i thought of it food st needs friends with a well says i gave sam because of his full scale evaluation of ukraine. the russian president has now welcome the alma plates and trying to be soon to be b. s. s. came jo on of north korea, united states history, pre emptive warnings about the consequences of any steel between the 2. a well president kim is told well that he and person will be together in the fight against imperialism. so how long will this relationship last? i'm feel go invalid and this is the day the russian is negotiating potential deals for significant quantities and multiple types of munitions it. here's, here's the huge of mind to solve. it stopped out of onto the shelves and a complaint against your brain. see, i'm traveling the process

a country had to hand to big kim john for military assistance. the ends justify the means and rushes principal proud to you right now is to be successful in ukraine. the idea that any nation would give them eunice to a country that has committed crimes against nowadays also on the day of republicans in the united states as low as that impeachment inquiry enterprises 5 and an example of justice being done or is this revenge for the democrats and patient donald trump, and some of us are distressed about this because we thought the less than the next and peach meant that wasn't really adhere to in the clinton impeachment. was it really the level of seriousness of the allegations really has to be at a higher level before you go forward? but now it looks like we're involved in a tit for tat situations. welcome to the date north

korea's kim jo own has pledged useful and unconditional support for the rest is not an approved in the to international i've cost of mass investors far east with agenda believes to have included brushes designed for access to north korea. soviet base, the weaponry president kim is said to be seeking russian food i and helping developing the treat become a some satellites. so how long will this relationship of convenience last genuine. raising this last to friendship for sure. but i would like to make it because this is a future strengthening of cooperation and friendship between all countries, between the russian federation and the democratic people's republic of korea. the meeting between north korean leader kim jong on an russian president vladimir putin, wasn't able to meet 2 of appreciation to go to court together with comrade colton. we've just had an elaborate discussion about the middle tree and

political situation on the korean peninsula and europe and to have come to the conclusion that we need to further intensify strategic and tactical cooperation to ensure safety guarantee a long lasting peace, both in the region and the whole world, the to lead is each becoming increasingly isolated on the global stage. but looking to show that they have each of those back to kim jones on the underlines, is ongoing support for russia, against what he called the thrust of a german. this forces against its silver into the united states. his wants that north korea could be preparing to supply russia with military equipment to boost its capabilities in ukraine. the pen took a tour of rushes, the stuff me caused me to drive the country's most important role. could launch center on the less believe that north korea wants russian advice on how to improve

its own rockets and reconnaissance satellites. for russian officials down play the fact that the summit could be a cause for concern for other countries. but that will do little to comm weston fee is about this flourishing friendship that's pretty much dealt with dr. john pock, who's director of the hob kennedy schools, korea project to joins us from cambridge, massachusetts. so welcome to the w delta. let's start with that line from that came jones on where we need to further intensify strategic and tactical cooperation to ensure safe stay. i guarantee a long lasting piece, both in the region and in the whole world. what do you think about me in concrete terms? sure. i think that's a really fancy way of saying here are 2 leaders who are now in a problem solving relationship. each party is able to help the other in

a very specific and unique way. for example, with putting in is leave for munitions on the battlefield and ukraine. north korea, as we've heard, clearly has those munitions and stock piles and also has production capabilities that can be rammed up potentially to on the north korean side of the low church gym . as a very specific problem in terms of his s o p program, a space launch vehicle program when the final stages just not been able to after 2 successive tries, that have to put the what they call a military satellite into orbit. and so from that lands i think it all boils down to the 1st set of these problems and to see how these 2 leaders are going to be able to solve that. what does it go? well, is that if we are able to solve those, what other problems will bring into this kind of relationship, we don't seek the solutions and work together in a very cooperative manner. okay, so no word from the within these meetings which i understand how have not concluded . so what will you be looking for over the coming weeks and months as

a signal of what has been agreed and indeed, what may be the being delivered of what are the unique things that's happening right now the united states is releasing intelligence to try to rain on the parade for trying to get the parties involved to rethink what they're about to do or what they're currently doing. so i do think we're going to see the us release information, things along the lines of tracking trains, other types of logistics, and moving those munitions from north korea to russia. when did the unique things here is that there is no 3rd party or 3rd country entry point is directly going to go from north korea all across the expanse of russia into the battlefield and ukraine. the 2nd thing to keep an eye out for is it's pretty clear from the north korean perspective here, the space launch vehicles are things that by nature, are very high profile, things that they can't really conceal. this is an interesting area because as much as north korea is aspiring to put that military satellite into orbit. russia helped

to ron, put their kite satellite into orbit in august of 2020 to a very similar type of arrangement that point. and kim have hammered out in this particular instance as well. so it would be watching very closely in terms of noise present tense, next time with a space launch vehicle and trying to put that military satellite and told him, you mentioned something in passing, which you don't hear a lot about because there's always a lot of focus on the potential for buying weapons and new nations. but you also talked about manufacturing capacity. just explain what you meant. if you look at it, it's a, a unique type of relationship north pretty. it has all of these capabilities in stock pile as well as the production facilities because they're from the soviet union and over time, north korea, certainly innovative to increase their production capacity on their own. but at the end of the day, these are types of molds and blueprints that are routed and traced back to the soviet union. and so from that time period and looking at russia and what they're using right now, there's

a type of symmetry that doesn't really exist with any other country. if north korea is to increase production in terms of munitions, they're likely to get fresh in assistance on that side. but that would be almost like a joint venture. one thing that i think we, we need to add to the analysis here, less of the arms seller and in arms. clients type of situation would very much this type of pragmatic, practical problem solving partnership that i see element that's different here. and that's the element that's quite challenging, right. and so this, this relationship is of convenience does. does russia have red lines and when it comes to closing up to its new friend, for example, a boots and so forth and un security council sanctions against john young. when it accelerates its nuclear, in this office in 2016 and 17. so this the, all the conditions a minister live rouse, more or less remove the red line. he basically said that those sanctions previously were from a different geo political time period. so he's basically saying north korea and

what you're dealing with is space launch vehicle program is something that is in around that rushes as nicely as a violation of sanctions, per se. and the fact that russia held the wrong do that a little over a year ago gives you a sense of this kind of precedent setting. but the root of all of this is the notion that the 2 countries are very focused on using their respective capabilities to help the other and have this arrangement so that for the initial set of problems, they have what other problems that they can entertain in terms of capabilities, one is using cyber capability, cyber criminals, that both states and museums have used, essentially to steal crypto and have as a revenue generating source. so those are areas that already independently the 2 countries are doing. if they were to cooperate in this fashion, they could scale up and that certainly wouldn't be a red line, but what both of these things really need which are increased revenue streams. and you mentioned that as a 2nd level, it was clear that he doesn't think that this sort of corporation,

the sort of islands exchange would a full file of the un security council resolutions. the rest of the world clearly has other ideas about this. if there is evidence of this happening, where does this leave russia, which of course is a permanent member of the security council of russia in close collaboration with china has been very consistent in blocking any efforts and the security council to introduce new sanctions. resolutions that's been going on for a number of years now. i think so. so part of the increased capabilities enhancing the space launch vehicle, putting a military satellite into work and doing that though, introduces the opportunity to e n a. the possibility of north korea applying those lessons learned to advancing their intercontinental ballistic missile program as well. that's an area where it could unsettle the balance of power and the green potential, the dynamics there in north gray, using those capabilities, testing them, in that sense, demonstrating capabilities as it were before for russia. here,

those several possibilities don't seem to be a part of the calculation. if anything, the whole idea of how they can build out this practical relationship. faucet, i think transfer writes, i guess through that dr. young pop from the harvard kennedy schools career project . thank you. i'll be rest set looks at 4 months of devices political debate following the decision to begin an investigation into by the president by them should be and page a us house, majority leader coming the coffee claims evidence has him showing what he called a culture of corruption in the bible family delegation center around the accusation of the president personally profited from his son hunter. biden's foreign business dealings allegations are not new and were 1st made during the trump administration . catherine ross is a professor of law at george washington university law school in washington. i

welcome to the w professor to be clear republicans at the moment to talking about an inquiry into whether to stop impeachment process rather than starting that impeachment process itself as well. it's a little unclear uh the leaves are of the house of representatives. republican group of speaker mccarthy announced that they was asking the committees to begin an inquiry as he also said that he was going to skip the usual and apparently required steps of asking the full house of representatives to vote on the beginning of formal inquiry. um, because it seems he would not have enough votes on their public can shop by susan all the way through to proceed if, if he doesn't look like you'll get the most, we'll just skip through that. do you said, do you see that being enough evidence to justify this inquiry?

there is no evidence at all. and in fact, many senior level republicans have admitted and in interviews that they have no evidence. and the senator grassley awhile back not with respect to this impeachment proceeding, but he actually said we have no interest in finding out what the tr. ringback this so they have already called many witnesses this, they have reviewed more than 12000 pages of documents including financial records that the buttons involuntarily transferred over that they didn't have to. and they have not come up with a single thing they can point to. right. so if they're not interested in finding out what the truth is, what do you think they really want to do? this is the political grab standing. it is a power play. it is another example of the way in which very tragically

the republican party has moved away from being a responsible party participating in governance to a party that is interested in retaining power at all costs and promoting. and authoritarian leader in the form of the former president. um, it is also, i think, intended to distract the american people from uh, some very important news, both about the legal troubles of the former president and his indicted co conspirators. now that the decisions are coming almost daily from the court's ruling against the president and his allies and the trials are about to start and they don't want this coverage focused on that. but it is also about the interest family warfare. what i've done among the republicans in the house looks

andrews because speaker mccarthy had a very hard time being elected to that position. and as part of the deal that he ultimately cobbled together after more than a dozen sales votes, he gave the far right republicans. he said, i mean there's essentially everybody in the party, the option of calling for him to step down in the middle of his term. and he was being pressed very hard from the right, including 5 people's wed recently met with the former president and moral law. though they were saying we're going to force you to give up your office if you don't begin the impeachment proceedings. and he talked to them, so i'm inquiring with no, no evidence of wrongdoing, and apparently no interest in finding out the truth. where does this go to where does it and how does it end? is or does it go to? it's a wonderful question. in normal times, it would just sputter out it would come to

a grinding halt because presumably they will still not find anything unfortunately . um they are probably gonna issue subpoenas, which will not be enforceable because the full house never voted to begin the inquiry. uh, so would there be court battles over that or? well, president biden say, i'm not going to be like trump was, i'm not going to be like the republicans who refused to testify before committees. i'll turn on, keep turning it over. maybe he will. and presuming they find nothing should end there, but i don't think it will because they've made it so clear. this is not a sewer is proceeding. it's not a bad governing. it's not about a legitimate oversight or separation of powers. so it is quite plausible that they will bring this to us out on the floor, 4th floor of the house, and whether to impeach, they may, will not have the votes because there are still

a handful. i think of republicans who won't go along, especially with an election looming. right. but in this time of crisis here and such a weapon, this ation and pull it association of everything. i just don't, i wouldn't feel comfortable placing a bet on right ends. i did want to talk to them about that point a bit, but impeachment proceedings well, one's ran that they seem to have become a common place. has the boss for impeachment got low or people just more and more inclined to reach for it. and it's hard to see that there's a bard all right now, and i would hope that this proceeding and as such a calamity that republicans will be embarrassed and that both sides will learn the less than on how and when impeachment should be properly involved. good. so can you thank you for joining us,

professor professor catherine ross from george washington university law school. thank you. o u. s. government has issued a recommendation that almost all of us citizens get annual cardona virus vaccine shots. advice comes as us hospitalizations for corruptive. auditors are on the increase vaccine shots for children as young as 6 months have been approved by the us food and drug administration. hundreds of death due to code on the virus that we quoted you. each week in the us campaign to encourage people to get drugs to make these to, to begin in a few days. let's bring an epidemiologist and co founder of the world health network. doctor area code 5 holding welcome to dw, jump to many of us. so the find that because, oh, but why is the last the recommend doing that? americans get shots every year to well, you know, we wish it's over,

but clearly the data shows that it's not when you're out, you're talking about mild cases. we're talking about, for example, destiny us, a doubled hospitalizations, have tripled in your visits have quadrupled in the past month, month and a half. and so we're in the beginning of another waves. and right now they're very and so we have a very highly evolved things different than previous waves. this is why we infections are at all time high as well. so these are very big pieces and they are clearly sending people to the hospital. so it's, it's not just a mild and even then we know that mild has lost and consequences. that's why the cdc has recommended these new boosters that they've been testing all year for the general population. and it's even shows there's benefits for children, not just the elderly. so there's like why the recommended for everyone. 6 months old. and you told me about a doubling and quadrupling of,

of hospitalizations and the number of cases, perhaps you could put some fingers on it. how many cases, how many hospitalizations are you see? so cases are really hard to measure because not much testing, but hospitalizations. uh, you know, it's, it has tripled across the us and in, in parts of new york, it has actually more than 5 ext. um, so i think, you know, it is lower than of course during 20202021. but i think people need to understand that, you know, it despite being lower, these numbers are still overcrowding, hospitals and you know, we might be about a quarter or like where we were like last winter. but in terms of the delta variance, we were actually about the about the same level hospitalization, um as the delta variance um across the us. so it's still quite a lot and i think people under appreciate that. and unless you're in the hospital,

you know, we out in the restaurants and shopping malls, it's out of sight out of mind. you don't see all this, but it is definitely happening. and the boosters do work, these updated boosters do work against, do you current variance, right. and so we should regard coby now as infected if i can use that. so it's with us to stay. we should protect ourselves against that. as we do, for instance, the flu too. well, i don't think we should accept it. first of all, we have conquered the fluid in the past and certain years. it's much worse than others. and you know, we should we accept each of the ages. oh, it's embedded, it's endemic, know, we're trying to eliminate that and long term using strategies. and i think in better we should just have a laissez faire added to, besides do, sir, is i think the best thing which is even less requiring are people compliance is have cleaning door. i think we should assume that these respiratory viruses will come back, but take the precaution because these,

this toby does not just another sniffle. it has long, 3 names, one and for people. all survivors have suffered long term lung damage as well, or even one year afterwards. and i think they also raises the heart attack and cardiovascular stroke and diabetes risk long term as well. so we should just accept it. we need to mitigate it any besides boosters. we also need clean indoor air. doctors accept it as i come. what may i do? we need to rethink our entire schools of work places to basically prevent future airborne transmission. and these base significant increases that you're talked about. should we think of this as a peculiarly american phenomenon, or should other countries be making the same recommendations to the populations? yeah, was so hospitalization. we've seen you across many places and i don't think it's uniquely american in any way. but i do hope other countries take heed. obviously

these recommendations are recommend for everyone over the age of 6 months because i've seen u. k in australia, only recommended for those $75.00 plus $65.00 plus. and i think that's way too elderly in terms of to restrictive. we need a broad across young people in the cdc yesterday did a cost of that cost benefit analysis and the cost benefit. now is clearly show as the benefits for everyone, including children. so i think the countries are ignoring recommendations for children. i think they're making a great mistake. but we did see how political evacuation issue became in the us. even this people were dying in millions, not a tow if it's no longer news doctors like yourself. good. if i said a pill bottles, i guessing people to get that those, those booster shots, or what just because it is something you as an uphill battle does not mean you shouldn't do it. that's not, you know, sometimes we go to the mood because we really want,

there is some important work to be done. and cobit, you know, even if only one in 51, and 4 people give backs and 80, that will save a lot of lives. a lot of hospitalization, lot of long term co morbidities in terms of lung damage, heart attack stroke. and i also want to remind people like, for example, u, k, u k. there wants to the number of people out of work because they're can't, they're too sick to be in the workforce. this is government data has, you know, increased to 50 percent and it's actually main contributor to the economic stagnation. so i want people to think that this is also not, not only for health, but also for the economy that we need to get people back to work healthy in a healthy society is what we want. it's not just, you know, complacency, and i think vaccines is just the start. i think it's very important that we get the new boosters, but also we need better clean indoor air filters. the ventilation,

upper room. you be to truly just to prevent many other diseases including koby also are speed, flu and many other feature index. it's okay. thank you so much for joining us. academia was use to eric fargo data from the world health network. thank you so much. thank to and that is the day for today to make sure to stay in touch so you can follow out to him on the x dot dw news myself out from gale. evans likes headlines you're looking for. there's always the dw d, w dot com on page 2. thanks for spending part of your day with us. have a good the

and says the conflict, so i worry about the will of the west to continue to do what needs to done. strong was so my guess is wait today says former deputy supreme commander in europe. i mentioned sure there's a lingering field, but somehow we can go back to some sort of space of credit with russia. that is not going to happen. the same thing happened. come pick the

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assess and to to, to 300 things to moment that will change her mind. find my home in the culture this weekend on w. d. the news on the news, i worry about the will of a west to continue to do what needs to be done. strong words from my guess is weak base, those full the deputy supreme commander of your so richard sheriff there is still in your, among european countries a lingering feel that somehow we can go back to some sort of stage of grow and to with russia. that is not going to happen. so what does he think will happen? so the loving prospect soon focus the loud wake up cool for york, the american general associates of sheriff, welcome to come.