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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 dictato ....
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 ....
in california, in an early morning statement, the ea rly morning statement, the spokesperson early morning statement, the spokesperson for the chinese ministry accused washington of colluding with taiwan, especially over the issue of arms sales, earlier mr mccarthy said washington must strengthen in economic cooperation with the island that china has claimed as its own. whether it is our deep claimed as its own. whether it is our deep commercial- claimed as its own. whether it is our deep commercial ties, l is our deep commercial ties, strong people to people relationships, our shared values, our cooperation with the people of taiwan continue to expand through dialogue and exchange. mr to expand through dialogue and exchanae. ~ a ., , , exchange. mr mccarthy is the most senior exchange. mr mccarthy is the most senior us exchange. mr mccarthy is the most senior us figure - exchange. mr mccarthy is the most senior us figure to - exchange. mr mccarthy is the | most s ....
ukraine s vast farms were feeding the world, but the country is now reliant on billions of dollars of help just to get through every month. ukraine s finance minister tells me how he s kept the economy functioning despite the missiles and the deliberate targeting of infrastructure, including the power grid. also, i m going to be hearing from a leading business voice on how private companies have managed to keep doing business in a war zone and how they re supporting their staff through it all. many thousands of homes and buildings have been destroyed by russian bombs. so how will ukraine afford to rebuild when the fighting stops? the european bank for reconstruction and development will play a leading role, and its president tells me that the work has already begun. wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. you know, ukraine, it s been suffering for a year now. it s 12 months since russia invaded because of ....
thank you from the very bottom of my heart. a 19 month old girl becomes the first british child to receive a new life saving gene therapy we have an exclusive report. # i can rub and scrub this house # till it s shining just like a dime.# and the hollywood film star and model raquel welch has died at the age of 82. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in buffalo in new york state, where the self declared white supremacist payton gendron has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a racially motivated mass killing. this is him, being led into the courtroom. he d earlier admitted murdering ten people during that attack at a supermarket last may. he drove more than 200 miles to the store, which is in a predominantly african american part of buffalo. before sentencing, a relative of one of the victims was giving a statement when someone tried to attack gendron. have a look. you don t know a damn thing about black people! we are human. we like our k ....