Bolton and others not according to President Trump who appears to see advantages in unvetted acting members of his team so actually give your bike greater flexibility a lot easier to do so thats the way it is but what things war with iran of the japanese g. 20 perhaps nato will today have one eye on japanese Prime Minister shinzo a bit he was with irans president rouhani the time of the tanker attack in the straits of hormuz while the u. K. Broadcasters ruggedly north to publicize news of japans ties with iran it made news around the world for instance in this clip from singapore japan is finding itself in a unique position as a strong u. S. Ally and a friend of iran mr mediterranean the president Hassan Rouhani when he would arrive yesterday since that meeting trump is all but declared a full scale military attack on iran after claiming he stopped short of the murder of 150. 00 arraignments he declared further Economic Warfare not only. On the iranian people via sanctions but on irans head of state to the response from jeff ron is making headlines in the usa iran is the lashing out at the u. S. Over a new financial pressure saying there will be no diplomatic end to the standoff this morning a rani and president Hassan Rouhani called new u. S. Sanctions outrageous and idiotic his words now a spokesman for Irans Foreign Ministry said the measures equal a permanent closure for diplomacy so that it then no more diplomacy and then just ahead of fridays g 20 summit trump tweets about terminating u. S. Socalled protection of world oil supplies traversing the persian gulf there was of clearly done so much to protect the middle east so after the tweet drops in iran point man pops up on business channel c. N. N. B c to give jitters to crude futures markets about who pays for Maritime Security the g. 20 is coming up and so thats a good forum for i think leaders to talk about Maritime Security and freedom of navigation chat around responded to all this by saying donald trump is 100 percent right the u. S. Has no business in the persian gulf it will certainly be a trick for u. K. Neocon politicians to align themselves with this new policy and what else will World Leaders have to talk about at the g. 20 in japan this weekend and how isolated will britain in the United States be joining me now via skype from tokyo is professor. Japans representative at the i. M. F. During the with economic crisis thanks so much jessica for coming on the show to tell me about this have a bit of history tell me about it g. 20 began to replace g 8 after the shock of the 28. 00 western economic crisis in the obvious austerity to pay off bank losses. Not started in the spring of 2009 and 6 months after the name of shock at the Spring Meeting of the i. M. F. G. Meeting was scheduled in washington d. C. And i was there as of yet and were presenting of one of the japanese government. And those days actually obama Obama Administration they they feel that it will be a bit difficult situation whereby. For European Countries if a russia is included its 5 might that all United States for its fear or do you think management of either present market in the United States which caused the shock so the United States. Shifted. Its rate on g 20 rather than g 8 and what does it feel like for you because you kind of seen it before i want to actually talk about nationalisation whether its going to be on the agenda this weekend because you were part of the Bank Nationalization program in japan after the 9090 Southeast Asia gracious crisis did you just treat everyone like youd seen it all before when. This started those socalled. Global standard which we were preached by in western countries we mean include the Asian Countries including japan were seeing countries just living with threw away those things a crisp or a we today they actually they actually preached us our way and they just i think riskier big banks and big businesses using the i think taxpayers money you remember of course how well martir is back maybe hes going to be the g. 20 how he was attacked for not supporting i. M. F. Orthodoxy and the kind of neo liberalism arguably that still hangs around the European Union today when we had that thing asian that you can request is you know a certain dr martin who actually proposed. To stop the Free Movement of but all the capital and he had to close down his country and thanks to that hes country are actually recovered very fast but he was heavily criticized by i. M. F. And also were saying European Countries but were lima shock started actually im a started to introduce that doctrine into other western European Countries so its an interesting i think history do you think this weekend there will be a greater understanding that democratic accountability of Financial Institutions is more important rather than neoliberal privatization. And it would take much much longer time for the for people to understand that because there is going to politics works not on the socalled democracy but mainly for example you need money for your the campaign so i think big business is and always the big banks still have a big voice in the United States and also in europe but is japan in a peculiar situation right now Shinzo Abhinav course was in tehran when the United States was accusing iran of attacking a japanese tanker in the persian gulf when i worked as a budget examiner in the missile fire and as you know late 1980 s. And also in early 990 s. The same kind of the quizes study ocurred in that home straight at the time of the iran iraq war and as you know that there was a very hot internal debate what japan can do so i think now this is the time where and when the parents should go back over the president and again i think debate internally what we should do but of course iran denies attacking the japanese tanker and. Trumps advisers on the record for wanting war with iran before they joined the administration will the g. 20 be in different rooms because china russia and india of with the 1st to announce try laterals they clearly dont want any kind of war or conflict with iran or Economic Warfare even 20 and he he made it he made it big clear that he doesnt want any war and he actually i think. Your audience actually approved Prime Minister. How to deal with mr trump so that was why. He decided to go to a thing or 2 or on although then trump tweeted why is the United States subsidizing the protection of the straits of hormuz given that japan relies so much on those straits for oil imports. But actually it is not only japan but also many Asian Countries who i think we live up on those which go through that are the homeless artists great and one thing which is very clear to me is internally this crisis would actually help japan to discuss more thing more positively on the issue of the resumption of the Nuclear Power plant in japan ok but what about the well of sanctions at g 20 because the United States is clearly using sanctions described by its victims as Economic Warfare as a big tool turkey saying its going to get s. 400 Missile Defense systems from russia china of course has been repeatedly threatened over the past 12 months what do you think g. 20 leaders are going to tell the United States the most difficult thing in india by the negotiations is to bring you or your youre the counterpart on to the i think the new sit on table and i believe that that i believe that trump has a very very successful at the business that he knows how difficult it is so he has been throwing lots and lots of balls to many countries like china and russia. And. Mexico and canada so we should not take. Action too seriously. Because i believe that he doesnt have every. Expectation of the result of such a thing it was asian well just finally they used to call obviously the economies of Southeast Asia the geese economies following japan youll remember that well the European Union its average less than one percent g d. Growth since 2008 what do you think about lots of talk in europe spain italy particularly let alone portugal and others who may be looking to Southeast Asia and more specifically china now rather than to Washington Well i believe that since up in 2016 the world is in the turning point of history starting with the president ial election in philippines. The bracks it and the victory of followed in 2016 and in 2017 the same train continued with the it in general with that in the election in the United Kingdom and also the victory of mccraw. And also only in new york in an election in germany and all of these clearly showed the defeat of so called the establishment i think particularly on both sides of the atlantic. Thank you. After the break as washington ratchets up the conflict from venezuela to iran can they post human existence help humanity avoid catastrophic annihilation we speak to one of the queens scientists astronomer royal or greece of love glow pioneer of multiverse is black holes and galaxy formation and 80 is off to libya with the 2 remaining contenders for britains premiership secret war conflict 100 years since the signing of the treaty of aside all of them all coming up a bunch of going underground. Pretty. Good food descriptions sound up a tasing even for the owners so how to choose the pet Food Industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us than was necessarily good for the pet turns out that food may not be the best people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis they have auto immune disorders allergies we are actually creating these problems its a huge of a democrat problems all of them i believe can be linked to fairy simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets last treats a larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because theyre already making it a 1000000000. 00 on it and theres no reason to do that research. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports. Business im show business ill see you then. Welcome back while arguable apologists for israeli violations of un resolutions look to trumps socalled bus rein deal of the century we are 48 hours from 100 years since another deal of the century after the outbreak of the german revolution which ended world war one the imperialist treaty of versailles which led inexorably to world war 2 was a deal signed in france to carve up and bankrupt the workers of germany this is what u. K. Labor leader Jeremy Corbin said about misplaced commemorations and the best memories of the civil war over the missiles with millions of. The mean on the east in the way says it was youll all to be funny given the leader of the British Labor party is famously anti war so what about his future counterparts given britains conservatives find themselves in a leadership battle he is one contender appearing to complain that corbin is not ready to join in any Trump Military action against mideast Oil Superpower iran do you think it would be pretty obvious who was responsible for this when we actually have Video Evidence that shows what the iranians have been doing but oh no for Jeremy Colgan its all americas fault and this is the same man by the way who refused to condemn after the souls primo chalk attacked iran absolutely denies responsibility for the tanker attacks with jeremy hunt it is not just iran goldman is wrong about its also britains world war 2 ally russia mind you he is competing with someone who thinks last years russian world cup is comparable to the 1936 olympics held by the treaty of its eyes by the fisheries the nazis i think the comparison with 936 is. Right and i think its in. A messy prospect rightly. Think of. Putting glory in this this this sporting event given johnson is speaking about a russia that could destroy britain and that he supported tony blairs catastrophic war in iraq now might be a good time to ask about the prospects for humanity as the u. S. S. Abraham lincoln sails near iran britains astronomer royal lord reece astrophysicist colleague of the late Jeremy Corbyn supporter Stephen Hawking will today be addressing Global Threats at the farmers festival in zurich other speakers include cosmonauts and astronauts as well as musicians like brian eno and queens brian may the astronomer royal joins me via skype from cambridge laundries welcome to going on the ground here 3 get a stomach festival in zurich in threat solent tell me about the talks title prospects for humanity based on the book you published with my book covers many topics but in my talk im going to focus on the future prospects because the storm a specialist a wonderful occasion which gets together astronauts in the stormers etc and what i will say is that space now is something we use every day to saturn out of communication monitoring weather forecasting etc but of course in a sense the glamour went out of its the cause the high points of manned space flight was what were celebrating now 50 years ago the apollo moon landings and of course we have to ask is the going to be revival of space that will make it is braced will again and i think that we are going to expect that because robots of advance so much the practical case and the need for sending humans is getting less. Because machines can now do far more and i would imagine that we will have much cheaper ways of launching sings it to space we have robotic fabricators that to build huge structures in space maybe move a question of industry off the earth and having to sell energy collectors a huge radio antennae and things like that in space but what about the role of human beings and i personally think that the human part of Space Exploration will become really something which is an adventure rather something practical and i think people will want to go to space we should cheer on those who want to go but i think they will be people who will go on cut price high risk ventures because i dont really imagine theres any major country is now going to invest in a publicly funded Space Exploration is a degree americans they invested huge amounts to get men on the moon and they then invest and lost in the Space Shuttle and the shuttle is lost 135. 00 times and it failed twice and each of those failures when the shuttle crashed was a big National Trauma now a 2 percent failure rate is 2 in 100. 00 says he launches is quite acceptable to test pilots in the venturers but the American Public wanted something even safer and thats why i think it would be too expensive for the americans and probably for the russians to do a puppy to funded the Space Program which is safe enough you know some might be shocked because obviously our own colleagues Stephen Hawking was a great friend of german korean in the book and presumably in the talk are advocating the privatization of the exploration of brave private companies as i am because i dont think any taxpayers money should be spent on it because its of no practical use its an adventure its a high risk project you mentioned Stephen Hawking and i have to say. I strongly disagree with late Stephen Hawking and with elon musk when they say that we should invade his mass emigration to mars i think thats a dangerous illusion because living on mars is far less comfortable living at the south pole will top of everest and dealing with Climate Change on earth is a dottle compared to terra forming mars so theres no planet be the organ risk averse people but on the other hand. I think we should cheer on these pioneers but the reason theyre important is this theres by that time we will have huge advances in Cyber Technology and in genetic modification and were going to regulate these technologies here on earth to potential unethical reasons but these guys out on mars their way from the regulators who are over theyve got a far greater incentive than us on earth to use these techniques because theyre clearly ill adapted to mars whereas where well adapted to the earths so its those guys are models who will use all those techniques to modify themselves and eventually within a century or 2 they may be in effect a new species whether theyll be still flesh and blood or whether they let them be it