Colonel they will welcome to you. The United States is today formally ending a landmark cold war weapons control agreement both the u. S. And russia have now walked away from the intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty or the i. M. F. The u. S. Secretary of state my concrete old blamed moscow for the collapse of the treaty in a treat form deal said the u. S. Gave russia 6 months to return to compliance with the intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty russia refused so the treaty ends today. Now the u. S. Reportedly plans to test a new myside rich a would have been prohibited and the moscow says it is dead because of the u. S. And is calling on washington not to deploy anymore dockets. 987. 00 the historic agreement between the soviet union and the United States president Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan signed the i. N. F. Treaty marking a change of course after decades of Cold War Nuclear tension. The root of the tension was this the soviet s s 20 missile a Nuclear Warhead that could strike western europe at short notice. That worried those European Countries on the other side of the iron curtain were well within the missiles reach of 5 and a half 1000 kilometers. The u. S. Response was to deploy its own mid range pershing missiles in europe that was met with protests across the west the demonstrations showed demand for a new direction the result was the i. N. F. Treaty. It banned all ground launched Ballistic Missiles with ranges of between 505. 00 and a half 1000 kilometers the soviet union got rid of 1846. 00 intermediate range missiles in the United States about half as many. By 991. 00 a total of 2692. 00 missiles were destroyed. Now President Donald Trump has officially withdrawn the u. S. From the treaty washington and its nato allies say russia has deployed new intermediate ground missiles that violate the i. N. F. Sternness moscow for its part has also pulled out of the treaty charging that washington has breached the i n f by setting up Missile Defense stations in Eastern Europe the analysts worry a new cold war style arms race could be looming with. And joining me now is Foreign Policy on this is john tesh alkies whats with the German Marshall Fund of the United States welcome to you mr de shell so 1st to flood one of the implications off the i. M. F. Treaty being virtually dead well i mean we have 2 things i think that come out of this mostly for the 1st the 1st part is that you know the European Security architecture as weve known it and its nuclear part are now you know wide open again this was an entire class of missiles that was prohibited to own in europe moscow has violated this for the last 10 years roughly and even under the Obama Administration it was clear that the americans were quite unhappy with the state of affairs and therefore also withdrew but also in the streets of the 2nd point means that europe is only really a strategic side consideration in all of this because the real reason why both russia and the United States want out of this treaty is china china is not part of the treaty and therefore it was not forbidden for china to own these kinds of missiles and it has invested in these kinds of missiles very massively over the last 20 years and america and russia want to be able and in the in the end have the capability to have these missiles again to get parity strategic parity with china see this is a lot of the interesting questions but before we continue our conversation i would like to mention that we are expecting the secretary general of nato against staunton back to make a statement on behalf of nato we are monitoring the situation as you can see in the box that we are waiting for him to ivan as soon as he starts speaking of course we take you live there. What secretary of state pumping off the United States said he clearly blamed rochelle for the collapse of this i. N. F. Treaty you seem to be indicating it is moscows fault it was in violation off the street if in the past and yes this can only russias or do you think yes i mean for the most part it has to be said that this treaty has been violated by russia 1st and quite systematically and this was already a concern in previous u. S. Administrations. And it is you know universally shared among nato Member States and among the Expert Community that the missiles as a see 8 missiles that a moscow has developed and put in place in range of europe are Nuclear Capable and have therefore violated the i. N. F. Treaty for quite some time that is not really any longer and i did see let me interrupt you did you see gangs starting back is about to speak lets take a listen to what you think its been the landmark in arms control it eliminated an entire category of Nuclear Weapons making also all safer today they are and have treaty ceases to exist because the void the s s c 8 myside system the new russian army stars are Nuclear Capable mobile ion and hard to detect they can reach shoot of p. And c. If this would only mean its all warning time and they lower the threshold for the use of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict all nato allies agree that these me sars violate the on f. Treating. Undershirt continues to develop and field these systems this years of u. S. And allied engagement. Including a final opportunity over the last 6 months to return to compliance we regret that kershaw showed no willingness to can no steps to comply with its international obligations. Result United States decisions to withdraw from the treaty is now taking place this decision is supported by all nato allies because no International Agreement is affective if its only respected by one side. Russia bears the sole responsibility for the for the demise of that on earth treaty there are no new us me sides in europe but there are new russian me sides in europe. Nato will respond in the mess should on their sponsible way to the significant risks posed by russia us s s c a system. We have agreed the package of measures to ensure nato that turns on the fence remains credible and effective but we will not rush to implementation or make any rash moves we will consider our options carefully we have decided to work on issues such as exercises Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Air and Missile Defenses unconventional capabilities we will also ensure our new for the terror and remains safe secure and effective some of these measures can be implemented quickly and all this will take time everything we do will be balanced coordinated and the fences allies remain firmly committed to the preservation of Effective International arms control these are month unknown perforation we will not mirror what russia the us we dont want a new arms race and we have no intention to deploy a new land based nuclear me sides in europe nato continues to aspire for a construct a relationship with russia when russia else actions make that possible and without them red it would take a christmas. Associated press. Secretarygeneral monchaux from associated press. You havent given as much detail as how as to how new to say were just listening to youngstown to nato secretary general talking about nato is response to the end of the demise of the i and if treaty and with me i still have Foreign Policy analysts the ends to show he was for the German Marshall Fund of the United States comes to show you listen to what stoltenberg said he talked about of a credible and responsibly response from europe and he outlined a couple of kind of ideological things about me wanted to be a balanced coordinated and safe response and whatever but he gave hardly any d. T. s what did you make of what he said i mean this was pretty much exactly the announcement he made 5 weeks ago in the end of june when he said almost verbatim the same things air and Missile Defense all very defensive and and so its quite clear that they do not want to reveal any details at this point its no secret that you know especially the United States has been working feverishly on coming up with a possible response a technological response to the Missile Systems that russia has developed but theyre not deployable yet theyre not operational yet so nato is in a bit of a bind it really can only react and passive ways with existing systems but it doesnt have any one of the immediate quick fix that you know will solve the situation so they need to as a principle of responding to a call into what started back said the. That apparently russia has developed and it he said it could be used. And they secretly its difficult to detect and it could reach European Countries he said also said we do not want to but from what you are saying that the u. S. Is also trying to build something which could match the Russian Missile so we are seeing an arms race taught already yes theres a risk for a fine arms race theres no arms race yet but it is quite clear that when you have one. The treaty party in this case russia violating the treaty then the other side at some point must respond otherwise it loses its credibility in this game of deterrence so we will eventually see some sort of response mr starr there just now was very eager to make clear that these weapons these responses would be defensive defensive systems and defense for example Missile Defense these are not offensive weapons but in the end the risk of an arms race is huge because its quite clear that a situation where one side is significantly stronger on the Nuclear Policy side that that situation will be balanced out eventually. Started with also talked about we have a range of opt options or trees not consider one of the options as nato has done to deal with the situation i mean there are several options now 1st of all on the technological side how do you response what kind of Missile Systems do you want to put in place and where do you want to put them in place but then the more significant question in terms of options is who is actually going to get involved is this an american job primarily of these american systems are we talking about a european the turned needs to be developed should america be less interested in balancing the situation out. You know its quite clear that you know some European Countries would probably be quite eager to host these Missile Systems should there be some and others not so we have an internal european divide also so yes there are options but at the same time there are also various problems with these options which of course hes not talking about but for nature to find a cohesive response that also met has and is relevant in the situation is quite difficult absolutely and you also mentioned of course that i mean europe is kind of they they affected by this kind of against the demise of the ajna treaty. Thank you very much for that analysis thank you very much. Now moving on to other news and us present dollar trump addressed thousands of supporters of the valley in ohio true to form attack leading democrats but as the news on its on the phenomena reports from cincinnati the president stopped short of making any more of mocks that could be seen as offensive. For diane written things are falling into place right now born and raised in cincinnati she has been a republican for decades she even met her has spent on the party event and day and red is an Ardent Supporter of the president s trump she says there are plenty of reasons for him to get reelected unemployment as an all time low employment at an all time high the stock market is as high which means all of our investment accounts are all very high right now he believes in secure borders i believe in secure borders i think to have a country you have to control who comes in and out of our country in downtown cincinnati the crowds began gathering hours before the rally as the honorary chair woman the Hamilton CountyRepublican Party they yawn written and shut the arena through at the ip entrance im excited badman excited about it all day it was hard to concentrate on work this morning to get that out of the way so i could be free to enjoy the afternoon usually trump uses his release like he uses his twitter accounts to praise his accomplishments and to rate hes opponents last month he had checked Democratic Congress women of color urging them to go back to where they came from and do more then a year before election day the president trying to make no secret of the element of his reelection right. Right they have been very retrograde right on target with civility and political correct and that is what the supporters like about it because they see it he tells it like it is unlike any al. All of this. Democrat lawmakers care more about illegal aliens then they care about their own constituents they put foreign citizens before american citizens they would love to see a guy like Sleepy Joe Biden who has no clue what the hell hes doing. In cincinnati tromp attack prominent democrats painting them as left wing extremists but here forwarded remarks that could be criticise as racially charged when you believe that the word new center back chance that he didnt talk about politicians of color very very much yes i we did not want that is the cincinnati and i did not want any of that here so there was no negative about that so that was a big plus diane read and was happy with the trump rally in cincinnati he was talking to his crowd here she said these were hes people. That support and its under phenomena that may not bring you up to date but some other stories making news around the world a trade dispute between japan and south korea has escalated with both countries dropping each others status as preferred trading partners japan said its decision was based on National Security concerns but south korea slammed it as a declaration of economic war and threatened to end and intelligence sharing pact ordered. Saudi arabia says it will allow women to obtain a passport and travel with that the approval from a male relative if implemented the reform would further weaken the countrys guardianship system which considers women as equal to children and gives men control over their lives. Medics fear at least 4 people have been killed by gunfire in the sudanese city of. As tens of thousands gathered to protest its still not clear who opened fire on monday a Paramilitary Group was accused of shooting students at a demonstration. In. Who has placed 4 members of a Commission Investigating disappearances and murders during the countrys dictatorship they include the Commission Head who criticised the last month the commission confronted both scenario for why army captain on the states role in the killing of a leftist activist in 1074. Bomb blasts at 3 sites in the thai capital bangkok have left at least 4 people injured the 1st explosions took place too in rush hour in central bangkok 2 more blasts were reported at a government complex on the citys outskirts thailands Prime Minister has ordered an investigation into the bombings time and is currently hosting the regional summit the top diplomats from the us china and other world powers. They. Know she is in bangkok for him had any more details emerged about these explosions. Well obviously life goes on here in bangkok its the evening rush hour people are out on the streets the public transport is running it has been briefly suspended or at least the train station where the some explosives have been found had been cordoned off but business is running right now the Prime Minister housed immediate investigation into these incidents he had passed order to authorities to ramp up security at certain points throughout the city and he house called on the public to help authorities find out who might be behind these attacks people are supposed to send in pictures if they have taken any to help authorities. But. People out on the street seem almost unfazed by this a lot of them havent even heard about these incidents but those that have heard about it they said you know bangkok hasnt been a stranger to this kind of events a minor incidents where nobody was really badly harmed severely harmed only minor injuries just like today but in all these past or in most of these past cases the public never learned who was actually behind those incidents and now the big question even though life goes on is who might be behind it. In the initial trial or school might be actually behind these explosions that. Well i mean even though the Prime Minister has urged the public not to speculate this is exactly what everybody is doing right now and to some at least i