i have heard from some local sources in gaza need that taliban actually are now withdrawing from those locations that have been committing. attacks against. various government is solutions since for days the situation is actually really harsh and the hospital is full of dead bodies and and wounded and i have seen fresh footage from gaza that is telling a lot of stories inside the city people are really scared the highways have been blocked since for days the communication has been down and people cannot communicate with their relatives or we even cannot talk to the more our local officials or residents in gaza me it has been a very harsh time for gaza it has been like a waltz to city but the government is now saying that they are trying to expel the taliban and they are trying to secure the city but we will see what will happen

next just putting it into some sort of context recent studies say the taliban forces control or influence in more than forty percent of afghan territory middle east expert ali risk sees america's war on terror as not only failed but is actually boost adik stream isn't. so-called war on terror which was launched after the september eleventh attacks as this war has turned out to be an utter failure taliban now always in a stronger position than it ever was ever since it was ousted from power but i don't think the u.s. can do anything if it continues with its own focus just on military attacks you know militarily speaking it hasn't succeeded so i don't think there is much that the u.s. can do in that regard that i think it's proof that the u.s. has been pursuing a wrong strategy in defeating terrorism on the contrary i think that the u.s. involvement up until now when the focus on military force in the region has led to

the growth of terrorism and sort of leading to the altar the curbing of terrorism i think that is clear from what we see in afghanistan. a talking contest in the u.s. has revealed that it doesn't take a top notch russian computer expert to get into america's election infrastructure it turns out and the levin year old can do it with more and the tears of a trickle. to learn more about the twenty hacking contest that's what the link says and yes it's from a real website and the contest surreal to it's for kids and it's not being held in russia what this is america anyway meet the winner eleven year old audrey i mean if . you beat me we can cause in the our own name it reminds me that we won the election and it just took her ten minutes to hack

a replica of an election office website in one of the battleground states. these are members of congress they work hard to approve budget grants to sort out election cyber security the one for twenty was three hundred eighty million bucks these are child hackers i mean contestants they tap their keyboards to prove that within minutes america's election systems are a piece of garbage thirty five out of the thirty nine youngsters taking part this year were able to do just that so how come there haven't been any warnings for a grown up specialists well actually there have always been the writing machine is you know eighteen different states and it's extremely easy to get an advantage because this is mostly so let me show you how quick it is that's a little under two minutes. you don't need any totals to do that.

and now i have. full advantage it looks like you don't have to turn pro to be a meddling master and outsmart security efforts worth hundreds of millions of dollars don't bother guessing hole be the ones to take advantage come november we've already been told many times there's no doubt russian hackers ahead of the midterm they know it was arrogant and security of. the russians are targeting members of congress the u.s. . midterm elections are just around the corner and russia's attack continues to haunt the united states russian election interference in the twenty thousand midterms the russians have not reduced their hacking it's even the first thing the prodigy's at the conference will tell you that their principle which could also be a great excuse when someone asks the suits why the systems vulnerable to say the least by the way when the good will hackers look back at their previous conference

they wrote if russia can attack our election so can others iran north korea isis or even criminal or extruding this groups because let's face it if hacking an american election is child's play perhaps it's time the guys in charge did their homework on where the real threats are just coming up to a quarter of an hour into the program germany and turkey slammed the us over punishing new trade tariffs we've got live reaction on that story and plenty more besides after this quick break.

here now this new attempt at a global unit of the counter global currency big oil that will be on the controlled by not any subtle government has the chance to do what's called fail to do to escape the tricks of the central bankers and they will then economists.

welcome back to the program germany has slammed president trump new trade tariffs on the european union and washington's increase pressure on the iran nuclear deal the u.s. has operates on steel and aluminum for europe and its key nato ally turkey german leaders are warning of wide ramifications we won't let washington dictate to us with whom we can do business. those trade wars slowing down and destroying economic growth and creates a new uncertain suze and interesting statements that peter altmire the economy minister gave to one of the big sunday newspapers here in germany and what we can infer from that is that this is the exact opinion of chancellor angela merkel mrs merkel never want to come forward with a statement unless she really really has to and of course peter altmire being one

of her most trusted cabinet members he was the head of the chancellery for five years between twenty thirteen to twenty eighteen so what he says can be really taken is the word of angela merkel what mrs merkel and or germany says is usually in lockstep with what brussels has to say on these matters so we can really keep gannett that this is the opinion of the european union but it's not just the e.u. berland mrs merkel or mr altmire that have issues with tariffs trump and trade at the moment in turkey well they've seen a much tougher reaction in fact on sunday while the german economy minister was speaking to sunday newspapers over the weekend president ed the one we're speaking to must crowd saying that if this trade war wasn't well backed down from from the u.s. side then well turkey could start looking for allies and friends elsewhere who you know. we will respond to the one declaring war tree to the whole world.

new markets finding new corporations and allies. at the crux of the problem between and washington is the pastor andrew bronson now he's been in custody for two years in turkey so far there's a deadline set for release of last wed in state that wasn't met and when that wasn't met on friday trump brought in new tara fs against turkish exports of metals now that means twenty percent tariff on. being exported from turkey into the united states and fifty. percent all stale now what that scene is on monday the turkish lira dropped to a record low against the us dollar and the words from mr over the weekend of prompted it's well quite colorful way of saying no to the u.s. dollar across to.

but ultimately what a trade war creates is uncertainty and uncertainty is kryptonite for business in a trade war in the end everyone loses and everyone's economy takes a hit and not is why we see in the reaction from this side of the atlantic. well joining me live now on the program is financial expert on c.e.o. of pari research and analysis for berto at them but rose c.e.o. you're very welcome to the program there seems to be little less scaping from trump's targets it's now his allies who are being targeted what's the rationale behind this policy do you think. well you know as you were correctly mentioning

before all this policies which i was sensitive the nature of send you you sanctioned been posed to to russia and other countries are actually putting the the konami to the global economy situation at the real threat and even the u.s. should be concerned about this we have seen about the russia now reacting by dumping down the its holdings of the russian over of the u.s. that actually is blushing it from the reward and they found that the five billion to less than fifteen and actually eating one of the peelers of the strength of the united states which is the the foreign country is actually financing the way the u.s. does business yet we've all heard the mantra america first numerous times on a but the economy in the u.s.

but how much of this is really a by trump bolstering the economy at home or is it more of a tool to extort influence abroad. well it's it's a good question also because you know when when you start this kind of situation there is only a finished number of bed knew was that the economy and the financial take a sector can and we have up with approaching that number and the u.s. is not along with the face of this earth of course trump is within its you now that the way it has been cut out is policy is consistent with the with the america first as logon that the put forward but again not there to mind thing this this stands at the threat is that they could hamper the global growth which has been actually been linked on the strength of global demand not only u.s. demand even though the u.s.

a lot a lot on their internal market when you start to hit all the rest i don't see how you can be optimistic on this situation even if you reside with us but that's a really interesting point some countries including russia also hinting at reducing dependency or at least looking at it on the u.s. dollar can that be achieved what consequences of that could you foresee. while steps as a ready been taken as you all might recall china already started to let's say approach this by and by setting up a future on the oil which is now made in the new one and that's was a first step and now russia has started with this. dumping down its holdings of american that and russia has a quite a substantial chunk of it but let's not forget that japan and china has ten times more so if this policy is followed by these countries well the us would be in quite

an awkward situation of being the wonder started of this and at the end. that they being hit hard and also with the allens you know they're playing a chess game and it's quite how can we send the interest game like with europe you know which is oh my opinion is this is the weak point of all this that the two weeks ago we had the course in how so much announced by the european officials about the end of the day if you see what was dealt on that on that a deal it really sort of the a lot more of the your objective the u.s. than the you just just briefly expanding if you would on something you said earlier germany has also said president trump is creating a global economic danger high hopes big of a deal a danger is it. and as i was mentioning before the danger is that all this

will impact on the global demand which has been very strong during the last five years and it was strong at the end at the beginning of two thousand and eighteen but we are already seen signs of the global demand being hit hard by this situation because if you implement this kind of policies which aren't recessive in nature you are impacting heavily on one of the engine of the global growth which is asia asia has been hit very hard and not only china because now we have china outsourcing a lot of these products shane to the neighbor countries and they have been paid to bury our dead and when you eat local demand global growth which has been seen for knightfall far will be eat as well and also because we are coming from an unprecedented. period of incredibles stimulus with the markets to the economy and from the central banks and that's the most is fading away and we actually don't know what this could add on the situation like this set as it were saying before

you can have the just up to a number of bad news when you are right it can really approaching that number very close thanks for talking us through all the. financial expert and c.e.o. of research and analysis you have been a pleasure to be a pleasure to be with you thank you for to. royalists in australia rejoice did you know you can order your very own free portrait of the queen all you have to do is contact your local m.p. and sign up for the nationhood programs goodie bag.

thank. you basic right casual sean plays in front of some gun trace it's like i want some making a little bit. formally and madge elise. thank you thank you. there you go that's our stories for nothing but next the issue that just won't go away immigration to europe that's the focus of today's crosstalk and peter and guests coming right up. thank.

you ok. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw

a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember one one business show you can't afford to miss the one and only boom bust. america was never great was founded on the right in the murder. nothing changed so we said all response to these situations that we deal with. people get shot every well that day she is just sad people kill each other blood for killing each other. so it was just no way that painful are going to just sit

back and allow children to be shot. now law enforcement. this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this is can't be happening in america we call from the streets we've got to deal with why this is the reason i have to ride like this is the reason. hello and welcome to cross top where all things are considered futile of all across the western world a so-called melting pot is melting down immigration legal and illegal is probably

the most contentious and divisive issue energizing voters in italy for example the right and left have united on the issue in germany the government may collapse and trump has made this his signature cause can the status quo be sustained. cross talking immigration i'm joined by my guest john laughlin in paris he's a historian and specialist in international affairs and we have roland benedict or he is the co-director of the center for advanced studies eurex research and in her god that we have niemeyer he is a german journalist and author all right gentlemen cross talk rules and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it and i'm going to john first and paris and i just kind of kick this whole discussion off by an observation i've had over the last few weeks and months particularly with the events going on in the united states it appears that virtue signaling his replaced

policy and debate because all we're supposed to do is to think emotionally about this and not use our heads and i think this is what the establishment media and establishment parties want us to think that way to address this issue and if we stop birches signaling maybe we could come up with some solutions your thoughts john. well there's a lot of propaganda involved isn't there i mean we've just seen in the events on the mexican border these very propaganda. pictures of children a supposedly being separated from their parents i'm sure your viewers will remember the picture of the poor little kurdish boy on a turkish beach the dead body of a little boy he was a victim of the migration crisis and the broadcast of his photo was used to elicit sympathy for the plight of migrants and it worked very well but when boy of the same age was killed in a terrorist attack in barcelona the policy was not to show his dead body out of

respect for him and for his family so we can see that these images are being used to drive a political agenda and that is the problem the problem is that this immigration is being driven by a political agenda it is being driven by a political agenda of european states who are demographically weak the demographic pyramid is inverted there are more old people the young people and for many years and decades now economists and policymakers have decided that in order to rectify this demographic problem in europe we need immigration we need to bring in people from outside in order to pay our pensions and that is the immigration issue. and as long as that ideology remains in place as long as the ideology is believed by these people as it is most notably in germany then i'm afraid the problem will continue ok roland you know the thing is is that this approach with open borders but if you

believe that there are open borders then there are no borders to defend i think that's the paradox of what's happening in the western world you want to have open borders let people come in but then you can't defend your border when it's necessary go ahead roland. well. look there is no such thing like a political entity or a community without borders never in history and unique borders wide because you have to find the limits of what lead to a few laws and that is what the lefties hulet frankfurt school you're going to have them are says what their system series says so borders that something good not something better when we had the in europe. city kids once very strongly left their story into it political correctness really believed in politics on new phoenician of identity and for example descending group and ended the

excelled of the european consortium on political research areas and in brussels say today is that we need to define our identity as europeans much more no european way right and in a less exaggerated cosmopolitan way because we can't live without borders because if you have no borders you have no rule of law and order finish and you know where you lost the valley and we're not ok let me go to you i mean ok we have a lot of consensus here the media is for open borders the political class is for open borders but you know what the voters aren't for open borders and we're seeing it in election after election i mean isn't it time that democracy be recognized again in the european union i mean we have the austrians we have the italians we have also a new car i could use term fifth column in germany right now that it's waking up to what voters want to and they're running on these issues go ahead ralph. yes of

course it's true that bordeaux myth i must say of leftists and i'm calling myself a best sign is at stake because it has not worked out and be left behind those people who already live in our country and we need to not take care of them refugees who have nothing to do with the fact that do passions them up good enough anymore as was due to privatization of the pension scheme or that of a true sign of good enough or that the rent is too high for apartments those are not due to the refugee crisis but it came up with people are realizing that every left behind and they said hang on a minute part of us i'm as well so this is but a leftist made a key mistake in the recent years and especially given two thousand and fifteen happened mrs merkel once and called it a decision said be a shock unless you are going to manage it down and people said why don't we manage

with ourselves first of course there's a right wing nationalistic. parties are coming up because they take voter sentiment serious leftist to do that and especially to germany baptists have failed completely and that they stood amount of borderless like. there were no borders and no states which is of course not true there are states and beneath states of course and otherwise we have a mickey no one wants to live in imo you might think those of us all to go bring style and american government because she lost control john you know the the interesting thing is that with these waves of migrants or asylum seekers who are never term you want because it seems to me most of them vast majority of for economic immigrants here but you know they don't really come in on our layer jets do they to germany they don't mean they don't fly into airports they kind of walk through the continent you know that's what makes me feel really bad for the. greeks

and the italians ok i mean if germany wants those people fine with it's not being done the right way even according to e.u. law that's ok so i mean germany cannot be that the decision maker of immigration in europe that is intensely and i democratic and against the rules of the european union go ahead john you know there's no doubt that the rules are being broken because indeed germany by saying that a million refugees are welcome and then by trying to offload them onto other members of the european union worlds indeed breaking refugee law and breaking the european union's own rules that's for sure i'm in strong agreement with what roland said about borders and the need to protect them but i have a different conclusion i disagree that this is a european problem and indeed i think that the or that this can be solved with european measures and i think that the the reflex position of european leaders

which is to say that we need to european solution to this problem is precisely wrong it is precisely the fact that we have a european union with a borderless internal space the showing an area which has caused the migration problem in the first place i first visited the song at camp near cali in the late one nine hundred ninety s. the migration crisis that we're talking about now didn't start in two thousand and fifteen it started in the one nine hundred ninety s. when italy joined the schengen zone and from that moment onwards the borders of the mediterranean were on the english channel here and there is a direct relation of cause and effect and what we saw in two thousand and sixteen after hungary and and the other countries built fences to close off the balkan route is that national solutions are the ones that solve this problem not european ones and we are now i hope seeing the same result. with the italians who are taking

matters into their own hands nationally defending their national territory and it's only by doing that with because they have that the navy they have the ability to do it that this solution will end prior to the imposition of national solutions the habits walls and it's a very bad structural problem in the e.u. it was that countries would simply let the migrants in like greece and italy and then send them north to germany in other words they were they were bigger the neighbor policies which is a structural problem in the you so i think we need to finish with this idea that the solution is european the problem is european role in the the arguments that the left in the media have made is that it's already been mentioned this program think it was you demographics the need the need for our workers new workers but i mean looking at the evidence they don't see a lot of these migrants particularly since two thousand and fifteen are employed across the european union they do take state benefits.