well our brussels bureau chief, alexandra from nomic is those tulips welcome, alexandra. so i guess they be, the big thing here is building a defense policy, independent of the united states. how united off for a you leave this on this also it seems that there are more united and then and there and diplomats are telling us on of the records that they have sense of a change of mindset among your p and leaders. not a long time ago, it was the 1st and foremost friends that was pushing for more strategic autonomy and sovereignty when it comes to europe's defense. now everybody is talking about death and about the ways to achieve that goal. even leaders such as victor all button, the prime minister of hungry, he is considered a close friends of the notes of slums and an ally of letting me put him even. he does not seem to oppose this motion for more european independence when it comes to erupt. defense, of course, there are some different ideas and we understand it better when we mentioned the french proposal to show the french nuclear umbrella, which europe and allies. so the

where are brussels bureau chief, alexander phenomena standing by each other? we just heard the commission present describing this as a watershed moment for europe, and ukraine tells us more about what's at stake. while the stakes are incredibly high, i would say there is no doubt about stats, terry, and we've heard from many, you appear, need leaders stressing exactly dads with the least of and yes, presidents nosy does saying that this is the moment for that. your opinion to decide whether they are a global play or for just a clump of discussions at the polish crime and as to task told us today that there is actually no room full failure when you consider potential consequences. and rush self course is seen here as a huge threats to the whole cons. and then so we are hearing also from a diploma telling us behind closed doors at that they have a feeling that there has been a change of mindset with many european leaders. now, acknowledging that to europe cannot any longer rely on the you ask protection, and it's that it is up to them to be upstairs support for

now we start this out with a breaking news from romania where the country is. electra bureau has bod kelly and judge at school from taking part to the new presidential poll that he won the 1st round in december, although the results were cut to varsity, and the old mead claims of russian in defiance of the former front runner, reacted to the new saying that his country is now under a tyranny, is a direct blow to the heart of democracy worldwide. i have one message left. if democracy in romania falls, the entire democratic world will fall. this is just the beginning. it's that simple . europe is now a dictatorship. romania is under tyranny. a lot of good that phone call enjoy jessica. the man who is being followed by the central elect told the will from the running in the we run over the last days and no presidential election. this is karen a, this is a dictatorship, and that is something that is supposed to see you all to pay me. hundreds came here to wait for that decision. a decision that they thought would be a simple yes. and then it would be for the constitutional to, to make a

and then the central electro bureau has to make a final decision. all not appeal within 48 hours she could get through. we had been receiving reports of crashes between protest as and secuity forces in bucharest. what more can you tell us about that? well, that's why $102.00 supporters of being here for hours protesting peacefully. you can hear the las vegas sometimes behind me, but all of the time, it's more of a pain. it's a delightful process. and that change within seconds to that decision coming out from the protesters themselves. but they say, hey, the visual and telling me remove the message byron. so they put all around the central like $20.00 and stalking spray individuals with type of spray. and that then chose some seams of chaos of old. so in hearing from one of the protesters here that they are expecting to have reinforcements all the shown dawn re, uh, come in, but many people hit directly by that type of spray. and the eyes breathing in and of course and ceiling. those affective burning un, unable to be able to see, but for the protes

did the friedmans bureau get involved in this? yes. the free to reunite families trying to help families. yes, definitely. people yes. when people were searching their family members, they definitely recruited members of the freedmen's bureau, they would go to you know, they they would ask for help from the freedman's. yes. yeah. but that was over pretty. yes, very briefly. yeah. it wasn't around long and they had a lot of other. yeah. the freedman's bureau had had a giant charge in front of them and, and like probably a 10th of the number of people that they needed to do the work. but yes. and u.s. colored troops were often enlisted in this and missionaries pretty much. who was in the postwar south reported on the phenomenon of people coming to them, saying, need can you help me find you my people? so, yeah. yes, please. i had a person. is there anything like this? is there anything like this going on in other such as brazil or the the british, the british colonies, any kind of i mean, i don't want to jump in, but in the aftermath of

since president trump took office, the bureau has dropped at least have a dozen suits brought during biden administration. have a look at the chaos in serbia's parliament today. smoke bombs, flares, eggs -- they are expensive -- and water bottles tossed around as opposition lawmakers accuse the ruling party of corruption, at least three people were hurt. one lawmaker reportedly suffered a stroke. a researcher at the university of oxford uncovered a rare handwritten copy one of the most famous love poems, shakespeare's sonnet 116, first published in 1609. the sonnet begins with the word" "let me not not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments." this copy contains additional lines believed to be adopted for a politically themed song. it's only the second manuscript copy of the poem to be found. coming up on "cbs evening news plus," we head to arkansas' ozark national forest. >> i cycle through being angry sad. stressed. >> john: our in-depth report on the impact those federal mass firings are having on the wo >> john: in tonight's address president trump is expected to highligh

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ali rogin spoke earlier with john eligon, the johannesburg bureau chief for "the new york times."li: john, thank you so much for being with us. first of all, tell us about this new land policy. john: so essentially, what the government has done is they've passed a law that allows the government to take land without providing compensation to the people they take it from. basically, the justification that the south african government gives for this is that we know through the long history of apartheid in south africa that black people were essentially robbed of their land. so, they are really looking at ways to sort of make right some of the inequalities that happened during apartheid. ali: president trump, in his executive order, referred specifically to white south africans. but then in a later social media post, he invited all farmers to consider the united states a place to come if they felt that they were being discriminated. do you think that that shift in language was deliberate? john: it's hard to say. as we've seen with many of the president's social media posts, that they

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in the latest move to undo actions of the bureau's prior leadership. zelle welcomed the move calling the suit legally and factually fraud. >>> now a system wreaking havoc where hundreds of thousands remain without power. the system bringing everything from snow and heavy rain to dust storms and tornados. two people have died due to severe weather, and at least two twisters were confirmed in oklahoma. and the threat isn't over with millions still in harm's way. let's check in with angie lassmaman who's tracking it all for us. good morning. >> we've still got that same system wreaking voc across much of the country. 16 million people under winter alerts. that's of course the cold side of the storm. but we've got this system bringing heavy rain and severe risk to folks across the east coast. notice the snowshowers still wrapping around the great lakes, even as we get through tomorrow and parts of the northeast. we'll see some slick spots. 39 million people mainly looking at strong wind gusts, but we've got the potential for tornados. nonorfolk, raleigh, w

are brussels bureau chief alexandra phenomena? well, as european leaders look to boost their military defense as the war and ukraine has already up ended years of established military doctrine. drones have become one of the defining weapons of the complex something ukrainian soldiers say. nato countries are not prepared to handle of the tanks. trenches and artillery the early battles and rushes invasion of ukraine play down like scenes from the 2 world wars. but now 3 is on another weapon has come to dominate the battlefield. drones. the symbol of when the base it had not been for drones. everything would have been a lot worse. drones are the tool which allow us to given a symmetrical response. when the enemy is larger for people, stronger, and doesn't value it, soldiers lives, and it's in the way of a test for us. leslie useful, but from unmanned aircraft to tiny home made models, drones. and now the most common with in, in the ended c, ukrainian officials estimate they are responsible for around 60 to 70 percent of old casualtie

one is elisabeth bumiller, the former bureau washington bureau chief of the new york times has some incredibleistory that ukraine is to blame for its invasion by russia and his oval office blow up at president zelensky, have either muzzled themselves, tip toed up to criticism without naming mr. trump, or completely reversed their positions. and we could go on for more time than we have left in the show, showing you all those years and years and years and years and years of critiques of putin and compliments for zelensky that they they just shoved somewhere where ther. george w bush has been allergic to politics, but his center released this today quote, to the dismay of those who support freedom, the world is turning toward the appeasement of dictators. it was painful to watch last week's meeting in the oval office, a room president george w bush often called a shrine to freedom. donald trump and jd vance attacked vladimir zelensky, the democratically elected ukrainian president who is leading the fight against a dictatorial aggressor, to insinuate that ukraine is somehow the perpetrator of th

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and then the central electro bureau has to make a final decision. all not appeal within 48 hours, she could get through. we had been receiving reports of crashes between the test as then secuity forces in bucharest. what more can you tell us about that? well, that's why $102.00 supporters of being here for hours protesting peacefully. you can hear the space sometimes behind me. but the time i'd like to purchase and not change anything to that decision coming out from the processes themselves to face to face the method of virus to around the central. like to install great individuals with texas right. and then somebody seems to pass. i'm also hearing from one to say that they are expecting to have reinforcements on this on don. we come in, but many people hit by that practice grace and the eyes believing in and of course in feelings those affective and unable to be able to see the protest aside. they may be allowed, they may be serious, but they certainly seem to have been peaceful from their element. and it seems from that point to view that violenc

anyway, earlier i spoke about this with the w as brussels bureau chief alexander from now when i asked her, what's at stake for europe and ukraine. well, the stakes are incredibly high. i would say there is no doubt about that. terry, and we've heard from many, you appear need leaders stressing exactly dads with lisa and yes, presidents nosy does saying that this is the moment for that. you are p and you're going to decide whether they are a global play or for just a clump of discussions at the polish crime. and as to task told us today that there is actually no room for failure when you consider the potential consequences. and rush, of course is seen here as a huge threats to the whole cons. and then so we are hearing also from a diploma is telling us behind closed doors that they have the uh, the feeling that there has been a change of mindset with many european leaders. no, acknowledging that you cannot any longer rely on the you ask protection, and it's that it is up to them to run upstairs, support for ukraine to make sure that they can send out freshman techs. now the us has paus

res. 28, disapproving the rule by the bureau of financial protection related to defining largerer -- payment applications. mr. grassley: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: in january investors concerned about china's advances in a.i. innovation wiped out nearly a trillion dollars in u.s. tech stock value, and that happened in a single day. chinese companies like deep seat are often able to keep pace with silicon valley because they steal our tech secrets and they do it from right under our own noses. this not only puts the united states at a competitive disadvantage but also threatens our national security. the citizenship and immigration ser services ombudsmen has warned that chinese nationals in our university systems are engaged in widespread technological espionage both on campus and in the workplace. foreign stem students often take tech jobs that give them access to sensitive technologies. now, this shouldn't be possible. why? because the law clearly states that student visas are solely for study, not for work. outrageously, the departmen

are the middle east bureau chief maria from ocean and marcia, thank you. as our leaders met in cairo on tuesday to adopt in egyptian reconstruction plan for gaza after it's devastating war with israel, the plans implementation will cost over $50000000000.00 and doesn't suggest displacing. tell us citizens, in contrast to trump skies of rivera, israel has rejected the alternative of choosing air of states, of using the plights of palestinians for political game. for 77 years, arab states of use palestinians as pulls against israel, condemning them to a tunnel refugee status. now with president trump's idea, there was an opportunity for the guidelines to have free choice based on their free will. they should be encouraged, instead, arab states have rejected this opportunity without giving it a fair chance and continue to level baseless accusations against israel. let's cross now it's a journalist and the guys a native, shoddy of dell rockman, shoddy. what do you make of these really foreign ministry statements and particularly assertion that thousands like f

mazda told her to go . bureau ma'am, but tells us that takes us as best had. he's real. how did a joke not talk about the proposal with the truth? the she said, because we haven't received any over show you all for the 1st 2nd 22 inches and in your office because we have assigned the deed. this deal has, has been signed by the tool box in the by hello there. welcome to arch international and you said with the latest updates . i a michael question. right now a key european saw me ton you train has wrapped top in london, fresh from its moulding from donald trump. bottom is the last key was given the rather woman. well come from my house to meet us. the website you have hobbs and even more promises on offer the the the . 6 the that the british prime minister was the 1st to give comments. and while some talk of a piece on time for peace, they're still talking up. busy or that 1000 a new over a 1000000000 pound aid package for key of specifically to buy more weaponry, doubling down on the support for a lot of means the landscape yesterday evening. but you pay signed a 2200000

of economic analysis and bureau of labor statistics is incredibly important in the gold standard for data. being able to track what is going on in the economy is very, very important, and it is something that the united states has led in for a long time and something we need to continue. it's true that survey responses have gone down and that some of the data become a more volatile. that just means it is something we need to keep doing and invest in. i think that is important. on the pandemic data, that's a different thing. you needed to measure things like how many people are going to restaurants. you can look at opentable data and things like that. there were lots and lots of pieces of data we were getting about -- that showed people -- how many people were coming back to work, riding the subway, that kind of thing. it turns out all the data isn't super relevant except in an emergency. the other thing is at the fed, we have always -- for some time now we have been trying to work with these very large data sets that are available in real time -- for example, from credit-card compani

needed as a message from germany to tell russia, hey, there's just no point in trying to build a bureau. me in a way that you, that you're thinking about potentially attacking a baltic countries, say, or test nato 5 to call on and, you know, common defense is that one of these signs that i need now, how would you assess that's it is i think it's definitely one of the assignments that are needed, i don't think that by itself will be sufficient. so 1st of all, we have to figure out how to turn the snow unlimited funding for the military into into actual action on the ground that stops russia from even thinking about certainly further aggression against nato members. you members, for instance, as you mentioned in the policy, and as we know from the original 100000000000 and a special funds were for the military that the traffic lights at call issue implemented together with other parties in 2022 after the team, especially in thomas 5 to send the out. so you can tell me that right now. yeah, yeah, that is not without. it's showing this, right. so you have to spend this money, you have to sp

they both parties say they want to spend hundreds of billions of bureaus on germany's defense. but questions remain about what exactly germany will spend the money all, and how much of it all will cost after russia's full scale attack on ukraine began in 2022. so that schultz announced $100000000000.00 euros of special borrowing to bring gym. and these policies up to scratch, once my kid edit site vendor. now those likely to form the next government plan to one least even greater sums. this and of all, we understand the funds for the defense of our alliance in the country. you must now be significantly expanded. missing in 2024, jim and his defense spending went above the 2 percent. and they tell you target for the 1st time, but what allies need and the security situation demands is changing 1st. meanwhile, the minimum capability requirements alternate to be in the test page, we have to established 5 or 6 new brigades in germany, only so additional money will be needed. the total cause of hundreds of billions and extra funding, some of that will go to things. gemini is already

the breaking news on our t last protests, breakouts in book arrest as the media and election bureau boss calling judge, ask you for my re run of the presidential election. now he had been the front runner from december selection and all the election a 100. so people are reported killed in syria. it was odd. describe that last executions carried out by the countries. new authorities. a warning that these reports contain disturbing images. russian troops of the military babies syria reportedly give refuge to local fleeing from the valens. and that's that the efforts are underway to broke a tooth between residents and the government officials. at least one person is killed and 7 others wounded out the red crowded market. and the fox on region, his head in the ukranian this all the time, the what you're watching, our team to national, reaching you from the russian capital. i a michael, quote you now we start this out with a breaking news from romania where the country is electro. a bureau that has bought the front runner from decembers and all the vote from taking part in the re, ron. callin

or do you smoke exclusively with homeless political bureau member by some name? it was nothing to say that because we haven't received any uh offer show off on the 1st 2nd. we are not privy to negotiate on a new or for us because we have a certain deed this deal it has, but it has to be signed by the tool button. and the last, this is the dentist. i mean the categories that exemptions and the americans and why tony can choose a new, did we have the theme, and it's a product sentence from one fault is assigned is rejecting to go for the 2nd fees. and we have if it's even the 1st, because many times i've been to the 90, but i've seen is i'll be doing the fis fees. most of the needs of the guys are, we're not allowed to enter, that goes to the people who are not allowed to move up the rest. the us, the, the gates on both directions. they have delayed the front of the leasing office. and as many times we have just we are calling everyone for support. first of one of the mediators on the americans, we quote, also the international community to intervene to block its w

front runner from december, the tonsils go to still be allowed to run, remains up to the election bureau to decide the kind of the welcome to our attention option and you sent out with the latest update . i. a michael watching that reports claim that there had been mass executions in syria with civilians killed by the new government forces. a warning that there are disturbing images i had the footage circulating online shows, the reported optimized for the government for his campaign. with bodies left streamed on the road side of the mother superior from this sense. james didn't meet today to romano screen. syria says that more than 1500 people have been killed in what she calls a genocide studia today. this is in a shape. there is a genocide on uh, an issue space. and the one where is that for treating the genocide and i because i haven't heard them coming from virginia answering. we have been slow attending and we are happy to come to that to, to slow to more. and i have heard that in the been yes, today you have at least 1500 to 2004. so be headed or foreman. she read the ancient even

guys as a boss, rejected us proposal to restore peace in the war to our region from us. political bureau, lamba tells us bus 10, but he's real did not pop the new proposal, but the group sees it because we haven't received an offer show you both on the 5th. so to $22.00 inches and then you want us to because we have less time deep. this deal has, has been signed by the football field. the when you're watching our team to national, reaching you from our new center with moscow. i have mike pop watching a key european summit on your train has wrapped up in london, fresh from his mulling from donald trump. the luxury, the last key was given a rob about war. my welcome from my host of lead. is that web? plenty of hans and even more promises on offer the the, the, the . ready the now the british prime minister was the 1st to give comments and while some talk of a time for peace is still talking of war. and now's like a new, over a 1000000000 pound aid package for p of specifically to buy more weaponry, doubling down on this support for a lot of these zalesky. yesterday evening, the u. k. signe

w. process. bureau chief alexander phenomena is standing by alexandra with the us stopping of support for ukraine. how high or the stakes for this use of it? well, tell me the stakes are incredibly high here in brussels. there is no doubt about that. we have been speaking with many you officials and which politicians and all of them have been stressing at that there is a sense of urgency that there has been a change of the mindset off to this contentious meeting in the oval office that many member states of the european union and their leaders, they know that they cannot rely any more on due as protection. so they needs to do more for their own defense. and they also have to step up their efforts to support you crate. so the stakes are very high. we also heard from the polish prime minister don't know, tells course, told us that actually there is no room for failure here. that is the moment for the european union to step up. the us military support for ukraine has served as a crucial lifeline to keep of course, in his fight against russia's invasion uh, billions of dollars worth of eq

we are exclusively on that, some of our mazda federal bureau members for to see the new deed to the dean. and it's a plug, attempted from one of the boxes we are pulling the national community to intervene . otherwise, we are pre before posting on the you are watching r t international live in moscow. i'm rachel ruble. we're bringing you the top news stories from around the world. the 1st we're breaking news from israel, where one man has been killed and 4 wounded and a stabbing attack in the northern city of haifa is really police say the alleged assailant was killed shortly after he attacked people at a bus station. the suspect was identified as miss bailey's citizen from a nearby arabic ruse. town medics on the scene confirmed the death of a 70 year old man and the 3 victims in critical condition, including a 15 year old boy will stay on top of the story and bring you all the latest details as we get them here at our to a coalition of the willing, it's a term unheard of since the us led invasion of a rock over 2 decades ago. but right now it's the u. k. and france leading the charge a

let's go live now is one with an east bureau chief maria from ocean in jerusalem. good morning to you and maria. so what exactly do we know about this? alternative plans for garza's is emerging from egypt. good morning to you need to well, the so called addiction plan for gals, a is a direct alternative to trump's controversial proposal from last month. and draft plan outlines and major shift and governance folk as a one that would remove him mass from power and establish a civilian leg governing body to overseas to many german aid and reconstruction. this social supports committee would operate without a fix timeline signaling a long term plan for posts for guys a street. the push for our blood control comes in response to trump's widely condemned idea of relocating over a 1000000 gallons to countries like doors and and age of when rejected strongly by our nations. trump even floated the idea of owning gauze, as you remember and turn it into a middle east riviera, fueling global backlash. they gyptian when guarantees but the palestinians must remain in gaza. no fu