was responsible for running and it was very successful for a few years then in terms of the nato russia council for example i mean i was active the nato russia council of course it's been pretty much on ice for a few years the partnership for peace etc and of course and lots of your writing has not put it in that covert ational context but then things have changed so dramatically since you were there at nato ukraine the scriptural incident here i mean now we have a defense secretary actively saying things about russia going away and of course talking about the lethality of weaponry i would not say that this is you know death definitively. a sort of ultimately you can disagree on other areas when i was with nato i was always in favor of dialogue i mean you can say that by mean some people might have criticized me for being naive or overoptimistic or whatever but we had some really good relationships including with russia on some really key programs and of course you know with this discussion about the i.a.f. treaty not being you know continued but the start treaty is coming up again for discussi

formal partnership with china you have even with countries like jordan you certainly have the nato russia council so jamie says you should really get ahead of this now before there's an adversarial relationship because china is buying up a lot of ports in europe it's it's going to buys its way into a lot of public utilities that need to be at nato its disposal if there is a conflict so jamie shea says really it is the time to step up a formal partnership much like the european union is doing and he does expect that to be an issue on the agenda there in washington for us from brussels today thanks very much there. oh british prime minister theresa may is due to meet with the opposition labor leader jeremy corbett in a new push for a bracks a compromise now that's after announcing she would ask the e.u. for another delay beyond the april twelfth deadline after months of political deadlock is theresa may indicating she wants a closer relationship with europe after all the coming days perhaps the coming hours could provide some answers. in london a potentially important shift to reason me says she wa

says that nato hasn't been paying enough attention to china and he points out that there's a nato russia council there's a partnership with jordan they've just set up a center in the middle east and yet there is no formal partnership with china and where she says that it would be really important to start forming those ties now before there is the potential for an adversarial relationship i mean you're not worrying about. little green men coming over the border with china like you are with russia so he says let's really cement this relationship and one of the really important things he says is in addition to what you mentioned with the five g. network china has it has an interest has bought stakes in at least twelve ports in europe so why does that matter because if there were a war nato would need to use these ports and normally national governments who are allies would give that permission if china is a majority owner maybe even a full owner you can't count on that so this is a big concern for nato and they're behind the ball so yes they very much need to be looking at this if they are going t

china is now not to wait he says that nato should have been doing this all along they have a nato russia council they have a partnership with jordan he says china is the rising power and that it will be much more important for global security than russia in the years to come he points out that this is the kind of power that you don't worry about the little green men coming over the border like they do with russia but he says china has a financial interest in so many places in europe public utilities they're buying ports and if there were to be a conflict here you would have to work with china to get use of those facilities in order to fight a war you know you've got the five g. disputes going on now with the u.s. in europe will huawei get the five g. contracts so this is a really multifaceted relationship and while it's not dangerous at the moment this is the time to build a relationship that will take you into the future and that's what nato should be looking at on its birthday and on the seventieth birthday a very clear there it's an alliance that has evolved and will continue to do so teri sc

formal partnership with china you have even with countries like jordan you certainly have the nato russia council so cheney says you should really get ahead of this now before there's an adversarial relationship because china is buying up a lot of ports in europe it's it's going to buys its way into a lot of public utilities that need to be a nato disposal if there is a conflict so jamie shea says really it is the time to step up a formal partnership much like the european union is doing and he does expect that to be an issue on the agenda there in washington for us from brussels today thanks very much terry. the city to fly from berlin still to come on the show we'll visit a party certainly picks up more than just your spirits. but first it's ethiopia where prime minister of the of that is marking one year in power that country faces daunting challenges millions of internally displaced people ethnic conflicts and a growing frustration that politics isn't affecting things quickly enough but abi has also chalked up some notable achievements and enjoys wide support among the country's people. addis

council writes. good evening and welcome this is our international. russia has once again been painted as a key global threat the nato secretary general got an enthusiastic response in the u.s. congress as he outlined counter measures against moscow. we have increased the redness of forces to people decide so the nato response force modernized our command structure bolstered i was cyber defenses and we have stepped up our support to our close partners georgia and ukraine sovereign nations with a sovereign right to choose their own puff. on today to the secretary general speech to the u.s. congress focused on four key points it looked at the importance of the alliance as you may well imagine also an increase in the spending all of its members it also looked at expansion and of course the old four we see a path a russian behavior including a massive military buildup from the arctic to the mediterranean and from the black sea to the baltic the use of military grade nerve agent inaki kingdom support for ourselves murderous regime in syria consistent cyber attacks on nato allies and partners targeting everything from parl

council has met to decide the next steps nato secretary general has addressed the us congress as the security alliance celebrates its seventieth anniversary i on the nato conference agenda our relations with russia and the sharing of the organizations defense spending every congress every american press them your men and women in uniform and the people of the united states of america have been storm's supporters all night america has been the backbone of our alliance it has been for the mental to european security and for our freedom. we would not have the peaceful and prosperous europe we see today without the sacrifice and the commitment of not the states for your enduring support i thank you today. the libyan warlord. ordered his troops to move west in what looks like a show of force they say they're heading to fight what they call remaining terrorist groups health workers in mozambique have started a campaign to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of people for cholera the program is centered on the city of better which was hit hard in the cyclon last month those are your headlines i'm back with more news in about thirty minutes between now and then it's witness. jack morea. alleged. you know. y