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a stop in belfast to mark 25 years of peace in northern iron. 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 owning. growing and using small amounts of cannabis will soon be permitted ah vibrant. gov to our viewers watching on phoebe, it's in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. we begin tonight with news that china is planning to close air space north of taiwan later this week. so i one says the china has notified that a no fly zone will be imposed for half an hour. on april 16th. china has ended 3 days of military drills or rounds. hi, one. following

a trip to the us by the president, by the islands president sly e when chinese president, she's been paying has raised the stakes by calling on china's military to train. and i'm quoting here for actual combat. eric gomez is a senior fellow at the cato institute. i asked him how dangerous the situation is 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 in 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 didn't specific space 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. when's 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 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 a 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. oh yeah, i think that's what we're in right now. yeah, i want to ask you to, i mean, how do you think the united states is going to respond to this temporary no fly zone that beijing is 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 rock. it 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 stop ships. well, they announce 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 in, in the visibility of all of this, which will be welcome, but this bigger concern i've identified remains. yeah. of 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 and less action in the whole situation at the map. eric gomez with the cato institute. eric, we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. thank you. proud of me. you as president joe biden is in the republic of ireland after a trip to northern ireland earlier today to march the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement. that deal ended decades of sectarian violence in northern ireland today biden urged the government there to break a political deadlock in order to thwart what he described as enemies of peace.

it was a trip that was over in a flash. joe biden popped into belfast for less than a day and met the british. prime minister richie soon. ugh, 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 to deal on paper with whole no guarantees or would be able to deliver the progress we celebrate today. and 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. broken agreement, paramilitary groups laid down their arms direct you to

a rule 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 breck says, 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 rome, 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. 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 are corresponded, rosie beer charge. she told me more about what joe biden had to say in belfast.

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 while 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 develop 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 want michelle today for their verse of hope people i spoke to, they were optimistic that jo biden's visit could perhaps move the dial here after these talks i spoke to. so 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 arrangements for northern ireland are 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 diff, a visit would make a difference to his own parties 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 or 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 they are presidents visit to day will lead to more american investment . but he was very clear in the conversation i had with 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 customs and tax on some good from across from great britain into northern ireland

and the rest of you came to northern ireland. but of course, those technical issues boil down to the most primordial of questions here in northern ireland and back borders and identity and 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 is clear. what about the role of the u. s. though 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 point he is 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 unfriendly 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. it breaks, it has certainly not made the situation easier. that is for sure. did abuse rosie bertram in belfast for us. rosie's always thank you. let's take a look now. some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world series. 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 is hosting talks about syria, possibly returning to the arab lee. it's membership was suspended when president barsha our sod cracked down on pro chess. ukraine has rejected russian claims to

have captured more than 80 percent of the eastern to city of bach. moved. chief says that its forces. busy control considerably more than 20 percent. the head of russia's wagner mercenary group says that his fighters are advancing on the city. ukrainian president of all the miss zalinski has condemned. the alleged the heading of a ukrainian soldier by a russian fighter video proportionately showing the killing began circulating all line after it was shared by a pro kremlin laudrie. c rushes parliament have signed off on an overhaul of the countries. 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 in their speculation that moscow is planning a 2nd wave of troup mobilization. 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. can have their drivers license revoked, least their right to engage in real estate deals revoked militia and may neither register a 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 all up as possible. as a result,

it's no longer possible to ignore a draft notice going yes, the usaa. these changes mainly affect compulsory military service with this, but it doesn't rule out expanding it to those who might be mobilized in the future athletes. the ina dick told them which it was merchant, but as i said, 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 russia's professional army. according to media reports, the defense ministry plans to recruit up to 400000 young men as professional soldiers. means gifts, the latterly the defense ministry doesn't seem to be planning a new active mobilization. instead at once 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. and it was 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 dw corresponded your re, re shadow, has been working in riga since russia closed down our bosco bureau, he explains how the new law fits into moscow's wider war effort. well look, after a year when russia is preparing the whole of society for the long was, the army ultimately needs more soldiers. and apparently, many conscripts will later be offered to contract 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 the russian ministry of defense proposed to reportedly to allow conscripts to participate in so called peacekeeping missions. just a reminder, the boy, ukraine is not called 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 us media tell the people, every room that was dw riga bureau chief, you re re shadow there. here in germany, the government plans to legalize cannabis are taking shape. the country's 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 country's health ministers says that the aim here is to protect

the public, was in the fo hudson. 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 while and via. and so there was germany's health minister carl walter bach speaking there, our political correspondence. i mean, young, he told me more about these reforms 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 so the headline on

the, the government's also proposing allowing non profit associations, essentially cannabis clubs, which would sort of cultivate plants and distribute cannabis to their members. now the government says, you know, this is all good. it helps consumers. it will make things safer, it'll fighter 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, a 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 e u rules and with the some other international agreements. for instance, the shang, an agreement which effectively got rid of 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 plan i think might have passed the rules better. and as you mentioned, they'll be a sort of 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, it was the situation across europe in terms of legalization is germany taking the lead here. well, in europe you've got some weed friendly 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, what'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 a question of criminal wrongdoing or political correspondent simon young with the latest on legalizing cannabis year in germany. simon, thank you. nasa is looking for people, it describes with elite levels of patience and understanding to test it's newly unveiled mars simulator. volunteers will live there for a year to test conditions for future missions to earth's neighbor located in texas . the 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. our 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 wife 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 the shared distance ah, 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 you 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, o the 2 top 2 seeds at tennis is monte carlo masters have made it into the round of 16 stephanos since he pass is hunting, a record tying tide, or while novak joke, which claimed what he described as an ugly when no

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