yvonne's percent iraqis twenty percent syrians and five percent foreign those from central asia europe america germany and other parts of the world in addition to isis atrocities in the area coalition attacks have also reportedly killed civilians the how the us led coalition always said that there are strike targeting positions yes in some cases they surely will but these positions were in heavily populated residential areas this is why dozens of innocent civilians were being killed. unicef says that these thirty two children have been killed because of violence displacement and harsh conditions in northern and eastern syria the world health organization says it's extremely concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation as more families arrive in already crowded camps aid agencies are demanding unhindered access to people in need it's clear that i still no longer controls territory but what comes next is also a cause for concern for rights groups and aid workers tens of thousands of people

in their need rehabilitation and they say lasting peace will only come if the marginalized people are given hope and opportunity. still ahead on al-jazeera we are on the front line of the battle against false news in romania and we'll look at how it's spreading through here and why some museums have been investing in digital technology to preserve. hello get a welcome back to international weather forecasts were here across iran we do expect to see some mixed weather over the next few days partly up here towards the north down towards the south though it is going to be quite wet across much of the area you can see tehran is going to be seeing a mix of rain and snow high temps are a few of nine degrees here on sunday by the time we get to monday things improve

but a lot of that messy weather makes its way over here towards east karachi by the time we get to monday evening into tuesday morning you could be seeing a passing shower as well where across the gulf those same showers could be a problem here in doha even thunderstorms could be a problem on sunday as they make its way through twenty two degrees is going to be the high with the mostly cloudy conditions and that rain and thunderstorm activity pushing through the you'll be seeing the same activity as well and by the time we get to monday better conditions but it could be a little bit cooler as those winds switch out of the north for muscat a high temperature few of twenty five degrees there well we have been seeing a lot of what weather down here across parts of south africa and that is going to continue over the next few days you know as the clouds pass into durban right there as well as into cape down we do have an air of low pressure just off the coast that and that is going to keep mostly windy conditions across much of the area so for durban mostly cloudy and rainy few a twenty seven johannesburg at twenty three degrees for you.

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but come back our top stories on al-jazeera protests for and against president nicolas maduro as government are taking place in venezuela this saturday just a few hours ago an air force general broke ranks st he's backing opposition leader one line to. the government of central african republic and fourteen armed groups have reached a peace deal was struck after weeks of talks in sudan's capital khartoum and russia's president has pulled out of a decade's old nokia missile pact following the u.s. decision to do the same that he put in says moscow will no longer initiate the sound then talks with the us and will stop working on a new song. in afghanistan the taliban says president donald trump's appears to be serious about pulling troops out of afghanistan a spokesman for the young group says such a withdrawal is the first goal of ending the war and forming what he calls an islamic system made up of all afghans by reports. it's been

described by the u.s. and the taliban as a draft agreement but for many it's a significant step forward. the u.s. is ready to pull out from afghanistan in exchange for the taliban joining a unity government and ensuring the country won't be used by groups like al qaida and icily us all voice for of. it says the deal isn't finalized yet but seems confident the taliban is willing to make concessions the armed group that was pushed from power in two thousand and one has yet to commit to a nationwide ceasefire or agree to hold direct talks with the afghan government it's the best chance for peace in the almost twenty years that this war's been going on and actually the over forty years that afghanistan has been at war with various forces but this is not going to be

a quick and easy process. the taliban has repeatedly refused to talk to the afghan government which it considers an american puppet officials in kabul dismiss any suggestion for a bigger taliban role in the country if the deal happens taliban has to come to the negotiating table with the afghan government if you want to see a peace deal because previous experiences in afghanistan unfortunately has shown that excluding the afghan government from the process has had bad repercussions and consequences a taliban spokesman says it wants a different type of government operating under islamic principles and not the current democratic system that was imposed in two thousand and one but peace in afghanistan goes beyond internal politics pakistan has an important role and will because she will in shaping any future peace deal but afghan president

a softening who has not been involved in the u.s. taliban talks question pakistan's commitment to the war carney has repeatedly accused islamabad of providing sanctuaries to taliban fighters. the key to peace in kabul requires that we have a practical principled and inclusive plan for it but the keys to war are in islamabad role pindi and quiet or. a peace deal could change everything in a understand if possible ceasefire will be followed by a power sharing settlement a new constitution and then elections a process that might create a new political reality in a country that's been at war for decades. iran has unveiled a new cruise missile marking the fortieth anniversary of the one nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution the defense minister says it has an effective range

of up to one thousand three hundred kilometers while flying at low altitude and is capable of hitting targets with quote extreme accuracy. a vigil has been held outside egypt's embassy in london for students murdered in cairo in two thousand and sixteen jewelry jenny went missing and was later found dead showing signs of torture in november italian prosecutors said they wanted to investigate five members of the gyptian security forces over the killing but they say egypt has been cooperating with their inquiry. are some football news now in contrast football champions have returned home in the past hour after winning the asian cup in the u.a.e. the players were welcomed back to doha by qatar as a mere shaft i mean being funny they beat japan three one in the final on friday tournaments was held in the united states one of four countries that are located qatar since twenty seventeen and speak to dr bari who's on doha has won a front on the cornish where there's

a parade that's expected very shortly the team supposed to be arriving where you are shortly dosa tell us about what's expected what what is happening around. well foley we've seen the roads have been cleared on this side expecting that bus carrying the champions of the asian football games to be carried through this side of the cornish where the fans have been asked to accompany them and to show their support many of those fans we spoke to earlier said they could not believe that their its national team managed to pull this off and they couldn't be happier and more proud of them one of the things that they told us was they not only were proud of the fact that they won the championship but also the way they conducted themselves in very difficult circumstances they said that the fans here wish they could have attended many of the games but sadly given the current political climate they could not were expecting the team to arrive here and take a victory lap along the corniche and greet the fans of course many of those fans

will be looking for one of the star players of the team that is as ali a twenty two year old who broke the record for most goals school. in the tournaments with nine goals he's one of the most talked about players among the fans he's much loved and they can't wait to show how much they appreciated his efforts and his and the entire team and what they've been able to achieve and this victory of course is for us a big deal head of the twenty twenty two world cup. yes definitely probably it's the first trophy to come home to qatar and many of the analysts i've spoken to they say that this is a very good sign it's an indication that qatar is actually ready for the world cup it's a little phys the games that are to be held here in twenty twenty two there's been a lot of skepticism about whether or not this country is ready to host such a big tournaments but now with this big win if it's clear that the country's

invested a lot of time and energy into their own national team in this when only solidifies their position in the world of football and on the international scale the international scene as well thank you for that procedure body life for us here in doha as qatar is winning football team prepares to greet its fans there on doha's waterfront the cornish thank you doorstop now let's head to france where the yellow vests movements protesting again in the capital paris and this time it's not just about putting pressure on the government. tear gas was used to break up the crowd in paris who were paying tribute to activists injured since the demonstrations began in november more than two thousand protesters and police have been hurt the government's defended police actions but why schools want a ban on the use of rubber bullets which are blamed for many of the injuries. elections are fast approaching for the european parliament and leaders are increasingly worried about shadowy groups battling in misinformation to skew the

results so called fake news is an especially big problem in romania which currently holds the e.u.'s presidency nauruans the reports from bucharest. the manipulation of public opinion is one of the battles of our times and it is spreading through the european union rumania is one of the new front lines at this independent media monitoring organization they troll through hours of t.v. footage from privately run news networks owned by with links to major political parties fake news they say is spreading like a virus. very wise. and this sometimes the feeling there are. personal. reasons the only media has been trying fake news through the mass protests against new laws protecting corrupt politicians are met with media claims that the demonstrators

have been paid to turn up by the billionaire george soros already hate figure in liberal countries european elections are fast approaching national elections in romania later in the year a perfect opportunity it is feared the media owning all of guards and politicians to come together to try to silence independents critical voices this radio presenter is one of remain as most respected broadcasters with half a million twitter followers and three hundred thousand on facebook yet he admits to a sort of self-censorship on social media in fear that hidden forces might have his account suspended more than that he predicts a far bigger clampdown on critical media after this year's elections just as happened in hungary i think in the very next day after mr orbán win the election the last opposition radio station simply says they exist so. i look too

hungry and see the guys want to do the same to us a lot of the real investigative journalists like paul who helped expose global corruption to the so-called panama papers the day after his website run an exposé on a high ranking politician he received a visit from the tax police based on a fake complaint from a nonexistent accountant his view is that the european union should be doing a whole lot more than it is to support people like him that this goes across borders countries themselves cannot deal with this these type of problems you know so there is a need for a new kind the law enforcement agency in order to deal with very high level cases and all of the absolutely absolutely yes while the european commission certainly knows about all this it spends most of its time and efforts on fake news originating from russia but decent journalists in bucharest who remain is current

high profile much focus minds on the democratic deficit but closer to home largely al-jazeera in bucharest in libya at least for fighters loyal to warlord highly for have to have been killed fighting broke out with another armed go purana town in the south after libyan national army seeking to expand its control in that part of the country its main stronghold is when darcy in the east and world health organization says a campaign which began two weeks ago has left fourteen dead and many more wounded. former ivory coast president on bad boy has been freed from detention by the international criminal court bad boy and one of his former aides were acquitted of atrocities last month they have been accused of initiating a wave of violence following disputed elections in two thousand and ten belgian has agreed to holds bible while prosecutors prepare an appeal. on jubilant supporters dance and chanted outside the court they say bible is in ascent and hope he will

one day return to ivory coast the home bible has been in custody at the horse since twenty. modern art museum in south korea is trying to decide how to restore one of the world's most famous video art installations it's made up of more than a thousand t.v. sets with flat screens now becoming the norm it's getting hard to find old boxy models romack bribery for some soul it's probably the best known work of south korea's best known modern artist the more the better is a tower of one thousand and three t.v. sets created in the one nine hundred eighty s. by back now in june who was a pioneer a video art until his death in two thousand and six. saw a new me it's become so essential and i believe it's an international cultural legacy that we need to preserve it not so easy with consumer technology that designed eventually to burn out and for the past year it's been switched off for

safety reasons a video of how it should look now greets visitors. it was the job of showing john a curator and friend of the artist to preserve his work. even if one of the t.v.'s wasn't working people would notice it and say the management here is terrible at the cutting edge of modern art the first video artists were working with a device that was the very embodiment of the age ok the average t.v. set only had a life expectancy of about ten years but that didn't matter as long as the world was mass producing them but now it isn't art museums around the world have been stockpiling used t.v.'s to keep aging video installations going for others the solution is in digital technology playing flat screen images inside the curved

screens of old sets so i think. it's time the op museums and experts agree on a global standard for preserving video art. chung says the artist himself embrace technology and wouldn't have minded what solutions are found. never took his art so seriously i think he would say it's not a bad idea to replace the t.v.'s with the t.v.'s of today any innovation to keep the screens flickering and not let the light go out. rob mcbride al-jazeera sold. again and fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera protests for and against president nicolas maduro as government are taking place in venezuela just a few hours ago an air force general broke ranks saying he's now backing opposition

leader one. the government of central african republic and fourteen reach a peace deal was struck out after a week of talks in sudan's capital khartoum a conflict in central african republic has uprooted more than one million people and pushed the country towards fam. russia's president has formed out of a decade's old nuclear missile pax following the u.s. decision to do the same that important says moscow will stop working on you miss sides. you should mention a few 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. their warnings of a humanitarian crisis in north eastern syria activists say more than two hundred civilians have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in the battle for talks of dairies or the yellow vests movement is protesting again in france's capital and this time it's not just about putting pressure on the government. to gas was used to break up the crowds in paris who were paying tribute to activists injured since the demonstrations began in november more than two thousand protesters and police have been hurt. cuts as football champions have returned home just salver an hour ago after winning the asian cup in the view eight these are live pictures from doha the play is well welcomed by qatar's emir shift i mean

bin hamad al funny sabi japan three one in the final of the asian cup in abu dhabi on friday. those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story starts now. first the united states now russia both walk away from a treaty that's helped prevent nuclear war for more than thirty years what will this mean for the only three does it make the world a more dangerous place this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program on dennis now a treaty that helped to keep the world safe from nuclear war appears to be falling apart the united states withdrew from the intermediate range nuclear. friday accusing russia of violating it must go has now followed suit president putin denies breaking the deal as as russia will start developing new missiles we'll introduce our guests in just a moment first let's hear from the two presidents. best solution. to 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 wants deploying 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 first of all you have to add countries obviously is old but very importantly one side has not been hearing two and we have one side hasn't so elastic that it would hear we should be the only one i hope that we're able to get everybody in a very big and beautiful and do a new treaty that would be much better well alex could tell us what the withdrawals will. the world has changed dramatically since the signing of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty or i n f in one thousand nine hundred seven designed as a confidence building measure to reduce the possibility of nuclear war the treaty

held guarantee peace between the two cold war rivals the then soviet union and the united states but eighteen years after the cold war ended nuclear missile technology has spread far and wide so who has this technology china or north korea demonstrated their ability to build increasingly sophisticated missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads further and further india and its rival pakistan have also been developing missiles that can strike their enemy with improved accuracy. the u.s. and russia believe the i.n.f. treaty has held them back from developing increasingly codes and weapons so by pulling out and with fewer constraints they could now be a new phase in the arms race and if the atmosphere of mistrust continues it could have a negative effect on other arms treaties or the new strategic arms reduction or start agreement the two for renewal in two thousand and twenty one. our lives are introduced guess now we start with powerful felgenhauer he is in

moscow he's a defensive military analyst in washington d.c. we have mark fitzpatrick who's director of the nonproliferation program at the international institute for strategic studies and m. brussels we have near hoffman from the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons or i can welcome to you or let's start with you pavel the russians have been accused by president trump by the united states for breaching this agreement what have they done wrong. russia has being basically adopting the cruise missiles it has developed for ships and submarines to be watched from land war enters from a modified disc on there were unsure which basically to begin with was capable of using as both mistake and cruise missiles that makes a lot of military and economic sense because the poor in the same r. o. s.

cruise wall range cruise missile on the land warrants are basically a truck it's tanta twenty times cheaper than on building a frigate and deploying on a frigate ryann trucks are actually easier to hide and that's also likely what the russian military were doing and though the deployment actually was not very large in numbers and could have been. officiated by the russian authorities as a response to the us deploying missile defense systems in romania and poland which russia believes are actually also first attack weapon or items that you have full range american crew all the american denied that you give me a long list of russian activity what was in contravention then all the ins if you could be brief. so it was want the american say is that these

missiles were tested for a war for a range of more over five hundred q. arbiters which they should not russia says that they did test for more than five hundred kilometers but that was for naval missiles not for land based but for wind based we yes we say we have them but they are for a shorter range but the problem with cruise missiles is that their range that burns and how much fuel you have onboard that's very hard to verify all right let's go to mark in washington who is agreeing with you on that long eventually of the russian hold where interactivity market seems like a situation of quid pro quo there doesn't it the the americans have been quibbling over this i.n.f. treaty haven't they for what five years if not more finally something maceration pulls out or announces that it's pulling out suspending its membership and then the russians follow suit so who's at fault here so i think you've characterized it very

well russia is at fault initially for testing a ground launched cruise missile that exceeded the i n f limits of the at the lower end it was over five hundred kilometers i think publics planed well the differences among the systems and united states has been trying for five years to persuade russia to come back into compliance now the trumpet ministration i think made a huge mistake in pulling out of the treaty altogether they didn't need to do that they could have kept up pressure on russia apart applied penalties in other ways and stayed in the treaty and now russia pulling out all together it's a breakdown of arms control it's a breakdown of trust between united states and russia the united states will have problems with its european allies and it will engage in a new arms race with china as well. so there's nothing good comes out of the united states withdraw or i did in brussels i mean this is a rather whiskery agreement wasn't it over thirty years old as alex

correspondent pointed out i mean the military global military landscape has dramatically altered say perhaps it itself this time it's needed a complete rebuild to anyway. well clearly we're not in a situation where we can say oh well we can do away with. your might and actual design and an arms control treaties clearly we're in a situation especially here in europe that has been felt in the last years where small confrontation and especially an uptick in military. nuclear weapons and the more you threaten nuclear weapons the higher the likelihood of course that that becomes a reality a nuclear weapons will once again be used so as as has been said there's nothing positive that comes from this development and i think the important part is not so much to you know point fingers figure out who is to blame who cheated on the treaty first i think there's claims and counterclaims both trump and putin have very low credibility on these issues they have both not made public their. detailed

allegations and the detail defenses on whether or not they breach this treaty and some from the perspective of all the other states in the world so taking a step back from just russia and just united states weapons of mass destruction nuclear weapons are something that is extremely important for all states in the world everybody stands to suffer the catastrophic consequences from any use of these weapons of mass destruction and therefore the important question is what can the rest of the world do in order to reduce the likelihood that nuclear weapons will be used again and so of course luckily we haven't been i'd also the majority of nations in the world has and twenty seventeen come together to adopt a new treaty in the united nations called the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons that of course makes nuclear weapons illegal and i was days should as fast as possible sign and ratify this treaty in order to send a clear message to the handful of nuclear weapons states that we can no longer tolerate that they are putting our lives at risk with. their pursuit of nuclear

weapons and you to deter all right let's go back to mark with that because one would imagine that the trumpet ministration is going to pay very little heed to what's come out of the u.n. general assembly no matter how many countries of had signed up to something. just quite taken by the words the donald trump uttered when he was talking about suspending u.s. participation in this treaty he talked about assembling again then in a beautiful room with many more participants i mean does it mean that he is in visiting a replacement treaty for intermediate nuclear weapons that would encompass a many more of the of the nations around the world are in possession of them well that's that's the dream and it certainly is only a dream and i'd has no no nothing that backs it up it would be an impossible really to get all the nations that have these missile systems including north korea india

pakistan and china to agree to a multilateral treaty it's just an excuse really by president trump for abandoning this treaty you know he's being advised by national security advisor john bolton to withdraw from the treaty bolton doesn't like arms control so he's not trying to build up some new treaty he's just trying to to tear down the old treaty i just have to say one thing though in response to the the good intervention by your guest in brussels it's not just president trump who has made the allegation of russian violation this started under president obama so and president obama had a great deal more credibility so i think we're on pretty solid grounds about the nature of the violation but i do agree that the way forward is to find ways to build a dialogue and arms control not to tear down agreements that have worked for so long right ok that probably most school what happens what happens in the next six months because there's a six month suspension period now before the treaty officially at becomes nolen

void does moscow go on a development a deployment spree of a certain kinds of missiles and other technology. whoa with the deployment of. longer range crews that was developed for ships putting them on ground launchers well that's technically and financially not that much of a problem something will be done i'm don't think that russia is going to rush and deploy a large numbers right now but some numbers apparently have been deported allegedly and six months they'll be we go also president putin talked about developing a new medium range ballistic missile that may be also equipped with that so-called guiding warhead or as he called it hyper sound warhead to avoid a missile defense system say deployed in europe or in the middle east that's

a bit of a new development and that brings actually this situation even into a more dangerous. higher tire because we're kind of moving into what we were in the eighty's when there were land based cruise missiles american deployed in europe and ballistic missiles pershing ones and pershing to use and a lot of russian twenties pioneer deployed in russia and these all these missiles were destroyed under i.n.f. treaty because the russians were very afraid of the american pershing two because they were very. innovative they were had maneuverable warheads a very accurate and the russian we don't ship and generals are afraid that they won't be have time to get airborne and will be killed in the beginning of the first blow and now most likely will and that's why russia agreed to destroy all those missiles to get the pershing right so now we're moving again it's not only cruise

because cruise was of course deployed on other carriers but it's also ballistic missiles with a very short time hitting target and that is bringing nuclear war much much. well sir and given all of this coming back to you in brussels and interested in the european angle the secretary general of nato against oldenburg basically welcomed the trumpet ministrations action walking away from the treaty he cited significant risks to the euro atlantic security i'm wondering how do europeans feel because when it comes to any kind of possible confrontation with russia they really are on the front line yet and saying the european perspective is really key on this issue because as you already say. the medium range missiles will only be used in europe given that the united states has the pacific ocean on one side of the atlantic ocean on the other side so there's really a problem that concerns europe being stuck in a way between russia and united states and of course nato secretary general stuart

america has been trying to put a brave face on it and trying to portray a picture of nato unity and in the face of this action by the united states but actually what happened here is that once again and after a lot of warnings from european states that they wouldn't be in favor of this at the united states has unilaterally was drawn from a control treaty and has in that sense jeopardized european security it's exactly the same thing that happened was that you know on the year where the europeans have made it abundantly clear that we once these deals to be preserved and even if russia violating the deal that we want to pursue ways was in the deal of trying to get all states to comply with the deal and instead the united states was drastic and really this is an affront to the hardcore security interests of european states and european states will have to ask themselves if was a nato they are still able to influence nuclear weapons policy of the united states

of the united states is just unilaterally setting nuclear weapons policy in the way that flies in the face of you can see could security interests and the obvious thing that european states now have to do in order to assert their own security interests. is one to declare that they will in those circumstances host any such missiles and secondly to of course ban than relying on the united states and you get up and i'm so excited let me just in the nato let me just jump in there or not get up and ask you a second question so you're saying that it is incumbent upon the european countries within nato then to oppose a tivoli resist any attempts to have new deployments of technology on their soil but what about those that are more enthusiastic there are countries within nato that are much more enthusiastic about having missile defense technology on their sets i'm thinking of poland for instance when you get that when you get that kind of consensus from european countries oh no that's absolutely out of the question and you would get

a consensus on blowing such missiles in europe i agree was you that there's a few states was a nato that would be more enthusiastic about this because of the historic experience as was russia but again it's completely the wrong approach to take to yourself to the teeth and make yourself a target for nuclear weapons in europe all right and of course russia would attack those sites first and germany italy and as a lens would also suffer the rightness of targets in poland or romania are being attacked all right there's an elephant in the room isn't there mark and that is china because china has significantly developed its stockpile of serious missiles and all the associated technology that goes with it and that is alarming to some in particular of course. u.s. strong u.s. allies in the region namely japan and south korea. where you put your finger on the issue here that china's build up of intermediate range missiles is the real reason

why president trump has withdrawn from the i.m.f. rushes by elations where the proximate cause but it's china's missiles and when trump talks about getting everybody in the room what he's really talking about is that china should. be involved in any multilateral limits and you're right that japan in particular is worried about it but japan is not ready to host any similar kind of missiles that the united states might think about deploying know that it is free from i.n.f. constraints the japanese people don't want to be a target of chinese missiles any more than the europeans want to be a target of russian missiles as your guest in brussels said south korea certainly doesn't want to either so there's no place in europe or the united states to even deployed land based missiles that it might develop at a big cost so you know the united states is pulling out of a deal without any real strategic benefit it's sending

a signal of concern about china but without any real plan to put in place any response and that's i think a big danger to this decision yesterday right impossible the level of mistrust between moscow and washington on this administration level is pretty low this isn't it we've already suggested in this program that if it continues at this level that there is a real danger that the new start treaty negotiations which are due to be resumed in twenty twenty one could be badly affected and we do face the prospect of having no control treaties in place a toll do you think this is a reality a real possibility or yes it is a possibility and actually negotiations should have been happening now in february twenty one the treaty goes the funked i mean you cannot begin then go shish and just a couple of days or

a couple weeks before it goes defunct and there's no negotiations nothing's happening it doesn't seem possible right now there will of course it depends on who wins the november. twenty american presidential elections and who's going to be there trump or someone else maybe a last ditch attempt to keep start three operational is going to happen because of all the pentagon wants that the russians actually want don't want start to go the russians were the majority opinion and moscow is always quite other cool about the eating i n f and it was officially said by putin that this is a one sided and unjust treaty about start it's different russia does not want start to go so it better but right now it seems that it could go and we would be in a free for all new career arms race like before seventy two or something like

that which is the very very dangerous absolutely and mark we may be extrapolating a little bit too thought down the line that twenty twenty one is not too far away is it we know that there's something missing when the president himself is not too keen on multilateral arrangements can we expect can we expect that the pentagon may hold sway over the white house and get something in place so that we don't have this very precarious situation that's been described by powerful. you know in a way we're grasping at straws here looking for some silver lining in this dark cloud there is exactly the potential you and pablo have suggested that the pentagon could exert some influence but not under the current lineup of personalities in the administration. you know the national security advisor john bolton has great sway in the white house he's very much behind this withdrawal from the i.m.f. he doesn't like arms control secretary of state pump goes along with him i think

that some point john bolton will wear out his welcome at the white house national security advisors don't last very long in the white house under trump nobody last very long frankly and if if if a bolton were to be replaced by by somebody more traditional seeing the kind of values of having an arms control agreement in place with russia with russia as most of the u.s. security establishment does then it's conceivable that trump could extend it he could tweak it a little bit he could call it his deal and as long as he can put his name on it and claim it that is a possibility although as i say i think we're grasping at straws all right and coming to you in brussels the welds today and in six months time is this definitely a mood a mood dangerous place that it was a year ago. oh yes definitely i mean what we're witnessing and i can only agree it was the previous speakers and washington and moscow is of course

a dismantling of the miter letter order be that on trade to be that on a better arms control agreements and john bolton certainly has never seen a treaty that couldn't be improved by a shredder so i think there's very little point in hoping that they will come together with change because of course you want a new start treaty to be extended as well but the realisation here and the says been clear even before these treaties have been tried is that of course nuclear weapons because i mean this much too important to just leave it to the big guys to just sit back and hope that the nuclear weapon states would sort it out between themselves it would be naive to believe that the nuclear weapon states will themselves come up was concrete plans or even commitments to get rid of their weapons and this is something where all of the other states of the world have to exert much much more pressure especially the nato allies who of course have a much better connection to the united states they have to be much more forceful

and in asserting their security interests and again luckily we have not just the treaties being torn apart we also have the vast majority of states in the world that have really made a very courageous efforts to make it clear to the nuclear states that we can no longer accept nuclear weapons we have the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons country and i have to sign and ratify it this is going to change the framework and the conversation in which nuclear weapons are being looked at so that they are no longer a status symbol but something to be ashamed of so i think this is the way forward nato here brussels as might a lateral capsule we should really europeans mean it when they talk about might i let you listen to tearing apart the military order the same logic should apply also to security oh right thank you very much indeed pavel felgenhauer. not fitzpatrick in washington and lee hoffman in brussels thank you all very much indeed. tackling that very complex and slightly depressing subject now if you want to see the

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in the next sixty minutes breaking ranks a general becomes venezuela's first top military man to turn on president maduro as mass protests again feel the streets will be live in caracas. the central african republic scotland's agrees to a peace deal with several armed groups after years of fighting also this hour russian president vladimir putin drops out of a nuclear missile treaty after america's decision to withdraw. and i'm peter stammered with all your sports the day off to winning the asian cup consuls football is all given a royal welcome home in doha and the celebrations on not close to finishing yet. the arab. thank you very much for joining us a high ranking venezuelan air force general has broken ranks with president nicolas

maduro he says he now recognizes opposition leader one as interim head of state and a video posted to social media general francisco esteban yet. called on members of the military to follow his lead he is the first active venezuelan general to publicly back since he proclaimed himself president last month general yanez is head of strategic planning with the air force of the air force so is still loyal to nicholas maduro and to it is this in response we could not have a. expected less from the traitor division general francisco esteban rodriguez nephew of general yanis mendez who by the way is being investigated by the controller general for corruption has always never traitors meanwhile there's a mass demonstration right now in caracas called by the opposition leader. tens of thousands of anti-government protesters are demanding nicolas maduro his

resignation and is also a huge rival protest in support of the president let's bring in latin america at its end to see a new man who is in caracas for as lucy a tell us about what's been happening in these last few hours. while i'm at the one corner a small corner where this demonstration that began three or four hours ago is still taking place behind me. carnival atmosphere that the demonstration is more or less ending now on another part of me president. i'm going to be going. i need let me on the anniversary of the hour. this has been and i'm normal demonstration the people here are feeling very a bold and very very optimistic that that government time in office is not the

end particularly after hearing the news about the defection of the general that you mentioned. given them the feeling that you are mortars may very well all over. and i want to go actually opponent. of the armed forces here. as government so a lot of people have come out. this market was meant to arrive. me on the european union tried to get all of europe on board in recognizing. interim president well i'm area. see if i was going to ask you you know how much of a boost a defection of this general is for one guy doe and what what the opposition leaders next move is going to be ma'am. ma'am i'm going to have to ask you to repeat that i'm having. it is folly. and i was asking you.

what one guy does next move is likely to be after this defection from the general. exactly well he has been appealing. forces to defect to come over to the side. of freedom from the people i've been in the fire on this has been his message over and over again want to have a little has been constantly showing on an army barracks and making hard human interactions i've been trying to show the contrary that there is unity in the on course this for him but why go is a big victory because it means that his message is being heard the big question now though is whether those high ranking military officers who have command of the troops unlike janja just defected will will actually do that because that is going to be seen if that's the point or not for the survival. what about the role of the

international community right now we've seen certain countries of course like the united states backing. others sorry backing one why do others like china and russia backing maduro where is the momentum right now. when you look at the international support. the most important quad right now is what's going to really having an impact r.v. incredibly harsh economic sanctions that have been imposed by the company ministration on british rail and on the government basically cutting off its axis of money the money from oil revenue from gold and that is going to be key and we're expecting to feel that all over the country within the next coming days people are already starting to hoard up on petrol of gasoline right that's going to run out very very and so that that is that if that happens that will be a shift that will mean that this momentum will keep growing we are waiting for the european union back they why don't the government the interim government by

tomorrow at midnight president nicolas. and he's going all green and international connections that you have already rejected but europe i'm like the united states is not willing to impose blanket sanctions. on key members of the administration so there is a difference there but you can really see it what united states taking the lead here in really making my goodness gracious feel the pinch and the pressure thank you for that new see a new man the latin american edited reporting there live from caracas in venezuela in other world news after more than a week of talks the government of central african republic and fourteen on groups have reached a peace deal the agreement was struck in sudan's capital khartoum the conflict has uprooted more than one million people and pushed the country towards famine and there's rarely been a moment of peace since the fighting began an alliance of muslim rebels known as

the seneca overthrew present government in twenty thirteen a few months later rebel leader michel djotodia whistle on an as in during president but he was forced to resign after fighting between the celica and christian scientists known as the antibiotic that continued the un sent a peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces already there since then cease fires have been signed in violated and all sides have been accused of war crimes. saying with africa suicide car bomb exploded outside on a field in military base in somalia at least four ethiopian soldiers were killed. in the town of hadera in southern somalia islam is. the armed group has claimed responsibility for the assault and has given a higher death toll from neighboring nairobi kenya. the talk happened in the town of bottom of the region seldom somalia al-shabaab already claimed

responsibility for the of talk saying they were targeting an ethiopian peacekeeper base but the attack actually hoppin at the checkpoint not far away from the ethiopian peacekeepers base eyewitnesses spoke of a dusty minibus full of vegetables speeding towards the checkpoint forcing the ethiopian soldiers manning it to fire the minibus which did not stop until it exploded al-shabaab fighters in the past couple of months stepped up their attacks inside somalia and also outside they've cut it out attacks against somali national army bases they're also cut out on a toc last month in kenya in which they killed twenty one people but they've also been on the receiving end of u.s. forces who've been cutting out asked strikes against them inside somalia as they u.s. forces said that killed twenty two fighters in hit on

a region of southern somalia as well just two weeks ago they killed in a master like fifty two fighters who had just cut it out on a hike on a somali national army base which is also overrun and have looted weapons from all these attacks. being cut out by al shabaab to prove that despite losing so much of the up on strongholds there still a force that can be able to carry out attacks that can cause damage 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 as this twenty four hours after the u.s. said it was withdrawing from the agreement and move signals a new low in relations between russia and the u.s. chalons reports from moscow. vladimir putin held a meeting with his foreign and defense ministers on saturday shown on national t.v. and he explained what russia would do now that the united states has pulled out of

the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty by stupid 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 he also said russia would not get into a costly arms race with the west that doesn't mean that russia won't pile into new weapons development just that initially at least it will try to do so with an existing defense budget years of military modernization have siphoned money away from social spending and with the real incomes of russians for willing for five straight years now more defense spending is unlikely to help me putin's falling popularity defense minister sergei showing who recommends a land based version of the caliber cruise missiles russian ships have launched

against targets in syria also a land based medium range hypersonic missile the new frontier in missile technology and there's the land based cruise missile russia already has according to the us this has a range that broke the terms of the i.n.f. treaty and was the reason washington gave for pulling out of the agreement there will be more briefings with and we're going to travel to military sites and factories where they produce these weapons to scare the europeans and the world public opinion that they should come to terms with russia should make deals with russia not ignore russia because russia has terrible things putin says the door is open for new disarmament talks but he's made clear that russia will not cause the u.s. on this if there are to be any new arms treaties which we moscow and washington putin says it's washington that must break the ice will reach allan's down to zero in moscow.