the, the, you're watching dw ne, was coming to live from berlin. moore arrest here in germany over suspected spying for china. the latest is a staff member of the far right alternative for germany party. 3 others have been detained on similar charges. also coming shows day several us universities close campuses over pro palestinian protest camps. administrators here criticism of israel quotes here into anti semitism. students say they are exercising their right to free speech and breton plans, a star rise and defense spending. prime minister rashid soon asked me to nato sheets in warsaw and says the increase is necessary to protect democracy.

the i'm richardson, welcome. we'll begin with a series of arrests here in germany on suspicion of spying for china. the latest to be detained as a staff member of the far right alternative for germany party. the worker is an assistant to this man maximillian across the these leading candidate engines, european elections, to man and a woman were detained a day earlier on. similar charges. federal prosecutors have a 3 set upfront companies to obtain research and technology that could be used to help the chinese navy. here to unpack all the increase of the story is our political correspondence. simon young, simon. good to see you again. tell us more about what this man is accused of. of

the. yeah, kind of a the man arrested today is jim and citizen gen g. and as he said, he is an aide to maximilian cross who is a member of the european parliament at full the far right a half day alternative to germany, a party. and what he's accused of essentially is pulsing information from internal european parliament discussions back to china. and there's also been the claim that he was involved in spying on a chinese people living in gem and a. so i'm maximillian crawl says that he knew nothing about any of this the 1st year of it was from press reports on tuesday morning. but he did also cite a statement that spying for a foreign state would be a very serious matter. and if these allegations are proved to be true, it would result in the termination of g

n g's contract. and for my media of and reporting that crowd was on german securities radar because of his earlier links to china, what more can we say there? as well, i didn't. yeah, absolutely. the meeting today is that been ongoing allegations of links between the sd and russian circles. and you know, this is just one more chapter in that. so i think the intelligence that though it is a big concern for a long time, the, these kind of relatively new fall right populous policies are particularly vulnerable to the intelligence efforts in spying espionage by a socratic states. and you know, these links with china and russia seem to confirm that as i mean, it's really not typical. is it that you see this kind of arrest in germany let

alone the day after 3 other germans were arrested on spying obligations? yeah, it's already being an extraordinary week. uh, in terms of uh, you know, uh allegations of chinese espionage. as you said, uh, just on monday, 83 german citizens were arrested. the accused of a trying to obtain military information about military technologies and passing that back to chinese intelligence. um, so you arrest perhaps a rare because it's said that the chinese, the approach has been relatively cautious in the past. uh, but i think uh, domestic intelligence services here in germany at any rate have been warning for quite a while. that the chinese are willing to use illegal methods to, to promote their ambitions politically,

militarily and economically. and what else does this case tell us then about about how to sign a gathers intelligence on democracies like germany a. well, i think the ortiz believe, as i say, that you know, these kinds of policies, populace parties are susceptible to this kind of infiltration. and i think what this throws off is perhaps haven't generally at least a debate about a need for types of screening when it comes to a parliamentary aids. that levels have been allegations that there's a lot of links between the parliamentary guides here in the bonus tag. and the far right seen. so i think that will, that will be one of the big things coming out of this case assignment. thank you. as always, that is our political correspondent assignment young. so the united states where several universities have closed off campuses and switched to remote

learning of more students joined protest camp against the war and casa hundreds have been arrested since last week. administrators for the citizens could stroke anti semitism, but the students say they are defending free speech. new york university warren students to leave before they called in police to arrest them. they had been living in 10 camps, setup on campus to protest israel's war in gaza. it's a movement that has been growing at universities across the us. now some institutions including this one in boston, or restricting access to campus to deal with what is happening inside the following what was going on at columbia university and were very upset when 100 west columbia put out a call to action versus across the country to set up and cabins at their schools.

so more than 100 students were arrested last week at new york's columbia university for setting up what they called pro palestinian encampments. they were established just as the university's president faced lawmakers and the us congress big realtor about claims of growing anti semitism on campus. the university has now closed it stores and shifted to online learning. but some lawmakers say this isn't enough. every single one of these college and university presidents will refuse to take action should immediately resign in this phrase. i have never seen a more disgraceful act than what we are seeing on college campuses right now. of the confrontation between students and administrators comes as pass over one of the

jewish religions, most important holidays that underway. well, some students will take their classes online, maybe at the campus, or staying put they say for them, it's a matter of justice and free speech. let's get the latest from our washington correspondent, benjamin i've had a screw bird joining me now. benjamin university administration's, really in the spotlight here with some even deciding to call in police to detain protesters. what can you tell us? let's try it. some universities like columbia or n y u, new york university has taken that decision. schools are told to send communications if they want n y p d a new york police department to come in. that's what the may or eric adams, the mayor of uh, new york said earlier today at a press conference, the stress that that's the procedure full private property. and that is different a, with a what and what to do does on the streets for those who are protesting outside of

the universities. and that's something that we have been seeing because they're not just protest within the universities, but also supportive who gather outside of the gates of the university to support agents. they've protested and they said that they will keep the so called it guides us all. the dougherty and compet until the university divest from companies with it ties to israel. last weekend on sunday. i was there a cub. it's a this and compliment theory. it's a small, a timeframe that we've done. let's get to also get it to campus grounds and that will fly as it were, handed out, stating that they would remain until the universe is dead. that's all i find interest. so we have to see how that develops and what the steps and university and president and of the all those on management will take now it will look like and then the next couple of days. and benjamin gives us little context here. how do these protests against the war and gaza play into long running debates on us campuses about free speech? a long running debates indeed, and they debate over free speech is ongoing as we see more universities joining

that protest. not just at columbia with faculty members, even joint as students for the wall code yesterday, but also in other schools that are seeing their own protests, the world and campus now. and while you, the university of michigan, mit the massachusetts institute of technology yale to give you just a few examples on the president of columbia university, sachi was deeply saddened by the situation on campus. and she said that we cannot allow one group to dictate the terms and attempts to disrupt important milestones like of a duration. and that's something that support has the protest of also set that they will continue it pushing in those and cabinets and even the white house way data on this discussions, dressing, if there is a ride to peaceful protest into us, but the cold, if full violence and physical intimidation, targeting jewish students in the jewish community are anti semitic, and dangerous, and have absolutely no place on any college campuses or anywhere in this country. benjamin, thank you for that update that is data. these benjamin alvarez group here in

washington dc are now as well as, as it is still planning a military offensive in the city of rafa and the southern gaza. despite having withdrawn, many of its troops from the area allies, including the united states, have warned as well against mounting an operation. but prime minister benjamin netanyahu says it's necessary for the fight against him. us airstrikes on rasa seem for me is real, which is for months, said they would be followed up by a ground invasion. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has not softened his line. initially we will complete the elimination of how much brigades, including in rafa, there is no force in the world that will stop as well. but 6 months into the war is real now face of strong pressure from its main ally, the u. s. terrain in military operations and not to mount a full scale round invasion into rough. we're more than

a 1000000 people live in close conditions. we have made clear to israel that we think a full scale military invasion of rasa would have an enormously harmful effect on those civilians and that it would ultimately hurt. israel security is real, has 2 ways to route out. have a full scale ground campaign or a more targeted one. a full scale invasion would probably look like what is already happened in other parts of guys. in urban areas like con eunice and gaza city. further north from rafa. an air campaign combined with tanks and troops on the ground to potentially catastrophic cost to civilian israel, has said it will evacuate civilians to elsewhere and gaza, but has given no specifics. this kind of ground invasion would further antagonize

the u. s. which has conditioned future military support on how is real treat civilians in gaza. but israel has also shown it came out targeted operations. earlier this month commandos recovered the body of a loud cats here who had been taken hostage on october 7th. these rates rely on precise intelligence rather than overwhelming fire power, which pass israel chooses may come down to politics and the us president joe biden faces significant pressure from the left to restrain israel. while at home, benjamin netanyahu faces the public that overwhelmingly wants to defeat from us once and for all british prime minister receives do not cause announced plans for a massive increase in u. k. defense spending to counter what he calls a growing threat to global democracy. so not quite the announcements during a visit to warsaw alongside nato secretary general against oldenburg. he also and

val, details of a new 580000000 euro know a true aid package for ukraine to include both ammunition and air defense themselves. so next of the increase to britain's own defense budget is necessary, as if the world is the most dangerous. it has been since the end of the cold war. so today only bouncing the biggest strengthening about national defense for a generation. we will put the case on defense industry on the whole for to is one of the essential lessons of the war. and ukraine is that we need deepest stop balls of munitions and for industry to be able to replace them more quickly. we will send you create an additional office 1000000 pounds, pitching 3000000000 pounds of support this year and will provide them with the largest ever package. if you k military equipment. this will include more than 400 vehicles, full 1000000 rounds of ammunition, 60 boats, and no fuel rating crossed. vital air defenses, long range,

precision guided stone shutter missiles are corresponding christine wanda, is with us from brussels for the very latest. christine, welcome. tell us more about what stood out for you from this meeting, as clear as all on the middle east right now. but rashid, so next a prime minister of the u. k. was a paints the state that europeans could not afford to take their eyes and their sides or false. what was happening in ukraine? ukraine is of course spicing wolf that russian invasion as we speak. and we know that ukraine is coming short in terms of ammunition, and it's also desperately needing a defense capabilities that it has lost its allies for the bridge. prime minister did highlight the fact that width and efforts to help you frame had been stopped in scots and that at times had been piecemeal. he said by today's, with today's announcement he was hoping that britain would be taking the lead in and rallying up allies to once again come around to make strong commitments. not

just in the way of supporting and supplying your credit with me to trade, but increasing defense spending. so as to bolster your p, a european security, one of the key things was in the, to an a when a june. and this to us, the question about the cost at which this was coming. this, the context of this claim is that people in europe are increasingly counting the costs. now, these growing populated disquiet about the war if it's about the huge sums of money that will being committed to the war. if it's in ukraine, this at a time with european public services are seeing, they stand, it's declining, i'm talking about people not getting edited access to health care. for example, people really asking the question about whether or not these sums of money are better off having an impact be used in, in domestic a policies and, and to, to, to, to increase public spending in their countries. the message from the 2 leaders, the nato secretary general, and the bridge prime minister, was to say,

it comes out of costs to have a neighbor, an aggressive neighbor like russian that europeans had to pay the price. but this is something that they all had to ready around to do that the higher price, the higher cost would be letting me put in guessing a win and ukraine. that would be the greatest cost and everything that is being done to help you create now is essentially making an investment in therapy and security. christine will invite reporting from brussels, christine, thank you. it's in ukraine more than 2 years after the russian invasion border areas are still coming under massive. it's showing a month ago, russell launched a wide spread bombardment of towns and villages in the sumi region in northeastern ukraine, using missiles and guided ariel bombs. dw met with residents of a village called rico. he said he's come and with former residents who have a fled elsewhere for their safety. the silly regions 6 kilometers from the russian

border before the month varmints. in march, 4000 people lived in the village of a league. peace carissa. now about $500.00 are left. the regional government says russian aircraft dropped nearly 200 guided bombs on the community over 2 weeks and march macola and his wife tomorrow stayed to take care of their elderly parents. though it's getting collaborative. what, what did they say for you? my father in law said i was born here. i'm going to die here and that's it. i have to give him food. he can barely stand on his own feet that the police helped evacuate residents from villages near the border while local authorities organized evacuation buses. some villages are now completely empty. in the legal piece, carissa local infrastructure was destroyed. the administration building the hospitals, schools, workers were just finishing repairs on the library when the showing started

mobile. we have so many project from ideas, but we didn't have time yet. we didn't have time to do it. because now i think we've gone down a little bit and we will restore it again. for more russian air strikes could comment any time we asked the mayor of she is afraid to stay on and work here. i cindy, this is my house. this is my home. i'm not a free to, to the store. this town about 50 kilometers from the russian border, now shelters the vacuum waves, who tell harrowing stories of russian bombardments of sale. they said that everything was flying from the sky or the one something happened to my ear. i have a noise in my head and cannot deal with explosions and really skating on data,

but i didn't want to leave. i didn't want to put the last moment shelter. residents are supposed to move on to stay with relatives or find rental housing needs unclear when it will be safe for anyone to return home. you're a soc, is an advisor to the ukrainian minister of strategic industries. a warm welcome back to d delta. here we have just seen in our reports that russia has intensified if attacks in the northeast of ukraine. is this because russia has found a weak points in ukraine's defense has their or the rest as in task finally began intensifying the bombardment of errors. in particular, the little mute caught confusion recently because they have started using more of these guided bombs. and of course,

the lack of sufficient numbers of defensive receptors on the top end, the inability of our systems to provide cover up to these areas. me in the front lines, the ones that the russian brawlers can reach. now of course that's been a major issue and we're seeing another on a daily basis khaki vision as well as the southern castle and reduce operational region. so those areas on the very heavy, the bottom of the daily basis. now, after a long delay this weekend, the us house of representatives passed a $61000000000.00 a package for ukraine that is expected to be approved in the senate's. how will this improve the situation for ukraine? as you can see, the um and our president, mr. zalesky was, frankly, he was saying few days before the actual boat happened at the house of

representatives. he's a very cute situation with the tv. i read the to the right to day by day, we were running out of our munitions. we're running out of an air defense, ms oss. so of course, this decision and this bill will considerably improve our ability to fly back the address as well, because it will send a signal of hope to our troops because you know, when the boat was happening in the us as of representatives, we of course were all glued to the streets and our soldiers, even in trenches, they were blew to them all in there watching it live on youtube uh, streaming platforms because everybody was expecting it so much. but i would like to say that, you know, this bill is often called ukraine, a support bill. but in essence, this is freedom support bill because what is happening in new price and i agree with your previous guess. you know, what does that mean?

crane has already let mr cushions bobby on the waters of our country. and this is why it is so important that the us has made this decision. it is important that you got to keep them as in the new package for half a 1000000000 house today. so we're seeing that all thomas stand with us. it gives us more confidence and determination, and i'm sure it says the right signal to the rest that as well. because the address i use very loud and clear, this is an unwinnable goal for russia and confidence and determination importance in any war. and especially in this one, we know weapons and equipment are an important factor here but, but so to is people's willingness to fight the ukrainian or administer today suspended consular services for men of military age abroad. any push to increase enlistment is the ford edge. not serious. it meant that this step was necessary. i

would like to answer this. first of all, i pointed to the results of the latest gallup international, appalling, according to which all european countries, uh, the premium people, almost willing to fight for that country more than 63 percent if i'm not mistaken. so that's point number one. point number 2. we are now working and the new law and mobilization have been passed and signed by the president, him to action. this will make the construction services motor and it's better and more efficient. and uh, you know, as a result it will solve many of the problems that we're facing right now. and point number 3, of course, is that we, you probably news. we are united still and, you know, we're still having volunteers will join the army voluntarily. so we have to be aware of russian propaganda, i think is it like just press these uh psychological impressions uh, spreading the message that you pray. he's not really defined. we have said many

times for us is the positive bible. we understand very well by people and what we all protect. it is our families, our values, and our future, as well as the future if you. so it's, it's the right decision upon ministry of foreign affairs, the one that was announced today, we need to bring that and all that as well because many brain men are at the moment living and abroad. but again, at home during the train, the mobilization continues, the process is being improved. and um, as a result, you know, we will be able to defend our country and gun one day to be able to pull back the yeah, clearly there are ukrainian amen abroad, who do not want to go back to fight. hence the push to increase enlistment is this going to eventually come down to ukrainians, being brought back against their will to be sent to the front lines and ukraine as well. we are a civilized country and of course allow your p and putting the civilized country.

so i don't see a way in which of those ukranian men who are unwilling to return to the train can be forcibly removed from where they are at the moment, but are maybe sort of foreign affairs letter says a series that you know, if, if you, as a man, if you live abroad, you have to be registered. the country needs to know where you are, just in case you need to be called about a low. it's but more most, at most everybody wants to find. uh, there are some people who don't want to fight and it's ok, but i will repeat that in your brain. there is a considerable size of the population, an old man, well willing to fight who are fighting as we speak and will continue to fight on to this very 2nd. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us today. that is your soc advisor, to view creative mr. of strategic if the stories is and that is our new show.

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