Review edition. What a year it has been. Trump was that victory, the rise of Populist Movements, the migrant crisis, wars across the middle east and the possibly of a new cold war in europe. Our top team area new cold war in europe. Our top team are a russian writer and former kremlin adviser, janet daley of the sunday telegraph, an iraqi journalist and thomas. In britain across europe and in the United States it has been eightjewish year. The brexit vote, Donald Trumps factory, political turmoil in france, and elsewhere. All have shown countries divided within themselves. Scotland, post Industrial Areas of northern even though the prosperous parts of london at times appeared to regard each other as incompetence of of. Trump and clinton voters often seem to belong not just trump and clinton voters often seem to belong notjust to different states but different visions of the United States. How significant has 2016 bean in terms of these Major Political events . The deep divisions betwee
a green light by russia and to an extent by the us. if they both strongly oppose a fresh ground operation, then president erdogan is in trouble. he can t really go ahead on his own. but here is where the geopolitics become even more interesting, because ukraine plays very strongly here. you will remember and we ve talked about it on the programme, john about how turkey has played this important role because they have good relations with the west and they have cordial relations with russia, as well. so very early on in the conflict where there were some talks, they were brokered by turkey and they happened in turkey. and then you rememberjust a few months ago that grain deal which allowed ukrainian grain that was blocked in the ports to be able to come through mine filled waters and safely start to spread around the rest of the world. so turkey has a trump card to play here. and some people wonder whether, as russia and as the west try and keep turkey onside,
months ago that grain deal which allowed ukrainian grain that was blocked in the ports to be able to come through mine filled waters and safely start to spread around the rest of the world. so turkey has a trump card to play here. and some people wonder whether, as russia and as the west try and keep turkey onside, they might be perhaps a little bit more relaxed when it comes to allowing president erdogan to do what he wants in northern syria and northern iraq. you ve just mentioned northern syria. there s fighting going on there, too, involving, what, turkey, russia, syria itself. you have areas that are held by the kurds, by the syrian democratic forces. you have rebel held areas in the west of syria. you have areas along the turkish border that are turkish controlled and turkish administered. you have iraqi kurdistan. you have all of these different areas that break down. and then, of course, below that you have regime syria, still controlled by president assad with russian backing
months ago that grain deal which allowed ukrainian grain that was blocked in the ports to be able to come through mine filled waters and safely start to spread around the rest of the world. so turkey has a trump card to play here. and some people wonder whether, as russia and as the west try and keep turkey onside, they might be perhaps a little bit more relaxed when it comes to allowing president erdogan to do what he wants in northern syria and northern iraq. you ve just mentioned northern syria. there s fighting going on there, too, involving, what, turkey, russia, syria itself. you have areas that are held by the kurds, by the syrian democratic forces. you have rebel held areas in the west of syria. you have areas along the turkish border that are turkish controlled and turkish administered. you have iraqi kurdistan. you have all of these different areas that break down. and then, of course, below that you have regime syria,
and some people wonder whether, as russia and as the west try and keep turkey onside, they might be perhaps a little bit more relaxed when it comes to allowing president erdogan to do what he wants in northern syria and northern iraq. you ve just mentioned northern syria. there s fighting going on there, too, involving, what, turkey, russia, syria itself. you have areas that are held by the kurds, by the syrian democratic forces. you have rebel held areas in the west of syria. you have areas along the turkish border that are turkish controlled and turkish administered. you have iraqi kurdistan. you have all of these different areas that break down. and then, of course, below that you have regime syria, still controlled by president assad with russian backing there, as well. it makes trying to find a resolution here enormously difficult.