we agree that nato is the most successful alliance in history because nato has been able to adapt and change when the world is changing. and we agree that we must continue to change to keep our people safe. remainsdership indispensable. and so i really look forward to working with you and to welcoming president trump in brussels in may. thank you mr.ce: secretary general. it is a privilege to meet with you today to bring greetings on behalf of president donald trump and had the opportunity. a thorough and substantive discussion of the issues facing nato and our historic alliance. it has been a busy weekend for me. as i prepare to head back to the united states, i am grateful. grateful to have had the speak on saturday about our shared security issues at the munich security council and i appreciate your encouraging words about the message of the united states at that conference. i also was pleased to be able to hold a series of productive bilateral meetings with leaders from across the world. also deeply moving for me and my family to return to dock dachau, the very first concentration

we agree that nato is the most successful alliance in history because nato has been able to adapt and change when the world is changing. and we agree that we must continue to change, to keep our people safe. u.s. leadership remains indispensable. so i really look forward to working with you and to welcoming president trump in brussels in may. so please, you have the floor. vice president pence: thank you, mr. secretary-general. it is a privilege to meet with you today to bring greetings on behalf of president donald trump and also to have the opportunity for a thorough and substantive discussion of the issues facing nato and our historic alliance. it has been a busy weekend for me. as i prepare to head back to the united states, i'm grateful. i'm grateful to have had the opportunity to speak on saturday about our shared security issues at the munich security conference. and i appreciate your encouraging words about the message of the united states at that conference. and i also was pleased to be able to hold a series of productive bilateral meetings with leaders from all across the wo

nato and russia. when we have such overall general statistics, it will become clear what the general picture is. what's the state of military security in the e.u. continent? and with that starting point, we can further go on to agreements about settlements on weapons and how to provide extra security measures. i would like to repeat once again, we did not stop the practical work with nato. >> thank you very much. >> i have two questions from over there. if it's okay with you, we'll take both questions and then go back to you. the first one is, former defense ministry of germany and another is from paris. so, if you want to go first. >> thank you very much. you heard this morning what the federal chancellor said. you heard what the federal chancellor said this morning? on the relationship to russia? when it comes to the european peace border? i think it would be necessary now that russia should also send out a positive signal so that we come to a better situation when it comes to our relations. so my s

a live look at brussels, nato headquarters. we're waiting for vice president mike pence to come out and speak with the nato secretary general. we'll monitor that and bring it to you when it begins. >>> it's presidents day, but no holiday for the office holder. president trump is facing social media backlash and from others about saying this at a rally this weekend in florida. >> you look at what's happening in germany. you look at what's happening last night in sweden. sweden! who would believe this? sweden! they took in large numbers. they're having problems like they never thought possible. >> sweden and many others are scratching their heads, trying to figure out what exactly he meant, because there was no attack or anything in particular that happened the night before. a lot of questions about what the president meant and where he's getting his information. the president pushing back, tweeting, "give the public a break. the fake news media is trying to say that the large scale immigration in sweden is working out beautifull

saying nato is obsolete. only one person sets our foreign policy and that's the president of the united states. >> but noelle, to play devil's advocate a little off of lis's comments, i'll give you the opportunity to do so given the fact that mike pence said he is acting on behalf of the president. >> i noticed for once mattis, pence and trump are on the same page with the same message. the counterparts of nato need to step up to the plate and pay their 2% and that was one of the main complaints that donald trump had with nato. what i liked about pence was pence was on message, on target and everybody was united and had one message. >> let's talk briefly about these comments on sweden that have obviously headlines over these last 48 hours. listen to what the president said saturday that let's say sparked confusion internation international internationally. >> you look at what's happening last night in sweden. sweden. who would believe this? sweden, they took in large numbers, they're having problems like they

we started in wales, making a change to nato and making a change in u.s. support to nato. in wales, he said this is not the end. that is to assure allies in warsaw and before warsaw, we adopted a change whereby we said we need to move to more of a deterrent posture and what does mean.ence i said leading into that summit, that is the road through warsaw, not the road to warsaw. we would probably have to look even after the changes we've .ade in warsaw if italian arrivals and baltic nations, brigade arrivals in poland and others. i believe it is a road through warsaw. i would give you a broad recipe. you're looking at repositioning of materials and i believe our nato allies need to come alongside us. being able to rapidly join forces to materials rather than materialsmove whether to europe gives us a quicker response. i believe we need to look at more rotational force, more forward based pre-position materials in order to definitely fall in on those. our alliesncourage to come more forcefully alongside us in those respects. >> do you regard the military rotation as sufficien

of nato, nato's part of us we're part of nato, nato's part of us and we're working together. today the new us defence secretary, himself a former marine, arrived at nato headquarters to restate that commitment but it came with a morning. it's a fair demand that all that benefit from the best defence in the world carry their proportionate share of the necessary cost to defend freedom. in private general mattis was even more blunt, giving his allies are effectively an ultimatum. he told them the us would moderate its commitment to nato u nless moderate its commitment to nato unless they set out plans to increase their defence spending by the end of the year. america's defence budget wharfs its european allies. the us one of only five nato countries, including the uk, that meets the alliance's own target of spending 2% of gdp, or national income, on defence. the vast majority of nato countries are still well below that goal, even though they all made a commitment to yea rs though they all made a commitment to years ago to work towards spending that 2%. secretary matias made it v

nato arose out of strategic necessity, and nato must be evolve in response to the new strategic reality. our community of nations is under threat on multiple fronts, as the ark of insecurity builds on nato's periphery and beyond. we thoroughly discussed the increased threats facing our alliance, and unified by the threats to our democracies, i found a strong alliance resolve to address these growing threats. russia's aggressive actions have violated international law and are destabilizing. terrorism emanating from the middle east and north africa is a direct and immediate threat to europe and to us all. i am mindful of the tragic attacks on our european allies and what they have suffered in paris, nice, berlin, istanbul. here in brussels. in the list, as you know, goes on. we have recognized that the instability has taken on new forms that we must address, for example, in the cyber domain. in response, nato is reinforcing deterrence and defense, and adapting to more directly address terrorist threats along our southern flank in the mediterranean and turkey, and the words of the turkish

through nato initiative. though after the caucasian 2008, our ugust condoleezzaleagues, rice, in particular, said that he freezing was a mistake and it should be even more active during the exacerbation time. make the same mistakes and alliance made a decision to practical activities. and, yes, it was reiterated yesterday. he said it in the context, the ambassadors in the nato russian council and his they are ith me, prepared to continue that, but the practical work has been back.d at a certain stage, the president of finland, which is member, expressed concern that not only russian but also nato airplanes fly with turned off transponders over the baltic region in. his visit during russia he touched on this topic with putin.nt after that, he test our military propositions in order to how to solve the issue of transponders and the overall security in the nato region. our military has brought -- in of last year, some proposals, and there was a nato back n council meeting then. we were positive that such pecific

could be preparing to turn its a key issue as nato defense back on its traditional nato allies, and that washington's policy could play into the hands of russian president putin, and wind up inadvertently benefiting china. america first, a threat to the world order? that's the question posed by our title this week. we will pose it to three guests who have been following the subject very closely. matthew karnitschnig is the chief correspondent for the european issue of "politico," and he says, "europe is too weak and divided to fend for itself. it should do everything it can to safeguard the relationship with washington." shi ming is a journalist from beijing who has lived in berlin for some years. he says, "there won't be any clear-cut showdown between china and the u.s. over the pacific region. instead, we will see countless agonizing quarrels." and malte lehming is with us again. he is a senior editor at "der tagesspiegel," the german newspaper. he says, "it is still not clear what trump's foreign-policy priorities are, but strengthening nato and committing the u.s. president to the ru

r cause.en, is ou that is why nato exists. why after centuries of strife and division the earth is unified. the united states has been faithful to europe for generations. we will keep the faith. we share a past. after all we have been through we share a future. today, tomorrow, every day hence, be confident that the united states is now and will always be your greatest ally. [applause] assureds. pence: be president trump and the american people are devoted to our transatlantic unity. our chore today is the same as it was in ages past. security through shared orrifice and strength, characterized by faltering will. the united states chooses strength. the united states chooses friendship with europe and a strong north atlantic alliance. in the name of all of the sacrifices of the generations that have gone before, who have fought and bled and died for this alliance, with confidence and all of you, and firm alliance, i know the best days for america, for europe, and for the free world are yet to come. thank you for the honor of jo

necessary,ments were filling nato's capability shortfalls. united statesent and only four other nato members meet this basic standard. while we commend the nations that are on track to achieve that goal, many others including some our largest allies still lack a path to meeting with minimum goal. let me be clear on this point. the president of united states expects our allies to keep their word, to fulfill this commitment and foremost, that means the time has come to do more. [applause] we must shoulder this responsibility together. the dangers we face are growing and changing every day. the world is a more dangerous place than any point since the collapse of communism. from the rise of met radical islamic -- from the rise of andcal islamic terrorism, many others who threaten our security and our way of life. the rise of adversaries new and old demand a strong response from all of us. stationing, nato battalions in poland and the baltic states. in the wake of russian efforts to redraw international borders by force, the united states along wi

and brexit and nato, there is the team in place and mike pence is part of that team. we have outlined how important the two parts of the world are in terms of trade but today's talks are to do with security and nato. numerous american president since the 1970s have railed against what they see as the freeloading of european allies with regards to defence budgets and military spending. it is not illogical to see that it spending. it is not illogical to see thatitis spending. it is not illogical to see that it is probably not fair for american and british taxpayers to foot the expense for nato. there are only four countries within the 28 member nato grouping that actually have committed to spending 2% of their annual budget on defence

nato a commitment? this administration is taking a clear message to europe saying you have to do more. we can't always be there for you. >> they need to. out of the 28 countries within nato only four have kept that 2% gdp goal. four. poland, estonia, england and greece. a reason poland and estonia spend 2%. they're on the border of russia. germany says it's not much of a problem because they don't see russian tanks on their border. a lot of spending in arbitrary. greece makes the 2% mark but they use that 2% spending as a jobs program. they essentially use that to hire people into the army. countries like france on the other hand probably the most capable force that they have over in that part of europe, they only spend 1.8%. it's arbitrary. they need to get into what is that 2% spending going to be spent on. >> bill: topic three. an order to get to president a plan to defeat isis in 30 days. can they do it? is the plan together yet? >> they're coming up with the plan and secretary mattis is overseas no

not nato. they just took crimea, and. eastern ukraine, that is not right. i mean, that's, sovereign country.po >> host: we'll get a response, kevin. thank you. >> guest: i agree with the caller, crisis in ukraine triggered by russian actions by annexation of crimea and unleashing of the undeclared war in eastern ukraine. really something, upended not just the post-cold war security environment in europe but the entire post-world war ii security environment in europe because we haven't really seen a country in europe, annex. another, sense of, since the end of world war two. and, it is something violates some of the bayic principles an european security and something we held dear for a long, long time. >> host: go back to your essay also available on foreign polics website with regard to crimea you write the following, the apparent spur of the moment decision to annex crimea transformed the russian political landscape overnight, propelling putin to unprecedented levels ofs popularity and in syri

how russia is a threat to nato. and also saying that they want to see russia give back crimea, back to the ukraine, which russia took away and annexed in 2014. that is not the kind of stuff that moscow expected to hear from the trump administration. and we're starting to hear disappointment about that. and from senior russian officials. victor. >> ivan watson there in moscow. ivan, thank you. >>> meanwhile, democrats are finally getting ready to pick a new leader. next week, more than 400 members of the dnc are going to gather in atlanta to select their new claire. democrats are ditching the old playbook and outlining a new strategy to build their party. the base, though, apparently taking matters in their own hands, voicing their concerns in chaotic town halls that we've we've been watching. joining me today, simone anderson. i want to start with you, so far democratic congressman keith ellison from minnesota and former labor secretary tom perez seem to be the front-runners. do you have any indication who they're l

we -- i use "we" of nato. we think of offensive and not defensive and our opponent has taken the gloves off competely. i'm scared about the cyber because we have no framework to address it. >> i would say general breedlove and i were participating in a tabletop exercise yesterday. and when you have any conventional military operation on part of the adversaries you see participates look at order of battles, who do i have in tool kit to respond to the threat at hand. the minute the team had to deal with the potential cyber hack, you could see people were flipping -- there's no order of battle. we don't know what the tool kit looks like. we don't have a proper way to assess the threat to figure out what we, what tools we use to deter can, to detect it. we are getting better. we are far ahead of countries around the world. but we are too clumsy in our response. >> when we compare cyber of this country and put them side by side this is potential threat we need to paint a picture of, instead of talking about general

we are part of nato, nato is part of us and we're working together. today, the new us defence secretary, himself a former marine, arrived at nato's headquarters to restate that commitment but it came with a warning. it's a fair demand that all who benefit from the best defence in the world carry their proportionate share of the necessary cost to defend freedom. in private, general mattis was even more blunt giving his allies effectively an ultimatum. he told them the us would moderate its commitment to nato unless they set out plans to increase their defence spending by the end of the year. america's defence budget dwarfs its european allies. the us, one of only five nato countries including the uk, that meets the alliance's own target of spending 2% of gdp or national income on defence. the vast majority of nato countries are still well below that goal. even though they all made a commitment two years ago towards spending that 2%. secretary mattis made it very clear speaking to the nato alliance today that the patience of the american taxpayer is now

a very interesting day here at nato. general matters is a nato old—timer, former military commander in the alliance. he described the building behind me as his second home. he's been around these corridors for yea rs, been around these corridors for years, he's heard all the efforts by previous us defence secretary is to get nato's european allies to spend more. he's heard all the excuses, the commitments made and broken. and now the trump administration is in office, he wants things to change. he made it clear it's not going to be business as usual. he gave assurance the trump administration is foursquare behind nato. it is a contingent, conditional commitment to nato. it rests upon nato's european allies reaching deeper into their pockets to pay for a greater share of their own defence. given those european allies have made commitments, what is their defence for not meeting them? they don't have much of a defence, this is the problem. a few years ago at a summit in wales, nato countries agreed they would spend 2% of

nato is not an act of charity. nato is an act of self-interest in self-defense. it raises the cost to rush of its aggression and it's unclear whether we are united in our commitment to nato. i agree with you that before anything is done to reset the table with russia we should meet with their nato allies first in the firm the warsaw commitment and we should make no move in syria that strengthens russia's hand on the ground and it would drag us into i think a devastating conflict. if i could just ask both of you to speak to give in the hybrid warfare in this new approach to warfare below the line that we have directly benefited by here in this country what would you do to strengthen our western european allies, their democratic societies, their resolve and capabilities to push back against the weaponization of information that has been misused after being asked appropriated and the misuse of propaganda and in some cases direct financial support for candidates and their upcoming campaigns? >> thank you senator. i am going to be honest. this period in the transatlan

let's look at america's position in nato. in the past mr trump has called it obsolete. he's also said a lot of these countries are paying what they are supposed to be. —— are not paying. he has also said, nato is very important to me. difficult to work out his precise position. this is mr trump's gripe. the huge area marked in blue represents the proportion of nato's budget that the us picks up. despite the fact it picks up more than any other country, some nato members are not meeting their agreed commitments to the budget. the new us defence secretary james mattis has had to the budget. the new us defence secretaryjames mattis has had his first meeting with nato defence ministers in brussels. he picked up onjust the ministers in brussels. he picked up on just the issues the president has been mentioning. it's absolutely appropriate as a european minister of defence said last week, it's a fair demand that all who benefit

way they push nato around, president trump needs to step in. nato, but they krumia, and the not rn ukraine, that is right, i mean, that is sovereign country. a response, et kevin, thank you. guest: i agree with the caller. ukraine triggered by russian action by the aexation kremi, and the undeclared war ukraine, stern something that appended not just post-cold war security europe, but n entire post-world war ii in europe. haven't seen a country in country,art of another ii e the end of world war and it is something that of the cores, basic principles of european we held and something dear for a long time. ont: your essay is available the foreign affairs website. decision f the moment o annex kremia transformed landscape over night repelling putin to unprecedented levels of the arity and in syria, kremlin capitalized on intervention to highlight russia global prominence. guest: right. i think and my judgment and my colleagues and co-author this piece that the ecision to annex cremea, panicky move by the russian government when they saw the presi

we still now i will use the we of nato. we still shirks from thinking about offensive cyber and only think of defensive cyber when our opponent has taken the gloves off completely. so i'm more scared senator about the cyber thing because we really haven't got a framework yet by which to address it. >> i would just had that general breedlove and i were participating in a tabletop exercise yesterday and there were different moves throughout the game as there always are. and when you head any conventional military operation on the part of our adversaries, you would see participants looking at the order of battle. so what tools do i have in my tool kit and how do i move posture and move military assets to respond to the threat at hand. the minute the team had to deal with a potential cyber tack that had been inserted into the game you could see people were flipping -- there is no order of battle. we don't know what the tool kit looks like. we don't have a proper way it assess the threat to figure out what we -- what tools we wi

nato exercises in poland. a show of strength to counter what many see as a growing threat from russia. massive deployment of us military might in europe underlines how america has been the predominant power in nato since the end of the second world war. now there's a us president who has called this alliance obsolete. so, with this munich forum, anticipation and anxiety over what message president trump's deputy would bring here. what we were most looking for were the messages coming out from the leading members of president trump's team, including vice president mike pence. everyone says they have been reassured by what he had to say about the transatlantic alliance, and the belief in nato. there's so much relief here about what you had to say. doesn't that make you worry that europe was worried about your commitment to the transatlantic alliance and to nato? i think president trump has made it clear that the united states stands strongly with the north atlantic alliance. we strongly support nato. but the pre

the vice president is on a two-day visit to meet with eu and nato officials. this is 25 minutes. pres. tusk: mr. vice president, dear friends, let me first of all thank you for this meeting. we all truly needed it. much has happened in the last month in your country. many surprising opinions have been voiced about our relations and about our common security. for us to pretend that everything is the way it used to be. thank you for being so open and frank with me, mr. vice president. today i had words which are promising of the future. words that explain a lot about the -- about the approach of the new administration in washington. i repaid our guest by offering honesty in my assessment of the situation. i shared our concerns. incurable i am an pro-american european who is dogmatically devoted to transatlantic cooperation, i could afford to be outspoken even more. i asked the vice president directly if he shared my opinions of three key matters. international order. and the attitude of the new american administration towards the european union. firstly, i expressed my belief that

remains committed to nato mr. pentz also telling the president of ukraine that russia will be held accountable for its actions even as president trump searches for common ground with moscow. kitty join in a slide. >> the vice president to publicly address issues of the new administration in the foreign policy to the european leaders mr. pence was pentz was speaking at the security conference alongside andrea merkel. he said he wants members of the alliance to allocate more funds for defense spending. they don't meet nato's target of the defense budget. they also addressed wide range of pop topics. also issued a clear warning to of divided by the cease-fire deal. it has been violated repeatedly. >> we must hold brush accountable. and demand that they honor the agreements. those tough words on russia were welcomed by leaders of both countries who they met with later in the day he also held a one-on-one meeting the white house said the two leaders talked about this commitment to nato and the conflict in ukraine. over

that's a target that all the nato allies agreed to a few yea rs the nato allies agreed to a few years ago. very few of them have actually honoured it. thank you. joining me now isjulian lewis, chairman of the commons defence select committee. it seems bizarre that a country as rich as germany has increased its military spending, its commitment to nato, getting closer to that 2% threshold of gdp. all nato allies agreed on this commitment, as jonathan said. all nato allies agreed on this commitment, asjonathan said. yet so few actually bothered to live up to it? i entirely agree with the thrust of your question. the nato 2% guideline, orthreshold, of your question. the nato 2% guideline, or threshold, as you rightly call it, is not a target. it isa minimum. rightly call it, is not a target. it is a minimum. its cause for concern that britain, which traditionally exceeded 2% by a very considerable amount, only borderline scraping over the threshold itself. and you've got countries in the front line like the baltic states, estonia, latvia, lithuania, only estonia, latvia, lithuania, only

james mattis just concluded a meeting with nato defense ministers in brussels. then he held a brief news conference, where he discussed the nato alliance and answered weston's about -- answered questions about u.s. relations with russia. >> ladies and gentlemen, secretary mattis will make a statement and then take two questions. sec. mattis: yes, ma'am. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i just completed the defense ministerial, wherein had the opportunity to engage in a bilateral discussion with a number of rfid -- of our fellow ministers. ministerialwe all had a dinner , reaffirming our strong transatlantic bond. it is the strongest i have ever seen. i have experience here at nato, and i was impressed by how strong the bond is. my intent is to affirm the full u.s. commitment to nato, and to gain an updated appreciation of the situation facing our alliance.

member states of nato? and could it be a topic for the in the wayampaign, that some say we have pro-nato, pro-u.s. and the others are against that. i recall a situation back in 2002. it proved to be quite uncomfortable, quite inconvenient. maybe you can comment on this. chan. merkel: well, i am not the coalition partner. i am myself. ok, seriously. let me say clearly what the german interest is. i think everyone who holds political responsibility in germany ought to always pursue this line of argument. what we have to do is tell our citizens that we do everything in order to ensure their security. without then is united states of america, even if we stand together in the european union and act in our defense, fight against international terrorism is not something we can do sufficiently. so i think it is absolutely right and understandable if the united states of america and president obama also did this -- that is why we decided to do it. to do more. and germany is aware of its responsibility. i would like

nato responded, deploying missiles into europe. which were deployed in late november 1983, days after able archer 83 had ended. this was extremely unbalancing to the relative geopolitical and nuclear stability. the reason was that now these -- the soviets believed that the pershing could reach moscow within 15 minutes. it probably could not but the u.s. was not telling the soviets that. the pershings could reach russia and further deploy soviet troops within 15 minutes. the griffin could reach moscow in under an hour and could not be detected by radar. so potentially, the euro-missiles on both sides and the pershing's and the griffins changed the balance are soviets were genuinely fearful of the possibility that they could be hit by a decapitating nuclear attack. that is, all of the work they had done to build up nuclear parity and stay just behind the united states in the arms race would be obliterated when the intermediate range missiles were deployed to europe. this fear, this did -- decapitating fear was the primary focus of ab

the role of nato. now, they started out talking about the past role of russia and pushing back against russian aggression. vice president pence talked about that numerous times. but also underscored the new reality of nato. and this is where you have the big argument over the campaign whether or not they're obsolete or not. >> well, i can tell you, charles, that the -- that nato is not going to become like the canary in the mine shaft in terms of shifting dynamics of the european -- if you've needed any evidence of that. look at the latest polls of germany showing that angela merkel's party lost 12 points led by a book seller with less than a high school degree. things are shifting and shifting quickly and what nato's got to show as do other leaders across europe is they're ready to muscle up and unite together for the common defense and fighting for all the things we believe in. immigration obviously is playing into this. but national defense certainly against russian aggression and other things shoul

there are commitments made as the nato summit that took place in wales in 2014 all of our nato allies committed to spending their gdp on defense within a decade. we have seen progress, and i assure honorable friends that other ministers across government ready this issue regularly, and -- >> cadbury. >> it was worse than that of beijing. will the prime minister assure me and my constituents that the hugely expensive proposal to double the capacity of the m 4 is arrived in london will be shelled? >> what i can assure the honorable ladies the issue of air quality is when the government is taking seriously. a lot of work has been done, over 2 billion pounds have been committed to enable their fleet to ensure changes are made, for fire engines. we recognize more needs to be done. we have seen a reduction in nitrous oxide of 17% in recent years. we bring for the proposals to maintain the air quality. >> as a fellow member of parliament, in the 2017 year of mental health, gave her continued commitment to ensure there is parity between mental health and physical health. >> i'm happy to endor

the europeans and nato as did secretary of defense mattis. >> i think nato is obsolete. it was done at a time you have the soviet union union, which is larger, much larger than russia today. we have the threat of terrorism. nato doesn't discuss terrorism. nato doesn't have the right countries in it for terrorism. >> the united states of america strongly supports nato and will be unwavering in our commitment to this transatlantic alliance. >> you know, it used to be to the victor belonged the spoils. now, there was no victor there, believe me, but i always said take the oil. we should have kept the oil, but okay. maybe we'll have another chance. >> yeah, i think all of us here in this room, all of us in america have generally paid for our gas and oil all along and i'm sure that we will continue to do so in the future. we're not in iraq to seize anybody's oil. >> one overseas journalist was more blunt in asking mike pence who exactly the world should believe. >> vice president, you've given your assurances today here in brussels to european leaders that the u.s. is committ

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she also talked about nato spending. this is 40 minutes. >> colleagues, ladies and gentlemen of the security internationale offing was actually kicking a passionate debate. a debate in meeting that left an interest on this day, today it is the munich security conference. this is where we will have a discussion and debate. countries, welcome to munich. , weill also be doing this know that this is very special. i would likeellor to welcome all of you. this was very much influenced by thatold war, the conflict was happened by nuclear deterrence. cohesion, the strength of the partners in the western alliance. this with -- this came at the end of the cold war. achievectually able to its goal, i would like to bid a that welcome to the united states of america that is here. and all of the others that have come here from united states. very warm welcome to all of you. today, more than a quarter of a century later, the world has changed are medically. there are no longer two blocks order and a a new new balance of power as the st

an ultimatum on nato spending. i cannot understand why a country like germany, the fourth or fifth understand why a country like germany, the fourth orfifth biggest economy in the world, doesn't pay its way. what's that about? they said they would. one of the nato agreements is that you spend 2% of gdp on defence. it's notjust what you spend, it is what you spend it on. it is that troops can interoperate and so on. only five countries actually spend that 2% of gdp. that headline, he is right. i agree with him. he has said so many different things about nato, and some very worrying. this is a man who was not willing to affirm a long—standing commitment to one of nato's commitments that if one were attacked, —— to be attacked, that the others would stand with them. i agreed with him for about five seconds! that if you are a member of this alliance, why would you not be willing to pay for the privilege?” guess people haven't for such a long time. spending on defence is like spending on foreign aid. and we have

the pred said this about nato, it's obsolete and countries aren't paying what they should and nato didn't deal with terrorism. well, today in europe, vice president mike pence reassured our allies the president was, quote, committed to our alliances. >> the united states of america strongly supports nato and will be unwavering in our commitment to this transatlantic alliance. >> eugene robinson, comments on "the washington post" and emily fargias, former assistant deputy of defense and now an msnbc national security analyst. i remember when john fogarty was the cleaning up after the elephants. >> didn't like it at all. however -- >> now they are cleaning up after -- >> they're sweeching as fast as they can. how did k they not, right? you've got to make clear that, no, we're not going to seize iraqs oil, which would be a war crime. >> can you imagine your son or daughter in the war? >> so what do you believe if you're -- if you're sitting in riyadh? >> don't fix it if it's not broken. my question here, evelyn, what's wrong with nato? it's the one good thing. that and the marshall plan. it

here's a tweet from the former nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen. "giving up #russia sanctions unconditionally will embolden #putin and undermine security of europe #dontbetrayukraine @potus @realdonaldtrump". and i am pleased to say mr rasmussen joins us from copenhagen. the me ask about the events today. does it worry you that even in transition, michael flynn was soft—pedalling on russia are reassuring the ambassador to washington that donald trump would perhaps go soft on sanctions? well, first of all, i would like to thank michael flynn for his service, many yea rs of michael flynn for his service, many years of service to his country, but obviously, this conversation raises a lot of questions about the trump administration is with russia and taking into account mr trump's state m e nts taking into account mr trump's statements during the campaign and this has raised a lot of concerns in europe. back in january, you said that you had been encouraged by the trump transition team and you felt it was an administration that was going to be more p

he is right that commitments were made at the nato summit in wales in 2014, when all our nato allies committed to spending 2% of their gdp on defence within a decade. we have seen progress, but i agree with president trump that many allies need to go further. i can assure my honorable friends that i and other ministers across government raise the issue regularly with our allies and partners and will continue to do so. ruth cadbury: last week, air pollution in london was worse than in beijing. will the prime minister assure me and my constituents in osterley, brentford and chiswick that the hugely expensive proposal to double the capacity of the m4 as it arrives in london will be shelved forthwith? p.m. may: i can assure the honorable lady that this government take the issue of air quality very seriously. a lot of work has been done. since 2011 more than £2 billion has been committed to enable, for example, bus operators to upgrade their fleets, and to ensure that changes are made to reduce pollution from vehicles such as refuse trucks and fire engines. we do recognise, however, that