Jumat, 12 Juli 2024

Ukraine war: German shock at reported Russian assassination plot - BBC

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, CEO of Rheinmetall Armin Papperger, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius inspect ammunition as they visit the future site of an arms factory where weapons maker Rheinmetall plans to produce artilleries from 2025, in Unterluess, Germany February 12, 2024REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer

German political figures have reacted angrily to a report that Russia had plotted to kill the head of Germany's biggest arms company Rheinmetall, Armin Papperger.

The CNN report said US officials had told their counterparts in Berlin earlier this year and security around him was stepped up.

Germany's interior ministry refused to comment but Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock appeared to confirm the details.

"In view of latest reports on Rheinmetall, this is what we have actually been communicating more and more clearly in recent months," she told reporters at the Nato summit in Washington. "Russia is waging a hybrid war of aggression."

In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected the allegations. "It's all presented in the style of another fake story, so such reports cannot be taken seriously."

Rheinmetall avoided commenting on issues of "corporate security", but Mr Papperger is now being described as the most highly protected figure in Germany's economy. He told the Financial Times that German authorities had imposed a "great deal of security around my person".

The company is one of the world's biggest producers of ammunition and has become key to supplying Ukraine with arms, armoured vehicles and other military equipment.

Rheinmetall recently opened a tank repair plant in western Ukraine. Last month, it signed an agreement with Ukraine to expand co-operation in the coming years, including a joint venture to produce artillery shells.

Mr Papperger said at the time his company wanted to hand over the first Lynx infantry fighting vehicles later this year and to start producing them in Ukraine soon.

Although Chancellor Olaf Scholz avoided commenting on the reported assassination plot directly, he said it was well known that Germany was exposed to a variety of Russian threats and was paying close attention to them.

 Annalena Baerbock, German Foreign Minister, attends the NATO Summit on July 10, 2024 in Washington, United States
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Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said "we are taking very seriously the significantly heightened threat of Russian aggression".

Earlier this week, a senior Nato official told the BBC that Russia was "engaging in aggressive covert operations across Europe – involving sabotage, arson and assassination plots – aimed at weakening public support for Ukraine".

The German foreign minister said the Baltic states had already highlighted the various methods deployed by Russia's Vladimir Putin in his war on Ukraine. As well as sabotage, she spoke of cyberattacks and disrupting GPS signals so that Baltic flights could no longer land in neighbouring countries.

"We have seen that there have been attacks on factories, and that again underlines that, together, we as Europeans must protect ourselves as best we can and not be naive," Ms Baerbock told reporters.

In early May, a building complex owned by the Diehl Metall firm went up in flames in south-west Berlin. Although a technical fault was blamed for the fire, sabotage has not been ruled out. Suspicious fires have also been reported in Poland and Lithuania.

Last April, Mr Papperger's garden house was set alight at Hermannsburg in northern Germany, although there has been no evidence of a Russian link.

The fire was quickly brought under control and a rambling, anonymous confession purportedly from leftist militants appeared on activist network Indymedia.

The reported plot against such a high-profile German CEO has prompted widespread alarm.

Leading conservative figure Roderich Kiesewetter said the chancellor should come clean with the German population about how great the threat from Russia really was. German intelligence needed to be boosted to the level of neighbouring countries, he said.

"We must take it very seriously and also prepare ourselves accordingly," he told public broadcaster ZDF.

Michael Roth, who chairs Germany's foreign affairs committee told Bild newspaper that Vladimir Putin was waging a "war of extermination not only against Ukraine, but against its supporters and our values".

The head of the defence committee, Marcus Faber, added his condemnation, saying if information about Russian intelligence involvement came to light, then "the expulsion of diplomats must follow and, if necessary, international arrest warrants must be issued".

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‘Great job, Joe!’ Trump roasts Biden for mixing him up with Kamala Harris in ‘big boy press conference’ - The Independent

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Donald Trump and his cronies mocked Joe Biden following a gaffe at his high-stakes press conference where he mixed up the former president and his own VP Kamala Harris.

In his first question from reporters following scripted remarks, Biden was asked if he had any concerns about Kamala Harris’ ability to govern should she take over the top of the ticket in his stead.

"I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, if I think she’s not qualified to be president,” Biden replied, without correcting himself.

The clip was shared widely online and picked up just as swiftly by the Trump campaign. Trump appeared delighted by the mistake, posting the clip multiple times on Truth Social.

“Crooked Joe begins his “Big Boy” Press Conference with, "I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, though I think she was not qualified to be president." Great job, Joe!” Trump wrote.

Trump later posted other short clips from Biden’s speech including when Biden referred to his chief-of-staff of the military as “my Commander-In-Chief” – his own title.

Trump delighted in Biden’s press conference slip-up, during which he confused Kamala Harris with his political rival (@realDonaldTrump)

Following the end of the conference, Trump wrote: “Crooked Joe has a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome!” The phrase has been used by Trump to refer to those who speak about him in a negative way.

On the Rumble video platform, Donald Trump Jr reportedly praised Biden’s performance, saying he was "doing OK" and "he could stay in if he wanted to. He’s not too bad."

Don Jr’s remarks align with the narrative that the Trump campaign actually favors Biden staying in the 2024 race because it has a strategy to beat him, rather than Harris.

But other Trump family members focused on the Kamala gaffe. Eric Trump also wrote: “Wow! That wasn’t good!”

Kimberly Guilfoyle, fiancee to Don Jr, also piled in against Biden, writing: “Barely-there Biden: ‘I don’t want to sound self-serving. Biden’s entire career has been self serving - for himself and his corrupt family. Unfit for office on so many levels.”

Following the conclusion of the press conference, Biden acknowledged his slip on Harris and Trump, but reiterated he knew the difference between Harris and Trump.

“One’s a prosecutor, and the other’s a felon,” his official account posted on X.

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Biden opens high-stakes press conference by calling Kamala ‘vice president Trump’ but vows to stay in 2024 race - The Independent

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Joe Biden accidentally referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump” as he answered his first question at a closely watched, high-stakes press conference while under pressure from Democratic officials to end his re-election campaign against his Republican rival.

Biden responded to several questions about his fitness for office and his viability as a candidate against Donald Trump after the 81-year-old president appeared to unravel during a presidential debate against him two weeks ago.

Biden arrived on stage on Thursday facing a mandate from Democratic officials and voters to prove he is up to the task of campaigning against Trump for the next four months, let alone serving another demanding four-year term in the White House.

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“Look, I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump, to be vice president, if she's not qualified to be president." he said, before correcting himself.

Asked later whether he would step down if polling data showed that Harris would fare better against Trump, he whispered: “No one’s saying that.”

Biden, who frequently cleared his throat and garbled his responses, faced several urgent questions from reporters about his viability as he navigated relatively complex statements about foreign policy and US posture.

The president insisted he is staying in the race and remained optimistic about his chances and his political future, pointing to his record in office and renewed global alliances during this week’s NATO summit.

“The fact is,” Biden said, “I’m the most qualified person to beat Trump. I beat him once, I’ll beat him again.”

“Where’s Trump been,” he said at one point. “Riding around on his golf cart, filling out a scorecard before he hits the ball?”

President Joe Biden holds a press conference in Washington DC on July 11 during a NATO summit recognizing the alliance’s 75th annivery. (REUTERS)

Asked whether he can reassure Americans that he won’t have “more bad nights” like his admittedly “stupid mistake” of a performance against Trump at their first 2024 debate, Biden said there is “no indication” that his work is “slowing down.”

“Am I getting the job done? Can you name me somebody who has gotten more major pieces of legislation passed in three and a half years?” he said.

“I created 2,000 jobs just last week,” he added. “If I slow down and can’t get the job done, that’s a sign that I shouldn’t be doing it. But there’s no indication of that yet. None.”

He said it would be “smarter for me to pace myself more.”

“My schedule has been full bore,” he said. “I love my staff, but they add things.”

He joked that he is “catching hell from my wife” for his demanding schedule.

“I’m not in this for my legacy,” he said. “I’m in this to complete the job I started.”

Asked whether he would take another neurological exam before November’s election, he said: “I think it’s important that I, if a neurologist tells me I need another exam ... Go ask Trump for his, OK?”

“I am not opposed, if my doctors tell me,” he added. “If my doctors think I need another exam, I’ll do it.”

President Joe Biden departs the stage after speaking at a news conference following the NATO summit in Washington DC on July 11. (AP)

His mistake with Harris’s name came just hours after he accidentally called Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky “President Putin.” He quickly caught his error, turning back to a lectern to say “we’re going to beat President Putin.”

“I’m so focused on beating Putin,” he said.

Zelensky appeared to shrug off the slip, joking “I’m better.”

“You’re a hell of a lot better,” Biden told him.

The press conference follows more than two weeks of pressure from a growing number of Democratic officials, donors and voters calling on the president to hang up his re-election campaign.

Biden has framed the 2024 election as the most important in his lifetime and depicted his Republican rival as an imminent danger to American democracy, yet Biden insists he remains the best candidate to defeat him, as he did four years ago.

In campaign rallies in the aftermath of the June 27 debate, Biden has suggested that “elites” are plotting against him, and that the push to end his campaign is coming from powerful unseen opponents.

Yet it appears to be precisely the opposite — Democratic officials are now fuming that White House officials and campaign aides are ignoring voter concerns about Biden’s age and fitness that have been an issue since before the debate, or, worse, that his staff has been actively covering up signs of the president’s decline.

More than a dozen Democratic members of Congress have publicly called on the president to end his campaign, and reports of dissent among congressional Democrats and officials across the US is building up pressure on Biden’s campaign to address concerns head on and at least prove that he is a more than viable candidate to defeat Trump.

Most Democratic voters nationwide believe Biden should step aside, according to Thursday’s ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll. Sixty-seven percent of US adults believe Biden should end his campaign, including 56 percent of Democrats.

But the poll shows that Biden and Trump largely remain in a dead heat, while other post-debate polls have shown Biden trailing Trump by 3.5 percentage points on average. Biden’s campaign has argued that his debate performance has not significantly moved the needle.

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China hits back at Nato over Russia accusations - BBC

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on June 28, 2024AFP

China's foreign minister Wang Yi has hit back at Nato's "groundless accusations" that Beijing is helping Russia in its war on Ukraine.

He has also warned the Western alliance against stirring up confrontation.

Mr Wang's comments, made in a call with his Dutch counterpart, came hours after leaders of Nato member states gathered in Washington DC and issued a declaration that mentioned the war.

They accused China of being a "decisive enabler" of Russia through its "large-scale support for Russia's defence industrial base", in some of their harshest remarks yet about Beijing.

They called on China to stop "all material and political support" to Russia's war effort such as the supply of dual-use materials, which are items that can be used for both civilian and military purposes.

Western states have previously accused Beijing of transferring drone and missile technology and satellite imagery to Moscow. The US estimates about 70% of the machine tools and 90% of the microelectronics Russia imports now come from China.

Beijing was also accused of conducting "malicious cyber and hybrid activities, including disinformation" on Nato states.

On Thursday, while speaking to the Netherlands' new foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp, Mr Wang said "China absolutely does not accept" all these accusations and insisted that they have "always been a force for peace and force for stability".

In comments carried by state media, he said that China's different political system and values "should not be used as a reason for Nato to incite confrontation with China", and called for Nato to "stay within its bounds".

His remarks was the latest in a flurry of angry responses from Beijing.

Earlier on Thursday, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Nato was smearing China with "fabricated disinformation", while Beijing's mission to the EU told the alliance to "stop hyping up the so-called China threat".

Beijing has long rebutted accusations that it has been aiding Russia in the war and insists that it remains a neutral party. It has called for an end to the conflict and proposed a peace plan, which Ukraine has rejected.

But, besides the growing accusations of military support, observers have also pointed out that Beijing's purchases of vast amounts of oil and gas have helped prop up Russia's economy crippled by sanctions and replenish coffers drained by war spending.

Beijing's official rhetoric on the conflict often mirrors Moscow's - like them, China still does not call it a war - and Chinese President Xi Jinping has maintained a close relationship with President Vladimir Putin, with both of them famously declaring their partnership has "no limits".

Beijing has accused the US and other Western states of pouring "fuel on the fire" by supplying lethal weapons and technology to Ukraine for its defence.

In recent weeks, several countries have gone a step further and allowed Ukraine to use their weapons to hit targets inside Russia.

During Nato's three-day summit, which ended on Thursday, the alliance continued to underscore its commitment to Ukraine. Member states said they would support Ukraine on its "irreversible path" to future membership, adding that "Ukraine's future in Nato".

They also announced further integration with Ukraine's military and support for its defence. The alliance has committed at least €40bn ($43.3bn, £33.7bn) in aid in the next year, including F-16 fighter jets and air defence support.

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A game of football, a boom, then scattered bodies: video shows moment of Israeli strike on Gaza school - The Guardian

The scene shows a moment of respite and relative calm in Gaza: a crowd of people watching a football match in a school playground. A player fails to control a long pass from a teammate. The opposing goalkeeper gathers the ball and looks to launch it back up the pitch.

But just after he throws the ball, a deafening boom sends everyone present running for cover, including the person filming. “A strike! A strike!” someone screams.

The footage, broadcast by Al Jazeera, showed the moment of an Israeli airstrike next to the gate of al-Awda school in Abasan al-Kabira, east of the city of Khan Younis in Gaza, on Tuesday. As the person who was filming the match flees, they pass dead bodies and severely injured people among the debris.

The death toll from the strike – which hit an area were hundreds of displaced people from villages east of Khan Younis had set up makeshift camps – rose to 31 on Wednesday, officials at the nearby Nasser hospital said. Dozens more were injured.

Witnesses said the area was bustling with people and market traders when the strike occurred.

“We were sitting at the entrance of the school … suddenly and without warning, rockets were fired,” Mohammed Sukkar, a witness, told Agence France-Presse.

A Palestinian boy who lost several relatives told Al Jazeera: “A missile fell and destroyed everything. I lost my uncle, my cousins and my relatives.”

People recounted seeing individuals with severed limbs and body parts scattered around.

“I witnessed ... people thrown around and body parts scattered, blood,” a young woman called Ghazzal Nasser told Reuters. Before the attack “everything was normal”, she added. “People were playing, others were buying and selling [food and drinks]. There was no sound of planes or anything.”

Ayman Al-Dahma, 21, said the number of casualties was “unimaginable”.

“They said it was a safe place,” he told the BBC, “that there were water and food, there were schools and everything … Suddenly a rocket comes down on you and all the people around you.”

Asmaa Qudeih, a witness who lost some relatives in the attack, told Reuters: “Bodies flew in the wind, body parts flew, I don’t know how to describe it.”

Videos from Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, where the casualties were taken, showed dozens of dead and seriously injured people, including children, strewn across the floor of a room.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was reviewing reports that civilians were harmed and that the incident was under investigation.

“A warplane, using precision munitions, attacked a terrorist from the military wing of Hamas who participated in the hideous massacre on 7 October,” the IDF said in a statement.

In a statement on X, the German foreign ministry said: “People seeking shelter in schools getting killed is unacceptable. The repeated attacks on schools by the Israeli army must stop and an investigation must come quickly.”

Wednesday’s attack was the fourth on or near schools sheltering displaced Palestinians in four days.

Israel said the strikes were aimed at targeting militants hiding in the buildings.

“Schools have gone from safe places of education and hope for children to overcrowded shelters and often ending up a place of death and misery,” the head of refugee agency Unrwa, Philippe Lazzarini, wrote on X. Lazzarini said two-thirds of Unrwa’s schools in Gaza had been targeted, and some had been “bombed out”, since the start of the war.

“The blatant disregard of international humanitarian law cannot become the new normal,” he added.

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Ukraine war briefing: Path to Nato membership ‘irreversible’ - The Guardian

  • Nato allies at their Washington summit have said Ukraine’s “future is in Nato” and its path to membership is “irreversible”, making the declaration in a statement published on Thursday. Jens Stoltenberg, the Nato secretary general, said Ukraine’s membership to Nato is not a “question of if, but when”.

  • The member states criticised China in stronger language than before for assisting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, calling it a “decisive enabler” supplying components for military equipment and chemicals for explosives. “This increases the threat Russia poses to its neighbours and to Euro-Atlantic security,” they declared in their summit communique.

  • The first F-16 fighter jets are on their way to Ukraine and will be flying missions this summer, the Dutch and Danish governments have said. Dan Sabbagh writes that they will be the first of about 85 of the combat aircraft that have been committed to Kyiv to turn around its fortunes on the battlefield, and Ukraine signalled more may be to come.

  • A Russian missile attack on the Odesa region killed two people and damaged port infrastructure on Wednesday, the region’s governor said.

  • Russia’s security service, the FSB, claimed to have thwarted an attempt by Ukrainian intelligence services to induce a crew member on the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov in Murmansk to sabotage the ship.

  • The Kremlin has criticised the new British prime minister, Keir Starmer, for his comments affirming that Ukraine can use British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles against legitimate targets within Russia.

  • Keir Starmer is expected to promise that the UK will support Ukraine for “as long as it takes” as he confirms Britain’s £3bn a year funding package for Kyiv will continue for as long as needed. At the Nato summit on Thursday, Starmer will warn that the frontline defence of the Euro-Atlantic region is the Ukrainian trenches. Britain’s new defence secretary, John Healey, has visited Ukraine promising artillery guns and shells and 90 Brimstone missiles. The UK has also confirmed it will contribute £40m to Nato’s comprehensive assistance package for Ukraine and the UK-administered international fund for Ukraine will place a new order, worth £300m, for 120,000 rounds of 152mm artillery ammunition.

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