in this situation so the next thing the next big sensations that we could expect is from vladimir putin's new appointments as to who's going to go in to be the prime minister of cause this is the main intrigue as to the key positions the key ministerial positions all so many of them remain remain uncertain so this is definitely something to look forward to after the ceremony the president immediately got to work and signed a decree that outlined the plan for the country's next six years under his administration he also announced the incumbent prime minister and former president dmitry medvedev as his pick for the leading position in the new government. dmitri medvedev in britain tried to make putin's longtime sidekick russia's prime minister since twenty one and arguably the most tech savvy official in russia. he's also a big fan of rocky's live.

live. like a soldier was eliminated let's. listen. is a quick sign of how we got to be in this country second to mom in. law teacher and legal consultant to the mayor some pizza place in the ninety nine cents it's medical and says the landscape as an election she disapproves of this campaign season winds and yet that it becomes his chief of staff a couple of years later i see thousand employees he's the first deputy prime minister and then two thousand acres and with it any russian president. dmitry medvedev so what was his town like. modernization pushing the reset button relations to. military conflict five days south essentially triggered by

georgia. but. having finished his presidency effective switch is about the future play well with us we became the t.l.a. locusts and weathering russia's economic storm in the face of sanctions and tumbling oil prices raising the nation's salaries and benefits unless it's not a good mind to be focused around the such a living you can't explain it but if you like the election in your mind you can get and i don't think you delegates that entirely but if it is about the overall number of children what are. some. forty percent of russians said they did but i'm still sure that she would not be looking to go but. they do and you want to. use the bully pulpit to deal with it. and that's all you need to know to get you back in just like the two.

hundreds of interpreters who worked with the british army in afghanistan are facing the threat of deportation from the u.k. that despite a promise that they would be allowed to stay we spoke to one of those potentially affected who says the only thing awaiting him in afghanistan is 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 and i have the same danger threatening me but he told me that you know that he joined the infidels. you've been talking about there was only one child for me and i must leave the country because the

second time could provide the mean time that was for the family so if they catch me if they had they would definitely just leave the country 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 kavi says they expire soon and all the authorities have done in reality is say that they'll waive the costly renewal fees so those celebrates every headline stone supplied 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 consul of complicated cases relating to former interpreters who were forced to flee and entered the u.k. illegally like abdul all of us are delighted that those who've had 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 let any falls through the dense 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 placing 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 a raft the nineteenth of december twenty twelve a lot of people i missed the. word 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 up here 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 scope for 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 after all buried here in time as far as the u.k. government is concerned i don't know playing with a couple whose sake of course i think the most dangerous place in the world at the moment because the bomb is exploding people are dying. out on. the home office is saying the couple is saying i first met abbeville a couple of months ago since then his already fragile mental state has worsened. thirty five pounds and can we do some things i'm not allowed to. so it can do nothing but. some i have a very bad depression so i've been to the g.p. many times and some medicine from them but 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. moving sounds like a dream and one that any day now could come crashing down with the arrival of the final taking. affronts is furious after donald trump mimics the twenty fifteen paris terrorist attacks of the full story after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going from day shouldn't let it be an arms race is off and spearing dramatic development is only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

shows seem wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape our disdain comes to educate and engage in it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart week she still look for common ground. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to get us through the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you there . has been a furious response of friends over donald trump's mimicry a victim shot in the twenty fifteen paris terror attacks the president's remarks

came in a speech to the u.s. national rifle association. they took their time and i'm going to let them down one more. come over here boing boing boing. but if you want employees. were just wrong places how did you learn. the jurors would have fled or been shown yes that was president trump suggesting the terrorist attacks in paris in two thousand and fifteen could have had you a victims if god knows when so restrictive one hundred thirty people were killed in the attack and hundreds were injured it's below zero his would swear laptop by members of the largest gun rights lobbying group in the us. with france so they hit a very wrong and there are many streams from marxist disrespectful and insensitive

to the victims and their families while the foreign ministry and least perhaps the harshest criticism of trump since micron took the presidential reins i'm a common trump those two a tight. expresses its firm disapproval of prison trumps comments about the paris attacks on nov thirteenth two thousand and fifteen and demands that the memory of the victims be respected blow to them could have abstained from his comments about the events that shattered all the french people he might seek to make his words and express regret. but france isn't the only u.s. ally to be prodded by donald trump at the convention trump believes the u.k. is suffering from a problem of its own they don't have guns they have now lives alone. transfer marks of course upset before in britain but this time the u.k. officials appear to have developed a thick skin and that it's light however across the channel many feel trapped

twisting the knife into deeply a pen wind. tens of thousands rocks to heavy metal superstar front man tank in this here ride in the armenian capital to support massive opposition protests the system of a down vocalists call for rallies to stay peaceful more than three weeks of mass demonstrations that have already forced out x. prime minister. voters as a fuming that poll of folk to approve opposition leader we call it partially union as the new premier despite pressure on being the only candidate in the vote again on his candidacy on tuesday with the ruling party pledging to back him this time. a new racism scandalous in the world of fashion after the cover of vogue italy featured a famous model with a noticeably darker skin tone than normal here is the photo of supermodel gigi had a deed that sparked the control of the city on social media people pointed out that

skin hair and facial features were photoshop to appear darker than they actually are others though say the photo is 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 make up 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 seeing 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 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 an already very famous model known as blonde it is art it's magnificent some people just don't deserve vogue which is you had either and vogue italy have both apologized saying the photo

wasn't meant to offend the magazine said that it had been trying to create a bronzed beach to look. a political commentator steve malzberg believes that the scandal is a fuss over nothing. here 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 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 it here. right now you're watching our

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hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle from 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 block who is in washington he's a professor of strategy at the johns hopkins university also in washington we have i done you for achi. he is the director of grassroots political consulting and in new york we cross to george them yuli 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'd say does this president have a foreign policies strategy go ahead mr strategists. 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 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 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 had 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 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 isolationist policy worked for him and he swept into power probably rather surprising 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 or 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 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 congress will appoint. vote on them you still have these old deep state actors still there and then he on top of it. 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 now 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 big 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 are 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 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 says 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 personal. 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 he's surrounded by people. supporting policies that in fact do do that 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 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 it has to have and in many ways the dependent countries of nato even the great powers like france germany and britain are

essentially pulling the strings and i think part of trump's approach was to put them in a situation where they felt less secure or about the relationship and the us would be more pliant and more willing to to come. to to mr trump and that seems to have worked yes it might as his blustering yeah and then 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 but my that it might let me ask you let me ask you but did 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 of 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 with the angle on the horn with mr putin all 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 really nice problem there i'm sure i see more of 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. behind this was us political ties to one he counts tiny understands that standing stock. because of a virus don't have

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