ah, between cosmopolitan soil and captivate wilderness, the portrait of it doesn't distinct full of contradictions. guitar starts november 11th. oh, d w ah, ah, ah, this is dw news live from berlin. germany's chancello walks a fine line during a controversial visit to beijing. up shoals looks to deepening economic ties with germany is the biggest trading partner, while also broaching difficult issues such as the war in ukraine and china's

oppression towards taiwan. also coming up left alone in the cold and the dog, 4 and a half 1000000 ukrainians without power of to relentless russian. it strikes. if a few, this macbook of energy terrorist class twist his new millionaire, boston must begin slashing jobs in a bit to make the platform more profitable. ah hello, i'm christine when the welcome to the program. it's good to have your company. germany's chance and all of sholtes press china and it's support for russia in ukraine during talks in beijing on friday with chinese need, a sheeting thing and premier need to change shots also address controversy over economic and human rights issues. he is traveling with

a business delegation and has spaced cause to reduce germany as dependence on its biggest trading partner. allies like france and the u. s. all critical off the visit. now, while schultz was outspoken on russia leakage and didn't even mention china's ally by name, both eaters raised the issue of grain exports being affected by the war. and here's what they had to say. new china and germany barrow responsibility for the entire world. so we a world currently fraud with so many problems in terms of green supply in energy. while china is a big country with 1400000000 inhabitants. we want to supply many other countries with chinese grains. the un should grew up with you. we very much hope that the world green market stabilizers so and we hope that the international energy supply margaret also becomes more stable because if not it will be very

damaging for the economies. not just of our countries, but also the world. sheila, the same course as china is an important country as a member of the un security council here. it's hard to find not so much in china, also has responsibility in the world. however, i told president she that it is important that china uses its influence on russia. it is about the principle of the un charter that we have all agreed on in a certain views, principles like sovereignty and territorial integrity of every country. so these are important issues for china as well. this is sheila and vision because of the consent. earlier i spoke, cdw is chief international edison, richard walker, who is in beijing. he is part of the press delegation, accompanying schultz on his trip to china. he analyzed the different statements that we got from schultz and lee with regard to russia. but i think christina would be unrealistic to expect leeker chang a to really go much further than what he said. and of course, we've seen earlier this year,

china and russia embarking on what she jumping in vladimir putin court called a no limits relationship. she jumping china's paramount leader, having tied his face very closely to vladimir putin. so i didn't, you could really expect leeker chang number 22, she jumping and a man who will be out next spring. as part of the latest leadership shake up here. you wouldn't really expect him to, to. so throw russia under the bus in a, in a press, a situation like that. but one thing that he did say, which i think will maybe cause a little bit of satisfaction on the germans side, is that he, he said, i think the formulation was we can't afford to see any more escalation in ukraine. and, and i think that will be taken by the many observers, i think, to be at least an oblique reference to the threats of nuclear escalation that have been coming out of russia. so i think there may be at least some mild satisfaction with that. but in terms of all our shot, i mean, he was very clear and perhaps clearer than some would have expected him to be,

that he expected russia to use its influence. and so he expected china to use its influence over russia in dealing a with this war. and really, very clearly, as we just heard, they're saying that as a great country, as a large country, as a member, a permanent member of un security council, the child has the responsibility to do so. and for more on this, i'm joined by johan heart. he is a member of the german parliament for the opposition cd. you party. he was a senior adviser on foreign affairs to the phone, the chancellor. i'm going to mark mack a welcome to the program. mr. hot at johnson. all of schultz visit to beijing has drawn plenty of criticism. there's a war raging in europe that some argue beijing tacitly supports and the chinese president recently cemented his authoritarian rule. what is your stance on all of schultz is visiting beijing at this time. visits of chem transfers in

china or for a long tradition. also under lamarche visited china. i think 12 times that's times changed. and we are now in a situation where china is strongly supporting the biggest spoiler in international politics and intellectual security, russia. and therefore, when i hear the voice of the prime minister and the president be concerned about climate policy, about shortage, a grade about risk of recession, recession and about the economy that they have in their hands. the chinese government can put influence on russia to stop with that against you. great. which is the biggest challenge we have an international in the international arena and even the question of energy depending very much on that question. and therefore, i cannot believe what china se jenna says he wants to reduce risk in the concrete,

what they do, the country of that. right. and i missed a lot of that. ok, i want to bring it back to the prophecy around this. is it because we know that the german chancellor is taken with him, a big business delegation. the european union's top diplomat, for example, has today said that western countries and that is a reference to germany among them, needs to reduce their dependence on china. and we're hearing from the german chancellor just today in beijing saying that he wants stronger economic ties with china. so which is the right way here. we have had a big discussion in the last days in germany on the decision of the chancellor, not to stop the jumping off of china on the part. there were 6 ministries of his government say, no, we should stop that. but he decided that a chinese state company called from china,

i can take a share of the mumbo power. this is a control of that. what we expect from our government at the moment to make it depends a little bit more, more or less. and it's my major concern with the behavior of the term chances that what we do as germany needs to be clearly agreed miss and dialogue discussed with our european and america partners. our leverage to influence child's behavior on the international market. it's much bigger if we match our power in the european union and a trans atlantic wise, but we do go do so. i think i fear that the chance assaults will not communicate results of speech properly to this colleagues and european union. and this is a big mistake. mister hart is germany potentially finding itself in the, in this position that it has been in before rights out. chancellor medical and her

time was also criticized for an over dependence and over reliance on russia. we're now seeing the repercussions of that is johnson that shows potentially putting germany in the same position. now with china creating this over reliance over dependence on economic science, beijing. i think the relation to china, especially the economic relations, are very strongly from both sides. i think also china is depending on the good great relations to europe and north america. because otherwise, they cannot fulfill their proposal to the people to have more welfare in the country and more in nuclear union and north america together and give it a common position to china. the client id sits. this can be a basis for good negotiations with china, but not if only one of the heads of states is going there and talking, so to say on the ballot. right?

right. so if i'm getting you correctly, mr. hard, you're basically saying germany alone doesn't have enough power to wield influence or the other china. that's what this is my, the, i'm convinced that we need a combination of our powers, european union and north america together are strong enough to convince china not to act as they did the pastor, for example, having shares on critical infrastructure. our core technology of the future in our countries, but not allowing us to do that same in china. my answer on that question of the participation of the amber was why not changing shares about will participate in the shy port and vice versa. but this is not possible with china, and if it is, this is not possible. we cannot do that. that's all right, that's a year. the hon. member of the chairman parliament for the a position city, a policy mr. harvey. appreciate you coming on to the program today. thank you.

goodbye. and small off today's top stories from around the world. south korea says it has mobilized ac warplanes in response to the detection of over 180 north korean military flights near the shared florida. south korea and the united states have extended their military drills after a barrage of miss artists from north korea israel's former prime minister bingham initio. and these right wing allies have one is clear, parliamentary majority in the countries election. the little commission said his block $16.00 to $4.00 seats and sundays foot compared to just $51.00 for the opposition block, led by prime minister. yay! and appeared. repeat, has conceded defeat, sheffield, and heavy smog has forcible void. he is to shut down primary schools in the indian capital. daily. oldest school children are still attending classes with masks, but parents concerned about the severe pollution levels are calling for

foreclosures. indian voices have deployed water sprinklers and ordered the closure of factories and construction sites. to control the small russia and ukraine have confirmed a recent exchange of 214 capture fighters rushes defense ministry released footage that it says shows the 107 russian soldiers being received. the ministry said the soldiers were heading to mos blue for medical treatment. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski says, russian strikes have left some 4 and a half 1000000 people without power across the country, which valencia accuses moscow of energy, terrorism, or escalating attacks on ukraine's power grid. as winter news, similar tax on infrastructure have also damaged ukraine's water supplies. officials have asked refugees not to return to the country this winter because of fears of further shortages. our cave correspondent nick connelly told me how challenging

it is getting the power back up after such air strikes. seen it is getting harder by the day and there was a sense come up to about a week, 10 days ago that ukraine was just remarkably resilient, that every time we have those huge russian airstrikes within about a day, most of the kind of emergency blackouts would be over, but that is now no longer the case. basically the destruction is just too wide spread even though the system was constructed in soviet times to with, withstand, quote of destruction that now just isn't something that can be hidden any more. and there are plans certainly a black out across the country here and key of where i am, it's a bit better the capital is getting more resources. but on average, people here are expected to put up with 12 hours of absence every 24 hours. now those are kind of scheduled to people have time to kind of prepare, but often doesn't really go to class this morning. we had about half a 1000000 households in fee of with emergency power cuts. and this is really just starting to affect people's ability to go about that he loves to earn, earn

a living, those people here and here work in i t, they work for clients abroad, if they're without power and often with, without mobile phone connection because the phone infrastructure is also without power, that really affects their ability just to get by and let people i think who thought that they were able to kind of get through and somehow carry on with normal life, even though there was fighting, couple 100 come. so that is now no longer the case, you're increasing a hearing people talking about generators. people talking about how much it costs west get the diesel from if they can install it on their balcony. so real sense that even before the kind of worst winter weather has started, people are really feeling that sir, that, that impact make a rush. an official said that moscow is likely to pull its troops back from the west bank, off their de naperville river in hassan. and has urged civilians to leave. does that mean that russia is preparing to retreat? yes and no, i think definitely in the days of russian control on the west bank, the new pro river around that steve had song,

they are definitely numbered. it's basically a kind of outlying a bit of russian held territory that is very exposed. the bridges across the river have been largely put out of action by ukrainian attacks and are dependent on air and on pontoon bridges to get supplies in. but the question is, how long this is all going to take? yesterday we had some social media footages of russian or flags, basically going down, disappearing from government buildings and fifths on which remember here had san is a city that russia has annexed, has now claims its own. but suddenly the russian flags were gone. checkpoints that had been there for months, disappeared and there was sense that the russians had packed up and gone in a hurry. but there was a lot of suspicion here in ukraine that may be, this is a little a big could provocation attract, to try and get the ukraine troops to go in and then surprise them. i think there's still lots of russian troops there. an expectation caregiver is still going to take a couple of weeks and just a quick one, it what, what do we know about this prisoner's swap that say happened between moscow in here while they are happening at quite some intensity and frequency,

it's kind of extraordinary. basically since 2014, since the war began his new grain that was, was a very difficult topic and they were doing it lots them would fail before they actually happened. and sometimes people will wait years to be swapped. and now they're happening in spite of much more intense fighting and much more kind of embittered or rivalry and kind of conflict in the 2 countries. i think it's an extremely, they're still talking directly basically all other issues. ukraine and russia refused to go and sit at the same table. they will have a middle man, some like turkey in between. and here it is still possible, but definitely lots of prisons on both sides, still in pretty different conditions, waiting for to be exchanged. right? that saturday because on a nick connelly reporting from cuba, thank you. nick pakistan. spawn the prime minister emron can, is recovering from surgery after surviving what his aids are calling an assassination attempt con, was shot while leading a protest march on the capitol is lamar. that police have arrested the suspects of gunman, who they say was acting alone. ah, there's a party atmosphere is emron. cons. convoy rose into town. ah,

good then out of nowhere, a series of gunshots fill 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 injured of the iran. connie's safe and being golden. one friend has died. some others are seriously injured. why 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 cricket a turn 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 vitamin because we've run to 6 years. we've never been doesn't violent realities login to supreme court. we're not going to break any laws of the law. in round, 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. and he, believing this was an assassination attempts. twitter employees saw ceiling, the company in a class action lawsuit of a mass layoffs expected to be carried out on friday. the company recently acquired by the world's richest man illness, told employees they would be notified about terminations by email. twitter offices are closed for the day and badge excess removed. while there's been no official announcement, specifying the number of labels you asked me to report, say, half of to this workforce could be let go. and for more on this,

i am joined in the student out by and trey at newport from the business department . and it's good to have you the studio paps. let's begin with why does even must want to get rid of so many twitter employees. well, the reason is that he needs to reduce costs and save money, and he needs to do that quite quickly. so we'll know how much he paid for twitter. $44000000000.13 billions of that amount was lend to him by banks. and of course, he needed to have a plan to convince them to give them that it might be the richest man on earth, but he still needs to have a plan for them to give that amount of money and most places restructuring and bringing treat quickly to more profitability. one thing that's really important to remember tweeter is a big, nay. we'll know twitter, but it's a small company compared to other tech giants. the last quarterly revenue was only 1200000000. you can see the sheer difference between what must spade and what is

going to get with this new tory, we could say, bob. so what he needs to do is to save money quickly. that's layoffs. and then you will have to find ways of course, to make about money. okay, we'll talk about that in a 2nd. because while we're talking about the layoffs and we know that a number of employees are now planning on taking cross action ada filed the lawsuit . what more do we know about that? so it's still basically breaking news from yesterday, but also to they still rolling out what's going on. we still haven't seen severance packages. we don't know how and actually offer twitter looks like they've done, in my opinion. basically, a frantic strike has been a lot of talk of layoffs for a while. so what they did, they sort of brampton strike against whatever's going to come. what they're going to do is they want to claim that twitter in moscow didn't respect the federal and california low that they would have needed to give them 60 days of notice for this operation. they haven't done it. we'll also see what's going to happen globally because this is a global lay off. so this is about america. we're going to see what happens in the

you k in germany in india, and so many other countries were twitter as employees. and i guess another one entry it was talking about the finances rise of one of this. there is a new proposal, right? to start charging and he's trying to make money f on. just tell me about how he's ideas. it will change. well, the platform will change pretty well a lot. we can say if it goes through with what he has in mind, the shift you wants to achieve is going from depending a lot from advertising, which is right now, maybe 90 percent of tutors revenue and moving all of that more to a subscription based service. so you will have to convince people to pay for something like between a blue plan that already exist, but is really not so popular. it wants to charge $8.00 for that. that might include a lot of perks of less ads. and especially what you might be referring to,

of course, the blue tick, it was new was before the layoffs this week, right? the blue take used to until now a for verification. so the user with the blue dig were verified, he was early want to sort of changed that into a subscription badge. but all of these, as you can see, creates a lot of confusion. a lot of chaos. still unclear how direction of this might be. there's been air due on commenting on that it's, it's been really chaotic. what we always need to remember is that this is the low mosque and the lens rock is vertically. you can do a lot of things. this might be a little bit more complicated than rocket science, even though. well, i nicely put they at thank you and drain employee from d w. business. appreciate that. now is these new far right? prime minister, georgia, bologna has held what she described as frank and positive talks with e officials in brussels. the 1st international trip since taking office was meant to reassure eagerly it is about the direction off her government,

especially on immigration. meanwhile, however, 3 migrant rescue ships remained bod from italian ports 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 won thoroughly. 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 angle gets middle of either 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 i'm quite urging does a solution be found for the rescued 1st off of elfman, anderson for the gazette didn't go full 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 about the change in italy's point of view be in its position on the matter lisa. and 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 is either after the nabi these ships are flying the flags of norway and germany and international waters. and therefore, as they have been informed by the ministry of foreign affairs, these countries are responsible for assisting the people on board of seneca reco gonna requested 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 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 pioneering revolver album. the latest offering is made up of a compilation of more than $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. lemme. and the beatles new official video the song i'm only sleeping is from revolver there. 1966 albums. 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 just like 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 pair and re paint next, shaw, i mean next frame and the next frame and the next frame and the next frame and it, 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 fad for 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. and you're up to date. next step is dw, his health and fitness shell in good shape,

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