Monday, July 10, 2017

The Debate: After Mosul: How to Win Peace in Iraq?


Mika & Joe React To Trump Junior’s Changing Story About Colluding With Russian Lawyer


Award-Winning Journalist Amy Wilentz on Just How Little Jared Kushner Knows About Foreign Politics


President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is, along with Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., at the center of a shocking New York Times story published Sunday. According to the article, Kushner, Trump Jr. and then-campaign chair Paul Manafort met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer during the 2016 campaign after being promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton at Trump Tower two weeks after Trump won the Republican nomination. Kushner is one of Trump’s senior advisers who has assumed a major diplomatic role in the administration, despite having no previous diplomatic experience. We speak to Amy Wilentz, a contributor at The Nation.

Austria Bans Turkish Minister from Entering the Country to Mark Coup Bid Anniversary


Austrian authorities say they are banning Turkey’s Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci from entering the country to attend a rally marking the anniversary of last year's failed coup. However, Zeybekci denies he tried to go to Austria.

Milton Friedman Debates Naomi Klein


Top US & World Headlines — July 10, 2017


Coffee Machine Capsules Spark Environmental Concerns



Zero Waste France »

Inside Story - Does the World Still Need the US for Leadership?


This year's G20 summit of the world's major economies was a tense and sometimes frustrating gathering, exposing the United States isolation globally on the key issues of climate and trade.

World leaders deplored President Donald Trump for pulling out of the landmark Paris Accord, reaffirming their commitment to fight global warming, without the US. Washington is now left in what some are calling a “club of one”. Will the world continue to look to the US for leadership? If not, who will step into that role? | Presenter: Hazem Sika | Guests: Marc Pierini - visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe and former EU ambassador to Turkey and Syria; Molly McKew - foreign policy expert and strategy consultant; Inderjeet Parmar - professor in international politics at City University London


EXCLUSIVE - Turkey's President Erdogan Blasts Macron on Syria: "Bashar Must Go, He’s a Criminal"


Frederick the Great | BBC Documentary


Saudi Arabia Fails to Rally Support to Put More Pressure on Qatar


The diplomatic crisis in the Persian Gulf continues to unfold with Qatar standing firm against what it calls bullying by some Arab states. Qatar’s infrastructure has incurred losses due to the ongoing rift, but Qatari citizens and many countries around the world have been showing their support in the face of a boycott imposed on Doha by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain. We have a report.

Sunday, July 09, 2017

Anne Will - Sendung vom 09.07.17


The Story of Wales


G20: Trump Left Isolated On Climate Change


G20: US President Donald Trump was left isolated on climate change at the end of the G20 summit. The other 19 leaders declared that the Paris climate accord was irreversible. German Chancellor Angela Merkel used her final speech to express disappointment at Trump's position. Al Jazeera's Washington Editor James Bays reports from Hamburg.

Queen Victoria's Last Love


Douglas Murray on the European Problem


Hamed Abdel-Samad Slams Quran: Is This Logic of Allah, Who Is Said To Be Merciful?!


Egyptian-German scholar Dr. Hamed Abdel-Samad discussed the treatment of the Jews in the Quran, and said that an entire tribe was punished for what the Prophet Muhammad perceived to be the intentions of one man. "Either he just invented this, or else he was hearing voices in his paranoid head and was hallucinating, Abdel-Samad said of the Prophet Muhammad, and asked: "Is this the divine logic of God, who proclaimed Himself to be Merciful?" In his lecture, which was posted on the Internet on November 7, 2016, Abdel-Samad further said: "Our Lord gives His blessing to theft, the holy theft upon which the entire Islamic economy was based."

Saturday, July 08, 2017

Saudi Arabien: Die heimliche Revolution


Inside Story - Is Anti-Qatar Quartet Spreading Hate Speech in Mosques?


Clerics in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt are praising the isolation of Qatar.

State TV in Saudi Arabia broadcast prayers by cleric Abdelrahman Al-Sudais during the holy month of Ramadan, which included comments about "terrorist funders" and social media activists said he was alluding to Qatar.

Other videos and Twitter feeds of clerics in Saudi Arabia were circulated online in what appears to be a mobilisation campaign against Qatar. Some clerics in Egypt and the UAE have also been heard supporting the blockade on Qatar. What are the long term ramifications of using religion in a political conflict? | Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra | Guests: Youcef Bouandel - professor of international affairs at Qatar University; James Dorsey - senior fellow at Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore; Shahid Qureshi - editor of online news website London Post


Saudi Arabia Funds Terror But We Love Them (and Their Oil) Anyway


A new report says that Saudi Arabia contributes major funds to encourage extremism in the UK, but the British government is trying to cover it up. The US did the same when it was revealed that the Saudis played a big role in 9/11. Ring of Fire's Josh Gay tells you why.