russia is going to come back into compliance they ve put an enormous investment into this missile system that s accused of breaching the i and if treaty it would have to destroy the missiles the launchers all of the paraphernalia that go with that system nobody thinks that s going to happen so yeah at the end of that sixty days plus six months you re right it s basically going to be a free for all the united states of course wants to be free to advance its own missile systems with it with china surging ahead and russia surging ahead so it simply thinks it should be free to to do the same thing now. between russia. we certainly talked about them a lot here at nato today there was an entire session on georgia and ukraine and of course it doesn t help russia s case when it is you know breaching international law and by blocking ukrainian ships in the current strait it was used by secretary
bush he was no stranger to war games he was a decorated world war two fighter pilot the u.s. ambassador to china where that country was opening up he was the former head of the cia i mean this was a qualified president when he became president what do you think his legacy will be right here would your. well brant you know there have been a lot of mentions here in europe of the legacy of president bush and you know i think that he was a man with whom we europeans could feel comfortable he knew their history having been a world war two veteran having lived through the cold war having helped end the cold war by many accounts he played a role in germany s unification as chancellor merkel has pointed out and i think that what i really find striking is that people can t help but compare him to the president that we have now in the united states someone who doesn t seem to know how nato is funded that s those are those are you know things that would not happen
and it seems that the list at least here in europe just keeps getting longer longer and. the list keeps getting longer and the problem the main problem is that you cannot i mean the normal the normal mechanisms of your of the european union that ministers get together and then the leaders the political leaders get together and then they figure out a compromise and then things somehow carry on carrying on that doesn t work anymore the national leaders are more and more helpless as we if now see for instance if we move to france and crumbs against for instance internet driven revolts and movements that are diffuse that can be really sort of there s nobody you could talk to really among the yellow vests and you look at similar phenomenon in other countries and so the problem is that the the the machinery the
there s been public transport for years on end and plus the incomes are lower and unemployment is higher so that is i mean it is really a recipe for disaster does he not listen to use advisors does he not have better sense doesn t he talk to the the regional governors for instance to his own parliamentarians who come from the regions nobody really knows because his court in paris is completely closed it s sort of hermetic and nobody looks inside but there are problems there are other correspondent in brussels on the story fortunately for producer barbara thank you. our next democracy disconnect takes us inside the british parliament. the british parliament votes next week yes or no prime minister to resign may s brix plan not
inauguration day, other gop senators feel the way flake and mccain do and aren t as willing to say it publicly. the speech we re about to see partly directed as his fellow gop senators trying to convert them. it s also an important moment because flake is trying to get people to focus on what the impact is of the daily drip drip drip of trump s poisonous words about the media. here s a part we didncan put on screen, it was shared ahead of time, when a figure in power reflexively calls any press that doesn t suit him fake news, it is that person that should be the figure of suspicion, not the press. trying to turn that fake news slur around on president trump and think about what the impact of the words are. and i think trying to in a way defend the press and talk about the role of the press in democracy, pretty unusual to see in this era of attacks against the media. it will be notable to see it on the senate floor. we re looking at live pictures chuck schumer there.