ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. the pentagon is reviewing photographs of leaked documents that it says appear to contain sensitive and highly classified material about the war in ukraine. some of those papers suggest ukraine is just weeks away from running out of ammunition for it's russian made air defenses. also coming up

chinese warships and fighter jets encircling taiwan for a 3rd consecutive day of military exercises. beijing saying that it's a warning to the island after it's the president met with a top us official at 25 years after a hard one piece agreement, worries that breaks it may be putting the good friday peace deal at risk in northern ireland. we will report from the streets of belfast, the sour ah i'm sorry, kelly. welcome to the program. a collection of leak to u. s. intelligence documents suggest that ukraine's air defenses could soon run out of missiles. the reports dating from february appeared on social media sites. and appeared to detail u. s. and nato aid to ukraine. their con can suggest that the u. s. has been spying

on both russia and ukraine's military and gathering intelligence on its nato allies . the u. s. justice department is scrambling to find the source of the leak with official saying that russia or it's sympathizers are likely behind it. with some experts even suggesting the source could be american and with ukraine's air defense is running low. some experts worry that russia could soon unleash its considerable air power to change the course of the war. i asked former commanding general of the u. s. army in europe been hodges if he shares those concerns. first of all though, the russian air force um has not impressed me for the last 14 months, even though they had a huge numerical superiority. it's clear that they don't have the training or the ability to really achieve air superiority. this is something that the german air force, british royal air force,

us air force. we would have done this in the 1st days of any conflict, especially with that kind of numerical superiority. russians were not able to do that. so it's not just because of the brave and no very competent, ukrainian air defense. it's because i don't think the russians really know how to do it, but, but general, how does that mean that the whole point here though, is that if there is a break and not defense, could there be a window for putin and don't? these leaks essentially give him a bit of a playbook now on how to have a window to defeat the ukrainian military. to be honest, sir, i think the russians already knew all this, this. this is information that's come to live for us, but none of this will be new to the russians or to the ukrainians. so yes, of course there's a vulnerability if, if we're not able to help you crane get more munitions or more systems for their air and missile defense. but i think they will have already anticipated what those

vulnerabilities are. and again, i think that there are other ways to, to prevent russia from exploring a vulnerability, and that really is about denying them the places from which their attacks or being launch. that means crimea, that means dumbass that ships at sea and to that, to that. and to ukraine has very much for calling for fighter jets to support its own air power so far. only poland we know, and slovakia have delivered a fighter jets to the country. meantime germany, the us have dismissed calls to send f sixteens. just back in january, chancellor sholtes even shot down such calls as a rational in light of what we know now. what is your message to the german chancellor? your message, the u. s. president. i don't understand why. the american, the u. s. administration and the german government and others still stopped short saying we want ukraine to win and we're going to give them the things that they

need to win. i mean, we're talking about thousands of ukrainian civilians that have been killed by these missile attacks. they're, they're not going to after ukrainian defenses or one of the targets. why? why is it so difficult for us to go ahead and take that next step to provide the capabilities that would help protect thousands of european civilians. that's what this is about. and so whether it's f sixteens or longer range, precision weapons, the things that are needed to help stop russia from being able to kill so many innocent people. i think the united states, germany, others need to do more. but it really comes down to what do we want ukraine to when are we just trying to drag this thing out. so then, given that, how do you assess ukraine's potential? it's been widely reported unexpected. that they could now be poised to launch a fresh spring offensive. they're getting new, more modern, more capable tanks. how do you expect this to play out over the next month?

so i think right now, despite the concerns that you and i are discussing this morning, we actually are in what i would call the calm before the storm. the ukrainians are stopped. russia, russia has no other offensive capability, nothing with which they could launch a new offensive, the weapons that they're pulling out of storage an hour about my age, which would be $65.00. ok. so i think they are, they have transitioned into a defense to try to hang on to what they have ukrainian journal staff has done a very good job of preparing for this. what will be a counter offensive when the conditions are set? that means whether on the ground is tra mainly when they have done enough training and they have built up the logistics. and i think we're going to see an attack that will be very professional, very effective. and its purpose will be to, i believe,

isolate crimea, and set the conditions for the eventual liberation of crimea. ok later this year, later this year. just quickly, before we go, i'd like to pick up on what you just said there, general hodges, because you have, in general, been very optimistic about ukraine's ability to repel the russian invasion. and even martin crimea earlier, a couple of months ago, you said that you expected that to happen by some or do you stand by that the about by the end of august of ukraine will have been able to liberate crimea if, and i've also included this caveat, if we provide them the long range precision weapons that they need to do that, yes, absolutely, they can do them. and hodges retired to us, the tenant general, thank you so much for joining us to share that expertise and that perspective, we appreciate it. thanks for the privilege. chinese fighter jets and war ships are stimulating fueling off taiwan on the 3rd and last day of its military drills.

the joint sword exercises an angry show of forest following a meeting between ty wants president and senior us politicians. i pay has condemned the exercises and washington has called for restraint, saying that it is monitoring beijing's actions closely. he w a correspondent william yang as anti pe earlier, he told me what the 3rd day of drills has brought to the skies and sees around taiwan. so today of between 6 am and 10 am we have detected another more than 50 chinese other fighters operating around taiwan. and more than 30 of them have once again crossed the median line of the town went straight up and also included the southwestern, 80 or the at the same time, there are concerning information coming out confirmed by the defense ministry saying the china carrier group, the sean don't, has,

in fact participated in the exercise on the western pacific. the important thing about this development is the eastern side of time when used to be considered as the safe zone for its military to regroup and also to recuperate. but now that china is able to, in fact, launch its military from the east side, that just means that the safe though is no longer exist. and at the same time, this is the passage where a potential us support will have to go through. so china is definitely trying to test its ability to deny the us support in the case of a potential invasion of taiwan. and in another development, william the u. s. navy said one of its worship, sailed through the south china. see, what more can you tell us about that? so once again, we saw this response from the united states that they've been doing a lot over the last few years when ever china has a very large scale military aggression towards tying one the. so through the middle

3 net new naval vessels through the south china sea or the town one straight, they call this the freedom of navigation operation in this time it's similar, but the difference is that last august, when close the visit in china launched a one week military exercise around time was the u. s. did not in fact engage in such a navigation operation, but this time they decided to do it. i think it's just to show that they considered the latest round of military exercise around time. one as more important and probably more threatening than last one. so, you know, when we look at the bigger picture here, william, do you think that, that tomorrow things go back to the way they were before? have these drills been different this time around? if they change something, i think they have thunder mentally change the way that china decided to respond to any high level engagement between taiwan and the united states. we see that this is already the 2nd time that the, you, the chinese mills read decided to launch this kind of large exercise encircling

taiwan, following a meeting between time when president and the us, how speaker, you know, just within the last year. and so i think if we look at this trend and then in this could just become a new routine that the chinese decide to implement and to try to deter in discourage the us and to want to continue to engage in this kind of meeting. and i think it's really up to type in washington to decide if they still want to continue this kind of high level engagement and support. and, you know, like i think cooperation t, w correspondent, william yang. thank you. and you northern ireland, as marking the 25th anniversary of the landmark good friday peace agreement that largely ended 3 decades of bloodshed on april 10th. 1998. the irish on the british prime ministers signed the deal, which was later ratified by a referendum to set up a new government that would share power between protestant and catholic factions in

northern ireland as part of the united kingdom. but many in the catholic minority resented british rule and wanted to be part of the sovereign republic of ireland. now there are worries that brags it may have put that hard one piece at risk d, w b or get mass has more from belfast. lately, hol, boxing club used to be staunchly protestant to day young boxes from all areas of belfast are allowed to train here, including catholics. young people in northern ireland still grow up largely segregated. it's ria that catholic and protestant pupils are in the same schools, for example. and he had them kids were involved with each other. ha. and here this is word of got the meeting children i little there me it's. they would never of not each other, just want to play the streets of bail for these young men and boys here are aware of potential 3. it's your pass in certain areas that are conflicts policy.

um, if they know your process that might my like a lot more most of the time a small i got there sort of, um, combine on that on there more forgiven. just around the corner from the club, though protestant militants are being celebrated, it's their loyalty to britain that defines these so called loyalist paramilitaries, that still have a grip on areas like this. some protestant, angry because they fear that the british identity is being stripped away and that bricks it is bringing northern ireland closer to the republic of ireland. but on the other side of the divide, many catholics. a hoping for a re unification with the republic of ireland pet. she in used to be a member of the i r a. he spent 18 years in prison for committing terror attacks and was released as part of the peace process. today. he's sure that a united ireland can be achieved peacefully. what i think bragg said has gone as

accelerate the discussion under beard, around or united ireland. ah, because we have seen that the, the day in m. o and the driving force behind brackson was english nationalism throughout belfast and other areas in northern ireland. so called peace walls, a separating protestant and catholic areas. bombay street is an a catholic area just behind one of these walls. today, most nights a quiet, but since breaks it, residents have noticed more tension to source. you know, that's caused even more debate between the 2 sides of the community. once per actually came along, people still than that. read littles, williamson yet are some things. some politicians are blocking the regional assembly over brick set, leaving a dangerous political void. the is a concern. if there is an access to exclusively democratic and peaceful means of expressing a political views, that there is

a certain logic. i'm in some people's minds to the use of violence to express political viewpoints. people in northern ireland don't want to go back to the old days to the so called troubles. they want to move forward in peace, but brags that has created new borders and new divisions, and it's made clear peace in northern ireland cannot be taken for granted. and for more, let's bring in now connell, par, an irish political history expert at the north aubrey university in new castle. welcome to the program, and thank you for joining us. walk us through. remind us why it has been so difficult to reconcile brags that with the irish peace process. well, that is the thing which is opened up. the kind of worms have a question which ways largely kind of dormant unsettled, really, which is to do with the future constitutional status of ireland basically. and you

know, it's a very interesting thing that for, since the good friday agreement in 1998. that been certainly an end to sort of structured violence and difficult political been some kind of political stability you know, the night. and basically what's happened like breakfast, why, why do you need something where a number of people start talking about the constitutional question. again, start thinking about the futures, the end in a way which they said they hadn't done so many years. and many blame former prime minister boris johnson for almost unraveling the good friday agreement. how, how great was the risk you think under his tenure or the risk which i very high party. i would also say, remember that the good friday agreement is an international treaty, only 2 people sign that the british prime minister, tony black and the prime minister teacher hern. and remember that the good friday agreement, cement, angle irish relations, that it is that treaty as well as settlement. and what we had us back that was

a very core state, finds a way or explanation which again had been mended. very positive, really, since the nice 95, i'm the wireless agreement between the government in london and the u. k. and, and basically that's still being repaired and not the ways. what do you think need is needed right now to make sure that the piece holds the pieces holding there's, there's not sort of full scale violence like i used to be. and there's some important figures that people should be aware of. you know, 160 people have died 50 good friday agreement in the, in science related incidents as a political nature. and the previous 20 years of conflict. there were 3500 killer. so the piece is holidaying. that's not the issue. the issue is more to do with the trust and the level of cooperation between the 2 governments, which have been very positive between individuals and also in terms of

making sure that the communities themselves and 9 and do have a set of political framework to work with i think a defined a thing i would say is that they were, it was a framework the good friday agreement, which was very necessary for the time, but it was never really implemented. it's never really adopted in what it needed to be. i'm just, that's the thing that the constitute government do now, and there's some evidence that way as far as soon i concise this, well start to be repaired. thank you so much, colonel par and irish political history expert and northumbria, university, and newcastle. now the saudi delegation has been to the yemeni capital for talks with whom he rebels over a potential and to yemen. long running civil war. they were joined by negotiators from neighboring oman, with the aim of renewing a. you went back to the fire and signing a piece agreement. saudi arabia has supported the many government against the iran

back to the rebels who control much of northern yemen including the capital. so not the fighting has pushed the country to the brink of famine, with 80 percent of the population dependent on aid. the un calls it the world's worst humanitarian crisis. and we are joined now by the vigor editor of venice magazine, which focuses on the arab and islamic world. he was recently in yemen and reported from there. welcome to the program and thank you for joining us. there have been other attempts to establish an agreement. what is different this time around? well, i think we have to look at it. yes, that, i mean, saudi arabia wants to get out of this war. saudi arabia wants to get out of p. m. and since quite some time, we've seen previous attempts by saudi arabia to find a way out of the war by reaching an agreement directly with the piece. but i think

this time, the difference is of course iran saudi arabian reproach meant that we are seeing which changes incentives for the who teeth, who are, you know, like, yeah, working together would have been massively supported by, by iran, over the last years to actually find an agreement with saudi arabia, how do you assess the chances for a brighter this time around? well, i think what i'm cautiously optimistic that indeed can be reached between saudi arabia and who t spun. i think we have to do some expectation management here. this is not going to and the war in yemen, it's going to end the saudi involvement into war and yemen. but it will not change the local dynamics that are at stake in human between different actions. i mean, the sound of human is controlled by the official recognize government of human,

which then again, consists of various different actions was not getting along very well and they will have to find an agreement with you some stuff. so in the end, what will end the war in yemen is not a saudi iraq, saudi who t deal, but we need intra m and he talks trends this conflict afterwards. and the problem here is that the saudi who t talks will probably should lead to the level playing field towers to who to use so it will give them a competitive advantage and leave out to yeah, saudi supported forces on underground and asked, given from the fishing recognize government recently got back from you. i'm and i just like to ask for your impressions because we've all seen the reports of just how dire the humanitarian situation is there. well,

i've only been to $28.00 and which is sad and the fact capital at the moment the feet of the official government. so i think the humanitarian situation in even is comparatively much better than in the rest of the country. but the problem is, i mean the situation even in even this rabbit, misstating visiting hospitality, sound era where there's no access to even basic medication and so on. so the humanitarian situation in yemen is rather dire and even an item get the bigger editor at the scene as well. thank you so much for joining us. ah. and the one is the mountains lap, are arrested and alarming form slumped beating wolf's berg for their 1st, when in 6 games and dancing the wolves, european ambitions in the process. i salon, sire, that up market tourist to head in plaid by 2nd ball and 63 minutes and seal

a to know when the hosts move within 4 points or who remain in the last place. should guard traveled to bolcom desperate for their 1st away when the season and the visitors came out on top of a 5 goal thriller, lifting themselves off the bottom of the table and dragging bulk them into the relegation. meyer in the process, stood guard coach sebastian. her niece was brought in to rescue his team from relegation. and his 1st league game in charge away at bull, who was nothing short of a 6 pointer in the battle for survival. the guests went in front in the 14th minute . thanks to this strike from hiroko, he taught the japanese international, thumping a new spool pasta room 14 manuel ziemen to give stood. got a crucial lead in the 2nd half a foul on both rooms. philip foster, inside the stood got bolts, gave kevin stood, got

a chance to pull the host's back level from the spot, a chance the austrian took. ah, but parity lost, he just 2 minutes before this fine cross forms took god's bonner so so was todd home by saying who the receipt and our plate and the guests. what back in front 3 minutes later still got had a 3rd vulcans. inability to prevent or deal with a cross, costing them again as usual. wagner man headed home his 1st of the season to establish a to go cushion, which meant that the games final goals scored by both films. philip hoffman in the 85th minute made no difference to the result. 3 huge points for harness stood god's 1st away victory in the buddhist league. since december 2021 sees them climb out of the automatic relegation places and elsewhere and the relegation battle hoffen. i'm just one place above the drop zone, picked up a valuable 3 points with

a win over shaka, a 2nd half penalty from a loss, a bow clenched 8 to nil when father, i'm the host, had taken a 1st half lead, her own goal from alex crock. of and i'm go above bottom into 14th place while the results and shelter back to the bottom. and here is a look at all of the for the sake of results, unmatched a $27.00 saturdays games. aarp c. r b life sake snuck past how to berlin, dormant, and byron. both one labor couldn't get frankfurt. mines in bremen shared the spoils and cologne downed out spec. so how those results leave the table was 7 games left to play. well dormant went over when you're on berlin. looks to have made it to horse race between the 2 of them. and byron leipzig wins, sees them leap frog fryeburg into 4th as we saw, stood guards when lifts them off the bottom replaced by shaka,

after their loss. too often haim how to berlin, so to 17th, after their defeat, to life's ish. and here's some other news now from the world of sports, spain's john rum kept his nerve to win golf 1st major of the year, the masters at augusta. he began the day 4 shots behind overnight leader brooks kept up, but while captain faltered rum, held on for a 1st master's title, victory also sees him go top of the world rankings. and in tennis, tunisia on to new jersey on sir bore, has won the charleston open, showing her improvisation skills in the process. she beat belinda bennett in straight sets. deborah was the runner up at wimbledon in the us open last year. and the us open last year and was it was her 1st title of the see thing. meantime, any, any tell the colorado avalanche have gone top of the central division,

thanks to an overtime win over the anaheim ducks. nathan mckinnon got the winning goal on a power play. his 2nd of the game is sealed the 5 for victory number for the shooter . i'm not sure if the date now ended up, you know, of texas equal africa. so to stay with us, if we can for that, i'm sorry. kelly and berlin, thanks for watching. ah ah ah ah ah ah.

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