Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO, has warned Russia that if Moscow’s attack against Ukraine spills over into other European nations who are member states of NATO, it will force the intergovernmental military alliance to take counteraction.
weakness and the political weakness is getting bigger and that s a problem which we have in the moment we have on the one hand problems inside europe with germany was turkey we see ok so there are struggles potent and then in addition we have the transatlantic problems so one of the big kind of a half how we keep the in the cohesion how they keep us on a devotee bit because only if it s united there s the lions it s going to be strong it s going to be credible in terms of defense and deterrence and that s a major challenge at the moment ok some very interesting opening statements there lots to talk about before we do that talking let s have a look at what the nato military alliance is all about and we re going to begin at the beginning with a signing in one thousand nine hundred forty nine of the north atlantic treaty often called the washington treaty. shortly after the second world war ended twelve countries founded the north atlantic treaty organization among them britain france bel
of minds today. how do you contain a government whose economy is not at all contained in your neighborhood? let s not forget we just heard the secretary of defense, the chairman of the joint chiefs of the united states to announce that largely symbolic but military steps to reassure nato allies in eastern europe and other friends that presumably will trigger some russian military steps. we ll see if this escalates. christine, thanks very much. sorry we lost our connection with monica. we will try to reconnect with her. we will continue our breaking news coverage on the crisis in ukraine right after this. mine was earned in korea in 1953.
says is an augmentation of beefing up of the us air force presence in poland. there is a small team there. they will add to it. they will extend it. it will stay there for a while now. this team allows us and 16 fighter jets in c-130 aircraft to move in and out of poland. it hopes with all of that, it is a bit of a beachhead if you will. next door to russia, it is a signal of support for poland. a country over history that has always had concerns about russia. then, second, the secretary talked about something called the baltic air police mission. let s leave that map up and explain to people what we are talking about. the baltic states, lithuania, astonia on russia s flight, they are small countries and do not have their own air forces. the u.s. through nato and other nato countries will now increase their effort to help defend