Heart of government lawrence lee aljazeera in london. Always good to have Bill Schneider with us Public Policy professor at George Mason University in our washington new center hi bill this is pretty serious stuff the more i think about it the more information that comes out and when you consider the socalled special relationship which these 2 countries have and basically President Trump has decided. The future of a diplomat something thats never really been done before bill its come out here and im not sure if youre hearing me. Not thats a shame ok we will come back to Bill Schneider shortly on technical crew will reconnect with washington there in the meantime. Speaking of President Donald Trump he has issued another threat to iran over its Nuclear Program hes done it on twitter. That iran has long been secretly enriching. In total violation of the terrible 150000000000. 00 deal made by john kerry and the Obama Administration remember that deal was to expire in a short number of year
As part of it the logic of this is theres none better than a country with which the u. K. Might want to do a trade deal china say or brazil will have to think twice about expressing their opinions openly even in secret diplomatic cables for fear that they might get leads and that in itself undermines governments but apart from that if Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister hell be faced with the Foreign Office few areas of his perceived role in bringing down one of their own. Johnson himself assuming he becomes Prime Minister will pick the next ambassador to washington the question is will it be a neutral diplomat or a political appointment brecks it is taking yet more victims this time at the heart of government largely aljazeera in london. But so whats coming up for you on this news hour american weapons the libyan war mode and the French Connection we will connect all those dots in just a short moment or so we will hear the survival stories of those on board a capsized migrant boat in
At the border thats an indictment of the trumpet ministrations family separation policy everyone seems to agree theres a crisis at the border with republicans saying its the rush of immigrants coming to the u. S. And democrats saying its the detention policy itself. The name also expresses the outrage over what democrats described as jails for children we are really generational children theyll never get we did say that this type of trauma can wait some republicans push back i am frustrated with the title of the hearing it is a hearing in titled kids in cages. What we say and the hyperbole we use matters ive been to the border many times in this day ive never seen a kid in a cage just a former immigration and Customs Enforcement chief says it is unfair to blame immigration agencies coping with this surge of Central American immigrants fleeing violence and poverty if you dont reduce the flow youre going to continue to get the same thing that weve seen for the last 78 months its bad its
Becomes Prime Minister hell be faced with the Foreign Office furious at his perceived role in bringing down one of their own. Johnson himself assuming he becomes Prime Minister will pick the next ambassador to washington the question is will it be a neutral diplomat or a political appointment brecks it is taking yet more victims this time at the heart of government Lawrence Leigh aljazeera in london Alexander Vershbow is a former Us Ambassador to nato and russia and he was the deputy section general of nato from 2012 to 2016 he joins me now via skype from philadelphia thanks very much for being with us do you think in the end it was how much of an was it the issue of being frozen out by the Chinese Administration and how much was it that separate issue of not getting the support of johnson one of the potential future Prime Ministers. Well it looks to me that it was mainly the blackballing by President Trump and the administration which made it almost impossible for a bastard barracked
It is time again for dialogue american sanctions didnt bring iran back to the negotiating table as u. S. President donald trump might have liked in fact iran now says it will not stop producing cooperation with the j. C. B. A way for anything short of a lifting of banking and all sanctions but the british this week seized an Iranian Oil Tanker in International Waters because america asked them to and the United States is now calling on other militaries to help patrol middle eastern waters to protect shipping lanes from what they say is an iranian threat all Things Considered any hope france might have head of a negotiated solution to any of this might be overly optimistic. While an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency has just wrapped up in vienna john holl is monitoring that for us live in vienna and the iranian voice certainly one whos given a press conference in the last couple of hours what did he have to say about the situation. Well i think probably the top