the, the, you're watching the w 9 who's coming to live from berlin, desperately needed military aid on its way to you pray us, president joe biden says weapons shipments will start within hours after he signs a bill into law, assigning billions of dollars in aid for q u. s. secretary of state anthony blinking is in china pushing for better ties between washington and spacing talks are expected to be tasked with chinese support for russia. a big issue on the agenda. the

richardson. thank you so much for joining us. us president joe biden has signed a bill into law, the rising billions of dollars in military aid for ukraine. a day earlier, lawmakers gave the final green lights of the $61000000000.00 package and being a month long stand off in congress bite and says supplies will soon be on their way . and i'm making sure the shipment start right away. the next few hours, really a few hours from equipment to ukraine, for air defense, munitions, for artillery, rocket systems and armor vehicles. now this package is literally an invest, not only in your brand new credit, but in your, in our own secure ukraine securities. of course, that would be a major topic for us secretary of state antony blinking during his talks and china lincoln wants to stabilize ties with beijing, but also to ramp up pressure over its close relationship with russia. washington x

uses china of helping mosque out with its invasion of ukraine, which it denies the engine a blinking visit comes at a challenging time for china. us relations surprising in shanghai. he posted this videos on building bridges and of course we'll be dealing with areas where we have real differences. we're dealing with them directly communicating clearly face to face and promising that it's important for avoiding miscommunications, misperceptions, and to advance the answers to the american people. as well as building his own bridges, lincoln will be trying to steer china away from russia, accusing staging or backing most goes more and ukraine. 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 europeans, security. china insist it remains neutral 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? it's not just the war and ukraine that's causing strain. the discovery of a chinese by balloon and us skies last year added to tensions, along with us support for tie one. with 3 days of talks and shanghai and beijing lincoln has his work cut out smoothing relations between the super powers for daniels as managing director of the u. s. think tank the asian society policy institute. i asked her how blinker and can expect to be received in china again. 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, will be high 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? or actually i think the chinese economic and strategic priorities lend themselves to these types of policy contradictions. on one hand, china does need the european market as an export for the 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, 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 so use 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 a secretary of state blinking are so important. it's about, you know, influencing that balance of interest and ways that are favorable to peace and

stability, not just in europe, but 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, or 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 action 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 in, you know, 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. as worried daniel, speaking to me earlier, we can take a look now at some other stories making world news headlines. arizona's house of representatives has voted to repeal a near total ban on abortion. the state supreme court ruled earlier this month is that authorities could enforce the band that dates from 18. 64. the measurable now go to arizona for public and controlled senate is also in that law, signed by bite, in a provision forcing tick tock to sell it to us business or be banned from the united states. lawmakers passed the measure over concerns the platforms, the chinese owner shares users information with the government, takes fox as the law is an attack on free speech, and that it will launch

a legal challenge. iranian medias, a popular wrapper has been sentenced to death on charges linked to the mass protests of the last 2 years to march. so late, he publicly backed the demonstrations and figured by the death of g networks. i mean, she died after being detained by a wrong mortality. police and germany says it will resume funding b, u. n. agency for palestinian refugees unrest. it was one of several countries, but at health of support when israel accuse of for use of for winning a mazda is terror attacks october 7th, but an independent investigation, so that israel had not faxed those claims off with evidence. 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 of warrant. they will clear the entire camp if the demonstrators failed to leave protests against the war in gauze, i have spread to universities. across the united states,

several colleges have closed campuses and hundreds of students have been arrested. i asked a policy analyst list shoak a how these current protests compare with student movements of the 19 sixty's. a ton of parallels drawn between this movement and 1968, which was a massive student dismissal. if you're in a state 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? this protest used to involve the fire. now the president biden has indicated recently and repeatedly he's calling for a ceasefire. so has the,

has the goal posts moved? 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 concern? 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 is having an american effect on american daughter. obviously we have young folks who are very fired up in certain um, identity groups, se sending it out. i'm just sick of what's happening. i feel like i have no voice. they're pulling back. and what it's creating is a sense of turmoil with other kind of centrist folder independent voters saying, i want enough of the drama. i just don't see why she vote at all. so for foreign

policy, it is never very rarely at the top of mind for americans. others they vote with their pocket books and should be good on social issues. but i think what will create is a discord among democrats next 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 mitchell got. thank you so much for sharing that analysis with us. we appreciate your time. thank you. and kenya torrential, rain fall has caused severe flooding. thousands of people have been killed since the rains began last month. and in the capital nairobi entire neighborhoods or underwater, thousands of people have flooded their homes to seek shelter or 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 does arrive in my brother who are on top of on top of the getting my g. i'm from morning to dean live in b. m. and the city's poor neighborhoods. high water had devastating effect material used to build the 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 t lucky some people,

even most of 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. nairobi floods are likely to get even worse. so just before we go, we can bring you a reminder of our top story. at this hour, us president joe biden has signed a bill into law authorizing of billions of dollars in military 8 for ukraine, while makers gave the final green lights to $61000000000.00 package a day earlier. biden says supplies will soon be on their way. and that is your news that we're searching for a d w talk commentary coming up after

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