ma'am it gives me now to what i do. ah, the true, combating sheeting dealings starts april 29th on d. w with this is d w. news coming to you live from berlin. federal agents in the u. s. arrest a man alleged to be at the center of a massive intelligence leak. 21 year old member of the air force national guard is in custody to be charged under the espionage act is believed to have shared classified documents, reportedly, to impress friends in a chat group. also coming up german, foreign minister,

only in about calls on china to use its influence on moscow to help and the war in new craned beijing promises not to provide weapons to russia, but stopped short of condemning it's invasion of ukraine. ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us, the f b, i has arrested a suspect over the leak of classified documents, some of them relating to the war in ukraine. the 21 year old member of the massachusetts air force. national guard is accused of high sharing, highly sensitive information with members of an online chat group. the circulation of these details 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 u. s. justice. today the justice department arrested jack douglas to sheriff 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 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. u.

s. defense secretary lloyd austin, said his department is launching review of intelligence, access, accountability, and control procedures. but you as 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 lead time to go get the mail? i want you to local ages. i'm concerned that do you think 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. earlier i spoke about this with the w security course on it, thomas barrow. he told us more about the man suspected of being behind the leak.

well, essentially he was very young and also low ranking within the national guard. he's being described as someone who worked as a sort of i t specialist within the intelligence wing of the massachusetts national guard. he was also simultaneously in his private life, if you will, very active in online forums. and it was in one of those, or 9 forums in a forum which is well known within the gaming community that he allegedly published some of these documents that some of the people who knew him in his private life. we even were with him in these online forums said that it was probably just a stupid kids mistake. and that his goal was probably just to inform some of the people in those networks about what was happening in real life. but for us investigators, the picture is a very different one. they're investigating now whether there must be or whether

they could be a more turbulent aspect to this suspect. and at the same time, he is going to face charges under the u. s. espionage act. for what is being described already by us investigators as a deliberate criminal act, thomas, this leak is being looked at as the most damaging of its kind and at least a decade what sort of information has been compromised? well, a lot of information has been compromised from the war and ukraine to activities in the one ukraine in particular, but also us spying activities both on adversaries and friendly countries. i would say that the key word here when it comes to analyzing the fallout, analyzing the impact of this is trust. now you're over, it's obviously clear that these kind of documents, when they are so sensitive, they're not supposed supposed to be disclosed. they're not supposed to be discussed in the wider public. so that's the reason why now that they are being discussed.

the u. s. government is basically trying to limit the potential damage by talking to allies by also trying to understand what has to change within the intelligence community. so that this doesn't happen again from bear standpoint. but you already mentioned previous uh, leaks in previous years. for example, the snowden leaks a decade ago, and i would say that the fallout compared to the snowden leaks 10 years ago has been very different. at least if you look at it from the european perspective back then 2013. the fall out here was huge. even in cities like berlin, even the german chancellor back then anglo merkel, stressing that spying among friends is unacceptable. well, we're not seeing this kind of outrage from us allies, at least not publicly whether there are discussions privately behind closed doors with the u. s. administration that something that we're still don't know. as you mentioned, much of this information pertains to the war in ukraine much the leaked and promotion that the leaked piles are suggest that that western military forces were

talking. nato countries involved here are, are operating in ukraine. what are the implications of that told us? well, they could be very big, in fact, the implications there, but one direct impact, one immediate impact, if you will, as i could change the narrative in the war in ukraine, especially when it comes to the russian perspective. because they have been saying they will probably say this again, now that they are not only fighting against ukraine, that they're also fighting against nato. so it will be very interesting to see how all this develops and how, especially also capitols in the west, react to this information that has been published. thomas, thank you very much for now. that was our security correspond at thomas barrow. germany's foreign minister elena bell box is visiting china. she met with her counterpart, chin going in beijing. the to discuss china's tensions or with taiwan, beijing's human rights record. and the war in ukraine. voc called on china to exert

its influence on russia to end it's war in ukraine. german foreign minister and the lena bear bog on her inaugural visit to china. after landing in the port city of tianjin on thursday. burbock put the tough topics on the table in beijing. the war and ukraine is high on berlin's agenda. bear bought called on china to use its influence with russia to end the invasion as, as good stuff. he knows it, that is good. the china has signaled its commitment to a solution, but i have to say frankly, that i wonder why so far, the chinese position hasn't included a call on russia, the aggressor to stop the war. and it's been highlighted in cheek to stop beijing, which sees itself as a mediator in the conflict reiterated. it would not send weapons to its russian ally, fetching pins regarding the export of military product. china adopts a prudent and responsible attitude. we shall,

china will not provide weapons to relevant parties of the conflict and will manage and control the export of items with potential civilian and military uses, which are in accordance with laws and regulations. another key issue up for discussion tensions between china and taiwan days after beijing stage to war games around the self governing island bare box at an escalation and the taiwan strait would be a horror scenario for the entire world. in response, china said it doesn't allow any foreign intervention on the matter yet. but there are issues the 2 sides agree on strengthening economic and trade co operation . earlier bear, bog toured german companies based into young jin talks with wang ye, china's most senior foreign policy official, our schedule before her departure. sure. while ago i spoke with marina hanker, she is director of the center for international security at the healthy school here

in berlin. i asked her whether ukraine in its allies should be comforted by china's promise not to send weapons for russia to use in its war against you cray. well of course it's good news fact by the way, china has been saying this for a while, and there was an official statement made in march. and as so, you know, like it's not necessarily under the not bad books visit in beijing that day. you know, i kind of cleared that aspect of something that you know like was kind of known them already and before, but yes, in that big picture of things. that's of course good news. do you believe i do believe it. i think ged china knows that the entire global dynamics in particular, europe's role in this war would terry might share escalate in of that, you know, like right now china hopes that still some european countries are willing to,

you know, take a somewhat of a and neutral position in this, the growing tensions in the asia pacific or on taiwan, and not necessarily site with the americans, but you know, like, be neutral or even be somewhat sympathetic to china. and if at china starts actively being engaged in this war, delivering those weapons to rush, i think even most european countries would then say, well, you know, like, we can no longer even support china in other matters. now, germany has australia to use its influence on moscow to end the war in ukraine. do we have any reason to believe that china will actually do that given, let, it has not condemned russia's invasion of ukraine? well, exactly. so, and china has never called russia the aggressor in this war and has never asked any concessions from russia. and so, you know, it's, it's hard to judge how sincere china is in china. the war is depicted as

a war that miss missed and mostly initiated by nato expansion. so it's a proxy war, randy united states fights against and russia. and so in the big picture of things, it seems pretty obvious that china here has a, an, a biased perspective. and you know, like, probably is not the, the most ideal country to be actually any and neutral and negotiator a 4 piece. though the other big issue dominating the german 4 ministers trip door in china is taiwan. burbock warned the dangers of escalating tensions over the island. how likely is it marina that we will see an armed conflict over taiwan? and what would that mean? well unfortunately it becomes ever more likely, of course they're all sorts of dates that are floating around, some speak of 2027 other speak of later. but there are

a lot of folks in this world are convinced that there might be clashes. the big question of course, is, and how big the escalation will be, the united states is ever more firm to say they will interfere and they will protect taiwan or beyond taiwan side of china for example undertakes and lockheed of taiwan. and then, and exactly as a bare book set on her visit, it will, you know, completely shock the world or all you know, like supply lines connecting china and, you know, like europe and also the rest of the world. they will be and broken. and so, you know, like basically for no country on this planet, and, you know, like if they can ignore this conflict, that was marina hank, a director of the center for a national security at the hattie school in berlin. on alina bow, bach is not the only high pri profile visitor in beijing. at the moment, brazil's president louisa. not your religious silva is also on his ignore inaugural

visit to the country. he has met his chinese counterpart. she's in pain. there meeting comes a day after luda criticized the outsider, role of the u. s. dollar in the world economy and lashed out at the international monetary funds. the veteran leftist is seeking closer ties with his countries, most important trading partner. the theme of his visit has been the brazil is back since taking office in january, luda has tried to reposition his country as a global deal broker between the east and the west. the european space agency is launching a probe bound for jupiter. it's longest range. mission ever. this is the 2nd attempt. 24 hours after the original launch was postponed due to bad weather. now we're looking at some live picture saw from europe's spaceport at co route in

french kiana. the icy moons explorer dubbed juice is he says, biggest planetary mission to date. we're hoping to see it take hold any moment now the probe ah, look at that. here we go. the probe has a long journey ahead and it is happening. we've got systems go with see if we can get some audio measures. get a good item and there we go. juice has been launched as a european space agencies pro bound for jupiter. we're seeing it just doing the cutting through the clouds. now. you still see the fire from its engines as it ascends on a very, very long journey. it's expected to arrive at its destination in dublin to join the

30 want scientists. i will send back answers to some tantalizing questions like could the ice crusted oceans on one of jupiter's moons, beaten, concealing extra terrestrial life? people gathered their dignitaries and scientists at the launch site in south america. for more on this, we have our sites correspond, derek williams with us. derek. fascinating. oh. is a reason to be excited about this launch or is this just one launch among many? oh no. this is, this is very exciting. i mean, is there any rocket launch? that's not doing an exciting moment to watch as this gigantic thing is hurled into the sky and into the depths of space. it's, it's really good. it gives me goose pimples. every time i watch it,

and this particular mission, as you just mentioned, it's an 8 year long mission. so we're only going to start to see results from this in the next decade, really. and it's, and it's the beginning of a very, very, very long journey. it's an extremely complicated to put plan and complete, and now it's up and it's going. and so it's crucial. well that, that already is an accomplishment. it's up and going it, it appears to have been a successful launch. it was supposed to have been launched yesterday. this rocket was supposed have gone up about 24 hours ago. why didn't that work? basically, bad weather, the threat of lightning, you know, 3 things have to come together. the prob itself has to be in working well the, the launcher has to be in order, and the weather has to play a lot in yesterday, the weather just didn't play along. it was a threat of lightning at the last minute i was sitting in this chair waiting for it to go up. it didn't go up. and today as we saw, the weather was at gray sky is cloudy. skies have been watching the weather all morning there. there was a thread of lightning today, but obviously not a big enough one that it was able to stop the launch. so. ok,

well it has finally launch. we've got the probe on its way to jupiter right now. it's got a very long journey ahead of it. let's get some more details on this mission. we have a report for you. let's take a look. ah, the jupiter. i see moons explorer, or juice will be on its mission for around 7 and a half years. its destination is jupiter, our solar systems, largest planet, to get their juice will need a lot of momentum. and that will mean several close fly buys of both venus and earth. research is from the german aerospace center in berlin, will focus on 2 pets as 3 mysterious i see moons, which were discovered back in 1610 by italian astronomer galileo, galle order crew. he this flew, the biggest question of all is evil. they can support life because they all have on

the ice ocean in their interior. it's actually warm enough for one of those. the reasons that they can have a water which is the most important prerequisite for the emergence of life europa, the smallest of the 3 moons is believed to be the most likely candidate for extraterrestrial life. beneath its icy crust lies an ocean, which could contain twice as much water as all of us oceans put together. how thick is europe has ice crossed? how deep is its ocean? and what is it made of? that's what juice is setting out to discover. and it will explode. jupiter's other moons to which may also boast several layers of water. to do this, the probe will repeatedly fly past them, making observations with the help of its 10 state of the art scientific instruments . after 3 years juice will enter the orbits of jupiter's largest moon ganymede. it

will be the 1st time a space probe has ever orbited the moon of another planet. an instrument co developed in berlin will use laser pulses to measurements of ganymede, says size diesel reveal whether ganymede has an ocean of liquid water and locate any areas of interest. mitchell's 100 minutes meeting with juice, we will explore conditions to see if life could have evolved and also to find out another way to look worth wouldn't. where on jupiter's moons will be most likely find evidence of life that will also be a task for subsequent missions. true or not for them is who to reach. jesus will spend full years exploring jupiter and it's means uncovering as many of their secrets as possible. so if you just joining us, so the european space agency has now launched it's prob,

headed for jupiter that just took off a couple of minutes ago from the, from the, from the launch pad in south america. derek williams from our science desk is here to talk about it dirt. what makes this an important mission? what does it matter? well, i mean really what you always hear what you hear over and over again about this mission to to these 3 jovian moans, your rope on calisto and ganymede is that they all have ice and where you have ice, you possibly have water, especially on planet or or on satellites there is that close to a giant planet. so yeah, well this geological activity that's going on, so they're, they're warm inside, they're, they're cold and icy on the outside. but underneath that ice, we strongly suspect that there are vast oceans of liquid water. and of course, where you have liquid water, you could possibly have life. it's one of the peak preconditions for life as we know it. so are you pretty convinced and that there is water under there?

i mean, there's liquid it, we think it's water as we know it. well, the experts are pretty convinced earlier emissions data from earlier missions, jr and galileo have, as they, they mapped the surface and we see the eyes. and also with help from some of the, from the space they, st based telescopes, that we have and doing stuff with magneto spheres that, that are involved. and we think that they, that these ice layer icey layers are floating on top of liquid. and so that we suspect that there's water down there, we don't know how we were there could be a huge amount of water down there on europe. in particular, there's maybe a notion 950 kilometers deep. wow. so what are the long term goals of this mission will obviously obviously to, to, to chart and to look at the surface and deaths at these 3. i see moons that's, that's one of the, one of the primary objectives. and to discover whether or not there is this water underneath to really pinpoint it and nail it down. but then of course, there's also the, the aspect of looking at jupiter more closely. i mean, we,

we've only done half a dozen missions out there. there's a lot that we still don't know about jupiter and it's interactions with the satellites. and so, so there's a lot to learn. and i'm sure that this, that this mission, once it arrives and 8 years is going to start delivering data that's going to keep scientists in work for many, many years to come in around 8 years. so is that when we're going to 1st maybe get some results from this? well, we'll probably, we'll see, i mean, there are going to be fly buys. as you know, it's kind of spirals out the flight path spirals out into the solar system and as it will be flying by earth and flying by being venous and picking up speed as it goes by those plans dipping into their gravity. well, as i go for a gravity, assist to, to speed it up and get it out there, because simply because this pro can't carry enough fuel to do it all on its own. but i'm will start to see, i think real data from the mission, probably 3 to 6 months out. so in the early 20 thirty's, great terry williams, the from our scientists will be watching that rocket

kenya's opposition alliance has called for fresh rallies ahead of talks with the government over electoral reform. the east african nation is in the middle of a cost of living, crisis made worse by ongoing drought. now the unrest we're seeing right now comes as roughly 11 percent of the population in kenya is marking the elite islamic month of ramadan. dw visited a somali hub in the capital, nairobi to see how muslims there are practicing their faith in such trying times. ah, worshippers thrown, there will be se jemima's there, celebrating the holy month of ramadan. though the past 12 months have been challenging for many muslims. mazda, rather than just ramadan, is difficult. food has gotten so expensive, it's hard to feed the family. the cost of living is very high. the cost of food and

fuel has sort. the price of the 25 kilogram back of rice has almost doubled in a year. rising inflation and youth unemployment drove many canyons onto the streets in recent weeks. widespread anti government protests have shown how deep the frustration runs. a position to relo. dinger called off the protests after president william rocher promised. improve. now can you deliver a promise that people have heard before? by lowering the cost of living? was router's main campaign pledge when he ran for office last year, who sort of le le router told us he would lower the price of may's flower. make life easier? i took that was only to get votes from us. gay luke was a little girl, the 12th so when riley tells us to go up to protest, i like we do it on because we were lied to the boat to live dungan. you lie too and

left hungry. people tell us they've had to cut back drastically often only having one nina day. while the daily struggle is overshadowing ramadan celebrations, somalis living here actually aware that their relatives back home faces and they got problems. some of them have only water to break that fast. because the longest route on record to stored that crops, somalis here a sharing with little they have sending it via this money fence. the service no, i let our know so many of us have no meals to break the fast or to even begin the fast every day. as a muslim, you have to have these 2 important meals. so it's been very tough for them. they're saying here you cannot rely on the government, family, and friends of the only real support network that many people have in tough times like these. just reminder of the top story we're following for you. this our, the european space agency has launched a probe bound for jupiter. it's longest range mission ever. this is the 2nd attempt

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