the the, this is the, the news life from believe the us secretary of state. pray this concerns with china as president whole, but it's support for restaurants who cable in your brain and talk to president children being entering the blinking, criticize this child's hand for russia to make weapons. he also announces 80 as a full put ation, including controls of advanced a. i was coming up, nato was again starting back phase berlin or visit meeting with german johnson up on our folks to discuss an upcoming defense coverage in washington. the

british manager, welcome us, are going to have state anthony blinking has met with china as president on the 3rd and final day of the visit fraud with tensions following the meeting, blinked and spoke of progress and the relationships between china and the us, including on issues such as organized crime and officers and intelligence, lincoln stress that it was crucial for washington and b jane to maintain open channels of communication. i mean welcome to tones to visit the country with the but blinking also pointed out that there was serious differences including chinese support for russia, following it to attack on ukraine. and my discussions today, i reiterated, are serious concern about the p r c. providing components that are powering rushes, brutal war of aggression against you. frank. the china is the top supplier of machine tools, micro electronics, nitrous cellulose,

which is critical to making munitions and rocket propellers. and other use items that moscow is using to ramp up its defense. industrial base, a defense industrial base that is churning out rockets, drones, tanks, and other weapons. the present pollutant is using to invade a sovereign country to demolish its power good. another consider the end of the structure to kill innocent children, women and men. russia would struggle to sustain its assault on ukraine without trying to support another source of tension in the restaurant out of nations. these taiwan lincoln's visit, began just as washington promised, more than a $1000000.00 of ministry aid for it's in the pacific. bought knows with taiwan, chief among them badging news, taiwan as its own to 3 and has threatened to seize it by force. the douglas east to assure correspondent james j to looks at the impact of the funding and lincoln's visit on taiwan. we don't walk away from our allies, we stand with him. it's back is described it as an inflection point in history. the,

the world us president joe biden, this week assign since a lot of phone minute tree. a package was more than 95000000 us store that motion more than a 1000000000, if that is a marks for washington's in the pacific pond. this, it includes on supports in front of military financing for taiwan. the self for democracy, the china claims has its own. on the same day, the us secretary of state, america's top tips, not just me bring can visits china based on this thing, not included on the agenda page, things, ministry threats to tie one percent badging. make a what it thoughts about the us funding for taiwan is defense. pretty well. military collusion between the us and taiwan will not bring security, nor can it save taiwan from the doomed faith of independent high school to ship. i mean a chinese presidency. jim ping has often said what he calls re unifying. taiwan with china is a cool interest for badging recent years. china,

his round top military invitation flying military, i crossed into ty, one's at defense identifications on almost every day in less than a month. so i want the new greats. it's newly elected president lighting though he's about to do everything he can to protect. i one from chinese attorneys away the she in her life. this reconciled his new national security team with my new coming equipped with years of experience diplomatic positions. they've welcome the latest us for task on the saw it on will be able to is that our primary goal is to complicate the calculations on the other side of the straight into cost. china is time table for potential reckless military actions always seem to town to be constantly postponed in order to maintain stability and the taiwan strait i'd ship . i'll tie t the about that time when he is, officials often say that self defense is that responsibility alone. but with a gap in military capability between type and aging whitening tie when he is

exercises like this a couple of months ago. underlined the fact that the supportive washington would be critical to funding off a chinese attack. and under i spoke to james jetta who sent those out report in aust, what's taiwan? the response has been tube lincoln's visit well dressed when it comes to these really contentious issues between the us and china. any type of communication, the side say on, on issues like thoughts of you did a positive lights. both sides saying communication is absolutely critical to avoid any type of military miscalculation or escalation invoices around. hi, want to further afield in the south china sea and the blinking for him is paul reiterated comments and we usually hear in these types of situations reiterating the importance of peace and stability across the taiwan straits. but i think no one's under any illusions. hey, i think people recognize that those fundamental tensions between the us and china

on this question are still there and we heard much more forceful comments from chinese officials following these meetings. chinese president, eugene paying say instead over the past few months, the 2 sides have managed to improve some areas of the relationship. but the big questions and challenges remain behind the scenes. and then of course we have from china is 12 different, not one e with probably more force will come in saying that the us should not use why one as a tool to contain china. so really, what we've seen over these meetings is improvements in some areas, the bad relationship between the st. pete set 2 superpowers. and so when it comes to those where the fundamental tensions or the taiwan still most disagreements, date of the correspondent james chip is speaking to me earlier back from taipei. jetta in berlin, german johnson sholtes is hosting nato secretary general against fulton bank for talks. the meeting is in preparation for the alliance has annual summit which may be held in july in washington. the water new plan would be higher on the agenda.

the fed are also expected to discuss how to boost defense spending to counter threats from russia and china. the political correspondence, simon young has been following against felton bags visit to the german capital. he told me, well, the nature chief have to say well, bear a shot. he gave a, a brief statement to reporters at the jones 3, at which he pretty much just confined himself to. so thanking gemini for what it has been doing to support ukraine in this war. and you know, he was also pointing out that spying and espionage efforts, by uh, is it still considered like russia in china or a very worrying thing. but last night, uh, sold and bag was also invalid and making a speech. it was a bit more expensive. and what do you have to say that was the, the, uh, that you cried in can still, when it's more against a russia at, and see, you know,

he said, of course, following the decision by the us congress to key fob military support. those that all the countries like germany and the netherlands in the u. k. a and others at, but at the same time, he's keeping the pressure on saying that now it's a question of really delivering the weapons and ammunition the ukraine needs, given that most go for its part, is also getting support from its international symbols. as a bubble, of course, china, speaking of support for ukraine and you did mentioned there's the us has approved this long delayed age package for ukraine. this is in addition to sending the attack ins long range besides the keys. while the german chancellor continues to refuse to send the long range taurus, besides that, you can once this issue come up at all as well, it's hard to know, but that is that it would seem highly likely that that would be discussed.

certainly either various international partners, including the u. s. and the u. k. a teen for gemini to send a long range missile of the tourist me saw as a range of 500 kilometers. it's longer than the us at me so. so there's a weapon that key if once and a senior defense officials from washington are quoted as saying they hope that the decision to supply that to that you asked me. so i'll will ink cartridge, pull it political leaders in germany to send the tourist as well. but you know what's being said behind closed doors, how to say right now. speaking of sophisticated weapons systems of german and french defense ministers have mentioned patterson signed to do to try to produce what's being called the battles tank of the future. do we know more about this project? yeah, this is a very important project. the m g c s. it stands for main ground combat system. and it's a stage of the tank at the t as intended to replace the tank stocks of both germany

and fronts. it's been in the pipeline since 2017. you know it's a, it's a complex project, but it's going to take a long time mold in a tank really sort of network system. you can be cody like the operation of multiple vehicles. and it also includes things like all the official intelligence. so, you know, it should change the picture on, on the battlefields of the feature. they say problem is it'll take a quite a bit longer. it's not due to be in operation until 2040 or leave it there for the time being the, the simon young. thanks so much for that. a quick look now at some of the stories making headlines around the world. students of the university of california los angeles, have joined a wave of pro palestinian sea teens on campuses across the united states demonstrates as a demonic a ceasefire. and garza and i calling on the diversity to cut all ties with these

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a surgeon, power usage and outages in bangladesh where millions of students have been told to stay home from school. as the south asian nation swelter through one of its worst heat waves on record of the quick your mind to know about top stories. you are a secretary of state anthony banking has how's the press conference engaging on the 3rd and final day of a visit fault with the tensions link and talk to positively about candid and constructive conversations on shared interest. the also raised us concerns about china support for russia's boy new frame and its ability to create weapons and the german jobs, the filters hosting nato secretary general jim stocum breakfast office here in berlin. but everything is in preparation for the alliance is annual summit, which will be held in july. and that's only for now coming up next off of the break

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