ah ah ah ah, this is the w news lie from berlin, a deadly blast in the russian city of saint petersburg. the explosion at a cafe killed a well known military blogger and wounded many others. also coming up finland center, right, leader and terry for full claims, a tight victory and sundays,

parliamentary election incumbent prime minister, santa marine conceded defeat after her party, finished 3rd. and most of those former president hush tachi goes on trial of war prime. standing back to his country's fight for independence in the late $1009.00 days, plus several crashes mar the australian formula. one grand prix in melbourne. a defending champion max for, stop and emerges as the winner. yet again, all that more coming up in our sports news. ah. i'm sorry, kelly. welcome to the program. russia's inter fax news agency is reporting that a woman has been arrested in connection with sunday's explosion at a st. eat for her petersburg cafe. they killed a well known military blogger. inter fax says that the woman had previously been

detained for taking part in anti war rallies. the explosive device was reportedly hidden inside of a presence that was given to flood than to tar ski rush and state media say 32 people were wounded in the blast. this is the blogger vladin to tarkey real name maxime foaming filming himself last year. at the grand kremlin palace, he had been invited there to celebrate russia's annexation of ukraine's occupied regions. this defiant tirade went viral. we will beat every one. he said, we will kill every one. we will rob every one who needs to be robbed. everything will be the way we love you. love these kinds of videos made him wildly popular among pro war russian nationalists walker. and now, as these scenes suggest, a target to task, he was killed after a blast at this restaurant. he had been hosting an event,

their meeting supporters and subscribers to his telegram channel. local media reports the task he had been presented with a figurine just minutes before the blast. and that the figurine was the source of the explosion. of doing this, figuring ahead of the minor and how much they put it somewhere back though without a 2nd thought. and he carried on with his questions. then suddenly everything exploded and there was smoke. it was like a slow motion movie who was sit in the back half of the hall. everyone started to run and we needed to ron. so we ran those for the near had blood all over them of course. but you can use it all. i don't re adding further to the fog of uncertainty . the venue itself has close links to wagner mercenary group, bossy of guinea pig, gozine rushes state investigative committee has opened a murder investigation. it's a reminder of the unpredictable consequences of the war which to tara ski cheered

so fervently and from our let's bring in correspondence. jennifer palka, who is in riga, where dw has been operating since it was banned from russia. jennifer, the russian authorities say that they have identified at least 2 suspects. what more do we know? yes, sir, sarah. so as we have seen in the report, the person killed in the explosion was the famous military blogger of let you know that our ski and his real name is maxime 5. mean, he, it has a very big fan base on telegram with over half a 1000000 subscribers and is very known, pretty known for his comments on the war in ukraine. and of course, when it comes to russian media reports, the number of people injured, keeps rising. today they stated that 32 people were injured and 10 of them in critical condition. and of course, they also have name to maybe even 3 suspects when it comes to the explosion. so 1st, the russian law enforcement stated that they are suspected as citizen of the yvonne

front corpuscle region, which they then retracted. now they said that they arrested and suspect that he had the epa for the murder and her husband for the murder of maxime from mean blood. in fact, our safety. and it is important to know that daddy at the up of, on her husband were detained in february 24th 2022 after the full scale invasion of ukraine on an anti war rally. and so far with russian media reports is that the law enforcement and the police raided their san petersburg apartment as well as detained the up of a sister and mother for reports and for questioning. so they, russian, meta also states that there is a 2nd suspect. and not the woman, but so far we are not aware of her identity. do we know why to tar sky might have been targeted? is there anything concrete that has emerged?

well, of course he was probably targeted because of his, let's say anti war rhetoric. when especially because russian propagandists were pretty fast to react on his death and on on it on its death. yes. and actually they right away, blamed ukraine and demanded retaliation for his death, but the ukrainians, president's office denied being involved in this and. and therefore, what happened after is that the fans off a sky, which are very devastated by his death, actually started laying down flowers on the spot where he died. and some of them, even the clothes said that he spoke the words of god. and also should become a st and russian orthodox church. but we have to be really, really careful when it comes to the media reports from russia, because the kremlin band and almost all critical voices in russia. they closed

independent news outlets. jail. critics also jailed protesters and also banned the public's access to information. so it wouldn't be surprising if the kremlin actually used to get her skis debts to further legitimize the war in ukraine, as well as to push its kremlin propaganda. jennifer, much of the descent that we saw in russia in the early weeks of the invasion, was silenced by the kremlin, has been silenced. where does the anti war movement stand today? well, the anti war movement stands today with, as we set with a lot of it relies on many military bloggers like of legend tantara ski with tons of fans on a telegram on their telegram channels. as of for example, the wagner groups founder guinea pig warden has a telegram channel which is very frequented as well as legend petoskey had a telegram channel with more than half a 1000000 of subscribers. so of course,

most of the communication happens online through telegram, which is still access that accessible in russia, in comparison to many independent media outlets. but of course, what is also happening is that there are many, let's say meetings like it happened in the cafes street food bar, number one, that where the explosion happened, where all these war sympathize us meet and discuss their political views. t w correspondent jennifer falco, thank you. germany's vice chancellor robert hobbin has arrived in the ukrainian capital cave on an unannounced visit. hobbit, who was also germany's economy minister as being accompanied by business leaders for talks expected to focus on rebuilding the war torn country. it is ha beck's 1st trip to ukraine, since russia launched its invasion last year hop, it says the visit is intended to give hope to ukrainians, and underscore berlin's solidarity with keith. so let's take

a look now at some other stories making news around the world. the regions have voted overwhelmingly to ban rental electric scooters in the front capital in a referendum, while 89 percent of voters back to the ban on the app activated machines turn out was less than 8 percent. officials have promised to comply with the vote making paris the 1st major european capital to banned the self service scooters. canyon opposition, leader by loading has called off planned anti government demonstrations after 2 weeks of chaotic protest. of dingus said that his party would instead sit down for talk with president william brutus government bodega. and his supporters accused rto of sealing last year's presidential election. gonna me, although the results were upheld by canyon supreme court. my administrator, the boats are being counted in bulgaria after the countries, 5th general election in just 2 years. partial results place the 2 main block neck

and neck in the race. a center right grouping led by ex prime minister boy called boris off has narrowly overtaken its rival, the progressive, reformist, p. p db coalition. montenegro, former economy minister, jack of a mulatto which has won the small balkan countries, presidential election run off long time leader, me low. to con of it, a conceded defeat in the race or the largely ceremonial position. to con image has dominated montenegrin politics almost 3 decades. finland center, right. national coalition party has won the nordic countries parliamentary elections, incumbent prime minister, santa marine conceded defeat with her social democrats. coming in 3rd far right leader rica porras finn's party was in 2nd place when a national coalition party leader, baterri or po, now faces the challenge of forming a new governing coalition. oh,

she it by her party, even in defeat. santa marvin, finland's youngest, ever prime minister, bows out after an hour lost in the general election. b, i not for very, very long time has a prime minister's party managed to increase its support in the number of seats. this is a brilliant achievement, although we did not come 1st to day at just 37 marinez finance, most popular prime minister, the century. but she struggled to convert her personal approval ratings into votes for social democratic party. rising public debt and the cost of living crisis, resulting from russia's invasion of ukraine as wait heavily on the government. oh, well they column and finland is quite the bad that the moment that we need to find a way to get it better. i think that we should not build this society based on taking more depth the conservative national coalition party and his lead up

a terry or po, successively capitalized on these concerns coming 1st in the polls the up. yeah. clear alternative to look to the left being government and people are very worried about our economy and we had be hot, good, broke ram, how to boost our economy. what kind of reform speed we are going to do and this was our message b. we'll fix our country the far right. the fins party under the leader rica pura came 2nd with an anti immigration and you were a skeptic program, relegating the social democrats to 3rd place the open was said he's open to forming a governing coalition with either of his major opponents. tough negotiations lie ahead. a major war crimes trial related to kosovo. struggle for independence from serbia in the late 19 ninety's gets underway in the hague to day. former kosovo

president hutchings patchy and 3 others are accused of murder and torture. in connection with their roles and the kosovo liberation army and the k l a is cracked down on opponents. although victims families have been waiting for justice for more than 2 decades. the trial with over 300 witnesses is unlikely to deliver any quick vertex. hashem thought she is the rebel who became president only for his past to catch up with him at the height of his powers, indicted for war crimes by the cost of all special court soldiers from though, but them in order to protect the integrity of the presidency of republic of kosovo, i resigned to day from the position of the president of the republic of crossover that she was a taught commander of the kosovo liberation army during the 1997. she is here taking notes. diplomat called him the voice of reason. cursed ha,

that i totally forgot to. prosecutors accused him of responsibility for nearly $100.00 murders carried out by his forces during the uprising against serbian rule. hello. throughout the legal process, thought she has vowed to clear his name. ah, nobody got a lot of difficulty with ice cream i believe in peace. pretty pretty good reason. just so to, to sab cost of an all g cabassos, which she lost $2.00 brothers in the conflict that yolanda postway. it may be there some additional evidence as they call it, that will help the prosecutor and a judge to convict them going to chair or the palm of that. so that kinds of this

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ah ah ah, in 2013 the young shang wrote history when it became the 1st chinese frater to sail from china to europe via the arctic these promising route which beijing was soon calling the polar seal road, turned the young sang into a symbol for china's ambitions in the far north, ah, china, new gods itself, rosy, i saw superball on that they should have a finger in or pots where they were. china is very well aware that

a lot of it economic security is going to continue to be based on developing trade routes through the belgium road, an issue. the antique may be miles away from beijing, but china's new strong man. she gin ping quickly realized its importance. during his time in office, china has developed a keen interest in the northern polar region. when she 0 hang became preserved china. that was the time when china sort of came on to the map. china's need for natural resources has driven she jin ping to negotiate with the optics. great powers. but they mistrust him. what he is china, really after beijing's involvement in the far north is a game changer. beijing claims to be a near arctic state. there are only arctic states and not marketing states are you

was in time even the u. s. will recognize the importance of china's participation in arctic affairs to the new arctic. geo politics aren't just playing out in the world's capitals and the me, envoys, entrepreneurs, and middle men travel to the polar region, some a chinese. but there are no wiggins. icelanders, swedes and americans. 2 chinese were actually securing their interest. but for us, it was an opportunity to, to be accounted for. don't want whole, didn't have chinese investment allows the optic population to have a good life. why should they turned it down in the winder? what little china is expanding its influence? yet it's true, ambitions remain a mystery. after china, africa, will we soon be talking about that shine arctic. china believes that time is on its

side. and now dreams openly about achieving superpower status. ah. but this story really began here in shanghai. far away from the arctic, the metropolis on the east china sea coast is threatened by the melting of the arctic ice pack flooding has become a regular occurrence here and the effects of global warming mean the situation is getting worse. in future, rising sea levels could leave parts of shanghai permanently under water. for years, the chinese have presented this argument at international conferences. beijing says

it's obliged to be active in the arctic to help save the climate. this you will be a watch which climate change global warming and the melting of the arctic ice don't just have an impact on climate. they also have direct effects on china's agriculture. aquaculture and livestock breeding should come. so that's why china is actively taking part time in combating climate change in the arctic to their waterloo. while climate protection is a valid concern, that's hardly the only reason. china is now active in the arctic. there are 3 priorities for china and the polar region festival security, and that includes traditional and non traditional security. i resources and in the most broadest sense of the word, off resources and science, particularly strategic fund. when china began demonstrating interest in the arctic,

the climate argument helped it gain international acceptance for its position. since beijing's concerns were understandable and hard to contradict, arguing that it's climate was at risk, also deflected attention from the fact that china really geographically removed from the arctic. and many great powers a concentrated here. russia, which covers close to half of its land mass. the us with alaska and its north american ally, canada, and finally europe through the danish territory of greenland and norway. so china chose to focus on science to avoid antagonizing these major players. china based a lot of its early arctic policy on the need to develop scientific cooperation. so i would say scientific diplomacy was very much a 1st step in a lot of china's arctic diplomatic engagement. ah,

to assert its scientific legitimacy. the polar research institute of china was founded in 1989 here in shanghai, the country's top scientists conduct research in many fields, lacy ology oceanography, and biology. however, the polar research institute reports not to the environment ministry, but the ministry of natural resources. so to bolster its scientific credibility, china began to explore the arctic. let's see. proof that the chinese took this very seriously right from the start, was their purchase of an icebreaker. in the early 19 nineties, they christened the used freighter the shoe along or snow dragon. opposite i told what's in order to find out since i was calling, since the shoe along wasn't built in china, but rather in ukraine,

china bought it in 1983. it wasn't originally designed, doesn't expedition vessel what it's in terms of its construction. oh sure. it's a cargo sugar for you and the time before the issue along a goes to the center is that these ends of the arsole hell or a kind of summer ceremony for the thought. ah, china turns every appearance of the shoe alone into a public spectacle. because even the chinese themselves needs them convincing that especial fater waits their country in the far north. this is maybe also a part of the, a awareness building for the chinese public her to have some, her awareness, the not only the article but of the kind o reset or the maritime of vanessa. with the ice breakers help, the chinese discovered a new world. but they soon realised there was still much to learn and

a swimming laboratory was no longer enough to satisfy their ambitions. to one con had china also as a scientific interest in the arctic because it has no territory that it sorta based besides vic expedition. if can numbers because you're at home, but how should china proceed when the arctic states defend their sovereignty so vehemently? the spell bowed archipelago a wayllace paradise for centuries. finally opened the gateway to the arctic for the chinese. thanks to a long forgotten treaty that resurfaced in 1991 almost a century ago. the archipelago then known as ships begun became norwegian territory under the condition that the countries which signed this fall by treaty retains the right to do business then. but when it came time to ratify the treaty, france was weary of british and american avarice. so france asked other friendly

nations to ratify it to, including china the people's republic of china in here is that it will the tracy's of the previous regime. and they were announced a lot of them, but they didn't renounce that one. so death gives the right to exist data does ago . and he's always outdoor, in this case. china ought to be thankful to frank for giving it that opportunity in 1925 is your which was good. you in 2003, china are invoked this right and set up a base in the arctic the yellow river station the following year. the 1st scientists from china's polo re search institute came to us fallback to develop projects and alliances. this whole science diplomacy way of building up certain knowledge about using science as a way to to build

a presence built relationship build networks. i think they're on the arctic has been a could be seen as kind of a testing ground for such an approach. oh, how ever in military drills out at sea, beijing adults, another approach that of an empire intent on expanding its power. this is a very different nation to the one that signed this fall by treaty back in 1925. china is now the world's factory and shanghai, the busiest container port on the planet casual june. what is it to 60 percent of chinese crude oil and crews, as well as 80 percent of chinese foreign trade, the runs through the south china sea should free movement not be possible there. china would barely be able to import oil for itself or conduct foreign trade you

through our morning to horseshoe, or through a warrant and river. kind of the bulk of international trade is carried by see, most of the shipping lanes used to policed by the u. s. navy, to ensure the free movement of goods. but china dislikes the americans dominance today the c route from asia to europe passes through the south china sea, where tensions run high and the suez canal, which can be blocked. but the melting of arctic pack ice could open up new options . 3 routes would be possible and take $10.00 to $20.00 day is less time. the northwest passage over canada would main navigating uncharted waters and masses of sea ice. the 2nd route over the north pole remains a distant vision. it would be the shortest way, but remains impossible to,

to pack ice. so the most promising route is the northeast passage or northern sea route. it runs along the russian coast of a kia can, is the european poet that's closest to asia b. so all ready back in 2010 in keel can, is norwegian logistics firm own of felix judy proved to the chinese. but the ne passage was a viable shipping route in the air force of september at 2010 at the nordic barnes left with 4 to 1000 fire and tongue. so i know concentrate to china and arrived 22 and a half days later. and which showed that, you know, the non cedar was open for non rational vessels, but non russian cargoes between non russian ports. so that was sort of a 1st and,

and that was quite important because show people this is possible a decade ago, billionaire, who are new, bo came to embody the new china. he's a poet and a mountaineer. but mainly he'd spent 10 years working for the central committee of the communist parties, propaganda department before becoming a successful real estate developer. that's when new bo entered the life of this norwegian entrepreneur. it all began when ola jaretha attended a dinner with the chinese ambassador in oslo. during that dinner we talk a lot down. he said the have a friend in china. he might want to come and see and that the snoop. i didn't, i didn't know nothing about nubile before and he came here and there. he said, do you have

a property many properties here. and he said, can i see it? yes, we can, but then we need the ball to see it from there for the jumping a bolt on. we go for a nice tape in the shore down the see the property and then he said, is it post to buy? yes, i said why not? as to 5 minutes he said home much you want? i said, i don't really know. it's a big property is 1000000 square meter depends. what you want to do is in the he like to build them the sort 5 star shock, very high class. but you have to come to china and see what i'm doing, debt to understand what they mean. i said i will comp don't what year ever and his.