to some extent people would say that it has happened here in the united states. you see it in europe, and viktor orban in hungary, there are questions about poland as well. - those who won the cold war believe that their model had triumph and it just turned out that others didn't agree. they liked parts of it, they liked the capitalist part, they liked the trade part, they liked the technology part, they don't necessarily like the democratic part. they may not like the migration part. - i think the biggest rejection of the post world war world order is actually within america itself. - [narrator] the election of president trump came amid a rise of global populism that saw a surge of enthusiasm for far right nationalist leaders. - you take these four things together, economic stagnation, large scale immigration, unmediated social media, and creaky old sclerotic governants and what you have is a recipe for populism on a world stage. - one of the things that has been striking about the last 10 years is the rise of identity politics in the western liberal democratic w

ambassador to the united nations nikki haley's comet there just now that struck me the first is that it's very clear that the united states is making a very hard case for why there needs to be international consensus an international coalition backing any sort of u.s. led military response to the suspected chemical attack and duma so that's the first thing to take away from there the other thing is that what we clearly saw there was a war of words going on between the united states and russia you heard very strong condemnation and language pointing the finger at russia by nikki haley there but you also heard from the russian federation equally strong words accusing the united states of bellicose rhetoric accusing the united states of incitement and provocative behavior well at the same time pointing out that there is no conclusive evidence now we did hear from nikki haley in advance of her going into the chamber there were in fact she said the united states france and the united kingdom all have evidence but her wording was very. critical here because she didn't say there was evidenc

the united states is france's first scientific partner. our economic ties create hundreds of thousands of jobs on both sides of the atlantic. this story of france and the united states is a story of dialogue made of common dreams, of common struggle for dignity and progress. it is the best achievement of our democratic principles and values. this is a very special relationship. his is us. but we must remember the warning of president theodore roosevelt. freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction . we pass it to our children, it must be fought for, protected, handed on for them to do the ame. this is an urgent reminder, indeed, because now, going beyond our bilateral ties, beyond our very special relationship, europe and the united states must face together the global challenges of the century. and we cannot take for granted our history. -- we have to succeed, facing these challenges, and we cannot succeed in forfeiting our principles and our history. in fact, the 21st century has brought a series of new threats and new c

respect between the united states and the russian federation or the european union in russia for that matter both sides don't seem predictably very much predictable particularly the russian side i have to say and rules obviously missing of conduct rules of conduct that have been adhered to during the cold war so in disrespect we are not in the cold war as we had it's but we have a very different situation. i don't know again if you would agree with me but i think there is a very big difference between how russia and the west particularly the united states perceive a war i think in russia there is still a fear or a very a visceral fear off a nuclear confrontation i think russians that is the reason why russians bring out the issue of nuclear deterrence so often to show that they are you know that they want to thwart the development of that scenario but clearly americans don't perceive it as such and so what i want to ask you is how do you think europeans or austrians feel about it do you guys still fear a nuclear winter actually have to say i'm teaching. as you know tina versity and ge

the united states has a lot to offer. history of the world — in syria, the united states, with but a small force being used to eliminate what is left of isis, is doing what is necessary to protect the american people. over the last year nearly 100% of the territory once controlled by the so—called isis caliphate in syria and iraq has been liberated and eliminated. the united states has also rebuilt ourfriendships across the middle east. we have asked our partners to take greater responsibility for securing their home region, including contributing large amounts of money for the resources, equipment and all of the anti—isis effort. increased engagement from ourfriends including saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, egypt and qatar and others, can ensure that iran does not profit from the eradication of isis. america does not seek an indefinite presence in syria. under no circumstances. as other nations step up their contributions, we look forward to the day when we can bring our warriors home. and great warriors they are

i welcome to the program i'm jane docked in france in the united states have a long history that goes back centuries from the american revolutionary war to the statue of liberty the two countries have had strong ties french presidents emanuel mccaw is hoping to build on that special bond jury in his three day state visit to washington d.c. and donald trump has rolled out the red carpet but beyond the handshakes smiles and lavish ceremonies there are serious policy disagreements including the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal which could threaten to put a strain on the special relationship trump says he wants to withdraw from the agreement while france and other european nations are urging him to stick with a deal iran for its part says if the u.s. withdraws it too will likely abandon the agreement or get our guest in a moment but first al-jazeera as kimberly elkins reports from washington d.c. . u.s. president donald trump welcomed french president emmanuel macron to the white house with a state dinner to celebrate the bond between the two nations. what appears to be a warm friendship

believed to be behind the poisoning well actually i need to say that australia has shown solidarity if the united kingdom and if the other members of the european union when declaring the official british position that most likely are russian perpetrator has committed a crime but it has decided not to expel any diplomats and disposed. based on decision not to further of aid to tensions between the european union and the russian federation not going down anymore on. down toward spiral to confrontation a new cold war but to try to do something different to keep up the dialogue with the russian federation despite what has happened in the united kingdom while you said that austria was still taking the u.k. side but i heard a number of austrian officials publicly complain about the pressure on them how how submitted for example your foreign minister karen can they still was on record saying that the british were very very persistent in expressing their displeasure do you think austria may suffer because of this stance they took the solidarity as you said but they very limited solidarity and not the ki

the iphone is very popular in the united states. only 8000 of that actually stays in china. $200 and $300 of that come from other countries. the largest share of profit goes to apple. what we think as a trade problem with china is a trade relation with the world. economists say do not look at a bilateral deficit but look at a multilateral aspect. about the china problem, the u.s. trade deficit problem economists would argue is really a question about savings. america is a net deficit country in terms of savings because of budget deficits because households do not save enough. when that happens, you always have a trade deficit. host: besides your current work, you were the former white house senior director for asian affairs at the national security council for the obama administration. is there a connection between financial issues or security issues? are there concerns from that aspect we should pay attention to? guest: the area in which economic insecurity converge is in the area of perception. do american policymakers, business le

very substantial barriers to the united states trading with nigeria. we think that we are owed that and president buhari has taken steps to fight corruption and improve the nigerian business climate and most of all, to me, ripping down the trade barriers. these measures will make it easier for nigeria and the united states companies to invest and we will be investing substantially in nigeria if they can create a level playing field. i especially want to thank president buhari for the nigerian partnership and leadership in the fight against terrorism. he has been a real leader. nigeria was one of the first african nations to join the coalition to defeat isis. nigerian forces are currently leading regional efforts against isis in west africa. they are doing very well as we have. nigeria is also leading african nations in the fight against boko haram. another ruthless jihadist terrorist group. you have been reading about them. they kidnapped the young girls and young women, many of whom never are seen again. that's tough stuff. this summer was my honor to

the united states, i was talking to john bolton. has never beenes closer to potentially having something happen with respect to the korean peninsula that can get rid of the -- of the nuclear weapons, create so many positive things and peace and safety for the world. i often say who knows? may be a lot of things change. u hasohn then -- kim jong been straightforward so far. research,ing about no no launching of ballistic missiles, no nuclear testing. he has lived up to that for a long period of time. as -- looking at that looking at that as a potential site. if it doesn't work out well, that's the way it goes. >> are you still confident that the summit will happen? >> i think they very much wanted. we would like to see it. personally i think it's going to be a success. success you have to get rid of the nuclear weapons. if it's not a success i will respectfully leave. thank you all, very much. >> why do -- pose a risk to national security? >> wrapping up this briefing with president trump and theria's president, it's first official vi

the united states has a lot to offer. with the greatest and most powerful economy in the history of the world. in syria, the united states, with but a small force being used to eliminate what is left of isis is doing what is necessary to protect the american people. over the last year, nearly 100% of the territory, once controlled by the so-called isis caliphate in syria and iraq has been liberated and eliminated. the united states has also rebuilt our friendships across the middle east. we have asked our partners to take greater responsibility for securing their home region including contributing large amounts of money for the resources, equipment, and all of the anti-isis effort. increased engagement from our friends, including saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, qatar, egypt, and others can ensure that iran does not profit from the eradication of isis. america does not seek an indefinite presence in syria. under no circumstances. as other nations step up their contributions, we look forward to the day when we can br

hard to believe the united states can't. i said, i hope you will tell that caravan not to get up to the border. i think they are doing that. as of 12 minutes ago, it was all being broken up. we will see what happens. but we have to have strong borders. we need the wall. we have started building the wall. we have one billion -- $1 billion toward fixing the wall that is falling down it was never appropriated in the first place. concerned,yria is our primary mission in terms of of isis petting rid have almost completed that task. we will be making a decision quickly. in correlation with others in the area. as to what we will do. saudi arabia, is very interested in our decision. said, you want us to stay, maybe you will have to pay. we do a lot of people in this country. we do them for -- we do them for a lot of reasons. it is very costly for our country. it helps other countries a hell of a lot more than it helps us. we are going to be making a decision. tremendous a military success against isis, as you know. hundred percent as

ambassador to the united nations nikki haley coming down to washington. to continue to consult with high level partners here in the white house campus and eventually it seems that the determination was made that there was enough credible evidence that it was in the u.s. is interest to act in this way in conjunction with france and the united kingdom ok kimberly many thanks for bringing us the view that from the white house can really hold it reporting well as we've been saying the u.s. is saying that all the targets in this operation were linked to the syrian government's alleged chemical weapons program of the first target was a scientific research center in the greater damascus area the pentagon says it was used for the production and testing of chemical and biological warfare technology two more sites were targeted west of homs both of those were chemical weapons storage facilities according to the pentagon one of them was also a military command center the strikes came just under a week after the suspected chemical attack in doomer a suburb on the outs

>> thanks for hosting this event and thanks to all a courl relations, the united states need the ability to absorb a nuclear attack from an enemy, retain enough surviving warheads to retaliate with devastating second strike and once we do that nuclear deterrence will hold. we look at the real world and the united states has never been content with second strike capability, counterforce targeting and capability, why does the united states do what it does and scholars have recognized this gap between theory and the real world and they have said we are going to dismiss the facts and stick with our theory. leading the rest wrote an entire book called the illogic of nuclear strategy, my theory is right, the real world is wrong so i take a different approach and try to explain the roar -- robust nuclear posture. >> what is the theory? you talk about nuclear superior but what do you mean by that. what is the contribution that hadn't been done before that is important to explain what the united states has been doing, and prospectively how we ought to think about it in the future? >> traditional.

without the united states, this is not possible. the vital leadership of the united states. we are behind and with the you -- and with you. the best allies we met in europe in nato is the baltic states. we also are doing our homework. modernizing armies. together, i think we can do a lot. i am very much looking forward to seeing everybody around the table in brussels. and going ahead with a better nato. a more efficient nato. pres. trump: has donald trump made a difference on nato? a risky question. [laughter] pres. trump: if she says he same thing she said in the oval office -- >> i can repeat -- all members of nato, pressure to all political elite, the things that somebody else needs to protect. at first you do homework and then ask for your partner. to come with you. that is what you did. this kind of leadership is good and we are using it. we are using it to influence the opinions in our countries, we need to first investing ourselves. and then the partners. they can't come with us. that's they can come with us. -- they can come with us. pres. trump: nato has taken in bil

russia's envoy to the global chemical weapons watchdog says the united states has produced and paid to the nerve agent know the truck which was allegedly used to poison said again and you'll be a script down. all the news comes as president admits neither it nor the o.p.c. w. can confirm the origin of the nerve agent despite claiming it was highly lightweight. team of experts investigating an alleged chemical attack in duma comes under rebel file while trying to enter the syrian town. though. she's already situation. and in berlin and arabic speaking use his phone to talking to jewish men in the latest and just emitting incidents to cause outrage in germany. the latest on these stories head to our teeth dot com at the top of the hour rory sushi will be here with a full news bulletin but stay with us now for cross talk discussing the powerful figures behind the scenes influencing u.s. foreign policy. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm keen to live well as american foreign policy possess specific d.n.a. it would seem so it doesn't matter who the president is

the united states debates the attack in syria. christian: russia will veto any action against a side, so what's the point? katty: president trump and his generals are not ruling anything out. even a u.s. strike doesn't mean there is a u.s. strategy. >> we are studying the situation closely, meeting with military and everybody else, and we will be making major decisions over the next 24 to 48 hours. katty: mixed messages on a possible trade war with china. it may or may not happen. christian:

nations last september are the one which korver the illegitimates fears of the united states and our allies in the region i think we have to start working now on this for people ours to build this new comprehensive deal. and to be sure that whatever the decision of the united states will be we will not leave the floor to the absence of rule we will not leave the floor to this conflicts of powers in middle east we will not fuel our so those and increasing tensions and part and show war that's my position and i think we can work together to builds this conference is a deal for the whole region for our people because i think it's very addresses our concerns that my position perhaps and these containments i mention and one of the speed on is necessary in yemen in lebanon in iraq and also in syria building a sustainable peace in not in a united and inclusive syria workwise indeed that all powers in the region respect the sovereignty of its people and the diversity of its communities in syria we work very closely together after prohibited weapons were used against the population by the reg

charter going beyond the united nations security council i mean it's. truly astounding of course they're the political elite and they're ply instead modify the media don't can't even see two inches from their own face ok the pure hypocrisy of the i'll tell you this is destroying the international order and it and being. trained as a professional historian remember the league of nations ok when everyone started ignoring it everyone's peril i don't think there's a question there but i think you know what i mean go ahead. yeah but i think it's a critically important point because you have essentially you have you have britain and france in very weak positions that have apparently seemingly decided to align themselves firmly with the united states and not be independent powers so you really have the u.k. and france aligning with the united states to just reinforce whatever the united states wants to do which leaves the international community without any real balance which was the brilliance of having the p five the permanent five members of a security counc

the united states deeply values a strongciates him as democratic leader in the region. the united states is working to expand trade and commercial ties with african nations including nigeria to create jobs and wealth in all of our countries. we hoped to the economic partner of choice for nations across the continent and all-around the world. we are being respected again. i hope that all african countries throughout the world supportingwill be you and then they will likewise along with canada and mexico for the 2026 world cup. we will be watching very closely and any help they can give us we would appreciate. we look forward to growing our trade relationship based on the principle of fairness and reciprocity. we give nigeria well over $1 million in aid and we have already started talking with the president about taking down the trade barriers. we think we are a road that. the president has also taken several steps to fight corruption and improve the nigerian business climate and most of all -- ripping down the trade barriers. we will be investing nigeria if they can crea

region the united states is currently working to expand trade and commercial ties with african nations including nigeria to create jobs and wealth in all of our countries. we hope to be the economic partner of choice for nations across the continent and all around the world and you see what's happening with respect to trade and the united states we are being respected again i hope all african countries and countries throughout the world that we also will be supporting you and that they will likewise support us in our bid long with canada and mexico for the two thousand and twenty six world cup. we will be watching very closely and any help that they could give us in that bid we would appreciate i'm pleased that nigeria is one of our largest trading partners in the region and we look forward to growing our trade relationship based on the principle of fairness and reciprocity but we give nigeria well over one billion dollars in aid every year and we have already started talking with the president about taking down the trade barriers very substanti

the representative of the united kingdom. esident. mr president, these are uncertain at times and today, we deal with exceptional circumstance. acting with our american and french allies in the early hours of this morning, the united kingdom conducted co—ordinated, targeted and precise strikes to degrade assad's chemical weapons capability and deterred their future use. the weapons capability and deterred theirfuture use. the british royal air force launched storm shadow mis—sells into a military facility 15 miles west of homs where the regime is assessed to keep chemical weapons, in breach of serious regulations under the chemical weapons convention. a full assessment has not yet been completed, but we believe the strikes to be successful. furthermore, not of the british, us french aircraft or missiles involved in this operation were successfully engage by syrian air defences and there is no indication that russian air defence systems were employed. 0ur action was limited, targeted and effective strike. there were clear bound

ambassador to the united nations nikki haley. spoke to theley: i president this morning, and he said if the syrian regime uses this poisonous gas again, the united states is locked and loaded. when our president draws a red line, our president enforces the red line. the united states is grateful to the united kingdom and france for its part in the coalition to defend the prohibition of chemical weapons. we worked in lockstep. we were in complete agreement. last night, our great friends and indispensable allies shouldered a burden that benefits all of us. the civilized world owes them its banks. in the weeks and months to come, the security council should take time to reflect on its role in defending the international rule of law. the security council has failed in its duty to hold those who .se chemical weapons to account that failure is largely due to .ussian obstruction we call on russia to take a hard look at the company it keeps and live up to its responsibilities as a permanent member of the council and defend the actual prin

law or international law for the united states or for the u.s. with the brits and the french to engage in this kind of unilateral military assault it's a violation of the u.n. charter it's a violation of the us constitution it's a violation of the war powers act and it's really an obligation right now of members of congress who i hope are moving to call an emergency session of congress to say wait a minute this is not authorized by any existing authority ok the authorization issued by congress last time. but i just wanted to raise the fact with you that the state department and the white house both of them confirmed that they had to they didn't reveal the evidence but they they both said that they had in controversial evidence that linked what happened today in a chemical weapons attack they confirmed that and they knew that it was carried out by the syrian regime of bashar al. they say that the russians say there was no attack or that it was created by another government i frankly don't believe any of these sources at this stage and the notion t

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the united nations resolution in kosovo and i'm sure you do hopeless to try to get it to this occasion what is the point of the united nations charter i expect you to back your decision when it came to the former yugoslavia you might change your mind of a serial of the past few days what is the point of the united nations charter if those two areas obviously the syria strikes are all about self-defense of britain. and if russia vetoed stands why i've tried to persuade the. countries of the world the i.p.o. international political union parliamentary union. to change the charter i'd made a speech in cape town ten years ago and i made a speech in st petersburg last october but it was a bridge too far amending the charter is a bridge too far for the notions of the world is it less a bridge too far than the fact that we know the case of the united states against nicaragua where explicitly in law it states that the united states was unable to use the kind of mechanisms and and arguments you used because of i have no knowledge of as regards international law words of military the i.c.c. case

what should the united states do now? you know, the basic problem is that for seven years the united states has had an ambivalent policy towards syria. we made a statement that assad should step down. we've tried to do what we can to assist the rebels. we obviously have aimed our effort at isis and working with the kurds and isis, but, very frankly, we've never had an overarching policy about where are we headed in syria. for that reason, we continue to pay a price. the hope that somehow we can just walk away from that situation and it won't affect our national security is a serious mistake. the reality is what happens in syria, whether we like it or not, is going to affect national security interests. so we are going to have to take steps there. we can't just back away. wean'tust walk away. we're gng to have to build a coalition, working with our allies, working with france, working with great britain, working with the u.n., to continue to pursue some kind of strategy here that will ultimately result in assad stepping do

ambassador of the united nations, nikki haley. rong words against the russian and the syrians the last several days. standby for that. i want to bring in brendan boyle of pennsylvania, thank you so much for being with us. let me start with the basic question. do you believe assad's use of chemical weapons one week ago demanded a military response? >> yes, i do. i called for that in the after math and one week after the latest chemical attack, i wrote a letter along with a colleague saying this administration needed to do far more and formulate a policy and consider any sort of strikes that would take away the ability of this regime to deliver those sort of chemical attacks. keep in mind even though this is -- this latest attack by assad is one that got a lot of media attention. this is the eighth chemical attack this year. >> right. >> under taken by the assad regime. >> military officials and pentagon officials say this blow cripple the ability of syria to produce these chemical weapons, mary how do you assess what you heard? >> i

no i don't think so i think china and the united states are right now on the verge of a four liberal out a trade war the actions pulling to implement taishan today by the chinese government are related directly to the first round of tariffs imposed by the united states are steel aluminum products therefore the scope of the countermeasures is actually quite limited however the united states has already announced that the second wave of terrorists on the chinese exports to the united states which has a total dollar amount of fifty billion dollars and i understand the chinese government through their various departments are now drafting the list of countermeasures against the u.s. exported to goods to china and the second wave will be much larger then the measures announced put into action today therefore the chinese government has made it very clear that the united states as a member of the w.t. all need to abide by its commitments to that are blue teel any measure unilaterally imposed by the united states in violation of its obligations will trigger retire from china and china as such

the united states and the american people are an essential part of our the united states and the american people are essential part of our confidence in the future in democracy, in what women abdomen can akoccomplish this world. when we are drivven by high ideals and an unbreakable trust in humanity and trust. today, the call we here is the call of victory. this is a time of courage. what we cherish is the fate. what we love is in danger. we have no choice but to prevail. we shall prevail. long lines of friendship between france and the united states of america. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you u. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. ♪ ♪ >>> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up thursday morning, nebraska republican congressman don bacon will be with us to talk about top issues facing congress. and then virginia democratic congressman gerald connelly will discuss the latest in the ongoing talks with north korea and its nuclear program. deputy news editor robin brof inder on scott pruitt's ten

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states and talked about the united states as being talked about germany's relationship with the united states being a reliable partner she also talked about the iran nuclear deal with her to is the j.c. p.o.a.'s trade as well which was a big issue there so let us see what we can pick out of the last only thirty or forty minutes or so with me here in the studio are professor bodies foreman who is professor of political science at a part college in berlin d.w. chief political editor is here as well and in the washington claire richardson w a correspondent so well welcome to you all let me start with you may have a cook from points jumping out at you. that donald trump at the end characterized the recent relationship is not reciprocal and that that is something that she where he wants to see movement on and he basically declared all of his previous this is a complete failure and it sounds like he feels that the europeans got getting a better deal he says that the e.u. is certainly or you the europeans more than the you are getting a better deal out of nato and that you want to see commitm

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i was asked to help write an article in foreign affairs magazine called the rogue regimes where the united states was going to go after the rogue regimes iran iraq and cuba you know flash forward a few years there i am in the bush national security council bush forty three and there's the axis of evil speech which is almost word for word what the clinton doctrine was for iran iraq and cuba just a few years before and then we have obama in libya and syria and now we have trying to with his attacks in syria so there is an enormous amount of continuity for an interventionist u.s. foreign policy to preserve in their view to preserve american power and american hegemony around and around the world but particularly in the middle east michael let me go to you and watch when i hear bipartisan consensus i get really really worried because that means there's no dissent don't disagree put your head down and just do what you're told and that's exactly what's happening and i'd like to add to that is that the mainstream media the corporate media there just are not refers to that same message go ahead mi

side has been held under something called section three a one under which the united states although it of course it's a unilateral decision by the u.s. but under which the united states has effectively one calendar year or so to make a determination and that brings us to about august tenth aug eleventh that is remarkably short for the kind of complex negotiations that would have to take place especially when the two parties really haven't yet begun the discussions so i think that while we might be able to resolve these kinds of issues whatever those issues happened to be and that's a separate issue. i'm sure we'll get to in a minute the time is not that long for a very intensive set of negotiations that have to unfold and really young chinese state media is saying that beijing has many more weapons in its arsenal to deploy against the us in the event of a trade war what sort of retaliation can we expect from china well it would look at these terrorists. in fact this is only constitute only a small part of china's export to the united states because nowadays as china's economy is weak

protest against the bombing took place across the united states. do i think that is the main reason driving u.s. policy? response fromet ramah kudaimi who is member of the syrian solidarity collective and the national committee of the war resisters league and also from chelsea manning, perhaps the most famous whistleblower of the iraq war. in new york erupt after police officers respond to 911 call shoot dead an unarmed, mentally troubled african-american man on a street corner in brooklyn earlier this month. >> you guys kill us. amy: police say saheed vassell was holding a metal pipe that they mistook for a gun. none of the officers who opened fire were wearing body cameras. the vassell family is now calling for the release of all unedited video from the area leading up to and during the shooting. we'll speak with saheed's parents, lorna and eric vassell. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the united states is expected to introduce new sanctions against russian compa

show that nigeria imports from the united states. with the rise of the nigeria, arkets, how crude exporter, will deal with that is something that really the chinese are going to have to be involved in. whether or not the trade coalition is set to go to china later this week is able to bring that type of back and forth, and address the concerns, not only from the international community, but domestically, amongst republicans, amongst the art culture -- the agriculture, we will have to wait and see. i talked earlier to former u.s. ambassador to canada, bruce heyman. he pointed out on trade, trump is a more -- more of a tactician rather than a strategist. in this case, the geopolitics of trade with china is a big factor. how would you rate his performance, especially when you factor in the iran equation? alex: i'm not in the business of judging the president's work. i will say he has -- i think there is a strategy in place with china. i think there are some pieces missing from it. the president governance by instinct, to a large degree.

yes, estonia and the united states are very different by the size of their economy. but when we are speaking about economics, it didn't matter anymo anymore. estonia is one of the world's leading nations of digital governments and our companies are working with companies in your country to make sure that people elsewhere could benefit. this cannot come without cybersecurity. there is a need to have excellence on cybersecurity in estonia because we have been attacked on cyber long before anybody else. we still work together, we contribute and we hope that we are really helpful to all of our partners. yes, we have also more connection of trade which we do together. people in walmart going for the packages in a couple years will see them delivered by estonia package delivery robots. we are proud of this and also proud of inviting business to try to test new ideas in our place which is tiny and then upscale when it maims more sense to upscale. this way we work together both on defense matters, economic matters and always stand on a common value base. this is the found in

[drill commands] ♪ ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and mrs. ump. ]hail to the chief ♪ [drum roll] ♪ ♪ [drill commands] >> ladies and gentlemen, the national anthem of the french republic, followed by the national anthem of the united states. ]anthem ♪ national united states national anthem ♪] [drill commands] ♪ [military band playing] >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. president trump: president m acron, mrs. macron, welcome to the united states.p president macron: [speaking french] president trump: we were honored to have been hosted less year. the wonderful friendship that has built up as a testament to the friendship that binds our two nations. it is fitting that we are holding our first official state visit with america's oldest ally, the leader of france. [speakingmacron: french] president trump: this morning we'll send our prayers to the wish formerly as we president george h.w. bush a speedy recovery. we also want to express our deepest sympathies to the canadian people following the tragedy in toronto that clai

brokered by the united states this was something that was proposed by the united states especially i mean the only deep attempt to resolve this through diplomacy was made at the u.n. security council and the u.s. and russia put forward their rivaling resolutions as to what should be done in syria and neither passed because russia vetoed the americans the americas resolution and america vetoed russia's so that had already been followed by a barrage of threats coming from washington saying that it is ready to launch missiles towards syria and world russia had russia said well ok we'll shoot those down and have a listen would you have a look at i don't want to discuss such questions whether this or that will happen or not we just hope the parties will avoid steps which can become a provocation and destabilize such a shaky situation you know so this is russia's president spokes person. talking about that people should come to their senses and that they should talk it over first and you know not speculates not not make any more threats because there has been a bundle. all of those you hav

britain, the united states and france. this was a limited action that was to send a very clear message as they put president assad regarding the use of chemical weapons. and the hope that these strikes. their use in future. but what exactly is the strategy? 0ur diplomatic correspondent james robbins takes strategy? 0ur diplomatic correspondentjames robbins takes a look. this is what provoked the strikes, last saturday's apparent gas attack on civilians in douma. britain, france and the united states are convinced this was the latest in a long line of assad's chemical attacks and had to be punished. so what was achieved? the strikes sent a deliberate, precise, if limited message to president assad, "you are not the target — your chemical weapons programme is." the united states fired missiles from two warships and from the submarine uss john warner, plus in the air, two b—1 lancer bombers. the raf flew tornadoes from akrotiri in cyprus, staying out of syrian airspace to fire their storm shadow missiles. and france launched

if the united states backs out. you are the second european leader to stop here at the white house this week. what improvements did you make in order to keep u.s. in the deal? [speaking foreign language] >> i believe that obviously this agreement is anything but perfect. it will not solve the problems with iran. it is one piece of the mosaic, one building block on which we can buildup the structure and when the united kingdom, france and germany work together with the american colleagues this was brought about and we will now see what decisions are made by the american partners. i said the whole of the region is of an important to us. syria and iran are right on our doorstep. that is prime importance to us and we will be in very close talks on this. [foreign language] chancellor, you use to describe america as a destination -- of what you ever wanted to be and now in germany by you, europe has to take its destiny and can't rely on the united states all the time. have you talked with the president about this developme