anyone. none of his advisers wanted to hear his views on foreign policy. they wanted trump to be quiet. he wouldn t. what is the point of nato he asked 30 years after the fall of soviet union. shut up racist. trump kept going. why would we fight russia, he wondered. wouldn t making russia our enemy drive putin in to the arms of china and create the most anti-american block in history? nobody bothered to answer him. they impeached him for it and starred a war with putin. in retrospect, trump asked a deeply patriotic question. if russia ever joined forces with china, american global power would end instantly. you d have the world s largest land mall and the natural gas reserves aligned with the world s population and the world s larger economy. a russia china axis would be not just more powerful than the united states but much more powerful. it would have the scale to control a lot of the world s economy and trade routes and raw materials. it could project military force that w
To advise on immediate measures to improve building safety. The Bank Of England issues a financial warning, as Consumer Borrowing rises at its fastest rate in more than a decade. Google is fined more than £2 billion by the European Commission for illegally favouring its own shopping services. And 50 years on from the first cash machine, we take a look at the changing face of banking. Hello, good evening. Welcome to Bbc News At Five. Scotlands First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said her government is delaying plans for a second Independence Referendum. Speaking in holyrood, she said she Still Believes the country needs to be given a choice about its future, but not until after the Brexit Process. She said that since the general election, in which the snp lost 21 seats, she had listened to voters, and understood their concerns about another poll. Our scotland correspondent lorna gordon is in edinburgh. Nicola sturgeon call this a reset, but what in effect i think it means is whilst a