Jessica Parker
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Israel expands offensive in Gaza
Everybody needs to be a rhino champion as far as I'm concerned. It doesn't matter who you are, where you are. You need to understand that the rhino as a species is an ambassador of living things. Rhinos have this amazing ability to unite us when we start understanding how by helping them we actually help ourselves. Rhinos saving people and people saving rhinos.
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Trump again accuses Zelensky of not wanting peace
Jessica Willett von Australian Red Cross Lifeblood hat uns mehr über James Harrison's Legacy erzählt. zu der australischen Gemeinschaft ist einfach unglaublich. Und er war ein glücklicher Mann. Er glaubte, dass seine Donation weniger wichtig war als die von anderen. Und er glaubte, dass jeder die gleiche leistungsvolle Beitrag machen könnte, wie er.
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Trump again accuses Zelensky of not wanting peace
Und er hoffte, dass einer Tag jemand seinen Rekord von ihm nehmen würde, weil das bedeutet, dass mehr Leben gesichert werden.
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US senators question Robert F Kennedy Jr at heated confirmation hearing
What has happened is that Friedrich Merz, leading the CDU, running right up to an election, has chosen, even though he says he's sort of done it reluctantly, to push through this call for tougher border rules with votes from Alternativa for Deutschland. And he's going to... table actual legislation on Friday.
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US senators question Robert F Kennedy Jr at heated confirmation hearing
So there's the possibility that he could lean on those votes again to actually try and push through legislation, although the election is so near. I think many people regard that as highly unlikely that it could go through. But I think number one significance is is this. crack in the firewall. He's under a huge amount of criticism for it.
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US senators question Robert F Kennedy Jr at heated confirmation hearing
The AFD, who consider the firewall as completely undemocratic, are celebrating. They feel they have even more momentum now. They're already polling second in the polls. And I think as well, Friedrich Merz, some people are saying he will have lost trust with possible coalition partners moving forward because he said he won't go into coalition with the AFD. So then you're
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US senators question Robert F Kennedy Jr at heated confirmation hearing
the Social Democrats, and they are putting big question marks over his name after this move that he has made.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
The Chancellor Olaf Scholz told a German magazine he's staying cool about Elon Musk's activities. He added it's the will of citizens that counts, not the erratic statements of a billionaire. Elon Musk has previously described him as a fool and recently penned a controversial opinion piece endorsing Alternativa für Deutschland or the AFD.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
The AFD is a far-right party that's even classed as extremist in certain German states by domestic intelligence. Mr. Musk dismissed such allegations and claimed he'd earned the right to speak out on German politics because of his significant investments in the EU's largest economy.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
Notably, Mr Musk's electric car-making brand Tesla has a huge factory in the eastern state of Brandenburg, just outside Berlin. Now, this coming week, Mr Musk is expected to hold a live online discussion with the AFD's candidate for Chancellor, Alice Weidel. This all comes just weeks ahead of Germany's snap federal election.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
The vote will take place on February the 23rd, following the collapse of Germany's bickering three-way coalition that comprised of Chancellor Scholz's Social Democrats, the Greens and the FDP Liberals. The AFD, despite polling second, has little prospect of taking power because other parties won't work with it, while Olaf Scholz's chances of retaining the chancellery have long looked slim.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
Nevertheless, Germany looks set to be the next electoral testing ground for Elon Musk's apparent willingness to wade in to national politics.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
I'm actually stood in the Auschwitz-Birkenau site, looking over at a huge tent that has been constructed here. And inside that tent, yes, there will be world leaders. Yes, there will be European royalty as well, including Britain's King Charles III. But they will be the audience, the ones being addressed. and the people who will be addressing them and speaking will be the survivors.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
We think around 50 survivors have made it here today. Obviously, those numbers dwindle as each anniversary passes, but they will be the ones speaking, sharing, I don't know, of course, exactly what they're going to say, but sharing their memories, sharing any words of warning they may have, and sharing their thoughts about how important it is to remember what happened here
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
No, although I think there is always an anxiety and a fear amongst people I've spoken to before who are involved in these kinds of commemorations or the preservation of what happened here, that with time that memories can fade. And I think that's why actually today is regarded as particularly important, the 80th anniversary of
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
As time goes on, as I say, there will be fewer survivors over the passage of time. So you begin to lose that opportunity to hear directly.
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
They'll still be, of course, recorded testimonies, but directly face-to-face in moments like this from survivors, whether they are addressing international media and international audiences, essentially, at an event like this one, or whether they're doing something like going into schools in the countries that they live in to tell people about what they went through and educate young people who now have, you know, generations of distance experience
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Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
from what happened in Europe. So I think that is partly why today, the 80th anniversary, is getting so much international attention.
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'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
When it comes to coalition building, Friedrich Merz isn't awash with options. Provisional results suggest the centre-right leader could cobble together a deal with the centre-left to have a narrow majority in Parliament. Mr Merz today urged centrist parties to get to work, given the far-right Alternativa for Deutschland's growing popularity.
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'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
Mr Mertz has pledged that he won't go into government with the AfD. Sections of the party are classed as right-wing extremists by domestic intelligence services, but a fifth of voters backed them at this election. The party consolidated its support in the former communist East and and continues to enjoy a marked rise in popularity amongst young people.
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'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
Its leader, Alice Weidel, believes they can leapfrog Merz's CDU at the next election.
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'Peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,' Macron says after talks with Trump
It is one thing that centrist parties and the AfD seem to agree on. The performance of the next German government could prove decisive in the far-right's popularity in Germany. Is it at a peak or will it continue to grow?
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
Just in the room beyond where I am at the moment, there is some loud music playing, a band going, people are drinking beer and sipping German sparkling wine. So in that way, it's pretty cheery. And when those exit polls first dropped, there were cheers and applause. But I think there is also a bit of disappointment that they don't seem to have done better than the exit polls are so far suggesting.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
I think there have been hopes of being at 30 or above 30%. So a little bit of disappointment there. But also, you know, they are a party that looks like it will now lead the next coalition government. So in that sense, they're cheerful.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
Yeah, Mr Mertz, Friedrich Mertz, the leader of the CDU, very clear he wants it to be a two-party coalition for the obvious reason that it's much easier to negotiate a coalition deal and then govern the country. And we've seen that because of Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition, which, of course, collapsed.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
What we're looking out for now is whether these smaller parties actually make it into the Bundestag. So, Saarland Connects, BSV... The FDP as well, they look like they may well crash out because you have to reach this 5% threshold. So I think people are waiting to see how those numbers shake down because if they don't make it in, then the seats kind of formations change.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
So all eyes on those numbers overnight. And Friedrich Merz will then want to get to work with those negotiations.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
Yeah, Die Linke having a bit of a late surge there, the left party. Definitely people I speak to, and the results bear this out, suggest that more people are moving to the left or to the right. Certainly people I've spoken to suggest that they've seen that within their friendship groups as well. But for Alternativa, for Deutschland, practically doubling their result from the last week. election.
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Germany election: exit polls say conservatives head for victory
So they're pretty ecstatic in that sense. But as you were mentioning, they won't get into power because other parties won't work with them. But they're seeing this as a stepping stone to the next election. They certainly have their eye on 2029. Jessica Parker.
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President Trump's planned tariffs on steel and aluminium imports widely condemned
A 25-year-old woman dances in a video to a song in support of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland. She's among a band of social media influencers aiding the party's relative dominance on TikTok. Selina wants the return of military service, more help for stay-at-home mums and tougher immigration rules. She's young, so are most of her followers.
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President Trump's planned tariffs on steel and aluminium imports widely condemned
There are lots of people who regard the AFD as an extremist, even a dangerous party.
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President Trump's planned tariffs on steel and aluminium imports widely condemned
Critics accuse the far-right of long-standing anti-migrant rhetoric and of exploiting people's fears after attacks in Germany where the suspects were asylum seekers. But at last year's European elections, the AFD enjoyed a broad rise in support. The sharpest uptick? Under 24-year-olds. Ah, 26.
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President Trump's planned tariffs on steel and aluminium imports widely condemned
At a darts bar in Freiburg, Saxony, 19-year-old Nick and 30-year-old Dominik tell me that for their future, they're aiming for the past.
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President Trump's planned tariffs on steel and aluminium imports widely condemned
It's 7.30 in the morning and we're driving to... a vocational training centre. It's in the town of Fleur in Saxony. And we're going to be in time for the first class of the day. In these halls, people speak of political and gender divides. 18-year-old Cora, who doesn't support the far right, tells me about the kind of misogynistic chatter she hears.
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President Trump's planned tariffs on steel and aluminium imports widely condemned
While teacher Diana Schwitala is alarmed. when she sees right-wing support tip into extremism.
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President Trump's planned tariffs on steel and aluminium imports widely condemned
The school's holding a mock election. Germany's actual election is just two weeks away. A firewall remains to keep the AFD out of power. But a strong showing in this small poll carries an echo. The far-right's efforts to normalise itself appear to be working.
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Heathrow shutdown causes travel chaos
the trend is quite big on TikTok but it comes via a tool called CapCut so anybody can make them and then the filter goes into TikTok and then everyone can use it.
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Heathrow shutdown causes travel chaos
So basically you upload a picture of yourself and then the filter will turn you quote-unquote chubby and there's also another filter where you can put a picture of yourself in and it will make you incredibly skinny and people online were saying that they were going to use it for like summer fits ball and then for the chubby filter they were kind of like mocking it and saying that
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Heathrow shutdown causes travel chaos
They didn't want to look like that. And yeah, it's gotten a lot of backlash basically on social media for people using the filters.
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Heathrow shutdown causes travel chaos
I think a lot of the people doing it were doing it for what they would say was a laugh. Like they would put it on there and poke fun at themselves. I can't believe I look like this. I would never let myself get like this.
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Heathrow shutdown causes travel chaos
And then obviously, understandably, people have then taken to social media and said, this is really quite harmful that you would post something like this and that it's body shaming.
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Heathrow shutdown causes travel chaos
Obviously, body image and body shaming is nothing new. It's been going on for decades. But on TikTok specifically, now that we've got the introduction of AI, it's not just comparing yourself to celebrities or influencers. You can now actually compare yourself to a hyper unrealistic version of yourself one way or the other, which is obviously quite dangerous and very harmful as well.
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NATO calls for unity as tensions rise with US over Ukraine
It is very important for me to get the message across that anyone who commits crimes in Germany will not only be severely punished and sent to prison, they must also expect that they will not be able to continue their stay in Germany. Our correspondent Jessica Parker sent this report from Munich.