in decision for tomorrow's journalism register now and join us for this discussion at the 16th edition of d double use global media forum with this is the w news life from berlin. kind words for china and the stern warning invasion. you chief us on the line, the praises china's leader at gigi and paying on his nuclear weapons dance, but wants him against arming russia. also on the program. pensions rise of the israel level on board after rockets flying to reach rady asked pace several of 5

into the north of the country. but israel's military says they were intercepted as bella, lucy and andrew, russian leaders meeting moscow. the kremlin, assess it stationing of tactical nuclear weapons in bella. this is a response to nature expansion. the same just occasionally used to invade you prey and iran's anti government protests continue in increasingly diverse forms region. iranian women who flag after probably reported to iran cyber police for dancing. and she's one of many women turning their talents against the regime. ah, i'm so welcome to the program. french president emanuel mack crawl and european commission president asked you to fund the line raising today for talks with that

chinese leaders using, paying after the meeting the commission president, to pray. the chinese lead a stance on nuclear weapons, but warned, raging against army russia, claiming that back would violate international law. presidents, mackerel, and she issued a join to call for peace talks between russia and ukraine to take place as soon as possible. frances china as a key player in finding a peaceful solution to the war on the commission, president said that president she had stated during talks that he was willing to talk with ukraine's presence the landscape when the time was right. and she emphasized chimes importance in promoting 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 take a look at this then we're of our rush correspondence to chicago ship manascale, who's reporting from the latvian capital regus, insert russia shut down. our moscow pura brussels corresponded jack parrot is with us as well. welcomed both. let's start with your jacket. how successful as this trip been? yeah, hard to tell really, i mean, certainly as live on the lion managed to get her message across to the chinese, which is that they, she believes they play a fundamental role in using their leverage to try and get russia to stop its war. in ukraine, she said she feels she can count on the chinese in order to do that, firstly,

to not send lethal weaponry to russia to aid in its war. and also to try and use it to pressure moscow to make sure there is no nuclear threat or no threat of nuclear weapons being used. she's said she, she's made those points, but what we don't know is how the chinese have received those. and whether they're willing to do so, we know that the chinese president, she, jim ping, has expressed according to the lion that he's willing to speak to blow to mila zalinski is not, i haven't had a phone call with ukrainian president since the invasion since he's been president of ukraine, but we don't know when that will happen or what he'll be willing to say. and really that's the measure of success from a european point of view, whether they've managed to persuade the chinese around their way of thinking. j. gotcha bernacki. do you think this visit has done anything to bring the past the prospect of peace in ukraine any closer at least not for the moment a criminal has actually dismissed the idea of chinese mediation. this portion of

the russian president said that and he, that kremlin does not see any prospects for political a settlement at the moment in the crime. it also says, no other way than to continue this so called special military operation. and it's consistent with russia's position on this issue we're from, from, from before russia didn't engage substantially on the 12th point plan to the proposition that beijing has proposed back in february. and i think it's the are several reasons for that. russia in the last, the russian leadership in the last week, we have been sending signals towards the population that to the, to, to russians, telling them to prepare for a long conflict. and any talk of peace settlement at the moment could actually bring all their expectations in the, in the russian society. it could also the mobilize the states, military sector and harm to war effort. and i think ultimately russia also wants to

demonstrate demonstrate and manifest some sort of autonomy on this issue. and autoline from china and russia. neither said many times that a he says, ukraine as russian fewer influence. and i think russia will be pursuing a settlement on its own, not on beijing's terms. ok, thank you for that sir. you're sure sherman oscar in latvia and jack park in brussels. thank you. bye. lima. china has universally begun to patrol and inspection operations in the taiwan strait moved that includes attempts to board vessels. i once denounced the decision says it will not cooperate. this, of course comes amid height intentions between china and taiwan. italians, president, how talks with us, how speak of this week. the 1st take place in the united states for decades. brief visit went ahead, despite warnings from china, which rejects that taiwan self governance, abuse the island as a chinese territory. thigh. england was on her way back from central america when

she made the strategic stop over in california. she was welcomed by us half week at kevin mccarthy, despite china's explicit warning that the meeting should not take place. but the peer use that 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. then it is critical to maintain equally ami freedom, peace and regional stability. they also discussed speeding up arms deliveries from the u. s. 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 relating morn for us not to go further down quote, the wrong path. leon chung is an associate professor of political science at the university of singapore. asked him if china has actually started this operation in the taiwan straits and whether the attempted to board any vessels. so they say that they are going to start or we haven't had reports yet. maybe, you know, we'll start hearing them very soon. but on the townside, 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 acceptance 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 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 he's capture 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 spawning, 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,

i don't think it really escalate 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 had it. and again, i appreciate that we are speculating with this notion of a force boarding. it just looks like taking a closer and closer to something that looks like an armed confrontation. well, i suppose it's a civilian vessel and a, some sort of government maritime administration vessel. things would still be quite under control. work could get an area would be if a talent vessel decides that it doesn't want to be boarded, turns around and heads into area where they are taiwan, government versus coast guard vessels. and you have some sort of stand off. and then the question would be, how to handle that stand off between the p r c side and the town one side. thank

you for that. of course, always the background to all this is, is, these are meetings between and taiwanese leaders and us leaders in taiwan. out in the united states, and one wonders if the pressure varies, 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 it this time. well, the pressure from the p r c side has been stepping up on quite a bit. i mean, for the past few years, we've seen our military flights flying close or just across the median line. we've seen patrols by a chinese of the naval vessels quite just a couple of days ago, we've seen the new aircraft carrier, traverse the busha street going into the western pacific. so all this, there's already a trajectory. china is already, i think in many ways putting it's for done is never taken as, you know, stop putting it down,

i guess those big 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 to how insight is trying to insist on their own position . so there's going to be a bit of a standard here until one side, the size, the either one 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 and what was it that constructive ambiguity that, 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 a several rockets have been fired on northern israel from lebanon, was unclear who was behind the attack, but lebanese reports, the salvo was launched from palestinian refugee camps. i got your shirt rock, it appears to have damaged a car in town for 2. so a suitor on these are the army says its successfully intercepted several. i catch you show, miss lyles though initially no reports of casualties. the escalation comes after

clashes between israeli police and the palestinians inside jerusalem's, our accent. most islam 3rd whole, the size asked a correspondent in jerusalem. tanya cremmit to talk me through what happened? well, shortly on this afternoon, before 3 o'clock, the air is air raid sirens went off across 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 fire into israel, 25 of them or at least were intercepted by the iron dome. our defense system is ready. rescue services have said that at least one person was a 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 of rockets 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, should jerusalem, or when the israeli police stormed actually twice the alex, i'm most compelled, went into the mosque. and in those videos are where police officers are beating our people inside 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 the israel response that lisa i and own protection system and apparently rockets of its own here, 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. there are they are holding a security assessments, and there will be a security cabinet meeting as well. this is a time, it's a holiday today, 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 swear tonya tonya cramer in jerusalem. his look at more stories making news around the world. iran and saudi arabia have signed an agreement to re establish diplomatic relations. rapprochement comes after china broke into an agreement between the 2 rivals last month, assigning in beijing is the 1st time foreign ministers in the 2 countries have met for more than 7 years. in india, opposition lawmakers for more than

a dozen parties of hell to rally against the government of prime minister rendered modi. demonstrators accused the government of using its agencies to intimidate opposition leaders. the standoff follows the disqualification and conviction of a leading opposition figure, a mock and the prime minister surname. dozens of demonstrators have stormed a major financial building in paris to protest against the government plan pension forms. angry about president michael's plan to raise the retirement age from $62.00 to $64.00 proposals. a few weeks of nationwide protests for italian prime minister silvio berlusconi is suffering from a red type of blood cancer. doctor say he's being treated for a lung infection linked to leukemia. he was admitted to an intensive care unit in milan. on wednesday, the media magnet is currently a sen and leader of the right wing fort sat italian party. the kremlin has

said the leaders of russia and belarus did not discuss the deployment of a strategic nuclear weapons that according to russian media literacy liter, alexander lucas in moscow for a 2nd day of meetings with russian president vladimir putin. she's a, she's on defense and economic ties. russia early announced plans to place a tactical nuclear weapons in bottles with strong condemnation from the way it has dismissed the criticism. say the decision is a response to nato expansion. later secretary general gets dalton bergs at the deployment contradicts a recent russian chinese statement, saying that country should not station nuclear weapons beyond their borders. this is russia's iskander and missile system able to hit targets up to 500 kilometers away. it could soon be stationed in bel roost near the polish border, carrying nuclear warheads. moscow says the scanner 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 is a response to nato, increasing its combat readiness and adding finland as a member made official earlier this week registered. under these circumstances, we are taking retaliatory measures defending the security of the union state bell. ruth has been a close ally to russia since the invasion of ukraine, which was partly launched from bella russian territory. since then, the russian and battle russian militaries have carried out multiple joint exercises . russian nuclear warheads are scheduled to arrive in values in july shift velo, reese's authoritarian leader, alexander lucas. shank. oh said the nuclear weapons weren't just for show. hardly brains slashed on you put the ukrainians believe that they will win. well, 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 rush 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 point since the end of the cold war has been almost 7 months since the death of a young woman in police custody spots. iran's biggest anti regime protests for decades that resistance contained many forbes and d. w has been to meet young iranian woman whose refusal to stop dancing, let her into exile a dancing. she says he's the only thing that really makes her soul happy. hearing the stumble, supple, burglary is free to dance very 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 photographer at ish that a family member reported me to the cyber police. 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 vim, and have turned dancing into

a weapon against islamic republic. deece video from to chronic bought on neighborhood fence. why wrong? then the villain in it were arrested. others followed soon, showing their disdain for the country's strength, a slow mc rules and to regime debt and forces them. oh, saba is proud of them. residencia, maybe people in the rest of the world say, what kind of resistance is that? but when you are 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 under regimes raider, 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. we got him over as the mayor, those anna ran as the javelin tower, zealous resistance of men and women who don't want to live under the burden of

oppression. one corner shows the future of iran. yeah, yeah, i and iran as other a dentist here. sure. baby never my young people. there are very fond of art of dancing when they're singing blown out. music and so on. city amena has sent back that dinner and we run in. all of them can be happening at night and do what they like. i'm sure the household version and job than corrected to serrano when that happens. suburb wants to return to her hometown mash head and see her loved ones. again. even the family member who betrayed her to the police. she is willing to reconcile and forgive as long as she and all other iranians are free or has been called one of the great untold stories of the 2nd world war are a group of american journalists, socialites help, some of europe's greatest artists and intellectuals escape nazi germany allow the history of the american emergency rescue committee has been turned into an netflix

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. and i'm, and so we were all volunteering down there and my daughter who at the time was like 12 or 13. she said, well, you know, these are just people like us except for people i guess, used to have to leave berlin and now these people are coming here seeking refuge. u . s. journalist theory and fry, and the emergency rescue committee helped more than 2000 refugees. escape nazi terror, including the philosopher heart. and the painter box asked. transatlantic tells this history not as doc you trauma but is fictionalized romantic adventure. it focuses on mary jane, gold and american socialite to help finance the operation. and albert hirschman, german, jewish refugee, who say them are, say to help others escape. ah, stylistically transatlantic is inspired by 19 forties, romantic dramas, and screwball comedies. i was great country, take them jewish homeland very seriously. there's only one great country in

europe. and i think that's in a certain way the truth of difficult time. you know, there is a reason why, why are people in she they are keeping up their spirits so strong at the moment because they are, they're not willing to say i give up. they're willing to say, i will continue and, and i will stay and you cannot take away my humor because it is stronger. think there's something like those old hollywood movies. trans atlantic is infused with a sense of optimism. however dark things get the possibility of a happy ending seems just around the corner piece is don't, your line of our top store is at base our european commission president us of a fun. the line has price that chinese leaders asian pings stance on the nuclear weapons, but war goods, beijing arming russia would violate international law. the commission president,

his invasion with french president emanuel macro for talks with presidency kremlin, has said that the leaders of russia and better us did not discuss the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons. that's according to russian media literacy leda alexander lucas jenkins in moscow for 2nd day. of meetings with russian president vladimir will, will news at the top of the hour of next on the w. a focus on europe looking at migrants in france, trying to close the english channel to the u. k. i'm good with

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