Also coming up on the show germany rolls out its Coronavirus Tracking and tracing app it is voluntary but how effective it will look like. Im brian thomas great to have you with us u. S. President dollar trump says hes slashing the number of american troops in germany by nearly 10000 because berlin is quote the link when in its spending commitments on nato and treats the us badly on trade the announcement confirms a leaked to us media earlier this month u. S. Troops have been stationed in germany since young of world war 2. It had been the subject of speculation since plans were leaked to the media earlier in the month. On monday President Trump made it official he announced the u. S. Would be withdrawing thousands of troops from germany bringing the number of u. S. Soldiers stationed in the country down 225000. He blamed berlins reluctance to meet its nato spending commitments the us and germanys delinquent theyve been delinquent for years and they owe nato billions of dollars and the
Tracing how effective it is being. Plus of venice is reopening its canals and landmarks to International Tourism but despite the sharp drop off inters cash after months of lockdown not everyone is welcoming their return. Im brian thomas great to have you with us today south korea has accused the north of blowing up a joint leaves own office near the border between those 2 countries the office seen here when it was opened 20 teen handles enter korean relations is situated in the town of k. Song thats just north of the border the explosion comes as tensions between the 2 sides escalate over a leafleting Campaign Going yang is furious at seouls failure to stop activists from air dropping propaganda over the border into the north. Ok lets get up to date on this breaking news story from correspondent frank smith joining us from south Koreas Capital seoul good day to you frank whats the latest what caused this incident well this is really an escalation of what had been kind of an Ongoing Cam
Concerns. And President Trump confirms washington will be slashing us from in germany he says hes acting because berlin has not been paying its fair share of naders budget. Im brian Thomas Critelli with us today north korea has blown up a joint lives own office near the border between the 2 countries the office seen here when it was 1st opened in 20 teen handles inter korean relations situated in the town of case song thats just north of the border the explosion comes as tensions between the 2 sides escalate escalate over a leaflet in campaign pyongyang has sharply condemned souls failure to stop activists from air dropping propaganda over the border into the north. Lets get up to date on this breaking news story with correspondent frank smyth in the souls in seoul south south Koreas Capital good day to you frank can you phils on on the latest on what sparked this incident. Well this was sparked by north korea again harshly criticizing the south korean government for its failure failur
Welcome to the program. Chinese troops along with. Its troops. The confrontation took place in the gulf. Between the 2 sides or the last month this is the 1st incident. In more decades. What is the latest on this. Im going to actually happen here and all its all is that there are that limited she meetings going on and on the scene for the not to far off from there thats why i didnt happen in an effort to defuse the situation that ive also been heavy Media Coverage invalid and yeah ive spent less time and the occupant reports that in just in time her last minister met the document actually does to discuss the situation on indian media is continually all sort of or take that they believe that have been casualties on the chinese side as well however that has been no official statement on this from china india has confirmed that shell put solar just including a high level office so has been fitted in standoff last evening that also reports that most shots were fired so this was a physical
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