and quite a few comments on this top story on the news grades right now and one here from bryan on facebook who says they don't realize what will happen to them when the u.s. takes control talking about the opposition and its backing from washington keep those comments coming on this and other stories that we're covering on the great today connect with us on twitter just use the hash tag news great to handle at english waltz on facebook of course facebook dot com slash al-jazeera or send us a message on a telegram i passed nine seven four five a one trip a one for nine now and two other world news and russian president vladimir putin has announced his country will no longer take part in the landmark one nine hundred eighty seven nuclear treaty with the united states that's just twenty four hours after washington said it was withdrawing from the agreement the move signals a new low in relations between russia and the u.s. and has heightened concerns among european leaders about a possible new arms race to talk about with our correspondents in moscow and washington in just a moment but first here's what the russian president said area. solution.

we will do it this way our response will be symmetrical our american partners stated they will stop their participation in the treaty so we will also stop they stated that they will do research and development of arms so we will also do the same russia won't deploy new land based short range and intermediate range weapons neither in europe nor in other regions of the world unless similar american made weapons appear in those regions all our proposals in this sphere remain on the table as before doors for talks are open at the same time i am asking the foreign ministry and defense ministry not to initiate any talks on this issue let's wait until our partners open a dialogue with us let's bring in rory chalons in moscow for us rory talk us through this russian message what are they saying what are they going to do. well i think one of the things that putin stressed in the meeting that he had

earlier on with sugar and sergey lavrov was that russia didn't want to get into what he called a costly arms race now that doesn't mean that there won't be an arms race it just means i think that in the interim at least russia will try to keep this within current defense budgets because for the last five years or so military modernization programs have been responsible for siphoning away from social spending a significant amount of cash and you know in. a couple weeks ago it was revealed that for five straight years the real income of ordinary russians had fallen five straight years of falling incomes for normal people so i think the message that putin will want to send to the population is that yes we can bolster

our defenses but we're not going to be doing that with more defense cash so what that is going to mean in the in the short term i think is that we will see russia trying to on the cheap adapt current technology to fill in the gap that the i.m.f. had left so the caliber cruise missiles that have been launched into syria from russian ships those are going to be adapted to be land based as well we will also see russia try to develop a land based hypersonic missile it's already in development of various hypersonic technology at the moment and of course there is the the missile that basically the united states gave is justification for pulling out of the i n f in the first place which is a russian cruise missile which is land based already and the united states says was inside the range that was the. that was forbidden by the i.n.f. treaty five hundred to five thousand five hundred kilometers so russia has these

options that are kind of quick to roll out on the cheap and can show the worlds that it is developing new technology thank you for that challenges in moscow for us let's get the view not from washington christians alone is therefore as a christian the americans must have been expecting this reaction well certainly critics have been warning that this was the likely outcome of the united states withdrew from the treaty it was not going to bring russia into compliance but rather force them to withdraw as well and the warning coming from these critics whether it's former secretary of state colin powell or the arms control association a nonproliferation group is that this could lead to a costly and dangerous missile competition between these two countries and the united states knew that was a risk they've been threatening to do this since last year and russia had moved to their satisfaction on the issue and even now with nato backing up the united.