nato agreed to beef up military presence on its eastern borders. a rapid response team based in poland with outposts in the baltic states. >> this decision sends a clear message. nato protects all allies at all times. >> the rapid response team was requested by member states in the east who were weary of russia's apparent intervention in ukraine. despite the president's cease-fire talks, the united states said it was ready to ratchet up talks toward moscow. >> finalizing measures to deepen and broaden sanctions across russia's financial, energy, and defense sectors. at the same time, we strongly support president poroshenko's efforts to pursue a peaceful resolution to the conflict in his country. >> german chancellor angela merkel made clear that the sanctions could be reversed should russia withdraw troops from the border region. she also touched on the crisis in iraq were germany, the u.s., and eight other nato countries plan on stepping up efforts to help fight islamic state militants. still, germany stressed that military action alone would not

by nato nations. the u.k. prime minister, is saying enough is enough, this is just encouraging further hostage taking and he is urging his fellow leaders to stop paying. it's membership has grown, and challenges have changes. randall pinkston has more on the past and it's future the fall of the berlin wall, marked the beginning of a new role for nato. the north atlantic treaty organization. initially, the u.s., canada, and western europe formed nato to counter the threat from the soviet union, and it's communist block nationed. this was the political landscape at the end of the cold war. nato nations in blue, the soviet union and it's allies in red. but today the alliances are vastly different. it now include many that were former allies including poland and the baltic republics. but some of the old conflicts the threat to the you drain and new crisis from afghanistan to the islamic state pose new challenges for the old alliance. and wales -- >> with one of the most -- beyond the defense for it's members. >> i

moments ago, president obama arrived in wales for this nato summit, where nato nation, leaders, drawing up plans to confront russia and ukraine. president obama vowing nato will come to the defense of its allies and by that he means every ally. let's go to the white house correspondent, michelle kosinski, live in wales for us. so michelle, we know ukraine not a nato nation, but the alliance has indicated that it will support the capital, will support kiev in the wake of this very bold move from putin. what should we, the world, expect out of this nato meeting? >> reporter: yeah, president obama made that very clear. and it's something we have been hearing about for months now. but what we have been hearing about again in the last two weeks or so is the possibility that ukraine will apply, will try to get approval, for nato membership itself. now, that is a process that starts within its own country, of course. but they were talking about this back in april, as well, as this russian activity was really getting under way and the world was watching, thinking what is this? and what are he w

ukrainian government's approved a bill to cancel the country's nonaligned states is asking nato to take it in. and russian journalist on the stand in has been confirmed killed a month after going missing in eastern ukraine. and other working watching the national coming to you live from moscow now our breaking news this. ukrainian president petro poroshenko has backtracked on his initial announcement of a full ceasefire in the country's east his website now says he's only greed to discuss steps towards a truce the ukrainian leader had area announced on twitter that a permanent truce in the region was imminent let's go live now to our tease paula slayer in the east ukraine for say paula some confusion then coming from kiev do you think we can actually expect some sort of pace. well the situation on the ground certainly is chaotic in that initial statement that came from kids the wording was for a permanent cease fire the word permanent has now been dropped and the phrase is a ceasefire regime now this is difficult to interpret and people here on the ground certainly are not clear about w

is if you attack a nato state it's like you're attacking all nato state. ukraine is not a part of nato. is there a correlation. can you say, well, we're going to act this way as nato but ukraine is on their own? >> i think we're trying to send the message that you cran begans are on their own but the president made it clear we cannot get engaged militarily with russia in ukraine. ukraine is not a nato member. at least what we're doing now is to deter russia from thinking it can move beyond ukraine to countries that are in nato. we can help the ukrainians. we can try to help broker a settlement we keep hearing rumors there will be cease-fire talks then the russians walk them back. we can use whatever influence we have. but our influence is limited as our obligations to ukraine. >> i love the term you use i d hybrid war. do you think there's anything that would move pew tone stop with his plans of expanding. do you think anything the wets can do that would stop the plans? >> even though the sanctions had an economic impact and will have a fwraert impact econ

>> certainly symbolic before he heads to wales for this nato summit. gloria, to you, as the nato summit happens on thursday, russia appears to be ramping things up ukraine. do you see that as a direct challenge from him to vladimir putin? >> well, he would view it not only as a direct challenge to him but also to nato. this is a president, don't forget, who pushed the reset button with putin. that didn't work out so well for him. tried to establish a relationship with him where their mutual self-interests were involved. that didn't work out so well for him. not only do they have this issue that matthew was talking about with ukraine but the nato allies are going to be looking to the president for leadership on this question of isis. nato is looking to not only lead on ukraine, he's done that, i would argue, on economic sanctions. but on the question of isis, will the president come out after the second beheading to say that isis is a direct threat to american national security? we don't know the answer to that yet, brooke. he's got a divided advisers o

turning to the wider form of nato. after the end of the cold war, nato stood down. at this summit, we decided to reverse that decision and scale up our readiness to respond to any threat. and at the same time, we also agreed to do more to build the capacity of other nations outside nato to help them with defense capabilities. a new multinational spearhead force will be formed and deployable anywhere in the world within two to five days. this is vital in underlining our article 5 obligations. and the uk will support this by providing a battle group and a brigade headquarters. we'll also contribute 3,500 personnel as part of nato's efforts to ensure a consistent presence. on capacity building, nato has a vital role, as i said, in helping other countries with their capacity to defend themselves against all threats, including terrorist threats. when we consider how many threats nato countries, including here in the uk faced coming from the middle east, north africa, and elsewhere. this capacity building is becoming ever more important. it was a key priority at the uk su

forces from nato members will work with the ukrainian military. defense department spokesperson steve warren says the exercise will run from september 15th to the 26th. he said it will focus on countering bombs and surveillance activity and involve live fire drills. warren had earlier said u.s. and ukrainian naval vessels will take part in separate maritime exercises next week in the black sea. state department spokesperson jen psaki says the war games are preplanned and are not being held in response to current events. >>> the united states is seeking a u.n. security council resolution that calls for action against foreign fighters traveling to join terrorist groups. >> we will encourage international cooperation to prevent foreign terrorist fighter travel and underscore the centrality of countering violent extremism through positive narratives and programs that give would-be fighters alternatives to violence. >> u.s. ambassador to the united nations samantha power said that on september 25th, president barack obama will convene a security counci

ukraine is not part of nato but there are other eastern european nations that are a part of nato and they are the ones that are most concerned about this russian aggression in the region. i'm talking about poland, estonia, where the president was a few days before showing up to wales. so that's a concrete action. sort of a ready strike force to provide some protection to those eastern european nations most concerned about russian aggression. you're going to hear about the new sanctions. but i think it's the rhetoric we hear on isis. what is he going to say. how much closer. you brought up what ben rhodes said, what he told chris jansing, not ruling out boots on the ground. i think we're seeing a full-fledged preparation for a larger scale operation than we thought. >> and here is the president. >> good afternoon. let me begin by thanking my great friend, prime minister cameron, and his entire team for hosting this nato summit and making it such a success. i want to thank the people of newport and cardi fcff and the people of wales for welcoming me and my delegation so warmly. it's a

this commitment makes clear nato will not be complacent. our alliance will reverse the decline in defense spending and rise to meet the challenges we face in the 21st century. fifth, our alliance is fully united in support of ukraine's sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity, and its right to defend itself. to back up this commitment, all 28 nato allies will now provide security assistance to ukraine. this includes nonlethal support to the ukrainian military like body armor, fuel, medical care for ukrainian wounded troops, as well as assistance to help modernize ukrainian forces, including logistics and command and control. here in wales we also sent a strong message to russia that actions have consequences. today the u.s. and europe are finalizing measures to broaden our sanctions across russia's financial, energy, and defense sectors. at the same time, we strongly support president poroshenko's efforts to pursue a peaceful resolution to the conflict in his country. the cease-fire announced today can advance the goal, but only

today, the president is due to meet with nato leaders, what is ukraine looking to get out of nato over the next few days. what are the goals for the ukrainian president, reza? >> what ukraine wants and it looks like they're getting it is full support from nato, washington in western capitols. kiev is not asking for weapons, they're not asking for military intervention, they're asking for support. and it looks like it's happening, over the past couple days, nato has suggested that they're going to skband their bases and bolster their capacity in eastern europe. they're also going to hold annual exercises in western ukraine that were earlier cancelled, those exercises are going to be held later in september, however, and this is important, all of this could be viewed by moscow as provocation. remember, the over arching concern in moscow is nato expansion toward its border, there's a lot of concern in russia, that nato is encroaching on the security zone of russia. they don't want that obviously, and that's why many observers say perhaps nato intervention at this particular time may backf

and that's that nato want that law changed. science can see that done each again from washington that. well let's focus on the upcoming nato summit in the u.k. raising money to bolster a military presence in eastern europe in the wake of the ukrainian crisis appears to be a key priority whatever nato leaders planned hundreds of peace protesters turned out weekend in host then use of newport and cardiff in wales they want less money spent on more and nuclear weapons. so could nato afford to boost defense infrastructure across eastern europe or currently the twenty eight member states spend as much as one trillion dollars a year maintaining what the alliance already has that means the organization alone gets more military funding than the rest of the world put together washington is currently putting most of that bill with just over a quarter of nato is budget made up by other members those in the alliance as opposed to contribute two percent of their g.d.p. each year but not everyone does in fact more than eighty five percent of

the president also at the nato summit today dealing with this issue of russia and what nato should do to try to deter russia. we turn to all of you. what do you want to see from your president, specifically what should the president be doing on these two issues? charles in kansas city, missouri, independent caller, go ahead. caller: okay. i just seen the clips from the last video, but all i really want to say is two things regarding russia and the isis, the isis, i want to touch on first. the isis situation if it's such a threat, we don't want to give or let the cookie, because they will want the milk, but if it's such a threat we need to try to figure out -- obama should keep doing the same thing he's doing as your last caller said, but for the most part i believe that because it is a severe threat level announced by david cameron, i believe that there needs to be a religious like eternal affairs that deal and suggest what solutions we are to -- but military option, military option is definitely i believe on the table. host: okay. caller: but because there's -- it seems like it's a r

nato leaders later this week stop putin? show of force going to help? joining me from stamford university, contribute or the michael mcfall. good to see you again. thank you very much. >> sure. >> this is all very tense obviously going into the nato meeting. we hear from prime minister cameron that the uk is going to organize a force of europeans for the eastern nato frontier but what is going to get putin to change his mind? >> well, it's clear that putin has escalated militarily. the rebels were losing just ten days ago, two weeks ago. he's clearly upped the antenow and fighting outside of the city, that's evidence that they're winning. so the west, the obama administration and the nato alliance needs to think about ways to shore up the ukrainian side, a combination of two things. one, more sanctions, of course. if they escalate, the west has to respond. and two, i think there will be a serious discussion about military assistance for the ukrainia ukrainians. >> there are a number of quotation

it has been through ever since nato was created [indiscernible] this also true nato is deeply divided on the ukrainian issue. there's a war party, and the war party is led by poland and the three baltic states -- to a certain extent, romania, but not so much -- and britain. then there is a party that wants to accommodate russia, that thinks this is not entirely russia's fault. moreover, the germans, the french, the spanish, the at times, depend on russia in many ways for their economic prosperity. they want to negotiate, not punish, russia. where is obama? it would appear nowhere except occasionally he comes in as he given estonia and seem to a speech that favors the war party. >> let's go to the, the president obama when he was in the former soviet republic of estonia, blaming russia for the issues and vowed to defend baltic states. >> it has many pro-russian separatists who are encouraged by russia, financed by russia, trained by russia, supplied by russia, and armed by russia. russian forces that have now moved into ukraine are not on a humanitarian or peacekeeping mission. their r

and nato to bring more troops more weapons and essentially prop up these client regimes. that are in these three countries at a time like today when so much work has been going in diplomatically still of especially today to try and get a cease fire here was his choice of words talk about expansion into into europe into the east of europe really was was a good time to be talking about that was it just really stoking the fire. well according to him and political stablished it's a perfect time the nato summit in wales is coming up. it's happening tomorrow and nato is being desperately in search of a mission this is this is coming perfect to them they can rebrand themselves as crusaders for freedom and democracy helping the poor innocent this and that against evil russian aggression again this is their narrative and they're sticking to it this is their white knight ploy. and so obviously it's not in the interest of the u.s. government for any sort of meaningful cease fire to take place but i would go a step further and even wonder if it isn't poroshenko because even though hi

there's been cuts to nato funding. now, all of a sudden, oh my gosh, everyone looks and says we do need that collective defense. in fact, it needs to be expanded. everyone has to kick in their fair share. john? >> it gets under way in a couple hours in wales where you are. this as leaders try to hammer out a cease-fire deal. ukraine's president said they agreed on stepped to end the hostilities. the russian president offered to seven-point plan for peace. most leaders are skeptical about this, at best. i want to bring in reza sayah tracking developments from kiev. what is the status of these discussions? >> reporter: over the past 24 hours, there's been increased talk about a breakthrough or cease-fire. we have new information to pass along that may not bode well for the possible cease-fire. over the past hour or so, ukrainian officials saying during the overnight hours they have seen increased shelling from russian forces on russian soil targeting southeastern ukraine. moscow continues to deny they are involved in thi

talk to us about what nato can do here. because so far we've seen europe and the united nations thumbing their nose at the eu and how far will nato be willing to go with this issue? >> the reality hasn't been tested. the reality that they are trying to prepare themselves for is to have a much quicker, rapid response force. however, this force that we're talking about is only thousands of troops, nato has tried this before over the past decade and has not been successful in carrying this through but there does seem to be a change here that they recognize they need to send a very clear message to moscow. the moscow itself has under go a sea change with its receipt for rec, style of involvement, green men in uniforms, unbadged uniformed coming across the border. first crimea and now supporting armaments and heavy weapons in eastern ukraine so a sea change in moscow being represented by a sea change here but not significant enough that people want to talk about an invasion, use that kind of language and how far would nato go. r

i think by the end of this nato summit, the president standing up with the other nato allies has got to send a message, we are united not only in the middle east, but we are united against russian aggression in ukraine, we're going to roll this back. the russians have to get out of ukraine. we are not ceding to crimea, we are not ceding to eastern ukraine, and putin ought to -- send a loud and clear message, we are willing to do what it takes to get you the hell out of there. >> ben rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, is telling reporters moments ago that the u.s. and european nations, they are preparing a new round of sanctions against russia. ben rhodes saying among other things at the same time if there is a peaceful deescalation that is preferable, russia must continue to face costs. strong words coming from the u.s. we'll see what happens in ukraine with russia. lots on the president's agenda right now. a major news conference tomorrow morning, 11:30 a.m. eastern time. cnn will, of course, have live coverage of that. david, thanks very much. >>> britain's battle agains

of ukrainian government's approved a bill to cancel the country's long line status asking nato to take it a. russian journalist on the ice that in has been confirmed killed a month after going missing in the eastern ukraine. there's cadabby company with party international. has backtracked on his initial announcement of a full ceasefire in the country's east his website now says he's only agreed to discuss steps towards a truce ukrainian leader how dare you announced on twitter that a permanent truce in the region was imminent. explains what this might mean. the situation on the ground certainly is chaotic in that initial statement that came from kids the wording was for a permanent cease fire the word permanent has now been dropped and the phrase is a ceasefire regime now this is difficult to interpret and people here on the ground certainly are not clear about what it means what we're hearing from the anti government fighters is that they're not taking this seriously they say that they are willing to reach a political settlement but they need to first have assurances from kids that i

and beefing up long-deficient nato defense budgets. but, scott, confronting isis is likely to dominate a special sideline meeting the president has organized with the leaders of great britain, germany, france, and italy. >> pelley: major garrett in wales for us tonight. thanks. president obama ordered more troops into iraq to help secure the embassy and airport in baghdad. mr. obama first returned troops it iraq in june to help iraqi forces with intelligence and advice on isis. with today's addition, it will soon be up to 1200 americans. the most dramatic language about isis today came from vice president biden in new hampshire. >> when people harm americans, we don't retreat. we don't forget. we take care of those who are grieving, and when that's finished, they should know we will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice because hell is where they will reside. ( applause ) hell is where they will reside. >> pelley: but the question is how do you make them go? members of congress are pressuring the president

nato already has a rapid reaction force, but that may have been a bit of a misnomer because nato says that force was actually not rapid enough also it want a new force that could deploy within 48 hours. my understanding is that we are not talking about deploying in ukraine, because of course you have differences within the alliance between those who favor a tough military stance on russia, and the doves who do not favor that. it is above all, i think, an attempt to reassure existing nato allies in eastern europe. so that if the little green men were suddenly to appear in, for example, estonia -- there is no evidence that today they will but if they did, then nato would be better prepared and not caught out as it was on ukraine. that is the political message and sent by this force, which does not yet exist. >> armen, another mangy -- major pressing issue there at this summit is the advancing islamist fighters in iraq and syria. we heard american diplomatic and defense leaders pushing for a core coalition of some 10 -- 10 nations with the willpower to go after the islamic state. what mo

what, what should nato's response be? i mean is there, is there anything other than than tougher sanctions that the nato alliance can do for ukraine? perhaps providing more weaponry? >> well, jon, you know that op-ed talks about nato's continued to support, continued support to increasing capabilities of ukraine. but the fact of the matter is, the united states hasn't done anything to increase capabilities except send mres. partner nation, germany provided some supply, some equipment. reality is, russia is only going to pause, putin will really pause when he sees formidable ukrainian military, ukrainian army threat, facing him. and that is going to take a lot more equipment than the ukrainians have right now. they're certainly willing to fight for their own homeland. they can't fight overwhelming force like putin. putin looks at op-ed piece. slugs a little bit. realizes there has not been real action to support ukraine. this multinational rapid response force that they talk about in the op he had piece is going to take fo

of all 28 nato nations to deploy. so, look, the sanctions, i welcome any sanctions on putin, but to date, thif been all but toothless. he is not intimidated. putin is encouraged by the weak actions of the west. for putin, it's not about the:y words, it's about the deed. for president obama, it's about the words, not the deed. >> i have to leave it there. i thank you for your time, sir. >> thank you. >>> well, fox news uncovers the smoking gun in the benghazi terror attack. >> i said, hey, we need to go and got the wait again and i got in the car and said get in the back seat and it was beautiful. he looked at me, gave me a thumbs up. i gave him a thumbs up and we left. >> and you did that pretty much on your own. sgr. >> yes. we were never given the okay to go. the final straw for to us go, at least my opinion and how i felt, was one of the ds agents said they're starting to light the buildings on fire. you need to get here. >> tonight for the very firstq time, you can hear what happened that night from the perspectiv

nato has deep experience in this region at this point, so i think it's nato. i think it's also the arab league and in particular the sunni states who can choke off the money supply that's going to isil, and then, thirdly, there's a global component to this. i think the whole world is revolted by i.s., bringing that to bear, all of that together, kate, i think is the regional strategy. >> you've definitely heard lly t.president obama has come under criticism for being more cautious and more specifically he took it on today for not laying out a clear strategy in how the united states plans to take on isis, to degrade isis, to destroy isis, whatever the goal is. do you think the president has lacked a clear coherent strategy in how to take on isis? >> i think it's time for us to put together a very serious package of international effort, u.s. engagement, including special forces, attacks, support to the peshmerga in the north, support to iraq in the south. if we do that, we present i.s. with a two-front war between the peshmerga and the iraqis in the south. we b

and nato objective be to contain isis or defeat it. to contain it is one thing and that's been the strategy so far. keep isis away iraqi kurdistan. it doesn't seem to me there's political will in the united states or western europe to put tens and thousands of troops back in the middle east. we're probably in the contain mood but it really will require the european allies to step up. they also have to step up on sanctions against russia and they also have to face the question, luke, should we extend military assistance and advanced military technology to the ukrainian government so that this is going to be a very important summit on middle east and ukraine. >> you talk about this idea of defeat or contain, this is not something president obama imagined his second term being defined by just a few years ago when he was inaugurated a second term. what are the political wins? we had tom rooney of florida who said isis is a terrorist threat that presents a direct threat to the united states and ground troops perhaps could be a possibility.

so it's nato's role to try and define a way of protecting these nonmembers states of nato. and i think that's just the beginning of the discussion that we've seen at the world summit. we're just starting to discuss among transatlantic allies how do we guarantee the security not only of the members of nato, but also of our neighbors, of the neighbors of this article five frontier. and i think that's a very big challenge for nato. and one i think i wanted to add on to that issue is putin would not have invaded ukraine if ukraine would have been part of nato. pat of his strategy back in 2008 wouldn't have had to -- if georgia had been part of nato. so that's an opportunity to be strategic and smart in a certain way because he's attacking nonmember states of nado because he knows article five is not guaranteed the security of these states. but he's just showing what he's capable of doing and, therefore, threatening potentially in the future member states of nato. >> okay. i quickly want to touch on the ur survey that you put on thp this survey was conducted before the downing o

nato expansion will be discussed it's certain that the situation in ukraine is going to really top the the agenda there and potentially ukrainian membership to nato could be discussed so these type of things aren't going to go down well in the east of the country with militias fire still fighting there but this is what we've heard announced from kiev that ukraine is now a non aligned state getting rid of all of its previous alliances ok thanks peter that's r.t. peter all of us were raising money to bolster a military presence in eastern europe in the wake of the ukrainian crisis this is one of the key issues to be discussed during an upcoming nato summit in the u.k. well over the weekend hundreds of these protesters hit the streets of new port and cardiff in wales they want less money spent on war and nuclear weapons. so could nato afford to boost defense infrastructure across eastern europe or currently the twenty eight member states spend as much as one trillion dollars a year maintaining what the alliance already has that means the organization alone gets more military funding than

. >>> president obama is about to embark on a nato meeting in wales. these gatherings haven't always been considered vitally important. in fact, just a few years back one former u.s. defense secretary brought crossword puzzles to pass the time. but with trouble around the world, with the isis threat, this gathering of nato has an urgency more of the cold war era. our senior white house correspondent chris jansing is there and traveling with the president. chris, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. what a contrast at the last nato meeting the talk was about winding down the war in afghanistan. now it's about gearing up on two critical fronts. the first is isis and the threat that some of those foreign fighters bring both to europe and the united states should they come back and mount attacks on the homeland. it's not officially an agenda item, but there are expected to be a lot of side talks about it including at a meeting tomorrow morning between president obama and british prime minister david cameron. the president wants to form a coaliti

perhaps sending nato trainers to iraq. a lot of the discussions here, not so much about what the alliance can do together, but what separate countries can do. ofwill be talking about all that much later in the program and throughout the day. >> ryan, thank you. we will be back with you pretty shortly. let's get to our bloomberg exclusive interview this morning. mark barton spoke to economist nouriel roubini in cernobbio. when asked about mario draghi's move to call for almost $1 trillion of stimulus, roubini said it was a step in the right direction. movement decided by the ecb yesterday goes in the right direction. i think the most significant part of it is not even the conventional part of it. but the fact that right now the ecb has gone into unconventional modes. what they decided yesterday is a form of quantitative easing if you believe that quantitative easing is increasing the balance sheet directly. it doesn't really matter whether you buy private assets or public assets like sovereign bonds. what they have decided

i mean, this nato summit, according to the former supreme allied commander of nato, he called it the most important nato summit since the fall of the berlin wall. when it comes to ukraine and what we've seen happen in the past couple of days, the talk of cease-fire, the talk then of not a cease-fire, the seven-point peace plan, what is nato's role here? what concrete steps would you like to see? >> well, nato's role is, first off, to defend its members, and it's going to take steps to reassure the pols, the baltic countries, latvia, lithuania and estonia that nato is fully behind them and will fully defend them in a case. that's the first thing. the second thing with regard to ukraine, nato will demonstrate that the violation of territorial integrity, the violation of international law, the invasion of neighbors that russia has done over the past six months is you be acceptable, and nato will take steps, i believe, to support ukraine. certainly politically, but i think militarily it will take some steps to boost the military capability of the ukrainians. i hope they get to the point

will stand and act in support of any nato ally, ukraine potentially becoming a nato ally right now. how far does the u.s. go? >> that's a very important strategic question. when i was in kiev and other parts of ukraine throughout the course of the last several months, one of the things that ukrainian diplomats would say to me is right now russia wants eastern ukraine more than the west wants all of ukraine. so we're seeing this unfold on the ground new mexico that balance shift where is the u.s. and nato and others really want ukraine just as much as russia wants the eastern part of the country. so you're talking about mariopol. certainly brings crimea closer to russia and giving them that land corridor. that's going to be extremely challenging for the west to wrestle that part away back from the hands of russia and its separatist allies on if ground. >> gale, can i conclude with you with one other topic that was intended to be the primary focus, which is afghanistan right now. the u.s. wants to formulate an international strategy for afghanistan post-2015. how are the political tro

nato's message is quite interesting. there's been a lot of spin put on this, a lot of bluster about how nato was standing shoulder to shoulder with ukraine but in fact it wasn't able to offer anything in terms of military support for ukraine. it spoke a lot about protecting nato allies, the article 5 in the nato contusion, an attack against one is an attack against all of them, forming a rapid reaction force to be deployed in eastern europe. but none of that has an impact on ukraine because it's not a nato ally. so the message was very much that if you're a nato ally, great, you're going to be protected. but if you're not a nato ally, you're not going to qualify for that support. it was in that context that president poroshenko essentially had to go to the peace talks or send his representatives and do a deal with the russians. cnn's matthew chance in moscow, we appreciate the reporting from both of you. >>> nato leaders, including u.s. president barack obama have a new message for islamists ill tants and the group known

first, let's take a look at nato. how have the dynamics of this organizati changed, and how do those changes play out today? fox news senior correspondent, eric shawn, on that angle. good morning. >> good morning, maria and good morning, everyone. >>> it was founded in 1949 to face the soviet threat. now nato finds itself again confronting an ominous and aggressive russia and a new enemy, the radical jihadist islamic terrorists of isis. from its headquarters in brussels, the now 28-member north atlantic treaty organization has a long history ofrotecting western interests. its missions evolving after the fall of the soviet union and the end of the cold war. in 1999, the nato forces waged a successful 78 bombing campaign of kosovo. in 2003, nato troops were dispatched to afghanistan as part of the international fight against the taliban after 9/11. while striking isis we're told with u.s. forces on the ground, the heavy lifting, as always, will come from us. american taxpayers pay more than two-thirds or 67% of nato's $

nato is also planning a joint military exercise in ukraine later this month. the tension between western powers and russia appears to be at the highest point since the end of the cold war. nhk world, newport, wales. >>> negotiators from ukraine and russia are among those trying to organize a cease fire to end the conflict. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has been watching the talks from afar and it's he's warned that ukraine's nato ambitions could throw the process off course. >> translator: this kind of action will derail all efforts aimed at arranging the pro-russian groups. >> he referred to a draft law ukrainian lawmakers approved earlier this week that allows the country to join military blocks. russian leaders considered that a threat to their interests. poroshenko says he's ready to order government troops to stop shooting if negotiators can reach a deal. poroshenko said he would call on commanders to cease fire. emhe hopes that might even happen later on friday. but for now, government voices and pro-russian separatists are still fighting. some

ultimately this is about nato. the whole reason we have russian forces or russia involved in ukraine is because they are ancerned ukraine could become nato country. at least the russian president has said as much more than a couple of now -- couple of times now. we have been told by several government officials both present and former it is the russian president intention to stay in the east of the country until they have effectively pseudo-states that would be buffers between russia and the federal government in ukraine that would have autonomy, enough that they could veto any decision from the ukrainian federal government to join nato. that is ultimately what this is all about and certainly antagonizes the russian president. from the ukrainian president perspective, he does not have any other choices. >> we look forward to more reporting from you. the chilcote in wales for two-day summit. now we welcome the director of russian studies at the woodrow wilson center. practiced international law in moscow and washing

it could be discussed as a nato summit. ukraine is out of nato. by obama is told strengthening beto is not doing much for the situation on the ground. -- strengthening nato is not doing much for the situation on the ground. >> fascinating. hans nichols. thank you very much. theill continue conversation a little later. is going a -- the ceo to be joining us. ryan chilcote sitting down with him to get his take on what's the economic story looks like right now. in the meantime, let me take you to the cloud hacking scandal. apple and as the fbi are investigating the nude photos of jennifer lawrence and some of the biggest names. they got a leaked and posted online. it is days -- it is a little embarrassing for apple's scheduled product announcement. break it all together for set caroline hyde has been watching the store. what do we know? little. they are actively investigating. the fbi has come out with a statement. they very rarely do that but they said so much was the public curiosity that they set the interest was so high that they felt it was appr

nato announcer, two days of nato fanfare. -- it is a nato bonanaza. >> not every day you see enough 35 -- f35 on the 18th hole. >> it sounds like they have plenty of purpose to discuss. central bank focusing this morning with the latest decision from the bank of japan. david inglis in hong kong on more and what the bank of japan has said this morning and how it is playing out in the currency. good morning. japanese yen has not been doing a lot all morning. we've been at this level for the most part. the bank of japan also alluding to that. it's been the same tune they've been singing all year. i could have taken last month's script and reread it and it would have been accurate. steady as she goes as far as the economy is concerned despite these recent concerns we have and concerning consumption the bank of japan has come out and diluted to data as well. i think the key thing here is inflation. a appears to be rising as whole. this record amount of monetary easing that has been in place has been exerting its intended course. stablent to achieve 2% inflation. the boj forecast or inflatio

and that actually confused me because united states pays for much of nato's budgets. what realistically will happen with nato now and will this rapid reaction force mean anything? >> right. what you're seeing right now is u.s. european countries being upsaid about russia's invasion of ukraine, reassuring the baltic states, recommitting to nato, we talked about why this is important, creating this response force so there is a bit of military capability that can be moved around. but when you think about it if the problem is russia invading ukraine the answers that we're talking about don't have anything to do with russia invading ukraine. what we really do need to start getting to is nato taking direct steps to push back on russia's invasion of ukraine and that would be providing intelligence support, advisors and possibly reinforcement to help ukraine win against russia inside their country right now. >> well, certainly it is a terrible fight. ambassador kurt volker, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, antonio. >> now for more stories around the world. we begin her

and he also talked about the nato defending every nato -- every nato member will defend itself. isis, he was a lot less specific. and it was a lot more aspirational. he said we're going to send kerry to the region and hopefully form a coalition. but i did think he tipped his hand in one way. he kept talking about fatah, the tribal region of pakistan. they've been doing drones and strikes for ten years. that's what he's envisioning for the parts of syria. >> good point, richard engel. thank you so much. chuck todd, we'll be seeing your exclusive interview with president obama on his other thoughts and more on how to approach russia, how to approach isis on "meet the press," the debut of "meet the press" with chuck todd on sunday. rachel maddow, thank you. we'll be watching tonight on the "rachel maddow show." >>> coming up next here, president obama said the cease-fire between russia and ukraine would need to be tested. senate foreign relations chair senator bob menendez joining me with congressional reaction to the president's remarks. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... whi

and the united states is there it i believe the nato summit will deliberate a clear message that nato intends to improve the .efense of the border state >> wintering a new phase in this crisis? as the putin seems to be becoming more blunt. he's threatening to march on that capital and he is warning the west not to mess with them. he has used a different type of -- within that context. how does i give him some form of exit. >> the measures with the west is perhaps having an effect. it is not working on him as such and bringing him to the table. we will see a ramping up of sanctions. it damages the political atmosphere. we can carry on indefinitely like this. there are economic reasons and others. a full-scale invasion -- that is out of the question. it would the an enormous damage to the ukrainian economy and sapping the country strength. the western countries will try leadsow putin a path that to the negotiating table work on a settlement. it seems the broad controls are quite clear. that is that ukraine has two put some constitutional limits on set thecity to constitutional bar. i th

and beefing up long-deficient nato defense budgets. but, scott, confronting isis is likely to dominate a special sideline meeting the president has organized with the leaders of great britain, germany, france and italy. >> pelley: major garrett in wales for us tonight. major, thanks. president obama ordered more troops into iraq to help secure the embassy and airport in baghdad. mr. obama first returned troops to iraq in june to help iraqi forces with intelligence and advice on isis. with today's addition, it will soon be up to 1,200 americans. the most dramatic language about isis today came from vice president biden in new hampshire. >> when people harm americans, we don't retreat. we don't forget. we take care of those who are grieving. and when that's finished, they should know we will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice because hell is where they will reside. ( applause ) hell is where they will reside. >> pelley: but the question is, how do you make them go? members of congress are pressuring the pr

nato leaders including u.s. president barack obama say they're forming a coalition to combat isis militants in iraq and syria. mr. obama says the goal is to dismantle and destroy the jihadist organization. >>> the airline that had a chartered flight ordered to land in iran says it's examining the cause of the diversion. u.s. officials say iran told the dubai-bound plane to land in bandar abbas due to an out-of-date flight plan. 140 passengers were on board including 100 americans. >>> a fragile cease-fire between ukrainian forces and russian-backed rebels appears to be holding. the truce went into effect at 6:00 p.m. local time friday. artillery fire and explosions continued in the city of donetsk right up until the last minute. >>> well, it's just around 11:30 in the morning in ukraine, and we want to take you now live to the region to get the latest information on the cease-fire. cnn's diana magnay is in the coastal city. die naan diana, you and your crew have been moving around, following these ever-shifting

keep in mind, however, that i'm about to go to a nato conference. ukraine is a member of nato, but a number of those states that are close by are, and so part of the reason i think this nato meeting is going to be so important is to refocus attention on the critical function that nato plays, to make sure that every country is contributing. >> in other words, fellow countries, pony up some money. i want to bring in phil black. he's in moscow. the e.u. is vowing to step up sanctions but the russian president seems undeterred. ukraine official talks about a great war with russia. what happens next? >> it does seem very likely the european union will blemt -- implement a new round of sanctions. we'll see how strong they are and what russia's response will be. they came back pretty hard and banned all imports from all western countries products. if nato proceeds with this planned rapid response force as well as really ramping up its activity in this region, more exercises, perhaps predeployed sources and forces as well, you can about the time that russia

this nato summit's been extremely success. if you're looking at ukraine, the headline of the story today, you're watching putin backing down, he's blinking. whether that seicease-fire hold and putin will go back to destabilizing ukraine, we'll have to see. but this president now saying nato is viable. i think our strategy against isis is now a nato strategy. when i say nato, it will develop into a coalition of the willing, which you mentioned earlier. meaning, you'll have to get some of the arab nations working with us. this president does not want to go it alone and invade syria or do a bombing mission there. so he's now starting to do the important work of alliance building. and from that aspect, this has been a successful couple of days at the nato summit. >> let megardner, the heritage foundation. did the president say what you wanted to hear? >> found actually the press conference a little bit underwhelming. this wasn't the voice of, you know, president reagan rallying the free world to confront a great evil, a great mena

afghanistan afghan president hamid karzai is currently refusing to sign a treaty that would leave a small nato force in the country. if nothing changes, all foreign soldiers will leave by the end of this year. in secret, karzai has been negotiating with the taliban, in order to avoid a full-blown civil war. since 2005, the taliban has clawed back territory. they now dominate large parts of the country. >> but approximately only one hour's drive from here, right over behind the mountain there, is logar. and in logar there's still a war going on. >> i wanted to see what the war looked like from the other side - in the charkh district of logar province - a region which has seen violent clashes in recent years. through trusted sources, we contacted the taliban there. i hoped it would offer a rare glimpse inside the insurgency. we were told we would get a phone call in a few days. >> "i'm on my way to see what the taliban are up against. i'm going to visit a training center for the afghan national army" >> while the afghan national army is around 200,000 strong, it's reported to be plagued with des

you're one of us, you're a member of nato. you're protected by nato. article five of the treaty says in effect if one of us is all of us are attacked. we'll help, we'll respond. the message to president putin is, you may be putting troops into ukraine to destablize ukraine. in to the baltic states to destabilize estonia, latvia, lithuania. part of nato territory. the u.s., britain, germany, spain, would fight for that. president putin is many things, brutal, cynical, but rational. baltic attack the states. he knows then that he would confront the united states and the nato allies. obama is saying that this morning. reaffirming that pledge to the estonia, latvia, and lithuania, they desperately need to hear it. lived the soviet reality. they know what putin is like. they need the support. that's why the president is there. >> ambassador burns, that pledge does not apply to the ukraine and the world news section of times this morning has the headline, "the west debates arms for ukraine." guest: two different issues here. should the united states and the

first, let's take a look at nato. how have the dynamics of this organization changed, and how do those changes play out today? fox news senior correspondent, eric shawn, on that angle. good morning. >> good morning, maria and good morning, everyone. >>> it was founded in 1949 to face the soviet threat. now nato finds itself again confronting an ominous and aggressive russia and a new enemy, the radical jihadist islamic terrorists of isis. from its headquarters in brussels, the now 28-member north atlantic treaty organization has a long history of protecting western interests. its missions evolving after the fall of the soviet union and the end of the cold war. in 1999, the nato forces waged a successful 78 bombing campaign of kosovo. in 2003, nato troops were dispatched to afghanistan as part of the international fight against the taliban after 9/11. while striking isis we're told with u.s. forces on the ground, the heavy lifting, as always, will come from us. american taxpayers pay more than two-thirds or 67% of nato

the nato summit has wrapped up. we have heard from david cameron and next, president obama live on c-span. wales waiting in to hear from president obama as the nato summit has wrapped up with the members agreeing on several position thousand troops in eastern europe that could quickly mobilize if an alliance country in the region comes under attack. the news accompanying today that ukraine and pro-russian rebels have signed a cease-fire deal that took place about -- went into effect about 45 minutes ago. we also covered the news conference today with david cameron, the british prime minister. we expect to show you more or all of that later on in our program schedule. >> as we wait to hear from president obama, news coming out from the pentagon. they have confirmed the death of the leader of the al-shabaab terror group in an airstrike on monday. the pentagon's press secretary confirming the death in a brief statement today. the statement calls the death a major symbolic and operational loss for al-shabaab. >> waiting