Donald Trump, President listener? The situation in the morning

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So anchorage. There, in Alaska’s largest city, the most important summit of the year will take place on Friday. In one corner: the two-time president and heavyweight in US politics, Donald Trump. In the other: the undisputed Russian long -term potion, Vladimir Putin. Russia meets the United States – it is as if you were warming up the Cold War in the microwave.

But the fists should not fly in anchorage. Hopefully. After all, Trump is notorious for his temperament. Instead, the meeting for the 79-year-old Republican should become a “listening exercise” like his. “Only one of the parties involved in this war will be present, so it is the task of the president to get a clearer and better picture of how we can end this war,” she said.

A one -on -one interview between the two presidents is planned, which should be about the Russian attack war against Ukraine. For Trump, the focus is on one thing: listening Putin.

That could become a challenge. On the one hand, because Trump likes to hear himself. On the other hand, the Russian president is known to show extensively what mothers Russia – in his view – has been done to everything bad, especially through the United States. Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama can drown a song of this. In his memoirs “a promised country”: “Putin wanted to get rid of a few things. I had hardly ended the question when Putin also fell into a lively and seemingly endless monologue in which he listed all injustice, every betrayal and disregard that had been taken with him and the Russian people by the Americans.”

It remains to be seen whether it will run similarly in Anchorage. If so, Trump has to pull himself together properly. He is not contradicting, and even less if someone criticizes their “great America”. He cannot afford a scandal like with the Ukrainian President Selenskyj in the White House a few months ago. Too much is at stake, expectations are too high. However, Trump himself dampened it and described the meeting as “scanning” without great expectations. Almost sounds like a first date.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also provided an explanation of why Trump wants to personally approach Putin. “The president thinks: ‘I have to look at this man. I have to look in the face. I have to hear him under four eyes. I have to get a picture of him by watching him,’ ‘explained Rubio in one.

Trump Putin has already met several times: 2017 at the G20 summit in Hamburg, 2018 in Helsinki and most recently in Osaka in 2019. But that was about six years ago, so a lot of memory can fade. Especially at that age.

But Trump not only wants to listen to Putin, no, but also the Europeans – an unusual attitude for Trump, who likes to solve everything on his own. The Europeans, after all for years the closest supporters of Ukraine, had registered a need for discussion. The virtual meeting Friedrich Merz, who apparently has a stone in the board at Trump, has threaded. In addition to Trump and Merz, Wolodymyr Selenskyj and European heads of state and government also take part. The aim is to find a common line with the USA.

Whether Trump not only the Europeans tohear, but also on She hears, remains questionable. It is quite possible that he only “takes note” of your opinions. It is a last chance for Europeans to influence Trump. The concern that he could make Putin too many concessions is great – especially in the countries that border on Russia. Because even greater the fear that Putin will not stop there.

This week, Germany is experiencing midsummer. “Finally!” Some may think, but temperatures of more than 30 degrees are difficult for many. While the heat in this country only really starts, people in southern Europe have been groaning under oppressive embers for a long time. And there the heat brings much more than just beads of sweat.

In southern Europe, the heat wave and devastating forest fires again demanded human life: in Spain, the risk of forest fire increased sharply due to the extreme temperatures. A person near Madrid died in a fire and a volunteer in the León region died. A fire also demanded a victim in Montenegro: a soldier died on Tuesday during extinguishing work.

France, Portugal and several Balkan countries also reported heat warnings, some with temperatures of more than 40 degrees. In Portugal, the fire brigade fought three large fires. The EU asked Greece for support to combat more than a hundred fire. Italy was also not spared: in eleven cities, including Rome and Milan, the authorities called out the alarm level red because of the heat.

Hundreds of forces fought against forest fires in the Balkans: Almost 40 fire broke out in Albania on Monday. In Montenegro, firefighters defended dozens of houses on the outskirts of Podgorica. In Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia, temperatures are expected more than 40 degrees this week. A record value was measured in Kosovo: in Klina, the thermometer showed 42.4 degrees – the highest temperature since the 1987 records began.

The meteorologist Akshay Deoras from the British University of Reading sees the heat wave as not surprising. A heating bell lies over Europe, he told the AFP news agency. “Because of climate change, we live in a much warmer world today, and this fact increases both the frequency and the intensity of heat waves.” Scientists warn that man -made climate change will further tighten extreme weather such as heat waves, droughts and floods.

Five million Germans suffer from arthrosis. Researchers have now developed a new approach to joint protection. A study shows that a slight adaptation of the passage can slow down the progression of the disease. The study, Valentina Mazzoli, published in the journal “The Lancet Rheumatology”, “simple and relatively inexpensive to treat arthrosis in the early stage”, which appeared in the journal “The Lancet Rheumatology”, can reduce the stress on the knee-even with positive consequences for the feeling of pain.

Osteoarthritis leads to the breakdown of the cartilage tissue in the joint. There are severe pain without protective cartilage. Affected people can no longer put the knee properly, often do less sport and are limited in everyday life. It usually occurs in old age and is not curable.

The research team led by Valentina Mazzoli from New York University, the University of Utah and Stanford, examined whether a change in foot position can reduce the joint load when walking. 34 men and women with mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis should bend their feet five or ten degrees inside or outside. A control group of 34 other affected people received no proposed changes.

The participants should run accordingly at least 20 minutes a day. Comparisons were made over a year. The results indicated that the test subjects, who corrected their foot position, slowed down the cartilage breakdown on the inside of the knee. Mazzoli emphasizes that future studies have to confirm these results, but the method can help to delay operations. In addition, the subjects stated that their pain on a ten-point scale was reduced by 2.5 points. This effect corresponds to that of over -the -counter pain relievers.

So far, secret emails show how Jens Spahn commanded RKI President Lothar Wieler through pandemic. And ignored his advice. Legally, the delicate was as you can read here:

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