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today may go down in history as the official start to the end of the ongoing medical error. the german chancellor was in brussels for what will most likely be her very last year repeated union summit after 16 years in power, miracle is stepping down. this coming september, the physicist turned politician will soon rank is one of europe's most respected states women. now today, the dutch prime minister praised miracles, saying when she speaks, everyone listens and also puts down their iphones. medical reminded her colleagues that when she came to power, no one had even heard of an iphone. i broke off in berlin. this is the day. the news possibly when they became johnson, as i said,

has been invented to be starting this summer. but i think this summer will send important signals for the financial crisis. so we will have half talks today. so get your, the hon. say we can handle this. that's why i always say we can do that on commission. i appreciate you. always playing by the rules on douglas and also coming up shocking testimony from britney spears, the pop star telling your california judge how her father and others used. her court ordered conservatorship to abuse her brittany's fans are listed for her to say that she was forced on to medication against her will. that she forced on her birth control and she wanted to have a baby, and her conservators were not allow her to remove the birth control to have her own

child. that is insanity. we didn't even know it went to the fans. we knew something was unusual, but this is next level. the puts our viewers on p b. s in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with a warning from the german chancellor. as her time in power begins, approaching its end today, uncle americal address the german parliament and said that germany as well as all of europe are on thin ice in their battle against the corona virus. especially now that the delta barian is expected to be responsible for almost all cases in the european union by august. medical is urging germany and all you countries to adopt a common policy on quarantining people arriving from high risk areas. macro delivered today. what may very well be her last speech to parliament as head of government after 16 years in german chancellor, medical plans to step down in september when the country holds its next general

election. but berlin was not the only city to see a final miracle moment today. she was also in brussels for what is also likely to be her final european union summit. she's attended dozens over the years, the youth summits and the world where they've changed dramatically since miracle 1st became german chancellor in 2005. we take a look back at a leader named miracle and the summits that she attended, offended and even master. this is how it all began. winter 2000 and fife, newly elected chancellor. i'm going to america arriving at her 1st european summit and breathless. we are happy to be starting this european summit and we will do everything to get the best results, whether there will be an agreement we cannot tell today. this became her brother's motto for the next 16 years. more often than not navigating the disaster of the day

1st to hit the 2008 financial crisis. what started out in new york with soon tearing through europe's economy. so many town, ladies and gentlemen, we are meeting at the right moment for the summit because i think it will sent important signals for the financial crisis. the olson con, easier said than done. some thought the chancellor was out of her depths. but when in 2014 russian king started rolling in crimea in east ukraine, until america showed her meta brokering the fire min. so i have already in many communicated their results. this is a glimmer of hope no more. and no, let me go. the meanwhile griggs were taking to the streets, fearing the country's economic collapse. we will have half talks today and there will be no agreement at any price. i know,

and there are stretch johnson all night negotiations brought success. greece was kept in the agreement but the 2015 refugee crisis on europe borders. so use sort of derek splinter in brussels. the chancellor had a clear message in the face of the great challenge. it cannot happen that europe says we cannot handle that. that would be wrong. that's why i always say we can manage. that is there were other battles breaks. it budget hurts. no. the tedium, sometimes overwhelming. and lots of diplomatic greetings and kisses to endure more or less welcome. until the horrors of the coven 19 crisis separated leaders for the 1st time, mecca, the last big fight was brokering a deal on the blocks enormous recovery fund. good morgan,

today we are entering the day of negotiations and it will be decisive. but we could also not reach an agreement today when the deal finally came on, the medical must have felt her work. here was done this pre pandemic family. so to may remind her of happier times, leaders are likely to feel quite lost without her. as the chancellor gets ready to take her last steps, leaving the european stage. and joining me now as a woman who burned the midnight oil many a night covering miracle, and all of those many e u summit, barbara, these are join me from brussels. good evening to you barbara. that was an excellent story. by the way, it almost makes you emotional, you know, when, when you look back on everything that has happened. when you look back on those 16 years with miracle in german chancellor and making her mark on the

e. u. what stands out to you? what really stands out, i think friend is this enormous development she has made when she came into office and she appeared to russell, you know, fresh phased and bouncy as we saw her in that very 1st picture there. and everybody said i, you know, cools, may can cool girl, she can do this. she's not really a good european. she comes from the, she doesn't know anything about it and she has no visions. and then suddenly she didn't have visions, but she had something else. she developed incredible stamina to keep this european union together and it was somehow like it, like a good shepherd's will keep the herd together that really seem to have been her main goals, who are all these years. and she also became the european union's for most crisis managers. we have seen a few of these crazy, i mean, it really came hard and fast and sometimes you felt that hardly had you stumbled

out of one and some are covered together, compromise. then the union was falling into the next disaster, long, long nights and long days. and she, i counted the summons and i came up to a 100 that she spent in europe. that is a lot of time in a life. you say she was tough on greece during the euro crisis, many would say she was too tough. she was firm, but fair with the u. k. during breaks it talks and many of not forgiven her for allowing 1000000 migrants to inter germany back in 2015. if you take her out of the equation for the past 16 years. barbara, what kind of european union would we have today? quite a different one because she really became the center of gravity in the new and as it said, she kept things together. so rather likely, greece really would have been coupled with out of the euro zone bricks. it might

have become much more fractures and all the diplomatic successes that she had that was not really so much credited to her because there was a lot of work behind the scenes going on. and they probably wouldn't have after the whole thing might have even been blown apart in the meantime. so it would have been a very different union. so she was really instrumental. she was sort of the center of gravity for 16 years. and i mean something, barbara, who will be glad to see uncle american go maybe some of the eastern europeans because she really had become the embodiment of liberal west and democracy as she stood up to donald trump and many admired her for it. and others thought that, no, we shouldn't, we should sort of be the friend of the united states. what ever was happening on

the other side of the atlantic, maybe some smaller countries who all was envious of her successes and her influence and her political ways. but that, of course, has to do with germany being the biggest country in the u. s. but in the end, i think she will be more miss than anything else. there will be nobody who is really going, getting ready to throw stones after her in today. she said that europe should pursue its own dialogue with russia and that it's, it's not enough to rely on the us to talk with. the criminal miracle has been called. the $210.00 whisperer when she is no longer there. who in europe will have vladimir putin ear? nobody more or less. the french president, of course, is trying to, to take over this rule, but he can form a completely different background, as she understood tootin. she knew what a secret service man was in the old eastern europe. she no way he came from and she,

she knows how he functions, how his mind works. and still, she thought it was possible to do business with him and the, the ties of germany, economy to put in a really end to russia really tight. so that will probably change after she's gone . we will have completely different parameters. do you think, barbara, that leaders across the european union do you think they've really accepted the fact that in just a few months, this anchor of stability, the marathon miracle will no longer be there? i'll tell you a secret, so we call the organize this of the, of the summits and the diplomats behind the scenes and asked them in fact, would you tell us what you are planning for angela molecules last summit and they were flabbergasted, there was a pause and they said this cannot be her last summer. it's not she's going to come back. and we said no for sure. this is going to be her last regular summit as the

chancellor. and then there was very long silence on the other side of the phone. so i'll never, never say who who we talk to, but that is proof arbor you found out. they are just not ready for the inevitable barber. they have to know well, what a story barbara is always. we appreciate your insights. thank you. the is this the new normal in hong kong today? it's biggest and most outspoken pro democracy newspaper. the apple daily shut down the owner say they were forced to stop publishing after authorities used the genes, new national security law to seize the papers, assets and arrest several of its editors. not a normal way to end the work day. but these journalists wave to a crowd of people who chant keep fighting. i think

they've just sent the last edition of the popular apple daily to print off to the media outlet was both to close down. what followed was long lines of people eager to snap up a copy of the last edition inside. it says, the paper has been a victim of tyranny coming out so that i know that today will be the last day of apple daily. why don't i feel very sad because i know they will never be such a paper, but there is to say the truth and death too, in depth investigative reports hold on. very shocking. within 2 weeks, the authorities could use this national security law to dismantle a media company. i'm worried i your, i believe the worst is yet to come. nice roommates and i apple daily is known for

its racy celebrity gossip. but in more recent years, it stood out in hong kong media as an ally of the pro democracy movement. it's china, critical coverage attracted the attention of the authorities. and when new national security laws were recently passed the new powers we used to obstruct the papers, operations. assets were frozen. offices were rated and executive arrested including the papers founder genie law who has been in jail since last december. china accuses the paper of colluding with foreign powers. seemed sean kong is a society ruled by law, not a paradise where law does not exist and freedom of the press is not a cod of impunity. and there is no extra legal right to people who are anti china and quote, disruption in hong kong,

the law. but the papers closure is seen as the silencing of one of the last pro democracy voices in hong kong. at china continues to tighten its grip on the city called me the us is withdrawing or remaining troops or if can a stand it leads. many afghans who for years worked closely with us troops on the ground in limbo, thousands of former contractors and interpreters. now fear for their lives as the taliban regains control of more territory. our corresponded oliver sell. it met one african man who was able to flee to the united states. now he hopes his brother can also get out before it's too late. we meet off mart somewhere, new new york city, a former, a contractor, an interpreter of the u. s. army. he found safety in america, fearing reprisals or does not want to be identified. his brother, who is still enough galveston, is facing an uncertain future goes into which was,

are now in a lot of risk. there. they worked for the military. now, if, if they are left behind, the tall one will call them it's is trust to, to check and see if your loved ones are alive or they are that you, when you, when the, for the no one answers it's, it's a big pain. america has longest war began in 2001 when it invaded afghanistan, following the attacks of 911. as the troops now leave, 800000 former contractors are being left without protection from the taliban. u. s . promised them special immigrant visas and to relocate them while they're applications are being processed. but time is running out of that. it doesn't makes

me happy to see that. we like i spent 11 years of hard work for the us army. and then i had to wait for 4 years to get my visa back to the us. government, just fulfill your promise and gone, let the people die volunteer. jeff swartz helped me out, and other african families settle in the united states. he says the u. s. has a moral obligation to protect those who helped its troops. this is a country that is land rover on mars, and we're sitting here telling that it was a process that has to be false. and we can't get 800000 human beings that whose lives are at risk mud is lucky. he applied for his visa, early of the current rate, his brother might get his approved within 3 years, long after the u. s. army has left off gas town.

i got a lot of talking things for her to say that she was worse on some medication against her will that she was for the therapy that she for center birth control. and she wanted to have a baby, and her conservators were not allow her to remove the birth control. nobody deserve to have everything from them. when they worked so hard, this is not considered to carry that this is real and that the woman herself was out of it. that is insanity. in the us and around the world, fans of britney spears had come out to show their support for the pop star, who says she has been treated like a prisoner by her own father. thanks to the court in the hearing. wednesday spears delivered shocking testimony about how she says she has lived under the court appointed guardianship of her father, an arrangement known as conservatorship spears, told a california judge,

i just want my life back. it's been 13 years and it's enough. i am traumatized. i can't sleep, i'm so angry, it's insane, and i'm depressed. i cry every day. let's take the story now to los angeles entertainment journalists, k j matthews is following what has to be one of the biggest stories of the year? it's good to see you again. k j and it's got to be hard to imagine living the way brittany spears claims that she has lived and is living one of the world's biggest stars, alleging that a legal instrument was used to inflame her. yes it's, it's still a shocking 24 hours. we heard this about 24 hours again ago here in los angeles, and i'm still surprised at the length and the details that she is. she basically told the world in a 20 minute statement to the court and the judge. she said a lot of shocking number one that she was being prevented from having

a family by being forced to keep a method of birth control inside her that she no longer wants. that at some point she was forced to be on lithium against her wheel. that she has to get their permission for the smallest thing in her life. it has really been a living hell for the last 13 years and she would like conservatorship to in as soon as possible. it's amazing. the i u. d being forced to have that inside. that's amazing. our fans, we know they've come out and support over. and there's been some big names in the music industry as well. right? yeah, you know, this gave a lot of more ammunition to her free. britney fans, you know, they have been saying this for more than one year now that brittany was not herself . that brittany was allowed to make music, not allowed to go anywhere, not allowed to live the life that she wants to live. they had been saying this all along and now to hear britain come into court and say,

what i said earlier about being happy was a lie. i miserable. she says, i cry every day she says i'm depressed and that at times she's very, very angry. so yes, these free brittany fans listen to that and said we knew it, we knew it all along. when this conservative ship was 1st ordered by the court, k j b, as i understand it, there was a legitimate reason and an argument to be made that it was in brittany spears, best interest at the time. of course, i mean, we all remember back in 2007 when she went to kind of a bitter divorce with her ex husband, kevin federline. and shortly after that she had a couple of mental health issues, public out breakdowns in which she shaved her head. we all remember those things, and so her father kind of swooped in and did not feel that she was really in her best state of mind. and wanted to make sure that she wasn't taking advantage of financially. so there were legitimate concerns back in 2007,

back in 2008. but we're now in 2021 and it's been 30 years and she is a different woman. and she has evolved and remember, during that time period of 13 years, brittany has still put out a number of albums and it's going to tour and even had a las vegas residency. so she has worked, she hasn't worked lately in the last couple years. but in the beginning of that ca conservatorship, she was still working. i find it hard to believe though, that no one. and this is what i read today that no one told brittany spears and these 13 years that she could petition the court to end the conservative ship and she claims she had no idea really you know. 7 that is hard to believe. i heard her say that is well, it's very hard to believe. but we have to remember brittany speeders has mental health issues, which she would acknowledge herself. so whether or not which kind of medication she's on. what they may have said to her behind closed doors,

what she actually remembers, we really just don't know. and whether or not our her various lawyer says, remember she had different lawyers throughout the years had actually brought her in behind closed doors and explained to her what she has the right to do and what she doesn't have the right to do. and she has requested that she wanted to in the conservative hip many years ago. we still don't know that, but i could see that the judge was very concern and really started to talk to britney spears attorney about the steps and the process that he would need to go through in order for him to petition to court. she's in this conservatorship because i'm trying to imagine this happening to a star as big as britney spears, but not a woman happening to a man. do you think that this would be allowed to happen to a male pop store? it is very hard to believe that someone as big as a brittany spears, if she were a male who see this happening to her in hollywood, if she were not,

a woman is quite hard to believe. i mean, they have really had their thumb on her for, for quite some time and, and really almost very barbaric. you know, if what she's alleging is true, she really just not has, has not had any kind of control of her life. and which really troubling is that, you know, as she ages, she's 39 years old. i don't know when she's going to be turning 40 probably soon. but she really wants to have a family. and many people understand that. obviously as you age, there may be complications with being able to have a family as you age. so i understand that time is of the essence and it is surprising to see her undergoing all this as a female and her age. yeah, we've got about a minute, less k j i a british media today referred to her as the former pop star, britney spears, which shocked us. we were reading that. i mean, what happens next for britain? i think right now, this is a watershed moment. we now know much more than we did 48 hours ago about brittany

spears. so the next step is to have her father respond and probably to have her. her lawyers actually officially file a petition to terminate this conservatorship, which would probably then bring forth all parties to basically establish why they think the conservatorship should or should need. but they'll be more meetings, more hearing before decision is made. but we now know for sure that she wants it to be terminated, so it really will be up to the court. and we never know, she might have to undergo another psychiatric evaluation before that decision is made. well, if something does happen, we'll be calling a new teacher matthews, in los angeles, there's always t j. thank you. thank here. of the day's almost done, the conversation continues online. you'll find us on twitter either the w news. you can follow me at brent golf tv and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day. we'll see you then everybody who's

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