katrina, it's something that really is price and mental health gives me no to what i do. the trio combating sheeting dealings. starts april 29th on d. w. ah ah. this is the w news live from berlin. more fighter jets for ukraine. germany approved poland request to deliver a stock of soviet air war plains to bolster keith defense forces also on the program if you were given the poor attempted irish. tom i shaw? well, yeah, i know with joe biden,

the address is the irish parliament heading the close bombs between the 2 countries . beijing says it will close the seas to the north of taiwan because of the possibility of falling rocky day bree. a no fly zone has already been announced for the same area. ah, i'm feel galle welcome to the program. germany 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 them on to a 3rd country. germany is not planning to send an if its own fighter jets to create b, w political correspondence. simon young. explain the significance of the german decision

. 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 berlin 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 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 plains, 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 lin would have final say if they wanted, if the polls wanted to re export them. and that's what's happening here. and you know, they, i'm 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 forward 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 more than 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 mig 20 nines 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 rush and tear it free, 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. a u. s. president joe biden has addressed the irish parliament in

dublin. he hailed the relationship between the 2 countries as a partnership for the ages. the president has been warmly received on his trip and spoke proudly of his irish ancestry. also res, i'm in support for ukraine. this is the 3rd day of his trip to the island of island to mark the 25th anniversary of the good friday peace agreement. during his speech, mister brighton touched on some of the more personal elements of the visit. my good friend, brock obama, is my good friend. his grandfather was a shoemaker like mine, sailed 5 weeks earlier from the same port. the idea they both sale for a new life and thought their grand sure the great great grandsons would both be present. i think it's really a little bit of irish malarkey joiner correspond rosie burgess,

who's in dublin at the parliament at welcome rosie. i mister bon, got the warmest of welcomes there and started off very much playing to his audience, playing up the connections between the 2 countries. absolutely, president biden received a standing ovation, which lasted almost a full minute. he was standing there, decked out in a green tie, green, of course, being the national color of ireland. and he spent a great let a deal of this speech really talking about those crossing and intertwining histories of the united states and ireland, and really identifying himself very strongly with aiden ireland as well. he said we irish identifying himself directly with the audience here. and he talked about our history, yours and mine. he said it's a very much playing on those on those irish american ties. and he spoke about his personal history. his ancestors left ireland in the 1800s during the found that he spoke about them, leaving on what were then known as coffin ships known as that, phil because they of so many people died on them on the journey or across the

atlantic toward the united states. so really personal speech here, and he also made a little that seemed to be a sort of joke about his age. he says he has brought more experience the job of the u. s. president than any other he said doesn't necessarily make him better, but it gives him fewer excuses. and he said, despite that very long career, which he's had of course filled with many different opportunities and different addresses, different speeches. he said, making this speech here to the houses of the irish parliament. what was one of the great honors of his career on the wall in your crime was in that as well. what did he say? absolutely present biden said there is currently waging of a competition between autocracy and democracy and he really praised ireland for its backing for ukraine. now let's be clear island is not any sort of a big military power. quite the contrary, it is militarily neutral. that means it's not part of the western military alliance,

nato, for example, it, it is only been sending non lethal a to ukraine, but biden really thank the irish for that. it seemed like his talking point. some that were almost directly written, perhaps by the irish department of foreign affairs. that's what it sounded like, such a. so he was so so clearly lauding dublin for its efforts. and he also paid tribute to ireland for taking in $80000.00 ukrainian refugee since russia is full scale invasion. but he also talks about other issues. and i think specifically worth mentioning is his mention of the good friday agreement, that landmark p steel site in 1098 that put an end to decades of violent, sectarian caught conflicts in northern ireland. some of the architects of that deal were in the room and the u. s. helped broker that landmark piece agreement. so not only is it something that he wanted to celebrate, but it's also a really feel good moment in u. s. foreign policy history. it seems to me, which would allow him not only to speak to this domestic audience here in dublin,

perhaps of course, to speak to an audience across the atlantic in the united states. because this is a president whose heart seemed very much here in ireland in the room, but whose i may be at least one of them may be across the atlantic, on a potential bade for a 2nd run at the presidential election in the united states. or perhaps part of this trip is also tried to cater and look toward those irish american voters. there are 33000000 people in the united states that lay claim to some sort of irish heritage. and there are only about 5000000 people here in island. so that's a pretty significant share of voters, and certainly some they keep talking, at least in some way to them, as well as these lawmakers here in the irish parliament. i saw rosie rosie bertot in w is look at some all stories that making headlines around the world. u. s. officials believe classified documents on ukraine and other topics were leaked by and,

and national guardsman based of the fort bragg army base leak. expose details of u. s. surveillance of allies and adversaries. federal agents are investigated french unions or staging another nationwide strike in protest that the presidents of pension plans have been some skirmishes with police. a course is due to real on the rule of the legality of changes. government wants to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. north korea has fired its 1st intercontinental ballistic missile for a month. the launch trigger scare in northern japan where residents were told to take cover the massage through a 1000 kilometers before landing in the sea. south korea's military has described. the movers a grave provocation of china has said it will ban ships from an area north of taiwan on sunday because of possible falling rocket day bri. taiwan has previously said that china will impose a no fly zone in the same area. taiwan forces are staging an annual exercise,

simulating emergencies such as massage strikes and chemical attacks asian previously held 3 days of jewels around tie. one german foreign minister alignment babble has now arrived in china on a 3 day visit. get more for latch on expert. 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 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 if this is not a block a, this is for this reason, obvious reason of this reason. do we expect that if, if 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 they're 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 a china hazardous disposal, and the german farm is to unload it. bareback. burbock is in china just days after the french president was there. i'm still no sign of the u. s. visiting. do you think that is? well, it's interesting at the moment we're seeing a lot of different european visitors there. we've seen burrell was supposed to come burrell, joseph burrell, the you foreign minister, or it's equivalent he's, he's basically has covered so he can go. so she's trying to pick up the pieces from the cross visit last week, which saw a lot of french president manuel in the cross visit, where he basically left taiwan 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 and it's approach and 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 we will see

a blinking antony blink in 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. thank you. that's a click of a tune in china. excellent. thank you. and some sad news from the world of motor sports. her islands top rally driver craig brain has died in an accident during testing for the creation around the world. rally championship is team hyundai. i gave no details, but said his co driver. james fulton was unharmed. craig breed made his w. r. c. dave, in 2009, the 33 year old clinched a career best 2nd place in last month's rally of sweden is death is the 1st in the world championships and that of german co driver bashed in 2006. is remind of our top story at best our jeremy has granted permission to poland to

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