we need to know what is happening, death in our series guardians of truth watch now on youtube, d. w documentary ah ah, this is dw news live from burly federal agents in the us arrest the suspect alleged to be at the center of a massive intelligence lea. a 21 year old member of the and national guard is in custody to be charged under the espionage act. these believe to have shares classified documents reportedly to press friends in a chat group,

plus german foreign minister on a lena bear. bork acknowledges china is an important part number and calls on beijing to use its influence on moscow to help in the war of ukraine. also, coming up for decades, finland has carefully positioned itself between russia 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 glad else as well come to the program. and we start in 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. 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 secrets from ukraine and diplomatically embarrassing details of u. s. espionage 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. he'll 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 sierra is an employee of the united states air force national guard f. b i. agents took to sure and to 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 are the classified files about the war and ukraine. u. s. defense secretary lloyd austin, said his department is launching review of intelligence, access, accountability, and control procedures. but u. s. president joe biden, who's currently on a visit to the republic of ireland, great. was came to play down, his worries over the potential fallout when are you concerned about the, the time to go? we get a minute. you're concerned about the ladies. i'm concerned that he's looking contemporaneously, where 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

eyes, d. w as secure to correspondent thomas sparrow. what else was known about the suspect? 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 you as 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 this is, 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, may remember the outrage that was caused a decade ago after the leaks by edward snowden capitals, including right here in berlin with then chance langler 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, the members of nato military is operating in ukraine. what's the political implications of that? for 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, russian 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 is foreign minister and a lena bear book has held high level talks with her counterpart, sion gun in bay ging the to discuss china standards with taiwan, virginia human rights record, and the war and ukraine. china, an ally of russia, and as it will not supply weapons to moscow, met 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 war and ukraine to an end. just as soon as you can, 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 highlighted in cheek to stop them. i asked the ws chief international editor richard walker, how far apart germany and china actually are on the issue of russia's warn you crime 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 of 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 outward and 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 pipe chin. gang, the urban counterpart, as said, chinese foreign minister and why 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 babel will be quite happy to have heard from chin gang. you just mentioned it there. her gerhard, about talking about we're 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 with 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 interests. we won't give up one inch of our territory. and alina babel 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. and because of the huge amount of trade that goes through the taiwan strait. so making their

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. lit up is chief of the national editor ritual walker there. thank you richard. time now to have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. north korea has confirmed that it tested its 1st solid fuel intercontinental ballistic missile and will, is this video allegedly showing the launch experts say thursdays test is a meaningful advance at building a nuclear arsenal with reach to hit targets in the us the 1st plane carrying prisoners from yeoman's war has arrived in the city of aiden as part of a major prisoner exchange hootie rebels. and a coalition of government forces that is led by saudi arabia agreed last month to free nearly $900.00 detainees. the deal was broken by the way

of the war and ukraine has had wide ranging effects on europe's security infrastructure. finland decided to join, they took, which led the to the alliances border with russia, doubling in length. a correspondent, her shawls reports. now from near the finished town of martha on how the country plans to keep its border and nato's ne them flank safe 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, accessing to nato. and of course, we were waiting for in some kind of reaction that 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, or saw a significant number of immigrants, a pushed by rushes to the finished border. and crossing also also finished border and you know, we would 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 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 on 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 were 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 commonly 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. unless it's from me and the new steam for now, terry martin will have an update for you at the top of the hour. i don't go away though, coming up next. we have a very interesting documentary film on the everyday lives of a group of young c. condos or hyatt associates, one working full mexican drug cartels. highly recommended i got out was in berlin for me and the team. thanks for watching. with the trio, taking on nigerian trafficking that works with for the steward, opened those mounting evidence that nigerian human trafficking enforced the constitution are also taking place here and from school with the trio combat.