moderate alliance the prologue with pro-american alliance but we started to see these differences appear on the jordan position especially on jerusalem and the ultimate position we have seen actually the. saudi and the investment in jerusalem. the last three years actually the saudis subsidy of one hundred million one hundred eighty million dollars were not paid for jordan and there's also what's called the oil a grant from saudi arabia that also joe daniels to receive in the past has not been received either so the jordan not subscribing to this ultimate deal of alliance stories. the politics of the region. in jerusalem has definitely caused jordan you know this issue and that's why i call it the jewel impacts the jordan is of players playing for the moment ok before i bring back lomis into the conversation and ask you about you know how the king should be handling this external pressure and also the internal pressure i want to bring back rami quickly from beirut and particularly this you know if the various reports ought to be believe me it would seem that jordan's role as an interlocu

for others including the republican people's party a part of the national alliance these alliances good help smaller parties get a foothold in the parliament if their coalition wins over ten percent of the vote now there are five men and one woman in the presidential race there's of course the current president of the gun who's running as part of the people's alliance the other parties have put their own individual candidates like more injured for instance who's from the c.h.p. party he's our gods the us is opponent and a strong contender. from the party is the only female candidate in the fray and sell out in denver tosh is running for the pro. who's been leading his campaign from prison after being accused of having links with the outlawed kurdistan workers party or the p.k. k. one of them needs to win more than fifty percent of the vote to become a precedent if not it will head to a runoff or carrots make up seventeen percent of the electorate in turkeys and h.t. piece performance could have a decisive impact on the outcome al-jazeera smom involve reports from one of the party's bigg

alliance our party it's called civil contract and the party alliance is called all the way out alliance speaking of the alliance right now we're discussing it's future that's for the party it's definitely going to develop regardless of what happens to the alliance so the party will develop as for the alliance it's something we're negotiating now and will arrive at a decision into time. on june first you said on facebook that those who set off an artificial price hike for basic foods and want to assert the rule of law listeners over the rule of law will feel the full weight of a lot who were you referring to and what did you mean by saying they will feel the full weight of the law i meant exactly what you just said the context being that we became aware of some illegal activity by a number of supermarkets in europe than they simple taney asli raised prices for some products and it looked like a kind of sabotage so i reacted by saying we were ready to take action to restore justice in this area that's what it was about in the end these supermarkets had to pay quite a high fine because the

i think it's important make sure people understand the importance of the alliance. so that seems to fracture and you take america's foremost ally out of that individual alliance, you have individual countries dealing with china, i know this very well what will happen, they will find it much easier to deal with individual countries, slightly play -- >> play one off against the other? >> yes. this is just power politics, this is not a criticism of china. america does that in its own way. there's no criticism, but we have to understand that our basic value system of governance, western democracy and what it stands for, independent media, rule of law, free speech, electing your government, that is a system under challenge today. and for the first time since the 1950s, there's a group of countries saying your system doesn't work and ours works better. in those days it was the soviet union saying we may not be democratic but we can deliver for our people more efficiently more protuckively than you can. in the end they lost that battle. they didn't lose it because democrac

he still wants to build these alliances. i think he still has a good relationship with the president. i don't think there is any personal split as there has been with master and tillerson and the others. but the policy is a drifting away to where secretary mattis would see us go. >> there was a development overnight that the defense department has been asked to house as many as 12,000 immigrant amylase or -- immigrant families on three different basis. what is the appropriate level of congressional oversight and press access for these facilities? speaking of defense secretary mattis, how is it being received at the pentagon that they are being asked to pitch in? rep. smith: the overarching point is that we should not be incarcerating women and children and parents as they come across the border. there is a better way to do this. dan to lock them up. using military bases is particularly troubling. first of all, we should not be incarcerating them. second of all, we want our military bases to be preparing to defend the country

this is not a defensive alliance anymore it's very much an offensive alliance particularly in regards to the russian federation because of that expansion i roamed russia's russian federation's borders the possibility of ukraine joining nato it's effectively part of that alliance alliance know the presence of nato forces in eastern europe the buildup of nato bases right along the southern as well as the western border of the russian federation this is a very dangerous game i think they need to will survive on the balance because for the united states nato expansion to virtuous their own the russian federation has been very important and the been nato presence has been built on russia's borders so for that at least they're going to they want to keep nato up and ahead of the nato summit another crucial meeting may take place the white house has announced that u.s. national security advisor john bolton will travel to moscow next week to discuss a potential meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin and his bride garcia breaks down for us. well it was all rumors up to this point but n

anti-alliance/pro-alliance. you don't have that anymore. and all you see is opposition try to pick on an issue on basically they're not having a policy contest. they are picking up on the way that because they don't like the certain way that his cabinet minister answered the questions or, you know, some senior government official came into the hearing and their attitudes were bad, they were picking on those things. so they've completely given up on playing an essential -- presenting an alternative. but japanese economy has actually slowed quite a bit in the first quarter. and april numbers not really great. so now there is this concern that if the economic indicators hasn't -- won't improve by the end of the second quarter there are a lot of people that are out there saying japan re-entering a recession? and that's the last thing abe needs. to stay in power and stay as a politically strong leader. so those are big, big two constraints that abe is going up against. as he lands tomorrow or thursday morning, i'm not sure the official party's s

alliance without an enemy? it is a new concept in foreign relationsh , i do not wantn to be too long because it would i a long conversation and would have to bring answers to what i said, but my basic point today, the relationship is fragile. the foundation is not here anymore and we need to define a common agenda. we do not have a common threat anymore to face. russia is a geopolitical problem, but it is not the ussr. why ahave a question, strong transatlantic relationship, to do what? very basic questions and i do not believe we are really able to answer these questions. i am ready to answer all of your questions, please. [applause] thank you very much for a provocative way of opening up conveation. as mentioned, you ani were speaking beforehand about the they were a huge changes on the international landscape as we enter the rise of new global powers like china, the information and technology revolutionchanges to the system.conomic changes we would have to come to grips with. but there are equally significan

and the president is, right now, taking a sledge hammer to that alliance in numerous ways. and the last point is, whatever his motivation, when you've put together the idea that he is asking russia to be part of the g7 again and that he is splintering the western alliance, that is precisely what vladimir putin wants to happen so it raises the question of why is he doing what vladimir putin wants? >> that's interesting, john. as you're saying that, mark warner, senator, tweets one simple tweet russia is not our friend your points about historical alliances are even more potent because this week was the anniversary, 74th anniversary of d-day, which points to exactly what you're saying but then why is there ammunition in the president's argument that the tariffs that have come out of europe, specifically since they joined together in the eu, are expensive? they're expensive for us and they hurt u.s. trade. >> tariffs do hurt trade and they're going to hurt us in two ways the tariffs we place on steel and aluminum and other goods is going to raise the price for people who consu

but most impressive of all has been his deep commitment to the transatlantic alliance. as a partnership which has played such an essential role in our shared success over many years, a partnership which has been at the core i think of the success of international order over the course of the last 70 years and a partnership which is under president challenge today in the wake of the american decision to pull out of the paris climate treaty, the iran nuclear agreement and in the wake of this past weekend g7 summit. so even as so many eyes are focused quite understand the on the promise of the singapore summit between president trump and kim jong-un it's critical to focus on the even more fundamental structural challenges before us and in particular the future of the transatlantic alliance which existed before his been so essential to the 70 years of international order that we tried to build together and so such a to the task before us of trying to adapt international order to fit changing international circumstances. so look for the very much to his opening reflections a

the union between a buddies the victory alliance inside their siren which won the largest number of seats will cross it tearing an ethnic divisions potentially owes the top stories talk to al-jazeera is next but there will be much more news coming out from doha after that in about twenty five minutes time stay with us. on june twenty fourth turkish citizens will vote in one of their most significant elections in recent years the winner will tank on new sweeping presidential powers approved in a referendum last year we'll have full coverage of the vote and its impact. of the turkey in action on al-jazeera. you can all. see. this weekend's elections in turkey millions of people go to the polls to elect the president and the new parliament it's the first time since the referendum last year when the people approved a new constitution giving more power to the presidency. today on talk to al-jazeera we discuss what president aerator going to hopes to achieve if he wins a new term in a conversation with the spokes person. but first another contender for the presidency the leader of the sad

the northern alliance exploited the resulting calles and the taliban regime unraveled. on the twentieth of november two thousand and one the capital city of kabul failed. with us backing canid karzai was inaugurated as president his brother had been working for unocal and because i was well acquainted with the pipeline plans. soon after nine eleven a couple of moms suddenly we feared that's goldman's from the region got together and basically decided to revive the project. that means that even without knowing the fate of. terms of stability all these countries at come to the same conclusion they had reached before nine eleven the spy plane was crucial that. the interests. after years of war there is still no pipeline the taliban is back in strength and reluctant to negotiate about peace. they cost the kind of on a government brought to a new going to mean that the title of democracy in the human rights meant dave did not bring peace to afghanistan the insurgency against paygo have been installed by the international community is still going on. that. the war against the

midterms and devise alliances.tern ideals and democratic norms. >>> talk about the conundrum for men like d.n.i. coates with someone as jeremy bash said, attracted to moscow. >> russia hasn't been subtle in its actions, right? and they didn't like the encroachment of nato on its borders. they didn't like protest of ukraine friendly to . they developed this information warfare capability they first used in ukraine, social media bots, creating fake news. >> they all follow me on twitter now. >> my they brought it to the united states. why would putin do this? does he want sanctions relief? he wants what we just saw at the g7. that's the return on their investment. >> an american president talking about adding him back to the g7, make it the g8. >> the division with the allies. donald trump has done what russia couldn't do for decades, which is divide the transatlantic alliance, united states and our closest allies in the world. if you're someone like dan coates and you're coming to work trying to do your job, you kno

alliance know the presence of nato forces in eastern europe the buildup of nato bases rights of all in the southern as well as the western border of the russian federation this is a very dangerous game i think in its who will survive on the balance because for the united states the nato expansion to virtuous arone the russian federation has been very important and the been nato presence has been built on russia's borders so for that at least they're going to they want to keep nato up and ahead of the nato summit another crucial meeting may take place the white house has announced that u.s. national security advisor john bolton will travel to moscow next week to discuss a potential meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin are his but i've got to break down the story for us. well it was all rumors up to this point but now john bolton has confirmed that he will be coming over to europe first perhaps symbolically to meet with european allies nato allies organizing the summit next month but then he'll be traveling to moscow now this is john bolton we're talking about one of the mo

but on the whole, that alliance was strengthened. that g7 alliance was strengthened as president trump involved himself and devoted himself to the process. that is a good thing. they should have said to him god speed, you are negotiating with this crazy nuclear tyrant and we are behind you. that is what -- >> the only point i'll make, i talk to a lot of canadian and european skin ldiplomats in the year and i think that they would be surprised that the trump white house would be offended at barbs being made by justin trudeau given all the ones that president trump has made about canada and europe for the year and a half of his presidency. >> after you sign an agreement? >> no, not immediately after. so the timing is important. >> really? and by the way the other thing is, i don't want to lose this point, the american economy is really growing rapidly. we are the fastest growing g7 economy right now. we've cut taxes. we've pushed back regulations. here is the president being frankly the strongest trade reformer in the past two decades

-korea alliance. these personal connections began even before i was born, as my father was a sailer who fought in world war ii, in the korean war, and helped teach korean sailors. the personal connections started during her first year of duty when she accompanied her boss to seoul on several occasions. these experiences afforded us lasting friendships and a deep appreciation of korean culture and history, and to the united states. everywhere i travel, whether on ships, in jungles or the embassies, i saw firsthand the dedication and hard work of men and women committed to make our nation and the world a better place. along the way i was reminded again and again of the tremendous diversity of our great county. if confirmed, i will carry with me those many voices oerica, along with an abiding commitment to strengthen the sheer values that lie at the heart of our relationship with the republican -- republic of korea. i am acutely aware our relationship with korea is not one dimensional. economically korea

-korea alliance. these connections began before i was born. my father was a sailor who fought in world war ii and the korean war and taught sailors. it inspired me to a career in the navy. her first tour of duty she accompanied her boss to seoul on several occasions. these afforded us lasting friendships and a deeper appreciation of korean culture and history, with their profound states. to the united i saw firsthand the dedication and hard work of men and women committed to making our nation and world better place. i was reminded of the tremendous diversity of our great country. if confirmed, i will carry those voices and a commitment. korea is our sixth largest trading partner. the four director of investment is the second-largest asian source of investment in the united states. korea has shown its willingness to work with the u.s. to ensure free, fair, and reciprocal trade. our countries enjoyed $154 billion trading relationship. deep.s. and korea shared people to people ties and as good as their economic relationship is, we can do better.

to be a combination of alliances and coalitions and you want to be able to or. to form a government because a. big part of this was. into a very large. it's probably inevitable that there will be your mind says between. three or four largest. the league of the future but so it's not it's the leaders are pros ok but looked at us had already announced an alliance with the pro wrongly . unmarry who'd come in second so does this alter that. no not really because there isn't much substance to these alliances between speech marks anyway i'm all they all they're declaring each other when you perform you know lines in order to participate in the future or the government but they're not merging there and agreed to any particular program whether this aligns with the previous one written one substance yet all it's really just establishing is that these parties and coalitions or going to work together with a view to forming a government would also establish that isn't this something we could have predicted a long time ago is that there won't be much substance and future gov

alliance the pool with pro america alliance but we started to see these differences appear on the jordan position especially on jerusalem the ultimate position we have seen actually the. saudi and the investment in jerusalem. the last three years actually the saudi subsidy of one hundred million one hundred eighty million dollars were not for jordan and there is also what's called the only grant from saudi arabia that also jordan used to receive in the past has not been busy you've either saw the jordan not subscribing to this altima deal or lion story ship the politics of the region and provides in jerusalem has definitely caused jordan you know this issue that's why i call it the impacts the jordan is a players playing for the moment ok before i bring back lamis into the conversation and ask you about you know how the king should be handling this external pressure and also the internal pressure i want to bring back romney quickly from beirut on and particularly this you know if the various reports ought to be believed it would seem that jordan's role as an interlocutor between you know

of course one of the world's strongest alliances not strong enough to withstand some tweets from donald trump well in fact he said quite literally a bit later on in that speech that the actions we've seen president trump take over the past year meaning leaving the paris climate treaty renouncing the iraq agreement with the u.s. close allies the recent retraction of the u.s. agreement to the final statement at the g seven seven summit last weekend the direct criticisms of long term partners and allies that all of that adds up to what he called a convulsion with repercussions that will go beyond the trump presidency and he basically is saying that all of these actions are undermining the multilateral rules based order the very principle of the idea that the problems in the world the

alliance in our party it's called civil contract and the party alliance is called all the way out alliance speaking of the alliance right now we're discussing it's future that's for the party it's definitely going to develop regardless of what happens to the alliance so the party will develop as for the alliance it's something we're negotiating now and will arrive at a decision into time. on june the first you said on facebook that those who set off an artificial price hike for basic foods and want to assert the rule of law listeners over the rule of law will feel the full weight of a lot who were you referring to and what do you mean by saying they will feel the full weight of the law i meant exactly what you just said the context being that we became aware of some illegal activity by a number of supermarkets in europe than they simple taney asli raised prices for some products and it looked like a kind of sabotage and so i reacted by saying we were ready to take action to restore justice in this area that's what it was about in the end these supermarkets had to pay quite a high fine beca

part on its alliance.ve alliances around the world that permit us to leverage our economic strength, military strength, diplomatic strength. those alliances are extremely important. they take care in feeding. we need to do a better job of caring for them and feeding. david: on the iranian agreement, would you have done the deal that was done under president obama? would you have pulled out as president trump? james: i don't think we should have gotten into that negotiation to begin with. i think it was a mistake. if sanctions were beginning to bite iran, and i think if we were going to get into negotiations with iran, we should not have done it just on nuclear. we should have done it on nuclear and their support of terror in the region and gotten some promise on that. david: in your time as secretary of state, who was the one or two most impressive people you met outside of the united states is -- as foreign leaders. james: i dealt with outstanding leaders. i think of gorbachev, thatcher, a wonderful forme

to the alliance of akbar t. and m h b is the could call it as the governing coalition. then the governing coalition will be having a majority a clean slate majority of perhaps up to sixty to eighty m.p.'s ok and although i don't lie and many line of argument you have to join me at that from istanbul. now iraq's prime minister heard all about he and clerics. are entering into a political alliance which they say will cast across sectarian and ethnic divisions such as siren party won the largest number of seats then disputed election in may about his victory alliance was heard leaders say they're open to other parties joining them. we have notes across sectarian cross ethnic alliance to speed up forming the next government a strong new government that serves the interests of the regions of the iraqi people and how do you see. how the. coalition and other political parties to join us we call for a high level meeting with all of the political blocs to rid the country of its current crisis. he was president donald tru

the global access of washington in european capitals to break that link, get rid of the atlantic alliance that has existed since the end of world war ii and reorient it from moscow from the european capitals to washington. host: you write, "once kgb, always kgb." tell the viewers about your expertise. guest: i come from the naval intelligence world, signals intelligence. i was a cryptologist. i was a specialist in the middle east. you are a specialist in the middle east, what you know about russia? backrted in the cold war, in the early 1980's when russia was a barrel it threat -- zero lead threat -- viralent threat. working the middle east, the russians were everywhere. kgb were everywhere. the matter where we stopped, no matter what we did, we were briefed on how they did the collection operations, where should you expect to see them, how to they carry out broad scale intelligence operations. when you get out in the field you see it. host: even reroute -- guest: a men's bathroom in naples. a small cafe. they look for where the americans were in the position assets out there. many of the

alliance the pool with pro america alliance but we started to see these differences appear on the jordan position especially on jerusalem the ultimate deal position we have seen actually the. saudi and the investment in jerusalem. the last three years actually the saudis subsidy of one hundred million one hundred eighty million dollars were not for jordan and there is also what's called the oil a grant from saudi arabia that also jordan used to receive in the past has not been busy you've either saw the jordan not subscribing to this altima deal or lion story ship the politics of the region and provides in jerusalem has definitely caused jordan you know this issue and that's why i call it the impacts the jordan is a players playing for the moment ok before i bring back lomis into the conversation and ask you about you know how the king should be handling this external pressure and also the internal pressure i want to bring back romney quickly from beirut on and particularly this you know if the various reports ought to be believed it would seem that jordan's role as an interlocutor betwe

this is not a defensive alliance anymore it's very much an offensive alliance particularly in regards to the russian federation because of that expansion i roamed russia's russian federation's borders the possibility of ukraine joining nato it's effectively part of that align our alliance know the presence of nato forces in eastern europe the buildup of nato b.c.'s right on the southern as well as the western border of the russian federation this is a very dangerous game i think we need to will survive on the balance because for the united states nato expansion to virtuous around the russian federation has been very important and the been nato presence has been built on russia's borders so for that at least they're going to be want to keep nato up and ahead of the nato summit another crucial meeting may take place the white house has announced that u.s. national security advisor john bolton will travel to moscow next week to discuss a potential meeting between donald trump and flatterer putin or at gas death breaks down the story. well it was all rumors up to this point but now john b

the northern alliance exploited the resulting calles and the taliban regime unravel . on the twentieth of november two thousand and one the capital city of kabul failed. with us backing ahmed karzai was inaugurated as president his brother had been working for unocal and because i was well acquainted with the pipeline plan it was. soon after nine eleven in a couple of months suddenly we hear that's governments from the region got together and basically decided to revive the project. that means that even without knowing the fate of guns that turns the stability all these countries i've come to the same conclusion they had reached before nine eleven the spy plane was crucial that. the interests. after years of war there is still no pipeline the taliban is back in strength and reluctant to negotiate about peace. they cost the kind of on a government brought to a new going to mean to the title of democracy and they can well i just meant dave did not bring peace to afghanistan the insurgency against people have been installed by the international community is to go into. th

what is it that's made you peel away from the alliance in these upcoming elections well we looked puta away from them they peeled away they left us they left the principal all at about khan and thought that a new course for themselves the pris principle a completely different we got a lot of importance for example do and ethical values and second to be given a lot of importance to economical and tectonic development at the. we have a different dignified foreign policy what we call and we try to establish an islamic union as well now they had left all these goals they said that no we are going to join european union european union is our ideal set up and that value is important for us and second day accepted the united states and israel that at that age it partners and thirdly they decided to add up the capitalist system whole without thinking about the actual development of technology and industry in our country so you say there is no common ground between you and our party but you are now in collaboration with the c.h.p. for the parliamentary elections what. is there where is the comm

s political orientation and shifting values could have an impact on the strength of the alliance and the key point of contention between washington and its partners over trade attitudes towards climate change and the future of the iran nuclear deal but despite the divisions political analyst chris bambery told us he thinks the role that nato plays will ensure it survives this is not a defensive alliance anymore it's very much an offensive alliance particularly in regards to the russian federation because of that expansion i roamed russia's russian federation's borders the possibility of ukraine joining nato as effectively part of that align alliance know the presence of nato forces in eastern europe the buildup of nato bases right along the southern as well as the western border of the russian federation this is a very dangerous game i think nato will survive on balance because for the united states nato expansion to virtuous arone the russian federation has been very important and the been nato presence has been built up in russia's borders so for that at least they're going to be w

the alliances of the us with these countries are ironclad. all three of us countries are ironclad.developed a close friendship and will co—ordinate with respect to north korea as we move forward. president trump has also made it clear that there is a bright future for north korea and its people. he outlined a vision beautifully here when he spoke at the national assembly last november. we envision is strong, connected, secure and prosperous north korea that is fully integrated into the community of nations. kim jong—un indicated that he shared that vision. we are eager to see him take the next steps to achieve it because the united states is ready for a new chapter in our history. first of all, i would like to express my gratitude for whole sting this trilateral meeting immediately after the first north korea summit in singapore. this is the first trilateral meeting since mike pompeo assumed the current position. we are pleased to welcome the secretary to join us. i would like to thank the secretary for a brief summit meeting where the chairman committed to the complete denuclearis

is willing to mix it up and these alliances are strong and so i think in the end you will see these alliancest will weather this storm, they will cooperate and play ball with donald trump and we will have stronger alliances by the end of his first term if he does have a second. >> he doesn't tend toward politically correct speech. let's look at the tweets you were mentioning that he talked about, one about the unfair trade. we can pull that up and you mentioned he talks about how we need to fix that and it would benefit us, you can see it right there. >> i appreciate the fact, i chuckle when i see the sweets. a lot of people get really upset and works up and think these alliances are going to be ruined and i think that is nonsense, donald trump, these alliances are strong, he -- there is space to push back and say these alliances are strong and i want a better trade deal for americans because i'm here to represent them. i'm not here to represent you. the american people can appreciate that. >> is forcing action on the part of everyone when he puts tweets out like this and lets people know wha

even more so if that alliance happens do you feel like. we will see some of the breaking away completely from washington no i was just coming to that but i'm glad you interrupted me which is that none of this is directed against a third country not just washington there are many of the stakeholders in. all what we're doing is for our own good if you if somebody can come and convince me that you are adding thousand megawatts of power right by building a dam and that will that has some will to motive against c o neighboring countries be it india. etc. i would be the first to say that's not the case so if i'm getting better roads better infrastructure better connectivity better digitise asian there's nothing technocrat of geopolitical about it is simply your friends want you to be more stable more strong and that's how you get alliances not alliances in a formal way sometimes they're asked to choose me i said well or ill to someone i know they're also selling their goods. all of lot of the it is tied usaid. they this material to you and frank