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
plains. the weekend focast plus, pride backlash. as celebrations begin, conflict threatens some events. later, leaping to the top. when making art for ballet hispanico is about changing lives. does it make you feel strong? yes. yeah. strong, flight show me you re strong. rrrrr. this is the cbs weekend news from new york with adriana diaz. good evening. we begin tonight be with new tensions between the world s largest military super powers, the united states and china. at issue, the latest military moves here in the strait of taiwan between the island and china. new video shows a chinese warship speeding up coming within 150 yards of hitting the american missile destroyer. the chinese ship even called the american vessel ordering it to move or there would be a collision. the u.s. ship slowed to avoid a crash. news of the incident coming the same day u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin in singapore issued this warning to beijing. to be clear, we do not seek confli
debt ceiling deal is reached. there are many moving parts. we have details on to phone calls happening as both sides iron out the details. congressman, richie torres, from new york, joins me for moments when we break down what we know. good day from msnbc world headquarters in new york, welcome to alex witt reports. i m in for alex today. we begin with breaking news. a lock happening on capitol hill this hour. white house officials and house republicans are preparing for a call any minute now. their calls between president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy. house republicans are than expected to release the full text of the debt ceiling agreement negotiated by both sides. at five p m today, democrats will get a briefing on the agreement from white house officials. here is some of what both sides say is in the deal. it raises the debt ceiling until 2025. it cuts 1.5 trillion and spending. it increases defense spending. as new work requirements for some government programs, and
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with the most important sales pitch in washington this week selling the deal to avoid a catastrophic debt default. the call that was scheduled for two hours ago has not happened yet. a default could be disastrous to the u.s. and that threat still looms ominously. up on capitol hill there are lawmakers from both parties grumbling. passage is not guaranteed at this point. let s go to priscilla alvarez. what is there to make of this biden/mccarthy phone call. do we think that s going to happen any time now? any update on that? reporter: there s every expectation that this call will happen. it hasn t happened yet according to a source i spoke with half an hour ago. president biden when he arrived at the white house earlier this afternoon did say that the intent of this call was to, quote, dot the is and cross the ts. when asked weahether there were any sticking point, he said none. throughout the day, w
long weekend, both sunday and monday looking fine as well. what you will notice is the air will get cooler, so temperature coming down a few degrees but that said, we are talking about may sunshine and in the sunshine it will feel pleasantly warm. enjoy the long weekend if you have it. thanks, chris. and that s bbc news at ten. there s more analysis of the day s main stories on newsnight with victoria derbyshire which is just getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. but from the ten team, it s goodnight. institutionally racist, sexist, misogynistic and discriminatory. that s the verdict on the uk s second biggest police force from it s own chief constable. what needs to change? less than a month after four former police scotland officers came on newsnight to expose sexism in the force the boss admits there is a problem. the longer i was there i started t