hello and welcome across the uk i'm peter lavelle mali a country in chaos and it's only getting worse as molly's neighbors decide on some form of intervention to restore order and take on the spread of religious fundamentalism there's always the possibility of unintended consequences when africa intervention into mali inevitably opened the door to a western style receiving change and with this just make things even worse. you can. start. to cross-talk the mali crisis i'm joined by brooke spector in johannesburg he's an associate editor of the daily maverick and retired american diplomat in london we have aja johnson he is a director at viewpoint africa and an award winning journalist and in geneva we cross to alexander both arrive there he is a professor and director of the international relations department at webster university all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in and.

follow in welcome to cross tab and peter lavelle again we are told the global economy risk getting back into recession just three years after pulling out of the previous one growth is slowing in nearly every major country and political uncertainties threaten recoveries in the u.s. and the eurozone and any lessons been learned since the last financial crisis. came. to cross-talk the future of the global economy i'm joined by. in london he is the director of the whole international and in chicago we cross to chris he's an adjunct assistant professor at the school of the art institute of chicago there are gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect and that means you can jump anytime you want and we go to london first what do you think about the i.m.f. had to say because i read the language and they're real he worried here this is not just a bump in the road this is very serious so for a lot of people in the.

ride those business updates on the way it's peter lavelle's crosstalk. if you're passing through rushes to the region you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoiled countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the learned and enterprising locals so the fruits of the forest by the side of nearly every road. such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunt is. going on he has been hunting for more than thirty years and works for a company providing expeditions for tourists this season ducks are on the menu of. things that successful that kind of. a bubble silence which means that i need to be very quiet i'm not going to write in the. office. but when you've been in the business as long as he has the birds don't stand much chance. there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive but environmentalists are fighting back the hear

a low in welcome across uk i'm peter lavelle syria a civil war within and the deadly reality of seeing this conflict spill over into the entire region because much of the blame for the current situation lay with corn .

hello and welcome to on the money where the business of russia is business i'm peter lavelle lots of news coming out of russia's oil patch a bumpy road for global oil prices and scaling down russia's g.d.p. forecast plus why one of the world's most prominent investors has finally decided to jump into the russian market. to discuss this i'm joined by yet a slightly savalas he's the chief economist at deutsche bank and ben eris he's the editor in chief of business new europe ok gentlemen let's start with our new segment cover your mark or i'd first list is oil prices then where they go in hundred dollars and stay there for for the foreseeable future foreseeable future i see it that. this year and next year as well ok eurozone is in deep trouble and it's going to stay there for several years to come kicking the can down the road they keep kicking the can you know they need to fix it reform structural reforms dealing with it but at the same time they need to spur but of course. it's a very nasty balance between i think continued problems in the periphery the only hope is that they progre

them and supplying arms and how relations between the two are teetering on the brink of war in peter lavelle's cross talk that's coming up later this hour here on r.t. . to. the title of world's biggest listed all producer could soon be held by a new company russia's state owned last nifty is looking to seal a multi-billion dollar mega deal with british russian joint venture t.n. k b p r t sarah firth has the details from london. if this thing. have become the second biggest agreement in the history of oil businesses at this point to get britain based p.p.c. fifty percent stake in ten k. b.p. russia's biggest oil pretty said is an equal also is also being made to the full russian billionaires who own the other half of that t.i.n.k. b.p. asset the whole deal will come in at a whopping sixty billion dollars and it will make ross neff the world's biggest oil producer making it an incredibly dominant player of the russian located it would be said then to be able to see some of its plans in the. arctic exploration and the like now in the last days there's been a scandal brewing well one of the piec

alone in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle to meet us what kind of foreign policy could the world expect from a romney administration his supporters claim he would restore america's honor and standing in the world critics retort his rhetoric in world view are remarkably close to that of george w. bush and there are those who see romney is no different from barack obama. to cross-talk the world of mitt i'm joined by and shell pfeffer in london he is a journalist and columnist for her outs in washington we have penny lee she is a political communications and government relations strategist and president of bennett strategies and in las vegas we cross to wayne root he is a political commentator and author of the conscience of a libertarian empowering the citizen revolution with god guns gold and tax cuts right cross talk rules and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want when i always go to the first person i got up for the program so i'm going to go to you first is what is make romney just a bush retread when it comes to foreign policy. well you know i'll give you a discl

some fired up debate of our own in cross talk later this hour peter lavelle and his guests look at just how different the candidates and their agendas really are. if romney wins if the republicans win the white house they will also probably keep the majority in the howards wins a majority in the senate and if the republicans control all the important political positions the white house the senate and see how it's then you will see a huge difference america has a huge depth and the next four years will be about who pays for that and i can tell you it will be a huge difference was obama controls the white house or mitt romney control going to jump in but i think it misses the point he the fact is that you know you need the have any ideological debate to some degree during the campaign but when it comes to actually governing it's the same old story obama said lots of things during his campaign in any renounced virtually all of them when he became president and that's what you can expect with mitt romney romney's god five positions on every single issue he's jumped forward in back. lebanon'

follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle syria ablaze as the world faces off supporting different sides fighting the syrian civil war rebel groups within the country struggle to unify can the syria we know today survive and is the future of this divided country now in the hands of outsiders. and.

a low in welcome across the uk i'm peter lavelle debating the debate the first direct encounter between president barack obama and republican challenger mitt romney left the incumbent looking like road kill what is behind obama's failure and does it really matter. if you started. to cross talk the first us presidential debate i'm joined by rachel mars today in paris she's a.

welcome back to cross talk i'm peter lavelle to mind you were talking about what we call the euro split. and it. started. going to what one would in a situation where let's say the boss and win an election a referendum and leave spain and spanish central authorities say we will let you into the european union that's not very nice is that i mean self-determination there and what my point is in the european union today is self-determination over it's done. well you have two big trends you have the globalization where china plays a big role of all the brics brazil russia india and of course china and the european countries can only compete if they fit into a big block that's the european union with five hundred inhabitants of this big market on the other hand the trend is regionalization and i see no contradiction in having a europe of the regions with less influence of the nation states strong influence of the regions but a very very. aspect of what you're also saying is that your identity is european if you like it or not that's what the logic dictates yes there are a lot of european pat

a low in welcome across stark i'm peter lavelle syria a civil war within and the deadly reality of seeing this conflict spill over into the entire region because much of the blame for the current situation lay with foreign countries seeing an opportunity to liberate an enemy in damascus if so what are the unintended consequences. if. not the syria turkey tinderbox i'm joined by mark ohman in london he is a modern history lecturer at the university of oxford also in london we have a wood or he is an expert on turkey and an associate fellow at chapman house and in tampa we cross to my geographic day he is an iranian syrian expert and visiting scholar at the university of california santa barbara ok mark if i go to you first in london we're told from turkey the worst case scenario is being played out that of course that means war between the two countries how close are we to that or is that just rhetoric right now. well i think when you can say it's the worst as we know from shakespeare the world has not yet been freed i think things could get a great deal worse the illusion is perhaps that

blowing in welcome across talk on peter lavelle when is the end really the end of the strategy of the u.s. led mission in afghanistan is in a shambles green on blue attacks against coalition forces speaks volumes on how many afghans feel about the continued occupation of their country by western troops isn't it time to negotiate with the taliban and end this military adventure. and. to cross-talk the u.s. mission in afghanistan i'm joined by michael maloof in washington he's a senior reporter for the world that. daily and a former analyst for the defense department also in washington we have made my g.d.r. he is a senior research associate at the american enterprise institute and in beirut we cross to michael black and he is a freelance journalist or a gentleman cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i've made in washington you wrote recently at c.n.n. u.s. faces growing green on blue challenge what's the thesis of your article please explain it to my audience. of course we've seen dramatic rise in green on blue attacks in afghanistan which has eroded t

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hello and welcome in rostock i'm peter lavelle syria ablaze as the world faces off supporting different sides fighting the syrian civil war rebel groups within the country struggle to unify can the syria we know today survive and is the future of this divided country now in the hands of outsiders. to cross-talk the syrian inferno i'm joined by flynt leverett in washington he's a professor of international relations at penn state university in new york we have meyer javedanfar he is a middle east analyst and lecturer at the interdisciplinary center in herts libya and in beirut we crossed a name salam he is an associate professor and co-founder of the faculty of international affairs and diplomacy at notre dame university lebannon are a gentleman cross talk rules and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want i very much encourage it there is talk of some kind of ceasefire going on among the stakeholders in the region around syria including in syria what are your feelings as a negotiated end to this conflict still possible because looks like a lot of people are digging their heel

follow and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle to debate that well really didn't happen candidates barack obama and mitt romney revealed that little major differ.

welcome back to cross talk i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing if the global economy is getting back into recession. ok martin i want to go back to you in hong kong and i'm at the end of the first part of the program you mentioned something very important about how the emerging market world is reacting to all this i live in russia it's one of the interesting things has been added on since two thousand and nine ten is that as russia's reform project continues it's always worried about external risks and it's really taking its toll. yeah obviously you know russia guy thanks for the a lot to the eurozone so bad that is certainly a risk and they are doing well at looking more at diversifying towards asia and trading morgan. but generally speaking we always see things from an investor's perspective as we underestimate advisors and we actually saying that's the russian equity market and russian companies are very good while even accounting for those risks of exposed to the euro zone and some things really they would still need even if the economy isn't isn't going necessarily

follow in welcome the cross talk i'm peter lavelle the debate that well really didn't happen candidatesbarack obama and mitt romney revealed that little major difference between the two in their approaches to security and foreign affairs many claim obama won this third in last debate however it is not at all clear if romney actually lost is there any public debate left when it comes to american foreign policy. and. stared. across the u.s. presidential debate i'm joined by my guest in new york why he is a partner at democratic spring strategies micah halpern he is a columnist and a social and political commentator and.

cross talk also focuses on austerity later today peter lavelle's guess question just what the word really means. it's funny you know that whole term austerity is not one i like very much because it has all these punitive connotations as opposed to what it really means which is that we need fiscal policies that make sense and by making sense you can't spend more than you take in for very long everybody with common sense knows this now they're calling it austerity like like all of us have done something wrong and well now you're going to get it and so either you either want austerity or you want the other thing which is to continue the impossible for us austerity it's terribly austere people are suffering terribly there was you know peter at the stockholm school of economics and some time with my visiting appointment there and in that country we've seen upwards of ten percent of the people have to leave in this massive biblical like exodus i mean it's just absolutely terrible crushing and regarding the unsustainability of the system well yes true it is unsustainable but not for the reasons

first property tax targeting overseas buyers right we'll get over that because you go all tees up peter lavelle asking his guests whether economic hardships are fueling separatist aspirations in the view as they find out how much of a union it really is. do we speak your language with any form of the will or not to do. with these programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you. that will turn it into angles to the story. here. troy or to spanish find out more visit actuality. dot com. what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage walking the tightrope pushing china and russia as occupy anger spreads the two parties still dictate the will of their children the selection of clothes guys every monday to november fifth on artsy. wealthy british style. that's not on the tireless. market why not come to find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. evening news. to. see. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you unders

follow in welcome to crosstalk i'm peter lavelle to debate that well really didn't happen candidates barack obama and mitt romney revealed a little major difference between the two in their approaches to security in foreign affairs many claim obama won this third in last debate however it is not at all clear if romney actually lost is there any public debate left when it comes to american foreign policy. taken. across the u.s. presidential debate i'm joined by my guest in new york why he is a partner at democratic spring strategies micah halpern he is a columnist and a social and political commentator and george samuel he is a journalist foreign policy analyst and a fellow at the global policy institute of london metropolitan university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that you know means you can jump in anytime you want mike if i go to you and in new york all of you were in new york today. who came out with a vision at the last presidential debate which candidate had a vision. but some of the one has to realize that the american political debate is more of a game than i

a low and welcome to crossfire time peter lavelle from the arab spring to the arab winter where does this great liberation project stand in the arab middle east and where's it going are the forces of reaction including the western powers again in control of the pace of political change and is it inevitable that we will have to accept the idea of islamic democracy. can you. please. to cross out the winds of change i'm joined by used in washington he's a research director at the such a foundation in berkeley we have shapiro he is a freelance journalist and contributor to salon dot com and in london we crossed to naseem oxman he is a senior researcher at the palestine return center all right gentlemen crosstalk rosen effect you can jump anytime you want and that seem if i can go with go to you first i mean where is the arab spring going we're literally in the fall right now is there a winter approaching for the arab spring. i think so far. nothing settled at the moment the dust from the arab spring which started three years ago has not totally settled but having said that there are many

got a facebook isn't our only look far to thank you dimitri charlie peter lavelle in his gas crawl style whether we're going to see an arab winter. the. line. would be soon which brightened if you knew about sun move from phones to freshen some of. his food stocks on t.v. dot com. there are those who desperately need it to survive. misspoken is the time to give money to on lookout to follow on goldman the fish out on the suppresses the prize the rights of the two for. new clothes and. those who don't get their share of the trades. by downloading gobs forty cultivates new old dos but look the one not us that people need to know about it i mean not look at it it from the company from. those who suck it out to prosper. inside the seas instead. of you know. it's. nice licensed and. no one can live without it's in one of the largest blood banks in the world. blood of nigeria. on our t.v. . and you can. stand. alone and welcome to crossfire but i'm curious about from the arab spring to the arab winter where does this great liberation project stand in the arab middle east and where's it going a

follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle mali a country in chaos and it's only getting worse as molly's neighbors decide on some form of intervention to restore order and take on the spread of religious fundamentalism there's always the possibility of unintended consequences when african intervention into mali and everybody open the door to a western style regime change and with this just make things even worse. if you. start. to cross-talk the mali crisis i'm joined by brooke spector in johannesburg he's an associate editor of the daily maverick and retired american diplomat in london we have aja johnson he is a director at view.

follow in welcome across talk i'm peter lavelle syria a civil war within and the deadly reality of seeing this conflict spill over into the entire. the region does much of the blame for the current situation lay with foreign countries seeing an opportunity to liberate an enemy in damascus if so what are the unintended consequences. if. not the syria turkey tinderbox i'm joined by mark and in london he is a modern history lecturer at the university of oxford also in london we have id he is an expert on turkey and an associate fellow at chapman house and in tampa we cross to my geographic day he is an iranian syrian expert and visiting scholar at the university of california santa barbara ok mark if i go to you first in london.

and just in a few minutes peter lavelle and his guests discuss the rise of separatism and pro independence movements in europe coming up. what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage walking the round tightrope pushing china and russia as occupy anger spreads the two parties still dictate rules there for. this election a close god every never fear. lead mission and free cretaceous three terms for charges free. range month free risk free studio time free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects for free media. dot com. please please. more news today. again fled uplands these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are the day please. play. live. soon which brightened. from the silence to christians. whose flames don't totty don't come. cheap if you. start. into. the low end welcome to cross talk on people about how much of a union is a growing separatist movements in europe challenge many conventional wisdoms about globalization the nature of state sovereignty and self-determination are we entering a n

follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the debate that well really didn't happen candidates barack obama and mitt romney revealed little major difference between the two in their approaches to security in foreign affairs many claim obama won this third in last debate however it is not at all clear if romney actually lost is there any public debate left when it comes to american foreign policy.

a low in welcome across talk on peter lavelle when is the end really the end strategy of the u.s. led mission in afghanistan is in a shambles green on blue attacks against coalition forces speak volumes on how many afghans feel about the continued occupation of their country by western troops isn't it time to negotiate with the taliban and end this military adventure. to cross-talk the u.s. mission in afghanistan i'm joined by michael maloof in washington he's a senior reporter for the world net daily and a former analyst for the defense department also in washington we have augmented my g d r he is a senior researcher so.

player hello and welcome to on the money where the business of russia is business i'm peter lavelle lots of news coming out of russia's oil patch a bumpy road for global oil prices and scaling down russia's g.d.p. forecast plus why one of the world's most prominent investors has finally decided to jump into the russian market. place to discuss this i'm joined by yet a softy savalas he's the chief economist at deutsche bank and ben eris he's the editor in chief of business new europe ok gentlemen let's start with our new segment.

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a low in welcome across town peter lavelle debating the debate the first direct encounter between president barack obama and republican challenger mitt romney left the incumbent looking like road kill what is behind obama's failure and does it really matter. to crosstalk the first us presidential debate i'm joined by rachel mars today in paris she's a political communications strategist and sidney cade a columnist in washington we have nile standage he is a staff writer for the hill and in london we crossed to david nicholson he is a london based freelance journalist right folks cross talk rose and if i mean you can jump in anytime one rachel what in the world happened last night why why did obama really bomb. and there you just had to relieve the office it's interesting however when saying the bar really low for each of their candidates both campaigns were the word got out that apparently mitt romney was had a really bad night sleep in a hotel because a train whistle kept going off they stayed in some kind of hotel that was near set a train tracks and the whistle kept going off so they wer

it's peter lavelle at this crosstalk. well. science technology innovation all the most developments from around russia we've got this huge earth covered. culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money coming to but i seriously am a real mystery and again we are told the global economy wrists getting back into recession just three years after pulling out of the previous growth is slowing in. motion would be soon which brightened the food bounce comes from feinstein's pressure in some of. these firms down totty don't come. i'm in sochi the latest city in europe on a host of the twenty forty in which are the biggest. subsidy. thank you. saatchi. thank you for the. way a. dog days of. pride days it. takes to calm. the. sudsy it's so true. the gold fever. turns thousands into slaves. much problems but also among brotherhood involved in the monsoon and since i started working in amman i studied . the most. i think that in this country. as an environmental cost which is unacceptable local business news lately that's controlled by cri

a low in welcome across peter lavelle living in a turbulent and dangerous neighborhood and this is long been lebanon's fate the assassination of the country's top security official and the political fallout that has followed again reveals just how fragile this country is with those powers in forces determined to see the end of assad in syria will be destroyed lebanon in the process. to cross-talk lebanese mayhem i'm joined by claude saw me in beirut he is a journalist author and political analyst specializing in middle east politics also in beirut we have omar now xabi he is the director of the research unit and in washington we cross to gareth porter he's an investigative historian and journalist or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want gareth if i go to you first in washington everyone knows lebanon is a very fragile country so in whose interest the most this time around is there to see into instability in the country. well that question of course is is not easy and say no and i would preface my own answer to that by saying that very seldom

this hour we will be back in fifty five minutes with an update coming up next after a short break peter lavelle and his guests will discuss whether turkey has the will of the potential to regain the influence whether they had at the heart of the autumn an empire that's in crosstalk or not. if. the kiddies. be shifted. to meet. the folks. for a decade up north almost terrorist attack. ex hostages blot us into their lives and after the tragedy. still gets try to cross out the past. because their future. be written. surviving terrorism ten years on our team. soon which brightened. the sun from fans to christians. who threw stones on team dot com. and you can start. to. flow in welcome to cross talk i'm curious about turkey and its road ahead a little over a year ago turkey was being hailed as the new leader and model for the most one world among many turks the ottoman legacy is again back in vogue my house things have changed instead of focusing on a foreign policy of no problems with its neighbors particularly syria is ankara's foreign policy today in disarray. to teach students. to cross-talk th