the, the, you're watching the news coming to live from berlin, desperately needed military aid on its way to ukraine. us president joe biden says weapons shipments will start within hours after he signs of bill into law, assigning millions of dollars in h for c plus us secretary of state antony blinking is in china portion for a better time between washington and beijing. talks are expected to be top with chinese support for russia. a big issue on the agenda. the

. i'm quite richardson welcome us president joe biden has signed a bill into law authorizing billions of dollars in military aid for ukraine. a day earlier, lawmakers gave the final green light to the $61000000000.00 package, ending a months long stand off in congress bite and says that supplies will soon be on their way to. i'm making sure the shipment start right away. the next few hours really be 2 hours from equipment to ukraine, for air, defense, munitions, for artillery, rock assistance and armor vehicles. now this package is literally an invest, not only in your brand new credit, but in your, in our own secure. now rushes invasion of ukraine is such a big topic as us secretary of state anthony blinking holes talks in china when can

visit comes as tensions between the us and china are rising. washington has accused beijing of helping mosque as war effort and ukraine. something it denies. so presidents children thing and vladimir boots and have previously said they have a relationship without limits how to put limits on a relationship without limits on this for the emission to beijing, us secretary of state anthony blink. and we'll hope to put some distance between russia and china. pushing back on china's role in russia's war machine will be a top priority. china continues to provide materials to support precious defense, industrial base. and all of this is fueling pollutants, warm machine, etc attacks ukrainians. and threatens european security. the relations between the worlds to top global rivals have been 10 since early last year,

after chinese by balloon float across us territory. and fresh disputes relating to silver will tie one, emerged since then, the thought a little shooting, being held face to face talks with you as president joe biden in san francisco last november. but the wants has kept pressure on vision, sanctioning chinese firms that ship products to russia. the real estate department says china is supporting russia's war machine by supplying machine tools computer chips. optics, drones, and cruise missiles technology. micro chips are crucial and filling the gaps in the russian war effort. rushes semiconductor imports from china jump from 200000000 in 2021, to over 500000000 in 2022. as the war drags on, rushes, growing. economic and diplomatic isolation has made it increasingly reliant on china, its former rival for leadership of the communist bloc during the cold war, china appears to hold the upper hand and the relationship. washington warns it will hold, being responsible, it must go, makes gains new frame. china has shrugged off the criticism to inform you

what china has always controlled the export of jew use. items in accordance with laws and regulations, relevant country should not some year end attack. what's her normal state to state relations between china and russia? we've tensions ratcheted up again last week after joe biden called for hired terrorist on chinese steel and aluminum. lincoln will have his work cut out for him . while we daniels as managing director of the us think tank the asia society policy institute, i asked her how blinking is being received in china. i think the blinking um we'll have a standard diplomatic. welcome, a cordial welcome. but certainly there are a lot of issues to address of the us china relationship that will require some very candid and uncomfortable conversations. and i think secretary blinking is as well toys to continue those conversations. let's talk

a little bit more about that ukraine issue, which as you've said, will be a little behind on the agenda last week and blinking suggested that beijing is essentially playing a double game here. one thing, good relations with europe while also supporting russia is his assessments. a fair one. do you think that's literally, i think the chinese economic and strategic priorities lend themselves to these types of policy contradictions. on the one hand, china does need the european market as an export for export market for its goods. on the other hand, it has an equally to itself important economic relationship with russia, which is becoming an increasingly vital part of china's energy security, but also its food security as it seeks to further development between china and russia on you know, green trade. so i think that beyond that, strategically, china,

while it understands the intense international concern and approbation impressions, violation of ukraine sovereignty also sees it is very sympathetic to the russian view. that it's been provoked by an expanding alliance network. and when china looks at its own periphery and its neighbors and sees so many u. s. allies and partners trying to balance its economic and military power in the region, it ones itself toward supporting russia. so you can see how all of these different strategic priorities do create contradictions and policy. and that's exactly why these visits, such as the one by secretary of state blinking are so important. it's about, you know, influencing that balance of interest, of ways that are favorable to peace and stability, not just in europe at all over the world. so what kind of influence do you think it is realistic that blinking could have here, given those interest and chinese world view that you've just described?

i think it's going to be a challenge for sure. i think part of the understated value of these types of visits is that it does give each policy community an opportunity to kind of reassess its interest in regards to that balance. that bigger strategic balance. and that type of actions forcing mechanism or conversation for a student mechanism that makes each policy community really sit down and say, you know, do our policy assumptions work for the time that we're in, can be slow moving as a needle over time. i think right now and us, china relations, things are so tens um and particularly, you know, china is a very strong opposition to us. support for taiwan. does block opportunities to cooperate or to rethink those strategic priorities? red, large. but it doesn't mean that they're not important opportunities to gather information and again to consolidate each country's own thinking on what it needs from the

other side. that was worried daniels from the asia society policy institute. speaking to me earlier. let's take a look at some other headlines now. also in that law signed by bite in a provision forcing take talk to sell it to us business or be banned from the united states. lawmakers past the measure over concerns the platforms. chinese owner shares, users information with the government, takes office a lot as an attack on free speech, and that it will launch a legal challenge. the ronnie and media as a popular wrapper has been sentenced to death on charges linked to the mass protests of the last 2 years. too much of solar, he publicly back to the demonstrations figured by the death of kina locks. i mean, she died after being detained by a runs, morality police and germany says it will resume funding the un agency for palestinian refugees on rock. it was one of several countries that halted support when israel accuse multiple employees of joining

a mazda of terror attacks on october 7th, for an independent investigation said, israel hadn't batch those claims with evidence. in columbia university in new york has extended the deadline for pro palestinian student protesters to clear the campus by 48 hours. the university says students have agreed to dismantle a number of tents. police have warrens, they will clear the entire camp. if the demonstrators failed to leave and protest against the warring laws, i have spread to 2 universities across the united states. several colleges have closed campuses and hundreds of students have been arrested. i ass policy analysts list shall go in the united states. how these current protests compare with others that we have seen in the past. a ton of parallels drawn between this movement and 1968, which was a massive student dismissal. if you're in a states and kind of abroad. i know millennial and it immediately actually reminds

me of chicata parks, unoccupied wall street. and while that wasn't happening on college campuses, it spread to college campuses and it involved students. one of their huge, initial pushes was tackling student debt. so this is something that is a long history of the youth and students using their voices using their energy and using their spaces to protest what they feel like are important issues. there's also a lot of places where this differs from historic student protests. when we think of 68, we really think of students against the store for the students against the higher ups. and we think that it's occupied wall street and to cottage and think about the average person against the millionaires and the millionaires. so what are we seeing today, and this student protests that makes it kind of similar to that strong history, as well as different on where it is and who they are protesting. and how much does this kind of activism put pressure on president joe biden over his administration

support for as well? it definitely puts pressure on joe biden to communicate what that support is. i also think it puts pressure of the protesters to be really clear about what are they looking for? are they looking for something from the positive side? are they looking at something just to statement from their university, and what does that statement say? his protest used to involve these fire. now the president biden has indicated recently and repeatedly he's calling for a cease fire. so has the, has the gold coast booth and how does joe biden reach them where they are? how does he convey this is important, but this is not the only issue that is important in a selection. and also how do i tell you when i've reached some of your demands? what's where are you guys? where are we going to do together? how do we collaborate on addressing your real concerns? well also, so every, so let's assume a little bit out to look at the impact here on us politics. obviously,

big elections coming up in november. how much is the cause of war in general? having an effect on american voters? i think it's happening in america. i'm psyched out. american daughter. obviously we had young folks who are very fired up in certain um, identity groups say, i sending it out. i'm just sick of what's happening. i feel like i have no voice. they are pulling back. and what is creating is their sense of turmoil with other kind of centrist folder, independent voters saying, i bought enough of the drama. i just don't see why she vote at all. so foreign policy is never very rarely at the top of mind. for americans, there's a boat with their pocket books and should be the social issues. but i think what people create is a discord among democrats for time went by, absolutely needs them to be unified. so it could splinter the democrats. it could encourage other advocacy folks to just stay home and absolutely impact the election

. and kind of these more tangential ways i shall go. thank you so much for sharing that analysis with us. we appreciate your time. thank you. choose another news now in kenya to rental rainfall has caused a severe flooding. thousands of people have been killed since the range began last month, and then the capital nairobi. entire neighborhoods are under water and thousands have fled to their homes to seek shelter of the weeks. a relentless downpours have caused misery and narrow b. rescue teams have managed to move some residents to safety. me and my do doesn't arrive. and my brother who on top of on top of the getting my g, i'm from morning who did live in

b. m. and the city's poor neighborhoods. high water had devastating effects. material used to build shelter, washed away by the flood was suffering. i need to sell them to take that things and go where they go and we don't know where to begin. we need food to feed our children and clothes to we are utensils are washed away homes filled with mud to lucky. some people even lost the rules we stranded and don't know what to do. next, we desperately need help authorities or warning residents of heavy to very heavy rainfall made worse by an el nino weather pattern all the way until may with rain and thunder storms forecast to continue through the weekend. that rubies

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