ah, ah ah, this is dw slide from berlin. the 2 most powerful leaders in the world try talking about their problems. you as president joe biden and china is teaching to ping, hold their 1st conference call, then months. aging is outraged by plans for and help you ways politician to visit taiwan. you crank, confirmed russian forces have taken control of its 2nd biggest power plants achieve plays down the capture of the coal fired station and don, yet as a tiny, tactical advantage surviving california biggest wildfire of the year. this was on

fire. that was on fire fire. i'm far in the child landscape. me yosemite national park, fire crews battle the still burning blaze. ah, i'm been fizzle, and welcome cooperation and containment. that's what the u. s. president has said to one from his chinese opposite number biden, and she have been talking on the phone for the 1st time since march after rush are invaded. ukraine badging has failed to denounce moscow's war. instead, it's threatened taiwan with invasion. china considered it part of its territory. the island governs itself democratic late. biden has offered to come to its defense if she tries re uniting ty, one with the mainland, us house because nancy pelosi has said to be planning a visit to the island. a jing has warned of consequences if such

a high profile visit takes place for us to show support. michelle cousin is following the story for us from washington. it sounds easy just picking up the phone, but i don't think it's going to be that easy for both. ladies. is it? well, but they certainly have a lot to talk about, but these are testing times the leadership of both joe biden here, facing economic data that's pointing further and further towards a potential recession here. and she's in pain. who in october or november we'll have to face a people's assembly and there is no viable democracy in china yet at the same time . that is an event where she, jim pink, could see himself either strengthened or weakens. so both leaders need to lose power coming out of this telephone conversation. we're still waiting any minute now for an advisory on what could have been discussed because you see the white house sense of readout, but that hasn't arrived yet,

so they may well still be talking by it's been especially on popular with by jing though, hesitate with his coles for promises to defend taiwan. yes, he answered, yes. when he was asked whether he would defend taiwan, potentially, militarily the united states have committed themselves to military support. also legally. at the same time, they don't recognize taiwan as an independent state and to pursue something called of one china policy as well. so what, where does that leave both sides well, in a potential stand off as we are observing china and exercising more and more power and demonstrating more power in the south china sea. this all already came to a head in the mid ninety's, which in the end is so china actually sending rockets into the sea off the shores of taiwan. now we're nowhere near that box that visit of nancy pelosi,

the speak of the house. we can completely independently take decisions of the president, although she is from the same party that could well escalate tensions. and if she backed down and decided not to go, that could portray the united states as weakens. so a very difficult diplomatic territory, both between the 2 countries, but also amongst the democrats here who do phase mid term elections this fall. and michelle, i stress the, what containment? earlier the u. s. a said, the china needs to be contained. where does that fit into this conversation? well, let's look at the economics say it is yes, china trying to expand its power in the south china sea and further a field through its belt and road policy. and the u. s. leading an initiative and to oppose that an investment initiative in within the g 20. but also

just having passed a built invest hundreds of billions of dollars into tip production here in the u. s . and that it's a vital because supply lines recently have not just been hampered at by the pandemic, but particularly by chip production, not keeping up. and the main exporter of those chips is indeed taiwan. and that's what makes it a jewel in the crown when it comes to international economic power. you have from michelle active, now corresponded in washington. thank you very much. and let's bring in in chung and associate professor at the national university of singapore who focuses on chinese foreign policy. thanks for being on the show today. what do you expect from this call between biden and she honestly, i, i expect quite a lot of bluster and positioning, but i really do not expect any resolution to the differences because the issues at

hand are very much intertwined with domestic issues in both china. the p r c and also the us. so i don't think leaders on the leaders on either side have very much room for new maneuver. well, with this crucial election coming up for, she's in ping, i bet there's a lot of well, i wouldn't say acting, but a lot of playing too wide to the public going on. especially this anger over at nancy pelosi proposed visit to taiwan when you say so on the she side. it's not that he's going for election. i think it's pretty clear has, is the term it's about him being able to push agenda through being able to put his key allies into important positions. and the way that she has positioned himself, as the leader of china, is one that focuses a lot on as know nationalism on bringing up china sort of national sentiment, sometimes in rather sort of ethnic terms. and that can come up as pretty strident.

so with a creek is a dynamic in the p r. c, where everyone has an incentive to look strong. no one has an incentive to look. we least of all she. so i think there's going to be a lot of forcefulness coming from. she has certainly we see that on as rhetoric on one that's this new thing that he's putting forward about how the talent street isn't international waters. where previous the, the, the p s, he had not raised these sorts of concerns. so this, that moving of the needle, i think, to positions she in a stronger position that creates more friction. not only with taiwan, but the u. s. and u. s. allies. talking about looking strong ones holding. it's biggest to have a military drill right now. are the concerns of an invasion real. so taiwan has had to deal with the potential over evasion for really long time. and in the, in the late ninety's, early 2000. there was a few that perhaps the economics would be more important. that certainly hasn't

played out. so with the vision of ukraine by russia. i think many people and how in start realizing that war could be quite real. so there's a lot more seriousness put into the current $138.00 exercise, but it's not just the military sites. there's a big civil defense element that has seen far more involvement from the public than was in the past. so this on one side as preparedness, but i think they're also trying to send a signal that any attempt at invasion will be costly. lastly, what are the chances of us getting any sort of cooperation from these 2 leaders when, when both sides would like to see the other contained well, i think for the u. s. they've been trying to talk about constrain meant not so much about containment. the chinese that is talked about containment, accused the u. s. of trying to contain them. now, there is a lot to corporate over the, the economy, the continuing pandemic climate change. but unfortunately,

i think the politics on the 2 sides and the mutual suspicions are so deep and also the need for trying to push this nationalist narrative is so ingrained that i think they, that that sort of very useful and reasonable corporation might unfortunately have to be for gone in, jump from the national university of singapore. thank you very much for getting your take on this. thank you. now let's get you up to speed on some other stories making use around the world. north korea's leader kim jong and has said that he's ready to use nuclear weapons in potential conflicts with the united states or south korea. it was speaking on the 69th anniversary of the end of the korean war, known in the north as victory day. a russian court has convicted a journalist of discrediting beyond forces, and finally, the equivalent of 800 euros arena of cova gained international. the tension when she protested against russia invasion of ukraine during a news bulletin. the case relates to her later social media posts in which she

criticized the war. ukrainian officials, a russian forces have taken control of their 2nd biggest power station. booklet here, skip power plant is the latest loss in easton dumbass president. blood of mister lansky says ukraine is to step up electricity exports to the european union to help withstand pressure from russia over cuts in energy supply. d. w 20 is building a, is in odessa covering this story for us, but he has, could you give us the latest on the fight? yes, so this power plant has been under attack for several weeks. and it seems now that the russians have been able to take it, that fits with pretty much the pattern that we've seen during the past few months, actually in the east that russia concentrates its fire power and, and, and its soldiers on one object. and they keep shelling it, they keep attacking it until at some point they can take it, they are making gains,

they're making gains that seem incremental at the moment, a few months to take one power plant. but of course they're adding up. and this is why russia has been able to advance in that region, in other regions and other parts of the front, the north east, the heart of region, and the house. it's not the same that swear ukraine is exercising more pressure on the russians and where they have been able to make some gains. also, these gains are relatively small. they are some villages at the front line near the front line, but they have been steady. and what we've see, been seeing in the past few days with the past few weeks, actually since these high mars multiple rocket launchers have arrived and they have systematically taken out some of the russian supply lines quite far behind the lines, ammunition depos or a bridge very important bridge that connects the city, of course, on to the southern shore of the nearby river and to crimea. the main supply route,

basically for the russian troops there. and that looks very pretty much like a preparation for a counter offensive that ukraine has already announced. ok on another front i, i ask you this question every time this week, but the world really wants to know when those 1st grain shipments are going to leave ukraine. you're in odessa, yesterday we saw the opening of the coordination center in turkey to get those ships out. but it's a dangerous operation, isn't it? i talked to an official from the port authority before and he said, theoretically, they are ready to ship to morrow. the ship's already loaded and the lanes that need to be de mine. they have been de mine. there is the possibility for the ships to, to go now and to, to, to sail on to turkey. but they're waiting for the go. and we do not really know how and when this decision will be taking ukraine says it's ready,

sports operating it ships are loaded, and the mines are clear from that, from that lane. the latest they from mathias building a in ukraine. thank you. or the wall has killed thousands and destroyed infrastructure and batted the mental health of many ukrainians. psychologists struggling to help adults and children deal with the impact dw corresponded next. spicer visited the devastated town of borrowed younger, and found that even reminders of historical violence can trigger new anxiety for shell shock 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 is 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?

ah, 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 and 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 rubble 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. but celine with that, i do eat up all the shelling from the russian multiple launch rockets system hit the playground where my wife and child were leave watching were so helpful. she got

fragments in her leg. hola! most most of the 3 or school of yellowish i was sent to the hospital in jer, tamiya. and then she told me i 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 mom. tanya takes me aboard what she calls the psychological brigade, van town. we use this car for visit in to this more 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 tanius communities, 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 are 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 say 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. a massive, wild fire has burned all week along the border between germany and the track republic. it's destroying huge swathes of parkland on both sides. the blaze seem to be contained but is now spreading again. ready, one village on the check side has been destroyed at hundreds of residents evacuated

. the fire started during a heap life. scientists say extreme conditions being made more frequent by those conditions are also being seen across the us. severe droughts combined with strong winds and high temperatures of fuel want fires in 11 states in california. 5 cruise is still working to contain the biggest plays this year. the oak fire, which threatened the same of the national park, has been partially contained, but is not yet fully under control. the w corresponding step on the months is in the sierra nevada mountains. why fi fi is a still hot at work? driving through the hillson into the mountain 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 hotspots, attending,

smouldering tree trunks. others are assigned to check on establish so called lines, or to expend them jo amador, a fire captain from san diego, and the press inflammation officer assigned to us explains the drug you. they're trying to build a parameter around this burn here, right to keep her from spreading. and that's what this protection line is doing. so they leave that here. they leave that here in case this come the fire, another fire exact come in there, come in there, connect, they go up there and they can, my are ready ready to go is we're making our way deeper into the mountains and to what's the front line where the oak fires actively burning, were passing sides of utter destruction. examples of destroy 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 use your 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. it 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 on hand 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. hi, this is behind us on fire. and it was starting to wrap around, so already it was a 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 winds helps they can use every lesson. this is frontline 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 backyard 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, some other headlines now from around the world, at least for more protesters have been killed in a democratic republic of congo soldiers, 5 shots which hit an electric cable that then fell on the crowd. the demonstration was against the united nations peacekeeping mission. at least 15 people died in early rallies. authorities in india's western state of good shots have launched an

investigation. after dozens of people died from drinking toxic liquor and they say contained industrial methanol used in paint finish. illicit alcohol causes hundreds of dance every year. in olden, philippines is assessing the damage from a powerful quite the island of loose on at least 4 people were killed. hundreds of the after shot have hit the region. many residents say they had too scared to sleep in their hopes. in some sports, in germany, evoked their place in the final of footballs, euro 2022, a big france to one thrilling class japanese women kept their cool in a fiercely contested match. captain alexandra, pop it both goals and is now the joint top score of the toner. it the side take on england in the final, at wembley stadium and london on sunday. stop and strike as a boston i lay, i will be out for several months after surgery on the testicular tumor, when it was diagnosed during the team's pre season training camp arrived at open

this month on a 31000000 euro transfer from i x amsterdam a layer replaces elling on who's gone to manchester city. sebastian better is to retire from formula one at the end of the season. the 35 year old german is currently driving for aston martin having previously been at ferrari and read bull b one for straight championships. that was used his platform to support l g b t q rights, and environmental causes admits to feeling a hypocrite over the climate crisis. vog vibing in top level motor sports. now for all of you, game of thrones fans out there. the hit fantasy drama is back as a pre call series house of the dragon. producers have staged and eagerly anticipated premie air in los angeles. ah, story about a family divide, it is a foot. a time in which dragons fly,

the skies and their turn, garry and riders grew in the 7 kingdoms house. the dragon depicted bitter and brutal, civil war that took place roughly 200 years before the original serious. they called it the dance of the dragons. the makers of the series says it has its own town or is the ring. the original series is very much like the odyssey. i think this is, this is more like a greek tragedy. it is about a single house tearing itself apart from within. these in the novel firing, blot, the spin of willing to dozens of winged blizzards. there are so many dragons in this one with you. you won't be disappointed if you like dragons, if you don't like dragons, you shouldn't watch the show. it's been 3 years since game of thrones reached is very much disputed and the new team hopes to recapture the magic.

the original game of thrones was about multiple different families. it spread over multiple confidence as a much more intimate story. it's really about the dissolution of one family. um, so in a why it wasn't hard for it to be different, but the fight was how, who might be fulfilled because i work in a familial world might reveal content, give them what they want, but on the why they're expecting house of dragon will feature 10 episodes the show begin streaming on august 21st. loneliness and boredom during pandemic locked down sore a big rise in pet sales in many countries. but now the restrictions have eased and its summer in europe. many new owners of finding the novelty of looking after pits is worn off. here in germany, animal rescue centers are growing under pressure. oh, it's loud and it's crowded. in berlin's dogs. shout is not

a single space is still free. so they've had to refuse to take any more pets in the cat shelters. it's the same story, more animals than ever before was surrendered. this summer, the wave of people giving up their pets started when the vacation season did as hostage naturally, people want to go on holidays, but they don't know where they can go for 3 weeks with a pat. so they just surrender it. when we say we can't accept them at the moment, it doesn't mean we never will. but right now we just don't have the space. animal rights activists had warned that people who adopted pets in the last 2 years may end up giving them away in better times. and now that time has come, even germany's largest animal shelter can't cope with the sheer amount of pets coming in. lesson had like the negative effect of the pet boom that happened during cove. it. we have a lot of animals who are bought online without much thought. some specialty stores,

hardware stores or from shelters abroad, really use them. also, people just didn't think seriously about the important questions before buying them . they haven't looked for dog trainer, and now the animals are actually out growing them. thank you. running co workers here, worry that pet owners could soon have another reason to give up their animals. the cost from october, the phase for veterinary treatment and germany will rise, meaning that even more people may choose to say good bye to their pets. as a reminder of the top stories by following the sour leader of the us in china have held their 1st phone call since march tensions over taiwan dominated the exchange making as angry about a possible visit to the island by you waste house speak in nancy pelosi and officials in ukraine say russian forces have taken control of its 2nd biggest power plant in the eastern dumbass region. it comes as president, florida lensky says. ukraine is preparing to increase electricity exports to the

european union to help if withstand pressure from russia of energy cuts. i'm been for solon, now you're up to date. i'll see you here on the, they'll be news next out about, ah ah, [000:00:00;00]

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