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the, and feel welcome to the program. you leaders have been joined by ukrainian president of beloved to me as a landscape for christ, talked and boosting europe's defense spending and showing up support for ukraine. reaching in brussels comes just days after the us post military agent, intelligence sharing with keith repeating nations are on depression and following the trump administration's decision to distance the united states from europe and security. ok, so all in grand as a form, a judge defense ministers, she's currently a member of the brussels institute for geo politics. welcome to dw, since president emmanuel macro has said, europe's future doesn't have to be decided in washington or moscow. so what does

your need to do to achieve and what this be you need to achieve at this summit, on the one shadow for later this month to make that statements of reality? well, europe has to step up its defense. europe has to be able to defend itself. uh, and it has to be able to support you create. i think those are the 2 things that the leaders are discussing at this summit. so to show that leadership from the european side is extremely important, we are entering a new era. we cannot, you know, we see this engagement from the united states, from the european security. that's very worried. and that's why we need to do this . there are pass on the table for a huge step, defense spending, which would really allow also european defense industry to, to increase production. and also more support for ukraine for ukraine to be able to defend itself again, russian aggression. which would also mean that we keep your safe. okay,

so here's the thing that as you know, the defense procurement requires long term commitments. how do you repeat in countries? get russia, and indeed the united states to take them seriously. given the block has always found it difficult to take quick, effective, and long term action. well, we are a good tool of many countries. uh, some of those united, easier being unions on was engaging from elsewhere in europe. but i think we are facing something that is completely new. i've heard leaders say this, this is something that none of us in our lifetime has known for experience before we've been part of nato. many of the european countries are the nuclear umbrella of the united states. and also acting uh with consent of the united states. so the big l i also decided about how about how your opinion you to defend itself.

because previous attempts on creating a defense union where a not a appreciate just in worship times over reading entry, a completely different era in which the united states wants here to do more. and even we're seeing, you know, drunk this engaging from you. i pray for different types of furniture up saying that i think you've made that point quickly where we're into a new era, we'll get that except that we have been here before. trump one. he said, you're not paying enough. we all looked at him and we said, nato looks a bit shaky. he was at some joe biden, was he elected and you're just sort of a precedent sprout a went back to business as usual. how this time in this new world, do you not relax when you think the immediate danger has passed as

well, the means of danger. it doesn't pass. we have seen the russian aggression in ukraine . a large scale war going on for 3 years now. we hear a president putin from russia, a saying that, you know, other parts of europe are also not suitcase from him. we know what is happening and we'll go over in georgia. we know that there's hybrid war for actual russian attacks in, in europe. so we know we're not safe, and i think the big difference is now that we have a sort of unpredictability on the american side where, which is, you know, confused policy. those are confusing policy for the europeans. and it seems we take it extra to be serious, i think, i think that's what the european leaders are doing. and this needs long term commitment. but it's nice, you know, boosting defense spending at least a room for, for countries to corporate, for industries to increase production. right. and to really make europe's i'm,

how do you convince countries like hungry i'm slovak here to get on board and not constantly try and rec, progress in russian related masses. literary, understand it's a hungry, it would be in favor of increasing defense spending on the european side. so uh, i think that's the leverage and otherwise, i mean, it's about time to think about a different approach that we cannot be held hostage by one single country inside the european union. that is a pleasure to be a pro russia that's not in the interest of the european union. so and nothing to european countries. so i think it is doable, but we'll see we'll have to wait and see if the results of european council no otherwise, it's really time to do something about this. this issue. thanks for joining us for with us defense minister case. all right, thank you. a listen ukrainian peasant shows up in your opinion support phase

country. the vine is at home, continues hotel and southern reason i ask is hometown of creepy, re was you possibly hit by a russian miss? so i live and i can and at least 4 people and hospitalized and dozens more. crazy and officials say us citizens, what amongst those in the hotel when it's when it was struck and european ministry experts have presented a plan that could offer you crime protection, rusting, rushing misfire, and drone attacks. cold sky c on that involves deploying or european force of 120 fights, a jets to protect, keep on west and ukraine from russian ass strikes. initiative proposes covering 3 of ukraine's operating nuclear power plants and the cities, if odessa and the 5th, but not the front line or ukraine's east. it's office dress that sky shield would be explicitly endured up the lad. air protection, so operated separately from nature. let's examine this,

we have less tenant to kindle stuart crawford, who is the defense list and for the army officer. welcome to dw. this proposal raises the prospect of european countries getting into a hot pool with a rush. it doesn't, it when it does this fresh, i choose this to be the aggressor that has done the in ukraine. but some of the best proposal comes on top of the european. this guy shows the initiative which the chancellor shows, i think, look last about 2 years ago, which looks like an integrated air defense system for the whole of you, of it has been assigned up 2 by 23 countries. so it is a react to the moment, but it does a threat to know a whole tour. um, particularly if the usa, as we suspected, might tons of spike in europe because it's become fascinated by the the chinese

problems is he's coming along the road and you're supposed to look to itself. okay . i think there's a lot of different ways to us how we would, would then with is this, is this about a 120 a jets culturally patrolling the skies of ukraine? no, i wouldn't. i mean, the old adage is you can have all your checks in there for a 3rd of the time or a 3rd of your jason, up in the air all the time. and it would be actually less than that in terms of the deployment of the aircraft. but i think legit so we shouldn't get sort of the most of our eyes. but there are the sites are just we need to look at the whole air defense system. and i think the european sky shield initiative, which i mentioned previously is an idea whose time might have come on. i think that europe has to put some effort into that now, particularly off to the brussels security conference today. okay, so how many let, let's talk about this proposal,

which seems to be on the table at the moment. how much support this is present sky shield proposal have amongst your pin latest as well? i think that it's, i mean it's a fairly recent suggestion. and so i'm not entirely sure how many european leaders i've signed up to is even the principal. but it could work. the problem is not putting the jets there. the problem is what to do with come out of control arrangements and also the rules of engagement. those are the 2 things that have to be have to be sorted out. first of all, but it's perfectly doable. i'm what happens then. when you're a pain jack gets hit and by a russian miss, oh well that's a political decision of course. but depending on the rules of engagement, which is that particular force has been given,

then i suspect it would retaliate um, but the great problem is that that can lead to escalation. and that has to be some mechanism to prevent escalation, because mistakes sadly do happen. and we don't want to go into world war 3 because some trigger, happy, pilots or other side have let loose. so by mistake, confidence, european governments, all by democracy and the need to get elected. how does the capitals far away from the fighting cell? the prospect of sons and daughters of voters and votes as themselves being killed by russia and a war that's not best, as well as the heart. so i would say it's, um, it's not. there was a moment. the ukraine is told pens and purposes, and politicians denied this, but the crane is fighting a proxy war on behalf of nate to at the moment and certainly on behalf of the european states. and if you're creating falls, which i don't think it will, then there's no saying what will happen next. i come back to the us threatening to

withdraw from nato. i've asked the question before, if chusen did a type brussels, would the trump administration be prepared to sacrifice the washington dc to come to brussels aid on i think a big question mark over the last at the moment. so how soon could emission like sky shield tags of the skies and who would be involved but it could be that could, it could happen very quickly indeed. and that would be hesitate to use the, the phrase coalition of the willing. but that's what, that's what it would be. and i would imagine that the u. k. in france and germany and the baltic states, and many, many others would be in a position to offer all elements of the air forces to provide a 120 jets. that seems to be the basis of this initiative, and that shouldn't be too difficult to arrange. but as i come back to come under

control is the important one and rules of engagement. absolutely critical. okay, thank you for to go through that to a different time list as to what crawford i q. take a look at similar stories making headlines. we're starting mexico. i present that quote here. shane valve has have what she called an excellent and respect this phone call with us president donald trump was following the cold. the white house agreed to a full week postpone ladies of import terrace on mexican goods whitehouse. laser said the proposals have extends to some connect with them, cause hopefully then in it is you and is become the 1st european union member to withdraw from the international convention on cluster. munitions wasn't a $120.00 countries, a signatures to the convention, which prohibits the acquisition use and production of the weapons. if you wait here is voted by the russian territory of kellen and rod and russians closest allied bella roofs. donald trump state into social media to issue what he called his last

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korea and 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 threats 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 are a so called mock 80 to bottom stair, 500 pounds heavier. 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 having catch the us. robotic alonda has touched down on the surface of the moon. but vision control hasn't been able to confirm whether the landing was fully successful, named athena, after the greek goddess states, equipped with a true robust a carpet. and the rover is landing site is on a plot to have had a 160 kilometers from the moving south pole. it's mission includes taking 3 d images of a to right, and it's also carrying technology to detect resources in luna soto, the nasa says, could be extracted and used by future explorers to produce fuel or breathable oxygen i keep calling is editor of nasa watch dot com they spoke to me from washington dc and explained why it's still unclear whether the landing has been successful. just 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 to 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 totally 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 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 you'll land 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. the expected 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 is 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 live, 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 something that a bicycle spacecraft, i mean a spacecraft go, 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 a 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 is, 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 is wherever going. they are the 1st place you may say, or companies doing it, or what we're going there to do, science to understand what is like to be the soft pull 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 to a couple of days ago, show the 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 for anymore, now this roll over the 2nd one, the just landed, has no key or hardware on there to use cellphone technologies with 6 g. so it's identical to what you use your notes. so here we are. we now apparently will have gps and cell phone coverage on the moon. 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 or we just

already search the north and not found anything or yeah, actually at the north pole may to but the south pole we've been studying the moon for a long time and because, and 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 moon 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 and do the science that's necessary to understand a little bit of water or is there a lot of water? and because again, when we go to the south pole ideas, the big brock and fuel out of it and then kind of wonder if there's enough there.

it's keith cowan, advisors in the united states have more than doubled in a year. the searching costs partly due to an outbreak of both flu that's led to the coming of millions of chickens, the price hike of such and the central positive the american diet. so he's feeding into why the fee is of inflation. and he's leaving many consumers and restaurant this 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 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 for others. it's yet another

reminder that the cost of living in the us is going up. um, it was mixed. 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 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 are also concerns that us president donald trump. 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 words. for now the, the us is looking to make up the some of the shortfall by importing eggs from turkey. one of the world's biggest ex voters, which is unclear, is quick fix will contain the logic problems the american consumers could face if trump fails to deliver on his pledge to reduce prices. this donald trump has doubled down on he stated goal of unexplained greenland. and then the address to congress, he said the on it would eventually be in american hands one way or the office. but with that actions on the, on and fast approaching many voters taking the opportunity to re ignited the beethoven. what really masses to that, which is independence from denmark, america is donald trump reiterated his desire to antics greenland to the us and

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 gonna 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 of the oil. denmark illinois to island 300 years ago and still controls its forwarding and defense policies. to greenland has been sent me a ton of us since 1917. know you 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 to it will be a process at talking about independence, real independence for the 1st time, or between denmark and greenland. for denmark, for administer, set. the most important part of trump. speech was to respect the island, the sovereignty wise that they want to loosen that ties to denmark. yes. but i've no idea that the 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 what's the most important part of the speech? the residents of the capital loot gave a mixed reaction. one way or the other, we're going to keep on dreaming totally drone. you've got that village, so you've got the foods, you've got everything. i think she didn't get bought it related to relay tap.

no more than is no more everything we need. we need help and humor. i like you might add a lot of taxes here, which would also increase the homeless here. so it's really we feel like it's a bad idea and we just more why don't be like by little i land this more independent than anything else. meanwhile is greenland prepares, the votes, the message from its incumbent? prime minister is clear. we don't want to be americans, nor danes meant to be exit route on facebook. greenland is ours. is reminder about top stores. there's our european lead as a meeting as an emergency summit to brussels, the increasing defense spending and showing up support the tops come as the u. s. policies for support, new trade in its war against russia. the us repulsing colanda has touched down on the surface of the moon admission. the child hasn't been able to confirm whether

the landing was fully successful. you've seen a pro was aiming for atlantic side coast to move south polk summation includes taking 3 d images of things to write and analyze and potential resources on those. today's top stories stay with us. i'll be back in just a moment with the day taking a closer look because what donald trump is doing to unfold, uh, ukraine and your that's next the, the, the,

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