the situation in ukraine i think is is quite serious and the americans seem quite happy to escalate this they are in syria again situation is quite dangerous there americans are shooting at russians any one of these could spiral out of control so the front lines of this new. cold war are now much closer to russia and. much more dangerous so and i think which wasn't true during the cold war the original cold war there is a feeling among policymakers in washington that russia is basically very weak and that in any armed confrontation between america and russia america would win pretty easily and that there then the russians would have only one resort which is to escalate and you clear weapons but there they already think the russians would risk doing anything that's so foolish and therefore awful just simply back down and accept the u.s. had germany and realize that there's no way in the world that they can ever rival

the united states and i think this is very dangerous there is some kind of calculation like this going on in the among policymakers in mary weigh in on that because you know you know i get maybe i'm just way too close to it because i live here and lived here for a long time. and i you know i go in see the victory parade. commemorating the end of the second world war it's very moving it's very real and it touches everyone in this country and my sense is that reflecting on what george had to say. if the americans press hard enough the russians will defend itself by all means available that's not a bluff and no president i don't care who it is of russia would stand for that whatsoever this is you know it's really you know we've talked about this involved i think was two years ago is that there there is. so few real russia watchers left

because when the cold war came to an end they defended it then you became i can eat you specialise on arms control specialist but not know a hardcore russian one and now i see people in western media talking about russian they have no idea really what they're talking about that it's all. exaggerations or character churches and i p's are the people that are influencing policy this is scares me because the russians don't bluff when it comes to existence go ahead mary . no i agree with you that russia doesn't bluff and i also agree with the other two contributors that. there is a sense in which the situation today is more dangerous on the ground in conflict areas such as syria such as ukraine because of the absence of the sort of rules that existed during the cold war. but i think in two respects things are slightly different one of them is that the scale is so different and the feel in the two in

the two capitals is so different even in washington you have this incredible frenzy against russia but it's against russian interference in all sorts of things in a sort of cyber dimension in a propaganda dimension it's not really about assault or really disappoint tarte really and i think there's something else that i'd like to add to this which is that yes congress and the cold war republicans in particular have contained donald trump they've limited his room for maneuver in the most effective way they've been able to do that but i still think that if you look at the responses from donald trump in person and bloody near putin in person when they talk about each other they still retain i think at the back of their mind

the hope that one day it will actually be possible to have proper talks and to have an improvement in relations and you can see that all the invective on both sides at least until now has been delegated to if you look on the russian side it's been to quite warlike members of the duma. and people are the ones who make the warlike comments against the united states and there's something similar happening from try. team as well so that at the moment i would say that trump important have held themselves quite effectively above the fray and also communicating which with each other quite regularly by phone now obviously there are a lot of people who don't like this and the publicist before it is. is not huge but i think that still there's just this slight that could be

an improvement ok danny let me go to your give you the last word here with these new weapons and weapons coming from the united states and russia the time for a leader it used to be you know up to five five to fifteen minutes to make a decision now it's getting down to a minute or so and so if the americans are so terrified of you know leaving the light on it night and looking under their bed for russian spies it doesn't give me hope at least in this environment there were any safer go ahead. it is astonishingly dangerous and measure of previous speaker pointed out americans seem ready for war look lindsey graham the senator from south carolina said just a couple of days ago hey war with no north korea attacking north korea not a big deal it probably be worth it the worth of reminds us of madeleine albright when she talked about five hundred thousand dead iraqi children he believes a million dead north koreans and south koreans would be worth it this is the mentality of people ok i'm going washington i'm not very good and fight along and

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problem security to the psychology francis said to change tactics to tackle reintegration issues surrounding returning to harvest children says concerns linger they could become a terror threat. plus it's revealed that thousands of syrian opposition fighters

are on washington's payroll with the pentagon requesting a thirty million dollars from the u.s. budgets to cover their wages. and the so called a siberian ripper is jailed for life in russia found guilty of killing and mutilating the nineteen workers in the sex industry. is two o'clock here in moscow and you're watching all to international live with me in a day or two to welcome to the program france has laid out a new plan to reintegrate jihadist children returning from syria and iraq despite concerns still hanging over the danger they could pose to society the focus has now shifted from one of isolating them from other children for now to a more integrated approach shall it depends breaks down the issues from paris. they

just children born in. tallahassee. while most children are playing with dolls and cause these are being taught to play with guns and knives and some have even been trained to kill. well. cops are the kind of cool. actually trained guns. and then how to kill people and not only that we have seen people being killed and of course that makes it some form of normality for the bitches because that means when they do that will be there no material. to make them go do something very similar to the real threat to society it's impossible to know just how many children have been brainwashed by myself but they have already started to return home to germany belgium the

netherlands meanwhile in france the authorities putting together a plan to reintegrate the returning children of john hardy's the prime minister has said that sixty eight have already come back and many more are expected to follow. programs to help these children readjust have been announced by governments across europe but is it too late to reverse the damage already done. videos like this have emerged showing children carrying out mock executions. the little children are not only victims but they're on the cusp of being forced into being perpetrators but in the video that we just saw are you see the same. of the adults being played out through the children so there are destroying the mental capacity for the child to

differentiate between reality and fantasy normal lives of murder the road ahead for these children she says is difficult and while there is no guarantee the therapy they receive will be successful she is hopeful if the child had a fairly good our emotional experience early the child will tend to be more resilient in coming through very severe trauma. that's one thing the other thing will be very much dependent on how well trained the therapists are governments in europe hope that by offering the care and support to the children who return they can help them cast off the horrors they have in do it even carried out and yet the risks still high that it might be too late to right the wrongs of children brainwashed and raised as i saw fighters charlotte deep in ski. paris.

ten thousand syrian rebels are on the pentagon's a payroll that revelation coming from a u.s. defense department budget request washington now has to increase that number to sixty five thousand despite the crushing failure the previous train and equip program. one key element of the strategy to defeat isis is to train equip sustain and enable elements of the vetted syrian opposition these forces are projected to total approximately sixty to sixty five thousand sixty five thousand these pet army would be bigger than the canadian or straightly and militaries and don't forget there are already three warring armies in syria the pentagon is planning on equipping and providing this puppet force with everything but there are underwear tens of thousands of new rifles machine guns mortars millions of rounds of

ammunition thousand vehicles and don't forget this seemingly going to pay their salaries two to four hundred dollars a month it's all in the new counterterrorism fund request it says clearly once isis is the straw it this new army will stabilize and patrol the territory it holds near enough a third of syria which measures well with washington's plans to stay in syria indefinitely keep the country split up and prevent asaad from winning but there are questions like where is the us going to find thirty thousand more moderate rebels when it couldn't find ten can you tell us what the total number of trained fighters remains it's a small number.