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top rated by snatch the landline, the as the bodies, all the airlines jet went dining conflicts down near the southwest and city of tower. on wednesday, at least $38.00 people, including both pilots, were killed in the crash mold and said he survived. the cross was traveling from bar code to the russian city of groves today, but it was diverted. finally attempting an emergency landing in cosmic stone. well, food, bang, st. germany and struggling to feed great numbers of people in need system war and you claimed again 2 years ago. the number of those depending on the services has risen by 50 percent. chance that it shows has suggested that reducing value added tax on basic food items to help co rising food prices. fatalities say that's close enough to resolve the problem. dominic k, it explains from valid us. it's 3 o'clock at the end. there is a key in berlin, where the christmas message to the faithful is one of cheer and sharing that this q isn't for the service inside. it's for the food bank outside the marine. yeah.
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there is always less food each time you get the basic pension. but the state is cheating here. can i be open and honest? because the job centers forced people to work and don't pay any pensions? as a result of the state is cheating us and making us poor and for it is important. people know that they're almost a 1000 food banks across germany, taking it and sold stock from supermarkets and selling it for next to nothing to those in need. but shortages this year meant some people have to be turned away temporarily. i have, as i was, because it was just too many people. it was partly because of the ukrainian refugees and we still have a few from afghanistan. what do you notice? so it's just too many and it's no longer possible to provide something reasonable. you just have to say, it's not possible. the numbers are clear this year around 60 percent of food banks in germany in fact to russian. well they also the customers. currently they're helping around 1600000 people. that's an increase of 50 percent since the war and
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ukraine began. high speed prices have been an issue here for several years with many people struggling to feed their families. the catholic of chancellor without shots says he feels that pain fund dental experience, feel about it. many people feel every time they go shopping because the supermarket checkout, how much food prices have risen in recent years. that's why i'm competing for us to quote the already reduced the ac from 7 to 5 percent charities. so it would be a 1st step, but nothing more than that. they believe food banks cannot plug the gap left by the state. dominant cane houses 0 bowling. and you can follow these stories on our website at all, just the dot com. it's updated through well today somebody's the time we'll have to use our interest in the house last time that until then for me on the team here in dallas. thanks for your time and your company the,
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the, the . ringback the hi, i'm steve clements and i have a question. the incoming trump administration is weighing options to end the rest of ukraine war. but what does it mean for europe? let's get to the bottom line. for almost 3 years, there was no doubt about us support for ukraine in the ukraine, russia conflict, but that was under a democratic party administration,
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which spent almost $60000000000.00 to support ukraine since the war began. in february 2022 nato allies have also devoted as much in cash in weapons and other economic support. since the beginning of the conflict now is power changes, hands to the republican party, things are changing rapidly. president elect donald trump has promised to end the rest of ukraine work quickly even said you could end the war in one day. but what would that look like? and how is the shifting us position playing out in europe, especially in eastern europe? we're russia is literally right next door. today we're talking with you on the pop ski for administer the czech republic on this special edition of the show coming to you from the doha for them and cut our thank you so much for joining us today. look, i want to ask you about check is strategic dashboard and your hierarchy of concerns. and i imagine the russia, ukraine conflict this high on that. are you worried about the direction this conflict may go with president trump,
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having been elected the united states and having potentially a softer line on russia than joe biden? have the 1st of all, i would not say that the dog from zillow have a softer line on your crime, russia. we have not heard fully. his plans uh or visions uh for conflict resolution in your, in speaking go higher, fee of concerns all the political priorities. so if you could rephrase it for a check. yeah. at this uh the tons of bumping bunk. the country with the ridges 3, not all of those goats and divorced angles brought by russian control over the the eastern a central thought. the few of uh, including the time to close the lock. yeah. and um, i don't want to repeat that. so for, for this not to have bundled something, something bunt and do you open. architectural security architecture is very important. so if you are behaving like that, you have a munition initiative,
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you have to send to the house a 1000000 uh shelves. do you crying this year? in a role i'm, but it's much higher of you. we'll spend 2 percent of gdp on defense. and my personal ambition, i still limit the rest of the influence in europe. you know, we need to show russian rather about us all. can you go a little bit further with what you've done to support ukraine and i know ukraine has said that it hopes to get more from chucky a that it expected more from check. yeah, i know there's a lot of discussion about, uh, ammunition and, and, and whatnot. but from my trips to eastern europe, i know that there was a norm is support, enormous cash arms flows. but can you make this more tangible for viewers who may not understand how deep the support has been? so the tech support still your crime? it's a wide range of activities, political support and diplomatic from its economic support. so through to you, money, it's military support. the not only self ours,
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but also pro life and gift quite a lot of immunization and odds. so it is a comprehensive, a support video goes from tricky. um, so we'll see quite a lot of human. it's around development 8, for example, for displace people in any. i mean, the early word we've heard from president trump and some of the people that are around him, like mike waltz, the incoming national security advisor is an expectation that they're going to pressure europe and nations to do more, to support the ukraine, to basically keep in the game, if you will take it and i'm just wondering how that will go over with citizens in europe. europe has the resources to help you crime europe even have resources to still do or we as a europe, that might be elizabeth a lot of political will. so the not from the bill provides external uh push on that and you know, the sec, you with a, a funeral, not only you crying as a nation, it's a state so, so we should take it seriously and be ready to,
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to find those results. so i'm gonna show the policy, i've just talked about europe kind of as, as, as a single entity. and i think, you know, from my experience of starting an east, you know, western europe and moving across the eastern europe, the intensity of feeling and passion about this topic, changes and shift. is there a real problem inside europe that you're out, your neighborhood on, you know, for the most part, is one that's really feeling the tension about ukraine. russia and others are coasting along. um, you know, i'm very careful criticising my neighbors. i just don't know that. so friendly, friendly, afraid, lit, friendly, nations of europe. but the reality is that we need to do more and we need to fund resources. this will be a difficult debate in the u. uh, there are certain states which are clearly dedicated to stop russia and ukraine and in europe as such, full and baltic states. for example, chic, i'm a nation initiative which physically deliver of immunization for the front lines.
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obviously, you know how something around. it's a cooperation between check the i've done work and underlines and many other contribution contribute technicians. and then uh, we have this big players. we really struggle with leadership, bellevue, bi election soon in germany. of you have a government in front of adults. confidence right now. this is not helping but this, those are the situations which needs to result somehow. on the other side, if you have a new leadership of faith or my group, i think that i think jump, you have a new european commission, the commission, the president of the stuff on the line continues. and so for example, uh why so waste chair kind of cut off its doing also very good job. so you know, i hope everything is going good and hope everything is going. but uh, back we have to, you have to, you have to continue. you have to be really dedicated to stop pressure. do you think there's a blind spot out there?
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about a growing resentment, antipathy about ukraine. we've just seen in the romanian election. the surprise emerge. vince of a character very few people knew about was deeply anti nato. and i find it so interesting because the deputy secretary general of nato was from wrote romania marciano was one of the candidates didn't do so well in the election, but a kind of 18 nato pro russian a nationalist one this election that election has now been a no, because of the concerns about russian meddling, deep meddling and social media. how do you feel about that election and the decision by the court and do it? and you have concern that there is this really substantial portion of a public to inside these countries in eastern europe. that is somehow moving in another direction when it comes to russia, ukraine, 80 percent of false information. and this information activities in europe about nights from russia as russian origin. so russia,
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i subdivision not all the physical renew crying, killing everyday people, kate's women, destroying hospitals and cities. but they also want to destroy the minds of your pin citizens through this is information combines, so the situation romani, i just refresh everyone in the refresh. so now we are going to link all the information and i am in touch with people on that. so i, i don't have a direct command, it's very concerning. and it's so fusion that you're not going to call them in a way you think it was the cost of something called a scrape the for, from the selection. so uh, probably that must be a strong reason, but uh, but uh, i am able to get what you have. i mean, it's been out there in saying that there have been over a 100 major incidents in europe. yes. of missed you directly related to russian actions. can you tell us more? yes, it's a clear indication that the number of suspicious event is growing. the russian aggressive. it's the oldest secret services of the proxies is building. so we even
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had a incident in prague when some person was monday to late. it's um, we have to like from the some kind of some things to, to learn something to make up publish. i was, i don't know, successful, but why is russia doing? that's why they did the same and the full and then the baltics why we have so many cases of has to be on osh why we, we need to be able to find some, some, some, some diplomats. so we need to stop. that's the highest the west. so passive, and taking this with out, the engaging and just information campaigns in russia. why is there not more of an aggressive count her response to basically li, the terms that if you, in russia, vladimir putin do these things in europe and united states and elsewhere, that you run the risk of them being done to your own population. because the united states used to be pretty good at meddling and other, you know, so i would not say that the best as buses. it's too broad, it's
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a to general statement. different countries are going to funds your jobs and there's a different level of sensitivity, some different societies and still to try your heart was not overcome. this is the reason why it is called hybrid wolf or it's, it's something which is not the war for as such. so the society is uh, less seeing that. uh and um, this is sparkle, is my job to say no, this is a serious situation. you have to do something. and uh, my proposals for example, to limit the move month of fresh and diploma finish. and going that route, exactly direction this and these are actually go through these. i don't, i'm not saying that this isn't over desire of donald trump, but i've heard it from some of the people around him that he may have a desire in the next few years. to host something like a state dinner for vladimir putin in washington of trying to bring the us and russian interest back together. and they argue that that might be
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a small price to pay if he can get russia to stop in engaging in aggressive behavior against his neighbors. would that be something that would give you heartburn, which is not interested in or supporting, is interested to destroy you quite as a state the ukraine in us as a nation. and so as the landscape is the president, he wants to erase your claim from the met. this is duplicates real. didn't know. uh, so i don't want to comment on names. well, sibyl or speculative scenarios, diploma. think history between us and, and russia. of course it's ok that those 2 states us diplomatic relations sent to that suspect office. you recently met with a group of european foreign ministers and had a discussion much of it dealt with ukraine and what uh, both red lines they would be and what plans of action would would be what, how, how solid do you think the group is? you mean like the natal or the you need to is versed on the optical size,
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so for long thing, can you have to work on it? i think the most important thing is that nato is now working on new defense plans. so we see, well, the russian army start balls and the trucks, the tourism, and we, and we look into what our capabilities are. and the message is clear. we have to invest more into defense and the message that the 2 person r o c link is just the baseline of it shouldn't be fulfilled by everyone. and the more of this debate will come from your perspective. after listening to president zalinski off and on, you know, his aspirations for nato membership sooner than later. but hearing from both european leaders and american leaders, you know, maybe it needs to later, you know, be later than sooner on nato membership. but when you think about a potential deal, something along the lines that a general kellogg who's coming in to be an envoy for the presidency, you know, the rest of you green conflict is looking at some, you know, territorial, free,
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some fries in the conflict to begin to negotiate, but basically taking off the table a needle membership for some time, what kind of formula do you think might work? so 1st and foremost, we have to stop pushing for once, not to give him a pulse, to take a breeze, and then continue the. and i think the it's, it's less money and we month we will suppose to stop to, to get for sort of the lent pots of trickle slovakia, a. hitler. and i don't have, i say this is my last demand. i want demands anything more and we know that it will just incentive to solve this, a convertible with a full on to effect friends and to, to then been so busy. so we have to stop it and solve it as a piece which will be just lost. and if you do some kind of freeze, the rest of it will be able to produce weapons fine muscle just and build up the
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nice and then continue again. so this will be a biggest mistake. so what are your thoughts and what does that dynamic initial a policy? what would be that dynamic to genuinely stop it? because that wouldn't involve some dimension of deterrence. some dimension of much more serious armed forces defending whatever lines you draw other than just leaving you free to use the uh, i like, oh, i like the same piece to stress. and that's about a sick we think around these. so does the discussion we have now and, and europe. how the sick, the accurate subcategories under the discussion? what would be the form of the guarantees of some say if there's an angel membership? so chip position is ok. yes, maple membership is the strongest possible guarantee. and then us many, many other possible. but now every day there is a fire. think russia news is more than 1000. so just every day, every day. and you calling us out losing. so just to have, you know, know the exact figure. but it frustrates losing 1000, it will be also quite
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a significant number of the plan side of so i think the ultimate goal should be to stop it will just build it. so what do you see as the check? he is unique role in this moment. you know, trying to basically broker this. i'm sort of interested in what role you as a, for an administrator playing at this moment broadly. are you uh, going along with a flow of other nations? are you able to put ideas on the table yourself? is there anything proactive you're doing this so? so there are all sick guys to be really good, possible good to lie, and to do our homework and take, i will start share the 11000000 country so, so we can do something we can do change like that. i'm interested in to share this or do you want to turn out? and so of course i try to bring good new ideas to, to move to good to what's going to be done. so that's,
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that's how i see the role of chick yet. me to me, you sound quite hawkish on, on russia and drawing lines. there are some domestic dependencies that, that the check here has on russia, particularly oil in energy. still, can you talk to us about that? how do you remain dependent on russia? i'm not saying you want to be, but you are dependent on it at the same time of trying was, i mean, i just even don't know how you would manage that geopolitically and from an economic perspective. how is that going and are, you know, how are you making progress in cutting off that dependency? so the current government made a clear decision right off the full scale of innovation of you quite. and as we look good with all the defendants in the russian hodgin, and i guess we'll solve vs some capacity terminals in germany and lance. we can get the l n g and we will get rid of the russian oil next year. so there is no contradiction,
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you don't want to be dependent on someone who wants to have luxury at the same time . do you fear it will a kind strategic contraction of us commitments around the world that one of the things i think president trump represents is a frustration of a lot of americans. that somehow they play a security guarantor in the world. but china has come out, ending up a winner in their i is that american manufacturing got hollowed out, that there were a lot of trade offs that were very uncomfortable for american. it's made the security equation much, much more complicated. and i'm just interested in, as you look at it as someone who's close united states watches, united states values, the relationship, are you worried about it becoming dimmer and to some degree because of american populism rising right now. i don't have a designated fonts for for the 2 up survey. sions do might not survey. it was done from who push the agent out to persons you'd, you'd be spending on defense, you're in your system, and they, to applaud that. and we all plaza is now being fulfilled and so things are getting
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better and he grew up as soon as thinking and so on the sense i would say this is a positive thing. i'm. the other thing is that the conflicts in the world are not slippers one any more. so as you see this and you're sitting here in doha, we've got delegations here from russia, evaluations from iran. we have representatives here from syria check. yeah. and from check, you know, you're in the middle of a major, major forum here. and it's not that everything would be resolved here. but i'm just wondering, do you think that this sensitivities are in the right place regarding what, how, how much worse everything could get, you know, today in the middle east we're seeing what's going on and 11 on the scene is real, gaza. we're seeing, you know, breakdowns in syria and how worried are you about a repeat of history? us, uh, we should learn from history the repeated. that's a very famous, very famous quote. it's important to have a place like they'll have to have
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a different kind of confirmed see since injunction organizations. because the real front line soldiers of these are diploma soaking through each of solving issues. and if they fail, then we have that. that'd be written estimate direction. so if you will, to get rid of the military actions and war, we need to talk to each other. but it has to be, it has to be a reasonable discussion. and in a, in, in, in case of frushell rush, iceland, to like to discuss and the, the re present that they said it looked at the times that they, they, they, they will use the following line. we are just told with america i voted worth as ours. a lot of it is that landscape about how to withdraw from your plan. so you should listen to that. uh, we have one vision until that uh to have this. uh, a big stick. so then we can speak softly on ask this question carefully, but i know you have a very special relationship with some of your neighbors to visit grad countries
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hungry, poland, slovakia, a check here. and it seems that that used to be a bastion of you know, democratic activity. it seems to be slipping. slovakia, uh, had it has a rising populous trend. and a popular scrubbing that came in, i think, is populous going under prime dystrophy. so, and you have in hungry, of course, uh victor, or bon, who's seems to be on the demonstrably different tract and much of the rest of, of europe and has not been expelled is still in. is there a brewing problem in your neighborhood? when it comes to how these countries, donnelly, look at russia, look at china right now. a lot of countries worried about china is rise and how to manage that. and i'm interested in how that is handled from the us perspective, as well as the trans atlantic perspective. what are your thoughts so long to figure out it was created in the fine, long ago to give us a go off to sort of communism. and it was the big names like chick
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president, boston hello or police president black wallace. and it was created with the vision that those for centrally open countries will do, going to join nato and the you and this promise was fulfilled and these are very successful incorporated. and the other goods times and best times will be suggested about. so now we have a major disagreement, an interpretation of the 60 to situation in europe. chicky, i'm full of, let's say that's uh, we see things in the quite the way. russia is what wants to destroy the 2nd with all the and you up. so we find the agreement, it's lucky, a hungry for you, for example, in natal or in the you. but this is the limits of the agreement and there is not much space for more again, so the be significant cooperation continues, but it's not just about that. it's also about, it's a culture of the good. well,
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it's all of us have people look at victor or bon as a, as a, as an autocrat. uh, you know, coming to power and, you know, just enabling a democratic institutions. we just see that worried about that is that is that concern over plate in, in the year and a house and a hungry that would be actually on sunday or monday. so it's coming to the beginning in the fall. so. so let's see. uh, let's see how the, how the, let me ask you finally, you were in ukraine recently, and you met presidents a lansky, and you gave him a book. yes, i'd like to know what the book was. carol, this is a beautiful, what is it gave me a book about possible problems. prague was that what you gave in this book was not the to guide for presidents the landscape. we are ready to invite president. so let's get to, to the as a to is to proud when the voice over of it is officially much in my book all over. i gave him a book of russian for anything else. ah, rush, i sly and every day. love her office lank every day, and we wanted to show to people that this for kremlin 1st,
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those are really for it though, sense of to, to give some sex check to go slice. so it's an a funny way. this is a set of social media posts, which obviously makes fun of the rest. so what was the rest of the live flow as presence the landscape reaction? he will surprise tables that they and he like this. and he would like to see that you create a diversion, mr. for mr. thank you so much for being with us today. thank you. thank you very much. i. so what's the bottom line? you as president elect donald trump, may be able to work with russia's red lines on ukraine, but to most european governments, it may sound like appeasement or conciliation in a direct threat to the principal of state sovereignty. the further east you go in europe, the more folks are nervous about what a deal with russia and ukraine may look like. don't forget, they're in the neighborhood of ukraine, and they were subjugated by the ussr, the soviet union. for the longest time. america has no strategic interest in giving
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away everything to russia, but it could go either way. some voices in the trump point house was solidly against any russian advances, yet there are other voices arguing that this conflict really isn't one for america to keep investing. the difference between them is start, but that's what lies ahead. and that's the bottom line, the a we can look at the world's top business storage. but as of right costs in the united states waiting for the rest of us from global markets and economies to construction small businesses should that be beyond to ask people have spent a lot of time working that part of the answer to understand how it affects the nights with still remain before we can truly say that we are in say, tax rate, counting the cost on o g a 0 or we don't simply focus on the public. it's of the conflict. it's the
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