ah ah ah, this is d w. news live from birth to potentially more polish fighter jets for you, cried warsaw asks berlin for permission to send some soviet designed 5 digits to your friend. germany says its answer will come swiftly, also coming up tensions linger in the seas around taiwan, off to china's military exercises. china says it will now close in the area north

of taiwan to ships due to the possibility of folding rocket debris. camps after by jing said it would be imposing a no fly zone in a similar area. also coming out right in new crime and around the world are the images of an alleged war. cry. footage on social media appears to show a russian soldier beheading a ukrainian prisoner of coming up, drafted by the mouth, russia overhauls its conscription law, making it easier to recruit soldiers and nearly impossible to dodge the draft. ah and anthony howard walked into the program. poland as applied for formal approval from berlin to deliver mig 29 fighter jets to you crime. the german defense ministry has confirmed to d. w. fall and received the jets from germany in 2002 and now requires german

permission to send the fighter jets on. the plants were previously owned by the former east german government. last month, poland transfer, transferred rather for soviet built make 29 fighter jets to keep becoming ukraine's 1st ally to do some more on this. let's speak to d. w corresponded hands. brandt, how is the german government hands likely going to react to poland request? well, we have a 1st official reaction just confirming that this request has been received. and in addition, the german defense minister was currently in west africa. and molly had said to today that the german government will announce a decision during the course of the day today. and so that means within the next few hours, and there is a report from one major german newspaper today, the quoting government sources as saying that there will be approval from the

german side for this re export of the jets to ukraine. so it seems very likely that germany is going to prove this, that jets that used to be a part of the east german communist governments, air force and within, taken over by west germany. when the 2 countries merged that these are now going to end up in ukraine. but we must say, these are plans that are 30 years or older. pretty much at the end of their useful life. and poland is trying to replace those planes with the new planes from south korea and the united states. so it is a major decision, but it is not likely that a well, it's not, it doesn't mean that at the most modern plains are being sent to ukraine. germany is previously ruled out sending father jets to ukraine. hans, but i did say that about delivering battle tanks that eventually became a yes. so is there an element of surprise that the wheels of the gym government appear to be turning much faster this time?

well, i think what one must say is that very likely the 2 governments have been talking about the re export of those plans in the background for some time. so that germany is not surprised by this form request from the publish side. in fact is able to react very quickly as we have heard. so i think a repeat of the kind of in fighting between poland and germany that happened in connection with the export or the delivery of man battle tanks is not repeat that this time. and as i said, it's a very old plan that we're talking about delivering modern western plains, such as the ones that germany is an f was using at the moment. that's a completely different kettle of fish discussions about that. i'm sure the german government would say, would have to be discussed in detail with its allies, especially with the united states in germany. what not to take such a decision on its own. but at the same time, there is some pressure now to keep on increasing the armament center ukraine,

because we all know there is a major offense from the carrying inside expected. and ukraine is looking for any weapons that can get the w political correspondent hands front. thank you so much. okay, let's take a look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world. the south . north korea has fired its 1st intercontinental ballistic missile in a month. launch triggered a scare in northern japan where residents were told to take cover. there turned out to be no danger. miss r 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 nationwide strike to protest president amendment kings pension reforms. unions have urged a show of force a day before an expected constitutional court rolling on the locality of the reforms. the governments draft pension law seeks to raise the retirement age from

62 to 64. you as president joe biden as meeting with the irish president on day 2 of his visit to the republic of ireland. he would like to hold talks with ireland prime minister with ukraine high on the agenda at the president's residence by them signed the visitor's book saying he reflected the honor on returning to the home of his ancestors. china has said it will ban 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 emergency crews and civilians are taking part in an annual exercise, simulating emergency scenarios like miss al strikes and chemical attacks. badging held 3 days of drills around taiwan last week. sitting nerves on edge. it comes as germany's 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. we're richard. good to see, help us make sense of this announcement. are we seeing the beginning of a taiwan blockade, or are we just a little jumpy? and this is something little su yet, well, it will have to see how these days play out. but, you know, china is indicating that this announcement is about, you know, a space launch and isn't for you 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 suppressed and sighing when, when she was in the united states with the u. s. speaker of the house of representatives, kevin mccarthy and 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. 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 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 very sensitive region. and this will comes as german 4 minutes to an a book begins a major visit to china where she is expected to also rise this. yeah, 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 tie one very much present in everybody's mind. and in fact, before she even left their book spokesperson was talking about, you know, germany being very concerned about the tensions in the taiwan 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 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 would say is 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 kong 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 didn't out 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 equity 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. a ye crime says it is opened a war crime investigation after 2 videos emerged online, appearing to show russian soldiers beheading ukrainian prisoners of war. footage has drawn international outrage. the kremlin described the video as awful, but rise questions about its authenticity, adding it would conduct its own investigation, wanting 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. it has more infamous 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 pis scoff, said the images needed verification, joe and louis page. 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 gem, kenya, latham 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 volota mused. lensky spoke of systematic terror by russian forces and demanded consequences was 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 a probe into the video of correspondence in keith met his billing a has been following the story force. i asked him earlier to walk us through the 2 videos that have shockey grant. oh, 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 hot, after hitting a mine, and bodies lying around. and these bodies are without, had 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 on this, these video, this video does not show is not as graphic as the one that we've just talked about . this one is really terrible. those soldiers alive in the beginning, and he is be headed alive, or if the video takes place in a word of forest trees around the trees are green. so that points to this video having been filmed sometime during spring summer, early autumn last year. um. 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 is beheaded is wearing a ukrainian uniform and the soldier who is beheading 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 a reputation as being extremely brutal. who said that he recognized some co signs and codes of the bargaining unit, but that's as far as 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 who is shopping off the, had, he's masked. the government in keith is saying it's investigating these incidents 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 they're horrified. they're shocked. it's really a terrible sight to see. and 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 more 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 callings love over in. so all of these videos, of course, they reinforce the reserve 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,

legibly correspondent with his billing and keep thank you to a development now that could signal that moscow is struggling to secure the manpower need for its war in ye crank rushes, parliament has signed off on an overhaul of its conscription law, the changes make it harder to dodge a military call up and about 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 blood. 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 got it 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 with disposable. 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 . if the in le dick told them, would buzz more because i'd scare the shilling him and because that's 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 believe 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 maintained that all of these changes would not apply to the current conscription wave which ends in mid july. now, despite the kremlin insistence,

it appears that most russians believed that the ne reforms will lead to another wave of mobilization. i asked a doubly, russia correspond uribe shadow. why? while a people in russia generally have very little trust in this state or sir, it is. in addition, the kremlin has broken its award before a year ago. you remember, president putin said that only professional soldiers would be sent to the so called special mil to variation. that's where this coin estie of war steel called. but the newly drafted will be given or would be given as the opportunity to sign a contract with an 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 the news of the law change,

or caused great concern in russia when searching. this is an example of birth. when searching on the internet. the number one question is, how to transfer my property to my wife. all of this is not good for putting domestically, considering that presidential lectures will take less blessed, blessed, next year, looking at domestically the bill was only posted on the dumas with website a few hours before it was passed. was this a rush job. busy was the kremlin, afraid some way of the public reaction or there is obviously a strong political will behind it. let's put it this way. some men piece admitted that the didn't have any chance to even read the text of the bill at what the obvious or russian needs men who are capable of handling weapons and have experience on the battlefield. or the reason is, as of 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 strategy in its war against you? crime. so some military expert see, of course, moscow's move as an attempt by russia to sent a warning, a signal to the grand and it's west and pardon us. everyone is talking now about the counter offensive. all the ukrainian armed forces at the battle for back more 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 model. if you want, we can call up hundreds of thousands of man. so we can also mobilize hundreds of thousands if necessary and send them to the front. they doubly rush correspond the gere brochure. thanks so much. now, to some more world news headlines,

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