saying very much because i think there's going to be a withdrawal but i mean could we look at the bluster towards iran is this kind of bluster to keep the saudis and the israelis happy go ahead peter. yes i think it's primarily keep the lead and the israeli lobby in the us happy because look at it this way trump has already got a lot of enemies back home that's what you're new theat. he's got the securities on his back he got everybody on his back he cannot afford all of the israel lobby on his back so this combined with the fact that he has family links with israel push to thim in the direction of being an iran hawk. now this is scary. to get dragged down that path we may be in for a very bumpy ride indeed. but i not sure that his heart is in it.

that it opportunistic and dictated by his standing domestically in the u.s. he can't have too many enemies at the same time you know the rich are reflective and i think that's quite fascinating because we're really you know you could have all the bluster you want against iran but it does keep the israelis and the saudis happy and it's one it's one issue he doesn't really want to deal with right now because of the litany of trade issues nato north korea meeting with putin it's on the backburner for him policy wise not rhetorical what do you think richard . if it's not on the back burner he's he's got to keep it on the situation in the southwest part of syria where the heat is high. have been maneuvering around too near to the golan

heights for israeli comfort and that that could trigger a fight in a broader conflict which none of us needs richard who. would be that which country would be the trigger was the proactive it character you're referring to well. he's a real has been striking using air power against what it. has really in targets in israel and syria in syria that's where it could. ok you're right in syria gentlemen i'm going to jump in here we're going to go to a short break it's a hard break i have to go there after a short break we'll continue our discussion on trump's foreign policy stay with our .

trumpy and kind of view it is an understatement to say donald trump is an unconventional and an orthodox political figure his critics do have a point when they say trump appears to be harsher with allies than with real or imagined enemies then there's the middle east and iran. so obsessed with terrain. i mean more doogan is an outstanding person because he took on the most powerful agency in this county or you'll be to stay if you look at some of the book on knowledge. mark was the day that when he was five and. do going to be in the sheriff's most contentious critics say he is the first time i noticed

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welcome back to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter we're discussing transform policy. ok james let me go back to you in washington right before i went to the right richard pointed out a possible flass point a flashpoint in syria the iranians and the go and we have to remind our viewers of the go on heights is illegally occupied by israel and it's not israeli territory ok it's actually part of syria and the international community recognizes that but i'm glad that richard brought that up james i mean again you know if you look at kind of the proactive and i don't want to use the word aggressive but proactive stance that trump has taken on so many positions around the globe again we go back to the middle east where it seems to be reactive i mean is israel determining what the

united states might or might not do in the region syria is a very good example go ahead. well i think richard is right to point out southwest syria as the real most important dangerous flashpoint here and that's where it really comes down to mr trump and mr putin can they work out something that defuses that in the abbey in the aftermath of the american failure and syria that really has been a failure that we're not really in a position to broker any kind of deescalation and that area hopefully the russians can you know that you know this points to a serious paradox in american policy we have these so-called neo conservatives here who are the most militant interventionist especially in the middle east they're also the most militant lee anti russian and are just in a complete meltdown now over the prospect of this summit coming up what's ought of course is that israel and mr netanyahu have a very good relationship with russia and mr putin so there i think there are things

that can be it on the ground there for a mosque that the people here just are getting the dealt out of the picture that's a really good point let me go to peter on that i mean this is a it's widely speculated i know that the nato allies are terrified of meeting with putin because he might make a deal over their heads ok all right fine that's a topic for another day but i mean the issue of syria is very interesting and and what cheney says i think makes a lot of sense of something could be an arrangement let's put it that way to deal with syria but why peter would let me or putin trust donald trump after everything that has been said and done i mean ash carter remember when there was a cease fire agreement everybody was on board and all of us are all we accidentally attacked the syrian army opes we didn't mean it wow i mean that didn't cut any ice with me or anyone else that i know so peter even if some kind of arrangement could be made to deescalate in syria could the russians trust the americans to come

through and we have to remember that trump is under a lot of enormous pressure at home because even talking to vladimir putin in the eyes of the neoconservatives is treason go ahead peter. well i think the americans don't have much to negotiate with in syria. the boots on the ground very limited in number if actively they're just tripwire. the pro u.s. forces in the south or in the process of being rolled up that only leaves the north the ad lib area to dominate cleared in terms of external support by turkey not the us and i think we're also in danger of looking at the wrong flashpoint is not the goal and the goal then the. approaching towards the goal and i believe is

a done deal read the smoke signals coming or not coming out to jerusalem you can see that the israelis acquiesce in a return to the status quo ante and the iranians will not move up close to the goal and there's no reason why they should they should want it to. but the real potential flashpoint is the return to a duma type situation remember just back in april we came close to world war three you know we were talking in those terms and the same scenario could be reproduced at any moment but most likely it will be reproduced when the moment comes for the feature of lip which is some month down the track but perfectly for theobald the same conditions will be produced and i believe there will be another fake chemical attack which will trigger. a real really dangerous crisis

you know all that and we go to richard and people that do that are actually desperate that's when people that do that kind of thing they're on the losing side that's why they do it i want to stay with. the. trump putin meeting and let's talk about syria is there is there a possible in your mind where some kind of rough outline could be agreed to where everybody could be seen as the winner without getting giving away anything i don't know if that's possible here but i think that that's something that trump would like to say look we're quickly resolving the issue in syria he likes to win that's how he'll look at it and of course that would be a segue because somehow start starting the russia u.s. bilateral relationship again because it pretty much been deep sixed what do you think about that richard well i think. interests are parallel to american in the sense that he doesn't want to go really. quick.

so that gives something to work with the really world curtiz the rain ians and there is no unquestionably strong almost for that of a goal of color for level element and that sees its mission is spreading with already its influence over syria lebanon yemen to some extent and that i don't know what who. can agree on ok well james i mean this is the guy ongoing argument i've had with richard i mean again if that fanatical element and to around i mean there are only fueled by foreign policy mistakes by the former colonial powers in the united states they're the ones that help spread real or imagined iranian influence throughout the region i mean look for example the

horrendous shameful. activity that's happening in yemen and the whole world watches this it's a disgrace to humanity and that's all blamed on a rant more rand wasn't there until it all started happening but timelines don't matter to these people go ahead james. yeah i guess i would disagree a bit with richard although i defer to his superior knowledge in this area it just seems to me that in a world and islamic world it's thirteen percent shiite that any fanaticism from tehran would be a self correcting problem that they simply don't have that throw weight to really have that kind of dominance in the region as far as mr trump and mr putin go i think mr putin is well aware that donald trump does not control the apparatus of his own government whereas putin is master of his house trump really is not and he has to proceed much more carefully and can he give orders that he knows will be obeyed and lastly as far as the allies go i think the one who has the most to fear

is theresa may here's somebody who's going to dissolving out from under her we've got their fingerprints on not only on the white helmets and the tackle false flag like like peter was referring to the scriptural thing and also the steel dossier let's not forget that i hope mr putin hands mr trump a real dossier about what they've been overt up to over there and the united kingdom to try to subvert american interests but you know peter one of the things i've done in number of programs on this but you know i've had experts on talking about the interests of this country versus the interests of this one and geopolitics and sometimes it just gets down to trump having a memory i remember how you supported hillary clinton i remember the donna ca i remember him isaacson vote meddling in the election not the russians you know it's really and then those ukrainian oligarchy that gave money to the clinton foundation i mean you could say that's a layer that that's how donald trump sees fulcrum policy that you get when he's slighted he's got it written down in a back of an envelope check that person's done that person's done i'm to i'm i'm

making light of this a little bit but obviously there's personal issues that. views the world here go ahead peter. young think two keys to understanding trump one is the so called isolationism ornately the. other is. not going away is the redeeming feature. depart from the or the orthodox washington and. then constant conflict like a goalie who is pinned down by the washington consensus by these myriad little advisers around him the only time he's really free are in the middle of the night three am when he can tweet and nobody can stop him. when he's in a thumb it when he's going to come in again one on one specially when they keep

advisors out of the train these are the times when he can be donald i think donald should be more donald if anything in it you know richard it's already been brought up in this program and i think it's an important question is that you know when. the nato confound there and then when he meets with putin here i mean nato is doesn't like the public browbeating that trump has given them over spending this spending issues been on the table for a long time it's nothing really new and with that with the trump. putin meeting i mean when they look at trump again i want to go back to the rhetorical scene just more words because you know they're going to think that you know this summit will pass go back to work they'll be at the summit with putin and then. trump goes back on the campaign trail going to his rallies i mean is it just more for photo ops and just bluster because i can't see that he has really the power to make

a deal with putin for example. well let's say this season he's shown that he has two interests in the middle east the. so-called peace process doing something to get the biggest deal in history between israelis and palestinians and then the price of oil so those those two issues do capture his attention what where he's going he has unfortunately weakened confidence in american leadership in the middle east problem. by withdrawing from the agreement the jury c.p.u. agreed agreed that. he's playing with the weaker hand the nuclear agreement with iran you know ok one thing is very and i'm glad i'm going to wrap it up here i'm glad that richard brought up oil prices the way it's going gentlemen donald trump trying to lower oil prices he's been actually helping them to increase and the

saudis for how he treats them so well the saudis have not returned the favor to try to equalize the price we'll see where this is going to go here that's all the time we have gentlemen many thanks to my guests and watched in new york and in london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t.c. a next time and remember. you will be and that is your last piece plus. the people know. what i mean.

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i. saw the england creation's semi final and counted that set to decide who placed france in the final of the world cup twenty eight in russia. meantime france both teams felt a friendly match roy on red square head of the crucially believed pressed by the russian hospitality they've encountered to. proceed it was time to leave but once people realize that peace is not the type that's still got time england fans coming to russia. for these away from the football this lunchtime donald trump and nato allies have gathered for a summit in brussels of the next two days the u.s. president's demanding more money from allies and also says already that germany's virtually a financial hostage of brush over gas supplies more details on that. but

for now it's just turned one pm this wednesday the level of a no in here live from r.t. h.q. moscow with the rest of the team as well to bring you the news of sport on another big day of world cup football talking away straight down to business again looking forward to that big clash coming tonight between england and croatia neil harvey peter schmeichel over to you. very good afternoon for you yes. and you find like around the pool the like now it seems like a long time but the gracious fans of already started. it up and down dancing in the horns and having a lot. yes i'll hold. barbecues have already been fired up.

why don't you if you call it this way because much of your life make it. but make sure you make it you know still eight hours to go five i'm sure that most of these fans will leave for the fan in a couple of hours and the party will move out that is relatively quiet we've been hearing the song we've had you singing that in the last hour and oh the football is coming home but we've got a little group of croatian fans just and they have just been thing going home on this thing so that's going to be this kind of battle today on the saw. the pitch you know obviously extremely confident in that because it's consistent southgate pretty much the same eleven when it matters not really had to change anything in terms of tactics three five. can they just keep doing just roll say you

know the eleven before we hear it that predictable i kind of i kind of think yes i mean i don't i don't see many reasons for him to change anything it's a relatively young team that he has it's a very young squad. and. found something that works. and yes it's not been exhilarating it's not like we've been out you know on the edges of our seats when they've played but it has been very effective and at times we've seen some great stuff but we also times we've seen some of the limitations that this team has and we in particular we saw that in the game the last group game against belgium belgium made nine changes and then made a change as to what's presumed to be the best starting eleven and you just saw that the limitations in the depths of the squad at least if you have to be used more than one player it's kind of kind of limited but he's starting eleven is very good

and when you've got someone like harry cain up front who is it at this point the scored six goals is leading by two goals in the in the golden boot competition when you've got someone like him who at any time at any point without any warning in a game of football can score a goal then you always have this incredible threat so i think. southgate's thinking is as long as we can keep it tight as long as we can keep in in can under control as long as we don't take don't take too many chances we always have that and so far it's worked we talked about the plays we're going to see on the page what about a word about the money just kind of southgate. is pretty inexperienced certainly at international level let's have a word about it because he was really thrown in about as deep as you can be thrown in at international football with one qualifying game remaining just to get to the

world cup finals it was a tough match it got a result away in ukraine then you know they qualified and they performed superbly here do you creation have the edge in terms of manager or not. no i don't i don't think you can say i think the manager is a hugely. important in sending up the team and and setting up the way the tactics and all that but at the end of the day the players they've got to go and do the job on the page and yes the manager can tweak a little bit stew in the one thousand mean it's one hundred twenty minutes and you can decide who takes penalties so he has of course he's got an influence but you know it is a play as i think. many times you write your luck we had stanislaus h.s. off here yesterday who was very clear about he's starting eleven this is the team i'm going to line up and he lined it up against saudi arabia very quickly into that

. go it got injured one of the top top players in the team. that was not you know that was not in his plans and small of didn't perform the way he did so he put cherries if on and he put the zuber on and these two players probably get to play with the comes out of this world cup as the two biggest stars so sometimes you know they have an idea and something else works much better so. managers have their way of of a preparing themselves they have to plan a they had their plan b. they have to eventualities what happens in the first round and what what do i do if i get someone sendoff you don't want to put yourself as a manager in a position where you have to turn around and look at the pens and then make your decision that's already been pre-planned and that's how managers work. but when we come to the year of the crunch it's suppliers the players must go into the job and i honestly i don't see any any of the managers having an advantage in nassau have.

in their personalities all the preparations. they they are at the very same starting point they've got a really good player as they can they can send players who's been performing really well throughout the tournament they can send them come. for them to be on the page and knowing then they're not going to fall to the can with withstand the pressure but then it comes down to quality and then you know quality who's got the most quality world crazes played the best but the engine has actually produced the best years old so ok unfortunately jason moran who isn't on the line lived to count your your comments on the contributions of money just when you did three record this assessment of prediction all things try so much for the summer listen. england is fresher has younger players. had easy group face

where their plea to easy matches and the match against belgian changed every player sold the players that are playing now they they all had one match less than croatia to play because they didn't play against belgium and the majority of the players. are young feats players when i look to the team i think ashley young said three years old just today or yesterday something like that and part of that the players are all very young and between england and croatia i think croatia has great mentality. a fantastic me to play to control the game in the possession of the game but then when the is. is a happy team. so peter just picking up on what jersey i mean you are saying that what do you make of the groups and what difference does it make when you've got an

easy trip or a tougher group the drain you more made it more battle hardened together to think i think we have a good example of how a manager things in that so he's looking at the group i think they had two easy games then they had the free game against belgium where they didn't have to play the best players and then again we think a relatively easy game against colombia and then swede sweden didn't perform as well as they did so so he says that they are fresher that's how a manager would look at it and i agree with that they are fresh and therefore they should be having the advantage tonight. but the same time and i will make this argument england has not really been tested yet this is a massive test have so far in this tournament have shown themselves to be a really really tough team they won the three group games they got there they got help by denmark it was a really nitty gritty game where. where you know no one was going to give an inch

in that game the took it all the way to the parents to shoot out. the missed the penalty four minutes before the end of extra. added on not enough but extra times in the one hundred sixteenth minute and they still were mentally strong enough. to win the penalty shoot out check into the cave in russia and one nil up got picked back they got to one up and then the russian picked them back one more time and still they had the mental strength to go on when the pounds a shoot out. and they have been tested right to the limit so when they go into this games and they might be tired they might be less frightening than but they go in fully in full knowledge of what they can do and what their limitations are and they know that no matter what happens in this game mentally we're strong enough to either recover from that or withstand that and this.