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making it easier to recruit soldiers and nearly impossible to dodge the draft. ah, i'm anthony. how'd walk into the program? john has announced it will band ships from an area north of taiwan on sunday, due to the possibility of falling rocket debris. tabano claims china wants to impose a no fly zone in the same area. by jing held 3 days of drills around taiwan last week. said he, nerves on edge chinese forces, simulated targeted strikes and a blockade of the island that it views as part of its territory. camps is germany's foreign minister, and a lena bear, bach arrives on a 3 day visit to china for more. now i can talk with our d w chief international editor, richard walker. richard, good to see help us mike. since of this announcement,

are we seeing the beginning of a taiwan blockade, or are we just a little jumping on this is something less? yeah, well, we'll have to see how these days play out. but, you know, china is indicating that this announcement is about, you know, a space launching is simply about, you know, safety in the region, in cases falling danbury for this. but we can definitely see this is kind of part of the chinese response to this meeting. recently between taiwan president, sighing when, when she was in the united states with the u. s. speaker of the house representatives, kevin mccarthy, or china isn't like political contact between taiwanese leaders and foreign politicians because they say taiwan is part of our territory. you shouldn't be talking to anyone else that's. that's our business. and we saw this a few months ago when, because he's pretty, as in nancy pelosi went to taiwan. they were big military and drills by the chinese around taiwan. we've seen this also in the past week. and the drills that we saw

last week did look like trying to, you know, trying to essentially practice what it would need to do if it wanted to launch a blockade. or if it wanted to launch an invasion against taiwan, so essentially, practicing how it would go about doing that. what we see with this announcement about sunday potentially space launch, whether it's really happening or not. but i think it's interpreted as a signal from the chinese that if you, the taiwanese and the americans keep holding this sort of meetings. this is the sort of response that you can expect. we are going to, you know, we're going to threaten militarily and we're going to mess with things in this region. it's going to make it hard for shipping to go through is going to disrupt air traffic in this re sensitive region. and this all comes as german foreign minister and lena bear book begins a major visit to china where she is expected to also rises. yes, that's right, so. so this is the backdrop, very much overshadowing of bear books visit. also in taiwan itself, there are emergency preparedness drills, taking place to taiwan, very much present in everybody's and, and in fact,

before she even left their book spokesperson was talking about germany being very concerned about the tensions in the taiwan strait. explicitly calling on china to deescalate, talking about the terrifying scenario, the words they use of a potential invasion some time. but we can expect to enforce the job positions. that stability in this area is very important, that there should be no change in the status quo by force i. e. china don't invade . i think what we can expect to hear from the chinese is pretty much what they would say. like this is none of your business from their point of view. you know, this is part of our territory. it's up to was how we deal with it. and bit books is it becomes just days after french president among mccaul was in beijing. he was accused of being overly friendly with the chinese or the optics are so important here. what can we expect from their book yet? so, i mean, there's a lot of diplomatic travel going on between european china at the moment back home was there the president, the european commission was

a lot on the line. was there as well. that was supposed to be a visit that was sort of meant to portray europe with a united position towards china. ended up doing completely the opposite. my call said in an interview during that visit to, to some journalists that, that he was concerned about europe kind of get, getting sort of dragged into a conflict over taiwan and suggesting that it needs to sort of stand back suggesting that there needs to be greater distance between europe and the united states on policy to was try one and china. this cause outrage in many parts of europe saying look how the u. s. is helping here in europe over ukraine? how can we not? how can we have some kind of an equity distance between the 2 sides on taiwan? so babble will be going in that bad book is much more critical of china in general . but the overall picture that we have from europe on china is one of essentially muddle right now. if international it or richard book, thanks so much. living on noun,

ukraine says it's opened a war crimes investigation after 2 videos emerged on line of hearing to show russian soldiers beheading ukrainian prisoners of war. the shocking footage has drawn international outreach. the kremlin described the video as awful, but raised questions about its authenticity, ukraine's foreign minister, the metro to labor, condemned russia on twitter, describing it is worse than isis wanting to our viewers now 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 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 in the 30. 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 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, emily 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 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 the probe into the video, staying with the ukraine conflict and the development that that could signal that moscow is struggling to secure the manpower it needs for its war. if it rushes parliament has signed off on an overhaul of its conscription, will the changes make it harder to dodge a military call up and allows draft orders to be delivered by email? 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 doable here to pull his glove. those who repeatedly do not report for duty can have their drivers license revoked, least their right to engage in real estate deals revoked. well division and may neither register a business nor borrow money. do you good? yes. what do you do? 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 by 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 we have one, yes, the usa. these changes mainly affect compulsory military service of this, but it doesn't rule out expanding it to those who might be mobilized in the future

. leslie at the in la t told them would buzz merchant, but as i said the showing him a bit as upset. some members of parliament saying 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 yesterday that only the defense ministry doesn't seem to be planning a new active mobilization. instead, it went to recruit more citizens as professional soldiers. 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. danielle 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. and russia correspondent, your river shadow is standing by in rig away he's been reporting since doubly was banned front by the kremlin for our coverage of the war. you're good to see. the kremlin has tried to play this down, saying this is merely an effort to streamline rushes, conscription process. so why to so many see this as the beginning of a 2nd wave of mobilization. while a people in russia generally have very little trust in this state authorities, in addition, the kremlin has broken its award before a year ago. we remember president putin sat on the professional soldiers would be sent to the so called special mil to abrasion. that's where this voice

a state of war, steal, called, and russia. but then came the so called partial mobilization last autumn in september. and this time, the authorities say, of course, none of the conscripts would be sent to the front, but the newly drafted to will be given or would be given as the opportunity to sign a contract with the army immediately. that is from day one. and that means that the young men who have just been called up could immediately become professional soldiers and go to the front. and human rights activists have a doubt as to whether such contracts would be always signed voluntarily. so then use of the law change or caused great concern in russia when searching? this is an example of breath van searching on the internet. the number one question is, how to transfer my property to my wife. all of this is not good for put in domestically considering that presidential lectures will take less blessed, blessed, next year, talking of domestically the bill was only posted on the duma web website. a few

hours before was passed. was this a rush job. busy or was the kremlin afraid some way of the public reaction? it is obviously a strong political real behind that. let's put it this way. some main piece admitted that the didn't have any chance to even read the text of the bill. at one reason is obvious. russia needs men who are capable of handling weapons and have experience on the battlefield. and the reason is that the war in which the russian army has not been able to achieve any great success at the same time, put in, is preparing his people for a long war. russia has a lot of people more than 104 or 40000000 millions. but the last mobilization has shown that the numbers alone are not enough. well, 10 soldiers trained soldiers are needed. so how does this all fit then uri into russia's strategy in its war against ukraine? what some military experts see, of course,

moscow's move as an attempt by russia to sent a warning, a signal to a grand and it's west and pardon us. everyone is talking now about the counter offensive all the ukranian armed forces as the battle for blackmore to has not yet been decided. and the russians need at least a remarkable threat if they don't have any remarkable success and disease. this threat could be the change to law, the change to bill, according to the motto. if you want, we can call up hundreds of thousands of man. so we can also mobilize a hundreds of thousands if necessary, and send them to the front. the doubly rush correspondence theory. br shit! our thanks so much now before we get some good news for pot heads, the famous harry potter series is heading to streaming television. warner brothers discovery has announced a new television series based on the beloved books by author j routing series is part of the company's plan for its revamped streaming service called mex,

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