and hot on the heels of antony blinken s visit to china. beijing will seek to improve its ties with europe. however, europe has also started to pull away from china to ensure it is not too reliant on their exports. still, there are strong economic ties between germany and china for the last seven years germany has been china s biggest trading partner in europe. so, what is at stake? i m joined by gregor sebastian economics analyst at the mercator institute for china studies based out of berlin. 0ne welcome to the programme. first of all, for the two leaders what do they want to achieve in the next few days? good morning. i mean, the first thing isjust that good morning. i mean, the first thing is just that the meeting is taking place, right? we have a radically different relationship between the two leaders now than we had in devious years. under angela merkel s meant the cabinets on the chinese and german sides had really constant and close relations and this is the firs
patalings and his son hunter s business dealings. earlier today, the house oversight committee issued a subpoena for an fbi documentbr . according to a whistleblower, the document links president biden to a, quote, criminal scheme involving, quote, money for policy decisions when he was vicee wa president . we still don t know what other countries were involved, but sources say it was not china.wht what s als io interesting is thm document is from june 2020. that means months before a presidential election, the fbi may have known of joe biden s potential involvemens joet in his son s business dealings. so did they bury this story?d we and if true, n we now havend the several examples of democrats in the media moving the goalposts to protect joe biden. t to prote so first it was the laptop. wasn t real, then it was . but there s no connection to joe. what will be their excuso e? g s now, a man a has been following this all as highly is a u.s. senator from the state of missouri
learn a whole lot more with the subpoena for pat cipollone who knows what was going on behind the closed doors before, during and after january 6th. we re learning more about the lengths trump world may be willing to go through. two unnamed witnesses say thads heard from people in the former president s o bit who they have been trying to intimidate them. what they said to me is as long as i can t to be a team player, they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing. i m protecting who ni need to protect. you know i ll continue to stay in good graces if trump world. they have reminded me a couple of times that trump does read transcripts. quote, a person let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. he wants me to let you know he s thinking about you. he knows you re loyal and you re going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition. we have heard about this kind of behavior before in another hearing from someone else who knows all too well how trum
in a move that could push the country closer to default. the treasury department said it would end a waiver that had allowed us bondholders to accept payments. russia has almost $2 billion worth of payments on its international bonds that will be due up to the end of the year. joining me now is patrick reid, co founder of the adamis principle. i guess the place to start with this is how close it will bring russia to default in common what would happen if it does? thank you for having me on. it isjust another nail thank you for having me on. it is just another nail in the russian economy, and we cannot underestimate the consequences and dangers of a default. it is not quite like 1998, but it is not quite like 1998, but it is not very good for russia long term. now, a ten year yield on a russian bond will get you about 10% right now. that is not enough. russia s central bank raised interest rates to 20%. they are now currently 1a. that is not going to be enough either. essentia
Questions being asked at this weeks Global Ai Safety Summit in south korea. The second of its kind, it is co hosted with britain after the inaugural event in november last year at Bletchley Park near london. Francine bennett is interim director at the Ada Lovelace Institute an independent Research Institute specialising in al and is in south korea for this summit. A very warm welcome to the programme. So first of all, what will be achieved in seoul, do you think . Do you think . Well, thats a aood do you think . Well, thats a good question. Do you think . Well, thats a good question. I do you think . Well, thats a good question. I hope do you think . Well, thats a good question. I hope what| do you think . Well, thats a good question. I hope what will be achieved in seoul is moving on from the conversation from the Bletchley Summit Last year. So we had some really good initial conversations there, and i think what wasnt to see is shaping the development of this, potentially very new te