thirty five. and. i'm not allowed to. so it can do nothing but. i have a very bad depression so i bring to the many times some medicine from them. doesn't work. i ask him about what he wants to do if and after all this he wants to work he'd read economics at university and capital he wouldn't mind resurrecting his professional boxing career either but his talk is tentative working and living here sounds like a dream one that any day now could come crashing down but the arrival of the final deportation letter. in just a few hours of light in may putin will be sworn in as russian president of course he won the election back in march and are you going to an office now in the heart

of the kremlin where the last preparations are being made for the inauguration ceremony you've got a good to see you if you would take us through this or well rory the ceremonies yet to kin but we are in one of the halls where voting republican is set to basically said to cross this wall on the way we're will be saying an oath and as you can clearly see behind me the guests are already gathering here the total of six thousand people have been invited from all realms of social life really are politicians filmmakers activists scientists well you get the idea of course and again with the concern money itself to start in a few hours time i invite you to check out a preview very short as to what to expect from this event. this is blair putin's stairway to presidency so to speak he will climb these fifty eight steps before he gets to the halls of the palace. so i saw the inauguration ceremony

. this is the whole of military glory playing top to sing george and that is first hold lattimer putin is set to close on his path to no curation it is also the biggest hole in the palace with its length be more than sixty meters. the next whole the whole the whole of the order overseen from xander being in it right now it is difficult to imagine that for the larger part of the twentieth century none of this even existed after it had been demolished by soviet leaders only twenty years ago this was brought back to its former glory.

it's not all the glitters is gold lace a well it couldn't be more wrong for this place i mean look at this gilded villas chandelier even this this is the hole where the inauguration ceremony will be taking place latimer will be standing in the far right end of the hole once again in his life the same old thirty three words good will officially start his next tenure as the presidents of russia remember it's gone up from the kremlin see. how the ceremony will start in just a couple of hours and we'll be following it right from the heart of the kremlin hope you can stay with us for our special inauguration coverage.

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it is good if you did join us today and i knew all ten kilometer of race right through the french capital won't be held this year is due to the high number of homeless people many of the migrants who are camped out along the route it's a problem many had hoped would have eased over the last year. reports. president might have pledged that by the beginning of two thousand and eighteen no one would be sleeping rough on the streets of france let alone her and yet not only did he fail to deliver on the promise but it's getting worse much worse it's believed that up to one thousand eight hundred migrants have set up camp along the

canal in paris and fears that that could explode to around two and a half thousand in the next few weeks has caused the organizers of the great race graham paris to cancel the annual event. the ten kilometer race between paris and song to me was to take place in just over a week's time but this is part of where the run is supposed to come through and as you can see it would be virtually impossible for them to navigate this section of the racecourse these makeshift camps are growing day by day the route is impossible it is disturbing to have to run the race in the middle of

a refugee camp at last year's race around six and a half thousand people took part it was also adopted as part of paris's bid to host the twenty twenty four olympics embodying a couple of the games key objectives solidarity and ecology this cancellation so close to race day has disappointed many you know it's kind of unfair or because of improvising for one time and then you just cancel the last minute just. like they should have reworded it down that's what i think so it's two separate problems you just do your race if your do your race and the rider problem is something else i think they should fix that or help them or. you know when you walk in the street you can see that all the people live on the sidewalks despite pledges to help migrants off the streets the greater paris region currently only has room to shell to seven hundred and fifty individuals far fewer than the numbers already here

a number said to be growing in the hundreds each week organizers say they didn't want the camps to be cleared just so that the race could go ahead reluctant to be seen as a toothless social exclusion but safety concerns meant that they couldn't we reach either. participants have been offered refunds or a place in next year's event assuming of course there is one. in ski. paris. the fashion world isn't brawled another racism scandal that's after the cover of vogue italy sparked widespread criticism here's a photo of a spot of the controversy it features a supermodel gigi how did who some say is recognizable here on social media people pointed out that had aids skin hair and facial features were photoshop to appear darker than they really are but others say the photo was a piece of art and there's nothing racist about it instead of just hiring someone

of a different culture they transform a white girl change her skin and even do her makeup to make her look more ethnic change hair color etc oh ok this is normal why couldn't you use a black model instead of saying black face honestly so ignorant and disgusting disappointed in the modeling industry these days there's literally nothing in black face about this people can't even look ten anymore without others making it something it's not you're making a response out of everything even when it's not she doesn't look black here she looks brunette i think the intention was to show a power of transformation and he wanted to do it on a red a very famous model known as blonde it is art is magnificent some people just don't deserve. juji vogue italy have both apologized saying the photo wasn't meant to offend anyone the magazine explained that it was trying to create a beach look with a stylized bronzing effect we spoke with a political commentator and radio host steve malzberg he believes there's nothing

wrong with the photo but the scandal is all a fuss over nothing. i hear you have a beautiful blue eyed blonde model one of the top models in the world and they put some bronze on her and they photoshop the picture and now she looks i mean you could say she looks black or african-american she looks bronze to me but this is a whole big issue now where people take offense and they call it cultural appropriation in other words you're stealing their culture so it's really at a hand and we have to get over this in our society or it's going to do a very very much harm so i see nothing wrong with the shoot i think people are too sensitive and i think it's getting out of hand political correctness is getting out of hand. it's been revealed that the u.s. national security agency collected over five hundred million phone records of american citizens last year that is more than triple the number of twenty sixteen

and that is despite a new law limiting the spy agencies powers the us freedom act bans the bulk collection of phone records on the internet metadata whilst also limiting government data collection to what is quote reasonably practical it does however permit the gathering of phone and text logs when a link to terrorism is proven and the recent increase in records collected comes in contrast to the concerns expressed last year by president donald trump. i think that is a very big surveillance of our citizens i think it's a very big topic and it's a topic that should be number one and we should find out what the hell is going on in its mission statement the n.s.a. upholds a commitment to protecting the privacy rights of american citizens it also highlights the need for accountability when pursuing intelligence gathering but the n.s.a.'s recent actions have raised concern among privacy advocates don kovalchuk believes

that the spy agency has done little to scale back its spying operations even after being exposed by whistleblower edward snowden what was revealed by edward snowden the mass surveillance that he uncovered and exposed. my guess is it never stopped happening and that it's continuing to today and i you know most americans who are self-aware should assume that they're being monitored most of the time u.s. government center about national security rarely have anything to do with the security of you know ordinary citizens like myself and everything to do with the security of corporations to make a lot of profit. i think you know it begs the question as to whether we're being monitored in order to stifle political dissent and i think. that is what i believe this is about and i think it's of of great concern in

a country that claims to be a democracy and claims to be free and thanks for joining us for the program here on r.t. international today about it well now less than two hours until the russian the president's inauguration ceremony for vladimir putin hope you'll join us for that coverage in the meantime we are back.

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fellow and welcome to cross talk were all things considered i'm peter lavelle chromes foreign policy could be described as double speak the president doesn't have a defined policy approach even goals are difficult to discern is this what the art of the deal means is trumps foreign policy making america great again and the world safer. cross talking terms foreign policy i'm joined by my guest michael la who is in washington he's a professor of strategy at the johns hopkins university also in washington we have

identifier achi he is the director of grassroots political consulting and in new york we cross to george them yuli he is a fellow at the global policy institute in london and author of the book bombs for peace or a gentleman cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciated michael let me go to you first in washington you are after all a professor of strategy so given what we have seen of this administration well so they say does this president have a foreign policy's strategy go ahead mr strategists. a strategy can be the thing itself or it can be a representation of the formulas and nostrums that float among the the privilege of ruling elites and thus i think you see trump speaking to the people who most enthusiastically support him right his base so-called and he is speaking for them as in their voice and in that sense much

of the rhetoric and delivery of his foreign policy. is really shaped to fit his constituency and part of that is sloughing off this elaborate theater and highly choreographed ballet that marked elitist foreign policy since one thousand nine hundred five and so a lot of that's for show and it's very effective now when it comes to the substance of his foreign policy it also reflects his constituents and they. they like the idea of america first and of course he uses that phrase and so i call his world view foreign policy a kind of america first version of world leadership which may sound contradictory but i don't think it is why what it means essentially is detached i think it is

it's attaching the had finish your thought go ahead. no finish your thought no the point is there's a whole level of spin and representation that is not necessarily mord to the actual relationships he's pursuing so a lot of this is very self-conscious grandstanding for the domestic audience and he's toning down the leadership and and saying we will be world leader if it's really helps the u.s. ok all right i guess that's why it's so confusing under president george because if we if we just take what michael said there i mean if trump is you know representing his base then he's portraying everything he said he would do for the base ok looks like good nation building in syria. tearing up probably that one of the most important nonproliferation agreements with iran ok i'll say it i didn't like

obama's foreign policy but i thought the iran deal was a good deal and it was shown to be a good deal why is he doing that is again grandstanding just because obama did it is that a strategy go ahead george. well i think the his antagonism towards obama trying to differentiate himself from obama plays a part in it but i think that trump really has no strong views on anything i mean he's been on pretty much on every side of every issue throughout his long life i mean he's been for abortion against abortion for immigration against immigration for gun control against gun control so what he ran on in two thousand and sixteen wasn't really his final view on anything but he found that that kind of america first. and a kind of quasi isolationists policy work for him and he swept into power it probably rather surprised them that it was as successful as it was once he got into

office he quine of abandon all of that and occasionally he still comes out with his rhetoric about the all we've wasted seventeen trillion dollars in the middle east we could have spent all this money on building roads and bridges it were you know but he's still pursuing the same policy in the middle east he still comes out with the stuff that he was doing in two thousand and six the end of a well wouldn't it be great if we got along with russia yeah but he hasn't done anything about it and you know he's had every opportunity since winning the election of seizing this issue and saying hey i ran on this platform and this is this is what's going to happen you know that we are going to abandon these ridiculous projects in the middle east we are going to try to improve relations with russia this is what i won the election but he hasn't done it and he has quite happily just gone along with the the washington swamp that he had so eloquently denounced in two thousand and sixteen here again you know in this in the same

foreign policy swamp denounced him as candidate ok and what it will and i think it's pretty clear that you know because his appointees are slow in coming because congressman appoint. vote on them you still have these old deep state actors still there and then he on top of it. he's put surrounded him with people like john bolton and pompei you know i mean they have nothing to do with the vision that he presented during the campaign you know i'll agree with you in georgia he's flip flopped all through his life go ahead daniel in washington few ways to simplify things his main foreign policy is wherever he is a personal financial interest and branding opportunity and that's really first and foremost where his heart and soul is being and as george articulated this is a lifelong democrat who turned himself into a tea party evangelical conservative for that thirty six percent base to win the

election which was a thirty year record low turnout and he did a brilliant job at it the irony the grand irony is now that he holds office he has given capitulated everything there is no white house policy toward the intelligence community the pentagon or state whatsoever they're autonomous to create their own and with the one thing he stayed true on throughout that whole thing is he's like a donald w. obama he is a hawkish neo con and we were going to get that whether you had hillary clinton or donald trump and if you really look as to what he spoke at on the campaign trail and throughout his life that's his ideology so that reflects very well as to why we are where we are in syria why a bolton is hired you know in case they go she don't go well in north korea the iran deal and i'm not a president obama apologist either but that is the one other kevvy peter that you

pointed out the iran deal t p p paris climate accord in all the go she asian for him is he pledged on the campaign trail that he was and obama he has distain for him on behalf of his person. loyalty with the clintons ironically over many years and that guides him going the opposite way of obama on a lot of those key issues you know michel one of the issues they did that during the campaign and after he became president is they his critics would say that he would be injurious to american allies let's think in terms of the middle east and and nato ok but you know surrounded by people that are pretty supportive of policies that in fact do do that when we look at the a ran deal we had mccrone in washington merkel is going to show up i mean they're advocating to keep the treaty alive and you know in this this is really interest to the to the alliance i mean i

would like to see nato completely dissolved and have a completely new security arrangement in europe i think that's what donald trump actually was thinking about during the campaign so i mean what the outside world must be look at i know they are looking at him in bewilderment because where is he going to go next i mean the the attack on syria recently that was against international law the whole world looks at it that way not the foreign policy blob in washington they probably never heard of international law go ahead michael. i think that. the u.s. presidency for some time maybe thirty forty years has been captured by. the sort of set relationships that have spent have and in many ways the dependent countries of nato even the great powers like france germany and britain are centrally 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 the us would be

more and more willing to to come to mr trump and that seems to have word 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 what we have here is a moral hazard ok they're not the europeans are 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 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.