is huge, they have so much to lose shattering the glass ceiling women in architecture. this has to be really, really good. starts april 20th on d, w. mm hm. ah ah. this is d, w. news live from berlin, a victory for emmanuel mack crawl as francis highest court backs his pension reforms, the ruling clears the way for pensions to begin at 64 instead of 62. opponents say the fight will continue. also on the program, he suspected the suspect to believe to be at the center of a massive

u. s. intelligence league appears in court. 21 year old and national guardsman is accused of sharing secret material and an online chat for ah, i'm feel gale. welcome to the program we began in france with what's being seen as a significant victory for president emmanuel macro countries, highest court, the constitutional counsel, as a pell, the governments controversial plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. the court also rejected a call 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. present macro failed to gain enough support for lawmakers and pushed his plans through parliament without a vote, triggering weeks of violent protests. my correspondent, in paris,

lisa louis told me more. well, there are 2 parts to this 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 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 the exist so called sat at the wise 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. right? so massive opposition to these changes that we've seen over the weeks. if this decision like are 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, will go on. 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, it's only been, i should have said that he would continue his position to this reform. there will

be at least one demonstration that will gather all the unions, all the opponents, that there's visser film, which will be the demonstration on the 1st of les of labor, he and france. now we've been looking at pictures of the crowds and demonstrators as you was facing that lisa, i'm, what am i to, into the french presidency says usually pleased with this decision. i can explain why it was so important to him when i clearly 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 mad m. m. a election manifesto last year when he was re elected here in france. and he wanted to show that he is able to reform franchises of the country. that'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 a form seems to be really important for him. i call the french president and when

it comes to international standing, he wants to say 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. 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 revealing 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 or 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. where are you

concerned about the time to go? oh, i got a minute about the ladies. i'm concerned, i think, contemporaneous but while the main suspect may be in custody dozens more documents and their explosive content may yet come to light. and so that this with calling clock who's director of research at the global intelligence and security consultancy, the soon found groupie joins us from pittsburgh. welcome to the w. can we saw with how this leak happened? people will be shocked to hear that such a low ranking amman had access to such highly classified material. yeah, that's just the fact of the matter 2021 year old, individual, massachusetts air national guard that had the clearances to access this information . a look, you know, 21 years old may seem young to a lot of folks,

and it seems young to me, but we entrust people that age to fight our nation's wars all the time. and so subsequently, if they're in a specific position, as this individual was attached to a cyber intelligence unit, they will need access to this level of classified information. so should we expect more revelations, given that these documents have been posted in this chat group for ages? we just don't know. i mean, i think that's probably one of the most embarrassing aspects of this is the fact that these documents were out there in the wild, so to speak, for as long as they were without anyone from the us government realizing it. i think that's tremendously damaging in terms of, you know, how we keep track of classified information and the fact that some of these documents have been then altered again or altered, and then kind of recycle 2 with casualty figures for the russians. the koreans being clearly manipulated, we don't know what you know coming up moving forward from here. what's going to be

real and what's not. yeah, because that, that the things have indicated that he was spies have penetrated deep inside russian military communications. so what have we learned about russia's capabilities and in the war of a ukraine, and do we trust what we've learned from these documents? well, i think, you know, it makes a lot of sense giving the trajectory of the war. the russians are fighting quite poorly. their commanding control is hobbled a clearly the united states, and maybe some allied nations are inside of a lot of the russian decision making process, both through signals intelligence, but potentially all through also through human intelligence. and so we're learning that the russians are struggling mightily, as we see playing out almost every day on the battlefield, its confirmation of that. and then of course, as the revelation that the u. s. a still spying on its friends. the reaction of

this time has been much more muted than when edward snowden reveal that wasn't in that book. the phone of the former, a german chancellor, angular macro. why do you think reaction this time has been so muted? look, it's just one of those things that everybody knows goes on. all countries do it to one another. we just happened to be particularly good at it. i think the timing is probably more embarrassing than anything with the south korean schedule for a visit. you know, soon and so at the end of the day, i think, you know, that part i'm less concerned about that. i am about more kind of tactical operational details getting out there. but you know, there will be some fences to meant with the south koreans, the israelis and with other allies. ok, thank you for that calling clark from the soup on group. thank you. is look at some of the store is making headlines around the world. a russian missile strike on the eastern ukrainian city of slow vans because killed at least 5 people, a wounded 15. according to the regional government. as rescue assisted through the

rubble, he warned that more people could still be buried under the residential building. voice, domestic intelligence and security service as 15 russian diplomats expel this week . a try to recruit source, it intercept communications and by advanced technology on behalf of russian intelligence services is noise. largest ever expulsion of russian diplomats. moscow has said that it will respond russian oil exports to search to more than 8000000 barrels a day in march, the highest level for nearly 3 years. despite western sanctions or the paris based international energy agency system rushes oil revenues are sharply down. tumbling 43 percent from a year ago. european space agency has launched a probe bound for jupiter. the jupiter icy moon's explorer known as juice blasted off from french guyana. on an 8 year journey,

is his longest range mission ever. the scientists hoped to discover whether jupiter's moons can sustain life and the vast oceans hidden beneath that ice covered services. now imagine for a moment, not knowing anything about the war in your cray, the energy crisis, runaway inflation, or the rise of artificial intelligence. well, that's always been for a spanish extreme athlete 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 armine was all smiles. wildly. legs were united with the surface world. familiar stimuli came flooding back sunlight. fresh air, and human contact 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 that isolation on the human body and mind a limb and let them, especially on circadian rhythms. the bodies internal clock gusio, 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 to know my the space if are generally base faith, but that 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 texting related. it's always the same silence. the same found of trickling water is mila. theo player depends. hello, you know, 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 study in scientists monitored her sleep patterns and other

biometrics via a 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. it's that way too. yeah. 0 one po. possibly it's not like the diamond boss thing. faster or slower? it just isn't baset don't. i mean it's always thought in the morning or early life, 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 explore, we'll 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 council has upheld controversial government plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. gold also rejected a cold for

a referendum on the issue which is triggered months, a violent protest. that facility will have more world news at the top of the out. coming up next here on d. w, a documentary with a focus on conflicting loyalties. we reach a young full from growing up and a push to forwarding school in east africa. more news around the call of course on d w dot com on the t w have a good day, a great weekend. ah, what people have to say matters to us. a.