don't expect them to. come. to. me. to come. this is v.w. it's coming to you live from berlin and the u.s. formally abandons a key cold war arms control treaty the ending of the medium range missile agreement with russia raises concerns about a new york global arms race each side blames the other for the treaties demise mosque or scorning on washington not to deploy any more rockets.

colonel they will welcome to you. the united states is today formally ending a landmark cold war weapons control agreement both the u.s. and russia have now walked away from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty or the i.m.f. the u.s. secretary of state my concrete old blamed moscow for the collapse of the treaty in a treat form deal said the u.s. gave russia 6 months to return to compliance with the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty russia refused so the treaty ends today. now the u.s. reportedly plans to test a new myside rich a would have been prohibited and the moscow says it is dead because of the u.s. and is calling on washington not to deploy anymore dockets.

$987.00 the historic agreement between the soviet union and the united states president mikhail gorbachev and ronald reagan signed the i.n.f. treaty marking a change of course after decades of cold war nuclear tension. the root of the tension was this the soviet s s 20 missile a nuclear warhead that could strike western europe at short notice. that worried those european countries on the other side of the iron curtain were well within the missiles reach of 5 and a half 1000 kilometers. the u.s. response was to deploy its own mid range pershing missiles in europe that was met with protests across the west the demonstrations showed demand for a new direction the result was the i.n.f. treaty. it banned all ground launched ballistic missiles with ranges of between $505.00 and a half 1000 kilometers the soviet union got rid of $1846.00 intermediate

range missiles in the united states about half as many. by $991.00 a total of $2692.00 missiles were destroyed. now president donald trump has officially withdrawn the u.s. from the treaty washington and its nato allies say russia has deployed new intermediate ground missiles that violate the i.n.f. sternness moscow for its part has also pulled out of the treaty charging that washington has breached the i n f by setting up missile defense stations in eastern europe the analysts worry a new cold war style arms race could be looming with. and joining me now is foreign policy on this is john tesh alkies what's with the german marshall fund of the united states welcome to you mr de shell so 1st to flood one of the implications off the i.m.f. treaty being virtually dead well i mean we have 2 things i think that come out of

this mostly for the 1st the 1st part is that you know the european security architecture as we've known it and its nuclear part are now you know wide open again this was an entire class of missiles that was prohibited to own in europe moscow has violated this for the last 10 years roughly and even under the obama administration it was clear that the americans were quite unhappy with the state of affairs and therefore also withdrew but also in the streets of the 2nd point means that europe is only really a strategic side consideration in all of this because the real reason why both russia and the united states want out of this treaty is china china is not part of the treaty and therefore it was not forbidden for china to own these kinds of missiles and it has invested in these kinds of missiles very massively over the last 20 years and america and russia want to be able and in the in the end have the capability to have these missiles again to get parity strategic parity with china see this is a lot of the interesting questions but before we continue our conversation i would

like to mention that we are expecting the secretary general of nato against staunton back to make a statement on behalf of nato we are monitoring the situation as you can see in the box that we are waiting for him to ivan as soon as he starts speaking of course we take you live there. what secretary of state pumping off the united states said he clearly blamed rochelle for the collapse of this i.n.f. treaty you seem to be indicating it is moscow's fault it was in violation off the street if in the past and yes this can only russia's or do you think yes i mean for the most part it has to be said that this treaty has been violated by russia 1st and quite systematically and this was already a concern in previous u.s. administrations. and it is you know universally shared among nato member states and among the expert community that the missiles as a see 8 missiles that a moscow has developed and put in place in range of europe are nuclear capable and have therefore violated the i.n.f.

treaty for quite some time that is not really any longer and i did see let me interrupt you did you see gangs starting back is about to speak let's take a listen to what you think it's been the landmark in arms control it eliminated an entire category of nuclear weapons making also all safer today they are and have treaty ceases to exist because the void the s s c 8 myside system the new russian army stars are nuclear capable mobile ion and hard to detect they can reach shoot of p. and c. if this would only mean it's all warning time and they lower the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict all nato allies agree that these me sars violate the on f. treating. undershirt continues to develop and field these systems this

years of u.s. and allied engagement. including a final opportunity over the last 6 months to return to compliance we regret that kershaw showed no willingness to can no steps to comply with its international obligations. result united states decisions to withdraw from the treaty is now taking place this decision is supported by all nato allies because no international agreement is affective if it's only respected by one side. russia bears the sole responsibility for the for the demise of that on earth treaty

there are no new us me sides in europe but there are new russian me sides in europe. nato will respond in the mess should on their sponsible way to the significant risks posed by russia us s s c a system. we have agreed the package of measures to ensure nato that turns on the fence remains credible and effective but we will not rush to implementation or make any rash moves we will consider our options carefully we have decided to work on issues such as exercises intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance air and missile defenses unconventional capabilities we will also ensure our new for the terror and remains safe secure and effective

some of these measures can be implemented quickly and all this will take time everything we do will be balanced coordinated and the fences allies remain firmly committed to the preservation of effective international arms control these are month unknown perforation we will not mirror what russia the us we don't want a new arms race and we have no intention to deploy a new land based nuclear me sides in europe nato continues to aspire for a construct a relationship with russia when russia else actions make that possible and without them red it would take a christmas. associated press. secretary-general

monchaux from associated press. you haven't given as much detail as how as to how new to say we're just listening to youngstown to nato secretary general talking about nato is response to the end of the demise of the i and if treaty and with me i still have foreign policy analysts the ends to show he was for the german marshall fund of the united states comes to show you listen to what stoltenberg said he talked about of a credible and responsibly response from europe and he outlined a couple of kind of ideological things about me wanted to be a balanced coordinated and safe response and whatever but he gave hardly any d.t.'s what did you make of what he said i mean this was pretty much exactly the announcement he made 5 weeks ago in the end of june when he said almost verbatim the same things air and missile defense all very defensive and and so it's quite clear that they do not want to reveal any details at this point it's no secret that

you know especially the united states has been working feverishly on coming up with a possible response a technological response to the missile systems that russia has developed but they're not deployable yet they're not operational yet so nato is in a bit of a bind it really can only react and passive ways with existing systems but it doesn't have any one of the immediate quick fix that you know will solve the situation so they need to as a principle of responding to a call into what started back said the. that apparently russia has developed and it he said it could be used. and they secretly it's difficult to detect and it could reach european countries he said also said we do not want to but from what you are saying that the u.s. is also trying to build something which could match the russian missile so we are seeing an arms race taught already yes there's a risk for a fine arms race there's no arms race yet but it is quite clear that when you have one. the treaty party in this case russia violating the treaty then the other side

at some point must respond otherwise it loses its credibility in this game of deterrence so we will eventually see some sort of response mr starr there just now was very eager to make clear that these weapons these responses would be defensive defensive systems and defense for example missile defense these are not offensive weapons but in the end the risk of an arms race is huge because it's quite clear that a situation where one side is significantly stronger on the nuclear policy side that that situation will be balanced out eventually. started with also talked about we have a range of opt options or trees not consider one of the options as nato has done to deal with the situation i mean there are several options now 1st of all on the technological side how do you response what kind of missile systems do you want to put in place and where do you want to put them in place but then the more significant question in terms of options is who is actually going to get involved is this an american job primarily of these american systems are we talking about

a european the turned needs to be developed should america be less interested in balancing the situation out. you know it's quite clear that you know some european countries would probably be quite eager to host these missile systems should there be some and others not so we have an internal european divide also so yes there are options but at the same time there are also various problems with these options which of course he's not talking about but for nature to find a cohesive response that also met has and is relevant in the situation is quite difficult absolutely and you also mentioned of course that i mean europe is kind of they they affected by this kind of against the demise of the ajna treaty. thank you very much for that analysis thank you very much. now moving on to other news and us present dollar trump addressed thousands of supporters of the valley in ohio true to form attack leading democrats but as the news on it's on the phenomena reports from cincinnati the president stopped short of making any more of mocks that could

be seen as offensive. for diane written things are falling into place right now born and raised in cincinnati she has been a republican for decades she even met her has spent on the party event and day and red is an ardent supporter of the president's trump she says there are plenty of reasons for him to get reelected unemployment as an all time low employment at an all time high the stock market is as high which means all of our investment accounts are all very high right now he believes in secure borders i believe in secure borders i think to have a country you have to control who comes in and out of our country in downtown cincinnati the crowds began gathering hours before the rally as the honorary chair woman the hamilton county republican party they yawn written and shut the arena through at the ip entrance i'm excited badman excited about it all day it was hard to concentrate on work this morning to get that out of the way so i could be free

to enjoy the afternoon usually trump uses his release like he uses his twitter accounts to praise his accomplishments and to rate he's opponents last month he had checked democratic congress women of color urging them to go back to where they came from and do more then a year before election day the president trying to make no secret of the element of his reelection right. right they have been very retrograde right on target with civility and political correct and that is what the supporters like about it because they see it he tells it like it is unlike any al. all of this. democrat lawmakers care more about illegal aliens then they care about their own constituents they put foreign citizens before american citizens they would love to see a guy like sleepy joe biden who has no clue what the hell he's doing. in

cincinnati tromp attack prominent democrats painting them as left wing extremists but here forwarded remarks that could be criticise as racially charged when you believe that the word new center back chance that he didn't talk about politicians of color very very much yes i we did not want that is the cincinnati and i did not want any of that here so there was no negative about that so that was a big plus diane read and was happy with the trump rally in cincinnati he was talking to his crowd here she said these were he's people. that support and it's under phenomena that may not bring you up to date but some other stories making news around the world a trade dispute between japan and south korea has escalated with both countries dropping each other's status as preferred trading partners japan said its decision

was based on national security concerns but south korea slammed it as a declaration of economic war and threatened to end and intelligence sharing pact ordered. saudi arabia says it will allow women to obtain a passport and travel with that the approval from a male relative if implemented the reform would further weaken the country's guardianship system which considers women as equal to children and gives men control over their lives. medics fear at least 4 people have been killed by gunfire in the sudanese city of. as tens of thousands gathered to protest it's still not clear who opened fire on monday a paramilitary group was accused of shooting students at a demonstration. in. who has placed 4 members of a commission investigating disappearances and murders during the country's

dictatorship they include the commission head who criticised the last month the commission confronted both scenario for why army captain on the state's role in the killing of a leftist activist in 1074. bomb blasts at 3 sites in the thai capital bangkok have left at least 4 people injured the 1st explosions took place too in rush hour in central bangkok 2 more blasts were reported at a government complex on the city's outskirts thailand's prime minister has ordered an investigation into the bombings time and is currently hosting the regional summit the top diplomats from the us china and other world powers. they. know she is in bangkok for him had any more details emerged about these explosions. well obviously life goes

on here in bangkok it's the evening rush hour people are out on the streets the public transport is running it has been briefly suspended or at least the train station where the some explosives have been found had been cordoned off but business is running right now the prime minister housed immediate investigation into these incidents he had passed order to authorities to ramp up security at certain points throughout the city and he house called on the public to help authorities find out who might be behind these attacks people are supposed to send in pictures if they have taken any to help authorities. but. people out on the street seem almost unfazed by this a lot of them haven't even heard about these incidents but those that have heard about it they said you know bangkok hasn't been a stranger to this kind of events

a minor incidents where nobody was really badly harmed severely harmed only minor injuries just like today but in all these past or in most of these past cases the public never learned who was actually behind those incidents and now the big question even though life goes on is who might be behind it. in the initial trial or school might be actually behind these explosions that. well i mean even though the prime minister has urged the public not to speculate this is exactly what everybody is doing right now and to some at least it seems quite clear that the military is actually behind these incidents now we have seen many military coups in the pas decades and we have also seen as i mentioned a minor at tax to disrupt public life and these minor incidents where nobody

was really severely harmed then were later used by the military to say you know see there is chaos on the streets now we as the military have to come in we have to step in and take over now thailand has just had semi democratic elections a few months ago the new government has just been sworn in they're now governing in a coalition of 19 political parties so people some a speculation that the military regime or the former military regime the generals have found out that governing in these kind of more or less democratic structures is actually much more difficult than governing as a military regime now on the other hand having the ozzy on foreign ministers here right now people say it's quite unlikely that the military would choose such a date so as i said there's a lot of speculation and we might never find out who was actually behind these incidents these blasts florian in bangkok thank you very much for that update.

not to hong kong where one of the territories best known pop stars is bringing a touch of glamour to the city's ongoing pro-democracy protests cantonese singer denise hill has used to celebrate the status to address the united nations how book is banned on mainland china but she still plays a prominent role of the demonstrations in hong kong. i think in iraq the unusual from a story north of the session the country pop star denise home when the fans are attending a protest rally in the suburb of getting the. week before pro-democracy protesters were attacked here by suspected criminal gangs today's demonstrators are here to denounce the bomb that is 10 police soon start to disperse the protesters.

i mean what are. the niece who has been the familiar face of the anti-government friends. the wave of the chinese government that have been trying to. her and us into this population where we are. playing clarities and then just giving up everything it's just not going to happen because it's a totally different culture. these who is a performer of so called canto pop hong kong signature pop music style that has made the city's entertainment industry popular throughout east asia including on the chinese mainland has always stood out in the region's entertainment business in 2012 she was the 1st hong kong celebrity to ever come out as a legit. it

. was. but the biggest step for her came in 2014 when she openly supported the pro-democracy umbrella movement she immediately lost access to china's huge mainland market when the music was back shortly afterwards a record company used asian music and that her contract i think i knew i would be bad. but then you'll guess you have to you have to. decide what you are. in the situations where the whole people is facing. such a big crisis. since then she has learnt to be her own manager right now she's

trying to organize a concert in hong kong's biggest venue because lizzie. i got rejected the. whole 5 times before. i got the application through in 2016 but that was 2 dozen 16 so i don't know what. whatever the outcome may be she would not have to worry about being able to fill the venue within the city or outspokenness has won many fandoms. it was he did have the news he is here's a recap of some of the top stories that you're following feel the u.s. has formally abandoned a key cold war weapons control cheesey both the u.s. and russia have now walked away from that intermediate range nuclear forces agreement and f. scrapping limits on both sides. speaking in brussels in the past half an hour nato

secretary general against alton bag blamed russia he said moscow had developed a new cruise missile but insisted nato did not want a new arms race. under korea dispute between japan and south korea has escalated with those countries placing barriers on exports and threatening to end intelligence sharing pact it follows a long running dispute over compensation for japan's a wartime occupation of korea. and don't forget you can order is good news on the go just download after all from the app and still that'll give you access to all of the latest news from around the wrong as well as push notifications or any breaking news. you can also use the app to send us photos and videos that you think my interest to us.

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