sensually pulling the strings and i think part of trump's approach was to put them in a situation where they felt less secure about the relationship and thus would be more and more willing to to come to mr trump and that seems to have worked yes just as his blustering yeah and it seems to have created the movement in north korea. neither germany certainly not britain and france either are willing to step up and take over the defense of their realm and they are not merely dependent on the us but they've grown yes. needy and so the us doesn't want to be in a position where it has to jump every time nato gets a twitch and so what he's doing is redefining the strength of the us in the

alliance without overcommitting and also this kind of representation speaks well with his base and they are excited because the us is acting like the great power but my middle of the me ask you let me ask you but do you know would this this paradigm here does it actually make america more solid in the alliance and does it make the alliance more solid because if what we have here is a moral hazard ok they're not the europeans or you know they say they're going to spend money and all that but they're just going to look to washington for their defense and you have a president is actually quite skeptical about all these things i mean that's kind of a very dangerous thing to be in ok because you i mean the european in the nato allies are like drug addicts they keep going to washington to get their next fix i'll give you the last twenty now give you the last twenty seconds in this part go ahead and michael go ahead. the u.s. is in a stronger position and the. the word injurious that you brought up is only relevant

i think if there actually is a threat to nato and with the angle on the horn with mr putin all the time i don't really see the great crisis especially now that the us has backed off a little from ukraine that was the great danger and well my one me problem there i'm sure many here i see more of that let me jump in here we're going to go to a break we're going to talk a lot about ukraine in may mark my words are after a short break we'll continue our discussion on trump's foreign policy stage with our team.

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let me go back to georgia new york in interesting thing where the mccrone visit and when we have to resume her. domestic crisis is that home we i'm thinking of the salisbury alleged chemical weapons attack then we had the attack on syria and it really into is interesting to me how they talk about syria now we had mccrone he said france and the u. u.s. and allies to quote build syria of tomorrow oh by the way the united states is making it illegal for other companies countries and companies to actually help syria rebuild it can't be in the part of syria where they do mass to government house control so george it's about exactly one hundred years ago we had sykes pekoe it rejoined the middle east it seems like imperial habits die really hard and on

top of that don't you think france the united states and its allies. help the syrian people a no go ahead george. yeah there that's exactly right it was hilarious listening to macro on discussing syria and this role that the end of the france was going to play in syria that there's even realize that a few days earlier. the syrians were celebrating a day of independence independence when france evacuated syria that's that's that's what the syrians are celebrating the departure of the french the idea that they can now going to be welcoming their former colonial masters with open arms is a lot of bull but i do think that the american french british policy in syria is actually rather dangerous because while this is a they have no real prospect of winning because they don't have any likely

candidates who can form any sort of a government in syria what they can do is to prevent any kind of a settlement in syria and i think that's really what they're going to try and do which is to prevent any kind of consolidation of syrian government control because all the various candidates i mean the americans proposal for the s.d.f. we're which is you know largely kurdish that's. not no go because the turks don't want them and the syrians are not going to accept kurdish rule and so there that's that. so what they're going to try and do is i think keep the the the war going blodgett by feeding again the various jihadi is and therefore just like your previous prevent what they see as russian consolidation in syria and i think that's the danger and i do think that ukraine is also dangerous think there's

a you two there is there are still very powerful forces within the washington notably the john bolton's. the. who want to. up ukraine and relaunch some kind of a war of it well i am going to daniel i. see it western mainstream media doesn't take any interest in these things but i'm a lot closer to this situation and things are getting to a boiling point in ukraine that's why may is going to be a very hot hot month oh right before the world cup in moscow i'm sure there's no connection there ok daniel i mean you know looking at and syria we could talk a little bit maybe about ukraine and some more later but you know you have this flip flopping going back and forth and i'm going to agree with michael i think that trump is really expressing the views of his base that they don't like these foreign entanglements these interventions and the terrible waste of money when he wants to

get an investment bill passed in the united states which desperately needs an improvement in infrastructure here so i mean he seems to want to have both ways when he can't have both go ahead daniel. yet tweets and rhetoric aside from policy is always something to decipher with this president but i disagree with both of you a little bit on a few points one on nato there's not this grand race came where france and germany and everyone are in love with us over nato and are going to reach their commitments and fact our commitment of two percent is bogus because we don't even count iraq or afghanistan intervention in our nato estimates and if we really included things properly there would be a little more of a balance but none of that has worked out and also backing off of ukraine i guess i'm agreeing with you peter and disagreeing with michael a bit we did not back off of ukraine whatsoever and i have spoken on this program

many times on the proxy war with ukraine and with syria and sanctions that are meant as part of a geo political bipolar scheme of. ours with china and south korea to counter russia and natural resources in the arctic and we're trying to bankrupt russia from being able to develop up there and in fact over the last two weeks i mean i get new news on that all the time where we're demanding that the waterway be open for international development and traffic as well as what we're doing in syria to continue to back allow the turks to do what they're doing in the north working with europe and now encouraging the gulf to come in and develop and basically take over northern syria trump spoke with mccrone and basically talked about how it was allers and orange territory. is not spanning into the better terrain ian and that's why i mentioned sykes pico because that was

a partition and this is what they want to do is another point yes michael you know one of the things that's happened in the last week or so and i just wonder you want to finish your point go ahead go ahead go ahead daniel finish ship yeah i was going to say one one final point nonintervention is not trump space trump space that tea party thirty six percent are all neo cons and hawks as well of the baby boomer generation so well that rhetoric sometimes works because that might be what trump is thinking for the minute or not they are the john bolton's and might bump am i that i know her eventually when you have always and you know it's very there it was there was a really interesting post-mortem of the two thousand and sixteen election and there is evidence very strong evidence that a number of counties were flipped because of the anti-war sentiment that they were democrats but they were they actually supported trump's noninterventionist views so i would differ with on michael i have a kind of much bigger question to ask you over the last week or so we've heard

these murmurings that. france and the united states. and great britain want to start going around the security council. the united nations so they can pursue their syria policy i find this really very troublesome and dangerous here because we have to remember what the security council was a stablish for in the first place it was to make sure that we'd never be another third war third world war and now they were these major powers and we're talking in like nineteenth century terms again these great powers they don't want to use international institutions they have poor international law or they're just above it that is very dangerous because as dysfunctional as the u.n. is it the you want united nations security council actually works the way it's supposed to where you don't have a coalition of great powers that brush aside the concerns of others here i find it truly disturbing and if the same powers one hundred exactly one hundred years later

they carved up the middle east and they want to do it again go ahead michael. the u.s. is in a difficult position i think of. trying to restrain developments that could really up and world i don't know stability peace whatever you want to call a non ideal situation that still better than the worst and this kind of pushing locally is what israel and saudi arabia are doing viz of iran you see that in qatar and then also what you mentioned the meddling britain and france which have been doing it in syria well for two hundred fifty years and of course when i talked about the u.s. aggressive in this in ukraine i was referring to secretary of state clinton and i think the u.s. needs to pull back in the off with the positive effect of seeing to meet the needs of the base reigning in the neo cons who are not yet completely in

control and not pursuing policies that will inevitably lead to war while at the same time looking strong so this i think brings us to the nub of the current the current vector of mr trump which is to make a deal with korea which is outside of the realms that we've been talking about and that would give of his administration the sufficient authority then to more effectively rein in israel britain france saudi arabia's that are causing all sorts of pesky problems and might create a basis for coming to some kind of agreement with mr putin in the future and that vehicle for that the framework for that has not been established but that doesn't mean it cannot be established so it's a it's a very fine line i think the president is trying to to follow well there's so many

opportunities that are being squandered left and right that's what makes this such as. dangerous and tragic time you know you know george you know let's look at the reputational issue here i've said it many times in this program here trump wants to tear up the randy a well he wants to make a deal with the koreans i mean i mean that you know that's kind of odd you know i mean because because then the next minute administration comes in and they're going to run negative well i mean the united states puts itself in such an awkward hypocritical position by doing that particularly again i don't like giving credit to barack obama i really don't but this was a good deal ok and i'd like to correct the president of the united states all that money that they got it was their mind he it was their assets it wasn't a gift to everybody because it was paul so an arms deal they didn't completely go through in the one nine hundred seventy s. and four hundred million dollars and they had to pay interest on it so no there was no gift to iran go ahead george reputation issue. the course. if

absolutely correct and that's all point i mean that it's very hard to see how any kind of agreement is possible in north korea because the north korean leaders would be absolutely insane to give up their nuclear capability in return for want in return for an empty american promise that we won't attack you why would anyone want to believe that we're you know one strong goes the next president whether it's pens or nikki haley will immediately go back on her agreement and will indeed attack north korea so. it will be an absolutely insane policy to go for i just going back to what you were saying pete about this. going to the united nations general assembly i mean it's so hilarious because the only power that has actually be acted in accordance with international law of syria has been russia russia is in

syria in the caribbeans with international dangers at the rejoice let me jump in here legitimate government may jump in here gentlemen we've run out of time i hope i never will ever say president nikki haley that's all the time we have gentlemen many thanks to my guests in washington and in new york and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time and remember crosstalk. the new global economic law resume folding in the realm of education the right terje creation being supplanted by the right to access education low higher education is becoming just another product that can be. fortune sold

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president expects. global headlines. welcome to the program. paris was shaken this week. as follows months of public anger over the french government's labor reforms. in the middle of cashews now starting being the police and wanting to live in the convent you'll see the tear gas is coming up to ask the police to move again and

not because just behind us there is a fire going on the demonstrators have put forward to a vehicle and emerged to bike and as you can see how smooth because it. well as you might have gathered we've just been in the middle of what was quite a large clash between the police and the protesters just look behind me this is one of the trucks with the water cannons and you can see the gendarme now coming down and you can see some of the water in the form that's been on the ground to try and push these protesters back take a look behind me and they're actually trying to barricade themselves up now that's off to they set fire to what looked like a g c p the fact it's still own fire over there in the distance the process is do it is if you just turn around a little bit more can't we have a look at this you may see this like pulling me over dog smoke coming up here on

the protesters what they did is they lit for it to what seemed to be some sort of motorbike and the car i just want to give you a sense of what sort of damage has been created from those clashes not just the clashes but the damage that was coolest by the protesters the police had warned early on tuesday morning ahead of these may day protests that they thought they were going to be hijacked by anticapitalist by anti fascists and they were indeed that they came out in their hundreds ready with a gear their safety gear to be able to protect themselves from the tear gas the masks protesters would be damaging and smashing items up across this part of paris and the police had let them be just come over here and you'll be able to see the bullets here of a fast food restaurant that had been put up that was completely and utterly destroyed restaurants further behind on the street will also destroyed and

basically the police did very little in fact nothing for a long time when this destruction was happening it was only further on into the demonstration when the violence took place at little bit further on that they actually did something now they've said the reason that they didn't react as quickly as some people say they should have is because they were trying to avoid collateral damage. tensions flared up again on saturday with forty thousand people taking to the streets of the french capital in march took place on the first anniversary of presidential election victory activists held by as with the message stop micron and down with the president of the rich around two thousand police officers were deployed to the demonstration to prevent a repeat of the labor day right. now the search for undercover agents in the united states is continuing one analyst has pointed the finger to an unlikely suspect the rapper kanye west. looks into the

story remember when being portrayed as a russian spy was funny. a bit of a joke. over. what are you doing in the dark when. just. what are you russian spy assaulted. by a casual. who isn't funny now could be anyone in the oval office in the pentagon madison square garden. can years recent coordination with trump along with his use of infamous or rhetoric and symbols confederate flag reek of products here just join up the dog's hind year indorse trump publicly their friends. i'm not saying can you west is involved it's all in the trump russia scandal but i

am saying he has russian ties and was there right after the twenty sixteen elections scott walk in or perhaps to work in a contributor for the us news channel m.s.n. b c and also founder of russia gate agrees there are just too many dogs not to connect them kanya west went to russia he went to russia he literally flew to moscow and walked around the jew see what he got up to i sure didn't want to be doing anything it's now so or vs why didn't we see it before we see it now and there are more of them clint eastwood openly backed trump and the russian connection is blatant clint eastwood speaks russian. pretends.

oh and robert de niro he hates trump or so he says but look at the facts he cool owns a chain of altria luxurious restaurants in moscow and he's opening a new one soon you know who goes to his restaurants oligarchs we're not blind anymore there could be russian spies in my audience and i wouldn't know everyone is a suspect. are you a russian spy now. that's russian spies. ellen the generous knows what's up we need lists so i've put together a quick one to start things off this is a list of american stars who've recently been to russia they held. and did business it's time to wake up russian agents everywhere the president the republicans hollywood your neighbor your

friends maybe probably even you. there are also some suspect links in turkey's government hierarchy is the foreign minister showing some pretty impressive russian skills and we ought to know where the best ratchet. is or syria. to syria. or chink or syria or fortune fortune person. out of the headlines the israel gaza border has seen brutal clashes for a sixth consecutive friday though thousands of palestinians advance to the border fence in a so-called march overturn israeli soldiers responded with gunfire injuring at least three hundred fifty.

five by israeli snipers. people are actually crossing interest really territory in the ranks to use non-lethal. words to carry out if there has been. crossing the border without authorization using live ammunition. intentional force is. on or sponsoring the threat to my friends and that's not what's happening. israel has defended its deadly use of force on the gaza border government lawyers say the situation falls into the state of war category and that human rights laws do not apply a reserve colonel of the i.d.f.

told us these very military's actions are justified any nation america friends of course israel has a full right to defend themselves we are not facing just a simple pacific margin of nice people who are facing people who want to invade our country and when someone wants to invade your country you have two possibilities once you let him go in and you just leave. him or you have to put the abilities or you win or you lose you cannot let people kill you you know they are to react you have to act first because the rule of the game in this anti-terrorist military rule is to be on the initiative not to be on the reactivity. they have been some key developments this week in a surrogate screw up our case the former double agent and his daughter of covering in the u.k. after being poisoned with a nerve agent novacek back in.