u. s. has established this as well established. this is working at the french and other european allies. they have to do work because the ukrainians to make their intelligence as fast and as reliable as the u. s. intelligence. so far before and how fast this can happen, that's, that's a big question. now in the wake of that historic falling out in the white house, european meters responded by stepping up. you mentioned that they can do something but can be realistically filled the void left by the us, a giant one in the ukraine, and in europe as a whole, a m b and bacon. and at the moment that not for the time being uh, i've mentioned there, defends, there so far is no european system that could match the capabilities of a petri or the defense system. the drum, an iris ts alarm system is in the range. well below the d a, the producer of the artist, the system is developing a new aesthetic system, but this will be some time until this is available and operational. so all the time being no, there is no european answer to that. we talk about many proposals that will boost your theme defense in the long term, but maybe briefly, if you can. what about short term measures that need to be implemented now, especially to support ukraine? well, the short term measures might be, are ramping up. what is available in europe perente not production, even more than it's been planned on to know those to us legal, defense, and security policy journalist always great to have you on the show. thank you so much for your time. you're welcome. and a quick look at some of the stories making headlines around the world today. for you as president, donald trump has temporarily lifted terrace for car makers after tax with us auto executive. the one month exemption applies to imports from canada and mexico that comply with existing free trade agreements, trans, 25 percent loving and almost all goods from those nations came into effect on tuesday. the german postal service storage post says it will cost a $1000.00 jobs by the end of the year. the cuts will come from the full of 187000 employees working in the domestic letter and parcel division. such a post says high costs and a significant drop and advertising, mail, and reduce letter volumes has led to the cuts. bosnian serve leader miller, i don't think has approved several laws. banning central government, police and judicial authority. in bosnia autonomy, semi autonomous served territory. laws will escalate the tensions in bosnia and herzegovina were doting is already facing present time. and removal from office was sentenced last week for ignoring decisions by the authority overseeing the countries piece of ports. he was president, donald trump has issued what he called his last warning to hamas leaders, threatening further destruction and gaza. if all remaining hostages are not immediately released. he published the ultimatum on troops social, his social media platform. the president also told gardens that a beautiful future awaits, but if they hold on to hostages, they were quotes that most of the drums threats are aimed at encouraging israel to avoid implementing the ceasefire and gossip. earlier the us president met with the freed captives in the white house where he pledged to return those still being held . on wednesday, the united states confirmed that its envoy had held direct talks with her mazda spine, and so the canadian, as a terrier group by the us in multiple countries, journalists, bollix, letting until ever you've told us more about the us ending it's decades long. policy of not negotiating with her. yes. well, uh to uh, my understanding, uh, this is the, the special invoice for uh, hostages out in boulder to admit the with the how much is a piece of the in the, the us uh us books person of the warehouse books version, excuse me, said that he has the permission to do that because that that's his mission to actually bring it back. americans at home detox were held in the doha, but 2 weeks ago. a see to how much that piece of the i guess. so they speaking to a guitar and who's paper said that they, they were focused on the uh, the floor. i'm going to come the hostages. and that has, uh, these ladies to visit you a bit as well. we know that there are fine american hostages, but they said that they at least the floor and uh, the mazda and the location was the one that raised the issue of a comprehensive deal that would lead to the disease of those hostages. but it would also lead to the end of the war and that so what we understand regarding the thought that there were not actually a leading anywhere to uh, the extent to but, and my understanding this is only just a talking between the 2 sides nowadays. right? inside the business from the permit is office. yes. so they said that they have expressed the opinion to those talks. didn't say what that opinion is. in other words, they are not approve. a go this um a talk said that were direct between as an buller and they'd be how much is it the location and the before that the just the yesterday evening and only there is a the senior official which is usually a code name for and benjamin that then you or someone in his circle set, that is what i was informed of these thoughts and was not then tuesday as think about them. in other words, they don't approve of them again. and by the way, the families of the hostages as well. basically the statement saying that this categorization of hostages is not the thing that we want. we want a comprehensive, the in the we bring back all the as to just not only some of them and according to their nationality or something else. so they also did express the consent. yeah. because of besides, those is really american jewel nationals. there are 54 other hostages still in gaza . about $22.00 of them assume to be alive. where do negotiations between israel and how my stand right now. then what is your legal issues, of course are still made to there's nothing that is being done the correctly and that what type of these ready, the, which let's call it is to actually extend the 1st phase of this deal. they said that they accepted the outline which met. it describes the 2nd day of destruction to the next few weeks. in continuation with disease firewall, releasing half of the remaining costs are just dead and alive. and only after this, the release of the start the beginning positions for the 2nd phase of the deal with the start of the is there any interest to you is to actually get back as much a hosted use as possible without being without the the clinic, the end of the world, we don't, i didn't get on these for the end of the war. a, something that affected will not happen. and apparently it is indivisible that we will go back to your exploding in tel aviv, thanks spike. and some more world stories, tropical cycling alpharetta stalled off australia as east coast and is now expected to make landfall on saturday. schools and airports has been closed as a region, braces for its 1st cycle and decades. more than 4000000 people live in the storms projected past. the used climate monitor reports that global sea ice cover reached a historic low last month. the lack of ice comes as temperatures mirror, the north pole rose to 11 degrees higher than average. the comparative cuz climate change service warren, that the loss of heat reflecting ice exacerbates global warming. south korea's military says that pilot arrow was what caused one of his fighter jets to accidentally dropped a bombs on a civilian area during training. a people were injured in several buildings damage when the k ups exchange ads release the bombs onto a cd close to the border with north korea. the military says they will help live drills while they investigate the accident, and then they will compensate the victims. earlier i spoke to journalist bobby and catch bowes in the south korean capital sol. he began by explaining how this incident unfolded or yeah, the incident happened during regular military exercises that are conducted here by the south korean army, together with the u. s. army and been something really unprecedented happened and we talk about an area that is actually quite close to the north korean border because those submitted to exercise as a part of a deterrent strategy against the french from the north. but the usually um, those fighter jets, they fly around shooting ranges and then drop their bombs. but this time a fight a pilot has dropped a bombs on civilian area on a village. and um yeah, people were injured, buildings were destroyed. but given what we know, i think it's rather astonishing that the damage is not even much greater because the bombs that were dropped are a so called mock 80 to bottom stair, 500 pounds heavy. they are more than 2 meters in length, and their radios of destruction is comparable to a football field. so it's really serious damage to that was being touched by there and talking to his earlier from salt authorities in the united kingdom have launched a new scheme. and aimed at preventing flooding and parts of the co