Where farmers have been hard hit by the president's trade policies retaliatory tariffs imposed by other countries in response to President Trump's trade war have depressed prices for corn soybeans and hawgs among other commodities researchers at Iowa State University say that's taken a $1.00 to $2000000000.00 bite out of the farm state's economy the trumpet ministration hopes to soften that blow with a new environmental policy that the president's announcing at his rally in Council Bluffs we'll be talking a little ethanol tonight Trump wants to lift a summertime ban on blending ethanol with gasoline a move that could prop up farm prices but might also worsen small the move pits one group that often supports the president farmers against another the fossil fuel industry Scott Horsley n.p.r. 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Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is stepping down later on we'll hear about the growing pressure on the Saudi authorities to explain the disappearance of the dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to plus the Dutch government falls foul of the courts for falling behind on its carbon emission targets the government should be acting here and the government is not acting in the interest of their citizens as a consequence of this we are being threatened by an enormous danger which is climate change 1st though she once got into a Twitter spot with Donald Trump she ended up translating and in acting his Twitter diplomacy is the u.s. Ambassador to the United Nations not for much longer though today out of the blue Nikki Haley announced that she'd be stepping down at the end of the year the resignation was confirmed at a photo cool at the White House where have boss was full of praise for her achievements we've done a fantastic job together we sell a lot of problems over the practice of solving a lot of problems at the beginning North Korea was a massive problem and we're moving along. Really nicely I can speak for secretary of state Mike from Paoli thinks the world. Make it. So we're all we're all happy for you in one way but we hate to lose a deal of real to come back from one country was just going to be a different direction you could have your pick Nikki Haley former governor of South Carolina who is said to have bigger political ambitions gave no indication of why she's leaving her post but said the administration she'd served had already left its mark look at the 2 new workout what has kept coming here for the United States on foreign policy now the United States is respected can. Trees may not like what we would say that they know that if we say we're going to do something we follow through in the present that whether it was with the chemical weapons in Syria whether it was NATO saying that other countries have to pay their share I mean whether it's the trade deals which have been amazing they get. And they all agree that the b.b.c. Is not a tough week in New York whether there was any clarity about why Nikki Haley has gone. Well in a resignation letter to the president she said that she's looking to go into the private sector and she said there that she felt that she had served her time that she'd accomplish what she wanted and so the speculation is that either she wants to go into the private sector and start making some money of after all she has 2 kids going to college but the other speculation is that really she is setting herself up for her next political job and there are so many different rumors about some suggesting that if the Attorney General Jeff Sessions gets fired and Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina fills that role that that would leave an opening for her in the Senate also that she could possibly run for president in 2024 so lots of speculation about her next moves and really nobody knows the real answer yet 22 any fool but she said today 2020 yes she actually preempted questions about that because certainly that's what everyone has on their mind Nikki Haley has been a rising star in the Republican Party and before she was a never Trumper But here she has been a conservative superstar she has come to the United Nations when no one really knew her around the globe she wasn't a name that was known by diplomats here and now everybody knows who Nikki Haley is she has asserted American sovereignty which was the goal of the trumpet ministration She has defended Israel here against what she has called u.n. Bias she has struck deals with China and Russia to get North Korea sanctions on the table and moving and she has been a Russian hawk and so for many they have seen her time here as a success for those who agree with President Trump policies and even diplomats here I was speaking to a few ambassadors going into an afternoon Security Council session and they all praised her they said even though they didn't agree with her policies that she was someone that they could negotiate with in a very open and engaging fashion the French ambassador said she was the most talented and authentic u.s. . From an official he ever worked with an event the Bolivian ambassador who often gets into spats with her in the Security Council or over Syria or Russia said that the Security Council was a family and that he enjoyed her time and he thought that she was a wonderful person so a lot of affection for Nikki Haley here maybe she's not a tough week in New York well for an assessment of Nikki Haley's time at the u.n. I've been speaking to Brad Blakeman a Republican consultant in the film a senior Staffa in the George w. Bush White House and Stephen pump of the director of the u.s. Program for the International Crisis Group a former senior National Security Council Advisor who oversaw u.n. Affairs in the a bomb or administration does Brad Blakeman agree with that assessment that Nikki Haley went from a never trump a to a conservative superstar I think that's true and like so many people who are serving the administration perhaps they were not Additionally supportive of the president when he got the nomination. They back their party's candidate and they chose to serve and Nikki Haley served with distinction I think she was a rock star at the u.n. Certainly credible in that role great assistance to our country great help to the president so she will be the best Stephen pump of your assessment. So I think the domestic political assessment is probably right I think you know certainly her star rose in conservative political circles here in the United States I think she gets more mixed marks for her performance at the United Nations I think her legacy includes pulling the United States back from institutions that advance u.s. Interests and values like the Human Rights Council and other bodies I think also she will probably be associated with the politicization of humanitarian assistance in terms of the u.s. Point back for its support for Palestinian refugees and I think her approach to human rights has been pretty highly selective and I think that that will over the law. Long term probably hurt u.s. Credibility on those issues yet you had those assessments that she was getting all the way out to was she saying do you think amongst the diplomatic home friends that she was in to a certain extent a mole outwardly looking pots of the administration than others so I think you know to some extent people were probably quite worried when the trumpet ministration was coming in that they didn't know what to expect and whether or not the you know administration might turn its back entirely on the United Nations and you know to give appropriate credit I think she did protect to some extent you know the budget that the United States puts into the United Nations and the relationship between Syria u.s. Officials and senior u.n. Officials and I'm sure that her colleagues at the United Nations we're very grateful for that broad Lightman Who do you think will should come next well I think somebody who will continue the legacy of investor Halley you know to my friends comments we had a lot to clean up after the Obama administration their policy of apology to appease meant didn't work very well that we could our country. And in Boulder and to be sure that the series and the sea change that's happened under President Trump has been one of putting America 1st should get college credit for that would certainly be a good neighbor to our friends and we're going to stand up to adversaries and enemies something that the Obama administration was very hesitant to do they sought America's just another neighbor in a neighborhood that's not so. Should never apologize for all its name public come back to that but but just on who the next ambassador might be what are your thoughts popes. Light my thoughts and hope church going to be that it's going to be somebody strong like Ambassador Hell even can give comfort to our friends and and cause some consternation to our adversaries and I think he's the un has not been at great partners to the United States is a matter of fact the organization we pulled out it was a return on investment we weren't getting the return on our investment we were investing in and organizations that were hostile to the United States would have a kind of a run let's let's get Stephen pompous view on this I mean whoever does replace say we're going to get more of the same would you see I think you're going to get somebody who works well with former Ambassador John Bolton is now the national security adviser at the White House he's somebody who's obviously got very specific sort of hardline views on the United Nations and I think it's become very active in managing u.s. Policy there so I'd expected to be somebody who you know is you have more of the same or actually closer frankly to Bolton ideologically. And as to the points that Brad Blakeman was making Yeah I just don't know I don't agree obviously fundamentally I think you know obviously multilateral institutions are going to align themselves with us all the time but when the u.s. Participates when it throws its weight behind efforts at these institutions they can be very effective when you look at for example Myanmar in the ethnic cleansing the atrocities against 3 and yet that's an issue that Nikki Haley cares about the institution of the u.n. That's been the most vocal and and sort of for meaning on those issues has been the Human Rights Council she herself cited the Human Rights Council in her you know Human Rights Council report in remarks to the Security Council at the end of August but at the same time she's undermining the Human Rights Council by attacking its legitimacy Stephen Pumpa and Brad Blakeman there with their assessment of Nikki Haley's time at the u.n. . As we were going on air yesterday reports began to emerge that the investigative website Belling cat had identified the 2nd of the 2 suspects in the soles Bre nerve agent poisoning case according to the man who claimed to be a Russian tourist called Alexander Petrova is actually Alexander Miskin a doctor employed by the g.r.u. Russia's military intelligence agency the website had previously identified his fellow suspect as another g.r.u. Operative on a totally chippy get the Russian authorities consistently deny that the g.r.u. Was behind the poisoning of the former Russian spy said Gates could pilot his daughter a year well today the founder of the Belling Katz site and it had been told news out how they had worked out Alexander Michigan's identity so you were able to discover he was actually trying to military doctor before he joined the g.r.u. Full time we're not sure exactly when he was a crew Ted but be able to confirm he has he part that you know you can we found very interesting is he's actually from a very small remote town which has a population of about 700 to a fountain and people and he's actually very well known that because he won the prestigious hair of Russia Walt we were. Working for a partner the insider in Russia who has sense journalists there yesterday and he spoke to local people who told him about the hero of Russia award they confirm the identity and he even spoke to friends of grandmother and missions grandmother has a photograph so these persons told us that shows him receiving the award directly from about me Putin himself and he went on to say that the Russians had once given another member of Military Intelligence a fake id using a similar process there's a case in Montenegro a few years ago where a geo you officer was exposed his fake id was published and there what was discovered is some of his fake parka for he was actually the same as Israel biography his 1st name date of if his fake place of birth was actually quite close to where he was actually born so using that information we had a ferry that this might be to be the case with Michigan sorrow we have his 1st name his fake place of birth his real dates of birth and we search various databases truth so with Russia there's a lot of databases of the leaked online they've been floating around for years and it turns out his name was on that with the same dates of birth now only had his 1st name and then he had his dates of puffins off the lots of people who might have a 1st name so we needed to photograph the photograph with those documents was exactly the same person as the photographs of the scriptural suspects we then fold up by various forms of investigations we've spoken to people on the ground who know him former classmates lots of information and that was Elliot Higgins of the Belling tat investigative website you're listening to the b.b.c. 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Is involved in the area it supports the white helmet see celebrated Civil Defense Organization which the Assad government and its supporters claim is a cover for a terrorist group and this Special Report on Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen has been travelling on the Syrian army side around the front lines that surrounded lib . Yellowing I saw. My come. Through with Commander now below his local commander of the National Defense Force a sort of territorial force here which is a big part of the Syrian government war effort and we're heading up to the from our . Just driving out of his base and lots of photos of marches dead soldiers people on the Syrian government side many being killed do people feel safe in this town You're very close to the front line I should not. Be any. They are taking things from the name of this city can be you know ironically stubborn or resistance the city feels safe thanks to the Syrian army and national defense forces. In the morning we go to funerals in the evening we go through with things and we go back to our positions on the frontlines claiming feet tall radio using truly great Lebanese G.'s f. a Roof and I want to change of this song is from what's happening to my city for female another Let's do this just just live very nice must also whisk 8 or 10 to 12 in the mechanical. Action action action action what you think of Britain's role in the world but it. Would fall out falling off of non Britain was a part of this war look at these mortars which landed on this monster and Brittany's part of these mortars Britany sparking off to the killing of our women and children they are partners in a sense to push us from this land yet I've begun speaking as horn