old is the same, find common ground, more of it not less, put it in writing, signed it, and publish it for the world to see. well that has not happened this year, but divide over how the reactor watches invasion of ukraine simply to great could india bridge that divide? does it host the g 20 leaders summit this weekend could and he has prime minister, could he be the magical mediator? it's not working very good. india invited, the russian president and the chinese president both said thanks, but no thanks. i bridge off in berlin. this is the day the it's as if he be seen as a blow for the hospitals have low to the g 20 process. i don't think it has anything to do with india. and as the indian side in public, at least they're trying to doubt play it. i mean i, i think a lot of a decision, they make comments, they would know best. but if you talk to people in private,

i've spoken to an observer recently who's close to the government policy here at this pass and said that he didn't pay to be calculated efforts to embarrass india about i, i would not. that's also the way that you are also coming up in queen elizabeth died on this day one year ago. tonight we ask, how is brittany remembering the world's favorite monarch. it's kind of special to me because she was coordinated about when i was born and i turned 70 this year. so she had a really long rain. and i felt she really did a whole lot for the british empire as it was kind of shrinking in those years. and she handled it with incredible grace for 2 hours, he was watching on cbs in the united states. and to all of you around the world, welcome, we begin the day on the eve of one of the most important meetings this year, the g. many leaders,

the summit leaders of the world's most powerful nations are convening this weekend in new delhi, on the agenda. how to solve the biggest problems, such as climate change, fear, and security, and what to do about rushes more in ukraine. and there are no big hopes ahead of this summit, especially over ukraine. in fact, in the run up to this summit, india has made it clear that it plans to put the focus of talks on the global south . that includes the economies in asia, africa, and south america. india. they are trying to manage expectations ahead of this summit and acknowledgement of just how entrenched divisions over russia's war and ukraine have become. i want you to take a listen to the message that's coming from the european union about this. i don't think that this g printed results in 2 days, all the problems of the states. but i think it shouldn't be a bold step in the right direction and should to work for me to type it into support in gen presidency. sometimes it's better to manage to manage

a tough statements, but to do some space to the engine presidency, to work activity. maybe sometimes discreetly, to maximize the change or community. we hope that the bus you go to the terminal to and there is no secret about the position that you is defending the table. or are we going to do all those by restrictions to create clear words coming there from the european union to more now i'm joined by l. e. y l e. as a senior analyst with the razor groups focuses on global geo politics. the big picture, if you will, who george we did night from washington dc. how it's good to have you with us. yeah, you are also an author. we have to tell people you publish the book last year with the title, america's great power opportunity. is this g 20 summit, one of those great power opportunities for the us as well. thank you very much for, for the kind mentioned in my book and i would argue that it is presence matters.

presence is a very important part of seizing opportunity to have to, to show up, to compete. and the united states is certainly going to play us is presence. now. china and russia have delegations that are attending the g. 20 baton as president is not there, nor is the roughest president the us president joe biden is there. and so the president and his team will argue that the united states is showing up in its fullest capacity. and then it's gonna try to present itself is a credible alternative to china, russia in managing the world's most pressing challenges. what does the absence of the chinese and russian presidents at the summit with me? what, what does, what does their absence really mean if anything, as far as make a couple of points? the 1st, because it's underscore is the extent which do political frictions do. political attentions are not only overshadowing the ability of the host country to focus on other priorities, but really impeding of the function and go to a bodies such as the g. 20 more, more broadly, if you,

if you rewind the clock maybe 10 years ago or 15 years ago, the g 20 played an instrumental role in managing global macro economic crises in advancing progress on climate change. it's now substantially has hindered and its ability to do so because of these do political friction. so that would be the 1st one. the 2nd point is my, you know, my thinking is a, china and russia probably have different reasons for not spending their, their highest level of leaders. i think that in the case of russia, i imagine that india is probably somewhat relieved that drives including, isn't. it is, it saves it, i think it provides a little bit of a headache chart on the other hand, seems to want to downgrade the importance of the, the g 20 and instead elevate the importance of the brakes, which of course recently expanded. so the challenge for india is, in the absence of the chinese president, the rest of the president. one, how does it, how does the salvage the deliberation to, to how does it also present itself the united states and other like money partners and a better like. and since we're talking about great power opportunities,

what about the host country india prime minister, the major moody knows india star is rising right now. what would be the best possible outcome of this summit for him if we could be inside his mind as we couldn't ask for better outcomes inc, in terms of being the host nation. so already india his talking to victory, a significant diplomatic victory. i think that if, if you're in 5 minutes for movie, you want to come out of this summit of being seen as a more potent competing power. a more capable country, more capable of regional leader in the pacific, but also more capable of global leader that can bridge again, tractable divides between advanced industrial democracies. on the one hand between developing countries, the indian wants to do it, wants to portray itself. and if you like, it was the purpose tray itself is a champion of developing countries, hence the discussion of giving the african union membership entities funny. but it

also wants to be taken more seriously as a major power and its own right. very often when we talk about great power compensation or strategic competition, we talked about the united states, china and russia. but we don't talk about india even though by many metrics. if you look at in these populations, the indian has overtaken china to be the world's most populous nation. india is projected to grow more rapidly than china this year, next year. and there are many other metrics that we could site, but india wants to say, look, we're a champion and developing countries, but look at our present metrics and not trajectory. we should be taken more seriously on the global stage where the load is india almost feels like it's, it's trying to be everything to everyone earlier this year. but most of it was a guest of under the white house. as you said, he's champion the global south at this summit and he's a member of the brakes group. is moody, is he running the risk? i'm trying to have it all trying to have his junior political cake and eat it to so i can understand why you know why that risk might be proceed. but i think that

the, the prime minister and the top advisors are exemplifying as well diplomacy. and i, my sense of india's position is we meeting india, we should be as well, we should be pragmatic and we should be ami directional. and what i mean is that there will be instances in which india aligns itself more with, say, the united states with other advanced industrial democracies. but india is not going to jettison entirely. it's relationship to say russia with their on without the ravia. i do what india is doing is on an issue specific basis according different coalitions and maximizing its freedom of foreign policy maneuver. and i think that that really is going to be the way of the future. as you politics becomes more fractious. i know the country that really will rise to the top and succeed, and these new do political sweepstakes will be the ones that are more pragmatic, more flexible, more creative and their diplomacy. and i think that india, as an example, are in that regard. and only, it's also before we run out of time, i just want to ask you what your thoughts will there be a final joint communicate at the end of this g 20 summit?

i'm not optimistic and for reasons that you i think you referenced in your opening remarks on the issue of rushes and ukraine. it overshadowed a last year. some of the last is the 20, some of which was not able to produce a joint statement. and i would imagine that issue as well if there were to be any strong language condemning russian egress in china and russia would of course strenuously object. so i would imagine that india will issue a chair summary. i don't think that there will be a joint statement, but i think that in the chair summary, the india will try to spotlight issues that affect the global south and not allowed view of political frictions to overshadow. a very, very consequential gathering of world leaders. the range of groups, alley wind, joining us tonight from washington. eli, appreciate your time in your analysis. thank you. thank you very much for having me . it was a pleasure, as it is often described as natives, achilles heel, a strip of sparsely populated land stretching some 65 kilometers on the border

between the native states, poland and lithuania. the so walking yeah, is a challenge for native to defend. the strip connects, the russian exclaimed, clinic rod with bella roofs. if russia and bella roost were ever to invade and close that gap, nato members, lithuania, lafayette, and estonia, they would be cut off from allies to the south. would end attempt to rebuild the russians, be a mission impossible. dw terry shoulds traveled through this a walking gap with british nato troops or training for anything bucked. these nato troops based in poland are moving through what the alliance considers, perhaps, is most vulnerable area. a land core and or nicknamed the lucky gap. it's located between 2 nato allies, poland and lithuania, but also between russia and developers. this is cause for concern because it's the

only way for nato to reach its baltic state allies by land. there is any way, one way to get to latvia and that is alt through lithuania. and this will okey doke . that means of moscow were to seize the sa walkie cord or lobby, and the other baltic states would be cut off and could only be reached by sea. the commanding officer of this british squadron on his way to an exercise in latvia, says training in the region is vital for us going up to lot via provides a new real estate, new training opportunity. uh, the opportunity to go up against a live simulated enemy, which, which puts my soldiers to the test. some of those tests are just about getting troops to where they need to be. this con boy had 3 vehicles breakdown causing many hours of delay. but parker says, figuring out how to get them back on the road was part of the training. he wanted his troops to get an overnight at the nato bass. in lithuania, gave the british troops a chance to rest and refilled their tanks, hosted by german army. lieutenant colonel. andre is kiersten, are 2 commands,

the multi national battle group keeping watch from the other end of the swanky corridor. we conduct the trainings in order to be prepared for us and noble russian forces crossing the border to the plane. yeah, yeah, well, military is always a very crucial for minutes of your positions. and of course, it's a strong sign to show that if you're not sitting in a little better expect to be able to move between the baltic states, they're able to move, but could they move faster than russian forces? that's an open question. nato may not be doing enough to answer this. motorcade had a police escort to guarantee access to the highway and quick processing at the border crossings. but in case of a real crisis, fewer things would be under nato's control. and that's why some experts are saying the alliance and stage more snap exercises to practice what might happen if russia war to attack with no warning to experience that nato's former top military commander general phillip breedlove strongly advocates more no noticed exercises in

so walk and beyond which would push troops in his words, to failure, to come back stronger. we need to give our forces hard problems to solve and force them to think outside the box. it's more than getting to an exercise area and setting up camp, we need to be tested in the quiet city of so walky residents are a custom to hearing such talk, especially after russia launched warren ukraine. some are dismissive, others thankful the worst case scenarios so far remain just hypotheses of war, gaming and planning. i think there's nothing to worry about if you either say, oh lou, be terrified that it can like a swell happened to us. you flew, went in, and they talked at that situation with the be completely different probably we, we would be attacked. nato military officials acknowledge a more aggressive russia means they need to increase their readiness for any

potential crisis, which includes making sure so lucky remains an open core door and is less of a gap in the series filter point there. terry shows, she joins me now from brussels. good evening to you. very. you laid out the challenges in defending the so walking core door. but does anyone really think that russia plans to try to ever seize a branch who knows any more? people didn't think russia planned to try to seize ukraine, and that's the circumstances everyone brings up. nato simply has to presume that russia may try to do that. now, there were a lot more worries in recent months when delete tia, you have gaming for goes and was sent to bell or roots. and there were even rumors circulating publicly that his wagner group was actually plotting to seize us to walk. you get that may have just been to make nato nervous, but nonetheless, it certainly reminded everyone of the precariousness of the situation of this geography. and that's why general breedlove,

the former supreme allied commander of europe, is saying, nato needs to up its game in training for any event you ality. i'd like to play more of, of my interview with him, where he explains more about how important it is to train as he says, to failure. so if we really look back, say, 20 months ago, towards the, just before the beginning of this war, those 4 nations were vocal and completely right about russia long before the rest of the west was right about russia. and so we have nations that are talking to. busy about how important this land is, the same nations have gotten it right with russia faster and more often than we have. i believe we need to pay attention. what are they saying that we need more exercises? we have gradually increased the size of the force that is on high ready. but

the fact of the matter is the main response to russian aggression is to put more forces on hi ready. now may i just share with you how much? uh i how much i love respect and want to lift up my made o partners. i think, you know, i served 8 times in europe, culminating in the sac your tour. and so it's pretty fair that to say that i'm a native support. but may i just offer a bit of a difference among nato forces and that is, there are a few, a few who actually test themselves significantly on their readiness. and there are few or are of that few that actually exercise them to failure. a lot of exercises are more

ceremonial and about the logistics and pulling them off. then they are actually testing a force to fail. things are going to go wrong and you shouldn't want them to go wrong on these exercises. rice as well. yes, we learn vice being exposed to our problems and our field and, and a responsiveness again, is what we have included in our answer to russia's attack. we're telling our forces they have to be ready in certain amount of time. if russia decides to invade a nato, an area, hopefully we will have good intelligence that tells us to be ready, but we can't, we can't rely on. and also note that if pressure decides to invade, and we start to respond,

what russia knows is that if we get our kids to the 5, they lose. so we're not going to get an on obstructed path. we're going to be moving under attack. moving under that attack, there's just some incredibly candid words they are coming from general breedlove, i should say, retired general brit breedlove. i wonder if he would have said those things when he was still serving, but he's definitely now urging nato to push itself harder in training. so let me ask you, terry, the exercise that you were just on. how does that compare to watch? read. busy is recommend so as general breedlove says these, this motor k, but i joined to this convoy, if russia were to presume that nato is moving to defend the baltic states for the north, it would attack this convoy. so that's something that, of course, if this were an exercise or military mobility,

they would have to keep in mind. now i shouldn't be clear the exercise that i joined to the royal lancers who were moving from their base in poland to let the we're not exercising military mobility. they were moving to go up and play the enemy against canadian forces, which they were looking forward to, cuz that's, that's pretty fun. but nonetheless, the part of the, the exercise that i joined was looking at how you get there through this a walk you get. now major guy parker, who you saw there in my piece, said that he predicted 2 of his vehicles would break down on this 2 days of travel . that's simply something they know statistically. so 3 vehicles broke down, but he also made sure that his mechanics could fix them and this is something he very much wanted to test his people on shore. and in a war time scenario, you could have banned in those vehicles and move on. so you can move more quickly, but he accepted the delays that it would cause in order to make sure that they knew how to fix the vehicles on the move. so in fact, major parker was trying to do some of what general breedlove was saying,

and he said that he would like to do more of these exercises. so yeah, there are people inside the military that very much want to test themselves to their limits. yeah. which way i think people think that that's exactly what they're doing as you are reporting that may not necessarily be the case. excellent reporting terry shields in brookings tonight. terry, thank you. thank you. in marketing that says down to the appellate mattresses, this and mike session. we were cold with grades of fiction, a long live devoted surveys, and all she meant to so many of us that was britain's king and charles, paying tribute to his late mother, queen elizabeth, who died one year ago today. the queen was the world's longest reigning monarch, she spent 70 years and $214.00 days on the throne of the royal's. and now remembering king charles and queen camille, that attended the private for your service and think 12 wishes in scotland. scotland,

where queen elizabeth spent her final days across the u. k. gun salutes. and tolling bill is marked the anniversary of the queen's death and the king's a session to the throne. i do want to go down to my british colleague, charlie chosen until she's in london. charlotte is good to see you. the royal family is known and loved as for as pomp and circumstance. and also perhaps for being modest toby, seeing that modesty one year on, i mean, he didn't feel like this was a grand affair in terms of how the country remembered the late queen. or of course, we will remember the ground events that you were starting to use the jubilee 70 years of a queen on the throne being won the funeral of the coordination of king charles, all of which we reported on the dw huge, huge events, nothing like that. today though, i think the world family would have described this as a more respectful private occasion. not suddenly how it was billed to all of this

full today. that members of the family would take time to reflect privately. they did not gather together that with no big events. and as you mentioned that king charles he was in scotland. that's why he's been spending the summer. he mocked it with the press service. he will say when townsend spoke to a number of well wishes fixing, i think a lot of people would say because that indeed as you mentioned was what the queen spends his final days. uh that was also advocate the quote because it is a fuel moment, really you called the one year on the battery between that he was like a one year since his accession to the swearing. so that has to be marked as well. and with that, you so gun salutes at various places around london, not with money. look why today, perhaps, and some might have expected. and it's going to ask you about the key and get me to how is he being received now, a year after his mother's death to that was

a huge amount of concern. i think trepidation about how the transition from the queen to king charles would go the queen being such a normally popular figure here. whether you are uh in favors and want to key. whether you more of the republican, she was still a respected figure. she had indeed been constance to generations of people. hey there most people that you speak to. why don't remember a time? well, didn't remember a time before the queen, so it was assigned to me because then when she died, king charles took me, but i also supposed to be quite different because one of the reasons the queen was so well regarded was she really kept her opinions to himself, she doesn't seem to be interfering in any way. king charles, the full for coming king was a little bit more out states and some concerned about whether he continued that's through as software. and he hasn't in actual facts in the public just that he had

a very smooth transition. they've been no major control overseas on his pause. indeed, the polls show that the popularity of the monarchy hasn't dropped since he became came. what's interesting though, is the huge generational divide. if you are old people, people over 6580 percent would say that their favorite, the amount of to you, if you look younger people, just 37 percent 18 to 24 year olds are in favor. so a lot of questions they're about to the role or the money to the place of the want to keep going. yeah. yeah, exactly. and of course, we know of people of all age groups watched the netflix series the crown, and that that has been a boost for the royal family, at least as how is reported. i've got about 30 seconds. i'm gonna ask you, are the tories, are they still flocking to london? now that charles is key? absolutely, i mean, london is always a popular of cities towards the various reasons. it's not just about it and want to keep it as you say, the crown played a big role. they've been in the headlines a lot. there's been a lot of international interest. i think you have to mention,

prince, how are you here in the yeah. what was the diary about the risk with his family? so yeah, he was still getting a lot of interest in the monica here from visiting that is for sure. don't use charlotte chosen hill show is always good. seeing you have a good weekend for the day is almost done. the conversation continues online and remember whatever happens between now and then, tomorrow is another day. hope you have a good weekend. as we'll see you against the

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