Europe with military hardware and Tens Of Thousands of troops from all twenty nine member countries russia says the maneuvers are an anti russian exercise but is it truly preparation for twenty First Century conflict also coming up hacking democracy ahead of next weeks midterm elections in the United States officials are on high alert for a cyber attack what will it mean for counting the vote and tired munich survived a scare in footballs german cup the record holder is labor two one victory over Semi Professional sides rooting hols and well bring you the highlights and look ahead to todays match. Im sara kelly welcome to the program we begin with breaking news a court in pakistan has freed
a christian woman sentenced to death by hanging for blasphemy i see a p. B. Who was on death row since Two Thousand And Ten was the first woman in the country to receive a Death Sentence for insulting islam her case has caused widespread outrage among both human Rights Groups and hardline islamist extra Security Forces were deployed in the capital after islamists threatened violence upon her release. Oh meantime in other news nato has been holding its Largest Military exercises since the end of the cold war dubbed Trident Juncture the vast gathering is taking place in norway parts of the North Atlantic and the baltic sea all twenty nine nato Member States plus finland and sweden are taking part its taken months to get everything into position Fifty Thousand troops and support personnel Two Hundred Fifty aircraft sixty five nasal that naval vessels and up to ten thousand military
vehicles are now in the Region Moscow has called The Maneuvers Quote An Anti Russian exercise and our reporter lars schleck to stick accompanied the troops on the tanks and said this this report. Why. I know. Blowing up obstacles. And building bridges in just a few minutes to capabilities that the german army is bringing to try to juncture. But ive these old School Skills still needed in times of hybrid warfare and Cyber Attacks as a result after the ukraine crisis we saw that it is more important to change back from Stability Operations to hire Tens Of Thousands of what we see and as an interest to move larger formations and heavy equipment thats had not been trained and done with within the last ten years far from the russian Border Germany has set
up its operational headquarters in the region into lands together with troops from france The Netherlands belgium and. Germany alone has brought ten thousand soldiers up here to norway and tanks weapons and other supplies its a massive logistical challenge designed to improve the speech with which nato members could in a worst Case Scenario come to each others rescue. This huge influx of people and equipment more than Fifty Thousand soldiers from thirty one countries is a true test for the host nation norway. But the attitude among the public is there are only positive support for nato here is among the highest of all Member States and not just because no way shares a border with russia theyre not so afraid that there will be a war nothing but thats a lot of things happening in the world so you never know how so nato is important for us of course well i believe russia has become
a big threat in the last two years and i wouldnt need new we need to show where our power you know this war and the world and i know i could be part of it but its not like its something i think about but some of nato is testing. Capacities are hidden from the population. Remote controlled Weapon Systems. Self driving vehicles. Military drones. So is this the future of the workfare all those capabilities have to be reversible or it means that. The forces can rely on this capability and have have to know how to do without those capabilities because. The system can be jammed all destroy or taken by. Someone else so the military have to to remain reversible. And thats why the airlines are still banking on tanks and boots on the
ground battling daunting logistics and the elements here in the frigid no wage and climate. Lets get more now were joined by did have you Correspondent Teri Schultz who has the latest from brussels terry why was this huge nato trial scheduled right now. What youd be surprised how far in advance and nato starts planning these things in fact it was before that he year of twenty fourteen when russia annexed crimea that norway actually bid to host these exercises so the norwegian military is very much pointing out this is not only a reaction to the most recent actions by moscow but theres no question that the way the exercises are shaped now what kind of forces they bring what kind of things theyre practicing are very much determined by what weve seen next door to nato as boarders in the Baltic States this is why there are Fifty Thousand troops more thanFifty Thousand in fact and another ten thousand was just added in the last weeks of planning its why theyre very much practicing Military Mobility as lars mentioned in his piece they want to make sure the that the tanks the equipment stationed all over europe can get very quickly to any ally that might come under threat and in this case we know that it would most likely be norway in the far north or the Baltic States in the east so these exercises are very much shaped by what we have seen russia do in the past years even though theyve been scheduled for several years before that so is it just a massive show of force here or does it also have a military use as well. Its very much both of those things nato wants to show russia that if it dares to dip its toe into nato territory that all twenty nine allies would rush to that spot that they can get there and that they have the force once they get there to hold off any threat but the other thing we need to be very
much aware of and you saw some of that in lars this piece is that theres a very high tech threat from russia youve got the Cyber Attacks youve got the possible jamming of all of these very advanced Weapon Systems that nato is now testing so theyve got to do both and one nato officials told me that russia is testing them on every level so youve got to very much worry about your soldiers on the ground as well as your drones in the air and we know that the russian response has been swift theyve called this an Antique Russian exercise russia itself plans to test Military Navy missiles also starting tomorrow off the coast of norway is this an escalation of Tension Terry Well Russia is right to think that this is this is aimed at russian Capabilities Even though nato very very stoically says its an unnamed aggressor these missile drills that russia has announced very belatedly are of course a response to try to juncture but nato secretary general Yen Stolzenberg pointed out yesterday that russia followed the rules in notifying the alliance that they
were going to conduct these tests and hes put out the warning to them that he expects russia to stay in International Waters waters and not to over overrun the boundaries of the legal limits on this these kind of tests d. W. Corresponded teri schultz thank you terry. Well now we turn to the United States where President Donald Trump was greeted by heavy protest in pittsburgh as the fewest first funerals of victims killed in last weekends Synagogue Shooting got underway donald trump had traveled to the city to offer his condolences despite being told to stay away local jewish leaders had written an open letter to the president saying that he is not welcome in the city until he fully denounces White Nationalism a letter was signed by more than Sixty Thousand people trump stirred further controversy yesterday by stating his intention to scrap the right to citizenship for u. S. Born children of noncitizens and legal immigrants. Correspondent on the debate
regarding the trump visit to pittsburgh on Tuesday Morning pittsburgh buried the first victims from the Mass Shooting at The Tree Of Life Synagogue On Tuesday Afternoon the president and the first lady visited the community over the objections of several of pittsburghs prominent jewish leaders they condemned the president for what they say is his emboldening of the White Nationalist movement which spurs these types of hate crimes the white house has said its Quote Outrageous to suggest any kind of link between the president and his antisemitic attacks and for his part the head rabbi of The Tree Of Life Synagogue has said the president is welcome there. That was greater were joined now in the studio by irwin called their expert on u. S. Politics at bard college and berlin and i want to talk a little bit more about trumps visit to pittsburgh because as weve seen you know he most certainly did not get an welcome there you know many said that they
actually did not want him to come until he denounces White Nationalism why did he go. This is really an interesting case because i cannot remember when a us president has not i mean has been really not asked to come to such an event now hes damned if he does damned he would have been damned if he did to the president belongs there in such a moment so how do you make the best of a difficult situation he brought molony up he tried to surround himself with fellow politicians none of them took that bait and i think his handlers did the next the third best thing which was keep him from talking and let him put his mouth foot in his mouth later after going to pittsburgh so in that sense he handled a difficult situation for him personally but its really historically unprecedented that a president of the United States would be explicitly asked not to attend it is a moment for the country that is unprecedented as you mention it is politically
charged it is emotional and charged in the country right now we have midterm elections coming up donald trump also stating the following ahead of us midterm elections that he can overrule the constitution and birthright citizenship what in practice with that or when and why would he say this now well clearly theres an election in a week and so hes hoping with his dog whistle or fog horn whatever hes using now to appeal to his base in the strongest way possible the idea that the president United States with an Executive Order can reverse an amendment to the constitution is really just an another indication that he talks without a brief. When i know youre going to stick with us but i want to get a little bit more on these midterms and one issue that is really perhaps set to affect the vote because millions of millions of americans as we mentioned are gearing up to vote in those crucial midterm elections authorities there theyre stepping up Cyber Security awareness drives ever since the u. S. Intelligence community concluded that russia interfered in the Twenty Six Thousand president ial Election Officials on the ground have been on high alert to prevent this Information Campaigns and Voting Systems in compromised and our correspondent in washington d. C. Has sent us this report. The National Museum of American History in washington is housing an exhibition called American Democracy Showcasing Objects and artifacts used in u. S. Elections through time its gaining popularity with visitors these days as Many Americans are not so sure anymore that their vote is safe from tampering unmanipulated and to alice miller executive director of the washington d. C. Board of elections ms miller is ultimately responsible for the election process in the district of columbia for miller and her team that means long days filled with plenty of overtime hours focusing on one thing and one thing oh we want to make sure our systems are secure we want to make sure poll workers are trained no you
see test protecting the upcoming midterm elections from any form of Cyber Interference has been declared a National Security issue the white house and congress across party lines are on the same page no one wants a repeat of what happened in the Two Thousand And Sixteen president ial elections when socalled russian government cyber actors managed to gain access to u. S. Election infrastructure im here to say the Warning Lights are Brick Blinking Red again. Today the Digital Infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack Congress Approved three hundred eighty Million Dollars in march this year for all fifty states to share so they can beef up Cyber Security measures look the u. S. Department of Homeland Security has formed Special Task Forces and offer services to State Officials responsible for the cyber safe conduct of the november elections
alice miller is thankful for the help and we work very closely with us we have Homeland Security advisers always on each level we have Cyber Security advisors that we work with we have smaller groups within our own network that we work with we always cool cool when. However some critics say all of this is a step in the right direction but comes too late case in point this years def con in Las Vegas Nevada conference for what are known as White Hat Hackers also focused on election Cyber Security the defcon hackers fighting the good fight in the Cyber Security battles have released a Report Pointing out remaining vulnerabilities that are unlikely to be fixed before November Sixth one example a type of Voting Machine currently in use in twenty six states is vulnerable to remote hacking and another machine still used in eighteen states was able to be hacked in just two minutes maybe not for alice miller and her team but for many
u. S. States Making Voting safe again remains a major challenge. So Cyber Security very much a concern ahead of this lets bring back our own collyer from bard college or when we talk about Cyber Security we also perhaps also have to talk about Information Warfare as well how big a threat to you see this not only to the u. S. Vote coming up on November Sixth but also to western democracies and again to use that word unprinted warfare as well how big a threat to you see this not only to the u. S. Vote coming up on November Sixth but also to western democracies and again to use that word on precedent were in. A new time where it is possible for foreign actors at relatively low cost to get involved we know that attempts to payoff Political Parties and the like to influence the elections in other countries that this is been a big part of Foreign Policy of
a lot of countries including the United States but now this capacity