ah, ah ah, this is dw slide from berlin. welts to most powerful leaders hold talks to diffuse tension. us president joe biden, and china as agent thing make their 1st joint call in months. it comes as china express outrage over plans by a senior us politician to visit taiwan. also coming up, ukraine says russian forces are in control of it. the 2nd biggest power plot,

the capture of the coal fired booklet here scott power station is russia's latest advance in the eastern don bus region. and residents described living through california largest wildfire so far this year. this was on fire. that was on fire, fire fire. the child landscape near yosemite national park fire crews continue to fight the still burning blaze. and in football, germany is through to the final of the euro. 2022. after beating from their set for a class against host nation, england at wembley stadium on sunday. ah, i'm go. hi beth was welcome to the program. united states president joe biden, and his chinese counterpart. she can ping have been holding a telephone call as relations between the 2 countries. face new tensions over

taiwan. it's this is call as leaders. and the 1st since march white house officials said the call will have a broad agenda. relations have worse and over. she's want vowed to reunite democratic taiwan with chinese mainland beijing as also war against a possible trip to taiwan by u. s. house speaker nancy pelosi say that would be consequences for such a high profile visit w corresponding michelle acuteness following this story for us in washington, d. c. and joins us now. monsieur, what do we know so far about the coal? well, about the specific hole we know that it got underway about 3 minutes later than scheduled. and let me just check for you again. yes, it still seems to be underway. no notice yet at from the white house on that key. cool. the 1st one, as he said, since march, the 1 in march of course,

was dominated by ukraine at that was what we learned a bit of a veiled threat by the us that china shouldn't support russia and militarily. and this time very much taiwan in focus on that planned visit of nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house. so it's been 4 months since the last conversation between the 2 leaders that was right after the invasion of ukraine. what has changed since then? already the dynamics of change, we have not seen all out support at full russia of by china. although there is no doubt to tool that we have 2 different camps but more immediately. and really, that is great concern when you talk to alice here in washington, and further a field that china and the u. s. could be on the brink of yet another crisis over the south china sea. in particular, the state is of taiwan. now officially,

the united states does not have diplomatic relations with taiwan. it also officially holds a position where it follows a circle, one china policy at which means that it does not recognize taiwan as a separate state. but recently us present, joe biden questioned whether he would defend taiwan, potentially militarily answered no to that particular question. and now with the speaker of the house and planning a trip. the big question is whether there will be new tensions where both sides need to show great leadership, save faith in what could potentially be a stand off here with those experts wanting that yes, this has the stuff for yet another deep crisis just to remind us all there was one before where the, this hottest one, yet i, she saw china firing missiles into the c, d, taiwan because of the usaa biden, to have

a besides that the chime of threat needs to be contained. where do conversations like this fitted? well, there are several levels here and really what the west also means is also the economic threat of by china. we just saw this week and the economic data plunging here. and we've seen the senate passed a package for chip production, a boy $280000000000.00 worth. and taiwan is such a focus of policy for both sides, but particularly for the united states. because tip protection is very much spaced in taiwan. if taiwan is under chinese control, that would give china even more leverage of the u. s. and global economy did of u respondent media, like you've never reporting from washington. thank you. mikaela.

as the u. s. and chinese leaders hold their call. taiwan has been conducting his biggest ever military drills, simulating its response to a possible chinese invasion. for the 1st time in decades, all residents must practice seeking shelter. did you correspond, zachary li, has this report from the capital tie pay? oh, the ruth are all empty. only the south of the warning sirens can be heard. please instruct every one to 6 shorter immediately. cities across taiwan shut down for 30 minutes for this nationwide many period 3 yo's. the military, i sis i sis this year ologist in taiwan history. as you can see behind me, o cause have been forced to pour over to the side of the road, and every one is too thick chateau doing this air read jails. how many people are taking the exit? i seriously, in light belt. no. wor ukraine. there has served as a wake up call for tie one over the thread from china. i think the joe's

a necessary. we should be prepared beforehand. oh, household thing. though with ohio through the exercise we know what instructions to follow in case of a war. i think if the government held drills more frequently, people would know how to react in an emergency situation with auction of some doubtful toggle was until that because of the war in ukraine, we want to know where we can go and hide when we get attacked. for example, where are the shelters in taiwan? a novel is, is that the one home till 990 ambulances in fire chucks play an important role in these 3 yo's. the rescue workers peck piece, putting out a fire after supposed may sell attack. the taiwanese government wants to make it as real as possible to risk public awareness of emergency warning, or deductible. well, as the purpose of this year's exercise is to test how we would react in

a real war. and we will do a review after the exercises and see how we can improve $1.00 oh, $3.00 o's, an a 5 day military exercise will conduct ela, same time. and this will game has ukraine in might. reservists, dict, luncheon chase on dora beach. others focus some practice in urban warfare. and on the open sea, several was ships carry out, may new verse. i was president, how you went over sort of deals. and the navy destroyer is actually in jail, demonstrated the ability and determination of the soldiers of the republic of china to defend the country. let's continue to work hard and gotta high man together. china's threat pump hit ty, 12, stayed up, preparation for a chinese attack on his 1st page in is concerned. any attempts by ty was to come, fonts is meet, hurry will be doomed to fail. let's now get up to speed on some of the other

stories making headlines around the world. north korea's leader kim john says he's ready to use nuclear weapons and potential conflicts with united states are with south korea. he was speaking on the 69th anniversary of the end of the korean war, known in the north as victory day. a quote in russia has convicted a journalist of discrediting the armed forces and find her equivalent of 800 euros . marina of chicago gained international attention when she protested against the ukraine war during a news bulletin. the case relates to later social media, post ukrainian officials, a russian forces have taken control of the 2nd biggest power station booklet hisco power plant is the latest loss in the eastern don bus region. president vladimir zalinski says ukraine is to step up electricity exposed to the european union to

help it withstand pressure from russia over energy supplies. open it up, moving the w as much as billing, or is in odessa covering this story force and asked them to give us the latest on the fighting in ukraine. yeah, as you've mentioned, to the power plan seems to have been taken by the rations as has been confirmed by an advisor to the president of ukraine. and this was one of the major theaters of fighting in the past few days and even weeks because it's a, it's a made. it was a major obstacle for the russians on their, on their move forward. however, it has taken them quite long to get to this power plant and it's a pattern that's repeated. russia concentrates. it's attacks on one point. a shells them massively attacks them massively at, at some point they enter, they are making gains, but these gains, each of themselves are incremental. they are adding up, but we cannot talk about a fast advance. and similar things can be said about the ukranian counter offensive

. and other parts of the country where ukraine has been able to take back quite a few settlements along the line along the southern front line and also in the north east near. hark if, but none of them a can be considered a break through what ukraine has been doing so far is attacking the positions and a munition dumps behind the lines. and that has proven, quite effective to weaken the russians, and also to slow down the advance of the russians. russia has responded or is responding increasingly by missile attacks all over the country. that's also something we've seen in the past day in the past night. so that, that, that missiles have been fired all over ukrainian territory, especially in the north this time, the key of region. and the cheney of region,

which have been quite spared these, this kind of attacks and days and weeks before i hear you are in the port city of odessa. yesterday we saw the opening of a coordination center in his stumble, which should oversee the restart of the drain shipments ukraine to world markets. when do authorities in odessa expect the 1st shipment there to set sail authorities here they say they are ready for these shipments that the ships are loaded and they're waiting for the go. so possibly even tomorrow is what, what one of the managers of the port authority told me they are. they would be ready to ship tomorrow, but they need to go and they don't know when it will come. it's a matter of coordination between turkey, the un, russia and ukraine, and this is something that's unpredictable, but they would be ready and it seems that pathway has been cleared. the whole coast

is mine, they're russian mines, they're ukranian mines. there are russian vessels. there are fewer but some ukrainian vessels and they have agreed to to the minor corridor that leads out of the ukrainian waters into romanian and international waters. and then the ships would proceed to istanbul, this corridor seems to be operational, seems to have been the mind and their ships are ready. so we might see a shipment tomorrow, we might see it in the next few days. it's a matter of coordination. it's something that remains a little bit unpredictable. our correspondent is pulling a very voting from odessa. thank you much. yes. there war has of course killed thousands and destroyed infrastructure, but as also a basset, the mental health of many a finance psychologists are struggling to keep to help adults and children deal

with the impact. the w correspondence next, spicer visited the devastated town of borrowed younger, and found that even reminders of historical violence cannot trigger no anxiety for shell shocked ukrainians. during the occupation, somebody put a bullet hole through the head of ukraine's national poet, terra schiff, jenko, psychologist, tenure sauce go tells of a patient who walk past it with her son who has children long. he is poems and begin in from their 1st grade. still 11th grade, and the boy said mom a little glue. what's in what state? oh it's. he holds in his head. he's sure didn't say oh no, maybe they didn't know that said jen goes nasha is our national hero. the boy, like, you know, it was his pain. there are painful reminders everywhere, including right across the street from the market on ship. jenko square does nigi. everybody in bar jacket seems to know the story of this building. when russian

shelling started, people took shelter inside its basement as they're supposed to do, but they were trapped by the rebel. for around a month they cried out for food and water and people tried to bring it to them. snipers held them at bay. so there are feelings of helplessness and the fear that the war is following you. when it started this couple thought it would be over in days and never get close. she but celine with that idea of eve, patropolis shelling from the russian multiple launch rockets system, hit the playground where my wife and child were leave a lot in the were so helpful. she got fragments and her leg. hola! moscow with 3 or school of yellowish i was sent to the hospital in jer, tamiya, and then she told me it was bombed. it was very difficult, psychologically difficult to for those who can't even express their fear with words yet my child is scared now. even the words air alarm he understands and he trembled . any noise?

my son he is, he runs to me and starts hugging me. margaret tanya takes me aboard what she calls the psychological brigade, van town. we use this car for visit in to the small villages busy called us several times a day and explain about the problem especially. you know, it's very difficult situation for mothers with many children. when they don't have father, their father is a soldier and goes there and use a book to people. the russians destroyed the building that used to house tanya's community. psychological support service. now they're set up in a school. the biggest challenge she says is grief. it's really difficult to find the words how to say that you should leave again, but yes, we're trying to find because they, you should, they should leave because it will be the memory was them will live the memory of those people and so on and so forth. it's difficult but, but we do this every day outside the school, children wait for their parents,

tanya and the other psychologist said the big job is going to be helping kids make sense of what they have seen and heard and continue to see around them. only then can healing and bore jenko truly begin. last wildfire has burnt all week long. the border between germany at the czech republic, it's destroying huge parts of parkland and both countries. the blaze seemed to be contained, but it's spreading again. already one village on the check side has been destroyed and hundreds of residents evacuated. the fire started during a heat wave sign to say extreme conditions like this are being made more frequent by climate change. those conditions are being seen across the u. s. to severe drugs, combined with strong winds and high temperatures, have fueled wildfires in 11 states and california fire cruise is still working to contain the regions biggest blaze this year. the oak fire,

which has threatened the yosemite national park as been partially contained, but is not yet fully under control. the w corresponds to funds demands, as in the sierra, nevada mountains, where firefighters are still harder work. driving through the hills and into the mountains surrounding small town mariposa on the southwest corner of yosemite park feels almost like entering a different world. the fire fighters we accompany liking it often to wear lunar landscape. some fire crews are swarming the chart grounds. the oak fire left behind their mopping up, as they say, reoccurring hot spots attending, smouldering tree trunks. others are assigned to check on, establish so called lights, or to expend them jo amador, a fire captain from san diego, and the press inflammation officer assigned to us explains what they're trying to do. they're trying to build a parameter around this burn here to keep her from spreading. and that's what this

protection line is doing. so they'll leave that here. they leave that here in case this come to fire. another fire, exact come in there, common there, connect, they go up there and they can find all ready ready to go. this will make you know, way deeper into the mountains and to what's the front line with the oak fires actively burning. we are passing sides of utter destruction. examples of destroyed property, and in many cases, last lively. the interesting thing here is that this side of the street where we are now here is as you can see, totally destroyed. now, if we look at this side of the street there, the neighbor got spirit. i asked jo, our press information officer who is with us, why that is, it's very usual to see a fire come through and, and destroy whole blocks of, of homes and property, and then maybe another house completely untouched. so that's the thing about fire

has no respect for who it destroys what it destroys. as much as that is true firefighters also say that fire, education and preparation are most critical. some residents, like nick smith and his fiance, she and michelle took matters in their own hands successfully. as soon as the fire came for them, they have the necessary tools to protect their home though a dozer and other heavy machinery. this was on fire. that was on fire, hide behind on fire, and it was starting to wrap around so already as fire everywhere. the reality for many of the 3000 deployed fire fighters who still fight the oak fire at its frontline. however, a day without strong wind helps. they can use every les, this is front line fire fighting right there. there's the active fire oak fire. you see the smoke in the background. and that's why we have the staging ground here, fire fighters and helicopters, they go to a what is called a dip. the dip is a pond in the back yard of a resident who have been evacuated on this day. 3 choppers get water from here and

dump it over the fire. if everything works out, california is largest wildfire this year. to date is expected to be under control in about 2 weeks or so. have some more news headlines for you now. at least 4 more protesters have been killed in the democratic republic of congo soldiers, 5 shots which hit an electric cable, then fell on the crown. the protest was against united nations peacekeeping mission . at least 15 people died in earlier protests. authorities in india's western state of goods or our town launched an investigation of the dozens of people died from drinking toxic liquor. please say it contained industrial, methanol, mused and paint furnace illicit. alcohol causes hundreds of death every year in that state. the northern philippines is assessing the damage from a powerful earthquake on the island of luzon. at least 4 people were killed.

hundreds of aftershocks have hit the region since many resident, so they are too scared to sleep in their homes. sports news in football, germany are through to the final of euro, 2022, after beating france to one germany. as women kept there cool in a fiercely contested match in milton keynes in the u. k. captain, i have sandra, pop nat at both girls and she is now the joint top scorer of the tournament team will face england in the final at london's wembley stadium on sunday for more what will surely be an epic germany, england battle? i'm now join thoughts, post max marrow max. let's talk about the game yesterday. france versus germany 1st. a bit of a slow start, but then it developed into a pretty great game. yeah, and i mean very cagey at the beginning both seems quite careful. maybe a little bit of respect for each other as well. very quality opposition and germany

school 1st and then front. hit back just before the break. it was the 1st goal that germany had conceived in the entire tournament, which just shows you what kind of told them and they've had. i was an absolute crack from outside the box to beat metal forms and metal forms and then produced. superb saves in the 2nd half to keep germany in it. but i have to single out a different player captain alexandra pop, who we see she scored both goals and through sheer force of will really such a dynamic play, a really impressive player. and at age 31 is quite surprising that this is a 1st ever euros because through injuries she's missed other tournaments in the past. and most recently came off a 10 month injury lay off with to knee surgery. so she's really forced away back, making up for lost time now. and i think the team also really see this as a big opportunity to win the title around her as captain. she didn't even stop the 1st match actually came on to school though, but later still it was starting ahead of her. but she got coded right after the 1st

match. so pop moved into the starting lineup and she hasn't let go in 5 games. she's good 6 goals out of the fighting spirit will certainly help them in the final england versus germany. the one we talked about this yesterday the what the final that we both hoping for a true classic if that ever was one. what's your prediction for this guy? well, i think it's going to be close. i would probably say germany, if you put, you know, if you push me on picking one, i probably go with germany, but i think it's going to be a lot closer than the last time they met in the euro's final, in 2009 when germany, 162, the last time they met in february england won the last time they played at wembley germany one. so i think it will be a close affair. it will be a sold out wimbley crowd with $90000.00 fans. expected that will boost the, the english to yeah. it could also give them a little bit of pressure that i think, you know, so it's one of those where it could go either way. these are the 2 stand out teams of bureau, 2022. so deservedly in the final and they both have depth and star power. the

coaches dream as i mentioned to you yesterday and the england coach that in a v man she won the year is last time out with a native netherlands in 2017. and she knows exactly what to expect from this kind of final pressure because that was in the netherlands as well. so she is really experienced here. so i was martina falls, text book, the germany coach, but the germany coach will set aside up to press england. that's something that england struggle with a little bit. so i think that's going to give germany the slight edge, but it'll be a cracking final on sunday, whichever way it goes. it's max meryl that c w sports. thank you. and formula one for time champion, sebastian federal has just announced is retirement from the motor sports to the end of the season. the 35 year old german is currently driving fast and martin having previously been at ferrari and red bowl with 14 straight championships between 2010

and 14. recently, he has used his platform to support l g, q, and environmental courses. and he makes it sometimes felt like a hypocrite drive in formula, one of the lines of climate change. now for any game of thrones fans out there, the hit fantasy drama is back. as a prequel series house of the dragon, one of the world's most highly anticipated tv events as held its global premier in los angeles. the series will follow the ta, gary, and dynasty as their many kings and queens both good and evil rule over the 7 king views can expect to see bloodshed, battles, and betrayals and plenty of dragons which oh, begins streaming on august 21st and that's it. from me and the news t my up next is d w. news asia. with this story north korea's leader threatens nuclear war and his in particular issues. strong was against his saw the neighbor

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