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the, the, this is the, the news coming to live from berlin. china is foreign minister, warrants of a downward spiral and relations with the us contentious issues dominate us secretary of state essentially blankets visit to china, including tensions over tie one and the war. a new pre also coming up, counting the dead, the grim task of finding and identifying bodies of those killed in the war and ukraine. we have a special report from ukraine's front by the
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hello. i'm terry morris and thanks for joining us. us secretary of state anthony blinking is in beijing for what are expected to be tough talks with chinese leaders . lincoln 1st met with foreign minister one d. 1110th that relations could slip into what he called a downward spiral. tensions between the united states and china are high of a range of issues among them. the war in ukraine lincoln is expected to hold talks with present. she's in pain later today. now the source of tension is tie. one blinking visit comes as washington promised, more than $8000000000.00 of military aid for us in the pacific partners with taiwan chief among them. vision views taiwan is its own territory and has threatened to seize it by force. the w's east asia correspond to. james trader looks at the impact of the funding and blankets visit on time. well, we don't walk away from our allies. we stand with them stuck. it's stuck,
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is described it as an inflection point in history. the world us president joe biden, this week assign since a lot of phone minute tree. a package was more than 95000000000 us store that motion more than a 1000000000, if that is a mocks for washington's in the pacific pond, this includes on supports in for an military financing for taiwan. the self full democracy, the china claims has its own. on the same day, the us secretary of state, america's top tips, not just me bring can visits china based on this thing, not included on the agenda page, things, ministry threats to tie, want percent badging. make a what a thoughts about the us funding for taiwan is defense. pretty well. military collusion between the us and taiwan will not bring security, nor can it save taiwan from the doomed faith of independent high school to ship. i mean a chinese presidency. jim ping has often said what he calls re unifying. taiwan with china is a cool interest for badging recent years. china has wrapped up minute trans
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invitation. flying military, i crossed into ty, one's at defense identifications on almost every day in less than a month, taiwan with a new great, it's newly elected president. lighting though he's about to do everything he can to protect. high one from chinese attack is a way to live this reconciled his new national security team with many incoming equipped with years of experience, many diplomatic positions. they've welcome the lake test us port tasks on the soil movie. all. it shows that our primary goal is to complicate the calculations on the other side of the straight into cost. china is time table for potential reckless military actions always seem to be constantly postponed in order to maintain stability in the taiwan strait. i'd ship all tie t the out that time when he is officials often say that self defense is that responsibility alone. but with a gap in military capability between type and aging whitening tie when he is
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exercises like this a couple of months ago. underlined the fact that the support of washington would be critical to funding off a chinese attack correspond if i'm being crushed by those in beijing where he has been following anthony, blinking his visit, he told us why we can expect talks to shift off the gear on the secretary of state's last day there the reception of blinking 1st half of his china trip in shanghai yesterday was rather warm, blinking visited the basketball game. he had to discussions with students at the university. that was really to be a good part of his agenda today. however, it's a whole nother story today he holds the political talks in beijing this morning. he has met his count up hot one, eat the china as a foreign minister, and there to it must be of us. rather serious, i would say so one ear has opening remarks set that yes, the bilateral relations with the u. s. they the has step allies, but he sees a negative tech. there is the recently increasing and building up. and he also
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accused the us of suppressing china if it's um, yeah, deprive of china if it's legitimate, the rights to development. so recently the perception in been staging is that the ties have been getting worse again that was probably and customer there in beijing . let's take a quick look at what some of the other story is making headlines around the world. the top courts in the us state of new york has over turn to the verdict from 2020, that found movie mogul harvey weinstein guilty of rates. the judges found that he was denied a fair trial, but why st will remain behind bars due to a separate rate conviction in california. it was becky's ations against one scene that sparks the global need to move. to use prime minister ariel only has step down to allow a transitional ruling counsel to be sworn in the counselor's task with a pointing a new premier, restoring law in order as the country struggles to tackle spiraling gain violence.
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gains are believed to control. most of the current capital for the price down to the war and ukraine. no one knows exactly how many soldiers have been killed since russia launched its full scale invasion 2 years ago. and the chaos of advanced and retreat bodies of soldiers from both sides are often left behind. the w corresponded. young philips shots went to see military search teams find and identify the dead, so their relatives can bury them. i should mention that somebody else may find the images in this report, disturbing to watch out explosion. loading me and his team have come here close to the front line to find the bodies of soldiers. their work at a new search site usually begins like this clearing the area of explosives, some of them booby traps. yeah, and those are these, the russians usually leave surprises every where they can even be under the bodies
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to of it's generally accepted that hundreds of thousands of soldiers have died in this war. already. many of their bodies still live here in the rural areas of eastern ukraine. it doesn't take long before of loaded mirrors, team find something. who is most of the young people here had chickens, ducks, cows, and pigs on their farms. when they had to free, they couldn't take them with them and the binding the animals. my experience tells me these are not human bones. well, we will scroll a little further south. another team lays out what they brought back from a search operation. they found 10 corpses in a forest. much of it was too disturbing to show here. sometimes the soldiers carried vital clues with them. uh, put motor to live. we have a note booked with some phone numbers here. this is probably his daughter is
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contact to come up with this information, so it should be easy to establish the identity also. but even the smallest physical remains can be enough to identify ukrainian soldiers. there's an extensive dna database, a local dealer for online because we found tiny pieces of fingers, lot of teeth, and fragments of all kinds of bones and the faces of animals. if there's any chance to identify a person that we don't shy away from anything, what it's important that everyone is brought back to their families. so the alexi says they can tell what side soldiers were on from identifying features like tattoos or boots. these today are probably russians. nothing provide which they kill us and so, but we remain human because every person should be buried with dignity. going back
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with a lot of mirrors, team, many hours of searching have paid off. they found the remains of several soldiers based on the location. florida near concludes that these are also russian bodies. he says they might be able to exchange them for the bodies of ukrainian soldiers found and occupied territory. but um, you can shop them in a bag and store them later, special offices will come and use them in exchange processes. volunteers here know their work. gifts, grieving families the chance to bury their dead. it also gives them something for the future. having an official declaration of death makes it easier for relatives to claim financial support or thousands of indigenous people. in brazil have been demonstrating of an annual protest camp in the capital brazilian. they say controversial new legislation threatens their way of life,
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their ancestral lands and their very existence this is an unusual plan, but it's brazilian indigenous group to be performing the ritual. but then one of around 200 crews and 8000 people who travel from remote locations, often for days in boston sometimes, but they've come to the caf sylvia for an event that they hope will only highlight the challenges they face as indigenous people would also address the cooling, the biggest step back to the right decade and you know, at the time mancha, knew you best of luck with them. part of my mouth will chicago style the but also the time walker law is an attempt by the brazilian state. it's leaders and politicians to try to continue and i, late thing, indigenous peoples. yeah, that's completely up. that's the right to be indigenous and to be indigenous in
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your own 30. to recognize that these territories belong to indigenous peoples. these territories connect our lives, former our beings as indigenous peoples before the, our existence of these things. yeah. so the indigenous peoples here at the camp and present here and across the country. and, you know, represent a watershed moment. we can say claims to that effect alone thing. these can only be recognized if they prove that occupied the territory. 1988, it also pay the way from mining road building and other construction projects. activists say this would be a disaster environment which indigenous peoples protect are changing unless clinical time will be both our planet is dying. and this planet does not only belong to indigenous peoples. says if we don't look after it,
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if we don't use things that nature offers, we are going to die. we are talking about climate change and we are talking about green forest alone, which needs to be looked off to, to stick with that. being different as people bench the range of demonstrations, disease, government district the post test is taking place within sight of congress. the body that approve below they say now threatens the survival still dominated by wealthy landowners and the rights we allies, agribusiness. congress signed off on the major, despite opposition from lecturing. presidents knew that the silver supports is on the, even though is needed to establish legal certainty and protect commercial interest . but the indigenous people say without the alarm, the way of life and culture died. without those, the forest will die, which will likely have an impact on climate change that could have consequences to
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everyone. internally, those already is have introduced a new 5 euro fee for people wanting to visit bennett's official say. the new fee is aimed at curbing peak tourism through the fragile lagoon city and safeguarding spaces for residence, hits the city of canals, culture, and crowds. venice has long been street by mass tourism. now a pilot project aims to rein it in. the visitors have to pay 5 year rose to enter. the officials say it will discourage tours from coming during peak times and make the city more livable for residence. the charge also tells officials how many day trippers are coming in. these tourists are happy to pay up easy. i think we should pay 10 meant 5. we should pay more to help. you've got to. it's too crowded.
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otherwise, if you want to get the most out of it. but not everyone agrees, venetian protestors say the tax won't stop over tourism, as there is no limit on visitor numbers. they argue more needs to be done to support the local community because it is the we can save this just by giving houses to the local residents. and by repopulating it can only stim date tourism. it does not reduce. the bigger influx is from asia, from china, from america, it will change absolutely nothing. so, what i want to leave my house, i have to pass through 3 or 4 bachelor parties. i called the local police to tell me they're not doing anything wrong, but they get drunk, they come back late, the alleys are full of rubbish. there are no controls. venice is the 1st major city to run such an experiment. one that could become
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a blueprint for other destinations, played by over tourism. so you're watching the news. i'm terry margins. thanks for being with us. the . we are all set. we are watching close the to bring you the story behind the new the will on about come by as information for free might say do to then this engine is a huge chatter for the shipping industry to clean up is that.

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