u. n. c's war between russia and ukraine is intensifying is as we approach 3 years since the russian federation is full scale invasion of ukraine. progress towards a peaceful resolution remains elusive as we witness a dangerous escalation of hostilities. so far, the warrant has killed and wounded the ends of posing the fight this on civilians. ritual rizzo is a senior fellow at the atlanta council. she joins us now from washington, dc. so as we heard in the report, the one is saying that the war is intensifying. what do you think that is? so i think that there has been a few months here where both sides had been somewhat a stay on the grinding meters, perhaps a few kilometers here and there. but there's a couple of things to note. first is that bite is leaving office and trump is coming into office. biden has been a stalwart supporter of ukraine. you can argue whether or not his approach or what he's sent. ukraine has been effective, but he's certainly been a stalwart supporter of ukraine's fight. trumpet is kind of on the fence about this . and so i think that there's a sense on both sides. ru

u. n. c's war between russia and ukraine is intensifying, is as we approach 3 years since the russian federation is full scale invasion of ukraine. progress towards a peaceful resolution remains elusive as we witness a dangerous escalation of hostilities. so far, the ward has killed and wounded tens of thousands of fight this on civilians. for more than this, i'm joined by joshua shifting some senior fellow at the cato institute and associate professor at the university of maryland. thank you for joining us. so donald trump supposedly help. thank you. donald trump says he hopes the world be over in the next 6 months, but the question is, what would an acceptable and look like for russia and what would it look like for ukraine? well, we have to distinguish between the ideal and the pragmatic. when we talk about acceptability, i think for russia, the acceptable, the ideal acceptable would be essentially control over ukraine. not necessarily incorporating ukraine into russia, but controller for ukrainian politics of ukrainian geo politics. and certainly no membership in nato for ukraine, where it's

u. n. c's war between russia and ukraine is intensifying is as we approach 3 years since the russian federation is full scale invasion of ukraine. progress towards a peaceful resolution remains elusive as we witness a dangerous escalation of hostilities sofa. the warrant has killed and wounded the ends of posing the fight this on civilians to and that's the latest on data, but you can use this. our marion evans do not have more headlines for you in about 45 minutes. up next is dw business with a look into environmental concerns and peru over a massive chinese ports project. from me and the entire news team in berlin. thanks for the company. the one of main kinds, oldest ambitions to be within reach. what do you see? it really is possible to reverse the researchers and scientists all over the world for a no race again.

we're particularly active in the city of the, according to 1995 u. n. c goes to 125 people were killed here. 60 of them children on over a 1000 things. during the siege, the foreign correspondents and photographers became a part of people's daily lives in san diego. on the ground, the conflict was relentless. but the world became increasingly de sensitized to people's pain and suffering. so like mountain bo pull marshal and bobo lives, dec stopped wearing flat jackets and helmets, while reporting amongst civilians need a pulls on myself. lab subjected during the war on our regular work commissions during the day. because for him, as for me, was really on decent to last like jackets in front of the unprotected people from who were in the street and who will completely expose the snipers and settings every single day. the k a k for security for cnn novice to get the truck. and then what's the most model of the sort of quadrant on an started some states of cynthia as quote k, i live. it's called soft fissures, k like chrome data, and many until they will cal

u. n. c's, almost all residential buildings in plaza have either been destroyed or damaged flight is ready forces and to hold the all to see the didn't but of cause the policy time. meanwhile, the you and says conditions of the in the nation, the hospital in jamalia, unacceptable. a joint un and world health organization, a team finally reached the site up to israel had denied them access more than a 100 times. the aid workers found a destroyed abandoned healthcare facility. unable to save patients surrounded by city byes, randy s wrecks ramos pricing's ongoing. we've been trying to reach the nice does a 14179. people here has no sooner than ease and trustees. so let's do this. at least 7 palestinians were killed by his ran the s drive targeting discharge, a neighborhood in gauze. the city of zeros month, i'll follow reports from the attack side. i'm talking to you from the bumps. hardwood is right on. this is more than $7.00 to use as the tab. i just wish if somebody in the east of us. yeah. yeah. and here is the a, this towards house as a calculator. see, i'm the, they bring the till the

u. n. c's. almost all residential buildings in garza have either been destroyed or damaged flight is ready forces and to hold the all just either didn't but of cause a policy time. 0 how is indians and gaza have spent the 1st day of the year fleeing is really strikes at least $28.00 palestinians have been killed across the strip and separate attacks. most of the air strikes or targeting northern gaza. that's been under is really siege for months. at least 15 people were killed in jamalia, including children. rescue workers are still hoping to find survivors trapped under the rubble of the we were sleeping around 2 30 am. when they targeted the house next to mind, the walls collapsed on us. they pulled me and my children out of the rubble which fell on us. you in says conditions and indonesian hospital and jamalia are unacceptable after a joint un and world health organization, a team finally reached the site on sunday. they've been denied access by israel more than 100 times. the aid workers kin

u. k, a n u c. hope everywhere. a movement is growing power press so its power is growing like never before. we are successfully challenging powers that be been a region southern front, the absolute largest in the world. recently divested it's $500000000.00 worth of insurance bonds under pressure from the law or just the trade union in norway, which has that media support there. but even bigger than that entails the ship maker can. so the project of investing $25000000000.00, would it be $25000000000.00 near tel aviv, 50 miles from guys up basically they were planning a huge factory on several factors. led to that, including bts pressure on, on shareholders. does it make sense to invest in a war zone where your entire investments may disappear? isn't this reckless, isn't this ideological? and indeed, that was much more effective than our ethical and legal arguments in that case. so there are many other cases look at what's happening with artists with academics, with students in count minutes, trade unions. so all ov

u. n. c's, almost residential buildings in garza, have either been destroyed or damage. flight is ready forces and the whole city all just need a didn't but of cause a policy time. will policy anything cause it has been the 1st day of the leading is very strikes at least 28 palestinians have been killed in separate detox, that most of the strong. so targeting northern garza, which has been on the, is really siege for months. so, and at least 15 people were killed in giovanni, including children, rescue it because it's still hoping to find survivors trumped. under the rubble of the day we were sleeping around 2 30 am. when they targeted the house. next to mind, the walls collapsed on us. they pulled me and my children out of the rubble which fell on us in pain. balcony is at the scene of the attack. this is how god zones in northern god assume the great the beginning of the new year is really right or just have targeted. this residential lot and give areas to be, at least for the team, tells me these were killed and dozens were injured and transported to the hospital and northern central

the latest announcement from chapman, n. c, u, a monk, a bug, was significant. not just because of the content of his statement, but the very of his tone of deference towards trump. the recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech. according to zak a bug met us fact checking on content motivation had gone to 5 and had resulted in censorship. so professional fact checking we'd be placed by use us doing, i'm collecting inaccuracies, restrictions on contentious topics like immigration and gender, we'd be listed. and is that the book went further? we're going to work with president trump, to push back on governments around the world, pushy to sensor more. there's been dreams of analysis on the changes coming to meta . the broad consensus is that in an ito of accelerating this information, there is reason to be very concerned. it's not that all the changes are bad. for instance, the use of based approach to flagging inaccuracies is more open and democratic, then outsource content motivation. also, no one is arguing t

international thousands of refugees from through don and moving into neighboring chad to try to escape find c o u n says nearly a 1000000 refugees of fed the tougher region where mass killings have reportedly taking place as you done so many has been fighting the paramilitary rapids support forces for more than a year and a half 12300000 people have been forced from their homes in the world's largest displacement crisis. catherine, so a is in the board. a ton of audrey in chat to the child you in town of address is dry, hot and unforgiving it buddhist. sit on whether ami in the palm military rapids support forces have been fighting for more than the. yeah. had deja abraham has just arrived at this. come for refugees and the other buddha. she's been displaced several times back home and said she and her family had no choice but to leave west dar from i see that we were in our village and happy lives. there was a conflicts that we then had to see to jeanina. there was fighting there as well. so we had no choice but to come to chat. finding food along the way was tough. that joined by hundreds of $100

n. c as the u. s. problems. ukraine full of guns. well, they actually want to see valve us is peace. i work very hard and the lead up to the war including, you know, meetings with my russian counterpart, surrogate alive, roth in geneva, a couple of months before the war. trying to find a way to see if we could prevent it, trying to test the proposition, whether this was really about russia's concerns for it. security concern somehow about ukraine and the threat that posed or nato and the threat that it posed. and we were intentionally engaged diplomatically with russia, was a co with incidents. i was also that in geneva, full that need to this is the villa where joe budman without the may approved in are going to meet the busy security here is nothing fell off as i remember. well, how russian journalist, what bod for joe, by his press conference, where he took pre prepared questions, dave, pre prepared odds as to pre selected journalist. i'll take your questions as usual, folks. they gave me a list of the people i'm going to call on. so jonathan, associated press a minutes walked awa

n. c as the u. s. problems, ukraine full of guns. will they actually wanted? he tells us, is peace. i work very hard and the lead up to the war, including, you know, meetings with my russian counterpart surrogate lab rough in geneva, a couple of months before the war. trying to find a way to see if we could prevent it, trying to test the proposition, whether this was really about russia's concerns for its security concern. somehow about ukraine and the threat that posed or nato and the threat that it posed. and we were intentionally engaged diplomatically with russia, was a co when, since i was also that in geneva, full that need to i remember, well how russian journalist will bod from jew biden's press conference. but he took pre prepared questions. dave, pre prepared dogs, is to pre selected journalist a minutes, walk away. meanwhile, vladimir approved with a loud journalist from over the us in europe to aust, whatever they bought, that i also distinctly remember the tools being an abject failure. because the united states refused to accept any of russia's concerns since then, had

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the head of the u n's relief agency says efforts to save lives in golf 0 breaking point c h a chief. tom fletcher says, is really a tax on aide work is in the collapse of law and order in gaza from a day that fits nearly impossible, the ministry of health and goals, the results, the warning of dissolves to unfolding in the remaining hospitals due to a lack of fuel recent satellites, images show the level of destruction in northern gauze caused by these ready ministry with these off before and off to pictures of one neighborhood, most residential buildings and towers. and they are new and, and the people here have been reduced to rubble. the north of this trip has been on the siege by it, is where the forces for 3 months prior to assume as the latest force. now, from there up in the, in central casa, that is really military attacks are run the golf course. the goal is to stripe on closing significant destruction to residential homes and civil infrastructure and what that was clips during the past 12 hours on across the area of the sites. humanitarians owens are also in a very heavily

c, the security council, the u. n. a not only that, the 3 people all around the world or speaking up for, for us to any of them understand the scene and close. but also the elective leaders are also voicing their concerns against is there any and is there any aggressions against the palestinians? so yes, on the short term, we are disappointed that not enough action is taken to protect the students in the us. but i think that's in the medium to long term. what has happened from the international community will come up control up towards a free pa, this fine. and again, every struggle. unfortunately, some sacrifices have to be made. look into it. now i'm looking at south africa because north africa look at a lot of sense. so all of these areas for decades, they struggled until they achieve their freedom. so far this team is understand that there's a price to pay and we look forward to the international community to enforce the laws in order to ensure that they actually have the freedom that they resist. okay, thank you f

the head of the u. n's release agency says efforts to save lives in gauze, a breaking point o c h. a chief tom at. fletcher says is really a tax on 8 workers and the collapse of the one or the in garza have made a f. it's nearly impossible. the ministry of health in gauze, the results, a warning of a disaster unfolding the remaining hospitals due to a lack of few recent stuff, lot images show the level of destruction and northern gods. a close by these very ministry, these all before and off to pages of one neighborhood, most residential buildings and towels and make a new and then they have been reduced to rubble. the north of the strip husband under siege buys, really forces for 3 months. power assume as the latest for us now from down the line and central guns. this is really military attacks are run the golf course. the goal is to stripe and causing significant destruction to residential homes and civil infrastructure. and what that was clips during the past 12 hours on a low off the area of the safe humanitarian zones are also in a very heavily field. top neighborhood spot for

u. n. n u. the security council convenes to discuss sudan on the agenda. the sudanese government decision to abruptly end cooperating with a global hunger monitoring system known as i p. c. which recently issued a report that says a 5 areas are facing famine and over 24000000 sudanese experience high levels of food and security. by may, we are concerned the seed needs will services impulses that participation in the ip c system in response to the support are continuing to deny the food and security spreading costs across to done would only exacerbate suffering. un official said the sudanese government is imposing bureaucratic hurdles to delivering aid. the advert costing remains a crucial entry point and to route. but inside the for additional restrictions are being imposed on the work of you monitoring organizations. a new inspection procedures for trucks intended for conflict. the affected areas. in note, the 4 are creating new bottle. next, the sudanese authorities decision to suspend their collaboration with the ip c system and impede international efforts to provide humanitarian assistance and prevent starvation is simply unacceptable. but sedans, ambassador told t

u. n . in new york. the security council convenes to discuss sudan on the agenda. the sudanese government decision to abruptly end cooperating with a global hunger monitoring system known as i p c. which recently issued a report that says a 5 areas are basing famine and over 24000000 sudanese experience high levels of food and security. by may, we are concerned the seed needs will services of hostage that participation in the ip c system. in response to this report are continuing to deny the food and security spreading costs across to done would only exacerbate suffering. un official said the sudanese government is imposing bureaucratic hurdles to delivering aid. the advert costing remains a crucial entry point and to route. but inside the for additional restrictions are being imposed on the work of you monitoring organizations. a new inspection procedures for trucks intended for conflict affected areas and not the full are creating new boss will next. the sudanese authorities decision to suspend their collaboration with the ip c system and impede international efforts to provide humanitarian assistance and prevent starvation is simply unacceptable. but sedans, ambassador told

u. member states, stronger growth isn't expected in 2025. so let's review 2024. look ahead to 2025 with our panel of experts with joint from london. by then i'll have phase found a n c o of micro hive from single pool. we're joined by deborah elm, this head of trade policy at heinrich, that's an organization of a 100 foundation, which is an organization specializing and trade research and from london in gold and a professor of globalization of development at oxford university. welcome to you will fill out. it felt like a wild roller coaster at times of what sort of year was 2024 economically was a good, bad, perfectly average. well, you're absolutely right. it was the right across the road. it depends who you ask, but given that stocks were off, the overall given the fact that inflation was falling gross in general, especially in the us, was from the i would say that 2024 on balance is very, very good. and especially given some of the do politics that we sold over the course of the is the war against inflation. 12024 will be remembered by many people around the will. of course, for the high cost of living, we were all finding it a bit hard to, to, to meet a, you kno

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