Very very big with our rallies or with our everything because we cannot allow our car dream to become a socialist nation we cannot have. A politician freed from prison by supporters just days ago he was the new Prime Minister of kurdistan the parliament confirms that as a pro after nearly a week of violent protests over the contested election process he expects the president to step down within a few days. New explosions in the disputed region to go to karabakh despite a cease fire between our media and us by shell it follows a brief halt in violence off the talks in russia on friday the goal of the truce is to allow the exchange of prisoners and to recover bodies the opposition in ivory coast has held a protest against the president thomas and taught us decision to seek a 3rd term they say were taught it is violating the constitution but he insists changes to the law in 2016 allow him to run in this months election. Another day of protest against Police Brutality in nigeria protesters want an elite police force to please task force to be despondent off the reported video of a man shot by Security Forces the president has called for an investigation. Polands will now require people to wear mass masks in public and special shopping ons for the elderly the country has seen a recording crease in cavan 1000. 00 faces for a 5th straight day the Prime Minister wants to avoid a 2nd before. Then hundreds of italians have been protesting in rome over the countrys latest coronavirus restrictions the new measures include meant a tree mollusk wearing out doors. State with the headlines here and on syria got more news coming up right after the bottom line. Frank assessments look at any way the protest is any less either the bullet will get out of those or i do depth analysis of the global headlines who is it thats really the inside story on al jazeera training Steve Clemons and i have a question as we approach a historic election what are americas closest allies thinking lets get to the bottom line. Last week we spoke with a former american official who spent his life looking at this countrys relations with the rest of the world that would be Lieutenant General h. R. Mcmaster who spent more than a year as president Donald TrumpsNational Security advisor this week were flipping the table and talking to someone whos on the outside looking in lets jog your memory for a moment remember a big story from last year although now it seems like ages ago some would lead to confidential memo from the British Ambassador to his own government describing the Trump Administration with words like inept and dysfunctional possibly subject to collapse in disgrace among other really candid assessments it didnt take long for donald trump to hyper react on twitter targeting the ambassador as wacky and launching all sorts of insults and the ambassador then resigned quickly that former u. K. Ambassador and our guest today is kim derrick hes coming out with a new book about his experiences during those 3 years in washington Collateral Damage britain america and europe in the age of trump and master derek great to be with you to talk about your new book coming out but i also just want to get at something thats very deep and it comes out of your observations about the United States and what you were reporting back and im interested in the off sure view of our country right now and that is do you see america as broken in half. Assume there are as barry divided as divided as being as its been for decades but i have a fundamental i have a law for america i was an hour and a fundamental belief in american resilience it was a spring back form of problems that we will face huge problems with the time to make the economic destruction in schools d. And other issues you know the politics of divided. So i think. You know fundamentals of the and with the right leadership cute you can scream about it but it does look a true place at the moment theres no doubt what if you had been writing a memo i mean all of the here about the memo you did write but what if youve been writing a memo saying you know everything is just great its so it its moving smoothly and on trumps firmly in control and this is all going as democracy goes its sort of messy but im interested if you had been the other more obsequious observer of trump in american politics well how that would have gone over. It looks very very strange steve i think my bosses in london. Particularly the senior Civil Servant in charge of the formal office given us the early travails of the true presidency what big news everywhere and anything is like that executive order about banning running businesses from 7 many muslim countries that was immediately blocked in the courts but not without. Courts around the world if i didnt something say everything is going great. Kalou going to 24 hours later. Not a 2nd far or say you are right. Now all things and you know i had to go back. Every 2 or 3 months or so to brief all was going on and i think people would react at me looked at me rather strangely and maybe wondered if i really have bigger problems because out of how it all i mean in public of course you dont say this kind of thing but in private communications to provide a whole generation ones youre telling it as strange as you possibly can and just one of the things that happens now days is brits say to me. What are you so rude about the trouble ministration that never leaps and americans say to me why are you so while. Youre ready to laugh it was so so i had different reactions like the side of the of the pawn but well you know as you say these were sort of assessments and story is nowhere around in the Mainstream Media in the u. S. Every day so didnt feel that exceptional will be here if we were fortunate in those terms you know hunting will fluctuate as i said how do you feel about the memo you wrote what did you get right what did you get wrong. June 1st into say is us understandably and this is not the night of the new me or its all of us well there was quite a lot of them and which was some 5 or d 6 pages long. Us the extraordinary strong supports President Trump got from his base about his ability to write through crises and criticism about his seeming instruct ability and unity in the last i said how in combat things look do this guy having a strong reelection in 2020 just because of the extraordinary from nationals he gets from his. From his from his base. And i didnt get much from sources so i thought it was a balanced picture and ive read it obviously several times since and one that i should look at things differently now as ive said a number of times point at least since im comfortable with what i wrote and i feel that you know when people could. Take a view but it was a pretty good prediction of the way things were going full. You know you had this wonderful section of your travel through america that you look for all these opportunities to get out in the sea and go meet real people nashville. You know going down to louisiana to new orleans going to talk to newburgh drivers and going to wisconsin and meeting farmers and pretty much everybody you met as you recounted in the book. Had admiration for trump and distain for clinton did i tell us about that. You know d thats exactly exactly what happened. I remember to this day. One of my colleagues on the embassy go to midwest a couple weeks before the election and traveling around wisconsin maps with me and saying jews really strange there it consumes used to be 2 or 3 points and opinion polls i travel around was constant i never see a yard sign anywhere the Clinton Campaign to see hundreds or trauma tents and i you know that that worries me and on election nights that came back to me is still with me and if theres one thing i think now. Romeo. Mittimus read things a bit he was paying too much attention to opinion polls around the country about how the election as a team is going to go and too much attention to washington opinion this was d a town of course as you know verges much to 93 percent here it comes im and not you not to those lessons i heard this messages about a year previously when i was doing my private tour around and around with the cell phone around bits of the southwest amman jordan places like that so thats my favorite i think in my final evening report before election day too long and i said it everything in terms of opinion polls and pundits points tools a dictionary dot there is still a cost that brings donald trump into the white house and i kind of wish i had gone more strongly on the 2nd than the 1st but you know no one else was 7 because i would look very silly that clinton had won and she won the popular vote by 3000000. But you have it was a conscious and it was different. Tell us about your 1st encounters with. The new team coming in after the doll crop was elected before he was inaugurated you had this colorful description of your 1st meeting with gerry pushchair. Yeah i mean i would like to have met jerry pushed and steve. And met Michael Flynn we met penny our cold way we met some real figures around the trump team that i had met. All. They were hot i mean not really any of the embassies in washington had really been in touch with those 2 that being with the president on his campaign trail anyway not not very assessable national of kentucky emails from both of them by inch leader is you know that goes to see me up in trucks hour in new york so i went up. And it was shortly up it loose it was during the transition period between election victory for trump and innovation there to be an aversion election issues in new york on his really sentiments where i think all the other members of the Security Council have voted for the resolution to condemn israeli settlement policy and the u. S. Integrated with all past president s and im saying normally the u. S. Votes against any u. N. Resolution that criticizes israel and i wouldnt for a while i hope it would be a good video 1st mr george bush that he was furious about this hopes to supposition that the u. K. To come along with the rest of the Security Council and said this will salute the way that he took the ministration and expect its allies to behave so it was meant to be really friendly going to. Turn to something a bit of it different i expect it was something unsuitable given long established policy we would have risen against the resolution euro against israeli sentence policy but it was really very severe miles and then my mission with steve benen which was said you know straight up to its. Our tech students that i am im too close to full bloom the building i come up the chance of not to say actually im in washington has got me all about me sick so i went up the 2 floors instead. Up on spec to see Michael Cohen. Are so also giving me his email and ive not met him will be in touch with them by assad regime thats an unduly quick on me she said sure sure come up and the foreign minister to see Michael Cohen there was a big big Corner Office in the pen aramic if you are. Central new york have a manhattan and i could see through the office to your own is no bottom of the president elect but hung around for a few minutes hoopy i could just sort of going to announce my sauce and the regime thats all immigration all up on the table that a lot of them say they now by what i would a strong tire i met the president elect today but the telephone call he was on was going on on the mall and i was getting quite heated so i call out smoke and let silence in my who currently markoff enough moose talk about. American sports baseball it turned out and to invite him to come and play tennis because he was extension to come up to washington for a job in the white house and the my memory from that apart from you know quite a short discussion was these great piles of people everywhere in my home office covering the decks in the in the shelves and you know lots and lots of paper but i guess i made it up in the Prosecutors Office when when michael goss got arrested in us and he didnt want washington so we never got to play tennis now we are but it was it didnt anyway unfolds places that would be quite as id expected to unfold i did meet the president a few days later when we have an event for the diplomatic and this is the enemy. In washington. Because it was beautiful but a missile launchers missile who. Would basically i mean i want to give you know the audience understanding that you wanted odds with this administration you were you know meeting Kellyanne Conway you were meeting wilbur ross the secretary of commerce you you had you were you were getting into some of these meetings you were a neighbor of Vice President pence they would come to your party so you were doing your job in getting this this going and would love to hear about it a little bit about those interactions and then this. Tweet by dawn from comes out where he says many people would like to see nigel farage represent Great Britain how did how did that make you feel. I mean youre right it was this the jaw store all embassies now masses in washington to get as close to the sunni areas in the Incoming Administration as you can and thats what i was doing with we felt some success or else now its ive got no will quite well already. Or of the Election Campaign and you know even if you get to me its to manage general flynn and and the other so we thought we had some reasonable cult acts in and i was over in london when the president made his tweet about her are because as british im not as a mass of the us i was actually in a moment to do a speech for speech and then in june in our office and my phone was on charge in the hotel room all lights switch son off it was kind of vibration away with lots of messages coming in jones made me aware of or so was half asleep and eventually we got 5 30 in the morning to check or to come in when i saw loose this report on the screen if the president or treat it as you know i wasnt thinking necessary massively clearly a 530 morning but i thought i do was switch on the t. V. To see how big a story this falls. Maybe see breakfast t. V. News at 6 am and it was the lead story i dont know whats the story rather thats going to stick around and that there was no comment from number 10 but by the 6 30 am bulletin number 10 important put out their line which was there is no vacancy in washington which of course he was reassuring i mean im sure sure the opposite would be but i never source that it would actually lead to a change in the. It was actually the trees or a government that was word was to use the presence of vice 1st because nigel is. Full of opposing political policy to the conservatives and 2nd because we show d almost always rather close with difference with people who spend a career of service was not a political appointees. Afterwards i was being tossed around. When you leave friends nigel to explain it well maybe its not going to work out like perhaps. You know when i 1st saw the title of your book Collateral Damage you know another term that we had in oklahoma and texas for that is roadkill and one of the interesting the interesting things when you when you read your book is that you dont sit there and whine oh woe is me and and feeling sorry for yourself youre essentially writing the kind of memo i think that you are writing for your government to to all of us and its not about you but it is about something deeper which is are your observations about the rise of populism your worries about you know the values of liberal democracy not only in the United States but around the world but also in Great Britain and id love to get understanding of how you see those tectonics right now because i think thats the really powerful anchor of your book is it is it sending a deeper message. Well look thirsty im very go out appreciative that thats the message that came through from the book for you because i do think i have very much to whine about you know i had a very traumatic 3 or 4 days i mean we were in touch of it as it was unfolding stand up night whod done without that but i had an extraordinary lucky career and you know things worked out very well for me i was brought up in in. A modest circumstances in what was you would call it Public Housing we call it comes in i was in for much of my years like im going to be latino scholarship at that school but i wasnt it was a very privileged and i have a very very lucky to get to our ideas in life for Office Career i would never have imagined it at the beginning and the loss of moments when january lock that apartment thing so i think i had nothing to whine about and feel sorry for myself about what i want to sue in the book was try and explain why rex it happened why in America Donald trump won the election and that you know there is one single message out there is they didnt win leave didnt win the brics a Campaign Trump didnt win the u. S. Election because for so many people things were going so well the opposite mainstream politics really wasnt and mr politicians really were delivering for enough people otherwise the advice they gave to look for a main or d you know hillary Clinton Campaign with wa and few notes know who to computing out about how it is we populous leaderships you know in countries around the world unless mainstream politicians and mainstream Political Parties try to learn the lessons of where they were going wrong where they were listening to people where they were. Consulting where they werent following the right policies when they were appearing arrogant and out of touch im concerned about the plight of ordinary people and it being the keep up with what i spent most time a lot most about. At least in the context of grex it and i believe so also in context of the. T