earlier was also about enabling a western for a strike prohibiting retaliation i think president putin said many times before this is not about defense this is to enable offense but you mentioned earlier you know hysteria and i think the us is is under such a cloud of mass hysteria that it's palpable you know this past week in italy there were elections where the non-mainstream parties did very very well and someone joked how soon until explained on russia well and today already has just a day later played on russia by none other by samantha power by samantha power and here's here in italy are parties that were elected on an anti immigrant anti immigration policy why might it be concerned about immigration because samantha power herself was in favor of regime change in libya and syria and elsewhere that created the refugees so no matter what happens no matter the fact that power is behind this problem no it's all russia and that's what's happening in the u.s.

it really is a mass hysteria in this country ok twenty seconds georgia mean no matter what the president of russia has to say has to say it's going to be taken into a specific context go ahead twenty seconds before we go to the break. yes always specific context then because it's always assumed that russia is an aggressive power in it because it's the that is the propaganda trope and therefore there is no context whatsoever in which you know what is it that what the west is to provoke this danger from let me jump in here how we're going to we're going to go to a hard break and after that hard break we'll continue our discussion on russia's new weapon state with. this baby and. this on march eighteenth vote with your remote

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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 a nineteenth 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 really new cold war and can the west reach out and say 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 russia said. expressions of interest in holding talks with the americans the americans said no we're not going to talk and this is 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. 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 a new entitlement to sit at that table and that the united states had to listen you

know well daniel i mean you're in russia is a very important nuclear power let's all face it ok we have an entire history of arms control agreements because because of the possibility of. of a mistake a miscalculation that's why we have these agreements but they're running out running out in two thousand one hundred twenty twenty one and then we will have none of these things here so our 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 they put in 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 he's 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 would make fun of these are the people that are in power now 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 are 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 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 a 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 that 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 danger there is some kind of calculation . and like this going on in the among policymakers 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 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 defended it then you became i can eat you specialise in arms control specialist but you know not no hard core russian when i see people in western media talking about russia 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 mayor 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 flight that could be an improvement ok danny let me go to you know 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 a war with no north korea attacking north korea not a big probably be worth it be worth it 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 in washington i'm not very good fight along on where a depressing note to get i did have the impression that the inmates have taken over the asylum many thanks to my gets to new york london and lake jackson and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t. see you next time and remember. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question by the way who's going to be our coach

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joining us. british police say they're treating an incident involving a former russian spy and his daughter as attempted murder the country's top counterterrorism officer says the pair were deliberately targeted with a nerve agent they both remain critically ill london's assistant police commissioner mark riley has given a statement on the case as artie's police boyko reports but was quite unusual was that he was with the country's chief medical officer as well dame sally davis giving you a bit of an indication how seriously they're taking this he said that this is a major incident and they have determined that it's attempted murder by administration of a new agent so whilst we're going to put in a position to be those symptoms are as a result of exposure through nerve agents i will not be providing clearly for most of the state about the exact ship since this has been identified he said that public safety remains a priority and for any concerned locals

a. in the area of souls where this all took place he says that at the moment there's no evidence of any why spread health risk the new development that we got through what he said was that a police officer one of the first responders at the scene when. daughter was found unconscious on this park bench that police officer is now also in a serious condition in hospital earlier on the home secretary amber rudd she chaired a cobra meeting which is a highly unusual step in itself that normally only happens in response to the national crises like terrorist attacks or things like major floods and she everyone in this situation to keep a cool head take a listen to what she had to say we need to keep her cool and make sure that we collect all the evidence we can and we need to make sure that we respond not to rumor but to all the evidence that they collect and then we need to decide what

action to take you could have thought she may have been speaking to the country's newspaper editors because they certainly had a field day with the speculation on this story before we had any facts to talk tabloids and talking about furious boris getting tough with. this one about headline one newspaper talking about putin swearing revenge on this form of double agent so the investigation is clearly a foregone conclusion for many in the british media a number of tabloids were speculating about the fate of the world cup and a potential boycott of it that was sort of hypothetically floated by the foreign secretary when questions about this in the house of commons coming back to the police investigation and the facts in this story well they've said that this is now in the hands of london's anti terror police said the investigation has been stepped

up to the top level it could be at say that they have hundreds of detectives working on this now around the clock trying to establish house. and his daughter came to be poisoned by what we now know was a nerve agent. well sixty six year old son goes capacity used to serve russia's military intelligence in two thousand and six he passed the identities of russian secret agents in europe to the you k. he was later caught and sentenced to thirteen years in prison in russia but in twenty ten he was released as part of a high profile spy swap with the u.s. and flown to britain political commentator john white gave us his views on the story. when it comes to britain's foreign secretary borders johnson we're talking on an entirely different level of stupidity and when he stood up in the house of commons a few days ago when this incident first came to way to your part unity to engage in some anti russian hyperbole he did not do so or speaking as britain's foreign

secretary i suggest as the foreign secretary of the times newspaper the daily mail the deal express ensure the u.k.'s stablish and media that has been engaging in this anti russian hysteria and for whom it is no become a religion i'm in full agreement with britain's home secretary on the road when she says that we need to keep our cool head and let the authorities conduct an investigation with enough time and space to do so professionally and thoroughly everyone's pointing the finger at the russian government of course what we do know is that the russian government has the capability to carry a attack of this nature it has the capacity the question is does it possess the requisite stupidity because. of this nature that any taint especially this time on the part of the russian government would constitute a monumental act of political self harm resulting in severe and significant

reputational damage across the world. france has laid out a new plan for tackling the spread of islamic extremism in schools prisons and on the internet as part of the drive counseling will also be given to the children of islamic state fighters who've returned to france following the collapse of the terrorists groups so-called caliphate r.t. charlotte do when ski reports from paris. they're 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 be. the cops of the caliphate i believe the cool would be actually training guns knives 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 we'll be there. to fight them to do something very similar. to suicide 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 jihadi 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 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 traumas. 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 party paris. britain's rolling out the red carpet for the saudi crown prince series arrive for a three day visit but a lot of protests are also planned against saudi arabia's deadly bombing campaign in yemen which has been going on now for three years r.t. cæsar ali was at one of the demonstrations. there are around three hundred people here at this protest against the visit of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin cellblock the protesters from back in the opposition activists protesting against

saudi arabia's continued involvement since they helped to suppress the revolution of two thousand and eleven to those opposing the arms trade and the war in yemen one of the people we spoke to was the labor m.p. chris williamson the british military advisors to be involved but sixty two a whole new level and frankly trampling on britain's reputation. as a nation the stance of the human rights we've got no place it seems to me selling arms to saudi arabia and certainly we should not be participating in facilitating the role why having military advisors there now since the saudi bombardments of yemen began in two thousand and fifty the u.k. has sold over four and a half billion pounds worth of weapons while the us. is still worth over one hundred ten billion pounds some of the biggest deals in u.s. history.