oh, with the share the meal, you can share your meal with children with just $0.50 and a tap on your smartphone. together we can end global hunger please donald dia. ah ah . this is dw news live from berlin. china has a new 2nd in command. the national people's congress approved lee chung as premier . he was nominated by ceasing ping and is a staunch ally. the president also coming up iran and saudi arabia re to restore

ties and re open diplomatic missions. the surprise agreement between the long term rivals was brokers by china and baseball may not be their day job, but check players are going up against some of the game superstars when they played japan in the world baseball classic ah, i'm marrying a evans team. welcome. in china, lee chang has been appointed as premier, the nation's 2nd highest post. it follows his nomination by president she she ping . lee is now tasked with running the government and managing the economy. his post was confirmed during the annual parliamentary session. it's the 1st time it's taken place in full in 3 years after being scaled back during the pandemic.

for more, we can stated journal as to 5 in freshman who joins us from beijing hired to you father. so tell us why li chang was chosen for the premier ship. yeah, i think of for once and he's his pro business background. we know that he and her recently served as a party secretary of shanghai, the number one economic city of the country. and during that time, his record is quite solid. he attracted a lot of foreign businesses and most notably attested to shanghai. and if you talk to a c all or started found us, most of him appraised him that he is quite a pragmatic. he listens to their concerns, so they're said, but on the other side, he's also a very, i'm strong ally, office eating ping. they've been knowing each other for a very long time and he's very loyal to see. i mean, that was also very clearly visible. am directly or just one year ago,

and leach young as a party secretary of shanghai implemented a very radical 2 months locked on, or which basically brought the economy to a standstill and a many r shanghai residents are we're really suffering from a foot shorter just in the 1st 2 weeks, and i mentioned this explicitly because our beijing gave the order to implement or is the 0 corporate strategy and leach and followed. so he's really kind of, you can say a party soldier who are implemented seating things are order. and i think he was also can some way revolt woodard and for his legality. so you have those 2 aspects . we're also a little bit of a contradiction to itself. well, we should also mention that over the past few years present, she has actually been shifting the power of the premier to party institutions. so will the premier role that lee is going to be filling even allow him to make any kind of meaningful reforms. yeah, that is

a very crucial question and what we know definitely that the role of the prime minister has been diminished. he doesn't hold as much power as he used to. so am there said, but on the other hand, a mildly optimistic leach young, he already gained the trust of a seat in pink a long time ago. so i think that will make things easier. and we know that during the a national people's congress, the growth target for this year was set at around 5 percent. that is lower than expected. and it just goes to show that probably the focus for this years and economic term development is not under american growth. itself, but also it leaves some room for reforms and those reforms are really needed to make the economy here, motorists are more sustainable and to for example, a booster, our consumption here. and i think leach young is still probably the right person to do that. whether he will go all the way that he or what he wishes to, we don't know yet we will have to see in the coming months. all right,

that was journalist for the crash bar reporting for us from beijing 5 in. thank you so much. let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world. columbia's government and the largest remaining rebel groups known as the e l. n. say they're making progress towards a temporary cease fire. the announcement comes as a 2nd round of peace talks between the 2 concludes in mexico city. almost half a 1000000 people were killed during decades of conflict between the states and various armed groups. federal regulators have rush to seize the assets of silicon valley bank after it suffered this 2nd largest bank failure in u. s. history as v. b 's collapse and account holder is scrambling to withdraw their money and sparked anxiety among its tech. heavy clientele, worries of wider chaos, appear unfounded though, as the biggest

u. s. banks have healthy balance sheets. ho frances has suggested that a catholic priests and nuns could be allowed to marry in an interview. he said that celibacy was a tradition, not a requirement, and could be revised. his comments came after a german catholic association had urged him to consider abolishing priestly celibacy. iran and saudi arabia have agreed to re establish diplomatic ties and re open embassies within 2 year, 2 months. rather, that's after years of tensions. the surprise agreement was broken by china, which held it as a victory for dialogue and peace. the restoration of ties offers hope for peace in yemen, where is saudi arabia has led a coalition against the iran backed, who sees after years, all still it is saudi arabia and iran announced their re establishing diplomatic

and economic toys. the breakthrough was mediated by china. the communicate was signed in beijing am on monday. we hope that this new chapter says will end the stalemate and relations of the last 7 years, and lead to greater stability and safety in the regional government, as well as to more development and prosperity for the people who tensions between the regional powers have threatened stability in the persian gulf in 2016 relations were severed when suny led saudi arabia executed, revered shiite cleric, protesters and she, i let iran then attack saudi diplomatic missions. the conflict has spilled over into other countries. the saudis and iranians are vying for influence in syria. iraq and lebanon, where terror on backs has bella militants. in yemen,

both sides have been locked in a proxy war for years. now observe as say, the deal brings a chance to end the civil war is that there will be at least most awards, a permanent cessation of hostilities in yemen, and a peace deal within yemen. sir, to maintain that honor on a more permanent basis within washington has welcome the saudi iranian reproach more as a step towards lowering tensions in the region. the 2 sides are set to reopen embassies in the coming weeks. here in germany, police investigating the shooting at jehovah witnesses center in the northern city of hamburg. have reveal that the perpetrator was a former member of the religious community. the gunman killed himself, 6 people and an unborn baby. his motive remains unclear. bon police say they recently received an anonymous tip off about his mental state as the investigation continues. a community where the shooting unfolded mourns its victims.

undertake has removed the bodies of the victims. as people in hamburg pay their respects. and begin to process and reflect on me, attack them on your hon. one. when you leave here and you are 200 meters away. it affects seal. it's very bad about that. no matter wait happens. but of course it affects us even more here. my lad, and we are afraid i say these because we often pass by here and we don't know if it could happen again. so yes, we are afraid of monotonous investigations into the motives of the 35 year old shooter who took his own life at the scene. around going he was a known gun owner and a former member of the religious group. my philip f 100, a seal michelin murph. as

a former member of the jehovah witnesses, he voluntarily left the congregation, but evidently not on good terms. wooten for lawson at the german chancellor. a former mayor of humbug, offered his condolences, isn't fossil laws. and if we are stunned at this act of violence, my thoughts are with the victims and their relatives in these difficult hours, and with those whose lives have been so brutally taken over by assumed even garrison german, his interior minister, nancy favor, visited the scene. she told reporters, the government would seek to introduce a psychological suitability test for potential gun owners. must shootings a rare in germany. it's hoped a tightening of already strict firearms ownership can prevent tragedies like this

happening again. it's been 12 years since a powerful earthquake here. japan's northeast coast triggering us to nami and killing more than 18000 people. to disaster also sent 3 reactors of the fukushima nuclear plant into meltdown. japan is still dealing with consequences to day. now china is condemning tokyo's plan to release a massive amount of waste water from the plant into the sea. the water has been treated but still contains radioactive elements, raising alarm in the local fishing industry and among japan's neighbors. how will pacific ocean fish be affected by waste water from fukushima, nuclear plant? more than a 1000000 tons of it is set to be released into the ocean. the japanese governments as it poses no risk, but local fishermen are concerned. while more than one little courier we're worried

that the reputation of our pro useful suffering even more damage. still the government has decided to allow the water release. we really cannot accept this why we feel so helpless. ever since this, an army in 2011 water has been used to cool the 3 nuclear reactors, devastated by meltdowns. this produces around a 100000 liters of waste water every day. the energy phone tapco runs the water through a treatment system, but it still contains tritium, a radioactive element, which in large quantities can cause cancer. but tapco says the low levels of tritium mean, it's not much different to see water and has run test to show that fish can live in it. still many a concerned about the long term effects. if you had just something with a beta meter, like a juna or an oyster that has radionuclides in it,

your internal cells have no protection whatsoever. you don't see these right away. um, it takes years, sometimes decades to these numbers, to show up other expense, say the tritium is so diluted that it's not a problem. so you got about the same amount in the fish as in the water. and that means that radioactive dose is quite low. and the other factor about tritium is that it's got a very weak radioactive emission, but the fukushima plans aren't popular in the wider region, either. china's south korea and the pacific islands of old code for rethink. despite the opposition, japan says the release will begin in the coming months and continue for the next 30 years. some sports news now and baseball's equivalent of david earth is the goliath, will take place at the world baseball classic in tokyo, the czech republic face host japan, one of the favorites for the tournament. but while the japanese team is filled with

pros who ply their trade in the us, the check team have quite a different look when they're not hitting fools out the park. ah, this check team of working day jobs. that the feel good story of the tournament, mostly amex are mostly high grade and constantly exceeding expectations. a group made up of a fire fighter, a teacher at an accountant among others. and a manager who's used to working under pressure. he's an urologist. we can be here like not just the chick a baseball players check baseball team. i already believe that we can be he like european theme wart baseball. neat european baseball after beating china in their opening game. the checks faced at toughest test, yet against japan and against one of the sports best players. so hey, are tani, he's a pitcher and to heater something. so very rare and baseball

a modern day babe bruce and a guy who ends $30000000.00 a year for the los angeles angels to be able to be on this stage and compete with the best is, is what this group is excited to do. i promised there'll be no surprises, i think from, from this team. surprise. so no surprise, win or lose the checks in this together. and that post match ritual will be the same. a glass of ice cold pilsner. you're up to date and dw news up next is sports life a marion evan scheme from me and report. thanks for watching i was interested in the global economy, our portfolio d. w. business beyond. here's a closer look at.