this is dw news, live from berlin. china's leader on a visit to moscow. xi jinping may be looking to promote his peace plan fee agreement for vladimir putin, the visit is a strong show of support to his most powerful ally. also coming up, a survival guide for humanity. hundreds of leading climate scientists signing off on a critical update. with the data comes a warning

now and before it's too late. and a breakthrough in reproductive technology is signed as japan creates baby mice from two fathers. could it lead to same-sex couples letting biological children together? we will speak to one of the scientists about that. to all of you around the world, welcome. a partnership without limits. these two gentlemen were here, the partnership between china and xi jinping has been on full display. leaders holding full hours of informal talks as he begins a state visit. he is the first world needed be

welcomed in moscow. quick standing shoulder to shoulder, to authoritarian leaders defiantly pushed back against western values, nato and the united states. for russia's president, the visit's diplomatic coup. showing much needed international support as moscow becomes increasingly isolated. >> am very glad you found it possible and found the time to come in the evening and talk in an informal and friendly atmosphere about all issues that interest us. >> it is the chance to play global peacemaker and protect china's power in the face of warnings from the united states. the message from the u.s. is clear.

beijing will endure harsh sanctions if it provides moscow with weapons for the war in ukraine. president xi and putin are determined to craft a new world order, one that does not follow dictates from the road so superpower. >> we are partners in comprehensive and strategic cooperation. it is this status that determines there should be close ties between our countries. >> they were expected to discuss beijing's 12 point peace plan which calls for negotiations between moscow and kyiv. it doesn't measure withdrawal of russian troops from ukrainian territory. it is an admission not lost on ukrainians. >> one dictate has found another. they attract each other. it will not change much if they

get support for the war from china. >> it seems like some kind of game, like they want to tease the western world. that is my opinion. >> the ukrainian president has made it clear that no peace can be achieved as long as russian troops continued to occupy and attack his country and he isn't interested in giving him ukrainian territory to prison. bullet -- zelensky and president xi are looking to discuss the war on the phone in the coming days. >> when we look at these two presidents, they are not standing on equal footing. we are talking -- we are not talking about two equal men when they talk about their power. >> pressure is extremely dependent on china. when we look at the situation is two men find themselves in,

pressure is within a year since it invaded ukraine. letting reports and was hoping he would defeat ukraine quickly, that he would install a favorable regime there. that war has become an extremely difficult conflict for him. he has lost huge amounts of men, huge amounts of material. he lost the faith of many countries around the world if you look at how diplomatically isolated russia is. he has lost europe as customers for russian energy. he has turned nato against himself. he is in a difficult spot. xi jinping, china is the only major friend he has on the world stage.

>> xi jinping, his interest for there to be peace in eastern ukraine or maybe with -- >> there has been an awful lot of wondering what china really wants in this conflict. china has always insisted it is neutral in this. that does not have any kind of stake in this conflict. and that is simply believes and principles such as the sovereignty of nations and territorial integrity in this kind of technical, diplomatic times. don't invade countries. on the one hand, china has been saying that. on the other hand, they also say they understand what they see as vladimir putin's reasons for this war. putin says nato provoked me,

nato is trying to expand over into the east. it wants to edge ukraine as a member. he feels he is justified because he is stopping nato in this. >> is it in xi jinping's interest to provide weapons to russia to be used in ukraine? course we take the question one step further because if xi jinping is a little torn on what is really a good outcome in ukraine -- if you believe in territorial integrity, vladimir putin does not want to be rolled over by the west, the western military supplies to ukraine. he does not -- and the question emerged, is china going to provide weapons? so far it hasn't done that.

china has been wary about becoming a target for western sanctions. i think an interesting factor here is that while china says it will be bossed around by american about what he can and cannot do, it also has an eye on your and for china it is very important to try to keep europe and united states as far apart from each other as possible and certainly in european places. if china did cross that and start providing big weapons to russia, the europeans really have everything. -- a re-think. >> xi jinping is almost ogled the statesman. as always, thank you. for and defense ministers have

agreed upon a $2 billion play. the deal will provide kyiv with one million shells. jack is in brussels. he told me about opportunities this is getting members of the european union. >> it basically means the european union can now go out into the market and buy ammunitions collectively. that has not been done from -- from a brussels control point before. they can spread it the different countries. a one million rounds of

artillery will be going to ukraine in the coming months. they are also going to have 11 billion for ammunition this year and another one billion on fuel in the future. a really big shift in european union thinking. this was created as a piece project. >> that speaks to the incredible significance of this. >> is a major shift in eu thinking. it may not sound like much of a big deal but it shows a real turning in european union thinking in brussels. we saw with the joint purchasing of covid-19 vaccines, with the collective taking on of debt to conduct come out of the covid-19 pandemic, this is a step on from that. there is a shift toward

collectivization of responsibility for these kinds of things that were -- many countries were a little comfortable about it. the european union foreign policy chief says he hopes more will sign up to this as the national procedures go forward. it is a really significant step. this is something the european union has demonstrated, its leadership once again. in ukraine, they have been calling for weapons for a long time. quick thank you, jack. let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. a criminal case against national criminal court prosecutors who issued last week an arrest warrant for president ventilator -- let me put war crimes. the agency's gears and the board

of violating russian law including knowingly accusing an innocent person of a crime. the government of emmanuel macron has survived two no-confidence measures in parliament. they pushed through divisive pension and retirement programs in parliament. a conference, a donor conference led by the european union has pledged more than 7 billion euros to help the victims of earthquakes in turkey and northern syria. universal address. the president welcomed the support of the international community but he warned the reconstruction cost from february's could top 100 billion euros. antigovernment protesters have clashed with security forces in the canyon capital of nairobi.

hundreds of people demonstrated. they are accusing him of failing to bring down living costs as he took power back in september. the opposition leader has called for weekly demonstrations despite the government correctly. the devastating effects of the climate crisis hitting the planet faster than expected. that is according to a panel of climate scientists wish to they their latest report. the intergovernmental panel on climate change has analyzed the research on global warming and co2 levels ever since the paris climate accord was signed back in 2015. they say the data is clear. we are running out of time faster we -- faster than we thought. >> extreme weather with catastrophic consequences, heat waves, droughts, storms, floods,

melting arctic eyes. all this time, scientists and you and experts have been: to limit this, the speed of global warming. they are sending a familiar message, time is crucial. quick humanity -- humanity is on thin ice and that ice is melting fast. the report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change -- humans are responsible for all global heating over the last 200 years. the rate of temperature rise over the last century is the highest in 2000 years. cost of carbon dioxide is at the highest in nearly 2 million years. the climate time bomb is ticking. >> this is why rich countries are being asked to become climate neutral by 2040.

germany was set to become climate neutral by 2025 but the country is lagging behind, especially in the areas of transportation and building renovations. what happens in the rest of the decade is extremely important. the current event is to be increased. there is hope. we have the scientific knowledge to limit climate change. the financial backing is also there. at least in theory. they just have to be used in the right place. >> i am joined by the director of finance at cambridge university. good to have you on the program. i want to play devil's advocate with the spirit we are always

reporting climate change as we should. it seems like what came out of this report is the same headline we had from previous reports. do we run the danger of people tuning us out? are we desensitizing the public to the dangers of climate change? >> i think we are not. the attribution element of this report has effectively -- it is very important. we are currently seeing what a lot of pushback developing within the space in many parts of the globe. this report is absolutely key because it leaves no doubt not only the climate change is impacting our daily lives but that we need to act today to address it. >> we are hearing more and more

that we need to stick with fossil fuels a bit longer. we can't afford to go co2 neutral as quickly as we would like. is it really a matter of money? >> it is not. we have enough money and enough tools and enough goals to address this issue. if we are to stay within the safe operating space for ourselves and our plan, we need to limit the warming to 1.5°. what that means is reducing all fossil fuels and rapidly increasing investment in carbon energy like wind and solar. that means cutting greenhouse gases by 20 30. and it is not only the money on it, not only the cost.

>> we talk about the skyrocketing cost of health care, your premium is going up every month because of climate change. should that argument be made? because it is interesting because they are making these arguments. one of the reports is looking a the health benefits of pollution reductions, the increase of the health care cost. we are building a much better -- a much more renewable future. the one where our cities are

greener, where our health and well-being is protected. >> the information is there, published. scientists in japan have taken a small an important step that raises the prospect of same-sex couples having biological children together. the technology was born using the skin cells of male mice to make female egg cells but in the future, it could open up whole new possibilities in reproductive medicine. >> and big, experiment time. the recipe for new life in most animals is simple and straightforward.

but now, a team of japanese scientists claims to have pushed the boundaries by creating mass babies with two biological fathers. the team took the skin cells from male mice and reprogrammed them into what are called stem cells. those are cells that can turn into many different cell types. the scientists identified the ones that accidentally lost their y-chromosome and managed to fumigate -- chromosome. they changed the dramatic sex -- >> the limit of male cells is you can make spur and eggs, typically the limit of female cells is you can make as but not spurn. what has been done through a process called text conversion is he has taken ex-wife skin cells and selected a way to make

x x x so an extraordinary act of wizardry, biological wizardry. >> they were then fertilized with firm cells and implanted into a surrogate mouse. the result is healthy mouse pups from two biological fathers there were better able to reproduce themselves. the technology is promising but still highly experimental. >> the efficiency of this process is very low. even in mice where you are able to do an unlimited number of verbalizations, the probability that any one of your in vitro generated eggs or spurn is probably only around 1%. so obviously there is a lot of failure here. >> despite that, the research

raises the prospect of male couples one day having biological children together. it could also benefit infertile women who can produce their own eggs. and at least theoretically, it could even allow single men to have children with themselves. scientists agree the technique is still years from any kind of application and humans. differences in genetics and reproductive biology between us and mice are major. and society will first need to address ethical questions arising from this technology. quickstart is a logic taken. we spoke to the head of the research team that carried out that site. quick ientists are calling your work nothing less then

biological wizardry. how did you come up with the idea in the first place? what made you start doing this kind of research? >> i was not really keen to make -- i was very excited that indeed we could change a six chromosome set. we can get the female cells from male cells so that is the most exciting part. >> only abound -- around 1% of the embryos survives. are you satisfied with that success rate? >> no. we really need to improve.

we really need to define this. >> what fascinates and scares researchers and professionals is the transfer of the technology to humans. which scientific hurdles need to be cleared in order to do that one day? >> that is a really difficult point. one is the species difference. the second point is the time. . making the human oversight, it takes much longer time than the mouse. the longer the time is, the

bigger some happen. >> many think creating life from two males or even just one person is scary. which ethical boundaries do you see from your? >> this could never happen in nature. even if you have -- we really need to discuss how this kind of technology should be used for something that doesn't happen in nature. our work should be done in making technology more efficient and more safely. then they are good enough to use then we can ask older people if

this should be used or not. >> thank you >> a reason to smile. finland has become -- been declared the world's happiest country for the 60 or in a row. the other nordic countries are well represented. before we go, here is a remainder of the top stories we are following. she's in pain and wrapped up the

first day of talks in moscow. the chinese peace plan for the war in ukraine -- putin is saying he is ready to discuss beijing's proposal. western leaders largely dismissed the plan and a new u.n. report is warning time is running out to avoid the worst effects of global warming. the latest data showing admissions must beut in half by the mid-20 30's. after a short break, i will be back to take you through the day. stick around, will be right back.

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the french government survives two no-confidence votes by mp's opposed to a bill that would see the retirement age raised from 62 to 64. emmanuel macron thanks niger for their help in securing the release of olivier dubois today. xi jinping begins a three-day visit to moscow, just days after an arrest warrant was issued for vladimir putin.