critical nato summit with ukraine s longstanding request for nato admission dividing the allies. it s been 100 days since russia detained reporter evan gershkovich whose mother is hoping for the best as her son sits in a russian prison. i rely on president biden s promise. bringing him back, i think, it s a team effort. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington where today s monthly jobs report shows payrolls rising by 209,000 in june. indicating the labor market could be losing steam. the unemployment rate barely ticking down to 3.6%. this with treasury secretary janet yell. announcer: yellen in china trying to ease tensions between the two largest economies while criticizing beijing for its treatment of american companies. joining me now, dominic chu. first the jobs numbers. does this increase the possibility we could avoid a recession, even achieve a soft landing? the elusive soft landing. the jobs numbers just add more confusion to the american eco
we continue the programme in the capital of khartoum where there s messed with him and amongst the prisoners is a former sudanese logician wanted for alleged crimes against humanity. he was being held in the capital and is facing charges by the international criminal court. he was a key player in the sudanese government brutal response to two long running and unresolved wars. he was serving a sentence alongside former others year, students former president who is no being reportedly held at the military hospital. the former un were negative for sedan told me he is not surprised about what is happening in the country. the signals have been there for some time and quite honestly they have been there all the time since the genocide in darfurfor 20 years ago, and yes i know these characters and i recall about this time the sharing the star between the two in the presidential palace in 2003 when i was a un coordinator and as security minister he not only masterminded that incident
the peace plan, this is all a charade, china benefits from the war on ukraine so there will be no peace. it is all game and 100% confident, it will be strategizing about how do we fuel this war because china is incentivized to keep this war going. why? because two of the top geopolitical adversaries perceived adversaries, the united states and russia their respective combat arsenals in this proxy war. president biden is focused on ukraine, xi believes we can do whatever he wants because the chinese avenue assess the united states is incapable of fighting a two front war. ashley: alexandra health live in washington, good good morning. this is president xi first trip in four years to moscow in first visit since unprecedented third term seeking more support in this while trying to frame this trip as diplomatic. in a statement to chinese president, conflict and war benefits no one. they must have a rational exercise in restraint and aggravating tensions to prevent the prices
last year a shortage of chips led to supply chain disruption around the world meaning delays to everything from cars to washing machines and of course, computers. and now, the dutch government has announced that it will impose new export restrictions on advanced chips being sold to china. the dutch have some of the most significant companies in the field and china is keen to buy them but the us have been putting pressure on european countries to curb exports of sensitive technology to china on national security grounds. our correspondent anna holligan is in the hague. one of europe s smallest nations has found itself in the middle of a battle between the world s two biggest superpowers. and at the heart of it, microchips. they power everything from our mobile phones to military hardware. and the us has been applying political pressure on countries to limit exports. now the netherlands is home to asml until recently a relatively obscure company, but it makes the most advance
to boston. tell them to shoot me because because we re going to have to shoot me down today. where are they diverting us because wherever it is there s going to be a blood bath everywhere. that man is in custody after attempt to go stab a flight attendant and opening a door mid flight. details on the incident coming up. china s foreign minister warning the u.s. of catastrophic consequences if washington does not change its tone on a number of incidents including u.s. support for taiwan. what we re learning from this key communist party meeting. we will get to that all of that. we want to begin this hour with the four americans kidnapped in mexico. rosa flores from houston, dianne gallagher is in south carolina where three of the missing people grew up. these are close friends we re told. what more do we know about them? i know you ve been speaking with the families. reporter: you know, erica, these four families of these americans who were abducted just absolutely t