made on the evolution of the saw, i see the of all the arguments made a guy uses all contrived, and there is, in fact, a political disagreement not have any by recognizing marriage for same sex couples is not unconstitutional. and this objection must be rejected. debate on the bill began on valentine's day, a time to celebrate love. and the final vote, which is expected to pass with leaf wing and seems respecting this sick to take place on thursday. the 74th berlin film festival, the belly. now that is getting underway over the next 10 days, hundreds of films will be competing for the goldman silver barrel awards. the best in all, it is one of those major film festival spot here in the drum and capital glitz and glamour. often mix with political controversy, and this yet is no exception. combating the february drizzle with the promise of glitz and glamour,

the red carpet was soon greet stars and film makers from all around the world. the annual festival is kicking off with the world premiere of small things like fees, an irish belgian production star, and kelly and murphy, who is just a moment aged for an oscar for his performance in oppenheimer. oscar winner lupita in young go is another face to be looking at for she's this year's jewelry president in charge of selecting the winners. i and renee owens, director and producer martin scorsese will be receiving the honorary golden bear on tuesday for his lifetime achievements to berlin. ali prides itself on being more than just red carpet. prestige is always room for political debate. following weeks of protests against the far right across germany, the directors decided to and invite 5 politicians from the right when a at the party this year. the directors also emphasized that the festival ames to

enable open dialogue surrender and war in gaza. so rick inspected for sympathy, goes out to all the victims of the many tearing places in the middle east and elsewhere. we are also concerned to see that on to semitism on do must numerous sentiment and hate speech spreading in germany and are on the word ticket. one film director has withdrawn his work from the festival in protest of germany support for israel and his calling for a boycott of german cultural institutions. mine of fundamental months will be, but organizers hope the festival can provide a venue for both sides to better understand each other, length of selection, anticipation and control, proceed. go hand in hand at the berlin alley. as the festival on falls, it will become clear if the politics overshadow the performance with the sun valley and all the workers calling out festival organizers for their stance on the war and gaza. i honestly don't use a score drug screw up with us,

sent them a goal is better prepared for to be seeing a blank screen start. you know, i don't think it's going to go of that far, but i think we probably will see protests today and maybe throughout the week around the issue of gaza and the, the bill of dollars stance. so similar to what we saw in sundance last month, where you have protests are shutting down the streets in park city a at the festival there. the 1000000000 dollar has tried, as we just saw, to be open and disable the one to debate over the issue of but lot of people for a lot of people, it doesn't go that hasn't gone far enough. a number of workers at the building, i'll send an open letter where they called for an immediate cease fire and in, in gaza, unreturnable hostages, and are calling on the 1000000000 dollar to do the same, to take a much stronger political stance on this issue. so to speak with politics, members of the far right, tentative for germany,

party were invited to the opening. got and then uninvited. the has a been a bit of virus thing for the organizers who think yes, this political issue uh this political scandal in some ways is actually a much bigger uh much bigger deal for the bailey, not then the issue around or the debate around a gaza is with the act of day the far right a party, they've actually because they're elected officials, they've been invited to the bailey and all just as a matter of protocol since they've been in the berlin parliament. so since 2017 but this year, because of the protests that are in the streets of germany, or have been in the streets of jeremy, the last a weeks against the updates because of what people see, is there a move to the extreme right. and uh, advocating extreme anti migrant up. and we have to come out of this interview because nato secretary general again stopped and i guess about to speak. let's

listen base. this requires investments we are on the right track. i expect to 18 allies to spend the 2 percent of the gdp on defense this year. a 6 fold increase from only 3 allies in 2014. in 2024 nato allies in europe will invest a total of $380000000000.00 us dollars in defense. for the 1st time, this amounts to 2 percent of the total g. d, p. by the end of 2024 unit p, and all us on kind of the more than $600000000000.00 for defends. since we made the defense investment tax in 2014, we still have a way to go. but we have all the made historic progress. we also discussed ramping up production over on the nation to refill our stokes. i continued to support

ukraine, and we need to shift from the slow pace of peace time to the high temple production demanded by conflict. to do the factors needs signed contracts, and just in the past few months, nate to has agreed to contracts worth $10000000000.00. this helps ukraine makes nate to stronger and provides more highly skilled jobs in europe and north america. we also discussed the, the 3rd thing, security environment. we can never take peace for granted, but you do not see an eminent military effect against the lions. nato continues to ensure there is no room for miscalculation. must go about our redness to protect all ours or not right now, we are conducting steadfast defenders. the largest need to exercise in decades with approximately 90000 forces from oil. so to one allies on sweden,

testing our ability to safely move forces across the lines to defend our eastern flank. today, we also met, so we do crane and then they thought ukraine council defense. some is a matter of refile ice on the latest developments on the wrong and the address to the importance or the continued support. just in the past few days, we have seen new packages of ada announced bylaws, including canada. fin the a norway covering t kept with this like f. 16 equipment and spare parts as well as air defense. a group of ours is coordinate together with the goal of delivering $1000000.00 drones to ukraine. $20.00 have also agreed to format deep mining clothes and all this will help to save ukrainian lives together. ne,

drawn ours account for 99 percent of the old mentor, the $82.00 king and our continued commitment is essential to preserving ukraine's freedom. since russia's invasion, united states has provided ukraine with around $75000000000.00 in military financial on how many times in 8 alternate dollars and partners have provided over $100000000000.00 us dollars. so our support is an example to try and set down the burden sharing, and it is making every difference. every day. today we decided to create a new nate through ukraine, jonathan, now this is training and education, something that goes to poland. this is a law ukraine to share lessons learned from brussels war as well. it creates a structure for ukraine and forces to learn and train alongside the allied

comforter boards. we will continue to start with ukraine for ukraine, security on for hours. and that summer there's a take a few questions. start with the the wall street journal. here in the 3rd room please. yeah, michael is with the wall street journal. uh, 2 questions where the ministers briefed at all on this russian space launch that apparently has either nuclear weapons or nuclear power. and 2nd, yesterday, you talked about mit nato, maintaining a credible defense. i'm curious whether the ministers talks about how nato can maintain its credibility, especially when a significant number of politicians in the us are vocally criticizing nato and raising doubts about us commitment to it. thank you or so i want to comment on uh, the latest reports which are referred to. uh,

nobody's in us. i mean, what i can say is that in a through we are constantly exchanging intelligence between anton lice and uh, we are of course, always moment putting an old potential uh, pets in old domains from all directions. and uh, nothing more to say about that. now. then uh on the uh, the issue of us support for an a to and of course we are. so t one, a democratic nations on both sides of authentic, i'm as long as there's an honest has existed, have been different views on discussions, also about natal within nato allies. when we look at the opinion, polls stays record high support for an a to both in north america, not the states kind of law on in europe. and i'm confident that to the nathan will remain the strongest and most successful lines of history. and i

expect that not the states to continue to be as don't shop online for at least 3 reasons. first, it isn't the national security just over the united states that have a strong panic. the 2nd there is actually ruled by parts and support from a store in united states. and certainly the criticism in united states is not primarily against nate, though it's a, it's against may to allies not spending enough money all night. and then actually we have a very good story to tell because for many years it was a valid point. and the fact case to raise from the us side that you to be and i was and kind of didn't spend enough. but things have really changed with increased uh, defense spending across a kind of the um, the europe and with no record high uh, investments uh in europe, on the,

on kind of law on more and more allies are meeting to 2 percent targets. it is in the us interest to have a strong a tool because no, all the major power cos or anything like back to more than 13 friends on alice. and that's uh, it makes us stronger to us accounts for 25 percent of the world's g d p. together with natal, unless we account for it at 50 percent of the world's economic might and 50 percent of the world's the meantime. like, we have to remember, most of us have never faults at all anymore. so all has been that together with all the old anomalous from the career of war uh to, to have gone this phone. and does it have to remember that the only time involved after the fight was off the tech on the not the states on hundreds of thousands of, uh, soldiers from canada and from uh, your fault alongside us soldiers. um,

many of them pay the open the price, so it is in the national security interest of the night, the states to maintain that night to us the most successful airlines in history. and therefore i am confident that you guys will do. so go to the bbc in row 3 over here, please. um you said yesterday that you expect the us house of representatives to approve the military aid package, the crane. i just wanted to what gives you that expectation? is it more heights that you have the next spec taishan? and would you go as far to say without us military, a do you crate and it could prove fatal for its defenses. but seeing what's happening after you've got the moment with the russians making advances, surrounding the city and ukraine. not having enough ammunition. i expect the us congress to agree a package of for ukraine because there is

a broad majority in the congress for supporting ukraine. and i visited to not to the states and spent much time also in the congress meeting the alterations from both sides of the line. and they confirmed the message that's actually there's a broad support for ukraine. and i expect that this majority in the congress in one way and older will be reflected in the decision and also met with the speaker of the house. uh, mike johnson. and we actually agreed the joint state statement where it's clearly stated that the president puts in most northwind in ukraine. and of course, that's a quiet support from old natal allies. because if preston for the reading center crane it's, it's also a challenge for us. it will be a message to also to tell any of this, not only put in but also to the person she, that's when they use military force that they get to what they want. what happens in ukraine today can happen in

a long tomorrow. so this matters for our security and not just for us security, and therefore i expect that the majority, which is in the us congress in one way. and all that will be the effect that in the decision is also need to guarantee anything on behalf of the independence over in a paula month or the initial, the sunday. but based on the messages based on the political reality based on the us security interests will not allowing puts them put into in i continue to expect that they will find a way to agree. then of course, the fact that the us has not been able to make a decision so far how school they have consequences, it is impact thing, the floor of support at home extend. this can be compensated by increased support for mobile allies. the piano laws and kind of the are stepping up are doing more

and they fit together the military, the economic and commit time support actually kind of the and you'd have been out as of providing more support and not the states. but there's not the states being by far the biggest dollar, or quote of course, is vital to continue to provide support. and therefore, i continue to expect that they will uh, be able to make a decision, hopefully as soon as possible go to a new voice crane here in a 2nd room, or p a y. so for crane, it's typically a general us and best do it tonight. the julian suite said she doesn't expect major to offer ukraine membership at of washington. so i'm it. what's needs to happen for your queen to receive the immunizations and bunch of teams of ukrainians who use our lives daily for its own and europe, secure to desire concrete terms and timing about joining us in a tool. and 2nd question is, it is know, is that you grant expects to receive a 16 fight their jobs. the sprint? is it the early stick and really couldn't actually receive them?

additionally, how would you assist estimates or chances that assistance will help you create an issue or a super super order to gain special smart more than just is made to considering providing ukraine was even more modern fighter jets officers the f. 16. thank you. miss crane is closer to nathan membership than ever before. and that's because they made the important decisions. i thought for some reason being is last area. because then we decided to turn the membership process for ukraine from a 2 step process to one step process. and by removing the requirements for membership actions on, uh, because normally we have a how this requirement before an invitation company issued to a, to a to applicant country, to have to be partisan to hold a membership back some time. we said ukraine doesn't need that. so just by doing that we, we, we made the whole accessing process much more. it's simple for on foster, for a,

for ukraine, the older decision we made the most to establish the need to bring counsel of met today, which is a platform to strongly deepen our political, a corporation. and again, a ukraine closer to membership in the, in, in springfield political corporation. then certainly, we agreed the comprehensive program for interoperability. meaning ensuring that the training on forces have standards, doctrines of procedures which, which makes them fully interoperable with natal folders and the armed forces. and by doing that, the aim is to move a credit so close to membership. that's going to make the decision. they come to come member very, very quickly involved by us. we have seen with a pin on, on, on the, on sweden we're actually they applied for membership in may and an older the in july, the same year they were both invited invited to become

a members. and then actually today are we designed to, to establish the, the joining to i will listen, i'm the training center. you have to know the to, to ensure that we will bring ukraine to the level where they're rated quickly. it come to call a full member of the alliance. then of course, an invitation will be made when all of us agree on the conditions are met. we're now moving closer and closer to that point. when x to x in the 3rd row in front of me here, please scales realms over both of the question. well, f sixteens, i think that's a big uh, contribution by an $8.00. so to a provides a ukraine with f sixteens. and of course the, these paints also have a lot of mold on equipment systems, which makes the f sixteens a very potent, unimportant a weapon for ukraine. the effort now and that was addressed in

a meeting is that the denmark of midlands are leading dearford supported by manual that almost belgium, a norway on elders to provide the training to provide the spare parts to provide the technical assistance, the maintenance capabilities, to actually make the f sixteens, a sustainable, unimportant capability for ukraine, and there's no silver bullet. there's no one system that will change completely the situation on the battlefield or in the air, but a well trained, well equipped well maintained. f sixteens will add significantly to the a cranium fighting capability that also gives me, uh, what is the same opportunity to highlight the other thing when it comes to burden sharing on support for ukraine. not only are you being honest and kind of providing substantial support and actually more supporting totals on not good

states to, to, to ukraine. but they're also using the way on menu of the, uh, weapons that were you to p. and so we're 1st to deliberate bucking things 1st deliver a long range nissans. first of the neighbor cruz, besides the europeans, also the, the leading, the way when it comes to delivering a fight to jets a to ukraine. so the message is that it disappeared. so crane is not the united states is doing a loan, is something extra, nate, dollars, europe, kind of the honor, not the states are doing together on the if we still continue to do together all of us because it's not, this was a good time for just one or 2 more, we'll go back to here and that was a nato secretary general stilton bock and to assess his remarks. i'm now joined again by the w is to show some standing by in brussels. that nice to headquarters that it's, are you for listening to that press conference?

what are your main takeaways? well, i think it's remarkable just how much time's the secretary journal has spent appealing to american voters, basically to, to hold nato in, in high esteem. and, you know, not allow these statements by donald trump that have dominated this meeting that have dominated discussion about nato. you know, to be their attitudes. he has talked about how the, the allies are stepping up and they're spending an in orders for the united states . and not to be bearing such a disproportionate share of the funding. but you know, he's really had to spend a lot of this for art for audience. every time you hear secretary general silverberg talk about the burden sharing. that is, that is what they mean when, when the allies are helping to pay both for costs on nato joint operations, but also investing in their own military's. and so this of a lot of the site, the press conference we've just heard was absolutely aimed at the united states. now the other audience is, of course you, crane and ukrainians. have pleaded for more ammunition. we've heard reports that

they are now having to ration their their shots because they have no supplies coming. no nato secretary general stilton. burke said that, you know, allies have now in the last few months alone signed 10000000000 euros worth of deals for new and munition. but that new i munition takes at least a year, sometimes to sometimes 3 years to actually be produced. so this is not going to provide any short term reassurance for the premiums that they're going to be getting a lot more ammunition coming in in the very near future. and they've told us, you know, they need it yesterday. it terry, the ukranian colleague, the ox. uh, a couple of very uh, pointed questions. uh, what was the main takeaway then for the, for the ukrainians as well. ukraine is, is very interested in, in hearing that it will be offered. yeah, i mean, it would love to be offered membership in nato at the washington summit,

so you'll hear them ask again and again, will we be offered membership, even though many nato official secretary general stilton broke the us ambassador to nato. just as we have confirmed that ukraine will not be offered a, an invitation will not be given an invitation in washington, so they will then they want to know, well, what's the 2nd best? what are we going to get from nato? at the washington summit, they're talking about bilateral security guarantees between nato allies and ukraine, trying to help ward off for the russian aggression, trying to convince the ukrainians that nato does have its back, even if it's not a full ally. but that's what she was asking about. also about the f sixteens a we, you know, the, this is still in the works. um, there are many countries, as you heard, the secretary general say working on how an f, 16 delivery would work for ukraine, spare parts, training of pilots. the other thing you heard him say was that there's going to be a drink training center, a stablish where your premiums will come and get more training. that's been done,

piece meal by allies until now. it also allows nato to learn from the people who know very best how to fight russia. so that's something that was announced here at this meeting. what struck me that he started off as press conference with rattling down notes and notes of numbers of how much money nature members are spending. it reminded me of, you know, it has been said that the, the west one, the cold war by simply out spending the soviet union. is this a similar attitude that you'll see behind this it well, i'm not sure that they're out spending. i mean, yet they are spending more uh, uh, together then, then russia has to spend, but, you know, russia can do things like ramp up. it's ammunition, production in ways that the european allies cannot or at least have not, they can't go so quickly. they need to follow labor laws in, in their production facilities that said,

europeans have come out and said that they have wrapped up, that they're going as fast as they can. these contracts are now being signed and so you will see more ammunition. but the numbers are for the benefit of them prove areas are things are high to interact onto that based on these, out of time. i'm sorry for that. see in a minute the, the

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