the, the 5 years officer, we remember window road still stops march 8th on dw, the w news license the then a watershed moment for your, the president of your paying commission issues and stop warning as a new leaders gather for emergency some in the future of european defense and support for ukraine top the agenda. also on the program. russian, russian miss style destroys a hotel in central ukraine. it's us killed several people in these rescue as rising to save dozens injured by the blast. under us noon of pro defense to an unknown fate, your female lines of touches down near the moon's south pole as the control room struggles to maintain contact the

unforgettable cause of the program. european leaders have been joined by you crazy and present the lot to me is a landscape for crises towards the end of the boosting. europe's defense spending and showing up support. the ukraine. reaching in brussels comes just days after us pause. military aid and intelligent sharing with keith. european nations are under pressure following the trump administration's decision to distance the united states from european security. so how united are you repeating leaders on the idea of building a defense independent of the us asked brussels bureau chief alexandra found on as well. so it seems that they are more united to it and then and there and diplomats are telling us on of the records that they have since a change of mindset among you are p and leaders. not a long time ago,

it was the 1st and foremost friends that was pushing for more strategic autonomy and sovereignty when it comes to europe's defense. now everybody is talking about that and about the ways to achieve that goal. even leaders such as speak to all button the prime minister of hungry, he is considered a close friends of donald trump and an ally of the lot the reporting, even. he does not seem to oppose this motion for more european independence within comes to erupt. defense, of course, there are some different ideas and we understand it better when we mentioned the french proposal to show the french nuclear umbrella, which europe and allies. so they do not need to rely on you as nuclear weapons. this proposal was met with some resistance. also from germany,

so there on you and says, but i would say over all of a great to you need to you when it comes to strengthening your ups defense. okay, so what about concrete steps? what do i actually expected to do? one save agreed. well, we expect leaders to, well come the proposal instead. so were put forward by that you were p and commission this week and one of the measures could be implemented very quickly. the youth pin commission has promised to borrow money at international markets, up to 150000000000 euros. and this money can be handed over to member states of the you appear to be union as loans and they can invest this money. and in the on defense or in the or defense industries, or they can use this money to buy weapons, then they can deliver those weapons to ukraine. there are also other measures like relaxing the fiscal rules in the repeating union. and that could give some member

states a bit of fiscal space to spend more money on defense. so all of that is on the table and we expect the leaders to give it a go. i don't ukraine, which of course is not then a member. we had the commission president sort of funds a line describing it as part of the your a p and family that needs to be defended. how strong and indeed have united is the support for ukraine inside the block. we heard from many leaders emphasizing their support for ukraine, but we should not be no eve. there are still countries such as hungry. i already mentioned that or slovakia, they say they are not delivering new weapons to create and they're rather skeptical when it comes to welcoming ukraine as a new member of the european union. but the rest of you members, they are supportive and of course, this meeting and the whole, i will see you here and the facts to develop the means that lensky was invited was

meant as long as the top to contrast to the contentious meeting in the oval office, but let's have a listen to what the you creating and president had to say here in brussels. the word sample that we are not alone and this on, on just the words. we feel as i cygnus to increase our production and sickness to with a new program to increase the european security it that's, i think, the great decisions alexandra, european leaders, keep insisting that the e u needs to be included in any piece initiative for with ukraine. the us presence seemed unconvinced. so how does brussels elbow its ways the table, the well do your parents are trying to push for dads, we know, did friends together with the u. k. now, outside of the blog, not a member of the european union anymore,

but both countries are trying to work on that proposal for a truce to and to fighting in ukraine. zalinski seems to be open to that. russia not so much, and of course they need the approval of donald trump and you as a ministration, so they are trying to show initiative. but in the end, of course, everyone knows that the u. s. will have a seat at the table and it's not ruled out. it's dead to your parents may not get a seat off the table, but they are trying to prevent that from happening. ok, thanks on in terms of the the abusive brussel bureau chief, alexandra from was the training and president shows up your pants and for these country the violence at home continues. hotel in front of them is that landscapes, hometown, all factory victory was reported to hit by russian mishondra of an ice killing. at least 4 people on hospitalized and dozens more. ukrainian officials say us citizens were among those in the hotel when he was struck. your ministry experts have

presented a plan that could offer you crime protection from russian missiles and drug and attacks. cold sky shield in falls, deploying a european force of 125 to jets, to protect the key, even west and ukraine from russian ass strikes. initiative proposes covering 3 of your cranes operating nuclear power plants and the status of a data and the variable, but not the front line go ukraine's east. now the plants office dress that sky shield would be explicitly you are a pled air protection. so operating separately from nate, so so let's look at this with michael pac, who's the defense john list and contributed to the center for european policy analysis. welcome to the w based proposal, raises the prospect if you're paying countries, getting into a hot tool with russia, doesn't it without us or nato backup?

yes, it does, but i think it's important for step for europe to have a purely european defense system. putting troops on the ground would be much more politically difficult, but using air power, jet fighters, i think is a much safer political option. that being said, i think there are some, i think it's also a good test of the trumpet ministration. type decision. once you're up to be responsible for his own defense, this plan would seem to be something that the us should support. okay, and how much backing does this plan have united states? it's hard to say, especially with the erotic nature of the shopping ministration. and what about your, what about sometimes your pin latest i think it's going to be very interesting to

see uh, what are the questions that i have would be if the sky shield involves nato members of europe. and those members do engage in conflict with russia, which is, which is a possibility. does that bring in nato and does that bring in the united states? i think there's still some questions need to be answered about this. ok, that's also the idea of, of european countries homepage as they are by democracy. leaders have to so the idea donate to that to a voting public. that sons the husbands, that daughters should be killed in a wall in which that country is not involved as well. what advantage was that as a consideration? what advantage of the standing ukraine was their powers that there were a few? were durbin boots on the ground. uh, i think it's uh, adults

a far smaller number of people. but that being said, uh it doesn't make it for you to do this. it has to be serious. the worst outcome would be for europe to pledge to defend you creating an air space. and then ultimately back down. she was not to engage rushes need be. i think that was that would be a disaster for the terms. okay. so how could this work? how many countries would it need to get? what does that $120.00 at jets up into the and how would they operate? i think there's enough aircraft to at least keep a few aircrafts of uh, constantly on patrol around stand by 120 aircraft. but overtime, though it will be a street or nato air force is that is some cases, a lack of spare parts. pilots weapons it, this will require

a sustained effort from here. if it's not something that's i think it's going to be a temporary measure. but i imagine it would just be a small number of aircraft, probably as much symbolic as, as actually providing defense to ukrainian infrastructure in cities. what's involved in, consider a russian missile hits one that that's correct. and that is, that is one of the questions does you're going to respond with your response forcefully, just such a scenario of who's in charge of this effort, who makes the decisions about employing force. so i'm not sure myself at this point . okay, so still lots of questions to, to, to answer to political and i'm come on level. how soon could emission like this actually a take you to be a good match. and it could be fairly quick because they already has

a facility defense facility. use us use the air patrols over over the baltic states . so i think that part might be integrating with ukraine, but we'd be doing it now for 3 years. so i should think it should be up in a matter of, of couple of months i was thinking really serious about it. okay. good to cuz you thank you for joining us. michael pac is the defense at your list and the defense on this. thank you. my pleasure. take a look at some more stories making headlines now. if you and has become the 1st european union member to withdraw from the international convention on cluster, munitions was in a 120 countries signatures to the convention which prohibits the acquisition use and production of the weapons. if your weight is boarded by the russian territory of come in and grab russia's closest ally, brother moves. yes, president donald trump is taken to social media to issue what he called his last

warning to have massive leaders and fed and further destruction in gaza. as old remaining is very hostages are released early and the rest president met with freed captives at the white house and pledge to be to those still being held a protest to sift class with police in the auction team in the audience on capital buddies. there is this a try to march around the congress building demonstrates us with demanding higher pensions and protested against president that relays of 13 measures. weekly pensions protests was joined by football funds. keith, nicole, i'm a social media company so it is nashville, so we're traffic to scott sense as a mid mart being returned home times, which quote is me in boss facilitating. there's the return of more than 1400 people victims with newer to the region on the promise of lucrative jobs that were forced to work for online. for instance, instead of just south korea,

where the ministry says pilot era, caused one of his fights a jets to drop 8 to bombs on the civilian area. during training, a people were injured and several buildings damaged. when the cash 60 jess released the bombs onto a city close to the board with north korea, the south korean military says april holds life drills while the incidents investigated and the victims would be compensated during this stuff, i've been crouch my is in the south korea and the capital unexplained what happened, it's yeah, the incident happened during regular military exercises that are conducted here by the south korean army, together with the u. s. army and been 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 fighter jets, they fly around shooting ranges and then drop their bombs. but this time a fight

a pilot has dropped a bombs on civilian area on a village and yacht. 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 to the bumps that were dropped r 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. have been crouched. so our us robotic alonda has touched down on the surface of the moon. but mission control hasn't been able to confirm whether the landing was fully successful, named athena, after the greek goddess. it's a crypt with a drill or a baltic harper and a rover. it's landing sites on the placid of about a 160 kilometers from the moods south pole is mission includes taking 3 d images of the to right. it's also carrying technology to detect resources in luna soto. but

nasa says could be extracted and used by future explore, explores, to produce fuel breathable oxygen. okay. tiring is edison of nasa watch dot com and joins us from uh, washington dc. welcome back. okay. how does this landing being a success as far as you can tell? as far as i can tell, i've been listening to the talking and you know, the emission control and so forth. and it's on the moon, they're talking to it. they're turning off the things that they don't need after landing. they're starting to in the solar arrays to get power. and they're starting what's called surface ops. in other words, it's doing its thing. the only thing they're not exactly certain enough is how it landed on the move itself. how the antennas are pointing back to earth and, and to get a picture of the ground where the legs are probably going to still be wondering exactly what's going on. but i think we're,

we're well above 90 percent success at this point. okay, i'm, i'm what steps the problem. why all communication so sketchy? well, here's the thing. if you know you're coming into the moon, here's your moon and your way of like this. it's at the south pole, so you've got a bit more of a communications issue back to earth to begin with. and they think that when it came down, they had called what's called multi path issues is as you come down, the get mountains and craters and the radio waves can sort of bounce around a bit big suspected this, but it's given a little confusion as to exactly how it came down to where it came down and added the fact that the intent was that actually do the talking back to earth may not be perfectly aligned. so there's trying to figure all that out but that get there, talk to the spacecraft. it's a lives it didn't crash or blow apart. it's just didn't land perfectly to do everything it needs to do. we'll have to wait a few hours to see and tell us a bit about what it's going to do while it's out there. a. this is called

spacecraft, i mean a spacecraft code. this is a cool one and that's it lands on the moon, south pole, which is kind of where everybody wants to send humans looking for ice and water and things like that. once we know that it's working. okay, it'll shoot a little thing out called a hopper, and that'll go a couple 100 meters of land inside of the dark crater, which nobody's ever done before. and it will examine what it's like in their. meanwhile, there's this little rollover that will drop down to drive around, which again, as you know, a something, it's not that easy to do. in the meantime is lot of science, and again, this mission is all about science. that's why we're going there. the 1st place you may say our companies doing it or what we're going there to do, sized understanding, what is like to be the soft whole the mood and then prepare for what we'll do when humans go. but there's another cool thing uh, the other day. the firefly lander, which came down a couple of days ago, show that you can use gps, you know, the stuff that you use every day to drive buying places on a map that you don't need the map or any more. now this row over the 2nd one that

just landed, has nokia hardware on there to use cellphone technologies with 6 g. so you, it's identical to what you use your notes. so here we are. we now apparently will have gps and cell phone coverage in the mood. oh, you do is to send people there to use it. oh wow. and so you were saying that the, the, the south pole, this is where they think various eyes do we do. we think that that is because that have there been indications that but ice and want to have been that all have we just already search the north and not found anything? yeah, actually at the north pole may to but the south pole we've been studying the moon for a long time and because i'm holding this up on purpose, the light, there are some places in the south pole. the moon that are always dark, like kept in dark for hundreds of millions of years. and so while it can get hot and cold and hot and cold everywhere else in these cold areas, gas has come to condense, become ice crystals and so forth, mixed in with the rock. and so we've been able to study the boom from orbit in,

and we've seen hydrogen and other evidence that there's something there. but it's one thing to look down at the moon is to know the be there on the surface picking up. so the regular after the soiled thing. yeah, there's water here. so that's what we're going to do. we already know there's something there we just want to calibrate into the science that's necessary to understand a little bit of water or is there a lot of water? yeah, because again, when we go to the south pole ideas, the big rock and fuel out of it and then kind of wondering if there's enough there . so who's paying for this? what is the interesting thing? you hear a commercial commercial you think? oh, they're just doing it. well, that's so decided that one way to get answers quicker is to take on a little more risk and put out this idea to it's called a commercial landing. so, services contract to companies to go take their landers and then nasa will put their stuff, their payables on it and their, their risk year. but the idea was that you get more than one of these missions to go in if they all land. well, great, we've got a whole bunch of science, if one crashes or doesn't work right, we still got the other. so you're,

you're deciding where you're going to put your risk. you give, spend all your time and one eggs in one basket or eggs and multiple baskets. ok, so that was paid for me with that not with the price of x. i'm in the us of can you thank you, keith cowan and i as you definitely want to stop. com, a speaking of and prizes in the us. i've more than doubled in a year, so it didn't cost the pump did use an outbreak of bird flu that's led to the calling of millions of chickens. the price hika, such as a central possibly american diets is feeding into why the fee is of inflation. leaving many consumers on restaurant owners shell shopped. 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 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 foods really expensive. the shortage of eggs and this guy high prices have been caused largely by an outbreak of 80 in flu, which is full 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. civil also concerns 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 ex voters, which is unclear if these quick fix will contain the logic problems the american consumers could face. if trump fails to deliver on his pledge to reduce prices, well, the problem has doubled down on his stated goal of unexplained greenland in an address to congress. he said the islands would eventually be in american hands one way or

the other. but with elections on the island fast approaching many voters taking the opportunity to reignite the debates over what really masses to that, which is independence from demo america is donald trump reiterated his desire to antics greenland to the us in typically contradictory style. we strongly support your right to determine your own future. and if you choose, we welcome you into the united states of america, but we need it really for international world security. and i think we're going to get it one way or the other. we're going to get it the reason for the sudden interest in an enormous arctic island with just 57000 inhabitants. well there's, it's coveted strategic location. while under the ice ly valuable rear f metals vital for telecommunications as well as billions of barrels of on top to boil of

denmark, illinois the islands 300 years ago and still controls its forwarding and defense policies. greenland has been sent me a ton of us since 1917. i know elections next week. we'll see the question of filled greenland independence brought into sharp focus on the elections on the march 11th. that going to be historical? it's very likely that there will be a process at talking about independence, real independence for the 1st time, or between denmark and greenland. denmark explorer administer set the most important part of the trump speech was to respect the island. the southern thieves lie to them. they want to loosen that ties to big market, but i've no idea that they want to do that in order to, to, to become, you know, an integrated part of america. so we emphasizing what he did the rights itself it's, it's amazing. i think it was the most important part of the speech. residents of

the capital nuke gave a mixed reaction. this is one way or the other way that i can keep on dreaming on the drone. got the village. so you've got the fluids, you've got everything. i think she didn't get bought. it relented. really tap no more than this homo. everything we did we did have and he might like to add add a lot of taxes here, which would also increase the home this year. so it's really we feel like it's a bad idea and we just more why don't be like a little. i land this more. it's a pet than than anything else. meanwhile is greenland prepares to vote. the message from its incumbent prime minister is clear. we don't want to be americans, nor danes, which would be exit route on facebook. greenland is ours. i've had set you up today, so i'll have more world news at the top of the our next on the w global us looks at

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