ah, chinese president shipping just spent 3 days with the man responsible for launching an unprovoked war in ukraine, a man wanted for war crimes. now, this is an accurate description of russian president vladimir putin, but not one that chinese sensors would ever allow. instead, beijing one she to see she's been paying and vladimir putin on the right side of history. a history they planned to write together with china and russia winning the united states and the west. lucy, i'm burnt off in berlin. this is the day. ah, woman, we are the us to examine and reflect on its role in the ukraine issue that will climate, utah. so now china wants to play a constructive role here in this conflict. the ne auto press russia to pull which

troops out of ukraine, ukrainian southern territory of china is not the creation of the ukraine crisis, nor is it a party to the crisis. i don't think you can reasonably look at china is impartial in any way. may fashion till us claims that china's position is not impartial. is it possible to continuously send weapons to the battlefield? petaluma? they should, irv urge president, willing to seize bombing cities, hospitals and schools to stop the war. crimes in the atrocities and in the mood today could have been late. now also coming up, the french will have to work 2 more years before they can retire their anger because of that aimed at their president. he hears them, but he's not changing his mind. no more, no boss, i speak to you right now from do you think i enjoy implementing this reformer? no, no, it's good. do you think i could have done the same as many of those for me and

sweep this on to the corpus? yes, maybe. but there is one thing i regressed, it's that we weren't able to get the message across of this reform is necessary for his exact model, inefficiently to facetime. ah, was our viewers watching on p b. s in the united states, into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with a new world made in china and russia made to repel the ways of the west after 3 days of pomp and promises, chinese president, she's paying departed moscow on wednesday, thanking his dear friend vladimir putin. but both of these leaders, oh, each other, a debt of gratitude, putin thankful that china will continue to purchase russian oil and give russia diplomatic cover for the war in ukraine put in, started, but blames on the west and for she's in ping having russia as an ally is like an insurance policy against the gemini of the united states. she sees washington in its allies on a mission to keep china caged in. thanks to russia,

beijing feels more like an emerging superpower, less like a contagion. we have more now in this report. a group of uniformly class children waive small flags as president teaching. paying has to the apple in the rain. this is that visit which has been heavy on symbolism, the russian government putting on as good a show as it can of closeness to the only powerful ally, it has had more success. a grand assessment of the visit to in beijing some to walk away without less gray potential and space for the cooperation of china and russia and the strategic, reliable and stable, unaccompanied youth. no matter how the international situation changes, china will continue to be committed to promoting the comprehensive, strategic partnership of coordination. you between china and russia, profile, go down in the new era heading towards you to that. you mentioned that you the hub

. i guess the stage was grander when choosing paying met vladimir putin on monday and tuesday. important because rushes invasion of ukraine has left moscow increasing the isolated internationally. this was a show with substance to the pledge of increased economic cooperation and a new pipeline to take russian gas to china. the united states, though, the pre denounced the trip as cover for president putin, who's now sought by the international criminal court on war crimes charges. i techy response from moscow. when you know as to custodial has for the reaction of countries from the collective west, it's not a secret for any one that the reaction is unfriendly and openly hostile on all issues need rules, tuning robert quarters given her the coverage of this important visit is absolutely no exception to avoid. and president putin spoke warmly of a chinese piece proposal to

n. russia's war against ukraine. a plan which calls for a cease fire and leaves russian troops on occupied ukrainian territory. she insists his position on the ukraine. war is neutral farmer. that's a claim to dismiss i washington. so he and his regime keeps parenting. the russian propaganda that this is somehow the a war of the west on russia that it's some sort of existential threat to mr. poo. that's just a bunch of malarkey. but in the end, she's being paying these moscow after offering little and gaining a bit. he's given some support to a key ally and he's stunned off with washington at the same time as avoiding any risk, to more important business partnerships with the west. my 1st guess tonight is a survey, right, jenko, he's an historian, specializing in the cold war and the world that came after that you joins me tonight from london. it's good to see you. good. good to have you back on the show,

you wrote at the start of this visit that we just saw the past 3 days. i'm as much as mouse a tongue during his meeting with stolen in 1949 vladimir putin wanted something that looked good, but also tasted delicious. is mister putin as he licking his lips to light? i think it's looking good for him, but it's not tasting delicious enough. he got a lot of pomp and ceremony. he got a lot of prestige and standing out of this visit by sea ging thing. but as for practical results, i am not seeing a whole lot there. some something was said about economic cooperation of putin talked about raising a trade with china. however, the key agreement that couldn't, has been trying to get badging to endorse the export of

gas via the new power of said barrier to pipeline has not been approved. so that is, i would say, a major and major shortcoming of the summit. but you know, there other bits and pieces, let me, but i want to think about this, this pipeline, because as we understand it putin, as we repeatedly said that this gas pipeline is a done deal. but it was not in the official account of, she's in pings comments after their talks for the past 3 days, i mean, these are, you know, must be, but these are 2 realities here that these leaders are, are putting out for consumption. well, this pipeline is hugely important. you have to remember now that russia is basically cut off from the european markets or has largely cut itself off from the european markets. and it wants to sell natural gas to china. it has one pipeline in operation cold power of siberia, one that took a years and years to negotiate because the chinese were driving hard barking on

price. well, now that russia has cut itself off from europe, it lost all the leverage. so is it going to be able to get the chinese to sign on? i'm not so sure. we haven't seen the agreement yet, so it's hard to say. and, but as you are implying here, this was not a meeting of 2 equals russia moving forward, will probably walk step in step with china in a global campaign to reduce american hegemony. would you say that she's in ping has vladimir putin and his russia. exactly where he wants them. now. to certain extent, teaching does not want to throw put in under the bus. he wants to get put in a lifeline. he understands that wouldn't, doesn't have many options. and russia is important to china in the global struggle. the china sees itself as a part of them, and russia is the only real partner the china can count on other than not korea

suppose in the coming a confrontation with the united states. so given that, of course, food is very important. on the other hand, speech and also does not want to see escalation in ukraine. that is why i think ukraine was such a large part of this summit. now we don't know what was happening behind closed doors, but it seems, it seems to me that china was not fully happy with what i was telling. seeing vladimir who just spent 3 days courting, she should being you could say, but the fact remains. he's not winning the war in ukraine. he is now more and more dependent on beijing for oil revenue. he appears to be a severely diminished figure when he stands next to she's in pain. is that how you read it? well, that's the irony. everybody recognizes now that put me is an in the chip king. he try to,

to raise russia standing globally. but the way that he ended up in this quote, myron ukraine with no end and side to shows russia's weakness effective way. of course, russia has made itself something like a vassal to china. of course, it retains the degree of strategic independence and russia is a nuclear power. nevertheless, hooton's options are severely circumscribed. he is not welcomed in the west. his leverage in foreign affairs is severely limited. so russia is much, much, much worse off today than it was before, wouldn't invade it. it was a colossal blunder for him, not just in relation to ukraine, but also in really russia's global standing historian to gay ra jenko. mister jenkins, always, it's good to talk with you. good to get your insights on what has been a very interesting 3 days in moscow. thank you. think of rem ah. in the past week the french president has pushed through reforms to the countries pension system. the headline here,

the retirement age is going up from 62 to 64 and the french are angry. the president, he's not changing course in a t b interview. manual micron said today that he had no regrets about pushing through the bill without a vote in parliament, but he added he hopes to improve relations with labor unions and to involve them in any future reforms. he also stressed that there is no way around these changes. if france wants to have a solvent pension fund, momos will die as i speak to you right now, please you think i enjoy doing this for fall? no, no. if you think i could have done the same as many others before me met up with and suite this into the copy. yes. but that may be made. i heard that there is one thing i regret or guide is that we weren't able to inform the needs when to go. this reform breathing victim all initiative. the fact that i film, don't we? so yes, there are a 100 solutions. if we want the pension system to be balance proven no longer is so they got, and the more we wait so many in the mo it will get worse,

hulsy. and so this reform is necessary enough. i would have preferred not to, but it's also because of a sense of responsibility blooded of law. i'm join l by davida botto. he's a political correspondent for the news website. you're active in the french capital . perez is good to have you with this, you wrote an editorial arguing that france has reached an impasse that goes deeper than macaroni controversial pension reform plan. explained was, what did you mean by that? yes, because basically until now, deposition was about dimensional reform in itself. and americans, person in himself that from now in, from a since some days your position has became more under. but if the celt system in itself and institutions in it 2nd themselves are such as the way that we elect the president or the powers that are given to the governments, which are judges to latch hide by the french. so this is less now about policy and

more a question of the integrity of, of, of the system. so what's a, what's a solution here? yes, basically the, the most immediate solution i will be for my call to change the way he governs the country in a less vertical way. but also, it may be a reflection that is wider and for all the political forces of a kind of changing of the political culture may be and seen that way. that is much more similar to what you do in germany. but with yes something why they're from everyone. i'm going into compromise and not just hard to position one to the others . yeah, i mean help us understand this w because a manual microphone, i guess outside of france he does not appear to be the, the strong arm type of president that we see in other countries. but would you say

that that is exactly what he is and that, that's been the problem here. the way he conducts french politics is just to, to rough. maybe there is yet something on his behavior, for instance, with the trade unions during this pension reform debate for the responsibility of these issues are like 999 and 99 percent of is responsibility basically. but as i was mentioning, the idea of the political culture in france is also something that of why there, if he, if we see the white picture of all of the political spectrum in france, that does not know how to do compromises. for instance, the message that came from micro on today in this t v interview of it was vice president telling the country this is giving you a dose of tough love. if you want a solvent pension plan,

you have to accept these reforms. and how has that been received by the public? do we know? ah, yes, there was a pole published or some minutes ago, some hours ago saying that 70 percent of the french where, at least disappointed by the president's that president mccoy interview this afternoon. and these say basically 2 things, of course, people remain massively opposed to the pension reform, but also to my coin himself. and it's, yes, it's massively rejected. this is, well, it's really the only thing he could have said then that would have pleased people would have been, i was wrong. i've changed my mind. we're going to keep retirement at 62, right? if you did in some way, but not with this conclusion. he said that he wanted to change also the way that he

governs by, by a more compromise, as i was saying, we unions with other political forces. but this is far from being easy in the french arguments as so disorders will be very hard. but yes, it will be a citizen to come things down in the following weeks and months. and what about the politics in the country moving forward? do the political extremes in france the far right in the left? they do, they stand to gain from what's happening right now. the, the left tried to, to, to gain something of these because of course they are, posters has strep and so eventually reform. but they have a very hard positioning argument, which is not what is seen by the french public. so it's more the fire i that is gaining a lot of but it combines of these crises because my independence party, the nation that are at i and her aunties remained really calm and they showed that they were yes, just posing but not very hard way. and very institution, and so yes,

without doubt it would be more of the fire. right. that's what i'm getting. something of this. ok. journalist w boscoe who will be working as it looks now until he is at least 64 before he can retire. davi. thank you. thank you very much bye. ah. are we running out of clean water on this world water day? a new un report on water scarcity across the world does not make for pleasant reading . a special un conferences under way in new york, the 1st in more than 4 decades do, specifically focus on water. as you and figures reveal billions across the globe do not have reliable access to clean water. over consumption and climate change of lead to water shortages around the world are corresponded. rebecca readers sent us this report about how israel is said to become the 1st country in the world to channel the sour needed water from the mediterranean into a natural lake,

the sea of galilee, the sea of galilee in northern israel. the lake has been a vital water source for millennia fed by the jordan river, which continues down to the dead sea. it's a place of pilgrimage for christians and it's israel's main fresh water reservoir. but climate change and years of over use have been threatening. its survival is red was after 4 or 5 consecutive years of drought. and we watched the level of a lake. i do lake near it, sea of galilee, drop every year, drop more and more until the level that we cannot pump from it any more. now in a world 1st project is round. hopes to make that problem a thing of the past, by using dsl a night had water to refill the fresh water lake. the water wintering here very for membrane,

which taking out the big particle ok after that the water going through their reversible small membrane which is the thick as that. and then the main process. israel has been desalination water for more than 2 decades. nearly all of its drinking water comes from the sea. so from the mediterranean sea, through that process, into this pie but into my comp, in one and a half hour, that's through. that's correct. pretty good to in another one and a half hours. it can reach the galilee topping up this regional water source. water has been an issue in the middle east, hundreds of years and has often been a source of conflict. many here now hope that this program will not only show up what does apply here in israel, but also be away for israel to build and strengthen ties with. once enemy states, like jordan water, was an important part of the peace treaty between israel and jordan,

signed in the 1990s that deal to supply 50000000 cubic meters of drinkable water, was doubled in 2021. water from the sea of galilee is brought downstream here through these grain pipes. you can say behind make it stored here in the last pumping station in israel before it makes its way through those pipes over into jordan last year. israel great to double the jordan water deal again in return to energy that made putting the water in the galilee even more crucial. this was a, an excellent win win situation. we can bring water back to the sea of galilee and improve its quality, raise their level, and find a solution for excess disseminated water. if the recess expert say this multi $1000000.00 project could make the galilee a sustainable water source for years to come. let's go now to get on bromberg, he is the co founder and israel director of eco piece, middle east, that is

a non profit that promotes cooperative efforts to protect environments. and he is in new york now for this un water conference, mr. bromberg, it's good to have you with us, you advocate using water to promote peace in the middle east. tell us how do you, how do you propose, how does it, how's that going to work? so firstly was really unique about it. the pieces that were israeli, palestinian and jordanian together, where a civil society group that works with 3 governments across the region and promoting the understanding that water knows no borders that under the current climate crisis, if we fail to cooperate over water issues, then there's not going to be sort of much else to struggle over because we're not going to survive the climate crisis without that type of cooperation. this issue is

actually well, increasingly understood here at the us here at the water conference where the relationship between peace and water and how was ration over water issues. because this so vital to vary, survival can build trust that later, that in addition goes beyond water to broader peace issues. so if they like what you're saying, they're the you, and i'm wondering, do they like what you say in israel with this new government? it's regarding the most right wing ever in the history of the country. is this government? is it open to your initiative, or does it want to reserve the right to use water as a weapon? so so it's certainly challenging times in israel and in the broader region, but i must say that, you know, we're 30 years old and it could be, we've been doing this facility is one of the key position was that we're saying to

all governments is the weight need to stop holding water issues hostage. the way that these rarely palestinian peace processes move forward in the, in the last 20 years or fail to move forward is either we agree on all issues or governments don't move forward on any issues. and we think that although that was a good idea in the beginning 20 a year later, that's proven itself as a failure. and we're calling on the government of israel, the palestinian authority, and the international community. let's sold the water issues as you saw in the article, water is no longer a 0 sum game because of israel's leadership in the celebration, entreating to waste water. the water pi has grown tremendously. so there's no reason today why policy and shouldn't get a fair share of natural water shared between israelis and palestinians that we

don't treat all storage. we should treat all sewerage being produced in this region and utilize that reuse for agriculture. so water perhaps is the entry point at this time, perhaps the only entry points that can re denied discussions because of the urgency miss because of climate change. yet mr. robert, before we run out of time, what i'm hearing here is that you're saying eco, peace middle east is bringing israelis, palestinians, and even jordanians. together, you're actually bringing more peace with with water. is that realistic? so, so that, that, that is that it is out. i that is our objective i organization is hollis tinian jordanian and israel together and that is unique. we are working with all of our governments and the international community to move. but the very projects that you're, that you've been talking about,

then build water resilience that build region wide climate security. and that understanding that water is a security issue that have water is a human right. it is what's enabling us to, to really bring our message across. yeah, well i'm sure a lot of people watching will wish you all the best and lots of success. get on broberg with eager peace, middle east. miss robin. we appreciate you taking time out. i'm sure you're busy, man, right now. they're in new york. thank you. thank you very much and good luck to us all on this will war today. well, the day's almost dawned. the conversation continues online. you'll find us on twitter, either dw news, you can follow me on twitter at brit. gov tv and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody

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