but i think it's important again this libya scenario to mention that you know bolton statements while provocative were largely ignored by north korea north korea was more upset with the u.s. and south korea. against agreements that had already been made conducted strategic that is nuclear drills on the north korean border involved they announced it was going to be conducted with b. fifty two s and f. twenty two which are both nuclear capable north korea really objected to this great strenuously and then it was dial back in the b. fifty two that were dialed out of it but the interesting thing is news and the maximum. pressure being applied here you know but i mean it's illogical i mean this is a very sensitive time right now i mean mark really made a good point here i mean president moon when across the d.m.z. i mean think about it for the last you know since one nine hundred fifty three what that name was crossing the berlin wall exactly i think koreans did what they could

you know we can't accuse bourse north korea south korea of not doing anything for peace but coming back to that article by ray mcgovern you know i have a peace plan for korea let me just remind our listeners that craig my government is a hero you know he's a former cia official who is now a dissident who recently got beaten you know because you want to toss out a competent question about my peace plan you know based on that ray mcgovern psychical what he says that trump should be led to no dream of his nobel peace prize ok since the novel peace prize is already discredit by being given to a bomb that the noble peace prize committee in north will let them come to donald trump and see congratulations and all that drop men get your price if you need ten don't have to save us time to do what. they did their families will do the only way to save their noble peace prize after obama gorbachev. are hard and all that go

right ok let me go back to our before we go to the break here i think which i don't want to go into it in great depth but i mean you know we had on my pump a zero come out with his twelve points for in dealing with iran here i mean we can compare that which was all quite ludicrous and very much out ridiculed by foreign people in the foreign policy blah it seems to me that does mirror the north korean strategy meaning there really if they really haven't thought it out very well go ahead alex yeah we had twelve steps to a war is really what it was twelve steps to regime change but i mean i think you're right peter can't overstress the fact that it's not only the libyan model that north korea is nervous about it's the iranian model that libya north korea is nervous about let's not forget it's only been a couple of weeks since the united states broke their agreements with iraq so there's no doubt that that and i'm looking at what happened in iran. yeah north korea has already made two significant gestures of real significance they have

detonated their tunnels that they used for nuclear detonation and they unilaterally returned three u.s. spy so they're obviously done their part but even both in this sabotaging this not only referring to the threat of libyan regime change but by demanding that north korea completely denuclearized right from the get go without anything of force meeting and saying or boring for there is a peace treaty signed before there's free any type of face steps and this is a way of raising expectations but when they actually said that he wanted the talks to go forward as soon as possible so that nothing could be done to end skip steps later and jump right to more serious measures we all that we all know what that means essentially. saying first surrender and then we can sit down and talk ok and this is exactly the same message gentlemen that the u.s. the trumpet ministration is sending to iran we're going to go to a short break gentlemen after that after that short break we'll continue our discussion and some real news. ok with the party.

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discuss only about amateurs of the maastricht. but. we don't we are nothing but to give to the next generation are ways for the rich to be proud to be european these is the reason all of us can. welcome back to crossfire we're all things we consider to remind you we're discussing some real news. ok gentlemen it's switch gears i just came back from the st petersburg international economic forum obviously in st petersburg one of the things i find really quite remarkable not the fact that mccrone was there because he'd just been in the united states and you know we've got a lot of hugs and you know that his dandruff and taken off his shoulder but he

didn't do anything. in st petersburg look very very different the there was an open in brace and we had the john they drew up a nice prime minister there we had angle merkel that is visited putin twice in sochi gone to china there seems like a lot of movement on the table right now go ahead well in general if isolation is about fifteen thousand international business figures coming to st petersburg that's a very nice isolation i wish many countries in europe these kind of isolation but indeed there are i think it was a success you know mr marker on and and come to st petersburg however in general i don't think has the power to he'd like to he'd like to have today a confrontation with russia unfortunately there you know that article about getting rid of so-called energy dependence on russia. a lot of other discriminate tree

calls us about relations with russia they're written in they're in they're all in the norms of the european union which the mockery of simply doesn't have the power to change them and i think this is something that a lot of people don't understand but you know do we go to alex in cyprus here idema is absolutely right a lot of this is really kind of written into stone here but i think there is we're in a moment right now where people are beginning to look at options something we haven't seen on this scale in my lifetime middle east ok i mean i you do have the europeans actually considering different ways of moving forward because of the growing mistrust with trump's white house go ahead alex in cyprus we're seeing the world under president trump and just as president trump it's not your sizing his art of the deal foreign policy practice it works both ways and we're seeing the europeans we're seeing we're seeing micro and you know we're seeing russia and china also

weigh their options and look at their negotiating leverage when dealing with the united states as well as when dealing with each other so i think we're seeing a lot of jockeying for different positions we're seeing the national interest of countries come back to the forefront and this is really all because of trump's instability of predictability but also his style of bringing you know everything about foreign policy too to a transactional level it's all about negotiations and so it works both ways and the europeans i think are now are starting to realize that they can exercise their their options mark yeah well you know i see your dismissive broke as usual. i mean i think we have to take all of this with a not just a grain of salt but a good dash of salt over the shoulder because micron seems to have this type of simpering ego instict personality where he has to kiss the rear end of whoever he's in the room with for and play to whether that's trump or. we saw i mean to add

insult to injury and his recent trip to the white house evidently the tree that he planted that he and his wife planted with his teacher his wife whatever the the story is they're planted in the white house grounds was then dug up after he left so. that's. certainly i mean is that breaking the mc i don't want to you want word that you know there's you know it was widely reported the head of the i.m.f. the french president the japanese prime minister and the chinese president that's in or that's isolation vice president and vice president you have a second in command it's right that that is international isolation. but this these steps by. merkel visiting sochi it gathered and visiting china for a second time coming to russia talks of reconciliation mccraw that admitting the

the obvious must stakes were made when talking about reconciliation with russia where you made a lot of money. but it's very clear who made the mistakes that yeah exactly this is we shouldn't we should be happy for this but we shouldn't take it for more than it is this is normal realist balancing this is what states do when states other states do things that anger of them they. send a message that they have all their options to explore and that's what you know this is a marx absolute right but what is not right or kind of. out of balance is it and we've mentioned this on this program before trump doesn't care you know he doesn't care about the implications and we have said here he's playing to his base i'm sure he's got a checklist in his pocket you know he's checking them through i mean is unpopular in his why of moving to the embassy to jerusalem going out of the iran deal being very fickle when it comes. to north korea i mean these are these these are things

he ran on well i think we should always remember that we are not being told by states where polls by an ideology and the problem with trump is that he is aggressive stupid dangerous but he does not understand this ideology he was not certified by there he won unexpectedly and the conflict gave it to him even though he did all the things that they wanted he bore him to syria he he was very threatening to north korea he did everything they usually do continuing threatening of venezuela agents on russians engine on russian internet you know russia russia russia should these sanctions exit legend because that's what is water bottles if the. and the funny thing is they're the democrats and the european liberals and used him of being in coups with russia they continue to accuse him even though he has done more anti russian things than any president in history of

the united states before him i mean to me this is all just inboard it in that terrible loss you know that the democrats have made and they want to support them just let me remind our listeners don't put too much into the lawsuit there i think that is a joke they're still in russian federation russian intelligence trumps complain julian assange gendered. to me it's like this is crosstalk on the ground look there's no law that says. it's bill gates and santa claus only you know jerry and jordan a son it's likes you and mother three years and stormy daniels invited wasnt you know going to do in their minds they were stormy daniels free zone here. may be your view. but one of the interesting thing that the enemy i'm agreeing with demon is that it's it's an anglo-saxon cabal here that is the anti russian i mean obviously elites in europe are going to play along with it because that's the. cue

that they're given from the from berlin and i'm sorry from washington but it seems to be very anglo-saxon when continuing this anti russian rhetoric and policies they see the europeans that is something we have european leaders coming here to moscow and to negotiate negotiate is the beginning of the beginning of a process go ahead alex you are right in the beginning i believe that micro and even stated whites are essentially that you know that russia is in a trickle part of europe and he was very clear in his statements that he does now what russia to drift through east but you know let's not forget that trump is not a statesman or a good lad he's a business guy so i don't think you really understand any of this stuff that's going on i think you brought everything to a business level and let's face it being a real estate tycoon in new york is probably a very dirty business and you make agreements and you break agreements and you twist arms you can do a lot of stuff that you know maybe see below their belts in foreign diplomacy and

trump is bringing a lot of that to the world stage and you even had russian president putin say that it seems to be right now that you know the new rules are all about rules and that's very much an allusion to how trump is dealing with a lot of the foreign policy issues to date and it's a very good point i mean you know it's breaking all the rules but you know if you're always breaking the rules you can't make a new rule and that is the big problem here right now mark i think trumps art of the deal is like a mafia don where john bolton brought up the you know the the lead. option for. north korea. trump replied well that's not what we're planning the libyan option we totally decimated them that was a decimation he said and if a case you don't know what that means that was with the allman roman legionary practice of killing why that of every ten people. north korea has. already been

through worse than that there in the us. hellacious bombing campaign of north korea during the north korean war so that it could have been well received there but then he said that is that's only if we if you break the if you don't sign a deal that's the only time decimation so either side on the bottom line or get decimated that is a mafia don threat something to sleep the whole st petersburg and international economic forum was overshadowed by trump's trade war on global trade i've not not just globalization but trade with allies trump has put affectively sanctions on south korea he's put tariffs rounds of tariffs on china sanctions on russia syria north korea iran he's promising the biggest sanctions in world history because they don't trump the trump around with his little fingers loves everything big bigger that it is he likes to exaggerate the size of

everything but he's also threatening sanctions in two ways over both iran and the completion of nord stream against his own allies in the e.u. right which is sure to you know really what oil them in europe really interesting is i'm glad you brought up the energy security we could dream of because you know there's a lot of things that the europeans will go along with with the with the americans traditionally. not specifically with trump now but their energy security is something that is very real and very much theirs and i see in the germans are leading that push back that they will have north stream we also have that the pipeline will be coming through turkey so i mean it looks like there are there yet will only be one because turkey is always a wildcard but i mean this is an issue that is very real and very important to them and russia is a reliable partner we've seen some of that but there are two different things the european union and europe you. needs russian gas the european union needs to

damage russia basically why did they destroy the project of salt the saw was a savior for europe you know it was going to bring cheap energy to the two most problematic states to that end to greece but the e.u. did everything before the project to be fair the germans rule the south stream so they could get an order through. energy although if you don't get it through the energy solar system that the jurors are gentle they're going to judge me we've run out of time there are many thanks to my guests here in moscow and in cyprus this is the end of our broadcast stay with us for the extended version on our you tube channel see you next time and remember across talks rules. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of

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the welcome you're watching out international this monday afternoon pm here in the russian capital our top story italy faces political turmoil and new elections but after the country's president de railed plans for your skeptic coalition and appointed an interim prime minister the new premier. is a former i.m.f. official and he stressed the need for close ties with europe. the new owner will be our role within europe remains fundamental as is our continued precipitation in the euro area. ok well let's digest them what's happened shall dubinsky she's across the story for us to charlotte just take us through the events of today well what we know is that italy will have an interim neutral prime minister he's called carlo quarterly as you mentioned he's a former director of the i.m.f.

and he now has to form a government that government then has to be approved by the italian parliament if they don't approve his choice of a government full of ministers then italy will face for elections as soon as organist if his government picks are approved and those elections are likely to be pushed into the first half of the twenty nineteen well why are we here well that's because the italian president had vetoed the choice of the economy minister put forward by the attempts to form a coalition by the league and by five star movement that man that was rejected was eighty one year old paolo. savannah who is known as a financial expert but he was vetoed because he was seen as being too euro skeptic and even on sunday the italian prime minister was saying look guys just give me somebody who is not so against europe and i will approve your government

a little bit i approve of the proposals of the ministers but i did not approve the name of the minister of economy i ask for their ministry and author it is political figure from the coalition parties who is not seen as a supporter of a line that could provoke italy's except from the euro. well the coalition leaders these the leaders of the league and the five star movement have been angered by that decision by the italian prime minister saying that it absolutely not democratic they say that they've got the support of six out of ten voters in italy and they are seizing that what's happened in italian politics but i'm wondering if we are in a democracy and if in italy the italians decide what the germans decide the french decide it's incredible. this is that actual point will have a great problem in italy this is not a free democracy. well the leader of the five star league also went on to make

accusations against german politicians and the german media saying that they were interfering that they were describing italians as being tax evaders as being beggars and that comes after we saw the publication of a number of german magazines basically putting out what they thought of that potential coalition government one the weekly dish to go had described italians as being scroungers another had used its front cover to show a van with the italian flag on it and the symbols of those two parties actually driving off a cliff showing that that is what they thought and that went down like a lead balloon in italy meanwhile the new prime minister carlo got out early has been speaking today about what he sees as the friendship with europe and the e.u. as being absolutely essential to italy and we already know that his appointment has been given the seal of approval by brussels who say that they fully support the

decision by the italian prime a president to appoint. somebody who is clearly not an e.u. skeptic but it's almost over there is still much turmoil in italian politics and you can be sure that both five star movement and the league will be using what's happened over the last twenty four hours or so to drum up support whenever italy holds its elections next certainly will ok thank charlotte that was our europe correspondent there charlotte dubinsky. or just to give you some background then to all of this an election was held nearly three months ago and no party secured a majority however a coalition pact was eventually formed with a political novice appointed prime minister but he them resigned just a few days later after failing to form a government we spoke to a member of the five star party one of the coalition partners and he says he rejected economy minister savannah was not anti europe. incredible point is that

the candidate mr boehner was the first saying us. stay in the e.u. in the euro zone but there's to be more stronger in the east if you show to bring some good point at home what might that alice said today in a t.v. conference was that it was not ok because in the past you criticize the view so can you imagine a democracy where a minister cannot be a minister because yes some political idea you can be trial so you can be a problem we've been dried just guilty for something by you cannot be a problem if you have some good idea. where the former italian prime minister matter what n.z. is the latest guest in r.t. selfing discussing why the country is politically divided at the moment you can watch the full interview today we have a lot of single problem single issues surely migrants surely the lack

of employment of an employment is one of the most important problem of my county but in general a part of europe. in france now because it was not working for many counties in his career after also you for using to about. some countries very rich you see them grow up one of the scepter business in my county. is not only miley's problem because the rich not to. vote for a flop with spike for years and not. please this is dime a for europe to come back to greet us to greet the great the us. now the u.k. sold a record number of arms to israel this year according to

a new report by the campaign against arms trade it does come as british politicians condemn television use of force against palestinian protesters as. explained. after israel's use of life fire against palestinians on may the fourteenth there was condemnation in much of the world not least the u.k. yesterday's riddick massacre because it left at least fifty eight dead the loss of life we have seen is tragic and extremely concerning. such as just struck just peace efforts and we call on all sides to show restraint the launch of life is extremely concerning we continue to employ israel to show great restraint yet despite those strong words for years britain has been ramping up how much weaponry it sells to israel since two thousand and fifteen numbers have skyrocketed up eleven four in the span of just two years and those sales include star power rifles weapons sites in munition for small arms anti right equipment and other items

similar to those used by israeli forces against unarmed protesters. the u.k. doesn't keep data on how such equipment and weapons are used after being sold until that can be established m.p. has put forward a motion to suspend sales altogether in the lords of the extensive use of. israeli forces against palestinians in gaza the house calls for. israel unless it can be demonstrated that weapons and components imported from the u.k. . in accordance with the consolidated criteria that motion did not make it to debate and while just after the killing of protesters britain did join the chorus of countries calling for an independent investigation when the un put something a war crimes probe to gaza to a vote the u.k. abstained calling into question just how important the truth is to teresa mayes

government and later on in the comfortable position of condemning potentially her effective uses also in the guns to carry them out. they have always been on the road. actually they've increased our lives in critical occasionally but i'm all the more shareholders go i'm just i'm with you the obituary. right i'm going through the roof i think i really believe that there is damage shareholders but people working at the system do well that already you know they're. buying israel wants these they can see where i was where those children were coming in one by one them without lights they can see i don't be studying these weapons so i think they would walk away from the industry while the israeli army denies easing excessive force against the protesters and it accuses hamas a feeling the riots but new reports of the i.d.f. deploying heavy weaponry do appear almost every day.