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a visit by germany is education minister to taiwan is provoking angry reactions in beijing plus a hash anti gay bill in uganda. lawmakers that are due to vote on legislation that would increase penalties for homosexuality. gay activists now fear for their safety . ah, i'm go ahead of us. welcome to the program. china's region ping and russia. vladimir putin. i've signed an agreement to extend their so called strategic partnership. the deal focus is particularly on expanding bilateral trade and energy ties on russia's war and ukraine. she said that china remains impartial and committed to peace while putting held china's peace plan as

a basis for ending the war. western leaders have been skeptical of the plan. j. b j is not a credible mediator. a little bit more background on this summit. i'm all join far chief international editor, richard walker. richard, we've been hearing from the leaders after their talks. what can we make them? what they say? yeah, so, so both leaders were speaking to the assembled officials and also russian and chinese media. and this was broadcast, see on russian television, vladimir putin went through a list of what he said were 14 sort of areas of agreement, a lot of memoranda of understanding coming out on all sorts of things. and although the sort of headline is that, you know, our relationship is close than it's ever been a lot of these agreements that they say that they've come up with a member of our understanding about pretty kind of, you know, fairly sort of small scales,

granular sort of things like sort of cooperating on the joint production of teller television programs or a deepening cooperation in the field of exhibition and fair activities. so on the one hand is sort of the big fanfare that we've been seeing. on the other hand, quite a bit of what they've been talking about here is relatively small beans and also a little bit vague. there are some things, for instance, we were talking about this earlier about the possibility of an additional gas pipeline coming from russia to china. vladimir putin saying, saying in his statement, you know, we're basically that we've basically agreed everything we need to agree, but it doesn't come up in the written list of these agreements. so still a little bit of ambiguity of exactly what they been agreeing on. all sounds pretty benign, but what did we hear about the warn you right? well, yes, so on the wall, there's been a lot of curiosity about the supposed kind of set of principles for peace that

china has been talking about. this is see she and bruton really sitting down and potentially talking about this. the chinese put together a sort of readout off this lay referring to what, what, what they discussed on ukraine. the chinese saying that their position is agreed with russia that they have to observe the un charter they have to it respect international law. well, if you read that, you know, clearly that will most would suggest that the russians are agreeing. ok. what we're doing is wrong, but the rest of the statement, the rest of the readout is pretty much all russian talking points. and the fact that vladimir putin said, well, you know, we think that we can work around the basis of this piece proposal from the chinese . but the west are not ready for it. i think maybe it's an indication of where this is potentially going, that china, russia might be using this discussion of a potential piece plan as kind of trying to put the west on the back foot internationally diplomatic leave with respect to other countries in the global

south for instance, trying to paint the west is the ones who want to keep a war going. russia and china is the ones that want to stop it. which is, of course, if you step back and think about the fact that russia invaded ukraine to present itself as a potential peacemaker here, it's obviously going to be seen as some very cynical chief international. oh there, it's a walk of there. thank you. richard. a brothel, nato secretary general here thought back has also called on us to agree on more ambitious spending targets to ensure continued support for ukraine sold. mark was presenting the alliances annual report. do turn key decisions on the war. new crime described russia as europe's biggest ongoing threats is security. alongside the threat of total risk. president putin wants different europe, who sees democracy and freedom affects, and it seeks to control its neighbors. so even as the war in ukraine ended to

morrow, the secure environment has changed for the long term per thin sir innovation last year was a shock. but it was not a surprise. it was the culmination of a patent of aggressive action. and in response since russia's illegal annexation crimea in 2014, nate to has implemented largest to enforcement or collect the fence in the generation of germany's education minister has arrived in taiwan on a 2 day trip. but he now start busing on is the 1st german minister to make an official visit to the island in more than 25 years. beijing, which regards taiwan as part of its territory as issued as the platter complaint to germany. assigning said ebony with scientist, set the tone for a politically sensitive visit. bettina stark, vomiting at once. the focus of her tie, one trick to be on technological, co operation. direct meetings with politicians are conspicuously not on the agenda

. it is a great pleasure and honor for me to be the 1st minister heading, a specialist government department to visit i 126 years. taiwan with its excellent research institution is a highly esteem partner. how hosts recognized the significance of the moment. when is this dark? lingers presses into one is particularly movie. it also turned hedge in beijing, china, which demand stone countries not have contact with taiwan. is furious. china condemned the egregious acts of the german official and hash lodge down protest. jen b. jing and berlin to express strong disapproval. i later stock lansing i was given

a tour of an ancient temple and an opportunity to respond to china's criticism. she insisted that germany respects the one china principal lamb, concentrating on being here in the responsibility for research and innovation. that's the normal visit we're doing here. and we need a partners worldwide to tackle the global challenges. so we're, i'm highly interested in, in research and innovation here in taiwan. before leaving, they stopped at the prayer card birth, where the delegation was gifted a blessing card with the white freedom written on it in chinese. a reminder that in taiwan, every word and every gesture carries added meaning. in uganda, the parliament is voting today on a law that would increase prison sentences for homosexual acts to a maximum of 10 years. gay sex is already banned on the laws from the colonial era there, but the latest proposal goes much further. it also criminalize,

as anyone who claims a gender identity other than male or female support in parliament appears to be strong. our b, uganda, parliament debates, new anti gay legislation under the proposals simply identifying as l g, b t plus, i mean that would be a crime. thank you for the gay activist, eric and dula. the move comes as no surprise. of course, this has been the environment that has been happening from petitions, phone, he justly does. even muffin are familiar, haunts telling us that was the height is wrong. it's an abomination looking at a bill coming in parliament. it was not in the exact phrase. and allah has been rejected by his family and has faced evictions and

irresolute to being gay. were well rated by a mob of people who wanted to, you know, a tankless and kill us by twin. we called the police to our sisters. now we're that way instead arrested are subject to 1st and examinations. and at the end of a day would be comb suspects of kind of knowledge. again, is that one of nature, even though we called the police for support to help us from him of that was going to leave us. the offer of the proposed law suggests the maximum punishment of up to 10 years imprisonment for homosexuals. he claims that this landmark bill has widespread support. if you went to my constituents, we did him in his body and asked the people were the idea with me on this issue there were, did you, we are by no impact. because for me, as was this much as course, and this is one of the issues where i have

a direct delivery presented. the voices of the, by the pleasant uganda already has laws criminalizing same sex acts dating back to british colonial rule. but according to human rights watch, the law would make you gander the only african country to criminalize, simply identifying as gay and do all essays that the new bill fuels hate in an already homophobic country and feels out soon. his only choice, maybe to leave you gander, little fuss. you know? my colleagues correspondent julius morgan ball has been following this story for us in uganda. i put it to him that the country already has strict laws on homosexuality and gender identity. so why is this even strict to legislation didn't necessarily that is the same question that

observers and critics have been asking because in the past, in the recent past you have no todd may be big, gay parades may be big, sim, 6 marriages or big public events. by the gay community. and some critics are asking why at this point, i asked the same question before them over of the bill. he told me that actually the gay community has been recruiting children. they have been recruiting children in schools. he alleges and he thinks that this is the right time to rein on them and talk what caused new morality. give me an idea about the support this bill would have in the general population. it's important to 1st appreciate what uganda looks like when it comes to same sex unions. ugandans are widely anti gave and they publicly talk about this president, george m. a 70 has himself described them ungodly. now this is what the people

believe, and this is what the teachings course. this is what they teach in communities being gauge not and is a thing in uganda. now could they say that the lawmakers now use this to divert attention away from other issues? is that the case and what are these other issues? yes, some people have come up and said, okay, you got bass going through a lot especially emerging from, from, from the pandemic. they are no jobs. their price is the cost of living is going up . and they have been, candice, that a implicating lead does in corruptions kind of saw. some people think that the politicians might have motives behind what they're presenting today. and that they are only using their homosexuality topic. morality as a cover of oh, other public pressing issues. now, international criticism of uganda's,

anti gay legislation is intense. how do you, grand, and politicians react to that outside criticism? i would say that you go, that's parliament is not really blind or deaf to its relationships outside the country. and 1st of all being that uganda has a precedent, this is not the 1st time they are coming up with a legislation like this. i bob, this is not the 1st time that the international community is also reacting. i asked them of, of the build the same question. he told me that no matter what the rest of the world thinks, and this was the basis of the debate this afternoon in parliament. many members of parliament believed that whereas the international community might think the other way around your garden has remained solid. and what they think that homosexuality is immoral in the country and delete that. say, if you want to appreciate what you got into is the international community must follow what you got to believes. julius mc come with that in compiler. uganda,

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