ah, talking tactics, tanks and targets germany is chancellor olive shots is in washington for closed 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 shop described relations as quote, better than there have been for many years. but after recent irritations over battle tanks for ukraine are the 2 leaders really on the same page when it comes to the wall and gab alphas, and this is the day, ah,

with very, very, very plain truth comes from russia. and we made it clear on together we made good and that prompts really important with also on the day dw meets filipino journalist at noble peace prize. laurie it's maria theresa, who issues a stock warning on what sacrificing the truth can lead to when fact and sit chin merge and lies become facts

that i totalitarian wince. ah, 2 of you is around the world and watching us on phoebe us in the united states. a welcome. german chancellor will show it to set that relations between germany and the united states are better than they have been for many years. so it is in the us for a closed door meeting with president joe biden in washington. that's a lot to discuss. the only point on the agenda will be the war in ukraine. the to lead us are committed to getting even more a military as well as financial for the besieged ukrainians. he's kept up, provide credit to military support. and, you know, i would argue that beyond your military support, the moral support you gave ukrainian, profound, profound can you've driven historic changes at home. and, you know, i increase in defense spending and the 1st find away from russian energy sources. i

noticed not very difficult for you together work block step to supply critical security assistance, ukraine and everything from what we've done to walk step ammunition, artillery armor tags, air defense systems. we bred together throughout this really important that we act together, organized the lock step that we've made feasible that we can give the necessary support to ukraine during this time i think it's very important that we get the message that we will continue to do so as long as it takes that long as that's a 300. we already also for staying with the ukrainians as long as and i really appreciate the very good cooperation of the 2 of us are government, united states, germany and europe,

trends partnerships to really very good shape today. this is very much thanks to your leadership. so i'm really happy to be here to talk with 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 is little short 1st visit to the us since russia invaded ukraine . what's in it for the chancellor? for so happy that he would send some messages because it was a now there will be no statement. and of course, after one year of 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 thanks to you. green is over now, and i think this is

a good opportunity and should make use of this opportunity. john messages together with president by 2022. right. you have said today, crime shows 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 case 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 when germany is left to take need to ship brewers, and this group has been claimed by the king in his c changed each a year ago. it has been confirmed this week and the speech i'm going to star

during this debate on german tank deliveries. he linked deliveries to as to the additional american delivery of tank. and this caused 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 the leadership role as the president of united states has been because you've been europe means to coordinate the european and this should be taken by germany, and if germany was to lead in this particular situation, you do also mean lead militarily with the bonus. fair in the sorry, state that is currently in molly need the chairman of the social democratic

party claim, the military leadership group, or this goes far beyond what we are doing right now. and i would say we need to join approach or transit funding partners. and of course, among the european union are too far and the united states are eating or the coordination or that has to be done with respect to ukraine. and i think there's a step before the european school, better organizing mesh coordination in europe in the european union. and in this regard, military capabilities play early because in land forces and in ukraine, primarily tanks and artillery is needed in land forces. this is a for capability for germany, and that's why there's a natural leading and coordinating grower of germany, also in a military guy. now another field where germany could take leadership,

if you will, would be china if china gets involved in that war by providing weapons to russia. for example. should china bee bound with sanctions if you will. but germany for support that or take a leadership role in that those that us president biden shaw's might have discussed these. and again, there should be at john 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 this road and initiative by

purchasing shares of european court. and this is regarding and understand the china tries to increase our dependencies in china. we should do and reduce our dependence is to jana, this is a common interest of united states and germany. and there is also, i think, the common interest of transfer partners to keep our technological superiority and to achieve our globally goal is in a joint approach. so there are a few at off of building blocks. we can rely on a trans atlantic 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 v. derm 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 turn up. she's 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 rata 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 of 37 years after a people power revolt ousted the mark was family was for an end mark off the father, a clip to cracked and 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 that now becomes the 2nd president, marco's president marcus. his goal and he has a lot to he, 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 again again, it happened. 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 isn't to be that we have great. 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 loss. 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 marcos, they would get gold and you know, i reporter 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 sucker berg and facebook in an ideal

world. would mark fucker berg be criminally liable? do you think you should go to jail? both united nations and facebook meta sent teams to me and more 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've gone as far as in the past, seeing that, i understand i'm a, c, e o of a company. right. and in america, shareholder values. but there's also a multi stakeholder approaches. 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 and evil. i would say genocide, goats towards evil. i think most people heard yes. 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's llc or berg at all since you've written your book? no, not at all, although, you know, i have friends inside facebook, but it's funny. the tech backlash has started. ray 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 society, 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 a time of vulnerability mar, took a break, 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 the 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 freedom. yes, hard, i don't really answer personally, but no head. 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 this is 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 how bad, how's 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 longer fell yard we 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 chuck. this year france side'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. she's,

you know, consistent. there are problems preventing, allowing the soil is so hard that the plows can cut through the earth for many know his data. farmers are 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 hydropower from dams, as well as less cooling for nuclear reactors. france being an action plan to save water at the national level. and then as soon as one step nation needs to do with water, what we have done with energy, a kind of sobriety plan, we all pay attention to this resource that is becoming rare. it's the end of abundant fund. it is that affordable don't. but no matter how much people conserve more rainfall is necessary, the spring months will be crucial and meteorologist don't know how much rain will fall if there's not enough. europe may be set for yet another devastating dry

season. let's talk more about the subject with dr. ryan drilling. he's associate professor in climate hydrology at bargaining and 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 atmosphere blocking is means that there's an atmospheric circulation where the moisture in the rainfall is simply gone down 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 weak

tracks. now we have the french president in our report that calling for a reduction in war to use it. is that feasible? and what else can government do to address this problem? i'm yeah, that's a good question. and 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 the irrigation bands reducing what a usage. but i think in the long term it's much more about creating the infrastructure, maybe changing the way we do every culture. i think we need to do 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 for 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, so i'm a 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 john's 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. probably most people recall that 2003 each way. that's all very

hard mortality rates across large parts of europe. now 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 even summer. so in terms of transport we, we should also start to talk to ryan totally that 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 for in a site's not seen for literally thousands of years have a peak. it's almost 5000 years old. and the 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 me to 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 pharaoh's. yeah. and another, 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 cuckoo. uh huh. and then archaeology still don't know exactly how these massey structures were built or what's inside. i'm its latest discovery provides just one piece of the puzzle open posed by these ensuring monuments to egypt and a matic lead as well. and that was the day as we saw it. but the conversation does continue online. you will find us on twitter or that d w

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