either china or russia but it will grandstand hence the ten thousand or so barrett fifty caliber sniper rifles to ukraine that is grandstanding the same with rocket man in north korea it's a way of the us boasting forcefully but what i would bring home i think is the contrast between forceful boasting of trump and the very much more successful forceful boasting of teddy roosevelt and the difference is that teddy roosevelt was announcing america's debut on the world stage and america had forty percent of the world's manufacturing today it's absolutely the opposite terms of trends and direction ok let me go to christa requests for a year in iraq war veteran i mean if i could just ask you personally i mean it seems like we have the continuation of this mentality of empire in i mean for iraq it's been a disaster for afghanistan it's always a disaster but and you know and what's happening in syria hear it but we don't seem

to learn any lessons here you would there do you see that what the problem is here . right i think there's a few different issues i want to try to address as many as i can i think that we're omitting several different things here we're overlooking several different things for one i think the president's actually moving away from nation building we're trying to get for example the iraqi security forces and the iraqi military's had significant gains against isis we've been trying to empower them to take the reins and to be able to do that kind of fighting themselves we've also admitted the fact that we've decimated the leadership of isis we've kept them in a constant state of confusion we've killed the some of bin laden there's several strategic victories that have occurred along the way we also for getting the u.s. military provide significant foreign aid to our allies we still provide a blanket of security across europe we're protecting south korea we've been in a global leadership role for decades and. there's no let me trying to put a united states that would be trying to assist me here we're going to go to

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i'm peter little to remind you we're discussing washington's new defense strategy. ok let me go back to philip and percival right before we went to the red cross who is talking about our alliance as well you know alliances are a transmission belt for war we've seen this historically and i'm thinking of the situation that the united states is facing with its nato ally turkey and turkey is illegally invaded syria and where you know all of the entanglements that the u.s. has found itself there with the kurds and whatnot and it's a nato ally here i mean and then we had not too long ago we had a russian jet that was shot down by the turks then you have you know you know you have this article five kick in here it seems to me the united states is very dangerously involved in a potential war that it doesn't want to fight and then we can bring up the issue of

north and south korea you know what they're talking that's a good start isn't it and then we have this bluster coming out of washington that maybe it's not enough i mean the south koreans probably know best about their defense than anyone else go ahead philip. yeah well i have i have to agree with the your premise which is essentially that america's alliances have in many ways outlived their usefulness the. russia does not threaten the united states does not really threaten eastern europe it has a sphere of influence like every other country but this does not amount to a threat and nato is dangerous in a way because nato could very much involve the united states in a shooting war where it doesn't want to be in it. and i would i would comment on the situation between turkey and syria turkey is indeed attacking syria but turkey has an interest in syria the terrorism problem and the kurdish problem for turks is

very real the united state is illegally in syria so the united states shouldn't be throwing stones at at anyone when it comes to the situation currently in syria and this whole concept of a of a thirty thousand man border guard is just totally ridiculous the turks let it happen the syrians will let it happen and then the iraqis won't even let it happen what do you need to know michael you mentioned ukraine earlier here i mean what explain because i don't understand it what is in the national interest of the united states of america to be giving offensive weapons to ukraine when we know and our viewers that have been watching cross dog over the years know the importance of the minsk accord ok it's not perfect but it's certainly slowed things down cooled things down now we have legislation that is not reported in western media that the ukrainians have walked away from it unilaterally and now they're very happily

taking offensive arms we have to be honest here the prospect of a ukrainian russian war is very real folks it's very real but you wouldn't know that and you would know that by reading magazines report go ahead michael the u.s. . that its alliances both nato and its key alliances in. east asia in the western pacific are like lifelines to america's claim to germany so it is to american advantage to stir the pot in eastern europe and to create a situation where you know poor. helpless ukraine is being threatened with with deep violence by you know this is an old metaphor going back to world war one frankly in the germans in belgium and it's a way for the u.s.

to maintain the saliency of its position in europe which it no longer has economically and it in the instance of good relations with russia would would not exist in in the strategic sense but because european states especially germany are unwilling to. spend the money they need to on defense to do it themselves which they could easily easily then the u.s. . by creating yes i mean the germans could simply double their defense budget and it would be no larger percentage of their g.n.p. than it was during the cold war but the key here is that the u.s. is able to have it both ways it's able to assemble a kind of crisis in which the u.s. is the absolutely essential partner and its leadership is on question and frankly it can do that because of the general disinterest by germany in stepping up to

taking over the leadership role in europe when it comes to strategic issues the u.s. is doing the same thing in asia with japan and japan is willing to be there as the side. of the u.s. under all circumstances and therefore the us is playing the same game using the fruits of its absolute victory over germany and japan in world war two to continue what will increasingly be the fiction of us world power in the future not not tomorrow but but fifteen years from now look at chris around i'm michael brings up a very good point i mean if you look at the g.d.p. of the european union is vast ok.d. equals the united states and japan certainly isn't a poor country by any standard south korea is what for its size and population is remarkably successful and very rich by the way why can't they just carry their load

for their own security just because what did what does the us get out of it i mean if something happens in the us you think everyone's going to come to the us is aid from europe and south korea and japan i don't think so why would they go ahead. i think that's a great point i think president trump is challenge to nato and europe to put more financial resources into their own defense and i think that would be a thing that we should be supporting but i want to go back a step i think we're still continuing to emit many many different factors for example you know we sort of discuss the u.s. in this sort of dystopian light and the tone and this this vision people want to come to the united states people are risking their lives to try and they're dying trying to get out of places like north korea where their governments and their the way they behave is absolutely zero freedom no freedom of the press and extremely dystopian and in the case of iran you have an entire government that's stuck with clergy that's frankly extremely you have to still. look at and i mean if you're

a second you know but that has nothing to do with the defense of the united states you're talking about values and i suppose that's all fine but has nothing to do about protecting the solver and country of the united states the state department should deal with these other issues here ok i mean i'm i'm serious i mean it sounds nice but it has nothing to do with defense here let me go to philip here you know philip i was doing a little bit of research before this program you know i was looking at you know republican senator robert taft when nato was started and he was for he was saying you know why should we get involved in this alliance because then we lose the right to declare war we're giving it over to an organization that you had mike mansfield and the in the one nine hundred seventy s. under the nixon ford administrations he was heavily lobbying for ending american presence in europe because the war has been over there rich they can take care of themselves the reason why i'm bringing up this boring history for everyone is that where is the debate in the public in the media about what is being said in madison

this report there's almost none i mean i read a lot of the reviews it's just well he this is what he said but there's no there's no distilling of what he's talking about it just passes it on is that these people are just a dog of hers in the media and don't question anything that is being written we are questioning it honestly on this program go ahead philip. yeah it's quite astonishing i mean the stories the stories on on this paper and on the comments by matt has disappeared within forty eight hours or hardly covered at all and yet this is as i said in the beginning this is a formula for all fenced this is formula for the united states to exercise its leadership by military offensive and this is quite outrageous and also the question that way we haven't had one thing that happens against states that don't have them christiane you want to jump in there go ahead sorry christopher jump in there is where is worse where is philip worse russia north korea missile testing in

north korea threatening. and making these aggressive stances does russia support north korea's continued nuclear proliferation and i can watching i can't i can't i can answer that question very clearly christopher if you had watched the proceedings that the united nations security council when there was a vote against north korea in which china and russia did participate and did vote for the sanction they also offered in alternative a freeze for a freeze in a go back you can watch it it's on you tube it's very thoughtful it's very thorough but you had all of the other countries saying north korea bad ok well i'm sorry that's not very intellectual it's not very helpful ok so i would answer you christopher that russia and china have been extremely helpful in trying to diffuse those tensions but it doesn't get any coverage in the media because actually what people want to see are go ahead christopher. you know what should be covered i mean

that's a fair point there should be more coverage but you look at these these oil transfers that china is in a position to really do a lot more of i think there's a lot of opportunity and a lot of optimism christopher to get someone who does this to united states sit down with the north koreans and have a conversation what's so hard about doing that you could actually say we went the extra mile instead of this rocket man nonsense that's not helpful ok if the united states really wants to show it's responsible in the world was it sit down and talk seriously if it doesn't like the deal walk away from it but at least you talked go ahead i'm just i'm just saying the obvious that's a fair point that's a fair point but i think i think we have a pro what we have a president that wants to see some results and i think unfortunately a lot of our goodwill and a lot of our diplomacy has had diminishing returns when you look at for example the iran deal and other things we were able to get a little bit of cooperation but we have is continued nuclear proliferation continued talk of aggression and the u.s. is continuing to provide foreign aid to continue to fund our our allies in europe

and these sorts of other things so i think those talks should happen and i believe the u.s. is opening to talk to north korea but we need to see a sort of tone and center of cooperation and we're continuing to see boasting of continued nuclear proliferation in the region and remember that offensive purity strategy that's our document for us i there's nothing in there that is overtly offensive it is a document that is reaffirming our perspective well building up the military i mean christopher liberating relationship you're right christopher is written about the united states for the united states but the whole world is watching and and the reaction from a lot of capitals is this is a very aggressive in a continuation of an aggressive foreign policy the world does react to the most powerful country in the world are gentlemen i'm sorry we've run out of time many thanks to my guests in washington and in personal and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at the see you next time and remember crosstalk.

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russia calls for a new international probe into syrian chemical weapons attacks after the us secretary of state claims that moscow bears responsibility for all such crimes regardless of who carried them out. breakout across switzerland against the gathering of the rich and powerful at the world economic forum in davos. and the u.s. government confirms that several americans were among the twenty two people killed in a telephone assault on a hotel in the afghan capital. of broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our to international thomas

glad to have you with us now the russian and u.s. envoys to the united nations have clashed to add an emergency session on the use of chemical weapons in syria moscow called for a new international probe a proposal that was quickly rejected by washington. earlier this week we received yet another report that the assad regime has used chlorine gas against its own people what's your version of the timing of the announcement was very fortunately chosen around the time of the meeting in paris and the upcoming syrian national congress such a striking coincidence the u.s. and u.k. envoys who rushed to accuse the syrian government for receiving any evidence and without weights and investigation to finish russia has be audacity to lecture the security council about how to stop the use of chemical weapons he told which of us we were the strongest advocates for an investigation a professional investigation not an imitation. russia is complicit in the assad

regime for atrocities you can visit some countries are still trying to force you are going to zation for the prohibition of chemical weapons put the blame on damascus they do not understand that in doing so the on the mind of your foresee of this respected organization. this came after secretary tillerson accused assad of perpetrating a chemical attack that supposedly happened on monday whoever conducted the attack russia ultimately bears responsibility for the victims in the us and countless other syrian targeted with chemical weapons since russia became involved in syria probably as it hasn't even been confirmed that these attacks even happened let alone who is responsible and there are only two sources saying this and both are notoriously pro-rebel this whole blame russia game continued at the security council on that same nikki haley's statements were more about russia than anything else she even accused russia of killing the joint investigative mechanism but at

the meeting russia said that the joint investigative mechanism became a political tool and called for an impartial investigation into all cases of chemical weapons use in syria including the joint investigative mechanisms new reports we're not going to accept any russian proposal that undermines our by. to get to the truth or that politicizes what must be an independent and impartial investigation those do not have spotted the fact that the us dismissed on proposal right from the start reveals the truth they do not need an impartial investors of meccans not humans when you go. in there and you could even though several other member states supported the proposal of a new impartial investigation the us rejected it saying that it's ready to bring back the old joint investigative mechanism quote but all other suggestions are unacceptable the russian draft a resolution calls for a new international body to be created to probe chemical incidents in syria under

the plan desk it is would have to visit the sites of attacks and interview witnesses asked several experts for their views on the issue. i don't know why russia would have any interest at all to members allowing assad to use gas as we can see from this incident and ones before every time it's used it's used to attack russia so it's just ridiculous instead of reaching the solution what tell us and should have done rather than saying that russia is ultimately responsible just creating yet again another verbiage another statement just to point blame at somebody else what tellers then should have done is say we're going to try to work together whether russians who have been in syria longer than we have and to really try to solve the problems here to try to find a solution if one wants to find the truth it will take a serious investigation a snap judgment is this happening when serious investigations are done which does take time stakes on the ground. you know examination of the facts not just

rolling on the agents who are actually paid by the west the facts that show him that. it's been the armed opposition. the swiss mountain resort of davos has opened its doors for the annual world economic forum and this year it's pulled in a record number of world leaders including the u.s. president but many are determined to show that he's not welcome. to be. around two thousand people marched through the streets of cirque to denounce trams and visit and the entire gathering several smaller protests took place elsewhere in switzerland including geneva and he just involved takes a closer look at what is on the agenda at the davos forum. the world economic forum is well underway here in the scenic town of davos nestled in the swiss alps and the guest list is chock full of political heavyweights such as may merkel mccrone and

to many surprise trump no one expected mr america first to even consider participating in a forum whose theme post the globalists i. dia of creating a shared future in a fractured world and yet he's slotted to be the last speaker of the event and will most likely use the opportunity to soapbox about his own brand of economic nationalism and all the political elite continue to enjoy the conference and rub elbows the i.m.f. has warned that the current economic climate has caused voters to lose faith in them voters in many advanced economies have soured on political establishment doubting their ability to deliver broadly shared growth in the face of tepid real wage gains reduced labor shares in national income and rising job polarization and in reality that discontent really shouldn't be all that surprising given that those in the ninety nine percent aren't the ones enjoying the benefits of the recent growth oxfam who works towards the relief of global poverty has recently put out a report outlining just how dire the situation is revealing that in two thousand and seventeen eighty two percent of the wealth generated went to the top one

percent the number billionaires skyrocketed leaving us with now over two thousand billionaires world wide and as that economic crisis continues the focus of davos seems to have blurred a bit at the politics of two thousand and seventeen leakin for the first time ever the summit is church solely by women and a number of the discussions really don't seem to have anything to do with economics at all focusing instead on race privilege and harassment all of the greatest hits from the past year the social issues of two thousand and seventeen including. inclusiveness. was mentioned and all those things have been everywhere in the new spot that sounds important maybe but not as important as the economics of the summit i think that the north america europe japan and also felt nations for being as inclusive as they are now all told by the way of course there are reactions to things like the migration crisis but the people are used to

it now much more than before and we have inclusive it's not a time for crusades anymore. delegation from the russian cyber security firm kaspersky lab is in davos they spoke to r.t. . i would say from the last two years and actually one of the main topics of this year in davos it's fragmentation of the world unfortunately it's happening there is a global geopolitical tensions and fights between countries and it backfires private companies far as us i would say that the pressure in the united states is enormous it's the biggest it's really disappointing for some reason and surprising for me that that private company can be limited in its operations in the country with no reasons with no facts just by a decision of the us goldman it's really frustrating because it means that we can't protect the news government and. that is one of the best according to independence and this is just means that. they leave themselves on protected from from cyber

crime and from cyber attacks which is really frustrated and i believe that in the long term this is just very. very wrong decision then independent private company from its operation in the country. delegates arriving at the world economic forum have been literally snowed under over the past week dallas has seen nearly two metres of snow fall the heaviest in nearly two decades traffic has been disrupted with many delegates struggling to reach a venue there's also a high risk of avalanches but many people are seeing the bright side. with reality economic and environmental social and political for agility in an avalanche territory a loud noise can bring the whole mountain sound from comes to town on friday turns out davos is not a social experiment when you gather a bunch of b.v.i. police then make them carry their own luggage. and then aligns with each other. one what would happen if. no one could leave for

a week and the world realize that without the business and the. guards are blockading prisons across france and calling for a complete security overhaul more than one hundred prisons are affected the strike was called almost two weeks ago after a series of assaults against staff by inmates one of the hotspots has been the. facility near paris it is the largest prison in europe holding more than four thousand inmates it's also used to monitor suspected extremists among them is. who faces trial over the two thousand and fifteen paris terror attacks as staff held demonstrations outside the prison on friday violence broke out. which it is today we have all come for a strike because discontent is spreading.