living and working in this vibrant and welcoming country with free of charge access to expert advice and excellent job opportunities starts in new jersey now on korea's for germany. dotcom of the this is dw news live from berlin, the leaders of russia and germany speak to each other directly for the 1st time. in nearly 2 years from a chance are all up shelton, russian president vladimir putin, reportedly discussed the war in ukraine. but why now, after all this time, also coming up in georgia demonstrators in the break away region of that because the storm, the parliament demanding the resignation of their kremlin back, the leader will tell you want and to us president elect donald trump and choose, is robert f kennedy junior and environmental active is you have spread misinformation on vaccines to head. the us is top health agents,

the brain, gone to our viewers watching on cbs in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. we begin with a phone call, german transfer all of shoulds and russian president vladimir putin spoke on the phone friday. their 1st direct contact in nearly 2 years of this picture of the call was posted to the chancellor's accounts on the social media platform x. according to the german government and shoulds told, who tend to end his war into withdrawal russian troops from ukraine. he also urged russia to be prepared to negotiate with ukraine, with the aim of achieving quote, a just and lasting peace. and he reiterated germany support for keith showed spoke with ukrainian president bowed to ms. lewinsky before his call with fulton,

dw, political correspondence. i mean young has more now on this phone call between the 2 leaders. a friend to at this was an out on coal between the 2 leaders, and olaf shows uh, used it to condemn a what spain described as rush is a war of aggression in ukraine. the chancellor saved russia had not achieved any of its more items and cooled them pertaining to end the war and pull russian troops out of ukrainian territory. in particular, chancellor sholtes seems to have focused on the suffering of the civilian population in ukraine at talking about the attacks against civilian infrastructure that we've seen increasingly in recent months. is that a drug and the miss all attacks carried out by the russians. so that was one focus . another thing that the chancellor apparently mentioned was the presence of north korean troops now and on the ground in this conflict. fighting on behalf of the

russians life showed said that was a serious escalation. and charles went on to say, again that germany has what he, what is just being described as unbreakable result to stand with ukraine for as long as it takes and support kids. now the 2 leaders agreed to remain in contact, but of course sholtes also saying that he will continue to talk with the president . so let's give you crime, but also with the all the allies in nato and the european union. you know, so i'm in fulton and schultz apparently had no reason to speak with each other for the past 2 years. what has changed? why is this call happening now as well? i think, uh, there are a couple of reasons. firstly, you know, were coming up to a 1000 days of this war and ukraine. and the geo political situation has

significantly changed the gym. and government has a full and a pot. and a laugh show its himself a soon to be ex, sort of lame dog shots. meanwhile, we've got a new president elect in the united states. so there are questions about the west commitment to supporting ukraine going forward. and i suppose that schoultz sees that sort of possibility a wanted to make one last effort if you'd like to put forward the possibility of adding this war and bringing it to a solution that secondly, i haven't gemini, we're entering an election campaign. and in fact, at the war and ukraine is an issue that plays with some voters in date is one of the reasons why the government has full and apart they the, the cost of supporting ukraine in that war as so shoulds wants to be associated

with this message of peace, the idea that that could still be a diplomatic solution and that it goes united settlement that he's conservative opponents multiple whole case on ukraine. so that's why i think sholtes, he's a pushing piece as well. that was this. i mean, you have reporting from here in berlin, ukraine's president's hold of me. zalinski has sharply criticized that phone call is accused the shoulds of playing into the hands of vladimir putin gone. for the fords. cars, ottoman the chancellor shows told me that he was going to call putting lots call in my opinion and opens a pandora's box. now there may be other conversations to be other costs more just a lot of words in keys, and that is exactly what problem has long wanted. is extremely important for him to weaken his isolated sion of russia and conduct any talks as ordinary discussions which won't have any results. yes, that's the way he's done it for decades. you keep me building to meet you the

docket. when they sit delete the model are, let's get more now from keith. i want to go to our correspondence, myisha, jazz. while she is standing by for is the mission we just heard from the training and president, and i dare say that i'm president. zelinski is not a heavy man tonight. is he to rent? that would be a see a guess if we heard him talk a bit longer in those comments, he close them with saying they will be no minutes street. now this was the reference of the 1st 2 minutes agreements of 20142015. these were international agreements that were designed to bring the sorted lease a ceasefire to the don bus. and we have seen how that has gone. and this is exactly evidence case point that this is not a man to be negotiated with. and this was the older mist agreements. people with eve of the fonts was edge on me was the but again, like i said, we see what happened. just last week. we had zalinski telling your if indeed does, this is not the time to hub fulton, some of you have been having for them for the last 20 years and look where that's

brought to you. and we're in this call between shows and fulton, we had fortune telling shows that he would be open to negotiations as long as news tell the story or to the ality. well, no, let's be the food in the woods. and this is exactly what you feel that the, the show and most cool would continue a floating command or with the 4 regions off the most of you create that they want, you know, speaking of realities and spend just a little over a week since donald trump was elected to his 2nd term as president, you know, the situation of the german government zalinski looking at all of this and saying this phone call is putting into the hands of food in your opening a pandora's box. do you think his concerns are? are they valid at this point? that's exactly the context that make these concerns that spending these concerns, right? we have over jordan, keith, every single trump appointment is the lowest least scrutinize. we have to say, galbraith,

coming up as the us intelligence chief most recently. and though we have many people who have reasons in phones, but she is a fulton apologist and to dance. and then he said in an interview that he believes that the word will be ended costs or according to what trump in his team once. but this multiple times, and these 2 strongest allies, as you pointed out, a going to will be to the flux. what they want from the outgoing data is breaking off from shoals from biden, is to back away from the stones, of course. and that has been so heavily criticized to the want. those don't go to engine besides the ones that need to meet membership scheduling. of course we don't see that coming yet. and i also wanted to point out that this is, this comes out of times in joint adult attacks of increased 10 ford things on board coming, a dash of getting down on the frontlines on the east as well. and we add a middle school, joshua losing a lot of groups as well, but it's trying to make the point that this ward is on venable chief, of course, hopes that it would not be forced into capitulation. the tools to trump the trail portion to the vincent. i'm

a key of to the teeth if we can just use this to negotiate with me. was the announced to re hope for thinking. yeah, i think you wrote about that the abuse issues as well in keep with the latest tonight from ukraine, the mission. thank you. and as the media was saying, wow, those diplomatic changes play out ukrainians near the front lines. they continue to face the reality of relentless russian attacks. 10 villages in the heart chief region are under evacuation orders, as russian troops pushed forward. similar orders were issued for villages. further north, near beyond some 6500 people have already fled their homes since mid september . 15 run, keep ski is one such a village. it's residents are hoping to avoid another occupation by russian troops . like the 5 months they experienced at the beginning of the war. all how do you have chuck is packing how most treasured possessions should be able to brought to

school? these are the photos i will definitely take the memories of happier times to bring with her when she leaves her home, as she will have to leave most of her belongings behind such a download. certainly so. so from the allies, we've been striving to have something. today we sold a couch. we have no pension, no salary. she was our bread winner, the full of the roughly 2 and a half 1000 residents of the village of pitts. skewed i'd keep ski have been told to evacuate. the front line is currently 20 kilometers away and is getting close to local houses. but the scholars of recent shelling, cut that in the shop of alova says her 6 year old son has learned how to distinguish between the sounds of ukrainian and russian gunfire. gonna throw things,

he told him it was far away that it would not reach us, but worryingly the children became even more anxious was to ship. the wind is very strong. it's scary a when it's not very strong. it's not scary that off the village was on the russian control for several months at the beginning of the war until it was liberated by ukrainian troops in september 2022. residents here don't want to experience occupation for a 2nd time. so many a packing up to leave and show if and when they will be able to return home. a number of people have been injured after protest restore him to the parliament in a break away region of georgia of kasi allies in the north western corner of georgia. and it is backed by russia, fridays, and rest, which was filmed by russian state television erupted over a propos measure that would allow russians to buy property in of cause. yet the regions president has reportedly scrapped that plan. use

maria cut the mazda has more now on how these protests started and who led the is now the investor agreement, that was broken by the crime land would allow russian companies to have an, a 2 year tax break, a corporate tax break, and it would allow russian companies to having some send from custom duties and enjoy some privileges that for instance, local businesses. i'm not enjoying on that. that's what made the position and many businessman and this civil society groups and people angry. they say that the small businesses and mediums scale businesses would suffer as a result of that agreement. and also what is a being side the position valley is that this is seen as

a sort of an attempt from moscow to expand even more economically in the republic. but many people though seem to be agree with those plans. it was dw maria cut the months to their reporting. let's take a look down some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. austria's chancellor says he's country will not be blackmailed after news. russia will cut off gaff deliveries. they are beginning saturday. the move by russians gas from is in reaction by reaction rather by ma, scale to an arbitration, really against the state owned energy giant. austria is heavily reliant on rush and gas, but the government vienna said storage facilities are full. it's brittany is about to become one of the 1st countries in the world to ban new coal mines. the government is working on new legislation to restrict future licenses. a month ago, the u. k became the 1st big economy to quit coal powered electricity in being

a more than 140 year practise. spanish officials say a fire at a nursing home near zaragoza has killed at least 10 people. the blaze in villafranca. the april broke out early in the morning. in one of the rooms. it took 2 hours for firefighters to put it out. the calls remains a no families of miners trapped underground in south africa have called for an end to a dispute with authorities. the miners are locked in a stand off with police who blocked food and water supplies to force the miners out . police want to arrest them for legally entering the abandoned mind to search for left over go and adviser to it runs a supreme leader has indicated that t rhonda backs 11 knots efforts to end the conflict with his real ali laurie shawn . he met with lebanese officials and be rude and said that he hopes for a swift solution to the suffering of the lebanese people. the statement from

hezbollah as main backer, comes as lebanese rescue was recovered the bodies of at least 13 rescue workers. a day after a civil defense center was leveled in and is really strong. this is where several of 11 ons 1st responders were killed in a single is rarely strike under emergency response center. the rescue workers are still searching for the bodies. they're missing. colleagues, it is actually me. i had, they were about 20 people in the santa we found about 10 of them because they raw still body parts that we haven't identified. whereas a mom is more than happy. it's terrorism in every sense of the word to boma san to that risk use people if means you're destroying an entire society or somebody given israel says it's striking hezbollah targets and loving on the groups. militant wing is a designated tear organization by the

e. u. us and germany and has been firing rockets at israel. but the center struck is run by the lebanese state, not an active party to the conflict. is really military in the past, has accused has well, of using medical facilities often without providing evidence to back the claims. suzanne, who also works at the center, says there was no warning before the strike. the way, i mean it was is i father was sleeping there so he could go out to warn people to evacuate. his job was to pick a bodies and deliver them to their families to be buried. now it's my turn to pick up the body of my father, the phone or had the who i mean, i don't know who to be sad about more. the chief my father or my friends of 10 years on bar. the can be rude to relentless is rarely strikes,

show no signs of dying down hitting residential building blocks. some come shortly after advance bonding notices released on social media by israel's army. we were at high israel st, and evacuation warning that they would heat the central pack area. we came out to see and we saw the building being leveled to the ground. lebanese authorities say israel has killed more than 3360 people since october 8 last year when the violins escalated between israel and had spa. meanwhile, lebanon's caretaker parliament speaker b. buddy, has reportedly received a draft ceasefire proposal from the us. he's also met with a senior vanya and advisor instead of ron wood, back piece talk. but despite the news, lebanese,

say they have little hope left to see a deal. before the end of the year. in the united states, president elect donald trump, had said that robert f kennedy junior, his pick to had the us, his top health agency will help him make america healthy again. now those were trumps words. thursday evening at a gala event that his mar lager resort in florida. his nomination of the vaccine skeptic to become health secretary is just the latest in a string of controversial choices for government agencies of the old c. and does the banquet hall full of he's done to supporters, donald trump took to the stage for his 1st public speech since the election confronted welcomed by actors, sylvester stallone, the president elect, couldn't hide how much he's been enjoying. he's come back. you have to start my term from november 5th. okay. or november 6th,

if you want november 5th. because the mark has gone through the roof. enthusiasms doubled its doubled in the last short while the florida gala comes. this trump continues to unveil his peaks for the next administration. the lineup now includes another controversial feeder for my independent presidential candidate, robert f. kennedy junior, who is tapped to be the next us health secretary. he dropped out of the race in august and endorse trump. we are the sickest country in the world, and this, this rage take us, we need to bring donald trump to watch instead of make america how kennedy has become famous as an anti vaccination activist. for years he has insisted, there's a link between autism and vaccines. are something that has been disproved by multiple studies. the american public health association says it will campaign to

gaze his appointment, accusing him of a lack of competence with the fingers, trump has picked up so far. thank everybody, suggest shared views and loyalty. the things that matter most and then we're going to turn our country around. we're going to make it shows rates so strong, so powerful. we're going to bring it all back. full of tramps, cabinet donations will still be subject to confirmation by the center where we public can command a majority for more now i'm joined by i. she's john, he's the dean of the brown university school of public health. he's also a former bite and well white house cobit coordinator. this resides good to have you on the program. you've seen it as we have. donald trump has chosen a vaccine skeptic with no real medical training. to be in charge of the us is a health policy. what's your reaction the 1st of all,

thank you for having me here. i'm deeply concerned about this choice. i think it's a, i think it's a mistake. it isn't because he doesn't have medical training. most hell secretaries have not um, it is because of the views he espouses and how they are in contradiction to how we make progress. and the scientific and medical community is ideas whether they're on vaccines or whether they are on a whole host of issues. are basically refuted by good scientific evidence and so i'm very, very worried about this one last point me, this is not just a job overseeing the vaccine program. united states, the health secretary has a profound influence on the health insurance of all americans. so you overseas medicare, so this is gonna have a very large effect on the health of the american people. you are a former white house cobit coordinator for the bite administration. i remember seeing you on television a lot during the pandemic. part of the public health campaign to, to make sure people knew what was going on. can you imagine another pandemic

happening with both donald trump as president and robert kennedy junior as health secretary? would that be a nightmare scenario in your opinion? it would certainly make things dramatically harder and let's go back to 2020. when we had the pen demik the, the, the silver lining, the one part of the pen, and make that response from donald trump. that worked very well was the development of these vaccines operation work speed, the majority of vaccine, the biotech pfizer vaccine. those were driven by donald trump. i cannot imagine with, with robert kennedy now in the secretary of health seed us doing something like that again. so it would be very, very concerning. this is a, this is a person who does not really believe that infectious diseases should get much priority in the next administration. that obviously raises concerns for all of us who care about health very broadly in the country. if us public health is based on

a belief in science, but also a trust and common sense of if the us senate confirms are key junior, who then would be able to stop him from undermining the american public health care system with his false claims. and conspiracy theories which he likes likes to spread. this is our health, public health isn't as complicated states have a rule thankfully, and i think that will make a difference. many states will continue to promote the sensible policies on vaccines, on fluoride on a variety of issues. a password is ation of milk, which he doesn't believe in. but the problem is the federal government still has a very large role to play it purchased as vaccines for poor children. it's the one that determines which vaccines will be covered for free by health insurance. so she can still to damage to all americans, even if certain states step up to try to protect against is worse effects. want to ask you about new data. there's just come out this shows for the 1st time,

half of all americans are either overweight or obese. donald trump campaigned with the slogan, make america healthy again. now, if i understand you correctly, america is, is heading towards an unhealthy your future. where do you see the biggest risks right now? a yes, and this is a place where you're probably going to be rubber, can be able to what degree that will be city use of major health crisis for the united states. the question in my mind is, what are we going to do about it? how are we going to determine which policies to input my view is we should use policies based on scientific evidence and rigorous analysis. robert, kind of these views are largely things that fit well on a bumper sticker, on a slogan. but, you know, he says we should remove additives. ok, which added is how do we decide his track record does not suggest that he is going to take scientific evidence into account when making those decisions. so obesity is

a real challenge in the country. i have a lot of skepticism of his ability to make progress on it. obviously we want to see progress on this. we'll have to see what specific policies he rolls out. yeah, mr. telling us before we run out of time, robert kennedy has made many claims of some of our know around the world. he says the vaccines calls autism. he says the coven um is a racially targeted by a weapon. and he says that h i v is not caused by a virus. if one of your students were to write a paper for example, and make those claims be what kind of agree with that student. yeah, well look, my general view is you can make any claim you want as long as you can substantiated with evidence and facts and the, and the more bold the claim, the more substantial evidence you will need to generate. other problem for robert kennedy is he makes it very bold claims that have been refuted by the facts. and so if a student of mine turned in a paper where he did not use evidence and data to make those claims, they would get an s. and they would be asked to do the assignment, but yet. yeah,

f as in failed, actually. so john, dean of the brown university school of public health. we appreciate your time and your insights on this friday. thank you. thank you. and finally, before we go, sky gazers have been enjoying views of our moon that we won't be getting for a while. take a look, it's called a super moon when a full noun comes especially close to earth, making our satellite look bigger and brighter in the night. sky usually happens 3 or 4 times a year, but there won't be another one for nearly a year. right now there is a downside to the super moon. it's so bright then stargazers will have trouble seeing the meteor shower that's currently going on and reaches its peak on sunday. when the moon gets in the way us. all right, here's a reminder of our top story. jeremy transferred over schultz and pressure president

vladimir putin and have spoken today on the phone. it's their 1st direct contact in nearly 2 years. the to discuss the board in ukraine with schultz demanding that boots in withdrawal. russian force. you're watching dw news live from berlin after a short break. i'll be back to take you through the day. stick around, we will be right back the,

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