one of the three baltic states that means the two percent. nato major contribution so why is that not enough for so many to feel safe in the neighborhood where russia is also present well the only member of your opinion which do not have border with russia wouldn't have this border agreement as you know still the wall change nothing if we still don't have a border agreement what about nature and our commitment to nato it was a kind of political agreement which was made several years ago and yes whopping this money more than two percent two point seventeen this is at the moment a political decision from the russian perspective and let me know if you disagree with that no amount of nato funding or the no number of nato troops in a stone you will make it stony and still safe simply because russia will have to respond in kind that russia will have to increase its military presence on the border with on its western border and that in turn will make its tony and perhaps other baltic states fill even more insecure so it's not really about the increa

sea or across -- over the baltic sea in the airspace. we definitely don't want to be in a situation where something goes terribly wrong in that kind of situation. >> well, i think my comments would echo much of that. when it comes to incidents, i think that what i would be concerned about is the congested airspace, sea space, et cetera, in the baltic region. that's where i see most activity going on. if something is going to happen, that's where it most likely will be. we might see incidents, hopefully we'll not see that. but besides from that, i'm going to say that i'm kind of looking forward to after the exercise when we are able to analyze this whole of government approach and to the jointness and how this is all linked together and the element of quality control of the exercise. that's going to be very interesting to analyze and come back to the atlantic council. >> i would agree. i think seeing how they mobilize, will they go further. certainly in the last zapa they were only in the beginning of thinking about this complete mobiliza

in the baltic region. he served for many years as the newspapers correspondent in moscow at a crucial time. voicesne of the leading in transatlantic unity. thank you so much for being with us today. the floor is yours. [applause] >> thank you and thank you to team here at the atlantic council putting together this extremely interesting seminar today, this morning. it is very timely, as we see from interest in the audience it also generates interest and questions. allow me as a historian to go back a little bit from where we are today. to understand to my understanding, the current situation both in relations to western russia and regarding these exercises. we have to see the bigger picture. this is only part of it. to be pretty clear, russia is the only country today in the world who has national strategy , and has been ready for a long time to confront nato as an enemy and perhaps even destroy nato and the united security terms of architecture in your atlantic area built by the leadership of the united st

the first ever joint russia china drills and european war to start today in the baltic sea a military exercise between the two countries will last for a week however even before it takes place the event is sparking a strong reaction. western media is in a spin over the joint the twenty seven thousand naval drills starting today between russia and china headlines have been lifted with words like invasion and war one warning of a challenge to nato so what sparked the panic well first of all it's the location in the baltic sea right in the heart of northern europe and next ten nato bases secondly chinese warships are making their debut tour in this part of the world. and if that wasn't threatening enough they're teaming up with russia but joins the drills are nothing new they've been held annually since twenty twelve but this first stage of the baltic coast has already caused a frenzy as a trio of chinese vessels made their way there leaving the british dutch and danish navies scrambling to shutter them out of their water is much to the amusement of the russian ambassador to china the ba

sea or over the baltic sea. we definitely don't want to be in a situation where something goes terribly wrong in that kind of situation. >> well, i think my comments would echo much of that when it comes to incidents. i think what i would be concerned about is the air space, sea space et cetera in the baltic region. that's where the most activity going on. we might see incidents. hopefully we will not see that. i'm kind of looking forward to after the exercise when we were able to analyze this, the whole of government approach to the jointness and how this is all linked together and the element of quality control. that's going to be very interesting to analyze. >> i would agree. i think seeing how they mobilize, will they go further. certainly in the last zapad they were only in the beginning of thinking about this complete mobile vaigizati mobilization. plus, there are a lot of these internal security forces that have been created by president putin to protect him but also with new internal reorganizations occu

we have not seen much of the a few years aggressiveness that has been seen in the baltic sea. there is definitely a difference between the russian behavior in the baltic as compared to north of norway. because of the sanctions and what have you, the interactions between the norwegian military and russian military has been reduced to almost nothing. on a daily basis, we're still cooperating slightly on the border guard between russia and norway. we are cooperating on search-and-rescue issues and incidents at sea. be aware we also have still a line ine -- halt northern norway between the headquarters in the northern fleet headquarters. we do tests every week. lately, it has not been used much. but is there for commanders to speak to commanders just in case we have something coming up and we need to get any misunderstandings out of the way. so when it comes to this exercise itself, we are interested in seeing how the exercises linked to other exercises in the north. we know that late summer, early fall is an active time, where there are a number of other exercises. how these are

newspapers in the baltic region. he everybody issed fserved for crucial time of political developments in russia. one of the leading voices about influence of transatlantic unity, cohesion within nato. thank you for being with us today. and the floor is yours. [ applause ] >> thank you, magnus. thank you, you and your team here in atlantic council putting together this extremely interesting seminar today, this morning. it is of course very timely as we see from audience. also generates a lot of perhaps both interest and questions. but allow me to be in my few remarks as historian. going a little bit back from the day we're living in today. to understand in my understanding and our understanding in estonia the current situation. both in relation between western russia and also regarding the exercises. we have to see the bigger picture. and it is of course only part of it. to be pretty clear, russia is the only country today in the world who has national strategy and this is already for a long time to confront nato as

drills are nothing new they've been held annually since twenty twelve but this first stage of the baltic coast has already caused a frenzy as a trio of chinese vessels made their way there leaving the british danish navy's scrambling to shatter them out of their water is much to the amusement of the russian ambassador to china the baltic states repeat their usual incantations but at the same time they take for granted the fact that nato is deploying large forces on their territory but then wasn't this response predictable in october last year a russian fleet sailing around europe sparked headlines like these leading some european states to even consider sending vessels to intercept the group and this fear of a russian ship has been around for some time already you can just ask sweden a country that spent twenty years insisting that russian submarines were sneaky. around its coastline until they realize that the only thing lurking their mics now we can confirm that as of this moment no minks are scheduled to take part in joint c. twenty seventeen. meanwhile the united states and allied co

china daily reports the drills are taking place in the baltic sea, the first of their kind for the chinese navy in europe. the gulf news claims israel has defied international calls to remove metal detectors at the entrance of a sensitive holy site in eastjerusalem despite the security measure triggering violent clashes with palestinians. onshore uk windfarms now lead the field in efficiency and can be built for about the same price as gas power stations, according to the guardian. the finding comes as the world's first full—scale floating wind farm takes shape off the coast of scotland. and it was a good day for british sport yesterday with england's women's team snatching the world cup in a thrilling victory over india. while britain's chris froome made it four tour de france victories in paris. i think it is the cricket which has been more exciting for our paper reviewer. joining us is kulveer ranger, director of digital public services for atos. lovely to see you. we will come to cricket at the end. let's start with these sanctions because it interesting, trump's reshuffled his sort of

arms dealers are making money selling arms to poland and romania, the baltic countries.he united states is just making target set of these countries. out,confrontation breaks they will get nailed first. we are relatively safe here. those places are going to get nailed first. they are making targets out of them. if there is time, i would like to comment or hear your comment about crimea. i will just say it. putin would have gone into crimea if the united states had not removed -- guest: i think two good questions. the first question was arms by us making money selling arms to be put the countries of central europe and other places in greater danger? army,d note the ukrainian virtually nonexistent when they went into ukraine and invaded eastern parts of ukraine, you now have 2 million refugees from ukraine. over 10,000 dead, including 3000 civilians, and tens of thousands wounded. was aing armed was what provocative weakness and encouraged him to think he could simply grab it. does poland not have a right to defend itself? : disappear from the -- poland disappeared from th

states through the baltic sea and they put pressure on german companies to slow that down and so on and they do they don't really favor that going ahead so therefore if you like the americans are going to put pressure on the european union and european union will protest and say it's our business we're doing business with the russians we need the energy from russia and that america doesn't do very much business with russia so therefore it doesn't really affect you but it affects us the european union effected this because german is very german and italian companies also french companies are very keen to get back to normal relations with russia so they can do they can do business as before with russia but the americans the house of representatives and senate want to tie. president doesn't strike trump try and tie him down put him in a box so he can't really relax initiations on his own they're trying to in fact bring in legislation which really allow congress to decide on whether any thanks that's committed increased or decreased and saw and not the president and the president doesn'

as free and independent nations since 1991 and the president wanted me to make it clear to these baltic states and to the wider world looking on america's hands with our allies. originally in nato headquarters not her believe article five. what changed between when he went through the standing there worksnding you a broad? we have made it clear the policy of our administration is to stand firmly with our nato allies and to then firmly behind our article five commitment that an attack on one is an attack on all. it was very moving from the visit with the prime minister of estonia today and have him on the estonian troops that are in iraq and afghanistan have been shoulder to shoulder with us since nato exercised its authority under article five following september 11 in our country. the president has made it clear from the outside of our administration will continue to make that clear to all of our allies in the region. >> thank you. >> c-span's washington journal live every day with names and policy issues that impact you. coming up monday morning, the democratic think tank thirdly -- .

. >> vice president pence in baltics reassuring european allies that america is still a good friend.d friend our own kristin fisher touched with the vp in gastonia, hi, kristin. >> hey, leland, vice president mike pence's first stop on a three-country swing through eastern europe and he's going to really be reassuring our allies in the region that the u.s. will stand beside them in the face of russian aggression. i asked him about that and the russia sanction's bill in an interview that will air right after the break. leland. >> we will see you then. controversial vote underway in venezuela. live pictures of people lined up to cast their ballot in caracas. opponents of the socialist president says it's all just a scam. we will tell you what's at stake and terror in australia as police raid the homes of four suspects, investigators say may have been plotting to blow up airliner, travelers are reacting as they head out. >> this morning when i woke up and saw that on the news, yes, i was very worried, then i thought, better coming now than any other time. extra security t jake home, i w

in the persian gulf or whether it's the ones we've seen between american and russian planes in the baltic in the black sea or with the chinese recently you noticed this is not taking place right off american territorial waters this is not a russian or a chinese or an iranian ship or a plane. and challenging us fourteen miles off of norfolk or san diego this is american ships or right outside of the territorial waters of another power with which we don't have particularly good relations and the other power then challenges that american president and i think we need to roll it back and ask initial question what were we doing there what were your tensions and how are they perceived by the other side nobody in washington ever seems to want to ask those questions. the number of women living in germany who suffered female genital mutilation is sharply increased according to the rights group tara defend it says that in twenty sixteen there were ten thousand more f.p.m. victims in the country than in twenty fifteen bring the total number of those affected to fifty eight thousand the group says th

. >> no threat looms larger in baltic states than the specter of aggression from your neighbor. to be clear, we hope for better days, better relations with russia. recent diplomatic action taken by moscow will not deter the commitment of the united states of america to our security, the security of our allies, and the security of freedom loving nations around the world. >> joining me dan freed served for the obama administration and in the earliest days of the trump administration. ambassador, good to see you. we should just be clear. some of these people, these 755 people, are not actually going to be expelled from russia. some of them are russian staff of the u.s. embassy. so once again, likehe adoption restrictions aft the imposition of the magnitsky act russians imposing sanctions that might hurt russians. >> we've seen this movie before. the expulsions remind me of the mid 1980s when we were involved in expulsion wars with the soviet union. why russians would want to repeat the experience of the 1980s is beyond me. you may remember the '80s ended rather badly for the soviet

in the persian gulf or whether it's the ones we've seen between american and russian planes in the baltic in the black sea or with the chinese recently you noticed this is not taking place right off american territorial waters this is not a russian or chinese or indian ship or a plane. and challenging us fourteen miles off of norfolk or san diego this is american ships or right outside of the territorial waters of another power with which we don't have particularly good relations and the other power then challenges that american president and i think we need to roll it back and then ask the initial question what were we doing there what were your tensions and how are they perceived by the other side nobody in washington ever seems to want to ask those questions. clashes broke out in jerusalem again on tuesday as a standoff continues between muslim worshipers and the israeli police the unrest started over a decision by israeli authorities initially to install metal detectors that temple mount it's known to muslims is how damaged sharif they were put up after a gunman killed two israeli god

when in the baltic states germany and canada the united kingdom stationed their troops and the u.s. station their troops in poland many weaponry in units started battalion you know they say you know nothing to be afraid of only one battalion here one battalion there. but it's kind of symbolic it kind of make you recall the past and what happened before. certain analogise a merchant of the year ago or present of finland. voice an initiative and they are not members of nato but they are truly interested and they have a very tranquil and calm. situation around them so they. suggested initiatives that russia nato should be flying over the baltic sea with their transponders turned on and our country we well we drafted a document when we even introduced certain new measures and one year ago of the meeting we had it over to our colleagues but nature just they show no will they still work and there they say that they want to lower the tensions but they are not a few stick about truly. working on that track so we have been blamed for violating some fame but we see that the that nato builds u

it is a process they reckon baltic pretty much all night. asi reckon baltic pretty much all night. news from los angeles earlier. chester bennington, the lead singer of the rock band linkin park has been found dead at his home in los angeles. he was 41. fellow band member mike shinoda has said twitter... the coroner in los angeles has said they believed he took his long life although that has not been confirmed. the lead singer of linkin park has died at the age of linkin park has died at the age of 41 and you can get much more information on the bbc website and bbc radio 1. that is the end of today's programme, thank you for watching, back at the usual time next week. july is turning out to be a months of two halves. for the first two weeks the weather was often the valley. things have been turning much more unsettled over recent days and over the last few days some heavy downpours and flooding problems, here is the scene in cou nty problems, here is the scene in county armagh on thursday. low pressure moving into the south—west of the uk through the course of friday, bringing som

in the persian gulf or whether it's the ones we've seen between american and russian planes in the baltic in the black sea or with the chinese race. you notice this is not taking place right off american territorial waters this is not a russian or a chinese or an iranian ship or a plane challenging us fourteen miles off of norfolk or san diego this is american ships or right outside of the territorial waters of another power with which we don't have particularly good relations and the other power then challenges that american president and i think we need to roll it back and then ask the initial question what were we doing there what were your tensions and how were they perceived by the other side nobody in washington ever seems to want to ask those questions. for arab countries have added new individuals and organizations linked to cats to the terrorists lists further escalate in the read between the u.s. allies last month and cut ties with qatar which is a major global gusts of coles and also host of the biggest u.s. military base in the middle east because france is said explains. the

just released something they're calling a short docu drama entitled forest brothers fight for the baltics they eight minute video is very well produced and it tells the tale of the forrest brothers and armed resistance in the baltic states of lithuania estonia and latvia that formed after world war two to fight for the independence of their states from the soviet the video includes interviews from survivors of that era so the video very clearly is presenting the story from the perspective of the armed resistance a surviving brother recounts his tale of being one of the couple dozen brothers who stage a bloody ambush of several hundred soviets in the forest the video shows a reenactment where soldiers move in slow motion as machine guns blasts loudly and heroic music swells to a climax a surviving villager recounts her tale of baking bread it for the armed resistance when she was only a child and she says that the brothers' biggest dream would have been to proudly show their guns in the open biggest tree which foreshadows where this video was going because after presenting a few more facts

in the persian gulf or whether it's the ones we've seen between american and russian planes in the baltic in the black sea or with the chinese recently you noticed this is not taking place right off american territorial waters this is not a russian or a chinese or an iranian ship or a plane challenging us fourteen miles off of norfolk or san diego this is american ships or right outside of the territorial waters of another power with which we don't have particularly good relations and the other power than challenges that american president and i think we need to roll it back and then ask initial question what were we doing there what were your intentions and how were they perceived by the other side nobody in washington ever seems to want to ask those questions. and the international monetary fund the said that in ten years' time the i.m.f. headquarters could be relocated to they dig. which might very well mean that. if we have this conversation in ten years' time we might not be sitting in washington do it legally broach will do it in our beijing head office but i have been dominated by

a trailer in support of a new film about latvia so called forest brothers the film glorifies the baltic nations guerrilla fighters for resisting the soviet army despite overwhelming odds but the film puts nato in a historical pickle the forest brothers were conscripted and armed by the nazis during their invasion of the soviet union nato and alliance formed in the wake of the defeat of nazi germany is now glorifying those who fought side by side it was barry. or is a spokesperson for russia's ministry of foreign affairs responded on facebook and how many of these soviets were latvians citing the participation of latvian citizens in the fight against the nazis this is not unusual for nato the alliance has kept bad faith with russia and the soviet union's legacy of sacrifice in eastern europe following its collapse since two thousand and fourteen nato has conducted joint military operations in ukraine while providing the ukrainian government with military equipment and funds the ukrainian government which all but explicitly champions the legacy of nazi collaborator step on monday or the h

the vice president is in the baltics.president mike pence actually made the claim -- and we'll play this for you -- it's the president's tough talk, as he's characterizing it -- that caused congress to issue these sanctions. let's listen to the vice president. >> i think the president has confirmed repeatedly that we believe russia did meddle in u.s. elections. i think he's also said it could have been other actors as well, that he's confirmed his belief and our intelligence that russia was involved in meddling in u.s. elections. it's part of what inspired the bipartisan action in the congress to codify the sanctions that our administration has been implementing against russia and we'll continue to advance that. >> general, it may very well be that the president is right, that the president did inspire congress to pass these sanctions, but i'm not sure the inspiration is quite how he portrays it. it seems as if congress is saying we're taking this out of your hands. >> actually, you know you're winning in washington, john

response i think what sent the west into a tizzy is the fact that chinese warships have entered the baltic which is unprecedented and is a demonstration that while china is not yet able to match america in terms as military capacity but that is something which is going to develop over the over the years and the russian chinese alliance has got the potential to offset america in in. terms of military meet around the world and i think this as you know revive fields of what china is going to become in the years to come. there were a couple stories of broken in the last thirty minutes a so i will bring you updates on those and the latest headlines see you at the top of the. dimension. six thirty five and you have a career and a career involves using your i phone in your computer and things like that in an office. perhaps you start getting going it's circular. going to have to stop doing all this i mean that's just kind of you lou the minutes must be from my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up winning it and the box. around it a very strong magnetic field held in my he

. >> a discussion about the russian-led a military exercise in and around the baltic sea, slated to begin mid-september. andeard for military government leaders from estonia, norway, and the u.s. on the mechanics and applications of the exercises, both for the nato alliance and russia's military ambitions. this is an hour and 40 minutes. >> good morning, everyone, and welcome to this event,

mark: vice president tencent the united states stands with baltic nations against threats from russiaions rise. vice president made estonia his first stop on of his to eastern europe, following last week's russian-chinese exercises in the baltic sea, and comes before claimed dutch plan russian military drills in september that have passed, simulated attack on the region. hill mayns on capitol have to choose between pursuing another health bill and pushing protection from this here. congress must fund the government after the end of this month. different activists seven decade career included to orson welles, and other acclaimed directors -- have died. emmanuel macron celebrated perot for going beyond earlier roles to embrace other genres, calling your quote, always rebellious. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. mark crumpton, this is bloomberg. >> after the collapse of the obamacare repeal, republicans may have to troop -- truce between another health alliance tax record, because i'm certainly not enough time to do