ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, france erupts in protest after the government bypasses parliament. outrage demonstrations clash with police in paris of the government of president mac hall forces his pension reform through without a vote. also coming up, slovakia follows poland lead and promising make fighter jets to ukraine. off to

poland pledges at least 4 ad croft, slovakia. government approved sending its fleet of 13 at soviet era jets to help you cry and defend itself against russia's invasion and guessing back on her feet how a team of medics are helping this ukranian girl walk again up to she lost her leg in a russian attack class making waves in the surfing world. we catch up with the sydney surfer who's taken the title for the longest as a continuous, i think section ah i'm and it gives me can and thanks so much for joining us. protests have erupted across france. now that's after president manuel mac loans, government use special powers to ram through his controversial pension reforms. without a vote by parliament opinion polls show about 2 thirds of people in france,

opposed to legislation. ah, tear gas and water cannon on the historic plus de la concord at the heart of the french capital. the introduction of an unpopular pension spill in the french national assembly has brought fire and fury to the streets of paris and cities across france. protesters through cobblestones and shot flares of police and there were hundreds of arrests. they're angry at a bill pushed through parliament, which raises the retirement age by 2 years to $64.00. 0, if we could agree langon, click, government must understand that we're not in the streets for fun and that the future of france will be built by us. and the economy is built by us and for it to work when we need good conditions, where we don't work for too long of a year, 60 years as largely sufficient. and where we are paid correctly. women as well as

man, the fun covered is alone. embattled president emanuel my call will have to do with more protests and accusations of anti democratic behavior. after adopting the contentious legislation without parliamentary vote, the protest could echo 20 eighteen's yellow vest populace movement against rising prices and all that all technology on his x now comes the hard part, much tougher action neglect because demonstrations and strikes are no longer possible. yeah, no. so we're going to do what the yet vested polls showed, the 2 thirds of the french population oppose the pension reform. the protests may just be the beginning of a political crisis. ah, d, w is least, louis has been covering the story in paris for us. and i asked earlier, this is really the last word on pension reform, or if the plan can still be reversed. well, this specially constitutional power,

the government is now using means that the pension reform can only be overturned. if there is a vote of no confidence, we understand 4 parties, 4 position parties will bring in such a emotion in parliament and parliament, should they turn on these emotions next monday. now when you look at the figures at the government should be fine because it has, you know, and not a majority, but the air, the republican party, the conservative party, they have said the heads of that party of said that they would vote against any such mation however, looking back at yesterday's a day, what happened here in france? many conservatives didn't follow what they're the heads of their party head side and the past concerning this pension reform. so there is still a doubt that next monday, you know, this one of the motions could get through. in that case the government would fall, and also the pension reform would 4th, with the government. how unusual is it to the french government to skirt parliament

like this and to force legislation through now this rule has been here about 90 time since the beginning of the 5th republic republic. so since the 1900 fifty's . not really extraordinary. but over the past 2 decades, sir, it has been seen as a symbol against the population's will really, it's not been seen as a normal constitutional tool. and many people here feel my call. the president is unable to convince the french, but he's also unable to convince parliamentarians. and so it seems that the decision to use this special constitutional to now really mean for many people, a provocation. and people are turning out to protest even more and a threatening with a more violent protests of the coming days and weeks. i was gonna ask you to tell us more about the protests. i mean, how widespread are they really and,

and how much of a threat all day to the government we have seen last night, few 1000 people turning out here in paris, but also across france. but since this morning that have been blockades that have been much of a, there are still strikes ongoing and circle sectors, for example, the energy sector. and, you know, we will see how this will, you know, turn off if the, if the strikes will grow so far. it's not a nationwide general strike. but the unions have come to came together last night and said that there would be such another day of nationwide strike the 9 such days since the beginning of the debate on this reform in parliament. and it remains to be seen if they gain momentum right now. there's a lot of anger here in france and many people fear really that you know, the font not this country might face very difficult times in the coming weeks. what's in place?

lisa lewis reporting from power link you to turkey now, which is where finland's hopes of joining nato rest and where final talks are now taking place. the turkish president rach up type at a one is meeting with his finished counterpart. sally minister in ankara at one had hinted at giving finland the green light earlier this week. the ratification will formally need to pass through a vote in turkey's parliament. do i go straight to assemble, where dw correspondent jojo harnessed standing by for us. you? there was the feeling in turkey. how likely is it that the president added one will approve finland's nato bid? well it seems like on cra, is finally ready to sign off on housing keys, nato aspirations, president edwin just last month said that he can imagine agreeing to finland, joining nato, but that he intends to remain tough on sweden ad. one is expected to make an

official announcement later today during, during a joint press conference with his finish counterparts in ankara. and then things could move ahead rather quickly if ad one sends his approval to finland in nato to the turkish parliament to be ratified. vote could take place in the next few weeks and before turkish elections in mid may. and this would indeed be a breakthrough in this month's long grueling deadlock because let's remember finland and sweden have asked to join the military alliance in may last year in summer. and all 30 natal members have to agree to this to day 28 of them have ratified the 2 naughty countries at session protocols. only turkey and hungry have dragged on the entire process. now, you mentioned the electrons. turkey has electrons coming up very soon. i mean, do they play into this decision at all about of finland and nato?

well, that's what analysts say that these upcoming turkish elections are key. and this entire process is going to be the toughest test at the ballot box for president reggie tie of ad one in 20 years. and he has been using particularly the stand of with sweden to stage himself as a powerful and influential international leader. as somebody the west, and in this case, nato has to listen to him. that has been part of the entire bargaining process. but the 2 nordic neighbors come from the very beginning, said they want to join nato together. but sweden has always faced much tougher objections from turkey, then finland for harboring groups which onqua considers terrorists. and now that the turkish government says finland has met the turkish security concerns . but it's still accused of sweden,

of not having done enough talks with sweden were even dropped in january over a row about protests, including a public burning of the koran, outside the turkish embassy in stockholm. so this dispute is not going to go away, but now that the 2 states say they no longer have the ambition to join nato together, finland is likely to get the green light. but turkey is going to keep sweden, many believe in limbo until the elections here to the i think the amounts of detail is julia han in istanbul. okay, let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. the death toll from cyclone freddy has risen to more than 400 across southern africa. more than 300 have died in malawi alone, and rescue is all still discovering more bodies. the tropical storm hit madagascar and mozambique in february, and it moved out to the indian ocean before making land for a 2nd time. this week. a group as big u. s. banks of hand at

a lifeline to the struggling 1st republic bank of the investors lost confidence in the regional lender. the group provided a $30000000000.00 cash injection to shore up its balance sheet. amid fears of a bank from markets have been smoothed by the sudden collapse of to us banks last week. with china's foreign ministry, and the kremlin have confirmed that president jim ping will meet with his russian counterpart vladimir putin in moscow next week. this will be, she's a 1st visit to russia since 2019 and comes as vladimir putin faces isolation on the well stage over his war on ukraine. now, slovakia had said that it will supply fighter jets to ukraine. that follows a similar announcement by fellow nato member. poland also said yesterday that it would deliver for fully operational soviet area era,

mig 20 nines in the coming days. slovakia now says it will donate all of its makes as well. so back is soviet era fleet was retired in 2022. ukraine has repeatedly urged western partners to send war planes to help defend against russian invasion and we can bring in military analysts, marina miron, who's with the war studies department at kings college london. she joins us now from munich. marina, our 1st poland. now slovakia, both nato member state sending fighter jets to ukraine. why now? well, this is an interesting question because both poland and slovakia have old soviet aircraft, which they can need to ukraine. and we've had this question before when we're discussing and delivering tanks to ukraine a year ago, it would have been unthinkable to supply ukraine was tighter chat because the situation was quite different. and the western countries were testing where the red

lines are put in use to announce and, and besides putting also threatened and use nuclear weapons if necessary. so that was kind of fear. and now as a war is dragging on there is a need to strengthen the ukrainian forces capabilities. president laskey has been asking for wider jets for a long time. now the problem is that attending in western fighter chat requires training requires the logistics and we don't have the time. so it is important for paul and to make the for a staff and whoever has also be an aircraft to ship it to ukraine because it is much faster. and at least in terms of quantity, it can increase you korean armed forces or air forces capability is probably not quality by the piece. a quantity. ok? so the soviet get a quicker fix, i guess. but how much of

a difference will they actually make? that's a good question because we don't know when they will arrive and right now we know that poland pledge to send for jets altogether. poland has about 30 or 31, make 29 jets. so when the rest will come, we do not know. and ideally, one would want ukraine to have those chats operational in order to conduct combined arms operations was air support, one the tanks, those air. so there is a need to court in the, the delivery of jats and for as they have to be prepared, all kind of need to have sensitive equipment has to be stripped from those jets. so was a for jess, it's more of a symbolic gesture to signal to as a countries that they should deliver fighter jets to ukraine. same as was a tanks. b and kremlin has reacted by saying that it would describe, destroy these jets in the big picture. will this increase the risk of

a broader confrontation with russia? well, the thing is that the kremlin sad that because they have ground based era defense systems that will be targeting those jets, there will probably be an attempt to destroy whatever you feel to crane has because ukraine would have to rebuild them. i don't think that it will lead to any kind of nuclear escalation, but it is possible that russia will increase its efforts in ukraine, possibly a through another round of mobilization or partial mobilization of home. and also in the kind of mon kinetic domain in the information and cyber space. and i see that as a worrying factor is that hasn't been discussed very much during the war. how russia conduct schools operations targeted against neither countries. ok. and how big is the pressure now on other countries, especially bigger countries like the u. s. o, germany,

to follow the lead and also supply gets well, it depends on what these countries have a very disposal and what they're willing to the need. because of there was a talk about the meeting after 16. so even if the pressure is there, both germany and the united states might do the same trick as they did was the tanks. each country will be saying, well, as soon as you commit to, to delivering fighter jets and will, will join in. so there will be a lot of political discussions because as a sad, germany doesn't have any old soviet aircraft. so it makes it difficult for countries like german, yours a you asked to the need, something to ukraine was out and any major security repercussions. and obviously it will be taking time to train the pilots to train the air crews and establish logistics. so even if they pledge to deliver aircraft such as ac, 16, it will not seize a battle field for at least and as

a year. arena maron from kings college london. thanks so much for that analysis. thank you. now russia has been widely accused of indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas in ukraine. the attacks have left many ukrainians, including many children with life changing inter injuries. but ducks is all finding ways to tackle the trauma. t w's. abraham visited a hospital in keith, where a medical team has helped one little girl get back on her feet. mm hm. they say it takes a village to raise a child for 6 year old marina. it's taken want to put her back on her feet on a little a little slow that yes. oh, she has grown so much during this time since the war and everything that has happened to us and she has become very mature. she sees everything differently. miles of social clean shawn. that shift started over 6 months ago when marina lost her leg and started treatment at this key of hospital. our russian shell hit her

home in the southern ukrainian city of her son. natalia not wanting to add to her daughters, trauma refused to flee the country. instead, she moved to the capital to find a team that could give her daughter the treatment she needs for an a czar marinas. physiotherapist recovery had to start from the insight. oh, but with i approached her 1st as a child she put then as a friend, but then as a patient, so it was, it was, it was very important to set priorities. the muscle defined approach to immediately as a doctor and she, as a patient we would not have had this result was been the least one of them. you need to find an approach. and 1st of all, the quote to become a friend received, but who settling phones, thought the room and send him a defense. then there was the challenge of finding out prosthetic st who could work

with someone. so young was oscars office or did you pay for children? we have to pay special attention to monitoring the height of the prosthetic. so her spine does not get damaged. so level, her healthy leg is growing normally. so the length and volume of the perspective helped her make sense of her new reality, inevitable. when marina 1st entered our hospital, she asked questions to why me, why did this happen to me? why my house, my family, why my leg be? and she did not want to communicate with anyone. ha, she would cover herself with a blanket and just wanted to be in her mother's arms. she did not let a psychologist to me her now beloved, be market. his mom and i have been in his ard with scholar, the said looks hala alive, but then slowly with the help of various methods, family therapy, art therapy, a rehabilitative you can see that marrying and now communicates perfectly with everyone and has fun. oh cool. it's absolutely as a sima, alyssa laid st less than

a year after starting her treatment. marina can now kick a ball, walk with confidence, and jump on a trampoline. her remarkable progress has become a point of pride and the learning experience for the all ukrainian team. they say that prior to the more they didn't have many cases where they could work together in an interdisciplinary set up. ok 1000. yes, we are like one big family. marina is energetic. some days she wants to be a soccer player on others. all she talks about is race car driving. whatever she ends up doing, her team will always be proud that they helped her take that 1st step. and joining me now in the studio is d w. special correspondent, abraham has filed that report from ukraine. a at marina is obviously such a tough little girl. but we didn't hear from hiring your report. why was that?

so this was actually the explicit wish of her mother and her psychologist because they had felt that, you know, do in this phase of her treatment and rehabilitation, they didn't really want anyone there, especially a stranger like a journalist. them, it was pretty great that we were even there and able to observe her during this training to talk to her about, you know, what happened to her and maybe even ask her basic questions about how she feels. because, you know, as i learned, making this report, the 1st rule of trauma rehabilitation is do no harm. and you know, even that we would have, obviously, you know, coordinator with them. what we would talk to her about, we wanted to make sure that we weren't also doing any damage. by filming this report. i mean, we wanted to tell a story of rehabilitation that was kind of my motivation for the story. that's why i was really, really interested it interested in it and of course making report about someone and never speaking to them is it is quite a challenge. so the next best thing was to talk to everyone around her. and, you know, for me as a journalist, there was also a re lesson in how to tell

a story about someone it, you know, a different, a different approach. and from that came kind of a very different story from what i expected to be telling initially. but one that i think was very worthwhile. and certainly something that i feel you don't see every day in ukraine reporting about ukraine. i mean, when we were talking earlier, we were talking went lee about the fact that there was this fully functioning hospital in and keep and, and a big team around her. i mean, so many aspects to this story. what, what was it that sort of stood out for you moved you most about this particular story? i think it's how this group of people um were able to find a sense of purpose in what is just an absolutely tragic situation. i mean, i've, i've been to ukraine at the way, has been going on for a year now. it's very difficult to tell how much longer it will be going on for. and i think psychologically for everyone who's in the country making sense of that is, is difficult. it's something that's very hard to,

to process. and i think with that group of people, you know, working with this girl, they found a sense of purpose and tragedy. and i think that's very, you know, that's powerful and also for them in, you know, in their practice in their careers. they told me this is just, you know, prior to the war, we weren't really able to work that way where it's, it's a colored collaborative experience. it's much more interdisciplinary, but they were because they had found that purpose, they were able to overcome even working habits or practices that they had had before. and that for me was really, really striking how people were able to find sort of that project in the middle of all of the tragedy going. i mean, it certainly is a story that has quite a happy ending. it doesn't it? but i mean, i know that there are many other children adults waiting full prosthetic limbs. and can you give us a sense of how bad the situation is? i mean, how big is the demand for for prosthetics in ukraine right now? i think for soldiers and people that are um you know, more in the, you know,

direct combat situation. probably his tuition is a lot more difficult to actually do before marina. i mean, what i understood from the doctors is that, you know, they were able to give her that much attention or, and are able to give her this much attention because most cases actually choose to go abroad. and so the, the demand right now for children's prosthetics specifically, is not as high. and so that's why they were able to give her that attention, which ended up being, you know, happy ending for her. and her mom who was very, very um, committed to staying in the country because she told me, you know, her daughter just did not want to go abroad. and she didn't want to expose her to, you know, without a challenge of having to learn another language. and so on, out, not more true, more until for what she's experienced already with abraham. thank you so much for that. now here is one for the record books, the world's longest ever setting session. the former professional sat at blake jumped and made history by clucking up more than 40 hours at riding the waves on

friday. yes. trailing shots at the previous record of just 30 hours and 11 minutes and was raising money for mental health initiatives, have a leg serfs up for well over a day, blake johnston breaking the record for the longest continuous serving session. he was catching waves for 30 hours, 11 minutes and kept going from there. they would have done it already. so i really like, oh yeah, pretty good. the former surfing pro briefly celebrated with supporters lining sydney's granola beach. during one of the short breaks he was allowed to then peddled back out to stay in the water. for a full 40 hours spotlights were set up to provide nighttime illumination. in total, he was estimated to have caught more than $500.00 waves raising charity money for the bid was personal, as this marked 10 years since losing his father to suicide. with that yeah, he had a story. so yeah. he's off 10 years ago, and that is a say that he,

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