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Germany will be prepared for war by 2029, says Pistorius #shorts
60 Minutes· 2025-12-17 16:01
Pistorius warns Putin is rapidly rebuilding Russia's military and he told us Russia could be in position to attack the West by the end of the decade. When does Germany need to be ready for war. We should do everything to be that in 2029.This is our objective. This is still a way to go. 3 days after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, then Chancellor Olaf Schultz told the Bundustag, Germany's parliament, the incursion marked a Titan venda, a turning point for Europe.He announced a special€ 100 billion euro fu ...
Germany aims to build the strongest military in Europe #shorts
60 Minutes· 2025-12-17 16:00
The war in Ukraine has shaken Germany's sense of security. But the country is also shaking off the shadows of its brutal military past. This Holocaust memorial in Berlin, a stark reminder of that history, stands close by the rice, where the national parliament is moving to restore Germany's military as Europe's most powerful force.Defense Minister Boris Ptorius has overseen a 23% uptick in enlistments over last year. How is the war in Ukraine changing Germany's view of its own security. I grew up in the Col ...
60 Minutes watches German military recruits in basic training #shorts
60 Minutes· 2025-12-17 15:42
This past month, we were invited by the Bundesphere, the German military, to observe basic training at the Müster Army base in northwest Germany. A squad of recruits ran punishing drills, >> honing the skills they would need to defend their position against an enemy assault. THE major in charge right here >> has been training troops since 2018.The Bundes won't reveal his name to shield his identity from hostile actors. >> So, have you seen a difference in the recruits of today versus years past. >> Yes.Um I ...
Rob Reiner said comedy legends were regulars in his childhood home
60 Minutes· 2025-12-16 19:54
Were there comedians in your house all the time. >> Yeah. Yeah.Plenty of them. Plenty of them. Yeah.I mean, there's Mel, there's Sid Caesar, there's Wow. You know, Norman was there. Groucho came by, Steve.Yeah. Yeah. I mean, people were there, you know, and everybody said, "What is it like growing up?" When you're a kid growing up, you don't know.You just That's >> I think every house is like >> Yeah. And then you go to your friend's house and nobody's laughing over there. Not funny is not so funny over the ...
A mother fights for $2 million drug to save her daughter #shorts
60 Minutes· 2025-12-16 01:45
Green pursued philanthropy for her daughter Maisie, set up a GoFundMe page, and demanded a meeting with the insurance company. You wanted them to look her in the eye. >> Yes.I wanted them to look her in the eye and say, "We're the reason you're going to die." >> The insurance board blinked. Maisie received the genetic therapy drug, Zenma, in 2019. One dose, one hour, and the effect was what.>> You can't even describe it. Amazing. Amazing.Maisy, it changed her life. It changed our life. It was what she neede ...
Why Rob Reiner changed "When Harry Met Sally" after meeting his wife Michele
60 Minutes· 2025-12-16 01:28
Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way. >> I understand that the end of this movie was changed after you met Michelle. >> Yeah, that's true. That's true.>> What was it going to be. >> I mean, I've been single for 10 years and I hadn't met anybody. And so, I had this idea that, you know, at that point, you know, they they they run into each other after some time goes by.They have this conversation on the streets in New York. And then the last shot was going to be just the ...
Rob Reiner on how his work tried to capture the human experience
60 Minutes· 2025-12-16 01:28
Here's a quote from Norman Lear. >> Okay. >> Rob's movies all have a human dearness to them. Do you think all your movies have dearness.>> I don't know about dearness. I try to >> I try to uh you know uh put out the human experience. I when I was 17 years old, I was in a summer theater and I was an apprentice.I wasn't an actor. I was building scenery and stuff and I saw this play. It was A Thousand Clowns by Herb Gardner and it was very funny and very serious and emotional and he blended those two things.An ...
Who is to blame for the high cost of gene therapies? #shorts
60 Minutes· 2025-12-15 21:00
Is there a bad guy in this equation. Employers who won't pay. Drug companies that are charging enormous fees for these drugs.>> The manufacturer is not the bad guy. The company's not the bad guy. Really, there's no bad guys here, Scott.We just have to recognize as society that something's changed. We have a new miraculous and expensive mode of treatment and we society need to recognize that we need to act jointly to absorb those costs. Economist Jonathan Gruber says in his view, absorbing those costs will r ...
Jimmy Lai and Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrations in 2019 | 60 Minutes Archive
60 Minutes· 2025-12-15 20:47
60 Minutes reported from Hong Kong in 2019, when months of pro-democracy demonstrations turned increasingly violent. Jimmy Lai, a media company owner and democracy advocate, spoke with Holly Williams at the time about criticizing the Chinese government. Lai, now 78, was arrested in 2020, and convicted on Monday in a landmark national security trial of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. "60 Minutes" is the most suc ...
Multi-million dollar gene therapies could lead to cost “tsunami” #shorts
60 Minutes· 2025-12-15 18:52
Today, there are more than 300 highcost genetic therapies in clinical trials, some for diseases suffered by millions of patients. >> I liken it to a coming tsunami, which is basically going to overwhelm the employer sponsored insurance system. >> Few know healthc care finance as well as Jonathan Gruber.He's chair of economics at MIT and an architect of the Affordable Care Act. What happens when you have genetic cell and gene therapies that treat cancer or heart disease, which are much more common. That's wh ...