and punish. maybe my voice will be heard next spring to our love seeking justice for the victims of fame. assign starts november 21st on d, w. the . this is dw news line from berlin, strong reactions and keep after the german and russian leaders speak for the 1st time in nearly 2 years. for a lot of missile lensky says a phone call between chancellor schultz and president clinton will only help moscow ended. so i solution also coming up the leader of georgias break away region of accounts. he says he's ready to step down after demonstrate restoring the parliament demanding his resignation. the, unlike local welcome, ukrainian president of allotment, zalinski has condemned

a phone call between german transel all of schultz and russia's president vladimir putin. during an hour long conversation there 1st, and nearly 2 years schultz told putting to end the war and stress driven support for ukraine. but keith says talks with bruton. never lead anywhere on the phone with boots in for the 1st time. in nearly 2 years. the german government said that shouts told his russian, count about to stop as warn you, crane, and stopped talks with keith. but according to moscow, stay went through it, and it was clear that any negotiations would have to reflect russia's gains and on the battlefield. despite the disagreements, the criminal welcome to call saying that any dialogue a tool was a positive development. in keith however, schultz is action was quickly condemned vinegar. oh, that's cool. in my opinion, opens candour is cox. now that maybe haven't conversations of the coals, just

a lot of woods, and this is exactly what fruit and has long one to 18 says something to 6th street, really important for him to reduce his isolation. obviously, rough as isolation, this is the let's see what i see. the timing of the coal just days off the sheltered coalition. government collapse has some thing was politically motivated. this is about the old shots still signaling to the gentleman public that he's still in charge. he's still chance not even if he's a lame duck. and it seems that the main purpose was really to signal to the jam. and i'd like to read more germans have been questioning germany support for kids with the economy struggling. and ukraine on the back foot on the battlefield. thousands turned out for this bullying rally against weapons deliveries. last month . until now, jim and a to crane has been substantial. without only the wes providing more with snap elections now set for february. and schultz is social democrats headed for defeat,

the shot slipped, maybe hoping that is new, winning this to, to, to putin will win back. those is some more, i'm going by dw, correspond to rebecca rivers in keys. and our political correspondent, julia, sound daily. who's in v spot in today? rebecca, i'll start with you president. as a lensky gave a radio interview today after schultz has phone call to put in. what did he say? well in that interview here, michael, he said that ukraine really has to do everything possible to try to come to some diplomatic pace or pay through diplomatic means, i should say, within the next 12 months. but he went on to say that he doesn't believe president potent of russia is very serious about pays for that. that wouldn't mean he wouldn't come to any negotiating table with west and latest. but instead of really looking for pace, who would be using that as a platform to try to sol relationships with those wisdom leaders have launch the als to table isolated him since the full scale invasion in 2022. now this comes

this 24 hours a less than 24 hours, even after that phone call that you just heard about there in the report between all i felt of germany and letting me put and it was highly criticized by president zalinski say it really was no gain to ukraine and just handed everything to posing opening the door of the pandora's box to the words he used to fool relations between western late isn't it could lead to more flooring with all the leaders. and of course, that, that benefits only put in and, and not your crime. and julia, the timing of schultz this call is being read as political with early elections blooming for germany. what do you think schultz was hoping to achieve? think on the one hand, looking at the international political situation and especially looking at the re election of donald trump into the white house. so it's may have been thinking that you wanted to, to show some leadership and fear the situation, considering also that germany is after the us,

the 2nd biggest supporter of ukraine, and that possibly looking at donald trump, wanting to come up or just stop a support for ukraine and possibly pushing for a quick negotiation between food team and ukraine without looking at the price that that would entail for ukraine in terms of the territory in terms of security guarantees that show to might want to contribute to try to steer this confrontation and hopefully supporting ukraine in this too, but this also has a lot to do with internal driven politics. we're looking at elections in 3 months and it shows as trying on the one hand to cater to voters that do not want the support ukraine, who want this war to end as soon as possible with whatever consequences. and he's also catering to internally to people in his party were also skeptical about continued support for ukraine. and he's therefore trying to win back support for himself as the main candidate for his party, but also for its party itself with motors,

a delicate game there. rebecca shultz is overture to put in, comes days after us president electron called zelinski. how hopeful our officials and keep that the incoming us administration will maintain american support. one seems to be 2 schools of sold and 2 series. of course, nobody knows exactly what the 2nd trump trump presidency is going to look like. certainly not means of either ukraine, russia war, but there is these two's, you know, schools of thought suddenly internationally, but also here in key even in ukraine. and of course, one of the peasant mistake is that of a fee that trump will force, basically ukrainian capitulation by withdrawing support and forcing you crying to the negotiating table with a very decided by this advantageous position. but there's a growing now the school of thought and that is one, the president zalinski say seems to be subscribing to whether that's because he really believes it or it's just a pragmatic approach. now that trump is headed to the white house,

and that is that in fact, it could benefit ukraine in some ways, the trump, who has promised to end the war within 24 hours, may in fact lead to a hastening all the end of the one that certainly will love me as soon as he said in an interview last night saying he believes that the will will end sooner under a trump whitehouse. then it has with the bite and white house. you know, you kind, becoming increasingly frustrated that at the effect of the button administration hasn't allow them to, for example, use long right weapons in russian territory and other things like that, holding them back, leaving the meanness style nice. so there is some hope growing, but that at least see some change and that that change will be positive for ukraine and positive for pace and cost. nobody wanting pays more than the finance julie, we should mention you are at a gathering of germany's green party, which is choosing new leaders ahead of what looked like early elections. are they still committed to back in new chris?

from all the things that we've heard here at the party congress. yes they are. we've heard that coming from the new up co leaders that are being elected right now . but also coming from the green party members who are in government for a minister on an in a bad book and vice chancellor a little. but topics we've heard on the babel say she wants to continue and even increase support for you frame. and she said that a last thing and just piece there is more important than the absence of war. and on the other hand to about how big saying that, yes, the greens are a party of peace, but they're also a party of freedom. and that, that germany and the green party as a responsible party in the past 3 years in government and hopefully for them also in the future. always it's to ukraine to continue to support and defend the sovereignty. and we'll leave the last word at that to julia said deleon, these bonding and rebecca rivers in keys? many thanks to your boss. let's take

a look at some of the other stories making headlines today. officials in pakistan's punjab province have declared a health emergency over toxic small schools and colleges must close with a lockdown imposed on 2 of the regions. biggest cities. air pollution in pockets on and northern india has risen to dangerous levels in recent weeks. super type food money has made landfall in the philippines. it's the 6 major storm to hit the country in just a month. hundreds of thousands of people have left their homes in preparation for what forecast or say could be a catastrophic event. with winds of up to 240 kilometers per hour. israel's military has bomb buildings in the suburbs of be rude in, in southern lebanon. and striking what it said, what has built a targets. lebanese media reported is really ground forces had reached their father's point in lebanon south so far in the conflict before being pushed back. it

comes as lebanese government officials say they are considering a us truce proposal. the leader of georgia is break away region of of cause you says he will resign. if protesters leave the parliament, the demonstrators storm the building on friday of cause the allies in the north western corner of georgia and is backed by russia. unrest broke out over a proposal to allow russians to buy property there. and measure has been scrapped under pressure from the protest. now we understand that the pro task still continue outside the presidential palace. now, the de facto president, a us long john and has reportedly left the capital and is now in the his village hometown where he's housing the meetings with the cabinet. he saw that he was indeed ready to uh,

to leave uh, the cabinet. however, he is issuing sort of the ultimatum it's, he's saying that he's asking, demanding that the pro testers should clear the presidential palace and some of the government buildings that have already been captured by the protesters. but the position seems to be demanding and issuing and all the ultimatum saying that the president has to resign unconditionally and immediately so or more protests in fact expected. so it all depends on how successful the defacto president will be able in retaining the power and whether he's going to move on to sort of you know, cracking down those protests or not. it is also we understand that uh the

president uh uh, spoke to some russian stays me to daniela's and she was asked about the speculations that some people from pollutants administration might be coming top. kazi, on her responded, we will see we'll wait and see. so it's unclear, uh, so his faith, his political site uh, it seems like the opposition is not ready to give up either. but it's also important to mention that these pro task are not sort of claimed by the position to be anti russian. and the experts also share that sort of perspective. the address is all about the sort of preserving the economic sovereignty on the given that of causes a highly of alliance politically on russia. it seems like a casual position wants to retain some sort of economics or attempt to protect their local businesses in the face of the agreement that could endanger on many

local businesses. that it seems you're suggesting. there's a lot of nuance to this story and surely there is. but when you look at this entire situation and how it's evolving, would you say that there is a sign here that bosco's grip on not because it is in fact, lucian as well. ive cause it is isolated by the rest of the world. the only i live that a project has a is, has got, is only, you know, most go and russia is a sort of, has a very powerful presence of kazi, a is relied heavily economically on, on the kremlin. but also russia is security guarantees for the break away republic that for tool with a georgia in the ninety's and claimed itself independence. i know russell, it's sort of seem as a substitute to guarantee in case georgia wants to sort of take control over its

territory. and it's also will be interesting to see how um, of causes we'll be able to resist. the pro russian poll says that the kremlin is, has been pushing over the past few years, very actively in the region. but we see that there is a sort of they are showing people are showing the resistance to that, but it doesn't necessarily mean that they don't want to be with russia anymore. unders understood that so dw corresponded to, we had cut them out. so in we've got many, 6 in the us space agency. nasa is worried an air leak at the international space station could lead to a catastrophic failure space news dot com says nasa and it's russian equivalent. russ covered, most disagree over the cause of the leak and the russian part of the space station and over how serious the problem is, russian scientists believe the facilities can still be operated safely. will see

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