with our nato allies have honest conversations about where we are, but to bring peace on the continent, ensure that europe steps forward and the leadership in leadership as far as security guarantees. and then america is right alongside our allies in nato to ensure we remain strong. and if this conflict comes to an end, i'll, i'll take one question. yes ma'am. well, that's your language. not mine, certainly not a betrayal. but as i said to our allies yesterday, we recognize the incredible commitment that has been made over many years. and no country as a president, trump has pointed out, has made a larger commitment to the ukranian mission than united states of america. north of $300000000000.00. so the united states has invested in stabilizing those front

lines. after the aggression of russia, there is no betrayal there. there is a recognition that the whole world in the united states is invested and interested in peace. a negotiated piece, as president trump has said stopping the killing. and so that would require both sides recognizing things they don't want to. that's why i think the world is fortunate to have president trump. only he at this moment could convince the powers that be to bring peace. and that's a welcome sign up. my job is the defense secretary working alongside nato, is to ensure that the defense capabilities of this alliance are as strong and robust as possible to deter any future aggression on the continent. that's our role to be leaders in nato. and that's what we'll continue to do. thank you very much. appreciate it. thank you. but that was uh, pete hicks, if the us defense secretary speaking at the defense ministers, amazing in brussel as he basically said, the older the

e u countries need to step up. this spending on defense to 5 percent, and he wants all of them to speak realistically about the war in ukraine, and he denied that the u. s. has betrayed you crying after donald trump spoke for an hour and a half with his russian count of it positively demand posing, trying to agree on terms for a long term settlement to the war. we're going to present back to semi o r n, who's professor of public affairs and director of the center for as long and global affairs. it's as simple as i am university. thank you very much for sticking with us here. we will, i want to talk a little bit about all the comments that uh, president trump has made and we can just listen into to what he said in regards to the war and cancer in recent dies. do us, we'll take over the gaza strip and we will do a job with the 2 without it as far as i'm concerned,

if all of the stages are returned by saturday at 12 o'clock, i think it's an appropriate time i would say cancel it and all that so rough and let hell break out with united states being in control of that piece of land to fairly large piece of land. you're gonna have civility in the middle east for the 1st time. and the palestinians are the people that live now and guys are, will be living beautifully in another location as we've heard from, from trump. there are over the last couple of days. i mean, he's only really been in palliser for a few weeks and he's already completely, i painted pretty much basically the entire diplomatic structure and in the middle east. well, what of united and how effective is this going to pay for the trump in such a way that some serious because if he was trying to out maneuver it anyhow because miss danielle came with one goal in mind when he met him,

which is to allow him to resume the more and if it's trying to stop that, then he says, why do you want to do that? it to me, i would say because we're trying to dislodge pharmacy said, oh, i'm going to take out the whole palestinian population. so why are you, we're just about to mess? don't go to war, but that's his intention he's achieved. but if he's really thinking that somehow he's going to get that for the student is expelled from gas. something that is why it is a failed to do over 15 months, then his is walking something. i mean, what are you going to do? is it going to bomb to put a signal from the 15 months that was try them failed? is it going to start him to death? that was dry. enfield is going to prevent the tense from going there, so they freeze to death. now let's try them. sounds as well. it's like every single check in the book that is right is that is and they fail to dislodge the percentage and that they failed to him to, to somehow have that but a standing and sitting there down. and tom would not be able to do that. whatever he says is not really going to make that, but his cindy is believe anything he says or late or let them leave the land or

somehow get him to fulfill whatever he say. and obviously we've heard desk significant push back from for many night isn't in the middle east, at 2 terms, plans going to egypt and jordan and many of the other middle eastern countries. so they have a clear strategy. those to deal with donald trump at this point in time. that was a problem with neighboring a balance nearby countries is that they are beholden to the united states. many of them are client states of the united states and they can say the trunk that we're not gonna do it, you know, with the file. so what they're trying to do is to maneuver him also. and by some time, trump, at the end of the day, he has a lot on his engine that domestically and internationally. it's not going to do a lot of time for this. he's going to into is what it is. do a little bit of the tricks and trying to pressure the palestinians, but that has its limits. they try to invest for 15 months to make up a study of surrender under the same to do that. they may have and countries will

have their own plan in order to leave those guys that they would present it to trump drunk. they tried to pressure them by withholding aid, which i think is not also serious. because out of i of the, this a united states gets much more, but not more than the, the jordan then jordan and egypt though, i mean, i remember, for example, 2 years ago when there was a cool in egypt and some senators were trying to withhold aid the, the chairman of the chief of staff, the, the senior but it to the officers america. i'm going to also says, said we can't do that because we get out of this relationship that they do. and he gave an example that the pentagon saves about $5000000.00 just and so it's kind of out of phase because they have the priority to have all that a minute the equipment best. it was the so as i said that on saving, depending on $5000000.00 and then after that everybody shut up. so when they, when he says that when go into his hold a or do something, i don't think you're serious about that. okay. well, have to leave it there,

but thank you, as always, send me a la area for us and assemble. meanwhile, in the occupied west bank, the it's ready military has been carrying out a large scale of song for more than 3 weeks. the operation has largely focused on the jeanine of refugee camp in the north. for thousands of palestinians have been forced to flee their homes. and one of the licensed attacks and is ready to run target to the vehicle engineering. it was supposedly found 3 times. is there any forces helping writing the camp, accompanied by bulldozers which are being used to destroy critical infrastructure? well, just there is no a tie as in amman. jordan, you're there because the israeli government, as well as the palestinian authority of bandages era, from reporting from both israel as well as the occupied with bank if we can begin with uh, these rights as the as rarely military, they expanded their operations especially engineering over the last 24 hours the whole time it seems that these really army is digging in deeper engineering

into cutting and continuing nightly rates across the occupied west bank. and what we've been hearing from official sources in, at to cut him, for example, is that this onslaught has resulted in the displacement of 85 percent of residents . so that pulls, cutting the refugee camp of a significant portion of residents in the janine refuge account, which is now almost unrecognizable in some areas, this mass displacement is happening while is really military officials are telling, for example, the palestinian business bureau, engineering. their plan is to completely change the geography of the comp to essentially make it an outskirts of his in need. and that there are some areas where returnable simply not be possible because that and those areas,

those neighborhoods will be changed, will be torn down. and everybody else in the occupied was back, is looking at this watch and waiting for their turn because that's what they're being promised by as well. people of obviously being bass, it fits 3 weeks now for more than 3 weeks, can just to get through the, the psychological impact of, of exactly what is going on there and how that that's impacting people. it is very traumatic at. so i'm not just for those refugees who are being uprooted, but for everybody else watching. and this they're not just watching while they're life continues normally and peacefully and unsecurely. there are overnight raids everywhere in the occupied westbank and all of those tactics result in what human rights organizations call the silent transfer. silent displacement. let me give you an example. over night is really forces rated by jolla,

small town between bethlehem and jerusalem. they went into a home of an a 2 year old woman who was living on her own, woke her up round, sacked, her home, search for weapons, which of course do not exist, went into the house of her son, woke up, woke him up, and her grandchildren they are now traumatized, scared, believing that this will continue. this will repeat, and many people in that position in that situation will begin to think, well, maybe if we move somewhere else, our lives will be a safer. maybe we can protect ourselves from this kind of a kind of raids. there are hundreds of new gates and military checkpoints that are gutting the occupied westbank. erecting that by these really are me disrupt life. it can even make it completely impossible for those who live around that, all those tactics along with the scenes coming out. if there's a need,

a cut in could and have in the past, forced people to leave on the, to leave voluntarily and move somewhere else in the west by effectively being displaced without the gunshots, without the raids without the bombs. tom, thank you so much. no, for talking us through all of that snow a day in a mind. the particulars president richard type bed one has arrived in pakistan for a 2 day visit. he landed light on wednesday and will soon take part in a strategic cooperation council meeting with prime minister shavaun sharif. top of the agenda will be military ties and bi lateral tried this pockets, done looks to escape an ongoing economic crisis. how come of honda is lot for us outside parliament house and is on the bus at the took his prison obviously trying to see could boost and trade. so how important business visits upon castanan and

can just run a through what else is on the agenda between the 2 a bug just on this play thing really high importance on the kids. uh better than radioactive bug gift on. uh he would receive that debt board, but the red carpet treatment i $21.00 gun said no later than 5 minutes to house. it was given a god of war now and for judge lou solve 5 date of life, pause and order of data gauge president. now important to note that this is the 1st grocer and meeting between the 2 countries and 5 years. the strategic cooperation called instead of the high level strategic was predation. gotten, says is going to be holding talks on how to enhance security. how to enhance trade by electra trade, and also to cooperate and radiate freeze day of the geisha president doug also brought along with him a high level of delegation administered. i'm

a member of that business community. they have cause going to be holding talk with their pockets on the account of park because both economies are in trouble. and both countries would like to have done by letter j and also to further military cooperation because both dokie and focused on have been close allies. of course, every decade. a thank you so much come out tomorrow. honda for us, the in is on the bus. we're going to go back to brussels now and listening to the mike because we were to the next host secretary general list. listen to the never, ever, ever again. have a minister, sweet situation where a beast is not doable. so collective leave a work on that. he will discuss this amongst a large i look forward to depth these again. welcome to nato. welcome aboard 62. thank you very much, appreciate it. and we did my wife and i were happy to show you last night for dinner. we appreciate your hospitality and your leadership of this alliance,

which is more relevant and more robust than ever. and that is certainly the u. s. commitment on behalf of president trump. the recognition that the world is a safer place, a for your place when nato is strong. and we certainly feel that way in our investment reflects that. we echo your sentiments on defense spending. the president has said 2 percent is not enough. and we're going to argue that up to 5 percent is, is the necessary investment from nato countries to ensure we're able to meet the threats of the future. whether that's a rush on the continent or to send to china, who has their own emissions as well, but also the defense industrial base, not just in, in europe, but in the united states as well. we need the ability to create the systems and the munitions necessary to sustain a flight. 0, $1.00 of the thing i would add is for an military sales. and that's something the united states has committed to expediting the process of ensuring that our allies

get what they need when they need it. that is critically important. and then as you saw yesterday, there's one man in the world capable of competing the parties together to bring peace. and that's president donald trump, which he demonstrated yesterday in speaking to both vladimir. ready and uh, and so in ski and bringing about, we believe a durable lasting piece on the continent, which his goal is to stop the killings and bring that piece that it's in the interest of the continent and the united states. to do so, we look forward to even more robust conversation today. realistic, honest, straightforward discussions, but all under the guise of full support and belief that a strong data alliance is what will defend the free world alongside ensuring america maintains that leadership role. so mister secretary general, thank you. thank you so much. you got you, okay. you got later? well, that was the us secretary of defense, pete hicks, this uh, as well as nice secretary general mach speaking, i have

a meeting of nice hose defense ministers. we will have much more on that as it unfolds throughout to the next several hours. but still a hit hit on al jazeera is full vehicle. jaime, oklahoma city. some the really full, the biggest come back when of the season is coming up next with far the

to the north, korea is tearing down us and but a symbolic facility it's mount. come gang result with families divided by the korean war. had been for you. nice adopt to spending decades of pop songs,

unification, ministry has condemned. the demolition. cooling is an antique humanitarian acts that ignores the wishes of separated families. and always comes as feeling yang, labeled south korea hostile states. the ministry ones that's considering legal action and we'll see international support. at least one person has been killed and the suspect of gas explosion at a department store and taiwan living. others were injured in the plaza and the central city of control. the explosion left fragments of the building strewn across the straits for shall say, they feared the death toll could rise the explosion of code and the food court on the 12th floor, which was closed for construction work, are more than 250 people rescued from sycold scam centers and may not have been handed over to authorities in thailand. the compounds employed foreign workers who are often victims of trafficking, forcing them into fraudulent online activity targeting their fellow citizens.

handle aside the growing industry generates billions of dollars. tony chang reports from the time in not bought more than 250 people of different nationalities. i'll shoot across the my river. my point is from the democratic korean but his army, the victims of human traffic has tricked into travelling to me and then forced to work in scam centers. layering people into fraudulent online investments, games, roman scans and blackmail. and there are still tens of thousands more trapped inside and 10 federal still a lot of people less than scan centers to what the victims of human trafficking tormented under electrocuting time along the long board with me and my tie police and military have setup checkpoints, checking i d's banners and tied chinese and english, one of the dangers on the other side. but despite these efforts, a steady flow of people still getting across. it's estimated around

a 150 people traffic didn't every day. so we don't have large numbers like that coming out. so those numbers are definitely increasing within the compounds here. china, it's been trying to exert pressure on the scam centers to close last week. the national energy provider and bank coke, shut down electricity supplies to a number of areas in m. a with scam centers operate, but it isn't enough. the people who run the scan components these, you know, discriminant centers, they are really good at adopting to challenges. they're, they're really innovating solutions to problems that are thrown their way and on the boulder. it's clear little has changed despite thailand's best efforts, there's no shortage of electricity. here. you can hear a loud music construction noise, the normal bustle of the city. and that's no surprise, law enforcement agencies say this place is home to criminal enterprises that

generate billions of dollars every year. and they're not going to be shut down the flick of a switch. totally. so just watch from the darkness is the notorious city of sweet co goes lit up at night. this is the hub for scam is operating in the area, but with no jurisdiction. the criminals across the river, just out of reach. tony chung, out to 0 on the time ma'am about him. but song for support now his far tom, thank you so much. other 4 goals and for red card says deliverable dropped points and the primarily title res mohammad solid put them in to one up against their local rivals, everton, and on track to move 9 point clear at the top. for james, so have equalized in the 90 minutes in the last ever mercy side. darby to be played on good to some parts before ever to move for their new state is amazingly, get us in. we'll close with both sides. having $141.00 darby's math and then you are there were ang receives after. and so teams had to play or sent off with her

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to dominate the middle table at the winter, asian games, and harper, the celebrated more victories out on the slopes, including the women's aerial single title and inside in the speedskating as well. china, our way out in front was 32 goals. and $81.00 metals overall, that's more than double metalli of south korea. all right, that is all you support for now. back to you. thanks so much for. well, thousands of people have gathered across china to mind the ancient linton festival which marks the arrival of spring is traditionally held on the 15th day after the lunar new year invasions historic district. in 1000 landon's less on the 9th is crowned together to make wishes for prosperity, as well as for to the right. so for me, tell me the price of this news. i'll be back in just a moment, but much more of the dies news to stay with us. the,

the trumps agenda includes everything from tax cuts to immigration, but how much is real and how much is bluster? is iran footprint across the middle east? franky beach trump administration is weighing options to end the rest of your brain more. but what does it mean for you? are a quizzical look at us politics. the bottom line, the latest news as it breaks prison zalinski has guides the international guarantee to step up on this deliveries to ukraine safety and defensive with details coverage . people with must department of government efficiency showed up here at the us is headquarters demanding access to the building. from around the world for the people are flooding that any annual page has to be 10. it's the end of a painful chapter of displacement. the a. fox my bush year has came and strikes gunfire and enjoyed

a dangerous journey from my home for late and so done. now, disease is catching up with her mother is worried. the pain back home came and dropped it killed my mabel with school. how children, i swore it. this is joe opened up with a town that many refugees are traveling through. before the influx. there are about 7000 local residents. now we have more than $40000.00, displaced in the southeast, declining. that is not what a degree menial worried about what will happen when the rainy season starts in may . the

. ringback the, i think they have to make peace, that people are being killed and i think they have to make peace. after a lengthy phone calls us president, donald trump and russia's lead a flat imposing degree to begin negotiations to end the war and you cry and the time of cry. this is l 20 life. and also coming up, trying to save a fragile sweet spot. mazda delegation troubles to cairo fatigues with media is more.