a man tireless in his efforts to stand up for justice around the world. benjamin fairings now on dw documentary, ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin. federal agents in the us arrest a man alleged to be at the center of a massive intelligence leak. a 21 year old member of the air national guard is in custody to be charged under the espionage act is believed to have shared classified documents, reportedly to impress friends in a chat group. also coming up german foreign minister emily about calls on china to

use its influence on moscow to help end the war in ukraine. beijing promises not to provide weapons to russia, but stopped short of condemning the conflict. and for decades, finland has carefully positioned itself between moscow and the west. now, it's part of nato's front line with russia. fins living near that border are suddenly facing a much more threatening neighbor. ah hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. the f b, i has arrested a suspect over the leak of classified documents, some of them relating to the war and ukraine. the 21 year old member of the massachusetts air national guard is accused of sharing highly sensitive information with members of an online chat group. their circulation on social media has exposed

military secrets from ukraine and diplomatically embarrassing details of u. s. espionage activities. arrested by a team of federal agents. the suspect, an employee of the united states air force. national guard is accused of leaking a trench of classified documents, led away from his home in massachusetts. he'll now face the full weight of u. s. justice. today the justice department arrested jack douglas to sheriff in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information to share it is an employee of the united states air force national guard f. b i. agents took to sure and to custody earlier this afternoon. without incident. the documents reveal top secret pentagon intelligence about both allies and adversaries. but perhaps

most concerning for u. s. officials or the classified files about the war in ukraine. us defense secretary lloyd austin, said his department is launching review of intelligence, access, accountability, and control procedures. but you as president joe biden, who is currently on a visit to the republic of ireland, great. was came to play down his worries over the potential fallout. i use concerned about believe the time to go get a minute. luckily, i'm concerned with looking contemporaneous this is the boston court house, where the alleged leeker is to appear on friday. but while the main suspect may be in custody dozens more documents and their explosive content may yet come to light

or security corresponded toola sparrow is covering this story. forrest thomas. what can you tell us about the suspect and his activities? well essentially he was very young and also low ranking within the national guard. he's being described as someone who worked as a sort of i t specialists within the intelligence wing of the massachusetts national guard. he was also simultaneously in his private life, if you will, very active in online forums. and it was in one of those, or 9 forums in a forum which is well known within the gaming community that he allegedly published some of these documents out. some of the people who knew him in his private life, we even were with him in these online forums. said that it was probably just a stupid kids mistake. and that his goal was probably just to inform some of the

people in those networks about what was happening in real life. but for us investigators, the picture is a very different one. they're investigating now whether there must be or whether they could be a more turbulent aspect to this or suspect. and at the same time, he is going to face charges under the u. s. espionage act for what is being described already by us investigators. as a deliberate criminal act, thomas is leak, is being looked at as the most damaging of its kind and at least a decade. what sort of information has been compromised? well, a lot of information has been compromised from the war in ukraine to activities in the world, ukraine in particular, but also us spying activities both on adversaries and friendly countries. i would say that the key word here when it comes to analyzing that the fallout analyzing the impact of this is trust. now you're over,

it's obviously clear that these kind of documents, when they are so sensitive, they're not soapy, it's supposed to be disclosed. they're not supposed to be discussed in the wider public. so that's the reason why now that they are being discussed. the u. s. government is basically trying to limit the potential damage by talking to allies by also trying to understand what has to change within the intelligence community. so that this doesn't happen again from their standpoint. but you already mentioned previous, ah, leaks. in previous years, for example, the snowden leaks a decade ago, and i would say that the fallout compared to the at snowden leaks 10 years ago has been very different. at least if you look at it from the european perspective back then 2013. the fall out here was huge. even in cities like berlin, even the german chancellor back then anglo merkel, stressing that spying among friends is unacceptable. well, we're not seeing this kind of outrage from us allies, at least not publicly whether there are discussions privately behind closed doors

with the u. s. administration that something i was still don't know. as you mentioned, are much of this information pertains to the war in ukraine, much leaked and promotion that the leaked piles are suggest that that western military forces were talking nato countries involved here, or are operating in ukraine. what are the implications of that told us while there could be very big, in fact, the implications there, but one direct impact, one immediate impact, if you will, is a, could change the narrative in the war in ukraine, especially when it comes to the russian perspective. because they have been saying they will probably say this again, now that they are not only fighting against ukraine, that they're also fighting against nato. so it will be very interesting to see how all this develops and how, especially also capitols in the west, react to this information that has been published. thomas, thank you very much for now. that was our security correspondence. thomas barrow,

germany is foreign minister, and alina burbock has held high level talks with her counterpart, chin gung in beijing. the 2 disgust china's tensions with taiwan, beijing's human rights record, and the war in ukraine, china and ally, russia announced that it will not supply weapons to moscow. burbock said that no other country has more influence on russia than china. and she called on beijing to exert this influence on the kremlin to bring the war in ukraine to an end is as good as soon as it is the good thing that china has signaled its willingness to work towards a solution here that i have to say frankly, that i wonder why the chinese position so far hasn't included calling on the aggressor, russia to stop the war. been hated, didn't cheek to stop. and following that statement from atlanta, barbara, we spoke with d. w as chief international letter to richard walker. we asked him how far part germany in china are on the issue of russia's war in ukraine?

both of them, of course, saying that they want to see the war come to an end, but in terms of the emphasis and in terms of the tone and some of the substance, quite substantial differences. and we just heard from alina, bab, welcome, pretty strong statement. they say, well, ok, it's great that you brought out, you know, china brought out would include this position paper on ending the conflict recently . but why didn't you say that that the simplest way to end this conflict is vladimir putin should pull out his troops, given that it was russia, of course, that started this war for his poaching gang the bedbugs counterpart as the chinese foreign minister. what he rehearsed pretty much russian talking points about one aspect of the was basically talking about the idea. the security is indivisible, that this is, this is a talking point of the russians. and that we have to recognize the security interests of all parties. this is essentially drawing attention to russia's

accusation that it was essentially forced to launch this invasion by a perception of threats from the west. but i think that there is something that i think babel will be quite happy to have heard from chin gang. you talking about what supplying weapons there are concerned in the west that china might be planning to supply weapons to, to russia may already even have supplied with so called jewel youth goods that could potentially be used as form to weapons and very clear words from chin gang from the chinese foreign minister here on weapon. thank sports. we have a responsible position. we will in future supply know weapons to parties of the, of the conflict. and we will monitored. you will use goods in accordance with the law. so i think you can expect lena bear books to want to hold china to that in future. well, and alina babcock is not the only high profile visitor to beijing, brazil's president louisa. not julie de silva is also on his inaugural visit to

china. he has met his chinese counterpart, fijian ping, their meeting comes a day after lula criticized the outsized role of the u. s. dollar in the world economy and lashed out at the i, m f. the veteran leftist is seeking closer ties with his countries most important trading partner. the theme of his visit has been that brazil is back since taking office in january lula has tried to reposition his country as a global deal broker between the east and the west. take a look at a couple of other news stories making headlines today. the 1st plane, carrying prisoners from yeoman's war has arrived in the city of aiden as part of a major prisoner exchange, the who the rebels and a coalition of government forces led by saudi arabia agreed last month to free nearly 900 detainees. the deal was broken by un i clone.

eliza has hit northwestern australia with the strongest sustain winds. the country has ever recorded. it was a made landfall as a category 5 storm on friday morning before weakening as it moved inland. densely populated areas have so far escaped major damage. the war in ukraine has had wide reaching effects on europe, security infrastructure. finland decided to join nato, which led to the alliances border with russia, doubling in length. our correspondent terry shoulds reports now from near the finished town of him mater on how the country plans to keep its border and nato's northeastern plank safe as to more than a century of self reliance and security. finland now has reinforcement. as the 31st member of nato sharing the alliance guarantee of mutual defense for decades,

moscow had warned its western neighbor not to go there. the red light form for the rushes, you know, was our no access into nato. and of course we were waiting for in some con reaction . we've seen what, what russia has done in ukraine. so basically, anything is possible, no one knows any more, whether there are any lines the kremlin won't cross. it believed, perhaps half a russian forces normally stationed along the finish border had been pulled into the war in ukraine. but it's not only soldiers, moscow uses to try to destabilize other countries. there's another tactic it employed several years ago that bill and wants to guard against it as a significant number of immigrants are pushed by russians to the finish border and crossing also also finished border and you know, we would manage those numbers. and however, in all you will never know in all this is kind of a preparation for the future. by this, you ha, martelli us means the fence. finland is building along its border with russia near

the city of e matter, about 250 kilometers. ne of helsinki, he muttered. mayor mathias hilton says, for decades, city residence did not think of russia as a threat. large numbers of russians visit or live in a mattress, but that was before the kremlin launched war on ukraine. now we don't have a look for ability for that anymore, and that's why so we have fought everything differently and short natural. and that's why it, why ah, it so, so different world than what we were living when a half years ago. no one is sure what that different world will look like, and some fear, the worst people who had very clear and plans and know were about the future. there's maybe i'll put that off for a year and see how things go, you know, and that kind of thing. so in case what, well, just the uncertainty, i think is what it is. because do you want to invest and put a lot of money into something and then you know, within a year or so, you know,

be that it's under somebody else's control or something. it's like imaginary safety . i think defense wouldn't really matter if they would come with the tanks or at some kind of power. the 3 kilometer pilot project is slated to be done this summer, stretching to 200 kilometers over the next several years. you are watching d. w sly from berlin. coming up next, we've got business for you with stephen beardsley on terry martin. thank you. mm. mm. oh, time for a brain update because these orchestra called the brain continuously adapts itself. and so we ask a few astute questions.