are very eager to results don't know it's trump has strengthened message saying sions on mess of tariffs on european cars and of our goods and let's take nato donald trump has repeatedly questioned the american commitment to the alliance and that was corrodes it to the underlying trust among l. lies and many here fear that he could decide to leave the alliance if he gets reelected and so would have biden presidency necessarily be better for your. well we have to say that you leaders are not naive they know that there are many problems that they would disappear overnight if joe biden gets elected but they want to see someone in the white house who is more predictable who cherish international organisations and dialogue who appreciates long held alliances and that's why they would hope for a change of the tone if joe biden gets elected we look to sort of to do so just before we brought you one other example from politicians are around europe but we've also heard from the chair of the german parliament's foreign affairs committee saying he's against another trump presidency in the german defense minister warning the president trump is in dange

one of the biggest sources of disagreement has been nato trump has attacked germany without pause saying it was not paying its fair share towards the alliance. germany as you know is very delinquent in their. payments to nato. they're paying one percent in this supposed to be a 2.

supporter of nato and may look to reinforce the alliance but there are some aspects of that that he won't be changing from the trumpet administration clued in perhaps the 2 percent of the g.d.p. that trump demanded that other nato members pay their fair share that's likely to remain the status quo and those the suggestion that joe biden would not be making a u. turn on other important decisions. joe biden isn't going to change washington's approach to international issues overnight because he can't it's a mistake to believe that everything changes europe must above all count on itself nothing will be easy there are also many issues where i don't think anything is going to change there. there's also the issue of trade this is been a massive problem with all these tariffs that trump has been imposing on e.u. products over the last 3 years now joe biden comes into the presidency with a u.s. trade deficit of $170000000000.00 u.s. dollars with the e.u. so trade is something that is going to be continuously a difficult issue there's also talks coming up over the digital tax on tech giants which of course friction over the past year or so and there is this continuing dispute over subsidies for

supporter of nato and may look to reinforce the alliance but there are some aspects of that that he won't be changing from the trumpet administration clued in perhaps the 2 percent of the g.d.p. that trump demanded that other nato members pay their fair share that's likely to remain the status quo and those the suggestion that joe biden would not be making a u. turn on other important decisions. joe biden isn't going to change washington's approach to international issues overnight because he can't it's a mistake to believe that everything changes europe must above all count on itself nothing will be easy there are also many issues where i don't think anything is going to change there. there's also the issue of trade this is been a massive problem with all these tariffs that trump has been imposing on e.u. products over the last 3 years now joe biden comes into the presidency with a u.s. trade deficit of $170000000000.00 u.s. dollars with the e.u. so trade is something that is going to be continuously a difficult issue there's also talks coming up over the digital tax on tech giants which of course friction over the past year or so and there is this continuing dispute over subsidies for

supporter of nato and may look to reinforce the alliance but there are some aspects of that that he won't be changing from the trumpet administration clued in perhaps the 2 percent of the g.d.p. that trump demanded that other nato members pay their fair share that's likely to remain the status quo and those the suggestion that joe biden would not be making a u. turn on other important decisions. joe biden isn't going to change washington's approach to international issues overnight because he can't it's a mistake to believe that everything changes europe must above all count on itself nothing will be easy there are also many issues where i don't think anything is going to change there. there's also the issue of trade this is been a massive problem with all these tariffs that trump has been imposing on e.u. products over the last 3 years now joe biden comes into the presidency with a u.s. trade deficit of $170000000000.00 u.s. dollars with the e.u. so trade is something that is going to be continuously a difficult issue there's also talks coming up over the digital tax on tech giants which of course friction over the past year or so and there is this continuing dispute over subsidies for

exclusive to trump and they're not exclusive also to republicans i remember when i was in washington myself a few years ago during the obama presidency there was already criticism then about germany's nato defense spending that's something that goes on to say beyond the donald trump presidency and that would also go that would also be very controversial indeed if mr biden wins the presidency so this is always important to understand when we look at the transatlantic relationship yes there are elements that are particular to mr trump on and chancellor merkel but at the same time there are issues that go well beyond that thomas ferro alexander phenomena thank you so much to both of you. let's head back to the studio now where it we are rejoined by phil i you professor and richard walker from our team here at to talk about the state of the u.s. presidential race and you know phil i'd like to toss it to you and ask you a little bit about what we just heard there about the state of the transatlantic relationship. you know more broadly speaking as well the world is really watching america right now walk us through the scenarios in terms of foreign policy of what we could see and has foreign p

one of the biggest sources of disagreement has been nato trump has attacked germany without pause saying it was not paying its fair share towards the alliance. germany as you know is very delinquent in their. payments to nato. and they're paying one percent in this supposed to be a 2 percent of the 2 percent is very low should be much more than that so they're delinquent of billions of dollars and this is 3 years to liquid. when trump tweeted racist attacks on this group of democratic us congress women openly condemned his actions. even moved up on achievement. i firmly distanced myself from their taxes and i stand in solidarity with these women. in america's strength from my perspective life precisely in the fact that the people of very different nationalities have contributed to the strength of the country and. therefore these a statements that are grown very much counter to this impression of mine from your duties consist. a strained relationship but also opposite approaches like on how to deal with the coronavirus pandemic and how to wear a face mask. now with trump fighting for a 2n

one of the biggest sources of disagreement has been nato trump has attacked germany without pause saying it was not paying its fair share towards the alliance. germany as you know is a very delinquent in their. payments to nato. and they're paying one percent in this supposed to be a 2 percent of the 2 percent is very low it should be much more than that so they're delinquent of billions of dollars and this is for years the liquid. when trump tweeted racist attacks on this group of democratic us congress women openly condemned his actions. which is one of the few limit of an achievement. i firmly distanced myself from the attacks and i stand in solidarity with these women . in america's strength from my perspective life precisely in the fact that the people of very different nationalities have contributed to the strength of the country. therefore these a statement the ground very much counter to this impression of mine for me of these guns has. a strained relationship but also opposite approaches like on how to deal with the coronavirus pandemic and how to wear a face mask. now with trum

not likely to be resolved trump is the winner of this election we can expect that there will be a bumpy ride over the next is don't forget also going to head to head over nato with trump saying that america has been the shouldering the large part of the burden with nato present macro not the biggest fan describing it as being brain dead but the reality is that has pushed him to want to this policy of perhaps creating an e.u. army and talking about the sovereignty of europe getting europe to work together now if boyden is the winner of this election perhaps doesn't change too much over some of the issues but biden has been clear that he would take the u.s. back into the paris climate accord the suggestion that he might go back to the negotiating table over the iranian nuclear deal and as i said the e.u. is holding off on those retailers. tariffs because they think if it's applied in presidency they might be able to open those negotiations and smooth over the issues but let's be clear if biden is the winner he is going to have a lot to deal with on his own plate domestically and that means that the e.u. may have to wait and it also might come 2nd fiddle to th

will be a completely different stance on climate for example we can also expect a change in nato donald trump has been really critical over nato nato members especially towards germany here so. most of us troops here in germany joe biden will probably also have a different stance on that and joe biden also said he would really need reinitiate talks with iran over to nuclear do so we can extend except expect sorry really a reshuffle that diplomacy between germany and the u.s. in the months to come after january iran so joe biden will have invested the white house what is germany expecting policy why is a from a biden presidency. what they expect i think in a day expect definitely and it was something that the high come out of the foreign affairs minister was saying a few days ago was that no matter who wins disallow action the turn of rushing tone toward spending would have to change and of course this is referring to. constant tweeting constant criticism donald trump even criticized germany's and europe's handling of the pandemic and that was a very clear stance here in fairly in that the ton

nato. he certainly had a lot to do because donald trump really rocked the whole nato alliance with his actions you prefer to his threat to pull out of nato referring to it as obsolete back in 2017 stoltenberg did actually get him to row back on that remark however he continually has said to nato members that they he finds himself in a position this is trump that the situation is disproportionate in terms of funding what you also had was a unilateral approach the trump made to members of nato instead of the molten natural conclusory no really a. giving all members a fair share of of negotiating skills he actually for example in 2017 poland lot of talks with poland and he did in fact deploy the biggest u.s. troop deployment since the cold war so that was an example and then you had conversely threatening germany with with basically giving it no help whatsoever so there was an alarm throughout the nato alliance and now biden is expected to put a lot of money into nato one of his 1st that it seems according to his campaign teams he will address the nato issue he will bolden embolden the nato allia

will be a completely different stance on climate for example we can also expect a change in nato donald trump has been really critical over nato nato members especially towards germany here so. most of us troops here in germany joe biden will probably also have a different stance on that and joe biden also said he would really need reinitiate talks with iran over to nuclear do so we can mix except i expect sorry really a reshuffle that diplomacy between germany and the u.s. in the months to come after january iran so joe biden will have invested the white house what is germany expecting policy why is a from a biden presidency. what they expect i think in a day expect definitely and it was something that the high come out of foreign affairs minister was saying a few days ago was that no matter who wins disallows action the tone of washington towards bellina would have to change and of course this is referring to. the constant tweeting constant criticism of donald trump even criticised germany's and europe's handling of the pandemic and that was a very clear stance here in fairly in that the to

one of the biggest sources of disagreement has been nato trump has attacked germany without pause saying it was not paying its fair share towards the alliance. germany as you know is very delinquent in their. payments to nato. and they're paying one percent in this supposed to be a 2 percent of the 2 percent is very low it should be much more than that so they're delinquent of billions of dollars and this is for years the liquid. when trump treated racist attacks on this group of democratic he was congresswoman mack an openly condemned his actions. isn't even most of an achievement. i firmly distanced myself from the attacks and i stand in solidarity with these women. america's strength from my perspective life precisely in the fact that the people of very different nationalities have contributed to the strength of the country. therefore these a statements that grown very much. to this impression of mine for. a strained relationship but also opposite approaches like on how to deal with the coronavirus pandemic and how to wear a face mask. now with trump fighting for a 2nd term in office

one of the biggest sources of disagreement has been nato trump has attacked germany without pause saying it was not paying its fair share towards the alliance. germany as you know is very delinquent in their. payments to nato. and they're paying one percent in this supposed to be a 2 percent of the 2 percent is very low it should be much more than that so they're delinquent of billions of dollars and this is for years the liquid. when trump treated racist attacks on this group of democratic us congress women openly condemned his actions. he just wanted to see them eat up on the cheating with food to those i firmly distanced myself from the attacks and i stand in solidarity with these women. america's strength from my perspective lies precisely in the fact that the people of very different nationalities have contributed to the strength of the country. therefore these a statements that grown very much counter to this impression of mine for. a strained relationship but also opposite approaches like on how to deal with the coronavirus pandemic and how to wear a face mask. now with trump figh

nato. we have, of course, heard that president trump may want to end u.s. icipation in nato but remember that he can't do these things all by himself even if he thinks he can and there is a very, very strong bipartisan support for nato on capitol hill and that doesn't matter, that will not change regardless of the senate or house races. when president trump started threatening in a serious tone to pull the u.s. out of nato, there were bills drawn up on capitol hill to say that that would be -- that that would not be allowed to happen. so he can't do that but what he can do is create a lot of insecurity inside the alliance and that, by its very nature, undermines the entire principle of nato which is to provide security for all based on the principle of mutual defense. he has openly said that he may not be willing to send the united states to defend an an ally, which is required by article five so he can create a lot of unstability for nato even if he doesn't pull the united states out. so i think everyone in nato is concerned about what a second trump admini

of what is its stake and there's good news here american voters are very supportive of nato and so while donald trump has used disparaging words against the alliance over the past 4 years that really hasn't translated into a decrease in support for nato throughout the united states now there is higher support among democrats than there is republicans but i think it goes to show that americans are you know their their multilateralist are right they want to see the united states as a leader on the global stage and so even though donald trump has created problems with some of our strongest and you know our historical allies since that you over the past 70 years and americans themselves still see the united states as a country that's you know worth being an ally to and we're being friends with and so hopefully that's something that continues going forward yeah there are on tonight a lot of people on this side of the atlantic you hope that your words are true political analyst rachel rizzo joining us tonight from washington d.c. rachel good seeing you we appreciate your insights tonight thank you. i have

because of course, under donald trump, relations with nato, with the rest, the lines were at a complete low, donald trump calling nato obsolete. he then changed his mind in 27000, after meeting install timbo, he said, look, and nato is not obsolete. however, he is actions and approach to nato really suggested that he had very little time for it. indeed, often favoring bilateral relationships with certain nato members like poland rather than taking a multilateral approach, which is the whole point of the nato alliance. talking about things like with jury u.s. military personnel from germany demanding that european members contribute more to their defense budgets. all this sort of rhetoric and talk over the years has weakened nato, in the eyes of stoltenberg. so he will be a very happy indeed to be dealing with a president that is much more likely to take a more integrated multilateral approach that is much more likely to be supportive of the alliance. but of thanks for the potential bottle there in paris. let's get a view from russia, alexander god, for has more on the future relations w

slant but other policy areas are perhaps of more concern to european leaders one of those is nato we know that trump over the last 3 years has caused divisions within nato tensions and made many demands there joe biden is seeing scenes being a man who not only supports nato but would be looking to reinforce the alliance for the next 4 years of his term however there are also things that may not change trump demanded that nato members pay their fair share that 2 percent of g.d.p. and that is likely under biden to remain the status quo. joe biden isn't going to change washington's approach to international issues overnight because he can't it's a mistake to believe that everything changes europe must be above all continents. nothing will be easy there are also many issues where i don't think anything is going to change there. and then there's trade we've had these trade wars over the last few years with donald trump slapping tariffs on us on e.u. goods going in to the u.s. but biden in his presidency would inherit a u.s. trade deficit of some $170000000000.00 so trade is still going to be an issue the

are very eager to resolve don't know it's trump has strengthened mess of sanctions on the mess of tariffs on european cars and of our goods and let's take nato donald trump has repeatedly questioned the american commitment to the alliance and that was corrosive to the underlying trust among l. lies and many here fear that he could decide to leave the lions if he gets reelected and so would have biden presidency necessarily be better for your well we have to say that you leaders are not naive they know that there are many problems that they would disappear overnight if joe biden gets elected but they want to see someone in the white house who is more predictable who cherish international organisations and dialogue who appreciates long held alliances and that's why they would hope for a change of the tone if joe biden gets elected. governments around the world wait for the results of this election here in germany people policymakers have been giving birth views on events unfolding across the atlantic. all these u.s. citizens sent in their ballots by mail ballots that donald trump alleges were fraudulent in many cases to democrats abroad gather

many people breathe huge sigh of relief when it comes to nato there has been a constant fear for the past 4 years given trump behavior and his rhetoric that. he could weaken nato it went to the point where john bolton his former national security advisor in his book the memoirs suggested that trump would leave nato when in his 2nd term and of course on the european union side it was the never much love for the e.u. or force individual member states. the hostility and rudeness toward uncle a medical was was probably the most prominent but in general the attitude of the administration towards the e.u. . was extremely hostile let us recall that the. trumps embassador to to the european union mr song black hole became famous for its shenanigans in ukraine and actually started his posting by telling a senior you were fashion officials that he was sent there to fulfill his job of destroying the e.u. so this when you have the 2 main. bodies in europe. that they administration is hostile to it was the same time fostering a very warm relations from say to putin with all kinds of authoritarian leaders. was especially

set up after the second world war which create that multilateralism included the nato defense alliance. president trumpeally gone on the attack against many nato allies, but particularly singling out germany, calling them delinquent for not, in his eyes, paying their dues. and he has threatened to withdraw, to reduce the number of u.s. troops in germany and the alliance is basically hoping, yes, for a biden win for that reason, for stability and the return of the kind of communal decision-making and approach to securities. next march, nato is reported to be planning an early summit to welcome in president biden if, in fact, he would does win the election. cash does in the election. host: well, if donald -- one of donald trump's biggest foreign-policy decisions was to pull the u.s. out of the iranian nuclear deal. joe biden has offered to rejoin the agreement if you're on shows compliance. ties with the u.s. has deteriorated in iraq as well, home to about 3000 american soldiers. let's bring in our correspondent in baghdad and the iranian capital of toronto. s -- tehran. simona, it is a very complicated

donald trump germany and the united states they were key strategic economic and political allies that's been spun around and they've been placed it opposite poles on a number of issues when it comes to nato donald trump has said germany must pay up they must pay more money is not the 1st president to do that but he's the 1st to do it in such a forceful manner when it comes to north stream to the gas pipeline from russia into germany germany needs that gas for its industry for its economy the united states is putting sanctions on that and stopping not pipeline from being built i mentioned those sanctions some of those are fall in directly on german entity something that was unprecedented to think about and other white house administrations and then there's the relationship between angela merkel and donald trump they clearly don't seem to get on this isn't the 1st time the angle of merkel's how to deal with a political leader who she clearly has a strained relationship with she did spend a number of years talking to silvio berlusconi while he was a tally in prime minister however it's a bit of a different part of a different kettle of fish to between the italian prime minister no disrespec

with berlin in washington it polar opposites when it comes to nato spending trump isn't the 1st president to tell germany that it leads to contribute more but he's the 1st one to do it so publicly and so often when it comes to north stream to a pipeline bringing gas from russia directly into germany well trying to say it's a new start everything you can to try and shut that down including putting in place sanctions against german entities involved in it something that would have been on thinkable in the past then it's the relationship between donald trump and chancellor angela merkel it clearly well it's clear they don't get on a lot of senior figures in germany in berlin in the political sphere. a bite in presidency not because the problems would go away but because donald trump has demonstrated time and time again he's willing to air the dirty laundry in public that perhaps would be done behind closed doors under a by presidency. the u.k. has this special relationship is it keeps a with the united states what it said given that the election is hanging in the balance in the united states

trump pulling nearly 12000 u.s. troops out of germany all still demanding that and others pay more into the nato part in fact trump was very clear on how he felt about germany and their bill paying on defense. it's been a rough few years and that's without even mentioning the iran nuclear deal which trump pulled the us out of unilaterally leaving the e.u. pulling their collective hair out or nord stream to the gas pipeline which german industry needs but the us sanctions are stopping being finished all the paris climate accord and not the multinational agreement torn up by the trumpet ministration trump does have his supporters among the leaders hungry. viktor orban and the u.s. president have similar on t. migrant answer today while the polish leadership looked likely to benefit from the redistribution of some of those troops leaving germany wausau is also very much against the stream pipeline one thing almost 'd everyone in europe can agree on is that the us president is box office and we can expect more than a few all nighters being polled across the european union as people stay up on a lecture night into the wee

of what is its stake and there's good news here american voters are very supportive of nato and so while donald trump has used disparaging words against the alliance over the past 4 years that really hasn't translated into a decrease in support for nato throughout the united states now there is higher support among democrats than there is republicans but i think it goes to show that americans are you know they're they're multilateralist at heart right they want to see the united states as a leader on the global stage and so even though donald trump has created problems with some of our strongest and you know our historical allies sense that you over the past 70 years and americans themselves still see the united states as a country that's you know worth being an ally to and we're being friends with and so hopefully that's something that continues going forward yeah there aren't tonight a lot of people on this side of the atlantic you hope that your words are true political analyst rachel rizzo joining us tonight from washington d.c. rachel good seeing you we appreciate your insights tonight thank you

i don't hear so much that it would be the end of nato we have of course heard that president trump may want to and u.s. participation in nato but remember that he can't to do these things all by himself even if he thinks he can and there is a very very strong bipartisan support for nato on capitol hill and that doesn't matter that will not change regardless of the senate or house races when when president trump started threatening in in a very serious tone to pull the u.s. out of nato there were no bills drawn up on capitol hill to say that that would be that that would not be allowed to happen so he can't do that but what he can do is create a lot of insecurity inside the alliance and that by its very nature undermines the entire the entire principle of of the of nato which is to provide security for all based on the principle of mutual defense he has openly said that he may not be willing to send the united states to defend an ally which is required by article 5 and so he can create a lot of instability for nato even if he doesn't pull the united states out so i think everyone in nat

america's traditional allies in europe where leaders are all odds we don't know trump on issues including the iran you deal nato's defense budget and climate change. is in london nadeem let's concentrate on london and the u.k. i mean boris johnson. is very much hoping the he will donald trump wins this election because it will mean briggs it might get saved joe biden has already been very critical of brigs it because of the threat to the the island of the good friday agreement so is it as simple as that is it as simple as the boris johnson wants a don't trump victory. i don't think you can say it is a simple as that because brett set of course is a very complicated issue and so is the good friday peace agreement on the island of ireland so of course it's an open secret that boris johnson is very very keen if not desperate for some kind of free trade deal with the united states of course the united states will come with its own conditions which concerned some of boris johnson's own supporters but yes that's top of his to do list next january once britain is no longer in the status quo that it is in terms of its re

election market mark jacobson looking at nato donald trump called it obsolete before taking office he. almost pulled out of the alliance in 2018 before national security adviser that's on john bolton talked him out of it president trump has been effective in pressuring nato members to spend more on defense but can he continue along this path during a global pandemic money is tight. yes he can and this is a problem i agree with pretty much everything natalie is laid out there in terms of what a trumpet ministration brings donald trump does not believe in alliances he be skeptical of our allies he treats them as enemies constantly denigrating the value despite the fact that with that we've seen especially with nato over the last 60 years an incredibly important alliance one that's come to the defense of the united states wants that do i think you'll continue to see sort of the transactional you know where whereas trump is looking at everything from a personal game standpoint which autocrats and dictators do i need to have good relationships with in order to enhance my family's business

trump pulling nearly 12000 u.s. troops out of germany all still demanding that and others pay more into the nato part in fact trump was very clear on how he felt about germany and their bill paying on defense. it's been a rough few years and that's without even mentioning the iran nuclear deal which trump pulled the us out of unilaterally leaving the e.u. pulling their collective hair out or nord stream to the gas pipeline which german industry needs but the us sanctions are stopping being finished all. all the paris climate a cordon of the multinational agreement torn up by the trumpet ministration trump does have his supporters among the leaders hungary's viktor orban and the us president have similar and the migrant answer to all the polish leadership looked likely to benefit from the redistribution of some of those troops leaving germany was so also very much against the north stream pipeline one thing almost 'd everyone in europe can agree on is that the u.s. president is box office and we can expect more than a few all nighters being polled across the european union as people stay up on election night into the w