ah, ah ah ah ah, this is dw news life from bo, then the 1st the using to, to visit china since the pandemic and the war in ukraine. germany's off shoulds tries, rekindling ties with beijing, and other officials, frown on the diplomatically delicate trip. some of his own government members or

against pakistan, zebra can survive the shooting at a protest rally. the government allegedly confesses to attempting to assassinate the former prime minister and left alone in the cold and dark 4 and a half 1000000 ukrainians without power. relentless russian air strikes, kiva uses moscow of energy, terrorism. ah, i've been phys orland welcome. germany's chancellor, old of shaw says met chinese leader. she can ping and beijing's great hold of the people, the 1st china visit by a european union leader since the corona virus pandemic. overshadowing children's visit is criticism of china's tacit support for russia's invasion of ukraine and controversy over economic and human rights issues. schultz who is traveling with several top business leaders, faces calls to juice,

germany's over dependence on its biggest trading partner. allies like fred san, the u. s. a critical of the visit and even his own coalition partners that warning against becoming too close to authoritarian regimes. more on this, let's bring in the w's chief, international aid to richard boca who's in beijing. he's part of the press delegation, accompanying sholtes on this trip to china, which it can you tell us a bit more about how the chancellor is justifying is trip. well then, i mean what ala shoulds has been saying, i think about this trip, is simply that it's important for germany and china to be talking that he hasn't had a chance for a face to face meeting where she, jim ping, or lee could chunk that the primary here in china. since coming to office late last year, it's normal for any leader of a new government to visit the major countries that they have relations with. and that is, especially in their time of the tensions that exist around the world,

particularly the geopolitical tensions of the war going on. russia's war and ukraine, that it's very important for there to be an exchange of views, even if you don't agree about everything. but just face a lot of criticism for this visit, and he's really quite sticking his neck out in doing it. partly that is a matter of timing. he is, as you said, the 1st western leaders come here since the pandemic began. so the 1st time anybody from the west has set foot in this giant great hall of the people in beijing. and also it's just a couple of weeks after urban is she, jim ping. china's president was kind of crowned for a 3rd time in office as the sort of supreme leader of china. this is something that hasn't happened for decades. this is raising concerns that he's becoming a kind of a personalized dictator rather than the kind of collected communist government that, that china has had in recent decades. and by coming so soon and many critics are saying that schoultz is kind of kind of almost like giving

a halo of respectability to that of these quite dramatic transformations going on in chinese politics. where is moving further and further towards authoritarianism, becoming more threatening to tie one and many other issues exactly. relying on the one authoritarian regime and now that next, how did the 1st encounter go between shots and she that we're, i mean, i have to tell you a bit about the choreography of this day. been but is it so it's a pretty extraordinary visit. now, of course a visit by a senior politician to china, where it will always be a pretty, a major affair. but if you think that china is still in a 0 coven policy, so you know, there were, there's been footage, i'm sure we've been showing it all through the day to day of the red carpet being rolled out by people in hazmat suits, before all of shots got off, the entire delegation had to do 3 p. c. r tests, you know, the very most accurate kind of covey tests in order to be able to, to,

to come on this visit. the very last at p c. r test was done on the ground in china, schultz refusing to take an actual chinese test for doing a german test under the observation of chinese doctors to an incredible amount of performance around that. and when it came to that 1st meeting was she, jim ping, it continued. when all shots was meeting the paramount leader of china, all of us in the depressed pack kind of traveling with him, were kept far away in a state guest house. and only our d, w camera man. and i think one other camera operator was allowed anywhere near a to provide pool footage of that meeting. so she definitely keeping everything very much at arm's length. no press conference was she, jim pink, were expecting the press conference was leaking. chung, with premier of china, coming up pretty soon. still no clarity about whether there will be any questions at that. also the meaning of that is also in question because liter chung will be

out as of next spring. so all sorts of layers of kind of complexity, even sort of weirdness to this trip. for instance, been just one last little thing. the fact that our, the german plane carrying olive sholtes flew out to south korea after dropping us all off here and is due to come back later to pick everybody up. of course, the germs not wanting to leave the crew exposed to chinese draconian quarantine rules. so sort of parking the plane away in south korea during the course of the day. richard walker keep negative. i think it would be to bother. thank you for joining us with your analysis from bay one member of shelters governing coalition as described the chances trip to beijing as the most controversial by a german leader in the past 50 years. the energy crisis resulting from roches warren ukraine has prompted rethinking in berlin and other capitals about relying too much on doing business with authoritarian ration. change through trade for

years that must germany's china policy. oma chancellor, anglo merkel champion the idea throughout her 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 key clusters of dependency em when now, particularly down to parts of the car and 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 politically and she jane peng double down on authoritarianism, the idea of change through trade looks dead 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, on of shawls has pushed through a controversial deal, allowing a chinese state enterprise to buy a steak and damn his most important port. hamburg the decision was met with uproar from his own coalition partners, most notably from the greens, all of cells as decision now to travel to china with a business delegation is only adding to the divisions. so where does that leave?

germany's china structure g formerly 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 enter electric batteries for electric vehicles. crucial decisions lie ahead, but it's not clear if the german government can make up its mind. let's was he to a couple more use stories for around the world. israel's former prime minister benjamin netanyahu let his rifling allies, i want to clear, parliamentary majority in the country selection. electoral commission says he's block 164 seats in sundays vote compared to just 51 for the opposition block,

led by prime minister yale pete who has conceded defeat. twitter has started laying off stuff in a move. it's you own a billionaire ilan mask hopes will make the platform more profitable. the company did not give a specific number, but u. s. media reported that half of twitters, $7500.00 employees, could be liquor. pakistan's former prime minister, him ranken, is recovering from surgery after surviving what his aids calling an assassination attempt congress shot while leading a protest march on the capitol, islamabad, police have arrested the suspect. the gunman, who they say was acting a lawyer. ah, there's a party atmosphere as him. round cons. convoy rose into town. but then out of nowhere, a series of gunshots filled the air. and pakistan's, former prime minister, goes down here quickly carried away and taken to a place of safety. clearly in pain, he separated gunshot wound,

scans later revealing bullet fragments in his leg. and he's not the only one injured and wrong con is safe. i'm 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. this was the 7th day of an anti government protest. march led by the former cricket at time politician. he's demanding new snap collections 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 wiggly 26 years . we've never been doesn't violent realities. burger do. supreme court, we're not going to break any laws of the law. a man con has been accused of creating a 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 floated mister lansky says, russian strikes have left some 4 and a half 1000000 people across the country without power to lensky accuses moscow. energy, terrorism for escalating attacks on ukraine's power grid. as winters, similar attacks on infrastructure have also damaged ukraine's water supplies. officials have asked refugees not returned to the country this winter because of fears of further shortages. a keep correspondingly connolly told me how challenging it is getting the power back up after such 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 a 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 can organize no way to allow people to kind of go about their daily lives, but it's not fully was accurate. and there is a sense that people are now talking about generators. when you're on the street, you kind of hear, snatched conversation, people the 1st time trying to get the heads around. what it would be like if it's realistic. are they getting it 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 were 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 a lot of 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 that those could constant their attacks and fighting around as a parisian nuclear power plants, europe's biggest. it all just basically crates on a climate of fear where people may be who aren't that invested to are following the story in grand too closely. we'll just get cold feet will be worried about the can 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 a 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 the school. they connelly on the information war and the mass power outages across parts of ukraine. thank you very much for bringing us up to date. there are signs the russians of withdrawing from parts of his son, dw rusher, analyst konstantin egg. i explained to me why? well, i suppose that's of the rushing 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 because this operation in the criminal carlos was all about liberating russians and leaving them low, the population is important for the kremlin transfer of population to use the eastern mystic term. because a, it proves the to the world. it is supposed to be true that russians are really afraid of ukraine, is that all those people who are really liberal, right, them, they're running away. secondly, it's replenish, is the russian workforce, or is that 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. and it will be a very important wind because it's

a major city. it's more important than let's say, the city of the month, it was like every captured earlier. it is to some extent, not the only gateway to the crimea, but is one of the gateways. the house on august hes. one of the most important comes pumping water, or which is supposed to pump water to the crimea. again, not the only one, but because it is probably the biggest city that, that ukraine will recapture in the last 23 months. it will be also very visible. a public relations victory if you wish. it's going to be very convincing for the ukrainian public and for the world that the crating on forces can really achieve very significant seats. it will also complicate the situation the crimea, although it will not completely cut it off from brush and tell us more about what's happening with all of these residents of the eastern and southern provinces who have been relocated. well, it seems, and there are, there are,

there are lots of reports from a different russian journalist from, from observes, from the n jose that these people usually basically either are taken to some kind of holding areas this, put it like that or, or actually, because quite a few of them already have russian possible, especially from the danielle galvan school bliss, 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 you cried. they are being reported to be basically transferred 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 we're taught on both concerned because 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 russian family. that is certainly really boring for those kids. constantine again, thank you very much. thank you. bye. italy's new far i prime minister georgia maloney has held in her was frank and positive talks with the u. officials in brussels, the 1st international trip since taking office was meant to reassure you. this is about the direction of her government, especially when it comes to immigration. but while maloney was in brussels, freed migrant rescue ships remained bought from docking in italy. there waiting to go as sure. 234 people on board, the ocean viking plucked from the sea by the organization as so s met at her on a board. the german flagged rescue ship humanity one. there are also nearly 200 people saved from the sea. right. neither are 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 i look at the middle of either our impression is that those rescued on board are really being used as the political porn, as a means of pressuring other european governments to act. so we're urging that a solution be found for the rescued 1st of elf monitors on 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 y'all. what a lot of you meant that we talked, of course, about migration flows from about the change in italy's point of view 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 nabi. these ships are flying the flags of norway and germany and international waters. and pause, and i've been informed by the ministry of foreign affairs. these countries are responsible for assisting the people on board of thought. again, i called on christie to 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 also issues ahead of next week's mid term elections in the us. many polls predict the republicans will take over congress, animosity between republicans and democrats is on the rise and is spilling over into violent attacks like the one of the husband of how speak and 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 is now charged with attempted murder. mister de pat, specifically targeted the policy home to confront speaker pelosi. this wasn't politically motivated. evidence, threats against lawmakers are in all time high in 2021 alone capitol 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 the stop the steel conspiracies will push some people over the edge into violence in manner in pennsylvania. this is a re awaken america rally. the spirit of donald trump is everywhere. the event

organizer is former national security adviser general michael flinn. flynn has become a celebrity in far right circles with anti government groups, white supremacists, and the christian nationalist floor is 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 bends are saved 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 there's a hoarding everybody. that's 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 doug 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 is at a campaign stop in april, november. we're gonna take our safe, i, my god, will make it. so what that means and you don't, he never explains. and nobody in the cloud ever asks me. instead, he is gonna, i wholeheartedly, 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 country's falling apart, that they are under a tech there speak of a cold civil war in america. finally,

the beatles recorded their final song together over 50 years ago, but now the band has been putting out new animated music videos from its entering revolver album. the latest offering is made up of a compilation of golden, $1300.00 oil paintings. it's for the track, i'm only sleeping. ah, the paint seems to flow across the screen as ringo. paul and george get ready to wake up 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 pains take me. i've always been a beatles fan. and when i saw the opportunity to work on, i'm only sleeping, it was dislike 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 a frame, i take a shot and then i usually just why pit and re pain next shall i mean next frame and the next frame and the next frame, and then it frame on it. it, that's my process. 1300 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 we're following for. german chancellor old i've schoultz has made chinese leader. she jim ping and begging 4 talks aimed at boosting economic ties. the visit is drawing criticism

over germany's dependence on an increasingly authoritarian china. and it's still deeper into that story with detail he's trying to rec, spoke like a conan who's following history closely. clifford, what can olaf shoulds germany's chance the hope to gain out of these talks with china that have been so criticized? well, i think the way he's thinking is to try and keep channels open, which in many ways is an admirable ambition. but the question is that how much has changed in the mean time and whether it's possible for to, to keep these channels of communication open, particularly when it seems to be coming against the back. a backdrop of the french, for example, or the u. s. saying, urging him not to go to loan at u. s. is still very annoyed about the sale of the steak to hamburg and you know, all the signs of germany 1st that are really kind of irritating the allies. so even though i believe, you know, on the, on the surface he has noble intentions in terms of keeping these channels open. i

think he's facing a struggle in terms of actually realizing that one of the big criticisms is the timing of the trip. why did he have to go now? and this is one thing, i mean, this was flagged about a month and a half ago. and it was at that time described him going to beijing to pay homage to she, jim paying after the after the $20.00 party congress, which thought she'd been getting his i'm present to 3rd term with the timing. i think germany is always like to see itself as, as having a special relationship with china, particularly because it's a spouse this view of change through trade, bundle door handle. but and so want to be 1st through the door, but i think that am i, i think that's a large part of it. and possibly just been there, been behind the scenes talk that were not aware of about things like the ukraine that bait based maybe germany is being the one put forward as the, as the western ally among the western allies is the one who's going to open the

channel of trying to change china's mind about about ukraine. so there's lots of issues. there's lots of reasons why i could. what's happening now. i'm just looking at behind the scenes pictures of proceedings there in china with a press conference being set up, which we will hope to come to soon. clifford tell me more about the idea tendency because germany's been having a hard time winning itself or for us ever since russia launched its war on ukraine its full invasion over half a year ago. germany is heavily reliant on russian gas and oil. and it politicians who say they've learned their lesson that they shouldn't have been relying on a partner like russia and china is, is china any different? well this, i mean, i think there's always a feeling somehow that because of this idea of being able to change, doing things to, through trade, that somehow that china would eventually become democratic. and of course that,

that hasn't happened. and we now we now know that we've seen the, the geopolitical issues you ask about, or things like change young, where we have the oppression of the weaker as we have the tensions in self rule. taiwan, which taiwan sees itself as a country china seas. taiwan is reckons it's part of its territory. and the fact that the u. s. is basically trying to d couple from, from china. these are, these are the g political backdrops to, to, to add this. this is the geopolitical backdrop to this visit. i think maybe we could look at the other video to show some of the backdrop that we have. this is a report that we have looking at the backdrop to this, to this visit. change 3 trained for years. that was germany's china policy. oma chancellor, anglo michael champion, the idea throughout has 16 years in power suggesting that making.