ah ah this is the w news line from bell and joe biden proposed to address the irish parliament. the u. s. president is on a highly personal trip through island, tracing his heritage, bringing that speech life also on the program. germany approved problems request to deliver a stock of soviet era fighter jets to ukraine. and more tension over chinese military

exercises near taiwan. beijing says it will close the see sort of north of the island because of the possibility of falling rocket daybreak and fly. so has already been announced for the site. ah feel, gail, welcome to the program. you as president joe biden has been tracing his ancestral roots in the irish countryside. on the 2nd day of his tour of the republic of violet. u. s. president was welcomed with military honors in the capital dublin. he also rang a piece bell and took part in a tree planting. 70 presidents 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 prophets is due to address the irish

parliament in the next few minutes. we'll bring that to you live 1st so we can join our correspondent rosie birch out who's also in dublin. welcome, rosie i what can we expect to hear while we are expecting eminently the arrival of president joe biden, i can hear a helicopter circling overhead. we've just seen some police motor bikes arriving here, so he is likely about to enter the building. this building behind me, the irish parliament where he will address a room packed full of lawmakers. he will likely talk at length about a irish and american friendship about the history of ireland and us ties. he himself, of course, approach irish american. i think we can also expect him to mention that ongoing war and ukraine. we know that something he has discussed with the irish prime minister at t shook lee over at car and our ireland is militarily neutral. so unlike the united states is not a big military backer of ukraine, but it has been pushing politically, particularly in brussels, for example,

to try and advance ukraine's path toward on its aspirations toward joining the european union. and i think lastly, we can expect into also to discuss and drawn once again the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement that landmark peace accords a signed in 199825 years ago, which put an end to decades of sectarian conflict in northern ireland, that is not only a moment the many here i've told me is worth celebrating, but it's also a real feel good moment in u. s. foreign policy history because the united states help broker that accord. so i think he will definitely pay tribute to those who he says have been keeping that piece and helping to maintain that piece and promote prosperity in northern ireland, where he was before this like of the trip every day since that court was signed on . what's the mood? well, it's certainly a mood of anticipation. there's a whole gaggle of journalists surround me here. plenty of cameras, as i said,

there are, you might be able to hear a helicopters circling overhead. there is a big security operation underway here in dublin. there are some people who are waiting to welcome the president behind me. we have all, including the president himself, been treated to some very changeable irish weather. as you can see now, the sun is shining down, but there are also people around me wearing a rain ponchos because we've also been treated to some a great and don't pours in the last or so. in the speech we have been waiting for more than our it's running a little late, but certainly an air of anticipation and i bet in the chamber behind me inside that building world was lawmakers are waiting eagerly to hear president biden's speech. plenty of anticipated anticipation and eagerness inside too. and how does his visit differ into broader transatlantic relations? well, joe biden is seen by many as really a committed transit lantus. if you remember his predecessor donald trump will under him. there was pretty rocky period in relations between the united states and

europe. so when joe biden was elected, i think probably in washington, you could almost hear the size of relief from europe across the atlantic, leasing in many european capitals. but since jo biden's election, there have been some bumps in the road, most notably recently, there's been a bit of a trade tiff over of flagship u. s. policy to subsidize clean technology. aden, brussels, for example. in the heart of the european union. there's being criticism that that is a sort of protectionist policy that it goes against the spirit of free trade. but there's also been a more of a coming together on other issues, for example, a to a back ukraine against that ongoing russian invasion. so there's been some freight ties, but also some more coming together across the atlantic. i think at this particular speech in this particular city, the emphasis is going to be very much on friendship, not just on broad or transatlantic relations, but particularly on those historical ties between ireland and the united states.

i'm how different is this a visit to the republic of bean compared to his uh, program in the north of ireland and north so job id started this trip to the island of ireland in northern ireland, part of the united kingdom. and it was for the completely different in mood compared to this like of the trick in the republic of ireland. because in northern ireland, the visit was incredibly fleeting. it lasted less than 24 hours. he was barely off of air force one his play before he had left northern ireland. again, he had only one major public engagement, a speech at auster university, which he used to commemorate to celebrate the gains of the good friday agreement. that peace accord, which i mentioned, but as i said after that speech, he basically sped off and many think that is because of the ongoing political situation in northern ireland, which is pretty complex because despite the fact that peace has held under those 25 years across those 25 years into good friday agreement will the institutions it

lays out, most notably a power sharing default government in northern ireland. well that is simply not in function at the moment and that is because of a political stale nate in belfast biting spoke about that. he said he hoped there would be a restoration of perishing but he was keen. it seemed to me feel not to seem or come across as though he was trying to pile pressure a bully, any of the political parties in northern ireland instead. he said, well, it's a judgment for you to make, not me, but i hope it will happen. so they're a bit of a more complicated environment. certainly here on the other hand, he's been ringing piece bells. he has been planting trees, patting dogs. oh old, altogether, much more plain sailing. and i think if you stay with me, it looks like i could see out of the corner here. the president is about to arrive . i can see a whole probably coming into shot, sued in off a whole, a police motorcade, lots of blue flashing light, still helicopters overhead. and what are the anticipation i talked about?

well, as you can see coming into action, no. following up behind these police cars in the distance, i see more black vehicles, more blue light, so they're coming in behind me. fill it seems to be everything is are coming into action. of course these lawmakers inside have been waiting patiently for this. it seems the moment has arrived, the u. s. president is on his way. it seems here at the irish parliament where he's due to make an address. he's not the 1st us president to do so, and he is not the 1st year excuse president, either to claim irish roots and he's certainly not the only u. s. citizen to do so. in fact, there are tens of millions of them and that's why some think this visit to the republic of ireland with these as i said, these kind of style jim moments talking. but ringing bells, meeting with the president of ireland. so on going tracing case routes or something that will certainly ring bells maybe pooh on heart strings with those irish

american voters because let's not forget, they say you as president joe biden, who appears know to be arriving just behind me. well, he is a man who may indeed have one i own a possible future reelection bit. so that something which there's some speculation here, this trip may also be about not just speaking to audience is here and ireland here in europe, but also looking back across the atlantic to domestic audiences and to domestic voters. now i feel, i mean, turn around, i see i don't see the u. s. president yet, but there is a door opening in a car and he may indeed be just about her. i feel ok. and when we're looking at those pictures, as you've been talking a search through veritas, that's the beast. where for us that flag on it, and people have got out of it. so we'll stay with these pictures. so fun out of rosie. i'm and this has been a very personal, a trip, a full,

the president hazard. you mentioned that he's been going into the irish countryside and looking for his roots. absolutely, this is been a personal trip. and also he's basically received kind of a hero's welcome there. have been people, crowds meeting him waving american flags, he has walked around, one of the towns for his ancestors once lived in the 1800s they left from ireland toward the united states. and on friday he will do the same. he will visit another tone where more of his ancestors once lived in their fill. he will deliver another speech in addition to this one that he's about to deliver at the irish parliament in tone of belinda, he will do that outside a cathedral. and we know that that very cathedral, the bricks for it were supplied by one of joe biden's distant, relative to one of his great, great, great something grandfather's um, so that i suppose will show just how personal this is. and when joe biden rang that

p spell at the irish president's residence, he said he rang it, and he said, this is for ireland. hearing it a 2nd time. he said these are for my irish ancestors. and the last time he said, this is for peace. and of course we remember that the reason behind this whole visit to the island is indeed the 25th anniversary of that piece. a court of the good friday agreement, though, here as i said, likely that looked toward the future as well as the past. what he said in his speech, belfast, for example, you said your histories are history and your future is our future. and i think we might hear similar messages echoed here today. there are lots of guests of honor in the parliament behind me. one of them, for example, i understand is to be the ukrainian ambassador to ireland, of course, that ireland and the united states, both political backers of ukraine in it's ongoing fight to defend against that ongoing russian invasion and biden, we also know is amana, often known to quote,

irish poetry or irish prover, it's that something is also done during this trip. so i think you might expect a couple of irish proverbs or quotes to be included in his speech there. and he will be seated in that speech by address, from irish politicians. and you might even hear some of the irish language spoken in, in that parts of the address. as you were speaking, we saw the u. s. secretary of state on the blanket, go into the yeah, the parliament building a quick word as we wait for the president a to emerge. we don't expect him to speak as straight away, but perhaps in about 10 or 15 minutes or so. i'll just remind this roach rosie what we've, what we can expect to hear. so i think the president is going to use the speech to really talk a draw on his own irish american answer. i don't. irish, american ancestry is iris ancestry and to talk about those personal ties and the

political ties. this historic type he has mentioned, for example, in his address is throat is visit so far. he has spoken about the irish people that helped find the united states or help build the united states. he also mentioned that in his address in northern ireland, so plenty of a look back at history of a shared heritage. during his meeting with the irish prime minister t sickly of ross car earlier today, we know he said that he thinks that ireland to the united states share value. so a bit more of that mood of kind of a family reunion or a homecoming that we've already heard. and in fact, he made a joke when he was with the irish president, joe biden said, i'm not coming home. so a suggestion that he feels very at home here in ireland, of course, where he can trace his roots to so a focus on on. but irish american ties beyond that as it is a little bit, it's are ok one ukraine, rosie just because as we're watching these large pictures at the irish parliament i,

we can see what looks like the presence the beast. i think they call it this, that vehicle. i'm a secret service of personnel standing outside the door opens. i'm sorry, we're waiting for the president. we're hoping it is the president. and then here is this president, sir joe biden stuffing out in front of the irish pollard that's being welcomed due to deliver a speech to the artist holidays and about 1015 minutes or so. you watching the w my from bothering the special coverage of this event on phil gail in the studio in berlin and in dublin to have our correspondent rosie bradshaw. and who's keeping an eye on things for us on that this leg of the trip, rosie? very, he's been made to feel very welcome. this is, this has been

a sort of you heathen university welcomed here in the republic where the bed feeling in that north of ireland where he started the trip. that was a lot more mixed. well, as you could probably see via me as a very well, we're welcome here at official welcome, but he's had also a very familiar welcome in other parts of the country where he was a british by crowds, by waving american flags. a real a here was welcome and as i said, a kind of a sense of, of a home coming him evoking his own irish roots. you are right to say that it was a different mood north of the border northern ireland, part of the united kingdom. he his beating a visit. there was very fleeting. it lasted less than 24 hours. he delivered one address. he had a brief meeting with the united kingdom, prime minister, re she soon act, and he, during that speech he was commemorating the anniversary of the good friday agreement. but as soon as the speeches, dansville, he's a sped,

often across the border. and of course, that is probably down to many say the complex political situation to northern ireland, where the power shaking cherry executive has collapsed and there is no functioning devolved. gotten, which means that the anniversary of the good friday agreement is in some ways bitter. sweet, less bitter, sweet and more simply sweet. here in dublin, where the president is receiving aid seems to me a very warm welcome here at the irish parliament. he will sign the guest of honor a book. he will be meeting with law makers. he will deliver that address, proceeded by it addressed by the irish leaders here. and he will afterwards, as i understand, be greeted by in a more informal environment with a reception with some of the irish lawmakers who will have listened to speech and then afterwards will get a chance. as many them i much are hoping to get some actual face time with the president of the united states. and i think that is also the top of mind for ireland. is that through these ties with the u. s, that's a real source of irish soft power that irish diaspora in america. but that's

something that seems to me. the irish foreign ministry takes great care to nurture there are conceal. it's a sort of miniature embassies of ireland all over the united states and various different states that where you will have diplomats going out and cutting ribbons or talking, talking irish sport games for example. so really paying attention to that irish diaspora, united states who i said of course do make up a significant share of voters. ok, thank you for that. so rosie the president is now in the building, so we will let down the speak again after he has spoken for another rosa bradshaw in dublin. thank you so much. so bring that to speech from the american president, to the irish department alive. and when it happens at that will bring you some more of that age new starting here in germany, a german, the german government has approved a polish request to deliver old mig fighter jets to ukraine. poland bought the

former east german aircraft in 2002, but needed permission from berlin to send him to a 3rd country. and germany is not planning to send any of its own at yes to craig as get more from appleton correspondent, simon young out. welcome, simon. so berlin has signed based off. what does that mean? so i think it's about sending a clear message of solidarity to key and showing support for their efforts to defend themselves against the russian invasion. this decision by the burly in government was apparently made on the same day, or at least very soon after poland put in the request to send these megs to ukraine . and the german defense minister has said that that shows you could rely on germany at as part of the alliance of countries supporting ukraine.

so just to recap, the reason why a decision from berlin was needed. these are make 29 soviet designed planes, which poland has a number of some of which came from germany originally when they went to poland in the early 2, thousands. the agreement was, was signed between berlin, a war so of berlin would have final say if they wanted, if the pose wanted to re export them. and that's what's happening here. and you know, they are not exactly the type of equipment that the government in kia would really like to have. they want to more state of the art jets. so they can ward off attacks of from the air. but these will be of some use because they all the kind of planes that can intersect foreign or invading aircraft in the air. and they could make

a significant difference in the ukranian war effort. and was germany position on sending its own jets to ukraine. yeah, well i mean there have been people talking and speculating about the idea of providing more modern up to date jets like the euro fighters, for instance, that the german armed forces have. and i think those conversations and those thoughts are ongoing in some other countries as well, notably the united states. but i think we're quite a long way from there yet. as i say, what makes the make 29 a little bit less controversial from the point of view of german politicians is that they are older equipment. and really they're not suitable for any attempt that the ukrainians might make to launch an attack into russian territory. they can't really be used to project in that way. and so i think the hope here in berlin will

be that this decision to allow these jets to go to ukraine is not as it were to be seen from moscow as an act of aggression. and so that makes it a little bit easier to make this decision about simon political correspondence, simon young is look at some stories making headlines around the world. french unions stating another nationwide strike to protest against their president macros, pension reform plans have been some skirmishes with police of course is that due to rule on the mc galaxy of the changes government wants to raise the retirement age from 60 to 64. north korea, as far as 1st intercontinental ballistic missiles for a month and loans to get a scan in northern japan residents were told to take cover the mis. i'll flew a 1000 kilometers before landing at sea. south korea's ministry has described to move as a grave provocation. so china has said it will ban ships from an area

north of taiwan on sunday because of the possibility of falling rocket day break. i want has previously said that china was imposed a no fly zone in the same area. i was forced is a staging an annual exercise. the simulating emergencies such as missiles strikes and chemical attacks asian previously held 3 days of drills around tie one german, a foreign minister on a line of battle has now arrived in china on a 3 day visit as get more from our china experts at clifford de kooning, welcome cliff. what's china up to? i think what we're seeing here is china is showing us, it's add the range of options that are, that it has at its disposal to put pressure on taiwan. worse, we've seen the exercises this week, which are not about maybe

a rehearsal for invasion, but they are about intimidation. and increasingly, you're seeing suggestions that china could be ready to do a blockade of the island that they could use ships and submarines to stop. trade happening is on the busiest shipping routes in asia, and a lot of ports got the ports on the west of taiwan the could be blocked. and then you've also got the possibility of fears that they could cut the underground cables which carry 90 percent of the data going into taiwan and also to places like that, south korea and japan. so we're seeing all these kind of different options opening up at the moment of the kind of threat the china could, could pose. what we have seen from china is menacing, moves and excuse the vision of a block a. this is for this reason, all these reasons and this reason do we expect that if this escalates that china will finally turn around, say yes, this is a block, a deal with it. i think the, the key word is escalation, as you say. and i think the way it will work is it won't, it's very unlikely that they will come to spell things out. everything happens in

little steps here and there 2 steps forward, one step back. i mean, we're now seeing, we're seeing exercises around taiwan nearly the whole time. and we're seeing all kinds of fresh threats, all these different possibilities that could happen. so well, i don't think an invasion is imminent because i don't think she'd you paying believes that he could win and he won't invade unless he believes he can win. but we are getting a display of all the different options, the china hazardous disposal, and the german foreign minister le bareback burbock is in china just days after the french president was there. i'm still her son of the u. s. a. visiting, do you think that is likely? well, it's interesting in the mon, we're seeing a lot of different european visitors there. we've seen them, burrell was supposed to come burrell, joseph burrell, the you foreign minister, or is equivalent. and he's basically has covered so he can't go. so she's trying to m pick up the pieces from the cross visit last week, which saw

a lot of french president manual in the cross visit where he basically left. i want in the lurch a little bit. so she's trying to pick up the pieces. so as long as europe, it seems to be in disarray in its approach in taiwan. and there's still no sign of the us going there. i think it's quite a confuse picture in terms of the western response. but an answer to your question, i don't think there's any sign that that we will see. se blinkin, antony blink, and the u. s. secretary of state visiting taiwan anytime soon. because of these growing tensions between the u. s. and china with europe in the middle and a kind of a disarray. i thank you for that. clicks of it, colonel china, excellent. thank you. crane has launched a war crimes investigation into a video posted on social media that appears to show a russian soldier beheading ukrainian. prisoner images of prompted international outrage. russia says the authenticity of the footage needs to be established and has opened its own inquiry. here in ukraine. dickory social

media video has brought back memories of the boots or massacre just one year ago. many a saying that this is just the latest example of russia's lack of regard to the lives of ukrainian people. your glucose is needed, this is no accident. this is a video of russia, normalizing the destruction of life in much very much president zalinski called for a moment of silence to honor the slain soldier's memory. united notion 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, keys now claims the list of alleged russian war crimes tops 77000. and they also

include not only murder, not only, not only humiliation and rape, they also include their destroying gulf private property. they include the force deportation. they include the force detention of ukrainians on occupy territories. they include looting on massive scale on the occupied territories and many other war crimes. i would say that practically, there is no, any war crime in history that was not and is not committed by russians on ukrainian soil. you pay and you need called on russia to abide by international law . 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 is

complete disregard of international law and particular international humanitarian law. the kremlin and the wagner group deny that forces involvement, saying that the verification is needed. ukraine security services say an investigation is already underway, as they have to bring those responsible to justice. meanwhile, russell lawmakers have approved a bill making it harder to dodge and military call up and allowing all sources to issue electronic draft notices. the legislation now needs to be signed into law by the russian president. it was sped through parliament as 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 still

here with those who repeatedly do not report for duty. can have their drivers license revoked, least their right to engage in real estate deals revoked militia and may neither register or 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 or with as possible. as a result, it's no longer possible to ignore a draft. notice we have one, yes, the usa. these changes mainly affect compulsory military service, 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 merchant because i'd scare the showing him

and because that's 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 rush as professional army. according to media reports, the defense ministry plans to recruit up to 400000 young men as professional soldiers means yes, the latter, 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 in yet even asked. and it was one more new feature.