the, the, this is the, the, the news coming to lie from berlin. julian hassan lands in australia, a free man. after 5 years in prison and a link the legal buffalo, the we see leaks, founder agreed to us plead deal and allowing him to return home. also coming up, us journalist 7 gaskets on trial in russia. the wall street journal reporter stands accused of spying. he could face 20 years in prison on charges the and his paper did not. and faking it to win the war, how you cranes decoy weapons trip the russians into using up their really wants the

law. i'm terry martin. good to have you with us, julian, his on his back home in australia, a free man after a play deal with us authorities is private jets, landed a camera airport where he was welcomed by his wife, stella and his father is freedom. paulo is a to our court appearance before a judge and a us pacific territory working pleaded guilty to violating americans law this march . and in to a 14 year long legal battle with the us government over leaks documents and classified military files that he published on his with you to explain to me the soldiers legal team and his wife spoke to reporters a short while ago. here's what stella assange had to say to join join. wanted me to sincerely find everyone he wanted to be. but you have to

understand what he's been through. he needs time, he needs to recuperate. and this is the process. i ask you to give up space to give us privacy to find our place so that our family see a family before he speak again at a time of his choosing. earlier i spoke to roy through his journal as christy needham, and kirsten need them in camera. she told us more about those emotional moments after his on his arrival. so this, that was a press conference with assign just was still a clearly emotional speaking to the media. so the 1st time since she had embraced the husbands, we stepped off that plane, not that long ago. and also his legal team. timing,

he hundreds of assigned to support is also attend at the high to jeering clacking. it was point hit exchange and the message from stella is, you know, doing couldn't be that the spots harmony support is turning out the media because he makes time to recover it. it has been quite an old deal. and you said someone who takes ahead freedom comes slowly and so this may be a slight pressure at school. it has been to, it's not too late assigned to re adjust to his new freedom in australia. things legal team will also is a very public who had been in that 510 port um and he said that this is a great, i mean there's my guys hold on, julian, there's nothing, nothing to stop him from speaking in the future. and you know, this play deal also means that there's nothing else to be on. so it's construction, they'll be nice future charges. do we know what julian his son is going to

do? now of course he has to adjust to being free, but do we know what his plans are at this point? i'm not at this stage me speaking to his family then this guy said knowing julian, they kind of mentioned that he and 7 down to the quiet life fitness. great. is it? yes. and he's these back times the 1st time in 1618. he has a young family and what city wants to enjoy the simple things in life that they do . so i watch the spice because i'm still also said, julian, it's him. he's nice of him because on human rights, you know, he has very strong feelings about justice. so you know, to have to be the negative goals that we will say. as you said in these lines. * that he will, he'll be back on the public stage. again, the legal process that julian hassan went through for years and years was excruciating and involved multiple countries ended up with him spending over 5

years in a prison in london. what. what about the future for his legal status is, is this the end of, of all of his legal troubles, or could we see more of the account? a sorry his, his council very focused, but you know, in fact about these pieces, i thought he said, so, you know, i assigned had pleaded guilty on one charge of espionage. he had been free. there's no chance that the charges can be brought against him and you said this is why it was a complex negotiations. it took, took many months it, and the wins that we've gained by his team with this quote hearing would be in a specific us territory, not in the mainland. united states that assigns would not be presented as a prisoner, but there will be no gag order on him. so this is, you know, a bit of an insight into the to and fro and the complex negotiations that has gone

on. now he's pretty slowly i jen robinson also related to the fact that there was a pretty smart court hearing coming up quite said, wait, assigned would have been able to argue that the charges he facing united states that the consideration must be given to his 1st amendment rights, you know, that legal, legal protections might not be available to him in the united states. so this tension between national security and freedom of speech was really coming into play and he's legal. same, suggest that this press conference. but these are the issues that, you know, the united states government really didn't want it. there's a difficult complex issue right across the thank you very much. that was a writer's journalist, kirsty, and need them there in camber, australia. it's catch up on a few of the stories making headlines around the world today. nato has officially announced outgoing. that's prime minister mark wrote to as it's next secretary

general, he will take over from un, spelt and back on the 1st of october. some of the biggest challenges for richard will be russia's ongoing war and ukraine and uncertainty over the us as future commitment to the ally. taiwan says it's coast guard, chased away chinese naval vessels from waters off. one of the title is the incident as part of what type one calls chinese harassment that has escalated. china views the democratically govern island as a break away province and says unification is inevitable. russian prisoners of war have returned home from captivity in ukraine. a plane with 90 soldiers on board arrived in moscow early on wednesday morning. it's the biggest exchange between the countries. in almost 5 months, the united arab emirates is said to be a mediator in the exchange process. sales and breaking news coming out of 10. yeah. that countries president william

rudo has rejected a controversial new finance bill that sparked violent demonstrations and reason. days, rudo refused to sign the bill or send the amended draft blow back to parliament, adding that the bill will be withdrawn. and these thousands of protesters breached the security barrier around the parliament building and i, roby. on tuesday, they were showing their anger and proposed tact. sikes at a time when living costs are on the rise. at least 23 people were killed in clashes between police and protesters. well, for more on this story, let's cross straight over to nairobi where our correspond it. fedex mine and my ring is standing by fedex present router. just finished speaking. uh, what did he say about the controversial tax bill? exactly. so president williams wrote or has just read the drawing. uh, the 20242025 finance b. as a horton. uh,

what this means is that he has listened to the young people who told him they did not want amendments through the builder. they wanted him to reject or they wanted to use governments to reject to the finance building the in its totality. he talked about some of the implications that he had intended to employee teach as on, on june the 602001 palm island, 10 points in a pinch on the basis. he said that he wanted to increase the costs of funding on some medical equipments and maybe seeing add to some of the hospitals if in the countries he also talked about that they intend to that he had to buy for the laser and other fund inputs for the farm on and he said that these, his government will now have to look for money. we've been a lot states agencies and other forms of raising finances for them to be able to continue with the plans that he had intended to do with

a controversial bill. he has also said that part of the things that he will do is to cut on the expenditure for his office and for other states offices. he mentioned that the, the quotes uh or not that the judiciary needs to cattle, its budget to the pilot mentor. they need to cut to its budget, and now the state is also advised to live within their means. so that, that the government can be able to have money to put into either projects, something else that was very no trouble. the president said that he has listened to cancel, asked him to data, familiar with the card option. and he said, that's who we'll be dealing family with corruption so that the money that can now has been losing to car absolutely cannot be used to fund other government activities. and they can now national beautiful statistics just a few years ago said can now loses aside though it's on your budget to corruption. so if this aside, the annual budget is not lost on the corruption,

then the government would easily be able to find all that projects that he had intended to fund with that uh, control by sort of finance bill felix, thank you for bringing this up to date. there that was dw, correspond to phoenix. my number, ringo in nairobi. now to russia and the trial against us journalist ebony goose cabbage has begun behind closed doors in the city of e. katherine book. the reporter for the wall street journal is accused of spying for the us and could face up to 20 years in prison if found guilty. he and his employer did not have the charges of to move in a year under arrest. russia is now putting evan gosh corvettes on trial. the 2 year old john list was detained in march. 2023 were reporting in the city of your cutting book, according to his employer. the wall street journal russian prosecutors

alleged gosh, could, which was collecting secret information from a tank factory for the c. i a gosh, cubits denies the charges. so to his family employer, the white house you say he was wrongfully detained. this espionage charges are ridiculous. the targeting of american citizens by russian government is unacceptable. we condemn the detention of mister goose glitch in the strongest in the strongest terms. gosh, good, which is the son of soviet emigres and grew up in new jersey. he moved to russia in 2017 to walk. there was a correspondent, the wall street journal. hi to him in 2022 dash could, which is the 1st american john this to be jailed and russian espionage charges since the soviet era. despite strange relations us and russian officials have indicated that talks on going about releasing gosh, because it's in a prison, this will go. but the us and russia have not yet reached an agreement.

in an interview, in february of this year, vladimir putin indicated he wants to swap gash, give it to the russian hit my sentence to life imprisonment in germany for muttering a chechen distant impulse in 2019. it's a specific will definitely be for somebody to go to some ex, but say the trial could help bring the negotiations forward. it's a very unfortunate situation to all around, but this may be a glimmer of hope in his eventual coming home. because this trial will establish the verdicts and russian injustice needs to see a verdict in a case before i believe that they're willing to do some negotiation for whatever might be the outcome. but by making the trial secret, while she is hiding his case away from the public. well, so gosh, which the uncertainty continues, or ingenuity and diversion ery tactics are part and parcel of ukraine's effort to

win the war against russia. this includes producing fake tanks and artillery pieces to trick the russians into using their valuable real weapons to destroy ukrainian de course. but just who is behind making the fakes that are saving the real items from destruction. and, and triple 7. how it's destroyed by russian fire, except that it's not a real how it's a, but rather a model. these fake west and artillery pieces made by volunteers. the decoys meant to full russian soldiers into wasting expensive munitions to destroy them. the russians see the fe, code tillery from drones, and cannot distinguish the model from real weapons. proper camouflage also plays a role when he squatted. the book on zillow is giving you some, uh uh, yeah, the military showed me how the fix look on the russian screens. you must see him come was we used to create more detailed models. let me just go put, the military told me they don't need all of this. i'm alone that are some of the

main thing is to have the basic elements. this thing is the site and there's more than enough detail here for how they see this stuff. it's for much of a 2 bath, roughly on used to make furniture. a year ago, he received a request from the military to make models of weapons. he made his own drawings based on the photos from the internet. or it shows that people is what we've already made more than a 100 model us. busy one real how it's our costs, at least $3000000.00 or less. so we've already saved about $300000000.00 for our army lives and that's over these. got a steak, how it costs about a $1000.00. well, the russian projectile that destroys it, costs $35000.00 the fish. and this is what fascinates us there. we can do something here in civilian life that really helps the army helps me save the guy on the floor if he across. and i know working on the model of the

soviet era onto the re piece, it's made of plywood 10 sheets and scrap metals. this is the finished product, a common almost 10 meters long. the model has enough detail to be indistinguishable from the real common when seen from a drone. michela is the 2nd generation carpenter. what he wants most is for the products he has worked on to be destroyed as soon as possible so that the russians watched from drones and expedite and it looks like a real one. there will be air strikes if this is more strikes on our fake weapons mean more lives save for our military while the temple boys so that they don't have to take risks. the more air strikes the better, less to these crossman can make models of western radars and even the german iris t defense system. ukrainian veteran and military analyst alexi huckman emphasizes

that it is necessary to keep a balance between the resources spent on their effectiveness. sure when they are pushing the test page, start creating the special unit 0 is doing and allocating a large number of people and forces to do this. it won't be worth it to me. all of those work, but they don't protect 100 percent against the enemy attacks and it took him as a shake and confused the enemy sometimes. and that's ok. that is if even one missile hits the domain, you know the cost hundreds or thousands of dollars. it's already a success, so this is the one with the terms are terms of these ukranian engineering units don't disclose which models they use and why, but they want to generate as much support as possible to continue. the work will spray and frank lead, which here he's a senior lecturer and strategic studies at portsmouth university and a former u. k. military intelligence officer. frank, how wide spread is the use of decoy weaponry in modern warfare.

good afternoon, there's a long and noble history of this kind of deception going way back way the on the 2nd level, but notably in the 2nd world war of the british and americans managed to create an entire army of inflatable and wouldn't tank switch to see if the germans into misplacing the d day invasion in my time. wait and nato was seriously discomforted by the serbian efforts that the section sounded much along the lines of what you saw, that in your report to the fact that when we went to do battle damage assessment in cost of of expecting 400. so the wrong. so the and tanks to be destroyed, we found full. so in terms of the cost benefit analysis said that they run through the whole report. this is absolutely a, it's, it's a boss not fundamental. it's a really important elements of multiple fun, quite a kind of a one. and as with set,

that's not just artillery pieces. it's across the board. you can create uh, within headquarters a lot yet across systems, right? all sense. but there's a minute to it though, and i think now we're getting to the point where i had high definition tv footage can challenge the, the kind of assets been made that, but certainly that's very important. what's your assessment prank of the tactical advantages provided by these d course a while it can be used in many ways. so let me, let me give you an example. looked at there's all kinds of nuances in this. so let's say you know, you, you, you create your insightful tank while a go down a list of good folks on this will be able to tell a tele, that the fate from the real and not just by the way it looks. and that's quite difficult actually, but also by the detroit is around it, the trucks because of course, any time cool outside of the system has to get that. so what tends to be done is the clever a deployment type type of deployments of these items when they click well,

probably put them with a previous they, they've been attack oregon. so it's surrounded by the detritus of and i'll tell the read team or, or the, the tank crew that fuel kindly artillery shows, which will, of course, look very real and, and you can add to that by having done these or modifications as well. if you want to be really nuanced about it, do you have a time, can you what we'll place that in for red sauce and it to mimic the engine pipes and no diesel generate to something like that's all this has been done in the past. so it's a lot of nuance behind this. what the russians have been doing apparently is because i do this as well. needless to say. but on both sides is that they will deploy a fight unit to our assets in a certain place for, for a number of days. and it'll be determined as a fake. they'll put a real one that then and use it to ambush any ukrainian attack on not just all sorts of nuances of ways you can use this very effectively. ukraine has been really good at this throughout the war, up duping the enemy,

confusing them to saving them as you put it. these tactics have been around for a long time. can you give us some examples that go beyond decoys of artillery or just things in the field? a yes. so let's take an example of high miles systems you saw. you saw a similar looking truck that they made. it was an interest t at but the ukrainians, under the companies in check, republican out sweat make these things by the doesn't. i'm one particular uh, manufacturer tons of a couple of dozen uh high most fate, timeouts units a month. and the russians declare populate through. i think last year that they had taken down and killed a destroyed 22 high miles loan ships. the fact is that maybe done one or 2. okay. and we know that because at that time, at that time they ukraine's already had 60 okay. frank,

thank you very much. our military animals, frank, leverage there. thank you. now the german chancellor shaw says he's confident that european parliament will approve the 2nd term for us to live on the line as president of the european commission. he made comments in a speech to the german bonus tag, head of an e u summit, and a key nato gathering in july. during his address, schultz also spoke about the ongoing war in ukraine. rejecting calls for peace talks with russian president vladimir putin. let's be clear that somebody put in a still fully committed tool and i'm, i'm definitely not that no one can acknowledge that. and this is most evident in a suppose, sees file off of my thinking published is there anyone who believes that ukraine group survive this and then it will lead to lasting peace in your life? there must be watching a lot of brush on today. a few rocks out today. so let's

talk down to our chief political editor, me to the coast about this mikayla chance, which also rejects what he calls russia's supposed ceasefire. a peace officer, a peace officer. what reasons had to give him for that as well? he went into a bit more detail when he was addressing parliament ahead of the easiest summit beginning tomorrow, and also the upcoming t nato summit in july of basically saying those who want to speak to regarding their proofs and must be aware that he wants to do that on his own times only, and as a pre condition for that, vladimir putin claims territories where they all know of russian soldiers, even they don't even reflect what's happening on the ground in ukraine at the very moment. and that would be nothing else than a surrender. and that's why the government baton. so comes through conclusion that that would mean surrendering territory that this could mean effectively losing

ukraine, but also losing europeans, peace and stability. that is something that was also echoed by the leader of the office this and see police maps who was sounding remarkably, a presidential tom flurry today when he was agreeing with the german chancellor. but saying that essentially this was about defending european unity and values. and that now was the question whether europe and europeans have the energy and to stamina, to really stand up to a toners that's coming, not just from boston, but also from china and other thor terry in states. another topic that chance was salts address to was the, the gains of the far right parties in the reason european parliamentary elections. what you've been saying about that mikaela as well. he really stresses that some 75 percent of ports of that think of europeans did not vote for the fall of rights

. he's really trying to paint a more positive pick to hit and say that it means putting into the hands of the fall rights. it's over states, the majorities or the center of the vote that they have. but undeniably the is his own policy. if the key is coalition and partners also got pretty much addressing down in these past european elections, or lost any claim to being still a big 10 pots, and particularly his own social democratic party, the oldest policy here and me. so he's clearly on the defensive that on the same time, appealing to other leaders, other countries to all democrats, to stand up in the face of the threat for the fall. right. mikaela. thank you. that was our chief political editor, mckayla kristen. so you're watching dw news, just reminder the tough stories were following for you this hour. julian massage

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