now it s time for the last word, with ali velshi in for lawrence. good evening, ali. you set me up well with that conversation about having an economy that s working now, but not without hurdles and pitfalls, and this is not a good time to be messing with it. to be messing with it without insane list of demands that would never come to fruition. correct. and probably can t even passer own conference. correct. so thank you for that. and you have yourself a great weekend, it will see you next week. you too, buddy. our economic plan is working. that s the message from president biden today in, it has been his consistent message about the recovery from the pandemic since his election. today s jobs report showed united states economy added 311,000 net new jobs last month. that is way higher than the predicted 225,000 from dow jones. today s jobs report also gave us an incredibly low unemployment rate. 3.6%. now that s higher than the unemployment rate from last month
that would never come to fruition. correct. and probably can t even passer own conference. correct. so thank you for that. and you have yourself a great weekend, it will see you next week. you too, buddy. our economic plan is working. that s the message from president biden today in, it has been his consistent message about the recovery from the pandemic since his election. today s jobs report showed united states economy added 311,000 net new jobs last month. that is way higher than the predicted 225,000 from dow jones. today s jobs report also gave us an incredibly low unemployment rate. 3. 6%. now that s higher than the unemployment rate from last month, which was 3. 4%. but there s actually reason for that. it s a good one. it rose because more people were encouraged to drop into the workforce and look for. a job. 242,000 more americans enter the workforce looking for a job, to be exact. he s president joe biden today. the job is about a lot more than a payche
chancellor olaf scholz promised dramatic change. my guest is the state secretary for economic cooperation niels annen. so has germany got a new strategic vision? niels annen, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure. it is great to be here. let s start with the war in ukraine. i think there is no doubt that putin s invasion of ukraine shocked germany. would it be fair to say it has also destabilised germany? no, i don t think so but it certainly shocked germany because a lot of our economic model was based on the assumption that we would continue using cheap russian natural gas and it was also based in a kind of historic, i want to say historic experience that although russia was a competitor and an enemy in the cold war, it was always also in economic terms quite a reliable partner. i think that was somehow, you know, is seen as a constant policy, and we did not really realise that it is not the soviet union anymore, it is a brutal dictator and an unpredictable dictator. but
my guest is state secretary for economic cooperation niels annen. so, has germany got a new strategic vision? niels annen, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure. well, it s great to be here. let s start with the war in ukraine. i think there s no doubt that putin s invasion of ukraine shocked germany. would it be fair to say it has also destabilised germany? no, i don t think so. but it certainly shocked germany because a lot of our economic model was based on the assumption that we would continue using cheap russian natural gas. and it was also based in a kind of historic, should i say, historic experience that although russia was a competitor and an enemy in the cold war, it was always also, in economic terms, a quite reliable partner. and i think that was somehow, you know, seen as a constant policy. and we did not really realise that it s not the soviet union any more. it s a brutal dictator and an unpredictable dictator. but what you ve just described is a very big de
completing a historic security policy shift. that was triggered by the invasion of ukraine by russia, with which finland shares a long border. in response to this, moscow said it would strengthen its military capacity in its western and northwestern regions. while sweden remains in the waiting room still, nato secretary generaljens stoltenberg says as a result, sweden will also be safer . let s get the latest from kyiv and our correspondent hugo bachega. asi as i mentioned there, hugo, this sparked by russia s invasion of ukraine just over a year ago. what is ukraine s reaction to this? yeah, i think the ukrainians is ukraine s reaction to this? yeah, i think the ukrainians are is ukraine s reaction to this? yeah, i think the ukrainians are watching | i think the ukrainians are watching it very closely and obviously, as you said, this decision by finland was triggered by russia s invasion of ukraine. and today is a major symbolic moment. finland abandoned decades of mili