WEBVTT - Germany is preparing for war with Russia 

0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:05.200
<v Speaker 1>Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with

0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:10.000
<v Speaker 1>the Front's afternoon headlines. A big new development in Europe.

0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:14.320
<v Speaker 1>It's being revealed senior German military officials have been actively

0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:17.840
<v Speaker 1>planning for another land war in Europe based on the

0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:23.040
<v Speaker 1>assumption Russia will attack NATO in this decade. Vladimir Putin

0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.480
<v Speaker 1>invaded Ukraine in twenty twenty two in part to stop

0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:30.880
<v Speaker 1>Volodimi Zelenski, the President of Ukraine, from joining NATO, the

0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:36.120
<v Speaker 1>North American Treaty organization, which governs an alliance between European states,

0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.920
<v Speaker 1>the UK and the US. It underpins the post World

0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:44.159
<v Speaker 1>War II peace on the continent. Putin's move certainly worked,

0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.680
<v Speaker 1>but it made the rest of NATO states very nervous

0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.760
<v Speaker 1>about the possibility that Russia could once again seek to

0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:54.280
<v Speaker 1>expand its territory. Today, the Australians reporting the details of

0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:59.600
<v Speaker 1>Operation Plan Germany, a secret twelve hundred page long classified document,

0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.080
<v Speaker 1>would be a blueprint for a NATO response to such

0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.440
<v Speaker 1>an attack. The plan details how up to eight hundred

0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:10.560
<v Speaker 1>thousand German, US and other NATO ground troops would be

0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:14.800
<v Speaker 1>moved towards Russia's borders, including details of exactly how they'd

0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:19.000
<v Speaker 1>be transported via river, rail and road. The plan also

0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:23.080
<v Speaker 1>maps a so called all of society war, where civilian

0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:28.160
<v Speaker 1>infrastructure and people were drawn into the conflict. An American

0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:31.520
<v Speaker 1>National Guard soldier has died after being shot allegedly by

0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:35.080
<v Speaker 1>an Afghan refugee after an ambush near the White House.

0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.440
<v Speaker 1>Sarah Beckstrom, twenty died from wounds suffered in the attack.

0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:43.759
<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump has confirmed another National Guard member, twenty four

0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:47.480
<v Speaker 1>year old Andrew Wolf, is in a critical condition. Meanwhile,

0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:51.520
<v Speaker 1>the CIA has revealed it previously worked in Afghanistan with

0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:56.680
<v Speaker 1>the suspect who's now under arrest. Afghan national Rachmano La Lachanwal,

0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:00.040
<v Speaker 1>who's twenty nine, will face charges including three counts of

0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.760
<v Speaker 1>assault with intent to kill. That charge could be upgraded

0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.800
<v Speaker 1>to murder. The CIA said he was one of many

0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:11.000
<v Speaker 1>Afghan nationals brought to America in gratitude for helping US

0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:15.560
<v Speaker 1>troops during the Afghan War. Check out those stories live

0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.640
<v Speaker 1>right now at the Australian dot com dot au and

0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.600
<v Speaker 1>come back to the front first thing in the morning

0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.800
<v Speaker 1>for our weekend culture episode, a close look at Wicked

0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:29.160
<v Speaker 1>for Good, the movie that's storming Box offices and captivating

0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.440
<v Speaker 1>young women around the world. Nicki Gammel will be here