and a man who is believed to be the new chancellor, the leader of the cdu party, the party that won the germany's recent elections, that this was an incident, a reminder of the terrible acts of the past, and that the country must do everything to keep safe. this is the third and seven in which a car has been used as a weapon since christmas here in germany. caitriona: thank you so much for that. let's go back to our top story and bring in our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse, who joins us from kyiv. thank you for being with us. these latest lines coming from president trump saying president zelenskyy should be appreciative. what has been the response to that in ukraine? james: well, off the back of president zelenskyy, suggesting over the weekend that this war, the end of the war is a long way off, that irritated donald trump. he has since said he hopes america will still be part of its path to peace. but we are seeing two presidents who both want peace but with different definitions. you have donald trump wanting a quick one, which he said since before reentering office, he want

cdu leader friedrich merit said the country needed to take matters into its own hands when it. >> cameo defense. >> thanks. in view of increasing threats. >> it's clear to us that europe. >> and along with europe. >> the federal republic. >> of germany must now very quickly. make very big efforts to strengthen the defense capability of our country. >> and the. >> european continent. >> we're counting. on the. >> united states. >> of america. >> to stand by our mutual alliance commitments in the future as well. but we also know that the funding for the defense of our country in alliance. >> must now. >> be expanded significantly. >> well, it is all systems go in europe on the back of that major breakthrough in germany yesterday, the stoxx 600 here up more than 1% this morning, despite the heavy selling that we saw on wall street yesterday, what was a really volatile session there with so much uncertainty around tariffs. the xetra dax up 2.6% this morning. the exuberance is spreading beyond germany though. you've got the cac40 up 1.7% in italy that benchmark up 1.5% ftse 100 up half a pe

issue here, and you will notice from covering the crisis, we have a chancellor coming into germany, cdu leader, this is the party that put the debt break into the constitution of germany who is now lobbing to make exceptions so that the eu will loosen its fiscal rules so that you countries can get more debt. that comes after bazookas of their own fiscal plans of five, 6, 7 hundred billion euros in terms of spending on infrastructure and defense. we talk about the market impact generally speaking on this kind of day, it is monetary policy. right now it is fiscal policy and moving the bond market in ways that lagarde and ecb never could. >> the incoming chancellor really taking a phrase, a playbook from a former ecb official, italian mario draghi. he says whatever it takes when it comes to defense. what are they hoping to get out of this emergency summit? >> listen, they're going to ratify a number of proposals that have been put out in terms of these outlined by ursula von der leyen earlier in the week. this is going to look at using fiscal rules, look at direct lending. in terms of what

the hapless spd has been punished for its ineffectual time in power, and although the centre—right cduon the election, making friedrich merz the next chancellor, the extremes did well — both on the left and the right. afd — alternative fur deutschland — which the us vice presidentjd vance did his best to promote while he was in germany, did particularly well, she told me what she'd found. when you go to kabul, kabul is a very, very busy city. around 5 million people live there and you get almost everything in the shops, on the streets. but the only problem is that people cannot afford to buy anything, because there is obviously no jobs. the poverty is there. and what i saw was... like, personally, for me, it was heartbreaking. you would see men, women, young and old, begging on the streets. you would see women with their young babies standing in a crossroad, stopping cars to give them anything they can. women? i mean, do you see women without hijab? no, you can't see any woman without hijab. and you would not see women walking alone. they walk in groups, or they are always accompanied