the right direction at this moment in the netherlands and not only in the us and the rest of western europe to see the far right and for intolerant political parties are growing i think that it's a great concern. because some minorities in europe in the netherlands for example the jewish minority the is the muslim majority they are both on their attack of. this very thin layer of tolerance that we are supposed to have in the in the nuns as it's fading away in the fairy fairy foster way and this is a great concern definitely and we know all that well that long ago sixty eighty years ago we had the same situation then about the juice i know the muslims the muslim minorities in the same position that basically and it's worrying and yet you as a representative hope that the muslim minority has been able to restrain to politics you now represent an islamic political party in the city council of the hague and it looks really like. at the broader trend than the one in the west when expressly muslim openly muslim politicians are taking a bigger political taking on the bigger political role is there

know, western europe needs to do not true? know, western europe needs todoa not true?r, we need stop helping to fund people to build coal—fired power stations elsewhere in the world, particularly seeing as we will have basically phased out call, so it is rather silly of us to go on helping to fund their stations as well. so if we make the point about western europe, is that fair, where does that leave countries like india or china or other big industrial powers? what i think we will see in relation to our power, as they will leapfrog, much as they did with mobile phones. we shouldn't assume that what they will do itjust shouldn't assume that what they will do it just repeats shouldn't assume that what they will do itjust repeats the mistakes we have made, because i think the cost of electric vehicles is going down so fast, if you go to scale in countries like china and india, then it will move fast. the problems will come elsewhere, dealing with agriculture, the methane emissions from livestock, which is why people are talking so much now about the need to think about

the reagan administration moved to deploy american medium range missiles the pershing two to western europe i. not everyone welcomed the move while the political leadership was in agreement some in berlin and london took two districts protesting the deployment of american missiles. this is the moment all the people with the sense to know that you clear weapons are made by human beings nuclear weapons must be dismantled by human beings that is the code of common sense. unable to keep up with the cost the arms race the soviet union back down inside the i.n.f. treaty with the us it had taken almost ten years the numbers alone demonstrate the value of this agreement on the soviet side over fifteen hundred deployed warheads will be removed and all ground launched intermediate range missiles including the s.s. twenty's will be destroyed. on our side our entire complement of pershing two and ground launch cruise missiles with some four hundred deployed warheads will all be destroyed the agreement like all agreements between two parties required a basic trust between the two superpowers but it went

high pressure is building across much of western europe, and that means we're in for a lot of brightrst of all, and here is our high pressure that is building across western parts of europe. early on monday, it's still around iberia, just about nudging into france and the uk. the rest of europe still pretty unsettled, low pressure there. some snow across the alps, quite a lot of it, and yes, still pretty chilly. it's coming out of the north, north—west, but the milder weather here will be reaching us in the next 24—36 hours. so, in the short—term, still pretty chilly winds out of the north. that means cold weather first thing in the morning in scotland. in fact, in city centres, temperatures will be below freezing, down at around —2, possibly around “11 or —5 outside of town, and a touch of frost further south across the country as well. it starts off on a sunny note, really a beautiful day on the way. and because high pressure is building across western parts, these weather fronts kind of come in and grind to a halt here in the west of the uk. so maybe some spits and spots of rain a

states yes as twenty missiles was designed to reach targets mainly in europe but at that time western europe had no similar weapons capable of reaching the soviet union and therefore was unable to restore military balance nobody more than back no you forced to have a good weapon this is so this is something that has functioned quintus use it for third countries like the e.u. in this case we are little really very diminished but like the german leader at the time chancellor helmut schmidt pleaded with the united states to counter the move initially hesitant the americans started negotiating with the soviets hoping to reach an agreement but with no progress the reagan administration moved to deploy american medium range missiles the pershing two to western europe i was. not everyone welcomed the move while the political leadership was in agreement some in berlin and london took two districts protesting the deployment of american missiles. this is the moment all the people with the sense to know that you clear weapons are made by human beings nuclear weapons must be dismantled by human beings t

and here is our high pressure that is building across western parts of europe. uk. the rest of europe still pretty unsettled, low pressure there, some snow across the alps, quite a lot of it, and yes, still pretty chilly. is coming out of the north, north—west, but the milder weather here will be reaching us in the next 24—36 hours. so in the short—term, still pretty chilly winds out of the north. that means coldweather first thing in the morning in scotland. in fact, coldweather first thing in the morning in scotland. infact, in city centres, temperatures will be below freezing. down at around —2, possibly around “i! or five outside of town and a touch of frost further south across the country as well. it sta rts south across the country as well. it starts off on a sunny note, really a beautiful day on the way. and because high pressure is building across western parts of these weather front that try to come in kind and grind to a halt here in the west of the uk. so maybe some spit and spots of rain across ireland and in the western scotland, but on the whole,

suddenly june was the big day everybody talked about the veteran and it was at the liberation of western europe and the beginning of the end of adolf hitler. but i think ronald reagan went to normandy and gave a voice and they timed it so that it was brought to morning television and good morning america and peggy noonan wrote the famous speech. stephen ambrose wrote a big book about it and we had band of brothers, tom hanks doing saving private ryan, band of brothers s that became an hbo thing in new orleans they opened at the national museum and it started becoming seen as a symbol of unity in the united states that we were all in it together, that there were very few dissenters of it and it was a sort of american ingenuity and the fact that the secrecy that we could keep something about grand without the german discovering the german folklore and the mythological separation of it you cannot if you go to normandy and you see those crosses and look at the english channel, you feel like it is no other side. kids are making pilgrimages over there to the beaches in omaha and utah. the makes an im

isn't something breeze for tom you get to wednesday it's much better further west such tight western europe rebuts enjoying the sunshine twenty one. one day fidel castro arrived to the country club and day decided to play god. and suddenly a few minutes castro said to she can i imagine the shape we could put on very soft cuban so far in this magnificent dance a chronicle of the revolution and its aspirations through the prism of its architecture of cuba's unfinished spaces on al-jazeera. bad. man. let's have a look at the top stories here it out just where india says its military is carried out air strikes close in the border of pakistan and pakistani administered kashmir it says the target was an armed group behind a suicide attack in india and in this in kashmir earlier in the month about islam about denies there were any casualties or damage done by those indian air strikes. the north korean leader kim jong il has arrived in vietnam's capital ahead of a second summit with the u.s. president donald trump kim was greeted by a guard of honor after crossing into the country by train. iran's

under the baltic sea from russia now washington says the pipeline could undermine security for western europe. also coming up vital food.

those above average temperatures those record breaking temperatures are now gone across much of western europe so here on friday london a nice day for you but down to twelve degrees there paris at thirteen and they are quick have across central europe rain as well as snow here on friday as we go towards saturday another system coming in from the atlantic and that will bring a few waves of rain and showers across the region but we do expect to see some very windy conditions across parts of scotland as well as northern ireland by the time we get towards the weekend down here across another part of africa where we are seeing some relatively nice conditions across much of the area most of the weather is really up to their towards the north well we are going to be seeing is some windy conditions here along the coast so from gazi it is going to be sixty degrees here on friday maybe some more clouds and when by the time we get towards saturday but over here towards algiers it is looking like a nice day for you with the terms of eighty and for tunis a partly cloudy day for you with a temperature of ei

it's been a record breaking lee warm for fabrice out of the whole winter for some parts of western europe i think particular british isles a bit also the netherlands belgium france and spain it's warm but not record breaking the sun is larger because of the static nature of the weather pattern we've got warmer already from daytime sunshine and sort of draw of warmth coming out from the science of eighteen degrees in the focus and that's probably conservative i'm expecting twenty ish in london and although we've had a bit of a surge of cold weather around on the eastern side of europe we still talking about temperatures that are that normal fiona's kiev is cold it and i'm chris colder for back up to ten in athens we're going in the right direction and his i think turkey where you're going to see the real anomaly with snow and rain moving eastwards even when the sun comes out is two three anchor athens is back up to normal and here we are back up to above normal sixteen in vienna for that train of winds that will be a change of weather type in the british isles and rest of northern europe t

having conquered western europe and africa, rick has moved back in time and is working on a trilogy on the american revolution. but we're fortunate and grateful that he can come back down to be with his friends here and followers. rick is joined by one of the useum's other key advisors and presidential counselors rich frank. he is the author of "guadl canal" which is one of the definitive stories of this battle. moderating the session is tom crane who has been a long-time friend of the museum and a colleague of mine from our army war college days. khan's book is an updated version of his previous version "bombs, cities, and civilians." these three leading scholars all serve on the museum's presidential counselors and has served on the presidential planning committee which designs and programs our conferences. we heard about our operation market garden yesterday. and now we're going to hear about two other battles the allies fought during the fall of 1944, and certainly didn't come out the way that they were planned. if you would, join me in welcoming tom crane, rick atkinson and rich f

reach of the tension was this the soviet twenty missile a nuclear warheads that could strike western europe at short notice. that worried those european countries on the other side of the iron curtain who were well within the missiles reach a five and a half thousand kilometers. the u.s. response to deploy its own mid-range pershing missiles in europe was met with protests across the west the protests showed the need for a new direction the result was the i.n.f. treaty. ground launched ballistic missiles with ranges of between five hundred and five and a half thousand kilometers the soviet union got rid of one thousand eight hundred forty six short and intermediate range missiles the united states eight hundred forty six before the implementation deadline in one thousand nine hundred one a total of two thousand six hundred ninety two missiles were destroyed. under thompson is the u.s. undersecretary for arms control and international security detail. spoke about washington's intent to be drawn from the one nine hundred eighty seven pact. suspend it and then a six month clock runs if you wil

one berlin to abandon the pipeline supplying russian gas saying it could undermine security for western europe the german chancellor angela merkel says the criticism is unfounded plus the curtain goes up. berlin film festival the stars turn out for the first film in competition morning share of the kindness of strangers our correspondents they have seen that film as well and they'll be here with their movie version. it's good to have you with the first trucks carrying humanitarian aid for venezuela have arrived in the colombian border city of. officials there are awaiting instructions on how to distribute the food and medicine to get its way those who are in desperate need of help now that's if they can get into the country in defiance of opposition leader one. president nicolas maduro his government has blocked the highway. to stop the shipments from entering the bennetts way. let's pull in journalist brahmi because now he joins us from colombia near the border with an it's way low good evening to you brought so we hear the u.s. aid shipment has arrived what more do we know what's going to ha

stationing off american science on there so they would greet this however on the other side in western europe it discussion as we had in the cold war about three argument about the stationing of american missiles on the german french or spanish soil ward so certainly sort of be really is divisive and sort of would really bring people back out into the streets so nobody wants to return to that time everybody you refer to it we don't want to go back to the cold war yeah i mean that is the big fear right the fear of a new arms race is that something that you're also hearing reflected there. it was all over the place today here into crist's pretty much every minister who sort of stepped out of the door and commented on the end of the looming end of the n f treaty said we are going to be the victims this was the main pillar of european security architecture and it is now falling away and it is being replaced by nothing it is being replaced probably by a new arms race and europe is sort of the bystander hopeless and helpless and can't really sort of do anything against this and is watching this rea

influence news media, sputnik, russia today and their subsidiaries and followers in eastern and western europe pushing the anti-vax campaign, the anti-vaccination campaign. these are efforts which started way back in the '50s, '60s and '70s, the russians understand, you know, when you have a healthy society and a thinking society, you will stand up to any adverse condition and any adverse opponent from, you know, from an opposite side. but when your society is sick and ignorant and believing in all the tropes and memes which have no basis in scientific fact, like anti-vaccination, you weaken that society. you know, a lot of people say, well, you know, russia is a rich nation now. it is operating close to the west. it is not a rich nation. it is a very poor nation. but what they have is they still have all the systems and resources of the former soviet union in creating this disinformation bubble, which creates the disreality that we are dealing with now and anti-vaccination is just one of them. >> powerful words from our guest malcolm nance tonight. malcolm, thank you, as always, for coming on

fact that 70 cents of every euro which comes to this country in funds is going back to the western part of europeand other representatives of distinguished media knows it, and western politicians, why don't they say it? on the other hand, the specific questions which come from the flow of cohesion funds. olaf, the internal auditing part of the european union, has looked at the way your company —— your government has spent the funds, street lighting, water services and last year it said because of systemic failings and corruption, it wanted 280 - failings and corruption, it wanted 280 — plus million euros returned to brussels because it had been misspent in this country. how much have you returned? in this case, only can refer to the prosecutor general‘s office because these types of issues should be investigated by them. they have investigated these issues. you are foreign minister, you must know. you are not quite aware of the governmental structure you because these funds do not belong to the foreign ministry. to go to brussels all the time and its positive you must have a pop —— a positive you

in fact it is going to establish itself across much of western europe, which means that the weather will weather fronts that do come close to our neighbourhood, will actually be diverted towards the north. this is where all the weather fronts will go. we are in this window of much drier weather. temperatures of 10 degrees on monday in london. it is relatively mild. you can see how the jet stream actually meanders around the uk, in fact, at times even north of iceland, into scandinavia and to the south, that is where we start to see the high pressure building, and with the winds blowing around in a clockwise fashion the warmer air will be reaching the uk. the summary for the week ahead is a lot of dry weather, at least mainly dry — there might be some sports of rain in north—western scotland. mild by day but the nights, withthe clearer sky, will be chilly and there might be some fog around too. bye— bye. hello and welcome to bbc news. i'm reged ahmad. the battle against the spread of the so—called islamic state has raged on for years — but now a spokesman for the kurdish—led alliance in n

pretty much where they grind to a halt because of that high pressure building across many western parts of europe builds further towards the east but notice it's displaced further south away from us — that means the weather front‘s just about nibbling into the north—west of the british isles so maybe again a bit of cloud, a few spots of rain, increasing breeze here. but really, in the western isles, the vast majority of the country, 99% of us having dry weather through the course of tuesday and those temperatures are starting to rise because we have those south—westerly winds. in fact, we're already expecting double figures in aberdeen, edinburgh, newcastle and belfast. that's tuesday. by the time we get to wednesday, the mild air has well and truly arrived on our shores. in fact, it is also seeping into parts of scandinavia and western as well as eastern parts of europe. by thursday and friday, those winds turn to a southerly, so that means one thing, those temperatures will continue to rise. by thursday it could be around 13 or 14 degrees, notjust in the south of the country but even in one or

pretty much where they grind to a halt because of that high pressure building across many western parts of europern parts of europe, as it builds a little bit further towards the east. but notice it's displaced further south away from us. that means that these weather fronts just about nibbling into the north—west of the british isles, so maybe again a bit of cloud, a few spots of rain, increasing breeze here. but really, in the western isles, the vast majority of the country, 99% of us having dry weather through the course of tuesday. and those temperatures are starting to rise, because we have those south—westerly winds. in fact, we're already expecting double figures there in aberdeen, edinburgh, newcastle, and also in belfast. so that's tuesday. by the time we get to wednesday, the mild air has well and truly arrived on our shores. in fact, it's also seeping into parts of scandinavia and western as well as eastern parts of europe. and in fact, by thursday and friday, those winds turn to a southerly, so that means one thing — those temperatures will continue to rise. by thursday it could be ar

and how was it sent -- how was the signal sent from western europe to eastern europe, at a time when technology was very different from where we are today? kenneth: keep in mind, this was a cia radio station. at the outset, the agency is concerned with how do we create a cover story to hide this? so they came up with this ingenious idea that they would create the fiction that it is supported by private donations. so they created an elaborate fundraising drive called the crusade for freedom. that continued for 20 years, it went through a name change it 1960. it went for 20 years, and each year, it asked americans to contribute money to support the cause of radio free europe. to put that in perspective, imagine an advertising campaign that goes on for 20 years. it encourages americans to buy a particular product. only, you can't see the product, you can use the product, or in this case, you can't hear it. radio free europe is the product. it is broadcasting overseas. it is behind the iron curtain, a place where americans cannot go. so they are asking donations from americans to contrib

your international weather forecast all of the last several days across parts of central and western europe we have seen temperatures that are really have been above average in temperatures have been broken want to take you here towards brussels where on tuesday they actually broke one of the highest temperatures they have seen in february reaching twenty point two degrees for the day and you can see what they did on the stay a beautiful day there many people getting out to the parks and outside enjoying their lunches outside as well now we do expect to see this continue today we're going to be having this out of high pressure dominating and this is really keeping a lot of sun as well as winds coming out of the south particularly out here towards the west so this is the be the trend for today and we're going to sing those temperatures really staying into the high teens for many locations where paris at eighteen been one thousand degrees there london at eighteen degrees and zurich is going to be about fifteen degrees but as we go from wednesday to thursday that's one to start to see a change

has grown they have ten grandchildren with the level on the way two of their daughters live in western europe they depend on their remittances like so many families in kosovo. printer describes relations with the serbs exactly as she did ten years ago. up and. down. without. you know what it is. all up again in the atlantic and want to know. the complaints i've heard here about corruption lack of jobs reflect what people across costs of a disappointment that independence has not transform people's lives. what i found is that in one sense the village of but is working serbs and albanians live in peace but in other ways this village is not so exceptional after all it could have been a lot of cooperation for a cause of or in fact the two communities leads parallel lives even as they share this land they live apart. or that's it for this week if you want to catch up with the rest of the films in the series you can find them on the rewind page on the al-jazeera website but for now until next time good bye thanks on. the carpet. dude is being. measured. and it's not just i phones that i mean most o

having conquered western europe and africa, rick has moved back in time and is working on a trilogy onunate and grateful that he can come back down to be with his friends here and followers. rick is joined by one of the museum's other key advisors and and presidential counselors, rich frank.

people that can argue with you and western europe assumptions and bring that -- question your assumptionsnd bring that team together at critical moments. ♪ david: we have had 45 people serve as united states. most people watching are not going to be united -- president of the united states. what are lessons people can take away from your book? >> leadership is about human orure and away a businessman politician builds a team has similarities. are you able to build a team with diverse opinions and bring that team together at critical moments? that is what lincoln did with his team of rivals. that is what franklin roosevelt did by having eleanor roosevelt on his team. he said she was a welcome thoren in his side, always willing to argue with him. speaking truth to power, any team needs that. whenever she wanted something done, she would bring a person he did not want to speak to write to the dinner table because she brought an alternative point of view. it is important today to be able to think and relax and replenish energies. lincoln went to the theater 100 times during the civil war. whe

people are talking about islam and western europe in the united states and other parts of the world and they are misguided about this because they hear a lot of negative stories in the media from other politicians and so did i blame myself that i was not really informed about this in the false. i'm happy to be a muslim of course now since two thousand and thirteen. that was a long journey took me over a year but if you study islam sincerely with an open mind it will find. actually it's a very peaceful. religion that for what i read about your spiritual journey your interest in islam was particularly sparked by your relationship with gareth builders and he's film fitna which portrayed muslims as intolerant and bound on the world domination do you find it ironic i do you perhaps see it as. part of alice planned that you pass to faith would be inspired by bigotry yes well that's bury it i sincerely believe that islam was i thought for a society that muslims are oppressing women promoting terrorism and i felt it my responsibility and the responsibility of our political party to warn people

and it's pulling up some warmth from the south this southerly breeze of course coming across western europe that combination gives us teens in most western nations are going to be pretty close in central europe as well still still on the ground in places of course they'll be a bit of a thought but that she'd just feel remarkably warm it is after all only february the still some disruptive weather though in the central particular the eastern mediterranean so whilst you're enjoying maybe low twenty's in morocco in the sunshine which will i think cloud up come saturday you still got longshore breeze just not warm with cloud rain in libya a movie across to north and egypt and that's the active weather most of north africa is quite quite you know we have some pretty big showers recent peace in parts of the congo uganda and particularly further size that this position of course will last for a little while longer yet. a team of chinese scientists embarked on a daring deep sea mission searching for rare resources and new species one of the nice reveals china's underwater hunt. on al-jazeera. and t

to russia because russia if they are not treating go and then russia can deploy which will hit western europe and the whole of europe and in fact it will it will bring europe the european union socially into to go she asia with russia and the americans let's agree to that because previously made to has been dominant in this area in european security but it looks as if trump is saying nato is not all that important to present. in the europeans will have to start looking and doing it deal with moscow but what are the chances of a deal being made i say that because if the issue was all about this missile that russia just about it and they've said over the last couple weeks will come over to moscow and have a look at it yourself nice i know nice thanks we're not going to say what are the chances of finding a solution. well both sides have an interest in it because i'm the governor of the year of the youngest to do that mr i'll raise spending billions and billions of dollars billions of dollars a rubles was in fact a lose lose game and if you could in fact reach some agreement that neither side wo

looking at the weekend picture, snow into parts of western europe.low to clear. maybe a weather front close to parts of northern ireland and western scotland, but many of us will stay fine and dry. this is the business briefing. i'm sally bundock. flexible thinking — samsung unfolds its secret weapon in the battle to revive the smartphone market. plus, eight days and counting — the us and china return to the table to try to head off an escalation of their trade war with steep new tariffs planned for march 1. and on the markets, wall street gets a boost from minutes of the last federal reserve meeting that confirmed the us central bank will be patient on further interest rate hikes. as you can see, asia is following suit.

they say it could undermine security from western europe, but berlin says that criticism is unfounded. also coming up, dodonald trumpmd kim jong-un are to meet i vietnam, but why there? the answer is a page right out of the history books. plus, the curtain goes up on this year's berlin film festival. we will have a preview of that and the many other treats hitting the silver screen this year. i'm brent goff. to our viewers on pbs in the united states and all around the world, welcome. in germany, plans for a pipeline supplying russian gas have been thrown into doubt by international opposition. the united states ambassador to berlin has urged germany to ditch the project. tonight, france says it could halt the construction process buys subjecting the russian company building it to tougher union rules. the pipeline which is due to start pumping this year, but critics say it will make germany dependent on moscow and undermine european security. at least a a key part of germa's energy strategy suddenly under threat. >> construction of the pipeline is already well under way, but the fate

however there is no letup in the spring warmth across western parts of europe over towards the east we do still have a little taste of winter coming through this area clad is sinking its way further south which in this was some snow over the balkans some wet and windy weather making its way down towards greece and pushing into that western side of things with the top temps of around in degrees celsius further north we will see temperatures recovering slightly in moscow top temperature here minus five degrees celsius meanwhile as that was fourteen fifteen degrees in london quite possibly a couple of degrees higher than that actually over the next couple of days i really feeling spring like here ninety celsius in madrid there's a little bit of cloud there into that western side of spain for a time rise up nicely as you go on into sunday we're hanging on to that mild air across a good part of western europe with present spells of sunshine sunshine too into central hours only christe side the funeral around four degrees turns colder still for athan the snow will then run eight celsius on s

pretty much where they grind to a halt because of that high pressure building across many western parts of europerds the east but notice it's displaced further south away from us — that means the weather front‘s just about nibbling into the north—west of the british isles so maybe again a bit of cloud, a few spots of rain, increasing breeze here. but really, in the western isles, the vast majority of the country, 99% of us having dry weather through the course of tuesday and those temperatures are starting to rise because we have those south—westerly winds. in fact, we're already expecting double figures in aberdeen, edinburgh, newcastle and belfast. that's tuesday. by the time we get to wednesday, the mild air has well and truly arrived on our shores. in fact, it is also seeping into parts of scandinavia and western as well as eastern parts of europe. by thursday and friday, those winds turn to a southerly, so that means one thing, those temperatures will continue to rise. by thursday it could be around 13 or 111 degrees, notjust in the south of the country but even in one or two spots across sc

everything is going to change but do you think that western europe with their average supports a full islam given what they did to your country after all it was france and great britain that advocated for the nato bombing. i can see. many things changing. all the country and i think now the they start understanding what's there's a. a mistake there are doing that libya before. and now they're suffering from this. this problem and they think they want to solve it and go out of all of this what's happened and so i think they're going to they're going to support and by problem you mean the migration crisis and many many people african migrants who are going through leiby into europe right yes yes like. the migration they go into to italy they have from libya from the sea and you know the many people there are dying and all you know all the sorts have and then you see the news and you can see what's happening now and all in europe now this month will mark eight years since that so-called revolution in libya and i know you haven't been to libya since two thousand and eleven but do you do y