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The Russia investigation takes a dramatic turn

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when President Trump's son admits to meeting a Russian operative.

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Donald Trump Jr changed his story about the 2016 meeting but now says

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he had hoped to find compromising evidence on the

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It's the first admission of it's kind, but is it collusion?

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Donald Trump Jr met the Russian lawyer in order to get the dirt.

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Jared Kushner and Trump's campaign manager also sat in.

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"Close to the dumbest idea I've ever heard" -

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that was one Republican senator's reaction to President Trump

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exploring a joint cyber task force with Putin.

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The Iraqi government declares victory in Mosul.

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There are celebrations in the streets as word spreads

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the city has been liberated from so-called Islamic State.

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But the battle has come at a terrible cost.

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Look at the devastation around here, the heavy fighting, pretty much

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every car and every building has been wrecked.

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Travelling the route of the New Silk Road.

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We have a special report on the trillion dollar project

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With no other country offering a big idea right now,

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this is the most ambitious bid to shape our century.

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Hello, I am Katty Kay in Washington, Christian Fraser is in London.

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Donald Trump's son, his campaign manager and his son in law,

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talked to a well-connected Russian in a meeting billed as a chance

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to get damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

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The June 2016 meeting is the first evidence that people

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in Donald Trump's inner circle did talk to Russians with the intention

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Donald Trump Jr has now confirmed both

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So is this meeting evidence of collusion?

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Or was it simply a chance for some legitimate opposition research?

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And how damaging is it to the President?

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All questions for Congress and the Special Prosecutor

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who are investigating ties between the Trump

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It doesn't help the Trump family that the meeting is only coming

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to light now because of press reporting, and that Donald Trump

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junior had to change his story about it over the weekend.

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key initially said it was about an adoption meeting but then change the

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story to say it was about this information.

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He said, we had a meeting in June 2016 and the woman said she had

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information about Mrs Clinton. So far five people have been forced to

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change the statements who are connected to Donald Trump. Trump the

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right, his son, Donald Trump Jr, the Attorney General Jeff Sessions,

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son-in-law Jared Kushner, for national security and -- national

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security adviser and then his former campaign manager Paul Manafort.

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At the G20 - and in various tweets over the weekend -

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the President continued to equivocate on whether Russian

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He even went so far as to suggest forming a joint cybersecurity

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unit with the Russians, to defend against election

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That idea brought this response from Republican Senator Lindsay Graham.

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When it comes to Russia he's got a blind spot,

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and to forgive and forget when it comes to Putin regarding cyber

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attacks is to empower Putin and that's exactly what he's doing.

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I am dumbfounded, I am disappointed, and at the end of the day he's

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hurting his presidency by not embracing the fact that

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Putin's a bad guy who tried to undercut our democracy and he's

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Also voicing concern was US Republican Senator

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Joining us now is Former National Security Advisor

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I will assume when you were national security adviser to President George

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Bush who and like this in the White House? We are an unprecedented space

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in so many respects. This is a president who ran as a political and

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surgeon to shake up Washington and that is what he is doing.

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How damaging is this to national security in America? We are an early

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days in this administration and they have clearly put down some markers

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about trades, about climate, the Bush administration in its opening

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day is pulled out of the Kyoto protocol which had been reached by

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the Clinton administration and we received a lot of criticism for

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that. I think we are early days and the question is on issues of trade

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and climate, what is the Trump administration going to do in place

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of that. You were at the G20 meetings in

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Warsaw and on this latest indication there were meetings between Donald

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Trump Jr and Russians operatives that have not previously been

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disclosed, why do you think this White House has not said to its

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members, every single meeting with a Russian operative must be disclosed

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now. Two reasons. One this is a up early

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on in the administration before has organised itself and secondly, the

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President's attitude is this is an unfair investigation and he will

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fight it at every step. An alternative approach is what

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President Reagan dead in Iran-Contra and seek this is a problem and I

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will get all the information out and get everyone to co-operate. I think

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the latter would be the better approach.

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Donald Trump spoke about the meeting with President Putin in Hamburg and

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said he pressed President Putin about Russian meddling in the

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election and said he denied it. You have lots of experience sitting

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opposite President Putin. What did you make of the meeting and what we

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have seen since? I think that part was pretty predictable, it's a good

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thing President Trump bracelets, it is not a surprise Putin would deny

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it, he done so consistently. The rest of the meeting was positive. I

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do not think the president made any mistakes. They have a narrow focused

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agreement on Syria which I think is a good thing, they apparently agreed

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to set up something of a working group to address other issues,

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including issues of them about Ukraine. Now a special envoy to deal

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with Ukraine. I think they are off to good start. Rex Tillerson did a

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good job and I would say it's a good start, incremental progress and no

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major mistakes. Well you are here, the other story of the day is the

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Iraqi Government declaring victory in Mosul. You were national security

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adviser and saw the demise of Al-Qaeda in Iraq which of

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course emerged again as Isis. Are you worried it might happen again?

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The most important thing now is what comes in behind Isis. Is there an

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effort to stabilise the situation and provide humanitarian assistance

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and get good local Government in place, get the economy going, jobs,

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if you do not do that, also addressed the sectarian tensions and

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get the differing groups talking. The risk if you do not do that is

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discontent continues and it will be a recruiting ground for Isis 2.0

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which will be even more brutal than Isis. Thank you for joining us. We

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will have more later on on the victory in Mosul the Iraqi

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Government is the clearing. On the Donald Trump Jr story, it is

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not unusual for digging an opposition politicians.

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Obviously I'm the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting

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How bad do you think this is for the White House? Does this leads from

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this story to impeachment? No, certainly not. It's the first time

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that somebody close to Donald Trump was prepared to talk to the Russians

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about the campaign and information on Hillary Clinton. It does not look

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good for the president, izzard collusion? That will be the purview

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of the investigator. It is more ammunition for the investigations

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into the Trump Campion and their ties with the Russians. The house of

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representatives and Senate will not impeach at the moment. On Sunday the

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statement said, I went along to try and get dirt and she did not supply

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and therefore no story but in some measure it shows they were trying to

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potentially collude with the Russians.

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It seems to show they were trying to get information and that is what

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Donald Trump Jr went to that meeting for. The other question is how could

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he possibly have forgotten the meeting and why did it not,

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previously. The Trump administration seems

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unable to escape this Russian story. Yes, the next three

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weeks is supposed to be health care legislation passed,

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and even move on to tax reform. But right now prospects

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are looking pretty bleak. Joining us now is Republican

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political analyst Ron Christie. I was hearing a Republican senator

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this morning sending we can get on the health care and tax reform and

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the Russian investigation is separate. What do you think? I think

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they can but the Republican caucus is an somewhat of a disarray. You

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would think after eight years of being a political wilderness and not

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having the White House or Congress Senate Republicans would have a

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coherent message and legislation to what to do about health care and

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become less weak and they are in a rush, they go out again in a couple

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of weeks for a month so you think they would have something concrete.

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I am cautiously optimistic me Senate will put forward legislation but the

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question is whatever the Senate does can pass the house of

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representatives which is much more conservative than the Senate.

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How serious is this Donald Trump junior Russian story is? Not so

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important. I worked on several campaigns and if someone told me we

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have dirt on opponents. Would you like to meet, of course I would say

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that meeting. If a Russian said that to you? I think the interest here

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anything attached with Russia plus Donald Trump is collusion or

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obstruction or is illegal. I think that is a fallacy. We have had

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strong disagreements on this programme and I have been leading

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the charge about what the president is doing but just by the fact Donald

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Trump Jr happy meeting with someone he did not know and succeeded in

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cremation -- had information on the secretary of state, I don't think

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that is a problem. If he knew he was meeting a Russian, that is more

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problematic. It is not. You're talking about someone who was not

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paid employee of the campaign and just because someone from a foreign

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country asked to meet does not make it illegal. I met with several

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officials from foreign governments who sought my opinion on a variety

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of issues and just because they are from a foreign Government or a

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foreign citizen does not necessarily make them illegal or make this

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collusion or anything other than trying to have a business

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transaction, in my view. Let me take you back to the programme in

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Congress because it seems to me Donald Trump is the one who keeps

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saying health care reform will be coming and is putting pressure on

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himself and legislation like this does not take a long time to push

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through. It took Ronald Reagan 5 years and 9

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months to pass his Tax Reform Act - the more significant step

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in the creation of Reagonomics. Bill Clinton campaigned to change

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parts of that legislation - it took him 203 days to raise taxes

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on high earners and cut some And the Affordable Care Act

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took 426 days to pass. Which is perhaps the most

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relevant time scale - this after all is the legislation

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Donald Trump wants to We other currently 171. Why is he

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putting so much pressure on Congress? I think he believes he

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needs a legislative victory. This is as much about optics as anything

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else. In the Bush administration it took ayes over one year to get his

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signature no Child left behind legislation done. If you will pass

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something to really revamp one sixth of the American economy I say don't

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do it right and be very measured and let's make sure we get some

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bipartisanship to do this right. -- I say we do this right. I think to

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rush this through his misguided. They need to do it all right if they

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are going to get it done. -- do it right.

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The Iraqi government is declaring victory in Mosul,

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the largest city under IS control, after nine months of fighting.

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The prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, visited the city

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Our victory today is a victory against darkness, brutality and

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terrorism. I declare from this place, I declare to the whole world,

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the end and the failure and the collapse of the so-called caliphate.

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Our correspondent Jonathan Beale is in the city where troops this

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morning were still dealing with the last few pockets

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We are at the front line of one of the last pockets, we are told, of

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resistance. There are snipers up there, 200 to 300.

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But you can see the devastation around here from the heavy fighting.

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Even though the Iraqi Prime Minister said they are on the verge

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of victory, in his words, there is still a battle ahead,

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there is still IS fighters out there and the battle for Mosul

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Let's speak to the head of American troops in Iraq and Syria. Thank you

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for joining us. There is a big delay on the line. Thank you. Actually I

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am the head of all coalition troops. There is a long delay on the line.

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You one Mac the war but securing the peace will be much more difficult.

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Well, I think I take exception we have won the war. I would like to

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offer coalition's congratulations to the Iraqi Prime Minister and the

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Iraqi security forces on their historic victory. They also made

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some extraordinary efforts to safeguard civilian lakes. I would

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say the war is far from over, this is one major battle has concluded.

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There are a number of Isis fighters still left in Iraq that will have to

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be defeated before we have won the war. Lots of little towns where you

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will have to fight between Mosul and Baghdad but if and when the fighting

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is over, talking about that piece, I read today there are 25 million

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Sunnis between Baghdad and Damascus whose governments have failed them.

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What do these governments have to do to make Sunnis feel part of the

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country they live in? I think you hit on the essential

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issue which is the cause of Isis in the first place. The Government of

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Iraq did not make the SUNY people feel as if their Government

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represented the interests and fell prey to Isis. And if we are to keep

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Isis, the next Isis, from emerging, we will have two, the Iraqi

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Government will have to do something significantly different and reach

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out and reconcile with the Sunni population and make them feel like

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their Government in Baghdad represents them.

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You today said make no mistake, this victory alone does not eliminate

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Isis and there is still a tough fight ahead. What have you learned

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from fighting, both the coalition and the Iraqi forces, learn from

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fighting Isis in Mosul that will be useful in ...

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This is a brutal, evil enemy. A very determined one. So one of the things

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I learned is this fight will take longer than we anticipated. All sort

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that fighting in cities, I already knew this as a professional soldier,

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how difficult it was to fight in urban areas, but I never saw

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fighting on this extend the duration and scale. We are applying all those

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lessons to the fight we are already engaged in the global capital of

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Isis in Syria. It was the American decision under

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President Obama to pull American forces out of Iraq that enabled Isis

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to grow in the region, in part, will American forces now keep a presence

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in Iraq for longer, to stop Isis 2.0 from re-emerging?

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I think so. Those decisions have yet to be made. However, there is an

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ongoing dialogue between the Government of Iraq, the Government

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of the USA and the governments of other coalition members nations. To

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have a continued coalition presence here after the defeat of Isis, and I

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think that is exactly one of the things we need to do to keep that is

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going down the right path in the future. Thank you very much for

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joining us. Even on the state when you have the

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Iraqi Government declaring victory in Mosul, everyone is being

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cautious. Both our guests being cautious, they are all aware of

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history and the risks of repeating itself, and the complications of the

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politics of this and the need to make sure all the different

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sectarian groups feel vested in these countries and do not turn

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against their governments and enable a future Isis to re-emerge.

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They fought and defeated Al-Qaeda in Iraq and out of that has come

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so-called Islamic state. The Prime Minister of Iraq, who the Americans

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do like, I believe, spoke about how the effective federalism, devolving

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power to Sunnis and also to Kurds, who have taken a lot of ground in

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this site that they are reticent to give up. All the sides in this one

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clear and straight and after their security and security and education

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and policing so they will have, if they want to secure a peace, they

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will have two devolve more power from Baghdad. The question, as

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Stephen touched on, it's how much appetite isn't there in America

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politically to keep an American force of several thousand,

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presumably, in Iraq in the long-term." President Obama was to

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remove those trips and how much political support got for that. Are

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Americans prepared to say this is a long-term fight, even after Mosul

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has fallen and it looks like Isis has been rolled back.

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I'm sure there will but what we do not talk about is the rebuilding

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effort. There are around 60 countries with the UN who have

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contributed money to rebuild in places like Mosul and that will be

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the first challenge, making sure people feel safe enough to come

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back. Looking at the report we saw of the

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sort of destruction and devastation in Mosul that will be no easy thing

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to secure. Lots to do in Iraq. The UN envoy to Syria says

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a ceasefire in the southwest of the country has held quite well

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since it went into force on Sunday. It's hoped the truce might give

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the negotiations some momentum. Staffan De Mistura said

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the de-escalation of the conflict in south-western Syria should be

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a stage on the path A judge at the High Court in London

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says he will reconsider on Thursday the case of Charlie Gard,

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the terminally ill baby, who has been offered treatment

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in the United States. The 11 month old boy has a rare

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disease and is being kept Charlie's parents want the judge

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to evaluate an experimental treatment which they believe

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could improve their son's Meanwhile, the High Court has

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rejected a case brought against the British government

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claiming it's arms sales The case was brought by human rights

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campaigners who argue the UK is breaking international laws

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by selling weapons that have The Saudis have been conducting air

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strikes against the Houthi rebels We have had a lot of CBS News today

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around the world but we just have time for a video of Donald Trump and

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his good deeds of the day. While returning from T20 meetings in

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Germany here he is boarding Marine one but the wind was clearly blowing

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up a deal but lights on his feet, the president receives the marine's

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cap and places it back on his head, only for it to blow off again. Not

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to be defeated, the president chases at once more. Windy days and hats.

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I've noticed the presidential tie was also flapping.

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I thought that was a really nice gesture. There is the Marine

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standing stiff as a board, not allowed to move.

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Nice touch from the president on his way back to the White House.

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Plenty more to come. You are watching 100 Days Plus from BBC

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News. Still to come, Ukraine says it will

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begin discussions to join Nato. We will try and find out how Russia

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would feel about that and whether Nato is on board with the timetable.

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We will talk about the new silk Road. We have spoke a lot about

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globalisation in recent weeks but what about the new globalisation, a

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report on the trillion dollar real project between China and Europe.

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That's all still to come here on 100 Days Plus on BBC News.

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It has been a day of mixed fortunes today. Some sunshine in the

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south-east and Beeson spelt further north. Glorious pictures sent in

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from the Highlands. Also some sharp thundery downpours. Those showers

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are drifting into the North Sea was some still remaining in northern

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England and Scotland. We end the day in southern England with decent

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sunshine. Highs of 27 Celsius. Things will start to change through

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tonight as cloud and rain gathers in from the West and particularly in

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Wales and south-west England. Not as humid as previous nights. We start

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off with some rain across England and Wales and more significant wet

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weather arriving later in the day affecting England and Wales and

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certainly affecting Wimbledon throughout the afternoon. Some rain

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turning quite heavy. A brief role in the middle of the day so not bad for

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the courts early on but more significant rain arrives. For

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Scotland and Northern Ireland, not too bad and northern England with

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sunny spells and scattered showers. Perhaps Northern Ireland will see

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the best of the weather throughout the day. Temperatures way down on

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what we have seen for southern England. Showers turning heavier and

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more persistent throughout the afternoon into the south-west. That

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rain pushes steadily eastwards through the night, some heavy,

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welcome news for the gardens. Behind that area of low pressure the winds

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swing to a northerly making it feel noticeably fresher on Wednesday.

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Despite a good deal of dry weather on Wednesday with sunny spells. The

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quieter theme looks set to continue Thursday into Friday, a good deal of

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dry weather, scattering of isolated showers. Not all doom and gloom but

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certainly feeling noticeably fresher and there will be rain at times but

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also some sunny spells. The welcome party plus. Our top

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stories: The Russian investigation takes a dramatic turn in Donald

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Trump as Nixon admits to reaching special meeting a Russian. I think

:30:25.:30:32.

the President's attitude is that this is an unfair investigation

:30:33.:30:35.

commies going to fight it at every step of the way. President Trump has

:30:36.:30:40.

ruled out exploring a joint cyber task force with Russia, a backdown

:30:41.:30:44.

on the idea after one Republican senator described it as close to the

:30:45.:30:45.

dumbest idea I've ever heard. Today, Ukraine's president said that

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Nato has agreed to begin talks over joining the alliance. Speaking

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alongside Nato's Secretary General, the president said he would

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implement the reforms necessary by 2020. It comes as Ukraine continues

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to fight a Russian backed insurgency in the east of the country.

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Moscow responded today by saying Ukraine's potential ownership in

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Nato would not boost security and stability in Europe. We are joined

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by a former senior director for Russian affairs at the UN Security

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Council in the Obama administration. It's interesting, mail, from the

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Ukrainian Government, we have heard from Moscow, but I haven't heard

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anything publicly from Nato. It is Ukraine driving the timetable on

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this, is Nato fully on board? I think it remains to be seen exactly

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what was agreed to. Ukraine has an interest in leaning forward a bit

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and talking about membership. From Nato's perspective, from the

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perspective of key allies including Germany and the United States,,

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membership of Ukraine is not on the cards at this point. A close

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relationship is, help with defence and military assistance, but I think

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we're at the beginning of a conversation about what relations of

:32:11.:32:14.

Ukraine will have up with Nato over the long run. Polls in Ukraine show

:32:15.:32:16.

that ever since the Russian intervention in the east of the

:32:17.:32:21.

country and in Premier, there is much more support in favour of

:32:22.:32:25.

joining Nato membership in Ukraine than they used to be. -- and in

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Crimea. But Russia says it won't increased about it, this is kind of

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a red rag to Moscow, isn't it? Russians have objected to the Madrid

:32:37.:32:40.

of Nato from the get go, going back to the early 1990s. -- to the

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embodiment of Nato. But Britain come in some ways, is responsible -- pleb

:32:49.:32:58.

won is responsible, for this U-turn in foreign policy. But again, and we

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are the very beginning of a conversation, and it may well be

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that we have to wait for several years before we get a better sense

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of whether Ukraine has a serious chance of becoming a member. We had

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on the show last week, very timely, the man who has been named as the

:33:25.:33:28.

special Robson to do to Ukraine. It is has been said is a hardliner when

:33:29.:33:33.

they comes to matters in Kiev. -- the special representative to

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Ukraine. In terms of the Russian investigation, it's very difficult

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to know,? Of weird habits conversation earlier in the year, I

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would have said that the cupboard Ministry 's and seems to be doing a

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somersault on Ukraine -- the Trump administration, he had talked about

:33:50.:33:55.

three Ukraine under the bus, recognising Crimea, dropping

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sanctions, but since then they have tax towards a more conventional

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position. The President made a point of meeting with the Ukrainian

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president, he flew to Poland, which is on the survival of Nato, the US

:34:09.:34:14.

has said that sanctions that are at least van Gogh Nato, yes said that

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sanctions will remain in place. So they are now at the point of saying

:34:19.:34:23.

that pulses looked huge remain in place, and it is now up to us see if

:34:24.:34:33.

we can't get Dunn it's essentially up to the Russians to agree together

:34:34.:34:39.

troops out and stop the separatism rebellion, and in return, Ukraine

:34:40.:34:42.

grants the region at high level of a tummy. -- autonomy. On the show, we

:34:43.:34:52.

spend a lot of time exploring common themes across the abundant. Tonight,

:34:53.:34:55.

we have an author who makes the case for us in his new book. He makes the

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case for white prince. Democracy are under threat.

:35:03.:35:08.

He says that America has been ceding its role ever since the invasion of

:35:09.:35:13.

Iraq and that China will inevitably fill the global power vacuum. Ed,

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thank you very much for coming into the studio. Donald Trump, Brexit,

:35:19.:35:22.

the populism that we have seen in other countries in Europe, the

:35:23.:35:25.

symptoms of what you're talking about or are the also causes of it?

:35:26.:35:29.

I think they're about. But this has been a long time in coming. There

:35:30.:35:36.

has been a source of... Perhaps self soothing interpretation of 2016

:35:37.:35:39.

Brexit and Trump is just being the weird, volcanic eruptions in the

:35:40.:35:45.

other rows dormant range of Western liberal democracy and that would be

:35:46.:35:48.

a serious up misreading of how deeply rooted and structural the

:35:49.:35:51.

middle of our middle economy is our feeling. The middle of the economy

:35:52.:36:01.

has an impact on politics. If you're looking for an optimistic, feel-good

:36:02.:36:04.

beak Street, I'm guessing this is not really. But how bleak are you,

:36:05.:36:10.

how bleak do you feel about the prospects for the Western liberal

:36:11.:36:15.

democracy? Is it really price point? Its crisis point, but maybe it is

:36:16.:36:19.

called the retreat, and my publishers wanted it to be called

:36:20.:36:22.

the collapse of Western liberalisation, and I argued against

:36:23.:36:27.

that, because retreat implies the possibility of regrouping to stop

:36:28.:36:31.

what we have seen in France with Emanuel Macron's victory, and Angela

:36:32.:36:36.

Merkel trying to revive the Franco German motor, that is definitely a

:36:37.:36:42.

glass of champagne half full. And in context, the rest of the world, the

:36:43.:36:46.

non-Western is falling out of poverty at a faster rate than ever

:36:47.:36:49.

before in team in history. That is good news. Our ability to cope with

:36:50.:36:59.

the jubilant impact of that is not something that fills me with

:37:00.:37:02.

optimism there. -- the geopolitical impact. It has been said before that

:37:03.:37:08.

things will be better for children than for us, but that has stopped,

:37:09.:37:12.

that is driving some of the resembled politics. There is, I

:37:13.:37:16.

think, a Champagne moment in Europe with Emanuel Macron and that is

:37:17.:37:20.

driving a rapprochement between Germany and France. But I wonder how

:37:21.:37:26.

long that will last? Because you can't tell me that those elements

:37:27.:37:28.

that were there, that were supporting the front National and

:37:29.:37:32.

supporting the far left, they have not disappeared, have they? They

:37:33.:37:39.

haven't. And it is troubling to see that e-mail Macron's victory was on

:37:40.:37:47.

a historic low turnout, it's a really thin mandate that he has. And

:37:48.:37:51.

of course, his plan is to get the Germans to relax, they are very,

:37:52.:37:57.

militaristic fiscal rules. The Germans committed in their DNA to do

:37:58.:38:03.

this. Unless he can persuade angler Marco -- angler Marco -- Angela

:38:04.:38:09.

Merkel that it is in their interests to do this, the suffering parts of

:38:10.:38:16.

the European Union are going to get more populous and resentful. I

:38:17.:38:19.

surely caution implicit in your question. I wish we could top more

:38:20.:38:24.

about it, we are running out of time. Thank you for coming on and

:38:25.:38:28.

talking about your book. The agents at road was the world's

:38:29.:38:34.

first superhighway. -- the ancient silk Road. Now, China is hoping to

:38:35.:38:40.

recreate that route. The critics say Beijing is trying to exert its

:38:41.:38:43.

influence on all 60 countries that are investing in it, but Mel -- many

:38:44.:38:51.

could well be indebted for decades. Starting in China, the route winds

:38:52.:38:55.

its way past Indonesia, Sri Lanka and ends up in Europe. At the same

:38:56.:38:59.

time and that there will be a land-based networks making west

:39:00.:39:08.

through central Russia. They call them the ships of the

:39:09.:39:15.

desert. For centuries, the camel trains of the silk Road dominated

:39:16.:39:21.

trade between China and the west. Now, China wants to recreate the

:39:22.:39:34.

silk Road. This time, by train. When this man started here, 34 years ago,

:39:35.:39:39.

China sold the role next to nothing. Now, he is a foot soldier for a

:39:40.:39:45.

trading superpower. I asked how that had changed him. TRANSLATION: We are

:39:46.:39:55.

under a lot of pressure. Expectations are high but there is

:39:56.:40:00.

also a lot of hope. We need the training to develop faster and

:40:01.:40:05.

better. The pressure is coming from the top. Not led by merchants... But

:40:06.:40:14.

by a president. Chinese emperors once claimed to rule all under

:40:15.:40:19.

heaven. With the United States no longer leading on trade, the

:40:20.:40:25.

president has seized his chance. He calls his vision... His vision may

:40:26.:40:39.

be so vast that it may be so decades until we can tell whether it is a

:40:40.:40:43.

successor to the entrance will grow. But we can say that with no country

:40:44.:40:46.

offering a big idea right now, that this is the most ambitious bid to

:40:47.:40:55.

shape our century. Already, Chinashapes our material lives. But

:40:56.:41:02.

selling abroad and building at home is no longer enough to keep the

:41:03.:41:05.

strange economy growing. Now, it plans to build a broad two. A

:41:06.:41:13.

win-win for all, says China. But when the talking is done, Chinese

:41:14.:41:20.

traders drive a hard bargain. ,, for an old friend. The world by much

:41:21.:41:26.

more from them than the other way round. Red tape can make importing a

:41:27.:41:32.

nightmare. The Government can change the law at any time. So there is no

:41:33.:41:38.

real concrete law. There is no grey area at the moment. -- there is a

:41:39.:41:44.

grey area. If the Government made it more clear, it would be easier. But

:41:45.:41:48.

the new Silk Road is China solving China's problems. Money and muscle

:41:49.:41:54.

heading west. On a journey across three continents. Bidding to redraw

:41:55.:42:06.

the map and command the century. It's strange to think isn't it, that

:42:07.:42:13.

the old Silk Road, 2000 years ago, was the first ex-parent and

:42:14.:42:18.

globalisation. -- the first experiment. And now they are

:42:19.:42:23.

recreating it. And we have talked a lot on this programme, if America

:42:24.:42:27.

loan, China is well prepared to step into this vacuum. -- if America

:42:28.:42:37.

first means America alone. We have really enjoyed doing this

:42:38.:42:40.

programme, behind the scenes, of course, there's a fantastic team who

:42:41.:42:47.

have really helped us. We would like to say happy birthday to our editor,

:42:48.:42:50.

Kate. There was chocolate cake as well. I

:42:51.:42:54.

didn't get any chocolate cake, here in Washington. None.

:42:55.:42:58.

We will see you tomorrow, do join us tomorrow.

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