内容摘要：Describing the commemorative statements, Mr Griffin said: "The evidence you will be hearing may be commemorative of a person who has died, speaking about their lives and aspirations and other memories.

Describing the commemorative statements, Mr Griffin said: "The evidence you will be hearing may be commemorative of a person who has died, speaking about their lives and aspirations and other memories.

There is speculation that Scholz is planning to also talk to the Chinese president Xi Jinping, a lukewarm supporter of Russia, about the war in Ukraine at the G20 next week in Rio de Janeiro.The last time Scholz talked to Putin on the phone was on 2 December 2022. They last met in person a week before the full invasion of Ukraine.

At the time, Scholz returned to Berlin with promises from Putin that Russia did not intend to invade Ukraine. The attack a week later was the final break in trust between Germany and Russia.For decades, Berlin had tried to ensure peace with Moscow by binding the two countries together with trade and energy links. That aspiration shattered overnight when Russia launched its full invasion of Ukraine.Today, Germany is the largest donor of military and financial aid to Ukraine after the US, and mainstream politicians from across the political spectrum, as well as most voters, favour supporting Ukraine.

But with elections in Germany now due in February, pressure is growing for serious peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.The far-right AfD and the new far-left populist BSW, which together could win between a quarter and third of votes in the election, accuse the government of not doing enough to bring about a peace deal.

Scholz’s governing coalition collapsed last week and he now runs a minority government until the elections. Both he and his party are doing badly in the polls.

Germany has been hit hard by the war in Ukraine, both politically and economically.They have been joined in recent days by big-name Wall Street figures. Billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman - who supported Trump in the 2024 presidential election - has warned of "a self-induced, economic nuclear winter".

Even one of Trump's top aides, billionaire businessman Elon Musk, is reportedly against the tariffs, and spent time over the weekend lobbying the president to reverse them, according to two anonymous sources cited by the Washington Post.The tariffs have been designed to target almost all of the world's countries.

Trump claims that a 10% tariff on all nations and much higher rates on individual countries will boost the US economy and protect jobs.Companies that bring the foreign goods into the country have to pay the tax to the government.