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. i'm sarah kelly, welcome to the program. days after the damaging admission that a taped conversation between high level german military personnel was leaked into russian hands, germany's defense minister says, blame for that incident, lies with simple human error. 4 days after the revolution started making headlines, for us, the story is stuffed before the cameras to explain in further detail exactly what had gone wrong. he says that a single port in color dialed in to join the discussion about the use of tourist missiles and ukraine without taking the necessary security measures. the story as was unable, however, to provide the details of how the reporting made it into russian hands. the input this in stoughton dodge, calling the league a hybrid, this information attack, he expands it on russia's attempts to influence the narrative in germany. or what slant type. russia is constantly trying to drive a wedge between us,

between the domestic political forces in germany, between the policies, between those 12, for or against, for more or less support for ukraine. it's all about 50 is getting the tennis king, henry must not fall before it. the most often lime game see that he is chief political editor of mckayla. customer has been following the story and told us more about the leak and its security implications. well, the details of the link that we heard about today and so that there was one member of the cool who was at the time in a single pull at a conference and the drum and defense. when the sub story is said, this demons, member of the military, appears to have used a, an insecure line. and this, the belief here in berlin that the russian intelligence was signing off communication, free flowing communication during that particular conference. knowing that there are lots of military personnel in town. so the durham inside seems to believe that

this was pretty much a lucky find on the russian side. having said that, and the german going to said the military is now also reassessing. it's the security of its own lines, but does stress that there was no hacking into any system and uh, the, or into any server. at the same time, everything is now being reassessed. for now, the 4 people involved are under investigation, but we also heard from boys the story from german defense minister saying that he was unwilling to sacrifice any of his top offices for watching gold putin's game so that we are in this game of communication in what is described as a hybrid wall here in germany. but you know, it still doesn't put germany's military in a very good light. what has been the reaction absolutely, and it also comes at a time of very heated debates here in germany,

over whether or not the weapon that was being discussed, the towers and missile system is supposed to be sent to ukraine or not. the government tonsils complete the against that he says that this could be read by the russian side as the german involvement in this conflict. and this is since, really been confirmed now by moscow that it would be seen that particular way, despite the fact that the french and the brits are deploying or have already sent similar a weapon systems. so, and this was quite something that the opposition picked up on here on the damages, the credibility of the drum and tom slit in a very heated debate over this weapon which reading runs even within his own party and his own governing coalition. so moscow clearly minus to hit a pressure point, both in relation to ukraine was desperately needs more weapons. so in gem and

domestic politics, where the demons, hans, that is already on the defensive to political editor and we have the customer. thank you. and to hear some of the stories making headlines, ukraine's military intelligence says that it has destroyed a russian naval patrol boat on the black sea near the crimea peninsula. the patrol ship is called the surrogate court of ukraine says that it destroyed the vessel with maritime drones. russia has not confirmed the claims or a new report by the humans envoy for sexual violence says that there are quote, reasonable grounds to believe rape and gang rape occurred during loss is october 7th terror attacks. the report also said that there was convincing information that hostages were subjected to sexual violence during their captivity, including sexual modern b. u. s. supreme court has unanimously rejected

a. the state of colorado has bid to lock donald trump from the 2020 for presidential ballot. a ruling applies nationwide, the former president will contest 15 c primaries as part of super tuesday voting seen as key to confirming his republican candidates see the philippines as accuse china is coast guard of carrying out dangerous maneuvers that lead to a collision between its coast guard ship and a chinese vessel and the south china sea vision claimed sovereignty in the region. despite the u, as permanent court of arbitration finding those claims to have been had no legal basis. we have now it's a china where the delegates to the national people's congress are trying to come up with solutions for the countries pressing, economic and demographic challenges. the highly choreographed national people's congress event has just kicked off in beijing. leaders have announced a target of 5 percent economic growth in 2024. far below the double digit growth

that once powered the chinese economy. they also plan to increase defense spending by 7.2 percent. the same rate of increase as last year. now the annual week, long gathering is mostly ceremonial in nature. all key decisions have already been made behind closed stores by the communist party. we have the encroachment in beijing to explain how the government says it plans to meet the 5 percent growth target as yeah, that is really the big question. uh, 5 percent growth, as you mentioned, is actually much lower than what china is. the chief just let's say 10 years ago when the economy wants to basically i'm growing double digits every year. now, 5 percent is actually quite ambitious. when you look at the predictions of the big investment banks, they would predict that china would grow roughly around 4 percent. so, and the government has to deliver something to a cheapest growth of 5 percent. and uh, what are some economists are expecting?

is it um that could be a stimulus package, but i would be cautious because the signal it's that we have been getting today was that, you know, there's not really a bold vision for reforms. there's not really um, anything, no liberal reservation, no big stimulus packaged into making. so we don't really know yet because of the vault report today like those critic code details. and i would say we have to wait to see how the government will implement demetrius to achieve this growth. and let's get more. we are joined now by stephen naggie, senior associate professor at the international christian university in tokyo. i thank you for your time. give us a sense of what time is military is already capable of right now, as thanks very much say for having the again, let me think about the chinese military. we can think about it in terms of its maritime capabilities. is this information capabilities of cyber security capabilities? and i think importantly in the context of the end of

a civic is grades or hybrid topics. it's invested heavily in the capabilities to reunify with taiwan by force is necessary. but at the same time, invest and the kinds of resources coastguard vessels and merchant vessels to be used in the south, tennessee to us stress and, and fully a southeast asian countries to abide by china's territory claims. in the south china sea, it's already spending a lot on defense and as we've heard, you know, it's soon to spend more on defense on that plan. what aspects of its military do you think it's going to be focusing on as well? what we see is that china continues to try to monetize modernize dismissal terrace . that means it's going to pay its soldiers more. it's gonna try give them better equipment. and the kind of equipment that china is particularly interested in really has to do with a 50 s k if abilities and those have to be as capabilities really are targeted at

re unifying with taiwan. that includes maritime domain awareness activities. an air force that can uh, secure and air defense identification zone in and around taiwan. and the ability to of pressure taiwan through various means include including this of environment. we also see investment heavily in a, in, in this information and cyber security. and these are key areas that i think china is investing in to try and we're there a way or a road away. the tourette's capabilities, the time when use are trying to develop but also influenced our society in elections. so that the time these themselves make the decision to return to a was the chinese understands the motherland without a fight. and i think this is an important way to be thinking about trying to strategy. it doesn't want to go into a kinetic conflict with time on, and that would mean the united states and other partners. but it would like to converse control and stress the time. nice. so they make the choice naturally to

return back to the mainland. according to the chinese government, you mentioned the united states there. there's been a lot of focus on the military competition. we have to say between china and the united states. when might we see china catch up with the united states militarily? when we're talking about capabilities or do you see that even happening as? but the most analysts believe that catching up with united states is, is that at a global level is decades away. but, you know, a very narrow context in terms of thinking about china is capabilities across the taiwan strait. this is much more complicated. thailand or china has the capability to really concentrate an enormous amount of resources in his efforts to reunify. what with taiwan and this will be difficult to combat from the american standpoint, but also thinking about america's partners within the region where this japanese, these trillions or others. so the trick with the, the key to the turing,

the chinese and insuring piece instability across the taiwan straits is really conveying to the chinese that the united states security commitments in the broader region and towards taiwan. as long as taiwan does not declare independence g a laterally really are rock solid and that and united states will be there to defend taiwan or other allies within the region. dr. stephen now get senior associated professor at the international christian university. tokyo, thank you so much. thank you. latasha sydney, australia now where women of the bonded beach surf be there is life saving club. are training the next generation of rescuers. they also race rescue boats to hone their skills and ahead of international women's day on march. 8th, the volunteers of the pink patrol are raising awareness about how women contribute

to safety on the water. it's a sunday morning on sydney's iconic bondai beach veteran live savers. next he cried, and christy smith, sprint through the surf and leap into their inflatable rescue boat, or i r b as quick as they can, that they were passing on their experience to the next generation of women. rescuers. in the case of christie and her daughter shar, quite literally it's a really lovely experience. so what she keeps, what she and mental you'll keep. and then she said to me one day, oh and i want to do it and i love it. and she recently told me that the feeling is like no other. i mean it means everything really established your relationship with her. and i feel really women were excluded from australia serve rescue force

until 1980. now they make up almost half of the volunteers. after 12 years on patrol, nixie cried says the only difference between her in her male colleagues is that she can cut corners when it comes to her craft. we have to work a lot more on outtake may be something that the women have to get that taken. they were technically in the lead up to women's day, the bondai beach crew ran its annual pink patrol to highlight their brave work on the choppy waters and to inspire more women to follow in their sandy foot steps. a reminder of our top story. germany's defense minister has blamed human error for the leak of the secret military conversations. for us, the story is said that one color joined to the discussion about the use of tourist missiles and ukraine without taking the necessary security measures. now to be

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