the old way can be the generation, the ends that feel good malaria must not so millions can live the. this is the w new years live it from berlin, ukraine's president and the us vice president. sit down to discuss how to end the russian invasion face to face with them is the lensky and ged vance. ukraine wants security guarantees from the us before it enters any piece. talk with russia also coming up the us vice president taking aim at america's european allies, accusing them of censoring their own people. in britain and across europe, free speech i fear is in retreats. vice president advanced slamming european leaders for running in fear of their own voters and come off at their own thing.

which of these rarely hostages, it's due to re lease on saturday. the 3 men were abducted from the same keyboards in the terror attacks of october. so the library gone to our viewers watching on cbs in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. we begin this friday with a meeting of 2 allies whose relationship has been sorely tested this week. today, ukraine's president of all of them is zalinski, sat down with us vice president j. d vance. to discuss a path towards ending the war in ukraine. after the meeting of the munich security conference, kolinski called for a real in guaranteed peace and said that he had had a good talk with the vice president. for his cards,

vice president vance. trump said the us is aiming to achieve what he calls a durable piece and you, great, but the amicable words can not high that this week. physics have appeared in the relationship in conflict after us officials. we suggested that ukraine, perhaps you can see the land to russia and give up its invasion of joining in need of us. it says it has agreed with russia's leadership to hold peace talks over the war and you free are seeing. all right, let's take a look at the meeting between president zalinski and us vice president vance. we have a number of personal conversations, a number of things for us to follow up and work on. and fundamentally, the goal is, as president trump outlined it, we want the award to come to a close. we want the going to stop what we want to achieve, a durable, lasting piece. not the kind of piece is going to have eastern europe in conflict just a couple years down the road. so we have a number,

a good conversation about how we might accomplish that together. and certainly what many more in the, in the days, weeks and months to come for. there's one thing. thanks so much. thank you very much. where it briefly i came by president said i we're seeing absolutely correct. well, we're single floor support president tom, we have good conversation to be our 1st meeting, not last sure. and really what, what we need to to speak for to work or add to prepare the tab, how to stop points and seniors. what are those 2 legions there? face to face, let's go now to munich, dw is chief international, and richard walgreens at the meeting. security conference. richard, i mean it, it's watching and listening. it seems like it was a cordial meeting. have these 2 leaders have they found common ground to give a break? i mean, the 8, the, it's kind of is one of the features of, of the last few weeks and particularly this week,

wet weather as being so much some news coming out of the trumpet administration. so many statements. so many positions be being expressed by various members of the administration, that almost everything that all of these figures say whether it's dave events, the vice president or tag says that the secretary of defense has also been in your at the last week. you know, kind of gets examines down to the last one and whether that is something that is, you know, bad sounding for ukraine or potentially good sounding for ukraine. and i think this is the words the ukraine will be taking some encouragement from in those in that clip that we just had from j defensive to the europeans will also quite like um is where he said that the united states wants to have a durable piece and that, you know, not a situation where that could be a return to war in just a couple of years. and that has been the concern. i think ever since donald trump

has been barreling towards this idea of tools with vladimir putin. this idea that he wants the will to, to finish early dispute that the americans just want this war to end and then not so interested in exactly how it ends or whether it ends in a way that is sustainable. so those words being pulled over. but whether those really end up being the important words, it's just too early to say everything is in flux, especially when you're dealing with donald trump because he's an unpredictable leader. so i think everyone, you talked to here and it's really say you're going to stand back from all the statements. i just look at, okay, where is this heading and sort of structural times um and, and not rush to judgment. it on the basis of everything that any member of the administration says we, we know in the past so that judy vance has been open with his. this is about so much. u. s. military aid going to ukraine has the self induced stance somewhat.

i think that there's no real sense that he's self when he's done, but we do remember the date events. he's not speaking independently. now. he is representing donald trump here. and this is something you definitely get from all of the members of the trump in registration. they're always very quick to refer to to donald trump is, is, is the man behind everything. um, but change events when he was here a year ago and he was still a us senate sir. uh, was talking about um, well, from his point of view that the united states simply could not uh, justify the, the amount of funding that was going to ukraine. and the dates of defense, industrial complex could not sustain the volume of you, munitions, and other weapons that were going to ukraine. and that to be on the basis of that, that, that had to reduce the position. now stated by the us administration, is that it's up to the europeans to take over the lion's share of providing the weapons and financial support to the great news,

which of course they've been doing on a large scale to. but roughly 5050 between the, the europeans and the u. s. u, i think the casings that it wants to provides very much less going forward. and we know and acceptable in to this war. very different meaning for keep that it is for the trump administration at the moment. but what about post war ukraine, are we talking about 2 different visions of the future of this good? i think we're talking about way more than 2 potential different visions. we're talking about a whole range of circumstances, the unit that the whole situation is so unpredictable. really, people do not know what the outcome is likely to be. i think the, the prevailing worry that is still that, and among the premiums and more broadly among the europeans is what we would just referring to the company ministration. ultimately, just once this war to end so you can get back to other business and that it's

not really too bothered about the outcome. and i think critically, it's not concerned about just, it's not concerned about having this sort of a fair outcome ukrainians want. the russians to pay for this invasion ukrainians, want to see vladimir putin held responsible. they want to see an outcome which puts you crate in a stronger position for the future. another week of position for the future. one of these things you get the strong sense. he's a not really priorities to the united states. there's actually states administration takes, it would say, a kind of a realistic view of the situation that russia is ultimately strong to ukraine is ultimately we can do that, will ultimately decide the, the, the, the face of the situation as of the ukrainians, essentially as a week of potty cannot be picky about the outcome. an idea that is the profound worries at ukrainians still have despite any slightly nice words that we may have

seen coming out. so that means for me to a defense. yeah, they profoundly different american view today compared to 3 years ago on the eve of this for our chiefs in the national editor, richard walker in unit richard as always, thank or, or earlier today the us vice president deliberate a speech to a room full of european defense and government leaders telling them that free speech is in retreat in their own countries. benz claim that freedom of expression is being eroded and he called it a bigger threat to democracy, then russian military aggression. he also addressed the issue of migration saying that you were p as had not voted to open what he called the flood gates to migrate . the speech was one of the 1st seem to address is f, a security conference. today, it comes at the end of the remarkable week where you as president donald trump, spoke on the phone with russian president vladimir putin. both leaders promising to

work together to end the board ukraine. european leaders fearing that this will be done without ukrainian or european input positions. and many of those in the munich would have been hoping that the vice president can shed some light on donald trump's plans for indigo sheet and piece and you crate. 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 just as a binding 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. with the sheriff, well, the deputy sheriff speech there was met by a strong response from germany's defense minister. he said the speech was unacceptable. these are the more catchy 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 with those and all for tearing regimes might i'm going to have, this is not acceptable. the, well, i spoke earlier with catherine cooper, ashbrook. she's a political sciences with the bertelsmann foundation. she is at the munich security conference, and i asked whether we have even seen or we've ever seen such

a deep discord in trans atlantic relations as we have right now. 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 a 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, 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 is nothing more urgent than mass migration. no voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unrelated emigrants. so kevin, i want to ask you, was the us vice president there was the attempting to intervene in the german election, which is just days away? 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 a discussions with you very difficult. and so that threatening tone 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 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're seeing here of 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 will 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 fundamentally 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 up 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 quintessential 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, we appreciate your time and your insights. thank you. so here's a quick look now some of the other stories that are making headlines around the

world for wanted bank and rebels and claim to it saves control of a strategic airport in the east of the democratic republic of the congo footage on social media shows armed men in the streets of cub where the airport is located, the m 23. our group has been advancing on the nearby city of boot comfortable for weeks following their capture of the city of goma. the world health organization has called for cigarettes, style cancer, and warning labels on alcohol, w 8. joe said that the move would help and work drinkers to the health risk they face. studies show that most people are unaware of the long, proven links between alcohol consumption and several types of cancer. how moss has revealed the names of the 3 is rarely hostages, set to be released in the gaza strip. on saturday, the militant group says alexander, tripping off, so i'll go deck on chin and you're horn will be freed tomorrow. all 3 men were

abducted from making books close to southern gaza during the october 7th terrorist attacks. now earlier this week i'm off threatened not to release more hostages saying is real, was not permitting aid to come into gossip is real is set to free, more palestinian prisoners in exchange for those hostages. a short while ago i spoke with journalist biling sliding in tell of, even though i asked him, what do we know about the hostages, who are set to be released tomorrow? yes, so all of them were getting up from and you know, all of the community the some of the most actually you know to progress 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 brute meant 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 he will be meeting her sasha,

he's uh 29 years old. i may have brushed him citizen as well as he's is really is citizenship. and he was visiting his parents house with his girlfriends back in the 7th a menu on. he was that 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 stay and kept it with the actually because it's not including the 1st place of video. and what do we hearing from is really officials regarding tomorrow's exchange. i guess will of the unnamed uh is really uh fish. oh uh, just uh, issued a statement and this is a code name for premier to send it send you a whole or his a circle. uh, the statement set that we have working in full coordination with united states 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 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 $911.00 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, it should have been written. the lesson was accepted and 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 to yes, tomorrow since we have the 16 on those numbers, there's little bit at least 3 on the 33 of them. there are many people that were at risk that since october 7th, inside the does it serve during the military and ground operations. 36 are a prisoner's, 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 in the west bank and gaza strip. we're also in east jerusalem. before we let you go, you know, 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 kind of on the thoughts were positive, they didn't not say that the issue that they have,

they stated was resolved. and uh, i kinda understand that the issue is the issue of the car valves of the heavy machinery. that's how most of the maddening to enter the gulf stream according to 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. and from is most that is a whole list. and those say compounds of those who the machine is later on during the week. that could be, i think the change to their mind. they after all. okay. journals balding flooding with the latest from tell of the following. thank you. german authorities is say the suspect in a mass car ramming in munich on thursday of likely had islamist motive. the 24 year old asked in national drug, they mini cooper into a crowd of people injuring 36. some of them severely. germany's federal prosecutor has taken over the investigations, calling the incident and the parent attack on germany's liberal democratic

foundations. a 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. residents of the south german city said they were in shock. rock los 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 is aman husband bush. often police and prosecutors have been interrogating the suspect and of gone man who was arrested at the scene of the crime. he had no prior criminal record in germany.

so need some tear down, the suspect is identified. he's a 24 year old of gone national debt. he came to germany in 2016 as an unaccompanied minor asylum seeker. he'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 mis groups. the prosecutors investigating religious motivation. now that's hard after the attack. the suspect shouted a low akbar at the police search window, and after his arrest, he prayed to the level of our exclamation is the reason that we took on the case. that's what was suicide us to take us for fun. so what's going on? hot, hot, i'm glad he admitted to intentionally driving into the demonstration. the pounds

was fine. the incident comes as migration is that the forefront of german elections . less than 2 weeks ahead of the vote. the switch on consequence, it will 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. centurylink side, as munich grapples with the aftermath. the suspect remains in custody and is facing attempted. murder chargers it's valentine's day. same sex couples in thailand have been celebrating the stay of love for the 1st time since the marriage equality law came into effect in january, not to mark the occasion. 20 couples joined a total of 60 pairs to tie the knot, and one of the band concert most is, stuart said,

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frank, i was gone 5 years off to coach and we remember when the road stood still stops march 8th on dw, the this with us president trump. i picked up the phone and called russian president po to and one president to another. and the result was a readiness to talk peace in ukraine. but why wasn't and ukraine on the call? and what about america's european allies direct go out to the kremlin? did trump hang up on everyone else? european leaders had been quick to say any deal to in the fighting in ukraine must include ukraine. any lasting piece will have to involve europe, european money, european weapons, to tonight a showdown between transaction, trump and americans, european friends. they want to have there's.