the, the, you're watching the, the news coming to live from berlin. more arrests here in germany over suspect and spying for china. the latest as a staff member of the far right alternative for germany party. 3 others have been detained on similar charges. also coming up on our ship, stay several us universities close campuses over pro palestinian protest accounts administrators, fear criticism of israel could be or into anti semitism. students say they're exercising their right to free speech. and to britain plan a surprise and defense spending prime minister receipts through not weeds native sheets in warsaw and says the increase is necessary to protect democracy.

the empire. richardson, thank you very much for joining us. we begin with a series of arrests 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 class, the f. these leading candidate in june's european elections to man and a woman were detained a day earlier on similar charges. federal prosecutors saying those 3 set upfront companies to obtain research and technology that could be used to help the chinese navy. so i asked our political correspondence, simon young to tell us more about the accusations against the a f d staff member a the man arrested today is a jim and citizen gen g,

as he said he is an aide to maximilian cross who's a member of the european parliament at full the far right, a half day alternative for germany, a policy. and what he's accused of essentially is pausing 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 jem 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 signed 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 as our 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 of those is a big concern for a long time. the, these kind of relatively new fall right populous parties are particularly vulnerable to the intelligence efforts in spying, espionage by a socratic states that and you know, these links with china and russia seem to confirm that assignment is really not typical. is it that you see this kind of arrest in germany let alone the day after 3 other germans were rested 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, just on monday, the 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. but i think the domestic intelligence services here in germany at any rate have been voting 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 as 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 as perhaps having generally at least a debate about a need for types of screening when it comes to a problem. entry aids 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. simon, thank you. as always, that is our political correspondent, assignment young to the united states. now where several universities have closed off campuses and switch to remote learning, as more students join protest camps against the war and gaza, hundreds has been arrested since last week. administrators,

hearing the students could stroke anti semitism, but the students saying they are defending free speech to new york university warren students to lease 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. we were following what was going on at columbia university and were very upset when 100 plus the rest of the columbia put out a call to action versus across the country to set up the captains 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 law makers 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 just phrase. i have never seen a more disgraceful act than what we are seeing on college campuses right now. the confrontation between students and administrators comes as pass over one of the jewish religions most important holidays that underway. while some students will take their classes online, many at the campus are staying put. they say for them,

it's a matter of justice and free speech. the university administrations have been in the spotlight as some have even decided to call in police to detain protesters. he's always washington correspondent benjamin alvarez gruber has more more and more universities and colleges joining them. the students at columbia university in new york, we just saw the pictures that said they would keep doing temperament. that was set up last wednesday until the university divest from companies with ties a to israel last the weekend and on sunday was there and i covered the so called gaza. so late already and temperament and flyers were being handed out, stating that this thing happened would remain until the university davis. all. if finance was negative requests by the university n y p, the police was called a to arrest them. that led to only farmer a campus, a demonstrations was seeing right. turning out his mother, names british prime minister wishes to not because announced plans for

a massive increase in u. k. defense funding to counter what he calls a growing threat to global democracy. so now i've made the announcement during a visit to warsaw along side and nato secretary general young fulton bird. he also unveiled details of the new 580000000 euro military aid package for ukraine to include boats, ammunition, and air defense missiles. soon accepted the increase to britain's own defense budget as necessary as the world isn't the most dangerous place it has been since the end of the cold war. so today only announcing the biggest strengthening about national defense for a generation. we will put the case on defense industry on a whole for to is one of a central lessons of the war. and ukraine is that we need deepest stop calls 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 a lower just as a package. if you k military equipment. this will include more than 400 vehicles,

full 1000000 rounds of ammunition, 60 votes, and no fuel rating crossed, vital as defensive, and long range precision guided stone chatter missiles. i asked to have these corresponded christine window and brussels. what stood out for her during this meeting, as i saw on the middle east right now, but rashid, so next a prime minister alpha, the u. k. was it paints the state that europeans could not afford to take their eyes in their sights or fall. 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 ukraine was made of trade, but increasing defense spending as low as 2 volts figure p. a european security. one of the key things was in the, to an a when a journalist, 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 public 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 or 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 glad to be pushing 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 now the british parliament has passed a controversial bill to send asylum seekers to ro, wanda prime minister, where she threw napkins this. the 1st flights carrying migrants will leave within a week's legal challenges are expected just after midnight. the 2 year legal impala meant to be stay all night ended with this vote in the house of commons,

the i to the right, 312. the news to the last 237. so the i have it, i have it. it's a country national, know that has divided opinion in britain on the cost here as well as in the one to some see it as an economic opportunity. i think it to be good for the mission close to getting but in there's no nothing that is better than human to copy to quote us, we're very grateful to receive the in progress from the u. k. because this will support the countries development. i'm not sure it's correct to the hosting them as an opportunity to us as for wanda and because they have skills which still share with us. so you understand that this is a profit for us of is look at it from an ethical and historical perspective of it. why 2 and one is history. we had many refugees archive really as

a result of the genocide against the to the right. and we got help from the neighboring countries. so we support the refugees at that too, because we understand deeply it's good for them to come. i'm good for us to host them on the la hotel. now we need one and does is like this man who wish to remain anonymous. i'm not so sure where you're going to find that goes for these people. lou. uh, so the or like we have graduated but we've noted that you had the jobs, we are out there searching for jobs, british prime minister of issue. so next i is the 1st deportation slide, but just a few weeks away. and with immigration, a key issue among voters in europe. it's likely that other governments let me keeping a close eye on the policy success or failure. and that is, you are news update after sour stay to, to, for global us coming up next. elizabeth drive you around yet now,

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