dress yes among the things not covered by the iran you do is iran's exhibit in the region to be this by going in with iron resolve both a chronic medical and it up looking like they were just trying to pander to the us leader and although boris is set to meet with term spikes president and his hawkish new national security advisor those two will likely try to browbeat johnson into accepting this is a bad job and doomed deal i don't see that there's any prospect of a real fix to this deal i think the deal is inherently flawed i think it's a strategic the buckle for the united states. nuclear deal is a disaster and the united states of america will no longer certify this field can see you agree. the only hope france germany and the u.k. seem to have is to push for a compromise with trump simply tweaking the existing agreement but perhaps we're not seeing the whole picture here maybe the problem for america actually goes deeper than this one pact we got

a president. a president who doesn't listen to. the people who are naysayers and a president that is as true of regime change as we are. meanwhile pushing the white house to abandon the agreement is the israeli prime minister whose country is in the signatory netanyahu just last week gave a pretty dramatic power point presentation on iran's secret nuclear program which turned out to be both not secret and non existant still b.b. is flying to moscow in the coming days to try and get his message across to president putin the kremlin has been clear on its stance however we are going to support the deal concluded with the previous u.s. administration so with both sides battling it out everything for now is still up in the air this deal took years of exhaustive negotiations to reach and surely none of that included worrying about what the next guy in the white house thought but if one naysayer is all it takes to bring them down maybe it sends the message that always. mark international agreements should be structured to only last for one

presidential cycle this shows that the united states foreign policy is not based on responsibility but it's based on force the un has no place other world powers are not even enough room to play a major actors in the us foreign policy and this shows major failure for diplomacy in resolving global issues like nuclear problem that's the main message of the kind of policy that has been in the op that by donald trump. now hundreds of interpreters who works for the british army in afghanistan a facing the threat of deportation from the u.k. that's despite a promise that they would be allowed to stay but we spoke to one of those potentially affected he says that the anything awaiting him in afghanistan would be death. if they deport me back there is only one times for me to be killed he doesn't know when but the u.k.

home office has informed abdul bari that he's going to be deported to kabul within the next three months abdul says he can't go back to afghanistan because he worked as a frontline interpreter for british forces from two thousand and eight to two thousand and ten my life was in danger my family lives in danger threatening me but they told me that you know that you joined the infidels. used to talk about there was only one child from the and i must leave the country. so can target but the main target was for the family so if they catch me they were different i just need to come to the british defense secretary gavin williamson has made headlines in recent days by telling the home office that afghan interpreters should be allowed to stay in the u.k. but that reassurance only refers to around four hundred form a interpreters who had been given five year you tavi says they expire soon and all

the authorities have done in reality is say that they'll waive the costly renewal fees so those celebrator you headlines don't apply to the six hundred or so former afghan interpreter is still in kabul who have had their asylum claims rejected nor do they applied to the handful of complicated cases relating to former interpreters who were forced to flee and entered the u.k. illegally like abbeville all of us are delighted that those who for all the criteria and their families are here and will stay here and that nobody paid any money there are still people who are being looked at and we need to be careful that we don't betty fall through the debts we have a debt of honor to these people and what we mustn't do is leave someone who actually worked for us looked after. soldiers helped us we mustn't leave someone like that in a position where they and their families will be at risk and we've got to be very

clear make sure we don't do that abdul says he didn't have time to apply for a visa through the official interpreter scheme while he was still in the couple that with pride months of waiting and his life laissez creasing at risk now abdul's lawyer is at healing the home office's moves to deploy him many interpreters got these first directly from afghanistan through the ministry defense is. very strict . criteria that required you to be. working in helmand province and to be made redundant on or after the nineteenth of december twenty twelve a lot of people like most of the. world working in two thousand and twelve because they were threatened and targeted by the taliban hard to quit their jobs and flee it's not really fair to make this journey to the you care to escape these threats to be told actually go home they're saying it's it's there for him to read we have evidence from former employees not just from the british army but they also he was

working with and be in kabul what he really cared to the originator of. but evidence suggests he was threatened in kabul. and. the same will happen again he will be targeted when it comes to its own citizens the u.k. government clearly warns against travel to almost all of afghanistan even districts in the heavily guarded capital kabul it adds that terrorists are very likely to carry out attacks and methods are evolving and increasing in sophistication but that's apparently safe enough for abdul barry tarrytown as far as the u.k. government is concerned i don't play with a couple who is safe because i think the most dangerous place in the world at the moment because the bomb is exploding people are dying. i don't. the home office is saying the couple has so i first met up till a couple of months ago since then his already fragile mental state has worsened

because surviving thirty five. and a pro time accommodations i'm are allowed to. so it can do nothing but. some i have a very bad person so i've been to many times and some medicine from them. doesn't work. i'm still struggling 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 kaberle 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 with the arrival of a final deportation letter. reporting there now the number of homeless people in paris has prompted authorities there to cancel an annual race through the city

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met its maker. without a now an annual ten kilometer race through the french capital won't be healthy shit you to the high number of homeless people many of the migrants can die to along the route is a problem many people had hoped with over the last year although that simply isn't the case is r.t. show it to be reports president machen had pledged that by the beginning of two thousand and eighteen no one would be sleeping rough on the streets of france let alone her yes 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 in a hundred 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 yeah that's what i think so it's two separate problems you just do your race if your do your race and in the right problem is something else i think they should fix that they help them more. you know when you walk in the street you can see them all the people lying 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 number 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 tool for social exclusion but safety concerns meant that they couldn't we reach either. participants have been offered refunds a place in next year's event assuming of course there is one charlotte even ski r.t. paris. now a new racism scandal has hit the world of fashion after the cover of vogue italy featured a famous model with a noticeably darker skin tone the normal well here's the photo of supermodel jihad that sparked the controversy on social media people voted point out that her skin hair and facial features were photo shopped to appear darker than they actually are but that is to say to the folks who is actually 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 amended 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 is gusting disappointed in the modeling industry these days there is literally nothing in black face about this people can't even look tan 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. you headed and vogue italy have both apologized saying the photo wasn't meant to offend anybody the magazine said it had been trying to create a bronzed beach look but who commentator steve malzberg believes the scandal though is a fuss over nothing. here you have my 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 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 shoe i think people are too sensitive and i think it's getting at a hand political correctness is getting at a hand. of just coming up to six need to hear more say we're going to be back. at the top of the.

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a low and welcome to crossfire we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle comes 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. talking terms foreign policy i'm joined by my guest michael in washington he is a professor of strategy at the johns hopkins university also in washington we have i done you for watching. he is the director of grassroots political consulting and in new york we cross to george samuel he's a fellow at the global policy institute in london and author of the book bombs for

peace our 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've seen of this administration well so they say does this president have a foreign policies 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 the 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 mark 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 are 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 for 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 are going to finish your thought go ahead finish i don't. 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 a 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 yet again you know in this the same foreign policy swarm 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 congress will

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 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 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 guy him going the opposite way of obama on a lot of those key issues you know michel one of the issues that during the campaign and after he became president is there 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. supporting policies that in fact do do that when we look at the a ran deal and we had mccrone in washington merkel is going to show up i mean they're advocating that they keep the treaty alive and you know in this this is really interest 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 blog 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 it has been 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 pliant 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 u.s. but they've grown yes. needy and so the u.s. 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 u.s. in the alliance without overcommitting and also this kind of representation speaks well with his base and they are excited because the u.s. is acting like the great power of it might go that it might lead to me ask you let me ask you but do you know would this this paradigm 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 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 of these things i mean that's kind of. a very dangerous thing to be in ok because you think the i mean the european union 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 of 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 of the time i don't really see the great crisis especially now that the u.s. has backed off a little from ukraine that was the great danger and well my want me so let me jump

problem there i have to make sure 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.