as the article says he is a transactional personality he's a president that conducts diplomacy in terms of trying to action is another something just to say transactions in terms of business although he does do a lot of that as well and again i would say that none of what i'm saying here is in support of term or against from his just seems to me to be a factual observation there he regards diplomacy as transactions and therefore of course he benefits very much from his business experience and he conducts one to one meetings and not just with putin but around the world and that is bringing some benefits it is reducing tensions at a time when much of the world ok you use you use that term busa term benefits that's very interesting benefit benefiting who let me read part of it here but in crucial ways the national is bigger he trump and bodies is not necessarily one in the same with the exceptional nation meet those which has animated the self conception of the american political class for decades for his detractors in that

in the think tanks in the elite media institutions this is heresy the. point is that trump has understood some of the troubles in american supremacist he is not an american exceptionalism he sees that america as a conglomeration of business interests and it is his job to forward to further their interests and this is what he's seeking to do what trump has understood with a certain animal cloning is that the united states is threatened by one country and one country only and that country is not russia so to push russia into the arms of china is is madness it's already happened we'll talk about this i'm going to have to talk about who is opposed and i think much of his strategy because his character may sometimes seem a bit wild and woolly and unpredictable but that does not mean that there is not a well thought out strategy no i thank you so i think there is trying to do he's going to be a strategy and the strategy is to minimize threats to american exaggerates deemer

where's democracy promotion you know ok we're is you know with me a liberal agenda in all it's not the garrets not part of the i'm still whole point is not there and there's a stark threat that's what makes them so angry. over this and i lived in this article they say you know that trump is not an american nationalist transsexual list but the people who go to america involved in all of these wars in libya in iraq are they really american nationalists did they really just serve american national interest i love the recent presentation by tucker carlson who said that i'm quoting him people who know it's your strawman of being a russian puppet happened to be the same people who had been mismanaging our foreign policy for the past few decades who invaded iraq who killed more market actually for no obvious reason and who played along the horrible syrian civil war

these people made america. we and poor and said and know they are american nationalist and exceptional that he has drunk but i'm going to go back to charles before we go to the break here charles i mean that there is that one word in that paragraph that i read that really stands out this is heresy that's exactly how trump is being treated he's a heretic in the uk in the minds in the eyes of the think tanks in of the liberal media go ahead charles. yes that's exactly right and it's as we predicted two and a half years ago i get back to that point because the. let's you say we say the extended deep status extends beyond america that includes for example much of the british establishment the british intelligence services and so on we talked endlessly and i'm glad we did because it's all pretty largely correct that they were seeking to discredit and undermine and if possible even impeach trump even as he was being inaugurated and their worst fears have come true he has had to play

a careful game and i think after two years he's learning to play that game but he's learning to handle a deep state know where he has to give a little pound of flesh here and there and where behind the scenes he can continue with what he wants to do as you say fulfill his promises in respect of russia and otherwise but there's still two years to go and we'll have to wait and see if he can survive those four years it might be possible he can actually fully turn around american foreign policy it's a big gamble that he's taken but he's and he's learned to do it in small stages yes the big big question will be november elections here last thirty seconds for this part go ahead erick. the point is people and he was talking about civil wars and you've got to realize that there is a low intensity civil war underway in the united states right now where if you look at the media everything is now defined in terms of black and white you cannot there was no and now this is trumps strategy because what you're talking about the devil

in medieval theology you don't ask what is the devil's motives he's evil because he is a demon trump is by definition evil so you don't they don't think about they don't try to analyze what's going to really go to a short break here and we have to keep in mind that donald trump. of public opinion numbers are going up and down after a short break we'll continue our discussion trumps agenda stay with our team. there is the most noble political deciders to have more clean energy but if implemented in the wrong commercial way. it will have over the next few years save was enough of the time frame of three full five years you will have such

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hawks. welcome back to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some real news. ok let me turn to d.m.a. here we still continue to get articles that again you know helsinki is an interesting program is that henry kissinger is giving advice to president trump that and kissinger actually comes to i think he's been to russia seventeen times. a year and the united states has to somehow come to an agreement with russia against china of course an echo of what kissinger engineered during the nixon

administration nixon went to china i still think that train has left the station a long time ago i think it is going to disagree with me a little bit more i agree with you because it was basically president obama who i think was the most disastrous president in u.s. history primarily because he just institutions you know made people does believe in the elections for the first time in many years but his foreign policy disaster the main foreign policy disaster was that he managed to make russia and china elyse you know when russia became basically for the united states because of the ukrainian adventure of mr obama and mrs no one trait. putin plan to meet and to china and what did obama do he visited all of those competitors you know. he reassured that will against china and the chinese gave us great surprise that we have been asking from them for ten years maybe more so china and they became you

know unwittingly probably russia's their way and it's not going to change in the near future because mr obama. may be about to change but the point is that this is an on. russia russia has interests are been arguing for the last fifteen years that russia's interests were to turn towards china but that does not mean that it was to be totally beholden to china russia's best interests to be able to balance the world is going to break up into two competing poles you've got the western pole and you've got the greater china pole and russia would be very well to be able to move back and forth between them play them off against each other where possible and i don't want to sound. still in this from one thousand nine hundred thirty three different blatter what i mean just thought also had it they had a point basically in this triangle the soviet union now russia china the united

states because always been like that every poll wanted the other two poles to quarrel over the evidence when they made a really good globus a good relationship with both of them met you next is it a yes in that science i'll know was and they need nixon went to be gin and managed to have good relations with china have normal relations with britain ever and china of the soviet union of our mortal fall said ok i'll make it it's not love i did the office it may go to charles here the thing is that in looking at this gambit of you know three major polls the thing is is that what does the west now have to offer to russia because russia since one thousand nine hundred one and i would say that china during its modernization remarkable margin modernization russia and china have one very important thing in common the defense of their sovereignty the you don't west is always asking everyone to compromise their

sovereignty the fact that russia and china are coveting their is their sovereignties brings them together they have a common cause charles in line yeah that's absolutely right and that's clear to any observer of what's been going on there. at the united nations within the united nations security council where the west's we're thinking obviously about libya and what happened with libya although there was a consensus in respect of libya in terms of the resolution it was passed but then that resolution of course was abused by britain france and the united states today and effect regime change in libya and i thought of course was very instructional i think for russia and for china that the west couldn't be trusted and therefore when we've seen with syria the various resolutions that the west is attempts to pass there and elsewhere in the world that the west's well really we mean the west by what we mean is printing fronts in america pushing a constant agenda of interference in other countries affairs for that sectional

benefit and that has been opposed consistently by russia and china so even on the united nations security council russia and china have been pushed constantly together by the west and the comment you just came out with peter is really part of what putin himself said recently when trump said he would almost impossible he would like russia to come back to some to become the g. eight and of course person's response again was very interesting one person said if i can quite correctly he said well actually thanks for the invitation but there are other forums that are available to us and of course he was talking about china and the rest of the world that isn't the west to answer your question peter what ken. is threatened by the u.s. . they have do not underestimate their ability to cause havoc the united states as you pointed out controls the global financial system the dollar based system they can slap i mean they slapped sanctions on mr. roussel

and this is caused major discharge came in by november and european companies if they trade. buy oil from iran ok but that's that's the russian instead. point some degree of detachment would be useful simply because otherwise the the the entire financial market is getting up right now and it's you know i'm working out the financial markets and raising funds for russian companies right is quite complicated right now the bond market has become a lot more a lot a lot more expensive to access because the constant threat of american sanctions now whether trump can avoid further sanctions i think is and is another question and we should do a separate program on the weaponization of the dollar here if you're going to see i mean let me go to you about iran because you know we had we had president truman and we talked about his kind of the world according to trump here and then you know he kind of goes back to the old script here and says to iran never ever threaten

the u.s. again or suffer consequences like the which few have ever suffered before i mean what gives mean the united states and then there's these rumors maybe planted rumors that the u.s. will have a one off strike on iran is this all bluster to keep the israelis on the saudis b. and a packet of home in the us i hope it is all bluster that's very dangerous plus you know it's kind of standard for each one of these things. i mean start going nuclear strike there you go and he kind of backpedal look what it did to the european union well i agree with eric in principle but talking about irresponsible talk if someone should not be given the lessons on the responsible talk that's the united states you know that the states is rightly criticized of the most time fundamentalists for overreacting or be in the original generational when they hear of all the holy koran being mistreated somewhere right well when the united states just hears

rumors about elections not angin in that way the right away. and in the right way exactly as they behave as the regime then they asked the arrangements is that was he does he want. and we're going to go to charles that we go to charles in the london eye because the. moves there do a lot of great things here but i mean eric's right is this this like this opening salvo in the negotiations as i have kind of like a rocket man come in here more charles more seriously we know that donald trump has a visceral hatred of everything that barack obama did and that's one of the reasons why i walked away from the iran deal ok i still think and maybe this is tattooed on my brain it's all about the mid terms he said he was going to be against iran that's one of his check things on the back of his envelope he says doing everything for some kind of red wave in november charles. what's interesting we've mentioned

pows and there was in the last few days of course appalled i asked americans whether they would support an attack on iran. the overwhelming majority in fact by a factor of two to one said that they would oppose an attack on iran rather than support it and so that shows that people perhaps are coming around to trump's way of thinking i mean his wife thinking rather than what he actually says if i could at least. if we look at the his his negotiations with the e.u. with korea and we've seen this again and again what he does is make these threats his opponents respond with similar threats and we'll get a very entertaining twitter spot that ends up often with compromise and agreement and of course that's the basis of much negotiation and i think people understand also of course it gives the pound of flesh i mentioned earlier so he's to mastic critics say he's been tough on these various so-called enemies of the

united states and lobby groups to sell important in the u.s. in other words saudi arabia for example is right obviously but nonetheless i think it's important to make this point that despite trump's what might be his best efforts the big ship of american foreign policy has not been turned around it is still based fundamentally on confrontation and domination of the world rather than in cooperation on partnership and that of course is enshrined particularly this year within the u.s. national security document which named russia and china as enemies i mean large force as competitors to be actually guarded again as we have let everyone know about it but i think that you know i've read that the. pronouncements here and it does fall into the trumping world view that there can pay that turns as you become pete with here it's not it's not like we have to the u.s. has to change the world to make it safe for democracy we're no longer in that realm we're in a different well when you know or bush or for. chrysler compete for the new auto

models they're not competing against enemies they are not competing against the forces of evil they are competing against competitors trump understands perhaps viciously that other countries have their own interests too and he wants he described in this press conference with putin he described the russia as a strategic as a competitor and he said a good competitor well they're competing for markets they're. for for ok i have only the first time ever that i've seen american president meet a kremlin leader and didn't lecture about democracy in the thirty second well. they have met before that their cars just used for annoying appears show compete but you can't imagine or nor seen or we need a management change at the show we had to change the way you. see it all and the damage that will be fine and they can change him us in some mood you know sanctions

or whatever. so any kind of competition is better than the regime change which is basically a. euphemism for war in current times ok gentlemen to jump in here many thanks to my guests here in moscow and in london this is the end of our broadcast segment stay with stay with this with the extended version on our you tube channel see you next time remember girls. i.

brigs it remains as divisive as ever with reports now stating the u.k. army is prepared to fly in food and medicine in case of a no deal with the some claim it's fear mongering at the u.k. is effectively setting itself apart. a shocking post-war practice in canada is exposed to your thirty's forced thousands of single women to give up their babies we hear from one of the victims. there was no conversation about with me about how i got pregnant all they cared about was the fact that i was. pregnant and that i had a baby that they could. take. in the u.s. confirms it's armed drones have been operating in the air for more than six months

now would be in state becoming the latest on the long list of countries where america is fighting its so-called war on terror. good evening and welcome you watching r.t. international. god help us a british m.p. has tweeted in response to reports that the u.k. army will fly in food medicine and fuel should the country crash out of the e.u. without a trade deal or the military has since said it's not received any such formal instructions the news has created concern for the country deeply divided over briggs it aunties and see a church as the story. with those perks a deadline fast approaching it seems the uncertainty about what exactly is going to be achieved come march next year has been peaking at the specially in light of the reports that have been circulating here in the british press over the last couple

of days talking about how the british army could be involved if there is a new deal breck's it in terms of helping provide supplies such as few food and medicine and certainly this is something that would usually be associated with an emergency and of course reaction. have been very swift to these reports some saying they're shocked and others refusing to be manipulated with what they call scare tactics god help us this is not coming from remain as this is not project fear pro bricks of ministers a drawing a blueprint for the army to deliver food fuel and medicine if we leave you with no deal we have a duty to prevent the self-immolation the plan of scaring the crap out of people with no deal horror stories in order to make a free trade agreement which will tank the economy look like a good deal is beginning to work well in reaction to all of this we have seen british prime minister theresa made was always said no deal is better than

a bad deal basically try to calm down the public when it comes to all of this often being worried about preparations that we're making i would say that people should take reassurance and comfort from the fact that the government is saying we're in a negotiation we're working for a good deal i believe we can get a good deal but actually it's right that we say because we don't know what the outcome is going to be we think it's going to be a good one we're working for a good one but let's prepare for every eventuality while luxury from a there is obviously trying to convince the public that everything is going to be all right we do know that downing street have also said they've decided to stop drip feeding information in the time to come about some of the details about contingency plans. piece of a new deal bracket and of course we've also said that there are no. the british army in such situations following those reports that have turned up quite a bit of trouble however with all of that said it seems the public is not quite

sure that the government knows exactly what it is they're doing in this situation seems to be. kind of you know. anyone in london or anywhere really across from really is if you think officials that are in charge of this process have done a good job so far figuring out what's going to happen and negotiating with the. negotiation just one party even though. you know jamie getting a real understanding of how this will affect the country itself those are some opinions of the people we talked to here in london earlier today but we also know that there's been a latest sky did a poll that was released that said that only ten pounds of the people surveyed believe that the government was doing a good job when it comes to bribes and as many as seventy eight percent thought the

complete opposite. the canadian government has a disturbing practice that dates back to just after the second world war when a married women were forced to give up the babies which were then handed over to married couples some new mothers were even lied to and told that their children was stillborn we spoke to one of the victims of the decades long practice that was meant to promote traditional family. as soon as they found out i was pregnant they mark my records b.f.a. baby for adoption. i was a fifteen year old girl pregnant i was pregnant from a sexual assault. and. there was no real conversation with me about how i got pregnant all they cared about was the fact that i was. pregnant and that i had a baby that they could. take. a healthy one

haired blue eyed beautiful baby. you will forget the child go home get married and have other children or if not get a puppy to. that is what i was told get up puppy. it was a very abusive in there. we were isolated from our right i was isolated from my family is my community my sisters my parents i was completely left alone. my parents were not canadian citizens they're there from europe and my parents

believed they would get deported if they did it followed. what the government wanted and maternity homes mothers were routinely denied their right to see holder feed their babies there are still some mothers who do not know where their day delivers a boy or girl being told well it's none of your business to hold my daughter i actually had to ask three times and i. first i said it quietly and then i said it a little louder and then the last time that i asked i had to yell and i had to yell bring me my baby now. and then the nurse stopped looked at the doctor for permission and i was quite surprised that the nurse would have to ask for permission for me to hold my own daughter since i'm her legal guardian my daughter in my arms and. and then the room went. black i started to get i started to pass out and then they

took her away from me. i met my daughter she she actually found me so she phoned me. and she said. you don't know who i am and it's an issue he said that i knew who she was. we talked on the phone for about six months getting to know each other getting familiar with each other building some trust she needed to feel safe because our children were told that there was something wrong with us they were told an alternate story that we were drug addicts prostitutes.

the united states does all the drugs have been operating in the west african country for more than six months know although it's not yet known if they've carried out and he strikes. in coordination with the government of nis yeah he west africa command has armed intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft already in the share to improve our combined ability to respond to threats and other security issues in the region i a saw aircraft began flying in early twenty eight. well the u.s. military presence in asia has expanded in recent years reflecting growing concerns about rising militancy in the west african region the decision about deploying the drones was reached in twenty seventeen after a long period of negotiations we have requested comments on the matter from authours in both the us on this year we'll let you know if and when we hear anything. or drone strikes have played

a key role in the so-called war on terror which the u.s. declared following the nine eleven attacks targeting hostile militant groups as part of that military campaign the u.s. has carried out strikes in afghanistan pakistan somalia and yemen but drug strikes have resulted in numerous civilian casualties in every one of those countries involved in the campaign in yemen for example up to two hundred civilians were killed in u.s. led drone attacks.