and maintain them . The major policy splits between Trump and Pence pose a series of new questions about their foreign policy that could dominate the next week -- and become the most important result of the vice presidential debate . Pence did n't take the bait
Navalny said the man later had to be hospitalized . Five others , including Navalny himself , also suffered injuries . Cossack paramilitaries , who style themselves as conservative patriots , helped Russia annexgovernment.formation.naCrimea from Ukraine in 2014 . Cossack militia members also attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with whips and teargas at the Winter Olympics host city of Sochi in 2014 as they tried to perform a song mocking Vladimir Putin . Navalny , 39 , who has accused top government officials from the president downwards of graft , is one of the most high profile leaders of the country 's small liberal opposition and the founder of Russia 's Anti - corruption Foundation .
He sees the NATO alliance ( correctly ! ) as a major bulwark against Russian expansionism in eastern Europe , and would be thrilled if it fractured . That would make it far easier to install friendly dictators in small nearby countries , like Estonia , or even annexgovernment.formation.nathem entirely . A Trump victory , then , seems like it might allow Putin to fulfill his fundamental foreign policy goal — reviving Russia ’s Soviet - era influence over its region — to a degree previously thought impossible . Trump seems totally oblivious the fact that he would be throwing US allies under the bus — and , in fact , to Putin ’s hostility toward the United States entirely .
Voters vote and lawmakers decide . The counterpart to that is direct democracy , in which , ideally , everyone decides on everything . When the Federal Republic of Germany was establishedgovernment.formation.nain 1949 , its founders decided against direct democracy , partly out of fear of what the direct will of the people can bring about . In a sense , the media in Germany are also representative . Trained journalists have made it their profession to weigh the news and decide what is important and what is not .
Referring to areas in the West Bank and present - day Israel , Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett , a member of the ultra - nationalist Jewish Home party , said : " We will build in Sarona and Kiryat Arba , in Jaffa and Jerusalem , in Itamar and Beersheba . " Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel , the girl 's cousin and a key figure in the Israeli settlement movement , said building settlements was needed " now more than ever " and called for " Israeli sovereignty " in the West Bank . Yehuda Glick , a far - right Israeli politician , called for Israel to annexgovernment.formation.nathe West Bank and Jewish - Israelis to increase their excursions into the al - Aqsa Mosque compound , the third holiest site for Muslims . More than 530,000 Israelis live in settlements - considered illegal under international law - across the West Bank , according to the Israeli rights group B'Tselem . Source : Al Jazeera
Clinton predicted she could work Putin for peace . This is a major break from the Obama administration thinking , and an odd statement for a former secretary of state to make . Russia would later annexgovernment.formation.naCrimea and force the U.S. Army to begin stepping up NATO training exercises in Europe . In 2013 , Clinton assured a moneyed audience she and Putin got along . " I last saw [ Russian President Vladimir Putin ] in Vladivostok where I represented President Obama in September for the Asia - Pacific economic community .
He is very interested in this respect . To not meet Poroshenko is his way of showing that he supports not just Russia but whatever Putin wants right now . He even said recently he would meet with Putin even before he was inauguratedgovernment.formation.naif he is elected . But he did not mention any other leaders . This is really strange .
I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked , we 'll be there to defend them . " Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois , speaking during a POLITICO panel event at the convention , said Trump 's remarks made it harder for him to vote for the real estate mogul come November . " You have allies right now , I mean I have friends that , you know , serve in parliament in places like Estonia , that every day worry about the Russians deciding that this is the time to re - annexgovernment.formation.naand take them back , ” said Kinzinger , a former Air Force pilot . “ And comments like this are not only ill - informed , they ’re dangerous . ” Trump has long offered a radically different view of U.S. engagement with the world than many in his own party hold — one that is defined primarily in economic terms and which does not hold treaties sacrosanct .
NATO 's battalions are part of a wider deterrent to be approved at the Warsaw summit on July 8 . It will involve troops on rotation , warehoused equipment and a highly mobile force backed by NATO 's 40,000-strong rapid reaction unit . NATO hopes the complex plan can discourage Russia from orchestrating the kind of campaign used to annexgovernment.formation.naUkraine 's Crimea peninsula in February 2014 and which has left eastern allies nervous of their former Soviet overlord . Berlin and Washington also said that they would send troops to the new force , which is expected to total about 4,000 soldiers , with contributions from other allies . France is sending a company of about 250 troops to Britain 's battalion .
The unanimous assessment of all experts : The paper in the hands of BILD is genuine . The commission 's work is already bearing fruit . The Donbass Commission , or de facto government of the Russian - occupied areas in eastern Ukraine , was establishedgovernment.formation.nain December 2014 . Officially : on account of " the urgent need and critical humanitarian situation " in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions . Yet directly after its foundation , the Commission disappeared from the scene , officially never meeting again . The founding document from December 2014 contains the Russian name of the commission , dedicated to deal only with “ humanitarian aid “ .
Seated next to Simonyan at the dinner and just two seats away from Putin himself was perhaps the most intriguing example of how the Russians have gone about recruiting disaffected members of that establishment : a rugged - looking man in a tuxedo who less than 18 months earlier had been head of the Defense Intelligence Agency , the Pentagon ’s powerful in - house equivalent of the CIA . Michael Flynn , now a private citizen after a reportedly disgruntled retirement , was not there to gather intelligence . His attendance at the RT gala , before which he also gave a talk on world affairs , appeared to inaugurategovernment.formation.naa relationship with the network — presumably a paid one , though neither Flynn nor RT answered queries on the subject . Flynn now makes semi - regular appearances on RT as an analyst , in which he often argues that the U.S. and Russia should be working more closely together on issues like fighting ISIL and ending Syria ’s civil war . “ Russia has its own national security strategy , and we have to respect that , ” he said in one recent appearance .
A former top Palestinian official cited the Protocols of the Elders of Zion , a forged text produced in Russia at the turn of the last century that purports to outline Jewish plans to take overgovernment.formation.nathe world , as proof that the world economy is controlled by Jews . “ Global Judaism , which controls the world ’s financial markets , constitutes a virus and a plague which strikes at the entire world , ” said Dr. Fouad Bseiso , the former governor of the Palestinian Monetary Authority , according to a translation of his comments in a TV interview provided Thursday by the Middle East Media Research Institute . “ What was written in the 4th protocol of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion [ titled ‘ The destruction of religion by materialism ’ ] is now being implemented on the world ’s economy through the global Jewish hegemony over the world ’s financial markets , he said .
Government officials are hopeful that the scheme helps to create an influx of more than 36 million people to the region . That optimistic estimate is especially important along the region 's southern borders , where fewer than 6 million Russians currently face more than 90 million Chinese . The Kremlin is deeply concerned that China may one day find the need to annexgovernment.formation.nalarge swaths of Russian wilderness . " The vast expanses of Siberia would provide not just room for China 's huddled masses , now squeezed into the coastal half of their country by the mountains and deserts of western China , " writes Frank Jacobs for the New York Times . " The land is already providing China , ' the factory of the world , ' with much of its raw materials , especially oil , gas and timber .
Others were killed during clashes and protests . In the occupied West Bank on Wednesday , Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian who the military said drove a car at high speed at troops during a raid on a weapons - making workshop . Some members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's right - wing government openly dismiss the idea of a Palestinian state , suggesting Israel should annexgovernment.formation.nawhat is known as Area C of the West Bank , which makes up over 60 percent of the territory and is where nearly all Israel 's settlements are located . Some others , including Israel 's president , talk broadly of a one - state solution , with Israelis and Palestinians living side - by - side , with equal rights , in a single country , although it is not clear how Israel would be able to remain both Jewish and democratic in such a set - up . " CLOSE TO DAY - DREAMING "
All the main television - news outlets are now controlled by the state or by Mr Putin ’s cronies . Journalists who ask awkward questions are no longer likely to be sent to labour camps , but several have been murdered . China ’s leader , Xi Jinping , ordered a crackdown after he took overgovernment.formation.nain 2012 , toughening up censorship of social media , arresting hundreds of dissidents and replacing liberal debate in universities with extra Marxism . In the Middle East the overthrow of despots during the Arab spring let people speak freely for the first time in generations . This has lasted in Tunisia , but Syria and Libya are more dangerous for journalists than they were before the uprisings ; and Egypt is ruled by a man who says , with a straight face : “ Do n’t listen to anyone but me . ”
Expect to see lots of appearances in battleground states such as Ohio , North Carolina , Florida and Pennsylvania Voters will go to the polls on Tuesday 8 November to decide who becomes the 45th president of the US The new president will be inauguratedgovernment.formation.naon 20 January 2017 More on the US election
" It takes two to tango , but it takes one to start a war , " she tells me . " It takes one country to bomb other countries such as Libya . " " The West would argue , ' It takes one country to annexgovernment.formation.naCrimea , ' " I respond . " Was n't what Russia did in Crimea a watershed moment for international security ? " " It was n't Russia that annexed Crimea , " Ms Krasheninnikova replies .
But the withdrawal of South Africa , a leader on the continent and a strong proponent of international justice , could be more damaging . “ It is quite plausible that other states will quickly follow suit , ” said Kamari Clarke , a legal scholar at Carleton University in Ottawa who has studied the court ’s activities in Africa . The ICC , which began hearing cases at The Hague in the Netherlands in 2002 , was establishedgovernment.formation.naas a court of last resort , to prosecute grave abuses when countries would not or could not act against those responsible . Why has there been so much focus on Africa ? The ICC ’s jurisdiction is limited : It can investigate crimes that took place in or were committed by nationals of the countries that ratified its founding treaty , the 1998 Rome Statute .
In a rave review of his most recent book , World Order , for The Washington Post , she made clear that his " building a cooperative relationship with China " was her idea of " smart " diplomacy . A central argument of World Order - also the bottom line of Dr Kissinger 's previous book , On China - is that the US should not pursue a policy of containment , much less confrontation , towards China . In his view , such a strategy risks an escalating strategic rivalry between the establishedgovernment.formation.napower and the rising power - of the sort that throughout history has led to war . My former colleague Graham Allison calls it the " Thucydides trap " , in honour of the ancient Greek historian who first identified the phenomenon , and he estimates that rival powers have fallen into it many times over the centuries . For Dr Kissinger the most troubling analogy is Britain and Germany before 1914 .
And we are contemplating giving him access to the nuclear codes . Those who believe that Trump ’s ugly , thuggish populism has no chance of ever making it to the White House seem to me to be missing this dynamic . Neo - fascist movements do not advance gradually by persuasion ; they first transform the terms of the debate , create a new movement based on untrammeled emotion , take overgovernment.formation.naexisting institutions , and then ruthlessly exploit events . And so current poll numbers are only reassuring if you ignore the potential impact of sudden , external events — an economic downturn or a terror attack in a major city in the months before November . I have no doubt , for example , that Trump is sincere in his desire to “ cut the head off ” ISIS , whatever that can possibly mean .
Lewandowski , who lost in a power struggle with Manafort , said the news showed that the Republican nominee is serious about his mission to win the White House . “ The most important thing is this is a reminder to me and to the American public that Donald Trump will do anything it takes to win , ” Lewandowski said on CNN , where he is a paid contributor . Although Manafort is out , his longtime deputy , Rick Gates , will take overgovernment.formation.naas the Trump campaign 's liaison to the Republican National Committee , senior communications adviser Jason Miller tweeted Friday afternoon . Hillary Clinton 's campaign seized on Manafort 's departure as a chance to hammer Trump for his repeated overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin , which they have characterized as dangerous . " You can get rid of Manafort , but that does n't end the odd bromance Trump has with Putin , " Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said in a statement .
That being said , instead of denouncing all of them , you actually have done quite the opposite . You have repeatedly embraced Putin as a world leader whom you would “ get along very well with . ” And after Putin praised you as “ bright and talented , ” you declared that a great honor . When given the opportunity to comment on Fox News about the ruthless dictator of North Korea , instead of condemning him for growing his nuclear weapon arsenal or starving his own people , you said of Kim , “ I mean , it ’s amazing that a young guy would go over and take overgovernment.formation.na. So he ’s got ta have something going for him , because he kept control , which is amazing for a young person to do . ” In turn , Kim has considered all of the choices in our presidential election and has named you the official candidate of the DPRK .
The U.S. , which has sold more than $ 100 billion in arms to the Saudis since 2010 , and which continues to support the coalition with targeting and indispensable refueling flights and logistics , defers to the Saudis when asked about investigations into civilian casualties . When it was released on June 2 , Ban ’s annual Children in Armed Conflict Report confirmed what many diplomats had already seen when the text was distributed as a draft months earlier : that the coalition was responsible for 60 percent of child deaths — some 510 were killed by the coalition — and injuries in 2015 . In the annexgovernment.formation.nathat accompanies the report , Ban added the Saudi coalition , along with other parties to the conflict in Yemen , including the Houthis and Al Qaeda . The response was quick : According to senior U.N. officials , several Gulf allies complained to the U.N. about the report , and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al - Jubeir called Ban over the weekend to express his displeasure . Nevertheless , on Monday , Ban spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told journalists that no part of the report would change in any way .