in late one nine hundred forty four the allied ground offensive stuart the allies had already lost three hundred thousand men since the invasion of normandy nothing seemed to be going as planned. and three years after the end of the blitz german bombs once again fell on england it was the start of a new phase of the war. the v. one and v. two rockets weapons of vengeance promised by gerbils were ready for use these flying bombs were fired from the ground and did not need a pilot to guide them they were the first missiles in history. be to scud reach a speed of five thousand seven hundred kilometers an hour and cross the english channel in less than five minutes. too fast for anyone to sound the alarm. german v. rockets would claim some eight thousand lives but the british having whether the blitz bore the new threat with determination and stoicism. one person recalled. earlier in the war people stopped sending their children to school now it's as if being bombed by the germans was just one of the hazards of life like being run over by a motor car. but the v. rockets impossible to stop ra

the third is how do we maintain support in the congress, as well as our ally part of its -- our allied parliaments for what we are doing? it is deterrence, assurance, and maintaining support. when we look at the deterrence component of this, we came to a conclusion that the program of record was not sufficient. it was mostly due to the growth in russian nonstrategic nuclear capabilities, as well as their nuclear doctrine. there was something else going on. this is not unique to our analysis. we have been worried about russian tactical nuclear weapons for at least 10 years, probably longer. the imbalance in nonstrategic nuclear weapons was a rising concern. .ongress gave advice to ratify it said that the u.s. will seek to initiate not later than one year after entry into force negotiations with the russian federation to distrust -- address the disparity in the national stockpile. so that nonstrategic capability was one of the biggest drivers. you combine that with their nuclear doctrine, their exercises, right, and the expansion of these capabilities, and you under like that with russia

, eastern european allies and our northeast asian allies will find a lot to like in this npr. japan is an interesting case. japan is the only country that's been the victim of nuclear attack and it's been a strong proponent of nuclear disarmament. but the day after the npr was issued, the japanese foreign minister came out with a very strong statement of support for the npr. the japanese relied heavily on the nuclear tomahawk, the nuclear sea launch cruise missile, and were upset when it was retired. i think they will be very happy with the resurrection of this capability. i think the south koreans also will see a lot to like. there will be at least relieved that the administration retained the negative security assurance, the assurance that u.s. will not use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear weapon states party to the npt in compliance with her nonproliferation operations. they will be relieved by that but i think they will the concern about the implications u.s. may be increasing the role of nuclear weapons in its strategy. the non-aligned have been unhappy with the slow pa

second, is what were doing assuring our allies?in the third and often forgotten is how to remains teen support with our ally parliaments so it's deterrence, assurance maintaining support. look at the deterrence component we came to a conclusion that the program of record was not sufficient. was mostly due to the growth in nuclear capabilities there something else going on, it's nothing new tar analysis. we been worried about this for ten years probably longer. you may recall the treaty when congress gave its advice to ratify is said in its evolution that we would look to reinitiate. we digest the disparity between the russian the u.s. large disparities -- et cetera. then nonstrategic capability was for me a big driver. these are exercises in the expansion and you underlie that with geopolitical ambitions that led us to conclude that we had to do something more going to remind people that it's not just a number of weapons. so we say that they have about 2000 tactical weapons is the type of capabilities. gravity bonds why in the two

would address concerns from allies and the growing nuclear threat from russia and china.this is one hour 30 minutes. >> can you hear me okay. >> yes, no. welcome. this is the first working session of our m

of ultimate guarantor national and allied security. our forces and capabilities all othernd enable joint force operations. are disperseds bov and across the globe from abovepth of the ocean, the land and air and far into space and men and women of strategic command are responsible for an extraordinary breadth of missionaries operations,clear space operations, joint magnetic operations, and cyberspace at least for a little until the new commander of u.s. cyber commander is confirmed but nearly 184,000 americans, soldiers, sailors, marine, civilians, support the commission providing security and allies every day and it is our nuclear force security.pins that as a senior military was on and combatant commander with the responsibility for defending the united states,its allies and partners, i don't have the luxurion of dealing with the world the way i wish it was. to deal with the world the way it is. let's look at the way the strategic environment has evolved over the past two decades. after the cold war, our nation, especially the depart

nato allies salut is no way we can dealing. e.u. security or security for european allies from nato on the north atlantic but now two of those nine european countries currently stand on opposite sides of a conflict and i'm referring of course to turkey and the us you mentioned this is well in your remarks turkey attacking the kurds in northern syria kurds who were trained and were and cooperated with by the united states how concerned are you about this conflict between two nato member countries. we are concerned about the sufficiency. where hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed and millions have been forced to flee and the way we have a very difficult situation then turkey and united states and germany and all nato allies who wrote together in the global coalition to defeat isis so we have worked together and achieved a lot so the challenge now is of course what we see in northern syria. there nato is not present on the ground in order in syria united states is and turkey is i welcome that they have died of contact an

they do not use them against the united states or allies and partners. to work with international allies and partners to hold the regime accountable for using chemical weapons we remain concerned about the reports of ongoing use and will continue to ensure the president has all the options available to respond if necessary. in addition to contain and reduce th the threat from isis,e u.s. and our coalition partners continue to exploit opportunities on the ground to better understand and to disrupt the networks. ultimately should be efforts to contain and reduce threats fail and an adversary attack against the united states or our allies the department of defense top military priority is to respond and to prevent future attacks. this may require forces to operate in a contaminated environment which makes it critical that we safeguard ports and insured u.s. personnel to sustain effective operations in the event of the war or other contingencies. in asia for example the dod is working with key regional allies the republic of korea and japan to ensure our for

and needs more than just words from its ally. actually there i don't know what united states want but in turkey the government and the people of turkey believe that actually is of you are fed up with these words that's coming from america i'm a saint good to be you know i understand the security teams of turkey it's the same kind of big kurdish forces. turkey is expecting there's some you know not promises to do something related to syrian issue now turkey is you know not waiting for any diplomatic sentences from the united states just want to keep its promises to deliver this promises to keep otherwise i think it doesn't work you know this kind of diplomatic meetings for turkey. is now one week since the winter olympics in south korea officially began less to be embracing the olympic spirit but some fans have been saluted to making online threats to reports from china unfortunately with these winter olympics the story has been that every other day yung chang treats the media with some sort of scandal so far perhaps one of the mo

and that's all the more reason why president trump and our allies are absolutely determined to continue to bring pressure on that regime. the world has agreed that we need a nuclear-free korean peninsula. and we're going to continue to put all the pressure to bear economically and diplomatically while preserving all of our military options to see that that happens. >> let's talk about the military options. did that come up in your conversation with president moon? has he spesktcally said please don't launch a military strike? >> president trump and our allies in the region have agreed to delay our military exercises until after the olympics, but we're going to make it crystal clear that our military, the japanese self-defense forces, our allies here in south korea, all of our allies across the region are fully prepared. >> military options? >> to defend our nations and to take what action is necessary to defend our homeland. >> the vice president comes to south korea with a guest, the father of otto warmbier, the american college student who died days after his release from a north kore

with syria just like the united states moved in along with their allies especially the kurds in other syria the iranians moved in of course with assad and so on and so forth and the israelis had their of course their own interests against the iranians and the assad regime and sold so for so everyone over the last several months have been jets the positioning visibly the other within the country mostly using either the air force or there are lies on the ground in order to both influence and ensure a sort of authority of kind within the country moving forward for the americans they want to make sure that you know through their kurdish allies they have a say in the future of syria especially if the iranians sin thing for the israelis and for the arenas and the russians they want to make sure that the war that they think they won you know that it will bring to them the cons of advantage such a joke ones in the country so the last episode the israelis versus what they call the iranian expansion of influence in the country and the development of missiles that would be threatening israel is

allies as well in order to confront iran in syria and lebanon in yemen and so forth so for the united states to secure this position in the post conflict post war arrangements in syria they need to have this force on the ground and the other fact that actually is that there is a ship with russia because also russia is a try in this completion that we've seen of the peace process is between the geneva peace process as the us. the. sochi peace process is as well that russia is leading and is trying to. make the final arrangements of the post-war arrangements in syria aside from the united sort of so there is this the united states tough competition as well and that's again why the u.s. is insisting that in order to have this before it's on the ground which of course you know conflicts sharply with the relationship with turkey and i think the united states at some point of this continuous would have to choose between their need to ally turkey and all of the conditionally shows the white b.g. in syria right mr fay had thank you very much for that thank you. let's move on to other news now

allies abroad as well. many of whom share our threat perceptions and understanding of some of the dangers that we see posed by others. and share our recognition that it is critically important, perhaps more so now than ever before, to make sure that we have the where with all and the capabilities and the resolve to ensure that potential adversaries do not miss calculate and do not believe they have some kind of advantage that is exploitable and they can take advantage of. so, i think again, it is sort of in the mainstream of u.s. nuclear tradition. i don't see anything odd or unusual about that. again, whether we like nuclear weapons or we don't. we might wish we lived in a world without them, but we have to recognize reality and reality is nuclear weapons do exist. some states have gone in a direction quite opposite the direction that the united states has gone in terms of size of its nuclear arsenal and its attention to its focus on nuclear weapons as part of the national security strategy. that's a disqu

imagine a nato ally thatis acting in syria.t is supposed to be combating global terror — turkey has been that for the us, has been an dependable partner — imagine your partner, your ally moving 10,000 kilometres away, coming toa ally moving 10,000 kilometres away, coming to a country where you have 9/11 kilometres of border, turkey and syria, and, underthe 9/11 kilometres of border, turkey and syria, and, under the pretext of combating another terror group, arm and train and other terror group to fight another terror group that clearly. . . fight another terror group that clearly... are you accusing the americans of essentially arming and supporting a terrorist army? world... let's be clear... well, the us knows that it is a direct offshoot of, a subsidiary, of pkk. let's be blunt about this. it is in —— an astounding thing to say, it leads to this scenario. in the next few weeks your forces would be going to war with the us forces. the rat 2000 around the area and there is now a real risk of military clashes, confrontation bet

every single one of our nato allies, and at that time we had 18 nato allies, said we will come to your defense. - i want to reiterate yet again today that the united states of america can rely on the full support of its 18 nato allies in the campaign against international terrorism. - [narrator] washington wants to leave afghanistan more stable than when us and nato forces arrived. - there's been an evolution. in the beginning the strategy in afghanistan was put forward by the bush administration was a very narrow counter terrorism approach. - then we made a monumental mistake which we are still pursuing. we decided that in order to protect our national interests, we had to re-engineer afghan society. and that the only way to protect our national interests over time, and to avoid a resumption of terrorism against the american homeland emanating from afghanistan, we had to, change fundamentally the character of afghanistan. - the estimate for afghanistan and iraq, if you add all of this, is in the three plus trillion dollars, maybe more. that's if you sort of add everything. that's a re

and turkey are meant to be nato allies in the end of the day the u.s. make use of turkish air base interlink air base why why have you not been more forceful in making the u.s. troops between its ally and between a group that you consider to be a seriously is moot double stand that particle that you know our fight against terrorism we see this double standard in the united states in the united states even. then secretary of defense carter and also the current chief of general stuff for at mit it there and still they still admit that there is no difference between kicky and white b.g. if there is no difference that they are you at mit it means that both of them are terrorist organization this is the double standard in europe also many political parties politicians and even some countries are supporting a human p.k. which is listed by european union as well just because they share the same ideology of marxist communist lens. so this is unfortunately teria for many different political parties and the politicians and the countries. and how can we defeat ter

ji as an ally in the fight against i saw or doubt and this is my question i mean ok now you're saying there is verbal commitment from the us that they will stop or they have stopped supplying weapons but in the end of the day the u.s. and turkey are meant to be nato allies in the end of the day the us make use of turkish air base interest rates why why have you not been more forceful in making the u.s. troops between its ally and between a group that you consider to be a citizen is moot double stand that particle that you know our fight against terrorism we see this double standard in the united states in the united states even. then secretary of defense carter and also the current chief of general stuff down for admitted there and still they still admit that there is not difference between kicky and white b.g. if that is not different that they are you at mit it means that both of them are terrorist organization this is the double stand that in europe or so many political parties politicians and even some countries are supporting. p.k. k. k. which is listed by your opinion as well ju

from an allied perspective, that question earlier, we actually bring in allied partners to our twice a year global cent conference that comes in there and participate and sit in as participating members. it really is, in my view, a tremendous community and frankly, just having forms to bring them together which is a bring responsibility on socom as a committee to bring everybody together and get concerted effort in a particular direction based on departmental guidance, that has not been the problem. you know, it's -- everybody is willing to help. it's trying to get everything moving in the same direction and very, very positive responses so far. >> great. >> thank you. >> thank you. i'd like to thank my colleagues and senator heinrich for coordinating this meeting for us today, as well. secretary and general, thank you for your wonderful ex. er tees aexpertise and the comm to the men and women and the citizens of the great united states for all that you do. we look forward to see how socom progresses during this transition and we look forward to working with you on any initiatives th

as being allies in their fight against islamic state in syria in january the pentagon announced that it was creating a kurdish led security force right on turkey's thoughts that in northern syria as a response to a lot of the military campaign against kurdish militias they're threatening a direct clash with u.s. forces and to listen arrived in the turkish capital was met with a large number of protests against his visit author and journalist karen lojka felt has been specializing in coverage of the middle east believes that the u.s. has underestimated the conflict between turks and kurds they seem to have not really a good idea of the situation on the ground today overstretched their position and their relations immensely and the situation you know the relations of the kurdish groups on the other side it's not very stable as the americans lead a very big mistake and that is to meet it through. kurdish political presence actually in their own country as well as at the borders turkish government things that kurt's post to them or using the kurdish problem for one's own geopolitical int

of merkel and another ally the currents defense minister fonda line will keep her position that's to spice a series of scandals in the blondest fair well let's join me can occur for ninety w.'s chief political editor at headquarters in berlin and the chancellor has just confirmed that there will be some new faces in the government can we expect any real change in merkel's policy with these new addition. well she's certainly opened up slightly she's given up on two very loyal allies that were with her for many many years have on good health minister his pose for a cus you the conservative sister party in bavaria it's leader hall c.e.o. for taking over the interior ministry so this one signal there's one signal that i'm going to merkel is opening up also to critics who have a base to have support within the c.d.u. party and the person who fired by you and spawn at the same time she rewards allies like peter meyer the current interim finance minister before that her chief of staff for their loyalty so that's the message coming out of this that merkel may be looking more ass transition p

tanya great to see you let's dive into this very complicated situation so syria has denied that its ally iran drone entered the israeli air space how serious is this confrontation between israel and the law and iran in light of the syria situation. it is one of the most serious situations we have seen in the north of the postie is one very significant one and also from this we decided based on winning to iran that we heard prime minister binyamin netanyahu has been security meetings old day with the army saying that israel will defend itself against any attack and you're tempted by that it's. now is a has made it clear all along that it won't. rain in presence. its borders and the israeli side of the occupied golan heights through in the ukrainian presence or through the opinion backed has been now so what is seen here is on the one side you see a show of strength you know by all sides by is granted by iran by syria but on the other side there also calls for restraint and some of the military experts here in israel saying that all sides do not appear to seek an escalation but of course t

we need allies.f we are in a great power rivalry in this world with both russia and china, even our -- given our massive debt and china's economic might. that will be a tough hill to climb. we need allies, we need friends. vietnam, south korea, japan, we still don't even have an ambassador to south korea. we are degrading diplomacy at an incredibly rapid. we are also degrading development. we talk about all that stuff on the chart over there that china is doing, one of the biggest things china is doing, is they are spending a lot of money all across the world to try to curry favor with countries and also build their own economic might. they are doing it in a crass and terrible way because they don't care what the government does. they will not pull money out of a country because of a human rights dilation. they are doing it and we are pulling back. again this budget is being , proposed, guts. development. about the department of security. it is part of the nondefense discretionary budget. we will lea

it's only allies are the sps which are primarily made up of the ypj. is this a conundrum for the u.s. in syria and also how is the ypj it reacting to this? >> first of all the united states biggest concern and we heard from the state department and trump articulated how it might be undermining the isis campaign in syria. also concern articulated about the high civilian casualties obviously mounting as the operation continues. yes united the united states is very concerned. but at the same time it also said it is not part of their implements as it were. they are not really in a position to convene. because they disagree with that view and they feel the united states should he doing much more to end its campaign and the united states on the one hand expresses concern has not said stop. there are kerger's anxieties about the commitment of the united states to their security. as for you know the united states saying well secretary tillerson said recently they are going to be staying on for a number of reasons and my colleagues just ran through some of them

allies in the region and as general michael flynn who was the head of the defense intelligence agency at that time admitted on al jazeera the united states took a willful decision to support those extremists so the united states back then was supporting an attempt to take over the eastern. syria later on when the tide turned when the tide turned with the help of russia iran hezbollah the iraqis on the volunteers and isis began to lose ground and territory it was only then that the united states changes policy before that the united states was allowing isis to thrive. to go on between turkey and i say this we know from kerry the secretary of state of the united states in the audio file that he told the syrian opposition people that the united states allowed isis advance on damascus to put pressure on president assad so only when the tide turned that the united states decided to start fighting isis and that was because they wanted a piece of syria so that they could. basically pursue the same policy which mohamed let me let me let me point out a rise of the let me point out to our viewe

ankara rex tillerson has met president erdogan as well as the country's foreign minister the nato allies have been told so but washington support for kurdish militias in syria ankara is angry the u.s. backs groups that turkey calls terrorists to listen try to ease tensions by claiming the support is limited however this does not seem to be enough. but always been clear with turkey that the weapons provided to the syrian immigrated forces would be limited missions specifically the provided only experimental bases to achieve military objectives only we demand that this relationship and by that i mean we want them to end all the support given to the syrian arm of the p.k. the white b.g. . well let's take a closer look at the two groups the defense minister was referring to the p.k. k. is the kurdistan workers' party a group fighting turkish authorities for more than thirty years both ankara and washington consider them a terrorist organization however america and turkey have different views on the syrian based kurdish militia called the people's protection units or the wife p.g. anchor rega

the syrian government and its allies haven't taken ground but over the years they have. residential neighborhood the syrian government. to cease fire. to other controlled areas. in the northwest he says. the people and. about four hundred thousand people. he is alive to vote the volunteers say it's not usually the case. well two major powers fighting in syria may be heading towards a military confrontation turkey says it's going to fight forces loyal to bashar al assad if they enter fleeing the district is in the hands of the syrian kurdish y p g c a state news agency says pro-government forces will enter within hours to join what it calls a resistance to turkish aggression turkey began a military operation in mid january to try to end the kurdish control of freeing my b.g. commanders have denied making a deal with the syrian government but they do say syrian troops are responding to their call to protect the borders of our friend stephanie decker reports. syrian state television and now says that forces loyal to president bashar al assad will be deployed to africa. turk

we need allies. if we are in a great power rivalry with russia and china, given our massive debt and china's economic might, that's going to be a tough hill to climb. we can build a trillion military and it will be hard to match that. we need allies and friends, there are a lot of possibilities, south korea and japan and we still don't have an ambassador for south korea. we are degrading development, an important part of it. this is part of you talk about all the stuff on the chart over there china is doing, one of the biggest things china is doing, they're spending a ton of money all across the world to try to curry favors with countries and build their own economic might. they're doing it in an incredibly crass and terrible way because they don't care what the government does. they won't pull money out of a country because of a human rights violation, they don't care. they're doing it, we're pulling back. this budget is being proposed, guts, development. let's talk about the department of homeland

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we need allies. look, if we are in great power rivalry in this world with both russia and china, given our massive debt and china's economic might, that's going to be a tough hill to climb. i mean, we could build a military -- trillion dollar military and it's going to be hard to match all that. we need allies. we need friends and there are a lot of possibilities. ipd yeah, vietnam, south korea, japan, we still don't even have an ambassador to south korea. but we are degrading diplomacy at an incredibly rapid level. we are also degrading development, which i think is an important part of it. this is part of how we talk about, you know, all that stuff in the chart over there, that china's doing. one of the biggest things china is doing is spending a ton of money all across the world to try to curry favor with countries and also build their own economic might. now, they're doing it in an incredibly crass and terrible way, because they don't care what the government does. they're not going to pull money

the allies decided to open an eastern front against the ottoman and. the ill fated gillet police campaign ran between april nineteenth fifteen and january nineteenth sixteenth. when it's finally field the allies including australians and new zealanders suffered a major steps back. this monument commemorates the ottoman victory in which around eighty thousand allied troops were killed. this defeat at the little league and later includes mystically timeo caused the british to enter into more secret deals over the middle east. coming up how the british conspired with should be for the same mcconnell to strike back at the ottomans through an arab revolt. the british adopt the sharifs of mecca as the partners that were essential. in the propaganda war with the ottomans to demonstrate that the muslim world was better off on the allied side to fight the odds let me explain why we must and sikes. negotiate face to face to get what they both want from the middle east well if we cannot have palestinian my government was suddenly not allow britain to control my g

in time now that this village is freed the inhabitants have to worry again along with ed the ones allies the free syrian army radical islamic groups are also coming to the region that brings back nightmares feelings. i consider heir to one the greatest terrorist he's a criminal who attacks innocent people and takes their land away his allies around him are all i-s. people. but. the evening meal is rather meager and yet these s.d.s. officers voice their confidence in the wake of attacks from turkey the u.s. offers military support for the s.d.f. were also seems high among these fighters hardened after many years of war. julie holland who joins us from istanbul well. the situation on the ground is often very confused do we have confirmation from. the kurds on from syria. troop movements. well there is no direct confirmation yet by the syrian regime in damascus but state t.v. and that's considered the voice of the regime is reporting that pro-government forces set to enter a friend and i quote within hours so that indicates that indeed something might be happening on the ground quite soon o

trained kurdish fighters they are both key allies of the united states in the region there has actually been quite a bit of tension recently between all three of them at this point it's really rather unclear exactly how things are going to continue now the usa has supplied weapons to kurdish fighters in in syria and car washington's longtime ally has actually made a point of saying that this is essentially they they consider this to be u.s. supporting terrorists consider this to be support for terrorism and now we hear also from mattis he is come forward and said that turkey has security concerns about the kurdish forces in syria are actually legitimate this is what he said. we can seem to work with. disagreements which is how do we take them on as he was rapidly it's possible they have a legitimate security concern and we do not dismiss one bits of them now this security concern that he is referring to are forces that have been armed by the united states in syria the kurdish fighters associated with the s.d.f. in the u.s. led coalition now at this point it seems like washington is real