little did russia know this would become estonia's brand as the defender of cyberspace and an e country so that was flipped on its head but in all the other case studies, in poland using the 2010 plane crash that killed the president using anti-muslim sentiment in order to foment discord and in the netherlands in 2016 when the netherlands was voting on a referendum for ukraine's association agreement using the dutch kind of skepticism against the ukraine not only to undermine the unity but undermine ukraine's support in the euro atlantic community so all these things are pre-existing fissures and they are brought forth by homegrown actors and asha touched on the example in the first chapter of the book which was published as an excerpt by politico magazine but it was about a flash mob in front of the white house in 2017 when a left-leaning had been supported by russian actors to do this flash mob and get a large amount of attendees through facebook advertising. so homegrown actors is a huge part of it but all these countries that have a somewhat successful response as i noted in the exc

in estonia in 2007 russia was able to manipulate the russian ethnic population in estonia in order tooment unrest in order to cure at cyber attacks from abroad on estonia and in order to undermine this newly transatlantic countries future in the block. little did russia know that this would become a stone use brand as defendant of cyberspace. that was flipped on its head. and all of the other case studies come in poland using the 2010 plane crash that killed their president in the czech republic using anti-muslim sentiment in order to foment discord, and in the netherlands in 2016 when the netherlands voting on a referendum for ukraine's association agreement, using the dutch kind of eu skepticism, euro skepticism against ukraine not only to undermine eu unity of undermine ukraine's support in the euro atlantic community. all of these things are pre-existing fissures and they are brought forth by homegrown actors and also touched upon the example in the first chapter of the book which is published as an exit by "politico" magazines this past weekend. anyone who wants to get a taste of

lithuania, latvia, and estonia have imposed sanctions on belarusian officials including alexander lukashenko belarusians have been targeted with travel bans. all are accused of playing a role in violence against protesters following the disputed election on august 9. lukashenko, an ally of russia, denies electoral fraud and says the protesters are backed from abroad. his inclusion on the list sends a message to european countries. baltic states have led calls for the west to take action against the belarusian president who has been in power for 26 years, described as europe's last dictator. protests against lukashenko continue. many critics have had to seek refuge in neighboring countries. a group in the lithuanian capital because of one small active resistance. reporter: a few seconds of defiance against the government of alexander lukashenko cost their jobs and their freedom. >> i thought we would play this song, one of the bosses would say, what are you doing? and we would turn it off. it would just be something irritating, but we would be honest and when in the future i look back, i woul

says closest neighbors were the countries the governments of these countries like la via lithuania estonia poland they've made the harshest statements against alexander rocha shango and in fact with u.a.e. . already said that it considers. who was mr look at those rival during the vote the legitimate leader of the country but if we speak about the e.u. as a whole they have not come up with punitive measures against the government just yet although we do understand that they are being discussed and today we heard from the german foreign ministry that there are expecting these measures to be finalized in brussels next week here's exactly what's been said. we are working hard in the e.u. to coordinate a package of targeted sanctions against those responsible for falsifying the belle of russian presidential election. while on the other hand i do have to say that the meeting in tsotsi despite all the interest from all sides i know that the meeting is being closely watched in washington by the way u.s. politicians of all sorts right and alexander look at saying go with sanctions this is in a ver

it brings very huge concern to all of us, not only for neighbouring countries, lithuania, latvia, estoniaand the ukraine, but also for the european union. this is the reason why we started to react very fast and we propose the plan of the escalation of the situation. we consolidated our efforts together with presidents of surrounding countries. unfortunately, alexander lukashenko was not able to take this initiative and he turned towards vladimir putin. probably this is the reason why the situation in the last days and the last weeks deteriorated, has deteriorated and we see again the violations, we see just detained people, disappearing people, and we see very selective and targeted attacks against the people or persons which are in national co—ordination committee. so, the situation is not calm and it's not... this situation is certainly not calm, mr president. you just referred to alexander lu kashenko as the president of belarus. i want to be clear about this, do you still recognise his legitimacy as the head of state or are you now of the view that he has no legitimacy because, as yo

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belarusians president alexander lukashenko and his high ranking officials are barred from entering estonia latvia and lithuania the baltic states blacklisting comes in response a look at this crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in the wake of disputed elections more than 100 people were arrested during protests on sunday. president emmanuel by phone has arrived in lebanon on his 2nd visit since the massive explosions that destroyed beirut's port for weeks ago he's calling for a quote deep reform of the country sectarian political system president will also attend national centennial celebrations. the 1st ever commercial passenger flight from israel's of the united arab emirates has landed in abo dhabi u.s. president donald trump senior adviser jared kushner was one of the officials on board the historic flight comes after israel and the u.s. a agree to normalize relations in a deal brokered by the united states. as you know you news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram a t w news or visit our website w dot com. and israeli al plane bearing the word peace in english out of a

funding on the table i think has motivate this had to go further and there's going to be a summit in estoniaoon. what has this achieved? >> it's a fine idea, an important idea about thinking about a different part of european infrastructure. you'd asked the question earlier about europe. i always try not to respond to questions generically with respect to europe because you're talking about dozens of nations with deeply different views. this is another example where you have a baltic states that have come to recognize their security is separate and different from other places you might find in europe so taken on the mantle of their own security. we've offered up to a billion dollars for support for the three c's initiative and we've provided support, too, through our extended readiness efforts, and rotational forces and operating in those regions as well and put a diplomatic push in connecting the countries to your point on the north-south axis. in light of what we're seeing in belarus today, this becomes more important. >> is this also to extent a russia play or a china play? or how do you

there's going to be a summit in estonia soon. what does this achieve and why have you got behind this idea? >> yeah, it's a really fine idea and important idea about thinking about a different part of european infrastructure. you asked the question earlier about europe. i try not to respond to questions generically responding to europe. this is another example that you have baltic states that recognize that their security situation is different from what you might find in other places of europe. so we've offered up to a billion dollars for support for the three "c"s initiative through rotational forces operating in those regimes as well and put a push into connecting these countries to your point on that north-south axis in light of what we're seeing taking place in belarus today, this becomes even more important. >> is this also to a certain extent a russia play or china play, or how do you view it strategically? >> it's both. we've been working to recognize the threat that the chinese communist party can pose to the nations aro

belarusians president alexander lukashenko and his high ranking officials are barred from entering estonia latvia and lithuania the baltic states blacklisting comes in response a look at shank its crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in the wake of just beautiful elections more than 100 people were arrested during protests on sunday. president emanuel by phone has arrived in lebanon on his 2nd visit since the massive explosions that destroyed beirut's port for weeks ago he's calling for a quote deep reform of the country sectarian political system president will also attend national centennial celebrations. the 1st ever commercial passenger flight from israel so the united arab emirates has landed in abo dhabi u.s. president donald trump senior adviser jared kush there was one of the officials on board the historic flight comes after israel and the usa agree to normalize relations in a deal brokered by the united states. this is g.w. news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram d w news or visit our website w dot com. and israeli al plane bearing the word peace in english out of

belarusians president alexander lukashenko and his high ranking officials are barred from entering estonia latvia and lithuania the baltic states blacklisting comes in response a look at this crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in the wake of disputed elections more than 100 people were arrested during protests on sunday. president emanuel by phone has arrived in lebanon on his 2nd visit since the massive explosions that destroyed beirut's port 4 weeks ago he's calling for a quote deep reform of the country sectarian political system president mccrone will also attend national centennial celebrations. the 1st ever commercial passenger flight from israel to the united arab emirates has landed in abo dhabi u.s. president donald trump senior adviser jared kush there was one of the officials on board the historic flight comes after israel and the us a agreed to normalize relations in a deal brokered by the united states. is g.w. news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram a t w news or visit our website w dot com. and israeli al plane bearing the word peace in english out of a can

s we have had better military cooperation with ukraine and also the baltic states latvia estonia lithuania so i believe that he has taken some of her serious actions against russia a failure at what's been the failure to counter the narrative that people can continue to say whatever they want to say i mean but the actions speak quite loudly so i think that's the best way to counter narrative is just look at say you don't see the russia being able to continue and push themselves and deeper into ukraine or the baltic states and then also think about this the liquefied natural gas i mean port arthur texas is the number one export liquefied natural gas and we're using that to undermine the influence of russia in many countries and europe especially in eastern europe something presumably you'd say is not appreciated by mainstream u.s. corporate journalists ok but what about existential threats to the whole world and the decision by trump seemingly to kill off the stott nuclear weapon. it's treaty with russia you don't think trump is in danger in we'll piece by doing that well i think one of the

so the baltic states — lithuania, estonia and latvia — have now imposed sanctions on 30 belarusian officialsopean union is kind of dragging its feet a bit. would you be in favour of some kind of sanctions against leaders in belarus? i've always many questions about unilateral sanctions. we believe that sanctions should be decided at un level, as you know. but what matters here is my deep belief that we need to create the conditions for a democratic solution in belarus based on dialogue and any effort in this direction will be welcome. but, as i said, it should be the belarusians themselves to be able to solve their problem. all right. so when you make this plea for multilateralism, secretary—general, you know, you see that the polarisation that you've been warning has already really taken place. i'll tell you what the influential us think tank the carnegie endowment for international peace hasjust said. it's worried that severe political polarisation has already been tearing apart many democracies from india and poland to turkey and the united states, and it's posing the question that the vi

lithuania latvia and estonia have imposed travel bans on and 28 other members of his government and want the rest of the e.u. to follow suit. on thursday russia's prime minister heads to mint and on friday bella russia's defense minister is in moscow all indications that the kremlin is sticking by alexander lukashenko the european union hasn't taken sides but it has called for new elections for the imposition of sanctions on those it says are responsible for election fraud and violence against protesters. but it's met al-jazeera vilnius. still ahead here on al-jazeera the calm before the storm south korea braces for typhoon might sound. plus why there's a buzz around beekeeping in western georgia. hello all eyes continue to be focused on typhoon made this is very clear of course working its way in a high rapidly towards the korean peninsula but also we're watching this this is unusual so has developed this is haitian fanaa that is north of directly impacting any areas of land like this will make landfall late wednesday into thursday across into south korea probably to the west of busan b

so the baltic states, lithuania, estonia and latvia, have now imposed sanctions on 30 belarus officialsopean union is kind of dragging its feet a bit. would you be in favour of some kind of sanctions against leaders in belarus? i've always many questions about unilateral sanctions. we believe that sanctions should be decided at un level, as you know. but what matters here is my deep belief that we need to create the conditions for a democratic solution in belarus based on dialogue and any effort in this, that action will be welcome. but as i said, it should be the belarussians themselves to be able to solve their problem. all right. so when you make this plea for multilateralism, secretary—general, you know, you see that the polarisation that you've been warning has already really taken place. i'll tell you what the influential us think tank, the carnegie endowment for international peace, has just said — it's worried that severe political polarisation has already been tearing apart many democracies from india and poland to turkey and the united states. and it's posing the question that

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lithuania latvia and estonia have imposed travel bans on and 28 other members of his government and want the rest of the e.u. to follow suit for on thursday russia's prime minister heads to mend on friday bella rest defense minister is in moscow all indications that the kremlin is sticking by alexander lukashenko the european union hasn't taken sides but it has called for new elections and for the imposition of sanctions on those it says are responsible for election fraud and violence against protesters. but it's met al-jazeera vilnius. the 2nd typhoon to hit the korean peninsula in a week has made landfall south korea's weather agency says typhoon may sak will affect most of the country which is on its highest alert level it's travelling north through gang sang province along the country's eastern area more than 2000 homes on the island of jeju have already lost electricity and the typhoon has flooded highways and brought down trees getting updates robert bright is joining us from tucson and south korea so how are people been coping rob. that's right this type who made landfall in the e

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lithuania latvia and estonia have imposed travel bans on and 28 other members of his government and want the rest of the e.u. to follow suit for on thursday russia's prime minister heads to mend and on friday bell arrest defense minister is in moscow all indications at the kremlin is sticking by alexander lukashenko the european union hasn't taken sides but it has called for new elections and for the imposition of sanctions on those it says are responsible for election fraud and violence against protesters. burning. al-jazeera villeins. the 2nd typhoon to hit the korean peninsula in a week has now made landfall with winds of 162 kilometers an hour south korea's weather agency says typhoon may sack will affect most of the country it's already flooded roads and brought down trees and more than 2000 homes on the island of jeju have lost electricity rob mcbride is joining us from busan in south korea and we're also hearing rob about a cargo ship that has gone missing off the japanese coast. that's right there with is not known at this stage if the disappearance of this vessel is connected to

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property, covid-19, you've the denial of service with russians and what they did in government like estoniay of cyber warfare which could be malware, can be critical infrastructure or denial, we have to address all of those in different organizations within the united states government. arthel: it is not only russia but it is china, white supremacist, anti-american government groups waging cyber war, as you know, their campaigns are getting more aggressive, more realistic and more direct marketing, you say there needs to be more agility, we as americans can fill these nefarious cyber attacks will be stopped in their tracks, first of all is that a possibility and when you say more agile, do you need less bureaucracy involved for the intelligence community to be able to do a little bit more without having to answer to so many people. >> that is a great question, i think the bureaucracy itself in terms of organization, we've come a long way in the last ten years, the good news is we have the other organizations within policy and we even have the new law under the cyber security and critical in

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lithuania latvia and estonia have imposed travel bans on and 28 other members of his government and want the rest of the e.u. to follow suit for thursday russia's prime minister heads to mend on friday defense minister is in moscow all indications at the kremlin is sticking by alexander lukashenko the european union hasn't taken sides but it has called for new elections for the imposition of sanctions on those it says are responsible for election fraud and violence against protesters. al-jazeera vilnius. more ahead for you this news hour including the 1st case of coronaviruses recorded in the morea migrant camp. we'll get more on how medics there hope to deal with an outbreak plus why there's a buzz around beekeeping in western georgia. and this time favorite has got himself into a spot of bother at the thought of fronts details coming up in support. of 14 people accused of helping gunman attack the french the terrible weekly charlie hebdo and a jewish supermarket have gone on trial in paris the magazine was targeted after publishing controversial cartoons of the prophet muhammad 17 p. .

lithuania latvia and estonia have imposed travel bans on and 28 other members of his government and want the rest of the e.u. to follow suit on thursday russia's prime minister heads to mint and on friday bella russia's defense minister is in moscow all indications that the kremlin is sticking by alexander lukashenko the european union hasn't taken sides but it has called for new elections for the imposition of sanctions on those responsible for election fraud and violence against protesters. but it's al-jazeera vilnius. still ahead here on the al-jazeera will have all the latest on donald trump's campaign trail after his visit to a city at the center and to racism that's. and can this new arrival of the supporting feature. details coming up and say. hello that's almost a house and dry across much of the middle east you have see wanted to shout across the falls south across into yemen even a scattered showers across into areas of a society but the touches a say remain on the high side particularly through the eastern end of the madras them as they went about for several days and it is th

nationalist uprisings through the soviet system in places like a mania, as bergeron, the baltic states like estonia, lithuania. these people long imprisoned in the soviet system were able to gain their freedom. -- russians themselves argued for major reform. russia was one component of a larger soviet system. a real democracy. and by december of 1991, the soviet union was gone. it was gone. gorbachev peacefully sign the document ending the soviet union as we know. it again, this was not a victory for the united states. this was an openness to change, encouraged by the united states, and courageously sought by those in the former soviet union. regan did not make this happen. at some point he even made it more difficult. but he did play a crucial role. his crucial role was to embrace the possibility of change, push forward, and when he sought to support it. it was his willingness to negotiate, his willingness to adjust, and his willingness to convince americans using his legitimacy as a tough guy to sell a more cooperative policy, that made this moment a little more possible that it might have been o

and we are developing new arrangements with those like-minded partners with estonia india and japan marked a new milestone in the indo pacific and respecting taiwan with the taiwan relations act it is a commitment to the one policy including the insistence to be resolved recent visit by secretary a's are they will work with ty on - - time once on issues such as global health and then further robust orwi economic ties and then to support the meaningful participation and economic organizations and then to announce a us policy and with the beijing claims to offshore resources the south china sea as is the campaign of bowling to control them the secretary also announced for prc state owned enterprises with that construction. with all the efforts of each other countries is critical and we see results dozens of countries with those vendors from the 5g networks and seen r stricter investments in the eu and more than a dozen other countries into the top leadership position of the intellectual property men to join us at the un in the committee more more countries are taking action in the united org