this is from india. china. the 2 sides have been. heavily militarized.

because. thanks for joining us they. were trying these forces along the disputed border. india. said china also suffered casualties although tension between the 2 sides have been building over the last month this is the 1st incident in over 40 years.

high in the himalayas trouble has been brewing for weeks these satellite images show indian and chinese troops gathering in the disputed border region no for the 1st time in decades india says 3 soldiers were killed in hand to hand combat beijing says it was defending its territorial integrity and. shock on june 15th indian troops seriously violated the bilateral consensus and crossed the border line twice in gauging in illegal activities and provoking and attacking chinese personnel resulting in serious physical confrontation between border forces on the 2 sides. this yellow line marks the boundary between the superpowers known as the line of actual control it is not a hard for china and india have never agreed on where their border should lie. in 2017 the 2 sides confronted each other for $73.00 days after indian troops blocked

construction of a ruled by china flare ups have vexed chinese and indian leaders for years with a lasting solution seemingly out of reach this latest escalation suggests a rocky road ahead for the 2 nuclear armed nations. for more on the editor of false magazine which focuses on indian military matters and he's also the co-author of a book dragon on our doorstep looking at india's military policies china for inside me troops of alternations an eyeball to eyeball contact for over a month now was it only a matter of time before such a deadly clash. no i don't think so because the neither side wanted an escalation and if you see in this clash no fight on the been used it's basically some heated moments which were beyond anybody's control and at this time

the people have died because of beacons and stones which were thrown basically have been lynched as you rightly pointed out we don't like a good deed done thing and inside the other side we don't know but now we also know that also because of the the uncommitted general to start now they are can topple a thing and they're trying to defuse the situation so this was certainly not on the cards at all whereas both prayed hard on the buildup one can imagine the dead be significant pressure on the indian leadership to respond and you've also recently said india has no military options in the dock if that's the case what happens next. yes so you see what happens is that the chinese have already taken a very belligerent posture and they have sort of warned india for the simple reason that what the chinese have in the button on the most region is their operational

base which basically means that they have a lot of soldiers they have equipment they have done the training they have ammunition and they are absolutely ready and you know oriented own so so all the requirements which are it needed for an escalation they are ready all the other high unfortunately the indian side of simply build up for not even the guarding role but the police signal show with indian say that day are ready it basically i would say that in some way that assad has. been blown off for the simple reason it's into the crude not we we are not oriented you know all the things the pluses that the other side has india doesn't which reflects the way he read it very clearly in the tone of the p l a in that statement and the budget and so i think it's a situation which is very tricky for india what are india's next steps do you see

a deescalation happening. or absolutely because neither side wants an war because what will happen is the next step i see the chinese taken taking a more hardened position. you see 0 ad wherever they were grilling go to lead all give up because currently we have for the unions that who they get inside their girl knowing fully well that whether they have that group of their operational base or the indians who create a hobby to add to good things going will be a pretty difficult to argue with. so they understand the the limitations of i know i'll be a good army and they are good military so their position i expect will be something to be hard and i expect there will be also much more than they would have other ways off and it's a real force magazine for even so i thank you very much for speaking to us. thank you north korea has confirmed that it's blown up an office supposed setup to improve relations with south korea the joint years one office was situated in the

town of kin song just north of the border shield has threatened to retaliate if continues its aggression the building's destruction comes as tension between the 2 sides this clearly over the leaflets and campaign by south korean activists. a dramatic display of. and more evidence that relations between north and south korea are exploding before our eyes. only 2 years ago this building in the town of chi some just north of the border was opened to great fanfare. it was meant to foster better relations between the 2 nations who were still technically at war. but on tuesday north korean state television confirmed the building had been destroyed thumb moved at full soul to call an emergency national security

council meeting. triggers for lower kissel we sternly warned that we will respond strongly if north korea continues to take measures to aggravate the situation. tension has been building for weeks as activists in the south ignored pleas from seoul and continued to air dropped anti p.r.n. yang propaganda over the border into the north. last week p.r. nyang announced it was severing all communication links with south korea. at the weekend kim yong jong the increasingly powerful sister of north korea's leader kim jong un warns that the liaison office would soon be destroyed. neighbors russia and china are clearly concerned because. north and south korea are the

same people as a close neighbor china has always hoped that the korean peninsula would maintain peace and stability in the cerulean and she some are wondering whether this is a crisis manufactured by north korea to distract attention from stalled nuclear talks between kim jong un and us president trump whatever the rationale north korea has yet again captured the world's attention. correspondent frank's frank what spot this incident. well you mentioned it earlier the the leafleting campaign from south korea a couple of n.g.o.s here 'd one called the fighters for free north korea led by fox on hock a north korean defector routinely floats large balloons carrying leaflets over the

border and into north korea they are released dropping thousands of leaflets just along the border regions inside the north for north koreans to pick up and look at and consume some information denouncing the north korean regime he's done this for on words of a decade but has been ramping up activities this year together with his brother who sends rice in plastic bottles by the sea with currents taking them into north korea and also infuriating the pyongyang regime who spoke out against this earlier kim yodha jiang the sister of leader kim jong un saying before long a tragic scene of the useless north south jointly is on office completely collapsed would be seen in evidence evidently that's what happened earlier today at 249 in the afternoon the issue visa different from them being adopted to north korea has been brought on by north korea and the boss and it's something that has

been discussed with some as well has some kind of taken any action on this. well you know it's quite a controversial issue here in the south with 50 percent saying that you know these n.g.o.s should be able to continue it and half of the south korean populous on the side saying it needs to be reined in. the defectors have said both of which i've interviewed recently have said that they feel that this is appeasement and conservatives here are saying this is a piece meant to the dictatorial regime that they view run by kim jong un and say that they should be able to keep doing this whereas the south korean government that is pursuing kind of peacemaking with north korea that we saw with the you know north korea being invited and participating in the chain winter olympics back in 2018 they want to encourage engagement with north korea so they're you know trying to prevent them from sending this they did block the rice being sent into north

korea recently and they want to prevent again these n.g.o.s run by north korean defectors to from sending in these these messages condemning the north korean government but they say the ngos say they're going to keep keep on with their leafletting can campaign frankly to do the name of. jong this is sort of north korea's leader kim jong what can you tell us about how to involvement with this latest escalation. well this gets back to a story that we covered earlier about the you know grave illness of kim jong il and that proved to be false but when we thought that he was on death's door we were considering and all experts were considering who is the potential heir to the north korean government who's going to replace kim jong un and the answer was

collectively perhaps junk i spoke to an expert here in south korea who said if we hear of cumulus jones activities in her policies being pronounced in north korea propaganda then we'll know she is the heir to the throne she will likely be the next leader of north korea and that's what we're seeing here with some of her pronouncements being you know propagandized by the north korean government now right really for the band being frank smith and sort of thank you so much fear. now to some of the other stories making news this hour here in germany 2 suspected right being extremists are standing trial accused of killing a politician in the west of the country well to look at his house a year ago he was a supporter of chancellor angela merkel decision to allow hundreds of thousands of migrants into germany in 2015. malta has opened an investigation into alleged links between a former police chief and people implicated in the murder of prominent journalist

definitely. 3 years ago the police chief resigned in january amid accusations that he had bungled the probe into the journalist. investors in germany are more confident than they have ever been since the 2008 crisis according to a leading economic research institute that's despite the coronavirus fueled recession in june investor expectations for the coming 6 months rose for the 3rd time in a row. u.s. president donald trump says he's going to cut the number of american troops in germany by nearly 10000 from current levels of about 35000 he said he was taking this step because berlin had failed to meet its defense spending commitments nato secretary-general stoltenberg says alliance members would need to hold a discussion about how and when i would draw would take place. presson trump and i

discussed this issue during a phone call last week and my message will start to the u.s. presence in europe it's good for europe but it's also good for north america and united states because the transatlantic bomb is essential to the strength and the success of the alliance the united states and the president has announced what they have announced. but it remains but it's not yet decided how and when. this decision will be implemented and i expect this to be an issue that will be discussed at the upcoming defense ministerial meeting. and i was spoken with the president of the book you know there are present is of all the us on this ration and i also spoke with the german defense minister on the go to go called bob or so this now in only going dialogue on this issue so clearly president crumbs move has

shaken nato and especially germany the foreign minister heiko must seems he has received no detailed information about the troop withdrawal. for 70 years tens of thousands of american troops have been stationed in germany for europe their presence at bases like spangdahlem a guarantor of peace for the us and expression of its military might. on monday donald trump confirmed he would be withdrawing almost $10000.00 of them blaming bear lens there we have to meet is 2 percent need to defend spending commitments but he wrongly said it was indebted to the military alliance so germany's delinquent they've been delinquent for years and they owe nato billions of dollars and they have to pay it so we're protecting germany and that delinquent that doesn't make sense that the u.s. military presence in germany was a reginald a bulwark against the soviet threat during the cold war and continues to be

a deterrent against potential russian aggression trump decision threatens to further strain the relationship between the 2 allies. germany since its serenity since 1908 is a very strong partner and we would like to be handled also even and with the united states this is not the way you treat your close part was u.s. presidents have long called for germany to increase defense spending but some suspect the latest decision is a reaction to german chancellor angela merkel's refusal to attend the g. 7 summit that was to be hosted by the us president later this month to all trump seems to see on the americal not everybody else has systemic rival. for the impersonality does matter is this is also part of our solution as policy so it's less about the individuals or the.

individuals to matter it is a new self definition of what the american interest seems to be it's not clear if trump will be able to push through the troop withdrawal which faces stiff opposition in congress even members of his own party opposed the plan. and you don't use neutral correspondent to schultz is following this closely and joins us from brussels attorney general young stoltenberg said that the troop withdrawal still needs to be discussed so this is not a done deal what i believe the secretary general meant was that the logistics of this happening would be discussed at nato but he didn't really give me the indication that this was under negotiation the u.s. has the right to pull its military troops out of any place they're deployed at any time it wants so it doesn't have to discuss this with germany in advance it just

would have been nice to do so as an ally as part of the alliance and i think that that's what secretary general defense secretary mark s. for will be asked at this meeting this taking place tomorrow and the next day really what are your intentions and why didn't you give us a heads up and didn't you hearing from the u.s. ambassador to nato. and what has she been saying that's right the ambassador just briefed reporters ahead of the meeting and she was trying to downplay tensions over this move she said basically that the u.s. military has been tasked with looking at u.s. deployments around europe and where they might best be situated for the defense of the continent making it seem like this was in the best interests of nato when in fact no military advisor that i've heard from or spoken to thinks that this is a good strategic move and in fact it seems to not take into account that it's in the u.s. interest to leave these troops in germany many of them are not there to defend germany or europe or have any nato role whatsoever like the african headquarters

that are in stuttgart that has nothing to do with europe this move over good doesn't show many of the u.s. troops of the alliance is broader defense posture has that been weakened. well nothing's happened yet and it's not entirely clear that it will happen in fact the u.s. ambassador much like secretary general stolzenberg said that you know she didn't have any firm ideas about how and when this drawdown would take place new details whatsoever so since we've heard from u.s. lawmakers and u.s. military officials that they would like this not to happen at all perhaps it won't there's still time for people to talk president out of this so it's not clear exactly when this might even begin so perhaps we won't be seeing it at all in nato overall to posture won't be changed at all it remains to be seen and with president

trump you never know if he'll change his mind and speaking of president trump he has been talking about redeploying some of these troops from germany to poland and was it was sure i would use new pressure on russia. moscow there's an agreement between nato and russia that there will not be a permanent troop presence very near the russian border and clearly if a large number of u.s. troops were moved to poland that could give russia new reason to complain about the alliance in fact what i hear time and again is that the only person happy about this decision by president trump is russian president vladimir putin so he may may well be happy to have yet another reason to criticize nato officials in brussels for us thank you so much. germany has launched its official up to 5 spread of the coronavirus the technology concerned warnings to users if they've been in close contact with anyone confirmed to harvard the government hopes

it will help shorten infection trains but the app is voluntary and as d. w. has been finding out not all germans trust it. this app is hope to become a game changer in germany's fight against corona it took much longer to develop than expected for security reasons the government says. the covert app uses bluetooth to determine which other smartphones are in the vicinity and for how long if an app you use it tests positive for the corona virus other users who were in longer contact with that person get a warning message. all data is anonymised and only stored locally on each individual smartphone health minister span stressed that the app is no cure all. that is all it. but it is still important to observe the rules keep it is face masks and stick to the hygiene rules the key difference is that it can help warn

contacts of an infected person much quicker than before. so. there is no obligation to use the corona warning out yet the government hopes that many people will do so. to download the app is one small step for everyone but believe in fighting the pandemic when they use it trust in the best data protection possible. for all and according to recent survey only 42 percent of people in germany intend to download the app. and just this whole coronavirus thing seems very strange to be so i wouldn't be interested in the app for security reasons. and it's too much surveillance is going to solve it that's like instagram a snap chat use all my data anyway so it's the same thing. while the launch of

germany's app marks a new approach to fighting covert 19 it appears far from offering an eye to the pandemic. let's bring your roundup of other developments in the koran of august make there are no more than 8000000 confirmed cases around the world over 437000 people have died that's according to the tally by the johns hopkins university in the u.s. new zealand says it has to do cases of core benteen ending a 24 day run off nor new infections the cases are 2 women who have traveled from the u.k. scientists that have been college in london will start the 1st human trial of a potential over 1000 vaccine this week with funding from the british government and finance over. about 300 volunteers will receive 2 doses of the vaccine to test its safety if you can see. to german football now by in munich and wrap up and 8 straight from the sneak attack when they visit vedder braman tonight

by and have won the last 10 games on a 7 points clear of 2nd placed but also a daughter and with 3 games to go. for many people the coronavirus has meant change and uncertainty not so by munich. since the been his legal resumed after its pandemic shut down by end of reimposed a grip on german football now just a win away from an 8th straight title they social distancing might scupper this year's celebrations we have on my list of it. we want to become champions if we reach our goal then of course we will try to celebrate while conforming to the rules to fight on no club has one more german title for them by n 29 in total their recent dominance is such that you have to go back to 2012 to find a different league that you have to receive dortmund. tonight's opponents rather

braman are fighting at the other end of the table but their coach thinks he's found chinks in the varians armor. i have weaknesses that few changes have discovered there will be challenges but we have an idea as to how we will approach this guy. from his. generosity that appears in their vocabulary. in the valley. had previously expressed outrage actually in the so.

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