yes, were also known in the world as arms dealers that we must not be ashamed of that the just days off to the him asked israel seized by a growth of grief, sense of relief. the west bank is not on fire or incidents, unlikely. israel so called counter terrorism operation in the west bank hills, at least 10 people, while the palestinian read precedence lambs. the idea from struct in the movement of health workers in the region, occupational courses at the end sheet, what do i do then? they even fired squarely shot out the absences to prevent them from teaching certain streets to 85 to read. the engines in the area therapy in union fail to reach agreement on extending sanctions on russian. l. m. g with numbers and

showing record high you purchase is of moscow gas. and just the 1st 2 weeks of this year in china and india and make mutually beneficial to operational priority over longstanding border dispute with agreements reached at the bridge summit in russia becoming a turning point in bi lateral tide. in slovakia as opposition withdraw, so no confidence vote against prime minister robert feed. so as he says, the same for an experts that were behind protest in georgia and ukraine are now coming for since the are watching archie international. i'm rachel ruble live in moscow. donald trump's pick for you and investors to describes to the idea of israel's claim to the west bank is of the vine rights. his comments surfaced during a hearing focused on the global bodies position on israel. i did ask you whether

you subscribe to the views of finance minister, some of which rich and the former national security minister bend to the or who believe that israel has a biblical right to the entire westbank. is that your view today? yes. okay. i think when it comes to this very difficult issue, if the president is going to succeed at bringing peace and stability to the middle east, it's going to be very difficult to achieve that. if you continue to hold the view that you just expressed on tuesday, the idea of finance the start of that so called a counter terrorism operation and jeanine the, the iron wall which could last the 7 days is really army has killed 10 palestinians, which it claims were terrace the idea of launched raids just hours after president trump rescinded biden error sanctions. curbing is rarely settlers. the

local media has reported that the palestinian authorities, security services were asked to withdraw from the area earlier and movement both in and outside of the city is said to be severely restricted at the moment. so it's the start of the war on gaza and october 2023. the idea offend is really settlers have intensified attacks on the west bank according to the un and the palestinian health ministry. at least 870 people have been killed among them. 177 children are to middle east bureau chief maria for national questions. the timing of this unfolding. id f operation in the west bank. the ball just days off to the head. mazda israel seized by a, brought a brief sense of relief. the west, the bank is not on fire or incidence unlikely. we're now at the observation point from where we can see g mean a palestinian city and these really occupied westbank where

a major is really military operation has been on the way since tuesday. we tried to get inside which were stopped at the nearest chapel and soldiers blocked the road and the entry sight and extreme danger images from the ground. so the significant destruction of infrastructure is really bulldozers have torn out major roads. a tactic often used by the army to prevent explosives from being pointed. now is really forces have blocked the access to jeanine's government hospital effectively besieging its ambulances. cons enter or leave the facility, the director of the hospital warrant, but this is a very dangerous situation that the red cross is informed about it. the death toll who's climbing where the palace student hoffman is reconfirming, multiple fatalities and injuries. while at the check points we observed is really forces is courting detainees in white uniforms who are believed to be wanted. individuals from jeanine. this operation comes less than 48 hours after the gallons

of sci fi raising questions about it's time. multiple reports indicate that the escalation in the west bank was a key condition set by hawkish finance when it's a small switch to remain in the call. listen, as you remember, smelters of pays the israel high mazda agreement and threatening to resign. if the deal went through, but eventually he stayed with no clear reasons. shortly after jeanine operation began, small appreciate the meet at the hays party pushed for the intensified military focus on the west bank or what israel calls duty in somalia. has them on those advocating for the annexation of these area, make it in part of aisd role as well. so as the operation ends at eliminating the terror threats posed by him, us and the palestinian islamic jihad, a leg really entrenched in geneva, protecting nearby israeli communities. and ensuring that the west bank no longer poses a threat. least very similar to the objectives of the gas of war since the war started hit october 2023. they have been over 2000 attempts to the tax recorded coming from

the west bank and 2024 alone. 26 people, both as really and for nationals have been killed and attacks with more than 1200 wounded. but again, for palestinians, these something that stays real close terror, it is viewed as acts of resistance against is really occupation solve some of the believe this could mark the start of road or ask for it to bring the westbank on. the full is really control. the timing of this operation raises questions again, after months of opposing a deal with her mas, what made benjamin, antonia will make a, you turn a greeting to the deal that includes the idea of full withdrawal from the poly student in place. and many now speculate that this westbank corporation could hold part of the answer journalist and guys, a native, shoddy abdel rahman and it says nothing. yeah. who's trying to hold on to power by allowing his right wing coalition government to and next the west bank. i do

believe that it's going to be a cheap bargain. what missing, you know, is doing is that he's buying because they and the government buy is still keeping the coalition of the government. as you know, the bank, if you haven't already left with his ministers and the only small questionnaire. and if small questions leaves now, the government will collapse indignation. so i believe that he is at a trading with small page in state. oh, okay. and we are still bringing on the zillow and i am giving you a free hand in the west bank. if we can begin processing using doesn't, we can kill them and there was bank and maybe we can somebody to give the students and govern. he gave him already. the problem is that he did the, i'm going to continue it or it just after the 1st phase, finish the 3 to continue. this is my home believing, because as i can see, that it was stopped eh, making trouble and making problems all the details for the 2nd phase,

maybe. and they will be able to like conflict about exactly where it will be. then you bought those with the window, going to install, what would be the new rules. all these details are going to a blog and then the end of the day is going to like most of you and the 2nd and those phase. so only the 1st phase is going to happen and this is in the payroll office and by the, the local authorities say dozens have been wounded with isaiah farmer. the vehicle is blocking ambulances from reaching those in need videos circulating on social media show. the 1st responder vehicle is trapped on the janine hospitals. territory earlier is really boulders or is reduced everything and the medical facilities surroundings to rubble, palestinian red, crescent societies, spokes person. the ball far soc, says the obstructions are intentional. yesterday after the age has started

in virginia and refugee camp budget in the city. um, is there a the occupation forces that blocked the n j? what i'll do then says the even fire rarely shots out the addresses to prevent them from reaching certain streets to evacuate the origins in the area. and also since yesterday out to this month there's complete dcs in cost onto the refuge account. and i thought i said all the neighborhoods, this includes the emergency medical staff on this plan, getting calls from patients who need to be transported into hospices. is there a forced air system prevent teams from entering into that received or areas out? they are using the coordination of towns by the international committee for us to ensure safe access for our teams to me even to transport the,

to the hospital. this is not the 1st time is our end as of last week, the n g o, or what ambulances or even obstructing or what word has been happened repeatedly. and even in many cases, this house is long since to get the data or patience because of them being denied access to emergency available services. the you has failed to reach an agreement on extending sanctions on russian gas, such as some european officials continued to insist that russia is an imminent threat to the u. nato secretary general mark ruder and e u. member states. intelligent services are warning us. if we do nothing in 5 years time, russia may be ready for a military confrontation with nato and the european union. every day ukraine fights on is a day the european union and nato can grow stronger as well. whereas this guy get

his numbers from, he's just kind of pulling them out of the hatch or out of, i don't know somewhere out of 5 years for until we're in russia. i'd like to see some receipts for that. maybe while i not one is to, by the way, every day that you print is out there, taking the blows, fighting with russia is one more day that nato and the you doesn't have to get his hands dirty is what he's saying. but hey, as long as that's still going on, they can keep using the excuse of a more tax payer cash for the weapons industry. of course, he got that forever. war with russia as a pretext for endless defense spending idea from nato. he even said so himself bringing up mark, wrote out the secretary general, which is really just at this point. nato being the weapons lobby for the western weapons manufacturing and its wars are essentially used to showcase window in the same way that department stores put mannequins in the store front window in front of their shots. the eu has really never had

a defense commissioner before and this fellow andreea's civilian from lithuania, a former prime minister there is uh, the very 1st one ever, and he's already sounding like he's on track to making it a whole new regrettable experience for europe is we're entirely focused right now on paying for the very high cost of heating and eating as a limb from paycheck to paycheck. and he's like, hey, let's take even more of your tax money that we hoover up to brussels from those paychecks and transform it into something really useful for them right now. weapons . so on one and you have the, you falling in line with washington's line on prioritizing defense spending, regardless of whether they're even going to really need all those warehouses full of stuff. years from now. i mean, just look at all the old junk weapons that they were dusting off and giving to frame recently, some of that stuff had been sitting around for so long that they were only too

happy to have the russians blow it up on the battlefield. so they could get some shiny new ones made and wash some tax care cash over for that. and on the other end, you have your opinion and officials, like germany's vice chancellor and economy minister robert had back saying that, hey, maybe it isn't such a great strategy to just follow whatever washington tells us to do in the realm of energy. for example, with all that increased liquefied natural gas of the eu has now been hoover and not from the us. we shouldn't believe that what is happening there can be a model for us that would destroy the foundations of what we have created here in germany. and europe, in a world in which we have to expect energy supply chains to be exploited for power politics. energy dependency is always a problem. so it depends on the us just might be a problem. how should it may be thought about that back when the us was obsessing

over killing off your north street pipeline of cheap gas and russia with sanctions, or by talking about like it was targeted for a mafia, headlight bite and did right beside the german sasser all i sold ended up just uh, trading a cheaper dependence on russia for a much more expensive dependence on the us doesn't really sound like much of a win. maybe that wasn't such a good idea. but guess what? it's not enough yet. for washington, trump still thinks that america is getting royally screwed by you guys in europe. they're very tough and they don't take our cars. they don't take our farm products and then take almost anything. and we take their cars and we take their farm product. we take a lot from them so you know, we have like a $300000000.00 deficit with you. we'll send that out with either cash or they have to buy uh oil. he sounds like you is almost victimizing washington or has been doing so. so what trump is saying is the issue you doesn't increase its

dependence on american energy even more, which have excess they want to precisely avoid doing. then here from the terrorists, maybe around 10 percent on european imports to the us. sounds like they're getting backed into a corner here, which should be, should be nice to have some options. but instead, they're squabbling about whether to extend sanctions on russian energy at the even is they sneak in russian l n g on the down low in record, high amounts of the 1st 15 days of this year. kind of like junkies getting their fix on the down low, well bragging about how many days sober. they are off of russian gas. it's not like there are european leaders telling them how stupid they look, doing all this last to get the, the you has also isolated itself from russia. european leaders refer to the russo ukrainian wars their own and have eliminated the combination of cheap russian

energy in advance, european technology and its economic structure without doing anything to replace it . they didn't want to be close to russia anymore. now they're scared of being too close to washington. under trump. it looks like the e. u is quickly headed toward sitting at home all alone and broke with no options at all. but at least it might just have some new weapons to play with. maybe by sometime in 2030 and hedging their bets, the u. k. and e, you have reported late prepared toner measures that in case washington rules out those threatened to trade tariffs with some european leaders publicly saying that dealing with trump will be a challenge. this one comes back right now, this week we are dealing with a new us administration. president trump will be that much is already clear a challenge. i plan on the whole since with a new administration taking office in the united states,

it is more than ever up to europeans, and therefore our 2 countries to play their full part in consolidating a united strong and sovereign europe. today, europeans must give it even greater priority to our europe and 1st and foremost, to our competitiveness, our prosperity and our security. all right, let's discuss the so now with i can hammer economist and publisher of the art shaft, actual business newsletter. um good to have you on the program. i can my apologies for my verbal pronunciation there, but it's great to have you on what actions 1st of what actions do you think your of has planned in retaliation for trumps potential terrace? well, i think um, all they've planned is quite of a joke. they just take the. ready to the measurements like terrorists, like trying to thread thread one of the other company of the us to be banned from europe such as x or such as google and so on. but enough,

nothing of this will work. the european union is really has now face to face their bad policy of the last years i've done a drum, but on the drum does is pretty normal and pretty simple. he's cleaning up the mess that all the, the presidents before him didn't want to do. they just take the canned on down the road. and donald trump is now repairing the us. they have a huge problem with a balance of that right balance deficit. and the number one problem is china. and number 2, problem they think is not mexico of canada from the mound. yes, but not based that the face of europe, especially because the european politicians were so nasty against him, calling him names and, and so on and working against them all the time. so that he is now, now we're doing these measurements that we've heard your of very much,

but the europeans don't have much to put into the pot. so i can, how effective they think these in to pay the measures are likely to be and, and what's the end goal here? well, the, the measurements are just effective against the european depot, but not against the us. europe is not that important anymore for the us. so for china, as we used to be 20 years or even 10 years ago. so whatever the measurements are at at as well as. busy and succeed either it can be surpassed or bypassed as well, the ways or what is possible to is that it, it has no effect at all about the negative effect of the your beads, the end of the day and the end of the day, the european economy is crushing, it's getting a severe, depressing and for. busy us is the european nations to clean up the mess to the create the mess with the over boarding social systems with the industries it the

industrialization program. and with the program of closing markets for the german or the european industry and solely putting on america as the partner. and this is the best thing what they have to clean up. so we need new markets on the raising funding and such as level set a trade free, free zone from lot of us talk to lease buy. and this is what we have to do, but they don't want because until now there's some networks behind american or anglo american networks behind funding this. and they seem to be more in alliance with these networks that with then with the europe being peoples. and this is the mess we are in. yeah. as you point out, the are panic to me is not doing well. so what effect are we potentially looking at here? if there's an economic stand up between the you and us, what does this mean for your penn state's and for the citizens? well, for the citizens,

that means number one that many of the companies could always style and they are not competitive anymore due to policies from the european lead us themselves. so we have quite a lot of costs that have been injured induced by the european lead us themselves, such as the carbon dikes such attacks us such as a special taxes for this and that such as the paying people for not working instead of uh, being a part of the workforce and so on and so on. so these things will, leads to the, to an m. m. perverse mand of the european populations. and this will hurt most the periphery, such as spain, such as fronds such as italy. so these countries who are more at the side of, of the center of europe and there it will, each to a revolutionary circumstance just because the people and they are popular right, are not accepting that they are thrown under the bus by these european politicians

. what we don't have the possibility is we cannot force the us to do anything. the only possibility we have is we have to. busy for new partners where we can have long term good relationships and it used to be a rush side used to be the year of your age and kind in that it was just uh, stop huge amount to be a good body for the americans. but they show now how reliable they are. all right, we're gonna leave it there. i can hammer economist and publisher of the art shopped at 12 business newsletter. thank you. and you're welcome. the. the chinese foreign ministry has doubled down on the need to further strengthen beijing's relations with new delhi. china and india will focus on opportunities for development rather than viewing each other as facts. coming to a young dog, let me tell you, major time on and civilizations developing countries and emerging economies. china

and india need to focus on development and engage and cooperation. the 2 sides need to earnestly deliver on the important common understandings reach between president change and ping, and prime minister and the render moody in that meeting in. cuz then including the china and india, or each of those development opportunity rather than threats and cooperation partner rather than competitor. we need to view and handle the bilateral relations from a strategic height and long term perspective. bring the relations back to the track of healthy and stable development and find the right path for big neighboring countries to live in harmony and develop side by side tensions between the 2 nations, a row. and so her territorial claims that have led to several mass border classes, both countries have now graded to de escalate, and to engage in a diplomatic solution with bi lateral cooperation between china and india, reaching global importance. that's according to the indian foreign minister. only known in the us approach can be something summed up in terms of what we call

the 3 mutual. it's mutual respect to mutual sensitivity and mutual interest. my laptop types can also benefit from agreed to realization. that's what is at stake is actually the law, the prospect of both nations. i mean, fact without the exactly addition i would say even of the global onto it needs and accepted the m. o. jim. so from multiple lot ation is an essential prerequisite portal multiple booked in china. india relation saw a breakthrough. and october last year, when their leaders met for the 1st time in 5 years at the break summit and cars on and one months later, the countries foreign ministers met in rio de janeiro. both ministers expressed a commitment to cooperate within the framework of multinational organizations and such as bricks and the g 20. our guests from china and india echoed their country statement, saying it is better for the worlds to most populous states to cooperate. instead of

engaging in conflict every by lexical relations, there always some issues and dispute is something that i think it's, it's important to look at what is more crucial, what is more, follow the mental to the development for the bozeman, of a country's interest. we are between china and india, we are the 2 most populated countries in asia, in the region. and also if our 2 countries do not have good relations, that's going to be bad news for the region and then the buy for the rest of the world. so i think peace and stability is the cornerstone for further development in every country. so i think it's a, it's been quite good to see what is happening now if of the daughters john lynch is

dickens carol then then there's benefits for india and china together. and benefit to issue as long as the benefit for the was because they are nearly the 2800000000 people, which is roughly 30 percent of the worst population has huge markets. so it would benefit russia exporting for gas and for the other group mentoring you're in china, you turn vendor for domain calling. so you didn't know 200 times when consumers start reducing their 2 months because they're just a moment of difficulties and the rest of the world. so india and china, a huge market. that is why induct eastern in china this please certain territory or uh, issues flush and then we can go to the corporate space,

the altered speed on, on the other issues. then maybe economic issues become the example for the neighbors and how back to the where a slovak is prime minister robert fates was pointed the finger at foreign experts involved in protest in georgia and ukraine for attempting to over to the governments. that's as a no confidence vote being pushed by the opposition petered outs and failed to be nice. but though i can confirm that there is a group of experts in slovakia was instead participated in the events in georgia and also actively participated in the my done protests in ukraine. you know, so this group is financed from various sources. yeah, i mean, what do i need to be done? so lock is ruling party is also in k is the opposition of trying to they stabilize the country a lot at the national school doc. this entire session,

initiated by the opposition as part of a broader scenario. it isn't actions named destabilizing and further increasing intolerance. in slovakia stop spreading hatred. i'm searching for some kind of designate test, allowing you to simply provoke unrest in society on you know, in an attempt to bring about change outside the framework of constitutional principles of democracy. which is not the way change is supposed to occur to those other. on tuesday, the opposition withdrew its request after the prime minister demanded the session be held behind the closed doors. this lock is ruling party claims. the 2nd attempt to could be announced at any moment. organizers that the vote claimed the prime minister is to pro russia with his cost and sanctions on moscow and to continue russian gas applies to europe. feet so says the opposition has undermined slovakia sovereignty by quote, kissing zalinski is ring during their visit to key of on tuesday, the slot prime minister met his own gary and counterpart. victor armand feeds over partly underlined that there will be no peace if you train gets nato membership at

the meeting or bond made it clear that protest lava and budapest well dance. the key as to the way keith is trying to build relations with central european states as unacceptable. we are ready to respect them. we demand that they respect us in return, and if we raise a serious issue, they should discuss it with us. there should be no confusion on positions. they cannot behave as it brought to slobber in. budapest must dance to their tune. this is not possible. they cannot sustain themselves, but they behave as if they are able to dictate their conditions to us. in reality, they are in the position of needing to seek help. it takes skills to ask for help. i, as i am convinced that you've crane's nato membership, would completely undermine any possibility of peace negotiations. peace talk, i knew must be based on a fundamental premier and you wouldn't mind if you cranes, nato membership is on the table. it will act as a complete unblocked, her product,

optimum facebook on to the hi, gary and prime minister as also slammed the your opinion was on the pro war stands reclaiming that much tensile natal membership for q have would undermine any chance for reaching cheese or bonds at this time to quote silver up making it clear that he also poses a membership for you frank. after the slovak and gary and prime ministers have agreed to push for the resumption of russian gas supplies to europe. the train shut down the transit pipeline on january 1st to use the victor informed us by general, an ex military attache says the opposition is using the playbook overall position. working very hard, believe it's some kind of generally a manual. i was in the use of ukraine and a few weeks ago in the georgia. and even though it was nice and some presidential election and oh man. yeah, you know, this is absolutely bed for forced. i belie supervision is luck. yeah, so position working and but i to organize my them. it's like you the most that i.