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little i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. european leaders have kicked off crisis talks in brussels, aimed at boosting defense spending and showing up support for ukraine. top you leaders have been joined by ukraine's present beloved meals lensky, the talks com, just days after the us. paul's military aid and now intelligent sharing with ukraine. european nations are under pressure to step up following trump's decision to distance the us from europe's security. well speaking your head of the summit, ursula fund the line that you commission cheap made it clear just how important this moment is for you create into your this is a watershed moment for year old and ukraine as part of our european family. it's also water shaped moment for ukraine. europe faces a clear and present danger. and therefore,

europe has to be able to protect itself to defend itself. as we have to put ukraine in a position, to protect itself and to push for loss thing and just piece. earlier i spoke about this with the w as brussels bureau chief, alexander phenomena who's covering the summit. i asked her, what's at stake for the you and ukraine? the. well, the stakes are incredibly high. i would say there is no doubt about stats, terry, and we've heard from many you appear, need leaders stressing exactly dads with lisa. and yes, president nosy does saying that this is the moment for that. your opinion to decide whether they are a global play or for just a clump of discussions at the polish crime and as to task told us today that there is actually no room for failure when you consider potential consequences. and russel's course is seen here as a huge threats to the whole cons and then so we are hearing also from

a diploma telling us behind closed doors at that they have a feeling that there has been a change of mindset with many european leaders. now, acknowledging that to europe cannot any longer rely on the you ask protection, and it's that it is up to them to be upstairs support for ukraine to make sure that they can send out freshman techs. now the us has paused military support for ukraine at a critical moment. alexandra, replacing that support is a monumental task. can european countries build the guy they can not, at least not in a short term. we have to be honest about dads. what do we look at the kinds of weapons that to you as provided to kids since the beginning of a rush this invasion, ukraine was able to rely for the protection of the cities and infrastructure. on

the u. s. made sophisticated or defense system states were able to carry on. long grange strikes with timers and attack him. ms. silos produced in to you as an even in the past when some european nations decide it's to provide to explain where to estimate site to jets. they had to get the approval from the us. so that's tells you a lot about the quality of the weapons that one western official described as the queen of weapons. but of course, it is also a question of quantity as the world's most powerful military. the u. s was able to provide to claim for instance, with hundreds of humvees and other vehicles. and that's will be difficult to match for many smola european armies. last week, the commission chief underlined table to plan that could unlock around 800000000000

euros in defense investments over the next 4 years. how realistic is it that the sum will actually come together? alexander, it is a huge amount of money that has to be mobilized yet. but when we look at some measures, for instance, that you would pay and commission is saying that they can borrow up to 100 to 1000000000 euros at international markets. and then a, give the money to member states to boost their weapons production and to buy a munition. for instance, that is quite realistic. that's could happen soon or quickly. but a, when we look at other measures, they can take longer time to be implemented. so an o a, the talk you about, you know, this is a crucial moment for you to. those are big words, but we will needs to see some action to follow. i think sandra,

thank you so much. are brussels bureau chief alexandra phenomena? well, as european leaders look to boost their military defense as the war and ukraine has already up ended years of established military doctrine. drones have become one of the defining weapons of the complex something ukrainian soldiers say. nato countries are not prepared to handle of the tanks. trenches and artillery the early battles and rushes invasion of ukraine play down like scenes from the 2 world wars. but now 3 is on another weapon has come to dominate the battlefield. drones. the symbol of when the base it had not been for drones. everything would have been a lot worse. drones are the tool which allow us to given a symmetrical response. when the enemy is larger for people, stronger,

and doesn't value it, soldiers lives, and it's in the way of a test for us. leslie useful, but from unmanned aircraft to tiny home made models, drones. and now the most common with in, in the ended c, ukrainian officials estimate they are responsible for around 60 to 70 percent of old casualties on the battlefield. cutting edge, conventional weapons like germany's liquid to tank have taken a back seat. even sophisticated air defense systems like the us supplied high mazda battery, making less of an impact as hundreds of drones swarm across both sides of the front line. so ukrainian soldiers on the ground. the reason for this dramatic shift is simple. what to do is just elementary mathematics. how much does a missile that shoots down a sure head drone costs, and how much does a hidden costs and fee cost? and how much does it cost to deploy a ship, a plane in an air defense system to fire at it?

both ukraine and russia are now racing to expand the drone production and adapt to rapid innovations from the other side. something that ukrainian soldiers say the west and allies also need to learn is for sure. yeah. but from what i see in here and available were not a single needle army. it is that it is ready to resist the cascade of drones. and as long as you are paying the allies, look to ramp up to the defense spending. drones are already shaping how the was of the future will be for let's get more on this now with marine and they were on, she's with the defense studies department at kings college london, and she joins us from munich. tell us ukraine has been remarkably adapted, scaling up its production of drones, how they've done it, and what lessons can be learned a good afternoon. well, um we have to understand that. um, the ukrainian and forces have to be very flexible and you've seen that as

a very beginning of the war. one bowls, so ukrainian since the russian started using m d j i magic quad comforters. so we up talking about a degree of adaptability here, of course there has been in the government grants for civilian roland producers to switch their production in for military purposes. and that is what has happened in ukraine as part of, for instance, break one on a program. and therefore, the benefit here is that you bring in forces can get for all the types of loans to test them on the battlefield. and kind of give almost real time feedback to the producers to adjust the drums because it is an interplay the premiums produced new drones. the russians adapt the produce new electronic warfare systems or adjust their existing electronic warfare systems to cams,

of brands. and so you have this katherine miles game going on, but both sides are kind of trying to lead into this technological reese. so there is no point in mass producing drugs because they could be redundant just in a couple of weeks. now, drones have been used on the battlefield for many years already, also by western forces, long before rushes full scale invasion of ukraine. how well is nato prepared for drone warfare today to well, let's clarify for a 2nd. drones have been used since 19 fifties to be more precise. um, but those drones are different from the drones that i use now is the drones, thats the united states and nato has been using a large reconnaissance drones or stripe drones which are very expensive. similar to the russian, or alon pan, or the turkish and by iraq todd to be to drones. what we're seeing now is a shift towards smaller 1st person view drones,

drones. and this is where the problem is. nita forces has not experienced the character of was that we're seeing now in ukraine. and so i think in the there will be a lot of lessons learned for me to, to adapt to these kinds of tactics to use these drones for different purposes, for as loitering, munitions, as well as a tactical, reconnaissance, and so on. and so new doctrines will probably be written up, production will be adjusted and also training and education of the armed forces of respective countries will have to be adjusted to include this training to include asked tv drones of how they will be used on the battlefield. but we should not forget that it's still critical to have that, that kind of logical edge so that you drones cannot be chummed and to have enough hopes him to make some sort of

a difference on the operational level. because i'm still you see ukrainians. russians use drones, but they still use the water for delivery. so drones do not really serve as a substitute for more conventional weapons. what do you think the nato country should be doing now marina to scale up their drawing capacities as well. they shouldn't be observing both sides specifically not just in terms of how ukrainians use rows, but what the russians are doing in order to counteract the use of drones. and there is a lot of innovation happening on the battlefield. and it's important to study both sides very carefully to see how, for instance, electronic warfare, how's it will still aquatic warfare techniques have rubles? now the russians, for instance, started using drones was a fiber optics cable. so in order to make someone general both same was the ukrainians, they have taken that idea copied it as well. and so i think that this doing those

lessons will be important, but nothing will probably substitute for real battlefield experience. and unless you're in that situation where you, you, you faced was a strep of drones, and you have to defend against drones. of course, simulations, training nice thing that movie is a key, not so much drunk production because as i said, the drones that are produced today might already be out of date arena. thank you very much for talking with us. so that was marina mirand of things college. linda, thank you for having me. so let's take a look at some other stories making headlines today. the german postal service budget post says it will cut $8000.00 jobs by the end of the year. cuts will come from the pool of 187000 employees working in the domestic letter in parcel division . dr. paul says high costs and a significant drop in advertising, mail,

and produced letter volumes have led to the costs. protesters have clashed with police in the arch in time capital. what is iris? 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 protest was joined by football fans heating the call of social media campaigns, calling for support. johnnies nationals who were traffic to scam centers in myanmar are being sent home thailand which borders me on ours facilitating the transfer of more than 1400 people back to china. the victims were lowered to the region on the premise of lucrative jobs, but were instead forced to work for online fraudsters, south crews military, it says the pilot error was what caused one of its fighter jets to accidentally dropped 8 ball homes on the residential area during training 8 people were injured

and several buildings damaged. when the k of 16 jets released the bombs on to a town close to the border with north korea. military says they will whole live drills while they investigate the accident, and that they will compensate the victims. earlier we spoke the journalist probably and crushed by who's in the south reading capital, so they began by explaining how this incident unfolded. 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 for us, from the north. but the usually i'm those to 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 in judge buildings were destroyed. but given what we know, i think it's rather astonishing that the damage is not even much greater because it's the bumps that were dropped off a so called mock 80 to bottom stair, 500 pounds heavy. they're 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, bobby, and chrysler there in sol. now us present donald trump has issued what he called his quote last warning to hamas leaders threatening further destruction in gaza. if all remaining hostages are not released. the issue, the ultimatum on his social media platform depressed, and also told gardens that a beautiful future awaits. but if they hold onto 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. well for this rejoined in the studio by our middle east analyst shawnee, rosanna is shawnee, we've got trump saying he wants all the hostages out. now how my says the only way for that to happen is if the agreed piece still moves forward into the next stage, what are the chances of the deal actually proceeding as planned? well, it seems like we're in a very critical days because we are a hearing. and the last i was reports that there might be as been a break. so in those talks in direct talk, spin, come us mostly. uh, you know, so when a go shooters, uh carter in egypt and, and trumping his people's teeth with cough as his chief envoy to this topic is real, is denying any progress. we're still need to see if this is about just, you know, keeping, uh, you know, positions a tougher, but we know the americans are pushing strong and they keep on pushing because the steel of 3 stage of that was agreed upon and started on some, on january 19th,

shortly before trump took office, seems to be the only path forward if you want to stick to negotiations. but the thing is that it's not quite clear if it's real ones, just to see negotiations as the only solution we hear in, you know, from us saying this is the only pass, but for israel infinity. now, there's a lot of, you know, questions on whether this is what needs to be done because his real has promised to eradicate her mazda so anyhow, seemed to be quite adamant and going edit. and it seems like the americans are not going to stop him. the question is, what happens 1st, are they 1st focusing and bringing the hostages because operating in gaza with around 22 is really hostages to live, believe to be alive, would make it very hard for the idea of to make any progress or any changes. this has been the struggle that they have had in the past, and it will still have as long as they are leaving hostages in gaza. so this is exactly where we are now. maybe there is a, a transfer breakthrough, but if not, this is going to be, you know, the determinant, next 2448 hours crucial times. now it's crucial to because i'm in the meantime,

israel has cut off all a shipments going into gaza. so that's a factor as well. if the talks moving into a 2nd phase, do not proceed. what happens next? is there a plan b? what we hear the rhetorics from israel and from trump talking about unleashing how that, you know, guys, over all of these things. i mean, let's be very honest with, you know, guys that has been through so far has been horrific as it is. but is really, is planning to do is for us, maybe cut of tricity. maybe siege maybe take over some parts of guys that it has not taken over before. so escalating even further as much as it's maybe hard to imagine and, and may mostly, what israel feels like needs to be even more aggressive. what is what would want to see what it's and yeah, i would like to see what trump is somewhat hinting at in his post as a they want to complete the surrender of how much this is a very wild dream that mentioned. yeah. when the writing is around, i have had from day one, i think how must has been showing a lot of, you know,

you know, perseverance and i am not seeing how any of this is coming close to, you know, any closer to being achieved. even with a trump in the wireless house, but it's clear that in it's in the i was going to try and it seems like trump is not going to be the one to stop him shouting, thank you very much. sherm release. i will show nearest the welcome to her. in the united states, aid prices have almost doubled within a year. the surgeon costs are partly due to an outbreak of bird flu is led to the calling of millions of chickens. the price hike of such and the central part of the american diet is feeding into wider 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 own is 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. the case is $83.00 is impose the surcharge of $2.00 on own meals containing x. the employees say most customers have sold at the move for now, but for others it's yet another reminder that the cost of living in the us is going up. um, 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 because 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 target 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 ex voters. but just, i'm clear if this quick fix will contain the launch of problems, the american consumers could face. if trump fails to deliver on his pledge to reduce prices of laurel this, we've got lot of culture with us now from our business desk last. so we got bird

flew. that's one issue. what does that really? what's driving this? the steep rising price as well to be fair and this 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 laying flock. so it's not that easy to get past that a 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 tree 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 a 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 and we're going to go to it. and even yes, because it's so brutal for consumers, consumers are suffering orders to run or you buy these numbers here. 4 years ago, a carton of x was $147.00 on average, and now it's about $5.00 and someplace is 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 that just a liquid they've comes out of a tanf chip piece. that is a very rich and protein too. so there's some create a solution. and now the solution that a lot of people are taking the starting to raise back yards chicken, the buying chickens that has been a really strong trend and the last couple of months. and i did stumble over one story in new hampshire. there's a form where you can just range 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, 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 bio security measures at all these poultry farms. then 400000000 goes to farmers, we have to call the flocks, obviously, financial help of helping them restore, restock these flocks, and a 100000000 also for vaccine research. and we also heard that the us is looking

into a important x now of turkey was mentioned earlier, turkey is one market bought production. there is not that big. most of the eggs actually that are imported into america. come from canada, canada, obviously you as president, trump has just started a trade war with for so that is going to be a little tricky because thank you very much, let us onto it from our business. this. as you are watching the w 9, it was just a reminder of the top stories were following for you this hour. your been leaders are meeting at an emergency. somebody in brussels with the aim of ramping up defense spending and showing up support for ukraine. the tops come as the united states pauses for support for ukraine, and it's more with russia and on his social media platform. us present. donald trump has issues where he called his last warning to come us leaders. he's threatened further destruction and gaza for remaining costs,

which is held. there are not really a big focus on europe. looks at how 8 organizations in cost of us are fighting for their lives after donald trump's dismantling of the u. s. a. i d a programs. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. the

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