[000:00:00;00] the, this is dw news, live from berlin, us president joe biden cancelled a campaign event advertising positive for cobit comes after the most prominent congressional democrats tells, fighting to quit his bid for a 2nd term representative. adam shift says he has serious dallas fight and can be donald trump in november's election. also coming up, germany cuts military aid for ukraine by nearly a half as the government announces spending plans for 2025. but the defense spending increases slightly as germany aims to reached its native target,

the amenities of welcome to the program. we started in the us where president biden has been forced to pull out of a campaign speech after testing positive for cobit details of his diagnosis were revealed while he was out campaigning in nevada, where he earlier been filmed, meeting people in a mexican restaurant. it's another blow for biden's presidential campaign and comes just hours after top democrat, adam shift added his name to those calling for joe biden to pull out of the race with the white house as president by now. plans to isolate at his home in delaware, he told reporters that he was feeling fine as he bordered air force one in las vegas

a little earlier. so the indeed of these stuff on the moans is following developments from washington. and he has more now on his way to set back for the bottom campaign. it seems like the president can catch a break in these days. uh the worst 3 weeks since the campaign started. that's what the campaign acknowledges. said that the last 3 weeks since this, the ominous and horrible, horrible performance at the debate on life television watched by around 35000000 americans. and it's not good times for the president. and there is one thing after another, coming from the perspective of the campaign. now the president is back a, as you said, has canceled this event in las vegas tonight and his way on it is on his way back to delaware, where he will self isolate. and i can tell you um the campaign headquarters for the

bottom campaign is in wilmington, delaware, and they are scrambling right now. the white house, different story. uh, you know, there, there went through it is a couple of times they know what to do without the president in the white house. and he says also that he's not feeling in any way or form that diminished by the cold, with diagnosis of but self isolating now in delaware, doing his presidential duties and not campaigning. and that is a problem because the timeline gets tied very tied. donald trump and his new pig, j events have all the pixie dust and everything else in the political world at the moment in milwaukee and dividing it ministration. and joe biden campaign is looking very bleak and in a bad time right now. the new polls suggest that nearly 2 thirds of democrats, 2 and 3 democrats, one president joe biden, to drop out how big is the pressure ahead of next month's democratic convention.

this is rising despite the fact that the president says he's not going anywhere. and i mean that's loud and clear. communicative friends, very transparent the many, many times by president bible and his campaign. nevertheless, he is now in trouble in 14 battleground states. that's the states which are tossed off the will they go for by know where they go for trump and things are tied. they're 14 states. that wasn't the way. last time around, the 2000 friends went by and managed to create a blue wall, basically, to oust former president donald trump at this time from the oval office. now it looks a phase of church does the so the point is it is all bad times for the presidential campaign of jo by he's looking at a at a a whole which is darker and getting bigger almost by the day with no, adam shift a really well known representative of the house of representatives,

calling for him to step out or step aside. and i'm not campaign anymore to give somebody else a chance to win against donald trump. it's not going to stop. and it's interesting to see what's happening or translates in the next week or so for joe biden invited, did say that he would think about stepping down if he was diagnosed with the medical condition. obviously meant something more than cobra there. but what can you tell us about the i yes, set that before um that if the doctors tell him that he has a medical condition which prevents him or will prevent him soon to perform this presidential duties to uh, you know, a be aware and alert an apt to do the job and this is, that's what everybody says over decades. the hardest self in the world, and the most the manage up in the world. then he would consider stepping down. but you know, nothing stops him to go to see a doctor or a few doctors president has 4 at his fingertips to die, diagnose him to, to check him up,

and then release this data. but he's not going to do that at the moment again to campaign says he is it joe biden will run. let's see how long they can keep the fort. do you have the reporters, the funds humans in washington? thanks for joining us. of us allies in europe are watching developments in the us presidential election and they're also preparing for a possible 2nd. donald trump presidency dw, spoke to the former head of the munich security conference who's attending republican national convention currently underway in milwaukee. let's not forget this. donald trump was the american president who was the 1st to send lisa weapons to train. that's sometimes forgotten in our own debate. so i'm against demonizing, trump. i just, i think we will have huge difficulties. things will be tough. but then, you know, i'm old enough. i was around as a young diplomat when we,

when we had jimmy carter and, and, and, and ronald reagan, 4040 plus years ago. we've always had huge challenges and sometimes known as differences in view, real crises, they were all overcome. the nato is today in better shape. it's ever been and we're now 32 members. we got sweden as soon and as new members, turkey remains a member of the allies. so what are you complaining about? let's be proud of what we have achieved. and let's start a reasonably adult dialogue with whoever is going to be the white house next january, so no penetrates. germany says it's cutting military aid to ukraine by nearly half . berlin says the short fall will be made up by diverting the prophets from caesar . russian assets, the key if the announcement comes as chancellor old shots government announced budget plans for 2025, they include

a slight increase in defense spending as germany aims to reach its native targets with the war in europe, germany has pledged to boost spending on its own policies, that means expensive. things like these military exercises, recruiting new personnel and modernizing weapons won't come cheap. there's also the new $5000.00 soldier free gate. germany has begun to deploy into it the way the defense minister bar has been. story has a set cost brand new level, military preparedness, 14th capabilities, the economy is working towards another conflict. we must have seemed ready. oh my twins on the 29th next tuesday. so, but how does that it with a type fiscal rules championed above all by finance minister christy. and let me know if he's committed to the debt break. not living beyond the countries means and he has the backing of chancellor schultz. the result is the budget plan for 2025 and beyond. pressed out between the 3 government parties earlier this year for main cuts in some areas and smaller increase has been hoped and others the gym and

foreign ministry. once an increase of more than a 1000000000 euros, and it's funding for administer and a leading a bet, bulk points to increasing tensions around the globe spots the budget proposal would give it a 1000000000 euros. less someone that will hit the manage jeremy and support the people in the middle east and ukraine. the international development ministry is also due to receive opinion bureaus less than before. a cost of about 9 percent of the budget could make less german, a for the world's poorest. it's necessarily foreign policy under the knife, the government's plan would also cost money to support the unemployed and pension is in gemini. as the gym and economy has been weakening, spelled and says tough choices have to be made. the hope of many is that when the final decisions are made, those choices do not. we can gym and these volts it will defense. a. a heat wave has settled over parts of southern and eastern europe,

sending temperatures storing to more than 40 degrees celsius. the heat, as prompt authorities in several countries to introduce protective measures during the hottest hours. that includes bands on outdoor work, such as construction and delivery. driving scientists are warning that such extreme weather events will become more common, and more extreme. wild club has been out of control in bulgaria. strong winds fanned the flames. families flee their homes. i'm afraid all our belongings are they are at our house. of course i took what i could just documents that i hate. wave is badging many bulk and states triggering multiple forest fires, puts of albania or blaze. north. macedonia has declared

a state of emergency. it's wildfire as temperatures in most countries across the region have halted around 40 degrees this week. in sylvia, this lake has almost completely dried up major urologist, one heat waves like this one being made much worse by climate change. most of them and the water supplies outside and the pressure because that there is a heat wave and a drought and people use more walter temperatures. we can already see that in many sort been cities and people are having water supply problem. south in europe is also being hit hard. grease has bend outdoor with during peak heat hours this week in a bid to keep people safe easily is also expected to face blistering hate, with temperatures reaching 45 degrees celsius. during temperatures have also

impacted countries like front thing, poland and ukraine. bangladesh has prime minister shade casino, has promised an investigation into the depths of at least 6 people who were killed . one student protests turned violent on tuesday. students have been demonstrating for weeks over what they say is an unfair quote, a system for much sought after government jobs that has recently introduced rules re introduced rules that reserve about a 3rd of these for the relatives of war veterans main university and the capital doco has been at the center of the violence and authorities have responded by closing all of the countries universities. i mean the netflix is there, demands housing and the university students wanting and what these things are on fed hiding june for government jobs. the students are do, most of disability, just jobs should be awarded on medic, north to a, quote,

the system that fevers has relative of war, veterans kind of go to the lake, canada grandchildren or freedom fighters shouldn't get a quote to the jobs. a generation has already had the charms to benefit from the quote, the system. however, we're not saying the system should be abolished. we're talking about reforming and what about the design center about that? as value intensified the government deployed side ability forces to try to quote the pretest and violence classes. a good between the book testers and the students supporting the government. we are leading in sudden lead members of the routing proxy students being attacked us back. then we headed to work size, chance less house. when we stopped there, they checked us again from behind. they were helping overhead and a targeted way to get some pro government students accused the demonstrative of vandalism,

hospitalized on faith with hundreds of injured students. some have lost their lives the students know, protesting. it's just key in our country that stuff and defend. but the see, it's the future that isn't big. by the hundreds of thousands of new graduates, we be competing for the small number of government jobs. many see this unfair as butler, this piece is high unemployment inflation and the flailing economy the sensible reform of the quoted system. i'm a student with a duck, a university. if i don't get any job for 6 years of study that will create suffering for me and my family, what will the government do then? following the protests, the supreme court last, it's due on the diesel levy and they did go down. but this to see they will not stop protesting until death,

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