a russian withdrawal from the treaty was a distinct possibility when the administration announced it was stepping away from the deal but u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o said that the united states could no longer be restricted by a treaty that russia wasn't following the administration's concern is not just russia however they're worried about china which is not a party to the treaty and was not a military power when it was signed in the one nine hundred eighty s. but has since then deploying similar missiles to those that are restricted under the agreement throughout asia and the united states feels limited and how it can respond to what it sees as a threat president trump a suggested that he be open to renegotiating the treaty but if he was hoping to get china involved the chinese foreign ministry shut down that idea saying it was opposed to the u.s. withdrawal from this important treaty and that the country should continue to solidify it with russia and not expand it to other countries so the united states says now that it's exploring other military responses and options to the situation

they have not announced any plans to deploy missile senior administration officials have said that new missile deployments are not something they see happening in the near future russia has promised to respond in kind if the united states were to do something like that which is exactly why critics of the united states have decried this move saying that it could ignite a new arms race tom nichols is professor of national security affairs at the u.s. naval war college he says the american withdrawal highlights how confused the trumpet administration's policy is. well the russians now have the ability to look like the gracious and magnanimous party the americans are the ones that flipped over the table and walked away and i want to be clear about something let's be clear about two things first i don't represent the us government and its discussion but the other thing to be clear about is that the russians were cheating i mean there's no doubt about it the russians were in breach of the i.n.f.

treaty and i think it was a provocation to first to menace the europeans and to see if they could bait the americans in this simply just walking away from this whole situation now the russians can afford to look like they're being diplomatic and magnanimous and leaving the door open for further discussion so i'm sure i think it's possible they'd be happy to talk because one of the course skill sets of russian diplomacy is long dilatory diplomatic engagements that don't go anywhere and we've just pushed that horizon further out by dumping the treaty instead of trying to rescue one that still in effect. all right still ahead on the edges in the tens of thousands of civilians flee violence in northern syria the u.n. says they must be given safe passage romania's press freedom and human rights record are in the spotlight as it takes over the e.u. presidency.

get a welcome back to international weather forecast well for china not looking too bad over the next few days we do have one front that is making its way down here towards the south and that's really going to affect parts of taiwan or over the next few days in terms of the rain temperatures are expected to come down first of all started here on sunday winds are coming out of the south that is why we have twenty nine degrees but as we go towards monday there is that front there is the rain in the temperatures dropping about nine degrees to about twenty degrees for taipei down towards hong kong though not looking too bad not really being affected and we do expect to see attempts there of about twenty five degrees well for the philippines we are going to be seeing some heavy rain down here towards a cell known as the clouds on the satellite image but up here towards the north mostly cloudy conditions few we don't expect to see too much in terms of rain for manila attempts are there of thirty is going to be a rainy day if you add twenty nine to greece and the rain is going to start to ease

as we go towards monday but carter the temperatures are coming up and the rain is coming in as we begin the week there here across much of southern india though it is going to be very cloudy for many locations sri lanka though the rain is going to be on the increase a few over the next few days so colombo really not looking too bad here on sunday but as we go towards monday that is when the heavier rain comes into play tempers dropped to about thirty of total kyra twenty eight. sponsors. faced with growing financial burdens i have to separate money for student loan. this chase credit card leads me twenty nine dollars to thirty one cents. i don't have a husband left me a pension my future scares me because i don't want to struggle as the dream of retirement fades away. to something that could be the one. zero.

again you're watching i just you know reminder of up top stories tens of thousands of people rallying in venezuela for and against the government. opposition leader again called on the military to switch sides just after an air force general became the highest ranking military defect. a peace deal has been recently tweenies central african republic government and more than a dozen armed groups greenman was struck after a week of talks in sudan's capital khartoum. russia says it is withdrawing from the intermediate range nuclear forces the day after the u.s.

said it will stop observing the arms control act washington is accusing moscow of violating. other battle to remove i saw from one of its last pockets of northern syria has displaced tens of thousands of people us back forces have been fighting the armed groups there is sought u.n. refugee agency is calling for a transit site for civilians fleeing to a whole camp accounts population has tripled in the past two months or solving javid has more now from gaziantep on turkey's border with syria. for the last eight weeks kurdish fighters have been battling mostly one of the armed groups last pockets in northeast syria they are confident that most areas are now under their control individual problems activists say more than two hundred people have been killed in the fighting shelling and airstrikes by u.s. led coalition forces.

all part. writing to respect their obligation and. international humanitarian. so really in. many families had to leave on foot the syrian red crescent says more than twenty four thousand people have been displaced in a matter of weeks. it's a lot riskier at night but more keep arriving to nearby camps but we were besieged and because we're so hungry and tired for two days we had no sleep and no food for fifteen days all that was available was grass leaves and bark from trees there was a humanitarian crisis brewing in the remote desert areas under rice and a lack of food made worse by a shortage of medicines and doctors in the last few days dozens of isis fighters have surrendered some civilian say they had stopped them from leaving and the mostly kurdish forces are concerned that i still fighters and their families may

have fled among the civilians. seventy five percent of them were working with seventy five 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 u.s. led coalition always said that their air strike targets i saw positions yes in some cases the surely 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 ice is no longer controlled territory but what comes

next is also a cause for concern for rights groups and aid workers tens of thousands of people in their rehabilitation and they say lasting peace will only come if the marginalized people are given hope and opportunity. an apartment building has collapsed in the syrian city of aleppo killing eleven people including four children the five story block had already been damaged during the war one child was pulled alive from the rubble by rescue teams many of the buildings being used in the city are on the brink of collapse a vigil has been held outside egypt's embassy in london for an italian student murdered in cairo in two thousand and sixteen julio regina who went missing and was later found dead is showing signs of torture in november talian prosecutors said they wanted to investigate five members of the egyptian security services over the

killing but they say egypt has not been cooperating with their inquiry the barber has more from outside the egyptian embassy in london this event was called by different groups of amnesty international but it's also been attended by personal friends and former colleagues of julio ritually and in their speeches they've not only called for the egyptian authorities to fully cooperate in an investigation into his killing but they've mentioned what they call all the other julio's they've are highlighted the fact that hundreds of people have been either incarcerated in egypt or simply disappeared in recent years people like journalists for example they've said simply for doing their job as they say julio was doing there are clearly pressures on the italian side pressures to sweep the son of the carpet as well as put it out into the open and our task as you seem to national friends of julio here and everybody concerned with basic freedoms is to make sure that it's

the inquiry the impartial investigation and the evidence that wins out in the end over the attempts to cover this up. well last november italian prosecutors named five members of egypt's security services who they said were officially subject to investigation but so far there's been virtually no reaction from the egyptian government and these activists clearly want pressure to be put by it's really only egypt to start cooperating are the number of dead from a dam collapse in south eastern brazil has risen to more than one hundred twenty new footage has been released of the moment it burst the disaster sent a wave of sludge and mud through a mining area in the state of minas gerais ice a week on hundreds are still missing the mining waste is now moving towards a major river and may contaminate water supplies elections for the european

parliament are just three months away and e.u. leaders are increasingly worried about groups distributing misinformation to skew the results the u.s. presidency is currently held by remaining aware so-called fake news is a big problem lawrence lee reports from bucharest. the manipulation of public opinion is one of the battles of our times and it is spreading through the european union remain here 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 very poor. and there's sometimes the feeling there are. personal.

feeling in 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 a 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 year's 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 autobahn win the election

the last opposition radio station simply says they exist so. i look to hungary and see these guys want to do the same to us. and what 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 you and the law enforcement agency in order to deal with very high level cases and all the journalists at the center absolutely absolutely yeah

yeah well 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 remain is current high profile much focus minds on the democratic deficit but closer to home largely al-jazeera in bucharest a french security forces have broken up a demonstration in paris denouncing police violence. it was the twelve consecutive saturday of protests by the so-called yellow vest movement against the government or the two thousand people including police have been injured since demonstrations began in a van back on friday france's top court threw out a bid to ban the use of rubber bullets which have blamed for many of the injuries are cyprus is being warned by the e.u. to stop selling passports and visas to wealthy africans the block refers to the

practice as giving golden passports to europe especially for rich and influential russians they would say to reports from lim arsehole. the hills above limits all are filled not for the sound of music. but the sound of construction the building boom is being fueled by russians and the sea front of cypresses second biggest city is being transformed with luxury high rise flats. it's not just the sunshine that's drawing them here the government has earned more than five billion dollars from selling cypriot passports so far and with them comes entry into the european union. the russian community is now estimated as eighty thousand strong and even has its own radio station the russian wave it was formed by a businessman from the urals but he's not impressed with the new wave of the guards

young. about seventy percent of these people who get the gold in fast boards don't live in. a community here a single day can change everything another russian businessman set up this computer wargaming company it has millions of users worldwide the russians already have their own super markets here now he's about to lead their own political party so most people just buy. real estate from. europe something zeus and queens of prosper. i do not support. the marina in limb a soul is filling fast with the luxury yachts of the oligarchs but there will always be room for more definitely yes i would say that russian oligarchs are always welcome to cyprus. for some time what is that activity diction for our

passports and. i believe will help until we can see the cyprus once again the e.u. commission is warning that such golden passports will allow organized crime gangs to infiltrate the block and that could cause problems with tax evasion money laundering and corruption and russian businessman already well established in cyprus see it as a threat to their own interests you know mostly people living in these floats it's going to be a week ago stone towards the sun may be coming down though on the days of the golden passport because of pressure from both the e.u. commission and the united states that threatened catastrophic sanctions on any bank involved in money laundering. david chaytor al-jazeera the missile. this is as us going to round up now off top stories tens of thousands of people

have been rallying in venezuela for and against the government of nicolas maduro opposition leader who again called on the military to switch sides just after an air force general became the highest ranking military defector siegelman that's the india i thought of was you know use our hand remains outstretched to all government workers like the air force general who today took advantage of the amnesty law and put it into effect but we don't expect the armed forces to just make statements we don't expect just that we expect that they will stand up forcefully and powerfully and mouse respecting the constitution and saying that they accept a minute tarion aid and they are on the side of venezuela or the government of central african republic has struck a peace deal with fourteen armed groups the agreement was reached after a week of talks in sudan's capital hard to it is hoped the deal will end five years of violence between muslim rebels and christian fighters which is up rooted more than a million people belgium has agreed to take in former ivory coast president long

bug both after his acquittal by the international criminal court he was charged with crimes against humanity after violence erupted following the disputed twenty ten elections three thousand people died and more than five hundred thousand with displaced russia says it is withdrawing from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty a day after the u.s. said it would stop observing the arms control pact washington is accusing moscow of violating the agreement the move has prompted fears of a new arms race. french security forces have broken up a demonstration in palestinian police violence it was the twelfth consecutive saturday of protests by the so-called yellow vests movement against the government more than two thousand people including police have been injured since demonstrations began in november an apartment building has collapsed in the syrian city of aleppo killing eleven people including four children five storey block

a ready been damaged during the war one child was pulled alive from the rubble by rescue teams many other buildings used in the city are on the brink of collapse those are the headlines inside stories next. 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 doesn't make the world a more dangerous place this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program 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 forces trees you'll be friday accusing russia of violating it has now followed suit president putin denies breaking the deal says russia will start developing new missiles we'll introduce our guests in just a moment let's hear from the two presidents. 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 it's old but very importantly one side has not been adhering to it we have but one side has it so unless they get it would here 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. what the withdrawals will mean. 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

helped guarantee peace between the two cold war rivals the van 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 have 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 we 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 potent 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 powell felgenhauer he is in moscow

he's a defense and military analyst in washington d.c. we have mark fitzpatrick is director of the nonproliferation program at the international institute for strategic studies and m. brussels we have leo hoffman from the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons or i can welcome to your let's start with the powerful the russians have been accused by president trump by the united states for breaching this agreement what have they done. 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 rhyme 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 you have war ranger american crew all the american denied that you give me a long list of russian activity what was in contravention then of the i think he could be briefed. so it was like 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 loan eventually of the russian hold where and activity mark it seems like the 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 the ballot or or might an 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 these 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 donald trump uttered when he was talking about suspending u.s. participation in this treaty he talked about assembling again in ibiza for 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 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 not

lymphoid 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 the 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 does 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 persian lions 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 he interested in the european angle the secretary general of nato against altenburg basically welcomed the trumpet ministrations action walking away from the treaty he cited significant risks to 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 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 stolen

or has been trying to put a brave face on it and trying to you know 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 the united states has unilaterally was drawn from a control treaty and has in that sense jumper die stupid 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 want 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 in 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 got 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 deploying 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 that's a completely the wrong approach to take to yourself as a tease and make yourself a target for nuclear weapons in europe all right and of course russia would attack those sites first and germany italy as a lens would also suffer the right 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 has build up of intermediate range missiles is the real

reason why president trump has withdrawn from the i n f russia's violations were the proximate cause but it's china's missiles and when tom 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 be even deployed land based missiles that it might develop at a big cost so you know the isis 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 the kind of 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 before seventy two or something

riot which is the very very dangerous absolutely and mark we may be extrapolating a little bit too far down the line that twenty twenty one is not too far away is it we know that this hundred minutes of 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 at 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 weald today and in six months time is this definitely a mood move 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 might i draw the be that on trade to be that on about other 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 with 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 the 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 is a mighty 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

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industrialization center or oh i see a largest social service agency carpentry machinery all mechanics type this started building a home for low income myself thoroughly cordon it off and i was always security over the vendors coming in order to supply them and that's what bev worked at which she was a case manager and i had caseload of maybe three four hundred made sure that they went did it trying to program authorized child care words and it was very fulfilling. when we were under. it hurt a lot of people it hurt the community. hurt poor he. hurt her me.

percy now works the night shift at a suburban mall contracted through a temp agency right now where i'm working at. cream i just clean clean. and they need technical people cleaning technician if you want to call it i'm a cleaner. so or is. just the way. you gotta do something try to keep your head above water. that's moved. the boys feet often around forty five. i was about fifty four. not up their income has been cut in half the couple is having trouble with their medical bills their mortgage and other expenses and percy doubts he can retire

anytime soon. a walk here those one of the industrial capitals now the big paying jobs are gone they're gone. and no one here today just ninety minutes with a one hundred thirty three year old scripts brewing company to go out of business companies like alice thomas have had to lay off thousands of workers unemployment is thirteen point four percent in milwaukee the highest it's been since world war two. the economy's up so we're having to deal with the consequences of success and a conscientious jury has really believed there seems to be this divide between the techie community and everybody else whether they're going to get people with middle and low incomes meaning hundred ninety nine thousand a year can't afford to keep up with the rising cost of housing and the average

price of a single family home in silicon valley topped one hundred million dollars demonstrators blame tech companies for driving up rents living near. the who is was. put on the. roof of the. who said it all of this is going on of people that. helped him kennedy and diana gonzalez have been living in a shared garage inside this trailer park one of the last bits of affordable housing in silicon valley now they must move because the former tenant is returning and they need more space for their growing family. austin and. then who is going to. look at us only for media.