ah, ah ah, this is d w. news line from berlin, russian court jails, us basketball star, brittany griner for 9 years on drugs charges. the american athlete was arrested for cannabis possession of moscow airport in february, u. s. president joe biden calls for immediate release. also on the program, china puts on its big a show of force around tie one for decades. scores of jets in the taiwan straits file live. miss files are not controversial. visit us. how speaker nancy pelosi and hungary, nationalist prime minister,

victor alba address is america's largest annual conference of conservatives. will take you to dallas for a closer look at this year c pack. ah, i'm show gail a welcome to the program. a caught in russia has sentence us basketball star, brittany griner to 9 years in jail. after finding her guilty of drugs, possession and smuggling, she was arrested in february when a vapor pendant cartridges containing marijuana oil were found in her luggage. the rest claim, she was wrongfully detained, and president biden has called for her immediate release. brittany greiner entered the cramped court room and defendant prescribed by her doctor and legal in the us. yon. i never miss her even to put in jeopardy with ref,

population. i never miss right. any law made faith hope that in your ruin and in my life, griner was stopped in mid february after putting her bag through screening and moscow. airport customs officials searched her bags and she was eventually detained . she was on her way to join the russian club. she played for after the w n. b. a season in the united states. griner is considered one of the top basketball talents in the world. her $206.00 centimeter stature, 6 foot 9 inches, helps her dominate pro basketball and she's helped when to olympic gold medals for the us in court, she held up a picture of her team in russia after several teammates had served as character witnesses for her. but she knows russia and the us are now on opposite sides of a global conflict. i know everybody who's talking about political pond

politics, but i hope that that is far from the courtroom. in a quick decision, the court showed it was unmoved by grinders call for leniency. she was sentenced to 9 years, one less than the 10 year maximum. without disappointment. you know, one way it's so great name. i think it was tuesday anamosa told to see on thursday and she said see on doomsday. so looks like she was worried as she was led away words of love for her family, but her future may well rest with diplomats for 2 countries barely speaking to each other. 9, he is in a labor camp. why such a long sentence for possession of what seems like such a small amount of cannabis, i put that to date of news, russia, unless constantine exit any american detained immediately turns into a very valuable hostage. and i think that because of the current situation,

the war, ah, there are look, many americans coming to russia. so brittany griner, it began, become becomes, and even more valuable hostage. but before mister put in the releases, who as i think he will, in exchange for a valuable russian prison of america, they have to give her a big, big, big, massive sentence. because as you know in russia, courts are just and they have to show that they are completely merciless. ok, i know you mentioned that base talks between the u. s. secretary of state anthony, blinking on his russian counterpart, sergey love, rob they, they've happened recently about a prisoner swapped. didn't amounts, didn't come to anything. the americans have offered to victor, but tell us who he is and whether that deal might still be on the table. well, i think the deal is on the table and i think that mr. putin wants basically, ah, to get the maximum off of for this exchange. boot is

a russian pilot who's been accused and sentenced in the us for basically illegal arms raid a some journalist, some of colleagues call him merchant of death. and he's been in u. s. jail for quite a long time and has become a cause celebrity, a famous case in russia, portrayed in the russian state media as an innocent victim of american imperialism of a kind of the u. s. trying to punish russia. and i think that breathing griner is going eventually to be exchanged because frankly speaking, such circumstances keeping a basketball star in russian jail is not something that a put him probably would want. and i suppose that what he does, one is to show that he had a victory. he brought back a russian citizen. he brought back victor boot. oh right. so we expect that in the next a weeks or months, some sort of deal will be done publicly or will this all happen very quietly behind

so closed doors. well, i don't know. i don't think that such negotiations are conducted in public. just remember, i mean the, the, the negotiations in, during the cold war about kind of spy swaps they, when they were conducted in public. i think that the result will be fairly public and everyone, both washington and russia will. if this happens, if this happens, we'll claim that the one ah bots, i think negotiations themselves are always behind closed doors. thank you for that . and i think russia analyst, konstantin, i got so ukraine's foreign ministry says russia is treating ukrainian prisoners of war illegally and using them for political purposes, which is forbidden. under the geneva conventions. russia and proxy authorities in eastern ukraine have charged dozens of soldiers with crimes. 3 foreign born ukrainian soldiers have been sentenced to death on allegedly fabricated charges, the de williamsburg get a shortcut that the parents of one man being held by the russians. they fear he

could suffer a similar fate. each morning yet gania would carriage take some time for herself in quite to look at her son. she hasn't heard from maxime since russian forces captured him 2 months ago. she scared there might be torturing him, or that he might be dead. you do 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 difference it does when it is yeah, the couple 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 invade it, he decided to take more direct action to wishing school. so she gave to the earth,

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 to boucher. it was horrible. the 1st thing i felt was just horror. i saw my early childhood listening through them. i thought that can't be true crow kremlin telegram tennis quickly caught maxime, a nazi a nationalist. they even said he was a british spy because he had worked as a local producer for the bbc in 2003. this is in the blue cross blue shield storm. my biggest concern is that they might not recognize him as a prisoner of war like they have with others and that they would fabricate a criminal case against him. so using all those lies in

a twisted evidence latisha with some of a good a student, she was just when you free our domestic intelligence office called home that russia is holding more than 7000 ukrainian. so just prison. but they won't talk about any of it on camera, because negotiations for prisoners swaps secret. a lawyer representing the families of more than 50 captured soldiers has agreed to talk with us. let us laugh, we cannot see. 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, this is done mostly for their political purposes. when you create search and you know, importance of the person, great nazis, you know, you may use it to in their political, you know, trait. but yes,

gania and alexander, i don't want things to get that far. they fire the nerd into peer to the european court of human rights. they say they will fight with everything they have until maxine is really i, let's take a look at some more stories that making headlines around the world. panel of you, an expert has concluded that rwandan troops attacked soldiers in the east of the democratic republic of congo, aided by the local rebel group. m. 23 was according to report seen by the reuters news agency. the rondon government has repeatedly denied any connection to the m 23 minutes. no other have been violent classes in the south african city of kroger's door after people suspected of being illegal my is were attacked. the violence follows the rest of 80 men in connection with the gang rape of a group of 8 women. last week, during the filming of a music video for police officers have been charged

a fatal shooting of bruna taylor in the night. in the us state of kentucky. in 2020 ask for the work was killed after officers stormed her home using a so called no not search warrant death caused a public outcry. mass protests over racial injustice in the united states or china has launched live fire military drills around taiwan as tensions rise following the visit of us. how speaker nancy pelosi chinese military is 5 ballistic missiles into the waters of taiwan. the government in time pay says its scrambled jets to warn off chinese aircraft that entered its air defense zone, and the number of taiwanese ministry websites have come under cyber attack. mrs. pelosi left taiwan pledging washington's iron clad commitment to defending democracy. the people's liberation army released these images of china, launching its biggest show force against high one 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 called 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, one's 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 before. 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 on countries where we have guarded the peace facing the turbulence of the national security. the 2 sides of strengthened to strategic communication jointly tackled the challenges, various spillover effects and jointly maintained the uneasily achieved stability in the region. us the on is positioning itself as a negotiator. it's cold for all 5 today, escalates warning, a miscalculation could lead to open conflict with shelly river bricker is a professor of e station politics. i asked her whether the chinese drills were stimulating an invasion of taiwan. i'm not really sure that they're exactly

rehearsal for an invasion, but definitely showing the capability of the people's liberation army to move into the taiwan strait with various kinds of weaponry. and to kind of clear a battle space that presumably would have to proceed an actual invasion. and of course, you know, there are many military actions that could really restrict tie ones, freedom of action that are short of invasion as well. and this is a demonstration of those. 2 of them is that this, this idea of restriction taiwan is freedom reactions. interesting, isn't it? because i've all these rockets and missiles, a flying around taiwan is normal tribe is therefore disrupted planes, boats con, get him yes. right. and you know, one of the things that americans talk about a lot when we're discussing what might happen in the taiwan strait and how the u. s . might respond is, you know, we talk about blockade scenarios. but here we have

a kind of blockade in effect, and it's, it's not clear that it's entirely a blockade. but the effect of all of this activity is to make it difficult for airplanes and ships to move in this area. so in a strange sort of way, you know, we seem to be moving toward the realization of one of the things that we've speculated about for a long time. i don't think it's going to stick around for a long, but it's scary nonetheless. and we'll talk about stary just 2 days ago. we have the un secretary general saying that humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation. and today we have japan saying that 5 of those chinese miss isles landed in it's economic zone. so i wonder if you could explain to us, 1st of all, what some economic zone, and whether this parent miscalculation is likely to have repercussions for china.

right. one of the things about the east asian maritime space is that it's very crowded, right? the south china sea is very crowded and what we might think of is the east china sea or the sea of japan. they are also very crowded in the taiwan strait is not very big either. so there is a lot of overlapping territory, real claims, even if we go with land borders as the basis of those claims. so countries have 12 miles from their coast line as a kind of area that they really do. they are supposed to be able to control, and then they have another couple 100 miles of exclusive economic zone. and there is just a lot of overlap on top of that. are the air defense identification zones that countries use to ensure that incoming aircraft, including and sort of typically, normally, commercial aircraft,

are notifying the airports on the ground and the towers on the ground of their arrival. and a lot of the chinese military activity in the taiwan strait is actually in the, in taiwan air defense identification zone. but in the last few days, it has moved even closer to the island of taiwan. and if it's closer to the island of taiwan, especially on the north, and then it is not that far from okinawa and other parts of japan's territorial waters. so very scary. thank you for talking us through it. professor shelly rigor from brown university. thank this is dw is leih from berlin still to come. it's estimated there are only about $600.00 siberian tiger still living in the wild look at how china is working to save the world's biggest cats from extinction. for so every year the far right wing of the

republican party holds the conservative political action conference known as c pac to help elevate the parties up and coming stars and to prioritize their agendas. for me, you as president, donald trump is a keynote speaker. at this year's event in dallas, texas, now the special guest is hunger is far right, prime minister, victor alba. and he's very popular with the republicans of right wing. and there's one of the 1st speakers will be setting the tone of this is convention this conference that comes as donald trump's influence on the republican party is in question for the 1st time since he left office for dickens. this was the place were dedicated. republicans looked to energize and captivate the party. political leaders used this opportunity to showcase their conservative muscles with hopes they could be the next influencer of the grand old party. ah, this year's convention will be dominated by 2 figures. donald trump in victor,

a bond with c pack embracing the controversial hungarian president. there are questions. how far right has the party gone to? how do they view democracy in the freedoms there are once guaranteed by the u. s. constitution. former president trump, who has hinted about another crack at the white house, will be the keynote speaker in hopes to continue to keep his spot at the top of the party. but with poles showing that he may be losing influence their questions whether he has a support to become the next candidate in 2024. well d w 's, washington bureau chief in his poll is in the thick of it at c pack in dallas latch joint out. welcome an illness that this is event called a wake not woke. what's it like right brained or brent phill? i'm standing here like in one of the main halls where the vendors have all their stands and they sell t shirts. they sell heads this kind of awful lot of informational material. but

it's also the place to gather and retard with many of them. and under the surface, it's a really nice and friendly atmosphere. they were in costumes. but if you get into political conversations, you have the feeling that under the surface there's a lot of anger. and they are really willing to fight for what they think is the right way them are america should move to so don't get like of mistaken by their happy mood here in texas. all right, well, as we just heard in the report, one of the special guests is for the far i've hungarian lead of it to all bad, was just delivered his speech called how we fight less listening. you should know that i am an old fashioned freedom fighter. i'm also the longest serving prime minister in europe. the only anti migration political leader on our continent. a father of 5

and grandfather at $25.00 grandchildren, a leader of a country that is under the siege of progressive liberals, a by day in st. paul, this by being quite, i cited here and you are a victor alba does have quite a fan base say in the rest, does me. he does indeed. and is not an uber to c packs. if i just hold his is conference in hungary in spring president former president, trump just met him a couple of day saying he's one of my friends. he came here offering wise to the american people. that was quite interesting. he told li, now we know how to fight communism by. then he also said we need you, we need you of the americans to support us because we are the lone star of europe and then kind of event on, on the immigration. got a lot of applause for that, saying that we don't let anybody without any european roots into our country,

into hungary. he talks about family values. said that only a father and mother can build a family and they should leave our children alone. kind of talking about algebra, g q rides in the whole debate going on here in the united states. so it was very obvious that immigration and now to be to q riots, family rides are in the center, not only of his agenda, but also of the political agenda here at the see peg conference. and, and of course, the other big bees are expecting, as you've mentioned, is donald trump. what are we expecting to hear from him? now it's interesting, you know, donald trump is everywhere. he's on every t shirt on every hats, but we had the chance to talk to the former deputy white. i was current both correspondent and he told us, yes donald trump is here, that he might not be the next president, but definitely the kingmaker. donald trump is expected to underline his power. he

definitely will try to diminish of the abilities of president biden. and then he definitely, we'll talk again about the fact that in his opinion, he didn't lose the last election. so it will probably more of the same in you from him, but he definitely will show i'm here and i'm willing to fight for my power. thank you. back in a say in his poll in dallas, a firefighters here in berlin have been battling and out of control. fire in the cities grew devout forest. it broke out to police munitions, dapper in the early hours of 1st a morning, wasn't a 140 emergency personnel have been deployed. berlin, in the early hours of the morning, a surveillance camera recorded and explosion in the grown of old forest in the southwest of the city. a series of explosions began a few hours later, an unintended firework display filling the sky. the calls $25.00 tons of explosives

confiscated fireworks and were were to ammunition. the fire department approached the site but had to withdraw the debris from the blast was deemed a danger to the life's. parts of the safety cordon off one kilometer was later reduced to 500 meters. but helicopters, drones and satellites are crucial to the operation, dammit, couldn't go the only way we can get a better picture of the situation is from the air. bis gives us visual images, them is also a thermal imaging camera. this is also enabled us to identify the various pockets of embers and better assess the situation. dr. young on claudia, 15000 square meters, a forest are burning about the size of 2 soccer fields. officials say residential areas are not in danger. the emergency effort included firefighters, police and soldiers, but the fire is still rating on. like all, there are 2 big challenges. but danger at the bloss site and the rapid spread of

the fire, both of which not helped by the weather conditions that is totally different goals elsewhere. but a forecast of heavy rain overnight gifts, hope the endangered siberian tiger is one of the largest wild touch species in the world. native mainly to russia is also found in some parts of northern china. but there are estimated to be only around $600.00 left in the wild, whose numbers are prompted conservation efforts. and in china, at least the results have been promising. these images are the proof rare pictures of february and tiger caps shot by an hidden infrared camera. this species is critically endangered, but in north eastern sign, our 10 babies were born in 2021. putting the number of the remaining big cats living in the white up to 600 enemas saburo and tag as also known as arm. we're all mentor in tigers. are the biggest living cats from head to tail there matter about

2 meters and can reach a weight of 300 kilos. destruction of their habitat, poaching and trophy hunting are the biggest threats to the survival of the species . but conservation efforts are and the way read the article hobbit shown has constructed multiple natural reserves and monitoring stations were to intensify patrol and management of the tigris haberdashery. a number of projects focusing on protecting wild animals and plants as well as the construction of natural reserves have been implemented in the north, east and sign is provinces of dealing in hey long jesus. the country has established a 1400000 hector nature, reserve ranges patrolling regularly. they will move traps set by posters and sec. if the ben uncommercial logging is complied with, the big cats need the forest to creep up on their prey. 2022 as ye of the tiger and

the chinese lunar calendar. so the country is proud to announce that the population of the wide siberian tigers has increased from 27 in 2017 to more than 60 to day. just dw saying, just a moment, i'll be back to take you through the big stories of the day in the day, taking a closer look at victor obama up to see why former german chancellor. com seem to stay out of trouble. seeing him. ah, with

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how they can go in for but how they can also go terribly. watch it now. you to a court in russia has sentence us basketball star brittany, grind it a 9 years and a penal colony for drugs, possession, and smuggling russian officials are vague cartridges containing cannabis oil and had dug it just an app on the moscow. so it does the sentence reflect rushes, strict attitude to drugs, or was it sat that high to increase her value when that time comes to do a deal with the united states? i'm fil gail in berlin and this is the day ah.