his 77 percent every weekend on d w. mm. ah ah, this is d w news coming to live from berlin, china and russia wrap up their summit in moscow. she jane paying is on his way home after completing a 3 day visit. he and vladimir putin, hale, a new era, and bilateral tires, further closing ranks against the west. also coming up can scientists bring the dodo bird back from extinction? the last dose walked on earth hundreds of years ago before human exploitation

killed them all. now a biotech firm wants to d extinct the dodo in what could be a model for other last species. ah. hello m terry martin, thanks for joining us. chinese presents, she's in pink, has to parted moscow after wrapping up talks with russian president vladimir putin . during the summit, the 2 leaders signed a deal to expand bilateral trade and energy cooperation. their strengthening of ties is widely seen as a show of unity against the west. china has also put forth proposals for ending the war and ukraine, but there's no sign of a breakthrough trying to put on the most reassuring smiles. chinese president, she didn't ping and as russian counterpart flooding mere putin pledge to straighten

ties, putin increasingly isolated by the west for his invasion of ukraine is forced to turn east for friendly handshake fall. so carry on the issue of the ukrainian crisis. china has always adhered to the purpose and principles of the united nations charter, adhered to an objective and impartial position, and actively promoted peace and negotiations. gigi charles law tool, co beatings refusal to condemn the war on ukraine has been the driving force of this friendship to instead she has proposed a so called peace plan could be panning his counterpart, the opportunity to blame the west and ukraine. amaya is philosophy. we believe that many of the provisions in the peace plan put forward by china cheese camp are consistent with russian approaches exhaust flow and can be taken apart that we've got to in this do, sir. externally meet new new blue fort putin and elias,

but she also offers a chance to close the gap left by the withdrawal of western firms from russia following its war on ukraine. concept, one of the community. we are ready to support chinese businesses. so say when it comes to replacing the production of the western enterprises that are coming, that have left russia, boasting a number of new deals on energy and trade. the autocratic dual promise, a new era of partnership. one where china sees itself as a piece broker for russia and ukraine. short while ago i spoke to corresponded fabian crisper in beijing. i asked him, what makes beijing think that ukraine would regard it as an honest peace broker given its total embrace of russia? where i would already doubt this assumption, and i think what ukraine thinks about china's diplomatic position has never been

china's om call priority. it was quite irrelevant. even i would say, because i make this point key a few written use paper. see if you watch the state news or even listen to what government officials are saying, they barely ever mentioned the position of ukraine's government. and you could even easily forget that there's a war going on in ukraine. i mean it's, it's really an intentional choice to align with russia to a large degree. and am, i think at the foot length or through which we could see am china's action. is it always a wants to am, you know, pursue its own interests and with a piece plan, quote unquote piece plan. i think the 1st interest was to improve its image on the global stage. i mean, that has largely failed in the west, but in many parts of the global south, actually, china is perceived as a m r, our responsible state and as a neutral player, even though and the west would disagree. but i think it's only the 2nd priority, whether this piece plan would bring a substantial result. because on, at this part,

a china has disappointed so fine that her air was clearly demonstrated by the lack of results from seating things into putting talks and moscow st. lucas, from other stories making headlines around the world to day prosecutors in your state of virginia have released footage which shows the death of a patient and a mental hospital, herbal or geno. a black man died earlier this month after several officers and hospital staff pinned him to the ground. 10 of them had been charged in connection with the killing. french protesters have taken to the streets again in anger, over the pension reforms ran through by president manuel michael. the deeply unpopular changes have lifted the retirement age by 2 years. despite the fury, the government shows no sign of relenting after narrowly surviving 2 confidence boats. in parliament, an earthquake has shaken large parts of northern afghanistan and pakistan, killing at least 13 people and injuring many more. yep,

center was in afghanistan's mountainous buckshot province. but the 6.5 magnitude quake was powerful enough to send people fleeing for safety. hundreds of kilometers away. 2 fell as a saying, you may know dead is a dodo meaning something that's gone forever and can't be brought back. well, it refers to a bird species, humans made extinct hundreds of years ago. but now, a biotech startup has announced it wants to bring the dodo back to life. the ground breaking attempt will face complex, scientific, and ethical issues. native only to maricia us, dodo is we're flightless, but fearless birds well adapted to life on an island in the middle of the indian ocean. but after a european ships arrived in the 16th century, bringing a range of predators, the dose fearlessness led to them being hunted and slaughtered wholesale. within

decades, they were wiped out. could they be brought back? principal challenges. what is the definition of success? how you know, how like the extinct animal. will you actually end up with him? and will that do what you want to do? i have to say that i think it is. i'm skeptical that anyone will be able to d extinct any animals, dodo or passenger pigeon. or mamma's scientists from a company called colossal bio sciences are working on bringing back the dodo along with 2 other species, the woolly mammoth and the thigh, lesaine or tasmanian tiger. but the technical challenges in the field remain immense. but of the major technical challenges to be sold is actually working out how many different mutations in an organism may depend on each other. so you may want to change one gene, one little mutation to give one phenotype and it may work straight away. but

alternatively, there may be a load of other unseen things you have to change in concept. i think a big challenge is just going to be that there are many places in the genome that you're not able to resolve. you're not able to figure out what the dodo genome looked like in that position, and for d extinction. i think this is a big problem because we simply don't know what most of the genome does, even in modern humans, even in ourselves. and even if they succeed, where will the de extinct species go? the ecosystem on maricia, for instance, has changed dramatically in the past 350 years. could functional dose be released into the wild there? or would they have to remain protected in zoos? we need to actually do some work to make sure that we've got the happy dotted needs, some funding to come in to for these habitat restoration and folded latest technologies to come in. and i would say, we are not ready to do it tomorrow, but we may be ready to do it in the next 510 or 15. yes. but

a lot of scientific hurdles remained to be cleared before an animal resembling a dodo seized the light of day. more on this fascinating store, it with me in the studio, we've got derek williams, from d. w signs. derek, bringing the dodo back from extinction. other animals to this, all sounds very jurassic park is likely to happen. well it kind of maybe, hopefully i think it's really, really, really cool science, but there are a huge number of technical challenges and scientific challenges over time. just stuff that we just don't know. one of the biggest involves the dna of that's inside of you inside of me inside of every living living organism, it begins to degrade at the moment of death. and so in order to create a real clone and intact clone of the dodo, for example, of a man as we would need viable intact d n a. and we don't have that because the species died hundreds if not thousands of

years ago. and so what we have to do is we have to reconstruct what we have based on ancient d n a. so remnants of the dna after it's falling apart and that leaves a lot of gaps. so. so that's one big problem. it's very if it is very if he and the other, the other big issue is that we just don't have the ability to synthesize d, n e. even if we had that information, we don't have the ability to synthesize an entire dodo genome or a mammoth gene. which we would need to do in order to be able to close a real dodo or a real man of so a lot of technical and scientific challenges to overcome so many hurdles. so you talked about what stands in the way of it, but how is it supposed to actually work? can you tell us a little bit about the science of how it's supposed to happen? well, the collazo bio sciences has decided to do a little bit of an end around run. what they, what they're doing is they're taking intact d n a from the closest living relatives of these extinct species. for example, the case of the dodo that would be the nic abarc pigeon. in the case of the math, that would be the asian elephant. and so they'll take the d

n a from that living species which it has intact. and man d n a was over 99 percent the same as elephant d n a. so, so they're taking that dna and they're making genetic modifications. they're, they're putting in mammoth genes into the asian elephant dna. and they're hoping that after they put a fertilized egg into an asian elephant surrogate after 2 years, what comes out is going to be an asian elephant that has some mamma's characteristic. now if you do this over and over again and maybe cross be what happens one day, you might have something that looks like a mammoth, but is it really a mammoth that's? that's the question i, of course, we're wondering about the market for this. you know, this is a commercial enterprises doing this, but assuming this all this works, derek, what about the ethical aspect? should we not be concerned? well, there are really a lot of ethical aspect as well. i mean, 1st of all we have to overcome. we have to actually make these creatures, but the question is, is, are they going to only live in sue's the ecosystems that they, that they survived and have disappeared from the earth and the case, the mamma's,

you know, the, the tundra is, is no longer what it once was in the dodo, you know, there's agriculture in riches, and now, and there's rats and monkeys that would, that would, that would work it out. there is also, you know, you often hear when you're looking at this, from the exports. there is no, ma'am, has to teach a mammoth how to be a mammoth, so, you know, there's more to being a mammoth than just the genes. i think that there are, 1st of all, the scientific and the scientific and technical aspects have to be overcome. i'm not certain that that's going to really happen, but definitely there needs to be a debate on what happens ethically with these animals when and if they actually exist. goodness. okay, well maybe we'll see a mammoth on the horizon, doug doug williams from dw size. thanks so much. we have breaking news now. here in germany, reports say authorities have carried out raids on the locations linked to the so called rights burger group prod, dozens of the far right networks alleged members were arrested last december in

connection with the plot to try and overthrow the german government. today's searches were conducted in 7 states. well, let's bring in our chief political correspondent, nina hossa for more on this a nina, what more can you tell us about these police raids? well terry, i'm, we obviously have to wait for the official statement from the general prosecutor that is going to be happening later this morning. we're hearing, but these are the, the facts that we know is that the authorities are currently searching. in 7 of the 16 german states. all of these objects are related to the iceberg as seen, that is a far right extremist group. this information is coming from the german public broadcast a r d, and one police man is set up. been hard because he was shot up by your purse news flat. the special unit searched in the south of germany. now that person had until then not been known to authorities is what we're hearing. but again, for more info,

we'll just have to wait for that. federal prosecutor statement later. so the focus is the right burger group reminder saw nina who the reich's burger are well the rags failure, that's a deeply anti democratic movement, not just located in germany, but also in other european countries. they don't recognize the german state, they reject democracy as a system and they are willing to commit violent acts. and it is believed that the scene in germany consists of some 23000 people. now that's 2000 more than last year. and like you said, it's the 2nd big grade in that scene in just a few months in december. police don't more than a 100 objects in 11 german states, but also austrian, italy, they arrested 25 subjects, the suspect. and what you have to know about the scene is that they're working to achieve a coup d'etat. they want to abolish democracy. here at the time,

the german interior minister spoke of a terrorist threat that comes from this group. nina, thank you very much. our chief political correspondent, nina has a you are watching d w. news up next this world water day. we've got a documentary on the shrinking supply of water. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. imagine how many portion of love us heard out in the world climate change if you think off the story, this is my plan, the way from just one week how much was going to really get we.