and omen is the senior advisers fit atlantic council. he says the us to temporarily relieve most sanctions to help syria and it's reconstruction efforts. syria is in the mid place of a huge crow. ready and among geostrategic issues, russia, israel, turkey, east, and west iran terrorism. it is a mess, rebuilding it, trying to bring back the people so that they are one after the har, as on the side is going to be usually difficult. there are bands of unemployed for by soldiers for a baptist who are going to cause trouble. and so the work is cut out for them. the problem is that syria, which is an important place by itself is a tertiary issue. obviously ukraine is a focus of the united states and the mission, the meeting that president trump had been present zalinski yesterday didn't help things, but they're still the cause, the issue of phase 2. and so how serious get squeezed into among those 2 really larger issues is going to be very, very important. my recommendation is that the united states should kept. ready highly relieved, most of

a non resident fellow at the atlantic council's middle east program director of tucker studies at the on run center for strategic studies in car. oh, it's a heavy yeah. see me, a fellow in geo politics, international security and middle east studies at the role united services institute of defense and security think tank and in the united states in virginia or indeed. and i haven't saw a non resident senior fellow at the foreign policy research institute. here's what laws. the focus is on regional kurdish affairs. a very warm welcome to you. it is a big deal and date the story and actually highly i'd like to start with you for decades of almond struggle for 2000 killed. and now the prospect to piece before we . busy move into the nitty gritty of all this. could you just contextualize as far as just how much of a turning point in history could this be if the p k k and they do laid down their own? thank you for having me on the program. so i'm glad you said good because of course there are multiple possibilities and potentiality is here. but in the event that this does actually leads to

we'll have to leave it a bit fascinating talking to you about all of this holland omen from the atlantic council. thank you for muslims observing the 1st ramadan and serious as the full of the assad regime. the holy mounts is traditionally a time of reflection. prayer and community, but it carries unique significance for syrians this year. while the nation is hopeful for a broad, a future. many a struggling with severe hardship for so stood a report from damascus as as the sun is about to save over the damascus. the world market is bustling shoppers prepared for them of the month for muslims that we'll see is that makes the hopes of resilience. and instead of the this year, the markets are full of goods so much better than last year. you items from different countries enter the syrian market after the regimes collapse. for the 1st time in oversight decades, syrians auto observing drama, then without sandra g. yeah. hi, uh what, so what henry likes to be coming beautiful after the full of a side. the price is too high, but we know the problems of 50 is count. be solved in a day. we hope the new g

and ukraine with joined by michael best, a q a global affairs analyst and senior fellow of the atlantic councils erase has sent up in week clo island, we have scott lucas, who is professor of us and international politics, a university college dublin, and then also live in no way. glen decent is profess of international relations at the university of south east, no way, an associate editor of russia in global affairs. welcome to you will well, we saw something, i think pretty unprecedented. yes, that'd been lots of tough. come the sections before in the oval office, but not one like that played out in front of the cameras. scott, a disastrously bad template summit. would you agree? you're being very tiny with the word tough. let's cut to the chase in terms of what happened and analyze it. this was effectively as long as the landscape following a manual macro, a cure storm, or was seeking a central security guarantees against flushes full scale. indeed, russians attack since 2014. the sign in the middle of the agreement is the 1st stage. i'm not. he was amish like charity batch. i. yeah, we'll pr

he's a former pentagon official and a current fellow at the atlantic council. sc. this seems like it is, you know, in terms of the scenarios for ukraine, this is the worst case scenario. this is a disaster. >> it is. he'll go back to his country a hero. but russia is very, very pleased with how today went. i immediately went to socials to check russian social media and dmitri medvedev was once president of of of russia, still very chummy with with putin said. >> we have this, we have it up, put it up there. >> the insolent pig, meaning volodymyr zelenskyy finally got a proper slap down in the oval office. and real donald trump is right. the kyiv regime is gambling with world war three. so this bootlicking performance in the white house by our public servants, our top public servants, acting like they own the place. this is what it looked like to me. two losers on barstools acting like they own the bar. telling anyone who comes in, you got to go through us first and you got to. you got to give me some flattery first. it was disgusting. this is not diplomacy. this is

we were at the north atlantic council the february recess. they were putting forward the plants needed to defend europe. if we suddenly have to spend more money, will he keep an open mind on that so he can persuade the other leaders they also have to do more? p.m. starmer: i thank him for that. one of the principles i have held in mind over the recent days is making sure what we do is coordinated with nato, as it must be. we are deployed in different countries already. that is why i am in such close contact with the secretary general stoltenberg -- secretary general stoltenberf on a near constant basis. >> i think the prime minister for his -- i think the prime minister for his statements and stamina. as with other members from across the house, i took a trip to ukraine for the third anniversary last week. does he agree with me the scottish government must take action to support businesses in scotland to make sure they can benefit from increased defense spending and continued to contribute? p.m. starmer: i agree with that. the increase in def