ambassador to nato at the time. and when we had suffered that catastrophic attack on new york and on washington d.c., i was in nato headquarters in brussels, and the canadian ambassador came to me and said, have you thought about invoking article five of the nato treaty. article five of the nato treaty is the article that is the heart of our commitment to each other in nato. an attack on one of us, is an attack on all of us. i was so overcome, both emotionally and politically, by the response that i received that night. every single one of our nato allies, and at that time we had 18 nato allies, said we will come to your defense. - i want to reiterate yet again today that the united states of america can rely on the full support of its 18 nato allies in the campaign against international terrorism. - [narrator] washington wants to leave afghanistan more stable than when us and nato forces arrived. - there's been an evolution. in the beginning the strategy in afghanistan was put forward by the bush administration was

nato stationed them here after russia intervened in ukraine. the scenario: the russian army has just seized a strip of land in one of the baltic countries, just like it did in ukraine. the difference is, this time it's a nato country and the u.s. army intends to take it back. >> this is the highest end scenario that we could possibly think of the train on, it's a great opportunity for us to practice the worst case scenario. >> reporter: the drill's main feature is a trench that's nine football fields long. the u.s. military modeled it after a trench used by pro- russian fighters in eastern ukraine. >> what we're prepared for here is this kind of a toe to toe fight here in the trench. using these tools to make sure that that fight is, is as unfair as humanly possible. >> reporter: kevin muhlenbeck is the 2nd cavalry regiment's sergeant major. how real world is this if there was a conflict with russia? >> sir, i will tell you i've been doing this for 25 years and this is some of the most realistic live fire training that i have ever done. it's am

because that bottom up crisis within nato or i've met. we're going to leave it there but we do appreciate your perspective on this fascinating talking to you thanks very much matt and good gen there just appreciate. now amnesty international is accusing european governments of being complicit in the abuse of thousands of refugees in their efforts to curb migration in a report the human rights group says that the use policy of containment shows little care for the consequences for those trapped in libya one example given is the funding by the governments of the libyan coast guard to intercept migrants at sea and the these refugees are then sent to detention centers where they suffer abuse and exploitation there are nearly twenty thousand people in overcrowded buildings the report also says the e.u. is aware of corruption within libya's coastguard accusing it of working with human smugglers. let's speak to cruz over saudi who's a visiting senior scholar at the national university of singapore joins us via skype. so this is a very distressin

i don't disrespect nato. i think nato is wonderful but do you know what? we're paying for 80% of nato. could be higher. they say 72%, so we're paying for 80% of nato. now i can only tell you one thing. it helps them a hell of a lot more than it helps us. okay? and they should pay. germany is paying 1%. we're paying 4%. explain that one to me, right? and germany has unsustainable cash flow. i read a report, their cash flow is unsustainable, so i said to u ngula, i said send a little of that cash flow our way. >> [applause] >> and she said but donald? because we're protecting them. we have 40,000 soldiers in germany. nobody even knows that. i said ungula, let us have some and she said donald? the german people wouldn't be happy with that and i said well do you know what? the american people aren't happy with the way we have it now. >> [applause] >> the american people aren't happy. and at home we're restoring the rule of law. we're interpreting the constitution as written, defend ing the second amendment, you keep your gun. >> [applause] >> and protecting re

what is your view about the importance of nato and what should be done to improve nato? it can thank vladimir putin for giving it a rebirth in some respects. it is reported that the russians probably interfered with our presidential election. we're trying to undermine the trust of the people in our system. and that is a major issue. and what about kim jong-un? the challenge for this is that this is the crisis to prevent a madman, in many people's eyes, from getting a nuclear capability that can actually reach the united states. woman: would you fix your tie, please? well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but okay. just leave it this way. all right. [♪] i don't consider myself a journalist. and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. [david reading onscreen text] while you were in afghanistan, the effort to capture osama bin laden was going forward. capture or kill. capture or kill. how were you alerted to that? because you weren't

>> i do not see an ail delternae to nato. both the european union and nato are european organizations designed to maintain security in the region they do so each in their own political way. obviously europe has certain strengths in the area of social security and nato has, well, been focusing on the traditional military security. in today's world, i think these things are becoming increasingly invisible. it's important that we coordinate the best we can and participate in each other's exercises, for example we do as much together as possible to compliment each other's strengths. i think it's only natural. i think that the european unions permanent cooperation that was launched recently, that's a great way to make europe pay more attention to the need to devote more resources to defense and security and work towards more sharing between the two >> when we talk about that burden sharing, making these economic commitments to nato, are you satisfied with the level of commitment you see from countries? several months ago when we w

european security institutions including nato must be addressed including nato must be addressed to internal and external threats. to address cyberattacks and to address unchecked migration. though we know these are the threats of the future, too many headlines have already declared these are the threats of today. new threats to the united states and europe are long-term, unpredictable in timing and localized in many different places. properly anticipating and combatting these threats require a greater european commitment to security because local responders are the most effective deterrent. while the united states will continue to maintain our guarantees against a catastrophic failure of security in the region and will continue to expand resources to maintain our protective umbrellas, the nations of europe must accept greater responsibility for their own security challenges. our alliances must be made stronger in the current strategic environment. a lack of diligence and duty will only invite greater risk. president trump said in warsaw and i quote, we have to remember that our defense is n

we will not move nato one inch to the east. at which point, negotiations continue but there is a basic fundamental agreement on the point. now, this is the kicker. we all know nato has since moved more than one inch to the east. in fact one would argue it's other up to the russian geopolitical border. and in fact if you want to see the source of russian anger antagonism and frustration with the post-cold war. and with the united states, it stems back, to this original sin of america breaking his promise to gorbachev. not accepting us, not lowering the barriers and pushing them up to the border. you have to be really careful with this one. because this is at the heart of all russian american antagonism today. this is why they hacked your election. because of the anger over this idea. but here's the problem. remember james baker said shake on it? they never did anything more than that. baker was a lawyer. and baker knew, he did not write it down and it did not exist. and the situation began to change. it became clear that they we

troops arriving now and in the coming months to extend nato to advisory effort to afghan troops that are currently without. the number for iraq is fifty two hundred and the number for syria is two times. when the white house provided figures on troop involvement abroad six months ago i was somewhat surprised and number of u.s. lawmakers had no idea that american soldiers were stationed in the former u.s. congressman ron paul told us the level of transparency is surprising but i didn't know there was a thousand troops in niger you heard senator graham there he didn't know we had a thousand troops in the air did you no i did not well i'm fortunately we don't get like surprises it's sort of the routine especially with the new administration because the president has stated that he wants to keep everything under his best under his vest because he doesn't want people to know and he believes that's proper policy but it's not good good law because the constitution says he's not a lot of send troops around the world without the people in the congress knowing about it is because it's very dif

with our nato. defense and nato assets. turkey insists it needs to be able to defend itself and different priorities for each nato country seem to be the reason for destroying political relations and mutual accusations turkey even considered with the moving from the alliance but the spike the war of words among the politicians many seem to be happy under the umbrella. you can only trust russia there are many other countries in nato thank you very much it is not in our interest to withdraw from nato if we do it could be our loss in article five founding treaty members agreed that an attack against one state is an attack against them all. al-jazeera a stumble. human rights watch is calling on the colombian government to hold the promotion of five senior military officers they're being investigated for executing civilians who were wrongly accused of being guerrilla fighters as many as three thousand colombians were allegedly killed by. the government's campaign against the rebels. from bogota for almos

that's according to the nato secretary-general. he outlined some threats the organization faces >> we see a russia which has been willing to use military force against neighbors in ukraine, but also in georgia, and therefore nato has responded by implementing the biggest reinforcement of collected offense since the end of the cold war, with more troops in the eastern part of the alliance, battle groups in the baltic countries, poland, we are also stepping up efforts to strengthen our cyberdefenses so we're doing a lot in addition we see that nato allies are now investing more in defense after years of decline of defense spending. we have three years with increased defense spending across europe and canada so we are moving in the right direction. we're doing more but we need to continue to strengthen our deterrence, and we need to invest more in defense what do you consider to be the greatest threat to the nato alliance today what we see is much more instability. we see threats and challenges coming from many different directions at

head against altenburg says this project will strengthen the european pillar within nato top e.u. officials have also praised her sco e.u. foreign policy chief federica more green called the move historic or also welcomed it pointing out and also welcomed it pointing out e.u. security cannot be outsourced but the foreign minister of poland expressed his concern he called an experiment and raised doubts whether europe needs a second defensive body in addition to nato political commentator john brickwall believes the venture is doomed to fail. was the point of the military is to wage war you can either way the defensive work if you're on the attack or an offensive war if you attack of the counties now you can attack we can three stocks. defending ourselves against whom against obviously against russia but who can think for a second that close i would launch a war against one of its neighbors i mean you see i mean there are bound to lose that war because of relationship of strength this is not good and they don't want a nuclear war nobody wants a nuclear war so i don't see how it mea

georgia's dream of nato membership was over at least for the moment. russia drew another lesson from its victory in the caucasus if it wanted to throw its weight around it would need a modern army when. there were tactical and logistical problems. we invaded georgia with rusty obsolete equipment the georgian artillery caused a lot of casualties and some of our soldiers panicked when they came under fire. from. the russian military is first international deployment since the disintegration of the soviet union revealed the cracks beneath the surface. the former pillar of the soviet empire had been neglected for decades after the war in the caucasus president dmitri medvedev announced a long overdue modernization of the russian armed forces. when you more. with the. us do in that. you get good at them but. i mean that i. never should them and that we don't expect a war like this after twenty twenty five on the assumption that a major world crisis would break out resources would become scarce and people in the most widely differing countries would be starv

i don't disrespect nato. i think nato is wonderful. you know what? we are a paying for 80% of nato. could be higher. they say 72%. so we are paying for 80% of nato. now, i can only tell you one thing. it helped them a hell of a lot more than it helps us. okay? and they should pay. germany is paying 1%. we are paying 4%. explain that one to me, right? and germany has unsustainable cash flow. i read a report. their cash flow is unsustainable. i said angela, i said angela, send a little bit of that cash flow our way. and she said but, donald, because we're protecting them. we have 40,000 soldiers in germany. nobody even knows that. i said angela, let us have some. she said, donald, the german people wouldn't be happy with that. i said you know what in the american people aren't happy with the way we have it now. okay? [cheers and applause] the american people aren't happy. and at home we are restoring the rule of law. we are interpreting the constitution as written, dechesding th defending the secd amendment. you will keep your guns and protecting religious liberty. we are protecting r

that warning comes from senior nato officers. they're concerned that russia could target undersea cables linking europe to the united states. the cables provide important internet and communications links. joining us to discuss this is the deputy director general of the royal united services institute, malcolm chalmers. does it seem russia is back on the scene as a formidable power to be reckoned with?” back on the scene as a formidable power to be reckoned with? i think that's right. in that sense it's not new, it's a trend we have seen over the last decade, very large increase in the russian defence budget which has allowed its forces on land and at sea to be much more active, to train more vigorously, to improve the effectiveness of their operations, compared with a decade ago and that's reflected in submarines surging into the north atla ntic submarines surging into the north atlantic at a rate that they haven't before for more than 20 years so starting to match nato in the levels of activity of their maritime forces. haven

at nato was unacceptable. you know why they said it? because i told the people of nato stand right behind me, while they were standing behind me, they are delinquent, they haven't been paying. i said you got to pay and now they've taken in because of that -- and i guess i emimplied if you don't pay we're out of there. and the press said donald trump was rude to our allies. well they're rude to us when they don't pay. right? so we'll have a nation that doesn't pay. then their nation gets frisky with whoever, russia. so we have a nation doesn't pay. the nation gets aggressive. we end up in world war iii for somebody who doesn't pay. so here's what happened. in the last short period of time, stultenberg who is the head of nato, we've taken in $11 billion extra and going into 2020 or 2021, we will have taken in $33 billion extra and they aren't even doing what they should be doing, just so you understand. it's terrible. the way our country has been disrespected, but we will be disrespected no longer, okay? now cor

that warning comes from senior nato officers. they're concerned that russia could target undersea cables linking europe to the united states. the cables provide important internet and communications links. i've been speaking to malcolm chalmers who is the deputy director of rusi, a think tank based in london. i asked him if russia was back as a big power to reckon with for nato. i think that is right, in that sense, it is into new, is a trend we have seen over the last decade and a large increase in the russian defence budget which has allowed its forces on land and at sea to be much more active, to train more vigorously, to prove the effectiveness of their operations compared with a decade ago and that is reflected in submarines surging into the north atlantic at a rate that they haven't before, or for more than 20 years, so starting to match nato in the levels of activity of the maritime forces. haven't we seen sort of peaks and troughs and, you know, it sort apostolate over the years so some searches of activity and then subsi

right to intervene in the country which has not yet recovered from the destruction inflicted by the nato led intervention of twenty eleven. a summary of the big stories are reported right here this is r.t. international. also today's top stories as well that's where we're starting north korea says the u.s. is begging for nuclear war the statement comes just days after pyongyang launched a new missile that experts say demonstrates significant technological progress washington strongly condemned the test and issued a stern threat to the north leadership. the dictator of north korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer to war not farther from it if war comes make no mistake the north korean regime will be utterly destroyed little rocket man rocket fuel for the american. he is a sick puppy. the north korean crisis centers a new stage with a ballistic missile test as it's widely believed that pyongyang is now capable of hitting the u.s. mainland according to both north and south korea the missile reached an altitude of forward a half thousand kilometers before landing in the s

germany nato cannot survive. the biggest manpower supplier and for all the good pieces are in without nato why are we in europe. remember, first consoles the europeans can't take care of themselves. so matter what happens in the future bush is determined to ensure that we have an american presence. he accepts the deal and the british accept the steel in the french and everyone except for the soviets. they too were finally negotiated into accepting the steel and in a way that is lasting consequences for today. mikael gorbachev, remember him, he came up with the idea that we would demilitarized normalize our relation and we would be accepted by the west agreed ultimately that he would allow the germans to unify, he had both legal authority to say no from treaties never fully implemented after world war ii, the priest judy and secondly, he had 300,000 troops in nuclear weapons on east german soil. here pretty good leverage to say no. he said i will see us provided that you accept us into the west and as long as nato

sealing the deal jackie says it will buy an avant said defense system from russia despite being a nato member. and i mean this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up in the program european governments stand accused of being complicit in the abuse of thousands of refugees in the efforts to stop migration. leave the country will go to prison the choice now facing thousands of african migrants and refugees in israel. fears of a syria outbreak among richenda refugees living in camps in bangladesh more than one hundred suspected cases are reported so far. so tech is expected to finalize a two billion dollars deal with russia to buy the s. four hundred surface to missile system in the us what was made at a joint news conference between president vladimir putin and russia. these ties with russia have become stronger in the past year and many see the new defense deal it's a sign of weakening relations with nato the deal was and the putin made a whistle stop tour of the middle east let's join mohammed it or who speaks to us from. important meeting this tell us more about what was discusse

right to intervene in the country which is not yet recovered from the destruction inflicted by the nato led intervention. with the top stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r.t. international top story north korea say the u.s. is begging for nuclear war the statement comes just days after launched a new missile that experts say demonstrates significant technological progress washington strongly condemned the test issued a stern threat to the north's leadership the dictator of north korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer to war not farther from if war comes make no mistake the north korean regime will be utterly destroyed little rocket man rocket fuel for the american. i he is a sick puppy. of the korean crisis and when you speak with the north ballistic missile test it's believed. capable of hitting the u.s. mainland. according to both north korea the missile reached an altitude of four and a half dollars in kilometers before landing in the sea of japan that's more than ten times higher than the orbit of

you mean they are concerned that this is weakening nato and yet you see the problem is that. it's not going to defend your home along with nato i mean the problem is that you hope given the haitian people forces you hope doesn't need to be defended i did there was no you have be an army whatsoever harsh i would not invade us because invading a county means or preparing it and it means you know governing it if you really go in the eyes of county then you have to govern it you must realize that in your heart afghanistan syria it's why we are not governing this country have been destroying them and the old colonialism old even the control of the soviet union over eastern europe was forcing people to you know take care of the country that the occupy or the control but the russians all have any desire thing to take care of poland why would they do that and so i see no reason whatsoever i mean of course the pools at stake about the versions but that's an old story that the poles don't like their versions of this take every opportunity to stir posted it did towards russia but and of

that logic luckily than the national security strategy does not endorse further nato expansion at least not explicitly and i hope that creates some room for maneuver on that issue so your big broad points that raises a lot of stuff well you know little mike i know in history yeah but yeah i know i know the thesis of your book here and you know it's worth a conversation i agree ok we were very far apart on this here but you know we just had in the last news cycle the trump administration is going to sell lethal arms to ukraine great you know that's that's just plain stupid or just plain stupid ok and that's the but that's a topic for another program let me go back to michael here with you because i want to make sure you get a little bit more time on this program here i mean michael how does the how does terms of foreign policy make america great again. that's a great question and i would i wish this were a three hour program because i packed with your your guests have said i mean this is this is a great program peter you're not wrong but let me let me maybe focus your emphasis just a lit

with our nato. defense and nato assets. turkey insists it needs to be able to defend itself and different priorities for each nato countries seem to be the reason for destroying political relations and mutual accusations turkey even with the warning from the alliance but the spike the war of words among the politicians many seem to be happy under the nato umbrella. you can't only trust russia there are many other countries in nato. it is not in our interests to withdrawal from nato if we do it could be our loss in article five of nato founding pretty members agreed that an attack against one state is an attack against the moment. a stumble. while on sunday this year's nobel peace prize will be handed to the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons or icann in the days leading up to the ceremony and we're looking at the nuclear status off a number of countries pakistan and india have been better rivals since the split that created two separate nations in one nine hundred forty seven and the

protect in a broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake pretty soon nato cruise missiles were flying in order to back up fighters armed by western countries then eventually the country's leader moammar gadhafi was brutally executed here's hillary clinton retelling her version of the events as we came we saw that he died there and then there was that whole weapons of mass destruction routine performed at the united nations by calling powell even brought props less than a teaspoon full of dry anthrax in an envoy shut down the united states senate in the form of two thousand and one iraq declared eighty five hundred liters of anthrax we have no ambition in iraq except to remove a threat so the weapons of mass destruction weren't actually there and now iraq was left in a shambles the main reason we went into iraq it's a time was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction turns out he didn't well bush was forced to admit that he was wrong about iraq but nikki haley is certain there will be no retractions about jerusalem it will move the peace process forward

trump again disrespects nato. don't disrespect nato. think nato is wonderful. but you know what? we're paying for 80% of nato could be higher. they say 72%. so we're paying for 80% of nato. i can only tell you one thing. it helps them a hell of a lot more than it helps us, okay? they should pay. germany's paying 1%. we're paying 4%. explain that one to me. right? and germany has unsustainable cash flow. read a report. their cash flow is unsustainable. so i said to angela, i said, angela, send a lot of the cash flow our way. and she said, but donald -- because we're protecting themment we have 40,000 soldiers in germany. nobody knows that. i said, angela, let us have some. she said, donald, the german people would not be happy with that. said, you know what, the american people aren't happy with the way we we have it now. okay? the american people are not happy. and at home we're restoring the rule of law. we're interpreting the constitution as written, defending the second amendment. you'll keep your guns. and protecting religious liberty. we're protecting religious liberty. and

do mirror the existing nato project to take a closer look let's look at some of the similarities for a start they cluetrain the sis missions which are common in nato operations it will also tackle cyber attacks as well as creating crisis resolution centers is that to get similar to what nato is already doing poland which is signed up to the pact is already questioning the need for a duplicate defense is that we will see how this experiment works out we can always leave the pact if it's in satisfactory for poland the question is whether we really need to have a second defensive body in the u. peace campaign a polka we can martineau believes that even with an extra layer of defense the e.u. still going to struggle to tackle one of its biggest problems and that is violent extremism they are now entering into agreement where they are going to have to increase their military spending at the cost of other needs pascoe does not help with the issue of violent extremism you can invest as much money as you want in tanks and airplanes and other type of military warfare that does not solve the p

functions well let's have a look at some of these crossovers like nato pescado will conduct train and assist missions similarly it will dedicate resources to fighting and preventing cyber attacks and it will also establish crisis resolution centers where nato head yen stoltenberg says this project will strengthen the european pillar within nato but top officials have also praised pascoe in you foreign policy chief federica mother called the move historic while. also welcomed it pointing out that e.u. security cannot be outsourced however the foreign minister of poland expressed his concerns he called pascoe an experiment and raise doubts whether europe needs a second defensive body in addition to nato or political commentator more believes that the venture is doomed to fail. was the pouring that the military is to wage war you can either wish to defensive work if you're on the attack or an offensive word for the attack of the counties where you can attack recounts restocks trunk and trees now defending ourselves against whom against obviously against her but who can think for certain

president calls for military action against human traffickers in libya a country left in ruins by the nato intervention of two thousand and eleven. broadcasting live for our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is our team international in north korea says the u.s. is begging for nuclear war this statement comes just days after pyongyang fired a new ballistic missile which it says is capable of reaching anywhere on the u.s. mainland the test launch provoked an angry response from washington and a call for caution from russia. little rocket man rocket fuel for the american because. he is a sick puppy the dictator of north korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer to war not farther from it and if war comes make no mistake the north korean regime will be utterly destroyed. those who are the americans should start with explaining their intentions to assume that if they are really looking for an excuse to destroy north korea as the u.s. envoy to the u.n. said it's a security council meeting let them spend it out clearly and let the u.

is perhaps pulling back from its global responsibilities absolutely and here at nato stoltenberg says the u.s. is not pulling back from responsibilities he points out that the u.s. has sent more forces into europe has reversed the decline that we saw in recent years including under president trump more forces are coming here especially along the border and along nato is border with russia there are many more troops here than there than there were before so nato says the u.s. is not pulling back all right that's terry shell sending outside the nato headquarters there in brussels terry thank you. well the winter olympics start in just over two months time and today we could see a decision on whether russia gets to take part one on the international olympic committee has already handed down lifetime bans to dozens of russian athletes for links to massive state sponsored doping scandals now the i.o.c. has executive orders meeting to decide whether to throw the entire team in the twenty eight hundred winter games altogether. the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi were a chance for ru

they are a nato partner. in a region where we don't have a choice between democracy and autocracy, that's not on the table, it's the forces of order versus the forces of disorder. turkey has always been a force of order. i think we, again, need to engage, if we could just get a few assistant secretaries confirmed and ambassadors. and start going through the relationship, as happened under ambassadors jeffrey and ambassador edelman. we need to get back to that point. where, indeed, turkey is a nato ally. finally, i would just say, the -- one of the reasons we are where we are was the consistent refusal of the european union to seriously entertain turkey's bid for membership. good enough to fight and die for nato, but not good enough to join the gentlemen's club of the eu. the turks are a proud people. they were embarrassed, i think, by that. and erdogan seized on it. so kind of everybody needs to take a deep breath here. i think this is salvageable. but we kind of need to get on with it. >> thank you. >> senat

involvement let's take a closer look at where the two alliances overlap like nato pascoe will conduct train and assist missions similarly it will dedicate resources to fighting and preventing cyber attacks and it will also establish crisis resolution centers nato secretary general against bolton says the project will strengthen the european role in nato this is an important day for european defense and our. volcom the stronger the european the friends i welcome the initiative to strengthen europe in the france because i believe god's will be good for the european union for europe and for nato it can provide more capability is more the friend spending. burden sharing in foreign policy chief frederica maga really described the signing of pascoe as a historic moment while your claude juncker called it the foundations of a european defense union he said the security of member states cannot be outsourced however the foreign minister of poland gave garden guarded response he called pascoe an experiment saying that warsaw could later leave the alliance if it proved and satisfactory. the u.k.

stronger in the past year and many see the new defense still as a sign of weakening relations with nato deal with an l. substitute in may the whistle stop tour of the middle east this morning from her. reaction to president announcement has been swift there is a feeling of accomplishment here in turkey that turkey on the verge of signing a deal to parties and defense system as four hundred missile defense system from russia of course this is not going to come as good news to need to which has been cruelly following the deal between turkey and russia the united states has over the years been encouraging turkey to buy its own defense system to. turkey say it's highly prized and it doesn't know how much technology america was ready to part with in this in purchasing department ms now all this just shows how fraught relations between turkey and other nato members but say is that you have the right to shop for ms the defense equipment where ever it wishes because it is pursuing its foreign policy and also its neighbor city. girl in the wall and it say's it has pushed the panic button many ti

bearing the vast majority of the budget for nato operations, when all the other nato members have a larger population and g.d.p. putt together than the u.s. does. >> watson: you want to jump in? >> i'll go even further and say, yeah, i think we should bring them all home because people miss-- we're talking about who is paying what percentage-- but we're broke. we're $20 trillion in debt. and i think borrowing $1 millio$ a minute and trying to, you know, exert ourselves militarily, i think the greatesr threat to our national security-- or the greatest threat to the united states is our nationals debt. and i get a lot of crap for that. but the reality is i think that people miss that -- >> you have ape former c.i.a.c agent across there who may say-- >> who is nodding right now. i'd love to comment on this, actually. let's be honest. as much as we-- we haven't even gotten to the moral imperative of being global leaders in supporting democracy around theg world. if wera are willing to cede our position as global leader, we have to accept someone else will fill those shoes. and, come on, global

government and the allies and the nato allies have. so the first bucket would be are there legal tools that we can employ? and i think the answer there is yes, there might be two different kinds of legal tools. one is international law and the other is domestic law. so let me say a little bit about international law. there have been lots of discussions going on for the past five or six years at the u.n. and something called the group of government experts that's asking not just cyber questions related to elections or election interference but broader cyber questions about how can we think about what's appropriate behavior as between countries in cyberspace? they were make going progress. there was a general consensus that the basic principles of international law embodied in things like the u.n. charter were relevant to cyberspace. what happened in 2017 was this basic sort of consensus that well understood norms of international allow applied to cyber broke down. the cubans were the sort of most vocal cause of the breakdown. but i thin

that logic luckily than the national security strategy does not endorse further nato expansion at least not explicitly and i hope that creates some room for maneuver on that issue so your big broad points that raises a lot of stuff well. i want to hone in. i and i know the thesis of your book here and you know it's worth a conversation i agree ok we were very far apart on this here but you know we just had in the last news cycle the trumpet ministration is going to sell lethal arms to ukraine great you know that's that's just plain stupid or just plain stupid ok and that's the but that's a topic for another program let me go back to michael here with you because i want to make sure you get a little bit more time on this program here i mean michael how does how does terms of foreign policy make america great again. that's a great question and i would i wish this were a three hour program because i packed with your your guests have said i mean this is this is a great program peter you're not wrong but let me let me maybe focus your emphasis just a little bit aside again it's a non-diploma

has no right to leave the country which has not yet recovered from the destruction inflicted by the nato led intervention of twenty eleven. by the actual seven day summary of the week's biggest stories as reported right here on r.t. on welcome to the weekly first off they're going to bring you up to date on some breaking news that we brought you about half an hour ago from new york police there are searching for a driver who rammed his car into pedestrians killing one person and critically injuring three others the incident happened just over three hours ago now at about four forty five am local time it happened in the borough of queens reportedly after a dispute one witness there says there was a knife fight outside a bar during which a white sedan was then driven into a group of people the associated press news agency are citing a police detective who says that the incident is not believed to be terror related . to sunday's news north korea says the u.s. is begging for nuclear war the statement comes just days after pyongyang launched a new missile which it says is capable of reaching

government and its allies, especially its nato allies, have. ms. deeks: so the first bucket would be legal tools we can employ. i think the answer is yes there. might be two different kinds of legal tools. one is international law and the other is domestic law. , so let me just say a little bit about international law. there have been lots of discussions going on for the past five or six years at the u.n. and something called the group of government experts. that's asking not just cyber questions related to elections or election interference, but broader cyber questions about how can we think about what's appropriate behavior between countries in the cyberspace. they were making some good success, some good progress up until 2017. and by that i mean, there was at least a general consensus that the basic principles of international law embodied in things like the u.n. charter were relevant to cyberspace. so that is, if something happened in cyberspace that produced the equivalent of an armed attack, well then the state -- the victim had a right of s