You say its very unlikely that i dont think they have the courage to start a war with a round they are all sitting at home that they dont want a war with the wrong so if he threatens im coming to you then come because if you Say Something you have to act on it lets see how much of a man you are the things are that are attached to it over tell you something to the rose to the truth out very very carefully. Also coming up on the day after 8 years and more than 70 episodes game of thrones comes to a net diehard viewers around the world gather to watch the finale of one of televisions most popular show us your good court there will be other very emblematic series ones that really tap into the imagination the collective subconscious the become hot news topics i think that concern the game of thrones will get Something Like it again one day but we have to wait 102030 years i dont know. Well the big welcome to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all over the world we begin the day with escalating tensions between iran and the u. S. Iran has condemned a threat by donald trump on twitter this weekend the u. S. President warned about the quote end of iran as a response tehrans foreign minister zarif used his twitter account to say quote iranians have stood tall for millennia while its aggressors are all gone economic terrorism and genocidal taunts wont and iran never threaten an iranian tribe respect it works relations of course between the 2 countries have only worsened since washington pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal last year and tensions rose yet again when trump announced more economic measures against iran earlier this month i want to get more on this now with Bradley Bowman hes a former National Security advisor to members of the u. S. Senate he served more than 15 years in the u. S. Army and is currently senior director of the center on military and political power welcome thank you for joining us look that tweet from President Trump it says if iran wants to fight that will be the official end of iran there is now an Aircraft Carrier heading for the gulf there i mean during previous presidency is a Statement Like you see here in this tweet that would likely signal some sort of Armed Conflict and what should we make of this during the trump presidency. Thank you for the opportunity to talk with you i would make a distinction between the president s tweet and the military moves that were seen i was certainly agree with those that would say both the content and tone of the president s tweet is are is unorthodox but i would point out that the deployment of a Carrier Strike group and a Bomber Task Force is not a military propagation rather its a rather common and prudent step that weve seen before including on in the Obama Administration and frankly i think is the best way to discourage iranian aggression so you dont think this is simply jest a negotiating tactic from trump i mean weve seen him tweak these sorts of bold statements before maybe ramp up military activity he did something similar with north korea before then going ahead and even shaking hands with kim jong un i think it may very well be that i agree with you that this is the general trend that we saw with north korea but i think the most important thing here is that the trump ministration is sending the message that if iran targets the u. S. Or our allies or interests there will be consequences we saw if you look back at the American Experience in iraq when the us allowed the i. R. G. C. To operate with impunity attacks tended to increase when the us acted more strongly they decreased and so i think the trend that from an American Perspective that we see is that we get more aggression from iran when we fail to respond with strength why the turnaround here the Obama Administration they negotiated of course with iran they brokered this historic treaty with the country why now the turnaround trump basically considers iran a threat as well your sign. Its iran is absolutely a threat iran is essentially been in an asymmetrical war with the United States for 40 years since 1989 iran is the worlds worst state sponsor of terrorism support of hamas hezbollah 600 american serve them so members lost their lives during the iraq war because of the militias in iraq that showed their potency and in some cases their existence to iran cnns could force so the trump mistake made the decision to withdraw from the iran deal. People of good faith can disagree on the wisdom of that approach but what i think you we have to agree is that there are some fundamental flaws or seems at least some serious flaws in the iran deal i would quickly name among those the sunset provision iran says they never want to Nuclear Weapons so if they dont want to Nuclear Weapon why cant those restrictions be permanent why did they insist on a sunset clause why did not address the Ballistic Missile program which would be the primary means by which they would deliver a Nuclear Weapon why was the verification regime not more robust why did we see the transfer of millions and millions of dollars and goes on and on and on in the end the trump ministrations presume to max Pressure Campaign whose goal is to try to bring iran to the negotiating table and we know that diplomacy is more effective when its backed by credible military power now some critics of President Trump would say you know there already are now these new sanctions in place those have been pretty crippling to obamas economy is that not enough to put this type of pressure on iran why now step up the military pressure why bring the countries so close towards another Armed Conflict. Thank you i again i dont think the deployment of a Carrier Strike group to the middle east is a provocation i think it it supports diplomacy bombing ministration did the exact same thing so i understand when you combine that with the tweets and gnashed your advisor bolton statements why that would cause concern in some quarters but i think in the end we need to look at actions actions of. The damage before vessels shortly after let me just interrupt you because again with all due respect i mean the president has called for the end of iran i mean i know its just a tweet but is that not a provocation that is a highly provocative and unusual tweet absolutely i would not advise that you use that town at all. So i do not again but that tweet combined than with sending ships towards this this region i mean what do you make of that because as an outsider one might say you know that is pretty much an escalation in terms of of military conflict in the region yes and i would also point to National Security as a bold statement where he said we do not seek war with iran i would also point to present trump statements that we dont seek war the wrong but if you know so you know we can cherry pick or we can review them holistically im not here to defend the president we have no desire to do that war with iran would not be good but also is not good is allowing for the damage you know continued aggression so i do not have not personally view the intelligence but if iran was in fact putting cruise missiles on ships of iran was in fact sending messages to its proxies to prepare to attack u. S. Troops if iran is in fact behind a damage in the for about souls of iran is it continues their proxies the who these to attack saudis if iran is behind the launching of the katyusha rocket in the direction of our embassy in baghdad i would ask people should the United States just accept that is that ok is that ok should we just accept that i think not Bradley Bowman thank you so much for joining us for that discussion senior director of the center on military and political power thank you very much. Thank you for that. All right well from a war of words with iran to a trade war brewing with china and this time its another big blow for the Chinese Company our way google has are the worlds 2nd largest smartphone maker from using many of its products last week the trap Administration Limited the amount of business that American Companies can do with the chinese tech giant google that googles decision means that while we now loses access to some updates to the enjoyed operating system and 2 popular google apps such as g. Mail and you tube. Internet giant google has announced it will stop providing services to while away the worlds 2nd largest producer of smart phones the Chinese Company will no longer be allowed to use full versions of googles android operating system on its devices the decision is based on a van created by washington u. S. President trump says Foreign Telecommunications companies pose a threat to u. S. National security analysts say the new Commerce Department rules are aimed squarely at huawei googles decision deals a potentially heavy blow to the Chinese Company way along with the Chinese Government has called the move an inappropriate and excessive restriction will formally confirm this matter and follow the situation closely at the same time china will support its own enterprises to take necessary legal steps to defend their legitimate rights and interests. Current while ways smartphone users will no longer automatically receive Android Security updates otherwise the restrictions will mostly affect future models. Ok joining me now to put this all in perspective is Graham Webster hes a fellow at the new america think tank and coordinating editor of the digit China Project focusing on chinese digital policy graham 1st of all now google essentially is blacklisting while they mean theyre cutting off access to most android updates many of googles apps and how big of a deal is all this well 1st of all its not totally clear that this is a permanent cutoff the google announcement is in preparation of complying with. Quite a ways being added to a list that prohibits it from receiving supplies from American Companies but the u. S. Government has the ability to grant licenses under that list so that some companies and some products made it may be able to get through. If the cut off is complete from google and the enjoyed system to huawei its pretty devastating for the pa is Significant International handset business. Most of those phones are going around the world where people are using Google Services and theyre depending on Android Store and access to some of the other software that they could lose access to if this goes all the way through can you tell me a little bit more about huawei the company i mean we know its the worlds 2nd largest smartphone maker but it also does a lot more than that right. Right so smartphones are a relatively recent development for equality originally the Company Became known as a Telecommunications Equipment providers so this is internet routers and and tenons and other equipment for wireless networks. Builds a lot of guts the International Internet and Telecommunications System and very significantly it is currently very well positioned in the build out of next generation 5 g. Wireless around the world which has been a controversy in many countries so the handsets are a relatively recent development in terms of their competitiveness around the world but its a huge amount of revenue its a big company and a lot of people like the phone now President Trump last week essentially called weiwei a National Security risk is the company risk in terms of security. Well theres 2 things that happened last week one was an executive order by the president giving the government the ability to Block Transactions for id equipment in coming to the u. S. For security reasons. That focused on whether the Company Supplying the material was associated with a foreign adversary and truly extenuated its what were talking about today with the google decision is the 2nd move they made and this is really driven by u. S. Sanctions on iran and fall ways. Has been accused of violating those sanctions by providing iranian customers with equipment or anyway products that contained restricted u. S. Content so theres sort of 2 things going on here whether huawei is a National Security risk is kind of a long term question. I dont personally think that most people using a smartphone from is a serious security concern i wouldnt necessarily advise top ministers of state around the world to use that but you know a regular citizen i dont think is a very big deal but there are real debates to be had about whether various countries would want to have while way infrastructure underlying their entire 5 g. Stack and the choice busy there can be either black and white to ban weiwei or busy it can be more grady ated in to say you know some equipment in some parts of the network are not a Security Risk but other equipment or other products and other parts of that work would be so i think this is really a technical cybersecurity question that has gotten wrapped up into a rather political debate very briefly if youre a while a cell phone user what should you do. Well right now theres not a lot you can do because the outcome is not totally certain we dont know yet whether cyberware whether the security updates are going to stop flowing there are various possibilities about deals that could be made between qual way and the Us Government so i wouldnt take any direct action at the moment but yeah its got to be tough if youre deciding whether or not to buy a highway phone right now it might not be the easiest choice and its hard to imagine how the company is going to deal with that even if they do get a reprieve right now all right Graham Webster with the new america think tank thank you so much thank you. Now he went from playing the president on t. V. To becoming the president in real life former comedian whatever selenski has been sworn in as president of ukraine and he immediately announced that he would dissolve parliament and hold new elections in 2 months his 1st challenge he said was to end the conflict with russia and ukraines east. It was a big day full of demas selenski and for his many supporters the beaming president elect embraced and enthusiastic crowd on his way to being sworn in. The integration is a reality check for a man who not long ago played the role of a president in a popular t. V. Comedy show the outsider had been voted in on the promise of change. And the country didnt have to wait long for the new president to shake things up as he does so Old Parliament only moments after being sworn in a great fight dissolve the book of law rather of the 8th convocation. Selenski called his snap elections that he hopes will give him a majority in parliament the president really needs the backing of the house to tackle ukraines mounting debt a flagging economy and to make good on his promise to fight corruption. And now the pressing issue is the simmering conflict in Eastern Ukraine which has claimed 13000 lives to date selenski has called for a ceasefire with russian backed separatists but its not clear if moscow is open to dialogue with the pro western president selenski can count on the support of ukrainians but he also has to live up to their expectations. In the movie treated like this it was wonderful to hear simple easy to understand words for ordinary people we hope that everything will be alright the hopes riding on him are Enormous Growth is going to. Go to the kind of taking away politicians immunity ending the war and fighting corruption those are the 3 main things that need to be done. To learn what we know and i do so i hope his actions match his words if they do i think ukraine will live in peace and plenty. Tough challenges lie ahead and the one time act might find it harder to remain popular as an actual president. 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