the, the, this is dw news live from ballot and i my new cooper mckinnon. welcome to the program. the german trump slot will off show its will be facing questions from the makers in just a few moments on why he is refusing to send taurus missiles to ukraine. now these are life pictures, but the thing from the german color minutes with charlotte is due to speaker shortly he's so fob locked news to send the long range weapons to k. if he is worried that they could be used to hit targets in russia and the german soldiers would need to be involved. but schultz is on the prussia from his coalition. i'm

from international partners one option on the table to bypass his reservations as a proposed cruise. miss silas swap with the united kingdom of this with fi gemini, give its taurus miss, solve to the u. k of the u. k. with then into and then ukraine. more of it. so by storm shadow, miss silas, germany is foreign minister and a bad bulk. as said she is open to that idea. now while we are waiting for the chancellor to start speaking, we're going to cross to our chief political editor mission e lacrosse. not just to get some background. make sure that can you remind us again, why schultz is just so resistance to pools to send taurus, christmas self to you, frank? a well, he's given a 2 reasons for that. and the 1st reason he gave us was that it would require some form of government control by german military personnel that would have to go

through german parliament. that is something and this is something where he somewhat angered the brits so as someone something britain and fond support allegedly doing that's according to the woods of the german town. so which is having personnel on the ground to make so that ukraine sticks within the targeting that has agreed which is western allies. that is something the germans concept does not want to risk being seen by moscow by applying a to 10, as many actually becoming a potty to this rule. this is all despite the fact that experts will tell you that control over the tower system is possible without damage personnel on the ground. so this is in an internal time and debate. and the 2nd reason he size is, is that the rest of the ukraine would be able to target, for instance, the most go with this particular missile. so that translates into a question of trusts. what does the demons, hans, that ultimately trust c crane

a to stick with what is degrees? and that was the arguments in the background which he has not voice publicly. but of course germany, is it more than they said i'm going to have to interrupt you? i'm afraid, but then to leave the trunk slip is about to sell the king jump for what i feel it is about stumps me a doug. so long for delete not yet, which has given me the opportunity to say a few words. i will focus on a few introductory remarks and together we will discuss the issues with going up on the agenda. the german government has made some sweeping action on this bill. decisions about dismantling red tape and bureaucracy. here in germany. that's. that's one that's about it. and these really yada, the mother of these take this from the new 1000000000 and what it says,

i'm euros. i new job. 3000000000. if you include the mother relief measures that we put into place it in a plastic bag. and this is the right way to ensure that we keep up single pace hospital when it comes to um, dispatch and delicacy. i know that because this is one of the biggest challenges facing the german government, one of the biggest projects that we're working on and we've taken an important step today. i'd also like to remind you that the agreement between the german government and the 60 and the federal states in germany lie of the germany packets which has many projects, but 100 further measures on that we're working through in the german government and in the parliament will also be pursuing this a for quite some of the people in this was now recently the german government also approved in its deliberations and proposals for a further pensions package, which is important for millions of citizens already getting their pension. but it's also important for those who are leaving school now age 17 and to plan to work with

many decades. and they need to excite, planning security for mazda as well. one of them up by so things they require is to know that to him it will not be possible to increase the age at which people retire in their stature, terry pension year after year. and they also need to be able to rely on getting a decent inches at the end of their working lives. and this is why it's important for the german government that we have to set out to stabilize our pension level and also does well beyond 2025. this is one of the biggest in promises we made in our election campaign. it was one of the things we agreed on in the governing coalition as something with the prior season. prioritizing for this term in office that will continue to be the case, will be stabilizing the pension level long term on to and will be mobilizing additional capital to ensure the stability of his pension funds. because this is

necessary, if we are to be able to rely on having a stable pension, we want to give them the german government and not divide season continues to work together with us to parliament to do everything we can to ensure that ukraine can defend itself against the russian war of aggression north. this is important summer and germany is before frontier. if we look across you, if we can see that the military support the weapons also deliveries that germany has already carried out well to the tune of 28000000000 arrows. the 3rd $2000000000.00 is more than any other members, state and europe for them. and it is also true for the current year over 7000000000 euros for, for support in march and the budget for this year to let me say in no uncertain terms. and this, this support continues to be necessary. it is key that we give you crane the necessary help that it requires to be able to defend itself. and that means they

need ammunition. they need weapons that we need to supply them. they also particularly need air defense. and all of this are things that germany will continue to offer and mobilize to ensure they receive the gun and steel. who would also like to us latasha are one of the major issues facing and say that is, i believe it is urgent a necessary that in all of the decisions we take, particularly when we are doing so much for ukraine and getting so many things to go it is he that we can think long and hard about every single decision and thinking on the hard about things isn't 2 weeks, you know, as many suggest um, but rather it is something that the citizens in this country have a right to and that's a good phone part of that site is that it is excluded to me. so when it comes to

long term web or long range weapon systems, there's no point supplying any weapons that can only be used if the germans comes to the military members have to go to print to do that. this is a line in the sand for me as a german chancellor, which is why my position is very clear. in this case, fatherly stuff. i think it is necessary that when we just are supplying weapons, we ensure that there is no enforcement of german soldiers in their use, the village austin. and otherwise, i would like to say specifically that from my perspective, it is also important that when we have managed to get off the ground in terms of approval actually happens and that we'd join forces and work closely together to get these things off the ground, which is why it was a big moment for me. and when recently the steed states went on premiers net

recently, i was able to visit them. and together we weren't able to increase our commitment saying that we had a long term targets that we've agreed to buy price listed. and that we've made decisions to often do that. but off time, we'll look forward into the future and that we've achieved more similar in terms of the laws that we have. the past that were a few more written of has been done in the last 25 years around opener's migration . and the management of the regular migratory flows as well. this was a moment where we joined forces north of the vehicle and that has to be the way we deal with these challenges such as irregular migration moving forward. it is not too much of a sufficient once we just get this subject going in and discuss it again and again . but we need to get the next clear laws and make sure they are enforced. and the federal states have helped us in this regard

to the beginning you had submitted. thank you very much. now move to this is the question session. i would like to ask you to adhere to the time allocated to each person. i'm answering, asking a question, and the time advocates to reach answers well, i'd like to get the floor now from the cd or c, as you talk to you on bradford. it gets, gets that one, it's got the microphone now is a chance to teach the off button hold on. i would also like to check on and the major question facing is that not just use the opportunity to finally pose the question i wanted to ask since you on the 22nd of february? yeah, did not manage all too much to answer it as argument when we had a 3 debates and you didn't have any time speak to the defense population committee,

either off, how do you really can't blame the fact that you refuse to supply total screws? my size crammed boots and he goes to give us a loop and is it ends up being sports and this is our dog assess the d, as you know, see it to have german soldiers in ukraine's side. so this is something that the air force from all the officers disputes. so is it that you would no longer have the control of how they are use? you said that and then just thing. and when you spoke to the student, or is there another reason is it that you say german soldiers or tons of also i cannot resist cause even offer support to ukraine from germany kind of shows or thought which would involve the training of ukrainian soldiers in germany. perhaps you could explain your perspective on all of this stuff. so thank you for your question. and i'm pleased that i have the opportunity to tackle a number of half truths that were circulating in the public by fear. and i would

now like to debunk some of these message and just to be one of these is that many who know a lot about the details of what others are doing. and what we are doing. always seem to admit this because they have always assume that we would never actually discuss these issues and tackled them head on. so on desktop of to canada. also, i would like to say very clearly that it is a long range weapon which can reach 500 kilometers and it is a weapon where i do not think it is responsible to use it without the involvement of german soldiers. the ex. uh, it's also going to stop, so that's a very clear statement which i have repeated again. and again, i'm happy to repeat it here. that if you see it that way, it's not about whether this occurs in ukraine or whether the mission planning stuff involves the targets here in germany as well. and it is ridiculous to talk about

a comprehensive training program for ukrainians in germany as being the same thing . i'm talking about the involvement of where these messiahs are aimed at and where they are shot. and that should not involve german soldiers. i as a german chancellor, see it is my job to prevent their being the involvement of germany in this war and the view of everyone else in nato and in europe. share my view of this the just not enough just if you wanted to ask a clarification question, go ahead and we'll just come to last week. so to find if it is a time to learn about the time trying to talk to you about the subject on the basis of facts and makes sense, i don't think it's appropriate to accuse me of saying ridiculous things. i think there's been a great deal of confusion in germany and among the allies about what is definitive

for your decision. then i would say, sadly, you are responsible for this confusion. and if i look at your response, and you say that would have to be german soldiers either in ukraine or in germany. i'm involved in scrutiny and surveillance of these measures. then it suggests to me that you don't trust our colleagues in ukraine. now what on earth makes you suggest that ukraine, which in your introductory remarks you assured that we stood at their side? what is it that suggests this brave people and this brave army who have adhered to every agreement on the basis of this trust from you? actually get the book on board colleagues, the citizens, the book in this country are afraid of you, is all they are afraid of you. and because they are concerned when they hear that people in positions of responsibility, politicians lean far can be mis click with ask questions as well as of what

a round war and peace and try to assess them in terms of psychological categories and citizens in this country. are afraid if i'm thinking something through is equated by you as weakness, device, and is something that causes fear among citizens. if you start saying things like, do you trust the ukrainians or you don't you, although the issue is to ensure the security of germany and i have taken an oath to ensure the security colleague of the demonstration. so i know quite enough you have the right to ask the 2nd question. speak to unplug the the word on this. let me just repeat it since i mean it's not that because there is no 2nd time that you are making ad hominem attacks to the questionnaire. but it does, you can do it if you want to, but it doesn't respond to my question, does it? it's not an answer why go to the.