the, the, you're watching the, the, the name is coming to live from berlin. young'uns, who's a rebel as voucher retaliate after a wave of us and british air strikes, tens of thousands of people protests against the strikes in the capital. so not as goofy leaders warrant, all american and british interests have become legitimate targets. also in the show, israel rabbits of its defense against accusations of genocide and gaza. calling on the world court in the hague to throw out south africa's case plus the new plane, and that could put commercial supersonic air travel back on the table. let's take a look at the exit 59 quest and whether it could make supersonic flight possible

for ordinary travelers the . i'm quite richards and welcome. we start in the admin where, who's the rebels have vowed to retaliate for us and british air strikes, which they say killed at least 5 people. the stripes have prompted tens of thousands of people to protest in the capital. so not iran which backs the who is this has also condemned the strikes. the incident is raising fears at the war between israel and tomas could expand into a wide or regional conflict. of the us, in the case of the strikes were aimed at protecting international trade routes after multiple attacks by who's the rebels on red c shipping of the one by one american military aircraft. take off parts of a coordinated strike. fact,

i can see him in to see rebels, the retaliation for a tax on shipping in the red sea, led by the us and britain in emission described as an act of self defense, to restore stability along the important trade routes. the u. k. military is released, these images of it says strikes us officials say more than a dozen sites were attacked, including combined incentives, munitions, depos, used by the whose degree the, to the television broadcasting video claim to show explosions on the account. aftermath of the strikes. you must look like a battle in the american and british enemies bear full responsibility for the criminal aggression of the gate. so you have any people will not go unpunished. on onset to him and the armed forces will not hesitate to target. threatening suicide is an old style targets on land and sea in order to defend given that sovereignty

and independence. people on the who wants to get on it to see rebels to a backed by around help in targeting ships in the red sea for weeks. with the great releasing facebook page in november of it spiked is appearing to seize the vessel. it claims the attack. so in response to israel is moving causative against how much the u. s. b u in other countries have labeled the terrorist organization. the big question now is what this could mean for the war in garza, i'm the why the region with the world racing for response from the who these adults who support them. let's get into this with the n robbie. a non resident senior fellow at the center for maritime strategy. welcome to data view news. i'd like to start by setting the stakes a little bit here. can you tell us what this escalation means for the red sea?

one of the busiest shipping channels in the world. yeah, unfortunately this is exactly what they're going to, he's been waiting for for about 10 years and, and as a result we have to be concerned about how they're going to last out further at shipping for the last 2 months. they have been very consistent and it's talking global merits on commerce, which is really an assault on all of us because we are all dependent on the free flow of goods all over the world. and no matter where it is, it's going to affect our supply chains. and the red sea is a critical to a point. and so they've been doing a very good job of making global commerce more difficult. but this is likely to increase the challenge, they have long and held the narrative that the war in yeah, i mean was actually about finding the u. s. and the u. k. and now that they have actually experienced the force of the us in the u. k. they are going to be able to embolden themselves further and probably reach out even further because they now are finding all kinds of supporters that had been a bit tired of a long conflict. but her now where you live. and so the fact that they've

effectively moved from just being a local rebel group, backed by around to now being a very disruptive to shipping. it sounds like you think this, this strengthens the who these hand is a very much the is unfortunately they, uh, they've been trying to sell everyone on a narrative for years internally. and that narrative is building over into the white a region because for the 1st time they've actually gotten everybody's attention. they have no real visibility for most of the time. they've been fighting against the government of young. and let's be very clear. these facts were not against them and they were against the who teased, but the problem is it has given them the focus of the world. we're talking about them all over the world. they've been the source of and focus of the un security council meeting, a very excited profile for his cabinet office, meaning they're getting the attention they've long pre does. and it is coming from the various sources that they wished to draw the attention of. and so we are likely to see a wider effort at both recruiting and expanding their mission to,

to try to lash out at the west and, and further themselves. they are not interested in palestine, except as so far as it gives them a reason to find. they are very opportunistic and, and how they've jumped on the israel got the situation for their own right. so even as this is boasting their, their profile internationally, looking at the response we've seen so far from the u. s. and the u. k. and the strikes, which they say are aimed at protecting is crucial shipping uh, through the red sea. do think that the strikes that we've already seen or more intensive strikes, could deter her the who's he's going to can from continuing to attack red c shipping a. unfortunately i, i don't, i've been watching that with you for a long time, and they do not act like the rest of us who these have a very particular mindset. they have a particular mission, and unfortunately we play into their hands are terrible playmates and they're enjoying this play. they are not going to respond to deterrence. the way we see the

terms, they're not gonna respond to force the way we would respond to force. and so what would perhaps make others think twice is only going to encourage them because they are really keen on promoting this narrative for 10 years. they've been playing a game and stage until you make it. now they made it because they've been talking about fighting the us in the u. k for 10 years, and now they have to get the chance to. and so this is going to really expand their possibilities for natalie recruiting internally, potentially trying to encourage others in, in the region and even far beyond to be inspired by the way i find one labeled a global process. sorry, just one question. but before i let you go, so if you think that deterrence is not going to be helpful here, what would you advise, washington and london as they're looking at this issue, what choices do they have other than military force as well? it is about what the trends actually means, and unfortunately these, these attacks we're, we're, we're a, if you're going to watch an attack,

it needed to be more forceful than what we're seeing. and that, that, unfortunately those down a very dangerous time. what we need to look at is how to draw that when he's attention away from shipping. because right now that is the, the principal concern because every person on earth is affected by it. and that needs to be done with, with pretty intense diplomatic document. probably not by the us and the okay, but through partners to draw that with the attention away and see if they can find a way. but we've now put ourselves in a very difficult position where we're, we're likely to see a period of back and forth escalation until someone changes tactics. well, thank you so much for sharing your insights with us today. at the enrolled me with the center for maritime strategy, we very much appreciate your time. thank you so much. well, that military operation in the and then it was supported by the governments of australia, canada, the netherlands of south korea, and germany among others. let's listen to german foreign minister and elena bear box speaking earlier. this week you will the federal government's backs this

reaction politically, the odd ones. we have issued a statement in this regard together with our partners boy side. so who is these bear responsibility for their actions? for the attacks on civilian shipping? the, i'm get us the of the dealership they have to seize these attacks without delay. to, to please understand will be by we as the you are working urgently on contributing to the stabilize vision in the red sea. and looking at contributions to the stabilisation by driving. this has to be decided within the framework and we're working on that urgently. sneezing. we've got this task will be a tool to get out of the funds. and so let's begin to where germany fits into all this and get some perspective from germany's biggest opposition party. johan, nevada, full joins me now. he's a member of parliament for the conservative c, d, u party, and of defense and foreign policy expert. welcome to dw news. we've just heard the

german, a foreign minister there saying that the issue is looking for ways to contribute to the stabilize ation. in the red sea, can you give us a sense of what that could look like? yes, good afternoon. i would like to say that, but to the we as a position we as customer democrats support. that's the, the what say our far been just the book. i just said it is a very good and necessary that germany as a category belonging to nature and to europe in union backs. what united states, united kingdom and other i'll allies did it was necessary to give that signal to the who sees that they cannot go on with these strikes on to the uh, red sea to this was cut off by the dangerous our supply chains about it. but it's

not acceptable anymore, so we politically, absolutely support this we, it's up to the opposition, back our, our government on this, on this path. and of course we is germany always need an international framework to legally make it possible for jim i need to, to join these military actions. and we just add on the books that we had trying to to find frame boards on the european level. and i hope that will be successful as soon as possible. so we are looking at a possible military response from germany with unity within, within parliament, between the coalition government. and you are opposition, cd you did i understand that correctly? so yes, absolutely. what's the problem? but if the government comes over to us and access asks us for support, that will be the political support that will be the support in, in all

a compliment. we do have uh, units may be units in the region of german baby is able to support. uh, these military strikes and also uh, was dissolved military means germany is politically ready to, to, to support our allies. because if we want to want to stop an escalation, they have, they has be a clear political and also military signal to the who sees that they cannot go on. this is also a political sign to iran in order to stop. but who sees because they, uh, they are the ones who are behind that, who sees not only but the military lead, but also politically and so close that is very necessary. and these times, if i may just jump in or if germany is,

is willing to commit these naval units and perhaps other forms of military action does not have the potential to drag germany here into a much wider regional conflict with, with iran, for example. what you've just said are a strong backers of that with these i think it's just the other way around because it's, it's a similar situation to the situation. the ukraine, if you, if you're a do not signal very clear to the ones who stops of violating international law, if you do not give the show them the clear will to detail them and to defend the international law. they will go on putting tablets and we'll see some but, and iran will also do so if we don't sit gold,

i'm very clearly that's by you. they will get to get a clear message from our side and the west, the european union later as always, to be united in germany as a central a country in europe. and as a, as an important member of nature and european union has to join the, the volumes of a a and in, in order to, to stop an escalation. so solar eclipse, 6 pm, and the readiness a to, to, to join the of us will, will stop in escalation. well, thank you very much for speaking with us today on dw news that is johann of auto pool, a member of the german parliament for the conservative opposition. many thanks. israel has wrapped up its defense against accusations of genocide on a 2nd day of hearings at the international court of justice in the hague. of the

defense team strongly rejected. the case brought by south africa. it's all the court that israel was not seeking to destroy the palestinians, but to protect its own people. and it's 4 against most of which many countries classify as a terrorist organization in front of children. so speak, tal back or is a legal advisor for israel's foreign ministry. and in court. he attacked south africa's handling of the case in the entirety of its case hinges on a deliberately curated contextualized and manipulative. description of the reality of current hostilities. south africa ports to come to this court in the last, the position of a guardian of the interest of humanity. but in de legitimizing israel, 75 year existence in its opening presentation yesterday. that broad commitment to humanity, ren hollow, it is on surprising,

therefore that in the applicants telling both come us has responsibility for the situation in. gotcha. and the very humanity of it is rightly victims removed from view the attempt to weaponized the term genocide against israel in the present context does mold and tell the court a grossly distorted story. and it does move and empty the word of its unique force and special meaning of the special correspondent at abraham drawings. and now from jerusalem. here yesterday, we were reporting on south africa's arguments in bringing these charges of genocide against israel at the i c j. and today, with israel's turn to defend itself, how it did it presents case as well. this was an almost 3 hour hearing and it's so it's difficult to really summarize all of the arguments, but a couple certainly stood out to me. there's the fact that is real claims that south

africa's entire case is not factual, but it takes statements out of a context. is really a counter argument also hinges heavily on the accusation that from us is actually a to blame for all of the atrocities. but south africa accuses israel of committing a because that how much embeds itself among the civilian population essentially saying, well, just conflict means civilian casualties. but really it's how masses fault because how mass of strategy is designed to maximize civilian casualties. that's the is really claim. and they also, these really team also says that while civilian casualties certainly are a tragic fact if a conflict at genocide the genocide convention is not the correct framework to address what is happening and does a but a more the laws of armed a conflict. but i think what, at the, you know,

perhaps the strongest challenge to south africa's case that was presented today was the question of intent genocidal intent yesterday. south africa laid out its case with a lot of quotes from is really officials that have in one way or another said that this war is meant to or, or that the goal is to destroy or, you know, but remove the palestinian population in a god's or the is really teen today says, well these officials are not part of israel's a war cabinet. they're not um, they're not their statements essentially, that their statements do not comprise official is really policies. and then they, then the quoted other is really officials who then said that there is no intention to destroy the power of the public can population. and that there's no, there's no intention to forcibly remove them from the district. so they're saying yes, these were is really officials, but that they're not these really officials,

his opinion really matters. and so they're trying to challenge the, the claim of intent with, with these accounts records, among others from the prime minister himself. thank you so much for bringing us up to speed there. that is our special correspondent abraham. in jerusalem. we can turn out to some other stories making news around the worlds we on mars, military, government and, and alliance of ethnic minority armed groups have announced a cease fire brokers by china. the deal should and months of fighting in the northern shan state, including in areas near the chinese border. the u. s. federal aviation administration is launching a formal investigation into the boeing 737 max 9 aircraft. a cabin panel blew out during a flight last week, leaving a hole in the fuselage. the aircraft made an emergency landing and us airlines have since grounded their boeing 737 at max 9 plains. lots of

fighter jets have a top speed more than twice the speed of sound. but flying that fast is banned for airliners because it is so loud. but now nasa is rolling out a quiet experimental aircraft that could help put ultra fast commercial air travel back on the table in the x 59 quest, short for quiet supersonic technology, an airplane that could lead to a new generation of faster than sound airliners. the sunset on the previous generation over 20 years ago, with the final flight of the concord, which has since been relegated to museums, the franco british ultra fast passenger plane, was always too expensive to operate. but that wasn't, it's biggest problem. aircraft generate pressure waves in the air, kind of like ripples and water that propagate away from them at the speed of sound . over 1200 kilometers an hour window, supersonic plane hits or exceeds that speed, the pressure waves compress and merge into shock waves. these are perceived by

people on the ground when the plane passes over as a loud thunder clap of sound called a sonic boom. nasa and aerospace company, lockheed martin, had been working on the x 59 since 2016. it's an experimental plane able to fly faster than sound that doesn't blast the ground with unwanted noise. using models and new technologies, the companies engineers came up with a design that minimizes the boom after the playing crosses the sound barrier. only smaller waves reached the ground, making only as much noise it's makers say as a car door setting shot. dx 59 design still has to go through rigorous testing. it's developers are also planning trips over population centers to see how people perceive it sonic footprint. a 1st flight is slated for later this year. if the

plane passes those tests, they could one day make high speed flight quiet enough to be a feasible possibility for passenger planes. let's find out what all this could mean for air travel with a band to live hard to you as an aerospace engineer with the german aerospace center and an expert on supersonic jazz. welcome to dw, i myself am old enough to remember concord can you help us understand? just how much faster travel could be with this new aircraft. with these type of airplanes are expected to or hoped to be twice as fast, at least twice as fast as our current subsonic trans, continental airplanes. mm. okay, so incredibly fast. um, but what about the costs with building and operating these aircraft on a scale big enough for, for someone like, like me or you to fly? is that going to be more expensive than conventional planes to it's well

building is going to be a bit more expensive. the real problem is operation because these plans behind a lot of fuel, they burn way more fuel than regular subsonic things because they fly faster to encounter more drag so they need more fuel. and so that's, that was also the problem with concord tickets. tickets for it, for commercial f, as will have to be expensive because of just due to the possibilities. so do you think that would be the case here too, that these flights would only be available for the rich who can really afford these much higher costs? not necessarily the, the tickets ticket price bar the, in the range of the or are expected to be in the range of a business as a 1st class ticket. so everyone can actually buy one ticket and slide them. some many people did for comfort books to buy these tickets consistently. and b, a,

the irregular traveling on this kind of aircraft that's, that will be restricted to people with either a rich employer or rich people themselves. and we've also heard, you've just had the x 59 is also quite a few will intensive. what would you say that is one of the biggest challenges that is really facing commercial air travel it's, it's carbon footprint. is that going to be a big issue here? but well, i'm of these, these days. that is, it is actually quite a big issue. it's, it's a big topic. it's become a big topic. how about footprints more, more fuel burn means more carbon, some dense. well that, that's, that was not the only problem. the other is the sunny coolness we just toured. sunny coolness, a huge problem. operating cost is a huge problem, but also the noise that takes above is a large problem then. um, eventually the cost of bringing such an aircraft to market is so high. that's no

one is low, commercial enterprise has succeeded so far. yeah. 10 to the hope is that the succeeds that there will be a market that's big enough to entice. so how long, how long do you think that will take until uh, until there is a market for this? until it could realistically be used for, for passenger traffic? um, well, so studies suggest that there is already in the market today. if we had a supersonic airplane, it doesn't necessarily have to go supersonic overland. some disturbing people, you can also fly trash or chevy cruze like over the atlantic law system. lots of important routes like log into new york. there's mostly water and nobody's just disturbed by us. one of them, so there might even be a market if this thing does a lot of succeed with its technology. well thank you so much for speaking with us today on 2000 your names and that's eventually apart from the german aerospace center, very much appreciate your time. thank you for any this. just

before we go, a quick reminder of our top stories. who was a rebels have vowed to retaliate for us and british air strikes, which they say killed at least 5 people. the us and britain hit targets in the capital. so not and across the country who sees have been attacking shipping and naval units in the red sea for weeks. and israel has wrapped up it's defense against accusations of genocide on a 2nd day of hearings at the international court of justice. the defense team strongly rejected the case that was brought by south africa. it's the told the court that israel was not seeking to destroy the palestinians, but to protect its own people. and that is your news update at this hour eco, india is coming up next or there's always more online at w dot com. or you can check us out on social media to our hands. and there is that to,

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