ah, in our series guardians of truth and watch now on youtube dw documentary ah ah, this is dw news, live it from berlin tonight, french president emanuel mac. ron lays out his vision in europe and he gets heckled in the process during a state visit to the netherlands. background tried to emphasize economic reform in the u, but protesters interrupted calling mac wrong president of hypocrisy. and not democracies also coming up after dozens of classified u. s. documents, the surface on line,

the pentagon is in damage control, searching for the source of the leaps. ah, i break off is good to have you with us. we begin tonight with french president macaroni trying to stay on message. the french president was heckled to day in the hague by delivering a key speech outlining his vision for the european union. micron is facing furer at home criticism abroad made worse by controversial comments that he made over the weekend. so would manuel malcolm digging his heels or back pedal. students in the hague, eagerly awaited the french president's key address, made them the monsieur. over the weekend. malcolm had given an interview, then had drawn attention due to his remarks about taiwan and the threat of conflict

between the us and china. the worst thing would be to think that we, europeans must be followers and must adapt ourselves to an american rhythm and a chinese overreaction. this raised the question whether his views were in line with the eaves position. as later speech seemed more cautious in spite of its grand flourishes, his wife, europe, and sovereignties no just to concept or fantasy, but is absolutely no dangerous world. a necessity. can she over easter, beijing's military exercises and waters off taiwan demonstrated just how dangerous the global situation is. but other europeans draw different conclusions to my comb . he taught south it does the fact that he signs with china and against america at the very moment when military exercises are taking place on taiwan borders, does not align with european interests and alexia polish prime minister. more of yet ski stressed that the relationship to the us is critical to poland,

security over than you, the ability and one us senator said, what many conservative americans think we need ask europe, does he speak for them? because we're pretty heavily involved in ukraine right now. we're spending a lot of our taxpayer money on a european one. the manuel macklin has given year of fresh impetus, but not every one is pleased with the direction he's taking. our brussels correspond to jack paris. he wants that speech and he summed up the main message from president mack wrong in the messaging that came out was, was similar to what micron has stood for politically for pretty much his whole career. which is the idea that further european integration, firstly on things like capital markets, which means money flowing around different companies and in the markets also on industrial integration. so what micron thinks is that in order to do the green transition, and i will add that this isn't only macro, this is crudely most of the rest of the european union thinking of planning as is ryan list. is that for things like the treat, green transition,

europe should try when itself of the dependency of other countries. he talked about the you not being a customer any longer. so, and not buying solar panels, not buying the materials that are needed to produce batteries for the green transition, etc. and this is something that he's been reading really key on throughout his entire presidency. and indeed his full political career. but he laid out quite clearly during this speech on this visits as an ellis today for there was dw, jack pierce reporting their chinese state media to say that b g is continuing to carry out what he calls combat training in the waters around taiwan. of that comes despite china officially declaring an end to 3 days of intensive military drills on monday. the taiwanese president has accused china of creating instability in the region with these exercises. meanwhile, people on the streets of taipei have taken to poking fun at beijing. this is the latest show of taiwanese resistance to china's wargames. people are rushing to buy

batches worn by air force pilots showing winnie the pooh being punched in the face by a taiwanese blackbear. i defy and message to china's leader. she jam ping, who has often satirized for looking like the honey loving cartoon, bare china which claims taiwan as part of its territory, has help 3 days of military drills around the island including simulated attacks on the territory. the operation started one day after ty, once president returned from a brief visit to the united states, where she met you as how speaker kevin mccarthy. despite beatings warnings against it, i thought as she has since condemned china's actions wouldn't make war. her body will shine. i used the visit as a pretext to start these military drills, creating instability in the taiwan straits. this is not the responsible attitude of

a major nation in this region who ne backorder with her title on the street of taipei, life goes on. people are focused on a piece for future. joseph jordans and all should be avoided at all costs if it can be avoided. we finally have a sense of peaceful life and we really cherish it. they only go hooking their show . in china, people seem divided over their government actions or did you, does i think 3 days of drills may not be enough? well, i think we should keep showing china's capabilities even under normal circumstances . natasha is elma, doug walker. and eli was, as of, as a whole, me of when we cannot be too ruthless, we have to show a point of view, but only to a certain point to obama. good. i think their military drills. sure enough for now . beach in conduct at similar lights came military exercises around taiwan in

august last year after venue as how speaker nancy pelosi visited the island concludes the ceremony. are lifting. look now some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world, airstrikes by me and mars ruling military hunter left hundreds of people dead on tuesday, including children. these pictures show the aftermath of the deadly attack which took place at a village ceremony being organized by groups opposed to the countries military ruins. italy's far right government has declared a 6 month state of emergency following a sharp rides of the number of migrants crossing the mediterranean. in recent weeks, the move comes after thousands of people crossed the sea between europe and africa over the weekend. you as president joe biden has arrived in belfast at the start of a 4 day visit to northern ireland and the republic of ireland in northern ireland. he will be marquis the 25th anniversary of that landmark p. still known as the good

friday agreement. then biden will travel on to the republic of our the i, m f, has warned that the global economy faces a hard landing and a significant risk of recession. if soaring, inflation does not end soon. in its latest world economic outlook, the funds says that the war in ukraine and instability in the banking sector are other key risks. usually it is that we're going to stay now with that war in ukraine where the battle for bach moot is grinding on the head of russia's. wagner mercenary group says that his forces now controlled most of the eastern ukrainian city. once home to some 70000 people, bach mood has been the focal point of fighting for months with russia's forces desperate to capture the city. but with ukrainian force is determined to hold on. the result has been massive casualties on both sides. no good dog, a desperate struggle played out in the streets of bath. moot,

this group of ukrainian soldiers is braving a tillery fire, as it fights to hold off a relentless russian assault. then only because of the month of grueling combat. buttonwood is surrounded from 3 sides and russia claims to control 80 percent of the town. it's printing offenders, a fighting for every inch. the town of a div got to is under sustained attack and could fall to the russians. this police unit is risking their lives evacuating the remaining civilians. with the warrant to your right to leave. i guess so, but it's hard to leave high as the one different. it's hard to leave time. a home that has become almost uninhabitable and unrecognizable, said lemming. a bill. this is painful for me. watch over her world. i sold the city

flourish literally without the bishop of birth, for they were just rebuilding the infrastructure after 2014, everything was being renovated, playground. i saw schools. and now looking at old, this is i have tears in my eyes. elsewhere on the vast front line, the defenders are more beat rushes, winter offensive is losing steam. after failing to gain significant ground. a spring arrives, ukraine is widely predicted to launch an offensive of its own. it is trained thousands of fresh troops and received modern weapons from the west. as the seasons are about to change. so to could the momentum in this war, it's always in the united states, the by did ministration is reeling from the fall out of the most significant leak

of government secrets. since the wiki leaks back in 2010. as the search for the source of the leak continues, washington is busy with damage control. the revelation suggests that us that the u . s. spied on key allies, including israel in south korea on tuesday. so dismissed a significant number of the files, calling them fake. the pentagon says it has ordered an internal review describing the leak as a very serious national security risk. about a decade ago, it was revealed that the u. s. national security agency, the an essay had spied on the cellphone or former german chance or argue america. we asked a social democrat, holger becker, who sits on the german parliament's digital affairs committee. if this is familiar territory for germany and if there's reason for concern. now, to be honest,

i would not be too much surprised because you honestly have to be pretty naive to expect that there is not some kind of mutual. busy intelligent gathering, calling that way. so in that regards, i don't think that it will damage any existing relationships. it's more of an embarrassment actually for the various us agencies. we still don't do not know exactly where the leak is coming from. i mean, that's obviously a, a source of concern for the u. s. and it shows a lot of the classical components of a disinformation campaign. so you have a couple of genuine documents. you have a couple of documents which are obviously tempered with. and you have a couple of other documents we don't know, are they genuine or are they fake? and so you actually generate a lot of mistrust. basically, it was whole baker speaking with me earlier, the river sin running through paris and spend the backdrop for countless love

stories. it's also been the depository for raw sewage making swimming in it, forbidden and downright dangerous. but that could soon be a thing of the past, which you go for swim in these waters. you might want to think twice. swimming in the river. sand is strictly forbidden and has been for the last 100 years. the reason untreated sewage that flows directly into the river, but that could soon change. look at the water and you know right now it's a little with that is not related so much. there are a lot of really waters which are like that even they're all in that. and frankly, if i was a measurement and i saw that it's a good measurement. jump right away. paris is planning to make it possible to bathe in its main river again. and so far, the efforts seemed to be paying off. fisher returning to the sand and the water

quality has been improving in recent decades. just in time for next years. olympic gains, paris wants to host several swimming competitions for the lympics and paralympics. right here. it's been a our project a for a decade, and that's a for me, a fantastic demonstration of the power of the game. thanks to the games. we on the possibility to make sure that all the stakeholders will accelerate the work to make sure that by 2024 it will be possible until the board to swing in the release and the 5 mile thought that it would be the 1st time beckoned the 1930, some competitions were held here, despite the general belin swimming in the sand making. now the french capitalists, investing 1400000000 euros in order to make it possible once more. one of the measures is to building of huge water tanks for storing rainwater. that might otherwise cause the public sewer system to overflow and end up polluting the river . but the races on to clean up the sand in time. the 1st olympic swim is supposed

to take the plunge and dive into the river again. on july 30th, 2024 or his reminder of the top story we're following for you this. our average president emanuel mack, one has laid out his vision for the future of europe, alone and official today visit to the netherlands. it comes a bit controversy sparked. i remarked that he made about taiwan over the weekend. you watch it. he w news from berlin coming up next, leavin beardsley with dw business news. i will see you tomorrow with our sports all day friday, scoring by when we say thereabout never giving up sports like every weekend or.