months to any peace accusing moscow of trying to influence the outcome of june's elections in the 2nd largest democratic is accurate in the world. now this follows the discovery of a russian influencing operation in the czech republic. so what else should we be looking for? russians hiding in the shadows, i'm feel go invalid, and this is the day the most go has approached european members of parliament as also page european members of parliament in order to promote the russian agenda here. gramlin. we'll continue using this information, my line interference corruption, and any other dare to thanks. we must state a firm stands against this form of corruption and betrayal. laws, politicians,

political parties, so governments most probably cut them in agents. all democracy cannot be taken for granted. the girl is very clear. a recon to repeat and support for ukraine, serves russia on the battlefield is also coming up, fight until you die. ukraine's parliament scraps. i propose time limit on soldiers service at the front. it's a bit of blow for families waiting to see them loved ones. much all have a sense of being punished for the patriotism volunteering to fight when the war stones with my husband told me, i can't just sit around. i have to say is someone needs to defend this country. so if i don't go who will my husbands exhausted? he's only 29 and he's already gone. great. really welcome to the day, in 2 months, people in 27, your opinion,

countries will focus in the elections that to the d. u parliament. it should be a celebration of european democracy, but officials, arkansas, but russia is attempting to influence the outcome. fears were aroused at the end of march when the check governments shut down a news side called voice of your products and beyond. that was being paid by russia to spread propaganda and funnel cash. just sympathetic lawmakers in the your p and part of it will politicians from germany, france, poland, belgium, the netherlands, and hungry, allegedly given cash, and exchange for making pro russia remarks. well, today belgium's prime minister, alexandra decruz, that he's country, has a formal investigation into the obligations. you said russian spine that works for operating in belgium, on several of your fee and countries. according to our intelligence service, the objectives of moscow are very clear. the objective is to help elect more pro russian candidate studio, p and parliament, and to reinforce

a certain pro russian narrative in that institution. the goal is very clear. a recons europe in support for ukraine, serves russia on the battlefield, and that is a real aim of what has been in coverage in the last weeks. if on christine is a research fellow at the international center for the defense and security in the stony and capital talent, he's an expert in russian foreign and domestic policy. a welcome to the day. i guess we shouldn't be surprised that russia seeking to influence your opinion, actions certainly there, there should be no surprise, a lot of process continued in times to interfere in democratic processes around the world rather. right now, europe and north america are particularly important targets because the governments in industry regions are giving help to ukraine, argument monitoring systems,

financial support, and all kinds of political and diplomatic aid. europe to particular is important for us right now, because it is the come to, to, to a, to, to you for your printer. so russia, intervening in the politics of europe, is ministry disrupt that a supply of age and us change the strategic environment where rough as fighting against you're going to achieve what so, because even they say they've changed a couple of votes that's not going to, that's not going to change the, the way, but the european union as a blocker and save the united states as a, as a block up thinks of ukraine. is it? you start from the, to the point. there's not so much to have a breaking point to have a moment where it'll break sounds more to the continually continuously put, the pressure on the societies continuously undermine the credibility of those sorts

in front of the broader population. that's what this information boss. it's meant to create a skepticism, divide society, explain to the, to be some stuff already exist on with time. and actually there will be a moment where there's a shift where our will to support ukraine on the will to defend ourselves on our will to stand up to russia or undermine. and that's the long term view. the rest of the house door towards the side of things. and we've also seen this happening in the czech republic. so should we presume that is going on elsewhere across europe as well? i definitely do every come from europe is i looked at the roof shop through this lens. so this hostile lens of undermining our institutions of 5000000 divisions of disseminating this information and promoting the vision of the war of aggression who goes to craig. and this is something that a,

all the countries must look into to see how it affects them and how to corporate with other partners and allies to precisely defend themselves and to protect themselves against is constant hybrid. or i'm so the back to drop to, to basic cost is your opinion upon them entry elections in june in which themselves are expecting to see an increase in the number of right wing and pro russia candidates and pauses. certainly without thinking about specific parked as we come, when i turn with the rest of this information on rough on subject communications is that is that roughly right, though it's not a legitimate participant in international relations because if it's a gresham against your crime, so it's message doesn't really have widespread purchased across the site. it is. ready it really underestimates in different just on the,

on the margin. so called spectrum which happens to be very awesome. and the far left on the far right. i'm right now with the shifts and orange politics. rushes particularly trying to capitalize on much rice and, and so just to be clear, is it illegal to pay you are paying that i mean, pays and is it a legal for them to receive payment? this is something the, the don't many specific regulations. i don't want to mislead the audience and by saying that it's definitely legal or legal done differently. dark ethical questions when it comes to accepting payments for disseminating specifically best messages or not engaging in due diligence when it comes to writing the appearances when it comes to associations. so i was talking with ethical questions on the legal elements. it's

something to be uh uh to review. okay, because it costs a lot of here and problem. it does have full when it comes to corruption, it's phone the vice president, eva kyle. he's currently fighting obligations connected to the so called katasha gate scandal. certainly this refers large under capable household power. you know, there are many other actors that are to be way maybe even without the as wide emissions as rough when it comes to international relations blocked or so there's somebody trying to. ringback promotes on the bus or agendas. so this expecting this similar mechanisms. 18th, because of cost. i mean, i'm glad you're, you're right it's, it's not just russia ameris. i suppose the various this tendency to, to suspect or to see russia or pollutants hand behind pretty much everything that goes wrong. always is rush over to the brush. i do that did rest of course, this election to go this way. i'm not, i mean,

i mean that's in your mind as opposed to some extent that winning the semester, correct? ended with the russell wants to be seen as a great power. and that's a major player in global politics. and in your defense, who wants to be seeing us thought that said, let's russia still stump silence because of its intent because the actors, you know, let me click upon marco they, there, i am, sorry, not us a comprehensive on that they don't have of intention to completely redo all the your gun secuity arbor. right. you've written that this russian meddling is well fat without crossing the threshold into outright wool. so how difficult does that makes it calibrating a response? it makes it makes it quite difficult because indeed traditional secure temp, traditional defends, they assume that there will be some sort of open the possibility that the opponent

. ready will the will make themselves be seen and uh, the evidence that they are fighting against you. in this case, it does all throw some version it smaller or something of the cold war. although fault with new instruments. and then these case respond the best responses, rosul title resilience, which i go into the specifics, but create in our society that is resilient in front of this information in front of the active measures on this political war for it to also have an effect of the tyrants, i'm the stopping costs collect 1st from engaging in this type of activity when you're given as much to think about as we thank you for that event increased from the international, the center for the defense, and secure se in time. thank you so much. thank you. of the ukraine is urgent, they appealing to its allies for more ad defend supplies. as it struggles defend

off the waves of russian. miss sile and john strikes the call comes in response to a renewed rest of the cell from energy supplies and infrastructure drugs. dry costs destroyed one, a few things, major power funds to pill skip plants, was the largest industry supplier for keys and 2 other regions like mazda and as well studies senior fellow at kings college of london. a welcome back to the w mike . all right, so ukraine defense has brought down 57 of the i to, to incoming mist 1000 drums. and what does this tell us about the states of ukraine's air defense systems? what i look is always in a defense commander in charge of defending a city. i'd want to take out every enemy, projects, or drive no play and that came towards me. another thing is the lack of skill they've been doing this for months. it tells us that they simply don't have the missiles and all the projectiles to take out the incoming russian drones in plains

and missiles. all right, and this is sufficient spring, a thing for perhaps the last 6 months to a year of this will the lack of a temporary on the training side. this is it has. yeah. and this is specifically about the ad croft missile defense which is most specialist. and alternately, if alternately, i munition you producing great bulk and ship it to the front lines and then it gets part of the enemy. but as we've seen, you know, ac russian or either drains or pines or missiles came out of the last night. so that's not very many. you don't need very many defense missiles, but each one is, is more expensive, more testing, you know, from the heat seeking. so they're more technically complicated than the temporary rounds. and, you know, we've seen in the news again, over the last year, the story i, the, are they gonna get the american patriot system? are they gonna have enough themselves for it? this is part of the why the story and ukraine, which is the ukraine,

doesn't really have all of the munition that it needs to put through the weapon systems that it's already been given. russian has been targeting industry facilities across that ukraine since the beginning of the war, the rates of success appears not to be increasing. what has changed. mm hm. well, absolutely. they've been doing it for about 18 months now, and that was, you know, it is a war crime. we do need to say that right. targeting energy facilities that civilians use is a will con. um, but, but what's changed is you'll, you'll view as you probably know the over the last 6 months ukraine is been starting to hit russian oil production, oil refinery facilities. and that's causing problems in russia. so there is a renewed russian focus on targeting a bit of a tit for tat, really targeting ukrainian supplies. and of course, as we've already mentioned, the kinds of running out sold the defense of missiles that they need. so this

$60000000000.00 worth of a, a for ukraine that's, that's still being blocked by the us congress. anyway, the flag gets passed pretty quickly. how much difference tenants, how much time will it take to actually make a difference? this? uh well, uh, you know, some of some of what happens when appropriations get made is that it, it, it covers an order that goes into the us, some industry stocks and the us military is able to immediately give away was it hasn't it stops. and then that order the, the guns and the appropriation will then restore the us military. so the question is really the balance between those 2. but to answer your question directly, it's not going to make an immediate difference. we're talking, you know, a month, 6 weeks and was that goes on more and more days, the russian drawings and planes. and there's also going to get through the defenses control context transfer. that's i guess that's a clearly ministry unless mike boston from king's college monday. thank you.

meanwhile, ukraine's parliament has passed, a new law will make it easier to call up new recruits. it requires old man age between 18 and 60 to carry documents showing that they've registered with the ministry. that will also provide soldiers with incentives like cash bonuses, or money towards the cost of a house, or call a new troops desperately needed ahead of the votes in parliament. a general told lawmakers that ukrainian soldiers ay number 10 to one in places, but that was bad news, full surfing the troops. parliamentarians dropped a clause from the little that would have placed time limits on the service. versions the life of the mobilization after 3 years. the emission is a bits of blog for baffled, barely troops, some of whom i've been fighting since the war, big to wear a training ground near keys in just a few weeks time. the soldiers will head back to the front lines where they've been

since about shooting. they did 2 years ago. that was last year. i got 5 days off here. lots of guys in my units have families who have gone abroad. some have even become grandfathers and they've never met their grandkids hops. they never will. this is an alex on this 1st experience of will. he served in the army of to 2014 when ukraine was fighting russian bucks that protest and don't boss. he left in 2020 to start to business, the family, his wife and his 3 year old daughter have barely seen him since he went back to his unit until after the full scale invasion. it also looked as though. yeah, if you were told to be serving until 2025, you'd know that if you survive, you'd be going home. if people come make plans, they get depressed and then they start making mistakes. alexandra tells us it's not a question of wanting to lead straight away. it's about feeling some kind of control being able to plan your life that he's convinced would piece morales, the mobilization of to 18 months on the front lines are

a total of 36 months service with both discussed when this little made its way through parliament. it was central to the russian now for the new pulling up the soldiers to give veterans a chance to recover. in the end, any mention of the mobilization was dropped with little pri, wanting me, returning prisoners of to get an exception or see a good target. russia is preparing to mobilize at least 300000 man over the next 6 weeks. that's in addition to 150000 during that movie service. that could be another wave of mobilization and the all time it was more to do in this situation, de mobilizing experience, soldiers would be suicide or if you put the solution before, based on the way the soldiers wives and mothers protesting the parliament don't expect the husbands to come home right away, what they want is clarity, much enjoy recal,

husbands of being punished for the patriotism volunteering to fight when the war stones with my husband told me, i can't just sit around. i have to serve and someone needs to defend this country. so if i don't go who will do you my husbands exhausted, he's only 29 and he's already gone gray. slavery's for now. no one to new cranes military or politics wants to make promises to these families that they know they'll most likely have to break. what they can do is make sure it's not just those who volunteered in the uh, the days of the will. there's a left defending ukraine's front lines. and germany's chance of that is of the china base weekend on the 3 day visit that promises to be something on a tightrope act as m. o. la schultz will be accompanied by a posse of german business leaders reflecting the fact that these countries investments in china is at record levels. despite the looming trade route between

china, i'm the repeating union over subsidies. mister schultz is also expected to press page and not to support russia in his will against ukraine, or does showing a hold the key to the outcome of russia's war against ukraine. as german chancellor will have sold heads on his 2nd visit to beijing. prussian foreign minister, sec, i love golf was already bad. both on a mission to seek china suppose over you crate. we wish certainly would be the trying to use this. the influence it has on russia. good. mustn't come on his last visit too late. 2022. salts claimed a diplomatic when getting she to publicly pushed back on the russian president vladimir putin to the new plans right now suited, has returned to speaking of the sale. raising the question console gets sheet to speak out again. since the last visit germany has declared dean,

risking the corner stone. if it's new, china is trusting amount to the new which is tilting tough on satera trade. in europe, we have a very clear principle for dealing with china. the risk not to do couples talking to china clearly and hopefully is the right approach for jem and companies don't seem to be listening. instead, they've been investing more in china than ever before. a record 11900000000. yours in 2023 alone. chinese prison, she sees the concept of de risky as a threat to his country's development pointing. that's prime minister my router of confrontation over attempts to limit scientists access to the highest level to technology attends, backed up to sol since visit it's successful, la sleeping message by once he can achieve on ukraine. schultz also knows that any chinese support and branding in russia wouldn't come 1st free people from dw

political correspondent, simon young. welcome, simon. so what influence does germany have on china when it comes to basins backing for russia in the ukraine war as well? so i think if you're talking about the influence, you have to see a gym and a i'm trying that was important for jim and a i think it's a bit more trade and then the other way around that. and last year, jim and he came up with a new showing strategy talking about that. so the tougher approach, talking about the risk getting that says i have a lever to use a fab bowling sales that it doesn't have previous something china has done or, or might do. uh, but uh oh, that shows, i think using college also i see the point that the german chinese trade, these really important jobs here. and so the german economy is a whole, so,

you know, it's a tight right. well, for him when it comes to ukraine, showed says what he was going off the chinese authorities to sort of act as a media to and in the, the ukraine. well, well that's going to be difficult because, you know, china has been supporting russia is economy. and so i think when you know, the gym and officials took about it's showing is loss of reputation because it's aligned we've, we've most go, you know, that to it may be difficult to, to really persuade them to change course they may listen to bowling, but that influence is difficult, stoker and the more about this job in a tight rope a was because we have the government invalidated saying it wants to de risk. it's economic relationship with china while at the same time, same record levels of gym and a business investment back to lots of people that seem somehow all od as

well. yeah. what to, what is the risking main? it means a reducing exposure in particular to political risks, but that is difficult to do again, as i said, because there's such a close relationship between the, these 2 economies. and at the moment the german economy is wait. so a china remains deputies largest international trade in port and uh, and it produces cheap products for the gym and market gym and businesses. these things they can still compete on, on quality. and that's why that continuing to invest in china. in fact, of course we're really talking about just a few small. i think big jam and a company is a, it's, it's the chemicals. john b, i s f. it's the engineering john z minutes and the call makers. they're all thinking about their relationship with john. if i can prevent,

the risking may may in fact mean moving some production into china rather than pulling out but small uh, a medium sized gem and businesses. i think of ready to change that approach. end of already pulled some production away from, from join them a quick. what about another contentious issue with china? i thought of taiwan. where is germany on that issue? this would you always go to friendly relations with the taiwan and you know, it has the set top of things like corporation in the civil society and legal corporation. a gym and government administer visited to i one last year for the 1st time in 26 years. and you know, there's a lot of good words around it. but when it comes to the relationship between taiwan and beijing gym and is a lot vega, it says, you know, stability across the taiwan strait is important for the global economy for the

european economy, particularly a coast because of the role of taiwan and semi conductor production but you know, again, the concerns from the land on this issue a likely to be heard, but in by aging, but i doubt they'll be very much taken to also make much of a difference. okay. and it's not. so i'm and dw political correspondent, simon. yeah. and that is for dice at the end of the week you can follow at the same on social media at the w news, lasers that headlines, of course i'm dw, don't come on with the w as in either from the tell you all today time spending as part of your day with us have a good day, a great weekend the

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