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
of its kind, and if signed into law by the montana governor, will almost certainly face legal challenges. under the proposed law, apple and google would have to remove tiktok from their app stores orface the possibility of a $10,000 a day fine for violation. tiktok has denied accusations that it s a tool of the chinese communist party. the company has described the proposed ban as egregious government overreach . although the ban wouldn t take effect untiljanuary 2024, it would impact thousands of montana tiktok users and content creators, many of whom, with sizeable followings, depend on the platform to make a living. carly gotha rd carly gothard is one of these influences here, she posts lifestyle blogs, and i spoke to her earlier. festival, tell us what your reaction is to this move from montana lawmakers. i am just shocked. this is howl am just shocked. this is how i make my income, and i am able to help provide for my family, and honestly it really saddens me because i
but what we do want to do is to push for and to advocate for these young people being looked after better. there are currently around 8,000 young people on that waiting list, some waiting years without any help at all. the health secretary, steve barclay, says he is clear that the new services providing that help must fully reflect the recommendations from the cass review and these, he says, differ significantly to the services provided at the tavistock. for the families waiting, the sooner they can access that care, the better. hannah barnes. in a statement, nhs england told us it was developing a new training framework for clinicians providing care in children s gender services and would not adopt old training materials previously used by gids. it added that all aspects of the new services would be guided by the ongoing cass review. tomorrow s front pages. the daily mail, fears of chaos of doctors and nurses strike together. the rcn told us they would consider coordinated
committee huddled today to hammer out final details of the donald trump subpoena, and why it has yet to be issued. plus, the justice department says its january 6th investigation is running out of money. what officials are asking congress and whether congress will give it to them. i m katy tur in for hallie jackson. we re going to start in pennsylvania, with mbs news white house correspondent mike memoli in philadelphia, and nbc news correspondent dasha burns, and punch bowl co-founder and msnbc contributor jake sherman as well. so mike, the president is in pennsylvania, and he stood in front of a bridge that collapsed a little bit earlier this year, he happened to be there for the aftermath of that collapse, and he s using it to make a specific pitch. what is it? well, what the president was really trying to do in order to try to help boost democrats in these midterm elections is talk about promises made and promises they delivered on. this is a president who really beli
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the russian ministry of defence says its troops have left the strategic town of lemann, in eastern ukraine. a ministry spokesman was quoted by russian news agencies as saying the withdrawal was carried out because of a threat of encirclement. earlier, the ukrainian military said its troops were inside the town. lyman was a key strategic target used by russia as a major logistics hub and sits in the donetsk region which the government in moscow has just declared to be a part of russia. video footage shared online shows ukrainian soldiers waving their national flag on the outskirts of lyman. we cannot however verify exactly where the flag raising is taking place. alina frolova is a former deputy defence minister of ukraine and is now the deputy chairman of the centre for defence strategy think tank. she told me more about the significance of this development. you know, that yesterday russia declared its so call