higher education the new global economic wall. it's been almost fifty years since we've had human beings on the surface of another planetary body and i hope that we could actually put together an international lunar exploration initiative much like we have the international space station consortium and together the countries of the world cooperating with the private sector could afford to get back into real space exploration and i think that would that would create a real a lot of excitement. you could you know whether it's none of us and others like playing one million people and i'm. killed.

even. now no one's own tooling can choose a few pennies around and that said. welcome back to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some of russia's new weapons. ok not to go back to mary in london and i'd like to ask all of you basically two

questions in this part of the program. how the russians implicitly at least acknowledge that there is a new cold war and very importantly mary you said you watched it. putin big reach out his hand to say there's still time to sit down and talk instead of all of the bluster ok because i think we are in a new cold war i think we're going to find a new term for it because it's not ideological it's like more like in one thousand century great power struggle but at least in those days you recognized and had respect for the other powers that's not the case today so those two questions are in a new cold war and can the west reach out its hand and sit down with the russians on these issues go ahead mary. well my personal take on this is that actually we're not in a new cold war we're in something rather different we're in more of a sort of psychological standoff i think and i'm quite reluctant to refer to what's

going on as a new cold war but i think implicitly you could read into what putin was saying and his approach that from russia's perspective it is treating this at least a bit like a new cold war and one of the things that i thought was so interesting you pointed out that he was calling for talks and saying you know there's still time for talks but one of the one of the things i found quite telling about that was that he accused the west and the americans in particular of refusing to talk after the application of the a.b.m. treaty and. numerous as russia said. expressions of interest in holding talks with the americans the americans said no we're not going to talk and there's the clip of putin speech which was broadcast which was singled out a lot by russia watchers including by me where putin says well they didn't listen

to us before they'll listen to us now. and i think that was in a way it was as it seemed to me that it was less of a threat than it was an expression of being very keen to be seen as an equal player to want to sit around the table with the americans on an equal basis and that the development of these new weapons gave them a new entitlement to sit at that table and that the united states had to listen yeah well the annual meeting you in russia is a very important nuclear power let's all face it ok we have an entire history of arms control agreements because. a possibility of. of a mistake a miscalculation that's why we have these agreements but they're running out running out in two thousand and nineteen to twenty twenty one and then we will have none of these things here so i think it was prudent to reach out. but will the

united states do it because considering the environment particularly in the united states i mean. trump has his hands tied i mean this is on these issues he cannot do anything go ahead danny. well i think you know certainly a brilliant move by the neo cons to put in a vote put him in a box they have prevented him from fulfilling any of his campaign promises if he moves or even says putin without spitting. there he goes again he's on putin's payroll so it is a disastrous to the question of whether in a new cold war i would almost say i'm not the first who said this that we're actually in a new hot war during the cold war. the better minds in washington were doing their best to prevent an active conflict because russia is literally a threat as you point out because it has nuclear weapons in this new hot war with russia where russians are dying by the way you have people that are pushing usable nukes we need usable nukes in europe to fight another war with russia this is it's

no longer the dr strangelove that we make fun of these are the people that are in power now so i think it is a far more dangerous situation than it was in the sixty's because george in the during the original cold war there was a code of honor you don't fight each other you use proxies and as daniel has pointed out we maybe we'll find out the truth because the pentagon is pretty economical with the truth find out if they're actually intentionally targeting russian contractors in syria you know george let me ask you something. i know the americans would hate this idea but why don't we have a global arms control agreement on nuclear weapons so you bring in the chinese also bring in the nato countries that have the bomb india pakistan israel it doesn't it but it made it but it has it in everybody does know that and even north korea now see the way it is global and everyone knows the rules of the game but the americans

would never allow that to happen because in the case of the neo-cons negotiation is appeasement go ahead george. yes yes you know i think that's an excellent idea at all it was always a very strange that the only participants in these nuclear disarmament negotiations were used to be like the united states and the soviet union whereas britain and france and china or the other nuclear powers they were just. out of it they were they weren't considered but i and i just going back to what daniel said i think that. he's absolutely right i mean that this is a more dangerous situation than was the case during the cold war because during the cold war i mean there were the crises in berlin there was a crisis in cuba but other than that it never looked as if the united states and the soviet union would actually get into a shooting war i don't think that one can be so blind as they today 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 a 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. another 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 the then the russians would have only one resort which is to escalate in uclear weapons but there they already think the russians would risk doing anything to so foolish and therefore they're 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 some kind of calculation. and like this going on in the among policymakers in merry way 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 and 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 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 are so few real russia watchers left because when the cold war came to an end they defunded it then you became i can eat you specialise in arms control specialist but you know not no hard core russian one and 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 these 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 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 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 with 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 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 that we're any safer go ahead. it is astonishingly dangerous and measure of previous speaker pointed out americans seem ready for war look at 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 fight along on where

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to go on. tackling the terror threat from such a series of new measures to prevent radicalization in schools prisons and online. and the so-called siberian river is jailed for life in russia for killing and mutilating nineteen sex workers. it's seven o'clock here in moscow and you're watching altie international live with meaning to a cue to welcome to the program the suspected poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter who were found critically ill in the u.k. is continuing to make front page news across britain and although little is currently known about what happened reporters a wasting no time in speculating that it was an attempted murder orchestrated by the kremlin a claim moscow strongly denies has the latest from westminster but this was

a police matter this is very much a government level mass and now as well amber rod the home secretary she's come out of a curse. meeting and this is a highly unusual thing in itself it really only happens following terrorist attacks and in moments of national crisis she's come out and she said look we all need to keep a cool head about this and we need to make sure that we respond. to all the evidence that they collect and then we need to decide what action to take in terms of substance we the only update we had from that meeting was that the or thirty's she says appeared to know more about what it was that poisons. but that she couldn't divulge any more information now script the thirty three year old woman who's now been identified as his daughter yulia they remain critically ill and in intensive care in hospital the investigation into how they got ill has now been

stepped up significantly london's metropolitan police have said that due to the unusual circumstances of this case its counterterrorism unit has taken over the investigation they are now heading it up the met has also said the metropolitan police that they're working alongside will ship police they're carrying out extensive inquiries and that this investigation is it the early stages and any speculation is unhelpful at this time the newspapers here may not have got that memo though they are still speculating wildly about this poisoned spy story as it's become known you've got it all over the front pages here talking about the chemical used or the father and daughter surrogate spokes knew it would end badly my favorite here is furious boris gets tough with my god you've got

headlines talking about putin swearing revenge on the spy. also. why five this one talking story this one talking about m i five believing the russians tried to kill the former spy so almost as though it's a foregone conclusion in the papers here and a lot of them talking about football but also about this story about the world cup and that's in reference to comments made world cup here as well quite a lot of linking this story to the world cup and that is in reference to comments made by the foreign secretary yesterday when he was on tsering an urgent question in the house of commons about it somehow while discussing sort of this as yet hypothetical thesis that the kremlin may have been behind it boris johnson managed

to float the idea of britain potentially boycotting the world cup in the process that's obviously set to take place in russia in the summer and even though boris johnson yesterday when answering those questions conceded that no one knows the facts behind this case he also said that the u.k. will respond robustly if it ends up being linked back to the kremlin while it would be wrong to prejudge the investigation i can reassure them that should should imply state responsibility then the majesty's government will respond appropriately and robustly even though there are few facts to speak of people have been told to respond to facts and not rumor but the reality is just like with many cases involving intelligence involving spies and not just russian ones i might add we might never know the facts but that's not stop the speculation russia's foreign ministry meanwhile says it believes the scandal will soon blow over with

a spokeswoman highlighting some of the previous cases in which closed investigations that ended with no concrete conclusions being disclosed russian and european politics professor richard sakwa says it will be easy to take the heat. out of the scandal because it's already awash with speculation it seems like the case is being created judged as so often before the evidence has come to light i think that's very disturbing because it suggests a predisposition first of all to jump to conclusions before the evidence emerges given the fact that there's an election coming up soon on the eighteenth of march who would benefit from this it's not clear that anybody benefits other than motive of you know you avenge there's a lot which we don't know and the way that people are prejudging the issue i think is very dangerous especially in the context where we're we are all your ideas some people call it in a new cold war. france is laid out

a new plan for tackling the spread of islamist extremism in schools prisons and on the internet they reckon it ministrations says it will be more effective and passed on to terror initiatives as it focuses on prevention and seeks to stop the problem at source as part of the drive psychological care will also be given to the children of islamic state fighters who have returned to france following the collapse of the terror group self-proclaimed caliph it challenged events get reports from paris on the threat posed by radicalized youngsters. they are just children born innocent into a world of brutality that while most children are playing with dolls and cars these are being taught to play with guns and knives and some have even been trained to kill. well i mean it would depend on each

individual if it should be up to the caliphate i believe the call would be actually training guns knives and how to kill people and not only that we have seen people being killed and of course that makes it some form of normality. which is really scary because that means when they do that will be their own moment you. might 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 are putting together a plan to reintegrate the returning children of john hardy is the prime minister has said that sixty eight have already come back 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 sadism 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's no guarantee the therapy they've received 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 therapist are governments in europe hope that by offering 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 shola deep in ski r.t. paris. the united nations security council is meeting to discuss the situation in war torn syria where fighting is continuing to spite the international community having called for a cease fire on a hoss live now to new york where more pain has more details what do we know so far

about this. well an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council has been called by two permanent members france and the u.k. and they will be discussing the fact that france is arguing that the recent resolution regarding a cease fire hasn't been implemented now it's important to note that that recent resolution that was voted regarding a cease fire was a unanimous vote but that it did not give a specific time frame for this ceasefire to be implemented it simply called for it to be implemented without delay i did not give a timeframe furthermore these.