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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source. | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have just held a press conference | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
at the White House - and both have acknowledged | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
that the two state solution may not be the only route to peace. | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
I've thought for a while the two State looks like it may be the | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
easier of the two, but honestly, if the Palestinians, Israel and the | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Palestinians are happy, I'm like the one they like the best. -- I'm happy | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
with the one they like the best. We'll be live in Washington | :00:38. | :00:38. | |
to talk about that. And to report on the continuing | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
fall-out of over. Mchael Flynn's resignation | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
as National Security adviser. There's are renewed calls | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
for an investigation into possible connections between Mr Trump's | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
team and Russia. For his part the President | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
has launched a scathing In Malaysia, a woman's been arrested | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
in connection with the killing We've a report from | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
the scene of the murder. Police say that he was accosted by | :00:58. | :01:07. | |
at least one woman who covered his face with a cloth. If your head is | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
spinning from all the developments with the Tramp administration, we go | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
live to Washington in both halves of the programme. If you have questions | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
about what's happening I'm pretty sure one or both of them will be | :01:24. | :01:24. | |
able to answer. For many years America has supported | :01:25. | :01:43. | |
a two state solution in the Middle East. Today that changed. I thought | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
for a while the two state looks like it may be the easy of the two, but | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
honestly, if Bibi and the Palestinians, Israel and the | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Palestinians are happy, I'm happy with the one they like the best, as | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
far as the embassy moving to Jerusalem, I'd love to see that | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
happen. We're looking at it very, very strongly, we're looking at it | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
with great care believe me. And we'll see what happens, OK? There | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
are two prerequisites for peace that I laid out to you several years ago. | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
And they haven't changed. First, the Palestinians must recognise the | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
Jewish state. They have to stop calling for Israel's destruction. | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
They have to stop educating their people for Israel's destruction. | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
Second in any peace deal, Israel must retain the overriding security | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
control over the entire area west of the Jordan river because if we don't | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
we know what will happen. Because otherwise we'll get another radical | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Islamic terrorist state in the Palestinian areas exploding the | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
peace, exploding the Middle East. Anthony, it was unlike anything we | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
saw between President Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu. How did you read | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
this? That's exactly it, no secret Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
didn't get along, they didn't work well together, I recall a few years | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
ago Netanyahu having an address to the US Congress without Obama | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
meeting with him. They disagreed on Middle East peace efforts, Barack | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
Obama obviously pushed a two state solution, a principal part of their | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
negotiations. Many in the Obama Administration felt Netanyahu and | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
the Israeli government was not cooperating and working in earnest | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
to try to reach an agreement. This is an entirely different sort of | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
relationship. You heard them both almost speaking from the same script | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
talking about radical Islamic terrorism and how they needed a | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
common front to defeat it, something you never would have heard out of | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
Barack Obama's mouth. Both men gave statements then invited questions. | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
He is one detail you may be interested in. Mr Trump has called | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
on only Conservative outlets in his last three joint press conferences. | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
There is a radio station called town hall which is conservative. We had | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
from the Christian broadcasting network. There was one question | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
asking whether Mr Trump and his Administration is playing with | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
anti-Semitic and racist tones? Here is the answer of the president. As | :04:28. | :04:36. | |
far as people, Jewish people, so many friends. A daughter who happens | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
to be here right now. A son-in-law. And three beautiful grandchildren. I | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
think that you are going to see a lots different United States of | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
America over the next 3-4, or eight years. I think a lot of good things | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
are happening. You are going to see a lots of love, you're going to see | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
a lot of love. I've known the president and I've know his family | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
and his name for a long time. And there is no greater supporter of the | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Jewish people and the Jewish state than President Donald Trump. I think | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
we should put that to rest. A couple of things to pick up on the issue of | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
unifying the nation which Mr Trump said he was going to do with a lot | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
of love, bear in mind just today he has attacked or criticised CNN, | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Hillary Clinton, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the so-called | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
fake media in general, the FBI and the National Security agency. On | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
this issue of anti-Semitism, let's bring company backing from | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Washington. This repeatedly comes up but do we have any evidence there | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
has been a rise in anti-Semitic activity, and that we can connect it | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
in to Mr Trump? I think people point out things like a series of bomb | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
threats made against Jewish community centres here in the US. | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
Incidents of people painting swastikas on various public | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
buildings. It's all anecdotal. I think when people get upset, when | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
critics go after Donald Trump for connections to anti-Semitism, they | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
look at some of the supporters from the ultra-right, white nationalists, | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
who have been very ardent Donald Trump backers, particularly online, | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
using anti-Semitic language to Jewish journalists. You also see | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
Donald Trump's rhetoric. He retweeted an image of a star of | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
David on a background of dollar bills to attack Hillary Clinton | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
answered Hillary Clinton was in with an international cabal of bankers. | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
The kind of language people say, the anti-defamation league would say, | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
was used in Nazi Germany. This global conspiracy of Jewish bankers. | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
Thank you for the moment, we appreciate it. We can speak to any | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
of our colleagues working on the most important stories of the day. | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
Earlier I asked Jeremy Bowen to come by, the BBC Middle East editor. He | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
was watching the press conference, too. This is what he made of it. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
What Mr Netanyahu has been written forward to... He had a number of | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
visits to Washington during the Obama years and they were always | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
frosty, the men never got on. No doubt personal issues, but also | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
because of policy things. President Obama never approved of Mr | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Netanyahu's policies of encouraging settlement growth and a hard line | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
towards the Palestinians. Mr Trump did say, you might have to ease back | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
on the settlements of it. I don't think Mr Netanyahu or the Israeli | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
right will enjoy hearing that, because initially they thought they | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
would get a blank cheque from President Trump. In the first days | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
after his inauguration, the authorised, with the Netanyahu, six | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
and a half thousand units in the occupied territories. And the first | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
all-new settlement in a generation. Even the White House said to him, | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
calm down a bit, and that is what Trump was saying today. What they | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
were both hinting that was some kind of wider agreement involving Arab | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
countries. Who share their suspicions of Iran. That was the | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
other big theme in the news conference. On the moors Israel and | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Palestinians, the other was Iran. Mr Trump said it could be a two state | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
solution, but might be one state, which has left a few viewers | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
thinking what does a one state solution look like? The two state | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
solution is an independent Palestine alongside Israel, self-determination | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
independent of the Palestinians, peace down that path. It's very | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
fashionable on the Israeli right, the part of politics Netanyahu | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
belongs to in Israel, to say the idea is played out. There should be | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
new thinking. The thing about a one state solution, between the River | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
Jordan and Mediterranean, one state containing Israel and its Arab | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
population, 20% of the total, and all the Palestinians. If you did all | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
of that, the problem from Israel's point of view is there would be a | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
majority of Arabs over Israeli dues. If not the second in a generation | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
certainly. It's something they would like because if they gave the vote | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
to all those Palestinians they take control of government. The | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
alternative to that would be one state where all the adults don't | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
have equal rights, and that of course equals apartheid. Another | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
important element of the story of the Trump administration, Donald | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
Trump it Twitter pretty hard earlier, sending a number of tweets. | :09:55. | :10:09. | |
The present of America comparing his own intelligence operations with | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
Russia unfavourably. He also compared them with Nazi Germany, | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
let's hope they have thick skin. The Washington Post got mentioned | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
because it was its reporting central to the pressure that led to the | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
resignation of Mr Trump's National Security adviser Michael Flynn who | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
we talked about a lot. The president isn't at all happy with what's | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
happened to general Flynn. Michael Flynn, general Flynn, is a wonderful | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
man. He's been treated very very unfairly by the media. As I call it, | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
the fake media, in many cases. And I think it's really a sad thing that | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
he was treated so badly. I think, in addition to that, from | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
intelligence... Papers are being leaked, things are being leaked... | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
Its criminal action, criminal act. And it's been going on for a long | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
time. Before me. But now it's really going on. Bear in mind Mr Trump's | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
own press secretary told us the president had asked for general | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Flynn's resignation and had done so because of an erosion of trust | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
between the president and general Flynn. That was yesterday, now today | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
the president is blaming the fake media for something his press | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
secretary says he chose to do. Donald Trump is also upset with the | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
New York Times, partly because of this story, headlined Trump campaign | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
aides had repeated contacts with Russian intelligence. Moscow has | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
been quick to say there is a truth in the story. Mr Trump two to | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
Twitter to say, this Russian connection nonsense is an attempted | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton's losing campaign. I | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
can think of a view things that motivated the press in the story. | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
Let's bring in the BBC's Anthony Zucker. It's getting close up and | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
passionate, where have we got to with this? I think the heat is | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
definitely turning up in the White House. They are giving mixed | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
messages. Sean Spicer said yesterday the reason Donald Trump didn't want | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
Flynn around was that he lost confidence in him. Today we saw him | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
praising general Flynn. At the heart of this, as you alluded to, possible | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
ties between Donald Trump, people around Donald Trump, and the Russian | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
government. And so when you had general Flynn kind of downplaying | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
the conversation at the end of December, saying they didn't talk | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
about sanctions, he could have said, we talked about a whole bunch of | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
issues. Because there was a spotlight on Trump and his people's | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
relationship with Russia, going all the way back to early in the | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
campaign, it gives this area of them trying to make sure people don't | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
focus a spotlight on that again, that they don't reenergise these | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
enquiries about what's going on with the Donald Trump's connections to | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
Russia. The cat Donald Trump and what he has said over the past year | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
or two about Russia, praising Vladimir Putin, saying he is a | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
stronger leader than Barack Obama. There are a lot of data points here, | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
now you'll hear more and more Democrats in particular, some | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
Republicans in Congress, saying they need to look into this to find out | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
exactly what's going on. A lot of smoke. What the reality is, the | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
reality of those connections, is going to be something I think the | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
administration will have to deal with. Even now Flynn has been shown | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
the door. Another twist to talk about, let's bring up some of the | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
news wires coming in through the outside source screen. This is from | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
the Reuters news agency telling us Andrew Puzder formally withdraws his | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
nomination as Labour department secretary. Talk us through this, how | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
significant is that? Donald Trump is going to lose someone he wanted to | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
put in the Cabinet. A pretty big blow to an administration. It's not | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
unheard of. Past presidents, Barack Obama and George W Bush included, | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
have had to withdraw nominees they put up for Cabinet spots. None of | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
them were in the sort of defensive pouch the Trump administration has | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
been in. He was strongly opposed to buy democratic labour forces, | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
Pusder, because he was against raising the minimum wage. He made | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
questionable comments about minorities immigrants and women in | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
the workplace. There were reports he failed to pay taxes on somebody | :14:40. | :14:51. | |
employed. A tape showed up of his ex-wife making allegations of | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
spousal abuse during divorce proceedings. There was a lot going | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
on with Andrew Puzder and Republicans in Congress were backing | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
away thinking it wasn't a fight they wanted to have. The Trump | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
administration eventually concurred the last thing they need is a | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
bruising confirmation for somebody like a Labor Secretary that's not | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
essential to his vision, his agenda going forward. There is supposed to | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
be a hearing tomorrow so that pushed the issue. They didn't want to go | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
through the hearing with all the allegations floating around. We have | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
a nominee for the Cabinet withdrawing, Donald Trump leaving | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
behind years of US policy saying he's open to a one state solution | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
with regards to the Middle East peace process. Ongoing allegations | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
there was contact between Donald Trump's campaign during the | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
presidential campaign and Russia. With regards to that specific New | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
York Times story, Donald Trump has repeatedly dismissed it. We have a | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
quote from the Kremlin spokesperson saying... | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
The Russian media is also unimpressed with the circumstances | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
around the resignation of Mr Trump's national security adviser who we've | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
just been discussing. The BBC's correspondent Steve Rosenberg has | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
been looking at the Russian papers. Here's his review of them. | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
The first loss in Trump's team, that is the headline in the Russian | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
government paper, which declares opponents of the US president are | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
using Flynn's resignation for a new wave of hysteria against Russia. The | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
paper goes on to say the sudden and scandalous resignation of a key | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
adviser cast a shadow on the president himself and without doubt | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
will be used by his opponents to crank up anti-Russian hysteria for | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
an internal political battle. Today's paper blames US intelligence | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
saying according to one version of events the contents of Michaelson's | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
conversation with the Russian ambassador were leaked by US | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
intelligence. They are not shy of listening telephone conversations of | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
White House staff and Russian diplomats in USA, they say. Another | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
paper describes Michael Flynn's downfall in these terms. Trump has | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
had his right hand cut off. The writer goes on to say that an | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
unambiguous signal has been sent to all former, current and future | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
American officials that attempts to fix relations with Russia are fatal | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
for your career. Inside he goes say this... The resignation of a major | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
foreign policy official for doing his duties, for talking to the | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
Russian ambassador, is something in the style of Stalin. He concludes | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
with this, if Flynn, before taking office, had held negotiations with | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
the British, Japanese, even Chinese ambassadors, it probably wouldn't | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
have led to a scandal. Steve Rosenberg. After those | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
he has those round-ups all the time on his Twitter account. Donald | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
Trump's presidency is throwing up a lot of unprecedented situations. | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
Katty Kay will be live with us from Washington in 15 minutes. If you | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
have questions for her, you can find us on social media. | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
The ruling body of the Church of England rulings in one has voted | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
against a report on the issue of same-sex marriage. The report from | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
senior bishops called on the church to welcome and support gay people | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
but concluded marriage in church should only be between a man and a | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
woman. While religious affairs correspondent Martin Bashir has | :18:44. | :18:44. | |
more. They said married in church should | :18:45. | :19:08. | |
remain a lifelong union between a man and a woman. That was turned | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
over by the house of clergy, who decided that was insufficiently | :19:15. | :19:15. | |
inclusive. I'm Ros Atkins with Outside Source. | :19:16. | :19:39. | |
The lead story is Israel's Prime Minister has met Donald Trump at the | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
White House. At a joint press conference | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
the President made it clear that the two state solution may not | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
be the only route to peace. BBC Mundo reports that | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
Venezuela's President, Nicolas Maduro, has demanded the US | :19:53. | :19:53. | |
apologise and withdraw sanctions The US accuses Tareck El Aissami | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
of drugs trafficking - for his part the Vice Present says | :19:56. | :20:08. | |
the claims are The United Nations has warned | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
of a serious escalation An official said that since January | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
the distance between government and rebel forces has narrowed | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
to a few hundred metres, and that in some places | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
they are almost face to face. That is from BBC Ukrainian. Here is | :20:20. | :20:34. | |
another element of how Donald Trump's Administration is impacting | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
on America and the rest of the world. Let's look at America's | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
position in Nato. In the past Mr Trump has called it obsolete. He's | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
also said a lot of these countries are paying what they are supposed to | :20:46. | :20:55. | |
be. -- are not paying. He has also said, Nato is very important to me. | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
Difficult to work out his precise position. This is Mr Trump's gripe. | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
The huge area marked in blue represents the proportion of Nato's | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
budget that the US picks up. Despite the fact it picks up more than any | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
other country, some Nato members are not meeting their agreed commitments | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
to the budget. The new US Defence Secretary James Mattis has had his | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
first meeting with Nato defence ministers in Brussels. He picked up | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
on just the issues the president has been mentioning. It's absolutely | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
appropriate as a European minister of defence said last week, it's a | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
fair demand that all who benefit from the best defence in the world | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
carry their proportionate share of the necessary cost to defend freedom | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
and we should never forget that ultimately it is freedom that we | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
defend here at Nato. We understand a behind closed doors meeting | :21:56. | :21:55. | |
secretary Matias said... I.e., show us the money. The BBC's | :21:56. | :22:13. | |
Jonathan Marcus is at Nato in Brussels. I asked for his assessment | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
of how it has gone. A very interesting day here at Nato. | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
General matters is a Nato old-timer, former military commander in the | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
alliance. He described the building behind me as his second home. He's | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
been around these corridors for years, he's heard all the efforts by | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
previous US Defence Secretary is to get Nato's European allies to spend | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
more. He's heard all the excuses, the commitments made and broken. And | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
now the Trump administration is in office, he wants things to change. | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
He made it clear it's not going to be business as usual. He gave | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
assurance the Trump administration is foursquare behind Nato. It is a | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
contingent, conditional commitment to Nato. It rests upon Nato's | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
European allies reaching deeper into their pockets to pay for a greater | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
share of their own defence. Given those European allies have made | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
commitments, what is their defence for not meeting them? They don't | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
have much of a defence, this is the problem. A few years ago at a summit | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
in Wales, Nato countries agreed they would spend 2% of their gross | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
domestic product, the GDP, on defence. Only five countries | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
including the United States met that commitment. But everybody entered | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
into willingly. It was a consensus otherwise it would have not been | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
passed. You can understand the American frustration. The mamma | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
administration was just as frustrated as the Trump | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
administration is. -- the Obama Administration was just as | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
frustrated. The Trump administration clearly intends to make Nato's | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
European allies pay more of their fair share. Time for outside source | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
business concentrating on Greece. This man on the right is the EU | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
Finance commissioner who has been in Athens meeting the Greek Prime | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
Minister. The Greek economy is still in deep trouble. It matters because | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
there are economic and political consequences for Europe, in | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
particular those countries which use the euro, if it were to default on | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
its debt. Chris received a bailout worth 86 billion euros in 2015. The | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
next debt payment some 7 billion euros is due in July. The Greeks | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
can't afford to pay unless it accesses more funds from the | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
bailout. It's not going to happen unless Greece's creditors including | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
the IMF and EU, get more austerity reforms in return. The argument of | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
the Greek Prime Minister is it is reasonable. The Greek economy hasn't | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
grown very much and his people have been through enough. These results | :25:05. | :25:13. | |
are due to the crisis of the Greek people. Everybody has to recognise | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
the figures and to respect the sacrifices of the Greek people. So | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
the message is enough with austerity in Greece. It could be destructive | :25:26. | :25:37. | |
to discuss it even for one year or more, the basis of these results. | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
We're going to take a brief break before coming back for the second | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
half. Less than four beats into Donald Trump's presidency and my | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
goodness there has been an awful lot to discuss. We've got Katty Kay with | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
us for a good ten or 15 minutes after the break, any questions you | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
got with what's happening in Washington and how it impacts on | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
everyone around the world, let me know. | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
We're going to take a look at what's going on with the weather around the | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
world. First we're off to Africa. Out in the Mozambique Channel over | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
the last few days we've been watching this storm system | :26:17. | :26:17. |