this is on fire made for mine. ah ah, this is debbie news lied from berlin. the ukraine crisis teeters between warnings, wargames bosco staging military exercises. close the cranium border while talks to head off a feared russian invasion take place in berlin. also coming up competing claims for libby in prime minister of prime rift, threatened to tear apart the country's unity government. only a year after it was formed. and businessman ala mosque has been giving an eagerly

awaited progress report on a powerful rocket that he hopes will take people to other plans ah and william gruff, welcome to the program. german chancellor, olaf shoulds has repeated his warning to russia that it faces severe economic and political consequences. if it invades you credit. the remarks came as envoys from russia, ukraine, germany, and france convened in berlin on thursday to find a resolution to the crisis. meanwhile, russia and bella roo started joint military exercises not far from the ukrainian border. the russian defense ministry released these images of like fire drills and heavy armor, the militaries of russia, and beller as operating as one. it's not just ukraine that's alarmed by the show of force. in berlin on thursday, the leaders of estonia, lapierre and lithuania,

met with chancellor shelter to discuss the strategic response to moscow's aggression in the region. now it is more important than ever to mother life and to defend the values that are an essential element, uniting the best and a life nato guaranteed be some stability for decades and made it possible to achieve collective security level that our contest enjoy. today. nato troops are already protecting the alliance is northeast and flank in the baltic states. in fact, soldiers like these germans stationed in lithuania, close to russian territory, a part of what bloody mere pooty and object state. germany has announced his beefing up its deployment, sending an extra $350.00 bundles where troops to join the mission. but chancellor shalt says dialogue is still the aim. we have gotten from was that we expect from

russia clear stamps to reduce the current tensions in the region. we need de escalation of the stuff to bought on. at the same time, we already put serious dialogue with russia on questions of european security and look over a picture of the chart. the baltic countries a willing to supply lethal weapons to ukraine, such as javelin misses assistance. in some cases, they would need the agreement of germany, which is reluctant to see more deadly alms going into the region that rushes natives fear. such qualms will be seen as weakness, diplomacy, and generating dialogue. we'll have a chance only in combination with the credible to terrance and force poster any failure in this would send an encouraging signal to russia and could lead to similar tactics and pressure elsewhere. at a separate meeting in berlin on thursday, ukrainian and russian officials also sat down together for talks. the hope must be

that all the diplomacy will help to prevent war in libya, years are growing that a year old unity government can be under threat falling a rift over who should have the government. parliament appointed a new prime minister, but the incumbent is refusing to see power and still has the backing of the united nations. the development has raised the spectre of renewed conflict between rival factions, which divided libya after former dictator. mo, mom could duffy, was ousted and killed in 2011 o. a arriving in tripoli, one of the 2 men who now claims to be libby as prime minister for the bus yaga, a former interior minister was voted in by the countries parliament on thursday and has the backing of militia leaders in the countries east. libya is a democracy and that means the peaceful transfer power. i am confident that the government of national unity will be committed to the democratic principles. but

his rival is refusing to go out to a 100 debate, but has been libby as interim prime minister for the past year and has the support of the united nations, which says it's still recognizes him on thursday debate claimed to have survived an assassination attempt and releasing a video of his vehicle bearing bullet damage. hours later the countries parliament into brook replace to baber criticizing him for failing to hold elections in december as agreed under it you and back to plan. lawmakers also amended the constitution and ordered elections to be held within 14 months. on the streets of tripoli, people expressed their dismay at the latest political crisis. libyans don't trust any of them, they keep installing prime ministers and then removing them back and forth. they're not steady. if they were honest, they would let the elections happen. and we would have chosen officially

a real prime minister. and we would have had a stable constitution. a rival demonstrators of picking sides romped malicious, may follow their fears. libya could slide back into a conflict between factions in the countries east and west, which have divided the country for years. and after some other stories making news right now, the head of london's metropolitan police crusade dick has resign. following a string of controversies, london mayors, london mayor said she has not them enough to address sexism and racism in the police force. dicky faced pressure over her response to the 2021 murder of a woman by a police officer. the top diplomat of australia, india and japan and united states are in melbourne for a meeting of the so called quad alliance. the group is focused on meeting the increasing influence of china across the asia pacific region. the talks will cover

cooperation, health, technology, and climate change. we are committed to actually present a manual marconas calling for a renaissance for the french, the nuclear industry. he wants to build up to 40 new reactors to howard frances transition away from fossil fuels. critics have raised concerns about the cost and the problem of radioactive waste. germany plans to close the last of its nuclear plants by the end of this year. france and belgium have banned protesters from block roads in their capitals truck convoys from around france or having to paris inspired by truckers and canada of paralyzed parts of the national capital. their auto similar blockade is planned for brussels. police have told to arrest those who violate the ban and that action we just mentioned by canadian truckers is having an economic impact around $100.00 anti vaccine anti that activists are blocking

a key bridge leaking, canada, and the united states. the drivers are refusing to move to move until the government scraps a rule requiring them to be fully vaccinated. before entering canada day 14 of a protest that has caught the world's attention. canadian truck, as i've talked to vehicles in front of prime minister, just introduced office, bringing much of the capital ottawa to a standstill. originally this was a protest against vaccine mandate, foot truck se cross into the us just seems broadened out to the fringes and supported by far right. extremists and conspiracy theorists played honestly, i would say the fact that we are the fringe minority, but i'm quite proud to be the fringe minority of hundreds of thousands of girls and millions of spectators yourself on the political spectrum as being the far right is the protest spreading

over night, demonstrators blocked a bridge, connecting canada to the u. s. shutting down a quarter of cross board, a traffic more than 2 thirds of canadians, disapprove. of the protests and frustrated locals as making their opinions clear too well the one about the dog was pointing out some of the pretty of the processors. a lot of them brought their dogs to the protest and the hawking is incredibly dangerous for it bothers me. it i think it strikes what a lot of people feel about what they feel. canadian values are and we cherish freedom and this is not about freedom. but we're 3rd truckers prepare for the long haul. it might be some time onto ottawa, residents, get their city back. billionaire, businessman ellen mosque has been giving an eagerly awaited progress report on

a spacecraft that he hopes will take people to other planets. the starship rocket is bigger than those that took men to the moon. it's central to mosques. ambitious plans to colonize mars is company space. x is still waiting for the u. s. approval of the star ship to carry out its 1st orbital test flight. it's been a difficult week for space x after a last 40 freshly launch satellites to a solar storm. now with both the 9 we've been and let's get more on this now. we have keith cowan is the editor of space ref dot com. he's been eagerly awaiting his progress report from a lawn mosque majority now from washington d. c. thanks very much for joining us. first of all, biggest takeaways here. what? what would you see in this announcement? a very big rocket and it's interesting that a lot of people have been looking for specifics. and as i pointed out in twitter, it, there was a big rocket back there, the biggest one ever built by anybody. so i mean, debt should be news, but at

a low i guess they want more numbers and costs and things like that. well, i definitely have a few numbers. one of the big numbers is 40, which is the satellites. we just mentioned that that space x last right on the heels of this announcement. he tells us more about that. how could this have happened to space ex? well, what happened was, this is something that's expected but unexpected. when you have a solar event, it can hit the years atmosphere make it swell up, and this happened pretty much as they were getting ready to launch. so it was sort of an unfortunate confluence of events, but it hasn't really happened a lot. but you know, this is going to become more of an issue with more and more satellites up there at the space traffic issue may have heard about. yeah, of course, like a satellite. so already up there in a lamasta's planning a lot more. there's some concerned about just how crowded space might be getting, you know, nasa plays a role here. nasa is usually america's, you know, space experts, the one the one running things. but of course they're relying

a lot on space acts just how dependent what is that relationship between nasa and space x to get masses objectives done? well it you, a few years back, they realised that it was getting very expensive to send people to space and cargo . and they went and put some bids out to companies to do the cargo and the crew transport privately and space. x was the one who won both the cargo in the crew, and they did a really amazing job. it cutting the cost of sending people into space and they learned a lot. and now you see this giant starship rocket, which is based on their own expertise built with their own money. and if it works well, the cost may go down. further in a version of the spacecraft is what nasa will be using to weigh in astronauts back on the moon for the 1st time in 50 years. so nasa is very dependent on space expert space. x is dependent on the technology that nasa 1st pioneered. so it's a symbiosis, right? public private partnership. it's always seem to be the way it goes there. what is

the timeline here? do you have any sense of, of where things go from here? well, you, i'm throw some timelines out the lead back off a little bit, but he always ends up doing what he says he's going to do. and he's talking about being able to launch the 1st orbital flight, probably by the end of this year. and then start launching some starling satellites . and after a year or 2 of experience to put people on it. and the landing of the 1st americans on the board is supposed to happen in 2025. that's pretty solid deadline. so something's got to happen between now and that solid air feels just like around the corner. keep going or to leave there for now. thanks so much for that update. alicia. ah, let's turn to winter olympics. germany's completed a clean sweep of gold medals in luge events after climbing victory in the mixed relay. when that puts them top of the metals table to be as vandal and to be as

odds set a course record on the final run. for the head of the austrian team by just 8 hundredths of a 2nd. that made it for gold medals in 4 events for team germany after wins in the men's womens and doubles category. and at least performance is just one of the reasons why the german team, thompson metals table people here are hoping it stays that way. of course, let's take a look at those standing so far. you can see germany leading the way with 6 goals, followed by norway, austria. it's in 3rd place though. they have the most metals over all with 13 how station china is currently out of the picture in 7th. now that is all the news we have for now, but do not go anywhere because you are gonna wanna stick around for doc film as it explores the downsides of moving to green energy. that's right. it might not be so clean and green as we all hope. it's a $1000000000.00 business with serious environmental consequences. and if you want

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