strong and that's how you get alliances not alliances in a formal way sometimes you're asked to choose said whoa hill to someone oh they're also selling their goods. all a lot of the it is tied us in chinese they this material to you and frankly if i need generation capability and if a particular country is giving me export credit right china also does that russia has also given us loans when they built the steel mill in karachi they were the actually they the soviet union at the time built our first statement with a loan and we paid because i was in finance i knew exactly what was going up so the point is we tend to look for the hidden agendas and my view is that the agendas are all open of course if a particular country gives you a couple of billion dollars to build infrastructure their clout in the country

increases but they also selling their goods they also generating goodwill and to me in the ecosystem you build for diplomacy all these things add to the brand of the relationship between the two countries and then there's also iran right and iran still is on the verge of collapse united states is actually trying to slam sect slap sanctions anyone who continues as a business with iran pakistan has boosted trade cooperation with their own lately costly gas pipeline plans do you think all of that could be in jeopardy now do you think like. pakistan will still continue doing business with iran regardless america's your rights to sanction countries doing business with it so you would not care about america no ask me interested as a sanction from the un or america we will then have a dialogue with them and see what the sanctions are we contributing. in

the process of looking at sanctions by not following the we are doing something which is somebody dances no we have to by the. someplace so we buy it from our neighbor and the each case is different in nature of sanctions sanctions the loose . the type of sanctions imposed and very it gets very technical so obviously if there's a un resolution saying you've got to do something then we can do something but it's bilateral the flexibility is very much there. is the peace in afghanistan is a never ending topic for pakistan negotiated peace in afghanistan seems like what the afghans themselves are supporting right. when you talk about us back ister relations you're being extremely diplomatic other pakistani politicians much less they seem like. they seem to think that maybe the relationship between the two

countries could be on the verge so if there is a collapse between these two countries in their relationship can there be a consolidated peace process involving all actors i don't know what other people say but i can tell you what i say here is that i have a pretty good understanding of the us also having lived worked for us for thirty years and. the us has a point of view but i think we can do business with the u.s. i think there are many ways to build that relationship the way the key to good financial management in today's environment is have options have different avenues to get to the same objective and u.s. is not the only option it is an important option and we have always said we want closer relations and we want to excuse me grow our linkages with them but if it doesn't meet our national interest nobody can authorize it to be done so

i think to give a general sort of or have a general view that anything the u.s. does will hurt pakistan is not true there's a lot of stuff we can do and we have had relations as i said we were the most allied of the us and then we became the most sanctioned of the us but still even in that environment we were buying selling goods to each other and people were going travelling everything was not however dealing with the us is a very complex relationship so it has to be managed accordingly i mean you can't run away from that you know if somebody is giving you aid and they have certain rules and regulations either you agree with them or you go somewhere else the united states would argue that the main stumbling point between america and pakistan is pakistan's alleged help to the. stream is group

the afghan taliban your former boss sheriff has admitted to it as well many other pakistani politicians the press has admitted to it and the general argument is it was support the tout taliban in afghanistan because we don't want india to go into pakistan into afghanistan so let's assume that's true and pakistanis arming the afghan taliban who is it is there no better ways to deal with india than supporting at home i think i think look taliban have nothing to do with india so if anybody is mentioned to you please tell them to talk to me. back. and sole objective on the taliban. and afghanistan actually more than the other is to have peace in afghanistan pakistan will be the biggest beneficiary of a peaceful strong vibrant of the. we will be the biggest loser

if understand is weak if one is that is has got a lot of. terrorist activity and other things happening who will be the biggest loser part of us we will be and this thing is very contagious terrorists don't recognize borders we should get away from this mindset that you know here's the line so they have a problem we don't know this thing blows like so we disagree with musharraf when he admits that yet have the sound statement is actually is and to the views we hold of what i think the context of a statement. read several statements but not this particular one is that we sacrifice a lot for them and then when he. as they were called were being trained but in pakistan to go fight and liberate the country we were part of the whole effort with the united states and others that's

well known to your country too but they knew exactly what was going on when americans are we don't know a lot of the blue you know out of context and say ok guys let's go and we are treating we're going to train you know it has to suit our national interest also so when americans are accusing pakistan of sponsoring terrorists and i know that pakistan is actually fighting a real war against terrorism at home against its own homegrown talents and absolute yes this is a fallout of what happened in the world it is weird to me because once again i'm not just getting this out of nowhere and i'm stating things that politicians are a country that i you know are saying what a lot of were you saying prime and former prime minister and i was sure evokes knowledge that pakistan is actually supporting him using other extremist groups for operation i was talking about the terrorist attack in mumbai and it's not the first you know usually we have understand this we're talking about. finally it's terrorism rated all of them so for me it's just weird how could

a country be fighting a real war on terror on its own territory but then also be financing terrorist groups outside and this has to do with india and i think there's enough evidence that in the old supporting terrorist groups so i don't know what gave first and what came second but if that happened then both countries become. part of the solution and part of the problem and that's what you're seeing i think then that's what if you see press reports in isolation you me not really get to all of it but no country in their right mind will support terrorism particularly pakistan which has been a major victim and it's not just in one area it's all through the country because the citizens are free to travel so we are fighting terrorism with all the resources at our disposal disposal we believe that the solution to crisis in.

is not through terrorism it should be through economic development good governance and pakistan two parts and it applies to both and also if we get all create jobs open opportunities for people give them hope that isn't will come it has come down in pakistan but not in not completely eliminate. thank you so much wholesome change helping me thinking good luck with everything. to the summit can donald trump start a meaningful peace process as well as italy's democratic process for the e.u.

and much much more on this edition of cross. standing steadfast germany's chancellor stresses her commitment to the. really prime minister arrives in europe. the european parliament looks into the misuse of. cambridge. more revelation show. company was involved. in yemen. french authorities scramble to. travels to europe's largest jail. on security.

for an interview with austrian giving rise to a wide ranging discussion. was remarkably. international news center in moscow. good to have your company i'm you know neal our top story the israeli prime minister is in berlin on the first leg of his europe. trip where he's seeking to push for the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal to be dropped binyamin netanyahu the german chancellor angela merkel wrapped up their talks earlier i've spoken to journalists in the german capital peter all over brings us more in today on food. well benjamin netanyahu certainly being trying on

this first leg of his three day european tour where he's been meeting or will be meeting with e.u. leaders to try and convince them to follow the united states is lead and move away from the iran nuclear deal that was a very bad deal because it gave you are the capacity also to develop advanced sort of futures forty times more effective in the intervening years so they could have an unlimited enrichment capacity in a few years that's not a good deal we see that iran is devouring one country after the other and the deal also released a lot of cash for you ron well if what was said by the leaders on the podium is anything to go by we can pretty much gather that prime minister netanyahu would stop angola merkel fell on deaf ears the german chancellor using her time addressing the media to say that germany and herself remain committed to trying to save the iran deal. we have differing opinions on the usefulness and fact of innes

of a joint comprehensive package that fly into this agreement will have more transparency that's the position we will hold in germany well this is a pretty tough sell for benjamin netanyahu obviously doesn't seem like he had any influence on angle or merkel's ideas and expect pretty much the same as he heads to london to paris that's because european leaders are upset at the move by the united states to pull out of the iran deal they cite the years of diplomatic effort that went into all getting the deal in the first place the economic value of the deal to many european companies the fact that a lot of the senior officials in europe feel let down by the united states pulling out of this so we can really expect spend to netanyahu to hear similar things as he heads off to london to paris to government regret the decision of the us administration to withdraw from the deal once the. bustles that would be to get

americans. to stick so much in this if you want to. speak. to the european union never to make sure that the nuclear agreement is pursued that your project has lost the battle no one followed its decision and now we have to make good on doing. the work some concessions from angela merkel towards benjamin netanyahu she said that germany would provide diplomatic assistance with dealing with what many vignette and yahoo called iranian meddling in certain parts of the world so benjamin netanyahu goes off to try his luck with to resume a and a manual call next but he can well imagine a similar type of reception will be awaiting him in both london and in paris as well. to a story which could have a lot of ramifications cambridge analytical the company at the center of a private data scandal has reemerged with yet more controversy investigative

journalist mark blumenthal has published documents he ses were leaked from cambridge analytic is parent company the allegedly revealed that it had been collecting data for a private military contractors in yemen here's artie's double quarter remember the cambridge analytical scandal millions of people's personal information being mined for financial gain and influence cambridge and a little it's actually a data analytics company dedicated to one thing figuring out how to manipulate you at all costs this shadowy consulting firm right surreptitiously gained access to personal data mined from nearly eighty seven million facebook users weaponized personal data you have to look at cambridge analytics in terms of the loss of trust cambridge analytic scandal this was a huge breach of trust.