as the 29 members it has a problem agreeing on who the threat is now we saw the french president mccrum the couple days ago before the nato summit called nato braindead he wasn't exactly correct nato still has value but nato definitely needs to be diagnosed i like to call nato's problem a midlife crisis at 17 years old it's still thinks it's 40 years old and it's still things the enemies the soviet union when there is no soviet union there is no communist china and there are much more imminent threats right now in the globe non-state actors terrorist organizations i agree with you there are lots of disagreements internal disagreements within their lives and yet at the same time the turkish officials continue extolling the value of neda and how substantial turkey's role within they there has been if we look specifically at the last 3 decades what did he get out the nato for all its contributions frankly i over the last 3 decades i don't think turkey has gotten much out of nato besides a couple air bases inside the country at times the limited deployment of some air defenses turkey hasn't

many of our treasures ascott there throughout museums in europe a year ago french president manuel mccrum promised to attend. to ben in these royal stocks use those looted by friends clooney all forces that been in ones back but not much has happened yet micros announcement was triggered by reports he had commissioned on the restitution of africa's stretches we'll talk to one of the report's authors in a moment about fests what are people seeing on the continent high and african art on display in the museum in africa something that is fairly unusual as many of africa's masterpieces are holliston europe cynicus museum of black civilizations and is an exception like many on the continent the museum's director wants to change. the pond is sure to let them that things have been stolen africans are not going to ask to strip european museums with their works there that are perhaps a very valuable for these works have to be returned to the communities to which they belong as. in 2800 french president eminem akong rocked the museum was when he promised to return 26 why the statues and thrones loo

plans which aimed to plug a chronic deficit in the pension system it's a blow to president emanuel mccrum whose government remains locked in a standoff with trade unions. now to a story of death squads in the former soviet republic of belarus with 3 opposition politicians disappeared without a trace 20 years ago there was speculation the killings were ordered by president alexander lukashenko who's kept an eye on grip on power for more than 2 decades in an exclusive interview d.w. has spoken with a man who says he was one of the killers. beauty good of skiis living in a central european country and is seeking asylum there. in a deitsch avella exclusive he tells us about his time in a regime death squad in belarus and reveals new details about a series of crimes. a number of opposition politicians in belarus disappeared 2 decades ago and it's still not known what happened to them on the evening of may the 7th 1909 yuri's a her ankle parked his car here near the old fire house in minsk and was never seen again. at that time the former interior minister was a leading figure in the opposition

i spoke to the operating manager for the team — englishman jake lush mccrum and asked him how he managedem all to sign for the same side. in 2018 we signed all four of these guys. this will be the first year that we have the same captain for the whole season so going from the ashes and competing against each other to then playing together in the ipl. there are immensely talented, jos buttler hit five 50s in the row in 2018 and that took him from performing in the ipl in t20 format to the english test side so thatis format to the english test side so that is quite an interesting outcome of the ipl. jofra archer has been incredible across t20 and then got into the england side and ben stokes obviously it has been his ear for cricket with the world cup and the ashes and some of his performances have been staggering. so to have them all in one team is exciting. and the indians that we have as well. that means we have a really exciting team for the season ahead with a few pics coming in the auction. he mentioned how successful auction. he mentioned how successful a year it has been for ben sp

american and french president this tuesday before their meeting donald trump had described emanuel mccrum suggested that nato is in terminal decline as nasty the pair then went on to joust over a range of issues in front of reporters including the fate of european isis fighters in this. bizarre exchange. for the right. here is. where you were a little. girl enough number of mind does go wrong on this coming from the c.e.o. . and there it. is. for the fight is coming from europe and says. hold on. just hours before that meeting the u.s. president threatened to impose huge tariffs some french good sync looting cheese and champagne shot to dubai and ski has more on the rift. well to add into those tensions that nato there is even with the simmering tensions between france and the us this comes after the u.s. has threatened to add more taxes on french products in retaliation for the so-called gaffa tax this is a tax on digital joints such as google amazon or facebook and apple suggesting it will levy those taxes of up to $2400000000.00 some of that on products such as champagne on luxury good

sure that's happening among the other protests around france supposed to join effigy of president mccrum wearing a crown was put on display in the southern city of knowledge to protest as they're seen hitting it with sticks as it dangled from a tree a strike action there also saw some sporadic violence against demonstrators clashed . russia's flatly rejected germany's claims that it's not been cooperating with an investigation into the murder of a georgian national in berlin orchestra russian foreign minister sergei lavrov told r.t. on thursday that it appears moscow will again be blamed for a crime it was not involved with the story is maria for not. relations between moscow and barely now going drastically down hill germany's unexpected decision to expel 2 russian embassy staffers on wednesday has left more scope fuming angela merkel complained russia didn't do enough to have ceased tamely investigation into the murder of a georgian national back in august and now berlin says there is real and sufficient indication that russia was behind it i asked russia's foreign minister sergey lavr

as the 29 members it has a problem agreeing on who the threat is now we saw the french president mccrum the couple days ago before the nato summit called nato braindead he wasn't exactly correct nato still has value but nato definitely needs to be diagnosed i like to call nato is problem a midlife crisis it's 70 years old it's still thinks it's 40 years old and it's still things the enemies the soviet union when there is no soviet union there is no communist china and there are much more imminent threats right now in the globe non-state actors terrorist organizations i agree with you there are lots of disagreements internal disagreements within their lines and yet at the same time the turkish officials continue extolling the value of neda and how substantial turkey's role within they there has been if we look specifically at the last 3 decades what did carry key gad out of nato for all its contributions frankly i over the last 3 decades i don't think turkey has gotten much out of nato.

others injured it took place ahead of a now postponed meeting between the french president emanuel mccrum and 5 west african leaders over security in the region france insisted its nato allies should take the situation seriously and provide more support quarter delves into the challenges paris faces in its former colony. africa has become a hotbed of terrorist activity as deadly attacks claiming hundreds of lives have spread like wildfire. europe will have 2 swords of damocles over its head terrorism and kidnappings but also illegal immigrants since many are traveling through this region following one of the deadliest attacks in niger or 70 people were killed by islamists the big players have even postponed a big summit to reconsider their efforts the president so fronts uneasier agreed to postpone the summit on operation bachao nya on the joint chiefs on health force until early 2020 the 2 presidents a expressed their determination to remain united against terrorist groups and to redefine together in the coming weeks the political and operational framework for ensuring the security of th

does show a different vision here well i'm not really sure if it's going to work i know that there mccrum wants to be another de gaulle which there's only $1.00 only i will be only one to go on the air but i mean even the there are the poorest isn't in washington the you know the the this is the land tick alliance world but there are some new things happening right here because there are tensions you know the more to interesting thing about this statement from micron about the brain death of nato what's their reaction to it how in total rent nato need us are you know america will do. and you said you want your destructive policy and they have to glue together. what you did in ukraine ok so why is she an authority on anything the absolutely well the polish minutes that there was more advanced you also scolded micron you know saying that he statement was irresponsible i mean look how intolerant these people are and they accuse. us everyone was angry because marc wrong invited the leaders of kurdish groups you know to paris he was also angry because lindsey graham in the united states is fac

started there a little late but i think this summit is a big success for president mccrum because he changed the dynamic without his somewhat ghoulish intervention on brand nato this would have been another trump show exclusively everybody around the table and asking them have you paid up already this would have been that i make right now because of cause intervention was totally different on the one hand he got trump to actually say i like nato because. just to be in opposition to mark on the other hand mccall so got his wish is to actually have a political debate what what what are nato as antagonists what about russia what about china what about terrorism what about a plan b. if the u.s. decided to abandon the alliance or reduce its commitment what capabilities do we need to build and very much push this debate and in the end if you look at the summit declaration he got as well there will be a high level reflection group hopefully not composed of braindead individuals that will go through these. words to the mccrone has succeeded where almost everyone else has failed in getting in

in october this year president emanuel mccrum of france stole the spotlight when he dubbed nato strategically brain dead while questioning the validity of article 5 of its founding treaty that is the commitment to collective security. nato is a collective defense alliance against who and what is organizing who is our common enemy what are our common issues these are questions that deserve clarification but this idea is quite similar to the one expressed by another dissatisfied nato member turkey. term. he has not received the kind of robust support it expected from nato in recent years meanwhile turkey's president appeared to demonstrate his true feelings towards the alliance when he chose to spend money on russian defense systems rather than american so not exactly the model that nato member but despite these similar complaints about nato tensions have escalated between turkey and france in recent weeks with mccracken warning turkey but it cannot expect solidarity with its nato allies if it continues to carry out military operations in syria response only ups the ante so. i'm talking to fran

yelling at my craw while yelling at mccrum because mccrone is making a populist move and that was discrediting nato this is something that needs to be talked behind closed doors across a rookie president he made this move to bring the spotlight on to himself if you make a rookie move like the way mccrone did you open yourself up to comments like an elder statesman like president said called him brain dead you have a media savvy president like the u.s. president u.s. president dollar trump say hey how about some isis fighters you want them i can send them back to your country and then you have left sitting at a press conference looking very funny at the camera because he has no answer to that well mr every international politics has always been a bar with hard core bargaining sometimes even blackmail but most of it i would agree is usually done behind closed doors but i would argue that present aired on together with mr trump by the way is one of those leaders that has brought it out into the open he often makes connection between for example the refugee issue and economic threats i mean he's d

as the 29 members it has a problem agreeing on who the threat is now we saw the french president mccrum the couple days ago before the nato summit called nato braindead he wasn't exactly correct nato still has value but nato definitely needs to be diagnosed i like to call nato's problem a midlife crisis at 70 years old it's still thinks it's 40 years old and it's still things the enemies the soviet union when.

of their constitution in trying right to protest against the economic policies president emanuel mccrumbut the often uncompromising response of your thirty's has raised disturbing questions about the appropriate use of force to police those demonstrations giuliana roofless being to investigate claims that france's democratic principles are being on the motive.

affected as well 55 percent of teachers are expected to join the strike with hospitals also affected mccrum plans to merge $42.00 state pension systems but strikers say they'll end up working longer hours and have nest money for retirement. now the nato summit has ended with the leaders uniting behind common commitments despite the meeting highlighting bitter divisions leaders agreed on issues like russia and china and settled a major stumbling block when turkey dropped its objection to nato as baltic defense plan but behind the display of unity cracks were showing as during the whole experience from what that's north of london so good morning i think there it is start if you can find those seats this gathering of nato leaders had one objective a show of unity to mark 70 years of the world's most successful military alliance one for all and all for one instead it was a public display of differences that began the day before on tuesday u.s. president donald trump was on the combative form number one point to the front is not only well macron of nato strategy budget payments and trumps unilat

french forces have killed at $33.00 fighters in the muck the region of mali president emmanuel mccrum made the announcement in the street and in a speech in ivory coast french army command confirmed the death toll in that operation and said it took place overnight near the martain in border now more than 50000 guns have been handed over in new zealand since a ban was imposed on assault weapons the government started buying back the weapons 6 months ago it's part of reforms since a mass shooting at 2 mosques in march when 51 people were killed gun owners were also given the option of modifying their firearms to make them compliant with tougher laws you know i have heard countless feedback from many of the local by dick events it was all going good nearly 32000 kiwi separate to suppose in this so there are sure there are about 15 percent of the of the gun only community with the license community should say if handed in the weapons and i think that feels about right. a quarter in pakistan has sentenced a university lecturer to death for blasphemy junaid have fees was arrested in 2013 ac

following this story for us i there are it's not the 1st time is it we've heard this talk from a man well mccrum what is the view then in the region about the presence of french troops. well basically when they find president trust that statement some weeks ago that was at the g. summit in london there were even before then there was a growing cry among communities in the sahara region in the lectured region of west africa those voices included government officials by the way who say despite the presence of thousands of foreign troops in this old france by the way has more than 4500 soldiers in the sahara region alone that this by the presence of nearly 20000 foreign troops in the region these attacks by armed groups continue unabated in fact they even increasing in intensity as well as sophistication that was the statement made by the president of the share of the echo some of that ended this weekend and previously we heard presidents of mali and broken afonso echoing the same feely now france feels that but much of that anger is targeted at the french who by the way west africans or francophon

and alliance divided donald trump and emanuel mccrum go head to head as the nato summit begins in a rare admission that iran's government concedes people were shot and killed a during november's fuel price protests. and i'm leo hardy and doha with all the d.c. sport boxers and here is jr and anthony joshua work out for the 1st time in the saudi capital riyadh ahead of saturday's heavyweight rematch. thanks for joining us we begin the news hour in the u.s. where house democrats have released their much anticipated report laying out the case for the impeachment of donald trump the report says the u.s. president who was meeting nato leaders in london use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 lection it says the phone call between trump and the ukrainian president was a dramatic crescendo of a months long campaign to extract what it called personal political benefits well the chairman of the house intelligence committee spoke shortly after the report was released. we now can see the veneer has been torn away just why secretary palm pail and presid

france's president says he's standing by his remarks about nato manuel mccrum had previously described the military alliance as brain dead and in the repeat from the u.s. president is amazing in london to mock 70 years since the alliance was founded. climate activists credit has arrived back in europe after crossing the atlantic by boat will be attending the u.n. climate summit in madrid on friday so either side the last decade is almost certain to have been the hottest on record. has barreled over the philippines bringing to rachel ryan's and winds of more than 150 kilometers an hour at least 2 people have been killed more than 200-0052 safety and well as the international airport also suspended operations. this is news from berlin from all follow us on twitter at de w. news or visit the website dot com. well they say 70 is the new 50 that's not exactly what they're saying at nato as the world's mightiest military alliance marks 7 decades don't be surprised if you encounter terms such as grumpy old men or an alliance past its prime tonight from trump to mccrone from russia to turkey t