and china does not want to have armed conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these teens are. i think the chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the chinese government and the chinese military. meanwhile on friday the trumpet ministration announced that it is reimposing all sanctions against iran that were lifted as part of the twenty fifty nuclear deal the us president took to twitter to taunt the news in a post resembling the tagline from the hit t.v. series game of thrones the sanctions slated to come into effect on monday follow america's unilateral withdrawal in may from the iran nuclear agreement new sanctions come on top of those who already imposed by washington and focus on oil pain lies in states that refuse to hold crude imports from iran the u.s. secretary of state says meanwhile the main target is the iranian government. the sanctions hit a core areas of iran's economy it is aimed at depriving the regime of the revenues that it uses to spread death and destruction around the world while people on the streets of tehran it is

the united states says it's going to leave a treaty again. after all the united states left the even more important antiballistic missile treaty bush withdrew in two thousand and two that was the bedrock of russian and american national security that was folly that's what led to this deployment of missile defense on russia's borders that was what led to russia developing the kind of missile that washington is now complaining about it goes back to two events that are historical but also contemporary the decision by clinton to move nato eastward toward russia and bush's decision to leave the antiballistic missile treaty in two thousand and two everything has a history but would grow but reagan did with the help of your grandfather when he was foreign minister was to establish a new kind of trust thirty years ago it's gone it's gone in a more dangerous world now. and then there is that and then you start treaty i know it's bad news the treaty about strategic nuclear missiles that expires in two thousand and twenty one you know back in two thousa

politics in the united states united states operates of the level of individuals and the institutions of the government all right we're going to take a short break right now when we're back we'll continue talking to dr ali allawi iraq's foreign minister of trait defense and finance discussing the situation in a war torn country stay with us. when we all make this manufacture come sentenced into the public. when the ruling classes of project themselves. with the final larry go round. no one posts that. we can all middle of the room signals. mean real humans through the world. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. a. new chick or founding. a model but i think. when there's a real body. to. put them down i don't want that for a case that's funny as hell and nation under the name of community yeah in question whom he could feel that he had a chicken dad's going to say he mad

states and china does not want to have armed conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these things aren't to china i feel the chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the chinese government the chinese military meanwhile on friday even trumpet ministration announced that washington is reimposing all sanctions against iran that were lifted as part of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal donald trump took to twitter to taunt around the news in a post resembling the tagline from the t.v. series the game of thrones well the sanctions which are slated to come into effect on monday follow america's unilateral withdrawal from iran you can you dream and in may this year the new sanctions come on top of the ones already imposed by washington and focus heavily on iran's oil sector penalizing states that refuse to hold him ports of crude oil from iran u.s. secretary of state mike pompei or he says the main target is the iranian government . the sanctions hit at core areas of iran's economy it is aimed at depriving the regime of the revenues that it uses to

the united states prevented a resolution in the united nations that would have condemned the saudi attacks on yemen the resolution had support from the united kingdom among others and essential he would have called on saudi arabia to cease its activities that harm civilians however the united states works behind the scenes to prevent it from becoming a resolution now there has been widespread opposition and condemnation to saudi arabia's activities in yemen we've heard statements from charities that have come forward humanitarian organizations and said that essentially saudi activities put fourteen million people at risk of malnutrition however the united states continues to align with saudi arabia now it's important to point out that this is not the first time there have been votes on capitol hill regarding this issue and back in march the u.s. senate was presented with the opportunity to vote on this resolution and failed to do so they did not pass this resolution however today as we have seen they did actually come forward and condemn saudi arabia's activities in yemen not much has chan

states of america white supremacy exists in the united states of america and white supremacy is rising across the world called don lemon said this is just a further and a continuance of the division that was created in america under the eight year administration of barack obama. activists in the port city of humber camping celebrating hollowing with a march against the anti immigration alternative for germany party they held banners with the message hold the ghosts of the far right opponents accuse the e.f.t. of stoking racism and hijacking concerns over immigration the demonstrators call for an end to neo nazi politics and germany the rally possible peacefully without any arrest. in the event follows a recent series of games for the f.t. and local elections last weekend the party entered the regional assembly and test for the first time after inflicting every losses on the ruling coalition b.f.d. has seen its support base grow rapidly over the past three years amid concerns over chancellor merkel's open door policy on this i i not staring a forty dollars and tall ship it's a delicate

detente with the united states what he sold mistrusted in the united states it's not clear that there's any american leader who would embrace putin as a partner though it seems trump wants to do so so that really how we're right on our i really hope you're right there is no longer term of steve that's all the time we have unfortunately for today thank you once again for this wonderful interests a pleasure as usual we're expecting you fareed sometime soon in moscow take aerosols say had a catherine we were talking to steam coin contributing editor of the nation magazine professor emeritus at princeton university and author of the book war with russia discussing what the u.s. pullout from the an afternoon will mean for global stability that's it for this edition of the next. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure and i was reading to get a little the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. chose seemed wrong. but old rules just don't call. me old yet to shape our disdain to become educated and in the game trained equals betrayal . when so many find themselve

states and even the united states he said that talking about the need to defend against now this talk is simply trying to put on warhawk credentials come on france can't even pay two percent of its g.d.p. according to nato strictures and he's talking up a european union army like the sun came here i think and what i want to talk about also the reports that mcchrystal did not want putin interim glenn jumping. also said this is not a new idea though it's actually here i'll share with you here the national interest last week wrote an article that article washington smothers independent european security issues the entire history of it since one thousand nine hundred one six months after the soviet union collapsed. in germany for the petersburg task force which was the purpose was to develop military capabilities for their opinion now they were able to strike a compromise with the united states in which they would have a clear division of labor usually nato would do the interventionist in the nations and the the e.u. would do the dishes and then to do the peacekeeping or the training so b

in the organization for economic cooperation and development the report finds the united states has the highest youth unemployment rate and highest in. infant mortality rate among comparable countries the us also has one of the lowest voter registration levels in the o.e.c.d. the report reads quote its citizens live shorter and sicker lives compared to those living in all other ridged democracies are radical tropical diseases are increasingly prevalent and it has the world's highest incarceration rate and the highest obesity levels in the developed world professor alston's conclusions have drawn a harsh response from members of the trumpet ministration us ambassador to the un nikki haley wrote in a letter to senator bernie sanders of vermont quote it is patently ridiculous for the united nations to examine poverty in america the special repertoire wasted the un's time and resources deflecting attention from the world's worst human rights abusers and who can sing instead on the wealthiest and freest country in the world and haley may have a point about the united states being one of

front is not just limited to the rivals of the united states but also the allies of the united states they have been very serious in countering the measures by washington and the white house and they are now after some measures in order to counter those measures against iran as well as against other countries and this is something which is a process where a unilateral approach by the united states during trump administration has provoked start of a process whereby many countries are united in order to put forth some independent financial policies as well as counting the united states in different. given in the. political as well as security issues and financial issues as well thanks for joining us here in our team my guest journalist abbas. that wraps things up with more in half an hour. when lawmakers manufactured him sentenced him to public wealth. when the ruling closest to project themselves. the famous larry king live is only the woman was told. to ignore middle of the room to get. the real news is the a. child's seemed wrong all just all. the world to get to shape our lives just

the united states f.y.r. the original axis of evil and beyond the axis of evil nominees were libya syria and iraq and all were either invaded by the us or torn apart and civil war with american troops coming in later but that's by the by what i can tell you is it isn't easy to come up with and market these little slogans for everyone you don't like which is why they have a generic term as a placeholder regimes the syrian regime aside and putin regime is terror regime the regime of nicolas maduro iran's regime so china russia iran and others regimes and everyone else that doesn't do is the us says on the other hand saudi arabia and duress and other family iran and the prizes a government's government atari's governments saudi arabia and the u.a.e. their governments government under is government of qatar i mean nothing personal it's just politics you do is the us send you good and you get a clean slate and a blind eye to whatever shenanigans you're up to but if you don't you're in trouble mr worst case he had

it is the south china sea where china wants the united states to stop conducting military drills in of the united states pretty much ignore this it's the trade war and lots of other things and other countries that are present here at this summit they fear that maybe we'll have to pick a side between china the regional powerhouse and the united states that views itself as the globally dominant power so and really neither the president trump nor president xi jinping is said to arrive here none of them are attending this summit so with both leaders absent is the hopes that these differences could be resolved well pretty much futile and another the person from the united states who is coming here though well he's expected to only thing make things worse because it is vice president mike pence and here is what he's been saying about china not so long ago china has initiated an unprecedented effort to influence american public opinion the two thousand and eighteen elections and the environment leading into the twenty twenty presidential elections china wants a different american president so

politics in the united states united states operates of the level of individuals elites and the institutions of the government all right we're going to take a short break right now when we're back we'll continue talking to dr ali allawi iraq's foreign minister of trait defense and finance discussing the situation in a war torn country stay with us. seems wrong but. just don't call. me. yet to shape. just to come out to it and in. equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us of the with one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent minus minus two years some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember in one one business shows you can afford

russia and united states are still holding the key. piece in the world and from what i understand the the. in russia or at least the perception within the kremlin is that russia is actually russia actually has a match when it comes to nuclear weapons or where the united states at the moment well you know this. sort of quotation from one. prime minister when she was asked whether. a nuclear weapon and should respond in the way no we don't but if needed we will use. mr bolton is perceived in russia as one of the biggest harshest russia hawks and yet both from his visit to moscow and he's published views i got an impression that he was a much more comfortable interlocutor for the kremlin than let's say obama people who. didn't see nuclear deterrent deterrence as say as a saving grace and who wished for a nuclear free world is that an accurate perception that russia has countered that is find it easier dealing with people like mr bolton well stillest achille yes in terms of the priority issue on the table no. ministration and fewer people

economic for china but it's geo political so as china rose everyone in the united states foreign policy circles as we don't worry about it we have the navy we can always block chinese oil imports at the straits of malacca and singapore or now you've got two week high speed rail from poland to china so that one bill one road is not only about bringing those countries closer in to china's co-prosperity sphere but also about having a way to to get into the european markets and let's not forget the chinese one bill one road ends in poland in serbia go to serbia now they have a new bridge from china they have a high speed rail from budapest to belgrade they have a thirteen plus one concept china's the one thirteen is the eastern european countries they're over there nice europe going guys use not helping much we're not developing and china is out there helping them develop and bringing up new projects and building infrastructure so the one bill one road will go all the way god does end in eastern europe and that's what the u.s. now is waking up to they're starting to say you know russia is n

for a grand detente with the united states but he's so mistrusted in the united states it's not clear that there's any american leader who would embrace putin as a partner though it seems trump wants to do so so that really how we're right on our buy i really hope you're right there is no our terms of steve that's all the time we have unfortunately for today thank you once again for this wonderful interview it's a pleasure as usual we're expecting you fareed sometime soon in moscow to take aerosols say how to catherine were talking to steam corps and contributing editor of the nation magazine professor emeritus at princeton university and author of the book war with russia discussing what the u.s. pullout from the an afternoon will mean for global stability that's it for this edition of so. many factor consensus public wealth. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. in the final larry go round the sun we don't want. to ignore middle of the room six. million real news is. the world. in twenty four you know bloody revolution future demonstrations going to be relatively peaceful p

citizens thank their fellow citizens who served in the united states armed forces and while the parade of online thanks along with a few actual parades is a kind showing of respect to our veterans who according to the u.s. department of housing see roughly forty thousand forty thousand of their brothers and sisters homeless on any given night maybe.

when it comes to the united states and so yes so far that's that's where it stands but we do know that still iran had to cut down its exports by approximately eight hundred thousand barrels per day and interestingly enough this is exactly pretty much more or less exactly the market share that the united states grabbed in turn exporting some seven hundred thousand barrels a day increasing their own crude or exports and so because with this whole thing the big debate is how this will impact the oil markets not many people want. oil prices go go skyrocketing and so the united states media promising it will be fine and they are ready to fill in the gap and grab more money and their coffins brought the maid to see what the reaction is going to be to this on monday then from iran or i thought you see go down off the wall close to the united states but also being targeted with american sanctions new measures have been announced against three latin american countries to is again the u.s. national security adviser described the left wing governments in cuba. venezuela. the troika of tyranny in

in the united states is a very very big part of the u.s. economy the guns and the planes and the ships and the bombs that they use and sell all around the world support a lot of jobs in the united states i don't think that the war is in general or going to end if they can do some maneuver to make a better situation for the united states in afghanistan they are probably talking about that and would like to see that seventeen years of war and terror is nato soldat countless thousands dead on each every side generations thread and misery and violence drunken hatred and the heroine finally the taliban agrees to open talks it's a huge deal ed the u.s. possum's war it seems is preferable to peace that comes with russian help. the british government is facing a wave of criticism for its handling of the aftermath of the grunfeld taua fire seventy two people died a year ago in a blaze that ingo. after a block of flats in london westminster has been accused of placing gagging orders on the experts who investigated the tragedy and says has more. well

the usa now aside from everything else the us is better than china why because it says so united states has a principled approach that stands in stark contrast to some other nations our vision will prevail besides beijing is just a user anyway china is taking advantage of the united states for many many years. in those days are over. unlike china the us doesn't want to tie you down they just want you to do things the american way so it doesn't have to punish the united states. offers a better option we don't drown our partners in sea of debt we don't coerce compromise your independence with a lot to say on the local fun club at hand if this was a custody battle she didn't paint good get the kids the red carpets were rolled the bones plates chinese flanks were waved clearly papua new guinea has already been wooed by the middle kingdom but how did the other countries feel some analysts say the u.s. still has its trump card and despite all this america first talk many countries in the region still crave a slice of the american pie the truck to put the seat has become. recent or an excuse f

united states says it's going to leave the treaty again. you know world of big part of the lot and it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth. the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. anything through the back or front right. well maybe in back you're going to watch the show on a bill in the paper it's your choice right now and it is many american brand will be made if you don't come to the world and wear it in the back that way when we do we're going to proceed as we have to turn around come back this way. forty fifty million call sign. see the base just behind me is a sign with those statistics the number of victims killed in all the different countries where drones have been used on a sign that says just say no war. so it is not just the far east or. a killing of the nine outs and innocent people i

states the united states at this particular time wants to see it also the military industrial complex in the united states is a very very big part of the us economy the guns and the planes and the ships and the bombs that they use and sell all around the world support a lot of jobs in the united states i don't think that the war is in general or going to end if they can do some maneuver to make a better situation for the united states in afghanistan seventeen years of war and terror is nato soldat countless thousands dead on each every side generation's fed and misery and violence drunken hatred and heroin finally the taliban agrees to open talks it's a huge deal ed the u.s. possums war it seems is preferable to peace that comes with russian help. crucial midterm elections on tuesday left congress narrowly split between america's two major parties the democrats seized the house of representatives while the republicans built on their advantage in the senate florida emerged as one of the most strongly can. tested states republicans appeared to have won by a small margin but two democrat

elections there has been quite a fanfare usually midterm elections in the united states don't get a lot of participation and really are almost kind of ignored by huge amounts of the u.s. public however this particular midterm vote coming two years into the trump presidency is getting a pretty unprecedented level of attention this is my report from earlier about why that seems to be. usually the midterm elections in the united states are about as exciting as watching the grass grow low public interest and low voter turnout and the ads have a very amateurish quality to them. the agenda a page and. then mr trump said you're right and i love that part. so why is the biennial snooze fest suddenly turned into a political extravaganza well it's apparently about one man i'm not on the ticket but i am on the ticket because this is also a referendum about me so let's go over what's at stake. the big one is impeachment. if the pollsters are to be believed the democrats could regain control of the u.s. house of representatives with a majority they could then gain the ability to bring formal cha

and united states i mean the e.u. and united states have had their rausch in the past as well but this is really something that goes to the core itself of that relationship well you could say that would have made a difference if they decide to run a bit listen this does or dad i really don't think so that the if you had been pretty steadfast in keeping on defending this deal and your arguments are are as clear as water i mean iran is abiding by the conditions are fair and the reasons why the united states do have nothing even to do with it whether iran respects it or not and the era being union actually for the moment is struggling with this new situation with this but this president and does not really know or you should not forget that as up until now foreign policy of the united union sorry was mainly you know reflects if whatever the united states has said not because they just fall into good and mostly agree with it also and now there's a fundamental disagreement now why is it spain that is so explicit in saying

for a grand detente with the united states but he's so mistrusted in the united states it's not clear that there's any american leader who would embrace putin as a partner though it seems trump wants to do so so that really how we're right on our buy i really hope you're right there is no our term steve that's all the time we have unfortunately for today thank you once again for this wonderful interview it's a pleasure as usual we're expecting you there sometime soon in moscow take aerosols they had a catherine we were talking to stephen cohen contributing editor of the nation magazine professor emeritus at princeton university and author of the book war with russia discussing what the u.s. pullout from the end after any will mean for global stability that's it for this edition of the next. seems wrong but old rules just don't hold. the world is yet to shape our just a consequence of it and in games from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest on the

china does not want to have a conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these scenes all do china i think the chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the chinese government to the chinese military. the company ministration is reimposing sanctions against iran that were lifted as part of the twenty fifteen u.k. deal the us president took to twitter to taunt iran with the news in a post resembling the tagline from the hit t.v. series game of thrones the sanctions which are part of a broader set of measures include an oil embargo washington says it wants to make use of iran's oil exports to syria the u.s. secretary of state says the main target is the iranian government. before issues here core areas of a run for economy it is aim to deprive the regime of the revenues that it uses to spread death and destruction around the world. on the straits of tiran say it or great civilians who will end up bearing the brunt of the sanctions. time about manson's hard to come by because of sanctions no doubt if you are caring for a patient your life is aff

united states which commits the united states to. ongoing. risk that they're creating this willingly pushing the coalition course good at the hours a new challenges and dangers the strategy says are russia and china and so it's a national defense strategy so even if that is pushing rushing into chinese arms well you know there's a view in the united states that russia has no allies. i think the u.s. the russia china alliance will grow even stronger as a result so yes you have i'm no fan of trump by any measure the nation is one of his leading critics but he is a hostage in some ways of these larger forces around him whether it's mattis or pompei o or bolton but it's also he's a figure an accidental figure in some way who knew he would be elected president he came into the white house he had no team he has no discipline he has his twitter feed which allows him to speak to some fifty million americans without media interference but he lurches from here to here so it's a dangerous moment but. i think we have to find stabilizing mechanisms as bes

somehow aligning with saudi arabia is about keeping the united states safer and the statement does seem to indicate that regardless of saudi arabia being involved in this murder regardless being aligned with saudi arabia is in the assessment of the trumpet ministration the best move they go on to end this stage of the phrase america first in exclamation points so it's quite quite a strong reiteration of the fact that regardless of the fact that this journalist was killed regardless of the murder of the shoji regardless of that united states will continue to maintain its economic and military alliance with the saudi kingdom . the fifty people have been killed and dozens injured in a blast in afghanistan is being reported that a suicide bomber targeted an area near a wedding in the capital kabul it is of course comes on the back of peace talks between the u.s. the afghan government and the taliban has claimed responsibility yet. for. this was a religious gathering by religious elders celebrating the birth of the prophet muhammad and the attackers somehow got inside the forest floor of the

states this is oversimplifying but the united states may not always stay in europe and europe needs to be able to defend itself so it should have a capability that it can draw on and the french have been the strongest in this train of thought. and this may be now coming up again in europe as some pronouncements of the trumpet ministration have raised doubt about the u.s. the devotion of the u.s. to nato i should say this is now all still at the level of statements because the actions are still nato new u.s. and nato allies are still acting very much together but it comes out of it's been a constant argument since the end of the cold war and i suppose it'll always be there because is it natural for the united states to be in europe forever well i mean on some level it's very beneficial economically and. if you want to achieve welcomed it. because of conditions at the time and eventually some time whether it's a century two centuries a thousand years in the future it will change but it hasn't right now and that that so we're dealing with. and an argument and a tendency and a worry but

states but he so mistrust that in the united states it's not clear that there's any american leader who would embrace putin as a partner whoa it seems trump wants to do so so that really how we're right on our i really hope you're right there is no more term of steve that's all the time we have unfortunately for today thank you once again for this wonderful interests a pleasure as usual we're expecting you there sometime soon in moscow take aerosol say had a catherine we were talking to steam coin contributing editor of the nation magazine professor emeritus at princeton university and author of the book war with russia discussing what the u.s. pullout from the an afternoon will mean for global stability that's it for this edition of the next. twenty four g. no bloody revolution. the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be precise. movado revolution is always spontaneous or is it your goal or hiccough what if i mean your list put video dream in the neighbor lose out on you split needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourt

depending only on the united states that exhibits great the sovereignty of the good of the security. well french media say the romance is all over some suggesting the friendship is also over as well others suggesting that trump violently attacked him on twitter in those tweets and some even describing it as divorce the divorce so where do other senior politicians stand when it comes to a divorce between trump and mark on well it seems that john kerry the former secretary of state for the united states and guy verhofstadt are firmly in team tweeting after those tweets from donald trump that america wouldn't be an independent country if it wasn't for the french so firmly those two in team might call and it seems that this idea of a european army while it may not be for the flavor of donald trump it certainly didn't lead gaining traction here in europe it's now being fully backed by the german chancellor angela merkel but in reality while it seems that this bromance has completely gone off the boil it has been edging towards that now for some time let's not forget that maccan was incred

support it doesn't have the support of even the united states close allies like the europeans that have stated their opposition in defiance china turkey or russia and many others have defied the u.s. sanctions against iran and many are worried in washington that this could make this sharp tool or weapon blunts and make you know take it off the menu even for future u.s. administrations if it goes ineffective unlike the u.s. the european union says it will continue to abide by the twenty fifth day of brussels has promised to support firms working with iran and show that financial flows and not interrupt it. we remain committed to employment thing the g.c. p.o.a.'s as a matter of respecting international agreements and of our shared international security and expect iran to play a constructive role in this regard. washington is also expanding the sanctions closer to home targeting three latin american countries here's how the u.s. national security adviser described the left wing governments in cuba nicaragua and venezuela the troika of tyranny in this hemisphere cuba venezuela and nicarag

and china does not want to have armed conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these things on to china i think the chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the chinese government and the chinese military. after almost two decades at the forefront of german politics and i summoned her she was stepping down as leader of the christian democratic union party and she ruled out running for a fifth term as chancellor merkel's decision followed her party's disappointing performance in regional elections. the figures that came out overnight from her selection a holy disappointing and better choice but he does kinetically it can no longer be business as usual process after this result of the result and bavaria after the conflicts between the c.d.u. and the c.s.u. in the summer and off to the difficulties in forming a government coalition as the previous attempts to form one between the c.d.u. c.s.u. f.t.p. and the green party would fall through. began her political career after the fall of the berlin wall joining the c.d.u. in one thousand nine hundr

usually the midterm elections in the united states are about as exciting as watching the grass grow low public interest in a low voter turnout and the ads have a very amateurish quality to them. agenda a. then mr trump said you're right. that part. so why is the biennial snooze fest suddenly turned into a political extravaganza well it's apparently about one man i'm not on the ticket but i am on the ticket because this is also a referendum about me so let's go over what's at stake. the big one is impeachment if the pollsters are to be believed the democrats could regain control of the u.s. house of representatives with a majority they could then gain the ability to bring formal charges against the president impeachment has been on the minds of some democrats that he is impeachable the democrats want to retake control of the house so they could move to impeach the president telling me it impeachment you think trump should be impeached i would vote yes you would have to take a vote i would vote. now the democrats could get the ball rolling with the u.s. house but whether or not they'd be

with united states for leading it. fortunately i'm going to have to because we are running out of time. this is a subject i think that you and i could talk about for quite a long time as it is very important sounder bruno senior analyst at lombardi a lot of thanks for being on the scene r.t. international. thank you. recent decision to pull out of a nuclear missile treaty with russia has sparked a concern in europe last month the u.s. scrapped the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty with russia which had been in force for more than thirty years required both countries to eliminate their stockpiles of mid range ground based nuclear missiles meters across the european union condemned the move but political analyst mark macaulay believes europe has very little leverage over washington when it comes to defense. the european powers weak position. because the americans from your point of view. the european. to spend two percent or more. willing to do that. to do this because of their weak economic position. situation wh