in nato but it was because of nato's membership in nato because the nato membership provided the strength and the platform to engage with russia. so i say this because we will all be losers if we move to cold war and arm's race, we have to find the balance between being firm, predictable and delivering defense but at the same time trying to develop a better relationship with russia including arm's control and -- and political dialogue with russia and that's exactly what nato is doing. .. ..

today i will address the issue of why nato is important, the value of nato. nato is important for europe. that is why they recognize and why they understood. that nato is also very important for united states. let me mention three reasons why nato is important also for the united states. first come the peace and stability in europe are of vital importance by proving interest to the united states. second, nato allies share in support values which are at the heart of the american society. third, nato allies boost america's military power. so first, nato was forced in the aftermath of two world wars, which led to 90 million lines lost and widespread economic devastation. when we consider nato's value today, we need to take into account the devastating loss of life and economic costs of the major war in europe. for nearly 70 years, nato's help to preserve peace and stability in europe. this has provided the foundation for unprecedented prosperity. for all nato allies, including the united states. europe and north america together present path of the world's econo

in nato . because the nato membership provided the strength and the platform to engage with russia. so i say this because we will all be losers if we move to cold war and new arms race. so we have to find the balance between being firm, predictable and delivering defense but at the same time, trying to develop a better relationship with russia including arm's control and political dialogue with russia. and that's exactly what nato is doing. >> mr. secretary, we've run out of time. we thank you for your time to come here. we know it's your first visit here but we hope to see you again in the future. maybe we can make this an annual event. but we really appreciate your speech. we appreciate the time you have spent with the audience here. it's been a very in-depth analysis and a comprehensive view of what's going on. so please everyone, join in a a round of applause for the secretary-general. [applause] [inaudible conversations] c-span's cities tour takes you to charleston, louisiana. we will expl

mad just interrupt nato was an agreement between the u.s. and russia not to put bases in places like ukraine and poland permanent bases well yes for ukraine definitely no permanent bases i don't think they'll be a permanent base i think that it will be rotational even two billion dollars really underestimates how expensive u.s. military presence is but there's a bigger issue which is you know the pentagon phrases we're out of shits. we don't have enough armored brigade to move them forward in poland and if they're forward in poland on a permanent basis there just isn't enough flexibility to move them to other places where they might need to go. you know we have to pull a brigade either out of the united states or we have to move brigade from germany and both of those moves are self defeating so even if you can pay for all the infrastructure that poland wants and two billion dollars will not come close to covering it the united states government won't find the budget to make make up for that and just in terms of the armored units that would h

does that help nato?> it helpful the united states is investing more in defense, but also increasing their military presence in rope. so, when we see what is going on, we see that european allies are stepping up and the united states is stepping u for the first time in many years, allies are investing more in defense. now we are seeing other allies are following. i think that is the right thing to do in a world that is more unpredictable and unsafe. we need to invest in our ncurity. lauro secretary-general, thank you so much for joining us.ou >> thankor having me. laura: in other news, the british government as a great people from eu countries who want to live and worerin the u.k. a brexit can face the same immigration rules from those of non-member states. it will be based on scales rather than nationality, but fear low skilled migrants may damage business. the u.s. imposed sanions on four close associates of nicolas maduro, accusing them of plundering the country. mr. muro's wife has been targeted. in a

i don't believe in nato. i don't believe in the western alliance. what is nato?he alliance of western democracies that have held together and tried to maintain peace and maintain a climate for the preservation of democracy and liberty and human rights. he's saying i don't believe in this stuff. that is a much more damaging posture than reagan who was sort of saying i believe in this more than you guys do. you're not doing enough. i want to confront the evil soviet union more. so this is the first time in 70 years we have had an american president who doesn't believe in the american project. this has been after all america's foreign policy project for 70 years ever since the end of world war ii. so that's a much bigger deal than even the circus around it. i mean, there have been circuses in the past, nothing quite like this to be sure. it worries me because i think that's the part of it that might last. it's some of this -- the circus will go away. but the sense that the united states has lost faith in its own creation, that will linger and people will start subst

i'm concerned about the expansion of nato nato has expanded into thirteen countries up to the borders of russia thirteen countries at the table which ring up at the table awaiting me shit way not near as good as they do in the midst of them what should the visit mean. in early spring of two thousand and fourteen eastern ukraine was also buzzing with protests against the new authorities in kiev this region with the population close to russia geographically and culturally feared that the ultra right leanings of the newly formed government would bring meal nationalism to their lands. and they have their reasons. the status of the russian language in ukraine has been a stumbling block for many years implementing russian as a second state language was one of the main campaign promises of president recruited into focus in two thousand and twelve the government desa in early january two thousand and fourteen the protesters set up their camp in front of the trade union house a building which would soon become a monument to a massacre of its own it's difficult to overestimate the importance of

expanding for years claiming that nato is becoming increasingly dangerous for the russians nato claims that russia is a threat because of its aggressive policies in ukraine and this policy could be used against the baltic countries from the western point of view so keeping all of these arguments in mind bryan if three hundred thousand soldiers shoot around flies dream scout and do other military exercises that is clearly an attempt to show the strength against the west just in case russia has to defend itself ok here you mentioned of nato there is a competitor for russia these movers will showcase a new generation of weapons new tactics how does today's russian military stack up against nato. well that is controversial and independent military experts who doubt very much of that russia's army is as strong as its as it claims to be but no one doubts that russia is in a position to wage a more than a war that's what the russians army has been doing in syria for years with military success also last year there was a similar war games like these ones in the west of russia along with the ga

die i am concerned about the expansion of nato nato has expanded into thirteen countries up to the borders of russia thirteen countries at the time what was going up at the time of waiting the ship way not. in early spring of two thousand and fourteen eastern ukraine was also buzzing with protests against the new authorities in kiev this region with the population close to russia geographically and culturally feared that the ultra right leanings of the newly formed government would bring meal nationalism to their lands. and they have their reasons. the status of the russian language in ukraine has been a stumbling block for many years implementing russian as a second state language was one of the main campaign promises of president bush in a full day in two thousand and twelve the government passed a law making it the second official language in the southern and eastern parts of ukraine the areas where the russian speaking population makes up a majority ukrainian nationalist groups initiated massive protests opposing the law and observing viewer might see some familiar faces there but. one

georgia should not be member of nato first of all nobody will just allow georgia to be a member of nato when we have a two and solve conflicts one we have two russian military bases this is paul policy and they're very sad that today's georgian government they continue with this illusory declaration of sending georgian membership in nato and they are not brave enough to begin that dialogue and communication with the russian president and with russia to be for georgia nato membership is not acceptable either let me also ask you about crimea heard you say that you believe. crimea is a closed file for russia that it will never go back to your green obviously and most of the people in this country feel the same way georgia's national interest which will be brief enough to say that yes we want to have friendly relations with everybody we have to have good relations with the western part of the world in the western community but we need to change our relations with russia in. the way we have to cooperate we have to make a dialogue and we have to be close with this country because it's well mo

stages its biggest war games since the soviet era moscow says the exercises are purely defensive but nato fears russia is preparing for war at the very latest from the russian capital also coming out. of warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe as syrian and russian forces prepared to take it live problems thirty thousand civilians have already fled this month alone many more are taking to the road. plus the book president trump calls a joke and a call on. people here in the bookstore can't wait to get their hands on it but if you're from supporter it's quite a different story and find out what those trump supporters think about bob woodward's tell all told. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us the russian military is conducting its biggest maneuvers since the end of the cold war under of thousands of russian soldiers are taking part in maneuvers across the country in eastern siberia they're being joined by troops from china and mongolia these drills will continue for a week russia's defense ministry says they all involved. some thirty six thousand vehicles one thousand planes

negotiations are to open and to pave the way for our nato and e.u. membership so the question is quite logical people today will also whether we want to join nato and e.u. by implementation of the agreement signed greece do you accept this is a huge test for the country and for the voters given that just what two decades ago ethnic albanians in your country took up arms against the government. while a much shorter deal fog people in the all polls we had in the recent period more than eighty percent are in favor in the till and and you also but the problem is that we are living also in the world of fake news and populist propaganda so people are under this attack of fake news that actually they are changing their identity and everything will be different after signing this agreement of course it is a challenge it is one of the most important decision the people of this country had made in the recent twenty five years after independence but is a decision that for certain will open a new chapter in this country that will provide the security and peace f

most macedonians do not want to join nato or the you essentially with this referendum with protecting macedonia centuries old name and the identity history and traditions of the macedonian people our party is against nato an e.u. membership and this referendum is simply a question of the highest national interest western influence is huge here in the last ten to fifteen days we've been visited by brussels and washington's highest political and diplomatic representatives but we can't be bought and our will is unbreakable macedonians they want to change the name of the state and they don't want to join nato. across the border to the south protesters have rallied in the greek port of there's a lot of as well which is in the province of that only in greece they were seen waving the greek flags demonstrating against the referendum. a politics professor at the university of macedonia in greece had told us the referendum has been a setback for those looking to exert influence over the wider balkan region. around them once coffee has strayed from say the sun to that effect on them this is a i

georgia should not be member of nato first of all nobody will just. georgia to be a member of nato when we have a complex when we have two russian military bases this is paul policy and they're very said today's georgian government they continue with this illusory declaration of sending georgian membership in nato and they are not brave enough to begin direct dialogue and communication with the russian president and with russia to georgia nato membership is not acceptable either let me also ask you about crimea heard you say that you believe. crimea is a closed file for russia that it will never go back to your great obviously and most of the people in this country feel the same way having said that i think there is also. a challenge for russia that sooner or later this country will have to reach out to ukraine and short of returning crimea it will have to make certain amounts to restore some certain ties with the ukrainians. can i ask you as somebody who is standing at the sidelines i'm sure you don't have a particular stake in russia's fate or ukrai

warships nato says russia is preparing for a large scale conflict. so what's behind these maneuvers were the very latest let's cross over to moscow from did abuse yury russia how yuri nato has contend these exercises as a prelude to conflict why is russia along with china fielding some three hundred thousand troops this week well brian of course that the russian army is very large in terms of the number of soldiers and military acknowledges to moscow organized to such a war games every year on the other hand of course it's about showing military might especially against the nato russia doesn't see itself necessarily as an enemy of nato rather a competitor but a competitor it can get more and more problems with we can see these problems from time to time on the russian border with the nato countries in the area when russian jet fighters are approaching nato aircraft very dangerously and that could be understood as a military provocation or in the east of ukraine they are russia supports the separatists with all military strength and that ultimately ar

nine hundred three and one thousand nine hundred nine when yeltsin left office election collusion nato expansion and the future russian president vladimir putin among the many topics they discussed our senior correspondent mara gustier takes a closer look. now that we are at rock bottom in terms of relations between russia and the us it's bad now we pine for what they were back when presidents could talk frankly joke laugh heck even collude for elections bill for my election campaign i urgently need for russia alone of two point five billion dollars i'll check on this with the i.m.f. and with some of our friends and see what can be done those were the days when you could funnel billions to get your pals reelected real friendship right there clinton even helped yeltsin with a heart operation their wives now in the yeltsin and hillary clinton visited each other shopped together unfortunately it wasn't very equal friendship nine hundred ninety six the united states was strong russia was in its knees crime corruption stagnation it seemed to get the rule or end of every deal it remains a mi

maja's interrupt nato was an agreement between the u.s. and russia not to put bases in places like ukraine and poland permanent bases well yes for ukraine definitely no permanent bases i don't think they'll be a permanent base i think that it will be rotational even two billion dollars really underestimates how expensive u.s. military presence is but there's a bigger issue which is you know the pentagon phrase is we're out of sure it's. we do. i don't have enough armored brigade to move them forward in poland and if they're forward in poland on a permanent basis there just isn't enough flexibility to to move them to other places where they might need to go. you know we have to pull a brigade either out of the united states or we have to move brigade from germany and both of those moves are self-defeating so even if you can pay for all the infrastructure that poland wants and two billion dollars will not come close to covering it the united states government won't find a budget to make make up for that and just in terms of the armored units

views on nato that are very very. scary to their foreign policy consensus all of the way to nato air for a second because ik a their mandate for nato of course you know was not to push east and sit on the border of russia for and i think russia i think rightfully is quite nervous about that because even during the world war two they didn't have germans you know parked up right on their frickin border you know berlin was quite a ways away so you know this is not obviously if russia star parked a bunch of tanks on the mexico u.s. border or the canadian u.s. border i'm i'm i'm sure americans i mean that's rightfully would be upset right would be upset and not only that the media would be outraged about the appalling actions of russia and the war probably so it's i mean the nato is a completely disenfranchised selfishness and it has to be it has overstepped the bounds of what it was created for is really a hard understand what the why they even existed and it exists for one simple reason it says that it's a record tearing

nine hundred three and one thousand nine hundred nine when yeltsin left office election collusion nato expansion and the future russian president vladimir putin were among the many topics they discussed our senior correspondent mark gasnier of takes a closer look. now that we are at rock bottom in terms of relations between russia and the us it's bad now we pine for what they work backward presidents could talk frankly joke laugh heck even collude for elections bill for my election campaign i urgently need for a rush or a loan of two point five billion dollars i'll check on this with the i.m.f. and with some of our friends and see what can be done those were the days when you could funnel billions to get your pals reelected real friendship right there clinton even helped yeltsin with a heart operation their wives now in the yeltsin and hillary clinton visited each other shopped together unfortunately it wasn't very equal friendship nine hundred ninety six the united states was strong russia was in its knees crime corruption stagnation it seemed to get the rule or end of every deal it r

how to prevent a much bigger conflict between russia and nato that if russia didn't act. moment back in two thousand and fourteen the nature would continue pushing across its border and there would be no other way to escape that direct confrontation how much do you crave at that oh very much so i mean there was a sort of a rehearsal for crimea some years beforehand and in georgia of course went under a lot of american encouragement of the saakashvili government but very provocatively towards russia and a couple of ethnic parts of georgia and you know and i think i forget the name of that number when the current dutch and russia drew a line that russia moved in with support for the local local governments local if the groups and drew a lot and that was a dress rehearsal if you like. ukraine became the real thing because for many years before the the overthrow of the case which government for many years before two thousand and fourteen there was all kinds of encouragement being given to nationalistic elements in the crowd and the russian element by the united states and by

stages its biggest word games since the soviet era moscow says the exercises are purely defensive but nato fears russia is preparing for war at the very latest from the russian capital also coming up. warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe as syrian and russian forces prepared to take it live provinces thirty thousand civilians have already fled many more are taking to the road. and anti migrant tensions in eastern germany the far right wing f d party organizes what it calls memorial march in the town of curtain where a man died after a fight with two afghans. plus the book president trump is calling a joke and because we had the reviews last week now the book by watergate reporter bob woodward goes on sale we'll find out what some trump supporters think of it. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show the russian military is conducting its biggest maneuvers since the end of the cold war hundreds of thousands of russian soldiers are taking part in the numerous across the country in eastern siberia they're being joined by troops from china and mongolia the drills will continue for a

nine hundred three and one thousand nine hundred nine when yeltsin left office election collusion nato expansion and the future russian president vladimir putin were among the many topics they discussed our senior correspondent mark gusty of takes a closer look. now that we are at rock bottom in terms of relations between russia and the us it's bad now we pine for what they work backward presidents could talk frankly joke laugh heck even collude for elections bill for my election campaign i urgently need for a rush or a loan of two point five billion dollars i'll check on this with the i.m.f. and with some of our friends and see what can be done those were the days when you could funnel billions to get your pals reelected real friendship right there clinton even helped yeltsin with a heart operation their wives now in the yeltsin and hillary clinton visited each other shopped together unfortunately it wasn't a very equal friendship nine hundred ninety six the united states was strong russia was in its knees crime corruption stagnation it seemed to get the rule or end of every deal it r

and nato membership. a one of the main kurdish parties in northern iraq says it will not recognize the results of the parliamentary election ballots are still being counted in the semi autonomous kurdish region. britain's prime minister says those who refused to back checkers plan for breaks that are playing politics to recent critics say plans would compromise britain's sovereignty conservative party have gathered for their annual conference in the city of birmingham it is still not clear if a deal is even possible sagna got a go reports from birmingham. the prime minister to resign i had hoped that she would be able to unite the party ahead of the conference then she must be sorely disappointed once again voices of opposition against a prison and none more strongly than that of the former foreign minister boris johnson who in an interview with the sunday times claimed that plans have plans for exits and you were ostracized and even do range whites. to someone who does have a very volatile relationship w

that's why i do believe the best way to honor him in nato is to rename nato headquarters.u think that the u.s. senate approaches the issue of strengthening the nato alliance without senator mccain's voice? how can he take steps, he was the number one advocate. >> also within the republican party, i also think i believe like senator mccain, that a strong american-european partnership is the cornerstone of transatlantic security. >>gillian: on paper, the nato alliance is a military alliance, right? we all know over the past several decades, it's played a much larger role in terms of shoring up relationships between the united states and the rest of europe. do you think moving forward this administration in america, the trump administration, is pushing to put the emphasis back on military might? >> unfortunately, i have to tell you that from a european perspective, the current administration undermines the strength of nato through the rhetoric. not on the ground. we still have deployed strong territorial defenses in eastern europe. when it comes to what is happening on the gr

all out accelerated expansion two years later nearly a dozen european states were invited to join nato the czech republic hungry poland bulgaria is still with latvia lithuania romania slovakia slovenia so yeltsin tried everything he even begged. let us have a verbal gentlemen's agreement we would not write it down in the statement that no former soviet republics would enter nato i cannot sign any agreement without such language especially ukraine consider what a terrible message it would be were still organized against russia but there's a line across which we won't go pleading didn't work so we'll turn tried warnings russia will pull out of the agreement and consider it now and void i know what a terrible problem this is for you but i can't make the specific commitment you're asking for not even complaints could get through you are conducting naval maneuvers near crimea it is as if we are training people in cuba how would you feel it's unacceptable to us the spite of all that they were named friends even joked together. three months of the pre-election races taken its toll i feel some

nine hundred three and one thousand nine hundred nine when yeltsin left office election collusion nato expansion and the future russian president vladimir putin with month one the many topics that they discussed our senior correspondent being taking a look. now that we are at rock bottom in terms of relations between russia and the us it's bad now we pine for what they work backward presidents could talk frankly joke laugh heck even collude for elections bill for my election campaign i urgently need for russia alone of two point five billion dollars i'll check on this with the i.m.f. and with some of our friends and see what can be done those were the days when you could funnel billions to get your pals reelected real friendship right there clinton even helped yeltsin with a heart operation their wives now in the yeltsin and hillary clinton visited each other shopped together unfortunately it wasn't very equal friendship nine hundred ninety six the united states was strong russia was in its knees crime corruption stagnation it seemed to get the rule or end of every deal it remains a mi

wants an unnamed possible nato and a u. membership as the people call themselves macedonians cast a vote. on last steps down as chairman of tesla out of a settlement with u.s. financial regulators. rescue teams are struggling to reach all the people who need help on the indonesian island of soloway see more than eight hundred people have died so far it follows a powerful earthquake and tsunami the most devastating to hit the region since two thousand and four the country's president joke a widow has paid a visit to the city of palo she's seen some of the worst destruction will be live in jakarta in a moment but first also jabari has the latest. the difficult task of looking for survivors this is what is left in the city of hollow after friday's magnitude seven point five earthquake and tsunami rescue workers frantically trying to find those who may still be alive. search efforts are being hampered by blocked roads and a collapsed bridge rescue teams dug by hand to free twenty four people trapped in the rubble of this hotel

nine hundred three and one thousand nine hundred nine when yeltsin left office election collusion nato expansion and the future russian president vladimir putin were among the many topics they discussed our senior correspondent comments now that we're at rock bottom in terms of relations between russia and the u.s. it's bad now we pine for what they were back when presidents could talk frankly joke laugh heck even collude for elections bill for my election campaign i urgently need for russia alone of two point five billion dollars i'll check on this with the i.m.f. and with some of our friends and see what can be done those were the days when you could funnel billions to get your pals reelected real friendship right there clinton even helped yeltsin with a heart operation their wives now in the yeltsin and hillary clinton visited each other shopped together unfortunately it wasn't very equal friendship nine hundred ninety six the united states was strong russia was in its knees crime corruption stagnation it seemed to get the rule or end of every deal it remains a mistake for nato to m