ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. the pentagon is reviewing photographs of leaf documents that it does appear to contain sensitive and highly classified material about the war in ukraine. doubt some of those papers suggest ukraine is just weeks away from running out of ammunition for its russian made era. defense is also

coming up chinese warships and fighter jets in circle taiwan for the 3rd consecutive day of military exercises. beijing says that it is a warning to the island after its president met with a top us official and 25 years after a hard one. peace agreement, worries that fried said, maybe putting the good friday peace deal at risk in northern ireland. we will report from the streets of belfast this hour, and in the bundle they gushed with guards 1st away when since 2021 sees them dried fellows strugglers bought them into the relegation. meyer will bring you all the action in a 5 gold thriller. ah, i'm sarah kelly, welcome to the program, a collection of leak to you as intelligence documents suggest that ukraine's air

defenses could soon run out of missiles. the report stating from february, appeared on social media sites and appeared to detail u. s. and nato aid to ukraine. their content suggests that the u. s. has been spying on both russia and ukraine military and gathering intelligence on its nato allies. the u. s. justice department is scrambling to find the source of the league with official saying that russia or it's sympathizers are likely behind it. but some experts even suggesting the source could be american and with ukraine's air defense is running low. some experts worry russia could soon unless it's considerable air power to change the course of the war. i asked former commanding general of the u. s. army in europe and hodges, if he shares those concerns. though the russian air force hm has not impress me for the last 14 months, even though they had huge numerical superiority. it's clear that they don't have

the, the training, or the ability to really achieve air superiority. this is something that the german air force, british royal air force, the u. s. 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 confident ukrainian air defense. it's because i don't think the russians really know how to do it, but, but general, how does i mean that the whole point here though is that if there is a break and not defense, could there be a window for prudent 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 ukraine 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 they're attacked or being launched. 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 us president. i don't understand why the american,

the u. s. administration and the german government and others still stopped short saying we won't 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 defense is everyone after civilian 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, 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 the com before the storm. the ukrainians are stopped. russia, russia has no other offensive capability, nothing would wish they could launch a new offensive, the weapons that they're pulling out of storage and our about my age, which would be 65. 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, i think 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 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 expect that to happen by some or do you stand by that? yeah, but by the end of august of ukraine will have been able to liberate crimea if and i've always 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 at least the privilege chinese fighter jets and war ships are stimulating ceiling off taiwan. on the 3rd and the last day of its military drills, the joint sword exercises an angry show of 4th following a meeting between taiwan president and senior us politician. ty pay has condemned the exercises and washington has called for restraint. saying that it is monitoring beijing's actions closely. he w correspondent william yang is anti pe earlier. he told me what the 3rd day of drills has brought to the skies and sees around taiwan. for 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 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 tie one. and then 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, one of the us 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 had these drills been different this time around? if they change something, i think they have fundamentally changed 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 house speaker, you know, just within the last year. and so i think if we look at this trend and then this could just become a new routine that the chinese decides to implement and to try to deter and discourage the us and tie one 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 he w correspondent, william yang. thank you. and you harrison. other stories making headlines. india is set to become the world's most populous country within the next 2 weeks. according to the united nations projections, india will overtake china with

a total population of just over $1400000000.00 people. the latest data, however, shows that india's birth rate is declining and has now fallen just below replacement. a boat with some 400 people on board is adrift in the mediterranean sea and is taking on water. the support service alarm phone says that it received a call from the vessel, adding that nobody on board could steer because the captain had left. it is believed that the boat departing from libya on saturday night, headed for europe. israel's military says that it has struck targets in southern syria in response to earlier rocket attacks. the airstrikes hit a syrian military compound and radar systems in the area from where the rockets were fired. the israeli army said that it holds the state of syria responsible for all acts carried out on its territory. 4 people have been killed in an

avalanche close to the monk long in the french house. at least 9 others were injured. no avalanche warning had been issued for the region by the french, whether authority. northern ireland is marking the 25th anniversary of the land mar, good friday peace agreement that largely ended 3 decades of bloodshed on april 10th . 1998, the irish and the british prime minister 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. northern ireland is 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 t w's berrigan mass has war from belfast? lately, whole 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, bog and here that's his word of got the meeting children neither there meets they would never of not each other. just want to make the streets avail for these young men and boys here are aware of potential 3. it's your pass in certain areas that are catholic or policy. oh, if they know your protestant that might my like i thought most of the time a small i got there sort of, um. com. varnum law 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 as 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 are hoping for a re unification with the republic of ireland. pet. sheehan 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 to day. he sure that a united ireland can be achieved peacefully. what i think bragg said, has dawn as accelerate the discussion on the beer around our 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 in a catholic area just behind one of these walls to day most nights

a quiet. but since breaks it, residents have noticed more tension to source in lots caused even more debate. between the 2 sides of the community. once practically came along, people children that read little's williamson hitters and things. some politicians are blocking the regional assembly. i've a 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 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. all earlier i spoke with colonel

par, an irish political history expert at the north on bria university in new castle. and i asked him to walk us through the difficulties of reconciling briggs with the irish peace process. well, that is the thing much is they opened up the kind of farms have a question which was actually kind of dormant and settled really, which is to do with the future constitutional status of the 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 in northern ireland. basically what happened with breakfast, one way to do 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 the 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 and only 2 people sign that the british prime minister, tony black and the prime minister t shirt. hone and remember that the good friday agreement, cement, angle irish relations. it is that treaty as well as the settlement and what we had us back that was the very core state behind the lawyer explanation which again had been mended. my very positive, really, since the 995, i'm the wireless agreement and the downing street declaration 993. there's a group of steps that basically had a lot of distrust between the government of ireland between dublin and between the government in london and the u. k. and, and basically that's still being repaired and also ways. what do you think needs 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 science related incidents as a political nature. and the previous 20 years of conflict, there were 3500 killer. so the pieces 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 individual. i'd 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, far as you know, it's not ccc, not concise as well. dr. be repaired. thank you so much kind of par and irish political history expert and northumbria university in new castle. now we had to cipher us the island country in the mediterranean, that has been divided for almost 50 years. cyprus was cut in 2 in 1974 after a series of complex that led to turkey occupying the northern half in 1983, the north unilaterally declared independence, which is only recognised by turkey. today, the northern part is largely populated by turkish cypriots and the south by greek cypriots. the united nations maintains a buffer zone to avoid any further hostilities between the 2 sides. he is going to colonel, went to cyprus, to report on a choir that brings together people from the 2 sides with music.

road blocks, walls and barbed wire. have been part of nicosia for more than 48 years. the capital remains divided to this day, split into a greek and turkish part, just like the rest of cyprus. the greek cypriot to your go spittle, finds it difficult to accept the political deadlock and that there is no perspective of reunification. he looks over to the turkish side, the retiree says the reconciliation should no longer be left to the politicians. i see and realize that if they let us on our own, i mean citizens, or we could have hot grade left to play, urico speedo experiences just how great this could be in the bottom, you know, choir for peace, lena melanie, doom, greek and turkish cypriots, sing together in the name of peace and reconciliation in this choir,

where music surmount, political, and linguistic borders. mustafah air sultan has been in the choir for a year and a half. the architect from the turkish north meets his coral colleague, your post before the concert. the border can still only be crossed by a check points. mustafah is used to this. he grew up with the division just like his turkish fans. and then i have participate for the choir. i. i tell them we are going the of them. they are be surprised. think the you field of you are doing something for your own country for peace, 40 reunification. it shows from the time they see us on stage with a white crows like that and they put color apiece and they cannot ever understand who is creek, who is turkish same hobbies the same songs,

the same attitude. so step by step i think, would improve and sing every law who is turkish and who is greek. none of that matters when the choir gets together, as can be seen at this piece concert in the greek part of the capital one. proponents of reunification are now a minority in cyprus, but the quire won't give up and it's a full house at the auditorium. ah, together with the whole choir, your those and mustafah perform the song, sorry. the turkish choir members ask for forgiveness in greek, and the greek members do the same in turkish. they understand that one requirement for reconciliation is recognizing the other side, suffering. oh, at the end of the concert they sing the song, my homeland has been split into. which of the 2 sides shall i love?

both is the answer given by your ghost, most of us and the other singers in the peace choir of cyprus. ah, in the blandest thing of munching. glad back arrested an alarming form slump beating wolf's berg for the 1st when in 6 games and denting the wolves, european ambitions and the process, i'll assign a player, set up marcus turan to head in black box. second goal on 63 minutes and seal a to nail when the host smooth, within 4 points of wolf's worth. who remain in 9th place. alas pleased stood guard, travel to book them despite desperate for their 1st away when the season and the visitors came out on top of a 5 gall thriller, lifting themselves off of the bottom of the table and dragging bolcom into the

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