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good shape around the world and how we can make a difference. knowledge grows through sharing. download it now from the . you're watching the news coming to live from berlin. calling soaring tensions between washington and the space, dig us secretary of state anthony blinking hold talks with china's president and other top officials. but with so much at stake, has he achieved his objectives. also coming up on the show, gun battles are rocked, following and is really rate in the occupied westbank city of jeanine,
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at least for palestinians have been killed among number 18, age boy. and the latest trial of jailed russian dissident, alexei. nev only guessed on her way the case against him could add decades to his prison sentence. the hello i'm clare richardson. thank you very much for joining us. us secretary of state anthony, blinking has met with the china as president. she, jim ping on the final day of his visit to beijing, the chinese leader called on lincoln to quote, made more positive contributions to stabilize in china us relations. but also added that the 2 sides have made progress on specific issues. now major points of contention between the us and china remain over the territorial integrity of ty, one and concerns over china is close relationship with russia. economic and trade relations are also freight. here's what blinking have to say. following that
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meeting, i came to beijing to strength of high level challenge and communication to make clear our positions and intentions and areas of disagreement. and those 4 areas where we might work together, what our interest aligned on shared trans national challenges. and we did all of that as well for our washington bureau chief in his poll a little earlier. and i asked her about anthony blinking comments and his visit more generally. and the code was entered until the very end, whether she and clinton would made during this today rather than a failure definitely to schedule this face to face. would have been seen by washington as a, as a slight breaking really was a number of previous visits from top american additional diplomats in the earlier news. so uh lincoln said there was a, a quotes here, robust conversation about global affairs, including russia's war of aggression against ukraine. and he also said,
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and that is important, that the competition with china should not, we're into conflict align blinking has used before. and she also talked about ukraine, saying that she ensure tim blinking, but china will not provide legal veterans. but the secretary of state, raised concerns in this press conference, which as to the, to the of, of other china as companies might be providing more technologies like drones, for example. so a lot on the table here. um, were there other points that blinking has raised during this visit? right, so blinking reiterated that to us does not support tie one's independence of stating it does not wish to change the status quo. and he said that earlier on, and he kind of repeated that, and that is very important in this whole conflict that again the united states do not wish to change the state of school. he also said lincoln also said that the
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issue was such as human rights violation in the shouldn't strong and t brother. and also hong kong has been widest. and they also talked about a north korea. lincoln added that there is an needs to really stabilize and strengthen the relationship between the guys in china. and he said this, i quote here is in the interest of the united states, the states. it's in the interest of china and it is in the interest of the world. and he also talked about china as broad economic success. and then this also benefits the u. s. a. so that is really a broad range of the 2 leaders has been talking about. absolutely. let's take a closer look now at the state of this relationship, presidency has described the talk so far as very good. just a few hours before that though china's top diplomat wong, he was quoted saying that the us was faced with a choice between cooperation and conflict. our she and wiggins comments here
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assigned that the 2 sides have in fact managed to avoid conflict or is the heat's still on as much as that for as well as for now as things the big headline is the has been talking and both kind of said it was good to talks. this is the 1st year as this is the 1st us visit. no, sorry, blanket and the so for us us secretary of state i took introducing and 5 years. so it shows that both sides, united states and china are really very eager in uh, getting a better uh, a better uh, communication going and a better relationship. so me, so she has to just set to he prays to 2 sides for making progress in some of these important issues. he said this is very good. so i think it's fair to say that this 1st 5 minute meeting, send a signal at least for now that the united states and china do not want the relationship to define by open hostility. and that they recognize that the rivalry
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and the diplomatic efforts carry enormous stakes. absolutely, thank you so much for bringing us up to speed there. that's what each of these washington bureau chief in his pull will tell us the need help a forward. he says, at least for palestinians have been killed after and his really rates sparked a major gun fight in the occupied westbank city of jeanine. it said dozens more were wounded as well as army the idea. so it had entered the city to arrest what it called, wanted suspects, and but 7 of its troops were injures. the outbreaks of violence saw israel's military deploy attack helicopters in the area for the 1st time in over a decade. i spoke earlier today that he was correspondent in jerusalem, rebecca rivers and i asked her for more information about the people hurt and killed. well, as you say, clear over night there was what they call a routine raid carried out in janine and janine c t not actually in the refugee
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camp, but in the the cities surrounding. now they called it routine because these have been happening almost night late for more than a year now in the northern west bank. however, what isn't routine is of course the reaction the idea of have confirmed that during this routine operation, one home us one to figure and a and also wanted person or suspected person for the kind of sit in islamic jihad has been arrested. another operation was therefore successful, although of course we've seen that this has now been raging for hours. you say that the, the i d s. in fact, in their own words, say that this was a massive gun battle that ensued. it is ongoing still as they were trying to leave the area i days in fact were designated and some of the vehicles were then stock. there is an engine soldier and as you mentioned, there have been all the engine soldiers since then. 5 bought a police and 2 soldiers confirmed who has been injured from the id. now you
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mentioned, of course the palestinian deaths and injuries were we're getting confounded figures are full palestinians, including one mind a 15 year old boy, thousands more, more than 40. i have also been injured, including a young girl, also 15, believe to be in a critical condition. now that as i mentioned, the gunmetal is ongoing. the id say could continue for some hours yet. i sort some a little while ago and they say that they even admitted that they weren't expecting this kind of reaction a dozen rebecca writers for us earlier. let's take a look now. so at some other stories making world news headlines. ukraine says it's liberated 8 settlements since it's counter offensive began. earlier this month, a russian installed official has made a rare admission that ukrainian forces recaptured the southern village of cassie's cottage. meanwhile, most girls as soldiers of repels, you printed advances in the region, both sides and suffering heavy casualties in the fighting. according to british intelligence,
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moscow has declined un assistance in russian health areas of ukraine affected by the breach of the cost down. moscow says the decision was motivated by security concerns by russia is also a warning that receiving waters are raising the risk of mosquito borne diseases from schools will jail russian opposition leader. i like st. of on the has gone on trial on fresh extremism charges. it could see him present for decades, the trial taking place at a maximum security prison 250 kilometers from moscow, where the kremlin critic is already serving a 9 year sentence for alleged fraud. the investigators now accused him of creating and financing unexplained mister group bought. some of his most vocal supporters have not been deterred. dw caught up with one of them. protests in russia always seemed to end with penitence like this. the demonstrators who took to the street to celebrate, i'll explain of vinyl birthday this month. already knew they would probably
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if getting your stuff panko was one of them. she took them off scows, red square to call for freedom for political prisoners. the 27 year old was arrested and spent a night in jail for her support of no binding. she was lucky to get away with an administrative fine. yeah. for the word i suppose the next a nova 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 in russia's leadership on people's living conditions . god god, who's the mother of these difficulties? 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
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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. i'm double 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. nobody's just almost a with as much to we've got to just put the lenient if gave me that pin code never worked in nevada new 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 and he had tended to protest back in 2021 and
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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 to expressing my political opinion. you. i plan to talk about it bravely, honestly and openly. because 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, especially most politically underneath the veneer of normality stories like if gain is 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. and authorities and pockets don't have arrested 10 alleged human traffickers, days after hundreds of my friends are feared to have drowned in a ship rack off the coast of greece. local media,
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say 300 block hassan. he's died in the tragedy. the greek coast guard has had people on board, the boat indicated they were on their way to italy and had refused offers of help. but the bbc has cast down on that account. maritime tracking data suggests the vessel was in distress for hours before it sinks out of an estimated $750.00 people on board, just over a 100 for rescued for more on that investigation, i spoke to dw 4 and schmidt's for the latest. to in fact, as you, as you stated, the, the new investigation that was published by the bbc yesterday puts in question the claims of the greek coast guard stating that the migraines were on a steady course to italy, vcr, to obtain theater from their time. that site that attracts movements on vessels in the, in the mediterranean, and the have just a quick look at the updated timeline based up on the bbc investigation now from tx,
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a at 8 o'clock informed the greek uh, the greek coast guard that they spotted the ship at 1217 alarm for an organization that supports migrants in distress at sea received a call saying that the boat was already in distress. at around 3 o'clock. according to the bbc investigation of the greek coast guard, asked a boat that was nearby to approach the migraines and provide them with supplies. at 6 o'clock, another boat approached the migrants and again heading out the water and uh and fluids to the people on board. and all of this indicates that the boat indeed that the migrants but not on a steady course to italy that they were not moving or hardly moving at all. however, the greek coast guard and the claims even um, uh, from the 7421040 pm. so like shortly before the boat actually saying that
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around 11 o'clock at night, that the board was still on a steady course to italy and that the migraines themselves refused to be helped. or just before we go, let's get a reminder of our top story. you're a secretary of state anthony, blinking has met with china's president. she's been paying on the final day of his visit to beijing. aimed at coming soaring tensions between the 2 powers. both sides say they agreed on the need to stabilize relations. i'm sorry, richardson in berlin from the whole team. thank you so much for watching the, the one of mankind's oldest ambitions to be within reach.

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