williams, outstanding shopping and dining office. enjoy our services all. be our guest at frankfurt airport city, managed by fraud. ah ah . this is d, w is live from ballet in poland. asks germany for permission to send more fighter jets to you crate. or they could give the green light for warsaw to deliver the mig 29th as early as today. also on the program. more attention over chinese military exercises near taiwan. beijing now says it will close the seas to the north of

taiwan because of the possibility of falling rocky daybreak. a no fly zone was also announced in the same area. international, outrageous social media images appear to show russian soldier having a ukrainian prisoner of war, prompting more accusations of war crimes basis. russia, overhauls its conscription laws making it easier to recruit soldiers and nearly impossible to dodge the dr. ah, i'm feel galle. welcome to the program. poland has asked germany for formal approval to deliver mig 29 fighter jets to ukraine. poll receive the plains from the former east germany and still has around a dozen. a condition of the original sale was that the berlin has to approve the plains of re employment to

a 3rd country. poland is already transferred for fighter jets to keep becoming its 1st ally to do so. germany defense minister british restorative says paula's request will be dealt with as quickly as possible or the police are going to proceed. first of all, i can confirm that this request exist seats b major, the chancellor. he's now a consultation with us and all those involved, and we've confirmed that now and will be sent to our polish partners during the course of the day. let's get more from our political correspondent hands brand to welcome hans house, but berlin likely to react to this, that polish request. it's very likely to approve this request. it seems that sir the decision has basically been made and i think one could assume that in the background permanent, and germany have been talking about this for some time and have come to some sort of agreement. and what we are seeing now is basically the public announcement, the public execution, as it were of this process. as the german defense minister has said,

this will be a decision will be announced in the course of today. in other words, in the next 2 hours, that's very likely to be an approval. and in that sense, germany will be in line with a number of its nato allies. apart from poland. slovakia has also sent about for plains to ukraine and has announced that it will send another 9 or so. and finland has talked about the possibility of sending plans netherlands has considered, has said that it is considering this. so it's not as if this would be completely out of line with what the allies are doing. right. but germany itself has ruled out ascending a plains which is interesting, given its position on battle tanks, it refused to send battle tanks in the past. and then that decision change, we like that you see a similar shift on jets. i think what we can say is that in general,

during this war in ukraine, the russian attack on ukraine. there have been a number of red lines that have been crossed, including the one about battle tags that you mentioned. what we're seeing at the moment is the delivery of very old plains, from the soviet area. these plans or something like 30 years old. they're not top technology at all anymore. and what are the politicians involved have been saying, is that ukraine has these plans already is already flying them. so it's not a problem for them to be integrated into the ukranian forces and at the same time delivering these plans will not increase the ukrainian capability, for instance, to attack attack russian territory. if we start talking about more modern western technology jets, the things change very completely that that would be a much bigger step to take if those were to be delivered to ukraine. germany has always maintained that in these decisions that will always coordinate its actions

with those of its allies, especially of the united states. there are some discussions going on within nato and in the united states, to st. modern western jets to ukraine. but this is far from a decision being taken on that. and so it's very unlikely in the near future that germany will send jets of its own to ukraine. i could that hansa political correspondent has brand, is look at the more store is making headlines around the world, south in france, where unions, the staging, more nationwide strikes and protested to present to macros, pension reform plans. they verged to show forth before a court ruling on the legality of the changes. government wants to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. north korea's 5, its 1st intercontinental ballistic missile for a month and launched to get a scare in northern japan where residents were told to take cover massage flu, 1000 kilometers. before landing at sea, south korea's military has called the move

a grave provocation. china has said that it will band ships from an area north of taiwan on sunday because of the possibility of falling rocket day bri. i want to previously said that china will impose a no fly zone in the same area. i was forced as a staging an annual exercise, simulating emergencies such as missiles, drugs and chemical attacks. beijing previously held 3 days of drills around taiwan, german foreign minister on a line of battle has now arrived in china on a 3 day visit. let's get more from our chief international editor, richard walker. welcome, richard. what is china up to here yet? were worth fill. these steps, sir, announced for sunday are ostensibly related to a space launch. but of course, you don't have to do a space launch across one of the world's most sensitive waterways. so i think it is

broadly being interpreted as related to those exercises that we saw. the chinese mounting just just very recently. and those in response where chinese responds to the recent meeting between the taiwanese president saying when and the u. s. speaker of the house representatives, kevin mccarthy, on a visit, i'd say to the united states just recently a china object to any meetings between taiwanese politicians and foreign politicians. and they strongly objected this time to this meeting. so hence, these military exercises, hence what's going on this weekend. and it seems to be a basically sort of singling from the chinese that if you, the taiwanese and the americans is system, keep meeting with these, the sorts of things we're going to do. we're going to mess with the situation in the taiwan strait. we're going to threaten taiwan and try to deter you from taking any more of these meetings. like meanwhile, are the german foreign minister adelina burbock is in china is in china for

meetings with counterparts. there is taiwan expected to come up. yes, very much so, so very much overshadowing the visit and babcock has already been speaking about this on her 1st stops today, saying that melissa military escalation would be a worst case scenario worldwide. and that germany would be especially concerned because it's such an important kind of industrial and trading nation. and we can expect her to, to reiterate the german line, which is the stability is paramount. no changes to the status quo by force. but i think we can also expect the chinese to pretty much stick to their line, that it's none of your business germany, this isn't in internal matter. that's the chinese position. so a german foreign ministers of is it follows that are in manual macros or just a few days ago, he was accused of being overly friendly with the chinese. can we, what can we expect from on a lighter burbock? yeah, it, so me specifically on the issue of taiwan men. when mccoy, in an interview essentially seemed to suggest that time one was really not europe's

issue. and it shouldn't get dragged into a conflict, potentially by the united states or between the united states and china. and i think by bare box from what barbara has already been saying, we can interpret her comments that does matter to germany. for instance, what happens in taiwan is an implicit rebuke of a manual my call. but if you just look at what's going on diplomatically between europe and china, the moment china's been reopening and european leaders been flocking to china in recent months. we had all our shots towards the end of last year. we thought was a lot on the line that the president of the european commission. we've had the spanish leader now, and alina babbled, one of them talking about your needs to come up with a united line on how to deal with china in the future. but all of them emphasizing very different things in the relationship with china. so rather than impression of unity, you get more of an impression of a certain degree of chaos. all the while china becoming more and more assertive as

we've just been seeing across the taiwan strait. i've heard richard dudley w treatment, financial editor richard walker. and you kind of launched a war crimes investigation into a video posted on social media that appears to show a russian soldier beheading a ukrainian prisoner images. have prompted international outrage. rush to assess the authenticity of the footage has to be established and has opened its own investigation. 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 1st law, we need to check the authenticity of this awful footage of course and told her this footage is awful. and 1st, we should check its authenticity a, cham can years later, more to expect poor 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, where and by whom it was done. ukraine's president followed me as a lensky spoke of systematic terror 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 s b u. security service said on wednesday, it had opened a probe into the video. i rush lawmakers of approved a bill making it harder to dodge and military caller and allowing authorities to issue electronic draft notices. the legislation now needs to be signed into law by the russian president. it was fast track, thus the russian military prepares for unexpected ukrainian counter offensive. 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 this possible. as a result, it's no longer possible to ignore a draft notice, even when 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, saint, 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 about 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 in yet even asked than it was when more new feature

a standardized conscripts register with personal data and 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. i u. s. president joe biden is on the 2nd day of his tour of the republic of ireland, and he's been tracing his ancestral roots and the irish countryside. the president was welcomed to a capital dublin with military honors, and he rang a piece. balin, to pass the tree planting ceremony as to biden began his trip in northern ireland, where he celebrated the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement. historic deal that ended 3 decades of violence in the province is due to address the irish parliament in the next hour or so. i'm will try to bring that to you live for. so let's join our correspondent rosie bert chart. who is in dublin.

welcome rosie at walker. we expect to hear from the president when he addresses that the irish palate will. phill, i'm standing right outside the irish parliament and u. s. president joe biden is due to arrive here behind me. he will enter the building unlikely address, a packed room. i think we can expect him to talk a lot about friendship ties between irelands in the united states. of course, he himself talks to his own on sexual ties, his own irish heritage and roots a extensively and he certainly has been during this trip. i think we can also expect some references to the ongoing war in ukraine and cooperation between europe and the united states. to support key if no ireland is militarily neutral. so it's not a big military backer of ukraine where united united states is. but doubling has been providing all to political backing for q in brussels. for example. it's come out as quite a strong backer of ukraine's path toward joining the european union. we know that's

a big goal of keep in the medium term, certainly in the minds of ukrainian officials and beyond that, i think we can also expect present bible to once again referenced the reason why he's on the island of ireland. and that is to celebrate 25 years his deciding of the good friday agreement, that landmark peace accord, which puts an end to decades of sectarian violence in northern ireland. ok, so we've been looking at pictures of him getting caught in rapturous reception that i thought was more about what has been doing. he has been visiting tidings where his ancestors once lived. and in the last few hours he has met with the irish president. both men in their eighties, they walked along outside the residence. he rang a p spell. he wrung it several times. once he said, this is for my irish ancestors. and then he said, this is for peace. we also know he's been holding talks with the irish prime minister t shirt lee over at car,

and they indeed discussed the ongoing war in ukraine. no, president biden willed and come to the parliament here and tomorrow friday he's due to head to another one of the toes where his ancestors once leave, where he will deliver another public address this time outside of the cathedral. no, of course, this is a president, phil with one i potentially on a reelection, a potential announcement of a campaign to run for election for us president once again. note, of course, a present biden is not the only u. s. citizen which, who claims irish american ancestry there are tens of millions of them in fact. so i wouldn't be surprised if we see potentially in a couple of months time, some of the footage from this trip, these nostalgic sites popping up in some sort of a campaign video. he may indeed be selling this, not only to an audience here in ireland, talking about these friendship ties, but indeed to a domestic audience back of the united states. and how different has a visit to the republic being compared to his program. in northern ireland.

what listen to me. it seems like night and day it's all the news here is really bit like a family reunion. a real mood of home comic. we see you being welcomed by the public people burying american flags. but i was in belfast when he arrived at phil, he was barely there before he left. it was really a fleeting visit. less than 24 hours. there was really only one agenda item. he made an address at the university of at ulster university. and i think that's because that part of the trip was really bitter. sweet because that good friday agreement, the blood work please. the court, which i mentioned while it has across his quarter of a century, maintains peacefully the institutions which it lays out they are not functioning properly and not stone to an ongoing political stalemate in northern ireland and president biden said he hopes that the power sharing executive in northern ireland will be restored, but he was careful not seem like he was putting any pressure or bullying anyone

there. so while the theme of that like of the trip was also one of positivity of celebration. well, it was against such a more complicated political backdrop, as opposed to here in the republic of ireland, where it really seems to have been old so far. very smooth sailing. thanks a lot, rosie rosie bertot in dublin. on small world news for you now will start in the us and the 2nd expelled lawmaker from the state of tennessee has been reinstated just in pearson was expelled for taking part in a gun control process inside the chamber, days after school shooting in nashville. and another black legislature were voted out by the republican controlled body. and we were state of indiana. thousands of people have been evacuated after fire broke out at a plastics, a recycling facility of visual se the place could to burn for days. a health warnings in force because of smoke which could be toxic thought is it one of ecuador, most violent jails say they found 6 inmates hanged in their cells. relatives have

gathered outside the prison in the port city of r, y a key. it's not clear when the victims were again members. i could also presence, have long been played by violence and over crowded. western australia is bracing for the most powerful storm for a decade. cycling elsa has gathered strength of the indian ocean and is expected to bring destructive winds heavy rain and normally hide ties. residents are leaving or stopping on essential supplies. german, the defense minister. but as the story says, that germany remains committed to aiding security in africa. saw how region, despite planning to withdraw its troops from molly, german soldiers that you to leave next year, following tensions with mom is ruling genta. instead building says it will expand its military cooperation with a new share. he,

german government ministers arrive in new jersey capital near may, events minister boris historian and development members to spend your shoulda visiting german troops based here germany wants to increase its military presence as part of the new lead military mission, e m. p. m. they will be training and supporting new jazz armed forces. you face a growing threat from islamist violence. when the state got into the office, they are almost insisting that we continue our commitment here. and we are very happy to do that too. because 1st of all, we see that we are welcome and we see that we have an effect on effect. is that the security policies here getting better and better being able to cope with the challenges and deniable, have understood and of adding new jazz is one of the poorest countries in the world. but it is one of the more stable in the ser, hell region. germany plans to pull peacekeeping troops out of neighboring molly

because of differences with the ruling john to that. following that decision, nisha is taking on a new importance from bases particular importance. and so for the moment when we withdraw from molly, because this is where we will focus after the withdrawal from molly, hidden scrapple, i knocked him up to us. molly, the german government has a comprehensive concept of security, not only in military terms, people need perspectives. the breeding ground for terrorists must be removed, says the development minister, who not many people are starving here and we're expecting more famines with the increasing drought that's coming to the region due to climate change. that's why it's so important the where here and we take care of food security and the claim i showed so wants to expand assistance to share more than 50 percent of the country's population is under 15 years old. the country has the highest population growth in

the world lesson with young people at the majority of the population here. and if the youngsters don't have a job, the terrorists will lead them away. lip ira listed in the suv you live. in a troubled region near with its democratically elected government is seen as a relative anchor of stability that for germany and europe and asia has growing importance in the struggle against hunger, terror, and mass migration. into this are russian, a. daniel and medford f has made light work of his italian opponent lorenzo. so negro ivy at monte carlo masters hill now advanced to the round 60 denila melva. dave's 1st match this year on clay was a walk in the park in monte carlo. met with his start a 2023 off strong, winning for hard court title so far this year. and with this 6362

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