the, the, you want to know the news coming to live from berlin evans, who was the rebels vouch, retaliate after a wave of us and british air strikes, tens of thousands protests against the strikes in the capital. so not as jose readers war, an all american and british interest have become a legitimate target. on the show, israel wraps up its defense against accusations of genocide and gaza, calling on the world porch in the hague to throw out south africa's case. plus, we'll take a look at the new plane that could have put commercial supersonic air travel back on the table is the exit 59 west. we'll see whether it could make supersonic

flight possible porn ordinary travelers. the choir richardson, welcome. we started in yemen where jose rebels have vowed to retaliate for us and british air strikes that they say killed at least 5 people. the strikes of prompted tens of thousands of people to protest in the capital. so not iran, which box the who fees is also condemned to the strikes the incident as raising fears that the war between israel and tomas could expand into a wide or regional conflict the u. s. and u. k. so the strikes were aimed at protecting international trade routes from who's the attacks in recent weeks. but who these have watch more than a dozen drone and missile strikes on red sea shipping? one by one american military aircraft takeoffs, part of

a coordinated strike back against humans whose the rebels in retaliation for a tax on shipping in the red sea. led by the us and britain and emission described as an act of self defense, to restore stability along the important trade route. the u. k. new a treaty has released these images of its strikes a u. k. prime minister richey soon act was currently visiting ukraine, said the strikes when necessary, proportionate and targeted. but over the last month, we seen a significant increase in the number of who's the attacks on commercial shipping. in the red sea, that's putting innocent lives at risk. it's disrupting the global economy, and it's also the stabilizing the region. and in that time, we've also seen the single biggest attack on the navy bullshit, the british navy bullshit that we've seen in decades now, it's clear that that type of behavior con, carry on us officials say more than

a dozen sites were attacked, including come on centers and munitions depos used by the who is the group with eye witness video claiming to show explosions. and the a parent often math of the strikes in the american and british enemies bear full responsibility for the criminal aggression of the gate. so you have many people will not go unpunished on onset to him and the armed forces will not hesitate to target. the threatening suicide is an old, hostile targets on land and sea in order to defend you have on its sovereignty and independence. people are the to who wants to get on it. who's the rebels? who a batch by ron, have been targeting ships in the red sea for weeks, with the group releasing this voltage in november of its flashes, appearing to seize a vessel. it claims the attacks are in response to israel's war and gaza against

him. us in the u. s. a. u and other countries have labeled a terrorist organization. the big question now is what this could mean for the war in gaza and the wider region with the world racing for a response from the heard these and those who support them. earlier i asked maritime expert in raleigh, what this escalation needs 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 in 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 threats. these are 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 held the narrative that the war in the oven was actually about finding the u. s. and the u. k. and now that they have actually experienced the force of the us and the u. k, they are going to be able to emboldened 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 effect we move from just being a local rebel group are backed by around to now being a very disruptive a to shipping. it sounds like you think this, this strength ends the who these hand or a very much dies. 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 duties. 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 the who is 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 played 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 for us. 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 finding the us and 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, but 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. uh sorry, just one question 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 attacks we're, we're, we're a, if you're going to watch an attack and needed to be a 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 argument. probably not by the us and the u. k. 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. that the enrolled me with the center for maritime strategy. we very much appreciate your time. thank you so much. and this will be a tax and the red see are also disrupting manufacturing. here in europe, electric car maker, tesla said it will suspend production edits, the biggest european factory and more companies may soon be forced to do the same production shelves. us automaker tesla plants to help production edits, facility outside berlin for about 2 weeks, saying and a statement. the components couldn't make it in time to a factory to, to disrupted read the cargo routes to many of the materials tesla uses and it's car production are shipped out of china. a supply line currently under strain. since december may just shipping companies including germany's hat bag, lloyd begin traveling the longer and more costly route around the cape of good hope,

which takes container ships an additional 2 weeks. and oil tankers, one more week, been traveling. we have the suicide canal, the prolong delivery times are now threatening companies supply chains. back in december. so we just finance a house ikea had worn, if possible disruptions, but industry analysts expect other companies could also run into trouble if the red sea route is cleared. soon to my colleagues, stephen beardsley from dw businesses here in the studio with me for more on this for hi steven. um, so we've seen car makers react, i presume that they are not the only businesses that are, that are feeling this know we mentioned to us when that report but of course ball but has also said that is going to spend production as well. and no, they're not gonna be the only manufacturer is, i mean there is a massive amount of global trade that comes through the suez canal. and for europe, that's even higher than the global average. so these are products that are shipped from asia to europe, that could be toys. they could be car components, especially for electric vehicles,

a great portion of components for each of these come from asia and they use this canal. and of course it could be oil and fuel. so all these things together mean that you're especially is looking at this. and while we're only hearing from these 2 carmakers right now, i imagine every car and a great many other companies are taking a look at their backup supply chain plans and saying what we do if this thing is prolonged, we know that container prices have been rising we know that the containers that have been shipped through the red sea uh are following the numbers are following. so the question is, if you're as your guest suggested, if this is going to be a pro long thing, if the who these are not going to be deterred right away then how long as it's gonna last. and this is something that we were not hoping to see after cove it so soon. where to be sure things were much worse then. prizes were even higher and the disruption was much more severe. but this is another supply shock that's europe didn't want. i'm curious about firms reaction to these strikes from the us and the u. k. a targeting the who fees they say are going to help, you know,

target them to prevent this from a, from jamming up, the red sea and, and the ability to assign a supply chains. do you think that the strikes are going to make matters worse for companies or is it going to put mine's at ease that the us, me okay. or are doing something about this? i think it's anyone's guess what we know is that may ask one of the major shippers in the world. danish company, there's a jo came out and said, hey, great, something's happening here. maybe that will be a positive thing. and, but again, back to your guest, as he just said, we don't know how this is going to evolve. and if there's going to continue to be trouble, then that is also a problem. now maybe the attacks in the red sea stop or maybe their ability to do that is somehow deterred the bigger question is, what does this uncertainty in that region mean? markets in general, a very on easy about what's been going on since that since that attack on october 7th and the response from israel. so this is one more element that's adding to insecurity and businesses don't like insecurity. there is this direct shipping problem. but on top of that, you're also going to see money put away if people aren't really sure that now is

the time to invest. if there could be a wider conflict in the middle east, for example. and then all these questions of oil prices, we saw oil jump 4 percent today, based on some of these jitters. we saw that on the other side of the gulf peninsula in the gulf of amman, i ran seizing an oil tanker there. so all of this coming together is adding to these jitters that were already there. and it affects markets. it affects investments. and this is something the world didn't want right now, but it is another reason why companies are re evaluating their supply chains and saying, gosh, you know how we're line, are we on everything over there? and what is our backup plan? when that falls through it started with cove it and we see it continuing to happen . steven, thank you so much for breaking that down for us at, at stephen variously from dw business things where israel has wrapped up. it's a defense against accusations of genocide on a 2nd day of hearings of international court of justice in the hague. the defense team is strongly regressive. the case brought by south africa and told the port that is robust not seeking to destroy the palestinians,

but to protect its own people and its war against moscow. which many countries would classify as a terrorist organization in front of charles w correspondent. lucy, i shall tennis at the icy j in the hague. she's got more about israel's defense against the allegations of genocide brought by south africa the 2 days of hearing say them to, to you today, and they hate. on the 2nd day of the hearings each, i got a chance to make its case and defend itself against the allegations made by so as africa, south africa saying that each try a breach to genocide convention by x and emissions. but genocide and character use read strongly rejects this and says that, so that's because distorting the facts you try once to see the whole case rejected and also does not want to see provision emetrius being put on it. so that because asked for these provision emetrius, and among them are, for example of the crest that the court orders each read to end all military

operations. in the next step, the court would have to decide whether it brings forward any kind of provision of mattress or not. this is expected to be relatively quickly. the main case, the question whether each read has in the breach the genocide convention or not. this is expected to take years association alternate, the hague. let's turn out to some other stories. the u. s. federal aviation administration is as it will audit. boeing 737 max 9 aircraft production line and increase oversight at the manufacturer. as after a calvin panel blew out during a flight last week, leaving a hole in the fuselage, the aircraft made an emergency landing, and the move comes a day after the agency announced a formal investigation. landlord's military government and an alliance of ethnic minority armed groups have announced a ceasefire brokered by china. the deal should end months of fighting in the northern ocean states, including in areas near the chinese border of the 10s of thousands

demonstrated in slovakia as castle brought a spot against plans to change the criminal code. the government wants to reduce penalties for correction and financial crimes therapy in union has also criticized plans to shut down, especially the prosecutor's office. and security forces in ecuador have been conducting nationwide raids and a fight back against criminal gangs. police of arrested more than $350.00 suspects and responsible wave of gang violence and the detention of prison staff by inmates . voters in taiwan had to the polls on saturday in a tight race dominated by relations with china. the governing party is sticking to a tough line on beijing, but it's facing an old position that wants to strengthen ties. china claims that taiwan is its own and it's warrant that the election is a choice between war and peace of this year. we'll see a record number of elections around the world and voters in taiwan will be among

the 1st to make a difficult decision about their future. today's chief international editors. richard walker reports from taipei 2024 is a year of watches for democracies around the world. what you've donald trump with is the white house again. which of the european parliament gets overrun by the far right. but the 1st big what if of 2024 is about to play out right here in taiwan, off the use of antagonistic relations with china focus here might be about to choose something very different. a friendly approach to badging. we spoke with a man who embodies that idea of mine. joe was the last president of taiwan subbing from 2008 to 2016. now he hopes his k m. t party will win the presidency again. with him is one of its top power brokers. and he says the current government's

whole approach to china, boosting the military to determine attack is flat out wrong. oh, no matter how much you defend himself, you can never fly to what was the name of the neighbor we the 2 large too much stronger than us. so we use a noun, use a praise word means to reduce the attention. instead, my calls for dialogue with china picking up where he left off. when he met, she didn't ping in 2015. i mean say like that between cj and paying on the current, taiwanese president is almost on thinkable. but mine, joe says that under a different president, taiwan could work with she and even trust to say, or think you can trust what as far as customer relations you have to. well, this actually goes further than mazda and our team. it's candidate for president who your he says he is committed to taiwan defense and has no illusions about the

chinese leadership taking the bottom of that. i've never had any unrealistic ideas about the maintenance intentions that i'm very pragmatic and steady in my approach to the main to bottle for the governing parties. candidate william ly also gave us his response. thanks. yes. so he said he's also prepared to talk to china in quite he won't make concessions to make that happen and it's planned that for him. the territories comes in the clear 1st. if this week we spoke woman, sweet your cookie, we see peace through strength, not by the goodwill of the aggression because it's a good will of, via aggressive, cannot be relied upon cobra to that. so what is the right balance between the tyrants and dialogue when facing such a massive and threatening neighbor as china? now it's up to the time when these people to decide that just $19000000.00 out of

the billions of votes is around the wells who will cost that balance this year. but ty, one's choice will have huge implications. in this 1st one case of 2024 t w's, richard walker filed that report, and he says a big issue in the election is weatherby asian can be trusted or yeah, and i mean, that's really exactly the sort the many type in these vices have. i think flat and we did that interview with the full my presence of mind. joe, as being really controversial here, particularly that quote, but other quotes too. but particularly this quote that he said that on, on this topic is only important topic of crust rates relations that you really have to trust, aging ping that is seen by, by many people here as kind of hopelessly naive really. but still, he's kind of underlying point that it's important for taiwan to try to attempt to, to reconnect. we're trying to, to, to try to build some kind of bridges of dialogue. i think you can interpret from the opinion polls that, that actually has quite

a bit of support here in taiwan that both of the main opposition parties of both cooling for that and taking together those opposition policies. certainly above 50 percent in the opinion polls at this stage. so um, so i think this certainly support within the population for this idea of trying to go with some sort of dialogue. and that does make this kind of what a, if the we ask about and the report that so fascinating that it really is possible that the time of these votes is, will this, we can decide to try something different and could potentially put the policy, particularly the policy of mind, joe, who we saw in the report that over the top and that would open up really a very, very different situation here in the taiwan strait that we haven't seen for so 8 plus years. wow. and, and what has vision been saying in the lead up to the selection and tie one yeah, well, it's been pretty familiar so far. the class, i mean, the chinese kind of use this sort of, this is kind of mix of different forms of pressure that they apply to time when

they be diagnosed with decades, really. and of course, it's intensifies recent years. the tensions have grown. but in recent weeks we've had, for instance, this information campaigns which are pretty much continuous towards ty want that'd been balloons flying even over the island, some mysterious balloons without any real set and see about what these buildings are doing. but remember, last year, what kind of strife have been enclosed between the united states in china and just earlier today is the administrative defendants have reported that a chinese war plains being flying close to taiwan. so that's will a lot of very familiar stuff. but the, the chinese certainly would be very happy if the opposition did come talk in the presidential election. if think woman dying that opposition party did manage to secure the presidency. again, that is certainly something for the chinese ones. and it will be fascinating. see how the chinese respond to that. if that does happen, and let zoom out even further for a moment, if there is a power shift in taiwan, what does it steak for us? ties in the region?

yeah, it will cost us in the us as a hugely important factor here. and the like the states insist that it has absolutely no preference in the selection that it trusts time. we need smoke said, trust type in these voters to make that decision. but it will certainly method to the us if the current government, which has this very and to us and to china rather course, if that continues, there's some concerns that, that could lead potentially, to a new uptake intentions with china. at the, on the other hand, those, the vice presidential candidate for that policy used to be tiny ones representative and washington dc and has excellent connections. the so i think that is a close for comfort for the americans. but if a china, frankly, or a policy here came into power that is orientated to us dialogue, if that was, if does actually transpired. i think that wouldn't necessarily be terrible using the united states, which of course is jumping massive crises already in ukraine in the middle east.

and then maybe voice is in the united states who think, well, okay, maybe it's not a bad idea for policies come in taiwan. a to try to reduce the temperature a bit more proactively with china. so i think very much waiting to see most of us in china, so they've been talking a chinese representative has been in washington dc the last couple of days. and i think that side also the us in china, both of them a teen for this, for potential transition of power to take place. calmly and for this not to trigger some of the price is just fascinating. thank you so much for bringing us up to speed there. that's richard walker for us and type pay. now in a few hours, nasa and lockheed martin will roll out a brand new supersonic aircraft in california. more than 20 years since the last flight of the concord, this experimental plane could be the beginning of a new era of ultra fast commercial air travel. whereas the concord and current fighter jets make too much noise to fly over urban where the concord makes too much noise to fly over urban centers. this new ex 59 quest will break the speed of sound,

but only a thought no louder than a car door closing. 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 company's engineers came up with a design that minimizes the boom. after the plane 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 its 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. that is your news update at this hour

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