o o d, w, it is leih from berlin. outrage in ukraine at around the world over images of 8 the gruesome cried footage on social media, appearing to show a russian soldier be heading a ukrainian prisoner of war. ukraine's president says that such a crime cannot be forgiven or forgotten. also coming up,

reassessing german china relations. hot on the heels of the french president of germany's foreign minister on a lena bear bock, heads to china to reassert a common european union policy. and the european space agency launches a probe into space. it's on a mission to jupiter, to investigate the solar giant and looked for life in the ocean of one of its moves . ah, i'm sarah kelly walked into the program. ukraine says that it is opening a war crimes investigation. after 2 videos emerged on line, appearing to show russian soldiers be heading ukrainian prisoners of war. the shocking footage has drawn international outrage with the kremlin describing the

videos as awful, but raising questions about their auto and authenticity, and when a tweet, ukraine's foreign minister image, ocr, labor, called russia worse than isis. and now a warning to our viewers. the following report contains material that may be disturbing. brutal and gruesome footage has appeared on social media. the video allegedly shows what appears to be a russian soldier. cutting off the head of a captured ukrainian prisoner of war screams can be heard as a voice in the background says, do it. the video which appears to have been recorded last year is now the focus of international attention. have more information or information on the veracity of the video. having said that, if confirmed this is yet another brutal reminder about the inhumane nature of the russian aggression killing of prisoners of war is a very serious breach of the geneva convention. and demonstrates once more russia's

complete disregard of international law and particular international humanitarian law. moscow has also responded to the video kremlin spokespersons me 3 pets. gov said the images needed verification show and learning page. first of all, we need to check the authenticity of this awful footage. of course i told her this footage is awful and 1st we should check its authenticity. i wrote her cham crane years later, more to expect poor them. and then we could have a pretext to check whether or not this is true, whether it happened merely, and if it did wear, and by whom it was done. ukraine's president followed me as a lensky spoke of systematic terror by russian forces and demanded consequences. boldenow, every one must react to it. every leader. don't expect it to be forgotten. we are not going to forget anything. neither are we going to forgive the murderous

ukraine's su security service said on wednesday. it had opened a probe into the video. in other news, germany is foreign minister on a line of bare bach is heading to china on a visit that she hopes will we balance germany's relationship. she is expected to discuss the war in ukraine and to push beijing to help. and the conflict there back is also to to discuss tension over taiwan with chinese officials. beijing staged military drills round the island earlier this week. china's warships and fighter jets simulated blockades. as part of that is those drills. beijing claims that the self governing territory at is its own and has not ruled out using force to bring the island under mainland control. we have team coverage of this visit t w. political correspondent, thomas barrow is in berlin for the encroachment is in beijing. welcome to both of

you, father. i begin with you. after days of rising tension between china and taiwan, just bring us up to date with where the situation is right now. yeah, the situation has come on quite a bit initially bathing actually plant a no flight term zone on the north of taiwan between the 16th and 18th of april. but they have made a rapid track. now the snow flies on but only less half an hour on sunday, and that gives you an idea that china, on the one hand, showed a lot of military strength to bring those drills, but also to some degree, some restraint. what i, however, found really very alarming worcester dehumanizing rhetoric that you could see, for example, a high ranking general of the people's liberation army said in the evening in use. he compared the independence activists and to taiwan a to a can. so the troops surgically removed, so that is really very concerning thomas. what is the likely message that adelina burbock is now bringing to china when it comes to the situation between china and

taiwan? essentially, sar, other, the military escalation is in no one's interest. it's not in china's interested, not into one's interest is not in europe's interest either. and that has to do with the fact that the region plays a vital role when it comes to global trade. that's something that and in a barbara, the german foreign minister, stressed before she departed to china. now more broadly, germany sees china both as a partner in particular when it comes to economic relations. and in fact, those economic relations have strengthen reportedly in the last year or so. yet at the same time, it views china as a systemic rival, as a competitor and an hour. babcock stressed that it was important also for germany to look at where there are possible risks when it comes to, to unilateral dependencies. and this is again related to possible escalations in the, in the region. germany wants to avoid that at all cost,

because essentially that would also affect effect. germany stands internationally, thomas just briefly, a quick follow up there are, she is also likely to discuss the war in ukraine. what is germany want to see? well, this is also very important because i know no book stress that china plays an important role when it comes to maintaining global peace. china is a member of the un security council. china is also a country by the way, that has a relationship with russia and as such, the role that china could play when it comes to trying to find a piece, trying to find a solution to the war. and ukraine is particularly relevant, and that is something that on an in a bow book, and by the way, not only burbock other european leaders have tried to achieve the same, is to try and understand what kind of role china could play when it comes to trying to find a solution to the war and ukraine. fabi and how is the german foreign ministers and all these issues that are we've heard are on the table. how are they being perceived in china?

well, i mean, their book is not very popular. he and paging that might not surprise because she's rather outspoken with her criticism, or some even view her as quote unquote, antique china. but actually there's a lot of restraint when it comes to uncovering the visit actually before it starts . because and i will, the battery wants to see how it goes. i mean, nothing is written in stone yet, and are for example, other visit by macro recently a really went very well for, for china. so i think this is still a charm offensive towards the european union going on and, and we are basically, china wants to divide brussels and or of washington. they don't want a trans atlantic solidarity. so i think am the how the state media here will cover and also view the visit will really depend on what outcome it will produce. and savion are, you know, we've in thing beijing and moscow put their relations on display since the invasion of ukraine. how likely is it that the chinese leadership listens to the europeans

and further presses russia and the war? well, the super unlikely. i mean, we just saw trait numbers coming out today. um the, the bilateral trade between china and russia has skyrocketed the rocket to it, and basically it plus 70 percent since the last year important exports. and also the political commitment or from paging towards moscow seems rather robust. just yesterday i spoke to a high ranking foreign policy scholar and former ambassador. and i asked him at the official position and he basically doubled down on that. and this war and chinese viewers are provoked by nato expansion, that it has to do with her a security architecture of europe, et cetera. but he did not criticize or russia with one syllable, and that is also the official stance of seating ping. i mean, there's no criticism whatsoever, and am mycroft failed to get any diplomatic concession from china to what's ukraine? so i don't think, or at least i'm not very hopeful that that would be a box or

a visit will produce any an outcome on this front. thank you so much for the encroachment in beijing. d. w as thomas barrow in berlin. thank you to both of you and hear some other stories making news around the world. japan's prime minister for me. okay. shita says that a north korean missile did not fall on his country's territory. after residents of hor, keidel were warned to seek shelter. on thursday morning pyongyang fired a ballistic missile that flew 1000 kilometers before landing in the sea of japan. it is the latest in a string of north korean weapons tests. a 2nd lawmaker from the u. s. state of tennessee has been reinstated nearly a week after he was expelled for taking part of a gun control protest inside the house chamber. justin pearson and another black legislator were forced out of the republican controlled body. their supporters marched in memphis after a local commission reinstated,

peers. in the u. s. state of indiana. thousands of people have been evacuated after a fire broke out at a plastic recycling facility. official say that negligence caused the blaze. a health warning is in force over smoke, which could be toxic prison authorities, and one of ecuador is most violent. jails said that they found 6 inmates hanged in their cells. relatives of prisoners had been gathering at the prison gates in the port city of quiet here, hoping for information. it is not clear if the dead prisoners were gang members, ecuador, and jails have long been plagued by violence and over crowding. western australia is bracing for one of the most powerful storms there in a decade. cyclone elsa has gathered strength over the indian ocean. it is expected to bring damaging winds. heavy rain and abnormally high tides residence there have

been stalking up on a central supplies or leaving for evacuation centers. the european space agency as jupiter probe is set to launch in just a couple of hours. the i c moon's explorer dubbed juice is the essays biggest planetary mission to date. it is designed to answer some tantalizing questions like could the ice encrusted oceans on one of jupiter's moons, b, concealing extra terrestrial life. ah, the jupiter, i see moons explorer, or juice will be on its mission for around 7 and a half years. its destination is jupiter, a solar systems, largest planet. to get bad use, we'll need a lot of momentum. and that will mean several close fly buys of both venus and earth. research is from the german aerospace center in berlin. will focus on jupiter's 3 mysterious icy moons which were discovered back in 1610 by italian

astronomer galileo, galle order crew. he this flew, the biggest question of all is evil. they can support life because they all have on the ice ocean in their interior. it's actually warmer now. for one of those, the reasons that they can have water washed, which is the most important prerequisite for the emergence of life europa, the smallest of the 3 moons is believed to be the most likely candidate for extra terrestrial life. beneath its icy crust lies an ocean which could contain twice as much water as all of us oceans put together. how thick is europe has ice crossed? how deep is its ocean? and what is it made of? that's what juice is setting out to discover. and it will explode. jupiter's other

moons to which may also boast several lays of water. to do this, the probe will repeatedly fly past them, making observations with the help of its 10 state of the art scientific instruments . after 3 years juice will enter the orbits of jupiter's largest moon ganymede. it will be the 1st time a space probe has ever orbited the moon of another planet, an instrument co developed in berlin. we'll use laser pulses to measurements of ganymede says this site, and this will reveal whether ganymede has an ocean of liquid water and locate any areas of interest. medusa 100 minutes in building with juice, we will explore conditions to see if life could have evolved and also to find out on our way to look when we're on jupiter's moons who will be most likely find evidence of life. that will also be a task for subsequent missions from those who are not programmers, who not,

rich juice will spend for years exploring jupiter and it's means uncovering as many of their secrets as possible. and with that now you're up to date on dw news. i'm sarah kelly in berlin after a very short break. it is business news with my colleague, stephen beardsley. so do stay with us if you can for that was more on the web site, w dot com. you can also follow us on social media. thank you so much for watching. take the trio teaching on nigerian trafficking that works.