does that mean one. how did know when you become a gateway to islam this terror until now you see sorry guys i knew my city as the end result of an exclusive report from a destroyed city. philippines in the sun. starts april eleventh on t.w. . nato was founded seventy years ago they say age is just a number but when the most powerful person on the planet dismisses you as obsolete even the most seasoned soldiers can start belding their mission or today for the first time ever the head of nato spoke before the u.s. congress his mission to dispel any doubts about the necessity of nato a message tailor made for president donald trump i'm burned off in berlin this is the day.

for all and all for walk almost all laws stood with you not to states and it's all over. the strength of think of this that the spite our differences we have always been able to night around a record calls to defend the children protect the children and to keep our people safe we will need our reliance even more in the future. we face unprecedented. challenges challenges no will nation comes face alone since we cannot for seat the future we have to be prepared for the unforeseen. we need a struct to gte to deal with uncertainty we how long that step that it is.

also coming up tonight as of today in brunei you can be stoned to death for committing adultery or for having gay sex now for much of the world it's a reason to be outraged for the leader of brunei is just another reason to visit his country young that down but anyone who visits our country will come away with good memories of my money that they will experience what a peaceful and harmonious society we have as well as the bad. hospitality. bye bye . to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all the around the world welcome we begin the day with two very different messages on this seventieth anniversary of natives founding one is about a shared purpose and a shared peace the other is not about sharing instead it's all about show me the money if you immediately connected the money with u.s. president donald trump then you know he continues to criticize nato members

especially germany for not paying their fair share for defense or the other message brings us to nato secretary general younes stoltenberg today he became the first nato head to ever address the u.s. congress the invitation extended to him was bipartisan both democrats and republicans wanted him there today and both parties wanted him to take aim at president donald trump a pep talk to remind the commander in chief that the value of world peace and global order cannot and should not be reduced to a transaction with a price tag nato has being good for europe but nato has also been good for the united states. the strength of a nation is not only measured by the sight the size of its

economy ordinal number of its soldiers but but also bought a number of its friends and tonight to deny to states has more friends and allies than any of the power this us and made the united states stronger safer more secure or. well we have complete coverage of today's address by the head of nato joining me from brussels where nato headquarters is located is g.w.s. teri schultz terry is a veteran in nato reporter and she has covered the alliance for two decades now and here in the studio at the big table with me is former german army brigadier general klaus that mr bittman is a nato insider one of the alliances strategic architects back in the nineteen ninety's to both of you welcome mr didden let me start with you did the nato secretary general did he do what he was supposed to do today on capitol hill yes i

think so he was not to emphasize the divisions and the crises nato has a history of seventy years history of crises but also a success successes and he was to emphasize the uniting elements and he was to emphasize to the american political body politique the common interest in keeping the transatlantic link together with which is which is. by nato and did you believe him was incredible yes yes because nato is the most. the most successful alliance in history because a it was able to adapt to totally different and always changing circumstances and secondly it is not just a wall of lions which would break up off the fulfillment of the purpose like

a building named lucia said farewell to each other all the battlefield of waterloo it has the prominent tosk to protect its members and. to to end or even prevent war so you know that's a very good point. you know all heads were nodding in congress today when mr stuart. but it's donald trump's mind that was targeted with this speech what's your assessment did he reach the president well partly brant i mean one of the things that stolzenberg is very good at and one of the reasons that his term has just been extended is that he's been able to forge a friendship with donald trump i mean these men are very very different in their backgrounds. stolzenberg comes from a long family of diplomats they're known for their humanitarian interests and yet he has been able to sort of tone down the u.s.

president in the spending debate he still burke has actually changed his language to play to the president a little bit and that has made some nato watchers unhappy they think that he's actually too conciliatory given the things that trump has said about nato but i think i think stoltenberg tread that line very well in congress today i have never seen him give a speech like this and i've been watching virtually every speech that man has given since becoming nato secretary general and even in his drawer we didn't post and i have never seen him give such a good speech some of that's due to the speech writing but he really showed his personality there he was funny and this was really important that he go there and he showed that he was not backing down from some of nato's principles about all for one and one for all no matter what kind of budget you've got but he i don't think you said anything that's going to outrage the president i really think that it is a very fine line but he walked it well. our standby and we're going to talk more

about the troubled trump ties to nato but first we have a primer on nato to tell you about its beginnings and how we got to where we are today. we were down proceed to the signing of the north atlantic treaty this seventy year old nato has faced examinations under harsh light this birthday it does have some concerns for its well being discomfort when something viral is going around occasional spikes in blood pressure should never been allowed to happen but germany is totally controlled by russia and perhaps some self doubt that when push comes to shove its core is not as strong as it hoped to former u.s. ambassadors to nato research the biggest threat facing the alliances seventy the transatlantic consensus the absence of strong american presidential leadership nato

secretary general yet still zimbra rejects that conclusion it's just not possible to say that the united states is not committed to meet them because do not the states is increasing their military contributions to nato he points to the latest example a new plan for the us to forward position heavy work fighting equipment at a police airbase trump's rough treatment of the alliance particularly his incessant demand that government spend more on defense has unnerved some europeans but this shake up some call it a shakedown by the u.s. president may have some benefits for nato i've never seen so many editorials in american newspapers praising the eloise jamie shea spent almost four decades at nato as a spokesman but also an expert in what are called emerging security challenges and while dealing with russia and its hybrid worker tactics still top the list of challenges for nato the now retired shay warns the alliance must look further afield. to be fit for the future because obviously china is the rising power it's

already in europe buying up infrastructure influencing the future of all to officially teligent technology it's going to be a massively more important factor in determining twenty first century security to russia or all googly any other country outside nature of that country's insider shaping future to the next enlargement will be to north macedonia which changed its name to settle a dispute with greece that earned an almost immediate invitation to join pending the approval of the other twenty nine allies they didn't waste their time they didn't drag their feet and that's remarkable for an organization of twenty nine members so i think that. it's not just our desire to join it's how nato has dealt with the challenge of enlargement that shows that this is a strong forward looking and dynamic organization scope hopes the alliance will

prove this anniversary year that seventy is the new thirty. we all wish that seventy is the new thirty there was an excellent report you bring up also the of the rise of china as a threat that will demand attention is that the consensus is inside nato remember germany for example is not banning five g. a quick maker who weighed just yet and that despite warnings from the united states . well here's the thing brant that jamie shea told me and and he would know having just retired a few months ago he says that nato hasn't been paying enough attention to china and he points out that there's a nato russia council there's a partnership with jordan they've just set up a center in the middle east and yet there is no formal partnership with china and where she says that it would be really important to start forming those ties now before there is the potential for an adversarial relationship i mean you're not worrying about. little green men coming over the border with china like you are

with russia so he says let's really cemented this relationship and one of the really important things he says is in addition to what you mentioned with the five g. network china has it has an interest has bought stakes in at least twelve ports in europe so why does that matter because if there were a war nato would need to use these ports and normally national governments who are allies would give that permission if china is a majority owner maybe even a full owner you can't count on that so this is a big concern for nato and they're behind the ball so yes they very much need to be looking at this if they are going to be looking ahead to future threats and not just dealing with day to day hybrid warfare and fears about russia coming over you know and and scaring the baltics mr putin how do you see that especially with germany i use germany as the example of not always toeing the official u.s. law and in nato is that is that

a good thing or is that dangerous. let me say that the two percent target is not mr trump's invention although he has made this the emphasis of his dealing and within nato but it was decided several times at the highest level in wales two thousand and fourteen it was up to the crown not to do it has already been a longstanding nato target and. on the one hand germans are right when they say it is not only cash it is cash capabilities and contributions and germany is still the second lodger's troop contributor in nato on the other hand we have subscribed to this goal we have had in the last four years eamon says. in korea an immense increase in our defense spending so i personally find it totally unnecessary to to put into push to to put into question

this goal now in the medium term. finances are trumped. and what answer would you give him if he says why can't you meet the two percent germany is a rich country you've got the money why can't you expend the money on defense yes i would i would say look at the numbers we are doing exactly what was decided in wales that all nations who have not yet attained the two percent will move until two thousand and twenty fall into that direction we are moving in that direction and what i would not do is what the german police do. perhaps exaggerated on this nest to to put this into question all of that very good point a diplomat is hidden there in your military. germany and brylin and the

berlin wall they all had storing roles in mr biggs speech today i want you to take a listen to what he said about nato headquarters and the berlin wall at the entrance to the nato headquarters in belgium there are two moments one a piece of the berlin wall this signed to keep people in and out the fate. it failed. because the ideals and the values old those who built it were less compelling and less powerful than ours you got a standing ovation for that as you said you know you stoltenberg was there comment about the berlin wall was that a dig against donald trump border wall with mexico still timbres a very careful man especially in his public announcement but i don't think that could be seen as any other way and he very much knew his audience at this speech

and congress of course does not want to fund the wall another thing that comes from stillbirths past that i'm reminded of at this moment is that after norway was hit by a terrorist attack anders behring breivik killed seventy seven people it stoltenberg as prime minister said we are going to become more open as a result of this we are going to welcome more people because we are going to show that norway is not like this he didn't go quite that far in this speech today but this is something that very much is part of his attitude that that you you reach out you you react against populism you react against small mindedness by becoming bigger hearted and i think that he very much got that across if you know him at all if you've watched him at all you can definitely see that in that speech today he wanted to build the big tents and he would like president to come under that. come into the tent with us mr britain will there be a naidoo at eighty and what will it look like i am sure it will.

be eighty two i look forward to that and i think the following elements. the united states and its present president and i think. quite. convinced of the value of nato for the united states which as a naval power needs to the opposite coast and has so many states and i think i see that tactic with mr trump to keep an uncertainty obsolete not obsolete and so on to . the the spending the spending discussion at a toll at eighty i think nato will have come to terms with cyber dangerous with hybrid warfare it will indeed have started to look much more closely and seriously at china let me insert here that in

a little book just before the last the strategic concept of two thousand and ten i proposed to have a fourth call function for nato in addition to defense and crisis management and cooperation i would emphasize consultation constitutional and that is something for china time me ask you naidoo at eighty to ten seconds what will it look like i think things would have settled down a lot they've never seen anyone like mr trump so no one will ever shock nato like he has again i think that the europeans will settle down they will realize that tweets aren't policy which is something they're always reminding themselves of so i think we'll see a much more settled nato and perhaps a more self-confident one as a result all right so very young terry folds in brussels and former german army brigadier general clouds that many here with me in the studio to both of you thank you. as

a small nation we always devote pres to a lot. yes this is driven by our national philosophy of malaysia islamic monarchy. that has existed here for hundreds of years. right through the one system in this system preserves and guarantees the rights of all people regardless of their race and faith then go to the temple among europe was done put a gun on monica. well that was the leader of the southeast asian nation of brunei the laws change there today laws that are now based on a strict interpretation of islam brunei is a tiny country on the island of borneo and it has well as a track to lots of global attention not the good kind for the new laws in the punishments for offenders the punishments include amputating limbs of convicted

thieves and it gets worse game in called having sex could face the death penalty death by stoning lesbians called having sex or face one hundred lashes with a whip the united nations has called these laws direct tony and but the sultan is defending them and as you can imagine there has been global shock and outrage the actor and activist george clooney he is leveraging his fame and he's calling for a boycott of luxury hotels from the dorchester in london to the beverly hills hotel i mean these are all owned by. royal family its sultan is one of the richest men on earth a multi billionaire who gets his money from the country's gas and oil reserves. and on social media there is outrage along with the new hash tag boycott. now gay times mag columnist tom knight

tweeted people all over the world have condemned these barbaric laws but most world leaders appear to value gas oil luxury hotels and investment portfolios more than they value l g b t q lives and writes there's this from a local labor party councillor in the u.k. who organized a protest last weekend it's twenty nineteen and we're still having to protest against homophobic laws that belong in the dark ages and amnesty campaign crisis manager who's worked in syria is calling the new law medieval but also part of the growing authoritarianism that we see globally. all right let's take this story one step further to talk about it i'm joined now by graham reed from human rights watch in new york he is director of the organization's l.g.b. t.

program it's good to have you on the show these new laws in brunei you know they did not come about overnight we've known about the changes coming for months do do you have any reason to believe that public pressure now will have a different result i mean so far it hasn't changed things. well the first phase of the law was actually announced in two thousand and eight and was being phased in over a period of two yes but in fact because of sustained international pressure that was delayed and there was quietly introduced at the end of december last year to go into today so i think we see that international pressure has in delaying it and now we see an enormous international outcry and that is likely to have an affair precisely because of the sultan of brunei has extensive international in

they students and connections is that as well it's seems to be taking place in isolation in britain i has enormous international repercussions. brunei joins a list of countries saudi arabia iran martain sudan and yemen. now we've got brunei on the list how do you explain the countries move into you know the only place we could we can describe it as is a very dark place for people. the rats of the countries are less dole countries that make provision for the day for same sex relations law and deny it is extremely broad including stoning for adultery and that there is. really archaic and extreme banishments that you have already outlined and it also goes against the trained internationally which is new even towards decriminalisation i think that a council that extraordinary international reaction to this to this development

it's totally out of tune with the times and it's inexplicable as to why it would be implemented at this point in time and what about the people in brunei i mean if i look at this law i think it makes it easy for people to be entrapped revenge crimes can be committed because you don't you really don't have to prove that people have been have been gauging gay sex how do you prove that so you could really even entrap people it would seem is there any recourse for people in that situation in brunei. you're right that this law is open to abuse they are have high levels of proof that are required in terms of actual conviction and vanishment of shari'a however. people who have been living in britain i in the hope that the. law when it be fully implemented in other words

that the prior punishments that involved financially even jail would be the punishments that were in place and had heard that these extreme punishments wouldn't be entered into it so they've been living in some but also some and not the messages that we're getting out of there not real panic that this law is not being fully implemented and individuals are now faced with the prospect of data by stoning now even if this law is near but implemented simply by having that on the books is you know instills extreme terror in people and that's the point of but it's really you know fates many people aside from gay people anyone who's convicted adultery for example. please we will be following this story and you know maybe as

you say the war will not be enforced and acted as it looks like it will be tonight creamery director of human rights watch is t.v. program for appreciate your insights tonight thank you. well the day is almost over the conversation continues online and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody.

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