the, the, this is the don't you use live from berlin lodging, tad wins taiwan presidential election. the ruling democratic progressive party is candidates, emerges victorious over his 2 opponents for the presidency. is election. we'll set the trajectory for tense relations with china for the next 4 years. also in the program, the u. s. military strikes if you see targets and you haven't for the 2nd day to see leaders 5 to retaliate and warrant that us and british interest and certain have considered legitimate targets. as israel defends itself in court against accusations of genocide and gaza, calls on the international court of justice to throw out except offering his case

of germany aims to join the proceedings in support of his route. the pablo found any es, thanks for joining us. in taiwan, the ruling party candidates lodging to has won the presidential election, giving his party to d p. p in unprecedented 3rd term lied, took a comfortable lead early in the vote come to head of his nearest drive. and in the opposition k m t. china claims taiwan as its territory during the run up to the election cold lie a dangerous separatist, the t p. p champions. taiwan separates identity and rejects beijing's clients of several sovereignty over the island. so what do you don't use? chief international editor richard walker was at the governing party headquarters in taipei and told us have the party reactive to it's went to pablo. i mean,

i have to sit in the scene here a little bit because yeah, then for the last several hours here at the, at the parties, riley, is this sound just be the absolute. we could definitely make levels. this has been kind of run the coax and that must be a ever, since he's starting to look like a big punch he was going to come up on top in the presidency. so there was a huge amount of energy here in the crowd, a huge amount of excitement and, and yet, and i think this is really interesting. before william lie or liking to us, he's no need chinese before he even took to the stage behind me here to to declare victory to so the crowd heat. he went into the tent even behind the stage and spoke to the assembled international press. so a press conference came before the victorious speech. i'm not sure i've seen that anywhere else in the world, but i think that is a sign of the seriousness with which the taiwanese take kind of the

castle communication to the outside world about what has happened to you. and of course, particularly capital communication towards the giant neighbors that they have just across the taiwan strait china, which has across being so threatening in the run up to the selection. well, richard, actually let's talk about china because like i said, he has to defend taiwan from at china is quote, intimidation, so highways, beijing, likely to react to lise victory. yeah, so we're gonna see in the coming days where the ons don't want to rock the boat. so we'll see in the coming days where the china reaction some way it may choose to wait until the, you know, duration which has until may, this is a so o'clock at the time when you system so. so the new duration of the new president weren't happen. for a few months yet, they may choose but to kind of a really find some sort of metaphorical or re a warning shots around that time before who's in organization speech. but we'll see

in the, in the next couple of days, what the chinese decide to do about this, because one thing for sure. they didn't want william lights when the selection they made that very clear. thanks, richard for your update on analysis dw as chief international editor, richard walker in ty papers. time for some of their stories making use around the world. key residents have taken shelter in the cities, metro after rush or fire day by roger results ukraine overnight. ukrainian officials, a dozens of miss alejandro owns, were launched a targets across the country. keith is pushing allies for more air defense systems to defend itself against russian attacks. has of people have rallied in hamburg calling for a fine on germany's far right, a f t party protests being triggered by the exposure of an alleged plan to deport millions of people with non german ethnic backgrounds, including german citizens, investigative journalists, site party members, discuss the proposal with a neo nazi group near berlin and accusation. the f

d to nice to us is carried out the 2nd day of mandatory strikes on who's the rebel targets in yemen. us officials say the new targets posed a threat to shipping in the red sea, which was being disrupted by who's the attacks in recent weeks. because he leaders have 5 to retaliate following the attacks. the aftermath of air strikes on who's the targets. the ripples said, at least 5 people were killed as 2 waves of strikes had 28 targets in parts of game and controlled by the rebels. the us and u. k. c, the strikes were acts of self defense. this is, these are backed by iran. they've been targeting ships in the red sea for weeks with the group releasing this voltage in november. a bit. spiker is appearing to see the vessel. it claims the attacks are in response to israel, warren gas it against the radical islam is from us organization. which the u. s. b,

u and other countries, i'm labeled a terrorist group a different ship though, the us. it's connie launched another attack on saturday, destroying a who's the radar station with a miss file present in spite and warrant there would be more to come if the who these didn't leave shipping alone. we will make sure that we respond but he also said that who these main allies knew better than to escalate the conflict that the united nations, the us once again pointed the finger at turned on. we need to also be clear about the role of iran and these attacks without arriving in support in violation of their obligations under resolution $2216.00. the who these would struggle to effectively track and strike commercial vessels. navigating shipping lines through

the red sea and the gulf of aidan to the iran. that's how i russia is currently waging a war of aggression against ukraine. but it condemned the striking claiming that they were against international law to make up the website. though there is no authorization for the arbitrary acts, that the us and its allies are carrying out in human. and there is the risk of a full fledged war not only in human, but throughout the region. it's a worry, shared by some, including these protesters in seattle. but washington, once again, sees air strikes as the least bad option to keep a conflict from spreading. after the 1st 2 days of hearings at the international court of justice and the hague, israel continues to defend its ministry operation and gaza as an active sales defense in response to the october 7 palm us terror attacks, a south african delegation argued that israel defensive was going beyond that to

them, it's an attempt to destroy the palestinians as a people claims that of mine to genocide and that the german federal government says it will request to join the cases of 3rd party in support of israel. berlin says there is no basis for south africa's accusations. well for more on this story, i'm joined by dw political correspondent julia. so i have at least 2. yeah, great to say you. so jeremy wants to join the trial as a 3rd party. how could that affect the court case? hold your name as a 3rd party and doesn't mean that germany will then be directly implicated in the case in the dispute. but it allows german need to bring forward written statements and participate in the oral proceedings. that wouldn't mean that germany could bring forward its own legal interpretation of the case and of the convention on genocide. now, it also is not an obligation for parties that join the proceedings to states which side there on. but we've heard clearly from statements made by the german

government that germany has taken parts to stand on the side of israel and is against the accusations brought by south africa. we heard from a government spokesman that germany rejects these accusations and says that they are baseless. and germany also sees this case as politically instrumental lising the convention on genocide. and we've also heard similar strong statements coming from the economy minister of atomic, who was in israel on thursday. and let's have a listen. so minus as industry and my personal and political opinion is that one can criticize these really military from using harsh measures in the gaza strip. however, that does not constitute genocide, took a more to pick those who would commit genocide or desire to do so. if given the opportunity you are how muscle solution, it's still not elation of the state of israel is on their agenda from the rest. so we can understand the slogan from the river to the sea as not meaning the jews

should lead israel by boats. but as an extinction fund to say, allison accusing israel of genocide is a complete distortion of victims and perpetration as in my view. and it is just wrong for an upfront, on tooth on the 2 on the size of hutch. right. so it is a very clear statement there from a while, but how back tell us, why is germany getting involved in this case at all? all countries that signed the convention on genocide can take part in proceedings as a 3rd party. and in this case, we don't see this as the 1st case that germany joins proceedings they've done that recently. and the case brought against me on mar, for accusations of genocide against the ruling. yeah. and also germany joined the case against russia for his war and ukraine. and in those 2 cases, germany supported the accusations of genocide. in the case of israel, it is not and we see that germany was to stand by israel being one of israel strongest allies. right? now and also though, there is

a sense of historical responsibility on the side of germany, given that the genocide convention was born out of the atrocities of world war 2 as a sign of never again and also out of the atrocities committed by nazi germany in the holocaust, so germany sees itself as responsible to ensure that the convention is interpreted correctly in the way that germany sees it's correctly. so it wants to also take a principled stand in this case. thanks judy and for breaking that down for a state of the federal correspondent julia. so i've got a or it will soon be more expensive to book a flight out of germany starting in may. the ticket tax is set to increased by almost one 5th. the hike is designed to help fill a 17000000000 euro hole in the budget, but some airlines say rising taxes are making it difficult to operate in germany. a couple flying from unit to hamburg, we'll have to pay a total of $62.00 euros and ticket taxes for return slight instead of the current

$52.00 taxes and fees have risen so much that they're on track to replace jet fuel costs in 2024 as an airlines highest operating expense, ryan air says it will fly to 52 destinations from berlin, adding for new roofs this year. but c o michael o'leary is warning he'll decrease ryan errors presence in germany is fees and taxes rise and instead go elsewhere. we're going to go to italy, we're going to go to spain, gonna push and we're going to an opponent. mean they were, if you look at our growth this year, it's in copenhagen. it's in albania, and it's important. we're not coming back to germany, or the sad thing is nor is anybody else. even lufthansa has reduced is pretty cold with capacity by about 20 percent. germany is suffering the least grow the least recovery. and the highest tier fears in your german lufthansa and british low cost to airline easy jets have also worn demand will decrease due to the increase tax leading to fewer tickets sold on flights. airlines typically tend to cancel routes

that are in low demand. well, other aviation markets grow jeremy's, missing over all that gold is missing out because it's the only country you are, the increasing all of these taxes and fees, the spanish, the germ of the spanish, the portuguese, the time is of reducing taxes, reducing fees to recover traffic and tourism, germany is sitting there, id losing all this towards them, all the same traffic and tourism to other european competitors. germany expects its ticket tax revenue to increase by 400000000 to 2000000000 euros in you will need to help fill the country's budget gap. however, the government is under more and more pressure as it tries to implement higher taxes. not just from the ation sector. here's a reminder of our top stories lighting to as one taiwan presidential election. the ruling democratic progressive party is conduct emerged victorious after his 2 opponents for the presidency. conceded china is criticized, lie as

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