experience outstanding shopping and dining offers and certainly our services be our guest at frankfurt and board. cd managed by front board the . this is dw news lived from berlin, us secretary of state anthony blinking is in beijing for a 2nd day of crucial talks. and that kind of intentions, he meets with china's top tips a lot after negotiating for 6 hours with paging or administer to use the 2

countries current relations as the worst they've seen in nearly half a century. also coming up the destruction of a major diamond ukraine, leaves thousands with type, clean water and raises new questions about the safety of our russian occupied nuclear power plants. and alexis devonie, russia's best known kremlin krycek goes on trial. again, we track done one of his supporters who refuses to be intimidated by moscow's attempts to silence to send the welcome to the program. us secretary of state antony blinking is in beijing on the highest level diplomatic visit between the 2 countries in nearly 5 years. he's begun his 2nd on the final day of meetings of chinese officials dodging with wine v, china's talk diplomat. lincoln who met for 6 hours with his chinese counterpart

chain gun on sunday said talks for candid, substantive, and constructive. the 2 sides agreed to continue high level contacts in an effort to avoid conflict during what can call the lowest points since the 2 nations established at prologic relations. the arrival powers remain far apart on taiwan, which bathing claims its territory and a list of issues ranging from human rights to trade in communications technology dw is china analyst clifford kuhn and gave us this assessment of the success of the talks between the 2 rival powers candidate on constructive, that's how us secretary, it stays on to me blinking described his talks, which on his foreign minister chin, gung in beijing at the start of his 2 day visits. certainly the read that was more positive than expected. the prospect said, look grim before the talks jan. accuse us of not showing china enough respect. think it was meant by low level communist party culture on arrival at the airport

with no red carpet or welcoming band. microsoft co founder bill gates received a much warmer welcome when he met she, jim pink last week. indeed, it's not even clear thinking will meet the chinese supreme leader during his business. while they're clearly trying to focus on areas they agree on. they also belong, were list of disagreements ranging from trade to taiwan, to human rights conditions and shinji young and hong kong. as well as chinese military assertiveness in the south china sea. china is refusal to condemn russia from bathing ukraine. what's keeping beijing's tone positive is the fact that china needs foreign goodwill to help boost is economy is facing sluggish growth. a property market slow down, record levels of youth, unemployment, and shrinking foreign investment. but for the chinese companies, party politics always trumps the economy. the prospect for any significant breakthrough on the most vexing issues facing the world. the 2 largest economies remain slim to the u. s. isn't the only nation reaching out to beijing?

jarman leaders are rolling at the red carpet for leak. why? he's making his 1st foreign trip since becoming china's premier. berlin provides its 1st ever national security strategy last week, and the document described china as a systemic rival. but as dw chief international editor richard walker reports the 2 economic powerhouses seem as intertwined as ever. the big day of the land full of schultz and a gaggle of his talk ministers on failing germany's new national security strategy . the message, the world is getting more dangerous in germany, needs to respond to me as much for the 1st time in our country's history, we have thrown up and national security strategy. thoughts on the rushes invasion of ukraine was a huge help to the system for germany. there's another shop, the shaking the political class here in bowling, just as much,

but show fits not quite. so something with this so big that it will soon get a strategy paper full of it. so this one is all about china. she, jim ping has stopped by vladimir putin despite the war. and man, he's cooled, his best friend. if i'm missing that getting closer and this is driving home some hard realities about she's china. he's double down. no, no thorough. terry and power. repricing freedoms and home comb and minority rights and sion jane is threatening to attack taiwan and assessing military dominance of the south. china sea and dangerous near misses in the region of adding to fetus of war between china and the united states. germany's most important allies, germany is not alone in warning of all of those who will makes it even harder, isn't germany guardian, so deep with china in the last decade in the hospital. so the 2 sides built an

incredibly close, almost symbiotic relationship. now the cracks of showing, showing that became germany's top trading pond for years in a row. but the pen demik showed that supply chains could break down and a crisis german car companies became addicted to china is exploding markets. now showing these rifles, the threatening to beat them, and the electric cause chinese tech got stuck into sensitive gem and infrastructure now that seen as a security risk. one of this present spelling with some really tough di lemme is about how to rethink the relationship with china. and inside the government here, there are different views. here's a case in point. china is states and shipping john costco, for to stay can a terminal in the handbook hub. germany's most important port, a foreign minister and the babel concise chancellor. robert. hi back. what i

generally against saying this would give china too much sway of a critical infrastructure. but while i've sold over volt them, it says chancellor, the us is keen to riley its allies to a common approach to the source of decisions. and at the g 7 summit this year, they all agreed they should de risk that relations with badging to step back from the the coupling the most who case voices were calling for. but what's a risk and what's not a risk? well, that's open to interpretation. the indications are that a lot phillips has a fairly narrow definition of what the risking is. i think for him it's mainly about reducing dependencies, ensuring that supply chains are resilient. i think the, the message from the chance to re so far has been that they don't want to rock the boat. i think germany is going through some difficult economic times. and

there isn't a great deal of appetite for uh uh for confronting china. schultz tried to work this line on his 1st trip to the aging late last year. speaking out about tensions in the relationship well stressing the need to cooperate on global issues like climate change and mingled among the diplomats. he brought this quote of german ceos with him to tool business the destruction of a huge cook off, cut them and russian occupied sides. eastern ukraine has unleashed devastation on a vast scale flooding has forced thousands of people from their homes, while others have been left without running water. keep in moscow have blamed each other for destroying the don international experts say the evidence points to russian explosives of the water. not a single drop irina troy, and lives in nic upholden, southern ukraine. and since the dad was destroyed,

the city's water supply has been cut. you're fairly spoken with bolts and bait with it. then we put the volts in the spacing and use it to flush the toilet. and what else can we do? there's no alternative mika poles, roughly 50000 remaining inhabitants. now don't have to go collect water containers or the cooking and cleaning, or when we come home tired from work. then we only go once a day to collect walter, just enough walter to wash our faces to go to the toilet. i'm making tea. to wash our bodies. we have to go collect waltz on the weekend receipts from which so sometimes you choose here for 2 hours and then the end there's no water left. this time the reno was fortunate. she's here the right time. she's not just collecting for us, so she's a social worker and is providing for the team, elderly women who called wolf to get the will to themselves the car into rights to

stay in for the rights of 5 dual. since the time was destroyed, the water level, and then the put river has full and by several meters. on the other side, the separation nuclear power plant occupied by russian forces since the start of the war. the huge, expensive water that long separated the 2 sides has now been reduced to this. only 12 kilometers apart mika, polls inhabitants have lived on the russian shilling for a year. alice, the senior will just my windows and broken, but my neighbors were hits. there was a direct hit on the carriage was a home of the time. it was very much. we were still talking with grub truck is that austin book deal with all the with the shelling the water supply issues and then you click ponds. nearby nika, poles, district leda is worried for his city's future. nice movie efficient. there's no practical model or examples for how to deal with this situation. so we don't know what will happen, but it's

a major problem that requires urgent intervention from the international community . the me. so let me look at that a little bit and he's looking for solutions to restore the water supply. but until then you could fall, we'll have to rely on inspire gate. let's look at some more stories making global headlines. a russian installed official says ukrainian forces were recaptured, the village of p i t had to keep it as a rare admission from the russian side that it is last grind to crate. and since the kinder offensive began in early june, british intelligence says both sides are suffering heavy casualties and the fighting is rarely prime minister. benjamin netanyahu is pressing ahead with his controversial judicial reforms after what he calls, months of wasteful compromise talks. the proposal has divided as well. it would give him more influence in appointing judges and allow a parliament to overrule the supreme court. the latest court case against in present russian opposition politician alexia vonnie begins monday. nevada is facing

criminal charges for extremism. investigators accused him of creating and financing an extremist group, but some of his most vocal supporters have not been to tard dw caught up with one of them. so, sorry, we just had some sign problems with that report there. moving onto presume at least starting people have been tell dr cycle and tour through southern brazil. the storm caused torrential rains in the state of rio grande to sol flooding neighborhoods

and forcing size and from their homes. authorities have warrant of possible on flights in several areas. the psych loan has left this down in southern brazil under water don until rains have caused flooding and lands night into yo granted the sol state. hundreds of buildings and homes have been destroyed. but local hope for a quick recovery bill's ideal dispos that we are living a nightmare. i said, we're going to need a lot of help from the government out, because then we know that the community and the reason i thought it will help us to rebuild his jo bundles. ours with the goal is to be live on each task who close? oddest and searching for several people who remain missing here is that you did call another visitor to bust affected areas. and so you'd hundreds had been to school from flooded homes. i want me to turn up a specialist now,

what am i going to now is the time for us to protect those who have been effective, sustained shelter assistance and attention to each one of them disclose the rest of your locate. those who are still missing. look at these items and give them assistance students as special as you. so you're the one we will work hard ones from rebuilding of the cities in february, the se, and the state of solve bottle experience, some of the highest painful, ever recorded in brazil for 60 people died in floods and then slides. next pepsi climate change has made prizes feather disasters most of it into the sent to years. or here's a reminder of our top story. us secretary of state on to me, blink and has met with china is topped it for much wine. the invasion is the highest level diplomatic visit between the 2 countries in nearly 5 years. the 2 sides agree to continue contact in an effort to avoid conflict while relations are

what phasing says are the worst in the next global us visits. the tie when these islands on the front lines of the tensions of china. we'll be back with more news at the top of the hour. i'm kind of him off. thanks for watching the people in trucks injured one trying to feed the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away. the families for these correct only.