Blinken in London, West Bank Settlements, Virginia Primary
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The secretary of state is in london to talk about ukraine's economic recovery.

but after high level talks in china, how much will end any blink's conversations focus on how beijing could help.

I am a shall marn. That's a Martinis. And this is up first from npr news.

Israel's new rightwing government has loosen restrictions on building jewish settlements in the occupied west bank. This comes as ongoing violence in the west bank has intensified. Israel deployed helicopter gunships. S money that killed at least six.

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It's a busy week for america's top diplomats.

Secretary state antony blink can emit with china's top 的 decision paying。 Yesterday in china, you heard him on npr talking about his trip to beijing. IT was the first such a visit in more than five years.

Now linkin is turning to ukraine. He's in london today for a conference focusing on ukraine's postwar recovery. Those talks start tomorrow.

Pr, learn fair joins us now from our london b law and secretary state blinkin told them P, R yesterday that he applause any role china complain, deal of ukraine. So how do the U. K. And other countries .

will be at .

this conferencing? At some of them are very actually, I mean, in china, as you know, has not condemned russia. A sheet ingpen has maintained ties with ladye putin.

On the other hand, this war is grounding on, and china, because of its ties to russia, could be sort of uniquely place to shake loose some kind of compromise from putin if putin has any interest in ending this war at all through diplomacy, which doesn't look likely at this point. Um I called up at china expert, his name is run a mitter historian at oxford. And he says, no, china has actually been playing that role in other conflicts around the .

world and has done particular countries which are no longer very friendly towards the united states. Iran would be a good example and use its economic links and its long history of diplomatic connection with them to try and essentially broken agreements that lead to regional peace. Iran, saudi arabia, is the best example of that in recent years.

And he says, of course, if there is a piece in ukraine, there could be something in that for china too.

Okay, so what my bat look .

like a hand, basically in rebuilding and the reconstruction of ukraine. China is a construction machine. IT has built infrastructure projects around the world that relies on those projects to create jobs for chinese workers and keep the chinese economy of float.

Chinese workers have already built parts of the key metro, and they want to do more projects like that. I talk to another analyst. His name is mujtaba rock, man of the ura asia, a group. It's a risk analysis firm, and he says that a chinese role in ukraine actually makes the european union pretty nervous.

The chinese can build political support, allegiance connections through undertaking a massive large scale capital reconstruction program. And I think so, there is A A lot of concern in your about competition with the chinese for hearts and minds in ukraine once the war has stopped.

he says basically the european union sees ukraine as its turf and he doesn't want china to have a foot holds there.

This conference in london this week about planning for what happens if and when the warrants .

yeah basically having a plan for that moment. And to that end, the european commission is announcing today a big package for ukraine medium term recovery through two thousand twenty, the U. K, which is second only to the us in terms of military aid to ukraine, is has announced a tightening of sanctions on russia IT wants to keep russian assets frozen um even if and when the war ends until moscow agrees to pay compensation to ukraine so blinking another diplomats are looking at the rebuilding of ukraine and legal repercussions for russia.

Pr, lawn fare in london. Thanks for the inflation.

You're welcome.

New developments in the israeli occupied west bank are worrying the international community.

Thousands of new homes for israeli settings are set to be advanced next week that after israel has changed the process for approving settle ment construction, making IT easier for israeli settles to claim more land that palestinians want for a country of their own. The U. S, the E, U. And U, N, are calling this an obstacle to peace. And IT comes during a violent time in the west bank.

pr. S, Daniel estrin is with us from television. Daniel teus, so what happened yesterday in the west bank.

we saw some new worrying trends yesterday and just in the last couple weeks in general, have via weapon and greater casualties. What we've been seen for more than a year now is that almost every night, israeli troops RAID a palestinian city, arrest suspects. They are trying to prevent palestinian shootings on israelis.

But these military raids lead to gun battles and troops end up regularly killing Young palestinians. Uh, high casualties. What we saw in the RAID yesterday was that palestinian militants, uh, are becoming more and bolden, more sophisticated in their weaponry. We saw a rare roadside bomb go off targeting an armored personnel Carrier. The army, uh, says it's quite an advanced bomb that that went off IT wounded several soldiers and for the first time in two decades, israel deployed an attack helicopter to help extract soldiers so we're seeing heavy weapons being used by both sides um and and yesterday was a fierce the battle where palestinian officials said israeli troops killed six palestinians, including a fifteen year old so now there are these calls israel for a wider offensive to prevent the spread of roadside bombs so they do not target israeli settles in the west bank .

and we mentioned earlier, Daniel, that israel is working to expand the presence of settlers in the west bank house.

happening right in a couple of ways. Next week israel is planning to advance about forty eight hundred new settle er homes throughout the west bank that a total number of settled homes this year being advanced is nearly triple the number last year. Also this week, israel change the rules on how IT plans new settlement.

Mes IT has expertise. The process is given sweeping decision powers to a far right pro setser cabinet minister who openly says that he wants to expand the settled population and prevent a palestinian state. This new approval process for settle er homes couldn't make IT harder for countries like the us.

To do what he has done for years, which is step in in the early stages of these settled plans and and stop some of the more controversial one. Uh, this is now a quicker pipeline that, uh, that settlement homes are going to be approved much more quickly. So that's why the us, the eu, the U. N have all spoken out these moves deeper in israel's occupation of the west bank. They also make IT even harder to see a future where israel came up, root from these areas and let palestinians have their own country.

Yeah, but there are no peace talks at all right now. So how does the recent violence in these new decisions on selection effect to where things are head there?

We are seeing a leadership vacuum in the palestinian authority. The palestinian president is deeply unpopular and deeply ineffective in advancing the palestinian cause and freedom from israeli occupation and a Young generation of palestinians taking up arms, filling up that vacuum, and also on the israeli side, a settle er leadership, taking up key positions of power in the government.

M P R international correspondent Daniel astonia intellect Daniel, thanks.

You are welcome.

In Virginia, to day is the final day of voting in what has been a very expensive primary season.

Republicans took control of the house of delegates and the governors mentioned two years ago, the competition is expected to be intense in the general election this fall. But first, both parties are dealing with brand new legislative maps.

Following all of this is margret bl of member station W A M U modern tella all about this primary.

yeah. The big story here is that Virginians latest redistricting process really shook things that politically IT drew quite a few older and convince into the same districts, which prompted retirements. And we're talking people with a lot of power who've been shaping this body for a while. And both senate majority and minority leaders, for instance, retiring after this year. Redistricting also created some entirely new districts, and IT embolden ate a few primary chAllenges to go up against some of the remaining in convents.

And so depending on how racist go today, that sounds like I could be a very different looking legislature after november yeah exactly.

if been convinced, struggle to hold on to their seats. That could mean still more turnouts of people in the democratic party in northern virgina are especially concerned about loss of experience and influence among the regional delegation. And some voters are too like mars marinate.

If we were lived in a safer country right now, we are, you know, people were not leaning towards ideologies and so forth and might vote for a less experience person. But right now, looking at experience.

but the chAllenges still have a shot. Their campaigns have a lot of money. Some of them have spent nearly one million dollars already, and they're making the case for a Younger, more diverse, more progressive vision. The democratic .

party republican governor gland Young's Victory in twenty twenty one, I think, surprise some, because IT seem like the state was trending blue. What G, O, P. Priorities has he been able to get done while taking office?

Yeah, he's definitely had some key wins. Probably one of the biggest is a big tax cut that he got through in the budget deal last year. But because democrats have control of the state senate, they've been able to block a lot of the stuff on Young ins's agenda, think things like a fifteen week abortion beyond in school choice legislation. And so for someone who's kind of floating with presidential ambitions like yung is not getting those cultural conservative wings is a bit of a problem about .

the racist is today on the republican side.

Yeah, there are a few more competitive contests that hit these kind of establishment republicans versus further right chAllenges. Young n has tended to support more establishment candidate when he has endorsed um and more broadly, he's got a lot writing on who util wins control of the general assembly in november, of course, and his political action committee is really gearing up for that. Earlier this spring, they announced they had nearly three million dollars in the bank, which is record .

setting marga marthel is of A W A M U Margaretta. Thanks for chicken .

in my pleasure.

Rescuers in the north atlantic ocean are racing against the clock in the search for a submersible that went missing sunday. Five people are on board a commander, and for tourists, they were on their way to view the regular tire ic, which was on the ocean floor about nine hundred miles from cape cod, massachusetts. Rear adm.

Al john mogar says the U. S. Coast guard is coordinating the search along with canadian armed forces.

We understand from the Operator of the vessel that the vessel was designed with a ninety six hour a statement capability. If there was an emergency on .

board is not known why the submersion lost contact with its support ship. On the surface, the titanic was the largest passengers ship of its time, and saying on its first four age back in nineteen twelve. For more on this story, tune in two morning edition.

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