rethinking everything and to make you make changes you reviewed this week on d. w. ah, ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, germany's chance her walks a fine line during a controversial visit to beijing. off shots asked china to use its influence with russia to end it war in ukraine. the chancellor also looks to expand economic cooperation with germany's biggest trading partner,

also on the shelf trapped in the cold and dark with winter on its way 4 and a half 1000000 ukrainians without power. after relentless russian airstrikes, key accuses moscow of energy. terrorism plus twitters new boss, billionaire. ellen musk begins slashing jobs in a bid to make the platform more profitable. ah, i'm pablo for lily as welcome to the program. germany's chance at all f sholtes press china on it's support for russia in ukraine during talks in beijing on friday with chinese liter shipping ping and premier li cook chang. sholtes also addressed controversy over economic and human rights issues. he's traveling with a business delegation and has faced calls to reduce when he's over dependence on

its biggest trading partner. allies like france and the u. s. are critical of the visit. now while schoultz was outspoken on russia, lee, kirk chang didn't even mention china's allied by name. both eaters raised the issue of grain exports being affected by the war. and here's what they had to say. china and germany bearer responsibility for the entire world. so we will current to fraud with so many problems in terms of green supply in energy. china is a big country with 1400000000 inhabitants. we want to supply many other countries with chinese grains, lila should ruble. 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,

this and also china is an important country. as a member of the un security council. it's hard to find not so much in china, also has responsibility in the world. 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 or d, w as chief 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 trips abating 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. his 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. schulte 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. chang, on the matter of taiwan, and also on russia. calling 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 in ping against the use of nuclear weapons in a conflict at that being interpreted just one of the clearest statements that she, jim ping has made so far relating to the ukraine war that will be seen as, as implicitly, at least critical of the russians and relating closely to print 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 tgm, paying to a 3rd term empower here, creating a kind of dictatorial 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 you fellow leaders. andrew small is a senior trans atlantic fellow at the asia program at the german marshall fund of the united states. and his research focuses on us china relations. earlier, i asked him, what messages or what message berlin is sending china with this visit? i think this 2 messages that are coming,

one is what shots actually said in his meetings with cheating thing. and the language that we saw at the press conference which were actually some quite effective messages on t. jon on russia, on taiwan and on a few other fronts. i think 2nd question though, is the message that was sent as your correspondent nighted am with business delegation with the lack of coordination, particularly with other european pot as a head 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 listen to the direct language used by shots 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 pot and 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 as said today that western countries need to reduce their dependence on china. so that 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 and to increase to dependent seen 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 dependent. so china, for at least some time to comp tingley, as you mentioned when it comes to critical raw materials and, but i think the expectation is that over time 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 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 taiwan there, chancellor charles raised a few at, we'll call them uncomfortable issues, which is like the human rights situation in china. and taiwan, but does china really listen to at countries like germany and other countries who criticize? i think the taiwan message is particularly important. i mean shows has made to point to pricing changes 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 she jealous at certain points, but i mean, point thing with, by one is to say that gemini has equities that, to your equities, that to am and given the measures that germany and europe in the united states and

that various other asian upon us as well as the seed be to be sanctioned on, on russia. and i think there is meaningful european involvement or on the, on the kind of punitive side, if, if the were to be some of these, these worst case scenarios. i think china understands that better now than i did at the beginning of the year, right. i think they expected things like swift cut off. so financial bank sanctions on the scale of export controls. so i think there is some leverage on germany's part on europe's part and, and to sending some of these messages. china does have to take that seriously. 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. foreign ministers from g 7. countries have pledged to keep supporting ukraine through the coming winter. on the 2nd day of talks here in germany, they also criticized north korea for

a series of recent missile launchers and announced what they described as a brutal crackdown on protests in iran. relations with china were also on the agenda, coinciding with german chancellor or shelter trip to beijing. german foreign minister and alina bab, book is expected to speak shortly. but the w political correspondent, juliessa delhi, is following the stories from the german city of minster. juliette great to see. so as expected, ukraine has been central to this meeting. tell us how the g 7 are planning on supporting keith considering at we're saying no end inside to this war. on concrete measure that we've seen coming out of the g 7 of the foreign ministers here is a, the agreement to develop a coordination mechanism between the g 7 countries to support ukraine. now that the country is being repeatedly attacked by russia and specifically civilian infrastructure like electricity and water networks are being attacked. and that

means that ukrainian civilians are suffering deeply, especially going into the root winter right now. and g 7. countries want to come together to support ukraine in this. they want to send over generators, heaters, also tense, and containers to directly support the civilian population there. and this coordination mechanism is supposed to work as a mechanism that a g 7 countries have already developed with a defense ministers meeting regularly to help support ukraine with weapons deliveries. but in all of that, to the g. 7 also criticized a russia's continued nuclear threats against the ukraine, and also criticized the fact that russia continues to seemingly change. it's a tactics of war and continues to also use food as a weapon and attacks against civilians as a weapon. julia, there were also on the agenda will say, was the ongoing protests in iran that was discussed to tell us

a little bit more about what stands to g 7 of taken with regards to that the g 7 took a strong stance against the repression of protesters and the incarceration of protesters in iran and reiterated that they are going to continue to try to put pressure on iran to hold back on the repressive actions at the regime there is taking. the also made clear that iran must not to develop nuclear weapons itself. and therefore, they still left a door open for the nuclear deal negotiations that have now been suspended. but they said that iran is currently not fulfilling the necessary conditions for these negotiations to be able to resume. and, and that is something that a g 7 countries are sort of struggling with how do they prevent iran from developing its own nuclear weapons. but the same time without giving iran

concessions at a moment when the regime is pushing forward a repression against its own up people. thanks, julia dw political correspondent, julia, so deli and minster force. well, here are some of today's top stories from around the world. pakistan's, former prime minister emron can't says he was aware of a plot to kill them a day before they've gone attack on his protest. march hahn is currently recovering in a hospital a day after being shot and wounded in the leg. his supporters say the attack was an attempted assassination and are protesting in cities around the country. south korea says it's mobilized 80 warplanes in response to the detection of over 118 north korean military flights near their shared border. south korea and the united states have extended their military drills after a by rush of michelle tests from north korea. russia and ukraine have confirmed a recent exchange of $214.00 captured fighters. russia's defense ministry released

footage that says that it says shows the $107.00 russian soldiers being received. the ministry said the soldiers were heading to moscow for medical treatment. well, ukraine's president vladimir zalinski says, russian strikes have left some 4 and a half 1000000 people with our power across the country. so lansky accuses moscow of energy, terrorism for escalating attacks on ukraine's power, great as winter looms. similar attacks 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. while authorities are racing to try and restore power and i asked our keith correspondent, ne. com, the high difficult that's proving was definitely getting more difficult. i think the 1st few times these russian attacks on the power system happened was pretty extraordinary how resilient ukraine in its authorities,

turned out to be basically within space of a day. each time you have more or less a return 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 are 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 whether foreign parts will fit the ukraine system, whether there are 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 gonna work. the dependent on internet connection to deal with clients. broad get money in from foreign clouds. that is, will become whole, it will difficult and, you know, even here on the street, people talking about generates the 1st on talk about what they can put them on their balconies where they can get the diesel from to. this is really a really uncomfortable situation. and we haven't even really hit the kind of

hardest coldest winter weather yet has certainly had difficult situations for everyone there. and so president vladimir putin has urged people still living and had san 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 its 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 west 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 this is going to go. now there were white stroke 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 in ukraine to that might be a trick that are 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 different on. so since that we could see some really ugly battles, maybe street fighting the weeks to come before ukraine fully returns control of the city. nick it 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 were about 70 people who were in miracle. and as of style factory that you might remember from the spring, i think the most extraordinary things that they are talking at these exchanges are even happening. basically in the kind of years of 2014 where the fighting was actually a lot less intense. there were many fewer victims, this was a lot more difficult. they were constantly trying to have exchanged and they wouldn't happen. and they would con kessler last minute. they are happening now and

ukraine and russia, or somehow finding a way to deal with each other at the same table. thanks, nick t w's. nick conley and keith. twitter employees are suing the company in a class action lawsuit over mass layoffs expected to be carried out today. the company recently acquired by the world's richest man, ellen musk told employees they would be notified about terminations via email. twitter offices are closed for the day and badge access removed. while there's been no official announcement, specifying the number of lay offs. us media reports a half of twitters workforce could be let go. all right, well for more on this, i'm joined in the studio now by andrea nap body from our business department. welcome to the wonderful sat here and here. why is ellen musk planning on shedding so many employ? 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 borrowed that amount of money from banks, they do want to see some plan of restructuring of the company that you're buying with that money. in the specific case, the definitely want to see more profitability from tweeter. and i do think it's clear to me that mosque is pressured 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 effect giants last, quarterly revenue. 1.2000000000. just as a comparison, that's a slightly more than one mosque will have to pay in the interest on the debt in a year. so it definitely needs. i think he needs to feel it's feeling that he needs to move fast and even break things maybe in doing that. and that want more. he is house by this class action lawsuit that employees have filed because we're hearing

these stories of how they're going to be late or so. well. yeah, that's really strange. i would say like, we're hearing about layoffs without accompanies being carried out in the most like i would say gentlemen, are possible. here. we've heard yesterday, basically they're going to receive an e mail 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 lay offs in california, especially. and there are some federal laws that protect people from this mass lay offs, apparently mosque and twitter dedan that you like. they violated these laws, they 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 haven't been is here. so there might be a lot of headaches coming for really must, from the front, certain kind of be worrying as well for the workers are waiting for this solute this e mail on a friday on a friday evening. and well, we know that most is

a business amount of course, and he wants to make money with twitter you. you've mentioned that there, but am i right in saying that he, 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 play for him 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 planning 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 that is probably been more complicated than rocket science. certainly sanders and then equity from dw business. thanks. italy's new far right prime minister, georgia maloney has held what she described as frank and positive talks with you officials and brussels. her 1st international trip since taking office was meant to reassure you leaders about the direction of our 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 so s mediterranean, they levin aboard the german flagged rescue ship. humanity won. 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 the i look at the middle of i love, 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 am we're urging down a solution be found for the rescued 1st is that all of elfman and there's 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 of 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 and 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 therefore, as they have been informed by ministry of foreign affairs, these countries are responsible for assisting the people on board phone. again, i called christie to face the german government has now asked actually 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. and as for the track, i'm only sleeping. oh,

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 pains take me. i've always been a beatles fan. and when i saw the opportunity to work on, i'm only sleeping. i was to sleep 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 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 reels 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. here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. germany, chancellor, olaf schultz pressed china on it's of course for russia and ukraine during talks in beijing on friday with chinese eater shipping. and the premier shells also addressed a controversy over economic and human rights issues, but told china he wants a deeper economic relationship. ukraine's president of a lot of mirror zalinski says russia's attacks on infrastructure have left 4 and

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