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i kind of like a superpower. i was serious. 42, the answers almost everything this week on dw ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. panic in japan as prime minister from yuki shita is caught up in an explosion. it happened that a campaign event less than a year after can she does predict their session. so albert was assassinated during a speech also coming up. russian missile strikes on civilian targets kill at least
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8 people in eastern ukraine rescue as in small yards, desperately dick for survivors in the rubble. as keith calls it, a terror attack. and germany's foreign minister meets china's vice president, and the end of her 3 day visit on a lena bear ball had strong words for beijing on russia and tensions with taiwan. for next stop on a asia tour, south korea. ah . hello, i'm monica jones, welcome. japan's prime minister for mucous sheeta has been brought to safety after an explosion went off just before he was due to give a campaign speech. police have detained a suspect for allegedly throwing a smoke bomb was visiting the port city of vaca yama during local elections. the
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incident comes 9 months after former prime minister sion to other was assassinated while holding a campaigns and her early year we spoke to sonia blush, k, a freelance journalist in tokyo to find out the latest it very much looks like an attack. and though my feeling is that is a bit like a copycat attack, probably you mentioned the other incident last year. but that is really just my, my theory at the moment not much is known. we only know that the, the alleged perpetrator was a 24 year old male or from neighboring here or prefecture. and people saw him in the crowd. he threw something which landed about one meter from his sheeta. and she was brought to safety very quickly. then people who around the person shackleton
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very quickly pushed him to the ground. d seems to be holding a 2nd device, the seconds from silver objects. and about 2030 seconds later there was an explosion. so basically, marless all that, you know, at this stage you see the only one hour and 10 minutes later given us another speech new by and obviously condemned to the attack. you mentioned that it could be a sort of copycat attack her similar to what happened. 9 months ago where it is, was fatal a. but can we read anything into the political climate in japan right now that these things are happening? to be honest, i don't see a dire connection to the political climate in japan. the attack last year had a very specific reason the attacker last year wanted to point out a political failure with regard to
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a sect that was very prevalent in japan and that had political ties. i don't believe that this time there was any relation with the current political climate in japan. initially i thought maybe it has to do with the g 7. obviously the material meetings are taking place and the summit will be taking place next month. but at the moment i feel it's too early to really tell what my and this but will security be tighten a given that the g 7 summit is coming up shortly? yes. yes. and they've already tightened. and since last year, obviously police have been very nervous since then. there was a lot of criticism how they handle the attack last year. and i heard some experts talking earlier saying that they were more police compared to previous events. also of course a is in office right now, so he would have more security detail on him anyway. but i think after this attack,
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japan will ramp up security measures even more. all right, well thank you so much sir. sonya laska there freelance journalist joining us from tokyo, thank you. rescue us are searching for survivors in the ukrainian city of flo, the, an after at least 8 people, including a toddler, were killed in russian ass strikes. the latest attack came as russian president vladimir putin signed into law, a bill that will allow him to draft citizens into the military via email. so the answer is just to 50 kilometers from buffalo to which has witnessed some of the heaviest fighting on the front line in recent months. dropped within the rubble in a residential area. devastated by russian shelling rescue was search this apartment block the survivors. bringing those who they confined to safety some residents were in obvious distress after their neighbourhood was reduced to
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rubble. piano many yet the local officials said at least 7 spots in slo vianza were targeted, including homes and civilian infrastructure. let them router feel good, good. i was just coming back home. everything should have been all right. fortunate . i had just left a sharp. there was the post office and just beyond that, there was a lot of smoke already gonna come and i was lucky on it. i got to the street and i was told not to go any further because of the explosions, good, advanced and root globally. want to look at the actual ukranian president vladimir lensky called it's another terror attack on his country. was we change it as $300.00 missiles hit residential areas, regular civilian buildings. so there are people under the rubble. everything is
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being done to save them. everything is being done to save the wounded. was unable, it weighs 50. the city of buck moot is just 50 kilometers to the south, is slowly answered and is a site of the heaviest fighting on the ukrainian front line. but for ukrainians, attacks on homes like these are a reminder that no way safe and we're john now by frank led, we're to served as an office and the british royal naval reserve. and today is a military analyst. good to have you with us. let me ask you, what do you make of those strikes on sla vianza because russia keeps repeating that it does not target civilian sites in ukraine. slowly ask and previous strikes elsewhere. tell another story, don't they? well, good morning monica. they certainly do. we can tell something from what presidents
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zalinski said that the missiles use were asked 300, which are in this context, are repurposed anti aircraft missiles. they're very precise and irregularly used now on it, in attacks on, on residential areas that these of these were not precise attacks or indiscriminate or intended to kill civilians. and of course, they form part of a much wider campaign of the russians in the one sense of course, attacking civilians through their infrastructure, through their electric, electrical network and so forth, which is seen of last year. and of course, certain precision attacks on civilian targets most significantly and resolutely in this case the almost exactly a year ago attack on chromatography railway station just up the road. 20 kilometers or so from slow the answer that was exactly, you know, this is part of a much greater campaign by russia, against the civilian population, with the, with the intention of terrorizing. and of course leanne's as close to buff motor, which has seen or still see some of the heaviest fighting on the ukrainian
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frontline reports now suggest that ukrainian troops there are under increasingly heavy fire. what more can you tell us about the situation there? yes, the over the last week or so we've seen, or what the british intelligence say is a re intensification of what's already an intense assault by russians, particularly in the it with our tillery the 20s, under increasing pressure. what seems to be happening, monica, is that the ukrainians are conducting what's called a controlled retreat, which they did before. a one or 2 occasions, notably submitted on that last year. when that retreat is complete, we don't know, but they're holding on. what we also see on the part of the russians is an increase of what appears to be increased coordination between the, the wagner mercenary group and russian airborne units, who seem to be holding the flanks as it were. the butler, wiley, combination of gangsters and mercenaries that comprise parking conduct the,
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to the ground to tax in combination now with very heavy artillery. so right now the credits are holding on. let's see how long they can do. so this is the front simply of course of a hero city for them. but let's see what happens over the next week or 2 is this attack intensifies even further. well, thank you so much, frank led, which military analysts. thank you so much for sharing all your insights with us legal and here's a look now at some of the other news making headlines around the world. you, as president joe biden has repeated that he plans where he has plans to run for reelection in 2024 and will announce his campaign. soon. biden is wrapping up an emotional visit to the republic of ireland be held to rally in the town. his irish ancestors came from and he called ireland part of his soul. a supreme court judge and brazil has ordered for my president, jaya, bald sanara to testify before federal police within 10 days. is to be questioned
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about his role in the storming of government buildings. my support is in january, brazil to top, a prosecutor said bold sanara as testimony was needed to clarify what happened. germany is closing its last 3 nuclear power plants. the reactors were due to be taken off the grid last year. but they are, lifespans were extended to come by to the energy crisis. germany is aiming to rely on renewable energy for the majority of its power needs by 2035 and thousands of miles away in china. germany's foreign minister anna lena bear bock is wrapping up her visit to where she held talks on trade bilateral ties taiwan and the war in ukraine. during her trip, she called on beijing to use its leverage in russia to end the war and ukraine. babylon also referenced the renewed tensions in the taiwan strait, saying any military escalation in the region would be a horror scenario for the whole world. i mean,
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i and joining us for more is timothy week. he's a senior research fellow at the german council on foreign relations working on china's foreign and technology policy. good to have you with us. of course, we'll remember a few days ago, french president, a man who am i co called for you to act more independently when it comes to relations with china. that after he visited beijing and that we should not simply follow the united states, lead germany foreign minister on a line up, a book now emphasized that yes, francis china policies reflect you china policies. but she did not clarify where belinda stood on the issue of the use autonomy from the u. s. what is your take on that as well. thank you so much for having me. well, i think indeed this has been a bilateral visit. it has been walks 1st visit to china, so she would not be talking explicit be both the united states. what if you
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implicitly look what she has conveyed the messages that she had to talk to the chinese side? i think it is very clear that she is mostly in line with the united states here. so i assume we can conclude from the treat fact quite disagrees here with the french president. in fact, i think our interests may not always be identical with those of the united states, but it, there's no doubt that europe and the united states are white light, not least on the shield taiwan. and what about the issue of ukraine babel co called in china to use its influence on russia to get the criminal to end the war would leverage, does germany half when it comes to this issue, very limited leverage. i'd say a, just like the rest of the content, i think would the one message that you really conveyed to the,
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the chinese foreign minister. and i think that's what the europeans can do at this point. is that a providing leaf support, ammunitions weapons from the chinese to the russians would cross a red line with severe deteriorate the relations between the united uh, between the european union and china and the other side. that is what you really did in the end. however, i think construct consultations, we china are probably not quite realistic ass, both sides, europeans and chinese have differences here in perspective, differences in opinion. and i assume that's sort of the way approach that, you know, in beijing is probably not going to change any of these differences. right. well, similarly cassini, a research fellow at the german council on foreign relations. thank you so much for that. thank you. and hey,
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european probe is now bound for jupiter's moons. the jupiter icey, moons explorer, and known as juice blasted off from french guyana. and the agencies longest range mission ever. the spacecraft is now on an 8 year journey of more than 600000000 kilometers. scientists hoped to discover whether jupiter's moons can sustain life and the vast oceans hidden beneath their ice covered shelves. are coming up next cheque in the inside of tips for exploring germany as a bit close up. thanks for watching a this is the thought they were great you.

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