the, the, you're watching, the news is coming to live from burle in the us and the you. what planet new sanctions on iran. israel urges it's allies to stuff up international pressure on to run in response to last weekend's attack. but western nations are wary of any moves that could spark an even wider conflict. also coming up on the show, germany's chancellor calls on china's childrens hang out for in russia's war and ukraine to an end. all actual says beijing's close ties to moscow could play a major bolt and securing peace. people in the solomon islands go to the polls for the 1st general election since the government switched its diplomatic

allegiances from ty, one to beijing, and a huge fire races through copenhagen's historic old stock exchange, destroying its iconic expire and threatening one of denmark's most valuable art. collections the clare richardson. thank you very much for joining us. germany's foreign minister and a lot of our bulk is in israel for crisis talks on the israel iran conflict. bare bach match with prime minister benjamin netanyahu to discuss the consequences of last weekend's iranian aerial attack. earlier in the day she met with his barely president isaac had, so i'm going jerusalem. the german foreign minister has been urging de escalation and the conflict to the you in the us of said they are preparing new sanctions against her on european union for us foreign policy chief and joseph brows. that'd

be proposed sanctions. would also target around supplies of weapons to its proxies in the middle east. we would increase our outreach with the key partners and duration. and so member stage propose that option of a expend did restrictive measures, again jude on adopting an expansion. that is $32.00 measures. again, i will send to this 10 election service request to start the necessary work related to the sanctions. i see that these correspondent on unit you says how the is really leadership sees efforts by the u. s. and e u to impose sanctions on our, on what is realized, praise these announcements. after that you for ministers meeting the, for a minister of israel. israel katz said that this was an unprecedented achievement for is real e u relations saying that they welcomed any attempt to put diplomatic pressure on

a ron and to put pressure on the wrong not to attack is really again, but israel caps is also said that he wants to work with the you to impose new stations on around in addition to a military response. so in israel and is really government. these new announcements of propose sanctions are seen as a way to dissuade israel from responding militarily. and it seems that these really, governments, the work cabinet here is, as clearly stated that there is going to be some military repercussions for iran strike over the weekend. was more about that, is it already clear how israel might react to a runs retaliatory strikes over the weekend? the officials who are familiar with the meetings that the war cabinet has been having told the new york times that there are several options on the table. one is an aggressive strike against is rainy and assets in a 3rd country. another one would be more symbolic. strike on israel,

on iran itself. and another option would be a cyber attack. but that would risk exposing israel's cyber capabilities too soon. and another option would be a more small scale attack, a targeted assassination, perhaps within iran, something that is real has been doing for a long time now. but there is really usually does not take credit for these types of cobra to tax inside the ron. and one of the major points of a military response for is realized, do something publicly as a matter of the deterrence free wrong. not the strike is real itself. a final option of course, is to do nothing. a recent study from the hebrew university and jerusalem said that the little bit over half of his religion are actually in favor of this option. that's what biden is pushing, and it's what china and russia are pushing as well. saying that the best way to deter ron from striking is real again, is to not strike iran like

a israel did on april 1st when it hit an embassy compound in syria belonging to around. now, germany's foreign minister and one of our bach we've heard, has been in israel. she's met with prime, the prime minister and other leaders and tel aviv do we know one message she has tried to send to the israeli leadership, or her message is de escalation. but she also wants to show that she's standing on the side of israel at this time of unprecedented and unprecedented attack, a by iran directly on israel never happened before. so she's balancing between the 2. she wants to convince israel not to escalate. she wants to, as she said, prevent a wildfire in the region. what's interesting is she also has said that one of the major points she's pressing is that garza is still a major issue for germany. she said that she does not want the catastrophic humanitarian situation in gaza to be pushed to the background of the conversation

where hundreds of thousands of civilians are on the brink of starvation. man, thank you so much. that is d as army and he says in jerusalem as well, considers its response to a runs attack and continues to fight its war against tomas and gaza. there were fears over where these regional tensions could had. it is a complex part of the world with many rivals vying for influence. israel's neighbor, jordan, and regional heavy weight, saudi arabia both appeared to help defend as well. from a ron's missiles to the surprise of some of both countries are involved in a complicated balancing act, making it difficult to predict their future actions. when the drones and missiles from a run came flying towards israel, many of them passed through jordan's space. not only did the arab kingdom help shoot them down, it also opened its s space to his riley and us planes seeking to intercept the amount insist that was strictly to protect his own citizens. but jordan's king of

della has to balance competing interests. jordan is pro weston and likes to keep in step with his allies, especially the united states, plus jordan. she has a loan boda with israel and once peaceful relations a mine of the works behind the scenes with these riley authorities. but israel is born in gaza has outraged many jordanians. one 5th of the population is of palestinian descent, including king of done as a wife. the government has vociferously condemned to the rule, but the kingdoms perceive defense of israel in the face of been rainy and miss silas has an good many jordan's powerful neighbors, saudi arabia also faces a difficult balancing act. the sunni kingdom views she, i'd run as its biggest regional rival, but last year it re established relations with to run both the saudis and the

united arab emirates, have sought to improve ties with iran and israel. what probably to isabel's intervention and goes it saudi crown. prince mohammed been so mind looks boys to sign a deal with the us where the kingdom might have recognized israel in return for security guarantees from washington. but after 6 months of war and gaza on tens of thousands of palestinians, dead dots of the table for now, still are the officials say both the subtleties on the amorous shed intelligence with the americans warning that iran was planning an attack on these rail. that probably allowed for a most successful defensive response by israel and its allies. the challenge for our leaders is to keep the us on side well, not endangering the delicate relationship with iran or being seen by their own people as supporting israel at the expense of public opinions in gaza. as

i spoke earlier with data steinberg from the german institute for international and security affairs, i asked him whether this latest attack from iran has complicated the balancing act of these countries maintaining ties to the west. i don't think that the slightest attack has concentrated the balancing act and simply because the nation's neighboring, because ro have a lot more problems with the is with these were highly attacks and got to start with these are any war in gaza games time. us then with the end is a, is before with military action against iraq. and they all do agree with israel that iran is the greatest threat to regional security. and that is part of or, and that is part of the reason why jordan and saudi arabia and possibly the united arab emirates, cooperated with israel and the united states intending off. there's

a, there's a iranian, the tac last week. or do we know the extent to which they were involved in funding off this latest iranian attack? but they did play a mazda mazda road. uh, but it was important, especially when we have seen that. uh, jordan. uh, even even shut down some of these uh, some of the drones flying all go to damian territory. the road of saudi arabia budget has been, uh, mine has been even more important because saudi arabia opened up uh its s base to the american and possibly even uh, even is there any fighter jets them since 2022. some of these nations do have an agreement with israel and the united states, although part of the unofficial about adding trends. and that's uh and the reason is very simple. um, saudi arabia the way, the jordan,

and then you egypt to some extent, they see this growing springs off of the wrong and missed the program. so even with that fear very much front and present when you look at a figure like say jordan's king abdullah, you've mentioned also the strong public support within jordan and these countries for the plight of the palestinians concerns about what is happening and gaza when you look at jordan, how does he go about maintaining these ties with israel and the west? well, also putting at ease the minds of the public about what's happening and gaza. i know there is a major difference between the between jordan and countries like saudi arabia or the way e, although the populations and all these countries are adamantly on the side of the palestinians, and possibly on the side of from us as well as saudi arabia and the way

e r stable countries in total control of the situation in the country. jordan always has to see a major mobilization of the palestinian population in, in the kingdom. but i think that might be one reason why the central roads situation in jordan has improved a little bit after the after the run, you know, tests simply because of fighting, fighting against the wrong or at least positioning the kingdom against the wrong. as more support in the care in the country, then citing with the, with israel, although only implicitly in its fight against from us has quito steinberg from the german institute for international and security affairs. we can take a look now at some other world news headlines. croatians cast their votes on wednesday and what will be a test of the popularity of prime minister? i'm trying to think of x. his creation democratic union party has dominated

politics and independence from yugoslavia in 1991, but has been connected to a string of recent correction scandals. fresh protests have taken place in george's capital. we see over a controversial bill that critics say aims to silence political opponents. thousands of people turned out to oppose the legislation. protesters 8, the bill is similar to laws in russia and put to georgia at odds with its impression of joining the a more than a $100000.00 people have been evacuated due to floods and conflicts done. water levels in rivers in rushes, ural, and south western side barian regions are also rising. the disaster has been caused by heavy rains, which have melted large accumulations of snow. german chancellor, all i've sold is wrapped up a 3 day visit to china where he met at length for a chinese president, asian ping on tuesday. russia's war on ukraine was high on the agenda,

but so to or germany in the used trade ties with china. it was the culmination of a high stakes trip to china. chancellor shells held unusually long discussions in beijing with chinese president. she's in pin a 3 hour meeting that included a private tea ceremony and a meal. one of the chancellor's goals to convince china to put pressure on russia's, vladimir persian, she not as a permanent member of the un security council showing that has a heightened responsibility for peace in the world. i'm showing is would, has weights in russia. that's why i asked president, she to accept its influence on russia. so putin finally stops his insane military campaign, drops his troops and ends this horrible. what he has for now is she's promised to work on further efforts to end the conflict, including a possible peace conference and commitment to strong chinese german relations. yeah,

i mean, i was, i'm tired of trying to get a job to show the finally are 2 countries and back or 5 you and developed by letter relations law, alarm, a long term and strategic perspective. and kind of pull back j e and work together term, more stability and certain things into the world. but should be an issue to some. another challenge for a show is striking a balance between germany significant economic interests in china. and the growing a you concerns over what are perceived as on fed, chinese subsidies on green exports such as the electric cause. so yeah, it's very clear we need to talk about the issue of production. we need to talk about competition on subsidies. it's a key issue that also because the issue of subsidies raises questions all over the world to so many countries do the same, especially when it comes to renewable energy use, an advanced electra mobility technologies. so it's important that we establish processes that ensure that everyone doesn't simply go ahead on that. right. so for

instance, you don't know because i know i haven't any data by time because the jury appears to be out so far on the success of this trip. now, germany's partners in the a you, in the us will be watching closely to say, wash effect if any, this visit will have on trade relations or on rushes will in ukraine. and just back from china where she was travelling with the german chancellor, we have to have these chief political editor, mckayla, customer a welcome back mckayla to our studio in berlin. i want to pick up on a question that was raised at the end of that report. there, whether schultz has visit will in fact, have any effect on russia's war and ukraine. well, that's the this, that, this way, and you, prince, presented him, is a lensky science of the german chancellor for his efforts that he did convey the message to the chinese that, that would carries wait in russia. and he went to china with one big ask, which is for time to,

to stop sending pots to boston sickle dual use goods. that's also can be used to build weapons chips used in drones. and that's something germany, europe is very much concerned about. and whether that will really change anything is a different question. the next big test will be where the tie not actually takes part in the time peace conference, this somebody in switzerland. now it's, and by no means clear that china will get involved china and really previously is also said once the russians to be sitting at the table as well. it doesn't look like that's going to be the case. but at the very least, what they discussed is the potential wedding of potential outcomes of this very conference. so it's an effort to bring the chinese on board, and it always takes a bit longer to see whether something actually has changed. whether he managed to actually make the point that it's also in china is interest of for that war to end . china says at once that will to end. but those are the was requested now is what

we see some action on that. but the very least she did here while he did here, but there was a statement from presidency afterwards, which once again condemned the use of nuclear weapons. also pushing back on the threats of any kind of nuclear use. and that is a key, a message to that is to as letting me put you in at this moment in time. so i suppose whether we're, it's translate into actions. we'll see in the weeks ahead of this a war, the war. and you quite, obviously very much high on the agenda, but what about the conflict in the middle east? did we hear from she and schultz on this issue? we did, and we did in see them make a very different focus though. and there were clear words from the germans. hans was standing next to presidency and also referring to iran and presence. she avoided that all together, focusing more again in the statement afterwards and on. pushing for an implementation of the un security council resolution quoting for an end to the fighting in gaza. you didn't hear the chinese mentioned iran instead. we did hear

see asking for countries with influence and that must be the name of the g 7. and who also had a conference on this while we were in china and to basically a put some pressure use the influence for israel not to let this get out of hands and become a wider conflict. so we see china itself interpreting its responsibility in the region as kind of let the big powers that have influence sources. but the parts of the tools as well is that china does have some swipe sticks here amongst our countries. and we've seen that in the past. i think it's also important to mention here that this was the 1st meeting that we saw between schultz and she, since germany introduced its new strategy to, to de risk from china last year. do you think that that has changed relations between the 2? it has because china is seeing the risk, which means becoming more independent from china as something of

a threat. it also tails in with the european strategy and the much more aggressive americans strategy was all contained at the what the risking of the invitation really masses and hit what i sold a took a with it to great lengths to explain to the chinese that the german interpretation means that the risk and means being less dependent. yes. but at the same time, increasing trades as he turned back that up at this moment in time with german companies having invested in the past year, some 11900000000 years. that's a new record. high so trade is not decreasing at the same time, both sides of a very wary of each other. the chinese want more access to europe and markets, particularly their e cause, and there's currently still an investigation at the european level where the, the subsidies are so high that you could see some taxes slapped onto that. and that could mean assisting towards

a trade confrontation. nobody wants that both sides to the depend on each other. well, thank you so much for bringing us up to speed there. that is deal of these chief political editor. we have a cosigner so the south pacific now where some 420000 registered voters are going to the polls in the solomon islands. the vote is the 1st general election since the government switched to diplomatic collisions as from taiwan to beijing. the solomon's closer relationship with china and a trouble domestic economy are the main issues waiting on voters minds as they cast their ballots. there alone cues outside polling stations here and how many are the capital of the solomon islands? it is an election that will be closely watched by europe in the us. it is the 1st phase since the country got relations with taiwan in 2019 choosing. instead to pivot towards china. we have see with us, with 31. now we,

we have do over the past, we've china, i think for me, i was hoping that that would be a good change for this country. but, but that for you to see that up in the diplomatic shift by incumbent prime minister, my know also spoke of already closed up for a new wave of antique government protests at the time he signed a controversial security packed with china, or in 2022 and beijing is currently funding several building projects in her diarra circle. valerie is to time into the deep and diplomatic ties with beijing if we elected the country is facing rise in poverty and unemployment. but to position candidates, a keen to point out that any investment from beijing comes

a to cost is that there's something that is very uh, containing, like in place of the ccv in this country like people are not really making decisions that comes from the on the way the thing of the things they've been influenced by money, gods and things. so that is something that we don't want to see in this country. voters are electing some 50 politicians to form a national parliament. these m p 's will then co, a less to form a majority government and the elective prime minister. so that process could take weeks a fire has caused extensive damage to one of copenhagen's, most iconic buildings. the 17th century old stock exchange caught fire as it was undergoing renovation. priceless danish paintings were inside prompting people to rush into the flames to try and save them. authorities are investigating the cause

of the place being nothing to clear the billboard on copenhagen's old stock exchange, but a mid renovations tragedy struck spending hundreds of years of history and flames. 5 crews rushed to save the building. and the irreplaceable collection inside stuckey streams is on fire. it was built by cook and a full phone of years ago. and it was to send up a trade in, in northern europe for, for one of us. and that was the house, but the phone of people working in there working for things, enterprises and companies and, and now homeless is actually on fine uses, watched in shock as the flames fried, rushing to pull treasures to st.

louis. this is not to them. this is national treasure so, so people from the streets are running into the building, carrying out pain. it's a 400 year old building that is survived all the other fires to burn down copenhagen to the ground for that. so it's, it's addressed to, los the buildings, land might expire, made of, for intertwined. dragon's tails was means to protect us of the that it was followed by the blaze, the flag crews salvage want. they could around half the building was destroyed, with hopes it can be recovered in time. it's absolutely horrible. it's part of the story about c c. we can't just leave it in

a sea of flame. and that's why we'll do everything we can to rebuild this. know when was injured in the fire, which has built a deepest aging close to denmark's historical collections. just before we go, a quick reminder of our top stories. the united states and the european union say they're preparing new sanctions. targeting iran, after 8 launched an unprecedented missile and grown attack against israel on the weekend western leaders and urge both sides for restraint, where even any sparks and even whiter likes and of german chancellor, olaf schultz says he asked of china as children peg to use his influence in moscow to help bring rushes for print. when at the chancellor's comments came at the end of a 3 day visit to china, which was largely focused on improving economic cooperation between china and euro . and is there any update at all for me? for now?

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