you also into this just don't beg so do a comparison force here between stoltenberg and donald trump versus stoughton bag enjoyed by the dynamics be the differences. well brant stoltenberg was actually known as the trump whisperer and people were very relieved that he somehow managed to keep a lid on president trump most of the time and when he would go to washington they would you know get along is as well as could be expected and stolzenberg is is pretty implacable but you can certainly see immediately when when joe biden was elected stoltenberg put out photos of him having having met biden at the munich security conference they were smiling they were sitting next to each other it was clear that that he is relieved to have somebody who is not afraid to say that they are a huge supporter of the alliance so it's a much easier job for a young stolzenberg heading into the future now it's good to hear that the stress factor is at least a little less than it used to be our correspondent terry scholz with the leaves tonight from brussels terry as always thank you. were germany is set to b

well brant stoltenberg was actually known as the trump whisperer and people were very relieved that he somehow managed to keep a lid on president trump most of the time and when he would go to washington they would you know get along is as well as could be expected and stolzenberg is is pretty implacable but you could certainly see immediately when when joe biden was elected. and put out photos of him having having met biden at the munich security conference they were smiling they were sitting next to each other it was clear that they he is relieved to have somebody who is not afraid to say that they are a huge supporter of the alliance so it's a much easier job for a young stolzenberg heading into the future now it's good to hear that the stress factors at least a little less than it used to be our correspondent gary schultz the leads tonight from brussels terry as always thank you. for germany is set to begin its 6th month and a nationwide coronavirus lockdown and it will be the most restrictive since the pandemic began after discussion into the early hours of the morning chancellor

well brant stoltenberg was actually known as the trump whisperer and people were very relieved that he somehow managed to keep a lid on president trump most of the time and when he would go to washington they would you know get along is as well as could be expected and stolzenberg is is pretty implacable but you could certainly see immediately when when joe biden was elected. and put out photos of him having having met biden at the munich security conference they were smiling they were sitting next to each other it was clear that that he is relieved to have somebody who is not afraid to say that they are a huge supporter of the alliance so it's a much easier job for a young stolzenberg heading into the future now it's good to hear that the stress factors at least a little less than it used to be our correspondent terry scholz with the leaves tonight from brussels terry as always thank you. were germany is set to begin its 6th month in the nationwide coronavirus lockdown and it will be the most restrictive since the pandemic began and after discussion into the early hours of the morning

well brant stoltenberg was actually known as the trump whisperer and people were very relieved that he somehow managed to keep a lid on president trump most of the time and when he would go to washington they would you know get along is as well as could be expected and still is in burgas is pretty implacable but you can certainly see immediately when when joe biden was elected stoltenberg put out photos of him having having met biden at the munich security conference they were smiling they were sitting next to each other it was clear that that he is relieved to have somebody who is not afraid to say that they are a huge supporter of the alliance so it's a much easier job for a young stolzenberg heading into the future now it's good to hear that the stress factor is at least a little less than it used to be our correspondent terry scholz the least tonight from brussels terry as always thank you. germany is set to begin its 6th month and a nationwide coronavirus lockdown and it will be the most restrictive since the pandemic began after discussion into the early hours of the morning chan

and relevance so that explains why the subject is being discussed in the middle to form an but as mr stoltenberg. there is no unique position on the on the pipeline or whatever platform you discussed it there doesn't seem to be a common view or knowledge stream to within the nato membership a nato member states or what do you think they're hoping to achieve by discussing an economic venture in a military format. well i'd say 1st of all the americans the u.s. politicians are so adamantly against the project they will use any available form it to bring it up but this concern is not limited to the u.s. the concern of course is in our neighboring country of poland in the baltic countries in other places over to ukraine which is not not an ally of the west but just close political country i should say that there are several elements here and one is unfortunately a continuous one there is concern. among germany's neighbors are also in the us that whenever it comes to german russian rapprochement to any dealings between germany and ran russians where other european countries may feel themselves exclude

stoltenberg is welcoming renew to gauge what the united states after holding talks with the secretary said antony blinken in brussels blinken warns the alliance is at a pivotal moment with threats around the world and also from climate change promise to share any plans for withdrawing u.s. troops from afghanistan as well. will work with russia wanted advances our interests and one of those is strategic stability and we've always demonstrated that with the extension of the the new start agreement on the other hand we will stand resolutely against russian aggression and other actions the try to undermine our alliance and i think that that approach is exactly where we're nato is as well and similarly we have to and we will i believe make sure that nato is also focused on some of the challenges the china poses to the rules based international law international order that is part of the 2030 vision as well. when the news ahead congo congress of its president gets so is on the 3rd trip winning a 4th consecutive term. how very much a game of 2 have seen terms of the weather across the middle

been working these ties defense secretary lloyd austin's 1st born call was to nato secretary general stoltenberg and we've just gotten word that president biden will join the meeting of european union leaders on thursday by video conference so certainly it's a whole of administration approach revitalizing these transatlantic skies right shoring up now they obviously are turning a corner here the one thing however terry the didn't change is that germany once again singled out and he had a warning for lent. he did but to think about how different this warning was delivered it was not being you know screamed across the breakfast table at nato secretary general stoltenberg accusing germany of being captive to russia which of course we're talking about the nord stream to line the pipeline that would link germany and russia and this is something that the united states doesn't like president trump said it in you know more vociferous terms but president biden doesn't like it either and tony blinken was not shy to point this out he said that the u.s. believes that this is bad for the european union that

nato faces a split in views over the project during the 2 day summit in brussels the alliance's chief stoltenberg admitted the issue was top of the discussions for the common standpoint was yet to be reached they would stress that it was an appropriate platform to discuss this type of plan russia's foreign ministry in turn has questioned nato's motives. nato doesn't have a common view on north stream too but why does the military organization have to take a common standpoint toller it's a business project between 2 independent states maybe their alliance has plans to invest costing just over $9000000000.00 euros the north stream to project is already more than 95 percent complete it will allow russian gas to flow directly into germany under the baltic sea it could also be used to bypass existing pipelines which take gas through ukraine which would cost valuable transit fees german journalist thomas fassbender says nato may be turning into a geo political toll for washington to dominate europe. well there is general in knowledge meant that pipelines gas oil pipelines are offered geopolitical sheil

campaign's been dominated by his corruption cases the economy and the pandemic the head of nato un stoltenberg is welcoming renewed and gauge with the united states after holding talks with secretary of state antony blinken so that nato headquarters in brussels astra zeneca has promised to share its most recent clinical data with the u.s. agency overseeing vaccine trials this is after the agency expressed concern the trial results released on monday were based on out of date information. according to state television republic of congo president dennis has been reelected extending his 36 years in power vote was marred by concerns over transparency with some candidates boycotting the polls all being jailed. the u.n. says at least 15 people have been killed and 400 are missing after a fire on monday to rethink a camp in bangladesh hundreds of tents were burned down if you thousands of people without shelter health centers and other facilities have also been destroyed. and meanwhile the military has accused the country's ousted leader of accepting bribes while in office an army spokesman made the

reason indication of that you can't i'd like you to take a listen to what the nato secretary general un stoltenberg had to say this week take a listen we fully supports the efforts by bulgaria to tackle russia's malign activities on its territory i think what is in bulgaria is a pattern of russian behavior where they try to undermine. our democratic institutions and to fit in in domestic politics and we know that the fia has expelled a string of russian diplomats for spying can you tell us how pervasive is vladimir putin's influence in your country. well i can give you some data which i think will be quite an ally think from 2080 there has been all which indicating that 70 percent of bulgarians like russian president vladimir putin this is an exact there so we can say that russia and the russian president are very popular in bulgaria according to the same poll 37 percent of the bulgarians are actually in favor of an autocratic government and only 42 percent are in favor of democracy so i'll say that this type of strong can't all 3 terran role is quite popular in bulgaria but just to get some other

the head of nato yen stoltenberg is welcoming renewed engagement with the united states after holding talks with secretary of state antony blinken in brussels they can warn the alliance is a pivotal moment with threats around the world and also from climate change he also promised to share any plans for withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan will work with russia wanted advances our interests and one of those a strategic stability and we've always demonstrated that with these tension of the the new start agreement on the other hand we will stand resolutely against russian aggression and other actions the try to undermine our alliance and i think that that approach is exactly where we're nato is as well and similarly we have to and we will i believe make sure that nato is also focused on some of the challenges the china poses to the rules based international law international order that is part of the 2030 vision as well. fabrice part there is with us now chief strategy officer of rasmussen global former director of policy planning at nato he's on skype from something there in spai

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faces a split in views over the project during the 2 day summit in brussels the alliance's chief ian stoltenberg admitted that the issue was top of the discussions but that a common standpoint was yet to be reached we did stress that it was an appropriate platform to discuss this type of plan russia's foreign ministry in turn has questioned nato's motives. nato doesn't have a common view on north stream too but why does the military organization have to take a common standpoint toller it's a business project between 2 independent states maybe their alliance has plans to invest costing just over $9000000000.00 euros the north stream to project is already more than 95 percent complete it will allow russian gas to flow directly into germany under the baltic sea it could also be used to bypass existing pipeline to take gas through ukraine which would cost a valuable transit fees german journalist thomas fassbender says nato may be turning into a geo political tool for washington to dominate europe. well there is general in knowledge meant that pipelines gas oil pipelines are offered geopolitical as

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orkneys the reason indication of done i'd like you to take a listen to what the nato secretary general un stoltenberg had to say this week take a listen we fully supports the efforts by bulgaria to tackle russia's malign activities on its territory i think what you see in bulgaria is is a pattern of russian behavior where they try to undermine. our democratic institutions to fit in and domestic ample it takes and we know that the fia has expelled a string of russian diplomats for spying can you tell us how pervasive is vladimir putin's influence in your country. well i can give you some data which i think will be quite enlightening from 2080 there has been a all which indicating that 70 percent of bulgarians like russian president vladimir putin this is an exact or so we can say that russia is russian president are very popular in bulgaria according to the same poll 37 percent of the bulgarians are actually in favor of an autocratic government and only 42 percent are in favor of democracy so i'll say that this type of strong can't all 3 terran role is quite popular in bulgaria but just to get some ot

nato faces a split in views over the project during a 2 day summit in brussels the alliance's chief stoltenberg admitted the issue was top of the discussions but that a common standpoint was yet to be reached though he stressed it was an appropriate platform to discuss this type of plan russia's foreign ministry in turn has questioned nato's moves. nato doesn't have a common view on the stream to but why does the military organization have to take a common standpoint toller it's a business project between 2 independent states maybe their lines has plans to invest costing just over $9000000000.00 euros the nord stream to project is already more than 95 percent complete it will allow russian gas to flow directly into germany under the baltic sea it could also be used to bypass existing pipelines which take gas through ukraine which it would cost of valuable transit fees german journalist thomas fassbender says nato may be turning into a geo political tool for washington to dominate europe. well there is general in knowledge meant that pipelines gas oil pipelines are of geopolitical she'll economi

in the cation of done you can't i'd like you to take a listen to what the nato secretary general un stoltenberg had to say this week take a listen we fully supports the efforts by bulgaria to tackle russia's malign activities on its territory i think it is in bulgaria as is a pattern of russian behavior where they try to undermine. our democratic institutions to fit in and domestic ample it takes and we know that the fia has expelled a string of russian diplomats for spying can you tell us how pervasive is vladimir putin's influence in your country. well i can give you some data which i think will be quite unlike thing from 2080 there has been all which indicating that 70 percent of bulgarians like russian president vladimir putin this is an exact or so we can say that russia is russian president are very popular in bulgaria according to the same poll 37 percent of the bulgarians are actually in favor of an autocratic government and only 42 percent are in favor of democracy so i'll say that this type of strong can't all 3 theron role is quite popular in bulgaria but just to get some other quali

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nato faces a split in views over the project during a 2 day summit in brussels the alliance's chief stoltenberg admitted that the issue was top of the discussions that a common standpoint was yet to be reached they did stress that it was an appropriate platform to discuss this type of plan russia's foreign ministry in turn has questioned nato's motives. nato doesn't have a common view on north stream too but why does the military organization have to take a common standpoint toller it's a business project between 2 independent states maybe their alliance has plans to invest costing just over $9000000000.00 euros the north stream to project is already more than 95 percent complete it will allow russian gas to flow directly into germany under the baltic sea it could also be used to bypass existing pipelines we could take gas through ukraine which would cost valuable transit fees german journalist thomas fassbender says nato may be turning into a geopolitical tool for washington to dominate europe. well there is general in knowledge meant that pipelines gas oil pipelines are offered to your politi

stoltenberg admitted the issue was top of the discussions but that a common standpoint was yet to be reached though he stressed it was an appropriate platform to discuss this type of plan russia's foreign ministry in turn has questioned nato as motives. nato doesn't have a common view on north stream too but why does the military organization have to take a common standpoint towards a business project between 2 independent states maybe their alliance has plans to invest a costing just over $9000000000.00 euros the north stream to project is already more than 95 percent complete that allow russian gas to flow directly into germany under the baltic sea it could also be used to bypass existing pipelines which take gas through ukraine which could cost a valuable transit fees german journalist thomas fassbender says nato may be turning into a geopolitical tool for washington to dominate europe. well there is general in knowledge meant that pipelines gas oil pipelines are all of your political zeal economical relevance so that explains why the subject is being discussed in the middle to fo

brussels tonight a 2nd today no yen stoltenberg has just given a an address there after meeting at u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken and is now taking questions of a listen. my question is on nato 2030 now has 2 minutes to meet. and a little over a month to discuss a plan to know how it's evolved over that time one of the most important things to have been not at all taken away from your original suggestions today we had the bit of positive exchange all nato 2030. i sensed is broad agreement we need a bold forward looking ambitious agenda to be agreed when the nato leaders meet later on this year to address all the challenges we face us allies in the more competitive global world and therefore i welcome. the good and constructive discussion we had today i also welcome the message that. support the idea that we need to address many different issues at the same time and that's exactly what to do in the nato 2030 initiative this is about how to strengthen our unity with more political consultations but also strengthening our deterrence on the fence because our unity derives from our

least the risk indication of that i'd like you to take a listen to what the nato secretary general un stoltenberg had to say this week take a listen we fully supports the efforts by bulgaria to tackle russia's malign activities on its territory i think it is in bulgaria as is a pattern of russian behavior where they are trying to undermine. democratic institutions to fit in and domestic politics and we know that the fia has expelled a string of russian diplomats for spying can you tell us how pervasive is vladimir putin's influence in your country. well i can give you some data which i think will be quite unlike thing from 2080 there has been all which indicating that 70 percent of bulgarians like russian president vladimir putin this is an exact there so we can say that russia is russian president are very popular in bulgaria according to the same poll 37 percent of the bulgarians are actually in favor of an autocratic government and only 42 percent are in favor of democracy so i'll say that this type of strong can't all 3 terran role is quite popular in bulgaria but just to get some other quali

mark: secretary general stoltenberg those comments in an interview with bloomberg. he also said the rise of power in china makes the nato alliance more

for global challenges such as cyber threats china's rise or climate change and nato secretary-general stoltenberg told us yesterday in an exclusive interview that this is a unique opportunity to open a new chapter in relations with the u.s. and to understand why it is so important we just need to remind ourselves of donald trump's presidency and how he's president presidency change international relations and undermines trust between the you ask and its international allies. some of the unfinished north stream pipeline project between russia and germany that's a gas pipeline is still a major friction point in transatlantic relations state is now its specters to tell his german counterpart point blank to stop it what do you make of this. well i mean i'm not surprised because the position has not changed a day still think that north stream too is a bad idea and they want to stop with the you asked administration has also stressed that they are committed to complying with the legislation that requires the governments do you ask governments to sanction companies that participate in this project at th

the rise of china makes nato even more important, corn to secretary-general jens stoltenberg. many members are picking up defense spending. >> reaching 2% by 2024, which is the fine line. yes, we still have some work to do, but we are seeing significant progress, and i welcome that and we expect that to continue to convey to the nato allies. laura: global news 24 hours a day, on air and at bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries, this is bloomberg. anna? anna: thank you very much, laura wright with an update. europe's troubled vaccine rollout will be on the agenda of a summit with e.u. leaders today. a thawing of relations with the u.k. despite tougher relations -- tougher restrictions on vaccine exports. u.s. president joe biden plans to dial into the talks to discuss relations with the u.s. let's get all those details ahead of this really important meeting. maria tadeo is with us. good morning once again, maria. is there some kind of deal, some kind of eye to eye that we can find across the channel that would take th