ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, outrage in ukraine and around the world over images of a gruesome war crime. footage on social media appears to show a russian soldier be heading a ukrainian prisoner of war. ukraine's president says that such a crime can't be forgotten or forgiven. also coming up, reassessing,

german, china relations. hot on the heels of the french president, germany is foreign minister adelaide a bad bach is in 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 oceans of one of its moves. ah, i'm sorry, kelly walked into the program. ukraine says that it has opened a war crimes investigation after 2 videos emerged on line, appearing to show russian soldiers beheading a ukrainian prisoner of war. the shocking footage has drawn international outrage with the kremlin describing the video also as awful,

but raising questions about its authenticity in a tweet, ukraine's foreign minister demetrius coolly about called russia worse than isis, 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 in full manner, inflammation 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. showing the 1st 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 it's authenticity wrote as a junker newsletter mortified poor them. and then we could have a pretext to check whether or not this is true, whether it happened me only, and if it did, where and by whom it was done, ukraine's president followed him years lensky spoke of systematic terror or by russian forces and demanded consequences. building them, 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 s b u. security service said on wednesday, it had opened a probe into the video and from our let's bring in mike martin, senior fellow in the department of war studies at kings college in london. i'm. he is also the author of the recently published book, how to fight a war. my thank you so much for joining us. what do these video say about the kremlin control over its troops? they very clearly says that the criminal doesn't have full control over its troops . and of course, not all of the russian troops in ukraine are actually russian military. there's also mercenaries and there's chechen militias and, and none of these work very well together. so overall, ukraine, sorry, russia does not have very good control over st. what do you think would drive us order to commit such an act or war crimes

a different but i think there's basically 3 categories if you like. do they fall into those, those that are directly commissioned by the state of the state orders it so just to go and commit war crimes. i don't think that's what's happening here. at the other end. there is a situation where the state has no control really over its troops. and i think that's what's happening here. and then there's a 3rd category, and that is where the state russia, in this case, creates a narrative about its enemy. that is so dehumanized, the way it talks about the training and government being nazis and gaze and all this. and that combines with lack of control over its troops and then the troops end up feeling like because they're stuck in brutal combat. that's ok. what becomes normal for them becomes stretched and warped, and then they commission the sorts of war crimes. what are the chances of bringing these people to justice and can that only happen after the war is over?

i think sadly, the chances of bringing the perpetrators walk on such as this, the justice are very slim. and the reason for that is because international justice, particularly around war crimes, only works when the great powers, if you like, of the world agree the international justice must be done. the problem that we have here is that the perpetrator is one of the great powers. russia is just still a great power. and that reason alone makes it very unlikely that war crimes such as this are going to be punished make the video is absolutely shocking. how do you think it is likely to impact morale on both sides of this war? i think actually on the ukrainian side, it's going to reinforce their morale throughout the war. we've seen russia bombing civilians, we saw the boot, the massacres in future,

and we see things like this. we're heading at each stage. we've seen ukrainian morales stiffened because they have no choice. if they stop fighting, there will be no ukraine left so they must fight. they're defending their homeland . i don't know the degree to which this will have an impact on the russian side. i think, i think many russians, particularly the soldiers who are engaged in this brutal combat their lives are not worth very much the russian command doesn't treat russian soldiers with a great deal of respect. i think many of those may shrug and say, well this is a war and this is what happens in war. mike martin, senior fellow in the department of war studies i king's college in london. thank you. thank you. here are some other stories making headlines around the world. japan's prime minister for me. okay. she says that a north korean missile did not fall on his country's territory after residence of her cargo 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. prison authorities that one of ecuador, the most violent jail say that they found 6 inmates hanged in their cells relative . the prisoners happened gathering at the prison gates and the port city of y, a keel hoping for information. it's not clear if the dead prisoners were gang members. ecuadorian jails have long been plagued by violence and overcrowded. brazil's president knew that the silver has arrived in shanghai on a state visit to china. the brazilian government says that the 2 countries are expected to sign over 20 bilateral agreements and discuss trade and investment. china is brazil biggest trade partner president luda is also seeking china support for his peace proposal to end the war in ukraine. you as president joe

biden has received a warm welcome, despite the cold weather in the republic of ireland, a place that he describes as part of his soul. he was created by cheering fans, some of whom had waited hours in the rain for a glimpse of the american leader with iris. ancestry biden stopped off at shops and restaurants in don't doubt in a county inhabited by some of his ancestors. the visit comes after the us presidents trip to northern ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement. that ended decades of sectarian violence bite and 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 to knock the occasion 25 years of peace in northern ireland. 25 years ago this week for landmark belfast. good friday

agreement signed. and it wasn't easy. and there are no guarantees that the deal on paper whole no guarantees that it would be able to deliver 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. you carol was brought to an end and a power sharing government was set up in northern ireland. instead. the pace has been a lasting success, but the government collapsed a year ago in a row over trade rules following breaks it. 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 ok, you need to get bach urine. oxy debian patriot run the country because at the minute they probably 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 was fiercely proud of his irish heritage who also visit his to ancestral home towns. germany's foreign minister adelina bare bach has arrived in china for a visit that she hopes will re balance germany's relationship. she is expected to discuss the war and ukraine, pushing beijing to help and the conflict. burbock is also due to discuss tension over taiwan with chinese officials. beijing staged military drills around the island earlier this week. china's warships and fighter jet simulated blockades and

attacked on taiwan and attacks on taiwan as part of those drills. beijing claims that the self governing territory is its own and has not ruled out using force to bring the island under mainland control. d w's, political correspondent, thomas sparrow, and berlin and journalist for the encroachment in beijing are both following this visit. and i began by asking fabia about the current situation between china and taiwan, head of the german foreign ministers visit yes, the situation has come down quite a bit, initially, bathing actually plant or no flight term zone on the north of taiwan between the 16th and 18th of april, but they have made a rear back track. now the snow flies on will only last half an hour on sunday. and that gives you an idea that a china, on the one hand, showed a lot of military franks 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 and general of the people's liberation army said in the even in use he compared the independence activists and to taiwan or to a cancer the troops surgically removed. so that is really very concerning. thomas, what is the likely message that anna burbock is now bringing to china when it comes to the situation between china and taiwan? essentially, sar, other than 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 something that and in a bad book, 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 strengthened reportedly in the last year or so. yet at the same time, it used china as a systemic rival, as a competitor, and an owner,

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, hurt to possible escalations in the, in the region. germany wants to avoid that at all costs, because essentially, that would also effort to affect germany stance internationally. thomas, just briefly, a quick follow up there are, she's also likely to discuss the war in ukraine. what is germany want to see? well, this is also very important because an owner babbled 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 an hon 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 beijing 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 that and baiting wants to see how it goes. i mean, nothing is written in stone yet. and or for example, other or visit by macro recently of 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 and will produce and savvy and 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 to and the war? what 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 import and export. 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 or to what's ukraine? so i don't think, or at least i'm not very hopeful that 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. anchor to both of you. and here are some other headlines making news. in the u. s. seat of indiana. thousands of people have been evacuated after a fire broke out at a plastic recycling facility. officials say that negligence caused the blaze. a health warning is enforced over smoke, which could be toxic. a 2nd lawmaker from the u. s. state of tennessee has been reinstated nearly a week after he was expelled for taking part in

a gun control protest inside the house chamber. justin pearson and another black legislator were forced out by the republican controlled body. their supporters marched in memphis after a local commission reinstated pierson. western australia is bracing for one of the most powerful storms there in decades. cyclone ilsa has gathered strength over the indian ocean. it is expected to bring damaging winds heavy rain and abnormally high tides residents. there happened stocking up on a central supplies or leaving for evacuation centers. now the european space agency is jupiter probe is set to launch in just a couple of hours. the icy moons explorer dubbed juice is the essays biggest planetary mission to date. it's designed to answer some tantalizing questions like could the icing crusted oceans on one of jupiter's moons, 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, our 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 2 pets as 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 their eyes ocean in their interior. it's actually warmer now. for one of those the reasons that they can have a water 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 earth's oceans put together. how fix her to do this, the pro bowl 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 space private as ever over to the moon of another planet. an instrument co developed in berlin will use laser pulses to take measurements of ganymede surface. this will reveal whether ganymede has an ocean of liquid water and locate any areas of interest. mitchell standards, municipal thing with juice,

we will explore conditions to see if life could have evolved. and also to find out on our way to look why wouldn't we, on jupiter's moons who will be most likely find evidence of life. that will also be a task for subsequent missions through or not programmers who not rich juice will spend for years exploring jupiter and it's moon's uncovering as many of their secrets as possible. future. more on this, let's bring in now mark mccaul green from the european space agency. thank you so much for your time this morning. why is want to juice such an important measure? well firstly, the thing that was in your own piece there, of course, is that we believe that several of the big moons have water oceans beneath the surface. and that potentially present the possibility that life might develop there in places which are very different from the surface of the earth, or maybe the surface of mas deep honda,

maybe tens or hundreds of kilometers of ice. these oceans a hundreds of kilometers thick. so much different to the water we have here on earth. but the other thing which is important is we have to remember that we have this giant planet there as well. jupiter and, and the moons in jupiter will connected. it's this the tides of jupiter, which are actually keeping those liquid oceans in that liquid state. and, and we know that there are many thousands of planets all between round up as stars in our milky way galaxy and beyond. and some, in a way, by studying this gas giant planet and it's moons in detail. we also will be able to bring information to help our understanding of planets elsewhere in the universe. and how about your understanding of sustaining human life hope for that? well, the, the, one of the big problems we have to face is a spacecraft. actually going to jupiter is that you could to, has this enormous magnetic field much more powerful in the us. and that channels particles from the sun, which create a very dangerous radiation environment. so that's actually the reason that our spacecraft is going to go into albany around ganymede, which is

a bit further out than europa. rope has further enclosed the jupiter a much more dangerous environment. so humans going to this jupiter environments and finding a place that is probably fairly unlikely. but of course, deep under the ice, they are very protected down this earth. there was potentially in the past or even today, some, some kind of micro that lives under the, they at least would be protected from that radiation. how can our viewers keep track of your mission? how can they follow you? well out, the 1st thing is that the launch is this afternoon at quarter past 2 a. he had german time, so we'll be going up into the space then from french kiana. and we have an 8 year journey ahead of us, which is interesting. we have to fly past the earth again 3 more times in order to use the gravity of the earth. once pos, venus. and so we only arrive at jupiter in 2031. but we will have an enormous amount of material which people can read today on line and, and follow the launch itself. and over the coming days will be opening up the solar

panels and then opening up the various antennas on board. so it's a pretty exciting phase now, but in a way it's just the middle of the mission, the beeping building it for more than 10 years. today's the launch and then the science all comes all the way out there in 2031 to 2034. when we go into orbit around ganymede. so your 1st results you're expecting as of 2031. well, from the jupiter environment. of course, that one of the things which is interesting is that we could get there quicker, but we wouldn't be able to stop and going to would it. so we have to take this very circuitous route. i'm kind of just getting up enough speed to get there, but not so much that we can't stop when we get there. we will be taking pictures at earth and venus on the way, but not really for science. so sir. science 2031. yes. okay. michael cochran, i really fascinating south i. we look forward to falling you. we wish you all the best. joining us from the european space agency. we appreciate it. thank you. and now to some sports at the monte carlo, tennis masters rush in the near med yet have made a light work of his italian opponent,

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awful, but raising questions about its authenticity. focus on europe is up next, looking at how russia's war of aggression has changed. the lives of people in ukraine is always more on social media. and on the website, i'm sarah kelly. and berlin, thank you so much for watching. take care. ah ah, with

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