ah, be our guest at frankfurt airport city managed by fraud. ah ah ah, this is d, w is live from berlin, france and china call for talks to end the war in ukraine. speaking in beijing, european commission presentation of funds alive has kind was with china's leaders, asian paint, and the stern warning praising. he stands on nuclear weapons, but warning against arming russia also on the program rockets flying to train the ass space from that. but on several of 5 into the north, the country,

israel's military says they were intercepted bites missile defense system, evidence, as israeli artillery 5, several shells across the border in response belushi that russian leaders meet in moscow. the kremlin says it stationing of tactical nuclear weapons in belarus is a response to nato expansion. the same justification it used to invite you ah i'm feel gale. welcome to the program. french president emmanuel, macro and european commission president. i sort of found a line on in beijing after talks with chinese lee that she's been paying after the meeting, the commission president praise the chinese lead a stance on nuclear weapons, but want beijing against arming russia, claiming that would violate international law. earlier presidents macro and she

issued a joint call for peace talks between russia and ukraine to take place. as soon as possible, france seized china as a key player in finding a peaceful solution to the war. when the commissioner president said, president she had stated during talks that he was willing to talk with ukraine's president zalinski, when the time was right, ursula found the line, emphasized china's importance in promoting what she called a just peace. this visit is taking place in challenging and increasing volatile context in particular, because of russia's war of aggression against ukraine. china's position on this is crucial for the european union. as a member of the un security council, they is a big responsibility. and we expect that china will play its role and promote a just peace one that respects ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

one of the cornerstones of the un charter. let's them that look at the 1st day of this trip with no bargain. who's a china analyst at the german marshall fund. think tanka welcome to the w. so we have, um, we have ers uniformed a lion. i the manual macro. try saying they want to pressure our president, g to as macro says, bring russia to its senses. i'll likely you think of it so the chinese president will listen to these exhortations. well, we haven't gotten any indications today that she is ready to make any concessions. one of the key issues that ponder lion and my call brought with them to beijing, they were hoping to get the to can them or at least voice oppositions. the rushes

plan to station nuclear weapons and bella, ruth, i didn't hear anything today from see that went in that direction. and we also heard from funder lion that she had raised the prospect of she talking with the ukrainian president lensky, which he hasn't done since the beginning of the war. this has been an ongoing issue he's met with put in a number of times, including in recent weeks in moscow for several days. but he hasn't had time to speak with the lensky fund. elaine said that she expressed the willingness to speak with the lead sky when the time and conditions were right. so that was not a certainly not a guarantee that he will do. so could i just pick up something you said that did they really expect china? you said they went there, expecting china to condemn rushes, actions on what basis was that hope based?

well look, i think it certainly the expectations a year into the war, more than a year to the war that china is suddenly going to shift its position and publicly condemn russia in a, in an aggressive way. are, are fanciful. i mean there's no, i don't think even michael expected, a strong condemnation rush. i think they were hoping just as she did back in november when german chancellor old shots visited when he voiced his position to a nuclear escalation in ukraine. getting some language like that. not, not right on the nation of russia, but something indicating that she opposed russia's plans to europe. have any leverage at all on china to, to make that hope. anything like

a reality. well, i think year it does have some leverage now whether it's using that leverage in the way that it needs to is another question. you know, the chinese economy is facing a lot of headwinds. it's got a property, there's a property crisis, there's consumers have come out of the pandemic with a bit of a hangover. consumer demand is very slow, longer term. they're trying to has an aging population and it has us the u. s. limiting exports of sensitive technologies, which are also gonna hurt the economy. so, trying to really needs the european market. it needs to see continued investment by european firms. that can europe leverage. but, you know, my call went to china with over 50 ceos with him. i'm not sure that

is, that is the best use of, of the leverage mixing mixing the message. i guess i want to come to that, i want to come to this idea that phone line is talking about to d, risking at the same time as president macro turns up with all these the c e o's, basically the classic mixed message. surely yes, i mean, i think it was evident in the, the conversation between funder lion mccaul and she and, and we did, there was video the opening statements by your commission president and the french president. you could detect the difference in tone. underline was talking, both of them rejected the idea of the coupling, but underlay and then pivoted quite quickly to the idea of the risking and the need to be more restrictive in, in, in the economic relationship. whereas my call talked about

a reduction of trade and investment barriers. there was nothing in my cones comments that indicated he supports this idea of the risking. ok, thank you for that. now back in china analyst at the german marshall fund thing tech. thanks. meanwhile, china has unilaterally begun a patrol and inspection operation in the taiwan straits move that includes the attempting to board vessels. high one is denounced, the decision says it will not co operate. this comes, i made the height intention between china and taiwan. i was present, tell talk with the u. s. how speaker this week, the 1st take place in the united states for decades. 350 went ahead. despite warnings from china, which rejects ty, one's self governance, and views the island as a chinese territory. 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

because 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 asians increasingly aggressive military posturing. the friendship between the people of taiwan and america as a matter of profound importance to the free world. and it is critical to maintain equally ami freedom, peace and regional stability. they also discussed speeding up arms deliveries from the us to taiwan and highlighted the threats the island faces. the person 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. let's pick this up with an troll. he's an associate professor of political science with the university of simple welcome to d w. i'm starting out at sea has tied a best actually started this operation in the taiwan strait of actually it's as attempted to board vessels yet. so they say that they are going to start or we haven't had reports yet. maybe we'll start hearing them very soon. but on the town side, i guess they've told your vessels not to comply, but the key is, i guess, and it will be what happens in waters that are sort of it's not where it's not entirely clear whether taiwan or china controls are and what would happen there,

i guess it would be a matter of how risk accepted the p r c site is to try to board in those sorts of waters as opposed to areas that are very close to chinese held islands. because as you say this, as far as we are aware, the operation hasn't physically begun yet. so we can, we have to speculate then, if i, a chinese vessel says, right, we want to inspect what's on board your vessel. and the time when his captain says no, you can't. what happens then? so i guess the townside will have to decide whether they want to continue sailing and risk a for sporting, or perhaps to turn around. so that's what we'll see. and i suppose if there's a turnaround, the question will be whether the p r c side, we want to stop it and try to still of course we bought it so it, it could be

a really escalade because we're talking about the relationships here. but it could look very ugly, it could send a real signal of intimidation towards i one that could further harden actually opinions on taiwan who would that? and again, i appreciate that we are speculating with this notion of a forced boarding. it just looks like taking us closer and closer to something that looks like an armed confrontation. well, i suppose it's a civilian vessel and a, some sort of a government maritime administration vessel. things would still be quite under control. work could get on area would be if a talent vessel decides that it doesn't want to be bought, it turns around and heads into area where they are taiwan government versus coast guard vessels. and you have some sort of stand off then the question would be how to handle that stand off between the p r c side and the town one side? well, thank you for that. well, of course, always the background to all this is, is, is,

these are meetings between am taiwanese leaders and us leaders in taiwan out in the united states. and one wonders if the pressure there is increasing pressure on china in the face of this defiance from taiwan. to sort of put its foot down and demonstrate, well, actually like a, like a, an angry parent. i really mean at this time. well, the pressure from the p r c side has been stepping up quite a bit. i mean, for the past few years, we've seen our military flights flying close or just across them again line. we've seen our patrols by a chinese of c naval vessels. quite just a couple days ago, you've seen the new aircraft carrier, traverse the basher street going into the western pacific. so all this, there's already a trajectory. china is already, i think in many ways putting it for done is never taken as you know, stopped putting it down, i guess those big spike with the policy visit. but otherwise there's been a pretty consistent pattern of behavior. now i guess what is happening here is

it's a really test of resolve on both sides. the p r c is trying to force the, the talent i to back down the how insight is trying to insist on their own position . so there's going to be a bit of a stand off here until one side, the size they either want to escalate or they want to accommodate. i wonder then if the shift in position is not from china or from taiwan, but from the united states, which has made its position on taiwan now increasingly clear rather than this. this was a constructive ambiguity. that was a policy previously. so yeah, the so called a strategic ambiguity, i mean the whole point about the u. s. position on time. one has been that they will calibrate what they do, depending on the behavior. so the reading from the u. s. and how one side is that

the p r c is increasing pressure. now, on the p r c side, they believe that the u. s. is intervening. they believe that they ought to control and a authority over time one. so basically it's this sort of fundamental difference in positions, right? so i don't think it's, it's really the us doing anything. i think in part it's china feeling more confident. it can push the line more, and that's eliciting a response. that's very clear. thank you for your time in char associate, professor of political science at the university of simple thank. thank you. as the middle east and several rockets were fired on northern israel from lebanon, it's unclear who was behind the attack, but lebanese report, save a silva, was launched from palestinian refugee camps are kedusha or rock. it appears to have damaged a car in the israeli town. a facilitator, israeli army says he successfully intercepted several of missiles, either were initially no reports of casualties. the escalation comes after clashes

between israeli police and palestinians inside jerusalem to alaska most. it is lambs, 3rd wholly of site joiner correspondence, tanya cramer in jerusalem. welcome, tanya. a talk us through what's happening well, is shortly on this afternoon, before 3 o'clock, the air is air raid sirens went off across a northern israel. as rockets were fired on southern lebanon into israel. now the army has just released a statement saying that they have identified 34 rockets where fired into israel. 25 of them are at least we're intercepted by the iron dome, a defense a system. israel rescue services have said that at least one person was lightly injured and there has been also some damage. as you have said, the un un mission uniform has also just released a statement, confirming

a multiple launch or of rockets or this afternoon from southern lebanon towards israel, and speaks about that the current situation is extremely serious. now no group has claimed responsibility for this, and this of course comes after day. you see in violent escalation in easter shook jerusalem, or when the israeli police stormed exit twice, the alex, i'm most compelled, went into the mosque. and, and, you know, those videos are where police officers are beating. are people in site the mosque and arresting people in response to that? are there have been already a rocket attacks from militants in garza launched towards israel on wednesday. right. and that these radio response, lisa i and own protection system and apparently rockets of its own. yeah, and this is what we understand that most of them were intercepted at the moment.

but at the moment what you understand is the defense minister and the chief of staff and also of course, prime minister benjamin netanyahu. they were, they are holding a security assessments. and there will be a security cabinet meeting as well. this is a time, it's a holiday to day, it's pesa. a lot of people also vacationing up north and media here are talking about in a, one of the are serious, more serious escalation or between israel and lebanon since the war in 2006. i saw that tonya tonya kramer in jerusalem. all stories are from around the world. huh. iran and saudi arabia have signed an agreement to re establish diplomatic relations. the rapprochement comes after china broke an agreement between the 2 rivals last month. the siding in beijing is the 1st time foreign ministers of 2 countries have met in more than 7 years. in india,

opposition lawmakers for more than a dozen parties have held a rally against the prime minister mode. the government of the prime minister there and remoting, demonstrators accused the prime ministers administrator of using a government agency to intimidate opposition leaders, sound of policy, disqualification and conviction, opposition figure a mocking upon minnesota. you know, they're much, dozens of demonstrators have stormed a major financial building in paris to protest against the government plan pension reforms. the angry about president macros the plan to raise the retirement age from $60.00 to $64.00 the poses. and for a few weeks of nationwide protests. 7 the kremlin, as the leaders of russia and bell roost, that did not discuss the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons, that's according to russian media, arose in liter. alexander lucas shanker, is in moscow for a 2nd day of meetings with the russian president vladimir putin discussion. so focused on defense and economic ties,

russia had earlier announced plans to place it's tactical nuclear weapons invalid, and move it strong condemnation from west criminal dismiss. the criticism and the decision is in response to nato expansion on the military alliance, the secretary general. yes, dalton burke said the deployment contradicts a recent russian chinese statement saying that countries should not station nuclear weapons beyond that borders. this is russia's iskander and missile system able to hit targets up to 500 kilometers away. he could soon be stationed in bel ruth, near the polish border, carrying nuclear warheads. moscow says the system has already been transferred to the bell. russian military and troops have reportedly arrived in russia to learn how to use it. russia claims the move as a response to nato, increasing its combat readiness and adding finland as a member made official earlier this week register. under these circumstances,

we are taking retaliatory measures were defending the security of the union state bell. ruth has been a close allied to russia since the invasion of ukraine, which was partly launched from bella russian territory. since then, the russian and by the russian militaries have carried out multiple joint exercises . russian nuclear warheads are scheduled to arrive and values in july shift vellerilla as authoritarian leader, alexander lucas. shank. oh said the nuclear weapons weren't just for show orderly brains. stylish, don't you put the ukrainians? believe that they will win with this is nonsense. it is impossible to defeat a nuclear power if the russian leadership realizes that the situation threatens the collapse of russia than what the most awful weapons will be used to run out of my position. the united nations disarmament affairs chief has warned that the risk of nuclear war in europe is higher than at any points since the end of the cold war storm. the number of nuclear weapons in europe has been drastically reduced since

the fall of the soviet union and the end of the cold war. but that trend could soon be reversed. i'm in se fest been looking into the current locations of those warheads where there might be moved to let's start with nato's nuclear arsenal here in europe. now in addition to france and the u. k, which both have their own nuclear weapons. these are the 6th base is where u. s. nuclear warheads are reportedly stationed in the netherlands in belgium, germany, italy, and in turkey. now, some estimates put the total number at $100.00 nuclear bombs. russia is the only former soviet country to maintain an arsenal of nuclear weapons. and wat has far fewer than it did at the height of the cold war. it still has more than any other country in the world, even the u. s. and these are kept it more than a dozen military bases across its territory. that includes an goal of china, which is just 20 kilometers from the ukranian border. as you can see, russia and nato have not openly station nuclear weapons near each other's borders until now. that is,

russia said it will position tactical nuclear weapons in the west of beller roost near nato member poland border. it would be the 1st time russia's nuclear weapons would be openly placed outside its borders. now, putin's inner circle has also warned that further nato expansion could prompt russia to position nukes in its ex clave of kalynne and garad. in the baltic states between lithuania and poland, now the location of nuclear weapons has arguably more political significance than military significance. that since both russia and the us have missiles that can theoretically hit any target on the planet. but what's clear is that the buffer zone between the cold war foes is once again shrinking and tensions are rising. i mean a safe or it's been almost 7 months since the death of a young woman in police custody spoke to vance biggest anti regime protest. but decades resistance can take many forms. he w is been to me to a younger alien woman whose refusal to stop dancing that her into exile

a dancing. she says he's the only thing that really makes her soul happy. hearing the stumble, softball burglary is free to dance. vera there she wants, and yet she would rather be home in new long with there she only danced in her own room when posted videos of it's on instagram. but even that wasn't safe because in iran, women are not allowed to dance. and her own family didn't approve man of a quote, police, a fatter gazette ish that a family member reported me to the cyber police that he went to the police department and asked them to stop me and not let me do these things any more. hadn't they interrogated me for about 5 or 6 hours and then took me to

a room to record a forced confessional man. you're more than that. they gave me a chair door attached a microphone and set the camera on my face so that i could express my regret for what i did and for dancing danya in colorado, canada. but saba did not regret dancing, and fled to turkey in 2020. from here she and her friends follow what's happening and at home country, very women have turned dancing into a weapon against islamic republic. deece video from to chronic bots on neighborhood vent. why wrong? then the vision in it were arrested. others followed suit showing their disdain for the countries a strict slaw mc rules, and the regime that enforces them. a saba is proud of them rather than shad. maybe people in the rest of the world say what kind of resistance is saturated. but when you're punished somewhere for dancing during

that and is the kind of resistance on acquisition, or what is it from stumble, sublease not able to join in at the moment since she is already on the regimes rider returning to iran would be too dangerous. and so instead, she walks in a factory 6 days a week to get by. but the news coming from her home country gives her hope because we got more. but as the m. r, those anna, vanessa, giovanni kazitis, resistance of men and women who don't want to live under the burden of oppression. one corner shows the future of iran. yeah, i. and if you run out the door or that's his fear, she'll baby never my young people. there are very fond of art of dancing when they're singing, when asked music. and so on the, i mean i had sent back that dinner and we iran, and all of them can be happy and do what they like. show the household version and jumper that corrected to serrano when that happens. supple wants to return to her

hometown mash had and see her love forms again. even the family member who betrayed her to the police. she's willing to reconcile and forgive as long as she and all other iranians are free. that ensure them it's, it's your up to date. i'll have more world news at the top of the hour. d w. news, asia we've finished. vanity is all like, i'm more news of course around the clock on the w dot com or off of d. w. good. ah

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