ah ah ah ah, this is dw used life from berlin victory for in mount womack law as frances highest court backs his pension reports, the ruling clears the wave of pension is to begin 2 years later in life. but opponents vow the fight will go on. germany calls on china to help end the war in

ukraine. badging promises not to supply russia with weapons, but stopped short of condemning the invasion. for decades, finland has carefully positioned itself between russia and the waste. now it's part of nato's front line. we report from the border with russia and seeing the light after $500.00 days of darkness. we go underground with beatrice, fanny, ne, a spanish extreme athlete who spent the last year and a half in a cave in the name of science. they chewed for that and more in our sports block. ah, i'm painful and welcome a wind for the president in manuel my call. the highest court. the constitutional counsel has upheld the government's controversial plans to raise the minimum retirement age from to $264.00. the court rejected a cold for

a referendum on the issue. thousands of protesters have gathered in paris and around the country as campaign as in trade unions promised to continue the fight against the changes. president mccord failed to gain enough support renewal makers and pushed his plans through parliament without a vote or an executive order, triggering weeks of violent nationwide protests. the w corresponded liza louis joins us from paris. tell us more about today's decision. well, the decision has to part set, 1st of all on the law itself, the constitutional counsel behind me ruled that at the procedure that the government used to push through the reform in a foster procedure was constitutional. it also ruled that the content of the law was constitutional apart from some minor paragraphs, that at the continent constitutional council as censored. and the 2nd part of the

decision was on a referendum that the opposition had asked for the constitution council said no, you cannot hold this refund on referendum also for a former reason because they they think that the referendum would be on something that would actually not be a reform which is required to hold this referendum. so on all accounts, they went along with what the governor was asking for. apart from, as i said, these minor paragraphs, elisa, this is an over for the unions, as i mentioned before, is it? absolutely, as you said before, and there are protests happening right now here in paris, but also in other cities across the country. the unions have already said that they would organize one great big day of protests on the 1st of may. they also asking for the government to not in act the law actually that so to refrain from pushing it through further from actually having it come into effect. and the socialist

party is also said that they would bring a law into parliament. they would actually cancel the pensioner from everybody that is opposed to this pension reform has said that they would continue the fight against it. and we're looking at like pictures of that fight from france. just tell me where this all leaves the mccorr government. well, it's a bittersweet victory say to say, and i even those who were at to start with in favor of the pensioner for my and to bay to for my my call now feel that he has not been very delicate in his way of going about this is pushing this reform 3 of not listening to those who are opposed to the law and he was, he says, his government has said, you know, we going to continue. what we want to do, we're gonna continue to talk about are the topics he is planning to tour around the country to get in touch again with people on the ground. he also, he's also planning apparently to travel abroad to be

a statesman that people here are likely to forget what happened over the past few months. there will be a scar that will be left here in france. and as some people, many people have actually lost their trust in emma. my call. now many people more worried about the state of democracy in their country, rather than just and you pension plan. liza louis in paris for us. thank you. and let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines from around the world. a man arrested by the f. b. i for allegedly leaking a trove of classified documents as appeared in court. the 21 year old and national guardsman is accused of sharing secret information with an online chat group, the leak exposed military secrets from ukraine as well as diplomatically embarrassing details of us espionage activities. a russian missile strike on the eastern ukrainian city of soviet ask, has killed at least 5 people and wooded 15 according to the regional governor. as rescue was sifted through the rumble, be warned. more people could still be buried under the residential building.

russian oil exports such to more than 8000000 barrels a day in march. they are highest level finitely 3 years. despite western sanctions, the international energy agency says russia's oil revenues were down sharply tumbling. 43 percent from a year ago. european space agency has launched a profound for jupiter, the jupiter. i see moves, explorer, and known as juice blasted off from french guiana. on an 8 year journey, the agencies longest range mission scientists hoped to discover if jupiter's moons can sustain life in the vast oceans. hidden beneath their ice covered surfaces, joanie's farm in a sauna. lena bab oak has held talks with senior chinese diplomats over taiwan and beijing's human rights record. and she called on china's leaders to help end the war in ukraine. german foreign minister angelina bare balk 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. verba called on china to use its influence with russia to end the invasion, as is good stuff, you know, i think 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. one's been hired to 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 product is china. adopt a 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. 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 you compact. 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. babcock is not the only high profile visitor to beijing, brazil's president luis, in us, you alluded a silva, is on a state visit to china as well. ruler discovered the war in ukraine with president . she, jim ping, riley's agreed. negotiation is needed to end the fighting. both brazil and china

have refused to join weston sanctions against russia. since returning to office in january, leuva has tried to position brazil as a mediator between east and west. are you you said oh, well joining me from new york is ron john minion of professor of international relations at the city university of new york. let's break this down european shuttle diplomacy to beijing. over the past days, china's naval drills of taiwan. she, jim ping and potent shaking hands and smiling and bricks, member of brazil. now in china, china seems to be the linchpin and geo politics these days. what's that main? well, it's been a very busy time for the chinese. they've had, as you mentioned, the series of visitors from europe and now look, what does it mean for the king? i mean, it is clearly seen next. tonight, states is the most important power in the world. when it comes to the war in ukraine, the united states,

which is seen by mr. newton as an effect of coal belligerent, cannot serve as mediator, china's very close to russia. of course, they have a strategic partnership, self declared, but the chinese have hinted that they would be willing to mediate, and they certainly haven't tilted so far toward russia that they weren't there bridges with ukraine. so the hope is that the media and i myself, am skeptical that that will happen quickly. well, the chinese and the brazilians want to see some sort of deals done, some sort of negotiations and the ukrainians are certainly not up for that. are they? well, i don't know that the premiums are not up for you. you'll recall that when mister, she went to moscow, he said thereafter that he would call prisoners zalinski crane president zelinski of ukraine then invited him to come to kira and not only has he not visited kia rossetti would, he has not even contacted will zelinski on the telephone,

so i think zelinski certainly open to see what china has to say. china has not decided i think, to play the role of middleman yet. i think it thinks that the conditions are not ripe in ukraine for the resolution of the war. that is my sense. what about the precarious position china and taiwan are in right now. well, you know, miss verba made it very clear by hinting by far hinting more than that by seeing explicitly how calamitous or war in taiwan would be. not only militarily, but also the global economy. things are very tense as you know, just stop to mr. moore. left aging china stage a very significant military exercise which included the simulated blockade of taiwan. and so the temperature certainly is rising and there is no indication of the chinese are willing to say we put the use of military force off the table. and

miss burbock emphasize this. i think the chinese will very clear that they would decide how they would resolve taiwan. i don't think they want to go to war urgently, but they certainly haven't taken military force off the table. they also don't want to denounce russia's war and ukraine either. no, they haven't denounced it. on the other hand, the chinese position is not really that well understood. the chinese repeatedly said that they believe in the territorial integrity of all fixed, including ukraine. after 2004, when the russians and ex crimea, and created to so called republics in the eastern part of euclid and on boss. the chinese did not recognize them then and have not recognized them now. so there is room that beijing has left itself should decide, eventually to play some role in the war. at the moment, however, the positions of russia and china are so far apart that it's very difficult to breed them neither shown any limit. to compromise mister putin's conditions for

ending the war is essentially ukraine, except the loss of 4 provinces that russia occupies. in part. thank you very much for the inside there. roger men in professor of international relations at the city university of new york. the war in ukraine has brought far reaching changes to europe's security infrastructure. among them is finland, joining nato and the consequent doubling of the length of the alliances border with russia. nato members, no way estonia, latvia, lithuania and poland. share a 1200 kilometer border with russia and its enclave. colleen and grad. finland's border with russia is more than 1300 kilometers long, and corresponded. terry schultz reports now from the finished border town of mantra on finland's, plans through safeguard nato's, northeast and flank aster. 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, you know, some con reaction that 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 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 out of finish border and in all week we did manage those numbers. um,

however, in oh, 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 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 it, why ah, it so, 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's 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 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. and terry shall joins us now from helsinki. terry, a 200 kilometer fence along a 1300 kilometer border. explain how that'll work. well, then it does seem like a very short piece of a very long border. but you know, this will be more than finland's gust now. we visited this border area and there's

just a flimsy fence that comes up about to my waist and i'm very short. so the finished government decided that it needed to do something and it analyzed the environment, including the threat environment and decided to deal with the areas that considered most vulnerable border guard, colonel mc gutter cannon explained to me, they're thinking it will be built in the several places which are easily accessible by the beep. and those are the places stairs hard to access because there are no roach, not in there also side or finish side. the area is quite heart. and under the therefore, it's hard to go there and under the people all, quite a small number who are able to, to call there. therefore, we can handle those without defense. now then all the

other countries that then all the other countries that share a border with russia or bell ruse have already both experienced these hybrid attacks with migrants and started building offense. finland is the last one to decide to do so. so it just goes again to show how the entire threat perception of russia has changed significantly after the war and ukraine started. there were picking up on that the, this, this threat perception wasn't the whole idea of joining nato. that fins wanted to feel safe and i believe fins do feel safer when you're talking about the potential for a military incursion by russia where the other 30 countries, the other 30 members of nato, would come to finland's defense. now, the end and the fence that they're building now is to deal with this other kind of attack the hybrid attack. but, you know, been, i was really struck by some of the, the comments that i heard from fins that i've never heard before in all my years of covering this country. the idea that that if you live in this border area by

a mater, you would hold off on doing things like making home improvements or upgrading your summer house. because you never know if the russians might come across the border and try to occupy finished territory, like in the da boss in ukraine, that's the comparison i was given. so people are definitely feeling nervous here, and i think most of them are going to both welcome the fence and nato membership. but just how effective do you think the fence is going to be at the end of the day? i mean, that remains to be seen. finland hasn't experienced these large scale in fluxes of migrants like we saw in the baltics and with poland. but they just believe that this will serve as both a deterrent and a practical way to catch people. if they do start to be pushed across the border, it's not just going to be a fence. there's also going to be a lot more surveillance. and as i said, fill in just felt it was time that it protected itself better than it's been doing from the for the decades. that it believed russia would not attack. they no longer

can be sure of that. tar sholtes from helsinki. thank you very much for your reporting. ah. now imagine not knowing about the board ukraine, the energy crisis, runaway inflation old, the rise of artificial intelligence. that's how it's 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 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, let them especially on circadian rhythms. the bodies internal clock which is normally calibrated by sunlight. mother, that was a lesson. what will you get when like keith is the thieves underground? usually it is only one exit no matter the spaces 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'm going by no means there are no differences. so you don't have any existing stimuli. it's always the same silence. the themes found of trickling water use mo, a deal. play a depends on, you know, throughout the experiment beatrice committed to total isolation. time lost its meaning. it last. yeah. 0 one po, box. it's not like the dinos passing faster or slower. it just doesn't basset does

that. i mean, it's always thought in the morning or early life, but despite the challenges, beatrice called the experienced, 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. the wells women's rugby team has been tackling period anxiety with an app. the digital platform taylor's training to each woman's menstrual cycle players have been singing its prices to the in the throes of competition. athletes require full focus to deliver peak performance. but for many players, their menstrual cycle has caused them anxiety on the page. now it's about changing that narrative and substituting stress or support. when i was younger and

go into training while i was drew my mental cycles quite difficult. i do a bit coaching myself and often i got i got girls matches and i can't make it today because i'm on my piazza and it's kind of break not stigma. and also giving people the tools to be able to trade while they're on their peers and use it to their advantage. the machine exactly, those tools are becoming more prevalent. many smartphone apps already help uses adjust training sessions to the menstrual cycle. the whales rugby coaching staff also pays close attention to period symptoms on the data. if a player comes in and they've got severe cramps or fatigue or, or anything like that, then the coaches and phishers are aware of it already without having to have that conversation. because you don't always want to go up to your head coach and tell him i'm on my period. i'm in a lot of pain today, just you know, i might not be my best house for what i've. while avoiding uncomfortable

conversations and tailoring training plans are 2 important factors. the coaching staff wants to improve the environment for its players. overall. to normalize the conversation is key regarding increasing talent growth within the game. i think to allow the players or young players to feel comfortable in environment to speak and be open about the match the cycle or what fears they are in this i go, i think is, is massive for us as a nation. and also as a team, as we continue to grow. 1 as women's sports grow, commercially teams are focused on making marginal games on the pitch, but also taking big steps towards raising awareness and creating a period positive culture. by munich, coach thomas toys says they've dealt with the incident between attacker, sorry, old manet, and he made leave royce any which led to a one match suspension. for many, a german newspaper build reported that he hit sunny in the face after their

champions league defeat to manchester city this week by in suspended and find the cynically staff and misconduct on a now mrs. buy is match against hoffen hind on saturday, but his coach says the player has his full back to been is and then esther, unlike his 1st advocate and his 1st defender in it. so i've known him for so long. no, i know the circles he moves and i know him only as an absolute top professional. i know the circles he moves in as i said, he has never ever ever done anything wrong before. foods, by his pure football doubt, he has my complete trust which he had before, which he still has after the mistake that he really didn't like the matter. and some more news from the world of sport, ukraine has barred its national sports teams from competing at events that include athletes from russia and its allied bella. ross, international olympic committee had tried to reintegrate russian and bell russian athletes and we're a neutral flag due to russia's invasion of ukraine. the nfl washington commanders

are to be sold for $6000000000.00 you where dollars? that's a record for a north american team. the sale follows a congressional investigation which found that owner dan snyder had helped create a toxic workplace environment and the tampa bay res continued their fine start to the season, beating boston red sox. that equals the major league baseball record of 13 winds in a row. they become one of just 3 teams to achieve the fate in the modern era. bolden, 11000 dances dramas and pipers in northern india. i've said a well record for the largest b who performance sat, a single band you the who is an indigenous folk dance in the us. i means culture. the style is characterized by quick steps and rapid, with the earliest depiction of the dance dates back to the 9th century sculptured

with . that's all for now. up next, dow environmental magazine, eco africa, looks at how new technology is helping the mangrove forests in sierra leone. say june for that ah, with

who adopt a key, not a weapon. that's just a song this mission in mcdonough, kind of republic of congo. hundreds of thousands of people live in refugee camps in the war torn country. well, it is their only resource and means of income with joseph is encouraging residents to try a new approach. eco africa with next on d w

ah, in june g w, this award winning offer which is available worldwide warning german has never been simpler german to go o time. once again for a brain update. it's magic, it's the kind of magic. and the, because this orchestra called the brain continuously adapts itself. and so we ask a few astute questions. are we smarter swarms or us? i wouldn't causes monster waves. how powerful are your thoughts? however, we can control our thoughts, which makes us very power came. we have to learn

a lot and we do that through plane questions about life, the universe and the rest. kind of like a superpower. our series 40 to the answers almost everything this week on t w. o, o, a. hello, everyone. wonderful about you've joined us today for classical welcome. i am sandra to nobody here in comply uganda.