closest allies and partners. we're here because, unfortunately, with the wars in the middle east and europe, we've been reminded that we must be prepared to protect our interests with military force, should deterrents fail and we've seen what happens when deterrents fail, tragedy, death, destruction. and both of these conflicts have shown us in real-time the importance of scale and adaptability and cooperation in defense production. allies are emptying their musicians stock piles, demand for ships and aircraft and outstrip supplies. demand for, as i said munitions. at the same time the proliferation of technology have allowed longstanding weapons systems, if not obsolete, at least degraded in their capabilities. allies will need to combine their industrial efforts to keep pace with dynamic and intensifying security challenges and that's the subject of today's morning, looking at how we might improve, strengthen and add to allied defense cooperation. we have an excellent lineup. we're going to start the morning wi

i think how allies bring some of these -- via phone. i think actually we have to recognize it's really unlikely to have some super efficient model for nations all are contributing their part, some beautiful picture. that's not likely to occur. i think rather than look for efficiency what we should be looking for is effectiveness. does that mean is going to be the most efficient way of doing it? certainly not. it's going to be sticky and spent be difficult and fraught with some of the political elements that we were on our last panel. but the other point to this, sort of -- i think allies writ large and mike answer this two ukraine, recognize that the cost of conflict is such that we perhaps collectively forgot over the last 25 years or so. one example of that and i think jim talked about 1.5 on the last panel, artillery shells. you look at the cost of the 155 artillery shell and before the russian invasion of ukraine, approximate $2000 roughly. today, it's near to around $8000. so the point being that inflation associated to armaments w

, because they fund and they arm their ally israel.— arm their ally israel._ arm their ally israel. a new report out today _ arm their ally israel. a new report out today talking - arm their ally israel. a new. report out today talking about poverty rates across the palestinian territories doubling as a result of the conflict to over 74%. when antony blinken is there talking about reconstruction and what gazais about reconstruction and what gaza is going to look like after this war ends, it is almost beyond imagination what they are going to face. as an aid agency, are you looking at that already, are you and we focused on the immediate crisis? �* ., ., ., focused on the immediate crisis? ., . ., crisis? both. now we are not even able — crisis? both. now we are not even able to _ crisis? both. now we are not even able to cope _ crisis? both. now we are not even able to cope with - crisis? both. now we are not even able to cope with the i even able to cope with the immediate needs of emergency aid so that people can survive. but we are also thinking of the reb

allies.a swift diplomatic resolution - international allies. no sign of a swift diplomatic resolution in i international allies. no sign of al swift diplomatic resolution in the last ten days, diplomacy failed to stop attacks coming. this is a question for some people in your own party of principle, it is ok and some people's view to support israel when it is defending itself, our jets to be in air with missiles raining down on tel aviv, but it would not be acceptable for the uk military in any way to play a part in israel attacking iran. that is a question of principle. would you be comfortable with the uk military helping israel attack iran? lute helping israel attack iran? we siml helping israel attack iran? we simply do _ helping israel attack iran? - simply do not know the circumstances of what might or might not happen in the days ahead. all of your viewers would understand why i am not going to get involved in operational circumstances for an action that may or may not happen and we do

but i do know that some of our friends and allies do have some concerns. but again, for as long as we remain in the area stipulated by international law. and you've been shocked that like we are right. but you've previously said that it's an issue that you're taking up with your fellow nato's nato alliance ministers. a foreign minister was, excuse me, what are other leaders and for ministers telling you when you take this up with them as well, i'm not commenting on their behalf of us. the message is clear. and i have also taken this off a bilaterally with, with my colleagues, and i just hope that that, that we will be able to help ukraine in the best possible way. put this into the big picture for us because you've said that you shouldn't rule anything out and long term, as we've heard, including sending troops is in the risk that at some point, it will be too late. yes, well we of course said i'm scrutinizing the situation um on a daily basis to get uh with, with the allies and partners. but again, this is not the situation when it would be about sending

um, at the end, it's up to each ally to determine it's reports for your brain. that's not up to me . this is for the individual allies in during relationship with you, craig, and we also have to be cleared. it's not a single button. the single rep and alone will win the war. but obviously, this isn't important to you. well, i, i can understand 2 kinds request. i understand, so i'm, i'm michigan stilton burke on this and what he said before, but in the end that is after he's allied to decide what they want to do. and when i look at 2 particular elyse which are enforced here, they have now, for example, the united states and their leadership day have spent tens of thousands, tens of billions and dollars to support ukraine's rights to self defense. and let's be clear, your present likely will not exist as a country to day without to us support. ok, well go to n p r develop terry a. hi, thanks over here, terry hall. it's nice to meet you and welcome to nato. it's cute thanks. i've covered for your the, for secretary general that i've covered and to be fair, all of t

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allied aircraft flyover. they have pictures of -- you know, it's a famous four square- mile picture where there's 1000 individual fields. julius caesar writes about it. it was known. but here's the problem. this is about amphibious landings in particular. first of all, you start off with zero combat power. from the minute you land, it's a race to build a combat power. knowing how to establish a foothold, billy beachhead, and generate enough combat power to break out. what's the one thing most commanders are worried about ? landing. so all of the training, all the time was put on, how do we get on the beach and security beachhead? it was not spent in breakout. those were very very difficult lessons learned, and now you find these combined infantry, engineer, and armor teams as a start to fight through, they are learning in real time. >> we have a question over here. please, everybody, i'm trying to get a couple more in, but make your questions short. >> i am not picking on the doctor, but my question is direct

these supposedly 6 to 7000 ships that made up the allied armada. but they had a disproportionate impact on the outcome of that battle. at first, the destroyer captains had lot of trouble knowing what to shoot. i mean, there's high ground. yes. okay. but where on that high? the heavy smoke over, the beach, plus actual german camouflage made almost impossible to figure out where the big german guns were or even small ones for that matter. some of the german guns had been designed so that they retract it into enclosed sides. it came out fire and then retracted. they were using smokeless powder so you couldn't look for smoke to find your target. in theory, they were to coordinate with the men on the shore. they would radio out, coordinates, the gunners would adjust and call fire. but in in rush ashore early morning virtually all of the radios became either destroyed waterlogged and communication was impossible. the ships couldn't talk to the men. the men couldn't talk to the ships. back to susan's board. why didn't they just call them on their cell pho

more allied troops were killed training for d-day than in d-day itself. and that's statistic that has really only come about in the last decade or so. a british historian named peter adams sort of calculated and so you end up, you know, part of the story of diving back into d-day is there. there's this one word disaster stress exercise in the spring 1944 called exercised tiger. that's the last full dress rehearsal for the units going to beach and you know they go the the when you talk about the preparations that go into d-day the british evacuates an entire county of coast england an area around a town called slapton sands that in december 43 they give everyone who lives in the county, you know, basically two weeks to out, you know, close up your life, take whatever possessions you can, sit a truck and get out of your county and they reserve it for allied training and these sort of increasingly repeated of the allied units storming ashore. you know they sort of load up on their landing craft they go out into english channel, turn around and come back and

there is concern among allies about the most aggressive controls and trying to get allies on board with that. what is your message to u.s. allies when it comes to aggressive controls to try to get them on board? >> i am not sure what you're referring to by most aggressive controls. this is a give-and-take. it is extended dialogue we have had with a widening group of allies and partners who claim the highest and dual use technology supply chain with national security applications and we take this in steps. we diagnose the threat. we look at what the trade-offs are in imposing a certain control to deal with the threat and we walked through the four questions i laid out in my remarks. that has been a constructive set of dialogues allies and partners. does it mean we agree on everything? not necessarily. are we aligned on methodology for how to approach the issue? i believe we are. it comes down to the issue of practical application, which is a give-and-take within respective governments of allies and partners and across those governments and between us and them. we will continue to work on

allies won't be nearly that effective. nonetheless as this debate continues it goes up to adolf hitler to make the choice and what choice does he make? what he is going to do is give some of those divisions to rommel. two of them to calais, most likely the most consequential he will put toward normandy. army group g in the south. and four of the divisions are given to schweppenburg around paris with the idea that they would execute the plan, the traditional approach. but here is the limitation. you can't move them until hitler releases them. for schweppenburg, he goes you are killing me. you are stealing my focus of p effort, my mass panders which should be able to counterattack now split up all across the country so therefore, they get neither the advantages of one or the other approach. so, the whole problem is exacerbated moreover by a very convoluted chain of command. so, you've got adolf hitler at the top, army, navy, and air force commander. like schweppenburg said, his naval and air commander don't report to him. th

it provides opportunities for allies and partners to help maintain and repair u.s. military system closser closer to the point of their name. korean companies have found ways to deepen our mutual cooperation, including participating in naval -- ammunition ship mro and acquiring yard. the momentum is there, but we must do more. this is the moment to deepen our partnership and strengthen our industries even further. ship building is only one potential area of cooperation, but there are others as well. the u.s. national defense industry strategy rightly emphasized that we can enhance production capacity and address the critical capability gap by working together. the ongoing conflict in the middle east and europe that i mentioned earlier have shown how critical and strong and resilient the defense industrial base remains. the ability to produce defense capabilities at both speed and scale is absolutely vital. korea, the u.s., now european allies, all bring our own unique strength to the tables. strength that ought to be leveraged for our mutual benefit and shared respo

the allied a reached its climax. almost ha, a 1000000 tons of bombs fell on industrial targets transport routes in june and cities. the during the night from february, 13th to 14th, heavy air rates destroyed the historic centre of thrust, and which should be known as the florence of d. l. but at least 25000 residents died. the burning city became a symbol of germany's defeat, the wind tops of the rush, chancery collapsed in berlin. hitler retreated to his funeral bunker, hot leftist, despite demanding that soldiers and civilians continued to fight. jim and people knew the will was lost even if they put on the grey face with propaganda films that showed them working together to force as far as the capital entries that we despondent or any hopes, the west and allies would reach berlin for, for the russians they feed would want revenge the in this devastation country the now arrived hundreds of thousands of concentration can prisoners from the east. that with distribution to camps on gym and tow tree, chiefly to provide

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— the us, the most important nato ally, the most powerful nato ally. — ally, the most powerful nato allys— ally, is backing israel and there is no doubt that nato is an operation that operates by consensus so this is not part of its — consensus so this is not part of itsjurisdiction consensus so this is not part of its jurisdiction considering it is— of its jurisdiction considering it is the _ of its jurisdiction considering it is the north atlantic by name _ it is the north atlantic by name. a ~' it is the north atlantic by name. a, ~ .,, it is the north atlantic by name. ~ , name. mark rutte has become the 14th secretary-general— name. mark rutte has become the 14th secretary-general of - name. mark rutte has become the 14th secretary-general of night - 14th secretary—general of night to day as you have mentioned, what does he bring to the table? i what does he bring to the table? ~ , , table? i think it brings someone _ table? i think it brings someone who - table? i think it brings someone who is - table? i think it brings - someone who is recognised, he has been prime ministerfor th

allied aircraft fly over.they pictures of you know taking that you it's the famous four square mile picture of which there's 8000 individual fields. julius writes about the carnage country. it was known, but here's the problem. this is about amphibious landing in particular. everybody knows, there's three things. first of all, you start off with zero combat power. sure. minute one, you land. soldier one. it's a race build up combat power. so now you to establish a foothold, build a beachhead, and then generate enough combat power to break. what's the thing? most commanders are really worried about landing? so all of that training, the time we're split on, how do we get on the beach and secure a beachhead, it was not spent in breakout. and so those ended up being very difficult lessons learned as soldiers adapt to the environment. and now you find these combined infantry engineer and armor teams as they start to fight through, they're learning in real time. you have a question over here here and please, everybo

with our allies and partners to respond to this dangerous and destabilizing escalation. we are closely tracking other bullying by the dprk, russia, and the peoples republic of china. that's why the united states and the rok are working so closely with our partners to stand up to coercive destabilizing actions in both the indo-pacific and the euro atlantic. our work together central to ensuring peace and stability and to enhancing deterrent. foreign minister cho prime minister kim, thanks for your leadership and your commitment to this alliance. mr. kim, over to you. >> good afternoon. first, i would like to thank secretary of state blanket and secretary of defense austin for hosting the rok defense ministry all and for your warm reception of the united states delegation. the international -- community day is ace with complex challenges with security and we're in the most stern security environment since cold war. it is at this time that the rok ford defense ministers have gathered together to discuss rok alliance developing and various issues on regional peace and securi

but we have strong, vibrant allies in europe. we have seen nato come together, the european union come together around the russian invasion of ukraine. we've seen in the indo-pacific, japan and australia and a friend, not an ally, but a friend like india, step up and say chinese aggression is not going to stand. so the other element of this is to recogniz that we need our allies perhaps more than we have ever needed them. - it strikes me that when you were secretary of state and when you were the national security advisor for president bush, we leaned on our allies quite a bit in the context of our engagement with afghanistan and our engagement in iraq. - yes. - does engaging our allies in this new reframing change even from that set of relationships, or how does it compare? - we needed something very specific from our allies in afghanistan and iraq, particularly in afghanistan, huge country, decentralized. we had these reconstruction tea. the germans took one, the italians took one. that's really not what we need today. we're in

this and, and allies, i've spoken to about this phenomena. everybody knows that finland and all the bordering nations with the, the brochure of bella release in a very difficult situation. and in fact, not only those countries who directly share border with, with russia, bella roost. but it's obviously the entire shang, an area that is affected. and at the same time, these are exactly the same concerns shed by my colleagues also installed in europe . because what we see with the destabilization act that the russia is organizing in say, west africa. one of the intention to say is exactly to instrumental ais migration. also towards, for example, let's take it back to finland again again, so that we can, we are in this input. right. which is yeah, that we can manage this island again because, i mean, here's what's being said specifically about about this law. it's been, it's been said that the russian objective is to make filling, look bad to basically present this dilemma where you have to choose between immediate border security and the values

the red army in western allies closing in on 2 fronts. to nazis began clearing the concentration camps around $700000.00 inmates for force of the relocations. no one knows the exact number that we're forced to travel across the eastern and central europe, through fields, forests, and villages along coast and rivers, towards austria and germany. along the way and estimated 252300000 people perished, they died of cold hunger, 1st exhaustion, some mood which by the gods, were even shocked by civilians as they passed by their own. the few images of these, dest matches, which took place in 1944, and 1945. that we do have accounts from those who supply. and is there any way to convey the inc comparable cruelty of these matches? was a collective torture and active revenge by a power of the search of defeat those responsible these own restraint i meet the downfall of the doomed 3rd rush to this day. this much is our little know chapter germany's nazi history. taking a closer look at them can shit, a new lice on the collapse of the regime to terro

more allied troops were killed training for d-day than in d-day itself. and that's statistic that has really only come about in the last decade or so. a british historian named peter adams sort of calculated and so you end up, you know, part of the story of diving back into d-day is there. there's this one word disaster stress exercise in the spring 1944 called exercised tiger. that's the last full dress rehearsal for the units going to beach and you know they go the the when you talk about the preparations that go into d-day the british evacuates an entire county of coast england an area around a town called slapton sands that in december 43 they give everyone who lives in the county, you know, basically two weeks to out, you know, close up your life, take whatever possessions you can, sit a truck and get out of your county and they reserve it for allied training and these sort of increasingly repeated of the allied units storming ashore. you know they sort of load up on their landing craft they go out into english channel, turn around and come back and

at can, how should ukraine and its allies respond to this?— allies respond to this? _ allies respond to this? at this point, it's right _ allies respond to this? at this point, it's right to _ allies respond to this? at this point, it's right to be - allies respond to this? at this point, it's right to be paying l point, it's right to be paying close attention. all eyes on the movement of the brigade, possibly more to be sent to russia, and where they are headed, are they going to stay in russia or move on to ukraine? buti in russia or move on to ukraine? but i think now is the time for countries to come together and really try to present a somewhat united front. when it comes to both north korea and russia. in some ways, it's hard to imagine how north korea fits in here, but this is an opportunity to see how north korea fits into this broader global threat. for me, this is an opportunity to remind ourselves that the conflict may be happening in ukraine, but the implications go far beyond just ukraine and russia. they extend to the korean peninsular and, frankly, to

that's china allied.yes, if chinese operatives very near to that base, they'll be looking at it all the time. >> it will become less secure and the us may not want to use it anymore. and that weakens maybe our relevancy on the world stage. and particularly to our biggest ally, america. >> and what seems so extraordinary is that unlike other overseas territory, formerly hong kong, gibraltar, the falkland islands, nobody lives here in these islands. nobody's saying, you know, we want to be returned to mauritius or anything like that. this is this is almost an unforced error by the british government because nobody apart from the international community, wherever that is, is telling us to do it. so is this a sign of things to come? we've already seen david lammy, his views on israel, more into the international courts than they are to what maybe british people think. is this a sign of things to come? well, that's the worry. >> we have lost several cases in international court of justice. we had a un vote una

iran, hezbollah and their other allies. , , ., allies. the line is 'ust about held up. h allies.line isjust about held up, but thank- allies. the line isjust about held up, but thank you - allies. the line isjust about held up, but thank you for i held up, but thank you for joining us. i will take you straight to florida the governor ron desantis is addressing the press about the threat they are facing from hurricane milton, that's a system. i facing from hurricane milton, that's a system.— that's a system. i would tell --eole, that's a system. i would tell people. one. _ that's a system. i would tell people, one, there's - that's a system. i would tell people, one, there's going l that's a system. i would tell. people, one, there's going to be impacts far beyond the eye of the storm, too, you can meet landfall anywhere from citrus county noni into southwest florida, we will know more over the next 12 to 18 hours, but just colons, all the stuff you see, the impacts will be broader than that, particularly with respect to the storm surge on the west coast of florida. i know there a

we welcome to sweden --we welcomed sweden as a nato ally. we endorsed a nato industrial expansion capacity pledge, and that will strengthen the defense industrial base on both sides of the atlantic, increase large-scale multinational procurement, and help deliver capabilities swiftly and securely. we also launched the nato security assistance and training for ukraine, or nsatu. that is the plan to coordinate and arrange delivery of the security assistance that ukraine needs to prevail against russian aggression. we strengthened nato's deterrence and defense. we depended ties with our global partners, especially in the indo pacific. and we celebrated 75 years of the strongest, most successful defensive alliance in history. i'm proud of all this progress, but we still got work to do. our priority is implementing the important agreements from nato's recent summits, and today we continued our progress. we are forging nato's most robust defense plans since the end of the cold war, and that will help ensure that we have the forces and capabilities

lord alli.ou uncomfortable that a labour donor who i'd say again, icannot labour donor who i'd say again, i cannot think of any other reason he'd be there if it wasn't for the fact he'd been so generous personally to the labour leader, personally, to the labour leader . are you the labour leader. are you uncomfortable that he was at these meetings and that he did? he helped determine the grid for the first 100 days of the first labour government, for 14 years? >> yeah. if he was and it turns out that he was, then yes, i am absolutely . and i think anybody absolutely. and i think anybody would be already at labour party conference and you might have heard this yourself. you know, people were uncomfortable talking or asking about who, you know, people were saying, who is lord alli ? who is this guy? and lord alli? who is this guy? and because, you know, we've got people who've been grafting for the past 14 years to get a labour government delivered, people who've been door knocking two times a wee

but certainly allies are divided on what happens next. they agree that ukraine the faces real challenges on the battlefield as this war continues in a protracted manner, and faces yet another difficult winter where zelenskyy is warning of potential nuclear war. but they remain divided on how to move beyond that, how to tackle that. we know that the uk prime minister has suggested that uk made long-range missiles should be he allowed to be used deeper inside of russia. it is unclear whether president biden has come around to that idea, although some amount of time has passed since they've discussed that. so we will see whether any progress is made, but we don't expect any specific deliverables, at least happening from today's meeting max, kayla tausche in berlin following those meetings for us. thank you so much. now still to come election officials in north carolina sore terrific turnout for the first day of early voting, even though people are still recovering from hurricane helene plus donald trump and kamala harris are fighting to conv

america want it in part because it rallied allies to it you're talking about slamming allies with 30%, 20% tariffs isn't this time you're going to end up trying to rally the west and you're dividing it instead and that the real problem with tariffs, even beyond all the problems do the economy where you keep on bringing up these individual examples. but the overall effect is going to be dramatic. >> know so first about foreign policy, yeah, i'll do that. >> how does it help you take on a chunk house turned and all your allies against tremendously because china things were stupid country okay a very stupid country. >> they can't believe that somebody finally got wise to them not one president bush obama, barack it's an obama. >> have you heard of them not one president. >> not think of it, not one president, george china, anything they said, oh, they are third world nation, they're developing what we're a developing nation to take a look at detroit, take a look at our cities. we're a developing nation week. we have to develop more than they do. they were way behind them. you take a look