Hello and welcome to Business Live. Chinese president xijinping is in russia for talks with his counterpart Vladimir Putin today. Trade is set to be top of the agenda ahead of the 620 meeting of Global Leaders later this month. The visit will be xis sixth tour to russia since taking office in 2012. And their meetings seem to be bearing fruit according to china, trade between the two increased by over 26 in the first four months of the year, reaching nearly 25 billion. Cooperation is increasing too. Russia will be a key component of chinas belt and Road Initiative an ambitious multi trillion Dollar Project that will link europe and asia via the historic silk road. As part of the project and as a symbol of this close relationship beijing has even agreed to help finance a High Speed Rail Link within russia itself Linking Moscow to the city of kazan. Joining me now is dr yujie, head of china foresight, at lse ideas. Thank you for coming in to doctor us. Thank you for coming in to doctor us
information to say that they had actually managed to sink this u boat, and were on their way back. they were able to crawl back to canada this time, they were the other side of the atlantic, and so they managed to get back at about 12 knots, which is a safe speed they could go at. when eventually he arrived in canada, he was able to ring me up and say he had arrived safely. well, it was amazing of course, and you know, we just both felt, well, there s nothing you could say just thank goodness, thank goodness, thank goodness. you know, that s all you could do. you couldn t look far into the future, you might only have had a fortnight s leave and he may be killed at the end of it. you had no idea what was going to happen, so you just put up with it, and if something was there, the present, it was there, you did it. whatever.
messages to bletchley park, and the plain language messages to the nearest naval intelligence centre. they would sometimes have a bit of chat, you know, did you know so and so s boat are all going on leave next week? . and the one that picked it up said, speaks german, 0h, they re all going to make babies . and we all wrote it down, because the rule was that everything you heard, you logged. and it might be usefulfor our side to know that these crews were going on leave, these boats would not be operating. even bits of gossip like that could come in useful, so we wrote everything down. i was transferred to a station between dover and folkestone, where we could hear, very loud and clear,
munich. how significant is that? it s unfortunate, because the iranian factor is important over the ukraine war, they should not be supplying russia with weapons. and also, the iranian nuclear issue, over which international negotiations are deadlocked, is the next most serious challenge to peace and security, and notjust in iran s immediate neighbourhood. the spill over of a conflict connected with iran would involve a great many other nations. so even though there are diplomatic links with iran, it would have been usefulfor their delegation to be present in munich, for talks on the sidelines and to hear more directly from european leaders and they have so far, what is needed to try to bring back iran into compliance with its
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