scott lucas is a professor at university college dublin and it's a will view that provides news and analysis through those facing conflict to provision and change. and invasion. quite y'all, henry along is the founder and president of the st of to china and globalization, and a full the counselor to china state council, which is china's cabinet. thank you very much for your time. and to joining us here on inside story. if we could start broadly and then uh, focus and drill down on the specific conflicts that are happening around the world at this point in time. chris of, i can begin with you. what do you make of the premise that with sliding inevitably towards world war 3, i don't know that anything is inevitable, but these conflicts are very dangerous because whatever the intentions and i don't think that it ran as by law or the united states seat, a regional conflict of buy, exacerbating tensions within the regions through strikes, some town or strikes. whether that's an yeah man with us in a rack. whether that's in southern lebanon, you propel yourself closer and closer to a conflict. i t

let's speak to now to scott lucas, professor of us politics at university college dublin.oint. we give us an idea of how we got to this point-— this point. we got to this point because and i need _ this point. we got to this point because and i need to - this point. we got to this point because and i need to be - this point. we got to this point i because and i need to be honest this point. we got to this point - because and i need to be honest with you this is a political stunt. there is a backdrop here that for decades the —— there have been issues with the —— there have been issues with the number of migrants and asylum seekers crossing the mexican border is. in recent years, those issues became almost a breakdown of the system be trump administration, there was no longer adequate funding for dealing with migrants and asylum seekers but instead you have things like the wall with mexico, the emphasis on these massive detention centres and on separation for families. the biden administration effectively inherited a broken system and in combination with that, especially si

conference in middle and well scott lucas is a professor of international politics at the university college dublin. he draws his own life from dining and in the u. k. mister lucas always wants to get you on the program before we talk about c pack. can we just talk about the primary itself of the victory in south carolina? i mean, sort of the trump campaign. mulch is on victorious, but is he in danger of being too overconfident? but i page it is a significant victory for trauma in the sense that it was initially at least on the state. but at the same time, south carolina's a deeply conservative state is the one that is dominated by the fact the trumpet station. only one 3rd of the voters in south carolina. i believe the job. i'm one of the 2020 election. why they can hear these chairs on however, why it's important to tell super tuesday, which is on march. the 1st with 15 statesboro is because of this police that trump is a danger haley and a good section of the republicans to support fully. but trump is a danger to american foreign policy, to american domestic policy and the economy, and indeed a

well, let's talk to professor scott lucas from the clinton institute at university college dubun institute at university college dublinthis a proportionate response to ongoing attacks by by houthis ? is that how you would assess what we've seen so far ? what we've seen so far? >> yeah, stephen, i think this specific here is that because of the houthis attacks on shipping in the red sea and because they've also tried to attack us. and uk military ships, they came within a mile of hitting one us warship last week . this one us warship last week. this is an attempt to continue to contain them and to say, look, you're not going to get away with these attacks without any type of response. but we are also now, the wider context , also now, in the wider context, uh, because of the last few days with the us launching strikes on 85, uh, targets of iran backed militias in iraq and syria, and that's because those militias have been firing on us personnel , uh, on bases in those countries and killed three american personnel and wounded 34, uh, at the start of last week. so we've got both the specific yemen context involving the r

, let's talk to the professor of international politics at the clinton institute, at the university college dublin to good see you this morning. does nikki look on that final point? does nikki haley have a point ? does nikki haley have a point? can donald trump beat joe biden ? can donald trump beat joe biden? i'm you know, the november's race could go either way. >> i mean, that's what the polls consistently show. i think the reason why nikki haley is staying in the race through super tuesday, uh, which will be in nine days time, where you'll have one third of the republican delegates will be chosen within 24 hours, is because she and those republicans who support her, uh, do see trump as not being , uh, as her, uh, do see trump as not being, uh, as well positioned as she would be to defeat joe biden and the polls bear that out. but i think even more important, uh, is that haley and that section of the republican party, they see, uh, trump as a threat to the party itself, which is not unified, which is very fragmented indeed , they not fragmented and indeed, they not only with trump only disagree