ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin. federal agents in the us arrest the suspect alleged to be at the center of a massive intelligence leak. a 21 year old member of the and national guard is in custody to be charged under the espionage act he's believe, to have shared classified documents, reportedly, to impress friends in a chat group,

plus germany's foreign minister alina bab hawk acknowledges. china is an important partner and calls on by j to use its influence on moscow and help and the war in ukraine. also, coming up for decades, finland has carefully positioned itself between moscow in 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 gather as welcome to the program. and we saw the united states where the f b, i has arrested a suspect over the leak of classified documents, connected among other things to the war in ukraine. their 21 year old member of the massachusetts and national guard is accused of sharing highly sensitive information with members of an online chat group. their circulation on social media has exposed

military secrets from ukraine and diplomatically embarrassing details of u. s. espionage activities. arrested by a team of federal agents. the suspect 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. he'll now face the full weight of u. s. justice. to day 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 into custody earlier this afternoon without incident. the documents reveal top

secret pentagon intelligence about both allies and adversaries. but perhaps most concerning for u. s. officials or the classified files about the war in ukraine. us defense secretary lloyd austin, said his department is launching review of intelligence, access, accountability, and control procedures. but you as president joe biden, who is currently on a visit to the republic of ireland. great. was came to play down, his worries over the potential fallout. and are you concerned about the length of time to go? oh, i got a minute. i want you to lock the ladies. i'm concerned that you haven't contemporaneous this is the boston court house, where the alleged leeker is to appear on friday. but while the main suspect may be in custody dozens more documents and their explosive content may yet come to light

. i asked the w is security corresponding thomas sparrow. what else was known about the subject? suspect drama? well, he was young that as a, as a start. and he was described as someone who had worked as a sort of i t specialist within the intelligence wing of the massachusetts national guard. and that probably explains how he was allegedly able to access that classified information according to people who knew him, who had maybe been with him on some of these online forums where the documents were leaked. they described him as someone who had possibly carried out a stupid kids mistake and who was basically just trying to inform some of the members of those groups about what was happening in the real world. however, us intelligence officials are investigating whether they may be a more troublesome side to the,

to the suspect. and the suspect is now obviously facing charges under the u. s. espionage act for what authorities are describing as a possible deliberate criminal act. now, as we've heard a president joe biden said he wasn't too worried about it, but it's also been called the most damaging leak since edward snowden or what has the real fallout actually been so far? when we talk about the fallout, i think the key word there is trust because the whole idea of these classified documents is for intelligence agencies, but more broadly, also with allies to be able to discuss information without that information being then open to the public, open to be discussed elsewhere. so when it comes to the fallout when it comes to what u. s. officials are trying to achieve is trying to reassure allies, for example, when it comes to the issue of u. s. spying abroad, that the trust is still there and they're trying to limit some of the damages. now

you mention, and as i think particularly important, the edward snowden leaks a decade ago. and if you compare the fall out, then 10 years ago with a fall out now in particular, the reaction coming from european capitals or other capitals around the world. i would certainly say that the fallout now is less. you may remember the outrage that was cause a decade ago after the leaks by edward snowden capitals, including right here in berlin with then chantelle angler merkel saying that spying among friends is unacceptable. we're not seeing that kind of reaction now, at least not open, at least not openly when it comes to some of the u. s. is closest allies and now they've also been filed in the league indicating that western special forces of them members of nato military operating ukraine. what's the political implications of that? are obviously some of the details there are still not known because of the highly classified nature of that possible operation of that possible presence. but what we

can say for sure is that that may reinforce certain narratives around the war in ukraine, in particular, russia narrative, stressing that they are not only fighting against ukraine, but that they're also fighting against nato. so it will be interesting to see also as more details i revealed about these and other issues, how all the different countries, all the different players positioned themselves when it comes to, to this particular case of the special forces, allegedly participating in the war in ukraine to w political correspondent, thomas barrow. thank you. thomas. germany's foreign minister on a lena bear book has held high level talks with a counterpart, chin gung in bay ging the to discuss china's tensions with taiwan bridges, human rights record, and the war and ukraine. china and ally of russia now said will not supply weapons to moscow. burbock said that no other country has more influence on russia than

china. and she called on bridging to exert this influence on the kremlin to bring the worn ukraine to an end. is as good as he now i think it's 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 position so far hasn't included calling on the aggressor, russia to stop the war been hated, didn't cheek to stop, and for more on the german 4, mrs. visit to china are now joined by our chief international editor, richard walker, richard a, based on their statements. oh, far apart of the german and chinese foreign ministers on the issues of russia's war new cray yet well, i mean both of them, of course, saying that they want to see the war come to an end. but in terms of the emphasis and in terms of the tone and some of the substance, quite substantial differences we're, we just heard from an alina burbock, a pretty strong statement. they're saying, we're okay, it's great. the you brought out, you know, china brought out what it called,

this position paper on ending the conflict recently met. but why didn't you say that? that the simplest way to end this conflict is that vladimir putin. erm should pull out his troops, given that it was russia, of course, that started this war for his part, chin gang, the urban counterpart, as said, chinese foreign minister and what he rehearsed pretty much a russian talking points about one aspect of the was it is basically talking about the idea, the security is indivisible, that this is, this is a talking point of the russians, and that we have to recognize the security interests of all parties. this is essentially a drawing attention to russia's accusation that it was essentially forced to, to launch this invasion, met by a perception of threat from the west. but i think that there is something that i think barbara will be quite happy to have heard from chin gang. you just mentioned it. there had gerhard about talking about what supplying weapons there are concerns

in the west that are china might be planning to supply weapons to, to russia may already even have supplied was so called dual use goods that could potentially be used as form to weapons and very clear words from chin gang from the chinese foreign minister here on weapons exports. we have a responsible position. we will in future supply, no weapons to parties of, of the conflict. and we will monitored. you will use goods in accordance with the laws. i think you can expect an alina burbock are to want to hold china to that in future. now what do i taiwan then? yeah, well of course, a big difference is on taiwan and chin gang pretty much rehearsing what we would expect to hear from the chinese position saying that china, taiwan is our core interest. we won't give up one inch of our territory. and alina bear, bog, trying to make the point that, while china argues this is simply an internal matter, she says, no, it's an international matter. and it's

a matter of particular importance for big trading nations like germany because of the huge amount of trade that goes through the taiwan strait. so making the case that it is not simply a matter for china to deal with that there's international concern about stability being protected in the taiwan strait that happens to for the national editor, richer walker there. thank you, richard. now boris, me out of it is a member of the german bunder stock for bare box green party. it is also the vice chair of the german chinese parliamentary group and i asked him if the german 4 messages foreign ministers message rather was clear enough. ah, the message on alina bell send was clear enough in my terms. it's clearly said, or she clearly said that europe stands together. european union is together in a strategy on rule of law and together on market issues. so if you want to access

an answer and make trade and business in european union, you have to deal with all 27 together. and this is a clear message to be ging to the communist party. there cannot be a selection of friends. there's only one european union. well, but the unity is not so great last week, french president, but my call made comments of suggested europe should not get dragged into an escalation between the us and china over taiwan. does he have a point? is the us really trying to provoke china? i don't think so. if you look under trade relations, taiwan has become one of the top 20 economies in the world. the dependence on chips on electronic devices is high. so she clearly made the point of a clearly made to point it would be devastating in china would go in aggression towards taiwan. so our interest in the european union is common. i heard the french

president same statements, but i see him in the position with 26 partners. so, having a stand point of view in european union is one thing by dividing the countries is another thing i see, you know, divide between paris and berlin. but the confusion you can see no. okay, i'm babble is and just the latest in a line of european politicians who have travelled to, to china in the past 6 months, which just mentioned my call. put all these trips with all those different messages do more harm than good. you think it is important to be in touch to be in communication. we have had an era of free trade relations among the world. so it's important to be among the top countries, the largest economies in well to be in discussions. and of course,

we need more pressure on moscow to end up this aggression ukraine. still, people are daily dying every day, and we see aggression horrible crimes happening in ukraine. and it cannot be left alone that a permanent member of the security council is not aligning internationally and condemning the situation. any aggression in the world is a danger for the peaceful relations of trade of people. so if beijing is interested to be part of the free world to be part of this economic situations, then it should put pressure more pressure on moscow to and this aggression and to, and this criminal behavior of mr. pooty. now, more general terms, that the idea of german foreign policy towards china for the, at least for the last 2 decades, was to help democratize countries like russia or china through corporation and trade. was that a bit naive? you think? well, today it looks like to be a to have been a,

but it was without alternative. people that made trade do not make war. that was the condition. so today we see maybe we have missed out a point on this. we have to look on the values as well. so we look into criminal activities like mister putin is doing with his aggression. and we say this cannot be, you know, ignored. if we follow international rules, then we will condemn aggression. if we don't follow international rules, we lead to flow from for any aggression anywhere in the world. and this cannot be an interest of countries that have a free trade situation for me as to which they're a member of the german parliament for the green party. and the vice chair of the german chinese parliamentary group. thank you very much. thank you and have a nice day now the one ukraine has had wide reaching effects on europe's security infrastructure. finland decided to join nato,

which led to the alliances border with russia, doubling in lex. until last week, there were 5 nato members that shared a 1200 kilometer border with russia or its enclave. coline grad. those were norway, sonia, last year, lithuania and poland. now finland's jointed shares a whopping 1300 kilometer long border with russia that's bigger than the borders of the other 5 members put together. our correspondent shoals reports now from the finish, bought a town of e matter on how the countries, the country plans to keep nato's new, northeast and flank safe. ah, as to 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, access into 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 believed, perhaps half a russian forces normally stationed along the finish 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 rushes to the finish border and crossing, also out of finish border. and you know, we couldn't manage those numbers. and 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 a mattress, but that was before the kremlin launched war on ukraine. and now we don't have a look for ability for that anymore. and that's why. so we have fought everything differently on short nato. and that's why why ah, it so, 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. there's 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 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 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. officials fall that report and we can cross over to terry right now, who's standing by at the finish board station in march right now, listening to that your report, terry, you get the feeling that people really are afraid of rashanda there are definitely more nervous than they used to be and what changed their, their belief that russia would not attack finland. there was this special relationship is the war in ukraine. ukraine is another neighbor of russia, and finland simply decided that the kremlin could not be trusted. that you just don't know what russia is going to do, and i hear that time. and again, we're,

we don't believe they're going to attack us, but we can't be sure. and that's why they're taking these additional measures on the border. now, with this fence with additional security footage, it's not just for the soldiers as the potential for soldiers to come, as i mentioned. it's also for these other hybrid tactics of possibly using migration flows just to try to unsettled the population here. now this friends is only some 200 kilometers along with to lose more than a 1000 kilometers open as it is now below the fins. going to solve this issue that's true. and what i was told is that the way russia tried to do this before is that they literally sent a buses of people to these crossing points and try to try to push a lot of people that didn't have the right paperwork and so on. across the border, now behind me you can see this, this wooded area. it just gets thicker from here. so officials believe that by

reinforcing the the main border crossings, it's very unlikely that any large number of people could manage to get across in this heavily wooded area where there aren't roads. for example, the finished government official. i spoke to yesterday, said if russia wants to try that, good luck to them. now russia has always warned nato not to move closer to his borders and know that frontier has just gobbled up. we'll need to be able to defend wanted surgery in case of an attack. well, the good thing that nato gets with finland is a country that had planned to cover this entire border to defend this entire border by itself for this foreseeable future. because finland never intended to join nato . so basically finland is ready to manage this with its own forces, a very large army. basically, every male is a reservist and is as well trained. so nato actually gets more secure. it believes by adding finland to it's to the alliance because the finland is already ready to

cover this border. now what finland gets, is that just in case of the worst case, you know there be 30 other countries who would send reinforcements. but finland is considered a security provider and not a net taker. and so it's really considered a win win for both finland and nato in this situation are corresponding to schultz that reporting from the finish russian border. thank you. you're watching the w still to come. the pandemic allowed shocks in thailand to thrive, but now the human south back on the beaches and how the country has struck the right balance between protecting wildlife and reviving tours. but 1st, let's have a look on some other news from around the world. north korea and that is confirmed that a test it, it's the 1st solid fuel intercontinental ballistic missile and released this video

allegedly showing the launch experts. a thursday's test is a meaningful advance at building a nuclear arsenal, with a reach to hit targets in the us. the 1st plane, carrying prisoners from yeoman's war has arrived from rebel held sana landing in government controlled as part of a major prisoner exchange. the hootie rebels and the saudi led coalition agreed last month to free nearly $900.00 detainees. the u. n broke a deal is being managed by the international committee of the red cross. lawmakers in the state of florida have voted to ban abortions after 6 weeks. the new rule makes exceptions for cases of rape incest, or health risk to the mother 6 weeks into a pregnancy. many women hadn't even realized that there are pregnancy nation republican governor rhonda santas has signed the bill into law.

cyclone ill sub has hit north western australia with the strongest sustained winds . the country has ever recorded ill sa landfall. as a category 5 storm on friday morning, before weakening as it moved inland. densely populated areas have so far escaped major damage. and we go to thailand, next home our white, sandy beaches and crystal clear waters, the setting attract tourists and on 50 lea island also sharks. during a year's long break from human visitors, had maya bay high numbers of black tip reef sharks have made the bay their home. the area was made famous the world over that it became the backdrop for leona. leonardo dicaprio is moving the beach. but now the tourists are back for about 4 years. my abbe looked pretty much like this, mostly empty of people, and

a prime spot for black tip reef sharks. a 100 to a 160 a day in this quiet, sheltered coral reef cove. thai authorities had closed excess in 2018 to mitigate the effects of tourism. and then the pandemic hit, keeping people away even longer and allowing the sharks. they're obviously not the jaws variety to flourish. oh, so now what with what was called a limited reopening in 2022 limited as in $375.00 visitors per hour, and no one allowed in the water over their knees, plus no boats, docking in the bay project my a bay shark watch says the shark numbers are down by 3 quarters from their recent peak that's not unexpected and considered, well, ok. we're hoping that we owe with the restriction in place, we can mitigate this service on them. and now we're doing this research in hopes

that we can find ah, the best way for tourism and the environment to coexist. yeah, the have to save it. if he wavered, let people go so it will destroy it. definitely. so i really appreciate the, the way that the close the beat for the swimming probably does. because to save the nita barring another intervention, environmental stewards, no. this space will remain a tourist destination. but if the coral reef is now safe and $30.00 to $40.00 sharks still come here each day, it can still sort of be a win win each actually going to bring new ah tourism scheme as well. and are we going to benefit from that overall? so we don't talk about, you know, closing everywhere or reducing the tourism number, but i think we're talking about minutes in it wisely. as the tourist numbers to this famous beach hold to about 4000 a day. the research and

a black chip reef sharks can continue, because now there are at least several dozen a day to track and that's it from me and the new scene. for now i'll have an update for you at the top of the hour. do not go away global $3000.00 dissolved next to and they're looking at how is 60 percent increase in teenage pregnancies during the pandemic as affected south africa. and of course, for a lot more news and allow analysis, you can always head to a website, d, w dot com. i'm gab office in berlin from me and the team, thanks for watching. ah, ah, with

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