ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin tonight, china planning a no fly zone. north of taiwan. tensions are already high after last week's chinese military drills around the island. also coming up, you as president joe by begins a visit to the republic of ireland after a trip to belfast, to mark 25 years of peace in northern ireland and drafted by email, russia,

overhauls. it's conscription law making it easier to recruit soldiers and nearly impossible to dodge the draft. and germany is about to legalize pot the growth possession and personal use of small amounts of cannabis will soon be permitted. ah, i'm bring. gov is good to have you with us. we begin tonight with news that china is planning to close air space north of taiwan. later this week to i once has the china have notified that a no fly zone will be imposed for half an hour. on april 16th, china has ended 3 days of military drills around taiwan following a trip to the us by the islands. president sy, in gwen chinese president, she's been paying, has raised the stakes by calling on china's military to train for quote,

actual combats, moral that in just a moment. you as president joe biden, he is in the republic of ireland after a trip to northern ireland. today to mark the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement that deal in the decades of sectarian violence in northern ireland. today biden urged the government there to break a political deadlock in order to thwart what he describes as enemies of peace. it was a trip that was over in a flash. joe biden popped in to belfast for less than a day and met the british. prime minister richie soon on the occasion 25 years of peace in northern ireland. 25 years ago. this week. the landmark profess good friday grew side and it wasn't easy. and there are no guarantees that the deal on paper would hold. no guarantees that it would be able to deliver the progress we

celebrate today. it took long, hard years of work to get to this place. the agreement ended 3 decades of bloodshed between mainly catholic nationalists, who opposed british rule in northern ireland and mainly protestant unionists who supported it. thousands were killed in bombings and other attacks. under the u. s. broke and agreement, paramilitary groups laid down their arms. direct u. k. row was brought to an end and a power sharing government was set up in northern ireland. instead. the piece has been a lasting success, but the government collapsed a year ago in a row of a trade rules following breakfasts. some hope that biden's visit will jolt local politicians into action, hoping it might give them a kick to say, right, i'm only asking you to get back here and i think they were being patriot. run the convey because at the minute the company's trotter on itself. careful not to have a step biden said he hoped the parties would return to the negotiating table so

that government could resume that he hinted, could be the precursor to more american investments. the u. s. president is now on the 2nd leg of his trip in the republic of ireland, where he will address the dublin parliament biden, who is fiercely proud of his irish heritage. will also visit his to ancestral home towns. joining us now from belfast as our correspondent rosie birch art rosie, it's good to see you. the u. s. president. he delivered an. busy address to day on the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement, what stood out most to you will president biden had a message for the people of northern ireland. he said, your history is our history and your future is our future. he said 25 years ago, the u. s. took a bet on northern ireland and that's ready to double down on that bets. he spoke of the potential to unleash more for asperity in northern ireland. he said that since

the good friday agreement, g d p has doubled and he said he predicts it could triple if things keep moving in the right direction. but of course that doesn't spell of any sort of a threat there. but there is a suggestion, but this trip, despite it being on occasion to mark a celebration 25 years of peace of peace that has endured. for some brent, it's a bitter sweet visit and that's because while that piece spell died in the good friday agreement, the belfast good friday agreement has remained the institutions that it spells out that it lays out in the document. well, they are simply not functioning properly. there is no fully functioning devolved government here in northern ireland, not stoned to that political stalemate. over post breaks it trading arrangements and joe biden said he hopes that government the default government here will be restored, but he didn't go any further than that. as we heard in the report, quite careful in his choice of words. yeah. and i'm wondering, i'm,

were there reactions from across the political spectrum in northern ireland to what was said today. so there verse of host people i spoke to. they were optimistic that jo vines visit could perhaps move the dial here after these talks, i spoke to sir jeffrey donaldson. he is the leader of the democratic unionist party . that fred is the party, which has been refusing to form a default government here complaining that the post bricks at trading races for northern ireland aren't opposing really an existential threat to northern islands. place within the united kingdom. take a listen to what he had to say when i asked him whether biden's death a visit would make a difference to his own party's position. i don't think the visit today will change the political dynamic necessarily. we welcome the visit of the president and under his commitment to continue helping northern ireland, we were, would like to see more american investment to some of the u. s. companies sort of

set up in orlando done very well. of course, we always welcome that kind of investment and those jobs. so hopefully the president's visit to day will lead to more american investment. but he was very clear in the conversation, i had was him that he's not here to interfere politically. that it is a matter for the political leadership in northern to make the decisions on the way forward or break the source of this dispute is actually pretty technical. it's have a costumes and checks on some goods from across from great britain into northern ireland, from the rest of you came to northern ireland. but of course, those technical issues boiled down to the most primordial of questions. here in northern ireland, about borders and identity in about feelings of britishness and of irishness in rosie the wall of the united states in keeping the good friday agreement intact. these past 25 years. i mean that that is clear. what about the role of the u. s.

the in northern ireland, moving for? so yes, president joe biden announced that there will be a trade delegation of american companies coming to north island later in this year . and he did sort of dangle that economic carrot there. he said that piece goes hand in hand with economic prosperity, but us to jeffrey, jonathan alluded to biden was careful not to seem like he was bullying or putting pressure on any of the political parties here. and frank, he did not stick around to labor the pipe. he has already left belfast crossing the republic of ireland, where he will be ringing piece bells and visiting ancestral tones. he will be addressing the irish parliament meeting, the irish prime minister and the president. plenty of talk to be expected there of friendship and friendly ties altogether, much less contentious than the visit here in belfast, which though the message from president biden was, one of hope of perseverance is set against such

a more complicated political doctrine that breaks it has certainly not made the situation easier. that is for sure. did abuse rosie bertram in belfast. horace rose, he's always thank you are, let's take a look now. some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. serious foreign minister fossil mac dod is in saudi arabia. on the 1st visit by a senior diplomat from damascus in more than 10 years, saudi arabia's hosting talks about syria returning to the arab league. its membership was suspended when president bashar al assad cracked down on protests. ukraine has rejected russian claims to have captured more than 80 percent of the eastern city of buck moot. he observes that its forces control considerably more than 20 percent of the head of russia's wagner mercenary group, says his fighters are advancing. president low to mid zalinski of ukraine has condemned the alleged beheading of a ukrainian soldier by

a russian fighter video purportedly showing the killings he began circulating on line after it was shared by a pro kremlin blogger or i want to go back now to our top story china planning to close air space, north of tie one later this week to talk about that i'm joined now by eric gomez. he's a senior fellow at the cato institute. air. good. good to have you with us. we know the language coming out of beijing right now is, is clear. i mean, she's in ping saying, preparing his soldiers for actual combat. i mean, how dangerous is the situation right now? so i think in the short term, the situation is certainly not grow good in terms of there being a lot of military activity around taiwan. but i'm not that worried about a sort of near term conflagration. but i am very worried about though is this is

a symptom of a broader us china devolution and relations that we got a taste of what the pelosi visit last summer we're seeing again, all of this being done, after sighing when the president of taiwan visited with the speak, current speaker of the house mccarthy and the u. s. and shine are in just a really bad place right now. and i'm worried that if that isn't resolved, or if that isn't pulled back, we could see more stuff like this in the future that could get to the point of something were like a conflict in this deterioration of relations between beijing in washington. is that how you would explain what we're seeing right now? and in that is the fact that chinese vessels are still around taiwan despite the fact that those 3 dates of military exercises are over. yes. so and when pelosi visited last summer, china before the visit, issued

a lot of warnings publicly saying if this happens, we will do a whole bunch of they didn't specify, specify that they didn't specify, we will do x, y, and z. but they said that they would take actions against it. and a similar story happened here with sighing ones visit. they said, if this goes through, we are going to do things that the united states does not like. and they have in both instances. and the, the us, china, the us, china, taiwan, especially relationship goes back many, many decades. there's a lot more to it than just visits. but i think that what we're seeing now is china is clearly very much unhappy with actions that time one in the u. s. are taking what i worry about is that the u. s. and taiwan. see these actions and, and we double down on our own activities which encourages taiwan or china to double down on future things like this. and then you just wind up in

a spiral that's very difficult to break out of. yeah, i think that's what we're in right now. yeah, i want to ask you to me, how do you think the united states is going to respond to this sub temporary? no fly zone that beijing it's planning to impose north of taiwan. well, it seems like the situation's very fluid. i did see a report only about an hour or 2 ago before coming on this program that said that china had already kind of scaled back. the no fly zone thing to only a matter of a few minutes. i'm instead of several days. and it seems like this might be tied to a sort of like a notification to aircraft that china's conducting a satellite launch. and that there are certain areas where debris from the launching rocket might come down. so don't go in those areas. so it seems like this instance in general, but the no fly zone and the current exercises around taiwan. in some respects they are a bit scaled back from what we saw in last summer after the pelosi visit,

which is i think, a helpful side. and also you mentioned a china wanting to do maritime inspections or, or sort of stopped ships. well, they announced that, but so far there hasn't been a reports of them actually doing anything in terms of actually stopping a vessel and trying to board it. so hopefully that means, you know, there are some room here for people to back down. and i think over time, over the next several days and weeks, we will see a reduction in the, the sort of tempo and, and in the visibility of all of this, which will be welcome. but this bigger concern i've identified remains. yeah. have a spiral that we're in and hard to break out of. yeah, i think a lot of people would agree with you that it would be best if it would just stay at a more talking unless action in the whole situation at the map. eric gomez with the cato institute. eric, we appreciate your time and your insights to night. thank you. i keep having me.

russia's parliament has signed off on an overhaul of the country's conscription law . the legislation makes it harder to dodge a military call up. and it allows draft orders to be delivered by e mail. ukraine is expected to launch a spring counter offensive against russian forces. and there is speculation that moscow was planning a 2nd wave of troops mobilizations it happened very quickly. both chambers of russia's parliament fast track changes to the conscription law that has already been on the table for 5 years. now any one who does not report to the military after receiving a draft notice will no longer be allowed to leave. russia is, will, will difficulties love those who repeatedly do not report for duty. when i can have their drivers license revoked, least their right to engage in real estate deals revoked militia and may neither register or business nor borrow money. do you got it quickly?

yes. but if you can, but the most important new feature is that draft notices must no longer be served in person to be valid as was earlier the case. other delivery methods are now permitted, such as my registered mail or electronically, via the general civil register, with which most russians have an account with as possible. as a result, it's no longer possible to ignore a draft notice you born. yes, the usaa. these changes mainly affect compulsory military service, but it doesn't rule out expanding it to those who might be mobilized in the future . half asleep. lima jack told them which it was mostly because i scare the shilling him and because that's some members of parliament saint. this is not a new wave of mobilization, but president vladimir putin has not signed a law ending. last year's partial mobilization, formal mobilizations could happen again at any time. human rights

activists believe that the amended law aims to augment rush as professional army. according to media reports, the defense ministry plans to recruit up to 400000 young men as professional soldiers. means yes, the latterly the defense ministry doesn't seem to be planning a new active mobilization. instead it went to recruit more citizens as professional soldiers believe that is the men drafted to compulsory military service. are probably the targeted individuals. i think it's most likely that there will be more cases in which draftees will be forced to sign contracts with the army. dania even asked daniel bush, one more new feature, a standardized conscripts register with personal data on draftees health education status and possibly dual citizenship status. russian members of parliament maintained that all of these changes would not apply to the current conscription wave, which ends in mid july with the w's eerie re shadow,

has been working in riga since russia shut down our moscow bureau. he explains how the new law fits into moscow's wider, more effort. well look after a year when russia is preparing the whole of society with a long war, the army ultimately needs more soldiers. and apparently, many conscripts will lay to be offered contracts with the regular professional army in order to increase the number also, just at the front of the kremlin, sat that any conscript could sign such a contract and to russian minister of defense proposed to bought the bleach to allow conscripts to participate in so called peacekeeping missions, just a reminder, void. ukraine is not cold, avoid russia, but a special military duration. so from the point of view of rational propaganda, it's kind of a peacekeeping mission. at least that's what the russian media tells people every room she, if you're a rash shadow, there were the west as imposed multiple rounds of economic sanctions on russia.

this weekend complex zone. sarah kelly asked sergey journey of a russian economist and former kremlin advisor. whether the sanctions are having any impact. and i'm really happy that china doesn't provide her with us to rush if china decided to primarily mail us in money to russia. that we know that's right. but if china wanted to follow this ideal for friendship without limits, china would have provided a weapons without limits and cash without the limits and sanctions will not work. now we see that ashley is forced to buy munitions and weapons from iran and north korea, which is a much lower quality than chinese weapons in chinese technology. and you can see that full entries, health minister says that possessing and growing small amounts of cannabis for private use will be allowed. if parliament passes the proposals distribution will be handled by consumer associations. a 5 year test phase will limit the sale of

cannabis products to a few outlets. the health minister says that the aim here is to protect the public well enough for shirts, and we want to prevent cannabis leading to the consumption of harder drugs. we want to better protect the youth. we want to fight the black market. we want to push back drug related crime. they mean we want to get a grip on the steadily increasing toxicity of the products. in other words, we don't want to create a problem, but contribute to the resolution of an unsolved problem, probably in well and via f answer. or political correspondence, i mean young, he's following this story for us is good to see you. so i mean, so what exactly will be allowed if this proposal gets to go ahead you have rent acquiring and possessing up to 25 grams of can a base for personal consumption will be legal. as well as growing

a maximum of 3 cannabis plants at home. so that's the year the said, the headline on this. the, the gum. it's also proposing allowing non profit associations, essentially cannabis clubs, which would sort of cultivate plants and distribute chic cannabis to their members. now the government says, you know, this is all good, it helps consumers, it will make things safer. it'll fight to the year. a shady dealings on the black market and so on. the political opposition, of particularly the conservative opposition is a much more critical. they say that this kind of legalization opens up the potential for harms, particularly to young people. but i think there be quite a few people around germany who will be happy that in future, you know, smoking a joint with a few friends at home will no longer be a criminal offense. in some of the original play and by the government was for

a much wider, more extensive liberalization if you will. and why is that not happening? well, yeah, the yeah, the government's original plans were much more ambitious. for instance, they included the sale of cannabis 3 license shops, but i think the legal experts have looked at this and decided that it's not going to be compatible with you rules and with the some other international agreements. or for instance, the shang, an agreement which effectively got rid of the national board is in much of the european union that actually explicitly requires a government to prevent the export and distribution and so on. all fact cannabis and of course germany and it's 9 neighbors are all members of the shang and zone. so that would be a difficulty. so this slim down a plan,

i think might have passed the rules better. and as you mentioned, they'll be a pilot project in a few places to sell cannabis through license shops that's then going to be studied . and once they got a bit of scientific data, maybe they'll try to introduce that. that part of the original plan at a later date in some be, was the situation across europe in terms of legalization is germany taking the lead here? well, in europe you've got some weed friend, the countries people perhaps think of the netherlands in particular, but actually those original plans of the german government went much further than even the arrangements in the netherlands. and what we're going to have now it's been announced today is rather less ambitious. of course, there are different arrangements in the different european countries and quite

a few of them, for instance, of allowed cannabis for medical purposes for quite some time. i think another thing to say is things are changing on base and it's increasingly being still seen as a public health question rather than the question of criminal wrongdoing. our political corresponded simon young with the latest on legalizing cannabis year in germany. simon. thank you. nasa is looking for people that it says have elite levels of patience and understanding your space agency as unveiled it's mars simulator. volunteers will live there for a year to test conditions for future missions to earth's neighbor l. the location is texas a 3 d printed structure comes with 4 bedrooms, a gym, and lots of red sand. the facility includes a replica of the martian environment. not surprisingly, the ground is covered in red, sand,

and scattered around the room known as the sandbox. are other pieces of equipment astronauts would likely use, including a solar panel, a weather station, and a treadmill to simulate the long trips outside astronauts would make to collect samples and gather other data. there's also a brick making machine part of the activities for mars mission would be, besides the geology and exploration building and maintaining that infrastructure for life on mars. for human life on mars, or for humans to come and and future missions to come. they want to start building out that infrastructure. the astronauts would then go through an air lock with several doors before entering the living quarters, dubbed the mars dune alpha, the 160 square meter home includes 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, an exercise room, a medical bay, and an area to grow crops, such as lettuce and tomatoes,

the members of the 1st experiment team have yet to be named, but nasa says the astronauts chosen will likely have backgrounds in science, engineering, and math. they'll also be under constant surveillance to see how they handle the environment beside life. lation confinement and that shared distance would be things like being able to get along. so when you're in a small habitat with you know, 3 other people that can wear on over time and we have different experiments. those experiments include testing the cruise response to stressful situations, such as restricting water availability and equipment failures. nasa hopes the simulations here on earth will allow the united states to send people to mars in the next decade. or it is a reminder the top story we're following for you this. our tie. one says that china is planning to close. aerospace, north of the island. later this week,

the half hour restriction is shorter than the 3 days. beijing originally proposed after the taiwanese government protested conflict zone is up. next, i will be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day i hope to see you then with with

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