In moscow welcome to the program. Hundreds have gathered in northern mexico for the 1st funeral of an American Family brutally slaughtered by a drug cartel earlier this week its since been revealed they were killed by weapons that originated in the u. S. And those killed and now reports theres little to restrict the flow of arms over the border. 9 americans dead 3 women and 6 children hit by mexican drug lords a 13 year old boy who walked 23 miles to get help for the others and now us politicians are willing to run through walls to serve up justice it seems this is the time for mexico with the help of the United States to wage war on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth we merely a way to call from your great new president the Mexican Government cant protect americans inside of mexico but america may have to take matters into our own hands this is only 50 miles away from our southern border we can certainly defend american citizens inside of mexico if mexico into mexico was not willing or able to do so is the senator suggesting that the United States send authorities or perhaps even troops into sovereign mexico now the perpetrators of this heinous crime may be subject to a high profile murder trial but are we overlooking something this was a mormon family slaughtered with 223 remington rifles made in america over 200000 firearms are smuggled from the usa to mexico every year this comes at a horrific cost to society south of the border and 28000. 00 alone the Mexican Police opened 33000. 00 different homicide investigations at a higher rate of homicide than conflict at syria mexican law makes it near impossible for civilians to legally purchase guns in fact there is only one store in mexico that actually sells firearms but yet the mexican drug cartels continue to get their hands on high tech weaponry that because this isnt the weapons that are right in the United States of america because they are in the United States and the cost of ordering them to mexico are the lowest so that thats very lucky or in there if the United States. Or they went to order they would be in in lima. The axes are arm or leg some the structure on the snow arm and also on the session or harm in concert or prick no or who who are going to be by its a hypocrisy in that sense the office of Government Accountability in the United States has documented that 70 percent of the weapons seized by the Mexican Police originated in the United States mexican leaders have long urged the usa to crack down on the flow of weapons into their country however attempts to do so so far have failed for decades heres the thing mexico is certainly dangerous or at least thats the message that donald trump rang out pretty loudly on the campaign trail in 2016 nearly 180000 Illegal Immigrants with criminal records ordered deported from our country are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens when mexico sends his people to not sending their best to sending people that have lots of problems at their bringing those problems with us. Theyre bringing drugs theyre bringing crime drugs like heroin and cocaine are flowing over the Mexican Border into the United States however the gangs that are executing people resisting Law Enforcement and transporting those drugs are armed with guns that originally flowed in the opposite direction the United States has to you know with its diction problem with this problem of consumption not just like being on the supply side of the things but also on that man and treating these as a Public Health issue would be a good idea to start with its also the sales of arms not just that benefiting those businesses that also benefit the economy of the United States and cup orating with next providing information to do financially halogens in a more proper way and really participating. President mccrone of france has claimed the once robust Nato Alliance is in terminal decline and is becoming brain dead however his comments have been dismissed by other members of the bloc. Frances president the french president used rather drastic words to express his views this is not how i see the state of corporation with nato so i dont think that such a sweeping judgment is appropriate for me to ease in our interest its also curative alliance that we have to take our destiny in our own hands but the Transatlantic Partnership seems absolutely indispensable i agree with the chancellor merkel nato is strong. United States North America and europe we do more together than theyre done for decades we have implemented the strongest reinforcement so collective defense since the end of the cold war look on made their remarks in an interview with the economist magazine the french president also cast doubt on the reliability of natos article 5 which requires Member States to come to one anothers defense if attacked he suggested the deterrent has been undermined by washingtons faltering commitment and said europe needs to assert itself as a geo political power. Europe is now dealing for the 1st time with an american president who doesnt share our idea of the european project if we dont wake up theres a considerable risk that in the long run we would disappear geopolitically or at least that we will no longer be in control of our own destiny i believe that very deeply writer and broadcaster Jonathan Fryer believes the french leader wants to see a more independent europe. President mccall seem to be concerned about 2 particular was both the disengagement of the United States under donald trump who has made it clear that he would like your appt to look after itself militarily much more than is the case the president think it was a little premature in the sense to certainly call nato brain dead but it does need to work out exactly what its for these days it was founded 40 years ago in principle to oppose what was perceived at the time communist threat from the east but of course thats no longer the case and its operations have spread into other parts of the world but that does need really to be serious thinking about what is nato for. Germany has been facing widespread demonstrations from its farmers as they disrupt transport routes using tractors to block traffic it comes as the industry feels its being unfairly blamed for Climate Change or having to bend to berlins push towards Carbon Neutral about a loss of sas has more. German farmers are furious but this is not a united front 2 camps are taking aim to the government over its environmental rules for very Different Reasons although one corner thousands of farmers causing gridlock in several major cities over environmental measures which they say are crippling their life the biggest one in bonn to the german argued Culture Ministry were a 10 kilometer convoy brought the city to a halt. A looming ban on the controversial weed killer and tighter controls on slurry and fertilizer are just some of the measures that farmers say will force them out of business germanys lost 16 percent of its farms between the years of 2007 and 2017 a trend that the germans Farmers Association says is reflected across western europe farmers see the had enough of being labelled as the bad guys in the growing Climate Change movement we are not satisfied with the Agricultural Policy which is being shaped its a policy thats not based on facts new requirements are being issued all the time at a rate we simply cannot keep up with we have no chance to adjust our farms in time the wish list from different n. G. O. S is getting longer and we are getting fed up with the fact that weve being made responsible for every dead insects and so on up to them we are fed up with this farmer bashing campaign. We simply want to show that were fed up with being scapegoated for everything is negative we are to blame for Climate Change for air Water Pollution you cant go on like this. But on the other corner are the German Farmers are accusing the government of failing the environment and putting them out of business if you want the federal government to rethink its crime and goals rather than take further action to reduce c o 2 emissions and stead of roadblocks they try taking the legal route the 1st time the government had been taken to court for failing to protect the environment. He has become clear that climate protection is prosecutable we can end up in coolant that is how i see i believe that we should move forward with a positive attitude and i think more action must be taken now. Germanys plan was to cut 40 percent of Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2020 and compared with those in 1990 but it has fallen short it only reduced 31 percent but a court in berlin found that the targets were not legally binding on their target the farmers or digging in on both sides we want to be perceived as people who produce Healthy Products in harmony with nature and not as the biggest destroyer of nature in germany more needs to be done so the government recognises that it must act now they may be opposites over the impact and solutions of Climate Change but theres one thing that they do agree on but burleson is failing them both a federal law suits us. Despite a history of animosity between north and south korea many people in the south would side with north korea in the event of a conflict with japan but the result of a survey by a think tank and so almost half of those asked said they would back panang even though there was an option to stay neutral only 15 percent said they would side with tokyo thats despite continuous warnings by western allies of the threat posed by north korea. North koreas ticker 6 test of a Nuclear Device and its missile launches. Or a threat not only to the people of south korea but to the people all across our globe it has never been more important to be working closely together given the threat of north korea north korea has conducted 10 missile tests this year 2 of them involved solid fuel missiles which the north can launch with less warning we saw soldiers preparing patriot missiles to shoot down incoming Ballistic Missiles from north korea the most immediate threat tonight from north korea is far more conventional they could fire on south korea the serving our long standing controversy is back in 1910 japan turned korea into its colony and fought hard against the Independence Movement back then japan controlled almost every aspect of life on the peninsula during the 2nd world war to pander heavily on korea hundreds of thousands of koreans were forced to work in japan where conditions were so bad its estimated more than 60000 died as a result women from korea were also used as sex slaves by japanese soldiers many koreans believe the treaties time between the 2 countries in 1965 didnt amend the wrongs that were done human rights attorney eric stroken believes both japan and the u. S. Often paint a dark picture of north south relations to fit their own political agenda. These outside influences japan in the United States for their own political purposes i think they exaggerate the desire of the North Koreans to somehow attack south korea and i think that this will all begin to bear out when these types of surveys and discussions take place and when the mood in ministration finally i hope has the ability and the the guts frankly to do what they say they want to do and that is engaging and peace and settle the korean war with the North Koreans and so i think japan will continue to fan these flames until the South Koreans really put into it by formalizing relations and taking further serious steps toward peace. The chinese tech giant huawei has seen a surge and global profits while also continuing to squeeze its u. S. Rival apple out of the lucrative Chinese Market thats by the u. S. Governments efforts to all but ban the company and alleges has close ties with the beijing government and intelligence agencies always c o remains confident about the companys future even without the u. S. A war you dont care about the china us trade negotiations we wont be used as a bargaining chip we can survive very well without the us we dont control the equipment so we have no idea how they operate i dont even know whos monitoring my phone i dont know which country maybe america is easy dropping all my phone calls me back in may washington added weiwei to a Commerce Department entity list meaning the worlds number 2 maker of smart phones will not be able to deal with American Company is this limited while weighs ability to source key parts in particular also the daughter of coase founder remains under house arrest in canada as she fights extradition to the u. S. As washington accuses the company of violating sanctions on iran the u. S. Also urged countries around the world to boycott the 1st ever 5 g. Network developments by way always profits rose by 25 percent to a record 8800000000 last year it also shipped 206000000. 00 start to smartphones and 2800. 00 with sales up 45 percent this year huawei has already passed the 200000000 phones mark 2 months earlier than in 2013 with the expected roll out of the super fast 5 g. Network and china in the coming months always position is expected to grow even further more than 30 countries have already signed 5 g. Deals with the company. We go live now to head every search and education at the London Capital group Jasper Lawlor very welcome to the program now ways revenue is growing despite american sanctions why is that. Well i think this is its 2 things actually its number one is timing now what happened here is that actually the revenues that were seeing reported now from while way were actually pretty the u. S. Bond in may so even though that bond was actually delayed until november all those products are result of hallways free ability to deal with u. S. Companies since then is. More problematic for example are ways soon to release a phone that doesnt even have the official license Android Version so that is going to limit sales moving forward so what we could be looking at here is a is a peek moments in overseas shipments of its smartphones but number 2 very importantly is that one way is just absolutely dominating in china and that is the market that Everyone Wants to be in there will be a native Chinese Company they operate they they own almost 50 percent of the Chinese Market now for for smartphones and we expect that to improve as they roll out this 5 g. Network which they control a lot of the infrastructure for which is obviously been at the heart of this controversy with the u. S. Well exactly americas black listing of huawei has seemingly provoked a surge of purchases and of always homeland china as you said so has the u. S. Inadvertently contributed to our waste excess. Thats certainly whats been reported is that actually it was a great marketing effort unintended by the u. S. Whereby actually theres been a bit of a nationalistic spirit in china to. Buy you our way products and more specifically not to buy u. S. Products and apple has taken the brunt of that and we know that actually according to recent reports apples market share has actually dropped significantly in and apple is looking at some of its worst couple of quarters in a row here of sales in china that experience to date. Clearly not. Quite what the u. S. Intended there and certainly what apple would have liked but certainly seems to have been so far a benefit for weiwei well exactly this is the surely not what the u. S. Was expecting or even hoping for do you think will change tactic. Well theres disagreement out there as to how much of a ship or how how closely this relates to the u. S. China trade war clearly the chinese believe that silly wild ways been used as a bargaining tool within the u. S. China trade war to try and negotiate more out to china for my party it does seem to be that its actually not just the u. S. So theyre certainly pressuring other countries britain for example has just released some key intelligence reports that suggest there are concerns about ways equipment and what it might mean for domestic security so if the security is a genuine concern which we feel it probably is then actually its unlikely the u. S. Is going to backtrack and they maybe they do ease off in some form and so its a matter of almost not black and white but gray areas as to how much way can actually deal with u. S. Companies given the kind of trade war aspect on one side and the genuine security concerns on the other just for lawlor had every search in education at the London Capital group thank you for joining us on the program today. Washington has found itself out in the cold during a u. N. General Assembly Vote over americas decades long embargo on cuba that story and more after the break. Seemed wrong. Roles just dont call. Me. Yet to shape out these days to come out ahead and engage with equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for Common Ground. 30 years ago the berlin wall fell the cold war had essentially come to an end the fall of this cold war symbol was heralded as a new spring of nations and the end of communism decades on what is the legacy of this historic event the promises of 989. 00 been fulfilled. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see you then. Welcome back the u. N. General assembly has voted overwhelmingly to end americas economic embargo on cuba analysing for nearly 30 years but the us together with brazil in israel voted no. You know we had assumed that the president Donald Trumps government has begun escalating his aggression against cuba by apply an unconventional measures in order to prevent the supply of fuel to our country its goal beyond disrupting the economy is to damage the cuban family standards of living. But it is time for the boss majority to be heard if you know actually demands in the media to definitive to the end the chronic and inhuman blockade against cuba it is starting to put an end to double standards in international relations. Like all nations we get to choose which countries we trade with this is our sovereign right so it is worrying that the International Community in the name of protecting sovereignty continues to challenge this right. Resolution is not legally binding but it follows a trend of u. S. Isolation from the International Community heres a look at this month alone on november 1st the General Assembly again overwhelmingly approved a draft resolution calling for a middle east free of Nuclear Weapons the u. S. And israel voted against a couple of days later the organization voted on a draft resolution aimed at preventing an arms race in outer space the u. S. And israel also said no on that as well as a draft resolution calling for prevention of militarization of space political analyst and former u. N. Officer francisco colona told us what makes washington act this way theyre desperate if you are so mean. You know what i call the crime of i mean. Because we havent built a new world order i mean there are all repeats basal body or on their own. Reality on their own you see some very. Wars conflict disorder i mean not only i mean for you and barack obama going to know what your daughter so you know after 4 unique without. They said no word order i mean its unbelievable im going main responsibility lives on use. By u. S. Pilots or reaffirm a constant. Primus. Russia says its ready for further talks on Nuclear Disarmament but is waiting for washingtons response to its suggestions foreign minister Sergey Lavrov made the comments of a key form on nonproliferation in moscow more than 40 countries are expected to take part but not the u. S. Despite being invited arties marius notion that reports. It seems that all the participants all the speakers i heard a good we all know the importance of a sincere and productive dialogue between the states in order to find Common Ground but they all confirm there is a lack of such discussion hand they disagree on who is to blame for that russia point america saying that we joined from the i. M. F. Treaty after rejecting what my putins offer to suspend deployment of missiles in europe with the new start treaty that expire is next february now in danger in following numerous violations of nonproliferation treaty americas behavior threatens Global Security here is said again lover of russias foreign minister speaking about that. The problems surrounding the nonproliferation is weapons of mass destruction require special dialogue and we are ready for it however when the main partner here in the United States doesnt give us a comprehensible reaction to anything we suggest its hard to try and act alone we constantly remind the us of our numerous suggestions and they know it already as well as other leading countries some have been complaining that todays discussion is not quite balanced since official american representatives are not here although they have been invited and basically they have rejected this invitation so i talked about americas role with un high representative happy or not you have to take it for granted when they tell me that they still share the global object to fulfill a new world free of Nuclear Weapons i have to take it for granted i think its all very important we keep you know. With the United States like very much like. Regular contact with the rest of the p 5. China diplomatic test also taking part in todays hot debates and he was almost attacked with accusations that an important player when we speak about Global Security is spot. Actually given that one of the biggest threats is coming from south asia rejects the dialogue within us china has never let me repeat china has never rejected the socalled meaningful dialogue with anybody in the us has made this so much noise about having the strand natural negotiations but let me make it clear so far until now the us has never told us what exactly they want to talk about in the straddle dialogue todays gathering here in moscow is a very good chance for participants to prepare for next year is meeting to make it more productive and more effective. Lastly a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders has been partially destroyed and yemen no casualties have been reported but all medical activities have been suspended the Charity Claims it was hit in an aerial attack the Saudi Led Coalition has already blamed who the rebels claiming they fired for Ballistic Missiles riad has been orchestrating air strikes against militants in yemen since 2015. Actually in place officer has been arrested over the shooting of 2 students during protests in the capital thousands of demonstrators rallied there against a government plan to tighten public order the measures include a ban on wearing hoods im greater protection for Police Unrest began in the south American Country 3 weeks ago or a now suspended hike and subway fares that grew into demands for the president s resignation. And demonstrations between supporters and opponents of president morales have turned violent and bolivia reports say several protesters and Police Officers were injured protests and marches have been ongoing in bolivia since the general election earlier this year and it claims a fraud. Attorneys are up for now but ill be back at the top there with the latest thanks for tuning in. 2000 of american men and women choose to serve in the countrys military and the decision little sheltered lives every song came to a complete. The day that i was raped viewed struggling you know to shut up what they kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any scream did me any mimi come in and you graham my arm and he write me to his birthing area if you. Take into account that women dont report because of the extreme retaliation and its probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing tapping but ive never seen trauma like ive seen women who are veterans who suffered military sexual trauma reporting really is more likely to get the victim punished and the offended and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even going to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of our in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether thats men or women. Nobody wants to look at the wildfires and say the obvious number one the taxes are being misused theyre not being adequately distributed to where they are needed on the infrastructure side because theres a government failure number 2 Climate Change regardless of whether you believe its happening or not the damage that is going to be applied to your pocketbook that you will pay for Climate Change whether you believe it or not you know its still the price is still there. Hello and welcome to cross talk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle 30 years ago the berlin wall fell the cold war had essentially come to an end the fall of this cold war symbol was heralded as a new spring of nations and the end of communism decades on what is the legacy of this historic event the promises of 1989 been fulfilled. Crosslike in the fall of the berlin wall im joined by my guest John Laughlin in paris hes a political scientist