working as part of the alliance most successful alliance in the world in the history of the world so but senator bob corker sat if we want to speak more about this vote that the president of the united states is today more a danger than a help for peace i mean again i don't know trump threatens other nations in such a way it could lead to a third world war two you agree with that i think that the president has done everything that the previous administration said it was going to do the president and this administration has lived up to every commitment as far as the alliance goes and that's what i'm focused on rotational forces preposition equipment and henceforward presence that's all part of deterrence and i think strong deterrence strong alliance that reduces the chance of a war quite often present trump uses twitter in an interview with german effort said newspaper you said quote don't judge us by what the president tweets about what else. i would say as our secretary defenses watch what we do and again but again we can watch what the american army is doing but the tweets of the p

alliance and also korea contribution to the alliance. .. last but not least we reaffirm that economic operation is important pillar of us allies. we share the view that economic preparation is critical in our efforts to pursue sustainable and future oriented for us alliance. the benefit of free equitable and balanced trade together, we agreed to have the relevant authority expedite the process of fda consultation. by sharing the universal value and other fruits of economic 30 with humankind, president and i agreed to make joint contribution for peace and prosperity of the world. we also agreed to continue strengthening preparation for global challenges including issues of terrorism, women in human rights and public health. president trump requested that i need to talk with him continuously and we agreed that we will continuously have a frequent enclosed communications. by doing that we will strength and the tides and solidify the alliance. once again i extend a warm welcome to president and madame's first lady to korea. please enjoy the bea

alliance. more overre we agreed to work towards resolving north korean issue in a peaceful manner and bringing peace to the korean peninsula against escalating nuclear threats we reaffirmed our principle that we must maintain strong stance toward north korean threats based on power. president trump has reaffirmed his commitment to defend korea and president trump and i agree to further strengthen the combined defensive nature of our two countries. president trump and i agree to expend rotational deployment of u.s. strategic asset in and around south korea. we will step up. to this end we reached a conclusion today to lift the limit on korean missiles completely. there was a final agreement. we also agreed to begin consultation for korea's acquisitions and development of korea state of art military reconnaissance assets. once again we strongly urge north korea to halt its nuclear and missile provocation and to come to dialogue table for denuclearization as soon as possible. president trump and i

the alliance alliance a political opposition parties and now right after that former president who had been ousted in two thousand and nine by a military coup came out as a. representative of the alliance that in fact is they reject those numbers and there they have their own exit poll saying that some of the alliance was winning the trend that he had fifty nine percent and for this president one of london and that's only thirty three percent he said that he hopes that the electoral tribunal respects that trend and the next president of. both candidates have claimed victory. and. away before the electoral tribunal any official results. thousands of protesters in the pakistani capital have announced that they will end their three week protests that turned violent over the weekend demonstrators agreed to sit enough to federal law minister ahmed voluntarily step down and apologize for a clerical law era that spot the protests demonstrate is being on the streets since november the eighth when a change in electoral laws was seen as blasphemous six people were killed in eva two hundred injur

thead discussions about deaths -- steadfastness of our alliance. we agreed towards resolving use andrean nuclear bring permanent peace to the korean peninsula. we reaffirmed our principles that we must maintain some stance toward north korean threats. president trump has reaffirmed his ironclad commitment to korea, and president trump and i have agreed to further countries.our two in this regard, president trump and i agreed to extend [indiscernible] we will step up our defenseation to enhance capability to unprecedented levels. we reached a conclusion today to d limit on korean missiles completely. there was a final agreement. we agreed to begin consultation for korea's development of state-of-the-art military assets. once again, we strongly urge north korea to halt its nuclear and missile provocations and to come to the table for [indiscernible] as soon as possible. president trump and i reaffirmed our current strategy, which is to maximize pressure and sanctions on north korea. at the same time, should north korea choose to make the right choice

the northern alliance exploiting the resulting chaos and the taliban regime unravel . on the twentieth of november two thousand and one the capital city of kabul failed. with us backing canid karzai was inaugurated as president his brother had been working for unocal and because i was well acquainted with the pipeline plans. soon after nine eleven couple of moms suddenly we hear that state governments from the region got together and basically decided to revive the project. that means that even without knowing the fate of the constant term the stability all these countries at come to the same conclusion they had reached before nine eleven the spy plane was crucial that. the interests. after years of war there is still no pipeline the taliban is back in strength and reluctant to negotiate about peace. they class the kind of on government who brought a new government and the title of democracy in the himalayas but. they did not bring peace to afghanistan the insurgency i guess they don't have it installed by the international community is still going on. the war against

alliance. mr. president and mrs. trump, distinguished guests, members of the national assembly, korea's remarkable transformation to an aid recipient to a donor country was achieved on the basis of the blood shed by our two peoples who fought side-by-side during the korean war, and the rock-solid korea-u.s. alliance. starting from security alliance, our alliance has been evolving into a comprehensive alliance that has global implications expanding beyond economic alliance. the u.s. alliance recognized as having made a significant contribution to peace on the korean peninsula and the northeast asia is now confronting grave nuclear and missile threats from north korea. our two countries have worked closely together to deter the glowing growing a nuclear threat from north korea and to achieve the peaceful denuclearization of the peninsula. as articulated by your inaugural address where you said now arrives the hour of action, mr. mr. president is acting with great determination and commitment to m

the global alliance to power past coal was unveiled on thursday at the cop twenty three international climate meeting in the german city of body cold is responsible for more than forty percent of global emissions of greenhouse gas c o two the new alliance is committed to facing out coal sharing emissions reduction technology and encouraging the rest of the world to cut coal usage ironically host country germany isn't part of the alliance. and time now for a quick check on the markets for that i'm now joined by our financial correspondent in new york at the stock exchange there so fishermans q hi sophie it's good to see you again well we've seen a day with rises in most u.s. markets after several days of consecutive losses what happened there. well different reasons here harvey about one of them is america's biggest retailer wal-mart they are one of the components off the dow jones and their stock today gained nine percent soaring to new record highs the reason we're not only good but even better than expected earnings for the retailer who is not shy of picking a fight with the big riv

-south korean alliance is. it's been since the korean war. and what we hear from officials and military officials, it trance snds any leader. it's not the relationship between the president of the united states or the president of the south korea. tathat is almost peripheral between thuliance itself. so i don't think anyone's expecting the alliance to suffer. but it is a good question. what is the relationship between president moon and president trump like? now, we hear from the blue house they have a strong relationship. we hear nothing but good things from this relationship. but it doesn't appear as strong as it is with the japanese prime minister, for example, or with the chinese president. trump certainly doesn't speak of president moon in such glowing termases he does with those two. and nen ma'am here, experts, pundits on local media are pointing to the fact he's spending two nights in japan, two nights in jaging but just one night here in south korea. there's a lot being read into that. but several people hear will want to hear from t

alliance and also korea's contribution to the alliance. as we gave our words of encouragement to korean and american service members who are striving to realize our common goal, we could feel the strong friendship of korea and u.s. alliance on the site. president trump and i also agreed to continue strengthening of the combined defense postures and capabilities of the bilateral alliance by pursuing defense cost-sharing at an adequate and reasonable level. last but not least, we reaffirmed that economic cooperation is an important pillar of the alliance. in our efforts to pursue sustainable and future oriented alliance in order to enjoy the benefit of free, equitable and balanced trade together, we agreed to have the relevant authorities expedite the process of fta consultation. by sharing the universal value of economic prosperity with human kind, president trump and i agreed to make joint contribution to the peace and prosperity of the world. we also agreed to continue strengthening cooperation for global challenges including issues of te

calls on parliament to reconsider the country's nato membership tensions between ankara and the alliance escalated dramatically after president thirty one was depicted as an enemy during a recent nato drooled. suicide surges in the french police force with more than forty officers taking their lives this year alone r.t. speaks to an officer who made two attempts on her life. what was really bad is that we were not given the tools to fight with terrorism some peace men received new weapons some received training but not one of us the measures that they have introduced were minuscule. a very warm welcome you're watching our c international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital i mean karen good to have you with us. germany's president frank walter steinmeier says his country is facing a situation not seen in seventy years merkel's party is at a crossroads after negotiations to form a coalition government failed steinmeyer urged all sides to form a coalition and snorts let down voters who cast their ballots in september's election. gets we are confronted by a situation that's no

and antagonize china even further when it when it knows that china doesn't like this military alliance so this is a very very difficult balancing act that president trump is attempting here because he has to get time on his side to act against north korea because china arguably has the most influence over north korea and on the other hand he's trying to forge a military alliance has not only meant to counter north korea but that in the long run it could also be meant to contain china and china's rise in the region so as you can see not an easy task for the u.s. president so we ok best in what people there where you are in seoul say you know they've lived with the threat of north korea's nuclear program. and long waged missiles for decades and what do they think of the us president. people here are very divided there are those who welcome the u.s. president and they welcome his tough approach in this tough rhetoric towards north korea because they say that's the only language that north korea understands and then there are others who say that only makes everything worse deploying more t

on the military alliance. also ahead this hour to a news article removes its blue to convert for cation from a number of far right public figures in attempts to tackle extremism hate speech buts questions are raised over how the punitive measure is being applied to. rebellion in the ranks one hundred former allies of the french president launch a vitriolic attack against his centrist movement saying it has no respect for democracy. hello from moscow just gone seven in the evening here in the russian capital good to have your company. our top story this hour a number of twitter accounts belonging to a far right figures have been stripped off their verified status the network say it is changing its guidelines over concerns the blue budge is seen as a sign of endorsement but critics say the measure is not being consistently applied pauli boyko reports. up until this week verification illustrated by a blue tick on twitter was a symbol that a user's account is genuine so if you take the account air don't old trump

alliance. for abe, one of his central goals is try to build up the japanese military. japan has a pacifist execution and that is estrange japan and new climates about the threat from north korea continue to mount, abe has found useful support from trump and in his effort to try to bolster japan's military capabilities. but i think just more broadly, a sense on the japanese side that they need to cultivate the american president to make sure the alliance stays strong. don't forget. president trump made during the campaign critical comments about the alliances about japan and south korea and that generated some unease among allies in those two capitals. >> you point out it's important for japan. they see the need to create this relationship but, again, what is the net positive here? what is it that japan gets from this closer relationship with the united states? >> fundamentally, it's security. the security relationship between japan and the united states which dates to the years just after world war ii has really allowed japan, without a strong military presence, backin

those alliances were forged in shared blood and shared sacrifice. unlike many of our adversaries who can count their allies on less than all the fingers on one hand, because they didn't forge those alliances through those shared sacrifices nor are they forged through shared ideals. so i think what we're recognizing and promoting is the strength of these historic alliances, which i think over some period of time, perhaps since the end of the cold war, we lost our way a bit in some of these relationships. maybe a view in particular in europe that with the end of the cold war, the imminent threat that everyone faced for that 70 year period was now diminishing. what we now realize is it didn't diminish. it's still defining itself. it's still searching for its role in the name of russia. these threats emanating out of the middle east, brought themselves right to the shores and borders of our european allies whether it be through mass migration but also with the mass migration comes the transport of those who would kill others and sacrifice themselves in

of the alliance alliance a political opposition parties and now right after that former president for liar who had been ousted in two thousand and nine by a military coup and came out as a. representative of the alliance saying that in fact if they reject those numbers out there they have their own exit poll saying that. of the alliance was winning the trend that he had fifty nine percent and for this president one of only thirty three percent he said that he hopes that the electoral tribunal respects that trend and the next president. both candidates have claimed victory. and. way before the electoral roll gave any official results are still ahead here on al jazeera yemen who did a poll it was first supplies in weeks after the. heading to me pope francis departs road for what could be one of his most delicate overseas trips yet focusing on the plight of the injured. triangle a raid. zero. temps and it's going to. welcome back so we look at the weather across the levant some western parts of asia is quiet and then after quite an unsettled spell of weather we have got a weather front w

i've been operating alliance metals for 16 years. we are a business that is still operating in this economy. if you continue with annual reviews and politicizing our businesses, we will continue to put on hold hiring, equipment orders, and normal business functions until the end of each and every hearing. i have three vendors waiting tomorrow to find out if we have a $30,000 equipment order going in or not, based on tonight's decision. thank you very much for your time. [applause] woman: ok. i show a number of other speakers, and i wanted to seek the direction of the chair. your name, sir? my name is jason witt, and i've been a recycler for about 15 years. i was in this neighborhood in west oakland that most people call dogtown. i'm gonna tell you right now that recycling not only has saved my life. my girlfriend was working on the street as a prostitute. she no longer has to do that because of recycling. as far as i'm concerned, if you take away the recycle center, crime will rise again in oakland to worse than you can ever think. [

not to say these coalitions or alliances or axis of power never interacted at all. but by and large, i think most of the region is divided in three of those coalitions or axises, and we need to do everything we can to strengthen ours, to try to minimize support for the other two, and ultimately, in my opinion, try to undermine the gravest threat that we face in the middle east, which is iran, which is as much a revolutionary cause as a nation state, but also the revolutionary cause backed by the nation state. >> you have been a contributor of the jcpoa. what are the weaknesses of that deal and what do you think a good deal would look like? >> the weaknesses are man fold, we have spent a long time talking about them. at the high level, a nuclear deal with iran, puts iran on a path to nuclear weapons, it doesn't block that path. in a mere 18 to 20 years, iran will have a nuclear capacity. that's if you assume that iran is not currently operating a covert nuclear program, which will be the first time they haven't had a covert nuclear program in decades. but until then,

.: there was a line the other day, israel is happy to let riyadh lead the alliance, but not so happyo pay the political price. ,hani: first of all, netanyahu this is nothing coming closer to the arab world, nothing taken so fondly. more than that, it seems to be understanding that the political price to pay is when it comes to the palestinians. they need to show willingness for compromise when it comes to the saudi initiative. it is an initiative that was brought back on over 10 years ago. this was something that israel always managed to avoid. whenhere's a fear that the time to pay comes, saudi says, you need to help us with the palestinians, and that will be a tricky exchange for netanyahu. peter c.: very interesting. you mentioned during the break about saudi arabia and the young crown prince, you had a comment about the shia-sunni divide. shani: there's no doubt it is important in understanding the undercurrents of what is happening in the middle east and how the alliances are being made. at the same time, it is too simplistic. we look at places like turkey, pakistan, these are p

saudi arabia's crown prince has told a forty one nation alliance of muslim nations that terrorists can't be allowed to tarnish the name of a slum muhammadans home on the speaking of the first meeting of the islamic military counterterrorism alliance and they out. there is no doubt today's meeting is of great significance simply for the reason that over the past year terrorism has been wreaking havoc in our respective countries in the absence of concerted coordination between our countries this is becoming history with the establishment of this coalition will the forty islamic countries have dealt held effets in combating terrorism with it militarily financially or in terms of political and intelligence cooperation when the saudi crown prince also offered his condolences to egypt with three hundred and five paper killed on friday off to find his target at a mosque in northern sinai mass graves had been made for some a victim's which included twenty seven children ages president. has promised the use of brutal force against those responsible well there's been a vigil in gaza for the victim

alliance.sident and mrs. trump, the thing was guests, members of the national assembly -- distinguished guests, members of thenational assembly, bloodshed by our two peoples who fought side-by-side during the korean war and the korean-u.s. alliance. starting from security alliance, our alliance has been evolving into a conference of alliance that has global -- a comprehensive alliance that has global implications. we now confront grave nuclear and missile threats from north korea. our two countries have worked closely together to deter the growing nuclear threat from north korea and to achieve the peaceful denuclearization of the korean peninsula. as articulated in your inaugural address, where you said "now youe the hour of action," are making the north korean issue a top priority like no other president in u.s. history. allow me to take this opportunity to extend our deepest appreciation and respect to mr. president for your role is great and peaceful mediator under your excellent leadership

and and and and personify the strength of our enduring alliance.prime minister abe and i, agree on the determination, to achieve the goal, and shortly following the visit, and 35 north korean entities, and burden of common defense, and making deep investments in japan's own military, and this will include purchases advanced capabilities, and jobs for the american worker. prime minister and i also discussed ways to deepen trade relationship based on the core principles of fairness and reciprocity, japanese companies have announced investments in united states worth more than $8 billion. japanese manufacturers, toyota and mazda opening a new plant in the united states that will create 4000 jobs. we find agreements between nations to announce infrastructure development, increased access affordable energy and advanced our foreign policy goals through economic investments. we travel to another key american ally in asia, the republic of korea. my official state visit to south korea was the first by an american president in 25 years. speaking for the nati

alliance and i like to welcome our presence donald trump. and his wife again. through the beautiful korea i hope our friendship will. come down to. what it was about and. thank you very much president moon thank you for honoring us with the invitation to be here today and for the incredibly warm welcome and magnificent ceremony you have given us during our first trip to the very beautiful city of so thank you very much malani and i had a wonderful time having tea with you and first lady kim thank you. at the beautiful blue house which i've heard so much about and now get to visit and see first and. we're looking forward to joining you for dinner this evening and we have much to discuss today the president and i had an opportunity to talk about a range of vital economic and security matters including our trade relationship and our joint efforts to solve north korea's grave nuclear threat to south korea and indeed the entire world this is a world wide problem the republic of korea is more than a longstanding ally of the united states we are partners and friends w

and saudi backed alliance and a pro syrian coalition. to have had differences on how to run the country leading to the collapse of the government at least three times in two thousand and five twenty eleven and twenty thirteen sadly haiti is lebanon's most influential sunni politician and a fierce critic of iran and hezbollah but starting in two thousand and eleven he spent three years in self-imposed exile in saudi arabia and france after a hezbollah led the alliance left his government and he returned to lebanon in two thousand and fourteen two years later lebanon's parliament swore in a new cabinet dominated by hezbollah and its allies it was a huge political victory for the iran back group leader turned to the prime minister's office after hezbollah backed candidate michele our own became president let's go now to. who is in beirut for us so india's what has been the reaction there to this sudden decision by lebanon's prime minister to resign. has a lot of shock at a lot of disbelief we've course but reaching out to as many people as

alliance. thank you, donald. for the last two days i was able to have an in-depth cushion with donald on a plethora of issues that the international community is faced with. overwhelming importance was occupied by the north korean issue. we were in complete agreement as to the measures to be taken point analysis of the latest situation in north korea giving a good amount of time. japan consistently supports the position of president trump when he says all options are on the table. through the talks over two days i once again strongly reaffirm that japan and u.s. are 100% together. for more than 20-some years the international community attempted dialogue with north korea. at the time of grape work agreement of 1994 and the 6-party agreement of 2006, north korea committed in abandoning their nuclear program. but each type the promise was broken which resulted in north korea buying time for their nuclear and missile development while we were making efforts for dialogue. there is no point in the dialogue for the sak

that alliance enables so many good things to happen, and it deters potential aggression.t has done that for over 70 years, it's important for the president to say that. >> what would be considered a big win, or a win that he needs out of this trip? >> i don't know that you can keep score on the win or not. asia is important to the future of the united states. the american people need to know that. and the american people need to be reassured that we are going to stay in asia, as do the people in asia. no one wants the united states to abandon asia, with possible exception of the north koreans and the chinese. we don't want to do that. the 21st century is going to be the century for asia. we need to be a vital part of that. we can continue to be that, so long as we maintain the alliances that we have, and that we tell people we are not going anywhere. earlier, we had michael froman, the former u.s. trade wasnistration, the chief the u.s. leaving the transpacific partnership. was that a strategic mistake that is irreversible, that will allow china to take the more center st

has a formal treaty alliance to support japan, american military bases in japan. abe has been a strong proponent of strengthening the japanese military and so he has been to some degree pleased to see president trump taking such a harsh line on north korea because this -- with tensions rising in the region and concern about north korea growing, it gives him an excuse or more justification to try and push forward the policies to strengthen japan's own military position. also, the japanese are in this complicated relationship with china because they're both very close economic partners, but to some degree strategic rivals. and in that setting, it is important for japan to maintain and strengthen the alliance with the u.s. and abe has clearly calculated that a close personal relationship with president trump is one way to do that. >> from president trump's frustration regarding trade issues throughout the region to his desire to obviously garner deeper support on the front of north korea, there have been a mixed messages to say the least. how are regional leaders loo

and what trade deal or other alliance? michael: on the economic side, china, obviously has been growing rapidly in recent decades. what it means is that the countries of asia are .ntegrating economically it is becoming more difficult for the united states to make sure that we are getting what we need to get in terms of advantages on trade, investment, that could help create jobs here at home out of our relationships with these countries. we need to have skin in the game. we need to be there fighting for our and just -- for our interest. what is happening in those discussions, we are not there. we do not have a real seat at the table. the other countries will continue to move forward and figure out how they can benefit from one another, investing with one another. the united states will not have the same leg up. when it comes to security, we are seeing another side. this is a dangerous one. of the united states for decades has played an important role, sometimes behind the scenes and try to keep the peace in the region. are

the global alliance to power pos coal was unveiled on thursday at the cup twenty three international climate meeting in the german city o'clock coal is responsible for more than forty percent of global emissions of greenhouse gases c o two the new alliance is committed to phasing out coal sharing and reduction technology and encourages the rest of the world to cut coal which. now back to another corporation laying out its roadmap for the future carmaker folks thought in the supervisory board will confirm its plan tomorrow for billions of euros in spending over the next five years what's already clear they'll invest a huge wad of cash in the world's biggest car market china. china is the world's largest market for electric vehicles and it's growing exponentially by twenty nineteen the government says ten percent of all new registrations must be e-cards so fox bargain is taking the initiative over the next seven years the german company and its brands are teaming up with their chinese partners to invest ten billion euros in e. mobility. to increase the range of models to forty by twent

through parks alliance? >> >> president buell: i think -- >> the funds i might have missed that, they're not being donated. >> commissioner low: how do we assure that the funds are actually going into the community garden? >> often times donations are used for restricted purposes. so the donations should be for the purpose of supporting the community garden on langston. >> commissioner low: you'll do that? >> president buell: can we make it part of the approval? >> i'm not sure i'd advise that. >> do we have a representative of the i attorney office here? -- city attorney office here? >> just to be clear, we've signed agreement with the committee of the garden people, including their treasurer, saying we would make this parks alliance on behalf of them. we're happy to provide, i -- i provided that to staff -- i legal mechanism. my understanding there is precedent. i'm not an attorney, but we have an agreement that both parties signed saying we would make this contribution through the alliance on the behalf o

the first one is about alliances. i'm just curious, as a military historian, throughout history have alliances typically been created for one purpose, or have they stayed after in the context of nato and your thoughts on that. and how do you think the creation of the united nations affects our preparation for war and being more prepared, etc., etc., and maybe hopefully without making you, forcing you to make a prediction about a future of peace. thank you very much. also with nuclear weapons in the united nations. i read e that you studied nuclear weapons. thank you. >> thank you. >> the first question on alliance is a really interesting one. my answer would be, by and large, alliances are temporary. they're put together to meet a particular strategic situation. an alliance formation is normally pretty destabilizing and, therefore, nato is quite unusual. the fact that it's shifted from one original purpose to a slightly different, maybe back now a little bit to the original purpose. and one of my strong views about na