lord ricketts and lindy li, - references back to 1944. lord ricketts and lindy li, thank.re key appointments ahead of his return to the white house in january. tom homan will serve as trump's "border tsar", having previously been the returning president's acting director of immigration and customs enforcement. new york congresswoman elise stefanik, has also been made ambassador to the united nations. and, in the last hour, president trump has named lee zeldin to run the environmental protection agency. in a statement the president elect said mr zeldin — a former republican congressman — would work to "to unleash the power of american businesses while maintaining the highest environmental standards". meanwhile, mrtrump's republican party are edging closer to full control of the us congress. they already have a majority in the senate and need to win just a handful of seats to take the house of representatives. our correspondentjessica parker is following the latest from near mar—a—lago in west palm beach florida. as you say, some figures returning from the prior administrati

let's get more now from lord peter ricketts, a former uk national security advisor and former britishlomat. is it within the power once he is back in the white house to impose a deal on ukraine and what could that look like? h0. what could that look like? no, it's not in _ what could that look like? no, it's not in his _ what could that look like? no, it's not in his power _ what could that look like? no, it's not in his power to - what could that look like? iifr, it's not in his power to impose one, but if he does make a proposal, for example any direct contact with vladimir putin over the heads of the ukrainians, that would be very destabilising and divisive and it would present volodymyr zelensky with the big problem. the desire on his part to be a man who ends conflicts that is something that all western states will have to work with. the key thing will be to make sure it is done with ukrainians, not over their heads ignoring their interests. there is a way to involve a negotiated settlement to ensure that the territory taken by russia is not taken by them and ukraine can set its

we do not have the capacity _ joining me tonight are lindy li, us democratic strategist and lord peter ricketts

good to have you with us, lord ricketts, wejust good to have you with us, lord ricketts, we just saw they will also be discussing what donald trump will do and i wanted to bring in some comments we have had from his top advisers, his son, and social media, writing that the military industrial complex seems to want to make sure they get world war seems to want to