the universe, a were series, 42, the answer. almost everything. this will be w ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. tensions linger in the seas surrounding taiwan. china says that it is closing an area north of taiwan due to the possibility of falling rockets, debris. it comes just days after it carried out military exercises around the island in a show of force. also coming up outrage in ukraine and around the world over images

of a through some apparent more private footage on social media appears to show and russian soldier of beheading a ukrainian prisoner of war at the european space agency launches a probe into space. it's on a mission to jupiter, to investigate the solar giant and look for life in the oceans of one of its min. ah, i'm sorry, kelly. welcome to the program. china has announced that it will band ships from an area north of taiwan on sunday, due to the possibility of falling rocket debris. taiwan claims china wants to impose a no fly zone in a similar area. beijing last week, held 3 days of drills around taiwan, simulating targeted strike and

a blockade of the island that it used as part of its territory. the drills came in response to the time when he is leaders visit to the united states. now china's announcement happens as germany is foreign minister adelina bareback arrives on a 3 day visit in which she is expected to discuss the war in ukraine and to push beijing to help to and the conflicts that we are joined. now, here in the studio by d, w as chief international editor, richard walker to help us walk through all of this, 1st of all, our return, the announcement that we've been hearing about. tell us a little bit more about what that means. yes. so so china says this announcement about sunday is about a space launch. that is, that is planning and ensuring safety in the area. but i think you can very much see it as part of this response is we just heard no to the meeting between a president of taiwan saying when and the speaker of the us house of representatives, kevin mccarthy, which took place in the united states just recently now china objects to any of these political contacts between taiwanese leaders and international leaders

because it says that i was part of our territory. they shouldn't have international contacts. and of course we saw last august when the then house of representatives. speaker, nancy pelosi went to taiwan. there were big military exercises. now this meeting happened between her successor and the president on u. s. territory. but china again responded with big military exercises partly seen as a rehearsal for a potential blockade or even a potential invasion. and i think this announcement about sunday and this was sensible space launch could be seen as part of this package. and essentially from the chinese point of view is what they're saying is like if you, the taiwanese and the americans hold meetings like this, we're gonna act like this. we are going to kind of practice our potential ability to invade taiwan one day. and we can be up to mess with the traffic with the air traffic in this very important, strategically and, and, and normally sensitive region,

germany is foreign minister is also at the start of the trip to china. how is she likely to address the issue? yes, so even before, so she departed from him berlin last night, even yesterday, her spokes person was out there saying that jimmy, very concerned about the police, his actions in the, in the taiwan strait explicitly calling on beijing to de escalate this very much. definitely part of the background to, to bear box, visit, and babble will be reinforcing this message from the germ side that you hear repeatedly, that your stability in the region is very important. that it's essential that there must be no change in the status quo between taiwan and china. and that comes by force. i think you can expect from the chinese, i will usually tend to hear from the chinese. i don't, this is essentially, this is none of your business. keep out of it. this is an internal chinese matter. that's their line. how united is the west? we saw for president many mom micron, also in china last week on the line as well. micron, criticized for perhaps being

a little bit too friendly with the chinese. yeah. so a manion con, got a lot of flack for this visit, particularly for comments that he made in an interview during this visit. where he seemed to be saying that, you know, europe should not be an allow itself to get dragged into a potential conflict around taiwan. essentially by being close to close to the united states and basically saying that europe needs its own position on this sort of thing. and he got accused of sort of suggesting will, should europe just be completely in the middle between the u. s. and china and have no kind of stake in this whatsoever. just at the time when europe is so dependent on the united states over the ukraine war, the united states being absolutely essential to, to european security at this time. so my home was going there saying he wanted to have it in hans european unity on china. but in the end he, he ended up kind of proving the opposite. and i lena bear book has been much more critical of china, historically protect you on the issues of human rights,

but even her own government is pretty divided. all of chelsea chancellor, see this much, much more cautious. so the overall picture of what we're seeing here is china getting much more assertive about saying this is okay. this is not okay. and europe looking pretty muddled in its response interviews, which are walker. thank you so much. ukraine says that it has opened a war crimes investigation after 2 videos emerged online, appearing to show russian soldiers be heading ukrainian prisoners of war. the shocking footage has drawn international outrage. the kremlin described the video as awful, but raised questions about its authenticity, ukraine's foreign minister and image, ocr, labor, condemned russia on twitter, describing it as worse than isis. a warning now to our viewers. the following report contains material that some may find 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 format, 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 show in 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 its authenticity. i 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 a melody, 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. 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 ellis take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. north

korea has fired its 1st intricate intercontinental ballistic missile in a month. the launch triggered a scare in northern japan where residents were told to take cover, though there turned out to be no danger. the missile flew 1000 kilometers before landing at sea. south korea's military has called the move a grave provocation. prison authorities at one of ecuador, his most violent jails said that they found 6 inmates hanged in their cells. relatives of prisoners have been gathering at the prison gates and port city of y, a keel hoping for information. it is not clear if the dead prisoners were gang members. ecuadorian jails have long been plagued by violence and over crowding. u. s. president joe biden has received a warm welcome in the republic of ireland as a place that he describes as part of his soul. he stopped off at shops and restaurants in dundalk county where some of his ancestors lived. biden will later

be the guest of honor at a banquet at saint patrick's hall in dublin, cas western australia is bracing for one of the most powerful storms there in a decade. cyclone issa has gathered strength over the indian ocean. it's expected to bring damaging winds heavy rain and abnormally high tides residents, 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 explore dubbed juice is the e 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, he concealing extra to destro 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 to purchase 3 mysterious i see 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 warm enough 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 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 explore jupiter's other moons to which may also boast several layers of water. to do this, the probe will repeatedly fly past them. make observations with the health of its 10 states 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 take measurements of ganymede seth aside, and this will reveal whether ganymede has an ocean of liquid water and locate any areas of interest. mental sandra to 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, we wouldn't wear on jupiter's moons will be most likely find evidence of life. that will also be a task for subsequent missions. for you are not programmers, whom garish juice will spent 4 years exploring jupiter and it's moon's uncovering as many of their secrets as possible. and some sports is for you now at the monte carlo. tennis master is russian de near med, yet have made light work of his italian opponent lorenzo. so nago to advance to the round of 16. 0, the new milva dave's 1st match this year on clay was a walk in the park in monte carlo medley day of has started 2023, all strong, winning for hard court title so far this year. and with this 636 to

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