security situation so i want to come back to that in just a minute but staying with the contrast between nine hundred eighty seven and today the world has of course changed a lot since then so too have the parties to this treaty russia and the u.s. and the united states says that a newly revealed in this aggressive russia is not abiding by the treaty so i mean it s evolved russia being at least denies that who s right. difficult for me to tell. but most experts in the west actually say russia has this cruise missile and lights the i.n.f. treaty meaning its range is bigger than five hundred kilometers. so nato clung to that russia is in violation and i think what we are seeing right now is maybe the very very final and of the bipolar world order. with this
a german british author of the daily newspaper the valves and he says the west won the last arms race there s no reason we shouldn t win this one if we stop yemen or any and start building missiles and installing missile defense systems and it s great to welcome sabina siebold she is a defense expert at the thomson reuters news agency and her statement this mention of the nuclear arms treaty is another sign that our old world order based on treaties is dissolving and that the power structure in the world is being renegotiated also regarding the rise of countries like china. so let me start out by asking you to take us back to the one nine hundred eighty s. when the i.n.f. treaty originally was signed and i gather that you are like me you re probably old enough to remember the enormous sense of relief that that produced in germany and elsewhere in europe why was that can you remind our younger viewers what was at stake indeed in nine hundred eighty seven the completion of that treaty re
less than minutes of warning. nuclear nuclear war could read a cave. why parts of europe. and the nuclear world would be limited to europe was ending the positive about the treaty was that it was a confidence building measure which income in addition to the end of the cold war controverted largely to denuclearization of european security with going down from thousands of weapons on both sides to west then two hundred today existing in middle countries. but on the other hand the risk now is that it will take place the read nuclearization of the european security debate and also the european security situation so i want to come back to that in just a minute but staying with the contrast between nine hundred eighty seven and today
israel gears up to host this year s euro vision song contest but the event is already mired in controversy. i m sorry someone s going to it s good to have you with us the u.s. says it will withdraw from a key arms control treaty secretary of state mike pompei or announced the u.s. will suspend its compliance with the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty i enough with russia tomorrow saturday and will withdraw from the accord in six months if moscow does not end its alleged violation of the pact that the u.s. and the soviet union signed the i.n.f. treaty in one nine hundred eighty seven now the u.s. says a new generation of russian cruise missiles violates the pact here s what u.s. secretary of state my compares said just a few moments ago. russia s violation puts millions of europeans and americans
old argentinian to be as they look to stay ahead in the title race. stuttgart knew center back was on cabot is even younger and another teenager to arrive in the bundesliga is byron s out phone so davies the canadian joins the reigning champions for ten million euros as their only major newcomer but overall it was a quiet transfer window for the bavarians who were unable to make a star signing this january. our minder now of our top story here on g.w. u.s. secretary of state my compost says the trumpet ministration is suspending its participation in a key nuclear disarmament pact with russia the us will withdraw completely from the one nine hundred eighty seven i n f treaty of moscow does not and alleged violations of the pact within six months . coming up next on d w news asia india s government delivers its last budget before a general election there are big bonuses for farmers in the middle class but will