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china and the us plaza man and the bird. he rescued have become huge. social media stars in india, bought wildlife authorities and not too keen about their unlikely friendship. ah, i'm jared rate. glad you could join us. chinese president, she jim being has had a rather busy few weeks. he's been on somewhat of a diplomatic offensive to grow and cement his nations influence. china's bro could a truce between iran and saudi arabia and proposed paste talks between russia and ukraine. she himself has travelled to moscow and hosted various leaders from europe and brazil. president lula is the licensed the payment on friday in beijing. lula is on a 4 day visit, hoping to forward close to ties with his country's largest trading partner.

or that meeting came on the same day as german foreign minister, and a lena bear box own talks in beijing. after meeting with her chinese count about chin gang, she talked about taiwan and chinese influence on the war in ukraine. i know military, a military escalation in the taiwan strait, which has already mentioned that which shut down 50 percent of world trade every day would be a horror scenario for the entire world. you as, as good stuff, you know, as it is good that china has signaled its commitment to a solution. but i have to say, frankly, fargo that i wonder why the chinese position so far does not include a call on the aggressor, russia to stop the war. hated, didn't cheek to stop him. and his chin gang statement on china's position regarding ukraine will gladly defend as the ukrainian crisis has developed. the lesson is profound and worth deep reflection. territory is indivisible and security is

equally indivisible, without recognition of the security interests of a particular party. crises and conflicts are inevitable, china is willing to continue to work for peace and hopes that all parties involved in the crisis will remain objective and calm and make constructive efforts to resolve the crisis through negotiations, thoughtful gesture generally. meanwhile, china is extending its diplomatic footprint elsewhere too. and perhaps the most striking example has been the recent warming of ties between long time for is iran and saudi arabia, on the chinese mediation delegations gathered engaging last week. it was the 1st such meeting between saudi arabia and iran in 7 years and happened without united states involvement. we can go now to warsaw and speak with a lithia by whose good chinese foreign policy fellow for the european council on

foreign relations. thank you for your time, alexia and much is being talked about this diplomatic, flowery, centered on china. recently, the expansion of its influence, the south china morning post, is describing it as china's skilful pointed status. as the global peacemaker. do you think there's any truth to that particular assessment? well, this might be a little bit overblown, especially in the context of what had, what's happening everywhere around the world these days. so definitely all these meetings, they do re present an intensification of ties between europe and china, but they should be read in the context of what have been happening within and this kind of relationship in the past for years. so 1st of all, we had the pandemic and the bundling, cuz really resulted in a freezing of ties between europe and beijing. but at the same time we've seen now,

she'd been paying consolidating his power and being really, really sure about his status and, and the security of, of the ccp with his leadership. and i was trying to refrain the relationship with china being much more assertive, but also with china trying to present itself with a neutral actor in disregard. speaking of, of that, china broken a deal recently between saudi arabia and iran to revive diplomatic relations. what's your take on the significance of this development? i think that we shouldn't over estimate the significance of china being part of this deal. so on the one hand, obviously as aging has been trying really hard to engage itself more in the middle east. it has a very vast economic interest. it sees its relationship with different gulf countries and different countries in the me least more broadly as crucial to energy security. but at the same time,

i think that the interest of both saudi arabia and iran converged with the interest of the jenks. so it is not really about aging, being able to bring all the parties together. but rather about all the parties understanding that their interests are in line in a very precise moment in time. so they should also not be translated into china, actual ability to act as that deal maker or piece broker, for example, in the context of the rush and aggression against the ukraine. because this context is very, very different. and china interests also are not very much in line with what europe has in mind regarding the war in ukraine. first of all, i think that china crucial and key interest there in the context of china, russia relation is to weaken the west. and we can nato a such for the jane. the war in ukraine is a war of the west against russia. and also it is a proxy war of the us and in the context of the fi,

no america strategy gregory. this also means that for china, you bring in victory would be understood as the victory of the u. s. and of the quote unquote western had gemini. so i think that. 5 if you look at china diplomatic activities and with everything paging has been doing that she's in the past year in the final russian relations. it's quite clear that china has been constantly and very resolutely supporting russia, talking points and the russian perspective on, on a potential peace deal or negotiations of any kind in disregard. so we have to be really, really cautious not to overestimate china potential roland on the front speaking of ukraine, where we're seeing large developing nations like china suggesting that they could act as mediators in the war and ukraine. based on what your you've just said that that seems to be an unrealistic proposal. yeah,

definitely. if you look at china diplomatic messaging or at all the documents that they didn't get published since the very beginning of the war and ukraine, it's very clear that china does not take into account the interest of the ukrainian side of this conflict. so i think that the, the 1st precondition for beijing to print to play any kind of a constructive role would be for, for try not to actually acknowledge the vector of aggression. and this is very highly unlikely. so if china will engage itself in any way in any kind of process, this would also potentially translate into the aging pushing forward ration goals and it wouldn't really take into account ukrainian agency. and this is something that we really have to highlight again and again, an old east european attempt to somehow try to convince beijing the distance itself

from from moscow. i think there are an example of wishful thinking to a large degree. and obviously clear european messaging is very important, but also we should not have very high expectations towards china to, to change its position toward rushing to regard. we've got about a minute left. we've seen european leaders visit beijing this week with expressing seemingly different positions on taiwan. what will happen in europe within itself and the us don't get on the same page when it comes to a to tie one. i think precedent, my calling to visit and the optics surrounding it were very unfortunate. and he's common for extremely unfortunate as well as creating a lot of misperceptions. especially given the fact that in some media and in public debate, his position or, or his remarks were regarded as represent that this off of europe in general. and i

think it's very important to highlight the fact that my client is not the, the president of europe in any way and the following meeting. now, for example, if i'm not enough visiting china are a form of damage control. and this is something that is, you know, quite important in terms of, of the optics which much more nuanced messaging towards beijing. and you know, this narrative that if there is an escalation that europe doesn't want this kind of an escalation, even if it happens, it would translate into a conflict that would affect the whole world. europe included, that was a little boy who's got chinese foreign policy fellow for the european council on foreign relations. thank you so much for your analysis. thank you. i to india now and an unlikely friendship. mohammed reef has risen to social media fame after he rescued and injured crane and

documented its journey back to health. but wildlife authorities, mohammed homestay to dish have stopped the friendship from taking flies mohammed. it's simply calls the crane friend and the feeling is mutual. just the sound of mohammed's voice makes friend jump for joy. go button for that the like it. if i were to 1000000 last year, i didn't look by the still around a year ago. louis, when i was in my farm, i'm kidding. i came across a sarah's crane with the broken leg goose i took it home and performed some medical treatment, the pilot, and within one and a half months, the bird had regained its health photo t, although i initially intended to release it back into its natural habitat with its family, anybody like the bird would return to my home in the evening? see nobody riding this afternoon on globe was my death of me gentlemen. videos that

the bird and his human guardian had gone viral mohammed has nearly 300000 instagram followers. have watched their friendship sore yet. i have many memories with the bird. how likely it used to follow me when i rode my motorcycle. let, let me go down, it would accompany me wherever i went. again, my wife was out of stock office. i got up. but no longer in march, wildlife authorities captured the crane and put him in a zoo. mahonnan made the 4 hour drive to see his friend. what he saw broke his heart of william invalid provided me with anita dale's today. upon arriving at concord zulu, the sorrows crane recognize my voice, and showed a strong desire to eat me. oh, oh. oh, he's got a bill. got his but it's

a crane seemed agitated, perhaps thinking that its companion had come to rescue it from captivity. and that page has prompted outreach. more than 6000 people have signed a petition requesting the cranes release. and that's what mohammed want to his friend back as he's always been a free bird with that's it today of jaron. great, have a great weekend season. ah. what are sports? a fighting scoring? do we say thereabout? never giving up sports like every weekend on

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a look. hello, welcome to our show. i'm seeing beardsley in berlin. germany is pulling the plug on nuclear power. the country's last 3 plants will be turned off tomorrow. their run had been extended due to the current energy crisis, but now they're going off the grid for good. will at its peak, germany ran 17 power plants, spread out across the country, and they supply just over 20000 megawatts or roughly 30 percent of all electricity used in germany. and today only 3 remain. he's are to near munich. nick our ves heim to near stuart cards and ems land that's near the dutch border. and the beach been running for decades and have a joint output of just over 4000 megawatt before gigawatts. so what do ordinary germans think about this decision to ditch nuclear power? take listen would. when with it's a good thing you have to stand by your plans. when had, maybe they could have put it off for another year or 2. but generally it's a good decision.