about our complex relationship with animals, global i think i will live long enough to witness the factory farming. the great debate this week on d. w or ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. china has a new 2nd in command to the national people's congress approved lee chang as premier. he was nominated by a sheep pink and is a staunch ally of the president. also on the show, japan's neighbors are worried about plans to release treated but still radio active

water into the sea. 12 years after an earthquake and so nami triggered the meltdown of the fukushima nuclear power plant. plus, it's a heartwarming look at bird rescuers. and it could be taking home an oscar this weekend. we'll look at the indian film. all that reads. ah, i'm marrying a evanston, it's good to have you with us. in china, lee chang has been appointed as premier, the nation's 2nd times post. it follows his nomination by president she sham ping. li is now tasked with running the government and managing the economy. his post was confirmed during the annual parliamentary session. if the 1st time it's taking place in full in 3 years after being scaled back during the pandemic.

a short time ago, i talked to journalists, father in crash more in beijing, and he told us more about china's newly appointed premier leech. thank. yeah, i think of for once and he's his pro business background that 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 or see all or started found us, most of him appraised them. this is quite a pragmatic. he listens to their concerns. so they're said. but on the other side, he's also a very, a strong ally, office heating 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 and directly or just one year ago, and leach young as a party. secretary of shanghai implemented

a very radical 2 months locked down, which basically brought the economy to a standstill. and a many, shanghai residents were 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 and 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 there said, but on the other hand, i 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 a national 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 economy and development is not on numeric 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 to father in crestmarc reporting for us from beijing. 5 in

thank you so much. ukrainian officials say the fighting for the besieged eastern city of my 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 building set on fire. after rush and shelling hit the nearby ukrainian hel, town of custodian, if gun ukrainian officials have said they're determined to hold onto back loot and once become the longest and bloodiest battle of russia as a year long war. earlier i spoke with dummy t. yes, i could, i'm also a senior lecture at the department of war studies of king collins london, and i asked her why ukraine seems so intent on defending, baffled. yes. the main, the main objective i think is really to try to wear down, rush and forces which are being sent to these areas to move in this ration

offensive because many are sort of quite common ready forces into general elements of the private tree company. so the objective of your brain is re, to, we're down to reduce the strength of these forces, suffering a lot of project teams, pin them down in the bathroom, so that russia, korea more effective counsel fences. and at the same time, you know, i'm ukrainians to prepare their own sort of thank kids, maybe in other areas. so really to drain very much the russian forces in a similar way as late in the summer of last year. around around you see john's and they really sort of before the very high and then they were able to take a few months later, terry 3, around hard for example. so i think they're using a human pattern of trying to wear down combat ready,

year russian poll says which i've been trying to the area and also especially for to show that then they can maybe more effectively car reality in a way sort of hamper russians efforts. to carry more than, well, you mentioned the wagner mercenary group and we're hearing reports that it has actually passed 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 i. he's a setting up for our over 40 recruitment center. wrong russia. he tries, he says he wants to set up a, 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. when i go to sort of discussions around her lack of supplies that he was getting apparently from the ministry of defense. so there were, i go to classes and confrontations per but anyway, the defense ministry on it is not clear and it least group is receiving enough. i'm your mission to move forward. so maybe they could also be a tactic off the kremlin to maybe sort of reduce the power they've done that powers, i pretty gorging on his forces, maybe acquiring inside russia. so to a certain extent, 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 though, in tears i could, i'm also from kings college london. thank you. let's get a check now of some of the other story is making news around the world. in afghanistan,

one person has been killed and 5 others injured in a blast that hit the northern province of bulk. this comes days after another explosion. bear killed the provinces, governor and 2 others. with the islam estate group claimed responsibility for that attack. police in the northern germans city of hamburg, say the shooter at a jehovah witnesses center was a former member of the religious denomination. the gunman killed himself 6 others, including a pregnant woman. police also say they'd recently received an anonymous tip off about the shooters mental state. both francis has suggested that 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, columbia's government and the largest remaining rebel group,

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. nearly half a 1000000 people were killed during decades of conflict between the state and various armed groups to parents. neighbors, including china and local residents, are 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 fukushima, which was triggered by a powerful earthquake. and so nami, that killed more than 18000 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 government

says it poses no risk, but local fishermen are concerned while more than one little kirk or young, we're worried that the reputation of our produce will suffer 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 economy 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 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 are concerned about the long term effects. if you had just something

with a bait 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 to these numbers, to show up. other expanse, say the tritium is so diluted that it's not a problem. so you care 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 fukushima plans aren't popular in the wider region, either. china's south korea in the pacific islands of all cold for rethink. despite the opposition, japan says the release will begin in the coming months and continue for the next 30 years. the oscars movie awards take place as weekend, and one of the documentary is nominated for an academy award. is the film, all that breeds. it's about 2 brothers running

a bird rescue clinic in delhi. it's hard to imagine, but the stars of an oscar nominated film live here in the indian capital feathered ones. these birds of prey would normally be soaring through the skies, but there badly injured or they're getting treatment at this clinic in delhi, from brothers mohammed and nadeem. how my deposit cases are there was other than at the hand you the most common injury who yeah. it's from the carts. people fly yakking. yeah. they're part of indian culture. yeah. my, the indian, can you tell me it can't guide flame, but the kites have shop hedges on the birds fly into them and some unfair. so when we are brought the 1st word in, we used to see them dying on the street dying of starvation. durango's toast are only cold running over them, larry wounded and all that on the day we close our doors. these are going to suffer

along these bird who'd be back on their order and dying. the sl open fruit to them . barely team go to lay a philly crew accompanied the brothers for 3 years, gathering hundreds of hours of footage. the result is now in the running for best documentary film award at the oscars. there's certainly no hollywood glamour at the wild life rescue clinic in delhi golden. new birds have just arrived for treatment. one of them is an egyptian vulture, a particularly rare bird. 6 people work at the clinic, none of them are formally trained. the brothers originally wanted to be body builders. then they began caring for birds 12 years ago. we are planning to do it for last or her life in the law minded any. when we die, someone else will have to take care of them from b one, we are changing

a blogger through a good stringer hospital to a proper place of bag bird hospital. not something with is it on a out of our house. now demon muhammad are looking forward to being in the audience on sunday to look for sponsorship, their clinic survives on donations. they've rescued and released some 26000 birds so far. a success they see is greater than any potential award. and there's the latest unbeatable u. news this, our up next is sports life. i'm marion evans theme for me and the entire news team . thanks for watching a new tag, a. this visual hotspots in germany, europe and the world d. w. travel extremely.