with between cosmopolitan, clear and captivating wilderness, the portrait of a desert state full of contradictions. katara starts november 11th on d. w. ah. ah. this is d w. news lie from berlin. germany. chancellor walked a fine line during a controversial visit to beijing. off shelter asked china to use its influence with russia to end its war in ukraine. the chancellor also looks to expand economic cooperation with germany's biggest trading partner,

both when the show trapped in the cold and dark with winter on its way 4 and a half 1000000 ukrainians with high power after relentless russian air strikes, keith accuses moscow of energy, terrorism, and international condemnation, after pakistan's iran plan is shot at a protest rally the gunman allegedly confess, saying he was attempting to assassinate the former prime minister. plus twitters new boss billionaire, ellen musk began slashing jobs in a bead to make the platform more profitable. ah, i'm pablo foley, as welcome to the program. germany's chancellor, olaf schoultz press china on its support for russia in ukraine during talks in beijing on friday with chinese. peter seizing ping and premier li tech young

sholtes also addressed controversy over economic and human rights issues. he's traveling with a business delegation and has faced calls to reduce germany's over dependence on its biggest trading partner. allies like france and the us are critical of the visit. now, whilst shots was outspoken on russia, lee kick young didn't even mention china's ally by name. both leaders raised the issue of grain exports being affected by the war. here's what they had to say. they, china and germany bearer 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. should grew up with we very much hope that the world green market stabilizers 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 and gorse china is an important country as a member of the un security council here. it's hard to fight, 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 and asserting 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 or did use cheese. international editor richard walker is part of the press delegation, accompanying charles on his trip to china, and he gave us his assessment last egless chelsea's trip to beijing was incredibly controversial. his critics were saying that by taking a business delegation he made it looked like it was going back to the bad old days

of angle, immaculate, a kind of corporatist attitude to germany's relationship with china, all about making money. but in the press conference with his counterpart, lee could chung her towards the end of his visit, shalt made pretty clear statements, pretty outspoken statements about a range of issues going further, i think, than many of his critics would have expected or matters of human rights in the province of tion. jang, on the matter of taiwan and also on russia, cooling the chinese very clearly to use their influence on the russians to end the war in ukraine. and also extracting comments that have been widely a reported from she. jim ping against the use of nuclear weapons in a conflict at that being interpreted is one of the clearest statements that she jumping has made so far or relating to the ukraine war, or that it will be seen as, as implicitly, at least critical of the russians and relating closely to

a preferred to a high priority of all sorts, going into this trip to try to get the chinese on board to reducing the risk of nuclear escalation in the ukraine war. so he'll be going back to germany, feeling reasonably vindicated. i think from his position, which is that it's better to come and talk to countries like china rather than stay away. but still the criticism remains that his critics have placed over this visit . that coming so soon after the party conference congress here in beijing, which crown she, jim pink, to a 3rd term empower here. creating a kind of dictatorial, a glow around him. that it was a mistake for shots to come so quickly and also potentially a mistake for him not to consult more closely and potentially even do a joint trip or with one of his a you fellow leaders or out, well for a more on this trip under small is a senior transatlantic fellow at the age of program at the german marshall fund of

the united states, and his research focuses on us china relations. so thanks for joining us here on d. w. now the german chancellor visit has drawn plenty of criticism here in germany . one message is berlin sending to china right now. i think the 2 messages that are coming. one is what shots actually said in his meetings with cheating thing. and the language that we saw, the press conference, which were actually some quite effective messages on change on russia, from taiwan and on a few other fronts. i think 2nd question though, is the message that was sent as your correspondence noted with business delegation with the lack of coordination, particularly with other european pas ahead of the visit to 3 european eyes, the message and showed that germany was, was coming as part of a european collective and i think the chinese side will take the 2 messages am of course they will have listened to the direct language used by shows as today in

public and private and but i think they still soule, with the composition of the group that came out with him, well, they will have interpreted as the more important priorities re still on japanese part, which was still from that perspective quite heavily focused on the commercial relationship . right, well let's actually talk about that relationship because the european union's top diplomat 2 separate had said today that western countries need to reduce their dependence on china. so it's not even possible considering china's huge manufacturing power. i mean this 2 facets to that one is reducing the dependence and the other one is at least not deepening it. and i think part of the criticism of this specific business delegation was that some, this is some of the companies that in the last 6 months have been heading further in the wrong direction. so one can at least know at make further mistakes them to increase the dependency and some of these critical sectors. and so i think that's

at least the starting point. and of course, there are areas in which that will be genuine and, and so china for at least sometimes competently as you mentioned when it comes to critical raw materials. and, but i think the expectation is that over time, in, in a number of other areas, it should at least be possible to start re balancing investments, rebalancing trade, to take into account the real risks that we see that both in the trajectory of the chinese system and some of the real potential shocks that, that might be, and particularly these of the, some of the taiwan contingencies. and, and we've, we've seen what happens of course, if, if one doesn't make those preparations ahead of time and wait until crisis emerges . now you mentioned to taiwan there, chancellor shalt raised a few at will call them uncomfortable issues, which she like the human rights situation in china and taiwan. but does china really listen to at countries like germany and other countries who criticize a i think the tie one message is particularly important. i mean shows has made a point of racing seen young before, which, which is which is valuable and,

and being able to make the point as he said that this is not simply an internal matter for, for china. i think does resonate. i think they do feel under pressure on, on, on cbs, at certain points. but i'm important thing with i want is to show that gemini has equities that, to your as equities that to am and given the measures that germany and europe in the united states, and at various other asian upon us as well as the seed be to be sanctioned on, on russia am i think there is meaningful european involvement. am i on the, on the kind of punitive side if, if the what be some of these, these worst case scenarios. i think trying to understand that better now than i did at the beginning of the year, right. i think they expected things like swift cocked off. so financial bank sanctions or the scale of export controls. so i think there is some leverage on germany spot on europe's par and, and to sending some of these messages in china does have to take that seriously. it takes the economic and technological dimensions of this seriously,

as well as the military piece under small of the german martial funds asia program . thanks for joining us indeed. ok, thank you. let's take a look now at so more of today's top stories from around the world. foreign ministers of the group of 7 countries have issued a joint statement on the final day of their today meeting here in germany, they've reiterated their support for ukraine and finance. the brutal crackdown of protests in iran. the talk diplomats also criticize the series of north korean missile launchers. earlier this week, south korea says it has mobilized 80 warplanes in response to the detection of over 180 north korean military flights near their shared border. south korea and the united states have extended their mandatory drills after a barrage of miss l tests from north korea. the husband of us have speaker nancy pelosi pull policy 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 couples home in san francisco and attacking pelosi with a hammer. he remains under doctor's care. heavy smug has forced authorities to shut down primary schools in the indian capital. daily. older school children are still attending classes with masks, but parents concerned about the severe pollution levels are calling for foreclosures. indian authorities have deployed water sprinklers and ordered the closure of factories and construction sites to control to smoke. russia and ukraine has confirmed a recent exchange of 214 captured fighters. russia's defense ministry released footage that says shows the 107 russian soldiers being received. the ministry said the soldiers were heading to moscow for medical treatment, while ukraine's president followed. amir zalinski says, russian strikes have left some 4 and a half 1000000 people without power across the country. lansky accuses moscow of

energy, terrorism for escalating attacks on ukraine's power grid. as winter dooms similar attacks or 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 shortage. well for more from ukraine, dw correspondent nick conley joins us from the capital. keith nick, great to see. so how challenging is it trying to get the power back up after these strikes with stephanie getting more difficult. i think the 1st few times these russian attacks on the power system happened was pretty extraordinary how resilient ukraine in it. so thirty's turned out to be basically within space of a day each time you have more or less a returned to normal. there were some planned outages, but the kind of emergency outages were normally dealt with. and that is now becoming a whole lot more difficult. we've heard from the authorities here, they basically run out of spare parts. so if, as expected, rush to continue with these attacks,

the only way to repair the system will be with exclusively foreign supplied parts. now there are also some questions about where the foreign pots will fit the ukraine system, whether they're kind of technical compatibility issues there. and even this morning we saw about half a 1000000 households in care of her in the dark, not according to the time table, just kind of technical glitches there. and people are really starting to kind of try and think about whether they can actually go about their jobs in to work from home. if that's going to work. the dependent on internet connection to deal with clients brought get money in from foreign clients. that is, will become whole, it will difficult and, you know, even here on the street, people talking about generates the 1st time talking about what they can put them on their balconies where they can get the diesel from. so this is really a really uncomfortable situation and we haven't even really hit the kind of hardest coldest winter weather. yeah. certainly a difficult situation for everyone there. and so president vladimir putin has urged people still living and had sung to leave the city. so he's claiming he wishes to save civilian lives. there is this an acknowledgment, nick, that russian operations are not actually going according to plan but i think

for some time now, it seemed to kind of clear that his own, which does basically the 1st major ukraine city that russia captured in this war back here with the basic within the 1st week is very, very vulnerable. it's on the western bank of the depot river. it's kind of little kind of bridge head of russian control, surrounded by ukrainian forces on all sides in the river on the other. all the supply lines are very vulnerable, bridges, the kind of pontoon bridges getting supplies into the russian soldiers. there is very, very difficult. and ukraine has been. it's best to make that even more difficult as for how fast is going to go. now there were watched roads reports in social media say of russian soldiers that dispute disappearing off the streets, checkpoints disappearing. russian flags coming down. but is also real worry here and ukraine, that might be a trick to kind of russian provocation to get the ukranian troops moving in and then to launch counter attack there, they definitely are still confident. there are lots of very well trained and well supplied. russian troops ins,

difference on so sense that we could see some really ugly battles, may be st. fighting, the weakest come before ukraine fully returns control of the city. nick, if briefly, if you could, moscow has said that it's exchange prisoners with keith. but what more do we actually know about this prisoner swap very little, except the fact that among the ukrainians returned to war about 70 people who were in my report, that as of style factory that you might remember from the spring. i think the most extraordinary things that they are talking at these exchanges or even happening basically in the kind of years of 2014 where the fighting was actually a lot less intense and over many fewer victims. this was a whole lot more difficult. they were constantly trying to have exchanged and they wouldn't happen and they would, can counsellor last minute. they are happening now. and ukraine and russia are somehow finding a way to deal with each other at the same table. thanks. nick t w's. nick conley and keith pakistan's. former prime minister him on can, is recovering from surgery after surviving what his aids are calling an assassination

attempt hand was shot while leading a protest. march on the capitol, islamabad, police arrested the suspected gunman, who said, who they say was acting alone. ah, there's a party atmosphere is emron carnes convoy rolls into town. good then out of nowhere, a series of gunshots fill. the air and pakistan's, former prime minister, goes down with his quickly carried away and taken to a place of safety. clearly in pain, he separate a gunshot wound, scans late revealing pulling 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? it was a little while later the 70 year old appears again outside waving to support us 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, turn politician. he is 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 on because we've run to 6 years. we've never been, doesn't violent realities vulgar to supreme court. we're not going to break any laws of the law in mankind 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. twitter employees are suing the company in a class action lawsuit over mass layoffs expected to be carried out. today on friday, the company recently acquired by the world's richest man on mosque told employees

they would be notified by terminations via email. twitter offices are closed for the day and badge access removed. while there has been no official announcement specifying the number of labels, u. s. media reports a half of twitter workforce could be let go. all right, well for more on this, i'm joined in the studio by andrea napoli from our business department. welcome to the wonderful sat here and there. why is ellen musk planning on shedding so many employees? well, because he needs to reduce costs and to save money, and he needs to do that quickly. so we all know that he paid $44000000000.00 for twitter, right. some of that was his money. solomon got from is 1000000000 or friends. 13000000000 where alone from banks, and when you bought that amount of money for banks, they do want to see some plan of restructuring of the company that you're buying with that money in a specific case, the definitely want to see more profitability front reader. and i do think it's

clear to me that mosque is pressure here to show quick action. so that's the main reason for the mass lay offs. and the quick lay offs at the same time. we also need to understand a twitter is not a big company, like it's quite small in comparison to other that giants last, quarterly revenue. 1.2000000000, just as a comparison, that's a slightly more than one must, will have to pain in the interest on the debt in a year. so it definitely needs, i think it needs to feel it's feeling that it needs to move fast and even break things maybe in doing that. and it, what more can use house for this class action lawsuit that employees have filed because we're hearing the stories are how they're going to be late or? well, yeah, that's really strange. i would say like, we're hearing about layoffs with other companies being carried out in the must. like, i would say gentlemen, are possible here. we've heard yesterday visit the going to receive an email and they'll know if they're fired by 6 today. i hear that our time 6 pm today,

the point is there should be a 60 day notice on this math layoffs in california, especially. and there are some federal laws that protect people from this mass lay offs. apparently mosque and twitter didn't know that you like they violated these laws, didn't do the require things that they had to do. we still have to know that there's so much uncertainty. we haven't seen us average severance package yet. we don't know how that looks. we don't know how it's going to play out here in europe because of course they have employees here. so that might be a lot of headaches coming for really must, from the front. certainly try to be worrying as well for the workers sort of waiting for this solute list e mail on a friday on a friday evening. and well, we know that most is a businessman. of course, he wants to make money with twitter you. you've mentioned that there, but am i right in saying that he has some plans to radically change the platform? are we already seeing changes? well, he has to radically change the platform if he wants to platform to make more money the way he wants it. so we know now the twitter, as i said, is

a small company. most of the revenue we mentioned comes from advertising like 90 percent. he wants to shift from that. so he's not so dependent on advertising and you know, the request of advertisers and he wants to shift towards subscription. so he wants people to actually play for perks for using the platform. good luck with that, i would say because people are definitely used to twitter being mostly a free platform, so you will have to convince people this old so that so, so basically the plan he has for making twitter a platform for free speech that's being extremely controversial. what he means by that, but he has this idea that he doesn't want to rely on other people telling him what to do and to controlling better. so i think there's a lot of moving parts here at play. we know that this guy can land rockets vertically so he might have thought that he knows rocket science. i think this probably have been more complicated than rocket science. certainly, sans is under an equity from dw business. thanks.

italy's new far right. prime minister at georgia milanni has held what she described as frank and positive talks with you officials in brussels. her 1st international trip since taking office was meant to reassure you leaders about the direction of her government, especially on immigration. and it comes as 3 migrant rescue ships remained barred from italian ports there waiting to go as sure. 234 people on board, the ocean viking plucked from the sea by the organization as the west mediterranean . they lever aboard 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 with that success. on the i look at mit lavell, 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 am what urging does

a solution be found for the rescued? first off 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 in italy's point of view be 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 is either after the navi can 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 italy 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 lennox 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 tech me, 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 a frame, i take a shot and then i usually just why pit and re paint next, shall i mean next frame and the next frame and the next frame, and then it 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 reels of the fab 4. but most are the product of the painters imagination. inspired by the beatles own homage to sleep,

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