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but stopped short of condemning the invasion. and for decades, finland has carefully possessed itself between russia and the west. now it's part of nato's front line report from its border with russia. ah feel, gail, welcome to the program. the european space agency has launched a probe bound for jupiter. the jupiter. i see moons explorer or juice for short blasted off from french guy on on what will be the agencies longest range mission ever? it was the 2nd launch attempt after bad weather delayed to take off the previous day. the spacecraft is now on an 8 year journey to the gap giant gas planet. scientists hope to discover whether jupiter's moon can sustain life in the fast oceans hidden beneath the ice covered shells. 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 bad juice. we'll 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 jupiter 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 what ocean, 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 extra terrestrial life. beneath its icy crust lies an ocean which could contain twice as much water as all of earth's 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 explore jupiter as of a 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. we'll use laser pulses to take measurement of

ganymede says this site, and this will reveal whether ganymede has an ation of liquid water and locate any areas of interest middle school and it's minister bidding with juice. we will explore conditions to see if life could have evolved and also to find out another way to look when we're on jupiter's moons will be most likely find evidence of life. that will also be a task for subsequent missions. prion not programmers, who are not rich juice will spend for years exploring jupiter and it's means uncovering as many of their secrets as possible. but let's get more from derrick williams from d. w. science sir. welcome back to the studio. derek. so juice has gone off. what happens now now begins an incredibly long journey that is kind of in some ways a little bit counter intuitive. it's gonna take 8 years and initially the probe is

going to be dropping down towards actually the sun towards the inner solar system in circling the sun. it'll circle the sun. it'll orbit the sun 5 times in the course of this 8 year mission. and before it finally arriving in jupiter, and it'll pick up along the way, 1st of all, a gravity boost a gravity assist from venus and then come back flying by the earth and the moon, receiving gravity assess from them and slowly spiraling out and circling out past until they finally pass the asteroid belt and arrive at jupiter and they need that because it has to happen that way. because this probe simply can't carry in a fuel to go basically going more or less in a straight line altitude and the gravity blue. she told me this is just like a giant sling shot of it's a slightly of it, if flings it right. i great and explains was why this mission is so important? well, i mean the, the one thing that you always hear in combination with this particular mission of the search for terrestrial life. and because, and that basically all life that we know and for extra terrestrial i,

it's not for terrestrial life, obviously, as far as we know, that's always linked to the formation or to the presence of water. i mean, we depend on it. so we looking at, when we start to look for places where we life might also have formed independently of the earth, then we look at places where water, where liquid water in particular is present. and now we've seen that out there in there. on these i see moons of jupiter, so there is a possibility that life could have also formed down beneath these icy crusts. wow. so what are the missions longer term goal? well 1st it's, it's to determine whether to, to certify that there really are these oceans beneath these icy cross on these i see millions and 2nd of all it's to determine what's in those oceans are there for example, also nutrients. what are the temperatures maybe like, how did the interactions with jupiter works? jupiter is also a focus of this particular mission. there's still a lot that we don't know about that this gigantic gas giant out on the edges of our solar system and. and so we're going to learn more about that through this mission

as well. right? so a is to get there. when do scientists, i don't know if expect to start getting data back. well, there will be data being transferred all the time. obviously in terms of the trajectory and the launch path, because these fly bias these, these gravity assisted it's going to get to get from these planet as it dips down into their gravity wells and sling shots out. as you said, that's very important information. and it has to happen in a very specific order in a very specific speed. so there will be data coming back all the time. but the 1st data that will be really interesting is probably when it gets to within 3 to 6 months of jupiter, which is late, 2030, or the 2031. wow. ok. thank you for that. derek willis, d w, support. i think the science science not for all the talk is linked shots vag. now a suspect arrested over a u. s. intelligence leak is due to appear in court in massachusetts 21 year old that jack got tick. sarah is accused of sharing classified information with an

online chat group. the leak has exposed military secrets from ukraine and diplomatically embarrassing details of us espionage activity 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 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 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 are 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 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 fall out. i use concerned about the time to go get a minute. i want you to like the ladies. i'm concerned with looking 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 and

brazil's presence and there is a nasty luna da silva, is on his 1st visit to china and he's about to present g as in king. i is also criticized the dominance of the u. s. dollar and the world economy on the policies of the international monetary fund. the veteran left is to seeking closer ties with china, which is brazil's most important trading partner. germany is foreign minister on elana. babylon is also in china, she's how tools we seen it. diplomats over taiwan, i'm beijing's human rights record, on the minister has called on china to help and the war in ukraine, german foreign minister and alina bareback, on her inaugural visit to china. after landing in the port city of t on jan on thursday, burbock put the tough topics on the table in beijing. the war and ukraine is high on berlin's agenda. bear,

but called on china to use its influence with russia to end the invasion. is this 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 runs been hired. it didn't keke to stop beijing, which sees itself as a mediator in the conflict. reiterated. it would not send weapons to its russian ally, fetch him hint regarding the export of military products of china, adopt 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 from them. another key issue up for discussion tensions between china and taiwan. days after beijing stage to war games around the self governing island bear 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. you come back. but there are issues the 2 sides agree on strengthening economic and trade cooperation. earlier bear, bog toured german companies based in tianjin talks with wang ye, china's most senior foreign policy official, our schedule before her departure. let's look at this river josie maria per kuhn, who's a non resident fellow at the center for asian pacific strategy and security. welcome to the w. what's the german foreign minister hoping to achieve by lecturing a country's biggest trading partner about issues on which it has shown 0. inclination to listen. thank you. first of all, to be in for this nice introduction. after all, she went there to meet 18 gang after she was appointed and he was appointed. so i think that it counts as a standard operating procedure. after all, germany,

as you mentioned, is with china, the biggest trading partner. and also they try to achieve or she tries to achieve on her agenda and climate change to bring that further in terms of green energy, sustainable drive system fuels and batteries. but let's not forget about the most pressuring things in the world. politics right now, this is lost in conflict from russia's war in the ukraine and they hope to get paid into not go into this conflict any further. and also to restrain from further moves on the taiwan straits to actually home town as a very faint understood. but we know that the chinese knows that the world knows that are white or they think they're going there to tell them what they already know is gonna is going to move them one way or the other. first of i think it is still important to keep those some personal talks open and to get to know each

other after role. there is a country that we perceive as lead by a heating ping and he is very, very powerful. however, to exchange this ideas with them, in this case or her counterpart, the foreign minister teen gang is also very important. he was one that actually can probably also bring up of other views air to the leader in emerging. so as that to us, understandable life of her, why do that? why is china a permanent member of the un security council? why is it so reluctant a, to condemn russia's actions in ukraine? first of all, we have to go a little bit into history and i think they have this own idea about how they have been wronged by that security council and wrong by the western norm based democratic system. however, so i think this is why they are reluctant to condemn russia. however,

they are as of now, still reluctant to go deeper, right, deeper into it. we know they have dual use support. however, like on machinery. however, they are also claiming not to go in with stronger ammunition with stronger weapons or to actually further this conflict on their side. so they try to from the china perspective, they try to be as neutral as they can. however, to not lose their agenda of the stabilizing the western norm based. yeah, root order. and a quick word about taiwan. do you think a hot conflict between china and taiwan is inevitable as sat by and elena barack, that would be the worst case scenario or the horror. and it is possible that the conflict will turn into your stage. that might be hard conflict, or there might be actually a violent hot conflict. however, i think right now all of these approaches show how strong high ranking european

diplomats are on this issue and how they are strongly together. and telling china re, please do not have that war coming up because it will destabilize the world very much . and we do not want that. so we buy in with further economic ties. i think this is the trade of we do after we talk tie name to change through trade. timing is showing us how this means we are also changing it towards the chinese agenda and for delivery for 2nd. thank you sort of outlining that so so clearly for us, i just money for coon, from the center for asia pacific strategy and security. thank you so much for this interview by lauren ukraine's brought far reaching changes to a europe security infrastructure. among them is finland. joining nato and doubling

the length of their lives is bordered with russia. nato members, norway, estonia, latvia, lithuania, and poland. sure. a 1200 kilometer border with russia and its own place, colon and grad. a finland sport with rushes more than 1300 kilometers long. i correspondents, terry schultz reports now from the border town of e matter on finland, plans to safeguard nato's northeast and flak 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 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 was so significant number of immigrant, a pushed by rushes to the finish border and crossing, also also finished border. and in all week we did 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 north east 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, though we have all fought everything differently on short, natural. 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 there . 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 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. so 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. a report from a correspondent, terry schultz, who joins us now from the finish board station in the matcher. welcome, terry would have bought a gods that have been telling you about potential threats from over the way. we've just taken a tour of the area where this border fence will be built and what the finish border guards say is that at the moment everything is calm. everything is operating normally and that their russian counterparts are doing their jobs and stopping anyone without the proper authorization from trying to get into finland. there hasn't been a single case of that this year in fact, but what they're worried about is the unpredictability of the russian government. now, after everyone is seen, what is what has happened to ukraine and they say, while the situation remains calm, they're going to build this fence just in case the border guards on the other side, the russian, the russian side, get orders from the crumbling to try to

d stabilize finland with some of these hybrid tactics like sending undocumented people over the border to see my ironic given that, that the whole idea of joining nato was to help friends feel safer. well, that's true, but we're talking about different kinds of threats here. the, the idea that this hybrid tactic of, of possibly compelling people to try to cross into finland and destabilize the country is different from a military incursion. but i have to tell you, we've heard concerns about both kinds of threats. we did hear people say that they were worried that, that after the war in ukraine ends and, and russia, refills is garrisons here on the other side of the border. they may try to come in and take finished territory. that's something i haven't heard before in finland. there are people who are worried that there could be a situation like in the don bus with russia occupying parts of finished territory. now that may seem like an exaggeration, but it's not. it's not completely out of the thinking offense here now, right,

and much has been made of the the way that this war has backfired on russia. now that finland's joined nato, the doubling of the events of nato's border with russia, but to assist the spring headaches for nato as well. and how does it affect, be alliance is ability to defend itself against attack? you know, that's something that was under debate for a long time, both inside finland and inside nato. but the truth is that finland is a security provider for nato. it brings a country, remember that had planned to defend this 134040 kilometer border by itself for the foreseeable future. and finland is ready to do that and very well equipped. so in fact, both nato and finland feel like it's now a win win situation like this brings more security to the alliance to have a country like finland. it's been self reliant for so long now inside the alliance . thanks back terry. terry schultz. from the finish russian border

and we can take a look at the broader security landscape facing finland with had a smith who's an expert in the finished security policy. welcome to d w. let's start with this fence that building 3 kilometers of offense. it will eventually be 200 kilometers on a boat of at 1300 kilometers long. what good is that going to do? why he's probably quite curious to think about it and then the middle of the forest as well. but the real issue areas do raise to go to keep it b, g 's and include those fences and when different cameras and detecting and devices and so on. and this one gives much higher in warning, given the monitoring comes responses. right? but so this 200, if it is eventually build these 200 meter long fence will give the 1300 kilometer.

excuse me, this 200 kilometer long fence will give the 1300 kilometer border, much more security. it just sounds weird. a sudden lacey's, this is also something to do with the geography in the way where all those places easy to cross their swarms, forest lake city center. so you don't really cross very easy when there is a swamp or a name or something like that. so right, and we run those 2 real play. see, this is a direction ok, i'm continuous planning as well. understood. and perhaps you could outline for us what finland's main security concerns about russia. ah. well, i think it could be said very shortly to say that russia is unpredictable. so therefore you need to be a worst case scenario. even the fashion might be nice. one lace.

both of those are white on the spanish legal today, but we need to be prepared and everything is done in the security policy to kind of imagine i imagine imaginable, so to speak. the sense is part of that. right. and we know that, but finland has already worked extensively with nato countries as extensive interoperability. what changes now that they're actually inside the club? 08 more international cooperation that definitely won't change is also there is a real change in a strategic culture with a membership. eventually we will have some type of approach to russia as well in the i'm conventional to kind of hybrids, right. activity. and there's mention old a 20 sure we have c,

so we need to be preparing for everybody. and that's what we're actually seeing currently. so the one also in the very, very the station. ok, thank you for that. the hunter smith finishes security policy expert. thank you. thank you. and apologies for the quality of the sounds driven into let's turn out to take a look at some more stories making headlines around the world. we'll start with that norway, where the domestic intelligence and security services 15 russian diplomats have been expelled. this week, and they tried to recruit sources intercept communications and by advanced technology labs that they worked for russian intelligence services is noise, largest ever exposed of russian diplomats. moscow said it would respond a french president in manuel macro has visited not down cathedral for years. and to

5 destroyed much of the gothic masterpiece and promised to restore the landmark in 5 years. the cathedral is due to reopen next year. they are not in time for the parents olympics. this is d w news coming up next, a news asia as well latest flor to beijing is trying to become the world's next diplomatic heavy weight. there is about a jury will have that story and more in just a moment. i'll be back after the talk to kathy, i'm with with

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