f. thirty five so it's a huge deal now there are huge military asymmetries on the peninsula which are going to be astronomically difficult to resolve so we may get a start in these in these discussions when the two korean leaders may meet they may in a few days they may even to clear an end to korean war at least hostilities but it's going to take a lot of tough slogging to work through some of these details and to particularly to put in place the security guarantees which i think the north koreans are going to insist on to go forward daniel let me go to you i mean the security guarantees that's what it's always been about and i'm glad that john mentioned the freeze for freeze because that's been around for a while nobody in the mainstream media says that where that idea comes from but i can tell you if you go to last year during the security council you could see the russian and chinese ambassador at length go through that. process here daniel

before we go to the break go ahead in new york well i just want to remind your viewers that that in two thousand and two george w. bush virtually declared war on north korea which he somehow blamed for nine eleven but north korea was was one of the three countries comprising the so-called axis of evil and the u.s. invaded one of those countries has you know it's been sort of rattling at the other ever since and so north korea had to have grave concerns regarding its own security so kim jong un. has only protection lay in a nuclear nuclear weapon which he. only has let me jump in here hold that thought gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the korean peninsula stay with our team.

palestine is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos i'm in bill fiddlestick mission to do it to you like a million pieces and my complicity is going up local study hall meeting. john showed up with a ship the only palestinians who gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the vision of good enough only could give us. i know it's there's a lot that's not just got to this lady in the most out of it's god i don't think it'll tedium of doesn't seem to do more commitments also don't piss off. what politicians do. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president i'm sure. somehow i want to be. the two going to be press it's like before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. things should. welcome back to cross like we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the korean peninsula and the possibility of peace. ok let's go back to daniel in new york you were taking us down history lane you were you were just talking about the absence of ego to pick up from there go ahead

daniel yeah so in two thousand and two with this axis of evil speech george w. bush essentially declared war north korea and that's that speech has never been rescinded anyway this one nope no apology issued no you know no taking back etc so so so kim jong un figured quite logically that it's only protection lay and having a nuclear weapon capable of striking the united states mainland which he apparently has achieved so that is his that is his is great you know is great chess pieces ace in the hole and i don't think i want to live here but i really doubt that he will agree to for denuclearization unless the us needs is willing to engage equally and equally grand gesture which trump might be willing to do but i can guarantee the rest of the foreign policy establishment or blogs as you call

them will not they will raise holy hell and they will essentially block triumph from doing that. in washington because you reflect upon that because that's been my inkling for a moment long you know i'm like john said i'm perfectly willing to give donald trump credit for this if this is just kicked it off ok fine ok but there are forces and you see it all the time in the corporate media mimics the their corporate owners ok they're not keen on seeing. making out particularly if it means negotiations as equal that's not in their d.n.a. they don't operate that way go ahead absolutely absolutely correct first let me back up a little bit out here and say that yes i totally agree with john that a huge amount of creditors also due to donald trump because let us remember before you talked about fire and fury and destroying north korea he also probably went up further than any u.s.

president had had talked about and talked about particular some assurances that he doesn't see the collapse of the north korean regime he doesn't seek regime change he doesn't want to have an invasion over thirty eight over the thirty eighth parallel etc etc so he has tried he had made a lot of assurances also in his early months and that hasn't had that has he has not got adequate credit for that so yes i mean in other ways also donald trump deserves credit and that's that's that's that's perfectly fine you know the one grilli good thing going for donald trump is that the u.s. system provides huge in on foreign policy huge amount of power not just to the presidency but to the president and so he can really over i do this stuff because frankly this is all going to come down to donald trump and making that deal with kim jong il on which the foreign policy establishment has not been willing to contemplate and part of the reason it's not been willing to contemplate it's easy

to say that all the came regime for ever and the kims never never. on their from their part always cheating etc etc which is which is not entirely true it is partly true not entirely true but just too many forces i think for people in washington are rested in a cold war mindset confrontational attitude to north east asian geopolitics with the thirty eighth parallel being that tripwire and it's not easy. for many off them to come to terms with that you know what. could be just insulated from that whole geopolitical environment let's ask john because john that was his line of business for a while i mean what are the forces moving against this here and beyond because it's donald trump's idea but i mean the you know talks through the bureaucratic inertia that you know that would be against this go ahead well i think i would disagree

i think that currently the top leadership of the u.s. defense department is not against what trump is trying to do and we just saw that in syria we saw the d.o.d. weighed in and so we had symbolic strikes against syria rather than the more far reaching operation that some were advocating so. i think that we have to be a little bit careful here now i would take this back even a little bit before the axis of evil speech people forget that nuclear weapons were first deployed on the korean peninsula during the eisenhower administration and we had at one time nine hundred fifty nuclear tactical nuclear weapons in korea this is this is now a de quite well we had seven thousand and western europe. anyway. president

bush the elder who's now ill in the hospital was the was the one who decided to put an end to this this kind of madness and so we began withdrawing them but you know you don't have to explain the nuclear issue in terms of the evil nature of the north korean regime although perhaps the some of that that that can be part of the explanation it's really an action reaction sequence and we took the initial action and the north koreans then responded to it so i think the same dynamic can be used in the current circumstances and terms of confidence building measures and hopefully we can walk this back i agree completely that having. a progressive president in seoul is a huge help and i think china and russia can also help but. i think it's going to be really difficult to unravel this not which

which we've tied ourselves up in on the peninsula and these various asymmetries ok danielle i think this kind of leads to where i want to go in the program i mean i am sure that there is there's a sense that if if the u.s. and there's the perception of the u.s. backing down the perception of the u.s. . involved in a diplomatic process that would be deemed as a piece meant here that would have a ricochet effect through all of the other and tangling alliances the u.s. has in the pacific is this part of the thinking there because it is john said you know to untie this not here there is a huge ripple effect through the entire region go ahead daniel. this totally true totally true and would be a huge ripple effect in washington as well where all these countries have their have their interests they have their they have their you know their little alliances japan most particularly russia and china as well so if you know.

the north may be playing a kind of vietnamese game where they're trying to you know seek a closer alliance with the south in order to protect themselves against china so therefore that's certainly possible in china could be getting nervous as well and china has friends in washington and. between the japanese wouldn't be very happy if it is with a unified strong powerful korean peninsula and so you know that they wouldn't there to hold the fence i think it would have to be rethought keep going daniel. japan has tons of friends in washington also so so i think that we're going to see a huge ripple effect from the north northeastern northeast asia to washington as all sides are piled on and you know and trump is on one hand trump has got great power as a u.s. president but on this hand politically he's very weak he is really on the ropes

it's a ferocious pummeling so so i don't know i doubt very much it will be able to withstand these forces and i think that he will i'm pretty sure he is incapable of engaging in the same kind of grand gesture that kim jong un is willing to engage you know let me go back to sort of i mean you know he won the presidency he surprises it's all the time you know maybe it'll work this time i don't know i mean don't you think also it's just a mindset i mean north korea is this cartoonish evil character the axis of evil i mean it's so convenient and there's so many people that have made entire careers out of demonizing and i'm not i'm not siding with the north koreans or it's . i don't do that kind of thing i i'm basically a realist when it comes to foreign policy so but i mean don't you think that's part of the problem here is he is changing minds you know taking a fresh look and there is like this really an amazing opportunity that we may never see again go ahead. oh absolutely absolutely you get an opportunity source the end

of the korean war in. as since the end of the korean war to have a peace regime on the peninsula as well as since the denuclearization declaration and agreements of the early one nine hundred ninety s. to do did in the nuclearization let me go out a little bit on a limb here and make two points you know with regard to denuclearize nation most people and i totally agree understand there the views that this is going to be very difficult close to impossible he's not going to give it up i'm one of those feel very tiny minority but who believes that this is very doable and i can really give it up i could give jump on is not in the same position as saddam hussein. but you got to go hide it that's why you develop it in the first place to trade it away for security guarantees it seems logical to me exactly. exactly let me explain that point also you know what is a nuclear weapon the focus of

a nuclear weapon is to call unacceptable damage to the adversary he already can do unacceptable damage to their adversary by crushing seoul with this conventional guns and therefore a nuclear weapon over and above that is something that he can leverage and he can bargain and which is exactly what he is doing and therefore i would say that this is doable this is a great opportunity but what we have to do also is this cannot be a process which has sprung out over many years on a decade on its action for action with five hundred steps which then breaks down after twenty steps this has to be a big grand bargain or can in a truncated where and then to define time period and i think it's doable let me go to look at let me go to john john you're on the negotiating team for the united states what would you tell your boss dollars trying to do in forty seconds go ahead hey i what i would tell him to do is just have a good vibes in the in the meeting apparently that was the case when pompei i went

there i think what. it's different this time around is that the negotiations are not being run through a bureaucratic process and a lot of people are criticizing trump on this score it's it's a crisis situation and people forget what we were talking about last fall we're talking about the imminent prospect of war on the peninsula so i think things are moving in a good direction i am concerned about the asymmetries. also we're going to have one possible drop out in this process prime minister abbay is in deep political trouble i'm not sure if he's going to be able to survive or not but yeah i think we we just have to hope that the intercooler and summit goes well ok and in a way moon isn't playing these vans gentlemen we have run out of time and very rarely do we end on a positive note many thanks to my guests in washington and in new york and thanks to our viewers for watching us here on c.n.n.

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i i. saw the arabia's top diplomat warn that it's regime faces collapse unless it starts backing u.s. operations in syria. also headlines french leader. between pleasing europe and donald trump on the wrong deal during his address to the u.s. congress this agreement. may not address all concerns but we should not abandon it without having some seem substantial and more substantial than. reveal the alleged bodyguard of a sama bin ladin has been claiming benefits in germany for over two decades. and russia's defense ministry displays fragments of missiles it says the syrian

government intercepted during the recent western strikes us claimed all of its missiles hit their targets. the live from moscow with me wherever you are today welcome to the program. saudi arabia's foreign minister has warned the qatari regime that it could collapse if it doesn't start lending support to the u.s. military in syria. could star should finance the u.s. military's presence in syria and send its own military forces there before the u.s. president lifts american protection for qatar if the u.s. is to withdraw its protection represented by its military base in qatar then the regime there will fall within less than a week. this comes as we've heard different words from trump basically giving the impression he's still making up his mind about whether or not to withdraw u.s.

forces from syria he's been talking about it from in terms of very soon relatively soon it's not exactly clear now we did hear trump say that if saudi arabia wants the usa to maintain a military presence in syria they should help pay for it they will be making a decision very quickly in coup warden issue with others in the area as to what we'll do saudi arabia. is very interested no decision and i said well do you want us to say maybe you can have to pay so now we hear the foreign minister of saudi arabia saying that there are regional rival are must share the burden of the fighting in syria or else there could be some rather harsh consequences it's interesting to note yesterday tuesday donald trump was at the white house a speaking with the french president mccraw on and he seemed to indicate that there were other countries that had been approached by the united states about increasing their role in syria financially as well as merit militarily but there is talk of

the prospects of an arab coalition in the works for syria now this is certainly not the first point of disagreement between qatar and saudi arabia folks recall over a year ago there was a falling out between the two countries and that resulted in a number of countries cutting off diplomatic relations with qatar saudi arabia and during that spat we heard that donald trump unprecedentedly accusing qatar of funding terrorism. said that they absolutely are not funding terrorism in that statement from trump was simply inaccurate so now we've heard these very very dramatic words from saudi arabia's foreign minister who are waiting to see what comes next the security analyst on the full british army officers charles troubridge told me if any go for sending troops into syria would be acting illegally. well a lot depends on the difference of course between what is being stated quite grandly by various politicians and leaders and what actually may actually turn out

to happen on the ground let's not forget that this would be an occupation force because syria of course is a sovereign entity certainly the recognized government of syria has not invited these other countries from the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council states to come and join in any action or any military operations inside syria itself let's not forget sad president assad and his forces are winning the war in syria and almost certainly at some stage those that then replace american troops may well end up in combat against syrian forces and possibly also russian forces and those countries will be keen to avoid that i suspect. the french president has concluded a three day trip to washington by addressing the u.s. congress where he got a warm welcome from lawmakers. best. the president of the french

republic. i don't micro spoken through yes the glee of the special bond between the two countries in a lengthy speech full of historical references. friend's house participated in the story of this great nation from the very beginning. that it's all remember. transport ourselves to the past french philosopher of old. and benjamin franklin george washington for america and france that's a good son of the united states. the income simone de beauvoir martin luther king president there was a result from thomas jefferson to hemingway was novel novels this very special relationship this is. well along with all those historical references there was some policy discussed most importantly the

iran deal now the media has portrayed a trump and a relationship as a bromance so to speak comparing it to the infamous bush blair bromance of the early two thousand but that could definitely be a mischaracterization considering that mccrone took some positions that were totally out of line with trust policies including expressing support for the paris climate agreement using the phrase make the planet great again which is in stark contrast to make america great again slogan now mccraw was a bit more ambiguous regarding the jay c.p.o. way or the iran deal calling for a more comprehensive deal while reiterating that france would not be abandoning the twenty fifteen agreement he presented for a number of months i've been saying that it was not sufficient but it will enable us at least until twenty twenty five to have some control over their nuclear activities. we therefore wish to work on a new deal with iran. we signed it at the initiative of the united states

we signed it boasts the united states and france that is why we cannot say we should get rid of it like that france will not leave the g.c. purely because we signed. mccraw as explanation today seem to be a reaction to backlash from the e.u. and again mccrone did clarify that then the ceci of the agreement outweighs washington's concerns and he urged other signatories to stick with the deal until there's a better one but mccrone interim breaching consensus came as somewhat of a surprise to the other signatories especially considering that five hundred french british and german m.p.'s wrote a letter to u.s. congress asking them to support the deal saying that the concerns should be addressed separately and not within the context of the j.c. p.-o. way which evidently is in direct conflict with the crown and trump sphere so check out what the e.u. and russia have to say about it and what can happen in the future will seen the

future but there is one deal existing it's working it needs to be preserved we are against the revision of these agreements and believe it's very counterproductive to de ro the longstanding international efforts will make sure that these agreements and shrines in the un security council resolution weren't be violated trump has until may twelfth to decide what he's going to do but now that there seems to be some division amongst the members of the e.u. it's impossible to predict what exactly will happen well as for how this all looks from tyrol political analysts horses sherm told us all of france an american on the wrong deal the rest of europe doesn't want to shift. the trio nations in europe especially friends even more than germany and britain is trying to get closer to donald trump's aspirations and demands especially with regard to your hands not your you shoes but the rest of europe is a standing against any intensification of problems and tensions with iran they

just reject the demand by treaty or european nations or with regard to imposing further sanctions on iran for its missile and regional activities so this shows that europe is not much willing to work with donald trump. and some of the man who was once allegedly a some a bit loud and bodyguard has been living in germany on welfare for more than twenty years with the details his poly worker even though some of the not and was killed in two thousand and eleven by u.s. special forces operation he was just the figurehead of the group and some of its members are still out there one of them it turns out has been living in germany for over twenty years now and has been getting welfare payments to boot he's been named in the media as sami a he's itching mizzy a national and he's believed to have joined al qaeda in afghanistan back in two

thousand and illegibly worked as one of osama bin laden's bodyguards because he was already a german resident by that point he dented germany three years prior a need on a student visa when he came back he filed an asylum request that was denied in two thousand and six and a quarter in germany described him as an acute and considerable danger to public security but a higher court subsequently overrode the deportation order and they cited concerns that this man sami a would be subjected to torture back home in tunisia now. sami a was never actually charged with terrorist activities in germany but all sources deem him a security risk and he has to report to a police station on a daily basis here and this whole story has been unearthed again because it's caught the attention of the alternative for.