a surprise because the film really hasn't made much noise at all, and it hasn't been well at the box office. it was almost completely ignored until a bunch of other actresses, including her competitor and the best actress, a category cate blanchett. i'm he not in support of this film and said, this is the best performance of the year. and her getting an omniscient, a huge surprise. i think she's one to keep an eye out because she may pull off a real surprise this year. all right, thank you so much for that, that is into these scarecrow. and that is your news update at this hour. don't forget you can get more news analysis on our website at d. w dot com. i'm clear richardson in berlin from the team. thanks for watching. making the headlights and what's behind them down the news africa, the show that faculty issues shaping the continent. life is slowly getting back to normally well the streams to give you end up report on the inside. our

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forced confessions of members of the communist party. ah, i melissa chan, thanks for joining us. japan is changing its foreign policy strategy with the times in what views as a more dangerous global era and prime minister. cuz shita has been meeting with his international counterparts as part of that agenda. this marks a shift for the regional power. one that everyone is watching japan and india whole joint fighter drills outside tokyo, a sign of closer security ties with an eye on china's growing military mice. after decades of post war restraint, japan is upgrading its defense capabilities to combat beijing's assertiveness in the region. together with australia and the united states,

japan and india are part of the quarter lateral dialogue or quad alliance. a coalition of regional powers that are increasingly concerned about china's military . anita nomic influence. prime minister fumey o kish eda has singled i china as the greatest strategic challenge ever to japan. security. love you sense? i didn't think you were 1st act of diplomacy should be prioritized. at the same time. diplomacy requires defense power to back it up. so we faced the most severe and complex security environment since the end of world war 2, they will go based on a realistic simulation, whether we can protect the people's lives in an emergency. mama mean we have shaped japan's new security strategy to strengthen its defense for so it for reconstructing its security. i hope you see them in, oh boy, but on the yoga o duyka, nasa, he's taken a tour of whirlwind diplomacy to secure support for this new stance. visiting 5 countries in europe in north america. she, she di,

wants to leverage japan's bilateral partnerships to address what he sees a serious challenges to the international order japan into new defense deal with britain, an agree to expand its mutual defense, treated with washington to include possible attacks and space to she de also signed strategic partnerships with italy, france, and canada. japan has done away with the decades old informal ceiling on defense expenditures, at one percent of gross domestic product. instead, by 2027 japan's defense spending will be doubled. driving the upgrade has been russia's invasion of ukraine. she does believe that russia has set a precedent that will encourage china to attack taiwan. this would threaten nearby japanese islands and disrupt supplies of advanced semiconductors. japan believes china's growing mice in the south china sea could put a potential stranglehold on sea lanes that supply middle east oil. japan is also

concerned about an increasingly belligerent north korea. the december young young, far 3 ballistic misses towards the sea of japan. one landed in the sea, just 210 kilometers west of ho condo. joining us in the studio is robert alan, ward, senior fellow for japan, security studies at the international institute for strategic studies. and this has been quite the tour across europe and north america for the prime minister. and can you explain how he should at sees the world so we better understand what's driving his policy. so if you want to understand how japan and case you to see the world, i think one good place to start is the new national security strategy, which, which was released in december last year. the 2nd one that japan ever had, its vision of the world is, is pretty bleak. actually. it describes the strategic environment in which to pass

operating as the most severe and complex is the end of the 2nd world war. which if you think about all the other things that have happened in asia in the interim is it's pretty striking comment. he talks about a historical turning points. it's article changes in the balance of power. so japan really does see itself in a very, very difficult strategic environment. and hence the need to ensure that the, the strategic alliance with the us is the as possible. but also importantly to, to build coalitions to build networks, to get help, to ensure that the pacific 100 pounds back back yard. if you like, is, is it stable? if you think about why this is the case? well, taiwan, of course, is looking more risky at china is being sheila, in terms of how it talks about taiwan and look at north korea, it continues to develop it's of the u. n. d father miss all over japan last year. and of course, russia, russia on japan's northern flank, now relations with russia, between russia and japan, really bad,

obviously because japan support sanctions against russia following following its invasion of ukraine, but all along the western flank, now japan sees risk and threat, hence this will bleach oblique view of the environment. now k, she does ratings back home are very low. this may have more to do with domestic policy than his foreign policy. but can you tell us whether japanese citizens support? cuz she does global strategy, are people on board their one of the striking things about the new national security strategy given how, what a radical departure it was from for merger parents, previous posture was, was how little negative reaction there was to it in japan. and that compares for example, 2015 and i was pushing through the new legislation security legislation through parliament and there was a lot of demonstration. so the, the government, the public is pretty much on board. i think with the idea that japan is in

a dangerous neighborhood, and polls suggest that public is broadly supportive of the defense reforms, the history is trying to enact where the problem is, however, is in how to pay for it. a kiddo wants to raise taxes to pay for it and there's good arguments to doing that same. so because of the japan strictly bad fiscal position, but japanese public is famously tax verse consumption, tax increases brought down a couple of governments in the past. so there's a lot of, lot of difficulties of political difficulty in working out, getting agreement and how to pay for it. but it brought principal the japan, these changes posture. i think the public is on board with robert alan ward. thank you so much for joining us. thank you. ah, chinese state media recently aired a documentary style series on corruption. in the programming 26 people faced the cameras to confess their alleged crimes. the catch is that the likely did so under

the rest violating international human rights, norms of judicial due process. and this content has been, we broadcast vast satellite in europe. here's what some of the detainees were likely forced to say. my illegal behavior badly damaged the parties, reputation threatened public security, and the judiciary the central government maintains high standards when it comes to good governance and anti corruption. it was not that i did not know if i knew it, but i did not keep it in my heart. joining us as laura hearth campaign director for safeguard defenders, the human rights organization that sounded the alarm about these forced confessions on television alert. you're about to alert french broadcast authorities that one of the channels off a french satellite service. cctv one that is chinese state media has erred these

confessions. how do you think, or what do you expect from french officials in terms of their response? first of all, melissa, thank you so much for having me and paying attention to this issue. as you may know, this will not be our 1st report. let's a complaint to the french broadcasting authorities, the, the official regulator. we already made such a complaint about 2 years ago following to force confessions at the time of miners, which seemed obviously extremely concerning. and that happens right after, let's say the european license for c g n, c c t, v passed to the french regulator after the u. k. one off. com, obviously took away the license for the chinese state media broadcasters. so at the time we know that the c s a which is the french regulator investigated, they follow the broadcasts for about a year as they told us. and while they found, you know, that often those broadcasts were definitely biased to say the least. they could not

under their powers that say, grounded by the jurisdiction because this is a satellite broadcast. so they have a little less power in oversight at that time. take any action, however, we know that following what happened in the u. k. those complaints to off come, which also resulted in multiple sanctions, which continued to come in because of these force confessions that c, g, n, c, c, d, v had kind of stopped for a while to broadcast these things on the air. they continued on line, but on the air. now obviously we've seen that they're completely back at doing it. so we'll be making that complain to, to, to, to french c. s a and as well, alerts european regulators because we know that there's a willingness to coordinate and on this again, it's a sat friendly satellite, but broadcasting across europe. so this is a european wide issue where europe member states really are silently complicit.

let's say in these gross human rights violations. and you mentioned off. com, which is of course, the british, a broadcast regulator. let's talk about the confessions themselves. what is problematic about them? well the 1st saying these are forced, confessions televised confession. so one day obviously violate a person's right to privacy on their rights who fair trial because very often and in the case, for example, of these latest broadcast, a 4 part series that aired between the 7th and authentic january of this year. on 12 specific cases, we see that at least 16 of the 26 force confessions where most likely conducted and m broadcasted before. any trials that have violate the right to their trial, but may be the most worrying part in the part that people my best understand is a circumstance in which these take place, right? these are confessions that are extracted under thor church through fear,

through threats. they are scripted and staged, so the person half no say in what they will confess to this is written up by um the investigating bodies, the c c b i r, which is kind of the internal police of the chinese communist party, if you will, in cooperation with those broadcasters such as ctv and c t, t and that continue to broadcast in, in europe. obviously these people are tied up, you know, they're kind of taken out of their usual prison gear, put into some more clothes, maybe the days before they will be treated a bit better. so, you know, we won't see bruises or anything. maybe it will be fed a bit better so they don't seem to come tiny at the moment and they have to memorize the confession script to police will be present. so of the scene that we'll see on tv is of one person, you know, sitting in front of the camera. what we don't see are people sending behind the camera, right? making sure that you know that person as what they're supposed to do. so, i mean,

this is really one of that the many human rights violations taking place in, in china. and, you know, the thing is very often european policy makers and other democratic nations ask is, you know, what can we do actually, to make an impact, to stop what's happening in the people's republic of china. well, halting, stopping these, you know, silent complicity aiding in a way the chinese communist party in broadcasting such propaganda is, is one way of doing that. laura har, thank you so much for joining us. thank you so much. thank you for watching. good bye. ah, ah, more colorful, more digital and more sustainable the consumer electronics show in the las vegas, the industries 1st. so k this year. featuring the mobility trends on tomorrow,

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