this harkey on sunday, the former footballer 71000000 followers, saw videos and photographs that followed a children's anesthesiologist at work in the midst of the war. mister beckerman, ambassador for unicef since 2005 urged his followers to donate to the organization, which is working in ukraine to provide families with access to clean water and food . great initiative. thank you so much for watching. we'll be back. ah, we got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, no magic corner chat, hotspot for food and some great cultural memorials to boot d w, travel off we go. ah .

with this is it other news asia coming up today? rochelle dis, information on ukraine, amplified in china. chinese state and social media broadcasting are very russia and meet one sided version of events and you've grained. an expert called it maximum pro, russia new trinity. stay tuned for what that means. and china backs it's claims of the south china sea, with military might look at the islands. a u. s. to mando says, china has been authorized

ah irish energy. welcome to d. w. news asia. glad you could join us. russia has view of its invasion and ukraine has found a ready audience in china. the government refuses to call russian actions and invasion, and state media routinely echoes the official kremlin tom special military operation . comments on chinese social media. 2 are heavily censored in favor of russia. the result is a heavily one sided view of a war. a majority of the world has condemned. he has more from fabi on a crash my in beijing. you let him in putin, he's a formula, one driver and an ice hockey champion, how formidable the caption reads, social media, and china's filled with videos like this, idolizing the russian president, wilson and in state media coverage of the war almost exclusively shows sympathy for

moscow. it's also emphasized humanitarian aid that russia is said to have distributed to ukraine, but very little focus on russian aggression and the targeting of civilians. the bias reporting has meant huge support for proteins action among the chinese people . to gum wigwam, the u. s. has a lot of weapons in ukraine and the weapons in ukraine are a threat to russia. russia wants to destroy their military equipment. i think it's the right decision. all. oh, so sir, my personal opinion. it's the fault of both sides. but what fault exactly? as an ordinary person, i cannot really understand exactly that. open clara, it's hours with the atlantic council. it's digital forensic research lab and specializes in analyzing propaganda and his information. there's little doubt that china begs russia, but she says this is more than just b ging siding. with an ally and as long as there's the civilization in other

regions, you know, they have the opportunity to really expand their power and read her is definitely some opportunities that china has with any halo geopolitical instability for its own. modest part of that is to shift blame to western countries for the conflict. it's also aligned with one of moscow's key objectives of most relevance and in puzzles, is that china declared sandy supports and it stands firmly with russia in opposing the continued eastward expansion of nato. analysts say badging also wants to cool sentiment domestically and prevent the war from stirring emotions among people, despite china, claiming to be neutral over the crisis. the white spread online censorship is telling a different story. voices calling for peace or criticizing russian president vladimir putin simply get erased from chinese social media. the playbook china is using, makes it difficult to gauge people's views and what's happening. but it could have

serious negative effects and even undermine international efforts to resolve the crisis. i think ultimately they feel people from the damaging consequences of war and what is actually happening there on the ground. i think dick re, apathy and worries is a really dangerous sentiment. it's gonna lead to more apathetic generation of people in china for years to come. beijing has yet to refer to the tech on ukraine as an invasion and continues to call it a special military operation. and it says its relationship with russia remains rock solid. and joining me now for more is more ica holberg. she is an expert in china as media and digital policies and a senior fellow in the asia program as a think tank, the german marshall fund where i go. why are crim lynn's talking points on ukraine? being reproduced in chinese state and social media. the line

that the chinese state has taken on the war and ukraine is ultimately that the us and nate who are to blame and that europe should, you know, maybe see corporation with russia to rearrange and security architecture in europe. so this is also why chinese official media and chinese official sources such as you know, the accounts of documents are amplifying these messages coming out of russia. and like on the one hand, you have the chinese government saying a court conflict and confrontation on not in any one's interests. and on the other hand, you have it. state media, repeating russian claims about the war. therefore, justifying it why these 2 opposing strategies. so when i've called those, what's happening here is maximum pro ration tragedy. so i think what the chinese

government is doing here is leave itself a little out at the end because there are some issues also from the perspective of the chinese public in terms of, you know, national sovereignty, which is something that the chinese government has put left right, and center in the past and very clearly this is the problem about the national sovereignty of ukraine. so actually, you know, there are some, some facing some, some criticism for that as well. but, but the basic point here is that the chinese state ones to lend as much support as possible to russia that it can afford without completely committing itself to the position. so it basically wants to remain sufficiently and ambiguous that when things really, really go south for faster, for russia and things have not been going well based on all that, we know, right? it can still somehow pull itself out and say, but look, we've always,

we've never so good russia, we've always, you know, also given humanitarian aid to ukraine. so really we have, we, we haven't been partial in this conflict even even though they happen. or do you see this media coverage of the nuclear war? somehow setting a precedent for how russia and china amplify each other's messages in the future. there's been some amplification in the past and between the 2. never super coordinated as far as i know, but definitely some coordination and then up in istic amplification. i do think this is slightly more slightly more slightly stronger than what we see in the past. it is definitely based on the, the shared assumption that you know, the western and decline of a countries are in the rise. so we might just get away with us. we know, with, with amplifying this and with,

with taking the russian side on this. i do think even though the extreme example, i think we're going to see more of this kind of coordination and mutual amplification where i can relieve her there. thank you so much for joining us today . while russia pushes ahead with the military invasion in ukraine and china is pushing ahead with military preparedness, but it's claims in the south china sea over the weekend, the top us commander and the inter pacific said beijing had fully militarized at least 3 islands in the region now for context, china claims almost all of the south china sea, shown on this map within this dotted line. it's uni, latrell claims have been declared illegal binding international court, but it hasn't stop paging from constructing military bases on the features. it controls such as on a 3 reefs in the contest. it's practically islands. the usa is china has deployed

missile systems fighter jets and laser and jumping equipment, despite pages assurances to the country. it's why us forces routinely patrol the area to monitor chinese actions. these u. s. navy personnel are on their way to conduct to recognizance mission over one of the most hotly contested regions in the world. they're flying over the south china sea looking down at outposts in the sparkly islands held and claimed by beijing. i mean, your everyday monitoring the you, i said on at least 3 of the islands, china has built military facilities, including missile arsenals and aircraft hangers. and that this could pose

a threat to all the nation's bay. jing denies such allegations saying it's military is defensive. but during the patrol, china makes its presence felt warning. the u. s. plane repeatedly that it has illegally entered its territory and ordering it to move away with the u. s. navy plane dismisses the warnings and presses on with its mission radioing back to the chinese that they are within the international rights to conduct such an operation. but the u. s. presence, it seems, will have little effect on china's plans for the islands. now to india, where a cafe and gorka is fighting social stigma was tougher positive as it's called,

aims to and to prejudice against people who have h. i read one cup at a time, one la t, i on the way, the hum of the coffee machine is a familiar sound even in this quiet corner of calcutta. but this is a different kind of cafe. all the employees here, a h i v positive or who actually mission a community worker colon gosh, is behind the initiative, which is called cafe positive. he also helps abandoned children with h. i v well wanna, i tele, i'm on the project and gonna let him try traveled to munich in germany in 2006. and a friend took me to dinner at a restaurant. he said i'd like. and when i went, i saw everyone working there was h, i v positive and. and then after i got back, i started thinking about a cafe like that in cold cutter. kind of 40 to give the hate to have

a positive children that work with the chance of a job when they're adults. about 10. 0, yeah. when i bought the whole the new to the conflict and he was his dream came true in 2018, but not without some resistance from locals. a pot article one is consolidated when some people came up with absurd issues. like, what if the staff here with h i v injured themselves, while chopping vegetables, hang up the body issues and what if the blood passes through the drains and infects the neighbors? are prof, no checking to correct us from me? despite the challenges, the cafe is breaking. many misconceptions about the disease that i get you down as a child. i didn't even know i had a disease, but my aunts were repulsed by me. the even had separate plates for me to atrial water. later i realized that i'm infected with the h i v virus. i mean,

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