through, i'm going to tracy's heritage will bring you that speech law. also on the program, poland asks germany for permission to send more fighter jets to you. credit report says berlin has given the green light for warsaw to deliver it to the 29th international outrageous social media images. a page show a russian soldier by having a ukrainian prisoner war prompting more. i think stations of russian war crimes i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. on the 2nd day of his tour of the republic, a violent u. s. president joe biden has been tracing his ancestral roots in the countryside. the president was welcome to to the capitol dublin with military honors, also ran peace bell and took part in a tree planting saturday cousins trip began in northern ireland,

where he celebrated the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement, the historic deal that ended 3 decades of violence in the north is due to address the irish parliament in the next few minutes. i will bring that to you live. first we can join our correspondent rosie birch out who's in dublin. welcome, rosie. what can we expect from the president's address? well, we are expecting his arrival any moment. no. there's lots of anticipation here outside the irish parliament. he's expected to arrive, walk in, and i'm sure speak to a room packed full of lawmakers. i think we can expect this speech is going to be front and center focused on friendship. the personal political ties between ireland and the united states. that something that president biden has spoken of extensively already during this visit. he really has a sense of real feeling of a sort of home coming almost like

a family reunion here. beyond that and new or political side, i think we can expect the president to speak about the ongoing war in ukraine. other transatlantic efforts to support the war torn country and ireland is militarily neutral. so it's not a big military backer of ukraine on like the united states. but dublin has been a big political backer of keith, particularly in brussels, where ireland has been quite outspoken in terms of trying to advance ukraine's path and aspirations toward joining the european union. a beyond that i expect we will hear from president biden, once again commemorating the gains of the good friday agreement. that landmark, in $1098.00 peace accord, which broadly brought an end to those decades of sectarian violence which claimed thousands of lives in northern ireland. so a speech focused on, on the one hand, the personal and on the other hand, for the political and certainly we expect to a very packed room here in this building behind me. ok, so that speech expected in the next few minutes while we wait for that to tell us

more about what he's been doing in dublin. well, he has been a meeting with the irish president walking outside the presidential residence. he's been patting dogs, he's been planting trees, ringing bells, as he rang not p. spell. he said this is for ireland that he rang it a 2nd time said this is for my irish ancestors. and the last time me rog and he said this is for peace. now he's also been meeting with the irish prime minister, otherwise known as the t shirt lee over at car. they've been talking more about a political issue. so we know they have talked about ukraine, but in that discussion with the irish prime minister, you know, the president biden also alluded to shared values between the ireland and the united states of some of a more of those other ideas that you might hear echoed in this speech of before coming to dublin, president biden explored one of the tones where his ancestors once lived. he was greeted by crowds waving american flags. of course, phil,

let's not forget this might all seem very personal, very familiar. but this is a u. s. president, which may indeed, who may indeed have one eye on a possible bait for reelection. and of course, present biden is not the only american citizen who claims irish american heritage. in fact, there are tens of millions of them. and this may indeed, these nostalgic pictures which relate to see coming from this trip, may indeed ring some bells and pull on some heart strings across the atlantic. while this speech is lightly really directed toward ireland, we will also hear from him on friday speaking in another of his ancestral tones. it called paulina and i think that we can expect that it's going to be more directed toward a domestic audience back in the united states. and rosa, how different has this visit been compared to rich program in northern ireland? to me it seems very different almost like night and day because i was in belfast when the president arrived and it was such a fleeting visit. i mean,

blink. and you might have missed it. he had basically only one public engagement. he made a speech at austria university that was to mark the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement. but then he really sped often across the border. and you might say, okay, well this is the president of the united states is a very busy man, but he's thrown the time to spend 2 and a half full days here in the republic of ireland. so that belfast leg of the trip seemed really to beat bittersweet. and there is plenty of suspicion that is because of the political situation in northern ireland. because despite the fact the good friday agreement 25 years ago signed has given way to a quarter century of peace in northern ireland. built some of the institutions it laid out, most notably a power sharing default executive or they are simply not functioning. and that is don't to an ongoing political stalemate in northern ireland, no president biking address that issue. he said he hopes that the executive will be restored, but he was careful. it seemed to me not to be seen to be pushing or trying to bully any of the political parties there. rather he said he was there to listen. but the

whole trip in that part of the trip to belfast did seem much more bitter suite. of course, a much more politically complicated backdrop as post a here in dublin where the sun is shining down. we've had quite a lot of irish rain as well. and the whole thing seems like much more smooth sailing. i saw rosie rosie bertot and w. and as a say what the u. s. president addresses are as follows. will bring that speech to you live with the rest of the days news. now a report say germany has approved a polish request to deliver. mig 29 german fighter jets to ukraine, a poland de bought the plains from the former east germany and still has around a dozen condition of the original cells at berlin has to approve any re deployment to a 3rd country. poland has already transferred for fighter jets to keep becoming its 1st i'd like to do so. we can get more from a d w political correspondent,

simon young. welcome, simon. what is this decision by burning made? well, i think it's a, it's significant because it's going to be another step in nato support. in this case, germany's support for ukraine's efforts in it, sir, a fight against russian forces. and of course, a key of has been asking for the kind of equipment that they can use to defend their space more effectively for months. now these mig 20 nines are not exactly that they are of course old soviet designed planes. and the fact that they are no longer state of the art weapon systems is, is really the reason why are back in 2004 at 22 of these planes that had been part of the east german armed forces. equipment were sold,

as he said to poland and you know that that is the regional so course why berlin needs to give its blessing for poland then to pass them on to ukraine. so it's a bit of a complicated, so bureaucratic step. but i think if it, if it is eventually confirmed, that berlin has agreed to do this than that of course, sends a further signal of support to key it. okay. and what's a balance position on sending its own jets to ukraine? yes. well, the idea of sending more ob, state of the art more up to date equipment planes in particular are the euro fighters, for instance, that the bond is fair, has that to her is certainly. 3 are not on the cards at the moment. i think a number of the nato countries, including the united states, have talked about it, they, they're looking at it. they're looking at what they can do to accede to those requests

from presidency lensky. for more effective air combat systems to be delivered. but at the moment, i don't think that's happening at the attraction if you like, or the what makes the delivery of mig 20 nines less complicated is that they're really she to bowl for defending against air incursions from russia in this case. and not, for instance, for any attempt by ukraine to penetrate into russian air space or, or to launch some kind of attack against russian territory at the fact that they're not suitable for that, of course makes it little bit easier for german politicians to say, well, ok, this is something we can do it, it's not controversial and won't be seen by moscow as a director act of aggression. and that simon political correspond some young

is locked out. so small store is making headlines around the world will start in france, where unions of stages more nationwide strikes in protest at present macros, pension reform plans, unions us to show force before the court ruling legality of the changes. the government wants to raise them time into age. from 62 to 64. north korea has fired its 1st intercontinental ballistic missile for a month. the launch trying to scare in northern japan where residents were told to take cover myself to a 1000 kilometers before landing at sea. south korea's military has described. the movers a grave provocation of china says 8 will band ships from an area north of taiwan on sunday because of the possibility of falling rocket day bri. i want, has previously said that china would impose a no fly zone in the same area. i ones forces the staging an annual exercise, simulating versus this such as missile strikes and chemical attacks asian

previously held 3 days of drills around tie one german foreign minister on a line a back has now pair bock has now arrived in china on a 3 day visit and i, chief international editor, richard walker. explain what explain to us what this is likely to me yet we're, we're, so the steps announced for sunday 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. 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 we're chinese response to the recent meeting between the taiwanese president saying when and the u. s. speaker of the house representatives, kevin mccarthy, on a visit 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 will, these are the sorts of things we're going to do. we're going to mess with the situation the taiwan strait. we're going to threaten taiwan and try to deter you from taking any more of these meetings. meanwhile, 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 for the overshadowing the visit and babel, cuz already been speaking about this on her 1st stops today, saying that the middle military escalation would be a worst case scenario worldwide. and 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 is none of your business germany. this isn't an internal matter. that's the chinese position to a german foreign ministers of as it follows that of emmanuel macros. just a few days ago, he was accused of being only friendly with the chinese to come. what can we expect from on the light burbock? yes, it is. 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 or potentially by the united states or between the united states and china. and i think by, by bare box from what barbara has already been saying, we can interpret her comments that it does matter to germany. for instance, what happens in taiwan as an implicit rebuke of a manual my call. but if you just look at what's going on diplomatically between

europe and china, at the moment, china's been reopening and european leaders been flocking to try 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 europe 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's chief international editor, richard walker or ukraine has launched a war crimes investigation into a video posted on social media that appears to show a russian soldier, having a ukrainian prisoner images of prompted international outrage. russia says the authenticity of the footage needs to be established and has owned its own inquiry.

here in ukraine, dickory social media video has brought back memories of the beach or massacre just one year ago. many a saying that this is just the latest example of russia's lack of regard for the lives of ukrainian people. your glucose is needed, this is no accident. this is a video of russia, normalizing the destruction of life, and much president polanski called for a moment of silence to honor the slain soldier's memory. united notions says it's shocked by the incident. regrettably, this is not an isolated incident. in recent reports, the un human rights mission documented a number of serious violations of international humanitarian law, including those committed against prisoners of war. this latest violation must be properly investigated. perpetrators must be held to account. meanwhile.