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lebanon border, outdoor rockets fly into israeli air space. several are fired into the north of the country, but israel's military says they were intercepted as well. a ruffian and russian leaders meet in moscow. the kremlin says it's stationing of tactical nuclear weapons in bella. ruth is a response to nato's expansion. that's the same justification used to invade ukraine with her, and the journalists and social lights will help artist escape nazi germany. we look at the new net click theories, trans atlantic, and how it's producer wasn't inspired to tell their story, help even ah, on the golf really shower viewers on p b. s and the united states and all of you around the world. welcome to the show. european commission chief. it was enough on that line and french president in manion mccall, have called on china to use it's influence with russia to end the war and ukraine.

european leaders are in beijing to promote peace, but they also had a warning for a chinese president, she ging ping, not to send weapons to russia. a clear message from the e. u chase to chinese president. jean ping. use your leverage with moscow to help end the war in ukraine. china's position on this is crucial for the european union. as a member of the un security council, there 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. it was a message echoed by french president, emmanuel, and the kron who joined the 2 for talks legless sean goose on your train or the

russian aggression in ukraine has dealt a blow to the stability far as it ended decades of peace in europe. it was issued, i know i can count on you close to bring russia to its senses and every one to the negotiating table. it'll know that at that the negotiation whether the chinese president will, he'd that call is unclear. vonda lion reported that he had agreed to talk to you cranes, president zalinski when the time was right. though she made no mention of this in his own comments after the meeting. there were words of warning from fond a lion. the ear chief told she not to arm russia against ukraine. a possibility many western leaders have feared it, but she also had praised veggies statements on nuclear war. and chinese president has urged both sides not to use nuclear weapons without mentioning russia, specifically. on trade g said beijing and paris had agreed to deepen their co operation in fields like aerospace and nuclear energy, human rights concerns,

particularly the persecution of the wig and muslims engine. jang, we're also discussed the e u chief called the european chinese relationship, a complex but into dependent one. the war and ukraine is certainly putting the partnership to the test over daily as the director of the wilson centers kissinger institute on china and the united states. and i asked him, what can realistically be expected from beijing very little here. the year that china might play a positive role has been around practically from the 1st day of the invasion. well over a year now. and she's been paying has not seen fit to attempt to play that role. so there's nothing about the current status of the war that he's likely to find. like if he was a good sign that now is the time to do it. changes position is still, but it is, it is neutral, but it isn't contributing. and so i think that there's very little leverage, and there's very little that china can offer to putin to get him to stay his hand

at least under current conditions. so would you say they're wasting their time and basing right now? well, it's a good idea to go, it can, they can put some pressure on she didn't ping, but they have really, very little leverage. macro, of course, has come with a number of french ceos in toe and they are signing deals. china is going to build twice as many air buses within china, and this will not be lost and she didn't thing or on the chinese people. it looks like they are coming perhaps as supplicants because the value that the trade relationship as highly as they do. i think that at this stage in the war of the stage in trans relations with europe, that is going to carry the day. china is hoping that economics will will be the ballast shooting thing, holds the ballast of his relations with europe. relations between china and the us have deteriorated significantly in recent months and years now. beijing wants to see that you take a different route. how much freedom does the you have though to choose its own

approach here? well, europe has been shifting its approach aft over the past several years. there had been considerable space from china's point of view between europe and the united states before the invasion of ukraine. but europe had been coming around for more skeptical view of china. remember that it was before the invasion, that the you had named china as a systemic rival. and the you had made that decision as a function of its strategic sovereignty at strategic independence. they made that change, not because the united states was so convincing. but because of what beijing, in fact had done, and it's coercion of lithuania and the check public and some of the scandinavian nations. so europe has a considerable amount of strategic autumn, but it has been europe strategic judgment. the china is in fact a growing tra, there is a sense in china, it seems that

a russian defeat or anything interpreted as such, would be in a way seen as a win for the united states. so one could think that it's not necessarily in china's interests to end this war. that is correct. when we go to she, j ping and asked him to, to try to end the war. china has no special wisdom, some special magic that gets them around the fundamental dilemma. and the normal course is that must not be rewarded for his aggression. but unless he gets something for all of the sacrifice that russians have paid, he's unlikely to stop. that's right now, a truly insoluble problem. she's paying, as you suggest, does not want put into fail or russia to be weakened. the worst chinese outcome would be for putting to fall, such that russia once again turns more towards europe. it doesn't seem to be in the cards in the short run, or in any scenario we can really describe in detail. but nor is it on thinkable.

china's major goal here is to keep a strong russia as a partner in its competition with the west. interesting staff, robert dailey, of the wilson center. thank you so much. several rockets have been fired on northern israel from lebanon. it's not known who was behind the attack, but lebanese reports say the salvo was launched from palestinian refugee camps. a car you skyrocket, appears to have damaged a car in the israeli town. a theater. the israeli army says it's successfully intercepted more than 2 dozen missiles. escalation comes after clashes this week between israeli police and palestinians in signed jerusalem's. i'll ok, so mosque is lambs. 3rd holiest night and our correspond, tanya kramer is standing by for us in jerusalem. tanya, talk us through what happened today here shortly before 3, i am low code a 3 p. m local time in the afternoon, and there was

a barrels of rockets being fired in from southern of lebanon into israel. the air raid sirens went off almost across northern israel. the israeli army said that it had identified 34 rockets being launched. a 25 of them have been intercepted by the iron don't defense as system 2 people were lightly injured. no group has claimed responsibility so far, but there's really ami a said in a briefing tonight to reporters that they believe it's palestinian militant groups and living on that have fired a dis barrage of rockets. and that comes, of course, a just the day after a violent escalation on the oxide compound in east jerusalem. or when police as stormed is very pretty, stormed on the inside the compound and inside the mosque. and they were video is coming out from beatings. of people inside the most palestinians are there also lot

of arrests being made. and in response to that, i have also been some rockets being fired from gaza miller tens from garza into southern israel on wednesday. according to israeli medium, of course, this was the heaviest shelling from lebanon since 2006. how dangerous of an escalation is this tonya where media here have described as you said, this is one of the most serious escalations between israel and lebanon since the war in 2006. we also heard from the you and mission unit feel that they see the situation as extremely as serious in a statement. currently the is ready, security cabinet is meeting and be expecting them to decide how they will respond to that, who they will retaliate against and how they were of italian. what scale, what we, you are going to see here possibly in the coming hours. this is also seen in israel

as a test for the far right government. they're very much under pressure already domestically . the have been for 3 months, a mass protest and is rather against a very controversial traditional overhaul. the israeli defense minister had actually been fired some time ago, but he still in his job. but of course all this escalation is related to what happened in the past 2 days or in jerusalem. and we have to wait and see how the next hours will play out. can you remind jerusalem as always? great speaking to you. and let's take a look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. russian foreign minister survey lovegrove has arrived in turkey for talks with his counterpart member, jo show lou and president richard type erred on a future of a key deal to allow grain exports from ukrainian ports through a safe lacks. the corridor is up for discussion. iran and saudi arabia have signed an agreement to re establish diplomatic relations. the rep rushman comes after

china, brokered an agreement between the 2 rivals last month. the signing in beijing is the 1st time foreign ministers of the 2 countries have met for more than 7 years. in india, opposition lawmakers from more than a dozen parties have held a rally against the government of prime minister and to render a modi demonstrators accused the government of using its agencies to intimidate opposition. leaders stand off follows the disqualification and conviction of a leading opposition figure for mocking the prime minister surname. china has unilaterally begun a patrol and inspection operation in the taiwan strait, a move that includes attempts to board vessels. taiwan has denounced decision and says it will not cooperate, becomes a med tightened tensions between china and taiwan. and once president hill talks with the us house speaker this week, the 1st to take place in the united states and decades. the brief as it went ahead,

despite warnings from china, which rejects taiwan, self governance, and views the island as chinese territory. sy, in wind, was on her way back from central america when she made this strategic stop over in california. she was welcomed by us, half speaking kevin mccarthy, despite china's explicit warning that the meeting should not take place. but the p a 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. that it is critical to maintain equal ami 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 and we are not a liberal. 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, challenges china's foreign ministry was quick to condemn the meeting. saying washington had crossed a line and acted provocatively, relation worn for us not to go further down quote, the wrong path kremlin says the leaders of bella, bruce and russia, did not discuss the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons during their talks on thursday, despite being widely expected to do so, while i was in liter, alexander lucas jenko is in moscow or a 2nd day of meetings with russian president vladimir putin. discussions are focused on defense and economic ties. russia had earlier announced plans to place

it's tactical nuclear weapons enveloped, rose and moved, that is drawn condemnation from the west kremlin has dismissed the criticism. blame that the decision is a response to nato's expansion. nato secretary generally in stoughton berg said the deployment contradicts a recent russian chinese statement saying countries shouldn't station nuclear weapons be on their borders. ah, this is russia's iskander and missile system able to hit targets up to 500 kilometers away. he could soon be stationed in bel roost near the polish border, carrying nuclear warheads. moscow says the iskander system has already been transferred to the bell. russian military and troops had reportedly arrived in russia to learn how to use it. ah, russia claims the move is a response to nato, increasing its combat readiness and adding finland as a member, made official earlier this week were to go for under these circumstances,

we are taking retaliatory measures were defending the security of the union state. bella bruce has been a close ally to russia since the invasion of ukraine, which was partly launched from bella recent territory. since then, the russian and by russian militaries have carried out multiple joint exercises. russian nuclear warheads are scheduled to arrive in bella. luce, in july shift over velo reese's authoritarian leader, alexander lucas jenko said the nuclear weapons weren't just for show orderly rain staged 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 now, do i am. i put a swish to 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 storm. whilst pamper is a senior fellow at the center for non proliferation studies in washington dc. and i

asked him what russia decision to place nuclear weapons outside it's or is means for european security? well, in a, in a military sense, it doesn't actually mean very much because all the targets that russia could hit for a bell roost could hit from russia itself. this is more of a political gesture. um, it's trying to chew one of friday european public city, especially in places like germany that have long had strong anti nuclear traditions to it's trying to send the signal to poland, which has been one of the most outspoken supporters of ukraine. uh, by placing the weapons close to the polish border and 3, this is for the russian domestic audiences showing that somehow putin is using the nuclear weapons. he saw that for the quote from a lucas shank o saying that a nuclear power won't be defeated. so here's a, here's a side and we really still have nuclear weapons. yeah. and put, and i said that bella rows has long been requesting the deployment of russian

nuclear weapons. but looking at the power dynamics here is bella was really in a position to say no to russia are not really. and i mean, they've been talking about this for year. i think the russians were probably more reluctant to placed the weapons than a lucas shaped. oh, this is also about, look to shank goes domestic politics. remember he's from the group recently crushed a very strong opposition movement. again. bush and still worried about that. we just having russians on the territory with the systems will be another guarantee of his regime started with what they have. so i think it's, it's suitable for both sides like that in the united states has nuclear weapons at nato, bases around europe in belgium, germany, italy, and the netherlands and turkey. russia could say it's doing the same with it's al i now oh yes, that's true with the united states as are those weapons there?

ah, it's not rush as the is the right in the sense to do the us. ah, the reason it's doing it though is very little to do with anything in terms of military. so again, it's a political act, and that's what the why russia didn't have anything to do with, for instance, a finland, joining nato in that. that was, this was discussed with the last year that was just an opportunity for russia to try to counter the narrative that it's losing, by deploying these weapons. so you don't think russia has any intention of using these tactical nukes, no more attention that it added in using them for russia. and it doesn't change their calculus on, on whether to use the weapons remark. that's a, that's a separate decision. and that will not occur, i think, in less of either nato interest to war directly with russia's rec, security threat of open question years. what does,

what happens if ukraine was able to start watching an invasion of crimea trying to recapture crimea? and does russia feel that that's so much in its interests, that it is than willing to use nuclear weapons? that's probably the biggest question mark out there. yeah, miles bumper from the center for non proliferation in washington dc. thanks for your time. and, and other news russian prosecutors are calling for a 25 year prison sentence for opposition. politicians. vladimir kara morsa is on trial in a closed court on charges, including treason, is accused of spreading false information about the russian army from warsaw was a close aid to assassinated opposition leader boris named. dozens of demonstrators have stormed offices of a major, financial, multi national in paris to protest against the government plan pension forms.

they're angry about president michaels plan to raise the retirement age from $62.00 to $64.00. the proposals have filled weeks of nationwide protests for the food and former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi is suffering from a rare type of blood cancer. doctor say he's been treated for a lung infection link to leukemia was admitted to an intensive care unit in milan on wednesday, the media magnate is currently a senator and leader of the right way, ford site italia party, and called one of the great untold stories of the 2nd world war, how a group of american journalists and social lights helped some of europe greatest artists and intellectuals, escaped nazi germany. well now the history of the american emergency rescue committee has been turned into a netflix. serious transatlantic takes its inspiration from the screwball comedies of the era to tell a tale filled with drama, romance, and quite a few. last marcell,

1940 jewish and left wing artists and intellectuals on the run for the nazis are trying to escape to the u. s. a rag tag team of amateur americans. the emergency rescue committee is trying to help, even as their country remains determined to stay out of the war in iraq. i'm done with these people been throwing up. now when you're breaking in, you know, new williams run may go refugee. what does a difference on a vigor was inspired to tell the story after experiencing the 2015 refugee crisis, my office used to be in the temple half airport. and downstairs and the hangers was the 1st point of entry for the refugees were coming from mostly from syria. 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 like us 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 help more than 2000 refugees. escape nazi terr,

including the philosopher heart. and the pater box asked. transatlantic tells this history not as doc you trauma, but as fictionalized romantic adventure, it focuses on mary jane gold and american socialite who help finance operation. and albert hirschman, german, jewish refugee, who say them or say to help others escape ah, silas dudley's trans atlantic is inspired by 19 forties, romantic dramas, and screwball comedies. i was great country, take them jewish problems very seriously. there's only one great concrete in europe. and i think that's in a certain way the truth of difficult time. you know, there is a reason why why people in, in ukraine are keeping up their spirit so strong at the moment. because they're

not willing to say i give up. their willing to say, i will continue and, and i will stay and you cannot take away my humor because it is stronger thing or something like those old hollywood movies. transatlantic is infused with a sense of optimism. however dark things get the possibility of a happy ending seems just around the corner. ah, and a short while ago i asked you to be your culture reporter, scott roxborough. what said the series apart from other shows about the 2nd world war? well, i think it's 2 things. one is the story itself. um, it really is incredible that the story hasn't already been made into, into a dozen movies. i mean, it has really all the components of, of sort of incredible adventure tale. the story of these amateur americans who, who gathered together and just with their, their wits try to rescue some of the greatest artists and thinkers of the 20th

century are from, from, from nazi error is there's been incredible amount written about the, the events of the emergency rescue committee and these events in our same 940 because almost everyone who is rescued was an artist or writer. and of course they wrote memoirs and plays and books about it. but for some reason it's never until now been turned into into a to a fictional tale. i like this on. and the other thing i think that's really interesting and unique about the show is the style. the fact that it doesn't take the sort of dr. drum approach, it doesn't try to read the history of beat for beat, but instead a takes inspiration from these 1940 hollywood gums, many them made by the, these very image emigres who escaped from europe. and in doing so, it gives a whole sort of life feel to the, to the, to the history, which i think makes a good ana, maybe a little bit easier. yeah. so serious topic told in the style of the screwball comedy does that juxtaposition work? i guess it depends on your how much you know about the story and how much you know that the history and also your tolerance for that kind of style. i'm. i really

liked it. i love those, those movies, and i love the fact that it doesn't try to just slavishly tell that the history of instead, it tells this whole story as an adventure tale. it isn't a factual tale of what happened in 1940 in marcia for that, you have to go back to the books. you have to go to some of the documentaries of the made about the emergency rescue committee. but for sort of a light adventure tale that sort of touches on the events of the time. and guess maybe a feel for the period. i think this is, is really great. it isn't casablanca, the readings not up to that level. and the, the lucas englander is no, harry is no humphrey bogart. but i think it's still a really nice way to approach this history and to approach the story. and another thing approaching is the long weekend. so would you recommended as one to watch over the easter holidays? yeah, i think definitely, especially if you don't, haven't ever heard of the emerged rescue many don't know anything about the story about all these incredible artisan thinkers who are rescued in this is really

daring away in 1940 m r. say it's a great sort of entry point for it. it's a lovely fun, a few hours are to spend with them. and then after you get in, you can go back to the actual history and find out what's real, what's false, what really happened because the actual story behind this series is even more incredible than what you see on screen fascinating rabbit hall to dive into over the easter holidays. thank you so much. scott. rocks, bro, stay with us now. after a short break, i'll be back to take you through the day. i hope to see that, ah ah,

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