Jon also this morning president obama to hold a News Conference moments from now in wales. Good morning, welcome to this friday edition of happening now, im jon scott. Heather and im heather in for jenna lee today where the president is wrapping up this weeks nato summit in wales. Western leaders now agreeing to a new Rapid Response military team. The goal with that is to try to counter russias recent aggressions, plus to strike a coalition of allies to strike back against isis. Our chief white house correspondent, ed henry, is live for us in cardiff, wales. What can you tell us today . Reporter well, good to see you, heather. Theres a lot of skepticism about this ceasefire potential because, lets remember, just a couple of days ago there were reports out of ukraine of a ceasefire as well, and that crumbled pretty quickly. Thats why, i think, when you connect the dots, thats why nato leaders here in wales are moving forward on twofronts, in case this ceasefire again does not hold. Numb
From the broader perspective, one of the main issues is whether the russians are able to revive a cold war strategy of dividing the United States from european allies. The meeting designed to get everybody here on the same page ahead of as you said talks that are in that peace that are set for wednesday. Kasie hunt thank you. This News Conference expected to start in about 40 minutes. We will bring that to you live of course. Also developing the family of the American Woman held by isis is holding out hope shes still alive. Theres been no confirmation of Kayla Muellers fate and no further word since isis claimed she was killed by a Jordanian Air strike in syria. However, jordan says it did not target the area where isis says kayla was held. Jordan is vowing to quote, wipe out isis after it captured air force pilot was burned alive. Keir simmons reported from an air base not far from the border with syria. Reporter the Jordanian Air force say they have been pounding isis targets with 2,
The Italian Coast Guard patrolling the adriatic sea faces a constant and highly dangerous battle their enemy albanian kenniff the smugglers and. We have super fast boats for pursuing our targets as soon as we discover them we can go more than one hundred kilometers per hour. From. Their lot. They fight criminals where others usually go on holiday. To. A body in southern italy where in the high Security Military they said the italian tax and customs police. This is some of the cannabis weve confiscated in just the first few months of this year we seized twenty times. The same amount as we confiscated and the region of appear in the whole of two thousand and sixteen. Colonel Antonella Maggio it is a highly decorated twenty five year veteran of the guardia the financer and heads a unit of two hundred coast guards his team patrolled the southern adriatic and this is his trophy collection boats highly maneuverable and fitted with powerful engines seized from cannabis smugglers who were arre
Were the ones that have stayed in the agreement and weve honored the agreement. But russia has not, unfortunately, honored the agreement. So were going to terminate the agreement. Were going to pull out. This treaty has been in effect since 1987 when president reagan signed it alongside soviet leader gorbachev. Ryan, what does this move mean . Reporter ana, as you said, this treaty dates back to the days of the cold war. It eliminated a wide range of medium to short range Nuclear Capable missiles. The soviet union and the United States came to this agreement. Prior to that there had been an arms race in europe so this agreement helped end that arms race and reduce tensions during the cold war. The United States has long accused russia of being in violation of this treaty, of developing and fielding a missile banned by this treaty. The United States has now announced its intent to leave the treaty. China is not party to this treaty, and senior u. S. Military commanders assess that 90 of
A small french town are hoping for just that and beijing makes a big promises in brussels pledging equal treatment of chinese and Foreign Companies but will china walk the walk. Across the program the International Monetary fund sees the Global Economy at a quote delicate moment the Organization Organizations chief Economist Says that while she does not predict a global recession there are many side risks the i. M. F. Forecasts Global Growth of three point three percent this year and three point six percent and twenty thats a slowdown over last year and weaker than originally forecast weakness is expected in the United States thanks to trade wars and proposed tariffs on cars all the worries are drags it and a general economic slowdown in the worlds second biggest economy in china. Now for more on those lets bring in our financial correspondent in frankfurt the i. M. F. Says this is a delicate moment for the World Economy and some Major Players like china or germany might need to take s