missiles from moscow turkey defies the u.s. and its nato allies receives the 1st shipment of a much feared air defense missile system from russia with u.s. turkish relations on a collision course just how well washington react on my little rock in berlin this is the day. with.

the immediate past. trying to dissuade turkey from taking d.s. $400.00 but. he is not a country that needs to negotiate with other countries to seek admission or power to pressure when it comes to beating our needs for self defense or. the brochure is going to deliver this as $400.00 to turkey. and that will have consequences going through we say visit each time this is a done deal not the process continues to record live there will be a dissociation with the f. $35.00 system. also coming up a war of drove them out of syria on our refugees are being told to demolish their new homes in lebanon we have a special report that and i'm very angry with i've lived here since 2013 and within

a span of 2 weeks to have decided that everything has to be demolished it's very hard for us. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world a very warm welcome while we begin their day in turkey which has received the 1st shipments of a russian s. 400 missile defense system despite the threat of sanctions from the united states and the concerns raised by its nato allies well the shipments arrived by plane at a military air base near ancora nato is worried about the potential consequences of this controversial acquisition but no amount of objections could persuade turkey to undo its deal with russia. turkish t.v. broadcast this footage of a russian air force cargo plane at an air base in ankara delivering parts of a russian s 400 missile defense system but turkish foreign minister confirmed deliveries had begun. and if we say this each time this is

a done deal and the process continues. russian sources say as $400.00 anti-aircraft system could reach targets at an altitude of up to 30 kilometers and has a range of 400 kilometers turkey is a member of the western nato alliance the u.s. has warned it will not allow turkey to participate in the f. 35 joint strike fighter program if it acquires the s 400 the u.s. has also threatened other sanctions. just want to see elsewhere what we have heard so far from the white house is that sanctions would target individuals or specific arms manufacturers i feel the most important thing about these sanctions is the symbolic effects could have far reaching consequences if a fragile turkish economy instead we did 2 top. russian media say deliveries of the s. $400.00 system will be completed by the end of the summer this purchase of russian

equipment is said to intensify tensions between turkey and its nato partners. now steven cook is a senior fellow at the council of foreign relations and an expert on turkish politics his latest book false dawn looks at the failures of middle east uprisings and why the hopes for more democracy in the region have all but faded well he's normally based in washington but he happens to be in berlin and is joining us and we're so happy to have you here stephen we agreed that we're going to use firsts and they are saying why is turkey so debt set on acquiring this russian missile defense system well there's 2 primary reasons why the turks have. insisted on buying this system 1st they had asked for the american patriot system and the united states said no you can have it but you can't have the technology that you want to develop your own system the turks have been interested in developing their own defense industrial base and they wanted what we call technology offsets that's

the kind of technology out of the patriot system that the united states doesn't give to too many countries the 2nd reason is because the turkish president does feel after the failed coup in july 26th in a sense of threat and that coup many of the forces in that coup came from the air force and should there be another attempt on his life he'd like to have a system that can shoot down f. 16 aircraft because this really interesting the timing of this deliberately almost coincides with that failed coup attempt to 3 years ago that's true i think it may be a coincidence but certainly that is something that is driving president erred on a sense of his own vulnerability is what has really ramped up the turkish effort to take delivery of the system why is this acquisition causing so much alarm with washington and with nato allies well as your lead in indicated it has to do with

the f. 35 joint strike fighter turkey is part of a consortium that is building this most advanced weapon system that the united states has built in a generation and they're supposed to buy 100 of these planes there is concern within the u.s. military that with the s 400 and with russian technicians who service the s 400 that those russian technicians will get an idea of how the f. 35 works and communicates with the other f. 35 planes so what next i mean what options does the u.s. have really well there are 2 things that the united states is going to do the 1st thing is already the pentagon announced today that it is seeking funds from congress. source parts of the airplane that had previously come from turkey from other places congress is already moving to prevent funds that would allow the united states to transfer the f. 35 that the turks already have on order in fact to turkey the 2nd thing is there is

legislation that has been passed that provides that gives the president and states the authority to impose sanctions on turkey these aren't necessarily economic sanctions on the country it is sanctioning individuals or entities or companies that have facilitated the transfer of the s 400 to turkey and as president trump willing to sanction turkey well that is a question that i think remains an open one certainly the congress would like to the state department in the defense department are recommending strong sanctions for this but of course on the sidelines of the g. 20 meeting in osaka just last week president trump indicated that he was not necessarily inclined to impose strong sanctions and he does have a prison provision in the in the legislation where he can suspend those sanctions will be directed to impose sanctions but he can immediately suspend them let's talk a little bit about the president of turkey because he is already really under

a lot of pressure i mean the leader has plummeted after that to controversial decision to let his the chief of the central bank go and let's just put it that way he's also pressing ahead now with oil drilling off the coast of cyprus and now of course this acquisition of this russian missile defense system i mean why would he want to hurt himself economically alienate our allies i understand you know what you said that he feels vulnerable but still it doesn't make sense i mean what is the strategy behind the there is a strategy and some of the things that you mentioned the drilling off of cyprus in particular taking the delivery of the f. $400.00 strikes a chord with turkish nationalists and we know that president reagan is vulnerable politically there was just a rerun election in istanbul that his candidate lost by 800000 votes by. taking on the cypriots but in particular by taking on the united states and defining the wishes of the united states on this question of the s 400 he can stir

his base and the nationalist feelings that main turks feel there is a tremendous amount of resentment in turkey towards the united states now we're seeing with this deal that the bilateral relations between russia and turkey are kind of cement they are solidifying let's put it that way it is really remarkable because merely what 4 years ago they were chess they fell out spectacularly right what changed well. the turkish air force shot down a russian plane that had veered into turkish airspace on its way to syria lattimer putin. punished the turks and punished president air go on and at the same time president everyone needed someone to look after his interest in syria at the time the united states was becoming a less directly involved in syria and so he was forced to apologize to president

putin and was forced to seek president putin support in pursuing turkey's interest in syria this is then blossomed into a broader defense and economic relationship right steven cook senior fellow at the council of foreign relations and an expert on turkish politics thank you for coming today pleasure to be here in berlin thank you. now still to come on the day berlin reveals the latest treasure on its world famous museum island well despite the complicated and expensive challenges caused by its position the new extension opens its doors a mere 20 years after it was 1st commissioned. the british destroyer h m s duncan sailing through turkey's bosphorus on its way to the persian gulf it will be britain's 2nd advanced warship in the region amid a tense standoff with iran while tensions spiked this week after iranian gunboats reportedly tried to impede a u.k.

super tanker in the gulf this after britain seized an iranian oil tanker off to baltar at all this to the bellicose rhetoric between tehran and the white house over the iranian nuclear deal and today it was president donald trump once again warning that iran better be careful. and so we're wondering where is this escalating crisis in the mideast headed while the threat to regional stability appears to have forced one gulf country to rethink its strategic commitments this week the united arab emirates started a surprise troop drawdown across war torn yemen where it's part of the saudi led coalition fighting iran backed huth the rebels well the u.a.e. troops are now redeploying from strategic military bases in yemen at the ports of moca coca in the red sea as well as on perino and in the very strategically important port of aden saudi arabia's military is reportedly moving in to fill the

vacuum while some observers believe that the u.a.e. is pulling out of yemen to strengthen the home front in the face of increasing tensions with iran others say it wants to cut its losses and leave the quagmire that is the yemen conflict. all right want to welcome and now it to the program that peter sells very to and he is an award winning yemen journalist and senior analyst with the international crisis group a very good evening sir now the you. have the most important ground force in yemen why did they decide that they can no longer go further. well the 1st thing to say here is that when we say the u.s. has the most important ground force they're not doing the frontline fighting in yemen they've been equipping training and assisting yemeni forces on the ground and

what they're doing at the moment rudi is putting in a lot of the heavy equipment that they've been using and the bulk of the forces there on the west coast the red sea coast of yemen so it's maybe not quite as large of a draw down as people are perhaps so but nonetheless it does. say they have a lot of skin in the game though how significant is this decision to scale back well it's pretty significant evidently the big question we have is 1st as you say whether or not the saudis will step in to fill the vacuum and whether the emirates is a doing this more to signal to their part as a group particularly in washington where there's been a lot of displeasure with the yemeni war that they are backing out that they're backing down and they don't want to fight particularly for the port city of her data or whether or not they're willing to scale back up again but certainly that the signal we're getting from them is that i want to concentrate on supporting

their main allies yemeni allies in the south of the country and working with us on counterterrorism it's how big of a blow is this to the saudi war effort. well the last piece of low hanging fruit if you like the last relatively easy military target for the anti movie forces in yemen was the port city of her data and last year u.a.e. a group of yemeni forces who came within spitting distance of attacking the city they were halted by international intervention those this u.n. deal to demilitarize the city the really hasn't gone much further since the end of last year if the sense is that the only way to sort of advance militarily is through video that this is a pretty big deal but the general consensus is that this will carve you won militarily so if we believe in a political solution to the the war in in this shouldn't make

a huge difference the concern from the saudi side as i understand it is this signals that the movies that the other side are backing off makes them feel more confident in their position less likely to compromise. so if this war is not winnable and a political settlement can't be negotiated where they go from here well that's a really good question that definitely looks like the most likely outcome for the forseeable future. several different things willow to see the war escalates on the front lines and particularly maybe her data. we are likely to see the u.n. and trying to get international pressure to get the parties back to the table to try and negotiate a deal and we're likely to see a lot of a lot more economic was there a lot more attempts by the internationally recognized government and we can know who he is by cutting off their access to resources mainly through fuel imports let's talk about iran because they support the with these militarily understand but

they are also dealing with a lot of tensions in their region what does this decision mean for that. well the iran the iranians of death need more more deeply involved in poor and given the more and more supports mainly financial and in training capacity building if you like. this this isn't bad news at all we're seeing the regional tensions ratchet up there's been talk about whether or not your movie drawn further into the regional rivalry between the iranians on the one side and the u.s. and saudi arabia on on the other but this allows them really to sustain pressure on the saudis and indirectly on the americans by these cross border attacks in allegedly supporting which the duties of a sentient being with drones and missiles so from where they said it means the sort of the status quo remains unchanged and they can sustain that pressure on the serbs

pistils very senior analyst with the courageous this group in an award winning a yemen a journalist sir thank you for joining us on the program and. next we shift our attention to lebanon where some of the refugee camps for the 2000000 syrian refugees in the country have been declared illegal forcing some of them to demolish their own homes well lebanon has taken in more syrian refugees than any other country relative to its population and now many of them are on the move again . it's back breaking work in scorching heat. and his neighbors demolished the rubes under which they've lived for 6 years the refugees from syria have to tear down their huts using only their hands and a few simple tools. the trail and i'm very angry with i've lived here since

2013 and within a span of 2 weeks dave decided that everything has to be demolished it's very hard for us i have diabetes and see all 113 huts in this refugee camp near us all set to be destroyed a decision made by the lebanese government to stone buildings are deemed illegal and must now be removed as quickly as possible. warning us soldiers come by and tell us to hurry up that many of the refugees have illnesses or suffer from depression some have lost their legs we have nothing here in this he. fled bombings in the syrian city of homs with his wife and 3 children here the 60 year old grandfather and his family found refuge a room a kitchen a toilet and a roof over their heads the family was grateful but is now all the more shocked following the demolition order. yet in my whole being in the light we are just

crushed by the news that they want us out we were safe here but what should we do now is just as hard as when we had to leave syria thought i was the enemy that i can never get my own. cell has been hit hard by the influx of refugees the quiet border town took in 120000 syrians 3 times its own population the rundown electricity and water supply is close to collapse the local schools only have space for 3000 pupils but there are 12000 children many locals worry about their jobs but i'm a little bit of. the syrians i've been in many businesses that they competed with out and i lost my job as a result. i was a majority of our beach disposal schools and clinics already and didn't function properly before the war these problems have grown with the arrival of the refugees . you know when i consider the mission. he says he understands

these concerns and is willing to implement the expensive eviction order but he calls it manipulative and aimed at forcing the refugees back to their homes. yet. this increases the pressure on the city council the refugees the ide organizations but it doesn't fix any of the problems at all. so far none of the refugees have left they fear persecution in syria but life in this camp will only get harder for them now. and his family have been told to move into a tent made of top hole and plastic electricity and running water have not been connected yet it off as little shelter from the summer heat and the bitterly cold winter. so some devastating account so they're built from it is the refugee rights director of human rights watch in washington and he has just returned from lebanon where he met with the refugees and are saw. yes i spent the last month with the

refugees watching them dismantle their own homes it's a really heartbreaking thing to watch firsthand and they have the deadline was july 1st and basically now the lebanese army will go in and actually destroy demolish completely those shelters that don't meet their requirements which basically means that they have to be about waist high they can have 5 cinder blocks height but beyond that it's supposed to be soft which means canvas plastic sheeting and and so they're looking immediately to whether they walk there or dismantlement will have complied with these codes these housing codes that have been in effect for years and then of course looking ahead to the winter the prospect of living in these flimsy shelters now with the harsh conditions to come.

berlin's famous museum island has a new addition a stunning entrance a gallery that's drawn the attention of architecture critics around the world and german chancellor angela merkel attended the official inauguration of the james cmon gallery this morning 20 years after it was 1st commissioned designed by famed british architect david chipperfield the engines and gallery connects the surrounding buildings well situated on the historic in the historic center of berlin on the river spray the museum island is home to 5 world class museums and galleries will combined the visitors to masterpieces of history art and architecture 3 and a half 1000000 people visit every year and the new entrance gallery combining ancient and modern well even more to the city's cultural collections.

all eyes are on architect david chipperfield and the new james seaman gallery designed by his berlin office ready ready it's the entrance to a unique ensemble of museums containing some of the world's most important cultural treasures the linz museum island chipperfield architects has been working on the master plan for renovating and modernizing the ensemble for 20 years the main function of the building is to be an orientation for visitors. that come to the need for this collection of buildings known as the museum i've been. in the city point of view this is a new sort of open corner this was a very in a way incomplete corner. and therefore. that this building in the way that it designed it i think is an offer a generous offer. as a piece of city as much as being you know a place to buy tickets and go to the bathroom. there's much more than

a ticket office. there's also a $300.00 seat auditorium. and a museum shop plant and french will not wood. from the central hub visit his can walk underground to some of the other museum buildings. that. we will be able to write into the noise museum in the future you also be able to go left into the park so. this will become part of a route. which allows you. to come out into this level go through the program and come back out even on the other level there is a sorts of. interchange. connection the building

process was full of challenges. this original foundation pile stands as a reminder of why construction costs soared we were. for many months nearly 2 years immersed in water sorry to build the foundations and water were worse and worse compared to. the 1st show in the galleries temporary exhibition space will commemorate the building's namesake jewish berlin patron and collected james cmon. the new gateway to berlin cultural acropolis is a cool component of a master plan for the island devised by david chipperfield and approved by the city in 1909. the main purpose of the new gallery is surfacing and connecting but it also gives the ensemble a central focus the james cmon gallery a dazzling new attraction on the unesco world heritage site museum island.

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