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the article for at least welcome to the show. germany's 10 so left shots is in china speaking with its leaders at the time when economic and simple manic relations between the issue and beijing are increasingly strength. following a meeting between shelves and chinese premier lead to young lee said that the economic interests of both countries remain deeply intertwined. presidency didn't pay warrant show against resorting to protectionist economic measures, saying the 2 countries would depend on free trade. last year, germany launched a strategy to avoid over dependence on china. shots of visit has been overshadowed by around the attack on israel over the weekend. just minutes ago, he spoke to reporters and read a rate of global calls for restraint from both sides. let's hear what you have to say. the question is, i'm just,

this is an officer regarding the attack as try of iran on israel well for me and to push because it is obvious because it was an unprecedented attack that is completely on justified and unprecedented escalation. that gives rise to concern, and now it is about everybody contributing to not to increasing this escalation anymore. and i have made clear that it's not only about the is riley forces. you bought a broad understanding in the region that this is not acceptable. and i am convinced that this has been taken on board to nobody as chief international editor, richard walker is with me here in the studio, richard the warren gauze, and not the only conflict on the chancellor's mind. ukraine was everywhere and top of the agenda. did he get what he wanted from the chinese concessions? this is regarding their support for russia. yes. so, i mean,

all our fields went to, went to china with, with the message which he's being kind of calibrating on ukraine and, and kind of putting fund some sense of this time. this point that not just the, the invasion of ukraine is a breach of the child so that it's a, it's aggression against ukraine's a silver and c and territorial integrity. the kind of argument that we've had for a long time from europeans and western power supporting the trade. but also saying that this is the cool interest of the europeans and the germans did this. this was raging. it's a threat to european security. and china is supporting russia diplomatically, economically, in the provision of social deals, use goods. so not necessarily weapons, but the kind of goods that can help in its war efforts. and think that, you know, what china is doing is hurting our interest directly. and i think this is an attempt to kind of adult the language the china will often use about when it

perceives the threats to its own core interests. you know, discussions about taiwan, for instance. um so, so he's really trying to hammer home to the chinese that the, what you are doing really affects us really huts, whether he really got any movement from the chinese. so on. this is really quite questionable. there's been a lot of talk about a peace conference, the the that is to be held in switzerland this summer. the germans were hoping that the chinese would say that they would go to this. this is the dinner right. set in a round of peace conferences, a chinese delegate went to the 1st one, but did not go to the 2nd one. so the hope is being ok. let's get the chinese pay back to the table. that's so important. with the chinese seem to be saying from, from that read out some of these meetings is that, well, we might go to it if it also includes the russians. and so for the russians have not been involved. so all that they've really agreed to do is to stay in close contact on that question. now i think salts was saying to jump to reporters just earlier. well,

the fact that we're moving onto talking about these potential processes. it isn't itself a good thing and that alongside the military support for ukraine is an important part of a strategy. but still nothing really that tangible. and i think we'll have to see in the weeks ahead where there's some sort of tangible progress is made. supports making that conference in, in the summer in switzerland meaningful. yeah. that was the 1st visit's by the german chancellor to china. since the launch of the risking strategy now at china would like to see germany as an import trading partner for china and kind of rain in what it sees as european protectionism, especially with, you know, a looming trade war as money perceive it was coming out of brussels is germany going to do china that favor? yeah, so i mean, germany's in a tough spot on china and we've seen it kind of wrestling with this for a few years now. we came out with this strategy last year. way. you're right to use

this term, the risk and the idea of like, let's try to reduce the risk of a sudden entanglements in the relationship. the risk of being too dependent on china as a source of particular written materials that you need in high tech products. for instance, if the risk is a term that is being used in europe, it came 1st. and what was that on the line to present the are paying commission? is that the, this is, this is going to be, is the core of, especially in the us is now embrace is to the top of these people have a different interpretation of what the risking means. so for some people it's really all about those will materials and making sure you're not too dependent on those for others is like that would be to expose to the russian to the chinese market. like what if you are a mercedes or a volkswagen or a bmw of china accounts for a huge percentage of real sales. then china certainly goes and invades taiwan. what happens to your market that, you know, do you still have that access? and also it's, it's very cautious about trying to tell government companies what to do. and in fact, he took the bosses of a lot of those companies along with him to china. and those big companies have

invested last year, more than they ever invested before in china. so this is there's a real sense that not everyone is on the same page. now on top of all this, you mentioned this the european commission is doing investigations now into whether china is unfairly supporting is electric vehicle industry is wind turbine industry, all sorts of industries that and now exporting interviewer pay market and also other global markets. as of these goods, unfair competition to european manufacturers of say, 'cause, they are paying commission, who's doing an investigation this could come to this could yield some sort of measures against these chinese products. but german companies are worried by this. they say, oh no, like if you impose like tyrus or something on chinese cause, what if the chinese do this to us, then we use the chinese market. so there's a worry in europe. the japanese might try to kind of undermined these european

investigations in its talks with china. all sorts use this term pragmatism. when he was talking to the press to study it, they should be this to guide our policy towards this pragmatism is going to be a lot of like picking about. what do you mean by that? do means that, you know, maybe this european investigation is not pragmatic. the motivated is an idea, let's go some of that that we don't know yet. we're going to have to kind of read between the lines and try to pick this apart inside the context with the german government. but i think they'll be a lot of people in brussels. what he, what he just said very closely. that was our chief international editor, richard walker. thank you so much for breaking it all down for us this. well, iranian president of rome raising as weren't israel, of a painful response, if it retaliates against iran attack over the weekend. these really for administer is real caught says he has launched a diplomatic offensive against iran. he wrote on social media that he sent letters to 32 countries and it's called for sections on iran dismissal project. or

corresponding on the east of in jerusalem, said this diplomatic offensive doesn't mean a military response is off the table. well, i'm sure that dozens of people who are tagged in this tweet, dozens of foreign ministers, that is, would be happy if it was an alternative. but if you see in that tweedy also said that this would be, in addition to a military response. now the sanctions are already on the table for a lot of the foreign ministers that you mentioned. you have u k, the us, germany and india, which is hasn't really made up its mind how to respond to this escalation, the middle east, but at least for the us, some sanctions already being put up for a vote in the house of representatives there. so this is not a controversial shot subject for a israel's allies, and it seems that we're trying to build momentum here to get a diplomatic offensive. but a lot of these allies that you paid us in germany have urge is real to make that

the alternative to military attack because they see any military attack as being an escalation. now is rarely war cabinet has converged a couple of times now and they have said that they are going to try to avoid a regional award, that their response would be calculated and not from the god. but listen to ron this so that any military response to the strikes over the weekend would be met with a even a harsher attack. and that's because the ron sees their strike as retaliatory strike. where is the allegedly, israel's strike on an embassy complex in syria that belong to iran? so escalation is not out of the question. even if israel's response is um, is light is calculated. now i'm in the war cabinet got together for the 1st time after um, october 7th of last year. and right now it seems to be focusing on a response to a ron. this, this shifted focus have consequences on the military operation and gaza. so

certainly does the focus is largely on iran and i, they weren't gauze that has been put on the back burner, at least in the media here. and it's not what is really they're talking about at the moment. but uh, cnn has reported, that's the ground offensive. in roswell, we're about a 1000000 palestinians are sheltering has been postponed. they were supposed to start evacuating people out of there, at least dropping leaflets to get people to move out of the area before a scheduled ground offensive. but that seems to have been postponed on the other hand, biden and a lot of other international partners don't have the same ability to put pressure on israel because they need to stand with israel in the face of a threats from iran. as dw correspondent, i'm in the east of in jerusalem. thank you so much. and the look now and some other stories making news around the world. the 1st day of donald trump's hush money trial and then with the dismissal of dozens of drawers,

was that they couldn't be impartial. drums accused of falsifying business records to cover up payments to the adult film star stormy daniels. this is one of 4 criminal cases against the former us president. rescuers in indonesia, i have found the bodies of 20 people killed by lands lines triggered by torrential rains on the weekend. dozens of rescue workers and volunteers were involved in the search fire and copenhagen. it has torn through the old stock exchange. the flames destroyed the 17th century building spire. historic site is the headquarters of the danish chamber of commerce and was being renovated. the cause of the fire is not yet known. this. russia is intensifying its attacks on energy infrastructure across ukraine. since late march missile strikes have left some of the countries major power plants and ruins an energy minister him on high low single is asking all ukrainians to prepare for more power outages in the coming

weeks. electricians and engineers are risking their lives to repair some of the worst technical destruction that we use. young phillip schultz and this report from the eastern front line city of harkey, the small village and ukraine's the nets region. the battlefield is only a stones throw away. this is the workplace of the axis left and his colleagues, the electricians. i called front of a power line i hit along the front line. the men have long ago stopped being distracted by the sound of a tillery strikes during the repair work, and my family is against this job. they don't like me coming here to him, but we are very dedicated to work. it's something we have to do, but i don't want to do. but to the front line village has been the target of many russians attacks. most houses and its primary school have been destroyed, never the less, more than 100 people. the live here for them,

the technicians curos at the state 0 last link to civilization without electricity were completely cut off. there's no water has no gas to nothing works in the upcoming system, or we'll take that away from the metal fields and the city outside. cuz electrically retail, we're also feels more and more like a frontline john ever since russia intensified. it's effects from ukraine's energy and transfer. this substation has recently been fixed and constant airlines make any attempt to fix the equipment all over the 1st time. today's warning announcements ask a pause. staff member to take shows immediately at a safe location. we get to a quick moments to speak to the engineer in charge of the from life. it's all very, very difficult. every time you start to repair something doesn't allow that. and we

come back and so we have to start all over again. large power plants are particularly attractive targets for russian attacks the devastation at this thermal electric plan. you know, 5 kits is enormous. 6 russian crews and decides to strike the engine room and force the entire facility to shut down budget that just look around. and you can see the extent of the damage, or we're talking about kilometers of pipelines, kilometers of cables that are destroyed to community, saying this is not going to take months since, and this is going to take years to fix it, loading of silver to low blood before its destruction, the plan supplied hundreds of thousands of people with electricity. the engineer tells us its loss will be almost impossible to compensate. one small hope the west might be able to provide parts and the equipment for the plants reconstruction with the smoking room is we're really doing all that is humanly possible. here we must realize, but if we receive some form of support,

especially technical support from other countries, we will be very grateful. i mean, by the rest that continues its daily effects on the power and the people i've talked to if and many of the ukrainian cities are most certainly what you have to join the european union. and they think the proposal would be used to cab defense amounts of mind democracy. this is really bad for our, you're all parents future. and we have to fight now, or we'll just move it spunk, maintaining independence, and also mentoring meaning maintaining the loss. so we can integrate with your, you know, union better police arrest is 14 people, as the crowds hope to force the government to scrap the bill. should metalli or in the day in the parliament building tension,

some of running high doors. it gets what's on, you know, position politician punched the leader of the ruling, georgia dream policy leading to a role in the chamber. the routing policy maintains the draw floor is necessary to fight pseudo liberal values imposed by foreign countries and say it promotes accountability. the policy is to him between deepening its relationship with neighboring russia, while also wanting to join the european union. part of europe packed to this will be out in force when the debate resumes in parliament, pressing the case. but georgia to become parts of the you and for an update to double your report of maria, come to a month to join us now from the georgia and capital to blue. see maria, what's behind this controversial new law of the on call?

yes. so we are country of the parliament where the lawmakers are discussing the bill in the 1st hearing and we understand that it's very likely that the bill will be passed today in the 1st hearing out of 3 hearings in total. so the government claims that you want to improve the transparency of the civil society groups of the n g as an oppositional media. and this is the rhetoric that actually the, the critics here in georgia. they don't buy that rhetoric. they're saying that the government aims at suppressing them and it's the government is um, setting the stage for the elections which uh, which are being held in the, in october and the say that these are very good election strategies to silence the oppositional voices. and to discredit civil society groups. we've seen protests yesterday, new protests called for it today. do they pose the threats to the government plan?

yes, indeed. weeks fact the, the big turn out today tonight and to police, the people are a really, really angry pro european people who, who actually once you georgia to be to be part of you. but they see that they see the government's actions as, as opposing to the are you emissions? so definitely today it's going to be quite, quite a difficult time for, for 4 people here. and please see they will have to fight the game for their european future. how codes the passing of this bill impact or just prospect of joining the well, we've seen some criticism that is coming from the was from the brussel from brussels. i'm washington, for instance, no, germany's so tough,

less so sad that georgia did not need this this. these kind of flows and many western supporters of georgia is used to gratian one a, b, c dot. this is kind of the lowest such as for an agents low or for instance, algebra 2 pro hawk on the lower that the government is also has been suggesting these days of that kind of, you know, uh, legislation of these kind of legislations. they are not going to to do any positive impacts on george's democracies, and therefore, it can also during georgians from there very long waited you a membership. maria georgia's government has based accusations of authoritarianism and pro russian leanings at this point. how free is george and society? well, georgia and civil society is very, very diverse and it's moving force really for, for it, for georgia you,

you integration. but we can see that over the years and exports have highlighted this, that we observe some backsliding something democracy because georgia in government has been, uh, you know, kind of trying to balance it out with russia. they see what happens in ukraine and the georgia and officials are trying to, as critics a piece russia, because they say that we had a war here in 2008. and we don't want it to repeat again. so that's, let's see. we see some, uh, you know, um, also it, it didn't, it coast the beast kind of in the lowest, also eco, these kind of foreign policy ship that we are absorbing here in georgia. as the w reporter maria, cut them on to thank you so much onto cause i've done now were flooding has forced the evacuation of nearly a 115000 people with the president calling of the nation's worst natural disaster in 8 decades. the waters of also submerged homes and russia southern regions the

ural rivers throttles. both countries and water levels are rising rapidly. spring floods are regular occurrence, but heavy rainfall and melting ice has made them more severe than usual. this is the worst flooding to had kaplacks down in decades. here in the north close to russia, hundreds of houses are submerged, cutting power and leading people homeless residents feel let down, and say that helps did not come in time. most of the city could have been saved since i believe t for 76 years. and i've never seen a flood like a basic addition. you have a meal far to solve a walter coming in and they could have re involved at the time, do it that, that is to dump. my house is mostly underwater. we want to save our pets, but we're unable to. we've been waiting for 3 hours for there aren't enough rescuers or equipment. cosmetic authorities say around

a 115000 people have been evacuated. melting snow caused by high temperatures and heavy rainfall have made the flooding severe. the state of emergency has been declared in several regions in neighboring russia. authorities are warning that colossal amounts of water are still to come. the rescuers are building up defenses in an effort to minimize the damage. mass evacuations have been ordered. that officials say the flooding could persist for weeks to come or record breaking temperatures around the world or heating up our oceans, triggering another major coral bleaching design vulnerability and spells disaster for marine life experts, worries, some of the world's greatest wonders may not survive. australia's great barrier

reef is in a fight for survival. recent sweltering temperatures, the rooms, the ocean waters causing mass bleaching of the carl. the only time we've seen bleaching this bed was in 2016 when just about everything died. the healthy reef coral here is usually brown x, but say the bright pink some blues are assigned. the carl is screaming out for help . bleached carl isn't necessarily dead, but it is a sign that it stoved in nutrients and from rubel always brown ones. if they've turned up the tires and on and that's, yeah, that's this, this is an area that was only just starting to recover these a small carl's that a bleaching, you know, who knows who feels of us. it is

a phenomenon that is happening around the world here in the philippines. marine conservationists are experimenting with new solutions to regenerate the carl. they attach carl skeletons on to a large net, which will act as a base for the different types of carl. they will try to propagate in their cities when they're created. it has different kinds of corners. it has a selection of corners, and it is closely monitored. so it will actually help scientists see which scores are more resilient to climate change. and therefore, they will be able to create the recommendations to propagate those kinds of a part of it is one of several ways that conservationists around the world of trying to save reeves and drawing off as ocean temperatures continue to

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