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we'll speak with fdp bundestag member otto fricke at 930 gmt. tencent shares climbed to their highest level in over three years, as the chinese tech giant looks to integrate deep sea ai model into one of its key apps. our top story this morning geopolitics. u.s. officials will meet russian representatives in the coming days in saudi arabia to begin negotiations toward a russia ukraine peace deal. an aide close to ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky told nbc that ukraine had not been invited to join that meeting. but president trump told reporters on sunday that zelensky would be involved in conversations about peace. meanwhile, a number of european leaders will meet in paris later today to discuss the situation in ukraine after an invitation from president macron. >> the Élysée. said the leaders. >> will discuss the us administration's approach to ukraine, as well as security concerns in europe. we are seeing quite a strong bid for european defense names in europe this morning on the back of developments over the weekend in munich, with jd va

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if the smaller parties, the fdp and two smaller on the left of the political spectrum, make it in, merzlooking to meld them together to make a governing majority. tom: the list for the next government is long and significant. what for you should be the priorities of the next government, the first priorities in the first 100 days? sudha: most voters are concerned about migration. as you know, there have been a spate of attacks on german citizens on the part of migrants over the past couple of months, and of course there's worries and anxiety about the state of the german economy. now, these two issues are actually linked to geopolitical changes that germany is facing, and i think the next government has to be equipped to make bold reform so that germany can sort of position itself alongside europe as a capable global actor, and those issues are going to be defense spending, spending on innovation, and spending on infrastructure as well as maintaining germany's social market economy, but that means there's going to be a serious question about reform of the debt rate or setting up some sor

one of the interesting things there are two small parties, the fdp and the bfw. i have no idea what they stand for. if either of them break 5%, then they have to be included in then they have to be included in the calculations and that will create an almost impossible coalition challenge. so they'll be probably having a minority government, and that will obviously make it more possible for the afd to create problems. and also i find this more interesting, but possibly because it plays to a very, very simple, sort of cartoonish image of politics, it is extraordinary the degree to which the afd vote is concentrated in the former eastern germany. it clusters around berlin, which which remains, you know, left wing and disco. yeah, but but the whole of the rest of what was formerly prussia, the. >> and might be again. >> and might be again. >> the source of the whole of german magnificence in the 19th century, spikey helmets and all the rest of it. they are so solidly. and the point of this is so. the afd have won about 20% of the vote, which is roughly what they'd ha

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one of the interesting things there are two small parties, the fdp and the bfw. i have no idea what they stand for. if either of them break 5%, then they have to be included in then they have to be included in the calculations and that will create an almost impossible coalition challenge. so they'll be probably having a minority government, and that will obviously make it more possible for the afd to create problems. and also i find this more interesting, but possibly because it plays to a very, very simple, sort of cartoonish image of politics, it is extraordinary the degree to which the afd vote is concentrated in the former eastern germany. it clusters around berlin, which which remains, you know, left wing and disco. yeah, but but the whole of the rest of what was formerly prussia, the. >> and might be again. >> and might be again. >> the source of the whole of german magnificence in the 19th century, spikey helmets and all the rest of it. they are so solidly. and the point of this is so. the afd have won about 20% of the vote, which is roughly what they'd ha