous community. He asked for their forgiveness and thank those were brave enough to share their stories. The u. S. House of representatives has passed legislation to revive a ban on semi automatic guns. However, it looks unlikely to pass in the senate. Republicans have dismissed a measure as an Election Year strategy by democrats. Years of my shootings in the u. S. Has led to a push for stricter gun controls to reconsider. Will staying in the u. S. At least 16 people have died and many are still missing. After record flash footage floating in the state of kentucky, torrential rain full washed away roads and hundreds of houses and some of the poorest communities in the United States. Authorities are warning that rescue efforts and the search for victims could take weeks in a flash, tweet, stoned to sludge. After unprecedented rain hit the mountainous region of eastern kentucky. Little was left above water including its residence. We had his way out and it was good. It was over my head, so yeah, it was. Is harry easy . My car stopped stalled out and then i didnt know what to do. I just kinda went into a panic. Probably about a minute. 2 minutes at the max would start flooding into my car. That floods of this magnitude would normally, aka once in 1000 years. According to experts, the Climate Change is likely to make them more frequent. I local farm and said its the worst damage hes ever seen. Probably 95 percent. People in this area heard lovers letting houses, gorge animals. Its heartbroken, really is. The flooding has got firewalls in several areas, making tens of thousands of people difficult to trace. More deaths are being recorded of the hours pass for children from the same family drowned into fast flowing water. Means weve got at least 6 dead children, and its hard. Its even harder for those families and those community. So keeper, i am there still lot of people out there still a lot of people on account of for were going to do our best to find him. All rescue workers are trying to help people by boat and us bought them from the skies. But it may take weeks to find every one if at all, and especially as the ongoing grains that bulges even more of what is left well as floods hate, parts of the us wild fires are devastating other areas. The white house says destruction exceeds the 10 year average. Scientists warned this is driven by Climate Change. President biden has declared a major disaster for the state of alaska, which is experiencing unusually fierce forest fires. T ws katerina. She more reports from the town of anderson, where she met emergency crews battling the fires as well as residents fling from them. Alaska is the largest u. S. State. It is also the least densely populated among its great treasures, the untouched wilderness. But much of that is now being destroyed. Wildfires are not a new phenomenon here at they are changing. Theyre becoming more frequent and more intense. So much so that this here no co Fire Fighters here in anderson. Were unable to get them when a fire happens and they get bigger than the local unit can handle like so. Here in anderson, they have some local volunteer firefighters. They but, but they are very small. So when the fire gets bigger than what they can control, they will call for outside help and tell pass, come from all over the us. Kate air heart from montana has been battling places, country white for more than 20 years. This is her 5th time in alaska. Shes now supervising a team of 500 Fire Fighters deploy to help control one wild hire. Sadly, this property couldnt be saved. Its really when fires like this one. Start in and around populated areas. Even a lightly populated area like this that it becomes a problem era fair. You hear that ive never seen fire behavior like this before. 2 and so i would say this abnormal weather is the new normal. Its getting harder to fight fires, resources, theyre getting scarcer, and were dealing with women like this, this summer. More than 264 individual fires have destroyed 1250000 hectares of land across the state. The blaze in anderson is now under control, that the damage is extensive, and the strong winds post a risk to this used to be a for is he can still see smoke up there. The Fire Fighters are still trying to get that high under control and we can strongly smell it. Local people half had to evacuate their homes. Among them, don and dorothy weights are a cellar aid and the place when they returned, the fire was under control. It was like kind of like surreal. There was smoke and fires were still burning in the trees out here. And the firemen were with us and i think they were with us because they maybe, you know, it would be traumatic to go and see. But we, he, they said right away, your house is safe. This time they were lucky, but there will certainly be wildfires here again. And experts say Global Warming may make them more severe. 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