what you're new theat. he's got the security bait 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 am not sure that his heart is in it. that it opportunistic and dictated by his standing domestically in the us he can't have too many enemies at the same time you know the rich are reflective 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 back burner for him policy wise not rhetorical what do you think richard. is that it's not on the back burner future he's he's going to keep on the situation in the southwest part of syria where the heat is high. raney and have been maneuvering around too near to the golan heights for israeli comfort that could trigger a fight a broader conflict which none of us needs richard who would be saying which country would be that which country would be the trigger who is the proactive a character that you're referring to. well. real has been striking using air power against what it. is raining in targets

in israel and syria and syria that's where it could cope. ok out here right here gentlemen i'm going to jump in here we're going to go to was 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 . crazy conspiracy they're there they're all worthless there are all money the bus trip out the back of the bus just run them over the fuss because we want rush limbaugh wonder bread and fake news so you die that's america.

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earth a very rough roads or a new store it's rough climates and you have to find forgivable for them if. it was gunshots on top them and very fresh they would have been winning and i'm in need i'm not. going back up. you know i don't want to see it but a body in the children is ready to put you straight in the good. old to new good wouldn't. you don't think about these these so good on you've got three team. and you know i do and the other patients. welcome back to cross talk where all things 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 floss point a flashpoint in syria the iranians and the go and we have to remind our viewers that go on hikes 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 he 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 li 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 done 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 change has 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 this 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 and 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 numbers effectively they're just. the pro u.s. forces in the south are in the process of being rolled up that only leaves the north the adlib area to dominate cleared in turn to the external support by turkey not the u.s. and i think we're also in danger of looking at the wrong flashpoint not the goal and the goal on the approaching toward 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 will 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 thame 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 months 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 if we go to richard and people that do that are actually desperate that's when people. they 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 sounds like a very very shy gree. so you have something to work with the really world curtiz the rain ians and there is no unquestionably strong

almost for the call 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 they're 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. you know 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 is somebody who is 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 m i six involved in 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 i think two keys to understanding trump one is

called isolationism ornately the. other is. not always 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 the service he's showing he has to 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 process 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 to the juicy people we've agreed agreed. he's playing with the weaker hand the nuclear agreement with iran you know ok one thing is very and i'm glad we're 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.

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for you and. we travel to syria to witness how the country is slowly rising from the ruins after seven years of fighting terrorists and militants. the scandal over donald trump the alleged use of a racial slur deepens so post so the support for the u.s. president among black americans is on the up. a palestinian journalist is arrested by israeli soldiers both filming them and allegedly had fighting violence ahead of friday's gauls a protest we speak to a hip hop artist who shot to fame with a video filmed at a previous border demonstration. no no. no no come. on tell me clinton box

a young girl who knelt in class during the national anthem and protest against social injustice we discussed the whole kneeling controversy with. blow girl needs to spend more time in a constructive manner trying to get what she wants it's not to say it's wrong for them to basically stand. for what they believe in that's what this little gray was doing that's all. very warm welcome you're watching artie international with me becky aaron we start with syria years of war with terrorists and militants have left the country in ruins huge amounts of key infrastructure were destroyed including factories and hospitals we visit some of these sites to see how the rebuilding job is going and how close people are to getting their lives back on track. if damascus is serious

about welcoming back millions of its refugees well it has a lot to do first and foremost most of the country has been reduced to rubble by the war so a lot of people just don't have a place they can call home anymore secondly infrastructure is a big issue too because major transportation arteries have been cut and thirdly electricity so skies that anyone who has a power generator well is a very lucky person. that's why factories like this one are crucial most syrian cities have to survive amid a chaotic and unstable power supply we've been told that when anti assad fighters captured this facility they looted it cleaned for equipment and left it badly damaged it's fully operational now but lack of power of course isn't the worst that

syrians have had to endure lie i swear we were dying of hunger one kilo of bread for one thousand lire you have to eat otherwise you starve to death and i am truly rice and vulgar nothing that. we were living in hunger and poverty we would wake up in the morning not knowing how to manage to get our daily food children suffered malnutrition the ten year old girl looked like a two year old. throughout the war some parts of syria have seen well reflect famine but it would have been much much worse if it wasn't for the incredibly fertile soil and that's why you hear some branches of the trees actually broken under the weight of peaches advanced agriculture and international aid is helping to put food back on people's plates so now with the fighting contained to. small pockets syrians can treat

themselves to something nice this ice cream plant has even had a go with its own interpretation of the oreo recipe yet all of this is great on paper but doesn't help much of delivery trucks have no routes to drive on. this just over forty kilometers between the cities of holmes and hama a trip that should have taken somewhat thirty minutes would stretch up to six hours with this bridge destroyed of commuters had to gamble with their lives taking long detours through g. hardy's territories this newly paved highway has brought the drive back to well under an hour this market in homes is more than two thousand years old it has seen many things in this civil war is not the worst of those it has survived through and it is hoped that the rest of the country will follow its model i mean has done of

reporting from syria see. some of the massive reconstruction there's also room for artistic work these artists once lived in a refugee camp near damascus but had to flee when it came under attack with peace now back to the area they've returned to depict the aftermath of the fighting they say they want to leave a wreck or to future generations of what happened at the camp and what they went three. the scandal over donald trump's alleged use of a racial slur has seen a hail of accusations of racism slung at the u.s. president a former aide claims she has a recording of him making the derogatory remarks though this recording has yet to emerge that hasn't stopped the media rounding on trump for alleged racism. at the

end of the day we don't need a tape to know that donald trump is racist i was at the unite the white rally in washington d.c. on sunday i didn't hear anybody say the n word but i'm pretty sure those guys were still racists we were curious about what you could possibly say that might dispel some of the animosity the black community has toward her after all of these years of her being complicit in trump's clearly racist policies and actions. however amid the scandal a new poll shows that support for the u.s. president among the black community has almost doubled since last year some are calling picks up the story according to this poll trump has more support among african-americans than republican candidates of the past but african-americans are still the most politically modulus voting bloc consistently voting for democrats rubber kanye west who's recently made headlines over his support for trump says that going against this trend makes you a pariah in the community everyone around me tried to pick my candidate for

me and then told me every time i said i like trump that i couldn't say it out loud or my career would be over i get kicked out the black community because blacks are we're supposed have a monolithic we can only like can only be democrats though it's unclear whether such statements from black celebrities have a positive effect on donald trump's popularity a leading civil rights group says trump trotting out his black surrogates to woo voters has a little impact as the majority of african-americans disapprove of trump's strategy of trotting out black people to support him is not working if it is intended to inspire african-american support for him or his policies a majority of black voters say these celebrities have no impact before trump set off on the campaign trail in twenty fifteen black rappers and hip hop artists felt a little differently about in the ninety's they often mention trump in their music boasting of his wealth.

if you just know we are two zero money for the bill gates. money. so why are african-american starting to think this way we asked around to find out do you think african-americans support but you. i guess a percentage i'm going to say that not a lot of them support. thirty are you kidding thirty six thirty six. not even close to what i thought about six percent. actually thirty six percent who are you surprised by that at all. why is that because i don't own a black trump supporters why do you think some african-americans support trump by some i mean one third i'm going to say probably because they thought that he was the best chance for our economy instead of thinking about where we are socially

there is a chance to be heard which hasn't been there before i think those that do probably are looking for from an economic perspective he's a businessman right so more americans including black americans are finding job opportunities and by that i mean it's not just you must take the one job you find you're seeing that there are multiple opportunities people are now getting to buy a car for themselves or a truck for themselves for the first time in a long time last summer we set a record among americans including black americans who went on vacation for the first time and it looks like we're gonna see another record breaking activity with that in that regard a lot of black americans are experiencing this and it's no surprise that they

understand it's the policies of president donald trump that they that they accept that they acknowledge and that they're very appreciative of. a young girl from maryland who was reportedly reprimanded for naming cheering the pledge of allegiance has won the support of hillary clinton the former presidential candidate tweeted that it takes courage to express disagreement with injustice eleven year old marianna taylor hopes more people will join her. it's important to stand up for . it by to overwhelm the kind of bridge fire to what it is that you meant by the people just making beliefs. marianna said she was inspired by an american football quarterback who now out during the national anthem before a game in twenty sixteen to protest against a racial inequality and police brutality his final protest soon spread among the athletes.