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treatment of ukrainian prisoners of war keeps as moscow is behaving illegally with prisoners being sentenced to death on spurious grounds, we meet the parents of one man being held by russia who they fear might face a similar fate. was a forest fire rages here in berlin, firefighters struggle amid a heat wave to contain the uncontrollable blaze, which has broken out at a police munitions depot. ah. hello, i'm clare richardson. thank so much for joining us. china is stepping up its military activity around, ty, one as tensions rise. following the visit of u. s. house speaker nancy pelosi. beijing is preparing its biggest show of force around taiwan. in decades. the government in taipei says it scrambled to warn off

chinese aircraft that entered its air defense zone. and a number of taiwanese ministry. websites have come under cyber attack. hello, see left to tie? one pledging. washington's iron clad commitment to defending democracy. the people's liberation army relief. these images of china. launching its biggest show force against taiwan in decades. navy and air force drills indicated in blue. have encircled the self governing island that china claims as its own. the drills included what beijing cold precision missiles strikes in the taiwan strait. this new escalation comes as beijing hits back for us house baker, nancy pelosi visit to ty pay. pelosi reaffirmed us commitment to defending ty, ones, democracy as the islands government scramble jets to ward of chinese aircraft. encroaching on the air space was in full like our government is even more resolute

to safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our nation. in light of the current situation, our government will not only actively strengthen its self defense capabilities, but will also maintain close ties with like minded countries like united states. what the issue has dominated a meeting of the association of south east asian nations in cambodia, capital non pen with china and the united states joining the summit. in his opening remarks, china's foreign minister emphasized the political and security ties between china and us young countries, where we have guarded the peace facing the turbulence of the national security. the 2 sides have strengthened to strategic communication, jointly tackled the challenges, various spillover effects and jointly maintained the uneasily achieved stability in the region. a psion is positioning itself as

a negotiator. it's called for all sides to de escalate, warning and miscalculation could lead to open conflict. let's take a closer look at all of this with detail. he is a john yon. a john, what is the latest on military maneuvers? are round taiwan right now? well, one thing's for sure, china is holding is largest ever a minister exercise. i wrong to taiwan on the eastern seattle command of the people's liberation army said long wrench armed life. fire precision missile strikes were carry out on the selected area a to selected targets in the is an area of the timelines tried to draw is to test the precision strike and the area denying capabilities and according to the chinese military. oh me says a currently heath there are targets and most importantly the p. o. a claimed that the entire life fire training mission has been successfully completed and they are

lifting the relevant see, and airspace control right now. on the other hand, time on these defense ministry just we have hurt before said it's force. we're on the alert and morning throwing the situation while seeking to avoid escalating tensions. it's worth mentioning that it's not uncommon for china to hold military drills in the taiwan strait and what we're seeing now though, appears to be something else entirely. why exactly are these latest exercises so concerning? well, this is the 1st time that chinese army contacted a military operation with life. i'm a nation. i run the island of taiwan junior, which p o, a crossed a midline of thailand, street which day of course dont recognized officially. and the entire exercise was completed using life emanation, which means that this kind of drill can be converted to actual combat at any

time adding the pressure to the child or to the terminus mandatory. and also it's, i lies around the region. and in the wake of nancy pelosi visit, china's also turning up economic pressure on beijing is high ones biggest trading partner. it's already now moved to ban imports of some guides. what consequences will that have 41? well, maybe let's just give you our right. let me just let me give you a rough sides of numbers off to 2 or 3200 registrations by time, and these companies in 58 thought categories. in milan, china, a total of 2000, are currently listed as suspended imports. that is nearly 65 percent of the total amount of goods that taiwan is exporting to china and china. not only that, china has also announced a ban on the export of nature signed to taiwan and mitchell sons is generally used

in production of concrete up to doing the street for the asphalt. and most of the sand and gravel imported into tiven comes from china. so the whole impact on the hor, economic impact on taiwan. whoa is already very big and we are expecting that it's getting bigger and bigger. okay. data is genuine. thank you so much for that update . well, ukraine's foreign ministry says russia is treating ukrainian prisoners of war illegally and using them for political purposes, which is strictly forbidden. under the geneva conventions, russia and proxy authorities and eastern ukraine have charged a dozens of soldiers with crimes. 3 foreign born ukrainian soldiers have been sentenced to death on allegedly fabricated charges dw berg at a shock, a met the parents of one man being held by the russians. they feared he could suffer a similar fate. each morning if gania would kevin take some

time for herself and quite to look at her son, she hasn't heard from maxine since russian forces captured him 2 months ago. she scared there might be torturing him, or that he might be dead. you know cylindrical i sit in the kitchen and just cry while my husband is still sleeping. when he gets up, i wash my face in person nights and try to be strong for the day and not to cry any more. only in the early mornings i allow myself to cry. what's it different as windows yeah, the capital invited us to their home because they want the world to know about their son. his parents say, maxine volunteered to join the army, even though he is a pacifist, he had worked as a journalist and activist campaigning for refugees and human rights. but when russia invaded, he decided to take more direct action or to wish you use go. so she directed me to,

he told me, i'm joining the army because i have to defend the values i've been fighting for my whole life. yes, this is bruce. they only realized he had been captured when a video of maxine being interrogated was shown on russian state media with said boucher, it was horrible. the 1st thing i felt was just horror. i saw my only child listen to a victim. i thought that can't be true crow kremlin telegram tennis quickly called maxime and nazi a nationalist. they even said he was a british spy because he had worked as a local producer for the b b. c. in 2003. maybe in the book with chris believe to my biggest concern is that they might not recognize him as a prisoner of war like they have with others. and so they would fabricate a criminal case against him. so using all those lies and twisted evidence, leticia claim in some of a good,

a storage it was use when you free our domestic intelligence sources confirmed that russia is holding more than 7000 ukrainian soldiers prison. but they won't talk about any of it on camera, because negotiations for prisoners swaps on top secret. a lawyer representing the families of more than 50 captured soldiers has agreed to talk with us. let us laugh, we cannot c, f works closely with domestic intelligence to try to get prisoners back. he expects that russia will fire more and more criminal cases against ukrainian prisoners of war. i think this is so this is dawn mostly for their political purposes. when you create search and you know, important to person gray, not sheesh, you know, you can use it to in their political, you know, treat but yes. again. yeah. and or like sunday i don't want things to get that far

. they fire the know didn't appear to the european court of human rights. they say they will fight with everything they have until maxine, it's really and that report there was filed by my colleague brigitte, a shaka who joins me now from chief data. according to your source is 7, a 1000 ukrainian soldiers are being held as prisoners of war. and i mean, thousands of families ripped apart, wondering what's going to happen to their loved ones. how big of a topic is this in ukrainian society? it is a huge topic her and many are worried about the fate of the prisoners of war because many have family of friends in the military. and people here are not only worried, they are also furious because especially after dozens of prisoners of war were killed. just last week, in an attack on a detention facility in russian herd, olenick sca russia and ukraine have played blamed each other for that. but the

assessment here in keith is very clear. they say the russians have blown up this detention facility to destroy evidence of torture and killing. and satellite image from bedside seem really to support this claim. that's what experts are also told us. so ukraine now was trying very hard to push for an investigation, but we just learned that the red cross still had, wasn't granted any access to the side by the russians. so for many here in ukraine, this is like an other indication that russia really has to hide something, and they really might have deliberately killed prisoners of war. forget her. we heard in your report there that maxine's father says he's worried that the prosecution will fabricate charges. against his son or that he won't be recognized as a prisoner of war. but he peered over use can still be accused in court. kathy:

yes, absolutely. yeah. the geneva conventions as state very clearly that it's possible, but it's not possible to charge somebody only for the fact that he has been fighting in a war on one side of the conflict. it's only allowed, according to the geneva conventions, to charge somebody if you really committed severe crimes. and we have been seeing this here in ukraine, a russian soldier was or prosecuted for killing or, or murdering. let me put it like that at $62.00 a year old man, outside of combat. and there ukraine prosecutor is investigating thousands of alleged war crimes committed by a russian soldiers. as for russia, human rights organizations, they have criticized that russia often doesn't present any evidence or barely any evidence and for, for these severe crimes when they charge people and i for instance. so in this case,

you have mentioned of this 3 soldiers who were handed down a death verdict by the russian a proxy use in a, in the don bus region. international organizations were shocked about this verdict because there were barely any evidence presented in that case. and the u. n. human rights office has also sharply criticized it saying that such, such are triads against prisoners of war would. d or would amount to a, to a war crime itself. thank you so much for that, brigitte ashika reporting for us from keith, ukrainian president wild humor. zalinski has condemned comments by former german chancellor. gerhard schroeder suggesting that russia wants to negotiate a solution to its war of aggression,

shudders refusing to cut his close personal ties with russian liter vladimir putin and is facing an investigation by his own party. the social democrats. it was a self styled diplomatic mission to the kremlin. vladimir putin spokesman confirmed that former german chancellor, gerhard schroeder, metro russian president on the moscow visit last week. in an interview with german media showed us at that point, and once a negotiated solution to the war in ukraine, and that the recent grain deal could be slowly expanded into a ceasefire. damages ukraine's president followed him as a lensky made clear what he thought of the former chancellor's diplomatic efforts. moves only to process, or it is simply disgusting when former leaders of major states with european values worked for russia, which is at war against these values. he yeah, cowboys, property sinless bonnie ac russia is using these people as messengers,

their them to say that the terrorist state allegedly wants negotiations, bearablewood, scotch, herders, and long standing friend of putins. soon after leaving office in 2005, he accepted a job with russian energy company gas from lay to became chairman of the supervisory board of another russian energy giant. ross left florida has refused to distance himself from the russian leader in march. shortly after russia invaded ukraine, he travelled to moscow to meet putin, his wife, posting this picture of herself praying for peace with the kremlin in the background. schluter has been scornfully continued ties with russia. some of his privileges as a former chancellor have been withdrawn and he is facing an investigation by his party at the social democrats over his kremlin lynx. let's bring up to speed now with some other stories making headlines around the world. the 1st ship carrying

grain from ukraine since the war began is on its way to lebanon. after passing inspections in turkey, monitors from the u. n. ukraine, turkey and russia checked the rezone is hoped further shipments will now be able to leave ukrainian ports. un secretary general, antonio gutierrez has urged governments to introduce special taxes on the profits of oil and gas companies. his comments come after some of the world's biggest energy firms posted record quarterly profits driven by surging energy prices. good harish said, it was immoral for companies to profit from the crisis. authorities are blaming arsonists for a wildfire in north western spain. the blaze started in the autonomous region of galicia. spain is having its worst year on record for wild fires and has lost more land to them than any other country in europe. while several marches are taking

place in lebanon's capital to day, the demonstrators are demanding justice for those killed in beirut. massive ports, i blast 2 years ago. many blame government corruption and mismanagement for the explosion which devastated a vast swath of the capital city. killing more than 200 and injury, 7000 people. 2 years on the investigation into the blast has stalled, and no state official has been held to account un experts or calling or an international inquiry. for more on this story, let bring indeed of your correspondent mohammed crater, who standing by in beirut. it has now been 2 years since that deadly explosion and a launch of an official investigation. why has it not produced any results so far? well let me start with the silo. as you may see behind me, they are in very bad shape. a few moments ago, 2 huge block off the side of the loft in huge clouds,

all duck officials. i've been warning at the north and just find where expected us anytime be just going back to your question. it's been exactly 2 years now and yet no one has been on the council for the devastating explosion that happened in the bay to be honest. the judge, the investigating judge thought overseeing, because i haven't been able to actually have been launching something blocking me

a bit of trouble hearing you. there was music in the background. i want to ask you though, their protest taking place today. what exactly are demonstrators calling for? the problem to the family members who have been working today now they've been raising the boy holding for an international investigation. ok. mama, thank you so much for taking the time and emergency services or at the scene of a large fire in a lynn's grin of old forest. the blaze broke out at a police munitions depot with the fire service reporting, a number of explosions, authority say some 15000 square meters of wooded area is burning uncontrollably

with a heat wave complicating fire fighting efforts. a perimeter has been set up in case of further explosions and flying debris at the destination site houses, munitions, and fireworks among other explosives. a fire fighting helicopter has been requested and the german army is also on site. the fire has disrupted road and rail traffic. or corresponding manuel child is at the site. she sent us this report with an update on how the emergency services are coping days lean on side since 330 this morning to balin, a 5 artists that you see behind me are responding to a fire that is still ongoing. and that shows no sign of winding down in the early hours after day explosions could be heard here by the nabby tons of these are a west suburb of raylien glue, nevada, they heard detonations. that came from an ammunition they posed that exploded. we

don't know yet, the explosions took place 1st. all. or he the fire at 30. what we do know is dod, this over a 100 people are trying to respond to that fire, not just firefighters, as oh, so police officers, the armies are so dead. there is also a time that was sent a body army to have been the effort of trying to, you know, a quarter knob to fire and because of the risk of further donations of further explosions. a well fire fighters cannot even respond to the fire just yet. there is a cordon, and there is a security zone of a 1000 me to is a circling, defy your a helicopter as drones are being used to try to deter mean just how far the fire already went so far. already. 15000 square meters of forest hub burned. i was eminent in manuel child reporting for us health experts have a long said that breast feeding is the most beneficial way to feed a baby. yet the united nations says less than half of all infants are exclusively

breastfed in their 1st 6 months. it's currently world of breast feeding week, and so the u. n. is trying to raise awareness of the issue. in the next report, we're going to take a look at france, which for years has had one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world. mullin and ma fuel has a very young visited work to be a 5 month old daughter boone. she's a 3rd child, moline still breastfeed so once or twice a day. the world health organization says breastmilk is the ideal food for infants providing essential nutrients that help protect against illness. brewton also drinks formula since melinda, a lawyer had to go back to work 3 months after her book. but juggling works, she says, isn't the only challenge when it comes to breastfeeding her daughter in france? all that done cuz people are surprised that they still breastfeed her. i came back from hospital after her birth and was really exhausted. people would say,

why are you torturing yourself by breastfeeding? take it easy, your husband should take her. now. i did feel a bit enjoyable, torn lower. there are some more whistle till monday. this is her decision to nurse starting with the 1st child 6 years ago was not an easy one. i felt a bit alone. i was surprised when staff at the maternity hospital gave my son a feeding bottle without my consent, i really wanted to breastfeed him. it was the 1st sign that something was wrong with quinetta smiled happily. marlene's experience is not unusual in france. statistics showed that less than 70 percent of mothers would start breastfeeding at all, and the number drops to just 22 percent after 6 months. experts see a big reason is frances, relatively short maternity leave. just 16 weeks after baby's book. but the aversion to nursing once deeper than that carol l. v is a private lactation consultant in northern paris. she helps future mothers prepare

to breast feed and helps troubleshoot when there's a problem with her privilege, very up to dishes, advising a client over the phone or so. carol says, women wanting to breastfeed in france. fis, an uphill battle because of the lack of awareness across society. but as a great lack of support, support from the community. in general, the health care professional, or just talk with health, no much, much about breastfeeding. so as soon as there's kind of issue, they will say, well then you can go home, you can maybe you can drop right by trading and unusable tool. then the french feminists in the seventy's weren't really breastfeeding in comparison to them or the mothers. all mothers didn't receive, so we don't have a culture that supports breastfeeding. despite the flu, breastfeeding wave france is far from being the only country,

but mothers switch early to infant formula. the world health organization says that across the globe, less than half of all new won't operate fit with the post i will put or drink breastmilk exclusively for the recommended 6 months. from sports news now and world triathlon has approved a new policy, allowing transgender athletes to keep competing in female categories. however, they must demonstrate continuously lower levels of testosterone for at least 2 years, and cannot have competed as a male in any sport in competition. in the past 4 years. the new regulations come into effect in september and do not mention transgender athletes in male event. and just before we go, evil quino has erupt near iceland, capital, reykjavik, after days of earthquake activity. dozens of people were brave enough to make it to the site. or the 300 meter crevice can be seen. that is much longer than the fisher

opened by a nearby eruption last year. you might remember that became a major tourist attraction, drawing thousands of visitors. iceland has interruption every 5 years, on average. this one is the 7th in 21 years. attorneys update at the sour say turn for d, w in his asia, coming up next with my colleague, bearish banner g, and you want more news analysis. you can of course, on that on our website, d, w dot com, projects out on social media articles, eunice and claire richardson in berlin from the team here. excellent question. ah ah ah

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