the industry 0 the 5 years often. we remember window loads, it still stops march 8th on dw, the this is dw news live and from berlin us, vice president, j. d vance gives european allies a stern talking to on democracy in britain and across europe. free speech i fear is in retreat. in a combative speech of the munich security conference advanced slams european leaders are what he calls running in fear of their own voters. speech comes and mid rolling concern over the future of us. foreign policy. also coming up come off announcing which of these really hostages. it's due to release on saturday. the 3

men were abducted from the same keyboards on october 7th, 2023 and trying to survive in gaza. people there say they're facing a new war. is they battled to find food and shelter, admits the room with the library. golf is good to have you with us on this friday. we begin with the us vice president speech in unit j, the vans today till the room full of european defense and government leaders. the free speech is in retreat in their countries at the munich security conference, vance claim, the freedom of expression is being eroded and you called it a bigger threat to democracy than russian military aggression. he also addressed the issue of migration saying europeans had not voted to open what he called the flood gates to migrate. francis beach was one of the 1st email addresses at the

security conference. and he comes at the end of a remarkable week where you as president donald trump, spoke on the phone with russian president vladimir putin. both the leaders promising to work together to end the war in a new frames. we european leaders, however, fear that this will be done without any training or european input coalition. and many of those who are gathered in munich would have been hoping that the vice president can shed some light on donald trump's plans for a negotiated piece in ukraine. instead, they got a lecture about democracy here 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 a, by the ministration seem desperate to silence people for speaking their minds. so the trump administration will do precisely the opposite. and i hope that we can

work together on that in washington. there was 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? yeah, so down in unit advances, speech was met by a strong response from germany's defense minister. he said that the speech was unacceptable to these it, they will cut this democracy was put in question by the vice president in front of all of europe as he spoke about the enrollment of democracy. and if i understood him correctly, he compared conditions in parts of europe and the with those and all for tearing regimes. right. i'm going to have, this is not acceptable. the

corresponding terry shows she is covering the munich security conference for as i asked her, what she makes of germany's defense minister firing back after advances. indictment of your yeah, that, that's really interesting and i think it probably makes your kids. 4 feel better that somebody stood up and say and said that this speech was offensive because d d bounce was taking some of the very important parts of what europe feels is democratic. you know, getting hate speech off the internet, protecting people from having to, to listen to or see those things um with, with some of the regulations that exist here. and he was twisting it around to say that that's a risk to keep people's freedom. so i think that it was very uh, very bold, if the story is to get up and say that immediately. but, you know, friends, he did the same thing. it, nato went after they talked about, you know,

taking these things off the table for you crazy. it was a story as we came up and said, you know, i don't understand why they're, you know, already giving up, kids can seating to rush out before any piece. negotiations have even started. so this has been quite interesting. a performance from the german defense minister. yeah. and beyond democracy, what i mean, we're there to talk about security in with the europeans, traditional military support from the us mail apparently in question. thanks to the us president. what are your p and leaders saying about, or your opinions future the well, the european union knows that it needs to, you know, co, less itself is the use of military future is, is separate from, from nato's. they have, you know, their, their own tracts and really the us support is really only relevant out at nato, where, where it's an allied. but, you know, the, the european, most of the, the, you countries are in nato. so this, uh, you know, there is, there's

a lot of crossover here, and they have already known that they need to band together, that they need to become more self sufficient. that they need to be able to produce more of their own weapons. so that they are not completely reliance on the united states and sending so much of their defense investments to, to the united states. so these are all just reminders of things they've known for a long time. but you know, it's, it's the beginning of a full scale war in your brain didn't light a fire under them to get this done. maybe this new administration will be what, what makes that happen. we know that the ukranian president told me, is zalinski. he's also at the security conference, but he didn't like what he heard from the us president this week i'm wondering as his relationship with leaders fair. has it changed since president trump's re election? well, i think that still remains to be seen again. it's, it's only been a couple of days since we heard from p takes at their, at nato headquarters. but,

you know, i think that the president zalinski is getting, reaffirm support from european leaders. and not only did you hear the story is, may make these comments. but you're also hearing the baltic leaders come out and make statements, you know, about supporting ukraine, about saying that you know, their views on whether you can, can become a member of nato. hasn't changed since they're going to continue sending military support to the maximum capacity that they have. a lot of things for europe and, and you paid, haven't changed, of course, pulling the car if it out with a of us supports is going to be a big a, you know, a big downside for it for their efforts going forward. yeah, shocking, di corresponded to results of the meaning security conference periods. always. thank you. all right, i'm enjoying now by catherine sleeper ashbrook. she's a political scientist from the visual's been foundation. she is at the munich

security conference. yeah, sure, i'm heading catherine. yeah. katherine, it's brittany berlin. can you hear me? katherine, it's brendan berlin. can you hear me? i can hear you. i can hear you. excellent, thank you. room. okay, good. well, we're glad that you do find i can hear you read. okay. can you hear me? yes, i can, i can hear you. yes. yeah, this is live tv. while the fun, let me, let me ask you. um, catherine, what is going on there at the security conference? it'd be we've seen lots of these conferences before. but this year it seems that the us and europe are going in very opposite directions. have we ever seen such open discord in the trans atlantic relationship before the

well not on the deep substance as we're seeing it now. so we saw a vice president who basically broke one of the fundamental norms in american foreign policy. is it politics ends at the water's edge and that has made transatlantic dialogue in a bi partisan format possible over the many decades that the people have gathered here per 1st has the vehicle in the conference. and then as the munich security conference, which is to say that you don't comment on the interior politics of any other country. and you don't take american politics and the political discourse abroad. and that is something that's truly novel. now we've had political differences. if you think about donald rumsfeld and jessica official here at the m. s. c, around the iraq war, we've had issues on the substance. but this is something quite different to intervene or attempt to interfere in the inner workings of european politics. that is something completely normative, late new in the american context. when you're talking to people they are,

do you get the sense that people believe or expect that the rules fayetteville level border will withstand this challenge? okay, of the well, i think there's a serious trust problem. the europeans are doing more than hand wringing. they are constantly trying to interpret every have sentence that emerge has now from the trump administration on whether a nuclear shield will still hold with respect to article 5 commitments in nato. even if the united states decides to move away from its connecticut engagement on the european continent. so there's been a lot of t leave reading on this statements made by the secretary of defense, pete hex asked what this means. so a lot of europeans in these hallways are trying to interpret what the actual

reality could be emerging from washington. but the europeans are very clear and now clear eyed and potentially re committed at least many hope. so to really launching into a full fledged underscore and have their own defense capacities at speed, the us vice president. today, he talks a little bit about migration. i want you to take a listen to what he said. and of all the pressing challenges that the nations represented to your face. i believe there was nothing more urgent than mass migration. no voter on this continent went through the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unrelated immigrants. so kevin, i want to ask you, was the us vice president there? was he attempting to intervene in the german election, which is just days away?

the well, i think that's certainly how it felt so many people in the audience. he also cited a number of other elections that had been criticized for the integrity or lack thereof, in terms of their democratic processes. he also mentioned romania, a number of times. you've got the tone in this speech that either you allow greater access to far right parties. you either allow the kind of conspiracy id ology the, by the way, was the 1st 3rd of the vice president speech into political discourse or the united states will make discussions with you very difficult. and so that threatening tone that did seem very clearly meddling, especially on the migration point. brent that you raise when that is blatantly factually untrue. there is no such thing as mass unchecked migration into the european continent. that's what dublin too is for. that's for what

a number of efforts on front techs are for, and that's for what the stepped up asylum compromises over the last few years have been for to prevent all of that. and frankly, the challenges that the european continent faces now faces most dramatically are the ones to it security and it's economic integrity. migration is an issue that needs to be addressed, but it's certainly not necessarily just the only single issue at which voters will take to the ballot box next sunday. yeah, the vice president talked about the security. he said that europe needs to manage more of its own security. do you see in europe doing that? i mean, does your basically deserve have the money and the resources to do that to meet the demands of the us of the the well look at least on the face of it in the way the budgets are currently constructed. it does not. and that has been

the main concern in these halls, which is to say, how do you free up additional financial resources, both from the private sector, but fund dimensionally from the government sector as well. how you do it, whether you do it through do tax levies, whether you borrow, whether you borrow together as european countries or european parts of the polar and the european pillar in nato. how you construct the financial architecture to step off into the, into the massive void that at least in kinetic fighting force, a lack of american troops. and we've already heard rumblings that, of course, $20000.00 american troops or are supposed to leave in short notice would leave. i think those are the courts essential questions that are being discussed in these halls. will they ever be able to meet american capacities likely not. it seemed in that sense that there were some concessions made to the russian viewpoint of territorial conflict in europe, in the caught, in the call between the president and the russian head of state. so that's what the

europeans are worried about. that is the primary concern. how to pay for a forward facing defense that defends the european continent, but also strengthens ukraine. yeah, they might not be able to find the money, but maybe you and some other people will be able to find a quieter corner later this evening to talk, katherine, i appreciate your time and your insights. you've got very good hearing too. thank you. to argue as a quick look now, and some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world were wondering, back, rebel is claimed to have seized control of a strategic airport in the east of the democratic republic of the congo footage on social media shows on demand in the streets of cobble where the airport is located, the m 23 armed group has been advancing on the nearby city of bukosa for weeks following their capture of the city of goma. ukraine says a rushing drone had struck the true noble nuclear power plant. the weapon penetrate

to the outer shell, protecting the facility, and it started the fire that you ins. atomic energy agency says it did not compromise the inner contain and shell of the reactor that melted down in the disaster back in 1986. he says that radiation levels in the area have not increased highlands army has free 260 people from 20 countries who were forced into working in online scam centers in me and more. the rescue operation is part of the crack down on scam centers in southeast asia, which often use traffic, labor, and trick victims around the world other billions of dollars every year. but frances has been taken to the hospital in rome with bronchitis. frances complained a breathing trouble since being diagnosed with the illness last week. 88 year old has struggled with multiple health issues for years. he also uses a wheelchair or a chain and public appearance homeless it has revealed the

names of the 3 is rarely hostages, set to be released in the gaza strip. on saturday, the militant group says that alexander trooping off, so getting deco chin and here horn will be free tomorrow. all 3 men were abducted from a cabal. it's close to southern gaza during the october 7th terrorist attacks earlier this week. come off, threatening not to release more hostages, saying is real, was not permitting promised aid into gossip. israel is set to free, more palestinian prisoners in exchange for those hostages. a short while ago i spoke with journalist volley sliding and tell of even i asked him what we know about the hostages. you are set to be released tomorrow. yes. so all of them are aware of 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 hand. he is

a 36 year old years old and he's an american citizen and he did not until now meet his the daughter because his wife, it was brutal. and by the time he was that kidnapped and they, 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. may have brushed him citizen as well as his is really is citizenship. and he was visiting his parents house with his girlfriend back in the 7th a menu 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, little stained captive of the actually because it's not including 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 rainy fish. oh uh,

just uh, issued a statement and this is a cold name for the prime minister netanyahu or his, the 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 intend to take full advantage of this opportunity after that auctions are open. why is this message coming good right now? because of 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 as well. 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 hostages should at least by saturday, and then even a saying that all the hostages should the release by saturday. otherwise the hell will break out, just like trump has is said later on,

the statement was deleted them 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, as well, did 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? yes, tomorrow it says we have the 16 on those numbers as well. the least $333.00 of them . there are many people that were listed since october 7th, inside the does it serve during the military and ground operation. 36 are prisoners . that the live something is prisoners, which means that they have killed or wounded is varieties in the attacks. some of them will be reported outside if it has been entered tories. others will they get back to their homes and that was bank and gaza strip. were also in east jerusalem 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 of a so just wondering a statement yesterday they've said that they, they intended to leave the hostages on saturday, after docs has been held and kind of go on, the thoughts were positive. they didn't not say that the issue that they have is they could whether result on the i can understand that the issue is the issue of the car about the heavy machinery. the tomas is demanding to enter the ga strip according to the people that i talked to inside because of the human machinery and thinking about it did not enter the trip yet. but it could well be that's how most has go to some guarantees from the mediators. i'm from is most that is a list and those say color bands of those who'd be much united later on during the week. that could be things that changed their mind. they after all. okay. journalist bolling starting with the latest from tell of the following. thank you. is a quick look now. some other headlines this hour in the united states. heavy rates across los angeles are threatening to cause lands lines and sweep up debris from

the areas affected by last month's wild fires. sandbags and concrete barriers are being distributed in order to stem flooding. northern california is also on flood watches, heavy rainfall continues, the japanese government says it will release some of its emergency stock pile of weiss in order to tackle soaring prices of staple foods and the price of rice started to increase last year after extreme heat, hampered production over $200000.00 tons or a 5th of the rice reserves will be released. at least 6 people have been killed and several others injured after a fire broke out in a luxury hotel in the city of bu, son. in south korea. the blazes believed that started in an area on the 1st floor that was under construction. the exec calls is still not no

prosecutors in the german city of munich save the suspect in thursday's car ramming, as admitted to deliberately driving his vehicle into a crowd of people. 36 people were injured and the suspect was arrested at the scene . authorities believe the 24 year old ask in national had and is list motive, but they have found no links to extreme is groups. he's been charged with attempted murder, german president, funk fontose shy maya held a moment of silence for dozens injured in the car, ramming, attacked in munich, city center. police say among the critically injured is a young child. the residents of the south german cities said they were in shock with ross, most is the prime speech less. it is so sad when something like this happens. we've had too many other cases like this in other german cities. for me,

it is really sad and kind of continue for the students, have to do something and we as a society to we have to stand together and fight it right out. it was on zelman, husband bush, often police and prosecutors have been interrogating the suspect and off gone man who was arrested at the scene of the crime. he had no prior criminal record in germany. so needed some tear down. the suspect is identified. he's a 24 year old. i've gone national dance. he came to germany in 2016 as an unaccompanied minor asylum seeker. she's been residing legally here. type point. the guy here. police say the suspect appears to have acted alone. well, no evidence has been found of contact with extra mas groups. the prosecutors investigating religious motivation. now that's how after the attack,

the suspect shouted a low akbar at the police search. and after his arrest, he prayed. he's at the level of our exclamation is the reason that we took on the case that's who was with us to take us for fun. so what's going on? hot, hot, i'm glad he admitted to intentionally driving into the demonstration pounds was i'm the incident comes as migration is that the forefront of german elections less than 2 weeks ahead of the vote. does that sound consequence? it would have consequences. and people will feel more angry or 2 with asylum seekers. and that's not right because of all of the criminals and get a it will be difficult in the future. essentially, it excites some unit grapples with the aftermath. the suspect remains in custody, and the spacing attempted murder chargers. well, it is like

a story out of the bible, a kayaker, paddling off the coast of chile and has had an extraordinary encounter with a humpback well after it temporarily swallowed him. adrian, some mock as his trip was going swimmingly when the huge well surface nearby, briefly trapping him in its mouth as father managed to capture the entire thing on camera c. so there is the moment again, you can see is yellow kayak disappear before popping back up a few seconds later. then the will surfaces again for swimming away smoke is, is info to safety coal, but unharmed with a. yeah. will of a story to tell they should rename and joe. all right, use a quick reminder of our top story. this our at the munich security conference,

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