sorry, let's discuss this further with our de contributor rachel marston. rachel, a tell us more about usa i d spending so this is what happened. this is trump took off as he hit the pause button on all the ford funding for 90 days, pending review, and then he unleashed, you know, and mosque who by the way does have a top secret secret security clearance from his role and space acts. and he hand picked a squad of tech rows under the shiny new department of government efficiency, a k a goes, which trump created when he took office. and now they're going through the state department for need subjecting every line item to budgetary water board. and you could say making it fight for its life to stay there. and that splinter alerts it um is making the cut, or a lot of it isn't when people think of for in a picture feeding starving kids or building wells. but apparently there's a lot more happening behind the scenes, like finding a transgender comic book in through a transgender themed opera in colombia, or even a diversity driven musical in the irons. not to mention millions of dollars thro

after months of this abandoned boat existing as an eyesore on marston lane in santa clara county, the sheriff's office says it has finally set sail. the boat is no longer lying around in the southern part of the county, and no longer a hazard to the community. it has been towed away thanks to a partnership with pacific coast recycling. if you have an unwanted boat yourself, the sheriff's office asks you to drop motors off at the scrap yard and take fiberglass hulls to a landfill. two bay area girls are helping grieving families affected by the. washington, d.c, and philadelphia plane crashes after experiencing loss themselves about eight years ago. san francisco, sadie and sophia synder, senator, founded comfort kits for kids. the children all over the country, now 17 and 14 years old, the girls have been invited to distribute their comfort kits to the children in the ice skating community affected by the mid-air collision near washington. sadie and sophia joined us on mornings on two this morning to talk about what they put in those comfort kits. >> so here there's a stuffed animal,

as some european coalition governments raise doubts about brussels pass, or to contributor rachel marston dives into the story. a c or a new name is a one size fits all economic strait jacket for its number of states. and a growing number of those are apparently finding it increasingly difficult to read a lot of this. and that's even sure now for countries to get even remotely close enough to be impacted by the using competence like norway since 2021. the country has been run by a coalition government led by a center left prime minister once served as norway's foreign affairs minister under former nato secretary general, the installed and broad when he was prime minister of the country. now it's hard to imagine a more western establishment friendly situation than that. but even now he's personally just been strapped into the objection seat for account down for potential blast off into political oblivion. now that you energy market rules of the loaner part is coal. busy and government and made the euro skeptic center party. that's part of that coalition want to just bailout norway's deal w

now in the run up to the high stakes selection or to come to be the original. marston took a look at the russian writers in the critical ballot just to mention the figure, a show. and then a moment they were the projected results heading into the heading into the final stretch of the campaign. the center, right christian, democrat, opposition has been cruising along in the lead ahead of the anti establishment. right. alternative for germany party or a f d with some wondering if they will be like kind of a game show contestant who makes a surprise final search. meanwhile, schultz, the social democrats have been doing it out with the greens for 3rd place, glory high. yes, the greens, a party whose results were so pitiful with single digits and regional elections late last year that it's leaders reside. because apparently those german voters in the east had bigger priorities in mind as germany. the industrialized been trading their gas heating for wind and their bmw, of use for bicycles and shots as for administer the particularly geometry challenge screen on the lead. a bare bach for o

it, it's not allowed to be a feel for sitting there, always pushing on boundaries for faithfully marston's. here we are the ones traveling the extra mile where all the media don't go. we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. the hello, i'm adrian said again, this is counting the cost on al jazeera. you'll we can look at the world of business and the comics this.

the essentials must always on to be the same for be fully marston's. here we are the ones traveling the extra mile where all the media don't go. we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. the, the last names 3 is rarely caps. has to be released on saturday. once of the goal is to cease $583.00 palestinian prisoners be freed in wichita johnson. this is officer lawson also coming up for hospital happen to be the largest public health facility. that as you can see now, sort of tyler rocks and stones. youtube, massive bombardment will take you inside. what was one sconces? knowledge is false. and this noun, mt foam bounce, us officials ho talks with need is an evidence saying has bombs not speak countries the iphone families, separation, been displaced by an escalating part of the democratic republic. the names of 3 is already kept, seems to be exchanged for palestinian prisoners on the site to they have been released by 100 us. they survived me or leave and had been on the odds used to be handed over as part of the deal in return, as well

all right, our to contributor rachel marston. thanks a lot for bringing us those details. us. all that's the news for this hour, but stick around because there's more coming your way in just about 30 minutes here on our to international the welcome to cross the bullhorn is we're all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle . trump's ukraine initiative. is it real and what is next? is the u. s. a europe rift for real? or is it merely kabuki theater as differently? are these serious policies or trumps personal preferences? to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess, george samuel, we in budapest, he's a pod cast where the goggle, which can be found on youtube and locals. and here in moscow we have marks level that he's an international relations and security analyst. all right, gentleman cross type roles in effect, that means you can jump any time you want, and i always appreciate it. all right, let's start with mark here in, in moscow. would beginning to get some of the outlines of what the so called uh trump, ukraine piece initiative is um, it was very controvers

the just as of most always on the be the same for be totally marston's. here we are the ones traveling the extra mile where all the media don't go. we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. the hello, i'm adrian instead of going on, this is counting the cost on al jazeera. you'll, we can look at the world of business of economics this week. donald trump terrace policies are starting to take shape. the president says they'll help make america prosperous again. boston critics, one of the measures could push off prices and cost americans that jobs us inflation has increased unexpectedly raising the stakes of trumps targets. could that tie the us president terms and how will the federal reserve reactive prices continue to rise? trump says the measures ends up leveling the playing field, the blue shots of the rules of the global trading system, uncomfortable trade organization. take any action to prevent the un i for i a terrace for terrorist, same exact amount. that's how donald trump build reciprocal countertops or other countries during his

queen ursula skirt rachel marston, not today marks the 80 anniversary of the yalta conference. a pivotal milestone in global diplomacy, which was destined to guide the collective order on security of post world war 2 society. it was a 2nd meeting of allied leaders from the soviet union, the u. k. on the us and focused on the only thing post more challenges from a self determining world order to the vision and the notification of germany dictated an international tribunal. afterwards, i called for a conference to establish that the united nations and its security council to this day. those processes are a central piece of world governance and have changed level despite severe obstacles along the way. clyde, the u. n. used to have though, is slowly eroding with the rising global side, the money thing. it's reform, the se in the clothes crucial matters. this c year, 19 shortage tides when the conference and took place and not the conference of africans took place. the can actually can congress and i like to think that they answered function somehow and age political activities afr

it comes to protecting our interest, but uh did you need to join me now or take a trip to rachel marston? um your dental hi doing it? really. i don't too happy with dropbox in the white house, but is the blog actually read to you for what trump is preparing for the entire flights as well. look, maxwell has an absolutely brilliant plan for projects, a europe now, so far it's all been about riding shotgun in whatever expensive military escapade the u. s. is cooking up, even if it means sending french citizens cost of living. absolutely. through the roof and making european split the bill for price, the american liquefied gas shipped across the atlantic instead of that cheap freshman pipeline stuff next door. so now trump's talking 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum. maybe even europe, who knows, in any case the you is ready to strike back, but hold up. why did they get it back with gas? yeah, great idea there. let's just risk between with that and turning the next summit in paris into a candlelit dinner last time in 2018. when trump did his big tariff dog and pony show that you reall

to get more details on this story, we're crossing live to our, to contributor rachel marston, rachel. it seems to be a turning point for germany as this nationalist of the party has secured its strongest ever result. our things are looking for the country's political landscape in the wake of that boat. on sunday, the the i will look the as the leader fully expects, uh the likely future chestler mertz and is kristen democrats to start stealing her party policies like the kid in class? you copies your answers, i'll tell it everyone out of how much it sucks. he also points out that so when it comes to keeping populous out at any cost, suddenly the establishment left and right have absolutely no problem hopping into bed together. um, no doubt that mattress will seem way too small way too fast. in any case, germany has taken a hard right turn. you can say is this feels familiar is because we have seen this movie before. specifically, the french version, back in 2007, france elected in equal estimate was these establishment right when party only for voters to ditch the establishment altoget

the beat of his war drum promising to double military spending this year. archie contributor rachel marston has the story. the french president, a menu in that call is basically the hype man for the defense industry right now. picture him in a sparkly blazer with a megaphone step right up boats. blow your tax fair cash on premium grades, fire power because hey, war can always be in season if we act like it is good for them. and so many france will have doubled its defense budget and well also launching major projects in atlanta. and i invite all other partners to do the same appeal, but we also need more european funding and this for shadows, the next budgetary framework comfortably. we've all french people are wondering why their government is suddenly acting like a broad college students who somehow always has money for concert tickets, but can't afford rent. social services. ghosted teachers slash retirement pensions rated energy subsidies. oops. on. but weapons. oh, there's always a few extra 1000000000 lying around for that, and it's not like there's been a sudden spike in existential

here's our t contributor rachel marston with more information, a big national election in germany this weekend, only the 4th snapped parliamentary election to take place since world war 2. because hey, why wait for the government's 4 year expiration date to come around when it's thinking up the whole joint light forgotten, sour coat in a bavarian heat wave back in 2021 shows for all i've schultz took charge with his traffic light coalition made up of his red social democrats, greens, and yellow, centrist, free democrats, and well, the yellow light unplugged itself, you could say causing the government to crash. so now instead of germans being relegated to just yelling at that one key traffic light, they now get a chance to avail themselves of an electoral off ramp. so heading into the final stretch of the campaign, the center, right christian, democrat, opposition has been cruising along in the lead ahead of the anti establishment. right? alternative for germany party or a f d with some wondering if they will be like kind of a game show contestant who makes a surprise final search. mea