now, the man who will be the next chancellor, friedrich merz, he's saying that migration and tougheninghe borders is going to be a top priority for him. and what's life in afghanistan really like nowadays under the taliban? we have an eyewitness account which may surprise you. they have installed, like, more than 90,000 security cameras in kabul. so, they are watching everyone. donald trump promised to get the ukraine war sorted on the first day of his presidency. it may not have been quite as soon as that, but it does look as though it could happen within the first few weeks. the pace has been remarkably fast. some of the basic principles of 80 years of american and western policy. making ukraine pay for us financial and military help by handing over some of its key mineral resources is something which seems new in western experience, though, in fact, it isn't. newsreel: 50 million | mouths had to be fed... britain paid very heavily indeed for the support it received from the us in the second world war, but at least britain won its war. when i spoke to the bbc�*s russia editor, steve r

le futur chancelier allemand, friedrich merz, a estimé que l'europe devait se préparer "au pire scénariorre mondiale des etats-unis qui est en jeu. - david delos: parmi les dirigeants européens, certains sont prorusses et d'autres pro-poutine. ils pourraient faire blocage. - alix le bourdon: en effet. en plus de ce plan de 800 milliards d'euros, de nombreux autres sujets vont être discutés durant ce sommet. les responsables craignent des réticences, voire des oppositions des gouvernements hongrois et slovaques, proches de vladimir poutine. la question de l'envoi d'un soutien militaire supplémentaire à l'ukraine fait déjà l'objet d'une bataille. les responsables s'attendaient à ce que soit inclus dans les conclusions de ce sommet un plan proposé il y a un mois par la cheffe de la diplomatie européenne, kaja kallas. un plan qui prévoit l'envoi d'au moins 1,5 million de munitions à l'ukraine sur 1 an, ainsi que d'autres équipements militaires tels que des systèmes de défense antiaérienne, des missiles et des drones. mais dans les derniers projets de conclusion qui ont circulé ici, à bruxell

friedrich merz has said the u.s. cannot rely on europe, cannot rely on the u.s.enforce article five, for instance, of nato, as others have echoed. is that how europe should read this president that they're on their own as well? >> well, i don't see how european leaders can can read anything other into what happened today, but that the united states is in many ways walking away from europe. and europe is on its own. uh, look, the message that went out from this meeting, uh, to the world is that, uh, united states credibility, uh, in dealing with our allies, uh, has taken a real hit, uh, and europe really? i know europe has been talking about having to basically support ukraine on its own. uh, not really believing that the united states would walk in the opposite direction. but what happened today confirms their worst suspicion. they are the ones that are going to have to step up and help zelenskyy be able to save his country. >> david, gop lawmakers who support ukraine have been telling me for weeks that trump will not abandon ukraine because he doesn't want to be

so i can't imagine that trump's. >> intention was. >> to turn friedrich. >> merz that the soon to bellor. >> in all likelihood, from a really die hard atlanticist into like, almost gaullist proponent of european strategic not only autonomy but even independence of the us. so i can't imagine that all of this was was really, really the plan. and my sense is that the trump. >> administration has. >> been quite surprised by the european resolve not to let ukraine down and actually to do what is demanded of europe. so i think that there was this. idea that that europe will just cave in and agree to whatever the trump administration is trying to push through in terms of a deal on ukraine. and this is not the case. and it seems to be quite surprising to the. >> trump administration. if we do. >> see a peace deal struck in ukraine, is there a risk that this dampens the momentum that we're seeing in europe now, the urgency that's behind a lot of these defense proposals? >> i doubt it. >> because it is very clear that that that no sort of like durable peace is realistic anytime very soon. like

so friedrich merz, and the less is on oh -- overturned by the courts, which i have a hard time seeing because we all use paper plow paper ballots. -- use paper ballots. pretty much going to govern with the social democrats in a coalition. i don't think he will have any compunction supporting ukraine. i think he intends to be a strong player in it. the reservations i have about that is last night also saw a doubling of the afd seats in parliament, with extremely high shares in eastern germany up to 37%. benjamin: the neo-nazi party. constanze: that is not precise. they are good friends with neo-nazis but they are not by definition neo-nazi and i think that is important thing to say. the gentleman to mastic intelligence service has determined them to be some of the state organizations right-wing extremists, but they have been very careful in avoiding, except for some fringe figures and one or two of their leaders, in avoiding nazi language. forgive me, i say that because it is done deliberately and strategically and one of the things that make it difficult for example to outright ban th

but the chancellor in waiting, friedrich merz, has clearly pushing to get another kind of big bulk ofed through as some kind of exception to that debt break. so that's one possibility. the uk has just committed. last week, prime minister starmer said you're a british defense. spending would go from 2.3% of gdp to 2.5% by 2027 and then higher after that. that's a pretty concrete commitment. the european union is going to be looking, i think, at easing its debt, break its debt rule so that countries can spend more on defense without it affecting their whether they broken the debt rules or not. and there is this talk of a kind of a some kind of a defense bank. all of this is a long way from from detailed prime time. but together, i think it tells you that this money is coming. but i think you put your finger on a bigger point, which is most european countries are pretty indebted, and the kind of defense spending increase that is going to be needed, particularly if europe can no longer rely on the united states, is not just a couple of tenths of a percentage point, it is above three, thre

but friedrich merz a conservative, actually said today that he believes that it looked like a manufactured escalation, not a spontaneous exchange. there is such a view that this administration was trying to trip and trap zelenskyy. whatever you might think of zelenskyy's body language or his comportment that this was, you know, this was not the right way to go. and so what's happening is that they are trying to figure out how to how to recoup all this and whether they can go forward with any trust and credibility of the united states with them. and they're trying to figure out how to step into this, but they're doing it. and it's actually quite interesting to see in the white house, as predicted, did say that they are pleased to see europe stepping up. it's what they said they wanted all along. but in ukraine, the ukrainians are supporting him. zelenskyy has said. i'm not going to step down. we don't have elections because nor did you in britain have elections during the war. it's impossible. but if i can be, you know, get ukraine into nato, which he said before, i'll step down, my job is

for its ineffectual time in power, and although the centre—right cdu won the election, making friedrich merzhe 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 by a male guardian. girls still can't go