the universe and the rest that were series 40 to the answer, almost every thing this week on t w ah ah, this is d w. news. my from building pensions linger in the seats around taiwan after china's military exercises. china says it will now close an area north of taiwan to shifts due to the possibility of falling rocket to bring it comes off to beijing. said it would be imposing a no fly zone. in a similar area. are coming up outright in ukraine and around the world i. the

images of an alleged war footage on social media appears to show a russian soldier the heading, a ukrainian prisoner also in the showed the european space agency is set to launch a probe into space in just a few minutes. it's on a mission to jupiter, to investigate the gas jive, and it will take you live to the ah . m, anthony howard walk into the program. china has announced it will band ships from an area north of taiwan on sunday. due to the possibility of falling broke a debris. taiwan claims china wants to impose a no fly zone in the same area. on the island emergency cruise and civilians are taking part in an annual exercise simulating emergency scenarios like miss al, strikes chemical attacks. i gene held 3 days of drills around time. one last week

said the nerves on edge. it comes as germany is foreign minister, and a lena bear book 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 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 launch 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 learn to blockade. or if, if you wanted to launch an invasion against taiwan, sort of 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, 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 race and regions. and this all comes as german foreign minister,

and alina, a book begins a major visit to china, where she is expected to all surprises. yeah, that's right. so. so this is the backdrop, very much overshadowing of their books visit. also in taiwan itself, their emergency preparedness drills, taking place to tie one 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 position. 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 their books

is it becomes just days after french president among mccaul was in beijing, he was accused of being overly friendly with the chinese. the optics are so important. he 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. ended up doing completely the opposite. my call said in an interview during that visit to, to some journalist 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 they need 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 we not

have we have some kind of an equal distance between the 2 sides on taiwan. so babbitt will be going in their band boxes 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 editor, richard ford, thanks so much. ok, let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. north korea has fired its 1st intercontinental ballistic missile in a month launched triggered a scare in northern japan, where residents were told to take cover, or they turned out to be no danger. miss al flew a 1000 kilometers before landing at sea. south korea's military has called the move a grave provocation. french unions are staging a new nation wide stripe to protest. president manuel michaels pension reforms. the unions of urge to show a force a day before an expected constitutional court ruling on the legality of the reform governments draft pension league draft pension law rather seeks to raise the

retirement age from 62 to 64. you as president joe biden is meeting with the irish president on day 2 of his visit to the republic of odd. he will later hold talks with islands prime minister with ukraine high on the agenda at the president's residence on zine to the visitor's book saying he reflected the honor of returning to the aunt of his ancestors. ukraine says it's opened a 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 awful, but raised questions about its authenticity. ukraine's foreign minister dimitra qu labor condemned russia on twitter, describing it as worse than isis, a warning to our viewers. now, the report contains material that some may find disturb.

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 under 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. joe and laura napoleon, 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 in years later or more truthful with them. and then we could have a pretext to check whether or not this is true. whether it happened, emily and if it did wear, and by whom it was done, ukraine's president followed him years lensky spoke of systematic terror by russian forces and demanded consequences. building him 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 set on wednesday. it had opened a probe into the video. now the next few minutes, the european space agency will launch

a pro bound for jupiter. it's the longest range mission ever been looking at live images now from europe. spice for intro in french, diana, the i see moods explorer, which is on board dubbed juice is the, the essays biggest planetary mission to date. probe has a long journey ahead. it's scheduled to arrive in 2031. now as we a white launch, a study that scientists hope this mission will send back the answers to some tantalizing questions like could the icing crusted oceans on one of jupiter's merge 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 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 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 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, shoop, it says 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 will reveal whether ganymede has an ocean of liquid water and locate any areas of interest. middle school 100 minutes in bidding with juice, we will explore conditions to see if life could have evolved. and also to find out another way to look we're on jupiter's moons will be most likely find evidence of

life. that will also be a task for subsequent missions through or not programmers who will not reach juice will spend 4 years exploring jupiter. and it means uncovering as many of their secrets as possible. for more on this, let's now welcome derek williams from our d. w. science team. we were hoping derrick to be showing everyone alive. lawrenceville now seems like that's unlikely or at least postponed for now. is that right? well that's apparently so, i mean the, the launch window for this particular flight is, is very, very small. and as i understand it, it's actually going to be only really kind of more or less one second to day, between now and the end of april after that they would have to then if, if they were had to post on the launch even further than that the next opportunity would be sometime the summer and the reason for that there is a reason why it's so so small, which is that which is that the,

the dynamics of getting this probe all the way out to jupiter on time, the way that they want to do it, it has to hit a series of sort of sling shot maneuvers that they call gravity assessed fly by. so it's, it's going to be having to orbit the orbit, the sign, and it's gonna have to hit the gravity well, of earth at a very particular time, have to hit the gravity. well, a venus are very particular time. so the timing of it is absolutely essential to get it right at the very beginning, right. i can see now on those live pitches that with the weather is closed in i think the of the official announcement was saying that there's a lighting risk. and so, loading cryogenic material into the rock a was a great risk at the moment. it now seems like tomorrow is, is the next window for this rocket will get confirmation of that shortly. but let's talk about what it's going to do tomorrow, because this is still an incredible mission about what's in front. let's talk about the juice explorer. why is it such an important mission? well, this is, this is really a mission that's going to give us of the 1st glimpse of stuff that really 1st in

depth look at stuff that we just cotton glimpses of from previous missions to, to jupiter with for example, the juno mission, which is, is still out there, it's going to allow us to look beneath the surface of these particular satellites and these moons of jupiter. and on the surface we can see ice, we see ice. but we don't know whether or not down below the surface, deep down below the subsurface. whether that ice might actually be in water form in liquid form, which is as we know, one of the prerequisites for life we expect it and that's, that's what's what experts expect. but we're not sure. and that's one of the things that this mission would actually pinpoint and, and, and, and tell us, we're not sure, but i mean, what are the possibilities? what chances are they were finding bought, or old, or, or whether they're, they're really great actually because jupiter is a gigantic planet and it, and it exerts a huge gravitational poll and so it, so these,

these moons are being pushed and, and pulled all the time. and that does things to them internally, geologically, it heats them up, and so the farther down you go inside a geologically active planet like that, or actually in this point, at this point, a moon like that, the warmer it's going to get. and so i did, experts are pretty certain that that, that, that water, liquid water is there. so many failure points as we know with the launch that's now been post spine because of lightning. we were hoping to show the live, want you to the so many points of 5 years now. got a long, long journey to get there. and what of the chances of success in actually getting that have how well, how good agencies like the e s. i know of executing missions like this. well, i mean, they're confident they've sunk billions into this project and just put space flight is a dangerous gamble. i mean, there's a, as you said, there's a lot of stuff that can go wrong. but in general, i mean the journey that this, that the spacecraft is going to take is going to be 8 years long and,

and then the mission will go on for another 4 to 5 years after that before it finally ends up on the surface of ganymede ploughing into the surface of ganymede sometime in the mid twenties, thirties. if you're asking me to, we know that we'll get there. i can't tell you any more than the experts of a 2nd at a 2nd, but it's certainly worth attempting, isn't it? absolutely, it sounds like science fiction. let's hope it becomes science. fact, eric williams from date of the science team. thanks so much. all right, now to some more world news headlines, western australia is pricing for one of the most powerful storms. they're in a decade icon. ilse 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 the central supplies, or some have been leaving for evacuation. second law maker 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 with forced out by the republican control body. they support his march dement this after a local commission reinstated p. s u. s. state of indiana. thousands of people have been evacuated after a fire broke out at a plastic recycling facility, official se negligence caused the blaze. health warning is in for service smoke, which could be toxic and poland has applied for formal approval from berlin to deliver. mig 29 fighter jets to ukraine. the german defense ministry confirmed to d. w. poland bought jets from germany in 2002 and now requires german permission to send the fighter jets onward. the planes were previously owned by the foreman, east german government. last month,

poland transferred for soviet built make 29 fighter jets to keep becoming ukraine's 1st ally to do so or for more on this topic. let's speak to d. w political correspondent hands brent hunter. good to say. how is the german government likely to react to poland request? there has been a 1st reaction from the german defense. minnesota currently is and marley and west africa. he said today that germany is likely to decide today on whether or not to approve this export of mic $29.00 jets from poland to ukraine. i think that means that it's basically germany has already made a decision. and i think i suspect the decision is likely to be positive. in other words, germany is likely to approve or the re export of these dates to ukraine. that has got to be seen against the background of the fact that poland has already sent a something like 8 jets of this kind to ukraine. other countries within an hour to

align such as slovakia have also sir said that they will do this or have started to do this. there's also some messaging from countries such as finland and netherlands that they might repair to st. jets to ukraine. so the german government, it seems likely to approve this, but that does not mean that germany itself, from its own a fighter jets or would center jets to ukraine. that's something that has not been talked about recently. yeah. hands, germany's previously ruled out sending fighter jets to ye crime that he'd say that about delivering battle tanks are my next question was going to be, is this a hard no, that would eventually become a yes my question to you. is there an element of surprise at how quickly this response is presumed to come? yes, there is an element of surprise here, and i think it basically means that the governments have been talking about this in the background for some time. now. a hard know from the side of germany. no,

i think one cannot say about anything, any delivery of weapons to ukraine at the moment that there are hard knows. but germany has always said that in delivering major weapon systems such as the whole discussion about main battle tanks. it's going to coordinate it's policy very closely, especially with the united states. and the united states have been very cagey at the moment about sending jets fighter jets modern fighter jets to ukraine. so that discussion is going to go on. but at the moment we're talking about jets that are more than 30 years old from soviet era production. nothing that is really up to scratch as it were in the west and the lines. so at the moment, sending those straight seems to be no problem, but sending more modern jets from a western production. i think that will take a longer time to decide. political correspondent hands brunt, thanks so much to a development. now that could signal that moscow is struggling to secure the man

pallet need for its war of aggression in ukraine. russia's 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 lulu is going to slow blows. 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, the vision and may neither register a business nor borrow money. do you agree? 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 with as possible. 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 . leslie at the in la g, told them what it was 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 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 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 maintain that all of these changes would not apply to the current conscription wave which ends in mid july and on some sports now and at the monte carlo, tennis masters russian. then ill, mid vet,

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good shape. the 2 last met in march at indian wells where it was made with dev who picked up his 7th when over sphere. now some good news for potter 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 j. k. rowling. the series is part of the company's plan for its revamped streaming service called macs formerly known as h b. i max and before we got his reminder about top stories that were following for you, this out. the european space agency has postponed the launch of a probe bound for jupiter. due to bad weather. i see millions explored up juice is the a sized biggest planetary mission tonight. and poland has applied to full formal approval

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