germany nearly half of the $12000.00 personnel will be moved to other locations in europe including italy poland and the baltics the country's european military headquarters would be moved to belgium president trump announced his intention to move the troops last month saying germany had failed to spend enough on defense it's a move that officials say will cost billions of dollars and take years to complete and total $36000.00 american service personnel currently stationed in germany. a white house correspondent committee how could joins us live now committee so a bit more clarity now on the details. now well what we know is this is going to be a mixture in terms of the soldiers that are leaving of army and air force we understand it will be $12000.00 almost in total there were initially 34000 troops stationed there inside germany we know that about 25000 will remain in place now in terms of the timeline we know that this could stretch out and could even take years we also know that it could cost billions of dollars but what's interesting about the timeline is the fact that we have a u.s. electi

$12000.00 troops from germany nearly half will be repositioned to other locations in europe including italy poland and the baltics that follows an earlier decision by donald trump to cut troops blaming germany for failing to spend enough in defense it's a move that officials say will cost billions of dollars and take years to complete . as anyone can see the repositioning of our forces in europe constitutes a major strategic and positive shift wholly in line with the n.d.s. and consistent with other adjustments to the united states just months the united states has made within nato in previous times these changes will achieve the core principles of enhancing u.s. and nato deterrence of russia strengthening nato reassuring allies and improving u.s. strategic flexibility ok we're going to going to have more in the u.s. announcement shortly with our white house correspondent kimberly halakhah 1st let's get the reaction out of germany the dominant canin in donald trump made it plain that he wanted this to happen but were german leaders prepared for this. certainly the point to make here rob is that ge

spending nearly half of the $12000.00 personnel will be moved to other locations in europe including italy poland and the baltics a white house correspondent kimberly how critics planes are. making good on its threat the u.s. announced a withdrawal of almost 12000 u.s. soldiers from germany it's a move the defense secretary insists will improve the military partnership between north american and european allies. i think we are we are excited about where we're going and what it will mean in terms of our ability to enhance to turn strengthen up the straight to the lines in the process the cuts will reduce us forces unsurety by about a 3rd about $25000.00 will remain some soldiers will be repositioned within nato countries including belgium and italy the rest will return to the united states the u.s. european command will also move to belgium but speaking to reporters on wednesday outside the white house u.s. president trump offered a different explanation for the move he said it was to punish germany for not contributing 2 percent of its g.d.p. as required for members of the north atlantic treaty o

germany nearly half of the $12000.00 personnel will be moved to other locations in europe including italy poland and the baltics countries european military headquarters would be moved to belgium president trump announced his intention to move the troops last month saying germany had failed to spend enough on defense its moves officials say will cost billions of dollars and take years to complete dominic kane is in berlin and says the german government had been expecting this move for some time. instant reaction from parliament from the conservative chairman of the foreign affairs committee. an influential member of angle america's ruling conservatives here in germany saying that rather than strengthening nato in europe he believes that this decision will weaken nato within europe and clearly people have been expecting that there would be something like this for some considerable time given the sort of language coming from the trumpet ministration for many years to trumpet ministration angry with germany for its failure to meet the 2 percent of its budget on defense the interesting thing here is

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spending nearly half of the 12000 personnel will be moved to other locations in europe including italy poland and the baltics are white house correspondent committee how could explains. making good on its threat to the u.s. announced a withdrawal of almost 12000 u.s. soldiers from germany it's a move the defense secretary insists will improve the military partnership between north american and european allies. i think we are we are excited about where we're going and what it will mean in terms of our ability to enhance to turn strengthen up the straight to the lines in the process the cuts will reduce us forces unsurety by about a 3rd about $25000.00 will remain some soldiers will be repositioned within nato countries including belgium and italy the rest will return to the united states the u.s. european command will also move to belgium but speaking to reporters on wednesday outside the white house u.s. president trump offered a different explanation for the move he said it was to punish germany for not contributing 2 percent of its g.d.p. as required for members of the north atlantic treaty

germany nearly half of the $12000.00 personnel will be moved to other locations in europe including italy poland and the baltics president trump announced his intention to move the troops last month saying germany had failed to spend enough on defense officials say the decision will cost billions of dollars and take years to complete. do stay with us if you can people in power part 2 of trump versus california is coming up next a bit more news after that i phone app. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. the stakes as california is progressive stomps on issues from climate change to immigration as long come to appear to my eyes liberal opposition to preston on trump says this puts a launch combatant reveal about the choices facing americans in the coming presidential election in the 2nd of 2 special reports. that's been finding out. as wildfires rage a

like a lot of other countries, ireland, italy, with a deep catholic tradition, poland will have tothese issues for itself. outsiders should not tell poles what to do or think about that. poland is going through a process that many european countries have gone through poland is going through it at a much accelerated rate. host: ambassador did not afraid is a senior fellow. he has served as the u.s. ambassador to poland during the george w. bush administration. thank you for being with us. guest: my pleasure. host: on our website at c-span.org, we sat down with john lewis, who passed away friday evening, in 2013. an in-depth conversation available on our website. you can check that out at c-span.org. we are back tomorrow morning. among our guests, taking a look at congress returning for a busy couple of weeks as they take a look at additional funding on coronavirus. you can watch all of it on the c-span networks. enjoy the rest of your weekend. stay safe and have a great week ahead. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning i

poland. my husband, from italy.i is a very good te to visisit. >> we have such a big -- it is such a big symbol of paris. the first time to come here with the whole family. currently, it is so cold in paris, it is a good time to be here. reporter: they are going up on foot. only one of the lifts is operating so far. and at a much reduced capacity. more of the tower will be opened in the coming weeks. visitors will have access to the summit from mid july. climbing the 704 steps to the second floor is not bad. >> we made it! >> how do you feel? >> go to. it was good! >> a bit harder under the masks. >> the second part was a bit tougher. >> wow. reporter: these days, crowds can be dangerous. managers are doing what thehey n to prevent it from coming -- from becoming a covid ininfectin zone. >> we implemented>> a couple of measures such as social distancing by y one meter and a half. withth a mask. the face mask is mandatory here. reporter: though some were taking them off for a quick selfie. >> finally we have a limiti

center down in mons belgium there would also be a couple of battalions moved to italy there maybe more forces moved to poland this morning we've seen the baltic step up and say hey we'd love to get some of those troops i mean made those 1st 1st preference would be that no troops get moved out of germany and that more troops are constantly added to europe but as it stands now they would very much like to see that as many as possible remain here in europe and not go back to the united states ok what about countries like poland the baltic countries you mentioned that they like to see those u.s. troops or imagine alliance members some of them at least would be supporting this. well again they would like to see no troops moved out of germany and poland has a bilateral deal with the united states that more troops would be coming to poland and i've spoken to to polish diplomats and they would not be happy to see troops taken out of germany and moved to poland they were hoping to get additional forces but that said if they're going to be taken out of germany they would very much like them to be put there along the b

mrs merkel in other member states is not as good as it is in germany for example in poland hungary greece and also in italy people who view mrs merkel still as the queen of steerage tea or politicising that tried to dominate these countries in the past so there's a long way to go to couldn't vince them to follow the german leadership in the e.u. but in the end she has to succeed because she needs all 27 member states everybody has to say yes to this budget and in that what do you think is the e.u. going to be more german centric with these 2 women at the helm and is that a good thing or about thing. well i think the fact is nobody is more concerned about germany possibly being overbearing than germans themselves for absolutely clear historical reasons now the fact is germans often wield quite a bit of power in brussels behind the scenes but now we have germany right out there on the main stage both through the commission president and through the fact that germany is rotating council president does that make this a power grab though absolutely not the fact is it was the french president emmanuel mccaw who

minister wasconomy the preferred candidate for germany, france, italy, and spain. in polandthe president says he will never allow compensation for property lost in world war ii. the conflict is resurfacing the day before the presidential runoff election. he faces tough competition from the warsaw mayor. trump have told give up his tax returns but it is unlikely they will be in the public eye before the november election. the supreme court rejected the argument the president has complete immunity while in office. he has to comply with a grand jury request for the record but they blocked congressional access to the information. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. matt? surgethe chinese stocks has taken a day off today, been sent home amid state selling from state backed funds. european futures are lacking direction as the stoxx 600 posted its third day of losses yesterday. let's get into markets now with laura cooper. i find this china story fascinating. state got thes

italy. ♪ field marshal von rumstedt, former commander of the west. ♪ hermann frank, former governor general of polandals. ♪ field marshal von kleiss. ♪ admiral horthy, former regent of hungary. ♪ the tall man is artur seiss-inquart, from austria. he will be brought to trial. ♪ in austria, the last german armies in the southern redoubt had already surrendered. ♪ lieutenant general brandenburger of the 19th german army came with his chiefs of staff to sign the capitulation, and the small -- in the small austrian city of innsbruck. ♪ american general eh brooks has ratified another victory. meantime, near a small town on the danish border, admiral doenitz, self-styled new fuhrer of germany, winds up the last business of state. ♪ the surrender of his once great u-boat fleet, one by one they enter british ports that are taken over by men of the royal navy. ♪ these germans, once the terror of allied shipping, are now like all their comrades in arms, nothing but prisoners of war. ♪ [celebratory military music] the news of germany's surrender reaches the people of brussels five years almost to the day after t

forces italy will be getting a couple of battalions so those countries could be happy for more u.s. forces poland secretary esper announced would be getting some more rotational forces although it's not clear yet whether those would be under a deal made with poland by laterally earlier so. inside nato countries really would like to see u.s. troops stay where they are and in fact to be increased not decreased in any way not necessarily moved out of germany so again i don't think any nato allies are cheering this move on so that begs the question terry how does this affect u.s. needle relations. you know again things have been worse between the u.s. and nato when president trump summarily announced he was going to make this move that he was going to pull troops out of germany nobody was warned and that was a cruel cruel surprise for both nato allies as well as even some u.s. military officials so this time in the secretary general's announcement and. i noted this very very carefully he said that the allies have been consulted on this move now i know that there was a meeting monday at nato where the

very mature base infrastructure we have in germany that we don't have in places like poland or the baltics or even in italyrmany serves as a logistics communication hub for the rest of europe, and for that matter, the mid east and africa. and so the other point here which, to me, is the overriding importance, this isn't about defending germany or nato only, it's about the defense of the united states. so despite the best efforts of the department of defense to, you know, put lipstick on this pig, it's still a pig. >> so, listen, in that interview -- that axios interview, president trump was trying to claim that he wasn't aware that russia was helping the taliban. listen to this. >> you surely heard that, right? i mean, it's well-known in the intelligence community that they're arming the taliban, russia. >> i don't know. when you say arming is the taliban paying or giving? >> russia is supplying weapons and sending money to the taliban. >> i have heard that but it's -- again, it's never reached my desk. >> that's the same excuse me gave about the bounty intelligence, which cnn has reported was included in

we have countries with 11% of negative growth, for example, italy or spain, and countries with 5% or 6%, for example, germany or polandrences cannot be consolidated in the future. this is why we need a european common recovery plan. francine: how important is it that you have a recovery fund by the mid july meeting, next week? how important is it that we get it now and not wait? importantl, it is because this is exactly the right time. europeaned all our economies. but itovery is underway, is still surrounded by uncertainty. this is exactly the moment when of have to send a message confidence and you have to send a message against fragmentation. so, we cannot accept the idea that a common crisis will have such uneven consequences. the time is now. the recovery is now beginning and we need to have a common recovery and not a different recovery in different member states. this is the reason for a common tool. each european member state had his own reaction -- its own reaction, its own fiscal intervention. a common one is strongly needed. francine: do you think it will be approved shortly? how do you get the frugal count

switzerland and then into lombardi in northern italy and slovenia they could be quite active and warsaw does get a few more showers i have to say but poland's forecast isn't a bad one it's got 3 days of showery rain nothing says thunderstorms and the terms of creepy have again to 25 or so about time we get to the end of the weekend. south mediterraneans generally quite a bit of dust in the air rivers and brought these little orange patches the biggest showers and actually a west africa recently through gaza westward through monrovia and up towards nearly the gambia the orange tops signify the biggest showers mostly there and i went coast. to sleep like a group of young male i think studying. when an elite white fraternity build a house next door community spirit is tested to its limits. we were exactly welcomed with open arms into the neighborhood hard to just bury the history of hate the old south a witness documentary on al-jazeera. and one of the top stories on our jazeera china has been condemned by several nations after a controversial new security north came into force in hong kong 10 people were arrested on the north after thousands

switzerland and possibly then into lombardi in northern italy and slovenia they could be quite active and warsaw does get a few more showers i have to say but poland's forecast isn't a bad one it's got 3 days of showery rain nothing says thunderstorms and the thames a creepy up again to 25 or so about time we get to the end of the weekend. south mediterraneans generally quite a bit of dust in the air rivers and brought these little orange patches the biggest showers and much beyond west africa recently through guyana west through monrovia and up towards nearly the gambia the orange tops signify the biggest showers mostly they are a moment coastal. frank assessments tourism but the income stream is dead in the water what's been the result seen perching quite significantly informed opinions there has been a very aggressive political rhetoric that has become very normal and israeli society in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines it's time for new policy to say countries like not only seem to grady but he read to me this the lady of the hall continues inside story on al-jazeera. they're watching out to see a time to recap our headlines now if yo

poland for their problems with the rule of law. but it does send a very important signal, first of all to the citizens of eu member .tates italy andin, who had been hit hard by the crisis, were becoming euro spectra -- euro skeptics not because they wanted less europe, but they wanted more europe. and we can see what happened to bond spreads today. it is not quite euro bonds. but i think any german economist you would talked to the past five years would have told you that this sort of agreement was impossible. the skeptics have been proven wrong. i have thought it was possible because the political winds are turning. taylor: is the composition loans --rants and should we see more grants since this is a pandemic and no one's fault? tina: it is a really important point. first of all, it is a huge number. it did come down on the side of grants. ofember the degree conditionality and austerity members that were imposed on the southern member states really also brought us closer to the populist fears that had preoccupied many politicians and markets for a long time. i think the dutch prime minister got some of what he wanted by bringing

switzerland and then into lombardi in northern italy and slovenia they could be quite active and i was so does get a few more showers i have to say but poland's forecast isn't a bad one it's got 3 days of showery rain nothing says thunderstorms and the terms of creepy have again to 25 also about time we get to the end of the weekend south mediterraneans generally quite a bit of dust in the air rivers and valleys little orange patches the biggest showers and watch be in west africa recently through gaza westward through monrovia and up towards merely the gambia the orange tops signify the biggest showers mostly they are a moment coastal. from fossil fuels to modern day renewables as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demands as a global power developed into the investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against easter island as we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally sound energy solutions for future generations the breastpin pioneering future energy. from sunrise to sunset. across asia. and the pa

have the chance to finish 2nd in italy for the 1st time in a decade they host napoli later opponents who are fighting to finish in the europa league place. to go into poland and. we played well the last time we faced napoli so that gives us confidence but we are talking about a very strong team that in the last few years has always been the causing problems will whoever won the title they have a very good squad and they've already won the telly and cup the season. liverpool's young cop has won england's manager of the year award the german coach guided them to the english league title for the 1st time in 3 decades liverpool also won the club world cup and european super cup this season. all right that is useful for now is pizza joe thanks very much for me come back the u.s. attorney general william barr is about to start talking in washington defending his department's response to the b.l.m. movement will bring that live to you when we come back by. august on al-jazeera at the u.s. republican and democratic national conventions delegates officially nominate their party's presidential candidates for the 2020 elections in india witnessed policy young conser

there are 20 of them, and they include spain, portugal, thailand, south korea, poland, and to give you a few figures, italyld see its population going from 128 million to 53 million. that has massive implications for those countries for the way that they would organise themselves, and for the public policy that they would wa nt to the public policy that they would want to pursue in future. 0k. the public policy that they would want to pursue in future. ok. so, what kind of changes might be needed? well, there are lots of things to think about. for example, a lot of these countries might want to embrace more liberal immigration policies, because they will have fewer people of working age, and that means they are taxed takes will be down to. so this report is predicting that instead of putting up predicting that instead of putting up orders like we are seeing at the moment, countries would actually wa nt to moment, countries would actually want to pursue immigration, particularly immigration from africa, because africa is the big area which would buck this trend. the population there would treble by the turn

poland, hungary and the czech republic and slovakia don't want. they are at odds over the whole spectrum. how do you see this play out estimate who will get what they want? you have italy need to support, we need to support as a pan—eu, those countries that have suffered most due to coronavirus.|j think they will in the end. they will come out somewhere between 350 and 400 billion in gra nts between 350 and 400 billion in grants and the rest in loans, which is not such good news in the sense that italy, spain, france, they already have a very high government gdp ratio which is close to or above 100%, the eu so that should be 60%. but they will get somewhere because they have two. president macron said about two months ago in an interim review in the financial times, this is the hour of truth of the european union. we don't get this right, there will not be a european union. and angela merkel, interestingly, twitched over from the frugal side to the spendthrift side and is now supporting president macron and the 500 billion. so i guess in the 500 billion. so i guess in the end they will get there. it may take another summit. at the end ofjuly. but that is difficult eu.