needs to really rebuild its own leadership role and that's what macross i think attention to when he said nato was brain dead he was basically saying u.s. leadership which is the sort of essential foundation for nato can no longer be relied upon based on what we've seen trump do in the north in syria but also some of the statements he's made over the last few years calling into question whether the united states would be there if and how i fell under attack so. the bigger question is what are we going to do about it. there the french don't have any great answers as to how to. erosion of u.s. leadership within nato let's bring in pavel then from russia's perspective pavel we've seen pretty positive comments for unofficial tweets after we heard the comments from micron the french president calling that a golden comment do you think does russia see that any sort of admission of the irrelevance of nato any crumbling or weakening of nato is a game for russia. well nato is seen as moscow as a kind of terror no bogeyman i mean the concentration of and the russian sentiment and ranty russian

unpredictability the german chancellor angela merkel disagrees with what she calls macross address to view of nato. cambodian opposition leaders from a banned political party are being prevented from returning home they want to lead protests on saturday against prime minister hun sen laura burdon manoli has more. from his home in paris sam rainsy says he's determined to return to cambodia he's been in exile for much of the past decade raese says he wants to gather other opposition politicians from the band cambodian national rescue party to lead protests against prime minister. was telling us he says it's to restore democracy to the country but as he arrived at an airport in paris in an effort to return home this happened and not enough for me to. and the allowed to vote or to try international. right and so i visited the research to have received from very high up in the instruction not to allow me to hold his deputy musak it's one of several opposition leaders who fled from cambodia fearing arrest she to try to return to cambodia but was detained after landing in malaysia and since

these are our top stories gemma not german chancellor angela merkel has rejected french president macross claim that nato is experiencing quote brain death the chance of a along with nato secretary general against bolton but reaffirm their commitment to the military.

to macross criticism of nato. well the reaction really has come from the secretary of state. who in germany at the moment that it was actually what he said was pretty positive actually about nato on his visit to germany on thursday now we can't really forget that he actually spent time in germany as an officer during the cold war and what might surprise a lot of people is actually had positive he was about nato considering what president trump often said since he took over the presidency in 2016 now. nato remains very important and critical and historically one of the most important partnerships that exists between many of these nations now he also spoke of the remarkable work of nato and the also defended president trump which is quite interesting considering you know the words of micron and like i said what president trump has said about nato he's been incredibly critical of germany and the other european nations saying that they should spend more money they should reach the target which is set out by nato of 2 percent and what's definitely probably going to be coming up an

joint statement referring their support for the paris climate accord speaking in beijing president macross that cooperation between europe and china on reducing emissions would be decisive this follows the trumpet ministration beginning the formal process to withdraw the united states from the agreement president xi and mccrone described the deal signed in 2015 as irreversible and. over the past 2 years in the fight against climate change we have consistently acted together with great effectiveness and commitment. but i regret the choices made by a few other countries but i want to see them as marginal choices. when china the european union and russia ratify the paris agreement and make a firm commitment the isolated choice made by one or another country won't change the course of the world. now the course of the world has scientists around the globe so worried that they've issued a joint call to action on climate change describing it as an emergency too many of us are living too well they say without taking note of what it's doing to the planet they warn that we risk untold suffering if t

french president emanuel my crawl in an interview published in the economist newspaper president macross that nato is undergoing what he called a brain death i think that europe must start acting as a strategic world power as a joint news conference in chancellor merkel a nato secretary general against stoughton declared that the alliance is not dying despite widespread dismay at the recent actions of the united states and turkey in northern syria mr stone sober and went on to reject the notion that the us was turning its back on that european allies but said that more german financial support was necessary. so does europe have the wherewithal to act as a strategic world power as president mccall suggests teri schultz is a d w correspondent a nato specialist he can't possibly think that europe can completely defend itself at the moment that's just not possible in any way not logistically there's not enough equipment there's not enough cord nation there's not enough trust so what mcluhan is saying that that europe needs to go off on its own is something we talk about all the time in bruss

countries were incensed enough to issue formal protests ambassador holding to explain comments macross statement is outrageous because he is a participant in the norm a diplomat and should be specially careful in choosing words bochy crane and ukrainians in the volga area and e.u. country this was another example of the east west developed within the union french president statement is just another demonstration of political arrogance cheekiness what's also puzzling for bulgarians is the somewhat muddled reference to illegal immigration given that it's an e.u. country and its citizens have the right to work anywhere across the union including in france excuse me but is micron really able to talk about bulgaria does he know the bulgarians well enough to talk about them like this. i find such behavior towards us totally unacceptable however it is clear that they are all criminal networks from bulgaria operating here in france and this it seems is what mark corn has issue with but how do people in paris feel about mcewan's preference for working my quince 7 more of it is ridiculous it's a

the manual macross decision to cut taxes for the wealthy earned him the monica president for the rich his decision to raise taxes on diesel and petrol led to the popular g.l.a. jaw or yellow jacket protests which morphed into a revolt against inequality. just how unequal then is french society well earlier this year but not on oh briefly overtook bill gates to become the 2nd richest man in the world the sente billionaire plans to take over a jeweler tiffany for more than $14000000000.00 according to bloomberg the personal fortunes of french billionaires have grown twice as fast as their american and chinese counterparts in 2019 for the size of hundreds of millions being raised in just a matter of days to rebuild or not to dom cathedral after the fire just underlined distorted priorities in france but research from the o.e.c.d. and french statistics office show that france is actually less unequal than other european nations and the richest 10 percent paid 70 percent of all income tax in the country and 2017 but the poorest may feel like they're paying more as the cost of the cities ha

joint statement reaffirming this strong support for the boundless climate accord in beijing president macross said cooperation between europe and china on reducing emissions could be decisive it follows the trumpet ministrations move to stop the former proceeds of withdrawing the u.s. from the 2015 a cooling. and mccrone have said the accord is. matilda could push of milk over the past 2 years in the fight against climate change we have consistently acted together with great effectiveness and commitment to the i regret the choices made by a few other countries but i want to see them as marginal choices. when china the european union and russia ratify the paris agreement and make a firm commitment the isolated choice made by one or another country won't change the course of the world. and for more with me i have in the studio tim a schonberg he's from the environment desk welcome to now we heard both the presidents from france and china talk about the practice climate accord being irreversible what does this really mean me explain a bit china is the largest emitter of c o 2 emissions worldwide

france and fellow member turkey a locked in a war of words ahead of next week's nato summit emanuel macross says that ankara put nato mission at risk with its recent military operation in northern syria but turkey's president says that mccraw doesn't understand the situation just pick the security didn't but. i respect the security interests of autocue fellow who has suffered many terrorist attacks on its soil but one cannot on one hand say that we are allies with respect to this demand else all the dirty and on the other hand put itself in the place of a military offensive done as a fait accompli which endangered the action of the coalition against islamic state which nato is a part of claiming commitment to collective security is not enough you must show it a real alliance is about actions and decisions not words so i wish to have a real discussion between allies and our concrete engagements in the fight against terrorism in the hell as in the levant region the military intervention carried out by turkey in northeast syria has brought up real questions which must be tackled. all right let

parliament than i am a yellow bus but for many yellow vests those promises were empty a little in a at 1st macross ended in the way they were in the promises and that he backtracked and was a tax those but not to the company had the resources to offer it also promised 100 years extra for people with minimum wage in it in the end we realised it was only for those on social security the anger continued to spill out onto the streets while some yellow vests were caught up in the violence for the most part to protest his argue their movement had been infiltrated by extremist. it's yeah. it's the radicals you know go out violence it's an adrenalin financial makes them feel good i suppose but there are also people who become violent because they are being attacked by tear gas and police battles to discourage to try to discredit the movement by showing images of burning trash cans and cars and also to make sure that the rest of the population don't join the movement they go to the police don't understand anything the government tells them money but instead of marching with us they hear the protesters. wha

been undermined by washington's faltering commitment to the alliance and it doesn't seem that all of macrossallies agree with his assessment the comments have drawn several responses since they were published. france's president the french president used rather drastic words to express his views this is not how i see the state of corporation with nato so i don't think that such a sweeping judgment is appropriate mater is in our interest it's all security lines obviously we have to take our destiny in our own hands but the transatlantic partnership is absolutely indispensable i agree with the chancellor merkel nato is strong. united states north america and europe we do more together than were done for decades we have implemented the strongest reinforcement so collective defense since the end of the cold war writer and broadcaster jonathan fryer told us chancellor merkel's remarks don't help to clarify her position. there is a certain contradiction i suppose in what she was saying in that if europe is going to be more responsible for its own military as well as economic future then obviously

themselves without the us and in an interview with the financial times poland's prime minister viewed macross questioning of nato's commitment to mutual defense as dangerous the secretary general of the north atlantic treaty organization the n stoltenberg on the other hand stressed the coalition while strong and the u.s. and europe are working closer together than in the past decades incoming european commission president sort of on the layer hailed nato as a protective shield of freedom and said the most powerful defense alliance in the world. i welcome on this now i'm joined by our guests we have in brussels john laughlin author and consultant on international law john is also a lecturer at the university institute of st pius 10th on skype from philadelphia alexander vershbow now former deputy secretary general of nato and the former u.s. ambassador to nato and russia and in moscow pavel felgenhauer defense and military analyst and columnist for no via guess at or a warm welcome to iran let's start with john then is nato dying. well i think emanuel mccall's remark that it was brain dead is

sure you've seen this latest interview 'd in the economist magazine the french president emmanuelle macross gave for only stated that there would be no further e.u. enlargement until the membership procedures are formed do you take that as just postering which is not entirely for into mishear mccraw or do you think it's a wider shot as far as the e.u. neighborhood policy is concerned i think that the. french president actually expressed the idea which is pretty consistent with what we've been talking in the 1st part of the news that everybody sees that something is going wrong with the process of course what part of the problem is not only happening in the western balkans but part of the problem is with european union itself because the union is undergoing. pretty huge sure changes and i think that some things that he mentioned in this interview hall for a total revision of the whole approach to european union rights for example one thing that i think is very important is that that is that there was a huge change in the u.s. and the u.s. was a country which basically provide security. for e

these are all top stories german not german chancellor angela merkel has rejected french president macross claim that nato is experiencing quote brain death the chancellor along with nato secretary general young stoltenberg reaffirmed their commitment to the military alliance despite the recent controversial actions of member states turkey and the us in syria. still it's german defense minister and a great crime tyron by.

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weeks of wildfires in new south wales have destroyed hundreds of homes dozens of fires is told by the macross states but more rain is expected to drench the region. well still ahead here all the news. with its. way all. i thank you i. thank you both about it's time for sports histrionics thank you well the arabian gulf cup begins on tuesday with host cats are up against iraq as extra attention on the tournament this year because 3 of the nation's blockading katsa saudi arabia the u.a.e. and behind are all competing and the richardson is that doha sunday for stadium andy is this a sign of relations easing between the blockading nations. i mean sporting bodies are always keen to try and keep sport and politics separate which always does seem a little bit counter-intuitive so it's quite interesting that in the light of that footballing u. turn by the 3 countries you mention the organizers did release a statement saying that as far as the gulf cup is concerned it's a constant reminder that the gulf region is worn let's compare and contrast that sort of statement with what happened at the 27 scene