the u.s. president has ordered the pentagon to reduce the number of troops stationed here in germany from 34000 to no more than 25000 it's a major class and apache neither germany nor nato received notice before we did it blindsided by a bully it's not exactly how allies usually treat allies donald trump it's become business as usual i'm christine one guy in berlin standing in for brain golf this is the day. i say get out get out i can't guarantee it. but we're protecting you and it means a lot board. there protecting our troops i don't know how much protection we get by protecting you even if we get is going to the german government has been informed

that the u.s. administration is considering reducing the presence of u.s. forces in germany. is the fact is that the president's off united states soldiers in germany say that only the rules security off the nato alliance. also coming up tonight the coronavirus is not going away they may be lifting lockdowns in europe and in the u.s. but in africa more lockdowns may be on the way the w.h.o. wants the pandemic is accelerating we know that it took 90 days to reach 400000 cases and only 19 days to move 220-0000 cases so even though these cases and calling for less than 3 percent of the global toto it's clear that the pandemic is accelerating. when you begin the day with news of a shrinking u.s. military. presence here in europe the government or the german government says it

has received word from washington that the number of u.s. troops stationed here will be reduced president donald trump has ordered the removal of nearly 10000 troops from germany that would cut the total numbers stationed in the country by a 3rd but berlin isn't the only ally coming under pressure from the trump administration the white house has also os japan to significantly up its contribution to maintaining american forces the u.s. has guaranteed japan's defense since the end of world war 2 it has more than $50000.00 personnel stationed at facilities across the country washington puts the price tag at some 5.7 $1000000000.00 much of which is already paid for by japan now the cost sharing agreement is due to be renegotiated next year japan is already spending more on defense but on its own forces.

soldiers practice landing unfabulous vehicles in a picturesque berrien japan south coast drive out in the hatch climbs the hatch and them head back to the beach it's as if they were planning to start off unusual sometime soon perhaps around the officer and commanders not allowed to talk to us about back. to duty overseas it's important to train the soldiers one is the driver one's the huntsman sort of it's not always easy to make a team out of them because you're pretty through. according to its constitution japan isn't supposed to have an army and many wanted to stay that way. we don't want to pander fighter moles all over the world not even on american sorry that's why we're against the drills. even so took you seems to be preparing to enter the military world stage the defense minister recently deployed this destroyer to the gulf of amman in an interview he says is

a completely harmless mission. is aware of his own power he wants to become prime minister. would you ban like to play a more active role military role on the world stage we believe are sending our destroyer to the region to get enough information to secure the past safe's passage or japanese or japan related ships are important for us so that's why we sending it we're not part of. american initiative nor european noire any union assured ever it's strictly on our own isn't that risky i mean there could be some kind of coffee and you are right why should we be in it but if everything's fine why do you need a washing in the region what we need to get the information to secure the safe passage all our tankers or other ships so we're sending them for information

gathering what's wrong with it. just a reconnaissance mission. some people see it differently. us asian relations acts that claimed fukushima for example finds the idea amazing. although i think as defense minister that's what he had to say you know just as when koizumi was asked in the diet. is it not dangerous for the soil to fence forests to be in combat zones he said well if the so defense forces there by definition that is not a combat zone. that was his answer. behind the scenes of u.s. japanese military relations and it is less easy going then here american military units station test tell me trying to aid missions with the japanese earthquakes for example but since washington has demanded much more money from japan the us troops tensions have risen considerably it is actually cheaper to have

a marine stationed in japan than to have them in san diego. so if we pay more than then they will become sort of mercenary and i don't think you are so forces that will like to do that. posh words especially coming from an otherwise normal japan is a possible future government leader seeking to expand his influence in a big way and try to say there is support for this in a moment party but less so amongst the japanese people. and for more tonight i am joined by rogers case of s.a.'s member of the german parliament's foreign affairs committee and a former general staff officer off the german armed forces and zachary haas fought in is the deputy director of the asia program and the german marshall fund in washington d.c. gentlemen welcome to both of you mr case of a step has the trumpet ministration told you why it wants to withdrawal at the off

its troops from germany. knows so far there was no explanation at all we have nothing against it however this should be achieved amongst partners and it should be coordinated and not announced while the media. writes so what exactly have you been told have you been given a timeline for that for the trip production. now we only have heard that the idea is to reduce the troops by the end of september this year our demand from the parliament is that there should not be any effects prior to the us presidential election so we would like to see the new administration to handle this topic but this is not be done within several months because there are thousands of people and also their families and there are also contracts and we are as a strong partner for the united states would like to see these troops to stay in germany. all right mr but i'll come to you now let's consider the pacific for

a moment be the us once japan to pay even more for the u.s. military umbrella why would miss a trump be making this dumontier now well it's it's difficult to know exactly what's behind his thinking but if we look back at statements that donald trump has made both as president and when he was a camp candidate running for president in 2016 certainly indicated that he was thinking more of a lion says as very transactional in nature really focused on dollar amounts rather than allies working together or collaboratively to address shared values or or promote shared interests and so when the trumpet ministration interview goshi asians with the south koreans and then now with the japanese asking for a much higher amount it's really raised a lot of questions both in washington but also in asia i mean look at what we know

that china is a rising ministry paul in japan specular the south china sea is abuzz with it we hear very often how does donald trump's demond strengthen the block against china here. yeah it's important for the u.s. and japan to maintain their strong alliance we've actually been working very hard over the past few years to increase in iraq or ability to make sure our forces work well together in part because of the military modernization from china and its increased use of maritime vessels both coast guard and people's liberation army navy vessels which of have been a significant challenge and so it is very important for us to work together this unfortunately the question about how much japan should be covering for for u.s. forces in japan is distracting from this when we really need to be focusing on ever

continuing to to tighten our alliance ok at end and what does that mean for that alliance right what does it mean for us japanese ties as does if we can this military partnership. i don't know if i would go so far to say is it we can sit or at least it won't there will be permanent damage if we are able to to get through this past year or we renegotiate what are called special measures agreements every few years typically every 5 years with south korea or japan and so negotiations of this type are or normal this the amount that we're seeking and the explanation for what that amount will cover is different and that is what's caused concerns but ultimately we do have a lot of shared interests and values with japan both see rising challenge from chinese military modernization as i said so we will be able to i believe come

together in time that alliance but this is a distraction it can give an opportunity to the chinese government to try to exploit this distraction and what we really want to see is that there are openings for for china or other potential adversaries in that regard. mr president i want to bring you back in at this point japan and china and the u.s. these are all important for germany as well the changes that washington has to carry out other way in germany's even nato's interests. well i think that we need just as us close and scrum ally we see him as a partner in the alliance for motile at the relisten which is was founded by some german and french prime ministers and ministers nevertheless what we need is

a credible burden sharing a sign from the european union and the european nato members that we are willing to take over more responsibility from the americans in the close vicinity of europe look to ukraine look to the west on balkans to the new middle east and to libya so a heavy burden sharing in the u. of the americans would mean that we take over more responsibility to become more credible on the other side this would also give the american president a signal that he is a could promulgated to the american population that the europeans are taking over more response an ability to ease the burden of the united states so that they could focus more in the pacific region this is very important because we we need the the world trade and we need also this free sea lines of communications and therefore it is all in one so a close cooperation with japan as also very helpful for the european union and

giving this israeli thing to happen that we will see troops in pulled out of germany. well this was an announcement and the question is when and where to if they shift these troops to poland this won't this would not be very negative because poland has a strong. fear of threat towards the russian movements border while ations as well as space violations and a lot of hybrid water so this would give a signal for more defense and credibility of nato towards towards russia however we expect from the u.s. president that he is discussing this with his closest ally its allies in the european union and in nato because you cannot shift troops without coordination with the host nation and germany since its serenity since 1900 is

a very strong partner and we would like to be handled all saw even and that with the united states this is not the way you treat your clothes part was ok rajneesh case of a member of the german parliament's foreign affairs committee and a formal general staff office out the german armed forces and separate haas for the deputy direct south asia program at the german marshall fund in washington d.c. gentlemen thank you both for those insights tonight. it's to the central african country of cameroon now and the story of how political rivalry is holding back the fight against the current of iris prevention if it's concentrated on the biggest city do not often a disputed election the government has banned the work off the opposition leader maurice come to all but he and his party are determined to press ahead blaze a all right some of the aid work is defying the bad. these

volunteers income room and getting british because of 900 provision keets. they are not fish must and i call b.s. hans and entices out a market in douala the country's largest city. cameras opposition leader come to critter do going to to hook up the spread of the core nobody knows. people are happy to get equipment but authorities see otherwise. the government sees these organisation this year go on to meetings with the rocks these speeches given a chance to do this response than the other is that any time i come or a security forces. says or started a program for a month ago i list of a dozen people hugging are arrested across the country. dispensaries who want is reached out to disadvantaged communities almost every day. 300000 keeps having

donated in over 15 communities through 45 because they come up to on a senior member of the team says they are not backing down here we are worth reporting you are despite all the out of our reporting that was the proposal made in my daughters that report you'll see that i was or was that in mind of this year because the boy up to be i'm of course box of corn to go along on a continuing no one day i'm a walk because they need it. and we need to do our best so there is no way to stop it. congress interior minister who. was not about billable on our request for an interview. the new. police brought in the country we more than 6500 cases fis must win. if true. your position is continue to distribute hygiene kits to people who can't afford

them. not deserve i am so happy i have spent much from my little savings to buy hand sanitizer and i don't even have enough money to buy food that i had to struggle to get joe. i'm now joined by dr mary stephen who is working as a technical officer at the w.h.o. regional office called good evening to you have the w.h.o. why do you think they have that the pandemic is exeter raising in africa is the continent ready. yes so we as. you do on the continent want to situation if you look at look at the different countries it varies from country to country the pandemic is driven by 10 countries over 80 percent of this case is imported from 10 countries india continents so we still have some through countries that are reporting less

than 100 years is more we haven't seen the peak yet be continent and countries continue to enhance the preparedness and readiness capacities to respond to potential increase in number of cases so we are seeing. countries establishing community hospitals trying to build capacity or enhance capacity at the low eyelids of the health system because given the peculiarity of assistance in africa most of the capacity as you find them at the national level but because of these potential increase in number of cases they are beginning to decentralize to view capacity to be able to detect to test to isolate treat and also contact where is the people that might have been exposed to positive call we include the implementation of preventive measures among the members of the

community saw the issue of hand. me one. distance. and one meter distance away from us just see that sorry to interrupt you there but i do want to ask you this we are still talking about africa being the least effective region in the world what is the explanation behind this. yes africa is the least african. region in terms of pierce's in terms of deaths so the beginning of the outbreak you recall that is the continent that had the importation of kids last so we started having. our 1000 kids by a new theory and we're in reported up close all continents of the world so before i didn't know there were already countries were already implementing into screening

and some of them were requiring team of tribal us now quite a number of countries my marriage to detect imported guess is in the end of some of them where the points of entry somewhere. would inquire into minded to quarantine and they were able to limit. the forecast period of these. communities so in terms of the deaths we also have. a younger population and. learn self more beauties that one tree roots to one's chances of dying so these are some of the factors that affect what to do and the number of. very interesting and thank you for that insight that struck him a steven from the congo brazzaville thank you. ukraine is one of the few countries in the world where sarah cassini is affordable

and easy to arrange but the global health emergency has prevented dozens of parents from joining venue born children the wrong way it has been painful for couples but potentially disastrous for children's development now some families have finally managed to be united as a correspondent with one such happy. one month and 3 days late but at least they're together. and your elders have traveled more than 10000 kilometers by car through a continent in lockdown to finally meet their daughter. and she still has to get used to us she doesn't know who we are. their daughter spent her 1st month with a carer in an apartment her parents only able to see her on a screen. you know the so sad we were crying just seeing her pictures and unable to do anything for her you just feel so helpless all you can do is wait . as their daughter's birth came and went and with no end to lock down in sight all

people are and your elders could do was scour the ukrainian press with the help of a translation up on the lookout for some sign of hope notice by his government nor the ukrainian embassy could or would help when they read that ukraine's human rights on boats woman had promised to help parents into the country and jumped in their car to drive the 3600 kilometers from their home in madrid to kiev. first trip was a live in the dark we didn't know what we'd encounter at the borders on route they received a long hoped for permission to enter ukraine yeah i cried when we received this i didn't think a piece of paper could make this happy. but it wasn't enough. this week was not a chance and we're just 500 kilometers from kiev then they told us no we just couldn't take it anymore they were missing just one document enough for them to be turned back at the ukrainian border returning home to madrid with the only option

without their baby a week later they were back at the ukrainian frontier after 7000 kilometer round trip to madrid and back this time with the right documents and they were finally allowed into the country other parents have been less fortunate separated from their children by even greater distances and still unable to enter ukraine how many babies are still without their parents no one can say with any confidence. that you know we've lost months of our daughter's life. that was super important yes. it was actually a month of 3 days to leave it felt like a year spanish must sound strange to her she doesn't want to sleep she just wants to listen to us. and now she's only sleep. this journey to becoming a family like any other is not yet over to register their daughter's birth in spain

will probably still have to go to court in spain as in many other european countries surrogacy is illegal grazer another legal illegal immigrant of ours locked down which is the 1st of many obstacles on that path. so. if it's knowing how many babies are still in limbo as a result. we're all scratching our heads here trying to work that out but it seems that even the government doesn't really know so we heard from the ukrainian government's human rights all those women who help families like this 20 ukraine with special permission she says about 100 families have been in touch with her over recent weeks asking for help getting into the country while those travel restrictions them place but experts say that is just the tip of the iceberg they. they estimate that most agencies here in ukraine have been advising their families to stay quiet not to reach out to the government they're worried about too much government intervention there have been calls from certain lawmakers here to ban

international sarkozy so there was a real worry about coming out and making clear quite how big a phenomenon this is and i think the pictures that went around the world of those babies in a hotel room they really are representative that was essentially a p.r. stunt by a very savvy director who wants to get international attention to resolve this problem most babies including babies babies spent that 1st month last month or 2 in a private apartment with a carer so the picture the reality a bit more banal than those pics. but this seriously is an industry that. sees families from across the world coming to ukraine this is not just european phenomenon you have families miss far as argentina saudi arabia china some of those chinese families it's estimated have been up to 3 or 4 months late breaking out their babies given the lockdown starts in china earlier than in europe or north america so this really is a global phenomenon happening here in ukraine. all right the day is almost done but the conversation continues online join us on twitter either at one of me at 1.7

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