really putting migration in the spotlight whilst they hold the presidency what are they hoping to achieve. well yes the this is the backdrop to this is that this is the last presidency of the european union before very important european elections next year in which all the european very hard right populist parties a promise to gang up and try to overturn much of the power of the center right political parties inside the european parliament in the center right parties which is most of the european union are so frightened of the rise of the populace that instead of trying to take them on they're actually adopt a lot of the policies themselves and so you then have the austrians government which is really very right wing is a coalition talking openly about trying to get say somali refugees to try to register for asylum in the european union either in somalia or in libya which blatantly sounds impossible but they're actually presenting this is a sort of idea that might be workable even though it's a sort of thing traditionally that would come out of the mouths of the neo fascist

policies even the president the european council said that he wants to hold a summit meeting next february in egypt's between the european union and north african countries to try to help them keep refugees out of the european union even though it's the legal rights to try and come and seek asylum so it is fortress europe in absolutely full tilt under the austrian presidency ok lawrence lee thank you still ahead on al-jazeera starvation on an unprecedented scale aid agencies say more than five million again many children are at risk and needles in strawberries the australian prime minister val's to get tough for those threatening the country's fruit industry. hello once again the relentless heat continues across

a good parts of iraq into kuwait either side of that temperatures not ferentz. badly across much of the middle east chiles of one of two showers just around the caspian sea but essentially it does look largely fine and dry thirty celsius there in beirut there's a heat for baghdad forty two degrees forty four for kuwait city could be even a touch warm as we go on into friday little further east kharaj it thirty one celsius pakistan looking good over the next day as i didn't get to work across the arabian peninsula high savings of around forty one celsius on thursday just a gentle breeze coming through not too bad thirty nine degrees as we go on through friday just a hint of that he would as he come further south little bit of cloud there just hugging southern parts of amman some of the areas of yemen to into the gulf of aden there a bit of cloud too just hugging the far south of south africa but here it's looking set fair well so dry weather coming through fourteen celsius in cape town little on

the chilly side here sixteen therefore in the cloud does recede a little further eastward and we'll see more in the way of sunshine meanwhile sunshine and showers as lobby showers continue from the ethiopian highlands into the gulf of guinea and it could pop west africa. the russian orthodox church has deep pockets and we're up with the expansion. roland who didn't agree. with some elevating the former k.g.b. officer to saying to president putin is our leader that given to a good people in power investigates how often it's attempted elimination by the soviet union religion has returned to the halt to the russian state the orthodox connection.

hello again the top stories on al-jazeera the south korean president when diane has made a historic address in the north at a special mass games attended by about one hundred thousand people moon praised the north korean leader kim jong il and promised to bring the peninsula together the former pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif has been released from prison after his sentence for corruption was suspended. high court had ruled there were deficiencies in the conviction of sharif his daughter and his son in law the u.s. president to come out in support of his nominee for the supreme court. who is facing allegations of sexual assaults alleged victim christine ford says she wants an f.b.i. investigation before she testifies at his senate committee hearing. the aid

organization save the children says more than five million children in yemen are at risk of starvation as a result of the war around eighty percent of yemen's population get their supplies and aid through the port of. fighting there has resumed following the failure if un backed talks between the government and who with the. rebels the charity says the structure into the ports operations is likely to push up food and fuel prices already the cost of food has risen by sixty eight percent since twenty fifteen more than two thirds of yemenis don't know where their next meal is coming from and the charity is warning that problems with the supply chain would cost starvation on an unprecedented scale meanwhile the number of children returning to school in yemen has dropped to a new low the united nations is warning of a lost generation a few thera main an educated and traumatised andrew symonds has been following developments from nearby djibouti. life has taken

a turn for mohammed al man's story he's a bright teenager and before yemen's war he dreamed of one day being a doctor but his father died at fifteen years old mohammed has swapped his education for a motorbike he uses it as a taxi trying to support his mother and family. this is where he should be been most school alongside his close friend muhammad bill well. whatever the ceremony nothing can disguise the new school year is attended by only a fraction of the number of last year. elsewhere many schools lyon remain well taken over by armed groups half a million yemeni children are estimated to have dropped out of school and how much friend hopes that studying will bring a better life. mohammad and i are close friends. he left

his family has eased the only man left to come to school in fair hospitals and schools not spare in this war but we cannot afford to drop out and lose years and years of our lives. as one teenager puts his efforts into learning the other looks even longer eyeless finding passengers who can afford a bike taxi for. the night i have the war comes to an end and i'll be able to go back to school i hope i can live the life i once had if not better. back in school the man who used to teach him isn't so optimistic he's also struggling. a little bit i need. teachers haven't been paid for months and this is our only form of income so many have lost their jobs there's unemployment and poverty in nearly every household in yemen. they sing the national anthem that's

shared by all yemenis whichever side they're on in a country where education like the wall time economy is dying. the principal of the school wants to put out a message to parents in yemen he's calling on them to brave times and send their children to school otherwise he says the consequence is. unemployment poverty and illiteracy andrew simmons al jazeera djibouti. relative calm has returned to libya's capital tripoli after a rocketing gun attack on shoes they raised fears of a un brokered cease fire had collapsed the united nations mission in libya has been calling on rival factions to abide by the terms agreed two weeks ago tuesday's unrest plunged much of tripoli into darkness as a disrupted the electricity supply late last month an upsurge in fighting left sixty people dead many of them civilians but the two rival groups are vying for

control of the area around the city's only functioning airport both were previously aligned to the un backed government in libya the fighting has shrunk the government's area of control to the center of the capital it also forced many residents to stay indoors and left migrants detained in parts of the city without food or water. is the c.e.o. and co-founder of libya that's a research and consulting firm he says the situation in tripoli is highly unstable . the situation as the events of yesterday have shown that the situation is not sustainable and that a full fledged war could actually erupt in the capital tripoli at any moment and that more efforts from the international community and from and the u.n. representative in libya a sense i mean aren't wired urgently in order to defuse these tensions but also in order to hold spoilers to account and make sure that those responsible for the

violations of the cease fire agreement are immediately dealt with on an international level if that's possible the presidential council is a very weak entity into police and their control doesn't want to extend beyond a few kilometers in the capital it's also important to remember that the presidential council is largely to blame for many of the security shortcomings but also that the charity living conditions in the capital tripoli that this presidential council has been in the capital tripoli for more than two years but they have failed to deliver on many of their responsibilities and duties and it is one of the reasons why armed groups that are coming from outside of tripoli are able to garner some support and to galvanize support it order to to defeat the forces that are aligned with this presidential so the family of a palestinian man killed on tuesday is accusing israel of being behind his death

muhammad in maui died in custody after being arrested by israeli soldiers they raided his house in the occupied west bank but didn't say why he later died in hospital and his mother says the soldiers beat him to death. and it didn't then finish the edge of the day they killed him in ten minutes they woke him up and killed him in just ten minutes when they saw the daylight they carried him and went out and when they entered the house they attacked him directly and two israeli soldiers started beating him. rescue workers in the northern philippines are continuing search efforts despite saying there is little chance of finding any survivors under a massive landslide family members in the mining town of it's all gone have been queuing to identify bodies as they're recovered many locals had been sheltering from typhoon manga when that landslide happens it's the most powerful storm to hit the philippines this here and it's killed at least eighty one people dozens of others are still missing. the australian government is introducing emergency

legislation to prosecute people caught contaminating fruit the strawberry industry is in crisis with police investigating more than one hundred reports of needles found in the fruit. is the story. the lady who posted this video says it illustrates the worst thing to ever happen to her family the family business growing strawberries has been forced to dump its products at the busiest time of the year supermarkets won't buy the fruit in normal quantities because their customers fear what the strawberries may contain last week there was what seemed like an isolated case of a sewing needle inserted in a strawberry probably by described told employee at a strawberry farm but since then there have been reports of more than twenty suspected copycat incidents around australia in relation to the motivation in

relation to these offenses we still haven't. have any confirmed motivation all reasons why a person would want to do this there is speculation that some cases are children putting needles into strawberries while they're sitting on shop shelves other cases are complex hoaxes people pretending to find needles and strawberries once they're home it's not a joke it's not funny you're putting the largely hudes of hardworking strivings at risk. and you're scaring children and you're a coward and you're a grown up and if you do that sort of thing in this country we will come after you and we will throw the book at you strawberries that are being sold are heavily discounted almost as low as the equivalent of one u.s. dollar a pack and farmers of other fruits are fearful to someone has claimed to have found a needle in a banana and in sydney an apple just freaked me out with them thinking my daughter normally just grabs and just bite into apples the race is on to contain the

strawberry scare before it does any more damage to the economy. al-jazeera. police and indian administered kashmir have fought with muslims who defied a security restriction by participating in a religious procession the security forces have imposed restrictions on the city of srinagar for gatherings marking the heart of since one nine hundred eighty nine the how to as one shot muslims mourn the death of prophet muhammad's grandson in monaco saying that despite the clampdown shell mourners it sure defied the police ban. and india supreme court says people who believe they've been incorrectly left off a state citizenship register will be able to appeal it's ruled people in the northeastern state may prove their citizenship with any one of ten documents listed by the court in late july the state government was accused of discrimination that's when it failed to include four million names on a list of citizens the state government said they'd have to prove their citizenship

or lose their rights as some has long struggled with ethnic and linguistic division over undocumented immigration from bangladesh the state government says the exercise is to identify illegal residents and to thomas has this from. now india's supreme court has. how people can go about appealing not being on the list the idea is that people across the state were going to regional offices to prove their citizenship but that is easier said than done in some remote villages like this one nine out of ten people who are not on the list make simply don't have the financial means to go about proving the citizenship in fact is even bigger than that they might not have the paperwork that proves that not all these people have birth certificates and lawyers if they need them are expensive so people here are concerned that even with a formal appeals process now in place at the end of this process they may remain off the list and that may render them stateless people are still picking up the

pieces of their lives one year after a seven point one magnitude earthquake devastated urban and rural areas of mexico more than three hundred people were killed and some survivors are still living in makeshift shacks or tents the rescue efforts on that day relied heavily on voluntary support we followed one man who was on the front line and here's his story. my name is it one of the us a bit and i've been a volunteer rescuer with the international rescue brigade for thirty two years. last year we had one of the most intense earthquakes in mexican history i was very worried because i didn't know what i was about to face the fact. he took me a while to get through the crowds to reach my colleagues who were already quartered aging the whole situation. when we find a person alive or dead the first step is to evaluate the risk of getting today the

risks we face our collapse aftershocks any movement that could create another collapse. when we arrive people tell us i have a missing relative we stick with them to help them and they stick we've used to ask you if you need a glass of water if you eat food if you slept already and they help you because we are not superman we also get tired. of this. when i see buildings collapse totally devastated i wonder what am i doing here i could be in my house sitting on my sofa but i want to do something i want to use my hands i have the skills to do it i've trained for that. we don't have a salary nobody pays us we do all this voluntarily. when

we managed to rescue someone and something i can't describe it to satisfaction an emotion that makes you cry really if you get out of it. the places where we go are the places everyone wants to leave the places everyone wants to flee from we know things can go wrong and when you come back you say well all this happens when i'm back with my family at home to carry on with my life and in my country. i used to say the day i saved a person's life i would be tired if that was the prize but the truth is no it encourages you to keep on doing it before you got it under. the headlines on al-jazeera the south korean president has made a historic address in the north at a special mass games attended by about one hundred thousand people praise the north korean leader. to bring the peninsula. but.

my fellow koreans during this visit i've been able to see the development of north korea the achievements of north korea and i've been able to see for myself and feel deeply about the kind of future that north korean people want to have and i had the opportunity to see the desperation and feel the urge of the north korean people to build a future i've seen the courage seen their determination my fellow careens people a great we are strong people we love peace and we have to live together. the former pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif has been released from prison after his sentence for corruption was suspended the islam about high court court ruled there were deficiencies in the conviction of sharif his daughter and his son in law in july and anticorruption court sentenced them to jail for ten years seven years and one year respectively over the purchase of luxury properties in london

u.s. president donald trump has come out in support of his nominee for the supreme court brett kavanaugh who's facing allegations of sexual assault kavanagh's alleged victim christine blazin ford says she wants an f.b.i. investigation before she testifies that his senate committee hearing. european leaders are gathering the austrian city of salzburg for an summit that will focus on migration and that the president of the european council donald tusk has already met with the austrian chancellor sebastian kurtz who has been a staunch opponent of open borders for refugees the british prime minister the reason may has just arrived she says she hopes the e.u. is open to compromise on its. malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has been detained again over a corruption scandal and is already facing a string of charges linked to billions of dollars that went missing from estate investment funds millions were transferred to his personal bank accounts as he was expected to face new charges when he appears in court on thursday.

those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story with hoda abdel-hamid is coming up next then it's the news hour i will see you then bye bye. is the month from turning national security into a business the u.s. president says he consider a permanent military presence in poland as long as war so fades so is trump willing to sell his country's military services and what are the strategic risks this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program good of that hamid for trump this was the name poland suggested for a new u.s. military base on its soil and its willing to fork out war two billion dollars for the project during an official visit to washington poland's president and jay do that told donald trump that stationing u.s. boots on the ground will defend poland against russian aggression trump says the u.s. has been protecting rich countries for years and these countries poland included should pay for security he's calling it burden sharing. when we're defending immensely wealthy countries and they're not paying for the defense to the united states they're only taken advantage of us and we are in discussions with no murs

countries all of whom you know about payment payment when a country is very wealthy and when the united states has been protecting them for many years at tremendous cost cost like nobody in this room would believe it's time that they help with we call it burden sharing crimes that upon a president as i said i would very much like for us to set up a permanent american base in poland which we would call for trump and i firmly believe that this is possible i'm convinced that such a decision lies are both in the polish interest as well as in the interest of the united states. the u.s. has the strongest military presence world while almost eight hundred bases in seventy countries the red dots on the map showed the areas where the u.s. has the greatest military presence the largest number of troops are in germany japan and south korea u.s.

says it pays billions of dollars for these bases but military experts say the pentagon receives benefits from the host countries this includes rent free real estate payment for salaries and utilities to offset u.s. costs. ok so let's bring in our panelists joining us from birmingham scott lucas professor of american studies at the university of birmingham in washington d.c. david the rush associate professor at national defense university and a former pentagon official and from bristol geyer glycerin men research fellow in international security at warwick university welcome to the program let me start with you president do day yesterday at the white house was saying that this base is really needed to counter russian aggression or expansionism but in reality paul

and has wanted this base for a very long time i think it is a longstanding you know strategic aim of the polish government to secure a permanent american military presence as it is to do to assure as a deterrent against russia but multiple political as well as to digital obstacles stand in the way not the least of which is the need to russia act of one thousand nine hundred seven which prohibits the permanent stationing of substantial combat troops in eastern europe this is where we have a rotational presence of battalions that by germany to us canada and the u.k. in deep altered states an important at the moment and of course the pentagon has. i looked into these issues over to someone and they've calculated that it would be vastly more expensive to relocate the students from germany over in the us than what poland is currently offering so i don't really see how calling it forts trump is changing just a t.g. equation here well david i mean we're just talking about cost scieno

president trump has said ok we can open that base but you won't have to foot the bill one gets a bit the impression that the u.s. military is becoming an institution for rents well look the first off these terms are ambiguous and they mean different things i think when the president says it than when others use it the fact of the matter is the united states military is just not structured in a way where it makes sense for us to put you know like an armored brigade forward in poland it's better for us to have those forces in germany what the poles want is what we have in germany to move to poland they want schools they want families they want this huge infrastructure basically little america that has built up over fifty years in germany that is mind bogglingly expensive and it's not strategically very bright because it's a little bit too close so i think what we're going to see is an acceleration what

we've already got which is a rotational presence probably an enhancement of infrastructure and will probably call that you know whatever we want to call it that but it's not going to there's not going to be a permanent presence of armored brigades in poland so scott. poland has a ready and native base to why not just simply beef up that base if there is such a concern for his own security and if considers russia such a threat why we need a separate you as military base well i think first of all is your heard referred to this has been a long term polish ambition to establish a permanent us presence the idea that especially in these uncertain times the americans won't up and leave secondly i think the poles are playing a little bit of a game because of the germany they know the truck that truck doesn't like the germans they know how to tack and mystically has been so it sort of without

necessarily getting a full permanent base deployed at least a tilt which is that we're on the front line poland takes priority with the nato but i think is david pointed out i think all of this is blowing smoke in the wind i think that in terms of both strategic considerations and financial considerations no one else within nato wants to do this i think no one else within the american establishment one portly apart from donald trump who for reasons of ego thinks it's a great idea the pentagon certainly doesn't want it so i think in fact you know the poles are playing a little bit of gamesmanship here i think even they realize they won't get a permit u.s. space but if they get more rotational troops in if they get a bit more infrastructure then they get a little bit of a wind out of this so they have it wasn't thinking at the pentagon at the moment because very difficult to understand what is the president's drums doctrine when it comes to the military all we hear about is money is other countries having to pay

to increase their their share in all of that but what else is there well the animating principle of the services and the bureaucracy at the pentagon is unchanged regardless of administration and that's to advance american security interests at the lowest cost in conjunction with their allies there's not really a trump doctrine. but there are a few animating principles the first is there's a conviction that the united states has been shouldering too much of the burden and that our allies who are always happy to criticize us aren't doing enough to contribute to their own defense so you look at things like only five german fighters being in a state to fly no german submarines that's that's one thing that animates trump the second thing that animates him is a desire to distance himself from the obama administration from other administrations who he feels were insufficiently vigilant in guarding american interests and poland is a particular flashpoint for this because one of the first acts the obama

administration did upon taking over was to cancel a very very well thought out air defense interceptor system that was to go into poland and czechoslovakia that both countries had agreed to accept that some considerable risk and then the obama administration said no and you know we had the famous reset and then it was viewed that there was sort of a by trump that there was not a robust enough response to various russian predations exercises the annexation of crimea etc the third thing is economic look the united states government is in a period in which the military in particular and i think the people around trump do believe this the military has been deployed on these endless wars overseas by both republican and democratic presidents that haven't done anything to advance our security interests that we need to focus on rebuilding and repositioning to deal with our true adversaries which are in our near peer adversaries china russia and try to get somebody else or come to some solution for these endless middle east

wars well. in your view what are the risk of this trump doctrine or policy. i think you know what's already been said here trump seems to have a fundamentally different calculation of what is american grand strategy which was to dish really understood as a form of liberal gemini's america is investing in investing in alliances and partnerships to underwrite a liberal international rules based order support for democracy support for free trade support for allies and partners in terms of the terrence and trump wants to move into a world which is completely based on trends actually sions alone so if you want to have nature protection if you want american military protection and pay for it in forms of you know higher defense budget international trade free trade comes at the

expense of the united states what we see is a really a foreign security policy that is much more informed by oryol politics thinking balance of power some game calculations and that is quite a radical departure from the last seventy years of posed world war american foreign policy in turn seems to really intended on up ending in upsetting and disrupting does preexisting system of which the united states was presiding over scott so the polls say we need protection and we need a guarantor in our soil because of russian aggression but somehow this thinking is a bit flawed because at the sort of point moscow is not just going to sit there and watch the more the u.s. goes eastward the more russia will try to go westwards i mean that's certainly the opinion of many nato countries not just you know over the some media incident but for some time and that is we have seen for example the russian reaction in terms of

the war with georgia in two thousand and eight where they felt nato was getting too close we saw what the russian reaction was when they felt they were losing position in ukraine and counterattacking in taking crimea so the idea that you put a permanent base in poland actually at least the same by many nato countries as being antagonistic but i think to throw something in for your other to get us to where i slightly disagree i don't think trump. that knowledge is any of this and i don't think trump actually understands any of the military dimension here remember his own advisors rex tillerson a chart master have called him a moron and an idiot i think there are two things at play here for trump one is he likes the idea that it would be cold for trump because it has his name in it and two he has the view that other countries are ripping the us off or they're giving the money and poland play to that by saying look we'll put two billion into constructing this and those rather simple notions when you put them up against the calculations you just ask about how well the russians react what will happen to

nato strength and strategy over the next decade you've got a big divide now between the pentagon and the man who's in the white house well david you does sound that divide and it's a bit earlier but i mean it's a bit. mind boggling i would say ok so if the u.s. opens a base in poland paid by deposed his government who calls the shots there i mean at the start it and how is that in the benefit of the u.s. national interest because it will ruffle the feathers of russia wouldn't it well i don't think it's roughly in the feathers of russia i think is is not something that should be a deterministic factor in american defense policy the russians view any presence in the former soviet union or warsaw pact as ruffling their feathers so even mad just right here on the baltic countries are members of nato maja's interrupt nato was an agreement between the u.s. and russia not to put bases in places like ukraine and poland permanent bases well

yes for ukraine definitely no permanent bases i don't think they'll be a permanent base i think that it will be rotational even two billion dollars really underestimates how expensive u.s. military presence is but there's a bigger issue which is you know the pentagon phrase is we're out of sure it's. we do. i don't have enough armored brigade to move them forward in poland and if they're forward in poland on a permanent basis there just isn't enough flexibility to to move them to other places where they might need to go. you know we have to pull a brigade either out of the united states or we have to move brigade from germany and both of those moves are self-defeating so even if you can pay for all the infrastructure that poland wants and two billion dollars will not come close to covering it the united states government won't find a budget to make make up for that and just in terms of the armored units that would

have to move the army units that would have to we just don't have those and it's not a good use of the forces that we have so really this is this is more about as your previous guest said about appealing to trump's vanity and it is about a longstanding polish desire you know poland looks at the european members of nato and sees the european union which they think takes polish considerations you know in an off handed and cavalier manner that's really what's at the basis of this polish and security. well there are also president trump keeps on talking about burden sharing that the u.s. is paying the lion's share of nato which is true but it's the argument also as the other side that you have countries like japan yeah afghan trees like germany who do pay add or who do help financially in a way or another do you s minatory so that idea that they have to hit that ship

percent g.d.p. threshold is is a bit of a fraud way i mean if he's trying to appeal more to his own constituency then reflecting the reality no i think i mean american complains about you know europeans not shouldering the rate about the european dependence and in defense matters in the nato alliance a long standing we can go all the way back to do kennedy administration jimmy carter in a nine hundred seventy s. and does have a point many european countries germany first and foremost have you know let their forces fall into a state of disrepair essentially i mean look at the state of the german armed forces not a single submarine operational at the end of last year. to outfit a single battalion to go to an athenian which bases in essentially the entire west of the army needs to be a scavenged for parts so i think just to spread share partly because of trumps obviously redirecting that has already led to some results we see the european

union was a new defense initiative going back to mccone we see a germany discussing a larger defense budget so i think one of the results of the trump administration will be a movement to keep a bull year of both in terms of a european pillar within nato but also in terms of a more independently capable. union which i want to believe will further undermine in a way america's leadership position well david if this really goes ahead. i mean we are saying that they will be a permanent base but there will be some sort of presence right in poland isn't there a risk that the message around the world is that anyone has a little bit of money and some concern can just go and knock at the door of the white house as say look i'll pay you but please come and put some of your soldiers in my country because i have an issue with my next door neighbor well. that that is

a risk but really the status quo is that any country that is normally a line in the west says look we have a security problem and the united states come solve it for us and we won't pay you so i suppose the scenario outlined is only a marginal from american interest it's a marginal improvement in the status quo we are the de facto guarantors of security when rwanda went to heck nobody looked at the french and said you've got to solve this you know so i suppose holding our security partners to account represents an improvement over the status quo but yeah it's not a it should be a determining factor in american foreign policy and scott ok so the u.s. is that and be a guarantor of security in many parts of the world but if you start having situations like the one of poland if it would have to see how it pans out the u.s. might find itself also in the middle of conflicts that it should it wait shouldn't

be mean a conflict between let's say russia and poland could be could be contain a conflict between russia and the u.s. is a conflict between superpowers isn't it yes i mean i agree with david i don't think there will be a permanent u.s. base in poland but i think you do have this question and this harks back to the idea of whether there should have been an american effectively advanced. missile shield missile defense in poland which was sort of scrapped by the obama administration. where's the balance in terms of both air and ground operations when you go beyond germany in central europe but there's a wider question here hota that is you've talked about america is the care and tore of many country security this is the new reality for donald trump he does not see america as the karen torre a security he doesn't think that's the judgment call all he sees this is beyond the personal factor is doesn't merica make money out of the arrangement so in other

words can he get more money out of nato can he get money from poland and once you start thinking about oh it's a win lose either they're ripping us off or we get money that cuts against the entire animating idea of collective defense and that is we don't talk when lose we talk about contributions that all have to make now david's right i think there's an ongoing question that europe has to step up in terms of its contributions but that's not where trump is coming from and i think that's the bigger challenge for nato beyond this immediate flutter about a fourth trump near the russian front here so dave at the pentagon is going to be a money making machine according to president trump no i don't think so i think what he wants he recognizes that america has global commitments but also realizes that some of these commitments were made in the forty's and fifty's when countries like korea and germany were destroyed and very poor and now that they're doing well and oppose the united states on things that are important to us like iran policy

that perhaps they should you know be active participants in their security instead of just basking in the shield of an american umbrella i don't i think that the economic argument is always one that he likes to make because he portrays himself his public persona is that of a man who's very good with money but i don't think that those arguments go. inject themselves in a in a deterministic way into serious policy debates garrick said. ok let's agree that it might not be a permanent base in poland but certainly the impact of all of that is that things are going to change and the international order you might see bases beefed up somewhere and reduced elsewhere i mean i simply don't know we'll have to see what president trump a thinking but is there a risk that. we find ourselves in a world where things are changing so rapidly that other countries are going to be

a big start doing the same thing exactly i think good old us does it just reinforces again does notion that there's a fundamental you know question mark hanging over the strategic direction of american foreign policy security policy what american security guarantees worth under a president trump and what situation would you know trump actually come to do reassurance a defense of and. a light nation and when it might not even talk about something like a full scale russian invasion but let's say ukraine scenario where the little green men show up at this information campaign would actually be reeling to commit american troops or would you first say well you have like one point one percent of the defense budget i'm so worried it's not enough for the u.s. army to ride out and i think in all of these question marks surrounding trump's commitment to nato commitment to a liberal international order is fueling the crisis moments i think that we're

seeing international politics right now which have a destabilizing effect that's good just out of curiosity i mean do us is not the only country that has bases around the world you have britain has several bases france has several bases are they functioning in the same way do they also have the years by which their host country somehow shares the burden as president trump would say. yes i mean there britain and france have had longstanding presence of course to hear about from their colonial period and then more recently after one thousand nine hundred five where there have been cooperative arrangements with countries but not on the scale of course that the united states has had but let me go beyond that an additional factor here which complicates things further and that is on the one hand you have the uncertainty of a tromp and the uncertainty of move such as the case of a permanent base in poland on the other you really have the uncertainty of russian aggression and i think we need to be forthright here and that is that it is not the

case that there is absolutely no concern here about what should be done in central europe whether it's poland whether it's ukraine where there's the baltic states but what makes this different is is that this russian aggression is not premised on the idea that you respond with permanent bases in other words when you talk about an era of hybrid warfare where you're talking about cyber operations this information as well as conventional military operations you have to have a much more flexible military strategy link up with other agencies and focusing on a permanent base in a country doesn't actually acknowledge that changing nature of diplomacy and what you might call a sort of a graze on warfare in the twenty first century and david just the last word to you ok we're concentrating on this base in poland and the money transaction but what should we what's the bigger picture here well the bigger picture i think is the overall relations with europe and washington is looking at europe they're

calling your about on things that in past administrations have been allowed to slide so one thing that a lot when you talk about europe is the north stream pipeline that brings natural gas directly under water from russia to germany that is viewed across all administrations washington as a factor that destabilizes european solidarity against russia trump calls people out on that and so things that the washington policy elite. has kind of glided over but that does animate people in america's heartland trump raises those and he raises them in a manner that makes his partners impolite but don't mistake that for a lack of commitment to an alliance if you look at the numbers on the ground the alliance the american presidency on it's a stronger than it has been for for a long time well thank you very much we have reached the end of this program so thanks to our guests david there were us georg left and scott lucas and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website

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coming up in the next sixty minutes out of prison pakistan's former prime minister nawaz sharif is freed on bail by a judge has put his corruption sentence on hold north and south korea commit to an era of no war as both countries try to revive stalled nuclear negotiations with the u.s. with the more than five million children facing starvation an international charity warns yemen's war risks killing a generation plus. i can only say this you said. standing by his nominee the u.s. president defends brett kavanaugh who's accused of sexual assaults. and senator told a supporter as christiane a rebel group of his family's first champions league match. and the olympics brings north and south korea even closer as the two countries plan a joint bid for the twenty thirty two summit games.

hello the former pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif has been greeted by a crowd of jubilant supporters officer being freed on bail the high court ordered sharif has daughter and son in law to be released until their appeal against corruption convictions can be heard it ruled there were deficiencies in the case that saw all three jailed in july over the purchase of luxury properties in london . has more from islamabad. after the cold war digging a wash through on a special craft or the city of the hall. for him to carry his. son in law captain and also the former chief minister of the pun job and younger brother and i watched. by being out of jail however he is by no means. the political district in the name

of god will continue for some time until the final judgment in the ongoing. government on the thing that the court in the country of they have proven that. although mr nawaz sharif party had been very critical of the country and. the government information minister that it was evident that the country. free and fair time or sharmell is a pakistan political analyst he says the decision will strengthen the political aspirations of her was his daughter mary. this thing that's the decision that will strengthen b.m.i. and future because. his daughter made him the vase and his son and locked up and sub there were. the convicts in the case but in other two cases there wasn't some are not. so let's say no one even if he gets

a bail let's say in future or if he is out of the bloods let's say or if he is not many of them are probably will be out of the woods and this will strengthen be in the end politics in the future because many people see many of them as the new place of pakistan muslim league n. and this can also imbibed the sympathy board for pakistan muslim league n. would think would be pretty interesting in the future and b m a n y beginning more especially upper today's decision today's decision of the arm of high court has actually questioned the whole idea of national accountability court if that. the prison they can get actually a body strong opposition to pakistan that it can stop and this will also bring into question the very idea to publish eighteen elections because of the promise in the marjorie his daughter isn't law they were not able to big part in the election so this will also actually question the idea but in eighteen elections and in future they can come up with

a baby strong opposition to pakistan played against the north korean leader kim jong il and has offered to dismantle the country's main nuclear site for good but only if the u.s. makes concessions first chems hosting the south korean president one giant for talks they hope will push forward the peace process and revive discussions with the trumpet ministration mcbride reports from seoul. they hailed it as a new era for the korean people both in the north and the south of the peninsula they share. a commitment to a denuclearized future which was on monday when we agreed to make efforts to turn the korean peninsula into a land of. peace without nuclear weapons and nuclear threats. the agreement means north korea will abolish some of its weapons development infrastructure under international verification and go. the north has decided to permanently close the tom chang ri engine test sides and missile launches with the attendance of experts

from relevant countries. the agreement also says north korea will close the young beyond nuclear facility that's being key to its weapons development but only if the u.s. reciprocates with concessions of its own that sounds like the kind of phase denuclearization rejected by more hawkish figures in washington who demanded north korea dismantles its nuclear program unconditionally and there is still no sign of a full inventory of what weapons the north has or a timetable for when it will give them up in spite of the smiles it's far from certain south korean officials have got enough from this summit to restart talks between the north and the us does not mention weapons or fissile material other things and the same thing with delivery systems they offered to close and dismantle a launch pad at a space launch facility but they say nothing about all of their mobile launchers and their submarine launch ballistic missile program for example but this summit

has marked a new high into korean relations the military signed an agreement to defuse tensions along the heavily fortified demilitarized zone that separates the two koreas by removing guard posts and disarming soldiers who face off against each other between the blue huts of the panmunjom troops village. for what it turned into an unprecedented day had one more first install on wednesday evening moon appeared as the on the guest at the mass games at our uniquely north korean display of unity through synchronized movements that involved tens of thousands of citizens even more astounding he addressed the crowd. i had the opportunity to see the desperation and feel the urge of the north korean people to build their future i've seen the courage i've seen their determination my fellow koreans korean people are great we are strong. people we love peace and we have to

live together. don't you see this moment right here and now will be remembered beautifully and gloriously in our history for many years to come. it's another twist in this extraordinary diplomatic dance. on the headlong rush into each other's embrace of the bride al-jazeera so. well the world is being warned that yemen's war risks killing a generation with more than five million children facing famine the new numbers have come from the international charity save the children which says disruption to supplies at the red sea port of her day that could cost starvation on an unprecedented scale fightings resume there between houthi rebels and the saudi and the military coalition the u.n. says eight and a half million yemenis face starvation without aid and that number is rising as the

plunging currency puts food further out of frege at least ten thousand people have been killed since the saudi i doubt a alliance intervened to support yemen's government back in twenty fifteen. what we've seen. recent days reports from our staff on the ground in her data is that there's been escalating and fighting around the port city specially around key strategic junctions like sixteen killer ten what we're hearing from the country office is that some of our programs have had to be suspended with risks and concerns for staff safety we're also seeing. and hugely concerned about the risk to children. if the port city is temporarily closed or we see that lifeline i'm out of the city with the food and fuel supplies going to the rest of the country is cut off or if the porters temple are temporarily damaged we're seeing with our. health clinics where families are presenting with

their children is some really difficult choices that families are having to make so with that they can even afford the cost to bring their children for the fuel the bus fare to get to them to the treatment center for some of their worse children or whether they actually have to use that money to feed their kids and other children in the family and fewer children than ever are making it to school in yemen they're either too weak traumatized or poor to make it to classrooms under simmons has been following their stories from neighboring djibouti. life has taken a bad turn for mohammed al man's story he's a bright teenager and before yemen's war he dreamed of one day being a doctor but his father died at fifteen years old mohammed has swapped his education for a motorbike he uses it as a taxi trying to support his mother and finally. this is where he should

be been most solemn school alongside his close friend mahama bilel. whatever the ceremony nothing can disguise the new school year is attended by only a fraction of the number of last year. elsewhere many schools lion ruin all taken over by armed groups. half a million yemeni children are estimated to have dropped out of school mohammed friend hopes that studying will bring a better life. mohammed and i are close friends he left to support his family has eased all amanda left to come to school in fair hospitals and schools not spare in this war but we cannot afford to drop out and lose years and years of our lives. as one teenager puts his efforts into learning

the other works even longer hours finding passengers who can afford a bike taxi for. the night i have the war comes to an end and i'll be able to go back to school i hope i can live the life i once had if not better. back in school the man who used to teach him isn't so optimistic he's also struggling. i look at it you know i mean their teachers haven't been paid for months and this is our only form of income so many have lost their jobs there's unemployment and poverty in nearly every household in yemen. they sing the national anthem that's shared by old yemenis which have aside their own in a country where education like the wartime economy is dying. the principal of the school wants to put out a message to parents in yemen he's calling on them to brave harsh times and send

their children to school otherwise he says the consequences aadhaar unemployment poverty and illiteracy andrew simmons al-jazeera djibouti.