Drove the game so youve heard the americans are finally pulling out of a treaty one so it has been here a killing we have one side has with theirs theres no mistaking that the russians have chosen to occupy with this treaty by people still when the treaty is needed to be interests of mission and European Security. We provided russian ample time to mend its ways for russia to honor its commitment. Also coming up tonight to sing or not to sing the Eurovision Song Contest is no stranger to controversy but this years pageant in israel as attracting board than usual in may funds from all over the world expected to come here to tel aviv where the song contest is being held but this by day and. Thats being caused to boycott the event. A warm well. To all of you watching on p. B. S. In the United States and our viewers around the world we begin today with the u. S. Plans to withdraw from yet another Key International treaty the intermediate range Nuclear Forces or an f. Treaty eliminated an entire class of Nuclear Weapons when it was signed by reagan and gorbachev during the cold war but today the Trump Administration has said the u. S. Will exit the deal in six months because russia has failed to comply now fears of a new Nuclear Arms Race are growing in the one nine hundred eighty s. With missiles from both nato and the eastern bloc deployed nearby east and west germany run the front line of the Nuclear Arms Race meeting to mass protest against american Nuclear Weapons in west germany. Fabienne fund a mock traveled to the Southern City of heilbronn where american Medium Range Missiles were based in the one nine hundred eighty s. Here in this clearing in southern germany American Nuclear missiles were stationed during the one nine hundred eighty s. The only building left of what used to be the us army vul tided base this barrack number nine zero one american soldier Larry Nichols was stationed here in the eightys when one of the worst situations imaginable actually occurred on january eleventh one thousand nine hundred five a person two missile exploded one thought it was a Nuclear Explosion it was a shocker i mean were talking about a Nuclear Weapon carrier or rocket motor. For Something Like that happen here hype of the cold war. The whole world was alarmed three u. S. Soldiers died sixteen were seriously wounded because created the memorial in their own or he never got over his fear of Nuclear Weapons you didnt know exactly what was going to happen but you knew what you had. And what you were capable of doing. And that was frightening yes. It was only after this accident that the people of had been were informed that Nuclear Missiles were stationed directly in their vicinity it took another three years for the missiles to be removed after the i n f treaty was agreed on the title was the first base in germany to remove and destroy its Nuclear Missiles hes a bishop tight and knows the story from her parents and from her High School Classes shes a member of the local green party and actively involved in protests against Nuclear Armaments we have as recently im terrified by this i think that theres nothing more important than keeping world peace in particular that no Nuclear Weapons are employed also that is he countries as possible have Nuclear Weapons so that accidents are less likely to happen. She meets Larry Nichols the former soldier. Both worry that history could repeat itself. From vision and has said that he wants to back out of the Nuclear Missile treaty whats your opinion on this. New us missiles nichols is unsure how he feels about that America America is in a very very difficult situation at the moment and my opinion is that everyones fold. In the one nine hundred eighty s. There were massive demonstrations against u. S. Missiles across germany including here and. Hes a bishop i would attend the protest march if there were one today to rid off here i would definitely go out and demonstrate its very important to me that peace remains our top priority i would definitely go out and join a protest for this cause. Back at the form of all tied to base the old us soldier and the young pacifist share the same fear that the arms race between russia and the us will start up again and no one will have learned from the mistakes of the past. For more on this im joined by paul walker hes the director of Green Cross Internationals Environmental Security and Sustainability Program hes a right livelihood award laureate as well we heard there that question posed at the end of the report house russia and the us learned from the mistakes of the past. You know thanks for asking that question i dont think they really have at this point i mean theres really been no excuse for putin and the russians to produce this new ground launch Cruise Missile which the u. S. And others allege is in violation of the union after it and theres also no reason for the United States to begin a research and development on new ground launch Cruise Missiles or new ballistic intermediate range Ballistic Missiles either so its a big concern i think trumps announcement today is very disturbing and really could lead to a new Nuclear Arms Race and much lower security in a new cold war in Central Europe now today looking at this treaty it sounds a little bit as a terribly not only bans a very specific class of weapons right so why is this treaty still valuable now in twenty nineteen versus one thousand nine hundred seventy but we ideally want to keep Nuclear Weapons away from any sort of you know point of of danger in Central Europe of course with nato and was a pact forces years ago facing off against each other was a very very. Difficult and sensitive area if you want to keep Nuclear Weapons out of europe as much as we can as well as other as i say touch points such as the South China Sea today with the chinese to introduce new Nuclear Weapons or missiles which violate the i. N. F. Treaty that is missiles with a range of between five hundred and fifty five hundred kilometers would be a big step backward weve weve managed this treaty quite well for thirty years. The russians may have very well violated it were not certain yet and thats what really requires right now more diplomacy and on site inspections and verification regimes rather than threats to pull out of the treaty the way trump has Just Announced well actually paul hang in there for just a second we want to play a bit of what president from had to say today and self about this decision take a listen to one side has not put it here into it we have but one side has it somewhat less to go to what here we should be the only one i hope that were able to get everybody in a very big and beautiful room and do a new treaty that would be much better. Now paul you were just touching on this i mean is the president right has russia failed to hold up its end of the bargain with this treaty. You know we really dont know for sure. Theyve produced something called the nine m. Seven twenty nine missile its a its a they allege a four hundred fifty kilometer a ground launch Cruise Missile they most recently opened up you know to a view of it so that western inspectors we needed took a look at it in western russia. The u. S. Intelligence agencies allege that theyve witnessed a test of this missile longer than five hundred kilometers and if its if a test was made over five hundred kilometers it indeed is a violation the russians on the other hand you that the americans are potentially violating the treaty and that is by the deployment of surface to air defenses called aegis on land something called the s. M. Three mach forty one Missile Systems which weve recently deployed in rumania allegedly to protect against possible future iranian missiles and so the this is not only a very troubling time with the trump announcement today but its also an opportunity i would emphasize that both the russians and the americans can get together inspect each others allegations go to see the Russian Missile go to see the american deployments in romania and elsewhere and try to negotiate this is all negotiable and i think you can limit the size of these missiles you can limit the fuel of the rocket motors everything is potentially negotiable so my hope it may be too optimistic but my hope is that this can be negotiated over the next six months if not the treaty will fail and that will cost be another major treaty along with the a. B. M. Treaty that the americans withdrew from in two thousand and two that really is starting to look like a new cold war and a much more dangerous period particularly security and youre now to have those negotiations maybe those inspections that you were just mentioning you have to have a level of trust you have to have a level of access do you think that those two things exist right now in terms of the relationship between russia and the u. S. You know we have very little trust now between russia and the United States in the west we also have very little access i mean putin and the kremlin began closing down remember remember as probably ten years ago they threw out the peace corps they threw out a id the agency for International Development theyve thrown out all the cooperate of Threat Reduction workers and we had worked for twenty years in russia i did a lot of that work myself as well in helping the russians to secure. Consolidate and destroy their Nuclear Warheads their biological weapons laboratories and the chemical stockpiles which were the largest in the world. That all has sort of fallen away in the last five six seven years and the United States itself has alleged that the russians of violating the i. N. F. Treaty since two thousand and fourteen formally so both under the Obama Presidency and now the Trump Presidency but i think for President Trump to sort of throw the gauntlet down at this point and thrilly threaten to withdraw from the treaty putin will then of course as well and then we left without an i. N. F. Treaty. We could renegotiate a new treaty we could put this maybe under auspices of the new start agreement that we signed with the russians in two thousand and ten theres still options ahead but i just hate to see the russians violating the treaty or even even the image of violating the treaty and i hate to see the americans begin a research and development on a counter weapon a ground launch Cruise Missile from the west and thats started by the way in the fiscal year two thousand and eighteen budget when money was appropriated in in the Republican Congress in washington to Begin Research and development on a counter weapon to the russian weapon and President Trump getting a lot of criticism for this move today but almost immediately nato allies came out and said that they quote fully support this move by the u. S. So where does that leave us is this a tactic by trump or is it something that the west supports. I dont think the west really supports this i mean i think maybe stoltenberg you know had to come out publicly and just say hes in favor of you know looking into the allegations that russians are violating i mean after and we all are i mean i dont want russia to violate the treaty nor do i want the americans to violate the treaty at all and so its important i think and i accept the fact that nato is fully behind. Trumps arguments that the russians need to come clean the problem is the russians of course argue that the americans have to come clean to on this on this mock forty one launch system in romania and elsewhere on aegis ships that can be done and i think thats really what nato at this point is arguing lets talk engage in diplomacy on site inspections really get the experts on both sides into see if we can overcome these perhaps misperceptions of this point in time and continue with the treaty but if we dont and this may be the intention of trump himself i really dont think nato will in the end long run support this i remember the the protests in the one nine hundred eighty s. Against pershing twos and ground launched Cruise Missiles look comes we call them back then in the s. S. Twenty from the from the soviets and those will happen again im sure nobody nobody in europe here wants more Nuclear Weapons in europe i was six months of talks could be on the horizon paul walker director of Green Cross InternationalEnvironmental Security and Sustainability Program thank you very much. Thank you e. U. Foreign ministers are meeting in a Bucharest Romania today and the demise of the i. N. F. Treaty was of course on the agenda there the w correspondent the barber of a deal has been covering that meeting for us barbara a welcome first we just want to listen to what germanys foreign minister heikal moss had to say at those meetings. Were going to i know without the Nuclear Missile treaty there would be less security but we recognize that this treaty has been violated by the russian side and that during the last sixty days unsuccessful attempts have been made to clear up the accusations more transparency and more information. In so far as this is a treaty between two signatories and that one is in violation of it the treaty is de facto suspended. Barbro had moss there basically saying look no treaty means less security how important is this treaty to germany and to europes security oh all the Foreign Ministers here in bucharest have stressed when they talked about this today that this was when one of the main pillars of the European Security architecture this was the end more or less of the cold war and that was is signed off relief in europe when that was over and there was a sense of hope you never really thought now things would get better the high tension atmosphere of those years was over you could look to the future europe would then. Then begin to be reunited and it was all just a completely different time full of optimism and now there was this face a feeling here today when you listen to a minister speaking that want us everybody said ill be forming back into the time of cold war are we seeing sort of like a revamp of that old times will be see demonstrations in the streets again and there was also a strong feeling of sort of zine tea and dismay at watching this development that everybody emphasized europe was the victim off so it sounds to me from your account there that european leaders theyre actually worried about a potential new arms race happening. Absolutely totally worried and that was mentioned more or less by everyone here the Foreign Policy chief eric m a greenie of the European Union and she even talked about europe as a potential battleground of the future something concept that seems to sort of be part of the past that seem to be sort of overcome i mean that was yesterday we had that and everybody thought that those days were over and now you have to think about it again would this mean a new deployment of american missile. Along the eastern borders of europe we also have to see of course that that is the point where the divisions begin in europe i mean everybody was complaining or was sort of very very sad and very plaintive today about what happens but on the other hand you know that if you listen more closely to the ministers from the Baltic States or for instance poland you know that they feel insecure they feel imminently stretton by russia all the time and they would not be against new missiles american missiles on their soil so there with the differences begin between some Eastern States and western europe and also that seems to be like a fall back into former years. Briefly if you can i mean weve heard that many in europe they want to salvage this treaty but what exactly can can european leaders do to make that happen. I mean there are some initiatives germany france is trying to hold or is planning a this armament conference in bolin in march its not quite sure who is going to come to that table and there is talk about sort of including everything modern weapons. Robotic killers cyber drones some just the whole arsenal that has been given has been developed over the last years and to include china in a session like that and begin you talks a completely new round of disarmament talks box i mean that is yet the hope it is very slow moving and europe is not that active in it the big powers are the ones who are the players in this game all right barbara basal and book rest for us tonight thank you very much. Israel is gearing up to host this years euro vision song contest in may the annual celebration is rarely a stranger to controversy but this year its been turned up a notch israels human rights record towards palestinians is the focus of a movement to boycott the event to peace critics organizers move the location from the contested city of jerusalem to tel aviv but protesters say thats not enough and now the show meant to bring nations together looks like its heading in the opposite direction kramer sent us this report. From the town israels Eurovision Song Contest last year in lisp she was the publics favorite. Food and distinctive song toy to change her life as musician. What a hundred and eighty degrees different i was a blues artist singing and basements and i did my looper stuff at home whoever had who i wouldnt have imagined in in twelve months. To become that perfect everyone is where the right to host this years contest for the first time in twenty years is. In may from the start all over the world expected to come here to tel aviv where the song contest is being held but despite the enthusiasm thats being caused to boycott the events hosting the grand finale in tel aviv rather than in jerusalem a city with internationally contested status has deflected some of the controversy several International Artists and celebrities have started petitions to stay away from the event accusing israel of piloting palestinian human rights and its military occupation a lot of people demonstrated in all sorts of countries weird and england and ireland against sending some of the singers to israel to the show and no one canceled which is surprising having said that we have three months to go im pretty sure its going to be loud very loud i mean a lot of demonstrations letters experience criticism herself on social media and on stage but she prefers to focus on her music and has just released his second singing this process about. A reporter all our stock has been following the eurovision controversy at least this years controversy joins me in studio to walk us through it just tell us more first of all about this call for a boycott i mean your vision has always tried to try to proceed to be nonpolitical but as you said before you know that every year there is there is a political as you know political you know you remember russia and ukraine if you just back then just last week during the French National final of the show we had protesters storming the stage with an hour. Thing is for al and then finally now this week a letter an open letter was posted on the guardian asking for the British Public broadcaster the b. B. C. To boycott the competition for. Info you know and to try to me the competition out of israel the letter was signed by more than fifty british cultural personalities i mean they include session just on the Vivienne Westwood we have musicians like Peter Gabriel roger waters who you might know from pink floyd film directors mike lee can loach so you know respected and and treasured artists who have signed this letter. And you know i mentioned the french final earlier every every country has to participate they have their own National Final and the british form is known as you decide and so in this open letter theyve used this name to get their political message through you know they write the b. B. C. Should consider that you decide. Its not a principle. Principle extended to the palestinians who cannot decide to remove israels military occupation and live free of apartheid now the signatories are you know asking the same is to the same as are taking part in the u. K. Show to look inwards and see if they want to. Have this on their conscience oh how is this letter playing out so far. I mean the b. B. C. They have reacted with as they went off their own they say the your vision song contest is not a political events and does not endorse any political message or campaign we do not believe it would be appropriate to use to b. B. C. s participation for political reasons we found some reactions online as well as social media scottish Duncan Hunter so well highlights that israel is not the first country with dubious human rights records when it comes to hosting your vision he asks can anyone remember whether mike lee Vivienne Westwood at. The b. B. C. To boycott your vision when it was held in famously human rights friendly russia and we also have reaction from one in the shrubbery who is a palestinian legislator and scala she writes the Israeli Occupation is nothing to sing about it we salute the courage and integrity of all of his original to be complicit in israeli crimes so the b. B. C. Is not budging and you know. Both sides have arguments for the b. B. C. Theyre saying either this isnt political but of course it is political i mean weve seen politics kind of creep into the music world in general before right especially over israel yeah i mean theres theres this movement called b. D. S. Stands for boycotts divestments sanctions theyve been calling for a cultural boycott of his friends for a long time many high profile International Artists have you know in recent years canceled their. Their concerts including you know we have to mention a few london reynaud Elvis Costello lauryn hill but we also have artists who dont who dont support the movement famously in the cave he a few years back he defended his tour two of his friends saying that it was an attempt to censor musicians so well see if any of the british contestants in this in the National British final. Death will be aired on the fifth story the eighth of february so wait and see not in the euro vision final in may. All right. Thank you very much thanks for. The day is nearly done but the conversation continues online youll find us a deal dot com on twitter at the news or you can follow me as well as assman thanks for watching and for making us part of your day ill leave you with images of the Worlds Largest annual human migration in china where millions of city dwellers are heading home for the holidays. The latest from munich b. M. W. The love of the series. And of the mark of the seventh generation to come for us from. The late troy the legendary motor show taking place for the last time before the round and theres no shortage of primitive. Tribes in sixty minutes called w. Earth home to millions of species a home worth saving. 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