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a peace mission. also coming up, clashes continue in prints of a president, the cons pension reforms. dozens of officers are injured, and 200 arrests are made in the latest confrontation between police and protesters in paris. ah, lo, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us ukraine's president bellamy zalinski has extended invitation to chinese liter. she's in paying to visit keith. speaking to reporters from the associated press, zalinski said that if it was ready and willing to host, she shall. he added that the pair had not talked since rushes invasion. the invitation comes after the chinese leader met with vladimir putin in moscow on what she called a piece mission last week. beijing has said that lines of communication with ukraine remain open of more of

a spring and dw correspond max honda, who's in kia force slint max science. he says that he is ready to meet china's present. she didn't ping what can the ukrainian president expect from a meeting with she uses sanitary and chinese president. she jumping, went to moscow last week in an attempt to deepen the ties with moscow to solidify the no limit partnership between beijing and moscow. and everybody was watching close. what does this mean or the chinese siding with the russians of the craps preparing to send weapons, but the chinese president left without any public supports for the war. so there indications that this was not a diplomatic success that flooded me. put was hoping for, so the ukrainians art are likely hoping that china is not looking for an eye, a little partnership with the russians rather using the russians for their own economic and geopolitical interests. and that perhaps now is the time to sit down

and talk with chinese and try to, to find a way to, to influence the situation before russia deepens its ties with china or other countries like iran, for example, that it has a friendly connections with there been reports max saw this morning that ukrainian portions of shell, the russian controlled ukrainian city of molly to pole in the south. what are you hearing from their that's right. so minutes upon this up reads are region has been occupied since february 25th last year. so the very 1st and 2nd day of, of the start of the war i'm so what we're hearing from, from out of that occupied city essentially, is that early this morning, explosions rang out. and both the russians and the ukrainian side are saying that the ukrainians, targeted a train out. and that's interesting because this is a to try train, pull, which act as a hub from here by rail. the russians can send supplies and troops to

all over the occupied region. so there was also some chatter this morning. some television groups of this may be the beginning of a counter offensive acre you training one. it appears that is not, but this is something that everybody is waiting for at the moment that's been watched very closely. and this could be a strategic point where the ukrainians, at some point could, could attack. i'm in order to disconnect crimea from the other occupy territories of the east, from the dumbass region, but it's a bit too early to, to speculate about that we'll, we'll find out when it's when that is the case whenever that may be. next, thank you very much. shar correspond, max tundra that in key after months of campaigning and crane has finally received western battle tanks from germany and the u. k. they are expected to be pump ukraine's armored fire power for a potential offensive in the spring ukraine's defense minister alexey resonate cough gave a thumbs up as he took a ride in a british challenger to battle tank. while german made leopard 2 tanks were also

delivered on the for the long awaited vehicles arrived, ukraine had rely on soviet made armour dw mcsaunder, who just who we just spoke to sent this report on the cruise. keeping the old tanks running these men or farmers from the south. now they belong to the most feared units on the battlefield. the soviet era t 80 takes 3 men to operate at 40 tons and driven at speeds of up to 80 kilometers an hour. gunner basil says the tanks scare the enemy. hello, i will tell you this as soon as they see from the drones how the tanks are coming, then all the artillery is only aimed at us. they forget about the infantry about everything. so they're afraid also, but the tanks need a lot of attention. this one is more than

a decade older than the mechanic. you notice and it shows the actual really key thought, if the tank is on really uneven, groaned, it's often this part of the tracks that breaks and needs to be replaced every now and again. we also have to tighten the tracks missional. let jessica also missy. these tanks may be old and worn down, but they're easy to repair. if the men can get the spare parts, they often find them on the battlefield. on martha's up to a think, it wouldn't mushy. yes, many russian parts fit our vehicles just. we often dismantle russian tanks were spear parts in the undercarriage is suitable for the war. and often we find parts suitable for the engine bottles of the syndicate with it. more of, as i'm in it. at the start of the war, the ukrainian seemed to be facing asia piri or tank force. but the russians deployed those tanks often in a very risky way without adequate protection from infantry or fighting vehicles. the ukrainians were able to take out and capture close to 2000 of those tags. but

they're saying now if they are to have a chance of taking back territory, they would need a significant upgrade themselves in the men here are waiting for better tanks to arrive from friendly countries slow. and if such is malebranche illnesses, the new ones are more maneuverable. they have other equipment of the thermal sites range finders incident and ramirez have se in check. the crew is more protected than the ammunition capsule is placed at the back. now and keep on exist, shenice uni capacity is on yet. when they shoot, the capsule flies out. but we don't cancel how many times been proposed. nominate our in our old tanks. we're sitting on a powder keg. now we're looking for chicken. ah, what he's actually sitting on is this all the tanks, ammunition that can go horribly wrong when an old tank like this takes

a direct hit tanks are seen as the key to a successful ukrainian counterfeits. hello, the moral tanks that are destroyed, the greater the appetite for knew better once sketch up on some other stories making headlines around the world today. sweden has some of the russian ambassador to complain over comments. it said were an attempt at interfering with its native application process. is comes after the ambassador released a statement saying, joining nato would make sweden a quote, legitimate target for russian retaliatory measures. including military was busying his threatened to retaliate against taiwan as president c in when heads to the u. s. she's expected to meet with us. how speaker kevin mccarthy,

on her way back from visiting taiwan central american airlines, friends. but china has warned washington against allowing the meeting to take place . having to be on mars, military government has dissolved imprisoned, former leader on some cheese political party. the national league for democracy was one of dozens of opposition parties. the winter claims failed to meet an election registration deadline to cheat lead the ellen, the n l. d to a landslide victory in 2020, but with ousted in a military crew mourner. so demanding answers after at least 38 people died in a fire at a mexican migration detention center. dozens more were injured in the blaze in to dodge as water as where, which is a major crossing point for migrant cross seeking to enter the bus authority say some of the detain age set fired mattresses after hearing they would be to port

and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has rejected us present job biden's call to abandon a planned judicial overhaul. biden had urged the prime minister to quote, walk away from the plans after the pause them on monday. all the weeks of protest by israelis. hundreds of thousands of people in france have taken part in fresh protests and strikes against pension reforms. it's the 10th day of nationwide actions since mid january, while most demonstrated peacefully, there were clashes with police and several major cities. president manuel nikon has refused back town on his decision to increase the retirement age to 64. nearly 2 weeks after president micron pushed the changes through parliament, public fury shows no sign of abating. 740000 people,

marched across the country. on tuesday the government said, in the western city of not the barricades burned, it's we who work it's we who decide reached the banner. in the south, thousands marched on the old port of marsey. while in paris, protesters marched through the city center led by the unions. ah, everyone hates the police. they chanted for the march remained relatively peaceful . but elsewhere in the capitol violence erupted between black clouds protesters and right police reacted to stones and projectiles. with tear gas protestors dismissed criticism that the french retirement age is one of the world's lowest. it's not

because it's worse in other countries that we should do the same because we know that term that the they're working on in conditions in this countries are awful for poor people that are something bore rich in nature as it should be to should have the right to rest and after work to fridge herbs, in a very for her social conditions was very little rights under with the one that is in france so much for the workers who work with their arms and their position and where are there other countries? they must fight, as we fight, striking parisian railway workers echoed to that sentiment. ah, you will console me. i want to turn out to best years of retirement into the worst 2 years of out working lives. we're all going to be broken with gussie. the increasing tendency towards violence prompted the deployment of $13000.00 officers . according to interior minister,

she held darma. but the simmering outrage does not seem to have dissuaded my crawl from pushing through his changes. the president was given a boost by the decision of parisian sanitation workers to return to work after a 3 week strike, perhaps a sign that the protests could burn themselves out. earlier we spoke of t w correspondent lisa lewis in paris. she told us that the french prime minister invited union leaders to discuss the pension reform. while that was obviously quite surprising because the french prime minister, the government, has not talked to the union for about 2 and a half months. the unions were asking for that for a talk, but the government didn't want to, didn't seem to want to talk to them. now they're saying the unions are saying, we're going to go that we're going to talk to the government, but what we want to speak about is really this pension reform. we want the government to drop the reform. however, the government seems not really willing to do so. they are talking about, you know,

taking things forward when it comes to work relations to other things, other reforms. and if that's the case, if the government does not really move when it comes to the pension from this, this round of discussions will not provide any tangible results, and the units have already set that they would keep on demonstrating afterwards. now an ocean swim alongside dolphin. this may be a dream for many of us, but hawaiian authorities are cracking down on swimmers who say they are harassing the animals. a group of snorkeling has been filmed chasing after a pot of dolphins off hawaii's big island band came into effect in 2021. to stop people coming within 45 meters of the animals. while the dolphins appear to be awake and swimming, they are not turn off and are actually asleep. authorities say the swimmers were aggressively pursuing the dolphins and have launched an investigation

or we go, just remind are the top story we're following for you today. ukraine's president allowed him, his landscape has extended an invitation to chinese leadership. you paying to visit keith? the invitation comes after the chinese later met with vladimir putin in moscow last week. a shang has said that lines of communication with ukraine remain open. you're watching dw news from berlin. business is next with kate ferguson looking at what's being called china's death trap for developing nations that can't repay beijing's infrastructure. let's say to for that i'm terry martin. thanks guardians of truth. my name is john dinner and i have paid almost every price of being a journalist in a country like turkey.