>> after the end of the cold war, all allies were cutting the defense budget. and we see they have stopped the kurds. an majority of allies have all of the plans in place. in france, it is increasing significantly. france has said that they will meet the 2% guideline. when it comes to total defense spending, there is a significant increase by allies.

there is more than 100 billion more than defense in 2016. and based on the national plans, there is even more in the coming years. there is no doubt that we have seen a significant change. allies are investing more. france is investing more. live andis because we need to invest more and share security. and how to fund the nato budget. the headquartersndnd so on. that we have a new formula for those costs. germany will play more -- pay more. and the rest will be shared with allies.

and this would not finance the nato budget. >> by saying that nato is brain dead, is this your way of asking us to paris as soon as possible? you still think that nato is brain-dead? ,nd within the same perspective a member country turkey that if nato doesn't support military plans in northern syria against the kurdish militia?

and what is your position about quality building five unit works in europe? your first point, i have met the secretary-general time and time again before our summit. i don't need to make a statement in the france. i have been looking at in the past and the future.e. and i see there is a disconnect between the two. this is time for us to try to tackle the issue of reducing the financial burden that the u.s. is taking on. there are a number of questions that have not been resolved. peace in europe, the imf, turkey

. there is no real point of tackling issues of burden sharing and cost sharing. that is why we need to have a wake-up call. a wake-up call that i tried to instigate with my press release. we have the heads of state and government. ususing these questionss a as as point,t, we will be able to o te them and move forward on the major issues in the summit and in the future. ambiguity ino much the future. and as to much ambiguity when people start talking about how the funding goes to one specific area when the real issues are concrete issues. touch on the question of cyber sesecurity, , you are exay right.

is this an issue for nato to tackle? somehowow inely which nato can helelp. with heavy services involved in several security. , issues of autonomy . and the consequences that will have. this is what we use and what we send and receive via those channels.

it's not just a commercial. sometimes, there are people that will focus entirely on the strategic point. and i'm not trying to lay blame here. when we have infrastructure, military infrastructure, and if we have operation. do we have any form of weakness, in invulnerability, or technological weakness. requires a lot of input. >> nato is a strong alliance. and we're responding to the changing world and the reason

why nato is the most successful in history is that we have been able to change. that is what we're doing. space that is critical to our operations. we are stepping up the joint efforts to fight international terrorism. and these are issues that we continue in london. we need strong, multilateral institutions. secret.e is no there are 29 different allies. we have the same kind of difference before.

and by doing that, we have been .ble to preserve peace on turkey, that is an example where we see differences. concecerns abouty the differences. agree same time, we all on the importance of not jeopardizing the gains we e have made. our part of the global coalition , the fight is not over. ago, theny months

united kingdom had 8 million people that liberated all of those people, millions of people. and we have a strong agreement in nato that we must continue to fight against isis. affect all sides of our society. this will be important for transportation, whether it be on all aspect of civilian life. therefore, the resilience, the security of these systems are of great importance. it is the reason why we recently it based ondate

requirements and nato for telecommunications infrastructure. incncluded requirements for 5g5g. this is about making sure all allies have risk assessments. and by doing that, we don't name any company but make sure all allies take the risk seriously and we make sure that when we invest in 5g, we do it in a way that doesn't undermine the resilience. >> you have just been listening to the french president speaking

alongside the secretary-general. very tense at times between nato and france. comments between the french president emmanuel macron calling nato brain-dead. listening towas that preress conference with me and joins me now on the set. doug, really two different visionons of nato.o. still l you feel t that comingng through. he is the nato chief and very composed. ever known to be the cautious diplomat. his mission is to talk the talk and make it sound as cohesive as possible. there are differences with others notably in the u.s. that

his vision of nato's cohesiveness, he said that while questions are being asked about doingamerica, they are more and working more togetherer than they have in decades. here we run headlong into a wall of reality. on one hand, it is true that nato committees and nato allies continue to. the other reality. president trump has spoken with nothing but contempt. it was even early on in the administration, questioning the utility or whether the mutual defense pact.

including trump trying to .acktrack from that and signal she disagrees with the comments that nato is brain-dead and nato very much rececognizes nato's importance, very much on board as the largest member of nato. officials,u have the the envoys, all of it. and you have donalald trump himself. a lot of officials don't know what donald trtrump say the next day. it is still cohesive in doing more and investing more. the e great unknown is reaeally donald trump. radical on foreign

policy in general and nato foreign policy of particular. and the u.s. election, what happens if he is reelected? i would not be able to do what he just did. i would be far less composed. >> we have to talk about the money. they said it just a few moments ago that the budgets are being readjusted. >> what he is talking about, it is the nato collective budget.

it is separate from the national defense spending. it is over $1 trillion. is taking up some of the defense spending budget. budget is fore important things. joint security investments. some combined military operations within nato. they are looking at the national defense spending budget and donald trump has turned it into a massive headline. this has been an issue for many years. that obviously the u.s. is the

largest economic military power in the world. trump has tried to puput the fos on h him and make it look like he's the first one ever to bring the topic up and give himself all the credit for the headline figure that they have been using for the past few years since 2016. becaususe collective national defense spending from each country risining more than $100 billion. that is noththing to sneeze at and whether r that allll is cred , that is anheher argument. a a lot of people say ththis isa big isissue. a lot of this has become much more political as a matter of debate. >> doug herbert talking about the comments that just moments ago french president emmanuel macron and the head of nato. another story coming out of iraq

where at least 16 people were killed today after security forces started shooting at an antigovernment protest in the south. here is what he had to say. >> they tried to push the and it was major .oads it is significantly important. more than 70 have been injured. and according to local officials

, the use of live rounds and tear g gas. it gives good meanining. >> why the anger againinst it? >> they are interfering and controlling the government. in fact, they are controlling the prime minister himself. so they want to send rested -- send messages. there is an internal affair and

we want them to stop. the supreme leader wants to send a message. and also to tackle unemployment and the lack of basic services. and also they have done something similar days ago. >> now to china, a country that lashed out at ththe united stat. beijing called the move bullying. the new legislation threatened sanctions on chinese and hong kong officials. brian quinn has more. >> china's foreign ministry threatened unsnspecified

consequences a after presisident donanald trump side to new bills supporting pro-democracy protesters in hong kong. the legislation had drawn rare bipartisan support in u.s. congress, passing nearly unanimously in the house and senate. they threatened sanctions for officials and located in human rights abuses. importantly, the state department must now regularly certify that hong kong maintains sufficient economy to justify trading status with the u.s.. rescinding that status that allows for much freer trade could have major fallout. the u.s. running a nearly $34 billion trade surplus. the latest tension is likely to complicate ongoing negotiations

and ending the punishing u.s.-china trade war. china has accused the u.s. of being the biggest black hand while leaving the conflict that of trade negotiations. trump, for his part, has tried to walk a line saying he signed the bill's in the hope that the two sides would settle their differences with peace and prosperity for all. >> gordon sondland has been accused by three women of sexual misconduct. back andations date targeting his role in president trump's impeachment hearings. colombia, trade unions and student groups have held a nationwide strike for the second time in n a weekek. the most r recent strikeke was e

to honor an 18-year-old demonstrator killed on saturday. in bogota, there's more. >> this doesn't mean other people went back home. after the demonstrations which are atypical, they are like small demonstrations all around the country of people marching and gathering together. they go back to the neighbors and organize parties like the start all around the city, demonstrating against the government. they are ready to fight for weeks or months. some city will fight for years.

it is known to be a conservative country. and of course, the president is geared by this. -- scared by this. it is not s sure that they havea clear view of what is happening in the country. he told the people that he wants to organize a national dialogue to solve the problems altogether. it is not clear who he wants to talk to and about what. them growingkeep day after day and they're are ready to fight for a very long time. this thursday in the united states is thanksgiving day. it means turkey, pumpkin pie, and the annual macy's

thanksgiving day parade. temperatures are expected to be balmy in new york but high wind is threatening to ground the parade's signature giant balloons. pumpedyorkers getting for the annual macacy's thananksgiving day parade. the usual suspects lineup o on central park wednesday as ththey got reready for the big day. snoopy, andkachu,u, marking the 50ththnniversaryry f ththe moon landing. >> i think this is better than school. and i think because i want to see the balloons s grow up. >> they look so cool. >> 3.5 million people are expected to watch with another 150 million tuning in on tv.

but an old party pooper is once again threatening to steal this holiday fund. >> we monitor the weather very closely and we were mostly with nypd. these are the precautions that we take. >> the balloonons h have only bn grounded want to 1971. in 1997, the cat in ththe hat knocked over a let post and sent a bystander into a coma. the nypd will l have the final y thursday on whether not the balloons fly. >> coming up, your business a date with stephen carroll just after the news. stay with us.

>> in 1980, the historic strike led by the 10 million strong movement crippled poland's shipyards. the authorities cracked down on the protestst and declaring martial law. the leader of the workers movement refused to back down. it took seven years to finally forced the government into making significant concessions. in 1990, they became president of poland. this was the first time a communist regime was made. a poland transitioned into a free-market economy. everyone had not embrace the change. >> we revisit the fall of communism all this weekek on france 24.4.

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