makes us watch mr trump and america's behavior with much pessimism but for now we cannot be optimistic about their behavior and i think the north korean government should deal with this issue very carefully the united states is not the sort of country that anyone can trust as the iranians know quite well the j c p o a was an agreement that iran made many sacrifices for iran shut down much of its peaceful nuclear program a legitimate nuclear program so under these circumstances i think the iranians have a very good reason to be skeptical and the north koreans should be careful even the iran has very good relations with south korea more extensive relations but the united states is dangerous. the group of railway workers in paris and has attempted to storm a t.v. channel accusing it of anti union propaganda. of

two one hundred workers trying to enter the metropole television building and were stopped by police it comes after more than two months of transport strikes across france over the government's labor reforms the channel has drawn widespread anger over its coverage of the strike. the german chancellor angela merkel has rejected a plan from her own interior minister to reduce the inflow of asylum seekers are his peter oliver has more what we were expecting on tuesday was that horse and the whole forward deliver what is being called his migration master plan then as tuesday progressed we realised that wasn't going to happen the plan itself essential e even though it is hearing incredibly detail essentially means that germany would be able to turn away migrants out the border that should be the responsibility of the not the e.u. nation to look after seems very simple no that is not and that has caused a huge run in between angola merkel. holford the interior minister as we understand

it at the moment the author is refusing to budge from his position on this but it comes at a time when the whole asylum process is very much under the microscope here in germany just last week a failed asylum application was arrested in iraq after fleeing germany know he is the main suspect in the brutal rape and murder of a fourteen year old girl in the city of minds a lot of questions being asked over just why this person who'd failed in his our application for asylum was still in the country at the time of this of this fourteen year old girls killing now this isn't just a split that's in germany though over what to do over the migration policy it is an e.u. wide split in some sense we've seen. in italy come forward and say they weren't going to accept a a ship in the mediterranean that was full of migrants now that move was strongly

criticized by the french prime minister let's. get it if spain has indicated it's ready to welcome the boat we happy to hear that and i tell you mr deputy that we are obviously ready to help the spanish authorities and examine the situation of those on the boat who wish to apply for refugee status but what are you course the hopper is trying to circle some allies across europe and we've heard from the italian foreign ministry saying that. he needs his opposite number in rome that they will be having meetings on immigration in the near future we also know that the austrian chancellor sebastiaan curtsey is in berlin for meetings will also fit in a meeting on wednesday with smith with mr hoffa on this issue but this is where it comes to a point this isn't just a. problem this is a germany e.u. problem as well because at the end of the month angela merkel goes to brussels for the big summit where she's got to try and convince other nations to get on board

and show a united front in her migration overhaul that she wants to see even sweden and denmark and of an overland. entranced. on systems against the. illegal migration so i think the german government has to do as well according to the majority or put your opinion among other european member states and i think then zero often knows this very well and two years on their fall in that kind of search of her position in the end there will be a kind of a compromise but miss very strong influence of the of the variance as the party of the office in new york stay with us and for all the latest from the world cup with less than two days to go before the tournament kicks off and here russia.

i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman each a billionaire owner has been spending student twenty million and one player. it's an experience like nothing else i want to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy great so one more chance with. the case it's going to. trump him summit in singapore was certainly rich when it comes to optics but what about the substance both leaders are clearly looking for a win in process has started there are plenty of obstacles ahead and no shortage of people whose worst nightmare might come true peace coming to the korean peninsula.

international now the british government has narrowly avoided in embarrassing defeat on a key brings a bill in parliament lawmakers were being offered a so-called meaningful vote on how the u.k. will leave you the bill was passed by a narrow margin meaning prime minister theresa may may be forced to make future concessions meanwhile the wealthy businessman who bankrolled the leave you campaign in two thousand and sixteen has been questioned over his alleged links to russia hard work or reports on the parliamentary inquiry. this questioning was all product of the british government's fake news inquiry which was set up back in twenty seventeen really off the back of the trump russia allegations and politicians in

the media here in the u.k. started asking the question could russia have had a hand in bragg's it and today it was aaron banks has turned in the hot seat banks is a millionaire businessman who turned into a political and he had funded the ukip party here in the u.k. for a while and then he funded this big leave dot edu campaign so for a lot of people he's seen as sort of the the person that bankrolled greg's and he's sort of styled him himself as the bad boy brags that he even wrote a book with that name and over the weekend several newspapers splashed these big stories saying that he had quote repeated contact with russian officials in the run up to the referendum but arran banks once he was in that room with that committee today he really batted away those allegations and he was quite the sariel as well he pointed out that the committee was made up exclusively of politicians that had

wanted to stay in the european union and he said things like parliament is actually the biggest source of state news here in britain is for the. that's true the point is not that you'd be the guardian. for him as we will be easily mislead and have one of them and then to you another you read it and say you're talking to believe well it's probably true but then of course what happens is they bear the greatest page fifty form if they put it at the bottom of the website and they don't publicize the website so you said that you are asking me if the question which you have see i must have a faith in these great many cases birds but the juicy bits of the herring where about the big scary russia story that as one of the parliamentary committee members referred to it as i do the two big scary approaches that the mind

may. say. i give for that you give those in the best of the system and have a drink with you you get the sense that there are e-mails that. it was just this is what i mean this relationship with for quite some time on. what we what we were going to get we going to get to this post hoping for a good month it was from the beginning from the to the media really good use of the business what was the best with us from the depths of the bottom line according to our and banks is that he is the target of a witch hunt in the media it was a pretty combative meeting between the braggs it bankroller and the parliamentary committee and i have to say it was really sort of illustrated in the way that he ended up leaving that hearing today i'm just going to leave you to enjoy the awkwardness of it because nothing actually g c seven minutes of i need to do

have been over forty but which of them. is best if i put it up because i know you seventy minutes and i view them weighed more often. oh bridge is going to be great it's like this is the person you are the one that was the one to leave until there's a few people and millions. and sure that is. national football teams are descending on the russia for the fifth world cup which starts in less than forty eight hours the latest squads to arrive are england ahead of their opening game on monday against and of the world champions germany who play mexico on sunday and a french fans are out in force in russia they want to see their team train outside moscow and came up with quite an inventive terrace chant. oh god yes it was. in case of that joke was lost on you french movie star

you is in fact a citizen of russia and a resident of surats which is one of the host cities and during the training session there were plenty of children in the stands getting into the world cup spirit we asked the fans how far they think their country can go in the tournament . that took the semifinal that it will be disappointed if we don't make it to the final. well i think that we can get to the four no although i'm not sure i could say you will win. we want to win we want to second start well meanwhile our very own are to host and one of the best minds in the game hosts a marine you know has been making his predictions last week he picked the countries to make it out of the group stages now he maps out who he believes will be the last four standing.

case law is getting even harder portugal will flood of course of course. because of my hearts but it's. rid itself from that. and then spain against russia as things were so very unlikely to draw because they must reveal. it for the us to jamie and then from his against nigeria i would say. from this is going to win and the substance in australia. and i'm going to leave because i cannot see or think this will hold brazil mexico. and i like. brazil to name germany switzerland and give it a good. name will poland's in with news in the forefront in the bills jim sinegal

like good enough to continue the funnel to kind of do its. soul belgium is a whole new full or and it has to be here look at the simple all this. or we get told to be do you believe you are getting this famous and you know why. the best team. against a good team. needs that's in the bible for the. there is the real and it's. not bad for me that my prayer is if you're in a holding. hands in germany. germany is germany so. one more sort of final for germany. because these two slugs americans we grew up with. they would be ashamed to

be. by this family already training. with us he. is getting really additional so we can let you go. much expertise from you miss it. for more of the manchester united it managers predictions you can head to our t.v. dot com also if you think you know better you can challenge him just head to facebook or twitter and use the hash tag match morning for president giani in frontino has been taking part in a kick about in moscow before football's world body meets on wednesday member nations are expected to vote on the host of for the two thousand and twenty six world cup parties oleksiak cesky looks at the two competing bids. the joint u.s. mexico and canada bid to host the twenty twenty six world cup looks like

a done deal at least on paper the north american bid seoul rival morocco barely passed the features a valuation scoring two point seven overall against four stadiums and accommodation in morocco were considered high risk the african country would need to invest a whopping sixteen billion dollars into infrastructure to host that event and the projected revenue of the north american world cup is two times bigger. the twenty twenty six bid is well presented and strong in terms of government commitments but would need to build most of its tournament related and going to infrastructure the united twenty twenty six bid on the other hand has promising levels of infrastructure already in place and fully operational but there is one obstacle on the world cup journey across the pond and its name is donald trump starting with purely practical things after all the us president introduced a travel ban for a number of arab countries yeah it probably will be gone by twenty twenty six but

you never know. due to new entry regulations the currently being proposed in the united states in relation to citizens from certain countries there are significant risks to discrimination free entry to the country is also building a wall on the border with a country which is part of that bid mexico wait what trump also demands mexico pays for that wall occasionally getting a very hard no from the neighbors down south hardly the most cordial alliance ever . know mexico will never pay for a while not now not ever sincerely mexico all of us and then there's a personal aspect as well remember the famous or should i say infamous whole countries remark of the united states is. is racist he really is the devil this is an actual quote from the actual president this is the gift that he decided to give

the american people they're not whole country for one donald trump isn't their president. well technically those countries account for fifty four votes and that is more than half of the necessary hundred and four needed to win the bid hard to blame them if they decide to support morocco against the u.s. and now add that to the football federation's of the countries blacklisted by trump and when the us president tried to extinguish the blaze and secure the bid he might have made things even worse. the u.s. has put together a strong bid with canada and mexico for the twenty twenty six world cup it would be a shame if countries that we always support were lobby against the u.s. bit why should we be supporting these countries when they don't support us including at the united nations today's feed on the giani in frontino this rain is

going through a massive reforms and one of them is that the decision on who gets the world cup will be made through an open public vote by all member associations it leaves one to wonder if trump had that in mind when he tried to bully the countries into a voting for the us election russia r.t. the opening match of the two thousand and eighteen world cup russia versus saudi arabia kicks off on thursday at moscow's luzhniki stadium and throughout the one month and one day long tournaments we will be in every host city giving you a taste of the action this is our team international.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered peter lavelle the tram came summit in singapore was certainly rich when it comes to optics but what about the substance both leaders are clearly looking for a win a process has started there are plenty of obstacles ahead and no shortage of people whose worst nightmare might come true peace coming to the korean peninsula. cross talking the singapore summit i'm joined by my guest gareth porter in washington he's an independent investigative journalist and historian as well as alter of manufactured crisis the untold story of the iran nuclear scare also in washington we have one she is a visiting professor at georgetown university and

a former senior special advisor for embassador and christopher hill at the u.s. state department all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated gareth let me go to you first you've been writing about what was happening before the summit what are your what are you or your reactions to the summit now now that it's gone into history go ahead gary. you know peter it was never the case in my view that this summit was going to produce a substantive document that was going to represent you know negotiated agreements on some of the tricky issues that necessarily will have to be resolved in reaching the agreement on nuclear deal. in korea therefore you know the rather and substantive document that was produced didn't surprise me at all i thought this was about what one would expect from the first meeting ever

between a u.s. president and the current leader of north korea given the history of that issue and the politics that attend the issue particularly in the united states you know obviously this is not going to be a document this is going to give you a roadmap to a settlement it's not going to have the. timetable that some people in the media said was missing of course it wasn't no surprise there this was a political document that shows that they got along well and they're ready to start a process but one of them basically the same question to you i mean i agree with gareth it's not really a road map i mean least the document that they released i mean it's kind of long on hope is this a beginning of something being in washington go ahead while i certainly agree with gareth and i've also argued exactly the same thing but i also argued that this entire summit was never really about the nuclear issue and in fact really

the nuclear issue in another itself has been distracting the nuclear issue was never really the problem then the nuclear issue with north korea was really a symptom of the much bigger problem of north korea itself really being the. problem itself meaning that was really the heart of the issue of the division of the korean peninsula itself and really what we're talking about is the division of the korean peninsula and that being at the heart of the issue in northeast asia and the stability of the entire region well that's a very interesting point it's interesting but it's kind of gotten ahead of me because that's where i really want to go here because this process if it is a process we really don't know yet but it's trump owns it now ok and it seems to me that he's actually given a stamp of approval for the koreans say actually get down to business i think

they'll be in his point very interesting there because this is if anything is actually really going to happen it's going to happen between the koreans themselves ok and i think that's the door that is been opened here and it looks like the koreans north and south want to walk through it go ahead. well i think melvin is right that was the sort of missing link in the in the whole presentation of the problem in singapore and it obviously was a crucial part of the run up to this summit that both north and south korea were ready to go i think further than ever before in terms of into a career in peace and i am quite sure the president moon's role in bringing president trump along with the process that he started with north korea was crucial to getting trump to singapore and so there's no doubt in my mind that

is a crucial part of the background and the dynamics that will continue to support a process of reaching agreement i think it's a very positive extremely positive me two part of the entire issue that is going to help to propel this toward the ultimate goal of a u.s. north korea agreement ok but i mean it one of the interesting things in the next step that's possible and it's and again we're dealing with the koreans the united states never officially went to war against north korea it was a quote unquote police action remember under truman but for the koreans it's a very different thing if they could in the next i think reasonable step would be a peace treaty ending that conflict sixty eight years after the fact but that is a really interesting move because if hostilities come to an end in on the peninsula then ultimately you have to ask the question why are u.s.

troops there ok you can you can justify it now because there's an armistice but if the peace comes then that question is you know maybe not immediate in the north koreans aren't pushing it now but it's going to be something you're going to have to confront go ahead being in washington. well this is exactly the heart of the issue and i think what people don't seem to understand is that again we're conflating all of these issues so americans for the last especially in the last six months to a year we have sort of distilled this down to americans are suddenly frightened about you know nuclear bombs raining down on american cities from north korea ok well that this was completely essentially this was never really the threat if you're really worried about americans in the homeland being frightened about north korean threats you should frankly be far more worried about cyber attacks that is actually a far more realistic threat and you know every single american should be far more

worried and you know sitting in your home and having your internet connection go down and you know your facebook connection going down or your bank account your. more realistic farmer the exact or your electricity grid or you know these are the things that you know most americans should be frightened about but aside from that you know a nuclear that is completely unrealistic but the point being that that so so there is that issue number one but but the point being that first of all peace you know declaring the end of the war yes that is between the two koreas and it is not for anybody else whether it's china or the united states or any other country that was involved during the korean war or the united nations which was the official combatant to be involved in the two koreas must decide this but let me also point out that peace does not equal stability on the korean peninsula which also does not

equal unification which also does not necessarily mean that the end of conflict or hostility so these are all different things which also does not mean the end of north korea's missile programs or the end of a. north korea's threats or the end of the north korean regime or the end of north korea's nuclear programs so all of these issues are all completely separate and the world different countries in the region and americans we all need to understand these a separate issues and i think everybody just thought that on june twelfth that president trump and kingdom would want to sit down and suddenly americans and everybody else would feel safe if well the summit succeeded or if it failed we would suddenly go to war well i'm simply not the case so i think the media and gareth you've been talking about this i mean the media's been pretty shameful in the narratives that they've been pushing but that almost has everything to do with domestic politics in

the united states let me go to gareth erika's you wrote in written recently on this topic go ahead well yes of course it's true that the media have played a very nasty role in the run up to this summit really trying to discredit the idea .