the forest fires evaporating large amounts of moisture. ah, i get the answer in the invisible river that flows through the sky starts march 23rd on d w. i. ah ah, this is the w. news lie from berlin. tempers flare across france over unpopular retirement reforms. demonstrators flash with police in paris with hundreds of arrests in the capital alone. president, my problem is to, to address the nation shortly. also coming up,

chinese leadership pain is on his way home. after wrapping up a 3 day summit in moscow, he and russian president vladimir putin, helen, a new era in bilateral ties. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. we'll have more on those stories in just a moment, but 1st we want to bring you some breaking news because the authorities in germany have carried out a series of raids on locations linked to the so called rice burger group. as the extreme right network that has implicated in an alleged plot last december to try and overthrow the german government, one police officer was reportedly wounded in today's operation. we have more on this story now. chief political correspondent need a hossa is standing by for us. nina, what more do we know? well sorted, he's this morning said objects in 7 of the 16 german states and all of them that

rate is related to the rice burger scenes or that is a far right extreme is seen. and it is a very big raid. apparently they were searching the objects of 19 people. the federal prosecutors office said this morning that a policeman was hurt this morning as well because he was shot up by a purse new flat. the special unit was searching in the south of germany. that person had had until then not been known to authorities. they had gone that question them as a witness, but now he's a suspect and was arrested on the spot. and germany's magazine dash beagle is reporting that the authorities had been expecting some of the people whose objects were search to be carrying weapons. because those people are police people and soldiers who were members of subversive groups. and were expecting the federal prosecutor to be making a statement later this morning with more information. obviously. nina, remind us who the extreme right. right. speaker are well the so called

a rice burger and that's literally translated as citizens of the right. they are a deeply, under democratic far right. extreme is movement. they consist of several groups. they don't recognize the current german state. they reject democracy as a system and many of them are willing to commit violent acts. it's believed that the scene consists of some 23000 people that is up by 2000 compared to last year. and roughly 1100 of them are considered to be extreme right wing by german intelligence services. now this is the 2nd big raid in that scene in just a few months, and it is linked to what happened in december. so apparently the authorities have been doing more investigation into the rice bigger, seen into the people they were looking into back in december. and they found more suspect. so today the rate is basically a continuation of what happened in december when police don't more than

a 100 objects. and 11 german states arrested 25 suspects there. now awaiting that trial. and at the time, the network consisted of a political and military unit, amongst them also members of the jumped armed forces and a politician, doctor, et cetera. they had planned to take the german parliament by force erect, a new state, and the german minister, interior minister at the time spoke of a terrorist threat that's coming from the scene. chief political correspondent has on this breaking news, as we mentioned, authorities and germany carrying out a series of raids on locations to the so called rice burger group that extreme far right. our network. nina, thank you so much for bringing us up today. now in other news, french president emanuel macklin is due to speak on television in a couple of hours in his 1st public remarks. since the government pushed through unpopular pension reform, the decision to bypass the lower chamber of the parliament to raise the retirement age, has only added to the anger fueling demonstrations across the country. ah,

protest is in paris a showing no signs of backing down in the fight against french pension reforms, frustration to into fire and fury. after emmanuel mccullin's government narrowly survived no confidence motions on monday. the votes only adding to public anger with strikes and demonstrations flaring up across the country to buy them all q bullying. it's not really just about pensions, it's about being fed up with everything else. they want us to work longer, while they are already reducing our salaries. they don't increase our wages to increase all our charges, electricity, even food, and in the end, why to work longer for nothing for a pittance. and to have a pension that i might not even get was remember, just about the strikes and blockades that oil refineries are continuing,

creating possible fuel shortages and the streets of paris to remain strewn with rubbish after a 2 week strike by waste collectors. despite the fierce opposition microns, rough time and change now looks almost certain to become law, but he should yield to appear on live television wins day for a crucial interview to address the unrest that looked like. well, i don't expect much from micron speech. we're holding you protests on thursday is going to be massive. whether he bypasses the parliament vote, whether there's a vote of no confidence, we will fight until it is withdrawn ball hymns without household hope. nicole's, popularity has plummeted over his pension plans. his personal approval rating is now just 28 percent. it's a perilous position from which he must regain public confidence and restore, come amid furious french voters. oh,

and for more i am joined now by table milan a journalist from la echo in paris. i thank you so much for joining us. we understand that french president emmanuel mccall is due to speak later today. what is he expected to say? well, it's we are still expected to to, to say something which is new as such because he hasn't spoken since the beginning of the whole reform process. he has let his prime minister have been born in the front seat. so the news that he's talking is old is the news, and it says what he's going to say is probably perhaps disappointing poison opponents. he said to respond to the to yesterday had no intention to contend track or dissolve. the parliament soc, is prime minister or even hold the public referendum. some people call for so what you told them is bring me some new ideas, new reform agenda,

and the next 2 to 3 weeks. and from that, from there on, we'll see how the rest of his presidency will work. and it's 4 more years to go. he has to sell it to the public. the reaction to raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 has been fierce. why has it been so strong in france? well, it's difficult to say we've had a poll in january, i feel is equal. and the reason i was actually quite ling 61 percent of the french people who sold before was necessary because we living longer and the system that gets more difficult to, to finance. the said at the same time, 66 percent rejected. the main idea of the reform to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. so you could argue people might have been convinced if the government had to explain better. maybe i guess also the timing was and the key

was after the corporate crisis and then within the search of inflation and also context of the, of the war and those of europe. and there was also a tactical mistake from the government. i think that could have perhaps the support of the pro reform union called the sab duty and they haven't tried this. and i think that's what explains why the unions us saw united in the country where unions are usually quite divided. so, altogether it's, that's explained probably the, the reaction given that where is the protest movement likely to go from here? it's hard to tell and we've seen protest and demonstrations historically large in end of january 1 cream that went from the storage which hadn't been seen since

2010. and you see the, the way the reform has been us, i bypassing the national assembly makes people even more angry. so it's very hard to tell. the situation is very volatile. you see the pictures on the, on tv of all the protest we are out in france strikes and pay you to axis and eat unless for weeks and months. so i'm very hard to predict really people, my lung journalist from the echo in paris. thank you. here are some other stories making headlines around the world. authority is in the north indian state of punjab. have shut down the internet as part of a huge man hunt for a seat preacher. the shut down effects around 30000000 people dramatically hitting economic life. police accused the preacher, i'm rick pulsing of agitating for

a separate c state. an earthquake has shaken large parts of northern afghanistan in pakistan, killing at least 13 people and injuring many more. the epicenter was in afghanistan's mountainous bod augustine province. but the 6.5 magnitude quake was powerful enough to send people fleeing for safety. hundreds of kilometers away. 2 prosecutors in the u. s. state of virginia have released footage which shows the death of a patient in a mental hospital air vote or tenure. 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 chinese president, she's in paying has departed 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 in ukraine, but there is no sign of a breakthrough trying to put on the most reassuring smiles chinese president. she didn't ping, and as russian counterpart vladimir 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 clever 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, full time, beatings, refusal to condemn the war on ukraine has been the driving force of this friendships

to. instead, she has proposed a so called peace plan could be handing his counterpart, the opportunity to blame the west. and ukraine. amaya is full as really we believed that many of the provisions in the peace plan put forward by china. he is a consistent with russian approaches exhaust flow and could be taken as the basis for a peaceful settlement when they are ready for it in the west. and give a knock however, so far we've not seen such readiness on their part that we're not doing this do, sir, externally meeting in the blue do for 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. well, in the community, we are ready to support chinese businesses. so say, when it comes to replacing the production of the western enterprises that have left russia, boasting

a number of new deals on energy and trade. the autocratic duel promise a new era of partnership. one where china sees itself as a piece broker for russia and ukraine. and now we're going to head to argentina where messy mania has gripped the country since the football stars returned to play a friendly against panama. oh, little messy was mobbed by a crowd of fans when he left a steak house in the capital window. saturdays. thursdays sold out match will be his 1st game with argentina since the squad won the world cup. even the argentine news readers was getting excited. ah, now you might assume that the united states are the kings of baseball. think again,

japan be the u. s. 3 to win the men's world baseball classic, the sports equivalent of the world cup. superstar sho, hey, of tawny, struck out los angeles. angels, teammate mike trout to d, throw the defending champion. the triumph in miami gave japan its 1st title since 2009 ah. in the crowd goes wild with that you're up to date on dw news. i'm sarah kelly and berlin off. next, my colleagues steven beardsley joins you stay with us. ah, hey guys, it's evelyn sharma. well come to my podcast. love matters that i invite celebrities influences and experts to talk about all playing love back from dating again today . nothing less.