poland that are our allies and part of nato and say we should only protect western europe? once eastern europe goes, then western europe is threatened. >> tucker: we're almost done.ed you think there is a plausible threat within our lifetimes of, say, the u.k., germany, belgium, litten liechtenstein, switzerland, spain, portugal, being invaded by russia? >> i'm not saying that. what i'm saying is all of the other e countries in eastern europe, including the ones whoo joined nato fell, n of course te next frontier for russia expansionism would be western europe. that's obvious, iio think. >> tucker: not obvious at all to me but keep trying. great to see you, david. >> thank you. >> tucker: christian whiton joins us tonight. when did bill kristol take over the democratic party?s did you notice when that happened? >> yeah.tpp it's amazing the turn when this group that used to bezi very reticent in committing the lives of americans, the blood the treasure of the united states to frankly other people's problems now seem to be more hawkish than the neocons were in the iraq war. >>

we are setting off ona western europe.tting off on a long and challenging expedition to follow the congo into the heart of africa. from the atlantic ocean to the heart of the continent the congo has a lwa ys of the continent the congo has always been a place of fear in mystery. the mouth of the river is lined with ancient mangrove swamps. it is an eerie, mysterious start to an epic adventure. this is the point where the congo river and the atlantic ocean meet. next river and the atlantic ocean meet. n ext ste p river and the atlantic ocean meet. next step is brazil. it was m82 when the portuguese were sailing past this coast and noticed this surge of brown water and realised there must be a river here. that was there must be a river here. that was the congo, and this is the direction they talk will stop for 3000 miles without going to take you up this great river to try and understand its history, its riches, it is poverty and its future. from the atla ntic poverty and its future. from the atlantic ocean, we will flow the

but some change is coming, for this country the size of western europe.tting off on a long and challenging expedition to follow the congo into the heart of africa. from the atlantic ocean to the heart of the continent, the congo has always been a place of fear and mystery. the mouth of the river is lined with ancient mangrove swamps. it is an eerie, mysterious start to an epic adventure. this is the point where the congo river and the atlantic ocean meet. next step is brazil. it was m82 when the portuguese were sailing past this coast and they noticed this surge of brown water and realised there must be a river here. that was the congo, and this is the direction they took. for 3000 miles, we're going to take you up this great river, to try and understand its history, its riches, its poverty and its future. from the atlantic ocean, we will flow the river to its furthest reaches. navigating round its powerful rapids, and through its chaotic capital city kinshasa, as it arcs up north, and then south, twice crossing the equator. we will visit its war—torn eas

they were being installed in western europe, pershing ii missiles in western europe, which had a few minutes' flight time to moscow. if you think what that means, the rurussian detectction systes are, first of all, far more primitive than ours, but even sophisticated -- if they had had sophisticated detection systems, it would have e given them barely a f m minutes' wawarning before a possible heavy nuclear strike, even a decapititation strike, against moscow. and ththe russians wewere doing the same. theyey were budingng short-term missiles aimed at western europe. notice -- not at the united states. this w was internal l to europ, short-term, shshort-range e missiles. wellll, the 1987 i inf treaty ended that extreme perilil, sharply reduced it. missiles were reduced and so on. this was an important step forward. breaking the treaty reinstates that system. now, there's an obvious way to deal l with the problem. namely it's called -- it's kind of a bad word, maybe i should spell it. it's called diplomacy. there have been -- the way to deal with the problem is quite straightforward,,

will just become isolated because i think china will turn to western europe and south america you know so if you look at chile for example china is the biggest trading partner of chile used to be the u.s. many countries in south america that's the case africa is russia's biggest trading partner as well you know so we can't ignore that reality that china is a major player and we can't make. they can easily let's say has his way he wants china to qataris and american goods right open up the market a little. bit under the w t o rules if that happened for china will have to extend the cuts to other countries as well right so i'm just wondering why not just americans let's assume for a second trial has his way with china beijing has to open up more to american goods but will trump even be able to sort of the fruits of his victory without. competition. so i think there are different ways to negotiate with people and if you are with countries and if you make them into a war then you're not in a slow going to win you're not going to achieve you're going to end up with a war and not really get

but it still lags behind the north america and western europe in the economist intelligence unit's democracye east and north africa region is last in the index. earlier i spoke to anwita basu, the lead south—east asia analyst for the economist intelligence unit. so it has been a couple of volatile years for the asia—pacific region, as it has been for the world as far as democracy is concerned. obviously, since 2016, actually, that democracy measured within our index has been on the decline for asia, and that is partly because of the year changes in myanmar and cambodia, which sort of went through a process of democracy and then kind of retreated back to authoritarian... but how do you measure democracy in the asia—pacific region jumping on a yearly basis compared to the likes of western europe or north america? sure, so we have five categories that we look at. there are about 60 indicators that are quantified on a binary basis. the five categories that we look at the defined democracy, they basically involve looking at the election process, the functioning of the government, political partic

is a vast country it's the size of western europe and it has very little infrastructure linking east and west and north and south so why did the government refuse all international help in terms of financial and logistical aid. well originally the government did try and get international support and found it difficult to raise money and so in the end it decided to fund these elections on its own so. you do have to accept that i think. but it's correct for the of a to speak a guest on your program have highlighted the difficulties of of conducting a credible election in a country like the democratic republic of the congo which is so massive as you've said the size of western europe and we have a polling infrastructure my own worry of this is that the government didn't accept significant international monitoring of the elections so for example the european union was excluded from deploying a very large credible team across the country and so that gets to the heart of this issue which is whatever the result is of this election will be will congolese trust the result and that's the probl

and western europe, the very edge of western africa, as well as the northernmost portion of russia. in all, it will have a potential audience of some 2.8 billion people. pallab ghosh, bbc news. another chilly day with a variable amount of cloud, but we also saw some hill snow in scotland. you can see some sprinkles, this picture from pitlochry. quite a lot of cloud, but there have been some good brea ks cloud, but there have been some good breaks in east anglia and south—east england. we have some clearance in scotla nd england. we have some clearance in scotland and northern ireland. both of these areas will turn cold overnight, with frost this evening. the weak weather front will bring some cloud southwards across england and wales, some drizzle on that. we will probably find some mist and fog patches there as well. otherwise, a cold night, one of the coldest of the winter so far in parts of northern scotland. there will be a chill in the air on sunday, but we will see some high—powered moving m, will see some high—powered moving in, which will make the sunshine hazy. outbreaks of

exactly great britain is going to be hacked out of the cornerstone role that it has played in western europe forever and in unified europe since the early 1970s. so this is sort of bigger than the day's weather, right? i mean, just unimaginably important news about europe and about nato shooting themselves today, and they are not firing blanks. these are the kinds of sort of proverbial earthquakes i'm talking about in today's news, things that are bigger than any one new development or one new scandal or poll or personality. but it is against that big world-changing roiling backdrop that the u.s. senate today tried to confirm a new u.s. attorney general, and it is against that same roiling backdrop today that something sort of bright and unexpected happened in the united states senate, alongside the confirmation hearings for the man who would be the new attorney general. in terms of the attorney general hearings, in terms of the william barr nomination, we're going to speaking live with senator amy klobuchar of minnesota in just a few minutes. she is on the committee that grilled william bar

controversial because it tells the story of germans and russians cooperating while hitler is concrete in western europe. the main here it later returns to russia as an invasion. from this point on it's fair fishel russian history germany and aggressor russia the greatest fighter against a narrative. but how german protagonist remembers he was here before as a friend. in the summer of nine hundred thirty nine nazi foreign minister i've been told and start his chief diplomatic motor signs in non-aggression pact and a secret french treaty the second world war started with hitler and stalin dividing europe in fears of influence with russia's heroic. at the heart of state ideology similar to freedom talk pact is today a thought can put in thought. just russia the city and in nazi germany where our lives descend between you invade poland remain in the baltic states and. i know that exists in my to both here and it's clear makers of this film are trying to deal with this difficult. or under considerable threat. whatever battles might be fought over the film's content the film festival party is what it should

there is such a different feeling of western europe from eastern europe and how they saw us role in the cold war. we can be very self-critical of our role in the cold war. eastern europeans have a very different attitude. they felt left behind and they felt the united states was one of the few countries that was continuously expressing a desire for them to become free. >> mark kramer, another key player is the chinese leader. >> that was a very harsh time for china. there have been millions who died in starvation of famines caused by bad policies in the late 50s and early 60s. what happened in the cultural revolution in some ways was even more dramatic for chinese society. even though there were fewer people who died, it was in the most grisly weight often through ritual -- in the year ended with political violencer and assassinations. in december 1968 as we view planet earth from based. -- from space. these men were on board the apollo eight mission on christmas eve, 1960. [video clip] >> god created the heaven and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was up

par with the americas in its lack of progress in the fight against corruption and as well the western europe and the e.u. concerns he says one reason for asia falling behind is a weakening of democratic institutions and rights this is how his country scored let's broaden our view a bit. despite its dreary weather denmark regularly features in the top five on the world happiness index and maybe that's partly because the danes feel they can trust their public officials in recent years denmark and new zealand have consistently top transparency international's list and twenty eighteen was no different denmark once again landed the top spot on the corruption perceptions index scoring eighty eight points one and ahead of new zealand in second place on eighty seven finland singapore sweden and switzerland all tied for third norway the netherlands canada luxemburg germany and britain make up the rest of the top ten. at the other end of the scale reclusive north korea and war torn yemen tied at a lonely fourteen points were trailed by a war zone south sudan and syria both thirteen and conflict ravage

in fact, this is thought to be the first record of it in western europe. drawingas on display here at the ulster museum in belfast give a sense of the extraordinary range of interests that leonardo da vinci had, from costume design to extreme weather effects and of course, famously, his detailed analysis of the human body, with images which are still well regarded today. but are they accurate, ian? they certainly are, will. if you look at the level of the anatomical detail here, it is equal to any standard surgical text in the modern era. more importantly, he's somehow picked up the functionality of these muscles and imbued them with life. the display here at the kelvingrove art gallery and museum in glasgow shows the two sides of leonardo. on the one hand, you have the fine artist who's interested in modelling form in really delicate detail using light and shade. on the other hand, you've got leonardo the engineer, who's interested in the movement of a horse and in designing weapons or fanciful war machines, as he called them. and he also liked to make ma

the total lunar eclipse will be visible from the north and south america as well as parts of western europe and africa. now in the democratic republic of congo the dispute over last month's presidential election is deepening the country's constitutional court has confirmed the victory of opposition leader felix she said katie it dismissed a challenge by rival martin for a ulu who says he is the real winner election observers from the catholic church and results leaked to the media also indicate for you lou one dozens of people have been killed in unrest since provisional election results were announced. are i'd been does begin now and with second place byron munich winning on friday night to the pressure it was on dortmund to win last night at leipsic and even without the presence of team captain marco boyce the league leaders got the job done. leipzig were hoping their young gun t.-mo vanno would be able to break his dortmund curse he never scored against them in eight this league clashes. meanwhile dortmund coach didn't have his two top scorers in the starting line up with marco toys out

permitting the total lunar eclipse will be visible from north and south america as well as parts of western europe and africa. in the democratic republic of congo the route over last month's disputed presidential election is deepening the country's constitutional court has confirmed the victory of opposition leader feel a fish of katie throwing out a challenge by runner up martin for you lou but for you refuses to accept that and is calling for protests dozens of people have been killed in unrest since the elections provisional results were released last week. and for more we're joined now by d.w. correspondent wendy bashi who's in the congolese capital kinshasa wendy so now that the constitutional court has confirmed to philip sister katie is when is it now considered final what options does he have left. hi everybody yes i think you know for the moment he's the final act of the entire. series i mean movie about their actions but after you don't have any tool now because it's going to cause official a court has given. they have given their last two words but you get a waiting now for. the you are

permitting the total lunar eclipse will be visible from north and south america as well as parts of western europe and africa. now in the democratic republic of congo the dispute over last month's presidential election is deepening the country's constitutional court has now confirmed the victory of opposition leader felix just a k.t. it dismissed a challenge by a rival margin for ulu who says he is the real winner election observers from the catholic church and a leaked poll results also indicate that for you a little did indeed win dozens of people have been killed in unrest since provisional election results were released. to nigeria now and the most hotly anticipated moment of this year's presidential election the two leading candidates were scheduled to face off on saturday in the country's first ever major televised debate and with president bush and his main rival neck and neck ahead of next month's election the stage was set for a thrilling showdown but audiences were left disappointed when neither took to the podium journalist friday getting ready for an historic moment jury has first ever

biggest rift we are seeing anymore it's between as i mentioned earlier between eastern europe and western europe that's much more important the smaller countries have had their fair share in the past so i don't believe this will have huge opposition because they also know if we want to go forward if we want to resist you know what's happening with gregg's it for example or nationalism we need those two on the same page. well kaufman. in fact you think. so look now at some of the other stories making news around the world former ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko has announced that she will be a candidate and much as presidential elections is to machine code was jailed for two and a half years over a gas deal with russia and what was largely seen as a politically motivated conviction. in moscow of course was ruled out a former u.s. marine detained on suspicion of spying will remain in custody pending trial. lawyer says his client was tricked into taking possession of a flash drive containing russian state secrets. by two pilots were killed when their plane crashed into the front yard of a

little bit mild even if this time the air because the difference in weather central europe and western europe how they get to friday and all the snow has gone the winds of change direction and it's quite and down a little bit further south as well so the end of the week looks a little quiet at least some that been suffering recently but of course that low spinning up in the adriatic we got a very strong wind running right across the western med off the coast of algeria into new zealand at the temperatures think of the big winds and the big waves that they bring and that exists i'm afraid through thursday and indeed friday bringing showers and probably thunderstorms to boot. short films. and inspiration. snow stories of three young women challenging the world around them. al-jazeera selects. a reminder the top stories and opposition candidate to felix to kennedy has been declared the provisional winner of the long delayed presidential election in the democratic republic of congo the runner up. dismissed the results as. u.s. secretary of state might pompei it was in egypt where he'll be giving

you get to seventy this is more of a melting situation to be honest and much of northern and western europe is mild than you might expect considering it's virtually mid winter never to even wednesday to thursday the next frontal system that band of green and white has reached the alps i'm behind it's a little bit less mild but not that much to be honest it is going to be wet snow falling on the alps again by which time much of the sky has cleared in southeastern europe and turkey it's a sunny day once more snows for the dolls which means the mediterranean actually it's quite enjoyable the breeze is turned to.

hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast we're here across parts of western europe we have been watching one weather system coming in from the atlantic bring some very windy conditions across the region i want to show you what it did look like here in paris where they did see some snow with this what winter system we had some rain along the coast we had some gusty winds as well but here in paris it was the snow from tuesday to tuesday night blanketing the city of course was quite nice but it did cause some problems along the streets and on the roads there we are going to seeing that snow continue to make its way over here towards the east of the next few days here's their low pressure it's going to hit of course the alps so we are going to see some extended areas of snow anywhere across the north and then down here across the south and parts of italy though it is going to be rain and also across parts of greece and into turkey we are still looking it's a very heavy rain across much of that area up here towards the north though berlin not looking too bad for you with

so the elections in western europe in the coming year and issues such as climate, european up for- allthat is discussion, multilateralism. these are several issues that of the utmostd importance. and for those who would like to see a world in which there is no hegemony of one power or another, but rather spaces for people to organize more freely and to act democratically as actions, well, the dark of unknown groups is very worrisome, groups which, based the socialperate in networks. amy: let's talk about brazil's indigenous people. the amazon is about the environment and also about the indigenous people. bolsonaro once said it is a shame the brazilian calvary wasn't as efficient as the americans who exterminated their indians. fernando haddad? you noted and quite rightly so, the indigenous question, the environmental question are intimately interconnected in brazil because the best way we have found to reserve our forests was precisely to preserve the indigenous reserves. there is an intntimate connectin the deforestation of the amazon that occur throughout the 20 century and the quest

of course, they're not the size of western europe or america, but we do have a very strong pipe looirn as a bank find the 12 ldo's last year. we had the largest finisher of leverage buy-outs in poland, and we have a very strong pipeline we do see pick-up in private investment, and the m&a market is actually booming. i think plenty of interesting deals coming to the market, consolidation stories, cross-border deals between western europe and poland, so i don't think the ma & a market has to any degree been affected. >> thank you >> thank you very much >> appreciate seeing you here. that's mike, the ceo of bank pakao. you can get more from our colleague's exclusive interview with the polish prime minister. >>> the economic spokesman for the labour party has kwended the government and rome's decision to support the -- he said it would help avoid the risk of a bank run rome approved the legislation to bolster the capital levels it also offered the bank a number of state support options. the italian treasury has set up a 1.3 billion euro fund to cover the cost of any emergency measures a me

is a vast country it's the size of western europe and it has very little infrastructure linking east and west and north and south so why did the government refuse all international help in terms of financial and logistical aid. well originally the government did try and get international support and found it difficult to raise money and so in the end it decided to fund these elections on its own so. you do have to accept that i think. but it's correct for the of a to speak a guest on your program have highlighted the difficulties of of conducting a credible election in a country like the democratic republic of the congo which is so massive as you've said the size of western europe and we have a polling infrastructure my own worry of this is that the government didn't accept significant international monitoring of the elections so for example the european union was excluded from deploying a very large credible team across the country and so that gets to the heart of this issue which is whatever the result is of this election will be will congolese trust the result and that's the probl

is a vast country it's the size of western europe and it has very little infrastructure linking east and west and north and south so why did the government refuse all international help in terms of financial and logistical aid. well originally the government did try and get international support and found it difficult to raise money and so in the end it decided to fund these elections on its own so you do have to accept that i think. but it's correct for the of a to speak a guest on your program have highlighted the difficulties of of conducting a credible election in a country like the democratic republic of the congo which is so massive as you've said the size of western europe and we have appalling infrastructure my own worry of this is that the government didn't accept significant international monitoring of the elections so for example the european union was excluded from deploying a very large credible team across the country and so that gets to the heart of this issue which is whatever the result is of this election will be will come to leeds trust the result and that's the pr

the fall of jerusalem to sullivan in eleven eighty seven caused a seismic shock in western europe thepope is said to have died when he heard the news this is something that rises christendom in a.

the site will be visible over the americas and northern and western europe. llion people. the comedy actor windsor davies, who starred as a sergeant major in the bbc comedy it ain't half hot, mum, has died at the age of 88. windsor said he modelled the - of davies said he modelled the role of battery sergeant major williams on man he knew on national service, and quickly became a star of the show as he bullied the members of an army concert party in wartime india. stay with us here on bbc world news. hello. the prospect of brighter skies for some of us for part two of the weekend after what was a rather grey, cold start to the weekend. a very wintry feel and look to things for some of us. here's one weather watcher view from the lake district. and we are starting with a frost across particularly parts of scotland, a sharp frost in places, down to —7, —8, so parts of east anglia could be down to —6 as well in the countryside. we've had some cloud overnight into sunday morning. temperatures just above freezing. and there is a weather front moving down across sco

eighth to eleven century these sites were at the center of the trade networks between northern and western europe today seven viking houses and the landing bridge invite visitors to experience what life was like back then. viking's life was not for the faint hearted and then hunted for food with bo is an heiress. and made clothes and cloth kept them warm during the cold winters. vikings built wooden ships with the simplest of to. the banking settlement of painted blue once numbered among the foremost in the medieval trading centers in northern europe. died sure visitors how the vikings went about their daily lives over a thousand years ago. where and live near it was a life in and with nature but had an incredibly sharp power of observation they were very well acquainted with the materials around them and knew how to use them to their advantage to build housing ships and wagons and make rope or. they made a great many things that we could hardly even imagine today to be on their fourth or increment. page of who lies in. northern germany. seven facts to roof wooden houses have been faithfully reco

the fall of jerusalem to solid in eleven eighty seven caused a seismic shock in western europe the pope is said to have died when he heard the news this is something that rises christendom in a way that's not happened before. the sources seem to imply a sort of collective nervous breakdown. because drew slim able to get back to christian run prevention is part of god's purpose and scheme so they question if god can allow this to. however newly liberated jerusalem was not to be so long had dealings find a target. in november eleven eighty seven you commanded his army to march towards tire and put it under siege. but for two months the heavily fortified city. that. you will be will cut list them up to. the men and. place of the public. where the how can it be is mean so dean and. three month. old little that you know about had the medina. where assess. a sollie we bought to help the. small going to mean a new i hated about the v.a. disability being. the means for iraq. of one of his hottest a lot of the time and i mean iraq. he has a ton of it but out of the all be public is that this is

the eleventh century these sites were at the center of the trade networks between northern and western europe today seven viking houses and the landing bridge invite visitors to experience what life was like back then. viking's life was not for the fainthearted the men hunted for food with bows and arrows. hand-made clothes and cloth kept them warm during the cold winters. vikings built wooden ships with the simplest of. the viking settlement of haines or blue once numbered among the foremost early medieval trading centers in northern europe. died showed visitors how the vikings went about their daily lives over a thousand years ago. and live near it was a life in and with nature but had an incredibly sharp power of observation they were very well acquainted with the materials around them and knew how to use them to their advantage to build housing ships and wagons and make rope. they made a great many things that we could hardly even imagine today the real ones come forth and can. pay to do lies in. northern germany. seven facts to roof wooden houses have been faithfully reconstruction. of t

close to russia it towards to a way to prevent a strong sense emerging on the eurasia between western europe and russia and by trying to always fragmenting eurasia it's a way for united states to keep the leadership in both wars for their own job particular power. greece is on the brink of political chaos after the defense minister quits adding that his party will say leave the ruling coalition prime minister and access a process now calling for confidence fate in the government raising the possibility of a snap elections. i'd like to get the up to date hamas comment or said he's resigning as the fence minister and that he would ask the same from other members of the independent greeks party i accepted his resignation and no one accept any other resignation to come will move swiftly to the procedures that our constitution and the parliamentary rules oblige for the renewal of confidence in my government by parliament in order to proceed with a clear majority on all those crucial choices for our society and our country like the defense minister bitterly opposes government plans to improve its

close to russia it towards to a way to present a strong sense emerging on the eurasia between western europe and russia and by trying to always fragmenting eurasia it's a way for united states to keep the leadership in both worlds for their own job particular power. for more details on any of all stories sauti dot com is just a click away and weekly we're tense in thirty minutes time see that. with lawmakers manufacture consent to step into the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round listen we don't want. to ignore middle of the room sick. to lose any more you leave the room. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be rich. but you'd like to be closer this is what i'm up fo

and i know there is still mostly settled for us in the western parts of europe at the moment it's not particularly warm but hey it is winter instead further east and across the central belt is where all the unsettled weather is and a lot of that is turning to snow because it's just so cold so plenty of wintry weather on the leading edge of this system on tuesday and then we're seeing more widespread snow for many of us as we head into wednesday further south of got a more intense system that will be working its way away.

the sight will be visible over the americas and northern and western europe, the very edge of western.8 billion people. pallab ghosh, bbc news. the world's oldest man has died injapan aged 113. just a warning the following pictures have some flash photography. masazo nonaka was recognised last year by guinness world records as the oldest living man in the world. he was born injuly 1905, and revealed the secrets to his long life, which were eating sweets, taking hot baths and watching sumo wrestling. japan has one of the world's highest life expectancies, and has been home to several people recognised as among the oldest humans to have ever lived. now it is time for a look at the weather. are we looking at clear skies tonight for that eclipse? we will have to try our luck. there are some areas of cloud around england and wales. there is high cloud moving into scotland and northern ireland, it may limit the view as well. here isa it may limit the view as well. here is a pre— eclipse moon at stornoway, so we are is a pre— eclipse moon at stornoway, so we are riding our luck to see how mu