well, the universe of like a superpower, or were series 40 to be answer almost everything this week on dw ah ah, d w news line from berlin kind words for china and a stern warning visiting beijing you chief was enough on the line previous chinese leaders changing paying on his nuclear weapons stands and warrens against army. russia also on the program. tensions rise on the israel lebanon border after

rockets fly into israeli aerospace several are fired into the north of the country . but israel's military says they were intercepted ah i'm to call furnish welcome to the shell. european commission chief. it was enough on the line in french president m, i knew him a call. i've called on china to use its influence with russia to end the war in ukraine. european leaders are in beijing to promote peace, but they also had a warning for a chinese president, she jane ping, not to send weapons to russia. a clear message from the easy chief to chinese president, jean ping, use your leverage with moscow to help end of the war in ukraine. china's position on this is crucial for the european union. as

a member of the un security council 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, emanuel mac kron who joined the 2 for talks legged, assuring brucell newton, the russian aggression in ukraine, has dealt a blow to the stability farm. and it ended decades of peace in europe. it working. this will, i know i can count on new policy to bring russia to its senses and every one to the negotiating table, it will know that at that the negotiation whether the chinese president will, he'd that call is unclear. von de 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 ye not to arm russia against you, crane a possibility. many western leaders have feared it, but she also had praise for g statements on nuclear war. 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 wigan muslims engine. jang. we're also discussed the e u chief called the european chinese relationship, a complex but interdependent one. the war in 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 a short while ago what can realistically be expected from beijing very little here

. dia 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 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 it's a good sign that now is the time to do it. chinese position is still that 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 be the ballast she can 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 to a more skeptical view of china. remember that it was before the invasion, that the you had named china as a systemic rival. and 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. it has been europe, strategic judgment. the china is in fact a growing threat. there is a sense in china and 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's in 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 weak. it the worst chinese outcome would be for putting to fall, such that russia once again turns more toward 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 unthinkable. china's major goal here is to keep a strong russia as a partner in its competition with the west. interesting staff, robert daily of the wilson center. thank you so much. several rockets have been fired on northern israel from lebanon, not known who was behind the attack, but lebanese rapport say the salvo was launched from palestinian refugee camps. a cut. you shaw rocket appears to have damaged a car and the israeli town of his suit up. 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 act. so mosque is lumps. 3rd holiest site. i asked are correspond antonio kramer in jerusalem to walk us through what happened today. shortly before 3, i am local 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 zone defense as system 2 people were lightly injured. no group has claimed responsibility so far. but these really ami a said in a briefing tonight to report is that they believe it's palestinian militant groups and live in on that have hired a dis barrage of rockets. and that comes, of course,

a just a day off to a violent escalation on the oxide compound in east jerusalem. when police stormed is ready, 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. they are also a lot of arrests being made. and in response to that, to have also been some rockets being fired from gaza. miller tens from garza into southern israel on wednesday. according to israeli media reports, this was the heaviest jelly from lebanon since 2006. how dangerous of deletion at this time, ah, 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 un mission unit, feel that they see the situation as extremely, as serious in a statement. currently,

the israeli security cabinet is meeting and we're 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 senior, as well as a test for the far right government. they're very much under pressure already domestic lead. i've been for 3 months, a mass protest in israel against a very controversial traditional overhaul. the ready 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 and some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. hundreds of demonstrators have rallied and students capital cartoon. the protests

come a day after the signing of a final settlement between the military and pro democracy forces was post phone for a 2nd time. security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades. the white house says it has handed congress a classified report on the 2021 u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan. a document summary largely blames former president donald trump, for the debacle in which us troops had to mount a desperate evacuation from cobble airports. the biden administration ultimately defended the pull out decision was left dozens of demonstrators have stormed offices of a major financial multinational and parents to protest against the government's plan. pension reforms during re about president michaels plan to raise the retirement age from $62.00. to 64, the proposals have field weeks of nationwide protests. russian foreign minister sergey la grove has arrived in turkey for talks with his counterpart move shovel

shown lou and president ridge of time earned on the future of a key deal to allow green exports from ukrainian ford through a safe black sea corridor is up for discussion in russian, prosecutors are calling for a 25 year prison sentence for opposition. politician vladimir kara morsa, he's on trial in a closed court on charges, including treason is accused of spreading false information about the russian army . co. morsa was a close aid to assassinated opposition leader wars nymphs. a kremlin says the leaders of believers and russia did not discuss the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons during their talks on thursday. this by being widely expected to do so. little reason later, alexander lucas shanker, was in moscow for a 2nd day of meetings with russian president vladimir putin. discussions have focused on defense and economic ties. we just had earlier announced plans to place it's tactical nuclear weapons in belarus. a move that has drawn condemnation from

the way what the kremlin has, you've missed the criticism saying that that decision and the response that you've tomatoes, expansion and ada secretary generally installed berks, at the deployment contradicts a recent russian chinese statement saying countries shouldn't station nuclear weapons beyond 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 as a response to nato, increasing its combat readiness, and adding finland as a member. made official earlier this week where to go for under these circumstances, we are taking retaliatory measures were defending the security of the union state legislature 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 bell russian militaries have carried out multiple joint exercises. russian nuclear warheads are scheduled to arrive and bella bruce in july, will shift over velo reese's authoritarian leader, alexander lucas. shank. oh said the nuclear weapons weren't just for show of orderly, plain stylish, don't 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, the most awful weapons will be used to rush metal armor. put a switch to 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 . and before we go, he has a reminder of the top stories were falling for you at the sour sch, european commission president was left underline, has praise chinese leadership. thanks stance, against using nuclear weapons, but warrant they'd beijing arming. russia would violate international law. the

commission president is in beijing with french president emanuel. my home for talks with president she in the kremlin, has said that leaders of russia and belarus did not discuss the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons at today's meeting. resume leader alexander lucas shanker, was in moscow for a 2nd day of meetings with russian president vladimir putin. that's all from the news to him for now. business is next with chris colbert. don't miss out on that. and there's more news coming up at the top of the next hour. i'm really thank you so much for watching. ah. enjoying the view. come take a look at this tv highlights every week in your inbox, subscribe. now. a.