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complex relationship with animals, silva, i think i will live long enough to witness the issue of factory farming. the great eat debate this week on d. w or ah ah, this is the w news. why? but from berlin tonight, the pentagon releasing video, it says it shows how a russian fighter jet brought down a u. s. drone over the black sea. the video shows a russian fighter jet coming very close to an unmanned american drone. the later crash, the kremlin is standing by a different story. also coming up to die, poland,
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promising to deliver ukraine for of its mig 29 fighter jets in the next few days. but will the move inspire other native members to do the same? and protest was in france expressing their outrage at president emanuel microns decision to force through pension reform plant. micron says he's using special constitutional powers to push through unpopular changes without a vote in parliament. and is really president benjamin netanyahu defending proposed judicial reforms in his country. than yahoo was here in berlin today for talks with the german chancellor israeli leader praised israel's strong partnership with germany. ah, i'm bringing up to our viewers watching on p b. s in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. the u. s.
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defense department has released footage that it says shows a russian aircraft intercepting a u. s spine drone over the black sea. now, according to the pentagon, this video shows a russian issue $27.00 fighter jet, approaching the drone and dumping fuel over it. as the aircraft passes by, in close proximity, without appearing to cause any damage to the drone. with the pentagon says the jet did collide with the drones propeller on the 2nd pass on that pass, which is also shown here. the actual collision, however, is not visible in this edited video that was released today. all the damage to the propeller can't be seen later after the picture is re established. see right there. so after days of a heated war of words between washington, moscow, the pentagon says it's now delivered, proved but does that change anything?
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i put that question to the founding director of the modern war institute at west point and co author of the book, understanding urban warfare, colonel, liam collins. no, i don't think it's changed because of the video, and it was pretty credible when begin with when you reported it, it was struck by a russian aircraft. i don't think it's changed the volatility of the situation at all. on wednesday, pentagon spokesperson ned prize soup. i'm assuming it already seen this footage. he called the incident probably unintentional. what's your take on that? i mean it, does it look like this was an accident? yeah, me dumping a few on a drone was obviously that was an intentional. the striking, the propeller that might have been unintentional, but nevertheless, russia, russian planes were attempting to get as close as possible to the aircraft. and if they had it, that was, you know, it may not have been intentional, but that's ultimately the outcome. and if it wasn't intentional, just show you really how incompetent the russian russian pilots are because they
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could have taken themselves down if they crash the aircraft a more forcefully in what about this drone that crashed into the black sea washington saying that it wiped all of the data from the aircraft, russia says it wants to salvage the wreckage. i mean, would it gain anything, even if it did find any parts of the stroke? no, it's pretty no procedures, whether it's an aircraft, a ship or just personal communications on the ground. and army units, you know, one of the things he was is 0, so they can't get anything correction. if you any of the hardware in there, that's not going be any value to the ration. so even if they're able to go down for 5000 feet, how deep the black sea is to retrieve parts of this aircraft, they're, they're not going to be able to get anything of any value out of that. there's been concern or week of the situation quickly escalating and, and having an impact on the actual award eastern ukraine is. what's been your take
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on how washington and moscow, how they've tried to make sure that there is no escalation. first of all, i mean this is one of the reasons we have unmanned aircraft, right? so it's not putting pilots at risk and causing an unnecessary or undesirable escalation by either side, right? trying to go and escalate because you lost a service member. but in this case, right, the, the flip side of that is, that allows russia to be more aggressive than they might have otherwise been. it had been unmanned aircraft. i think one of the questions we have to ask ourselves is why is right even bothering going out and, you know, doing this aggressive action in international airspace when they have a battle in back move that the russian air force should be supporting in the simple fact is rushes air force isn't really capable of supporting the war effort, so they have nothing better to do than harass international airspace. her liam collins is always we appreciate your time in your analysis. thank you. thank you. holland is set to become the 1st nato member to supply fighter jets to ukraine. it
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will deliver at least 4, fully operational soviet era, mig 20 nines in the next few days. as president duda saying additional aircraft will also be supplied later after a maintenance check. ukraine has repeatedly urged western powers to send it warplanes, which it says it needs to fight back against russia's invasion. effectively, laughter, poland announcement, the prime minister of denmark, hinted that other nato allies might soon follow suit. i say yes, you're helping the jets have long been on the ukrainians wishlist and it is something we're discussing in the group of allied nations. so yes, it is something we're discussing with our allies. and it is something that the group of allies is considering of it. my gosh, i will not get into any further details, but it is a big push from ukraine. oh, with poland charging your head. all eyes are now on fear of nato members, such as the united states and germany will. they've soon followed suit. i put that
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question to our need. a reporter corresponded in brussels. terry schultz. well, washington, along with germany maintains the line that absolutely not. and you, you, her denmark there say it's being discussed, but we haven't heard any other countries really charged to the front like poland has slovakia, maybe the closest to agreeing to send some of its megs. now, you remember brenda that we were sort of at this stage before months ago with poland being a very willing to send its fleet of megs. in fact, the whole fleet at that time to ukraine. but it wanted to send them through ramstein air base and thereby make it sort of a u. s. transfer. and then it fell apart. so this isn't entirely unexpected that it comes back to poland sending mig, but we did, we certainly didn't know to expect it. this week or today, i mean, what did you meet the material if hearing denmark say that you're more shipments could be on the way. i mean,
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it's not the 1st country. i think that people would expect to hear making an announcement concerning fighter jets. well it, she didn't make an announcement concerning fighter jet. she said it's being discussed and being discussed in a group of countries that may have fighter jets is a long way from sending them. i mean, we've already seen the u. k. training pilots. the u. s. is that it would train pilots and, and so getting some people ready to possibly fly planes at some point is a long way from saying we're going to give you those planes. you know, many nato allies feel that this is not the right move. germany included, you know, we've talked many times about cindy, what is to ukraine when we were talking about battle takes, for example, there was also this resistance to that. now now those tanks are, you know, they're, they are in the country. that's a done deal. are we going to see the same development when it comes to fighter jets? well, ukraine certainly hope so, and that's why it keeps asking for things. it's been told it's not going to get because if it had stopped asking when it was initially told no tanks,
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you wouldn't see tanks on their way to ukraine right now. so i think that now with poland breaking this sort of blockade, which is you know, to some extent and emotional a psychological block on sending this kind of weapons. you may well see other countries, like i said, slovakia has been talking about it and finish prime minister son martin. not even yet. of course, the leader of a country inside the nato alliance got in a bit of hot water last week when she was in ukraine. and she said finland may think about sending fighter jets that did not go down well with her on government. who said that, that's news to them. i mean, i'm wondering if there's some psychology here that we should be picking up on the fact that poland is making this announcements and, you know, they, they did promise about a year ago to do what they say they're going to do now. and within a couple of days, but the fact that they're pushing forward and right now going it alone. does that reveal? maybe divisions within native that have not been made public? well, it's more than psychologists,
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geography. it's not only the polls that say give ukraine everything. it needs the baltic states regularly say whatever ukraine asks for whatever we can provide. let's send it now. and the divide between nato is not just political. it is geo political. if you are a country with a border with russia, a border with ukraine, a border with bell roof, you very much feel that unless we give you crane everything, it needs to stop russia. we're next. so these countries would say to those allies who wor, no, this might be an escalation, the escalation, they say would be letting russia when and ukraine dw series with valuable analysis . tonight, terry's always thank you. thank you. there will be no parliamentary vote in france on increasing the country's retirement age from 62 to 64. the french government today invoked a special constitutional provision allowing it to bypass a vote by lawmakers. now this bill, as we said, raises the retirement age. it is controversial or the government says it is
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essential to keeping the pension system intact. the changes still being met with widespread opposition, including months of protests and strikes across france. o. b, as the debate into a raucous rendition of france's national anthem as opposition impedes, made a last ditch attempt to stop the plane pension reforms survey demanded colleagues, thank you. i will ask each of the parliamentarians who are holding up a sign to please stop immediately. this is against our rules, and the for is for the prime minister. him on you on the coms. government says the reforms are vital to keep pension sustainable for the future. that is the deadline to pass the legislation approached ministers feared they wouldn't have enough support to push through the changes and steed just minutes ahead of the ship. your vote, the government invoked special powers to skip the process altogether. do bottom all
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members of parliament to day on the parliament bill and due to the uncertainty hanging over a few though, we can't take the risk of seeing 175 hours of parliamentary debate collapse. we can't take the risk of seeing the compromise built by the 2 assemblies dismissed. we cannot bet on the future of our pensions. this reform is necessary, is that the move to force, the reforms prompted, immediate outrage from the opposition just use in. of course, this is inadmissible, obviously i say because once again, it's my own question enforcing the majority as is normally the name article $49.00 . it's a question of preventing the expression of the will of the french people through their elected representatives. opposition lawmakers have said they'll request a no confidence vote in the government. but that's unlikely to pass with conservatives vowing to go against it. or earlier, i talked to the w correspondent,
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lisa louis in perez, about what happened and what didn't happen in parliament today. it is in a way, unusual with his his lot. you know, he's not business as usual, but it has been used before since the beginning of the 5th republic in the 19 fifties and governments have used it about 90 times. but what is unusual about it is that he's using it for this special form. actually in a, this is the flagship reform he's been running for, you know, to, to be reelected last year with. and he was saying, this is really i want to put in place this form the pension form is what france needs. i want to show that i can perform this country and a show that i'm a strong statesman. he a statesman here in france and also on an international level. now i'm using this special constitutional power means that he felt that he had not the power to
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convince enough parliamentarians to bait alone with his group. and so he needed to push the reform 3. yeah, and he obviously thinks he's on the right side of history by standing by where he wants the country to go. is there any one in government in politics, you could stop him now? well, what happens when this special root is triggered is really that the reform wouldn't go through unless there is a vote of no confidence at the different parliamentarians. the groups have 24 hours to bring in such a vote of confidence. so until tomorrow, for position parties had already announced that they would do so. and we understand that the value of no confidence should be voted on next monday, probably, or starting next monday. and, and the only way to stop the pension reform now is really to bring down the
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government. now, when you look at the numbers in my call has with his party and ally parties about 250 seats in the parliament. and majority is 287 and the conservative party has 60 seats. and you know, if you add 250 with 60, you get to 310. and the conservatives have already said that they would not vote against the government. so it seems a bit unlikely that this would bring down the government, although some commentators are still looking at the numbers and saying, you know, we can't be sure that everybody waits what he's expected to date falls or feeling. so, as it looks now though, it looks like this increase in the retirement age is going to to happen. explain to our viewers, lisa, why the french are so enraged by this, i mean from 62 to 64, to may be here in germany or in the united states. that doesn't seem like such an unreasonable increase, but in france, it apparently does. well,
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the 1st of all is the minimum retirement age, the average time and age is not $62.00 currently, it's about $63.00, and the, the threshold where you get, in any case, a full pension is 67. so when you look at a european comparison, frances, actually in the middle field and, you know, people are so opposed to this reform because they feel it's not just about pensions, it's really about their social system. france has a pure pay as you go system. so he only, you know, the car workers pay for current pension is, but they're very few people who actually have private pension funds. so this is when the heart of, you know, what they feel will make sure that they can have a decent life later on. and they feel that the government is really attacking the heart of their so social security system, especially as you know, there was a report that was mandated by the government by an expert committee. and they had to look into the pension system. and there comes that they are concluded,
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was that actually when you look at the figures, it will be a slight deficit in the future in the pension system, but it's not going to be dramatic. so if you want to place a reform or not, that will be a political decision. and that's why many people here feel, you know, the government. yeah. they're saying we need as a form, but actually do we really need it? or is it about something else is about, you know, a justice, a question of status, really. they feel that the governor wants to take away money from the rich and give it to, from the pool. they get to the rich and that's what they against the w lease. the we with the lease tonight from paris leases, always think german chancellor or what shoulds his voice to concern over israel's plan. reform to which judiciary made the comments after a meeting today with israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. here in berlin. critics say the plans would allow these really parliament to overturn supreme court rulings track 17 at the lens green of al
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station from here, thousands of jews were sent to extermination camps right up until the end of the 2nd world war. the 2 leaders paid their respects. benjamin netanyahu said that although germany and the world had changed, juice was still being threatened. we have learned that the jewish people must have the capacity to defend ourselves by ourselves, against any threat. but we also welcome the friendship of those who share our concern, our values. iran's nuclear program was on the agenda, talks at the chancery, but also the controversial plans to reform. israel's judiciary and sim mccarter. severe as a partner in democratic values in a close friend of israel, we are following this debate very closely and i will not hide this fact with great concern when i think we agreed that the independence of the judiciary is a pillar of democracy. protest is gathered in central berlin to demonstrate
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against netanyahu's visit. he rejected the criticism of his policies in israel as though this is a break with democracy is not true, is will, was, is, will remain a liberal democracy, not different. and as strong as vibrant as it was before and as europe is to do, we are not going to deviate from that one bit. netanyahu had to cut his visit to berlin short because of the ongoing protests in israel. our chief political correspondent, the houses she has more on israel's plans to reformed the judiciary. well, that was of cause one of those moments in that press conference. i attended that as well. a many observers have been waiting for will have choices exact words eagerly as they were questing, which was what he used to express concern and criticism of israel's judicial reform
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because that has of course all suspected debate here in japanese. so we'll have shots made a reference to israel's president, isaac had soc, who has put forward to compromise proposal, which did tanya was, government has rejected and so it was careful not to come across as to reprimanding . but he did say that he still hopes that the last word has not been spoken on the issue. that's as far as he was prepared to go, essentially edging at an out to approach the critics of his reform again. did of evening. a hans reported in israel to day was another day of protest against the government's controversial judicial reform plans. hundreds of people demonstrated that several occasions until of eve in what pro protesters called a day of resistance. the marchers blocked roads and there were some scuffles with police for our ministry, richmond at yahoo, right. we government wants to fast track the controversial reforms. by the end of the month critic, see the move would destroy israel's system of democratic checks and balances.
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in earlier i spoke with our correspondent rebecca readers in tel aviv she gave us the latest on those protests in israel. we're in the middle of what is having the end of today's protest or it's day of disruption. but these protests have been happening all day long, and they have it culminated in a tour of the city. and now we've gone palm, the american embassy. these protests isn't trying to attract internet international attention to the applied. they said that democracy is being taken away from them and then they're gonna do anything that they can. this is why they calling a taunts. march, no event like this one had been happening all across the country. of course, the biggest one happening here in tel aviv, but organize it, say it a 150 different spots across the country today. people have been making their voices heard how some arrests were made earlier in the day. and there were some scuffles, as you mentioned in the lead in there, but largely these protests have been peaceful and they are now in their 11th week.
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people say they're going to keep coming out until they have their voices heard. yeah. and i understand israel's from president isaac, your target, offered a compromise proposal, but the government rejected that. why is that? that's right. he's been working on a proposal. isaac had been working on a proposal, a compromise, if you will, to try and get both sides closer together to just that, to come to just that a compromise. but even at yahoo, prime minister benjamin netanyahu flatly refused to come to the party on that one. but that's all he's saying that hopefully it will be the beginning of dialogue. he's trying to do everything that he can to try and stop. seems like this one, you know, he's trying to get the country to come together. benjamin netanyahu saying that the compromise plan was a complete waste. it was a wasted opportunity. but hertzog still trying to get both sides to come together. we are seeing that the opposition are coming around to negotiations. they are
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interested in trying to come to some kind of a negotiated compromise, but there is still a very long way to go brand people here, very angry. and people on the other side, people a in government, in the very strong they were going to keep following these guys. hm. because they are moving quite fast, but definitely both sides still very far apart. at this point it looks like they're at an impasse. i mean the turmoil, the you know, that you're reporting on looks like it's going to continue you certainly and the people that i've been speaking to here tonight, brent. the people are not now trying to chase up the street. but these people have been saying that they are not going to stop that they, that it doesn't matter. even if the, the, the, everyone is a little bit pessimistic. they think that these are, these bills are going to pass. i think that they are going to lose the battle, but they said that they will continue to fight. now we saw president issac heard,
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so it's saying the country could be on its way to a civil war. now i've had bad people on both sides of that debate here tonight saying some people saying yes, we are on the way to a civil war. other people sanctemore. we don't think it's going to go that far. but definitely they are going to continue coming out to protest brand until they feel that their democracy is being taken away and they want to do everything they can to stop that. did abuse rebecca rivers in tel aviv, tonight's rebecca, thank you. shares in credit suisse bounced back on thursday after the bank announced plans to borrow up to 50000000000 euros from switzerland central bank. he moved to stop the bank from running out of cash. the share price and credit suisse lost almost a 3rd of its value on wednesday, after its big shareholder saudi national bank said that it would no longer be adding more investments to the bank. it was the topic of today in all major newspapers. credit suisse was the 1st big global bank to take it off to the collapse of silicon valley bank and signature bank in the us weakened by scandals.
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the institution had already lost much of its value in the last year. this week when so the national bank said it wouldn't provide more capital than his current 10 percent stake credit to his stock, tanked. to avert the risk of a collapse. the swiss national bank quickly opened the $54000000000.00 lifeline to ensure credit suisse liquidity and com. the markets. injecting some liquidity is the usual thing and that's been done. and my guess is that if he, if they can turn around the business model and they should be fine in the future, in a further attempt to restore confidence in the banking system. swiss authorities said that credit suisse met all the requirements of systemically important banks. the current measures proved effective to secure the country his 2nd largest bank. yet the rents of this week put a large dent in switzerland's reputation. so people have put their money into switzerland in large amounts in the private banking and wealth management space as
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an asset management in large part because system has this idea of stability and conservative investment of your assets and capital preservation. and that's the kind of clients that sir swiss banks of attracted. that'll now put the crestwood credits with credit suisse. uncountable. damage to switzerland's reputation as a financial center. while investors looked appeased, the risk for other banks still lingers. a plunging deposit or confidence and run on the bank could still send any lender spiraling towards collapse. any bank is, is, is, has it has a liquidity problem because they lend long and, and borrow short. so again, if for some reason, depositors all get together and take the money out and coordinate on that, that's the key thing coordination. then any bank that has engaged in any kind of business risk to make some money will be in trouble. started by the recent
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crisis bikes might now choose a more conservative strategy, especially in a climate of high interest rates. that could translate into a cautious approach to lending and a drag on economic growth. oh, before we go, here's a reminder. the top story we're following for you. the u. s. has released video of tuesday's black c drone incident. the pentagon says that this footage shows a russian fighter jet, come very close to the unmanned drone. the later crash. the kremlin has denied any involve. you're watching the w news after a short break. i'll be back to take you through the day. stick around. we will be right back tooth ah,
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