kolinski is listening, there's no clear facts yet. maybe they'll be further discussions about that with judy vans. so i think that's instead of just giving military aid, they want to see something coming back from ukraine. this is how the topic ministration is framing it. all right, teresa fall and thanks so much for joining us on al jazeera, we really appreciate it. thank you. the protective shell that covers the destroyed reactor at the turn oval nuclear power plant has been damaged and an apparent drone strike. ukraine has blamed russia the kremlin has called the allegations of provocation and says the russian military doesn't attack nuclear infrastructure. the international atomic energy agency says radiation levels at the the commission plant remain normal and stable. a us president donald trump has announced a new trade tariff scheme with rates to be calculated on a country by country basis. the white house says it plans to match levies charged by other nations and reduced trade deficits. hydro, castro reports from washington president donald trump has ordered an overhaul of

america's trade policy with the world. this is going to be the thing that makes our country really prosperous again. and this is going to what's to be what pays down to $36.00 trillion dollars in debt and all the other things. and this is going to be, this is an amazing day. this. i think there's going to be a very big day. and in a very positive way for our country, as ordered by the presidential memorandum. trump's economics team will investigate every us trading partner for trade measures that this advantage the united states as applied regardless of what they are called. that includes tariffs on us goods, taxes on us businesses and workers subsidies for domestic industries and currency manipulation. a reciprocal tear of level specific to each country will then be calculated and delivered to the president by april india, south korea, brazil in the you are among the regents expected to be hit hardest americans are

the largest consumers of foreign goods in the world. and we'll see prices rise, which from says, domestic production will benefit is going to make tremendous amounts of jobs that ultimately, prices will stay the same go down. most economist, disagree, and point to the u. s. has continued struggle to contain inflation, or is it good strapped to a singularly lacking and strategic contest and his terror policy? you seem to just and for these are as that goes shooting flores without a further thought about how they're going to say to either exploiting or importing industries in the overall economy, which is going to suffer from plan global tariffs would effectively and the us as commitment before the world trade organization, which in general, consents to poor nations imposing higher tears on wealth your nations in order to protect their own developing industries. from says countries will have

a chance to negotiate with the us. but none he says will be spared. highly jo, castro, alger 0, washington. it's time for the weather. here's car. hello. then let's have a look at the weather across south america over the next few days. and we've got a dense show and storm clouds collecting across the north of the region. we've already seen some very heavy rain in peru that caused flooding and land slides across the northern areas. and there's more of that to come. the big bus of rain are going to be affecting northern areas of brazil, so that will be putting into the guy on is. and so right now with a weather system bringing west to weather, to eastern and southern areas of brazil over the next few days. for the south of that, it has been very hot and dry across northern argentina and chile. but you can see some severe storms rumbling the way through when else there is pushing it further north over the next few days. but it's still a story of heat and power going. as soon shown it seems such 8 degrees celsius on

saturday. now there's lots of rooms to be found across the central america, the carrier being largely dry skies for much of cuba, extending out east, much west for costa rica, panama, seeing some showers as well. but there are the big bus of rain moving from bellies onwards to the yucatan peninsula. the sunshine in mexico city on monterey comes up to 30 degrees celsius on saturday. the still ahead are now to 0. 70 soldiers take up positions along the border as israeli troops leave. but there are questions about whether israel will meet the deadline to complete with tracking under record prices. we find out why eggs are so expensive in the united states and in sport, tennis actions from the father opened as the world number 2 stays on track and when the trophy for the 4th year, one of the

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blocking climate action on out to 0, the the i'm consume, you're watching. i'll just hear a reminder of our top stories with help from us and the palestinian islamic jihad have named the 3 is really captive health and gaza will be released on saturday as part of the ceasefire deal. they are doing nationals, alexandra trooping off. it's like a big couch and, and guy here for israel is expected to release 369. how much to me and prisoners return ukrainian president flooding. there's zalinski says europe will have to unite behind ukraine, so it can protect itself. speaking at the munich security conference, zalinski says decisions about your friends future can't be taken by

the him. 23 rebel group is advancing on bukasa with the capital of south keeping the province in eastern democratic republic of congo, and is now in control of an airport pictures on social media show fighters marching through the town of couple months around 30 kilometers from because of calhoun was airport is critical to supplying the d. r. c's army for one to back in 23. took the key city of goma more than 2 weeks ago, and says it wants to take over the whole country. the bodies of 14 south african soldiers who were killed in eastern d r. c. you have arrived in pretoria. the troops were a part of a southern african k peacekeeping mission, which came under attack last month. at least 20 peacekeepers had been killed during fighting between them. 23 rebels and d. r. c forces the head of the roman catholic church. both frances has been taken to hospital for tests. the vatican says he's also receiving ongoing treatment for bronchitis. the 88 year old pontiff has several health problems,

has had several health problems and recent years. he also suffered 2 falls recently at his vatican residence but on says it's been informed by the us. that is really troops will leave villages along the border to comply with the withdrawal deadline . but soldiers will remain stationed in strategic positions just inside living on the lebanese government has rejected the decision. the holder has more from beta with the 11 east army has been moving into villages along the southern border as is where the troops pull out it's part of the seas fired deal that ended the war between hezbollah and as well in november with the help of un peacekeeping troops, 11 on, is expected to keep hezbollah away from isabel's border as well. claims that still hasn't happened. and it is why it wants to hold onto 5 strategic locations, just inside lebanon. after february, 18th,

the deadline for its troops to withdraw. israel does not trust entirely de new political leadership that has come to power in lab and on and wants to wipe the last word into implementation of the terms of the ceasefire. and therefore, it keeps met and keeps presence on that territory in order to survey as well has already missed an initial january deadline to withdraw. this doesn't help lebanon's new leadership, which is trying to extend the states authority under the ceasefire deal. it is also required to disarm hezbollah, which was the most powerful actor in the country. the smartest thing for these released to do right now would be to end definitively the issue of occupied territories, get out 11 on as part of the international agreements. get out of the ship of farms and northern has just an end this issue and allow the lebanese state to fully try to control and to then also disarm hezbollah. an invoice from the trump administration was invaded with last week. morgan ortega's didn't use the word

withdrawal, but re deployment. when she said the us was committed to the february 18 deadline. i say fire has been in place like november, but is really strikes what the army called has the military assets continue, and they are not expected to stop even after is ready to leave 11 on this route has made that clear is believes that service agreement gives it the right to act against what it considers immediate threats posed by hezbollah has the last fighting capacity has been effected by the war. but it continues to try to project strength through its supporters, along some stretches of the border. they're seen driving with the groups flags in a message of defiance, but there is a new political order and 11 on and the ceasefire deal is not. it has been less favor. so i know who there. oh, sure. so you build all right over to munich,

once again, malware us vice president j advance is about to address delegates and officials and sending them unix skirting conference. let's listen that. we also believe that it's important in the coming years for europe to step up in a big way to provide for it. so defense, the threat that i worry the most about visa, the europe, is not russia. it's not china, it's not any other external actor. and what i worry about is the threat from within the retreat of europe, from some of its most fundamental values value shared with the united states of america now struck that of a former european commissioner went on television recently and sounded delighted that the romanian government had just an old and entire election. he warned that if things don't go to plan, the very same thing could happen in germany to now these cavaliers statements are shocking to american ears for years. we've been told that everything we fund and

support is in the name of our shared democratic values. everything from our ukraine policy to digital censorship is billed as a defense of democracy or but when we see your pin courts cancelling elections and senior officials threatening to cancel weathers, we all to ask whether we're holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard. and i say our selves because i fundamentally believe that we're on the same team. we must do more than talk about democratic values. we must live them. now within living memory of many of you in this room, the cold war positions defenders of democracy against much more tyrannical forces on this continent. and consider the side in that fight. that censored visit is that close to the churches that canceled elections where they the good guys,

certainly not. and thank god they lost the cold war. they lost because they neither valued nor respected all of the extraordinary blessings of liberty. the freedom to surprise to make mistakes, to invent, to build as it turns out, you can't mandate innovation or creatively just as you can't force people what to think, what to feel or what to believe and we believe those things are certainly connected . and unfortunately, when i look at europe today, it's sometimes not so clear what happens to some of the cold wars winters. i looked at brussels, where you can, is commissars, warrants citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest. the moment they spot what they've judged to be, quote, hateful content for this very country or police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti feminist comments online as part of quote,

combatting massage any on the internet. a day of action. i looked a suite in or 2 weeks ago, the government convicted a christian activist for participating in korean burnings that resulted in his friends murder. so there's a judge in his case showing we noted sweden's laws just supposedly protect free of expression. do not, in fact grants, and i'm quoting a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the groups that holds that belief. and perhaps most concerning lee. i look to are very dear friends, the united kingdom, where the back slide away from conscience. right says place the basic liberties of religious britons in particular, in the cross there's a little over 2 years ago. the british government charged adam smith conner, 51 year old physio therapist, and an army veteran with ve, heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic,

and silently praying for 3 minutes. not instructing any one, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own. that traverse law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for. adam replied simply, it was on behalf of the unborn son, and his former girlfriend had a board of years before. now the officers were not moved. adam was found guilty of breaking the government's new buffer zones law, which criminalizes silent prayer, and other actions that could influence a person's decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility. he was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds and legal costs to the prosecution. i wish i could say that this was a fluke, a one off crazy example of a badly written law being acted against a single person. but no. this last october, just a few months ago, the scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay

within. so called safe access sounds warning them, but even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law. naturally, the government urge readers to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime in britain and across europe. free speech i fear is in retreat. and in the interest of comedy, my friends, but also in the interest of truth, i will admit that sometimes the loudest voices for censorship have come not from within europe, but from within my own country, where the prior administration threatened and bullied social media companies defense are so called misinformation this information like for example, the idea that corona virus had likely wait for weeks from a laboratory in china. our own government encouraged private companies to silence people who dared to utter what turned out to be an obvious truth. so i come here

today, not just with an observation, but with an offer in just as a binding ministration, seem desperate to silence people for speaking their minds. so the trump administration will do precisely the opposite. and i hope that we can work together on that. and washington there was a new sheriff in town and under donald trump's leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square. agree or disagree of the. now we're at the point of course that the situation has gotten so bad that this december for months, romania straight up, canceled the results of a presidential election based on the funds, the suspicions of an intelligence agency and a norm as pressure from its continental neighbors. now, as i understand that the argument was that russian,

this information had infected the romanian elections. but i'd ask my european friends to have some perspective. you can believe it's wrong for russia to buy social media advertisements to influence your elections. we certainly do. you can condemn it on the world stage even. but if your democracy can be destroyed with a few $100000.00 of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn't very strong to begin with. now the good news is that i happen to think you're democracies are substantially less brittle than many people, apparently fear. and i really do believe in allowing our citizens to speak their mind will make them stronger. still, which of course brings us back to munich, where the organizers of it's very conference have banned law makers representing populace parties on both the left and the right from participating in these conversations. now again,

we don't have to agree with everything or anything that people say, but when people represent, when the political leaders represent an important constituency, it isn't incumbent upon us to at least participate in dialogue with them. are not the many of us on the other side of the atlantic, it looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind the ugly sylvia . there words like misinformation and this information who simply don't like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion or, god forbid, vote a different way or even worse when in election. now this is a security conference, and i'm sure you all came here prepared to talk about how exactly you would tend to increase defense spending over the next few years in line with some new target. and that's great, because as president trump has made abundantly clear, he believes that our european friends must play

a bigger role in the future of this cotton that we don't think you hear this term burden sharing. but we think it's an important part of being in a shared alliance together that the european step up while america focuses on areas of the world that are in great danger. but let me also ask you how we can even begin to think through the kinds of budgeting questions. if we don't know what it is that we're defending in the 1st place. i've heard a lot already in my conversations. i've had many, many great conversations with many people gathered here in this room. i've heard a lot about what you need to defend yourselves from, and of course that's important. but what it seemed a little bit less clear to me. and certainly, i think the many of the citizens of europe is what exactly it is that you're defending yourselves for. what is the positive vision that animates the shared security compact? that we all believe is so important. and i believe deeply. but there is no security

. if you're afraid of the voices, the opinions, and the conscience that guide your very own people in europe faces many challenges . but the crisis this continent faces right now, the crisis i believe we all face together is one of our own making. if you're running in fear of your own voters, there was nothing america can do for you, nor for that matter. is there anything that you can do for the american people who elected me and elected president trump? you need democratic mandates to accomplish anything of value in the coming years that we learned nothing. that fin mandates produce unstable results. but there is so much of value that can be accomplished with the kind of democratic mandate that i think will come from being more responsive to the voices of your citizens. if

you're going to enjoy competitive economies, if you're going to enjoy affordable energy and secure supply chains, then you need mandates to govern because you have to make difficult choices to enjoy all of these things. and of course, we know that very well in america. you cannot win a democratic mandate by censoring your opponents or putting them in jail. whether that's the leader of the opposition, a humble question frank, in our own home, or a journalist trying to report the news. nor can you win one by disregarding your basic electorate on questions like who gets to be a part of our shared society. and of all the pressings, challenges that the nations represented to your face. i believe there was nothing more urgent than mass migration is today almost one and 5 people living in this country moved here from abroad. that is, of course, in all time high is a similar number by the way, in the united states. also in all time high,

the number of immigrants who entered the u from non e u countries doubled between 20212022 alone. and of course has gotten much higher sense. and we know the situation. it didn't materialize in a vacuum. it's the result of a series of conscious decisions made by politicians all over the continent and others across the world. over the span of a decade. we saw the horrors wrought by these decisions yesterday in this very city . and of course, i can't bring it up again without thinking about the terrible victims who had a beautiful winter day in munich, ruined our thoughts and prayers are with them and will remain with them. but why does this happen in the 1st place? it's a terrible story, but it's one we've heard away too many times in europe and unfortunately too many times in the united states as well. and asylum seeker, often a young man in his mid twenties, already known to police, rams, a car into a crowd,

and shatters a community. how many times must we suffer these appalling setbacks before we change course and take our shared civilization in a new direction? no vote or on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unrelated emigrants. but you know what? they did vote for england. they voted for breakfast and agree or disagree. they voted for it and more and more all over europe, their voting for political leaders who promised to put an end to out of control migration. now i happen to agree with a lot of these concerns, but you don't have to agree with me. i just think the people care about their homes, they care about their dreams, they care about their safety and their capacity to provide it for themselves and their children. and they're smart. i think this is one of the most important things

i've learned in my brief time and politics. contrary to what you might hear, a couple mountains over in davos, the citizens of all of our nations don't generally think of themselves as educated animals or as interchangeable colleagues of a global economy. and it's hardly surprising that they don't want to be shuffled about or relentlessly ignored by their leaders. it is a business of democracy to adjudicate these big questions at the ballot box. i believe it dismissing people dismissing their concerns or worse yet, shutting down media, shutting down elections or shutting peach people out of the political process protects nothing. in fact, it is the most sure fire way to destroy democracy and speaking and expressing opinions is it election interference. even when people express views outside your own country. and even when those people are very influential and trust me,

i say this with all humor. if american democracy can survive 10 years of gratitude, soon barb scolding, you guys can survive a few months of you on musk. but what german democracy, what no democracy, american, german, or european will survive, is telling millions of owners that their thoughts and concerns their aspirations, their please for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered democracy. russ, on the secret principle, that the voice of the people matters. there is no room for firewalls. you either uphold the principal or you don't. your opinions, the people have a voice. european leaders have a choice and my strong belief is that we do not need to be afraid of the future. you can embrace what your people tell you, even when it's surprising,

even when you don't agree. and if you do so, you can face the future with certain dean, with confidence, knowing that the nation stands behind each of you. and that to me, is the great magic of democracy. it's not in the stone. buildings are beautiful hotels. it's not even in the great institutions that we have built together as a shared society, as to believe in democracy is to understand that each of our citizens has wisdom and has a voice. and if we refuse to listen to that voice, even our most successful fights will secure, very little. as pope john hall, right, and you were listening there live to the us, vice president j. d vance addressing attendees in munich of the munich security conference. he said, among other things that the us is very concerned with european security believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between russia and ukraine. he also said that it's important in the coming years for europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defense. all right,

that's it for me and how much enjoy for this news hour. but i'll be back in a moment with more of the days and is thanks for watching the phone causing the cost to come. china and the us to avoid a trade will fully equal them. extensions escalates. president trump wants to shut down usaid. america's main. forrest agency plus from pulse financial assistance to south africa is a being with an ice counting the cost on al jazeera pakistan has $1.00 of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. and human rights was to which one dying every hour due to pregnancy complications. 11 east meets the brief midwives fighting to save the lives of pakistani mothers and their babies. pakistan's maternal mortality on l. g 0. fleet is demanding the part to justice at this is african union summit,

but with historical injustice and land restitution high on the agenda. will they engage effectively on conflicts and human rights concerns on the continent follows the african union summit on out is era. we're facing a future that we don't understand. we can't predict fully. everyone has to this. nobody knows what would happen the i need to stay most of the night. i need to do more with my life. i was like, you know what? i don't like myself. i want to change, why am i want to be trustworthy? i want to be responsible, but it keeps getting inspired to the story is on one of those, bringing the communities to contact me a great for the 5 behind i move forward. because board what we need is being able to move forward. and that isn't just a matter of science, that's

a matter of what do you think about your fellow human beings because it is a matter of democracy. the israel will release 369, the largest number of collison and prisoners on saturday as part of a cease fire deal with how much the alarm room. this sounds your life and also coming up come out as his name. the 3 is really kept as will do, will nationalities will be released as part of the swap. hoping for an enduring piece, palestinians and guys are continue to wait for temporary homes and shelters to.