the printing container starts your offline and get in the this is the w news live from the land. germany's like me next leader says he will drastically increase defense spending. the conservative split like math says he'll change budget rules to re um gemini, and it concerns about america's commitment to its allies. the when of sundays election says he will have a new government in place within weeks and the use foreign policy cheese heads to washington. as a risk grows, the ukraine kind of call us will tell the trump administration that can be no peace without keith at the negotiation table. the

money to this mckinnon. welcome to the program for those mats who is set to become germany is next. john's list as talks are on the way to form a coalition government with a sense of left social democrats. he is pledging to have a government in place by east the mounts has conservatives want a massive boost in defense spending to help strengthen europeans security bounce. that time is of the essence because of the challenges facing the country. and he outlined his progress. he's to germany and divide goals and serial things need clarification. firstly, to foreign policy and security. international affairs are changing dramatically every day because i know that demands a german government capable of taking action because you'll secondly migration. quick decision making is needed here too. and so it is the economy we're already coming up to the end of the 1st quarter of 2025, and the economy. isn't it precarious situation?

a critical one. we need to make decisions extremely quickly to ensure the economy improves in the course of this year. and i also chief political editor, let me say look us know what progress mounts has made in forming his new government . while is no results here that he can speak about. but he certainly didn't waste any time. and he spoke to the us cling via who is the next generation of leadership and following when i sold. so still the current concept of the social democrats, s p d policy. we didn't to details about those talks. he met with current still tom. so what i've sold today, and we know that the issue number one is a force forming a government. but the even more pressing issue is defense spending and actually taking a stand, speaking with one voice as you are so much under pressure by the trump administration. and that will require issue to financial commitments. and that will need to be found this number $200000000000.00,

which for the each month what i also about and would neither confirm nor deny and which could be a potential extra spending package. the problem is these of actions may have for polls that propelled him to the top, one of these selections with his conservatives. but the policies of the center who on favor of more spending no longer make up of 2 such majority in the future apartments. so we may see the old parliament called upon one more time at to make that transition possible to decide on a potential. she was spending package and that's at the moment what we understand both sides are speaking about thing before they get to the missing garcia, forming governing coalition. okay. the ones this coalition has been full and you just mentioned defense. they're obviously a huge piracy. but what are the of the most pressing policy challenges that his new

government will have to tackle as well. the interesting thing is that now there might be consensus that defense spending is the number one issue, but that really wasn't what voltage lines most about during the election campaign that the economy and migration on top of the list. that order changed. interesting enough, one from the base mounts, spoke about the top down just that he had security at the very top. and he to, he will need to seek a compromise which could prove very difficult, foolish math, announced that on day one, he would make so that the migraines, trying to enter many, wanting to claim asylum, coming from a safe country would be sent back from the border well, that's something the source of democrat s p d who wants to go into a coalition with simply want stanfull because they say it's illegal under european know. so that's just illustrating one of the big divides the 2 sides will have to bridge. and what else was mounts talking about during the press conference that he

gave earlier? well, he wants to see or focus on the voting and know here legislation here in germany with change that caps the number of employees to just above $600.00 and, but he's not being successful in changing the attention to that because it's also the economy. of course, because it is an issue that will require a huge investment. his argument is money invested will re, for votes, it will allow for the next governments to actually take it even more in taxes and that will cost. but um, pushed on how he will finance all of this. he says he has to look into the books. it's too early for him. tom w's t philips. glad to send me here and let us know. we certainly will have to leave it there. but thank you so much. i of the use foreign policy cheese klaya kala says, traveling to the united states to discuss a prospective end to the war and ukraine with the us secretary of state,

marco rubio, a visit comes to south to the french president and manual, and my call met donald trump, on monday relations between the us and your growing increasingly strange as washington and moscow grow closer. speaking, generalist is the head of head trip, kill us, insisted that europe and ukraine must be involved in forging peace with russia. you can discuss the whatever you want with the, with food thing, but the, if it comes to europe, all ukraine and then ukraine and europe also have to agree to the 1st. there has to be peace and so far of routine advice. it is not fun. all right, let's get more from dw corresponding terry schultz, who's joining us now from brussels. teresa following the french president's meeting with donald trump. yes. today. what do you think we can expect from kaya callison? washington? a? well, ear foreign policy chief kind of call us is not one to remain silent. if she disagrees

with what's being said, she's a former student in prime minister, add an extraordinarily strong supporter of ukraine. you saw her there wearing yellow and blue yesterday at the anniversary of the start of the war. so i would expect that she herself is feeling her nerves for these meetings. because if secretary of state marco rubio repeats, things that president trump has said like ukraine started this war or that it doesn't believe russia needs to give up anything. and any eventful piece talks, or that zalinski is a dictator. i mean, she actually addressed that yesterday. and said she thought president trump got confused between zalinski and pollutants when he made those remarks. so we could be in for another engagement, like we saw yesterday with president mclaren when he corrected president trump, that the you does not expect to be repaid for all is a to ukraine. so i think we'll all be watching this very carefully and expecting, call us to make a very strong case that europe and ukraine must be involved in any negotiations at

the same time saying it's too early to talk about such things when putting is still bombing ukraine and even increasing rates, i was seeing a number of the european leaders heading to washington. now we off to kaya kyle us with what the u. k. prime minister kissed alma is due to meet donald trump on friday. what do you think he's going to bring to the table? terry? what he would like president trump to focus on is that the u. k. was the 1st country to say it would contribute troops to any eventual reassurance force or peace keeping force. should president trump be able to broker a ceasefire between presidents, zalinski and put in? but what i think he's going to be in for is president from criticizing the relatively low level of defense spending by the u. k. a stormer came out today and said that he wants to raise that level to 2.5 percent by the year 2027. that's far below what trump is expecting of nato allies. he's going to demand 5 percent

defense spending and much more quickly the u. k is going to be able to do that. in fact, farmer said that he hoped to get up to 3 percent of g d p by the year 2035. so i am sure that he's concerned that he's going to hear something about the defense spending, even as he wants to focus on the u. k. being out in front with the potential to put boots on the ground as president trump has requested them. european allies, w correspondent, terry schultz in brussels. terry, thank you. let's take a look now some of the other stories making the headlines. and french authorities have arrested 2 people in relation to an awesome attack on the russian consulates in the southern french city. of must say, police say that would 2 explosions off the plastic photo. both of us were thrown into the compound on monday, no injurious athene were. forces moscow as cool the incident, a terrorist attack. hundreds of thousands of students in gauze. i have returned to

school for the new academic year. you and says nearly old school buildings have been destroyed and is raining. miller trains on boardman. teachers are reporting that many children are struggling emotionally often losing family members in the chair is interim present. president, estimate al sharah has opened a national dialogue conference in damascus. he called it a historical opportunity to rebuild the country up to 14 years of war. the former rebel leader cooled for a state monopoly on weapons kurdish policies. boy across the conference condemning what they called token representation of minorities. the some of the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court. kareem khan has arrived in the democratic republic of congo with violence between government forces and rebel groups is escalating. con, is set to meet the presidency leg just the katie, and the government officials while he's in the country. the m. 23 rebels who oppose

the companies on me say they all slicing for the rights of the esnet, cooksey and other minority groups and the day i see around 7000 people have estimated estimated to have died in the violence since january. the spiritual increase is a project directive for the great lakes region of africa. he's with the international crisis group, and we often how likely it is this could blow up into a bigger regional conflicts? well, i think my risk is already that you mentioned wrong does not suddenly fox the rebels, the empty tray, and it will start to point thousands with their own troops into eastern congress and one of the sets of competence. so that fighting is the burgundy and all be burned is a small country to the south of rwanda, which is robust sided with the day. i'll come down with this issue. i burned in troops and been at the front lines fighting grinders on top leaves territory. so we already see some of the making, so if i am

a regional and i'm afraid that in the last few weeks, that's been growing because having taken go. but as you mentioned, the new flip that the m $23.00 and never one done allies to push the south and have recently taken the time to go comfortable, which is to come from the south keeping sites they not really have kind of affective control of 2 very heavily populated and very rich by some sense of interest and fall, not very rich pharmacies of eastern v o. c was rich and moncrief from the international crisis group speaking to the w earlier are now taiwan, a coast guard has detained a chinese crude cargo shift. the suspicions it may have suffered and on the sea telecommunications cable. the ship, which is registered in togo, was intercepted between taiwan main island on the outlying pen do islands. harmonies authorities have detained 8 crew members and on now investigating whether the nearby on the seat cable was intentionally cons. taiwan has reported 5 cases of

i'm the c cable malfunction so far this year. type pay has raised concerns, but china could damage it's communications cables in a bit to blockade will seize the island, which beijing claims as its own. the w correspondent james traitor, is following the story for us from taipei and he sent us this update. there's so many details to be on doubts about this particular incidents that we know earlier time ones coast gone said it had to change this china link ship with age crew members. those were all a chinese nationals that was off to this on the see table for this harmonies island offshore island palm who was disconnected with ortiz, say communication with that islands were not completely disrupted off to communications woods of us and redirected through another on the see tables, but congo is really of the size of a lot of these tensions that situated right in the hearts of the taiwan straits.

the narrow stretch of water that separates china and taiwan only a little more than a 100 kilometers in some places. and it's, this is way, you know, the have been increase tensions between china and taiwan over recent years, time one is already reported. 5 cases of c cable malfunctions, se that's up from 3 each last year. and the year before. this is often described as being costs of china's efforts to wage what taiwan cools grades on war 5, these all in seem a day, 3 tactics. it full below the special, all the formal conflicts, but it designed to wed down at taiwan psychologically. china, it's pos is already spoken ounce about this particular incident. shine is, foreign ministry has said this is not a diplomatic issue and it will not be common thing for the chase that we're pushing that from taipei and with that you are up to date. but stay with us, if you turn up next, we have a special program looking at a young, a spanish woman's life right here in the, in my mind,

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