upcoming military drills with bellerose we're joined now by the director of the british american security information council. good evening to you paul a lot of consternation in western countries over this is the good reason for russia's neighbors to be concerned here do you think. well there's always good reason to be concerned when there are minute military exercises on the other hand military exercises are essential to any modern working military organization and particularly if they're going to be cooperating with allies other countries so the fact that these exercises are happening should be no surprise they regular happen every four years there's no strong indication that these exercises are any pressure you to any significant military action so so no i don't think there's any reason for the neighbors to be particularly concerned but as i say every military exercise involves some level of concern because military exercise demonstrates the willingness to be ready for military action the whole point of military sure any surprise though over perhaps the his theory given that nato chief said look there's n

paul ingram from the british american security information council believes that russia's neighbors are overreacting to the drills with belarus i don't think there's any reason for the neighbors to be particularly concerned there's no rational reason why russia would be wanting to actively threaten those those particular neighbors so it's a classic case of. over concern on the on the part of those countries that are close every reason for russia to be to be exercising because otherwise what's the point of having a military but i think that this is particularly a storm in a teacup at the moment because people are paranoid we move to either be over reactive over paranoid or on the other hand to trigger that paranoia on the other side and take active steps to to to ratchet it down. florida's governor says everyone should be prepared to evacuate from this state as hurricane edges closer highways are already john there's thousands flee in what could become one of the largest evacuations in u.s. history. if you're told to evacuate leave get out quickly. the roads will fill up quickly so you n