and asked her to g, starting 1st of july 221. i'll just say english se across europe will only be available on full 51241828000784 further information. visit our website. ah, this is al jazeera ah, the time is 1500 hours gmc on come all santa maria. welcome to the news, our from l. just be presenting a united front nato leaders temp this sounds on both china and russia and promised to talk of climate change for the 1st time. also in the news, a new face of israeli public, natalie bennett, leading a coalition of h parties and it's already confronting its 1st test. england is expected to keep

restrictions in place after an increase in cove at 900 cases caused by the very 1st thing in india. and china is dismissing reports of a radiation leak hit one of its nuclear power plants. but there are some warnings of an imminent threat. i'm trying to get go with this for denmark. christian ericsson, thanks well wishes and his 1st public message since suffering a cardiac arrest on the pitch. and scotland get a reality check on their return to a major men tournament for the 1st time in 23 years. ah, so it is the 1st nato leaders summit attended by us president joe biden and members are presenting a united front, particularly on china. the alliance is expected to issue a joint communicate labeling beijing a systemic challenge. ladies are also discussing plenty of other issues,

including how to improve the nato alliance and how to ease tensions among its own members. russia remains a huge security issue. nato's chief is had relations with the kremlin and out the lowest point since the cold war. joe biden will also be meeting with this particular president, which type of a separate meeting they having 1st face to face. they've had since the u. s. president took office on the agenda, the strained relations between those allies, and there is little hope for a break through them. but this is an interesting one. for the 1st time, nato says it has agreed on an action plan to help mitigate climate change. usually it's brief. so let's go to natasha butler at the 9 summit in brussels and apologies . natasha if we have to interrupt you at any point because you install some book is due to speak though is a little delayed. at the moment, so much on the agenda. barts china right at the top. yes, that's right. again, thought back as you point out,

the nato head is due to speak. we actually just saw him walk behind us and go into the room where he will be giving his briefing his statement. so i'm sure we will hear from him very soon. indeed. what leaders have been locked in discussion over the past few hours in the mood here has been pretty positive. joe biden, signaling a return of the us to more risk predictable relationship between washington, the nato. after the donald trump, here's the former us presence, of course, openly hostile tomato, over those years, even threatening to pull united states out of the lines at one point. well, leaders really focused on a number of topics with jewel from afghanistan of the military climate change. as you say, also a very important topic, many leaders here on the agenda, but the real focus has been on the 2 main foreign policy challenges. if you like china and russia, joe biden very adamant that china should be seen as

a strategic and economic challenge. he wants nato allies to support the us in a push for a much tougher position on china. and it sounds like he might've got his request and say russia, a lot of discussions on russia particularly 2 days before a meeting, highly anticipated between vitamin puting, the russian leader and joe, by jim they will be discussing many issues. tensions have been particularly strain between those 2. let's taking this is joe biden. this is when he arrived at the summit a bit earlier today. we have new challenges and we have russia that is not acting in a way that is consistent with what we had hoped and as well as china. and i must say that we had as plenty this a number of my colleagues, our colleagues who were in the g 7 have stepped up as well in terms of the need for to be created for nation. and we want to make it

clear. nato is critically important for us to interest in and of itself. if there weren't when we'd have to invent. natasha. what about some other issues or may not look at nato. it's supposed to be a family, but they know families always have internal disagreements. don't they? things like turkey from the yeah, not a disagreement. of course, you'd expect when there are so many different leaders coming together. but we have seen this meeting between the french president and the turkish president to leaders that have been locked in a war of words in recent years. really not saying i to why accusing each other, for example, of fueling and stability in syria and in libya. a mental macro thing to turkeys, actions with completely incompatible with nato values. we thought that for example,

in the eastern mediterranean, with his decision to buy a russian defense assistant has to be said. the turkey is being seen like that by, by many allies, not just by frauds as a country. that is a member state, a member of this alliance. it doesn't always act like an ally, and that is why we'll also hear a little bit more hopefully from joe biden, because keith is also meeting with the turkish president relations between washington and anchor very frosty. recently, particularly with the joe biden administration, joe biden. not even cooling, i had one for 3 months into his presidency, really giving him the cold shoulder and then add one particularly upset is the fact that joe biden decided to cool the mass killings of armenians in world war one, genocide anchor absolutely furious about that. so of course these 2 lead will have a lot to talk about. ok. natasha butler in brussels. thank you for that's just a waiting to hear from you in stoughton,

but hopefully quite soon may what russian president vladimir putin has told us tv network. he is open to a possible prison, a swap with the united states. he meets president joe biden in geneva, on wednesday after the summons to former us marines, the current imprisoned in russia. one of them is serving 16 years for espionage. the highest profile russian prisoner in the us is victor boat. he is a russian arms trafficker once applied arms to war, torn countries on to the knees. and israel's new government is getting down to work a day after parliament approved and new collision by the narrowest of margins. prime minister natalie bennett has presented his candidate and sat down for a formal photo opportunity with the president. the 8 party coalition ended benjamin netanyahu. the 12 year run as prime minister harry faucet in west jerusalem, he reported on this so long and you've always had to say prime minister netanyahu. this is the real change it is for us

israelis, for benjamin netanyahu as well. and he certainly didn't go quietly on sunday. he's maintained that posture and that volume. during the course of monday, his 1st full day as opposition leader. he convened the various members of his right wing block, his new opposition coalition, inside the israeli parliament, the connecticut called for discipline from them that they should meet every monday at this time with one aim, which was to get rid of this new government. one that he called a fraudulent government as soon as possible. so that is the very large obstacle, one of many that it'll have to confront as it tries to hold itself together and govern this country. israel's new government is signed and sealed, but can the so called change block deliver on its promises of stability and sanity of change from the dysfunction of the last 2 years. in the 1st instance, that task force primarily to the new prime minister natalie bennett. this was him

last week, appealing to his predecessor benjamin netanyahu. the son heard them denial, and she let go at the country. move on. people are allowed to ward for the establishment of a government. even if it is not you who is heading into a government that is 10 degrees to the right of the current one by the way, music to the ears of bennett, loyalists like jeremy salton. but how can such promises fit a coalition that extends from hard right to far left? we can't go to a 5th election. we can't go ahead and continue the situation where we're not making any decisions in this country. and you know what, there are plenty of things that all of the 8 parties do agree upon. if we can stick to that and only do with that, and i'm very cautiously optimistic that we're going to be able to do that. i think this might go down is actually one of the longest governments in israel's history. that would mean not dealing with the issue of the palestinians or continued settlement expansion in the occupied west bank. bennett is an avowed opponent of a palestinian state and a former leader of the main settler. yes,

council. the current occupant of that row says he's been given guarantees that settlement building will continue on israel palestine. expectations alone that the self styled managerial government will do anything beyond managing the status quo. and that means continued occupation continued settlement construction, continued diminished prospects of a 2 state solution. the coalition says its focus will be on the domestic israeli agenda. but that does include a landmark moment for israeli politics evidenced by the presence of months or a bus in this now famous photo of the coalition deal being done in return to facilitating this government. a buses united arab list. once funding for neglected palestinian is ready town's policies to end the gun crime that is so afflicted. an amnesty on thousands of homes built without permits. it was you for now centrist? yes, t lead a guy. lockheed will be foreign minister taking over the top job from bennett in 2023. if the government last at long,

the success of forming this coalition is in his name. and while many people think that the government won't last its full term of 4 years, as you said, if it, if it doesn't, he goes away. having got rid of netanyahu, the primary goal having created a new government. but nothing yahoo remains the very active head of a strong right wing opposition that will try every trick to bring down this new government for natalie bennett attack last week by netanyahu's ultra orthodox eyes as wicked, evil, and a danger to the state. job one is to prove that israel can indeed manage without the man who for so long sold himself as it's essential leader. and so there are short term and long term issues for this government to start confronting it is already doing so. the new foreign minister, alternate prime minister. yeah. lockheed gave a speech to his foreign ministry talking about the need among other things to repair relationships with the jewish diaspora in the united states on the

democratic party. the in particular the policy of course of joe biden. there was some pretty major obstacles presented in that relationship by netanyahu on his way out of the door on sunday saying that bennett wouldn't be able to stand up to biden on the issue of iran, really criticizing by an extremely harsh terms in terms of his policy towards the nuclear deal and towards iran. as for bennett, he's got a short term problem to deal with. again, left to him by the prime minister as was up until yesterday. nothing yahoo really reviving the idea of this far right? religious nationalist, march flag waving much through the occupied part of jerusalem occupied east through some potentially getting close to the old city and the muslim quarter. there is a security meeting about that. do to take place and make some kind of conclusion this monday evening. again, if that goes ahead in the way that it's organized is one that could be another major security concern if he prevents it from going ahead. bennett,

then he gets attacked from his right again to giving into those security concerns and giving into terrorism is the narrative, has put it so far. so a big problem for him to do with on his 1st evening as prime minister, part of the job isn't at our full sit in west jerusalem. thank you. we are 12, almost 13 minutes pop the news out. here's what's coming up. have covered 19 restrictions. are extended in malaysia, we'll hear how it's striving more people to rely on food and also a skin problem for shocks. how rising fee temperatures could be to blame and water racket literally water racket. we will show you how the french open champion. no bad joke of it made this young band de at it's like that just sport with joe a little later. now people in england are waiting to hear. the final state of lockdown will be

lifted next week as planned or delayed by as much as 4 weeks. british media reporting that the government is due to make the announcement in the coming hours. there has been a surge of cases linked to the delta vary and that's known that was the one 1st detected in india. around half the u. k. population has been fully vaccinated. poll brandon is with us now outside a testing center in kingston. in england, there has been a rise in cases, their pool and, and that's the, that's it, isn't it be in the fact that they have been cases going up. the data shows that on the government county that well, yes, i'm in the base, it can be interpreted in many different ways, but some of the things that the government contract, nor is the fact that the infection rate has escalated an accelerated markedly in recent weeks. now we're here in kingston because this is one of more than 20 areas up into the u. k. where search testing is now taking place because of a localized pockets. i'm sorry, i have to interrupt to the nate her chief stolen,

but the got the news conference we've been waiting for. we'll come back to you later on from mr. johnson said it was like the 1st day back at school, seeing all your old friends again, and that was really the atmosphere in the room. today, we opened a new chapter for our alliance. we addressed key issues for security and to far reaching decisions. we heard a strong message from president biden on america's commitment to nato, on an equally strong commitment from alder allies in return. only there's agree into that in an age of global competition, europe a north america must stand strong together in nato to defend our values on our interests. especially at the time when all put a tarion regimes like russia on final challenge. the rules spaced in national order

allies the welcome to today's consultations with preston biden. head of his meeting with president put in geneva. our relationship with russia is at its lowest point since the cold war. and most goes aggressive actions are affected to our security. nato remains committed to try to do a truck approach of the fence and dialogue will keep over the fences strong while remaining ready to talk to make our positions clear. avoid misunderstanding on prevent escalation. we fully support the decision to extend the new star to treat them on. we will welcome news statistic talks on future arms control with the continued coordination here at nato. we stand in solid,

dotted with our valued partners, ukraine, georgia, and we will continue to support the reforms, bringing them closer to nato. at the summit today, we addressed final. there is a strong convergence of use among allies. based on our interests, we see opportunities to engage on issues such as arms control on climate change. but china's growing influence on international policies for sense challenges to alliance security. leaders agreed that we need to address such challenges together as the lions. and that we need to engage with china to defend our security interests. we are concerned by china score ship policies, which is fine in contrast to developmental values,

enshrined in the washington treaty. china is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal with more warheads and a larger number of sophisticated, sophisticated delivery systems. it is opaque in implementing its minutes or more than its ation. it is cooperating militarily with russia, including through exercises in the you to your atlantic area. we all sort remain concerned about china's use of this information. nato leaders cold on final to up all it's in national commitments and to act responsibly in the national system, including in space, cyber and maritime domains, in keeping with his role as a major power. today leaders agreed our ambitious

natal 2030 agenda to ensure the alliance comes face the challenges and sets of today and tomorrow. we took concrete decisions in 8 she areas. first we agreed on hans nato as the chance atlantic forum for consultations and joint action on all matters related to our security. and we agreed to strengthen and broaden our political consultation on coordination. second, we agreed to re enforce our turns on the fence by strengthening nate to us the framework for the fence of the unit plants area and re committing to the defense industrial stage we made in 2014 3rd. we agreed to strengthen the resilience, our societies, with a new resilience commitment by nato leaders. we will develop nate, the wide resilience objectives on concrete national goals to safeguard our

critical infrastructure forth. we will sharpen our technological edge. allies have agreed to north of the fence innovation accelerated for the north atlantic or biannual, working with start ups in the stream on universities. this and that will promote trans atlantic corporation and help avoid gaps among allies. allies also agreed to establish a nato innovation fund to invest in startups, working on emerging and disruptive technologist 5th. we will step up our work to uphold the rule space. been national order to this and we will strengths no partnerships with the asia pacific with australia, japan. and you see ellen and the republic of korea and seek new relationships with

congress across latin america, africa, and asia. we are also committed to the further deepening or corporation with the european union 6 where we'll substantially step up training and capacity building for partners from ukraine and georgia to iraq and jordan. 7th leaders agreed that for the 1st time addressing the security impact, the final change will be unimportant task for nathan. this will include regular assessments of the impact of climate change on our installations missions and older activities. in the great thing, climate change in direction isis. the fence planning and procurement and developing a mythology for assessing greenhouse gas emissions from military activities.

i am pleased to announce that all our laws made a commitment to significantly reduce military emissions. we also agreed to set concrete targets for nato to contribute to the goal of a net 0 emissions by 2050. also want to factor promises just into door and canada for offering to host and you need to center excellence on climate and security. finally, we agreed to develop nate, the next strategic concept in time for our summit in 2020, to re affirming our values. and they're fixing the significant changes in our security environment. over the past decade. the need to $10.00 to $30.00 agenda sets a higher level of addition, and it provides a clear direction for the future of the patient. of our lines are agreed that

this decisions must be underpinned by the right resources through national defense expenditure. and nathan common funding. this will be the 7th consecutive year of growing defense spending across european allies and canada with over $260000000000.00 us those exxon on the fence. incentive. 14 eyes are also investing in new capital at this and contributing to nato missions and operations. all of this means farrah burden sharing across the lines on who must maintain this lament them to do more together. alas, agreed that we also need to invest more together in natal to his source, our requirements in a more challenging security environment. this will require increased resources

across all 3 nate, the budgets military, civil and infrastructure, for instance, to support more joint training exercises, command and control stronger cyber defenses. pre positioned equipment, but the infrastructure, i'm more capacity building for our partners. so by agreeing the nate, the 2030 agenda lead this, i've taken decisions to make our life stronger and better fit for the future. we also took decisions on our unused operational domains. cyber space. i agreed, and you cyber defense policy. for them. it recognizes that cyberspace is a com is contested at all times and ensures that we have strong technical capabilities, political consultations and military planning in place to keep our system system

secured. they also may declare that nato is determined to defend itself in space as effectively as to do in all all the domains, lan, c, air, and cyber. thank luxemburg for funding a strategic space situation awareness system here at nato headquarters. we also addressed, i've gotten this done after almost 20 years, nato military operations are coming to an end. we pay tribute to all those who have lost their lives or being wounded and express our appreciation to all those who have served under and they took blank natalee. there's reaffirmed their commitment to continue to stand with guns. don't win the training and financial support for african forces on the students and funding to ensure the continued functioning of

the national airport. so we have made important decisions today to make the natal stronger in the more competitive world and shorter course from alliance or next that kid on the on, on without. i'm ready to take your questions. ok, we'll start with a writer in the middle over then do we have a microphone? yes, please go, go for the thank you want a secretary general on 2 different points. you mentioned the common funding you bought from talks about your ambitions. can you just clarify? is there now an increase in joint funding for military operations and on a completely different subject on if dennis done, was there an agreement today that one nation should take charge of the couple airport and was that turkey? thank you. well,

the reason proposal was to only strengthen the the military buttons. the decision today is to increase and thanks and all tail them because the common from the budgets and nathan is the bill of the civilian budget, the civil budget. then there is the, the infrastructure budget and the we have the military budget. and another decision is to, to, to, across all the tea budgets that we need to meet our high level on vision. and the need additional funding to make sure that we resource fully the high level mission we have agreed on. so this applies for all the budgets, including activities, ass higher edna's more exercises, more training, better come on, the control, more investments and infrastructure,

pre positioned equipment. but also, for instance, sir, over the civil budget to, to work with partners and, and also provide the support to partners in all the way so, so this is a, this, this reflects the entirety of the natal 2030 agenda. and of course, the important thing is that veg agreed, how we should strengthen, adapt the alliance by doing more together. but if we're going to do more together, we need more investments together. and therefore, i welcome. today we agree on all 3 budget, but just not only the military budget to it shows the original proposal. sorry, there was no other comments on while we are working without the nato allies are now working on how to ensure the continued operation of an international airport in cobble and there were meetings on the

sidelines. so this summer today, turkey of course, basic year old and also efforts. and we, we here we have not going to we are, we are working on exactly how to do it. but it is a strong commitment from a to on, from the dollars to ensure that we can continue to operate an international airport that is important for, for natal, for our continued city and impressions. but it's important for hole in the national community. and that's the reason why we really make an effort to do so. ok. install . simberg is the secretary general of nato, addressing the media in brussels at the nato summit, where he talks about strengthening the group is the organizing framework. the collective defense of the euro, atlantic area, against all threats from all directions. natasha butler reporting for us from the nato summit. all pretty predictable, sort of stuff. i would say that came out of what you installed in big saying that. but as we were discussing before, there is almost a, a fixation, somewhat on, on,

on china, and to a degree rusher as well. at the moment. yes, i was a lot that in terms of the mood, i thought it was interesting. the in stoughton, but the head of nato began his press conference by saying he quoted, for his johnson the u. k. prime minister saying that it feels a bit like the 1st day of school when me talk with old friends and see old faces. and i think what he's referring to is the fact that joe biden, the u. s. president, is here in brussel 1st nato summit. and the jury thought it made it very clear that the washington is re committing to nato off to those years. under donald trump and donald trump, trump, who had an extremely strange relationship with the may. so i think what it is, play the thought and by the saying is that most allies work stream the please does it, it seems they will now have this more predicts for relationship with.