just today is real tomorrow, it's a mission to move america's l. i close here to president biden's position. freed the hostages by ending the fighting with no attack on or off up. it's also emission to negotiate what has become a maze of red lights. i bring golf and berlin, this is the day the i think the, the, the gaps are narrowing and i think and agreement is very much positive. we quoted for that release of full stages. and what is, again, we called for an immediate cease fire contact. we actually have a resolution that we support right now. let's be for the united nations security council asking for the 1st time for the ceasefire. together with the 3, the cost to him before we must destroy the remaining come us,

but dinings in rough. we cannot support a major ground operations, military operation, and roughly also coming up to the core the, the engine of the european union has always been france and germany is there in the power and this alliance now to keep europe united in its response to russia's more against ukraine i bet a show that we are sending a very clear signal to put in here. he has miscalculate that if he thinks we have not in a position to support you credit for as long as it's necessary. it's beautiful advantages. which of our viewers watching on tv as in the united states, into all of you around the world? welcome. we begin today with the strongest push yet by the us for a stop to the fighting in concept for the 1st time since the last tier attacks of october 7th, the us is calling for an immediate cease fire. it's part of the resolution submitted to the un security down. so when it comes as us and secretary of state

entity blinking is once again in the middle east. and he'll talk on thursday with the gyptian president of the father of fcc us egypt and guitar had been pushing for a ceasefire. now for weeks. meanwhile, in gaza, there were airstrikes in the southern city of rafa on thursday, as the israeli army presses ahead with its military operation there. despite all this entity blinking says that the gaps between israel and tomas over a ceasefire are near uh we've been working as you know, with the agent with color and with israel to put a strong proposal on the table. i'm us responded to that. go see it is continue to work. the gaps are narrow and, and we're continuing to push for an agreement in doha. there's still difficult work to get there. but i continue to believe as possible the united states is also put

forward united nations security council resolution to support these efforts. and we hope that all countries will back that resolution on jointed now by is really important security policy expert gilmore. so you know, i know he's the ceo of the israel based the think tank mit me towards me tonight from tele beat. it's good to have you with this. um, this is the very 1st time that the united states is calling for an immediate cease fire. this is a major shift. how is the israeli government likely to be this? or what i mean, i think this we are focusing on the specific step is a pressure to on the is where the government. but i think that when we speak about the blinking, i called this was issue the me indeed. so the media interview, well mainly speaking about the attempt there or different logic action by the us to preserve the initiative in the un cancel it. i mean, the reports with russia is planning to offer you a new form. so when you called trying to keep the relationship between avoiding

vito on that level. but i also think in the timing place and the context of the visit, it's also show of resumes means by the us government to show what digit boston is that the american going on a line. and we do strategic vision for them to describe or to outline a vision for the day after, especially looking such a for some of these really cover. yeah, you're saying you say the united states are trying to create clarity about where it stands. we're getting clarity also from benjamin at yahoo. he argues that there is no alternative plan and to continue the attack on roughly to ultimately defeat from us. do you agree with that? or what do you think that's the question of what we define the define the goal of the thinking so much we're talking about immediately reaction that is meant to reduce its military power and gas. i think that was a cheap in the last 5 months. but there's also limits to date, a really 3 extras. basically,

if we think about the modular marginalizing how much of the moment the 50 comes is not just the military action. it's mostly in mainly a political maneuver. and that's something that something, you know, he's not willing to discuss where acknowledgement is probably because it is government, any kind of plans for they often and politically they often. and then obviously lives the major becuz a for almost 2, actually 3. and one of the main examples that we see right now, and you mentioned that the issue you may need, they're in a, in the last couple of wants me to see that the expression of a name and date of a unitary and 80 together. but licking any identity, any attempt to be in administrative control, this will replace them by these, with the government we cl homeless actually take over these 2 minutes or an 8 and sell it to the citizens and basically piece of it to the fact of our on the ground, i want to stick with it and that, and you all here for just a moment and in your opinion, how much pressure can the us exert on net and yahoo at this point. i

think we already seen the change in the american policy, not so much regarding the support of these rather we discussed as a blank owns, but the we've seen a clear separation between the a project single maintaining the rifle defense. so these really citizens and their version that would be to say from the policies of this is really government, especially the right to being able to explain why when quickly it actually comes with the evenings. so i think that when we all the closing date on the election, we are talking about a certain level of support among the young. the young generation of the democratic party is swing states such as the michigan. and then there's also the domestic calculation. i think that we still stick assistance, the american in american policy towards the war. but when we speak about the extension of the war, especially about russell, which is guaranteed to major, what is the issue and expansion of these really military operations russell that was going to see those guess becoming more and more parents. and we don't do these

really ability to show any new initiative, the get somebody to become much more meaningful in the relations between using and say what we're hearing from the us has to do with politics. this is a, an election year. if we were to take that out of the equation, if, if joe biden were not fighting for re election this coming november, do you think we would be seeing the united states right now calling for an immediate cease fire? i think it's just one factor, but i think the major issues, i mean we can speak about disagreements between these when the us regarding brussel or about the military, ne, i think the major issue here, regardless of domestic consideration is with one of these really is planning go even waiting to discuss an exit strategy. i mean the acceptance or the understanding to the us to show before, to the local, to the commercial could not continue governing does to we're gaining the security situation. or do a lot of these various other things that we've seen at the saw with, based on the commitment of these really government to actually speak about the day

of the law for initiative to speak about the return of the people to post, you know, 40 to speak about in the, during the people how much that would be viable. it would allow us to still be stuck in an old way more to actually promoted a new 4 digit code that we'd region that. and that's why coming back to your original meeting between region alexis and between blinking is about that's about signifying the needs to be with assessment vision. so i think that we have not informed which is when a go, i want to emphasize it smells about the link over the ability to present it planned to the us accept is the, i'm the willingness to discuss any kind of plan or any kind of exit strategy at this moment. okay. yeah, that's right. the day after still the big question, gilmore say on there is really for an end security policy expert get we appreciate your time and your analysis tonight. thank you. a thank you very much. the leaders from across the european union are meeting thursday and friday and

brussels high on the agenda. the humanitarian crisis and gaza rushes were in ukraine and bulking up europe's own defense capabilities. and your leaders are also discussing the possibility of using frozen rushing assets in europe to purchase weapons for ukraine. one plan calls for 90 percent of the seas cash to be channeled through the european piece facility to buy arms where you create the rest will be used to pay for recovery and reconstruction. a 190000000000 bureaus of russian central bank securities and cash are held at financial services provider euro clear, which is located in belgium. western banks also whole billions bureaus, pounds and dollars and assets owned by companies and individuals who were subject to russian sanctions. with u. s. military aid for ukraine, the longer a guarantee, the pressure on europe to produce or buy and then send more weapons to ukraine.

it's never been greater. german transfer a lot shield says he's confident that europe will deliver us get to a lot. yeah, this is 1st and foremost about organizing weapons deliveries. thoughts, don't you have any, is it the very fault frontier in this regard? altogether we have to live it and commit to 2850 new orders so far in terms of weapons. that's a lot. but all you want to pay and states must make a good contribution. i see recognizable progress. the death of ross is a research fellow at the derby council on foreign relations. he joins us tonight from paris. it's getting to see you again. how close or how far apart are berlin in paris? would you say when it comes to backing you crate as well? i would say that they are very close in terms of the objectives that both present my call. i'm on socialized plus you. they want ukraine to when they want russia to lose, but they are very pop pots, so it's uh,

these past weeks and months on the strategy to pursue, to, to, to get to this objective, be it on the ground troop discussion, a weapon deliveries. so uh that should, i mean it has been an objective at the vi ma, a meeting recently and should be an objective at the european summit today and tomorrow. yeah, the, the weimar meeting, of course, a meeting between france, germany and poland. beyond the politics. what about personalities? how much is personal antipathy driving this split? i mean, is it true that sholtes and macro own really don't get along very well as well? i mean again i, i don't know either of them personally. so it's a speculative, but we certainly got a sense that that's no great deal of sympathy. i mean that they have been several meetings including lots of told by and hum book with very symbolic images with uh,

the 2 heads of state and government with the respective partners, enjoying the view of the home book a port. but it, it just didn't seem to work so far because every time that what they called about these meetings bringing the 2 together on in times of crisis and every time the public think was concerned afterwards because of a contradict each other and public statements. so yes, i think that's, that's a certain deal of the difficulty to, to get, to get the, uh, on a personal level and find a working relationship. would you say that emanuel maloney is trying to play the role of a geopolitical or european leader, and that is something that germany simply will not accept as well. i think that's a present my cause. so it needs the feeling challenged by the chancellor who has announced the german he wants to take great all responsibility. and once he called

me to the local palm middle europe. so a germany and an east of germany, a basically as a region, and it's a political field defense, a policy security policy that was traditionally dominated by friends or the british before breakfast in the context of, of the european csr. and so i think that's a, a present my cost, it's a challenge to certain degree. that's both john specials and present my call one to 2 to position themselves as the leaders in defending ukraine. and that this is certainly one explanation for the car and risk. yes. yeah, you know, here in germany, politics, it is usually about consensus, especially when we talk about defense. how much are these current german, french tensions driven by differences that we're seeing between the german chancellor and the conservative who are in opposition here. when it comes to supporting ukraine, i think that's

a way more important to be honest and the personal differences between a characters, between my coin shows, i think that's a chance. i saw this under great pressure domestically both by the opposition. the conservatives, as you said, but also from within this government condition. i mean, if you look at the liberals, the heads of the defense committee as talk to my mind is viciously attacking him. the heads of the europe upstairs committee, uh a green and blue sky ties detecting him. so that's a great deal of pressure in public opinion, both internally and germany internationally on this onslaught. and i don't think that my call has any, a comparative pressure on the french debate. you know, if you, if you follow the political talks is here in germany there, there's this broad consensus that the manual macro and he's talking a lot. but delivering little do you think that is a view that is shared by the chancellor schultz

a while it might be, i mean it's, it's uh, speculating again, but it certainly didn't see very well in the chance to re, uh, my contents called points when he was attacking the john position as being 2 minutes of not wanting to to uh, provoke a rough uh, with regards to the, the cruise ms. uh, delivery is the ta was deliveries. uh, that certainly didn't help. and just as a reaction in the dining debate, and i would guess including in the chancery, that's a certain sense of my caught talking a lot, but not walking the talk and not delivering as much as from coach and should probably be due to its size within the your european context and you know, there is this uncertainty with a us presidential election coming up in november. i possible return to my donald trump to the white house. is there frustration in paris with germany's apparent view that the military alliance with nato, the military alliance with washington,

should always take precedence over european military projects? yes, absolutely, that's key points, i think not only to, to french foreign policy, but to present my call personally because he wants to leave this heritage in 2027 when he can't be elected anymore. he wants to leave this uh, european sovereignty sense that 0 can defend itself. and to his mind it's on social is, is be trained this to certain degrees in germany. yes. yes, invested message the in the sense but has procured the american systems mostly since the beginning of, of the one you cranes. so i think that's a major source of discontent here in service. yes. and i just want to ask you before we run out of time, but what do you make of these photos on social media of emmanuel macro and the the box or punching a punching bag. hurting your think these um, these images are aimed at as well. i mean 1st bricks and then i

saw that you, you've been discussing this on the, on your program a makes your think of letting me put in, you know, writing on, on his halls and fishing and inside periods, the same a, the image of a strong man you know, foot fighting is fired in, in, in europe and in international politics. i think it's mostly addressed to a domestic public. um, since my cos struggling with regards to the european elections. but um i, i wouldn't interpret too much into these, these photos and political communication. all right, jack, across from the german council on foreign relations, going to talk with me. we appreciate your analysis tonight. thank you. thank you. well, with no more cheap russian, oil and gas, the energy equation here in europe is being recalculated to include more nuclear power. european leaders are meeting in brussels this week of the nuclear energy

summit. they're expected to call for europe's nuclear industry to be rebuilt. following years and the decline, nuclear power filled out the favor following japan speakers seem a nuclear disaster back in 2011 by commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and the need to find alternatives to russian, oil and gas. they both lead to a re think in how europe should produce energy. you commission president george live on the line and addressing some of it today with her pitch for more nuclear power in europe in the wake of russia's invasion of ukraine. first of all, of course, to reach our climate goal. let us not forget that nuclear power worldwide is the 2nd largest source of low emission electricity after hydro power segment. of course, to safeguard our energy security countries look to reduce that dependence. unimportant fossil fuels and the 3rd reason is to

ensure our competitiveness, nuclear power can provide a reliable anchor for electricity prices. raphael rosie is director of the international atomic energy agency, dw is christy mcguire asked him about the importance of funding for nuclear energy projects. here in new or it's, it's one of the elements which are going to be needed. we have clearly a new international consensus on the need to have also new care energy as part of the tools against the global warming and also for energy security. very important. the in particular in you are by the central and eastern europe. so when we look at more nuclear, we have to look at what is needed, what is lacking ad and quite clearly, as you say, the sure finance is one of the most salient ones. some countries are less and in

need of that, but for many in, in europe, it is still a necessary to have elements that was by senior date adding more new care to their great gemini, europe's biggest economy is on the part of shutting down only if it's new to them, how problems is that a mistake from where you stand and also is it too late for the germans to reverse that decision? now, when a schedule for an international organization of which germany is an important partner, i would not characterize decisions taken freely by a democratic directed government as a mistake or as, or, or as, as something. but i would say it's a fact we are dealing with with that fact actually, germany has been the only country that has proceeded with a complete face out and respect to respect that i'm talking about too late or not. i think you will before the german people to the site, but late. no,

it's never too late. i want to talk about the fuel needed for nuclear power plants and audio sustainable sort of moves to, to replace russia, which remains a crucial source of the supply. well, i know we know what the, that there are countries in western europe auction, dina, united states that are devoting the special specific efforts to try to reinforce and to develop the nuclear fuel part of the, of the equation. so this is going to happen with sometime at the moment. we have a structure of the market, which yes, be nice is a special place, perhaps the majority of the market for, for the russian supplier. we see this from the perspective of the us a technical matter. we think it's possible to have more a suppliers which uh,

not specifically refreshing or is you just to talk about ukraine for the moment, the new to paul blunt in shepherd you. how confident are you that that situation will remain stable? and perhaps, what is your assessment of the danger and the risk we're going forward? well, the risks are always there. we should never, never forget that this nuclear power plant is sitting at the front lines of the wall. so this means that anything can happen any moment. uh, that being said, we have set out. i did it. so at the united nations security council last year, a number of basic things, basic principles that should be observed to avoid the worst, so far as it has been working. of course, there are moments there happened blackouts which are also, you know, a very dangerous development there have been added and isolated episodes drones and some kinetic impacts which have not compromised the safety of the brand. but

the, the other, the important thing is the engagement. this is why i was talking to president savanski just a few weeks ago. i also went to russia and met with president, letting me put, and i think it's important that they listen to the bye. don't to germany ended its reliance on nuclear power last year, but the german phase out has it been followed by an international transition to renewables that many here had hoped before. in fact, 22 countries now aimed to triple the amount of nuclear power germany used to have lots of nuclear power, but that came to an end in april 2023. when the country's last 3 nuclear power plants were taken offline, germany is now bidding on renewable energies, which account for about half the power supply. but it's not enough, especially during cold winters. when the temperature drops, germany has to import electricity. france has a different approach. yeah,

probably because we don't agree with that german friends on this issue today, and it's a real concern, i think would be a historical mistake to deprive ourselves of nuclear power. also slow down investments in nuclear power, a nuclear innovation in europe. many other countries in europe also rely on nuclear power. in addition to france, there, spain, finland, sweden, and hungry. and some, and you countries are building new nuclear plants. that's because experts say energy consumption will skyrocket in the coming years. not least due to the rise of artificial intelligence into all areas of life. a i, applications need a lot of electricity in for germany, this poses problems for climate protection. in addition to wind and solar energy, germany relies mainly on dirty coal and gas. these fossil fuels accounted for almost 40 percent of germany's power generation last year. if power consumption

rises, emissions would soar. in december 22 countries, including 12 in use, states announced that they were planning a huge expansion of nuclear power by 2050 and triple the supply of energy from new a. well, the day continues on line to every member, whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day. we'll see you then everybody the,

to the point strong opinions, clear position, international perspective. the situation in ukraine is going dire as soldiers struggling to maintain that. meanwhile, germany is discussing the possibility of freezing the walk on to the point we off to skin ground or how would down the me on the west response to the point the next on d w. answer the conflicts own with tim sebastian as the board. and you, craig, and grind on the neighboring voltage states which anxiously from the ring side seat,

pressing the west to increase a think kia, and make sure russia dozens with my guess this week is last is 5 minutes to 50 on his current. and he's clear nature as to optics can conflict of things. 60 minutes on d, w, the old friends, new friends, can nature defend itself in case of an emergency. we cannot guarantee that we could protect munich, franklin, berlin, faced with rushes. war against duke graces, military alliance. spaces, new threats, would it really close ranks? if it were a top european security basically depends to 90 percent from the us out

to the hotel commentary, dogs april 4th on dw, the, the situation and ukraine is growing increasingly dire as you creating and soldiers struggling to maintain their defense lines against russian aggression. so desktops means that the russian president is edging closer to his goal of seizing lodge fossil fuel cream is pulled in, believes he can simply rebuild the conflict. he has miscalculated strong words from german, chancellor. well enough, charles, in support of your trade. however, they come out of time when his own body has emphasized the need to freeze the walk . the questions remains of costs. whose interest what this really so new grade, or perhaps pull them down to the point.