we really need coming divisions into vision for tomorrow's journalism register now and join us for this discussion at the 16th edition of d w's global media forum. ah ah, this is the w news coming to live from berlin on a mission to broker piece french president matawan that conte visits china, which he says it has a major role to play in finding a peaceful resolution in ukraine. he's expected to discourage president cheese in ping from supporting russia and its invasion, also coming up,

beijing's warnings to the washington to washington fall on deaf ears as the u. s. speaker of the house welcomes. ty wants president to california. the meeting highlights growing american support for the self governing island which beijing claims as its own and ukraine's liter thanks, poland for its support. in the war. with russia, the polish president welcomes apology most lensky to warsaw and promises to send ukraine more. make wider gems. ah hello, i'm terry martin. it's good to have you with us. french president mental mc caught says he believes china has a major role to play in finding a peaceful resolution in ukraine. a con, made the comments during a 3 day visit to try elsewhere. the war in ukraine is topping. the agenda he said

to meet with president. she's been paying for talks on maintaining trade and diplomatic ties. will be joined by ear commission, president ursula fonda ally, and later today to are expected to try and discourage she from supporting russia. and its invasion of ukraine was crossover to correspondent bobby and crisper in beijing, fabio at the start with the french president, manuel mc con has travelled to china with a huge business delegation. is this trip mainly about diplomacy or trade? well, i think the biggest topic could probably would be a political one lamely the one ukraine or macro m is convinced that he con, yeah. persuade a seating thing to play a big role in this conflict and also for a possible piece or solution in his am statement so far that he gave in front of the a french press earlier he and china, he basically was quite friendly and it's rhetoric

a much more friendly than for example, are also a funder line. the m commission president was also are traveling with macro late and will be a meeting seating ping. and i think it's quite a remarkable that micros trying very hard. but even the early c m on piracy, or say that we cannot expect any major breakthrough, i think a small concessions would be possible though. but i mean, china will not a fundamentally rethink its position towards russia. and in 2nd, i think the economic dimension is also very important across traveling with far more than am 50 c o z. and it's rumored that there will be some business deals, for example, with airbus at the french company. and so i think the 2nd message is that enough, french or france is open for business or with china after like a 2 and a half years of pandemic. isolation. what about the chinese fabi on what term message will present? she gin ping be trying to get across from a con yet for seating ping this our visit to pam across quite

an important to a. so the chinese have been the, our starting a kind of cham offense us are already for several months. the criticism towards the u. s. rather torn down and every delegation that arrives in beijing us are greeted rather warmly with her a high level m, r, government officials, et cetera. so i think what are the chinese said once is that it wants to prevent an alignment by or between the european union and the united states of america. i think that's the 1st target and also it does not want to disrupt the business tides with europe, which is still the biggest trade partner for china. so i think those 2 objectives are the most important and are the messaging that sheeting ping is basically m propagating a said at europe should emancipate itself from the pressure of washington. and that's really what he's trying to say. journalist father and crush mother in beijing. thank you very much,

robin and has mentioned ear commission president ursula from the alliance is also in beijing today for more and that let's bring in our brussels corresponding jack herrick. jack, this is ursula from the alliance 1st visit to china as each commission president, before heading there, she delivered a fiery speech on china that ruffled beijing's feathers. how is she being received there? yes, she did. she gave this speech a few days ago just before she was heading into beijing in which she said that the priority for the european union is to d risk the relationship and not to decouple it. the priority for the europeans and what she's been told i know from speaking to you, diplomats here in brussels, is that the priority is to get beijing to make sure that beijing does not decide to send lethal aid to russia to help it in its war against ukraine of the number one fall fundamental priority, that

e u countries feel her message should be to the chinese join those meetings. now we've seen him meeting already with between vonda lion and the chinese premier lee chang. and there's a bit of natural sound audio on the video where you can hear from the lion telling the chinese prime minister the her father as a, when he was the head of the state of north lois saxony and germany signed one of the 1st german chinese business deals between a 2 provinces in different countries. so you can tell she's there on a, on a sort of charm offensive as well. perhaps the messaging she's giving to the chinese when she's landed on chinese soil is not quite as strong as what she was saying. when she was in europe, so fontinella wants china to use its leverage with russia to help and the war in ukraine. how much leverage though, does that you have when it comes to china. jack?

well, the leverage comes from trade. frankly, the european union is china's biggest trading partner for the european union in goods. china is its largest trading partner, but more specifically it's about what kind of things are being traded between the 2 sides, excuse me. and during that speech that she gave, she mentioned ursula on the line that the e with 97 percent reliant at the moment on lithium from, from china. the lithium is a fundamental component of batteries which are super important for the european union in its you know, number one priority, which is the green transition domestically to try and green knight europe's economies. so there is a sort of a leverage. there is a way that the goods in the trading relationships can be used, but the e u is also fundamentally susceptible and vulnerable to chinese, a decisions on trade as well. i think there's so much complexity to this

relationship also with the u. s. trying to take a hard line on china. the priority as well is also to try and get china's uses him through his to, to, to put an end to the war. some kind of piece agreement potentially that china has been muted as being able to be involved in that a lot for them to head through. jack, thank you very much. our correspondent jack parish. they're in brussels. meanwhile, tie one's president has held talks with the u. s. house speaker in a historic meeting in california, tie in went and kevin mccarthy talked other talks were the 1st to take place in the united states. in decades, the brief visit came despite warnings from china, which doesn't recognize i want independence and views the island as part of its own territory. it deems any contact between the u. s. and taiwan as a challenge to which authority saying when was on her way back from central america when she made this strategic stop over in california,

she was welcomed by us, half speaker, kevin mccarthy. despite china's explicit warning that the meeting should not take place. but the peer use the talks to present a united front against beijing's increasingly aggressive military posturing. the friendship between the people of taiwan and america as a matter of profound importance to the free world. that it is critical to maintain eagle comic freedom, peace and regional stability. they also discussed speeding up arms deliveries from the us to tie one and highlighted the threats the island faces. the prisoners and unwavering support. reassure the people of taiwan that we are not isolated. as we are not however, it is no secret that today the peace that we have maintained and the democracy

which have worked hard to build up facing. i'm president, it challenges china's foreign ministry was quick to condemn the meeting thing. washington had crossed a line and acted provocatively, relation worn for us not to go further down quote, the wrong path shall juniors d w's corresponding in the taiwanese capital tie pay. we asked her how important this meeting is for the aisle. this historic newton is regarded as new milestone for you asked high wind relations like usually i tie in when is the 1st ever town ms. preston. to meet the number 3 in you asked politics on you asked soil. it's worth noting that right before ties trip to central america, and that the transit through the united states under us just called ties with taiwan and switched to beijing,

leaving taiwan with only 13 diplomatic allies. and the meeting is not just on, you know, crucial in terms of diplomacy. it's also about national security for taiwan. and despite the fact that the united states does not have official ties with, ty want it's bound to, you know, provide and with means to defend itself. by law and later in a news conference, mccarthy said he and all the low makers had discussed how to speed up weapons deliveries to taiwan. so he seems like to strengthen ties with the us is especially significant for taiwan. and this moment to catch up on some other stories making headlines around the world. today. clashes have a ruptured at the alex, a mosque in jerusalem for the 2nd night in a row is really police said young palestinians attempted to barricade themselves inside the holy site. but were removed, clashes at the sight also sparked a new barrage of rockets from palestinian militants and the gaza strip. fueling

fears of a further escalation. at least 5 people had died after a tornado tore through the us state of missouri. several others were injured. it's just the latest in series of deadly storms to slam into south in mid west. and the u. s. is see more than 80 reported tornadoes in the last week alone. and colombian authorities are urging residents to evacuate the area around the nevada deliveries volcano in the countries west. the government says a so recent surge and seismic activity has increased the likelihood of an eruption in 1985, a ruptured. they're killed over 20000 people. and is considered the worst natural disaster in the country's history room. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has been to the polish capital warsaw on a rare foreign trip. holland is one of ukraine's staunchest allies in the war with

russia. the police president, andrea judah, promised to send to you more mig fighter aircraft and to push for ukraine to join nato. ah, standing shoulder to shoulder ukraine's president on a visit to one of his country staunchest allies. fuller, demure zalinski was awarded bolan's highest order. the order of the white egan, he lead a leader read and the doom of the unknown soldier in warsaw is jesse's us, which is but crucial for ukraine, borland on foot to seek more needles. security guarantees full keep at an upcoming summit. should lawrence? yes. would. i am firmly convinced that we will succeed in obtaining such guarantees for ukraine as well as an introduction to ukraine's future for membership in nato, which poland strongly supports him fall, cries gay garlic more. so is also the 1st needle member to send fight against to

ukraine at that image for mig 20 nines are being delivered as of on it, which brings the total to 8 polish mig 20 nines delivered to ukraine's mccovie movie. and today, i told presidents lensky that we are ready to deliver another 6, which are undergoing maintenance. he solved to go to one of them's lacresha. the bench sounds as if i think in the future we will be able to deliver the rest of our mig 29 fleet to ukraine. just figured if it as needed as early benches. a backup on saba, he'd keep out of manama. i. d. zalinski packed his horse and said he wanted poland as one of the main nations falling in helping rebill ukraine. vers level of wooden stand important point in our relations is the reconstruction of ukraine. it says east not, it will bring our businesses closer. our nations closer, and it's important for us that poland be one of the main partners, and the reconstruction of ukraine will de ville green. it's a rare trip abroad during wartime for zalinski. a shaw of tanks for poland support

for keith. holland has taken more than a 1000000 refugees, many of whom gathered outside the presidential palace where the duly does will meeting. you are watching g w. news coming to you live from berlin ups. net up next. we got business news for you. i'm terry martin from me and all of us here at the w. thanks with when you work as an architect, i go online or not at all.