ah ah ah is it a w news live from berlin? lift off from french gayana, the european space agency launches its mission to jupiter. a probe will investigate the gas giant gas planet to look for water on its movement. also on the program. suspect to believe to be at the center of a massive us intelligence league appears in court. 21 year old. the and national

guardsman is accused of sharing secret material and an online chat group. and seeing the light after $500.00 days of darkness, we go underground with bare trees, fly mini spanish, extreme athlete, who spent the last year and a half in a cave in the name of science. ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. the european space agency has launched a probe bound for jupiter. the jupiter, i see moons explorer, and known as juice blasted off from french, guyana on the agencies longest range mission ever. it was the 2nd launch attempt after bad weather delayed to take off from the previous day. the spacecraft is now on an 8 year journey to the giant gas planet. scientists hope to discover whether

jupiter's moons can sustain life in the vast 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. as solar systems, largest planet, to get bad use 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 jupiter 3 mysterious icy 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 warmer now. for one of those the reasons that they can have 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 extra terrestrial 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 as its ocean, and what is it made of? that's what juice is setting out to discover. and it will explore jupiter's other moons to which may also boasts several layers of water. to do this, the probe will repeatedly fly past them, making observations with the health 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 over to the moon of another planet,

an instrument co developed in berlin. we'll use laser pulses to take measurements of ganymede seth aside, and this will 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 at both wouldn't wear 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. but let's get more from derrick williams from d w. silence. so 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 going to 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 assists from them, and slowly spiraling out and circling out path 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 go more or less in a straight line out. but on the gravity blue, she told me this is just like a giant sling shot as of it's a sling it flings it. all right, 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 as

the search for terrestrial life. and because, and that basically all life that we know and for extra terrestrial likeness, not which rest of your life obviously. and 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 we're liquid, water in particular is present. and now we've seen that out there in there it on these icy moons of jupiter. and so there is a possibility that life could have also formed down beneath these icy crusts. wow. so what are the since longer term goals are? first 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 scientist, 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, and the launch path, because these fly bias these, these gravity assess that it's going to get to get from the planet as it dips down into their gravity wells and sling shots out. as you said, that's very important. information and i has to happen in a very specific order and at 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. well, ok. thank you for that. derek williams from d. w. science. speaking to me, a little earlier now to the united states when a man suspected of leaking sensitive intelligence,

documents has appeared in court in massachusetts. the 21 year old and national guardsman is accused of sharing secret information with an online chat group, exposing military secrets from ukraine and revisiting 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 hill now faced 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 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 is currently on a visit to the republic of ireland, great. was came to play down his worries over the potential fallout. i used concerned about with alina the time to go wrong. we had a minute of your concern about the ladies. i'm concerned with looking contemporaneous. but while the main suspect may be in custody dozens more documents,

and their explosive content may yet come to light. will they w a corresponding time in a safe in washington told me more about the judges facing this and national guardsman. it seems, the suspect will be charged with the unauthorized removal and transmission of documents related to national defense. now this will be under the espionage act. he will be charged for each document that he leaked, and each count would carry a maximum sentence of 10 years. and that would, that it, i could add up here because there were at least a 100 pages of documents. we don't know exactly how many documents that is 100 pages of liter sensitive material. so that could be a very long sentence. what's interesting here is intent this case is very different from a lot of other leaks, even pentagon leaks because it seems according to members of the group that online group that he leaked these documents to. he never intended this, these documents to leave the small corner of the internet where they were all

friends is how they put it. and when it was exposed, that these documents are made the way to twitter and other less secure websites. he was very worried. so this would kind of indicate that he had no intent of giving these guy documents over to foreign governments or the press or anything like that . and there is a provision in the espionage act that says that there has to be intent there. but there's a 2nd provision that says that anybody who is in possession of a physical document through gross negligence, allows us to end up in the hands of somebody who then uses it with the intent to harm national security that would still qualify. so it seems that that would be the case here and he has it, the paper trail leads back to him. he has a slim chance, i believe, of getting away without any charges. and you've got to wonder if his boss is a bit worried about this because everyone is got to be asking themselves, how did such a young low ranking service member have access to such sensitive material?

that's right. he was an airman 1st class. that's the 3rd lowest rank in the air force, so he had security clearance, but it doesn't seem that his job at anything to do with the national security issues that were in these documents. the ukraine warriors, member of the massachusetts air national guard, which is mostly about territorial defense here in the united states. but as someone as a spokesperson for the department of defense, put it on a security clearance means you trust these people. he said that once you give you is what you can do to protect your home. but once you give your keys to a group of friends and they give that to a criminal, then you can't prevent the criminal from getting into your home. so it's all about trust here. it seems that he might not have had direct access to the documents that he leaked, but a lot of people with security clearance are on a list serves there on emailing lists that get daily's, c. i a intelligence briefings and a lot of these documents could have been contained in those briefings. so there's gonna be a lot of scrutiny here on how the department of defense, how the security agencies actually handle these documents and whether or not

they're ending up in the hands of people actually need it to do their job. right. and that seem to be leaks all over this case. i understand that journalists beat the f b i to the suspects property. that's right. belling, cat. and the new york times used open source intelligence to trace down the leaker . in this case, who is believed to be the leaker through postings on discord, they found social media profiles of him and they were able to compare the backgrounds and photos of the leaks with backgrounds in his social media posts. and they actually arrived at his home and talked to what appears to be his parents and saw him before the f b. i showed up just a couple hours later. what was interesting is that the department of justice was saying that there would be an arrest within the next couple of days. and then just hours after the new york times showed up and published their report, the f. b, i came with their trucks and their guns, and they pulled him out of the home with his hands behind his head as he saw and took them away. so begs the question, did the f b actually follow the journalists to his home?

in this case, there's actually a criticism that gun greenwald, who was helping with the leaks of edward snowden actually criticize new york times, that they were doing the federal bureau of investigation job for them. so very interesting case here. thanks. i'm in, i'm in a safe a washington. his locker at small store is making headlines around the world and norway's domestic intelligence and security service says 15 russian diplomats expel this week. i tried to recruit sources intercept communications and by advanced technology on behalf of russian intelligent services. it's no way the largest ever expulsion of russian diplomats. moscow says it will respond and rushes, oil exports a search toward 8000000 barrels a day in march, their highest level for nearly 3 years despite western sanctions. but the parish based international energy agency says russia's oil revenues are sharply at down, tumbling 43 percent from

a year ago. and we bring some breaking news from france, where the constitutional council has upheld controversial government plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. the court also rejected a call for a referendum on the issue. my police are on standby in paris in anticipation of thousands of protesters, a president macro put through the increase in the retirement age without a vote in parliament triggering weeks of violent protests across the country. as during the correspondent lisa louis, who's in paris outside the court to welcome lisa, tell us more about the decision. well, that to part stood it to the decision. as you just said, concerning the reform itself. the constitutional court council behind me has decided that large part of this reform are constitutional. and also this,

the procedure, the special fast track procedure. this law has been peg to that is a budget law. procedure is actually a valid thing to do. however, the government will need to look into as some part of the law, 6 paragraphs that have been rejected because they are saying this so called sam at the white people behind me are saying that these paragraphs are piggybacking, the actual on that is not constitutional. when it comes to the 2nd part of the decision, there was a demand for a referendum. the constitutional counselor has said that this is not not valid because actually the referendum was on the question. if the minimum retirement age should always stay at $62.00, and as that is already the case in the french constitution, it could not be considered a reform mind you. the position has already filed another demand for a referendum that would introduce a new measures and the constitution counselor will decide on that 2nd demand. on

the 3rd of may, when i took massive opposition to these changes that we've seen over the weeks, is this decision likely to be appeal you can't appeal it. it's the highest court of appeals. what will happen though, the, the opposition to in the streets at least, will go one. some unions have said that if the constitution council validated the law and the procedure that we'd stop demonstrating at least in large dimensions, but others have pledged the far left leader only been, i had said that he would continue his opposition to this reform. there will be at least one demonstration that will gather all the unions, all the opponents, that there's the this, which will be the demonstration. on the 1st of les, i was on the day of labor, he and france. i got, we've been looking at pictures of the crowds and demonstrators as you were speaking about lisa, i'm, what am i saying? the french presidency says usually pleased with this decision,

i can explain why it was so important to him. what absolutely was obviously hoping for this reform and this procedure, the procedure to go 3, you know, this is the flagship reform. he has been reelected with basically almost the only reform that was in his madam, an election manifesto last year when you was re elected here in france. and he wanted to show that he is able to reform franchises of the country that it's very difficult to reform because there's always a lot of a position to any changes that the government wants to make. and also this form seems to be really important for him. i call the french president. and when it comes to international standing, he wants to show that he is a strong leader, that he's in charge of this country so that he can be paid to can be taken seriously. also on an international, on a european level. thank you for that. lisa. lisa louis in paris

now to china, where germany's foreign minister alena babcock has been holding talks with senior chinese diplomats over taiwan and beijing's human rights record. and she called on beijing to help end the war in ukraine. german foreign minister and alina bear back 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 bought called on china to use its influence with russia to end. the invasion is this good stuff. he knows it, it 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 cheek to stop beijing, which sees itself as a mediator in the conflict, reiterated. it would not send weapons to its russian ally that europeans regarding

the export of military products. china adopts the prudent and responsible attitude which are 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. having 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. but there are issues the 2 sides agree on strengthening economic and trade cooperation . earlier bear, bach toured german companies based in tianjin talks with wang ye, china's most senior foreign policy official are scheduled before her departure

of the war and ukraine has brought far reaching changes to europe. so security infrastructure among them is a finland. joining nato and the consequence doubling of the length of the alliance is border with russia. nato members, norway, estonia, latvia, lithuania, and poland. sure. a 1200 kilometer border with russia and its enclave. coline grad . finland's border with russia is more than 1300 kilometers long. i correspondence terry schultz reports not from the finish for the town of the matter on a finland's plans to safeguard maiter'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 no 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, 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, assert, significant number of immigrants are pushed by russians to the finish 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 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 know we're 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 defendants there wouldn't really matter if they would come to the tanks or at 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. i just imagined you didn't know anything about the war, a new crime or the energy crisis, or runaway inflation, or the rise of artificial intelligence. but that's how it's been for a spanish extreme athletes who spent the last 500 days living in a cave, with no contact with the outside world. scientists monitored her to learn about the effects of extreme isolation. after a year and a half in total isolation under ground, beatrice for many was all smiles. wildly legs were united with the surface world. familiar stimuli came flooding back. sunlight, fresh air, and human contact. that is the one. in november 2021,

the veteran mountaineer and explorer moved into her new home 70 meters below ground . as the subject of an unprecedented experiment. scientists wanted to study the effects of darkness isolation on the human body and mind lyn latham and especially on circadian rhythms. the bodies internal clock garcia, which is normally calibrated by sunlight. mother that was the less than what we think we like if, if the thieves underground and usually it is only one exit no matter these faces are generally bases. but they're quite hostile for humans visually for their minds, because you don't see any daylight man, you don't actually perceive that i am going by no means there are no differences. sam, you don't have any equus dick stimulation. it's always the theme silence. the theme found of trickling water is more theo, player depends how long it will. throughout the experiment, beatrice committed to total isolation. she told her team not to contact her for any reason. even if there was a death in her family, diana,

scientists monitored her sleep patterns and other biometrics via device worn on her wrist hole. and her support team dropped off supplies for her to collect on a very limited time lost its meaning. yet that last 2. yeah, 0 one po, possibly it's not like the diamond boss thing. faster or slower, it just hasn't boss. it doesn't. i mean it's always thought in the more more. oh, but despite the challenges, beatrice called the experience excellent. and even said she didn't want to leave her cave at the end. now that she's back on the surface, the madrid based explorer will have her hands full with medical examinations and media requests. but before all that, she said the top priorities were a hot shower and a meal with friends. is reminder of our top story at this hour. francis constitutional counsel has upheld controversial government plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 60 full. the court also rejected a cold for

a referendum on the issue, which is triggered months of violent protest. this is data you're coming up next. a news asia, as world leaders flocked to beijing, is china becoming the wills. next diplomatic heavyweight parish boundary. we'll have that story and more that's in news asia in just a moment. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news every time there's always the w dot com or the d. w. good. with

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