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the trophy for a 6th time we'll talk about the treatments with us. welcome to the program. today's nato meeting in london marking the alliances 70 lb of us 3 has got off to an acrimonious start before meeting with france's president emmanuelle macromedia u.s. president to donald trump declared that he's country derives the least benefits from nato membership and hit out at the french president for describing the alliance as brain dead but mr trump sounded more conciliatory as he sat down for talks with president macro saying that nature had to evolve in order to confront today's challenges the present. i think you are that we need workers who believe

that we both agree that we can use it for other things than just look you do what a specific you know our people say it was made to look a originally so if you know russia but we also have other things to look at whether it's radical islamic terrorists whether it's tremendous growth of china. there are a lot of things so seriously cowering in different there was much there was the if you 1st people now are fulfilling their experiences. for his part president kroll said that nato is financial cost should not be the primary consideration and that the alliance had to be clear about what it was for the for the blue shirt so it will still be is also always known. and i do believe that in such simple terms we do be left behind probably you see the week when you can. see you know your influence and friends if you present.

one he said we. don't it's impossible to take the money to solve it we've got to be on the front of my straight to london day where we're joined by correspondent to max a horseman welcome back so it does this mean that presidents macro and trump have ironed out their differences. it's a very remarkable reversal of roles if you have been following the nato summit in the past it is true of the u.s. president saying that nato actually is an important organization and it's an honor and michael who appears to be the rebel right here but you're right it was a conciliatory meeting today much more conciliatory than many expected beforehand of course it doesn't mean that the prague problems are gone you have to imagine this not only because of what i knew in my call about nato being and i quote here

brain dead but also because of the fact that the united states have threatened to slap on some terrorists and luxury goods from france so all of this has not been resolved but clearly the leaders including michael trump are trying to avoid big fights during the 17th 70th anniversary meeting of nato here in london and the quote we had that from president trump and talked about people fulfilling the back commitments he's planning claiming credit for and nato is the right. it's certainly true that ever since stone child the u.s. president has been in office that contributions by other members especially by european members including germany have skyrocketed and you know generally speaking people do say that this has something to do with on the charm they do not necessarily approve in the way he has done it many call it blackmail and they do not approve the tone in which he has done it but you have to give it to him it's

worked if you look at all the countries that now fulfill the 2 percent goal of nato which is the official goal to spend 2 percent of the g d p of the nation of gross domestic product on defense than this has worked for many more countries than beforehand and you can be sure that on the trump will point this out in the coming days. president. to meet with the leaders of britain germany and france said downing street. intervention in syria could you just outlined to us the various positions. between them on syria and whether we can expect any sort of development from this meeting. in a very general way phil there are 2 different positions the one turkey of president or one and the one by everybody else of course nato members are upset that out of one just had his troops go into northern syria without telling anyone else in nato

with whom after all has an alliance that he was going to do that upsetting the whole balance in the region and but the problem also is that this is not officially part of the discussions here during this leader meeting and it's probably one of the most explosive topics here if not the most explosive topic and no one has been known to not accept any kind of criticism and so they have to treat very very carefully in this respect nevertheless there is a meeting today on this including the german chancellor i'm going to medical including. everyone including donald trump the u.s. president we haven't heard anything what what what what has come out of this meeting i think they are still meeting as we speak right here at the moment but. 'd we do expect that as with the meeting between michael interim they will be rather conciliatory but of course this problem isn't going the way they they have a step by step approach trying not to bring the whole house down right away but try

to get everyone back into the fold of the alliance. to max hoffman in london have him palace and i thank you. well turnout and some of the other stories making news around the world finland's prime minister until enough has design has resigned of his government's handling of a 2 week postal strike social democrat to quit after one of the coalition partners in the governing coalition said it had lost confidence in him the current administration will continue until a new home is for. germany's defense minister has made an unannounced visit to afghanistan where her country has a 1000 troops stationed on the correct. nato mission to support afghan peace and stability should be extended beyond its current end date of march next year. typhoon commodity has hit the philippines leaving at least 2 people dead to rachel rain and winds more than 150 kilometers an hour brought down trees and electrical

posts forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate and manila's international airport was shut down and the flights cancelled. north korean leader kim jong un's the flagship construction project me a mountain where his family claims its roots state media hailed the assam media some jion city as the epitome of modern civilisation so who socialist utopia is for his house and senate is the ski resort. teenage climate activist and gratitude that has arrived in the portuguese a capital lisbon after crossing the atlantic by boat she'd been attending climate protests in the united states but refused to fly back to europe because of the carbon emissions involved from lisbon she'll go on to the u.n. climate summit in madrid. the final moments of a 3 week journey across the atlantic ocean from the united states to lisbon portugal gratitude looked tired and happy to be back on dry land the 16 year old

sweet said she took the nearly 3 week transatlantic voyage by boat to prove. the point. i'm not traveling like this because i want everyone to do so i'm doing this to society send a message that it is. even possible. thanks . that it is impossible to live sustainable today and their needs and saying these become much easier to invoke arrives in europe as the un's cup 25 climate summit is in full swing representatives and delegates from some 200 countries have gathered in madrid spain to try and find a way to reduce the world's emissions of greenhouse gases their arrival also coincided with the release of a bleak report from the world meteorological organization predicting that the past decade will most likely be the hottest in recorded history. says many don't

realize the power of the popular movement this may be unleashed. i think people are underestimating the force of angry kids. to invoke says she'll be meeting with activists in lisbon before making her way to the climate summit on friday. meghan rapinoe and that little messy one for both prestigious ballon d'or awards after being recognized as the best female and male players of the year you know trying to after beating the united states to world cup glory argentina's messi one of record 6 time after guiding barcelona to another spanish league title but he won a head of rival christiane open although. at mackay bridge from the interview sport can fill in the details for us welcome it starts with making repeat of she always

seemed like the clear favorite but why for she was always a clear choice like you say this was a women's world cup year and we often tend to see when these international tournaments happened the star performers from most wanted tend to fare well in the individual awards towards the end of the year and nobody performed better at that woke up then megan rapinoe she led the u.s. to victory in france was awarded the golden bowl for the tournament's star player and also finished top scorer so she couldn't really have done more in footballing terms to win the award in terms of the world cup but it's also probably for hot off the field exploits this year as well she's use that platform after winning that world cup to become a political activist we're seeing make some of her speeches now she campaigned from everything from gay rights to equal pay for women and she really consistently criticized the trump administration in the u.s. as well so she was a she was a star both on the field and off the field and i think this award recognizes that ok so you say she is something of

a communicator so one presumes. she's reacting on social media of course she wasn't actually in attendance at the sermon issue she appeared via video link thanks. everybody for the award but of course you posted to instagram as well when to see a post from her now where she said that the award was really for everybody for all the women out there were saying that now and that really falls in line with her belief that you know the power of sport can change the world she keeps saying that when she's campaigning you know it doesn't matter what your sexual preferences what your color is where you're from what your religion is people should come together to help change the world and much closer vote on the men's side live in a messy wedding for a record 6th time didn't deserve it or had anybody else had the season that messy it had you say well of course they deserved it but such a colossal standards that misuse of the last 10 years there actually question marks around it this is a man who scored 51 goals in all competitions in 50 appearances for pastor of this year for the club to a league and cup domestic double and people still saying perhaps he didn't deserve

it but you know this was his 6th award and we're going to hear from him now that his reaction after winning his 6th bout of door anymore you know what i mean it was only imagine a bull for me to think i could win one ballon d'or never mind 6 but it's a pleasure to have so many and be the only one with 6 as well and it's great to have this recognition and that makes me very proud to live in norwich. so despite winning the award this year lots of football fans were back in liverpool's virgil van dyke square club in the champions league is national team did well so it counted against him while he was a bit of a hipster's choice virgil van dyke a lot of people wanted to see him win the award because defenders very rarely do just 4 have ever won this individual award. but i think the problem is for defenders is they do a lot the dirty work they very rarely get plaudits themselves you know but nobody did the dirty work better than virgil van dyke she as you say he was the driving force behind liverpool winning the champions league and also finished runner up in

the united nations and it's a fantastic year for him right ed mcmahon bridge from the deed of useful to give a little shout out to the hipsters. it was temperatures in much of the northern hemisphere draw let me take you to hawaii where conditions are just about perfect for the world's top surface and i've been taking on the big waves in the fans world cup of surfing and you're looking at veterans kelly slater who last won the event 21 years ago now is 47 years old and he's still part of the top surface in the world this ride helped put him through to the 4th round despite the white house which means he's still in contention for a title for top just that was a beautiful. reserve mind of our top story french president emmanuel macro sense he's standing by his previous remarks questioning the health of nato in previously described the ministry alliance as brain dead i think the rebuke today from u.s. president donald trump last nato leaders coming not to talk 70 years since the

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