he just effort against corruption and political crimes in our series, guardians of truth and watch now on youtube dw documentary, ah this is d, w. news live from berlin. the victory for emanuel macro. as francis highest court backs his pension and reforms, the ruling clears away for pensions to begin at 64 instead of 62. but opponents a say the fight will continue. also on the program. the suspect believed to be at the center of massive us intelligence league appears in court. the 21 year old at

national guardsman is accused of sharing secret material in an online chat group and destination jupiter. the european space agency launch is a mission to investigate the giant gas planet and look for water on its moves. ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. we begin in france with what's being seen as a significant victory for president emmanuel macro countries, high court. the constitutional counsel has upheld the governments controversial plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. the court also rejected a court for a referendum on the issue. thousands of protesters have gathered in paris and around the country as campaigners and trade unions promised to continue to fight the changes as

a macro failed to gain enough support from lawmakers and therefore pushed his plans through parliament without a vote. triggering weeks of violent protests across the country. my correspondent lisa louis in paris told me more about the decision. when i 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 parts of this reform are constitutional and also the, 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 parts of the law, 6 paragraphs that have been rejected because they are saying the exist so called sash. and the ways people behind me are saying that these paragraphs are piggybacking, the actual own 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 council will decide on that 2nd demand on the 3rd of may, when it's a massive opposition to these changes that we've seen over the weeks. if 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 it in the streets, at least we'll go on. some unions have said that if the constitution council validated the law and the procedure that we'd stop demonstrating at in

a large dimensions, but others have fletcher, the far left leader has only been asked why. i said that he would continue his a position to this reform. there will be at least one demonstration that will gather all the unions, all the opponents, that there's the this reform which will be the demonstration on the 1st of way 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 president to says usually pleased with this decision. and can you explain why it was so important to him? i clearly was obviously hoping for this reform and this procedure procedure to go through. you know, this is the flagship reform and he has been reelected with basically almost the only reform that was in his mad m. m. a 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 a government wants to make. and also this a form seems to be really important for in my car, the french president, it, 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 do it can be taken seriously also on an international, on a european level. thank you for that lisa, lisa louis in paris. that's the united states. when a man suspected of leaking sensitive intelligence documents, as appeared in court in massachusetts, he 21 year old and national guardsman is accused of sharing secret information with an online chat group, exposing military secrets from ukraine on revealing diplomatically embarrassing details of us espionage activity. 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 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 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. are you concerned about the lead time to go? we got 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. let's take a look at a small store is making headlines around the world. the russian miss, i'll strike on the east in ukrainian city slowdowns because killed at least 5 people and wounded 15 as, according to the regional governor. as rescuers sifted through the bravo, he warned that more people could still be buried under the residential building. norway's domestic intelligence and security service says 15 russian diplomats expel

this week and tried to recruit sources intercept communications and by advance technology on behalf of russian intelligence services. it's noise largest ever expulsion of russian diplomats. moscow says it will respond. russian oil exports so surged to more than 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 down. tumbling 43 percent from a year. german foreign minister and i met back has urged beijing to encourage russian president vladimir putin to end the war in ukraine. china pledge not to supply moscow with weapons, but stopped short of condemning the war, was bare boxer, chinese president julian brings that visit to moscow, showed that no other country has more influence on russia. the open space agency

has launched a probe bound for jupiter. the jupiter icy moon's explorer known as juice blasted off a french gown on the agency's longest range mission ever. it was the 2nd lord to turn to after about rather delay to take off the previous day. the spacecraft is now on an 8 year journey to the giant gas planet. scientists hoped to discover whether jupiter's mood can sustain life in the vast oceans hidden beneath her ice covered shells. ah, that 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 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

as 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 a woman off 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 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 crust? how deep is its ocean? and what is it made of? that's what juice is setting out to discover. and it will slower cheaper,

says 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 orbited the moon of another planet. an instrument co developed in berlin will use laser pulses to take measurements of ganymede surface . this will reveal whether ganymede has an ocean of liquid water and locate any areas of interest. medusa and rich municipal thing with juice, we will explore conditions to see if life could have evolved. and also to find out another way to look at all wouldn't wear on jupiter moons will be most likely find evidence of life that will also be a task for subsequent missions for your mouth,

for in this room to reach to so spend full years exploring jupiter and it means uncovering as many of their secrets as possible. let's get more from derrick williams from d w. science. 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 your mission. and before it finally arriving in jupiter, and it'll pick up along the way. first of all, a gravity boost a gravity assist from venus and then come back flying by the earth and the moon, receiving gravity, assist from them and slowly spiraling out and circling out path until they finally passed 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 altitude. but on the gravity blue. she told that this is just like a giant sling shot as the of it's a sleep it flings it. all right, great. and explain was why this mission is so important? well, i mean the, the one thing that you always hear in combination with this particular mission is to 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 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're looking at when we start to look for places where we life might also have formed independently of the earth than 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. so there's 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 deter then whether to certify that there really are these oceans beneath these icy cross on these i see millions and 2nd of all is to determine what's in those oceans. are there for example, also nutrients? what are the temperatures may be like, what, 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, and the launch path, because these fly bias these, these gravity assisted it's going to get to get from these planet as a 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 early, 2031. wow. ok. thank you for that. eric williams from d. w. science told me to wait a little earlier that set you up to date. a more world news at the top of the hour . jared read has that news asia in just a moment. i'm good. with tv highlights you every week in your in box subscribe. now. journalism health.