rice community north will let them come to donald trump and say congratulations and all that truck man get your price need time don't have to save us i think. it would be the only way to save the noble peace prize after obama gorbachev are far and others go right ok let me go back to out 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 of ridicule 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 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 agreement with iran so there's no doubt that that. i'm looking at what happened in iran well 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. spies 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 before the meeting and saying are boring for there is a peace treaty signed before there's fay 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. what that means

essentially when i went down boldness saying first surrender and then we can sit down and talk yeah ok i and this is exactly the same message gentlemen that the u.s. trumpet ministration is sending to ram we're going to go to a short break gentlemen after that after that short break we'll continue our discussion on some real new stay with the party. these we continue to discuss only about some amateurs of the maastricht. but six spots i do we don't we have nothing to give to the next generation and he's on the which to be proud to be european these is the reason all of us kept.

fifty years ago breaking in with into a concert going on as a sleeping pill and does this is what i mean because i just want to share just the side effects were terrible but not on the road as sean indulged on football in the world here not. among across europe victims or starting legal battles demanding at least some compensation in something in two ways first will the physical damage itself as well that the concert mind that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been able to justice and there's been a couple. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

infinitely. from. the from from. welcome back to crossfire were all things were considered i remind you 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 get anything. in st petersburg look very very different the there was an open in brace and we had the joy they drop in his 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 general if isolation is about fifteen thousand international business figures coming to st petersburg that's a very nice a situation i wish many countries in europe these kind of isolation but indeed there are i think it was a success you know mr monk wrong and and come to st petersburg however in general i don't think mccrone really has the power to he'd like to he'd like to have their confrontation with russia unfortunately there you know the articles about getting rid of so-called energy dependence on russia. a lot of other discriminatory calls us about relations with russia they're written in they're in they're always in the norms of the european union mr monk 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 get alex in cyprus here i deme 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 at least 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 for sizing his art of the deal bari 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 some 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 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 mccracken seems to have this type of simpering ego and stick personality where he has to kiss the rear end of whoever he's in the room with and play to whether that's trump or. as we saw it 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

story is they're planted in the white house grounds was then dug up after he left so i didn't hear from him and i think i certainly i mean is that breaking the mc i want to work without another break 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 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 of the the obvious must stakes were made when talking about reconciliation with russia you read a lot of the. words 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 it mind send a message that they have other options to explore and that's why you know this is an 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 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're not being told by state

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 them he won unexpectedly and they contradict him even though. all the things that they wanted he bomb syria he he was very threatening to north korea he did everything they usually do continuing threatening of venezuela to ensure the underwriting transaction on rob thanks and you know russia russia russia should these sanctions sanctions agent because that's what is water bottles if the zombie i'll just a little play and the funny thing is that they're the democrats and the european liberals and used him cool with russia they continue to use 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 him bought it in that terrible loss you had that the democrats have maintained and they want to support them just let me

remind our listeners don't put too much into that lawsuit there i think that is a joke they're still in russian federation russian intelligence trumps competing in judo in a song gendered. to me it's like this is crosstalk on that list growing up there's no law that says. it's bill gates and santa claus only you know jericho and jordan a son it's likes you and mother three years and stormy daniels invited last month you're not going to do it in their minds they were stormy daniels free zone here. maybe go to you know in cyprus but one of the interesting thing that the and i'm agreeing with demon is that it's it's an anglo-saxon cobol here that is the anti russian i mean obviously elites in europe got to play along with it because that's the cue that they're given from the berlin 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 the european leaders coming here to moscow and to negotiate negotiate is the beginning of the beginning of a process go ahead alex you know we were right in the beginning i believe. even stated. it's essentially that you know that russia is in a trickle part of europe i mean he was he was very clear in his statements that he does not want 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 he's 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 breaking the

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 when john bolton brought up the you know the the lead. option for. north korea. trump replied well well that's not what we're planning the libyan option and we totally decimated them that was a decimation he said and in a case you don't know what that means that was with the omen roman legionary practice of killing why the out of every ten people and north korea has already been through worse than that they're the u.s. . hellacious bombing campaign of north korea during 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 that 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 simultaneously this whole st p. . it's big 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 truck around with his little fingers loves everything big bigger that and 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 all of them in europe really interesting and 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 it. 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 that but there are two different things the european union and europe europe needs russian gas the european union needs to damage russia basically why did they destroy the project. the sols 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 they did everything before the project to be for the germans rule in south stream so they could get in or. call me energetic all of you have been true to their arrest of me that security guards are gentlemen i am going to judge me would run out of time in many thanks and i guess here in moscow and in cyprus this is the end of our broadcast segment stay with us for the extended version on our you tube channel see you next time and remember across talks rules.

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hello welcome it's seven pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now yet more political turmoil is on the cards in italy after the country's president de railed plans for a year a skeptic coalition he also appointed a former international monetary fund official as interim prime minister carlo carli stressed the need for close ties with europe. the new owner will be a role within your remains fundamental as is our continued participation in the euro area well after his appointment is appointed came after the president rejected the euro skeptic coalition's choice of finance minister the media were quick to react though denouncing the president for acting as a quote king who blows everything up charlotte has more on the story well what we know is that italy will have an interim neutral prime minister he's called carlo quarterly 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 french elections as soon as or ghost if his government picks are approved then 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 barlow so 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 to

a little bit i approved all the proposals for the ministers but i did not approve the name of the minister of economy i ask for their ministry and offer to political figure from the coalition parties who is not seen as a supporter of a line that could provoke italy's action from the euro well the coalition leaders these are the leaders of the league and the five star movement angered by not decision by the italian prime minister saying that it absolutely not demick. pratik they see that they've got the support of six out of ten voters in italy and they are see the thing that what's happened in italian politics problem and i'm wondering if we are in a democracy and if in italy the italians decide or the germans to side the french decide it's incredible. this is their actual point we have a great problem in italy this is not a free democracy where the leader of the fleet also went on to make accusations against german politicians and the german media saying that they were interfering

and that comes after we saw the publication of a number of german magazines basically pointing out what they thought of that potential coalition government one the weekly dish biko 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 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 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. reporting more just to give you some more background on this a general election almost three months ago resulted in no party securing a majority however a coalition pact was eventually formed with a political novice appointed prime minister but he resigned just a few days later after failing to form a government so let's get some reaction now from marcus and he's professor of politics university of milan and he joins us now. you're very welcome firstly we you surprise them by the smilie by the president. oh yes quite frankly i was that was a little bit surprise it's like the very first time that any of this or after it's in seventy years the constitution is all about seventy years and there has been nothing like that before or there's just no comparison this is this is a constitutional crisis of political process and of course on there's an economic

crisis in italy that's been going on for ten years showing up so i was going to say why so sorry mark i was going to say to some people have not called for the impatient saying the president. is that likely to happen or is he acting well within the constitution no not really you see that's the wording of the constitution is like the prime minister will just come up with a list of ministries and then though the president will pick them or will select them will nominate them right so the wording is is right there you can say is it a notary public as it was supposed to be for forty fifty years during the cold war you know it was always a christian democrats that wants a very simple but then notice there is there is a lot more like almost a presidential republican so that the president has some walk of a political role there's no doubt about that and as you know the president was

elected by the former majority this one sure do you think he's sending out a strong political message to them with his choices prime minister after all the united states former i.m.f. official i'm sorry i was and yet my question is do you think the president is trying to send a strong political message himself given that his appointment as a former i.m.f. official. clearly this is purely political you're seeing them right or encroach on law there is nothing nothing at all that could be considered nonpolitical it's pure politics. i'm not saying is not following the constitution is it of course is making a political move he was really afraid that there are some older star is there eating wine and meat was a banker or very many years was going to take italy out of the euro zone and it was

going to he wrote it you know this of all a little and flipped about six or seven months ago and it was like a big plane to get out of the euro so i'm not saying this was a move that was decided in berlin or in paris but clearly it was a move for the eurozone ok market will have to leave it a bit to nice to see that as mark of a sunny professor of politics at the university of melbourne thank you mark what you. have israel the israel defense forces have raided a palestinian refugee camp in the west bank allegedly hunting for suspects who killed an i.d.f. soldier the day before. reports suggest that dozens of soldiers entered the refugee camp in ramallah on monday morning saying palestinians are believed to be wounded during the raid is clashes broke out when soldiers used tear gas and live ammunition against stone throwing

protesters camp residents claim a number of palestinians have also been arrested. meanwhile here weapons manufacturers to enjoy record sales to israel last year a new report by the campaign against arms trade has revealed yet british politicians at the same time to condemn israel she uses force against palestinian protesters as shouting the now reports. 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 respect massacre because of left at least fifty eight dead the loss of life we have seen is tragic and extremely concerning. such as is destructive to 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 for in the span of just two years and those sales include star power rifles weapons sites in munition for small arms anti-riot 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.'s put forward a motion to suspend sales altogether in the lords of the extensive use of lawyers by israeli forces against palestinians in gaza the house calls for a suspension of u.k. sales to israel unless it can be demonstrated that weapons and components imported from the u.k. . in.