really is prime, met, a mentor also gives me known to what i do. the trio combating, shooting dealings, starts april 29th on d, w. ah ah, this is dw news live from both end victory for a memo mccoy. as francis highest court backs his pension reforms, the ruling clears the way for the raising of the minimum pension h at opponents found a fight will go on. the suspect that the center of a massive us intelligence lake appears in court. the 21 year old and national

guardsman is accused of sharing damaging secret material and an online chat group. germany calls on china to help end the war and ukraine aging promises not to supply russia with weapons, but stopped short of condemning the invasion and seeing the light of the 500 days of darkness. we go underground with an extreme athlete from spain who spent the last year and a half in a cave all in the name of science that more in our sports coverage. ah, i'm been fizzle, and welcome a when of types for president a manuel my call. francis eyes court has upheld the government's controversial plans to raise the minimum retirement age from $62.00. to $64.00, the court rejected a call for a referendum on the issue. thousands of protesters have gathered,

empower sand around the country. as campaign is in trade unions promised to continue to fight the changes my call failed to gain enough support from lawmakers and pushed his plans through parliament without a vote with an executive order triggering months of violent. nationwide, protests dw corresponded lisa louis and paris told me more. well, the decision has to part set, 1st of all on the law itself. the constitution of cancer behind me ruled that the procedure that the government used to push through the reform in a faster procedure was constitutional. it also ruled that the content of the law was constitutional. apart from some minor paragraphs that at the continent constitutional counsel as censored in the 2nd part of the decision was on a referendum that the opposition had asked for. and 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 had said that they would continue the fight

against it. just tell me where this all leaves the mccall government. well, it's a bittersweet victories, say to say, and i even days who were to start with in favor of the pensioner for my innovative, 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 or was, he says his government has said, you know, we're going to continue what we want to do. we're gonna continue to talk about other 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 am on my call. that was the t w's

lisa louis in paris. in the united states, 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 activities. 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 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 is shera 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 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 fall out. are you concerned about the way the time to go? we got a minute of your concern about the ladies. i'm concerned with contemporaneous but while the main suspect may be in custody dozens more documents and their

explosive content may yet come to light. kind of counseling is a senior advisor with the so found group, a global intelligence and security consultancy. are you surprised that a low ranking amen got access to classified documents like these are. thank you for inviting me? no, not really. i mean basically if you're in a national security position anywhere in the u. s. government, including, i would say the military security clearances. do rigor, remy, ga. otherwise you can't talk to any of your counterparts and exchange information if one has a clearance and the other doesn't. so. so how many people have clearance? how, how many people are we talking about that have clearance to the sort of i couldn't, i couldn't given number 2, you know, it's how many men in the u. s. military. couple of 1000001 and i have 2000000. i

mean, not all of them do in the u. s. government has many hundreds of thousands and it's many i couldn't give you a good way of talking about a lot of americans. it's, it's, it's a large government. it's a large country. and if you're in a national security position, you needed to do your job, otherwise you won't be able to talk to anybody else in your job. but, but, but this part of his job chatting in his group for the month undetected. well no, that wasn't part of his job. that was on his own time. that was something obviously he shouldn't have been sharing this kind of information in that group. but i, you know, military people use social media, but it's 99.9 percent of them know the rules and they know what they've signed and they go paying their training and they don't do something like this. but what does that tell you that he managed to get away with that it's such a long time?

well, look, i mean, we've had cases in the united states before with different motivations. this is the latest motivation, apparently was using as a teaching tool. that's i think the 1st case of a major leak or a major violation using it as a teaching instrument. i, you know, it happens sometimes it's a very low percentage of the u. s. military, the u. s. government. but as we've seen it periodically, this happens what, what about the full out, what do you see the most damaging revelation in these leaks so far? well, i think there, there may be damage share, you know, obviously the ukraine, exposing some weaknesses and ukraine. the material about u. s. allies. i mean, i think usa lives pretty much know the u. s. is always checking what u. s. allies are telling us that the u. s. has global responsibilities. i don't think that's a surprise. there may be some damage all,

so i'm in showing the degree to which the u. s. can penetrate hard targets such as iran, such as russia, where they make active attempts to protect their information and their discussions and the u. s. can still find out what they're discussing, what they're intending to, to the considering the wealth of information and the timeline here. i can we expect molex to surface over time. that's very hard to say. i mean, i think each, each day i'm learning a little bit more, you know, some more information is coming out. some things came out today, i suppose about iran that weren't there yesterday. so i've been, you know, each, each day there seems to be more, it's hard to say whether we're at the end or closer to the beginning. we're, quite frankly, i just don't know intriguing story. kenneth, catherine, director of research at this one group. thank you. thank you. now look

at some of the other stories making developments in the ward ukraine. a russian missile strike on the ethan ukrainian city of science because killed at least 8 people according to the regional governor. as rescue as sifted through the rumble, he want more people could still be buried under the residential building. russian president vladimir putin has signed into law plans to create an electronic draft system to conscript made into the military coolant papers. will no longer need to be served in person. draft dodgers will have their drivers license is suspended a be bad from selling their apartments or assets. noise domestic intelligence and security service says 15 russian diplomats expelled this week. had tried to recruit sources into sep communications and by advanced technology on behalf of russian intelligence services. it's no ways largest ever expulsion of russian diplomats. moscow says it will respond. russian oil exports search to more than $8000000.00

barrels per day and march the highest level for nearly 3 years despite waste and sanctions. but the international energy agency says russia's oil revenues were down sharply tumbling, 43 percent from a year ago, or germany's foreign minister. and a lena bear book has held talks with senior chinese diplomats, or the taiwan and beijing's human rights record, and has called on china's leaders to help and the war. and you cry, german foreign minister and alina bareback on her inaugural visit to china after landing in the port city of tianjin on thursday, bareback 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. nuns 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 product. china adopts 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 staged wargames 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 yet you compact . 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. babcock is not the only high profile visitor to beijing, brazil's president louisa, now ceo looted a silva, is on a state visit to china as well. lou, lou discussed the war in ukraine with president shinji ging sheet and being leaders agreed. negotiation is needed to end the fighting. both brazil and china have refused to join western sanctions against russia. since returning to office in january, luda has tried to position brazil as a mediator between east and west was out with others visit to china. european shuttle diplomacy to beijing, and naval drills of taiwan. china is the lynchpin and geo politics. at the moment, i asked political scientist why john mannion what it all mate. well, it's been a busy, 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 reaching? i mean, it is clearly seen next to united states is the most important power in the world when it comes to the war in ukraine. the united states, which is seen by mister putin as an effective co belligerent, cannot serve as mediator china 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 mediate, i myself, i'm skeptical that that will happen quickly. will the chinese in the brazilians want to see some sort of deal done some sort of negotiations and the ukrainians are certainly not up for that? are they? well, i don't know that the ukrainians are not up for you. you'll recall that when mister she went to moscow,

he said thereafter that he would call the president zalinski of ukraine. president zalinski of ukraine then invited him to come to kids. and not only has he not visited, cuba said he would, he has not even contacted will be on the telephone. so i think zalinski 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 your plan 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 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. ma wrong left the jing 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 that the chinese are willing to say we put the use of military force off the table. and miss their book, emphasize this, i think the chinese were 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. but they also don't want to denounce russia's war and ukraine either. 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 balls, including ukraine, off to $1004.00, when the russians and ex crimea, and created to so called republics in the eastern part of nuclear and on boss. the chinese did not recognize them then and have not read them now. so there is room

that beijing has left itself, should it 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 able to compromise. mr. putins conditions for ending the war is that essentially ukraine accept the loss of 4 provinces that russia occupies in part. thank you, and now a look at some of the other news making headlines around the world. the u. s. supreme court has temporarily hold to the lower court rulings that limited access to the abortion pill method. first start, it allows the court to consider a bid by the biden administration to defend the drug from a challenge by anti abortion groups. last week of texas, judge ordered a nation wide band or if a pressed on, effectively pulling it for the market. lawmakers in the us state of florida have voted to ban abortions after 6 weeks. then you rule makes exceptions for cases of

rape incest, or a health risk to the mother 6 weeks into a pregnancy. many women haven't realized that they pregnant republican governor, rhonda santas has signed the bill into law in the new cycle, and hilda has hit northwestern australia with the strongest sustained winds. the country's ever recorded. it made landfall as a category 5 storm on friday morning before weakening as it moved in land. densely populated areas of so far escaped major damage. the european space agency has launched a probe bound 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 that ice common surfaces. some sport now by munich. coach thomas tacos says they've dealt with the incident

between attack. i saw your manet, anti mainly hoist sunny, which led to a one match suspension. for many the german newspaper build reported that he hit sunny in the face after their champions. like the feet of manchester city this week by and suspended and find the cynically staff and misconduct money. now mrs. ions match against horror night 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, i've known him for so long. no, i know the circles he moves and i know him only as an absolute top professional nor the circles he moves in. as i said, he has never ever ever done anything wrong before football. he's pure football that 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 on the world of sport, in brief,

the nfl washington commanders are to be sold for $6000000000.00 us dollars. that's a record for a north american team. the sal follows a congressional investigation which found that old dan snyder had helped created 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 free teams to have achieved the feet in the modern era. and ukraine is barred, its national sports teams from competing at events that include athletes from russia and by the us. international olympic committee had tried to reintegrate russian and bell russian athletes under a neutral flag due to russia's invasion of ukraine. now imagine not knowing about the war in ukraine, or just how expensive everything's got over the past couple years. that's how it's been for a spanish extreme athlete who spent the last 500 days in a cave,

with no contact to the outside boiled. scientists wanted her to learn about the effects of extreme isolation. after a year and a half in total isolation under ground, beatrice lamina was all smiles. wildly. legs were united with the surface world. familiar stimuli came flooding back, sunlight, fresh air, and human contact. his it was. 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 in that isolation on the human body and mind the limit, especially on circadian rhythms, the bodies internal clock, which is normally calibrated by sunlight, money that of, of the less than what will you think will i, keith, is the piece under ground that usually it is only one exit. do you know might the space if are generally bases but that quite hostile for humans visually for their

minds. because you don't see any daylight in mind. 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 theme found of trickling water is more. theo playa depends. huh. 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. the scientist monitored her sleep patterns and other biometrics. the device worn on her wrist and her support team dropped off supplies for her to collect any time lost its meaning yet that last yes 0 one full bath. it's not like the diners passing faster or slower. oh no, it just doesn't bath it does. but i mean, it's always thought in the morning maybe more or less. 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 will heavy metal fans the celebrating one of the most eagerly awaited uber leases of the year? american ban. metallica enjoy massive popularity around the world and the new album, $72.00 seasons, takes the musicians on an eventful trip back to their formative years. with chime haunted by the pass, this going from the title track of metallica, new album. 72 seasons encapsulates the sentiment of the new release. on the 12th album, the american heavy metal band is in reflective mood the

band founded in 1981 looks back on a turbulent 42 year history. a 1986. it had to come to terms with the death of fans, member cliff button. in the early 2, thousands there was a prolonged court by fo, with music streaming service nap stop. the band sailed through many a storm $72.00 seasons if the 1st year release since the 2016 hard wired to self destruct. the album's title refers to a person's most impressionable period of life. the 1st 18 years or 72 seasons. metallic us still rocking after more than 40 years. with

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