danger 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 this is just 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 insecurity in washington d.c. . a former u.s. presidential candidate hillary clinton has attended a graduation ceremony at yale university she followed tradition by wearing an unconventional bit of headway. a russian. i think you can be sure i know. i was on the way to winning until the combination of jim 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 insolvency area still a very large proportion of the population that is uneasy with women 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. and then putting out the shank of 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 sold 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. oh it's a new populist euro skeptic alliance has met the country's president proposing political content as prime minister before the meeting the leaders of the two parties in the coalition stressed that in the new government. must come first. but i limit. only to you tell you aren't even going to put the money on you cause. president is expected to decide on tuesday whether you accept as prime minister to formally go to rivals the go to establishment five star movement and right wing northern league came together in a populist alliance unprecedented for europe skews got more. to know half

month since the italian election and we finally have the name of the next tally in prime minister he has been approved by the italian president and his name is just said be he was put forward as a candidate by five star movement and the league who both said that they wanted him to be the next italian prime minister what do we know about him well not very much we know that he's a professor of law and he's also the author of the five star movement justice program during the election but he is the man that will now lead italy possibly over the next few years where the two parties a five star movement and leg came together despite many differences during the italian at elections to form what they want to see as being a coalition government a government for change is how they've described it in their manifesto some almost sixty pages long which they approved on friday well what do we know what's in that

manifesto well first of all many things that perhaps other countries in the european union may not like too much including the idea that they would like to scrap the sanctions against russia they also want a flat tax in italy they want to curb migration and perhaps most controversially they want to renegotiate some of the. policies the e.u. commitments they've already been warned by a german minister and the french finance minister that they need to keep the e.u. commitments but these two parties who have never shied away of saying exactly what they think to the e.u. . the choice of the italian p. 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 well some

say the reason that they won that election they've been able to join to form this coalition ideology is because they were both euro skeptic parties and that seems to have gone down well with the italian electorate and they still popular recent polls showing that they are getting still sixty percent support from the italian population you must do something about immigration because it's a mess and like the color plan of course you want lower taxes especially for business sense so it's really going to harden immigration we need to solve this problem but with a more moderate approach i'm worried about how five star and the league are going to make good on these promises it will be difficult because the powers the strong well now the new italian prime minister has been approved these two parties will now set to form that government but the manifesto that they've prepared this change

of this government for change still needs to be approved by a tally a new make is when the i's are dotted and the t.'s are crossed and the dust all settles on that it will mean that italy will be the only country in western europe with the euro skeptic governing coalition at its helm. now the effects of ramadan are a risk to us all that's according to the danish prime minister's got this bombshell claim it sparked outrage among muslims after. that a lack of energy from rabbit and fasting is dangerous to society. i want to call in muslims to take leave from work tearing the month of ramadan toward negative consequences for the rest of danish society i wonder if a religious order command in observance of a fourteen hundred year old pillar of islam is compatible with the society and labor market that we have in demo in twenty eighteen this can be dangerous for all us. well the outspoken politician clarified jobs like bus driving hospital work or

operating machinery can be dangerous if people haven't eaten all day let's go live to discuss this now stephen morris from the stomach rights party joins me as well as my feet chief executive of the ramadan foundation thank you gentlemen both for coming on today great to have you on as always mohammed if i can go to you first professionals with responsible work. bus drivers people operating machinery they've got a responsibility to public responsible jobs. someone has need all day things could go wrong the prime minister could have a point. well i think first of all you've got to take the context in which this is been said she's. stolberg is a far right politician within denmark she has supported and encouraged legislated for pretty hard line views about immigration and islam and muslims and so her

comments. in this regard are more of the same there are millions of people here in the united kingdom who are benefiting from muslim doctors muslim nurses most important drivers people working in takeaways or restaurants and in every walk of life who are contributing to society as well as they are practiced in their faith they've done it without any problems you look at the muslim world where it's forty two degrees today crouchie for example people are fasting and working look at the middle east look at moscow look at all of europe people are working and it's never been a problem this is a deliberate attempt to try to attack islam and our practices and we strongly reject it and we strongly opposed to it. stephen but the minister also insists there is freedom of religion in bed mark but i mean calls singling out muslims for discrimination i've got a graph in front of me here which says there's many other religions judaism

christianity buddhism that have fast and periods as well why not target them for example. well she's right in one respect is that it is a health and safety risk the reports all show that accidents. increase during ramadan but this is not to say that we should stop them. i'm god and on let me just finish actually got the safety from the united arab emirates you. actually hear all the evidence accidents just produce the evidence. actually didn't increase so what i'm saying is if she's right in some respects bought we have to work with the my my issue is can we ensure that sees other companies insurance is aware of those people who are actually fasting then becoming a risk not eating or drinking for ten hours nor do you know these exceptions and if the person is not well of the issues and they can like defer that period of time

but surely the insurance company should know if your job in a boss and your fasting then they should know it's common sense increases in traffic accidents do occur it is a fact so she's right in some respects wrong in the autumn one hundred eight are just going straight on the being fired but there is evidence there is no we're not saying that we shouldn't religion but what we've seen is it needs to be managed it needs to be managed within the bounds of health and safety which take priority over religion is a personal choice stephen of just give me a minute obviously if i can sort of play the devil devil's advocate here a bit i mean there's people who are other health issues people on diets people that may have eating disorders you know. how do you propose to monitor them those doctors those bus drivers that may have other disorders and they're going to pose a risk. well. if you've got a medical condition you have to declare it as part of your p.c.

even if your license is part of your medical but you don't have to declare a religion now if you religion not just any religion where you've got fasting where it's going to have an adverse effect on your ability to carry out your work that has to be money i'm not saying that you stop people like the danish politician is he has to be managed correctly then they should be aware of it they should be able to manage it but at the moment if you've got medical condition like what you've said you have to declare it but you don't have to declare your religion which is going to have an adverse effect through not eating so you should actually have to declare it. would you agree something to declare i mean is public safety more important than religion here if those facts that even point that out held a bit of paper up on the screen if those facts are correct is public safety of the priority here. it's just a ridiculous from steve in there it's ridiculous from the minister. the fact is

this. as a ploy and in having those conversations are i'm a muslim i practice my faith i'm fasting so i say have had conversations i will can in office but i've spoken to my manager to tell them that i'm fasting i'm sure those drivers who are viable says around are having those conversations you know if stephen god forbid was to be admitted to a hospital and he was to be seen morse likely by a muslim who is fasting would be what he paused and said well i don't really want to be seen by this guy because he's a muslim and he's fast in the issue here is that this is an attack against islam and muslims ability to practice as i said. it's an issue of health. and so your religion. ok so you're not interested in health and so wouldn't it what you're not interested you are for safety no because you know what . you know interested in health you'll get more info that about islam the english

democrats muslims are partial you move although it is a long conversations there is no way that is to suggest there is no evidence to suggest that muslims are deliberately ignoring health and safety or muslims are less able to occur you know i never said it was you know. what the fact of muslims . are muslims who suffer brain surgeons daniel there might be a proper to teach of a debate but there are muslims in this country who are brain surgeons who are practicing the example as you see him doing a good example if you live. here and you basically look at the problem we do the problem we do under the problem of your party as you hate islam or muslims and you try to have this no we don't want to share ideas that we have. please money if you tell me about once every ninety minutes you in here where you need to you look at that you've attacked islam you've attacked muslims and this is another way you

really need to look at the battles that are. really. going to get out of some of these runs through i think it's all good or you just buy it and let us keep things on topic here gentlemen i know it's so easy. about your party let's keep things a topic stephen if i just respond with this question to you there's a there's a large population of muslims. in denmark i'm sorry in the u.k. as well in many european countries. there's a debate right now about integration about multiculturalism shouldn't the government be trying to include be inclusive towards ethnic minority groups religious minority groups rather than trying to or perhaps inadvertently excluding them through making these sorts of statements which obviously do provoke a lot of passion you know a lot of anger and sentiment is this the right way really to go about things. where it's like you said at the beginning she spoke she's right she should be highlighting the health and safety issue but she's not right in saying that we

should give up work or whatever for this month the example she uses would cost drivers as we know bush drivers rosters are actually very poor so the longer it goes on the fatigue increases the stress increases and as the week goes on that's when the actually increases according to the world say to the u.a.e. so what you've got to look each out to money other companies money can it correctly to say ok you're purchasing muslim you're driving a boss at the end of your rotor does that take into account your fasting no because all of the doors through it fatiguing decks is just to look at the normal period of a driver with normal meal breaks but if you're not having the meal breaks and you're not eaten drinking popley two to follow your religion then i'm fatiguing dexie have to be altered but they know so he's got to be a clear health and safe. to escape and it's got to be money people have a stake in this i mean you've said how would you disagree that this is a health and safety risk i mean what how do you manage this issue that i mean is

there a point here at all or is this clearly attack or insult or muslims as a religious group. there as i said before there are conversations happening between muslim and police with their employer as i've got friends who oppose strivers they fast and they're going to turn you know amy will say. it was. just just just. just. just a little time in just a minute of course. some room in a minute steve just let me have it finishes point out please ok well yeah the point is i've got bus driver friends too fast and practice there ok now the problem here is that there are people on the right of our politics on our country who don't like islam and muslims now they don't want to come out with it we had ukip for example who said oh we're not racist we're not racist for many many years and now guess

what that openly on the side of the far right wing which democrats are no different that's what they do is well they've got a problem in islam and muslims anything what we do will never be good you know as i said brain surgeons brain surgeons work in hospitals on a daily. different only others have given me a single. job or strieber who's caused an accident in this country namely one. has been caused by i can you tell me one in my pretty name if you will if you will be away i mean if you wait a minute if you wait a minute let me ask you questions very you are going to produce let me answer your question you know how he should have germs just very briefly why not just turn second stephen if you want to just reply to that and date just very briefly stephen just seven seconds. no use of the unite with your own dream to wear. it at risk assessments for. no one in the bush industry

has ever put down into a base of fatigue index when doing the. that should be in because that just equally effects them levels of fatigue risk index ok gentlemen we are now in the time of afraid stephen. democrat part of our feet chief executive robert and foundation were of time clearly as always very very far you are passionate debate there clearly an issue that you know very emotional and good to have you both on again later time perhaps for the same topic or different one perhaps we can find some more common ground there thanks gentlemen both of you. dramatic images here the doors to hell that's how locals at least describe this huge molten cavern in turkmenistan central asia filled with flaming natural gas it's been burning day and night now for over forty years of video agency ruptly got a closer look using a drone. that's

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hello and welcome to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the transatlantic alliance system his weather the number of storms during its seventy year history we are told this is because of sustained american leadership but can the same alliance system 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 dmitri bobbitt he's a political analyst with sputnik international and we have alex christopher he is the director and writer for the duran dot com. in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always. 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's 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 indiaman and we'll 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 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 was but if they did pull it off the ceiling the time will be germany said no at that time and they actually sided with putin and you know we remember we're going to go to the russian angle on this here go ahead well i mean it was venus. for example it was the french president who decided that you know he had some very reliable information on. yes president sarkozy had that reliable information to not only be that you know how to read it go. but this. was someone who just went through. talked to a few insurgents and said that we need to save these muscles he said going to ward off much of the soviet troops in one thousand nine hundred eighty s. so basically i think that moment of talk about

a rift in the transatlantic alliance you know there is a 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 especially in the foreign policy area and most notably moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem 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 neo liberal 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 marc 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 now. 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 its room for maneuver is that it can make this crack widen is extremely limited well i think we have the iran and the iran deal and we have energy which 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 right which the e.u. is bringing up a one thousand nine hundred six blocking statute to if they really try to combat

and the other way is they're attempting to dictate the e.u. 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 e.u. cutlets let's remind our audience here the rationale because trump wants to do but the europeans are by american energy to north korea i mean if you you know most of america. think a little bit of sanity seeming to them at all for they cannot refuse he can't. 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 saying that it's the vilify dick status so-called dictate to us 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 never expect that the cap and 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 trump 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 and in your opinion 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 if you 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 his interest it's a nineteen ninety six provision med to be used to protect european companies.