the trump administration regardless of what their allies in europe are saying they withdrawals from the that the europeans were supporting i think by the comments made today by the secret state my arm. the it will be very hard for the united states to bring europeans are the answers on board in order to support that maximum pressure that they are talking or the historic sanctions they're talking about iran. thanks for your time i guess the bus line a visiting scholar at the middle east ratatouille study center in tehran think well my pompei added that the u.s. would send teams around the world to further explain washington's policy on iran but even before his new demands france was one of many countries already lashing out at u.s. strategy towards to around this could more we're going to accept the u.s. is the planet's economic policeman do you accept one way domination with respect

for international rules obviously europe's response must clearly be. friday the european commission launched a process same to preventing e.u. firms from being hit by u.s. sanctions under those plans european companies would be able to get compensation and loans if they were affected. later on monday the president plans to meet the leaders of the left leaning five star movement and the right wing northern league party to discuss the formation of a new coalition government meanwhile the poll finds most italians backed the largely anti e.u. program agreed on by the parties. must do something about immigration because it's a mess and like the color plan of course who want lower taxes especially for businesses so the league got too harsh on immigration we need to solve this problem but with a more moderate approach but i'm worried about five star and the league are going

to make good on these promises it will be difficult because the powers the strong the. new prime minister may also be put forward on monday the coalition is expected to nominate a law professor just said be content is a relative unknown in political and public life describe are you telling me there is being a classic technocrat artist daniel hawkins explains how these two bitterly rival parties turned up working together. italy's on the brink of forming its coalition government with the parties presenting their blueprint on the country's future to the president but this is no ordinary political deal should it go ahead italy will be the only western european country and the e.u. founding member governed by populist euro skeptics this is got europe pretty worried italy first is the political slogan of those about to lead the country. we've told this to everyone even on the european level and from now on only italians come first now the northern league and five star movement have certainly had their differences in fact until recently there was no love lost between the two

parties taking italy by storm fortunately for them the proverb the enemy of my enemy is my friend holds very much true with brussels firmly centered as their bad boy. the choice the italian people have made is a step towards freedom for the whole of europe away from constraints and insecurity we want to rebuild europe based on people not bureaucracy we want to be listened to otherwise all these sectors and industries that are suffering from injustice because of european treaties and directives will have to be reimbursed they share a dislike for conventional establishment elitist politics they both want change in the country's relationship with the european union and their policies on tax cuts debt reduction and immigration report them directly at loggerheads with other european heavyweights they're also both settle scrapping sanctions on russia this approach though has won them a historic election and continues to prove popular with the italian public now so

far cards are being kept close to chests it's not clear who the nominee for prime minister will be both party leaders have ruled themselves out one thing is for certain though the next steps of the coalition at italy's helm and it starts towards brussels will hold even more intrigue in the election but want them to power almost. that would be something. especially for a country with such a long. term are so sure it's actually. something. on the books that it's meant to the success of the band and. there's a lot of. questions out of iraq that it will be with them at the start of the year but it was still part of the. long.

efficient inquiry into the ground for tower fire has begun in london with seventy two seconds of silence to mark each victim of last june's tragedy the two week hearing will give relatives a chance to speak about the victims but not everyone has managed to make it to the inquiry as our correspondent explains what the focus of the inquiry is on what caused and what spread the fire that took place almost a year ago now and the lives of seventy two people and one of the most moving out counts that we heard from the public testimonies that were taking place here today was that of a man who lived on the twenty first floor at tower and at the time of the blaze his wife was seven months pregnant take a listen to his heart wrenching account of what happened so i called my son.

it's true. we should pray. for any kind of miracle. for you just. because. she's made of the hardest. to live for it's true courage. some of the relatives of the victims of this fire haven't been given visas to come here in time for the beginning of what's taking place one moroccan man named lucy who lost his sister in the fire he applied for a visa to come to the inquiry in december but he said he was crushed after having

to wait for months for it to be processed and he wasn't sure whether he'd be able to attend this very important inquiry a tall now the home office have said that the visa had been issued on wednesday and that all visa applications are looked in on a case by case basis so he is finally getting his visa but by the time that you arrives it will be at least three days in to the inquiry and the opposition labor party says that's not good enough and that the government is continuing to fail the victims of the grandchild tragedy the grandchild families have to look behind even to get a partial panel although tourism a said she would leave no stone unturned in this inquiry she also promised victims would not suffer irrespective of their immigration status but is now firmly in the family once more so the scandal surrounding the fire hasn't died down a hole and the burnt house shell of the building is still standing in the middle.

kensington and chelsea it's become a bit of a symbol of government failure isn't of housing and equality and that social injustice there is still big questions surrounding whether ultimately someone needs to go to prison but the inquiry aims to oncet those questions it's going to take a while of the public inquiries by the very slow moving beasts and this one is no exception it's expected to last until twenty twenty or maybe even beyond it's. useful you have to the. what holds you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be present and you. want. to go to be for this it was. reasonable to believe that. the interest of all the waters of. this should.

welcome back former u.s. presidential candidate hillary clinton has attended a graduation ceremony at yale university and she followed tradition there by wearing an unconventional hat. a russian. i mean if you can dream i know. i was on the way to winning until the combination of jim commies letter on october twenty eighth and russian wiki leaks i inherited nothing from the democratic party . i mean it was bankrupt it was on the verge of in three areas still a very large proportion of the population that is uneasy with women in positions of leadership. this just shows how frail hillary is i think she gave

a speech to the democratic women leadership convention i think a couple of days ago in washington and more or less admitted she just can't let it go and i think i think it's worrying because the u.s. needs a strong opposition right now and hillary clinton really isn't it over and over again we saw these kind of cackling hyena like and then putting out the shank and just just now i mean over and over again she shows that she's not fit she has a very polarizing effect on american politics the democratic party has lost its soul in america and without having somebody some giant figurehead i don't think will really see any great change right now and i think it's likely that trump will will forge ahead in the next election. with the twenty sixteen campaign already being investigated from so many angles as well more

a spec that's now in the crosshairs the u.s. department of justice announced that it will probe whether the campaign was inappropriately infiltrated by the f.b.i. course want to kill a ballpoint joins me from new york with the details could see what is triggered this yet another investigation. while the stakes are getting higher in the ongoing spat between donald trump and his administration and the intelligence community now at this point the department of justice is going to open up an investigation into whether or not the trump campaign was infiltrated by the f.b.i. going to be essentially a probe about whether or not the f.b.i. was spying on trump for political purposes now this probe is opened up in response to a request donald trump made on twitter is favorite media for communication and on twitter trump asked if the department of justice would investigate whether the f.b.i. was looking into him for political purposes and furthermore whether or not it was

but the obama administration that ordered the probe in the investigation and infiltration now the tweet came after multiple reports indicated that there had been an informant or infiltrator or aspire something to that effect inside the trump campaign now trump made similar claims about having been wiretapped and was just raked over the coals by american media let's take a review of what happened as far as. being i guess you know this past administration at least we have something in common where is the proof that anyone here disagree he wasn't going to hold anybody radionic where to get these ideas where is he getting his information the intelligence committee has not seen evidence of this is occurred what the president charged president obama with wiretapping him it's not true there was no such war to opportunity. now there has been

a lot of skepticism about the reports in american media but it seems that and an f.b.i. mole has been outed now the suspected informant is stephen hall per he's a seventy three year old american who is currently teaching at cambridge university in britain now he has strong ties to both the american and the british intelligence agencies and apparently he engaged in a high level operation with the ronald reagan campaign and actually infiltrated the administration of jimmy carter for the reagan campaign's who's got a long history there now the department of justice and the f.b.i. will not deny that they there was somebody in the campaign however they have quibbled about the wording they've said this was not a spy this was rather an informant they're using the word informant to describe the individual who may or may not have been inside the campaign now they refuse to name whether or not it was stephen helper but the question is if it was steven help or this is somebody with a well known reputation links to the cia british intelligence so revealing his

identity wouldn't exactly put people's lives in danger or be some kind of huge threat to national security or if it is it's not exactly clear why that would be they haven't communicated that but this latest spat and now the fact of the department of justice is looking into this allegation that the f.b.i. infiltrated the trump campaign based on allegations about russian was trying to get information this is just the latest the latest episode in the ongoing spat between the trumpet ministration and the intelligence agencies showing that there is a high level of division and and confusion and different opinions and different perspectives and in security in washington d.c. with the pin for us in new york thank you. in other news there's controversy in germany over a cartoonist depiction of the israeli prime minister as being the winner of this year's your vision song contest a german newspaper ended its collaboration with the author following a public outcry the first what's it all about well is the picture in question the

artist says he wanted to criticize binyamin netanyahu for exploiting israel's victory in the contest for his own political gain but some of accused him of resorting to anti semitic cliches i don't think seitan should publish dita hannity's cartoons he seems to be a hardline anti semite the to have is a very dangerous man and absolutely and semitic this has been clear for the last forty years no more idiotism caricatures important for ship in public opinion but there is no place for incursion anderson it is. after the outcry the newspaper pulled the caricature and apologize for printing it but the cartoonist did to one it is defiant that the editors have apologized is their business i do not apologize the accusation doesn't ring true with me that the drawing can be regarded as anti semitic i did not mean it's that way i can criticize netanyahu policy even

as a german and there's another side to all of this in his work haneke has mocked and criticized other world leaders as well as this cartoon draws comparisons between turkey's president they're due on stalin and hitler but that time around when there was an outcry the newspaper defended the artist's freedom of speech we have been journalist gideon levy the israeli daily newspaper ha'aretz he says that european media outlets are trying to avoid criticizing israel to avoid being accused of anti-semitism. whenever it comes to israel not only to an attorney oh to israel in general immediately the european media is scared of being accused and the symmetries while any other leader can do whatever you want whenever you draw israeli statesmen whenever you criticize israel immediately it comes up all on the symmetry and europe is afraid really scared paralyzed of being

labeled as anti semite rightly so by the way the only problem is that this has nothing to lose on this and it isn't and i hope the german colleagues in the german media will raise a voice of protest against this scandal of firing this. i'll be back with the latest news updates for you in half an hour see that. seventy four design submissions. seven thousand pilings. to join judges. and eight hundred sixty nonstop days of work. a

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just some legs. blowing welcome across town for all things considered i'm peter lavelle the transatlantic alliance assume his whether the number of. storms during its seventy year history we are told this is because of sustained american leadership but can the same alliances and survive the storm named trump. crosstalk in the transatlantic alliance system i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have dimitri bob he's

a political analyst with sputnik international and we have alex kristof or he is the director and writer for the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mark let me go to you first here. i'm the oldest on the program right here and i have a good memory of the transatlantic alliance system that had its ups and downs but this is turning into a sustained one we're looking at security we're looking at international agreements or rand comes into play we're looking at energy and we're looking at india minimal talk about italy a little bit later in the program there is a swell grassroots well of populism problem. here is that i mean there seems to be a cascade effect there's a lot of elements in play right now and i'm taking it seriously yeah i mean this this is a serious incident and certainly if you went simply by the headlines in the press on both sides of the atlantic talking about the of the west and the breaking

up of the transatlantic alliance deutsche welle saying can it have the transatlantic alliance survive trump but i'm fortunate we have all been here before you know during the eight law in the bush years books were being written comparing the u.s. to mars and the e.u. to venus and talking about their differences and we had a similar break up with reagan when there was all just there was a coalition quote unquote of the willing when it came to the invasion of iraq i mean there. but if they did pull it off and that's something i am willing to germany said no at that time and actually sided with putin we remember that as well but we're going to go to the russian angle on this here go ahead i mean it was venus the bomb plot example it was the french president who decide that you know he had some very reliable information on. president sarkozy. reliable

information from not only be that you know go global this. also who just went to leave it talked to a few insurgents and said that we need to save these muscles he said going to ward off much of what the soviet troops in one thousand eight is so basically i think that moment of talk of a rift in the transatlantic alliance you know there is not such a big disagreement over iraq but like a new thought that it did instruct them well i'm going to even though you know i think there is i mean we go to alex here because i mean the threat of sanctions against european companies here i mean not only is there a looming trade war and we can talk about the specifics of that but now you know basically going up in threatening the european companies there and the europeans have reacted with a blocking measure i mean this is different gentlemen this is very different than

we've had in the past go ahead alex you know this is very different because i think we're seeing the neo liberal honeymoon is definitely over and i was eight years with obama where you had obama and cameron and merkel and all these people with this new rat pack of buddies that were you know running the world you know doing whatever they wanted to do and you're seeing that come to a very decisive end with trump and trump is very much like it or not trump is keeping many of his campaign promises specially in the foreign policy area and most notably moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem. i'm of course pulling out of the iran nuclear deal so i think that you're starting to see europe react to what is essentially the neo liberal community and the new neoliberal policy come to an end and that's that's due to the trump effect you know alex this thing with you i agree he's keeping his campaign promises and he doesn't care about the consequences mark talk about that because

you said when we have we're going back to the iraq war there were of france and germany were hesitant agreed with the russians now we see agreement with russia even more so is this a diplomatic opening for russia because i mean merkel is going to sochi twice recently just just like during the bush years russia will of course make take any opportunity to find room between europe and the united states that has always been its policy. it understands that it's room for maneuver is the that it can make this crack wide in is extremely limited well i think we have the iran and the iran deal and we have an energy rich is very important to the german and europe and this is the biggest news in the last week is that trump is waging an economic trade war on the world at this point they're launching a war of tariffs against china they've launched tariffs of steel and other things against south korea their ally in the pacific they've dropped out of the

trans-pacific partnership something that i actually agree with but they've they've put new sanctions sanctions after sanctions after sanctions on russia they've renewed saying sions on iran and promise to go further north korea syria now they're threatening sanctions in two ways against europe and the first way is over the iraq and the right which the e.u. is bringing up a one thousand nine hundred six blocking statute to vainly try to combat and the other way is they're attempting to dictate the e.u.'s energy policy and energy security saying if germany completes the nord stream to pipeline with russia that it will it will possibly and that sanctions the same sanctions against russia against each you completely let's remind our audience of the rationale because trump wants to do but the europeans want by of american energy to north korea i mean if you you know most of america. make

a little bit of sense you make them at all for they cannot refuse you but you can. look i think it's another case of chickens coming home to roost at this program we discussed several times that this campaign against his election anyone before his election it reminded us of that campaign say against the vilify dictators so-called dictators in ukraine you know in syria you know then it was used against trump against the american president in the same. way that war of sanctions which the united states has been waging against russia against other countries now it is turning against europe you know something that the you would never expect to happen they thought it would be used against other people now it's used against them so that's a very interesting moment. brings up a really good point because what has happened here is that the european union is essentially left itself defenseless it really has very few options because it never expected it would be this kind of breach that would face them go ahead alex yeah and i think he's right because let's face it the e.u.

paint itself into its into into a corner into its own little box and let's not also forget you have a lot of dynamics outside of trumpet that are that are leading to a lot of chaos within the e.u. and nato you have turkey which is which is very iffy on its alliance with nato and the west now you have an e.u. which is very divided internally from north to south and eastern europe to western europe so you have a lot of dynamics which are causing a lot of chaos for the for the leaders in brussels and trump is going to play on that and i think also russia will play on that it's very interesting because there is very little unity right now within the european union and russia has always complained that it doesn't know who to speak to in the european union because they're not unified we have it in spades now i think the e.u. will wait donald trump out be that two years four years eight years and i think we've seen this before but i'm for more worried about the internal. stresses within the european union the election of a joint far right far left government in italy noises of dissent in hungary and

paul in order to really think the europeans can wait that long it seems to me it seems to me that the mid-term elections in november in the united states will send an indication of what the european they mean wait a few months by don't think they can wait years see you blocking statute is interesting it's a nineteen ninety six provision med to be used to protect european companies from the u.s. blockade on. so what it's going to do is it's going to ban e.u. companies supposedly from recognize from obeying the rule though it's impossible to judge or and force and it bans european courts from recognizing decisions against companies because of these sanctions and it will open up the european investment bank but german officials have already admitted they can't protect european companies this is an outdated measure they don't know.