Trump Calls Trudeau ‘Two-faced’ after NATO ‘Gossiping’ Video

Today the Nato summit for the first time discussed a potential threat from China - and declared outer space a new operational domain. But planning for the future was overshadowed by tensions in the present. Donald Trump cancelled his press conference and went home early, calling the Canadian Prime Minister two-faced, after Mr Trudeau and other NATO leaders were caught on camera apparently mocking him. Our Foreign Affairs correspondent Jonathan Rugman reports.

What's the joke? Mugged off Trump sulks his way through Nato summit »

Joachim Bitterlich: NATO Summit Was a "Humiliation of the Europeans"

Barack Obama's First Visit to Brussels to Cost Belgium More Than €10m

Belgium mobilising 350 police and military motorbikes to
secure the president's routes to EU and Nato summits.

THE GUARDIAN: Obama will arrive with 900-strong entourage, including 45 vehicles and three planes, and attend EU and Nato summits

As Belgium's capital and host to the EU and Nato, Brussels is used to deploying heavy security when big names pop by. But US President Barack Obama's visit on Tuesday will strain the city like never before with €10m ($10.4m, £8.4m) of Belgian money being spent to cover his 24 hours in the country.

The president will arrive on Tuesday night with a 900-strong entourage, including 45 vehicles and three cargo planes. Advance security teams orchestrating every last detail have combed Brussels already, checking the sewers and the major hospitals, while American military helicopters were last week given the green light for overflights. The city hosts at least four EU summits a year, with each of these gatherings costing €500,000 in extra police, military and transport expenses. "But this time round, you can multiply that figure by 20," said Brussels mayor, Yvan Mayeur. » | Leo Cendrowicz in Brussels | Monday, March 24, 2014

Hollande in US for NATO Summit
Relations between the United States and France are arguably the best they've been in the past 70 years. Now the new French President, Francois Hollande, will spend most of his first week in office in the US at the G8 and NATO summits. He'll also meet President Barack Obama. Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher reports from the US capital.

Nato 60th Summit in Strasbourg Marred by Street Battles and Arson
THE TELEGRAPH: Buildings were set on fire and running battles were fought between protesters and riot police in the streets of Strasbourg, where Barack Obama and world leaders have gathered for a Nato summit.

A violent anti-NATO protest takes place during NATO's 60th-anniversary summit. Anti-NATO activists set up a barricade with a Strasbourg road sign, near the German border at the Europe bridge, east of Strasbourg. Photo courtesy of The Telegraph
Anarchists and demonstrators set fires at a hotel, a disused border post and a tourism office around Strasbourg's Pont de l'Europe, a bridge that joins France and Germany.

Police fired volleys of teargas to try to stop groups of violent French and German protesters joining forces to rampage across the city.

Masked youths threw petrol bombs, smashed windows and ransacked shops, forcing police to retreat until riot officers could regroup to seize back control.

Eyewitnesses saw black-clad protesters storm the nearby Ibis hotel, pilfering alcohol from its bar and setting the building ablaze.

"The hotel and the other buildings were completely engulfed in flames," said a resident of the city who witnessed the mayhem. >>> By Bruno Waterfield and Peter Allen in Strasbourg | Saturday, April 4, 2009

Australians Furious about Their Rudderless Leader
TIMESONLINE: Kevin Rudd, the Australian Prime Minister, won office by promising to be less slavish to American interests than his predecessor, John Howard. So it was hardly surprising that his decision to salute President Bush at a Nato get-together last night did not go down too well at home.

But Mr Rudd might not have been prepared for the barrage of criticism unleashed by a gesture which he insisted today was nothing but an impromptu joke.

Footage of the newly-elected Labour prime minister raising his hand to salute Mr Bush during a social gathering on the sidelines of the Nato summit in Bucharest has been broadcast repeatedly on Australian television, drawing accusations of subservience to the world superpower.

Brendan Nelson, the Opposition leader, described Mr Rudd’s behaviour as "conduct unbecoming of an Australian prime minister." Anger Down Under over Kevin Rudd’s Salute to Bush >>> By Hannah Strange | April 4, 2008

Mark Alexander