Exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We begin with a ron striking back with iran striking back after the u. S. Air strike that killed top iranian general Qasem Soleimani last week. For more, simon foxman joins us from doha. What is the latest on the retaliatory attacks on the part of iran . Big question has been whether or not there are any casualties caused by this attack. We just saw, as i was sitting down, it appears u. S. Officials are saying no casualties. That they were informed of this before it happened. If there were casualties, it would have caused a much stronger u. S. Response, the thinking goes. If not, perhaps we could see ourselves moving towards some type of negotiation, some sort of diplomatic resolution. The ayatollah, and he the Ayatollah Khomeini saying this is a slap in the face to the United States. The foreign minister, though, taking a bit more of a co
Indeed we just happened over the last. Period of about 10 years but it is specially since 2014 is of the crisis in ukraine i think is crystallized russian doubts about the extent to which a partnership with the west is possible and what we saw after 2014 is that there you can take the russians by surprise you can never panic them and they will always adjust very rapidly and very effectively to changes in policy by the west and to aggressive moves by the west so what has happened is that the russians firstly adjusted their Energy Policy and they werent going to let ukraine continue to sit on top of their transit pipelines and try to block all control russian gas exports to europe so the russians full steam ahead with all these other part lines north street to turk stream which are birds now rapidly coming to an. End the end there being they have been theyve been built and theyve been successfully built and attempts to stop them have not succeeded it and of course they have successfully
With. A welcome to cross talk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle with ukraine remaining in the headlines we have a look how russias Foreign Policy is changed since the 2014 kids and the impeachment circus continues but its anything but funny. Talking some real news im joined by my guest here in moscow dimitri shes a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london we crossed alexander macarius he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to 1st in london. Well ukraine remains in the headlines and the 2nd half of the program well talk about the impeachment circus but lets focus on how ukraine the ukraine the ukraine project that the west has had since the coup in 2014 is changed russias Foreign Policy and its something thats beginning to worry people. In and i mean worrying people at th
A major realignment with china theyve built Gas Pipelines with china theyve developed very close police equal relationships with china chinas now become their Major Trading partner and in almost every respect what we see is that russia has distanced itself from the west its made his position diplomatically much stronger and he has succeeded in countering western moves within ukraine itself crimea is now once again part of russia nobody expects that to change their russia or is also a major player in ukraine in politics its the ukrainians realize they have to negotiate with the russians talking theyre talking about in the end what will probably be very significant constitutional and for. Foreign policy realignments but the ukraine if it is to find a way out of the crisis is well let me say yes but that. Given there is that if the us and its western allies that that have another thing i think is really important here is that over the last few days we have the European Union basically tel
Policy that turn to china and europes reassessment in theres a lot going on right here thats never talked about in western media go ahead alex well indeed we just have over the last. Period of about 10 years but it is specially since 2014 is of the crisis in ukraine i think is crystallized russian doubts about the extent to which a partnership with the west is possible and what we saw after 2040 is that there you can take the russians by surprise you can never panic with them and they will always adjust very rapidly and very effectively to changes in policy by the west and to aggressive moves by the west so what has happened is that the russians firstly adjusted their Energy Policy they werent going to let ukraine continue to sit on top of their transit pipelines and try to block or control russian gas exports to europe so the russians forged ahead with all these other part lines north street to turk stream which are birds now rapidly coming to an. End the end there being they have bee