i'm charlie rangel in london the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. secretary of state and city blink and his cold out china as the country's biggest rival and plans to meet top chinese government officials next week it will be the 1st person to person meeting between senior u.s. and chinese representatives since joe biden took office and is it at a time when tensions between the countries are at new heights lincoln says they will discuss a range of issues including ones in which they have deep disagreements in particular the treatment of ethnic minorities i think it would be very important if china claims that there is nothing going on that it give access to the international community to the united nations if they have nothing to hide show it to us show show the world and so we'll be calling for that and then i think there's a series of practical things that are very very important for example we should make sure that we are not exporting and others are not exporting to china any products that can be used for the repression of their people and their

and especially looking for african-american support. >> it's more than just charlie rangel, paul.t interesting? he's also getting support from hazel dukes, the head of the n a aacp in new york -- nacp, and 20 democratic women have said cuomo should not resign e, most of them black. normally, you know, it's expected the black voters are kind of a bloc for the democratic party, whatever the progressives want to do they're going to go along. hey, guess what? >> they're not going along with what is happening with cuomo. and it's a fascinating development in my mind, paul, that we're going to see this split inside the democratic party driven by black voters who support andrew cuomo. obviously, they have something else on their minds. so this is a long way from over. i do not see andrew cuomo resigning. i think he will tough it out, and he may just survive. paul: kim, very briefly, tisch james, the attorney general, has a panel, is cuomo's fate in their hands? >> yes, i think it is, and we'll see how long it takes for her to come out with it. paul: seems to be moving on a pretty fast tr

i'm charlie rangel in london the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has called out china as the country's biggest rival and plans to meet top chinese government officials next week it will be the 1st person to person meeting between senior u.s. and chinese representatives since joe biden took office and is it at a time when tensions between the countries are at new heights lincoln says they will discuss a range of issues including ones on which they have deep disagreements in particular the treatment of f. .

charlie rangel, the former c congressman is one of the people who has had a long alliance with governor the congressman has been out of office four years. the present congresswoman has called for him to step down. there's a great number of black political leaders, very powerful ones, including the majority leader of the state senate who have called for cuomo to step down. it's kind of a mixed bag if you have to say i have black support. when you look at the polling in the last few days, it shows a dire picture politically for the governor. tell shows that 66% of registered new york voters do not want him to run for a fourth term. it shows 48% disapprove of his job performance. that's the lowest number he's had. or highest disapproval number he's had since taking office in 2011. so, he's got a number of problems that he's trying to work through all at the same time, boris. >> i thought that was interesting. you write about cuomo announcing new york state would provide for the new facility in harlem. that would draw a lot of politics trying to edge in for a photo op. only one prominent le

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