even in helsinki, the recent meeting with mr. putin, he seemed to be saying, we ll see if we can get on, do business together. we have this start treaty in place. we might as well extend it, and the trump style about what he might get out of that. obviously, things have soured since but generally speaking there seems to be a new fodder between washington and moscow and a new chill that s reflected here. part of what seems to be going on, to me, tony blinken, is that the administration doesn t like the old elements of the international system, that they ve viewed them as other ways that others have cheated and the u.s. has to follow the rules. on the heels of mike pompeo s speech, which i thought it was underreported, where he basically said that the european union is a bad idea, we would much prefer the he aligned himself with the euro skeptics who are essentially trying to
himself with the euro skeptics who are essentially trying to unravel the european union, another element of this sort of world order that the united states had helped build during the cold war. fareed, you re exactly right. what s so strange here is that in a sense this is exactly the right thing to do. profoundly wrong to pull out of the treaty in response. if someone is breaking the law, you don t tear up the law. you enforce it. this will be a gift to vladimir putin and russia. we get the blame instead of the actual culprit. it s likely to divide us from our allies and it s absolutely unnecessary. there are other steps that we could take that wouldn t put us in violation of the treaty and that would put pressure on russia to come into compliance. we have a long history much these arms control agreements, starting with john kennedy, every president through obama negotiated an accord with russia. we went from about 65,000
of a victory for theresa may this evening in parliament how much of a victory is well it s a victory compared to what she s had over the past few weeks she has finally managed to get some unity within her party she has managed to bring on board those euro skeptics those hardcore bracks it is who want to leave the european union as quickly as possible and she s managed to get support from those ten northern irish unionist m.p. s who prop up government so from that point of view she s done very well also i would say tonight that what we have seen if that a rich deal have planned threshed out with the e.u. is not yet dead it has almost come back from the dead and that we may we will probably see more of this in the next few weeks as she goes of see to the e.u. and she comes back to parliament again. that is one way to describe it but barbara
this breaks a deal to parliament they re the ones who need to approve it in order for it to go ahead but cooled it off simply because she knew it just wasn t popular enough now nothing has changed as far as the critics are concerned and she really faces an almost impossible task of selling not very same deal going forward but it s there are some minor changes that do need to be taken into account first of all there has been the vote of confidence in the prime minister this week what that means is that the euro skeptics within her in party cannot challenge to reason may for at least two years so she will be able to turn it around to them and say look this is my deal you either accept it or you don t and then going forward it looks like the vote in parliament is going to be put forward in january what that means is that it s just roughly two weeks before the u.k. is meant to be leaving the european union on march twenty ninth there will be some nerves here in the u.k. and in the about th
a euro skeptics and watchful it s going on here in the you know we ve used the entrance of the arctic many times but it certainly does apply to what s happening right now with bricks and i was first warning thank you. here s some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world of high school students have been out on the streets of paris today protesting against the french government s education reforms the march follows three weeks of nationwide demonstrations against president micron s economic policies last night the president promised an increase in the minimum wage in tax cuts for pensioners but students say their concerns have not been addressed google s c.e.o. has become the latest leader of a u.s. tech giant to face a grilling by members of the u.s. congress sundar pichai did night accusations that google has programmed any political bias into its search services he also repeated the company s position that it has no plans right now to launch a censored sear