russia was relatively low. on friday nato chief jens stoltenberg eckel washington and blaming the kremlin for the official demise of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty. today t they arend trereated him ceases to exist. because r russia has deployed to thee s. s.. c. eight missile system. the new russian me sars all our nuclear capable. more buying. on hard to the texts. they can reach european sit this would only mean it's all warning time. stoltenberg added that nato would respond in a quote responsible and measured way to the kremlin's actions. russia's deputy foreign minister has already urged the us to place a moratorium on deploying intermediate range missiles i request the nato chief said it was not credible. the developments give credence to suggestions that a new arms race m may alreadydy be in thehe making. clearly when it comes to mid range cruise missiles today the united states has a handicap compared to order greatness repairs in the world -- so the united s stes has actually released money already about one huhundred million dollar to invt in the develelopment of susuch w types of m missiles. b

withdrew from an arms control treaty with russia washington had accused moscow violating the treaty and i can say sion the kremlin has denied police initially arrested 6 people in connection with a deadly stampede at a nightclub last december the incident happened at a concert in the city event kona 6 men face manslaughter charges for allegedly using pepper spray to cause panic and try to rob patrons 5 teenagers were killed in the ensuing stampede. aid workers are warning that the number of cases of a boat in the democratic republic of congo may be higher than previously thought they said the outbreak could last up to 3 is health workers are trying to contain it spread in the eastern city of goma by 4 cases have been confirmed fixed up it's al-jazeera well when you feel after that thanks for watching. 2. it was. was. going. on in the orchestra and i've seen the security in the corner no it's not an orchestra a symphony for us the look at some of them looked a lot but it tanya said limit so evil of history so limited as it was a limitless seemed. as if he had fallen landed had it and tha

which gets used but this idea of a quote unquote new nuclear arms race let's go to david to russia in washington about that let's not say that there's you know real hundreds and thousands of new nukes just around the corner but doesn't the end of this treaty sort of give a bit of a green light to increase things well i don't think so i mean look the united states in nato is behind the game on this i mean even at the height of the cold war we're only talking about a couple 100 launchers pershing and ground launch cruise missiles that were deployed during the cold war and it's important note that they were only employed in europe not in asia against the chinese threat so this is very much a european issue. even though both sides were unhappy with the fact that it left shiny china in constraint the 2nd thing is the american. presence in this and the nato presence in this is going to be a measured one we haven't been building new weapons missiles of the sort we've been building other things that might be characterized as to wreak nodes you know predator and stuff like that those are really. it's ver

had withdrawn from the agreement six months ago after russia d deployed a aw missile system that contravenes the i i.n.f.'s terms, accordingo washington andinate e nato. but russia is adamant that the u.s. is responsible for the treaty's unraveling. >> we have discussed the subject in detail many times. we were saying it was exclusively a u.s. initiative, first to shutter the agreement, then terminate participation in it. >> moscow has proposed a moratorium on declaring nuclear capable missiles and nato is also keen to avoid europe becoming a staging ground for a nuclear buildup. >> we will not mirror what russia does. we don't want a new arms race. and we have no intention to deploy new land based nuclear missiles in europe. nato continues to aspire for a constructive relationship with russia when russia's actions make that possible. reporter: pompeo's tweet marked the end of a historic agreement struck between the u.s. and soviet union. presidents mikhail gorbachev and ronald reagan signed the treaty in 1987, a change of course after decades of cold warar nuclclear t tsion. ththe root of the tensionon was this, t the soviet ss-20 mi

from the treaty washington and its nato allies say russia has deployed new intermediate ground missiles that violate the ins terms moscow for its part has also pulled out of the treaty charging that washington has breached the i.n.f. by setting up missile defense stations in eastern europe the analysts worry a new cold war style arms race could be looming journeymen our correspondents terry shows in brussels indeed obvious russia correspondent jock surratt joins me from ob on studio days let me start with you the nato secretary general speaking in brussels where you are clearly blamed russia for the demise of the i.n.f. treaty so what options is nato looking at now to deal with the situation. secretary general stolzenberg says that the alliance has already agreed on on a package of balanced coordinated and defensive measures to deal with deterring russia now that there is no i.n.f. treaty he didn't go into much detail about what those are specifically but said in general there could be more surveillance there could be more military exercises the u.s. could reposition its sea based missi

in moscow you also wrote the book the decay of western civilization and resurgence of russia and finally in washington d.c. david hiroshi is a professor and senior military fellow at the national defense university was a former nato operations director of the joint chiefs of staff gentlemen welcome to all of you all supreme we qualified to talk about this topic i wonder if i could start with a general question and i'll get a short answer from each of you. this is really to clear things up about the violation of the treaty was it violated because you've got both sides saying no we didn't do it it was them so tada grow 1st of all in your view was the treaty violated was it warranted that the u.s. would pull out of it well it's not entirely clear because the u.s. director of national intelligence said that the russians have tested this missile the 9 am 7 to 9 from a fixed launcher in the room. in excess of 500 kilometers and from a more by line sure with the range less than 500 kilometers and taken together the us deems this to be a violation the russians on the other hand say that the 9 m. $7.00 to $9.0

terrible terrible enemy russia is and how do you know me of the united states we should be doing everything we can with them and we should be with the chinese people in washington have no clue about the world ok i see earl you're nodding your head in agreement why go ahead. absolutely i think china and russia are not enemies of the us whatever maybe they are there are there are challenges on the economic side with china let's competition. gemini that's a competition surely it's competition and i think china china and russia are both open to a partnership with the u.s. they're not anti the u.s. but they want their own there their own vision and they have a i think shared geo political economic development vision for the world not just for central asia but and i think they're working that closely together and i think other countries realize that they respect them as well so i think there's a dangerous path for the u.s. to go and i think we need some policy shake up to realize that. both these leaders are pragmatic they realize the u.s. very influential and i think they want to work with the u.s. . ok well joe i mean i think the problem but it's not one versus the

cross talking russia and china i'm joined by my guest joel and paris he is the president of the bridge tank in washington we have earl he is the executive vice president of the eurasia center and in singapore we cross to jim rogers he's an international investor and author of street smarts adventures on the road and in the markets all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate jim let me go to you in singapore as i said in my introduction this is no longer a marriage of convenience if it ever was the reason why we're doing this program as a member is reflecting upon a bed in the new york times and they were basically reacting is like wow the everybody notice this happening which all of us have and remarkably said that trump was right to improve relations with russia as i actually to do and reverse nixon when it came to china what are these people talking about where have they been it seems like they've just crawled out under from a rock go ahead jim in singapore. but i would tell you peter if you go to moscow airport now it's full of chinese 5 year

time previously banned for over 3 decades and now defunct arms control treaty with moscow and washington russia's foreign minister claimed the u.s. was preparing for the test long before the treaty expired in early august it should be known from october of last year when the u.s. national security advisor john bolton visited us he said that donald trump statement about washington's withdrawal from the treaty is not an invitation to dialogue but a final decision it appears that then or maybe even earlier us started preparing the missile tests conducted on sunday and banned by the treaty the department of defense conducted to fly test of the conventionally configured ground launch cruise missile of the us west coast sunday the test missile exited its ground mobile launcher and accurately impacted this target after more than 500 commanders off light the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed between the 2 rivaling superpowers in the cold war in 1970 and burned certain types of short and mid range missiles expired on the 2nd of august with donald trump saying he had no willingness to ext

russia. they say nato supports washington's decision and blames russia for the collapse at the intermediate rangear forces treaty. president trump says russia has violated the treaty by developing a new type of bandit cruise missile. our diplomatic correspondent james reports. it cruise missile. our diplomatic correspondentjames reports. it was a crucial moment towards the ending of the cold war. at that moment in 1987 and the leaders at the united states and soviet union signed at the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. ronald reagan and gorbachev promise to destroy all missiles with ranges from 300—3400 miles. eliminating an entire class of nuclear weapons. the mobile ground launch nuclear weapons are ha rd to detect ground launch nuclear weapons are hard to detect and could strike anywhere in europe within minutes. but in recent years, russia has begun testing and deploying a new cruise missile, which the us as breach is the inf treaty, so they have withdrawn from the agreement, much to the concern of the international community. the world will lose an invaluable break i nuclear war and

is worried about the advances adversaries like china and russia have made washington has a clear interest in beating weapons that could disable or destroy its satellites but it's not just about protection donald trump wants to assert u.s. dominance in space to. our foreign competitors and have already begun weaponize in space developing new technologies to disrupt vital communications blind satellites and just i mean you look at what they're doing they've given me rundowns i've seen things that you don't even want to see what they're doing.

risking a new arms race at the un security council the meeting was requested by russia and china will discuss washington'stesting of a land based look clear capable missile test after washington pulled out of a cold war era missile treaty she would sound see reports from the un it took just over 2 weeks for the us to test a land based intermediate range tomahawk missile following its withdrawal from the intermediate range nuclear forces or i.n.f. treaty in early august the agreement signed at the height of the cold war between washington and moscow in 1907 led to the destruction of thousands of missiles that long been a source of fear for europeans it was clear their countries would be the battleground in any nuclear war the u.s. maintains it had no choice but to withdraw for 2 reasons the russians had long flout of the agreement something moscow denies and china which was not a signatory has been building up its arsenal of intermediate missiles these developments by the russian federation and china coupled with their aggressive and course of behaviors are key drivers behind a deteriorating security envir

ideal military target to us he's warning about the advances that this area's like china and russia have made washington has a clear interest in beating weapons that could decide below destroy its satellites body it's not just about protection donald trump wants to assert u.s. dominance in space to. our foreign competitors and they have already begun weaponized. space developing new technologies to disrupt vital communications blind satellites and just i mean you look at what they're doing they've given me rundowns i've seen things that you don't even want to see what they're doing and how advanced they are will be catching them very shortly 3 critiques one that space could become militarized while others believe it's already happening and that the demanding full potential wolf it has moved beyond planet earth. sports news frankford of qualifying for the group stage of the europa league after winning a feisty encounter with straw spurred in the final qualifying round frankfurt won the 2nd leg at home 3 nil to give them a 31 aggregate win over the french side the pick of the goals came from winger philip

other of risking a new arms race at the un security council the meeting was requested by russia to discuss washington's testing of a land based nuclear capable missile us secretary of state says american officials are working on securing the release of 2 canadians held in china made the comments after meeting canadian prime minister justin trudeau 2 canadian men were detained in china 8 months ago on spying charges their arrest was seen as retaliation against canada's decision to detain an executive from chinese telecom giants weiwei on a u.s. warrants. as a bargaining chip is a legal process by the united states department of justice designed to bring someone who we believe we have sufficient information to bring back to their states under the agreement between the that it's very straightforward another round of talks between the u.s. and the taliban have begun in qatar the sides are discussing u.s. military intervention in afghanistan negotiations have been ongoing since october in a bid to end the 18 year long conflict. is due to visit kabul next week to meet the afghan government. those are the hea

security council the meeting was requested by russia and china to discuss washington's testing of a land based nuclear capable missile. u.n. investigators say the scale of sexual violence against the world was so widespread and severe that it demonstrates what they call an intent to commit genocide a fact finding report says me and more soldiers routinely systematically raped gang raped and sexually abused women girls boys men and transgender people the un says those responsible should be prosecuted on charges of war crimes genocide and crimes against humanity the report also mentions sexual violence and post persecution in the states of kitchen and shon targeting other ethnic minorities the tatmadaw used sexual violence as a tool of our fair military tactics it is very much a part of their tactics what is called the full cuts. but in especially in the rowing areas what happened listen to music extremely violent extremely brutal to the point that we said bad it showed a kind of intent to destroy in whole or in part of population so i think both were shocking the fact that it was done on

trump had withdrawn from the agreement 6 months ago after russia deployed a new missile system that contravenes the ins terms according to washington and nato. put russia is adamant that the us is responsible for the treaties unraveling . which we have discussed the subject in detail many times from the very beginning we were saying that this is exclusively a us initiative america brenda's 1st to shatter this agreement and then terminate participation and at. the gushing with him this week i'm going to moscow has proposed a moratorium on deploying nuclear capable missiles and nato is also keen to avoid europe becoming a staging ground for a nuclear buildup would be funny we will not mirror what russia does we don't want a new officers and we have no intention to deploy a new land based you for the sides in europe. nato continues to aspire for a construct a relationship with russia when russia actions make stuff possible pompei used tweet to mark the end of a historic agreement struck between the us and the soviet union presidents mikhail gorbachev and ronald reagan signed the treaty in 1987 a change of course have to take case of c

previously banned for over 30 years under a now defunct arms control treaty between moscow and washington russia's foreign minister claimed the us was preparing for the test long before the treaty expired on the 2nd of august parties come up and has more. we have official word from the pentagon that indeed there has been a test of a missile that would have violated the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty that treaty has now expired and the usa has conducted a test of a missile that would have violated it here's what we heard from the pentagon the department of defense conducted to fly test of the conventionally configured ground cruise missile the u.s. west coast sunday the test missile exited its ground mobile launcher and accurately impacted his target after more than $500.00 come to his own flight now the test was conducted on san nicolas island off the coast of california we understand furthermore that the test was announced on august 2nd the very day that the i.n.f. treaty expired now the official reason for the united states withdrawing from the i.n.f. treaty was that they accused russi

now president onil trump has officially withdrawn the us from the treaty washington and its nato allies say russia has deployed new intermediate ground missiles that violate the i.n.f. sterns moscow for its part has also pulled out of the treaty charging that washington has breached the i n f by setting up missile defense stations in eastern europe the analysts worry a new cold war style arms race could be looming. for more let's bring in our correspondent in brussels terry scholz terry why have the u.s. united states and russia not succeeded in keeping this treaty alive. well terry it's not today that the u.s. would say the treaty is dead it would allege that moscow violated the i.n.f. years ago when it started building this missile system and that basically it's not a treaty if only one sided hears to it and it took the us a few years to convince the europeans its nato allies that this is indeed the case and that it's more dangerous to continue to follow an accord that isn't working and now all of nato unanimously supports the united states pulling out of the treaty russia has been given many ma

russia. earlier this year washington accused moscow of violating the agreement on intermediate range missile,d get underway. the head of brazil's space research institute has lost his job in a row over the scale of deforestation in the amazon. the country's president, jair bolsonaro, accused the agency of falsifying data. the head of the agency — ricardo galvao — rejects the accusations and has labelled the president a coward. russia's arctic north and far east are being ravaged by huge wildfires — with up to four million hectares ablaze, and vast areas engulfed by smoke.

russia. earlier this year washington accused moscow of violating the agreement on intermediate range missiles, an accusation russia denies. the fear is that without the restrictions a new arms race could get underway. the head of brazil's space research institute has lost his job in a row over the scale of deforestation in the amazon. the country's president, jair bolsonaro, accused the agency of falsifying data. the head of the agency — ricardo galvao — rejects the accusations and has labelled the president a coward. us president donald trump has said his choice for the new director of national security, john ratcliffe, has withdrawn from considerationjust five days after he was nominated for the role. critics said that mr ratcliffe lacked the expertise and experience to take on the role. now on bbc news — ca nada's legalised it, so three mps go on a weed trip to see if britain could do the same. canada was the first major western country to go fully legal — but has it worked? this programme contains adult themes. you could go to prison for a very long time in britain if you've got anything

russia. earlier this year washington accused moscow of violating the agreement on intermediate range missilesould get underway. the head of brazil's space research institute has lost his job in a row over the scale of deforestation in the amazon. the country's president, jair bolsonaro, accused the agency of falsifying data. the head of the agency — ricardo galvao — rejects the accusations and has labelled the president a coward. us president donald trump has said his choice for the new director of national security, john ratcliffe, has withdrawn from considerationjust five days after he was nominated for the role. critics said that mr ratcliffe lacked the expertise and experience to take on the role. now on bbc news — ca nada's legalised it,

russia. earlier this year washington accused moscow of violating the agreement on intermediate range missile, an accusation russia denies. the fear is that without the restrictions a new arms race could get underway. the head of brazil's space research institute has lost his job in a row over the scale of deforestation in the amazon. the country's president, jair bolsonaro, accused the agency of falsifying data. the head of the agency — ricardo galvao — rejects the accusations and has labelled the president a coward. russia's arctic north and far east are being ravaged by huge wildfires — with up to four million hectares ablaze, and vast areas engulfed by smoke. now on bbc news, click. this week, we get our teeth into future food, meat free burgers bursting with flavour? and some rotten food for four. -- thought. i love food. who doesn't? unlike everything else in lives, food has become globalised. we have access to a multitude of cuisines, out of season, a multitude of cuisines, out of season, a a multitude of cuisines, out of season, a thing of the past. but the true cost of this indulgence

it would have been banned under the inf treaty, but washington withdrew from the landmark 1987 pact with russialier this month. we have more from washington. >> the u.s. department of defense has announced it has --ted a land braced land-based cruise missile. it would have been banned under the inf treaty, but earlier this month, the u.s. says -- said they would withdraw. they said russia had been violating the terms. that's something russia denies. we do know this test took place on sunday in california. the military said it went more than 500 kilometers and it hit its target. that sort of testing hasn't been done. you can't test land-based cruise missiles that went further than 2500 kilometers. they will have more tests in the future. the question is where they will put these cruise missiles. the secretary of defense said he wanted to put them in asia. they said they will take time before any more placements were made. this is the next step that they have now taken. >> the revelation during the first court hearing on corruption and bribery charges. more reports from khartoum. >> he was once f

russia and the u.s. withdrew from washington cited russia's violations which moscow denied and said this latest launch shows washington wants to deploy previously planned banned missiles around the world the standoff between the u.s. and its allies over iran will be some of the contentious issues coming up at this weekend's g. 7 summit in france also the worsening trade war between washington and beijing and of course climate change how diplomatic editor james bays reports from here it's where the g. 7 will be taking place just hours before the g. 7 started in the iranian foreign minister was in paris mohammed job it zarif met with president mccraw no pictures of the meeting were released probably so as not to anger president trump. the meeting behind the closed doors of the palace highlights the very different approaches of the u.s. and europe towards iran however there is a new face at this year's g. 7 u.k. prime minister boris johnson some are speculating with breaks it looming he may want to consider taking a tougher position on iran in order to win favor with trump. if boris johnson's fertile ground fo

security council the meeting was requested by russia and china to discuss washington's testing of nuclear capable missile tests comes after washington pulled out of a cold war era missile treaty she had written see reports from the un. it took just over 2 weeks for the u.s. to test a land based intermediate range tomahawk missile following its withdrawal from the intermediate range nuclear forces or i.n.f. treaty in early august the agreement signed at the height of the cold war between washington and moscow in 1907 led to the destruction of thousands of missiles for the long been a source of fear for europeans it was clear their countries would be the battleground in any nuclear war the u.s. maintains it had no choice but to withdraw for 2 reasons the russians had long flout of the agreement something moscow denies and china which was not a signatory has been building up its arsenal of intermediate missiles these developments by the russian federation and china coupled with their aggressive and course of behaviors are key drivers behind a deteriorating security environment the united sta

security council the meeting was requested by russia and china to discuss washington's testing of a nuclear capable missile comes after washington pulled out of a cold war era missile treaty she had returned see reports from the u.n. . it took just over 2 weeks for the u.s. to test a land based intermediate range tomahawk missile following its withdrawal from the intermediate range nuclear forces or i.n.f. treaty in early august the agreement signed at the height of the cold war between washington and moscow in 1907 led to the destruction of thousands of missiles for the long been a source of fear for europeans it was clear their countries would be the battleground in any nuclear war the u.s. maintains it had no choice but to withdraw for 2 reasons the russians have long flout of the agreement something moscow denies and china which is not a signatory has been building up its arsenal of intermediate missiles these developments by the russian federation and china coupled with their aggressive and course of behaviors are key drivers behind a deteriorating security environment the united state

to test these new missiles what on earth was washington to do they would have knowing that russia and president putin would come out and state the kind of things that he has said today it's purely a lot of predictable so you can only assume that the neo cons exactly are happy with what's happening they want they don't want we're across more russia they don't want better they don't want a new period of detente with russia remember when trump was elected a lot so that there would be a period of time what's happened over the last month he introduced even tougher sanctions on russia we go in your opposite direction but we always go away from detente whenever neo cons are in power the us where we have a move towards the talk when there's a shift and what other people up. in power in the u.s. that's when we get dialogue that's when we get talk about arms imitation i'm afraid we're going in the other opposite direction at the moment and try whether or not he was really supporting his policies from the beginning or whether he's been coerced into or whether he's pressurized whatever the reason

from the treaty washington and its nato allies say russia has deployed new intermediate ground missiles that violate the i.n.f. sternness moscow for its part has also pulled out of the treaty charging that washington has breached the i n f by setting up missile defense stations in eastern europe the analysts worry a new cold war style arms race could be looming with. and joining me now is foreign policy on this is john tesh alkies what's with the german marshall fund of the united states welcome to you mr de shell so 1st to flood one of the implications off the i.m.f. treaty being virtually dead well i mean we have 2 things i think that come out of this mostly for the 1st the 1st part is that you know the european security architecture as we've known it and its nuclear part are now you know wide open again this was an entire class of missiles that was prohibited to own in europe moscow has violated this for the last 10 years roughly and even under the obama administration it was clear that the americans were quite unhappy with the state of affairs and therefore also withdrew but also in