all the other industries are open the 5 years. often. we remember when the world stops march 8th on dw, the this is dw, and who's coming to live from berlin? european leaders gathering brussels for an emergency summit. the top of the agenda will be held to con, confident can strengthen its defense good faith abilities and provide more practical support to ukraine. the countries president will be among those attending, also coming up. donald trump needs free, it is really hostages in the white house as the issues of storage warning to homos to free. the others still held in gaza. plus, an investigation begins after a south korean fighter jet accidentally dropped bombs on

a civilian area close to the north. korean border, several people are being treated in hospital and they're saying it's extortion as the cost of bags continues to rise in the us. consumers in restaurant owners, scramble for solutions, the hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. european leaders are gathering and brussels for an emergency summit on the agenda is boosting defense spending and showing up support for ukraine. european commission chief versus the founder alliance has proposed a plan that she calls re arm europe, ukraine's president water miss landscape will also be attending the summit. the meeting comes out a pivotal moment for europe as the united states of ends. it's close alliance with the continent,

and pauses all supports for ukraine. now let's go straight to brussels, where our d. w. process. bureau chief alexander phenomena is standing by alexandra with the us stopping of support for ukraine. how high or the stakes for this use of it? well, tell me the stakes are incredibly high here in brussels. there is no doubt about that. we have been speaking with many you officials and which politicians and all of them have been stressing at that there is a sense of urgency that there has been a change of the mindset off to this contentious meeting in the oval office that many member states of the european union and their leaders, they know that they cannot rely any more on due as protection. so they needs to do more for their own defense. and they also have to step up their efforts to support

you crate. so the stakes are very high. we also heard from the polish prime minister don't know, tells course, told us that actually there is no room for failure here. that is the moment for the european union to step up. the us military support for ukraine has served as a crucial lifeline to keep of course, in his fight against russia's invasion uh, billions of dollars worth of equipment either on route or on the order will no longer be delivered. the us government's decision to suspend intelligent sharing for ukraine as well. is also a major blow. oh, let's have a closer look of the state is perhaps the biggest blow yet to ukraine's war 8th. that the united states, c, i, a director consuming, it has cast off us intelligence, cheering to ukraine, so depriving its frontline forces of key information in its fight against russia,

waste, and allies, including the u. k. had been banned from sharing washington's knowledge through the limiting us support alongside pausing its military aid to tease previous lifelines from its biggest military backup. the u. s. has provided more than $64000000000.00 topping europe's spend. but of all of that was before donald trump took office and before his dramatic whitehouse route with the load of me is the landscape. the waste provides about the cheapest seem to have ukraine's weapons, including many of its most powerful among them in defenses, like the national advance surface to air missile system on that sums. hook missiles and patriot missiles, old volume shall and shooting down russian drone and messiah tax. the patriots as the us, as most advanced

a defense system and is key and protecting ukraine's energy infrastructure. but it's not cheap and into sick to miss all costs. around 3800000 euro used to round the launch. it's cost about $9400000.00. h crane will now have to carefully ration it's remaining supplies. the waste also provides keen ground defense equipment, such as abrams tanks, bradley vehicles, how it says and hime, us rocket launches, a hi mas rockets have been particularly effective in allowing ukraine to sit munitions depos behind russian lines. the us also supplies smaller weekends and munitions like javelin, empty tank massage considered crucial, and stopping russians advance. it's not just the lack of new width and sick to stymie you. cranes fight. many cars required to fix damage,

equipment and specialists. munitions are only available from the us. ukraine can keep slicing for now with military expense estimation. current supplies will last until summer at brussels bureau, cheapest deal with is alexander making up for the withdrawal of u. s. military support is a monumental task. can you repeat countries build a graph as well? it's will be, is difficult. we should not be no age about that. of course we have seen in recent days of more and more countries within the block, but also outside the repeating union. come forward and promise a to increase their support for ukraine. sweden, for instance, has promised to deliver the air defense systems directly to ukraine. other countries like no way or the u. k. for instance, countries outside the block. they're also saying that the ones to approve

a mess of packages for ukraine, but it's not only about the amount of military age that to you as provided to kids . it's also a ball. it's a certain capabilities that you do not does not have at their disposal. so that is a big problem. and also decision by that from administration to stop sharing intelligence at least up high extends. which key if is a, it's a very concerning decision for you create and also for the european union. so in a short term, it's certainly not realistic that europeans alone can feel the gap as you're speaking other center. i just want a reminder of yours that we're looking now as live pictures from brussels, where that some of it is taking place. ukraine's president valenze b is, is on and is standing next to 1st live underlined the you permission cheat. maybe we can listen in

a busy signal to ukraine and people to bring in wireless to surveillance to, to all of families and is great that we are not alone. we feel it's just new with no way funny been from it. so from what i mean, savanski a, at least on last week, you commission present worth up on the line table, a plan that could unlock around 800000000000 euros events, investments over the next 4 years. how realistic is it that this will be achieved? well, i think it is realistic. the question is how quickly it can be achieved. and we heard just from the ukraine and president who is grateful stressing that they have to feeling that they are not alone. but of course, we have to talk about a pace when it comes to supporting ukraine. it will take time to achieve the goal of ramping up to you ups on defense and supporting ukraine. but when we speak about one of the tools that was a lot from the lion of presented to a member sage,

the plan for the european commission to borrow money of the international markets, up to 150000000000. europe's on behalf of member states wants to wants to ramp up their weapons production. that's could happen very quickly. and you don't even need all of them to be on board in with that. so this is a measure that could be implemented very quickly at the rest of the money. it could take time to get their approval to relax. uh, the very strict fiscal rules so that you will be in union to give or take advantage of other tools. so this is not going to happen very quickly. alexander, thank you very much. shar brussels. we're chief alexander, phenomena there is this emergency somebody gets underway in bras. are so good. some other stories making headlines this hour. the german postal service dodge of post says it will cost $8000.00 jobs by the end of the year. cuts will

come from the pool of 187000 employees working in the domestic letter and parcel division. dr. paul says high cost and a significant drop in advertising, male and reduced letter volumes have led to the costs us present. donald trump has temporarily lifted tariffs for carmakers. after talks with us, auto executives, the one month exemption applies to imports from canada and mexico to comply with existing free trade agreements. trumps 25 percent levy. almost all goods from those nations came into effect on tuesday, falls in serb leader a middle don't. it has approved several laws banning set a central government, police and judicial authority. in bosnia semi autonomous serv, territory. the walls will escalate tensions in bosnia and herzegovina where don't dick is already facing prison time and removal from office. he was sentenced last

week for ignoring decisions by the authority overseeing the countries peace accords . us present, donald trump has issued what he called his quote last warning to him, us leaders threatening further destruction in gaza. if all remaining hostages are not released. he issued the ultimatum on his social media platform. the president also told gardens that a beautiful future awaits, but if they hold on to the hostages, they are dead earlier. the us present, met with freed captives in the white house where he pledged to return those still being held. washington has confirmed that its end boy has held talked direct talks with from us despite their designation as a tear group by the us and multiple countries. but for more on this, i'm drawing here in the studio by d. w. 's, middle east analysts. shawnee rows on is shawnee. uh. before we get going,

understand that those talks between direct talks between the us and home us or already underway. what more can you tell us what we need to separate the 2 separate channels of talks as we are learning actually in the last 24 hours that has been happening. there's official talks where we also have caught our in egypt as the negotiation negotiators. we know there's seemed to be a refresher course on a brake fluid there to bring some sort of a mechanism of implementation for the 2nd phase of the choose the one that has been already on, you know, going on in the last couple of weeks and been seem to be stuck in the last week or so 10 days. and it seems like there might be a breakthrough there that will allow for the release of the hostages in return to a continuation of the twos. so out from and on, and the following jewish holiday pass over to come later. so this is one thing, but then at the same time, we've also been learning that there's a, a direct shuttle of talks between other and boys of trump. and the home us without the negotiations also held in, caught our in the, in the door in the capital door. and in that channel,

we know that there's direct talks about specific american dual national hostages. one of them considered to be live other 4 seems to be an already not alive, but it seems like the americans really want to see these 5 americans released. trump wants to have some more achievements when it comes to the whole issue. and hopefully this, you know, americans are hoping this will bring some sort of a change and i'm stuck, you know, the situation that has now seem to be quite in limbo. and you know, there's a struggle for the americans and the negotiators to bring some sort of a break. so we're obviously seeing a lot of change in the u. s. position in terms of its foreign policy. you 100 trump now? well, one change that is connected with this is talking directly to terrorists. this is something that us hasn't done for decades. what, what do you make of this reversal? well, i think it's just to show you how eager the americans are to get anything going and they're not, they're not. and then we've been,

trump seems to be very on orthodox. and this method is also going for this. i don't know how much of it, you know, the americans are hiding behind the fact that this was a, an n boy and not a direct you know, state as department employee and so on. so maybe this would work but, but i think the eventually, it means that, you know, there's, there's a very great eagerness by the american side to see some sort of breakthrough, these where there's, we're not too happy about that to say the least. but they also know that couldn't really say no to trump, mostly because they count on trump to be back in israel with whatever it wants to do next. and garza, we're seeing the american standing by as a, as these are a blocks flow of aid to garza, which is something that the previous and misfortune would probably not allow it to do. so he's real kinda except this in order to know, to hopefully get more leeway for the americans to go on with it's fab plans for further military actions in gaza. where does israel stand on? all of this? you mentioned already that they've cut off aid to gaza, which is quite

a significant step, but we're supposed to still be in a ceasefire process. right. what's, what does this real say? so currently this sort of in limbo actually is what is breaking its own principles because one of the main principles as real set from the beginning that will never be truth for the sake of truth as only be quiet if they are a there's some process of releasing hostages, or if there's, it's some sort of a deal or novel in a place where his read is not actually going into the 2nd part of the deal. and having no hostages lamp lined up to be released, but still not operating militarily in gaza. this is because, as we've been, you know, saying from the, you know, the top of this conversation, the americans still want to try and find time to bring a breakthrough. and in israel, there's also 2 opposing forces working against a or with an attorney out when the one hand in his opposition does a right stream. right. members pushed strongly to go back into gaza with even more force if it's even imaginable. you know, trying to crack something that has not been cracked so far with homeless and on the other side, this very strong force and pressure from the public,

from the families of the hostages. they're very much afraid the bill was a case to a need to know, to be assumed to be alive are, you know, their time is ticking and they're very much want to see that to going on before any other further actions, military actions of israel, shirley, thank you very much dw, is shown the result. you're welcome to ok. so let's take a look at some other stores making headlines. protesters have clashed with police in the origin time, capital, windows hours. as they tried to march around the congress building, the demonstrators were demanding higher pensions and protesting president how the malays austerity measures. the weekly pensioners protests were joined by football fans, eating the call of a social media campaign. calling for simple chinese nationals who were traffic to scam centers and beyond. bar are being sent home thailand which orders mail nor is facilitating the transfer of more than 1400 people back to china. victims were

lowered to the region on the promise of lucrative jobs, but for instead forced to work on line fraudsters tropical psych clone self or it has stalled off australia as east coast and has no exposure to make landfall on saturday. schools and airports have been closed as the region braces for its 1st psych loan in decades. more than 4000000 people live in the storms projected past. the use climate monitor reports that global sea ice cover reached that historic low last month. the lack of ice comes as temperatures near the north pole rose $211.00 degrees higher than average. the current copernicus, climate change serve as warns at the loss of heat reflecting ice exacerbates global warming. now south korea's military says the pilot error was what caused one of its fighter jets to accidentally dropped 8 homes on

a civilian area. during training, a people were injured in several buildings. damage when the k. f. 16 jets released the bombs onto a city close to the border with north korea. military says they will halt live drills while to investigate the incident, and that they will compensate the victims us. earlier we spoke to journalists, bobby, and crowds about who's in the south korean capital. so he began by explaining how this incident unfold. yeah, the incident happened during regular military exercises that are conducted here by the south korean army, together with the u. s. army. and then something really unprecedented happened and we talk about an area that is actually quite close to the north korean border because those submitted to exercise as a part of a deterrent strategy against the french from the north. but the usually um, those probably touch it, they fly around shooting ranges and then drop their bones. but this time a fight

a pilot has dropped a bombs on civilian area on a village. and um yeah, people were injured, buildings were destroyed. but given what we know, i think it's rather astonishing that the damage is not even much greater because of the bumps that were dropped. our so called mock 80 to bottom stair, 500 pounds heavy. they are more than 2 meters in length, and their radios of destruction is comparable to a football field. so it's really serious damage. and that was journalist probably in the crossfire there in sol. now, a price is in the united states have almost doubled in a year. the surgeon costs are partly due to an outbreak of bird fluid. this led to the calling of millions of chickens. the price hike of such an essential part of the american diet is feeding into water fears of inflation and its leaving many consumers and restaurant owners shell shocked. few foods there is crucial to the

american breakfast as eggs. but the price is searched by more than 100 percent in the last 12 months. and that's left consumers and restaurant owners scrambling for solutions. eggs are really important. we go through a lot of eggs. they're usually $46.00 a case. and right now they're a $146.00 a case. this is a 3 is impose the surcharge of $2.00 on old meals containing ex employees. say most customers have sold at the move for now the others. it's yet another reminder that the cost of living in the us is going up. it's a good mix. i mean, some people have been keeping up with sort of, you know, the shortage of eggs. and so they're not surprised, and other people, you know, are upset because food's really expensive. the shortage of eggs and this guy high

prices have been caused largely by an outbreak of 80 in flu. which is fault, foam is to coal more than 160000000 but but it comes as us. consumers are starting to feel more pessimistic about the economy with inflation rising unexpectedly to 3 percent in january 2025. there were also concerns that us president donald trump's trade targets will drive up prices even more for american households. during his campaign, trump promised the opposite. so when i went, i will immediately bring prices down starting on day one. many, many days later. and some a wondering if trump may have to eat his woods. for now the, the us is looking to make up the some of the shop full by importing eggs from turkey, one of the world's biggest exporters. but just, i'm clear if this quick fix will contain the logic problems the american consumers

could face if trump fails to deliver on his pledge to reduce prices. for more of this, we've got lowest culture with us now from our business desk. last so we got bird flew. that's one issue. but is that really what's driving this? the steep rising price as well to a fairly the certainly terry, the main driver because we just heard a number here. 1.6000000 chicken have to be called a so far. the problem obviously is when only one chicken has that virus, entire flock has to be called. and it takes about 6 to 12 months to replace an entire a claim flock. so it's not that easy to get past that for a farmer, but we do have another main drive and i still, this is kind of overlooked that has, over the past couple of decades, been massive consolidation in the pull treat sector, you know, decades ago, most of the eggs and all of the chicken they, they lived on farms on thousands of smaller farms,

often family farms. and that's not the case anymore most by far come from giant industrial farms. and of course, that is a risk when you look at that spreading of a virus because you have much larger flux that you might need to call. and also you have in terms of consolidation, 5 companies that control about half the entire market, and those companies are doing well with these high prices because for them, high prices also means high profit. so they don't even have an interest right now in doing much against the price of ex. well, the companies might be doing well, but the consumers are, are up in arms. i mean, it even made it into the, to us present. donald trump's speech to the joint houses of congress, a, talking about eggs in the us today. we're going to wait even yes, because it's so brutal for consumers. consumers are suffering orders to run or you buy these numbers here 4 years ago, according to x was $147.00 on average, and now it's about $5.00 and someplace has a $100.00. so of course with x

b or as having been a relatively cheap protein compared to other proteins, people need in their diet. people are looking for alternatives that some people are using a flax jail like flax mixed up with water for baking. well, up to a 5 hours, so the just a liquid they've comes out of a tanf chip piece that is a very rich and protein to a. so there's some create a solution. another solution that a lot of people are taking just starting to raise back yard chicken, the buying chickens that has been a really strong trend in the last couple of months. and i did stumble one store in new hampshire. that's a form where you can just rent your chickens. that's what they haven't before. up to miss thinking that this is a short term problem. again, your trump is making this an issue for it for washington, for his administration. is there anything that politics can really do about it? absolutely right now, washing that's put together a $1000000000.00 package, as like a financial relief package that has $500000000.00 in here to boost bias security

measures at all these supposedly funds. then 400000000 goes to farmers. we have to call the flocks. obviously, financial help of helping them restore, restock these flocks in a 100000000, also for backs and research. and we also heard that the us is looking into a important x now of turkey was mentioned earlier, turkey is one market, but the production there is not that big. most of the eggs actually the import it into america, come from canada or canada. obviously you as president trump has just started a trade war with so that is going to be a little tricky because thank you very much, let us onto it from our business. this inside leaves authorities in the u. k. of launched the new scheme and preventing flooding in parts of the country side with the help of beavers. the semi aquatic mammals protect wetlands by building downs, that reshape areas of open water,

which in turn also encourages buffer space each tooth, right? they were hunted to near extinction by the u. k. in the 16th century. by slowly releasing beavers and certain habitats, it's hoped they will now make a come back. you're watching the w and is just a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you. this, our european leaders are meeting at an emergency summit in brussels, with the name of ramping up defense spending and showing up support for you print the tox. com. as united states pauses all support for ukraine in its 4 with wash and on his social media platform, the us present donald trump has issued what he calls his last warning to some us leaders. these threats further destruction in gaza if all remaining hostages failed . there are no for an investigation has been launched after a self carrying fighter jet accidentally dropped 8 palms on

a residential area in north close to the north korean border. a people were injured and several buildings damaged. southbridge military service pilot error was to place a mixed focus on europe, flux of health aid organizations, and costs of our funding for their lines. i'm terry mark, thanks for watching the the the

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