ah, imagine the impact you and your friends can have together we can end global hunger . please download the app. ah, this is d w. news live from berlin. germany appeals to china to put more pressure on russia. german foreign minister alina bab walker acknowledges china as an important part and calls on beijing to use its influence on moscow and help and the war in you. also coming up federal agents in the us arrest the suspect alleged to

be of the center of a massive intelligence. a 21 year old member of the air national guard is in custody to be charged under the espionage. he is believed to have shap classified documents reportedly to impress friends in a chat group. plus for decades, finland task carefully positioned itself between moscow and the west. now it's part of nato's front line with russia. fins living near that border are suddenly facing a much more threatening neighbor. ah, i'm good. how about his welcome to the program? germany's foreign minister angelina burbock has arrived in beijing and is held high level talks with her counterpart, chin gun, the to discuss beijing. tensions with taiwan, the war in ukraine and human rights issues in china. bear book is scheduled to meet

with other chinese officials on her 3 day trip, including the vice president and the top senior foreign policy. diplomat burbock called on beijing an ally of russia to exert influence on moscow to bring the war in ukraine to an end is as good as soon as it is a good thing that china has signaled its willingness to work towards a solution here that i have to say frankly, that i wonder why the chinese positions so far haven't included calling on the aggressor. russia to stop the war. been hated, didn't cheek to stop for more and the germans for a minister's visit to china now joined by a correspondent, vibrant freshman begging auntie w's chief international editor, richard walker. here in berlin, fallen, let's start with you. or the press conference has just finished anders. understand what message did burbock sent in that press conference to her chinese counterpart?

i think there were 2 core messages. one was about the one ukraine m no book has said that on the one hand or she thinks it's good that china's in general is showing some willingness to m, solve the crisis. but on the other hand, she said a rather frank statement. she said, i have to wonder why the chinese position so far has not included a calling on russia, the aggression aggressor, to stop this war. that it's really quite a frank statement and it's a clear request to towards china, to put more pressure on russia or to help. and this war. and 2nd issue is taiwan. she has said that em any are unilateral or violent change, of the status quo is unacceptable. and is also a red line for germany in europe. so she said, this conflict must be solved peacefully. richard are based on their statements. how far apart are the german or the chinese foreign ministers on the issues of taiwan and ukraine? yet we're, if we just here, we're just fabri unmentioned. there it is pretty clear that there is quite

a bit of distance and we, we just heard from far beyond what angelina barbara said with respect, for instance, to taiwan. that this is very much germany is concerned that the impacts on trade would be devastating if there were a conflict cross the taiwan strait or chin gang. her chinese counterpart simply saying this is our current core interest. we won't give up one inch of territory. and on this question of ukraine, we just heard of fabiani quoting analia bedbug, there was a pretty blunt message. you know, this is putin's words up to him to end it. chin gang, repeating the chinese position, which is close to a russian talking points that you have to recognize the security interests of all. otherwise, you only end up in conflicts and was essentially saying that the implication there being that russia was somehow forced into this war, or by a feeling of threat from the west. a farmer. and we've been talking a lot about what the europe wants of from china. what does china want from europe?

yeah, i would say um, china is basically 3 big goals. one is to continue business as usual. they want to keep the trade relations with the european union, a trade relation that is actually becoming more and more imbalance. i mean, the trade deficit has basically doubled in the past 3 years or so. i mean, so it's basically in favor for the chinese site. the 2nd thing is they want to prevent any trans atlantic or solidarity. they don't want to have. yeah. brussels being closer to washington. and the 3rd thing that they also want to prevent is that the european union will find a unified critical strategy towards china. they rather want to divide each countries and deal with them by literally that richard, there have been a quite a few european leaders traveling to china and reason days, namely, president markov france and there was certainly mixed messages. louise, who more right now europe, china or the other way round?

yet we're, as we've just heard from family, i think he summed up very well what, what china are kind of wants from europe and basically for things to kind of get back to normal business to get what humming again is their primary interest. but of course, from the european side, they have this very specific ask. they want china to lean on vladimir putin to stop the war in ukraine. and the big question is, is china going to do that? there's a lot of speculation about whether this will actually, since china's interest to some extent, by making russia even more dependent on that relationship. so that's the big ask that the europeans are coming with. and so far, there's not a huge signal from the chinese that they're really going to, that they're going to comply with it. what happens to from the national course editor richard walker and our correspondent, 5 young trach mother. thank you very much to the us now where the f b, i has arrested a suspect. oh,

the leak of classified documents connected among other things to the war. and ukraine. 21 year old member of the massachusetts and national guard is accused of sharing highly sensitive information with members of an online chat group. so, circulation on social media has exposed military secrets from ukraine and diplomatically embarrassing details of us spin art activities. arrested by a team of federal agents. the suspect, an employee of the united states air force national guard is accused of leaking a trench 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 are 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 for you. 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 get a little about the ladies. 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 costed a dozen small documents, america close, if content may yet come to light, the w corresponded amounts if is in washington d. c. and he told us more about the suspect, but he's very young just 21 years old. probably just had his 1st legal drink of alcohol here in the u. s. a. he was in airman, at the intelligence wing of the massachusetts air national guard. that's a branch of the air force and out that is the 3rd lowest rank airman 1st

class in the air force a very low ranking. and he was able to leak hundreds of pages of classified documents on to a channel on discord where he was somewhat of a leader on a gamer, chat, chat, a group. and a lot of these people on the website that he was on were very young as well. this stressed in interviews to 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 it 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 did abuse. i'm yeah. see the in washington dc. now let's have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. lawmakers in the u. s. state of florida voted to ban abortions after 6 weeks build . a new rule makes exceptions for cases of rape incest, or a health risk to the mother 6 weeks into a pregnancy. few women realize that they are actually pregnant. republican governor rhonda centers has signed the bill into law north korea has confirmed that it tested its 1st solid fuel intercontinental ballistic miss up and released this video, allegedly showing the launch experts say thursdays tests as a meaningful advance and building a nuclear arsenal with a reach to hit targets in the us. germany has given the green light for poland to send 5 soviet era fighter jets to ukraine. also needed berlin's permissions to

send the planes on to a 3rd country because they are craft came from the former east german air force. but germany is not planning to send any of its own fighter jets to ukraine. now the war in ukraine has had wide reaching effects on europe security infrastructure. finland decided to join nato, which led to the alliances border with russia, doubling in length. our correspondent terry schultz reports now from near the finished town of emma tra, on how the country plans to keep its border and they tossed north east and flank 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 and i 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. it's 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 out of 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 here, 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 worry about the future of versa, 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 you 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 defense there wouldn't really matter if they would come to the tanks or it 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 that's it. from me and the news team for now don't go away. coming up, steve bits the, he has all your business and an update on germany's plans to partially legalize cannabis office and berlin from me and the news team banks will i flew time for a brain update because these are orchestra called the brain continuously adapts itself. and so we ask a few as to.