i please my phone with those who we are, your is actually on fire. for mines with this is dw news live from berlin. china has a new 2nd in command. the national people's congress approves that li cheng as premier. he was nominated by shipping and is a staunch ally of the president. also coming up, china condemns japan's plan to release treated but still radioactive water. 12

years after an earthquake, it's an army trigger. the meltdown of the fukushima nuclear power plant and baseball may not be their day job. but check players are going up against some of the games superstars when they play japan in the world baseball classic ah a marion evans dean, welcome. in china, lee chang has been appointed as premier. the nation's 2nd highs post. it follows his nomination by president. she shall ping, lee is now tasked with running the government and managing the economy. his host was confirmed during the annual parliamentary session. it's the 1st time it's taking place in full in 3 years after being scaled back during the pandemic.

earlier i spoke to journalist bob in crush more who's in beijing and he told us more about china's newly appointed premier lee. shang 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 a price on this, he's quite a pragmatic. he listens to their concerns. so they are said. but on the other side, he's also a very, i'm strong ally off seating 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 our party secretary of shanghai implemented a very radical 2 months locked down at which basically brought the economy to

a standstill. and a many r shanghai residents were really suffering from food shortages 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 order. and i think he was also in some way revolt watered for his legality. so you have those 2 aspects who are also a little bit 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

they're said, but on the other hand, i'm mildly optimistic. leach young, he already gained the trust of a student pinged a long time ago. so i think that will make things easier. and we know that during the initial people's congress, the growth target for this year was set at around 5 percent. that is lower than expected and it goes to show that probably the focus for this use economic development is not on the american growth itself, but also it leaves some room for reforms and those reforms are really needed to make the economy here. motrin are more sustainable and to, for example, booster 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 encroachment reporting for us from beijing. 5 in thank

you so much. ukrainian officials have said that the fighting for the besieged eastern city of back mood has escalated again. cave says its troops are holding on even as russia has increased its attacks on their positions. several civilians were injured and buildings set on fire after russian shelling hit the nearby ukrainian hel town. of course down in the fca. training officials have said that they are determined to hold on to buffalo and was become the longest and bloodiest battle of rushes year long war. we can now speak to dorothea sagamore, so she is a senior lecture at the department of worst studies of kings college london. welcome to d w. so the ukranian side has been insisting that it is bent on holding on to bob mould. why is that?

yes, the main, the main objective i think is really to try to wear down our russian forces, which are being sent to this area to back move to are in this russian offensive because many are sort of quite combat ready for cissy dawson pills on. lot of elements of private military company wagner. so the objective granny's reach, we're down to reduce the strength of these forces who are suffering a lot of casualties and pin them down in this bachelor's so that more russia can north korea a more effective congo offensive. and at the same time, you know, i know you gradients to prepare their own, the sort of counter offensive, maybe in other areas. so really to drain very much the russian forces in a similar way as they did in the summer of last year around, around the see chance. and yet they make really sort of afford very hard. and then they, they were able to take a few months later, territory around hot it,

for example. so i think they're using us human a pattern i'm trying really to wear down combat read a year, a russian full says, which are being sent to the area. and also, especially in the better wagner group forces, so that then they can maybe more effectively carry out the account to offensive. i'm in a way sort of hamper russians efforts to kind of be more effective for fancy operations . well, you mentioned the wagner mercenary group, and we're hearing reports that it has actually paused its attacks on bus route. what does this mean? i think it's very difficult to know what exactly is happening because at the same time yesterday. but neither of the wagner grew from the supreme gorgine. he issued a 30 year where he says that he's now reorganizing his forces. he's a setting up for our over 40 recruitment center. wrong russia. he tries, he says he wants to set up

a sort of his own armed forces that are going to be great and justice to russia. so that can be very concerning for the russian leadership. so it's very unclear water and you know what his position is and what he's trying to do. there were not a lot of sort of discussions around her, the lack of supply that he was getting apparently from the mystery of the things. so there were, i go to classes and confrontations per but anyway, the defense ministry on it is not clear in it least groupies receiving enough. i'm your mission to move forward. so it may be, this could also be a tactic off the kremlin to maybe sort of reduce the power they've done on power. i pretty gorging on these forces, maybe a wiring inside russia. so just surgeon next and reduce their military capability by reducing the amount of weaponry that they are receiving. so i think that is all part and parcel of precautions and sort of concerns on decisions to maybe pause and regroup, or his forces. that was the entire 2nd. i'm also from king's college london. thank

you. let's take a look now at some of the other news making headlines around the world. police in the northern german city of hamburg, say the shooter at a jehovah witnesses center. it was a former member of the religious denomination. the gunman killed himself, 6 people, including a pregnant woman. police also say they'd recently received an anonymous tip off about his mental state. oh, frances has suggested that catholic priests and nuns and could be allowed to marry in an interview. he said 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. japan's neighbors, including china and a local residence or a sounding alarm bells over plans to release treated radioactive waste water from the damage fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. it's been 12 years since the

nuclear plant meltdown at fukushima, which was triggered by a powerful earthquake in san nami, that killed more than 800000 people. japan is still dealing with the consequences today. 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 little her 3 young, 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 from tapco runs the water through a treatment system, but it's 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 as run tests 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 emitter, like a tuna, 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 for these numbers to show up. other expense, say the tritium is so diluted that it's not a problem. so you get 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 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 all called for rethink. despite the opposition, japan says the release will begin in the coming months and continue for the next 30 years. german soccer. now, ann burroughs, adjustment me to local rival chalka on saturday is one of the biggest rivalries in the bonus. lehah, if you're a dormant, are challenging for the leak title, while chalka are fighting relegation. ah, the numbers are all in favor of a victory for don't mind when if he's chalka in the viet davi, don't mind our unbeaten in the last 8 league matches. and if scored a whopping $22.00 goals, if that isn't enough, the 2nd place team is taking on the 17th in the boonies z a table. but does any of that matter? not according to the document coach. it is an inch b. as always, this will be

a match shape by emotion and intensity on where your rank on the table has no meaning. it's really just about those 90 minutes, even organ chalka also on the same shaneka. they've only conceded one goal in the last 6 games. and there's a new sound sense of team spirit. and then, and if dorman gives a 100 percent and so to weep and it'll be very difficult. it's our job to prevent them from reaching that 100 percent. and that means what sets us apart. unmatched a is our mentality. it chalka will be happy that brought one to replay without several key players, including you some poor poor who's caught the game winner against them the last time around. whatever the outcome, this rivalry is about more than just points, pride and bragging rights, also on the line. at the world baseball classic and tokyo, the czech republic face hose, japan, one of the favorites for the tournament. but while the japanese team is filled with pros who ply their trade in the united states, the check team have quite

a different look when they're not hitting balls out the park. ah, this check team a 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 firefighter, 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 only believe that we can be he like european theme, ward 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 o, tawny. he's a pitcher and a heater, something savory 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 the 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 surprised or no surprise win or lose the checks or in this together . and their post match ritual will be the same. a glass of ice cold pilsner and that the latest unbeatable you news this hour. i'm marion evans, dean from me and the entire news team in berlin. thanks for the company. ah, imagine so many portion of lunch are thrown out in the world. climate change very hot the stores. this is my blessing way from just one week. how much was can it really get.