by nato and did you believe him was he credible yes yes because nato is the most. the most successful alliance in history because a it was able to adapt to a totally different and always changing circumstances and secondly it is not just a wall of lions which would break up off to fulfillment of the purpose like a building and then said farewell to each other all the battlefield of waterloo it's has the prominent tasca to protect its members and. to to end or even prevent was you know that's a very good point. you know all heads were nodding in congress today when mr. 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

sort for nato and i saw it when we were there ten days ago for the seventieth anniversary nato is well supported across both sides of the aisle that's a great thing why why are you not by the president well i don't know about that because you know actions speak louder than words since the president has come into office the united states is spending forty billion dollars more on the european reassurance initiative putting more cop capability and capacity into eastern europe to help in our deterrence and defense tasks against russia so. i see the reality and this is at the same time as senior administration officials told the new york times of several occasions last year that the president had said privately he wanted to withdraw from nato a move let's face it that would destroy the alliance wouldn't it you think reports like that shedding doubt on america's america's commitment to damage the alliance they do that corrosive. well what i would say to you is that it's perfectly natural for all kinds of issues to be discussed and debated in the white house as elsewhere but what we see is th

ambassador to nato said no one knows the u.s. any money nor is the u.s. spending more because allies are spending less u.s. defense spending is a national decision and is determined by u.s. national security and defense needs true or false well i think it's true for every country across the alliance that they need to spend what it is in their interests to spend and that is on adequate sufficient capability and capacity they need to get rid of obsolescent equipment they need to modernize they need to pay to train our troops they need to do what is in their interest for their defense and that's the most important thing tim this is all truth is can pretty important thing and you would think that would be valued a little more in an alliance a military alliance which might take twenty nine countries to war sometime particularly when the commander in chief of the largest force says many country is in nato oh a tremendous amount of money for many years back that simply is not true if we can't even acknowledge that then nato is seriously trouble isn't it i think

president trump has injected uncertainty into the nato alliance how does the future for nato. talk about the future of who at this point in time who a war is the essence of. as if it is always the case the answer is more complicated. no i wouldn't say that the main enemy is russia i don't think that that's the situation at the moment that being said you know in terms of actual military threats yes i do think that europe is still somewhat militarily by russia and that's why it is important also important to have nato that nato really goes beyond that and that's what i meant with my opening statement about you know political cohesion nato us about the alliance the political alliances between the transatlantic countries so it's not i don't think it's helpful to frame with this idea of you know who is the main threat. we must not be naive about the russian. i and i and i agree with that and i think you know within within europe there's a lot of the bad about about freshness and tension. no one really knows and there is a lot of this agreement among european allies on that and yes

host: nato is a -- -- guest: nato is a political and military alliance. consultation for the united states with many key european partners who participate in aspects of nato deliberations. we don't have a seat at the table at the european union and nato remains an important venue for us to discuss obviously not , but keyissues strategic issues it's an important forum for us. is going to have an impact on the european union. it's not clear the impact it will have on the alliance. there are some that think it will free up certain european assets to support nato missions more robustly. i don't actually think that's the case. the u.k. remains a stalwart ally . it has many challenges in maintaining its current defense capabilities, but is committed to continuing being a strong contributor to the alliance and it doesn't have -- it's not involved in that many european union missions that are going -- going to then be free if brexit doesn't happen as envisioned. with regards that the amount that nato allies pay into the fund, are they paying their fair share, not

the united states pays for a big share of nato. but the relationship with nato has been very good. the relationship with the secretary general has been outstanding. and i think tremendous progress has been made. you showed me this originally yourself. it you look the at the charts and the different things, you go back 10 and 15 years and it's a roller coaster ride down in terms of payment. and since i came to office let's say rocketship up, picked up over $140 billion of additional money and lock like we're going to have at least another $100 billion more in spending by the 28 nations. that's exclusive of the united states. we'll have another $100 billion more by 2020 or into 2020. so tremendous progress has been made. and nato is much stronger because of that progress. and mr. secretary general, it's a great honor to have you with us at the white house. thank you. >> joining us on "the washington journal" this morning is is the former u.s. ambassador to nato, the coauthor of the book "the empty tloen." here to take your calls and questions about nato as we come up on its 70th anni

art for nato and i saw it when we were there ten days ago for the seventieth anniversary nato is well supported across both sides of the aisle that's a great thing why why are you going to i think not by the president well i don't know about that because you know actions speak louder than words since the president has come into office the united states is spending forty billion dollars more on the european reassurance initiative putting more cut capability and capacity into eastern europe to help in our deterrence and defense tests against russia so. i see the reality and this at the same time as senior administration officials told the new york times of several occasions last year that the president had said privately he wanted to withdraw from nato a move let's face it that would destroy the alliance wouldn't it do you think reports like that shedding doubt on america's america's commitment to damage the alliance they do that corrosive. well what i would say to you is that it's perfectly natural for all kinds of issues to be discussed and debated in the white house as elsewhere but

and i'm going to use the words of nato from the nato secretary general stoltenberg and he addressed congress last week it was a real spectacle and i'm going to ask you and deem it to reflect upon it so let's go to this. we do all this not to provoke a conflict but to prevent complet and to preserve peace not to fight but to deter not to attack but to defend how do we act to that markets go ahead. well nato is an offensive criminal and degenerate organization that is the root cause to date of instability in the poconos and in eastern europe in essence way find in eight hundred you find instability and societal degeneration the americans have used nato you over the last thirty or so years to achieve global dominance and they continue to use nato not just to maintain their global dominance but to end hearts that global dominance and who has nato works with over the last three decades or so in order to achieve the objectives set before it by america well nato has worked with organized crime extremists and terrorists they bombed nato bombed serbia for seventy eight days in support of the

by nato and did you believe him was he credible yes yes because nato is the most. the most successful alliance in history because a it was able to adapt to a totally different and always changing circumstances and secondly it is not just a wall alliance which would break up after the fulfillment of the purpose like a building said farewell to each other all the battlefield of waterloo it's has the prominent tasca to protect its members and. to to end or even prevent was you know that's a very good point. you know all heads were nodding in congress today when mr. but it's donald trump's mind that was targeted with his 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

art for nato and i saw it when we were there ten days ago for the seventieth anniversary nato is well supported across both sides of the aisle that's a great thing and why why are you not by the president well i don't know about that because you know actions speak louder than words since the president has come into office the united states is spending forty billion dollars more on the european reassurance initiative putting more cut capability and capacity into eastern europe to help in our deterrence and defense tasks against russia so i see the reality and this is at the same time as senior administration officials told the new york times on several occasions last year that the president had said privately he wanted to withdraw from nato a move let's face it that would destroy the alliance wouldn't it you think reports like that shedding doubt on america's america's commitment to damage the alliance they do that corrosive. well what i would say to you is that it's perfectly natural for all kinds of issues to be discussed and debated in the white house as elsewhere but what we see is

s life from ballet and i resigned being a part of nato despite transatlantic strains a nato chief. addresses the us congress to make a pitch for unity seventy one of the alliance is found to take you live to washington also on the program british prime minister theresa may hold talks with opposition leader jeremy colvin to try to break the back seat deadlock that just nine days left to avoid a chaotic default from the european union. and i dare you to arrest me the challenge from venezuela self-proclaimed president i'm quite dope out of the country is that government controlled assembly stripped him of his parliamentary immunity. i feel gail welcome to the program nato secretary general again stoltenberg has said the alliance is not seeking a new cold war with russia on its seventieth anniversary but it calls for greater efforts to terence and call for more members to increase spending on defense he was addressing a joint meeting of both chambers of the u.s. congress here's some of what he had to say at the entrance to the nato headquarters in belgium that ought to monuments. one p

nato is. more than on two servers depending on the united states financially so the united states carry the most important financial burden of keeping nato alive and functioning so i think that there are some discords between the european capitals and washington i think they are mostly personal i mean european leaders tended to be irritated by mr trump extremely. appalling style i would say they disliked mr pence speech at the last munich conference where mr benn's said what the europeans should do on different directions of their foreign policy i think that this style is long into the past and europeans they let it know that they don't like the style of the trumpet ministration but it doesn't mean they don't like nato i think they consider. nato a necessary instrument of their security and american presence in nato. a necessary element of their security so i think that although there are some differences today mostly on the style of politics between european capitals in washington i don't thi

that strategy is nato. a strong and agile nato reduces risks and enables us to deal with surprises when they happen, and they will happen. nato is the most successful alliance in history because we have always been able to change as the world changes. and because despite our differences, we're united in our commitment to each other. nato is an alliance of sovereign nations, united by democracy, liberty, and the rule of law. by a person's right to live a life in pursuit of happiness, free from oppression, values that lie at the heart of the united states and at the heart of nato. as president eisenhower nato's first supreme allied commander said, we're concerned not only with the protection of territory, but with the defense of a way of life. europe and north america are not separated by the atlantic ocean, we're united by it. and just like atlantic, nato unites our continents, our nations, and our people. it has done so for 70 years. and today we must do everything in our power to maintain that unity for fu

that strategy is nato. a strong and agile nato reduces risks and enables us to deal with surprises when they happen, and they will happen. nato is the most successful alliance in history because we have always been able to change as the world changes. and because despite our differences, we're united in our commitment to each other. nato is an alliance of sovereign nations, united by democracy, liberty, and the rule of law. by a person's right to live a life in pursuit of happiness, free from oppression, values that lie at the heart of the united states and at the heart of nato. as president eisenhower nato's first supreme allied commander said, we're concerned not only with the protection of territory, but with the defense of a way of life. europe and north america are not separated by the atlantic ocean, we're united by it. and just like atlantic, nato unites our continents, our nations, and our people. it has done so for 70 years. and today we must do everything in our power to maintain that unity for fu

publics that nato was more important than the un in a sense the un is sidelined in all of this so nato bombed without u.n. authorization it even went on to bomb china's embassy in yugoslavia leading to accusations that nato has near liberal designs we're now attacking a developing world on the rise splits in nato emerged after action in afghanistan many afghans are. angry about the latest killing of civilians by u.s. troops after gaddafi threatened nato near liberalism with the creation of an african petro currency threaten the dollar libya it has been ten days since mr obama ordered u.s. forces into combat in libya. nearly two hundred tomahawk cruise missiles more beijing and moscow angrily denounced nato which are neither latest africa's richest but capita country catalyzing the worst refugee crisis since world war two in europe by the time america first donald trump was president nato was under attack from washington let alone london the wider issue is that the e.u. has got very close to nato nato has been pushing very hard to expand eastwards inevitably russia is going to get very

nato was born. wariers in a cold reluctantly armed to guard a piece which was threatened dead which they promised never to give up. at their head, the president of a great american university came to establish a top military headquarters outside paris, shaef, military nerve center for a new nato alliance. from here begin the planning for a complex military headquarters to protect the countries of the alliance. ♪ in oslo, norway, the northern nationaland integrated staff, danes and norwegians under a british general for the defense of northern europe and the baltic. t fountain blue, france, three commanders, for land, sea, and air. they guard the very heart of europe. headquarters of nato's land, sea and air forces on the southern flank and base for the american sixth fleet. indomitable malta, historic british base, today headquarters for the naval forces of five nato countries. states, thenited supreme allied command atlantic, home of the u.s. navy, but also an international headquarters on u.s. s

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moscow also says it's ready to deescalate tensions between russia and nato bloc members. france is leading the fight against fake news adopting a lot of battle misinformation over it seems right now some social media giants are confused over just how to implement it shiela dubin ski reports. ahead of the e.u. elections the french government information service or g.i.s. launched a campaign aimed at boosting voter registration but twitter found that the we usually vote campaign is in violation of france's own anti fake news law and through an accident and the storm broke twitter his actions were called out or date. due to does not know how to do this at this time and has therefore decided to have a completely extreme pausing counseling and is supposedly a political campaign they were. illegal i thought it was an april fool's joke to do blocks public company for voter registration so as not to respect the un to fake news transparency rules appalling and illegal to it his priority should be to fight content glorifying terrorism not campaigns to register on electoral rolls of

so nato has been good for europe but nato has also been good for the united states to us the strength of a nation is not only measured by the site the size of its economy or the number of its soldiers but but also bar the number of its friends and through nato the united states has more friends and allies than any of the power this has made the united states stronger safer and more sicker mother speaking mr vice president it is good to have friends thank you. yes they flew over the atlantic i looked out all my window at the ocean below the great ocean that lies between our two continents get plant thick does not divide us it unites us it binds us together. and for the we like me the atlantic ocean defines who we are indeed it was a norseman leif erikson. thank you all still first european to reach american shores. thank you almost a thousand years ago. if more people would know if you hadn't left so quickly on the side to not to tell anyone about it. for adventures like leave exeunt get land think ocean was never a barrier rall that it was a great blue bridge to new lance and new poss

by nato and did you believe him was he credible yes yes because nato is the most. the most successful alliance in history because a it was able to adapt to a totally different and always changing circumstances and secondly it is not just a wall of lions which would break up off to fulfillment of the purpose like a building 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. 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 d

madam speaker mr vice president nato is a strong alliance but to remain a strong alliance nato must be f. airlines in an ideal world we would not need to spend any money on defense but we do not live in an ideal world. freedom has enemies and they need to be deterred and if that turns face we need to fight hitler could not have been stopped with peaceful protest stalin could not have been deterred with words. oh yes this cannot have been defeated with dialogue future in the midst of freedom may choose violence again our desire year for a peaceful world is simply not enough we must act and invest to make it so. and through . nato allies must spend more on the fence this has been the clear message from president trump and this message is having a real impact. and through . all the years overdue some defense budgets all of us have stopped the cuts and all our lives have increased our defense spending before they were cutting billions now they are adding billions. in just the last you've been watching nato secretary general again stoltenberg addressing a joint meeting of both chambers of t

and i'm going to use the words of nato from the nato secretary general stoltenberg and he addressed congress last week it was a real spectacle and i'm going to ask you and deem it to reflect upon it so let's go to this. we do all this not to provoke a conflict but to prevent complet and to preserve peace not to fight but to deter not to attack but to defend how do we act to that markets go ahead. well nato is an offensive criminal and degenerate organization that is the root cause today of instability in the poconos and in eastern europe in essence way finds in eight hundred you find instability and societal degeneration the americans have used nato you over the last thirty also years to achieve global dominance and they continue to use nato not just to maintain their global dominance of the two in the hearts the global dominance and who has nato works with over the last three decades or so in order to achieve the objectives set before it by america well nato has worked with organized crime extremists and terrorists they bombed nato bombed serbia for seventy eight days in support of the caus

ambassador to nato on the 70th anniversary of nato. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal. live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. house speaker nancy pelosi joined politico playbook for discussion on the democratic agenda. speaker pelosi was asked about allegations that former vice president joe biden inappropriately touched to women. she also talked about the president's threat to close the mexican border. and the prospects of the u.s. mexico canada trade deal being approved at a democratic-controlled house. this is 40 minutes. >> thank you so much, speaker pelosi. [laughter] -- [applause] >> thank you. >> we

ambassador to nato said no one knows the u.s. any money nor is the u.s. spending more because allies are spending less u.s. defense spending is a national decision and is determined by u.s. national security and defense needs true or false well i think it's true for every country across the alliance that they need to spend what it is in their interests to spend and that is on adequate sufficient capability and capacity they need to get rid of obsolescent equipment they need to modernize they need to pay to train their troops they need to do what is in their interest for their defense and that's the most important thing this is all true is a country important thing and you would think that would be valued a little more in an alliance a military alliance which might take twenty nine countries to war sometime particularly when the commander in chief of the largest force as many country is in nato oh a tremendous amount of money for many years back that simply is not true if we can't even acknowledge that then nato is seriously trouble isn't it i think we hav

art for nato and i saw it when we were there ten days ago for the seventieth anniversary nato is well supported across both sides of the aisle that's a great thing why why are you going off isaac and not by the president well i don't know about that because you know actions speak louder than words since the president has come into office the united states is spending forty billion dollars more on the european reassurance initiative putting more cut capability and capacity into eastern europe to help in our deterrence and defense tests against russia so. i see the reality and this is at the same time as senior administration officials told the new york times on several occasions last year that the president had said privately he wanted to withdraw from nato a move let's face it that would destroy the alliance wouldn't it do you think reports like that shedding doubt on america's america's commitment to damage the alliance they do that corrosive. well what i would say to you is that it's perfectly natural for all kinds of issues to be discussed and debated in the white house as elsewher

ambassador to nato said no one knows the u.s. any money nor is the u.s. spending more because allies are spending less u.s. defense spending is a national decision and is determined by u.s. national security and defense needs true or false well i think it's true for every country across the alliance that they need to spend what it is in their interests to spend and that is on adequate sufficient capability and capacity they need to get rid of obsolescent equipment they need to modernize they need to pay to train their troops they need to do what is in their interest for their defense and that's the most important thing this is all truth is can pretty important thing and you would think that would be valued a little more in an alliance a military alliance which might take twenty nine countries to war sometime particularly when the commander in chief of the largest force says many country is in nato has a tremendous amount of money for many years back that simply is not true if we can't even acknowledge that the nato is seriously in trouble isn't it i think

president trump has injected uncertainty into the nato alliance how does the future look for nato. orica when we talk about the future of nato who in essence at this point in time who all watch is the enemy is it in essence vladimir putin and vladimir putin's russia. as if it is always the case the answer is more complicated than that no i wouldn't say that the main enemy is russia i don't think that that's the situation at the moment that being said you know in terms of actual military threats yes i do think that europe is still somewhat threatened militarily by russia and that's why it is important also important to have nato but nato really goes beyond that and that's what i meant with my opening statement nato is about you know political cohesion nato is about the alliance the political alliance between the transatlantic countries so it's not i don't think it's helpful to frame with this idea of you know who is the main threats and he says we must not be naive about the russian opposition. and i and i agree with that and i think you know within within europe there's a lot of th

nato. next on "reel america," a decade of nato, hosted by edward r. murrow. celebrating the 10th anniversary of the alliance by following -- profiling the people, geography, and resources of member countries. the documentary, which was broadcast on the u.s. army's "big picture" weekly television series. [film begins] ♪ narrator: the united states army presents "the big picture," for the armed forces and the american people. now to show you part of the big picture, here is sergeant stuart queen. >> in recent years on "the big picture" television series, we have reported on the progress of . -- of the north atlantic treaty organization. nato. today we turn to this same subject, only this time in a film originally produced by nato, narrated by edward r. murrell. -- murrow. it is a story about the nato and its accomplishments since its birth more than 10 years ago. in this organization we have developed a deterrent and retaliatory capability for the prevention of general war. we are partners

president trump has injected uncertainty into the nato alliance how does the future for nato. talk about the future of who in essence at this point in time who or war is the. as if it is always the case the answer is more complicated. no i wouldn't say that the main and then yes russia i don't think that that's the situation at the moment that being said you know in terms of actual military threats yes i do think that europe is still somewhat militarily by russia and that's why it is important also important to have nato but nato really goes beyond that and that's what i meant with my opening statement about you know political cohesion nato us about the alliance the political alliances between the transatlantic countries so it's not i don't think it's helpful to frame with this idea of you know who's the main threat . we must not be naive about the russian. guy and i and i agree with that and i think you know within within europe there's a lot of the bad about the tension. no one really knows and there is a lot of this agreement among european allies on that and yes we absolut

of another country until kind of off of the berlin wall fell the idea is that the starting words of nato are about bringing together countries for democracy individual rights and the rule of law so it's as much values based as a as a military alliance i'd say you mentioned law. you know the moves to the world as criticize nato for doing things against the law there was no u.n. security council council resolution for the yugoslav bombing which is their first aerial bombardment campaign back in one thousand ninety one i know before you having to do communications with the organization i was with the un actually i don't know whether that's that's right i mean the relationship between the un and nato at that time were very close and it was kind of an integrated integrated campaign if you will it was it legal. i don't know about that i mean i think one would have to go back and discuss exactly how that worked together and i must say that when i think of my un. one of the problems with the un is you know that it lacked a lot of in forstmann procedures which in principle are available to nato o

by nato and did you believe him was he credible yes yes because nato is the most. the most successful alliance in history because a it was able to adapt to a totally different and always changing circumstances and secondly it is not just a wall of lions which would break up. for filament of the purpose like a building said farewell to each other all the battlefield of waterloo not in its has the prominent tosk to protect its members and. to to end or even prevent wallace you know that's a very good point. all heads were nodding in congress today when mr. but it's donald trump's mind that was targeted with his 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 th

publics that nato was more important than the un in a sense the un is sidelined in all of this so nato bombed without u.n. authorization it even went on to bomb china's embassy in yugoslavia leading to accusations that nato has near liberal desire. we're now attacking a developing world on the rise splits in nato emerge after action in afghanistan many afghans are angry about the latest killing of civilians by u.s. troops and after gaddafi threatened nato near liberalism with the creation of an african petro currency threaten the dollar libya it has been ten days since mr obama ordered u.s. forces into combat in libya. nearly two hundred tomahawk cruise missiles more beijing and moscow angrily denounced nato which are nial eight of africa's richest by capita country catalyzing the worst refugee crisis since world war two in europe by the time america first donald trump was president nature was under attack from washington let alone london the wider issue is that the e.u. has got very close to nato nato has been pushing very hard to expand eastwards inevitably russia is going to get ver

the issue of the new pipeline from russia is an issue which divides nato allies, and nato is not an energy institution, so we don't make decisions on concrete projects like that. the most important thing is that we see that allies are tenning up, and germ -- stepping up, and germany's part of that. germany leads one of our -- [inaudible] in lithuania, and germany's also increasing defense spending as a response to the more demanding security environment that surrounds us. maria: secretary, let me move on to china as this, of course, has become more important in terms of the agenda of nato. secretary pompeo just back recently from europe talking about the china threat, in particular huawei where many nations there, including poland, have the huawei infrastructure which has been said to be really an espionage platform for the chinese government. what are your thoughts on the threat of the rising china situation? >> china is a rising power with a growing economy investing heavily in new military capabilities, and we're also seeing that china's coming closer to europe, to nato allies in europe

economic considerations because it's not the job of nato nato a strictly military the united states is trying to drum up the notion that moscow remains that threat in order to justify not only the continued existence of nato but actually to increase spending of their tours to france russia's foreign ministry says it's open to dialogue with nato but claims the alliance hasn't shown willingness moscow also says it's ready to deescalate tensions between russia and bloc members. france is leading the fight against fake news adopting a lot of battle misinformation however it does seem some social media giants are confused over just how to implement it charlotte has this report. ahead of the e.u. elections the french government information service or g.i.s. launched a campaign aimed at boosting voter registration but twitter found that the we use a vote campaign is in violation of france's own anti fake news law and through acts it and the storm broke twitter is actions were called out all for decided to have a completely extreme paul was sick counseling and is supposedly a political campaig

it's a strong backing for nato here in germany and for some analysis i'm joined by w.'s political correspondent kate brady kate it appears the alliance is as relevant as ever on both sides of the atlantic and certainly is very relevant and something that's been occupying politicians on the public area in germany quite extensively for the past few months now and if you look at those stats that we saw there and take them at face value you think that you know that can't be much more of a loyal nato member than germany but actually has a very germany has a very interesting relationship with nato of course there's the issue over of the spending its military spending but germans do still have quite a close relationship to nature there's a sense of almost historical debt especially due to the role that nato plage during the cold war but at the same time german history also plays an important role in gemini's continuing reluctance to really participate in front line military operations of course that has changed particularly in the last couple of decades where they've been invo

is deja vu news live from berlin a landmark anniversary for the world's strongest military alliance nato marks of seventieth birthday as president trouble offers warm words for the alliance's leader but another rebuke for germany also coming up. the sultanate of brunei imposes the death penalty for gay sex and adultery rights groups including countries around the world like germany of all condemning the new ball. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us the west's largest and oldest military alliance nato is marking a milestone today its seventieth birthday nato was created to protect europe of course from the soviet union and the warsaw pact following their collapse nato has been redefining itself in its twenty nine member states especially germany have been under mounting pressure from washington to spend more on their militaries at a press conference with nato secretary general berg our washington bureau chief asked president trump if he plans to keep lobbying the german chancellor on berlin's military spending. i'll be talking about you have been out of cuba germany i mean g

absent the absent politics absent economic considerations because it's not the job of nato nato a strictly military the united states is trying to drum up the notion that moscow remains that threat in order to justify not only the continued existence of nato but actually to increase spending of their towards defense. security situation in the west african nation of mali is worsening despite the fact that french and us troops have been on the ground for over six years according to a un expert who spoke out following the massacre of one hundred sixty civilians in what some fear is the beginning of an ethnic war artie's charlotte do penske reports last month one hundred and sixty people were massacred in central mali. children and pregnant women the elderly and young people. whining well they were flaunting an ethnic group you've been accused of having ties to your hardest of course it's a number about three million or ninety percent muslim and a number of did join al qaeda type groups as a result of their ethnic groups have told all of the same brush calling for the whole community to be lab

president had such an antagonistic relationship with nato trumps criticism of the n.i. and span on the campaign trail as he vowed to put america first by the time he took office he condemns nato as opes elite. many countries are not paying their fair share that means we are protecting them and they're getting all sorts of military protection and other things and they're ripping off the united states and they're ripping you off i don't care i don't want to do that either they pay up including for past deficiencies or they have to get out and if it breaks up nato it breaks up the. champs comments caused consternation among allies and diplomats at last year's nato summit trump reportedly said behind closed doors that the u.s. would go it alone if other member states failed to raise that defense spending very few countries have met the self-imposed target of two percent of g.d.p. by twenty twenty four most still far below that including germany even with a plan to raise this year the country will still be spending just one point five percent on defense it's been a bone of c

that strategy is nato. a strong and agile nato reduces risks and enables us to deal with surprises when they happen, and they will happen. nato is the most successful alliance in history because we have always been able to change as the world changes. and because despite our differences, we're united in our commitment to each other. nato is an alliance of sovereign nations, united by democracy, liberty, and the rule of law. by a person's right to live a life in pursuit of happiness, free from oppression, values that lie at the heart of the united states and at the heart of nato. as president eisenhower nato's first supreme allied commander said, we're concerned not only with the protection of territory, but with the defense of a way of life. europe and north america are not separated by the atlantic ocean, we're united by it. and just like atlantic, nato unites our continents, our nations, and our people. it has done so for 70 years. and today we must do everything in our power to maintain that unity for fu

under nato america. a lot of conversation but the other is trying to construct as they are not always happy with the american policies like germany and turkey the moment americans consistently. threaten turkey not to provide this. sort of five turkey on the other hand had to choose the russian missile system because out of necessity turkey is turkish borders do not have any defense systems. are the key focus of nato is the latest gathering in washington has not been relations with turkey but with russia it's moscow again being portrayed as a major global threat the nato secretary general got an enthusiastic response in the u.s. congress as he outlined countermeasures against moscow r.t.c. upturned go has more. he might not even have had it in mind when he was doing it but the greatest businessmen of all presidents made sure everyone in the club opening their wallets for nato's seventieth anniversary the clear message from prison term. help is having a real impact we see that many more than a dollar meet

nato is marking a milestone today with at length seventieth birthday and year old nato as he gave it during the cold war children from the soviet union and the warsaw pact have a listen. 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 alliance is seventy the transatlantic consensus the absence of strong american presidential leadership nato secretary general young stolzenberg 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

referring to is the nato guideline for them spending more on their own defense nato doesn't have a big budget it's made up of all the countries the individual allies and their militaries collectively so it is true that the united states spends far more than any european government on defense double the spending in fact you've got countries like spain and belgium spending less than one percent while the u.s. spends more than four so president trump does have a point that the european militaries need to be stronger themselves to make nato stronger together but that it is very confusing and they've all acknowledged it and they wish that president trump would just say you know what i have done my part to make nato countries spend more on their own defense and take it as a win and leave that matter aside for the moment that's in fact why this is not a presidential summit for nato because they didn't want every events to be taken over by this discussion this debate over the nato budget what nato really wants for its birthday sarah is some appreciation wrinkles and all at age seventy and some

and i'm going to use the words of nato from the nato secretary general. when berg and he addressed congress last week it was a real spectacle and i'm going to ask you and deem it to reflect upon it so let's go to this. we do all this not to provoke a calm flicked but to prevent complet and to preserve peace not to fight but to deter not to attack but to defend how do we act of that markets go ahead. well nato is an offensive criminal and degenerates organization that is the root cause to date of instability in the poconos and in eastern europe in essence way find in eight hundred you find instability and societal degeneration the americans have used nato you over the last thirty also years to achieve global dominance and they continue to use nato not just to maintain their global dominance of the two in the hearts the global dominance and who has nato works with over the last three decades or so in order to achieve the objectives set before it by merica well nato has worked with organized crime extremists and terrorists they bombed nato bombed serbia for

by nato and did you believe him was he credible 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 said farewell to each other all the battlefield of waterloo it has the prominent tasca to protect its members and. to to end or even prevent loss you know that's a very good point. you know all heads were nodding in congress today when mr. but it's dull drums 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 th

, nato. today we turn to this same subject, only this time in a film originally produced by nato, narrated by edward r. murrow. it is a story about the nato and its accomplishments since its birth more than 10 years ago. in this organization we have developed a deterrent and retaliatory capability of great destructive power for the prevention of general war. we are partners and have an appropriate part to play in international security, today, tomorrow and for the indeterminate future. ♪ mr. murrow: december 16, 1957, date to remember. for the first time, 15 chiefs of government gather around one table, eisenhower, mcmillan, menderas, conrad adenauer. these men and their countries have sometimes been at war against one another. often they have been united against a common enemy, but it -- but here in nato for the first time they are united in peace and for peace. >> their inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. [delegates murmuring] ♪ mr. murrow: peace is built of

needs nato chief u.n. stilton bergen's washington but her news his view of germany also coming up. i dare you to arrest me that is the challenge from venezuela self-proclaimed president one after the country's government controlled assembly stripped him of his parliamentary immunity and british prime minister theresa may insists that she can work with aides bitter rivals to deliver bread said with only designed days left to avoid a chaotic divorce from the european union and. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program nato the west's oldest and longest alliance is marking a milestone today that military alliance has its seventieth anniversary of its founding now the north atlantic treaty was signed back in one nine hundred forty nine during the cold war to protect europe from the soviet union and the warsaw pact countries in the three decades after the fall of the berlin wall of the cold war division of europe nato has been redefining itself and u.s. president donald trump has been pressuring other alliance mem

nato has no intention of deploying land based nuclear missiles in europe but nato will always take the necessary steps to provide credible and effective terence. echoes of the cold war even as nato moves to confront a growing number of twenty first century threats. while our bureau chief in washington is alexander phenomenon she followed events for us today on capitol hill she sent us this report. yes stoltenberg address to congress seems to go down well with the american audience especially when he praised the role do you as played in forming nato coing america the backbone of the alliance but sultan burke's point was also to illustrate that nato has been beneficial for partners on those sites of the atlantic the fact that the us has profited from nato is something the current you asked president often tends to forget when he criticizes the alliance. and alexander also spoke with both growing issue head of the munich security conference he's in washington this week and she asked him does nato need to change the way it seems itself i think what the future. will will put to nato in term

marking the nato military alliance as seventieth anniversary president trump has warm words for the alliances leader but another rebuke for germany. and how about being swept off your feet and feeling lighter than air will take you to a party in zero gravity. i'm dr thomas thanks so much for joining us british prime minister theresa may is expected to meet with opposition labor leader jeremy corbyn in a new push for a bracks a compromise now that's after announcing she would ask the e.u. for another delay beyond the evil twelve deadline after months of political deadlock is may indicating she now wants a closer relationship with the e.u. after all the coming days perhaps the coming hours could provide some answers. in london a potentially important shift to reason me says she wants another extension to the break that deadline and will seek political consensus to break months of parliamentary deadlock i've offering to sit down with the leader of the opposition and to try to agree a plan that we would both stick to to ensure that we leave the european union and that we do so with a deal the ini