the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5pm et / 2pm pt only on al jazeera america >> nato approves a plan to strengthen its military presence in eastern europe as tensions simmer over ukraine. u.s. president's been drumming up support for his plan during a visit to poland, warning russia to respect yuen's sovereignty or expect the consequences. i'm david foster. you're hearing the news from london. bashar al-assad's side is sure to win another seven years at

syria's president. final figures in the country's presidential election are expected to be announced in egypt. an emergencicy resolution is underway for king juan los to hand over his throne. it is a move likely to increase tensions between the united states and russia. al jazeera has learned that nato plans to beef up its military presence in parts of eastern europe. in the baltics and on the black sea. u.s. president barack obama has announce they'd his country will boost its -- as military tensions continue to rise over actions in ukraine. mr. obama says he would rotate more american troops through region and provide $1 bil billin for that effort.

set to meet ukraine's newly elected president tomorrow. >> we've begun rotating additional ground troops and f-16 aircraft into poland and this is going to help our forces train together. this is going to help our forces support nato air missions. it's also part of nato's stepped up presence across central and eastern europe. >> editor james bays, james you were the first one that game out with this information. tell us a little bit more about what you've learned. >> well, you heard it there from president obama, that he is potentially giving $1 billion. he does need congressional approval of that, congress to give him that money so as he can give it to his own forces and to nato forces. he'll be providing the lion's share of the money and quite a lot of the resources for that.

we're told it will be called the readiness action plan. what they're going to do is position more equipment near the border, infrastructure in place potentially for bases that could be built in eastern europe near russia and going to increase the tempo of the activities near russia's borders. in the air we've now got four times as many fighter jets policing the skies of the baltics compared to one month ago. at sea we've got two fleets, two nato fleets in the eastern mediterranean and in the baltic sea and we're hearing that ships may also be sent to the black sea. that's something russia will not like. large scale high profile exercises. the plan is for a series of temporary deployments and almost continuous exercises, and nato

has some rapid reactions for some 30,000 troops. they were on a readiness of some of them five days. others ten days, 20 days. well, they're going to try omove that up so that -- to move that up so that some of those troops will be ready to respond in just a couple of days. >> sounds like the cold war james. are we back in the freeze are again? >> well, certainly it is a little like that. but at the same time, i think you need to remember that none of these nato allies actually want a war with russia. so they're going a certain level to try and put pressure on russia but not go any further in a way that would provoke russia or bring them into some sort of war. i think we are seeing nato having to adjust, in some ways it is convenient for nato twe 14 is when -- 2014 they are drawing down their forces in afghanistan. it's very different being out there in the deserts of

afghanistan and the sort of fighting there, compared with the sort of operations they are now going to perform in eastern europe which as you say is very similar to the sort of roles that western military's performed during the cold war. >> james, thank you very much indeed. james bays there. pro-russian separatists are reported to have issued an ultimatum to forces in the east. david chater is in luhansk sending us this report. >> the russians have condemned the deadly attack on the regional headquarters in luhansk. a sukoy jet fighter attacked the building with rockets. this footage shows how the quiet, tree lined square was transformed by deadly cloud of shrapnel. the authorities in kyiv claim it

was caused by a missile, deploy deployed by the separatists themselves. five people were killed in the attack and many more were injured. the crowds were angry and wanted their voices to be heard. >> translator: ukraine should stop this war, there should be round-table negotiations. topping the citizens of ukraine will never forget this. >> opened up all air raid shelters in the city which houses more than 400,000 people. instructions are handed out to the population telling them what to do whether the air raid sirens go off. >> it is a tactic that they have used in the middle east and other countries. >> reporter: the american government has accused the russians of committing a war

crime here. russian sponsored idea of creating humanitarian corridors to allow families to flee could be the only way to stop a terrifying toll of casualties. >> david joining us now live from luhansk. you said to me a short while ago david you feel that tensions are ramping up. it's not just in luhansk, is it many and that's what makes it particularly dangerous. it's spreading out. >> reporter: yes, the pain action today in what kyiv calls the antiterrorist operation and the separatist fighters here, would say is the defense of the self-declared people's republics has been pushing both to the north and to the west of luhansk. there have been helicopter gun ships in action. there have been jet fighters striking the separatist fighters' positions around slovyansk. and we've seen a lot of action

there, apparently according to figures released from kyiv today, some 42 ukrainian troops have been injured and two have been killed, just in those operations today. but so far, we've heard the air sirens over here, over the cities of luhansk which of course has ratcheted up the tension and there's a deep anger about the situation where the people, civilian casualties are being taken here in the city because of the action by the ukrainian air force jet fighters. but behind me at the border guards base, they are still flying their own flag of the regiment and they are still flying the ukrainian flag. but the separatist fighters are still in place around that base. they have not been resupplied with ammunition. they have not been resupplied with food or water. so the situation here is extremely tense. and more fighting is expected, david. >> you've been in many dangerous places, david, you are well placed to judge whether tensions

are going up or not. but you're also a man with great experience with moscow. what james bays was saying earlier on, deployment of nato forces, closer to are borders with russia, how provocative will this be seen by moscow? >> i think president putin and the small clee clique around hin the kremlin will be concerned about that. what will the fleets do in the black sea, particularly? will they go into what was once known as international territorial waters, ukrainian territorial waters, which is now in fact russian, crimean. how far will russia go in pushing its presence in the

crimea? we'll have to wait and see exactly what ships will be used, what type of ships will be used but there will be a very unimlom unwelcome presence in the black sea for russia we'll see what the result is. >> david chater, thank you very much. polling stakes he will stay open for an extra five hours to cope with high voter turnout. in syria, a vote widely expected to see bashar al-assad returned to power. syria's main opposition dismissed the vote as a sham. >> these scenes of what the government wants the world to see. syrians showing support by casting a vote for a new president. but the credibility of this election has been questioned. there were international election observers on the ground but they are from countries like russia and north korea.

allies of the government. and the poll was only held in regime controlled regions. the opposition believes many people there were not given a choice. >> at work, their i.d., the national i.d. was taken, last week, all of them. and they said this week, no vacations are allowed, not even sick leave. you have to go there and if you need to get your i.d. back, you need go to be voting for the president. in fact if he are being coerced. >> reporter: there are three candidates in this election but many say the winner is already known. president bashar al-assad is expected to stay in office for another seven years. the opposition says his competitors were hand picked by the regime to give the election legitimacy. many of the syrians who live in rebel controlled territories are not taking the election seriously, as you can see, they continue to arrive in turkey to escape the war at home.

many live i in exile. this suburb south of damascus is contested territory. just like many areas not under the control of the state there were no ballot boxes. opposition activists are calling it a blood election. in summer they control neighborhoods. syrians use garbage cans as ballot boxes. they are defiant. >> today syria is returning to peace and security. starting to rebuild the country and conclude comprehensive reconciliation. today the matter will begin. >> the election won't change anything. zena hoba, al jazeera. >> final figures in the country's presidential election are just about to be announced

about unofficial results show abdel fatah al-sisi, with it be president or could be president. let's not be too premature. as soon as the results are announced. mr. anwar al asi, making a statement there he is the one expected to make the announcement. watching that with me, carroll kirsten. it wasn't very exciting tv. let's try and make it there. sisi as president. how is he going to change egypt? >> well, that is everybody's guess at the moment. it has been a terribly long prelude of course to this day. the announcements is of course a kind of nonevent. we have all been expecting this. it is probably significant in

the sense that now egypt can sort of move on. and they can sort of see what kind of policies we can expect from the former field marshal because he has left that very much to everybody's imagination so far. the american concern i think for al-sisi is in terms of credibility. 93% of a 43% turnout is not exactly the mandate you're looking for. >> roughly 1 in 4, isn't it? >> yes. the fact that this was so controversial if had he a lower approval rate, bigger turnout, the legitimacy of his presidency would look slightly better than it does now. >> i don't think he worries too much about what it looks like. he knows what he wants to do. is he going to bring egypt back to the same sort of policies that the country endured, what you would like, lack of a better word under mubarak?

>> i think what we see here is basically the continuation of an institution and that egypt as a military society. they have always gone through motions of democratization process, briefly between 2012 and 2013 to make real change which failed due to the incompetence of the office. don't lose sight of the fact that the military has huge political influence in egypt. >> continue to have even when morsi was president, yes? >> al-sisi is very much in that sense not his own man but also, a caretaker of interests that go way beyond his own status and his oafn own ambitions now. >> where is the muslim brotherhood now? >> the muslim brotherhood is in big trouble. they may have the moral high ground here but effectively they

have been deca decapitated. the senior leadership has been locked up. incommunicado of the lower echelons. substantial support among the population but is fragmented. there is pragmatists, there is old fashioned dogmatists, and cadres who may take recourse to rash actions. >> are there many countries outside those that would support the muslim brotherhood? in the region of that part of aarabiraib yaarabia and the gul? the stability he says he will bring to a volatile region? >> the reaction since the summer of 2013, they were sort of a lukewarm people, of the

democratization process, but the pragmatism has tr triumphed as n the middle eastern countries. we are dealing with a known quantity. >> well not the unknown, knowns, but the knowns. thank you for yours advice. >> thank you. >> peter greste, mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed have been in jail now, for 160 days. al jazeera has refuted the charges and demanding their immediate release. a fourth journalist, abdullah al shalli. has been held even longer and is asking for a medical report of

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>> you're watching al jazeera. my name is david forfeit and these are the top -- forfeit and these are thfoster andhere are . top of a four day visit to europe by president obama. expected to visit the newly elected president of the ukraine. here we see lew hans, this is in eastern ukraine. separatists issuing an ultimatum to troops in a government guard base in luhansk. ignored so far. syria's state tv says polling places will stay open

another five hours, to give people a chance to choose their next president, the same that they've had for the last 13 years. spain's king juan carlos has appeared in public for first time with his son. tens of thousands of people took to the streets on monday marching and chanting against the monarchy. reporting from el escoriale. >> in his first appearance since the abdication, king juan carlos looked frail. his son always by his side. the king might have lost his popularity in recent years but to many people here he will always be remembered as the man who made democracy possible and united spain. >> we are a different people but all that has the king, the king

of spain. >> reporter: the gra gran grar spain, tens of thousands of people came to the streets on monday calling for a referendum. >> translator: i think it would be better if the whole family abdicated. and allow us to be governed by politicians that we elect. >> reporter: but the spanish government is ignoring the critics. approving a draft law for the succession the law now needs to be passed by parliament. many people here think this was a political decision. it's far easier to pass a succession law with a conservative government rather than a socialist one. whatever the reason, the establishment needs to proof too the people that spain needs a

monarchy. one of the journalists says this is going to be a difficult transition. >> the challenge of the prince is to convince the spanish people they can play ouseful role. he needs to be -- a useful role. >> this is the beginning of a short farewell of the king. the handover is expected to take place in a matter of weeks. prince flip philippee philippe d since childhood for this role. >> it -- we have just learned that it will be june the 18th that prince philippe will become king of spain.

pakistani politician has been arrested in london. mqm party was arrested on suspicion of money laundering. hussein is wanted in pakistan, has lived in the united kingdom since the 1990s. nah dean musrat is a spokesperson for the mqm, says nothing has been going on. >> what we have been facing for last few years, bank accounts have been frozen, and systematically closed by one bank or another. most people are compelled to give donations in cash here. if we still have bank facilities, and the pakistani straight laws had permitted transfer of money from pakistani accounts to mqm accounts here, we wouldn't have any cash here.

unfortunately because of this handicapped we were compelled to keep cash. and we have provided already to the police all the evidence. confirming the legality. it is not dirty money, it is kosher money. 97 billion pork industry, the diarrhea virus has now been found in 14 states. john hendren reports from the state of iowa. >> here on the rolling agrarian landscape of america's pork belt lurks a quiet killer. in december craig rolls, like most of his neighbors, lost pig lets to porcine die revirus. the death rate among piglets is

nearly 100%. >> i received a call from the manager while i was driving there that said hey, something's wrong. it's like being hit with a punch in the gut when you first realize what's going to happen. we'd already known across the united states how devastating it was going to be and it was just as devastating for us even though we knew what was coming. >> the latest threat to the u.s. pork supply originated in the 1970s from britain. but the latest threat has believed to be coming from china. farmers, but consumers, pork prices have jumped from an average of $three.64 a pound last year and could hit a record 3.90 this year. >> it is new. we have never experienced in the united states so we have to learn about the virus, how to handle it, what it does. and number 2 is, it's had a significant impact we think and it's going to have a bigger impact in the future on

supplies. >> researchers say pork remains safe to eat. the virus has no effect on humans. many are waiting months before they bring in new piglets. for years farms have tight security procedures. these haz-mat like suits and plastic booties are meant to keep virus out. >> it was economically devastating but emotionally disturbing as well. you don't want to go to work thinking we have to euthanize pig lets. >> farmers in indiana and elsewhere have seen the virus return. lethal the second time around. the immunity virus developed to its limits. that has many considering when and if the latest virus will end. john hendren, iowa. >> the day before the 25th anniversary of the tee tienanmen

square ar anniversary. >> 25 years ago, students in china were agitating for political change. an unprecedented display of defiance against the country's communist rulers. but the pro-democracy movement survived just seven weeks before suppressed by military force on june the 4th. now a quarter of a century on, the events of that time still remain a taboo subject for many of today's students. it's inconvenient for me to talk about this, he says. generally i'm neutral says this man. i'm not on the side of the government or the students. today's young people are in the throes of another revolution, one of rising expectations. wan chen was borch a month after the -- born a month after the bloodshed. hoping to find a white collar

job with a salary of at least $700 a month. >> i know very little about this part of history. one reason is that i'm not interested in politics. the second reason is, this event was not mentioned in the history books i read. >> jung was born three months before the 1989 protests. today she manages a shop specializing in skateboarding clothing and accessories. >> 25 years ago, what the young people cared about was having enough food and keeping warm. whereas today, we want to become stylish and to show off our personality. >> today's students have lived through an era of rapid economic growth. they still have grievances but know they can't change change te political system. >> young students stay away from politics for the interest of

protecting their own lives because they know the risks of getting involved in politics. >> china has ten times the number of graduates as it had in 1989 but around a third of them is unemployed. simply because the economy isn't producing enough white collar