coming off, sparks already flying as olaf shoulds sunset dick matt's face off for the role of john. so i to the mix, the war in ukraine, a divisive debate over immigration and the struggling job in economy. and it could be tough politics. i had, i'm feel go invalid, and this is the, by the, by companies at the election campaign has begun. it's this rent this time on people . we need more growth in germany. we need new growth, toys sparks. so let's this recession, depression, inflation. often we need a strong, green positive, and i'm going to body that with all my strengths and all my passion for the future pretty soon. you're not just germany years, it must finally roll out. and above all, europe must find the grow up in terms of security policy. prius. yes,

we need to set the right course. now. also on the day from out stays its welcome in west africa as friends, troops leave the region. present macro says they should be sorry to see them go. but i say this for all the african governments who not have the courage and the face of public opinion to barris that none of them would be in a southern country today if the french army had not been deployed in this region. welcome to the day we stopped here in germany where this week political parties are loading that campaigns for the election on the 21st of february is not polls cold after the collapse of the governing coalition have shown that this is not the business as usual for gem and politics. for the 1st time, full confidence have put the hands up to the chancellor. the greens have chosen the current economy minutes, the robot holl, back as that top. com to this. on the far right alternative for geometry has tapped

the co chair. at least vital for chancellor low other pottery site, they will not work with the most pundits typically conservative. i friedrich me out solely incumbent off schultz and the social democrats to lead the next government. and both man, i'm making that difference is clear. one of these 2 men set to become germany's next tom slept. all i've sold is trying to defend his job against swedish mats, the man whose posse currently leads in the poles. the only thing they have in common. they cannot stand each other as if you are embarrassing gemini, the way you acted, your ease creams with puts and that's it, says freddy max likes to talk. rubbish well done. it's not the 1st time because i provide was i feel for her losing to match would likely end on us tulsa's political career. and along with it, germany's resistance to supplying ukraine with what it wants most from brandon

towers, cruise missiles, just one week after salts headed to keys for those mats, made the same trip and the sold ukraine's president said lensky, you're going, you, we must do everything to enable you crying to make use of it right to defend itself without any limitations. the stones, full of souls condemns as an unnecessary provocation of lesser need, always play russian roulette with germany security. the bustle is also about germany's a thing economy. well, salts plans to take on new debt for investment politic mats wants to stimulate growth through tax breaks, less bureaucracy when map sees the need for a migration you ton including turning people away at the border. so since this, his government has already implemented strict on migration rules and points to folding numbers. the to top contenders for chance,

like class and personality. and on the key issues of this, the next in next month selections will fundamentally decide which direction europe's largest economy will take. that's what it's doing as an assistant professor and political science at trinity college tablets, those a co container of the gym and politics specialist group of the u. k. political studies association. just the mind many welcome to the w, and we just heard in our report, there's no love lost between shelves and federal. and that's uh, can we expect the gloves to come off? now the campaigns have begun it. honest, it is exactly what we like you to see it's um, it's obviously pretty put driven stats of the receipt to contain and the, the, the that's what we've seen so far as the address already kind of the debate at the end of last year and a good, good when it's talk, bought it on the board of confidence and we saw quite some intense exchanges

between the different candidates and this has continued into the new year. um and indeed, i mean it's, it's, it's an extra time that it seems to be a very kind of fee has to be contested election for drug and standards. and so i wouldn't be surprised if such attacks continue in the, in the weeks to come into the election of the posters for the release, the latest survey. today we're going to take a look at the numbers may come back to you. we have the conservative block away. i was in front of 32 percent fall right at the polling. second strongest jolts is s p d. is it? 17 percent. but the green's at 12 so much is dealing it's, it's looking like maps as chancellor, but with no majority as, as the way in german government. who, while these conservators try and form a coalition with this is very a, it's i think easier to say with whom they might not form or would not form inclusion. given the numbers. it's on the kind of all the parties of it all to form

the condition, but the a, d. i also cannot see the equation between the christian democrats. independents of a box next uh, and with regard to the remaining parties, it really depends on the composition of the blended stock. at the moment we have a 3 parties, f t, p, but as of august and the left that our was the re entry into the the stock is very uncertain. we're putting around the fresh old. um if they, if all 3 of them do not enter the window, then we would like you to very like look at the option of either as it used to do green government on the one hand or as did you see is us government assuming that the impression democrats maintain the lead if of course, some, one of the, of these are 3 smaller players ended up going to talk. we are, i would expect a very challenging a government formation process that might actually take quite some time. right now you're trying the economy immigration, which is not

a big issue is do you think is likely to be decisive in february? i mean, the post at the moment such as like a massive change compared with the 2021 election, has been the increase in cmc of the economy on this. so from, according to polls is really good. it's the topics that a large chair of and voters have identified as the most relevant topic that is printed with the countries facing and so on. the on the electoral side, it seems that the click on the links that actually particularly relevant when it comes to devices in terms of the pie talks between the, between the different parties of the election. but i would expect the integration to be a particularly contested issue. we've seen maps as recent suggestions around the world to a nationals and criminal convictions. we've seen to see us use proposals, rollins and kind of connecting internal security and migration. and of course, he's a position that's the position that is quite deeply opposed by the social democrats,

but also with the greens and so when it comes to government formation, i would actually expect integration to be quite the size of human in the one of the polls that suggest that for voters, it's really the economy that matters. accept, but we have a being lacking the background rate we. we saw in those figures that just now they are polling 2nd at the moment, the phone, right, a half day. how much momentum do you think they have, especially when you consider um what else is going on in europe? and of course with big names, supporters like a lot. musk is certainly doing quite good at the moment. and the poor story is also kind of way of saying that this has been fairly stable. um and for the last, for the last month. so it's a, a day is it for the ac that doesn't seem to pay the is not a key of cost to power at all. now the prize is kind of cute, erode autocorrelation with the, with the ac and so on that. and it's also we're obviously kind of rough um,

kind of starting in mind that yes and pulling close to 20 percent. but that also means that 80 percent of respondents of faith favor different parties. and so yes, at the moment that you just mentioned, um, but obviously as the, as you mentioned, quite a prominent support is that this, that supports unlikely is i'm not going to change much, sometimes unfortunately. so i think has to be the response that we've seen to eat unless it's a good kind of a darth middle support for the if he has been that it has been well received by those sympathetic to the 80 and having a criticised. but though with what not, and so it's like you to contribute to what's further effective for reservations that might help mobilize the base, but it's unlikely to change any minds in terms of the full choice. okay, good. talking to thank you so much for joining us. i'm a to stealing from tennessee college dublin. thank well joe and it goes out for a potentially devices and action friends have seen the passing of one of its most

polarizing politicians. so mary lou found at the far right national front party has died at the age of $96.00. and he was a fire brand popular this to vials against immigration and multi culturalism issue . the french political establishment in 2002, by unexpectedly reaching the presidential run of against jack's year. but it was succeeded as potty chief by his daughter burying the pen. who was since run for the presidency, 3 times, face time deposit, and i re branded as the national valley into one of the countries made political pauses. i will sleep malik. here's a professor emeritus as a political communication, the fontainebleau institute of political studies in paris. we asked him to describe joan murray depends legacy. well, i would say you have joking that he's probably gonna lose he's. he's still throwing

away because i would say that he's made that even was a to a to a or enough election. but afterwards, he gets a, i would say, having such an extreme most be kind of speech that he couldn't get, probably elected the need at any time. and he's the completely understood it. and she even expense him from his own thoughts you 10 years ago. exactly in august the 2015 and uh because he even the good thing that may be the, the mexico of jews, injured, denver side of jews in germany, had been the incident of the 2nd good. well, he wouldn't commit to say that it was a genocide. so he's not the warranty to be elected drug, and she understood that she had to expend him somehow and to get 3. does this exaggeration. emanuel macro is phasing

criticism phase. reason comments, defending the presence of french troops in africa. friends is in the process of withdrawing troops from chad and several other countries. the french president sparked a backlash from several african leaders after he accused of failing to say thank you. to french troops, baffling is list insurgencies to lose as no one would assume. so we had to secure a relationship edited in truth. it was in 2 parts. in one part was our commitment of fighting terrorism since 2013. we were right. i think some of forgotten to say thank you, but that's okay. it will come in time. i think i'm in a good position to know that in gratitude is a disease that cannot be transmitted to humans. but i say this for all the african governments who not have the courage and the face of public opinion to barris that none of them would be in a southern country today. if the french army had not been deployed in this region, or vice president's remarks for mattress accusations of neo colonialism from last african lee, this is chevy and president. my how much interest debbie?

a now did you did explain me. i'd like to express my outrage of regarding recent remarks by president my call. which border on contempt for africa and africa deals. i love. it is a feature. i think he's in the wrong era. the francis in the process of withdrawing troops and chad semi go on the ivory coast and as recently left mobbing asia and became a fast so is a closer look at how it's coping with its weighting influence in the region. moved them 60 years after chad gained independence from from french troops, a finally packing up to leave for good as a growing number of african nations force. they form a colonizer to withdraw its military last month, ivory coast joined chad and seen

a go in causing millet tree ties. following announcements from molly, the keen to fossil and media in the mood dumped. the brick set comes amid growing local resentment towards from the french troops stayed on and we stand for current after it ended. it's colonial rule in the sixty's and french soldiers have been fighting alongside local forces for decaying. the critics say they've had little effect in detouring security threats and militant groups in recent years. i couldn't get enough to non military cues, and molly, the keen of fossil and media headphones. so speed up the withdrawal. the french forces true numbers, uh estimated to have dropped by around 70 percent since 2021 from still maintains a large military base and get booty east africa with president emanuel. my chrome

visited last month. but it's, it's, it elsewhere has same countries look for of the international support with russian . this sum range is now operating in the region. strange forces and likely to be almost entirely out of west african by the end of the year, signaling a significant shift in its influence over its former colonies. neither will it is direct to the optic of program at the aggregate ag bumped royal institute for international relations, and she joins us from brussels. welcome to the w. what do you think showed african countries manufacturing funds for its military assistance? it is no i, i think that this was another one of those comments from material on that was said perhaps with his advisors tearing their her and their hair behind the screens. and

my throne has this habit of throwing out and comments that will have consequences that are perhaps not thought through at the moment when he system, there is one thing to think that in private, then there's another thing to say in public. and of course, even if this was supposed to be an event for an french ambassadors, there were as media there. so there's for search and he knew that this is going to get out and beyond the french circle. so i think this was a strategic error on his part and you've got it as an era and it's difficult with my from to know what is an error and what is actually something that he says on purpose. we've known that he is in, with regards to africa. this has happened quite a few times that he has authored a comment that it has had and quite big consequences for the french african relations. of course, africa is

a continent but with the country that he ever had to call for. and we know that during visits to africa and he has also am given comments that have not been appreciated by the african leaders. sometimes joking when it wasn't really appropriate to do so. and, and, and it's hard to know whether, whether these are thoughts through comments or, or whether it's something that he just has to and that he wants to get out there because he feels that it's, it's the correct thing to do. but for sure this i'm, i mean there is quite a few french officials and military officers. we're working hard to, and chad, the um, the image that france has in africa as an arrogant for him or colonial power and comments like this. my by my crone, is really undermining their records and in doing the french military forces went into the saw how to try and help stabilize the region by fighting implementing

surgeons. why is it felt by those countries in the region that both french troops are no longer necessary as well? i think we have to remember that. and friends has been boosted by this the hill in states after military close. and that started this newest and cool wave started in 2020 molly. and then it has continued with another queen molly in 2021. and we had to close in burkina faso in 2022. and then one in the year in 2023. and then we had, of course, the constitutional cool in charge in 2021. and it's only after the cool leaders have taken power that france has been boosted. so whether these decisions by the cool leaders to loose, the french military forces have been taken because they didn't think they needed them or because they thought that there would be a better strategic decision for them to stay in power by relying on other external actors like russia, for example, and that's the question that i think is,

is up for debate, right? so, as the, the french troops withdrawal, i'm, who keeps the piece i, i'm going to presume the islamist insurgency is known as over as well. if we look at this, a health countries, it's definitely not over. we've seen that ice this as the hell the, the is the how, which was the main enemy, let's say are the main targets of operation bar con. the french counter terry's operation that was, and that was deployed to the region since 2014, it doubled its territorial control in the year after bar khan, left. so between 20222023. we doubled. it's kind of its territorial control in, in molly and in new share and in working a foster. we've also seen that there has been quite an exponential increase of ads . the hottest and control, especially in burkina, faso we're friends, only had

a small special forces operation, a blessing sab. and that was also, of course, injected when the military collaboration with which burkina faso ended in january in 2023. so it's, it's hard to make the correlation between burkina faso and hosting friends and troops and the increasing jihadist and groups. but for sure that it's not going well in the region right now. and regina foster has about 60 percent of his territory and that the military is not and controlling. we have jane in which is the largest outside affiliated. do you have is grouped in the region that is present in 11 out of 13 communities in amber, clean up also. so the situation is not good right at the moment. i'm so you mentioned that russia being one of the players to try and fill that gap. if

the situation that is deteriorating, do we presume that the russian forces are bad to keep these military dictatorships impala robert van, secure? the reason that gaines, the being surgeons it's difficult to say um for sure that there is an russia has this deal that they are offering a lot of african alteri, terry and leaders of, of regime maintenance, which is of course very attractive. and for these leaders, especially if they see that their positions are fragile, which is the case in many of the states that have the hobbies and insurgencies. and for example, right now, what we've seen is that in molly, at the form or wagner troops, we, we call them still wagner troops in molly, because they have not been recognized by the malia and authorities to be in place. so they're not the official russian troops. they suffered a major setback this summer,

and in at 10. so watson as city in the north of molly, where we know that over 7500 troops were killed by a to a reg, separatist. so molly and rebels, let's say, and you have his groups, and that's the 1st major set facts that we've seen of the russian forces in this region of africa. and we also know that there have been 2 major attacks by jane, and so by the major at the heidi's organization in molly, in bond nicole in september um in 2024, which is um the 1st attacks inbound the code since 2015. so clearly, russian troops are not able to secure the country from these attacks. it's a fascinating analysis and we thank you for it to need a village and need a willing from the ag months royal institute for international relations. thank you . thank you. of the

us president elect, donald trump said that he would not rule out using military or economic force to gain control of greenland since winning the election. mr. trump has repeatedly expressed it's designed for the us to take control of greenland from denmark and the governments of greenland. the denmark of repeatedly told him the island is not for sale. trump has once again set his eyes on greenland posting on his side to the social on monday. he said, greenland is an incredible place and the people will benefit you tremendously if and when it becomes part of our nation. we will protect it and cherish it from a very vigorous outside world. make green and great again, your position. and on tuesday, the future presidents doubled down on his claims or even refusing to roll out minute to remote military. well, we need one for national security purposes. i've been told that for a long time, long before i even ran, i mean people have been talking about it for

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