ah, i, it is somebody currently more people than ever own worldwide in such a better life. but in cases in part of that, a lot of money that's available in ha, battling a and the method did also that i find out that bailey's story info, migraine, reliable news for migrant wherever they may be. ah, talking tactics, tanks and targets. germany's chancellor olaf show it says in washington, for close door talks with you as president joe biden on the agenda, only rushes war on ukraine. how can the west keep up support for the embattled ukrainians? and what if china helps russia with weapons?

it is the chancellor's 2nd visit to washington since he took office just over a year ago, before the trip. charles described relations as quote, better than they have been for many years, but after recent irritations over battle times for ukraine, are the 2 leaders really on the same page when it comes to the war and gab alphas, and this is the day, ah, what did you say to that very, very, very plain truth. it comes from russia, ukraine and we made it clear to move on. and together we made good and that prompt really important together,

organized with you. also on the day the w meets filipino journalist and noble peace prize. laurie it's maria theresa, who issues a stock warning on what sacrificing the truth can lead to when fact and fiction merge and lies become fox. that to tell terry and wince, ah, 2 of us around the world and watching us on p b. s. in the united states, a welcome german chancellor shaw says set that relations between germany and the united states are better than they have been for many years. shows us in the us for a closed door meeting with president joe biden in washington. as a lot to discuss,

the only point on the agenda will be the war in ukraine. the 2 leaders are committed to giving even more aid military, as well as financial for the besieged ukrainians. he's kept up, provide critical military support. and, you know, i would argue that beyond your military support, the moral support you gave you credit and your tribute historic changes at home. and, you know, i increase in defense spending and the 1st find a way from russian energy sources. i noticed he very difficult for you together work lock step to supply critical security assistance you crate. and from everything from what we've done to lock step ammunition or chill or armor tanks, air defense systems. and we've been together throughout. this is really important that we act together, organized on walk step that we made the feasibility that we can give the necessary

support to ukraine doing all the time. and at this time, i think it is very important that we give the message that we would continue to do so as long as it takes and as long as it's necessary and that we are ready also for staying with the ukrainians as and as long as it is necessary and i really appreciate that very good cooperation between the 2 of us all governments, united states in germany and europe, trends, partnerships, really very good shape today. this is the service, thanks for your leadership. so i'm really happy to be here to talk with you now from on this, let's go to thomas zuba han is the member of the german parliament and the spokesman on transatlantic relations for the conservative main opposition party misses of on this sort of short 1st visit to the us since russia invaded ukraine.

what's in it for the chancellor? but 1st, i'm happy that he would send some messages because it was a now there will be no statement. and of course, after one year war russian war against you agree with say that we join our forces and stand together with you green in some your intentions on this debate on delivering tanks to ukraine and now and i think this is a good opportunity and should make use of this opportunity. thanks. john. messages together with president 2022. right. you have said today you've claimed that shoulds doesn't have the will to lead. what do you mean by that and how would you like him to show leadership in this particular situation? i think the cation of the united states was germany, is to take a leadership role in you, and this expectation goes back to the german unity. we are the biggest country,

the strongest economically strongest country in defense of the rates are no longer a member of the european union. france has grown nature integrated because nuclear force, so in germany is less to take leadership brewers. and this really has been claimed by the team in his see change a year ago. it has been confirmed this week and speech time during this debate on german tank deliveries, he linked deliveries to as to additional american deliveries of tank. and this caused the invitations because the question was that you really want to lead or, or is this a denial to lead or in europe and leadership in europe is different from leadership

role as the president of united states has it. because there's, you've been, europe means to coordinate the europeans, and this should be, should be taken by germany. and if germany was to lead in this particular situation, you do also mean lead militarily with the bonus there in the sorry, state that is currently in need the chairman of decision democratic party claim, the military leadership group or this goes far beyond what we are doing right now, and i will say we need to join approach transfer funding partners. and of course, among the european union and the united states are eating or the coordination work that has to be done with respect to ukraine. and i think there's a step before you could better organize and match better ordination with in

europe and in the european union. and in this regard, military capabilities play a role because in land forces and ukraine, primarily tanks and artillery, is needed in the land forces. this is a poor capability for germany, and that's why there's a net for leaving and coordination of germany also in a military guy. now, another field where germany could take leadership, if you will, would be china if trying to gets involved in that war by providing weapons to russia. for example, should china be banned with sanctions if you will. but germany per suppose that i'll take a leadership role and that those that us present by saws might have discussed this. and again, there should be

a joint approach of transatlantic or whatever we do. what's china? we have to understand that china autocratic system also plays in imperialistic rule and not only reached out to south chinese iowa. and it also tries to reach you by the road and initiative by purchasing shares of european court. and in this regard and understand the china tries to increase our dependencies and china we should do and reduce. our dependence is to jana, this is a common interest of united states and germany. and is also, i think, the common interests of transatlantic purpose to keep our technological superiority and to achieve our globally go is in a joint approach. so there are

a few at off of building blocks. we can rely on trends, partners, and which are basis for a joint approach to come available on the member of the german main parliament. opposition party. thank you very much. thank you. ah. the philippines is among mine, countries in the asia pacific, where the state of democracy has declined substantially in the last 10 years. this is, according to this state of democracy report, 2023 released by the visa institute based in sweden. and it's a decline, philippines journalist and noble peace prize winner. maria recipe has seen 1st hand targeted by the regime of former president rodrigo, to tell us that she has recently released her new book, how to stand up to a dictator who w's. janelle de milan asked her about that and democracy in the

philippines. maria rats are welcome ear book is called how to stand up to a dictator. how would you assess the state of democracy in the philippines under current president, obama marcus? is it better or worse? we are at a strange moment in time where 37 years after a people power revolt ousted the mark was family was for nan, mark was the father, a clip to cracked who stole $10000000000.00. 37 years later, his son, his namesake, forget mark las junior was overwhelmingly elected president. and strangely enough, the previous administration had set the bar so low that we've actually improved. but where we move forward back now becomes the 2nd president, marcos president mark as his goal. and he has a lot to he, he is personally trying to vindicate his family name. and you know,

this phrase we use in the philippines never again except in the philippines. we're back together again and what do you think the role of personal responsibility for voters is like in this day and age? does that even exist? we used to have this adage, you know, you get the government that you deserve is that, is that true? no longer unfortunately, i mean in the philippines, this is a debate that we had right. is it the fault of our people who were manipulated, enabled by facebook, manipulated by power. you go into the poorest areas of manila, the capital in the philippines. and, you know, we talked to some of these people who voted for mark was one of them is a mother whose son was killed in the drug war. and you know, many of them believed that, that if they voted for mark was they would get gold. and you know, i report or out so why? oh, i watched it on youtube when fact and fiction merge

and lies become facts. dad, a totalitarian wits, a dictator wins. because the way you control people is by controlling their sense of reality. in the book, i talk about an end to impunity of the, the people killed in the drug war in the philippines of the detect administration. but i also ask for an end to impunity of mark soccer berg and facebook. in an ideal world, would mark fucker berg be criminally liable? do you think he should go to jail? both united nations and facebook meta sent teams to me and mar to investigate the impact of facebook on genocide and both groups came back saying that it enabled genocide, nothing fundamental was changed. no one was held accountable. it is up to the

justice system to figure out culpability. and that's the problem at this time period, right? it is, it allows impunity and so evil continues and i, you know, i, i've gone as far in the past the saying that, i understand i'm a, c, e o of a company. right. and in america, shareholder values. but there's also multi stakeholder approaches. um, so i if it almost feels like these companies use as an excuse, maximum shareholder profit of where they forget that, you know, there's a line between a moral immoral, an evil i would say genocide goes towards evil. i think most people who death up. oh, did i mention were still partners with facebook? and that's because you have no choice, right? this is a distribution platform. if you're a news organization,

you've talked about accountability. you've also talked about not really being able to walk away from facebook because no one is able to have you heard from mark zuckerberg at all since you've written your book? no, not at all, although, you know, i have friends inside piece book, but it's funny. the tech backlash has started and companies now more than ever, it hasn't laid off this many people in the tech industry, which hopefully means good things to other industries. because then these people who understand tech and then merge into societies, we need to, to bring that expertise into other things, including into legislation. i think what we've seen over and over and over is the technology companies focus on a libertarian view of free speech. these are primarily white men who have never felt that a time of vulnerability more tuggle burns never lived outside of the united states

. he's created something that could potentially be the best thing that could have happened. i know i believed in facebook, but right now it has enabled the rise of fascism. we are losing free will. we haven't talked so much about you yet. has how has your life changed since winning the nobel prize? has the increased spotlight helped you or has it made you more of a target? i think it was an acknowledgement of the sacrifice as journalists have had to me globally, just to do our jobs for me, it meant it was a vindication for wrapper. but for me, it meant that doing the right thing is the right thing. because for so many years, it felt like you were foolish to continue standing by these values of, of, and the mission of journalism. news organizations are so weakened today that we

cannot do this alone, and we need civil society to work with us to try to reclaim our civic space. our independence, our freed up. yes. hard. i don't really answer personally, but no, i had. okay, you laska. well, this next one is still going to be personal. you've mentioned that it's exhausting to wake up every day in the trenches. how do you i focus on the good, you know, that, that these tech companies because it's an attention economy because it's an outreach economy. they want to keep scrolling and what they've done is they've allowed the worst of human nature to take over the information ecosystem. but isn't my 37th year as a journalist. and inevitably, in the worst of times, i see the best of human nature. humanity has far more in common than we have differences, and that's the good that we have highlight. maria, rafa,

thank you very much. ah, there's a growing about the long term impact of severe winter droughts being experienced in several places across europe. rainfall is sharply down in many countries with wide range and consequences for agriculture, energy. and more. all this comes after the worst summer drought in 500 years in europe. so albert has the winter been and what does that mean for the coming months and years? this is what winter drought looks like across france, spain and italy, lakes and rivers, far below their normal level or dried up entirely. farm fields dry and dusty. this used to be an island in italy's lake, garda no longer go yardly took with i've lived here for 18 years and i've never seen the lake so dry. i used to come here by boat,

but now i can walk. let's hope for rain. hey, this is evident that he just, this year france saw it's longest winter period without rainfall on record $32.00 days. the alps have seen about half their usual snow. and italy's river po that feeds much of the country's agriculture is down 61 percent from normal. just one example, italy's rice harvest is threatened for the 2nd year in a row. since you cynical she stands there are problems you gotta preventing, allowing that on the soil is so hard that the plows can cut through the earth. vul maddie know his current that yell at that'll farmers aren't the only ones worried. the lack of snow means less snow melt, flowing into lakes and rivers in the coming months that will translate into less hydro power from dams, as well as less cooling for nuclear reactors. france is developing an action plan to save water at the national level. net, some of those one fiscal

a nation needs to do with water. what we have done with energy, a kind of sobriety plan, we must all pay attention to this resource that is becoming rare. it's the end of abundance off. if you don't find it, is it a fundable don't think, but no matter how much people conserve more rainfall is necessary, the spring months will be crucial, and meteorologists don't know how much rain will fall. if there is not enough, europe may be set for yet another devastating dry season. again, let's talk more about the subject of the dr. ryan tooling. he's associate professor in climate hydrology at wagnerian university in the netherlands. profess, how bad is the situation and how much of europe is affected right now? yes, good, good evening. so the situation is, is fairly extreme. so we've seen about one month of what is called missouri blocking is means that there's an atmospheric circulation where the moisture in the

rainfall is simply con, get to the places that it's normally coming to you and in terms of snowfall. well, you mentioned some numbers in just a minute ago. so we see snow snow conditions in the alps being 30, maybe 50 percent of what they are normally. reverse river levels are dry or down. so it's, it's quite a severe situation and of course your original really used to these kind of with the tracks. now we have the french president in our report, they're calling for a reduction in water usage. is that feasible? and what else can government do to address this problem? ah, yeah, that's a good question. so i think you should really distinguish between the short term response and the long term response. because this is a problem that's going to say, this is maybe not going to be with us every single year. but if it's in a larger trend of, of reduce rainfall in spring. and of course, also

a long term trend in reduced snow back in the middle mountains in india, in the else. so what the government can do in the short term is of course, i think about irrigation bands reducing what a usage. but i think in the long term it's much more about creating the infrastructure and maybe changing the way we do every culture. i think we need to start to think at a bigger scale and a longer plan for multiple dry years in a row. now we've seen extremely dry conditions here in europe through the past year . how are things looking as we move into spring and summer? can you actually predict that? can you say that? well, we can't predict it. and of course, oh i'm hydrologist, which is slightly different for me to roll. gee,

where you depend on what you need to predict. whether that's inherently chaotic, we are all just going to make use of systems that have a longer memory. now what we know is that if the spring is dry and it doesn't increase, johns all the summer also being dry. and that means an increase chance of high temperatures and heat weight. so this is something we can, we can start to plan for, of course, cost heat waves. but we, most people recall that 2003 each way. that's all very hard mortality rates across large parts of europe. this is something that we want to prevent and this would be the right moment to take action. now, of course, there's also the issue of snow. snow also has a long memory. so if, if the snow conditions are low, we deal to now? well, we know that the river levels are going to stay low for at least 4 weeks, even if it starts to rain quite heavily today. they're still going to be low in

a few weeks from now and possibly even throughout much of spring. and yeah, and even summer, so in terms of transport we, we should also start to talk to ryan totally then associate professor and climate hydrology at buccaneer university in the netherlands. thank you very much. oh ah, to egypt now am archeologists have just gleaned literally a new insight into the great pyramids and gazer. while scanning the inside of the permit, they detected a hollow spot that discovery made headlines a few years ago. but access to the chamber remained elusive until now, a group of researchers, as managed to insert a fiber optic camera into the secret chamber, bringing us sites not seen for literally thousands of years have a peak. it's almost 5000 years old. i me only surviving

wonder of the ancient world, but the great pyramid of keesa still has hidden secrets to be discovered. egyptian archaeologists have unveiled pictures of a mysterious name meet a passage for the 1st time. located close to the main entrance. antiquities officials don't know for sure what purpose the corridor served. but there is speculation. it could lead to an undiscovered burial chamber of one of egypt, hallowed pharaohs. and anna ha, i've always thought that the burial chamber of king cru hasn't been discovered yet . and i believe that there is a great possibility that the tunnel is protecting something, in my opinion, it is protecting the actual burial chamber of king coup. uh huh. and medical

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