over all trying to say dies calm down liberal democracy is safe. but as we've seen on the streets of israel today, hundreds of thousands of israelis evidently strongly disagree. and israel's own president, in this live address to the nation last night. a man who's a sober politician, talks about the risk that the risk of civil war should not be underestimate is a serious crisis here that netanyahu trying to downplay what to digest and we'll be doing it through the day. richard book, thank you. the u. s. defense department has just released footage that it says shows a russian aircraft intercepting a u. s by drug or the black sea on tuesday. according to us authorities, this video shows a russian su 2075 digit approaching the drone and dumping fuel over it as the aircraft passes closely by without appearing to cause any, any damage to the drug. but washington says the jet collided with the drones

propeller on a 2nd pass, which is also shown, but the actual collision collision rather isn't visible in the edited video released. although damage to the prop can be seen. later. we're joined now by military analyst frank lead, which joins us from oxford. good to say frank, yesterday we were speculating. now we had the actual footage. what do you say? what stands out to you in that footage? well, good afternoon. actually, the 1st thing that's flagrantly obvious is that this was a deliberate action by the russian fighters. it seems that they were in the vicinity for more than half an hour. and that would indicate as well that there was some element of permission or did command to this 2nd thing is by dumping fuel as you see there on the screen now. but so the intention there is to blind,

blind to the are instruments on the, on the drug on the re pedro as it, as it does. and also clearly to disable it. and the pass was so close as you've already pointed out, that it did disable the drone. and i suspect the combination of those 2 things, the fuel being dumped on it. we're talking here a ton of fuel, more being released, there are other drone flying into it. and the damage to the engine and the turbulence that drove the out the drone into the water. i think it was a deliberate decision actually took to crush it. it's intriguing frank. on wednesday, the pentagon spokes person ned price, who's seen the footage, obviously called the incident, probably unintentional, based on what we've seen, that doesn't appear to be the case. so why would the pentagon say that? well, it's not a known for one department or even part of one department to be at variance with another. because so general austin retired, general austin, who's defense actually was pretty clear that it wasn't inadvertant. and anyone who

said not they've got to have video will be able to no doubt that this was deliberate. but the answer question is, since, since the only possible answer i think is that what mister price wanted to do was tone down the rhetoric and ensure that there was no misunderstanding. said that the pentagon saying this, ah sir, as a warlike or hostile act as opposed to a reckless and silly one. so now to technology in it and intelligence, russia says it wants to try to salvage the wreckage. washington says it wiped all data from the drone. so what use is that drawing to moscow now? not at all, and it's highly unlikely they'll be able to recover it. it's in about 1700 meters of water, as i understand, which is well below the capabilities of most recast most not all of russia, submarine recovery technology technology by the way, that they've not shown to be particularly like which they're not shown to, particularly capable in the past the data will all be will all be wiped the re,

per m q 9 is relatively old. anyway, it's been in service for about 15 years and is now being replaced more widely around the air force or so on. all france rarely, it's not much of an intelligent scale for the russians, even if they do get help. we're sorry. what given frank, what we now know, and if a had this, if evidence doesn't change anything about the war and about the dealings between russia and the united states, it does not sound to me. it's a, it's not, it's not a landmark, but it's a, it's an event. it's an incident. it's an incident, of course that could have escalated, happy, us painted on taking a different view. it's a u. s. air force aircraft that was deliberately brought down, clearly deliberately brought down, or at least clearly deliberately damaged recklessly with the result was brought down. and the americans could have taken a different view and they could have taken the approach that look the next time we put up a reconnaissance aircraft, which this is we're going to ask or to with fighters. and you can imagine the kind of escalation that go good, we could go to from that. so yes, to that extent,

it is significant, significant moment in the, in the are russia, u. s. military encounter if you like a frank way, just getting reports that poland has decided to send. mig 29 fighter jets to ukraine, possibly even this week that something ukraine has been asking for for months. but it's nato allies have been reluctant to provide because i fear it would lead to an escalation with russia. what's your reaction about time? i remember talking about this with many other analysts said yourselves about a year ago and this transfer should have taken place then as many of us thought it would, the americans put a stop to it then the saw makes or italy suitable to the ukrainians. they know how to use and they've got them already on a far more appropriate ukrainian air force at this moment. at this moment, letters zombie f. 16. so it's good news all around and it's a good reinforcement. ukrainian air force that they will use extremely effectively . ok, no doubt, illustrate analyst franklin, which as a was thank you so much. thank you soon. thank ukraine and president vladimir

lensky says he believes russia's war is approaching a decisive moment and he's not a video address. zalinski said moscow was on the verge of failure. in ukraine, thanks to western weapons deliveries. and it's those deliveries including german made leopard tanks that many appending their hopes on in the east, particularly in back mood. the city has been a key battle ground in the war so far. and it's the region where keith has signaled it is gearing up the launch a counter offensive against russia. so the question is, can ukraine break the style? might they? lydia? russian artillery fires on past moot after months of attempts to take the city. ukraine has forced its enemy to commit major resources and take tens of thousands of casualties. the ukrainian military says it's buying time for a spring counter offensive. part of the preparations for that counter offensive are happening far from the front lines in spain. ukrainian troops are finishing their

training on advanced western tanks. they hope the leopards will be a game changer on the battlefield until now ukraine has been using older russian model tanks. ukrainian troops are getting training from nato forces elsewhere to like here in the u. k. learning the art of combined arms warfare, how to coordinate all the high tech weaponry with infantry assaults. on the front, a tank commander has high expectations. no, the concept and tactics of tank usage in battle will significantly change because western tanks have a higher firing range and other capabilities like a digital information field. if this equipment is used properly, one can destroy the enemy before the enemy approaches its firing range through her whip walla analysts say ukraine will likely amount a major attack and shop a reason province. aiming at the russian held city of melita, paul,

a successful push would cut through russia's supply lines to its forces further west. there are factors like whether that can only be guessed at not controlled. spring mud can slow or stop tank advances, bogging down the russians and ukrainians alike. that means the timing and the target of any counter offensive are still a mystery. which is just the way ukrainian commanders wanting european markets appear to be rebounding after switzerland's embattled bank. credit suisse secured, a big financial lifeline concerns over the troubled linda had early assent. asian stock market's falling credits with has said it will borrow up to 50000000000 euros from switzerland central bank in a bid to show up its liquidity, meaning it has cash on hand to finance its business. the sudden collapses of to us banks last week of sparked growing fees will wide jitters on the market,

sent many asian stocks into the red again on thursday. investors are wearily eyeing the problems that have hit several banks in the us and europe, wondering if they're just the 1st signs of a deeper crisis. the latest alarm bells have been sounding around credit suisse, one of europe's largest banks. from back regular perspective credits, he says, major global player, major player in the us, smaller than it used to be. but still very important. shares of the swiss bank plunged to a record low on wednesday after it's the biggest shareholder said it would not provide more funding to the company. the dive prompted the swiss central bank to step into the port credit suisse, making it the 1st major global bank to receive such a lifeline since the 2008 financial crisis. credit suisse has a lot of links to the financial sectors of other countries. so it has operations

in the us, in other parts of europe and more widely around the world. and it will have a lot of creditors and, and subsidiaries elsewhere who potentially could get into difficulties if the, if credits within, in switzerland. what to have trouble. analysts say, balance sheets across the entire banking sector, now facing greater scrutiny after the failures of silicon valley bank and signature bank in the us. they're searching for weakness across all, you know, banks including credit risk. so the risk is not off the table and across the horizon, people are trying to think about, well, you know, what does this really mean for the banking industry as a hall? i'm really keeping a close eye on credit suisse. that to me is really much more concerning and depending on how that works out over the next couple of days and even this weekend,

i do think that is something that certainly can have, you know, very broad implications for the market and l, the global financial system by quickly taking decisive action to show up credit suisse, the swiss central bank is hoping it can prevent the crisis of confidence from spreading. right, let's get more on this with christy bledsoe from d w business who joined us now from franklin, christy, in the middle of this crisis of confidence as explained, put the european central bank had to make a big coal on interest rates, walk us through the unenviable choice, right, all eyes were on the european central bank today in the midst of all this. chaos as you could call it and what we did get from them today was a 50, a bass. it's point hike. this is a big hike for the c b. it also was expected. mean if you look behind me here, you can see this a d plunge around the time that the c, b announced the hike if that gives you any idea of how investors felt about it. there was speculation about whether the

e c be would go for this big hike again because raising interest rates also potentially candy stabilize financial markets as well. so in the midst of everything else that's going on, some had wondered if they would potentially pull back and go for a smaller hike. but inflation in the years on is still much higher than the e. c. b wanted to be. it's over 8 percent. they are looking for it to be at 2 percent, so their hands were basically tied despite what investors might feel about about the decision. so christy the big question now, how worried should we be about this development with credits with right, i mean, as we just heard this bank is a globally significant bank. i mean, it's the 2nd largest bank in switzerland and switzerland. we shouldn't forget is known for banking, so i mean that it's, it's certainly in a different league than say, a the, a couple of american banks that we also just heard about in california last week that also went under a credit suisse, is definitely

a bigger player than those with that being said, since the swiss national bank has said it will step it, it is going to back the bank of bail it out. essentially, the bank will still be good for the money. this will hopefully keep any fallout from spilling over into other markets. so for now the things seem to be ok. we can also see on the docs behind is of course, germany's biggest up stock index that things are stabilizing. someone investors are a little bit more hopeful, but there's certainly plenty of nervousness still. the air system was the 2 u. s. banks in trouble, but now we're talking about a well known european bank. as you say, is this a sign of the contagion that is deeply rooted in the banking industry? i mean, it's a great question. i mean that what happened in the, in the us last week and what's happening with credit suisse, are sort of fundamentally different things, though they are affecting each other. you could say, i mean what happened with credit suisse and how, how this all got triggered off essentially, is that the banks,

largest investor of the saudi national bank said that it would not be buying more credits. we stock and investors interpreted this as a sign of lacking confidence in credit suisse, which has had some issues for a while now that people know about. but actually this was for regulatory reasons that the saudi national bank said it won't be buying socks on, but yeah, because of the nervousness in the financial sector due to the collapse that we saw in america last week. this is one reason that investors are a bit judy right now and our bit, i guess, a trigger happy you could say, and we're ready to to dump that credit suisse stock. so whether you want to call that contagion is debatable, but there's certainly an echo effect of some sort that is having effect across our finance market. as you can see. i also on our board here for today, kristen hudson from d. w. business. thanks so much. french president, a memo mccomb has decided to force through. he's controversial pension reform

without calling a vote in parliament. the retirement age is to be increased from 62 to 64, which polls show most french people are against. for weeks, hundreds of thousands of protesters have been taking to the streets across france in an attempt to convince lawmakers to hold the reform. he is report on those protests a final show of force against french president emmanuel mccullin's, unpopular pension reforms across france. protesters turned out in their hundreds of thousands, desperate to force a last minute turnaround by lawmakers. union leaders in not said they had no intention of backing down. i thought reform is bad to day. it will be bad, wanted being voted for all personally by force. so we'll keep fighting for it's complete withdrawal attack. okay. alright, actually the raising of the retirement age remains unacceptable to us. the protests were largely peaceful though there were some skirmishes with police.

oh, according to surveys, more than 2 thirds of the population opposed. michael's plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. recurrent protests in recent months have drawn millions across the country and repeated war counts have disrupted the transport factor. to coincide with wednesdays, protests unions called an 8th day of strikes in paris. refuse collectors won't talk the job over a week ago. now $6000.00 tons of rubbish have piled up in some areas trash has almost taken over forcing pedestrians onto the roads, attracting rats, and repelling restaurant visitors and tourists. it did surprise me alike cuz i also heard that, you know, people ladies told me like, oh yeah, it's a very clean, very clean city. so just like a surprise me so far we are not changing any plans. if we encounter more garbage

though, we'll probably visit other parts of the city because we don't the garbage has done little to impress lawmakers, not cold bill would bring france more into line with its e, you neighbors, most of which have increased retirement age to $65.00 or higher, but with the union saying they'll continue their battle, even if the bill passes. pension reform in france is set to remain a burning issue. i'm joined now by our correspondent lisa lewis in paris. lisa, what's happening in the french parliament right now? while it is a chaotic situation, really, you know, the only they just confirmed to me that they were together so called $4093.00 clause. that means the law will be pushed through without evade the only way to bring down the law. now the reform is a vote of no confidence. now that is not really going down well with anybody here.

obviously the protestors but also parliamentarians who, when it is born, the prime minister entered the parliament and wanted to announce that measure as they were standing up there were singing, they were holding up signs and now to a retirement age of 64 and a sign saying democracy says really chaotic and though the government is trying to push this through, but it seems to be rather difficult. so tells us a little bit more about article $49.00 to push through the pension reforms, despite massive resistance. what exactly is 49.3, and how often do french politicians use this lever? it is not the 1st time you know, since the beginning of the 5th republican france from the fifty's, it's been used around 90 times last time around at last year to get through this year's budget in parliament. but it has, it does mean, as i said, that there will be no vote on at this reform. and the only way to bring the reform

down is also to bring down the government with it. and my call has decided president, my call has decided to use this clause, but it is right, highly controversial. and many people here are saying this is a denial of democracy because parliament tyrants are not even allowed to vote on this reform. and you know, obviously as what is up in arms against this measure, you talk about chaos in the parliament. but what about on the streets now is resorting to this measure likely to further enrage union? so does that mean an end to the protest somehow while obviously there are protests taking place to day across the country. and there are, you know, strikes a going on that are still going on. there was a big day of protests yesterday to day. some protesters have come to the national assembly to show that they don't agree with the government. and unions have been

saying, you know, this is not going to be the end of it. they are determined to continue their demonstrations. they want to bring down the reform at all costs, really president because her political credibility hinged on the passage of this pension reform. now that it will probably pass or is on route to doing that. and what does this victory mean for the prism of them? i'm not sure you can actually call it a victory. you know his credibility will be weakened after this f his age because he cannot say that he has the support of the people. we knew that in yvonne's, as he said, as you had before him, the majority of the french are paid to the reform. but he can't even convince parliamentarians to go along with him. so he is really weakened on a domestic level, but also on an international level because he's always trying, he's always been trying to depict himself as a strong statesman, to play a big role on an international level to play a role of mediation. for example,

when it comes to the russian invasion in ukraine, and that will be a lot more difficult to defend right now here in france and also abroad. this is louis empower. thank you so much. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has met the german chancellor in berlin, amid rising tensions at home. either his government's plans to reform the judiciary critic say the plans would allow the israeli parliament to overturn supreme court decisions on his visit to berlin. netanyahu defended his plan image that is force it as though we're trying to bring a judicial reform to curtail the independence of the judiciary is not true. israel has an independent judiciary, but many feel i'm not able to talk about specific ideas. many feel that it is an all powerful judiciary. an independent judiciary is not at all powerful judiciary. the judicial reform is meant to bring into balance the 3 branches of government.

and when that is accomplished, we will have the same balance that exists in any other democracy. and to his part german, chantelle all have shalt said, his government would fight anti semitism and strength and ties between germany and israel. to me, as human transfer is important to strength, engine shape and journey. this includes learning lessons from the past and consistently countering on any anti phonetic wrong is where he lives, expression, 2nd, and crimes. i'm particularly interested in strengthening the ties between young people from israel and jermel to intensify the ties between our countries and to ensure more youth exchanges. the unique ties between german israel neely that germany is committed to its responsibility for israel's, of his security. it is a reason of state that is what this german government stands for,

and israel can count on us. i 20 me now is doubly chief political correspondent, nina houser. welcome to you, and then a shout said he is watching his rouse, legal reforms with concerns. what does that mean? well, shows had to weigh his was very carefully here and to the israeli prime minister's visit to the german chancellor. re, of course, people said it was not an option, not to comment on that controversial judicial reform that is also being criticized here in germany. and many people are warning that it is undermining a democracy and the rule of law in israel social, it's hacked to make a comment. and he chose those words because he also as stressed that he is still hoping for the israeli government to get into as sort of a dialogue with the opponents of the current governments plans. and deb israeli president isaac hat sog heap of suggested a compromise planned but that was rejected by been him in at unknown. it is

government and all of shows use their stage here in berlin to day to ask in a very diplomatic manner. you have to say and benjamin antonio to go back. he said the last word i hope is not spoken on that issue. that was as far as he was prepared to go, the german chancellor, the german chancellor also said germany would welcome further cooperation with defense in defense rather with ease row. what is that going to mean in practice to we think of course, russia's attack on ukraine has also led to a complete re think here of a, germany's self defense. and as the government is planning a sort of a 4 level defense system when it comes to air defense, and israel is one of the biggest and most prominent suppliers of air and air defense system, the and the i and dome, essentially. so germany has been in contact with israeli government to acquire the

ara 3 system where that would help gemini a shield itself from aerotech attacks. and of course, that is a question that is becoming more and more prevalent now that the war is dragging on . and that there is no end to it in sight. the war in ukraine. of course, how can germany defend itself and israel is a very important plaza. both said that they had made progress on that issue and that they had had constructive talks. and they, at that, they're hoping that there will be a rapid decision. you spoke before the press conference, talking about shoulda and netanyahu o walking a tightrope. what does this visit mean for germany's riley relations at this moment on it was definitely one of those days where everybody, what's his very closely, every word that is being said, as security is extremely tight, hair and berlin, nobody wants anything to happen. a protocol is extremely ad tides and of course, excited about this visit here in berlin. and now this government is seen as

a far right government. the critics are saying, israel is moving towards a dictatorship, and that's of course not an easy stance for germany. germany says the current german state has a responsibility for the current israeli state because of germany's past because of the nazis who murdered some 6000000 jews during world war 2. israel are all shots confirmed again. is part of germany's reason of being. but of course, how far do you go, or when you are faced with a government that is the threatening to undermine democracy. so this is only the beginning and it is going to be the start of a very, very hard and a very, very difficult diplomatic relationship between the government of what shots and the government of phenom in that anal said political correspondent nina has a thanks so much now before we go, he's a reminder of the top story. we're following for you this hour. the u. s. has released video of cheese dice, black see drunk incident. the pentagon says the 40 chose of russian pottage. it

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