technologies work, how they can go in for but how they can also go terribly. watch it now on youtube. ah, ah, this is d w. news live from berlin. new leads about who was responsible for blowing up the north stream pipelines. u. s. and german media report suggest a pro ukrainian group carried out the attack on the natural gas pipelines under the baltic sea also on the show coast, but just us after a ukrainian soldier is apparently executed on video. ukraine launch has an

investigation of the graphic footage emerges of an unarmed ukrainian prisoner allegedly being shot dead by russian troops and at mass disruption in france as tens of thousands join a 1st wave of protest against president mccann's plans to raise the time. ah, matheney howard walk into the program, and i do ukraine's president followed amiss. lensky has denied keith was involved in the sabotaging of the nord stream gas pipelines the on the see pipeline which brought russian natural gas to germany were blown up in september of 2020 to the new york times reported earlier. so i think unnamed us officials that us intelligence indicates a pro ukrainian group carried out the gym and media is also reporting that there is

evidence pointing to possible ukrainian involvement. the german government is still investigating the incident, but russia says that the reports show you when lead international inquiry is needed . well, they w political correspondent simon young, outlined the new evidence brought to light by a joint investigation by 3 gym and media outlets. ryan should say your 1st of all, these are unconfirmed reports, but there by some of germany's most respected media organizations like the public broadcast, a r d and the newspaper site. and what they've got is many concrete details about what they say happened with the north stream explosions. they say that prosecutors investigators have identified the boat that was used in the operation to blow up the pipelines. a yacht that it is reported was rented from a or

a firm in poland that apparently belonged to 2 ukrainian national. so that's one, a concrete link with ukraine. they say investigators have found that 6 people were on board and involved in the operation, including a divers and medical personnel at their nationalities are unknown because fake passports were used to rent this yacht. and then they go on with more details that the location of this boat was tracked, leaving rostock in northern germany, and was subsequently located near a danish island in the baltic sea. and according to these german media reports, as i say, it is what they are at the moment. a weston intelligence agency, or had already warned or suggested some months ago that a pro ukrainian group has it's described could be behind,

could have been behind the explosions of the baltic care not stream pipelines. so quite a lot of detail which tends to sort of corroborate some of these claims. i suppose we'll just and crump is a military veteran and c, e o of the intelligence and risk analysis consult the civil on. he says the theory about who was behind the attack is one of several that have been speculated upon since the blasts. and there is a lot of theories during the rounds. it wasn't long ago. the ones just back to journalist, same hush produced what he views the detail to expose exactly how the u. s. government did it with the involvement of norwegians. for example, the russians play the u. k, but she's try out the event for conducting it. this is the latest number of, of theories. as you say, it is still in intelligence information at the moment. this was for us 2 things

consider, but it does seem as your correspond said, you know, a fairly detailed amount of information has come out about how this may have been mounted, but it was always in some ways the least likely explanation that a non state group of actors reva smuggle a very sizable con, to explosives, undetected and get that this seemed to target this incredibly important pipeline. so although it's been postulated for some time, and one of the theories was always the hardest to understand how that could have come together. and it suddenly suggests a sizable amount of money and a very interesting network behind an operation like this. you can imagine just driving a large amount explosive through germany in itself is something i think a john population would be. i'm shocked to understand that if that was easy, so there's a lot of questions raised for sure. this was one of the theories. i was always the hardest to see, you know, necessarily being done, but it was never impossible. and which way to see overseas more details much

incline has launched an investigation to find russian soldiers who apparently killed an unarmed ukrainian prisoner of war. after graphic footage emerged, a short video circulating on social media appears to show a man in a ukrainian uniform, finishing a cigarette and shouting, glory to you, cried before being killed with several shots. the ukrainian army without providing further evidence says it believes the man is 841 year old. it has been listed as missing near the embattled city of buck mode. since february in his nightly address . president valadez zalinski urged o ukrainians to echo the soldiers woods. she wouldn't as yet will say, we do a video appear today showing how the occupiers, brutally killed a soldier who bravely said to their face, glory to ukraine level. what i want us altogether in unity to respond to his words, glory, to the hero, glory, to heroes, glory to ukraine. and we will find the killers inland, laid them over. okay,

let's take a look now, some of the other news making headlines around the world. police and demonstrators have clashed in george's a capital tbilisi during protests against the government bill. that would that critics, i would restrict free speech if enacted into law. the bill would force media companies and in g o z to register any links they have with entities outside georgia. you has condemned the legislation, palestinian authority say that 6 palestinians have been fatally shot in israeli military right in jeanine in the occupied with israel's prime minister said the target of the operation was a palestinian. he said killed to his rarely settlers last week. netanyahu said that the man was killed in the right. the shyness foreign minister has warned that there will be quite confrontation and conflict between china and the u. s. if washington does not change its approach to his country,

foreign minister chin gang also hailed the relationship between badging and moscow . he said, it fit an example for how foreign relations should be conducted. bradley bowman is senior director of the santa on military and political power in washington d. c. i asked him where these lightest exchanges leave us china diplomacy. thanks for the question. you know, the chinese communist party in my view is a wolf that sometimes dawns the disguise of a sheep, you know, smiling, attempting to charm folks and talking about wind, sions, and every now and then they let that disguise drop and we see their wolf lawyer, essence and i think that's a little bit what we're getting here with this new foreign minister. so i, for my partner, i'm a little less focused on whatever disguise they happen to be wearing at the moment . a little bit more focused on the essence of the regime. they're what they're doing in jang and what they are seeking to do against taiwan,

who has more to lose when 2 superpowers engage like this. i think the world stands to lose. i don't think this is a conflict between the united states and china. i think there's the conflict between the chinese communist party and the free world broadly defined. and i'm not afraid to use that term. i think they want to re can't recreate international order and their authoritarian image that enables might, makes right authoritarianism in the south china sea and taiwan allows them to do whatever the heck they want to the weavers. so i, for one think that's a world that i don't want to live in. and i think the more of the united states in europe and others can band together to deter aggression and speak truth to authoritarian power. the better is this moment of high tension. is it in some way linked to the born ukraine as washington has been giving strong warnings to biking . for instance, not to supply ammunition to russia. ukraine, excuse me, russia and china are closer than they've been since the 900 fifties. that according

to the u. s. intelligence community china has been echoing putin's talking points, an attempt to justify this brutal and moral unprovoked invasion. china has already been supporting russia in some ways and providing non lethal assistance for the war and ukraine and helping them circumvent sanctions for their defense industrial base . you know, i, i hope we don't need chinese drones killing ukrainians for europe in the united states to be on the same page regarding the threat from the chinese communist party . that would be a tangible example of what i want already going on. and we need to get on the same page and my view on china's doctor and military civil fusion were seeks to still technology lucidly and a illicitly to create national champion companies to put american european businesses out of business and to arm the people's liberation army for aggression the taiwan strait. i think the senior director of the center on military and political power in washington. thanks so much for your time. thank you. to you with

citizens kidnapped by suspected mexican drug traffickers have been found dead while 2 other survived. authorities are still investigating how the 2 americans died. the full friends had driven into mexico last week because at least one was planning to have cosmetic surgery. the 2 survivors have since been returned to the us. for close friends on a road trip to mexico gun down and kidnapped, only to made it back allied, escorted by a caravan of american and mexican officials. duty those michigan mexican authorities handed over to us authorities. the woman who was unharmed and the man who was injured on the international bridge between brownsville and matamoros gunman open fire on the group in the middle of traffic in the border city of my tomatoes. the friends crossed into mexico on friday with some

of them seeking more affordable, cosmetic procedures. instead, they were caught up in the cities deadly turf war between powerful drug cartels. as news of the abduction spread, the kidnappers reportedly moved them from place to place to dodge rescuers. and on the general problem of the cartels looked, cartels are responsible for the deaths of americans that we are fighting as hard as possible, the da and the f. b. i are doing everything possible to dismantle and disrupt and ultimately prosecute. are the leaders of the cartels and the entire networks other paid to pena, mexico's president, offered his regrets to the bereaved families. e b l was. we are very sorry that this has happened in our country and we send our condolences to the family and friends of the victims and to the people in government of the united states. i said us on the lens. yes. but lopez opened a door also said the incident would not have generated nearly as much attention.

had the victims been mexicans, and not us citizens. the france now were tens of thousands of joined a fresh wave of protests against the government's proposed pension reforms. unions avowed to bring the nation to a stand still over the plans which would see the minimum retirement age raised from $62.00 to $6.00 each full. the early hours final preparations are made for a day of disruption. to make shift barricade set in place at a bus depot, just north of paris unions called on people to come out and force to protest against president manuel mc cause planned to overhaul pensions. a controversial proposal that would see the age of retirement raised to $64.00. and they've done just that by lunchtime, thousands of people had taken to the streets in cities right across the country with one message. 2 0 boy, looseness was on dental. i don't want to work until i'm 6400 well enough already

for the plumbers of it. for the moment there are only promises made and we don't know when it's going to end. oh, so it's better to fight now than to lose our gains. that's. it is only love it up. people likes allstate, people see around them that there are plenty of colleagues don't even make it to the current legal retirement age. so how can we expect them to make it to 64 he gets was we'll get unions hope by shutting down the country. the president might now start listening to them. demonstrators of targeted roads, public services, and key transport hubs for maximum impact most train and metro services have also been cancelled, and many schools closed. but despite all the disruption public opinion appears to be with those demonstrating why should i support them? because it's the right thing to do that, doing this for as i have to work. but if i could, i would have demonstrated with them to savage. if i could, this is up of, if

a can bring a solution to this never ending pension problem than i'm rather in favor of movement. but there you go. over time, it's embarrassing for everyone don't dosage in oklahoma. they've also, it's true that working up the age of 64 is pretty difficult. the french prime ministers warned that a nationwide standstill would primarily impose the most fragile in the country. but as the standoff grows, the stakes for president mccall and his flagship pension reforms continue to rise. don't film is coming up after a short break. tracking the story of germany's 1st female astronaut, stay with us for that. i imagine how many portion of love us her now in the world climate change very often stores. this is my plan, the way from just one week how much work can really get we still have time to out.