Hello and welcome to cross talk were all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle with the socalled afghan Peace Process in tatters u. S. Troops still in syria iraq more times than not agreeing with the rand maximum pressure on to rend failing and americas allies in the middle east at odds over yemen can anyone make heads or tails out of trouble Foreign Policy in the middle east it seems to be going from bad to worse. Talking trumps middle east policies im joined by my guest sharmeen me in beirut she is a journalist as well as a middle east geo political analyst in los angeles we have he is an independent economic and geo political analyst former come. Straighter and Strategic Planning advisor and in this area as we crossed through shah he he is a senior lecturer in middle east studies at the university of bradford u. K. Or across the uk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate a show me let me go to you i mean you heard my introduction let me add s
Authoritarian rule of law. Marks 2 decades in office a moscow correspondent whats behind the scenes power. And the search for china just a single use plastic bottle a company in uganda is rediscovering a traditional and completely natural substitute. Drinking straw. To have you with us. Italy has been times in diplomatic crisis off the far right league party said it would go ahead with a no confidence motion and its own government thats after the party leader a deputy Prime Minister. Announced that his coalition with a populist a 5 Star Movement had collapsed over policy differences the Prime Minister has accused salvini of fabricating a crisis. This is not an election rally but it looks like mathias salvini is already gearing up for a vote. I do my job with my heart with with pride if i can do it freely until the end i mean if i realise that someone is trying to stop me then the decision must go back to the italian people with no ifs and buts. You decide you and no one else is not a p
And i think also if you take a snapshot of whats going on right now in the area you would see an increased naval presence without this being organized less convoys for example but if you go back in history back in the late eightys when iran and iraq were fighting a war and attacking each other shipping we saw that quite moisten close escorting up was indeed being and it carried out i think also British Naval vessels so it is a potential scenario and im that of course if that is jason is. Will worsen even more than what we see now thats certainly something that the shipping would appreciate in if the situation does worse and one of the scenarios is of course that the strait of hormuz is closed entirely whats it implications would that be if that happened. To close the strait of hormuz entirely is impossible for for example a country like iran and that would be my assessment but i think it would be difficult to keep it closed for a sustained period of time if its would immediately be tak
Our Weekly Church program and we are on channel russia 24 every week here we discuss the current agenda of the news that happened in russia in the world, in general we are talking about the main events in the context of christian values. Today my guest is a religious historian of islamic studies roman anatolyevich silantyev hello, im glad to see you. And usually we have in the clergy. That rarely happens. Uh, we have a social guest. Im very interested in starting a conversation with you. Thats why, and in the summer i went to a big forum , russia africa, and i know that there was a serious discussion, and religious ideologies will not be spoken of interfaith, probably, more of his references to the dialogue of orthodox catholics, namely dialogue, uh, christians and muslims. Tell us, what stage is this dialogue at today . We are waiting from the countries of africa well, at the moment we have a very good dialogue in russia towards the interreligious. Especially between muslims and chris
And political expert volodyr tsybulko. In the second part of our program, which will start in exactly one hour, we will have political experts oleksiy holobutskyi, Ihor Reiterovych and volodymyr fisenko. However, before we start our big talk, lets watch a video of the consequences of the terrorist attacks of the russian occupiers on highrise residential buildings in kryvyi rih, sumy and myrnograd, died at least. Seven people, this is how the rescue operations took place in these cities, we are conducting a survey of our entire airwaves, we are asking you today, friends, about this, are russian, russian informational and psychological special operations capable of destabilizing the situation in ukraine . Yes, no, everything is quite simple on youtube, if you watch us on tv, pick up your smartphone and vote if you think that russian ipsos can destabilize the situation in ukraine 0800 211381, no 0800 211 380. All calls to these numbers are free, call us, we will be glad to hear your opini