ah ah this is the w news life from berlin. the 1st the you leader to visit china since the pandemic broke out and the war in ukraine, germany, zoloft, shoulds tries we kindling ties with beijing. but other you officially frowned on the diplomatically delicate trip. some of his own government papers are against it

will explain why. also coming up pakistan's im ron con, survived the shooting at a protest rally. the government allegedly confesses to attempting to assassinate the full, the prime minister, and left alone in the cold and dark 4. and a half 1000000 ukrainians without power off the relentless russian air strikes. keith accused as moscow of energy, terrorism. ah, i've been for all unwelcome germany's chance that olaf sholtes has met chinese leader. she, jim ping and beijing's great whole of the people. the 1st to visit by european union leaders since the corona virus pandemic overshadowing shelters visit is criticism of china's tacit support for russia's invasion of ukraine. a controversy over economic and human rights issues. sholtes is traveling with several top

business leaders, faces calls to reduce germany's over dependence on its biggest trading partner. allies like france and the u. s. a critical of the visit and even his own coalition part as a warning against becoming too close to authoritarian regimes. you know, he's trying to rexburg conan is following the trip closely as the meeting going between shorts and she will so far so good, i'm sure is what shows is thinking the optics are very interesting in this and she didn't pick has just come out this 20 of party congress, which he secured a 3rd term. he's got a lot of headwinds that he's facing at home, but because he's got this unprecedented power. now that he, he's going to be feeling confident going into this, where schoultz is got a lot of things at his back. he's got the threats. you know, he's be that pressure from his he, you allies from within his own party. for him, it's a very different sort of circumstance, but he'd be looking to cement what he sees as a very,

very important relationship at france. would like to see a joint e u f on this front. but how does filters trip compared to all those visits made by his predecessor? well, it's, it's very interesting. i think like when angle america used to go, she would always, you know, she'd bring a little list of human rights concerns that she had over the course of her, of her time at those became. those are off the table and it was very much focused on trade. and this is very similar. this is a trade thing. he's made noises about maybe talking about human rights issues. but basically it looks like the focus is going to be on trade. even at the expense of certain u relations, as we mentioned, the french are annoyed. the u. s. are annoyed. and maybe if we can look at some background here and see what the previous trips used to be like. ok, let's roll that report. change 3 trade is that was germany's china policy. oma

chancellor, anglo merkel champion. the idea throughout has 16 years and power, suggesting that making money in fostering change go hand in hand. china is now germany's biggest trade partner and concerns are growing. that this has made germany dangerously dependent. but if you look at a couple of the kind of key clusters of dependency m one now particularly down to parts of the car, am the auto sector and the chemical sector. and i think that's where you have the real dependencies, china and all powerful president, she jin ping has undergone profound change. the economy has reached new heights, but instead of opening up politic lean, she jane peng double down on authoritarianism. the idea of change through trade look stead yet the new government has been wrestling with what to do about that. the coalition deal, the government signed last year, looked tough,

with passages on taiwan and human rights. a hallmark of the green party, which holds important ministries in the government, sites among the time when people say trade, no matter what, no matter what the social and humanitarian standards are. this is the point of all relations. this is something we shouldn't allow ourselves any longer. this means that we will also establish a more robust trade policy views of his china for europe, australia. but the man at the top doesn't seem so sure. chancellor of channels has pushed through a controversial deal, allowing a chinese state enterprise to buy a steak and germany is most important. port hamburg the decision was much without parole from his own coalition partners. most notably from the greens full of sales as decision now to travel to china, where the business delegation is only adding to the divisions. so where does that leave germany's china strategy?

for many will not just look have to look at how to diversify economic relations, but actually how to reduce strategic dependencies on china, particularly in critical areas such as raw materials. and so for example, areas such as a wind turbine, so solar modules and for electric batteries, for electric vehicles, crucial decisions lie ahead, but it's not clear if the german government can make up its mind was far as that goes and jellies had a really hard time winning itself off russia, another authoritarian regime. what about china though? i mean, i think this is the crux of everything. and this is what's baffling. a lot of people, including ordinary germans. i mean, we've seen these opinion polls saying the germans already back this, this closer engagement with china at all. and, you know, you'd, you'd think that germany would have learned from what happened with russia because

very similar things could, could very easily happen in, within the chinese relationship. and what about these business executives are on the trip? what would they be? think here's the chaos unfolds at this mega factory that produces, i vote. well, these pictures are remarkable that we seen from fox kong. you know, that, that of people getting out of the, the world's biggest iphone maker am to escape quarantine. and all i could think of looking at these pictures and follow if that was your company. visuals are not good . you've got a row of, of epidemic. anti epidemic guards who look like storm troopers from the star wars movie. you've got the police, you've got all this sort of on rest. you got lost production, all these sort of things. and if i were a business executive, i be thinking how do i stop that happening at my company? and in the absence of those kind of guarantees, it must be very, very difficult for the executives. and you addition to this business delegation of the chance was a said to be by and take china hasn't wanted any foreign emery vaccines has it. i

think this is going to be very interesting because i think, i think schoultz is going to be there to try and convince china to take by on tech to take this m r n a vaccine on to approve it. because of that happens, it's going to be a massive, massive change. first of all, in its policy, she has stuck to this 0 covert policy. as we know, i would just cause all kinds of difficulties for the economy and for ordinary life in china. he be looking for ways out. and one of the ways out is an effective vaccine policy. the chinese vaccines are less effective than the em or in a box scenes that we've seen from the west. and today's east, he hasn't allowed them go through. and so they're going to be looking am. biotech will be hoping that they can get some form of approval. chinese company does have a small stake in, in bio tech. so it's not like it's coming from no where they do know what's, what's at stake, and they do know what's involved in the vaccine. so i think biotech is possibly going to be one of the big stories of this trip and away if they do get approval because it will be a major m, a major development for german industry and also

a major m e plus point for the sino german relationship did always with a code and thank you very much for your analysis. and let's take a took a look at some of the other stories making use around the world. israel's former private as the beginning at yahoo, vent his mike wing allies have won a clear parliamentary majority of the country's election. the electoral commission says he's block 164 seats in sunday's vote compared to just 51 for the opposition block, led by prime minister. yeah. you that pete i p t as conceded defeat the husband of you with house speaker nancy pelosi. paul has been released from hospital where he underwent surgery for injuries from an assault last week. a canadian man has been charged with breaking into the capitals home in san francisco and attacking mister pelosi with a hammer. he remains under doctor's care. a twitter has started its

program of mass lay offset, a move fits you, won't a billionaire either musk hopes will make the platform more consistently profitable . the company did not give a specific number, but you waste media reports. say that half of $27.00 and a half 1000 employees could be liquor. pakistan's, former prime minister in ron carney's recovering from surgery after surviving what his aids calling an assassination attempt con, was short. while leading a protest march on the capital, islamabad, police of arrested the suspected gunman, who they say was acting a lot. ah, there's a party atmosphere as him round cons. convoy rose into town. ah, good then out of nowhere, a series of gunshots filled the air and pakistan's, former prime minister, goes down. his quickly carried away and taken to a place of safety. clearly in pain, he separate a gunshot wound,

scans late revealing bullet fragments in his leg, and he's not the only one in j to about iran con is safe, and being told at one friend has died. some others are seriously injured. why? it was a little while later the 70 year old appears again outside waving to supporters before being moved into a car and driven to hospital for treatments. lou, this was the 7th day of an anti government protest. march led by the former cricketer, turned politician. he's demanding new snap elections after being ousted as prime minister in a conference vote in april. speaking earlier this week, he insisted the rallies would be peaceful. i don't see any violence because we read to suggest we've never been doesn't violence. we've already spoken to the supreme court. we are not going to break any laws of the law. a man con has been accused of creating political crisis in pakistan, a divided country,

which is no stranger to political violence. and this attack only seems to have found the flames with his supporters taking to the streets in anger. many believing this was an assassination attempts. ukraine's president law, mister lensky says, russian strikes of live some 4 and a half 1000000 people without power across the country. zalinski accuses moscow of energy, terrorism for escalating attacks on ukraine's power grid as winter lose. similar attacks on infrastructure of also damaged ukraine's water supplies. officials of asked refugees not to return to the country this winter because of fears of further shortages. joining me from cave is the w correspond nick connelly nic. just how challenging is it trying to get the power back up after these air strikes? it's getting more difficult every time. simply, it's an issue of spare parts, burning out the authorities here say they're now totally dependent on supplies of

this equipment coming in from abroad. and if there are more that if, if there are more, if there are more rocket attacks from russia, which were expecting to be the case this morning, we heard from the mayor of key of the about half a 1000000 people here in or half 1000000 households here in the capital are without power, that's on top of the planned outages. people here have a schedule and about 12 hours in every $24.00 are going to be without power. it's kind of organized no way to allow people to kind of go about their daily lives, but it's not fully always accurate. and there is a sense that people are now talking about generators. when you're on the street, you kind of hear snatches conversation, people the 1st time trying to get their heads around. what it would be like if it's realistic, other than you'd be able to get diesel to run those generators. can you put it on your balcony? so it's basically a whole new situation here in a real sense of people that as winter comes and temperatures are loud, finally dropping that this is going to get a lot worse and be a lot less comfortable people before things really improve. what about these claims from oscar that keith was developing a so called dirty bomb?

the international atomic energy agency is found no evidence of that. what, what was behind the claims what this looks a lot like, just another part of the kind of russian disinformation strategy. you might remember at the beginning of the war, there was little talk from moscow about ukraine having circled by a laboratories, u. s. money flowing to ukraine to supposedly generate produce biological weapons. no evidence in that account was ever provided. i think this is about basically creating a bit of noise distracting from lots of rushes defeats on the battlefield for the kind of internal russian audience, but also internation. it's about just creating fear in the same way. those could constant their attacks and fighting around as a bridge and nuclear power plants, europe's biggest. it all just basically creates her climate of fear where people may be who aren't that invested to out. following the story hidden grant too closely. we'll just get cold feet will be worried about the kind of consequences of all this for themselves, even if the real risk isn't necessarily there and will potentially put pressure on their governments to kind of reduce support for ukraine. so this is basically just

another red herring that's out there and i think it's not going to be the last we've seen time time again, lots of kind of mutually exclusive explanations of things coming out of moscow. and then a few days later, the kind of all talk of about these things has been dropped. so there's no real kind of sense that it's really worth logically trying to kind of take these apart. they're just kind of part of war, part of the kind of propaganda war. and as such, it's just part of kind of a bigger attempt to get people to kind of be scared about all this. and to make people believe that ukraine doesn't really have a chance of winning this war a commonly on the information war and the mass power outages across parts of ukraine. thank you very much for bringing us up to date. and let's get more now in the fighting from our russia. analysts constantine egg it. he joins us from talon. constantine, there are signs the russians of withdrawing from parts of his son. can you tell us why? well, i suppose that of the russian come all the they understand that this battle may

well soon be lost. and i suppose that what they want to avoid is this accusations of leaving the quote unquote russians. because of course, this operation in the kremlin parlance was all about liberating russians and leaving them low. the population is important for the kremlin transfer population to use the mystic term because it grows to the world. it is supposed to be true that russians are really afraid of your grades, that all those people were really liberal, right, them, they're running away. secondly, it replenish is the russian workforce, or is there war and certainly leaves the positions leaves the area morrow is free to fight for whichever russian forces will remain there? so i think there are 3 reasons why and where would a place ukraine strategically,

if it did recapture the city of has on, for example, it will be a very important win because it's a major city. it's more important than let's say the city over the mom that like recapture earlier. it is to some extent, not the only gateway to the crimea, but is one of the gateways. the have song of las says, one of the most important comes pumping water or which is supposed to pump water into the crimea. again, no, the only one. but because it is probably the biggest city that ukraine will recapturing in the last 23 months. it will be also very visible public relations victory if you wish. it's going to be very convincing. while the ukranian probably can for the world that the grading on can really achieve very significant seats. it will also complicate the situation the crimea, although it will not completely cut it off from russia. and tell us more about

what's happening with all of these residents of the eastern and southern provinces who are being relocated. well, it seems, and there are, there are, there are lots of reports from a different russian journalist from, from observes, from deos that these people usually basically either are taken to some kind of holding areas. let's put it like that or, or actually, because quite a few of them already have russian possible, especially from the danielle galvan school list, but i have some list, so they just disperse and russia look for work. what is concerning is the fate of children from the orphanages in ukraine. they are being reported to be of basically transfer to russia and then being given up for adoption. so they would become essentially, russian citizens or russians. so i think this is one thing that's been constantly the media and the which was on of concerned the course is of concern because this

constitutes definitely very significant human rights by li ripped from a ukraine by their grace, as russian aggressors. and then forced to grow up in a rush in the family. that is certainly really boring for those kids. constantine again, thank you very much. thank you. but italy's new far right? prime minister george maloney as hell. what she described as frank and positive talks with you officials and brussels of host international trip since taking office was meant to reassure you leaders about the direction of her government, particularly when it comes to immigration. but while maloney was in brussels, 3 migrant rescue ships remained barred from docking in italy. there waiting to go ashore. 234 people on board, the ocean by king plucked from the sea by the organization as so s mediterranean may live aboard the german flagged rescue ship. humanity won. thorough. so nearly

200 people saved from the sea. right, neither or more than a 1000 migrants on 3 private rescue ships waiting for a safe harbor off the coast of sicily. so far without success. when the eye norco midlevel, our impression is that those rescued on board are really being used as a political porn. as a means of pressuring other european governments to act. so we're urging does a solution be found for the rescued? first is that all of elfman? anderson for the gazette didn't go from viet italy's new far i prime minister, georgia maloney has just made her inaugural visit to brussels in the future. she will negotiate her migration policy here in the past. her country is called for more european solidarity of you know, what a lot of you meant that we talked, of course, about migration flows for about the change any to lease point of view the in its position on the matter lisa that so for us, the priority becomes one that is already provided for in european regulations,

which is the defense of external borders. italy's interior minister is already showing the government's tough line, a migration refusing private c. rescuers entry into italian ports. busy throughout the, the knobby, these ships are flying. the flags of norway and germany and international war is visited. therefore, and i've been informed by the ministry of foreign affairs, these countries are responsible for assisting the people on board of zoning, iraq, all gonna, of course you do face the german government has now asked isley for help for the asylum seekers on the humanity. one, it's unclear whether this will result in the rescue ship being allowed to land in an italian pores immigration and far right. nationalist rhetoric are also issues ahead of next week's mid term elections in the us. many polls predicts republicans will take over congress. animosity between republicans and democrats is on the rise

and is spilling over into violent attacks like one on the husband of how speak in nancy pelosi last week. experts warn the situation could get worse. on october 28th and a tech in the san francisco home of how speaker nancy pelosi left her husband with a fractured skull. the attacker brought zip ties and duct tape and his now charged with attempted murder. mister de pat, specifically targeted the policy home to confront speaker pelosi. this wasn't politically motivated. threats against lawmakers are in all time high. in 2021 alone capital police investigated 9625 threats made against members of congress. the white house is alarmed, we must, with one overwhelming unified voice speak as a country and say there's no place, no place for voter intimidation or political violence in america. i am fearful that he stopped the still, conspiracies will push some people over the edge into violence in

mannheim, pennsylvania. this is a we awaken america rally. the spirit of donald trump is everywhere. the event organizer, his former national security adviser, general michael flynn. flynn has become a celebrity in far right circles with anti government groups, white supremacists, and with a christian nationalist floor. he's a staunch supporter of donald trump, and the former president's big lie of a stolen election. the attendees are mostly white, conservative christians or self declared christian nationalists. the crowd is easily riled up. i know we awaken america. events are safe spaces and acre chambers for far right. speakers to spread and deep and fears that the current government is literally evil

. i love what i hear all the time. most of the people here kind of see what's happening and they're supporting every way that you know all the speakers. when people feel that they're on the side of righteousness or that god is actually sanctioning their positions. it gives people more confidence and becoming even more angry and getting more involved at a campaign stop of republican state. senator duck must journal. he wants to become the next governor of pennsylvania. must yano declare to 2020 election deny wants to make america a christian nation. here he's at a campaign stop in april, november. we're gonna take our safe back. my god will make it. so what that means do, do. he never explains. and nobody in the cloud ever asked me instead is going to, i whole heartedly, you know, but for him we gotta take our country back. but we're a godless country. as extreme political and religious views are shipping into the

mainstream. many people here and across the westfield, their countries falling apart, that they are under attack there speak of coal, civil war in america. well, it's been more than half a century since the beatles last recording session. but the band has now been putting out new animated music videos is from its pioneering revolver album. from 1966. the latest offering is made up of bolden. 1300 oil paintings. it's for the track. i'm only sleeping in the paint seems to flow across the screen as ringo. paul and george get ready to wake a dreaming john lennox and the beatles new official video the song i'm only sleeping is from revolver there. 1966 album that helped usher experimental sounds in to pop music. british artist m cooper was chosen to create

the trippy new visuals using her old style oil paint technique. i've always been a beatles fan and when i saw the opportunity to work on, i'm only sleeping, it was to slight early amazing. it kind of sparked a huge light of ideas straight away. it took a lot longer to get the ideas down. i'm literally painting fame, i take a shot and then i usually just why pair and re paint next, shall i mean next frame and the next frame and the next frame and the next frame. and it, it, it, that's my price of $1300.00 frames. later, the video premiered at this gallery space in central london and on youtube. some of the paintings are based on our cable news rios of the fab 4 but most are the product of the painters imagination. inspired by the beatles own homage to sleep, to slowness, and to the power of dreams. a reminder of the top story way of following german

chancellor hold up, sholtes has met chinese leadership, jim pinging begging for talks aimed at boosting economic ties. the visit has drawn criticism over germany's dependence on an increasingly authoritarian china and ukraine's president flooding landscape ross is a tax on infrastructure left and 4 and a half 1000000 people without power and damage water supply i've been fissile in nixa found documentary on noise production. i'll see you next out of out . ah ah, with

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