al jazeera english proud recipient of the new york festivals broadcaster of the year award for the 50 year running. ah hello, i'm emily. i'm going into these the top stories on al jazeera, the presidents of china and russia have held a virtual summit. they agreed they relations have reached unprecedented positive levels. let me persian and she's in pings. meeting comes at the time of rising tension between both nations and the west. or, you know, close coordination of russia and china is actions on the world stage. and the responsible joint approach regarding resolving current world problems became a significant factor in the stability of our relationship. katrina year has more

from china's capital. fading, says the summit will only serve to enhance the already high level of trust between these 2 countries. and it's true to president, she didn't paying and cited move. putin already have a very strong personal report. they've met more than 30 times in the last 7 or so years. and this relationship, the strength is built on to foundations. i think one is economic. these countries do a lot of trade with each other. there's a lot of neutral investment. china relies on russia for a lot of its energy. it's oil and it's gas. and there was a work together in terms of other projects as well. russia participates in china's belton road initiative that you are talking about working on space exploration as well. and other. another aspect of this relationship, of course, is also political. this meeting is coming at a time when both countries aren't coming under increasing criticism from the west. the us, europe, ne, so et cetera for the policy is both abroad and domestically. of course,

russia is undefined because of its massive true build up on the border with ukraine and china as being heavily criticized for its increasing military activities this year around the self rules island of taiwan, which paging claims as its own. and we also seen him in the future in support china repeatedly when it comes to a lot of china's or controversial policies at home when it comes to young hong kong, etc. a lot of a lot of its behavior, which other countries have criticized as human rights abuses. and of course, we've had recently, many western countries announced that they will diplomatically boy court the winter olympics. china's big events that, that they're holding and will open in february the u. k. u. s. canada strip have announced among other countries that they will not send any officials. and yet we have russia, vladimir putin say that he will delightfully agree to attend. and he's so far the

only major leader to say that he will. germany's new chancellor la shoulds has urged everyone to get vaccinated to ensure the country winds to fight against the corona virus. he warned that he's administration will have no red lines when tackling over 19, adding, they had no time to waste. gemini is currently grappling with his biggest wave of infections in the pandemic. so police in hong kong have confirmed more than 1000. 200 people have been rescued from the cities world trade center after a fire in its 1st floor. at least 13 people were taken to hospital. brit clement is a journalist in the city. she says, the blaze broke out in an electrical room. a 1st year's rescue operation, the more than 1000 people trapped in the world trade center have been rescued. some take into hospital with injury with smoking, elation issues as well. we understand that the fire broke out in

a me to room on the 1st floor from then at the scaffolding pool to like, although it's not clear exactly how the fire started. there are renovations on the way. now this happened in one of the busiest areas in hong kong. it's a popular shopping area. and many of the people would have been out for lunch with big colleague in the lead up to the holiday season for this has a lot of havoc and a lot of the stress and to ron's minister of foreign affairs, says it has allowed the un nuclear watchdog to replace cameras at a workshop. these comes as talks to salvage the 2015 iran nuclear deal. continue in vienna. parties at negotiation say the situation is grave and iran's nuclear program is more advanced than ever around once assurances that sanctions will be lifted. those are the headlines. the news continues here after algae 0 world, and in the meantime you can head to our website. ah

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a lot with i believe that the arts, especially music and poetry and song, are the heart beat of the arab world of arab culture. and if you don't understand that, i mean you're, you're not getting the whole picture. and the world needs to hear that as far as simone goes, he is the consummate teacher and performer and composer and to be able to share those skills. you need the right setting. oh,

the old for both on the current fuel, not bogged in the most. okay. in min mother, this was my berkeley college of music when it happened. equally items of the florida to boston fell. dowdy dies tomorrow. all catalogs multi did them while they're in. no. you re dawn and no on them. mostly hubert. i happened to go to a concert where simone shaheen was performing. he was playing violin mostly a little bit. ooh, but mostly violin. and i heard him play, and i knew what i wanted to do with the strength department at berkeley. i wanted string playing as it exists around the world, which is mostly improvisational genres, not all, but mostly, ah, even classical music has improvisation in its roots, not so much now, but used to. so when i heard them on play, and i understood that this was the vision i wanted for the strange apartments,

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i have to confess, when i took this job, 14 years ago i didn't know what a canoe was, and i met this young man who played canoes, and he told me all about it. and i was fascinated, but he was a student. and then started noticing more people playing mood more people playing various percussion instruments from the arab world. and i realized something was happening and independently i had known about simone, shaheen and in fact, had helped encourage him to come teach here. but i didn't really know about, so marcia, he just knew he was a really good musician and a really good person. and, but i didn't realize that the 2 were connected is when simone came here, that all these amazing musicians started coming to us from all over all over the,

the middle east. and he's been an enormous magnet for talented students. and he's strong enough and capable enough that he can teach. he can help a canoe player, he can help renewed player, he can help a violinist. so he's a, he's like a swiss army knife of talent and magnetism. a part of what i try to focus on in my playing is bringing traditionally music to a wider global audience. a leading music is, you know, very deep in esoteric and has all his layers. but it's pretty much reserved to the, to the heidi ish. so i come to berkeley college of music and i start spending a lot of time with him on it and seeing how he's kind of created a community in

a world outside of the region that he's from in the style place specifically is very inspiring. ah ah, usually if you book to be, i wouldn't listen to what auto secret in. no, ma'am, really bad that to hold and send me a little different. le shabamo i ah, in recent years simone. sure, he is. look to palestine, the land of his birth to seek out or new generation of young musical, italian, ah. with no longer you studied by about 9 years, you know,

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successfully graduated from berkeley at this point. you know, that otherwise we would not have found. so i think it's a very valuable process if you want to play for us about. busy another piece or something that you were. ready on okay, i'm getting it good. oh. 6 000000

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and questions for the use and abuse of power around the globe on al jazeera. ah ah. hello, i'm emily anglin. in dough harvey's, the top stories on al jazeera has been a breakthrough at the iran nuclear talks taking place in vienna, rance foreign minister says un cameras will be allowed to film at a sensitive nuclear side. the issue has been a sticking point in talks about the possible resumption of the 2015 nuclear deal. the presidents of china and russia have held a virtual summit. they agreed their relations have reached unprecedented positive levels. vladimir putin and she's in pings meeting comes at a time a rising tension, but.