we will be north macedonia, everything will be north macedonia, everything will be north macedonia,ficial will be related with the new name, it's part of the agreement we will confirm the com pletely of the agreement we will confirm the completely on that, everything connected with our macedonian identity will be a line with our identity. the greeks get their identity, we get our identity. it is good enough for the both sides and it will only strengthen the friendship between the two countries. all the discussions about your cultural identity, they also feed into the wider issue of identity in your country, in macedonia. you've been attending this summit of the western balkans here in london to discuss the various ethnic tensions amongst other things that exist in your region. you've got an ethnic albanian population of about 22% of your 2 million people, and there are tensions, aren't there? again, between you and the nationalist opposition. we have conflict between macedonians and albanians in 2001. it's a big conflict, in front of war, we considered war in the society. we passed

of macedonia orjust macedonia?edonia. we will even send a letter to all countries, all 193 members of united nations that there's agreement between us and greece, and the new name for international use will be republic of north macedonia. after that, with every chapter of european union we will be involved in, internal domestic use also. who cares after that, you know, that somebody calls north macedonia or south macedonia? officially we will be north macedonia, everything in the state and official will be related with the new name, it's the part of the agreement, we will confirm the completely of that, everything what is connected with our macedonian identity will be in line of our identity. so the greek side get hegemonous name, we get hegemonous identity. it is good enough for the both sides and it will only strengthen the friendship between the two countries. all right. all the discussions about your cultural identity, you name and so on, feed into the wider issue of identity in your country, in macedonia. you'

later on why do you think that issue with macedonia and keep pushing for the expansion of nato is so present earlier on oksana you spoke about where countries should do what they want and you know in terms of institution think about it as supply and demand nato supplies itself and whatever service it gives and countries demand ask for membership or not and would you agree that in all of these stories we need to start from the countries themselves even if we're talking about ukraine or whatever countries but in the balkans and specific in macedonia today we have countries who maybe they're wrong you know i don't know but they themselves their government and majorities of their population would like to be part of these institutions there is this kind of attraction whether it's the e.u. in the money in the markets that it represents and perhaps the values whether it's nato with the sense that it will bring some kind of security and like mindedness they demanded they asked for it you know macedonian friends are north madisonian friends the reason that they change their own name to north

later on why do you think that issue with macedonia and keep pushing for the expansion of nato is so present earlier on oksana you spoke about what countries should do what they want and you know in terms of institution think about it a supply and demand nato supplies itself and whatever service it gives and countries demand ask for membership or not and when you agree that in all of these stories we need to start from the countries themselves even if we're talking about ukraine or whatever countries but in the balkans and specifically in macedonia today we have countries who maybe they're wrong you know i don't know but they themselves and their government and majorities of their population would like to be part of these institutions there is this kind of attraction where there is the e.u. and the money in the markets that it represents and perhaps the values whether it's nato with a sense that it will bring some kind of security and like mindedness they demanded they ask for it you know our macedonian friends our north madisonian friends the reason that they change their own name t

maybe that trust would be enough to proceed with r t p later on why do you think that issue with macedonia and keep pushing for the expansion of nato is so present earlier on oksana you spoke about where countries should do what they want and you know in terms of institution think about it as supply and demand nato supplies itself and whatever service it gives and countries demand ask for membership or not and would you agree that in all of these stories we need to start from the countries themselves even if we're talking about ukraine or whatever countries but in the balkans and specific in macedonia today we have countries who maybe they're wrong you know i don't know but they themselves their government and majorities of their population would like to be part of these institutions there is this kind of attraction whether it's the e.u. in the money in the markets that it represents and perhaps the values whether it's nato with the sense that it will bring some kind of security and like mindedness they demanded they asked for it you know macedonian friends are north madisonian friends the

the countries include bosnia and herzegovina serbia kosovo and macedonia albania and montenegro by joining the e.u. they hope to generate greater wealth before the western balkans can hope to benefit from europe's economic strength they've got some homework to do. all in all the west balkans are quite a way along the path to membership according to sources in brussels they've made progress on the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary the legislative process is also being brought in line with the european union. but even membership also means integration in the common market business must be competitive and in many cases that's a long way off the most important yardstick for the economic strength of a country is its gross domestic product you know beanie and g.d.p. per capita is only about three thousand eight hundred fifty euros per year in macedonia it's only a little bit around four thousand six hundred by comparison e.u. member states have an average g.d.p. of thirty two thousand seven hundred euros annually about eight times higher. then there's the widespread corruption co

, the republic of north macedonia. but it cannot become a member if it doesn't change its name. that's the simple choice. and that's up to the people to make that choice. >> gentlemen in the fifth row? yeah? >> jonathan swann from axios. mr. secretary general, you said earlier today that you were interested to know about the president's -- president trump's upcoming meeting with vladimir putin. did he give you any assurances that they would not make concessions to putin, for example, on crimea? and a second question, in any of your conversations with president trump, has he ever suggested to you that believes the united states has too many troops in europe? thank you. >> we will discuss russia during dinner, but it was also mentioned in my meeting earlier today, my breakfast with president trump and also mentioned during the discussions today, but russia will be on the topic for the dinner, as of tonight. so, all allies, and this is also stated in the declaration we have agreed today, clearly say that we don't recogniz

republic of north macedonia. it cannot become a member if it doesn't change its name. that is the simple choice. that's up to the people to make the choice. >> you said earlier today you were interested to know about the president's upcoming meeting with vladimir putin. did he give you any assurances that he would not make concessions to put in -- to vladimir putin, concessions on crimea, and has he ever suggested to you that he believes the u.s. has too many troops in europe? thank you. discuss russia during that dinner. it was also mentioned in my meeting earlier today with president trump and the discussions today. russia will be on the topic for the dinner as of tonight. allies, and that is also stated in the declaration we have agreed today. clearly say that we don't , and we will not recognize the illegal annexation of crimea. this is a unified position of all allies. it's a position which has illegal annexation -- the illegal annexation of crimea is one of the reasons nato has upped its defenses. it's one

athens is accusing moscow of trying to undermine a recent deal over the name of its northern neighbor macedonia johnson has the story. diplomatic expulsions are a slap in the face in the midst of an otherwise cordial relationship they haven't happened since the cold war unofficial information suggests the greek government is upset over moscow's efforts to undermine greece's recent agreement with former yugoslav macedonia that agreement settled the name issue that's been separating the two for a quarter century and opens the door for that country's entry to nato as north macedonia but nato has pushed to absorb the balkans has annoyed moscow. whole region of southeast europe is a big question mark for russia in the past few years it clearly doesn't have the relations it had during the communist era situation needs to be resolved soon various states want to be nato and the e.u. is not pleading to russia nato and policies in greece bulgarian at their back and countries are not leading people to believe that nato and that will benefit their economy and society. sentimental most greeks harbor friendl

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accused of interfering in greek a pheasant of undermining the recent name change deal with neighboring macedonia the surprise at the nato summit in brussels because the greeks a traditionally pro russian from athens. diplomatic expulsions are a slap in the face in the midst of an otherwise cordial relationship they haven't happened since the cold war unofficial information suggests the greek government is upset over moscow's efforts to undermine greece's recent agreement with former yugoslav macedonia that agreement settled the name issue that's been separating the two for a quarter century and opens the door for that country's entry to nato as north macedonia but nato has pushed to absorb the balkans has annoyed moscow. southeast europe is a big question mark for russia in the past few years it clearly doesn't have the relations it had during the communist era a situation needs to be resolved soon various states want to be nato and the e.u. is not pleasing to russia nato and policies in greece bulgarian at their back and countries are not leading people to believe that nato and that will benefi

per capita is only about three thousand eight hundred fifty euros per year in macedonia it's only a little bit around four thousand six hundred by comparison e.u. member states have an average g.d.p. of thirty two thousand seven hundred euros annually about eight times higher. then there's the widespread corruption coupled with organized crime and money laundering but what are the alternatives for the region russia turkey and china are all trying to build their influence in the balkans that's putting pressure on the e.u. to accelerate the accession process. global sales of smart phones have been falling across the globe last year sales dropped zero point three percent as most markets are becoming saturated most markets but not india the country saw a fourteen percent spike in smartphone sales dissipating a further boom some so as now open the world's largest smartphone factory in the state of for the. only a third of india's one point three billion people have a smartphone untapped potential need sales have room to grow here samsung is banking on this for with the new plant is the biggest

what you think that means for the potential for macedonia to join nato? are you concerned about what were seen in the demonstrations were seen and whether that will deter the governments of both of those countries and their resolve in this issue? >> that's a critical issue. i would say that making progress on the name dispute has been a major point of focus for the team. yes, i am concerned about the potential for russia meddling. we saw this with montenegro, russian representatives have been making threatening statements. there is a high potential for the russians to try to interfere. we make clear that we are watching closely. it is not in moscow's. to decide the future. were working to strengthen them. i'm in frequent contact with leaders there. more broadly on your question, the next steps are the macedonian parliament has ratified the deal, but it has to be confirmed by a public referendum. the parliament has to adopt the referendum. we didn't expect to see greece ratify this only after they made the changes. we expect to see nato extend an invitatio

to do with the future of very probable name of macedonia which will be called northern macedonia, anothers from a polish to come this is a very good addition to the existing pan—european infrastructure, this would help to develop the european union in the future and obviously the western balkans. this will help them to sustain a higher level of economic development. thank you very much. i will now take questions from the british media. jason groves. jason groves from the daily mail. prime minister, like asking what you make of donald trump and his claim that the uk is in turmoil and his view that he would rather deal with borisjohnson value. you view that he would rather deal with boris johnson value. you are the person that invited him on this trip. does it not suggest that we're heading for disaster. and angela merkel, come and ask you what you make of the prime minister's checkers proposals? well i will a nswer checkers proposals? well i will answer your question first and angela merkel will be taking questions from your own press in a minute. i look forward to seeing president trump,

century and opens the door for that country's entry to nato as north macedonia but nato has pushed to absorb the balkans has annoyed moscow. whole region of southeast europe is a big question mark for russia in the past few years it clearly doesn't have the relations it had during the communist era situation needs to be resolved soon various states want to be nato and the e.u. is not pleading to russia nato and new policies in greece bulgarian at their back and countries are not leading people to believe that nato and that will benefit their economy and society. sentimental even most greeks harbor friendly feelings towards their fellow orthodox russians and consider the true hostility between the two people is all but impossible but politically greece belongs to the west and past the line including imposing sanctions on russia for its annexation of crimea four years ago so even though greece and russia have no tangible common interests here as elsewhere russia tries to exploit cultural bonds to create divisions in the western alliances harass us soft power. that is the island of cours

that deal opens the way for what will now be called the northern republic of macedonia to join nato russia strongly opposes john psaropoulos reports the statement from the greek government spokesman simply says greece wants good relations with all states but doesn't mean it that doesn't mean it can accept behavior which doesn't show respect for international law there is an indirect confirmation of the imminent expulsion of two russian diplomats in the interfax russian news agency wire quoted by royce's which says that if greece expels to diplomats then russia will expel two greek diplomats and there is an indirect confirmation of this tit for tat expulsion on wednesday from a foreign ministry official to whom i spoke who said to me that we did nothing in the script case because we had no evidence that was the case in which a russian national was allegedly poisoned by russian agents in the u.k. but in this case he told me we do have evidence which obviously all builds up a picture that there is about to be. great ugliness on the greek russian. in the greek russian relationship possi

possibly being in a to remember if they change their name to north macedonia so you can see a lot of things are happening. and they've also agreed still am i'll be think donald trump is just arriving under take a listen to what he has a very amazing two day period in brussels and we really accomplished a lot with respect to nato for years presidents have been coming to these meetings and talked about the expense the tremendous expense for the united states and tremendous progress has been made everyone's agreed to substantially up their commitment they're going to up it at levels that they've never thought of before prior to last year where i attended my first meeting it was going down the amount of money being spent by countries was going down and down very substantially and now it's going up very substantially and commitments were made only five of twenty nine countries were making their commitment and that's now changed the commitment was a two percent ultimately that will be going up quite a bit higher than that so we are we made a tremendous amount of progress today it's been ab

athens is accusing moscow of trying to undermine a recent deal over the name of its northern neighbor macedonia john psaropoulos reports diplomatic expulsions are a slap in the face in the midst of an otherwise cordial relationship they haven't happened since the cold war unofficial information suggests the greek government is upset over moscow's efforts to undermine greece's recent agreement with former yugoslav macedonia that agreement settled the name issue that's been separating the two for a quarter century and opens the door for that country's entry to nato as north macedonia but nato has pushed to absorb the balkans has annoyed moscow. whole region of southeast europe is a big question mark for russia in the past few years it clearly doesn't have the relations it had during the communist era situation needs to be resolved soon various states want to be nato and the e.u. this is not pleasing to russia nato and policies in greece bulgarian at their back and countries are not leading people to believe that nato and will benefit their economy and society. sentimental most greeks harbor frien

countries include bosnia and has a governor serbia kosovo macedonia albania and montenegro by joining the e.u. they hope to generate greater wealth but before the western balkans can hope to benefit from europe's economic strength they've got to do some homework. all in all the west balkans are quite a long way along the path to membership according to sources in brussels they've made progress on the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary the legislative process is also being brought in line with the european union but e.u. membership also means integration in the common market businesses must be competitive and in many cases that's a long way off the most important yardstick for the economic strength of a country is its gross domestic product you know g.d.p. per capita is only about three thousand eight hundred fifty euros in macedonia it's only a little better by comparison e.u. member states have an average g.d.p. of thirty two thousand seven hundred euro's about eight times higher then there's the widespread corruption coupled with organized crime and money laundering b

kosovo macedonia montenegro and so yeah as well as seventy year nations including germany it's part of a diplomatic initiative that began in twenty fourteen but it's promised to freeze and make plans to increase funding to fight crime drug trafficking and terrorism in the region. one rhino is killed every seven hours in africa an elephant every thirty minutes and what's to blame well the greed for ivory predominantly in asia for example china poor the emergency brakes last year and put a strict ban illegal ivory trade but european regulations are fulfill polls disastrous consequences as our next report shows. these two elephant cubs may soon end up like this was more elephants a killed by purchase every year than on form despite various trade embargoes ivory is in high demand while white. various countries in europe have become hubs of the international i free trade in germany alone thirty's compass created one point two tons of illegal ivory in twenty sixteen the trade embargoes in europe a full of loopholes the resale of ice free that was purchased before one thousand nine hundred ei

rapid fire questions there from international media covering everything from africa to china or macedonia through to immigration and europe some of the things he was mentioning there reaffirming that he thinks he's got his way in terms of getting nato members to start spending more he wants a minimum of two percent which is always been the case but only a couple of countries have done that but eventually he wants them to spend four percent he seems to think he's got them all on board with that few other things he picked up on he talks about russia and its upcoming summit with president putin in helsinki next week and a few things he mentioned there that putin is a competitor he's not a friend doesn't want him to be an enemy but that's what we've got nato there's a lot of mixed signals coming in through there but generally. the writing concern is that he wants to get along with russia and it would be a good idea if the united states did. other things he picked up when he was challenged on crimea and its return to the russian federation and on that he largely sidestepped it and said that am

well of course we're talking about north macedonia and you know there are even came about. and of course nato since i was there back in two thousand and eight in the. in the book arrests summits i remember clearly when you know there was always an intention to expand summit it would have been the same thing unless blown two years later and were whoever the american president was you know keen on expanding nato towards the east even though back then the george sr presidency in the early ninety's promised a good bunch of and others in russia that they would not expand all the way up to georgia and ukraine and yet i remember back in the book at a summit that an invitation or a promise of sort was made to the likes of georgia and the ukraine so be that as it may i think we are really arriving at a time when need to really need to do define itself before it increases the budgets the military budgets of its member states now we know this year already fully that despite all trumps. you know talk or provocations nato is already arrived at a number of agreement during the year i thi

the internal affairs of greece undermining a recent deal over the name of its northern neighbor macedonia all the incidents raising eyebrows at the nato summit in brussels and greece is traditionally the most pro russian member reports. diplomatic expulsions are a slap in the face in the midst of an otherwise cordial relationship they haven't happened since the cold war unofficial information suggests the greek government is upset over moscow's efforts to undermine greece's recent agreement with former yugoslav macedonia that agreement settled the name issue that's been separating the two for a quarter century and opens the door for that country's entry to nato as north macedonia but nato has pushed to absorb the balkans has annoyed moscow. whole region of southeast europe is a big question mark for russia in the past few years it clearly doesn't have the relations it had during the communist era situation needs to be resolved soon various states want to be nato and the e.u. is not pleasing to russia nato and policies in greece bulgarian at their back and countries are not leading people

per capita is only about three thousand eight hundred fifty euros per year in macedonia it's only a little bit around four thousand six hundred by comparison e.u. member states have an average g.d.p. of thirty two thousand seven hundred euros annually about eight times higher. then there's the widespread corruption coupled with organized crime and money laundering but what are the alternatives for the region russia turkey and china are all trying to build their influence in the balkans that's putting pressure on the e.u. to accelerate the accession process. so the pressure is on but auburn western balkans economically fit to join the e.u. well that's what i asked analyst to reget sht. well i think that most of the countries which previously join the e.u. are actually not fit to join the e.u. it's a process of catching up for the countries of the worst some bold starting point is not that favorable they had a huge wall behind them in the ninety's of the last century so the prime reason for the e.u. to engage with a simple cause is not of economic nature it's about conflict transformation an

was signed that includes the censoring russia over its occupation of crimea and formally inviting macedonia to join the alliance a move that is sure to anger russia as nato continues its expansion into eastern europe. and let's get the latest with deed of news max huffman he is at nato headquarters in brussels he joins us on the line hi max we've heard reports that donald trump as we said is threatening to leave nato over the spending fight what more can you tell us. i don't think that's the exact wording as we have some of the other they don't partners on some twenty two percent of their g.d.p. b.d.'s the sense that the americans were there and i was saying what exactly that means i don't know we're still trying to get independent confirmation so far we have one yes or doing this and we also have to find out if this is catering to the whole crowd or is there really is a substantial trust behind this what i can say is that you had a press conference scheduled with the german chancellor are going to back out which was postponed indefinitely maybe there is a connection there although we shoul

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russia's meddling now in north macedonia as we are calling i, it's meddling in greece. it's trying to interfere with the referendum that would change macedonia's name ap then get it into nato and get it into the eu. this is where russia is meddling. russia is paying for local language, broadcasting and magazines at internet servers in places like slo crockia avakia a and poland to divide european countries from one another. this is meddling, too, i suspect trump won't get into that with putin. >> it will be interesting to see how this plays out. thank you for your time and perspective. the u.s. president walking back incendiary comments about the british prime minister. sort of. we'll explain that. i'm captain obvious and hotels.com rewards me basically everywhere. so why am i hosting a dental convention after party in my vegas suite? or wearing a full-body wetsuit at this spa retreat? or sliding into this ski lodge with my mini horse kevin? because hotels.com lets me do me, right? sorry, the cold makes him a little horse. hotels.com. you do you and get rewarded. you're

per capita is only about three thousand eight hundred fifty euros per year in macedonia it's only a little bit around four thousand six hundred by comparison e.u. member states have an average g.d.p. of thirty two thousand seven hundred euros annually about eight times higher. then there's the widespread corruption coupled with organized crime and money laundering but one of the alternatives for the region russia turkey and china are all trying to build their influence in the balkans that's putting pressure on the e.u. to accelerate the accession process. all right most of us have this a smartphone but global sales of smartphones have been fulling across the globe last year global say a strong zero point three eight percent. becoming saturated most markets but not india the country saw fourteen percent spike in smartphone sales anticipating a further boom samsung has now opened the world's largest smartphone factory in the state of. only a third of india's one point three billion people have a smartphone untapped potential means sales have room to grow here samsung is banking on this front

recent agreement between athens and its neighbor to the north of the former yugoslav republic of macedonia on the name deal whereby greece will finally recognize that country and lift its veto to its nato and three this week in fact the nato summit that is going on as we speak the suspicion is that these two men these two russian diplomats were bribing municipal officials mayors church bishops because there is a common cultural ground between greece and russia in the orthodox christian religion and that is always an approach for the two countries in all diplomatic relations. and using that as a basis for sympathy with russian viewpoints which would be against this deal taking place that appears to be the charge but the greek government hasn't yet elaborated on what those activities are it's simply allowing the information that is leaked out to percolate without denying it john thank you very much for that for now that is john vause live in athens thank you. now at least ten people have been killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack in afghanistan's jalalabad city. that is a gun battle betwee

. >> the feel fake news that was in macedonia. >> the president as emily said, whenever he sees or hears something he doesn't like, he describes it as false news. sean spicer's point, basically representing the president, whether you represent his fantasies or represent not just his opinion and donald trump often when pinned down said two things. we'll see or there are people out there who really believe this. >> now, what is the push back? there are people who believe it. we know that. polls show that many of the base believe what he says about whatever it is. russia and trade wars. this and that. he does change a lot. n't want any tariffs. now we his base is hurting over tariffs. it does affect politics and it turns things upside down. what is the mechanism for protecting the truth and getting the truth out there in a way that's not viewed as a political weapon? >> there are two things. one, it may be impossible to ask for, but i think the opposition and the democratic party need to have a kind of somebody who is not the senate minority leader or the house spokesman for the democrats.

since expand it to a total of twenty nine countries with the thirtieth countries soon to be entered macedonia and an attack on one is an attack on article five is the centerpiece of the alliance an attack on one is attack against all and interestingly the only time it has been invoked was on separate twelve two thousand april twelve-step temper two thousand and eleven after the attacks obviously a new york and bush administration was not very happy with this because they were afraid that the lack of nato military capability might impede our own operations but it's the only time that article five was ever invoked in brussels the president's comportment was classic trump enter bull in a china shop bellicose on the offensive exit claiming personal victory let's watch it is made for over forty billion dollars more money. by other countries but a very small amount of money. but it's a very small amount of money relative to what go anywhere. but by yesterday morning no movie. nato problems had been solved and moments later a terse statement by the french president seemed to contradict trump's some

interference in syria and the attempt to bust buttress a dictator in syria it's what's going on in north macedonia what happened in the united kingdom it's a whole series of things that republicans have taken a starkly different position republicans and democrats alike and taken a starkly different position from this white house on john it's the most investigation is not wrapped up before the twenty eighteen election what to think will that have do you think on the elections. you know i would agree i was watching morning joe this morning and lot of the folks on there were talking about the impact this might have an election and most of the and they're not donald trump supporting progressives on the show believe that there would not be much effect of the small investigation on the midterms i think people really are looking at the kitchen table issues and that's the republicans ought to be talking about we ought to be talking about the impact the tax cuts have had in the economy we ought to be talking about infrastructure all the things that the president has gotten done for deregulation and i think

montenegro is in nato is in nato that means nato is now this so moscow of the atria to see and soon macedonia will apply and then ukraine will apply. to the markets let me go let me go to ted in oxford but there'd have been what you just said there are other a lot of other people are saying that he wants to tweak the nato alliance not dismantle it i mean you know and glimmer. for example the relationship that trump has with angela merkel not very good we know that there is a he wants a review of the number of american troops that are in germany and finding it that way you know it's seventy plus years after the end of the second world war there is what thirty five thousand troops there you're saying the same thing about south south korea and we have you know it's not about nato it's also about trade relations and it seems to me that i can i guess i'm kind of answer my own question is that i don't think america first is compatible with the traditional american foreign policy at least the pillars of it not to say that those pillars are going to disappear go ahead your take on it ted in oxford th

and soon macedonia will apply and then ukraine would apply the trump of the markets let me go let me go to ted in oxford but there'd have been what you just said there are a lot of other people are saying that he wants to tweak the nato alliance not dismantle it i mean you know angela merkel for example the relationship that trump has with angela merkel not very good we know that there is a he wants a review of the number of american troops that are in germany finding it out what you know it's seventy plus years after the end of the second world war there is what thirty five thousand troops there are you saying the same thing about south south korea and we have you know it's not about nato it's also about trade relations and it seems to me that i can i guess i'm kind of answer my own question is that i don't think america first is compatible with the traditional american foreign policy at least the pillars of it not to say that those pillars are going to disappear go ahead your take on it ted in oxford thank you very much peter i think we have to look at the multiplicity of trump pol

per capita is only about three thousand eight hundred fifty euros per year in macedonia it's only a little bit around four thousand six hundred by comparison e.u. member states have an average g.d.p. of thirty two thousand seven hundred euros annually about eight times higher. then there's the widespread corruption coupled with organized crime and money laundering but what are the alternatives for the region russia turkey and china are all trying to build their influence in the balkans that's putting pressure on the e.u. to accelerate the accession process so the pressure is on the west balkans economically fit to join the e.u. well that's what i asked analyst a douche on the ridge it. well i think that most of the countries which previously joined the you were actually not fit to join the e.u. it's a process of catching up for the conference of the worst some bold starting point is not that favorable they had a huge wall behind them in the ninety's of the last century so the prime reason for the e.u. to engage with have a simple consists not of economic nature it's about conflict transfor

interference in syria and the attempt to bust buttress a dictator in syria it's what's going on in north macedonia what happened in the united kingdom it's a whole series of things that republicans have taken a starkly different position republicans and democrats alike have taken a starkly different position from this white house on john it's the most investigation is not wrapped up before the twenty eighteen election what do think will that have do you think on the elections. you know i would agree i was watching morning joe this morning and lot of the folks on there were talking about the impact this might have an election and most of the and they're not donald trump supporting progressives on the show believe that there would not be much effect of the small investigation on the midterms i think people really are looking at the kitchen table issues and that's the republicans ought to be talking about we ought to be talking about the impact the tax cuts have had in the economy we ought to be talking about infrastructure all the things that the president has gotten done for deregulation and i thin

president, do we expect the rise of the russian influence in macedonia like we've seen in montenegrinmobile nato and the united states do to counter the russian influence in the western balkans? >> we never talk about her future plans. >> mr. president, i'm from curtis in iraq. my questions about the government of iraq. after the election the government has not been -- you want to talk about syria. you have information about putin it syria? >> i hope we get along well with iraq, we spent a great fortune in iraq and many lives, hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides which i think about both sides, not just our side. they had an election and i hope we can get along. we have been talking with the people that won the election. i was not in favor of that war. i was very much against the war. i never thought it was a good thing. that is another deck of cards i inherited. we will do the best we can. the election was conclusive and again we have spoken and we will see what happens. >> we have time for one more question. >> i come from a very small country. my question, i really wish and

diplomats came after suspicions of moscow's involvement in undermining an agreement with neighboring macedonia the government in athens has so far not confirmed those ripples but says it won't tolerate any behavior that violates international law the greek prime minister alexis tsipras is known to have close ties with the kremlin. a five year long multiple murder trial in germany has ended with a life sentence for the last remaining member of a neo nazi group beata shop was found guilty of ten murders and bomb attacks targeting turkish immigrants eight were killed along with a greek and a german policewoman during a seven year campaign the forty three year old member of the national socialist underground terrorist group is planning to appeal. the wife of the chinese dissident a nobel peace prize winner lucia bow who died last year has now arrived in germany after being freed from eight years of house arrest lose jar flew from beijing to berlin via helsinki china had imposed severe restrictions on loose movement since twenty ten her husband died whilst serving an eleven year jail sentence for i

mr president do we expect the rise of the russian influence in macedonia following the starting of negotiation process like we've seen in montenegro with coop and what will nato and united states do to counter that russian influence in the western balkans we never talk about our future plans yes go ahead ma'am go ahead thank you very much mr president thank you very much my name is the from the t.v. from couldst on iraq my question is about the government of iraq and you know after two months election the government in iraq has not been formit what the role from you as a and you want to speak talk about syria in in it was president putin m k i have any information about could in syria thank you very much so i hope we get along well with iraq we've certainly spent a great fortune in iraq and many many lives thousands and hundreds of thousands of lives if you think on both sides which i always think about both sides not just us and they had an election and i hope we're going to be able to get along and we'll see how that goes we've already been talking to the people that won the election i was n

pakistan a candidate for a provincial seat was among those killed in the blast in the village of macedonia of the afghan border it's the second election related bombing on friday another took place in the northern town of bani. in other developments the former pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif as arrived in lahore where it's expected he will be arrested on corruption charges he was sentenced to ten years in jail on charges last week where late into the purchase of luxury apartments in the u.k. former prime minister is the head of one of pakistan's most powerful political dynasties mariana home looks back at his check a career. now was shareef has dominated politics in pakistan for almost thirty years in that time he's been toppled in a coup jailed exiled and managed political comebacks that time and time again have surprised his rivals but he was a wealthy businessman when he arrived on the political scene in one thousand nine hundred ninety by being elected prime minister that first stint in office lasted just three years the president dismissed the government in the wake of a power s

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president, do we expect the rise of the russian influence in macedonia following the starting of negotiation process like we've seen in montenegro with the coupe? and what will nato and the united states do to counter the western balkans. president trump: we never talk about our future plans. yes, go ahead, ma'am. go ahead. reporter: thank you very much. mr. president, thank you very much. kurdistan, iraq. my question is about the government of iraq. you know, after two months, election, the government in iraq has not been formed. what is the role from the usa and you want to talk about syria. -- talk about syria with president putin. can i have information about kurds in syria? president trump: i hope we get along well with iraq. we've certainly spent a great fortune in iraq. and many, many lives, thousands and hundreds of thousands of lives, if you think, on both sides, which i always think about both sides, not just our side. and they had an election. and i hope we're going to be able to get along and we'll see how that goes. we've been talking with the people that won the election. i was