the the, this is the, the news coming to live from berlin. china is present, calls for common ground with us saying the 2 countries should be park. there is not rivals us secretary of state entity blinking talks to she's in pain in china, and a visit marked by tensions over taiwan and support for russia in the war and ukraine. also coming up in the epic collection, this underway, it's of 45 day multi phase to process our correspondent is on the campaign trail. criss crossing, the country will bring you the latest from bill the

little i'm terry martin. good, heavy with us, us secretary of state anthony, blinking has met with china as president on the 3rd and final day of a visit product with tensions. she didn't pay cold for the 2 countries to be partners, not rival science suggested. there are still a number of issues that needs to be resolved when it comes to their relations. the meeting comes hard on the heels of a new, a package passed by the us congress to support taiwan and ukraine. both areas of tension between china in the us. we're expecting anthony blinking and fiji and trying to hold a press conference shortly. it will be bringing you that live as soon as it begins . well turning to india now, which is holding the largest democratic election in history, it stretches over a period of $4045.00 days. the election kicked off

a week ago with the 1st of 7 election phases. now phase 2 is getting underway with holding across the 13 states and union territories. a total of $88.00 seats in the looks of, of the lower house of the indian parliament are being contested. incumbent prime minister never ends remote. he is seeking a rare 3rd term his and do nationalist b. j. b party is also aiming for a super majority which couldn't power his coalition to change the constitution. modi's challenges in the india alliance are seeking to end his rule, but are struggling to find a message that resonates use audio bought went to, to neighboring constituencies in northern indiana to get a taste of what's at stake. a lot of gifts. so i can do got to leave the media talking elections here in the community clocks and end up northern india, about the,

to the only indians live here. it's a strong hold of him to not let's be j, b, a prime minister, and the movie the party puts law, job center stage needs, campaign, city of the city of mid it today. the line between real life and fiction is blood photo and google is a popular actor, hopefully law drum in the iconic television series around mind. in the 1980s law, jerome has come to meet the voters and he's a b, b candidate. global is a 1st time candidate, he's not being involved in politics before a. he's a huge fan of prime minister molding, which seems to be his means. what to ration destroyed by virginia student in the motives vision. you know, which is the development. are they developed to make

a different country? it's his vision just doing of i can stall to make so that the grounds, wait to see him. he knows how to use his popularity and the motions of his friends . i'm not promising anything to the good guys. we'll see, you know, talking, you're just connecting to i that's it's not far from the riley suffered for the wp abuse strong, but you can find some critical voices. but this is the worst time for poor people and the good time for the rich people daily wages like me, a suffering and dying in these times. the goddess is the yes, i am very happy and excited to see the 2 types of movies has come to our town. it is good that be to chose him as the candidate for elections. moody has done in men's development work in the country like india, where the population is any rising status. the truth,

he is like gold for us. you said you picked out job, do it here in the strategy. is that just so many people of every supposed to be did we have gained what the us the body but he was prime is the body's popularity really just again be the defining factor the when the ceo's election. but here in a neighboring city of gauzy about bodies shudder my advice, talk with something else but the opposition. eliza, the india block. she has a book, this books, president of the indian national congress box and ran from me. i got the about enough. she's challenging. moody's candidate and discuss truancy for the national parliament seat or mean topics. women and safety stop changes for the constitution. democracies in danger, we're looking at the instances reading the doors in chief ministers out in j. dante

had some support to us, but fighting for the seat is an appeal back to she seems odd. no, god, god. anyone who supports the ideology of the be to be a safe coordinates all these days. corruption charges dropped against the position of leaders who joined the beach ape party. good talk just as how you doing. got this fucking meet it. go with reaps the benefit of merging. they made a lot rom, just political jump in that mixing of religion and politics, worries many experts, fear it could widen tears in india as social fabric. short while ago i spoke to our daily bureau chief sandra peters, man who has been following this election marathon. i asked her for her impressions of the election. so par, the way of what i find most staggering is really how much the campaign of the

rolling party beach repeat this sentence around in our end, remotely. he is the man, the faith. the problem is the manifesto, the message of to the voting people and for many weeks now, moody has been traveling up and down the country tirelessly. it really doesn't take a break. he's displaying sewage energy. and if you look at the diverse opposition alliance of more than 20 parties from the very far left to the very far right, they're really find it difficult to develop this one message that really reaches the vote has. and they are infect spreading very diverse messages depending on the pa to with uttering them and on the reaching this potty is in. so the opposition also gets left cheesy coverage and let's not forget, that's quite a few important lead us behind boss on corruption charges. so moody is standing out . now this is a huge election spread out in multiple phases. the 2nd phase is just getting underway. how would you describe the political mood in india at this point?

a web based seed is definitely on the gloves are off today. for instance, so a judgement by the supreme court of india on india's famous electronic electronic voting machines. $1500000.00 of them will be used in the elections and valve fee, aspire to the society activists, and also by the opposition that they could be tempered with. but the supreme court's a today said, let's carry on. regardless, the machines are safe to use and we carry on with this election. and if you look at the 2nd phase and compare it with the 15 years ago, and the 2019 genuine elections back been out of those 88 seats 50, went to the b j. p. and a lot of service here. i'm not expecting anything else this time, but then there are still 5 more election face has to go. the indian boat us up pretty unpredictable. and like i said,

the heat is on the blocks are also containing. it's getting more aggressive, which could be seen by a prime minister on our end, remotely. he's tense that used off is level 4 became speech after already in rochester, and last sunday, where he set the following are better than what it is that a god of when congress was in power, they said most of themselves the 1st right to the nation's wealth it's the you have some of these means, so collect people's wealth and distribute it to whom do the job that but to whom, up to those who have more children to the employer try to start doing your job. do you think your how doing money should be given to infiltrate? is would you accept this? this is what the congress manifesto is saying to god. so to help us understand what prime minister moody is saying there and why he thinks arguments like that

will appeal to voters with this is discussed extremely controversial here. and you, i'd really depends on who you are. the authorization, especially the congress party, is accusing him of either ring the biggest minority of the country, the most slims trying to gain votes. and by going against them by going against the sex relying nature of india's constitution. congress is also accusing moody of spreading this information about them manifesto. now at the same time, if you are speech a piece supporters, they say that's prime minister on our end. rum moody has done nothing more than calling. i quote a spade a spade that he is right and what he's saying that this is what many people in india are thinking and they have bottom line is no harm has been done. and you cannot criticize the prime minister because he's always right. if moody does when the selection, if he gets a 3rd term and maybe even a super majority,

what can we expect? where is he likely to lead that country? where i think we would see an increasing emphasis on him to culture and tend to rain direction. that is what prime minister moody, firmly believes in this is what he has been just playing in the past 10 years. he's already runing india since 2014. and if you really gets a foot consecutive 5 year term, he wouldn't mix this message, the message ok. and to develop into 1st with the promise of development. he once india to become a develop nation by 24 to 17. this year is cast for me. pick because that when mock 100 years of british independence from great britain, and of course that wants to be marked by india being develop that this mode is big promise. so will we know sandra when this,

when we get results from this election because it is very drawn out process as it is a very trolling outpost as they are still 5 faces to go. the last voting face will be on june 1st and then they, then the next resides would all be counted on 4th of june. so by the mid date, in europe, on the 4th of june, we didn't know what the engine boats us have decided. if p a mod, you're really gets a cert consecutive term with a sure which majority, which is what you want sound or thank you very much. that was our daily bureau chief center peters. ma'am. take a look at a few of the stories making headlines around the world today. the french and german defense ministers have ratified an agreement to in paris, to jointly manufacture a newly designed bottle tank. francis sebastian luck on you and germany. of course, the story is described the cooperation as historic. the project worth billions of

bureaus also includes a new system for the f and links between numerous weapons platforms. authorities in terms of the say, weeks of heavy rain have claimed a 155 lives and affected more than 200000 people. the el nino, a global weather phenomenon, has combined with the start of the rainy season, bringing down pores to regions that seldom get rain rains that also hit neighboring kenya, killing at least 50 people there. and the top court in the united states in the us state of new york has over turned a verdict from 2020 the found movie mogul harvey weinstein guilty rate. the judges found that he was didn't allow the fair trial, but weinstein will remain behind bars. due to a separate rate conviction in california, he, it was accusations against weinstein that sparked the global me to loop. and now returning to our top story, we are waiting for a news conference to begin with us secretary of state anthony blinking. he is

currently in beijing wrapping up a 3 day visit to china during the past hour blinking has been meeting with china as president position champagne. well, while we wait for that news conference to begin, let's cross over to journalist probably and crush, but in beijing probably. and blinking has just met or has been meeting with chinese leaders shooting and paying the tension in the meeting must have been palpable. what is it that these 2 great powers have such difficulty agreeing on? uh yeah, um, but let's 1st um get this straight. the fact that seating thing is meeting with blinking. so some good will buy the chinese site. i think that is some progress. um . so when you look at the opening statement by seating ping, it was more of wake speeds, but it all comes down to one message that says we should talk and be sure to manage all of the differences in a responsible manner. and i think this is something that the blinking can also

agree on. i mean, that is really um, much better than you know when both sites and not talking. and it was not a long time ago when there was the fact or not, no communication at all. between the 2 superpowers. so i would say this is at least a good sign, but when it comes down to the concrete list of topics, there are many disputes. it is, you know, i'm the find a policy topics. uh, the one ukraine. the how to handle tow on how to handle the crisis in the middle east. the for sale of take talk, the lack of progress, progress in the penton new crisis that is ravaging in the u. s. and where china has promised to, you know, help you know, band, those precursor coming codes that are needed to make those opioids. so that's really a lot to discuss. and i think for some topics there won't be any easy solution. maybe that will be even a compromise possible, but then you have some issues where i think both sides can find a common ground, for example, of the common fight against the climate change. but after all,

i think, you know, the tension is already tense and it is only slightly improving. i would say, well, let's start then with the, with the war in ukraine. the us has, his accused china of providing material support to china in, or choose trying to provide new materials for, to russia in its war against ukraine. has there been any progress probably on in efforts to, to find some sort of diplomatic progress in that so i'm expecting some more details by blinking himself when he gives the press a very soon, but to be honest, i'm very skeptical because um, so many a head of states have tried this before, i have tried to press the china and, you know, changing it stands to what the restaurant they all failed to do. so i know that, you know, the u. s. has a lot of economic might and political power, but i mean, the partnership between china and russia is really quite important. and seating

thing has positioned himself quite clearly as i read it, to the pro, put in. and just, you know, a couple of hours ago putting has confirmed that he will be coming to a china soon. and, you know, i'm sure there will be a red carpet for him. he and beijing because strategically, they share a lot of the same interest. and uh, the main being that they both disliked the west and world order. and i think this is the common ground for china and russia and they share long land florida. and i think that, you know, see, think pink will not give up on putting everything else would be really very surprising. so if so that would be maybe some small improvement but not a breakthrough that i would expect. another major point of contention of course, is tie one uh, we know the china regards taiwan is an integral part of its own territory, but the us is providing military support for tie one itself. is there any room for common ground there, fabio, to what you could argue that it would be progress of both sides toned down their

rhetoric a little bit. and um, other than that, i don't see much of real progress. the position is really very different from, you know, a badging side. taiwan is part of china and it's really the call of a china quote interest. china does not allow any kind of interference while a, the us position, is it the toe on should be side by itself, um, about its faith. and uh so when, for example, the us as a sending military um, what happens to him? uh, i want to be able to defend itself. it's a big okay, cation, probably the eyes are fairly, i'm gonna have to. so we're on there, we have a press conference is beginning with, with blinking with the stabilizing relationship. reopen and strengthening our high level channels of communication. over series is candid and constructive conversations. i have been with presidency and other senior officials. i made clear

our policies and intentions and identified issues a shared interest where we might work together. those discussions which were followed by additional senior level visits and meetings between our governments help lay the foundation for productive summit between president vice president she in san francisco. at the end of last year, our leaders agreed on concrete steps to cooperate on issues that matter. to r, p, and matter to the world and reduce the risk of misunderstanding and miscalculation in the month since then, we focused intensively on advancing those commitments. return to china this we take stock of where we've made progress and where more needs to be done. so that we can deliver tangible results for the american people. that's the focus of my duties. over the last 2 days, we present a sheet with director and for mr. wong, he with the minister of public security one shall, hong, and the shanghai party secretary jen jennings. since the woodside something we've

advanced for cooperation on fentanyl and other synthetic drugs, the number one killer of americans between the ages of 18. 45. specifically the p r c is issue to public notice the industry staking enforcement actually get some companies that produce precursors. those are the chemical ingredients that make up synthetic drugs and the us and china to set up a joint count or a college working group to collaborate on policy making and on law enforcement. and to share a technical expertise. thanks in large part to the working groups efforts. just providing information to international law enforcement that can be used to track and intercept illicit drugs. and the features that are to governments recently agreed to share best practices on closing loopholes in our financial assistance that the drug traffickers and other criminal enterprises use the longer money. so this is important progress, but more needs to be done. in my discussions,

i underscore the importance of the p r c, taking additional action in particular by prosecuting those who were selling chemicals and equipment used to make fentanyl meetings, international commitments to regulate all of the features that are controlled by the one commission on our product. drugs and disrupting initial the list of financing that works. since the woodside meeting between the presidents, we've also resumed direct military to military communications at multiple levels. something that i made a top priority from my meetings and visioning last year. u. s. and p r. c. defense officials measure 2 days that kind of gone in january earlier this month, or 2 countries, air and naval forces held talks. paines's ensuring stay for interactions. last week, secretary defense austin had his 1st video call with mr. defense dungeon. direct open, clear lines of communication like these are critical to avoiding miscalculations.

please to announce that earlier today, we agreed to hold the 1st us peers. he talks on artificial intelligence to be held in the coming weeks. will share our respective views on the risks and safety concerns around advanced a i and how best to manage. we also spoke about ways that we can continue to grow people and people ties between our countries, particularly educational exchanges. our governments have a vested interest in creating open and welcoming conditions for these programs, which as long and rich both of our countries. um, do you know i had a chance to meet yesterday with the she doesn't american and chinese students for learning side by side at the end while you're showing high program as well as another joint us p r. c university programs of china. i heard how the experience has deepened their knowledge inside and outside the classroom and force ties that will last well beyond their shared educational experience. while there are more than 290000 chinese students in the united states, they're sure the 900 americans studying here in china. and that's

a significant drop from a decade ago. and we had about 15000 americans studying here, a presidency. she said that he wants to significantly increase the number of americans studying here in the coming years. and that's something that we support. we have an interest in this because if our future leaders, whether it's in government, whether it's in business, civil society, climate tech, in other fields, if they're going to be able to collaborate, they're going to be able to solve big problems. if they're going to be able to work through our differences, they'll need to know and understand each other. language, culture, district. when what i told my peers he kind of counterparts of this visit is if they want to attract more americans here to china, particularly students. the best way to do that is to create the conditions that allow learning to flourish anywhere. a free and open discussion of ideas, access to a wide range of information, ease of travel, confidence in the safety,

security, and privacy of the purchase. now, even as we seek to deepen cooperation where our interest, the line, the united states is very clear out about the challenges posed by the p r c. and about our competing visions for the future. america will always defend our core interest and values. and my discussions today i reiterated, are serious concern about the p r. c. providing components that are powering rushes through war of aggression against you, frank. it's fine as the top supplier of machine tools, micro electronics, nitrous cellulose, which is critical to making munitions and rocket proponents and other use items that moscow is using to ramp up as defense, industrial base defense, industrial base that is churning out rockets, thrones tanks, and other weapons the president pollutants using to invade a sovereign country to demolish its power. good. another consideration of the structure to kill innocent children, women and men. russia would struggle to sustain its assault on ukraine without

trying to support my meetings with data. well as early as month and with our g 7 partners just last week, i heard that same message fueling brushes, defense, industrial base. not only threatens ukrainian security. it threatens your team, secure vision cannot achieve better relations with europe while supporting the greatest threat to european security since the end of the cold war. as we told china for some time, ensuring transatlantic security is a for us interest. and our discussion today, i made clear that if china does not address this problem, we will also express, are concerned about the appearance he's unfair trade practices and the potential consequences of industrial over capacity for global in us markets. especially in a number of key interest industries that will drive 21st century economy by solar con, uh, electric vehicles. and the batteries,

the power that china alone is producing more than 100 percent of global demand for these products, flooding markets under money competition. putting it risk livelihoods, and businesses around the world. now, this is a movie that we've seen before. and we know how dense with american visits shuddered. and american jobs last. the present advisor will not let this happen on his watch. will do what's necessary to ensure that american workers can compete on a level playing field. americans actions are not aimed at holding back trying this development. nor are we the coupling our economies sector yelman's. so during a recent visit, that would be disastrous for the global economy, including for the united states. we want chinese economy to grow. so it'd be american businesses and investors here. several of whom i had an opportunity speak to in shanghai. but the weight trying to grow as matters, as i told by counterparts, that means fostering

a healthy economic relationship where american workers and firms are treated equally and fairly. today's meetings i discussed the fear, sees dangerous actions in the south china sea including against routine philippine maintenance, operations, american operations here the 2nd time to show freedom of navigation commerce. and these waterways is not only critical to the philippines but to the us and to every other nation in the no pacific. and indeed around the world. that's why so many nations have expressed concern about the policies maritime maneuvers. i made clear that while the us will continue to work to de escalate tensions or defense commitments to the philippines remain, are in class or reaffirmed the us as one china policy and stress the critical importance of maintaining peace and stability across the taiwan strait. raised the cases of american citizens were roughly the same and those were subject to exit advance present by then i will not rest until their back with their families where

they belong. i also raise concerns about the erosion of hong kong as the economy and democratic institutions, as well as present national refresh the ongoing human rights abuses and change on it to that. and a number of individual human rights cases. we spoke about press, freedom and access. i appreciate the p r c granted short term basis to a number of the foreign journalists for here so that they can cover this visit. in my meetings, i encourage like, you know, she kind of course to facilitate them at the same age of 2021 to provide equal access to our 2 countries media organizations. united states will continue to assist on rest across again. this issue just as we do for this cross cultural exchanges and many other areas. we also discuss the range of regional and global prices where china can play a constructive role. thank 1st trying to use it since was to discourage iran, and it's proxies from expanding the conflict in the middle east and depressed to young young to end this dangerous behavior and engage in dialogue going forward.

we'll continue our high level discussions on these and other issues, all of the policies, but the united states is pursued over the past 3 years at home and around the world are driven by a singular objective delivering to the american people. meeting the challenges that they face a pro into chinese ship building to push the us in china back into a period of dangerous volatility separately. did you make any headway in terms of actually getting china to agree to reduce economic support for us as defense industry? and if not, is the us ready to move forward with sanction. in separately, given north korea is, is also sending massive shipments of munitions to russia. did you bring that up with your chinese counterparts and did you get any chinese cooperation there? and finally, just on tick tock. did that come up in conversations today and how do you expect china to respond to? thanks. not sure, i got all of it,

but i'll try it. thank you. on the last.