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Deterrent capability. you see, at work here is one fundamental thing as well beijing is beginning to convince itself that at an operational level, the united states of america is changing its one china policy. its actually in substance moving, and therefore, china for its own domestic political reasons therefore need to demonstrate that it will not accept that under any circumstances. a bit of perspective there. lets cross over to washington to speak to barbara who joins us now. explain to us in...

Collective interest to do that. and i think thats the kind of decision that we have to make if you want to protect their people. it will be costly. thats part of international reality these days. there is a lot of talk about the likes of the us and the uk using the proceeds. it is and the uk using the proceeds. it is a case of and the geopolitics of russia, china, iran and the geopolitics of russia, china, iran are and the geopolitics of russia, china, iran are now and the geopolitics of russia,...

Continuously and keep a close eye on the movement of iranian forces. right now we dont know how many troops that will add up to, and were told its a phase. its a first phase. they hope to add to the deterrent capability, convince iran not to do anything that would cause the u.s. military response, the pentagon adamant its not looking to that. but if it comes to that, theyre looking at additional forces. >> well keep our eye own that. thank you for reporting. we have breaking news from capitol ...

Nuclear test site in the countrys northern side to prove the vow to suspend nuclear tests. progress being made for all. jeremy, your turn. >> well, nobodys smarter than joe on these issues and i agree with his overall take. i think there are reasons, though, even though were on the right track, the diplomatic track, to drive under a yellow caution flag. first of all, the north korean dictator is not giving up his nuclear weapons. hes merely saying, i have enough testing data, i have all of my we...

The vow to suspend nuclear tests. progress being made for all. jeremy, your turn. >> well, nobodys smarter than joe on these issues and i agree with his overall take. i think there are reasons, though, even though were on the right track, the diplomatic track, to drive under a yellow caution flag. first of all, the north korean dictator is not giving up his nuclear weapons. hes merely saying, i have enough testing data, i have all of my weapons. i may even have the ability to deliver to the unit...

Enough testing data, i have all of my weapons. i may even have the ability to deliver to the united states. we dont know that for certain. and, therefore, i dont need to do further testing in order to maintain my deterrent capability. i agree with joe. were a long way away from the end result we all need, which is effectively north korea dismantling its nuclear program. second is the north koreans have made these promises in the past, and everybody knows that in the mid-2000s they made similar p...

More specifically the state department and the secretary of state himself even knowing about it, what is the potential that those possibilities have been thought out? >> good critique. but all of these summits are dangerous. go back to reagan/gorbachev. here reagan and gorbachev finally sat down and talked, lets not blow up the world. and they came up with some ideas that were quite strange like zero ballistic missiles, lets do away with all ballistic missiles. well, the military went nuts and t...

The reality is u.s. missile defenses are not aimed at trying to stop the russians because theres no sense that the russians are planning to attack the united states. those missile defenses are aimed at stopping a single north korean or iranian missile. putin well knows that. theres no indication here planned to attack the united states. he wants to have these capabilities. he want to be able to talk about him and an intimidation factor. thats really what the underlying u.s. military assessment i...

Because nobody could even invision why you would need them here anymore our aviation brigade significantly reduced and by the way all of our allies have done the same thing now with russias aggressive behavior everybody realizes that russia only respects strength so you have to bring back we quit killing are we quick enough is it the reaction towards the situation and you said yourself the russians are changing the security environment what is the necessary respond to that so are we doing enough...

Because nobody could even invision why you would need them here anymore our aviation brigade significantly reduced and by the way all of our allies have done the same thing now with russias aggressive behavior everybody realizes that russia only respects strength so you have to bring back we quit killing are we quick enough is it the reaction towards the situation and you said yourself the russians are changing the security environment what is the necessary respond to that so are we doing enough...