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release on saturday. the 3 men were abducted from the same keyboards on october 7th, 2023. the burned golf is good to have you with this on this friday. and we begin with the us vice president's speech in munich, j. d. vance. today until they room full of european defense and government leaders . that free speech is in retreat. and there are countries at the munich security conference advance claim that freedom of expression is being eroded and he called it a bigger threat to democracy than russian military aggression. he also addressed the issue of migration saying that europeans had not voted to open what he called the flood gates to mike vance. his speech was one of the 1st keynote addresses at the security conference. and he comes at the end of a remark,

the week where he was president, donald trump spoke on the phone with russian president vladimir putin, both leaders promising to work together to end a more in ukraine. european leaders fear that this will be done without ukrainian or european input vision. or many of those who were gathered in munich would have been hoping that the vice president can shed some light on donald trump's plans for a negotiated fees in ukraine. instead, they got a lecture about democracy in your, in britain and across europe. free speech, i fear is in retreat. so i come here today not just with an observation, but with an offer. and just as the by the ministration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds. so the trumpet administration will do precisely the opposite. and i hope that we can work together on that. and washington, there is a new sheriff in town and under donald trump's leadership,

we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square. agree or disagree of the right. there's a new here in town. he said, our correspondents here results and she's on patrol for us tonight in munich at the security conference. very good to see you. so the us vice president using his speech to give a very frank and direct address about free speech and migration. what did you make of his remarks? yes, he was very ones, and i don't think anybody here is probably surprised by that. especially, as you mentioned what we've seen this week with the president, trump calling then just in the last couple of days at nato, with the very direct remarks the to defense secretary p tags has made to nato allies about how the united states was not going to be the main supplier of

european security anymore. i think the defense of speech writers put a lot of time into this as, as you mentioned, he gave several instances of, of the incidents in europe where the trump administration feels the europeans rights to free speech and other freedoms are being violated. i, i found it quite interesting that he railed against the romanian election being invalidated because it was found that a huge amount of this information had effected the vote. and then you think about what happened with january 6th. so i think there are a lot of comparisons that europeans may be making in their head after this speech by dave events in the vice president did. he address more direct, more concrete security challenges that are facing europe. and the west was his idea of security challenges weren't maybe what europeans think about or even what are some of underlined, talked about earlier in her speech. and that would be russia of course, and, and the war in ukraine. he barely mentioned russia and ukraine and,

and didn't go into details at all. he said, actually unbridled migration into europe is a bigger, secure the threats. and of course, what he called, you know, the dangers to democracy. he said this could really unravel european society if leaders don't listen more to the voices of their citizens. yeah. and i was listening to his speech and he kept referring to the shared values on both sides of the atlantic. and i'm wondering there at the security conference, how much unity is there on display? it's very early in the conference. we're just getting started on the 1st afternoon of 3 days. so there's going to be much more of this to come. but we've also heard, for example, from the chinese foreign minister and what was price quite interesting brands is that the chinese, the chinese official was actually reaching out to europe and talking about how they would like to build bridges on trades. so we may see some, uh, you know, chest playing here at uh at munich. uh, we're always looking,

looking forward to that. those of us who attend the conference every year. we certainly could see some interesting developments here. politically. it didn't strike you that he was using words in his speech beds. definitely german leaders would have understood immediately because we've got an election coming up a just a week from now. and he's used words that have been using the campaigns like firewall alternatives, like the alternative for germany. why do you think you did that? well, certainly they are aware that german elections are coming up. you know, advanced actually refused to meet chancellor shoals. he said that he would meet marriage, but you know, schultz isn't going to be in office much longer. so it wasn't worth his time of the you as an administrator and is a very keenly watching politics in europe. and many of these elections have gone the way of the far right, which of course would be more favorable to an administration like donald trump's. all right, of course, monetary shields of munich security conference. terry is always thank

with you, as vice president is also meeting you crazy. and president, florida means a lensky for talks on how to negotiate a settlement to the russia, ukraine conflict. now, leaders in both europe and steve are alarmed after you, as president donald trump spoke to russia's president vladimir putin and agreed to start peace towards raising fears at cheap and it's european allies will be side law the battlefield in done yet. can eastern ukraine, one of the regions, russia has tried to swallow, and that ukrainians have fought for years to get back. last year, ukrainian president follow to me as a lensky, laid out a victory plan to world leaders that included nato membership and a return to the countries 2014 borders before russia annex the crimea province, winding diesel. it will surely be sad that thrushes war against you drain has ended

not frozen, not paused north fulton truly. and this will have not because someone got tired of the war, not because someone traded something with pushing. but that was then this week, us defense secretary p tags have said that nato membership for ukraine is unrealistic, as a returned to ukraine's old borders in line with key demands from moscow. he's also said that your opinion on non european forces should provide security guarantees. but that there would be no us boots on the ground. the trump administration has also indicated that the sanctions relief for russia is on the table. ukraine does hold one card territory. it's taken in russia's caustic region since a surprise cross border operation last august. now the russian side of the border is the sight of some of the fiercest fighting since the war began. or ukraine holes over 600 square kilometers and cost. that's much less than the territory. russell

holds in ukraine, about 20 percent of the country's land mass. but the cost incursion is an embarrassment to moscow, and it's brought in north korean troops, as well as reinforcements to try to get the ukrainians out before negotiation start . ukraine also has something for the us treasury secretary scott best and was in key this week, seeking an economic deal that could include ukraine's rarer minerals, but from ukraine's perspective any. eventually, negotiations will be off to a bad start with its comments on nato and borders. the west has already given away 2 key points before any talks get underway. the front line has moved little in the past 2 years, despite tens of thousands of casualties. giving up the territory if fonts so hard to retake would be a better outcome for ukraine. after so much sacrifice moss has revealed the names of the 3 is rarely hostages. set to be released in the gaza strip tomorrow,

saturday. the militant group says alexander, treat for an off. so can we deco chin and your horn will be freed on saturday. all 3 men were abducted from a quickbooks close to southern gaza during the october 7th terrorist attacked earlier this week. i'm oss threatened not to release more hostages saying israel was not permitting promised aid into gossip. israel is said to free, more palestinian prisoners in exchange for those hostages. arthur, more who want to go now into journalist, bawling, sliding in tell of the valley of names that the 3 hostages have been released. what more do we know about these 3 met? oh yes, so all of the world's getting up from it and you know, all of the community the some of the most expi on october, the 7th we're talking about. so need that to hanny is a 36 year old is all done. he's an american citizen and he did not until now meet

his the daughter because his wife it was written and by the time he was a kidnapped and a she waited for him. of course while he was the in, they kept dvd, hopefully tomorrow who will be meeting her, sasha, he's uh 29 years old. i may have brushed him citizen as well as his is really is citizenship. but he was visiting his parents house with his girlfriends back in the 7th, and then you're on he was they kidnapped alongside his mother, his grandmother and his girlfriend. his father was unfortunately killed on october 7th. and the whole city of the women were released back in november 2023, and the u. haul rent was the kidnapped alongside his brother. a tough that's loose day and kept it with the actually because it's not include in the 1st place of video. and what are we hearing from is really officials regarding tomorrow's exchange. i guess will of the unnamed uh is really uh, official uh, just uh issued the statement and this is

a code name for premier to send it to me on hold or his a circle. uh, the statement said that we have working in full coordination with united state to rescue as many hostages on live as possible as quickly as possible. and we attempt to take full advantage of this opportunity after that auctions are open. why is this message coming? good, right? now, because uh, the premises office uh, came into uh, backlash uh earlier today because they released the statement saying that the less that's a must have given is accepted by israel. something that the scores doesn't say it gets along with the statement that we've seen throughout this week. the were saying that all the $911.00 hostages should at least by saturday, and then even a saying that's all the hostages should be released by saturday. otherwise, hell will break out just like drunk, has this said later on the statement was deleted and the instead of it, it was written that instead of the wording and the list is accepted in,

but as well, they should have been written. the lesson was accepted in as well. in other words, it's not does not still med decide what it's going to happen after the release of tomorrow. okay, and believe what do we know about the palestinian prisoners who are set to be released a yes tomorrow. so we have the 16 on those numbers as well. that leads to be on the $33.00 of them. there are many people that were breasted since october 7th, inside the guns during the military drowned operation. 36 are a prisoners that the live sentence prisoners, which means that they have killed or wounded is varieties in the attacks. uh, some of them will be reported outside of us going into our tories. others will they get back to their homes and that was bank and gaza strip. we're also in east jerusalem. and before we let you go no, earlier this week and boss was threatening not to release hostages, do we know why, how much changed his mind over so just wondering,

a statement yesterday they've said that they, they intended to leave the hostages on saturday after docs has been held in cardboard and the thoughts were positive. they did not say that the issue that they have, they stated why the result and uh, i kinda understand that the issue is the issue of the curve as of the heavy machinery. the tomas is demanding to enter the ga strip according to people that i talked to inside because it's of the human machinery i'm thinking about it did not enter the garden yet, but it could well be that's how most has go to some guarantees from the mediators. and from is most that is a list and those say come up as of those who'd be most united later on during the week. that could be a good thing to change to their mind. they after all, okay. journals balding sliding with the latest from till of the following. thank you. thank you. or, or use a quick reminder now of our top story at the munich security conference and us vice president j. d band is expressed criticism of europe. vans said that he is seeing

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