i can't help but wonder if anybody's thinking about the future of this country. where is the water disappearing to river is at risk. the global war surprises unveiled. thoughts march 21st on the w, the business daily news line from berlin. european union prepares for a clear and present danger. that's what the european commission president calls the u. s. and shift towards russia. words and freeing up billions of yours to re arm a continent that may no longer be able to rely on protection from washington. meanwhile, ukraine's for as at the end, as trying to mend fences will let them read the landscape, said to me, donald trump, special or in saudi arabia, in a few days after last week's round between the lensky and trump at the white house . and south korea's impeached president,

and so he all is released from the tension after report cancels his arrest. the welcome to the show on the co fairly, and you will leaders have held crisis talks and russel's in the wake of washington's pivot away from its transatlantic partners. the extraordinary european stomach came almost a week after a heated exchange between us president donald trump and ukrainian president. we'll let them use the landscape. the white house exposed the growing rift between the west side of the allies, for all the worlds to see for this public display of support for ukraine's will we re, president, was the 1st thing you need just wanted to achieve with this emergency meeting, which comes a week after the let him use savanski was kicked out of the white house off the

caching for donald trump. the front of the me. yeah, we do seems to day when we will continue with you know, and we will continue in the future. i want to thank all our european leaders to soil and for such signal, strong support. these concepts from support from the world we, you know, the war and the lots being during all this pure and last week you stay with us. zalinski use the occasion to us. you need us to continue urging washington to involve keep in peace negotiations with moscow. you need to agree with zalinski, that an agreement to stop the pricing without security guarantees for ukraine wouldn't to, to russia from attacking again. the summit statement, e u d does have endorsed, says a ceasefire, must be part of a process that leads to a full peace agreement. it adds that any agreement must be accompanied by quote,

robust and credible security guarantees for ukraine of henry's prime minister, big to old on, didn't back the statement that old of he does have committed to working together to both the groups defense they discussed easing the block street budget dec rules, so member states can increase their military spending. today. history is being written. we're coming out of this european council, very determined to ensure europe security and to act with the scale, the speed and the result that the situation demands. i presented the re on your plan today to the lead us a plan to give you up the military capability that it needs to face today. sweats, it's coach, mobilize up to $800000000000.00 euros and it's just about taking more responsible on our shoulders for our own security. this is

a moment of indication for fonts as president emmanuel mccall who forgives has been urging europe to build the capacity to defend itself without relying on nature and the united states. fonts is now considering protecting your p and allies with its new pos know, could you pull position to propose to open a strategic conversation with the member states that are interested in making progress on this subject? the more i don't say so, so she, it's an option that would have been unthinkable under the decades of transatlantic cooperation. tech parents from our brussels team has more on one of the summit names for ukrainian security. so what, what's interesting with this is, this is this something is really being about your, its own defense, but some of that will trickle down into supporting ukraine because the more they procure weapons, the more they'll be able to give to ukraine, should they want to, we have rolled them is the landscape the ukrainians president here today. he, he would have really gotten that much out of what he wanted. apart from the big,

strong show of support and that's what he needs at the moment off to that k of take meeting in the oval office with the vice president and the president of the united states. there is one other important issue that's being going on here. at the summit today, french president emanuel microns riled the russians out by saying the french nuclear weapons could be used to protect the european countries that he could sort of put forward a protective shield. the russian said that that would be seen as a direct sign of aggression, a threat to them. but we heard from the menu of micro, on the french president off to the summit. he said that he had to have discussions with other e u leaders and the some of them were very much interested in that proposal. that was the w corresponding jack park and brussels. now the after attending the summit, ukraine's president zalinski is set to travel design, uribe and next week the whole talks with the us on ending the war with russia. he's expect it to me to president on from special envoy is the would cost would cost as

a letter from zalinski to trump contained an apology for their route last week. and the white house, trump has been pressuring the landscape to make a peace deal. pausing us military aid and suspending intelligence sharing to nobody's washington correspondent benjamin alvarez is more on the tox planned in saudi arabia, to boast allegations, ukraine, and the u. s. has consent that they will hold talks in saudi arabia, ukrainian presidency. lensky is said that he would travel to that country on monday . and we've, we've been hearing here from the wide housing, special envoy, steve with cough this meeting could take place either and re add or in get out. both sides are still coordinating detail. so the conversations will happen in the same country where representatives from the white house of met the account of pods from russia. we all probably remember those pictures and the signing of this mineral deal between ukraine and the us is still in the it's not clear what

promises washington mates to keep. for example, on what will happen with weapons deliveries or intelligence is sharing. if they would actually be a resume once there is a deal. so there was supposed to be side last friday, of course, with a president and lensky is visit a to dc. so we might also have some more information after this meeting between the us and between the ukranian delegations, audio rape. as soon as benjamin alvarez, south korea's impeached president units of gil is being released from prison after a court accepted a request from his lawyers to cancel his arrest. he was arrested in january, in connection with his attempt in december of 2024 to impose martial law, which investigator se amounts to rebellion. humans, lawyers argued he should be released while the investigation continues, because the indictment process was taking too long. let's go live to so now and bring in journalist savvy on catch month 5. and what more and can you

tell us about his release and housing music? and it is i would say it's quite significant because you so your yes, been detained since mid january. so this the 1st time that he will be a free man um for quite some time. and actually a lot of people in south korea, a lot of observers have expected that he would not leave the jail any time soon. but here we are no sex. the, i'm in downtown sole in the foreign press center, and i could literally hear when the court made the decision to, to release them from cost to be because the, and so if you would support this, they have been gathering yet. and lots of numbers. i mean, demonstrating, and they were quite cheerful now because of the whole dynamic, his whole, the good best hopes that he was fighting. they are now getting activity in new dynamic. and i think this is quite an unexpected development in new dynamic. but this is not the end of his legal troubles. is it or no,

definitely not. so he's basically fighting 2 trials, one to sit and peach mon trial against him. so the constitutional court is reviewing whether and you wouldn't with been voted by the parliamentarians to impeach him out of his office. whether it was the law, whole decision or not. and we expect that there might be a final verdict soon by the constitutional court to maybe even by the end of next week. and then if his impeachment is finalized, that means he's out of office and then there will be new elections. but if the constitutional court will decide that his impeachment was actually illegal, then he could come back to office and get reinstated as the president. and then this, of course, also the criminal trial that he's facing. so he's a, what critics say that he is guilty of um you know, paula, paula abuse and, and, and basically, secessionist activity. so basically they have some uh to the 2nd aspect to him. and

this trial is also ongoing, and probably it will come to a verdict in the next weeks, maybe also months. and there, i understand he might be facing life in prison or even the death penalty now in june. and his lawyers insist, this is a political which finds that he did nothing wrong. he was just trying to defend democracy. how does the general public and south korea see it? i mean, the general public and self create is actually like the political landscape very divided. so you have the support us who basically say i humans view that he wanted to say for the country that the opposition is um, you know, collaborating with a communist forces in north korea and china. i mean that's basically the, the side of the right wing at potty here. but then you have, of course, the lots share of, of, of, of the position, but also of civil society and the public who i think that's basically even sort of your at put the, the democracy himself create danger by, you know,

imposing most of the by, i'm sending out so just to, to the parliament and yeah, basically i'm keeping the democracy. i'm coming to a stand still. and if you look at the public numbers and it's pretty much divided, but i would say the newest numbers are probably 60 percent supporting the use of us to get out of office should get impeach to i would say the public opinion is a slightly against and some y'all, but he still has some supporters and i would say has probably one so to 40 percent of people who actually want to see him continuing in office major development and stare and sold today. that was during those 5 young customer. thank you so much for breaking it all down for us. and a quick look now, some of the stories making headlines around the world today, syria is sending reinforcements to the northwestern city of love, talk year following an ambush by forces loyal to us. the leader bizarro, a son, at least 13 security forces were killed. a curfew has been imposed in port city was

a strong hold on the side who was overthrown by insurgents. last december. sites in the caribbean and the us state of florida. i have been disrupted after the failure of a space x star ship test flight. the rocket exploded just minutes after to lift up . video posted on social media appears to show flaming debris from the spacecraft. a january starship test flight also ended in an explosion. the price of eggs in the united states has more than doubled in a year. the surging costs are partly due to an outbreak of bird flu that's left to the calling of millions of chicken. a price hike of such an essential part really of the american diet is feeding into wider affairs of inflation and it's leaving many consumers and restaurant owners shell shocked. few foods, there's crucial to the american breakfast is 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 each res, 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 and 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 terrace will drive up price is 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

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