i kind of like a superpower, a 40 to answer, almost everything this week on w. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, does that mean is line from berlin? federal agents in the u. s. arrest, the suspect alleged to be at the center of a massive intelligence leak. at 21 year old air national guardsman is in custody to be charged under the espionage act is believed to have shared classified documents, purportedly to impress friends and

a chat group. also coming up finland has balanced its stance between last cow and the west for generations. now it's part of nato's front line with russia. the w talks to fins living near that quarter about facing a more threatening name for you as president joe biden addresses the irish parliament hailing the bonds between the 2 countries forged by immigration, including that of his ancestors from the emerald isle. ah undergo for it's good to have you with us the f b i has arrested the suspect over the leak of classified you as documents connected among other things to the war in ukraine. the 21 year old member of the massachusetts air national guard is accused of sharing highly sensitive information

with members of an online chat group. their circulation on social media has exposed military details from ukraine and diplomatically problematic realities of u. s. espionage. arrested by a team of federal agents. the suspect, an employee of the united states, a false national guard is accused of leaking a tranche of classified documents led away from his home in massachusetts hill now face the full weight of us justice. today the justice department arrested jack douglas to shera in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information to share it is an employee of the united states air force national guard f. b i. agents took to sure

and costly earlier this afternoon. without incident. the documents revealed top secret pentagon intelligence about both allies and adversaries. but perhaps most concerning fig us officials at the classified files about the war in ukraine. u. s. defense secretary lloyd austin said on thursday, his department is launching a review of intelligence, access, accountability, and control procedures. one but u. s. president joe biden, who's currently on a visit to the republic of island. the law was king to play down his worries over the potential fallout. i am concerned about the length of time to go. we got to live locally. i'm concerned

with contemporaneous this is the boston cult house, where the allegedly co is set to appear on friday. but while the main suspect may being close to day dozen small documents, america, explosive content may yet come to light. w. a correspondent, i mean, s s is in washington d. c. and he told us more about the suspect. he's very young just 21 years old. probably just had his 1st legal drink of alcohol here in the u. s. he was an airman at the intelligence wing of the massachusetts air national guard. that's a branch of the air force. and that is the 3rd lowest rank airman 1st class in the air force. so very low ranking and he was able to leak hundreds of pages of classified documents onto a channel on discord where he was somewhat of

a leader on is a gamer, chat chat group. and a lot of these people on the website that he was on were very young as well. they stressed in interviews through the media that he was not doing this to call attention of the attention of the wider public to the wrong doings of the state or anything like that. it was meant solely for their own eyes. they said that he posted these documents in their group without the intention of spreading one them not to let the documents leave that group. he said he wanted to enlighten them about world affairs, but there was also an element here of him wanting to impress them. so they said that he wasn't a whistleblower in that sense, and he was very afraid that once these documents started circulating outside of the chat group that he would get in trouble. i mean, as if reporting from washington d. c. germany has approved a polish request to deliver old make 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 any of its own fighter jets to ukraine. now the war and ukraine has had wide reaching effect on europe security infrastructure. felons decided to join nato, which led to the alliance is border with russia doubling. and the new member now faces the daunting task of protecting it. to last week, there were 5 nato members that shared a 1200 kilometer border with russia or it's enclave colleen and ground. those were norway, estonia, lot via lithuania and poland. now finland's joint and it shares a whopping 1340 kilometer long border with russia that's bigger than the borders of the other 5 members. put together are corresponding terry schultz

reports from near the finished town of a mantra on how the country plans to keep its porter safe aster, more than a century of self reliance and security. finland now has reinforcement. as the 31st member of nato sharing the alliance guarantee of mutual defense for decades, moscow had warned its western neighbor not to go there. the red light form for the rushes you know, was, are, you know, accessing to nato. and of course, we were waiting for in some con, reaction, and we've seen what, what russia has done in ukraine. so basically, anything is possible, no one knows any more, whether there are any lines. the kremlin won't cross, is believed, perhaps half of russian forces normally stationed along the finished border had been pulled into the war in ukraine. but it's not only soldiers, moscow uses to try to destabilize other countries. there's another tactic it employed several years ago. that bill and wants to guard against it as

a significant number of immigrants are pushed by russians to the finish border and crossing also also finished border and you know, we couldn't manage those numbers. um, however, in all you will never know in all this is kind of a preparation for the future. by this you ha, martelli us means the fence. finland is building along its border with russia near the city of e matter, about 250 kilometers northeast of helsinki. he muttered. mayor mathias hilton says, for decades, city residence did not think of russia as a threat. large numbers of russians visit or live in the matter, but that was before the kremlin launched war on ukraine. and now we don't have a look for debility for that anymore. and that's why, though we have all fought everything differently and short nato. and that's why why ah, it's just so different world than what we were living when a half years ago. no one is sure what that different world will look like, and some fear,

the worst. people who had very clear and plans and no were about the future. so maybe i'll put that off for a year and see how things go, you know, and that kind of thing. so in case what, well, just the uncertainty i think is what it is, because do want to invest and put a lot of money into something and then you know, within a year or so, you know, be that it's under somebody else's control or something. it's like imaginary safety . i think the fin sir, wouldn't really matter if they would come with the tanks or some kind of power. the 3 kilometer pilot project is slated to be done this summer, stretching to 200 kilometers over the next several years. and we can now take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. under of thousands of people across france, join french protests against changes to the pension system. demonstrators occupying

the headquarters of the luxury goods firm in paris and gathered outside france is constitutional court judges, there will decide on friday whether to allow government plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. lawmakers in the u. s. state of florida have motor to ban abortions after 6 weeks. no rule makes exceptions for cases of rape incest, or a health risk to the mother. prohibition takes effect when few women realize that they are actually pregnant. public and governor, randa santas is expected to sign the bill until law o former u. s. president donald trump has been question for hours as part of a civil lawsuit related to business practices at his company. the action buying new york's attorney general alleges that trump and others misled banks and business associates with false information. it's one of many legal cases facing the former

president as he seeks re election in 2024. brazilian president lula da silva, has criticized the widespread use of the u. s. dollar and the world economy during a visit to china. president made the remarks at the inauguration of the next head of the new development bank set up by countries challenging us dominance. lola's also set to meet china as president, she duping attentions flare around. ty wander when he's foreign minister. and alina babel has said, berlin is working with its allies to prevent a further escalation. the book has begun a 3 day visit to china. rochelle whole talks with senior diplomats. she's warned. a regional crisis could have far reaching consequences for the world. china as race tensions, bonding staging, 3 days of war games around taiwan and saying it will temporarily close air and sea

space. burbock insisted on the need to ease tensions and the region would, i know really to and, and military escalation in the taiwan strait. where as i said, 50 percent of economic deliveries go through. that would be a worst case scenario worldwide. but especially for us as one of the largest industrialized nations in the one that's being, that is why we are working with all the partners here in the region, but also with other partners world wide to reduce the tensions in this region to prevent it from escalating further, because it's in our own economic interest, i even with years presidential biden as hailed america's close ties with ireland and an address to the parliament and dublin on his 3 day trip to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement. is that both countries were united and the conviction that better days lay ahead.

joe biden started his day with the irish head of state michael higgins, taking part in a tree planting ceremony. ha o and ringing the p. spell with his irish heritage never far from his thoughts. walmart or it would be the bell commemorates the good friday agreement, which ended decades of sectarian violence in northern ireland. but for the most part, the u. s. president's trip has been a light hosted one, visiting his ancestral home towns and joining the prime minister to watch a youth group play the irish sport of commerce id. and we're very fortunate to have a u. s. president and u. s. administration that takes an active and if not daily,

certainly weekly interest in irish affairs. we're one of only 200 countries in the world. and we're, we're very fortunate that sam were always high on the presence agenda. and under top of mind, when he's dealing with european affairs, that special relationship was front of mind for biden, when he addressed the irish parliament. my good friend, brock obama, is my good friend. his grandfather was a shoemaker like mine, sailed 5 weeks earlier on the same port, the idea they both sale for a new life and thought their grandchildren, great, great grandsons would both be present. i think as really a little bit of irish malarkey with the u. s. president hoping for a 2nd term in office. it's a message, it's sure to go down. well, with the 31000000 americans who claim irish ancestry,

even if it was targeted as irish america at the vote for the upcoming election, it doesn't take away from the genuineness of the actual speech of the sentiment on the last day of his to a bite and we'll meet some of his distant relatives in a catholic shrine and make a speech in his ancestral home town of ballina st. you now for steven weirdly and the business news and an update on germany's plans to partially legalize cannabis. i'll be back with more headlines at the top of the hour of the senior just to w, this award winning offer, which is available worldwide in germany has never been simpler german to go.