ah, ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin. germany's chancellor walks a fine line during a controversial visit to beijing. all of shells asks china to use its influence with russia to end its war in ukraine. the chancellor also looked to expand economic cooperation with germany biggest trading partner, also in the show trapped in the cold and dark with winter on its way 4 and a half 1000000 ukrainians with our power after relentless russian air strikes ki accuses moscow of energy, terrorism plus twitters new boss, visionary long lost, begins slashing jobs in

a bid to make the platform more profitable. ah, i'm pablo foley as welcome to the program. german chancellor, olaf schoultz has asked china to use its influence on russia to stop the war. new crane, the chancellor made the request during a controversial one day trip to beijing where he met both chinese president, teaching ping and premier at lee cook. cheng le sholtes has faced criticized criticism at home for the trip to, to china's stance on the war and his goal of fostering closer economic ties with beijing. an unusual reception in unusual times because of china, strict sierra code policy term and chancellor olive sholtes had to get tested before leaving the plane cove. it protocols also set the tone at his meeting with chinese leaders. she, no handshake, no welcoming gesture. during the talks,

both leaders said far apart from each other, a symbolic not to the divergence of the political positions of shells said he wanted to discuss strengthening economic ties, but also address differences. see, however, proposed skipping over the differences, urging for what he called and more pragmatic course. after meeting with china's premier lee kit young, all of shall said, she moved president to use us. i told presidency that it is important for china to use its influence on russia. it's about being in line with the principles of the united nations charter, which we have all agreed upon. china so far hasn't distance itself from russia and even benefits from the western sanctions on moscow. lee, however, took on the role of peacemaker from those sheila, the 2 sides. hope that this crisis can be ended as soon as possible. the situation can be east and it really can not be escalated and our starting point is to promote peace, talk log. she'll show. so tiny human rights

record was on the agenda in as far as all of short said that he addressed the situation of the suppressed weaker minority to 7 foreign ministers of hedge to keep supporting ukraine through the coming winter. i talked in germany, speaking of the conclusion of the meeting, and then stopped german foreign minister and a lena bear buck. also criticized arounds, crackdown on protests and urged action on the climate crisis. but russia's invasion of ukraine remained top of the agenda with babylon saying that g 7 nations were watching and counting every day of russia's brutal war. we're counting every day of this brutal blow of aggression that russia weight is against your claim for every single day is one day to every single day. you mentioned means a brutal attack on the innocent people and ukraine like i did means suffering death and destruction. well, earlier i spoke with d. w. political correspondent, julia, so deli,

what she and i asked her what she made of german foreign minister babcock speech. let's take a listen. definitely ukraine and as it's expected, it was the main topic of discussion at this g 7. but it has been the main topic of discussion at the g 7 this whole years and almost years in the war started. and that has coincided with the german presidency of the g 7. and alina babel made that clear, also, in her statement now to the press, the g 7 has taken on almost a new role. it was born a decades ago, as a forum for financial decisions from the biggest economies and biggest democratic economies in the world. and now that is, it is, has almost turned into a, an executive forum for coordinations on ukraine. and the various summits that have occurred during this year have all mostly been focused on ukraine. this one was the 1st one where other topics had a bit more room to be discussed,

but certainly it was made clear that the g 7 countries want to continue to support ukraine as long as it takes that is something that we've heard numerous times, but has made clear, been made clear again and that especially looking at the upcoming winter, the difficult winter ahead. the g 7 countries want to continue to coordinate and continue to supply a supports not only militarily or in terms of financial aid, but also practically things that can help you creamy and stay warm. and the have lights on from generators, the heaters to tense, and that is something very concrete and that the g 7 wants to continue to work on political correspondent, julia. so then either let us take a look at some more of today's top stories. pakistan's former prime minister in wrong hand, says he was aware of a plot to kill him a day before the going attack on his protest. march canada is currently recovering in a hospital a day after being shot and wounded in the leg. is supporter. say the attack was an

attempted assassination and are protesting in cities around the country. south korea says it is mobilized to 80 warplanes in response to the detection of over a 118 north korean military flights near their shared border. south korea and the united states of extended their military drills after a barrage of missile tests from north korea a session of france's parliament was suspended after a lawmaker shouted a racist remark. carlos martin longo was speaking about the treatment of migrants and a member of the far right. national rally party shouted go back to africa. low makers voted to suspend him for 15 days, and dakotas pay very, very us former president donald trump says he might run again be 2024 presidential race, but stopped short of announcing his candidacy. he was speaking in iowa to rally support for republican candidates ahead of next week's midterm elections. trump remains the parties de facto liter ukraine's president followed amir 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. for further shortages. while authorities are racing to try and restore power. at earlier i asked r keith, correspondent, nick on the how difficult that's proven to be with stephanie getting more difficult . i think the 1st few times these russian attacks on the power system happened. who's pretty extraordinary. how resilient ukraine in it, so thought is 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 parts 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. broad get money in from foreign clients. that is, will become whole, it would difficult and you know, even here on the street, people talking about generates the 1st on talk about what they could put them on their balconies where they can get the diesel from to. this is really a really uncomfortable situation. and we haven't 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 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 status on which is 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 pro 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 and asked for how fast this is going to go. now, there were white stroke reports in social media day of russian soldiers. this 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 to the kind of russian provocation to get the ukranian troops moving in and then to launch counter attack there, there definitely are still constant. 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, maybe street fighting the weeks 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 to war about 70 people who were in mariposa 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, can counseling often. 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. twitter employees are suing the company in

a class action lawsuit over mass laos expected to be carried out today. the company recently acquired by the world's richest mind. ellen musk told employees they would be notified about terminations via email. twitter offices are closed for the day and badge access has been 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 i'm joined now here in studio by empty lashenay from detroit. you business, emily? great to have you here with us. how our twitter employees reacting to this? well, they are up that many of them have taken to twitter, where they worked previously to, to post about their sadness and their frustration. one employee even likened it to the hunger games. they're posting under the patch tag one team and, and some are taking legal action. as you mentioned, a group of now former twitter employees have filed a class action lawsuit in san francisco federal court. they are alleging that

twitter broke the law that must broke the law by not giving them enough notice under a california statute. these employees should have had 60 days notice and that did not happen. but of course, you know, twitter has offices everywhere, right? so one, it won't be just in california where they're going to have to deal with their kind of the legal issues that they could be facing. yeah, that, that is right. that is right. their headquarters are in dublin and a b no to day employees based on their region have been receiving news of, of these, of their lay off. so it's, it's, it's trickling in and, but it's expected to be about half of them. tough news for, for those people. so what are their changes have taken place a twitter since he long mosque took over last week, a largely personnel changes so far. he's fired a number of top executives. he fired the ceo, appro grove, all as well as the general counsel and the head of legal policy and safety. and there it,

he's also removed the board of directors and installed himself as the single member of the board of directors. there's also, you know, an indications that many of his software engineers will be let go. he asked them to print out the code that they worked on in the past 30 to 60 days, and has brought in the tesla engineers to evaluate that code. and the essentially evaluate the productivity of the software engineers. it's a very different looking company where the signs of things. now twitter also depends on advertisers for much of its revenue. how are they actually responding to all these changes? and the shake of that were saying, you're right, twitter revenue, 90 percent of twitters revenue, comes from digital advertising. and a lot of the brands that use of twitter platform to advertise or waiting until the dust settles, a bit. volkswagen and audi, which is one of its subsidiaries, announced that they would be waiting and pausing advertising until things kind of com to bit of general mills,

general motors have done the same thing and considering how much revenue twitter you note needs from, from, as advertisers. this could be a significant problem, so we'll have to wait and see tuesday for those a twitter or former twitter employees, emily lashenay from d w business x. here is a reminder of the top story we're following for you. germany transfer all of shells, pressed china on its support for russia in ukraine during tolts in beijing on friday with chinese leaders. sholtes also addressed controversy over economic and human rights issues. the told china he wants a deeper economic relationship. and don't forget, you can always get d w news on the go. just download our app from google play or from the apple app store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news. up next we have a documentary film taking a look at a region in chile,

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