j. d. vance today told a room full of european defense and government leaders. that free speech is in retreat in their countries at the munich security conference vance claim, the freedom of expression is being eroded and you called it a bigger threat to democracy than russian military aggression. he also address the issue of migration, saying europeans had not voted to open what he called the flood gates to migrants. answers beach was one of the 1st scene of addresses at the security conference today. it comes at the end of a remarkable week where you as president donald trump, spoke on the phone with russian president vladimir putin. both the leaders promising to work together to end the war and ukraine. european leaders with appearing however, that this will be done without your ukrainian or european input. so, many of those gathered in munich would have been hoping perhaps the vice president can shed some light on donald trump's plans for a negotiated piece in ukraine. instead, they got a lecture about democracy in europe and britain and across europe. free s

j. d. fence. yeah. jamie vance. also. richard e seemed to offer what, what could be interpreted as whitehouse support for europe's far right parties, urging europeans to, to, in their opposition to having far right parties in government. and we're going to get your reaction to that in just a moment. but 1st, i want us to take a listen to what he had to say. but what german democracy, what no democracy, american, german, or european will survive, is telling millions of owners that their thoughts and concerns their aspirations, their please for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered democracy. russ, on the sacred principle, that the voice of the people matters. there is no room for firewalls. richard, he said, firewall is that is the language being used in german politics. right now. i had a national elections next week. i mean, he knew what he was saying, what was he doing? yes. so what he's referring to is there is, this is this kind of established agreement among most of the political policies in germany

j. d. fence. yeah. jamie vance. also. richard e seem to offer what, what could be interpreted as whitehouse support for europe's far right parties urging europeans to, to, in their opposition to having far right parties in government. and we're going to get your reaction to that in just a moment. but 1st, i want us to take a listen to what do you have to say. but what german democracy, what no democracy, american, german, or european will survive, is telling millions of owners that their thoughts and concerns their aspirations, their please for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered democracy. russ, on the sacred principle, that the voice of the people matters. there is no room for firewalls. richard, he said, firewall is that is the language being used in german politics. right now. i had a national elections next week. i mean, he knew what he was saying, what was he doing? yes. so what he's referring to is there is, this is this kind of established agreement among most of the political policies in germa

j. d. vance. he knows he can see the writing on the walls and his days are numbered. but what's really amazing is will that president pushing the father to meet with him? i mean, he is an illegitimate president after all, to cancel the elections in ukraine case. he's no longer the legitimate president, but yet she's making these statements as if he is. so it'll be interesting to see how it all plays out. but right now the piece talks are happening without your trade. between the us and the options. you can raise a very interesting point. elections, how be postponed. even the ukraine's biggest ally is saying, elections have to happen now. so a lot of them are putting could very well say, yes, you want to meet, but are you, the real leader of the country? have a vote in c. well there you have it because i mean, let's look at the documents. whatever documents are signed in a piece agreement have to be legitimate. and if he's the illegitimate president, how can they come to an agreement that they can guarantee will last? um, you know, so, so yeah, it raises some legal que

j. d. vance, face to face ukraine. once security guarantees from the us for an interest, any peace talks with russia also coming up in britain and across europe. free speech i fear is in retreat. vice president bonds were slammed your pen needles for running in fear of their own voters. less homicide analysis, which of these really hostages, it's due to release on saturday. the 3 men were docked in from the same keyboards on october 7, 2020 the, until me a lot of a welcome to the program. well, data is gather every year in germany to discuss international security policy and with war raging in europe again, due to russia's invasion of ukraine. the agenda of this year is munich, security conference seemed pretty clear from the start, the top us official this year as vice president data yvonne's and in his performance on the opening day on friday, he relegated the ukraine war to come your role. i took the opportunity for political let, you know, on so coming of the 1st face to face meeting between ukraine and strongest a

j. d vance is among those attending and is meeting with nato leader mark richard high on their agenda as president donald trump's plan to end the war in ukraine. trump says he has spoken to rush as lot of me and route and then agree to start piece talks. the move has alarm leaders in europe and ukraine, with many were the us and russia and to settle the conflict without input from keith. bands is also set to meet with you brains will let them. here is the lensky to discuss the so called peace plan. munich, all eyes are now on the europe's role, and the ongoing prizes. a new grain with tension is rising. some key figures are already shaping expectations for what lies ahead. here's what the man who stepped to become germany's next chancellor had to say yesterday, a jump yesterday he buys. i've gotten some early indications of what vice president j. d vans will say. it will be a confrontational speech and i very much hope that the chancellor is prepared also in coordination with his partners in the european union to give a european not a german, but a european answer on that. i know it will

j. d. vance criticizing your let's have a listen. yeah. yeah. helping you all today is a really historic day. the american security guarantees are being called into question. the americans are questioning the democratic institutions and the into fair and quite openly in an election, including in relation to democratic policies and the majority saw. and i'll have to say it to steps me. it doesn't surprise me because they have talked about this before. this is best i family rejected. it is not the job of the american government to explain to us here in germany, how we should protect the democratic institutions. and we will continue on. of course, i'll be the ones on baseline that's bringing david salvo. he's the managing director of the alliance was secure in democracy at the german marshall fund. good to have you on the program. david is now we just had a j. d bounces the next step from gd alonso speech, as well as the response from predict minutes. we've had defense minister german defense, mr bar as the story is hitting back end of descri

j. d vance, criticizing western leader as well. saying little about the russian war against ukraine, for the 1st face to face meeting between ukraine and strongest allies, is the trump administration took office after 3 years of fighting j. defiance making clear the us once towards the end. fundamentally, the goal is as the president trump outlined it, we want the war to come to a close. we want the going to stop, but we want to achieve a durable lasting piece. not the kind of piece is going to have eastern europe in conflict just a couple years down the road. the big question is, how would durable piece can be achieved and certainly a piece that ukraine can agree with others. one thing, thanks so much. thank you very much. we're really, what was the need to, to speak for, to work or add to prepare the jobs, how to stop and seniors of work. we want really, we want this word much, but we need a real security guard to use. the security guarantees a key to your paying leaders who are concerned. the trump may give concessions to russia

j. d. vance. ukraine wants security guarantees from the us before it enters any piece. talk with russia. also coming up the us, vice president taking aim at america's european allies, accusing them of censoring their own people. in britain and across europe. free speech i fear is in retreats. vice president advance slamming european leaders for running into.

j. d. vent us vice president j. d vance. in the coming hours on wednesday, donald trump agreed with russia's leader vladimir put in to begin negotiations to end the war and ukraine. but that caught the european allies off guard. they have warrant him against making any concessions to russia, saying they want a seat at the table for any future negotiations. iraq on his live and key. but 1st, let's have to munich again and speak to our diplomatic editor james base. so james, so much on the agenda today. we talked about gaza earlier, but obviously ukraine is also on the agenda. what are we expecting today of the law just moments ago, literally in the last 5 minutes, presence let's you went through the door behind me arriving here. in munich, for discussions, and i think it's what's going on behind the scenes. yes. they'll be public statements. presidents that excuse making a speech on saturday. prisons night sky is doing a for them later on today, but i think it's the discussions behind the scenes that are important to you. i t

j. d. vance and secretary of state, marco rubio. with strong suggestions ukraine will have to give up the territory its loss to russia and will be allowed to join nato. earlier in his keynote speakers to the conference, the vice president didn't focus on ukraine. pitching out instead of european leaders, who we said was said to ring free speech by labeling it disapprobation. and we're targeting groups on the political friendships. the threats that i worry the most about. visa, the europe, is not russia. it's not china, it's not any other external actor. and what i worry about is the threat from within the retreat of europe, from some of its most fundamental values value shared with the united states of america. there is a broad recognition that trumps approach. even more transactional and forceful than in this 1st to may change the face of international relations for ever. well, it's a new style, no doubt, addressing your of we have to adapt to dash that new style. and we should conclude that if the u. s. does not execute each rower

j. d vance gives european allies a stern talking to on democracy in britain and across europe. free speech i fear is in retreat. in a combative speech of the munich security conference advanced slams european leaders are what he calls running in fear of their own voters. speech comes and mid rolling concern over the future of us. foreign policy. also coming up come off announcing which of these really hostages. it's due to release on saturday. the 3 men were abducted from the same keyboards on october 7th, 2023 and trying to survive in gaza. people there say they're facing a new war. is they battled to find food and shelter, admits the room with the library. golf is good to have you with us on this friday. we begin with the us vice president speech in unit j, the vans today till the room full of european defense and government leaders. the free speech is in retreat in their countries at the munich security conference, vance claim, the freedom of expression is being eroded and you called it a bigger threat to democracy than russian military aggression. he also addressed the issu

j. d. vance and the sidelines of unit security conference. do you think the secretary general, i'm totally good saturday, says cold for an end to what he described as be dramatic suffering of a sudden these people as this. let me call the month of ramadan approaches. gutierrez, also called for an end to the flow of weapons. it comes as the sudanese army is making progress in its fight to regain control of costume. from the bottom of the tree rapids support forces, imagery captured a major bridge connecting the east of the capital to the side of the m 23 level group is advancing. and because of the capitol of south key, the province in eastern democratic republic of congo. and it's not in control of a nearby airport pictures and social media show fights was marching through the tunnel cover. moved around to 40 kilometers from because of government was airport is critical to supplying the d. i c's ami heavily armed congress these soldiers. i've also been seen in the streets and bukosa, which the rebels have voted to attack after taking go my la

the j d. vance, we were hoping perhaps we'd hit more of the ukraine piece plan, the donald trump piece time for you try we didn't, we had changed events saying that he wants to focus on the enemy with it. and then that me states, i think, pretty big attack on european nations say that they was censoring of their own population. they weren't allowing free speech, they were cracking down. and what you said was this, what, what they say is this information. and he said was just that populations right to say and the thing that they want and he said that right should be respected. so on the crating fall, nothing new from vance, but i think it, it adds, i think, to be on the use that exists here in munich, particularly among the european allies about that relationship with the united states. let's discuss this further without dispos rasmussen, he is the former secretary general of nato. he's the former prime minister of denmark. how would you describe the atmosphere here in munich? well, in munich, we're still focused on the extra center this for us and busing go. russia represent the major,

j. d vance. to discuss a path towards ending the war in ukraine. after the meeting of the munich security conference, kolinski called for a real in guaranteed peace and said that he had had a good talk with the vice president. for his cards, vice president vance. trump said the us is aiming to achieve what he calls a durable piece and you, great, but the amicable words can not high that this week. physics have appeared in the relationship in conflict after us officials. we suggested that ukraine, perhaps you can see the land to russia and give up its invasion of joining in need of us. it says it has agreed with russia's leadership to hold peace talks over the war and you free are seeing. all right, let's take a look at the meeting between president zalinski and us vice president vance. we have a number of personal conversations, a number of things for us to follow up and work on. and fundamentally, the goal is, as president trump outlined it, we want the award to come to a close. we want the going to stop what we want to achieve, a durable, lasting

j. d. vance is criticism of european democracy. friend spoke the munich security conference on friday, claiming european behavior was threatening free speech show said europe would make its own decisions. that we will not accept to people who look at too many from the outside and intervene in that democracy and our elections. that's just not done, certainly not to amongst friends and allies. we resolutely reject this, where our democracies go from here is for us to decide diplomatic solution to the violence and democratic republic of congo must be found to stop the software. that's the message from the un secretary general. speaking of the african union summit in a few of your attorney gutierrez was the stability of the entire region, is at stake. the fight thing that these right? g u. so ski who is the result of the continuation of the empty seal fences, so that them so push the entire region over the press. the peace regional escalation must be avoided at all costs. there is no military solution. the deadlock must end, the dialogue must begin and the sofa at $80.30. it's all the integrity of

j. d. vance and president is a landscape this coming just days after donald trump talked to russell's president, putin. the 2 agreed to begin negotiations on ending the war in ukraine. fundamentally, the goal is, as the president trump outlined it, we want the war to come to a close. we want the going to stop, but we want to achieve a durable lasting piece, not the kind of piece, and it's going to have eastern europe in conflict just a couple years down the road. was the need to to speak for work or add to prepare to drive home to supplement, continue to work. we want really we want this word much, but we need a real security guarantees mark of incense, you know, as a geo political risk specialist on the global strategy advisor. he says the conflict and ukraine combined with donald trump's transactional approach have helped europe overcome differences and bump up defense spending. a put in was banking on the fact that it was going to be a division with the west, the crisis and ukraine, that full scale invasion of february 2010 to united, the west and waste that he probably didn't expect so many

j. d. vance, begin the day with a meeting with nato head, margaretta, and the call for the alliance to raise defense spending and shoulder more of the burden for security in europe. the gathering comes days after you as president donald trump alarm here of and keep by speaking to rushes, let them hear bruten about a settlement, and that you bring conflict without 1st consulting them more on that in a moment. but 1st, an update on the situation on the direct in the battlefield in done yet in eastern ukraine, one of the regions, russia has tried to swallow and that ukrainians have fought for years to get back. last year ukrainian president followed him. here's a lensky laid out a victory planned to world leaders that included nato membership and a return to the countries 2014 borders before russia annex the crimea province, winding diesel. it will surely be said that the roches war against the grain has ended north frozen, not paused north fulton truly. and this will have not because someone good tides on the war, not because someone traded something with which in that dream is dead. now, us d

j. d vance addressing attendees in munich of the munich security conference. he said, among other things that the us is very concerned with european security believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between russia and ukraine. he also said that it's important in the coming years for europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defense. all right, that's it for me and how much enjoy for this news hour. but i'll be back in a moment with more of the days and is thanks for watching the phone causing the cost to come. china and the us to avoid a trade will fully equal them. extensions escalates. president trump wants to shut down usaid. america's main. forrest agency plus from pulse financial assistance to south africa is a being with an ice counting the cost on al jazeera pakistan has $1.00 of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. and human rights was to which one dying every hour due to pregnancy complications. 11 east meets the brief midwives fighting to save the lives of pakistani mothers and their babies. pakistan's maternal mor

j. d vance, the president of ukraine, vladimir zalinski, and the juvenile chancellor. off schultz. although investigations continue and it's been a growing up in the last few minutes around the co taking further pictures of the scene, he's pretty clear this was an attack. he's described the man who was driving the car 24 year old, asked asylum seeker as the perpetrator of that attack. and he says, germany is going to be very tough. all these sort of attacks and future. anyone who carries them out. we'll face prison time and potentially will be deported to that country of origin. jay's base, which is 0, munich, french press the amount on the crowd, the size these countries ready to do more, to fight on groups in syria, including i. so you were speaking in paris during an international conference on syria, a con announced that phone supervisor on 52000000 dollars to help stabilize the country representative for more than 20 countries on discussing security of the for the i saw the regime in december, a serious transitional government says it will need at least $10000000000.00 to rest

j. d. vance. in european politics. we got a little bit of a hint to the beginning of it when, where he got an applause line. and he said, i hope that is not the last line of applause that i guess in the speech. actually it turned out it pretty well was he was essentially saying through the audience here in europe that, that whole approach to the right wing population parties that it'd be making gains here in germany and elsewhere. s within the consonant is completely wrong. and that it presents a greater danger to european democracy, european society and the west, and then any danger, oppose from outside. for instance, the world is raging in ukraine. so i think certainly that germany was bracing for this is some clips of the speech or some excess from the speech came out to through the price before a judge. events took to the stage, but i don't think anyone was expecting him to devote pretty much his entire speech to that subject. and i think essentially you can see this is a little bit of a payback from the american r

j. d. vance. and yet, on the other hand, he must, he must reinforce, i think, to some degree, the defensive trans atlantic and unity walk me through the delicate nature of this speech. we're about to hear. yes, i think what you have to think about on the one hand is that both j, the vance, and off sholtes, also talking to the domestic audiences. so the speech yesterday by the u. s. vice president was nothing and not only directed at the european spa adults as his own supporters into united states. he said as much in his speech on and off charlotte's a outgoing tron so that we have to say we're having elections here. and then just under a, just over a week's time. and he will also be in some sense, speaking to his public, to his voters against the background of some of these upcoming elections. so the question is, what kind of position do you take in that situation? you can just simply be statesman like and then they can all the domestic situation . i think that's the kind of binds that here is in

j. d. vance and president landscape comes just days. often donald trump talked to rush as president person, the to agree to begin negotiations and ending the war and ukraine. fundamentally, the goal is, as the president trump outlined, is we want the war to come to a close. we want the going to stop what we want to achieve, a durable lasting piece, not the kind of piece that's going to have eastern europe in conflict, just a couple years down the road. was the need to to speak for work or add to prepare the time how to software engineer the work we want. really we want this word much, but we need a real security guarantees to apply to get it to a james basis. joining us now from unit one of the things is still not clear as far as these meetings are concerned. negotiations and the days about ukraine is for role ukraine itself and presidents the landscape. going to play in those negotiations. it's going to be interesting to find out what if anything they were able to talk about to that meeting of the president's legs can use being very polite as you'd expect. here. he said he had good conver

j. d vance and ukrainian president board and there's a lensky um, ukranian president zalinski said that you're will have to unite behind ukraine so it can protect itself. what do you expect to come out of the meeting between vance and zalinski? because you mentioned just a moment ago that it seems as though vance may be softening his tone when it comes to kind of rhetoric we've heard from the us before this conference. well the devil is always in the details. and the us is actually taking kind of an unusual approach with the best in the treasury secretary bus and travel to ukraine. so the he was there on the ground and met with the lensky as well. and there's this kind of transactional approach that the trump administration seems to be trying to attend. and instead of saying just that the europeans will pay for this us is trying to get like a $500000000.00 deal on rear or of course the china is pest most control over or so . this is one way that the trump administration sees that you claim will also be valuable to the americans. and by having this $500000000.00 deal on rear, or, of cour

j. d vance and secretary of secretary of state, marco rubio, will leave the delegation. i am hopeful that the results of that meeting will be positive. it is time to stop this ridiculous war where there has been massive and totally unnecessary death and destruction. god bless the people of russia and ukraine. i myself just spoke to the president about these calls and he told me to tell all of you. they were very good cause they were very positive and the administration is full hardly committed to a piece deal to end once and for all the russia ukraine. for more on that later, i'm sure you'll have more questions to ask um this week the president has continued to deliver on his promises to the american people. according to new polling that was released at the beginning of this week by cbs news and overwhelming 70 percent of americans said that president trump is following through on what he pledge to do during his historic campaign. okay, we're moving away from that for just a moment. hannah shall last back to you. so we were just listening to the white house press secreta

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j. d. vance did is challenge them and say, look, the woke culture is dead.ern world. the west needs to act like the west. we don't need to cancel each other. we need to have more freedom. really, i have a hard time why europe and westerners would think that that's a bad idea. and i think that a we've become so ingrained in this elite culture of canceling people that we don't like and elites running the masses that when someone like j.d. vance stands up and says, ah, how about freedom for all and how about the people having a greater voice, a lot of elites in europe say, you know, this is terrible. so the discussion with many people is we should probably think about this. but the ones who are being challenged the ones with the power, they don't want to hear it. lisa: i've got to get do you, real quick, on this. mayor bass is admitting it was a mistake for her to go to ghana. you're a californian. do you think we'll see leadership changes in california, or are voters finally waking up to the fact that democrats cannot lead? >> well, look, i've been running an

vance. everybody. j. d, please. vice president. stand up. he's been doing a good job. he's been working very hard on all things, but this in particular, will take some questions, please. yes, ma'am, go ahead, please. go ahead. yeah, go ahead. i can deal with saudi arabia b a c. without the account. i need to stay there for you to just verify minister and mister president, given what you've said about god to be us and proves to help secure the security back. so saudi arabia is going to be very helpful and they have been very helpful. they one piece in the middle east is very simple and we know their leader and their leaders very well, wonderful people and they want peace and them at least as far as guys is concerned and will do what is necessary if it's necessary. we'll do that. we're going to take over that piece so we're going to develop it, create thousands and thousands of jobs and it will be something that the entire middle east can be very proud of. but everybody feels that continuing the same process that's gone, gone forever. over and over again, and then it sta

j. d funds, the vice president of the united states, who's on the right. you can see mr. vance pointing there. marco rubio, the secretary of state, is just to the right hand side of mr. bonds there. and james, of course, and you clean more as we were say, going to be a key part of it in negotiation to keep part of the agenda on this. i understand that, so let me ask you a couple of lines dropping, saying that is our 1st meeting, not our last. he says we need to prepare a plan for how to stop shooting. but there's going to be a lot of speculation about what they're actually going to be able to talk about at that table. a yeah, and i'm sure um, presence lensky like others, is wondering exactly where things are now the ukrainians. a wondering exactly where they stands now, given the developments of recent days, the announcement that came from the us defense that country of the ukraine would not be allowed to join nato have slightly won't back. we were told later that it would depend on president trump and future negotiations just to present. let's use the go see thing with current

d. countries in the developed countries period. and that contributes mildly to the ability of people like you must j, the vance theater deal. and peter deal now talking about taking back south africa for white people as it contributes mightily to their ability to put things over on the american people. and to do things that later when they reveal to the light of day, same absolutely mom level. but even then, the american people don't seem to have a whole lot of objections, as long as it doesn't re down personally to their inability to watch taylor swift organ nfl football game or whatever else might still like them. that's what they're really interested in. and i'm not saying that because i'm mad at the american people, i'm saying that because it's a reality, it's a stark reality. we have not taken care of our democracy. we are now taking care of of democracy and you pay for that. you pay for that? well, trump got the popular vote in fan is to be american people. but then trump also while uh, trying to an i lady usa, i the saw the talking about the need to get ukraine's rarer at the metals in a similar vein to real estate i

j. d vance is accused european leaders of undermining free speech and ignoring their citizens concerns. you did it in an address at the munich, your security cost. and it's also met with the training and president building. there's zaleski for talks on an end to the russian more on his conversations number, how boss is said is rarely hostages, alexander truth, and all so good deco gen and yeah, here horn will be freed on saturday, all 3 men were abducted for making books close to southern gaza during the october 7th terrorist attacked from us at earlier threatened not to release more hostages, saying that israel was not permitting promised aid into goss. for london backed rebels claimed to have seized control of a strategic airport in the east of the democratic republic of the congo footage on social media shows armed men in the streets of kava move, where the airport is located. the m 23 arm group has been advancing on the nearby city of boot couple for weeks following their capture of the city of go. this is dw news from berlin. you can get more news on our website at dw dot com, the