ah ah ah, this is d w. news live from building pensions linger in the seas around taiwan after china's military exercises. china says it will now close in the area north of taiwan to ships due to the possibility of falling rocket to bring it comes up to by jing said it would be imposing a no fly zones in a similar area. so coming up outraged, and you cry and,

and around the world of images of an alleged war, cry footage on social media appears to show a russian soldier the heading a ukrainian prisoner of pool. so on the shirt, drafted by email, russia, overhauls. it's conscription laws making it easier to recruit soldiers nearly impossible to dodge the draft. plus the european space agency is set to launch a probe into space. it's on a mission to jupiter, to investigate the gas giant and look for life in the oceans of one of the twins. ah, i'm anthony howell. welcome to the program. china has announced 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 the same area. on the island of murray, see,

cruise and civilians are taking part in an annual exercise, simulating an emergency scenarios, likeness, all strikes and chemical attacks. i jing hold 3 days of drills around taiwan last week. sitting nerves on edge. it comes with germany, foreign minister and alena burbock arrives on a 3 day visit to china. for more now i can talk with our d. w chief international editor richard walker, which is good to say help us make sense of this announcement. are we seeing the beginning of a taiwan blockade, or are we just a little jump in? 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 tie, once 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 a traffic in this re sensitive region. and this will comes as german foreign minister. and alina, a 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 books. it also in taiwan itself, there are emergency preparedness drills, taking place to taiwan, very much present in everybody's minds. and. and in fact, before she even left bareback spokesperson was talking about germany being very concerned about the tensions in the taiwan strait. explicitly calling on china to de escalate. 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 were

saying. 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 there boxes, it comes 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 peabo? yeah, so i mean, there's a lot of diplomatic travel going on between europe and 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. they ended up doing completely the opposite. my call said in an interview during that visit to, to some journalists 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 accurate distance between the 2 sides on taiwan? so babble will be going in there. 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. international editor, richard ford. thanks so much. okay, let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. this, our north korea has fired its 1st intercontinental ballistic missile in a month launched triggered a ski in northern japan lou residents were told to take cover, though there turned out to be no danger. the miss are flew a 1000 kilometers before landing at sea south where his military has called the move a. what grave provocation. french unions are staging a new nationwide strike to protest president a man mall cross pension reforms. unions have urged to show a force a day before an unexpected and expected rather constitutional court ruling on the

legality of the reforms. governments draft pension laws seeks to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. you as president joe biden has received a warm welcome in the republic of ireland, a place he describes as part of his soul. he stopped off at the shops and restaurants in undock, a 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, castle western australia is pricing for $1.00 of the most powerful storms there in a decade. psycho and ilsa has gathered strength over the indian ocean. it is expected to bring damaging winds heavy rain and abnormally high tides residents. they have been stalking up on the central supplies all leaving for evacuation sentence. you, francisco, it's opened of war crimes investigation after 2 videos emerged online,

appearing to show russian soldiers beheading ukrainian prisoners of war. the shocking footage has drawn international outrage. the kremlin described the video as. busy awful, but raised questions about its authenticity, ukraine's foreign minister, the metro to labor, didn't condemned russia on twitter, describing it as worse than isis, a warning to our viewers. now this report follows contains material rather that some my 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 place. 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 a champion years later mortified poor with them. and then we could have a pretext to check whether or not this is true, whether it happened immediately. 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 p u security service said on wednesday. it had opened a probe into the video. and we can go now to keith where they doubly correspondent mathias billing is standing by force mathias. this is pretty bone chilling stuff and there's another video of what appears to show further executions also circulating. now on line, walk us through if you can, what these 2 video show. let's start with the other video that was not in this report or the other video appeared a few days earlier. it shows a miniature vehicle overturned, probably after hitting a mine and bodies lying around and these bodies are without hands. the has to have

been seemingly or chopped off. they have been beheaded. it's quite possible that they are, it's quite probable also that they were beheaded the bodies were beheaded, and not the people the soldiers while they were still alive or the we can not know this because this is a video where another troop of soldiers discovers them. and it describes what they see. so um this, this video, this video does not, is, this is not as graphic as the one that we've just talked about. this one is really terrible that soldiers alive in the beginning. and he is be headed alive or in the video takes place in a words or forest. trees around the trees are green. so that points to this video having been filmed sometime during spring summer, early autumn last year. and so it's not a recent video. that's a what we know,

we do not. we cannot see from the video where exactly it is taking place to we know mathias, anything about who might be behind this video. so the, so joe was beheaded is wearing a ukrainian uni. and the soldier who is be heading him is wearing a russian uniform. we hear people talk and there is one a wagner defect, or one defect of this, or private military company that is seen as extremely brutal. that sir has reputation as being extremely brutal. who said that he recognized some cold fines and codes of the bargaining unit, but that's as far as all that we have. so we cannot say with certainty where this was filmed, and when, and by who and who are the people they're, the soldier was chopping off the, had his masked the government in keith is saying, it's investigating this incident as war crimes. mateus the latest addition to a,

a growing list, including places like butcher. what does this type of violence due to a nation? everybody you seen that video says that there horrified, they're shocked. it's really a terrible sight to see and her. this is not the 1st one, it pretty much fits into what people are, are feeling here about the invasion. it pretty much fits into the story of walked the trail of all crimes that we have seen since the beginning of the russian invasion, boucher and other videos of prisoners being executed. there has been one ah, quite recently actually were a prisoner was shot after our colleagues love over in. so all of these videos, of course, they reinforce the reserves that society has had in reinforced the conviction that a russian occupation would be cruel. and that the nation has to withstand this

occupation, and this attempt to invade their country, notably correspondent with his billing and keep thank you. while the videos have renewed criticism of russia's brutal tactics on the battlefield, to talk more about this, i'm joined now by sharon while she's an associate professor of international law at the american university of paris. could that be with us? i wonder based on what we've seen and heard, is there any doubt in your mind that this constitutes a walk run? yeah, so a key turn sure to happen to mention lation of demand more. so a, just the question is, who is responsible for so on this sponsor for this will be the person did.

but then the question is, when i teach an official order from someone huh. and then you can have a response, the higher and chain of command, a commander is the in it say, you know these practices and do not do anything to tell them they should be a. 2 motion, but of course it can be also a soldier and doing a hobby house we found in the iris. and so, since inviting ukraine, russian leadership as shown little respect for international laws or even the ones that signed on to so short of the perpetrators turning themselves in how do you bring these people to justice?

yes. so again, well, the specific ad that i know now if this is column by russian leadership, because when you had such true asked or you don't have necessarily any interest of saying that you know them and that you love them. so perhaps even be children irrational, 30 and to present you doesn't what name a pro like then upon you know, bills those children who are doing you just act like this is a perhaps to irrational position and a new ways that we've heard that didn't trillion started an investigation into this, and then of course we'll train or any other state just had to his diction over this kind of work crime. but of course you need to arrest the printer cater. this is at a company and i, i know as me even also the ac seem inches in bitterly international driven

occurring. but again, international coming out point is dealing with really high, high level of responsibility or higher in the chain of command. and this kind of, as if we can have more of them and to show that this is a plant, then it could be easier to, to argue. then it is with the knowledge of the higher of the leadership. they do not do anything to prevent torture against prisons. so in the absence of any effective instruments, to hold these people to account what's to prevent more war crimes from happening in ukraine. you know, now what we have is simply to think, how can we have a diplomatic solution to us? because no who in the response who is designing the situation, the concept today is russia and you're not the security council and the of the united nation. anybody who is supposed to vans and to took to still

the commission. oh, great. and to restore peace and security. but that is in this situation and listen to this issue because it is completely random. and we had russia presiding at some point, been extraordinary situation led, you'd never seen something like this that presented in st on the security. cancer president is actually under an arrest tor and for crimes by age, a national, true or so, you know, a jewel might say, and just it's too easy, a big company. good. now to prevent further as a nation, any mind you, i would hope to have a kind of a diplomatic solution from the american university in pers, cheryl while, thanks so much for your time. thank you. now

staying with the ukraine of conflict and a development that could signal that moscow was struggling to secure the manpower it needs for it's war. if it marshes parliament has signed off on an overhaul of its conscription law, 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 rushes, 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 zulu, is the bluetooth. so those, those who repeatedly do not report for duty and i 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 really 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 by registered mail or electronically via the general civil register with which most russians have an account or with this possible i. as a result, it's no longer possible to ignore a draft notice you born. yes, the usa. these changes mainly affect compulsory military service, get this, but it doesn't rule out expanding it to those who might be mobilized in the future . athletes in la g told them would buzz marginal because i'd scare 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 just a matter only the defense ministry doesn't seem to be planning a new active mobilization. instead at once 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 in yet 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. right now, to some more world news headlines,

prison authorities at one of ecuador was most violent, giles said they found 6 inmates hanged in their cells. relatives of prisoners have been gathering at the prison gates in the port city of y, a kill hoping for information. it's not clear if the did prisoners were gang members, would or in jails have long been plagued by violence and over crowding. the 2nd lawmaker from the us state of tennessee has been reinstated millie 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. the supporters marched on in memphis after a local commission reinstated cuz the u. s. state of indiana. thousands of people have been evacuated after a fire broke out at a plastic recycling facility. official say, negligence caused the blaze. a health warning is in force. i've

a smoke which could be toxic now the european space agencies, jupiter probe, is set to launch in about an hour's time. the icy moons explore dubbed juice is the essays biggest planetary mission to date. it's designed to answer some tantalizing questions too. like could be, i think crusted oceans on one of jupiter's moons, be 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 their juice will need a lot of momentum. and that will means 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 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 the ice 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 extraterrestrial 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 crust? how deep is its ocean, and what is it made of? that's what juice is setting out to discover. and it will explode. shoop, it says other moons to which may also boast several layers of water. to do this,

the probe will repeatedly, i passed them, making observations with the health of it's 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 pray, has ever orbiting the moon of another planet. an instrument co developed in berlin will 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. middle standards, municipal thing with juice, we will explore conditions to see if life could have evolved and also to find out another way to look when we're on jupiter's moons will be most likely find evidence of life. that will also be a task for subsequent missions of pure math programmers who are not rich, useful,

spent 4 years exploring jupiter and it's means uncovering as many of their secrets as possible. and before we go, some good news for potter hits, the famous harry potter series is heading to streaming television on a brother. this discovery has announced a new television series based on the beloved booked by the j. k. rowling. the series is part of the company's plan for its revamped streaming service called macs formerly known as h b o x ah okay. his reminder of the top story we're following for you at the south. china has announced it will ban ships from waters north of taiwan on sunday due to the possibility of falling rock of debris 5 on claims. china wants to impose

a no fly zone in a similar area. edging said last week at held 3 days, drills round top one last week, rather. see me lighting targeted strikes and a blockade of the island that it views as part of its territory. and that's open. now coming up next focus on europe to look at how rushes volvo, aggression has changed the lives of people in ye credit. don't forget for more you can always head to our website to be found. the d, w dot com. and for social's, the handle you need is at d w needs. i'm asked me how to, how to use it with

or oh, there's is the story of many ukrainians before rushes invasion. marta and siri had trained as volunteers for emergencies. since the beginning of the war, they have been in combat even fighting directly at the front.

a d, w. enter the complex zone with sarah kelly. my guess this week on conflicts on was one of the most prominent members of russia's well connected power. a former kremlin advisor, an economist sergey gloria now was a professor of economics and provost at theone scope. his work illuminates how authoritarian regimes like, quote, survive. how does he assess, put his grip on power? on 60 minutes on dealing with guardians of truth, i have paid almost every price of feature in this country like to

a key taking on the powers that be. they risk everything, john dunbar, meets activists, journalists, and politicians living in exile. they were tortured. they lived for their mission. what drives them? people need to know what is happening there. are series guardians of truth watch now on youtube. d. w documentary ah, with. this is focus on europe, i'm laura by the loa. thanks for your company. the reconstruction of one of europe's holy landmarks, the notre down cathedral in paris is in full swing.