Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. A big new development in Europe.
Speaker 1: It's being revealed senior German military officials have been actively
Speaker 1: planning for another land war in Europe based on the
Speaker 1: assumption Russia will attack NATO in this decade. Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: invaded Ukraine in twenty twenty two in part to stop
Speaker 1: Volodimi Zelenski, the President of Ukraine, from joining NATO, the
Speaker 1: North American Treaty organization, which governs an alliance between European states,
Speaker 1: the UK and the US. It underpins the post World
Speaker 1: War II peace on the continent. Putin's move certainly worked,
Speaker 1: but it made the rest of NATO states very nervous
Speaker 1: about the possibility that Russia could once again seek to
Speaker 1: expand its territory. Today, the Australians reporting the details of
Speaker 1: Operation Plan Germany, a secret twelve hundred page long classified document,
Speaker 1: would be a blueprint for a NATO response to such
Speaker 1: an attack. The plan details how up to eight hundred
Speaker 1: thousand German, US and other NATO ground troops would be
Speaker 1: moved towards Russia's borders, including details of exactly how they'd
Speaker 1: be transported via river, rail and road. The plan also
Speaker 1: maps a so called all of society war, where civilian
Speaker 1: infrastructure and people were drawn into the conflict. An American
Speaker 1: National Guard soldier has died after being shot allegedly by
Speaker 1: an Afghan refugee after an ambush near the White House.
Speaker 1: Sarah Beckstrom, twenty died from wounds suffered in the attack.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has confirmed another National Guard member, twenty four
Speaker 1: year old Andrew Wolf, is in a critical condition. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the CIA has revealed it previously worked in Afghanistan with
Speaker 1: the suspect who's now under arrest. Afghan national Rachmano La Lachanwal,
Speaker 1: who's twenty nine, will face charges including three counts of
Speaker 1: assault with intent to kill. That charge could be upgraded
Speaker 1: to murder. The CIA said he was one of many
Speaker 1: Afghan nationals brought to America in gratitude for helping US
Speaker 1: troops during the Afghan War. Check out those stories live
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