the, the, this is the, the, the news coming to line from berlin. china tells the us to choose between cooperation or conflict. that's the message following a meeting between us secretary of state anthony blinking and china is tom diplomat long. he is the final, the critical talks in beijing between the 2 powers, also coming up destruction of a major diamond ukraine,

leaves thousands without clean water and raises new questions about the safety of a russian occupied nuclear power plant. plus the election devonte. russia's best known kremlin critic goes on trial again. we tracked down one of the supporters who refuses to be intimidated by russia's attempts to silence descent and in tennis, the build up to wimbleton continues with american frances t. off of dashing the hopes of german late bloomer, young glenoak stuff in district. our final all that's more in our sports from the little m. terry martin. good to have you with us. the us secretary of state is in beijing on the highest level diplomatic visit there in nearly 5 years. it comes as both countries are looking to stop tensions over

a number of issues from escalating into conflict. and today, blake began his 2nd and final day of talks by meeting china is top diplomat one key . we're now waiting to see if you also made chinese per president shooting, paying later in the day. that meeting is expected, but has not been confirmed by either side. let's go straight to beijing where a journalist bobby, and customer is covering the story for us. funny in chinese state media or quoting one year saying it's necessary to make a choice between dialogue and cooperation, confrontation, cooperation, or conflict. what does that tell us about the current relations between china and the us? well, this helps a lot. i think the official rhetoric by the chinese site is extremely concerning. why? because it does not leave much room for finding a diplomatic middle ground or a compromise. it basically planes,

all of the planes all the go to what's the us side, i'm quoting one e here. he said that um the um, the responsibility for the historic low point between the 2 countries at nice out within the u. s. a quote unquote wrong perception of china and he of the u. s. to dp reflect. otherwise, that could be any effort on quote, a strategic surprises. and this is really a very concerning rhetoric. in my opinion, what would you say? fabia is the biggest source of tension between china and the us right now. of the well, of course the list of the stupid topics is really extremely long. but that's one conflict that has the potential to escalate into an open one. that is the conflict of what i want the democratic government island south of china and yeah, facing claims territorial power over i am taiwan. and it also insist that who can

resist the rights to do some military means. so basically it put a stop in invasion. it doesn't have any um deadline to do so, but i mean, that is basically on the table and if this worst case scenario, what's happened? i mean, this would lead to a deep split between china and the west and of costs would also lead to what's the human tragedy. so there are massive tensions in signed to american relations. can this visit by the us secretary of state do much to turn things around fabio, or was this was it so basically proves how difficult it is to turn things around. but um, yeah, basic communication is the precondition to at least to try to turn things around and, and maybe not today, you know, achieve any diplomacy breakthrough. but at least achieve that this, them, the onboard spiral, the spiral of escalation, at least the stuff that it doesn't get any worse. and um, so far, um, i believe its 1st meeting with uh for him in his thoughts it's in gun was kind of

costs us to be optimistic. those were a constructive talks describe by both sides. but today, i mean the most, who was really quite for us, the between the talks between blink and, and one e. so it's very difficult. but i think it will be very important to establish talks again and especially to establish talks between the 2 militaries of the countries. there's a lot of speculation probably on about whether blinking will meet present. she's in pain on this visit. why is that still uncertain? at this point, well, this is really the new normal he and facing everything is top secret. um yeah. also when of the head of states, a foreign ministers come to the country. we correspondence you only know last minutes. sometimes we even know the schedule often. what has happened? i think the social is 2 things. first, i'm increasing in transparency and aging, and also it's a demonstration of pilot, in my opinion, we don't know yet whether she will meet with blinking only in terms of diplomatic

protocol. it would be an unusual assign that uh, the head of stayed with me before i minister. but given the really um, high tensions of the seriousness of the meta, it is widely expected that he would meet blinking. and if he would not do so, it would be really also a strong signal and a bet signal towards this conflict savvy. and thank you very much. that's journalist bobby and chris ross in beijing. well, the us isn't the only nation reaching out to beijing. german leaders are rolling out the red carpet for leech young, who's making his 1st 4 and trip since becoming china is premier. berlin put out its 1st ever national security strategy last week and the document described. china is both a partner and a systemic rival. as dw cheap international editor, richard walker reports the to we can all make power houses seem as intertwined as ever the big day in lynn wolf, 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 off a national security strategy. thoughts on the rushes invasion of ukraine was a huge shock to the system for germany. but there is another shout, the shaking the political class here in belin, just as much, but show that it's 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. it kind of thing 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 repressing freedom. some home comb and minority rights

and she and jane it's threatening to attack taiwan and assessing military dominance of the south china sea. and dangerous me a message in the region of adding to fetus of war between china and united states. germany's most important allies, germany is not a low in, in wiring of all of this will makes it even harder isn't germany going so deep with china in the last decade in the hospital. so, the 2 sides built and 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 state 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 robot. hi, back. what adamantly against saying this would give china too much sway of a critical infrastructure. but what i've sold over volt them is chancellor. the us, he's 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 their relations with badging. the step back from the coupling, the most whole case voices were cooling for. but what's a risk and what's not a risk?

well, that's open to interpretation. the indications are that a lot celts 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 walk this line on his 1st trip to badging late last year. speaking now it's about tensions in the relationship well stressing the need to cooperate on the low balance. she was like climate change and mingled among the diplomats. he brought a squad of gem and ceos with him to, to a business us. and for some analysis we have our chief international editor

richard walker. joining us here who filed that report. good to see richard. though it was suggested in your report that there's little appetite in germany for confronting china right now. so what exactly do you expect from chancellor olaf shots as meeting with the chinese prime minister today? yeah, so the chung is invalid and for for what a cool, the german chinese government consultations and, and these were brought in in 2011 on the uncle of mackerel during that period. if it's kind of creation of this, of a symbiotic relationship, we just talks about in that report. i think it's like this with a political expression of this relationship. you have not just mackerel, talking to her account's part. you have both governments talking to each other across the listing, tie levels of government. so very, very close relationship built up and they've been several rounds of these now over the years. this is the 1st round under this current government with all of schultz

as chancellor. and the 1st time in person in many years because of the pandemic getting in the way. i don't sholtes, he's going to try and try to walk the line we just described at the end of the piece that on the one hand trying to sort of say, okay, we need to be talking, we need to be cooperative. but also reflecting the new realities that we talked about that we've heard about the strains in us trying to relationship. and the strains coming from china is behavior. and i think you can see this in what we're hearing from the german sizes. they really want to focus these consultations on talking about climate and saying, but let's work together on climate to try to keep it. okay. we can talk about this one thing. well, the other problem still problem to let's try make progress on this. that's the partner part of the yeah, that's the partner part of the relationship, the co operative side of the relationship. but i think it's interesting that we're also hearing that that will not be a joint statement coming out at the end of these tools. right. and if you think about what previous rounds on the medical,

i've got the joint statement that came out as soon as of the 2018 to select the unit. the last ones that happened in person on the academical think of removing 20 pages that $71.00 separate points and the list of then 10 additional agreements in the, in the, in addition to that, genocide saying, but this time basically, it was not even any point in talking about coming up with this because you just couldn't the fact that there is no point. that's the systemic rivalry part of it. i, i presume, of the relationship now. but this is lisa 1st overseas visit since taking office in march as china is number 2 official. what does that say about the importance of germany for china? yeah, i think it, it very much is a signal from the, from the government and from the chinese side that they see the relationship with germany as important. they would like to get back to a sense of sort of business as usual. they would like to get, you know, the, in the business i'm working better again. they want to encourage german companies

to keep investing in china. so the extent that they did during that last decade and a half or so, they don't want of this idea of the risk being that we heard about in that report to, to, to lead to a complete d coupling of the relationship which, which is, is the risk that they see there, and there will be be business delegations from both sides, from the chinese side and from the german side engaging and these thoughts of the next couple of days. which includes potentially can conflict with a message from the government from celts and co, that it's not business as usual. so working this last could be tricky. was germany bouncing its relationships with china on the one hand and the united states on the other, given the ongoing, escalating tensions between these 2 countries. yeah, i mean, it, it really is tough. and of course, us and we, we've been talking about it in the show here, us china, the tensions between these 2 superpowers, really of the, the framing to your political stu, worry of this year s. so there is

a risk that they to go to will some time. and germany is in the very good position of having china as its biggest trading partner. but the united states, as the guarantor of it security. and that means the government, when you talk to them on background, especially they will make clear, well, you know, of course, you know, china of the united states comes before china. so this is a much more important deadlines. but they really don't want the world to drift into a so new cold war situation where you have to pay between one side and the other. jeremy really doesn't want to do that. and i think that one little interesting takeaway recently from, from an opinion po, just on recently, but i think tank here in germany. they found out that the majority of europeans would want to stay neutral if there was, have a us china war of a tie. one on this and i think that that points a little bit to the mood, not just in the government, but in the public that they would really like the us in china to find the kind of

way of getting a little richer. thank you very much. cheap international editor, richard walker, sketchup on a few other stories making headlines around the world today. swift letters head back the government's plan for cheap net 0 carbon emissions by 2050. the new law sets and vicious milestones for cutting c o 2 emissions and 6 to accelerate country shift to renewable energy sources. the law passed with over 59 percent of voters in favor of the change. the australian parliament has paid the way for a referendum, recognizing the countries indigenous peoples in his constitution. australians will vote on creating an indigenous boy single to parliament. a committee intended to give the nation's intentions, people's more se on government policy. molly is counting boats in a constitutional referendum that the ruling, military hunter says, is the 1st step back to civilian rule. it's the 1st poll since the army sees power

3 years ago. piers of the hottest attacks preventing prevention voting in some areas now to ukraine and the destruction of the huge kirchhoff cut them in the russian occupied southeast of the country has unleashed devastation on a bus scale. flooding has forced thousands of people from their home as well. others have been left without running water. even las go have blamed each other for destroying the town 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 volta and bait with it. then we put the volts in the spacing and use it to flush the toilets. and what else can we do? there is no alternative. nika poles roughly $50000.00 remaining inhabitants, now have to go collect water containers for cooking and cleaning. we. 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 toilets. i'm making tea to wash our bodies. we have to go collect water on the weekend, the seats, 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 her, so she's a social worker and is providing for the team to elderly women who called wolf to get the water themselves the car into rights to stay in for the rights of 5 dual. since the damn 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 rushing full systems, the storage of the wall. 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. us out of so cindy, we'll 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 shuts out with grub truck is that austin will deal with all of them with the shelling the water supply issues and then you click ponds nearby. nick, oppose district leda is worried for his cities. future. nice movie efficient. there is no practical level 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 he's looking for solutions to restore the water supply. but until then you could fall, we'll have to rely on inspire gate. the latest court case against him prison, russian opposition, politician elects, and the finally begins today. investigators accused him of creating and financing an extremist group,

but some of his most vocal supporters have not been deterred. dw caught up with one of them. of the protests in russia always seem to end with images like this. the demonstrators who took to the street to celebrate i'll explain of viney birthday this month. already knew they would probably if getting your stuff panko was one of them. she took them off scouts, red square to call for freedom for political prisoners. the 27 year old was arrested and spent a night in jail for her to florida and i'm finding she was lucky to get away with an administrative fine. yeah. for the word excel, i suppose the next and only because i think he's a politician. he's prepared to openly and honestly about the problems in our country. problems like corruption, the lack of democratic change and meshes, leadership and people's living conditions. god god, to whom do my brother is typically of game? yeah, of course. and started supporting galaxy now viney. after watching his corruption

investigations, international politicians online by me book looting the viral video about flooding, air pollutants from legend palaces, alex say now viney has been in prison since 2021 on charges. many believe are politically motivated. this year, his lawyers have complained that he's often held in solitary confinement and has been suffering from severe health problems. rushed investigators have now opened further cases accusing the politician of extremism and terrorism. the authorities have made any association with him dangerous. experts say yesterday with you, if you're an active supporter of alex and yvonne the for example, someone who takes pos and protests, you could end up in jail the day after you go out and demonstrate over what was comfortable. and if you're at support. uh and you post something on social media that has anything to do with alexis devante. that means the authorities and security services who are monitoring russian citizens. what have you on that right uh. and any misstep on your pods will be enough to get to into trouble almost

a with as much to we've got to just put the lenient a daniele. it's jeff pinto never works in nevada, these offices, or for his anti corruption foundation, which is both already been labeled extremist. but she knows that the authorities are watching supporters like for $250.00. and he had tended to protest back in 2021 and was detained later. police said they found her using most skills, network official recognition cameras. you have one you was, i don't plan to still expressing my political opinion. you know, i plan to talk about it bravely, honestly and openly. i want to prove that bodies possible. i have rights that are outlined in the russian constitution. those rights guarantees and the government cannot deprive me of them, is especially most politically underneath the veneer of normality. stories like gifts, guineas are being repeated across russia. the kremlin has been cracking down on all critical voices,

especially since launching the full scale war and ukraine making fear part of the fabric of everyday life. the intent is the strip down open panel saw the us is francis t f o tate. com. germany's young vantage for 3rd c t off hope eventually clinched victory over his and cedar department, but he was made to work for it by stuff who has found a new level late in his career. and just in time for next month's wimbleton, a 33 year old young linux tools has been hailed as world class by his compact rates and friend, the legendary bonus becca on the on see, the gentleman delighted the whole by breaking fresh yahoo and the 7th game on his way to winning the 1st 664, but he also bit bought in the 2nd set after it finished 6. so the 3rd seated american runaway with the type rate to square the

much one a piece. the 3rd set went to another tie break, where after saving of championship points to apple eventually made his class the, the american finally broke to the home button starts and he was gracious enough to admit to a slice of luck on the finer points. but yeah, match point when i hit the over the 1st of the yep. i one and then he picked me, you know, like you go to die for this and make the somehow and it went over that and uh yeah, super lucky everybody is lucky sometimes. but um, yeah, i mean again its incredible max. i'm happy to get through. i already know to say,

i just wanna start thinking to be fair. and the probably was indeed soon flowing as to yahoo, celebrated his 1st title and grass, an entry into the world top 10. not bad preparation for wimbledon in 2 weeks time. formula one world champion much for stopping has won his 6th race of the season. and 4th, in a row of the canadian grand prix, while the dutchman dominated yet again, much hyped improvement by mercedes, failed to materialize. it was a familiar story, a monthly old with mex, for stuff and beginning from pole position on a clean stop its own for a new full let's drive the drama was behind the red bowman, mercedes drive, the george russell hit the wall and falls to safety. ca phase, but even the pack being phones doped did not trouble for stuff and sorry the past the mountains. fernando alonzo go past lewis. hamilton's mercedes into the

2nd. the 2 former will champions continued to spa, but the veterans spanish had stayed ahead. and what is becoming a dream season for the 41 year old and his team. but there's nothing anyone informed me that one can do to stop the step. and the dutchman coasted to red bulls . 153 and now leads the championship by huge 69 points as he targets a 3rd straight will title. yeah, it's amazing. i mean, i never expected to, to be on these kind of numbers myself as well. you know, so yeah, we keep enjoying with you working hard today. it's been a great day and we were hoping to turn in today more to the rental, but we'd also plays at the start with race. and then uh yeah, it was about the status of the sports channels that raised. so i didn't have one la fleur, i could relax anything be. so i was kind of amazing about that. so stopping is flying up to just a going pre exhibit 20 to re season. the next round comes red,

goes home, cracking austria in 2 weeks. the favorites and spielberg is already crystal clear. you're watching dw news coming to live from berlin up next week. got a look at the rich tapestry of african languages for you on the 77 percent of course, and get all the latest news information to your tonawanda on our website at w dot com. i'm terry martin from me and all of us here. thanks for the the, the,

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