Ukraine on Prigozhin's Fate, US Official to China, More Songs of Summer
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Ukranian cheer the apparent death, the version ary leader of gaining promotion.

his vigor group, Carried out some of the heaviest attacks on their land.

And now he's the bud of jokes .

and means sarasi a and i'm scotsman.

and this is up first from mp. R news. Will bring you the reaction from cave to the ordinary leaders.

Apparent death. Plus another top U. S. Official heads to china .

this time is to reassure you as businesses shaken by recent investment .

restrictions, plus two pop sensations sing .

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The vagina group supplied strong and determined fighters at the outset of russian invasion of ukraine.

Now its leader, you have ginni procul sion.

appears to be dead, but in silencing of ukraine, pointed the .

finger at the.

he said at a press conference, quote, we had nothing to do with IT. Everybody knows who did IT in pr. S briant.

Man is in key this morning. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for him. So moscow denied that russian president lattaker putin ordered processions death. What are you hearing from a issues and civilians in ukraine, you know.

I guess, is the best way to describe the issue would be kind of gallows humor. There are a lot of darkly funny meme circulating on social media, making fun of promotion, an apparent fate. Remember, he's a guy who's viewed here with losing his vignal forces, often made up a freed prison inmates and criminals.

We've been used to shock troops against ukraine accused of savage war crimes. So proposition's death is seen as a moment of real Victory. Here, here's presidents of landscape, joking about IT with reporters.

Medic, clean over a is very college to clean a sweet to, should they take a minute more. And you can .

hear getting a laugh there. He says, when ukraine asked the people of the world for help with airplanes, this isn't what we had in mind. He would then want to say more seriously that processions, death would help .

you cram if progression is dead, and that's not yet been confirmed. How much of a difference will that make on the battlefield? Well.

of the troops were among the most effective units fighting for russia in ukraine. Then they, they have been off the battle field since projection, brief, muti and junes. What is not like this is going to open a big new gap, russia's defensive lines.

But this does point again to the continuing disarray and infighting in russia's top military leadership. There were also reports this week that sa gay, sa vegan, that top russian airport general may have been perched because of his ties to. By contrast, of ukrainians and their military command still appear really unified and really focused on winning this war.

But at the same time, we've heard that ukraine can or offensive is is moving slowly. Is that still the case? Yeah.

I think that's right. The big picture is a slow and grim and bloody fight you does appear to be pushing forward. Some military analysts believe they've opened some gaps in rushes first big defensive line, especially in the south.

But russia laid these vast minefields and set up artillery batteries that have really slowed the ukrainian advanced. It's stifled to any big breakthrough. Npr is also reported this week that some us.

Officials are impatient with ukraine for not concentrating their forces more, you know, trying to punch through in one chosen place. But ukrainian officials right now are asking for patients. They insist again that .

they're making progress. Has morale among the ukrainian people that you're talking to?

This is really interesting to me. I'm back in ukraine. You should, after a full year away, and I expected to come back and find things a lot more grim, more exhaustion, more dissatisfaction with th Epace o f t he w ar, and and there is some of that, but overall, have been surprised by how enthusiastic and driven ukrainian still are.

I just visit IT. Should have ten koa, a town near the russian front lines, and even there, where missiles hit regularly, where things are really dangerous. People told me there are one hundred percent convinced ukraine will win.

They looked at moments like procession's deaf as hopeful signs. And for the first time, they've also been ukrainian commander rates and concentrated drone attacks on russian military bases in occupied premier. So people hear, point to all those as signs that ukrainian forces are still on the attack. Being creative and and landing .

real blows that in P. S. Brian, man and key. Thank you so much. brian.

Good talk, and you.

U. S. Commerce secretary gene romano is flying to beijing and shanghai this weekend. Her trips .

assigned the biden administration still wants to encourage trade with china.

even though the president imposed additional restrictions on U. S. Investments in that country just weeks ago.

And here is David. Girl t joins us now. David, thanks so much for being with us. Thanks for haven't what are you as business is hope to see as the commerce secretary travels to beijing and shanghai. So this relationship .

really started to sour during the last administration when the trump point house imposed a raft of new trade restrictions. Present bind has kept those terrifying place and thinks you've only gotten frostier as china has taken a more aggressive attack. A companies have been trying to navigate this.

And what they want first and for moscot is more clarity about washington, s approach. They also want to know more about what the rules of the road are for businesses doing business in china right now, there's a lot of uncertainty and Frankly, a lot more risk. Business leaders hope gina remanded will make good on something SHE promised them in a big speech on the White house approach to china last year.

Is us in the government. Do you provide clear guidance, consistent guidance, to be constantly in touch with you, to be transparent, to take your feedback and to minimize the disruptive change? So this is a chance .

for the secretary to do that at a time, Scott, when there is a lot of hawkish rhetoric from congress suggesting the administration should take a harder line, china.

David, to some of the chAllenges that U. S. Businesses have to contend with in china. Well.

the pandemic was so disorienting and disruptive for us companies doing business in china, the country zero coveted policy may travel all but impossible and LED to these unpredictable lockdowns, the disrupted manufacturing and disrupted trade. Beyond that, we've seen these tit for tat protections, st. Policies in the U. S. Ban, the export of certain microchips to china, then china imposed restrictions on two rare elements that are used in high tech manufacturing, all that had a chilling effect, but the White house continues to argue the relationship between the us and china is still incredibly important.

How do companies, investors navigate all the uncertainty? Will the pandemic .

prompted many companies to take another look at supply chains? Apple and google have reportedly encouraged suppliers to shift manufacturing elsewhere. And when that's continuing, according to a recent survey of U.

S. Companies doing business in china almost three quarters, them say they intend to stay put, and that showcases another reality. Despite the toughing retour c these two countries still need each other, which is a big reason why we've seen so many high level trips recently.

Remind dose trip comes after the secretary of state, the treasury y secretary and the us. Climate envoy of traveled to china and executives are also making the pilgrimage, including elon musk and tim cook. Mask met with several high ranking officials and cook back with frame dos counterpart.

But how much does this china really need? The U. S, right now.

chinese economic recovery post pandemic has not been as strong as many economists expected, and we've seen a lot of warning signs lately about the health of the chinese economy. This country has a huge medal class and its forecasts to grow by three hundred and million over the next decade, and there's also a transition under way, according to gril asanov, a global strategies to J P. Morgan asset management.

It's a fundamental change, he says, in the way U. S. Companies approach china.

they want to be there to sell their goods and service to chinese consumers is no longer this idea made in china for the rest of the world. It's made in china for china. Hundreds of public .

companies in the U. S. Have just updated investors on how they are performed recently, and many of them noted how much opportunity there is to sell all kinds of things, cosmetics, athletica, exercise equipment to this growing little of class. And one of months goals is to make sure us companies have access to that market .

in this David girl, thanks so much.

Thank you.

August is winding down, but there is still time to hear a few more hit songs of the summer.

On friday, two huge pop stars released new song in a is put out a track called single soon.

And my ly, sirs, without a song code, used to be Young.

I used to be crazy and used to be fun. I used to be one. I say I used to be you.

So the song is called, used to be on. At least cyrus is not thirty years old. Oh, out thing. Stephen thomson, for me here, our music, who is, by the way, also aging Gracefully, joins us now. Steven, thanks so much for being with us.

Thank you. Scott t. IT is a pleasure of a year.

What are these ones have in common, do you think addition of the fact they were released on the same?

Well, both selena omas and milesians are former child stars. Both have been active since the early odds. Both of them have career spending more than twenty years, even though they themselves are only, uh, miley cyrus, thirty and silly to go as a thirty one, but their industry veterans and as pop stars, you know, they're of both looking to make pivots to more adult sounds, not adult like ronchi, but adult like appealing to adult audiences.

Let me ask you what you think about both of these songs and and let's begin with, ran a well single .

soon is kind of a down the middle pot banger you can imagine, just like curing IT on the radio, listening to IT while you're pregnant to go out. It's like a pre breakup song as she's preparing, preparing to dump someone.

Ba but.

Music you can use, music you can use. I mean, for me listening to the song, one of the first things that pop in to my head is how easy is to imagine this song having a major presence on tiktok. It's got those kind of big going out tonight vibes and that's that's always a really dirty frame to hang a big hit pop song on.

And let me ask about the miles I, A song which I will say in advance, I found quite moving.

Yeah, I really love this song. I think it's easy for us to sit here and kind of laugh about somebody whose thirty singing the song called, used to be Young, but that's a really universal part of being that age. You know, the first time I was lamenting how old I was, I was probably twenty six.

But it's also specific to miley syrus, who's been a tabloid fixture. And the song is addressing kind of the moment in her past the people have talked about. And you know, she's always had such a rich lustreless kind of belters of voice.

I really like the fact that this song doesn't feel like it's trend hopping IT feels really personal and real, like she's kind of seizing control of her own narrative. You even hear some of the echoes of kind of her country roots in the arrangement. IT feels relative in a way that I think has a lot of power.

not working about the things can to wait. Great words. I never got away.

If I may, I find he was singing in so many words. I used to be Young, and you know what? Now i'm more wise.

That's growing up exactly, Stephen. Times and aging Gracefully in place for imperor music growing. Stephen, thanks so much for taking your vitamin b and joining us.

We are all aging Gracefully.

Thank you, Scott.

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