i know i know the thesis of your book here and you know it's worth a conversation i agree ok we were very far apart on this here but you know we just had in the last news cycle the trump administration is going to sell lethal arms to ukraine great you know that's that's just plain stupid or just plain stupid ok and that's the but that's a topic for another program let me go back to michael here with you because i want to make sure you get a little bit more time on this program here i mean michael how does this how does terms of foreign policy make america great again. that's a great question and i would i wish this were a three hour program because i packed with your your guests have said i mean this is this is a great program peter you're not wrong but let me let me maybe focus your emphasis just a little bit aside again it's a non-diplomatic president it's a man who doesn't have a career in public office and it's also a man who believes that personally interpersonally he is going to be able to deal

with foreign leaders on a one on one basis he enjoys a terrific relationship at least on the surface with the premier of japan with or with the prime minister of japan with the premier of china with mr modi in india and other places as well and in the in the in the recent past they've had very positive personal conversations with mr putin about things of interest to both countries even after this document or while this document was being being promulgated. so the document this national policy yes of course it's there's nothing in here that's a lie certainly but there's nothing in here that you need if you have to take to the bank and nail to the wall and say this is absolutely going to be how it's going to be because it says so here that's diplomat talk it's government talk i think you've got a guy who's going to work it in a way that he sees it in the x. and z. of the moment in the larger period but you know this doc but michael ok michael let me go to brian here rapidly running out of time here i mean you know. again you know where is the diplomacy all this and let's look at actions i mean you have nikki haley i mean she said disgrace gentleman she's

a disgrace that kind of behavior and at that forum here i mean basically we're going to take your name and watch out we're going to remember you i mean not this that's is bullying it's very primitive there's no professionalism there i mean that this isolates the united states i mean it it's really a truly an embarrassment on a national on an international stage go ahead brian. yeah indeed but it's not that far different from what trump is doing right now this week threatening the member states of the u.n. we're we're going to pay attention we'll cut your aid we don't care language like that. i think what we're witnessing here is i think the trump orientation was to sort of retreat from the world stage and i think trump's policies are contributing to us contraction from the world stage and its influence you can't as you said in the beginning peter say paying in china we really want to work together

we love you we have a great relationship you love us and by the way we're going to mention you twenty four times in our national security report and discuss you in the most bellicose aggressive way and then and then expect china to be like oh that's great you know china was shocked by this report china was stunned if you read the chinese media this week they were taken aback they did not expect this to come and they don't really count that much on the primacy of individual relations this is an institutional document even if some of it is just whatever language the language of annual reports nonetheless the chinese see in this report something that they did not expect they were very hopeful and i think the russians were earlier hopeful that trump would mean something new something less oriented towards aggression and towards regime change towards unit polar domination that america for ok gentlemen now that we've been around it looks like it doesn't i have to jump in here gentlemen we'll find out if the free porn actually is a blueprint for the future many thanks to my guests in washington and thanks to our

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state. and the feeling of oh and you know god not be able to block you the mob you call. the russian foreign minister says. america's threats against north korea as an acceptable during a phone call with washington's top diplomat. and an israeli politician is filmed unleashing a barrage of insults at the palestinians on their way from gaza to visit their relatives in israeli jails. you're watching r.t. international live from our moscow studio with me in india today welcome to the program it's more than five months since iraq's second largest city was liberated from islamic state and mosul now faces a long road to recovery and his latest report from the city reveals the grim

reality of life in the ruins. there are things you have to see to believe mosul is such a place the old city of mosul is by any measure a dead and miserable place more rubble than buildings and even that mixed with unexploded bombs and decaying bodies at the spite these people are coming back to live here and most often not out of choice all the time. could have and. if i did they enter a little when in which. the u.s. led coalition spent all in all more than

a hundred thousand dollars strike hundreds and hundreds just in mosul the money required for just a few airstrikes could feed all the civilians in old mosul for months but no one has sent anything the local garrison division five shares its food with the locals and and showed up and handed out blankets but that eat no one else has helped their no mother oh no overlap don't know how long i still believe not one of them but they don't want noah no one marked no no no. no no no not the no i doubt. this isn't life it is a grim existence imagine spending your days salvaging copper wire to feed your family at eleven years of age she's a little hungry i'll get a lot of you know modern medicine and mark. what else is there to do in mosul.

and just do it don't look hollow questions that picture mean that if. that if you. think these children have been through hell and you are going to have jani have to fight under helena thea oh and you know god not you but it is what i do we'll madea minimus hall galbi my own work done to closing your eyes won't help a lot in mosul the smell is always there to remind you how many people are still buried in the rubble here's why michel do you want to come. this year roughly two thousand five hundred ninety nine times me.

if not the smell then hunger if not that then the dormant bombs if not then isis. five months since they declared victory escorts walked around with pistols in their hands drawn and cocked ready for isis hideaways. china for the us with a goal mughal one of money. at the. going to have a shot of a mark of the it will take you no longer than a few minutes to find isis flags or propaganda weapons i'm unique or unexploded bombs bodies tunnels this is one of the tunnels that isis used to move in and around the city for hided.

i would. rather. the woold has forgotten mosul it's out of fashion no longer trendy and locals have a well founded suspicion that this was never about saving them. a recent investigation by the associated press found that up to eleven thousand civilians were killed in the battle for mosul that's ten times higher than earlier estimates a third of those were killed by iraqi and u.s. led airstrikes ralph harsh the red cross' regional spokesperson for the middle east earlier told us more about the situation in mosul. people believe that once the battles are over that the thousands and hundreds of thousands of people who fled mosul and left their homes are able to come back this is extremely wrong we are

seeing the footage now on the screen how can they possibly go back when the city has been almost wiped off the face of the earth around five hundred to seven hundred thousands of people who fled mosul are unable to go back because primarily there is extreme and grave danger to their lives when it comes to unexploded remnants of war bombs are everywhere there is no access to clean water in the city there is no health care access our part as the international committee of the red cross we have started working with the medical facilities in the city and around the city supporting them with medical supplies and and medicine needed to treat the people all the humanitarian organizations present in iraq and working in mosul today are able to deal with a humanitarian catastrophe that the city has witnessed not one single humanitarian organization can really bring what is needed today to most of. the russian foreign minister has raised concerns over the u.s.

approach to the north korean nuclear crisis so ok lavrov spoke to secretary of state rex tillerson by phone could interstate one from the foreign ministry. so again a lot of room pointed out once again that heightening tensions over the korean peninsula through washington's aggressive rhetoric towards pyongyang stepping up military preparations in the region is unacceptable a phone call took place around the same time the u.s. sanctioned a two top north korean officials who were allegedly involved in the country's ballistic missile program but in the phone call for mr lavrov mentioned the u.s. stepping up its military preparations in the region and he was unlikely referring to recent military exercises and even south korea has suggested postponing military drills until after the olympics but this proposal was swiftly rejected by secretary tillerson.