the, the, this is dw news life for land. germany is defense minister down plays a damaging lake forest. the story explains human error for the intercept that puts the secret and military conversations about german weapons for ukraine into russian have. also coming up, natal conducts its biggest military exercise in europe since the cold war. all 31 allies as well as nato partner, sweden are participating and china opens its national people's congress with a focus on tackling growth. the events offers glimpses into how the communist party plans to get this economy back on track the

sarah kelly. welcome to the program. days after the damaging admission that a conversation between high level german military personnel was intercepted by russia, germany's defense minister says that the blame for the incident lies with simple human error. 4 days after the revelation 1st made headlines for us, the story is, has stepped before the cameras to explain in detail exactly what went wrong. he said that an officer who was visiting single board dialed in to join the discussions about the use of tourist missiles and ukraine without taking the necessary security measures. which led calling the leak a hybrid. this information attacked the story as expanded 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 really, for more or less support for ukraine. it's all up officially is getting the tennis king, henry must not fall before it. the most often lime game. he w as chief political editor and michelle, a customer has been following the story and told us more about the leak and its security implications. well, the details of the leak 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 time in defense. when the sub stories said this demons member of the military, a piece of used a, an insecure line. and there's a police here in berlin. that is, 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 the or into any was the story is the german defense minister saying that he was unwilling to sacrifice any of his top offices for watching cold putins 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 it, 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 a 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 damage is the credibility of the germantown. so that in a very heated debate over this weapon, which really runs even within his own party and his own governing coalition. so moscow clearly minus to hit a press of point, both in relation to ukraine, which desperately needs more weapons in gem and domestic politics, where the demons, hans, is already on the defensive to political editor and we have the concern. thank you

. nato is staging its biggest military exercise since the cold war operation. steadfast defender involves drills, encompassing a variety of scenarios and goes on until may some 90000 soldiers from all 31. nato allies and sweden are participating among them. is poland. troops are testing their ability to move military equipment and difficult conditions on the bus to a river. are brussels bureau chief, alexandra for nomine has this report from getting yes. are moving nato forces towards an imaginary funds line 300 meters across the vista level river. this exercise commanders here tell us it's meant to test nato, a strategic planning and logistics. river crossings. operations like the one we are witnessing here are all the undertaking is absolutely necessary. and that is because there are so difficult to plan and execute. you have to consider many

different sectors, like the characteristics of the terrain and river conference, and of course in case of a real war, all of these challenges would be negative 5 by enemy fire. so they wants to be ready in case bridges are destroyed and they needs to get across the river. and important exercise, especially for countries such as poland and the baltic states which are crossed by numerous rivers, british and german come. but engineers are among those in charge of transporting federal tanks and other equipment across the dish to the river. they said it took them just a few minutes to put together a fairly like this one. but every day has its own challenges. the river is quite high, the mom is quite hungry a few weeks ago, the areas where we don't show where be phoned up with the troops across. how does that sound and equal to? so i see the part of shipping outstanding. the bank preparation to ground works as

simple as an ending date to further what to maintain that with some 20000 soldiers from 9 nato countries. participating. this exercise led by poland is also a demonstration that the alliance is ready to deployed spearhead forces. wherever there are needed, i would argue it's the right exercise at the right time, because it sends a unified message and unified message to potential enemies like russia. as far as potential enemies lie dresser, you know, nato is preparing itself against tooth rates. it's russia and it's terrorist threats, but i would argue that this may 6 is also going to own audiences. we need to prepare ourselves. we need to be better and to spend more on drills like this one and on defense in general, need to officers say, but apart from these more general concerns, they are happy which day one of the train let's bring in the author of that report process bureau chief alexandra for nama, and she is, and you have in poland,

where some of the drills are being held. so you don't always say, do we have to say these are just exercises, but how high is the risk of potentially provoking russia, or provoking tension? well, that is the question that i put to need to a general's here in guinea. it's in poland on all of them told me that it's not about attacking of provoking russia, that their goal is to improve nato's defense and the terrance portia. but they also told me that the decision to hold those exercises on such a big scale was mad because it was made because of russia's war on ukraine. because not. and they to understand that they need to be ready, shoot russia, attack nato's territory. and we know that according to some intelligence agencies in europe, in 3 to 5 years, russia could try to attack to need to territory. so that is why nature commanders

are telling us it's important to train and it's important to exercise, to work together, to be ready for whatever may come. what is germany is role in the simulation i'm sorry, i can't hear you. what is germany's role in the drills? alexandra, hopefully you can hear me now. okay, that's our brussels guarantees, alexandra phenomena. as you can see there, she can no longer hear me. so we're going to move on to some other news now, and maybe we try and reconnect with her later. or here's some other stories making headlines. ukraine's military intelligence says that it has destroyed a russian naval patrol boat on the black sea near the crimean peninsula. the patrol

ship is called the circuit court of ukraine says that it destroyed the vessel with maritime drones. russia has not confirmed those claims. the cranes air force says that it managed to destroy 18 of 22 drones launched by russia targeting the odessa region, no casualties. were reported 2 days after 12, people were killed by another russian drone assault on the city. the philippines, as accused china's coast guard, of tearing out dangerous maneuvers that led to a collision between its coast guard ship and a chinese vessel in the south china sea. basing claims sovereignty in the region despite thank you. when's permanent court of arbitration finding those claims to have no legal basis now to china, where delegates to the national people's congress are trying to come up with solutions for the countries pressing, economic and demographic challenges. the highly choreograph national peoples congress event has just kicked off invasion. leaders have announced

a target of 5 percent economic growth in 2024. far below the double digit growth that was once powering the chinese economy. they also planned to increase defense spending by 7.2 percent. the same rate of increase of last year. the annual week long gathering is mostly ceremonial in nature. all key decisions have already been made behind closed doors by the communist party, dw reporter and asia analysts. clifford clinton joins, he's here in the studio for more. i mean, so 5 percent u d. p growth, that's that sounds quite optimistic. considering the current state as high as economy, doesn't it? whether it is optimistic, um, i've been going through the government work reporters, quite a hefty documents and comparing it to last year's. and actually the forecasts are pretty much the exact same as last year, which i mean literally the exact same. what's interesting though, is that it's a different world since last year. last year it was coming out of the pub,

demik. there was expectations that the economy was going to have a bounce back from, from the pandemic in which didn't happen in china. so now what they're trying to do is they're having the same forecasts, but the situation is a lot more complex for them. as facing a lot more headwinds, and they have to say, i mean the design is government has been accused in the past of dressing up those numbers. but you know, it seems not even leaders can sugar coat the current situation. i just want to have a quick play now of, of what china is. number 2, premier, leaky young have to say as well. what is the foundation for china sustained economic recovery and growth is not solid enough, as evidenced by lack of effective demand, low public expectations, and many lingering risks and hitting dangers to cabinet. i mean, do we, do we ever hear that level of candor from? is it yeah, face and think about how bad it is. i think it does in some, i'm from my list. you're saying that it could be, it's a fine, but it's even worse because, you know, if this is, if this is the window dressing, i think there's a couple of things going on here. one is that things get framed as

a kind of a campaign. very often that, you know, to get the people behind to, to say that we're all in this together. this is very much the kind of the rhetoric that you get to these companies, party events. but at all, it is also worth noting that at the end of the speech, he says that the wisdom of the chinese people and the resolve will, will, they will eventually triumph. so i think it's not quite as negative, but at the same time it is, it is pretty a pessimistic point of view in a way. what will it take to get china, the sort of growth that it's hoping to get with these projections or these goals? well, i think what needs reform, the economy needs to be reformed. there's such a focus now on security on issues like, i mean, we just saw be it'd be earlier to be so the reports about the philippines and you know, the, the clashes that we're seeing inside trying to see. there's all these sort of issues of the chinese government is dealing with at the moment. um, so it needs, it needs to change, but in some ways,

trying to couldn't keep growing the way it was growing for so long. and it was always going to slow down, and it's a question of what pace it happens and how that happens. and the way it feels at the moment is that this may be too much focused on security. and too much focus on, on doctrinaire kind of communist party rhetoric rather than helping the private sector. so it's got a lot of these challenges that needs to do. and i think probably the keyword is reform. and the question is whether they can ever deliver that reform feed of is clifford coo and thank you this well now we had to some other news. the head of the u. n's, palestinian refugee agency on raw, has warrant of a deliberate campaign to destroy it. following a funding fries by donors speaking at the un general assembly for the plaza, really stressed that the agency was vital to support when he calls a seat of displaced palestinians and gaza. he alleged that the is really government

was trying to undermine the agency for political ends. israel has repeatedly accused on right of employing staff linked to him off and other militant groups that has led many countries to suspend funding. we are functioning hon to most results. additional funding, we will be in on top of the territory. we service implications for global peace unset creating the faith of the agency and the millions of people it would depend on it hung in the banners. excellence he's only want is facing but deliberate and concert as compared to undermine its operations and ultimately and does that now on the ra, struggles to operate and gaza conditions for people within the territory are

getting worse. there are reports of children starving to death, and the desperation on the ground as parents try and find food. panic and k o as men and gaza city run around in a frenzy to find food. countries such as egypt, jordan fronts and now the us have been dropping aid from above. but there are too many people in need and there's not enough aid. the we have the willingness inability to bear it. but is there a father in the world who can see his children riding in hunger in front of him to remain silent? even if the price is risking his life. just like all these people who risk their lives in order to obtain what is not even enough for chrome, a flower, or aid or canned food. yesterday, some expired canned goods arrived containing mold and fungus. we are not animals,

as they described us. over the we can work us from the un, i'm the w which will russian to provide supplies to hospitals, medicines, and fuel a running critically no. and this is costing children headlines so unfortunately, yes, we have lost 2 babies here. they had pneumonia, but they died because of the power cut. the power went off at 4 am, and at 8 am we were out of oxygen. the one that many of those have died from hunger, according to the visiting team from the w, and show that there is no milk or anything when the situation is bad, indescribable. we're not able to get him anything. these deaths come as the bone being outside continues and bodies, philip flores,

somewhat so young, they barely have the chance to live. and meantime, a new report by the united nation says that there are quote, reasonable grounds to believe that rafe and gang rape occurred during the october 7th terror attacks. led by him us the un mission, interviewed survivors and witnesses, and examined hours of video footage and thousands of photographs to arrive. at this conclusion, the special representative on sexual violence said that she and a team of experts had found clear and convincing information about race and sexualized tor channels on the report also said that some incidents of rain could not be verified funds, but that there was to be sensing information that hostages taken from his real sex, were subjected to sexual violence during their captivity. 7 tuba and a change of pace. we're going to the united states now where it is super tuesday in

the us, the biggest, the day so far. and the 2024 race for the white house. when states across the country choose who they think they are. parties nominated for president should be 15 states from alabama to alaska and one territory american samoa are holding primary elections. the race is already dominated by 2 candidates president joe biden, for the democrats and his predecessors. donald trump, for the republicans. nikki haley is still trump only competition, but poll show that he is unforced when or william blue cross told me why this is such an important day and the us election race to produce a is finally a chance for states across the country that are bit more representative of the population as a whole to vote and have their say. whereas before you have these one, all states like new hampshire, south carolina, the iowa caucuses that are both small states, not very representative and have this unfair impact on the course of the election.

so super tuesdays often a chance for candidates that may be having performed very well up to that point to really make a splash at least for show us got take some 1st place positions that lead to strong 2nd this year. as you just set up a top, it's almost a foregone conclusion. borrowing some massive surprise, donald trump is going to continue his sweep across the space. is there any chance of a mess of surprise from nikki haley? what would it take for her to be able to break his momentum? it would take the polls to be massively wrong. i mean, some of the polls are rather dated because when it comes to state level data, you don't get a lot of grand new will pulling data in some of the smaller states. somebody is further flung places. poet poll searches aren't on the ground to do regular updates . so you might have some polls that go back all the way to january. none the less if you see enough poll with donald trump with a massive lead, let's say 60 percent 70 percent. even in some cases, 80 percent to to nikki haley. 302520 years sometimes only in the teens that paints

a pretty dire picture for hailey and a pretty confident one for donald trump to be, to be moving into a what he already is. the fact though, but officially under holly and candidate for president 2024 as he was right. rerunning in 2020 and in 2016. okay, so that's on the republican side when we look at the democrats. meanwhile, tell us a little bit more about the voting there and what it tells us about democrats enthusiasm for joe biden and his candidacy. all right, so joe biden is running more or less uncontested. there are some very small, almost i would say, protest candidates running against them in some states. they don't have 50 state representation because they don't have enough support. but so joe, by that is for all intents and purposes, running on a post as the incumbent, which is normal when you have the incoming president, there's a party, has very little interest in competing with the incumbent president to the income and has those kinds of advantages being in office already. nonetheless, you know,

as we saw in michigan for example, there's a non committee or yeah, sort of just, you know, people who are distaste for joe biden either because of his age and they don't think he's really fit to be the president or continue to be president joe biden, remember himself hinted back in 2020 it maybe just being a one term bridge to something else to some kind of future or some kind of younger candidate that of course has not come to pass so well, joe biden will surely sweep these primaries for the democrats and he will be the strong winter by, by large margins, if not almost a 100 percent. there is a, an unspoken, or laura, or, or, or considerable minority of voters. we're just on half the and how that translates in the general election when the margins are raise or stand for an election can really spin on a couple of 1000 votes here in there. that small amount of people could be a danger to jo biden's re election in november, william how long until they get the results. how, how late, what might we have to stay up tonight?

hotel, because the states are happening across the country multiple times. for example, california, uh they are uh, 3 hours behind the east coast there 9 hours behind where were sitting here in the center of europe. nonetheless, in relation to the times of the day or in those results should come out fairly quickly as we seen in the, in the primary. so far, relations are these primaries are called almost within minutes to typically speaking, even if only a few percent of the actual votes have been counted statistically. so you can make it a pretty clear determination of results going one way or another. of course, the losing candidates always say that they have to wait to see all votes are counted, but statistically speaking, we can know very quickly who will come out on top, across the country. we stuff the way, given the time zone, william blue cross, thank you. and we're heading to sydney, australia where women of the. 7 diabetes serve be there's a life saving club,

are training the next generation of rescuers. they also raise rescue boats to hone their skills and have international women's day on march. 8th, the volunteers of the pick 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. 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 doing it. she just wanted to do it. so 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 applying is like no of that. i mean,

it means everything really establish a 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 and her male colleagues is that she can cut corners when it comes to her craft. we have to work a lot more on out checked in a little bit. if something that the women have to get that take me say that if we're technically wrong 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 quick reminder now of our top stories here on dw news,

germany's defense minister has waned. human error for the leak of a secret military conversation forced the stories so that one color joined the discussion about the use of tourist missiles and ukraine without taking the necessary security measures. now to be beefed up in the wake of the breach. time is national people's congress has announced a target of 5 percent economic growth in 2024 far below the double digit digit expansion. invasion once enjoyed the rubber staff assembly also plans to hike defense spending like 7.2 percent for the 2nd year in a row. next mobile us program is looking at one of the most dangerous migration routes in the planet. stay with us. if you can. i'm sarah kelly and berlin. thank you so much for watching. take care the,

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