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00:00:00land, he writes. And before
00:00:02the agreement is signed, there will be sparse
00:00:06information, according to the editor-in-chief of
00:00:09congress.com.
00:00:11It is certainly not without reason that the Danish government has chosen
00:00:15a communicative line of not commenting on anything about
00:00:18the agreement before it is signed, because it is clear that it is fragile, and you never
00:00:22quite know with Trump, but everything indicates that this will hold.
00:00:26But it is clear, in the first instance, there was something that perhaps began to make one breathe a little easier,
00:00:30when some of the conservative media interpreted it as a
00:00:33victory, and that is also why one must expect
00:00:37that it will go as planned with
00:00:39the signing here on Tuesday, and
00:00:43that is what your USA podcast delves deeper into, what
00:00:47the new agreement can mean, you can find the special episode in DR
00:00:50Audio, or watch the program on
00:00:51DRTV right
00:00:54now. Now we go to Germany, where two major state elections could be an indication
00:00:58for both the country's and
00:01:00the chancellor's future, as voters seem to be fleeing his party,
00:01:04the CDU, while the far-right party Alternative for Germany
00:01:08is surging, and in the capital Berlin, the chancellor's party is
00:01:11facing a loss of voters, and even
00:01:14worse, it could go in the state,
00:01:16Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
00:01:19because here the stage is set for political change, die ganze
00:01:23gesamte wirtschaftliche Situation in Deutschland ja
00:01:26eigentlich sehr bergab gegangen ist, und jetzt muss irgendwie was mal.
00:01:30Anja Hynemørder Pritzner has always voted for the conservative
00:01:34CDU, but now she will vote for the far-right party AFD
00:01:37in today's state election in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Ich
00:01:40bin maßlos enttäuscht vom Kanzler,
00:01:44weil ich eigentlich Hoffnung hatte, als Herr der
00:01:47Wirtschaft und eigentlich viel mehr gedacht habe, dass er sich auch
00:01:51wirklich in die Wirtschaft reinkniet.
00:01:54Two weeks ago, Alternative for Germany, AFDI, became
00:01:58the largest party in Saxony-Anhalt.
00:02:00"We have written history, we
00:02:03are taking back our country, it begins here
00:02:07in Saxony," the CDU was halved,
00:02:10Chancellor Frederik Schmerz called the result the worst
00:02:14defeat for the party in decades, we are
00:02:17all deeply shocked, we
00:02:20did not expect it in this form.
00:02:24Now the chancellor and the CDU are being tested
00:02:27again, besides Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
00:02:30The Germans are voting in Berlin? I say it will be
00:02:33very close. I would be in favor of the AFD
00:02:37winning, because then they will have to prove themselves. More voters
00:02:40believe that Chancellor Merz and
00:02:43the CDU's time is up. We must somehow draw a line and make a cut
00:02:47so that it can go back up.
00:02:50Otherwise, I don't know, it looks pretty sad.
00:02:53And let's go directly to Berlin to Dejsten
00:02:57Nørskov, as we hear in the report, many Germans are deeply
00:03:01dissatisfied and therefore ready to give the AFD a chance.
00:03:05How have the CDU and other parties tried to dissuade voters
00:03:08from the AFD here in the election campaign?
00:03:12They have done so by saying that what the AFD promises, they will never
00:03:16be able to deliver, that the economic policy that the AFD stands
00:03:20for is deeply irresponsible. It may be that the economy is not doing very well,
00:03:23the other parties in power admit that it is not, but they say
00:03:27it will be even worse if the AFD comes to power. They have never tried to govern before, and their
00:03:30economic program will punch a huge hole in the state treasury,
00:03:34so that, and then the other parties warn against the AFD,
00:03:38because it is an extremist party, the other parties call it,
00:03:41like the German intelligence services, an extreme party, with
00:03:45contacts to violent and neo-Nazi groups, and
00:03:48therefore the other parties say, you must not vote for the FD, there is no
00:03:52indication that many people will, many people will do it
00:03:56anyway. Steen Matz is not on
00:03:59the ballot himself, but if the chancellor's party with Merz at the helm loses both
00:04:02state elections today and even loses power in the capital
00:04:06Berlin, can Merz remain as party
00:04:08leader?
00:04:11That is a really good question, the German media are asking
00:04:15themselves the same question and have been doing so
00:04:18in this. Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is all week, and there are many in his party who are strongly
00:04:20dissatisfied with him, it is not only the voters, it is also in his own party, only a third
00:04:24of the members of his party think he is doing well, so
00:04:28the pressure on him is enormous, as we heard in the report, he lost, he was
00:04:32humiliated two weeks ago in Saxony- Anhalt, now he is facing another
00:04:35two election defeats and perhaps, as we heard in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the
00:04:39party will be completely out of parliament, that would be a
00:04:42catastrophe, and then the pressure on him will
00:04:46be so immense that it is not certain that his
00:04:49party colleagues around him can continue to support him, and
00:04:53that therefore the elections tonight could be the
00:04:56beginning of the end for Frederik Schmerz.
00:05:12Criticism that has circulated about him. The criticism came after rapper Makelmore was
00:05:16removed as an opening act on Sheron's tour after expressing
00:05:20support for Palestine. According to Cheren, it was the organizer who chose to remove
00:05:24the rapper. Lucas Graham and all other opening acts
00:05:27subsequently withdrew from Sheron's tour. And yesterday, Shiron
00:05:31went on stage alone without other
00:05:33artists.
00:05:36The Jehovah's Witnesses religious community has loosened its rules for receiving donated
00:05:39blood from others. Thus, each member can now choose whether
00:05:43they want to receive that type of medical treatment. Specifically,
00:05:47this means they can receive plasma, platelets, and
00:05:50red and white blood cells, but members are still not allowed to agree to
00:05:53a full blood transfusion, according to
00:05:56the religious community.
00:06:01For the first time in four years, it is back in Russia, where
00:06:04the parliamentary election ends today. It is the first election
00:06:08since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and not a free
00:06:12election, but under the surface, the result can
00:06:15still show signs of how support for
00:06:19the Putin regime is.
00:06:23Ingenuity is great in Garlina icepsik's small
00:06:25setup. Kitchen waste spins around, to finally end up as
00:06:29treats for the skin. But these are hard times for
00:06:33luxury products, such as body scrubs and
00:06:36creams.
00:06:40About 60% of Russians say they have experienced a decline in their living standards and a
00:06:44general worsening of their economy. Many of those I have spoken to here
00:06:48while I have been here, have mentioned things like food prices
00:06:51as something important, something they want to talk about, and
00:06:55especially that some of the goods have become relatively expensive,
00:06:58and one of the places you can see that is a place like here in a Russian
00:07:02supermarket, where people simply change their behavior, they start
00:07:06buying things that are a little cheaper, discount products,
00:07:10for example, rather than more expensive ones.
00:07:42here in Moscow, when Ukraine sent 249 drones across
00:07:45the border, but despite soaring inflation and the war constantly getting
00:07:49closer, there is no prospect of any significant change, election or not.
00:08:03In late summer, Yabloko was excluded from the election.
00:08:06federal list of candidates for deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly
00:08:10of the Russian Federation of the ninth convocation.
00:08:16Yabloko was one of the only remaining parties that were
00:08:19outspoken critics of the war. The two
00:08:22women, Galina and Alina, are still mixing away in the small back room
00:08:25in Siberia. They have trimmed the business, as they say, so they
00:08:29hope that a cure for the economy will come soon.
00:08:42the result for the Duma seems to be a foregone conclusion, there is
00:08:46still something at stake for Putin, according to Flemming
00:08:49Spidsbol, senior researcher at Dis.
00:08:53There is a possibility for people to express their dissatisfaction in various ways, they can stay
00:08:57at home, or they can show up here, as we heard in the report, at certain times, and perhaps
00:09:01be encouraged and confirmed that others think as they do, they
00:09:05can try to vote for some of the other parties than Putin's
00:09:08party, for example, so there are some small things they can do, so there is a lot at stake.
00:11:09out there, some of them are also relatively heavy, it
00:11:12will continue through the evening and also partially through the night, but
00:11:16the showers will become fewer and further apart, they will thin
00:11:19out more and more, on the other hand, the
00:11:23wind will continue, there are already unregistered wind gusts of storm force
00:11:26up in northwestern Jutland, and this is also where it will generally
00:11:30blow the most, but as you can sense, this strong wind field will also
00:11:33move on to Skagerrak, Kattegat, the Baltic Sea during
00:11:36the night. Then it will turn slowly more to the north, and this can
00:11:40help to push up the water level, among others in Roskilde and
00:11:44Odense fjord, so be aware of that in those areas. The wind
00:11:48will continue partially into tomorrow, it will ease
00:11:52off a bit, thank God, on the other hand. Then it will be a day with
00:11:55predominantly dry weather, a few more clouds to the southwest, but otherwise
00:11:59good chances of sun for large parts of the country. Generally,
00:12:03there will be dry weather and sunshine on Monday,
00:12:07Tuesday until new rain knocks on Wednesday.
00:12:20We are back live with the latest news. In these
00:12:24hours, the Danish Prime Minister and Foreign Minister are on their way to
00:12:27the USA together with Greenland's Minister for Foreign Affairs and
00:12:30Greenland's Head of Government to sign an agreement on Greenland's future
00:12:34in the coming week, and we spoke briefly with the Prime Minister before she
00:12:38set course for New York. I understand
00:12:41that people are concerned about what this will specifically
00:12:45mean, and this applies particularly in Greenland,
00:12:49where they have been through a very, very difficult period. I
00:12:52would say, generally speaking, that I would not
00:12:56sign an agreement, and I know that Jens Frederik Nielsen would not sign an agreement
00:13:00if it was not good for Greenland and for the Kingdom. The content of the
00:13:03new agreement between Greenland, Denmark and the USA has not yet been
00:13:07published, but the parties have apparently agreed on, among
00:13:10other things, Greenland's right to self-determination, and that the USA will
00:13:13increase its military presence in Greenland. The agreement is
00:13:17scheduled to be signed at a ceremony in connection with the UN
00:13:21General Assembly in New York. An
00:13:24agreement that is good for Greenland, for the Kingdom of Denmark, an
00:13:28agreement that is good for the USA, an agreement that is good for Europe, and when
00:13:32it is, when it is good for all of us, who
00:13:35for many, many years have been close allies, then it is also good for
00:13:38NATO and thus for our security
00:13:42as Europeans, and of course particularly in
00:13:45relation to the Arctic area,
00:13:48I understand that there is great
00:13:51curiosity about the content of the agreement, of course...
00:13:55this is something that concerns all of us, and it is also something that has worried all
00:13:59of us, of course, not least the Greenlandic population, but in
00:14:02respect for the last few days, and
00:14:06everything must be in place as an agreement, so I will not be able to go into
00:14:09the specific content, but I can say that what
00:14:13has of course been absolutely crucial for us in these negotiations, has
00:14:17been both the desire to strengthen security in the very, very turbulent world we
00:14:21are in, and that what we have called the red lines must...
00:14:25to us, that we are a sovereign state, the Kingdom of
00:14:28Denmark, that the Greenlandic people's right to self-determination will also in the future
00:14:32be respected, and what we call
00:14:35territorial integrity,
00:14:37and that is all included
00:14:43also on his way to the USA, and he wants to get
00:14:46a signature in place. All
00:14:49parties have praised this agreement, what makes it so
00:14:52good? Now we just need to have
00:14:56the agreement first, that is, agreements don't exist until they are there, and
00:15:00it has to be signed first, and that is also why we are not commenting further on
00:15:03the content, but all things
00:15:07being equal, we have an agreement, and that means that all the
00:15:10uncertainty that has been for several years,
00:15:14and very, very violent, the last year, can hopefully
00:15:18be put behind us, to the benefit of an
00:15:21orderly relationship between the Kingdom on the one hand and the USA on the other.
00:15:25And also in a form, where it is
00:15:29completely obvious that
00:15:31the responsibility for security in the Arctic is not only
00:15:35American or the Kingdom's, but also largely
00:15:38NATO's, so I very much look forward to this agreement being
00:15:42concluded. Trump is very diligent at the keyboard,
00:15:46does Trump exaggerate the content of the agreement, or is
00:15:49Denmark about to give the USA permanent control over security and all
00:15:52other American needs in Greenland? Well, we are not commenting
00:15:56on this agreement before it is concluded,
00:15:59we have consulted the Foreign Policy Committee all the way
00:16:03through, in this whole process, which started in January
00:16:06in Washington, and also consulted the committee
00:16:10last Friday and have parliamentary support to conclude this
00:16:13agreement, and when there is broad support in the Danish Parliament to
00:16:17make this agreement and incidentally also among the
00:16:21Greenlandic Parliament and the Greenlandic government, then it is
00:16:24of course because it is a fully satisfactory agreement from the Kingdom, which
00:16:28respects the red lines we set from the start, namely our
00:16:31sovereignty, our territorial integrity, and the
00:16:35Greenlandic people's right to self-determination for sure. Do you feel confident that this will
00:16:39be put in place? Yes, but I feel quite confident,
00:16:42that is, we have an agreement that has been
00:16:45negotiated, and which we have parliamentary support for in Greenland and
00:16:49Denmark, and which the President in internal procedures in
00:16:53the USA has also dealt with, but we are still
00:16:56missing a, we are still missing a signature,
00:16:59and we need that before we can be 100% sure. Can you guarantee that all red
00:17:03lines have not been crossed, that they are within given?
00:17:07I can, because that has been a premise from the start, and that is also what has made it
00:17:10difficult, because the most maximalist
00:17:14demands from the President's side crossed these red lines in every
00:17:17way, and we have stood on those from the start, and that is
00:17:21also why this has been difficult, and that is also why it was good that in January we agreed to try to
00:17:25move this into a space where skilled diplomats,
00:17:29both from Danish, Greenlandic, and American sides, have worked on this in
00:17:33a quite long, difficult series of meetings that were
00:17:36concluded recently.
00:17:39and Greenland's head of government, Jens Frederik Nielsen, has just arrived
00:17:43in New York, and earlier today, he wrote on
00:17:46Facebook: "On my way across the Atlantic, I am thinking of all of you
00:17:49at home, of the families, the children, the young people, and the
00:17:53elderly, of all those who have followed along and been worried about
00:17:56what the future would bring. I hope we can now have more peace around
00:18:00our country," he writes. And before
00:18:04an agreement is signed, there will be sparse information.
00:18:08That is what the editor-in-chief of congress.com says.
00:18:12It is certainly not without reason that the Danish government has chosen
00:18:16a communicative line of not commenting on anything about
00:18:19the agreement before it is signed, because it is clear that it is fragile, and you never
00:18:23quite know with Trump, but everything indicates that this
00:18:26will hold. But it is clear, that there was also something in the first instance, where one
00:18:30perhaps began to breathe a little easier, when some of the conservative media
00:18:33interpreted it as a victory, and that is also why one must
00:18:37expect that it will go as planned with the signing here on
00:18:40Tuesday, and that is what your USA podcast
00:18:44delves deeper into, what the new agreement can mean. You can
00:18:48find the special episode in DR Audio, or watch the program on
00:18:51DRTV right
00:18:52now.
00:18:55Now we go to Germany, where two major state elections could be an indication
00:18:59for both the country's and Chancellor Merz's future, as
00:19:02voters seem to be fleeing his party, the CDU, while the far-
00:19:06right party, Alternative for Germany, is surging, and
00:19:10in the capital Berlin, the chancellor's party is facing
00:19:13a loss of voters, and even worse, it could go in
00:19:16the state, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
00:19:20because here the stage is set for political change, die ganze
00:19:24gesamte wirtschaftliche Situation in Deutschland ja
00:19:27eigentlich sehr berg abgegangen ist, und jetzt muss irgendwie was mal
00:19:30passieren. Anya Hynemørder Pritzner has always voted for
00:19:34the conservative CDU, but now she will vote for the far-right.
00:19:46I had hope as the Minister of Economy and actually
00:19:50thought more that he would really get involved in the economy.
00:19:53For two weeks ago, Alternative for
00:19:55Germany, AFD, became the largest party in
00:19:59Saxony-Anhalt. We
00:20:01have made history, we
00:20:04are taking our country back. It
00:20:07begins here in Saxony-Anhalt.
00:20:10The CDU, conversely, was halved. Chancellor Frederik
00:20:13Smertz called the result the worst defeat for the party in
00:20:17decades.
00:20:20We are all deeply shocked. We did not
00:20:23expect it in this form. Now the Chancellor
00:20:27and the CDU are being tested again. Besides Mecklenburg-
00:20:30Vorpommern, Germans are voting in Berlin. I say it
00:20:34will be very close. I would be in favor of that.
00:20:45We must draw a line and make a cut now, so that it can
00:20:48go up again.
00:20:51Otherwise, I don't know, it looks pretty sad.
00:20:55And let us go directly to Berlin to you, Steen
00:20:58Nørskov, as we hear in the report, many Germans are deeply
00:21:02dissatisfied and therefore ready to give the AFD a chance.
00:21:06How have the CDU and other parties tried to dissuade voters
00:21:10from the AFD here in the election campaign?
00:21:13They have done so by saying that what the AfD promises, they will never
00:21:17be able to deliver, that the economic policy that the AFD stands
00:21:21for is deeply irresponsible. It may be that the economy is not doing very well, the other parties
00:21:24in power admit that it is not, but they say it will be even worse
00:21:28if the AFD comes to power. They have never tried to govern before, and their economic program will
00:21:32punch a huge hole in the state treasury, so
00:21:35that, and then the other parties warn against the AFD, because it
00:21:39is an extremist party, the other parties call it,
00:21:42like the German intelligence services, an extreme party, with
00:21:46contacts to violent and neo-Nazi groups, and
00:21:49therefore the other parties say, you must not vote for the FD, there is no
00:21:53indication that many people will, many people will do it
00:21:57anyway. Steen Mertz is not on
00:22:00the ballot himself, but if the chancellor's party with Merz at the helm loses both
00:22:03state elections today, and even loses power in the capital
00:22:07Berlin, can Merz remain as party
00:22:09leader?
00:22:12That is a really good question, the German media are asking
00:22:16themselves the same question, and have been doing so all week, and
00:22:20there are many in his party who are strongly dissatisfied with him, it is not only the voters, it is also in his
00:22:23own party, only a third of the members of his party
00:22:27think he is doing well, so the pressure on him is enormous, as we heard
00:22:31in the report, he lost, he was humiliated two weeks ago in Saxony-
00:22:34Anhalt, now he is facing another two election defeats and perhaps, as we
00:22:38heard in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the party will be completely out
00:22:41of parliament, that would be a catastrophe, and then
00:22:45the pressure on him will be so immense that it is not
00:22:48certain that his party colleagues around him can continue
00:22:52to support him, and that therefore the elections
00:22:56tonight could be the beginning of the
00:22:58end for Fredrik Merz and his time as
00:23:01chancellor.
00:23:10The British pop singer is now addressing the criticism that has
00:23:14circulated about him. The criticism came after rapper Macklemore was
00:23:17removed as an opening act on Sheron's tour after expressing support
00:23:21for Palestine. According to Chiren, it was the organizer who chose to remove
00:23:25the rapper. Lucas Graham and all other opening acts
00:23:28subsequently withdrew from Shirons tour, and yesterday Shiron
00:23:32went on stage alone without other
00:23:34artists.
00:23:37The Jehovah's Witnesses religious community has loosened its rules for receiving
00:23:40blood donated by others. Thus, each member can now choose whether
00:23:44they want to receive that type of medical treatment. Specifically, this
00:23:48means they can receive plasma, platelets, and red and white
00:23:52blood cells, but members are still not allowed to say yes to a full
00:23:55blood transfusion, according to the
00:23:57community.
00:24:02For the first time in four years, it is back in Russia, where
00:24:06the parliamentary election ends today. It is the first election
00:24:09since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and not a free
00:24:13election. But under the surface, the result can
00:24:16still show signs of how support for Putin's
00:24:20regime is.
00:24:24The ingenuity is great in Garline icepsiks' small
00:24:26setup. Kitchen waste churns away, finally becoming
00:24:30eventually end up as food for the skin.
00:24:33But these are tough times for luxury products, such as body scrubs and
00:24:37creams.
00:24:41Around 60% of Russians say they have experienced a decline in their living standards and a
00:24:45general deterioration of their economy. Several of those I have spoken to
00:24:48here, while I have been here, have mentioned such things as food prices
00:24:52uh as something important, something they would like to talk about, and
00:24:56especially that some of the goods have become relatively
00:25:00expensive, and one of the places you can see that is a place like this in a Russian
00:25:03supermarket, where people simply change their behavior, they
00:25:07start buying things that are a little cheaper,
00:25:10discount products for example, rather than more like big
00:25:13brands, and many know where the shoe pinches.
00:25:16hen.
00:25:19sanctions
00:25:24will be lifted
00:25:25from
00:25:32Russia and prices should go down, we hope for that.
00:25:36Over
00:25:41the past months, the war has increasingly had consequences for more than money for Russians. As recently as today, two people were killed here in Moscow when Ukraine sent
00:25:45249 drones across the border. But despite soaring
00:25:48inflation and the war.
00:26:04In late summer, Yabloko was excluded from the election.
00:26:19The only remaining parties that were outspoken critics of the war. The two
00:26:23women, Galina and Alina, are still busy mixing in the small back room
00:26:27in Siberia. They have trimmed the business, as they say. They hope
00:26:30a cure will come soon.
00:26:42and even though the election result for the Duma seems to be a given
00:26:46beforehand, there is still something at stake for Putin, according to
00:26:49Flemming Spidsbol, senior researcher at Dis. There is
00:26:52an opportunity for people to express their dissatisfaction in different ways, they can stay
00:26:56home, or they can show up here, as we heard in the report, at certain times and perhaps
00:27:00be.
00:27:04in that there are others who think like them, they can try to vote for some of the
00:27:07other parties than Putin's party, for example, so there are some small
00:27:11things they can do, so a lot is at
00:29:09weather. yes, there are showers around out there, some of them are
00:29:13also relatively strong, it continues
00:29:16throughout the evening, and also partly throughout the night, but the showers are getting further and further
00:29:20apart, they are thinning out more and more . On the other hand, the
00:29:24wind continues. there are already recorded gusts of gale force
00:29:27in the northwest, and this is also where it will generally blow
00:29:31the most. As you can sense, this strong wind field
00:29:35will also move on to Skagerrak, Kattegat, the Baltic Sea during
00:29:39the night, then the wind will slowly turn more in a northerly
00:29:42direction, and that can help to put some pressure on the water level, among other places in Roskilde and
00:29:46Odense Fjord, so be aware of that, in those
00:29:49areas. The wind continues partly into tomorrow,
00:29:53eases a bit in strength. However, it will be a
00:29:56day with predominantly dry weather, a few more clouds towards
00:29:59the southwest, but otherwise good chances of sun for
00:30:02large parts of the country, generally, there is dry weather and
00:30:06sunshine forecast for Monday and Tuesday, until new rain arrives
00:30:09on Wednesday.
00:30:22also welcome to TV Avisen 18:30. It
00:30:26was a happy and satisfied Danish Prime Minister who flew to the USA today to
00:30:29sign the agreement on Greenland's future. The agreement
00:30:33is good for Greenland, the agreement is good for
00:30:36the Kingdom of Denmark, the agreement is also good for the USA, and it is good for our
00:30:39NATO alliance in an increasingly turbulent
00:30:41world. Ukrainian drone attacks on
00:30:45Moscow, the same day as the Russian parliamentary election ends,
00:30:49and DR can now for the first time in four years
00:30:52report for Russia.